skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope everyone read the disclosure at the bottom of the article:

"Each of the companies above qualifies for inclusion in the X Factor Index as of this writing, however, this may not have been the case in June 2011. Therefore, the hypothetical 10-year performance of the portfolio above is potentially misleading."

Given this disclosure, I propose the Y Factor. I looked at what big stock has had the best average return over the last 10 years. Using the criteria I found Netflix was the best among the stocks I researched, so I made the Y Factor index consisting only of Netflix stock. By using backtesting over the last 10 years I found the following:

If you had invested $100k in the Y Factor 10 years ago you would have $6M!
There's literally an "Apply as a Non-profit" button
Given rape is a fear in general (women without penises can rape, you know) may be people shouldn't share sleeping quarters.
I have never hired a contractor or mechanic who had good things to say about the work done by the previous guy.
I notice you didn't address one important part of my comment, that Brave is attempting to monetize other peoples intellectual property by stripping it of ads.

There is a big moral difference between a community of people blocking ads for their own protection, and a company blocking ads for profit.

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When somebody reads a web page, but blocked the ads, I like to think the reader is saying, I'm interested in what you have to say, but I'm not spending money today.

When somebody uses the Brave browser and has opted in to other ads, I can only think the reader is saying, I'm interested in what you are saying, but fuck you, I'm not buying what you are selling, I'm going to check out these other ads, make some money for myself and for Brave, and If I see anything I like I'll buy there instead.
Programming then and programming now are as comparable of a job as a black smith forging utensils and a CNC operator making tools.
Sure, you are what you are __now__, but as a teenager that is going through radical changes. That's why you can't even get a tattoo in the US until you turn 18. In some states, not even with parental permission. Because it's irreversible. The whole trouble with reassignment surgery for minors is precisely due to the fact that who they are today is not who they will be as adults. Of course people should be treated as they want to be treated __now__, but society recognizes that adolescents are not capable of seeing far enough ahead to adulthood to be entrusted with making certain kinds of permanent, life-altering decisions.

There's no debate I'm aware of about lowering the age for getting a tattoo, or drinking, or acting in porn, or other things which are fine for adults, but which we don't permit 12 year olds to do.
should also be noted that Oscar Zeta Acosta disappeared during alleged involvement with drug-runners, and defended groups and people who now-a-days would likely be considered domestic terrorists (like early Brown Beret members before their first dissolution in the early 70s).
No? 0,08% or 0,0008

One one-hundredth (.01) of a percentage point. For example, eight percent is equal to 800 basis points.

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba....

The author of the article made the wrong calculation which makes this extra confusing. Ugh...

Since 8 basis points from 10 k is 8 => https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8+basis+points+of+1000...
thanks for re-sharing, what a great read to recap his crazy-ass life
> People no longer trust their government, on a fundamental level.

> The End is coming.

> Chaos and upheaval is at hand,

Stop your horses cowboy. There is a big difference between political disillusion and "The End of the Times". The USA is a highly developed country, a flawed one, but with many resources to fix the current situation.

> buying a gun and learning to use it is one of many obvious responses.

To move to another country would be the real obvious response if you expect yours to go into chaos. To buy a gun and expect something positive out of it seems quite a Hollywood-inspired disillusion.
I read China was the only major country to grow their GDP during Covid. Does that answer your question sufficiently?
I was going to say, having been a teenager, this sounds an awful lot like the kind of thing I'd pull. Not exactly to make my parents upset but them being upset was an indication of success. I honestly don't know what my real end goals were but I'm sure it's at least partially understood by professionals.
> among many other indicators of a lab leak:

literally nothing in this article or in the sequences is indication of a lab leak.

it isn't even particularly clear there is any cover up here, particularly since an article on the sequences was published.

if there's any deliberate suppression it would seem to be to hide the fact that scientists were studying the virus sooner than previously admitted and that they should have raised the alarm earlier.
excellent to see. its been one of the more Orwellian trends I've seen in the US in recent years. I wouldnt say its even a top 5 or top 10 problem, but it is bad. its been increasingly unpleasant having to always worry whether any given sentence or idea shared on social media will be jumped on by an indoctrinated online mob, blind to all nuance.
In Spanish we use two terms, what McAfee presumably did was "evasión"(evasion) which is illegal while what Musk,Bezos, et al. do is "elusión" (avoidance) which is totally legal.

