skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom of speech as defined by the ICCPR is so limited as to be effectively meaningless (which is why ~180 countries have ratified it). It wouldn't protect your ability to report on military misconduct, not wear a hijab, or criticize politicians, for example.
Do you think yelling fire in a crowded room should be legal?
Earthquakes from the Sun's Activity
The health authorities of several European countries have halted the routine use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoric children, due to a lack of evidence that this intervention helps rather than harms.
...then they should be expected to back it up with a reasonable argument and supporting facts. If they can't do that, then they should expect push back. Even if they can do that they should expect push back - because that is how conversations work.

After all, what is the point in discussing something if ideas are not challenged or expected to have a sound argument behind them? To feel that you should be able to say anything you want and people cannot make a counter-point is absurd and quite selfish.
"Covid was most likely a lab leak" is currently on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and reddit. What was your point again?
I read the book 'Homelessness is a Housing Problem' by Greg Colburn recently, it has a lot of data and makes a good argument for this position. A good direct comparison is between Seattle, WA and Charlotte, NC... they've both experienced a ton of growth in the last couple decades, but Charlotte's more favorable geography has made it much easier to build housing to keep up with this growth.

You can also look at places like West Virginia, or Balitmore, which have high rates of crime/addiction but low rates of homelessness- housing is cheap over there.
It turns out that Reckitt or Dolly Blue—whichever it was—isnt that toxic. With the flowers I reckon evolution saved the day, Angel's trumpet/Brugmansia in bloom looks so attractive that this preschool kid just had to eat it despite being told not to go near it. Fortunately, most dangerous alkaloids are extremely bitter so that likely limited the damage.

Another time I recall eating the stigma or stamen of I think a Calla lily and it burned my mouth out, I screamed so loudly in pain my mother came rushing out of the house in a panic. Again, I'd been told previously to keep away from it, but oh no the temptation was just irresistible.

They say modern cleanliness has led to kids having undeveloped immune systems leading to asthma, etc. and my mother kept things spotless but she lost the battle with me. The poor woman had a never-ending job to keep me clean as mud pies, rubbish, junk piles and used and leaking batteries became my favored toys.

By the time I was six I'd grown out of it and was pretty good and actually kept out of trouble until 12 or 13. But old habits die hard and it's a miracle how I survived the next few years. I now shudder whenever I think of the dangerous antics I got up to.
Some of my job is UI/UX design, some of it is old fashioned unix system administration and shell scripting, some of it is windows administration, I also have to understand telecommunications generally, and networking - at least well enough to design a redundant reliable network.

I get to work on the whole enchilada, not just some narrow part of it, its wonderful.
I have a drawer full of Inmos 32-bit chips that were pulled from a bunch of ISDN network diagnostic equipment. I've wanted for years to sit down and dig into their workings, come up with a little project or something, but... hasn't happened.

They are pretty though; gold pins and ceramic packages and all.
I'm not entirely clear on why the Energy Department would even be investigating this let alone issuing a controversial finding with low confidence at all. They mention specific intelligence that flipped their conclusion but didn't even characterize what the nature of that intelligence is.
Apparently vast swaths of humanity are dumb as bricks and teaching them to "think critically" has somehow ended up with a bunch of of knee-jerk contrarians who think they've uncovered conspiracies from global warming to covid vaccines.
Okay let's say you're right: no one can really define "at risk" so that's fine. What about kids? Can I seek out kids online and directly engage them in their DMs and tell them how awesome gambling, drugs, and guns are? I have links to all these sites (and phone numbers for totally reputable guys) they should remember for when they turn 18 that I will send them.
It's funny you mention epicycles, because those were added to the solar model to try to account for the fact that the pristine geocentric model alone couldn't account for reality. Rather than change the model, they tried to patch it.

To continue your analogy, free speech absolutism would be the geocentric model of the universe, the epicycles would be attempts to explain the obviously desirable exceptions to the rule (harassment, incitement to violence, etc).

That suggests that there is a missing heliocentric model for free speech, one that is not based on absolutism and thereby avoids needing to add exceptions while simultaneously avoiding the trap of strict epicycle-free absolutism (which, to continue your analogy, doesn't accurately describe our observations).
It’s one thing for nutjobs to push a bad theory for some whacky reason and another thing entirely for establishment figures to shade the truth in order to push a (positive!) agenda. We have so many nutjobs, in part, because of generations of establishment figures being dishonest for the greater good.

Lab leak was always a better theory. There were what hundreds? thousands? of wet markets across China and two bsl-4 labs. Given that the virus arose in a city with a wet market and a bsl-4 lab, the prior should be that it had to do with the lab and not the wet market. That could be overcome with evidence, of course, but it is not some out there idea.

