skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend in the UK facing 14 years in jail for 'online hate', his lawyers say realistically he'll get 2-4 years. As far as I know all he did was some harmless albeit ill-informed 'shit-posting'.

I don't condone, support or endorse his behavior but shoving him into the prison-industrial complex for most of his adult life just for some dumb memes is insane. Meanwhile murders, crimes, rapes, pedophile rings, drug dealers etc are all just conveniently ignored.

I think part of the problem is when you have 'metrics' you need to hit you start going for the low-hanging fruit.
It's also weirdly not mentioned in the article - the lack of any of this type of feedback, especially considering it's about building a home in the Canadian woods.

(Love your username, btw)
I had the same problem with spending too much time in Warcraft 3 in college.

I dunno if I'd say that I was depressed, exactly, but I was feeling overwhelmed by my classes. Like many of us here, I'd had a very easy time in high school, and I was unused to classes that would seriously challenge me, where it would be a struggle to learn some of the content. That, combined with new freedom (I was several hundred miles away from home, and my parents had been fairly sheltering/controlling) did not make for a disciplined student, and I ended up getting academically suspended.

Came back several years later with my head on straight and retook the various classes I failed, mostly getting A's. Was actually getting an academic scholarship from my GPA by my last semester.
> I admit it is possible I'm just unable to see the value of these things, but I also have a lot of company in that with people who are way smarter than me.

I feel like there has to be a name for the fallacy here. If you looked at the cryptocurrency space, especially the blockchain builders, you'd likely find a lot of people who you'd be willing to accept are smarter than you working on it. Silvio Micali and Vitalik Buterin are 2 big names that come to mind (I don't hold/use algorand FWIW, but Silvio seems like one of the brightest minds in the field solely based on accomplishments).
This Crypto bullshit has to stop -- ConstitutionDAO did not give ownership to its stake holders. It was a glorified IoU, a private fiat version of stock/equity into the so called Constitution copy. All the power was held by an LLC and two dudes.
That sounds right, no one ever said that scaling ends at 400B.
Agreed! Aside from the spurious results produced by publication bias, the amount of effort spent on trying things that somebody already knows don't work is staggering. The knowledge of what doesn't work is mostly passed on tacitly through apprenticeship rather than published, which means it can easily be lost.

As a simple example, we've known how to make transparent glass for 1900 years, but it took Ben Krasnow two months to achieve it himself despite having money, libraries, and glass experts at his disposal, and being generally competent at making things, having built, for example, his own electron microscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcUy7SqdS0
>It is entirely possibly that vaccination can leave a virus circulating while still preventing disease. Whether it does in this specific case is something you could debate

But breakthrough cases of the COVID disease do occur in this specific case.

What is the relevance of a hypothetical alternative scenario where breakthrough cases don't exist?
The most significant piece of information, in my opinion, is that this is the first time that Amazon has broken out advertising services. This disclosure might be contributing to their stock performing well after hours, given their guidance miss.

Advertising grew 32% year over year to $9.7 billion during the quarter, which puts them third after Google ($61.2 billion) and Facebook ($28.3 billion).
sigh... Thank you for this.
"There is a reason why something like 10 privately funded American universities make more scientific breakthroughs than the 10,000 publicly funded universities around the world put together."

Messenger bias?
Bluetooth doesn't really cut it for me in a multi-person household, though If I was on my own I would be fine like that.

We have multiple people constantly playing, and multiple locations to play to. Bluetooth is good for a single speaker and single primary playing device but doesn't really solve multi-room multi-user music very well.
Does anyone without Prime really miss it? Or did you cancel and regret it? Mine is up for renewal at the end of this month, fairly certain I'm not going to renew regardless of a price hike.
> user-groups, gym, local-whatever-chapter, Meetup.

Does anyone really make friendships there that expand beyond that environment? I go to the gym, I know people there by name, make friendly chit-chat, I know what they do and big events in their lives, but that has never expanded beyond the time that we are there. I have never been asked to meet up somewhere else, grab dinner, come over and watch a game, etc. nor I have I asked that of anyone. It would seem like an imposition to me; people have their lives and just because you know someone in one context does not mean you are welcome or would be interested in the rest of it.

