skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't find the parallel good. Trying to invent a better one, I thought I'd say the coronavirus situation is IMO more like a question of whether, say, some particular volcano's explosion was natural, or human-induced.

As such, one can either focus on generally being more prepared against volcano explosions, or focus on trying to find a person among volcano researchers and tourists who may have done something to tickle the volcano to explode.

I mean, it's sure also not a perfect analogy; but how I see it, focusing on preparedness and handling of a situation that does happen naturally from time to time for sure, sounds to me like a sensible choice to focus effort into. With that said, totally, if there's some possibility it might have been human-induced, it makes sense to try and track and prevent it in the future; thing is, me personally, and I would risk theorizing that also many other people, am strongly afraid of such approach too quickly and too easily turning into a witch-hunt, anti-XYZ propaganda, and stirring hate by unscrupulous people - with scapegoating seemingly socially much easier to turn towards, than tiresome and "boring" epidemologic preparedness and discipline.
No-one seems to ever mention LastPass for some reason when this comes up. It's a complete solution, locally-encrypted, backed-up to the cloud, auto-fill, apps, all platforms, etc.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
I use Firefox an uBlock origin and definitely don't see ads on YouTube. I don't have any other ad blocking extension installed.
> why is the US still minting pennies?

> > A lobbying group...

It is astonishing how many problems in this country start with those three words.
...and the target audience has probably never even used or heard of Winamp, so if they're trying to ride on the name with that audience, it's going to be another fail.
thanks, but the link doesn't work
Today people self select to get tested unless they have to get care from a hospital or doctor or other work requirement.
Why Do I Need to Implement LegalTech Solutions to My Law Company?
Better than Windows
A 50lb bag of white rice can be had on Amazon for $88, which translates into roughly 1k calories/$1 delivered to your doorstep for free in two-three days. You can get similar calorie/$ value with pasta, peanut butter, oatmeal. No one who has $40/week to spend on food in America needs to go anywhere close to hungry if they don't waste their money and time driving to dollar stores to buy overpriced non-bulk groceries. You Americans can't afford frozen pizza and think that means you're suffering
As some of the other comments in the thread allude, this is quite a rudimentary (or rather outdated) understanding of how Java GC operates and ends up (unfortunately) turning an otherwise good comparison into a straw-man argument.

As someone who's worked with Java from the days where "If you want superhigh performance from Java without GC pauses, then just turn off GC and restart your process every X hours" was considered a "valid" way to run high-performance Java systems, I think the changes Java has made to GC are among the biggest improvements to the framework/JVM and have contributed vastly to JVM stability and growth over the last decade.
> It is never about the "greater good", but is always about theft, domination, and harassment, and it always ends up hurting your cause.

You can't imagine ever being in a position of non-privilege and needing to protest in order to be treated fairly, can you?
It is very common and typical of any organisation ( so not just Mozilla ) which are low in morale and dysfunctional, lacking real leadership and customer care.

It is just human nature.

Little sad writing this since I followed Firefox before it was called Firefox.
Krita is working out very well for my pixel wrangling tasks. The people around me also appreciate the improvements in workflow compared to gimp and photoshop. I just can't go back now, they're both too clunky. Usual caveats apply: I'm not in a studio full of photoshop power users that demand standardisation. That's a big factor.

Also, I'm not a graphic design guy. But when I need layers of pixels and brushes and the rest of what I consider required tools, Krita is my tool of choice. Kind of like Blender for 3D, although we also use that for 2D now since the newest upgrades have gone through.
You can stack-allocate in C, with alloca() or by taking the address of a local, and use it like a pointer. So long as you're extremely sure nothing is going to hang onto the pointer beyond the lifetime of that stack frame, it's fine.

