skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your weird survey.

I'd love it if you can link it, until then I'm gonna ignore it.

> Here is a couple of examples of things where people believe something but "don't act like it" :

I'm actually sympathetic to this! Humans are pretty great at tolerating outrageous things. The effective altruism movement is essentially all about this, or yeah, like your last paragraph.

My point isn't simply "they don't act like it". My point is that there are lots of other, easier things pro-life advocates could do to reduce abortion rates, but they focus on controlling women. My hypothesis here is that the pro-life movement is fundamentally misogynistic, and wholly uninterested in measures that would reduce abortion rates while allowing women to be 1st class Americans. The point is to make women 2nd class Americans again.
A lot of the stuff at the high end of the chart is using not only the same architecture, but the same modules from the same supplier. Interesting that the class-AB amp that has been at the top of their ratings for years has finally been beaten by a switching amp.
sure, but if it's the reader's first introduction to the language (which rwo is positioned as), the reader is in a uniquely bad position to discern justified best practices from arbitrary ones, and truths about the language from opinions about it

learning the language first, then someone's ideas about how it should be written (in this case, as encoded in a replacement standard library with a special module dedicated to making any call to the actual standard library throw a compile error), gives you the requisite context to understand the latter
I don't have the link right now to that 2014 EcoHealth grant. That link though describes it pretty good:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

"
Baric had developed a way around that problem—a technique for “reverse genetics” in coronaviruses. Not only did it allow him to bring an actual virus to life from its genetic code, but he could mix and match parts of multiple viruses. He wanted to take the “spike” gene from SHC014 and move it into a genetic copy of the SARS virus he already had in his lab. The spike molecule is what lets a coronavirus open a cell and get inside it. The resulting chimera would demonstrate whether the spike of SHC014 would attach to human cells.

...

In 2014, the NIH awarded a five-year, $3.75 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study the risk that more bat-borne coronaviruses would emerge in China, using the same kind of techniques Baric had pioneered. Some of that work was to be subcontracted to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

...

In 2017, Daszak and Shi followed with another study, also at BSL-2, that one-upped Baric’s work in North Carolina. The WIV had continued to unearth dozens of new SARS-like coronaviruses in bat caves, and it reported making chimeras with eight of them by fusing the spikes of the new viruses to the chassis of WIV1. Two of them replicated well in human cells. They were, for all intents and purposes, brand-new pathogens.

"
You’ve got it exactly backwards, the question you should have asked is:

Is anterograde amnesia, an, or indistinguishable from, a statistical model?

This way the burden of proof is on the correct claimant.
The easiest way is to reach out to entrepreneurs that have raised before and see if they are willing to be an advisor in exchange for equity in your company. If you have something they believe in, they won't hesitate to introduce you to investors they know in exchange for equity in your company.

If you go through the advisor agreement at https://fi.co/fast you can get a sense of how much equity you should give up.

If your next questions is how to find these entrepreneurs, go to LinkedIn, TechCrunch and so forth and cold email people you find and ask them if they would interested in being an advisor.
If you have purchased a license from a copyright holder, and then they go bust, and the copyright gets picked up in the ensuing fire sale by someone else, you still have the ability to go to the new rightsholder and say ‘hey, those rights were licensed to me, I plan on continuing to exercise them.’

But it is by no means clear that someone who bought an NFT from someone who bought an NFT from someone who bought an NFT from the original copyright holder has any basis for being able to expect the new holder of that copyright to continue to allow them to exercise the terms of the original license agreement made between the original seller and the original buyer.
My understanding is that if you wanted to hurt a YouTube channel, you could do so like this

1. Use a VPN create a gmail address.
2. Use that address to file a DMCA notice on each channel video.
3. Google auto-accepts; the channel challenges each notice.
4. You deny all challenges.

And just like that, you can destroy any YouTube channel, without any accountability. Is this correct?
It's amazing how adaptive Julia is to incorporating new technologies.
From TFA:

[I]t feels like I can categorize almost anything this way. Gas lines and propane tanks, water mains and plastic buckets, UNIX streams and files, sewers and composting toilets, waves and particles, Law and Order episodes, queues and hashmaps, verbs and nouns.

Projecectiles are particles -> projectiles are buckets.

It's not the containerisation which matters, it's the discrete vs. continuous flow.

All analogies melt if you push them loudly enough. There are, for example, slurry pipelines, conveyor-belt transports, and rapid-fire cannon which deliver a constant stream of bullets. I'd be willing to consider these to express bucket-pipe duality to some extent.

But a single projectile from a single cannon? Little bucket of reach-out-and-touch-someone.
True, but I don't think Zig is committed to that particular idea and nothing else.

