skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And bill gates is worth more then 100B, I should just go and be bill gates #2?

The mobile space is swamped with people trying to be the next fate or the next genshin or the next etc etc. Again, as I said in another comment, it's fine to get your feet wet and diversify, but just because one (1) company can make it big with anime girls doesn't mean you will or that it's a sure bet. If anything, the gacha space is way to saturated at this point and the whales by their nature of being whales, there just aren't that many to go around.

My argument really isn't Sony should ignore mobile but their small footprint isn't the crime for shareholders that game media people like OP make it out to be.
Netflix iOS app suggests download from the Wii Shop Channel
I find the cognitive dissonance that goes into thinking that the vaccine for a virus must be causing the increased rate of effects from an actual infection to be fascinating.
For most people weight creeps up on them slowly. Losing a lot of weight quickly does require radical changes to diet, but not putting on the pounds in the first place is generally going to be a matter of burning an extra few hundred calories a day.

Also, just not being sedentary all day is associated with a ton of positive health outcomes (possibly mental even more than physical) independent of body fat percentage. So it’s worth it all on its own.
Ask HN: Is there innovation in non-virtualized non-containerized shared hosting?
I read http://adamierymenko.com/ports.html and thought it was interesting. I think there is a lot I need to understand to fully understand it - so be gentle. But I think it is trying to say if you had bear metal, install (a patched?) Linux on that, you could use the built in user permissions to host multiple applications separately, and it would be secure.

Is there any providers that provide this sort of hosting? Is this kind of what those old school "shared hosting" PHP-type hosting providers (like Hostgator, for example) are providing? Or is that different. I guess those are more locked down, you can't just run anything, but they normally come with Ruby, PHP, Node and so on.
Has anyone compared excess mortality between highly vaccinated countries vs countries with low uptake?
I'm sure Pfizer will be happy treating ED later on - both those who got COVID-19 and those who didn't but get vaccinated and get injured.
Funnily enough, if you don't like injections insulin can also be insufflated (inhaled) as a dry powder. Affreza[0] has been on the market for some time, but hasn't caught on. Pills/tablets are a more acceptable delivery mechanism for most people, but I can't help wonder if making insulin like a Goody's powder would be better. Instead of swallowing it just keep a powder next to your cheek and let it absorb into your system.

[0]: https://afrezza.com/
Cloudflare claimed they were going to fight FOSTA but I've seen absolutely nothing done about it.
unit tests and good design eliminate the vast majority of needs for old-fashioned debugging
it might be worth making dynamodb optional, so all s3 compatible remotes can be used. i made it non-optional to simplify implementation and documentation. there are no knobs, no conditional semantics.
Fortunately, it should be possible to determine which is true, since there is a very large control group in the form of people who have opted not to be vaccinated.
Yeah, I did wonder about that, but they could've just recorded the interview.

Although that did happen, but I think that was the recruitment agencies: they'd debrief their candidates after their interviews, and the next time they sent someone in, they'd be prepped for the whiteboard design exercises we'd used previously. I ended up with a dozen different questions that I rotated, which seemed to be enough.

General interview questions were often prepped too. Our phone screen question list had to grow quite long before it seemed like the effort to cram/prep was too much trouble.
Well, you can't. No data how effective they are against BA.2.75 and the plethora of variants that will dominate the upcoming fall-winter season!
This might be spam, but I also like playing solitaire and hate ads, so I made solitairesport.com. It's simple and has some bugs, but plays well enough on mobile and costs me essentially nothing. Few people use it because buying ads cost money. Maybe a search engine that could remove hits that contained ads would help mobe things in the right direction.
We had this happen to the company I was at around 2015. I heard about it after the fact, good phone interview, a Salesforce position, he's hired (contract I think). Day one the person that shows up barely speaks English and can barely log in to Salesforce. Maybe he thought he was going to a bigger department and could hide and blend in, but it was a small Salesforce team at a large company. He lasted less than a day and was escorted out. The placement agency apologized. A lot.
> gain prestige without going to war.

Has war ever been about prestige ?
You can just stick with 0, 1, 2, and 3 for base pi. If you need a number between 3pi and pi^2 you can build to it after the decimal place.
> Olympics [...] literally is the highest competition for sport in the world.

Says who? This is strictly down to prestige.

Btw, association football is played at the Summer Olympics. But you'd be hard pressed to argue that it's the highest competition for football. By prestige, that's the FIFA World Cup. By skill, it's perhaps the UEFA Champions League. [0]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_Summer_Olympic...

[0] I don't know enough about football to say for sure that the Champions League has the highest skill on display. But even the Champions League has way more prestige than the Summer Olympics for football.
>is the United States determined to deal with this earth war? How much are you willing to pay to protect Taiwan?

