skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evolutionary theory SUGGESTS it is a lab leak. When a virus "makes the jump" from animals to humans, it tends not to be very good at first. Then, over time, the virus would evolve to get better and better at spreading among humans. You'd have likely years of the virus spreading fairly slowly. You know how each progressive strain has become more capable of spreading but less deadly compared to the generation before it? One would expect to have seen strains prior to alpha which would have been significantly less infectious.

Covid, conversely, was EXTREMELY good at spreading among humans right from the start. This experience coincides with the exact category of experiments we know were funded in Wuhan, which include using directed evolution to get bat corona viruses to be able to infect human cells. They literally trained these corona viruses to be able to infect human cells.

Is this definitive? Of course not, nothing is definitive.

If you're interested in how these types of coverups play out in the real world, I recommend investigating the 1977 influenza pandemic. 700,00 people died due to a Russian lab leak and the entire scientific community kept it a secret from the public because they didn't want to embarrass Russia during the cold war. It took 30 years for the scientific community to come clean.
then nobody should talk to US
America founded research at the Wuhan lab [1], and more precisely exactly the research that lead to the virus outbreak.

EcoHealth Alliance and Daszak have been working with Shi Zhengli, a virologist at the WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology], for more than 15 years. Since 2014, an NIH grant has funded EcoHealth’s research in China, which involves collecting faeces and other samples from bats, and blood samples from people at risk of infection from bat-origin viruses. Scientific studies suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus most likely originated in bats, and research on the topic could be crucial to identifying other viruses that might cause future pandemics. The WIV is a subrecipient on the grant.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4
He was taking various dopaminergic drugs. So it seems likely this impacted his decision making.

https://twitter.com/stevemagness/status/1592555313018081285
I actually went with Pascal(FPC) for my own self-learning in college, in the 2000's, even though I had some classroom exposure to C.

Pascal is just a little bit more polished in its syntax around data handling. The pass-by-reference syntax reduces reliance on pointers, and the Borland pointer syntax is sensible(reference vs dereference is indicated by ^ at left vs right) and helps to position pointers as an occasional tool rather than the essence of your program. Trying to teach C syntax involves a mandatory "OK kid, here is how we actually decipher what the * means here and why your program crashes when you try to dereference it" period. We know that it's bad - because everyone, at every level of skill, messes it up occasionally, and there's an inherent tendency in C to do a heap alloc wherever your algorithm needs it and then immediately manipulate it with pointers, instead of thinking through a way of designing it with bounded buffers. Likewise := is a better assignment operator than C =, because you might accidentally leave out the : and compare, but you'll never accidentally add a : and assign.

The downside of Pascal syntax relative to C is mostly in control flow, block structure, declarations being more verbose - it's something you can get used to, but it's that little bit harder to jump in and start hacking out something. With the extensions currently in FPC, I'd still prefer using it over C, though. It's a mature development environment, mostly hamstrung by an ecosystem that has fallen behind in favor of newer things.
You don't need to "discredit" the hypothesis very much, because it shouldn't have any real "credit" to begin with. The only evidence for it at all seems to be the proximity of the Wuhan lab to the first known outbreak, plus the fact that 3 researchers got sick in November (i.e. flu season) with some unknown virus. If you ask me, that plus $5 might buy you a cup of coffee.
Shimmy, shimmy. I can't be bothered with your incurious chauvinistic prattle and am done with you.
That's why one sets up disk encryption :3
As long as your application is not commercial.
>> We are not going to let this ruin trade relations even more ($$$ LOL) so you're just going to have to forget about it.

> If lab leak is confirmed the correct course of action is to design new systems and protocols to prevent such a thing from happening again in the future

I'm not sure why people choose to assume their simple solutions are somehow insightful. You aren't going to be able to reach into most countries to intervene in any other way than simple sanctions at best. The protocol of "asking country X please knock it off" is not productive, as it's not going to result in any specific change, it hurts trade, and every country is doing it to some degree despite previous agreements on the world stage (basic Game Theory).

This is what the GP described, yet someone still thinks that nobody involved, understands "basic engineering". Very smart people do this kind of work with money and lives at stake. Let's give a little rope to people with big responsibilities, to try to understand the motivations rather than assume they are ignorant.
On my iPhone at least, if I scroll down the app store listing to the app details and expand the IAP section it shows a list of all the IAPs the app offers. The names don't always reveal what they unlock, but sometimes it's clear they are just voluntary donations.
Atari actually built a Transputer workstation in 1989. Quite the curiosity when it was announced!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995277

Edit: Europe had a rather large Atari ST scene, since Macs were prohibitively expensive. So anything Atari got a lot of publicity. I remember reading a bunch of articles about the Transputer.
I remember Transputer enthusiasm when I was in college, we got some boards and even built our own, but it was really not practical and the toolchains were lacking.

