skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media benefited from Trump in that audiences were bigger, but they don't like him.

They won't validate a new project by their presence if he is involved.

People avoid Trump's 'truth' platform because they don't want it to have a critical mass of legitimacy.

If 50% of people, and 75% of public voices who despise Trump stay off the platform, it cannot develop a critical mass.
Not never. They speak regularly, with an attorney on the line, following approved topics and protocols.
A disgrace. It's not like it is any easier in aviation than anywhere else.

Civilian oversight of police departments could be instituted, too, investigating killings and maimings by police. It could be federally supervised, instead of relying on every state, county, and Podunk town to institute it.
>I'm positive you've put more thought into this pair of comments than I ever did in my life about this issue of pronouns.

Eh, not really. I don't even live in a country where that's a common practice (thankfully), my comments naturally tend to be long whatever their subject are, you can verify this yourself by looking at my post history.

>it's very funny that you're so taken up in arms against the world-ending catastrophe of people writing "they/them" in their twitter bios

So, first off, I'm not 'up in arms', it's just that as a man with a certain propensity towards heresies, it's second nature for me to look at a social web and immediately notice the conformists, and I'm not a big fan of conformists. Secondly, I never implied those people are doing anything 'world-ending', although they are participating in their fair share of censorship-defense and general internet poisoning, but really they are just engaging in a pitiful and obvious illusion. I'm bringing that up, half-ridiculing it, and half-pointing-out it's counter-productive to what they actually want.

>yet see no issue with a multi-hundred-billionaire dictating what is and isn't allowed on a major internet platform

Where exactly did I mention that I support or even care about Musk's attempted takeover of Twitter :) ? and who do you think controls facebook, youtube or reddit, the progressive spaces who ban you when you look funnily in their general direction? or are billionaires only bad when they hold opinions you don't like ?

>Your sentence is grammatically incorrect

Congratulations on noticing the obvious, that's kinda the whole point of the example. 'They' doesn't make sense for a known person of a definite gender, your examples are all assuming the default usage of it as a placeholder for somebody of an unknown general gender, but the moment you start using it to refer to a specific person you start running into issues like whether to use "is" or "are".

>singular they has been attested since the 14th century

OK ? how is this relevant ? where did I express problems with the fact that 'they' can be used to refer to a single unknown person ?
That VM is obsolete, the new way is

https://jamstack.org/

for instance host with

https://www.netlify.com/

Basically you check your files into GitHub and chill, it is as easy as it gets.
Wasn't there a hackaday about this?
>>If it's true what he said that he is buying it to help the world rather than for profit then $70+ price should be easy to justify.

Where on earth do you get that

$70 is insane, Twitter will likely never reach that again, it for sure will not under current leadership. Twitters current leadership is killing the platform
Damage control was turned off because of maintenance.[0] A single 19-year-old junior sailor being able to single-handedly cause billions of dollars of damage in normal conditions would have been a very bad design flaw itself, anyway, but from what I've read, that wasn't the case here.

Anyway, until the trial occurs, I wouldn't be so hasty to judge whether the sailor was actually responsible for deliberately setting the fire, or just the scapegoat for a multifaceted failure.

[0]: https://news.usni.org/2021/10/19/long-chain-of-failures-left...
Honestly all of the "cloud accounting" folks I know are talking about this.
"North America"? I think they meant USA...
This is a scam it seems.
Everyone applies bias at some level, period.

That said, the threshold for lazy loading bias can be significantly different for people, and trying to become a Vulcan-Mentat combo might not be the most ideal goal. Actually applying some real rigor and not just resorting to convenient heuristics (e.g. "Western media", "MSM" , "leftist" or "rightist" or several other "ists" reflexively) usually is a good start.

