skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US spy networks in China have been "rolled up"[1]. They don't exist in a usable form (if the news is to be believed).

As for the "until Joe Biden" bit, er ... no. Trump was kicked out in large part due to his incompetent handling of the virus in the US (he thought it was an orchestrated attack by his political opponents, given that they turned everything into such an attack).

The virus was a problem long before Biden won. Not that he is more competently handling it (he isn't), but the news media can now largely let go of their Trump derangement to start focusing on important things again. So it shows up more.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/905779/CIA-China-Jerry-...
> Right. But nobody is asking you to dispense of the category of women, what we're doing is we're agreeing with you that the category is fuzzy and we're saying that genitalia and sex assignment at birth are not perfect criterion.

In fact we are being asked this. Which is why trans women are competing with biological women in sports. How is that not dispensing with the category of "biological women"?

You don't seem to realize it but your entire argument is based on undermining the category of "biological women" by showing that it isn't "real". You've typed a lot of words attempting to do that.

> I disagree that trans women mean that these political/philosophical goals can't be achieved. To me, this is just gatekeeping, I don't see a real motivating need for this kind of exclusion. Trans women do not have an agenda to take away women's rights, many of these people are feminists themselves.

All categories are "gatekeeping". To say X is X and not Y is "gatekeeping". This is why "gatekeeping" is such a dumb term.

> The absurdity is not that you have different opinions about the definition of a woman, the absurdity is your implication that acknowledging the womanhood of trans women is tantamount to saying that their experiences are completely identical to cisgender, AFAB women, or that it's destroying some kind of sacred bond. That position is absurd because cisgender, AFAB women do not have identical experiences with each other.

I don't define everything by "experiences" so this is all gibberish to me. But, again, we are being asked to deny the distinction between biological women and trans women. This is very explicit. You're choosing to ignore it because it's inconvenient to your argument.
"What’s happened here since 1776 has not been a historical fluke.”

Revolution!
I don't see how your quote disagrees with what the OP said.

It doesn't claim either that they had bats in the lab.
It’s much easier with the extra space on an iPad. There’s a git client called Working Copy that works well, and an official GitHub client.

Also consider PyTO for Python on iOS. It’s fully open source and in active development, but much less polished than Pythonista which unfortunately has been moribund for several years now.

Further development options include Codea that’s an excellent Lua dev environment, and Apple’s Swift Playgrounds that provides access to SwiftUI, and later this year will enable uploading apps developed in it to the store.
I'm founder/CTO of a successful SaaS company with 10+ years of code evolution in the same Django codebase. I tried and tried for years to make fat models/model managers work. I feel like it just doesn't work.

It's just not composable enough. You can't reuse business logic in web views, forms, admin views, API, background processing, etc... time and time again the Django tooling gets you 90% of the way there, then leaves you with no way to do what you need done cleanly so you one-off an ugly solution to it. Soon you code is littered with them.

We ended up with a solution much like this article and despite it being a bit of a pain it always works in all contexts.
I am an agender exclusionary radical feminist
I'd much rather have China admit fault and explain how this won't happen in the future than the current situation. As it stands I assume they are hiding something. For all I know they're developing bioweapons they plan to use for military purposes. And if they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to apologize for, but as it stands nobody is allowed to investigate so I have little faith in this theory.

I'm not pretending this isn't a political clusterfuck. But I'd rather deal with a political clusterfuck than a bioweapon clusterfuck. And if they aren't developing bioweapons then great! If they are developing bioweapons then that feels like something that's better to know sooner rather than later. And if there wasn't a lab leak then even better! Now the world knows that it really was just a bizarre phenomenon. If there was a lab leak then they simply made a mistake, they can rectify that mistake moving forward, and the world moves on. If the world doesn't move on - what are they going to do? You think the US (or any country) will go to war (as in send in troops in huge numbers with the understanding most of them will likely die) with China because of an accidental lab leak? I don't.

It seems to me the dumbest possible thing to do is not investigate. I don't believe advocating for ignorance is ever a viable strategy.
It is a political thing. Japan has DDBJ (https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/index-e.html). EU has ENA/EBI (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home). Maybe China wants to have its own.

More Chinese institutes are encouraging their scientists to deposit human bio-sample data to their own servers. Some grants even require them to do so.
TechIngredients did an interesting design for a swamp cooler using liquid desiccants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4rg3UcsgI

Haven't yet built one myself, but it looks like a sensible design for climates that aren't overly humid.
You said it. One example I find somewhat relevant is the Boston bombers. They were young people in America, with little connection to their local Muslim community. But, like many young people, they were obsessed with identity. They joked about jihad, they bought a license plate holder that said "terrorista#1" for a friend, etc. They perceived themselves as Muslims (despite not following Muslim practices), had a thirst for identity, and sought out that identity online. When that thirst intensified, it drove them to radical communities, they started following those practices that they were told people of their identity _should_ follow, and it eventually led to tragedy.

