skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am close with several ICU and cardiac nurses. They are experts at what they do, so in a sense you could call them medical experts.

However they are medical experts in the same way that a plumber is a construction expert. I would not be surprised if a plumber was caught off guard by lighting codes.

The term is so broad as to be meaningless in practical application.
> The problem is that we don't control it and China does.

So, if TikTok was a US-based company (like Meta) fucking up peoples' minds (like Meta) it would be fine? Sounds a bit racist, if not everybody is allowed to destroy lives.
But this is one wrong done by many different groups, not two wrongs.
You're right. I'm sorry. It got too heated below my initial comment and I got upset. I'm not in a good place currently and I should probably refrain from commenting at all. And yes, I am not fun at parties.
The Russian speaking news sphere has been super mad about Kosovo for years, this isn't a new thing invented for the invasion.
The row of three pics near the top of the article are from a new model they have in the works that uses SD under the hood. It was available briefly as a test run. MJ’s additional magic over SD gets even better results.
I don't know where you think someone was forced to take the vaccine. It was always optional. It's just that there were additional controls, like going to indoor restaurants -- one of the very highest risk activities for disease spread -- or additional testing requirements.

In the US, nearly a 100 million people still have not taken the vaccine. If there was an effort to force anyone to take it, it sure doesn't seem to have been successful.
>it ought to be able to learn what we consider to be harmful.

Who is "we"? Do "we" consider nude paintings to be harmful?

Is "we" Mike Pence? Roman Polanski? Woody Allen?

There is no coherent "we" and no consensus on what "we" consider harmful, so no AI can possibly learn that.
And just the same, it happens within a field of expertise. Biases, groupthink, egos, etc. None of us, including science, is immune to such things.
I'm interested to read more about this if you have any links or want to sketch out a design
Ask HN: Best CompTIA A+ study resource?
I’ve got a friend interested into IT and working on getting a CompTIA A+ certificate. My route into tech didn’t include any certification (outside of my BS), so I know embarrassingly little about it… does anyone know what the best resource I can recommend to her for studying would be?
I'm glad that we have finally gotten past all of that fighting over resource control stuff and all of this is just a distant history lesson.

These days we only fight wars when dictators make us. Resources are completely irrelevant or at best, a minor side issue.

At least that is what most people seem to have been led to believe.
The ones on an Avery sheet? Yes! Through some trial and error you should be able to get it to generate a proper PDF.

https://label.live/faqs/design/how-do-i-setup-a-custom-label...
Is there a way to turn on ads temporarily without the privacy and security risks?
Yah, if you're looking for particular content or something it's not a great app. It's really meant to be a maximally configurable timewaster. The app doesn't care if you waste an hour on dancing videos or slime videos or politics videos, as long as you spend it on the app.

I don't think things go viral on it quite the way they do on other platforms - like on youtube, to a certain degree, anything viral enough is going to show up in the recommendations for everyone. Less so on TikTok, I think.
"It's entirely pointless. Humans are vastly superior in their ability to subvert and corrupt. Even if you were able to catch regular "harmful" images humans would create a new categories of imagery which people would experience as "harmful", employ allusions, illusions, proxies, irony etc. It's endless."

This is employing a fallacy that people have infinite amounts of energy and motivation to devote to being hateful. I have been on countless online communities in video games and elsewhere and when the chat in them doesnt allow you to say toxic, hateful stuff... guess what a whole lot less of that shit is said. Are there people who get around it by changing out characters to ones that look the same that dont trigger the censor or by using slang or by mispelling? Of course but the fact is I think if you talk to someone who runs communities like this they would laugh in your face if you said a degree of censorship of hate speech wasn't fundamentally beneficial.

A big aspect has got to do with the fact that if everybody agrees to be part of a community, part of that agreement is a social contract not to use hate speech and if someone flaunts that they are bypassing it.. in the obvious flaunting of the social contract established (it is obvious they had to purposely mispell the word) these people are alienating themselves by underlining the fact that the 99% of the community finds their behavior pathetic and unacceptable.
> What countries have "less terrifying politics"?

It probably correlates closely with the democracy index [1].

To go out on a limb and propose my own dumb hypothesis, I would wager that it is at least somewhat inversely proportional to percentage of tax base spent on military expenditures [2]. Countries that are growing or spending money on maintaining hegemony want to keep populations voting in a way that continues to support these industries. Distraction, polarization, disenfranchisement, and stoking nationalism are just a few of the ways this can be accomplished. Pacifist nations don't have these concerns and can focus more internally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
This article (and every other article I can find on the ban) conflates whipped cream cans[1] with whipped cream chargers[2], which is what the law[3] bans.

[1] https://www.gogetdelivery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/...

[2] https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/b73db9f0-6258-47a6-9954-bd7...

