skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once the outcome disparity was noted, it's unimaginable that BOTH blunders would not be revealed: 1) low concentration in the first dose, and 2) exclusion of age 55+ patients.

The regulator was aware at every step and recommended Oxford should continue the study with the half dose.

> The Italian manufacturers used a different technique to Oxford to check the concentration of the vaccine - effectively how many viral particles are floating in each dose. When the Oxford scientists used their method, it appeared that the Italian vaccine was double strength. What to do? Calls were made to the medical regulators. It was agreed that volunteers should be given a half measure of the vaccine, on the basis that it was likely to equate to something more like a regular dose. This was partly a safety issue - they preferred to give them too little rather than too much.

> But after a week, the scientists became aware that something unusual was going on. The volunteers were getting none of the usual side-effects - such as sore arms or fever. About 1,300 volunteers had only received a half-dose of the vaccine, rather than a full one. The independent regulators said the trial should continue and that the half-dose group could remain in the study.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308216

The amount of speculation in this thread is appalling.
Yes, I think that was their point.
I now always announce out loud when I've taken my medication for the day. For some reason it's just easier to remember when you say stuff out loud versus just thinking it.

I was inspired by the success of "point and call" from the Tokyo train system.
Isn't that how humans work? Sometimes I wonder if I have free will and sentience, or if I am just stringing words together based on some probability function.

I've no doubt taken into account copyrighted works and personal information when training my built-in neural network. The examples the article gives like "misremembering" the murder as the murder victim sounds like something a person would do. Knowing verbatim contact information of some random person is also possible. All in all, GPT-2 sounds a lot like us.
Pronunciation can be challenging but words are spelled in a very consistent manner. There are few exceptions where the word isn't spoken like the letters suggest (for example: zmarznięty).
Systems tend to break down over time. This is normal. People getting fed up and trying to fix it is normal too.

"Hard times create strong people. Strong people create good times. Good times create weak people. Weak people create hard times."

We only get the leaders and government we deserve.
As much as I want to learn new languages, it looks like my brain is not cooperating. Either the syntax is hard to read (eg ruby or elixir) or articulating the same solution (eg python) in Javascript much easier.

Any suggestions on which practical language to complement Javascript for web dev? Also, use cases for functional programming language, is it even useful?
If ethics are a priority, then how can you be a vegetarian as opposed to a vegan? If as a vegetarian you acknowledge consuming animal products, which ethics are you compromising (just curious).
Incoming Mail Router service with Catch-All support for any domains
If not for the campaign, I would have never guessed how to operate the huge cannons.

The thing that drives me to Zero-K is that it's much more polished than other Spring RTS mods, the constant metal/energy factor, that it has a good diversity, and actually works without having to guess how to run it.

Meanwhile I'm still going to looking for something where the diversity has less overlaps, where I can distinguish units without having to zoom out to see icons,… and where ships come in a whole range of sizes ;)

So far I'm not willing to give up the moveable commander, and that eliminates Nota.
If you are young enough there is time for a year or two on the road and time after to settle and build relationships.
Bitcoin meets the basic requirements of money better than anything else that came before it. It's like gold, which has been money for 5,000 years, with teleportation capabilities.

From https://breedlove22.medium.com/money-bitcoin-and-time-part-1...:

Hardness — resistance to unpredictable supply increases and debasements of value
· Fungibility — units are interchangeable and indistinguishable from one another
· Portability — ease of transporting or transmitting monetary units across distances
· Durability — resistance of monetary units to rot, corrosion or deterioration of value
· Divisibility — ease of subdividing or grouping monetary units
· Security — resistance to counterfeiting or forgery
· Sovereignty — the source of its value, trust factors and permissions necessary to transact with it (natural social consensus or artificial government decree)
In the offline world, false and deceptive advertising is illegal, and many deceptive or aggressive sales techniques seem to be frowned upon and limited to certain businesses such as used car dealerships.

On the web, deceptive and aggressive advertising and sales methods seem to be the rule rather than the exception.

I wonder what it would take to improve the situation?
This is such an disingenuous argument. Automated speed enforcement is impossible "because we built our country around cars"? Increases in power, weight and size that far outstrip any justifiable utility? Shapes that are demonstrably harmful to pedestrian survival but we continue to build them?
The interesting thing about the Magnus effect is that the lift goes up with the second power of the radius of the rotor, so twice as large gets you four times as much lift. The largest Magnus effect vehicle I know of was a huge sphere with the crew cabin hanging below it from the axle. The whole sphere was the lifting body.

The old OMNI magazine had an article wherein they calculated that you could put Magnus effect rotors on a bus and it would fly at (speeds as low as) 35mph.

