skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm gonna agree with qikInNdOutReply here: you work for a laundromat. If this has happened multiple times, it's entirely possible that all of the VCs involved are aware of it, and are in fact getting their money's worth. :-)

Here's my advice to you, and I'm not going to say IANAL because you don't need to be a lawyer to know this: you are working for shady people. If it is, as seems likely, a laundering front, the very last thing you want to do is "go to the investors", unless you really enjoy the feeling and weight of a custom pair of concrete shoes.

I would find another gig ASAP, and then and only then would I sit down and have a serious think about how much I cared about seeing these people get punished for what they're doing. Because the only people you should probably be going to are the SEC, and that would probably turn into a criminal case, and then you'd be getting the very strict attention of whomever set this up. And those people are probably not tech bros.

Up to you, man, but I would seriously suggest you consider this possibility.
Same story in Librewolf on Arch Linux.
I feel like the framing of Covid as a kind of flu contributed to the poor public response. Imagine if it caused boils on the face, or incontinence! I hope that people would have broadly supported lockdowns in that case, but I guess anything can be politicized these days.
OptiFi's program has been closed by mistakes we made
Matrix is good, too. It is not polished enough yet, and they need to work on content discovery, but otherwise I like them, too.
I’d say its more likely that they are vague because of regulations and liability.

IE you cant/shouldn’t give blanket medical advice and if you do you may be liable if someone has a bad outcome from the advice.
I think he's a manipulative asshole. He's a one trick pony who picks a random group, makes false claims about what they believe, which are obviously wrong, and then invites the reader to feel smarter than his target group by pointing out why the obviously wrong idea is wrong.

Bullshit along the lines of: Did you know statisticians believe the normal distribution curve is infallible and perfectly describe real world scenarios? This actually false. Therefore, statisticians are stupid, and you're smarter than them for understanding otherwise. And I am smarter than everyone for having pointed it out.

He doesn't force you to examine your own biases and assumptions. He tricks you into believing that you have done so and have come out wiser. He's just yet another fool and fraud in a pit of fools and fraud.
> The outcome? The highest quality site for information on supplements, vitamins, etc available on the Internet.

This just sounds like snake oil advertising but with the privilege of paying to see it.
Related:

https://www.gleisplanweb.eu/index-e.php

http://sporenplan.nl/
I specifically like Telegram because it doesn't have group groups =)
https://www.scytherobotics.com/
Recommendations for a Smalltalk intro?
to me, this is the future of technology I am interested in. Primarily, small scale technology that can be meshed up together to create awesome results.
I don’t understand. The blog is talking about death tallies which is an easily observed binary outcome. They weren’t trying to measure other outcomes. Are you thinking a COVID infection might kill you two years later? That seems unlikely. Might it cause other health impacts? That’s almost certainly true, see long COVID. But it’s simply not the analysis being done here. This is about figuring out the degree to which countries under reported COVID deaths.

What specifically do you find wrong with the methodology they took for figuring out the degree to which countries under reported COVID deaths?
I agree. One skill is recognizing the meaning from a sentence already formed (what Duolingo puzzles consist of). A very different skill is coming up with the sentence in the target language without hints.

There is the company called Assimil that has small books based on this concept, where first you are filling in the blanks (not choose from preexisting options) and as the book progresses you have to fill in more and more of the sentence.
Compile times like these are why I avoid C++ for numerical programming these days.
Because lots of people need more flexibility or lower cost than Apple Silicon. GPU, RAM, storage configurations, etc.

Apple Silicon is great but doesn't serve every need.
1 week of Stable Diffusion
It's the top of the thread, the comment that I replied to and was referring to.

> If it were a true meritocracy, I guess we would expect ~4-5% of US academics to be US born, given that it's our percentage of the world population, but in practice there are huge obstacles for foreigners to come and work here and succeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595436

My claim was that even avid restrictionists don't claim a global meritocracy. They are optimizing other axe: Volk-style prioritization,cultural stability, etc.
I wanted to do the same with but with a large agricultural tractor.

I think we are nearing the point where a camera can monitor my body movements and mimic it fairly accurately in a robot. Combine that with gloves for hand tracking, VR goggles, audio headsets and maybe haptic feedback and we can effectively have remote experiences.

Once that’s the case, you put a robot in a tractor seat; add a bunch of cameras (for VR), microphones (for audio), and a couple robot arms with humanoid hands attached (https://www.psyonic.io/ability-hand).