The only friends I have ever made are people I spend many hours of time with every day. Roommates, classmates, and in a few cases, colleagues at work. That long duration, close-proximity shared time seems to be an essential ingredient to forming friendships. I think that is also a reason that once people are out of school they find it much harder to develop new friendships -- life gets too compartmentalized and time-fractured.
AirTags are not addictive and are not helping people in social situation or to have sex.
I was thinking about the kids, too. Children need real and regular contact with classmates and peers, as the pandemic has demonstrated. Having a luxe bedroom and a heated pool in the middle of the wilderness doesn't make up for extended periods of loneliness and isolation.
The US is testing robot dogs on its borders
I work for a private ambulance company in the US that shifts ambulances between states based off of emissions requirements. Crews working in California for example will always get the shiny new ambulances, while those in Kentucky get ambos with 200k miles (slight exaggeration) to replace the ones that have been driven into the ground.
> Small hot tubs are electric.

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Never mind. Apparently I was misinformed. The circulation pump moves the water through the heater, but isn't the primary heat source.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185214
Seems like the flat roofs in Davos were a conscious decision to safeguard against avalanches.
If you look back at the actual press releases and research studies that Pfizer and BioNTech published about their Comirnaty vaccine, they never specifically claimed that it would reliably prevent infection. It was the politicians like Fauci who made false claims not backed by reliable science.

(And to be clear, I still recommend that everyone eligible get vaccinated as it's fairly effective at preventing severe symptoms.)
Self publishing at its finest. What a great story!
Sounds cool, like a fantasy. How far is the house from stores like groceries and other necessities? Must be out of the city I'm guessing? So you'd have to do a long drive every now and then to buy things?
You do not have to get your child vaccinated. If they're going to mandate vaccines, why haven't they done it already? What would have had to change before the pandemic for you to want them to be mandated?
2-day delivery would be uncompetitive in The Netherlands. Next day delivery is the standard for webshops here, and most offer same day delivery as a paid upgrade when you either order before noon or live in a large city.
> Implying in sarcastic passive voice that people who talk about "tribes" are actually members of tribes is a self-own that I don't understand the point of.

Have you actually been on the internet recently? Holy hell. Its rife with people who think they're rising above everyone who isn't a free thinker! And the articles about rising above these petty allegiances are wildly upvoted!!!

You're really demonstrating a lack of awareness about the culture of this website and many others. I can't believe you read the comment I was responding to and thought "hey, this person doesn't think they're rising above 'tribal' thinking".

And yeah, I'm not sure about whether they precisely think they're in that position or not, so I used passive voice. I will become sued by you. Passive voice can be good, actually.
"the ultimate weapon against clown world is endless honking"
I do a lot of research for historical things and often want results from other languages and have found on Google if you search for something and then click the settings icon and then click languages you can choose multiple results for "Currently showing search results in:" which will give you results in the languages you choose.

I typically do this in incognito windows as I do not always want for instance English and Italian results.
Perhaps Chrome utilises the GPU more efficiently than Firefox does.
AirTags are cheaper and more powerful than GPS tracker. Also more known, and don't have a stigma.
> There is a reason why something like 10 privately funded American universities make more scientific breakthroughs than the 10,000 publicly funded universities around the world put together. It's right in front of everyone's faces, and no one is talking about it. It is seriously and elephant in the room.

this is just not true. They just hire the best of the best but if one deep-dives into any kind of research one can see an ocean full of universities producing valuable research. And most of the time the basic breakthroughs came from universities you didn't think of or you didn't even know.
There is something truly wonderful about waking up and knowing that this entire day will not involve some set of responsibilities.

For about a year I did 20h weeks (independent contractor) as 4hour days.
Compared to 40h+ weeks, it was awesome obviously.

But there is overhead to getting ready for it, expending certain kind of energy, more likely to close laptop on something incomplete.. I thought I would save the afternoons for personal projects but I rarely felt like it.
In addition, its a myth that private cars are less energy efficient and are less environmentally friendly per passange mile than mass transit. In fact, there are only two mass transit systems in the US more efficient (in cost, energy and carbon) than driving the average American car. And none are even close to being as efficient as driving a Prius.

https://theicct.org/planes-trains-and-automobiles-counting-c...
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-615.pd...

Also, no one has ever gotten covid, measles, influenza, the common cold or tuberculosis communting alone to work in their car.
if you pay for spotify, there are no ads, just like if you paid for your music and a music player there would be no ads.

And before you tell me you got your music and player on the high seas, you can still do that so I don't see how anything has changed.
Some people think that the internet is the blue e button on their task bar. Those are the kind of people you just smile and nod. Any attempt at correcting will only lead to confusion, frustration, animosity, being asked to not come back to your parent's house, etc.
It doesn’t sound like he did anything fraudulent. He did things that the application requires and the lawyer presented it in the best way possible, as is their job.
> A couple of years after her embarrassing demotion, she ran into immunologist Drew Weissman at the office copy machine and struck up a conversation about mRNA. Weissman was intrigued, and asked Karikó to come work in his lab.

