skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you took my words in good faith it should be obvious I'm not literally saying there are no other stories reported other than lab leak. Have you seen the stories of Chinese overfishing in Philippine waters? Have you seen stories of the Chinese militarization of islands in the South China sea or in the Bahamas? I've seen thousands of other stories on independent media that are not reported in the mainstream media. And maybe some of them have but they but the reporting is minimal and if you ask the average US citizen, they have no idea about any of these things. Honestly ask yourself in the last decade what percentage of world news reporting has been devoted to negative Chinese content. The answer is not much. And here I am getting downvoted for pedantry. This is what is wrong with the state of discourse online.
Can you elaborate or expand on this? What was particularly novel or interesting about her Amazon Anti-trust Paradox article? Or work since then?

Genuine question. I've primarily seen vague praise of the anti-trust stance (no specifics) and fawning/consternation over her age.
The attribute of "chickenness" is a sorites paradox. So even if you allow the interpretation of "egg which will become chicken" vs "egg laid by a chicken" (which is quite clever, I hadnt encountered that) you are still stuck with marginal difference between mother and child/egg in overall "chickenicity."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Australia's Mouse Plague
In both cases, young and old seem to believe what is in their self-interest.
The reason consumers don't have a seat at the table is that the techology has nothing to do with consumers, other than harvesting consumer's money and data.
Certainly no one in finance ever thought about programmatic regulation of a currency. But your comment is of the type that has the premise "everything that could ever be thought of has been thought of before". Well obviously that isn't true. And it also isn't true that everything that has been thought of and not done is not doable.
It totally depends on the API and how critical of a code path you're writing tests for. For simple GET/POST calls, it's usually pretty easy to do this and I think you get a lot of value out of it. I've used an in-process HTTP server to mock such calls for a unit test, or you can add a layer to the nginx docker image to have a composable mock of the service.
The Anthropology of Childhood: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/05/thoughts-on-the-anthropol... makes a good companion to this essays.
Yes, but there is no worth about any compliance regarding data protection that includes the webhooks. Also company is based in the US so that causes Privacy Shield issues.

Not easy to use this service when you need follow all kinds of regulation and the GDPR
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> Sadly, most zero-tolerance policies exist because getting sued is simply too expensive for the schools to deal with.

No, zero-tolerance policies exist because they are low-effort ways of being seen as addressing issues of political concern (and because minimizing discretion of subordinate staff while avoiding creating an incentive to kick sensitive decisions up the chain is itself desirable to decision-makers); excessive restrictions, like insufficient ones, are sources of lawsuits, if schools were concerned about maximum mitigation of legal risk they would have more carefully tailored policies.

EDIT: It’s worth noting that zero-tolerance policies are sold as necessary for mitigating legal risk, but that's because that’s a more palatable sales pitch than “we want neither to permit subordinates to exercise judgement nor to have to consider details of individual cases ourselves”.
Imagining a crypto-like Layer 2 solution on the banking system
I realise everyone is probably already aware but Adrian's Digital Basement on youtube is a lot of fun to watch. I don't have access to the hardware or diagnostics that he has but I really appreciate remembering what things were like 30 years ago. Electronics is fun!
Despite the undeniably pattern of problematic framings (particularly how Gladwell invites readers to feel that they now have the answers as opposed to the scientific mindset of now feeling that they have so many more questions), I don't think "utter hack" is fair.

Gladwell is not only a superb storyteller, he's sincerely interested in learning himself, has intriguing ideas… it's sloppy (almost in a Gladwellian manner) to be angry about the problems with his approach and then just insist that the conclusion is that his stuff is just garbage and he's just a hack.
I don't think the intention behind "free range kids" is that they get unrestricted access to technology and everything the internet can serve up to them.
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Space/time tourists getting a front row seat to the demise of a civilization?

You know those historical river boat cruises you can take in Europe where it's all tied into history lessons?

Imagine that but for more advanced civilizations and the "UFOs" are actually tourist pods for aliens/time travelers to witness what Earth was like in the years before The Disaster.

Perhaps the incidence of UFO sightings can be a bellwether for how close we are to the End....
Debt collectors are huge data broker clients. (And sellers too - junk debt can go both ways on these markets.) Disgruntled employees leak a fair bit too.
Seems like Forth on steroids. Kind of neat.
And yet they come and succeed. Their educated children move up to the middle class. The article you linked is an opinion piece of a single economist, who is critical of immigration.

If human ability follows normal distribution, there is a hard physical limit of how many people can move up the ladder each year. It physically impossible for every one to be at the same highest level. The good news is all level are getting higher year by year. The pie is growing for everybody.
This looks quite nice, but it's a couple of clicks through to the guide where you can see what this is actually about:

https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/guide.html
I think you missed the point they were trying to make.

