skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpreting some of the evidence it presents.

For example it gives this example research grant as evidence for chimeric viruses being made in the Wuhan lab. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...

This is actually pretty standard virology grant. Nowhere does it say that they are making chimeric viruses.
Note that "S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments" is not even close to "Creating chimeric viruses". This is not the same thing and it would not be rational to compare the two.

The posts claim that: "What this means, in non-technical language, is that Dr. Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. ". That is simply false, they are collecting and testing viruses. They were not creating new ones.

This post also tries to claim that these researches had been doing genetic engineering in past work because of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

Note that Nature added an editors note here: "30 March 2020 Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."

Also note that the Wuhan lab is actually 5th author on this paper. In big publications like this order of authors is very important. 5th author usually means that they had a very minor role in the work. I.e a consulting role. This is compounded by the fact that only 2 people from the Wuhan lab worked on this paper.

It is actually more likely that the "genetic engineering" took place at the University of North Carolina and not in Wuhan. The paper lists a 9 people on the project in the US. Usually the people who do the actual lab work get first author.

Even further what about the 9 other virology labs that are on list? They have about the same amount of contributions to this paper? Why are they not suspect?

In my opinion these are some pretty key details to leave out, especially from a science journalist who should not be hiding some of the key facts here.
In the UK, most freehold boundaries are available as a gml file. I'm looking at moving house and have one open right now in fact, here's a screenshot of it

https://imgur.com/cX2Seow.png

The white area being roads and non-registered land (mainly stuff that hasn't sold for decades and roads).

It's great, I can find a unique owner for any bit of field I have a question about, the size of the plot, etc.

The downside is that to get a copy of the actual entry in the register (to see who owns it and any covenants on the property there are), you have to pay £3. The entire process is digital and automated, IMO it should be free, but I suppose it's not a terrible price.
One past thread:

Forth – The Early Years (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145598 - Aug 2015 (20 comments)

(Also, we changed the url above from https://web.archive.org/web/20160409083846/http://www.colorf... to a more specialized site which looks like a mirror of Chuck's old colorforth.com.)
I wonder if you could at least do something petty, like swap the +12v and GND pins with the Bus+ and Bus- pins on your OBDII connector so it would fry their fancy tool when they tried to read your data.
Legalizing sex work is just papering over the problem here. A lot of men want long-term, committed relationships as well as sex. They want to build families and have children. Allowing them to consort with prostitutes will only solve this fundamental imbalance temporarily.
I don't remember which country it was. I think it was an African country, but I'm not sure. I did find an article [1] about the (failed) eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Brazil, that contains the following quote:

> In 1973, the Pan American Health Organization again declared that Brazil was Aedes-free. The second official eradication period did not last long. In 1976 and 1977, A. aegypti was found in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Bahia, and then in nearly all the Brazilian states.

So, at least three years in their case. Seems you need to eradicate the mosquito from all the neighboring countries as well, otherwise they'll just fly in and fill the void. If you're interested in what they did to declare Brazil Aedes-free (twice), the full article is worth a read:

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343710/
Andy Weir's New Space Odyssey, 'Project Hail Mary'
you have a link to that claim? all i've seen have been for electric vehicles and a mileage at the end of the year on your taxes.
How long term? For 10 years I’d invest in Google but for 100 I’d invest in his company.
Miami Is Planning on Becoming the Next Great Tech Hub
I wasn't around back then, I'm curious what were the business use-cases of AI/ML back then?
I also found this (online) exhibition documenting the whole USA/Canada border rather interesting:
http://www.clui.org/section/united-divide-a-linear-portrait-...

Although from a European perspective, the post 9/11-state of that border also seems somewhat depressing…
Unnecessary ad hominem aside, second hand items are just as likely to have been made by slaves as new ones. The point is that our marketplace is full of the products of slave labour and almost no reliable information about it.
We’ve been developing Observable Plot for a while now, and I’m thrilled to finally have it out in the public. Feel free to ask me any questions! Or share your plots on Observable and I can make suggestions. ;)
Does it come with templates?
I don't know if it's just me but I can't stop thinking about the day Facebook & Co will get bored with selling those stupid ads and will use all their powerful datasets to do more dangerous, scary things.

Will then everybody think "Oh, I really didn't see this coming..."?
How would they know we are driving and not a passenger?
repeating my comment from the last time this was posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039

This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpreting some of the evidence it presents.

