Hacker News: jashkenas

Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points

jashkenas — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:48:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560961

Points: 26

# Comments: 30

Has Dog Breeding Gone Too Far?

jashkenas — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:39:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/09/opinion/purebred-dogs-inbreeding.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40308129

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jashkenas in "How A.I. chatbots become political"

jashkenas — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:22:41 +0000

Here’s a gift link you can use to read the full article, if the paywall is giving you any trouble: https://nyti.ms/3IXGobM

... and if the side-by-side examples aren’t working for you, try turning off your ad blocker and refreshing. (We’ll try to fix that now, but I’m not 100% sure we’ll be able to.)

New comment by jashkenas in "How A.I. Chatbots Become Political"

jashkenas — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:20:50 +0000

Here’s a gift link you can use to read the full article, if the paywall is giving you any trouble: https://nyti.ms/3IXGobM

... and if the side-by-side examples aren’t working for you, try turning off your ad blocker and refreshing. (We’ll try to fix that now, but I’m not 100% sure we’ll be able to.)

How A.I. chatbots become political

jashkenas — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/28/opinion/ai-political-bias.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gE0.4mlz.Yf7_amfNGgmx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39855761

Points: 40

# Comments: 72

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too

jashkenas — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 01:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20221109025610/https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123290

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jashkenas in "World Population Will Soon Peak, What Happens Next?"

jashkenas — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:37:19 +0000

Here’s a gift link to read the guest essay, if anyone is having trouble with the paywall this morning: https://nyti.ms/3Lufb21

The Story of the Student Journalist and the Stanford President

jashkenas — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:26:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/stanford-president-student-journalist.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929731

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jashkenas in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

jashkenas — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:23:26 +0000

She wrote a guest essay for us at NYT Opinion last fall, describing and showing examples of her investigative work: https://nyti.ms/43ti6y1

(Gift link, no paywall)

New comment by jashkenas in "America’s Student Loans Were Never Going to Be Repaid"

jashkenas — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:42:23 +0000

If the paywall is giving you any trouble, here's a gift link y’all can use to read the piece: https://nyti.ms/43qtZF8

New comment by jashkenas in "We spoke with 5 people who work with AI about what keeps them up at night"

jashkenas — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:17:40 +0000

Here’s a gift link that folks can use to access the piece without wrestling with the paywall: https://nyti.ms/3MEslt4

We spoke with 5 people who work with AI about what keeps them up at night

jashkenas — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:43:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/01/opinion/ai-technology-future.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149101

Points: 21

# Comments: 5

The Cost of Living in NYC Calculator

jashkenas — Mon, 22 May 2023 15:24:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.curbed.com/article/cost-of-living-nyc-calculator.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032636

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Observable Plot: The JavaScript Library for Exploratory Data Visualization

jashkenas — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://observablehq.com/plot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35730195

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Build Your Own College Rankings

jashkenas — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:41:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/27/opinion/build-your-own-college-rankings.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35327274

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Over 1,000 Trains Derail Every Year in America. Let’s Bring That Number Down

jashkenas — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:25:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/opinion/ohio-train-derailment-safety-regulation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34834975

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

This Film Does Not Exist

jashkenas — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34366255

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by jashkenas in "Ask HN: What are you working on this year?"

jashkenas — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 03:58:12 +0000

Sorry about that! I didn't think to put in gift links, and of course I should have. Here are (what should be) unpaywalled versions:

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie...

New comment by jashkenas in "Ask HN: What are you working on this year?"

jashkenas — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:27:16 +0000

For the Opinion section. (Editorial)

New comment by jashkenas in "Ask HN: What are you working on this year?"

jashkenas — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:01:21 +0000

I had the same question!

My understanding — relayed through one degree of separation from Daniel Griffin, the dendrochronologist who wrote the piece — is that the core samples are very long and thin, and care is taken not to injure the tree and to allow it to heal rapidly.

Here's a write-up from Carleton with more info about how the tree core sampling process works: https://serc.carleton.edu/trex/students/labs/lab2_2.html