skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but I think that if it was just 1:1 it would be far easier to get the protein manufactured by cells living in a petri dish (that can be subjected to much more drastic changes) and inject those protein copies directly instead of mRNA wrapped in some fancy vector molecules.
> You’re implying that the impact only matters if it is direct.

No, I acknowledge and want to account for indirect effects.

I just want to hold ourselves to empirical evidence, not just our political leanings.
He says the second one isn't true.

>Throckmorton told The Tennessean while he represented Warner in a civil matter several years ago, Warner was no longer a client of his in August 2019. He disputes that he told police they couldn't search the RV.

>"I have no memory of that whatsoever," Throckmorton said of MNPD's claim that said they could not inspect the RV. "I didn’t represent him anymore. He wasn’t an active client. I'm not a criminal defense attorney."

Worst case, the PD might be making an excuse (either now or at the time of the original report) for why they didn't follow up properly.
> gas stations

In the convenience store or at the pump? If it's just at the pump, a lot of stations let you pay by card at the pump, it's outdoors, it's pretty easy to stay six feet from someone, and you're there less than 15 minutes.
My only disappointment was the lack of a backflip at the end.
Sure!

So, take as a silly example a regular pendulum of mass m and length l swinging on earth where the acceleration due to gravity is g.

Suppose we want to figure out what the period of the pendulum is (i.e. how long it takes for it to make one full swing from left to right back to left).

We could go ahead and solve this by using Newton's laws, but at the end of the day whatever formula we find should have within it the parameters mentioned above (as well as regular numbers like 2s, pis, etc.). If we take a look at the units of the parameters above, we see:

mass of pendulum (m): kg

length of pendulum (l): m

acceleration due to gravity (g): m/s^2

Out of these we want to produce something with units of time, and it turns out that there's a unique way of combining the above to get that: 1/g has units of s^2/m, so l/g will have units of s^2. Just take the square root and you find sqrt(l/g).

Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that the period of the pendulum is exactly sqrt(l/g), it just means that it needs to be proportional to this. In fact the formula for the period has an extra factor of 2pi in it: 2pi sqrt(l/g). The point is that the general magnitude you'd expect for any timescale associated with the pendulum would be roughly equal to sqrt(l/g).

For quantum gravity the story is the same. We have some parameters that we expect should be deeply part of any prediction: Planck's constant, the speed of light, Newton's constant of gravitation. The units are as follows:

Planck's constant (hbar): m^2 kg / s

Speed of light (c): m/s

Gravity (G): m^3 / kg s^2

From these we want to figure out what the relevant energy scale is (i.e. when will this theory start differing from a non quantum mechanical version of gravity). Well, there's only one way to combine these into an expression that has the dimensions of energy. This particular way of combining the constants is huge and is traditionally called the Planck scale:

E_Pl ~ sqrt(hbar c^5 / G) ~ 10^19 GeV

In contrast, the LHC is currently probing physics on the scale of ~ 10^4 GeV so we're not even close to probing things in the realm of quantum gravity.

Note that this analysis has nothing to do with string theory at all and generalizes to any theory of quantum gravity.
How did the "they asked for nothing in return" work out? Maybe in their social currency being able to say you helped someone generously is worth more than some money?
I’d really be curious to see how far we could push this.

Cobalt is an essential part of lithium-ion batteries. 70% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, much of it in forced conditions.

So I guess we have three options: go without lithium-ion batteries, enforce a minimum standard of labor conditions in the DRC by any means necessary, or just try not to think about it too much. Is it any wonder that we picked door number 3?
Of course there's a possibility. The problem with long-term effects is that if a problem takes 70 years to show up, then by definition we won't know about it for 70 years.

This applies not just to any drug you take, but also to the ingredients in the food you eat and the particles in the air we breath. We've come to such realizations before, and we will again.

But we also know for sure that COVID-19 is killing people right now.
> acknowledging it limits you to only comments from reddit/twitter users

As of now, my only visitors are a few anime bloggers from my circle, all of them using WordPress. As it's not possible to use WordPress comments, I'm not losing anything besides that. I could use Disqus, but I hate it, and I think they would log-in with Twitter to leave a Disqus comment so...

As for embedding, I use Hugo's Twitter shortcode, and reddit standard embed code - as all embed are from my own subreddit, I left that hardcoded, with a placeholder title, and just change the url on the code.

Seems that Twitter embed changed recently to not show number of replies anymore, but that's alright for now. They have to click on the embedded tweet and go to twitter to reply anyway :/

I might add the webmentions thing mentioned in other comments here to show the actual replies.

This is how it looks right now: https://geekosaur.com/post/anime-controversies-controversed/
It's a meme, but not exactly true. Google has terrible customer support. And has great security. But the great security actually comes from actually very good policies, and have a fantastic "advanced protection" service for people who are targeted.

