skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no evidence there at all though is there?

First, it's all just Twitter comments. So it's only evidence that someone typed it into Twitter.

And second, what happens to overlap with reality isn't evidence of a lab leak. The fact there is a virus lab in Wuhan doesn't mean there was a lab leak, any more than the fact there are labs in Africa proves aids was man made.

That's the problem here, people don't understand what evidence is, and they don't understand because making up bullshit is much more fun.
Never saw myself as PHB :-)
This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, thanks for sharing!
Nuke Game Theory all over again, with AGI to add too!
I mean guys, it supposedly started next to a lab that studies the virus and they've yet to find the original bat population spreading it. If I made a Contagion 2 film that asked you to suspend your disbelief wrt. these two facts you wouldn't buy it.
In artificial hip definitely makes you a cyborg, and I like to imagine by contact lenses as cybernetic vision enhancement devices, though I can see people err-ing on that. But I don't think I would consider my glasses to be 'cybernetic'.
In my opinion the difference is whether it sits inside the body (imo, inside the eyelids counts). Pacemaker, insulin pump, cochlear implant. Otherwise, you could claim our phones are cybernetic memory and knowledge enhancements (which isn't entirely wrong)

Though I think many of these simply bring you back towards 'baseline healthy human'. For many, the term cyborg requires you to _exceed_ baseline human to be worthy of the term.

So if he implanted this device that made him inhumanly good at chess, I think it would count. This is just using a very inefficient keyboard.
At work, we use foreign key constraints when it makes sense, that is over 50% of all cases considered. The factors considered are risk and performance: what is the risk of bad data to get in the tables and what is the impact of that happens vs the cost of extra processing time or extra hardware to compensate.
Actually all of his claims are facts unless proven otherwise. Do you have proof that these facts (Wuhan playing with these viruses, funding etc) are not true or you would like them to not be true?
I miss them too, I met my fiance due to 15 Chaos Calmer.
There is now evidence firmly against lab leak and firmly in favour of natural origins, covered in depth by a domain expert here - https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/15519378265808240...

I feel like this isn't publicised enough. The lab leakers are louder and people definitely seem to want it to be true more than natural origins and they are not being honest in their attempts to dismiss these papers.
This was a great read. Thanks for sharing it!
It's extremely important if safety measures were breached and later facts were manipulated. It's crazy to say that in a nuclear war for example who fired the first missile is not important.
> key upside to complex logic in the application layer vs the database is that the application layer is often much easier to scale out than the db

I think the point of the GP is that all of these application instances are still connected to the DB, doing sub optimal data fetches taxing the database in multiples.
I dislike being put in the same bucket as obnoxious developers, yet here we are.

I play a lot of video games, built a pc for gaming, and despise being called a "gamer", yet some might consider than an accurate label.
Isn't the other option to facilitate it? There's no inaction here, since you provide a service to that group. You choose between turning a blind eye or kicking them out.
Adjunct: the tyranny of the wagon equation [1].

[1] https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-wago...
I wonder how much it would help to have jets built in to the elevator which add support using compressed gas or something being pumped through the elevator from the ground? Then it would directly support the structure and also give the option of reacting to outside disturbances.
That is not a valid reason for a higher Bayesian prior of the lab leak hypothesis. A prior is that, a prior: the fact that many institutions would see their reputation damaged in the event of a known lab leak has no effect on making a lab leak event more likely to happen a priori.

In fact, it would make much more sense to argue the opposite (not that I would necessarily agree with this reasoning either). The fact that so many institutions would see their reputation damaged if a lab leak was known to have happened makes it less likely for the virus having originated from a lab leak a priori, as said institutions would put in place strong measures to avoid it.

On the Bayesian level though, what can make sense would be to argue that the fact that so many institutions would be damaged post hoc if a lab leak were to be known, then the weight of evidence against the event which has been provided by such institutions should be lower.
Static hosting on VPS cite is easy as hell. Get a VPS with Ubuntu 22.04 for as low as 3 Euros/Month, execute the following commands:

```

sudo apt-get install -y nginx python3-certbot-nginx certbot
sudo ufw allow "Nginx Full"
sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo mkdir -p /srv/https/website
sudo chown -vR $MYUSER:$MYUSER /srv/https/website

echo "I've created my website here." > /srv/https/website/index.html

cat > conf <<- EOM
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;

root /srv/https/website;
index index.html;

server_name $URL;

location / {
try_files \$uri \$uri/ =404;
}

}
EOM

sudo cp config /etc/nginx/sites-available/website
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/website /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/website
sudo certbot --nginx -n -d $URL --agree-tos --redirect -m $EMAIL --webroot -w /srv/https/website
```

Setup your DNS to the IP of VPS and you're done setting up your static website. Updates now are just `rsync`
Thousands of dollars to throw bricks through windows and slash tires?

