skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overfocusing on the market cluster is an error. First, because viruses travel easily – so even if 100% of early cases were around the market, it could have reached the market via a lab worker. And second, early overemphasis on the market cluster caused authorities to search for every case there, and ignore cases elsewhere – just as in the US, authorities missed early community spread because they didn't even consider/test people who hadn't recently returned from China.

If the crossover was zoonotic, and didn't involve EcoHealth/WIV/etc institutional actions, it should've been possible to find intermediate hosts, or viruses, in an earnest search.

Instead of finding those - in any of the hypothesized animals, anywhere from bat caves to Wuhan – we've instead found yet another bat virus that's closer-to-SARS-CoV-2 (BANAL) in exactly the Laotian caves where EcoHealth was collecting hundreds of viruses to bring to Wuhan (& elsewhere) for study and gain-of-function-enhancement. Researchers were routinely making such viruses more human-adapted, and researchers had specifically had sought money to add the same 'furin cleavage' functionality that a BANAL-like virus needed to become SARS-CoV-2.

It's not just China that was suspiciously half-assed in the early days, when the evidence either way for lab-leak or zoonosis could have been clearer. Fauci & Collins at the NIH were suspiciously half-assed too, & sent a clear message to everyone dependent on US federal research funding: "don't entertain this speculation if you want to be on our team".

Fauci was energetic in sending that message even when he was still downplaying the risk & saying masks couldn't help. That is: they were prioritizing narrative control over either investigation or pandemic control. Very fishy!
Easier to believe in Europe where socialized healthcare is the norm. But, no.
This is something approaching a general personal assistant. A few notes:

My immediate worry is that this is not general enough. A tool like this is one I really want to integrate into my other tools - Obsidian, PushOver, etc.

Pricing was an immediate turnoff for me. The demo auto-converts and I don't trust you enough to go for that.

It seems like my data is very locked in. Again, not enough trust here.
These are simply not contradictions. To restate what you’ve posted:

-Unherd says no infected animal has been found on sale in China.

vs.

-Disease detectives found Covid positive environmental samples at the animal market

————

-Unherd says no market traders were found to have been exposed to Covid

Vs

-A researcher found 100 Covid cases from the same month in the vicinity of the market.

———-

Animals vs environmental samples. Infected animal traders vs infected people living near the market. It’s apples and oranges and does not support the claim that the Unherd piece misstated the things you quoted.
How is that link relevant? We're not in 2020.
Whatever toy gain of function research someone is doing in a lab vastly pales in comparison to the enormous gain of function 'experiment' we are right now performing worldwide with the continued high transmission rate of COVID-19.

Look at what variants like Omicron BA.5 and BA.4 have evolved into, they are quite possibly the most infectious and dangerous air spread pathogens known to man. These didn't come from a lab, we cooked them up by dropping all mitigations and pretending the pandemic was over instead of quashing this virus for good.
Exactly. People yelling "censorship" forget that the lab leak theory was mostly about how COVID was engineered as a bioweapon, which still remains a conspiracy.
>We co-authored a book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, on this topic in 2021 and it proved to be an odd experience. Eschewing speculation and sticking to what we could prove, we delved deep into the evidence and wove together the threads that linked bat viruses from southern China or Southeast Asia with an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019. We concluded that it was impossible to be sure yet, but two theories were plausible: spillover from an animal to a person at a market, or an accident in a laboratory or during a research field trip.

> Our book received praise from readers: we received letters and emails from senior scientists, politicians, businessmen, journalists, and others commending it as a non-fiction whodunnit.

>All that was gratifying. But it stood in marked contrast to the reaction in much of the media. CNN invited us on to discuss the book then cancelled at the last minute — at the behest of their health editor. The BBC simply ignored the book altogether, as did the other mainstream US and UK networks.

The mainstream media is the enemy
Yes.

The programming game TIS-100 gives you a view of the internal state of the machine far superior to what exists with most systems. The exception being that Commodore 64 emulator that shows _everything_ going on in memory in real time.

More often (in the embedded world) you are debugging things via JTAG and a serial port (if you are lucky) or a GPIO-driven LED (if you are not lucky or this is super-early in the boot process). And often the JTAG is less than 100% reliable.
I love their games (i think TIS-100 and Infinifactory are my favorites) and i hope someone will do the minimal amount of maintenance so they will keep working.
I get that.

But not "interpret in lieu of meaningful review". Look at 4A. It's gone to SCOTUS a huge number of times. But no review has ever taken place of it.
Ever considered the possibility of discussion being stifled due to intentional "false flagged" information. We don't want an idea being talked about. Let's just create a socially unacceptable similar conspiracy theory, then censor everything related.

