skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're welcome. Think of it as a bit of a counterweight to Scott Aaronson's gushing admiration masquerading as a review.

The way Chan immediately incorporated new information into a goal-posts moved version of the lab leak theory while at the same time professing to be just a disinterested party looking for the truth is telling to me.

I'm all for a ban on weaponizing viral research, gain of function and so on. But none of the discounts the main problem with the lab leak theory: a total lack of evidence.
LGTM = Looks Good To Me
Concept Nyx is Alienware’s take on a household gaming server
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong's interview preparation strategy is or you feel it is. Perhaps you don't feel you owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don’t think we understand these subtle mental disorders well enough for this kind of absolute decision-making. What is ADHD, really?

“Your child has an extra chromosome and will probably never live independently” feels deeply different than “your child has a gene variant that subtly affects their brain in ways that make it harder to focus in certain circumstances, and also probably in dozens of other ways that we don’t understand, and also many very successful people have this variant and it’s possible it even contributed to their success”. A society that routinely aborts children in the second case is starting to tilt into wild dystopia.

Not that we’ve identified such a gene, as far as I know.
AFAIK it was a signature update, and the existing code couldn't understand the new signatures with a 2022 timestamp. IMHO, signatures still should have been deployed to an early ring before broad release.

Antimalware signatures as code, anyone?
Seems to me like a better way to do this is an alarm clock that can be triggered by another program, and then you can use IFTTT type functionality to decide when to trigger the alarm clock.

So, use composable tools instead of building a custom alarm clock that can do weird stuff.
Eh, what? This has been idiomatic for many years for C++. Not doing it, especially today, is just malpractice. Every company I've worked at since I was doing C++ professionally required this. There is no accounting for how random companies do their software engineering but that doesn't mean competent software engineering organizations don't exist.

I do database engines. This has been a standard part of code standards for a really long time, at least as long as the programming languages we used practically supported it. I've done it ever since. The only type that is allowed to flow through the code is size_t, where it makes sense.
> Overall I'd say Windows offers no advantages besides being more entrenched among gaming developers for historic reasons.

So if you were a game developer you wouldn't consider the fact that for every 1 Linux gamer on Steam there are 99 Windows gamers and thus optimize for the much larger market?
Low energy electron-positron annihilations produces photons. Higher energy annihilation produces all sorts of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation
I think this is mostly asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin ...

What definitive evidence can we provide of an animal host now? What definitive evidence can we provide of a lab leak? Of a deliberate release?

I don't think we can provide definitive evidence for any of the options, that proponents of another theory, even the reasonable ones, will accept, so ... I believe it is exactly 3 angels.
I personally have seen this, as a manager at a major company involved in obtaining certain data services from VC-backed startups (by now, medium-sized several-year-old companies).

I completely agree with the idea -- the VC-backed startup is completely incentivized to inflate deals to hit dumb revenue targets, regardless of how much it hurts (and they know it), really hurts them operationally to deliver. And when this happens at some point (usually quite soon), their priorities about the product take a back seat to simply pulling in as much revenue as possible.

At least we get to rake them over the coals and extract some ridiculously good prices for the product we buy while we do it, but man it's painful for both us and them at the same time. All for some valuation.

I see the CEO putting himself through a total hell to do this, and I ask "why are you doing this"? It's too late. They sold themselves to that world, and now have to live with the consequences.

edit to note: in the OP article, it points to a further essay written by Phil Greenspun in 2001 on his experience with VCs. It's funny and really interesting on its own. One small thing I noticed at the bottom is that the first comment is written by Aaron Swartz.
...not according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_t&oldid=4507...
I am personally allergic to spam, and I treat others as if they are the same. You're right that I should realize that the people who sign up for our email list are genuinely excited about our products and want to hear every time we win an award or launch a new partnership. I just dread seeing those unsubscribes, knowing that I've just pissed someone off...
Time for Noogle - a brand new search engine. Some money to be made there…
Plenty of diseases, coronaviruses included infect several species. Sometimes one variant freely infects many species, sometimes a novel mutation enables a jump from one to the other, often somewhere in the middle where something will spread easily in one and not so much in the other until it evolves to change. This is pretty basic infectious disease stuff.
You did the right thing.
Your argument is functionally a syllogism. You assert the argument for an animal host is weak and dismiss it in one sentence but it has been repeatedly observed finding the origin host of viral infection can take years and years.

Secondly you discuss the lab leak theory at length and construct the state of being that because not A it must be B but there is no dichotomy here, there are many choices, including the fantastical which break Occam's razor but alas may turn out to be true. Simply because we have not found a wild host does not make lableak "true" or even more likely.

