skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intriguely, Columbus claimed that in 1477, after visiting Bristol, England (which is confirmed), he visited Iceland, where the stories of Markland would have predominated.
This reeks of "Am I so out of touch? No, it is the children who are wrong."
I don’t know what the economics look like, but I think the goal is to eliminate deadweight loss from the tax, such that if that tax were imposed only 20% of wells would be economic, vs say 60%.
Furthermore i would presume there is tax revenue and jobs associated with these operations that don’t exist were the gas just flared.
Researcher drops three iOS zero-days that Apple refused to fix
Michigan planning to build America’s first electrified road for charging EV
They lived in an era when most other people are gulible and barbaric. I doubt without public manipulation their ideas or themselves would have survived.

Also if you take the saying "power corrrupts" a little less literally then superior intellect also corrupts, if there are no counter-weight to them such as opposing intellects, which were rarer at the time.
> seems pointless

I'm more wondering about the effects of seed/life transfer. Doesn't seem feasible to me.
And in countries where not having a job doesn't lead to lack of shelter, food, water, healthcare, etc.
Varda Space’s plans to revolutionize in-space manufacturing
I would guess it's the long-term consequences of the slave trade/labor and the inequalities that stems from it. America isn't the worst place, but it's the worst "first world country", and first world countries usually don't have that history.
> And Greenland had a bishop who wrote to the church.

Most of the bishops of Greenland never actually lived in Greenland. Certainly, the bishops never found out that the Greenland settlements had been abandoned, and bishops were appointed until 1537 despite all contact with Greenland ceasing circa 1400.
I agree, Joe Rogan closed a recent podcast with a great thought on this.

Paraphrasing, we are all Americans, we need to remember that though we have different views we have far more in common and we can only get better by coming together.
And why the Caribbean is alternatively known as the West Indies.
I think the Patrick Mckenzie post is a great reference here:

> It is Bob’s job to get you signed with the company as cheaply as possible, but Bob is not super motivated to do so, because Bob is not spending Bob’s money to hire you. Bob is spending Bob’s budget. Bob generally does not get large performance incentives for shaving money off of his hiring budget: you get a new Macbook if you convince Bob to give you $5k extra, but Bob gets (if he is anomalously lucky) a dinner at TGIFridays if he convinces you to take $5k less.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
However, there was also the Albigensian Crusade and not a single piece of catharian writing survived this.
From your first link: "SARS-CoV-2 is the only virus in subgenus Sarbecovirus having this feature"

From your second link: "Finally, the poly-basic (furin) site present in SARS-CoV-2 is absent in both RshSTT182 and RshSTT200."

Your third link doesn't discuss furin cleavage sites very much.

Your fourth link literally doesn't contain the substring "furin".

Your fifth link literally doesn't contain the substring "furin".

Your sixth link at least partially supports your claim with a single mention of furin, saying "The two viruses shared part of the furin cleavage site unique to SARS-CoV-2", but the whole truth is that while they have insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site in the spike protein, they do not contain the full furin cleavage site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RmYN02

From your seventh link: "None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike."

(Protip: in this claim #4 of yours under discussion, you should change "sarbecoviruses" to "betacoronaviruses".)
That's a great argument for working somewhere where the equity is liquid IMO. You can just sell public company RSU's as they vest and put them wherever else to diversify.
> El Salvador had a significant response to the pandemic including a 30 day curfew. If lockdowns cause homicide shouldn't it have showed up there, and in the rest of the world?

I don't think I'd expect that regarding El Salvador. What are the primary types of homicide in 2019 in the US and El Salvador? I can't actually figure this out using google, if anyone knows I'd appreciate it.

My wild guess would be domestic violence in the US and organized crime in El Salvador but I could be wildly off. However, anywhere that organized crime is the dominant type of homicide then a spike in domestic violence isn't likely to have much effect on the overall homicide rate, but anywhere that domestic violence is the at the top, it would.

I'm not really proposing this specific explanation btw, just saying it's the first thing that came to my mind. There's a ton of ways that 2020 differs from 2019, not just "defund the police", and I don't know how to detangle it at all.
Sure, but the topic was pandemics we don't know about because they weren't written down. The bubonic plague was written about pretty extensively. Even earlier disease outbreaks were written about.
Amazon didn't go to highschool with Madigan, so it's hard for me to see it happening.
> Seems like a terrible idea to give them a tax break for burning more natural gas that would otherwise be left in the ground.

Good thing that’s not what they’re doing.
Also people’s faces can change, if they get disfigured, age, gain/lose weight, or possibly even exposed to the elements. Even subtle changes, AI models could be worse at recognizing than humans.
> Dr Shiva brought up some interesting questions and I think we definitely need good answers for them from the county.

