skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what China's reaction to the source-chasing-efforts, I have no doubt it is where this is originated.

Wuhan is a huge city with the only lab on earth that works with SARS, virus-leak is not uncommon in China over the years(including SARS-1 that was leaked a few times but was contained quickly), after COVID China issued lots of new policies including stricter lab management, and new leadership from military to be in charge of Wuhan lab, and hide the initial samples of COVID, and started a diplomatic propaganda to paint USA as the virus maker.
> But what has disappeared is any real or urgent interest from the media

How do we determine this? Isn't that just normal?

So many stories are just unseen until someone can prove something. If they haven't been able to then there you go, it's not much of a story.

Yeah there's lots of speculation in the media but it comes and goes and no surprise that something so far unproven faded from view.
It was never that it was impossible, just that it wasn't cheap enough to allow mass surveillance, right?
Wasn't SARS-1 stopped largely with contact tracing? You're saying that understanding the origin of the virus does not help the production of a vaccine in any way?
If scientists do not publish their unbiased results and instead bend their results to fit personal or public expectation, their credentials should be revoked in the name of science itself. There is no greater crime against humanity that to conceal or compromise scientific truth.
Two extra verses for Love Minus Zero/No Limit
If you're looking to bring in more OSS and expand the sound synth pallet, you could bring in some of the Mutable Instruments code a la Arturia and the Microfreak. https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack
Fair point. I don't like the self-defense argument in general, as we will often put ourselves into a dangerous situation and then claim we were acting in self-defense when someone attacks us, e.g. the Kyle Rittenhouse situation, being unaware of how our actions escalated the conflict.

But just strictly going from the legal sense, I imagine there's a lot of leeway in defining self-defense with regards to whether one chooses to enter into a situation where one is likely to be attacked.
Doesn’t your argument apply also to state abortion legalization laws under equal protection? Are those getting struck down? I haven’t been keeping up with this topic.
It's only a crime if there is a law criminalizing it, and I can see reasons why a just state would not make laws about abortifacients for several reasons not the least of which being it's unreasonable to prosecute such an offense.

It is both wrong and a crime to forget your child in a hot car to the point where they die. It isn't murder but it would be on your conscience regardless of whether the state prosecuted you or not. As I believe the unborn have an equal right to life as the born children it makes logical sense to enact laws such that crack use resulting in deformed children is a prosecutorial offense tantamount to neglect of born children. Of course, there is also criminal negligence vs. accidental crimes and all of that still applies.

EDIT: miscarriage isn't abortion, I'm not sure about its relevance to the discussion?
But you still get SMS when roaming?
Not sure about "likely much cheaper". Those methods are either funded by VC money (for the case of early startups) or in the case of bigger companies, their other products that monetize you in other ways.

BTC is expensive to transfer, but other options like LTC are not. It takes a small fraction of a penny (in USD value).
What if you go to another country and buy in cash?
If GP is in fact referring to the sotah, then it would contradict their argument even more because it is explicitly the husband having power over the woman's body without needing her consent or even any justifying evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water
For those with a bit more background in the sciences, there's an increasingly massive amount of evidence to support Zoonotic origin. Philipp Markolin has a good rundown:

https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/natures-neglected-g...

Most of the "evidence" for lab leak is just weird insinuation -- it's increasingly hard to pin down what the advocates for that position are even arguing (e.g. whether it's a natural virus that escaped or an engineered one, how different lineages showed up at the market, which lab it allegedly escaped from since the WIV campus is much further from the market compared to the CCDC, etc etc).

China is a bad actor and definitely contributed to the conspiracy madness around the virus by being so shut-down and performing such a half-assed investigation but unfortunately they would have done the same whether the virus came to be via the same animal trade that caused the last SARS outbreak or if there was some secret Wuhan project.
You will notice that this is almost valid Rust. (Rust is a very small bit better, not enough to matter.)

In fact, a lot of what the Rust syntax ugly was taken from C++, and it took most of what makes C++ ugly. So the entire discussion is just amusing.
I think this is correct. I also think the point being made is that we SHOULD spend more time learning lessons and applying them to try and prevent some of the future pandemics. Imagine if we can prevent just one out of the next 10 pandemics through investment here. That would be millions of lives saved!

Part of the problem with the covid pandemic is how much we let our guard down. For example, the Global Health Security and Biodefense unit — responsible for pandemic preparedness — was established in 2015 by Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice [0].

This was then disbanded under Trump and its head Timothy Ziemer, top White House official in the NSC for leading U.S. response against a pandemic, left the administration [1].

Jon Oliver has a good segment on why we need to focus on preventing future pandemics [2].

[0]: https://time.com/5806558/administration-officials-fight-crit...

