skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her connections to mainland China are well documented. From Wikipedia:

“Pak was an overseas executive director of the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), an organization overseen by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO) of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.”

“At various times she spoke out in favor of the Chinese government's views, e.g. in 2012 calling all "overseas Chinese" to "defend the homeland” in the conflict about the Diaoyu Islands, and in 2008 opposing a resolution of the SF Board of Supervisors that criticized China for the Tiananmen Square massacre and other repression measures, passed on occasion of the Beijing Summer Olympics torch relay reaching San Francisco.”

“As revealed in a 2018 Politico report after Pak's death, among U.S. intelligence officials "there were widespread concerns that Pak had been co-opted by Chinese intelligence". These also extended to her work in organizing many "junket" trips to China for leading Bay Area politicians.”

Regardless of that, or the source of her kidneys, Pak is a textbook case of political cronyism, and how one person who never held elected office can use financial connections, backroom dealmaking, and sheer force of will to shape elections and policy for decades and steer the direction of a major city.
That was my philosophical take. Wikipedia simply describes how speech is treated today.
The Maus case provides an interesting contrast: while I agree the reaction was somewhat disproportionate, a dissenting view was still permissible within the "social Overton window". You might get looked at askance for saying "I don't think Maus is appropriate for schools", but you'd be unlikely to be ostracized or fired. The same can't be said for some other expressions of heterodoxy/heresy, past or present.
Do you feel responsible for generating misinformation?

You say there was zero evidence behind the article, but the evidence was your Tweet, and it was really your Tweet that had zero evidence behind it.
> There's some material science that needs to be ironed out for commercialization

Worth noting that this is no small thing. Materials science is the limiting factor of all molten salt reactors, and has yet to be solved satisfactorily.
> When Samsung commissioned a study to check whether the French repairability scores were meaningful, it didn’t just find the scorecards were handy — it found a staggering 80 percent of respondents would be willing to give up their favorite brand for a product that scored higher.

This is the biggest surprise to me. I so rarely hear about consumer behaviour being so strongly influenced by being informed.
To be honest, the same seems to be happening over here in America.
There are some really great insights for developing countries from MMT, but one could also argue they are good ideas anyway and perhaps not unique to MMT (a fuzzy critique that could be lobbed at most good advice). Fadhel Kaboub is the person I've heard speak on this the most, including with presentations to Ukraine, for example:

https://denison.edu/people/fadhel-kaboub

https://youtu.be/_6_hgLwaFuk

In general the advice is to 1) maintain economic sovereignty as much as possible by avoiding debt denominated in foreign currency (IMF is pretty evil in this regard), 2) focus on maintaining economic activity that builds the basic needs of society, like food production, etc.

At its heart MMT is a really simple concept and pretty undeniable, just pointing out that the emperor has no clothes when it comes to rhetoric and political whining about debt. Inflation is still a big risk when spending capacity overreaches production capacity (or, as recently, production capacity seems to shrink...).
While dams certainly store energy I wonder how many actually have flexibility to change their output by 80% of rated capacity or more on the same timescales that wind and solar output can vary.

I imagine there are a lot of environmental restrictions to keep the river flowing, avoid dewatering habitat for fish and otherwise impacting the ecosystem, and also supplying water to downstream users like farms and cities. Can’t stop the river completely!
If the code does not match the grammar for the language, that is redundancy in the grammar.

The compiler can (and does, for error messages and error recovery) guess at what was meant, but it cannot know what was meant.
This is super impressive. Transformers have consistently done better than almost anyone thought.

I still hold the opinion that we’re going to need to move to spiking neuron (SNN) models in the future to keep growing the networks. Spiking networks require lots of storage, but a lot, lot less compute. They also propagate additional information in the _timing_ of the spikes, not just the values. There are a lot of low-hanging fruit in SNNs and I think people are still trying to copy biological systems too much.

Unfortunately, the main issue with SNNs is that no one has figured out a way to train them as effectively as ANNs.
It is outstanding: you can't deny war profiters the balls. It is genius
I made a YT series on what DALL-E could mean for the future of creativity
Mr. Graham writes an essay supporting free speech. Thus the comments here, ironically, attack his speech, with tons of words found no where in his essay at all. The comments here literally prove the spirit of his essay.
VIM started flirting with giving me RSI issues (mostly : and esc keys; yes, even on capslock. I have small hands) after some years. It's a comparison certainly but not a control.
Sci-Hub Only Option for Academics in Russia After Major Publishers Pull Out
This doesn't sound like Imposter Syndrome, but it also doesn't mean the problem is you or character traits about yourself ("not seen as reliable").

