skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is doubtful, its age old wisdom for a reason.

Most cases these days, you pay for the value add features (differentiation strategy) but the base ... (free) is in most cases monetized through alternate strategies. It is how they can cover costs to provide free to anyone that wants to sign up.

Unless you have a written SLA that makes guarantees, with firm timetables, you most likely aren't getting what you think you bought.
> You have pacers in most "official" races. Plenty of pacers in 5K's, 10K's, 15Ks, and Halfs.

So you confirm that this term is obvious for people who are familiar with races in general. I’m not and don’t even know what units those K’s are in. I’m going to presume kilometers, but who knows.

> I assume a patternmaker is someone who focuses on making patterns, probably novel, with sewing and crocheting

> Yep, seems close enough. Amazing what one can do with basic logic

The only thing they have in common is textiles. This is as close as saying people who know how to edit HTML/CSS are coders or scriptmonkeys are hackers.

No shit I know the word pacer means someone who keeps pace. What that means in context and culture is a different thing.
What confused me initially was who was paying him. I went into the article assuming he was pacing for a specific runner or team -- a bit like the teammate cyclist who is tasked with being in front so other cyclists can draft behind him the the Tour de France. So even though the article did mention a race organizer approaching him, I missed that.

Do the race organizers request a specific pace knowing what they know about the competitors? Do they ask for input from the various coaches before the meet? Or does he just always run the exact same pace and other racers pace themselves faster or slower just in comparison to him?
This whole article is written to imply that Tesla is complicit in the harm of children.

I have stopped reading most news articles because of these naked attempts to send a message, facts be damned.
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just buy homes from individuals. or rent luxury homes and and sub rent them. there are many individuals who will turn a blind eye on their real estate for a 30% premium.
Mark Zuckerberg internal note on “speed and strategy” (2008)
TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter
Cool. here is an automated rss aggregator for substack : https://pubstack.site/

(warning may be political)
The Olympics has allowed professional athletes since 1986.
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Yes, I still remember. Even after 12 years or so.
Kind of a follow-up to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918735
I think you're on to something with the expanded self-consciousness that comes with always monitoring your own behavior/body language at the onset of puberty. I think there are other situations where a young person would also develop this kind of hyper vigilance. For me it's always made me feel older than my peers like you say.
One argument against the cross-species transmission theory is that Chinese horseshoe bats (the reservoir for SARS and possibly SARS-CoV-2) don't really live in Wuhan. They live mainly in the south of China, see for example this map[1] from the paper "Bat Coronaviruses in China"[2]. This is where SARS was found in the wild, and where it first emerged as an epidemic[3].

It's not impossible that it would emerge in bats in Wuhan and spread to animals and then humans from there, just not very likely. Of course we know very little about the start of this pandemic so it's possible that an animal was infected in the south and transported to Wuhan, but that would mean that it happened without producing cases along the way.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/viruses/viruses-11-00210/article_deploy...

[2] https://doi.org/10.3390/v11030210

[3] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1118391
More layoffs at Twitter, and loyalist Esther Crawford isn’t spared
Scott Alexander: Grading My 2018 Predictions for 2023
You know you are getting old when you're older than athletes, entertainers, etc.
It's not necessary, but if there is one you will find that it's much easier mentally to run at a pace when someone else is doing the pacing next to you.

Especially if you're running at the top end of your pace.
In my mind, the lab leak theory is tipping over towards being the more likely explanation. I was never dismissive of it, but initially I gave it fairly low probability- now I give it fairly high probability.

One interesting question is, however: if that was one random virus the Chinese government was mucking around with, what else have they got in those labs? And, what greater monstrosities have we got in our labs? I feel pretty sure the United States government has viruses in their labs that would make covid 19 look like hay fever.
> This is as close as saying people who know how to edit HTML/CSS are coders or scriptmonkeys are hackers.

You are on a social media platform where many people would gladly say that these claims are true.

