skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Per the CCDC 33 of 585 environmental samples taken early Jan. were positive,

The first cases were at least in November, and quite probably earlier. The virus was in circulation in Northern Italy by December. We know this from multiple lines of evidence.

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14621732432474071...
How do you exchange your cryptos? You would need an account at a Singaporean bank. Then spend your savings in Singapore, and go back to India empty handed?
1.

- aisle system encourages spur of the moment purchases (reducing revenue).

- The US stores have so many different brand and pricing choices. Personally, I prefer to shop where I can see the ingredients, prices, and choices, especially if I am purchasing something I do not usually purchase (and thus know what to ask for).

2.

- I might be wrong, but I don't think its gangs raiding the stores, but homeless drug addicts. Not sure if you can just cut a check to a gang and have all of the addicts stop selling (unless maybe you pay off the dealers and the dealers could control the addicts?).

3.

- The stores have been paying for security within their stores, but its still insanely expensive and humans aren't perfect.

I wonder if Amazon's Go stores where you have to scan a QR code for payment is better system than above. I guess that those stores exclude travelers, people that can't afford smart phones, or don't want to create an account.
I lean towards the accidental lab escape theory, given the work the Wuhan lab was known to be doing, while only being a level 3 lab, and that the first cases originated in a nearby market, it feels like it satisfies Occams shaving implement.

As for why there were no previous wild outbreaks, that I can't answer,except that the people who found the origins of SARS in horseshoe bats in Yunnan didn't find the virus itself, but rather it's genetics spread across diverse strains of coronaviruses in one cave, with analysis showing the varying strains could mix. [1]

So, maybe Covid-19 is an amalgam of a novel coronavirus that was being studied, that had never reached the level of serious illness in the wild to be distinguishable from a common cold, and another coronavirus it met in Wuhan, whether in the lab or in the dense population, and became far more potent.

And of course, there's the allegations of gain of function work in the Wuhan lab.

I agree that we'll never know the truth, the CCP would never accept the loss of face of it was their researchers who accidentally unleashed it.
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No, you're wrong. The earliest cases were at least in November, and quite probably earlier.

The earliest case identified in the market was on December 11. There's simply no way that was the first actual case.

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14621732432474071...
McDonalds should have Apple design uncrackable DRM that locks franchise owners into their walled garden, and call them iScream machines.
You did nothing for a decade? Well, as long as you're satisfied being a leech on society, you can always collect welfare

Or grow up and contribute like the rest of us. Nothing in the world is perfect. Get over it and help us make society possible so that people who have reasons better than "disgust" to not work can be properly supported

If you are an able person, you have a moral responsibility to contribute to society. What is disgusting is hearing about some ne'er-do-well who is too good to write code in a cushy desk chair for six figures. Give me a break. So many people would kill for that opportunity. Might be the most entitled thing I've ever read.

"Disgust"
Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
Woodworking-Doc
I have a similar use case but even worse. Rather than locations users are given access directly to the consumer/patient and the each resource is for some consumer x. So any access not just reporting we have to filter by a huge list of accessible consumers which sometimes can be as small as 50 but large as 100K+ which is massive challenge to scale.

We can obviously manage this still with careful optimization but I'm not sure if this is kind unlimitedly scalable say for 1M+ consumers. I wonder if this can only be handled by reframing business requirements (like location as you are using) or someone has better design/ideas.
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1) No prosecution of property crimes by CA DA.

2) Theft of less than $950 is not a felony but misdemeanour.
The Phoenician script used a simplified alphabet (with only 22 letters) derived from an older Semitic alphabet (which had between 27 and 29 letters). The older alphabet has not been preserved, but we know some things about it because there have been a few other alphabets derived from it, besides the Phoenician (the Ugaritic and South-Arabic alphabets).

Because the Phoenician merchants had activities all around the Mediterranean and through the Middle East, the Phoenician alphabet became known over a very large area, unlike the earlier alphabets. The consequence was that almost all alphabetic/abugida systems of writing are derived directly or indirectly from the Phoenician script.

The Greek alphabet was derived directly from Phoenician, then the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets were derived from the Greek.

Other Semitic alphabets were also derived from Phoenician, e.g Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic, but they had problems because the Phoenician alphabet had a reduced number of letters so they had to use various means to write the sounds that were missing in Phoenician. The Aramaic alphabet spread through Asia and generated various other writing systems, e.g. in India.
That's because everyone fell for the systems fallacy. Blockchain was designed for bitcoin to function, for that purpose alone. Then because it worked for that one use case of a decentralized storage/transfer of value, people assumed they could make it work for everything else. Not how technology works.
The goal of lawlessness by Democrat/Marxists/MSM is to destroy the existing power structure and society, and build a new system with them permanently at the top.

