skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread has 3000 comments and will probably end up with a lot more. If you want to read them all, you need to click 'More' at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258&p=3 [etc.]

If you're adding comments or intending to, please make sure you're up on the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I'm saying that polls can be twisted however you want, if you're willing to put in the effort. [0] How the question is framed is a large part of the effort, and what the quoted doctor was complaining about. (Specifically, he was complaining that things were not sufficiently twisted in the direction they found favorable)

Disaggregating the question based on trimesters is one form of twisting. Asking only a single blanket "are you for or against the right of a woman to choose" is also twisting.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
> that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today

It's impossible to waste time on HN.[1]

[1] That's what I keep telling myself.
And typically scientists are part of the portion of commettes that are unelected that help determine policy designs in the US.
There is a conspicuous lack of education around modern civil rights movements. WW1 and WW2 suck the air out of the history classroom leaving room for little else. I was 35 years old when I first learned about the MOVE bombing[1] and this year years-old when I learned about the Three Articles[2] rules. Anyone else unaware of these until recently? If not, where did you learn about them?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

2. https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-thre...
Yes, I read your comment, thanks. You didn't appear to making reference to the same grey area that was referred to in the comment you responded to. It's not often that I see absolutism and the acknowledgement of a grey area within the same breath so do forgive my mistake, if it is one.
I find neither C++ nor Rust to be particularly “creative” programming languages because one has to think all the time about two things which are irrelevant for the features of the program - resource management and complicated types.

Rust is even worse than C++ because it highly encourages encoding logic in types and the community loves doing that.

You seem to have almost come to the same conclusion yourself, but then mistakenly assume that the same kind of productivity of a GC language is available in a system language. Nope. Although at least in C++ one can just say “fuck it” during the “creative” prototyping phase, copy most things and still have decent syntax and performance. In Rust you’d have to pepper everything with clone, boxes and (a)rc, so you'd have another mess.
It isn't the general public though. It's staff who should be trained to use tools necessary for their job.
This interview talked about some of this better than I can, I thought it was interesting: https://overcast.fm/+vpWZx2bsc

Hopefully the arguments in there are correct and this isn't likely to expand.
Stockholm syndrome arrives quite quick in this case, as you become accustomed to this form as meaning "you're missing an arg"

I agree the first 6 months of this is mind-numbingly frustrating.
Yep - there are a ton of such points of evidence. The strict "lab leak" proponents have essentially made an unfalsifiable hypothesis akin to the intelligent design people's "God of the Gaps" where each time there's new research that disproves a core assumption, that just means the conspiracy goes deeper.

I linked it above, but aside from the fact that every other pandemic we've seen came about the same way, there's a ton of specific evidence from this pandemic:

https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/natures-neglected-g...

Including the timeline/locations of the earliest cases:

https://zenodo.org/record/6299600#.YjSWqDUxmUk

One thing the lab leak crew haven't been able to answer is how there could possibly be two different lineages at the market -- which you'd 100% expect from multiple spillover but is essentially impossible if your working theory is that an infected lab worker brought it to the market.
You are of course correct that no changes to the facts on the ground will happen quickly, and if you assume New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen does not get enforced, maybe not even in New York state but like MacDonald not outside of Illinois (Chicago used to have a similar ban on simple gun ownership) I'm not going to argue with you before we have evidence, very possibly years from now.

But in theory today's 7 modern slave states will be dragged kicking and screaming into the same sorts of polices that apply to the other 43 states in the nation. And I think this will be good, "'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." (Lincoln, who implicitly launched the nation's second wave of gun control.)
I agree here, Typescript is actually quite a nice language to write in, but the complexity of setting up a project and your own compiling pipeline and everything causes my head to spin.
States couldn't pick and choose what to follow per se. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights for the most part only applied to the federal government. This is well documented.

Quoting the Constitution is pointless since it doesn't prove anything. If the federal government has the authority to do something then it is the law of the land. What you are missing is that the Constitution only allows like 10 things (I made up 10, but it is close to that). Anything other than those 10 things were left to the states (10th amendment).

Barron v. Baltimore was a Supreme Court case (that was decided unanimously) that made it clear that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the States. After the 14th amendment (though not immediately) something called the Incorporation Doctrine became the mainstream opinion. This was the process of applying the amendments to the states which only could happened due to the 14th amendment.

Prior to the 14th amendment states could ban guns though several of states had similar provisions to the 2nd amendment in their constitutions. Assuming they either amended their state constitution or never had the right in their constitution they could ban guns.