Anyone who has basic opsec and is willing to cover a decently large area could be rolling in the dough at those prices.
Conversely, when I read advocacy that speculates motive in this way, I note the absence of deductive reason.
> Math is a tool (for everyone except for 0.000001%, who could use it as an occupation)

0.000001% of 8 billion is 80 people. Your math is off by a few orders of magnitude : P
I guess it also filters out people who would object to gleefully torturing people in the most inhumane way possible [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
I don’t know if you handle customer registration. If you do then a customer registering and then placing a big order ($20 or more) within minutes is a big red flag. We clamped down a big chunk of credit card fraud this way.
Not good advice.

This is not something you ask about.

Once you announce this intention you would become a danger to your employer and they would be best to let you go immediately rather than give you time to collect things to provide your future employer that would take away revenue from them.

If you don't have a job offer, you'd be playing with fire and will likely get burned.
'Claims are facts until proven otherwise' is quite the take, I think Karl Popper would take issue with that.

I linked a thorough thread from a domain expert explaining in detail why the claims are false. These things have been addressed/debunked many, many times but still get repeated because the untruths get amplified and the rebuttals not.
> I have to admit, being anti-woke myself

What does anti-woke mean? Also not American.
You are running this in production? I had a look at the github repo and did not find any tests. How are you QAing the project?
A tiny bit of airport security would rule out the rest of the cases :)
My Surreal Experience with COBOL
Yes, I recall doing this in a topology where I had:

internet-router > dedicated switch > access point

Where nodes on the switch where on the same lan as the wireless clients.

As others have mentioned, this should be possible also if you use the built-in ethernet switch (I can't recall if I ever did that..).
> If they are trivial to find then why aren't you linking them?

Because either you care and can spend 5min to find many personal threads on how this impacted people's lives, or not. I'm not here to summarise this for you. This is not random internet drama for entertainment.
A keyboard doesn't claim to be good for millions of actuations. You're referring to (a single) switch, which cost less than a dollar even for the most premium switches. They are easily replaced.
Well in this case it did actually indicate something other than the passage of time, it indicates the player was using a shoe operated cheating device an remarked on how he would normally move more quickly.

Maybe I overemphasized the first move because it was emphasized in the article, in general cheaters use their clock in weird ways throughout the game since for them pretty much any move is similarly complex. In this case the shoe operating cheating device raised the minimum time to make a move, which is a characteristic common to many forms of cheating.
Care to give us the spark notes of the paper?
They probably spend a huge amount of money on combating fraud. Whether that cancels out the unwanted profits from fraud? I have no idea. But you can expect them to be spending a great deal on getting rid of it.
Legal or not, it's possible current employer raises enough hell that the client says "not worth it." Now you've lost the new job and your current employer knows you're unhappy and less loyal than expected.

Maybe it doesn't go that sideways? But if it does, don't be surprised. Be prepared.
Yes. We could use the in-browser wasm engine + a polyfill for the host functions. Of course, this would have some limitations. Functionality like UDP would not be supported.
>we can't type-check zig libraries which contain generics.
>comptime is_odd_perfect_number(n)

I assume zig has a finite bound on comptime_int, so we can in fact always know what is_odd_perfect_number() returns.
I don't know what fantasy world you live in but unless you have substantial evidence that the pedestrian did something wrong making the accident reasonably unavoidable by the driver you're in for a many thousands of dollars and a couple court appearances anywhere in the first word. If there's evidence it was intentional then move the decimal to the right once in both cases.

Take your trope and shove it.
Thanks! That was the impression I had, but as I was writing the comment I realized I couldn’t recall any specific line that made me think that all the children were basically the same species (though I did know that Hobbits were counted among Men).
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I have just installed three battery-based cameras from Eufy and I'm very happy with the experience and performance:

https://eu.eufy.com/pages/security_forever_power?ref=navi

The cameras I have are charge and use, but should last about six months befire you need to charge again. We'll see. Mine are only active when I'm away and they sense activity so that should help.

They have cameras with solar panel and 4G. If they have an external battery I don't know.
I think they mean that using the raw instructions is unsupported and undocumented, officially you have to use the libraries as the interface to them.
Honestly, there are way too many programming languages already. Even though a chunk of them are interesting as thought experiments and potential future investments (like that one that content-addresses its own AST; forgot the name), I believe it's high time we all focus on more practical aspects.

Parallelism is one of those. Only microcontrollers are single-core these days, and not even all of them.

I sympathize with the people who have fallen in love with their own idea and are sad that others "don't see the light" and don't support them -- but our world is an imperfect system and that's a fact of life.