Same thing with Go, except that the compiler makes the decision.
There are also numerous bans with no notice at all, just a sudden stream of gray comments that are 0 minutes old.
Some doubtless had access to the Internet in the late 70s/early 80s but random students generally did not even at universities that were connected to the Internet. When I was in school I remember someone at the AI Lab printing out a long Usenet thread related to Star Wars but I certainly didn’t have access. Indeed, outside of one class, I barely used a computer undergrad even as a non-CS engineering major.
What does it even supposed to mean? The lab theory is not that humans conspired to spread the virus, but it happened due to negligence. What's happening then is a cover-up, not a conspiracy.

Cover-up is the default mode of handling failure in an aspiring Communist state. When a major accident happens that can be covered up, it will be covered up.

The above mentioned Sverdlovsk outbreak was presented as natural as well: the official culprit was cough a wet market nearby cough. Took 13 years and the dissolution of USSR to admit the cover-up.
I've been looking at these libraries and Unpoly looks the most promising for my needs. HTMX looks good as well but Unpoly's infinite layers feature [1] rather grabbed my attention :)

Stimulus is the one I can't get myself to like. Separate JS controllers is clever but the DSL and general nature - it just doesn't click with me.

[1] https://unpoly.com/up.layer
Oh I agree, at a bare minimum there's nothing even remotely wacky about the lab leak theory. I'm just explaining why half the country has counterintuitively decided to brand it as lunatic fringe conspiracy rather than it being self-evidently plausible if not likely.
How does one go about learning about these things. HN crowd definitely leans towards the technical side myself including.

Btw. The blog is very informative and have subscribed.
"In the US, half of shoppers buy groceries from a dollar store."

I do not think it means half of Americans buy groceries from dollar general. I do not think it means of all those who shop groceries, half of them buy it from dollar general. I think it means, half of the people who buy stuff at dollar store also buy some groceries there. It does not mean much when put it that way.

I am familiar with poor people's shopping habits. The biggest advantage that Dollar stores have over others is not the price but rather their convenient location. A lot of Indians/Chinese students who come on shoestring budget would often buy lot of junk food from dollar store because they did not own car. For other items such as rice etc. they would request me to buy a large bag for them and then divide it among themselves. Similarly, trip to walmart etc. were rationed mostly because they did not own cars. People who owned cars on other hand could stretch their budgets even more. It was not uncommon for 5 of the folks to share one car, share a costco membership and buy in bulk and save lot of money in the process.
Not only it is plausible, it's very very likely. What are the odds that a lab that works on gain of function of Corona viruses is the exact place where the epidemic started?
We have always been at war with Eurasia
They're necessary if you want to take on funding. It's hard to imagine VCs agreeing to give you money without you agreeing to have a board. I'm sure there are rare exceptions, but they're just that: rare exceptions.
> In the US, half of shoppers buy groceries from a dollar store.

I think you are misreading the (ambiguous) mashed.com text, "More than half of shoppers now visit dollar stores to buy groceries, eMarketer reports, up from 21 percent just a few years ago.". It does not mean that more than half of all grocery shoppers buy their groceries at dollar stores, but that more than half of dollar store shoppers are shopping at the dollar store to buy groceries.

Actual market share of dollar stores in the grocery business is 2.9%, but this is expected to increase to 3.2%

https://www.supermarketnews.com/issues-trends/will-supermark...
Great notes! I am curious, what language / tech stack would be most promising in this space?
Dollar Tree sells nonperishable and frozen-foods.
Malice is also completely plausible. Biowarfare is like chemical and nuclear warfare, it's not new, it has been used before, and it probably will be used again.
> What is not to like?!

People don't like paying for things, especially when there is a free, easy, and legal alternative. I am a CR subscriber, and that $39/year fee was a hard thing for me to pay at first. But then I realized that is less than an hour of work at my salary, and I had already spent more than an hour trying to figure out which review sites were trustworthy.

I do find that they don't review everything in a category and can take a long time to review new products, which is frustrating but makes sense.
Tangential but I find it interesting that as a general rule US apartment tenants don’t have a washer/dryer eg as a front-loader combo.