I can then remotely control the tractor in VR space, but have it operate 100 miles away
I have to admit that I don't understand your use case, but I'd be a hypocrite to denigrate your preference simply because it's not one I would use.
Nor did we have the data to say it WAS necessary, but we sure as hell could predict most of the negative social and economic side effects easily. Causing profound developmental delays in an entire generation of children and lowering lifetime educational attainment for almost every single teenager was worth it though, I guess.
Ah right, now i remember. Yes that would be de-googled-chromium then.
German movies which want to be recognized overseas usually go the Nazi road. That always guarantees an Oscar nomination.

And some weird dry German shows had appeal in similar weird neighboring countries (Neitherlands, Russia, China, South Africa, ...) such as Derrick.
Unrelated to the fact that its main actor was in the Waffen SS. This related factoid didn't help though.

Similar to the recent run of northern (danish & swedish) TV shows and trash literature in Germany. Proper quality foreign shows, like southern, indian or east asian shows would stand no chance.
Unlike some ad blockers, AdGuard’s business model, while for profit, doesn’t include taking money to let ads through, contrary to, say, AdBlock Plus or Ghostery.

AdGuard does have an option for users to allow inline search results ads and sites’ “self promotion” ads. More here:

https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/search-ads-and-self-promot...
Yeah the M1/M2 chips are amazing. In this one test the 5950X is about 50% slower than the M1Max so perhaps the 7950X will close the gap even more:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1498...
Downloaded it to try. Couldn't run it as it doesn't support macOS Mojave. (But still, thanks for making it available for free for all and not using the Apple App Store to distribute it).
> I fear that this conversation will take a drastic turn. But my view is that Russia invaded because Ukraine wouldn't backdown from joining NATO. After Russia invaded, Ukraine said it won't join NATO if Russia stopped the war. So isn't all this pain simply because Ukraine's leader (maybe backed by US?) didn't budge until too late?

Your view is entirely incorrect, we could argue all day about the different thing that Russia has used to justify its genocide of the Ukrainian people but we will never know if any of it's true because Russia will have another brand new reason tomorrow.

I do find it interesting that the initial invasion happened very soon after substantial energy deposits where found in the Donbas, which had a chance to knock out some of Russias dominance of the European energy market.
A better question might be: Why is the private sector responsible for providing accurate health information? As this article shows, the incentives for people running medical websites and the people reading them are not aligned. I'd say the UK NHS website and symptoms/medications pages hit the nail on the head - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/. It has no advertising and provides short, easily readable and actionable information on the majority of conditions and the correct way to use and take many different sorts of medication.

And crucially - if the information present is not sufficient, clear and obvious UI elements that direct the next best steps to get the help you need, whether that be ringing the non emergency helpline or immediately going to A&E. (It's been commented on before, but the new UK government sites are very consistently structured and open source their design systems https://service-manual.nhs.uk/design-system)
Is drafting even a separate role anymore. Most engineers seem to just do it themselves?

Cad software often includes simulation stuff which requires an engineers mind.
Whilst I agree unreservedly about the indications for b12 and it’s complete lack of medical benefit in any other situation, I’ve also experienced sections of the population that definitively require (… not medically, but like present to their GP) injections on a quarterly basis.

Specifically Australia’s elderly Hungarian and Eastern European population, it seems to be literally something inbuilt in them to come in and demand it. They swear by it. And as much as I absolutely hate tipping the hat to rubbish complementary and alternative treatments, or which vitamin supplementation has to be amongst the definitively most wasteful, it is simply not possible to convince some people
Yes, which boosted performance, and I think the X3D is not on the die, so easier to increase.
One effective way to improve indoor air quality is to stop using various "cleaning" sprays which contain VOCs.
You can get a CRP level from any lab without a doctors order for about $30. The correct test, drawn and handled correctly, unlike this method.
not to be less pessimistic, but is it 27cm this century or 27cm this millennium? I didnt find any timescale after a cursory glance at the paper but perhaps it doesnt matter in the scientific or wider view? As a human being though..

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01441-2
>How about not storing any information at all? Nothing to give, problem solved.

This means no history sync, no seamless device switching, no contact discovery, no search. That's not what people want.
> Ambition should be celebrated

Only if you mean skill growth and self improvement.

But pure greed - no, we have more than enough of that.
> The question you should be asking yourself is what are all these bad sites you're browsing.

One of the most helpful websites I've ever been to is trumpexcel.com (Excel tips, nothing to do with 45). It is absolutely ridden with ads however, so much so that it slows down my browser when I access it via the company computer.

