skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Half the people in the US couldn't afford food if the costs weren't low. Paying subsidies is a way to keep labor costs low while keeping people fed.

Or to assure a minimum well being for the population. A good economy is just a means for the goal of providing well being the citizens.

Even if keeping people fed increased labor cost over letting them starve, we should still keep people fed.
Are there any other websites similar to this? Aggregators of non-sensationalized significant science news
You are correct; typed racket does not use turnstile.
While I don’t have any opinion about the features, they did have native app and now the app is Electron based.
I think a lot of people in the lab leak community are looking for someone to blame, purely out of retribution, which is ultimately pointless.

Ignoring that contingent, it's still important to do a full postmortem after a catastrophe. If a bridge collapses, people don't say "oh well, life moves on". They figured out why it collapsed, and then design the next generation of bridges to not fail in that way. If you don't do the analysis, you can't do the mitigation.
If the United States had universal healthcare and education wasn't brutally expensive then more people could justify being entrepreneurial. You can't have society in which almost all wealth flows upwards and normal people are comfortable taking business risk.

Want start-ups? Raise taxes on the wealthiest of us, increase social services and safety nets and access to education. If people feel safe, they'll take more risks. Make it so people don't have to risk their kids' futures on their idea.

Also maybe put some protections in place so massive incumbents can't just stomp potential competitors and squash innovation...
> Meaning doesn't mean much, but learning to love and be happy is (from what I can gather) far more important...

Thanks. This hits me hard. I think I've been focusing too much on "meaning" (and trying to do the meaningful things, etc) and over-exhausted myself. I think I need to practise loving and being happy more. That turns out doesn't come automatically.
Yes, but those issues are due to modern farming practices. They're not inherent to beef as a food source. Cattle have been used for millennia to convert inedible plants growing on marginal land into human food.
They will do it themselves naturally so studying such a change means you are already prepared when they do.
I would argue that JS is not just a language, it's a mindset, and that mindset is, "I just want to write javascript, for the love of god don't make me learn more than I absolutely have to."

It's... unique, in the software dev world, I think. Node.js is not the right tool for this job, but god bless the folks who insist on using it here anyway.
Thanks for doing the "obscure science"!
Perhaps it was variations in my lighting or optical illusion effects.
Cows only make milk after pregnancy. That has to happen somehow. Guess what is done with her baby. Guess where the literal pus from the overworked udders ends up. Yum! All those vegetarians sure are enjoying that.

If you want to know more fun facts, check out Dairy is scary on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
I think my potent chemicals are coming from sources other than my skin and breath.
I like the layouts on the photos, it has the same kind of appeal as the interior of many small boats. Every bit of space used twice, to create a room that's bigger than the space allows.
Depends on the size of the animal.

The invasive hippos in Colombia (yes, it's real) can easily be exterminated anytime the Colombians want.

But I don't think there is any chance of removing the House Sparrow from America.
We named it entirely as an homage to the original PGP. This was literally an academic research project we did, with the exact same name, for years before we made it into a service.
> I really don't see the point of these,

You just don't want to. It's very simple: they let you have a burger that mimics meat burgers, and they taste reasonably close for some of us. I love burgers and love some of the fake meat patties since I don't usually eat meat. Simple as that.
get this garbage outta here
interesting perspective. but i doubt this is a tech problem. instead, it is highly likely an organizational problem. FlyCode is a technology that reduce friction, but it is up to how you use it.
Talking to others about the problem, but more critically, take to heart and learn their debugging techniques, not just getting others to problem solve for me. I learned to use a debugger, profiler, check compiler output, rubber ducky, five whys, etc. by seeing others apply the methods. I already understood those methods existed, but they came alive and I understood them at a deeper lever by seeing others apply them.
While I have no basis, this is what I feel happened:

WIV Worker - WIVW
Janitor/intern/low paid employee - J

WIVW to J: Dispose of these bats
J: Ok
J takes bats to wet market
J sells bats for 50 bucks
J to WIVW: Got rid of the bats for you.
WIVW to J: Thanks.
Use a debugger. I've gone so far as to port my linux code to windows just to use visual studio's debugger, fix the problem, then port it back.

Use version control. If the order processing worked last week and johnny made a change to order processing in this release it's highly likely it's johnny's change.

You make an assumption of where the problem is and start looking. Always understand your assumption can be wrong and you are looking in the wrong place.

Avoid code with side effects. I've taken code with bugs in it and completely rewrote all of it without side effects just to avoid those types of bugs and magically all of the hard to find bugs disappeared.
But at the same time this conversion is happening in an immensely smaller volume. Also it doesn't require constant maintenance of living conditions. There are always tradeoffs in engineering AND nature. For instance, trees tend to have to spend tons of their energy in order to get taller. This is mostly because they have to compete with other plants for sunlight. This inefficiency leads to much more waste product (O2) being produced and tends to capture more fuel (CO2).

