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The more you understand the world as it is, the easier it is to change what it is. Take joy in creating something new, not stumbling upon what has already been made.

The funniest response to this whole thing so far has been the Taiwanese health minister claiming "Westerners have a 5 to 10 times higher chance of developing blood clots than Asians" when asked about the AZ vaccine being used in Taiwan. He's a dentist.

Even my undergraduate CS and EE classes expected me to turn in assignments in LaTeX. Which field are you working in?

It is funny and it spreads fast because it's the first thing most people think in a high profile suicide like this.

They might not be sincere but part of me is becoming tempted to start defending The F-35 just to get a rise out of people like you.

This has got to be my favorite astroturfing conspiracy. Imagine the US government paying people to convince the oh so important programmers at HackerNews that their jet fighter is effective.

> You want to continue to check on your baby at preset intervals but never feed or rock them to sleep

Sounds like childrearing done by a robot.

Medical consent is "pointless whining?". There's also nothing personal or sentient about organ harvesting prisoners too. The desire to not have parts of your body kept alive after death is pretty common. Maybe it's a good thing the people of HN work on ways yo serve ads and not anything substantial.

> Every dictionary definition of the word I’m looking at right now includes the words “original”, “originality”, or “not imitated.”

Citing dictionary definitions just shifts your argument from one word whose meaning you didn't define to another word whose meaning you haven't defined. Is the Mona Lisa original? It's not the first oil painting, nor the first portrait, nor even the first painting of an Italian noblewoman made in the renaissance style. Yet it's commonly considered to be creative despite being imitative and unoriginal in all those previously mentioned aspects. What definition of original can you then make that simultaneously includes the Mona Lisa, is mutually exclusive with any imitation, and excludes the "majority of humans".

Henrietta Lacks had her mutated cells collected without consent, these cells have been kept alive and duplicated for decades after her death. I sure as hell wouldn't consent to what happened to her.

From the title "lena" and the reference to compression algorithms made with MMAlcevedo, it's clear that the story is trying to draw parallels to image processing. In which case being able to store images has come decades before realistic 3D rendering, photoshop, or even computer vision. For example, the sprites from some early video games look like they were modeled in 3D, but were actually images based off of photographs of clay models. I think (with suspension of disbelief that sinulating consciousness is possible) it is realistic to think that being able to capture consciousness would come before being able to understand and manipulate it.

> The extreme majority of humans are mimics, they essentially never create or do anything creative or original. They are incapable of that (cue the outrage at such a statement, even though it's true).

Of course people are going to be outraged over the statement. You're playing a semantic game where you came up with your own definition of creativity that excludes what most people do, and then not actually defining it or justifying it. If you used a more common definition of creative you'd have no argument to make.

Novelty isn't the only thing that makes something creative, a string of randomly generated numbers is always novel but wouldn't be considered creative. Creativity requires novelty conveyed through recognizable patterns, which means some amount of mimicry has to be involved.

Yes but what he's really talking about are morphemes. English has many multisyllabic morphemes where as Vietnamese has few.

> Alcohol's a useful tool for keeping a population compliant and sedated

The same could be said for most forms of recreation.

It's interesting that instead of posting the report itself, or even a detailed article that criticizes the report, the top article on HN is a bland summary of an accusation from a third party with no direct quotes or attribution. It's basically a press release.

The only article that I can find that actually tries to levy complaints of obstruction is this one from the NYT[0]. However, several of the WHO investigators quoted have gone on Twitter accusing the NYT of twisting their words[1]. Makes me pretty doubtful that there was any obstruction.

On one side we have a country with half a million cases that has since December been accusing China with "coverups" without materializing much evidence, despite document leaks and now an international investigation. On the other side we have a country with orders of magnitude fewer total and per capita cases, whose case demographics have matched up with numbers from other countries, and whose export numbers in neighboring countries has also been consistent with their reported numbers. At this point if there was some sort of obstruction or coverup the Whitehouse would have a smoking gun by now.

