skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people who still believe the dossier is real. I just stay quiet since it is a career killer to argue these things from certain angles.
or...

we could use space rocks to heat water.

just saying.
> When a superhuman AI plays chess, the moves usually make sense to an expert. And even if they don't immediately make sense, they usually make sense once the expert plays out some lines to see what happens.

Do you actually play chess? Half the moves made by an AI at 3500+ ELO (e.g. Stockfish 13+) is completely alien to even a human super GM like Nakamura or Carlsen. It's actually the most reliable and used way to know whether someone is cheating or not, if the moves don't make sense to high level players, then it's very probably someone using an engine.

> And here I think we see the same thing: although a superhuman AI 'understands' chess better than human experts, its understanding is still leverages the same concepts.

That is very far from being a truth that lots of chess experts would agree on. Most chess players at high level reason with similar, well established concepts, such as tempo, positions, baits, color dominance, etc.

Super AIs don't use these concepts, and it's obvious when you see their moves. They often break tempo abruptly, disregard color dominance, enter what looks like dangerous positions,etc.
At some point if you are light-emitting you're going to be captured. May need to turn yourself into a blackbody, i.e. hide under sheets.
He has strong social anxiety if it's even more than a moderately sized group of people. But very much at home and happy when it's a small group of people he knows well, or one-on-one.

The same is true for both my brother and myself... I have a number of quite close friends, yet my preferred interaction is one-on-one.

Couldn't agree more that it's strong social connections that bring purpose. He's struggling on that front being out of school, but school brings other troubles.

(The other aspect of purpose is a sense of achievement in one's work... that's a struggle too.)
odd timing, this just up: https://cron.com/
Not for lack of people being willing to take the vaccination though.

People look at risks and benefits and generally make their minds up pretty rationally, if you account that not everybody values things exactly the same as you do.

Covid is really not that much of a risk if you're otherwise healthy and the vaccines are not highly effective as the smallpox one is (in fact stated definitions of vaccine had to be revised so it would not be excluded). The absolute risk reduction is just not all that high, and some people are disinclined to jump to getting new therapies without much long term data.

You see the rational behavior play out when you look at vaccinations by age. 98% of people over 65 in the US have had one dose and 86% have had two. Because that's where the risk gets higher. Elderly people are not vastly better educated, smarter, less susceptible to propaganda, or lean toward political ideologies that are more inclined to take it, or have significantly easier access to it.

It's just that they get more benefit from the vaccine and they understand that and act accordingly.

If there was an especially transmissible smallpox epidemic killing 30% of people who contracted it and a vaccine that provided lasting immunity to 95% of people who took it, 99.something% of people would take it I bet.
It is all original code, but he didn't write all of it, there are lots of contributors at this point
Be My Ears:System wide live captions in browser, Zoom, Teams
What motivate BeMyEars？

I work with a colleague who is hearing impaired.
He is an amazing guy, we collaborate well for 7 years.
One day when we were communicating on Slack, I sent him my favorite video link, and he say it has not been subtitled.
Suddenly I realized that I was ashamed of my unintentional offensive behavior.
I wondered if I could do something to help him.
At the same time, I often experience the benefits of captioning when I watch YouTube videos,
but I often find that many valuable videos are not captioned, especially for not-so-popular videos and I feel sorry for them.
Therefore, I wanted to have software that could generate subtitles in real-time from the sound in the system.
Aws rejected my prepaid card with an error 'no prepaid cards allowed" Do they allow that now?
Covid and smallpox are very, very different.
It is a stretch to call it a bad fire. One of the battery containers caught fire, and caused a second to be lost for reasons I don't know. The fire didn't spread, did not destroy the facility and did not require extensive downtime for repairs. Which is pretty nice to know as the fear was that one spark would send the whole facility up in a fireball.
At the time there was a severe shortage of even surgical masks, so it was a very good decision to ensure medical professionals have a plentiful supply. The panic/hoarding of masks would have endangered their lives in March and April of 2020. Note how the advice on mask wearing took a steep turn right around the time the supply issues were essentially resolved. Not a coincidence.
You mean aside from 70+ years of a dictatorship, mass corruption on both sides, the KMT lording over for most of the country's existence, and having this ex-dictatorship force still being the major political player (with huge amassed wealth to boot), or having local goverment issues being drawn in the pro/anti China partsian noise?
One thing that regularly bothers me about Linux, is how janky it is to parse fields out of the procfs. Using JSON makes so much more sense!
I recall seeing signs in windows like "Staff needed, Malays need not apply" etc
This is what Zelle is for. It was made by banks for small amounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle_(payment_service)
Ipfs is kinda junkware though, given its age and lack of basic features. I had a lot more patience with the unpolishedness 5 years ago, but at this point a greenfield implementation with none of the same people might be the best way forward.

