skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Child-care workers, for example, give much more to society than they take from it, generating almost 10 times as great a social product as they capture in private wages. Bankers and lawyers, by contrast, capture private wages that exceed their social product—they take more than they give.

Look up the citations for this claim. It all seems like complete nonsense to me. AFAI can tell, they just pulled numbers out of thin air.
OK, and it can also, rarely, be silent ("island", "debris").
Wow, very surprised to hear that those mRNA come from actual living, metabolizing, (albeit single-cell) organisms.

Why do they do it that way?

When you order DNA plasmids from places like Addgene the stuff they ship you is chemically synthesized using enzymes rather than and entire complete living cell, right? I would've thought Pfizer would do the same thing and then transcribe that DNA into mRNA.

Is it because of the massive quantities of material they need to produce?
The WHO directly said that meat is an important contributor to many forms of cancer: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/cancer-carcinogenic...

The problem here is that everyone takes the info they want and discards the rest.

Eating meat is not problematic, if done moderately. But nowadays there is not such moderation. There is meat in every meal.

Fake burgers are probably not healthy too, but this is not proven yet.

Just be moderate with what you eat.
It's not a problem to speak into a mic if you can program yourself to pronounce all 'p's as 'b's. Works great.
I'm not yet vegan/vegetarian, but I am making my way there.

> I really don't get why people are so focused on realistic meat replacement.

100% this. I enjoy Impossible as an independent food, I have it whenever I see it on the menu. The taste and texture are a couple of shades off from beef, but that's more variety at the end of the day.

It's almost a mistake calling it a meat replacement.
I don't know about you but this graph does not say "urgency" to me: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/

Nuclear is not cost-effective or anything-effective when reactors are taking over a decade to build.
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> The article mentions that the graduates of law schools ranked in the top 10 earn 50% more than the graduates of law schools ranked 21-100,

In the end that's what's causing revolutions, i.e. members of the educated middle-class being left out and not getting on the financial bandwagon. Imo it all started with the French Revolution, some people say that it was a bourgeois vs nobles thing but many bourgeois were doing quite all right (think the banker Necker [1]), it was the small bourgeois (and lawyer) from out-of-Paris like Robespierre that was feeling left out.

The same thing happened between the two world wars in Europe. In my parts of the continent (Eastern Europe) there were too many college graduates chasing too few State jobs (the only ones available to college graduates at the time), plus Jewish students crowding them out in domains that were lucrative even if not working for the State (think Law and Medicine). The solution some of those people thought of? Joining the right-wing movement that was advocating for "cleansing the State" and doing very bad things to those Jewish students that were competing for the same jobs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Necker
See how BitLocker solved https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/finding-your-bit...
> that describes pretty well how I feel about my career so far.

Yeah, I have invention that I feel would change energy generation world, but had to wait about 10 years already, because I can't spend enough time to build prototype because I have to earn some money first. Starting a company from your garage is a good idea, but I had to get a garage first.

Just FYI - I'm not whining, I just show obstacles for inventors. For me - I will succeed, it will just take more time.
Exactly. There was an outbreak in a deserted mine in South China in the early 2000's, 6 cleaning workers got seriously ill with symptoms similar to current Corona. See e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.5815...

The leader of the Wuhan team went there with a team to collect samples and animals.
In the early days of Covid, those samples were re-examined and it turned out that the genome of the Covid strain was very similar to the Covid 19 virus. So the conclusion was taken that those bats must have been the origin where Corona somehow started. Somehow nobody at that time thought much about the fact that those samples were kept in Wuhan, exactly where the outbreak started.
There is an interesting peer reviewed paper published last month with analysis of existing facts about the origin of covid-19. A part from their conclusion:

More than a year after the initial documented cases in Wuhan, the source of SARS-CoV-2 has yet to be identified, and the search for a direct or intermediate host in nature has been so far unsuccessful.

The low binding affinity of SARS-CoV-2 to bat ACE2 studied to date does not support Chiroptera as a direct zoonotic agent. Furthermore, the reliance on pangolin coronavirus receptor binding domain (RBD) similarity to SARS-CoV-2 as evidence for natural zoonotic spillover is flawed, as pangolins are unlikely to play a role in SARS-CoV-2′s origin and recombination is not supported by recent analysis.

At the same time, genomic analyses pointed out that SARS-CoV-2 exhibits multiple peculiar characteristics not found in other Sarbecoviruses.

A novel multibasic furin cleavage site (FCS) confers numerous pathogenetically advantageous capabilities, the existence of which is difficult to explain though natural evolution...

source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-021-01211-0
Maybe the title should be changed to something like "Optimizing 70% CPUs away with Rust" ? As it is now, it is quite clickbait-y as you don't have any idea of whether it is 700 out of 701 or 700 out of 70000.
Yeah, I've seen that. When I worked for a FAANG, we were doing the final set of interviews for a (very very good) candidate.

