skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Option two assumes that the lab had only one lineage of the virus - but it collected samples out in the wild and could easily have collected both together, mixed and stored them, and leaked them together. So the wonderfully detailed analysis rests on this assumption.

They were two lineages of the same virus, commonly seen in repeated spillover transmission. Explain specifically how you think they would "leak" both of them together - because the theory in your comment eliminates the option of an infected worker spreading the lab virus.
If your post was meant as sarcasm, you should probably call that out.

If it wasn't... wow.
I don't know if it would. There are a huge number of people whose political views are basically incoherent [1], and on top of that "moderates" are an actually mostly nonexistent byproduct of the many people who don't fit neatly into the current political order [2].

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/14/5891765/millennials-incoherent...

[2]: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5878293/lets-stop-using-the-wor...
Practically everybody knows this already and yet this comment shows up every time freedom of speech is discussed.

Censorship is bad even when legally permissible. And we should still fight corporations acting unethically even when the law is on their side.
How to answer system design interview questions (2022)
> It definitely seems that the default reaction of any authoritaian/police-state environment like mainland China is to clamp down on things and restrict information whether or not it's necessary.

That tactic loses them the benefit of the doubt across the board. As long as their default reaction is to suppress everything, my default assumption is that they're guilty of every accusation they suppress.
It skews male and generally consists of a very well paid group of people that have never had to struggle economically. This is the wrong place to find lots of empathy toward disempowered groups of people.
Bitpanda was hiring like crazy before the crypto burst. They were scaling for infinite growth i guess because laying off 20% workforce sounds crazy.
Yeah I was going to address this but deleted that part of my comment. Fundamentally I think there are design limitations.

I used to work in IT at a public school district 15 years ago where they had hundreds of Epson printers with fixed printheads. This saved costs in the cartridges but the inks(which were designed to produce excellent photographic results) had some substance that caused them to clog up these very microscopic printheads essentially rendering the printheads and thus the printer destroyed. This happened a lot on printers where people would only print once in a blue moon.

Seems like you can have two options: poor quality but thin water based inks. I'd argue Laser had taken that market away from inkjet for good. The other option is hight quality photographic ink that is much thicker and gels up easier. Not to mention the printheads are more delicate due to their finer pitch.
Worked for nonprofits in Africa, including the Gate foundation.

Now if I want to help people, I give to a hobo in the street, or take time for someone I know.

I don't trust NGO to handle money with care, or honesty, nor do I think most programs bring more benefits than problems.
> The EU has similar safeguards where you need effectively 3 keys to enable a law (European parliament, European commission, and the Council), not a simple 51% majority.

It's even more than that. In the council (where the governments of the member countries are present) you need majority based on number of citizens in the countries and also votes from a number of countries, so that few big countries can't overrule the small ones, but you always need support from small and big countries.
The positions above are extreme. Now I'm pro choice to begin with, but I imagine that MOST people on the right, even a lot of normally Pro Life people, think that it's not fair to deny abortions in situations as above. (Even if they do think the fetus is "somewhat" a child.)

If the Pro Choice movement starts a campaign aimed specifically at changing federal law to allow abortions in the situations above, I believe they have a fair chance of getting 60% within 1-2 election cycles.
> What scares the sh&t out of me is being financially responsible for anything any volunteer ever does (and possibly that not being covered by the insurance). None of the comments so far mention that either. Is that fear overblown?

I don't think it's overblown, and should be something to research and understand. I'm on the board of my condominium corporation (same idea as an HOA), and there are specific laws outlined in the Condominium Act here in Ontario around directors, as well as the corporation declaration and bylaws.

To try and briefly summarize, there are two things that largely protect directors in my case. First, the corporations insurance policy, includes directors liability insurance. So the corporation is purchasing insurance that covers all directors. It's actually in the law that the condo corporation shall purchase this insurance if reasonably available.

The second, is so that people actually volunteer for these boards, the laws for the most part will hold harmless a Director that is acting in good faith. And there is context, that the board is expected to be made up of individuals with various background and no specific expertise or qualifications.

There are carve outs for certain specific breaches. But it's mostly in the realm of your not covered if you breach your duty to act in honesty and good faith.

In other contexts I don't know the laws, as I operate on a board specifically governed by the condo act in Ontario. But if you are considering boards in other jurisdictions, I do believe it's prudent to do some due diligence and understand potential liabilities. But in most jurisdictions I'd expect fairly strong protections for board members.
> I also think blockchains are almost always a waste of electricity by computers pointlessly playing Numberwang all day. (I'm not quite sure if "almost" is needed there.)

