skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one more reason it is great that Trump has been kicked out of presidency even if some conspiracy theorists claim with absolutely no proof that elections were rigged. The scientific community was feeling stifled and not being able to do their work. Trump made the same claims and the scientists earlier categorically denied, not out of malice but because he was such an inhibitor. And now they are able to work freely and do their best work.
Wow, that reddit thread is really something. Thanks
That talk is missing because it wasn't the subject of the comment to which I was replying. Misgendering people is dick behavior and terfs are by and large hypocrites. Believing in peoples' rights to say mean things to each other is not the same as advocating for fascistic bathroom restrictions or arguing that trans people don't deserve the same freedom from legal discrimination as any other gender identity or sexuality.
Thank you for the clarification, and thank you to the parent comment for the advice!!
In more recent articles about it it seems to be a variation of alpha-PVP (flakka), something called alpha-PHP that is outside of any schedule for drugs. Basically a designer cathinone that is (or was) still legal.
Reminds me of this guy that got fined $4k by the court for something similar ?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/french-journalis...
I think I have used pythonista on iPhone but is iPad good for coding can you get git client on iPad
No. I am no longer a subscriber and their archives are locked down.

The Economist: Best writing with business practices from the nineteenth century....
I think i heard about procreate but I’ll check out linea
In my experience, having previously been employed in a role where one of my objectives was to encourage and enable this sort of 'incidental innovation', this article seems to take the view that some magic happens in those passing moments - a bolt of innovative lightning striking some unwitting participants.

My view is more mundane - nothing particularly exciting happens in those moments, and they are most valuable for spreading information that you wouldn't otherwise know or think to spread.

In our case, we had several different organisations in the same building, and those passing moments were a valuable way to get an insight into what other groups were working on, and who they were working with. They were valuable in the way that the 'Art of Serendipity'[0] is valuable - awareness of the things around you helps identify connections between them that tend only to make sense with a degree of hindsight. In my experience, most of the actual connections were drawn much later than the passing moments in the hallway - a "hey, weren't you working with something similar to what we're doing with Fred from BigBank last month? Reckon they'd be interested in working with us on this too?".

It may just be me, but I find it is harder to achieve this in a remote setting where one typically has to actively seek out conversations.

Also, the article seems to set a false dichotomy - that either in-person is essential for innovation, or that it's terrible and harmful to innovation. Again in my experience, the reality is that in-person is better in some ways, and remote is better in others. As different tools, they are best used for different jobs, depending on the problem you're trying to solve.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/how-to-cultivate-...
Worth noting that that paper not only surveyed exclusively parents but also recruited exclusively from transphobic websites (small wonder the parents found weren't particularly supportive). To the point where the conclusions had to be drastically rolled back and these failures in experimental design highlighted [0].

It's also the start and end of anyone replicating those results. This is very misleading and equivalent to linking the now debunked paper saying vaccines cause autism then telling readers to go look for more research.

For those in the back, trans people are the gender they say they are and the last people you should be asking for their opinion on a person's identity are their unsupportive parents.
[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Middle age means over 40 commonly. Is that what you meant?

Mastectomies leave scars and can have complications. And you seem to ignore the psychological and social aspects of going through opposite gender puberty.
DoorDash had two outages in the last week.
> why do I need to care again?

I was going to ask you the same!
Interactive STEM VR App
The quick answer, by the way, is: licensing fees to the platform owner.

You'll pay similar fees when you buy DLC from Nintendo's eShop, Sony's PSN store, or the Microsoft Store for Xbox.
> I can’t shake the feeling that you’re storming off to avoid having an actual conversation. Hopefully I’m wrong about that too.

After I pointed out that your assumptions were wrong (rendering, I don't know how much of, that comment nothingburger), you edited your post a bunch and act like I'm the weirdo for not liking what you've put in my mouth. After hedging a pile of ungenerous assumptions with "seems" (on the basis of a statement we appear to agree upon), you're now having so much trouble refraining from ungenerous assumptions that you continue to voice them behind another hedge. Does this help you understand why I'm not interested in further conversation?
I much preferred Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Cloud. For context, Server is an entirely independent codebase to Cloud (not even a fork, just completely separate products).
For me it originally worked flawlessly.

Then I tried to use it again and lots of the menus the support pages referenced were no longer present. It was an endless cycle of broken links and features being hidden deeper and deeper in menus.