You're literally getting no support from your team. No manager and no assistance from the senior members of your team is absurd. How are you supposed to get better?

Feel your feelings (like "I feel kinda like a disappointment") but don't project what you think other people are feeling or thinking unless/until they give you direct evidence otherwise like " I am not seen as reliable and definitely not known". Is anyone saying anything directly like that to you or strongly suggesting it?

As far as the QA/Prod issue, HOW where you supposed to know? How is the next dev supposed to know? If your team (i.e. the senior devs) aren't providing documentation or operating procedures, then they're failing you; not you failing them.

> I was sometimes assigned stories no one else on the team had done anything like before, so at times I couldn't even ask the senior devs for help.

Again, if you're tackling issues that the senior devs haven't seen, then how are you working "slower" than them? They have no frame of reference of how long it should take.

So how do you improve? You need to find a mentor (or even a therapist?). Someone, anyone who you can talk to and get an objective perspective on things. You're new (and that's okay!) but that also means that you don't have a reference for what's okay and what's not. It's not that you have imposter syndrome, it's that you think that causing sprint-slowdowns or prod issues is something unique and awful. They're completely par for the course.

As far as the whole PIP thing, if you have no manager, who's going to put you on a PIP? If anything, you need to be raising a stink of how you're a junior without a manager and working without senior dev support.
A bunch of projects are working on storage: Filecoin, Sia, Storj, etc.
It's very nice, just the name of the parent org is wrong - it should be called ClosedAI.
So you clarify, you are okay with down voting and removing comments but are not okay withbanning accounts? Bans, even temporary, are crossing the line?
Why do you post a video from Wuhan and say in your post that it is from Shanghai?
My only complaint is I wish they didn't name it `unsafe` and instead named it something like `compiler_unverifiable` so that people could more properly understand that we can make safe abstractions around what the compiler can't verify.
There's a popular myth that Windows 10 was named so because there's tons of proprietary code checking for '95' and '98' by looking for just the '9', and that would have caused applications to break.

There was no evidence of this except the Reddit comment by a user pretending to work at MS - their post history very quickly showed that was a lie. But that was taken at face value and it become part of news cycles and eventually a commonly repeated statement.
The Rank-and-File Organizers Who Took on Amazon
Academia has never been dispassionate. The very idea of an academic conference started because academics hated each other so much that they needed a mechanism for them to see each other as people.

Further, a marketplace of ideas is a marketplace. Marketplaces are not emotionless voids where consumers dispassionately select the product that will provide them with precisely the best utility-to-cost ratio. They are emotional places where concepts like marketing and signaling are extremely important. Similarly, we'd expect a "marketplace of ideas" to be an emotional place and for human emotion to be a consideration when adopting ideas.
You're referring to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. That was a promising experiment, but the MSRE had thermal power output of 8 megawatts while the "can" in the Thorcon design is supposed to output 557 MWth -- 70 times more. The MSRE also operated for a total of 11555 hours full-power-output equivalent, about 1.3 years, whereas these reactor cans are supposed to run for 4 years at full power before replacement. There are reasons to believe that the physics are fine, but there are a lot of things other than physics that can impair an energy technology's journey from laboratory to industry. Still, I wish them luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment...
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What lesson is the author supposed to learn here? Don't post jokes on a joke subreddit?
? What "bizarre interpretations" did that person offer? Am I reading the wrong comment, or did you accidentally reply to the wrong one?
I did see occasional spikes to the range, 1500-1600 Mbps, and I've seen that with the few other 6 GHz APs I've tested. The eero's performance on the top end with a very wide channel was inconsistent though. Over longer duration tests those spikes to 1.5 Gbps+ evened out to what I showed in the charts. This is early firmware though (6.9.2, the release version), so things could improve in the future.
I read through that and I still wasn't sure if he was being serious or not.
Also remember that billions of dollars have been explicitly assigned by US legislation in the last couple of years for what is, basically, propaganda: the 2021 Strategic Competition Act gives $300 million per year for 4 years, the COMPETES act gives another $500 million.

I don't know if you can say where it goes exactly, but just bear in mind that there is at a billion dollars' worth of anti-China stuff sloshing about somewhere in "the media" that was funded directly, and purposefully, from Congress, and who knows how much from less direct sources.
Actually in a distro package manager you might have issues to name packages if they share the same name.
Shanghai residents screaming continuously during lockdown
Authors of papers he personally cited criticized his writeup as poor.
It changed my mind because what I thought was a strawman is actually what some large group turned out to be arguing.

Initially, I thought people were arguing that despite biological sex, there is a subset of people that feel like they should be the opposite gender (or a lot of variance within that) and work towards making that a reality. They still recognized the biological distinction though and that the groups were different.