That was the entire purpose of the the way the US was set up. The federal government has a basic setup mostly to ensure defense of the nation (and a few other things like weights and measures) and the States deal with everything else. If a state wanted to ban guns they could. If you wanted to own guns you could move to a state that allowed gun ownership.

The US was intended to be closer to 50 distinct countries than one nation with 50 administrative regions like we have today.
That is true of basically every anti-spam mechanism that exists. This is the trade-off to trying to deal with spam.
Only at the Monday night jam sessions. But I have played at Parker, which is also a wonderful spot.
The 6800 definitely is a classic, yes. The classics included at least 6800, 6502, 8080, and Z80. (To some extent 8085, but as an "expanded" 8080 the Z80 dominated.) The four of them powered the most iconic systems at the start of the microprocessor "takeover" at the end of the seventies (at the same time as I entered my electronics education). The 6800 was kind of left behind by the others eventually, but was used in e.g. the SWTPC 6800, and also in a lot of minicomputer (e.g. DEC) peripherals at the time (including variants like the 6802 with a little on-board RAM)
man I forgot all about this. so much has happened in the past couple years it's been impossible to keep it all straight.
Makes sense. I won't get to it soon, but try to bump that age limit down when I get a chance.
> access to abortion will be very limited everywhere

This is surely not true. Forty percent of the US population lives in states with laws protecting access to abortion. The AP is reporting that 20 states have heavy restrictions/bans, and the remainder are to-be-determined. [1]

I've seen the 26 state reference floating around on social media and wonder which states are included, beyond what news outlets are reporting. I'm open to the possibility that the AP has this wrong — the reason I'd like to know the source of the 26 figure is to compare it to the mostly-trusted sources that are giving lower numbers.

To be clear, I'm not weighing in on whether today's decision is good or bad. I just wanted to clear up some of the statistics that people hear a lot, since they are sometimes based on misunderstandings of the law (which are reasonable since the case was decided a long time ago, and until recently most people thought it would not be overturned anytime soon, if ever).

1: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-8...
agreed ! And filenames to code-snippets !
Hiding the cause also prevents anyone from fixing the cause.
How to find great practice systems design questions
This all refers to an old design. Curl danluu.com today, it's a single file HTML page.
ZIO 2.0 Released – John a De Goes
> Or rather, in an HN thread that nobody even reads besides you and me. Yawn.

Haha - you never know. HN is going to live on forever and some sentient AI will parse this content and agree that it is illogical to use meat & diary to feed the world as there are other foods that require far fewer resources ;)
A 9k passenger cruise will make its maiden voyage to the scrapyard
I presume moderna had a small army of DNA synthesizing robots to cover and optimize the shit out of that sequence from whole cloth.
No conspiracy, most people will be easily pressured when their livelihoods/job/grant is on the line. Most countries politicians want to be favorable to China, the experts sadly just toe the line.

Few scientist are the learned aristocrats of before who did not depend on grant money to live comfortable lives.
Could sure, but that’s not how ransomware typically works. Typically, it is a non interactive process that is enabled by automated application of strong encryption delivered via a binary payload. It is encryption that puts the user in danger of malicious intent not the payment rails. Before Bitcoin, LR ukash and shady payment card processors handled this. Cryptocurrency is just a better rail, so good guys and bad guys use it.

Is your problem with the network enabling crime? (Internet?)
Sure. A lot of the playground are kinda dull today especially as the kids get older. My kids learned to climb trees in my yard and in the parks around. They also sometimes climb on top of the playground elements to get their thrills.
I think you and the person you're replying to are on the same page. They seem to be arguing that abortion should be legal in all cases due to the individual rights of the pregnant person, regardless of the scenario, because individual rights apply even (perhaps especially) when society as a whole disagrees with an individual's decision.
I'm going to assume that you believe they'd throw it out, so I will ask you what part of today's decision leads you to believe that?
My beef is with politicians in general. No one is indebted to a party, republican or democrat. But at least republicans aren't claiming credit for giving you your "rights".

Sorry, for not capitolizing Democrat, since you seem to see such great offense in it.
Also, it's not either/or. COVID could have come from nature, captured and studied in a lab, then escaped.
Let us know when you have an "unambiguous truth detector" so we can start to revoke credentials. In the meantime, let's understand that scientists frequently allow their personal biases to leak into their papers.
The U.S. should pass a law rather than relying on a court decision. Roe v Wade was a poor decision from a legal standpoint. For example, why were abortions in the first trimester considered due process under the 14th amendment but in the last 2 trimesters they were not? The court should not be creating the law, the legislature should be doing that. Pass a law in the U.S. legislature and that will take precedence over state law (see the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution).
>The same argument was made about slavery, but a large and powerful subset of the country decided that slavery was not tolerable even in neighboring states.