Yes the US is very much determined to win such a war. A free and independent Taiwan is the linchpin of American foreign policy in Asia. America is willing to spend great fortunes in treasure and blood to keep it that way.
How about “prediscomfitation”
Politicians with donors and special interests to please keep pushing our foreign interventionism. The actual people here in the US don't really want to fight in any wars or instigate conflicts. But a representative democracy is not what we really have here any more.
Have you seen NightHawkInLight:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFtc3XdXgLFwhlDajMGK69w

LaserSaber:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIKzUKkh7XtnSYPW0AJb-9w

or StyroPyro:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJYJgj7rzsn0vdR7fkgjuIA

They have similarity to the Quint BUILDs channel that the knife throwing machine video came from. They all do some pretty crazy builds.
If the spike is toxic and widely distributed in the body from the vaccine, it seems plausible.
Anecdata of n = 1 but two weeks ago I was hospitalized due to a stroke (IA).

I'm 38 years old, exercise vigorously for 10-12 hours per week, am a healthy weight for my height, have good blood pressure and cholesterol, and have zero known risk factors other than a COVID infection a bit under a year ago. I'm not ready to blame COVID just yet (we're still searching for an underlying cause) but my doctors and nurses all described a highly concerning uptick of strokes over the past few years, including for those like me who are generally in good health.

I was lucky to have recovered with essentially no noticeable deficiencies, but many of those with similar stories I've spoken with in the weeks since weren't so lucky and have permanent impairment.
Off the cuff, it sounds like a reference to an assessment of a risk-adjusted population as a whole relative to pre-COVID baseline.

COVID-19 does massive damage generally.
There is a deep irony in writing an over-worded essay that effectively says 'I don't like it when people outside my profession regulate my actions'. Keep It Simple, Stooge.
i mean, we shouldn’t kid. a lot of kids, with excellent salaries, have access. i’m sure they are a varied bunch. their disposition and competencies are unknowable.
Tournament brackets are not used to determine an objective best in a fair way. They are used because they are entertaining.
Very simple-minded view despite that America is hugely overweight and have issues besides covid.

Also your logic is wrong. If vaccine is safe and effective, the life expectancy would remain the same (IE: no additional deaths due to covid)

You're trying to make a point and not making a very good job of it.
Type-1 diabetic. I am not sure how much this will change the situation in the richer parts of the world, as tablets still seem inferior to me compared to pump deliver (my current method of choice). As pumps in terms of fast-acting (bolus) insulin will still allow for finer granularity delivery (tablets will come with fixed dosages and most likely never as small as say 0.1 units which is ~1/100 of the dosage I use for a “standard meal”), less delay between injection and effect as it does not pass through your digestive tract, and I suspect (not a medical doctor) that it may be more reliable in terms of uptake as your stomach uptake rate at least for carbohydrates depends on things like what you have eaten earlier during the day. Furthermore, pumps also allow for better control over your long-acting (basal) insulin rates which can be programmed or temporarily altered if you say skip a meal.

However, I still think this can mean a world of difference for those in less sanitary conditions, those who are uncomfortable with having a device attached to them at all times, and those in places where relying on a technology supply chain is not feasible. Heck! Even pump users need to have emergency insulin at hand in case our pumps break; I would take tablets any day over the complexity of injections.
Maybe the idea is you can upload one or two example shots to develop a look for use in another tool (via an exported LUT)? It’s hard to imagine uploading enough raw footage to grade anything longer than a commercial…

I developed a WebGL powered CC tool which centered around LUTs about 5 years ago, and this is the reason I abandoned it. No one is asking for this workflow.
Counterpoint: Wolf Warrior Diplomacy is extremely counterproductive to CCP Foreign Policy and diplomatic goals. It does it anyways.
There’s a great photo from the 70s of a football player resting during the super bowl halftime, enjoying a smoke and a beer
It will also be very interesting to see how mortality data trends during the next couple of years.

I know there's a cohort of people that are pointing out at a certain national level field experiment as the cause of increased mortality, but there are also very valid reasons why we would see an increase in mortality now. More data will reveal to which degree each group is correct, and thankfully, we have a robust control group.
The definition is widely accepted now to include targeting either a group, or an individual[1]. The "stochastic" component is that no individual or group is being specifically directed by command to carry out the attack, but the speaker is knowingly or negligently adding rhetoric to incite someone to do so.

But you're also conflating terms: criticism is not an incitement to violence. An incitement to violence is specific: "I think it would be great if some implied violence happened to that group I don't like".

It's specifically not considered ST to say something like "I hope some legal consequences happen to this person who I think is committing crimes" because amongst other things, that's a call to the application of the justice system, not terrorism.