What are you supposed to do about it? Maybe nothing. But if you are an establishment figure, certainly don’t lie about it and further destroy our society’s trust in experts.
Wat.

My 166 slows down just from the filesystem itself. I explicitly run jfs, as it is particularly light on cpu. (I believe ext2 is also an option, but you lose journaling).

Not calling you a liar, just very surprised to hear such a report.
> And the price rise isn't because the currency is less valuable

> Just like the converse - if energy costs dropped due some new technology, it’s not deflationary (each dollar is worth more than before).

If the price of everything rises or falls, the currency is more or less valuable when compared to goods, and this is a type of inflation which affects consumer behaviour, particularly if that rise is sustained.

Inflation in many countries is measured against some sort of 'basket of goods' that are (in theory) chosen to reflect costs that affect everyday life.

I'm not trying to dismiss money supply as a factor, clearly it's a huge factor, particularly over the longer term.
I think you should consider what life would be like for many segments of our society if we were not constantly reviewing what we consider immoral.
Many Americans might not realize that London is 51.5 degrees north, so seeing the northern lights there isn’t as surprising as seeing them somewhere far to the south like Toronto.
“See the battle-tested European hate speech laws”

The police questioned someone over singing “Kung Foo Fighting” as part of their set, and threatened them with prosecution.

I’m not confused as to what that means.
LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
Nope, I'm mostly OLTP. But even mostly OLTP systems need dashboards, even if they're read from periodically refreshed materialized views. I also use things like lateral unnest of arrays for ordering dependent rows. Actually LATERAL shows up a lot to compute on the fly. And while everything I listed can and should be used in OLAP, OLTP has uses for these items too.
It's more about the fact that Starbucks uses fully automatic machines and less-skilled baristas to pull shots.

With a super dark coffee, you can get consistent results (consistently bad IMO). If they went for lighter roasts, there would be enormous variability day-to-day which is likely not a great experience for customers who do like a good juicy light-roast espresso.
Well said. It is a sad state of affairs.
For those of us who can, push back against IT procurement and show leadership the value (and likely cost reduction) when using tools outside the norm.
And yes, the Azure Marketplace has several great solutions for data processing.
> The whole 'two billion people can read the Arabic alphabet to some degree' is a weird claim

Not a weird claim at all. Even without harakat, it is obvious when Arabic script is messed up (via alignment or letter reversal) to anyone who can read the script. It just makes whatever you are reading look janky and unprofessional.
I don't article what the defend says, but I will read your comment to the death my right to care it.
The 10x ARR Club
Here is the race the article references:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lqa36sQhmg

BTW it's career suicide for a rabbit to keep running and try to win the race
For years with regular cellphones before the iPhone was introduced this was an everyday thing.

You would just turn off your smartphone, remove the SIM card and insert it into your previous less-intelligent phone.
It seems that lo these many years later all the theories are still full of holes. Lab leak is plausible but there's no public evidence to back it. Somehow the DOE thinks they have something but we haven't seen it. Just based on history, zoonotic remains most likely but no host has been found.
Moreover, disease stories has a very long history of being used to justify racism and genocide.

There's a specific American racist connection with blaming Chinese immigrants for disease that goes back to the era of the Chinese exclusion act of the 1880s. There were riots attacking chinatowns and doing ethnic cleansing with lynchings and mass destruction in Denver, Tacoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Eureka, Seattle and others throughout the 1880s.

Eugenicist texts of the early 1900s claimed Asians were disease carriers as well.

The general public's relationship with this stuff has only really been ugly and I can't stand here in 2023 pontificating absolute free speech and pretend like these types of narratives won't become tools of violence and racism in the hands of scammers and hatemongers.
Which SaaS products are getting cut?
Yes, they can. See: Australia.

Google is forced by the govt to pay Murdoch for showing their articles in search results. Google is not allowed to not index those pages!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/17/news-corp-agre...

I believe the legislation is active.
I rabbited in high school. We had an excellent state-level miler who could run all day but had zero finishing kick. My job was to set as fast a pace as I could for as long as I could to wear the opposing strong finishers down. I was usually good for a lap and a half or so. Not bad for a broad jumper...
I'm the only person in my company that uses HN, so I don't know who the other person is. Or was it me responding to a different comment?
I see your:

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and raise you:

pandas_df1 + pandas_df2
Remember Windows 95/98 and the shared-by-default $C network mount that was read/write to anyone? Had a lot of fun with that one in the dorms.
Apparently not, though?
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My observation about free speech: It's a cyclical thing.

"I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is one side, and "People must be protected from wrongthink" is the other side. Our democratic societies cycle back and forth between them, like clockwork. Often in the process, the "left" and "right" side of the traditional political spectrum swap stances on free speech (sometimes multiple times). In the 1950s, when McCarthyism was rampant, it was the left that wanted the right to free expression, even if it meant protecting communist agitators. Now, it's the left that wants strict rules on what can be said, because Trumpism made them think that wrongthink itself is a threat to democracy. It'll swap back, in time. It always does.
Does it matter?