F.ex. I'd kill for a LISP with strong(er) static typing plus Erlang's transparent parallelism and runtime but yeah, we don't have that. So Elixir and Rust it is for me.
There are a few. Tickets for events seem to be a nice one
> Optional packages, installable on-the-fly

Possible on Asus hardware using the third-party Merlin firmware as well:

* https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Entware

* https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/features

The default Asus firmware is decent too.
I'm simply wanting to point out the article oversimplified, and then tries to build on that oversimplification. I trust HN'ers can draw their own conclusions from there.
Funnily, one of my pet peeves is people worrying about the SQL Generated from EF Linq. If you care that much about it I think you should just be writing the SQL by hand.
> pair of spacecraft above the south pole push off from each other horizontally, in opposite directions. Their trajectories bend around the Earth, and they meet again over the north pole

Okay, they’re in polar orbits [1].

> going partly sideways and partly up

Wat? (“Up” is ambiguous. Do you mean northward on the first half of their polar orbits? If so, it’s the same as sideways relative to a ground-based observer.)

> they can join and continue traveling up

As in parallel to the pole? “Up” away from the North Pole? How did they accelerate from an orbit to this trajectory?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_orbit
Well, I am likely misguided since I never wrote a compiler in my life -- but to me it feels the "purer" a language is, the easier it is to make automated analysis on how to parallelize its code fragments? Hence FP languages are better candidates, I'd think?
> I'd buy this if the bug was actually gone. But it's not! Closing a bug report doesn't make the bug go away!

It does improve morale. Developers see a mountain of bugs they could never fix.

> I don't understand. Can you elaborate?

Say you have 100 bugs open for 10 developers, and you close all bugs older than 6 months. Then you go through the remaining one and close all the ones who have no impact ("css line should be 2 pixel but is one pixel") on customers and you get to 30. Then you implement (better) code reviews, phase injection analysis (in which phase a bug was introduced, E.g. missing requirement, and where it was found E.g. customer), enforce static tools (Clippy) policy. Then you do two bug fixing sprints and refactoring of code that gets a high amount of bugs and you have a manageable bug count of 10 (1/dev instead of 10/dev) which keeps low because of the quality improvements you made.

> This seems like a terrible waste of everyone's time.

No managing hundreds of bugs in a bugtracker that do not get fixed is a terrible waste of everyone's time.
Not every slope is this slippery. You can allow a bunch of things, but have boundaries for what is allowed on your platform.

A bar owner can kick out a troublemaker, and people won't think "first they kick Shitstarter Steve, and next thing you know they kick you out because you order the wrong beer". Other patrons are relieved that Steve will have to start shit somewhere else.

It's fine to show some people the door.
There are still many problems to be solved. One is the state syncing between backend and frontend. There is nothing public yet, until we decide on the direction that we want to actually take.
That Haskell has a transparent parallelism is news to me. Does it do the things that Erlang does? Or at least Rust's `tokio` async runtime?
Apple is gaining on Facebook and Google in online ads after iOS privacy change
At what probability does the burden of proof shift?
In a scenario of MAD, it actually would not be important, as all human civilization would be destroyed and it would thus be completely irrelevant.

This is precisely what I am talking about.
Look at the images in the japanese source.

They look incredible, and significantly more life-like in the simulated colorblind version compared to the regular version.
People are creating super viruses, regardless of the origin of this one.

Act accordingly.
Thanks for sharing this.
For no expert in this field like me, peer-reviewed articles in a highly regarded publication like Science Magazine eliminated the lab theory. But I guess trust in science is unfortunately not as big as it was. And some people are biased as they want some theory to be true.
Ethics. I mean, yes it's "only" mice, but still - there is no point in letting them develop into animals that can actually feel harm for no purpose, at least not until the feti are similar in development quality to naturally grown feti.
>Oshii added that he thought Johansson was the best possible person to play Kusanagi

And considering how bad it went, his opinion might not be that worthwhile in this endeavour.
No, it’s more information.

An automated message arrives every time, one time. For this specific type of fraud where they are trying out many cards to figure out which works, getting an automated message is perfect.

Leaving the fraudster in the dark - excellent. Forcing the fraudster to call if they want more information - excellent. Both of these increase the time investment from the fraudster. They need to spend more time per card.

Cussing - doesn’t make a difference either way from an information perspective.
This isn't a new phenomenon. You raise literally anyone's hackles on twitter and you can potentially get swatted and harassed off the internet.

Dong Nguyen was run off the internet for a fun little mobile game that some people on Twitter got frustrated by. Scott Cawthorne was unpersoned when he gave money to the GOP. Lindsay Ellis made a single wrong step and was bullied and harassed by the type of people upset about Kiwifarms now. Hell, there's a fresh 2 minutes hate every day on Twitter that leads to someone completely irrelevant having their life ruined because they didn't like something popular.

This wouldn't be a problem if people removed their identity from the internet and just started doing everything anonymously, but apparently ego is a monetisable commodity now.
He would not had subtle shade play in all those colors. You would expect shades to be used subtly badly.
> By uninstalling Wireshark, Fiddler or mitmproxy.

