skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far Right Extremist seems to be an accurate label.

Using the screen name Dionysus, he posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups, about his plan to “conduct a little experiment” in 2021.

“I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber,” Pendley wrote. “But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this world to continue unjustly treating my fellow Americans so disrespectfully.”

He also claims to have been part of the Jan 6 insurrection.

On January 11, 2021, he told an associate on Facebook that he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, made it to the platform where he interacted with police officers but did not enter the building. He told another associate on Facebook that he had taken a piece of glass from a window at the building.

ref: https://conandaily.com/2021/04/09/seth-aaron-pendley-biograp...
I think you totally get the concepts, but the way you talk about it is strange, hence my time traveler comment :)

You understand the nuances better than most. I'm guessing you're self taught? I've never read the origin of species, but I feel like you might have!

The points you're making are a given in modern evolutionary theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_pressure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation

>Actually, CRISPR/Cas is a fantastic example of lamarckian evolution.

This, however, is completely wrong.

>Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism,[1] is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism

CRISPR has nothing to do with use or disuse. Lamarckism is only relevant as an example of what evolution isn't.
Super Powering End-to-End Email Encryption in Mozilla Thunderbird
This misrepresents the situation, and I say that as someone who uses and prefers rail. The economics of high-speed rail in the US are quite poor in large parts of the country for a wide variety of complex reasons that can’t be wished away. In many cases, regional flights make more sense.
In practice I do not care about the difference between wayland compositors and the wayland protocol. When I say “wayland sucks” what I mean is that every time I have tried any “wayland” desktop or WM, it has not worked for my workflow and has tons of bugs and missing features. I do not care whether this is because of the protocol or some other reason.

Random example: in Sway, Chrome and all Electron apps have blurry text on displays with scaling other than 1.0. Every time I try “wayland” (or whatever term you would prefer I use), there is some show stopping bug like this.

I feel like the conversations here usually go like this, with people just talking past each other:

A: “X11 is going away, time to switch to Wayland!”

B: “Okay, but last time I tried it, it didn’t work for me because <list of reasons>”.

A: “No no no, you don’t understand, that’s not Wayland’s fault, it’s a compositor issue.”

B: “Well, whatever the issue is, I’d like to keep using X.”

A: “But X is going away! It’s deprecated!”
> Do these people really not know there is now broad consensus in what people knowledgeable on the topic believe works

I mean, I don't think there is broad consensus. I think there is a hell of a lot of group think going on. Going against the grain literally gets you ridiculed, mocked, harassed, called an idiot and if you are in the medical industry... probably gets you on the blacklist.

I don't trust a single bit of research generated about masks, or anything, while in the middle of a politically charged pandemic. All of it should be taken with a very healthy grain of salt.

The idea that every intelligent, well meaning person agrees with what we are doing is lunacy. It would be insane to think that. This whole thing went from "go on cruises" to "lock it all down" in literally a week's time. Of course intelligent, well intentioned people might not agree with what is going on. It amazes me that people assume everybody smart has to be for all this.
This looks really cool! Especially the JSON benchmarks. Well done!
It seems like this is just watching a file for changes and then calling reload on it? What am I missing?
Eventual goal: all applicable other devices? mac, windows, linux, android, ios would be good.

Other than dev time, are there any other obstacles?
I actually filed a bug for this a few months ago, after discovering it after being nerd sniped in a comment section on HN.

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47271

The fix in OPs article landed in master today.
Some disaster tests end up being initiated by a typo in a command.
How to Remove Reviews from Google My Business Listings – Google Review Removal
If you are the CTO of Microsoft you set up the world's largest patent troll after you leave Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures

I guess if you are a tech CTO, you don't beat them, you join them.

The sad part of Myhrvold's troll company is that it quickly spilled over into sectors other than software and "tech". Sectors that did not necessarily have the same knee-jerk negative reaction to the patent system (because despite its flaws, they depended on it).
Yeah but the electorate isn’t going to line up to pay you protection money.
> for protection against each other or the NPEs

Unfortunately, a patent portfolio doesn't protect against NPEs. A patent portfolio lets a company settle patent disputes with cross-licensing deals, or counter-sue with a "no you" argument.

An NPE doesn't have a product, so there's no reason to cross-license, and no way their product can violate any other patent.
A choice quote from the 1.1.0 source:
"%s: 3c501 EtherLink at %#x, using %sIRQ %d, melting ethernet.\n"

which is the most deprecating thing I can see the 3c501 driver code printing, in quickly skimming through old versions of the right age (it seems to have been mostly unchanged for large swathes of time).

