skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People call for putting way more than 50,000+ people out of work all of the time (eliminating the oil and gas industry as an example). If the belief is those people are engaged in harmful activity, why wouldn't you want them to stop ASAP?
"Think of the children"?

Is that really your argument?
This reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide when they met animals that give consent. In fact I think the animal itself was the waiter. I seem to remember something along the lines of "Are you sure? I'm quite well marbled."
You can still be outside norms without being at the fringes. This has always been the case and nothing new. And i really don't care about your views, note from the start i have explicitly noted that you may be right or wrong. It's just that what you've said about having views that other people had in the 90's isn't proof that your views are within social norms. You may be outside them or you may be within them but "Someone X years ago had the same views as me" isn't a defense to be called outside the norm.
>This work demonstrates that, through careful chemical design, it is possible to modify a psychedelic compound to produce a safer, non-hallucinogenic variant that has therapeutic potential.

Hoffman would be very interested in this news.
It's impossible to prove the negative, and if it's the positive the people responsible both have all the evidence in their hands and plenty of reason to destroy it.
Like many others in this thread I thought this was an incredibly well written and elucidating article.

I just happened to be trying to learn more about David Friedberg before stumbling upon this article and I watched this lecture he gave on entrepreneurism which I think complements the contents of this article incredibly well. Highly recommend for those looking to learn more

https://youtu.be/m2sj-U2QSHs
There's no puzzle here, you kill plants for your nourishment without asking for their consent.
Earth Is Still Sailing into Climate Chaos, Report Says, but Course Could Shift
Yeah, and the executable is 47 MB. You can do the same thing with Go:

package main
import "os"
func main() {
for _, s := range os.Args[1:] {
o, _ := os.Open(s)
os.Stdout.ReadFrom(o)
}
}

and the executable is 1 MB.
Anime fansubs have been around for 3-4 decades (ever since the early Amiga could overlay subs) and digital for 20+.

Interesting that it worked out for them, unlike what happened with music distribution, and then the Napster/iTunes/Spotify evolution. Probably helped that there was only extremely slow and expensive legitimate distribution channels and actual work was required to make the content accessible in other languages.

Rakuten's Viki service is another interesting model - they license content, then give people early access and crowdsource the translations, where the only benefit of translating is getting the $5-10 monthly service for free.
So, an employee sends an ultimatum to their superiors, is denied and their resignation accepted. Media creates articles claiming the employee was fired because of their race/sex and the company is pressured to apologize for accepting their resignation. Got to love identity-politics..

EDIT: Including this line from the previous NYT article as some seem to be confused: "The company responded to her email, she said, by saying it could not meet her demands and that her resignation was accepted immediately" - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researc...
Hmm yeah you may be right. I definitely remember some failures that stopped above the water then tipped over but I don’t remember the circumstances.
The US frequently has it's own lab incidents including even with anthrax. China must be having lab incidents as well. There isn't a smoking gun to indicate either that this is a lab outbreak or natural. However, in the absence of evidence we need to ask ourselves which is more likely:

1) A disease traveled hundreds of miles to a large city without leaving a trace of evidence

2) A lab had yet another outbreak

Almost all of the outbreak attention has been focused on the Wuhan lab that received international grants [1]. However, that lab is miles away from the initial outbreak and there's another lab that's a block away from the Wuhan seafood market that also does bat research (but not gain of function). This lab is also adjacent to the hospital that dealt with initial outbreak. This was pointed out by Chinese researchers in a preprint that was quickly taken down [2].

1: https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...

2: The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus 10.13140/RG.2.2.21799.29601

https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https://www.resea...
See, that's the thing. Big doesn't mean infinite. Big only needs to be really big.
Here's the beauty of it. We don't forcefully isolate anyone.

We give the people the information and let them make up their own minds.

People can choose to leave quarantine or not.

We don't use government force.

Just like cigarettes.

We give them the information and let them think for themselves.

Giving people the freedom to think for themselves is a beautiful thing.

It's the basis of John Lockes natural rights which the founding fathers used as as a principle when writing the constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_thought
Public-Key Cryptography Standard (PKCS) #11 v3.0 has been released: What is it?
Many comments about whether there was fraud or not, the Democrats did the same or not etc...whole the while point here is:
is it YouTube's role to decide what content has merit and what has not?
I don't think so.
It opens the door to even more abuse.

If we had several competing platforms we wouldn't be in this mess.
Theres a huge benefit to having an entire company help you out with kernel fixes, and all sorts of problems.

This means you don't have manage this yourself.
Would it be theoretically possible, to end up using this as sort of a scripting language for rust or whatever. I'm imagining Deno somehow getting complied down to Rust and then running at Rust speed.

