skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a meaningful distinction between "manufacturing" and other development activities in this case. This sort of thing, an effort to build a single example of a device using a mountain of new technology, just can't follow the process of design the whole thing, then manufacture it, then we're done. Kind of like waterfall vs agile software development. They're probably constantly fabricating and testing subsystems in various ways, iterating on manufacturing technique to get quality good enough, making changes in other related subsystems as a result of things they found to be impractical with the first, making sure subsystems actually integrate with each other as expected, etc.
The bottom tier of society REALLY wants it to be out of malice.
It's politics.

China needed to buy some time so that there wouldn't be pressure for sanctions due to covid, so all the Chinese shills started calling it a conspiracy theory.
Well, there's not much evidence for it. And, honestly, there's arguably an aspect of wishful thinking to it. "This was the result of a leak" is much less scary than "this just showed up", because in the leak scenario, the next one probably _could_ be stopped through better procedures, whereas the entirely natural scenario... well, there are some precautions that can be taken, but good luck preventing exiting new viruses from showing up from time to time.
Yes, the complete inability to handle failure is absolutely an indication of fragility. I don’t feel that bad if this personal opinion crushes the soul of an emotionally mature adult.
This is mostly stupid. Being able to have many GCs is a good thing. The big reason for "value types" is controlling spacial locality in memory, not GCs being bad per-se.

Also, they undersell the java/c# situation. C# has "ref, out, or in", but even without those, you can always make a reference wrapper that has the value type as a field. So "reference types suck because coppying" is nonsense garbage.
Coke's reputation is WAY worse than what it deserves.

I guarantee you these "I tried it a few times and can't stop thinking about it" stories are complete BS.

The effects are very short lived and the more you take the more edgy, nervous and wired you get. It becomes really hard to enjoy.

I guesstimate that 80% of all coke is consumed by completely "normal" people after a few drinks in a bar on the weekends, and that's that. No craving, character changes and all that stuff.
by charging huge markup on per unit cost by reducing quantity. 3 pills of Tylenol for example for $1 instead of a bottle which may have dozens for $6 . The brands create special mini-sized packages specifically for dollar stores. Big business.
Don't forget video games and rock & roll.
UI and UX are two different things

i'd suggest to check what others are doing so you can develop a taste

there are resources like Dribble and many prominent UI & UX teams have their own blogs (like https://design.google)

then, learn some CSS, don't waste time on Figma when you can just prototype in dev tools

there's also a book which shows good/bad by example: https://www.refactoringui.com/book
The size of the clientele for many of these things probably would have been much smaller without the illicit uses, and they probably were created without illicit motives. Once there is demand, however, the further use was probably quantifiable as legit vs. off-brand use and even if one maker of glass tubes (for e.g.) stops because they're useful as rock pipes of some kind, someone else would be happy to pick up the slack.
No.

The information on fake accounts was passed to Apple by Citizen Lab, which discovered the zero click vulnerability.
Hard to understate this. There are rural areas where there's a Dollar Tree in every little town, but you have to drive 1-2 hours to the nearest WalMart—and further to the nearest Anything Else Worth Shopping At.
I’ve been doing a lot of research on debt as an alternative to VC. A ton of options out there. Keeping notes here for anyone interested https://www.trypaper.io/
Well, it wouldn't be forever.

Yes, I enjoy morbid jokes.

Preventing the young who probably won't wind up in hospitals from doing whatever they want doesn't solve the problem of vulnerable people not obeying lockdowns and winding up in an ICU. And it doesn't seem to affect the transmission rate if 2 years of data are telling us anything useful. The vulnerable who choose not to protect themselves are going to wind up in an ICU whether the young healthy people are living their lives or not. So what's the solution then?
The Moonlander is another recent option. Had mine for a few months and absolutely love it but it’s also my first split so not much for me to compare to.
1994-95 is when operating systems for PC and Mac start shipping with a TCP/IP stack preinstalled.
I mean.... this article kind of sums up my thoughts on this:

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-worst-week-for-blizzard-has-been...
Quantum Computing's Possibilities and Perils
That's so sad but also super impressive. I'm not sure if you are ready to but may we know your current and previous startups.
I do!

Backend:

- Huey for background jobs
- Whitenoise for statics handling
- Gunicorn for running the application
- Honcho for process management (also for development, for spawning js and css bundling)
- Slippers for django template components
- django-all-auth for signup/password recovery/etc.
- django-rest-framework if you need an API

Frontend:

- Unpoly for ajaxy SPAish feel (just the good parts of that feeling)
- Tailwind for styling
- esbuild (CLI) for bundling js
- npm for frontend dependencies
- postcss (CLI) for building/packaging css

Deployment/infrastructure:

- Dokku for hobbie or side projects
- Heroku for getting started with production apps, AppEngine if shit gets real.
- No need for Websockets, polling is good enough most of the time.
- Sqlite for side projects
- PostgresQL for serios stuff
- Maybe redis
More lobbying and political pressure than the Israeli government already exudes over the US? And NSO's clients too? Not likely.
>I don't know what is tapeout

The person you're responding to isn't an FPGA dev (or at least not primarily). They're talking about verilog for ASIC design where the last step is is making the lithography mask that "tapes off" parts of the silicon substrate (like a painter tapes parts of a wall when painting).

