skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim that it's "just propaganda" is itself propaganda.

As I quoted: "Continuing to frame them as such does us all a disservice, dilutes our efforts, and misdirects resources—only serving to weaken our ability to respond to future pandemics"

> claiming any sort of definitive conclusion

Which, you'll notice, that editorial does not do.

I quoted it: "it is possible that its origin may never be known with certainty"

It makes the weaker statement: "the two plausible possibilities for the origin of SARS-CoV-2 are not equally likely" and "the available evidence favors" a zoonotic origin.

> There are gaping holes in the evidence on both sides.

Where are the gaping holes in the conclusions of that editorial I pointed to? It sure comes across like there are far larger holes in the lab leak hypothesis than the zoonotic one.

> Without the full data

And until then, what, we do nothing?

It's not like we need full data to draw useful scientific conclusions, nor to make policy decisions. We do it all the time for other fields - what makes this one special?

> Both the left and the right in the US are waging a political war on normal people.

What a shame there aren't virologists elsewhere in the world studying this topic and publishing their own research.

Like, no one in France is able to draw a similar conclusion - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512... .
North Central coast BC, looks and smells like fir

And it absolutely 100% does, as I've had it happen to me many times. It also gives circ saws a hell of a time.

Don't know how to prove this given that's an 18 hour drive from me and she's not currently doing renos....
How often do health insurers says no to patients? No one knows
This is the biggest draw for me. I don't have a need for Fly at the moment, like I have not needed Heroku most of the time, but its got strong mindshare for me. Heroku was basically great, and apart from not quite keeping up with modern practices and having recent outages, it's still otherwise a great UX. Fly feels like that but updated for the modern age.
>My new heuristic is that I avoid every single company that raises venture funding

you're basically going to be prevented from using anything that isn't an established enterprise(which are also beholden to shareholders) or consumer apps. You can't bootstrap anything that requires significant R&D or infrastructure unless the founder is already rich

This post seems to be referencing the Reddit API situation. The solution is to not make your company reliant on a single API , pretty sure with Fly you can deploy Docker containers so you could always switch easily if they tried to price gouge. If something is a critical component of your business you should always plan to be able to switch providers in a hurry for any number of reasons
I don't think they they'll need to increase, fly.io is already rather expensive as far as cloud offerings go today: shared 8 vCPU / 16GB VPS is $85/mo at fly, Hetzner is $16/mo for the same.
Likely it isn't within your firewall anyway. Our integrations are typically on the router supplied by your ISP.
They had an entire product for encouraging people to share knowledge back when they had less money. It wasn't an instant hit, so they gave up on it, and shut it down once everyone forgot about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
Depends who your ISP is. The NSA has shown past ability and willingness to just wiretap all packets they care about coming through the ISP layer.
The median 50% US citizen is probably still in the top 1% of global population in terms of emissions. (same goes for most First-Worlders)
The documentation is rock solid. I'm interested to know what is powering BlockSuite's documentation?
New ZFS file system on object storage from https://www.zettalane.com
Do You Want to Be Known for Your Writing, or for Your Swift Email Responses?
> Now, not only were VFX houses responsible for conjuring vast fictional cities, bustling crowds of tens of thousands, and cascading waterfalls, but they would also spend months fixing mistakes: digitally erasing visible wig lines in period dramas, inserting absent props, snipping away errant strands of hair, tucking in double chins.

Take with a pinch of salt because I don't work in the industry, but I'm not convinced this "VFX for everything" approach is cheaper or results in better films. I still think a lot of old films blow the modern counterparts out of the water.

The very fact that they had to use practical effects and physical film was expensive meant you couldn't just shoot unlimited takes without burning through money (unless you were Kubrick who was notorious for doing takes from every angle). The whole "fix it in post" mentality leads to sloppy, rushed work and a lack of thinking and commitment on behalf of the director and producing team. See here[1]:

> Even after shots are exhaustively delivered, Marvel is allegedly "infamous" for requesting "tons of different variations" until one earns the green light.

and even worse:

> We've literally made up entire third acts of a film, a month before release, because the director didn't know what they wanted," one source said about Marvel in general.

You would never have had this back in the day. You planned out your big set piece in advance and you shot it, and you better get it fucking right because your head was on the chopping block if you didn't. Instead, the directors and producers are now offloading their responsibility to get things right on to the VFX artists. Maybe the demands of HD and 4K means that such work is necessary compared to back in the old days because stuff like wig lines and errant hairs wouldn't be visible due to the resolution. But some of me wonders if it is overproduction, which I think a lot of contemporary music nowadays also suffers from.