I basically want low level performance without writing in a difficult language
Limbaugh made a big deal out of leaving New York for Florida. That probably happened over a decade ago, and it was similarly semi-controversial.
I agree with you for almost everything you said. This case is definitely unusual. What I mean by conditional is that the person who approved it initially is not an actual reviewer.

For your last sentence, I think Jeff uses that 2-week policy to state that his position is "technically" right.
I thought they were related to U.S army funded projects which were highly confidential to foreigners..
I think they split the company into sensitive department and public department and hyundai is buying the public one.
Wow yeah I just did the math again and they are! Tarnsap is 10x S3 prices? I know the service does a lot but I thought it was a small margin on top of plain object storage.
Youtube’s owners didn’t upload copyrighted content to their own site with fansubs. It was all in: go legit or die in a lawsuit.
True, but for the purposes of the bet, you'd have to effectively _prove_ that it escaped from a lab, which seems virtually impossible. In any case, the linked articles talk about that possibility too.

Then again one could make the argument that incompetence in the world's collective response to the pandemic is "bioerror" although again, the debate and terminology only really have to be resolved by the two bettors.
NAC is also a must if you drink alcohol and appreciate your liver.
If only there were some way to measure popular consensus... In order for such a system to work then the major parties would need to respect the outcome of whatever way we decide popular consensus.
To add to my comment-- I think the CNN headline got it better without the softening euphemism by pointing out it was a success: "A SpaceX Mars rocket prototype just exploded. It was still a success"
Good discussion from nearly two years past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18989430
Let's not forget their blatant wage theft. This is an exploitative and deceptive company that should not be a point of pride for any organisation to associate themselves with.
>Why Stadia instead of e.g. Geforce Now?

For me it is the game I most want to play in this fashion, Elder Scrolls Online, isn't available on Geforce Now, but is on Stadia. I kind of remember it was in the category of games that were launch/beta titles for Geforce Now, but withdrew from the service shortly there after.

Not sure what is going on there with IP rights and whatever, but I don't really care since Google/Stadia worked it out.

>You can play your existing purchased library

Sort of. I notice that Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Immortal Fenix Rising are available via Geforce Now if you bought them via Epic or Uplay, but not Steam. Earlier AC games are fine, so this is probably a "latest release held back if you bought on Steam" thing.

But the thing is, I don't want to pull out a chart of who supports what and deal with this BS. Stadia routes around this problem since their store sells games while Geforce Now doesn't and instead sells you cloud access to another storefront, and that storefront can withhold rights.

I totally get that, any particular game might have its own plans for cloud or mobile or whatever - for example another favorite of mine, Slay the Spire, in the process of rolling out mobile versions, does not appear in the blessed Geforce Now list. No doubt because Megacrit doesn't want to undercut future sales. So I can't stream StS to my phone because they want to sell me another copy.

Nevertheless it's a game in my library, one of many, that Geforce Now doesn't let me play. Saying Geforce Now lets you "play your existing purchased library" is not fully accurate.

edited to remove extraneous info
Trump's entry into politics was his participantion in the racist birther movement that claimed Obama was born in Africa.
If the 47 MB executable has no dependencies other than the kernel, then in many scenarios it'd be a lot easier to deploy than if you had to separately install a language runtime.

Of course, Node.js can also do this with pkg, and also I don't know whether executables produced this way really are dependency-free (although depending only on widely-available shared libraries would be almost as good).
Wait who admitted guilt of russian collusion? No Russian collusion was ever proven.
That requires a flat-bottom wok no?
This would be more comparable to packaging a Java program into an executable, which would have to also contain the JIT. I don't think it's fair to compare a JIT'd language to a AOT'd language.
Google has accepted over $600 million in government subsidies from Federal and State governments. Thus Google is effectively a public-private partnership and can be regulated no differently than public schools or any other public entity.
I'd really think a bit more about it. We have so many problems here and none are solved by leaving. Climate change, wealth inequality, hungry, poor. None of the billionaires (Musk/Bezos) building rockets treat their workers terribly well now, and their end game will just be exploiting workers around the solar system. Coming as a past fan of space exploration is was pretty devastating to realize...
Did we just get older or did it really degrade that much? Same for WSJ in early 2000s and arguably slightly Economist now.
I know where the bodies are buried for a few businesses with successful exits, and the story they tell the world vs. reality can be quite different! There is a personality trait I call “hustling” - the ability to do whatever it takes to succeed. Many successful entrepreneurs are hustlers. Another way to look at it is “the ends justify the means”, especially when the ends are life-altering wealth.
Or mashed edamame apparently

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/174480/edamame-dip-edamole...
Yes and no, these are amenities but they are really small and IDK if they justify hiding/abstracting way an import build step.

> Even server side, not everyone uses Docker.