In relation to what? Do you have an alternative way of maintaining blockchains security?
In many states you totally can own a functional tank, missile system, or explosives -- you just need the right $200 stamp from the ATF and maybe a background check. (Each tank shell or missile would require an additional ATF stamp, this is where things become different from owning a normal gun and ammunition.) Driving them around - outside of your property - would require them to be properly licensed and road-legal, that's something your local motor vehicle agency would have to decide.

Here's the first Google result for your entertainment:

You Can Purchase a Fully Functional Army Tank Online Because This Is America

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/09/armslist-sells-f...
I wasn't changing the scenario.
It's trivial to flip this on its head:

The Republicans fought tooth and nail against even simple mask mandates but now want to legislate what happens in a woman's uterus in the name of "protecting life"? What a joke.
If you’re on Windows, can wholeheartedly recommend https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io
I’m curious (since you mention things skewing male), do you believe that a man who gets a woman pregnant should have to support the child? Why or why not?

As for the reproductive rights, as long as contraception is legal (and who knows what will happen next) isn’t the choice at conception? Contraceptives should be untaxed and widely available.

People talk about Roe v Wade as if women spontaneously get pregnant against their will and are forced to care for the baby.

That being said women who are raped should be able to get an abortion imo
Getting drunk after work and passing out on the street, on a train, at your office desk, are all actually fairly accepted aspects of Japanese "salaryman" work culture.
This matches my experience on a small arts non-profit. People were added to the board rather explicitly for their fundraising contacts. I was there partially for my arts contacts, but mostly because I was shameless about hitting up local politicians for grants and such.

The executive director was in charge strategy-wise, the rest of us were along for the ride. Because of my particular role, I had considerable say over which artists were involved, but almost no input on overall direction.

Because of the fundraising focus, it could be stressful at times (there's never, ever enough money), but working the government systems was very educational and I'm very happy about the time I spent doing it.
The ruling said that the Constitution does not grant the right to abortion. It did not say that it denies the right to abortion.
The fundamental premise here is that most people who are arguing about COVID origins simply don't understand enough about known factual biology to make informed arguments. The appeal to authority is important because, in the case where we're not particularly knowledgeable, we should use authorities as guidance on how to reason.

I agree with what the parent said although I wouldn't say the evidence is "overwhelming". The important point is: China's government is so secretive we can't tell if they were intentionally covering something up, or just destroying all the evidence without any knowledge of what it said, to avoid people speculating from the documents.
You will have to explain this to me. From the original mention (article) it seems that they mean that compilers in general can be written in this way. Is that what they mean? Or do they mean that compilers can be written in that way if they know something about the inputs that it will be fed?
Thats what I thought as well, but since neither myself nor the comment I was replying to mentioned it, I was / am confused how the hypocrisy in question was relevant.

I'm probably overthinking a throwaway internet comment.
It absolutely does and you're right it would still be stupid (though making 62^3 phone calls or store visits might not be feasible). I was trying to say it doesn't necessarily mean your password is stored in the clear. But honestly I think any time you're prompted like this for something that might get implemented via storing a password in the clear it probably means it was been implemented that way.
I don't really think that Andrew Kelley and his tiny non-profit have those kind of ambitions, or really if it would matter if they would. C is the lingua franca, there is no extinguishing it.

These guys genuinely just want to make a practical, simple, common sense system programming language that let's you talk to the hardware, the operating system, and shovel bits around conveniently.
Their lawyers know the laws and they write hospital policies that stop them getting prosecuted and losing their license to operate, so will err on the side of the law, not patients.
Looking at the comments, I just don't think you 1st world people know what censorship and propaganda look like...
This. Everybody wants quality products that last forever but they will go with the cheapest POS they find and then complain that nobody makes quality products anymore.
People are having their job offers rescinded days before they start
Systems design questions are the only part of interviews that I actually like and find useful for evaluating actual knowledge - I mean, I think it’s harder to fake it than memorizing a bunch of problems and their solutions on Leetcode.
> Robinhood was only saved from defaulting on its daily collateral deposit requirement by a discretionary and unexplained waiver issued by the NSCC over which Robinhood had no control. In other words, Robinhood's risk management processes did not work well to predict and avert the risk of default that materialized. Rather, Robinhood's risk management processes failed and wider risk to Robinhood's customers was only averted due to the NSCC's exercise of discretion.
We already have technologies to solve the climate crisis, among them nuclear fission. We have the technology and experience to build safe and clean fission plants today, but we don't due to political and economic reasons.

Politically, nuclear power is unpopular in most countries, including educated ones like the US and Germany. Economically, we do nothing to incentivize nuclear. Very few places have a meaningful carbon tax and (at least in the US) state laws regulate energy grids such that they provide price insurance to unstable energy sources, but prevent base load sources like nuclear from profiting when energy is scarce.

