skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the "tolerate being offended" attitude is that it favors those doing the offending, and is only possible so long as we are capable of tolerance. Certainly there are somethings which are so offensive so as to be completely intolerable. Calling for my or my family's death or mistreatment, for example.

The pendulum is swinging because for a long time, people have felt downtrodden by those who told them they had no choice but to tolerate such treatment, and now those same downtrodden realize they no longer have to be. In the age of the internet, people have found commonality in their oppression, solidarity in their commonality, and strength in their solidarity.

That being said, the pendulum has swung a bit too far in many places. Persecuting small offenses is surely a form of oppression in and of itself. Careful consideration must be taken as to what is actually intolerable and what is simply offensive. The latter is excusable, the former is, well, intolerable.
somewhat less than slim.

the RNA must interact with retroviral reverse transcriptase in a manner that makes a functional complex or it will just be snipped apart and decycled like garbage.

RNA will fold and produce 2' structure this has interesting consequence. catalytic RNA, structural RNA, stabilizing or protective RNA..

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwVnzYf4V8

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20358252/

[2] https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-010-0346-2 [PDF]

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tania_Matamoros2/public... [PDF]

from the paper [3] above:
"Reverse transcription
initiates after binding of a cellular tRNA primer (in HIV-1, tRNA Lys,3 ), to the primer binding
site (PBS). The PBS is a sequence of 18 nucleotides, located downstream of the 5’-end of the
genomic RNA. The viral RNA that serves as template for reverse transcription is flanked by
repeat (R) sequences at its 5 ́ and 3 ́ termini."

the vaccine mRNA does not meet these requirements.

retroviral RNA is configured to function with the reverse transcriptase.
Promiscuity to include other RNA is exceptional not common.

virally infected cells also undergo changes that exclude further infection so they have the cell to themselves.

i would like to say zero chance, but life is in the business of sidestepping the rules to its advantage, however you have a much greater chance of being attacked by a shark while hiking the sahara dunes.
"This is akin to Fauci saying he didn't think we should be wearing masks, and changing his mind as more data came in."

Only that's not what happened. This is a bad analogy, or a good one depending on how you view the overt false narrative-creation of much of today's media. Fauci didn't "change his mind" with more evidence. He readily admits to overtly lying because he made a determination that some lives were more valuable than others. That. Is. Frightening.

This isn't intended to be a political statement, simply a fact that you are memory-holing.
Because people want to drive cars in games. I for one would be very bored if I had to take an automated system like public transport or self driving cars.
Web browsers are an operating system these days. Having more dependence on them is like having more dependence on Linux/Windows/OSX. It's a pipedream to think they will remain consistent and/or shrink in use case.

Like it or not, this is here to stay. What we should fight against, imo, is not browsers as an idea - but the lack of diversity. We're in a reality where we all but only two/three browsers - it would be as if we only had Windows and OSX. The answer wouldn't be to get rid of Windows or OSX, but rather create a rich ecosystem of complementing operating systems - ala Linux.
Is there an whole-Web search engine that isn’t a fulltext search engine, but rather works more like grepping a virtual text file that contains the entire Internet, such that one could match on punctuation and so forth?
If there are 60 jurisdictions with identical laws to this one and you try your best, you can be subject to the wealth tax in all 60 of them in the same year.
It’s pretty glib to just reduce the idea of intermittent fasting to “you don’t eat.” Intermittent fasting shouldn’t even be seen as some kind of innovation, since it’s essentially a return to how human beings have managed their metabolic processes for tens of thousands of years.

It’s actually the idea of eating all day everyday that’s the innovation. We evolved to be hunter-gatherers; we had to chase down and kill animals for sustenance, and there was no reliable way to preserve that food. Which means that we are adapted to eating once or twice during a day, probably during the daytime, when our bodies are meant to be active, and then abstaining from food. It’s the relatively recent innovations that changed the way we handle our metabolic processes, like having food available all day and filling it with sugar, that are responsible for the proliferation of things like obesity and diabetes, which our ancient ancestor just didn’t have to deal with to the extent that we do, because their diets were more “natural” and less maladaptive compared to ours.

All this is to say that when we’re talking about our diets from a normative point of view, we should think of intermittent fasting sort of as the null hypothesis, necessitating a rebuttal before it can be refuted, and our modern way of stuffing our faces all the time as the alternative hypothesis, requiring justification before it can be accepted.

For a healthy adult it’s probably more sensible to consume one’s diet within a reasonable window, say 8 hours per day, than to be constantly digesting the hyper processed, over sugared nonsense we put into our bodies nowadays, to the point where it overlaps with things like our sleep cycle and when we get our exercise in.