" most of the time it is worth a lot more to think critically of the news that conforms to what you believe"

Agreed.
I'm talking about social media specifically here. Good luck with trying to get a blockchain-powered project up with mass adoption in that space. Maybe you can include a messenger feature running Matrix in it, too.
> I don’t know if you understand what ‘streaming’ means? Streaming doesn’t support large buffering… because that’s not streaming.

That's not how those words work.

Twitch is streaming, right? Under certain flaky playback conditions it can buffer a full minute. Which is 50 megabytes at full quality.
What is the obsession of looking for a cheap way out if you are able bodied. Literally just go for a walk, run, or ride. I highly doubt doing some small activity can really compare to the full health benefits of some daily exercise.
This is more of an infotainment than proper data, but one could simulate it in DCS (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMTVI65Myg for a rough demo what it can do).

Note that DCS is (at least partially) Russian, so maybe don't install it on a trusted machine.

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeiOHgzic6Y, lol.
Any idea how ascii art is even parsed by these models? I know simple language models would basically just disregard it. Does gpt have some built in parsing that treats each symbol in ascii art as a token to try and actually learn a model for it? This would be an interesting thing to try and build. I feel like I remember seeing a vision transformer model that you could give the start of an image to and it would make up the rest, I guess this would be a similar concept. Overall it's not necessarily a logical extension of a language model though
What coup?

The party of gun ownership showing up to protest without their guns is not a coup attempt. And it's ridiculous to say that it was. There were like 100,000 people there, and they counted a guy who died of a stroke the next day as a death. There's literally videos of them casually walking around and obeying the velvet ropes cordoning things off. There's also videos of them being let in. One guy was recently just acquitted for exactly that reason.

The real reason it's being overblown is the protesters accidentally showed the nation that you can just show up en masse at congress and demand change. They really don't want that idea spreading. They might have to actually represent their constituency instead of their oligarch donors. That would be very bad for campaign funding.
I agree, this is a great trick. I've been using it for almost 20 years and it's kinda funny to use around friends too, if you are playing around with home blood pressure equipment for any reason. Also take off any hats, wear loose-fitting clothing, wear sandals instead of shoes if possible, and uncross your feet if they are crossed.

Also if they are weighing you clothes-on, it's worth some care as well. A lot of doctors offices will happily register that you gained a significant amount of weight without taking into account that you are wearing work boots, jeans, a vest holding your phone, etc. vs. your last appointment in the summer when you were wearing shorts, a T-shirt, and sandals. Your doctor won't see any of this of course, so it's your word vs the EMR.

And finally, a friend tells me that you should always feel out the doctor first before showing them your full noot stack or other health experiments. ;-)
> Where do you get electricity from for the peaks in the morning and the evening, when solar is still weak and wind may or may not be blowing? Not nuclear, for sure.

Stable supply is the answer to unstable demand. That means nuclear is the answer to this problem.

If that baseline isn’t high enough, then they need more nuclear - not less.
AFAIK,IANAHVAC, but burning gas to power heat pumps is actually more efficient than directly hearing homes with gas heat. Heat pumps are unreasonably efficient.
>The truth remains that if you use "they" as singular you sound like a moron.

Bind this in a nice cover and you'll be sure to get your linguistics doctorate summa cum laude.
Is there a decent high-level (but technical) overview of how DALL-E works (or how it was trained) that anyone can recommend?
It's not only that it's risky. It's that by construction it can't work for everyone. You can only get rich at the expense of someone else.
If you are going to study effects on blood pressure in your own physiology, I very much recommend getting a home device so you can take a lot of measurements. Blood pressure changes constantly for any reason or (as far as I can tell) no reason.

When I take my own measurements, I take five measurements back to back without moving and see bigger swings that you did. I've seen that using three different home devices. I've seen it in clinical settings being measured by many, many professionals. I remember once seeing a thirty point swing between two measurements taken immediately back to back by a nurse. The sheer amount of downright superstitious behavior I've seen in nurses surrounding blood pressure measurements is pretty incredible, too: lots of retaking measurements until the number is what they expect, repositioning, or trying something random like you did. I find it all very reminiscent of the 2 4 6 Puzzle -- a lot more confirmation and explanation than investigation.

