skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay. China created it. Now what? I have yet to see anyone explain what they would do with the result that is somehow beneficial.

Assuming that is true.

Are you asking what China would have done with the result of researching COVID?

Same thing anyone does with research?

Or are you asking what we do with the information as to why something bad happened?

Same things / reasons we want to know why something bad happened?
Unfortunately, no.

Quick primer on cannabinoids. The plants don't produce THC, CBD, etc... they produce THCA, CBDA, etc. This -A form, called the acid form, has a carboxyl group attached to it which changes how the cannabinoids interact with your body.

Heat, even temperatures as low as 250F / 120C can de-carboxylate the cannabinoid, yielding THC from THCA, and CBD from CBDA. When you smoke weed, the act of smoking is decarboxylating the weed as you consume it. Same as when you make pot brownies - the cooking of the brownie "activates" the THC.

This research, however, shows that it is precisely the acid forms that block cellular entry. So THCA and CBDA are good, but THC and CBD have not been shown to be as effective.

Long comment short: don't smoke weed, instead make a room-temp tincture with it. It won't get you stoned, but it might help stop covid.
Personal attacks like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29885496 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29753758 are against the site rules and extremely not ok here. We ban accounts that post like that. I'm not going to ban you right now, since we haven't warned you before, but please don't do this again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Ah also I think you don't need to flush before makeImageSnapshot
My theory— In the UK, 24-hour is used much more in writing than in other parts of the anglosphere, but no Brit uses 24-hour in speech. I reckon the typo occurs when people have to convert from their "speaking" brain to their "writing" brain.
A quick reminder of what scientists said in early 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/how-did-the-co...

> “we really don’t know” how accurate the origin story is, she says: “There’s some sort of connection [to the Wuhan market] and there were people exposed to the market that were infected.”

> Baker says what is “very likely” is that the virus originated in a bat. “It’s a likely scenario but we will never know. The market was cleaned up quite quickly. We can only speculate.”

> “These wet markets have been identified as an issue because you do have species interacting,” she says. “It’s an opportunity to highlight the dangers of them and an opportunity to clamp down on them.”

> Turner adds: “We’ve found the ancestors of the virus, but having broader knowledge of the coronavirus in other species might give us a hint about the evolution of this thing and how it jumped.”

There has been other wet market origin stories as well, so I think absent other evidence it seemed like the Occam’s razor answer.
Facts are facts. The fact is in 2019 there were 39,397 wet markets in China. How many virology labs were there in China handling Corona-viruses? TWO. One of which was TWO BLOCKS from where the wet market from where the original Covid-19 virus which started the pandemic has been traced to.

One might be forgiven for being curious as to the likelihood of the virus emerging from this particular wet market as opposed to all others.
HCL is also perceptually uniform and easier to interpret and predict what any given change is going to do.
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy for a reason.

Just because they are “leaders in the field of safety” doesn’t mean that a lab leak is impossible, just unlikely.
There is a valid policy question worth discussing - what is the optimal rate of reimbursement for private solar energy generation in order to maximize solar adoption?
Yes and no. So you have to have a cable again to every room (for the AP), because the wifi signal can't go thru walls?

I hope then you can dissable the lower frequencys, because now you have 5 or more APs in your appartement.
That's what it is. Look at it yourself.

Previous infection is only a 6-month temporary deferral in the case of major acute medical illness.

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021...

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/who-is-actually-el...

These are the ATAGI guidelines though, the border can do what they want and they do not recognize previous infection as an exemption, apparently except in very special cases where the person is a millionaire with a world-class backhand.

It'd be really interesting to know why he was given an exemption even while he hadn't tested positive in the past 6 months.
Well, there is (or rather was) "ganguro" at least, which appeared in mangas an animes occasionally, too. Not sure how many people would be getting offended by that these days, though.
Tor 0.3.5 reaches end of life on 2022-02-01
I am very confident that SARS-CoV-2 has no connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other laboratory. Not genetic engineering, not intentional evolution, not an accidental release. The most plausible scenario, by a landslide, is that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from a bat (or other species) into a human, in the wild.

A year later and we are yet to see a zoonotic link, but of course it’s the “most plausible scenario”.

The reality is that we will likely never know because it’s not in chinas best interest to allow any real investigation into this.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), regardless of how much smarter or better you consider yourself. It's an extremely low-quality kind of comment, and evokes worse from others.