Technology just optimizes for different things than nature. Otherwise the lander would have just carried a couple gallons of water and some algae.
Answer is not complicated - the goal is to understand and prevent / treat future outbreaks of emergent diseases like this (and maybe even the common-cold coronaviruses). Just like how security researchers hack things to improve security
> “Hierarchy, Vorbis said later. The Ephebians didn't think in terms of hierarchies.

> No army could cross the desert. But maybe a small army could get a quarter of the way, and leave a cache of water. And do that several times. And another small army could use part of that cache to go further, maybe reach halfway, and leave a cache. And another small army . . .

> It had taken months. A third of the men had died, of heat and dehydration and wild animals and worse things, the worse things that the desert held . . .

> You had to have a mind like Vorbis's to plan it.

> And plan it early. Men were already dying in the desert before Brother Murduck went to preach; there was already a beaten track when the Omnian fleet burned in the bay before Ephebe.

> You had to have a mind like Vorbis's to plan your retaliation before your attack.”

- Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
The quiet cost of family caregiving
That's better than I expected. MOXIE was a small proof of concept. If it scale linearly, a device with the mass of the rover could produce oxygen for a few people.
One advantage to US "exurban? not-quite-rural? not sure what to call it but 30-50 miles from a big city" living is you can actually find smallish farms that do everything on-site and buy from them.

If you're willing to use freezers you can even stock up for quite a long time (some places will even let you pick the cow and process it for you and give you all the meat).
> We don’t need a 17th bottled water brand at CVS or a 28th CliffBar competitor at Walgreens. We need our best and brightest people working on important problems that wouldn’t be solved otherwise.

This is a fairly common take, but it is wrong in my opinion. I've worked on some fairly difficult engineering problems (related to signal processing) and one of the remarkable things is that multiple people in the room usually have a workable idea about how to approach it. And if you think about the really productive periods of science the number of scientists was very limited. There's no shortage of smart people who want to work on interesting problems.

What there is a shortage of are people with the organizational, and other, less tangible, skills that are needed to bring complex projects to fruition. At a high level, we know things that work for most of the list that Perell provided (energy, education, housing, healthcare, and transportation) and even assuming zero technological progress they could be hugely improved with existing technology, but someone has to figure out how to break the status quo and reach a new equilibrium.

Definitely those are important problems, but just being smart won't solve them. They already attract lots of smart people. You need to bring something else to the table to make progress.
>why they are interested in engineering new variants of SARS-like viruses in the first place?

A reason may be so they can know how a similar naturally occurring virus may work.
You only get 15 days to return it and a lot of us wait until the next patch to see if that fixes issues which are on a monthly cadence now. Unfortunately after buying so many Google devices unless some major changes happen I won't be buying another one.
That makes sense. Thank you for the explanation!

> Further, in order to build assurance about the counter integrity, we would need to employ formal verification and code authentication techniques

Can you point me to resources that might help be understand what that might look like? I'm assuming it requires a third party to audit the project in-depth. I would further assume that such a service costs quite a bit of money. Chitchatter is not a revenue-generating project, so that would have to be to be figured out.

FWIW, I don't consider myself a security expert. I'm learning security best practices by developing Chitchatter. More than anything, I'm hoping to form a community of interested subject matter experts around this project to help build towards the vision of simple and secure communication! :)
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What does a password manager company need $100M for? Aren’t they doing just fine without VC money? Wouldn’t $1M be largely enough?
Threadripper has worse single-core performance than Ryzen, lacks 3D V-Cache, only came in a Pro option last generation (which was vendor-locked to Lenovo for months), and has been removed from next generation's roadmap.

As I mentioned in the "Slots vs. Lanes" section in the article, most home users don't actually need more lanes -- just more slots.
Arguably, calling other human beings "non valuable connections" does not make the world a better place either.
Brazil orders Apple to suspend iPhone sales without charger
The liability-free fast tracked vaccine that doesn't actually mitigate transmission greatly restored my belief that we might survive the next large event. It was rolled out quickly, and it actually greatly reduced mortality. Reducing transmission would've been epic, but we can't win them all.

The CDC's ever changing guidelines were good, but their not admitting that at some point the had been wrong or worse were flat out lying did hurt societal trust a lot. The fact that social pressure on our neighbours and government recommendations failed to such an extent that we needed extra policing just to get people to keep to reasonable curfews sucked.

