skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think he's a lab leak conspiracist but I do think he's got as much of a motive to shift blame elsewhere -- namely outside of China -- as anyone in the world, [...]

George Gao is clearly beholden to the CCP's official story that SARS-CoV-2 originated outside China. I don't see why that would require him to disregard strong genomic evidence for two introductions into the market, though--he could simply propose two packages of frozen fish, or two of whatever other story they're claiming now.

In my own limited judgment, I don't see what in the genomic evidence excludes evolution of the two lineages in humans--it seems entirely possible to me that sampling of human cases simply wasn't thorough enough to pick up all intermediates (if they even exist). None of your responses address that question of sampling coverage. I also see many highly-credentialed experts who consider evolution in humans to be possible. This makes me believe that you, Worobey, and quite a lot of media headlines are greatly over-representing the significance of two lineages separated by two SNPs.

> As recently as 2019, scientists from the WIV were researching Hubei bat populations... people are acting like it would be completely impossible for betacoronaviruses to show up in Wuhan but it's a misconception that dishonest people are happy to promote.

Non-specialists often use sloppy language, but the important question is clearly one of probabilities, not of possibility vs. impossibility. The greatest diversity of SARS-like viruses lies in SW China and SE Asia, including BANAL-20-52 with its extremely close spike, closer than omicron is to the original Wuhan virus.

That SARS-CoV-2 spilled over in Wuhan certainly isn't dispositive evidence of unnatural origin, but it's not what anyone expected. It would be nice if you could make that clear when you correct people.

> Loosely, much GoF work is akin to controlled burns,

I used that analogy in another comment here--when a recent controlled burn in New Mexico got out of control and destroyed hundreds of homes, everyone involved realized they'd screwed up. They're forming committees to understand what went wrong, and to compensate the victims, and to change their practices so this doesn't happen again.

If a disastrous controlled burn somehow killed 700k people, then I'm not sure the practice would ever be re-attempted. And yet the 1977 flu pandemic did just that, and no one really noticed or cared. Don't you find that remarkable?
Doesn’t Postgres support this with table inheritance https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-inheritance... I don’t know if they’re recommended, but they are an option.
> It was not announced what Prologis, the new owner, plans to do with the property after the rides have shuttered.

Office buildings. Google buildings. Condos. Shopping. Yawn.
This article reminds me of one business student's criticism of the "critical positivity ratio" idea. This article by the Guardian [1] sums up the entire saga, and the actual rebuttal is titled "The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking: The Critical Positivity Ratio" [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-...

[2] https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/complex_dynamics_final_clean.p...
Great America might close in 6 years after developer buys land
You're of course right about the real reason, but speculating within the setting is fun (and also a waste of time by definition).
No yt videos showing it off?

What I miss was comic chat.
Not sure what this has to do with Australia's gun laws. Talk about whataboutism. A country can have sensible laws in one sphere, but do awful things in another.

And as the sibling points out, the US's track record for incarceration (and concentration camps) isn't exactly great either.
It hurts credibility right away, and I don't know if the author knows anything about guns or industry either.
That would be your boss, not your local welfare recipient.
> You might chronically knock yourself out of keto without realizing it

Isn’t the keto flu something almost everyone experiences? That was always my understanding, so chronically knocking yourself out of ketosis would mean chronically being sick, I have a hard time believing people can do that without realizing it (and I’m one of the lucky ones where the process only takes a few days, it’s 1-2 weeks for my wife)
With chip the skimmer can just read the magnetic strip instead, at least on the pumps around me.
The point of the article is to talk about the industrial revolution. It is no great feat of intelligence to figure out the reason something is not in a book is because the author didn't want it there. I personally thought these thoughts were a bit scattered but ultimately somewhat interesting. And the thought of Gandalf waving a .44 around is funny.
I have no idea if Tolkein loved or hated industry, but simply living in a city doesn't suddenly make you an industrialist as much as living in a village doesn't make you a farmer.

If anything, living in the city gives you an excellent perspective on the effects of industrialization, form ones own opinions from there.
It may be stated as a core design principle, but it is not actually acted on. Ethereum is waaaaaay more complex than it needs to be in almost every aspect, and is pretty much the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach to blockchain design. Simple, it is not.
Personally, I read the books when I was 12 (slightly before the Peter Jackson Fellowship came out), and I was hooked the whole way through. I literally had sleepless nights from just reading on through the morning.
my comment was facetious. I don't think lawful gun owners are bad people, but, I'm not sure the california AG shares my opinion.
Back then, there was no good tooling for the topic.
And why shouldn't they. A common religious definition of life, is a birthed babies first breath. A fairly reasonable scientific take might be independent viability outside the womb.

