skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea that these are "settled facts" flies in the face of papers like this that go to great lengths to hedge their language.

This paper does not go to great lengths to hedge its statements, and the authors have very explicitly stated on numerous occasions that their work rules out the lab leak idea.

> An epicenter is NOT where a thing started, and it's not in any doubt to even the most die-hard conspiracy theorists that the market was "the early epicenter".

The paper addresses this. First, the fact that multiple strains of the virus were found directly in the market is a very strong indication that there were multiple spillover events at the market. Second, it has now been established that wild animals that are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 were being sold at the market during the time period when the outbreak began. This is a big deal, because this is exactly how the original SARS spilled over in 2002. Third, the concentration of cases at and around the market, but not around the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is also strong evidence that the spillover was associated with the market, not the lab. If it were in the lab, there would likely be a cluster of cases at the lab itself, and in the surrounding areas where people from the lab frequent, not on the other side of the city, where wild animals that have caused previous SARS coronavirus outbreaks happen to be sold.

People who have followed the scientific investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 over the past 2.5 years know that the lab leak theory was always highly unlikely, and that all the evidence that has come to light has made it ever more unlikely. At this point, lab leakers (or at least those who are trying to keep their theories halfway consistent) are trying to argue that the virus somehow got from the lab to the market, where it began spreading. Their theories are becoming more convoluted and contrived as the evidence rules out each version of the theory, and it's getting a bit absurd.

A lot of people want to believe the lab leak theory. Scrolling through the comments here, there is a substantial overlap between this group and anti-vaxxers, as well as other people who oppose any efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus. I don't think people are clinging to this theory for rational reasons.
Yes :) https://kerkour.com/rust-crate-backdoor
You can get a new iPhone for around $400. Other brands can be much cheaper.
Electricity supply cost is plummeting. Water is plentiful, but pure enough water not to foul electrolysers has not been, and efficiency has been low. Avoiding liquid phase bypasses all the difficulties of existing electrolysis.
This post reminded me of the Trail Of Bits post about Graphtage: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/08/28/graphtage/ Graphtage is written in Python and can be used as a library. But it seems Difftastic can be used as a git diff tool directly.
You're mixing analyses. "burning coal" and "electricity" are not an activity. They are transformation methods to obtain energy. Nobody generates electricity or burns coal for the intrinsic purpose; those transformations generate energy that are used for activities. Those activities can however be reduced or substituted, and that is where we can find solutions.

Some methods for reducing the impact of transporting containers by ship:

* optimize (logistically, more efficient motors, capture wind energy)

* substitute (produce / consume more locally)

* reduce (consume less / differently)

.. of course all of those are more expensive and less practical.

I feel this is something that is often forgotten in public debate. Mass consumption, abundance and middle-class comfort are not a human right. Having a non-messed up planet, is. Behind your question is an implicit suggestion that you are willing to compromise, but only if it does not impact you, and that in the end, your and my children's future is subservient to our generation being able to consume cheaply and easily. This notion has already reached the German high courts, that have ruled that the state is currently failing to protect the safety of future generations.

I have been reading a lot lately on distributed and generational guilt, specifically how Germans and Japanese were not able to collectively act when their respective governments derailed and people where being beat up in the streets. And how their children regarded them.

And I am starting to think that we in the same position. We, society at large, know that what we are doing is endangering our collective future, and have known now for 20 or 30 years (the intellectual elite has known so since the 70's). Some of us are speaking out, but we sit back while our governments are inactive and empirical proof of a grim future is piling up.

My oldest son (10) was crying the other week, because this last hot summer has driven home for him, and many others with him, how life will inexorably change in the coming decades. How will his generation and their children remember us? Like the Germans that knew, but didn't act? Or like responsible adults that did not act in a selfish manner.
Someone fraudulently sold Tony Hsieh’s building in downtown Las Vegas
Avoid all single points of failure at all times.

* Use 2 credit cards, alternate between them on a weekly basis

* keep as little money as possible in your checking account, keep a book balance of $100, transfer # from savings on a weekly basis to cover what is due.

* have at least 2 savings/MM accounts at 2 banks that are not the same bank as your checking account.

* Keep your investment portfolio in at least 2 accounts at 2 different companies
I don’t watch them again, but it keeps recommending them.
I see now how is it possible to have "Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand".

Even at current prices it adds perhaps 20 cents to the cost of a single, 250g package.