Anyway I looked it up on wikipedia and my guess still holds up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patternmaker_(clothing)

The only thing I didn't bring up was the software that modern patternmakers might be using, but the core idea is still correct.

>> A patternmaker is a skilled worker who produces patterns on paper or fabric for use in the clothing industry.

> No shit I know the word pacer means someone who keeps pace.

Good, so you recognized that there is very little thought required to match "racing" and "pacers"
“Regret after Gender Affirming Surgery – A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Multifaceted Patient Experience”
https://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/Abstract/9900/_Regret...
Fairness and Code Smells in Machine Learning
Not for every race but the Olympics has had that since 1912 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_trial_at_the_Olympics
I was under the impression that Muslims were meant to be able to read the Qur’an phonetically, or at least the first chapter.
You didn't answer my question. I don't understand how your reply is related to what I wrote.
Any evidence for the claim that WHO/WHO reports are not to be trusted?
Github posts their DMCA claims, and I'm not seeing one for iptv https://github.com/github/dmca/search?q=iptv&type=
> As much as the absolutist "men can never become women" crowd attempts to shut down these debates

How does this shut down the debate? Anyone is welcome to argue their case in favor of the concept of "male women", and many do attempt to do so.
Some have developed non-cursive Arabic script, but it hasn’t taken off.

For instance, the Simplified Arabic Alphabet was devised by Muhammad Shakeel as an alternative way to write Arabic. It is a non-cursive alphabetical script as opposed to the traditional cursive Arabic abjad. The letter shapes are based mostly on the early Arabic Jazm script. It is not connected to or inspired by Nasri Khattar's Unified Arabic script.

https://omniglot.com/conscripts/saa.htm
This would be counterproductive.
The geomagnetic north pole is the relevant one. It is located in northern Canada, around 80.7, -72.7, and moves much slower.

Your link mentions this, too:

> Based on the WMM2020 coefficients for 2020.0 the geomagnetic north pole is at 72.68°W longitude and 80.65°N latitude, […] Although geomagnetic pole positions cannot be observed, they are arguably of greater significance than the dip poles because the auroral ovals (approximate 5° latitude bands where the spectacular aurora is likely visible) are closely centered on the geomagnetic poles.
That gives us 1 generation being right and we're roughly 100 generations removed from Socrates. I'm not sure that I would hang my hat on a 1% accuracy rate just yet.
Heck, my brother was hit by a drunk driver, put into a coma and then died later.

There were a number of local newspapers about it, but NO national news. Bet no-one outside Oshawa Ontario heard about the event.

Why is a drunk in a Tesla more important to report than a drunk in a GM truck?
This sounds similar to the Overton Window:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
It's weird, because the number is off by an order of magnitude. "If you count all of the varieties of today’s Arabic together, you can safely estimate that there are about 313 million Arabic speakers in the whole world, making it the fifth most-spoken language globally behind Mandarin, Spanish, English and Hindi." [1]

[1] https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-ara...
So... is he just really good at running at a specific speed, or what? I don't get it.
The most costly and fatal mistake so far.
the law says that GitHub (in this case) must take down the repo if a DMCA claim is made. the reason doesn't matter, the identity of the claimant doesn't matter, and the repo in question doesn't matter.

the owner of the repo that has been taken down can file a counterclaim (that may not be the word, I am not a lawyer) which the original DMCA-thrower must respond to within 10 days. if they do not respond in 10 days, or the response is insufficient in some way, the repo goes back up.

this whole time there is nothing GitHub can say to anyone that changes anything, and they would be foolish to comment on ongoing legal disputes, anyway.

most repos come back up after 10 days, I imagine, especially the ones taken down by unjust claims.

so, just because it's been 9 days with no communication means exactly nothing.

the law mandates this process, and GitHub must follow it.
"Why not just..." train a neural net to detect this? :)
It just seem super weird to me that by the state has deep say in what we do with our bodies.