Largely because most late term abortions were the result of nonviable pregnancies. The laws in many of these states have already made that an uncomfortable proposition as women were given the choice of trying to bring obviously defective pregnancies to term, stillbirth is still a thing, and is particularly high in many of the sh$&thole states where women don't have good prenatal care.

I personally saw what it did to a woman I knew personally a few years ago. Due to TX's incredibly stupid laws, when the ultrasounds came back that the baby basically didn't have 1/2 a brain, sever spina bifida, and a few other details I don't remember. The woman was given the choice of trying to carry it to term at risk to her life, or abort it. And due to the timing, literally had to decide that day, then had to listen to its heartbeat, and listen to a bunch state mandated christian propaganda, sit around for 24 hours and then was allowed to terminate. All this bullshit magnified her sorrow. Losing a child one wants is bad enough, having to put up with a bunch of state mandated bullshit designed to make you feel bad and f*&k with your head? Criminal.

Without those laws, she probably would have waited at least a couple days to come to terms with the whole thing. I'm guessing some women in less clear cut circumstances might have waited to see how it develops until it was obviously nonviable resulting in a later term abortion.

The real criminals here are the ones in the legislature, and should be held responsible for the pain and suffering they cause.
> If you tell people to eat low carb diets, they eat less dietary fibre as a result

That’s not a given, I’ve actually started getting more fiber on keto than before.
But then the author goes on to quote LOTR quite extensively and brings up all sorts of economy tidbits ("the dwarves don't farm"), so they obviously have read LOTR.
You’re paying the price of initializing react twice and generating the dom: once on the serve side and then again on client before page is interactive.
Sure. He can also bash me over the head with a big rock, or spray me with bear hormones and dump me in the woods. Like everything else in our society, we balance potentials with exigency, immediacy, and scale. A gun trumps a knife in all of these regards.
As an employer, we are always trying to improve our technical interview. At this point in time we've found the best approach is to look at the ticket board and think "If I had a new developer, what could they work on?". Then come up with a single real world question and ask the candidate this during the interview. The question should allow for a junior or senior to give an answer where the depth of the answer would likely vary much like the feedback on a hypothetical peer review would. We try to avoid anything requiring too much business domain knowledge. You should be able to explain the scenario to someone off the street (non-developer). We then have a face to face (or screen share) discussion about the problem, any questions or scoping and the approach that could be taken like any real developer would if they were given this as a ticket.

As an example:

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We have an existing job management system to track and update the progress of warranty repairs (e.g. whitegoods). Sometimes parts need to be ordered to complete a repair. If we wanted the job system to book and track parts orders into third-party warehouse management systems; how would you address the following?

- Credential management

- Data types and their life cycles

- Sources of truth e.g.

- Customers who have purchased whitegoods are the source of truth for new jobs

- Our staff operate the job system and our clients (manufacturers) are the source of truth for parts

- Tradespeople operate the job system and are the source of truth for new parts orders

- Warehouse staff operate the WMS and are the source of truth for stock levels

- Required/Optional API calls and their triggers

- Fault tolerance and monitoring

- Compensate for variations/shortfalls in existing WMS APIs (in some countries we use a 3PL)

WMS: Warehouse Management Software

3PL: An external company who operates a warehouse and dispatches items on your behalf. These companies may do so for multiple tenants and have established staff, processes and WMS.
>That's demonstrably false!

Can you demonstrate it? Games that are accessible to the average non-video-game-player to just jump in and play are the exception rather than the rule. Fall Guys, maybe Mario Kart? What else?
> Well, they are public streets, which suggests that everyone pays for them.

But only car drivers get to dump their vehicles there. If street parking was open to motorbikes, bicycles, and pedestrians leaving their luggage then I'd be a lot more sympathetic to that argument.

> But at least in my major city, we do pay to park our cars on public streets, once in the form of a city sticker, once through taxes, and (in many cases) again through meters.

All of which still adds up to much less than the land value you're taking up, generally.

> We could talk about drivers paying more for parking, which will of course be unpopular among drivers, but it's not like cyclists are going to line up to finance bike lanes nor are public transit users likely to support a rate increase to finance improvements to buses and trains.

Where I live cyclists are very happy to pay for decent parking, and public transit users already pay for every journey (in contrast to drivers who pay some flat costs but don't pay any extra for using city center roads, which creates the wrong incentives).
Your GitHub account is a rabbit hole of crazy interesting "monstrosities" like this. I love them! My favorite ones, apart from this typechecker, are css-only-chat[1] and tabdb[2]

1: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
2: https://github.com/kkuchta/tabdb
Is there a compelling public interest? What percentage of shootings in California in the past, I dunno, decade have involved someone with a CCW shooting a neighbor over a complaint being filed against them? Is it nonzero?

