skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "exact place" the epidemic was discovered is in Wuhan, which is also where the lab is. That's a correlation, and clearly worth investigating, but it's not in and of itself proof.

I was originally dismissive of the "lab leak hypothesis", in no small part because of how quickly it got caught up in politics. I'm less so now, but I do think it's important to remember that when we ask "how likely is it that a novel coronavirus epidemic would start in a city that also has a laboratory working with novel coronaviruses and it just be a coincidence," the answer may be "not very" if the city with the laboratory is the size of, say, Frederick, Maryland (78,000), but "maybe more than you think" if it's the size of New York City (8.8M).

The lab leak idea bears further investigation, but "authorities have been too dismissive of that" shouldn't lead us to assume "well, it was obviously a lab leak."
Politicians aren't behind it. The Central Bank is.

Why? Just Google India NPA crisis history.
There are other reasons that people buy from dollar stores. I occasionally buy a few things at Dollar Tree when I want a smaller portion sizes for some basic goods. I also just like going when I'm in the mood to impulse buy stuff for hobbies etc.

Dollar General, on the other hand, has notoriously positioned itself in underserved areas. While it's true that many of these areas are underserved because they are low-income areas, that's not necessarily the case. In semi-rural areas, Dollar General is often the closest general goods store, and people of all income levels will go there.
With something like Cloudflare Workers, your CDN actually becomes geographically distributed server instances. Since the work involved in actually serving the frontend code is never the bottleneck, it ends up working out pretty well.

Next allows you to compile the "static assets" and put them on a "dumb" CDN like say a typical Rails application. I don't think Remix supports this pattern at this time, but again, it does work with a perfectly reasonable alternative.
It is the same; I'm using Firefox Nightly to prefill passwords in other apps.
The whole gain of function boost was created to prevent a 2nd SARS and was shifted to china, as funding dried up, the further the event wandered into the "distant" past.

Covid is neither a bioweapon nor a step-ladder for totalitarians worldwide. Its simply necessary un-bribeable politics and change, despite systemic dysfunction.

That massive turn-around in society we need, we always demand and secretly fear, its upon us now and no lobbyist can put that djinn permanently back into the bottle.

One variant and we are back into our walls, condemned to bread and games and the realization, that infinite growth is unnecessary.

So compared to the massive disaster ahead, with billions of dead, this is quite a gentle steering maneuver. Sure those who are mentally not agile enough to travel to this different world currently born, well they will stay behind and swept away with the refugee crisis yet to come.

The rest of us - we will stay peaceful, although loosing it all, with just a cellphone to dream and play on in some tattered tent.

And this is the best outcome, and if you weight the future billions against the current million dead, even a moral one.

Now downvote, the advocate of benevolent diabolo.
Hypothetical function gain research?

You mean the literal proposal to put furin cleavage sites on coronavirus collected in the wild, filed for a grant in 2018, which was rejected for being too dangerous. Also, SARS-Cov-2 is the only beta coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. And if you have ever been anywhere near academic grant process, you'll know that you use a previous grant to do the next grant work, as preliminary results.

So tell me it is just a coincidence that just after writing this grant proposal in 2018 to take coronavirus in the wild and putting furin cleavage sites on them, the first beta coronavirus with a furin cleavage site turns up in the same place right next to the lab, right after they moved their sister BSL-2 lab.
The Toyota Yaris gets 40mpg highway / 35 mpg combined: https://www.cars.com/articles/2020-toyota-yaris-mpg-can-frug...
Thanks to you and your colleagues for writing this - the best writeup I've come across so far. This puts all of a16z's crypto marketing babble to shame.
> They allow and even encourage complaints about local government.

But not the communist party or it’s officials, eh?

