skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In isolation, there's nothing "bad" about it. And we don't have enough proof to say for sure it was nor that is was not a lab leak.

That being said, there are a lot of confounding issues. Mostly political in nature.

First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat. And many trotted out terrible and conspiratorial reasonings for why the accidental lab leak theory was the "truth," many going to the point of it being an intentional leak and that it was designed in the lab by humans. Not to mention using these claims to suck up attention away from other things like actually handling the pandemic. And to pile on politically a China=bad narrative. So by association there's been a severe reluctance to add more ammo to this group's claims.

Secondly, history and the nature of the spread put the chances more on the side of a zoological vector given the information we have now. Obviously this isn't 100% proven yet, but so far most are hedging on historical priors. Especially considering the conditions of farming and the fur industry that exists in China. So the majority of the community side against the lab leak as the most likely option.

Of course, many scientists still leave open the option that it was a lab leak. We don't have enough information to completely be sure. And there's some odd circumstantial evidence that may point to a lab leak somehow. Including that China hasn't been the most forthcoming.

Still, it's very much a minority opinion in the field at this time and many people insisting it "must be investigated" seem to be doing it for political reasons as cover for other purposes.

Here's from Forbes an opinion piece about the current evidence we have so far about the origins and possible explanations.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/06/11/ask-...
Although gender is not a binary concept. I honestly do think that gender is mostly a social construct but our definition of what it is is much better than it used to be - sterile men and barren women would often be considered outside of standard gender definitions since they couldn't "fulfill the intended role".

I have problems on this front though, I'm pan myself and gender seems really insanely trivial to me - I do understand that my experience is not the common one though.
>all it took was a declaration to be housed in a female prison

That's not at all what it takes.

>Imagine how many abusers would take advantage of that circumstance?

Imagine how many abusers already take advantage of the power they already have over women in women's prisons. That the real problem of sexual violence is focused and framed wholly and entirely on trans women is exactly the point made by the parent: this is an entirely disingenuous effort by people wholly uninterested in actually preventing the real, existing, non-imagined abuses in women's prisons and more interested in enforcing a strict gender binary that harms both cis and trans women.
Swaziland?? That should read Switzerland
Also interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Dramatica
It's less surprising from within the RKBA community than it might seem from the outside, especially among the younger generations.
Both Weinsteins constantly cry foul and have hot takes about literally everything so eventually maybe they will be right.
My point is that if something is "different" , forcing others to label that thing as "not-different" isn't a productive battle. Others will just now need a new way to describe it, because to them, the original label is now meaningless in it's classic sense, to them.

For example we've gone from: (some male terms I apparently can't use anymore) to transwoman to ciswoman to biological woman.

And in every case the transwomen demands to be included in the "new" category, and everyone else has to come up with another term to differentiate.
There was a time, when YouTube was seen as free and open as Wikipedia.
> To take it further, why phrase it "I am ..." instead of "I have ... desires"? If the latter sounds awkward, why is the former any less awkward?

I definitely agree on this point, and what I find fascinating is that in my (albeit very limited) knowledge of French, instead of saying a phrase like "I am hungry", you say "j'ai faim", which has the literal translation of "I have hunger".

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/french-word-for-9a6e76...
BEAM code should be portable but the runtime is not.
I looked at that photo and realized I knew you Small world, my co-founer and I won 2 DigitalOcean awards at HackTech and LA Hacks that you awarded us
Is it right to focus so much on entrepreneurship? Of course at the top, it matters a lot, but isn't a lot of mobility also driven by more average careers?
Belize isn't just "technically" North America, and misplacing it in South America is a not a minor nit. It shows a fundamental unfamiliarity with the subject. In my experience, norteamericanos that refer to everything south of the US border as "South America" tend to lump it into a mental box of stereotypes.

I've spent a fair bit of time in Central America, and the people I met there generally took great umbrage at being referred to as "South America".
How am I supposed to accept the notion of gender when it's still contentious scientifically?

This was something coined by a child abuser and gets you cancelled if you don't pay lip service. Sounds legit.
Not necessarily. A new car can have 100+ processors in it (though I don't know how many of them would be Arm-9). One CPU != one device.
Musk's a rich kook and I sure don't see the government screwing with him.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/

Seattle local analysis by Prof. Cliff Mass of UW
Out of curiosity where do you get the balance at this fast rate? Or maybe you just wait for a click on the pause button and then hit an API for balance?
> Nope, we don’t add up prison time in Germany for repeating the same or related crimes over and over. On top, the 10/15 years are the maximum and barely reached.