The whole idea of medicine as only a thing to undo damage, to deal with problems is so old fashioned, so out of touch. It doesnt correspond to what we can do & it seems weird we socially have kind of started catching upnbut legally are still stuck with hundred year norms. There probably should be some limits but letting people play with & experiment with their body chemistry seems a simple enough proposition.

Paul Ford at Wired talking about Mounjaro for weight loss, & more generally the opening the box on self-modification is a glimpse beyond this weird fixation point medicine has been stuck upon. Great read.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-m...
It's the maximum speed of causality, not the speed at which all things are caused. The speed limit of causality. If the rest of the theory of relativity was correct but there wasn't a maximum speed, then it would be possible for an effect to precede the cause. Relativity got rid of absolute simultaneity but some things still need to happen in a certain order. I think when people say "speed of causality" the "maximum" bit is implied.
> for example Farsi in Egypt (Egyptians primarily speak an Egyptian Dialect of Arabic)

Nit picking here maybe, but neither Farsi (Persian) is a dialect of Arabic (not even in the same family of languages) nor Egyptians speak it typically. Although, they speak a dialect of Arabic.

Update: My mistake, as pointed out here, I misunderstood the point initially.
I actually thought that part was perfectly clear.

> In general, the letter combination ال should be common.

So if your text has more than a few words, you should be able to look though your text and see that somewhere.

I can't read Arabic but I can recognize that pattern. I went to https://www.bbc.com/arabic and could find numerous occurrences.

It's a bit like saying "if you have a paragraph in 'English' and it has no e's in it, it's probably not English."
Wow that paper has a cool footnote about the “empty paradigm”:

> Of course, many of these paradigms are useless in practice, such as the empty paradigm (no concepts)[1] or paradigms with only one concept.

> [1]: Similar reasoning explains why Baskin-Robbins has exactly 31 flavors of ice cream. We postulate that they have only 5 flavors, which gives 2^5 − 1 = 31 combinations with at least one flavor. The 32nd combination is the empty flavor. The taste of the empty flavor is an open research question.
When did this talking point that the lab leak is highly unlikely go out to the media, and from whom?
Satellite service is more likely to replace cell. If the latency gets low enough, and capacity gets high enough, we can expect the Starlink/T-Mobile partnership to expand beyond emergency services. I'd certainly trade speed and latency for total planetary coverage.
I believe that was the exact point the article was making.
Notes app. Pretty similar to Evernote but simpler in some ways. Nothing ground-breaking.
Is there really any such thing as free speech absolutism? Let’s say there are no rules about what you can say on Twitter.
Carol tweets about not liking video games. In response 100s of trolls/bots start threatening to rape her. Alice sees the threats and decides not to tweet her own opinions about video games for fear of being on the receiving end of that vitriol.
In my opinion, at this point Alice’s freedom of speech is being impeded.
You could argue that she’s choosing not to speak because she doesn’t want to deal with the consequences but how is that different than not shouting fire in a theatre because you don’t want to be arrested?
Every society decides what speech is acceptable and what isn’t. And then enforces that via social norms, laws and regulations.
Personally I’d rather live in a society where people are able to share their opinions without being threatened. I think that society is actually maximizing the flow of information while a society focused on “No rules free speech absolutism” is simply delegating the choice of who is free to speak to mob rule.

TLDR - free speech absolutism sounds simple until you think about who is actually free to speak/which voices are heard on platforms that have no rules
There’s evidence that it’s more likely than various other theories, but there isn’t a smoking gun. That’s the kind of nuance that’s easy to ignore in favor of your preconceived notions because weak evidence is rarely worth changing your mind over.

At a practical level I don’t think there’s much difference between the lab link being a 7% chance vs a 70% chance. What’s more concerning is the potential of future leaks and what responses they might result in. The possibility that local officials get in CYA mode over a possible lab leak of a more dangerous virus is seriously concerning.
Also, the game is $50 in the US Steam store. This is an oof price for a broken early access game. Full AAA games are often "just" $60.
Not having an iphone is a good way to get out of conversations with people you don't want to converse with.
I agree. It doesn't take long to get to the author's thoughts on the most common cause: lack of subject matter expertise. That's cold comfort for those who are working against a tight deadline, though.
> Is there an arabic equiv of a 7 segment display?

