skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are living in a fairy tale. Whether intentional or accidental lab leak, or accidental market incident, the effect has been the same.

Covid-19 will be viewed historically as the Hiroshima of biowarfare. And actually biowarfare will be viewed in the future as a slightly less uncivilized alternative to nuclear warfare. Although they will be both be in the same category of horrible weapons to be avoided in general, nuclear will be seen as somewhat less evolved and more horrific.

Especially, it is likely that Chinese will view biowarfare as a regrettable but necessary tactic, and again less destructive than nuclear warfare.

The efficient production and distribution of vaccines or treatment is now a national security issue. The extreme political polarization is also now a security issue because it is blocking the efficient distribution of vaccines.

For the American-led western coalition to maintain its dominance, there is an urgent need to either completely change the paradigm from one where overt force is generally accepted, or develop new effective weapons, such as space-based. Biowarfare is pretty much a non-starter for the west.

What I keep hoping, probably quite unrealistically, is that we will have a new international citizen-led paradigm that supercedes nation-states and their brutal strategic operations.

In my mind, global security boils down to merging the different information streams that various political factions tend to push to one extreme or another and even deliberately disconnect from each other.
For those that don't know, this is a reference to "Manufacturing Consent", a book by Chomsky and Herman, and the term is code for media manipulation.

But, mjfl, are we to reduce every article that espouses an opinion or conducts an analysis (as this article does) to simply a "manufacture of consent" against us unthinking sheeples?
For people who a) have this as a serious option, and b) are seriously considering it, there's almost certainly still time to do something unless escalate extremely quickly.

The real question is whether you'd want to survive anything that would require that bunker to live through.
one of the authors of the library is quite funny: https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql/issues/274#issuecomment-128... really stupid that such a big library still does not have the most important feature of a sql library.
Java is way better than Electron if you’re not on the bleeding edge. Surprisingly so.
We all hope this to happen, as it is the best outcome. However, from what I can find, the support for this invasion, and Putin, is strong within Russia.
It really helps for the cargo airlines operating 'old' inefficient aircraft. E.g. 747s

And you can load them up more when you only have to half-fill the fuel tanks.
NSA Network Infrastructure Security Guidance [pdf]
> If that's true then if you were a rational actor why would you overspend on military, even if we adjusted by cost of labour, GDP per capita and other relevant economic parameters? US spends more than the next 10 countries by military spending combined.

Many reasons. One can simply be good salespeople. Another could be an effective role as world police. Another could be to constrain violent dictatorships from invading neighboring countries. But sure it’s just so very aggressive toward little ole’ Russia.

> US was the dominant influence behind economic reforms in Russia in the early 90s, so I do not understand how that argument can be made in good faith. It's Dr. Frankenstein blaming Frankenstein (his creation) for being a monster.

What argument?

> Also, if the Cold war was over -

I guess you can debate this with someone but everyone alive who anybody cares to listen to recognizes that the Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union.

> why did NATO even expand?

Because Russia is a mafia state run by old KGB morons who are pillaging the country and, as you can see, starting wars against neighboring countries. Georgia. Moldova. Ukraine. Why wouldn’t you want to be protected from that?

> A lot of people on HN say that it is a purely defensive alliance, why would you expand if you were acting in good will, especially when you said you would not?

Don’t care.
Sure, but there plenty of more likely scenarios that require no malice or conspiracy.
There are various commentators who came to the conclusion he wants his legacy to be the restoration of the Russian empire. If that's truly the case, the move of attacking Ukraine while not caring about economic consequences makes sense. Or at least it made sense until the sanctions became so heavy.
Wait. What? People are cheering on the idea of nuclear conflict? I missed that. Links?
The point is Firefox has preferable ergonomics. For example, Firefox allows an end-user to specify their own fonts and colours. Chrome/Edge do not allow this.
Of the 9 us intel agencies asked:

- 4 refused to say what they believed likely, because they couldn’t decide between a lab leak and natural origins;

- 4 weakly assessed a natural origin, but didn’t rule out a lab leak;

- 1 moderately assessed a lab leak, but didn’t rule out natural origin.

This report was before a number of studies that led to more support for the lab leak — eg, the patented gene being the only genetic difference between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13.

You don’t have to believe it, but surely you can’t say that there’s zero evidence supporting a lab leak.
> when the Russian populace is squeezed hard and turns on the government.

Big assumption that the first will lead to the second. Putin's invasion of Crimea led to his highest approval rating, even with the sanction response.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/173597/russian-approval-putin-s...
On the TWiV (This Week in Virology) podcast at one point they discussed what would be some of the consequences if the lab leak theory were to be proven.

One aspect mentioned was that all the virology labs doing dangerous research would be moved outside of big cities. Then they concluded that such an act would be a terrible thing to do, since no virologist would want to work and live in the middle of nowhere.
VSCode takes noticeably longer to launch than any other editor I have - save IntelliJ on an entire project.