The USA is similar, sentences are often served concurrently meaning the headline numbers don’t get added up. Headlines reflect the absolute maximum penalties but there’s something called the Sentencing Guidelines that is used to set the actual length of the sentences and whether they are concurrent. https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/introducing-guidelines-app
> strongly believe we must balance gun control measures to ensure that a black single mother with reasonable fears of violence living in an underserved community can protect her own family with a gun when that is effectively her only option.

I strongly believe that if we have underserved communities where black single mothers reasonably fear that a gun is effectively their only option to protect their family from violence, we need to fix that problem and discussing any other response to that situatiin is analogous to debating the set list for the band on the _RMS Titanic_ in terms of actually solving problems.
Conspicuously absent: Why is non-executable content (ebooks, music, lessons, game skins) also required to go through the app store?

What exactly would I be paying 30% for in those cases?
#2 is very real. I have friends who have been harassed in public because of their perceived race, which makes me very sick of the whole conversation. This idea got politically weaponized early in the pandemic, which also makes me suspicious of the benevolence of some of the people “just looking into it”.

There’s also a #3, that is that I’m irritated that people are becoming experts on virology after reading a Wikipedia article (or worse) and deciding to “look into” this, then declaring things to be damning evidence based on an extremely limited understanding of the subject matter.
On the contrary, https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-op-0813-...
NSLs are a subpoena. The government can't order you to include a backdoor. Granted, they have other leverage they could use, like export licenses or purchase contracts.
About freaking time, this has been way overdue. The ability to offend is to critically think. If you have cannot handle dissenting opinions or facts, this invalidates your movement or ideology. So that is why many are silenced. Academia is full of those who stifle others for power...
Pulling GitHub into the Linux kernel process
Some hers can never gestate, specifically barren ones, does that make them not hers?
Well, technically, that can't happen now..
Elon Musk now lives in a $50K house at Starbase, Texa
If that's the case then ~20 people bump into me on a daily basis.
Everyone here hears about Weinstein literally every day. He and his brother may be the least silenced people in history. As well I have been twitter mobbed by Eric, making my account useless for quite a while. so he is perfectly happy to silence people who critique him I guess.
I'm not hypothesizing anything. I'm pointing out that "someone who's biologically male in the women's room" doesn't have to mean "predatory trans-woman" but could be "predatory man pretending to be trans".
...Or it's the end of crypto -- hence "rat poison"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/defi-is-helping-to-fuel-the-cry...
First legged running on rough terrain (around 1994)
https://youtu.be/kc5n0iTw-NU

Made on a 20MHz Mac IIci, not enough computer for the job.

First working ragdoll (around 1997)
https://youtu.be/5lHqEwk7YHs

Ragdoll physics, correct but slow.

Big falling object test (around 1997)
https://youtu.be/-DaWIHc1VLY

Notice that it looks heavy, unlike most video game physics.
The web is by far the most portable and secure application platform in history. There are definitely advantages to native apps, but you can't pretend that web apps don't have some major advantages.
Well yes, but the legality is the most important criteria. Does anyone voluntarily pay more in taxes than they legally have to pay?

I am completely onboard with the position that the rich don't pay enough taxes. I also agree that it is unfair how much control over the political system their money gives them and how that power can be used to add in even more tax breaks. However it is silly to pretend that rich people should pay more in taxes than they are legally required to pay.
Relevant Eric Weinstein tweeted this few minutes ago:

> I have two bits of information about JE that are not public.

> 1) An interchange from McAfee on Epstein.

> 2) Knowledge that Epstein was asking after me in a late email just before he died. I have no idea why. There is no more contact about Epstein than one meeting about 20yrs ago.

> With that said, there now is nothing I know of again on Epstein that is private. There is no benefit to harassing me further. All Epstein information is now public. He crossed my path once. Seemed to know who I was. Interested in GU. That’s it. John and I have no recent contact.

> GU is now public. I have no more information as to its connection to Epstein other than he wanted it taken to Villard house. I’d like to talk to relevant physicists quickly given its role in the story. I give my permission to release any Epstein security video of me. Thanks.

> I’m quite concerned now given John’s 2020 call.

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/140783396472377344...

Edit: what's with the downvotes?
You are making broad statements about the prevalence of psychological attitudes in the general public.

Do you have an academic citation to back up your assertions?
And when you renounce your citizenship they tax your existing wealth.
I don't think the story here is about a backlash to gender ideology on campus per se: it's about a backlash to certain protest tactics that get used a lot.

Namely, the practice of protesting a respected lecturer whose ideas you disagree with, and pressuring the administration to support your position with a formal denunciation so strong it starts looking libelous against the lecturer, damaging their career and sometimes their personal lives.