The trick is in knowing how to do Tax Avoidance.
I was a team A hire, and I did leave after 6 months. I probably would have stayed longer, but the only job willing to hire a junior paid 20k less than Glassdoor said juniors get in my area, and lied to me about when my first raise would come.

Whose fault is it that I left after 14 months?
He mentioned in his tweets a lot will be released upon his death. We'll see I guess.
Check out martin kleppmans YouTube video on YouTube: crdts: the hard parts
>We're yet to see if the same success can be replicated under an equally individualistic culture, but one without a unified moral fabric via religion.

Isn't China an example of that?
that sale appears to have taken place before any of the communication, so that can't have been part of any pump&dump scheme either.
mjpeg really, right?
Mr. and Mrs. are not adjectives, though.
It's not clear what Gary Kildall has to do with this argument. He had a Ph.D. in computer science and developed one of the first successful operating system for microcomputers. It's really hard to see him as disadvantaged. The legend of course is that he whiffed one of the biggest business opportunities in the history of computing, but lots of people have blown it in business. [1] The IBM story was interesting because Kildall was already successful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
> he really didn't contribute anything except tax fraud to the world.

So why is HN (a technology forum) discussing him then? So he didn't contribute anything to technology?
Can I get payback for installing solar panel?
BC government released a grant for installing solar panels.
Our small furniture industry is looking for saving money on electrical. But Is it worth it?
It's just as easy to allow downloads, but it seems a lot more common for sites to go out of their way to disallow video downloads than gif downloads. Also a bunch of them use video tags that don't point to an actual video file but get fed video content out of band.
Does youtube-dl support playlists?
Also of note - suicide in the US is extremely difficult if you've been identified as someone with intention. You get checked on every 15 minutes, including at night (which can be a torture by itself)
Maybe a place where people can create profile pages share their usernames (handles) on different social media sites (like about me but for your usernames), or a less technical keybase reference page for all your online presence.
You can acknowledge that premise without ‘hating men’. I am a man, and I have no problems admitting that rape was a legitimate tactic for our ancestors to pass their genetics along. It’s a fact that we’ll have to deal with. On the other hand, when it comes to issues of race, I’m hard pressed to believe there are massive evolutionary/biological differences that need to be accounted for.
How can you fix what you never talk about? If people speaking out and identifying discrimination makes you more racist, I really doubt not talking about it would ever make you less racist.
> Critical Race Theory as I have read about it being applied in schools

Critical Race Theory isn’t applied in K-12 schools (at least not as a thing that is taught, it can certainly inform education policy and approaches to policymaking), nor has anyone proposed teaching it there, and anything you’ve read about it being taught there is a complete and utter fabrication for propaganda purposes.

> teaches youth that they are inherently racist (note this is only taught to the white children)

CRT doesn't include the idea that people are inherently racist, and is, indeed, an outgrowth of critical legal studies and shares CLS’s focus on institutional rather than personal forces. People being racist is largely outside the focus of CRT, which is centrally about how social institutions can be racist, often independently or even contrary to the values of the people currently comprising the institutions.

The anti-anti-racists have been claiming people advocating against racism are teaching white children that they are inherently racist long before they attributed that to CRT. CRT has just been adopted as the new buzzword to which anti-anti-racists apply their standard arguments, just as “cancel culture” recently became the label to which all the arguments that the Right had been tieing to “political correctness” since the 1980s became attached.
> maintain a solid veneer of simply having an intellectual discussion on a topic of general interest

Some of us have an academic interest in biology, genetics, neuroscience, psychology, etc. while still aligning with the overall origin of this site as a place to discuss the latest in news as relates to technology startups.

It is unfortunate that this politically charged topic is so misunderstood and that ignorance of the basic science behind it is so prevalent, but here we are.
> To me it's pretty clear the person I was responding to had zero frame of reference to what discrimination feels like, which is why I said so.

I sympathize with you here, I really do: but making such broad assumptions is a bad way to foster real, productive conversations. Identity and queerness are deeply personal topics with all sorts of nuance and interplay between them. I appreciate that you're living your truth, but coming off with this "scorched earth" rhetoric isn't going to win you any fans.
We've got that happening by gender as well - dancing is a gender independent activity, I don't understand why I need to pick a gender to express when I want to say "I feel like dancing".

