skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I never understood why people get so upset over having a lot of messages in their logs. Just grep for whatever you're looking for.
Taking Viagra cuts the risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 69 percent
Huh, sounds like Dana Scully.
Pfizer's reaping 33billion on vax alone this year. Three guesses where that money comes from.
Let's consider that the question can be altered slightly to "how much private space can one single entity acquire?" Perhaps the current understanding of public/private is sufficient, e.g. "a private company can bar who it chooses, given that they do not violate some paradigm of protected classes, etc." The problem is that ONE entity owns a majority of a certain type of "space."

The redefinition would be to say, "once you own more than X% of something, it cannot be governed by existing rules about 'private' spaces?"
?? Build two separate product lines.
Nice example! A recent HN discussion centered on the "Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy" [0], which seems to oppose such situations. I'm not saying that "365 Outdoor Product" (the vendor listed at your Amazon link) is actually operated by Wurkkos, but why wouldn't manufacturers do something like this?

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G5TUVJKZHU...
>such a mechanism could not appear in any environment where ATP and the other nucleotides did not already exist.

What evidence is there that this is true
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Pfizer seems to be on a roll. As if Viagra users needed another excuse to use it. Viagra is set to be the new aspirin pill.
sure, security throu obscurity is somewhat valid as the attacker then has to discover the 'sudo admin account' instead of going for root directly
The person you are responding to is suggesting that a virtual space designed for public congregation should perhaps be designated as a public space.

It isn't that different from asking if a shopping mall is a public space and the courts have sometimes said "yes". See:

https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2016/05/aa-shopping-cent...
In many countries where vaccination rates are very high (think of Spain, Portugal...) the infection cases have been increasing yet people in the hospital or deaths caused by/with the virus have been rather low. Attribute it to vaccines, natural immunity, a potentially weaker variant - or everything at the same time but my point is: I agree with you, at least when it comes to these highly-vaccinated countries.

I wish we would just stop looking at infection rates as it's never going to change as long as the virus exists (and continues to mutate) and/or a sterilizing vaccine of sorts shows up and people take it.
Not an immunology expert, but the focus on antibody titers seems to reek of corporate conflict of interest. It's pretty well understood that antibodies will break down and mostly fall to undetectable levels after a few months of an infection (in most cases, and in individuals who actually produce antibodies, not everyone will such as immune-compromised people) , but there's a huge financial incentive for vaccine producers to focus on these studies because it paints the picture that people need continuous boosters for protection. That being said, it's harder to detect other forms of immunity such as memory T and B cells, so it's not like the studies are completely disingenuous, it's just easier to do the studies that way.

At this point in the pandemic, I think full immunity shouldn't be the goal for most individuals. COVID and it's variants are never going away, so unless you are high risk, live with someone who is high risk, or travel a lot, the first round of vaccinations should be good enough to prevent serious illness in most individuals for a long time, at least until a variant that changes the spike protein enough comes around. At which point, to my understanding, the efficacy of most vaccines will drop significantly below natural infection, as most target specific protein structures on the virus capsid (in this case, the "spike protein").
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Oh, there's a TON of unaddressed externalities.

Let's just fuck up everybody's nervous systems for profit! WHEE!
Ask HN: What should a beginner learn in the first 500 hours in your field?
Hey HN, when I reflect on my own study in college or learning during early career, I feel if I am to do it all over again, while the effort is likely to to remain the same, knowing what the core concepts are and what to pay attention to would still be of great help.

Thus I wonder in the area of your expertise, what would you recommend a beginner to study/learn/do in the first 100, 200, 500 hours?

- What are the core concepts that one should understand first?

- What are some of the small projects that one can do in the first 500 hours?

- How would you design your own curriculum?

Thanks!
> I also have a Gab account if anyone is interested in a more informal route of communication.
The best thing for me (which is terrible for the environment) is the ease of returns. Free returns on just about everything and i don't have to pack it, just drop it off at the Whole Foods down the street.
Yes, there's been some research in that direction, of course I can't find the link right now ... If I remember right, core result was that using the other mRNA for booster doesn't hurt and might provide a small benefit.
Regulatory capture is not inefficiency, it is an extremely efficient result of a system designed to serve capital. At some point we have to stop pretending like we aren’t successfully achieving what our economy is optimized for.
My understanding is that there is poor evidence that any of the vaccines cause a statistically significant increase in blood clots over any other vaccine-- that the act of getting an immunization can (very rarely) trigger a blood clot regardless of what it is and COVID just happens to be in the hyper-sensitive spotlight.
The intense antagonism towards any criticism of the reality of corporate collusion with the news media and Wall Street on HN leaves me confused and depressed.

