skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just need to hope that whoever discovers that much-worse-than-covid virus doesn't scratch their nose at the wrong time and carries it to the world.
If we're revisiting this subject, it's time to revisit these articles

"LEAKED GRANT PROPOSAL DETAILS HIGH-RISK CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses."

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

"Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research"

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...

"RaTG13 – the undeniable evidence that the Wuhan coronavirus is man-made"

https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html
Oh and outlining refrigeration/air conditioning, though I'm not what I could use as a refrigerant. Pasteurization and even canning high pH foods would be pretty easy in the grand scheme of things.

Oh! And Newtonian physics, throw some stuff off a cliff to demonstrate that heavier things don't fall faster.

Also obviously I'd want to ferment a slave rebellion at some point to get rid of the ruling class of slave owning aristocrats who waste a bunch of education and resources sitting around drinking all day.

Organizing a basic army based on slings/primitive firearms, shield walls/formations, guerilla warfare, a meritocratic officer corps, and explosives if I could produce them could definitely be effective against most militaries of the time. A hot air balloon with primitive bombs, maybe someone would still have the recipe for Greek fire, could be effective.
Current issue (2021)

https://ledger.pitt.edu/ojs/ledger/issue/view/7

Seems to be published annually, so we’re due for another issue any day now!

> Ledger was launched in 2015 to address the growing need for a traditional academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrency research. Ledger aims to encourage greater involvement by academics in cryptocurrency and foster a culture of rigorous analysis and peer-review within the Bitcoin community. It also aims to spur the aggregation and filtering of important content generated across relevant communication channels. The journal strives to serve both the general public and the Bitcoin research community through the dissemination of high-quality and timely scholarly content. Ledger is published in an open-access format by the University of Pittsburgh.

Interview with co-founder Christopher Wilmer (2018)

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/qa-inside-story-ledger-academi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger_(journal)
Tone deaf is such a thoughtless idiom!
Do we have the same quality of human resources we had then?
Then you have to start to define what a democracy is, or at least what kind of democracy you are happy with. The current approach (of companies having specific requirements for their supply chain regarding labour practices etc) seems better than that.
This doesn't work because all of the "good" content has ads and affiliate links too.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, too.

People don’t want to watch shows in case it gets cancelled early. Then Netflix cancels the show early because there wasn’t enough interest.

If they didn’t have the reputation people would watch the shows and if it’s good tell their friends. At this point it seems like everyone just stays away though.

They could always just keep making new seasons to add to their catalog and eventually people might watch it, but it seems risky to spend the money.
Thinking about this some more I think your best bet is to start a medical practice with someone. Dentist, physical therapy, psychology, birthing center. Anywhere where you can provide a bunch of folks that are essentially self employed or can be self employed overhead services so they don’t have to deal with it. In many of these the fields are protected from non licensed folks being the main owner so you need to be a 49% partner and have a good contract setup.

You could do it in the trades but it’s harder to get reliable folks and steady work.
All I'm saying is that my bias is towards this virus being a natural phenomenon and I think waiting for the full context will settle the case. Jumping to conclusions on the basis of flimsy evidence mainly serves political agendas. We simply will not know for a long time, months or years, where Omicron came from and that's uncomfortable, but we have to sit with that.

If you DO want to get conspiratorial, you can watch this 2001 Bush administration pandemic simulation where China blames the US for a smallpox lab leak. It's pretty amusing to me to watch the US administration astounded by their luck of COVID-19 first being identified in China try to flip the script on their simulated exercise. My feeling is this Omicron theory is trying to breathe life back into the original lab leak theory by proxy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we7Map5Pho0
Damn, every single one of those websites load literally instantly. 8ms latency from me. Cloudflare does wonders if you set it up well.
you should expect leniency if you had a young child and it was a first time offense.

I would also expect leniency if you got the child after you were charged, even though that implies people could just get kids to look for leniency, there is the idea that once someone gets a child they calm down and become more cautious. Maybe not so important in cases of non-violent, monetary crime.

However as it is commonly thought in society, and backed up by science ( https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/o... ), that women take on a more nurturing role for the children and the absence of a mother would be more traumatizing (statistically, in the case of my son he freaks out if I leave but doesn't care much about the mother), the father can expect less leniency than a woman.
People on WSB have been claiming silver is the next big bet even back when GME and AMC were the main talk.
Don't you think thats more of a translation problem rather than how well it was spoken?
Great Protocol Politics: The future belongs to the Internet
Beyond stealing piles of money from investors, lying to people about medical treatments. Folks were making serious medical decisions with the results from their faked / half-assed tests.