The first question the director asked was "where did she go to school?". Fortunately for her, she went to Oxford, so it was OK. I also remember the US recruiters telling us that there was a list of acceptable schools and we should stick to it.

Fortunately (for me, at least) we tended to ignore that crap in Europe. The funniest part was that my manager moved over to the US, and hired ten really really good people by just looking for qualified candidates who didn't go to one of the acceptable schools. I'm pretty sure all those people are the core of a very good team now.
>I only care about one thing whether that virus came out as the result of aforementioned research

Then you should read what scientists write, not science journalists. If you can't actually understand the science, which is perfectly reasonable given that most of us are laymen, you can read scientific journalists, but then you need to acknowledge that you operate on trust, which would mean you need to take the authors biases into account, and don't pretend you 'only care about the science'.

Wade has been widely criticized on mistakes in scientific accuracy have been pointed out concerning his last books on genetics and race, and he appeared to have some sort of ideological axe to grind. The same may very well be the case here.

It's trivial to misrepresent science in subtle ways to tilt a discussion one way or the other on controversial issues such as this, so author credibility matters.
Today's ten thousand: "Deadnaming" is apparently calling a transgender person by the old name they abandoned, a "deadname" being the name of their former identity.

IMO that's a weird term.
Those of us with dirty minds favor the bilabial fricative.
Why morbid? Even cute and fluffy little critters like rabbits will happily go specifically after flowers with bugs in them if given the chance.

The circle of life is far more complicated than herbivores/carnivores and many animals will happily grab a meaty snack if opportunity arises.
Related: when ideas are young, they must be nurtured like saplings. Too much criticism will kill them, they must be watered and fed to give them a chance.
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Won't this make my telephone service provider + phone a single point of failure?
Good thing it's not SUPER EASY to steal someone elses phone number, and also a good thing that modern smartphones basically NEVER break.

I think I'll just stick with my FinalKey which I can build extras of and which can store the encrypted database and backups offline.
I made a shortcut to Windows 10 calculator at work, and beyond the ridiculous workarounds I had to google to get it to start from a hotkey, it's absurdly slow, like 5 seconds.

I was shocked the first time I did it because Win7 calculator was basically instant.

This is on a reasonable i7 PC with an SSD that is not slow for other office-y things.

Why God Why, Microsoft? You're a multi-billion dollar company. You can't make a calculator that starts quickly??
Consider for a moment that you are both right. That there are in fact heritable biological differences that can aggregate to average group-wide differences like the parent comment implied, and that assuming that this is the case is harmful for the individual and society, like you argued.

If that's the case, the parent comment, while embarrassing for this site, has a valid claim - that at some point blaming everything on the system could become detrimental to everyone.
I enjoyed reading the FAQ tonight, thanks for sharing this.
If that's true, then there's a straightforward experiment that would boost confidence in the natural-origin theory: culture the earliest available SARS-CoV-2 virus, and see what it's good at infecting other than humans. Surely someone has done this?
I was hoping it is like a remote desktop, but with web front-end so instead of pushing pixels it would push text, a bit of styling and media, maybe even some JS. Something like NeWS, but in a browser. Not necessarily WebX11, but that also seems fun.
I am having a similarly bad experience with a Late 2013 MBP after Apple screwed up a battery replacement and the charging port started overheating. I took it to various Apple stores multiple times (they wouldn't do the repair by mail). First time, they didn't even test the charging system; battery cycle count was the same when I picked it up. Second time, they gave the laptop back to me with the bottom cover screws installed in the wrong places. Third time, they tried to tell me it was a preexisting issue or maybe due to a third-party SSD. The people involved are very friendly but none of them seem to have any idea how a computer works, and they seem to care more about managing my expectations and making me disinfect the LCD with an alcohol wipe than they do about repairing a computer they damaged.
> "Don't be a crybaby." "Shake it off." "Toughen up." "Words can't hurt you."

That is different issue. When kids are bullied, these are good for adults, because they force the victim to be silent, so that peace is kept. If you are educator and believe those, problem with bullying is essentially solved.

You don't have to deal with bullies themselves. You dont have to spend effort teaching bullied kid how to effectively set boundaries. You dont have to listen to yelling as the kid is trying to set boundaries for the first time and inevitably failing.

You dont have to do anything, except telling the bullied kid to shut up.
Note that there was an interview with a virologist last October that raised most of the same points as this article :

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-origin-of-sars-cov-2-is-be...
Thanks, finally a somewhat clear definition. It's still a misnomer though.
I feel palpable despair about this. For me it has tended to imply that the work itself is not valuable, for otherwise the incentive system would be corrected quickly.
> Maybe you think the burger tastes different, or has a strange texture, but I certainly won't try to argue that because it doesn't matter.