Not only that, but such generalizations are inevitably bogus, because people make them based on the data points they remember, and remember the ones they hate the most.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments generally. You've been doing that repeatedly lately, and it's not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29758975 was particularly egregious—you can't do that on this site, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.
Only if you are too masochistic to fix up your build.
Did it feel worthwhile? Did you learn as much as you'd expected to?
I can’t believe they call it the Hubble sphere and not the Hubble bubble.
Motivation might go to bias. But, ultimately, if the science is good, the motivation should be irrelevant. Science and exploration, regardless of what motivates it has value.
> The article doesn't really claim that this kind of sleep is better or more natural

It does:

"the benefits of dividing up sleep"

"single periods of slumber might not be 'natural'."

THIS article soft-peddles such claims biphasic sleep is better and more natural ONLY because those theories have been largely discredited since it was first put forward. Try an older article:

"Ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body's natural preference for segmented sleep"

"a consolidated eight-hour sleep may be unnatural"

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783

> Is the idea that it was common now thought to be false?

Yes, that part is likely false, too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
Wouldn't you as a parent want to help your children avoid things you experienced?

I think you always want your children to go through less hassle than yourself?

I personally believe that guiding children through struggles we experienced is not a good idea of parenting.

Disclaimer: I didn't finish college as well, for same reasons as you.

Edit: I've realized my comment might've sounded like a critique of your parenting methods or anyone else's. That wasn't my intention, just that I know that it's hard to realize those things sometimes, especially if you're not a parent. I've always seen making life easier for your children as a bad thing, now I see this as the most important thing to do in life. It gets bad when you could move it further, helping people around making their life easier, but you don't - essentially making sure money "stays in family".. Again only my 2c.
I made a waifu, then I pressed save. It wanted me to signup so I pressed back so I could just rightclick saveas but... I lost my waifu forever now :(
I’m skeptical there are customers really asking for this.
You broke the site guidelines egregiously with this post, and have been repeatedly posting other flamewar comments too. We've had to ask you many times not to do that. I had to ask you about this fairly recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190706.

If you keep it up, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to do that so, regardless of how right you are or how strongly you feel, would you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Technologies being subject you the same rules.
The reason I can buy drugs, play online poker, request a ransom or just send money to an unknown at the other end of the world with crypto but can't with a bank transfer isn't technical. The only reason is that banks have to comply to regulation while crypto doesn't.

There are a lot of regulatory burden when trying to make a financial service. KYC, anti money laundering, reporting, privacy, data storage etc. There is basically none (that is enforced anyway) with crypto. That's the only reason it got traction. The technology is terrible. It's hard to come up with something more inefficient, expensive and hard to use. The one and only reason it's used for anything is that it evades regulatory burden.

It's literally "let's burn a lot of coal to run our steam powered car because steam powered cars are not subject to traffic laws" kind of situation. Fix and enforce the law and the steam car disappears. The same will happen to cryptocurrency.
I started learning D in 2012 and will echo that Andrei's book is great, and imo one of the most entertaining and informational technical books I've read. The D forum was a great example of dogfooding and the people seemed nice when I would post things.

But, I think one of the things that people seemed very happy about feature-wise that started to turn me off the language was UFCS. I don't deny that it makes the written code look more elegant but I think to me it existed as a net negative for other people who are unfamiliar with the code they are reading. There was an example someone gave years ago on reddit that was supposed to convey how clean the code to solve the problem was but it included an UFCS expression of the form 'a.b!c.d' which was sans-UFCS 'd(b!c(a))'. Trying to determine which reordering the compile would going to eventually choose seemed like more work than should be necessary for simple expression like that.

Having said all that it still might be a good choice for certain development environments and I should see whether there's a second edition of TDPL.
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Chinese Star Wars Comic (Part 1 of 6) (2014)
Can we get binary releases? There's some places I'd like to use this where I don't want to install go just to install the bin, but would prefer to just `curl` a binary. I didn't see any GitHub releases.
But the cost to the user is not considered, even in the real world. For example, transportation decisions are made in the airline industry, and they rarely consider how much this will financially impact the lives of passengers. The same pattern is replicated everywhere: companies work to maximize their profits, while their clients have to deal with possible financial losses.
DHH from Basecamp recently wrote It's not a lottery[0]. It's about hiring. In the post he wrote the following:

Maybe that's part of the disillusionment with the modern job market. That applications are being processed by AI, and humans don't even see your effort, unless the computer finds the matching keywords in the CV. So why put in the effort! But is that actually true? Are lots of companies actually hiring this way? For positions like this? I'm skeptical.