Well, I was interested in preventing others from sniffing the traffic. If I am the app owner or an app user, then anyone on the LAN or shared home network can sniff the traffic.
>She is very good at saying thing's that have no substance

Jives with her qualifications, which are a bachelor's degree in Rethorics.
Tron!

And you really should watch War Games and 23.
Another political activist, I'm not certain how I feel about this. Seems like this might not go well, looking at what happens to companies with “activism” at their heart.
Apparently one of the moderators revived this thread? I remember reading this same thread a few days ago as well.
Well, yeah the article is meant to promote it. They had podcast and everything. Same with Rust podcast.
In this case, what's the difference between mob rule and serving your customers?
Not a very creative answer, but a smartphone with an international data plan and large battery is probably the best tool in existence.

I guess a universal power outlet adapter is pretty helpful too.
> many people would like it to be true, because it feeds into a conspiracy narrative

And many people would like it to be false, because they don't want a) public uproar about what sort of activites go on in these labs, b) fear of losing money, c) embarrassment

We'll never truly know where it all came from.
Giving it a 1/10 score just means that person is very angry for some reason, not because they objectively evaluated the series and gave it a 1/10 rating because it's terrible on all fronts.

Giving it a 3/10 means that series needs to live up to some kind of standard that other series don't need to live up to.

If this series wouldn't be based on Tolkien and was released before anyone heard of "woke", it would at least be a 7/10. For reference, Xena is a 6.7/10.
> Thought idea: predict what key you are about to press next, and make the ones around it stiffer so you are less likely to press them by mistake.

If the bottom magnet were an electromagnet, then in fact one could make the keypress stiffer. As it stands, this project only changes the actuation point, but not the stiffness curve.

That said, I would love the feature that you mention. It could possibly introduce a new feedback concept to programming, similar to e.g. the shaker sticks that airline pilots are familiar with. Or, one could reduce the stiffness after a long day at work. Or increase the stiffness when the IDE detects e.g. that you're accessing a string position beyond bounds, or your SQL query is not parameterized but contains a concatenated user input.
Key statement: integrity of the state is much more important than some inconveniences here and there
As someone who pseudonymously defends the right of KiwiFarms to exist, I am pretty much guaranteed to lose my job if I am doxxed and targeted by the usual activist crowd. A trans woman who opposes KiwiFarms faces no comparable intrinsic threat, which is why I can't take these crybully attacks on speech seriously.
I would have expected he was our go to example for possibility of human Tetrachromacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
...or $150 if you want to store it on your phone.
Hope this gets more upvotes. Kind of dismaying the number of people relying on tweets with no source(s).

Haven't we learned enough over these years of misinformation and "fake news"?

TLDR the tweet string from the actual Dr of Virology: evidence so far points to natural but more info is needed
This seems like a pretty cool project!

Currently using Apache Skywalking myself, because it's reasonably simple to get up and running, as well as integrate with some of the more popular stacks: https://skywalking.apache.org/

I do wonder how ClickHouse (which Uptrace uses) would compare with something like ElasticSearch (which is used by Skywalking and some others) and how badly/well an attempt to use something like MariaDB/MySQL/PostgreSQL for a similar workload would actually go.

I mean, something like Matomo Analytics already uses a traditional RDBMS for storing its data, albeit it might be an order of magnitude or two off from the typical APM solution.
There is a difference between overall no-hire agreements (which indeed won't stand in many places) and specific clauses covering only people involved in a common project (and that often don't strictly prevent hiring, but e.g. require compensation).
Agreed. Also, I'm not happy that I used and reproduced negative connotations about prostitution (that are deeply rooted in patriarchical control of female sexuality and reproduction).

But I choose to keep this non-insult since it has a very strong impact in just a few words due to the high cognitive dissonance it causes. (Partly responsible for the chuckle you mentioned).

The earth being flat is not a good substitute btw since it's also in the topos of conspiracy theories thus reducing the cognitive dissonance.

But I'd be happy for other suggestions.
1. You don't know if they are still there. Thousands of commits have been done since then. Whenever I did go through a long list of old bugs, many were not reproduceable.

2. Many companies have no bug triage process and just fill every bug that is reported. So these are bugs that no one has any intention of fixing. So it's not important if they are there or not.

3. You seem to think that only the bugs in your bugtracker are there. They might be the minority of bugs in your code. Whenever I increase unit testing in my own code, I find dozens of bugs. I was once in a company that hired students during holidays for explorative testing. Dozens of bugs were found every time. The amount of bugs in your bugtracker depends on how much customers you have, how much they care and how big your QA effort is. It's nowhere the number of bugs in your application. The bugs in your bugtracker are a random selection with a bias to the more obvious ones of the bugs in your code.

4. If you don't want to fix bugs, you don't need to track them.