skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, here's Freddie's contemporaneous apology, which he has not only deleted from his website but from the Wayback Machine as well (sorry for the weird site, only copy I could find): https://www.falserapetimeline.org/false-rape-5950.pdf

Some excerpts:
"Crucially, despite my mental state at
the time, I knew when I sent those tweets that they were untrue. I am responsible
for having made those false allegations, and that makes me a liar, it makes me
guilty of slander, and it makes me someone who undermined the profound
seriousness of rape allegations."

". I have abandoned all social media permanently. I
have stopped freelance writing. I have in general tried to permanently remove
myself from online life and from the world of political writing in which Malcolm
resides and I once resided. These changes are not attempts to make up for what
I’ve done, really; they are just matters of self-preservation as I try to build a life
where I do not cause harm to people anymore. I have fully committed to constant
treatment, and I have fully committed to going away. I am so profoundly sorry"

I remember reading this at the time and feeling the pain through the screen. He seemed genuinely ashamed.

Here's Freddie's more recent explanation for why he tried to remove his apology from the internet: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/statement

He says he doesn't care if we find it on the wayback machine, but someone had to go out of their way to exclude it (https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://fredrikdeboer.com/2018...)

Here's Harris' contemporaneous reaction: https://twitter.com/bigmeaninternet/status/10471296316970475...

My feeling is that the initial apology has been undermined by a) trying to memory hole it and b) writing all these blog posts quasi-defending himself. Would be nice if Freddie and his IDW friends displayed such forbearance and grace for the college students and journalists they make their living attacking. Perhaps those people are going through some mental issues as well.

The good news is, Freddie seems to be doing better than ever. He got a fat advance from Substack and even just had an op-ed published in the liberal New York Times.
Based on what I’ve been able to find, Delta would have a ‘raw’ (without extensive countermeasures) R0
of 12-13 (original Covid was measured in NYC pre-masking and lockdowns at 6.4). Do you have cites for the other numbers you have?

Totally agree on severity (or lack thereof) being why it is spreading and thriving. Also the high asymptomatic spread helps too.

You can’t get the consistent, strong response in taking countermeasures you’d get from something more visibly horrific like Ebola.

Though there have been many cases in Africa of someone sneaking in to loot a ‘dead’ village or graveyard and starting a new outbreak when they get home. So apparently even almost certainly dying a horrible death while bleeding from every opening isn’t enough to get everyone to take it seriously.
Bloomberg: Apple plans to launch a fully autonomous car as soon as 2025
The idea of a proven-safe subset of HTML with no custom JS that's suitable for adding interactivity to emails is actually really interesting to me, and I hope it continues. It's been really great to be able to reply to Google Docs comments from within my email client, and the same things that make AMP good for rehosting make it a good foundation for interactive email.
You don't need to store that much energy. It's much more cost-efficient to over-provision energy sources. In a few decades we will see solar over-provisioned to 2-3x normal consumption and some battery and that will provide 100% uptime.
Fair point about reusing the existing legos!

Great to hear that about 40k - I'm fine avoiding the official events, I mostly enjoyed the painting and exploring the universe with my friend. Would love to have a full army in the future without having to pay a few grand! [I know you can buy used armies online, but then you don't get to put it together!]
It's because Gates has been shouting from the rooftops about the danger of pandemics exactly like ours for years and years but was mostly ignored. Of course his org was continuing to do work related to preparing society for what they thought (and we now know) was inevitable.
Some more examples: https://www.salon.com/2021/05/01/conservatives-claim-to-hate...

A right-wing think tank with strong influence on Idaho legislators produces this gem of a report:

'The report doesn't just call for eliminating individual courses, however. It calls for the elimination of five whole departments — Gender Studies, Sociology, Global Studies, Social Work and History — that it claims are infused with "social justice" ideology. (A sixth blacklisted department has since been added: Criminal Justice.) Eight other departments (later updated to nine) are on a watch list of sorts, judged to be "social justice in training."'
The only reason the bubble burst was due to overleverage.

Houses were only sold en masse due to a prescribed flowchart: borrower couldnt pay, bank takes house, bank doesnt want actual houses so bank sells house, bank already earned enough on interest to sell house at a loss, bank can also take losses and list property for lower to sell faster, bank found out it couldn't take losses.

This isnt happening right now. The overleverage isnt in real estate. Everyone is looking in the wrong direction just because price go up.
Smallpox vaccine can be grown in people - look at how the original vaccination campaigns got theirs across the ocean before there was refrigeration.

