skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bessemer-alabama-... for a pretty damning take. I just kinda wish it had been published beforehand a bit, so it doesn't seem like hindsight dunk.
I tried the demo in Linux Chrome and it segfaulted when I pressed the "Inflate" button.
I'm very much AMD fanboy and I find RTX quite useless since it's only implemented in few games and work well in 2K only on really high-end cards.

Yet AMD is no different there. They also locked SR-IOV for premium datacenter hardware only and they certainly want to keep some features away from consumers.
The other side of the coin of content filtering is the possibility of snooping and data exfiltration.
I don't really have a lot of money (I'm 300k in debt from medical school and PhD school and undergrad combined) but sure...

if Yuri Deigin or Alina Chan wagered with me, I would probably bet like.... idk $2,000 that it was a natural zoonotic event? Like I said I don't have a lot of money in my bank account. That would be about how much I spend out of my student loans for rent, food, utilities, bills, etc. in a given month.

The problem with a wager like that is that we will probably /never/ be truly 100% sure either way. The thing I would push on, though, is that we would need to set forward exactly the criteria we would use to reassess our positions or give up the bet.

I set out exactly what that criteria is for me in this last section of my original writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...
I've gotten a tour of data center and it's not like walking into an office building. Lot of armed guards, every building required key card and pin code.
They don't know, they're using models and estimates.

The only way to know is to have sick people cough and sneeze on various surfaces and then have healthy people touch those and monitor them.
> You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.

Ah, this is so good. I think you could swap “trick” for “talent” and this would read just as true.
hmm? Genuinely unsure what you mean.
About 117M tons a year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/716037/global-banana-mar...

So about 130 bananas a year per person? That seems like a lot: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=117+million+metric+ton...
Huh. Must have made a mistake posting the original link. Anyway, this is what I meant: https://textract.readthedocs.io
>Why would she lie for her government when they don't even agree?

Fear.
The best advice I was given (when I was a new hire, by my manager) was something along the lines of "You're smart, and you aren't burdened by tradition or seniority. If you see something that looks weird or confusing, ask about it! No one will hold it against you, and your point of view may keep us from committing to something more complex than it needs to be."

I've tried to keep that level of intentional naïveté.
Mitchell & Webb Sound – Identity Theft
How is requiring an ID (which everyone needs to do anything in this country and with the government) denying people the ability to vote?
The LAND Stack, MERN/MEAN for Linux and .NET
"Interested to find out what others feel."

I used to spend hours daily on Reddit while commuting. The "absolute garbage" website you mentioned pisses me off so much that I often just close the browser after browsing 2-3 pages.

I am actually quite thankful they keep paying people to mess up their website for years, I read more books :)
Ooh, good call. I've had so many people tell me that I'm so talented in various areas that I was previously very _untalented_ (such as swing dancing). It was confusing to me for many years until I realized that the hundreds of hours I agonized over fundamentals paid off in ways that people thought I was inherently _talented_.
The dedicated space is the problem. Where can you go that is quiet, and that if you snore, you don't bother those around you? I used to skip out to my car for a nap in order to fulfill those two requirements.
It is just as "fair" as it is for me to compete against LeBron James for a spot in the NBA. Sports are inherently unfair. They take a tremendous amount of work, but it is almost never about work alone. The best athletes are almost always born with physical gifts that are huge outliers.

The truth is that trans women have been allowed to compete on the collegiate and international stages for almost two decades at this point. Where are all the transgender athletes dominating competition. Why doesn't Janae Kroc have a Olympic gold medal? This fear is mostly unfounded.

EDIT: I did a little more research after posting and I will refer you to the words of Kroc herself[1]:

> And yes as hard as it is to believe for some people one year is a sufficient amount of time for HRT to completely eliminate any advantage that person had and there is significant evidence to back this up. This is also why even though trans women have been able to compete in the Olympics since Athens in 2004 we have not had one single trans woman medal at the Olympics...

>As far as going forward is concerned it's all about education. This is so much misinformation out there and so many people talking about how transwomen will dominate all women's sports and yet that has never happened. It's very similar to the threat of transwomen in bathrooms concerning child safety. No recorded incidents ever but it was used as a scare tactic to enact laws.

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/powerlifting/comments/75rd7q/janae_...
For reddit specifically there is more than one free-as-in-freedom app available. I use Slide, and am happy with it, but these days Infinity seems to be recommended more (never tried it myself). Both are GPL or AGPL and available from the main F-Droid repository.
This cartoon was part of YouTube Kids (maybe this is just a mirror, and if it's a mirror, I don't understand why YouTube doesn't remove it, at least on DMCA grounds).