Of course, I’m not a physician, so don’t take my word for it. But you should consider the fact that formal research is increasingly coming to understand the benefits of IF; OP’s link is only one example. We don’t understand the full range of benefits that IF provides because modern medicine, in the grand scheme of things, is still pretty much in its infancy; we’ve existed for approximately 200,000 years, but we’ve only had modern antibiotics for less than 100. But it can’t be denied that so far, things are looking pretty good for intermittent fasting, at least when it comes to its suitability for “healthy” adults.
> …a lot of technology enables us to be alone or at least not in direct contact with others.

What I've seen during the pandemic is that technology enables my family to be in direct contact (if not physically) with others for most of our waking time. Certainly, my kids spend more time with their friends virtually than I did with mine physically as a child.

Does the physical part matter? The article references a study where altruistic behavior (a donation) has benefits even if that behavior isn't done in person.
US Post Office has 14,000 employees quarantined, volume up 1/3 over 2019
outside of the city, NY is sort of an odd proposition. beautiful place (much more so than the midatlantic, imo), but with surprisingly high taxes and overall COL for mostly rural areas.
It was found a few years ago, and the guy that found it has some stuff on his own site:

https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/index.php/the-truth-...
The difference is the tenets the companies adhere to in their quests for profits.

Values matter.
At some point natural selection should run its course. Without countermeasures a virus looses lethality over time, these countermeasures select for virus strains which transmit even under extreme counter measures easily. Basically the opposite of what one would hope for.
> This fall, as Canadian authorities were wrapping up an investigation on Chaudhry, Callimachi similarly championed her series. On Twitter, she raised questions about the competence of Canadian intelligence officials in the Chaudhry case. The Times defended her piece to The Washington Post and others, saying the reporting proved to be true and that doubts about Chaudhry's account were central to the podcast's narrative.

This isn't "coming clean", it's getting busted. They had a chance at the former several months ago, and they forwent it.
> I don't see what has everyone so upset I guess.

In part it's because many people (me included) think the execution of the gameplay is poor.

And the other major part is that the game simply did not deliver the promised features on all the marketing videos by CDPR.
United Airlines Works with Health Officials Following Possible Covid-19 Death
Note that it shouldn't be an "action" on GitHub Actions, since those are specified in the repo itself, and can hence be removed in the same commit. It needs to be an external thing.
Do you think California will never raise it above 0.4%? This is just a test, if it gets them money it'll surely go much higher.

This is a bandaid over Prop 13. We should tax land more instead of having high income taxes, economists agree the land value tax is the most efficient tax.
There's been plenty of healthcare workers splashed all over the news taking it already. More importantly, we're a long long way away from the general public even getting to decide to take it or not. If hesitation is still a concern in March/April, then congress could have done the PR stunt at that point.

Right now there's a huge shortage of vaccines compared to the number of people who are both eligible and willing. No need to worry about the unwilling at this point since there's not enough to go around anyway.

Congress took it because they think they're more important than the rest of us, and apparently they think they're even more important than the frontline workers who are still waiting.
Quoting myself: right now, January 2020,

(meaning: I was trying to reenact a scene from the beginning of (gestures around) all this)

That paper: June 2020
PEP 101 – Doing Python Releases 101 – Python.org
Or, you know, the Intercept article is primarily reporting on the current state of affairs (under Trump's watch), and specifically on a spike in civilian deaths in 2019. Not every article has to cover the entire war.

> The period in which The Intercept documented the escalation of violence in Wardak falls neatly between the first round of formal U.S.-Taliban talks in late 2018 and the signing of the Doha agreement early this year. The rate of 01 night raids, and the number of civilians killed as a result, fell dramatically last winter and stopped almost entirely this spring.
What’s your opinion on their incentives for letting that quality control slip? The need for sexy digital content to remain relevant? Cost-cutting to remain competitive? A change in identity from “news” to “entertainment”? Something else?
From the article, it sounds like they did notice, but didn't have time to revise the plan before vaccinations started today. And again, I'm not claiming that this was necessarily the right decision, but I can't get behind the idea that it's some transparently evil decision made by uncaring administrators.
The timeline of the article is December 2018 through September 2019, when Trump was Commander-in-Chief. Does it not make sense then that he would be more pertinent to the story? I think it provides the correct historical context when it makes sense in the reporting.

And why would anyone need to draw their "own conclusions" when Greenwald has been very explicit as to why he left.
It's certainly one of the reasons. (There are also others, like building a good reputation to help attract and retain talent).

For example, in 2009, in the world of physics engines, Havok (acquired by Intel) and PhysX (owned by Nvidia) were pretty much the two notable market leaders. Physics acceleration was becoming a big deal in games and an important complement to GPUs, and AMD/ATI found itself without a horse in the race. So did it develop its own proprietary physics engine? No, it threw its weight behind the open source Bullet physics project, to "commoditize their complements". They don't need to make money from engine licensing; they need to present a viable alternative to PhysX to keep Nvidia from getting ahead. For that, the lower the barrier to entry (free) the better, and the lower the barrier to contributions (libre) the better.

