skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will never convince the people that want it to be the vaccine. Do I know that the vaccine could possibly have side effects? sure, maybe, highly unlikely though. These articles on questionable sites like most of the right wing pundit machine, I just have lots of experience with, and they are quick to insight fear and slow to correct their information as new information comes out.
I don't think tools like this should be used to make websites / webapps, period; good enough for demo purposes, but just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Just make a good website / webapp, you get a lot of accessibility for free if you use semantically correct HTML and sprinkle in accessibility hints where needed.

Likewise, if you're building apps, prefer to build them using native toolkits if you value accessibility. The major platforms have it built in. When building an app, did you ever consider VoiceOver gestures [1]? Providing a readable text for the text-to-speech engine as an alternative to a UI element?

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/learn-voiceover-gestu...
> should Apple be doing these measures at all?

Apple no, but law makers should require a licence to use those. This is not a tech that anybody should be able to use on a whim. Too much potential for abuses.

Not to mention the more there are, the bigger the cake for a nation that want to get control of the biggest offline spying network of all time. Somebody is going to crack that thing sooner or later. There will be an NSO for airtags.
I switch between Windows 10, Windows 11, MacOS Monterey and Pop!_OS interchangeably, easy. My main OS is Linux and mostly in the terminal. I can't comprehend that you cannot "figure out" different UI's.
They launched people to the space station ok. The max acceleration isn't actually at launch as the rocket is heavy with fuel then - it increases as it gets lighter.
I guess, but if there truly are zero negative consequences, it's not really a problem that needs to be solved. I have a compulsion to have one or two cups of coffee every morning. is it useful to describe myself as a coffee addict?
Let me know when you can engage without making personal attacks. I'm interested in discussing the science and policy, not having a flamewar.

> No vaccine has ever had adverse reactions that don't show up for over a year.

The OP is about adverse events in a timeline less than a year from the availability of the vaccines. Whether there's any link is an open question.

> There isn't even a mechanism through which that is possible

That is patently false. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116914/
Yes, I will present my viewpoint. I didn't find this article relatable. I didn't find new information from this article. I think this article objectively is hard to relate to and has little new information.I will share my viewpoint in a comments section - feel free to disagree. If you think it's shallow, it's probably because the original piece didn't have much meat to begin with.
Thanks, had a blast there for a while. Nice alternative to trolling in LinkedIn, which I've done as well. A crapton of stiffies in the latter one.
Had a night out with friends recently after a year off. Didn't start to feel right until 4 days later. Not. Worth. It.
In my mid twenties, I had two addictions - pornography and Marijuana.

The first was significantly harder to kick than the later. Maybe I'm merely a weak person, but I felt I slowly succumbed to these things after years of casual use and some major relational setbacks in my life post college. I got psychological help but was not encouraged to stop doing these things, just to practice moderation. Ultimately, I was forced by circumstance to have to stop and realized I was a lot happier. I think a lot of people don't want to acknowledge that they are addicted to stuff like this and rationalize it away.

I find myself thinking we should set up better societal guard rails about these things, but avoid making them illegal. Neither of these are hard addictions to kick anyway, but they do cost you a lot of time and money.
I should try to not randomly browse the web for one week. I'm not sure whether I'm able. Ups. It is so easy to jus type Ctrl-T and then news.ycom TAB.
This logic is flawed. It would be much more economically sensible to just rejuvenate everyone regularly instead of doing what we do today — try, and eventually fail, to manage all the conditions related to old age. Since aging affects literally everyone, this huge scale would drive the cost of that intervention down to pennies.

Just to be clear: I'm not from the US, we do have not a very good but nevertheless somewhat working public health system over here.
If you lived in France, you'd sue immediately and you'd win and be well compensated, the company would also be likely publicly shamed on national tv.

This is ridiculous
Oops, didn't try it on Android, thanks for pointing it out.
I think that part of why the tokenization is a proble for math here is that it doesn't seem to be carrying overflow into the left token. Anyway, I haven't worked with GPT in detail to do a deeper analysis than that hunch, so take my comment with a couple of salt grains.
I’ve heard the same thing mentioned before, but I wonder if the same principles are still held firm or if it’s a new day. I think in the last 20 years C# has accumulated quite a bit of complexity that makes me doubt that the language designers are still firm on this. Take Roslin for an example.

I think that some concerns about possible complexity brought on by AOP are true, but I think they are pretty comparable to what one might be concerned about as it relates to Roslin.