You can’t seriously be claiming that China is a more open society which allows greater media analysis of it’s power structures.
There was a 2018 bit on Planet Money about mattress stores (and specifically Mattress Firm): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/676543180

tl;dr - Turns out the markup at a mattress store is about 100%, which helps the economics of store rent vs profit. Also, Mattress Firm went on a debt-leveraged buying spree of their competitors (why there are so many physical stores). Oh, and also Steinhoff (think South African IKEA) bought them in 2016, for what seemed an inflated price. And it turned out Steinhoff was (or was soon to be) under investigation for accounting fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhoff_International#Contro...
Manifest V3: Open Web Politics in Sheep's Clothing
Right. Windows support is a feature outside of the scope of Linux package managers. If they weren't tethered to specific distros I don't see why one couldn't support multiple platforms. It hasn't historically, but Windows has a bunch of package managers, even one supported by Microsoft.

I think "largest" is quite an exaggeration since historically scripting languages packaging has been rather terrible on Windows. While Windows was a consideration for languages like Python (I've read they avoided Make because of Windows), for me cygwin always coming up along with it until recently.
I've been holding onto a broken TRS-80 Model 100 for nearly a decade with the intent of dropping in replacement, modern hardware so I could have a Unix-like system on the go. The DevTerm has really caught my eye, although I'd prefer a similar 8-line LCD like in the Model 100, rather than a full IPS display.
The point is that there might be no public info. If you can research using public info, then government could research too of the places which delivers goods for crypto and could order one for themselves and track the package through courier.
It's not clear the user experience would have to suffer. Maybe there are more groups doing for software architecture what Signal did for messaging. Groups like Heisers' SEL4 and Qubes. As for expense, imagine how much more we would have paid today, in real and opportunity costs, if over the last 20 years everyone used this "no such thing a perfect security" fatalism as the excuse to not just do things a bit better.
This article briefly mentions SARS-CoV-2, but at length it discusses Ebola and others quite a bit more. This article isn't about what happened with COVID-19, but about whether we should have BL4 labs at all.

In my opinion, we absolutely should. Awful diseases like Ebola are effective at what they do, so they're great places to learn about molecular biology and genetics. It seems feasible that we can manage the risk well enough to get a net expected benefit.
Couple of comments:

- This is posted and discussed frequently

- This was a pretty impressive feat of engineering

- The most unusual thing is that this remained secret. Because there were a few people involved and three+ can't keep a secret. They don't even have a reason to anymore. I've often wondered whether this group of folks died shortly after this.
Right, start with three cans, two of them swinging at ends of a cable, one at the hub with a docking port. Add onto that, two cans at a time, lowered from the hub; link them up to existing cans. When the ring is full, tada! Then, extend the center can out a ways, on the axis, and start over, nestling new cans honeycomb-wise. Or maybe give the next ring a bigger radius; each existing can gets a pair of basement cans.

Or, just extend everybody's cable a notch so there is room to shoehorn in the next pair of cans. As you add cans, the radius grows.

"Cans" is the only practical way to think of building a rotating station. Of course, the cans are really Starships, hanging by the nose. Passageways between cans are fabric tunnels. Each can has a mass on a column that is automatically raised and lowered as people and things move around, to maintain rotational stability, and keep the hub centered.
COVID19 is NOT a personal health emergency. As an American, your chance of dying from COVID are vanishingly small, and even your chance of being seriously ill or suffering from "long COVID" are extremely small.

But ... COVID19 IS a public health emergency. It is contagious enough and causes a need for hospitalization enough that it is fairly easy for it to overwhelm our public health care systems. This means that when you next cut your hand with a turkey carving knife, are involved in an automobile accident, turn out to have cancer, or suffer from any of an almost innumerable number of medical conditions, you (and everyone else) will face personal consequences (including risk of death) from COVID19's impact on health care systems.

This disease is not about you, or me, or individuals in general. It's about a threat to our public health systems because of large numbers (and the numbers don't have to be that large) of people catching COVID19, getting sick and overloading hospitals. It has nothing really to do with risk of death or long term consequences, although the friends and relatives of the hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, and the thousands of people with long covid might also want a word with you.
>why would Apple waste the money in this case?