To me the Lia case showed a lot of people arguing more than that. That sex itself is a social construction and Lia is a woman just like a biological woman is and there is ultimately no substantive difference (this is sometimes argued in a more obfuscated way, but this tends to be the core of it). It ends up being a lot of disputing definitions to shoehorn trans women in under the same word and group (which in the Lia case directly affects non-trans women's ability to compete with other non-trans women). With that axiom in place then it's easy to argue there's no reason she shouldn't compete alongside non-trans women. I think this is wrong. It also leads to weird language things like "men can be pregnant", referring to the class of biological women as "uterus havers" etc. (and then making pedantic arguments about this)[0]

JK Rowling seems to have made this her entire thing (probably partially in response to the blow back she receives from it), but I thought her writing here was reasonable: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-... and her comments about social contagion are definitely heretical but seem to also be true? Risks around this are real and I'd be worried about a young person regretting transition surgery - this is also a heretical view, but seems to happen.

[0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watching-lia-thomas-wi...
Things like Dall-e are tools for humans and will let ambitious artists create more immersive, interesting and large scale works of art that simply haven’t been imagined yet.

They will no more replace artists than photoshop or illustrator did.
yes, you should be writing down all the steps to things you don't know. treat the job like a class where you are constantly learning new information and remembering that information is essential. because it is.
It's a minimalist planner app. Why would it solve (self-inflicted) problems for you?
So basically the plan would seem to be to service New Orleans, Mobile, and the Mississippi coast with a relatively leisurely train trip as an alternative to driving or bus (given there is apparently no real air).
I guess we'll have to extract these here and manufacture again vs letting NIMBY regulations and cheap labor goons push everything overseas.
Actually, question to reevaluate: from that answer you’re okay with the existence of gender roles as distinct things from physical sex, right? Do you have any opposition to someone presenting as a gender role that doesn’t align with their physical characteristics? To altering their physical characteristics in ways they want to pursue?

If so, is your original “(1)” point entirely objecting to people saying “I feel I was born in the wrong body”? I, and I think others, were certainly reading it as “trans people aren’t a real thing”, with the implied policy implications that carries with it…
Nintype has ruined all other swipe keyboards for me. Why nobody else has picked up on the idea of twohanded swiping the way Nintype did it is a mystery. Even now, 5+ years after last using it, I find myself wanting to type the way Nintype would let me, only to be disappointed.
Where I live I pay almost nothing for evernote (just over 1usd/year) so I don't complain about it much. I do try to keep synced copies of the notes in certain desktop devices just in case the service disappears one day. I also encrypt notes before pasting them in evernote of they are sensitive
What you wrote is absolutely not true. No one gets foreign vaccines(mrna) in China.
HN sells me as their audience to advertisers right?

Would you say that Youtube is “free” as well?

Many people would simply prefer a more transparent / straight forward business model and I don’t think they are wrong for having that preference.
They're called Eddies, choomba.
I couldn't tell you...which is why I put question marks in :-)

I just remember seeing comments about it being a bit behind some of the mobile support offered by other systems. I do everything on desktop, so I ignored it.
This was a while ago though, sounds like they have a (new?) mobile app?
But that could be a response issue too.. As far as I've heard China hospitalizes everyone even cases that don't need actual care.

Also they have some immunity to build up that we have had over the last 2 years. I know it doesn't prevent covid but it does seem to reduce it's severity a lot.
Obama: I Underestimated the Threat of Disinformation
The billionaires of America/EU sold its soul to dictatorships.

The rust belt is struggling and the rise of Trump was direct consequence of that.
I asked something similar previously on HN and a researcher in the field said that scaling size/computation actually does keep showing significant improvements
Seems to be an over focus on the Covid zero idea.

They are mass killings cats and dogs it seems.
Feedback feels important to me.

Internally, for me it's nice to make a distinction between when I a writing for others and when I am writing for myself.

If I am writing for myself, which I often do, it's much like my musical busking practice: I am not doing it for the money or attention, but just because it adds a nice public layer where I feel like I should respect at least some social norms. That addition of a lightweight ruleset feels helpful to me: instead of just eliding over the parts of my thoughts that might not make sense to other people, I am forced to at least notate them in some way.

If I am writing for other people, then it's nice to know how something was received; I really am often curious about what others think.

Getting feedback in this fashion has led me to shut up when I have an unpopular opinion, but even that's a really good thing to know.

It has been helpful to see the couple of points where I wasn't sure how my opinions would be taken, and to then either be taken to task for writing unclearly, find a real problem in my own thinking, or to at least have a chance to gather the wrong-headed arguments people may fall into when confronted with some of my thoughts.

