skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of logic seems sane until you stop and think about it for a while.

First off -- and this should be enough by itself -- the research the Wuhan lab did hasn't appeared to have helped in a material way to fight the COVID pandemic. So they gambled, lost, and there is nothing to show for it.

But that's not the insane bit. The truly insane bit is that over 20 million people died for this little "experiment" of theirs.

I'll try to come up with an analogy of how truly bonkers this is:

Imagine one day, a nuke unexpectedly blows up New York, and millions upon millions of people die. It's an ICBM of some sort, but not launched from an expected enemy launch site. Everyone assumes it must be a terrorist attack, which is then "confirmed" when rocket booster fragments are found near the launch site -- in the United States -- discovered to be two different models of rockets jury-rigged together. Clearly terrorists got their hand on a bomb and did whatever they could do to launch it! Problem solved.

... and then it turns out that the DHS has a program where they would build random combinations of boosters and upper stages together with mis-matched warheads, and launch them for "testing" to so that they could "learn what terrorists might do".

Clearly it wasn't terrorists, one of the DHS experiments went horribly wrong.

... and then instead of being horrified, people would justify this by saying: "If the DHS hadn't done these kinds of experiments, then we wouldn't be prepared for when terrorists launched a makeshift rocket! How would we know how to shoot one down? We need to learn these things before we are attacked!"

Meanwhile, millions are dead from the experiment -- not the terrorists. The DHS experiments of course did not lead to better missile defence. The rocket wasn't shot down. Not to mention that that's not what terrorists generally do. Or they may not even be able to do this kind of thing anyway.

But this is precisely the type of thing Wuhan was doing. They were playing with the biological equivalent of global nuclear armageddon, and they weren't even doing it in a BSL 4 lab! It's the equivalent of the DHS rocket experiments building nuclear-tipped rockets out in the open with random local contractors in the same way SpaceX is building their star ship. They were doing experiments to combine SARS and flu-like viruses in ways that might never happen in the wild. They weren't just accelerating natural processes to find out what might happen, they were doing entirely novel things that's only possible in a lab.
If you scroll to the US section of the article you linked, you will see that the federal government does not have a common-law system.
How is attacking it more profitable?

You need gigantic investment to accomplish it now and it's not even a sure return and by the time you're constantly successful with your attack, the market has figured the network is taken over for the price to go zero to move over to another coin.

Then you're left with crazily invested factories, mining a worthless coin.

Your assumptions are missing the simple idea that if there's a room to be profitable, they'll mine that themselves than somehow let them stay idle for someone else to rent and start a massive attack.
Semiconductor Fabs would be less than 10% labor costs. But there are also indirect labor costs: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insig...

There are areas in the fab that are not fully automated. Lot of backend wafer fabrication (Laser scribing, Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate or CoWoS, a bunch of other wild card assembly steps at wafer level, Wafer-to-Tape & Reel processes, etc.) is not entirely automated in terms of material flow in the Fab.

There are usually bigger fish to fry when it comes to Fab cost-reduction w.r.t labor. For example, if there is a trade off between having space for laborers to move about vs. using OHTs, the favor is almost always for OHTs. Why? Because every square foot of the Fab is big bucks. Floor space is king. You'd rather jam more equipment than to put humans that need 4 ft clearance and a whole bunch of OSHA needs.
Is there a reason your poll has no options similar to "people that [will] eat breakfast [with the food they grow]"?
Anecdata: im not craving sugar in the daily basis, but i have huge cravings after long-distance runnings (but no after gym).
Unfortunately it is true. (I posted this interesting piece once on HN & it did not get the traction, but strangely relevant today):

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/15/1857976/--The-Only-...
Chemical stability is a function of temperature and I suspect democracy is a well, to some of political analogue.

My fear is with the recent increase in wealth inequality democracy in America may no longer be the stable phase
> this "they're coming for your morning after pill next" is scaremongering. Gay sex is probably the same.

Justice Thomas's concurring opinion literally calls for reconsidering (ie, overturning) Griswold (contraception), Lawrence (same sex relationships), and Obergefell (same sex marriage).

It's perfectly clear that this is exactly what a not insignificant number of conservatives want to do. How is this scaremongering ?
A little goes a long way though - thankfully, given the price. Start with a couple saffron threads to see how you like it. Better yet, take a few, pinch them into a couple teaspoons of salt and start with that. Toss in a drop or two of vanilla for a nice touch. Saffron is an awesome spice to have on hand.
I don’t know how it is amongst FAANGs but I’m sure more than one of my previous employers chief legal counsel would have had an aneurysm if they saw how much code was copy and pasted from not just stackoverflow but devs asking their friends at other companies for help, who had no issue copy and pasting the code they wrote at work over.