Democrat/Marxists hate the US constitution, hate the US legal system, and are working to seize control of the US Supreme Court.

Until then, politicians hire their own security details. You should do that too.

"Progressives disregard US legal system amid Rittenhouse verdict: WSJ editor"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2watcv61hwM
They recently bought Uniregistry and transferred all of the customer domains. If you had a Uniregistry account, you can't transfer away from GoDaddy for 3 months from the date, coming up in a few weeks.

As much as I am looking forward to getting away from them, I'm not looking forward to jumping through the hoops they'll inevitably put in my way.

I was shocked at how terrible their service and prices were. Whenever I renew a domain I'm met with an absurd stunt billing attempt. Support is horrible, they can't even do email with tickets. Instead they have a chat system which automatically closes and the support staff game it by stalling.
This is cool! Though I'm wondering why it's Nitro-only. Are there plans to roll this out to all of EC2?
I give you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
Quantitative measures would be nice, but I would imagine that it's going to be really difficult to quantitatively compare go and java garbage collectors, without a billion other factors about the language/runtime getting in the way.
It'd probably stick pretty easily if they put the things back in the Parthenon, they're only know as the Elgin Marbles as the Earl of Elgin looted them.
What if you invert your thesis. Sooner doesn’t necessarily imply “higher standard”:

1 - American school teach the alphabet before grade 1, and push kids to read early. German schools don’t even teach the alphabet until grade 1' yet by the end of that year the reading level of the kids is the same as US kids at the end of grade 1, or better. German Pädagogin justify this by saying there is some neural development issue — I think that is likely bull. But what I do recognize is that instead of being pushed to read before the kids are ready, the kids instead learn other valuable life skills. I happened to learn to read at age 5 (not in Germany nor USA) but that didn’t make me “better” than other kids; they did other things.

2 - kids who have parents who can afford tutors and such can push the kids through the prescribed steps sooner. Kids whose parents each have two jobs to get food on the table, well, they simply can’t. So the former define “higher standards” because they chose their parents well?

3 - To combine the two: if we can open up opportunities for all the kids aren’t we likely to end up with a larger pool of well educated people who will end up being the inventors, leaders, poets etc of the future? How many ramanujans are we leaving behind?

I’m not saying “throw out all the standards” but rather quite the opposite. I think your unidimensional absolutism is narrow and inadequate.
That's the issue, we are all so different in the way we learn we will never have a perfect learning experience for everybody.

Maybe that's why the current school system sucks. It's good for some people but not for some other
>The sad truth is that there are no listed trillion-dollar tech companies in Europe. Given Europe’s market size and depth of its talent pool, this is a surprise. Deliveroo, for example, had an extremely challenging IPO, trading at much lower multiples than some of its American peers despite better metrics.

Is that really a sad truth other than for VCs who want to exit based on future expectations? If you have better metrics and you make money you're employing people and you're paying wages and you're growing things seem fine.

No doubt the US has many great tech companies but if you see some of the inflation in terms of funding rounds and evaluations slapped on companies that aren't profitable is that really necessary to emulate?
> How much do you want to bet on that?

Isn't it a rather safe bet since most people won't roll their own hash functions anyway.
And Windows still comes with Jscript too.
Sure, there are absolutely deaths there. But the problem though is that the majority of crops we grow are grown to feed the livestock.

So you’ll still minimize the number of crop deaths by going vegan.

Even if you believe that plants are just as sentient as animals (which some people have argued to me…) then going vegan still reduces that suffering the most.
Also you can use readarray to store the found filenames in a bash array (to use with a for loop).
The effort broadly works out to be along the lines of:
Take all the energy expended from the start of the industrial revolution and then double it for all the losses you'll have. And that is about the size of the energy you'll need to expend just to capture and condense carbon out the the atmosphere.

We don't just need to scale CCS, we need to scale up our ability to generate electricity because, we will for a long time have a new expense to pay. ie CCS!

I wonder if nuclear as baseload, we could shed power at night into some capture technology. But there's still the sifting problem of trying to extract 440ppm molecules out of a million other harmless molecules.
Things that countries with European culture and super majorities never have to deal with. Imagine showing this to someone from 100 years ago. We've already lost so so much, maybe forever, and there will still be people calling for further deracination and demographic replacement.