Considering it was less than 4 cents previously it made economic sense to ship it for packaging in a country with cheaper labour.
Interesting, thanks for the detailed answer. I’m going to give it a shot.
I had a job like that for 20 years. Wouldn’t change anything in retrospect. It’s a beautiful life.
> Maybe established western Europe companies can have suppliers from Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Ukraine

These sources of cheap labor are already dried up. The managerial slumlords treating lower ranks like trash have troubles finding more subordinates, e.g. ask Musk how it's going hiring Poles and Ukrainians at his Branderburg's manufacture.
Right: the "HN rules" are for submissions to have unedited title from the original page. So, you know, "real web site titles".

HN sees a lot of non-techy submissions, and only some of them get downvoted out (most are simply ignored).

So while this results in a ratio of technical to non-technical "headlines" that's not representative of the Internet as a whole, it's still pretty much not very HackerNews-specific. If it included a reasonable minimum upvotes requirement (100?), then it might be.
Really interesting to see Preact adopt this kind of model.

I have been working on a similar programming model for a while, where this kind of state management is the only approach:

https://github.com/sunesimonsen/dependable-view
https://github.com/sunesimonsen/dependable-state

The library has other kinds of agendas like being able to run without a build step, being really small and allow multiple versions in the page.

Examples:
https://github.com/sunesimonsen/dependable-example-hackernew...
https://github.com/sunesimonsen/dependable-example-todomvc
> I'd kill for a LISP with strong(er) static typing

interestingly, the person you are replying to is an author of this little lib

https://coalton-lang.github.io/
AI generators are a tool that may help people create art. Like cameras and paints and any other tool used for artistic purposes. We always go "woe! the art form is dead!" when new tools show up; "electronic music isn't real music" etc. It never is.

Someone made "art" with a jet engine splashing paint around once (at least). That was as relevant to the debate about "is it art" as the fuss over "AI tools" is. "It is art or not?" is the judgement of the viewer. The tools used by the artist, and opinions of rest of the audience aren't relevant.
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I really enjoyed reading the top comment of this /r/AskEngineers post [1]. The gist of it is "use electricity directly whenever possible, and otherwise go for e-fuels [2]."

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/wrv59o/what_a...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofuel
“You” is also a polite plural that became default and displaced “thou”. Probably slightly differently but in the same category.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/why-did-we-sto...

The pronoun that had previously been restricted to addressing more than one person (ye or you) started to see service as a singular pronoun. Initially you was used to refer to a person of high social standing (such as royalty, who would be addressed as “your majesty”) but soon came to be used as well when speaking with a social equal.

As a result, poor thou was downgraded, and was used primarily when referring to a person of lower social standing, such as a servant. However, this pronoun did not disappear, as it also functioned as an indicator of familiarity or intimacy, and retained its function as a singular form of address for God in many cases in ecclesiastical writings.
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It didn't invented it but made it central to the language's design (being essentially the prime paradigm rather some opt-in functionality).
Not exactly a pivot - but toyoda started manufacturing automatic looms, before cars (as Toyota):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota#History
the problem with that is lack of culture in the recipient, for example most of my peers would be very confused with the W word, ie. "Whitey" from Giles Scott Heron's "Whitey on the noon"...
While traveling through Europe this summer, I noticed many small currency exchange shops process cryptocurrencies. What surprised me most is that many shops handled a wide selection of what I would call shitcoins, not just BTC and ETH.
Opera browser blocks this with Fraud Warning page.
How precise is the gyroscope in Apple watch? Can you turn on constant movement in Quake, and then just use watch movements for turns/aiming, and the side button/screen tap for fire ?
How much space will a 100% renewables UK require?
I'm young enough that this is not surprising ("Sure, it's a device and a game; this is one possible device/game permutation."), and old enough that it makes me kind of angry because it seems impossible and I think it might be witchcraft.
> It's probably better on our bodies to stand than to sit for 6 hours at a time, but it starts in schools and ends at desk work.

It definitely isn't, standing puts enormous strains on our bodies. Walking for 6h is much easier and better, but sitting out lying down are much better than just standing.
OTOH MXCSR being threadlocal means that automatically linking crtfastmath.o makes even less sense as it only affects the inital thread that loaded the object so you still need to set FTY/DAZ manually if you really want them.

And implicit locales should just die. It's sad that even newer functionality like std::format relies on them. Sadder that if it didn't then you'd probably have compiler developers pulling shit like GCC/libstdc++ does for std::from_chars [0] which defeats the entire point of that function but hey, at least they can mark that as implemented. Not like there are suitably licensed implementations of the functionality [1] available that they could use instead if they don't want to implement float parsing themselves.

[0] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc++-v3/s...