I'm not trying to say this sort of thing is statistically invalid at a population level. On the contrary. I'm pretty convinced in my own case that breathing exercises are worth about ten points. But I strongly recommend developing a healthy respect for the sheer variability of the number before drawing strong conclusions from a low number of measurements.
This is called Pranayam.
We are doing this in India since ages... Good to see that 'experts' from Western countries taking baby steps to learn. Good for you guys!
Keep it up.

Note 1: Some 'expert' took my comment on their ego and downvoted my comment. Guys, my comment was encouraging. Taking it on your ego is your personal choice.
This is interesting, and is a pre-regisetered double blind study; still it was 18 participants in each condition, which is on the low end of what I'd find acceptable.
Of course this should not stop you from exercising where possible. It could be very useful in case of arthritis or similar conditions inhibiting exercise.
I don't fully get the "lowers blood pressure" claim. Doesn't Table S2 in the paper say that blood pressure stayed roughly the same for people doing high-resistance IMST and went up for the control/sham group doing low-resistance IMST? The question in my mind is "why does low-resistance IMST increase blood pressure?" Am I missing something?
Surely you mean "as soon as practicable." :)
This is the beginning of a multi decade conflict. The end game is Russia becoming a North Korean style vassal state of China. Every world leader that is speaking about the conflict seems fine with this outcome.

Also, it will take a while for Russia to build enough natural gas pipelines to China.

In practice, those pipelines will be Putin's leash. (He will need China, but they have no need for him.)

I hope Ukraine maintains its independence, but it's just the first battle in a war Putin accidentally created, and will surely lose.
What else do you believe the west is missing?
>...the IMST group saw their systolic blood pressure (the top number) dip nine points on average, a reduction which generally exceeds that achieved by walking 30 minutes a day five days a week.

Walking isn't very aerobic. I think you would have to walk/jog up a hill for some sort of meaningful comparison.
If he actually ends up owning it, I might apply. But I won't work for anti-free speech platforms which is what twitter currently is.
I started reading then I couldn't help but enjoy the color theme transitions between sections and how simple, somewhat ugly in many design standards, yet, very enjoyable the entire design was. I'm a fan. I think there's a bit of old terminal display nostalgia baked in here.
I’m curious how much plasticity the neurons in the gut may have to be able to pick up the slack, particularly in cases such as the Peter Watts link.
Some echelon incidents such as the Airbus controversy were reported as far back as 1995 in mainstream media.
Damn, I wished I had bought the mini-PC from them instead!

I really don't understand the appeal of laptops, it only makes sense for the people that is really on the move like university students or blogger. Even then, they only need cheap laptop for browsing (cue memory hod jokes). That or you prefer to do your work at public spaces like libraries or cafes.

What's the point of spending huge sums of money on a laptop that performs 1/3 compared to its PC equivalent? You're also stuck with that keyboard and monitor for the rest of its natural life.
That is the way language works; enough people insist or use the word "cabbage" to mean computer science, eventually it does. But no matter how many people believe that computer science is programming, it will not make it so, because a discipline does not evolve like spoken language does. Those that believe falsehoods simply remain mistaken and do not affect what they are mistaken about to somehow become correct over time. Things are what they are and false expectations won't change that. Computers have evolved, certainly, the tools have gotten much better. But don't confuse the tool with the tool user or toolmaker. Computer Science is the same as it ever was.
History shows an endless parade of examples where sufficiently charismatic and/or cunning leaders/regimes/movements (e.g. Mao, Reagan, Trump, Salazar, Ghadaffi, Khan, Gandhi, Seko, Savimbi, etc)...kept large populations in cultish thrall through combinations of carrots and sticks, including via control valves on statutes and the media.

