skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry about worms, it's already in deer and I would assume a large number of other non-human animal populations already. It's obviously still in bats as well, SARS-CoV-3 is inevitable unless there's some sort of mass killing of bats, but it might not end up being very bad or transmissible.
> They do it because it’s literally all they can afford anything else.

Dollar stores very often aren’t cheaper than other sources for similar products especially for grocery items (which they tend to have very limited selections of.)

People that shop for groceries at dollar stores do it because:

1. They shop for other things at dollar stores (either for price, or for reason #2, or because its the only place close by that carries the type of thing involved) and getting groceries there saves a trip,

2. Reputation for price without actual comparison,

3. Lack of actual grocery stores conveniently located,

Your own second article notes the relatively high prices (as well as quality issues) of dollar store groceries.
Wrong thread?

Edit: I guess it is for Tilt-5 Was Magical [1], I copied your reply over there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29317390
Unfortunately, the unsavory people don't live in a vacuum separate from us. If it ends up being true, then it's true, and whomever is President at the time will do what they can do. If it ends up being false, however, the people (generally Asian Americans) who have been maimed, or killed by those unsavory people in the meanwhile don't get an undo. Continued discussion with no new real evidence, like the situation with Hillary Clinton's emails, is propaganda, pure and simple.
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Yeah, I know, not a lot for a Silicon Valley startup. It's still a ton of money else where in the world. In Denmark, $100.000 will buy you a top notch developer for a year.

HN always assume Facebook, Twitter and Uber when talking startups, but the vast majority of startups in Europe are going to be much smaller, and $5M over 10 years is something that would be a godsend to most startups.
as a person asking this question on the internet, i'm going to assume that you are not a scientist, and probably unqualified to make a scientific decision. you might be able to read some scientific-sounding information, but unless you're a professional in the field your odds of coming to a correct conclusion based on information you read is no better than random, and will almost certainly be biased by your politics.

i'll be getting a booster when my local health authorities say i'm eligible for one, because i know i have no relevant expertise that enables me to make a scientific conclusion on this subject. and neither does HN.
FWIW, I used to write some high-performance JavaScript. One of the tricks of the trade was to allocate early and make sure you avoid allocating once the loading phase has started, hence avoiding triggering the garbage-collector (in most runtimes/languages, gc phases are typically triggered by the allocator). This involved writing very non-idiomatic code, to a large extent reimplementing a form of high-level custom allocator on top of the existing allocator/gc, but it worked.

I'd be very surprised if the same wasn't possible in Java.

I don't know if this is how gRPC is written but it could explain an apparent contradiction.
This sort of talk always kills the dreams of orbital living. There's no point building a colony on mars if we can't even build a self-sufficient lunar habitat. But there is no point in a lunar habitat if we can't build an orbital habitat. But there is not point building an orbital habitat if we can't even build a self sufficient desert or ocean or underground habitat.

If we were really serious about this we would have a followup to the Biosphere projects that finally solved the issues they identified. We should have several fully self contained habitats on Earth before we consider building them in orbit or on another planet. People are trying to skip all the way to the end without doing all of the hard work in the middle. It's doomed to failure.
A court can decide. Apple and many others have been harmed by this so it makes sense that somebody should be able to sue.
> p.s the comments section on the FT is probably the best on the internet, apart from maybe here

My impression as well. The articles are also good, but bear in mind that both have a noticeable neo-liberal point of view.
> has some cringe worthy descriptions of technical things

Par for the course when trying to explain things to non-technical people.

People joke but you can see the thought process in explaining to a politician that the internet is a "series of tubes" for example.
It does mean something. I can only testify to how they acted in our case of course, but what I can contribute is this:

In a product category which is famous for its high-paying affiliate programs, they chose two players who are smaller and less well-known. Neither of them paid for their reviews. Most of their competitors mentioned in the article do have affiliate programs.
That quote is absurd. A Chrysler 300 is a luxury car.
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what TFA stands for in this context. If you meant 2FA (two factor authentication), that doesn't solve the problem of managing passwords.
Forcing a file's CRC to any value (2018)
I remember learning this fun fact from a Netflix documentary. Nominal prices for coke have remained stable since the 70s. So adjusted for inflation, it's gotten progressively less expensive. I've witnessed 5his personally. A gram in the 2000s would run about 70 bucks in my area, and that's still the case today.

So it's likely that over time more and more not so rich people entered the market and coke lost its cachet. But I'm sure the rich remained quite fond of it.
How are you supposed to turn the coins into FIAT where it's actually usable?

At that point, you cannot move your money around however you like, you can only move the tokens around on the blockchain.
That's one thing. Also, China is no longer buying US treasuries, which for a long time contributed to reducing US inflation via underpriced imports.
There's some good stuff here, but it also feels like it's a deep analysis of a straw man rather than of real industry practice.