If there was a smallpox outbreak the country the country would go to a sudden stop and everyone would race to be vaccinated, it is that deadly. Unfortunately, Covid is in that uncanny valley where too many people do not care until it hits them personally. That's why we are all fucked.
It’s funny how you cannot criticize anything anymore because whatever you say it gets interpreted as a right-wing neonazi dogwhistle.
> Unpopular opinion, FPTP with a runoff is superior to AV or RCV just for sheer workability & finding the consensus candidate

You had me up until here, but there's no way this claim is true. FPTP with a runoff is exactly how San Francisco elections are held, and it has made the elections there essentially a one-party system. Voters get to choose between two establishment wings of the Democratic Party at each runoff. It's even worse than plain old FPTP.
> When you see something that does not seem belong where it is, you cannot pretend that did not see it.

1) How do you decide if something “belongs where it is”?

2) If a large proportion of a society agreed on a decision function and behaved as you suggest, is there a straightforward way an adversary could take advantage of this situation?

3) Bonus: Is there evidence this is happening today?
This is the opposite of custom development for the most part, with the exception of some integration work.
"Access as database in ASP"

haha. My first ever project as an intern in 2004 was exactly this.
The 2020-2021 flu season was the mildest flu season on record. In the US, there were only about 700 influenza deaths in the 20-21 season, compared to 22,000 in the 19-20 season, and 34,000 in the 18-19 season. Similar trends were seen around the world.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappear...
I always thought that one of Apple's strong points was design. That car looks plain ugly to me.
> My favorite Franklin anecdote: "Did you know that Benjamin Franklin invented windsurfing?" It's not strictly true

I don't think it comes anywhere near to being true. While he's surely an interesting man, there is no need to attribute him as the discoverer of something that many tribes around in Polynesia have been doing for centuries.
Masto.host is run by one of those people who put inflexible ideology ahead of the wants and needs of their users. That is ever a concern when having a third party set up and manage everything for you.
On my phone, the stupid dialogue with the button that is supposed to slide up gets stuck like a quarter of the way so I can’t even click it until I refresh.
> - Generating types for API response data has removed so many runtime errors. We generate types from GraphQL schemas.

This setup with codegen reading from a gql schema and creating typed react components/hooks that can be immediately imported is the most productive frontend experience I’ve ever come across.
I'm frankly moving in the other direction. I used to be very minimalist, but as I grow older, I have a good idea of what is worth my money. I also have more money, and I don't move around as much so I don't need to travel light.

Say what you will, but life is much better with comfortable boots, sharp knives, soft bed sheets, a robot vacuum and a big monitor. I take forever to make a purchase decision, but when I do, I rarely regret it.
I wish there was better data on products. The companies know the quality of the parts and level of returns. Maybe we should have some of thia data. At least give some information on grade of cotton in clothes.
> "trying to cancel any book or curriculum that accurately describes the history of racism in America".

I am not sure where did you get this information. r/politics?

What most parents are against at are not something "accurately describes the history of racism in America". This is just b.s. way to describe what's happening in the debate. What most parents are against at are race-loaded indoctrination on kids. Project 1619, for example, has been widely criticized by historians. To call it "curriculum that accurately describes the history of racism in America" is just a blatant lie.

Other stuff pushed by far-left activists such as white fragility and antiracism are extremely divisive and very very bad for kids. Those are things parents are against. Not "book or curriculum that accurately describes the history of racism in America".
Ethers can form highly reactive (i.e. explosive) organic peroxides when exposed to oxygen, especially over a long period -- for example, when a half-empty bottle is left on a shelf for a few years.

https://www.uaf.edu/safety/industrial-hygiene/laboratory-saf...
I have no idea what Lemmy is aside from a vi clone. I eventually found a link to a post "What is Lemmy" and it says: "Recently there seems to be some of misunderstanding what the lemmy.ml instance is about, especially from newer users". I still don't know.
Batteries have much lower capacity, lower cost efficiency of storage, and lower weight efficiency of storage. They’re also slower to charge and slower to discharge.

Batteries are great for storing electricity efficiently as you say, but that only matters when electricity is marginally expensive (sourced from fossil fuels for example). However, if you have a cheap enough marginal cost of electricity, hydrogen is a better option because of the much cheaper fixed cost of hydrogen storage per kWH.

A good way to see this: what option would you choose for storage if electricity on demand was free but only during certain parts of the day? A hydrogen tank or batteries? A hydrogen tank is cheaper. And clean energy is essentially free besides the fixed cost of the windmill/solar panel.
Please support your made-up assertion that the 1619 Project is a "historical fabrication".
You got me to wonder, thanks for providing the links.

I have seen stories recently about removing Jefferson from the public view / cancelling him, based upon far-left / progressive / anti-racist/slavery ideals (I think/assume) that are removing monuments around the country (and murals and building names, etc), not right-wing censorship, so I was quite curious.

sadly some of the supporting links are 404 on the thinkprogress page you linked to.

