skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this whole article is that we know of no suitable backbone virus to use, and we know of no suitable spike-protein sequence to form a chimera which results in SARS-CoV-2.

The experiments done on the SARS-CoV-1 or WIV1 backbone don't remotely get you close to SARS-CoV-2 and you're dealing with centuries of evolutionary difference there.

The RaTG13 virus backbone is also several decades of evolution away from SARS-CoV-2.

Learning how to replicate a virus in the lab is also not simple so they're not going to be doing this with every virus they find. We know they managed to do it with SARS-CoV-1 and WIV-1, but they'd need a reason to undertake it with any other virus.

So you have to assume that WIV has a virus which they found which is similar to RaTG13 which they have never published, and for some reason they jumped straight to making that virus replicate in the lab and creating chimeras, and they also had a previously and still unpublished spike protein which was similar to the Pangolin spike which they used. Then for some reason they didn't do this in petri dishes, but used animals and/or somehow managed to aerosolize enough of it that researchers at WIV got sick from it. This is with a virus that we now know doesn't stick to surfaces very well at all, so the actual accident remains unexplained (they had a party and someone chopped up some chimera and railed it like a line of coke? that'd do it).

While you're pondering all that keep in mind that the person who "broke" the story in the WSJ about the sick workers at the Wuhan lab was Michael R. Gordon. He's also notable for having co-authored with Judith Miller in 2002 the NYT story on Hussein's nuclear program and WMDs that arguably helped propel us into the Iraq War.

It is also worthwhile to read Shi Zhengli's rebuttal to the lab leak theory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wu...

If you'd like some actual science on the zoontic investigation:

"Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses circulating in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21240-1

"Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus"

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

"Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses"

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(21)00709-1.pdf
Will a storm pull leaked oil from the sea?
When I read that the plants are "still several years off", and the most promoted feature (shown in three out of four images) is the "A-frame structures that are aesthetically pleasing", my skepticism went off the charts.
Amazon grants 61,000 shares of stock to incoming CEO Andy Jassy
Those cloud service companies have better security than your parents' house. Especially if you use them with a backup tool that encrypts with a key only you have.
Fortunately (in many ways), economists are not required to make a living from the proceeds of their writing.

Do you happen to know of a libertarian economist who has specifically come out against property rights, and who has a book available from the Mises Institute? I might feel the urge to create a book this weekend.
What would it take to get Firefox to support RSS again? With support I mean:

1. To detect RSS feeds and show an icon in the UI

2. Render RSS files, so they look better than raw text

3. Link that UI icon to a subscribe function: Show a configurable list of RSS Readers and send the feed to the subscribe URL of the selected one.

This can already be added with extensions, but it would boost RSS adoption if it were a default feature. And thus support the official mission of Mozilla.

Would mozilla block it if a RSS advocate group would provide the development work to get this back into the browser? Is there a technical issue, like that there is no fitting RSS/XML parser that can be used?
I'm boycotting

Legit...

If it was the good stuff then I'd understand the ban

You gotta keep the charade going

But weed?

Nah

Wasn't dying to see any of it anyways, but we do what we can :-)
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If you want to take the dim, sound-bite-and-karma-friendly approach of not really considering the argument you just read... sure, I can see how you could come to this conclusion.
Target finally explains why nearly all its SF stores have reduced hours
We mock the deniers who pick single events to disprove climate change, so we need to be held to the same standard. It doesn't matter how many crazy bad events happen, they're symptoms. You need to focus on the underlying causes; the macro trends
> it was coined by people of Latin American heritage

Were they predominantly people of Latin American heritage who lived in Latin America and spoke Spanish or Portuguese, or people of Latin American heritage whose primary language might have been English because they lived in a predominantly English speaking country?

Let's say a person of Latin American heritage, but whose everyday language is English, modifies their Latin American language in ways that conform to the English language. How do we evaluate that?

Yes, I agree that we could not call it appropriation, because that person is indeed of Latin American heritage, but is this not still a form of "cultural imperialism", where a language that is dominant for political or economical reasons imposes itself over other languages?

And does it not become cultural appropriation later on, the moment that word spreads and becomes mainstream mostly among people of non Latin American heritage, while Latin Americans seldom use it to refer to themselves?

> There have been other attempts too, like "Latine", "Latin@" and so on.