I don't know where you pull the "effortless militarization of common citizens .. who attack" from, but a. that didn't happen, and b. it was the people who did not follow government recommendations and social pressure that were out there militarizing and attacking their neighbours.

People are asking questions, that's how science works. But basing laws and regulations on established science and expert advice, that's how society is supposed to work. You can be angry about the state of science, or about the corrupting influence of pharmaceutical companies, but don't throw out the baby with the bath water. The fact that we've been able to respond swiftly based on expert advice and on established science is a good thing. Maybe next time we'll make sure those experts and scientists have more competence and better alignment to our ethical values.
> Are we seriously going to shame customers for trying to cut some costs in this economic context?

That all depends on the margins of what is being offered. If you are proposing they sell a dime's worth of product for a nickel, then I would see the above post as a much more polite version of the correct response, which is "get lost."
In person: we've had contactless cards since 2014/2015. And nowadays with Apple/Google/Samsung Pay there's no limit.

Online: SCA used to be wonky but today I pick up my phone and touch the fingerprint sensor, done.

It's hardly inconvenient, and we enjoy significantly lower transaction fees.
Seems a little odd. I guess they mean it's just not acutely harmful?

I have an ozone generator. I use it occasionally and never in the same room. It's pretty useful for clearing out odors as long as you air out the space afterwards to help the ozone dissipate.
> Govulncheck analyzes your codebase and only surfaces vulnerabilities that actually affect you, based on which functions in your code are transitively calling vulnerable functions.

This is huge! Every existing vulnerability scanner that I've worked with have just looked at go.sum, which ends up reporting a lot of vulnerabilities that you don't actually care about because your code isn't actually linking to the optional transitive dependency that has the vulnerability in it.

Thank you, Go team!
>I think you’re leaving out the part where, for political reasons, there are and were groups motivated to sell distrust in American institutions as well as their political rivals.

The conversations on HN about the lab leak hypothesis always leave this out. They often imply the politicization of covid came from scientists trying to protect themselves rather than from politicians. Maybe the lab leak theory is true, but you can't dismiss the fact that it first rose to public prominence because politicians pushed it as a way to shift the blame for the pandemic. Therefore the anti-lab leak argument was heavily political specifically because it was responding to an already politicized argument that had little evidence to support it.
The library they are using does this. I wrote my own separate library that uses Cloudflare because it uses a bespoke protocol that takes advantage of some WebRTC hacks (SDP munging, DTLS certificate reuse, peer reflexive candidates, etc) to minimize I/O to R2 and hence reduce costs on Cloudflare.
I forgot to specify my goal when asking about HTTP logs: I want to get some basic analytics without adding anything to my HTML.

I love Goat Counter, but I still have to add a tracker (a privacy friendly one, but a tracker nonetheless).

Cloudflare looks like it might actually provide what I'm looking for, but the price is a bit too high for my low traffic hobby projects (looks like it starts at $20/month). I could just host my site on a VPS for cheaper than that (although I'd prefer some sort of managed/hosted offering under $10/month, if I can find one).
If only the 9pfs protocol was wildly implemented, we'd not want fuse at all!
From the article:

> "The demonstration is only the beginning. A future version, about the size of a “small chest freezer,” would produce oxygen at a rate equivalent to several hundred trees."
I don't like that Bitwarden needs an external server so I use KeepassXC but for the people that do, I guess it is always time to fork it.
There are many ways to solve this. The simplest one is that Bob owns a trusted server that always knows where he is. He uses a few proxies in series to connect to this server. When Alice wants to call Bob she contacts his server.
Sure. Horoscopes "work" that way, too.
You don't get energy and materials back out of building things for which there is no demand.

There is no way to store natural gas to meet one year's demand.

There is no way to store electric power to meet one year's demand. Not even one month's.

There is no way to store wind or solar power (see above).

Nuclear fuels, of course, can be stockpiled, but you can't demand more power than the nuclear plants that exist can produce, so having 100 years' worth of enriched uranium alone wouldn't help you produce extra power in any particularly hot summer / cold winter. Fuel is not the form in which we want energy when we turn an electric light on!

> Demand-side rather than supply-side dispatch --- varying activity rather than generation or energy provision to match available capabilities.

That's not possible. You've paid too much attention to Holdren.

You cannot make people alternate sleep/wake cycles so that we can have steady base load and no peak load. Or whatever else you have in mind for "varying demand" to match supply, unless that's rolling power outages.

Electric energy cannot be saved in any significant amount, full stop. Excess supply can be sent to ground, but excess demand cannot be met except with power generation using fuels that can be throttled very quickly (and that's essentially only natural gas). That means that electric power supply has to match demand or we must constantly run base power generation at peak demand rates and send excess to ground -- a tremendous waste!