How does this story go if they hadn't been obsessed with their identity as Muslims or if they had gone to the local mosque to ask about Islam instead of seeking out radical Muslims online?
Dang, have you ever flagged a comment that was popular but was wrong or offensive? (It's easy to flag unpopular comments. But surely not all popular comments have merit...)
I understand the comment - my point was that I don't consider being an auto mechanic to be a low status, or shameful profession to begin with - hence my original reply to begin with. I believe it is you who did not understand the point of my original comment. Oh well.
I actually think it's kind of cool when things are a mystery
I'd love to get a mini split, but it seems like all the contractors around here are booked out a minimum of 3 months.
I don't know if it is. But even you agree it plausibly explains at least part of the effect. All you offered is your personal incredulity.
I'm not an expert on US history, yes. I was aiming for "well before 1900, about the time of the first industrial boom" and "slightly before the mergers and acquisitions craze of the 80s".

The US had the or one of the best fed, healthiest, best educated populations in the world around 1900. That was a clear success and it didn't start then.
Wow, you weren't kidding. I don't know how recently these were recorded but it's to cheap these days to get good video I get really annoyed seeing good material wasted by bad AV
The concept around ‘deploy requests’ is really interesting. GitHub established a solid mental model with ‘issues’ and ‘pull requests’, and so I am curious to see if the concepts PlanetScale has will become popular and easy to understand too.

I don’t quite understand if I’m suppose to deploy a schema change to my database before I deploy changes to my application code? Is there a certain workflow this fits into? Is it meant to be used with a build pipeline where updating the schema in my hosted database is just one step?
Might I ask where you found a $16/year VPS, and whether you'd recommend the provider?
That is a very USA view of the work place. The part that I most appreciate from casual chats in the office is the non-productive part. To hear people laugh, to chat about vacations, to humanize your colleagues has a lot of value. That creates an environment were I want to work with them, and not only because I am paid to do so.

I have seen the devastating power of fights between departments and teams when the human side is broken. When we are not all humans trying our best, but we are employees with local loyalties it is easy to see others as an enemy instead of an ally.

Humans are great collaborators, but we need to have human contact. Screens, microphones, cameras and delays in the hundreds of milliseconds for each gesture are an impediment and require extra mental effort.

But, I guess that an important difference between USA and Europe is the stress of commuting. European cities are more compact and with way better public transport, so, maybe in the USA is justified the extra effort just to not have to spend hours in a car to get to the office. That also has its toll in health and all that stress hampers collaboration.

I just hope that remote work is not just a hack to not fix the real problem, that it takes too long to get to the office, that more investment is needed in public transportation.

I am also curious on how this works in other places. China has great public transport, and was not affected by the pandemic in the same way that the West. Are they going to stay in the office? Or remote work advantages that I cannot foresee and China would also follow that path? South America? Africa? Is this a new divide between the North and South hemispheres? These are interesting times.
> The difference is that RCV results in the "least worst" candidate winning.

This isn't quite true. IRV actually increases spoilage[0]

[0] https://medium.com/election-science/star-voting-is-simpler-t...
I see it being compared to demanding people call you "King Robert (the Beloved) III, the Resplendent." Is it disrespectful not to meet their demands because it makes you feel silly? At what point are you allowed to say that they require excessive external effort to help them maintain their identity?
Portable ACs are the right tool for some people. Another thing to think about is noise - they're actually louder for you the consumer than window units, but in some cases that's a good thing, because sometimes your neighbors start to complain about the noise to your landlord if you're renting.

One more plus is that if you're in a climate that only gets that hot a handful of weeks a year, then for the sake of your window unit you should really take it out to prevent rust and other wear, but that's a huge hassle. You can just wheel the portable AC into the closet.

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tl;dr they do suck at cooling in comparison to window units, but they're probably the right thing to get if you're renting in a cool climate.
At what point does killing an animal not really matter? For example, we squash bugs and don't feel bad about it but killing a dog is frowned upon.

This is not a gotcha, I'm genuinely curious.
LA already has to import water.
They actually do, it's just somewhat distributed.

https://01.org/lkp/documentation/0-day-test-service

https://linux.kernelci.org/job/

"kernel test robot" example email: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/202102070253.xooT3PWR-lkp@int...
Have you thought of going on the Django Chat podcast to talk about your book? Seems like a candidate for a great episode!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/django-chat/id14515364...