If that haven't removed it (I thought they had), it kind of made the intention clear to me.
>When I first saw the sequence of the furin cleavage site—as I've said, other beta coronaviruses don't have that site—it seemed to me a reasonable hypothesis that somebody had put it in there. Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but I do know that it's a hypothesis that must be taken seriously.

I feel like any reasonable person translated cautious professor speak to normal speak is that he thinks it is almost certainly artificial. This is the response I would expect him to give if he thought it was 90% artificial - not 10% artificial.
The choice of hiring pool is part of the hiring process. Expanding that pool to other countries is itself an act of disfavor to US workers.
> Can someone explain

Were one to entertain the possibility that a lab facility in China was the source of infection leading to a global pandemic then isolationists and nationalists and other persona non grata might imagine they've received some validation of their policies. Naturally this is intolerable. So intolerable, in fact, that you are obligated to employ however much cognitive dissonance you find necessary such that any suggestion of a lab leak becomes unthinkable. Obviously anyone that fails to do so is exhibiting faulty and dangerous thinking.
> A US federal judge found him culpable for a murder civilly

False. A US federal judge entered a default judgement against him in a wrongful death suit. Murder is not a civil offense, the standards for civil wrongful death are not remotely the same as murder, and wrongful death liability (even based on a trial and evidence) doesn't indicate that one has even approximately committed murder. And, in any case the judgement was a default judgement because McAfee didn't answer the lawsuit, not a judgement based on evidence.

It establishes civil liability, but does not indicate anything (or even that anyone has reached any judgement) about the relevant facts.
I'm sure Dyson's instructions are to destroy them
Ask Dang: What are some statistics about the HN community?
Like how many people, from which countries, how many actually fill in their email, the average number of upvotes/favorites/submits by people, how many lurkers, etc.

It could be quite interesting to see those trends over time too.
It's a logical standard. You can't prove a negative (ie that you didn't do something and thus are innocent), so the burden of proof must always be on those making a claim to show that it is true. While it might not be as dangerous for the gossip column to employ fallacious reasoning as it would be for a court of law, that doesn't stop it from being wrong.
hrm.. I guess I could see that being useful in some cases. It might make discovery a little harder for someone that doesn't know the hierarchy, but I could see that being useful for people that know the hierarchy in an org that has a massive amount of stuff to label. I guess I just like key/value tags better than labels to organize and filter through data. They seem a little more self explanatory and I think they obviate the need of a hierarchy in the tag key naming.
Isn't it just a math excersice? If the probability that the claim is true > 7% then you win.
Did it actually steer toward things that mattered though?

I think politicizing rational inquiry, especially when China did a lot to help the virus leave its borders, was equivalent to trying to deflect, and just added more obfuscation to a meaningful dialogue about what we should do and what we should learn.
They are attempting to meaningfully contribute to Linux kernel. Installing a program for sending mail should really not be a problem.
I wrote a long post in reply to this, but HN lost it :( :(

I feel that people are over-simplifying this issue greatly on both sides in this thread. Basically, it seems like the definition of GoF is not totally agreed upon even by top scientists. A lot hinges on intent/expectations, but of course scientists can't perfectly predict what will happen with these experiments.

It seems like the research referenced was not "GoF" research in the sense that it wasn't intended or predicted to cause GoF. But at the same time, going back to even 2015, there was criticism that this research was risky, even if it technically was not GoF research.

Some scientists also seem to think we should be doing more GoF research to learn more before the next pandemic.

These are the links I read, both of which I thought were pretty even-handed. For the record, I often think fact checking sites present totally biased nonsense, but in this case it seemed okay.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain...

Thread from an MIT researcher quoted in the article:

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1370880584936001541
Exactly why make everyone wait in one line when half the group goes way faster?

I doubt that's coming anytime soon. Would be big dumb and have no real support
Jack Ma’s Ant in Talks to Share Data Trove with State Firms
> Either way, the recommended way of connecting deck.gl with Mapbox is through React Map GL.

I should note this is only the recommended way when you're using React
Without hiring a lawyer, how can you know if your defence is straightforward or not?
If he got murdered the connection to the extradition hearing to me would be that people are afraid he will talk and they're less confident in their ability to get to him in a US prison than a Spanish one.
> It will retain the great question and answer experience we’ve all come to appreciate from Stack Overflow.