So I just visit it now with adblock on. Perfect experience, everything still works. I'll likely sign up for one of their sold courses just to show my thanks, even though I really only get value for the articles.
There is no evidence that eg Google uses arbitrary class names in order to index metadata over the accepted standards of microdata.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
Yep. America used-to have wheelchair-bound president 100 years ago, for Christ's sake. Now, it would be completely impossible. Presidents have to look good, or at least healthy. Even the senile Joe Biden is actually looking pretty crispy.
Eh. Yeah sure things are hard for kids who aren't very good at figuring out basic concepts. But a lot of games from that era were actually genuinely really hard and still are. I just thought this one was supposed to be a really tough game.
You're right, I misspoke ! For Zen 3 they announced the 5800X and released the 5700X later (with the same TDP as the GP's 3700X), whereas for Zen 4 they announced the 7700X and the 7800X will probably be released later.

Indeed every CPU announced here has a higher TDP than the previous generation, which isn't the best. Hopefully lower TDP SKUs come out as you mention.
I’m curious how the performance of the new AdGuard extension has changed.
You said it yourself, we were lacking the data which in a fat tailed event like a pandemic means that you should be as careful as possible.

It boggles my mind that people don't understand how to act under uncertainty.
I used to use the Logitech K480 for this, which is a non-folding Bluetooth keyboard with integrated phone stand. Though it was as bulky as carrying a small tablet or laptop would've been, it was still convenient - at the time my only laptop was a 17" tank.
AMDs roadmap says Zen 5 in 2024, so you’ll be more likely to get 2 or possibly 3 generations.
Going by this argument we should lock down for every possible adverse future event where it might help.

Thinking about it lockdowns could definitely help with climate change, should we just lock down for the next 20 years?
You can try hamsterbase

https://github.com/hamsterbase/hamsterbase

1. 100% offline, no network requests will be sent. (The downside is that I don't know how many users I have

2. self-deploying. Provides docker image, compressed javascript source code (no binary).

3. open source API documentation and SDK

4. currently free, no restrictions.

5. support full-text serach and highlight webpages.

6. desktop and P2P synchronization in development

10 years later, this project will still available.
Sure, but that's again due to 2035 being such a far away time. Or that x% of electricity coming from renewables being on some timeframe. The negatives effects of these plans are rarely highlighted by governments in the here and now. Likewise those effects are often not felt for a while.
Thanks! To anyone else looking at the graphs, beware they are logarithmic.
> Not only did lockdowns fail

That's the exact opposite conclusion the article finds while taking into account more countries and just one.

If you have to search out a single country out of over a hundred to find supporting data you probably are just p-hacking ....
Like go to the store and buy identical pens but of 100 different colors. Now throw them down the stairs and record which goes the farthest. Now repeat it again. Do this enough times and you'll find a pen with p<0.05 that goes the farthest. That pen isn't actually superior, you're just doing garbage analysis.

> I sincerely hope that the responsible people will face justice that is just as harsh as the lockdown enforcement was

I'm sure they're be so upset to get free money per month while not having to work.
Most medical research is junk science that doesn't replicate so any site relying on those studies is probably going to be useless anyway. That could be why the satisfaction is so low.
“Humans of Midjourney” with GPT-3 quotes
That’s a nice description of your prejudices, but you failed to show any facts that would support it. For starters - why do you assume the elections, which essentially work the same way as presidential elections in US, would be staged?

Again, China is not Russia. Mentality-wise, USA is closer to Russia than China is.
on the other hand, systemd and Wayland could be described the same way
> The single-minded minded Web developers with a focus only on styling

Again with the attacks.

There is no evidence that eg Google uses arbitrary class names in order to index metadata over the accepted standards of microdata.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

Given I know what microdata is, when to use it, and how it's different to CSS, I'm not sure what bubble this would be. Perhaps the one that is familiar with Google crawling?
> ~60,000,000 Bison in North America in 1600 [1]

Your data is absolute trash.

There was no objective accurate measurement of bison in 1600, that is why you see ranges of 50 to 100M animals.
>>I cannot imagine living in a population density of of 742 people per mi² (287 per Km²).

Can't tell from your comment - do you think that is higher-density or lower-density compared to where you are now?

That is high compared to the USA as a whole, but 742/sq mile is low compared to ~50 other countries, and is lower than many states in the USA - i.e. DC, MA, NJ and CT.
To those familiar with the HTML DOM I recommend uMatrix from the same author as uBlock origin. It makes a good companion to uBlock Origin and provides much finer control.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
Does the magnitude explain excess deaths though? What this paper is saying is that rate of weight gain among already-obese kids was higher during the pandemic.
Does that rate correlate to covid death rates? Seems like a metric for childhood obesity isn't going to get there in any case, since these folks aren't dying at significant rates.

This kind of argument is exhausting. You said that excess deaths are confounded with obesity. I said that if they were, it would be comparatively easy to measure, so I suspect your hypothesis is simply wrong. Then you came back with a number that showed weight gain among kids, which I didn't try to refute.