Another evil is film companies refusing to create a "everything-in-one-place" content model like the music industry has done with Spotify, with the end result being an endless churn of content in an attempt to justify the subscription over their rivals. I imagine this is a contributing factor to the rushed "fix it in post" mentality but I can't see why film would be any different to any other industry - where taking your time to get it right the first time ends up being faster over the long run.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/marvels-vfx-artis...
On a basic level: programs written in C almost always have memory access patterns that can't be proven safe generally. sudo, in particular, has had a few public bugs over the past few years that directly trigger potentially exploitable memory unsafety[1][2]. Note that not all bugs receive public reports, much less are assigned CVEs.

Rust's memory semantics are safe by construction: unless you intentionally write the the part of the language that requires you to explicitly mark things as unsafe, your programs cannot contain the kinds of temporal or spatial memory bugs that can occur in C and C++. Given that, calling this the "memory safe" implementation seems pretty reasonable, in the same way that calling a Java or Python implementation of sudo "memory safe" would also be reasonable.

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-3156/

[2]: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-18634/
Then this world must be difficult for you. May I suggest relocating to Somalia or another failed state?
The july.so page says “taking you to the future” and redirects to june - wouldn’t that be the past? Have you registered may.so?

Great product though! Will be following y’all’s progress!
Didn't say they had great cards...
Yeah, if you really wanted to be extra super secure, you can always rewrite it in Java or something.
> replaced its default terminal as nodejs terminal

What do you mean? Did you replace the login shell with a NodeJS interpreter or did you use a terminal emulator that ran on NodeJS?
Just wondering, do you have any comments on https://smartairfilters.com/en ? The premise is a bit similar as yours.
You're right - I also think (personal opinion) the trust gained in a company by reading their blog post is greater than the trust gained by seeing an ad. Because I saw this blogpost, I trust fly.io more than I would have had I seen a YouTube ad of them or something of the sorts.
It's pretty good in that regard in my experience, in Europe anyway. Everything else pretty much still applies though, out-of-touch execs and all.
RDMS databases are not a weak point. A bad model of your transaction is a weak point. Depending on the application, and not all applications require this, you may need a consistent read state for the data. Eventually consistent is like saying periodically wrong. Let's say a trader enters a trade for that exceeds there allowed VAR, because they looked at their screen thought they had more dry powder. (Cocaine jokes aside). That becomes a risk management problem. (Also the risk that traders can just use the 'It said I was below my limit' excuse).

If you want an example where consistency is not important, you might be able to overdraw from your bank with your ATM card. The bank is happy for this to be inconsistent, since they can charge for the overdraft.
In 3-4 years they will announce a merger.
It becomes more of a fat hazard after this but if you use the proper amount of oil, you can make it impossible to burn food into your pan. lol.
Cample.js benchmark reactivity without VDOM
For a while there I was much more likely to book an Airbnb for any trip I was taking. Then the fees went up, like way up. Suddenly the cleaning fee and Airbnb fee doubled the charge and I started noping out of the booking.

Same thing for Uber. In my trip history back in 2018 and earlier I could take an Uber or Lyft between my house and office for around $12 and now it's $40.

Rationally I understand why fees go up, how the fees were being kept down artificially to get people hooked, the effects of inflation. Rationally I understand supply/demand and how all this is complex and tied in with local regulation, taxes, the housing market, etc. Hell, I own a short term rental.

Just my two cents.
We use shopify for selling a few products and it sure is nice to keep that extra 10% on every sale (vs. eBay and Amazon).

Now looking into their fulfillment options as the price is pretty good ($5.70 shipped to customer for our product in the USA and around $10.00 international).

I like this company.
I took a cue from a YouTuber who eats the same breakfast every day, and I think this is a really good compromise. You wake up hungry, but you always know exactly what you're gonna make right away. You can easily keep the ingredients in stock and you have the preparation down pat.

I chose a muesli with yogurt, spices and fruit. It worked for a good long while. I got plenty of variety for lunch and dinner.
Do you have any info about how edge deployments + sqlite work and what kind of applications they are limited to?
This ended up to be much more about the author than about "making games". Obviously nothing wrong with that but it wasn't where I thought it was going.

I think there are plenty of artists that make money. I think there are plenty of spaces where people are known inside the space but unknown outside. I don't know whether most indie developers want to be "known" or not, but obviously the vast majority of people in any space are not known, inside or out.