As long as you never quit VSCode it’s pretty snappy.
I don't think that the scenario where Putin detonates a nuclear weapon as a demonstration, or within the border of Ukraine would cause the US/UK/France to detonate one of their nuclear weapons to prove they are serious. Only an attack on a Nato country, with casualties, would bring a nuclear response.
You don't seem to have a good understanding of the difference between the kind of war Russia is waging on Ukraine right now and an all-out war with all options on the table. The two are not comparable.
I don't think you've made it as convincingly as you think you have. I might go a step farther and say you haven't made a point at all. You implied the Russian military could beat the US military. How? In what circumstance[s]? Based on what evidence?
Lenses can have a big impact on low light sensitivity. No material is 100% transparent, and camera lenses have many elements for light to pass through before it reaches the sensor. The more lens you have between the subject and sensor, the less light is being captured.

That's why, if you're super concerned with low light sensitivity, you go with fixed-focal length prime lenses. Not having to support zoom means far fewer lens elements through which to pass light.
I'm one of those who thinks the likelihood of Putin using a nuke is quite high. I don't cheer that. Once the nuclear threshold is crossed, there's a non-negligible chance the escalation leads to full-blown nuclear war, and since I live in the center of one of largest cities in the US, my family and I could face at the minimum the loss of our home, and obviously, we can also all die.

I certainly don't like that. My lease renewal won't come for quite a few months, but I'm seriously considering moving to the suburbs, depending on what happens in this period.

But why do you get the impression that some people would be happy to see a nuclear war happening?
Bro, no I’m not.

In conventional warfare, the US 1000% has the resources to make an invasion of an unwilling nation impossible.

In nuclear warfare you and I are both dead so this debate is pointless.
People could still buy medicine and food after that.
I find quotes like this uninteresting, because it's also exactly the sort of thing you would say if you were trying to cover up such a mistake. It carries no information.

But on the flip side, the logic used by Baker is more than a little silly. I don't need Shi's quote to make me wonder if an outbreak of a mysterious viral pathogen might just be related to the viral pathogen research center down the street. I don't have a problem with the piece, but Baker was really reaching here.

There's so much sloppy reasoning around all of this stuff, on both sides. It's exhausting to wade into it, but seeing Rasmussen behave the way she did on that twitter thread is just...unprofessional.
I've previously owned Nikon gear and currently own quite a bit of Canon gear, but it was time to upgrade to mirrorless. I have extensive professional experience with both digital imaging and filmmaking going back decades.

A variety of things made the A1 a better overall fit for my unique mix of needs and interests. At the extreme high-end of current mirrorless cameras (>$5k without lenses) any major brand's latest flagship will very likely far exceed the needs of almost all users.

If you don't already know why you'd choose one brand's flagship over another, you probably shouldn't be considering any flagships. Frankly, these are highly specialized, complex and esoteric tools that are also incredibly expensive.

I recommend starting out with more mainstream models which are already supremely powerful and quite a bit less expensive than top-of-the-line models. Check out recent mainstream model reviews at DPReview.com - a highly credible source of objective comparisons.

It's a mature and highly competitive market that changes constantly. No major brand is overall "better" than another. It's more about finding the best fit between your needs, skills, budget and preferences.
It probably has something to do with the genocide they’re committing.
What I'm taking from this response is that it wasn't his business to do what he's doing right now.
What is up with all you people ragging Javascript the language? This is 100% programmer error, and has absolutely nothing to do with the language.

Javascript has plenty of bad points without making without making things up.
IIRC sanctions were small and invisible at the time. Unlike 2022.
If you’re ok with something a little more barebones, I highly recommend Bear App. Been using it for years. It’s super minimal, while at the same time allowing you to achieve everything you need to do. One of those tools that just gets out of the way and you never fuss with it. Also great performance and you can sync it across devices seamlessly.
I have skipped through it and it mirrors my first impression from Wikipedia - the first part talks about the time before the dissolution of the USSR, then it jumps to the time after 2008 and mostly after 2014.
> The latter gives aggressor free pass for future invasionss, possibly to a NATO ally.

Does it? Ukraine is not a NATO ally. Russia is doing this because they don't want Ukraine to be a NATO ally (and other reasons).

Yes we should defend our allies in NATO as that's the agreement. We shouldn't go to war beforehand because "maybe our allies might be attacked in the future" that doesn't make any sense.

None of this is in support of Russia, but in support of relative world peace.

But yes you should be prepared for anything as an individual. The US is always in constant readiness to fight wars (2 to be specific) as a policy..

I've always prepped, but I don't want WW3 nor do I think we should escalate due to the Ukraine invasion.
> I'd say very little good can come from this.

