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hui-zheng··on 3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe
Is that what's going to happen with those models underpinning the Carbon Credit Market in the next few years?
hui-zheng··on Climate protesters storm Tesla gigafactory in Europe
Any action can be done in protest of something, right?

If I protest you for some reason that I could get some people to sign up for, could I break into your house and take your stuff?

hui-zheng··on How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
I love the conversation going here. A bunch of socialist and communist nerds fantasize that they could build something better than what existing socialism and communism countries have done.

Try harder.

hui-zheng··on How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
give me an example that it actually works in reality
hui-zheng··on Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
then what makes it better than withfig/autocomplete?
hui-zheng··on Greater than 90% chance of El Niño persisting into Northern Hemisphere winter
need to learn it in a context.

what's what was the chance of El Nino and How does it change over the past years?

hui-zheng··on Loved Before – Recycled soft toy store
but I think we could use our energy better somewhere else than writing backstory for used stuff toys.

How about writing backstory for poor kids in Africa and Asia who need some donation to flourish?

hui-zheng··on Loved Before – Recycled soft toy store
This site seems started in London, I don't know if anyone in big city with a strong and active community such as London would buy from there.

It's better to use local free toy exchange/give-away group on facebook or something. I have kids and we almost never buy new toys. if we do have to buy, the used toys on facebook marketplace are often very good and much cheaper than what shown on this website.

hui-zheng··on White House says blog post on Nord Stream explosion 'utterly false'
That's true. I don't think we will find out truth about this any soon, while all the conspiracy theories and speculations flying around.

Given your learning about this, who do you think is most possible author of this explosion?

hui-zheng··on White House says blog post on Nord Stream explosion 'utterly false'
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
hui-zheng··on White House says blog post on Nord Stream explosion 'utterly false'
> I think it is unreasonable to believe that the U.S. attacked the energy sources of NATO allies as they scrambled to get enough energy before the onset of winter.

You haven't read enough history of mankind, I think.

hui-zheng··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
I tried it, I think the vibe match looks great, but the match lacks the culture context. It would be great to use song's meta data and lyrics to to improve that
hui-zheng··on Kaktovik Numerals
so these numerals notation were invented in 1994. How does the Iñupiaq people do numeric calculation in the past without numerals notation?
hui-zheng··on [dead]
I wonder what’s the strongest steel-man rebuttal to the opinions in this article ?
hui-zheng··on What algorithm Facebook and Craigslist use to flag posting?
Thank you. I didn’t know that the law is prescribed like that. That explains.

So the law is not sensible

hui-zheng··on Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL
SQL/jinja like dbt could also avoid working with SQL strings. what would be the better advantage?
hui-zheng··on Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL
One benefit of SQL is that the Database Engine will do the hard work of optimizing the query plan.

Do you think the SQL complied by PRQL could be as effective and optimized by database engine as the direct-written SQL?

hui-zheng··on Ask HN: Is your company giving you a holiday for Juneteenth?
In the spirit of the Juneteenth last Sunday, as a first generation Chinese immigrant from Mainland China, with firsthand experience and struggle with group identity and victimhood in both China and North America, I would like to share this great movie, "Uncle Tom", to remind us of what makes America America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLj-zARCv8

hui-zheng··on The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
> HR is going to send up a quick red flag and John is likely to resign claiming a poor fit rather than get caught committing or admitting fraud.

Though at this point they all know John is committing fraud, they still decided only to approach this guy claiming a poor fit for his resignation. I don't know why they do that. They have discussed a lot and considered many things. I am sure there are many reasons to do so. but do they just want John to go away and then try that same thing with another company?

It might be too strong to say this, but a failure to confront evil is a evil.

hui-zheng··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
Making it easier to kill (access to a firearm) doesn't necessarily lowers the cost of killing. The cost of killing lies on the consequence of killing.

Some people seem to be blind to the fact that less penalty and defunded/broken police and justice system lowers the cost of killing (by making it hard to bring murder to justice and the due penalty) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/world/europe/anders-breiv...

hui-zheng··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
so think about this. Do you want to give up your right of protecting yourself and be "protected" by the government? Or, do you want to keep your individual sovereignty and the right to say "no" to the government, meanwhile, also face the consequence that there are evil people and you might get hurt?
hui-zheng··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
Come to China. we have no gun and we have one of the least murder rate in the world.

We welcome you immigrate here, where people are illegal to possession any weapon other than kitchen knives, and you are fully protected.

hui-zheng··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
btw, is this host a man or woman, or some other gender? I genuine what to know so that I could use the correct gender pronouns on this person. That host shall wear a badge with preferred gender pronouns.
hui-zheng··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
I would say the most dangerous are not the bad-faith actors, but those self-deceived ones who have genuine "good intention" but act out the "bad" consequence.

And everyone of us could be that self-deceived ones, including you and me.

hui-zheng··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
that's all good points. I agree. I think it's not Facebook gives the wrong people the loudest megaphones, but our human nature and nature of the population are drawn to those megaphones held by the wrong people.

What could we do about this? How could we identify the wrong people so that we could take away the megaphone from them? Who to decide which people are wrong? Some of them are obvious, But some of them are not that obviously.

Maybe we could say madmen claiming the world is flat and there's a paedophile ring run out of a pizza shop are obviously wrong. We might know Nazi is obviously wrong, but what about What about Antifa, what about "woke"? What about all those theories behind "group identity"? The most dangerous wrong people are the ones hold "good intentions" (they could be self-deceiving or could be truly genuine) but bad ideas, and its hard to discern.

History repeats itself. I suggest reading history of China in 1930-1950, the rise of Communist China, and then read "Culture Revolution" in 1970s. You could find that how the people with "good intention" ended up being the most evil in the history.

How could we avoid that to happen here? I don't have an answer.

hui-zheng··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
As I and some other commenters explained, I don't think the law and CL guidance you provided are applicable to this listing. but thanks anyway. I think it's more likely that craigslist just don't want to deal with liability or something, so they just censor all postings with gender keywords, including those that doesn't violate law and CL guidance.
hui-zheng··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
that's what I am curious. I think maybe the website viewers flagging is not sufficient to prevent the illegal listings.

I am curious if anyone knows how the moderators and end-user flagging works and how effective they are in a website at such a scale.

hui-zheng··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
I also think they might just trying to avoid headaches with illegal listings. I think maybe the human flagging is not sufficient to prevent illegal listings?
hui-zheng··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
> Use of gender probably also invites bad actors that leads to a disproportionate amount of support work.

could you elaborate more how this listing might more likely to lead to bad actors?

hui-zheng··on Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords
If you think about it more. it does.

if the landlord can not provide the gender of the tenant who already living there, they ended up receiving so many inquiries and calls from women from who one of the very first questions is "Is the tenant living there a girl or guy?" Then the landlord has to reply "he is a guy." and then they walk away. It's a waste of everyone's time and effort.

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