I have no idea what the origin is. I'm not in the field, I'm not competent to judge. What I read suggests most
people who are competent to judge want more evidence.

If your point is that the CCPs exclusion of external verification of theories is proof, I'm sorry but it's just not proof: there are many reasons why the Chinese government does this, guilt is not a given although fear of guilt is plausible. Shaming the state is not easy or wise for people in this political system and "Strong China"
Plays inside the government and the party (they are different things btw) as well as differences between ministries, departments, provinces, external parties make this a very complex problem.

Power struggles often have nothing to do with the ostensible reasons they are fought over.
Wuhan is also home to bat caves where we've identified dozens of SARS/COVID-like viruses to date. They're the same caves three of that lab's researchers went into before becoming hospitalized with a flu-like illness in December of 2019. Even if you could trace this pandemic to those three researchers, it would not be evidence of SARS-COV-2 being a manufactured virus.
I agree. I think the problem with me is that I’m very aware of how I can be better and why I should be, but I’m failing to make it happen. My main blocker is typically myself; what I think I need, what I want, generally protecting my self interest to an unnecessary degree.

In my defence I think I’ve gotten better about it over time and have taken real steps to do better. It still bothers me quite a bit sometimes. I know I should do better.
Gotta be careful with that one. Crypto typically doesn't have any equity ownership at all. At best it's a revenue stream.
1000 processes in half a second is very slow when you take into consideration how much work a modern CPU can do in a second. You could have ran though hundreds of millions of loop iterations doing some non-trivial task in the same amount of time, even on very slow machines.

I'm not disagreeing about process spawn times not being extremely slow, I would have guessed a few milliseconds depending on the program, but a millisecond is a long time for a computer.
>Maybe heavy internet/gaming/porn use for 20 years combined with a lack of good habits has just created an addiction to stimulation and set me up for failure in general.

This is something I wonder too. Could I have trained myself into this state? Is this a learned behavior? Has years of laziness and gratification seeking created a state where effort is no longer an option?

> Maybe I just need to start believing in God and let Jesus take the wheel.

I've been told this works really well. I have a weird feeling it might even work for me, if I could somehow get myself to buy into the whole organized religion thing. Maybe if Elon started a Church of the Simulation I could get on board, haha.

The potential link to ADHD is interesting. At times I've wondered if I have ADHD. I certainly relate to many of the symptoms. I actually was diagnosed and prescribed Ritalin, but I have to admit that I was drug seeking at that time so not really sure the diagnosis holds water.

>Speaking of TMS, a new depression treatment out of stanford has come out recently that sounds similar

Funny you mention this, I was reading about it on HN a few days ago. It gave me hope. I actually emailed the group asking to be a part of a future study.
He wonders what a paid version of Google search would look like. I don't think most people would be able to afford such a service and it'd be reserved mostly for people with lots of disposable income. However at that point, you're losing your most valuable ad clicks. From what I understand a single click on a Crypto.com ad can cost $40-$60 dollars. I don't see it being a sustainable subscription model.
Interesting! Is Blind representative, or would it skew junior? I would imagine the most senior engineers wouldn't be as likely to be on platforms like Blind, but I could be wrong.
It could have come from guano miners just as easily, but bringing it to a 50M population center was a recipe for disaster. Ebola and AIDS did not come from a lab but from tampering with wild animals.
Tell me, when you learned to drive an automobile, was it on a $55k BMW?

It's okay to buy something cheap with the understanding that its a stepping-stone to something else. After all, if the hobby doesn't "take" and you move on to a different hobby, at least you haven't wasted too much money.

> This is the equivalent of someone buying the top reviewed amazon promoted laptop, sorted by cheapest, with some kinda piece of shit 1152×648 screen, 4gb ddr2 ram, 2.xGhz celeron processor, and telling people it's a gaming pc because it says gaming on the box.

But if the buyer of this laptop was happy with the games he was playing on this laptop, why are you getting bent out of shape? Sure, he can't run the latest AAA game in HD, but it's clear that it is working for him.

Now I actually get this attitude from gamers often because I have a 1st-gen i7 (from 2011) with no SSDs but a modern video card (GTX 660ti), running Linux of all things.

I say I use it for work and gaming, and the response I get from gamers is very similar to yours - that my "gaming" machine is trash; I should throw everything out (maybe keep the video card) and get a new machine.

The thing is, it works for me - I play mostly Starcraft 2 and have played Far Cry [2/3/4/5] on it. Those are demanding AAA games. It works for me.

Same with OP - his bike works for him, and you are recommending a different product as an alternative, which frankly is a stupid thing to do (Harsh, I know, but someone had to say it).

