skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly true, but it downplays the regulatory capture that has also occurred at the same time. "The Rich" have a lot more access to some very cheaply bought politicians, they have entire organisations dedicated to policy wonkism that is spoon fed to those politicians and they play king maker in the background of our political organisations by pulling support in the shadows.

If you want a concrete example of this in a modern, western country you only need to look to Australia to see the paralysis that has occurred over climate and carbon policies. Every time we get close to making some progress on curbing our coal producers, a political ruction occurs. This happened again just days ago when the rump/conservative/rural voter party (The Nationals) replaced their leader with a coal industry supporter - simply because the leader of the majority conservative party in their coalition publically mooted a potential change to net zero emissions by 2050. It's like clockwork and ordinary people can do exactly zero things about it.

How does this destroy the middle class? Big companies need educated workers but they don't like the wage bill associated with it. Decimating the middle class via automation and flooding the market with educated people ensures a long term supply of poor-but-educated. That's the end goal of this project and the measurable difference in wealth inequality proves that it is working extremely well.
Actually it’s the opposite. The more transactions you have for statistical analysis - the better your chances of tracing the actor.

In the end, after all mixing, you want to land it on some off-ramp to cash. And you want not a dollar, but significant sum.
> First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat

I don't think this describes a lot of people. On the contrary, this seems to be an assumption by people who seem to not want to discover the nature/cause of the virus. It's possible to want to "handle" the virus properly at home while also wanting to know what caused it, and that always seemed to me the predominant attitude among those who were open to the lab-leak idea.
I'll add onto this, if people are genuinely worried about invasive surgery, the policing of trans identity is counterproductive to addressing that concern.

What would be productive is allowing kids to use different pronouns, allowing them to dress themselves the way they wish and allowing them to seek affirmative care and affirmative communities -- so that they can explore their own gender identity without feeling like they need to commit hard or lean in against opposition that tells them they're not really trans.

To the extent that gender identity can be influenced by social norms, allowing kids to identify their own genders is a way of allowing them to safely experiment in that space without invasive surgeries that they might regret. But if everything becomes policing whether or not someone really is trans, if everything involves policing even minor interventions like puberty blockers, then of course kids who suspect they might be trans are going to think that surgery is the only way that they'll be accepted or feel comfortable -- because that's what "gender-critical" groups are telling them, they're telling them that having a certain body is a barrier to their identity.

For some trans people, exploring gender is a process. Allowing people to feel safe and accepted during that process decreases the risk of rash decisions. And accepting them regardless of whether or not they pass for their gender decreases social pressure that might exist telling them they need to medically transition to be valid.

It's not surprising that mocking gender fluidity, over-emphasizing physical attributes in gender identity, and restricting low-impact interventions like puberty blockers might make uncertain kids feel like they need to hard-commit to medically transitioning. It's not surprising that trans kids and trans-questioning kids would be alienated by that environment, and that they might be less willing to openly air their doubts and fears or seek external advice.
Is it a bad analogy? What extra effort do you go through to defer to another person about their gender? If anything it's less effort than remembering two names.

Please explain it to me because it seems awfully bigoted to perpetuate this myth that trans people are such a burden that we can't possibly treat them like how we treat each other.
Wouldn't be unusual for the US. Gitmo is specifically not on US soil to avoid dealing with US laws.
And LCA is a flywheel that makes that situation intractable.

People don’t realize that Microsoft is good (responsive to consumers even if two out of two hundred products are somewhat monopolistic; pays taxes; files accurate annual reports) and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is bad (no taxes; no accountability; only serves Bill and Melinda Gates.)
Well, it starts from your first line.

> It's only weird to you because you are almost certainly straight, cis and male. Let me explain.

I don't think that's a fair assessment, and it's certainly not a true generalization. I'm not cis, but I completely understand how weird the concept of "coming out" is. Nobody wants to put you back in the closet, we just want to discuss how much the current paradigm surrounding sexuality sucks.
Your outrage might be aimed at the wrong people. Consider the law. They’re following it, and you’re saying “we should punish them for following the law”. That’s never going to happen. Ask yourself why the law allows stuff like that to happen in the first place. It should not. It clearly has been cracked, and needs an update.
True. McAfee was also a murderer. That’s worth including in the summary. Weird, drug-addled murderer.
Intentional link rot. Am I supposed to go through all my old bookmarks and saves to see what to download?
Citations for your assertion in 3?

