skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to differentiate between "moderate" and "centrist". A moderate is, by my definition, someone who has firm convictions and anchoring principles and those just happen today to plant them in the center of the political spectrum. If the Overton window shifts, today's moderate will become tomorrow's conservative or liberal.

By contrast a centrist always takes the middling, compromising position at the middle of that Overton window. It's centrists that contribute to ethical drift.
Out of curiosity, have you tried TIS-100? It’s less of a game and more of an emulator for a machine that never existed.
Abortions aren't contagious, are you serious?

Body autonomy means I don't have to catch a disease because other people are too selfish to get a vaccine that is only experimental in the same way air and water is experimental.
Part of the problem is that you only get one real crack at the career game. As you get older, your options diminish and the negative social inferences that come with age (even though they have no basis) tend to mount, so you don't have a lot of chances.

Bosses definitely pick their successors based on the "one of us" metric, much more than actual merit or job performance, and this usually means one has to live in the same expensive neighborhoods and send one's kids to the same expensive schools as theirs. Is it possible to succeed, without playing that game? Yes, of course. However, it's unlikely, and so I wouldn't bet my life on it.
Are you me? Exact same story. How are you making/receiving calls and texts now?
Tell HN: QR Code Generator via Chrome
Cool feature from Chrome.

Right click on any website (other than google.com) and the browser menu shows an option to "Create QR Code"
I completely agree with the comment you are responding to, but it is an argument that actually changed my position relatively recently. I used to believe in the "well, if you believe it is a person, then abortion is murder" argument, but I believe the bodily autonomy argument is much stronger.

If you have a child, and you are the the only good potential donor match, and that child will die without, say, a bone-marrow transplant, you are not forced to donate your own bone marrow. Saying "You totally have the legal obligation to provide for your children, if you have them, and that almost always involves using your body in some way" is a poor analogy that really doesn't encompass what it is to have another being living inside you.

That's why I think the "viability" standard is the only one that makes sense, and also why that as technology has improved that I think the cutoff date for abortion should be lowered to the new age of viability. Any human should have the right to remove another from their own body. In the case of a child, if we have no technology to allow that child to survive outside the mother, so be it, but I think the much better analogy to forced birthing is actually slavery.
And yet the lesser of the two evils is the one which remains federally illegal. The harm caused by this prohibition far outweighs the harm of some people feeling sick for a few hours after consuming too much cannabis.

Articles like this which only focus on negatives of cannabis help perpetuate the even greater harms of cannabis prohibition.
The exhausting part for me was always when the bug escapes detection for a little while, is associated with some new functionality that very much did not escape detection, and it turns out that the wrong implementation is faster than possible. Now to fix the bug I get to be the bad guy and take away the customers toys (one of many many reasons to push for making the culprit fix the problem, especially if they don't want to).

It doesn't take many of these to form a coping mechanism that prevents this from happening again, even if it's at great cost. This is also the genesis of many unwinnable arguments that drag on forever.
Is anyone bothered by the court's dissembling after the leak?
"It's not final." True, but misleading.
"No decision has been made yet." True, but misleading.
The court voted to overturn Roe. The Chief Justice assigned Alito to write the brief. That was before the leak.
At the time the leak was made, the court had already decided the case and lied about it.
Nope. You completely misunderstand the pro-choice argument. You can believe life begins at conception and still believe it's wrong to force a woman to carry a fetus to term.
While I 100% am most invested in the idea it was from some type of wild animal (probably a bat - scientists have been warning us for YEARS that when we encroach and destroy habitats of animals we are pushing our luck for exposing new diseases) I did/do have a pretty niche theory that I saw almost nowhere else. So to be clear - obviously - I do not actually think this is likely:

September 2019 there was a large explosion at one of Russia's top viral research labs (supposedly also bioweapons) in Siberia due to large natural fires in Siberia - link below

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49727101

Officials then declare the explosion and lab not to be an issue and everyone moves on.

Is it not possible that something was accidentally leaked from this lab? I am not implying intent here - just that we could be dealing with an accident caused by the huge, huge fires. This is the same lab that later develops the Russian COVID vaccine.

At the time the only other reference I could find to this was a joke made by a comedian in Russia which they very quickly cracked down on:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/04/07/russia-opens-crimi...

I posted about this once before on Hacker News and got a TON of downvotes. Not trying to spread misinformation or something here at all.
I was at a food court recently where one of the restaurants didn't have a menu. Just a QR. I asked, and there's no paper version available. I asked what they do for blind people and got a blank stare.