However reading the texas tribune article it says that Jefferson was not removed from all Texas schoolbooks, it says that he was removed from a list of 'revolutionary thinkers' - the other references were all left in.

- So this is kind of a red herring thing?

From the TexasTribune Article you linked:

"the Colbert Report got the board's move technically correct, noting it removed Jefferson from a list of "revolutionary thinkers," which is exactly what the board did. Colbert simply didn't provide the context that Jefferson was mentioned elsewhere. (Colbert, of course, is comedy and can't be held to journalistic standards.) "

... "None of the news stories from the day in The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News (which share state coverage), the Austin American-Statesman, and The Texas Tribune (that's me) mentioned the Jefferson amendment, much less asserted he had been removed entirely from the curriculum. "

Not that I disagree that "The Right is no stranger to censorship." - however this is not a good example for such, and perhaps the bigger debate should center around what tactics of censoring should be out of bounds, and example of such from different 'sides'.

Although it becomes tougher to paint sides when we have to wonder if a twitter mob is a side? if none of the leaders of a side are advocating for thing X - and which leaders are actual leaders of a side, and which influencers are a thing, and if 'leaders' denounce an influencer, then does it really count for/against a 'side'.. much to consider with all this.
I think another factor for continued demand is what some have called the "millennial baby boom". Millennials are aging and getting to the point where they are confronting having a child or not. Those that want kids likely also want a house, and those same people are probably also the most likely to want to work remotely. They are also likely the group that has been living in a city and are thinking to move out of the city closer to family, to a larger house, where they can raise the kids they want and have them go to a good public school.
I think these may be some of the bigger factors that are pushing the continued demand in the housing market.

Also the idea that interest rates are at a historic low in the US, many are thinking they should nab a house they can right now and lock in the rate. They are also afraid of inflation so waiting means higher priced houses and higher interest rates, which means they have to go to a "worse" neighborhood or area, or less of a house. So the pressure is to get something now.

It's hard to see this demand going away for the next 5-10 years while millennials are having their babies.

We will see.
Its not about dividing by identity, different people face different kinds of challenges, isn't that the kind of nuance that you should be teaching at schools.
With spending 300k seven years ago what is the value of the property now? Would't be surprised if it's 600k+. Let's assume you put 60k into downpayment and maybe you've gotten another 40k in principal put in from payments. That's 400k of equity you can put into a new place.

Sure this is technically option 2, but it's not as terrible if you compare to people that are buying now without having equity grown for years to help purchase.
If someone is legally "aggressively reducing their taxes", the problem is with (likely the unnecessary complexity and wasteful bureaucracy of) the tax code.

This piece reads like a retail store owner complaining about people buying their products on sale and stacking coupons, that are explicitly permitted in the terms of the sale, on the sale items.

Are you aware of what percentage of aggregate tax revenue the "rich" are responsible for in the US (or heck your home country if elsewhere)? How about the bottom 80%?
The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!
> I'm concerned with the attitudes of people who are not buying houses.

That's fair.

> Why aren't they buying houses?

I think a lot of people are buying.

> Because they think the are going to fall in the near future.

One major reason people with massive hoards of cash aren't buy is uncertainty around WFH. "Where to buy? Depends. Let's see how this whole return to office thing goes..."

> Yes, it's wholly unscientific of me to use Reddit and Facebook as a barometer of society, but I'm not a professional economist, just another rando on the internet making bad predictions.

Aren't we all :)
Yes -- Newton WAS employed to combat currency counterfeiting: https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2380.htm
In the video it said 75% of plastic can be identified. What's with the remaining 25%? What's the next process to identify the remaining 25%?

Also: Total cost Breakout board €176.97.

Sounds a little extreme for it. Is it supposed to be this expensive?
Actually, all of my examples are (variants in some cases) of the means used to restrict the freedom of groups of people in the recent history of the United States. Not to "cooperate, or be the same team, or be immune from the consequences of failure" but to actually restrict that group's ability to act or speak.

I notice that you ignored the common definition of freedom I quoted. I find your definition of freedom...less than useful. It ignores any other sources of power than "the state" (I wonder how you would deal with the absence of a state.) It leads to irrational consequences; an individual can be perfectly free and yet unable to do anything except starve.

I do have a couple of questions about your response, though.

"> If a group of people kill one of your neighbors for violating some extra-legal rule...

"This entire paragraph describes corruption, which is inevitable, and does impact your freedom. No human process is immune."

Corruption, in this case, does not imply any violence at all---a jury is free to return a verdict of not guilty for any reason, no? How can that possibly impact your freedom?

"Chattel slavery is defined by the use of violence to confine the slave literally in chains. If the slave can just leave he's not very enslaved is he?"