You'd understand if you ever needed a lawnmower and someone recommended a pair of scissors as a replacement for a lawnmower.
Maybe (though, it's hard to believe) and this is mainly click bait. But we have had centuries of women excluded from education and work only because of their gender. At some point things need to start to get straitened , this is one way of doing it.

As long as they can do the work, hire them!
Interesting. I had never expected 1P3A mentioned on HN. It's mainly a forum for Chinese overseas to discuss their life and so on. Surrounding this topic they have also developed side features like COVID-19 statistics and some system for school applicants.
Small polite correction:

Hunter Biden is one of Joe Biden's sons from his first wife.

The German Shepherds are named Major and Champ.
That's exactly what I said above, Windows is addressed not because it's better for gaming or is somehow superior to Linux in avoiding issues like above, but because developers don't want to ignore its market size.

With comparable market size, Linux won't be ignored either, its issues regardless.
CORS is such an ugly web standard. It's not only a pain in you butt, but it also makes your requests slow through these extra pre-flight round-trips.

I have hope that we can remove it, though, in new versions of HTTP.

CORS only exists because XMLHTTPRequest broke the assumptions of web 1.0 servers. Suddenly any web browser loading any page anywhere could make a request to your server without the user's explicit permission, and a ton of web servers had already been built and were running under the assumption that users would only hit their endpoints by explicitly typing in a URL or clicking on a link.

But each time we design a new version of HTTP, we get an opportunity to remove CORS restrictions for it, because there aren't any servers running the new version yet.

And with Braid (https://braid.org), we're making changes that are big enough that I think it really warrants taking a fresh look at all of this stuff. So I have hope that we can eliminate CORS and all this ugliness.
why not (get rid of) both?

When do we auto-organize as a species and ditch these primitive blame games and Mutually-Assured-Destruction madness such as competitive wasteful economics systems that cause people to drive hours to a place they don't like to "work at a job" doing something that is useless for the overall group and displeasing for the person doing it, simply due to dumb plumbing not organizing us. Maybe we should ask some machines how to run ourselves... (partially joking, but you know what I mean...Where is our group common sense and ability to hive-mind when we need it?)
It's all a bit ironic. Something that should be purely a matter of science and health got morphed into this crazy political beast upon hitting Western shores.

COVID-19 isn't that drastically different from SARS, MERS, etc. The main difference is transmissibility of asymptomatic carriers that allowed it to leave Asia undetected. So while the rest of these viruses had been handled in a mature and efficient fashion by the countries affected the very idea of a modern viral pandemic was new to the Western world and it showed, boy did it show.

Instead of just focussing on the issue at hand it was immediately the "Chinese virus" and the American political machine was in full swing to capitalise on the situation. Most of the Western world followed suit with political lines being drawn around responses (or lack there of) and assignment of "blame". In the UK and USA this resulted in probably hundreds of thousands of needless deaths off the back of delayed and then ham-fisted action by Boris Johnson and Donald Trump's administrations.

Meanwhile in Asia it remained apolitical for the most part (I say most part because aspects of pandemic control did become quite political of late). I was in Thailand for the entire duration of the pandemic and despite having access to less resources, late access to the vaccine and being one of the first nations to be exposed outside of China Thailand actually performed very well. Lots of insinuations were made this was due to climate and other factors, anything that shifted the blame away from politicisation of the pandemic as the root cause of performance differences. However as time has wore on and countries with more facts based approaches have continued to out-perform it's obvious - politics is the only real difference among the developed nations, hell it's so strong that it overcomes better access to vaccines and higher ICU bed/capita which should both dominate.
I think USA intelligence only decided that it isn't a bioweapon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/wuhan-coron...
Google will block your API/site right away
It's fine for you to live in whatever fantasy world that allows you to never have to make any hard life choices, but you shouldn't go out of your way to try to make others feel guilty for having the unfortunate fate of having to live in the real world.
My wife's parents grew up in a communist society. Everyone got the same but political connection got you better.

So the poor still suffered only they were politically poor not cash poor.

Capitalism has it's problems but so do all systems. Allocating resources is a very hard problem.
> Wuhan is also home to bat caves where we've identified dozens of SARS/COVID-like viruses to date.

The closest related natural viruses to SARS-CoV2 were not found in Wuhan. They were found in caves in Yunnan, and possibly Laos.

> The same caves three of that lab's researchers went into before becoming hospitalized with a flu-like illness in December of 2019

Again, Yunnan, not Wuhan. The researchers worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Can we also check what proportion of male faculty was hired over other more qualified men (or women)?
I disagree, but it's really up to Linus.

I'd expect it'll go in in pieces, after a bit of bikeshedding and a few iterations of archs fixing up compilation (struct task changes mainly).
>This sort of implies that the Kernel would use something centralized if it worked well, which I don't believe to be true.