I play in the space (Chisel and FIRRTL and CIRCT) so I agree with you but you're being far too dismissive of the people you're aiming to convert.

>But as a language Clash can do everything Verilog does.

Ironic since people say the exact same thing of Haskell and eg python and yet we still don't have wide Haskell adoption.

You have to deeply internalize that a PL or HDL is a tool. Thus, this position makes zero sense

>its ability to work together with vendor-specific tools and other ecosystem stuff, I don't know much about this

No one uses tools that don't fit somehow into their workflow. Further, if the users of the tool are happy with their current toolset then you have a very hard road to hoe in convincing them to adopt your tool.
> There is plenty of circumstantial evidence.

Yeah. It doesn't sit right with me that Peter Daszak, who has close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was the driving force behind the February 2020 Lancet letter of scientists "strongly condemning conspiracy theories" like the lab-leak theory – all without disclosing that conflict of interest.

Daszak should testify before congress.
Whether unsavory people believe in something has zero bearing on whether it's true.
Running a company is a massive drain, and is not the best way to 'build new things'. Starting and running a company is one of the best ways to 'build a new organization'.
> Under what law?

NSO used Apple's services, thereby agreeing to U.S. jurisdiction. (It also deals in dollars and has customers in America.) If it ignores U.S. courts, it would be held in contempt at the very least. That enables the Feds to start freezing and confiscating assets, possibly even issuing arrest warrants. That happens domestically first and through treaties second.

Given how much bad blood NSO has generated for itself in D.C., it would be more surprising if this didn't get escalated to a diplomatic level.
Yeah one of my favorite SE posters talks a little more about it, generally the benefits are only there if you have app/db/sql server all on the same box.

https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/24176/15642
we will never really know. But, one of the most damning articles is this one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836551/

in which the final claim is "Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2."

Er, that's not really strong support for the naturally occurring hypothesis, it's a refutation against 'naturally occurring is impossible'.

The spontaneous evolution of furin sites is rare in the specific clade of SARS-CoV-2, so if it's support it's very weak. The phylogenetic trees presented in the paper are VERY much loaded to obscure this fact (omitting betacoronaviruses in the alpha-delta tree, and in the breakout betacoronavirus tree, arbitrarily loading up multiple copies of "basically the same" strains which all present a furin cleavage site to make the pie slice of furin site-presenting sequences bigger).

On the other hand, copy-pasting interesting motifs into a different but related genetic entity to achieve GOF is basically "the first strategy you do" as a synthetic biologist. Hell, even I did it (to gain function in a non-pathogenic system) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24934472/ "we substituted one of four amino acids (Asp, His, Asn, Gln) at each of the 12 ligating positions because these amino acids are alternative coordinating residues in otherwise conserved-cysteine positions found in a broad survey of NiFe hydrogenase sequences."
In both directions. I've never seen clicking on affiliate links as price to be paid for a service. That's also sure as hell not what the ToS say.

Using affiliate links to pay for content creation/hosting is reasonable. Bypassing affiliate links is also reasonable. If you want to be owed something, put it in the ToS.
It's a WordPress not a full-blown app that won't render anything but an error without JavaScript.

I've got NoScript to block all JS, including 1st party, by default. On this website the browser shows from top:

- white marketing-ish text on blue background, stating something about "totally remastered" "next-generation" WinAMP, followed by pictures of "artists".

- dark text on white background inviting to future (I presume) beta tests, links for "creators" who might want to release music on the future (I presume) platform and an invitation for "any type" of business partnerships

- links straight to last stable .exe download, social media accounts, legal notice, privacy policy and other usual footer stuff

Based on other comments, I presume that this is all there is to see apart from fireworks and increased electricity bill. The site has content like a typical startup site.
Eg. Someone i met through a friend: OTA Insight.

( I'm not related to the scene)
What's the most likely theory in your opinion? The nearby fish market?