For example it gives this example research grant as evidence for chimeric viruses being made in the Wuhan lab. https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...

This is actually pretty standard virology grant. Nowhere does it say that they are making chimeric viruses.
Note that "S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments" is not even close to "Creating chimeric viruses". This is not the same thing and it would not be rational to compare the two.

The posts claim that: "What this means, in non-technical language, is that Dr. Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. ". That is simply false, they are collecting and testing viruses. They were not creating new ones.

This post also tries to claim that these researches had been doing genetic engineering in past work because of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

Note that Nature added an editors note here: "30 March 2020 Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."

Also note that the Wuhan lab is actually 5th author on this paper. In big publications like this order of authors is very important. 5th author usually means that they had a very minor role in the work. I.e a consulting role. This is compounded by the fact that only 2 people from the Wuhan lab worked on this paper.

It is actually more likely that the "genetic engineering" took place at the University of North Carolina and not in Wuhan. The paper lists a 9 people on the project in the US. Usually the people who do the actual lab work get first author.

Even further what about the 9 other virology labs that are on list? They have about the same amount of contributions to this paper? Why are they not suspect?

In my opinion these are some pretty key details to leave out, especially from a science journalist who should not be hiding some of the key facts here.
Literally the first google result of "women identifying as feminst"
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/american-women-and-feminism

And plenty more for the willing student; however an ideology that considers "men are on average taller and stronger than women" to be a controversial statement might understandably place some difficulty on those in need of finding these things.

And funnily enough the definition of a group has nothing to do with how it behaves; or are you suddenly going to proudly identify as a mens rights activist? I suppose its just as well that naming North Korea a democratic peoples republic magically fixed the place overnight as well.
You can export the data Facebook has on you and see what could be used to populate these ads for you.

https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644
I wrote this a year ago, but have been commenting for many years that AI is all hype https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam...

I asked to make a public bet 4 years ago, saying self-driving cars wouldn't be close to ready in 5 years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13962230

I have been hearing this bullshit for over a decade, and people (and investors, and engineers, and smart people who should know better) keep falling for it.
The idea was that all the jobs of someone handling errands for you were automated away and it became a self service thing. Yes, sometimes it is easier to buy something online, no doubt about that but when problems creep in it takes too much of our precious time and from our mental context dealing with things that would be dealt with if those jobs existed.
If those jobs existed in higher numbers you could just call a number and a human responds and assists on the other end of the line.
>If this statement were true then the statement above about Marxism being "a method of analyzing history" would be false. So there's an obvious contradiction right there, just like a claim that a human is a head is incompatible with the statement that a leg is a subset of a human.

I don't see the incompatibility. Lenin used Marxism, a method of analyzing history, to derive a political program for the Russian empire. Not everything that the Soviet Union did was done because of Marxism Leninism - the vast majority was done out of practical considerations, outside of the general guidelines.

>I didn't claim any such thing. You simply asked what did our Marxist government focus on, and I answered. And there's no reason to jump hundreds of kilometers away into the USSR and decades into the past into the NEP period; our economic failures stretched all the way from 1960's onwards all the way to the fall of the Iron Curtain.

You were talking about the focus on heavy industries of the Soviet Union. I explained to you why this focus on heavy industry had nothing to do with Marxism, and everything to do with the geopolitics of the Soviet Union. I gave an explanation that was valid from death of Lenin to the end of the Cold War. It seems to me that my thesis that the Soviet government wasn't a "Marxist government" but rather a government whose political program was initially based partly on a Marxist analysis of history, but were many of the fatal decisions and errors had nothing to do with Marxism.
Checkout differential datalog. Looks super interesting: https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog

But I've only played with souffle, which I am not sure where it lands in this taxonomy. I think it lands on the high temporal locality but compared to differential datalog, the biggest difference in my opinion is the souffle solves problems as a batch (i.e., all the inputs are known at command issue time) while differential datalog may receive inputs at runtime.

There's also incA: which I think competes with differential datalog. https://github.com/szabta89/IncA

So, how I see Datalog (which is a subset of prolog) falling into this taxonomy:

Datalog (batch-processing) would fall under structured/high-temporal locality/internally consistent.

Datalog (incremental) would fall on structured/low-temporal locality/internally consistent.