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-U3K1sw9U
A loose conspiracy of a bunch of social media scientists/journalists? Wouldn't the overall size and diversity of the field mean that there would be at least a few dissenters presenting more factual alternatives?

You should just read the book. It's not very convincing. The most likely explanation for the lack of interest in identifying the origins is primarly a lack of data. Speculating about conspiracies does not help the discussion, either.
Holy shit - amazing launch!!
But what if you think number go up in the future? Then you sell and win.
It's very similar, except hotwire/htmx won't give you server rendering. It's not that big a deal if it's just small snippets.

This does make testing a lot easier, as the server response is identical to the hydrated client.
Well I certainly can't blame you for that. However, it's far from clear whether the change to the catechism can even be reconciled with prior teachings at all. I only linked to one article among many, but there is considerable confusion about this change throughout the church and Pope Francis has not really offered any clarification.
> On a more serious note, to stave off conspiratorial thinking, it should be "not crazy" that a moderna furin sequence appear. If I told a biochemist to go and insert a furin cleavage site into a virus, that grad student would do an NCBI blast search and get a list of all sequences.

The weird part is, prior to 2020, a BLAST search only results in Moderna patents. There wasn't anything there for them to copy from.

https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/how-to-blast-your-way-to-the...
(Anecdata): The past few years I've oscillated between periods of consistent exercise and then periods of inactivity and I definitely notice a pattern wrt hunger.

recent periods:

1. a period of months of inactivity.

2. a period of multiple months of morning exercise (running soon after waking, before any food)

3. a period of multiple months of inactivity

4. a period of multiple months of running again

The pattern I experience is clear: during the periods of exercise, after morning running, I don't feel any need/urge to eat breakfast. Easily skippable.

During periods of inactivity, my body craves breakfast. Not skippable without significant willpower.
Even trades do it. Electricians, HVAC, and moreso for commercial jobs.

The difference is in who is doing the charging. White collar professionals usually pay themselves and thus keep most of the money.

When it's a trade the company gets 80/hr with the techs making about 20/hr.In California of course more is charged and more is paid but its still a slap in the face. You are literally the kne doing all but administration/dispatch which is the easy part. As soon as tradesmen with can they usually start working for themselves, hire more people, and perpetuate the parasitic cycle.
And it is has led Europe to serious problems when there are two countries (Hungary and Poland come to mind) which protect each other from anything inconvenient.
I think the opposite, and this ruling is the precursor to a lifetime of Republican rule at the Federal level and in all but the most blue states.

Next up on the chopping block will be voting rights. SCOTUS will act to ensure that disenfranchisement is perfectly legal and that attempts to help disenfranchised people vote are illegal.

We are currently in a recession that will likely turn into a depression of epic proportions. Republicans are going to walk away with the midterms and next presidency. They will use the food/stability crisis we are as justification for further attacking blue states and attempting to bend them.

That's assuming they don't just impeach Biden then throw him and his staff in prison once they have control of the Senate and House.
You are intellectually and scientifically dishonest by presenting the lab leak like this.

Take your own theory and argument for it. You could only stare at a honest list of for and against regarding the lab leak, and conclude that lab leak is meta-scientific.

When you call for evidence, remember the information blackouts and destruction of samples ordered by the Chinese. Chinese citizens and scientists were dissapeared for following the science and doing proper journalism. To conclude their legacy as meta-scientific is ugly. That is not my science, but maybe that is your job here...
And keep in mind that was before Fox News/other right wing propaganda networks highjacked a third of the nation's critical thinking abilities with scare tactics and conspiracy nonsense.
That is like comparing apples to oranges.
If this is true, it seems like science trying to have it both ways.

Usually, there's desire for media to share scientific evidence in ways that are engaging to the public to recognize our best scientific conclusions.

What I'm taking from your portrayal is scientists know best what ~"helps the current situation."

Despite the origin being important, and that the public wants to know about it science doesn't want evidence on this matter and doesn't want it covered by the media or for it to influence the thinking of the public.

These seem like political behaviors, not scientific ones.
That seemed to be an unnecessary label in the context of your post, especially since it’s also just a normal scientific hypothesis.
> It's overloaded with scams

I always find that this argument doesn't stand because we're talking about money and money always involve scams, fraud, etc. Look at the current financial system. Do you think there are more scams happening in crypto than the current system? If so then you're brainwashed. If anything, cryptocurrencies have brought much more transparency to what's happening in financial markets.
Little Snitch seems to be a consumer-focused product while Santa is more for org-wide policy management, although I didn't check if LS had a business product available.
People fixate on this, and all I can say is

* it has never been an issue for me

* I don't think the performance implications are nearly as hard to understand as often implied

* in the extreme you can just enable the STRICT language pragma in your project and forget about it :)
Me when Catholicism incorporates local pagan rituals: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!!