I deleted my SO account a few years back because I came to dread the "great q&a experience" so much that it was pointless. Trying to word a question so it wasn't closed immediately or getting the "what are you really trying to accomplish" was just too much to bother with. Best of luck though, I guess.
Why do you think "war with China" is a potential outcome of determining it was a lab leak?

This is not a strong argument.

Regardless of all these wild pontifications, those who have run interference on the truth need to suffer the reputational consequences.
And I'm asking you, when you are just-pointing-out, if it's actually happening in a way that is statistically recognizable and thus a contribution to the discourse in question, or if it's not.
This is an extraordinary comment. To follow up, however, wouldn't suppressing talking about this stuff provide even more validation?
At one point I heard this message from HR although I only wanted remote access in order to get additional stuff done on Saturdays. It was ironic because within the teams of 4, projects were never shared and they forced managers to rank the 4 employees for review purposes.
It’s not about trans people. It’s about VERY LOUDLY having the “correct” opinions.
If you were a rapist, murderer, and fraudster, I would not find you valuable as a human
My priors disagree. I'd expect similar likelihood of a chinese coverup regardless of culpability. The embarrassment is too high in both situations
That is the sequel to Tropa de Elite (2007), by the same director, Jose Padilha. I strongly recommend watching Tropa de Elite first.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/

The same director's documentary Bus 174 (2002) is even much more intense and unforgettable.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340468/

He also created the amazing series The Mechanism (2018-), based on the Operation Car Wash investigations, during the last 10 years, into corruption in Brazil.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6873658/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash
How difficult is it to ask a simple question every morning? Or baring that, engage your kid. Could come to a compromise for defaulting to a gender neutral "they" for when you don't know how they're feeling in a given day. Upon which they could give you a reasonable clarification (or you know, just ask).

When your kid's demands are as simple as "hey support my identity, which requires nothing but thinking slightly more about the words you use" how could they not be frustrated when their parent can't even clear that low bar.
If it were an accidental escape it calls into the question of the safety and effectiveness of Chinese technology such as cars, airplanes, computer software, medical products, etc.
> to respect that as long as the request is as respectful as me asking someone to do me a small favor.

Is someone asking you to use their name a small favor or common societal expectation?

Also, since when is pronoun use punishable? Who is talking about jail time? People are just asking for respect, that shouldn't be too much to ask.

If everytime you see someone, you call them a rude name, and that person tells everyone you're rude, who is in the wrong?
> Reverse engineering the assembly code

Well of course you were using the libraries! Just like you were using the documentation. Exactly like you were using the documentation, in fact. The fact that neither got jumped to as executable code is clearly immaterial.
It's not a contradiction. 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.

You can express the idea that a sequence converges to a limit in constructive mathematics (if not, I'd like to know why) and you can prove that that limit is not rational, nor is it algebraic. That is to say, real analysis works in a constructive setting. At least that's my math-enthusiast understanding of it.

Traditional mathematics even asserts the existence of numbers whose concrete properties we can't even possibly know, such as Chaitin's constant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant

My understanding is that these are the kinds of numbers you lose out on when you switch to being a constructivist. I guess you could say that means you can't fit "all of existing mathematics" in it, but to me that feels a bit vacuous.
Thanks for broadening the discussion beyond low-trust, purely self-interested rationality.
If I understand it correctly, refusing either one could land you in detention (or jail) - law enforcement officers have a pretty broad ability to detain people for lawful investigations (or, what they beleive are lawful investigations). The difference is that you'd be released after refusing a passcode (but possibly having to appear in front of a judge with a lawyer), whereas the court could hold you in contempt (and jail) for refusing biometrics.
Juror Criticizes DOJ for Charging Scientist with Hiding Ties to China
Occam's Razor by far leans in the other direction. Species jumps are incredibly rare and lab leaks while not common have also happened before. Add in the fact that it happens to start in a city with a lab researching the same kind of virus.....
I am sorry to hear it. May he rest in peace. I never knew him personally, but I really liked his explicit non-conformity.

Strange... I have an emotional disconnect that prevents me from being sad about conventional things. Death of close family members - depressing, but not acutely sad. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I see most of those coming? This bit of news on the other hand...

I felt a sharp crack in my stony facade. Probably has something to do with the psychology behind valuing what John McAfee stood for, and what his demise means for those things valued.
Do you have any research supporting this?

Your theory is that being accommodating on the first request makes more extreme requests less likely. An alternative theory is that bending over backwards to the first request makes such requests feel OK, and therefore makes more extreme requests more likely.