I don't know. Indie game dev is a niche profession with a low success rate, and even those that have some success often leave.
Bootlickers/Fluff afficianados do best in RTO. The class that usually winds up in managerial/exec roles. Small wonder.
I don't see anyone except for you advocating for that kind of neo-malthusianism. OP said we should eat less meat, travel less, and have fewer kids. Family planning isn't the same thing as advocating for people to die.
That'll happen when you're publicly and confidently wrong. If you scroll up, you'll find any number of posts where folks pointed out your misconceptions in a more kindly fashion. When we factor in the fact that you're wrong (as opposed to my post which is correct, informative, and cites examples) I think many would say your incorrect assertions are a lot ruder and less HN-worthy.

Sometimes folks know more about a given thing than you do. That is okay. The goal is to learn. I am sure you know more than I do about zillions of things. In fact, that is why I come here. People here know things.
I don’t think I misrepresented that. You have to include the “following statements” that the form mentions, which are exactly what I caveated.

If you are a representative of a company that has written records indicating that an odometer was replaced (there is no possible way that fedex doesn’t keep maintenance records), I would argue that “the best of your knowledge” means accessing all those records and ascertaining that the odometer reading is true.

It’s not penalty of perjury, it’s penalty of federal law. Lying there is breaking a federal law specifically written to prevent this sort of odometer fraud.
Truly curious, do you feel the same way about art whose creator/s did not go out of their way to copyright images?
Oh, there's a whole list of Right wing nut job orgs. The dominionists who think it's their god given right to rule. The CNP, who think not enough white babies being born. Just to name a couple. They all dump money into the government.
> and felony gun possession and plead guilty to the tax charges (the felony will go to trial later).

He has also agreed to enter pre-trial diversion program related to the gun charges.
It feels like theres so many of these fancy text editing solutions out there right now, would be great if there was a good comparison of features and pros/cons vs other solutions.
Tell that to all the millionaires in devs and investment bankers in SV and Wallstreet who aren’t unionized.
It’s not hard when telcos often had “rooms” for the alphabet agencies. Not much of a leap to assume Facebook has at least a room also.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
...and?

As long as there are chargers available at a particular station, why should I care how many are sitting unused?

I've been by many Supercharger stations where there were no cars charging at all. Sometimes I see one or two, but the majority of the time most of the chargers are empty.

The number of locations indicates the flexibility of the charging network. There are CCS chargers in places where Superchargers don't exist, meaning you have more places you can go with CCS than you can go with a Tesla.

And that isn't a hypothetical. I've driven down to the Carlsbad Caverns with my family in the past, and I wanted to do it again with my electric car. For a long time, southwest New Mexico had NO fast charging stations for any brand of charger, but in the last year it's gained enough CCS chargers that I could comfortably drive back to the caverns without worrying about range. And there are still no Superchargers within a hundred miles. (Note I'd be coming from Colorado, so driving down from the north side of the state--you could probably make it TO Carlsbad from a west Texas Supercharger, and then make it back to the same Supercharger, but that would be many hours of driving out of my way.)

Would I like to see more redundancy at every location? Sure. But to me it's more important that there are chargers available where I want to go than that there are a ton of redundant chargers at every location.

Maybe if I lived in LA and wanted to be able to drive to SF I would have different priorities.
pijul for the purists https://pijul.org/
I'd beg to differ here on the typical developer. In nearly all of these accounts, it rarely (if ever?) seems that the developer actually makes a product that resonates with themselves. In this case, the developer ultimately never even made anything at all. The thing I most often see is people being expected to be rewarded for making simply "something" as in you create a product, and it's completely playable as a game - but it's nothing more than that.

And I think that era is completely dead, if it ever really existed at all. What I mean is somebody might see a game like the Binding of Isaac sell a zillion copies and think to themselves, 'Wow - I could make that game. I could even make it better!' And they're probably right, but with that game already released to massive popularity, creating a clone just isn't going to resonate with anybody unless it takes it to a whole new level, which clones essentially by definition don't do. You can see this exact attitude in this author with his 3d renderer. He expected people to appreciate it because he spent thousands of hours on it. But people don't care about stuff like that, they care about what's in front of their eyes - and what was probably a few poorly lit textured polygons moving around is not going to inspire fanfare.

Ironically low-effort clones also work as an example on this front. Vampire Survivor is another game, technically trivial, which has sold about a zillion copies. And it's little more than a reskin of 'Magic Survival' [1]. But the author clearly saw the potential in that game that nobody else did (including its own author), so he deserves all the credit and reward he's received. It just feels like if we viewed game development as a market, it's full of people buying high, selling low, and then becoming all philosophical when looking for why things didn't turn out as they planned, as if there was some deeper meaning or lesson to be learned.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnM9CIqv8Iw
Yeah, and as a corollary, many apps using C#/WinForms are quite snappy. Microsoft did invest a lot into having .NET apps start fast with the GAC/ngen
Archive link for people who block facebook - https://web.archive.org/web/20230628131034/https://engineeri...
> The only solutions for less people are imposed child restrictions, war, or genocide.