But I am not trying to convince anyone really, I am just answering the posters question: what do I wish was added to C#.
We know statistically that covid scare off a lot of pepole and delayed lots of treatments of others. We know the medical numbers are going to be awful as they come in because preventive care is import and saves lives, and lots of people didn't get that during the pandemic. But increases of 300% or 400% in bunches of areas? Does not pass the smell test, increases that large would have been obvious even during the epidemic. This article was just fear mongering.
Democracy Dies in Darkness is a great slogan. The USA is not immune to a shadow government, but is resistant thanks to documents like these.
Yeah you can buy similar things in the US for various animals, although they're usually to keep animals out of your home or spaces like under a deck.

I'm having trouble imagining them being frequent (and audible) enough to hear out on a walk though. Seems like an issue.
That's interesting because that's the opposite effect to me - I used to smoke (still do rarely but try to avoid it) and when I took modafinil I often had a strong urge to chain-smoke, just like after a few drinks.
“From our experiments, the presence of gravity appears to be a sufficient condition to evoke up/down biases in interceptive responses, at least in some subjects. It is not, however, a necessary condition. Indeed, it is thought that a network of connections involving the insulae and temporoparietal junction of the brain integrates a variety of sensory modalities to define an up/down reference frame and then tunes fast interceptive responses within that context (Indovina et al., 2005).”

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/6/1969

TLDR; Up and Down is just perception and has nothing to do with gravity.
Kubernetes and then next generation of PaaS
I'm still impressed that for the first 1000 tests it gets close most of the time.
Hoes do all those translate to UI toolkits not having accessibility functionality being illegal though?

It is largely a legalese infodump that makes it very hard to parse, but i skimmed through the EU proposal (most of its requirements being at the annex) and it largely seems to be for websites or for very specific uses where it'd make sense (Check-in stations, ticket stations, ATMs, E-commerce sites, etc). The closest to a more general requirement would be the requirement for operating systems to provide functionality like text-to-speech (it mentions "more than one sensory channel" so i assume that would fit), zooming, etc but the wording on that seems to be about the complete package - so i guess if that proposal passes, a store wouldn't be able to sell, e.g., a computer with Linux and IceWM preinstalled as the only desktop (no text to speech there).

When you wrote that UI toolkits without accessibility functionality being illegal was there anything more clear and specific or is it this just more of a "just in case" scenario?
Playing on the internet can be a chess killer and a mind-number. Since 2014 I have been almost purely been "wasting my time" on 3+2 and shorter blitz without much improvement. The glory days for me were 2012-2013, when I could set aside a full day and play in G45 or G60 Saturday Swiss at the Portland Chess Club.

15+15 sounds great but you can also go for 30 or 45 or 60 minute games online! Even if not in person, with those time controls at the low end of classical, you will find yourself thinking more deeply to re-wire bad habits. The mistakes will have more investment behind them, so you will tend to review the games and learn/internalize from them more. Especially if you find a good sparring partner, or set the rating range -0 +500, and only play people who are better than you. I'm on Lichess if you like: https://lichess.org/@/andytratt :)

I disagree a bit with correspondence because I think few people are wired to take it seriously. I've been doing correspondence Go and some days I just make a move because I'm busy with other things, so it really has to be a priority over a long time period. Also, I tried Diplomacy a couple times last year with various groups (https://www.backstabbr.com/) and found that it's a rare breed of human who, even in hacker demographics, can focus on such correspondence activities to my (very minimal) level.
The total amount of interest paid by the government to all parties, domestic, foreign, private, and public sector was about $400 billion in 2021.

Meanwhile, America borrowed $1 trillion in new debt in the same year. Lower rates contribute to a higher money supply far more than raising interest rates adds to the interest income paid to the private sector.
Unstructured text extraction technologies is getting so good. This will go away in short order, I hope.
Simple HTTP Load Testing with SLOs
Another point for anyone considering whether we should send a space-probe there...

We should and do send probes anywhere that's practical. The question is more like when it will be practical to build star probes.

The current fastest man-man object is the...

The current fastest man-made object wasn't intended to reach the stars.

On the other hand, there are many challenges that make more sense to undertake as previous steps to develop the needed technology.
PSA

Link to Common Sense Skeptics channel shredding the whole idea of Starship starting from the rocket to logistics of Mars settlement to bits where even one point means total dealbreaker for the whole idea.

TLDR The whole thing is a wishful thinking at best if not an outright scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDYt-phUAxY&list=PL-eVf9RWeo...
When it comes to AirTags, what I care about is my use cases and if this tech is serving me well. I have one in my motorcycle, vespa and backpack. I’ve previously had a bike stolen and never recovered. My mom looses her keys so what often, so I got her one as well. These AirTags provide me with an affordable peace of mind that works better than my Tile ever did.
Profiling Improvements in Go 1.18
>So nothing dramatic

A 5% target miss in ~2018 triggered the avalanche of NAND price. So 1% isn't insignificant.
> How did you arrive at that answer?