> At its core, RCA posits that an incident has a single, specific cause or trigger, without which the incident wouldn’t have happened

Does it?

None of the teams I've worked with that practice root-cause analysis, or use the term 'root cause' assume that incidents have a single specific cause or trigger. In fact, most teams seem very comfortable exploring complex trees of causality, no matter what they call their post-mortem process.

> None of these alternatives are fixed as easily as reverting the one line. None of them suggest that they stem from the same ‘root.’ And yet, all of these alternatives are more fundamental to resilience than the one line of a configuration file.”

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” (Douglas Adams)

There has to be a logical stopping point to investigations, because at some point they just become metaphysics. Even getting to the point of "we don't make enough revenue to fix this" isn't really helpful, because everybody knows that already. Instead, and somewhat crucially, choosing which actions to take after an event needs to be done in context of the constraints on the business. Sometimes those constraints are a problem, but it may be possible to improve the situation even within those constraints. Throwing our hands up and saying that we can't make improvements because of the constraints isn't really that helpful.

Dekker is spot-on that it's a construction, but that's the point, not the problem.

> Our focus on language in reports is informed by research into the relationship between language and how people perceive and/or assign blame.

I just don't believe this. Bad organizations are going to assign blame no matter what language they use, better organizations won't. The problem is the culture, not the language, and it really doesn't seem to me that changing the language will change the culture. Instead, it'll just lead to double-speak.

They even say this:

> RCA is often a path that ends squarely at a person’s feet. “Human error” is a quick and easy scapegoat for all kinds of incidents and accidents, and it’s deceptive simplicity as a root cause is an inherent part of its larger-scale harmful effects. It’s comforting to frame an incident as someone straying from well-established rules, policies, or guidelines; simply provide more training, and more guardrails and checklists in the future!

then this:

> we can say now that there’s only a small amount of incidents (less than a percent) that directly call out human or operator error as a “root cause.”

Which just don't seem consistent.
if the FDA switches to approving drug development/manufacturing processes, rather than the final products themselves, mRNA vaccines could be made on-demand, quickly enough to do this.

for instance, CAR-T immunotherapy is such a process. no patient's dose is the same, since it involves removing T-lymphocytes from the patient, genetically modifying them in a bespoke way, and putting them back in. if the process itself weren't approved, you'd need to run clinical trials on every individual dose.

pipeline approvals are probably at least a decade away, though it'd be very smart if the government would get it all ready in case we need it.
in that particular case, it boils down to how many you can fit on a pallet. if you get an extra row or column or both, you're now selling 550 bottles per pallet instead of 500.
There are several studies saying that vaccines are beneficial even for people who have natural immunity from an infection. Also, if we have learned anything the last two years it's that at a population level people flatly cannot handle nuance. Anything other than a flat "you must have proof of vaccination" isn't going to work.
For practical purposes smartphones don't exist for a lot of people today, but we're not saying we're in the pre-smartphone era.
But in very weird round about way, it did allow us to see that mRNA technology is viable. So, happy little accident? Apologies to Bob.
This is a bit of a tangent, but you can get into situations where Java's memory-overhead becomes pretty untenable. I was in a situation of having to keep track of ~1 billion short strings of a median length of maybe 7 characters.

In terms of just data, that should clock in at about 10 Gb; in practice it was closer to 24 Gb. I tried going with just byte[]-instances instead, which didn't help a lot. Using long byte[]-instances and indexing those doesn't help as much as you'd think because they get sliced up into small objects behind the scenes.

I ended up memory mapping blocks of memory and basically implementing my own append-only allocator.
How did they force him if he had control?
Same. Mine flew apart on first use, and now I feel naive.
The problem isn't only mishandling of data by statistical analysts, it is merely sufficient that government data be improperly recorded (as was famous last year, when people saw Covid statistics miraculously jump down on weekends and back up on Mondays in several countries) or that vaccinated/unvaccinated populations were misclassified (for example, by only defining people as vaccinated 2 weeks after they had their second dose, i.e. 3 months after the first dose, a rather long time). The article shows that artefacts you'd expect to see if data was improperly recorded, is actually visible in the real government figures. Whether due to the issues discussed, or due to other causes would require deeper analysis. But the onus then goes on people doing statistical analyses to understand, and correct for any mistakes in the originally compiled government data, and not blindly put numbers in Excel without deeply understanding the data they're feeding into it. Any good undergrad statistics prof would cringe at that.
Sooner or later, everyone will get fucked over by unregulated social media.

The conservative Pole looking to regulate irregular migration to his country.

The pro-vaccine German that wants his country to reach herd immunity.

The Democrat who believes Russia rigged the election.

The Republican who believes mail-in ballots where falsified.