Looking a little closer on what is defined as "consistent" here, incremental Datalog might not be "consistent" because it might return an "incorrect" or "unavailable" computation for a past input if you "update" or modify the input. But if one restricts the subset of Differential Datalog to follow functional semantics, then that would be consistent. Not really super knowledgable about this projects beyond playing with them and reading some papers on Datalog/Souffle.
To be clear, I'm not saying both sides are the same - that's a value judgment. But it's obviously not a one side is right and the other is wrong situation either.
I don't see the relevancy of rust here, but you're right that at this point any language that compiles directly to machine code will blow any javascript tool out of the water any time.

Of course, perf is only one reason to use a tool, I expect javascript based tooling to stick around for much longer because developers are used to them now. And, of course, if all you know is frontend, everything starts to look like a javascript job.
A lot of things eat mosquitoes. A lot. Fish, other insects, birds, bats, other mammals. They eat ridiculous amounts of mosquitoes. A single bat alone can eat its bodyweight in mosquitoes every day.
Argyle Is Hiring a Python Back End Engineer
https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts
The issue is when people conflate "there's no obligation on any woman to listen to you" with "expression of frustration in a public forum is a character flaw worthy of criticism," or when people conflate "blames women for its problems" with "criticizes toxic gender norms enforced on men."

Imagine a woman who is frustrated because her partner doesn't do any chores or give any indication he respects her. She complains about it online, attributing it to sexist gender norms. Someone says the same thing to her as you say here: men are not obligated to listen to you, your suffering may be real, but please keep it to close friends. If your friends affirm that the reason your relationship is the fault of patriarchy, it's an example of toxicity. It probably makes the most sense to talk to a therapist: they can help you figure out why your way of thinking is flawed and how you can convince your partner to treat you well or, barring that, find a new partner.

That'd be a pretty terrible comment, right?

Toxic gender norms hurt both men and women, but we're only willing to consider toxic gender norms that hurt women as a politicized issue.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. People keep parroting that feminism is about mens issues too but I don't see that anywhere.
Needs to add `apropos`.
Why would that matter to a privately held company?
Exactly my thought. The "So what.

What do I care if Facebook shows me ads for the things I browsed on Amazon or Etsy. I often discover fun stuff directly from those ads for websites I wasn't even familiar with. On the contrary (and I could be wrong to do so) but I trust some website when I have seen its ad on Facebook, as I know it has been vetted by Facebook to not be some fraud.
Someone has to do it.

The real danger is preserving and defending the irrationality behind the status quo.

While rational people care about the environment, irrational self-centered people celebrate Burning Man, travel around the world for conferences that could be done online and buy thousands of single use plastic items for Halloween only to throw them away the next day.

Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order. Take the environment into consideration when making decisions.

Everyone knows what they have to do. Fucking do it.

No more fucking unjustified air travel (is your family dying? no? then don't fucking travel), excessive packaging, single use plastics for non medical reasons, stupid events that can be done online, no more snail mail spam. No more bullshit.

Did you travel to an exotic destination this year? I don't fucking care. I do care about the environment though.

Send polluters to jail, ruin them economically, shame the fuck out of them. Your value as perceived by society should not be how much you pollute or help destroy the environment.

Fuck marketing, fuck buying shit you do not need, fuck the narcissism and vanity. Live within fucking environmental budgets.
> You are making a different argument now that her perceived reality is not actual reality.

I never said that. I said that what she perceived as actual reality (she didn't seem to disagree with all the points brought up by her partner) should be seen as evidence that maybe the goal has been reached at least in some domains. However, she seems to just brush it off and instead say that these evidence that the goal may have been reached are anomalies since the goal has not been reached.

As for income disparities, as long as women are not prevented from graduating with nuclear engineering degrees and men are not prevented from studying English, I don't think equality of outcome is interesting. As long as equality of opportunity is achieved.

Anyway, not gonna die on that hill :-)
this.. would have worked and I would've believe the shirt was made for me..
On a similar note, I love my QC35s for the simple fact that this kind of an interface is available for them in general—I haven’t been able to find other Bluetooth devices that have a controlling app like this, though maybe I’m looking in the wrong places.

Does anyone know of any Bluetooth adapters that have a connection app like Bose Connect that would allow me to add Bluetooth to an existing receiver via RCA? That would be awesome!
Do you have a source for this? I find it very hard to believe considering it's in conflict with the explicit unambiguous wording in their policy.
Over at r/javascript, Sebastian mentioned the business model would be based on providing services. He mentioned things like code quality monitoring and remote cache, so it sounds like it's up the alley of CI/CD cloud platform offerings.