Me when Catholicism incorporates local facist evangelicalism: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
> 1) Understanding the origin doesn't change the consequences or response to the pandemic

I have the opposite opinion.

If there was a lab leak and a coverup, this meant that the Chinese government likely knew earlier and had more information about the nature of the virus and how it spread. That could have saved millions of lives.

We spent the first several months of the pandemic under the belief that it wasn't airborne. This ended up being false.

If this was a lab leak, it means that this kind of research is far more dangerous than we've been lead to believe and continuing without appropriate safeguards puts us at great risk.
Various flavors of process automation. Lots of computer-based work out there that is hard for humans but simple for a computer. Data manipulation tasks that are rote, tedious, and error prone can be transformed into a single click or an overnight script.
In the mid 1990s when my parents were building their house, I absolutely could not understand why my dad had me spending the weekend pulling a cat5 cable and 2 coax cables through the studs. The coax ended up being a bad bet, by we got a LOT of value out of that cat5. Even with the advent of wireless much later, we still needed Ethernet to connect access points to the main router.

That was probably our only good bet, though, so I still agree with the punchline!
As a heavy stoner in the midst of a quit, I'm very surprised by the numbers you gave. I would characterize 1.5-3g as "heavy smoker", 1/8 oz/day as extremely heavy smoker, and 1/4 oz/day as unbelievable.

To put it in monetary terms (error +/-50%) this is about $20/$40/$80 / day, respectfully.

I don't intend to change your opinion on this, just sharing my perspective.
At Conception
0-5 Weeks Pregnancy
6-13 Weeks Pregnancy
14-26 Weeks Pregnancy
27-40 Weeks Pregnancy
If surgically removed, can survive outside the mother
My point about good faith was assuming people that claim to simply be in favor of devolution of authority to legislatures or states are being truthful; and not just also saying that because its a useful and expedient defense.
Umbrella App: an open source guide to digital and physical security
The hardware solution is either to have two phones, or one phone with two sim cards (which are common in Europe, for example).
I'm rather surprised you would identify an obscure visa regulation as "the" reason, and not say anything with available venture capital, tax and employment regulations, and the risk taking culture.

In practice it's not really a problem. The labour market test has been relaxed since of couple of years and should not pose a barrier to granting a visa.
Evidence comes with context. We're asserting that something like this would be found. Then we found it! After not finding it initially, even. The inability to find it initially should tell you something about the general evolutionary drift around these sites to begin with.
Well, I for one am a firm believer in the Labrador-Leak hypothesis. Anyone who disagrees surely is not a TRUE scientist. Just look at the numbers. More labradors than ever before. Statistics never lie. Everybody knows that Labradors are dogs.
This is old advice :-). Use the LSP server and dune and the error displays instantly, no further setup required.
> Some loud voices from the community have very selective memory, and they momentarily forget all the evilness pumped into Chrome regularly. (remember FLoCs? Advertising API? AMP?)

Hell, remember logging users into Chrome without permission because they logged into a Google website like Gmail and then "accidentally" synching all the user's bookmarks and browser history to Google?
2: https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/how-to-blast-your-way-to-the...

Search for "moderna" then scroll up a bit.
Have you read the book and implemented its algorithms?
> there is, as of yesterday, no remedy for violations of your right to remain silent.

Explain this, please. You still have the right to remain silent, you still have the right to an attorney. The police still have to stop questioning you when you invoke these rights. Literally the only thing that changed was the notification requirement. That's it.
Theoretically, the Dockerfile should "just work"™ with Render.com as well. Right now I focus on fly.io only because their free tier offers PostgreSQL without time limits. Render, I believe, only does so for a period of time.

See here: https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...

https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...

https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/main/dev...
This kind of thing always depends entirely on what ideas people end up believing, and the details of the problem-situation when that comes about. I know: "obviously" people will never take the threat of tyranny and mass surveillance seriously. Just like obviously women couldn't possibly get the vote from a position of not having the vote in the first place with which to wield power. It was obvious! But it wasn't true.
Thank you for the write up. I’ll add a funny line from Jon Stewart: if an outbreak of chocolate goodness happens outside Hershey, Pennsylvania you don’t need to search for the bat that ate the cocoa bean. It’s the factory, stupid.
9/11 cost us ~ 3000 lives? And we spent 20 years fighting wars, killing 100s of 1000s of people, bombing the shit out of entire countries, and trillions of dollars in trying to exact revenge.

COVID kills 1,000,000 people (and counting...), which is 333X the death toll from 9/11; and we just shrug and do nothing?