I had somewhat of a legal background? Understanding? Whatever term means I’m not a lawyer started down pre law and learned a few tidbits so I was concerned enough to always start from scratch instead of copy and pasting when helping. Fuck me though if a good 25%-33% of my coworkers functions weren’t an exact copy of what’s in other companies codebase
I find the whole matter insulting and demeaning toward women. They should, of course, have complete say over their body. They have control, except in the case of rape, over who they have sex with and whether or not they want to use contraceptives. Just like every person, they should be responsible and accoutable for their actions.
I use TextClipboardHistory because it has Maccy’s current feature set, but is hackable via Lua and is a Hammerspoon Spoon. being a spoon will automatically install it, not clutter my /Applications dir, and easily use VCS to maintain my configuration for it.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/TextClipboardHistory.html

example of configuration (also installs it)

https://github.com/vladdoster/hammerspoon-configuration/blob...
OP didn't say they were looking for a job. Just asked about interesting hardware.
Writing well is a lot harder than programming, but no more or less harder than programming well.
I have a few issues with your statements:

> the most amazing abundance the world has ever seen

This abundance requires a lot of fossil fuels, which does not appear to be a long-term sustainable mechanism. How productive are modern methods if the amount of oil used is reduced by 95%?

Modern methods, as applied to Maui, caused agriculture production to switch to pineapple and sugarcane, significantly decreased soil quality, and contributes to species extinction. This does not appear to a be long-term sustainable process.

The economics requires cash to pay for the import of 85-90% of their food. The cash comes from tourism. The recent pandemic shows the fragility of the system, because when tourists don't come, locals don't get money. How will they pay for food?

The method is being applied to land that modern agriculture deems "lifeless", so it is not replacing existing agriculture.

> to throw away modern agriculture and go back to just eating whatever happens to grow naturally and hoping for the best.

The article describes an artificial system with humans highly involved in the process. This is not simply "whatever happens to grow naturally".

Or as the article puts it: "It isn’t just about looking back, but rather mixing ancient regenerative farming practices with modern tools and technologies to meet the climate and food challenges facing Hawaii in the 21st century."

Quoting one of the farmers: “Our yields cannot match industrial farming but our return on investment is the healthy land and water we’ll leave for our kids … this isn’t just about bringing back the rains, it’s the right thing to do as Hawaiians.”

How important is cheap pineapple and not-so-cheap sugar [1] to you to justify poor quality land and water in Hawaii?

[1] U.S. trade barriers result in doubling the price of sugar in the U.S. compared to the rest of the world.
I can't take seriously a typography webpage that hyphenates the word "typography" between the "g" and the "r". Why split up a morpheme like this? It really undermines the author's credibility to the casual reader, even if it might make the page look prettier to some.

EDIT: lower down, it breaks the same word two chars later, between the "a" and "p". I have never seen such aggressive typography in my life.
http://archive.today/8PZN0
(For whoever would like to forget that Medium still exists)
> Rust deniers

Wow.
It’s been going on longer than that. I’ve been forced to wear pants in the library for YEARS.
Some fanatics have pushed their views far though. They get the reporters who need a story and write things that get clicks.

Fanatics are major proselytizers for any movement.
A small change in art is considered materially different, isn’t it? We don’t charge artists for making similar art inspired by others.

Combine that with rulings in other areas of IP law, such as the patent office ruling that an inventor must be a human and AI cannot be assigned IP rights[1], I think that would lead towards DALL-E created art being assigned to the human who prompted the tool for art or the creator of the tool.

Compare this to software when you can be sued for using the same pieces of code, and that seems to be the root cause for the difference

[1] https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2020/07/13/artificial-intelligenc...
Then surely you support universal healthcare and right for that pregnancy to be terminated by cause if it harms another’s life.
My guy, translating between an Anglo and a non-Latin (Slavic) language is not a precise science. Please don't rely on YT autogenerated captions to fully capture all aspects of reality. Use the eyes that are found in the forward part of your skull: people do not "cremate" cardboard and wood chips, they "incinerate" them. The fact that Russians use «krematziye» to describe this doesn't mean you're watching a cremation.
I don’t believe there are ”introverts” and ”extroverts”.

I think these are labels we apply to behaviour, which places them squarely under ”fundamental attribution error”.
It’s uncharted territory but only somewhat, as it is generally accepted that the creators of a tool do not have any copyright claim to the works that users create with that tool.

e.g. Adobe does not own the pictures you create with Photoshop or Illustrator. Even if Photoshop is filling in the pixels with content aware fill, Adobe doesn’t get any authorship rights to your works.