[3] https://legiscan.com/NY/text/A00754/2021
I have unfortunately witnessed fields of orange trees being cut down and replaced with PV panels. Our local market has indeed an oversupply of oranges (to the point that sometimes it's more cost effective not to cut fruit rather than pay employees to do it) but I can't help to think if removing fully grown trees is better for the environment.
Yes your partner is a medical specialist. I have also had partners who were nurses. My statement is still correct.

There is no such thing as a “medical expert” as the term is over broad and eg ER nurses are not required to advise patients on interactions of prescription medications.

That falls to the doctor and likely pharmacist.

It does not surprise me at all that a former ER nurse doesn’t know that some medication she got prescribed interacts with grapefruit juice.
Related discussion 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596182
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of climate change, and an argument from incredulity [1].

Somewhere between 0 and about 1000 ppm CO2, humans can survive comfortably. Probably a good deal more actually: we're acclimatized to the current levels since they are what persist.

Our entire civilization however is built on assumptions and historical patterns of climate and weather, agricultural land distribution, and population density for the current extant weather system. You cannot move millions of people over any less then multi-generational time frame and expect stable and productive society to persist. Economic systems don't know how to handle it: you sell your house for profit, or break even - you don't expect it's end of life to be a dead loss because the land is underwater, or now a desert, or the surrounding town has moved away because the increase in flooding made repairs and insurance in your area too expensive.

Climate change is about the fact that human civilization is not sufficiently flexible at our current population level and structure to reasonably adapt to serious changes over a span of about 100 years. Our ancestors dealt with change, but they dealt with it over thousands of years.

All of which is to say that there is a serious difference between making the sort of broad strokes, giant changes to a planetary atmosphere needed to terraform it where there are no existing occupants, arable land or other systems that need to be preserved - versus making targeted, collective-action based changes to an inhabited biosphere that must keep working.

If Mars was even slightly habitable, and we had people living there...then yeah, the things we can do at relatively low expense we suddenly can't do at all. But Mars is dead. There isn't a historical climate, there's no traditional farmlands, there's no invested human infrastructure. Any change to those things is a good change - we can do giant uncontrolled modifications in roughly the right direction and any outcome is going to be a good one.

On Earth, a giant uncontrolled change means you kill somewhere between millions to billions of people due to starvation.

It is telling though, that the changes Mars needs in the early stages are also just things we already can do on Earth and are doing too much of. Mars needs to be warmed. Earth needs to not be - though as the article notes, the same solar sail technology would work to provide an effective sun-shade to mitigate the CO2 increase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity
Two people who have never published in epidemiology stumble upon a new method for calculating excess deaths, at odds with all the existing sources, whether official sources like the WHO, domestic official government sources, or other independent groups like The Economist which have tracked this closely.

And lo and behold, what do they find? A wildly different result that shows no deaths from Covid and all the deaths from the vaccine.

No, I'm not going to sniff again, because it stinks to the high heavens.
After trying to find out how this works I am not the wiser.

How does this guarantee consistency across Docker, Kubernetes and the local environment?

How are base images selected? Where do the packages come from? Are the packages all Alpine/x86_64 or from Nix directly? Who builds them? Who signs them? Who deploys them?

Following the demo makes this seem more unlikely to be made with reproducable builds in mind, because it shows go's version to be darwin on the host system, which probably isn't going to be used on Docker!?
I have an MacBook Pro, which I really like. I recently wanted a second machine, running Linux, which I could (part of the time) use as a large tablet. I settled on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga, which I ordered with Ubuntu. It arrived with Ubuntu 20.04, which I immediately upgraded to 22.04. Everything worked fine out of the box (I haven't tried the fingerprint reader). This machine is not quite as fast as the MacBook Pro, but plenty good enough for me. I spend most of my time on this machine in Emacs.

Both of these are pricy machines, but I'm really satisfied with them.
You mean reliable, not secure, but there are two checks you got and if you didn’t read the warnings it’s on you. This whole thing is so nanny-state I can’t believe I’m having this discussion here.
Classes are a good feature to have, provided you aren't forced to use them and you don't go overboard with OOP (cough Java). Any equivalent becomes rough in some common use cases. I might be wrong, but it seems like Python approached it from that direction, with Py2 having half-baked classes.

Classes are also nicer to deal with in dynamically-typed languages, or at least ones with very smart automatic static typing. You don't get stuck dealing with all that pedantry.

Btw, your example works fine in OOP. It'd be parallelogram -> rhombus -> square. But yes there are examples of it not working well.
> TikTok is crack.

If you mean lots of propaganda meant to bolster racist sentiments.

Crack Babies: The Epidemic That Wasn't

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27coca.html
Indeed! This should be the way for other endeavors too ;-).
I'm here much as many others are --- to share and to learn.

Hopefully (and most usually) far more of the latter than former.
Yes it merely cost them their livelihood.