Even back then it seemed like something more like the GPUs we have today with many cores per die would make more sense.
> I also suspect most of the people spreading transphobic messages have never had a close openly trans friend, partner, or family member.

Many gender-critical women are those who have experienced the trans phenomenon via a man in their life deciding that he is now a woman, and observing first hand the misogyny in his expression of what he thinks makes him a woman. The accounts of transwidows (women whose husbands transitioned) are particularly depressing and painful to read, as their marriage breaks down while he transforms himself into an offensive caricature of womanhood.
> The term "transition" as used here is a euphemism that covers interfering with a child's puberty in a way that is likely to sterilize them for life if the treatment persists, and surgical destruction of breasts, and in some cases, genitals.

> I think most people, understanding the reality of this in stark terms, would be dead against children transitioning.

The only reason why this hasn't been outright banned for minors yet is because older voters don't know what's happening.

It's funny, I see a NYT article that literally just repeats these things out loud so that everyone can see what's happening, and then they get attacked for just describing what's happening

What's being done right now is so damning, no criticism is necessary. Only visibility. The people who want to hide facts from the public can only do this for so long
No it’s unlikely that they decided that. More likely that they didn’t realize that’s what they were doing, or didn’t understand the possible consequences.
I know, basic engineering, so simple and straightforward right? And when a country says "no", I assume we issue a series of stronger and stronger worded warning letters to them right?
Because they lack the willpower do deal with the consequences of losing weight, obsiously it's not fun being hungry.

You had a lot of extra fun stuffing yourself with food, you will have to pay the price for that at some point(either with hunger or with health problems if you don't lose the weight)
It's not my English or that I haven't heard of upgrades, App Stores don't offer a mechanism to sell upgrades. That's why Im proposing it as a solution.
I think that's part of it, but the other part is load times.

People are fine waiting the 10-30 minutes for a game to download on Steam or console. But they don't want to wait more than a few seconds for webpages.

Also, techies understand that there's ways of agressively caching,but I don't think average users register that it's just a first-load issue.
When it isn't good enough, inserting `pragma(inline, true)` will force it.

> The inlined functions also may increase code size and instruction cache pressure.

tail merging optimization takes care of that
Intelligence is the ability to accomplish goals by making optimal use of limited resources.
“Out of print”. This term has been around since slightly after the 15th century. Maybe back then it was “ye olde out ofeth printeth”.
This one touches a nerve because of how frustrating it is that the internet learned a new big word and it spread like wildfire among people who have an axe to grind against trans folks.

Sorry for the 50 minute video but there’s basically nothing I can write that will explain and deconstruct this better than an actual trans woman.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6czRFLs5JQo
Mwmbl has its own index but it's orders of magnitude smaller than commercial search engines.
That was situated in a region known for coronaviruses
Subscriptions align developer and user interests and produce better products and less wasted money in the long run.

One-time up front purchases only reward developers for expanding the target market of their product; whether the product improves over time has no bearing on revenue.

From a developer’s perspective, the one-time price should be the CLV of what they’d get with a subscription. For users, that means much higher risk.

I would much rather have 20 apps that I pay $10/mo/ea for than to buy one new $600 app a quarter and hope the developers I bought from years ago still care about me even though they will never make another dime.

Oh, you want apps to be one-time purchases for $20 with a useful lifetime of 10 years? Then subscriptions aren’t the problem, you just want $0.17/mo subscriptions, which are unlikely to be economically viable either.
This would be a much more compelling argument if I believed that homophobic politicians, judges, and groups will defend the speech rights of gay people. Instead what I see is a pattern of right wing groups leveraging the courts to protect their own right to hate while also leveraging the courts to oppress groups they hate. Standing up for the Nazi's right to march in my town won't cause those Nazis to stand up for my right to march in my town.
Few years ago I bought a drive partition manager tool for windows. I only used it a few times over the years. Recently I installed a new primary drive on my gaming machine. Downloaded the latest binary from the vendors site and tried to put in the license key. Nope, wouldn’t activate. So i contacted their support and their response was that I had to pay the new yearly subscription to use the latest version. So I asked if they had the installation binaries for the version I had originally purchased which did not require annual subscription. Their response, “they no longer provide install files for the non-subscription version.” If i can find the original installer somewhere , they will activate the license as a one time courtesy.