There is so much weirdness anyway there (see for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfFMZQyxB0 posted few days ago )

It's clearly possible to see nobody moderated this content
Plenty of bad track records to go around. You started off saying this wasn't about xenophobia, and sure that's a strong word, but it does seem like 'bias' would hit the mark pretty squarely.
You’ve put this well. But you’ve also highlighted my only significant criticism of UBI. I’ve been poor. So poor getting on a bus was laughable: buying packaged ramen noodles was impossible. The notion that UBI is positioned to replace basic social services means past me couldn’t pay rent and eat again, because no matter how I tried to prioritize shelter rules don’t keep up with reality.

I’ll support UBI when it stops being a libertarian wet dream to eliminate all other social spending and becomes a supplementary cause that lets us re-examine social spending when we can see how it shifts if everyone has “basic needs” covered.
> but I don't know why they were ever separate?

I also wonder about this. I still run both side by side. (I haven't noticed any problems with uMatrix so far ...) All I really use uMatrix for is quick coarse grained 2D filtering of various content types. I don't understand why that couldn't be implemented as an optional "first pass" filtering layer in uBlock.

I realize uBlock can mostly already do what uMatrix does, honestly I just find the 2D UI to be incredibly convenient and intuitive.
Bay leaves are exquisite with a totally unique fragrance and strong flavor. Tasteless would be the last word that I would use to describe it. Must be used dried and in small amounts.
Reading some comments here enlightened me... "It sucks for Joe"? He's got 100 million reasons he agreed to this arrangement, I don't think he gives a shit. Yeah you hurt for him because you think he's suffering under the censorship, but if I were him I'd just laugh at my brainwashed loyal fans, as well as at Spotify which is filling his bank account and is rewarded with hate by a lot of parties (the Joe fanboys, the Joe haters, the Joe haters employed by them...).
Every industry disruption starts out this way... by solving some problems, but faster, cheaper, or better.
It is possible and actively used but in this article my point is like an universal engine for ,big data and databases that need speed, as I mentioned in name Type-based. You cannot used a grammar algorithm in only number based data.
Yeah people say the docs are unapproachable, but I agree the docs are too much "here is how to do a bunch of random things" and not enough systematically describing what Nix is.

Reference first, then tutorials.
One of the things we discovered in the 20th century was that people do not always act rationally, even when it's in their own best interests. This cuts across political ideologies, education levels, income levels, race, religion; whatever. It's a feature of human beings.

Often when I hear that people need to be educated about some issue, what I understand the speaker to be implying is that the reason a person disagrees with them is due to ignorance, when that's often not the case. We may think we arrive at our opinions based on cold logic and inarguable facts, but in reality there are many more factors that influence all of us.
> Take for instance malloc. It can return NULL but you don't check for it, because that's just the way it's done.

malloc is worth null-checking, if only to assert/panic/breakpoint/fatal early and cleanly.

Even on linux with overcommit, it'll return null on memory space exhaustion, which can easily happen even in a 64-bit processes if someone feeds your program maliciously crafted data with an oddball size. A crash dump at the point of allocation failure, when the sizes are still on the call stack / in registers, instead of minutes later - when the pointer is actually used - is also a vastly better debugging experience when fuzzing for such bugs.

If malicious data can control offsets into the (null) pointer, an allocation failure can turn into an exploitable buffer overflow (just make the offset large enough), even if the offset is bounds-checked against the "expected" (even larger) allocation size.
Ok, this is perhaps a pedantic rant, but this term "free healthcare" is not valid. Money came out of citizen's pay checks to pay for the healthcare.

Why do we keep using this term? There is no such thing as free healthcare. There is taxpayer paid healthcare. I'm not being critical of taxpayer paid healthcare. Those countries made that choice as to how they would pay for healthcare. Cool. Sounds like a good choice. But can we stop calling it "free" please.

Education is also not free... Rant off. Sorry for the interruption.
> 1.3. you cannot take any virus known in nature (like Ratg-13 for example) and "cook" it for long enough or in any specific way to make it look like SARS-CoV-2.

Military lab can do it. Virus can be cooked long enough in hosts with depressed immune system. Soviet Union did such experiments before.
http://monstermash.zone/
ah yes, good will, the thing we all definitely have for Google
Out of curiosity, why not a fan of PG?
A family member recently suffered a horrific accident that left them with sTBI. This article definitely gives hope for potential future therapy options.

But just a gentle reminder of how fragile life really is
The opposite, actually.
2 years from now someone else's AI is generating content based on your content, a year later someone is ripping them off, a year later another script is filtering out the most useful stuff from the second guys stuff and its actually good content.
Reparations.
I dunno, your logic is sound for people who are not in desperate straits, but people make significantly altered (but still rational) risk assessments under duress. If such people are able to get short term funding at any cost, even if they know they can’t repay it, then the personal risk of the consequences of that decision could well rank far lower than the consequences of the alternative, which is for example that your kids starve. That has nothing to do with literacy or saving people from themselves and more to do with access to emergency funding and information.