Fusion solves none of these problems. If fusion technology were ready today, there would still be no political will or economic incentive to build fusion power plants.

How do you reckon fusion would be a solution to the political problem of the climate crisis?
Well said. Too much of the debate on here is around logical fallacies rather than the direct impact this will have on women - particularly those who are poor and unable to travel for safe abortions in other states.

Banning abortion only makes access to safe abortions harder - if the right wing want to reduce abortions, making contraceptives freely available has been proven to dramatically reduce the abortion rate as evidenced in Colorado[1].

[1] - https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/06/05/aborti...
I wouldn't rate Uchi as a top 3 sushi much less top 3 restaurant. Maybe 10 years ago it was the best sushi.
Thanks, that's actually helpful :)
Key here is "outside of the mother's body". Plenty of babies are cared for by people other than their biological mother, I'm sure you've heard of that.

What I am sayin here is that if there was a process by which we could take an unwanted fetus and implant it into someone else / allow that child to exist outside of the physical body of a person that doesn't want it, then sure, that is possibly a better alternative to abortion. Short of that, people should not be forcing other people to give births against their will.
Yes. I'm married--in fact, threats against my family were the major reason I scaled back by public presence--so that adds a bit of complexity, but moving elsewhere is definitely an option. I know enough about Europe to know that it's not the utopia many liberals/leftists make it out to be, but I don't see much of a future here.

A very talented (sadly deceased) acquaintance of mine became unemployable in the US due to his left-wing politics, although he was quite moderate (e.g., he never advocated violence). He ended up doing very well at LSE.

Given the way things are in this country, movement abroad is something I've been thinking about for a while, but it's not a decision to be taken lightly.
Personally, no. Consent can be revoked. Involuntary servitude is a violation of the 13th amendment. IMO a child can be abandoned without any moral guilt, so long as you leave them to their own devices or surrender them to someone else rather than say physically attacking them.

I actually find abortion a much trickier subject because there's an eviction involved, and it becomes a trickier subject because some physical force is typically needed to remove the entity.
Plus change a few minor errors (a "9.4" to a "9.2", an added "the" before "Illinois Law Enforcement", some inserted commas), a couple of places where "his" hadn't been updated to "his or her", plus allow state agencies to exhaust current paper forms which have "accident".

Huh. And "was involved in a motor vehicle, snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or watercraft accident" was changed to "was involved in a motor vehicle crash, or snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or watercraft accident", so it really is only supposed to affect automobile crashes.
> No, we literally just need to mandate N95 masks in public settings and get the effective R value down near 1 again.

But as soon as people take off masks, it starts spreading again. It's also getting less politically viable when ~70% of Americans have had covid (the CDC estimated 60% in late April).
This is a lot of room for selective enforcement even in the Mississippi law. All it takes are criminal penalties for a doctor to hesitate or even refuse to perform potentially life saving operations. And that’s not even looking at laws like the one in Oklahoma which doesn’t have this carve out.
Edit: OK has a stricter form of this carve out for medical emergencies, I misspoke.
>That is not what the 9th amendment says. It just says that the Constitution and Bill of Rights specifically laying out some rights does not mean that you lack all rights not laid out explicitly.

You are interpreting it in complete contradiction to the text. You are literally construing the fact that some rights are enumerated and abortion isn't as a reason why you don't have a right to an abortion

>The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Coinbase way, way overhired and way overpaid for a weak senior leadership team. I’m not a fan personally of Brian Armstrong or Sam Bankman but the difference in leadership skill is night and day. Armstrong was in the right place at the right time following the Mt Gox collapse but he’s clearly in way over his head now, but he got his money so I doubt cares.
> give aid on the condition that you eat a heaping mouthful of bullshit

I don't have any stats on that, but it's contrary to my personal experience. When I was a student, there was this Pentecostal group which used to give free food to everyone every Thursday. It was quite unconditional, not even means tested.
The Symantec link is fascinating, thank you for that!
People always say "just use alfred" but I mostly use Mac as an excuse to get a Unix terminal at work and don't really use or need a large addon like Alfred even though I can see how one might.

For me all I need is the clipboard functionality and as a clipboard manager maccy is the best. Highly advise people to install it and if they like it buy the app store version to help it's development.
I think it’s totally fair to respond to this in multiple ways. Legal and economic repercussions are important discussions. So is the practical impact to women. There is no reason to belittle people for considering various aspects of this ruling.
Because good artists borrow, but great artists steal.
Your friend had a personal choice over her body to get a child. And it is a beautiful thing to do so, and I’m very sorry it happened - hopefully she will recover both mentally and physically and will have a sought-after child she wants.