Also, your methodological techniques are faulty - ease of comparison is not a means in which to determine the validity of a comparison.
I thought they were dissolving it 20 years after Bill dies.
AR will replace your phone

VR could replace your TV
She states specifically that she was not doing GOF research into how to make viruses more virulent or jump species. You can study how viruses jump species without making them jump species.

And if you disagree with that, do you have details of the experiments and how they were seeking to enhance existing viruses which goes beyond just speculation and circular logic?
I think you slightly misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about kids who are considering college, or even know about college. I'm talking about children who are in elementary school or even younger, before they can take care of themselves at all. Studies linked in the article show that availability of free preschool likely had a casual impact on high school graduation rates and college attendance at all. IMO improving those rates are more important than the tail-end of the distribution (MIT vs other colleges) as it would lead to markedly less inequality. Elite schools admit such a small number of students that I don't think educating kids about them would make much of an impact on aggregate (it obviously would for specific kids).
(1) is a big reason why hyper-polarizing cult of personality figures in positions of political power are categorically bad. Anything they say is mindlessly believed by their cult, and mindlessly disbelieved by their anti-cult.

Government, politics, and politicians are among those things that should be very boring. The mark of a good political leader is that you don't have to think about politics very much during their tenure. Interesting government was a major cause of death in the early 20th century.
>As I mentioned, I, as a lone tax payer, who made less then £100k, paid more in taxes in FAANG combined in the UK.

Only true if you think companies shoulder none of the burden of VAT, income tax etc.
Good insight. I find that when I say "oh that's cool, let me write that down" as I pull out my phone, it results in similarly-positive reactions.
Was there something I said that was untrue? We have to have conversations but those conversations have to be grounded in a shared reality. I would be interested to hear about your views on antifa.
Not even then. I think they take back taxes out of your estate.
When McAfee was running for president I sent him an email telling him that he should shave his beard, citing that every president since the invention of the safety razor has been clean shaven.

He emailed me back saying he would be the first president since then to win with a beard.

RIP to a real legend
Constantly "complaining" about McAfee's _aggressive_ dogs which had a history of biting and attacking people in the neighborhood.

Yeah, you don't poison a dog. To be clear, they weren't poisoned fatally, they were made sick. Still not okay. McAfee put them down (debates on necessity ensued).

Was he found guilty? No. Because he immediately made a run for the border, crossed illegally into another country. He wasn't found guilty because Belize didn't try him in absentia, not because he faced justice.

A civil suit found him, like OJ, liable for the other guy's death.
> Given you advocate using the browser for Spotify, it seems that you would prefer it to be a PWA as well

Ideally I’d like us to stop trying to force every single application into the browser when they don’t belong there. I prefer to use Spotify on web over the electron app only because it’s only marginally less-bad there, I’d prefer it more if it was a native application like Apple Music is because all my music is on disk anyways.
In my experience it's pretty hard stopping people from calling you nicknames, if they feel like doing so. I've never introduced myself with a nickname to anybody, but somehow they often end up using one anyway. Then, a name is really something other people use for refering to you. Whatever is more convenient for them is probably the best name.
John McAfee, antivirus SW creator, found dead after court allows extradition
That's not at all what your reference states.

>Thornton said that “a person’s gender identity is self-reported and CDCR will evaluate any request submitted by an incarcerated person for gender-based housing.”

This CDCR review process is a hurdle, and staffers are hypervigilant (to the point of manufacturing anxiety) of the transfers that have already happened.

>But Moore, 43, said that she has also heard staffers question inmates housed with Calvin, asking whether she has exposed herself, explained her sexual behavior to them or said things that made them uncomfortable. She said the questioning has fomented anxiety and false rumors that Calvin is in a relationship.
What's stopping you from downloading videos you care about in the first place? It's not that hard to have youtube-dl batch download playlists, which is what I do.
Researchers created a brain interface that can sing what a bird’s thinking
It could be those long-distance carriers were transcoding the call at either end and using a more lossy codec internally. G.711 isn't exactly the most efficient compression algorithm but it was relatively cheap to work with when it came out which is why it was so popular. In the 2000's doing the transcoding on both ends of the distance carrier would probably be cheaper than adding more capacity on whatever long-haul lines were there, cheaper to buy some new hardware at each end instead of laying yet another cable or swap out all the RF equipment in between.
The numbers are coming from Toyota, Peugeot and Renault.
You can take the financials - manufacturing payroll is its own category.
So if you can't back a security with anything tangible then the true underlying value is 0. This means no one will buy it back if the currency falls to a value near 0. See the recent brouhaha about Titan (e.g.). Gold and silver at least have real use outside of "being pretty". That fixes the lowest possible value for gold to be above 0 somewhere.