It honestly feels extremely regressive.
That isn't relevant for two reasons:

1. Tax evasion and tax avoidance are not the same thing.

2. Most people who think McAffee didn't pay enough taxes probably also believe Bezos doesn't pay enough taxes.
Here’s some actual data that suggests “trans women are women for dating purposes” is the opinion of only a small minority:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026540751877913...
Aren't the medications amphetamines though? Certainly the backlash against over-diagnosis of ADHD in the '00s was fear of kids given drugs during their formative years for "being rambunctious." Very adults it's likely different though.
Only recently, in part because of Poetry itself. And “it’s not hard” is too much - it’s a problem that shouldn’t exist. And doesn’t, with Poetry.

If you’re using pip with some ad-hoc pinning you’re just using a terrible homemade version of
poetry and you’re leaving a lot on the table for no real reason.

It’s great. Use it. You won’t want to go back.
What? It says right there "more than one count, the court can increase the maximum to 15 years." It doesn't say per count. If you're convicted of more than one (up to infinity) the maximum is 15 years.
Very, very drastic, but this is basically the public S3 bucket situation for videos.

Maybe another video category would have made for better distinction than just Public, Unlisted, and Private.
> My guess is it’s neurological, since there aren’t discernible hormonal, genetic, or anatomical differences between trans and cis people.

That's exactly the point. If someone's "gender identity" doesn't refer any observable characteristic other than their "gender identity", then the entire concept is circularly defined and therefore meaningless. It's like if I were to say my biological height is 5'7" but my "height identity" is 6'3". What meaning does "height identity" have and why should anyone take a concept like this seriously?
Another one of my street pharmacist brothers bites the dust. Pour one out for our fallen homie.

All because he dared to be human.
There’s a bunch of wh... words. Wouldn’t you know them by class?

In my language they spell hv...

Hvem, hvad, hvor = who, what, where etc.
McAfee could easily have had plenty of dirt on ton of powerful people. He would have given up all that info for reducing his sentence in the US.

It is not super crazy to think that there would be plenty of people who would have rather see him die vs get extradited to US.
FYI this exists ;)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/v...
Tax avoidance is tax evasion in all ways but legal.
yeah it will try to download a whole playlist if you give it the URL of the playlist. Last I tried.
It’s not misleading. The prison term is 15 yrs max. In case of extraordinary violent crimes, the prisoner will be continuously evaluated and - if deemed to be a threat to public safety - hold on custody. Not because of the crime itself, but as a preventive measure. Once the evaluation no longer suggests a threat to public safety, they can leave.
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I had the same problem with a few old videos in my favourites. Google search for the alphanumeric text after "watch?v=" in the URL of the video. In most cases, you will find some information about the video from pages where it might have been embedded.
No I won't. I couldn't care less about playing next SimCity that has 'racial tension' mechanics, even less about trying to come up with such mechanics.
There's no indication WIV was doing any gain of function research.

WIV did collaborate with UNC Chapel Hill to do GOF research in America, in mice using a SARS-CoV-1 backbone.

The US government send funds to WIV to study SADS-CoV in pigs.

Circular logic is invoked to "prove" that those funds led to secret GoF research which has never been published or talked about on the basis that the pandemic arising in Wuhan is too much of a coincidence (and coincidences logically can never happen).
Finland has good results because of the methods of teaching, not because of the ownership of the schools. We have a school on this system in my town and 2 kids in the family went there, the system is better even if the school is ... private.
Hire someone else for the role. If you're still in the vesting period, there should be some spare shares to tempt them. If not, you could probably sell a few shares.

It's normal to swap out a founder for a CEO as the company scales, why not the CTO?
> Same-sex locker rooms inherently assume that people of the same gender won't be attracted to one another, which is simply not the case. So what's the point?

Same sex locker rooms don't only assume people of same gender are not attracted to each other, but also that women are disproportionally exposed to potential sexual abuse from men than the other way around. Protecting women from men specifically is very central to the idea.
His main criticism is with

1. Not allowing dissenting opinions in the scientific community along with silencing any criticism from both media and big tech. If we are silencing dissenting view points, then are we really getting the truth?

2. Pushing it on pregnant women, kids and healthy youngsters where the risk vs reward isn't in favour.

3. Pushing it on people who have already recovered from COVID. There's no reason for this.

I was hoping that after what's happened in the last 1.5 year (and even past centuries), we would have learnt our lessons on how bad censorship is. But people don't learn their lessons. Bret correctly called it "intellectual authoritarianism".
> The rest is just weaving arguments for the fun of it.

Interesting discussion is the HN way!