So I went to the restaurant next door. If you can't even bother to scribble a menu on a chalkboard, you're not a real business.
Is it irony when you name yourself after an endangered species and then your product becomes an endangered species?
That does help. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you, my first question was "How do I hook this up to ArchiveBox."
As well as Borderlands!
People eat primates, but they're too smart and violent. Ranching them for meat doesn't make economic sense when you can breed pigs.
Good analysis! Thanks.

For context, I was using Rust for hobbyist stuff because I value provable correctness and I love tools to yell at me if I try doing something stupid. But Rust moved too fast for me. Every time I sat down to use it, I spent more time catching up on the developments I'd missed than actually being productive.

I'm choosing instead to learn how to write C in a modern, sustainable way since at least the ecosystem won't shift from under me any time soon.

To be completely clear, I don't hate Rust. I'm not ragging on it. If I used it in my day job, the experience of keeping up with it would be a totally different story. But for hobby and personal stuff, I need something where I can be productive whenever I find the time to devote to it.
>Plan B blocks fertilization.

It can also block implantation. From the FDA: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information...
I don't personally hold strong opinions on Plan B. I think it should be frowned on because it could kill a conceived child, but I don't think it's as egregious as abortion.

> Do you think women that have been raped and conceive children as a result should be responsible for raising those children?

I think it's a nuanced issue; it's less than 1% of all abortion cases, and any policies crafted on this should be the exception and not the rule. People often want to take this particular marginal case to craft a rule to apply to the non-rape and incest cases.

But to answer your question directly, yes. I think the value of human life is contingent on someone's humanity, not on the circumstances surrounding their birth. Let me explain further. I know someone who was born of a rape and incest. She is an adult now and works as a nurse. To say that her life is somehow less valuable than her co-worker's is, I think, completely antithetical to the idea that all men and women are created equal. I think that being raped is traumatic. I don't think that the solution to that trauma is more trauma by means of abortion. I asked her, and her mother is happy she had her in the end. Having her was the only thing to help her cope. I realize not every woman is like her mother, so I also think that it's understandable if a mother chooses to bring her baby conceived of rape or incest up for adoption.
The value is whatever you may exchange the crypto for. Much in the same way that the value of a dollar is what it buys you.
> I'm unclear what definition of "minority" you are using here. That sounds like a majority to me.

It is a majority of a smaller area but the minority of the larger area. Majority of a gerrymandered district for state representation. Majority of a purple state senate race, or one that has winner take all electoral vote allocation, as most do.

And of course, majority in Texas when the views held there are a minority for the overall country but they still pass laws letting people bring charges in Texas courts for abortions, even performed outside of Texas by people without representation in Texas state legislature, though I have some hope that this is a bridge too far even for the current partisan 6-3 court. No reason they wouldn’t allow it here while saying it couldn’t be used as precedent as many members for the current court argued in Bush v Gore.
You realize you said this in your previous comment right?

> ...and corrupt politicians are preventing that transition.
> to concentration camps

> number is from official Russian sources)

Surly you can give a kind stranger a link to these official sources?
This is garbage appeal to authority designed to make people embarrassed to hold an opposite view. I learned nothing from your comment and was simply told to trust this source you hid any arguments behind. It’s not fostering discussion and it’s strawmanning those you disagree with.
Art is not noise.

It's the opposite.

Art is a concrete rendering of a symbol with the opposite of noise: meaning.

The compulsion to send a more artistic asset to the category of noise is the replication of the anti-aesthetics culture in GUIs current designs.

As if it would not be alternatives, like appreciation of it in lighter forms, which, Neuomorphism feels like a reasonable attempt at that.
This is fantastic.

Open source apps? Check

Reasonable ways to get my data out? Check

Sane pricing with sufficient demo? Check

This app is going to be my go to example for how to sell an app well.
It's a question of morals not science, that should be completely obvious. If you believe a fetus is a human life then its probably more justified morally to end the mothers life instead of the newborn. There are of course some exceptions where the fetus wouldn't be viable in any scenario, those rapidly change with technology.

To be clear I'm pro abortion when its medically needed, I just think people give the other side too bad of a wrap and act like this is settled science.

Also worth noting that overturning Roe v Wade would reduce the loss of life if you believe a fetus is a person. Most abortions are not medically needed, meaning we are killing millions of people
And you have arrived at about the compromise that the Supreme Court had before this latest ruling: a fetus can start to get protections (on a state by state basis) when it hits viability (might be able to live outside the womb).
You seem to be overlooking that "well organized militia" clause.
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Lab leak does not require that the pathogen is man made.
Can you please elaborate why? I worked in Manhattan for many years, lived a few as well, and moved out in 2009.
Yep! In my work we had a golden labelled set of known-homologous proteins, as well as sets of unknown-relationship and known-not-to-be-homologous (based on superfamily). We blasted all-vs-all and after dealing with a number of BLAST issues finally demonstrated that the searches produce false positives at the expected rates. I gained a lot of respect for the folks who implemented the statistical framework behind blast E-values.