To set a precedent that they can claim damages for violating their terms and conditions.
Apple simply needs to exercise its right to deplatform everyone who works for NSO. Oh and deplatform all government wonks of government of Israel as it is allowing NSO Group to operate.

Life in 2021 is very difficult without a smartphone. In fact it is so difficult that if working for NSO comes with "no smartphone forever" sticker NSO won't be able to find people to work for it.
Not everything is about capturing value and extracting profit. There had been something like hacker culture back then, Mr. Serious Business Ventures on HACKER News.

Also, the page requires JS to render, so it's probably crap anyway.
I had a kid's encyclopedia of science that had a section that featured these pictures, I must have spent hours staring at them, they were mesmerizing.

It's feels strange to look back and think how much the world has changed since I was a child in the 1980s, and yet how little it changed in the ways I thought it would.
These drawings are in Gerard k o'Neill's book, "the High Frontier". I remember reading it in the 80s, my local library in Australia had a copy.
Another thing is the more people will use crypto the more they will actually want it to be regulated. The more money there is more guarantees will holders want. And it will slowly turn into the same currencies we now have - centralized, regulated, traceable, stable. What an irony for crypto fans
Meanwhile, distributed and/or encrypted technologies are enabling flash mobs to loot $200 jeans from Nordstroms.
Don't bring a mesh / graph to a hypergraph fight. Hypergraphs seem to be the "biggest generalization" I've come across in the list -> tree -> graph -> hypergraph hierarchy. (That is: all lists are trees. All trees are graphs. All graphs are hypergraphs)

In a graph, an "edge" connects two nodes. In hypergraphs, a "hyperedge" can connect 2-or-more nodes.

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You might think that hypergraphs are purely theoretical, except... they are in common usage all the time. You might also know hypergraphs by their alternative name: Relational Tables.

Well, I'm being loose with the language last paragraph. A relational-table is really a hyper-edge. And the nodes of the hypergraphs are the domains of whatever you're working with.

If your relational-table only has 2-columns, you have a normal graph relationship between the data. But as anyone who has worked with relational databases knows: you often have 3-columns, 4-columns or more to represent the data. Once you reach 3-columns / 4-columns or beyond, you no longer are working with "simple" graphs but instead hypergraphs, and the theoretical complexity of the whole system reaches a new level.

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CREATE TABLE PersonsHyperedges (
PersonID int,
LastName varchar(255),
FirstName varchar(255),
Address varchar(255),
City varchar(255)
);

You can imagine this Table as a list of hyperedges, connecting "PersonID", "LastName", "FirstName", "Address" and "City" nodes together.

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CREATE TABLE PersonsGraphEdges (
LastName varchar(255),
FirstName varchar(255),
);

In this case, since there's only 2-elements in the "hyperedge", this table is a list of "normal graph-edges"

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There are also things "in-between". Bipartite graphs are very common for example. The hierarchy fits as "tree -> bipartite graph -> graph" (all trees are bipartite graphs).

If you have assurances that your problem you're working with is bipartite, then favor bipartite graph algorithms. There are a lot of NP-complete problems over graphs that are in P for bipartite-graphs
Reminded me of Afro Samurai, but I see that AS came out a year later than Codehunters.
Besides sometimes engineers just want to use Rust.
What monetization models do you trust more?
Seeing these designs I thought about using a double helix, which would support growth, and be a poetic choice.
Founders are the ones with the experience, skills, and knowledge to lead the companies they create.

Generally, VCs are equity portfolio managers and not qualified to lead a company. Even when they are successful founders themselves, they're almost never the right people to lead another founder's startup.
Yeah, yeah, everyone and their dog in Germany managed to "rescue several Jews" during WW2 according to their own postwar records lol. Nice VW, though.
> I remember buying one of those little "paper rose in a glass tube" things, at a 7-11, once.