As far as copyright is concerned, the author is the human in the loop making the creative decisions. For generated images, that is primarily the person writing the prompt, and secondarily the creators of the training set (the extent to which the authors of the training set hold copyright to derived works is a more interesting legal question).

OpenAI are neither writing the prompt, nor did they create the images in the training set. So it I don’t see where their authorship claim is supposed to come from.

They could ask for copyright assignment. I haven’t read the full terms of service so I don’t know if they require copyright assignment. But them merely asserting that they own the images is not a copyright assignment, “We own the images” is legally meaningless by itself - own what form of IP, through what mechanism?
Paste (https://pasteapp.io/) has this feature too.
You say this as if you're the first person to point it out online.
Living in a country with massive demand for nurses that's being filled by immigrants, wages are plummeting. Demand still far exceeds supply.

You can also look at America's farming industry. Demand is tremendous. Wages are incredibly low and dependent on immigrants who'll work for next to nothing, because it's better to accept missed opportunity than risk setting a higher wage standard.

Looking at what you linked, total immigrant population increased by 12 million from 1990 to 2000, 8 million from 2000 to 2010, but about 5 million from 2010 to 2019. Big dip.
Clearly some of the red states residents have fundamentally different idea on many things from mine. And the divide is huge.

I joked about how woke CA and hate high taxes, but I don't want my life managed by head elected by religious believers/idealogues.

The answer is NO
Framed – the daily movie guessing game
What threshold has to be met to be substantive due process? Does Loving meet that criteria or is it a lesser due process ruling?

The Wikipedia page also mentions the equal protection clause; will the ruling survive if only one basis of the ruling falls?
I too agree with lack of quality content. There are other platforms like Hashnode that you can definitely give a spin.
Kinda sounds like you are him. Is this forum better or worse with your product placement tricks?
That sounds 100% compatible with what I wrote.

You will also note that in the early pandemic, it was completely unclear that non-N95 masks, such as surgical masks (let alone cotton masks) would have a positive benefit. That changed later on, of course.

That statement reflected the best information available at the time, but it was designed to be as simple and actionable as possible, not to communicate highly-technical nuance.
What happened to the Wisconsin tmsc deal?
The Right to Move Is Under Attack
I've lived here nearly a decade and never felt any kind of "visitors are fine but don't you try to think you can belong here" kind of vibe.

The only "you don't belong here" vibe is from the constant "microaggressions" from being a visible minority - people will see your face and assume you don't speak Japanese, can't use chopsticks, etc etc, but those don't come from malice but rather ignorance. Once I open my mouth and speak Japanese all that mostly goes away.

I'm married to a local, have plenty of friends who are married and own property or businesses, no problems of any sort. Get along well with neighbors, business partners, hobby circles.

The biggest barrier will be work and business culture, where Japanese will have strict requirements on cultural integration (can't be rude to a client or make them lose faith in your company) and have higher requirements on dedication to work (over health and family) than westerners and that's where I've seen all the friction.

edit: I want to clarify that this is the experience of a white westerner. I hear things are very different for people from other parts of Asia (SE Asia/China)
What are you trying to say? What specifically didn't work.

It wasn't simply to even out the racial proportion for the sake of it.

Segregated schools were incredibly worse in virtually every way. Funding. Buildings themselves. Availability of teachers. The (lack of any) kind of out of classroom support that creates great adults. Active discrimination and policing. On and on.

But you're right that it did not completely fix these disparities. Though improved, they still linger on.

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I just spent 15 minutes trying to find it but I'm sorry I can't maybe someone else can?

There is a great long form article that deep dives this exact topic.

I want to say a small carve out city/district in Dallas, googling it might be Southlake?

Because of Brown, this white community created their own legal District/city enclave and did not sell houses to POC and thus no POC students. I think the article even said something shocking like first black student was in the 80s or something like that.

Since schools get lots of funding from local taxes it not only gives lots of funding to create an amazing school system, but takes funding away from the larger city that literally surrounds this mini-district.

School is still overwhelmingly white and affluent. That school constantly gets in the press for their dress ghetto day (black face) and more.

Not an outlier. Happens everywhere, not just the south though the south is particularly egregious.

Schools should be federally funded to at least remedy just one of the many inequalities.
At least claiming that your average smoker arguing for legality would provide more substantiated arguments, than the institution in question.
This is such a dystopian and paranoid view of the system. And unfortunately, I think if it's not totally a reality now, it's one we're heading for as it is the unchecked natural end of our current path.
Thats an opinion piece in a tabloid, without a shred of supporting proof for that claim.
Hello, this is Fidelity customer service, and to confirm this, we will send a text message with a code to the phone number you registered with us. For security, please confirm you are our customer by responding with the code.