What sounds more likely, a bat in the fish market of Wuhan or the influenza lab next to it?
Biologists are able to generate highly specialized viruses for research for decades now, i m sure it was possible before covid. I think going forward you should be afraid of nature. We have evolved global transportation / shipping / tourism beyond the carrying capacity of modern epidemiology / bacteriology to keep up with spreading pathogens. SarsCov2 might be just one of many , since human population has not peaked in numbers yet.
But then how would the coin suppliers stay in business?
It has been now almost 2 years and still no closure or definitive explanation about where Covid came from? It would seem as if nothing changed . You have all these investigators ,scientists, and reporters but no progress it seems.
It'd be interesting to know why it's so difficult to weaponize. Is the caveat that the toxin is only so deadly once in the bloodstream, but is otherwise hard to get there?
How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL
thanks for the link. I have seen full sized roses in plastic tubes at gas stations and I was trying to figure out how those could be used for drugs. These little ones make more sense.
Wuhan has a biolab.

That biolab specializes in coronaviruses.

That biolab was funded, in part, by the US NIH to conduct gain of function (a rose by any other name...) on coronaviruses.

SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak was first observed in Wuhan.

It's such a logical chain of circumstantial evidence, and They expected everyone to believe that it came from a fucking pangolin?
Comments on his comments of their comments on his comments on the various ivermectin studies here please
The optics of eliminating the penny during inflation are really bad. The optics would be honest but politically bad. Maybe the next time we have a booming economy and high consumer confidence, we can make pennies seem tacky and get rid of them that way.
It's also available as a mirror at https://github.com/golang/pkgsite. All the golang.org/x/* packages are thankfully available there, making them pretty easy to find.
Apps not adopting to your theme is a feature, at least when you ask some Gnome devs.
Surely the author meant, "Your Board of Directors Will Probably Fire You', or some other statement that makes sense in English.

I know the horrible grammar comes from the original article.
Also very insulting to cultures around the world that depend on this for their source of food and livelihood.

I'm from Maryland where watermen in the Chesapeake watershed have been crabbing for generations. The cost of fishing licences and proactive regulatory restrictions have also contributed to the sustainability of the fishery here.

As Marylander's most of us have grown up eating crabs from a young age.

When you prepare crabs you must cook them fresh, because dead crustacea release a chemical which immediately turns the meat. It also the easiest and most effective way to know you are eating safe crabs and not diseased or unhealthy crabs.

Please stop projecting your morals on to us. Militant vegetarianism is no different than religious fundamentalism. Your are projecting your morals onto the rest of us. Please stop.
China has routinely been opaque, blocking investigations over all sorts of things. I don't like it either but I think it's premature to use it as evidence of malice on China's part.
There is a little selection of weird frozen meat from Australia in my local super marked. Like kangaroo, alligator, and ostrich. So if rhino husbandry is possible the demand is already there for exotic meat.

Guess it take too much time and resources for rhinos to be viable livestock regrettably.
Musicbee is such a great music player/library program. A pity it's not open source and available on Linux.
1. Avoid going public if at all possible.
2. Avoid outside investors if at all possible.
3. Avoid having a board if at all possible.
4. Control the shares or the shares will control you.
I absolutely adore Arcane for a ton of reasons, and it's gotten me very interested in the setting of Runeterra.

I am not a League of Legends player.

One of the things that I love about Arcane is the gorgeous and unique art style. It's just a beautiful series. Some of the sequences are jarring in their departure from the rest of the series, but in a good way - think gasp of delight, not immersion-breaking.
apple makes their own hardware and software. our devices are insecure by apples choice. making this “statement” and “lawsuit” utter farce.
German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
Fixation on vehicle companies isn't really relevant here.
Loosely related anecdote:

For the past ~two months the IKEA nearest to me (Covina, CA) has been constantly out of stock for a table [0] I'd wanted, priced at $199.

Earlier this month I received a notification of it being in stock. That afternoon I made the trip to go pick one up, out of stock, shelves largely barren. Asked staff WTF? They'd received _one_ and it was immediately sold.

Still out of stock at that location today, but now when I check the site it's $229 (+15%), yay.

[0] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/norden-gateleg-table-birch-9042...
Sure, if you have time to wait on a huge line. Every time I find myself in a dollar store there’s one cashier serving dozens of angry people lined up to checkout. Whatever deal I might be getting isn’t worth my time to actually wait to pay.
This is what it looks like for me (Chrome/Windows 10): https://i.ibb.co/LgDwp8x/redstar.png

Readable, but looks odd - things like the crossbars on ts look too heavy.

Zooming in slightly clears it up: https://i.ibb.co/5L6R7MF/redstar2.png
Meta: Something on that page really screws with the scroll wheel. I barely touch the wheel and the page scrolls an entire screen.

It's like someone put some kind of smooth scrolling plugin on the page.
It works by having you sign a shareholder's agreement (at the point of investment) where you commit to voting in a certain way for certain key issues, including the structure of the board. Investment is usually not only a contract between the investor and the company, but also a contract between the (new) shareholders. You would be required to support "their representative" to be on the board, no matter how many percent of shares and votes you and they had; and then the board has the rights to govern the corporation according to the corporate bylaws.
Spot on. Nearly everything these days gets shoehorned into the insane US culture war, including the origins of Covid.
Vouching for AppImage too, I ship https://ossia.io like that
I know basically nothing about foreign policy at all, but just in the "tombert thought experiment" land I'm going to give my "asshole opinion" [1].