We should destroy her life for cavalierly playing around with other people's lives in that manner. Theranos intentionally destroyed the database of test results, but their clear goal was to yolo out medical tests.

See eg [1] or [2]

[1] https://mondaynote.com/theranos-trouble-a-first-person-accou...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...
> I'm no liar though, I wouldn't dare to pad my CV with stuff which I haven't actually done.

I'm also not a liar, not out of fear but out of pride. I don't want to lie. It degrades me to lie. But these people demand lies. They demand you promise you've always been the perfectly reliable workhorse they want. You must simply comply and give them what they demand.

> I don't get any interviews at all

Fear this more than lying!
Your assumption seems to be that if:
1) an existing language has finite utility
2) a language where any string is a valid program has no utility

, that it must be true that utility decreases with the unconstrained-ness of a language (and thus increases with more constraint).

However, this is not true. You only have to look to the other extreme to see there must be a middle ground. A language where there is only one valid program has no more utility than one where any string is a valid program.

Because this relationship of constraint and utility is clearly not simple, we can't use those extrema to judge if C++ is less useful because it gives so much control. There might be some "local extrema" where a language fits a niche. C++ might fill that niche, or it might not, but I think it needs a bit more of a nuanced consideration than "less constraint, bad".
Kind of … more and more journalism outfits are going towards non-profit status. That usually involves some sort of ideological position: National Review is neoconservative, Jacobite is far left, n+1 is progressive.

That’s not really what we usually mean by news, but that’s the mode being adopted by many news outlets.
organic milk mostly tastes different because it's pasteurized at a higher temperature. this makes it last longer and gives it a more of a cooked taste. it's personal preference if it tastes better.
You can choose to buy from companies who only operate domestically

Why don't you? Why is it unethical to save a penny for a stockholder yet it isn't unethical for you to save a penny by buying foreign produced goods? Sure, there are many specific brands unavailable domestically, but you can find some variation of everything you need locally.

Even if there are exceptions to that, I would bet you rarely choose to purchase domestic goods because they're too expensive. Supply chains operate at the maximum possible efficiency to save you as much money as possible. If you're willing to spend more to uphold your ideals, then do it. You already have the option.
cloudflare is a life saver!
I mean I wouldn't say gettimeofday is significantly better than getpid because your thread might switch out anyway. But sure five categories is fine, I just dislike lumping almost everything together.
I upvoted this because your criticism wasn't of "left" or "right" but the parent's lazy understanding of "progressive" and "conservative".

The right in America understands the left quite well, but many on the left think they're trying "new" things leading to progress while the right wants to keep things the same. This is the understanding of a child and why we have political conflict in the U.S.

The most conservative stalwarts that want things to remain the same in America are government, finance, tech, media, academia and education. The cultural institutions that the left built in the 60s are the ones failing and the ones they want to conserve.
> We can and do already have exceptions to the copyright law that allow for important social uses, so I don’t buy this argument.

I think this misses the point that parent is making. The ordinary protection period of a patent is just a couple of decades (not only for specific exceptions), and that seems to be sufficient. The goal of each system is to encourage creative qodk. We still get plenty of inventions. So why should the ordinary term of copyright monopoly be so much longer than the term of patent monopoly?

> This doesn’t answer the question of why someone else should be able to take what I created for their own personal gain.

This feels like a shifting of the burden. Shouldn't the system of intellectual property be the thing that needs to justify itself, rather than the other way around? Copyright isn't a natural state, it involves paying the courts and police for enforcement, giving them additional powers, criminalizing additional activities, etc... People can go to prison for violating the set of rules copyright sets up. Every such system needs to have good reasons for it's existence that outweigh the problems caused by the system, so the conversation should be more nuanced than "why should you get to copy X without paying for it?"
Thanks for the share. I'm curious if you have a favorite best-of-breed vendor stack you use? Do you try to optimize much on the tech or just do whatever works? I'm curious about several things specifically: who do you host with? SSL certs? CDN favorites? automation tool favorites? which hosts do you use to scale out?
I guess that makes sense, although on a personal level, I’d rather serve time in a minimum security prison and get it over with than escape, inevitably get caught, and have additional time in a worse place.
I do not know for sure, but I suspect blowing things up might be less difficult than creating and maintaining all the stable reactions needed to create a long lasting microchip. Nevertheless, even the Manhattan project took 5 or 6 years.
You make good points, but let me ask you something without malice or bad intentions, have you put any of this in actual practice?I have always been fascinated about the huge gap between giving good advice and actually following it. I am talking from personal experience here.
Don’t forget the word lists and patterns used to crack passwords…

PassWord1A$ isn’t going to last very long.
You misread because of a poorly worded sentence. She does not claim Delta's origin was a lab leak at all but that there has been a lab leak. Instead she implicitly compares Omicron and Delta showing that Delta did evolved naturally whereas it is unlikely of Omicron.
It is expensive precisely because it’s not profitable. Imagine if you were a builder, selling artisanal houses built without use of any power tools, only with organic manual labor, using materials prepared with organic manual labor only. You’d be building one deck in the same time it takes normal builders to build an entire house. The only way you could make a living this way would be if you charged multiples of what normal construction costs. But, even then, you’d still complain about your business not being profitable, as you’d have troubles finding people who will pay as much.