I gather from research online it comes back to the practice of generally renting furnished apartments, a preference for wood building construction, a practice of having non-water-proofed wet areas, historical custom (perhaps coinciding with apartments being constructed post-war when these appliances were large and highly expensive?), and the chicken-and-egg problem of there not being a market for smaller appliances and therefore there not being great supply of smaller appliances.
All of the food delivery companies are predatory. Haven't seen a single one yet that is doing anything other than to squeeze the restaurants, the customers and the deliverators for every last dime.
18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(11) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

"(11) the term “loss” means any reasonable cost to any victim, including the cost of responding to an offense, conducting a damage assessment, and restoring the data, program, system, or information to its condition prior to the offense, and any revenue lost, cost incurred, or other consequential damages incurred because of interruption of service;"

18 U.S.C. § 1030(g) "

"(g) Any person who suffers damage or loss by reason of a violation of this section may maintain a civil action against the violator to obtain compensatory damages and injunctive relief or other equitable relief. A civil action for a violation of this section may be brought only if the conduct involves 1 of the factors set forth in subclauses [5] (I), (II), (III), (IV), or (V) of subsection (c)(4)(A)(i). Damages for a violation involving only conduct described in subsection (c)(4)(A)(i)(I) are limited to economic damages. No action may be brought under this subsection unless such action is begun within 2 years of the date of the act complained of or the date of the discovery of the damage. No action may be brought under this subsection for the negligent design or manufacture of computer hardware, computer software, or firmware."

I assume "negligent" is used in the legal sense? But it'll be curious if NSO claims they're not liable for selling flaws that already existed in Apple *ware.
What do you think is "so weak" about it?

What are you searching for?

How are you searching?

What do you think it ought to do that it doesn't do?
Nobody is unaware of the externalities of the prank, you are just the only one who cares. The reason you make the world a worse place is by lecturing people about things nobody cares about but you, insisting it's the only thing that matters and the world is going to shit because nobody shares your values - meanwhile the world is carrying on just fine by ignoring you. You don't recognize you're actually taking an incredibly arrogant stance by more or less trying to force your values on others, even if you think you're sticking up for people. You also reek of needing to express your moral superiority to others, not recognizing that other people have different morals than you. The reason I don't like you is because you insist you're right even when everyone is telling you you're wrong, and then have the gall to act superior to everyone who you haven't even understood. You want to suck the joy out of something just because you don't like it, even if everyone else does.

You can have the last word if you want. I'm done.
Ah you are not using noscript but have JS actually disabled in the browser? Hardcore. I would tend to just use noscript but still use smart bookmarks, much easier to just mash a button than mess about with DevTools.
i think cloudflare worker is basically like a browser tab

the only difference is that your browser is cloudflare and globally-distributed
Countries can just ask you to prove how you earned income, and jail you if your proof is unsatisfactory to them.

India banning cryptocoins doesn't mean that people will automatically be jailed for mining on day one. It just means that anyone using cryptocoin to avoid paying Indian taxes can end up jailed when their expenditure exceeds their provable income, or when their documented income is traceable to cryptocoin, or etc.

The United States IRS doesn't have to make cryptocoins illegal to convert into currency; they just have to demand that you pay taxes, and have you jailed for tax evasion if you fail to do so. They don't actually care if you earn income through selling cryptocoins for currency, as long as you report the income earned without attempting to evade an honest assessment of value, and as long as you pay your taxes on that income earned.
Original author here. I strongly disagree.

While it’s certainly true that firmware on many devices can’t be or simply isn’t updated, it’s also the case that bugs ship. Because of this, engineers design and ship their more complex devices with the facility to upgrade firmware. Even my ages old stereo receiver is upgradable (although painfully so).

But this is about smart contracts: code that in many cases moves money. I’d put that in the category of code that really could benefit from carefully controlled upgradability.