I've had plans for years now to build large flying buildings (if I can get my act together I might eventually do it) using geodesic cellular kites and the Magnus effect. (Look up Alexander Bell's kites, and Bucky Fuller's "Cloud Nine" aerial city concept.)

- - - -

http://www.rexresearch.com/flettner/flettner.htm

http://www.rexresearch.com/skybow/mueller.htm

http://www.rexresearch.com/aero/1aero.htm#thompson

http://www.rexresearch.com/aero/1aero.htm#flettner

And I found some images but not the name of the upside-down-hair-band-sphere design on this blog post: https://steemit.com/airship/@everittdmickey/magnus-effect-ai...
Who is defaming who? One person using GPT to generate text that puts X into a bad light? Then the person using GPT is responsible they could just use string replace %victimname%.

Or GPT accidentally defaming someone? That assumes bad intent which is a bit problematic with a language model.

With made up contexts like this in the article it's easy to cry wolf.
"Privacy Zuckering" made me laugh. It's funny because it's true.
Where do Eels Come From?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23265000

7 months ago - one of my fave HN posts of all time!
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveill...

The vehicle was parked outside an AT&T Inc office, and the blast caused widespread telephone, internet and TV service outages in central Tennessee and parts of several neighboring states, including Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/tennessee-blast-idUSKBN2900C...
Why do cryptocurrency proponents bring up negative interest rates as a problem of conventional central banking?

“Hard” assets like gold and BTC by definition can’t be used for fractional reserve banking and instead must be warehoused (or you bury your good in the back yard and hope nobody steals it). Hence yiu are typically paying someone to warehouse your gold (there’s a fair amount of literature on this) or paying for a public wallet, rather than having the bank pay you. How is that any different from paying he central bank to sell you a bond?
Took a look at that.

It's better at being a text editor, in that you can click the text and edit it! (Sweet relief.)

But it's missing the world-info feature from AI Dungeon, and without that I don't think it's practical to write anything long-form.
What Is Inverter AC and How It Is Different from Non Inverter AC?
I believe it requires about 30 times more energy to reach orbit than to just reach the karman line.
Reminds me from email addresses, most sites are doing it wrong. *

There clearly should be a common library to take care of these things, which are way too complex for most of developers.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Examples
Capital Mistake Can Be Expensive
If you can recall text verbatim, the text has been encoded into your neurons’ connections. Tautologically.
I grew up in the 1980s. Back then, the year 2000 was a magical year where we'd have flying cars and live on the moon.

I've adjusted my expectations quite a bit due to the lack of mobility progress since then.
Thank you for sharing this. Even though it is a compliment for you and your project, it made my as a solo maker.
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)
How are you “paying for a public wallet” when you hold BTC?
How the hell do you accidentally get U.S. Citizenship? It's hard enough just getting a visa!
You pointing out two policy measures which are not according to the Austrian school doesn't invalidate the argument that the response was Austrian rather than Keynesian. The seizure of Gold was to prevent a further contraction in credit because the dollar was still on a gold standard. I'm not defending gold confiscations (nor am I in favor of a gold standard) but without this measure the crisis would likely have been even worse. The tariffs were politically motivated (to strengthen American manufacturers - neither Keynesian nor Austrian) and intended to stoke inflation.
I run a website with hundreds of documents simply explaining how I resolved issues. It keeps me going when people simply email me to say thank you.

As an example, one of my most popular pages is a set of instructions on how to install 20 year old sewing machine software, that requires hardware keys, on modern Windows machines.

https://www.joeldare.com/wiki/installing_husqavarna_3d_embro...
The typical London lifestyle for people with a respectable income -- tech money, not finance money -- is more like living in Zone 3 and working in Zone 1. I think there is a lot of proportionality between standard of lifestyle and income between London and expensive US cities, a similar level of income buying a similar lifestyle (adjusted for local context). A big difference is that high incomes are much more widely distributed across industries in the US than London. If you are a middle manager in a boring industry like publishing, you aren't going to get £150k in London but you can in the US, even outside the big cities. The diversity of people that can afford an upper-middle class lifestyle in the US is much greater. Even dialing back US standards of lifestyle to something contextually appropriate, the kind of work that affords a "comfortable" lifestyle is much narrower in London.

An under-rated feature of US cities is the diversity of occupations that can command relatively high incomes. London does this better than many European cities but it still has a long way to go. Living on a tech salary in London is a bit like living on a good non-tech salary in SF or Seattle. Comfortable in the abstract but there is visibly a tier of people that the city culture values much more.
Why not launch a bunch of larger payload tanker bays, empty, then link them together in orbit and then send Many smaller multiple regular trips to fill it up such that you have an orbital fueling station?
It’s not the ads it’s the lack of transparency on data collection and sharing.