Think Alex Jones talking about nanobots in the vaccines, well now you can't be taken seriously with any vaccine related discourse or you get lumped in with the nanobots, 5g crowd.
Dataset for ML?
In my initial post I was obviously aware that I was not going to paint a perfect picture of my opinion in this text forum. but sure, ill bite.

One - no shit, pro-choice has considerably less consequences on the people around you than pro life does.

Two - Nothing is invalidated, I made a sound argument that you are free to disagree with using your own sound argument. Using resources to support someones choice is not the same as using resources to take away someones choice. Abortion can be legal, and your state can still control to what extent resources will be used to support it.

Three - Yes I understand. I directed my previous message at rural people. the ones who decide on the laws. However, you advocate for people to go get an abortion in another state. that is pro-choice in spirit, isnt it? Why do you care if they cross a state border to get an abortion? If you are pro-choice, dont you want your state law to reflect that?

>Need an abortion but can't in your state? Get a flight or hop in a car.

except for the fact that "your" state can put you in jail for committing a crime if you do this.

I agree though that people should try to leave the state (entirely) if it has unagreeable laws and the majority in that state wants to preserve them. I also think the prolifers in my state should stop standing outside planned parenthood and move to a different state also. It's pretty dumb that people try to be a part of their community and improve it rather than move somewhere that already agrees with them, right?
> All laws in place or being contemplated allow for abortive procedures in medical emergencies

SB 612[0] in Oklahoma made abortions a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. I'm not sure how many doctors will feel comfortable making that call.

...Especially considering HB 4327 then empowers citizens to stage witch hunts against those providers. Imagine developing a reputation for performing abortions in that situation.

[0] Which defined a "medical emergency" as "a condition which cannot be remedied by delivery of the child in which an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of a pregnant woman whose life is endangered" – a high bar to clear. https://legiscan.com/OK/text/SB612/id/2564710
> The US is a republic and a democracy.

The United States is substantively an oligarchic republic that has the superficial form of a rather distorted democratic republic (and representative democracy) and which likes to rhetorically appeal to democratic ideology, particularly as the entire justification for the government having any legitimate authority at all.

So, it isn’t a democracy, but it is entirely fair to criticize its failure to be one and insist that it ought to fix that proble, since its entire claim to legitimacy rests on it being a democracy as well as a republic.
As someone in tech, what bothers me is all the attention AI gets for possible ethical problems, while biologists are doing some pretty scary experiments with potentially large-scale negative consequences, and they've gotten relatively little attention.
I thought about making a very lightweight star tracker for my phone - if you took that with you and a way to mount it (like a small tripod) and then had the phone shoot a raw timelapse of whatever maximum exposure is possible (say 30 seconds) then you could do a track + stack and come out with great results. You would need to stand in place for probably about 30 minutes minimum or more to get enough photos
I don't think the unborn are to blame for the flaws of the people who set out to defend them.
just curious, this is already supported by chrome today.
The 24th and 26th were making adjustments to voting restrictions that were allowed by the 14th. Those rules applied to everyone in theory.

The 15th is kind of iffy, but slavery interacts weirdly with citizenship to begin with. And before the 15th there was nothing calling voting a right.

As far as the 19th goes, the 14th was in big part scoped to male voters at the time.

Overall I think it would be pretty hard to argue the constitutionality of any restriction that isn't applied "evenly".
Would you be willing to have an unwanted fetus transplanted into your body to carry it to term, and have all associated parental ties transferred to you
Aside from he rest of the weird conspiracy insinuation I've come to expect - you should probably know that horseshoe bats are endemic to the caves around Wuhan and were studied by virologists in the hills above the biggest animal trade in Hubei.. So it's probably best if you stop making the silly claim about them being 1,000km away if you want to bolster your case.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824899/
Right, but the benefit is food for your family, not money for a corporation.
The privacy portions of HIPA were a balanced between a persons right to privacy vs a persons rights to free speech. Much of the foundations of a right to medical privacy is based on Rowe V. Wade. Without a right to medical privacy, HIPA could be an unconstitutional constraint on medical personnel's rights to free speech. I'm not being absurd, the second order consequences of this ruling are going to be vast.
>(...)it would need to get more than 1000 degrees (...)

No, not really. You were already repeatedly corrected on this personal assertion alone. Moreover, if you had any interest in expressing a realistic and informed opinion you'd already knew that Nazi furnaces only used fuel to jumpstart the incineration process and from thereon they operated at a continuously fed incinerator self-sustained by human body fat while operating at >1000C.

It's already clear that you are deeply committed to pushing disinformation and denialist propaganda to whitewash Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
> Honestly I don't care if a fetus is a person.

Maybe you really do not care. After all, neonaticide has been a common practice for poor mothers all over the world, in places where there were no welfare states or orphanages to take children that nobody could or would care for.