(I went skimming for this message out of morbid curiosity, and couldn't find it. But I did only specifically look in the 3c501 source, so maybe it was a closely related card doing it, or a not-in-kernel version of the driver?)
I'd support a short (relative to the patent term) grace period to become a practicing entity. If you create a reduction to practice, you are a practicing entity. If you file a patent but can't actually build the thing (or maybe it can't be built) -- this happens all too often, by the way -- then I don't see why they should hold on to their failed patent, only for it to be scooped up by some patent troll for pennies on the dollar and eventually clog our legal system and extract fees from real value producers.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what matters. IP has value and should be incentivized, but right now, the legal system weighs the legal application for an idea far too heavily, and so alas, patent trolls exist.
You might, and you might not.

The incentives for me to be better are already as strong as they can possibly be. Not to screw up my health worse, not to lose my marriage, not to lose my job, not to make rash financial decisions. The amount of effort I put into this already is just exhausting.

I'm glad I recognise these days the times when the car is out of gas and people are telling me "if you just turned the key a little harder, maybe the car would turn on" and ignore them.
just turned them into cyber espionage groups
Companies like Apple, AMZN, MSFT, have enough resources and money to change the system but it wouldn't benefit them in the end. A few hundred million might seem like a lot to us but it's trivial to them. Sure they will defend themselves, they've got a lot of Lawyers on payroll that need to do something to earn their salaries.

I can't imagine the carnage they could collectively unleash on the Judge, Jury, County, State, etc if they really wanted to? But it isn't worth the time, money or effort. At the end of the day it's just pay the "Parking Ticket" and move on.
According to "smart people who believe in science" groupthink, masks work. Period. It's settled science. Don't ask questions. Only deniers ask questions.

Despite all the pro-mask science being based on in-the-heat-of-the-moment research done in the middle of a highly politicized pandemic.

Prior to all this, the science on masks was completely inconclusive. And there was literally no research done on the effectiveness of shutting down large swaths of human life for more than a year. Though it shouldn't take an expert to deduce that it has profound negative impacts on economic, social and mental health.

We are in the middle of a massive, uncontrolled experiment with billions participating without any consent.

The idea that smart well meaning people are supposed all just fall in line and agree with the prevailing groupthink is almost despotic. I shudder to think of what would happen if "the experts" even so much as hinted at it being okay for people to use violence against non believers. It's terrifying, honestly.
> You are doing the exact hand-waving I’ve specifically requested you avoid “meh... let people sort it out “ is not a sound policy unless you are an anarchist. So I can’t tell if you really don’t have any real insight or are just struggling to communicate them. Without concrete examples or evidence, most of this reads like an Ayn Rand book report.

Your problem is you have black & white thinking. Your response my claim that there are broken feedback loops, that taxes are too high, & there is an autopoetic tendency for psychopathy to set into big government systems including mass genocide is "government good", "you must be anarchist".

Your religion of statism blinds you to obvious points that I have already clearly stated. It's you who has a comprehension problem due to your religion. You do seem like you have a semblance in your intelligence, despite your sophistry. It's too bad you are blinded to certain obvious realities due to your ideology.
i don't think it is guild rules per se, but market demands.

in the US a craft bakery is something uncommon and will stand out. in germany the same craft bakery has to compete with chain bakeries and supermarkets, and it's much harder for such a bakery to be noticed.

even some chain bakeries bake their own bread in the store, and are operated more like a franchise. so you could have a good baker hidden under a chain brand.

the quality difference between supermarkets, chain bakeries and individually owned bakeries is much smaller too. and people expect all the bakeries to have the same popular items.

in the US people will go to a craft bakery because they want to have something different that they can't get in the supermarket. whereas in germany people going to a bakery still expect to get the same bread that they eat every day and are less likely to seek out a specialist shop because the supermarket has most of the same items anyways.
How was he part of the "insurrection" if he did nothing illegal?
Back then it was radical!
Yeah I don't want lunch interrupted either. But from 11:00 to 12:00. Or preferably 11:30 to 12:00. Or even 4pm to 5pm.
> And anyone who doesn't believe...

Right, because no one has any relevant experiences which might influence their thoughts. You said anyone. You come across as incredibly condescending
Our current system uses incredible amounts of public funding for drug discovery.

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329
I had a Commodore 64 back then actually, I don’t see how that’s relevant to windows 10 in 2021 having a pretty ok file explorer already
If you make the block header similar enough to Bitcoin you can rent hashrate.
You should give Insight Browser on iOS a chance. It’s literally safari + ad-block and some other goodies bundled up under a nice to use interface.
> I don’t need YouTube to be the source of truth

You are free to consume—and Governor DeSantis is free to host—videos elsewhere.
Not to turn a blind eye to what would have been a tragic loss of life, but how resistant is Amazon to such an attack, data-wise?