[1] https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float
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* https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-chinese-mexican-fen... :: no sources
> Construction solely in reinforced concrete might be undesirable for other reasons, including environmental impact, but does tend to isolate household fires so they burn themselves out long before the structure is threatened

So what? Then change building codes to

- mandate fire suppression systems like sprinklers in wooden houses

- require a licensed electrician to review the condition of the electrical wiring every ten to twenty years and to bring it up to code at least every twenty years

- ban space heaters and force landlords to provide state of the art heating systems instead

These are the most common causes of house fires not related to cooking [1], so forcing landlords to actually do their job and not be slumlords should cut down on a very high amount of fires.

[1] https://www.statefarm.com/simple-insights/residence/protect-...
I don't know what my local stores return policies are because I've never had to return an item to them. They curate their inventory and generally don't stock chinesium garbage. That's what being an actual "pro consumer" platform is like. Amazon is pro-shovelware-merchant.
How is this better than adding a pair ip-host to etc hosts?
So people invented cold/hot wallets, like, 10 years ago.

Store most of the fortune encrypted and out of internet connection or on hardwallet, if you have large sums, transfer small sums (like, monthly usage) once in a while to your phone wallet and use freely.

It's not that easy to loose access, by the way, if are not dumb and don't open all shady executables you could find in the internet.
Tae Kim’s guide has a more comprehensive introduction: https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

Thanks for the tip, and here’s a link to save people the google.
A bookmark is just a link and links are part of HTML.

Bookmarks are entirely part of the browser UI. They're an entry in a database of URLs that the browser presents to the user, and when the user clicks on one it tells the browser to navigate to that address. There is absolutely no HTML involved.
Ultimately, a good REPL enables you to test assumptions and behaviours before writing a single line of code that rests on them. It can be a life-saver in dynamically-typed languages with complex operator semantics and large libraries. How can that operation fail? How does it work on boundary conditions? You can test these behaviours instantly in isolation without ever "guessing" in your code.
thanks for the mention. I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz [1].

Thanks for laying out the points in Pro section. We also recently launched logs witg v0.11.0 so you may want to give it a try again - we now have have metrics, logs and traces in a single app.

Would love to understand a few points in more details you have mentioned in Cons for SigNoz

> - Uses new storage engines (or extends the software stack) with adding ClickHouse
Can you explain a bit more on the concern here?

> - Doesn't provide SSO yet, so you need to manage users differently

This is in our roadmap and we will be shipping it soon.

[1] https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
It is when you don’t include any context. You at least included that your standard of performance is a raspberry pi.
This is happening in the UK too.

The NHS is still wildly popular so it's politically impossible to privatize from the outside in but it's becoming less popular as its effectiveness declines due to expanding mismanagement, underfunding and corruption when awarding contracts.

The frog has to be boiled slowly though.
I think the poster is overthinking it.

It was probably just that a gigabyte sounds big, 100 sounds big. Therefore, 100 gigs
It should be noted that old growth wood is significantly higher quality wood than what you'd get from most stores these days. The fast-growing wood is flimsier and less rot resistant, but it can also be replanted and replaced quite easy.

Only using old growth as a source of wood would cause quick deforestation of the remaining old growth forests and nature reserves only for the trees to be replaced with the worse trees we use today. It would only work once, the next generations would still get the crappy quick lumber we use today or be stuck without wood while waiting for forests to regrow, so it's not really an option. If we go for wooden houses everywhere, we're going to need to use the "industrial" wood.
What makes you believe Apple would reject this app? (provided it used properly licensed assets)
Some food for thought: in countries with higher overall gender equality (e.g. the most progressive countries in Western Europe), relatively few women end up in STEM. Conversely, in countries with lower gender equality (e.g. the Middle East, South Asia), large numbers of women end up in STEM [0].

From the article:

>It could have to do with the fact that women in countries with higher gender inequality are simply seeking the clearest possible path to financial freedom. And typically, that path leads through STEM professions.

>The upshot of this research is neither especially feminist nor especially sad: It’s not that gender equality discourages girls from pursuing science. It’s that it allows them not to if they’re not interested.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I can put some perspective on how this is affecting prices.

I work for a food-2-go supplies business, we sell packaging to coffee shops and the like. Most of our products are UK made and although we don’t directly import anything a few of our suppliers do.

An example is one 40ft container will hold about 750 cases of 500 x 12oz double walled paper coffee cups, in 2019 would cost us about 30GBP per case wholesale delivered to our UK warehouse.

To ship a 40ft container from China into the UK pre COVID was around $1500-$2000. It started rising as COVID hit (for quite a wide number of reasons all combined) and last year it was peaking at $25,000, most of the year is seemed to be about $20,000. It has dropped over the recent few months,as the article says, but is still very high.