Yes, it is true that there have been some attempts at making the language more gender neutral in other languages too, as I said above I'm Italian and I saw some attempts in Italian as well, things like "Cara/o cliente..." ("Dear customer..." where "dear" has both the feminine and masculine termination, separated with a slash). And I don't have issue with those attempts.

But I take issue specifically with this: why attempting to make the language more gender neutral, using a device (grammatically neutral words) that is typical of the English language and doesn't really exist in Spanish? I am of the opinion that you can use an inclusive language while still speaking Spanish, e.g. you could say "Latinos y Latinas", or for brevity you could write both terminations with a slash like in the Italian example above, there is no need to force an English language device onto Spanish.
Newborn humans have more neurons than adults do, to this day.
Isn't your last paragraph describing a randomized controlled trial? The page lists 31 for Ivermectin [0] and (for comparison) 40 for HCQ [1]. I don't find the evidence for HCQ convincing, but Ivermectin seems solid from what I can tell. It's hard to explain 28 out of 31 randomized controlled trials showing a positive result with bias, since you would expect that bias to affect both HCQ and Ivermectin. Why would Ivermectin show much better results than HCQ? What kind of bias would affect Ivermectin much more than HCQ?

[0]: https://ivmmeta.com/#fig_fpr

[1]: https://hcqmeta.com/#fcite_rct (Figure 7, scroll down)
Previous threads :

- IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources[1]

- IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on[2]

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27692965

[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27706128
Much of this reminds me of how we went to war against Iraq

The lead author of the WSJ piece on the "sick lab workers" is the same author that helped get us into Iraq with a NYT article on Hussein's nuclear WMD program in 2002.
Same here. I’ve directed our teams and infra managers that we must be able to block the use of copilot for our firm’s code.

Id be very surprised if the other large enterprises that I have worked at downs doing exactly the same thing. Too much legal risk, for practically no benefit.
The inside joke is that psychology is not a hard science, but is the hardest science.
The top 1% is saying it's the 70 year olds who have absorbed all the wealth. Let me drop an inconvenient chart here:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01108

Here's another chart - net worth of top 10% excluding the top 1%, basically folks who have millions in assets, but aren't quite rich yet. Even they have lost during the recession.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN09161
This implies the baseline intelligence to learn to distinguish valuable criticism you didn't want to hear from useless criticism you shouldn't heed.
It kind of does invalidate the argument in the sense of "it's irrelevant because it's not what we're discussing". Arguments are context sensitive, you have to actually make an argument about the thing being discussed, you cannot just react to some keyword in the text and go on a tangent.

I take it you also don't enjoy a good cut of cheese with a fine wine? A shame.
(not necessary for them to pay in order to mitigate climate change. mitigating climate change should be done, but it doesn't need to be expensive)
InfoSecBikinis and DevsPelades: A Movement to Bring Your Whole Self to Tech
Taking actions that you know put someone else's personal property at risk _is_ malice. It's less malice than actively breaking it, but it is actively making a choice to put something that belongs to someone else in harm's way.
I'm curious: did they violate their contract terms, or did they violate terms that you negotiated onto them.
> One problem for the wet market theory is that neither bats nor pangolins were sold at that wet market

That's not a problem for the theory. SARS did not come directly from bats (or pangolins). It went through civets first, which were sold at markets. That's why SARS first showed up in Foshan, 1000 km away from where the bats that harbor the ancestral virus to SARS live.

The Nature paper you linked shows that live animals that are known to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 were sold at the Huanan Seafood market. Because of that, the paper has been generally received as strongly supporting the idea that the outbreak began at the Huanan market.
Thank you for the recipe. I don't think I'll ever make it that way though. Stirring the milk non-stop until it reaches 185°F and then continuing to stir if for another hour is much more work than I'm willing to put in.
In this context, an exclamation mark by itself stands for feelings of surprise and importance.

It is purposefully not a like or upvote or a bookmark – it is a declaration of importance of the parent comment.
Prominent, respected virologists have been questioning gain of function research for a while. Here's a cite[1] from 2018 from Marc Lipsitch, who would be on most people's top ten list of trusted virologists on Covid. He's also one of the signatories of the letter calling for investigation[2].

I think it's possible to split out the question of bioresearch risks from Covid origins. If it was a lab leak, obviously we should regulate those risks better, but we should also do more to mitigate zoonotic spillover, because we have tons of evidence that happens and causes damage. If it wasn't lab leak, we should do more to mitigate spillover, but it would also be a good idea to be more careful about biosafety.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7119956/

[2]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
>>>> Maybe a better question - should psychology even be considered scientific or a science in the first place?