I’m not the only one. For instance, the primary USDC contract on Ethereum is a proxy contract — it’s upgradable by design. I think that makes a lot of sense, and apparently so do the engineers managing those many billions of dollars: they’ve weighed the balance of “trust” in the abstract with “make sure it doesn’t break” in the real and made their decision.

Beyond that, a guiding principle of some newer blockchains (like Tezos) is that code will need to evolve over time. Like many things Web3, it’s too soon to tell how things will shake out in the long run, and a variety of approaches seems desirable.
Yeah, well, basically they stop you from cashing out, which means your crypto-holdings are worth zero to you, whatever their market value.
"Buy once cry once" only works when you have money. If all you can afford are dollar store socks, you're going to be buying a lot of dollar store socks. Being poor sucks.
Cute response folks. My physician is also my MIL. She is also not sure if boosters are a good idea. Doctors are not all equipped to keep up on the latest research on a rapidly changing topic. If I ask a doctor outside my family I am not likely to get linked to the latest research and an explanation of its quality.

I am absolutely able to read a study and interpret its results. I read the phase 3 trial results for Moderna and was satisfied that it was excellent evidence for getting the vaccine. I’m not yet aware of any booster studies outside of antibody counts post booster. It would be nice to have an idea of how much my risk of Covid drops and for how long, but I’m not sure if we have evidence collected on that yet.
Is Someone Who Looks Happy Likely to Be Honest?
A lot of genious moves here I have never seen or thought of. Brilliant. Grabbing pids was mindblowingly effective.
Yes, there is also autobanning and filtering software. But that is not what happened here.
>Proof-of-stake is basically a fantasy [...] hand-waving. It having not happened yet is pretty good evidence of this being a fantasy.

This couldn't be further from reality. Blackcoin (2014), Peercoin, Decred, etc...

Eth 2.0 is running, right now, with billions in value. The whole of Eth is planned to move to 100% PoS quarter 1 of 2022.
This isn't true if your objective is just to protect wealth long-term.

I said illegality constrains the usefulness of cryptocurrency. Long-term gains is one of the remaining hypothetical uses but other uses are limited. So your claim doesn't refute my point. With fewer practical uses, we might see bitcoin's long terms value decline but that's speculation.
‘Web3’ is just new window dressing on the same old crypto casino. “Get rich quick!” is the selling point
You pretty much nailed it. The left is so deranged in their hatred, they can't consider that this explanation isn't just plausible, but very likely.
A door-and-lock is a single-agent system and therefore isn't a good analogy. Money always needs social consensus. In a blockchain, you're relying on others agreeing on a certain history. That society can decide to disagree with you and consider a different history as truth. It has happened multiple times on Ethereum and Bitcoin both.
> ...good luck preventing exiting new viruses from showing up from time to time.

But even with a "natural origin," there are things that could be done. I've heard it said that the real Chinese cover-up in that scenario is the widespread trading of wild animals (with one wild animal vendor even travelling from Wuhan to other markets which China had insisted only sold frozen food and kitchenware).

https://news.yahoo.com/virologist-suggests-coronavirus-origi...

You still have the same problem in the end: a "lack of transparency" (if not downright dishonesty) from the Chinese government. And also, an obvious avenue for reforming the dangers that helped spread the 2020 pandemic -- which is not being explored because of difficulties in even establishing the facts of the initial outbreak.

I honestly don't know why this idea -- this possibility, this scenario -- isn't getting equal consideration.
Our software follows the canonical URL when there is one, and your page says that https://wasp-lang.github.io/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-lear... is the canonical URL. I'll switch it back now but you might want to fix that!
Exactly the point. Every detail of the most hostile spot on Earth is overwhelmingly more viable as a place to homestead than the best imaginable site on Mars. The middle of the Sahara Desert, bang at the South Pole, under the ice at the northernmost bit of Greenland, on a tepui in Venezuela without permission, on a desert island where typhoon waves wash all the way across, all are more pleasant and less likely to kill everyone who goes there in the first year.