It does have some utile value, and that value is somewhere between 0 to infinity.

The speculators are hoping for a "greater fool" who will buy their assets because you know, numbers go up.

The criminals like it for the money laundering aspects. It's not a perfect money laundering tool, but it's certainly good enough for ransom ware (until recently when the US reclaimed some money from ransomware writers).

There is some payment transfer capability, but here the utility comes at a price for some fee paid to transfer the money.

The volatility keeps it from having very much utility as a store of value. Price was once over $60k but now dropped under $30k then back up to $34k. But volatility is not what you want as a store of value. You want stability and assets backed by something tangible.

Largely it seems like the utility value is that "people think there's actual utility" when in fact, the utility is provided by speculators.
> at work you just get more of the same level work as the level you are on

You get what you're given, but you can find work and go the extra mile. It's dependent on the job, sure. Some places might punish you for trying too hard. That hasn't been my experience as a SWE though.

> So you need to study/network outside of your job to get ahead.

Yes, definitely.
The baby is detectable after one month.

There is no detectable progress.

I confidently predict that the pandemic will be the go-to excuse for zero progress for at least the next decade, and probably two.
That's more of a recent development in my reckoning.

The original form was almost purely China=bad. Then it has morphed to include some of the US scientists as more information came out.

But specifically most (in the conspiracy group) are trying to tie it specifically to Dr Fauci who became a lightning rod for controversy and political attacks during the pandemic as he became the face of the government's response. Thus it's not all US scientists. Just the ones some don't like politically and who are "in bed with China."

And furthermore, sure the US may have funded some of it, but at the end of the day China is the one who goofed.

Of course, I'm speculating a lot and there are a lot of variations that I've seen for support for the lab leak theory. Just trying to summarize some of the hotter takes I've seen.
Israeli researchers develop electronic nose to detect diseases, poisons
To some degree its possible to combine bitmap tiles and client side lightweight vector overlay. If you want to work with ortofoto (basically satellite/airplane captured imagery) then you basically have to do it that way.
> but they definitely modify the noun that comes after them

One of the two nouns is an appositive, but it's never been too clear to me which is which in English grammar. In my native tongue it definitely doesn't seem to be the case that Mr. modifies Smith, as our equivalent to Mr. is a common noun that is used to refer to any male human.
If they are anything like the litigious people I've dealt with, they won't back down. It doesn't matter if you have a clear-cut path to victory through the courts... they will still proceed, usually hoping for a settlement or some sort of insurance coverage.

Unless you have an attorney on staff/retainer, it is a war of attrition and they always win. Better to stop the bleeding ASAP and just end it, even if that is a bitter pill to swallow.
If found to be or not to be, it can be used for political ammo
Alcohol burden on ambulance service in Scotland three times higher than previous
I've basically had a thought recently about this.

The Olympics will eventually become a contest of the best humans, regardless of sex / gender. This is already how it is more or less today: people born with the right body types, into the right families, etc, will make it to the top.

Thank for you attending my TED talk.
I despise the memory hole Google dumps things into. As far as YouTube is concerned a deleted video might as well never have existed.
I use Google, but there are alternatives. OP is obviously using very round numbers, but given that is not wrong.
Yeah this one was pretty bad, I had the same reaction.
Yeah it definitely feels like it's from a different era, I got nostalgia just hovering over the links in Arial bold and thinking of all the hours I'd spend trying to come up with the perfect :hover color. Now it's just lighten 10%, and that's if you even bother since everyone is on their phone.
I would certainly expect progress on the unstable foundation after a year and a billion dollars spent.
YouTube link (not unlisted):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M
For me it's virtual screens. Let's have that and see where it takes us.
No. Correctional officers do not sleep next to prisoners in the same cell every night, so it doesn't create the same threat and fear.

Sexual assault by correctional officers is a problem that also needs to be better addressed. But that's true regardless of the question on how to house incarcerated trans-women.
EncroChat ruling has ‘far-reaching effects’ for legal role of interception
If I understand correctly, trans people get beaten to death far out of proportion to their numbers. No, I don't have statistics, but if true you can't just look at the number of trans people to see how serious the problem is.
Can you really not see the difference? Do you need me to explain it to you? Because it's pretty clear that they're different and obvious that this was a bad faith comment.