The moment to have any critique against capitalism there is an invisible vocieless army of downvoters to suppress any chance for reality to invade the bubble of libertarianism on here. I get it, this is hosted on a capitalist funding platform, just do not pretend this is a refuge for inquiring thought.

You really think this does not happen, that people on Wall Street do not get inside information before the rest of you suckers get it?
The United States government gave up on enforcing deceptive advertising a very long time ago.

Maybe the EU will do something about it, but of course, those changes will not make it to US consumers.
It was already on the scale of a cold approximately for some 90%+ of people. This virus is mild or asymptomatic in the vast majority of cases and that has been apparent for a long time. The only possible justification for vaccines at this point is to minimize overloading of hospitals because of the contagious nature of the virus, the overall complication rate is still very low.

>anti-vaxxers (among a lot of things with them). They don't want the shots because a) COVID is just a flew (and simultaniously a deadly bio weapon the Chinese spread in order to win a global economic war...)

Maybe the problem is that people who are against covid vaccines are being a) slandered as anti-vaxxers and b) lumped in with all sorts of other conspiracists.
The change in Go is that professionals now play more AI-like stuff, basically the same opening moves, and that's fairly boring to watch. It's the best sequences of moves we have so far, but also everyone knows them and isn't interested.

Another change is that territory is more valued than influence now, which too makes games less fun to watch, at least in my experience. To my knowledge, Shibano Toramaru, professional Go player, used to play highly focused on influence, and his games were very interesting to watch; it was just spectacular. But after AlphaGo came he converted to focus on territory like everyone else, only occasionally letting his beast out. But I watched only a few videos on him so don't take my word; it's just my impression.
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Twitter ought to suspend its artificially amplifying algos.

The only things they’re not happy about is news they don’t agree with is getting engagement.

I.e. “you’re holding it wrong.”[1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/amp
The new mascot for the baseball team that we never knew that we wanted but have waited all our lives for it.

If we could only convince teenagers to use less weapons and more weapenguins in schools would be a incredibly useful study.
With another device that takes pictures

I’m glad I’m privileged enough to have multiple devices with cameras

Its a low bar, but I was told to check my privilege and I do love doing that now
The problem is, for this to work the API itself must be cross-platform, which means it's either an incomplete abstraction (exposes many options, only some of which are implemented on a given platform), overly restricting (lowest common denominator leading to suboptimal performance and restricted development agility on advanced platforms), or not really cross-platform (supports one platform well but others are inefficient -- might as well use a virtual appliance).

In reality the API is part of the core logic except for purely computational services and therefore all core logic can rarely be fully encapsulated.
A bit late to the party, but you have written excellent documentation at https://hubris.oxide.computer/reference/. It immediately answered the questions I had after reading 'Animats several comments on IPC. This is particularly impressive since "right now we are laser focused on shipping Oxide's product": I, at least, often don't prioritize documentation.
despite all this, twitter is still the source where you can find "dissident" voices who speak for themselves. For example with the whole discussion wrt to vaccines, all other sources do some inane level of "censoring" which has no rhyme or reason. HN generally avoids the subject due to politics, reddit allows its $0/month moderators to do whatever the fuck they want, FB ewww i wont even go there, what's left?

For me twitter is the only source where i can subscribe to people who aren't passionate, aren't constantly preaching, and aren't afraid to present their side of the story (they exist, you just have to find them by aggressive elimination)
You’re arguing over definition. “Out of the ground” implies processing/refinement. Once it’s truly out of the ground it’s stored in a vault in elemental form or something similar.

Look it’s the internet. I know we all want to pretend that we’re super pedantic lawyers. Oh wait. I never agreed to those terms.
Not to be too pedantic, but isn't "addiction" essentially a state of having adjusted to something to a point where its removal causes some level of distress?
I cannot feel outraged that Russia wants to sell its natural resources at the highest price.

But according to media propaganda Putin should literally be giving it away for free.
Russia is using oil and gas for making € and as a geopolitical tool. As every sovereign country does.
It's their gas for crying out loud they can do with it whatever they want!
Funny, I thought I was the only one feeling this way. Wikipedia converged toward generic / dry textbook.

And reading old books, or even encyclopedia, there was a clear human element.. a semi cohesive narrative that made discovery a lot better.