And neonaticide doesn't evern require an active act. You can just leave the child in the forest, to be taken by frost or animals.

But for a lot of people, it makes a big difference whether they consider the fetus an actual person, or just a lump of cells.
I think the weirdest thing about non-profit boards is that people in general pay (in the form of donations) to be on them, as opposed to for profit boards where the money flows the opposite way. Much of the interaction between the board and management is designed to keep the donations coming, which can create a real conflict between good governance and financial stability.
I agree. What is the previous case you mentioned, do you have a citation ?
In Thomas' opinion he literally says that the supreme court should reconsider a number of cases including the one that prevents birth control bans. That makes me assume it'll come *before* the internment camps for brown people. (I can use tongue-in-cheek rhetoric too)
At least in the houses I grew up in. It is very easy to rewire everything. We went from cat5-cat7 (my dad still has the same house). Though we use it more as a wireless trunk.
Google, amazon, yahoo and Microsoft all benefited greatly from the early 2000 tech crash in that they had a lot of cash and were able to hire alot of really good tech talent that was suddenly out of a job.

Looks like FTX and Binance are about to leave their competition in the dust in this crypto winter.

Coinbase seems to have thrown in the towel for now. I would have thought they would see this as an opportunity but their fiscal situation must be alot worse than they are letting on. Which is strange because I would have thought they were better capitalized that they are letting on.

We're watching as closely as we can to see if they have alot of bad loans outstanding to failing firms.

With Voyager about to go under, Celsius just hiring a firm to guide them through bankruptcy and several other minor firms already going under there will be no shortage of tech talent available to well run firms.

When we come out of this downturn in a year or two FTX and Binance are going to be even larger giants than they are now. With no real government oversite over those firms to limit their growth, the next crypto crash could be because one of those two gets into trouble.

Another dark horse candidate is Goldman Sachs, they are well capitalized. Look for them to start to buy up distressed crypto assets and go into the next bull market in(probably 2024) as a big crypto player for institutional clients, and possibly for retail under their Marcus brand.
> By way of comparison, the one-time propulsion leader in the United States, Aerojet Rocketdyne, has set a goal of building four RS-25 rocket engines for NASA's Space Launch System a year. SpaceX is now building at least four Raptor rocket engines a week. The two engines are comparable in terms of their overall power.

What SpaceX is doing is truly incredible. They have literally years of advance on their closest competitors, and are overperforming over any other rocket company, be private or government sponsored, to such a degree it's no contest.

All happening right here in America, by an all American team.
Yea it's somewhat valuable (if you use it, make sure you keep it up to date.)
An alternative would be Pi-Hole, which handles not just your machine, but the entire network.

Neither of the above, replace a proper content blocker, like uBlock Origin (which can block much more than just DNS lookups.)
Eh... That was technically already in force long before Lincoln. He just caused the Nation to have to actually process the fact that was a possibility. Everyone else up until that time were either "meh", "duh", or "Oh Lord, the coloreds can buy guns now."
This may be the case for some but the Catholic worldview is both pro-life and extremely sex-positive, in the appropriate context.

If you're talking about not just "women who have sex" but "~women~ people who have sex without regard for the children whom they may conceive", then yeah I'm against that kind of sex.
No, it really depends on the issue - economics, speech, voting rights, gender rights, abortion rights. Of the later, Democrats are far to the left of Europeans.

Also, I’ll point out that HN (and SV) has a little “l” libertarian streak (entrepreneurship) which favors smaller government and personal accountability/agency.
I know what you mean, but Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China.
Good question! As a disclaimer, I work for DuckDB Labs.

There are 2 big benefits to working with Parquet files in DuckDB, and both relate to speed!

DuckDB can query parquet right where it sits, so there is no need to insert it into the db first. This is typically much faster. Also, DuckDB's engine is columnar (SQLite is row based), so it can do faster analytical queries using that format. I have seen 20-100x speed improvements over SQLite in analytical workloads.

Happy to answer any questions!
Yes but in that case, why would it emerge in Wuhan, hundreds of miles away from Southern China, where Coronaviruses actually exist in nature ?
I've had this question for a while but why can I not own a functional tank or MLRS system and just drive them around wherever I want? Why are explosives regulated? Nothing in the constitution seems to suggest "Arms" must mean "guns and only guns", so where else is the line drawn?
That's the point. You can travel to the other side of the earth and all you'll get is the same experience as you would at home, but there's other brands of beer and different stuff in the museums. This isn't a diverse world, this is just reskins of the same template.
What is a democracy called when:

1. legislative lines for the state and federal areas look like a kindergardner drawing squigglies

2. When many states do everything they can to find reasons to disqualify valid voters

3. When felons are not legally able to vote, even after their time is served

4. When massive amounts of money come in from republican businesses to significantly sway elections

5. When massive lies and half-truths are put out in the media thanks to the massive money

That just doesn't look like a democracy. What it is? I don't know.
That's what scared me off from learning Elm. It's mostly a one-person project. Naturally, it moves really slowly. Breaking changes can happen with any given release. And the community of developers is very small.