> if the concern is abuse

not my intent, OP. the comment i replied to suggested gov instead. i made a comment about gov

there was as much reason to assume what i meant as much as what you assumed
Developers shouldn't have to think about these things. If I'm doing any sort of string interpolation, whether it be in a SQL statement like this or in something like a log or print formatter, I should be able to put whatever the f I want into the value, without checking it. That's the whole point of using interpolated statements like this in the first place: it should be safe to run (but may throw something like a type error in the DB) regardless of what is stuffed in the value.

This is solely a mysqljs bug.
Time
Life
Newsweek
The Economist
Nature
Popular Mechanics

That’s off the top of my head.
> And the real clincher: the US hasn't taken on a power capable of defeating it since the 1940s

Laughable

I’d say it hasn’t happened since the revolutionary war
I think it's fair to say mass adoption of automobiles was viewed progressively in that time period. Certainly not by all, but by many. It was a new disruptive technology that allowed you to move people and things in a cost efficient way that previously wasn't possible. When your only option for public transit required an upfront investment in fixed rail lines, and then a cheap comfortable bus with rubber wheels and adjustable routes comes along, it seems like a huge innovation.

Also from the article:
"A widespread misconception exists that well-functioning streetcar systems were intentionally put out of business by a conspiratorial alliance of tire and auto manufacturers in the 1940s and 1950s…In reality, many streetcar companies were never reliably profitable, and they suffered from overcapitalization, inadequate maintenance, and poor service". In comparison to that, all these cheap and reliable "rubber tires" vehicles probably seemed pretty progressive.

Of course, knowing what we know now, it's easy to see how incredibly short sighted this was. I sure wish we hadn't ripped out all those rail lines.
Don’t understand the down votes for this. There are no good electron apps. Zero. None. Just less bad ones.
Yeah the kind of war Russia is fighting right now is already a snipe hunt because no modern nation has occupied an unwilling people since the fall of the Raj. The US’s involvement is more a function of time to Russian failure.

I think you’re the one who doesn’t understand the nuance of war.
Which is absolutely infuriating from both a climate and a freedom point of view.
Yeah it was very gratifying to see Nancy pelosi and others doing things like apologizing and kneeling in kente cloths during the blm uprisings. I knew it was all insincere, but still, they had the right attitude for once. They ought to be a lot more scared, and pretty much begging for forgiveness right now.
They may simply be cheering that we have not chosen appeasement.
If Russia cuts the undersea cables that's going to be even worse for them.
kolarivision are almost certainly capable, as they offer specifically UV and IR conversion services which usually require fully disassembling the camera to remove the factory filters and install a new one. Rebuilding DSLRs and mirrorless cameras is literally their business bread and butter.
Complicated, but simply an incremental evolution of a very old solution. These complicated lens arrangements to counteract chromatic aberration got started in the 18th century. The game is all about getting three distinct wavelengths to focus despite each reacting differently at each lens. The lens in the iPhone looks complex but it isn't any more complicated than others. The most complex I've ever read about was for a satellite which had to maintain focus despite temperature changes. Iirc that employed a stack of over a dozen lenses.

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

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/61074908
https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/here-is-what-to-l...

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-appli...
Because the media keep saying that word, someone should tell them to shut up. And maybe a Russian speaker could tell me if Putin did actually say "nuclear" because it sounds like he just said "deterrent forces".

And then there are all these batshit crazy rumours about them destroying nuclear power plants or holding it hostage. Why the fuck would Putin do that?
https://archive.ph/VSueR
This is root of all hyper-partisanship in my opinion. You feel your opinions are the sensible majority, even though it stands to reason we all have quite a few minority opinions. Any media, especially from well funded, well educated, more-or-less well respected sources, that goes against your sensible majority opinion is clearly part of a vast conspiracy from a cabal of one or more of: [financiers, corporate elite, Hollywood, environmentalists, socialists, conservative, liberals, globalists, lizards, whatever]. The unthinkable alternative is that you just happen to be on the fringe of society for one or more issues you find important.
Am I even asking the correct questions here? Are my priors sound?
Imagine how cheap homes would be if there were no regulations at all!
Some things are fundamentally broken, not just in need of a patch.

"Simply fix the government" is useless advice.
Cool! Is this built on genie and stipple? Will they remind free and mit licensed?

How will integration with python work ?
Marin doesn't have the built environment to support BART anyway. In 1960 it was the smallest of the proposed counties, having a population only about as large as Berkeley. It remains ridiculously small.
Well, in this case mysqljs pretty well fucked up the implementation here in that this sort of bug should never happen when using prepared statements, so I'd say it's worse than not having it at all, because it breaks the standard safety guarantees of prepared statements.
Visa and MasterCard suspend their services in Russia
Yep.