Not sure how to get on the guest list, but probably someone on HN can help…
The inquiry wasn't political until Trump made it political...as a tool to distract from his ongoing desire to ignore the pandemic as an issue.

In 2020 the questions people wanted answers to were "what was the government doing" and "when was relief coming" and "we need masks and ventilators are you going to distribute them". The only people who seemed to think the answer to all those questions was "well firstly we need to consider if this is China's fault..." was the White House.
It was leaked on purpose, of course.

The climatist junk can be safely ignored.
Yeah, I’m closer to DeBoer on this than the median center left individual
No, they have various testing platforms and harnesses, but they're very component oriented. For example people doing filesystem development will use https://github.com/kdave/xfstests for validation. Others will use different tools.

At Linux kernel level you can't effectively have "a CI". Unless you have massive amounts of funds and time to invest of course. I'm sure MS has some complex pre-release automation.
try a DIY Mr. Cool.

They are easy to install for anyone that has a little xp in home diy projects. I'm on year 2 and I love mine in the garage.
A friend of mine that is a Canada & US dual citizen got royally screwed by the IRS. Canada has tax free savings accounts (TFSA) that are essentially retirement accounts that are similar to Roth IRA in the US, except with a lot less restrictions. He had opened his TFSA account in Canada when he was 18 and was investing since then. Eventually he got a green card and became a US citizen. It was at that point he realized that the US doesn't consider the TFSA to be a retirement account and that it's fully taxable. This is an account he had prior to moving to the US / having anything to do with the US, and he had to pay taxes on it.

I can't remember if the amount was exempted under $108,700 but I don't think it was given how mad he was that he closed the account because the paper work wasn't work dealing with.

My dad's friend told me a horror story about his friend's mom who was born in the US while he parents were on vacation but she never lived there. The mother is currently retired and is collecting a pension, then she got a letter from the IRS saying that she owed back taxes because she's a US citizen and never filed.
This is true - I would love the validation the most!
You also get robust undo/redo for free I guess!

One thing that’s unclear to me: once all replicas are in sync up to a certain event (which should be trivially determinable here), can’t you go even further and discard all past events and replace it with the resulting state snapshot? Or maybe that’s what you mean with compacting 10 to 1 above? Obviously at the cost of the undo history :)
Dang mentioned the following a couple of months ago:

> HN gets 1400-ish submissions and 12,000-ish comments a day, and 5M-ish users a month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867761
We don't have an obligation to call somebody by their real name nor should we have an obligation to use their preferred pronouns. We should do it out of respect, but we shouldn't be obligated to do so by law or some other rule.

I've not seen someone suffer negative consequences for calling someone else the wrong real name. I've seen instances of negative consequences for someone using the wrong pronoun though.
> The government can't order you to include a backdoor.

Right, but it can order you to turn over your private keys, like it did to Lavabit[0]. Intel might instead voluntarily hand over a signed backdoored firmware, targeted at a specific set of CPUs, rather than the keys themselves, which could do more damage if the government lost control of them.

Similarly I don't suppose it would be much harder for the NSA to get access to the physical servers that Signal is running its software on. Perhaps you could say that merely having the access credentials wouldn't be enough information for the NSA to take control of Signal's servers without them noticing, but any cloud provider that wants to do business with the government surely has special backdoors that make this easy, when presented with an NSL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
Goodreader is an excellent PDF repository and reader if you have a large library (I’m a TTRPG gamer) although you can get by with iBooks.

I find Google Drive and Google Docs indispensable, but Notability is also excellent. The built in notes app is surprisingly capable though, so you might as well check it out.
I think part of the appeal of git{hub,lab} is that the ones who won't want to figure out the email workflow are mostly there; there's no friction of having to sign up for yet another forge. sourcehut users are probably more likely to be ok following the kernel's normal workflow.
"Trump claiming to donate his presidential salary was frowned upon"

Literally every recent president has done this. It only implies that he has enough money to live on and doesn't need a salary. If he hadn't donated it the media would have exploded. I'll add that to the list of instances where people would hate him no matter the decisions he made.
If every country in the world, who was affected, learned this, I assume there would be very appropriate discussions within the leadership of them all. Talking about this, and worldwide agreement to prevent it from happening again, would be a fantastic response.

If it was intentional, then they're incompetent. I don't believe they're incompetent.
I don't think Los Angeles is arid enough for swamp coolers to be effective enough to offset the water usage. You need something that works for the days that are hot and humid, cause those are the worst.