Does seem like quite a departure from the original premise of Rome, but it seems like a sensible strategy. FWIW many companies easily spend 6-7 figures on CI/CD per year, so there's definitely room to carve out a niche there.
Beats writing 20 lines of D3 code to show a simple bar chart! It looks similar to Vega Lite API. One thing that annoyed me about Vega Lite is that it has it's own expression language rather than leveraging JavaScript. I know it's meant to be language agnostic but leveraging existing web technologies is what makes D3 so powerful.
Mine is around 1000 lines. There is a Python and a Perl version. You can see it in action at https://plurrrr.com/. It's available on GitHub: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

I am working on adding tags.
You're genuinely going to try and claim, on HN of all places that no one is advocating for enforced gender requirements in hiring?
>Which one do believe actually does know better and will be more moral?

You literally said that even if the billionaire is right (i.e. knows better how to improve people's lives with philanthropy), he should still give up his money. Your argument has nothing to do with morality, and everything to do with authoritarianism.

>We're talking about paying your fucking taxes for fuck sake.

No, we're talking about a society's allocation of resources. If a government cannot or will not allocate them to the benefit of a society, it has no moral right to them. This entire argument started out of the claim that billionaires getting tax breaks for philanthropy is wrong; that they should instead redirect that wealth to governments to do with as they will. If the actions of the government will do less good than whatever ends that philanthropy would have led to, then it is wrong to demand that the money be wasted that way.

>That isn't a brave stance against injustice, it's trying to justify greed by masking it as virtuous, and that's immoral.

So your argument is that billionaires giving money to philanthropic causes is fundamentally immoral because they are doing it to justify greed and because governments incentivize that behavior by offering tax breaks?
https://archive.is/paI4N
From what I've heard, that was a zero interest loan that needs to be slowly paid back.
But https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ was also down
For sure. Most heterosexual women would prefer sex every 10 days with a very sexually appealing man who is having sex with 9 other women than having sex every day with an average-looking exclusive Schlub. The latter was their life under the proscription of extramarital sex but Tinder allows them the former.
Not if you're in a sexually exclusive relationship.
Hey I'm the author and I can jump into what I actually believe:

Basically, I'm still working on integrating my experience into a rational worldview. I definitely had the experience of meeting entities and speaking to them, and that's hard to reconcile with our everyday "sober" experience of reality.

There are tons of testimonies of people reporting similar things, so that makes me feel less alone in the potential delusion of thinking it's all "real."

Whether it's real or not actually doesn't matter so much to me. The experience is the same no matter if it's coming from my brain or from elsewhere. The only thing that matters is how I live my life as a result after having these experiences.

I've made peace with not having all the answers. If you asked me "Do I believe in God?" I'd say yes. But my definition of God is probably very different from the usual one. Since I now think of God as being an emergent property of communities of people coming together and forming a social contract through shared stories, morals, and goals. Where they are trying to make sense of a shared mystery of life and capture the ineffable transcendental experience into stories and myths. Personifying that into a "real" thing is useful for some, and experiencing that personification is a very interesting phenomena that I don't really understand, yet I've had the experience myself.

Anyways, I hope that's helpful :)
FWIW I don't get the popup in Chrome, only in Firefox. Confused face...
There's a big difference between "I am happier with a partner" and "I am miserable without a partner".
Depends on what you mean by simple. If simple means simple to find a theme and start writing I think Hugo or Jekyll are equally good. (I use Hugo).

If simple means no frills and simple to customize to your liking I think 11ty would be the way to go.

If you don't want to think to hard about it just use Hugo, imo.
If someone who's not a smoker, and who therefore has absolutely no tolerance for cannabis sits in the same room as someone who's smoking (especially someone who's smoking highly potent cannabis, which is very common these days) they're not just going to get "the smallest amount".. they're probably going to get an overdose.
Oh my, after all these years I finally understand in what way Google actually is like a startup :D
There is a whole spectrum of bureaucracy and overregulation in the “West”. The EU is probably worst. The US are quite relaxed in comparison. The UK is somewhere in the middle.
Setting Up a Linux Workstation for Software Development [2021 Update]