Unfortunately the foul smell seems to be coming from the direction of ethereum.. like the devs have an incentive to keep e.g. discoverability crippled so that ethereum is less useless. shrug
Looks a lot like Haiku OS.
If we can get it be unleaded in the air - and perhaps a little less loud… I live on a river and also a jet path. It’s like a freeway at night and also the residue from the jet exhaust is rather annoying to clean off the boat…
I have zero interest in taking the COVID "vaccines", but I'd take the smallpox vaccine in a heartbeat if it was coming back.

They're not remotely the same thing. The former drops to less than 50% effectiveness after six months, the latter eradicated the disease.
You’re completely discounting the whole economic shutdown, masking, and social distancing that took place with COVID? Even with that, it was 2.3-5.3 deadlier in your estimation.

With those countermeasures, the flu season last year was “unusually low throughout the 2020-2021 flu season both in the United States and globally, despite high levels of testing … The low level of flu activity during this past season contributed to dramatically fewer flu illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths compared with previous flu seasons. For comparison, during the last three seasons before the pandemic, the proportion of respiratory specimens testing positive for influenza peaked between 26.2% and 30.3%. In terms of hospitalizations, the cumulative rate of laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations in the 2020-2021 season was the lowest recorded since this type of data collection began in 2005. For pediatric deaths, CDC received one report of a pediatric flu death in a child during the 2020–2021 flu season. Since flu deaths in children became nationally notifiable in 2004, reported flu deaths in children had previously ranged from a low of 37 (during 2011-2012) to a high of 199 (during 2019-2020).“

It’s apples to oranges, but I’d take the Flu over COVID. Because we do have natural immunity and we do have better established vaccines for it.

[1] From the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm#...
It's worth emphasizing the specific commitment to "permanently remove myself from online life." Rather than live up to that commitment and allow Harris to move on, Freddie has decided not only to remain Extremely Online but to keep re-hashing the situation over and over again. It certainly undermines the original apology, and make Harris look like a chump for being so graceful about it.
My wife is Singaporean with Indian heritage, and from what she's told me I think it's because Chinese Singaporeans don't like Indians.
> “ The assumed audience is subscribers who know roughly what Web3 is supposed to be”

In other words, the prerequisite is that you already believe web3 is a real technology and not just bs.

Really, why are developers wasting their time? Plenty of real “decentralised web” technologies and opportunities are begging for your acquaintance!
I think another big part of it is, the conspiracy theorists only need one paper that agrees with them to instantly say the gazillions of papers that disagree with them are wrong. So even one redacted paper is more important to them than all other scholarship.
The thing I love is the idea of atomic transactions. What does that mean? Well the transfer of a ticket for money could be a single transaction. No ticket without money, no money without ticket. Sure, you could use some tech to do this - maybe rely on Paypals guarantees to get your money or ticket back if the other person is fraudulent. But how do you guarantee the ticket is authentic? Well I can include a verification step in the transaction to only send my money if the ticket is valid with a smart contract. Now you have a peer-to-peer trustless safe method of trading tickets with strangers. The ticket providers can mint x tokens for a release and enable a safe resale market while users can feel safe buying and selling tickets online.
Ask HN: Have tried switching career to a different field as software developer?
Hello HN,

I would love to hear you experience if you have tried switching your career to a different field especially Investment Banking or PE.
Or even tried something like sales or product management.

If so what have been trade offs and how were you able to adapt
Had the same because of using Nix. A file was mounted from an Amazon Linux 2 VM into a Nix-based container, and ran into this exact problem.

One of the more interesting debugging adventures I had.
they were common for a bit in the 2000s (mostly with kids), then seemed to go away for a while

they were very easy to spot as they didn't have the raised digits (for the imprinting machine... old fashioned offline transaction)

now they're coming back again, but still not super common
> Nixon resigned because he broke the law.

No, Nixon resigned because he (or, rather, his party) had done a whip count and knew he would be removed from office.

(Now, sure, that was because other people were not prepared to accept the manner in which he had broken the law, but Nixon absolutely did not resign because he broke the law.)
Equipment costs are not exactly costs. They are investments that can be amortized over many years. Cooking utensils are not free but they last a lifetime, sometimes longer. I have pans and pots from my grandmother; and old gear is often better than new gear.

If one has money then spending it is good, of course. The question is, what are we willing to give up to get more money, and for what. I would argue time is infinitely more precious than money, above a threshold -- but the threshold is very low.
It's much harder to figure out what's going wrong with closed source software. And even if I do figure it out, I'm powerless to change the situation.

