skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another answer which you might not like: instead of focusing on raising, build a strong product offering or major feature enhancement that fills a hole for another established company looking to jump a few spots on Gartner's Magic Quadrant and get acquired or sell the IP for a quick win and save yourself some major headaches.

Even in down economies the appetite for M&A is still strong.
The nation’s loss of Confidence in the court is due to the law yesterday changing this morning putting our nation 50 years into the past, all while going against all previous precedent, against the new judges testimony prior to confirmation(meaning at least 3 judges lied to get on the court), and the uncertainty that additional laws will change on the whim of religious fundamentalism, laws that our nation was built upon like separation of church and state, that we have been taking for granted.

If laws were changed due to new information and were consistent with other laws regulating things like shutting down life support for brain dead adults when compared to abortion, I doubt the SCOTUS would have lost the confidence of the nation.
One of the reasons abortion is difficult to talk about is that it is the intersection of multiple rights. The principle of bodily autonomy you mention is foundational to our conception of liberty in the US. In this case, however, it intersects with the principle that human life should not be actively ended without extraordinary reason.
BTC is an official currency in San Salvador, which is arguably indeed a failed state. I’d argue, though, that it’s just another symptom of the reasons which made it a failed state in the first place (populism, corruption, etc.)
It doesn't matter if I like the minority or not, singling them out for more political power makes no sense.
Right, which is why I was (and still am) supportive of the nuance of the original Roe vs Wade ruling. I think it was the best possible outcome of all outcomes. I get the technical arguments against enforcing it in the supreme court, but I don't find them particularly comforting in the face of a bunch of religious nutjobs viewing women like faceless baby factories.
More work needs to be done, but this is a start.
very annoying?
There are obviously some conspiracy theory versions of this but the main origin of a more sane lab leak theory is by exclusion, which is to say that it existed because no other theory had definitive proof.

The most obvious alternative candidate is zoonotic origin. To many this is still the leading theory and it's likely the most plausible. But the smoking gun for zoonotic origin is finding the wildlife population of origin. This hasn't happened yet. Given the attention, that's a little weird but it's not that weird. Sometimes it takes years.

The most plausible form of the lab leak theory is that this was an accidental leak of a strain they had. Even that raises questions. If it's a strain they had, where did it come from? You run into the same issue as zoonotic origin. Could it be the result of gaint of function or similar research that would've modified a wild virus? That's possible too.

The only evidence here is circumstancial. China had, for example, not cooperated with WHO early on in investigations. Any investigations have been limited in their terms of reference. There was a DNA database of coronavirus strains that was taken down in 2019. Kind of weird timing but no tdamning. When I last looked into it this hadn't been examined by third parties. Maybe that's changed now?

So what's happened? Nothing. Because there hasn't been significant movement here on this or any other theory.
Thanks- personally, based on my experience in functional genomics, they have far too many assumptions to be trusted as "clocks", even relative ones.

Here's the second paper's methods:
a molecular clock signal was estimated on the ML tree using TempEst v1.532. BEAST v1.10.433 was used for Bayesian MCMC analysis to estimate temporal nodes. As recommended in Patrono et al., we selected the simplest model: strict clock and constant population size with a HKY substitution model and four Gamma categories7. An MCMC model was run with 50,000,000 generations and a burn-in of 25,000 sampled trees. All other parameters were by default. BEAST executions were completed checking chain convergence and sufficient sampling of the posterior space (ESS > 200) with Tracer v1.7.1. The final chronogram was generated using TreeAnnotator v1.10.433.

I'd call these "time-scaled trees", not molecular clocks.
> It's the kind of thing someone firmly ensconced in a bubble would say.

You would have to be "firmly ensconced in a bubble" to think you have the right to force a women to carry their rapists baby. Or to even think you have the right to tell a women what to do with her body in the first place.
He wasn't dressing like that for fun, but out of practicality anything to do with plumbing can be messy.
If I remember correctly, the agencies usual handyman wasn't available so he took it upon himself to come around and sort the problem. There was no obligation for him to do that he just wanted to be a decent landlord and respectful to one of his tenants. It's good business really as we loved there for years and respected his property just as he respected us as tenants.

In other places I've rented I've had absolute arseh*oles for landlords.
They wouldn't give you the time of day, but I bet their tenants were quick to move out! (I was)
I'm actually not against oil extraction, it has many, many uses besides burning it as fuel. Renewables could fill that gap. I agree that governments seem to drag their feet, tossing the hot potato to the future.