This sort of question - "you don't remember what I just asked you?" - is one of the most glaring failings in Apple's Siri and I hope this leads to it being solved soon.
Thanks! I knew absolutely nothing about IoT and hardware before this, but quickly realized how big and welcoming the community is. This made things very motivating and enjoyable to get started (but still quite overwhelming!). I personally started by diving into the Arduino ecosystem and the world of micro controllers, particularly the esp8266 and esp32. It's all open-sourced and there are tones of tutorials to help you get started. The most challenging part for me so far has been to go from a "DIY prototype" for personal use to a "certified, safe commercial product". It's been a LOT more challenging than I thought, and took way longer to get there. But very fun to say the least.
Integrating accessibility into the tutorial is fantastic, but I’d also attribute it to Apple emphasizing accessibility in their developer documentation for a long time. I remember one of the early Interface Builder tutorials explaining accessibility pretty early on.
> Perfect is the enemy of good

Lying is also an enemy, and we're well into the "Tesla has been lying" about their $5000, $10,000, and $12,000 software.
US FE engineer here. I have worked with major online retailers for accessibility remediation after they were successfully sued for WCAG failures.

The biggest thing, folks, is your navigation. If you run a large site and users can’t control your navigation with a keyboard at minimum, you’re really leaving people out in the cold - and asking for a lawsuit, depending on the industry and your country. I'm looking at you, dropdowns.

Full WCAG compliance is expensive and requires vigilance, but getting your navigation right should be priority 0.
Perhaps if that's the case the ACLU (or you) should provide some evidence of that instead of dressing up the most mundane incidental collection I've heard in my life.
Because there is vibrant a market for content hating on Apple, from forums, to magazines, podcasts,…
Yeah, this was partly inspired by how easy it is to solve Wordle, 4/6 is doable in most cases. That said, I think most people play Wordle with the objective of getting a 3/6.
> I've always said that there's no such thing as an ex-smoker; they're smokers who haven't smoked in a long time.

At least to their lungs they‘re not smokers anymore :)
One tech note: please consider disabling autocorrect in the letter input fields, as I was getting popups whenever I entered an i.
> This is not how HN tends to work with discussions.

To be clear, I posted YSFlight on HN to look on it from software developer point of view — not as a game suggestion.

That is Hacker News, not a Game Wiki.
Such long-distance backbones and interconnections between nations are quickly gaining speed in Europe since the 1980's, as they reduce the risk of blackout and enable savings (a temporarily useless production unit here is used to feed a another nation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
The speculation I’ve read is that dropping the bomb was as much about deterring the Russians than preventing a ground invasion of Japan.
You’ve done an unbelievable job, Mike!
The modern version of the 3 laws is:

1) don't give a robot a gun
2) don't teach it how to put more bullets into gun after breaking #1
3) don't teach it how to make bullets after breaking #2
3a) don't give it your amazon API keys or other credit card info

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> What if you force them to do it by hand?

Why?

GPT-3 isn't doing it that way. The importance is understanding the question, not being able to do math in your head.
Could have been more clear on that. Some of the accounts I follow are blue checks. What I meant is blue checks that are using their popularity to critique/support another issue very far afield of why they are a blue check.

Eg. Famous actor advocating for some luxury belief
The result is mildly interesting but doesn't strike me as remarkable. We've always known that overparameterization with regularization can improve performance in certain classes of problems. The comparison with using n-order polynomial to fit n points is also non-sequitur.

So there's a lower bound on the number of parameters required to produce a good interpolation of a broad class of "smooth" functions, and that's larger than the data size. Ok. I'm guessing one could find an even larger lower bound to approximate a more exotic class of functions that are still "smooth" in some intuitive sense, and it wouldn't make me any more excited.

The main problem is, what does it say about how well a neural network can approximate specific types of functions, compared to anything else, with the same or more parameters, with the same huge amount of data, which has always been the real mystery here?

Can we analytically define a class of functions that can be fit well by neural networks with n data points, using < parameters, than any other known method, and map these functions to real world applications? Or, in other words, given a class of functions representing general real world data sets that neural networks tend to do well on (dogs and cats), can we characterize a tractable algorithm to compute nd parameters needed from the n sample points where there's high probability that it could produce a good interpolation?