Cheers to you, you are factually correct. No one physically, with force, injected anyone with a vaccine against their will.
It would be less bad, yes, because American elites could more easily co-opt and control it to their support own agendas, like they are doing with Meta and Twitter and have done with all traditional media.

I have heard it said that in China, the TikTok algorithm heavily favors content supporting and glorifying science and engineering, in an attempt to encourage their youths to go into those fields, while here, they prioritize vanity like dancing and bodybuilding.
Certainly not one I agree with.
Crypto bros say it's worth tolerating 100x cost (technical cost, energy wasted, etc) and 100x more complexity (as one example, we are 7 years in and ETH is about to be 'reborn' the right way, with the transition to proof of stake) in exchange for what?

For a small but key piece of the 'decentralized' Web3 infrastructure to be controlled by a random stranger due to random events?

Welcome to the future, folks!
turns out that Ken Shirriff is the technical reviewer for this book! (I saw this in the early access PDF)
Falcon Heavy is not rated to carry humans because NASA has no need for it, had they designed Artemis around it, SpaceX would have been happy to do so.

Its literally just paper work, Falcon Heavy is already DESIGNED AND BUILT TO MEET human rating standards. They just didn't to the paper work.
The general concept sounds great, but it never lasts. Even if you’re paying for a service, the company will eventually realize they’re leaving money on the table not showing you ads.
For no. 2, WAL mode has this property, why not just use that? Is it for finer control over which version the readers see?
I doubt they merely turn a blind eye.

China's mass production and export of fentanyl strikes me as a literal modern Opium War.
Web3 fixes this but people think it's all about monkey pictures and scams.
I recently fell in love with Agda and it seems like you'd like it too. It's basically Haskell but even more mathematical, pure, abstract and total.
The closest I’ve ever seen are programmers that avoid data collection and surveillance. Like avoiding social media and using an ad-blocker. Not exactly mortal risk aversion.
Which was inspired by this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797
I'm neither meant to mark anyone as traitor nor I like how Facebook affected society. At the same time I totally for any limitation or sanctions against media companies controlled by totalitarian or authoritarian states. Allowing literal "enemy" propoganda machines to run freely while they banned everything in their own countries is madness.

Disclaimer: I'm not US or EU citizen. I just seen how my home country changed from liberal state of almost absolute freedom into authoritarism and then into fascism. Western democracies do all kind of things I dont like, but at least they dont risk to burn planet in nuclear fire.
They're often counterproductive. People feel accomplished, and finished with the half-measures and they often don't bother investigating the results or the ongoing requirements.
If you like his books but haven't read "Mother Earth Mother Board", a piece of hacker tourism published in WIRED in 1996, do yourself a favor:

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
I like this a lot. The interoperability with C is especially cool, one of the reasons I liked Rust too. And it covers concurrency well, which scripting languages usually don't.

Edit: Originally complained about lack of async/await but realized that fibers cover the use case for that.
tl;dr: Create a .gitignore in your ~ with an asterisk on the first line and `!.dotfilename` on subsequent lines; the asterisk means Git will ignore everything, and the ! means Git will un-ignore that specific file or directory. (Be sure to include the .gitignore file itself.) Use Git as normal and push. To deploy on another machine/account, the easiest method is to check out as normal into a temporary directory, then move the .git directory from that temporary directory into your ~ and run `git revert`. Git will see all of the missing dotfiles as changes to be reverted and revert them into existence.
> TikTok appears to be the optimum in social media platform evolution for the foreseeable future.

Could have been Vine, but we allow leaders in an industry to buy out insurgent, innovative competition and shut them down.

> Furthermore, all US-based social media is blocked in China, and there's an argument for reciprocity.

Reciprocity would be walling off sections of our social networks that could be bound to Chinese censorship laws. We get a special TikTok that isn't bound by Chinese censorship, if we want to be in China we must give them a special Facebook that is.
Correct, I originally wanted to write LLO but that wasn't correct either as that requries a space craft to fly insertion and many rockets couldn't do that. But TLI is what all rockets should be capable of doing.
I think we could all appreciate if anyone with an epidemiology background could explain what disqualifies data scientists from working with this dataset.

edit: Not a data scientists myself obviously
The conflict in Kosovo is literally what restarted active US-Russian Cold War, and very nearly direct armed conflict.
While this incident is certainly concerning a bigger question is which registrars can properly ward off attempts at social-engineering and other account access fraud and not sweep it under the rug. Even seemingly well intentioned companies utilize plain-text email for customer communication which is not exactly reassuring either.

MarkMonitor used to be a thing. Trusted by big companies but even the act of attempting to get information about their services has been met with difficulty. Regardless they have been acquired by an investment firm and there has been some concerns of quality-of-service because of that.
SpaceX is shaming all other effort (not an Elon fan but he is a game changer).
> Yes, manned space flight is slow and costly. Every few years I try to explain it but get downvoted on everything.