Yeah, quarantining forever is going to have much more memory overhead. It might be fine for some use cases, but not a browser or anything else complex + long-running, I agree.
Flamebait like that will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's still too broad, the more accurate term would be pro-state-coerced-birth. Less punchy, I admit.
Allow me to contextualize and re-state:

> Unless you can draw a line all the way from diagnostic use to results to improved outcomes, it's just data.

This is why we do trials, to figure out if we can draw a straight line from results (pre-clinical) to outcomes (clinical). This is the question that the cancer diagnostic trial will hopefully answer - can we improve outcomes using these diagnostics?

I don't completely see the relevance of your story about inhaled insulin. As far as I can tell it was not better than standard of care in a meaningful way, whereas with this trial there really isn't a standard of care to speak of, and this is going to be the largest such trial to date. Plenty of drugs fail to make an impact in the market, for a variety of reasons, which can't always be predicted ahead of time.

Elsewhere you write that this is not going to provide actionable information. I largely agree with this statement - as of today. I also think that this trial will provide valuable information about the landscape of cancer diagnostics in general, information which may be increasingly relevant in the future and may turn out to be actionable. This is the most relevant quote from the source article that speaks to why they are doing this:

> Q: Given the doubts, why proceed?
> A: The exciting thing is, we don’t have screening tests for the lethal cancers like pancreas and ovarian. We’re desperate. But we have to put our emotions aside and do our due diligence to evaluate these technologies and be able to speak with confidence about what this can and can’t do.

For 75 million dollars, the cost of a year of maintenance for a handful of fighter jets, I think it's worth it, and I'd much rather have the NCI running this than a private company. If this trial completely falls on its face and public money keeps being expended in this direction, then I would certainly revisit my opinion about the worthiness of trials of this nature.
It's not really predictable; you'd need a camera watching it to continuously train and compensate and improve. Which would be neat, honestly.

With the lever-arms on these things, you're going to get into all sorts of details with things like the pitch-circle variation of the plastic gears, which may have been nearly-ideal when they were produced but will become uneven with wear.

I would go the other way and grab any broken 3d printer, rip off the hot-end and stick a pen in its place. It's slower by default but a thousand times more precise, and you can tune up the speed now that you're no longer whipping around a heavy extruder or waiting for plastic to flow.
I wish Ansible was just a python API.
Past a certain point it would be much simpler.

"Its supposed to be state and not a procedure" is BS in my experience. When you need to do IFs, load vars, do things in order anyways...it stops being a state declaration.
This is not a recent concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking

Do you feel the same way about online dating services?
That is unfortunately always the case. And almost always it’s too late when they come for you (i.e you’re directly affected by something) and you finally feel like doing something about it.
> ...but they don't really persuade me.

What measure of proof do you require?

Democracy in Chains' primary source are a cache of documents from economist James Buchanan's think tank, architects of the reactionary movement's strategy. By their own words and actions, they intend to end democracy and protect the rich. Disagree with the author's analysis, fine. But the thesis is not circumstantial, inferred, or speculated.

Whereas Dark Money is a standard whodunnit. Investigative journalism, following the money, ferret out the criminal conspiracy. If you have a different interpretation of the evidence, please share.
SCOTUS overrules earlier decisions all the time: https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...
Oooh, just saw that someone posted this! Author here. Sad that I missed the action. I'll answer questions if there are any.
Interesting chemistry, it's kind of like a modified Fischer-Tropsh but at room temperature and pressure (and not a complete reduction to hydrocarbon level)::

> "To achieve maximum selectivity and production of acetate from a direct CO2 feed, a two-step electrolyser system was demonstrated to convert CO2 to CO and then CO to acetate through a tandem process ... [stage one] produces a gaseous product stream containing CO, H2 and trace CO2... The gas product stream was then fed to the cathode chamber of the CO electrolyser... By maximizing the conversion of the first and second electrolysers, as well as specifically targeting acetate over other multi-carbon products, this system was able to achieve a single-pass conversion of CO2 to acetate of 25%..."

That's a respectable yield, but it doesn't look too easy to scale up. That's typical for research prototype work like this (iridium anode seems tricky). They're also using 100% CO2 as the feed gas so there's a preconcentration step from atmospheric CO2 required (400ppm starting -> 100% pure takes some energy input).

Seems fairly promising, they were getting 0.19 g of yeast (marmite basically, or nutritional yeast) per g of produced acetate. Mars colonists take note.
ROE V WADE
WhatsApp has the hella spam problems
There are valid use cases to ignore the text message security advice. When I set up an account with my bank, I got an SMS security code that I had to read out to my banker to proceed with the account. The SMS did say not to share the code with anyone, I knew he was signing into the banks system, and I deduced that the system bankers use must be the same system normal users use, so this made sense to me. But an unsophisticated user would not know this, and would become to trusting of the helpful stranger asking for the SMS code despite the message text.