Myself, I like good eggs, but I’m not paying $1/egg.
this is not true: https://www.seriouseats.com/what-are-the-best-eggs
Cheers mate! Its summation of my microstartups in 2021. ACrypto is actually available on both android and ios. you can check it out https://acrypto.io/
It would be more interesting to ask how many people would trade one month for 40 million. Or six months for 250 million. It’s the same exchange rate, but I think you’d get many more takers.

I think the real problem is you’ve never met anyone who has any idea what to do with 10 billion dollars.
Skilling of Enron fame got 24 years and was released after 12. That seemed a far worse crime than Theranos IMHO.
Start movement: everyone drop pandemic work history from resumes in solidarity with those excluded from economic participation by resume gaps.

Worker solidarity between employable workers and gap-scarred unemployable workers.

https://reddit.com/r/antiwork
There are reasons they might not, and that is that the rest of the world also has time and money. China is not infinite.

Catching up is definitely a lot easier and yes it does take time, but it's not a given. They've been trying to catch up with jet engines for almost as long as the west or Russia have been working on them, certainly would have out-spent the Russians by a wide margin on the effort. So far unable to match western or even Russian designs. Although maybe in just the past few months they might have finally got something which is at least good enough, just spending a lot of money for a long time doesn't guarantee results.
IH - Indie Hackers
Oh wow, this seems pretty similar to this thing I wrote: https://github.com/unqueued/git-cache-tag

Which saves all uncommitted changes to a tag.

I wrote it because I wanted to have a complete snapshot of a build context. Sometimes composer or npm can't be relied upon to reproduce dependencies in the state they used to be, or I just want a cache of artifacts. It has been pretty handy.
> A big part of what made people feel uncomfortable with the taco truck story was, I suspect, that these recipes were not freely shared. Instead they were reverse-engineered.

Just as a thought experiment. If they went to Italy and did the same thing to learn how to make pasta, then opened their own Italian restaurant, would anyone care? If they went to France and spied on pastry shops to learn how to make the perfect croissant, would anyone care?

If two Mexican ladies went to North Carolina and stole the secrets of BBQ and opened their own BBQ joint in Guadalajara, would anyone care? Would we be questioning their ethics?

If you read the original profile[1] it's a pretty standard foodie piece about people who really enjoyed a food, learned how to make it themselves, and wanted to bring it back to where they're from.

The parasitic clickbait mic.com article pulls a few quotes out of context, then Russell Conjugates[2] the narrative to cast the pair as evil villains who exploit helpless minorities. Note how they're not just telling the story of what inspired them to start a taco truck, now they are bragging about stealing recipes. This is a hit piece that is engineered to direct online vitriol towards them, for the crime of being white people selling tacos.

Free speech, of course. People can write whatever they want. But I think it's important to ask ourselves, who is this helping? What is being accomplished here? Were these two ladies really such evil villains that deserved everything that comes with being the target of an online mob? (harassment, death threats, loss of livelihood, lifelong fear of anyone ever Googling your name...) Is this a great victory against systemic racism? Was the life of a single person of color, or anyone, improved by this? I mean, I guess it improved the bottom line of the publishers of Mic, but it's hard to see what else.

[1] https://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/05/16/kooks-serves-...

[2] https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral
The Power of Habit book suggest that if you want to be X you have to behave like X, what was your routine, not now, but in the period between starting from zero and reaching, say 4k MRR?
What is your long-term approach to growing your businesses? Feel free to share what you've learned about customer acquisition for micro-startups. Sure people would find that knowledge VERY valuable - and nice work dude. You're successful. I plan to do a bunch of stuff myself this year. Cheers.
You cant see in it because there's no light ? Maybe some crude analogy to the first cameras dark chambers ? French wikipedia says it entered our language during WWII to describe enemy military strategies we had to analyze by interacting with them rather than reverse engineer from specs. Black is the color of the night and mystery, white of the sun and openness. I find it insane this is misinterpreted as good/bad, with the mystery color being bad.