The government funding doesn't necessarily have to identify the Karikó's of the world, as long as it can identify the Weissman's of the world who can identify The Karikó at the ad-hoc meeting.

This is one of the areas where "fund people not objects" really works. The people that are really productive are the first to know that they are heavily dependent on having a good team, and often those people are really good at finding hidden talent.
Self-driving cars should be mimicking only the "best" drivers. If you qualify "best" as something like "lowest lateral g-forces on passengers" then you end up with a very comfortable drive that absolutely breaks laws all over the place and is also safe. So... which would you rather have? A driver that is a delight to experience and does not cause you anxiety, or a driver that strictly follows all laws to the letter but drives like a robot and kind of throws you around?
> When you want to send another signal, the US is not shy at all about killing them.

What information is this based on? I don't have any particularly strong opinions on this subject, but I can't recall ever reading about anything like this.
The MIT and the Boston Fed published an implementation of an open CBDC
It sounds like they froze everything as is. If they can't legally release the funds to they'd likely just refund the people who donated.
Don't. Install.

If you think Apple's vetting process is adequate protection, exclusively use their App Store.

Websites can also siphon your data, yet Safari let's me browse the websites unfiltered.
Energy prices are rising: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60227306
There's nothing in the article to suggest they're interrupting podcasts:

> We weren’t able to track down a copy of the prompt ourselves to confirm when and where it appears or what it looks like

It sounds more like they just didn't have any in-app prompts before 3 months ago, and then they added them.
> Somehow there's this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease

There's a laundry list of public health officials (including the CDC director, to give a sense of the authority on this list) that said it would prevent infection and transmission. So it really shouldn't surprise anyone that there were expectations that the vaccine would do what public health authorities said it would do.
Being able to rent a place to live is good, actually.
Because morally it's the same thing, and it would get done faster and more effectively.
That was over a year ago, just before the Delta variant was discovered. Since Delta became prevalent, there has been little talk of herd immunity.
That's not true, if you have spacers behind the wood it should dry properly and last a long time. See https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...
At our university we did choose FreeBSD in the early 90ies. Because it was exactly that. Secure and stable. Novell was also secure and stable, but it was not free. We used both.

Linux at that time was used by a few of our servers, but it was certainly not that secure. VMS was also ok, but not that popular. IRIX and friends were too expensive.
This seems like a nice list to be on; how do I submit my game? It has no ads, no dark patterns...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.victorribe...

Android only for now, but an apple version could be arranged
Seems we've forgotten all about how viruses work over the last couple of years.

Without a vaccine, viruses will still evolve to be less virulent and more transmissible, leading to endemic status. Within this a large number of the population gain natural immunity also reducing spread.

Vaccines, done poorly and too frequently, cause vaccine escape where the immune system actually does a worse job fighting infection and you get more virus (aside other immune system issues). Which is exactly what we're seeing now where a lot of places have more hospitalisation and death per capita in the vaccinated...two years into the pandemic

The most ignorant thing to think at the moment is 'just need more jabbing.'
> All this is to say: yes the data are noisy, but we'd need to erase/explain away the numbers by at least an order of magnitude to erase the spike we are seeing, and that seems like a tall order.

That's fairly easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Daniel Stenberg is talking about three Rust based backends for curl: hyper (HTTP/2), rustls (TLS), quiche (HTTP/3). https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/c-hyper.c https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/vtls/rustls.c https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/vquic/quiche.c
I really hope it doesn't get to money making but instead it starts a new trend where kids make their own books and share them at the library, a new special section. Let's leave money outta this..
Why would you set up a straw man that you don't even know the definition of yourself?

For me ending the pandemic is a return to regular life and a health care system that is no longer stretched beyond typical capacity. This can be achieved by many outcomes but the most likely one given the state of the world today is getting everyone to take the safe and effective vaccine for as long as necessary.
Yes, I think I'm suggesting both! I also agree with how R01 has changed as they become more and more competitive with lower funding rates.

There's also been a rise in "but science" projects in bio, starting with the human genome project, that mirrors some of the big science that happens in physics. So adding in that track of funding there are kind of three funding tracks that are necessary.
> people who don't get vaccinated are actively harming everyone else.