The BLM supporter who…

etc
etc
etc

We should break Facebook up, rather than let it become even more entangled (Meta and whatnot)
Yes, even under the DMCA it's totally legal to reverse engineer for the purposes of interoperability. Wine was created to make Windows applications work on Linux. I reverse engineered my laptop's crappy manufacturer software in order to make a Linux version.
Dollar Tree sells $1 steak. They are like 3oz
I have an abandoned tech blog and I usually get asked by marketing firms to include links in old articles as part of SEO services they have.
>Half of the atmosphere from a Ringworld is a stupendous amount of gas

Yes. So you would need to build it multiple of 10km. Assuming the pressure falls of 75% for each 10km (which seems about right from a quick glance at some tables), if it was 100km high the loss would be 0.25^10 of what it would be at 10km. So 100km wall would be ~million times less loss than a 10km wall.
There are many variations of the "lab leak" theory for Covid-19. For example:

1. Was the sample found or engineered? Or found then engineered?

2. Was it a deliberate leak or accidental?

Here are some open questions that haven't been answered or examined (at least publicly) to a sufficient degree:

1. If Covid-19 jumped from an animal species to humans, possibly through another animal, then why hasn't it been found in the wild? For example, SARS was relatively quickly found in the wild. To date there's been no equivalent discovery of the lineage of human-transmissible Covid-19. An alternative theory, that Covid-19 spread to humans at a wet market, would strongly suggest that Covid-19 would be found in the wild;

2. The Chinese had a database of Covid strains that was taken offline in late 2019. To the best of my knowledge, no independent third-party has been able to examine the contents of this database and see if it relates to Covid-19;

3. Covid-19 seems to be related to bat coronavirus strains from hundreds of miles away. How was the jump made? Through what species? and

4. We don't really know who Patient Zero was.

None of this adds up to positive evidence of any variation of the "lab leak" theory but given that there is no alternative theory that holds up to serious scrutiny or doesn't have serious flaws or unanswered questions, it has to stay in the running.

My suspicion is the Chinese government doesn't know either but, more importantly, they don't want to know because absolutely no good can come from that becoming public. There is literally no upside. This applies on the individual level too. If you're a manager of a lab or even just a lab technician, do you really want to be held responsible, even just in the public eye, for "starting" Covid-19? God, no. That may well be bad for you, your family, the government and countless others.

So there's a concerted effort to not know.

And the WHO's response to all this has been utterly anemic from the early days of the pandemic where China's pronouncements were taken at face value to the late joint investigation with laughably narrow frames of reference.
> Not for the chinese because that would be their death sentence

I don't believe it would affect "the Chinese" at all, other than spending time to ladle out a new dose of conditioning for their own public.
> Vaccinated people are significantly less likely to contract the virus

Recently vaccinated people are significantly less likely to contract covid than totally naive folks. Efficacy against infection seems to wane pretty heavily over time.

> Breakthrough infections are significantly less contagious than infections in nonimmune persons

This seems to be in dispute (by a study referenced in your linked article). I think it would be fair to say they are at least contagious for a shorter duration though.
See Sharpie pens, which are sold at dollar stores with less ink.
Interesting. Didn't know about it.
To create curved parts, an operator would roll a piece of metal between two hard wheels on a machine called an English Wheel. The wheels apply significant pressure, and make the metal become thinner where you roll it. The same volume of metal is still present, so to become thinner it must spread out. If you expand the center of a piece, but leave the perimeter the same, then it will become domed.

If you'd like to see the machine in operation, here's a video by Ron Covell, a masterfully skilled sheet metal craftsman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omRlIBONJAM

A craftsman can carefully shape the metal to whatever shape was desired. But accurate? Who said anything about accurate? It's likely that everyone's paneling was of slightly different curvatures. They'd machine the mounting holes after the fact, so those would all match and be replaceable, but why would anyone care (how would anyone know?) if the curvature of the fender was a few millimeters different from another fender?
If you want to save money on groceries you should be going to Aldi or Sav a Lot, not Dollar stores. Their products are terrible (mostly house brands) and prices aren't even good.
I use on Firefox:

- Bitwarden
- Toggle Reddit Sidebar
- uBlock Origin
- Gramarly
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
- Gesturefy

On Edge (along with compatible Firefox Add-ons)
- CrxMouse
- SwiftRead (for speed reading any site or text. if you pay for Pro you can also speed read PDFs)
- Scribe (to create step by step tutorials automatically: https://scribehow.com/signup?affiliate=2fe22b23-335a-4f91-bd...)
It is one time install, and signing in just after restart. used for autocomletion in apps. With just firefox I won't have that.
His Chrysler 300?

This thing Wikipedia describes as a V8 powered “full-size luxury car”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_300
So now it's two times the hassle, two times the money spent
Keeping all state server side is a completely reasonable approach. The 37Signals guys have been advocating for it since 2006 or so and as long as you have a low latency connection to the server then it usually works great.