Your hypothesis is a Big Thing. You're saying people are dying in very large numbers (millions a year), from existing syndroms that we have been tracking for decades. And... somehow epidemiologists are silent on that? It seems suspicious, you agree, right? Isn't the Occam's razor take is that you're simply wrong here, and that people are dying from a pandemic and not obesity?
A flood of illustrations may also devalue illustrations themselves.

Often people value things specifically because they're scarce, and because they took effort to make (e.g. hand-made vs factory-made).

So I wonder if AI art will devalue all illustrations to the level of memes and stock photos. Or maybe some illustration style that AI is bad at will emerge, and become more desirable?
This is what I planned to do for a second run as farmer. I got hit with a fire and lose all my clothes near the start. I found that to be pretty funny. Hunting was too tedious to see if it was still a viable run in the long run.
Exactly. It seems like a common pattern - I often wonder how much a rise in popularity is because of those that like it vs. those that are somehow angered by it.
The phenomenon they describe for health information is, IMHO, absolutely rife across many different domains. Try looking up information about gardening, plant management, home improvement, etc - you'll find the same thing. Search results dominated by sites that have mastered the art of producing SEO-optimised "content" that is not authoritative, full of waffle, and not especially helpful.

For whatever reason, the business model of "draw a huge amount of traffic" outcompetes the business model of "provide a really good source of information".

It's interesting to ponder why in very specific domains, that's not the case: for instance, StackOverflow dominates in programming queries, and provides very useful content.

Someone much smarter than me should write a really good blog post about this.
Depending on the type of work that you wish to get into (for getting side paid), i would caution this approach...Because when i did my side hustle, i reached to family and friends, and they only ended up connecting me to the typical bagel showps who "wanted a website". you can imagine where engagements went from there. Either the clients want Google/Facebook-level engineering for pennies, or they conduct massive scope creep, or keep saying non-helpful feedback like "my nephew in high school can do this, why are saying it taakes time, costs X money?", etc.

The only scenario where this might work is if your family/friends actually work in corporate America. Why? Because they might understand projects, scope, vendor payment, etc...and they might likely connect you with clients who have similar understanding of project work, etc. I've never had such luck...but maybe that can be a good direction.
They have already been experimenting with expert knowledge systems in hospitals for decades. I am not sure what the result of that is but I rarely ever hear of them anymore.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/photosnew/dealer_lornabysk...
Do you retain standard qwerty staggered layout muscle memory?

I heard using colemak and stagger column makes your muscle memory confused because it is similar with staggered row qwerty.
Yes, games were censored, but they stayed the same for the rest of the world. Its a simple value change to make the blood green, so it was easy to pull off. For companies vying to get into China, they have to change the whole product for nearly everyone to get accepted, or have massive amounts of that product censored, and made to be a lesser product as a result. For those companies, why would you risk not only being rejected but having your movie gutted when you can just rewrite the whole thing to work with what the Chinese want? Thankfully videogames are not nearly as concerned with getting china dollars as movie studios so we aren't getting that kind of widespread global censorship yet. But really, its only a matter of time unless something cracks.
Mind providing more info on how you set that up?
It's one conventional blood marker, widely used in medicine. Not suspicious IMO.
Building a simple dynamic job scheduler with Sidekiq
Is network television in the US obligated to show Russian propaganda?.
As other comments hint but don't directly say: the incentives for WebMD are the same as any other website: revenue through ad sales. WebMD is owned by Internet Brands, which is owned by private equity, so of course it's not just revenue, but profit. Any website needs a source of money, just to pay to keep the lights on, much less develop and maintain the content. As long as ad-driven revenue is the incentive, the result will always be perversely steered towards attention-getting content.
This sort of boycotting will only work when widely supported by both developers and users and this is not the case. Despite all the public outcry and news outlets telling that the end is near, it didn't affect the Chrome's share.

> Without us chrome would likely not be in the position it is today and google could not dictate the terms like they do.

I kind of disagree with this. Google Chrome's current popularity stands on two things:

1. It is a great browser and it does its job very well.

2. Google in the first years was very active with its distribution. And this is not only about the link on their homepage. I remember how 10 years ago every piece of software you were trying to install was bringing Chrome alongside.

Engineers recommending Chrome to their friends and relatives shouldn't be discounted, but I tend to think that it's less important that the two other points above.
I can get onboard with most of this.. until the end. COVID deaths don’t just mean everyone losing 15 days of life. To me it meant multiple family members dying. It means my respiratory system has been absolutely wrecked, hopefully not forever but for at least several months now. It means my infant son is gasping for breath on my lap as I write this and there’s nothing we can do for him. Statistics in white towers are so decoupled from humanity they are worse than useless; these selfish attitudes cause real harm.