How much collateral economic damage can you do by taking down an AWS data center?
Neat. I've often wondered about the culinary use of marijuana, as it does have a rather pungent savory flavor. But where to get it? The trouble with legalization, rather than decriminalization, is that approved uses of marijuana are quite limited. The trim isn't psychoactive, so it should reasonably be legal to sell at a farmer's market, but I can't imagine it would be acceptable to sell a bundle to a kid. Or, should you sprinkle some into a pot of stew for a family dinner, one might expect a stern visit from CPS.
Insight Browser. No affiliation, just a very very happy user.
Pretty standard - sometimes even provide the technical know-how and the materials along with the urging
Should have named it Monster Mesh.
Experience? When I find that I have been focusing for many hours on a complex task, it is usually something I slipped into effortlessly, even accidentally. The whole experience is pleasant. On the other hand I have tried on many occasions to force this when it wasn’t forthcoming, and on top of being extremely uncomfortable, it’s never worked.

I don’t think I’m completely helpless about it - factors such as sleep, exercise, environment, schedule fragmentation, etc. do seem to be involved, and I can influence those. But it doesn’t respond to force of will in the moment.
The patent's purpose is to incentivize innovation. Some industries need this (medical) others don't (software).

So if you got rid of patents innovation in some industries will be fine (software) and others will be wrecked (medical).

Patents are not the only way to incentivize innovation, and I think it'd be great to experiment with some other ways.

Socializing medicine is completely orthogonal to this issue. Unless you mean socializing drug discovery which would be a completely unproven way to develop drugs at scale.
Things can also change when rising costs of manufacturing due to a unionized, aging, and over-paid workforce cause the company to decide to shut the factory down. It works both ways.
> The post also won a "best of r/science 2020" award!

It was probably awarded by /u/mvea
It's possible the insurrection claims were just crap that he made up. It seems likely the FBI would have been dealing with him back in January, if he were part of the group trying to overthrow the election.
There are basically no walkable/transitable cities in Florida. You could take a train between regional cities, but you would have nowhere to go once you got there. This is the reason the northeast corridor is the only place rail makes much sense.
Pretty crazy that people have been placing so much criticism on response-related aspects, but don't have any interest in the root cause. This entire mess could start over from scratch tomorrow with a completely different virus...but who cares, let's argue about the political response.

I think this is in large part a display of the power the media has to steer what a population thinks about. They clearly don't want the root cause investigated, or even thought about for that matter. We should go one step deeper and question why that is so, and who stands to benefit from that?
For the same reason a getaway driver is part of a bank robbery despite "not doing anything illegal."
In virology and other related biological sciences, the opposite is usually the case. All the most cutting edge stuff either happens in university labs or in the private sector.

The military (in the US at least) has too much red tape and bureaucracy that gets in the way of that kind of fast-paced experimentation.

Source: I was about an inch away from working at the Defense Intelligence Agency after grad school, but this is why I turned them down. After talking to all the people on the hiring team, this was the consensus. They did it because they loved their country, despite those challenges. And this is what my friends at USAMRIID tell me (US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases). If they want to present anything or publish it, they have months of red tape to go through first. They can't collaborate as easily either.

Also you can read books like The Hot Zone (sensationalized, but shows they weren't doing anything that wasn't happening at the same time in academia) or Ken Alibek's BioHazard, both of which describe the past history of bioweapons research and how it wasn't 10 years ahead of anyone else (in the USSR or the US). It was about where everyone else was, but applying it maybe 2 or 3 years ahead of the game.
I see, but if git is not a problem then Coq is also not a problem.
> You understand there are targets for inflation, right? Meaning the goal is not 0%. The problem with the last decade is that inflation has been lower than expected and the strengthening dollar has caused its own problems.

Except John Williams is showing real inflation to be around "9.0% in Aggregate, 16.0% in Goods and 5.6% in Services". Is 9% the target?

> Your citation is that proper don’t like spending their money? Really? That’s exactly my original point about the issue with cognitive biases.

Not sure what you are trying to convey here. It's not like you used any citations. I'm not asking for one anyways. I was hoping to be able to discuss simple logic & simple observations without the need to invoke the "experts" with their narrow fields of expertise. You obviously have cognitive biases as well. I hope you don't think you are some arbiter of truth because you are way off the mark.

>People don’t want to pay and simultaneously don’t want to give up government programs. That is not a rational stance

Government programs are expensive & ultimately don't work. I'd rather have a free(ish) market create solutions. There are few true free markets, since almost every market is regulated (except the "black market"). There are more solutions than the electric grid as it currently stands.

The best solution is for people to be educated on how our climate systems work, our solar cycles, our movement through the cosmos, & the impact of electricity & magnetism on our planetary systems. Not this APGW nonsense that has wasted so much money & time.
Strategically, it is a barrier to entry for small competitors who can't afford the legal defense.