This is the only thing that matters, to the contrary. Previous attempts at fake meat have not done as well as Beyond and Impossible precisely due to the fact that the vast, vast majority people actually don't care where their meat comes from, they only care about the taste. Yes, on surveys they might say they care about not harming animals, but this is not true in practice, they don't put their money where their mouth is by stopping eating meat.

Indeed, the true innovation of Beyond and Impossible was focusing exclusively on taste and marketing that up front rather than the moral aspects, because people don't care.
WWIII doesn't make a lot of sense. Nothing about MAD has gone away. And it would then be what, China vs. everybody? How would they even expect to prevail?

More likely result is that most of the world would stop trading with them. Nobody would want to see a Made in China tag on anything. Which would in turn be very bad for the economy in China and lead to unrest.

So the more likely outcome would be civil war in China.
It can be made less likely. It's the victim mindset that makes the victim believe it can't be prevented, which in turn prevents the person in question from making changes that will prevent problems in the future.

Chicago cops frisking you all the time -- wear skin tight pants.

Car accident -- use defensive driving techniques.

Being shot and killed for sleeping at a Wendy's -- don't resist arrest.

Wife divorced you, took your house and kids -- don't get married, OR, learn to discriminate.

Sexist manager won't promote you -- join a company run by females, OR, start your own company.

Pandemic -- move to the country.

On the other hand, if you prefer not to solve your problems yourself, you can say "Why should I change, when other people are the ones doing something wrong", fold your arms, and wait for a man to solve your problem for you.
Just one quick find: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/records-found-in-...

> In 2013, Ramsden resurrected another long-lost randomized study, the 1960s-era Sydney Diet Heart Study. Reanalyzing its unpublished data—also stored on old nine-track computer tapes—he found that volunteers who replaced much of the saturated fat in their diet with polyunsaturated fats high in linoleic acid had a higher risk of death from coronary heart disease
> What this evidence shows is that is appeared already optimized.

There are plenty of viruses from animals known to infect humans, viruses that have never been in humans and are not evolved to infect them, this happens alarmingly regularly. Here's a couple you've probably never heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bat_lyssavirus , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra_virus

There is absolutely nothing amazing about covid being able to infect humans, it's exceptional because it can pass from human to human and because it's airborne(ish).
You are aware of how beef is raised, right? From antibiotics to increase mass, to an unnatural grain based diet, to confinement and CAFOs. Beef you get at the supermarket is far from "natural."
Are you suggesting that only positive critique should be allowed? If I was the developer I'd love to hear that user's honest take on my creation rather than the "oh, cool!" type of input.
China can't reimburse the world. You're right. But China is poised for economic hegemony in large parts of the world and has an alarmingly authoritarian government with disregard for human rights. Their handling of COVID ought to be a reason for countries to push back against their attempts at hegemony.

And before anyone accuses me of racism: I am speaking about the Chinese government, not Chinese people, who are the first victims of the government.
feel free to stay dumb then. probably the majority of great scientists before WWII was 'racist' one way or another.

but hey. at least you are virtue signaling
Except that, kids who let slide first attempts at bullying get bullied again and again and again. And it escalates. It also creates a cycle in which a kid that was bullied once is more likely to be bullied again.

The kids who are able to set boundaries, say no, respond etc are more likely to stop whole dynamic even before it starts.
The graphics are cute, but the article left me with way more questions than answers. It spent most of its time trying to impress the reader with how much interstate shipping was involved in the process (who cares?).

No details on which ingredients are the ones causing so much consternation at the WTO right now, nor any answer to the obvious question "why aren't the DNA plasmids made the same way other commercial plasmid services make them"?

But hey, it's the NYTimes. They have to hold the attention of an audience that mostly has no science background.
I think it is useful to distinguish between 'killing an animal for food' and 'rearing billions of animals each year in factories in conditions in which they suffer, and subsequently killing them for food'.

Factory farmed animals does look like a terrible blight on the world to me - what makes you think it isn't?
To be honest I really hope this cryptocurrency and blockchain bullshit fad is dying really, really soon. Lots of promises and bold "ideas". We waste our precious resources on something that just benefits what feels like a few people but claims to bring decentralization. I think you can have all the cool projects without any blockchain/crypto bullshit. Nobody wants to do their due diligence with the regulations though and that's dangerous. We're polluting our atmosphere with something that is broken af.
Then what are you arguing? That it exists and doesn't exist at the same time?
I'm a layperson, but AFAIU GoF research in principle is a good thing. It helps us anticipate future viruses, study how they impact humans, and prepare for an eventual outbreak.

It's obviously very risky to do, but we should focus on adopting and enforcing better security practices to minimize the risks, not ban GoF altogether.
So this is Reason for WASM? The compiler is written in Reason [1]. This might explain its Ocaml resemblance. Some people here mention Rust, but don't forget that Rust inherited some from OCaml as well (the early version of compiler was written in OCaml [2].)