So, pick such a place, and try it there first. If you aren't even talking about that, you are far from ready to make a go at someplace massively more hostile to your very existence.
Ransomware couldn't be implemented with cash.
You are doing your math incorrectly. The "0.0022%" number if for all age groups, so if you want to compare appropriately, you use the % for death via covid for all age groups, which is 1.6%. If you want to narrow it to age group, you need to find the death rate in VAERS by age group.

Furthermore, the 0.0022% is undoubtedly a gross exaggeration of death-by-vaccine, as VAERS is designed to capture nearly any result of death after a vaccination, including things like "got hit by a car" because drugs could cause drowsiness, for instance.

In fact, it seems that people that get the vaccine have a reduced chance of dying from non-Covid things.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e2.htm
> How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home?

TL:DR they don't know
Happy 1password customer, Bitwarden is also pretty great. Dont' depend on a single browser vendor for this stuff.
A "deflationary instrument" with an issuance of 6.25 BTC per block...
I think you have to weigh the options though.

On one hand, you have a 50% chance of being fired.

On the other hand, you’re raising from Sequoia.

Is raising from Sequoia going to change the direction of your company so much (in a positive) direction that it’s worth taking on the 50% chance you’ll be fired?
It's pretty obvious that there are a lot of people who don't get it, because in many cases the consequences aren't as easy to see.

You stop landlords from collecting rent, set that precedent, and over the next few years they're going to convert rental properties into condos until rents are high enough to account for the risk of it happening again. Then anyone who can't afford to buy is paying higher rent for a generation or more. But it doesn't happen instantaneously and it's hard to trace directly to the act, so people don't understand.

Set price controls on gas and there immediately won't be gas to buy. That's something everybody is promptly going to notice.
> $40/week for a single person isn't an easy food budget

What? One person can easily get by on $40/week for food.
> Protocols like SMTP (1981; email), TCP (1983; reliable packet transmission), HTTP (1991; web), and XMPP (1999; chat) all created immense value while capturing little for their inventors. Blockchains upend this, allowing inventors to capture considerable value for themselves.

That... seems like a huge negative to me. No wonder crypto enthusiasts give me the same feeling as relentless door-to-door salesmen.
There is no such thing as "the developer community" converging.
Hot take: this seems like a very low-traffic period for them as anyone searching BFCM deals will have done the reading before the days? / content written before the days
I dont remember any drama on Python, Java, C++ or JS on HN.

But I remember a lot of drama on Ruby and Rust.
> 20 years ago if I wanted to create a currency, I had to press or mint metal coins

Furthermore, if you were in the United States and found any success in this, you would be arrested and charged under 18 USC 486: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/486

Not so with cryptocurrency, for some reason.
How many pandemics, out of all the pandemics that have ever happened throughout history, have been due to a lab leak? Wouldn’t the default assumption be the one that had been the cause most of the time?

Yes the factors you raise the likelihood of a lab leak theory, or they could just be circumstantial. Without more, the fact that pandemics throughout history have a natural origin weighs heavily in favor of our current pandemic having a natural origin.
Sure, my point wasn't that there is no use case, just that there are use cases where it isn't necessary and—more than that—is counterproductive
I am always reminded of that song by Adam Sandler: Toll Booth Willie
Per other comments in this thread, this is unpopular opinion.
600 employees out of 150,000 [1] are protesting? 0.4%. Not exactly a tidal wave.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+google+employees
It's an acronym for "virtual retractable binary link", a concept well known to perturbation specialists.
Hmm, I can take a stab at this and probably be wrong myself.

Money like everything is a market. There is a supply of money and a demand for money. If the demand remains constant but the supply is curtailed in some way I could see the value of the good exchanged going up. Now if you make the argument that this action would decrease the demand then yes the value should go down?
You're on a list somewhere.
They optimize for sign up conversions.
Governments likely have it in form of top-secret intelligence reports for top decision makers.