Other comments here talking about the "lab origin" theory pretty much hinge on theological logic. "Well it could come from a lab, and there's no proof yet that it didn't, so I have faith". It isn't Bayesian reasoning if you don't bring up rigorous statistics to prove your point.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-he...

[1] https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/caught-in-the-act-new-...

Reading HackerNews has lowered my trust in the demographic categories that make up the majority of this forum, including ones I belong too.

And I'm an albino penguin from Mars. If you'd actually have relatives in China you would be able to see very clearly that they handled the pandemic far better than the US. It's disappointing that this generic "don't trust the communists" comment is the top comment instead of any actual debate about the merit of the report or the US gov't's accusations.

> shocked at all if it was a lab virus

That's a useless statement. It's just a weak appeal to authority with no proof in any direction. I live in the US. Me saying that "I wouldn't be surprised" it came from the US wouldn't mean jack squat without evidence.

80% of Toyotas ever made are still on the road[0]. I know plenty of people who drive Toyotas older than they are. I have high doubts most Teslas won't be bricked by poor software within the decade.

[0] https://www.toyotaofnaperville.com/80-of-toyotas-vehicles-st...

crab rave.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LDU_Txk06tM

It should be illegal to make a gear selector with no tactile feedback. People have died from poorly designed gear selectors. Having the car guess the direction you drive in also sounds like the most braindead thing ever. It won't be long before someone dies from this.

> Culture doesn’t enjoy a special force field against criticism and scrutiny.

Never said it did. I'm simply not interested in hearing uninformed "criticism" from someone who knows absolutely nothing about what they're criticizing, made with ulterior motives.

It's not "news" at all. Have you ever been to Indonesia? Do you speak Indonesian? Have you even interacted with any Indonesians? Have ever read a book in Indonesian? Neither you or I have any contextual information to qualify this as good or bad news. We sure as hell shouldn't trust the BBC of all people to give us that contextual information either.

The only reason people on HN care is because it's framed as a part of some weird culture/religious war. This constant projection of values on people you know nothing about is a waste time at best.

This has absolutely nothing to do with hacking and Indonesian school uniform regulations hardly count as "intellectually gratifying".

Even if I wanted to learn more about school uniforms in a country I've never been to, whose language and culture I know nothing about, why the hell would I read about it coming from the state media of a another country I've never been to, whose journalists also know nothing about the language, culture, and political situation there?

> France has done the right thing, it has allowed girls to choose

France bans face veils in public. How is banning one of the two choices allowing them to choose? You don't respond to people being forced to do one thing by forcing them to do the opposite thing. It's also completely patronizing to just assume that women only wear the hijab just because "their elders force them to". I know plenty of people who choose to wear it of their own volition.

Can you name the book and the reviews? I'd like to read more but don't know which terms to Google.

You're using Windows examples. Directory names are case insensitive on Windows. On Linux system directories and command names have always been lowercase only for good reason.

Why should I have to memorize the fact that the folder for the package sudo starts with a capital S but the command sudo doesn't. It's not like the capital S carries any information, and as others have pointed out, it's ugly.

Seems like a bit an exaggeration. The Coptic Language is a dying/dead minority language in modern Egypt while modern Italian is pretty much just Vulgar Latin.

For example here's Egyptian written in hieratic (cursive hieroglyphs written on paper)[0] compared to modern Egyptian Arabic[1]. Now compare pompeii inscriptions [2] to modern Italian graffiti[3].

[0] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_page_from_the_Eb...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic#Sample_text

[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54149/54149-h/images/illo065...

[3] https://c7.alamy.com/comp/H7ER3R/italian-graffiti-ill-love-y...

Seems like a massive oversight given most PCB files are just a bunch of glorified vector images.

First thing I thought of too. Mixed cases when all the directory names are single words seems completely unecessary.

He should use a hammer and chisel like a real man.