> On December 13, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush, who argued that Washington and Moscow no longer needed to base their relationship on their ability to destroy each other, announced that the United States would withdraw from the ABM Treaty, claiming that it prevented U.S. development of defenses against possible terrorist or "rogue-state" ballistic missile attacks. [1]

[1] https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/abmtreaty

Without getting into the entire history of tit-for-tat let’s not pretend that withdrawing from this treaty was the result of some wonton aggression toward little ole’ Russia.
When I worked at Garmin, they made all of the aviation electronics in house on production lines in Kansas due to FAA requirements. I don’t know how deep the “must be made in USA” requirements go though.
You’re probably just unluckily stuck on an IP range that’s been responsible for vandalism or similar in past.

Did you request an unblock?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:I_have_been_blocked
Smart electricity meters seems very different to smart ovens. The state has a valid reason to be interested in your enter because they run the grid and need to manage load. They have no valid interest in what your running with that electricity.
I have the heat on maybe 6 months a year.
I think there has to be a component of “jadedness” in this attitude, for lack of a better term. It feels as though there are so many problems in the world (income inequality, climate change, covid, homelessness, political polarization, and now the very real possibility of a nuclear war). The world doesn’t feel like a place we can save anymore, which I think can be a driver of the “bring it on” attitude you mention, not unlike the Monty python scene with the defeated knight…
Staying in an AirBnB, desperate for a cup of tea, no kettle and only an induction hob. Somehow manage to bork the hob trying to switch it on such that it is just showing an error code (E06 or some such). Much futile googling for said error code, and still no tea at the end of it. Utter madness.
> The political context is a debate about regulating virus labs

This seems... like a naive read of the "political context." It seems like there is far more interest in finding a useful target for blame than any real discussion of how to keep research like that safe, which will likely happen in approximately the same scale whether this WAS a lab leak or not, if only because the specter of it being one has done quite a lot to scare people.
> Taiwan would be easier to capture because it is an island.

That makes no sense. Being an island is good for you if you are the defender. For it to be a plus to China, China will first have to capture it.
Does a $1M bounty[1] count?

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-businessman-puts-1-m...
The US cannot blame itself for being irresponsible in Ukraine (because the US is never wrong, not in the moment at least) hence the narrative of Putin being the new Hitler trying to build a new great russia (or similar).
That only applies when perfect is not yet achievable. Real parameterized queries exist and can be had today.
The forum literally ships with the language - that's just how it looks.
I don't know as much about the European theater but had a few major battles gone differently in the Pacific the war would have, at the very least, ended much differently.
I don't understand the stock valuations at all. I'm not a huge finance person, but Intel has a PE of <10 and pays a 3% dividend. AMD has a PE >40 and no dividend. Intel has their own manufacturing capacity and hasn't done a terrible job of catching back up to AMD. I can see if there's worry about ARM eating into Intel profits, but that should affect AMD too.

Toss in global politics with TSMC and Intel looks like a much safer bet long term. What makes AMD more attractive from an investment point of view? There's got to be some reasoning for it and I'd love to understand it.
That's more likely because anyone opposed to it gets silenced.
I think the difference here is that the government isn't taking money out of my paycheck to pay for car insurance.
It’s fantastic performance art to be posting this sentiment to a public forum using an anonymous account you just created.
I think this would be very confusing.

You basically legitimise lies on one page by giving them equal status as the truth.
They don't want to work in the middle of nowhere? But they're comfortable with the possibility of an international pandemic?

So the science doesn't trust The Science?
What have you found showing strong support for the invasion inside of Russia that isn't from state media?
It is not possible to avoid nuclear war by encouraging and empowering the dictator who is threatening it.

It is not possible to avoid nuclear war by encouraging those who would seek nuclear weapons, by letting Russia throw its weight around because it has them.

And it is not possible to avoid nuclear war by discouraging those who, like Ukraine, would disarm, by letting Ukraine be overrun.

The situation in Ukraine is an operational challenge. We cannot let its resolution undermine strategic goals.
Don’t underestimate Putin’s ability to convince the Russian public that this is all the West’s fault. It’s kind of been their (my former) country’s greatest trick.

I know many USSR immigrants here in the states who once despised anything to do with Putin and his ilk, are now buying into Putin’s rhetoric. It’s really weird to see.
Plenty of people call for NATO enforcing no-fly-zone over Ukraine, including Ukrainian president.
It seems to me that none of this would happen if they followed best practices, which (if I understand correctly) is to query for the record using the idendifier (username), make sure there is only one result, then use like some standard crypt library to compare the password to the hashed+salted password?

This just seems like bad code on bad code.
That’s the kind of thing you say to ship a product to market, to eschew a non-critical feature.

Parametrized Queries for a SQL library are a critical “do not ship without” feature. You do not lie and tell your user you have a safe product causing them to have a compromised system.

I hope to God you are not creating production systems anywhere.