And they didn't do it through the Supreme Court, but through an amendment. If abortion is a right then it should be passed as an amendment declaring it as a right.
When you believe God is on your side, you can justify almost any behavior to accomplish your goals, functional democracy be damned.
I think the more likely case is Hanlon’s Razor — Chinese government officials figure it could have leaked due to their lax safety standards, and just don’t want to look into it for fear of someone conclusively proving this.
In my experience, it hasn't been just a little slower — but that could of course be dependent on the response time of the callers I specifically was interacting with via the service.
Sure, if you take a positivist view where it does not exist unless it's published in a Science Journal...
> That could have saved millions of lives

But that still doesn't change the consequences or response to the pandemic. That's coulda-woulda-shoulda reasoning.
They claimed they can investigate without Chinese cooperation, then complained in the end that Chinese obfuscation prevented them from getting their conclusion?
Tbf when they said that they meant reviewed and updated as in actually amended.
First of all, I need a full-fledged God, not a mere demigod, and it is a factual error to call the Bible or the Koran or the Book of Mormon a book of fiction. You can, from your omniscient point of view, call it false, but it is not a work of fiction if its author believes it to be true.

You may be right; perhaps atheists and agnostics don't need a Bible to tell right from wrong, but that isn't something even atheists themselves have agreed on. The whole angst of the European existentialist movement had to do with the realization that without a god everything and anything was permissible (including abortion, one assumes).
Image -> mathematical forumla to toss data -> reverse formula -> slightly altered image

vs

Image -> mathematical formula to toss data -> ML to recreate what it thinks is supposed to be there -> made up image based on "training" data not even from original image

that's my problem
It's a great question: fundamentally the Parquet format offers columnar orientation. With datasets like these, there's some research[0] indicating this is a preferable way of storing and querying WARC.

DuckDB, like SQLite, is serverless. Duck has a leg up on SQLite though when it comes to Parquet: Parquet is supported directly in Duck and this makes dealing with these datasets a breeze.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparing-WARC-CDX-Parqu...
Sorry but the post above is unscientific sophistry. Science is about weighing competing theories by examining the relative strength of evidence. The evidence is strongly in favor of zoonotic origin. What's posted here is an exercise in confirmation bias, not rigorous scientific thinking.
Your numbers are still crazy and wholly disconnected from reality.

Panels do not, in fact require "decommissioning". They last much longer than 10 years: warranties are 20 years, often more. Output may be degraded by up to 20% after that, but they continue producing. If cooled, they last longer.

You can buy an electrolyser off the shelf today and plug it into any outlet. Efficiency is at least 60%, and rising; recent advances, which will hit market soon, have pushed it over 95%. A hydrogen car is much, much lighter than a battery electric car, so requires less energy to operate, but typical conversion losses today are larger than the difference.

Nobody needs a hectare of panels for personal transportation use, whether for charging a battery electric car or synthesizing hydrogen for a hydrogen-electric car. A typical rooftop is plenty, at least in summer, depending on latitude. A private system sufficient to produce hydrogen for a car is in low tens of $thousands, not $millions.

None of the above has anything to do with "scalability", which is a utility concern. Utilities can make hydrogen at whatever rate they have bought electrolysers for. The only thing stopping utilities is that if they had money for electrolysers, it would be far better used to buy more panels.

Making shit up gives you bad numbers and false conclusions.
Even if it wasn't the lab leak this time, it seems like an awfully dangerous practice for limited scientific value.
I'm going to be blunt here. No one with medical training thought this wasn't airborne.
Looks nice. Bookmarked it with Pinboard.
I'm not necessarily opposed to splitting California into multiple states, but if we do that then we should also split Texas, Florida, and New York because they have comparable population sizes. In order to split a state, both the state's Legislature and Congress (both House and Senate) would have to vote in favor. So it's possible, but politically difficult to get all three of those bodies to agree.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-4/#ar...
A lab specialized in investigating Coronaviruses in the city where the first outbreak was, is at least suspicious imo. The fact that the Chinese authorities weren't exactly helpful (to my knowledge) in debunking the lab-leak hypothesis is extra suspicious. But then again, if they really would have wanted to cover it up, they might have looked for another city to point to as the source of the outbreak, I don't know how feasible that would have been though.
When I was first learning Rust, it was exactly this sort of lifetime issue that tripped me up and frustrated me, until I finally saw the light and understood how things work.