About the next big climate change, you're right, those are inevitable given enough centuries. If it happens, people will deal with it in their time, but let's try not to cause one ourselves.
It should be noted that a court not friendly to human rights and the separation of church and state is not merely against the Democrats, but all Americans.
You could also try PTGUI for stitching
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Yeah I personally use Matrix myself, I run a selfhosted instance for internal family use. They're the only people actually willing to use it - everyone else is on WhatsApp and similar services.
The earlier part is:

"Boy, I've never seen an issue so divisive. You ever see it, it's like a civil war, isn't it? Even amongst my friends, who are all very intelligent! They are totally divided on abortion! It's unbelievable! Some of my friends, for instance, think these pro-life people are annoying idiots. Other of my friends think these pro-life people are evil fucks. How are we going to come to a consensus? You ought to hear the arguments around my house; "they're annoying, they're idiots, they're evil, they're fucks!" Brothers, sisters, come together! Can't we once just join hands and think of them as evil annoying idiot fucks?" -- Bill Hicks, 1993
If the Republicans tried passing laws with a federal ban on abortion, a federal ban on same-sex marriage, and a federal ban on contraception, they would lose a very, very, large portion of their voting base. I highly doubt they will do it.
Ah, well, the best you can do is read RetractionWatch and see that a subset of those scientists have been identified, and fired.
I have serious doubts how well someone is paid has anything to do with their ability to feel empathy. I do think making broad, negative generalizations is a sign of lack of empathy however.
> what bout the 'or' on contraception

I don't have any particular problems with contraception. Some right-wingers do, they should speak for themselves. (I'm also not against early-stage abortions)

> On another thought, you think the best thing to do is give people you judge as irresponsible a child?

It's not ideal, it's just better than normalizing taking innocent lives. Also, if someone really thinks they can't be a good parent, putting up the baby for adoption is always an option.

> Also, doesn’t original sin mean the fetus not innocent?(which of course doesn't really apply since it's not a person)

I'm not religious, so I don't really think about the issue in terms of sins in the religious sense.
What misunderstanding are you referring to?
You’re laying out the definition of a slippery slope argument.

75% of Americans want restrictions on abortion (beyond just Roe v wade’s shaky constitutional basis).

The vast vast majority of Americans are ok with contraceptives, same sex marriage has firm constitutional basis, etc these aren’t going away
How many really tiny violins can I buy with one apecoin?
Oooo, joke gone bad.
Not sure I understand, now is the best time to buy. If you're going to find a cheap hidden gem, it's now. Not when you're having to fight with hundreds of other investors all bidding on the next Facebook.
> But what has disappeared is any real or urgent interest from the media and the scientific establishment in finding out how it started.

It is the biological weapon that cant be proved it is a biological weapon.
I'm pro-choice as well and think this was the right decision. Roe created a Constitutional right that didn't exist. All this does today is correct that mistake.

As a big believer in states' rights, I"m glad to see more rights returned to their voters and legislatures. As was frequently told to me, "If you don't like it, you can move to another state." And I did.

Furthermore, this decision gets rid of the viability precedent so more extreme liberals states are now free to pass all the 3rd tri-mester up-until-the-moment-of-birth abortion laws they want, free of any potential legal challenges.

This gives states and their voters, the citizens, the people the right to choose. And I'm all for that.
A lab worker who was careless (if not depressed/malicious) could just as easily carry out two variants as one.

One animal shedded... two variants of virus? How did the animal get it, when no other nearby wild or market animals in the (lackluster) investigation around Wuhan, or since elsewhere, have shown candidate SARS-CoV2/precursor viruses?

They proposed adding the FCS to existing viruses where FCS hadn't been seen before – and yes, the motivation was because that was considered a potential natural risk. But that doesn't mean it was a natural inevitability. Isn't the proximity of the proposal, "add FCS to a bat coronavirus to see how much worse it makes it", to the appearance of SARS-CoV2 at least a little suspicious?

They & others have published lots of work that specifically made existing viruses more transmissable, or more severe – often in labs with a history of leaks. This can be done via evolutionary pressures – serial passage forced-evolution – or via explicit engineering of new chimeric viruses.

Coronavirus crossover was theorized to be a major risk, after SARS/MERS. That didn't mean that actually outracing nature to make the hypothesized worse viruses in accelerated lab processes was a good risk-reducing idea!
What? For most of history birth is the inevitable outcome of pregnancy. Women aren’t being forced to give birth.
> Perhaps that was what Nguyen was thinking when he spent more than $330,000 on the various ape NFTs on display at his restaurant.