I had another advisor who thought they were good at homology, so they'd take protein matches with an E-value of 10 (almost certainly random chance) and munge the data to make up a story. Most of my work was about using very stringent blast searches to make profiles, but all that work is superseded by HMMER now.
Harmony Ropes in FBI After Losing $100M in Exploit; One Token Slumps
> The United States is a Republic not a democracy.

These are not mutually exclusive. The US is a republic and a democracy.
I would recommend everyone read Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards Heuer

Blurb from amazon:
The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis has been required reading for intelligence officers studying the art and science of intelligence analysis for decades. Richards Heuer, Jr. discusses in the book how fundamental limitations in human mental processes can prompt people to jump to conclusions and employ other simplifying strategies that lead to predictably faulty judgments known as cognitive biases. These analytic mindsets cannot be avoided, but they can be overcome through the application of more structured and rigorous analytic techniques including the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses.
I believe so. The phone can compensate for its own physical motion during an exposure (e.g. when being held in shaky hands); proper motion should be no different. If anything, it's easier, because it's so smooth. :)
Well there's a virtual table extension to read parquet files in SQLite. I've not tried it myself. https://github.com/cldellow/sqlite-parquet-vtable
Seems like you're saying that wanting to live in a truly safe place - a place where you can leave your doors, cars and bikes unlocked - is the dream of a deluded authoritarian. I guess I just disagree. These places do exist, and they are rather nice.
Not too much info in the article unfortunately, but I’m looking forward to seeing how this one plays out and who was behind this.
Based on the fact that a) they got caught, b) the topics mentioned in the article and c) that it’s Berlin, it could be anything from Russia to a random guy getting sent the link by accident and having some fun.
Surprisingly, this post lacked clarity. To me, at least.
Why shouldn't they be blamed? Christianity in the USA is nothing like being black or Jewish in the USA.
Isn't that supposed to just be flavor text? In other words, we should take the constitution literally, except for that part of the second amendment, just ignore that.
+1 from someone with a fond memory of watching the perseids with my Dad as a kid. Wasn't keen to be woken at 3am, but it was worth it.
What makes you put on evidence in quotes?

The deletion of the bat coronavirus database at Wuhan institute of virology prior to the pandemic is an undisputed and central fact. Your quotation marks do nothing to diminish this fact alone's inherent demand that Occam's razor be inverted.
if you believe a fetus is a human life then Roe v. Wade is certainly pro-death
Should have portes to VoIP.ms or similar.
You realize COVID-19 is the second major SARS coronavirus outbreak the world has seen, right?

Much of the research on the spike protein for COVID-19 came directly from SARS 1 research a decade ago. The fact we were able to have vaccines ready in 12 months is because of this research on SARS 1 and the spike protein.
Thank you for pointing this out, and thank you for the link the the relevant code section. Excellent comment.
For whatever it's worth, that's not permanent. My current number was originally a GV number and used to get flagged as a voip number. But I ported it out to a mobile carrier a year ago (which Google makes you pay for) and haven't had an issue since.
Yes, Chinese academia and business has no history of IP theft!

To be clear I agree with the rest of your sentiment. I think the nucleotide sequence as evidence is very weak. It’s the same amount of randomness as a 42 bit sequence assuming independence in both
> I never even said the word cancer

You forgot your friend's dad.

The ONLY way to know something is to become an expert yourself. If you do keto for several years, you will see that I'm correct.

But you can't compare several years of experience with just reading a paper.

I'm talking what I do for several years and progress while you link to a paper that is clearly wrong to anyone knowing keto basics.

You are a midwit! Also see the "Ackchyually meme". It happens often with people with no real world/life experience beside reading title of papers thinking they're smart.
The tl;dr of it is: get a fast host, don’t use JavaScript, and don’t use web fonts.

The web will never be as fast as it was in 1999.
This blog post would work just the same if "difficult" and "hard" were swapped. Furthermore, the same can be said about "problems" and "work". Interesting? And so, in the trash it goes.
> If this was a lab leak, it means that this kind of research is far more dangerous than we've been lead to believe

Even if it wasn’t a lab leak, it could have been. So whether it was or was not should not change your opinion about the danger of this type of research.
This corner of the internet combines very little empathy with enough technical acumen to believe their biases are grounded in logic. Social issues here are just abstract intellectual exercises that are extremely disconnected from the reality of how people’s lives are affected.