Even if we accept that payday lending has a place, I think most payday lenders benefit from this equation and certainly contribute to the poverty trap: even if most of the debtors end up getting (likely minimum wage) jobs, they now have the added burden of repaying the onerous rates that they agreed to while under extreme duress. And that duress is the thing that seems to be missing in your calculus.

The problem with payday loans is not the theoretical application of debt theory but the rational risk taking of people with no other (perceived) options: under almost all circumstances, it is better to be starving next week than it is to be starving today.
And the difference is what? If I have no "talent" on guitar but I practice for thousands of hours until I can "trick" you into thinking you're listening to Hendrix...
> there is clearly a process/system in place to determine whether an episode should stay.

Which system are you thinking of? There is probably just a content moderation group that makes aye/nay calls. A system is something like judicial review of police actions, or that strange independent review council that Facebook is setting up.

Spotify's 'system' is going to boil down to someone making arbitrary calls. There isn't a science to it.

> Sorry, I just don't see how these decisions could be considered unreasonable.

Millions of people endorse Joe Rogan, he is a benchmark of what acceptability means. Joe Rogan talking about something is almost definitely marking it as something that is a matter of interest to the public and a legit topic of conversation.

He is far more qualified to decide what is and isn't acceptable to his audience and the public discourse than Spotify, some random corporation filled with people who passed a job interview.

Censoring his content is unreasonable by default, unless Spotify has a really compelling argument.
This guy needs to know about BGP.
The Wayland protocol was released 12 years ago. Compositors have only really been implementing it within the last few years.
Just to have fun (as you probably thought you were having with me, even if subconsciously), I'm reviewing a few of your points "in the hopes of improving the contributor" (presumptuous and prissy!), as you said about me:

Poor command or at least poor usage of language, even though guessing English is your native tongue:

Minion, one does not say:

>a comment worth discussing as poor

Instead, one says something like:

A poor comment.

Or even:

I did not like that comment.

KISS!

>They clearly have good information to share. We would all be better off if that was what took place.

Ahhh. The vain and unwarranted use of the royal "we". Sadly, "we" can see that "thee" have (or is it "thou hast", I don't care, ha ha) aspirations of greatness beyond thy abilities, as said in a sibling or nephew/whatever comment, varlet :)

Also, how doth thou know that they have good information to share, if thou implieth (above) that such did not take place?

Har de har har.

<Guffaws some more. Exeunt right.>
I use DoorDash with no issues on Firefox, with both uBlock Origin and NoScript running, some but not all stuff whitelisted in the latter.

I also have some "unusual" settings in about:config that I mostly don't even remember, for instance disabling service workers outright.
Could they look for evidence of the virus from anyone who worked at the lab?
I don’t know about New Zealand, but nowadays in Australia recent births deaths and marriages records are only available to their subjects and close relatives. Two reasons (a) privacy (b) helps prevent identity theft, since birth certificates (and sometimes also marriage certificates) are often accepted as identity documents
I think you can blame "agile thinking" for that and the general laziness in product planning which is so typical of the last 10 years.

We went from recognising that requirements may change after planning to zero planning and telling developers what's the next priority for the day, day by day.

This lack of planning and product definition is also what drives the lack of documentation, which is another big problem in 2021.

I don't expect going back to waterfall but also not what's going on nowadays. Hopefully we'll bounce back in the middle at some point.
Is it that weird if I actually want one or maybe a pair?
Is there a citation? The literature is upfront about the JMeq joke, by contrast I've never read anything about this topic.

I'm neither English nor French. I've never seen anything else than a rooster in the name or the logo.
Different opinions! The horror!
>> Didn't Walmart do this in a lot of small towns? And sometimes just pack up and leave? What happens when they leave?

I think a good question to ask before is what happens if they dont come in the first place? If I were a resident in a town wanting jobs, i'd probably be more excited about jobs arriving than the possibility they might eventually disappear.
Is a “broken business model” one that requires you to pay for extra additional features?

If Nvidia enabled all their professional features on all gaming SKUs, the only reason to buy a professional SKU would be additional memory.

Today, they make almost $1B per year in the professional non-datacenter business alone. There is no way they’d be able to compensate that revenue with volume (and gross margins would obviously tank as well, which makes Wall Street very unhappy.)

That’s obviously even more so in today’s market conditions.

Do you feel it’s justified that you have to pay $10K extra for the self-driving feature on a Tesla? Or should they also be forced to give away that feature for free? After all, it’s just a SW upgrade. (Don’t mistake this for an endorsement...)
> The security paradigm is blacklisting [...]. Since the vast majority of Software on FOSS system is trusted X11 is the far superior solution here.