At least some purported answers can be found on Garret Archer's twitter [0]. If the answers there are accurate, it goes a long way to show that either lots of communication or intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of the election process is very important for tracking down every last discrepancy.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/144150225018297549...
"hello, citizen #4838428069, we know who you are, now hand over the identification paperwork to prove to us who you are"

...wait a minute
Probably Go. I also like Google Cloud and CUE
Aren't there FDA regulations surrounding products with medical claims? I'm no expert, but if you try to sell actual medicine or medical devices (as opposed to supplements which have this weird stupid loophole because Orrin Hatch loved selling vitamins before he was a Senator), the FDA will regulate the ad.

(on Hatch and supplement deregulation, yes, the FDA can regulate Food, and they can regulate Drugs, but they can't regulate "supplements" go figure: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-hatch...)
This is a question I've encountered a few times. How quickly, versus natural evolution, can serial passage evolve a virus?

Using this figure, we could have some parameters around how much time such a project must have taken and its latest start date (assuming its evolved from known or closely-related-to-known viruses).

Using this figure, and a theoretical timetable, we can also specify how close a cousin virus we would need to have for such a process to develop SAR-CoV-2.

This could give us a more specific understanding of the feasibility of such research.

For example, RaTG13 is closest known virus was discovered in 2013. Does the rate of serial passage enable evolution from RaTG13 over ~7 years? If not, this provides a factual argument allowing us to determine even if gain-of-function research was imposed on RaTG13 the moment of its discovery, it could not have been developed into SARS-CoV-2. (I don't know how to evaluate the actual accuracy of this, but provided as a example of how knowing the serial passage rate would be helpful).
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere ("direct air capture") is currently extremely expensive and inefficient, compared to e.g. getting it from some other industrial process or the exhaust from a fossil fueled plant. And you still end up having to ship the fuel which isn't trivial.

Nuclear power is currently more expensive per kWh than renewables. This could potentially change if we were to build many identical plants, which would be viable with this strategy. By building it somewhere far from civilization, lower safety standards could also become acceptable, lowering cost further.

But in order for this to pay off, you'd need an absolutely massive investment, and I suspect nobody wants to take that risk. Building 100 nuclear power plants will be cheaper than building one per plant but still more expensive in absolute numbers, and each plant is already a many-billion project. So for this to work, you'd likely need someone to commit hundreds of billions, and most likely all upfront/at the same time to actually reap the cost benefits for the nuclear plants. And the technology to actually make use of the power isn't there yet.

OTOH, with solar and wind, you can build a plant at basically any scale. A lot of small projects is much easier to make happen than one absolutely gargantuan one.
Parent was presumably using the US Census definition which leads various people to conclude that 80% live in urban areas.

I agree with your point though rural NY can be pretty rural too if not in the same category as Alaska and large areas of the West.
Yes, it seemed like it worked in hamsters, but as we well know, most drugs that work in mice don't work in humans. Besides, we already have many anti-inflammatory drugs that can reduce the cytokines, so it's a stretch to use ivermectin strictly as a steroid.
The article states that they’re using gas that would not have been extracted, burned, or vented.

It’s just a tax break for some “entrepreneurs” who are making climate change worse.

Bitcoin remains an environmental disaster, defended exclusively by horrible people.
That only matters if you are buying the NFT for the purpose of speculation. Otherwise just find some art you like.

Twitter followers are between $5-30 per thousand, and Discord server members look to be around $70-80 per thousand. People pulling crypto scams will frequently fake popularity, back in the ICO days it was standard to have a telegram channel filled with 20-30 thousand bots.
I've never heard of peakprosperity.com, but it seems to be a site geared towards preppers/libertarians/those who are already predisposed to a lack of institutional trust. You can claim he's data driven and level headed, but the context that he's operating in--and the audience that he's speaking to--tells me that he's probably not being unbiased in his analysis.
And here I just posted a comment in an unrelated thread about my Asus laptop from a decade ago still going strong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28648872

For me it's Acer users that always have defects on their laptops. Someone else I know swears by Toshiba. Given how many different opinions there are out there, I feel like we just can't tell which brands are good without doing actual research, and probably we'd have to segregate by things like price band or series and perhaps even by year as teams or executives come and go.
There actually is some evidence. I remembered this article but I’m no expert. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-fir...
Linkrot? This vocabulary site uses "query" parameter, while Ikea's search uses "q".

e.g. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/products/?q=franklin
I don’t think there is any meaningful risk to getting the vaccine. But you asked for “why” so here goes:

1. I Have had covid and got over it. The fatality rate in my age group is <.1% There is simply no necessity. I am not going to get something I don’t need just because Pfizer needs to get paid.