And if I am indeed writing for other people and no one is upvoting, than that's good to know as well-- there is literally no point for me to write something for other people which is completely ignored. That's a good indicator about when I am just writing for myself-- which is almost everything I write and then publish as a comment on HN.

So, to answer the OP, I just check my comments and if there is a response in the top couple I may respond back. But if folks are writing replies to my very old comments I, I am not checking those because I'm guessing they are just writing for themselves.
Absolutely not. Should The Onion be considered fake news? It was a parody account, which was labeled as such. Journalists who can't even be bothered to tap through to the profile don't get my sympathy.
still waiting for approval in China. I guess it might eventually happen after China approves their own locally made mrna vaccine.
For context, this has been going on for quite some time.

As this article notes, the problem itself has been known for 4-5 years now:

June 2021: https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/175007/p...

> Flashback: In 2017, a chemical known as PFOS was found to have been discharged from the 3M plant into the soil. The discovery was made when works started on the Oosterweel project, a massive public works project designed to complete the Antwerp ring-road on the western side, to link the port to the motorways network.

> The discovery was made by the contractor BAM, now known as Lantis, and an agreement was reached with 3M on how to proceed.

Goodness knows how they could go 4-5 years only to discover that the planned remediation, which they were only set to start putting in place in July of last year, was not allowed under their environmental regulations.

Next, September 2021: https://www.startribune.com/3m-under-fire-in-belgium-over-co...

> The notice essentially warns 3M that Flanders deems the company to be violating its environmental regulations, and demands that 3M engage with its regulators to discuss remediation, abatement and the creation of a fund to pay for environmental damages and potential health damages.

November 2021: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202111014178/3m-s...

> 3M Co. on Monday said it has idled some production at a plant in Belgium after the Flemish environmental agency issued a safety measure barring emissions of certain toxic chemicals from the facility.
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This shows some general weaknesses of observation studies:

- Participants couldn't accurately estimate the amount of alcohol they drank

- People change their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed(Hawthorne effect)

- Moderate drinking correlates with a healthier lifestyle
> I'm curious how Mr. Graham can look at a country that is in the process of reversing much of the last half-century's progress on women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and disability rights, and _not_ see a politics of heresy emerging from the right

I see the former (and maybe the latter, I honestly don't pay too much attention), but my interpretation is that a major culprit for any reversals in rights is the far left, who have upped demands from reasonable tolerance (which we had essentially achieved) to ridiculous "you're actively protesting with us or your against us" proportions that have caused the pushback.

Just to add, in principle I'm against

> anti-"critical race theory" laws and "don't say gay" laws

even if they are mischaracterized to a large extent. But I see them as the latest escalation in response to provocation from the left. They were not written in a vacuum.
Especially in mesh kits which are usually operated without Ethernet backhaul. eero themselves claim 90% of their deployed networks don't use any Ethernet. Hence, almost all mesh kits use USB-C or a DC barrel connector.
> More recently, the court seems to be looking to overturn Obergefell. [1]

This is a complete misreading of that opinion. Note that both Thomas and Alito concurred in the denial of cert. They said nothing of overturning Obergefell, but criticized the process by which it was done—by judicial fiat rather than legislation. Specifically, this meant that the legislature had no ability to consider and address religious objections.

Thomas and Alito’s opinion not only didn’t call for Obergefell to be overturned, but are completely mainstream compared to other developed counties. The year after Obergefell, the EU Court of Human Rights ruled that the express right to marriage contained in the European Convention on Human Rights did not cover same sex marriage. EU countries all enacted same sex marriage through legislation—and they included various protections for religious liberty—exactly the process that Alito and Thomas said should have been followed. Switzerland only legalized it last year, and it’s still not legal in Italy.

> the current flash point on “women's rights” (Roe)

I was referring to the proposed reinstatement of child marriage in TN.

Meanwhile Colorado just legalized killing babies right up until birth.
An alternative to plain incineration is plasma gasification which has some advantages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

I talked to the local waste trucking company about it and was told that to build a plasma gasification plant would require handling the trash from several New England states to make it economical. Otherwise they wouldn't have enough trash to keep it fed.
This post shows why substack is the new medium.

The title is a question that suggests confusion in the definition of a term. The article is sliced salami thin so it doesn’t have room to say very much even if it was coherent, but we are subjected to short ramblings from somebody who comes across as hopelessly confused.
This is true for yeast, fruit fly and humans too!
Without the exploitation of cheap labor and China work practices, we would have been motivated to automate the manufacturing process and your iPhone would cost 100 dollars.