This is absolutely not a good solution. Even if you audited all your software enough to consider it trusted (which is unlikely if you're not a purist - see IDEs, browsers, widevine, Docker ...), it does not guarantee anything is secure. Anything that receives input from the outside might be vulnerable to an RCE. If you're running it under a different user or in a jail, the impact is limited - unless it can access your X server, in which case it can simply log everything you type and escalate.

Jailing an app is basically impossible under X. Yes, you can use Zephyr, but you're not going to be able to watch a video there and you're WM integration is going to be miserable as well. And realistically you'd really need to jail most apps.

X11 might work for a lot of things, but blacklisting is absolutely not a superior approach.
The 80/20 rule gets interesting when there is competition in the mix. Why should I see an 80% good magician who spent 20% of the time, when I can see the 100% one? Spending 20% of the time thus gets you ~0% of the money.

The same actually goes for tech too, but here the answer is often that the 100% product isn't on the market yet, and by the time it is finished the need for it no longer exists.
The too-risky one is another part of the trick where the magician is putting in a ridiculous amount of time, in that case practicing in front of a mirror.

Or maybe indeed the magician doesn't use any of those. Another aspect of magic I've read in profiles of Ricky Jay and Teller is that they hunt down and pore over old magic books, looking for less-common techniques and setups to adapt.
Self-Propulsion
Blood Clots Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine Stem from Rare Antibody Reaction
I am not confusing HSA and FSA, but my wording was likely confusing.

When I said "i don't personally touch it", I didn't mean that I avoid it. I just know that it is a part of my benefit package, i get contributions in there, but that's about it. I don't even look at it or interact with it in any way otherwise, because I am not planning to use it until much later in life.
Note: you'll probably want to copy/paste that URL instead of clicking it, because unless something has changed (e.g. browsers not sending referrers), JWZ had/has a Referrer rule that will show something...else for anyone coming from HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
If we know someone is going to commit a crime like this, shouldn't we just go talk to them and say, "hey, I know you are frustrated, I have scheduled some time with someone to talk about it"

A thousand years from now I sure hope we aren't setting up dumb traps for the people that need help.
Interesting, I blacklist googletagmanager.com in NoScript and have never had that break a single site.
Nope, we don't have any fowl here other than domesticated chickens and the occasional wild turkey family. Also Wild Turkey.

The word "peacock" is now only really useful in streaming TV.
There was never a consensus that SARS-2 couldn't pass human-to-human. Just because WHO said it doesn't mean there was a consensus.

There was also never a consensus about masks, the US government and a few US virologists just felt that way. Asia and a lot of Europe definitely did not feel that way. I would urge you to be as non-America-centric as possible because the consensus that the virus is very likely not a lab leak is also global in character.

I actually know Dr. Lipsitch and have met him at a conference or two before, and he's not wrong in a lot of ways, it should be investigated to the fullest extent possible, I would absolutely agree with that and have never disagreed on that. China should allow in international investigators from unbiased third-party institutions with expertise in the relevant areas.

The problem, of course, is that it will likely be impossible to prove it either way. The closest we could get is identifying an extremely close relative of SARS-2 in nature, in bats or w/e, in an area where we also find Human seropositivity (antibodies in the blood).

On the other side, we could find a sample of SARS-2 frozen and old in a chinese lab that shows they had it before the outbreak.

I detail which things I would want to see to at least reassess my position in this part of my original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...
I had a policy of never touching a 3Com card, based on their marketing alone.
>FBI agents found in late January from another source Pendley contacted using the Signal encrypted messaging app that he was planning to use C-4 plastic explosives to attack Amazon's data centers in an attempt to kill "70% of the internet."

How did they discover this? I thought signal was e2e encrypted?
The game industry uses CLIs in text adventure games, besides all their development tools. Many games put out utilities to enhance thier games, some of which have CLIs.
> despite zero evidence

Zero evidence because independent third parties have not been given access.

An event of this magnitude requires a free and fair scientific investigation.

Absent that, one theory is as good as another.

Downvoted as always by the irrational.
>The one clip you happened to find at the top of your google search does not constitute everything he ever said on the topic.

I never said it did constitute everything he has ever said on the topic. However that isn't the point. Not every episode is being removed. Only some of them are. He can be accepting of trans people on 99 episodes and it doesn't undo being transphobic on the 100th.
It is also possible his opinions have evolved over time, but we aren't judging his current opinion. All that maters is what was said on the specific episodes being removed.

>What does any of this have to do with promoting hate or violence? Does thinking people should compete in this or that competition somehow mean you hate them?

You are the one who brought sports into this. I simply stated he has been repeatedly accused of transphobia. His opinion on sports is part of that, but it isn't the only time he has been called transphobic.
Which problem exactly? Not being able to sit down and code for more than 2 hours?