That doesn't mean that Apple and Google are intentionally trying to preserve the legal environment for patent trolls to operate, but on some level it still is in their interest.
Cannabis seems to have SO many useful applications, and yet, it’s still illegal in most places. What’s going on? Is it either “not so useful” and all this I usually read (combating pain, helping autism, parkinson and others) is just publicity, or there’s truly some higher level lobby going on for it not to be legalized?

Btw, I don’t consume Cannabis in any form, so this is a genuine question.
Wait, you guys are using other browser than Firefox?
The Western District (containing Austin, TX) is now having a run for its money. https://www.law360.com/trials/articles/1361545/intel-verdict...
I'm not sure what this has to do with my question.

I'm not asking why the customer doesn't just go to a bank instead.

I'm asking what's stopping you or me from opening a competing payday loan service that charges "only" $110 instead of $121.

It seems to me that this should be a highly competitive industry, the only barriers to entry being some capital, a storefront in a cheap part of town, and a little physical security? What am I missing?
>You're comparing apples and oranges. 14 mutational sites across a virus with 17k ssDNA genome is not comparable to RATG-13 vs SARS-2, which have not just 1200 mutations different, they're spread out over HUNDREDS of SNPs.

If memory serves, that was a single generation. An rdrp produces one error per thousand bases, which comes out to 30 mutations per generation, so we're talking 40 generations away? That hardly seems significant.

>Not particularly. CGG exists in MERS 15 times. NL63, 29 times. It even exists twice in a row in Human coronavirus 229E. Throughout all of the known alphacoronaviruses (94 described) CGG exists 1575 times. In betacoronaviruses, it exists more times than my processor can count without hanging, and I believe it tops out at 9,999 events.

How many of those are in frame for an amino acid? How many of those are two in frame for arginine in a protein, next to each other?

>Why is it so unlikely that synonymous mutational drift over the course of 70 years of infections in millions of viral generations could create these arginine codons that are not the most optimized but still work in the mammals this virus infects? CGG works. It makes an arginine when this virus infects its host.

There are many reasons why it's unlikely. The first is pure statistics. But the statistics are almost certainly influenced by millions of years of biology.

>Why couldn't it be a recombination event between SARS-2 and one of the known coronaviruses with an extremely similar cleavage site?

It's absolutely possible and I would never dispute this. The possibility of it isn't a refutation of the possibility of other hypotheses, and I don't think it's in the scientific spirit to discount other viable hypotheses.
You can push to force Apple to allow other browser engines. Firefox on Android supports extensions including uBlock Origin. Firefox on iOS is only allowed to be skinned Safari

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
I have been workshopping a theory that the printing press was far more valuable in the West due to the small number of characters needed for printing the Latin alphabet compared with Chinese characters.

I'm admittedly unfamiliar with pre-modern Chinese printing techniques, though. Is my theory plausible or am I way off base?
A far more effective rule would be government backed paid sick leave. That might actually do something to slow the spread of covid.

Masks and lockdowns are trivial for politicians to implement. Especially with emergency powers. They don't have to go through any political process to get done. It doesn't even matter if they work at all. It shows they are "taking it serious" and "saving lives". Even if the measures harm society far more than if they did nothing at all.

Actual non-pharmaceutical things that would truly slow covid require 10 or 100x more political willpower than masks or lockdowns.

Masks and lockdowns will very much be looked upon the same way we look at rain dances and goat sacrifices.... it's just humans fooling themselves into thinking they have more control over mother nature than they actually do.
Hybrid from 1916: The Owen Magnetic – Jay Leno's Garage
The proxy-compositor over RPC sounds workable. This is how the Nyxt browser[1] interfaces its Common Lisp runtime with WebKit.

[1]: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org
What a great blog post.

This happens in garbage collected languages too. I've been bitten by this in Java (JNI).

Yes, this needs to be caught by the compiler, damn it. And linters shouldn't complain about style either. Style checking should be a separate and very configurable tool.
You cannot find reasonable explanation of the gear system anywhere. Just "horseshoe magnets" and other clueless gibberish. What is that "speed adjusting" can by the engine? Variable transformer? What is that big "resistor" by the gear? Another transformer?

Looks to me even that the generator and the electric motor are mechanically connected and you control the gear and clutch by adjusting the magnetic field. But that is crazy and absolute opposite what Jay Leno and Wikipedia is saying. This is not a "hybrid" car. This is a "normal" car with a magnetic gearbox.
there were similar conspiracy way back in 2003 when SARS outbreak, except this time in 2019~, the social medias are way more viral than the virus and CCP apparently can't suppress these "contents/info/fakenews" even with the enormous help from WHO