It is, yes. But why does that mean it isn't worth doing?
Yeah but just because you made a list of unrelated things, doesn't mean I have to let my kids get addicted to some silly government controlled app. I wouldnt want them to get addicted to gambling, or drugs either. Thatd be a dumb thing to do. The power of marketing is real.
I build machines in China today and studied ancient Chinese history. Can't answer off-hand but Science and Civilisation in Ancient China is the go-to reference text for these sorts of questions. It is a huge, many-volume series still being authored covering evidence of disparate types of scientific advancement in Chinese history. I believe the multi-part Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology will have the answers you seek, at least two parts of which are available on libgen. Perhaps someone with more time can post a summary here.
The only one of those apps I used when I was on mac for a few years was iMovie (actually my wife used it, I didn't use any of those apps).

Finder on the other hand...
I can't believe there's somebody on HN who actually wants this to fail. Just ... how unbelievably fucking selfish and self-absorbed.
> These days we only fight wars when dictators make us. Resources are completely irrelevant or at best, a minor side issue.

That would be nice wouldn't it?
You are surely not a health professional, your link is about Magnesium.
Here is a link to the actual dashboard:

https://buffer.com/transparent-metrics
I’m on blood thinners and Covid required me to double my dosage to not have clots. Lasted about six months before I was able to lower dosage.
IMO the various standards bodies should require validation against all commands and against a number of certified cables. Shoot, an automated test suite could absolutely identify all these issues. You should not be able to display HDMI, DisplayPort, or HDR validation unless your monitor passes these tests. I give them a pass when it is an OS specific bug, but most of the time it is not. My G9, for instance, doesn't sleep AT ALL even though Windows puts the monitor to sleep. Same story with Linux. Samsung just flat out borked sleep mode. FWIW I have an EVGA 3090 on the other end.

I have a Samsung G9 and it has many of these bugs...and I haven't even tried macOS on it.
Stability.ai is the industry leader in open AI.
Take this paper with a huge grain of salt. They went on a fishing expedition, then pointed an ML model at the data and reported some clusters. This is...questionable methodology. ML models will find a way to draw a discriminatory boundary for almost any classification problem.

On the other hand, there was this paper [1][2] from the NIH, which was a well-controlled, pre-registered cohort study, did pretty much every clinical test imaginable (about 150 different measurements per person), and found no measurable differences between "long covid" people and controls. This is a much better study, and rebuts the claim.

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/98885...

[2] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905
It makes sense if the intent is to protect Midjourney from being blamed for misuse. If they saw the potential misuse yet chose to do nothing about it, they'd be blamed. Lack of perfect solution is not an excuse for not offering any protection.
Well China, as in the Chinese government, is bad. So I'm fine with that message.
When we close ourselves off to new information, especially if it's contrary to deeply held beliefs, our opinions devolve from informed to merely dogmatic.
Maybe. But I asked for proof that Photoshop has any patents for its UX. So far, no proofs.
Tide pods challenge?

And other similar dumb lethal challenges?
I'm excited for the launch tomorrow. I'm too young to have experienced Apollo and this is the closest I'll probably ever get. We're going back to the moon!
Hmmm. Tequila (Nell's mother) vanishes which is weird (it's plot necessary, but in reading and re-reading I don't think she's even firmly written out, she just vanishes)

But the other recipients of the Primer both do something it's just that this novel isn't about them, indeed maybe the point is that their paths diverge so enormously. Princess Nell is exactly what Nell intended from the get go. We don't see Elizabeth and Fiona's first interactions with the Primer, it seems safe to assume they do not begin by escaping from a terrible castle since their lives are comfortable and there's nothing to escape from.

To the reader perhaps it seems like Fiona doesn't amount to anything, but we're not shown very much about it, and it may well be that to her this is every bit as much what she wanted out of life as Princess Nell's outcome. All we know about Elizabeth is that she joins CryptNet. The novel never even tells us (beyond hints) what CryptNet is about. It tells us what CryptNet claims to be doing, and it tells us that nobody believes that.

You could read it as the other two girls fail, but I'd argue that from what Elizabeth's grandfather says at the start, and what the Constable tells Nell later, we can see that the grown-ups have a sense that actually conforming to somebody else's expectations is exactly what they don't see as a path to success. All the parents want what parents so often want - younger copies of themselves, but that's stupid. Nell isn't what Tequila (or Bud) wanted, Fiona isn't what Hackworth wanted, and Elizabeth plainly isn't what her mother and father seem determined to make of her, which suits her grandfather down to the ground.
You want to ban all social media for children under 16/18? Fine with me. There'll be fewer children walking into you on the sidewalk because they're staring at their phones.