We're fighting hard in my company against the same people as usual now brigadding to stop saying black/whitelist, because it does nothing to help black people in America (we're in Asia), who suffer from problems which go well beyond even white people: they entered a cycle of self defeatism where every problem has an external source and therefore solution, to the point of complete apathy.

So when a chinese says "this system is a blackbox" I will not, me a European, tell him to say something else because americans cant fix their shit and now need to pretend me and that chinese guys are part of their problem. It's THEIR problem, they fix it, and for real.
Pretty soon. But won't you prefer subs over dubs for anime?
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220103230043/https://www.nytim...
Cool! Just to clarify the idea, it's not rendering it on screen (I was first curious how you'd do that from Rust in a simple example), but rather saves image frames.
In some cases they were, in other cases they tried their machines. Even when they used the real machines, it's unclear if they had enough blood, skilled operators, time and maintenance to generate accurate results.
>She said it was being trialed by the military, in reality what had happened was Mattis said he would be able to introduce the technology to the military. This type of "abstraction"...

That's pretty far from a fair summary. Mattis made the introduction, Holmes could not get past the initial military diligence, and killed the project, and yet years later continued to represent that it was an important part of Theranos' business, to add an imprimatur of success and reliability of the testing.
This makes it sound almost as if ideas themselves were "alive", in the sense that they reproduce and undergo natural selection, with the best ideas being "remixed" into new idea babies
Indie Hackers
Were there any other projects you tried to launch but didn't work out? If so, what do you think was different about them?
i use cloudflare and host it on GCP, i dont use automation tools. I have my backend on GoLang and its pretty good, never had to scale my servers sofar except in the very beginning.
> Geralt has a huge back story that explains why he's ripped and has a bunch of scars and why every peasant is afraid of him.

And is that strength relevant to the story, or is it apropos of nothing? Yennefer's beauty has no context in the story? Of course it does - these qualities bring these characters power that shapes the events as they unfold. Fringilla does not derive her power from her blackness because it's not relevant to her character's story. It doesn't need to be explained because it doesn't advance the story.

The very simple explanation is: she's fantastic and terrifying in the role, and that's why she has the part. The exact pigmentation of the actress' skin doesn't need to be explained in the story, no matter the skin pigmentation of her co-stars.

> You think that's good casting?

I mean, maybe it's just my bad taste, but I see nothing wrong with any of your suggestions. But I haven't seen either of those programs so I can't really give a good answer. Is Garret Walker anti-Korean? Is that why it would be a bad decision?

> If there was a character that was taller than everyone in their kingdom I'd expect that to be explained too.

Why? Some people are just taller than others. The explanation is: that guy is taller. We don't know why, he just is. We all grew to this height, and he just kept growing until he got to that height. The same thing goes for skin tone. For all you know this is a sampling issue. We're talking about a fantasy race here. If you really want some sort of satisfactory explanation, go write some fanfiction.

> You are trying to impose your own social justice values on a high fantasy TV show.

No, I'm actually projecting the experience of my youth onto this situation right now. I'm not trying to impose my view on anything -- quite the opposite; I'm saying things are fine the way they are.

I'm actually going to bookmark this conversation as a discussion piece because there's a lot to unpack here, you've been very candid.

> I bet you're white, male, a millennial or Gen Z, you live in a big city, and you work in tech.

Right on 3, wrong on 2 - I'll let you guess which!
A once heard a pilot say something like, they can see me, but not well enough to hit me, but enough for my missiles to hit them.

That is to say detection is not enough to shoot down an advisory and it gives away the radar location.
Actually, interesting to me is that there are a lot of comments along the lines of "Well, I can't really figure out what they do from their website, but seems to be ..."

Which I think is really telling. I guess in my old age I certainly have taken on the "If it sounds like bullshit, it almost certainly is." If you're really confident and proud of what you're doing, you explain it in the simplest terms possible.
They approved the Herpes test not all the other tests she was selling. And they approved it after they had been selling other tests for over a year.
I mean, corporations are created by government regulations. If you don't have a law which specifies how they work, they don't exist.

So if you have a body of law which enables the creation of these things, details how they are managed, and then they develop into oligopolies, this is not something that happens "naturally" -- it's a deliberate result produced by whoever controls those laws.
Do you have a process for ideating new microstartups? Or are your microstartups based on problems you experience in your day to day life?
This is an interesting idea because it would create a type of non- or anti-commercial SEO that could counteract the commercial one. However, Google would never do it because they sell most of the ads that would be (not) hosted on these sites.
> Sorry to see you downvoted, it is extremely irksome to me that China is so often characterized as "copying others homework"

A product I designed and make was ripped off in China. I’m pretty sure it isn’t all handwringing and negative emotions.