IDK, tried to find alternatives the last years but for a bit more sophisticated app you can't ignore images and container orchestrators like k8s. And latter is still easier than anything I've seen and has by far the biggest ecosystem. If I want to host some minimal app, I just push an SSG to netlify/surge/vercel, it's not an integrated build step which makes my life easier.

> just pop the executable in there

Otherwise you would just need one more line in your build file (npm install).

> Then obviously for CLI tools, this is SUPER nice

Also, yes no, Deno "binaries" have huge file sizes compared to an npm install -g and rarely used CLI tools can be fired off with npx, so which problem is exactly solved? That I can offer CLI tools to folks who won't have node installed? Then I rather write my CLI tool in Go and offer an appropriate package size.

I welcome competition and hence Deno but think this feature doesn't fulfill any (relevant) use case. Only beginners who struggle with the build step (which can indeed get hairy) profit from this design decision but a bit more advanced users will miss the control they had before.
That seems the whole premise of the site: "Long Bets". You can't just say "some day" as given a long enough time horizon many improbable things will occur.
Better than average chance that The Thought Emporium [1] will be responsible for the first bioerror of this scale.

1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ
Stop using Chrome. You’ve got Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave, etc.
As I understand this saga, Gebru wrote a paper portraying language models and Google negatively. They asked her to change it, she refused to (assuming this), Gebru wrote an email to a wide audience with a series of unprofessional complaints and made an ultimatum to her higher-ups, the ultimatum was declined and rather than work on an end date Gebru was terminated immediately. Unless I'm missing something it hardly seems outrageous.
No. They were crying large scale Russian hacking and how Trump was a “Russian asset.” As a result of that rhetoric, 2/3 of Democrats believed that Russians had altered the vote tallies to help Trump win: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

Is it as bad as what Trump is doing? No. Is it as bad as what Democrats did in 2000, 2004, and 2016 put together? Well my schadenfreude meter is pretty pegged.
Note that this is a very theoretical paper — Nature is not a medical journal. But very exciting nonetheless.
I would immediately seek to fire any employee who gave me an unreasonable set of demands with a resignation threat attached to them.

If you can't negotiate calmly in business, you simply won't last long. If you come to the negotiating table with a bazooka then it's a bad look that reflects bad on you.
Some are glad, others dont care. Depends on how religious you were brought up. Especially in the US, where younger jews are increasingly secularised, I don't think many care that much. Does Mark Zuckerberg care about Hebrew? Last I heard he learned Chinese.
I'd qualify that statement. There is zero hard forensic evidence that it existed in a lab somewhere before the uncontrolled outbreak. If such evidence did exist, the PRC would never let it see the light of day anyway. There is, however, plenty of circumstantial evidence.

Remember that guy who said we should treat the Hunter Biden story as if it was a foreign disinfo op, even if it probably isn't? Yeah, that was crazy, but I actually see similar logic here. If the virus was engineered, that's really really bad for the world. It's like Iran suddenly making a nuke under everyone's nose... except if Iran had the largest population and largest economy in the world. It's so insanely important that even a tiny chance that it is true--like 0.1%--is enough to warrant strong diplomatic pressure on China to be totally transparent about the early days of the virus.

As someone else pointed out, it doesn't have to be engineered--China has already shown that it has a cache of previously unrevealed viral samples, so it could also just be a natural virus found on one of Dr. Shi's hunting expeditions that got loose from the lab.
> I think what has happened to Carter Page and the sentencing guidelines for Kevin Clinesmith are a joke

I agree entirely. The CIA literally leaked at story to Yahoo News and used that fora FISA warrant. That is pure corruption.

For anyone not familiar with the Carter Page situation, this is the best 3,000 foot overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qODProeRQ4c
> I want something like Python

https://ironpython.net/
I guess it doesn't have to, but it sure adds to the sense of accomplishment if you had to struggle to reach those goals.
> I feel like this is a slow-creep argument

You're thinking about what some others (including newscasters, politicians, etc.) call a slippery slope[1].

I'm wary about criticizing arguments via slippery slope, because.

1. Most optimal-ethically choices sit at a middle-point of a slope when you consider only one dimension; e.g. a limited right to free speech.

2. With respect to shifting mores, one can also consider the situation of empire and slavery. The argument goes that communication and automation respectively were insufficiently developed in the past that these structures were in fact the most empirically ethical, but that they are generally no longer optimally good given today's communication and automation technology. Analogously, as we have better dietary options today, the ethically optimal option might have shifted. That is, the point in the single dimension has shifted because we have shifted wrt the other dimensions.