Wow. I can't imagine what anyone is thinking when they pay that much to brag about some random blockchain that says they own an arbitrary URL that may or may not link to an image.
A coerced confession was used during the trial in question.
I think there are a few problems. First, as with statutory rape, I think incest is often treated as de-facto coercive - e.g. could you say "no" to your dad if you depend on him for food/shelter/clothing? Second, rape often requires the victim to accuse the rapist of such - which is probably less likely when family is involved. Finally, incest carries increased risks of abnormalities in the child, which makes the case for aborting to prevent suffering of the child stronger.
Do the work.

Do consultancy. Become excellent. Build a team. Bootstrap your entire development phase. Sell enough to demonstrate the market
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Connecting with others in civil ways is great. The two sides are not equivalent, though. "Batshit" left opinion: people should be able to require others to address them with novel pronouns. "Batshit" right opinion: liberals should be rounded up and shot (or the South was the noble side of the Civil War or segregation should be legal or Old Testament should be the law of the land, etc.). These are not in the same neighborhood of crazy, and this is setting aside the prevalence of the respective opinions and the political power of those who espouse them. Trump endorses the overthrow of democracy. Biden doesn't.

Promoting the both-sides falsehood could help bring the sides together, but it amounts to letting the looters keep their loot to stop the rioting.
Same here. I loved Spacechem, was told that if I enjoyed spacechem I would enjoy programming, and that was what kickstarted my journey.

I miss the particular challenge of the older games like Spacechem.
There's a difference between not volunteering at the soup kitchen every weekend even when you don't like innocent people getting shot in the head, and actively fighting to stop staving people from getting food when you say you don't like innocent people getting shot in the head.

You can have a deep respect for innocent life and not be willing or able to spend weekends in a soup kitchen. You can't have a deep respect for innocent life while working to keep innocent lives from being able to survive.

"Baby murder is wrong" unless it's murder by exposure because the child was homeless, "screw the homeless!" the pro-life say or by starvation because screw the hungry! or by cancer, because screw the sick if they can't afford obscene medical costs! Pro-life people generally, don't care at all about the life of babies. They don't even care about murder. If baby food companies are killing kids by poisoning them with heavy metals they'll still decry any government regulations that would prevent that or hold baby food companies accountable. The Free Market can murder babies all day long. School shootings? No, we can't have sensible gun control laws proven to work in basically every developed nation around the globe! The pro-life say we just have live with those murders, nothing can be done! So tragic!

They want to claim the moral high ground but they are buried deep under their own filth.
My main objection to their response was that when I said I'd never heard 'flyover country' used unironically (which remains true, by the way, I haven't), they restated it as "People in NYC and SF NEVER have anything but noble and well intentioned thoughts and comments about places like Texas" and attacked that. They could have just left it at, "Well, I have heard it used unironically," and it would have been fine. Instead, they went on to create exactly the kind of judgmental snobbish coastal elite straw man my original post was complaining about.
IMO the courts did right though here revoking Roe v Wade. For such a tricky subject without enumeration of this right in the constitution, the constitutional basis for determining this would be allowing voters in the various states to decide. In some states they have decided to agree with you. In others they haven't. IMO supreme court did right here, and allows us to have our cake and eat it too. Democracy, if you will.

That is, if you play by the rules of finding nations and constitutions to be legitimate :)
I wasn't aware that having a baby was a crime, but yet, failing to birth it appears to be now. nb: Women have gone to jail for miscarriages as a result of such women-hating laws.

My thoughts on the prison system are not relevant to supporting that a women can do whatever she wants with her body.
Sure, show us.
Not to mention you’d see a rise in anti-Asian hate crime as disturbed people take out their frustrations.
Git-like functionality on top of existing RDBMS solutions would significantly reduce the overhead of managing ephemeral test environments for us. It would be awesome to see Dolt as a thin layer on top of MSSQL or Postgres that would allow my team to easily test changes before deploying to prod.

Today, this means creating a snapshot of the DB, creating a new DB instance, copying the data over, doing a deploy, testing changes, teardown and cleanup. Branching with copy-on-write (very similar to what neon.tech offers) on top of on-prem instances would be lifechanging for teams operating in legacy dbs.
> Hard disagree - the expected behavior should be: If I launch an item from the dock/finder AND I also don't context switch to another application, then and only then should the window show in the foreground and steal keyboard focus.

I'm not sure there's a disagreement here at all. Normally there shouldn't be any time for a context switch between launching an app and the app showing its window. If you're talking about a slow launching app, then yes, I agree that's a problem, and I commented on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867084

In general, app launching is too slow nowadays. Apple used to optimize this on Mac OS X, but they seem to have completely given up. Maybe it's "security" checks. Anyway, it can be annoying.
I think you're just out of your league ;)

I'm also surprised you think 1/4 oz a day is unbelievable. A smoker with a 2 pack a day habit can easily smoke through a 1/4 oz by just replacing half a 0.5g cigarette with cannabis (40 cigs x 0.5 gram => 10g cannabis + 10g tobacco). When I was using concentrates heavily and pressing my own rosin, I was easily using up to an ounce of flower on my worst days (with 15-25% yields by mass).