Now we're seeing Facebook (big stake in VR) contributing to Blender (3D content creation, and so a complement to VR). And so on!
How is that possibly constitutional? It seems like giving states the right to tax the wealth of residents in other states is a really bad door to open.
Some people here are saying they shouldn't be praised for the retraction because retracting an error is merely doing what a publication should do. This is wrongheaded, because it ignores the fact that in the actual world in which we actually live, rather than a fantasy world that we would all like to live in, it's a rarity. We need much more of it than we have. Punishing the Times at the moment they do good by issuing a retraction will just encourage more publications to be in the camp that do not admit error. The cost of admitting error will be seen as too high.

That isn't to say that the Times shouldn't be held to account when errors are found by others. It should, and so should every other publication. But when they find and retract their own errors, it is absolutely wrong to punish them at that moment.
Oh, rough! A strongly worded letter from Congress. I'll read it after I finish counting all my money.
It's interesting that this seems on one hand "unpredictable" while also being logical. If a company has employees familiar with TypeScript (or even JS) and they have to make a choice between yet another flavor of that or a new language like C/Rust... well the choice is understandable. Once again the path of least resistance to a new web technology ended up being JavaScript - it just wasn't immediately obvious when WASM first emerged.
If you read that article it talks about how some of that money is spent on prevention so it's a bit unfair to just use existing homeless as the denominator- it's still an obscene amount of money per person. So saying it's "totally incorrect" is a bit of a stretch.

San Francisco absolutely has a Homeless industrial complex that isn't trying to solve the problem but just keep their cash flowing.
Is retracting enough?

So a news story gets out, millions read it, share or watch it. Then NYT retracts it. Maybe adding a footnote or correction (sometimes they don't even do that [1]) is added to the story. Maybe the story is removed from their site.

However, the faulty information has already registered into the minds of millions of people.

NYT has already intentionally or unintentionally indoctrinated the minds of many readers and with the "retraction" at the same time they can claim the highest standards of journalism.

Unless in good fait, NYT tries to bring as much attention into the correction to the readers they have already impacted, the retraction is journalistic virtue signaling and a very small victory for truth.

Even if they do as much work in publicizing the retraction so many people have already formed a biased view and it'll be hard to undo that.

The only path forward is to fully hold NYT accountable. Fire the editor and journalist in charge of the story would be a start.

[1] https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1187036978463891456
https://archive.vn/NBq1F

>United Airlines flight 591 bound for Los Angeles from Orlando, Fla., was diverted to New Orleans on Monday for a medical emergency. A passenger was then transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Medical responders told United at the time that the passenger had suffered cardiac arrest. As a result, the airline didn’t swap out planes but offered other passengers the choice of continuing on or taking a later flight to Los Angeles, United said Friday.
Since the US government is not doing much on that front, we're now looking to Apple to save us...

Of course, the other half of people are running Android and I don't see Google getting on that bandwagon.
Heh, good point :-)

Yeah the current state of the tech is (in my opinion) just a voice command line. You have to know the right keywords to say, and in the right order, to get it to do what you want. It's largely an exercise in guess, test, and revise.
Bingo. ValueOptimized and CPA, on top of lookalikes drive huge revenue, and all become effectively useless. They retain their massive audience, but their differentiating value is severely challenged by this change
^- this +1
+ Nevada too
I supposed you could construct as dynamic and then make it constant? I wonder why that feature isn't seen in common languages, even though I know it sounds crazy.
https://archive.is/Wfsbz
> Nobody needs a somewhat smarter version of AskJeeves.

I find the Google Assistant useful. I use it in Japanese, which is a huge plus, too. You can boost your language learning and practice.
If that’s the case, I think he miscalculated. The damage from losing trust in the government has the potential for causing more damage than a temporary shortage of N95 masks
> Funny how media coverage of this issue misses no chance of mentioning Russia and nobody else, not even possible suspects.

There are parts of the intelligence community that know with confidence who the true attacker is. Even if they had no idea they were being exploited, there are many ways to perform post-mortem analysis when you're, e.g., the NSA. So, someone has 100% confidence, or close to it.

In terms of what the media says: typically, they report on off-the-record remarks from officials and leaks. That's just how the game is played. It's an unfortunate byproduct of everyone wanting to tell, but nobody wanting to be caught telling. The value of Reuters and AP is that they typically do enough due diligence on their own sources to make sure that they're not just spouting nonsense. "Top of the food chain" sources like them are very regularly correct, but fallible.
It's on archive.org . Here's a randomly chosen snapshot from 2001:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010119175000/http://astalavist...
At the hobbyist/self-funded budget, they are by a longshot.
Only helps if you're a homeowner. If you rent California probably has one of the highest tax burdens.
Just listened to most of this earlier. I don't quite get it.