Yes, your application is being scanned by AI. It's possible it won't reach a human. There are so many candidates applying to jobs companies have no choice but to use an ATS. Also, companies sometimes put job posts online without any intention of actually hiring for it.

Never take ghosting personally. Keep applying to other jobs, even if looks like a particular step of the process with a specific company is going well. You don't have a job until those documents are signed.

It's a numbers game. Put effort into every application and don't send the same CV over and over again. Use software like CVCompiler[1] to make sure your resume has the appropriate info for the job. Use LinkedIn direct messaging. Email the hiring manager directly.

Keep going and good luck to everyone in the job market right now.

[0]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-not-a-lottery-8d378442

[1]: https://cvcompiler.com/
Ask HN: How can I unflag a submission?
I just flagged a post by fat fingering it on my phone. I don't even know what story it was. how can I undo this?
The way it is actionable is, that next time when you are. dealing with the CCP, you should not trust their words and proceed with precaution.

Another action the world can take is to hold them responsible for actions. This may be in various ways like non co-operation, economic sanctions etc
I wouldn’t be surprised if solving the problem with the Mayors constraints increased costs though.

I have a few stories where senior management, or a preferred developer had some pet project. Or crazy ideology. So we adopted that dispute protests. If we picked a standard way we would have been done faster, cheaper and with fewer bugs.
Except that it’s not inactionable. If it happened once (accidentally, I’m presuming), it can happen again. It’s not like the Wuhan lab is the only source of such research. So it’s entirely legitimate to question the value of such research, especially if a leak could result in a global pandemic.
Less coal is good for the environment, as is less nuclear. Or was Fukushima good for the environment? Of course you realize this for both, you wouldn't otherwise make up that they replaced nuclear with coal, and ignore mentioning Fukushima even once.
And there will be no way to disprove a future conspiracy theory that historical scientific records and observations documenting other stars and galaxies are fake.
What do you mean it is non-actionable? If it was a lab leak we can determine what conditions lead to the leak and adopt better safety measures.

The lab leak was most likely a protocol error and without a collective awareness of the cause, the population cannot push our elected leaders to demand better safety protocols.
This page doesn’t have the app feel, because it’s not preloading linked pages.
> Just that this particular lab is known for being extremely safe, and that it's therefore unlikely it would have had a leak.

This is nothing but disinformation.

> Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...

> Instead, there is Chinese evidence that the lab had safety problems. VOA has located state media reports showing that there were security incidents flagged by national inspections as well as reported accidents that occurred when workers were trying to catch bats for study.

[2] https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_chinese-lab-chec...
Yup in fact there's an open PR for this right now! It should be available shortly.
I love this community sometimes and thank you for that serious reply to my less than serious joke.

BTW: Has anyone got a good, working recipee for pot brownies that a) don't taste terrible and b) don't require lab equipment? I haven't had much sucess in the past
In about 5 billion years the Sun will become a red giant. So those future astronomers won't be gazing from earth because earth will no longer exist.
This is like the condensed story of humanity
Mild Covid can cause multi-lineage cellular dysregulation and myelin loss [pdf]
Deliberate misinformation directly from your government meant to control the reaction of the masses is orders of magnitude more dangerous than your right-wing uncle meme-ing on Facebook.

Not even close.
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How did you implement hit testing for events? Does it draw on a second canvas with color hashing like konva js?
But tracking your position allows it to give you fast internet access.
The lab leak theory was conflated with 'engineered in a lab' and everyone said no signs of gene editing.

A natural virus sample leaking from a center studying coronavirus was never really addressed. Nor was the concept of Gain of Function studies really addressed. Officially there were no GOF studies underway - but there had been requests for funding of GOF like studies - which were denied.

What concerns me is that researchers tend to piggyback data for new research proposals on existing grants. You all ready have the facilities, lab workers, cells lines, and reagents and other equipment - just run a few experiments to prove out the concept. What is the incremental cost to culture a few more plates of cells, run a few extra sequences?
I thought they thought it might be pangolins? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32380510/
Please don't cross into personal attack or break the site guidelines, no matter how bad another comment is or you feel it is. It only makes everything worse.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882588 are not ok. No more of this, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
~0T
That a person cited sources should not be seen as a sign of the quality of the work. Nor should be the amount of citations the person makes. In some cases the lack of citations can be used to suggest a piece of writing should not be taken seriously. But never the other way around.