I’m not sure why I clicked this thread, these responses were predictably awful.
As long as D's continue to push unpopular initiatives like "racial equity" (reverse discrimination), banning gas cars, and increasing taxes to pay for social programs, they're never going to get a mandate. The reality is, whether you like it or not, even California rejected ultra left-wing "racial equity" initiatives at the ballot (Prop 16), people like their big gas cars that pollute the environment (or they can't afford a $50k EV/$30k hybrid and think D's are out of touch), and there is a widespread notion that the government is notoriously inefficient and incompetent. Agencies like the DMV and SSA don't exactly work to dispel that notion either.

Where's the common sense stuff? Where's the stuff most people would vote for?
I had to install a 35’ HDMI cable through my walls and attic 11 years ago. I bought the highest quality, largest wire gauge, cable Monoprice had. I just upgraded my receiver and TV to 4K HDR. Guess what, that HDMI cable that was bought before 4K HDR even existed, works perfectly. I don’t even have to use chroma subsampling to bring the required bandwidth down. Oddly enough, the one thing it can’t do, that the new replacement cable, that I haven’t installed yet, can do is 1440p. 1080p and 2160p are fine. Even though 1440p even at 120Hz is less bandwidth than 4K @ 60Hz. Go figure.

I don’t use my CAT6 as much as I used to, but where I do, it is amazing. Wired connections are essential for remote work IMO.
> "Test condition, decrement, and branch". All in one instruction

The Z80 had that too - DJNZ (Decrement and Jump if Not Zero). Standard way of writing loops.
You do realize that in opposition to my point about it being weird insinuation, you posted a bunch of weird insinuation promoted by some of the dimmest people in congress? There was a legitimate debate in 2020 about the origin of the virus, which the emails "released" by the House adequately demonstrate. Now nearly all of the people in those emails have updated their priors to favor zoonosis, which is given as evidence of conspiracy instead of just people learning more about a novel virus.
I agree. I woke my daughter up to see NEOWISE when she was six. We climbed a small hill at 2 am to try get a glimpse of it. It was very close to the horizon so we had trees in the way.

We took the car up to a higher point but it got too cloudy so we went back home to sleep.

Even though we never saw the comet she still remembers that time as something exciting and joyful and she often brings it up when we talk about space.
I find this interesting because it was suggested (not urgently) that I could be on the board of a local food bank. This article did not even mention D&O insurance, but they said they would have it.

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?

>Board members who can't say much about where they expect to be highly engaged, vs. casually advisory ... don't seem like great bets to step up when they most need to (or stay out of the way when they should)

Indeed, I have no idea what I would do, so probably I should stay off.
Don't misrepresent the "point of the compromise". The Senate exists because of slavery and for no other reason. The constitution would not have been ratified by the slave states without the disproportionate representation of the Senate, because even in the 18th century the overwhelming majority of voting people would have voted to abolish slavery. Jefferson and the other slavers knew this. The Senate is not some kind of beautiful compromise between the city and the country. It is a capitulation to Jefferson, who was really, really super into slavery.
When harlie was one, as it were. Don’t let it get out of hand.
This presumes that every hospital in the US knows the laws. Far from the case.
Couldn't you do something weird like have your mac be super hardened and then run a VM of OSX inside of that with more convenience features enabled?

Like using a jump box basically but with no external machine
Those two situations are not comparable.

Obviously there are alternative options to safely get the starving child in your house help. You can easily call the police, CPS, etc to take care of it with no danger to your own body.

You cannot do the same with a fetus inside your body.
Python library for rendering WTForms as Bootstrap 5 form controls
> "there are a few things which have just become so tiresome when running as a regular user"

Like what?
Why Everyone Wants Arm
From the Wikipedia link: "A lab worker was bitten and infected by a mouse infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant at a high-biosecurity facility in Taipei [Taiwan in December of 2021]".

From there, news articles speculate that "this will add credibility to the lab leak theory [if confirmed]" and this "gives legs to Wuhan lab leak theory," which is hardly conclusive.

I don't see how this incident would indicate that SARS-CoV-2 initially came out of a lab. It demonstrates a possible vector out of a lab, but I'm guessing that's already a well-known vector when dealing with lab animals, and it doesn't provide any evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was actually developed in a lab or initially spread from one.
My biggest reason is the ratio of quality of service and product (such as food) to price went way down. I imagine more and more resources are going towards rent and taxes than to the quality of what people are buying.

Next reason would probably be general cleanliness and drastic increase in homeless.
> Don't like your state? Move. Need an abortion but can't in your state? Get a flight or hop in a car.

Texas and Missouri would like a word.

Texas: snitch on someone who had an abortion anywhere, and get paid.

Missouri: "Conspiracy to commit an abortion" is now a crime. The conspiracy happens when you get in your car or book the flight.