If not, then this paper doesn't explain anything better for neural networks than for say kernel methods with polynomial kernels or manifold reconstruction using restricted classes of spline functions. The sensationalist headline, along with the "books need to be written" rhetoric, wants to make us think the result or the techniques it presented could get us closer to answering the above questions, but it seems to me there's zero truth in that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

Quite a nice concept - accelerate the probe with lasers- no plans for deceleration though
> I'm sure that is the same reason why many once people believed the earth was flat, or that the earth was at the center of the universe.

Observably at the time, the earth was flat, and then you got better ways to observe it, and it was spherical. Then you got even better ways, and now it's an oblate spheroid.

That doesn't negate the science used before, but it gets more correct each iteration.

Asimov described this wonderfully in a letter, below:

https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

> It's very arrogant to think that "the science" and "the facts" are always right.

Any more arrogant than thinking "the science" and "the facts" are wrong?
Fedora and Pkexec
Haha downvoted for stating the obvious and something that can be found in seconds on any google search. Never change HN.
The online travel industry is now mostly Booking Holdings, Expedia Group (both of which own many sub-brands) and AirBnB.
Nice catch, thanks! Just fixed it. I'm still working on that website, a lot of the copy is still kind of temporary.
Will you support Amazon sales?
I used the method of X to quit smoking. I mean I smoked a lot less to begin with but it reached upto one or two everyday with disturbing consistency. I haven't smoked in around 3 years now.
The sad reality is that we have all tied ourselves to America which was considered an unsinkable bastion of Western democracy and civilization.

As Europeans we should have known better: all nations rise and fall.
They don't cause the severe dysfunction found in substance abuse. Opioid addiction for example is among the ugliest things in existence. Video games, gambling, social media addictions are all bad but not to the same degree.
Wrangling MS accounts for Minecraft is weirdly hellish. I don't know if they're trying to get people to stop using the Java edition, or what. It feels like they don't want your money.
Closed Board Meeting February 14 2022: Government in the Sunshine Meeting Notice
> For example, I bet my grandpa would think twice about checking in on my cousins location as often as he probably does if he knew that my cousin got a notification every time he checked in.

I think this is a partial solution to keep honest people honest. Like door locks. They keep the temptation at bay for the average person.

In abusive relationships it likely wouldn't accomplish much, but notifying might at least create known windows of "escape" when the tracking isn't being actively monitored. Maybe it could even draw someone's attention to abusive situations... if you're out with a friend and her phone "pings" that someone is tracking her 10 times over an hour maybe that's enough for someone to ask "hey is everything ok?"
Serverless Security: New Risks Require New Approaches
The light pollution is also a problem. 17 years ago I bought a lot in a rural subdivision and have lived there ever since. I consulted a light pollution map before buying here, as I'm an amateur astronomer. This is one of the darkest areas in the lower 48 states. I can just about read by the Milky Way on a clear night. I had my pick of the new subdivision when I bought here, and just barely chose to live on the East side, overlooking state land, instead of the West side, with a view of BLM land.

Just this year a large wind farm has been built on that BLM land. The nearest turbine is over five miles away, so you can't hear them. But each one has a bright red light at the top, I guess to warn aircraft. Even so far away, with about 20 of those lamps visible it destroys the night darkness, not just for sensitive astronomy, but even for a good night's sleep.

I just feel lucky that I'm on the other side of the subdivision and can't see them. That was a close escape. But a few lights are encroaching on my previously pristine view in the far distance as civilization approaches. But I probably have a few years left of dark nights, unlike my West-side neighbors.
I was never an avid runner, but I would jog in the morning sometimes. It was supposed to be a habit, but never was.

I noticed a huge difference in performance before and after getting sick with Epstein Barr in 2017. Even years later I've never returned to the same performance. Maybe related, maybe not, but that's how it looks to me with my sample size of one.
> Apple being Apple may well have brought more publicity to the issue but no, AirTags do not do what you say they do. If anything there are reasonable arguments that Apple has been too careful to the extent of making them pretty irritating in family/friends usage where everyone gets nagged for normal shared item activity and cannot use them in a shared way (despite being able to do so for devices!).

Bringing more attention and publicity to it, and claiming to have actually solved the privacy problems when in fact they haven't has actually made it easier for stalkers. The proof is in the pudding: Similarly google search guides on disabling the speaker on AirTags, you'll find hundreds just for the one product. Likewise, compare sales of AirTags to the GPS Trackers on Amazon.

Whenever a big trusted company makes a product more accessible to the average person, they're making it easier as a whole.

Even in a strict technical sense, having it visible in the Find My App that people already are familiar with and use to locate their airpods, apple watches, etc., that alone gives the infrastructure benefit to make it simpler.
There is proof, and you can find lots of studies and papers on it. HN is a bit cultish and likes to think that humans are far above every other creature on the planet in importance.