Aren’t they? Hospitals are overflowing and elective procedures cancelled due entirely to people refusing to get vaccinated.
It sounds like that at first but all the events in the article are very current.
It was a long time ago.
I'm a meat eater. Let's say I want to significantly reduce my meat consumption. I'm used to eating meals that are meat centric. Growing up most dinners would be a meat, a starch, and some vegetables. The easiest way for me to reduce my meat consumption would be to replace the meat with something else. Should I replace my chicken with mushrooms, tempeh, tofu, something else? How firm should the tofu be? What's the deal with pressing your tofu? Maybe I'll just stick to chicken. If you want to encourage me to stop eating animals giving me an easy, clear substitution, like chick'n, seems like a reasonable thing to do. Would you prefer people ate chicken or chick'n? Would you say the two are morally equivalent? Would I be a horrible person if I said I won't eat animals anymore because it's unethical while still viewing them as very tasty?
Reaping economies does not happen the quarter/year you grow fast, it takes time to realize that. At high growth phase you are spending a lot on inefficient processes and it takes time to normalize that ( even for Amazon)

Also last year was expensive for logistics, very expensive in part due to the supply chain bottlenecks and delays and using alternative shipping like flying more than ships etc. However prices for shipping on Amazon has not really gone up that much, the lack of profitability may reflect that as well.
Raspberry Pi: New 'glorious' 64-bit operating system is available to install
I don't think anything compares to going in person.

I'm father of a 4 year old, and we live a couple of blocks from the library. Seeing how his interactions with the shelves has changed over the past couple of years has been really interesting. At first it was enough to look at the covers and spines, then he could pull himself up to the bins of board books, and eventually started grabbing from the shelves himself.

And like you, he loads up with a little bit of everything (it doesn't matter what he chooses, we check it out) and we take it home to read and see what sticks.

It's probably no surprise that one of the most exciting trips he can make is driving to PDX to go to Powell's.

There's probably a UI genius out there with great ideas for it, but I don't see how anything can beat going to a library in person.
The Dutch East India Company was worth around 6B adjusted dollars. Where are they now...

Obviously Amazon is not invincible, but it's hard to imagine a scenario where they get beaten. It's going to take the ground shifting out from under them.
Direct link:
https://docmadeeasy.com/v/907248667
There is a reason I stopped listening to Gimlet podcasts once they went exclusively to Spotify.
Where can I read that message? I don’t follow many news channels. But I visited CDC website and their primary message is that vaccines protect from getting seriously ill.
Even if their retail business only broke even on a unit basis, they can still make a killing on advertising. $9 billion this quarter!
But the way it is written sounds like nobody on Planet Earth could have possibly predicted this and that the way B-cells and T-cells work is completely novel discoveries in 2022.

There were people saying this is roughly would happen in mid-2020.

Tony Fauci was saying he'd be happy if the VE against disease was only 50% in Fall 2020. He was trying to set expectations to about where we are right now.

It gives the wrong impression to people who don't know anything about it and it undermines the vaccine messaging strategy. There's a stronger message that virologists and epidemiologists who were specialists in this kind of thing were grounded mostly in reality all along and THIS WAS THE PLAN AND THE PLAN IS WORKING. By claiming that we're radically learning new things it sounds like the whole thing was a clusterfuck. Getting a vaccine with around 50% efficacy against disease and 90% efficacy against hospitalization was always the winning strategy. We were just supposed to hit 80%-90% vaccination rates at least and the low vaccination rates are meaning that the Omicron wave was more of a burden on hospitals than it ever needed to be.

What went wrong is that the vaccine trials were cut short. People who complain about that usually try to argue we cut short the "long term safety" outcome, which is nonsense because vaccine side effects are autoimmune conditions that either start turning up in a population 3 months after dosing or they don't. What we actually cut short was the _durability_ outcomes of the trials since that was the thing that would have taken 2 years and we didn't have the time. Turns out the headline 90% VE against infection numbers weren't durable but the damage was done once they made the initial headline splash and everyone entirely forgot that Fauci was setting expectations down around 50% beforehand. Then they felt they were lied to. Now they feel like the vaccine program was a failure.

We're now back on track to the original plan, and its viewed as being a failure because the phase III results jacked the expectations up to the mRNA vaccines being magicsauce that would instantly end the whole pandemic. This article is still selling it like this is sort of Plan B in response to information that we could never have anticipated. Instead we're back on what was Plan A all along after the hypecycle got blown away by waning immunity and Delta and Omicron.
That's really where I'm coming from. I'm a software developer so that's the only thing I have any experience with here.

I also find I tend to work 24/7 in some capacity. Jumping out of bed to email myself a solution to an issue I've been mulling over does happen.
Your comment does nothing to talk of the substance of the article.
You should untie those. What happens if your FB account gets frozen?
The scalp tension theory of hair loss