They are saying that there will be situations where the government has to buy some product domestically, but every private business and citizen imports that same product. The law would cause a domestic manufacturer to exist with the sole purpose of providing that product to the government. Since they won't have any other customers, or any competition, the price will be high.
Carlin's podcast on this subject, summarizing other well-researched histories, gives a much better idea of why firebombing and the atomic bomb were considered within bounds. The Japanese government was willing to throw away an appalling number of military and civilian lives in order to delay inevitable defeat, or at the very least attempt to bargain for better terms on which to end the war. (Carlin accurately describes this as "a form of political murder.") In places like Burma, New Guinea, and Peleliu, Japanese soldiers were thrown into utterly hopeless actions in order to inflict as many Allied casualties as possible. Beyond this, Japanese soldiers generally refused to surrender, and often had to be killed to the last man.

Firebombing and the atomic bomb, while obviously subjects of internal bureaucratic and ideological jockeying, were considered viable primarily because they might shorten a long and very brutal war. Whether they did so or not is debatable, but we'd be on very shaky ground to debate the morality of the attempt from the comfort of posterity.

I don't particularly care for Gladwell's glib nonsense, but I also find fault with the sort of anti-Gladwell Brooklyn-podcaster history (e.g. https://thebaffler.com/latest/narrative-napalm-kulwin) that engages in righteous hand-wringing over supposed American atrocities, without once mentioning any of the context above, nor Japan's atrocities in China in the 1930s leading up to the conflict, nor the very obvious fact that America didn't start the war.
If you believe this you have misunderstood how iCloud works.
It's a problem with the EN dictionary for hunspell. Probably it's treating "dis" as a prefix and looks for words that allow "dis" as a prefix, but then can't find any suggestions that use "dis" PFX but are like "sapear". The dictionary would be better if it had a rule that it should try to change "dis-s." to "dis-." (treating it as a possibly repeated character).
But when you download the app: “please use safari to pay for subscriptions” :)
In the 90s I walked to school(two busy streets and one market Square with stalls away) on my own at the age of 7, I was expected to leave the house and lock the door behind me on my own(my parents both left to work by that time), make it back at the end of school and let myself in and wait at home for their return.

Nowadays just leaving a 7 year old at home alone would be a crime.
A whole hell of a lot of people who buy into emotionally appealing rhetoric without thinking critically do not deserve to be shielded from blame. There is no shortage of them among us here.
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Dedicated folks that just try and reproduce important papers would be amazing and valuable. Only time I have seen it happen at scale was during the Cold Fusion days.
A few hours later, Johnson went into one of the treatment rooms with Grossman to get a stem cell injection straight into his brain. Earlier he’d provided 5 ounces of his blood, which had then been spun in a centrifuge so Grossman could separate out the plasma and put it through a secret process to “activate the stem cells.” Now, Johnson hopped onto a reclined exam table, lying on his back with his head angled toward the floor. Grossman pulled out a liquid-filled syringe. Instead of a needle at the end, it had a 4‑inch‑long, curved plastic tube, which the doctor coated with some lubricating jelly. He pushed the tube into one of Johnson’s nostrils, told the patient to take a big sniff, then pinched Johnson’s nose shut. They repeated the process for the other nostril. The procedure looked incredibly uncomfortable, but again, Johnson was unfazed, pulling in the stem cells with determination and excitement.
I was recently imagining an experiment classification tagging system: "trial", "reproduced", "peer reviewed", etc. I could imagine this set of information landing on some wikipedia page and the experiment in question would gain a bunch of these tag badges as understanding of the phenomenon matures.
>Over the next few weeks, a company called Kernel will begin sending dozens of customers across the U.S. a $50,000 helmet that can, crudely speaking, read their mind.

Then it’s not really a $110M helmet is it, it’s a $50k helmet
Labor arbitrage is an amazing thing.
Tesla in talks to open its Supercharger network to other automakers in Germany
The lab leak theory was pushed heavily by QAnon and then got picked up by the usual right wing news outlets without actually providing any proof. It made great TV, and also made conservative news outlets a bit of good profit as well.
But since Fox news' (and others) prime time is mostly opinion, not news, it makes it hard to separate what is "fact" and what's someone's opinion stated as fact.

I think what you're complaining is valid, but you need to look at both sides. There appears to be a million different hypotheses for how the first transition to human happened, the lab leak is just one of them. Responsible journalism would have included the other hypothesis instead of highlighting the most panic/profit inducing one.
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There's an incredibly good 7-part podcast on the Australian case you're talking about, if anyone's interested. It's called The Sure Thing.

https://www.afr.com/podcast/the-sure-thing
U.S. Antitrust Legislation Would Ban Apple from Pre-Installing Its Own Apps
This is misleading because at the same time hundreds of other types of crimes, violent and non-violent could also result in the death penalty.