[1]: note that this is a misuse and misunderstanding about an actual slippery slope fallacy. In the valid usage, the slippery slope is exhibited completely within the fallacious argument so that the evidence is exaggerated to support the conclusion when the conclusion actually does not follow. In the misuse, one worries that the proposed conclusion would lead to a change in what people think is accepted, such that bad things become accepted.
>>>1) A disease traveled hundreds of miles to a large city without leaving a trace of evidence

This doesn't strike me as intrinsically unlikely. Bats can apparently fly ~50 miles for food, a person on a bus can easily travel ~400 miles in a day, etc. I don't disagree with the premise that a lab outbreak is possible, but so is "guy got infected by bats or something, didn't realize, hopped on a bus to visit family/find work".
Several white, male researchers at Google told stories of their own ultimatums that lead to a series of discussions with management and ultimately accommodation for them.

But the black woman does the same and is fired. What's different in Gebru's case?
We get less of things that are taxed. That's why there are punitive taxes on liquor, cigarettes, etc.
> So all of the people who swore affidavits committed perjury?

Perjury is very rarely prosecuted as it's difficult to prove the person knew they were affirming a lie. So even though there have been sworn affidavits asserting fraud which was then utterly disproven by hand recounts, there still won't be many or any prosecutions of perjury. Even though these people are most likely guilty of perjury, prosecutors won't waste scarce resources building cases and prosecuting them. Judges have mostly just dismissed these false affidavits as not credible.

A better test would be corroborating evidence or some victories for these lawsuits. In most states, election systems are designed for traceability and error detection (while some like Kentucky only have auditability in 14% of precincts). If there was fraud, there would be evidence. If there's evidence, why has Trump lost 55 of 56 of these election-related cases to date (and the one victory changed nothing, because it held that that PA had to separate out ballots that arrived after Nov 3, which the PA SoS was already doing preemptively).

Seriously, read through these filings [0]. These are clearly bad faith arguments that have no basis in reality. Trump and co have raised over $170 million from the people they are blasting with these claims that can't stand up to any scrutiny [1]. One side is objectively spewing misinformation.

[0] https://www.democracydocket.com/
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raises-more-th...
Thanks I was just looking for a cheap alternative for a search engine just today (Algolia is cool but very expensive if you need to index millions of records) - I will check out Typesense.
Proposition 13, which arguably had a hand in creating the housing problem that exists there today (alongside neighborhood efforts to pause any new housing development, something Austin is facing as well) was championed mostly by Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann, both of whom were conservative.

Anecdotal, but everyone I know who left California recently did so due to the high cost of housing, not because of their tax liabilities or a plastic straw ban. Kinda hard to be upset about having to give 9% of your income to the state when you have to give 50% if your income to the landlord (for an 80 year old, 350 sq ft studio heated by radiator in my case when I lived there).
I am curious how something like this would have been handled 50, 100, 200 years ago.

Let's say you have a newspaper spreading misinformation that is hurting an important social institution. What do you do? Close it down? Sue the editor for defamation, then close it down? There must have been precedent.
The human brain isn't done maturing until our mid-20s. Plus there is less experience to draw on. I do think 20 year olds will be less prudent with money than someone who is 40 or 60.
> I don’t really understand the argument that taking away free speech will somehow prevent acts of violence.

No one is taking away free speech in this case, that's where I think people are talking past each other.

Isn't not allowing videos on your platform also a form of freedom of speech? The senators are simply urging YouTube to exercise their freedom of speech to run fact-checked, non-crackpot videos on their platform. Why do you want to force YouTube to carry videos of bizarre conspiracy theorists on their (private) platform?

If the Senators ordered YouTube (or indeed, Fox News) to suppress specific videos, that would indeed be taking away free speech.
This might not be that objective, but it feels worse than if he had said nothing at all.

I bet the lawyers checked this memo over twice. Must stay 100 yds away from any admission of wrong-doing.
Props to both of you for keeping it civil. Genuinely interesting to see slightly opposing views work out through discussion - something that wouldn't be possible in a write-only scenario...
Its imporrant either for religious reasons or national ones (zionism). There are many young jews in the U.S who are increasingly neither. Even if they support Israel they don't see a reason why they should actively live there or learn Hebrew. So most don't know Hebrew. Reciting a prayer yes, some do that.
It's even worse than how you phrased it. Trump brought up violence on "many sides" in response to pressure to condemn violence and intimidation from white supremacists. His suggestion that there is other violence was a quick "what about" argument that was supposed to argue in favor of his refusal to condemn white supremacists.
transparency

provability

interoperability

reimplementability
The kryptonite is by using the two things Amazon is destroying smashing everything in its way.
The smaller competition/businesses and the people who need to be making more money to keep shopping, and you combine them into one network.
Amazing is a network of products that everyone has searched for and someone has added if it wasn’t already there.
Find the businesses that need to sell a product to stay alive and I bet they will make the sale at the price it needs to be made to pay you and the user.
Example coming soon