It's definitely a very fuzzy and subjective scale. Personal experience plays a big part and I suspect heavy smokers anchor around their most common daily average - I suspect you smoked 1.5-3g a day?
Okay, so you don't know the history of medicine. That's not uncommon.

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

In Roman times, Silphium was such a popular abortifacient that the plant was over-harvested to extinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium_(antiquity)
I've used Ditto on Windows which was really good.

But I had to move to using a Mac and Linux ecosystem. I found and adopted CopyQ, which then became my main clipboard manager, and which then supplanted Ditto as my clipboard of choice. I highly recommend CopyQ. It's great.
I think the AxiDraw has a hard time maintaining precise down-force because it's so good at maintaining precise position. Maintaining a precise position requires either precise negative feedback (which the AxiDraw doesn't have) or high rigidity, and the AxiDraw does have (comparatively) high rigidity.

But the BrachioGraph has very little rigidity, so (I infer) most of the weight of the pen-lifting servo is supported by the point of the pen, and almost none of the weight of anything else. So I don't think that will be a problem, as long as your gravity field is constant. But maybe someone who's built one can comment?
>The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

This just means that the absence of an enumerated right doesn't imply that the right is totally absent. I.e. the fact that the Constitution doesn't outline a right to sell heroin doesn't mean that heroin is by default illegal; it's just left to the States (and the people) to decide what to do with it.

But importantly, just because the Constitution doesn't outline a right to sell heroin, one does not have a Constitutional right to sell heroin — that's absurd. It's still something that can be decided upon by the legislatures.
>They force Maine to give priority to their religion,

They force Maine to not discriminate against religious schools. Maine can choose to not pay private schools at all or Maine can choose to pay all private schools.

Maine is not allowed to say that the local Catholic school is bad but a non religious local school is good. That is, in effect government choosing that religion is bad.

> they force California/NY/MA to give priority to their gun rights
They force CA/NY/MA to follow the guidelines the court has set around the 2nd amendment. Notably in this case, you can not require someone to prove they have a need to exercise a right.

The NY law stated that you had to prove you needed a gun in order to get a license. That is opposite of how a right works. Let's re-frame this as a 1st amendment issue.

There is a large amount of misinformation in the world, this is causing civil unrest and issues(i.e. vaccine, elections). When the constitution was written, the founders could not conceive the internet, radio and TV or even large scale printing presses. Therefor, in order for you to publish a book or post a comment on a site that has to possibility of receiving over 200 views, you need to submit an application to your city hall in order to do so.

We would call any such law absurd on it's face.

>they force everyone to abandon reproductive rights.
They are doing the opposite of forcing. They are saying that each state has the ability to decide what rights their citizens have.

This is not in conflict with the earlier gun control decision as the 2nd amendment defines the gun rights at the federal level. The supreme court has not found any text that defines reproductive rights at the federal level.
Technically Schedule 1 drugs should be given the same treatment as R v. W just got.

There is no federally enumerated power to ban substances. That should be a state issue according the the 10th ammendment.

Both abortion and schedule I drug prohibition/anti-prohibition require Constitutional ammendments legally.
From Kavanaugh's concurrence:

"On the question of abortion, the Constitution is therefore neither pro-life nor pro-choice. The Constitution is neutral and leaves the issue for the people and their elected representatives to resolve through the democratic process in the States or Congress — like the numerous other difficult questions of American social and economic policy that the Constitution does not address".

...

"After today’s decision, the nine Members of this Court will no longer decide the basic legality of pre-viability abortion for all 330 million Americans. That issue will be resolved by the people and their representatives in the democratic process in the States or Congress."
If you’re pro choice then you must support pure freedom including citizens owning nukes, children taking heroin, and legalizing stealing from others right? Of course not.

Pro choice is doesn’t literally mean “pro choice in all situations”, it’s shorthand for “abortion is a an individual choice and should be protected as such”.

Likewise pro life doesn’t mean “save all lives in all situations at all costs”. It’s short hand for “abortion is murdering babies, that’s wrong and should be outlawed like any other murder”.
thank you, i appreciate it, overwatching Big Brother :) Sometimes one just gets carried away.
Why would such an app need to go online at all? Maybe you can find an open source option on f-droid.