Why do you want other women who did not choose this way to go over the potentially even more terrible thing of birthing a child at significant health risks she half-loves (as hormones are powerful things), half-hates? That just kills 2 people mentally.
Firstly, Yunnan is in the southwest of China.

Secondly, other Coronaviruses have appeared in southern China -- notably the original SARS' first known case was in November of 2002 in Guangdong.[1] Wuhan is well-placed (relatively centrally) to do that kind of research.

Thirdly, RaTG13 likely isn't the closest related known virus anymore.[2][3]

[1]: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20030411/sars-timeline-of-ou...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/science/bat-coronaviruses...
There's no proof of "gain of function" experiments at all or specifically linked to Sars-Cov-2. It is heavily unlikely that such an experiment would switch a virus from un-pandemic-able to pandemic-able. The mechanisms to do that are entirely theoretical.

So it's not clear at all that gain of function would have been able to create a Virus like Sars-Cov-2 out of a hypothetical bat virus. And there is no evidence any such research has been going on. Nor is there any evidence the virus has passed through the Wuhan lab in question at all.
US is also too big.
> The only objection anyone has to abortion is based on religious beliefs

Uh…what? I am not religious (agnostic/atheist) but I object to abortion after a certain amount of time except in the cases of grave bodily harm or being the product of forced reproduction (idk what the site rules are on certain language, but I trust you understand what I mean). I believe that the unborn baby is a viable human life at some point and that abortion without a justifiable reason after that point would be equivalent to murder. I also believe many people also feel the same way I do.

> The enumeration does not need to specifically reference the word to be applicable

Yes, but we are in disagreement on which rights are applicable in this case.
https://splid.app/ is a great no-account alternative
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean all languages are created equal in that department. Let’s take this pseudocode:

int a = 0;
if (findindex(mylist, myvalue, &a)) {
// dostuff with a
}

Here, findindex returns false if it can’t find the value. The problem is that there’s nothing forcing you to use the if, you can just forget it and you’ll be left with incorrect code. In Rust, this type of error is impossible to make by accident, because the findindex function would return an Option, and you have to explicitly handle both cases (or explicitly say you don’t care about one of the cases).

Things like that, along with the lifetime system, make it easier to write good code. It’s like saying that it’s possible to destroy your foot with a shotgun and with a pencil – it’s possible, but it’s a lot easier do to by accident with the shotgun.
What is voting going to use in gerrymandered or "stronghold" areas, which most of the US effectively is?

US democracy, at least from an European POV, is completely and fundamentally broken, to the point that it will need a civil war to reset it to at least somewhat sane levels:

- The GOP as a party is so far gone off the rails, so many actual Conservatives have left that there is barely any intra-party resistance left to the Tea Party, Trump and QAnon ideologues.

- A large enough part of the GOP voter base is similarly radicalized after decades of brainwashing. Seriously, the kind of stuff that Fox "News" airs daily is scary. They will keep preventing reasonable politicians to challenge people like MTG.

- The Democrat Party, which is center-right in its actual political doings from an European POV, has other issues: gerontocratic people like Feinstein or Biden who have long ago lost touch with the 99%, corruption, incompetence, and most importantly the lack of backbone. There have been many chances to codify access to abortions, everyone knew how thin the ice was, and the Democrats let many chances pass to permanently close that risk - only because they were scared of losing one of their major selling points.

- Wealth disparity. The US is just plain shocking - you have people like Musk and Bezos worth hundreds of billions of dollars, money they can't ever truly spend even if they have a dozen children... and at the same time people die because they have to stretch out their expensive insulin or can't afford an epi-pen. Or they freeze to death because even while employed they cannot afford a home.

- Climate change, assuming that the US will be able / willing to do anything past November, will need an awful lot of investments to handle. The Republicans won't grant any money (either because of "financial stability" or because "electric cars are for woke softies"), and the young people see the clock ticking. Some of them will radicalize, up to and including terrorism - why else were there snipers on the Supreme Court?

Add on top of that the aftermath of covid - which still isn't over! - and the costs of the Ukraine war... and there's a perfect storm scenario of enormously destructive potential.
https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut mentions needing System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility access; how is Maccy able to function without it?
They believe they can. They tried last election and they'll try again as they had zero fucking consequences. If you think they wont try you are either one of them or have your head in the sand.

Edit: It was also frequently stated that "no, they wont" when people were worried about the conservatives overturning roe v wade, but here we are!
That is one of many differences.