2. I recall a half year’s worth of politicians and media saying not to trust “a rushed vaccine promoted by Trump.” Most people are not just going to conveniently forget that messaging.

3. I have yet to see any data that explains why my natural immunity is inferior to what’s provided by a vaccine. This would be a first. The “TruSt tHE ScIeNCe” crowd needs to explain why this is being ignored.

Hope that helps.
> The choice between a $200k/yr salary and a $200/hr contract is so far of an outlier that you read it on HN and just roll your eyes. Right?

Without more detail, it's hard to say if it's an outlier or not. $200k is $96/hr, but the employer pays their half of SS. Self-employed, you're paying both. And how many hours are they giving you in a week? What if they cancel arrangement 3 months in, and it takes you 6 months to find another contracting gig? You would've made more at the $200k job in that event. But with so many different dimensions (job security, hours, taxes), it's a bit comparing apples to oranges.
Is this commonly accepted that the death penalty is a deterrant? I always saw it mostly as a way to permanently remove some poeple from society. A dead person can hardly kill/hurt anyone.
I only reviewed the first link. What I took away from it is that furin cleave sites occur in the family of coronaviruses naturally, but have not been seen in those most closely related to SARS-CoV-2. This note about not having closely related coronaviruses having such a feature is also true of SARS-CoV-1, which also leads evidence to its ability to occur naturally within a given subgenus (unless we posit also original SARS was lab-leak, but I do not think anyone has posited this.)

I have not evaluated 2-7.
I am not vaccinated either so playing Devil's advocate. I have not seen anything convincing regarding a risk of ADE for the vaccines as they are used in production. As far as I can tell, ADE could potentially happen for your natural antibodies as well.

Also, although the vaccine was "rushed to market" relative to the normal process, perhaps the normal process for approving vaccines was overly slow? Maybe as a society we are too conservative in general with things like vaccine approval, and in fact (if you take that these vaccines aren't particularly unsafe which you may not) we were wrong before and the process for how these new COVID vaccines were approved is closer to the "right" speed.

The widespread vaccination as is happening in the West specifically targeted against the spike protein will lead to an evolutionary pressure on the coronavirus to mutate its spike protein. I think all things considered though this is just something we can accept. As the mRNA vaccines were much more suited to quick, mass production it made sense to use them and they are effective at stopping people getting seriously ill.
It may be even worse, as history was eventually established, competing narratives were probably dismissed and neglected as weird tales without foundation or merit, and eventually suppressed. For which they eventually weren't retold anymore and eventually forgotten.
If you're interested in stopping the promulgation of snake oil, then the linked article should be catnip for you. It features lying to the FBI, thin DNS evidence, and a coordinated media disinfo campaign.
Given the Evergrande development, it might pop rather sooner than later. Tether's 'reserves' are largely backed with commercial paper after all, and it stands to reason that much of that is intertwined with the China debt-bubble in one way or another.
Seems very low expressed like that, but actually it isn't because when you take your car you typically drive tens of kilometers.
You are just swiching windows the wrong way.

The user is supposed to build a mental model of applications and windows in their head and think about that carefully when switch.

Apple's thought very hard very different, and deliberately build their UI that way to keep people's minds sharp. You're welcome.
I am aware. However, any reduction in child poverty that was observed in July cannot be due to the rebate checks currently being sent out.
ugh, just remembered that this was kinda used against me as an internal candidate. I read about the new law and decided to exercise my rights. Turns out senior leadership in my department thought I might sue based and saw it as info gathering for that...
Can you explain the importance of the 12-nt insertion, and also provide some references regarding it not being evolved naturally?
if it is a licensed dealer you probably can. in germany it's possible.
I don't claim to know what caused the spike. You'll find it implied in the NYT article that the cause for the spike is unknown. You'll find it more explicitly stated in this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/upshot/murders-rising-cri...
This find is not as surprising as the Economist article would have you believe.

First, what was written about areas beyond Europe's periphery tended to lag behind actual common knowledge of those areas by hundreds of years. An example would be the concept of "the torrid zone," part of an ancient Greek climatic theory that divided the world into two habitable temperate zones, two uninhabitable frigid zones (at the poles), and one uninhabitable torrid zone (basically the equatorial region). You had European textbooks being printed well into the seventeenth century describing the torrid zone's literal uninhabitability. Like, literally describing areas colonized by Europeans and integrated into European economies as unable to sustain any human life.

Second, there are many mentions in medieval European literature of pre-Columbian and, in the case of Africa, pre-Henrician explorers going beyond Europe's periphery, directly contradicting the easy school narratives most of us learned about European "discovery". E.g., the voyage of the Zeno brothers [1]. Most of these mentions are just that, mentions. The Marckalada/Markland manuscript seems notable in that it has a bit more evidentiary heft behind it, but my point is that it's not an entirely unique document.