-----------

> Now, the crux, whatever legislation you come up with, how does that apply to a foreign country?

Conceivably couldn't we do some kind of trade agreement/embargo on countries that don't follow a minimum level of disclosure/safety protocol? E.g. if country A is shown to have covered up a massive lab leak, we impose some kind of tariff on them for N days.

Obviously there are no easy solutions to problems like this, but I think that would be the place I start, because obviously US law doesn't really apply to places outside of the US; the only thing we could do (at least the only thing that I could think of) that's even close to punitive enforcement would be to apply leverage.

[1] "Opinions are like assholes; everyone's got one and most of them stink"
The digital twin movement in pharma
Andy Jassy, Amazon's New CEO, Enters the Ring
The right to strike is federally protected:

https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes

Seems that if the employer can hire replacements quickly enough, the strikers don't get their jobs back.

"Economic strikers defined. If the object of a strike is to obtain from the employer some economic concession such as higher wages, shorter hours, or better working conditions, the striking employees are called economic strikers. They retain their status as employees and cannot be discharged, but they can be replaced by their employer. If the employer has hired bona fide permanent replacements who are filling the jobs of the economic strikers when the strikers apply unconditionally to go back to work, the strikers are not entitled to reinstatement at that time. However, if the strikers do not obtain regular and substantially equivalent employment, they are entitled to be recalled to jobs for which they are qualified when openings in such jobs occur if they, or their bargaining representative, have made an unconditional request for their reinstatement."
> More lobbying and political pressure than the Israeli government already exudes over the US?

NSO is already on the Entity List, a part of the U.S. sanctions regime. This has been amply discussed, but TL; DR they lost their friends in Washington.
Wonder if this is related to Wirecutter going not just behind the NYT paywall but also requiring an extra subscription beyond the base level. I basically stopped visiting after that.
it hurts to read this d**ss conversion #makeAmericaSIAgain
There's no way it hasn't been escalated to a diplomatic level already, that's probably the biggest impediment to the suit doing anything. Both NSO's host country and client base get an incredible amount of protection from the state department.
"Overrreliance" on scripture is an extremely important concept in islam. In fact I think every major sect (sunni or shia) and madhab are centered on that "reliance". Even the islamic schools of thought that usually take a less literal approach to the koran would probably be much much literal in their interpretation than your average protestant denomination. Innovating on the scripture by derivation, by cherrypicking or by selectively discarding part of it for social expediency is explicitly not allowed and is one of the biggest sin in islam.

In a way, from an islamic perspective, it's much much better to just acknowledge that you are not living by the teachings of the koran even if that means living a sinful life than it is to try to remake or drastically reinterpret the koran in way that whatever you are doing isn't a sin anymore.

Now obviously that does not apply to the hadiths which are, a part from the extremely consequential early caliphate intestine wars, probably one of the biggest source of inter and inner sect conflict and disagreement. Much more so than the koran itself imo.
How to interpret them, how much theological value they hold and even which are valid are all questions that will probably be debated forever.

In fact we (in my direct entourage, not all Muslims obviously ;) ) always find it a bit odd how... cavalier christians can be with their scripture when it comes to picking what they like and discarding what they don't. To me I couldn't see the point, but I know enough to understand that christian theology is much much more complicated and extremely intricate, but that's still what it can look like from my perspective. So it's funny to me to see someone say that not everyone is as literal as... protestants!
Yeah, it is like posting on Hatebook. Ain't nobody convincing nobody about nothing.
Tobacco and Alcohol have ruined an infinite number more of lives VS cocaine yet are legal.
https://youtu.be/ZW_1hP0SHSQ
I don’t think so. Not that I believe it’s impossible it originated in China from a lab accident, I think you should have proof before claiming that but okay. But when people started claiming it came from China they weren’t doing so off of hard evidence or being rational. They were doing so because of xenophobia and nationalist pride and it’s just easier to blame these problems on an other than it is to believe shit happens.

Now this year there have been more scientific minded people who have proposed a pretty rational set of circumstances that it could have came from China, but

1. These circumstances are not proven and are little more than a hunch of what could be, and

2. The type of people who push the “Chinavirus” rhetoric aren’t those same scientific minds thinking rationally and instead they’ve had their opinion slightly verified by more recent understanding (again, slightly, because there is no proof.)
Did it affect them?
Has a virus ever leaked from a lab whose existence (or ability to transmit along humans) had not previously been known? Surely the vast majority of new human-infecting viruses have been novel mutations that happened naturally.