Actually, the source can lie since the compiler could be buggy. The disassembly won't, and if you see the equivalent of 1+1=3 then you know you probably have stumbled upon a hardware bug. A hex editor is your friend; you can spend hours or even days on trying to figure out how to compile the thing correctly with all its dependencies and not change something else, or a few seconds to minutes finding what bytes to change.
That's not what that chart is saying.

That's the coupon rate paid by a bond bought at that time (in the late 90s the bonds paid a real return of 3%, which when added to the current 7.12% inflation rate gives a nominal return of 10.12% for the next 6-months).

The rate of those bonds was 3.5% just a month ago, and historically averages around 2%.
Why can't we produce hydrogen, store it, and generate power with it?

I imagine the cost of hydrogen storage is significantly less than batteries, thereby offsetting the reduced efficiency of turning solar power into electricity. The main issue we have with solar is storage for when the sun isn't out.
>Lyme disease is believed to have originated from Plum Island,

Wait, what?!
> the Ethereum Virtual Machine, humming heart of Web3, is a computer that charges you many dollars to execute a very small program very slowly.

So did physical computers, in the beginning.
That’s something different than the usual sales pitch of being able to use your items in another game, and it still makes no sense to involve an NFT. Why would EA give some of your money to a third-party now to potentially help one of their competitors in the future? If they want to setup a business deal, they’ll do it directly and avoid paying the middleman.
It isn’t hard to make a mask. Distributing instructions so everyone could make their own would have saved lives.
> ... let us know what could be clicked or right-clicked ...

Oh my gosh, yes. This is what drives me to distraction with recent Android releases. I'm tapping on things in the battery settings menu that used to do something, but no, not anymore.

Seriously, what is so damn awful about having some visual indication of what is a button?
Manhattan is the worst example to compare to. You can now, in literally any suburb, get a ride on demand in 10 minutes or less. I used to have to book a taxi or figure out how to chain multiple buses to get to where I wanted if I was going across town in a suburb.
I have been using linux for decades without any need to revert to Microsoft windows ... No excuses hold water on any org to continue to cowtow to "requiring Microsoft windows"
Most Europeans know the US better, and have a better grasp of its politics and even which states is which, than the majority of Americans who can't even name their own Vice President.

And this is not some pop culture instilled notion, but my empirical observations on the ground. Heck, I've talked with too many people who didn't even know the major cities in their own state, 100 miles away from their town, or major parts of its own history, and might as well never even left their county...
Just to play devils advocate, without knowing the exact details of the OP's product: you provide an electronic map, much like a subway map, of trauma centers with minimum necessary details, like only through streets and clearly labeled names which makes it effortless to plan, at a glance, the shortest route. Great. If they take what looks like the shortest route and hit road construction or traffic, they won't hesitate to analyze the situation on the spot and reroute if they believe it the better bet.

But now you add some helpful little details--a colored route from A to B with a label, "5 minutes drive time". Now they reach the obstruction. Will they immediately assess the situation as they see it, or will they believe that "5 minutes" already accounts for the time necessary to pass the obstruction, thus hesitating under the false belief that the electronic map is using hidden information?

EDIT: Note that this situation describes the error in the CDC's mask decision as discussed in the article. What the CDC should have said at the time was that it wasn't going to mandate masks because it lacked confidence in its information regarding mask advocacy and efficacy. Instead what the CDC did was affirmatively tell people not to wear masks. If gave people too much detail and implied that it knew more than it really did. We can argue over whether the CDC should have known that masks were beneficial, but I think most can agree that they should have been more careful about giving false confidence either way. People aren't stupid, but they are easily misled, and once misled they'll continue rationalizing the direction they're headed. That describes not only how people responded to the CDC guidance but to the CDC itself--its false confidence in the poor 1960s-era aerosol experiments that claimed more than it actually proved.

Misleading information is poisonous. First rule: "do no harm". That's paramount over the responsibility to affirmatively help people.
We've managed to integrated it well into our software for resumes with positive user feedback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxk9S2CRsAE&ab_channel=Rezi
CNN tried Tesla's 'full self-driving' mode on NYC streets. It didn't go great
> Possibly, but as more renewable energy sources come online, the problem is going to change from "can we produce enough energy?" to "is the energy available at the right time and place?".

This is the most important point of the economics of renewables. Eg, I think Toyota was too early and applied to the wrong industry (personal vehicles), but not wrong.

For example, burning diesel for electricity (which is done a lot in remote areas and as backup) is really expensive, even just looking at the point of generation and not the externalities. If renewable electricity generation is hovering around the 2c per kWh mark, even with all the losses, H2 starts to make a lot of sense for a lot of energy intensive industries. Even more so when the electricity used to generate it was never going to get even sell for that price because it just wasn't needed.