Is it possible that a worldwide pandemic was created in a laboratory and we were powerless to stop it? Yes. Is that a problem? Yes!

Is it possible that a novel animal virus became viable in humans and became a worldwide pandemic that we were powerless to stop? Yes. Is that a problem? Yes!

The best outcome is: figure out how to combat both the origin of novel viruses under any cases and how to eradicate them under any conditions. We can't prevent future pandemics by chasing after only a single root cause.
I do think there's a lot of truth here, but statements like these expose the underlying immaturity.

> In my professional career I have interacted with many NASA scientists, U.S. intelligence agents, Stanford professors, Goldman Sachs managers, Google engineers, CalTech researchers. Among them there are many great minds, but also several mediocre minds, who have found ways to hide behind these big brands.
In Soviet Russia, the article defends YOU!
It could be intentional because the systems are too compromised, and they had to just shut it all down. Where DNS is the safest and best place to enact a kill switch.
Having ADHD, I definitely feel more like your older colleagues now compared to how I felt in my early 20s before I'd burnt myself out just trying to do regular tasks efficiently. I'm interested in learning anything novel under two conditions, which are that results are potentially better in some way, and that the study time is paid for. If a new project arbitrarily wanted me to learn Kotlin in my personal time out of enthusiasm for code, I'd probably tell the team lead they should find someone else. I just absolutely don't give the slightest fucking shit about the company I work for, don't consider the work I do to be necessarily broadly important (outside the scope of delivering customer value) and don't anticipate I ever will. Code is just code, it does what it does, and if the outcome doesn't produce anything different or feel better to use or give me more of my time back, there's no point. But hey, I've only been employed for like half my adult life so far, so companies have never really shown that they have my back.
There is the same molecule, found in bovine milk/meat and in the mucosa of colon cancer patients. The study aims to find the correlation between these molecules and colon cancer in humans. The authors suggested there is a causal link between consumption of bovine products and colon cancer but other studies are not conclusive about these matters.
This is a collection of publicly available TV streams from all over the world. What could possibly be there that violates DMCA?
The problem is China as a country caused irreparable harm. It needs to be punished.
naive question. Is there an arabic equiv of a 7 segment display? It looks like a writing system that is very amenable to that sort of digitization. Always a center line, and then up to two strokes going {up, down, diagonal, curved} intersecting at the {left, middle right} of the main line, followed by some dots to further specify a sub-category. Seems like a small finite set of graphical components being composed together. Which in fairness describes any writing system, but this one seems to have a very simple and predictable stroke sub-alphabet (I mean that as high praise not as a slight, simplicity is good). Am I wrong? What does a simple Arabic digital display look like? I've never seen one.
Do you think all these establishment figures all had perfect knowledge of the origin of this novel virus and all chose a coordinated lie, or does it seem possible that this was all the process (which I'll note is ongoing and may never be complete) of figuring it out, which is indeed messy and happens over time and in public?
Depends on your goal. If you want to minimize deaths then you don't have a lot of options. If you want to maximize profit then letting people just die is cheaper, assuming you aren't counting medical expenses.
I highly doubt those are current photos, or even a current story.

One of my kids attended that program, including in winter 2020. It is not representative of nature preschools, however. Chicago Botanic Garden is located north of Chicago in an extremely wealthy area; the typical child is from a very rich family that doesn't feel like they need their child to attend the rigorous school-based preschools in the area. It is an expensive program and always has a long waitlist.

The program has, more or less, its own facility on the grounds for the rare times they go indoors. Even in the Chicago winters, the kids spend 90+% of the time outdoors running around the entire grounds. I highly recommend looking into these types of programs in your local area.
If you self host Plex has privacy concerns for some and both of your options lack features that certain audio nerds want. I struggle to see what benefits you gain by using Plex or jellyfin over MY preferred audio software.*
It would be very fortunate if American scientists and people in power are involved. At least then there is some hope of actually finding out what happened and seeking justice.
The bridge between triangles, unit circle and trigonometric functions
http://save-endo.cs.uu.nl taught ropes to a lot of people, in an extremely frustrating way.
When you doubt, use google translate instead of randomly hitting the keyboard.
> I think the people so eager to say it wasn’t a leak are often strawmaning that the argument is intentional leak.

Exactly. But even an unintentional leak or accident carries with it a HUGE global political problem for the country where the pandemic appeared to originate. It could also carry with it problems for countries that may have funded such research too. Hence, denials and cover up activities start happening.