Not to mention that was centuries ago and circumstances were very different. What punishment has completely stopped crime? No punishment can completely stop a crime from occurring, but the problem with insider trading is that the punishment doesn't even get back what was taken, so in a way you're rewarded, not punished.
The major difference is the vast, vast majority of households were single income. "Working mother" was a non-existent thing. Men went to work, mothers stayed home. So if you let your kids roam the neighborhood in the summer SOMEONE'S mom was there to keep an eye out.

I would say, in general, it also lead to more socializing in neighborhoods because while I would never claim that a stay-at-home mom isn't doing a full-time job, there was far more time for them to hang out during the (potential) afternoon lull. Or when kids were at school during the school-year.
How to troubleshoot memory problems in Python
Transformers Connected to Hopfield Networks
Wouldn’t that just leave you with more syllables and less precise language?
I can't decide what I'm more impressed with:

The 110% code coverage, the downloads per month, or the license.
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See also "Free-range Kids"
https://www.freerangekids.com/
Flipper zero's post kickstarter production blog has been amazing. They have been giving a backroom peak at the design and iteration process in great detail. If anyone is interested in manufacturing, toss this site on your RSS.
I listen to podcasts every night while I'm asleep and haven't noticed any residual effects of this despite what's been playing. Although I do own a Simba mattress, use Audible, and have a VPN account...
Tech-note [9c56dcedd9] at [2021-06-14 09:57:01] entered by user robin.hansen on [2021-06-14 10:09:03]:

v0.2.0-alpha released. Module support has landed.
I normally don't have strong brand opinions but I have to say Athletic Brewing make the best non-alc hazy ipa and lager I've ever had. Before them I'd only have non-alc beer at events where people drink, now I'll have a few at home weekly.
Why would a person doing this type of crime reside in the US? I understand quality of life is higher than Russia, but Russia neighbors Latvia--her country of origin. It is confusing to me because if she were there, her activities would have been discovered but she would have had the tacit protection of the state.
lol actually they are now going with "we shouldnt listen to celebrities about these things"
The poors having more freedom on a day to day level is not new. Orwell touched on it in 1940-something when he wrote 1984.
There is a 0% chance that he would ever accept that sponsorship. We're talking about someone who is obsessed with health and performance, and the third most well paid athlete in the world.
He even said recently that he is 36 years old, has been playing professionally for 20 years, and doesn't really care any more.
BBC Select is another option for BBC documentaries if you have either Amazon Prime video or an Apple TV.

https://www.bbcselect.com/
This is an oft repeated talking point, but I’ve never seen any evidence for it.
You can design resiliency to specific faults. Server goes down, bad code deploy, cosmic rays flip a bit. Each resiliency design looks different.
Your list of 2017-2018 phones suggests that manufacturers have already dumped GEA-1 on current hardware.

I kind of suspect that the weakness of GEA-1 is one of those industry secrets that everybody knows but nobody talks about.
Law is more bimodal than a pyramid.

All those other ones you mentioned rely on popularity to determine one's paycheck, which is why they are all pyramids.
Young people are probably better at manipulating phones than their elders, but do they actually have a better understanding of what is happening?

Pointless anecdote, but my friend, who is a well educated non-tech white collar professional in their upper 20s who is very active on tiktok/IG, recently let on that they believed cell phones communicated directly with satellites. I asked them why they thought dead zones existed in the countryside, and they said that was probably because there wasn't a satellite overhead. I asked them why they thought they were called "cellular phones", and after a minute of pondering it must be because the phones are very small.
Yeah I omitted maybe too much in the summary. The paper mentions that 2G is used in some places as a fallback, so operators still support it if the phone doesn't support newer standards.

In fact in Germany, the country of one of the paper's authors, precisely this is happening: 3G is being turned off while 2G is used as fallback for devices that don't support LTE. Apparently there are some industrial use cases of 2G that still rely on it. In Switzerland, they are instead turning off 2G and keeping 3G as the fallback.

IDK how the situation is in third world countries, but note that India at least is in the top ten when it comes to LTE coverage. https://www.speedtest.net/insights/blog/india-4g-availabilit...
Well, what can I say. Sign of the times. /g

You know, you can pick random Jews, Christians, and Muslims (myself included) who'll tell you a variation on the same religious rigor in their families. But the guidance and teachings of the prophet Zartosht are not a 3 line self-help pamphlet. After all, what is "good"? How do you make this determination? To be a follower of Zartosht, means signing on to the cosmic battle between Ahura-Mazda and Ahriman. To aid in the "Renovation of the Creation".