Sooner or later, this is bound to backfire legally, so the administration has to be worried about it becoming widespread. It also changes the power dynamic in the university, making administrators defer to students out of intimidation, and probably creating a lot of enmity in the process. Until convinced otherwise, I'm viewing this as an example of the administration trying to reassert itself, and this particular gender ideology case just happens to be the proxy battle for that.
Counter-anecdote: I've got two separate hardwired Raspberry Pi's running PiHole in separate docker containers, and my DHCP (from a TP-Link access point) serves them as primary and secondary DNS servers. I just make sure to reboot them one at a time but otherwise have not had any complaints about availability. I've been running for at least 6 months in this configuration.

I do see maybe 5% of the hits on the secondary DNS server as the main DNS server (according to PiHole's metrics), so I presume there's a few queries that are failing over.
> Pretty sure CWD by itself isn’t even valid [...] and therefore // isn’t valid in FTP URLs.

So, I looked it up carefully and it appears that (despite the promises in later RFCs such as 2396 and 3986) the current specification of the ftp scheme is still the ancient RFC 1738 which predates not only the URL / URI distinction but even the notion of relative URLs. In §3.2.2 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738#section-3.2.2> it specifically says that a null segment in the path should result in a “CWD ” command (i.e. CWD, space, null string argument) being sent to the FTP server, going against both the current RFC 959 and its predecessor 765 (apparently the earliest formal specification of FTP to include CWD) which require the argument to CWD to be non-null.

Thus apparently a conformant implementation of the ftp URL scheme cannot be a conformant implementation of an FTP client. Joy.

It still seems unlikely that Berners-Lee et al. would specifically call this case out if it were useless at the time... What were the servers that made this necessary, I wonder?

> FTP CWD and RETR paths are system dependent (with, theoretically, system dependent path separators), but URLs are not

Thank you, that’s the insight that I was missing. So a %2F inside an ftp URL component is just performing a (sanctioned) injection of the (supposedly UNIXy) server path syntax.

> FTP is awful

I’d go with “unbelievably ancient, with the attendant problems”, but yes. Funny how it still manages to be better than everything else (that I know) at transferring files by not multiplexing control and data onto the same TCP connection. (I think HTTP over QUIC can do this as well?)
> To move to another country would be the real obvious response if you expect yours to go into chaos.

Which country would you recommend?
> but there’s something called the Sentencing Guideline

But which are, as the name suggests, “more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.”

Still, a better measure of likely sentence than naively adding up statutory maxima for individual counts.
Well yes, but they usually at least wait until they've organized.

Without existing skin in the game at Amazon, this just seems much closer to actual extortion.
It's always an interesting experiment to assume that the outcome was the desired result and look to see who benefits.
Can you unpack "scorched earth rhetoric" for me? I am clearly upset that someone tried to stuff me back in the closet, but isn't that a natural reaction? I think it's fairly generous to share my personal experiences in the hopes that someone out there might learn how to better respect others.
Reminds me of:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
When it's about the biggest event on the planet for at least a year, the highest central powers are surely in complete control.
I think it's a matter of angle, in western popular culture "crazy" often has a positive connotation, for example I remember seeing an ad with the line "For the crazy ones". In other instances, it's the opposite, in my wife's home country for example, "crazy" is used as an insult and it's highly offensive.

Edit: the ad was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgtLSHhTPg
>Note, some number of people identifying as gay later chose to identify as straight. Is this a counter argument to gay people being a reality? Does that illustrate the problem with your point?

You have misunderstood my point. It was directed specifically at this statement:

>And whatever it's point of origin, this reality for these isn't going to change.

For some, but not all, trans people this reality does change. They exist, and they also deserve empathy and support.
It's not my cat, but it is a cat. It comes over for dinner sometimes.
I second the recommendation. I loved the book, though (to be honest) I did read it when I was pretty young.

It's not just about taking drugs, though plenty of drugs are taken. It's an outsider's look at just how weird society is. It's also absolutely hilarious.. but fully appreciating the humor may require experience with drugs.
Well then you've got a decade of free hosting and the only negative consequence of it is it stops working.

The reductive logic here is something else
We actually recently hit this very issue - a bad account migration resulted in everyone having flastname accounts - but that first initial and last name were based on legal names not common names - as a result a number of employees were upset at being forced to revert to birth names, especially those who had immigrated at a young age and adopted a new name.

I have a friend who was named at birth after their absentee parent and really dislikes ever being called by that name. It is important and polite to use names that people personally prefer within reason.
I took two months off. It was expensive but worth it.
Elephants' 500km-trek across China baffles scientists
“Overcurvature” – Mathematicians Solve Problem of Folding a Pop-Up Tent (2013)
You missed the point that trans people aren't creating the burden here. It's pretty clear that it's a simple request and we regularly make similar adjustments, like with nicknames.