What doesn't work well (and what tended to happen with jQuery apps) is having state both on the client and on the server and having to coordinate between the two. My personal preference is for client side state with a lighter setup than React (i.e. Svelte). I like the predictable latency and I feel you don't run into a complexity barrier (e.g. multi-step forms) as the app grows.
Also, a lot of places that don't have a local grocery store do have a dollar store. You can make $40 into a pretty luxurious week of food at Aldi if you know how to cook, and a perfectly fine week of food if you don't. The problem is when the nearest Aldi is miles away, or you don't drive.
It looks like iOS Firefox will be updated to backfill this functionality: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/r0kpke/lockwise_is...

Thanks for looking out for us, Mozilla! :)
that's like 2.5 days worth of supply lol

the govt loves to gaslight
I've seen the technique reproduced enough that I'm pretty convinced it's not a cover.
Big business is wasteful on our behalf. If I fly on plane, you'd blame American Airlines, but it was 100% my consumption. Are you going to blame me or Toyota for my V8 4Runner? I bought it.

You might think, "well, its American Airlines choice not to use carbon neutral biofuel!" But consumers always pick the lower priced flight. So if AA cost 15 bucks more than UA because of green fuel, 90% of the country would just fly UA.

You can blame certain companies for lying about global warming or polluting even when it wouldn't raise costs. But that doesn't absolve you from your role in consumption.
Dollar Tree doesn't sell fresh groceries, but they certainly sell food.

https://www.nogettingoffthistrain.com/shopping/dollar-tree-g...

But even if you ignore food, the point applies to all sorts of things (cosmetics, clothing, pharmacy, etc) people go to both for at a low price point.
This isn't true. For example, France and Germany both have a complete personal bankruptcy legislation
I don‘t think that is the case across the board. I‘ve certainly heard of Privatinsolvenz. But you might not be able to claim this for business related debts (which should be covered by your limited liability cooperation in theory)?
Great character piece. PFSC was one of my favorites. I heard some stuff about people being mad at her but I didn't really pay much attention. It is ironic the hate she got, considering the content of her comics themselves
If bitcoin is illegal, the only reason to engage in a black market transaction to obtain would be if it gave you access to material thing you could not otherwise get - unless there active hyper-inflation going on, no one would want to illegally obtain bitcoin just so they could turn around and buy some good they'd be able to obtain with normal, legal transaction.
Ha! Not what the website is trying to say, but yes, probably true in general ;-)
I understand now. You are saying that in the past to create your own currency you needed as much money as a grocery store or airline to create "reward points", or "airline miles". Now it costs less and is easier to create your own version of that.
Had this happen on a much smaller scale as an employee. I (foolishly) bought out some of my options when I left the company. Years later they sold it, but structured the deal such that the major investors got paid out all the proceeds, leaving zero for the common shares. Yes, I realize preferred shares and payout preferences and so forth. The really galling part is that the exec team (who had themselves acquired, not built, the company) paid themselves massive bonuses. The employees mostly got a token amount and a kick out the door. Common shares got zero. Thanks guys.

tl;dr, shares in a non-public company are a lottery ticket at best. Just like options, but more expensive.
not just banks, but everywhere you can spend it in country. fine you can move money between virtual accounts and buy NFTs all day, but government can control whether local business are allowed to accept your crypto as payment, so you’ll need to liquidate crypto into local currency - which kind of sucks to do if the banks aren’t there to help.
> if your company or industry can't do 6% this year you likely have other options that can

That's the right argument to make. Not inflation as you were saying before.

Talking about inflation to motivate pay rise is a logically unsound argument.

'Inflation is up 2%' - so what?

'I can get 2% elsewhere' ok we can talk.
nice! Yeah having more control over the publishing flow is great.

This action partially inspired the move from Medium to github pages: https://github.com/InfraWay/post-medium-action

Checkout https://github.com/lukakerr/hkn if you want to implement the gitlab version of this
Why $19 Is Apple’s Favorite Price for Accessories
English Wheel. You can still get them today, or, if you're a little bit skilled (and most people that would need one probably are) you can make one yourself.

Using them is an art.
Is that Elon Musk in the photo?
https://archive.ph/L9iV6
“ They will each feel like your special confidant. They will also see the other board members reacting calmly to the news and start to think that perhaps you actually have it under control. This will calm them down in the future.”

This seems like obviously good advice. But also begins bordering on what feels like manipulation. And that makes me uncomfortable.

In fact, this whole thing feels like manipulation. If nothing happens in a board meeting because it’s scripted, why do they exist? It seems like the solution to not getting fired as CEO is to control the whole thing and manipulate everyone.
Just by eyeballing and manually moving metal sheet between heavy wheels. That is how they make compound curves for luxury cars and planes. https://www.tinmantech.com/gallery-of-metalwork/wheeling-mac...