That is complete and utter nonsense. Education and access to family planning are none of these things.
> Passion-based industries don't ever follow proper "market dynamics",

Hammer hits nail on head, bulls eye. I've been a graphics programmer for 45 years, from research in the early 80's, through 3D video games, and years of Academy Award VFX studio work. It is the passion: making the media that captivates imaginations, and an ever visible stream of new applicants whose work looks really appealing - so you better shine or you'll be replaced.
Huh? Go has its tradeoffs, some people don't like it and that's fine. But nobody can deny that it is by far one of the most 'readable and reviewable' (the argument in question) mainstream languages.
Decentralization as Democratization: Mastodon Instead of Platform Power
Yeah most of it stems from the asset marketplace. If you look at Unreal's marketplace or Unity's asset store and sort by top seller (and especially the free categories), you'll probably find exactly the things that you're talking about. From particles to sounds. Great resource, but a lot of developers don't really customize them much and they tend to be the things people are noticing per engine.

You are on the money regarding self-selection as well. A small team is probably going to pick Unity due to all the preconceived notions, and alongside this will probably create similar looking visuals to other Unity games due to a reliance on the asset store if their team isn't heavy on visuals. It might seem like I'm focusing too much on the asset store, but it goes for custom assets too where even if you're working smartly, you have to blend those premade assets with custom ones. If you're on a large team working on an Unreal game, it's probably going to be realistic looking for example so you're limited based on what lighting makes the skin look good, what particles make sense in a grounded world, and so on.

It's technically possible, you're only going to run into problems when you then try sharing assets from different stores (audio and textures excluded), where you now have to recreate it from the ground up to match in that other engine. So you're also right about that aspect!

As real examples of the flexibility of modern game engines, Octopath Traveller Yoshi's World, and Arkham Knight were made on UE4. For Unity; Cuphead and Escape from Tarkov.
https://archive.md/qCD0C
The COVID vaccine was a bad example as it was manufacted on license from AstraZeneca, but the larger Indian market absolutely does this due to how the Indian Patent Act is structured.

"Section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970, explains that a new form of a known substance, new property / new use for a known substance and the mere use of a known process are not patentable and is not considered distinct from the known substance. Based on this principle, inventions using known substances are not patentable unless, for example, the alleged invention displays a significant increase in efficacy." [0]

Ranbaxy, Reddy Labs, and Sun Pharma all started thanks to this loophole, and it has been a massive blocker in any US-India Free Trade Agreement.

This is all open knowledge to all
players in the India market [1]. It's not necessarily a bad thing btw - it's a major reason India's Pharma and Agrochemical R&D pipeline punches above its weight, but it has an impact on US-India relations, but for other regions such as the EU, Japan, or Developing countries it doesn't have much of an impact.

[0] https://www.aipla.org/list/innovate-articles/the-global-sign...

[1] https://www.nishithdesai.com/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/Pate...
Using AI to make products out of waste materials
I think you've entirely misunderstood the discussion here. Your post seems to be about using internal certificates for an externally visible website (although I'm confused about the mention of network printers and Slack--are you thinking this is a MITM certificate? nobody had suggested using an internal CA for those things) but that's not what anyone here was talking about. They're talking about internal use for communication between your own backend services.

Recall the post that started this subthread:

> Having to communicate with outside is kinda overkill if you just want to have container A talking to container B.

The article here is about the same.

#2 and #3 in your post don't apply; we're not talking about browsers or end users at all here. #1 may apply but I think you're overstating it; Active Directory Certificate Services takes care of all that. Remember that you don't have to follow the CA Baseline Requirements as a private CA. It's harder to get rid of an ADCS PKI than to set it up.
https://space10.com/project/products-of-place
> The older generations have a philosophy of "you don't talk about politics, religion, or money" and, the younger generations, that's all they talk about.

Boy, I wish that were the case where I work. I'm an older developer, working closely with an ancient developer. He insists on talking politics at work. Since I prefer to get along with my coworkers, I won't talk politics with them. This guy just won't catch a hint, though. It makes conversations with him difficult as he keeps trying to engage me in these topics and I keep trying to change the subject.
There's also a straight port of doas:

https://github.com/slicer69/doas/

However unlike sudo and opendoas this does not implement the persist feature on not-OpenBSD.
It seems rare for there to be famous personalities as 'in the background' as game developers are. The exceptions I can think of tend to have their name in huge letters on the covers of things (book authors, movie directors). But most famous people have their face or at least their voices directly in front of people at least a good portion of the time.

One exception I can think of is influential business people like CEOs and founders of large companies.