There's no way around this.

Even if we did have batteries that were a) small, b) cheap, c) had enormous capacity, those would essentially be -when charged- coulombic bombs that have to be kept from exploding. Indeed, there are physical limits to electric energy store density where you can trivially get that energy back as power. For example, we've all seen that smartphone batteries are small explosives (recall the Samsung Galaxy fiasco), so now scale that way up and imagine what that would mean.
m.2 can get hot, installing them under a hot video card cooler is a judgement call, especially if there is more space elsewhere. The truth is most people probably don't use their 1x slots.

I found some ultra low profile pcie extensions (basically mining risers that use a USB3 cable) that allow me to relocate the cards elsewhere but still install them in slots that are under big GPU fans.
If folks enjoy them, what's the harm? There's a brand of TVP-based taco "meat" (Fantastic World Foods) that I actually like better than beef. Perhaps your boss has fond memories related to chicken nuggets and wants to enjoy the nostalgia.
>but there's no serious evidence it was the case here

I mean, the furan cleavage site certainly counts as evidence of a potential modification if it hasn't been observed in any of the natural coronaviruses and inserting it in the position it is was the subject of a grant proposal just a couple of years prior, at the institute in close proximity to the outbreak.

There's also the fact that US intelligence leaked that a couple of workers at WIV were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in November, before the outbreak was otherwise detected which is an unusual event for working-aged people. That is an extremely suspicious timing and location of an unusual event in more than one person, though we don't have confirmation of the causative agent.

Also, while we're back into speculative evidence, I found the behavior of the Chinese government was very suspicious throughout.

I found it very interesting that there was a nation-wide initiative in China toward enhancing lab safety at BSL labs which was rolled out relatively quietly a few months into the pandemic. They also pulled their viral genetic database offline after the outbreak. Non-transparency is expected, but a couple of those actions seem more damning.
Came to point this out... I don't think I trust these people to write my compiler.
> Using transit, walking, or cycling is promoting 'other policies that have an outsized impact beyond shallow lifestyle choices' because these modes all hage network effects.

I see your point, but this isn't viable. Too many people live too far away from their workplaces, shopping centers, etc (not to mention unpleasant weather) for walking/cycling and we don't have adequate public transit networks (nor can we build them in time to meet our public transit goals). Moreover, EVs are coming in very quickly and will largely wipe out our personal transportation carbon footprint (especially as the grid transitions to clean energy) such that there's very little to be gained (environmentally speaking) from a transition to walking, cycling, and public transit (I say this as someone who wants America to be more walkable, but not at the expense of the environment). Not only is it technically unviable to build out the transit networks and otherwise reorganize our society away from cars, but it's politically unviable--apart from urban progressives, there's very little political will for public transit (many of the people who say they support increased public transit networks aren't actually going to avail themselves of them until they really become more convenient than cars for their specific transit needs).
Their project docs are informative: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...

In addition to having research the nearest known ancestor to sars-cov2, and proposing inserting the FCS that distinguishes sars-cov2 from it's ancestors, the project proposed treating bats in the wild with the humanized virus to make the bats immune to it.

It's about as close to mad science as you get outside of the movies.

I don't really know how much it matters if covid was directly caused by the lab leak when you can look at their actions and say that they would reasonably been expected to cause this outcome.

"Mom, I swear, I didn't cause the explosion! yes, I was maxing random chemicals I found in the garage, in violation against the established prohibitions, and the chemicals I was mixing happened to be the exact sort that caused the explosion. But it wasn't me!"

The fact that there was a moratorium on gain of function research means that even more of the culpable parties all the way up the funding chain are incentivized to lie about the whole thing.
Stationary fuel tanks seem problematic for rockets since your rendezvous would have to happen at such high speeds. You'd either have to decelerate the rocket back to zero or accelerate the fuel to the speed of the rocket.
Is it getting better or worse if we wait? Right now China probably wouldn't dare invade Taiwan, whereas in ten years they probably will. So yes, now is the right time to find out whether they're willing to cooperate with the rule-based international community or not.
I'm always baffled at people who are both pro-entrepreneurship and anti-universal-healthcare at the same time.

What do they thing is the number one reason most people won't start their own business?
Ah, here comes the conspiracy. Except that, if the culprit was "the economic effects from mandated lockdowns, and potentially, contributions from mandated vaccines", excess deaths wouldn't exactly (and it really is exactly) track case counts and instead would be evenly spread during the "lockdown" periods and the vaccine administration periods. Which is not the case.

Your "evidence" (to the extent it is evidence at all) is cherrypicked, for lack of a better world, sh*t.