It's a shame, too, because there are a lot of really exciting ideas in the language. But unless you're working at NoRedInk with the lead developer, you might be better off sticking with tech that's a little more boring and less cutting edge, especially if the thing you're using it for is supposed to be making you money.
It also by itself does not restrict anyone from the help that they need.

It is not the job of the Supreme Court to care for the reproductive health of the American people. Of the federal government, that would either be the job of the executive or the legislature, depending on your preferred view of the executive branch.
Is it?

I assume it's based on the official surveys:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
If there can be federal anti-drug laws, there can now be federal anti-abortion laws.

It won't be merely a "States will decide issue." McConnell is already writing the legislation.
it's not an anecdote. an anecdote is a single story. this is his/her collection of anecdotal evidence/data. I don't see why they've spelt it with a k though
well if it's a phone, it's probably IPV6.
The article tries to define it:

> an accident in a laboratory or during a research field trip

Which, yes, is incredibly vague. I give them credit for at least ruling out the "Evil Chinese Scientists intentionally create and release deadly virus!" bullsh*t.

One plausible "lab" scenario: A baggage-hauling laborer caught the proto-COVID-19 virus in a bat-filled cave during a routine "collect samples of germs from bats" expedition, then unknowingly spread it back in Wuhan.

My opinion: For useful-fact-oriented folks, the Lab Hypothesis is mostly a tedious waste of time. For those motivated by hot-button emotions, attention-seeking, etc., the most lurid and cartoonish versions of the Lab Hypothesis are by far the best. If they can conjure such images in the minds of their audience - withOUT having to spell them out, for reality-checkers to attack - then all the better. Hence the remarkable scarcity of Lab Hypothesis explanations.
Weight lifting makes me ravenous. Long endurance exercise makes me crave salty things. Like bacon. Or bacon on a cheeseburger.

Here we are again, lecturing people on weight loss as if every human on the planet has exactly the same metabolism, instead of having different metabolic genes, different lines of mitrochondrial DNA, and our metabolism being moderated and modulated by single celled organisms that outnumber our own cells.

We don't have it figured out, and we're not going to figure it out by looking at hundreds of people and copycatting them. This is going to take double genetic testing for participant selection. One for the participant, one for a stool sample.
... and store copies of your private files on their hard drives for up to years. No thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC38D5am7go
I think I spent about two months. You're right, I do resent the time I spent on it. In a way I'd like to warn others.

The turning point came for me when talking to someone using rust pretty much since it first came out. He basically said "yeah, I still don't know why it doesn't compile either sometimes". He's smarter than me, and all he's managed to do in years of learning it is have a knack for fixing errors without understanding them.

I need some brain capacity left over for actually solving a problem.
I don't have the energy to continue engaging with these conversations, but I'd just like to point out one inconsistency in your comment.

"In the eyes of roughly half the country..."

61% of the country believes abortion should be legal. 39% is closer to 1/3 than 1/2.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/13/about-six-i...
Would that exclude a mishap during a specimen-gathering field trip?
If you read the original papers about this, it's clear that "well regulated" refers to "To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning." as defined in https://www.thefreedictionary.com/regulated, not "subject to arbitrary Government control".

In a plain reading, it makes sense in context for this to mean "well trained". It would be rather odd for it to both say, in a supporting clause, that it's subject to arbitrary Government control, and also in the main clause that the right "shall not be infringed".
The laserjet 4L works really well.
This pandemic was raging inside China for months before it reached the US. What the Chinese government did by not allowing international observers and researchers and preventing the spread of information DID result in millions of lives lost. We could have had the vaccine available MONTHS in advance.
I'm not sure that is correct. In a subsequently FOIA'd email, Fauci told a colleague on February 5, 2020.

> Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.
My kids (now 15 and 11) still talk about the time we laid out back in the yard and watched the meteor showers in the middle of the night. It’s a top memory for all of us :)
Maybe every US citizen is the militia. Part of the point of the 2nd amendment is that the citizens have the power to hold the government accountable, both at the ballot box and the ammo box.
Please bone up on government design. Democracy sucks, it’s majority rule. We’re a republic that is intentionally designed to provide balance rather than “51% voted to spend 99% of the budget on the cities so I guess rural folks can pound sand”.

Note that pretty much every country has something similar - some body that acts on a check of pure democratic representation.