Call me racist but you can't tell me it's not true.
Relevant link for those who want more context on the constantly broken McDonald icecream machine situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4

I don't think the WIRED article isn't really doing justice to what Kytch is trying to show. The important argument is whether or not McDonald and Taylor conspired to prevent Kytch from selling / franchisees from purchasing this equipment, essentially a 'right to repair' argument.

If Kytch wins, there could be ramifications for the tractor debate in the agricultural world as well.
None of the things you mentioned make sense in the US.

Selling behind bars doesn’t solve any problems for CVS, Walgreens, etc. These are big stores with a lot of walking surface that benefit mostly from uninterrupted traffic of people.

Paying gangs? Dude, these are not gang-level crimes. The people who loot stores are uneducated poor people with a low sense of morality. But what you’re suggesting is absurd simply because paying criminal organizations for protection is a crime itself.

The last point does make sense though. But again, this completely ignores how retail commerce and urban distribution works in the US.

These are all ideas that only work in corrupt, lawless and economically challenged settings.
The Germans have had many super aerodynamic, but otherwise impractical cars over the years. Of recent note is the VW XL1, a recent production car with two people sitting diagonally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
Igor Malitskiy Passed Away
District 9 borrows the backstory so that has to age out first.
635kb is indeed "large" if it's one message. (You will have millions of messages in one file if you're doing batch processing.)
The ‘Growth Scare’ Keeps Growing Out of the Macro (Money) Illusion
And if they don't, then what?
>What it doesn't do well is spaff money indiscriminately at any old idiot with an idea.

Different philosophies. In US you throw money at ten stupid ideas hoping that even nine will be dead, one will be successful and see extreme growth, making you very rich. It's more of a gambler's approach.

I don't know if studies were made but I suspect US based startups who survive to see a large growth while in EU even the growth is small more startups are surviving.

> most of the startups in the generation that I joined (2018+) have focused on getting a decent business model, rather than hyper growth above all else.

With hyper growth at least you have the satisfaction of taking thousands of investors with you if you fall, while producing a big hole in the stock market and capture media attention. You will never be forgotten, you will have a several Wikipedia pages about you and also some legal investigations. Your name will be mentioned in bussines schools.
Assuming it was paid training, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

160 hours gives about 90 minutes per game. For the NES that's probably more than acceptable, many games were very short (Super Mario Bros can be finished by speedrunners in just 5 minutes for an extreme example)
I looked into Graviton 2, ECS, and Fargate about a year ago. It works as advertised and for simple workloads it was 1/4 the price of anything I could get from Azure at the time.

I have since consolidated my infrastructure in Azure but the Graviton 2, ECS and Fargate stuff was neat.

The UI was A bit clunky, lots of clicks but the feature set is well thought out. Nice deployment options and exactly what I'd expect from a cloud provider.
As far as security goes, I would definitely include storing passwords in plaintext in a list of deadly sins.
>we should sort kids into classes purely by age, and that any other method of sorting is inequitable

Can you maybe explain to a non US person why a system merit based is not used(or if it was used in the past was dropped) , I understand there are limitation with this system, I will describe next:

1 there is national/state level exam with super strong security to prevent cheating

2 highschool/universities will be placed on a list with all the classes they offer

3 candidates will fill an ordered list with their preferences. In practice this means you put on the top the "good" high schools and the classes/profiles that interest you , like if you hate Math you will avoid science/math stuff and go to art/literature/languages profiles. How I personally ordered the schools was by checking the results of their students at the national exams.

The result is that students that are very smart or that are OK smart but worked hard are concentrated on 3 hghschools in my region. This seems OK sincee the kid that is a really jerk, never liked school or failed the exam will be at a different highschool and not drag down the working hard students.
No Mustang?!? I'm appalled!

Seriously, I miss my model planes so bad that my children know about them, decades after they we "disposed" of against my will. The hours of glue and sanding and paint. If you have any pics I'd love to see them.
Merlin by Graham Hoyland

It's about the engineering of the Merlin airplane engine from the early days of rolls Royce thru to ww2
Mozilla Needs to Give Up
I wonder if Amazon could make a significant impact on ipv6 uptake if they offered a very generous ipv6 only tier.
FEBO!!!

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

Eating from the wall is like late night window shopping in Amsterdam's culinary red light district.

https://uncloggedblog.com/2013/12/10/five-ways-to-see-amster...

>Window-shopping for fast food at FEBO.