There are institutions out there that are training your users to ignore your security advice.
Yes modularity and standardization is the key to longevity, because it gives you flexibility, upgradability, repairability, etc.

I can still use all my home's wiring and light switch boxes, even though I now have LED lights, and various dimmer, electronic and remote light switches. Because it is all standard and modular.

In contrast I have to junk my entire blender, including the perfectly functioning base/motor unit, because a small plastic catch which secures the bowl to the base snapped off. Since the whole thing is proprietary, not a standard connection, replacements are not available economically. If it were standard, I can imaging all kinds of specialist bowls being available, with new designs being created to cater for the latest cooking fashions.
I assumed it was a decision relating to a woman's reproductive rights. To suggest it is a business decision is sort of debasing?
Imagine being sued by Oracle, just because your cat sat on tab key, and auto completed the java compiler :p
Related....

Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31250805
I'm sure it does say something, but implying have-nots are in their situation because of a lack of education is rather unenlightened. The number one predictor of salary, is the salary of the parents. I would rather put forward that those with subsistence lifestyles sacrifice proportionately less wealth to have many children. So it perhaps is rational to keep children in those cultures and develop morals that encourage this. In more wealthy societies the cost per child is quite high with advanced education, and a lower likelihood that each child provides free labor to the family, so keeping a child is less rational.
I figured it was unlikely google would make such a mistake, so I looked at the docs. They use public key cryptography to generate a private shared secret that is hashed alongside the message. This prevents the brute force hash attack.

https://developers.google.com/business-communications/verifi...
Completely agree, I had a really hard time following through with reading this because it seemed so opinionated and at times inconclusive.

On another note, trying not to talk out of my own opinion, if you ask certain people with philosophical, spiritual, meditation practice etc background, this is somewhat expected. When the mind has nothing to think about but thoughts, and you deeply identify with every single one, you lose touch with reality. Thoughts are generated after the fact, by themselves, feeding off the universe of your own neural connections. Even when they say “I”. Raw concepts swap from the subconscious into the conscious mind, and the conscious mind assumes them as coming from itself. In a way you would be thought, and don’t think, identity is imagined after the fact, the only free will is in observing and focusing..

Personally, I believe this could be comparable to feeding DALL-E a description, taking the generated image, feeding it into a image-to-text classifier, and then the generated description back into DALL-E, ad infinitum.

Like an endless game of telephone where the conscious mind can influence the participants bias to some degree, yet both the imagined concepts and perception of reality slowly drift further and further away from the initial neuronal activity, and in the meantime we filter out all the actual new thoughts and perceptions, despite them being much closer to the current moment, initial perception and/or neuronal activity and thus also much more rational and functional. Focusing the stream of thoughts in a certain direction seems possible, but only through being aware of it, not being it, as that would imply firing up the telephone game again and getting lost it in it again.
Possibly. Now the fun will begin if when the Feds stake a claim via the Commerce Clause to make inter-state abortion travel a right. This could end run Roe's overturn because the Feds could say that a State not allowing abortions will affect the price of abortions much like the Feds said you can't hold back corn grown on your farm to feed your livestock because that would prevent the corn from going to market at a market set rate.
For-profit companies don’t care about anyone’s rights. To believe otherwise is naive.
That things are not like past wars anymore is precisely the point.
I've been using CopyQ for years as well. It took a while to setup and the preferences UX is messy, but it has lots of customization options, and results in the best UX imo.

Maccy has pretty poor visuals when copy pasting images, rich text, etc. I find it important to visualize the actual look of some media when looking for it in the history. CopyQ is amazing at that.
Honestly, Apple should be dialing down investment in Texas.
> Abortion is a case where there is genuine disagreement among the public and at its core exists a genuine moral question.

That is not true, at all. It is a small minority that want abortion to be illegal. And of course it's a moral question. What isn't? Quit legitimatizing these minority political groups, as if they have ever considered a moral position in their life or can even describe what morality is.

The U.S. is not a democracy by definition, and certainly not one in practice. The problem with people hiding behind this as a "democratic process decision" is that that they are ignoring the fact that the Republicans absolutely refuse to participate in democratic proceedings and work to pass a law in Congress giving people the rights they deserve. Republicans, with the support of a minority in this country, are holding the U.S. hostage. What's insane, is that the Republicans make life harder for this very minority and blame it on everyone else.

Abortion is actually not a complex issue. It is a tough issue but not a complex issue.