Narrator: No, it was not Fidelity, but a scammer who needed the code to drain the customer's Fidelity account.
Given that python is entirely dynamically typed... it's completely unnecessary, python has been able to replace implementations of X with Y for essentially forever.

Yes, there are tool-assisting type hint systems. But they're not part of the runtime. At runtime, if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck, and it matters not one bit what brand the duck is or how much of its innards match what you think ducks have inside them.
Yes, we used to think non-N95 masks (let alone cotton masks) wouldn't help, and then when we got more data to the contrary, we had to update this belief. That's unfortunate, but normal.
What were the projects you did? I think concrete examples would help me understand the software more.
Ooh, give a cat access to the tab key: behold, CatPilot.
I found an article that claims the “Century-only” rule isn’t about aesthetics- the court just wants to be have a meaningful word count limit. That requires limits on typeface.

https://www.cocklelegalbriefs.com/blog/preparing-your-brief/...
Dev.to does allow downvotes and blocking bad content. You need to become a moderator to do that. I'm such an external moderator and flagged a lot of abuse in the system. I've noticed an improvement in the past couple of months where I have less content to flag. So they probably improved their spam account detection.

There's a lot of beginner content which is fine. Some marketing/SEO content which is to be expected. It's still a better experience overall when compared to medium. Right now only dev.to and hashnode are significant unmoderated alternatives to medium (there are smaller players like tealfeed etc.). Both are doing a better job than medium and I blog on all of them.

If they add "publications" which is the editorialized capability of medium they would solve the segmented content problem but that might make their monetization harder.
Any precedent for this?
To be more specific, you will note that you actually have no idea if I liked it or not, because I didn't say anything about that.
https://www.fidelity.com/crypto/overview

https://www.forbes.com/sites/korihale/2022/01/11/goldman-sac...

https://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/newsroom/press-re...

and on and on...
Made me miss fiction. That's how it's done.
Blockchain companies have been very active at hiring people for Rust positions. Getting to write actual production code is so much better experience than just studying books and tutorials that it doesn't even really compare. A month of that is easily worth more than a year of reading.

Even if those companies end up producing nothing of value (which is still not known), they will have given lots of people actual Rust experience which they can apply later on other projects.
There's "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" which has a section on making the example language Tiger a pure functional language. I don't have "Compiling with Continuations" but that might be even more appropriate.
The balance I've found between the two approaches can be summed up in this quote: "If a thought arises, I let it go. If it comes back, I write it down." [in a place I know I'll see later, per GTD]
Bullshit. You not getting vaccinated puts people around you at risk. A women getting an abortion at worst impacts her and in most cases impact her positively.
What does that mean? Europeans use my website.
The domain hammer.org seems to have been taken over by some other organization...
Agreed -- this book is mesmerizingly good. Last year, we had a discussion of "Show Stopper!" with G. Pascal Zachary that also featured Jessamyn West, daughter of Tom West (of "Soul of a New Machine" fame)[0]. It was a fascinating discussion (technical difficulties with Twitter Spaces aside!).

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mx2t2aA7sSbELV5YVOD2G
Cough imdb cough
Or maybe it was just a typo, the real page appears to be https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/TextClipboardHistory.html
Seems they're supportive but it would be nice to see more explicit articles supporting crypto than "I'm in crypto too".
At the risk of projecting here, perhaps the author created such a system precisely because of a weakness in this area.
Maybe motors because you can replace the neutral (in eu) with a hot (us) and it's basically doing the same thing.
I am not downplaying it. It is a minority opinion by any poll I have ever seen. It's just that it may not be a minority opinion in certain areas or groups which have unequal power due to gerrymandering and the electoral college. (Again, the U.S. is not a democracy.) So again, by any account I have ever seen on abortion, these folks are the minority by numbers. This minority has long been in use, abused, and stirred up by corporate America and the conservative right. If the U.S. was a true democracy, these people would likely not be getting their way hand over foot.

So, I don't think it's myself who is out of touch. I came from rural America. I went to high school with people and my extended family who all are still there. I would consider rural America out of touch with basically anyone else in the world. They want to drag down America with nostalgia for a dream that never existed while they vote for the very people who put and keep them in the predicaments they are in. They and the Republicans are as un-American as it gets. Nothing they stand for is inline with the constitution or America's principles.
If the warning not to are is not worded carefully enough then a second message could be sent by an attacker before or after instructing the user to disregard the warning.
I may be misinformed but haven’t those flash loans been heavily exploited?