If the number of shootings where a CCW holder has shot a neighbor over a complaint is substantially smaller than the number of cases where a CCW holder has not shot a neighbor over a complaint, doesn't this just serve to make holding a CCW intimidating in a way that most CCW holders neither want nor need? Most directly relevant to your public interest argument, is the rate of people shooting neighbors over a complaint substantially higher among CCW-permit holders than non-CCW-permit holders?
Speaking kindly to humans does nothing? Is this how you approach relationships with people in real life?
Crypto devices used by the government and military have this same sort of tamper identification design. I've seen limit switches hidden behind the front lip of a server so if you pull it out, it triggers the tamper alarm. There are also panels with multiple switches behind so if the panel is opened, alarm triggers. There's layered mesh inside the walls of the devices that will trip the alarm if the layers touch (like with a drill) or if the voltage going through the mesh layer changes (like if you cut through it). Once any seals are broken, the keys inside are wiped and the device is possibly bricked if it really was never meant to be opened. Additionally, screws are JB welded in place so only way you can get in is to either go through the access panel or drill a hole. These things are tempest rated so no one is getting in and nothing is coming out, unless of course you manage to hack it without ever touching it.
Back in my final year of high school I procrastinated my exams by reading Lord of the Rings. I felt like if I didn't get a good grade my life would be over but all of a sudden J.R. Tolkien's deep lore and meandering narrative were absolutely captivating.
I think the point wasn't to interpret the books. The author hasn't read them, which is an obvious giveaway. As an excuse to write thousands of words about the starting conditions of the industrial revolution, it doesn't seem like a waste of time.
> Or you can somehow stop... them from moving in?

This is done by:

> Buy up whatever property they can, raise rents.

That's going to happen whether or not they build new developments.

> No I don't think I need to stop population growth for building aesthetics, sorry I don't like to count my cityscape in lives blocked to maintain it

I'll keep happily blocking ugly, poorly-built new developments from people like you until you all get real about sprawl and start proposing buildings that make sense and cooperate with existing living patterns. I actually like living in a town neighborhood with a community, not a transformed economic region with several dozen 6-story apartments stuffed full of transplant yuppies, which is the only thing YIMBYs are capable of rubber-stamping. As I said: go to any town in the US that's had a lot of development recently (Chicago, Boston, SF, Durham, Houston, Austin, Denver, Boulder, etc.) and that's what you'll find.

You need to understand that for "NIMBYs", this is a zero-sum game. Either people who live in a nice area keep their claws around that niceness, or YIMBYs get ahold of it and it becomes a paved, crowded area that houses either apartment stacks or commercial real estate. Either way, the rent goes up.

As I said in my first post: start proposing some nice development instead of the shell-corporation aluminum-siding wood-frame crap that everyone is building now, and you'll convert me as well as, I suspect, many other people to the pro-development side. Leaving a nice town in the hands of developers is a recipe to get the exact result that the developers have perpetrated on the other towns in America.

> No I don't think I need to stop population growth

This is the real kicker. How many more people do you want in the country? 500M? 1B? What's your end goal? I don't want to live in a crowded, extremely dense area, especially not if I've already bought property in a less crowded area. What do you expect me to do, roll over for you and the "we need to save lives by building shitty apartments everywhere and opening the borders" train?
This is just muddy thinking and hand waving. “Pay in the private sector” is not based on accomplishing goals at all. If it were, there wouldn’t be a huge disparity between men and women, or between those who live in Kansas City vs those who live in San Francisco. Or between those who are over six feet tall and those who are under. And you also say this as if accomplishing goals isn’t figured into teacher pay.
I’m definitely being too negative about something that is silly.

Im just tired of this kind of analysis. It’s common in ASOIAF space. there it is often done completely seriously. I spent a lot of time in that space, so I think I’m just overly sensitive.
The link imbalance section of the HotOS paper discussed in the blog post reminds me of issues with regular old TCP discussed in, e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/633025.633035 (as does the mention of control theory).
Society considers it useful to have a sex offenders registry, like where they live, etc. I think gun owners are also a potential threat, ie. there is similar compelling public interest, and thus I don't see why it should be treated differently. For example if a scum of a "law abiding gun owner" like Rittenhouse is living next door you definitely would like to know if it has a gun.
You're 100% right and I realized a little after writing it. Added `$root` to the library :)
I have often wondered this as well.

My own pet theory is that in worlds with magic users, magic gets used to solve the problems which technological advancements would otherwise be developed for.

Of course, we get some fantasy lands like this, where magic itself was the major discovery behind the industrial revolution (see: League of Legends' animation, "Arcane", "Wheel of Time" novels).