That said, if you go to the outskirts to the east, like Riverside, they're a lot more popular.
I currently live in a condo complex that bans window air conditioners and ductless air conditioners. It's portable or nothing.
You should be careful about using the LEGO® name in any "official" capacity. They're notoriously litigious about naming and designs.
Tucson copter cop says mysterious, ‘sophisticated’ super-drone ‘like no other’
For the record, in case it wasn't clear, I was talking primarily about US. But if we must compare, in some parts of the world anything under the LGBT umbrella is considered a crime punishable by death. I'm not aware of any place in the world that considers killing toddlers with disabilities legal.
> It was only a way to move up into and through the middle class.

And failed miserably even at that. Incomes have remained the same – stagnant, to use more common terminology – through the rise of post-secondary education. Nothing has been gained, only lost in direct and opportunity cost.

All post-secondary education has shown is the those who have greater privilege, like not being born with a crippling disability that leaves one to struggle in school, tend to do better in school and have less struggles in the rest of their life because of those privileges.
China covered up SARS too and to a much greater extent, and we know that it was zoological. So my prior disagree with yours
I have used Kotlin and KTOR and it seems to do well, are your data types unknown prior to runtime?
Is that because there would be no consequences if I showed up to my job and started calling every customer I talk to "Frank"?

Or is it because deliberately going out of your way to call people the wrong name to make a political point isn't a thing that anyone does, so nobody has needed a rule to make them knock it off?
Well, I guess I think the same about the constructivist position.

> In the constructive sense, we don't know the real numbers except the ones that can be talked about using concepts that are more intrinsic to our reality such as rational numbers or circles.

I accept that as being true.

But then, to say that you can fit "all of existing mathematics" feels like you're saying that you can fit everything that fits, and everything that doesn't fit is defined to not be "real" in some sense. That is, it feels circular - like you're so far down the rabbit hole that you can't remember that there's a world above ground that also exists and has validity.
Server seems fine, I think it just doesn't work on Safari
It’s unlikely for a SARS virus to escape? It happened twice in Beijing in the same lab
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/

The only reason we know is that this is pre Xi China.
I've heard of these - I'm surprised it's taken so much time for someone to just think of a pre-charged lineset and compressor with valves you can open.
Author here - Not upset at all, but I can see why you would think that. The tone was perhaps overly-aggressive, but we are talking about it so that's good I guess. I'm not nearly as confident in the arguments as it may seem.

I guess I'm not nearly confident as you are that a would-be "genius" will just figure it out. From another comment here "This was the most important part of the Malcolm Gladwell book. That chapter, *Trouble With Geniuses Part 2, compares the lack of success by super genius Chris Langan to Robert Oppenheimer who graduated with honors despite attempted murder of a university faculty.

Anybody who has submitted a proposal to a standards body knows this experience. It does not matter how amazing or ingenious the idea is. The most important thing is to achieve buy in from highly skeptical people. The idea can be garbage, but if there is enough charisma and popularity associated people will eagerly polish the idea for you.

The lone genius might build that amazing thing but it takes more to achieve adoption. Originality irrationally scares the shit out of people."

The messaging we send young thinkers may not have a huge effect, but it could be worth something on the margins.
So?

I don't understand how people are so upset about this. Is learning someone's correct pronouns more difficult than learning a preferred nickname? If somebody comes into work and announces that they've gotten married and they have a different last name now, is that a major inconvenience to people? I had professors in college who wanted me to call them prof, and some who wanted me to call them doctor, and some who wanted me to call them Mrs/Ms/Mr. It's fine, you learn their preferences and you do it.

Transphobia isn't manifested in messing up someone's pronouns or getting a tiny bit behind on something, or accidentally calling someone the wrong thing. When people start to get suspicious of transphobia is when they see someone acting like using a pronoun is a giant imposition rather than very simple sign of respect.

Seriously, who the heck cares if someone wants to use a different pronoun? I don't have any validation criteria for that. Heck, if you want me to alternate pronouns every other day of the week, I'll do my best to accommodate that and I'll respond respectfully if I mess up and I'm corrected.

I just don't see what the big deal is here. We have so many different inconsistent rules in modern society about how to politely refer to other people, asking people's pronouns doesn't seem much more inconvenient to me.
i agree. sorry.
Well written comment.
How quiet is that? My problem with air conditioners is noise. I end up wearing earplugs.

Are they not selling it anymore?
As a programmer with morals, I would never work in pharma, defense or media. I can't be the only one.
Species jumps are definitely not rare. This virus already jumped to literally a dozen species in a year.

It's estimated that dozens of viruses jump to humans every year, it's just unlikely that they survive long enough to mutate to adapt to the human body.
Also, they went around it using, in large part, Czech armor they took when they invaded Sudetenland.
Science journals, Wuhan and a truly bizarre Twitter episode
Author here - Well said, and this is definitely something like I was going for, but you probably said it more clearly.