Do you have any research indicating that one theory is more likely to be true than the other?
This, itself, is dangerous thinking.
Given that McAfee himself claimed he had assets seized by the feds and had nothing at the end, I don't think even McAfee was ever as far out of reach as you think he was.
> a general notion that transsexuals are mentally ill and that there is something odd about normalizing it.

That seems like a defensible position to take. At least as plausible as the common alternative -- that it is a physical illness (thus we 'fix' the body to match the mind).
Yes I've met a number of personable people who I completely disagreed with on politics and their actions, as long as you don't challenge their ideological stances. It's kind of like dealing with an alcoholic as long as you don't challenge their addiction everything tends to go well. It happened to me just last night on the phone. The human mind is a complex thing.
Last I checked, google drive videos and youtube were in a weird merged state.
So, because of a few people, who already believe this has happened, you decide not to investigate (which reaffirms their beliefs), and possibly lie to all of your citizens, because a country might have accidentaly or intentionally killed many many people, and won't get sanctioned in any way because of that?
This is extremely hard to believe with, you know, John being John.
Yes, this is literally the "ministry of truth" and thought policing in action.
The US outsourced virus research to this lab. The US will share some blame, because gain-of-function research is stupid in the first place.

Is this part of the misdirection? Both sides do not want to know. Or let's say powerful interests on both sides.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a massive country with 90 million people and an area about 4x as big as Texas. That's a very impressive achievement.
> It shouldn't be easy to call someone creepy and get them fired.

Thats not what happened. He wasn't fired because someone said something on the internet, he published a written apology calling himself a "sexual predator" etc.

> If it really is such a problem then you should be willing to take the legal route

People shouldn't be able to report negative behavior, they have to sue for damages? That would be an extreme view.

> 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

In regards to the rape allegations from "pressuring someone to have sex" but that is still sexual harassment in a work environment.

>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.

By his own admission in the parent article he was an asshole and regrets his past behavior he just doesn't want people to think he said that he raped anyone, which is fair.

> 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.

Sexual assault is not something he is accused of but the stats are something like 31% [1] of them being reported to the police.

>You need the law to step in and lay down the gavel.

sexual harassment is not a criminal offense

[1] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
> perhaps even more driven by women

Can you substantiate this? It doesn't match my understanding of the situation either from a cultural or an interpersonal perspective.
for those who haven't seen it before...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
Piwigo has been working well for me. I've been looking at Nextcloud's capabilities, but like keeping public vs private on separate systems.
Oh. So it is indeed a Facebook Labs research project / persona.

I thought that was sarcasm. Puts this thing under a whole new perspective.

EDIT: I’m utterly confused now. It does seem to be pure sarcasm. Can not find any other mention of this, or who is behind Kickscondor at all.

Where did the parent comment’s claim that he works at Facebook come from, if we have no idea who this is?
Many people falsely assume that anything leaked from a lab was made in a lab.
Registration is now required in Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitutes_Protection_Act).

> It is a bloody mess, because it is assumed that forced prostitution is now rampant in Germany, to the point that men from other countries travel over the border just for the brothels...

They aren't traveling there because the sex workers are practicing under force. If Germany has a reputation it is because of its brothels with a visible presence in the public sphere. It is also a rich country, centrally located, and organized brothels allow woman from poorer European countries to outsource a lot of difficult work; security, housing, marketing. Renting an apartment in Italy, advertising on the local websites, being familiar with the laws, compounded by the language barrier, is much higher-effort.

The trafficking narrative is always very thing on evidence.

It is certainly assumed that there is a lot of trafficking in popular imagination though, mainly due to successful activism that seeks to exaggerate the problem in order to further the goal of outlawing sex work. This activism is, as always, the fusion of paternalism, the ring-fencing of the decent from the morally subversive, and radical feminist thought, and human trafficking is mostly a convenient public lever.

You have to look no further then the United States, where police departments routinely have brain-dead local press disseminate how they are saving human trafficking victims in various raids, but half of which will face criminal charges for prostitution, and the other half will be lucky enough to be forced into mandatory diversion programs to avoid charges.
I think the absurdity is that the videos you made are necessary to avoid injury?
They do, they made a training video and put it on youtube. Now after years of benefiting from that for free they have to press a button to make it keep working like it always has. Seems like a pretty good and reliable setup.
are bit coins a measure of value ?
are karma points a measure of anything ?
what is money ?
what is value ?
what is a measure ?
maybe points are points ?