I was targeted extensively and purely from social engineering they managed to trick:
A) Apple
B) Amazon (AWS)
C) Gandi

Into handing over my accounts. Companies that stood up fine and were targeted:

A) Google
B) Namecheap
C) Cloudflare
D) Facebook
> Could not find that part of the letter

If they were really for free speech, period, that's what they would say. But they don't say that. They say they are for "the free and unfettered conduct of scientific research and debate". But who gets to decide what counts as "scientific research and debate" and what doesn't? They do.
this is great....
In California, the rules say a ICU nurse can handle max two patients, and that the person monitoring telemetry can have at max four patients. Hospitals have obviously gotten waivers for these limits, but eventually you just start killing people by adding beds without the appropriate amounts of additional staff.
If you want your domain to be safe from compromise via social engineering of the registrar, then use a registrar with a strong security policy. GoDaddy is a mass market registrar with tens of millions of customers for whom security is not their top concern.

Cloudflare offers a security-oriented registrar service that is also extremely affordable. I would recommend using them.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/products/registrar/
Not all the mRNA makes it into your cells, but for the mRNA that does, it probably produces thousands of spike proteins before degrading.
How'd you miss that?
> Where is that? Can you quote them?

Sure thing. The most recent comment in this thread not made by one of us was by quicklime, and ended with this line:

> [The lack of open discourse about America's prison slavery problem] doesn't excuse China for the things they are doing wrong.

The one immediately prior to that was by mike_h and started with this:

> I doubt anyone in this thread is arguing that forced labor would be ok anywhere.

I'm not sure how you read either of those statements and extracted "the CCP gets carte blanche to imprison a million people because of their religion, and force them into labor camps".
Ideally no one.
> it's because they're numb to what they've seen

I observe the COVID-19 narrative is probably false, starting with the timeline for the initial spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the globe in November/December 2019. Like the good doctor said, "#containment was never possible" [0].

Many people, including myself, probably had COVID-19 before tests were available. I think people did much better surviving the dreaded virus before the medicalists were treating COVID-19 as a diagnosis.

[0] https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1334531533013536768

edit: Wuhan vastly under-counted their COVID-19 cases: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/asia/china-coronavirus-se...
I personally use NameCheap, but my company uses GoDaddy and has since before I got there...and the company we bought? Also uses GoDaddy. In total that is about 2000 domains. Transferring them would cost a lot of money and time and in the end is not worth it to save over the long run.
"It's not less honest [of the government]...[it] is a failure of the [government run] educational system"

Think about that for a minute
I wholeheartedly endorse The Python Cookbook by David Beazley. It's almost a decade old, but hasn't aged a bit. Its "recipes" are practical, elegant, and often somewhat cheeky: I'm thinking in particular of a puckish trick he uses to lazily interpolate variable bindings into a format string automatically by resolving it in the context of previous stack frames (helpfully packaged as a modular function that emits nice errors), and another to tamper with the restrictions of the GIL by executing threaded computations in separate interpreters. But while the book is loaded with black magic, it's also the first place I turn when trying to refresh myself on more quotidian topics like navigating a filesystem, making subprocess calls, overriding class instance behavior with magic methods, etc.
Could you change the title too, then, please? The new URL talks about this, but as part of a larger conversation.
The fact you use terms like "living expenses" instead of "forced incarceration" speaks volumes about you. What you are doing should be a crime, and in many jurisdictions it is... some of them punishable by death.

You believe the penal experience is the same as "doing nothing"... not rehabilitating one's self... not reflecting... just a pointless exercise. Why not just slit their throats or gas them? They were convicted of a crime after all, right? "Nothing" isn't a punishment, is it? What's the point?

You're a monster who spreads disinformation, and after your profit McConnell repeals section 230, you'll find yourself convicted and incarcerated soon enough. Free living expenses though, right? You're welcome.
We’d be looking at seven figure death counts instead of “just” the six figure ones we have now.
There is a point where many don't get the memo you did however, and it becomes a thing anyway, no matter how ironic it was supposed to be. Ironic racism is still racism.
I personally am not concerned about murder or shock, but I think it's worth saying what many people think. Many games containing violence are probably made in poor taste. For example, it would be a red flag for me when meeting someone if their favourite video game studio is Rockstar Games and that's all they like to play. It'd be like saying their favourite TV genre is reality TV and they're proud to watch it constantly. It's OK once in a while, but I hope they often expand their horizons. Rockstar's modern games certainly have some value, but relative to many other games they feel like technically-impressive immature time sinks. My snooty point aside, violent video games seem not to correlate with aggression, but I suspect they at least correlate with some annoying personality traits. Some artistic masterpieces worth consuming contain a lot of violence, I just don't think that's the norm, so it's easy for outsiders to lump "violent games" together as a threat.
The fancy vector molecules are just oils. AFAIK the reason they use mRNA is precisely because it's easy to make lots of it quickly through simple chemical processes. Proteins are much more complex, and harder to synthesize using traditional chemical processes.
The article kind of lost me at times, but on the high level topic of (US) government regulation as an existential threat to crypto:

- The US government is very slow moving, and crypto is quickly gaining popularity amongst the voting public and institutional investors (with access to lobbyists). Once the gov't realizes that crypto is a threat and is able to position itself to form legislation, actually passing the legislation would piss off a lot of groups that the gov't is incentivized to make happy.

- Crypto is technological progress, and banning it would push innovation out of the US and into countries that decide not to regulate

- Banning crypto is an authoritarian act, and is basically an admission by the gov't that it prioritizes tight gripped control over our liberties (not that this point is actually all that unlikely...)

I'm biased, but Occam's Razor applied to the above points makes me feel like the banning of crypto is unlikely... Am I missing something?
The actual assumption is not human-ness but instrumental convergence [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
It's in the app as well -

"Tap Suggest an edit or Report a problem."
How do we measure "freedom of debate"? Who gets to decide the ranking? That's just another sectarian squabble.
It's not articulated directly in this letter but you have to glance at it sideways a bit to see the bear they are poking - it's not just free speech advocacy:

"Scientific work should be judged on the basis of scientific merit, independent of the researcher's identity or personal views"

This stands in direct opposition to the (increasingly common) belief that scientific merit is at best just one aspect, at worst a complete myth, and that the "lived experience" of the author (particularly through their racial and gender experience) contributes as much, if not more, to the validity and weight one ought to give to their scientific contributions and the conclusions they draw from them.

This may sound ridiculous and you may think "surely they don't actually mean what it sounds like they are saying" but indeed they do, strongly. This is why it ought to be treated as a religion.

The reason it ties back to the worldview I mentioned is if you believe that all human experience is merely an expression of oppressive forces and cultural constructs then "lived experience" ought to be the primary determinant of truth, since the scientific method itself is one such cultural construct, and likely a tool of oppression at that given its Euro-centric origins, and hence deeply flawed and broken in comparison to the "truth" of the collective experiences of diverse people.
I bet you really like spaghetti.
I don’t think I’ve seen any mapping program show dense streets that well, from MapQuest to Microsoft Streets to maps.me to Google Maps.

I’ve worked on similar problems and it’s not the easiest to solve. And I’ve never solved it because it was never that important of problem to solve and we just moved on to the next issue.
It appears that this and at least one other incident are why Google Maps no longer maps routes across Bear Camp Road, which is the most direct route from Grants Pass OR to the Oregon Coast. [1]

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Gold+Beach,+OR/Galice,+OR+97...
In what world does C code not run in “app/server”?
My last paragraph mentions that aspect already.

You can run some amount of the solve before hand based on what you know, and combine that with the real-time physics adjustment that these robots already do to accommodate for any differences at "runtime".
This is the first time you encountered a cloudflare site?
90's style. That is funny. Using SDL is not 80's or 90's style.

unsigned char* out = (unsigned char*)0xA0000000L;

Go. Don't forget your interrupt handler.

I do miss those days, and I miss the Amiga terribly. What I don't miss are the days of thunking, marshalling, bank switching, and segmented memory.
I would argue if they are spending 40% of thier time on games, than it's the lack of other stimulation required for development that's the problem. If they were playing Atari Pong for that long, I would suspect he same outcome you observe. The violence in the video game had little to no impact on this scenerio.
There were human trials, but they skipped Longitudinal trials (long term effects) and they also didn't do challenge responses (exposing those people with the vaccine to COVID in a controlled manner), correct?
Need to see more eBPF mentions.
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

https://fda.report/media/144673/Moderna+COVID-19+Vaccine+rev...
There were also all the issues with the 1970s Swine Flu vaccine that turned out to not even be all that effective. 60 Minutes did a piece on it, and it's getting more and more difficult to search for on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bOHYZhL0WQ
Bitcoin doesn't really work as a currency (at least without some layer 2 solution). It's most valuable currently as a store of value / hedge against institutions.
It's taxation without representation.

You don't get a vote. You get increased prices and reduced purchasing power whether you like it or not.
There will be a post-approval Phase IV surveillance stage to check for rare or long-term adverse effects.

> I recall a famous drug that was given in the 70s and it produced birth malformations.

You’re probably referring to thalidomide.

> What if someone has for XYZ reason more reverse transcriptase than usual? Will his-her DNA be altered?