IIRC, the original series did treat Chaudhry as dubious, but maybe partially truthful . He was caught on a timeline lie, confronted by the journalist, he adjusted his timeline... Also, the whole series was constructed somewhat naively. It follows the journalist's investigations sequentially. The "story" follows leads and narratives that do or don't turn out to be true. You're following an investigation in progress. In that frame, this is just further evidence as the story continues.

Caliphate just isn't framed as a traditional print "feature" where the journalist weighs everything in advance and only references fact-checked reliable evidence once they're done.

I actually felt that caliphate did a better-than-most job at communicating shades of certainty. I wish the NYT did more of this. Journalistic standards are good tools, but they do not (should not, IMO) just sort everything into "true" or "unverified" piles and . Uncertainty about truth is inevitable. Communicate this well, honestly, and we'll all be better informed.

This felt like way more than a retraction. Maybe they're using it as a "teaching moment" about how journalism works. I don't love it though. I can think of much better targets for NYT mea culpa or soul search. Caliphate is not a low watermark for journalism in any way. Maybe I'm missing something.

If they (or any major paper) is feeling reflective, why not reflect on more systemic questions. How about double confirmed rumours from anonymous sources? Two sources, even if both remain nameless and have a personal interest in leaking to the press is considered fine.. I believe. This is common in political reporting. Stuff gets leaked. Journalists get confirmation from another insider.. maybe two. That can be printed. If it turns out to be a fallacious rumour, they still "met standards." Maybe they print a retraction, but no one did anything wrong. Meanwhile, this is the cause of many untruths getting published each year.
> This is akin to Fauci saying he didn't think we should be wearing masks, and changing his mind as more data came in.

Fauci has said that he deliberately lied to people because he was afraid masks would be in short supply.
It is so hard for media mastheads to build and maintain trust, and so easy to destroy that trust which can then take years to rebuild.

Many people still operate on the last century paradigm of a few 'trusted' impartial news sources 'telling it like it is'.

Once these huge organizations lose credibility we find ourselves in the situation Soviet union era citizens were in with the official party organ Pravda - not believing a word of the official line and reading between the lines for clues...
Even the New Horizons spacecraft's speed relative to earth is less than Voyager 1, and it was launched back in 2006.
This is absolutely chilling to read.
I can't say I have much time to engage today, but since this seems to have some support and a fundamental misunderstanding, I want to address this one.

Hatred towards the ultra-rich is not based in jealousy but in a moral stance. The argument is not "I want your 30M" it is that "people having this much wealth is bad for all of society".

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/opinion/abolish-billionai...

There's much debate to be had over where that line of "too much wealth that it can't possibly be moral" is, but this is where the cultural conversation is. You're missing the point if you think it's jealousy.

As an example, I never plan to have more than about 2M (in today's dollars) of personal wealth. I'm not supporting this tax because I want the 30M, I'm supporting it because I think it may have positive effects on reigning in the human instinct for greed by aligning societal incentives with personal ones.

I'm trying to keep this narrow as I'm not trying to claim I'm correct that this specific iteration of the tax will work, or even of the form, but hopefully my point about the targeted issue is clear!
They could execute the query on the index and then filter before serving.

I'm sure a thousand engineers at Google can figure this out.
Same. Graphics are excellent. Art assets are pretty well made. Human models look a little Daz3d like but it's fine. I don't have any performance issues on my Core-i7 9 series and RTX 2070. I do have an issue with a few gameplay elements though.

1: Driving feels sluggish, unresponsive, like I'm remote-controlling a buggie on the moon driving through molasses. I turn left and 250ms later I go left. Yet the wheels turn visually instantly. It's bad. Real bad.

2: Shooting feels like my bullets are digital slot machine values. I shot an enemy every 4th bullet does damage. I don't know what they were going for (Fallout?) but it makes gun fights tedious and not that fun. I feel less like a bad-ass pistol gunslinger from Blade Runner and more like a "pistolier" in a table top game of Fate. Gun fighting doesn't "feel" real-time like it should. Shooting a goon 12 times with my revolver (6 shot) at point blank range isn't my idea of immersion.
> "We fell in love with the fact that we had gotten a member of ISIS who would describe his life in the caliphate and would describe his crimes,"

This should serve as a warning to anybody who trusts “anonymous sources familiar with the matter”.

Unfortunately this seems to have become the basis for a lot of entertainment reporting like what you find in the NYT. The allure is just too strong, and the economic necessity of keeping people coming back for their fresh 2 minutes hate is too powerful.

I worry that the damage to public understanding of the world that people have is going to take a long time to reverse.