It's extremely common for people to reach a conclusion, and only then to go looking for research. And, then, to be looking only for research which backs up their claims. Since there is often extensive research backing up both sides of issues, and also because these people rarely actually examine closely the articles they are citing (upon inspection the articles are often speaking about something different, saying the exact opposite thing, etc.), the citations have nearly zero positive value.
> Speaking more broadly, whether we talk about HTML or PDF it's the same problem: documents should have two representations

Wait until you realize this applies to business presentations (Excel and PPT-authored-PDFs)
Also if it did leak from that lab, who funded that work? And how can they be held liable?
Yeah I totally get this is the same thing that has happened so many times before. But at least for chess, it was never a practical thing and was a competition. Like how the existence of aimbots does not ruin a game as long as you are playing against other humans.

For art it feels a bit different since it’s not competitive and more a practicality thing. Perhaps art will shift from placing individual strokes on an image and move to making creative directions for AI to resolve in to an image or enable more people to create labor intensive works like animation.
That's not how probability works. You'd need to wait for thousands of years and several pandemics to know if they are more or less likely to emerge next to a virology lab. And then you'd need to control for the fact that virology labs are better at detecting dangerous viruses than average humans. Like how the first confirmed cases in the US were in Davis --- because there's a specialist unit at UC Davis that was already treating cruise ship patients.
Ban gain of function research because it killed 20 million people?

Your logic is like BP saying “hey it doesn’t matter how the oil spill started . . .”
But this isn't vaccination codes, it's a test. Do proof of vaccination codes use the same system in Serbia?
I don’t doubt the hurt those folks feel is very real.

But I have trouble thinking that opening the legal system to “sentimental value” lawsuits is going to do anything other than just introduce a lot of lawsuits…

> Every single person who’s called me about wanting to sue because their dog was killed did not care about the money. They wanted to send a message. They want to vindicate their beloved pet. They don’t want this person to get off scot-free. They want some kind of justice.

So it would be a legal cost for everyone and nobody suing really wants the money.
I think more like you’re in the middle of a balloon being blown up and all points are accelerating away from you.

Except every point in the universe is like the middle of the balloon with space accelerating away from it in all directions.
You can argue it's a logical fallacy, doesn't change I was responding to a strawman.

The argument isn't an argument from authority either, it's just that they are well known for using very safe procedures.
Ultraram: A Low-Energy, High-Endurance, Compound-Semiconductor Memory on Silicon
How would this be useful? Collecting the average distance away from an access point someone uses their phone or whatever?
(On-package, rather than on-die.)
DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s public self-driving test
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me 30 times , I'll keep on trusting you
That doesn't change that I was correcting an incorrect statement. Someone said the source was Reddit, it isn't, it has multiple sources, none of which are Reddit.

As far as I'm concerned this is a complete non-sequitur.
What about CBD oil?
The answer is simple: just don't.

Write new code the new way, and leave old code that works alone. There will never be a case where you wonder why old code looks like old code. Continuing to write new C++03 is just masochism.

You might find reasons to switch some old stuff to use move semantics, eliminating reference counts, which is a small job. Leaving alone stuff that doesn't need to change needs only discipline, not time. Discipline builds with use. I recommend it.
It isn't, except it is. lol.
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Such as?

Assuming the best, the parent asked a bunch of questions (in an admittedly dismissive and argumentative way) to try and invite some kind of response that explains what China gets out of it, and what the world does next if we could somehow prove China created the original virus.

So … let’s assume China created it. Now what?

What’s the next step and response if it was an accident?

What’s the next step and response if it was intentional?

Edit: I’m asking because I’m genuinely curious about what the next step would be. I mean, it’d satisfy my curiosity and interest in knowing the cause and origin. But then I want to figure out what the world response should be.
This is the natural evolution of ultrasound radars, currently present in some devices.
> I used green whenever I could in the early WWW design, for nature and because it is supposed to be relaxing. Robert Cailliau made the WWW icon in many colors but chose green as he had always seen W in his head as green.

Maybe he meant here the webpages themselves (closer to how NTPSec's website (https://www.ntpsec.org/) looks now) than to the hyperlink themselves.