If I want personalized ads, recommendations, etc, make it clear what data you’re collecting and for what purposes:

- Have me opt in

- let me see who you intend to share it with

- tell me what it’s used for

- let me inspect and delete the data as if I own it
It also depends what you're going for. It's true, if you want a career in the most prestigious silicon valley firms, they were interviewing recent CS grads at high prestige schools.

But outside of that world, I was honestly surprised how little it mattered that I didn't have a CS degree. In a lot of ways, if I saw how friends in other fields were progressing and what it took for them to get there, it was objectively easier to be an uncredentialed developer.

The broader point about stars aligning is absolutely correct.
> Trump lost the election, objectively.

Prove it.

I’ve yet to have anyone even try to factually address the irregular vote tallies in PA and other states — numbers so suspect, I’d report them as a financial auditor.

There’s unusual temporal, spatial, and similarity discontinuities that strongly indicate cheating occurred, particularly in battleground states. These are the same techniques we use to address fraud in industry.

- Temporal discontinuities are sharp spikes in the rate of vote tallying. There’s many of these, and huge ones in battle grounds after the media blackout.

- Spatial discontinuities are when adjacent precincts are wildly different (in a way unlike similar nearby differences).

- Similarity discontinuities happened in two forms: 1. similar races didn’t have similar voting patterns; 2. similar precincts behaved differently.

All three occurring together, and in “critical” races like Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, is a very strong indication of fraud.

I think you’re asserting your opinion as objective fact.
Also a pilot (and also annoyed by some drone operators). To me, this one didn't seem that egregious/bothersome. Virtually all of his operations in the video I watched were under 500' MSL (so below where even helos would be typically be operating and well below any fixed-wing operations).

When the FAA warns you and you decide to YOLO it, I don't cry for you when you get what they promised you, but a few hundred feet over cities is nothing compared to flying beyond visual contact at altitudes where airplanes are commonly traveling.
I recommend Directory Report as an alternative
http://www.file-utilities.com
I'm the same as you and I did use to work in an office setting. I'd just go outside and walk around the building. Sometimes I'd walk for an hour aimlessly around the city, just talking to myself like a lunatic.
> people who loaned that money

Yes. Thank you for the correction.

Countries have whole net of iou-s between them and debts are not always expected to be paid back in full.

Some money borrowed comes from private market that you can disregard completely if you decide it was a bad idea and don't intend to repeat it in the future.

Yes. Hyperinflation is a thing but I wonder how high (stable) inflation you could have by just printing new money and using it to finance budget directly while preventing banks from inflating money supply with credit.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think assuming that because there's some monetary debt now it will all have to be paid back in the future is wrong because that's not what eventually is going to happen.
Trying to cancel Amazon Prime is an example of Forced Continuity. IIRC , it shows at least two pages of features you will be missing by canceling. Followed up with an “are you really sure?” prompt with the feature list prominently displayed.
AstraZeneca did not conduct the study, Oxford did from the looks of it in relation to the half dose.

The independent regulator was aware at every stage and recommended they continue with trying the half dose trial. [1](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308216).
> The documents published in The Lancet confirm that the error lay with the Oxford researchers. A common emulsifier, polysorbate 80, used in vaccines to facilitate mixing, had interfered with the ultraviolet-light meter that measures the quantity of viral material, according to the documents. As a result, the vaccine’s viral concentration was overstated and Oxford ended up administering half doses of vaccine, believing they were full doses.

To recap, you need a way to know the vaccine concentration so that you can draw the correct amount from the vial when dosing patients. Oxford was using a technique called UV spectroscopy. Place a sample of liquid in a UV light beam with a source on one end and a detector on the other. The relationship between absorbance and concentration is linear. BUT: you have no idea what's absorbing the light - only that it's happening. If other materials that absorb at the same UV wavelengths are present, you'll think the concentration of what you're measuring was higher than it actually was.

According to the article, Polysorbate 80 (an "emulsifier" used to stabilize the vaccine) and the virus absorb at the same wavelength being used to quantitate the virus.

Someone, somewhere forgot to do take the absorbance of UV light by Polysorbate 80 into account. This led to overestimation of the concentration of virus present in the batch received from the manufacturer by 2x. This 2x too high concentration was then mistakenly used in the study to determine the volume of vaccine to administer to patients. The patents only got half of the dose they should have.

This is a fundamental error that no experienced chemist would ever make. If all of this is correct, I would immediately start thinking about other fundamental errors that may have occurred in the study.
Why the iPhone 12 Mini Isn't as Popular as Expected
There is nothing bad showing relevant ads, but thats not the point, this data can be used to manipulate you in many ways.