Maybe for people who already know enough, wikipedia can be a good source of extension.
Not quite the best phrase I'll admit. It's identifying the best fit. That's not the same as identifying truth. For instance, my recollection is that bwa-mem has (had?) some small amount of nondeterminism in it.
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Can I build a robot with this?
> a poor kid in USA still has everything they need to get to top 10%

Generally, after a lifetime of honest, hard work, you'll make it 1, maybe 2 tax brackets higher than your parents. To make it further than that you have to be especially talented, lucky, or both.

I just looked it up: as of 2016, 7.5% of kids born in the bottom quintile make it to the top quintile, so it is indeed possible, though quite rare. [1]

I think your basic sentiment is right, though you'd probably need to insert one more generation: a poor kid has everything they need to make it to the middle class and live a not-poor life, a middle class kid has everything they need to make it to the top 10%, and a top 10% kid has everything they need to become fabulously wealthy.

The poor -> middle class leap is probably more difficult than any of the others.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...
Even the strong 'in a perfect theoretical world' version only says;

> The theorem states that if trade in an externality is possible and there are sufficiently low transaction costs, bargaining will lead to a Pareto efficient outcome regardless of the initial allocation of property.'

Key phrase there being 'Pareto efficient' which basically means 'without addressing the initial starting point inequality'.

I'm also not sure what your last claim is about, it sounds like a garbled version of 'you need inequality to progress' which is a common trope, but not actually backed by any logic as far as I can tell, or even fleshed out enough to escape from the 'not even wrong' category.
> twitter told the user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information".

When will twitter ban itself?
Not true! We have no personal need for control over our information, as the utter lack of legal protections for personal privacy and personal information collection make abundantly clear. And works? Are you kidding me? Have you seen a typical corporate IP assignment agreement? This has nothing to do with persons (which the laws are making increasingly clear are irrelevant), and everything to do with corporations and their shareholders.
One trick is to use scrcpy then make the screenshot with your computer instead
Because even though I have my issues with GLSL and the way Khronos manages the ecosystem, at least GLSL has a history of an existing ecosystem that one can ping back into.

HLSL is the other big candidate, from DirectX, while Metal uses a C++14 based dialect.

Meanwhile on game consoles the shading languages are somehow flavours of either GLSL or HLSL.

WGSL, because of politics (Apple or whatever), is a mix of C++, Rust and HLSL, with a non-existing ecosystem, where they are still half way definig how the language is suppose to actually look like.
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Grandstanding is typically meant to reach the masses. Are the masses interested in this kind of letter?

Letters are not an ideal medium to change things via ethical grandstanding. Most people just aren't concerned with what random strangers write to large companies. Grandstanding may have a role in effecting change, especially political change, and letters may play a role in a larger grandstanding campaign led by someone with an influence and following — but in the era of the Internet and television, it is often an ancillary role.

The more successful campaigns of grandstanding via letters have often included strongly principled letters with sharp yet carefully restrained language. The contents of such a letter are published as a full-page ad in a major newspaper such as the New York Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal. Ideally, they will be signed by credible authors, often many of them.

Something like this: http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/cato_stimulus.pdf

Or this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chomsky/comments/oq9su1/let_cuba_li...

But even these have had limited direct impact. What hope does your letter have?

If your grandstanding target is more specific than the general public, the question still remains: will this letter reach and affect them?
I believe the OP was saying buying direct is easier (more likely to get the item you want), not necessarily cheaper.
By their own data, it’s less effective against Delta than the targeted strain. And the massive spike in excess deaths within heavily vaccinated states/countries this past fall was a pretty good sign we would have benefitted from an updated vaccine.
That’s not necessarily true. If you suddenly start testing low risk people you weren’t testing before, then you can get an increase in cases without necessarily an increase in death.

For example, if you implement a travel rule that every traveler needs to get tested a day before they leave and a day after they arrive, then you’re going to see an increase in cases (both real and false positives).
I used to go to Amazon to find a larger variety and higher quality goods than my local stores stocked.

Now it feels like wal-mart where price is all that matters and quality isn’t even a consideration.

So much stuff that is $2 cheaper but just garbage…

And the more expensive stuff just is priced more but still garbage.

Sometimes I feel like I have to buy two or three things from Amazon before I find one that isn’t terrible or counterfeit.
Are you saying Twitter banned this group because there was already other people reporting on the topic? Is that a standard in the TOS, that “First!” is an actionable internet rule?
Yet we have the same people who advocate censorship decry the CCP for censorship of the Internet in China. Let's make the Internet safe for the elites and protect the masses from disinformation and misinformation.
Mentioning blockchain on HN? That's quite daring!
Near everything about marketing is artificially amplifying information. Most of the time we just call it "click bait" and "SEO". If what the user did was use fake accounts and bots, the reasoning should be "using fake accounts and bots".
> Vaccines are better and less risky than having your naive immune system deal with covid.