Highly unlikely since the vaccines don’t code for transposable elements that could integrate into the host genome.
Was there no concern about an attacker being able to -read- the contents, as well?
When people like your sport, people like your sport. Soccer is probably way more important in Africa, just as Baseball is in America. It’s cultural, you grow up with it.

If you got this many people interested in Basketball in China then you’ve got something. The sport will always be bigger in the long run, you cannot eradicate something that becomes part of the culture.
I’m still surprised that for all the “enhancements” it’s had in the last decade or so JavaScript still doesn’t allow basic things like optional type declarations (ie type hints in php).

Want to accept muck? Leave it as is. Want to accept something specific? Specify the class to accept, or even specify the shape if you want to go the duck typing route.
I ran into this problem a lot when I was living in downtown SF of all places. One should never drive in front of AT&T/Oracle stadium when an event is ending, as the traffic is insane and part of the road is closed to allow for the mass of pedestrians. But Maps interprets pedestrian traffic as car traffic and shows that section of the road as green and moving faster than the sections with actual cars, and tries to direct you down it.
There's certainly unknown risks of a novel vaccine. As well as unknown risks of a novel disease.

From what I saw, currently there's no recommendation either way for pregnant people; but everyone is watching this group carefully.
Ask HN: Relevance of 'Downtown' by Petula Clark played during Nashville bomb
The Nashville bomber was an IT consultant, and when I heard that 'Downtown' by Petula Clark played in connection with the explosion it registered as a relevant detail.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/27/downtown-petula-clark-played-before-nashville-explosion/4052995001/

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_m4Qb0iW-o

I recall an IT / sci-fi related show that played this same song, at first I thought it was in "X-Files - Killswitch" episode (which also contains an RV, which explodes), and then an episode of Black Mirror, but I've googled for songs in both and not come up with 'Downtown'.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751150/

Has anyone here pieced together any relevance between 'Downtown' and the Nashville bomber, and his actions?

Does anyone know any other shows/films that have used this song in a manner that seems relevant to this scenario?
Yes, when I say that AdS/CFT is successful, I definitely am not saying that we have a falsifiable prediction for black holes, but I also don't mean that these are simply results that famous physicists like and promote, it's a bit deeper than that.

For many years it was conjectured that gravitation is actually most clearly understood as a two-dimensional theory (people call this the principle of holography). The rationale is that the entropy of a black hole is proportional to its area rather than its volume. Since a black hole is in a very specific sense the object of maximum entropy, that means that the amount of information that we can store in space is not proportional to its volume, but rather the area of the encompassing "sphere". This is super surprising since it suggests that what we perceive as 3d is really just an illusion and that the correct formulation of physics ought to be a 2d theory.

Now, for a long time we didn't have a way to actually write this sort of duality down. We sort of knew one side of the story (gravity with general relativity), but it fails in precisely the domains where we want to investigate it (black holes). String theory, whether you believe it's the true theory of everything or not, is nonetheless a mathematically consistent theory of quantum gravity (in a sense it's at least an existence proof that gravity can consistently be quantized). As such, it's at the very minimum a great arena to analyze these problems carefully. The first explicit construction of the duality between a 3d theory of quantum gravity and a 2d theory without gravity is precisely AdS/CFT. It says that a quantum theory of gravity is AdS space is mathematically and physically equivalent to a 2d theory of a conformal field theory that lives in 2d.

I don't think it's fair to say that AdS/CFT is being studied because famous people like it. It really does have a lot of value if nothing else than as a playground to understand how one could in principle formulate these dualities consistently.
Google API's? Never again. You are not a customer but cattle
Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
If you're about to make a billion calls per visa card issuer then you can afford a small amount of engineering effort to break that specific captcha. Most individual captchas are pretty rudimentary and can be attacked with simple image processing techniques and pattern matching.

This one in particular is simple enough that nearly any technique you wanted to throw at it would succeed with minimal fine tuning. I'd be shocked if it took an afternoon even if you'd never broken a captcha or done any image processing before, and that's without borrowing an off-the-shelf ML solution.

Plus, even if you had a 50% failure rate you'd just need twice as many calls. That's not trivial, but it doesn't really affect the viability of the idea.
'He tells us: "Eventually somebody would come back to you with your idea – they would say, 'Hey, you know, this doesn't need Windows at all'. And you have to control your urge to fucking kill them, because you've been telling them that for two years and now they finally come up with it like it's their idea. But that's the Jedi mind trick." '

OMG. I learned this a few years ago working in a corp environment with stubborn senior people with big egos. Basically, to get one of these types on board with your idea you have to find a way to convince them the idea was originally theirs. Sounds strange I know..
The article started with a good example but the conclusion is off. By the logic being used the Fed would need to ban the purchase of gold, bonds and many other assets to prevent saving.