>If you must, eat from the wall at FEBO, an inexplicably popular Dutch tradition that satisfies appetites 24/7 with automated fast food displayed in tiny windows. No telling how long those mayo-slathered frikandel and burgers have been sitting there under heat lamps, but if you’re starving in the wee hours, they may be your only snack option.
https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4

This video did a good indepth investigation. From memory Taylors hq is within 5 miles of McDonald's HQ.
To close for comfort when you see the type of shenanigans they go through to pad Taylors revenue
I’ll add my +1. Clean UI, more than decent customer support, reasonable prices.
One strain of BANAL (52) has a high DNA sequence similarity to SARS-CoV2. Nonetheless, RaTG13 is closer overall (as you can see in the phylogenetic analysis in the paper I posted), and there are enough differences that you have to make complex assumptions about how multiple viruses crossed over evolutionary time. Possible? Yes. Parsimonious? Not necessarily.

Also, nobody reasonable is arguing that BANAL-52 is not evolutionarily related to SARS-CoV2. Of course it is. But that could be true even if it were a precursor of some virus that was later engineered in a lab.

To fully convince me of a natural origin hypothesis, you'd have to find a virus in an animal reservoir that had a highly similar RBD with a furin cleavage site -- or something within a few point mutations of a furin cleavage site. Also, a high degree of homology across the remainder of the genome.
I'm fine with people posting random studies that I can read and form my own opinion on. This isn't ridiculous. This is the process of science.
Ah, yes. Encrypted web traffic truly is the herald of the cyber apocalypse
That completely contradicts your point.

> my claim was..

No, it wasn't, but nice try.
Ukrainian Engineering and Pedagogical Academy Igor Malitskiy[0] passed away on November 23, 2021 at age 96.[1]

[0] https://thekharkivtimes.com/2016/04/19/kharkiv-sets-record-o...

[1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86...
Are you seriously posting a link to a one-off phylogenetic molecular clock estimate as experimental evidence of italian priority? The other Italian claims of priority are highly disputed by basically everyone - but have I missed anything - are there any actual sequenced, dated samples from Italy in December? That's the standard of evidence here, not some crappy antigen test or unsequenced amplification hit. No one believes the Dec 11 case to be "the first", just the first well attested case.
The Contingency of Selfhood
There's a free course on art of storytelling by Pixar on Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar#storytelling
That's very misleading title, Sweden per se can't say anything even it's president says this.
> However: just because you don’t need a blockchain to do something doesn’t mean the industry won’t settle on using blockchains to do it anyway. The technology industry is immensely path dependent. Particularly when buckets of money appear, feedback loops can form whose outcomes seem all but inevitable. Speculators and venture capitalists alike have inundated crypto with cash. There’s a certain reflexivity to it: when cash pours into anything, the intrinsic value of the thing is at least the value of the cash… and potentially much more, if that cash is invested productively! Blockchains may become the future — including for use cases where they are not natural fits — only because their story was told, speculated on, invested in, and told some more.

This bothers me: That we could end up with expensive, unnecessary systems that exist not because they offer a tangible benefit but because everyone just kept going along with things, collecting investor money and ignoring criticism until it was too late.

I don’t see that being apocalyptic necessarily, I think Adam Smith’s scythe will mow down any companies that make truly bonkers decisions on this stuff. But it bugs me that we could collectively spend years arguing about this and building blockchains and training a generation of blockchain engineers only for the near totality of blockchain stuff to fail for reasons that were evident from the beginning.
Good for you (or bad, I don't care anyway). But why the hell you post about it here? I took my shit to the toilet today, and saw no need to post about it here (just did it to illustrate the vanity)
Cheaper printer for publications as well. one color instead of four color needed+.
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2. It’s both. There is minor theft from drug addicted and mentally ill folks, and organized groups stealing high value items to sell elsewhere. The second group is the larger issue, and committing the more impactful thefts(clearing shelves in Walgreens).

The recent example of the woman charged with 100+ counts of stealing from target, and of the looters charged with robbing Louis Vuitton, it’s notable one is being charged fora robbery at Walgreens.
European museums are full of looted treasures taken from other countries. Perhaps it seemed a little inappropriate to continue to name them after the looter rather than the place they came from?
They do have a lower MTBF than other Taylor machines sold to other fast food chains. McDonalds requires franchises to purchase specific models that are more prone to failure and harder to repair.
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Check out that "Bad Boy Hot Dog".
I'm uncertain why it does not seem to be discussed that maybe the leak was sabotage by a lab worker who got paid really well by a foreign service to take it from the lab and disperse it.