The mailing list that they use now is centralized. It works by everyone sending a message to a single email address. The owner of that address then sends the email out to all of the subscrbers of the mailing list.

Having everyone who wants to upstream their patch directly to the kernel submit their work to a single website is not much different than them sending it to a single email.
Kafka's The Metamorphosis explores this a bit. The protag, before the story starts, is relied upon by his mom, dad and sister for everything. Once he becomes a bug they become self sufficient again.
All of the web1 equivalents are centralized systems, where the assets in question cannot be traded independently of the central authority. That is the difference.
Some people like this kind of thing and just seem to be predisposed to wanting to do this kind of work.

Good team builders will find a variety of different employee talents and interests and let people do what they like and develop those skills.
macOS Monterey 12.1 mouse rubber banding
It's all very tiresome
>This is something I wonder too. Could I have trained myself into this state? Is this a learned behavior? Has years of laziness and gratification seeking created a state where effort is no longer an option?

That's what I think about myself, and medicine won't magically undo the years of instant gratification. I read atomic habits (https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits) and am trying to integrate good habits/clear out some worse ones in addition to medication/therapy. It's fucking hard to make new habits.
Reason why I stopped using Skype was that they started to use Electron. That was the last drop a decade ago.
The bat caves are mostly in the region of Yunnan, a mountainous region famous for the tea with the same name. It directly borders Myanmar and Laos.

Noted, about "nearby", edited.
1point3acres just added this question in their "wildcards" section - j/k
Ingo is employed by Red Hat, and his job is presumably to maintain the linux kernel. He may well love his job, but he is also technically on the clock.
> For the 'reference' subsystem of the scheduler, I also improved build speed by consolidating .c files into roughly equal size build units. Instead of 20+ separate .o's, there's now just 4 .o's being built. Obviously this approach does not scale to the over 30,000 .c files in the kernel, but I wanted to demonstrate it because optimizing at that level brings the next level of build performance, and it might be feasible for a handful of other core kernel
subsystems.

This is important, realizing that compilation units rarely collide on private namespace usage. Called 'compilation unit grouping', or 'CU grouping', I implemented this once at a customer's and reduced build time of a large C++ project by 2x.
Correlation does not mean causation.
Reflections on trusting trust is here. Sure, you can replace boot bios but it's been impossible to be certain all parts of your system have not been subverted for decades. Any peripheral with microcode which is updated is implicitly part of your trust model and most SD cards include an 8 or 16 general purpose CPU or a very generalised FPGA or better. Keyboards, mice, disk controllers, inserted devices, screen control logic is all outside your control before you discuss the CPU and OS you consider "this machine"
“Looks Good To Me”
The author mentions Cloudflare as having the ability to rewrite requests from `api.website.com/*` to `website.com/api/*`. Is that functionality available as a page rule or would we have to use workers and pay for every request rewritten?

I remember taking a look at this a while ago and only found ways to do this through workers, so was turned off by the potential cost scaling. Ended up just setting a high `Access-Control-Max-Age` and calling it a day. But maybe I've missed a more cost effective way to accomplish this?
To be fair, depression has enough of an effect on libido on its own
I understand your point that citizens in a democracy get the government they deserve. Choices are not made in a vacuum. Path dependence can lock us into local maxima. A series of rational reactions can sometimes lead to an irrational result. People complain about energy price volatility, traffic jams, and climate change but are unwilling to plan meaningful change. Short term concerns and lack of easy solutions tilt us into the same old ways of car dependency, restrictive zoning, tax funded and congested highways, parking minimums, and ever higher housing prices.
A group of intelligent people downvoting a set of arguments that rely mostly on logical fallacy isn't bias, it's self-moderation. If lab-leak arguments had literature to stand on and didn't instead just invoke false-dichotomy to justify their existence I am sure they would find more fertile ground here.
Yep, any comment that even mildly supports lab leak is downvoted. Amazing lack of intellectual vigor here.
Maybe you aren’t the hang around the house and relax kind of person. I’m not. It makes me lethargic and unsatisfied. I get a little antsy.

I need to build and create and explore in order to feel good. I might wire up some crappy electronic device, make a piece of furniture, play with my kids, teach my kids something, make a kumiko panel, draw, read, make a tool for my shop, try to 3d print something new and useful, go spearfishing, harvest seaweed, run, make a new interesting dish in the kitchen - if I’m not doing something, I feel like I’m wasting time. Doing this stuff is relaxing. Knowing I’m making the most of my time in this life gratifies me.

People have often told me it’s bad that I can’t slow down and just relax. To each their own though. I’d rather play guitar then listen to someone play guitar. I’d rather build a hot tub then buy one so I can sit in it. And that’s totally fine, so long as you’re happy!