Agreed. However, many people are not in that position. For those who have been infected but not vaccinated, they have experienced immune systems and must evaluate information from that starting point.
Dammit, with a headline like that we need pictures of camels in swimsuits.

Their absence clearly shows this article is published by an ab-human conglomeration of bots as an act of journalistic malpractice.
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Good luck finding proper brands in the search results. Four times out of five, weird names that I've never heard of dominate the results to the point where it's impossible to filter for a known brand.
My work has brought me to live in a few different cities in Europe for a year or so.

You might be trying to compare it to countries with unhealthy eating habits.

Swedish people are definitely a little chunkier, on average, compared to their Mediterranean neighbors. Not FAT, but a little wider. Now there's genetics there, as well as cultural difference, cuisine differences, etc... so any conclusion would need to be tested.
Less a business plan than a coherent economic policy.
"reputable", no less.
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hell yeah, i'm gonna try that. thanks
Anything that is not PAKE (which SSH is not) generally sends the password to the server:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agr...

* https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-tal...

A Password-Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) attempts to address this
issue by constructing a cryptographic key exchange that does not
result in the password, or password-derived data, being transmitted
across an unsecured channel.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8125

I'm sure there are other zero-knowledge protocols besides PAKE-like ones, but I'm not an expert here.
Government IT using AWS is fine. Using it for safety critical things like railways is a lot more of an issue. What if there's any kind of latency etc?
With which engineers, managers, etc? Intel has long faced the same issues, they want their best R&D on x86 CPU’s so they had major issues expanding into other product lines.
Hospital beds were "maxed out" before the pandemic. [0] at around 64%. They are sitting at around 78% on average now, with hard hit areas at around 80-85% according to your link. These are almost all at-risk and unvaccinated people. That's my point. If mandates and lockdowns are based on case counts instead of actual dire outcomes, then I fear we're going to continue seeing strange policies and laws for people at little to no risk, namely children and the vaccinated.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200326/us-hospital-beds-we...
This. For all the economic hoovering Amazon does, it's amazing to me how much the shopping experience sucks. Search results are inundated with sponsored placements, knock-offs abound, countless fake reviews, they're always pushing 3rd party sellers, and lastly I still don't understand Prime's 2 day shipping guarantee (except when it doesn't).
oh yeah thats a point, t-cells will only be able to react to the things that they've seen
I'm not so sure about that. Perhaps during the hobbyist era of PCs, this was the case. But, I distinctly remember a world during the "dominance" of the PC that forced me to work with proprietary software just to be able to type out a document. There was really only one choice of computer to buy and one kind of OS to run on it. It was really hard to use a different OS on your computer, and it was risky too, since PC manufacturers would often not honor warranties if non-proprietary OS/software was used on the computer.
Just plant the memory of you watching the movie, no need to make any actual movies at all. The copyrighter's dream.
I don't translate the possibility of someone being infected into my personal attitude toward them. I go out of my way to be nice to service industry people, and tip them extra-well too.
I opened an account 3 weeks ago and had pretty much the same experience. But.. then I unfollowed every verified account and topic, and it got much better. Once you find a few accounts you like it's easier to find more.

Since then I've discovered many cool resources and been invited to niche dev communities. It's too early to say if it's worth it yet but I would say yes if I can grow to a few hundred followers. (At that point you have supported to boost product hunt launches, people to give feedback, amplify your support issues, etc)
99% of the "local" people leading the way are just western charlatans.
We should have the data to study that since some countries decided to wait longer between doses. The UK and Canada focused on getting as many first-doses into arms as possible before folks were eligible for a second jab.
Giving people more money (i.e tie wages to increase in productivity) is demand side economics.

Supply side economics is increasing the amount of available goods regardless of demand. The lagging wages are mitigated by credit, i.e. debt.
I think Hacker News - or at least the many posts and positive comments about Rust here were a factor in this milestone.
The argument also quickly turns into blaming the victims.
Hi HN,

The rise of GPT language models is making a lot of people start to experiment with using them for text generation and general problem solving for language tasks. This is a guide to get you started in thinking about prompts. Hope you find it useful. All feedback is appreciated.
Sage advice. This is really more suited to IRC but ssh is something everyone has readily available.
It has a much lower barried to entry.
Isn't a specific effort required to have [port] forwarding? I don't think anyone will do it accidentally, even were I nefarious.
In other words, if you don't know what "forwarding" is, then you don't have to worry.