Then you have something like "Flight of Dragons" where science can be applied to how some of the magical elements work, but still are fundamentally incompatible. Almost like "Schrodinger's wizard", once you start analyzing the magic, it starts fading.

There's a lot of different takes on it.
There is out of town huckster in the Simpson monorail episode…

Written by Conan OBrien. Had a Catchy song and had Leonard Nimoy cameo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail
So as someone trying to get better at drawing, I will say that the -ease of use- matters tremendously.

I'm doing gesture drawings daily now on a Supernote. The ability to use the entire 'page', then hit next page and start a new one, lets me crank them out in a way pen and paper doesn't.

Pen and paper -absolutely- is better for trying to capture a likeness, and the actual "quality" of the job at the end is about the same (if it isn't it's probably better), but the sheer ease of use means I do the thing more, which means I'm practicing more, which means I am, indeed, becoming a better artist.

The tools have to be suitable to the task (and I don't think anyone is saying the various frontend frameworks are -unsuitable-), but after that ease of use still matters.
I think I would love concrete numbers as much as you would. Until then, "California neighbor dispute shot" gives me about 6.3 million results on Google. When I add "concealed carry" as a mandatory term, it reduces to about 1.7 million.
Also, there were cities before industrialization. Can’t remember the names of any right now… but I pretty sure there were a few.
I would not be fine with it as a man, also. All the cultures I am aware where younger couples live with one of the in laws, it is always the woman living with the man and his parents in their home, so my default thought process went to that scenario.
That's the nature of large open forums. It can feel like they are hypocritical, but actually it's just different voices from the same group.
I don’t think you have a good understanding of the hybrid systems running in Hypercars compared to a Prius. For example, the battery system in the new AMG-ONE is not there for fuel economy. Instead it is used to assist the drivetrain in creating maximum power with minimum lag. The turbo and crankshaft are assisted by the battery system on the low end rpms.
There are plenty of ways to describe the Australian federal government’s handling of Covid, but to use the term “concentration camps” is unnecessarily inflammatory and not a sentiment that is shared by Australians.

The problems were not in the overall handling in general (in fact, everyone I know is ok with the way they locked down, at least the first 12-18 months or so anyway), but in the lack of a coherent plan for how to exit that situation. The federal government abdicated it’s responsibility, relying heavily on states to handle things that require more scale and coordination than they are capable of.

These discussions would be more productive if you didn’t project your country’s desire for “freedom” at all costs onto those that make different social trade offs. We are not oppressed by a nation state and we don’t need you to liberate us, thanks.
Fertility will improve when there is familial and community support. You don’t need a big house to increase fertility. families need reliable child care and that’s possible with multi generational families.

Africa, China and Asia have healthy fertility because they have community and multigenerational family units. Not big homes.
Depended on the project, if the project was using Lambda functions etc, then it was in the same repo.

But typically the projects made docker images etc, and how they were to be deployed was not important to the containers themselves, so they ended up separately.

In part because we wanted to opensource the containers themselves.
The savings and loan scandal is a great example of this, not that there's a shortage.
I don't want agree but I do.

I think there might be an alternate to leet code studying. I did Advent of Code (AoC) in 2019 to learn a new language. I then did some interviewing, and remember a few things on leet code problems "oh, this just like this AoC problem" and applying the same skill set.

So maybe doing AoC and solving funny Elf and Sleigh problems could be more fun? Maybe not as efficient though. ;)
Right, the industrialists are literally right there in the form of Saruman and the Orcs of Isengard:

"Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc."

The orcs could be looked at as an allegory of the faceless, dehumanized, industrialized proletariat, people who had sold their soul to the machine. They can be seen crafting huge weapons of war, siege engines and such, in giant factories fueled by those coal deposits.

The reason the industrial revolution never happened in Middle Earth is because the Fellowship of the Ring prevented it.
The desert shots were shot with a technique called translights.

You're right that they couldn't afford to shoot on-location for the desert scenes so instead they painted desert landscapes and scaled them up then printed them on 40-foot-high by 200-foot-wide transparencies and put bright lights behind them to illuminate the scenes.

They don't look anything like real life but they weren't really trying for realism as much as they were trying for artistry.

I think that when you view things through that lens, what they did craft was beautiful.
Genuine question from somewhat newbie in web components but afaik is JS required just for mounting a custom element, let alone its inside?
>but the temperature around firearms and gun ownership really took a turn in the 90’s

The damage to this country's social fabric done by the feds due to the Ruby Ridge and Waco massacres really cannot be understated. A LOT of people looked at that and said "ain't gonna be me, we'll kill em if they try that shit" and went and armed themselves, their families, and their neighbors to the teeth.

As they say, it's not paranoia if they're actually out to get you.
Congratulations y'all!! I cannot wait to try it in my Toshiba.