There is absolutely no way I’m going to pay an annual subscription for software that I do not use often or everyday.
The Tilera was also a spiritual successor in the 00's. Through an acquisition chain they ended up at Nvidia. The DPU compute cores are apparently derived from Tilera, which me kind of happy that it still survives in some form.
This article misses the elephant in the room: Apple. For years after the App Store launched, developers asked for an integrated way to provide upgrade pricing to help support major upgrades. Instead, they usually had to resort to creating an entirely new entry in the App Store. How many customers were lost because they didn't know they had to go back to the Store to download a separate app named Thing 2? And how many then felt ripped off that they didn't get a discount after having previously purchased Thing 1?

After years of being asked for upgrade pricing, Apple instead introduced and then started pushing developers to embrace the exact subscription model we see today. Unlike paid upgrades, a subscription guarantees recurring revenue not only for the developer, but for Apple themselves.
Right. I don't think this is a reason alone to make breaking changes, but if a new version is coming out for whatever reason(s), it should be bundled in with the other changes.
The other way around: to prove that X is NP-complete you need to reduce SAT(or any other known NP complete problem) to X.

The intuition here is that if you have a magic algorithm which solves X efficiently, you should be able to use this algorithm to solve any other NP problem, like SAT.
Yes, everyone will immediately pick on 128 bits for symmetric encryption but I suspect the vast majority of people won't pick on the fact that Curve25519 offers less bits of strength than 256 bits symmetric encryption, or they won't care. So you'll still avoid a lot of questions and have a better marketing box-ticking scorecard, will probably still be more secure.
Very cool, thanks for posting
Good catch, thanks. I was (incorrectly) using egalitarian as a synonym for "fair." Brain fart.
> Some apps that I purchased before in full, later turned into subscription based apps(giving me a year of free subscription). This made me feel bad and I lost my warm and fizzy feelings towards these apps.

> That said, I understand why they are doing it. It doesn't make sense whatsoever to receive one time payment and provide updates forever.

This. While justified, so many apps messed up the switch to subscriptions.

We recently switched our app Genius Scan to a subscription model, but tried to do it The Right Way: users who had purchased the pro features automatically got subscribed to our Plus plan for life.

New users will have to subscribe though, as it's the only way to be sustainable.

We also introduced a new plan, Ultra, with more advanced features. This way, we still get a chance for long time users to support us if they upgrade to the Ultra plan.
I'd consider an accurate description of the precedence for the boolean operators. They're treated as equivalent to their arithmetic cognates (~ == not, * == and, + == or) forcing you to use excessive parentheses to separate terms. Notably, this is something that Wirthian styled Ada didn't copy.
Ukulele is a different class: it creates standard keyboard layouts, while KMonad allows fancy stuff like chords, taps, layers, etc.
excel.new is a shortcut to creating a new spreadsheet, not a brand new version of Excel
I think it is definitely true that finance overuses over-skilled, low-wage workers but my point is that there is also quite a strong incentive to keep a lid on those costs due to the organization distinction between back and front-office work.

Imo, banks are the rare example of an industry that has moved with the times in the UK (largely because many of them, even the British ones, are run and managed by non-UK people). They are far from perfect, but you don't see bankers getting paid the same back-office admin guy...that does happen in engineering though.
The ability to model an object in awareness and its causality that corresponds to its space-time reality
I’d rather just leave you to your false dichotomy. Thanks though.
Wait until Rupert Murdoch sells "News" there.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/jacinda-ardern-ru...
With phone upgrades, for example, and an iOS app.

The cost of maintaining different versions of apps for different tiers of payees seems prohibitive. Especially when libraries change constantly.

Maybe I’m wrong and your system would work fine. It doesn’t seem right to me though.

Personally, I think subscriptions are the way forward, just lower cost subscriptions. Why is 15 a month such a standard? Most of the 15/month apps I shell out for feel more like 3/month or 4/month apps.
Updates have disappeared because most software today is no longer full offline (as was the case of those CD-ROMs you’d use to install softwares back in the days), but a hybrid of offline and online, with a local client making calls to an API.
A software company can’t ship a hybrid product and stop running the API, the API has to be kept up, which is often no small feat, and costs money. On top of that, if they had to deploy different endpoints for different versions of the client, the backend management would become absolutely chaotic and cost the company even more.

Tldr: online softwares cost money to run, even after they’re sold. They’re not standalone softwares.
I'm building an app at the moment, and I'm thinking to myself, "do people really want another subscription, or would they be happier buying credits or something". It's a really tough question to answer, but I'm so pulled to the subscription because it's been so successful for others.
But it is in the best interest of all countries. Unlike nuclear weapons where the damage can be isolated to one area, highly contagious weapons are impossible to control and will end up hurting themselves as well.
Same here. I think it's negatively affected my career prospects too, not that I care too much about that.