Just doesn't compute.
Your "no priority" stance doesn't hold ground if the article is to be believed. The lab leak theory wasn't just low on the agenda, it was actively avoid altogether.
The lab leak hypothesis was also pretty tightly coupled with the bioweapon/intentional release theory which is part of why it received so much push back.

Also I don't recall the specific fact check messages but if they were in line with "there's no hard evidence of a lab leak" I'd say that's still pretty accurate.
QML is underrated so I applaud your effort
(1) Stare decisis should not be followed blindly. "Wrong" and "egregiously wrong" are subjective gradations. Recall that Dred Scott or Plessy weren't considered wrong or even "egregiously" wrong for decades after their decision until they were. Also, Casey vs Planned Parenthood did partially overturn Roe vs Wade. So to say that courts found Roe "fine" is misleading.

(2) Roe vs Wade is not premised on the 9th amendment (as much as I would have liked that) or cases involving substantive due process (Lochner vs New York), but on Griswold vs Connecticut, which relied an unsubstantiated argument of "penumbras" and "emanations", as though rights can be "found" in the same way that one summons Captain Planet. Roe vs Wade does not make a protestation to the defense of bodily autonomy as a fundamental right. In fact, Roe explicitly rejects such arguments.
Given Citizens United no one should be able to terminate a corporation, as corporations are people.
> one clearly dominates

Even if we agreed that life begins at conception, it's not at all clear to me that the bodily autonomy and privacy issues would go away.

> it would be better if the states wrote legislation that clearly defines human life

Except there's no objective answer in reality, because "human life" is a fuzzy made-up concept. I doubt some arbitrary legislation would settle things down. People would still disagree just as vehemently.
Yeah, I went to school there when I was a teenager. It was an interesting experience to say the least. Much more social cohesion in some ways but definitely a LOT more bullying than I was used to seeing in North America. I got to be friends with the mean gay kids with shaved eyebrows and hot girls due to where I ended up doing my homestay and it was... wow, those kids were MEAN. Never towards me but a few kids in our classes really got the brunt of it. They were insulting their families to their faces in front of the teacher who just completely ignored this happening right in front of him.

It's pretty clear in my travels that there's good and bad in pretty much every culture and every country, and that you should focus and celebrate the good while being highly aware of the flip side of things that might be an issue if you are blind to that.
It’s not just the hardware, it’s building out the competencies in house. Companies like Netflix, Disney , Intuit (TurboTax) explicitly decided that it wasn’t “cheaper”.

Google, Apple, Microsoft, SalesForce, Oracle, are not good at creating software?

Let’s say the government wanted to “leverage” open source, do you think they could make a better version of ChromeOS than Google?

You also just think throwing money at a problem can automatically create software that is better than private corporations?

The original poster said:

i’d support any legislation that booted google, fb, ms, adobe, salesforce, and a whole host of other surveillance tech companies from any and all levels of government. it’s literally as important as the separation of church and state. in fact, i’d love to see a constitutional amendment explicitly separating corporate interests from governmental ones, in all facets of civic life (e.g., campaign finance).

They don’t want any private company involved in government IT. That means the government has to build everything out themselves without using contractors.
> > Is IVF murder of children? Is a twin that consumed a twin in-utero a killer? Should we launch a criminal investigation every time a woman has a miscarriage?

> (1) That’s a silly question.

No, its not, and analysis of the trigger laws passed in anticipation of Roe falling has found that IVF is at risk under many of them (because they define a “pregnancy” as beginning at fertilization, not implantation) [0], and states with fetal homicide laws in place even before Roe have conducted investigations and even made charges in cases of miscarriages not due to procured abortion on various theories.

It is only a silly question to people not paying any attention.

[0] see, e.g., https://www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/abortion-trigg...
My project Rockstar: https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar

I have zero regrets, gave me lots of experience with open source and the community
Without going into detail, at a high level it's making sure we're abiding by Google's ToS commitments, then allowing adult controllers of <18 accts (in this case it was edu accounts) disable access to Colab if they don't want kids to access it. The eng work was trivial, most of the misery is in reviews and x-org navigation.
If the one key feature in an iOS webapp _kills_ your business, then _yes_ iOS/Safari is magnitudes worse than IE ever was.

The expectations and businesses relying on browser functionality back then is minimal compared to today which amplifies the core issues at hand.

Try building an PWA with offline capabilities (trivial in modern browsers) that's your core of your business, and you will see what I see. Apple is _trying_ to strangle non-app store apps. Where IE was just a dumb lumbering problem by comparison.
"Using BLAST is easy". Yes, it's very easy to use BLAST to convince yourself of something that is not correct. It's a power tool being used by idiots most of the time, no wonder fingers get cut off.
> Body autonomy is great and all, but it doesn't excuse murder.

But it's not murder if I wake up in the middle of the procedure, walk away, and you die on the operating table.