Some say OCaml is a language for writing a language. I thought it was a joke, but maybe that's true for good reasons. (Some compiler textbooks use ML too [3].)

[1] https://reasonml.github.io/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)#Hi...
[3] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/
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Thanks! I've only been back that way a few times since I finished. I'm quite upset that Noodle Nation has folded.
This looks fun. I wonder what kind of applications could benefit from a UI paradigm like this (virtual movable windows inside a browser tab). The only ones I have seen in the wild are demos (the one with winamp and the prank winXP one) and some limited compose/chat windows in Gmail and Linkedin.

This could work for things like Email clients or UI's like Owncloud/Nextcloud. Any app that wants to allow the user to juggle multiple actions at once.
Unfortunately for some of us, it seems like every place we go is toxic. I've had nothing but terrible experiences every place I have worked as a programmer. I've been out of the game for a bit because of health issues, but I do not look forward to trying to find work again. To be honest, I feel like that person who has been in so many abusive relationships that they give up on dating all together.
Yeah I think your anger with the game was justifiable

"Yes please let me download the whole game again because the developer is too cheap to use any kind of incremental upgrade and if you're buying an XBox you have the fastest internet connection available right? RIGHT?"
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Ask HN: Which ANC earbuds / headphones would you recommend?
For context, I rely on ANC earphones quite heavily, and my typical earphone usage is around 12 hours per day.

I'm not a fan of battery powered wireless earphones - in particular because the batteries are not replaceable. Right to repair and all that.

That being said, I currently use Bose QC35ii headphones because of their great ANC - but yeah, non-replaceable battery is a problem. I'm already on my second pair.

Another minor nitpick with my QC35ii headphones is that they flatten my hair in a weird way (I have puffy hear). So I look rather silly when I take them off.

I'm thinking of getting the Bose QC20 earbuds - which reportedly has great ANC and also solves the flattened hair problem - but again, non-replaceable battery.

My dream product is earbuds with good ANC, that are USB-C powered.

Is good ANC with USB-C power even possible?

In other words, does USB-C draw enough power to maintain good ANC?

I've tried the Razer Hammerhead USB-C ANC earbuds but their ANC is mediocre.

I'm on the verge of just biting the bullet - accepting my non-replaceable battery fate - and just getting Airpods Pro, because I hear their ANC is pretty good.

And given my daily 12+ hour usage, I'll probably get 2 pairs so that I can cycle them every 4 hours when the battery runs low.

Sounds excessive, but I put good ANC earphones in the same category as my Aeron, ultrawide monitor, and height-adjustable desk. I'm prepared to invest in my ergonomic productivity.

Thanks!
A fractional share is a new financial instrument operated by the seller of the fractional share.

If you take the example of Robinhood, here's the relevant section[1].

> "I understand that fractional shares within My Account (i) are unrecognized, unmarketable, and illiquid outside the Robinhood platform".

Robinhood remain the owner of the share and retain the voting rights. Robinhood's terms describe how they distribute dividends and voting "rights", but this is a commercial agreement between Robinhood and the fractional share buyers, and doesn't invoke the legislation surrounding share ownership.

[1] https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Robinhood%2... [Section 27]
> In law, graduates of top-10 schools make on average half more than graduates of schools ranked 21 to 100

When you consider where the people who graduate from top-10 schools live, this is neither surprising nor impressive. Most of these law grads live in NYC/Chicago/DC/SF/LA or a handful of other expensive cities. They make good money — starting salaries are around $200k — but they also pay tons in rent, mortgages, private school bills, etc.

Compare this with a graduate of a 50-something ranked law school. This person probably lives in a city or town that where the cost of living is half of NYC/SF. They likely also work fewer hours than their top-10 counterparts. If they are making 2/3 of what a top-10 law grad is making, they're getting the better deal by far.

Source: former Palo Alto lawyer
Similarly on PC, TPM lockout for decrypt PIN after some tries, then BitLocker requires user to input very long generated passphrase (virtually unbreakable, same as Apple's internal key). They can also export encryption key. Of course exported key must be stored to secure place.
If you seriously believe that heated protesters really planned to hang VP Pence, you should also believe that when BLM protesters chanted "kill a cop, save a life", they were really planning to murder all police officers in the vicinity.
I find it amusing if not a bit sad that the best utility for making bootable Linux flash drives is currently on Windows instead of Linux. The current state of making bootable USB drives on linux is actually quite crappy. UNetbootin used to be a good option but has stopped working on a lot of distros. Etcher.io worked great for a while, but has also stopped working for most situations. The built-in disk image creator in ubuntu flavors works, but only for certain situations.

But at least good ole Rufus works :) Wish we could get something like Rufus (or even better, YUMMI) working perfectly on Linux
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Javascript all the things.