Psychology has embraced scientific methodology. However, it has struggled to produce a reliable scientific knowledge base. There are some successes in psychology, that tempt one to apply the label "scientific," but they are in areas that might be controversial, such as advertising and manipulation.
A time series based database that has an interface fully excel facing, including all excel functionality. I want to see the result value of a cell based output at a certain date, when it changed, and why. I need the interface in excel because all of the engineers already know it and all of their calcs are already in it. Not something excel like or similar, excel.
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It's not that plugins are portable. LSP allows any editor that supports the protocol to provide language support (using a backend "language server" that is editor-agnostic), so it is not that hard for most editors these days to provide good intellisense/syntax-highlighting etc. that used to be limited to commercial-grade IDEs.
> there are smarter people than I that can put that logical fallacy to sleep.

I won't claim to be smarter than you, but I will attempt to provide some justification for your assertion that "corporations need constitutional rights" is a fallacy.

Firstly, the idea of corporate personhood is a much later invention than the US Constitution itself, and seems to have developed almost by accident.[0] But regardless of its provenance, it is still clear that a natural person and a corporate "person" are two legally distinct classes of entity. To pick a trivial example, corporations are not entitled to vote (or be counted towards congressional representation).

More generally, corporations are not inherent features of the world, but rather legal fictions which exist at the discretion of the society that chooses to grant them existence. A society could, for example, require that all corporations be dissolved, without bumping into the constitutional issues that would arise if such a law was applied to natural persons...

Anyway, it seems to me that the argument for protecting "corporate speech" (such as the ACLU's support of Citizens United[1]) is that as long as corporations exist and are useful vehicles for natural persons to exercise their constitutional right to free speech, then the government can't help but infringe on the First Amendment by targeting that "corporate speech". To say that corporations need constitutional rights is to get the argument exactly backwards.

Instead, the government should put a positive duty onto social media to protect freedom of speech, by forbidding terms of service which ban users based on their (legal) political opinions. Such a regulation need only apply to platforms which are of a size where they are likely to have a disproportionate effect on the national political discourse.

This is not too far removed from existing First Amendment jurisprudence which does allow the government to force health warnings and correct labelling onto products. In fact I would say that a website shouldn't be able to present itself as "social media" if it systematically excludes views that are popular in that society, so the analogy to labelling laws isn't that much of a stretch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#In_the_Un...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-and-citizens-united
No I wouldn't. But the claim that most drug dealers don't accept anything other than greenbacks has less significant (even if just in pure dollar terms) than the claim that you've broken the fundamental threat model related to the largest crypto-asset system that currently has a market cap (as of this moment) of more than half a billion USD
This is an obnoxious response, and the situations aren't really similar as hacker news is not generally an adversarial situation the way a cop arresting someone (rightly or wrongly) is.
Change it to CIA
I’d like to see that as well, please.
Oh well...I'd been looking forward to seeing how big the stampede of scammers, pornographers, and the like registering to run for various state and local offices in Florida so they could take advantage of this law was going to be.
I read that and her volunteered info was all over news sites last week. However, this is not what we need. What we need is an independent body that goes into the Wuhan lab.

Let us inspect the bats. The cages, the equipment, the staff.
Discussed a bit at the time (of the article):

‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17133416 - May 2018 (30 comments)
Post Liberal Democracy: A Sketch of the Possible Future? [pdf]
The point is that exactly the same outcome could be caused by intentional modification. As I said in my reply to bluGill earlier, the goal is not to eliminate all risk of interference, but to reduce the risk as much as reasonably possible by controlling the potential sources where you can. Given that interference potentially causes catastrophic loss of life in this scenario, not to mention inconvenience to huge numbers of people, that seems like a good idea.