You're hitting the nail in the head that the problem is with the anti-trans person making a stink about it. That is where the real burden is, and that is who is to blame for the toxic work environment. The bully is the problem, not their target.
How is Kildall relevant here? The event that's credited to CP/M's downfall has nothing to do with $$s
The middle ground is when people stop actually using cryptocurrencies to speculate and crypto actually back the security they're selling with real assets.

Kind of like Tether, but you know, not Tether.
Do chance meetings at the office boost innovation? There’s no evidence of it
Invented by our former Vice President, I believe.
Seems like a reasonable hypothesis to build a psychological study out of, but there’d be a lot of work to do on operationalizing your definitions.
It's brainwashing of the highest order, what is happening to our young people. Professor Sam Valkin on Youtube elaborates on all this nonsense. Powerful forces seek to manipulate impressionable minds and make them question their own gender. The more educated and socially connected you are, the more you are at risk of the inversion tactics.
This isn't about strangers, but acquaintances and friends, who would know you a little more intimately, no?
I know, you're gonna downvote me. I regret nothing.
See an earlier post for reason. Looks like they resubmitted somewhere else and wanted the copy to ne deleted
Got it, ok. Yeah, I think that's reasonable, though I do also think that it's "extra". I would consider moving the key to the enclave without attestation to be a win, though I very much like the idea of having that level of authenticity as well.

Thanks for clearing that up.
Not sure about technical details for that but perhaps something like https://vitess.io/docs/reference/features/vitess-sequences/. Vitess itself is a project that grew out of YouTube's needs to scale and shard their MySQL DB.
> with well implemented

That's your crux. You can talk a big game about how cool the concept of AR is, but we're still far off from implementing anything remotely similar to what you've just described.

> It's strictly a superset of VR

Nope, it's the other way around actually. It might logically follow that augmenting reality is easier than virtualization it, but AR technology is only as good as the VR technology it's based on.
Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting restored by AI
Ok, I've taken the rate limit off your account. To prevent it kicking in again, please remember that on HN the idea is to value quality over quantity, and please stay up to date on the site guidelines.

> I really think it's unfair to say I'm on HN to "battle" anyone. I don't think my comments here have been particularly confrontational?

When I skim through your recent comments I'm mostly seeing posts like these (just a random sample) - these are examples of what we don't want on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27606026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27506628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27506572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423188

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27379700

If you don't like the words "political/ideological battle" or "flamewar" we can find a different description; the point is that this is not the curiosity-driven, respectful conversation that the site is supposed to be for.
Without knowing it, former NRA president gave a speech to 1000s of empty chairs
So i have to mangle my ssid name and reconnect all my wifi devices because google asdumes opt in on privacy impacting location services?

I’d email a fuck you to google complaints, but their customer support is literally non existent. Fitting, I guess.
Snowflake Engineering: Blue-Green Upgrades of Istio Control Plane
I agree that expecting 2x improvement in a year and a half is unreasonable. But I didn't say 2x improvement.

I said zero progress. Something greater than zero should be achievable in 1.5 yeras.
Cryptocurrencies have two opposing effects on regular fiat currencies. First, local fiat currencies like the Salvadoran colon face more competition because they were already struggling relative to currencies like the USD but now they also have competition from cryptocurrencies, especially in situations where their central bank is strongly manipulating the currency like in Venezuela. Second, global reserve currencies like USD, EUR, JPY will be strengthened in the sphere of "real" currencies because of the aforementioned weakening of alternative fiat moneys like the colon or Venezuelan peso. We might see the colon and peso fade away and leave the greenback dominant.
It isn't bad to investigate or ask questions; the problem is that many of the people who are vocal proponents of the lab-leak theory are making a motte and bailey argument that takes the form of "the virus escaped from a lab in China" as the motte and "China deliberately released the virus to hurt its enemies/Trump/etc" as the bailey. I don't have a strong opinion on the origin of the virus, but the idea that China released it deliberately is very stupid and where most of the lab-leak conversations I've followed end up.

It also doesn't help that China's current leadership is extremely allergic to anything that implicates China at all, so their actions are largely compatible with what you'd see in a coverup.
Indeed. 2nd hand panels are fueling a solar boom in Syrian rebel territory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/world/middleeast/syria-so...
From the very first paragraph:

>(trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur)

Bigots offended at being called out on their bigotry. The Economist reveals their bias and their stake in the debate by asserting that "terf is a slur" and later by representing "gender critical" ideologies as "mainstream." It's plainly irresponsible journalism and not at all sober.
Okay, that’s totally valid lol
This is the best forklift training video I have seen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_–_The_...