Even has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_rose
This is no different from PHP, Python, C++, Linux, etc.

There are many checks and balances to all successful open-source projects.

And when that fails you can always fork it.
Respectfully, you learned that it's not for you, but do you think you deserved to go to jail for trying it?

For me, everyone is entitled to make that decision, and if legal, a lot of the problems the black market creates go away, the largest of which is not imprisoning people for a victimless crime.
I was responding to a specific comment about prices.

You're right that the price doesn't fully correlate with security. It will reflect supply (security and interest of researchers) and demand (how much there is to be gained by breaking into each platform).

Android is more widely used, but I gather more money is spent in the app store than the play store. I don't know the market share of "interesting" users.

My analysis would be that the number shows they're not that far apart. I'd be skeptical of anyone (IE apple's press release) saying that either platform is more secure. Security is too nuanced to be expressed as a total order.
I agree. This seems to conflate immediate direct causes and lack of mitigations or robustness.

By that logic, I'm missing "questionable dietary habits of the lead engineer" and "failure of the building architechts to create a more calming office environment" as causes in the article.
Thank you for asking!
Your question is the demonstration that "A Reverse DNS API" is a very subpar tagline.
As you correctly state, for "reverse DNS" usually we mean the PTR, which, not being a requirement for a working internet, is quite neglected. Few are sets, and those in large part are actually just an indication of which ISP or datacenter they belong.
What we try to do with Korbinsky is to provide information about hostnames actually pointing to a given IP address or just hosted there.

Just to give an example:
$ dig +short PTR 159.241.75.51.in-addr.arpa

ns3131293.ip-51-75-241.eu.

$ curl -H "apikey: l86WRM0NC2bBHMfEBQdkhXbDp2BoQw0O" http://ko.ckin.it/api/v1/ip/51.75.241.159

["petitbambou.com"]

I hope this clarify, and I hope, one day, to come up with a more explicative tagline.
> The popular, misguided jokes about Gore "inventing the Internet" come from the work he did in Congress in the 70s and 80s

I think most people got it from this interview he did with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. At least that's how I remember it. The jokes started flowing the next day. The number of people who knew of his work on internet related legislation pales in comparison to those who heard him say this on a major TV network.

"I took the initiative in creating the internet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco
> I'm sure Jung has a larger context and basis for these claims, but this quote just struck me as super hand-wavy.

No, no, don’t worry. Jung was already dismissed as completely unscientific and not to be taken seriously while alive. Sadly, psychology as a field mostly remains in a dire state and still has to shed part of its let’s generously say less than rigorous past.
It would be more interesting to say you must run large-scale bitcoin farms off of 100% renewables.

Or nuclear.

But how would this be enforced?
Highly Likely More Residents Will Be Moved into AU Concentration Camps
Video footage of the camps where 38 citizens were arrested and moved to two days ago for testing positive.
Well, yes. Heh.
Ie creating something that could be useful as an actual currency?
You are wrong in a subtle way. Yes, if you are doing scaling, than adding hiding using zk is almost free. Problem is - you are hiding things from literally everyone. And while it works for payment systems like zcash, it is a problem for most of DeFi. For some protocols it is impossible (there is proof that you can't do it for AMMs, like uniswap). In general case implementing zk means you need to have a separate layer of information delivery that is capable of discerning parties that Need To Know from the rest.
The future was so much better in the past.
>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.)

This isn't true for many of the core staple items sold by traditional retail and dollar channels. There are many identical or equivalent products that are sold at significantly lower price points.

I know this because I've literally read product cannibalization reports the retailers produce to quantify the margin loss associated with sales via the dollar channel.
Belt and Road Initiative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

Basically, they're using it to buy American heavy equipment and build infrastructure in developing nations, principally in Africa and Central Asia. They lease the infrastructure back to the host country for cash (i.e. favorable terms of trade), and if the host country defaults, there's a clause that China can take over the infrastructure. They may have similar clauses in case of military action, though in that case, it kinda doesn't matter what the law or contract says.