Yes, the article is overly technical and detailed, but it captures very well the eureka moment of understanding Rust’s memory management. Some aspects are subtle yet profound.

I am always happy to take a little more pain at code-writing and compile-time in exchange for more safety guarantees at run time; Rust is great in this regard.
Footnote: if the scripts are not necessary for interaction, moving them to the footer and marking them deferred/async allows you to prevent the browser preloader[0] from being too eager with downloading them during downtime.

This is effectively a poor man's resource priority hints[1], allowing the developer the ability to prioritize downloads for the browser.

[0] https://andydavies.me/blog/2013/10/22/how-the-browser-pre-lo...

[1] https://wicg.github.io/priority-hints/
If the voting majority truly cares about access to abortion then we will hopefully see enough democratic traction to give them the mandate needed.

The problem with this reasoning is that the democratic process has been successfully gerrymandered in many states to a point where "the voting majority " is longer in a position to truly decide.

I get the foundational point you're trying to make (about states' rights having value), at least as a concept. But if you're of the belief that "if the voting majority truly cares" then over time the situation will mostly right itself -- and millions of women of all income levels (not just the poor) will not have to suffer the direst of consequences, while you sit back and wait for your prediction to come true -- you are very tragically mistaken.

But, the Supreme Court should not be responsible for managing dysfunction in other branches of govt.

Simply put, you are imputing a motive to the 1973 Court that wasn't there. The 1973 decision was made on foundational grounds (having to do with a certain constitutional amendment which, something tells me, you also believe very strongly in the value of), and in view of competing interests.

You can question the wisdom of the decision all you like, but the idea that it was handed down to "manage the dysfunction of other branches of govt" is supported neither by the factual history of the case -- nor by the Court's own writings at the time the decision was made.
It was shockingly easy and straightforward. And in three years of running it, I have yet to need to update it in reaction to an implementation or page structure change on their end.

naywall.com
I remember having to redo all the heads because we only connected 5 wires initially, but the next speed level needed all 8. Still, a few hours work for a 10x upgrade, so I couldn't complain!
And what are you thinking about now?

For me it was what lifetimes and types to use to make my program work. Just as it was in C++, but with a static verification step at the end which most of the time got in my way.

Rust makes lots of sense in high-churn projects or projects which have very high security requirements (like browsers). Otherwise I’d think carefully about using it.
They want this to be up to the states. Federal legislation encroaches on the "laboratories of democracy".
Thanks for the reply! And yes - if you end up within 100 miles of Charleston, SC, I quite seriously will oblige.

Thank you for your comment. I haven't engaged much with "3rd substance and panpsychism" much, so that'll be on my procrastinating reading list this week. I'm writing a book about Why We Play certain games, and I'm always tempted by the rabbit hole that is M-B problem.

Maybe thinking about the M-B is one of the things that distinguishes Man?

Thanks for wading through, I'd have bet dollars to donuts I wouldn't get a response. Cheers :)
So what you are saying is 7/9 justices came from the six elections in this century? Sounds an awful lot like what I said but I guess redundancy is sometimes useful.
Indeed. It could also have come from nature and while it was being studied in the lab, a similar strain made a jump to humans.
Doh, good catch. I missed that bit.

edit: I'm dense. It's your interview! That was a great one, btw. I really enjoyed it.
>Well, really, any state that has a similar law on the books. But yesterday's ruling was specifically about a NY law. CA and many other states will also be impacted.

I'd also note that the Sullivan Act[0] was put into law 111 years ago, and was perfectly fine until last week.

What has changed to make it unconstitutional now?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Act
Humility has always come really easy to me. It's like a natural gift. I actually feel bad for people that seem to have more trouble with this.
Deepfake Attack on Mayor of Berlin
Taipei, the capitol of Taiwan, is not a Chinese entity. This is a lab leak from a Taiwanese lab.
What absolutism are you talking about?
If your claims are true, then the fact that I (and others) didn't know this is seriously disturbing. I think a lot of people would have doubled down and pushed for alot more pressure and investigation into all of China's dealings across the board, if they had known.

At the very least it's an indictment on our media which should be pointing out these curious coincidences. Instead I think they have other motives.
Do people not remember that Joe Lieberman single-handedly torpedoed the public option? He's a liberal in the same way that my dog is a cat.
Again, there is no debate to be had. Those who are against abortion are saying the the fetus has rights. That is unfalsifiable. There is no point in arguing about it.

If you question whether or not a slave is a person, then I don't know what to tell you.