Renewables have an economic problem currently where every solar panel and wind turbine added to an electricity network will have a lower ROI than previous ones due to their intermittent nature, lowering the return of older assets as well. As their use grows, this problem will get worse and generators will have this large earning potential with an asset generating wasted energy, with a life span measured in several decades. Long tail, lots of opportunity to do more with those assets.
what about fiber-optics to direct light from a pin-hole? would the entrance of the fiber-optics cable be detectable this way?
Then they'd have a signature of reflecting less than surrounding. In the long long run, probably more robust to detect the entropy generated by computation in a physical area (i.e. heat) and not the optics.
Do you have any thoughts on my view expressed above that stimulants allow one to focus... but if that focus is (mis)directed towards something negative it can cause bigger issues than it solves? I'm curious about what differed between you and your brother's situation.

For instance, I still struggle with procrastination at work and avoiding starting tasks... I can often take my dose and then proceed to hyperfocus on social media for hours on end. But once I am working, it's great. I first noticed the impacts of the meds when I could actually enjoy just playing with the kids and not constantly battle with feeling like I should be doing something else.
Yes. I really got the impression that Dr. Tam and the other experts were throwing "civilians" under the bus to keep the n95 masks for the medical profession.

The criminal part is downplaying airborne transmission risks so your "no masks" story doesn't fall apart.

At one point, ER Docs and Nurses were wearing goggles, face shields, double masking (n95 + surgical masks) and experimenting with microwaving the n95s for reuse and Dr. Tam was STILL saying there was no proof it was airborne.
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I would question that assumption but regardless of relative risks, why would any thinking country want to increase the number of intoxicated drivers on the highway which decriminalization will surely do? Why legalize another vice, particularly one which causes lung damage[1], causes neurological and cognitive harm, is generally demotivating, anti-social and can lead to depression [2] ? You don't see this in China. [3]While the west sits back and smokes their weed China will only be too happy to kick its butt economically, militarily, and technolgically. What a sad and wasteful future we deliberately build.

[1]https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/smoking-facts/health-effec...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/smoking-too-much-...
[3] https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/countries/cannabis-in-china-l...
Getting rid of timezones would be a massive, international, almost fruitless undertaking.

Think about the effort it would take to make the US use metric coloquially, times 195, just to gain what, the certainty that there is a single timezone instead of several? Also, who gets to decide what time it "actually" is, and why? UTC has roots in 19th century british colonialism, which doesn't hold that much weight today.

If we can't coordinate a worldwide vaccination campaign to combat a demonstrably deadly virus, exactly what absolutely massive event would cause the world to agree on getting rid of a perfectly serviceable, if annoying, timekeeping strategy?
"The authorities were lying to us" is not a very reassuring take but it's more reassuring than the truth, that in enormous part they're incompetent, actively dangerous morons. See how the FDA banned KN95s, how the CDC stopped the Seattle Flu Study from testing for COVID, the CDC's banning non-CDC laboratories from testing for COVID while itself screwing up tests, the endless delays with approving things like fractional dosing, boosters, neither using the AZ vaccines nor giving them away. At least they didn't get in the way of Operation Warp Speed too much.
onchain smart contract execution is a fundamentally broken concept. Everyone acknowledges this in the move to rollups and other "second layers" that execute offchain and then publish zero-knowledge proofs to the chain.
I think it would be kind of cool if we all get stuck where we were and couldn't use air travel anymore due to no fossil fuels. Maybe I just like retro stuff too much.
He's not innocent, by his own admission
I have my gripes with Monzo’s business model and over-engineering (though that applies to most VC-backed startups nowadays) but security is quite important and this seems like a sane strategy of managing root certificates.
> diet soda (what if people chug the stuff and it makes the obesity epidemic worse?).

Isn't that one true though? Anecdotally, since the introduction of the stuff Americans have only gotten fatter. It makes intuitive sense to me that artificial sugars also contribute to insulin resistance, increasing the risk of diabetes. And while for any X you can pretty easily find nutrition studies that say "X kills you" and "X makes you live longer", it's not too hard to find studies linking diet soda to obesity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498394/
When it becomes not true if you explicitly add the words that the speaker knows the listener inferred in the communication context. In your example, those implied words are "The reason I was late is".

The difficulty is in agreeing on or proving what those words were in that specific context, and whether the speaker knew it. It could instead of a case of mismatched assumptions based on different cultural backgrounds, which you see addressed in a lot of advice about working in other countries.
>"They get a predictable cost over time, rather than large costs every now and then."

For the software I buy one time price is often about the same as the annual subscription. With perpetual license however I often do not upgrade for years. So the perpetual licensing is a clear winner for me. I understand that SAAS can make sense for other customers but it is their choice not mine. I just simply do not buy software without perpetual license. It ruffles my feathers in a bad way.

Of course I am not talking about services where monthly payment is a natural state like Netflix.