A 7 segment display would have nowhere close to enough resolution to properly render Arabic script. Digital signage would at least be using a low-resolution LED matrix but more likely you'd see LED/LCD displays in places that are affluent and plain analog signage where they are not.
Yes, it is required by IEEE 754, and in fact required that it should be as correct as possible just like other arithmetic operators.
While American McDonalds do serve coffee, they likely don’t serve expresso. Any functional coffee shop in the US will be quite familiar with espresso.
Very useful. Thanks for that.
> people who absolutely hate me and want my whole race to die

What's really interesting about that is I couldn't find one bit of audio that came anywhere near what you're characterizing. Even in the one episode of Underground Dialogue Podcast where they're talking about black secession.

I typed in 'white supremacist podcast'. It took a while to actually get a link because I'm pretty sure Google is censoring the results. (Go, Google!) But here's what I listened to:

https://therightstuff.biz/2023/02/26/ftn-535-some-garbage-po...

I'm obviously just skimming through it but already just from the show notes we have anti-semitsm ('Jewish sex-trafficking money').

Hitting in random points. 22 mins in, nothing. 64 mins "KAnye was right about the jews. tell all black people" 1:51 nothing 3:12 a brief mention of a podcast that I looked up that talks about 'anti-White brainwashing' 4:19 'Columbus Jewish news'

Let's compare that with Hotep because Hoteps in general, should be theoretically the most anti-white podcast out of all the ones you mentioned.

Hotep Episode https://soundcloud.com/handymayhem/hoteps-been-told-you-236-...

First hit: nothing
58 mins: nothing
1h39: mysogyny but within the context of a 'nigga with a pussy'
2h17m - talking about Andrew Tate and Greta Thurnberg; possibly a mysogony subtext
2h43m - anti-Police
Similarly, virtual reality games turned out to be the key to tricking my brain into liking regular exercise. Sports/weight lifting/running/etc all feel like a chore, but I can easily lose track of time getting my heart rate up in VR.
“The FBI employs a cadre of microbiologists, immunologists and other scientists and is supported by the National Bioforensic Analysis Center, which was established at Fort Detrick, Md., in 2004 to analyze anthrax and other possible biological threats.” -the article
Unfortunately readers of Jacobin are perhaps particularly unlikely to understand the details of corporate and national accounting.
Yeah, I remember during World War II, the Fascists were really giving the Nazis hell. Just classic fascism.
Urdu (and IIRC Western Punjabi, i.e. Punjabi as spoken/written in Pakistan) prefer to use the Nasta'liq variety of Arabic script, and historically Persian (Farsi) was written in Nasta'liq. And it is not the case that Nasta'liq is written on a base line--in fact, characters in a word tend to slant down to the left.
Yup, that's the exact point they're making. Non-Arabic-speaker sees Arabic script and assumes it's the Arabic language, so presents it to users that don't understand it, such as presenting Farsi text to Egyptian Arabic speakers. Or, to take the Latin script example, presenting French text to English speakers.
The "public health or morals" clause certainly leaves the door open for abuse. But it's still more useful than talking about the First Amendment as if it applies to the whole world.

I also think it's useful to frame rights both positively and negatively, and to focus on more than just the government's responsibilities.
Why AGI Must Be a Parrot
Probably a good place to ask: I want to add an arabic translation to a webpage I operate. My text editor is a bit confused by the unicode symbols. Obviously the text editor displays left-to-right no matter what as it's made for programming.

What's the right way to handle this?
> ال from ل ا.

Who can’t tell these two character sequences from each other? Genuine question.