Never thought it would be advantageous to be a schlubby balding guy, but I saw someone start the same day as me get way more respect immediately despite me being pretty clearly more technically competent than him. Maybe he was schmoozing behind the scenes, I don't know.
It was available well into 2020 if you read past the shitty early headlines.
It's literally rewriting search queries to avoid showing putin in negative context, when people search for "khuilo" or "bunker grandpa", "main thief" etc.

https://twitter.com/romankulish/status/1620227618435125248/p...
https://meduza.io/feature/2023/01/30/yandeks-blokiroval-izob...
> age uses a 128-bit per-file nonce fed into HKDF, making the total search space 128 + 128 = 256 bits, safe in every multi-user scenario, too.

If I read the description right (big if), age is using HKDF to derive a 128-bit key. In this case, it does not help at all that there’s a 128-bit nonce: the attacker will do a multi-user attack against the HKDF output, and the attacker wins (with asterisks, etc).
Yes, and that’s because developers won’t be able to support multiple versions, and they don’t want people stuck on old versions that don’t support new phones and library security updates.

In “solving” the subscription problem, upgrades create more cost, bugs, and exposure for everyone.
I wish you still could. I resent being required to create a user account to use my own computer.
Reminds me of a few things: Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools in Pascal, Lazarus Pascal, and Embarcadero's Delphi, which they say is "Modern Object Pascal."

If your dependencies can be downloaded and built in a Docker container, for example, it can certainly run in the cloud.

[1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/features/del...
I’m in the US and I can see prices and titles of all IAPs.
I agree but also disagree. There are too many conflicting interests and I don't think you will ever get a straight answer. People also can't look at the lab leak with a critical eye because they think it makes them look like trump lovers. I standby my original assertion that a country in grief will collectively go through the stages of grief of which denial is the first. Similar to 9/11 when we convinced ourselves that our foreign policy had nothing to do with terrorist attacks and 2008 when we convinced ourselves bailing out failing industries was a good idea. 20 and 10 years later and we changed our tunes on those things. In 2033 we will finally accept that a lab-leak was most likely but only after the other 6 stages...
These people are delusional and blame everything else but themselves for their issues.

It's very simple to lose weight, it really is, just don't eat. The problem is that it's not fun(hunger is not fun, obviously).

But the bill comes for the extra fun you had with food, it's either hunger or serious health issues.
We had this for decades without subscriptions, they're called UPGRADES!

Exactly. I bought Panic's Nova for $99. Love it. It came with one year of updates. My year is over. But I don't need any of the new features with the new versions.

When some features are added that I need or want, I'll pay for the new version. No big deal. It may be a year from now, it may be two years from now. It works for my wallet, and it incentivizes the developers to add solid new features.

The whole idea of being drip-fed features by software developers is crazy. I'm not a junkie on the corner holding out a shaky $5 bill to my software dealer to get this month's "fix."
Couldn't that be disabled? I vaguely remember bypassing the login using the little help icon, then opening the help and/or (not sure) printer dialog and finally using the file open dialog to run explorer.exe :-)
By which metric a tree is very intelligent and a man with a private yacht is not.
as illustrated by TikTok "teenage filter" - https://mobile.twitter.com/memotv/status/1628758590033993728
What sectors of the UK economy actually have really high performing people, with commensurately high pay? I'm looking for a software job again, got made redundant last week. Hedge funds and FAANG maybe the obvious examples, but I'd rather work in a place that actually makes things rather than shuffle money around or optimize ad clickthru rates.

Where can I find those Type-I organizations that Dominic Cummings keeps banging on about?
Savage justice is when somebody comes to your house and beats you to death with a tire iron. People calling JK Rowling a hateful bigot on Twitter and telling people to stop purchasing Harry Potter content isn't that.
I presume you're referring to state high risk pools, which were horrific.
It seems like more than a stretch to say downvoting is censoring, as the comments are still visible. Flagging, perhaps.
> Who cares about you?

Me. That's why I want to find a simple set of rules that we can both agree to, where you care about me in trade for similar concern and protection.

> If a stroke reduces you to the same level of mental functioning as a newborn

Right, I don't consider that viable without some sort of prognosis of recovery but if we go too far down the line of 'burden to society' it starts to include people who drive too slowly in the passing lane and gets more subjective.
The US was paying for the research that lead to the virus outbreak. Simple as that.

[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529
I’ve heard stories about high end recording studios, with shrink wrapped boxes of expensive audio software, that used cracked versions on their workstations because they don’t want to deal with the inevitable iLok hassles…
I lived in Russia, New Zealand, Canada, and US. Of the four, US undoubtedly is the best at protecting controversial political speech, which to me feels like exactly what you want to prioritize if you want to maintain a free society.
From 1986, a 5 minute segment from BBC Micro Live on the Transputer:
https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/865da57d1a0039e80fe68ac2624374c4