At $2,000 shipping per 750 cases out of the £30 cost that’s about $2.66 / £2.30 per case in container shipping costs. At the peak it worked out to be about $33 / £29 per case. You can see that doubled the UK landed price of the product and so our costs rocketed up.
I was in a 40-person CS course: compilers. I cannot imagine that went up much
So can you fork? I am sure that the community would love to get your free time for nothing.
The site doesn’t scale nicely to non-plus/max iPhone screens.
Wouldnt this require collecting (and maintaining) an enormous database of local retailers and their stock? Including duplicates. That seems... non-trivial.
>Every .1% reduction counts.

As an approach I don't agree - I think it's only keeping carbon in the ground that matters. Burning it 50 years later isn't a meaningful improvement.

If it's going to be kept in the ground, that's the place to start - the markets will do the rest.

Efficiency first/alone (as policy) is flawed.

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

>That’s how we got here, ever so slightly increasing, and that’s how we must fix it

We got here by non-renewable fuel extraction being profitable, not by variations in demand - that only affects the timescale of extraction.
We didn't tax the polluters enough to break the economics driving climate change. We still don't.
Did they get bought by a bank? I may have been on the other side of that lol.
Firefox is weird. The compile to wasm and then aot-compile that to native code. It's purely to get C/C++ boundschecking and stuff like that everywhere
Unfortuantely we did not, although I did email the mods and request one.
Sure, 2020/2021 the prices of Timber exploded due higher demand. This variable is simply not taken into account.

"And there are also big question marks over the safety implications of shifting to predominantly wood-based construction. While the paper states that engineered wood is “associated with fire resistance,” the jury is still out on whether it is truly as safe as traditional building materials."

Not just that. Aging and Maintenance, warping, pest infection and other benefits from concrete like durability, energy efficiency...

I guess the authors never read the 3 little pigs. You just need a Wolf with some Howitzer trying to free your country from the West, to you understand the advantage of Concrete vs Timber..
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FWIW I think English still retains additional politeness levels in the form of addressing someone in third rather than second person, although this is mostly seen as archaic. In media you'll typically see servants do this when addressing masters/lordship.
Nokia was initially a single pulp mill around Tampere/Nokia region.
You learn a bit about history in the region you'll know that Russia has been being the aggressor for about 300 years, but has always felt the victim. Stalin in the 1920s even had the phrase "capitalism encirclement", not unlike Putin's "NATO encroachment". This is despite the fact that it was Stalin's strategy to chase trade agreements with the UK, Germany and France, while at the same time supporting the respective countries communist parties attempts at revolution. As you see, the pattern of behavior has changed since then.

So no, NATO isn't the aggressor.
Can be argued that it wouldn't have been as popular had it been a parentheses spaghetti.
Excel is the second best tool for every task!

If you want to do lots of reshaping data and performing operations on tables of data, you are better using ETL tools (Extract Transform Load) that were designed for this task. For example: Easy Data Transform, Tableau Prep or Alteryx.
I think this sibling comment covers my point well:

"Did you ever expect that there were discrete and linear stages? I always assumed that these were emotional “attractors”, different emotional states that we migrated through without any particular vector. More like a cruise through a dismal archipelago."
And then there’s the little issue of over a magnitude improvement in performance in Julia compared to the already-optimized Common Lisp code…
The most effective way to lie is to distract with an embarrassing admission. That is what grabbed my attention months before the US media started covering it, the official "bat soup" wet market narrative coming out of China. The CCP is very sensitive about international ridicule with regard to eating weird things, so it was obvious that something was up when that was the immediate go to. When Wuhan started entering the public consciousness, prior to the systemic censorship that washed over SV, the new position was effectively "Ok, it wasn't the bat soup... a lab employee just admitted to us that a bat peed in his mouth and he kept it a secret." Then the censorship went into effect, undoubtable much to the relief of Chinese officials.

That should be the real take away from all this (but it won't be, it'll be forgotten): stop censoring and editorializing platforms, you don't know any more than those you mean to control and the "experts" have repeatedly proven themselves untrustworthy.
This is totally untrue IME of modern mass timber buildings. The sound isolation is excellent.
RPKI test landed in Internet.nl test suite
You can now use Internet.nl to test whether your website and mail service are protected by RPKI. By applying this modern internet standard you will be less likely to suffer from unintentional or malicious internet routing errors. Errors that could, for example, lead to unavailability of your website and mail service.

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a technique that aims to prevent certain route leaks and hijacks. This concerns cases where Internet traffic is redirected to the systems of an unauthorized network. Such a detour may be the result of a simple typing error by a network administrator who thereby unintentionally diverts Internet traffic, or it may be the result of a targeted attack on the infrastructure of the Internet, for example, to make websites unreachable or to steal data from Internet users.