Some enterprising scientists may have some cutting edge insights reviewing HN comments on technology topics, no reason to suspect otherwise for social sciences.
...he also protected people from computer viruses.
Initially mis-read this (thanks dyslexia) as "warren rips up bill to ban stock trading by lawmakers" haha (clearly I was thinking of Pelosi)
Polls have a way of shifting rapidly. People put down what they think they're supposed to put down. See how fast support for gay rights tilted as more people came out. Most people weren't really committed to homophobia, but they thought they were expected to seem to believe certain things.

There's a name for the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
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That’s a feature. If somebody deletes their video then all of the metadata goes with it. I agree that it can be annoying but among other things, it’s the law.
"should not be published" is very different from "are not published"
You can say "gender essentialist" if you feel that TERF is too loaded, but it boils down to the same thing; it's a position that denies identity rather than accepting it.

It's only pejorative in the sense that it attempts to accurately describe the motives of a set of individuals who aren't comfortable with the way those motives are widely regarded. In that sense it's about as pejorative as "racist".
Yep, you have to build for the architecture you're planning to deploy on.
Race is self-reported. There isn't someone in Google HR researching your ancestry, they ask you what race you identify as when you join. If you self-identify as white then you are white according to Google HR.
In many projects a test case is required which reproduces the bug and then shows that it's fixed.
I feel like, in the world of outlandish theories, faking his own death is far more likely than a gangland murder.
Yes, my city doesn't allow you to have outdoor cats, any pet cats must be kept inside. Owners can be fined.
> That is hard to say.

Why?

There are simply more disabled people than trans people and they are getting far less attention, right?

How is that hard to say?
The fact that it spreads inside friend circles should be all it takes to defeat the idea that it is based on some fundamental internal gender dysphoria. It's more akin to a social meme.

In not saying that applies to all cases, but definitely a good number of them among young people, especially girls.
To be fair he killed a guy so...
It's not bad, tracing the cause is a fundamentally good thing. In fact, afaik, it's just procedure. But many reasonable people nowadays are reluctant to publicly entertain any ideas that can be politically weaponized, in this case to increase the anti-china sentiment.
They™ think the birds see magnetic field lines. There's a good PBS Space Time video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1ouV7iD8o
Leaked tax returns show Bezos paid $973 million in taxes. I don’t think mcafee ever had that much to his name much less paying taxes at that level. He publicly said he hadn’t filed taxes, blatantly flouting the law. He was also a scammer indicted for cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes that fleeced twitter users.
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I'm aware, that was almost 2 years ago and startpage still has no trackers (as of today, according to EFF Privacy Badger), so I consider it safe.
Data you don't have in at least two places, is data you don't want.

This applies to logical places on the internet too.

Of course, you don't need to keep a copy of everything you see on the internet. But if you have a dependency you might want a copy.

wget was the thing back then, maybe something similar with youtube-dl now?
So your complaint is that a company might have put a forklift training video on youtube, as an unlisted video, have then forgotten the password to change it, then will hire someone and tell them to watch it, that person won't be able to and will then not tell anyone else that fact, and after all that they might then hurt themselves with a forklift?

At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care about?
Also the death of his nephew and the passenger of the glider that crashed from the extreme sport he was trying to promote.

"Not like other rich dudes", uhh, we have plenty of other eccentric rich people, like Richard Branson or Elon Musk, etc... I am sure there are plenty more examples out there.
I found this link: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/
except 2009 was late July, we have got almost 16 hour days this soon after Solstice. It is going be brutal.
> All you have to do is look at how the term is used

By that logic, is "white supremacist" (or racist) a slur? I see it used in just about the same way.
Did you get this framework from somewhere you can refer me to? It’s facially intriguing and I’d like to see it more fully explored.
Just a note on a reason you likely got so many downvotes, beyond the tone: the parent was likely referring to McAfee with that remark, not to Thompson.
>only gets paid 225k salary

That is six times the American median wage, or alternatively it places you in the top 3% of the American income distribution. Is this a bad attempt at sarcasm? That salary, plus I assume a generous pension is enough for her to not own any stocks, which I actually think is something that should be the norm for political representatives, given the blatant conflict of interest.
Dr Shi admitted they were studying to make viruses jump from one species to humans. That's "gain of function".
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Why would they be? Again, if all things being copyrightable by default, Google could not even exist, they assume they have the right to consume any data they want.

If a monkey can't copyright a selfie because they're not a person, an algorithmically generated spew of stuff Google ripped from elsewhere certainly lacks merit for copyright.