If you honestly believe that respecting a trans person's pronouns is similar to calling them "Your majesty" and bowing to them, then tell me and I will patiently explain to you the lessons you missed as a child in basic human decency.
> At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care about?

They’re YouTube. At their scale, there’s no such thing as an “edge case.”
Magic Leap was real. It just kinda sucked.
No one deserves to be kidnapped and throw in a cell for the victimless crime of tax evasion.

RIP, McAfee.

In the 20th century:
~8 million were murdered in mundane crimes.
~175 million people were murdered by the state.

Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.
Microscopy Deep Learning Predicts Viral Infections
>Only schools where wealthy people live get good funding

This is different state-by-state. For example, where I live, and in the South, in general from what I have seen, local taxes only makes up a small portion of school funds. The rest is Federal and State money. The bulk of it is state money, and that is apportioned by need. So in most cases, for public schools, the poorest areas have the most funds!
Microsoft is upgrading Xbox Series X blades on its Cloud Gaming
> and that when students with those high needs are concentrated they are less likely to have them met.

This is totally opposite to my experience in public school through age 11. I never got the advanced instruction I needed, trying to mix like 4-6 stddev of ability in a single classroom never worked, and no one on the low end really benefitted from it.
Plenty of people with “serious money” use their cryptocurrency - be it as a currency or for whatever other purpose it was designed. In fact, they probably use it more than the average person since many of them made it from being a crypto developer.

In any case, there’s a big difference between “needing a middleman” to do something and leaving your funds with a middleman indefinitely. That’s like needing to use a taxi and paying with cash versus leaving your life savings with the taxi person so some day when you maybe want to use a taxi it’ll be easier.
Maybe! But they were.
I have long wondered why unisex bathrooms are not the standard now.

Easily implemented for newly built places, can be retrofitted to some, hard to retrofit for some.

But make it a new standard and let time solve the rest.
> I would just add some skepticism to the charges only because the police down there can be corrupt and or inept and subject to bribery and so on. I don't know if there has been an independent international inquiry into the matter.

A US federal judge found him culpable for a murder civilly.
The reality is predatory men already invade women's restrooms for perverted reasons. You don't think they would not be emboldened by being able to shame people for being transphobic to increase their chances of getting away with whatever they are doing?
The killer app will be meetings. Apple knows this.
> Have you ever been involved in a lawsuit? They are an incredible pain the ass for both sides. I know I personally wouldn't want to waste 2+ years of my life on one for something like this.

That's the point. It shouldn't be easy to call someone creepy and get them fired. If it really is such a problem then you should be willing to take the legal route. Invoking mob justice is a rash shortcut. I don't care if the mob "got it right" or not. It's not how we do justice. If I go shoot people who appear to be the type that have committed a crime, it doesn't matter if I happen to usually "get it right" and only hurt criminals. I'm still a vigilante operating in an extrajudicial capacity and engaging in activity that endangers people.

I take Noah's original statement with context. He says in the article we're discussing here that he doesn't believe he worded the apology correctly. He might legitimately be a creep. But I also know what it's like to be in a situation where suddenly a bunch of people have formed a very negative opinion about you and are interested in publicly demonstrating as much. The threat of losing friends, the respect of peers, etc., is very real and the desire to simply admit perceived guilt and try to damage control is strong and causes rash behavior. With respect to this thread, I'm trying to process Noah's reflection on the events, not the "in the moment" stuff from last year. It sounds like Noah is at a point on his personal journey where he understands people's reactions but doesn't believe events played out in a just manner, all things considered.

Taking things one level up, if Noah is guilty of sexual assault, it should be abundantly clear to him in the form of a conviction. I don't think it's a great situation to be in where it's not clear what actually happened and the door is left open for Noah (and/or others) to interpret events however he (they) wants. We potentially have an unpunished/unregistered sexual predator hanging out. Not good.

Have you ever met a narcissist? Without external input, given enough time, they will bend the interpretation of any scenario into one where they are not truly guilty. I have no idea if Noah fits that bill, but when I think of people who do, no friendly discussion is going to convince them of their errors despite how they act in the moment. You need the law to step in and lay down the gavel.
That could still be eccentric depending on the situation in which you ended up killing your neighbor?

E.g. he came at me with a fire axe. And I kicked him down the stairs.
The Economist always publishes their articles as from 'The Economist'. This is standard practice, not something new and 'allowed'.