Take your pick on where any figure fits, but its very possible for it to "make sense"
The DIY electron microscope episodes are classic
>> Plus no one knows what inflation will be like in a year.

I wish people would stop thinking inflation is some mythical thing that can not be predicted... We know what it will be... High... because the people controlling the policies making inflation high still believe they are not the cause and are busy shifting the blame
Thanks; I feel like I need a rubric for grading USB C connectors because I cannot keep all the zillion things straight.
Thanks!~
Without a paper to show on how exactly they controlled for this difference its neither here nor there.

"Findings show that the unvaccinated group are typically younger and healthier, less symptomatic and less likely to report direct COVID-19 exposure or recent travel compared to vaccinated groups."

This just seems to be adjusting results until it fits your hypothesis. Release a a paper on the adjustments and lets see if it will withstand scrutiny.

Even without more details, I can already see some logical flaws here in the way they penalize the unvaccinated population.

They admit the unvaccinated are healthier and less likely to get sick, and adjust. Now the problem with this is they completely ignore the possibility they are healthier, because they did not take the vaccine.

They also discard recent results...why?

Also notice how they break down the into sub groups of the vaccinated into 5 months and over 5 months. This makes it seem closer than it really is. If you don't do that, you get
even a wider gap:

6.9 % infection rate in the unvaccinated

vs

12% in the single dose vaccinated

23.5% in the two dose vaccinated.

29.9% in the three dose vaccinated.
I am seriously concerned with the rampant paranoia and lack of critical thinking in these accusations. People genuinely think the Chinese government is sponsoring Medium posts for niche audiences and that they have any interest in HN commenters? It's simply beyond comprehension. Y'all latched onto what, < $1M? in Russian FB ad spend and let your imaginations run to the moon and back.
This is definitely a lesson for you as a customer and github service provider.

As customer if you are getting something for free you have to assume all risks. Here would be nice if public repos are also paid for open source projects so that you can pay for basic backup and recovery.

As a service provider github think about the product - "how do I design a more reliable system?" Deleting data immediately is never a best practice better alternative is to delay the destruction.
https://highbloodpressurebegone.com/how-to-do-hand-grip-exer...
(Disclaimer: am a pilot)

I think applying local pressure (I.e. the Santa Clara approach) will only annoy pilots and get their political associations (AOPA, EAA, etc.) to dig in and fight bans and closures. In general, pilots of small planes desperately want to switch away from leaded gasoline too! We all want the same thing. I have a family that I don’t want lead poisoned, too. But I’m not going to simply stop flying airplanes indefinitely waiting for the FAA to get its shit together.

Trying to get 100LL banned is like those protestors blocking rush hour traffic to advocate for their cause—it is unlikely to be effective, and it more likely just makes any potential allies into enemies.
Why only a single USB-C port? Almost everything I buy these days has only USB-C ports/cables/charging.

It's gotten to the point now that I am increasingly frustrated with the fact that there are no good USB-C capable hubs that take a USB-C USB 4 and turn it into an 8 port USB-C hub. With a mix of 10 Gbps/5 Gbps/480 Mbps speeds.

I can get plenty of USB-C to USB-A hubs, but that is not what I want.
BP tends to go up with age even being able bodied and active, so research into how to control it without medications (which have to be tuned to the individual and can have some unpleasant side effects) is worthwhile.
Linode VM and Caddy isn't too left behind. It's likely to continue being well within "just fine" parameters for at least the next decade.

At some date after that point you'll be seen as a retro computing hobbyist if you're willing to change your personal brand, and people will flock to your blog to learn just how you manage to pull it off...
Sure, the current protocol doesn't support it.

But wanting a better protocol isn't 'silly'.
> the only difference is that you don't know if the repository still exists or not.

If an admin were to private->delete, then all the stars referencing the report would stay and thus the reference to the repo would still be there, on GitHub's servers. There's a difference between GitHub storing things forever and third parties on the internet being a forever archive of visible pages.
I won't read it because caste is a trauma-inducing subject to me.