So to sum up, yes, I believe you, and thus consider that your "religion" is basically no different than the "religion" of your contemporary Jew, Christian, or Muslim, and thus not really worth making a distinction about. How is that for a good thought?
> Instead we are just enabling the surveillance state.

It's a sad state of affairs. I honestly believe people actually want this, or have at least been conned into wanting it.

Giving up liberty (in this case, privacy) for the guise of safety is all the rage these days
I thoughts an attest is a form of audit. Can you explain why you think this is insufficient?

And aren't these reports going to take time to complete? Every report in the past took about a month to complete and I don't see why that's a red flag.
As a kid, stickers were the bane of my existence for everything; Legos, Transformers, etc.

I had to decide between doing it myself and having it look like crap, or getting my parents to do it and feeling embarrassed that I didn't do it myself.
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> The lab leak theory was pushed heavily by QAnon

IIRC, what QAnon pushed was beyond the standard lab-leak theory, that it was an lab leak of something created as an offensive bioweapon. I do think that that had the effect of poisoning the well on the plain lab leak theory (one might even speculate that that was the purpose for which QAnon pushed the theory.)
There seem to be two modes here. There's an objective fact-checking mode, and a personal network of trust mode.

This becomes a problem when the personal network is made of people who rely on hearsay, and signals-of-belonging instead of evidence-based information.

It's also a problem when "official" experts aren't truly expert, for various possible reasons - including corruption, incompetence, deliberate bad faith, and others.

It's hard for people who think in one way to understand that others don't think in the same ways.
In the department I worked for as a faculty member, there was an issue where the other areas would have graduation rates around 40-50%, as opposed to our area which was above 95% or so. This came up in the context of an external review.

When people asked around, informally what was said was that the grad students in the other areas (especially one area, in the experimental molecular biosciences) would leave after having to "redo" their dissertation over and over again. Essentially what would happen is they would propose a dissertation study, it would be approved by the area committee, the student would do the study, and it would produce null results. So they would be told to redo it a different way, or to pick a different topic, it would get approved, and the same process would happen again. After this happened a few times, with the student being told they had to produce significant results, the student would grow despondent and leave the program.

What's sad about this is that it's formally reinforcing p-hacking basically, as part of the degree program. But it's even more absurd than what's often alluded to in meta-science writings, because in these cases you would have a formal graduate committee, composed of faculty, deciding that the dissertation thesis is a good one -- that the hypothesis and design are solid, and formally approving the dissertation proposal -- and then because the results are null, it's unacceptable. If this was being done so casually in that forum, I can't imagine what goes on behind the scenes.
That's because if cold fusion had been proven to work, there were fortunes to be made.

Most science has very little market value.
I use the I don't care about cookies Plug-in. My browser forgets all the cookies when closed. Besides several privacy plug-ins, I the the temporary container plug-in.

Problem solved.
Having a single customer doesn't make a monopoly; if anything it gives that customer much more power. There's no reason the government can't do price comparisons even when buying from the US. If you want to sell $500 toilet seats then I'll sell $499 toilet seats. There might even be someone out there who could make them for $498...

Obviously the US can't/hasn't/won't out compete the entire world in all areas but it should be at least competitive.

Competition should extend beyond pure price. National values should be more than politicians talking points. If widget A is made by Uighur forced labor and widget B is made by a middle class labor in a free market, are you willing to spend more for B? How much more?

FWIW - I don't want a blanket mandate either but I don't think you have a convincing argument against it.
Perhaps I should have been more clear. It is nonsense to require frequent password changes. NIST explains why in the above citation. It sucks that many USG organizations not only still enforce this, but require their contractors to do so as well.
My point isn't insider trading in particular but white collar crime in general. Even with your example, why not just make insider trading legal then, if there is no victim per se? Presumably the entire reason it's illegal, in addition to what you said, is because the existence of insiders trading would make the entire stock market itself no longer something where laypeople can confidently say is fair in the sense that risk-adjusted publicly-informed trades are optimal. Presumably said laypeople would exit the stock market after losing confident of it, resulting is less liquidity.

It's like pump and dumps, where the dumps aren't technically making victims of anyone as it's not like they've necessarily realized any loses. Regardless, money is being extracted from the so-called victims one way or another.

in any case, I do agree with your point.
The paper's lead author is the sole committer on that repo.
4 years out of law school is what I was referencing.

I stand by my phrasing. She had (presuming usual timelines) 3 years of work between undergrad and law school. She went from law school student to law school associate professor (on the strength of her viral rewview article).

She has 0 non-academic work experience and will now be regulating entire industries.

In context, that's "so inexperienced".