I should add that generally speaking, there's a rich tradition in history of mercantile contact going well beyond the surviving documentary record. The ancient Romans were almost certainly in regular contact with the Indian subcontinent and possibly China through trade, even though the written record is sketchy. Archaeology has helped in this regard. Michael McCormick is the authority in this area when it comes to the early medieval period or so-called "dark ages" [2].

Edit: In history, be wary of any narrative that presupposes isolation. If you dig deep enough, you'll find that it's often written by someone long dead with an agenda. Hence medievalists' disdain for the "dark ages," which are basically an Italian Renaissance construct that got blown up by nationalist Germans in the nineteenth century.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Zeno_brothers

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Origins-European-Economy-Communicatio...
for turning electricity into heat

Isn't it kind of like turning gas into heat, into electricity, back into heat?
"Dictator Dan" is an absurd statement, he is a democratically elected leader and his approval rate is 60%.

I understand that there is a large amount of people that disapprove of lockdowns but the fact is that the majority are supportive.
Like the shortest axiom for classical propositional logic using NAND in the Chapter 12, which is the last chapter, on page 773 in New Kind of Science with no proof or references?
I think you are confusing Coinbase with another exchange. Coinbase, as far as I can tell, tries to stay away from USDT and rather deals in USDC.
I didn't read the blog post you linked to. It appears from the date in the link that the guy analyzed temperature data from 1890 to 2010, roughly. He threw out out data from weather stations that hadn't been continuously in service for at least 100 years -- to "stabilize" the dataset. This implies that NASA (or whoever compiled the data) hadn't already analyzed and corrected the data to ensure that the readings (i) over the 120-year span and (ii) from disparate locations and different instruments were commensurable. If so, limiting his exercise to 100-year-plus stations provides a surface veneer of illusory "stability", but doesn't speak to the accuracy of the reduced or full dataset -- and the accuracy is key to conclusions that can be drawn from analysis. (And if NASA did analyze and correct the readings in the full dataset, then the guy is cherry-picking.)

The guy then drastically restricts the dataset to only include rural weather stations, to less than a quarter of the original set of 100-year+ stations. At the least, there has to be some accounting of geograpical distribution in the analysis. The bigger question, though, is why would he remove the urban heat islands? Does their effect on the climate stop at the city limits, with a partition rising straight up into space? The whole concern about climate change is whether human activity (which certainly includes urban heat islands) will eventually lead to irreversible climate change that will have catastrophic effects.

(If folks feel "catastrophic" is alarmist, I suggest they Google "nine planetary boundaries", of which climate change is but one of the interdependent boundaries, for some truly alarming reading.)

Anyway, someone more knowledgeable than me can perhaps provide a better perspective on whether any climate-/weather-related elements have more of a role than temperature in affecting the initiation and spreading of forest fires. I'm particularly thinking of low humidity and drought caused by climate-change-induced storms, winds, etc. Are forest fires less likely to occur in cooler regions experiencing low humidity and drought?

Aah, starik36 and Excel Hero have gotten me interested in researching further; thank you, sincerely!
I would bet that there are more pirates now that at pretty much any point in history.
But that isn't how humans notice exponential change...

We reside in a "level" of order of magnitude in time and space. Things that happen outside of that level, too big or too small, and we simply can't comprehend them. When something crosses from an order of magnitude below our level, to an order of magnitude above our level, that's when we can perceive it.

A block accelerating exponentially from 1e-10 m/s to the speed of light will look completely stationary until it reaches a level of order of magnitude that we can perceive, probably about 1e-5 m/s.

If I tell you I will give you an exponentially increasing amount of money by 1% every day, it matters a lot to you if I start you at 1e-200 dollars because you'll be dead before you earn a single cent. If you lived to 150, you’d be the richest person on the planet. The absolute amount matters because we are physical beings anchored to a particular order of magnitude that we care about.
True, though there's lots of different experiences. Some companies don't even allow the hiring manager to see/know the offer until after it's accepted. All delegated to some HR "compensation" group that is definitely adversarial.

Candidates can't really reliably know who's pulling the strings.
why oh why?
how much complexity can we place between application code and the cpu?
both linux and windows are too much..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
A relevant case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas#Literary_influence

(I linked to where he's getting dismissed as a liar centuries later, but the main story about the voyage is way more interesting.)
Property taxes don't go to the federal government or national military, at least in the US. Lots of myths here.
I believe Tesla uses something similar for training. https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=5716
You can't extinguish a lithium ion battery fire by smothering it. The fire creates its own oxygen. You can contain the fire, and you can immerse it in enough water that it cools below the burning temperature and shorts out through the water.
The Science of the Benefits of Religion