The U.S. is reaching Middle East versions of extremism.
That sounds like you are trying to buy friends
Evolution doesn't have opinions and even if it did, not all pro-social behaviors are directly reproductive.
Bitcoin is quite susceptible to its own form of death spiral: the point at which attacking it becomes more profitable or simply more amusing than to mine it honestly. There is a large amount of mining hardware out there, and the lower the price goes, the less profitable it is to mine with that hardware. But idle hardware still exists.

Imagine if you could rent mining hardware, IaaS-style, and there was enough available to control a majority of the active hash rate. An attack that lasted a few hours would not be particularly expensive.

It’s easy to assume that Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc are technologies that work as advertised and that the only interesting questions are weather the tokens on the respective blockchains are useful and/or valuable. But the blockchains themselves have critical requirements for proper functioning, and they can easily fail.

(For Ethereum in particular, you can rent GPUs on fairly large numbers. A change in the economics could easily make it possible to rent a majority of mining power on AWS or similar platforms. At least Bitcoin hardware is mostly useless for anything other than Bitcoin mining.)
"Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows" is one of those books I got from the library and could barely do anything else until I finished the book. Highly recommended if you have not already read it. Maybe time for a re-read.

I do remember the story of one Microsoft programmer who spent weeks if not months struggling and working on the task of drawing a window on screen. Remember they did not have any Windows MFC APIs. They were writing the APIs.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_
This actually happened with me :) I keep the phone wherever and don't look at it a lot; by chance I saw that the battery was bloated. The phone/server has been running fine since I bought the replacement, around 1.5-2 years ago.

Uptime has been really good, only downtime I had was when my wife disconnected the phone a couple of times and forgot to plug it back. Even when I moved a couple of months ago, the battery held, and downtime was basically just the time between disconnecting old wifi-reconnecting new wifi in new place.
Google cares about attracting and retaining smart people. Smart people generally respect reproductive rights. So I guess in some ways you are correct, but not in the way your response to the person you are responding to would imply.

What is interesting is that I guess the average google employee is in a good enough position in life to either afford birth control, get an abortion if they need one, or simply figure out how to make an unwanted pregnancy a good situation for their family. So I’m not really sure how this helps their employees other than making them look like they care about the most recent dramatic thing.
I agree that the filibuster should have been on the table for removal. I think on paper it's ridiculous, and question the effectiveness of a governing body that needs it to function.

Because I think this one probably does. With how divided we are today, and this issue in particular, I don't think you can rely on a 50%+1 majority to pass a law one way or the other. That is like a coin flip. It seems guaranteed to lead to chaos, as each new majority rushes to redress the 'mistakes' of the preceding Congress.

And to be pedantic, the Democratic party does not have a current majority in the Senate. It's 50/48/2 Republican; Sanders and King caucus with the Democrats but King in particular is very centrist, endorsed the Republican Collins for her reelection bid, and votes with the Republicans most of the time. Maybe you think that is just nitpicking, but I wonder what you think about a 50/50 Senate depending on the VP to break ties. To remove the filibuster. To pass a nationwide abortion law.

Come on.
But Bitcoin hasn’t been around for 30 years?
Use the title from the article, not your own.
They can only do it if they have access to an SMS service that lets them arbitrarily set the sender ID which they can’t do if they’re just connecting via a retail gateway without first authorising the number.
Is this something that might be directed toward CO2 scrubbing?
The arm from the BrachioGraph shoulder to the elbow is a spring. I mean, not just in the sense that literally every solid object is a spring, but in the sense that it has a large compliance; the derivative of force with respect to equilibrium position is small. But if you want constant downforce, at least at low accelerations, the best thing is a weight, and almost all the downforce on the BrachioGraph end effector appears to be from the weight of the lifter motor.
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College includes Wretched of the Earth - and other 20th century greats.

https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/sites/default/files/docu...
Is it possible to avoid a flame war at this point? I believe this arricle is way too inflammatory, political and uninteresting for this forum.
Fun work perk: we're moving you to a location with a local culture you find abhorrent
If Google is like Apple, your salary is adjusted by the cost of living. So they would get a raise moving to a state that allows women the right to choose?
From time to time (~6 months) I review all of them. Quickly delete most, make effort to process the rest and save the 'few' that I will not take an immediate action on a topical markdown note.

e.g. Let's say that I find a book interesting. I go to '~/fun/read/read.md' paste the URL, delete the bookmark and forget about it.
Thanks for that, will look at it!

I actually moved away from DDNS after a while because I moved and my new ISP had CGNAT. I posted about it here https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...
Suspected Russian spy was well-liked by classmates, but something seemed off
Okay think about the population of the state and population of Google and then re-examine this statement.