To get an idea how bad it is watch this Documentary on Netflix - The Social Dilemma
I agree testing is important and your historical perspective is illuminating. My question is: What happens if the FDA does a bad job? It has a monopoly. They have an incentive to deny everything. If they deny a new drug and people die, it's hard to blame them. If they approve a drug that's dangerous, they get egg on their face.
And everyone, literally everyone, must own fish-eye cameras.
Great to see Vito being mentioned, his blog is also full of super helpful guides! Keep the sharing and gratitude up, it boosts everyone :-)
That's the mode where SC2 shines. The Co-op isn't too bad, and the campaigns are good, but there are better games in these categories.
Adding Fukashima and dozens of nuclear tests. It's like we tried to chemo the ocean for 30 years.
They absolutely do change your dna. It's a man made crisper virus that infects your cells with protein making code. The author of this is ignorant or lying flat out.
Why is that a reason not to give under 55 year olds a half dose?
To second the others, "reaches" are the fastest. I forget why, but I suspect it's like gearing, less force, more distance, for the same amount of work.
The problem with California is that they tend to keep putting all their eggs in the same broken basket.
Sorry if this is a n00b question, but how does one go about getting a hold of the GPT-2 model? I know that GPT-3 is only available for consumption on a pay-per-use API model.
It’s my understanding that under our current scientific understanding of the mind, we cannot have “free will”. Where would it come from? All science knows is that neurons receive inputs from sensors, mixes them together (with some quantum randomness sprinkled in), and eventually actuates muscles to produce outputs, exactly as GPT.

Thus “free will” must come from some sort of faith. Either it was given to us by “God”, or we’re all part of some simulation and it exists on a level we don’t know about, or something else entirely too advanced for us to understand.
> post-Brexit easier immigration flux

Care to elaborate?
Their business model is connecting buyers with products and they are making bank which gives them strong influence.
I also recommend Kieślowski's "Przypadek" ("Blind Chance"):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084549/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxu7Z3uOLWg (full movie with English subtitles)
Well put. Comparison is a thief of joy.
When Seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position
Second paragraph: "She received automatic citizenship by being born on U.S. soil, but has no other connection to the country, having left as a baby."
I get that doing APIs right is hard and that when you're trying to release a proprietary product having to worry about what libraries every system comes with may be a struggle and that if you're developing a webapp you may want everyone to have a consistent test environment regardless of what flavour of archlinux they're running but I really do NOT want to have to spend 2 hours downloading 300GiB of software updates when OpenSSL wets the bed and has a critical vulnerability. The nice thing about libraries and shared objects is that when I get an email saying: "Critical CVE found in something important that may actually affect you" I want to be able to run an update command which fetches a few libraries including the vulnerable one, reboot and be back in business.

I also don't really care for the "we have so much space now" argument. I certainly don't, I don't put in expensive 2TB SSDs in my laptop because I don't need them, and I don't want half of my 500GiB disk to be taken up by giant blobs of unoptimized docker images for the same reason that I don't want to run 10 copies of chrome at the same time to use a text editor, an email client, a web browser, a media player, a debugger, the thing I'm writing, three chat clients, and a partridge in a pear tree. I have extra space and extra processing power on my computer so that a: I can use it for the things I actually want to use it for and b: so that I have a snappy machine which can take an unexpected load (be it disk load or processing load) without problems.
Being born in the US while your parents are here temporarily is the easiest way.
Thanks for sharing. That video to me indicates that he has a child-like blind love for his drones. I imagine he couldn't give up that love even as he got the letters from the FAA.
>and can't go back now.

We're going to have to: Less populated areas can't afford to maintain the infrastructure and more populated areas exceed roads in plains carrying individuals in cars ability to scale.
Here's an example of a $165,000,000 bitcoin transaction. Cost: about $1.20:

https://twitter.com/coinbeastmedia/status/133612299565221888...
I find myself imagining I'm giving a lecture to an audience about the subject or problem I'm studying. It gives me a new perspective and allows me to condense what I learnt so far. These exercises also helps improving communication with others, typically when I need to explain something.
Does it do anything but uppercase keywords? Is it going to add line breaks or indentation at some point?
I agree with your sentiment but the GP’s comment has a long lineage: readers’ digest condensed books, “bluffer’s guides” and the like, stretching back into antiquity.
More than Factrio, the logistics of combat I think is better handled in "Foxhole", but I am hearing that the community around it is slowly getting smaller.
I did the same a while ago with a really useful tool that had helped me save a lot of time [0].

I think it's a really good idea to provide thanks and gratitude like this because I know its very validating and motivational for someone to reach out and just say thanks.

This should be especially true for more niche projects that gather less recognition but you can still find very useful.

[0]: https://github.com/geoffreylitt/simple_recommender/issues/7
With the added benefit that many (like myself) may dig in and learn about the PROXY protocol for the first time. So doubly thanks for sharing this!
Today it’s just fine. I think a decade ago it was pretty risky but databases take 10 years to do properly.