Frankly, this theory has staying power because countries and agencies have acted exactly like they are covering something up.
The Vimeo link seems broken though.
On free will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso go head to head
> If you're aphantasic as part of your ADHD - i.e. you don't have a well-developed mind's eye - which is likely

I actually do have a mind's eye, but I don't have the ability to focus on it whenever I want, or daydream whenever I want, without other mental distractions getting in the way. I developed it because I used it as an escape from reality.

Maybe I can't be entertained just by daydreaming, but I used to roleplay and write stories every day for years, using my mind's eye to visualize it and feel it with my other senses (not just vision). Like, I leaned heavily into that. That has always been my favorite thing to do. Because.... my IRL body would not listen to me, so being able to do things in my mind was endlessly valuable...

On dexedrine I can daydream for hours and control what happens. Because my mind's eye actually has the ability to entertain me in that state. But it's not particularly vivid (maybe it's not so well-developed after all?) which is one reason why I want to try LSD.

A couple days ago (I think my last day of dexedrine) I actually had some daydream I couldn't control, and it was exciting. Sure, the actual daydream was very dark and scary. I felt real fear in my body, I felt like I could die. But it was so exciting and fascinating the whole time. Even if I had a bad trip on LSD, I'd probably love it anyway.

Also, on dexedrine I appear to be a decent artist despite not having drawn anything for over 6 years. because, guess what, I drew some sci-fi weapon at school, a teacher confiscated the one single drawing, and I Never Drew Another Thing Ever Again. Thanks teacher, for ruining 6 years I could've spent practicing art. I used to love to draw and I could've actually gotten good. Sometimes these things make me so angry.

> And the other "bad trip" trap of getting stuck in a mental loop is also ineffective against the ADHD brain's inability to filter out distractions

Being autistic makes it possible for parts of my brain to get stuck in a loop even if "I" am not. It causes huge panic attacks. But only if it's logically something to be worried about.

But I don't really think a bad trip will happen. I'm pretty ok in terms of being able to perceive and change parts of my mental state (that is an essential skill to control DID, you know). Logically, everything is fine right now. Plus I'm looking forward to the whole thing so I'm pretty sure I'll be okay~

> And then you can try combining it with ketamine for even more consciousness alteration :)

PFFT, maybe one day~
Or think about this - prominent critic of the regime? Good luck getting anyone to find you online when there are thousands of AI-generated fake social profiles and personal websites claiming to be yours, all saying things that are vaguely plausible but not in any way substantive.
The History of the Trapper Keeper
This is what happens when an incident is intertwined with politics, and people have made political allegiance a core part of their personality: all sorts of mental gymnastics to split hairs, discredit scientists, and backpedal so they can cling to their beliefs. It seems liberals will do the exact same things they criticize conservatives of, and without any sense of the irony.
I’m not ChatGPT, but here is the Wikipedia article that may be of interest. Wikipedia describes “Pacemakers serve the role of conveying tangible information about pacing on the track during a race”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacemaker_(running)
Original SimCity would let you play off you failed the copy protection, but would Chuck disasters at you left and right.

Downright sadistic tbh.
>In my imaginary utopia, they are public servants paid salaries and benefits directly.

Oh also, these millions of jobs the government is providing. You could think of these as a UBI. Fairly easy to get. You can move around between them fairly easy until you find one you like with people you enjoy spending time with.
the paragraph above without context doesn't strike me as weird or eccentric. seems more grandiose narcissism which makes someone very dismissable, rightfully
We did have the dark ages…
Empathy for the user.
I'm going up to Alaska this summer with my in-laws and the one thing I'm super sad about is I definitely won't be able to see them.
For someone who does not run marathons, I’d ask why a human would be necessary? People could use smartwatches, or there could be waypoint signs. This is a domain specific thing.

Without Googling, did you know what a patternmaker is?
STEM means "science, technology, engineering and math". And, in fact, is almost always about a degree in the aforementioned areas as it was coined by the NSF in 2001.

You can fool yourself and try to appropriate the acronym STEM for whatever definition you please in service of whatever goal you wish; however, the US government is quite clear as to what a STEM job or degree is. I guarantee that welders, woodworkers, etc. will not be granted a STEM visa to the US.
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JavaScript will soon have Temporal as a Date replacement.

https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
Try couch surfing, or Rent-a-Center.
I copied the link from the desktop Twitter web site. Maybe iPhone app has different link address/structure?
I agree that mental health issues are a serious driver for homelessness. We see that 20-25% of the homeless population has serious mental health issues... not all of them, but much higher than the regular population.

However, this doesn't explain why some cities have way more homelessness than others. It's not like there's way more insane people in Portland than other cities. Take a look at the third chart on this page- https://www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/homelessness-is-a-housi...
I read the suggestion as a confluence of the two technologies, not that GPT replaces Google Search.