I think the main point the author is making is, if you are including Arabic script somewhere, take a bit of time to either do it right or hire someone to do it right for you.
>Liberty, free speech, facts, etc. are apparently just nice theories from a more enlightened time.

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Are users in poorly connected areas enough to be profitable? These satellites have a short lifespan so it'll have to be hella profitable to make up for the constant replenishment launches no?
Any remotely modern R rated movie is more realistic and graphic than Faces of Death, do you have issues with ads for those movies? Many PG-13 movies are worse and newpapers, magazines and TV news regularly show far worse. Faces of Death is largely viewed as comedy these days and some of the "graphic" imagery in it was humorously bad/fake even by 1980s standards.
> Your own links contain the evidence you're looking for. Your pangolin link mentions one paper

pangolin werent sold at wet markets though ?
I guess that's a standard from 1980...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1750A
I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings.

I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of doing the mental math converting from UTC, so I made my own tool to show Kp forecast values (from NOAA) in the user's local timezone. Here it is in case it can be useful to anyone else:

https://auroraoutlook.com

Obviously, it's pretty bare bones. You need to have an understanding of which Kp value is needed to see the lights at your latitude. I'm working on adding more features to make it more user friendly
Case in point, anyone who loses a date by not having an iPhone is dodging a bullet.
Yeah something about the linked URL isn’t redirecting correctly. I don’t know why it was so hard to get at, but here’s the ”canonical” link (if such a thing exists): https://twitter.com/thechiefnerd/status/1629863655478050816
I always respected Stalin for not giving his family special privileges. His son was captured by the Nazis during the invasion and when Stalin heard it he wasn't happy that he let himself be taken alive. The Germans actually thought they had a propaganda coup. Oh how wrong they were nobody in the Kremlin gave a shit.

It is a far cry from the pathetic excuses leading Russia today who use his name but drink champagne in foreign 5 star hotels far away from the front.
Some others have pointed out, the reason might be geopolitics.
Congratulations, you have just discovered why almost every claim "there's no evidence about X" is false. Almost every conspiracy theory - and surely almost every side of a scientific debate - has some evidence behind it. Maybe inconclusive evidence, maybe bad evidence, maybe very weak evidence, maybe even evidence later proven to be false or fake - but there's almost always at least something. The reason is simple - the number of possible theories is infinite, but people's attention is finite. So even the dumbest, most gullible person would select the theories to believe in somehow - and those that have zero evidence to lean on would rarely make the cut, because there's just too many of them, so the probability of any of them to land any significant number of supporters is practically zero. Thus, the theories you've heard about likely to have at least some evidence - but there are questions, as you correctly noted. For bad theories, there would be very small and bad evidence and very large and hairy questions. It's not a 100% rule - hence I say "almost" - but it is very often the case.

For more exploration of the "no evidence" question, I suggest you read https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
let's remember that the US contributed the the funding of this research https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...
You've never had to worry about copy-pasting destroying your text between two programs

Actually, yes. Yes I do.

Try having to work in documents that trade text in multiple languages between Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Office. Add in some opinions from iOS, and I end up pasting text into a blank ASCII file just to get it back to basics so I can send it to the next program because neither Microsoft nor Adobe can reliably handle the macOS standard Command-Shift-V to paste text unformatted.

I can't imagine the disaster that would await me if i also has to do it in Arabic.
Regular Visual Studio versus ClangCL
As an Arabic speaker, baby steps!

For spoken Arabic, a decent placeholder is either MSA (standard Arabic) or a generally understood dialect (Egyptian or Levantine).

The latter is what a lot of the recent Arabic game dubs have been doing (e.g., Ubisoft). Another example: Pixar and Disney use Egyptian Arabic for their dubs.

Edit: Oh, and for written Arabic, you should almost always be using MSA. That is, you shouldn’t worry about the dialect of your target audience.
luckily, Ghidra exists now
Some would say we're in them.
Bad for whom? Some billionaires reportedly believe in the discredited Malthusian population problem.