(It's not really defined by violence, but I'll leave that up to you.) My plantation is located in the middle of the desert. You are free to leave at any time. You won't, because you would die, but you are free to do so. So you're really free, right?
Looking at https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/ I'm not sure if I understand how this really helps bridging type information from js to python to c++ - it looks very tied to js?

There's openapi (swagger) and json schema which seems more like helping define RPC over http?
But surely you can simultaneously think that Weinstein shouldn't have been cancelled (mostly by his almost-equally perverted friends who dropped him like hot lava when he started becoming toxic, to save their own reputations, after having cozied up to him for years/decades) and still think he should be charged/jailed for actual crimes by actual justice system.
> Generally speaking, it is indisputedly obvious to me.

When I catch myself saying things like this, I contemplate whether the availability heuristic is deceiving me. It might not be -- I haven't done a rigorous review of this topic either -- but I usually find it's worth introspection when I have this thought.
Classes in D with betterC
Unfair accusation of murder have people in jail for years. Unfair reputation that you unfairly accused someone of sexual harassment renders you unemplyable forever everywhere.

My point here is that there are many life destroying accusations. And they have been used against variety of people.
That's not it. They haven't released any designs.
For renewable energy, low efficiency is not a problem per se: you can make as much as you want. The article also mentions that they don’t need rare materials for the electrolyser, which means it will be cheaper. Lithium, that modern batteries require, is quite rare.
Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management
Same reason that we put solar and wind power where land is cheap and transport the electricity to where we need it.
Ummmm

Our UK students unions are repeatedly preventing people speaking on campuses because they object to their views [1]. This IS 'cancel culture' and it is not healthy for our democracy.

Whatever happend to "I disprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" ?

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-is-cancel-culture-aff...
> ... obtained United States voter information from at least one state election website, sent threatening voter email messages to intimidate voters, crafted and disseminated disinformation pertaining to the election and election security, and accessed, and attempted to access, without authorization, the computer systems of several online United States media entities and states.

Both US political parties have done all of this in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.

1. some states allow anyone to get voter registration records, not necessarily a crime. [1]

2. The DNC has been claiming that there was some secret collusion with Russians since 2016, when in fact they paid a guy to make all that up. The same goes for the Trump campaign sending false information about fraud in the 2020 election. The former chief justice of the supreme court (Rehnquist) lived in a neighborhood in AZ deed restricted to whites only and formed a group to physically intimidate minority voters before being appointed as a federal judge. The same chief justice ordered recounts after the 2000 election to stop and declared GW Bush the winner after people from the administrations that made him chief justice arrived in FL to harass local election commissioners. [2] [3] [4]

3. Everyone who posts a Facebook message about Russian conspiracies or mail in voter fraud in support of either political party crafts and disseminates disinformation pertaining to the election.

4. Accessed or attempted to access how? Prosecutors have tried and imprisoned a US citizen for typing in URLs before. Is it the without-authorization they claim is illegal? Because buying authorization is fine, there is at least one content service that specifically advertises disinformation publishing services to customers who want to bribe people with "publish" access in media organizations' CMSes. [5] [6]

The FBI is as big a joke as the political parties they serve.

1 - https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...

2 - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58591969

3 - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/rudy-giuliani-is-pro...

4 - https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/04/us/rehnquist-in-arizona-a...

5 - https://www.wired.com/2014/04/att-hacker-conviction-vacated/

6 - https://contently.com
Smallpox has a genome with approximately 200k base pairs.

I think you're underestimating the difficulty of synthesizing and amplifying a full genome of this size.
Honest question from a physics novice: Would it be wrong to say the same is roughly true of all of the first 4?

I have heard it is plausible that Dark Matter is merely another particle that fits in the standard model. I've heard it plausible that Dark Energy is e.g. a WIMP or other new particle in the standard model. And, on more-matter-than-antimatter, I imagine _some_ explanations of baryon asymmetry could come from outside the standard model but others (boundary condition, mirror anti-universe) would be fully standard-model-compatible, right?

That would leave only #5 as a mystery: Why is gravity as we know it in general relativity so different (weaker) than the force that a standard-model graviton would predict?
We bought cheapest dishwasher we could find for our rental (as a tenants). Cost $400 (280 USD) to buy and something like $350 to install (1-2 hours of labour to lay new piping).

It had some weird failures already, but lasted over a year already. Willing to bet it's going to last few years and there's just no way 5x more expensive Bosch is going to outlast it.
I don't live in the US, but I can't remember a single election where I wasn't ok with more than one candidate for majority positions. And it is really enraging to see random extremists win because the people vote strategically.

Are you sure your situation isn't due to too few candidates?