Put another way, you're not trying to prevent people who know what they're doing and follow robust processes from developing radio transmitters, even though in extreme cases such as my anecdote that might still not be enough to prevent a system failure. Nor can you realistically stop a sufficiently resourceful adversary from using radio interference as a form of attack. What you can do is stop an enthusiastic newbie who read an article about radio once from accidentally causing people to die because their experiment meant emergency responders at an incident down the street couldn't talk to each other except face to face.
It's very difficult to know. Weirdly, while the CIA released a lot of the data about général MKULTRA, no data about the Montréal operations were released. There are certainly even more facets to the program we don't know about.
TIL - "Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social and political impacts."
As a LONG time Vim (now Neovim) user, I've been pretty curious to try this as it would allow me to retain some of my beloved plugins and custom config without the effort of trying to find replacements or reproduce my config stuff. I imagine I could also get rid of most of the language server / autocomplete / code navigation type stuff that comes easier in VS code. It could potentially be the best of both worlds if it's done as well as I'm hoping it is.

I haven't tried it yet, but my main concern is that VS Code probably has a lot of keyboard shortcuts (e.g., C-v for visual block mode) that I'd have to reassign, which could potentially be a bit of a pain initially.

Mind sharing any pros/cons you've run into with the Neovim plugin so far?
> They're just observing that there appears to be an awful lot of bad things happening lately.

OK, then present statistics (not you, but everyone who try to convince climate change from single incidents).

Individual incidents only damage the cause. Fires happened all the time in the last million years. One can't come to correct conclusions about they getting more frequent from their personal observation of news feed.

> Just a quick google search leads me to articles like this

As I said, I'm not denying climate change, global warming, increased frequency of forest fires etc.

Just don't be (not you) religious pro-climate-change fanatic indistinguishable from client-change-denier fanatic. Present data, studies.
I'm not sure how it works with something someone else bought, but the Consumer Rights Act might cover this situation, especially if it's a manufacturing fault. Washing machines would be reasonably expected to last at least 10 years, so you'd be entitled to a free repair, a like-for-like replacement or a 70% refund. Maybe soak to Which? or Citizens Advice (or a lawyer of you have one).
>It’s not journalism when you’re just a cutout for the Russian government

Why not?

>The irony of all ironies is that many of the same people who complain about editorializing in journalism and media are the same ones who back Assange.

I don't want what I view as the US backed media outlets in jail either. This isn't irony, disliking something and state prosecution are drastically different.
You are seeing these issues because the piece is based on motivated reasoning

The author has more than a few other pieces which helped push the US into invading Iraq back on 2003

And these are the same old tactics which were used to foment the invasion of Iraq in the 90s with things like the unquestioned statements such as "throwing babies out of incubators"
Farm animals are fed primarily crop byproduct that you can't digest and grass.
Politics...

Many decades ago I actually worked with Frank Zappa for a few months on one of his projects. Long story. We had dinner together almost every night, just a few of us, sometimes just he and I.

Frank was very active politically. One night, as we were discussing various ideas, he said something like:

"Martin, the reason people like you and I don't go into politics is that you have to be a member of a very specific human subspecies to be able to survive the brutality you will encounter. Most intelligent people don't want to touch politics because they know it is a meat grinder. The sad part is we end-up with people who know nothing about anything and would likely be ambulance chasers or criminals if they had not figure out how to scam their way into politics. We are hopeless."

The epic climax of this reality was when, out of all the amazing people in the US, we ended-up with Trump and Clinton as the only two choices we could make. I can't see how anyone could argue either of those clowns is an example of the best the US can offer.

I still agree with Zappa. I can't imagine ever getting into politics. Particularly these days. I have zero interest in having my life and my family's life violently ripped to shreds by the unscrupulous actors who permeate that world and protect their turf at all costs. One day we might just come up with a way to govern ourselves without these mutants, until then, it's the best we got.
Boeing bought Mcdonnell and was subsequently taken over by MD profits over safety culture.
Deed restrictions are broken all the time. If a future owner really wants to mow down your forest, it's really just a matter of persistence
That investigation was a good thing. Definitely not something that could have been performed by the governments of Ferguson, St Louis County, or Missouri. I'm not convinced that FBI is the only federal body that could have performed that investigation, however. Considering FBI's animus for Black Lives Matter [0] (and, frankly, for every civil rights organization in USA history), it's hard to believe that all of them have their hearts in the right place.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/28/documents-show-us-...
I'd like to see a pick-and-place robot to build LEGO models, but probably too much to ask for.
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How would that work? Speed limits are mainly for revenue collection so if people actually follow them where would they revenue come from
"Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will to renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of the work; acquire that state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the intellectual worker. Without that you will do nothing, at least nothing worth while." ~ A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
> Until one of the crusades to legislatively narrow or repeal Section 230 succeeds

Sesta/Fosta is already law. It has already started.