I'll just leave my comment here so that the truth is available for anyone who cares.

I'm a member of the so-called "upper castes", but not a Brahmin.

Parents were very bohemian, never taught me anything about caste.

Go to college in India. My best friend in college is a Brahmin. I knew that Brahmins were priests, didn't really know anything else about their ideology. One late night, well after we had established a very strong friendship, he starts to tell me about how Brahmins are superior to non-Brahmins. Tells me that because I was "x" caste, I was meant to do "y" types of jobs. And that I shouldn't try to compete with him in things where "pure IQ" was relevant. I pointed out to him that in the national Civil Service and IIT exams, people of my caste were usually the "toppers", and usually made up 40% to 60% of the top 10 selected. Routinely doing better than Brahmins. (In India the last name is associated with one's caste, and newspapers routinely publish names of "toppers" of these exams). He shrugged it off. The crazy part? In every other aspect of his character, he was such a good guy that we remained best friends for years after.

Upper castes will tell you there's no caste discrimination in India. Three more anecdotes:

1) I take up a one-year position with my job in Chennai. Go around looking for an apartment. Looked at 2 apartments in a nice neighborhood. First question the landlords asked me: are you a Brahmin? They told me they couldn't rent to me because I wasn't.

2) In my office in Chennai I become friendly with a lot of the female staff. They start to tease me one day that they're going to find me a girl to marry. "Don't worry, we'll find you a Brahmin." The kicker? They weren't Brahmins themselves. This is the level of self-hate the Brahmin has bred into non-Brahmins.

3) I now live and work in the U.S. A new hire, Indian, joins. Visits my office one day. Tells me he left India because he hates the caste system. I start warming to him. A little while later informs me that he's a very high Brahmin. Not an ordinary Brahmin, mind you, a high Brahmin.
The fiduciary duty is to the shareholders not the company.
Nope. Look at the dot-com bubble and bust when in a single firm equity research pumped and investment banking got people to buy.

I asked a banker this exact question back then. All I got was flowery language of great walls and reputational damage.

We all know what happened. The bubble popped. The two sides don't need to talk. The equity research is public. Incentives are such that both sides want to pump.
Well you definitely won't get radiation sickness, and you can't get genetic damage directly from the ionizing radiation (there isn't any). And people argue non-stop about whether you might rarely get cancer from RF exposure, since cooking tissue is damaging and could possibly cause cancer.

I think everyone in the know agrees, though, that the threat profile from ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation is vastly different.
This topic really got me thinking.

A lot of us navigate by typing, be it CLI, in our IDE, URLs etc.
And we must have got used to type hundreds of times our company or project names every day, in many places.

I can't imagine typing <project name>/<project name> in a input box triggering in us a lot consciousness or extra care. Typing something more unusual could actually be more impacting I think.
Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals [pdf]
You are completely correct with your TLDR. I saw the same when a close family member had to battle their way through the medical system to live through (and eventually overcome) advanced cancer.

I’ve started to see doctors more like advanced chatbots than anything else.

They are good if you know what you need and how to formulate your questions. They are good at searching UpToDate (a database of DDx flows). They are good at treating specific problems.

But it is a very rare doctor who takes considerate time to understand a patient and treat them holistically. I believe this is why alternative medicine providers are able to peddle their voodoo so effectively. Many people who don’t feel understood by allopathic medicine turn to cranks, because at least the cranks listen to them and make them feel heard.
Yes the numbers are low, but here’s a source for comparison: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

The chart often used by pro nuclear sources comes from 2012, compares things to rooftop solar, etc. But more recent data is down as wind and solar deaths are extremely front loaded during construction.

PS: As to batteries etc. The fact nuclear power plants have hundreds of people drive to them every day is going to have associated traffic accidents over the lifetime of a power plant. Where you draw lines as associated deaths or not is somewhat subjective.