It's China's version of the petrodollar-for-military-bases system. When you run a trade surplus, use that to build up infrastructure that you can take advantage of in geopolitical conflicts. Colonialism never really went away, it just got more refined.
Though the Dymaxion car at least did not put the engine _behind_ the rear wheels…
I wasn't trying to undermine their hard work! I think both have a chance of being successful in their own domains. I only meant to call them out as exceptions.

All I was saying is that if a new package manager addresses all of the issues scripting languages had, scripting languages would still use their own package managers. Because the culture is now set, even new scripting languages would write their own package managers.
yeah, "Fundraising lessons learned post-YC" prob would have been better, thanks.
It's a lot safer if you just eat it, similar effects and method of action to Ritalin.
Agreed! Thank you for posting that Zerodium link. It's always great to bring substantive data into a security discussion.
Why do you think payday loan shops exist?
I'm not sure I've ever even met someone who rented a furnished apartment.

I just think it's because it's weird to have a washing machine in your kitchen for Americans, and nobody has managed to find the right marketing tone to make this feel normal. Also, for landlords to tolerate this, put hook-ups in, or simply offer it as a feature, you'd have to start with upper-middle class people wanting one and have it trickle down. But Americans get bigger places as a sign of wealth, so they really just want normal sized machines in-unit.
Are you referring to the same ONS data mentioned in [1]? That figure is highly misleading.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323441
It's 100% about CBDC's. CBDC's are the endgame for tyranny, really. We should be doing absolutely everything we can to fight this.
I am also very interested
I've often found that when people take a "follow the money, man" position on an argument, they are not in fact following the money. e.g., the arguments I used to see against anthropogenic global warming based on essentially the same idea you're pushing back on -- that it was a fraud perpetrated by climate scientists so they'd keep raking in the donations and grants. When I inquired as to why "follow the money" wouldn't in fact suggest far greater skepticism of oil companies in the debate, I never got much of a response.
which is why my point carries weight: don't get married to the company/project/IP anything

go in with a precision strike and leave. don't stay for 20 years and act surprised when the Taliban takes over the board again in 10 days.

leave that to the disillusioned employees and sycophants. yourself and the external contractors extracted generational wealth for decades. and if you didn't nobody to blame but yourself.
iirc it is because it heavily implicates both Peter Daszak, who was the head of the UN investigation of the Lab Leak theory, who orchestrated the Lancet letter denouncing the Lab Leak theory, who has now been shown to have conducted gain of function research on bat coronaviruses at the WIV, and Fauci who provided funding for this through Daszak's EcoHeath Alliance and NHAID after there was some sort of restriction on that kind of research stateside. On top of that China is completely uncooperative with the effort and wouldn't provide any evidence to implicate themselves.
It's the same, I panicked at first then found the setting thanks to a fellow commenter. Search my name in this thread and I detailed it in response to someone else.

Sibling says it's working in Nightly -- I'm using the regular stable release on Android and it's there. Haven't even updated it for a few weeks at least. (I just didn't know it existed before now, I was using Lockwise.)

All in all it makes sense tbh - Lockwise used FF account and sync... Who would have one with synchronised data and not be using FF on their phone (esp. Android) anyway?
Maybe so but every time I continue with something I’m watching after a day it shows the buffered content then crashes. I have to find the show and start again, although it remembers the place I was at when it crashed
Can someone explain what Vice-President and Climbing wall mean in the context of higher education?

If I had to guess, a Vice-President might be someone who monitors a room full of students or checks their tests, and a Climbing wall might be a hard assignment meant to get rid of less interested students.

This might be a really dumb question. In that case, sorry.
Point[] array=new Point[15000];

In java would create an array with null references, to fill it up you need to create each object so that point is valid.
NIH admitted to funding gain of function research at Wuhan.

Done. Over. Period.