It's also worth noting that other incitements, like encouraging someone to commit suicide has been found to be a punishable crime - and this is the sort of action Kiwi Farms specializes in and openly supports against their targets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_attack#Stochastic_te...
Spectation is the ultimate priority for all these events. Almost everything else is a means to an end.
Explain how the COVID vaccine which does not 1) Prevent becoming infected with COVID, 2) Does not prevent spreading COVID to others, 3) Does not prevent COVID symptoms is a vaccine again? Also using the CDC definition that was specifically changed because the COVID vaccine didn't meet the definition of vaccine doesn't count.

Additionally how about we don't just jump to lumping huge numbers of people into out groups to feel better about ourselves and create divisiveness? Or go to Reddit where you can cheer on people dying.

https://yournews.com/2022/07/11/2375584/emails-confirm-why-c...
I think it's now too late for the west.
I'm not overweight, I'm a double-vaxxed, very athletic (weight training and running habits) and I got nailed hard on the post-acute sequalae front. Dry cough, shortness of breath lasted over two months. I had to completely stop strength training as it's a known risk factor for long covid-inspired problems like mitochondrial dysfunction and dysautonomia. I had the latter and it was a deeply existentially displeasurable experience.

I got back into it not long ago and feel I've dodged a bullet, and learned a lot about how not to take health for granted.
AlphaGo/MuZero/LeelaZero are not completely NN-based. They're still Monte Carlo Tree Search. Completely NN would have to be some sort of bitboards in moves out thing. That's not a thing afaik. They rely a lot more on the NN though is my understanding, sacrificing search depth for the compute.

LeelaZero does compete, and Stockfish tends to outcompete it. It's my feeling that MCTS, while necessary with go's branching factor making minimax approaches untenable, is not actually a win in chess compared to alphabeta paired with the decades of heuristics that have been developed. I have some complex reasons for believing this. One of them is that Stockfish' move ordering relies heavily on statistical "learning"(histories, continuations, killer move heuristic, etc) heuristics that are probably more powerful if your search is wider. This probably applies to Transposition/pawn tables as well.

More importantly, I'm sceptical of the amount of useful inference that can be made from a static position in chess vs go. I barely even know the rules of go, but I am an expert level chess player. I think go has a lot more static structure that likely makes larger NNs more useful than they are in chess. Chess is far more illuminated by specific tactical themes in the position that are very effectively picked out through qsearch paired with move ordering heuristics and caching. With chess, I think there's some point when inferring anything more is just gonna involve search anyway. And you don't want ad hoc search appearing in the eval function because that won't benefit from tables and move ordering heuristics.

And yes, certainly there's lots more to gain for Stockfish, and their incessant improvement is impressive. And obviously the size of their community is a huge advantage. But I don't actually think MCTS is the way to go for chess, ultimately. Minimax based techniques are just too damn effective, with a sprinkle of NN.

Shogi is an interesting in between here. Conceptually like chess, but with a much higher branching factor. I'm not at all aware of the state of the art of shogi minimax search though.
"Dictatorship of the Articulate" is a quality phrase. The actual piece is a waste of time.

Andreesson capitalism build worship supplemented by for instance American Enterprise Institute propaganda that does not reflect reality.

Would downvote if I could.
it's also not cut and dry skill across every player you meet. certain play styles might be one person's kryptonite and a non-factor for others. that's how you get into situations where player A can be beat player B who beats player C yet somehow C can beat A a lot.
> I'm sure they're capable of building their own super computer without A100s

They are most certainly not capable of doing this without silicon imports. Chinese manufacturing is hopelessly behind for the next decade at least.
Ah, now I understand. That makes total sense. Thanks for your detailed explanation.
> we don't live in a dictatorship where a flick of a finger can end a project after all.

Sure we do: they're called planning, zoning, or environmental review boards. And process by which they operate has been engineered to make it increasingly easier to stop projects. In some states like California, any random person (they don't even need to live in the community!) has the power to stop projects for months, if not years, all but guaranteeing either failure or massive budget expenditures.

Your argument is basically a Slippery Slope argument. The flaws in Slippery Slope are well known, but the mentality is so very attractive to the way humans think. See, e.g., Prospect Theory. As a community becomes wealthier, more people have more to lose, and they will predictably become ever more cautious about change--any kind of change, even change that on its face is positive and enriching. In the back of their minds they're thinking, "But what if this, or what if that, later on down the road, causes the loss of what I already have." Everything begins to look like a zero-sum game.

Perhaps the only thing worse than this state of affairs is the complete opposite state of affairs, where most people are desperately poor. They have nothing to lose so they're happy to leap from radical project to radical project chasing a parade of cheap promises made by snake oil men. See, e.g., most any poor country.
What’s the green book?
Git is literally an SSH sever so management is not a complex as you think.
The premise is wrong, technological change has slowed only in relative terms, not in absolute terms: https://twitter.com/ThomasPHI2/status/1516079819913674759
> I would agree with your last two statements except for the fact that this is the Olympics we are talking about, which literally is the highest competition for sport in the world.

I don’t think it is. People don’t really care about the olympics. It’s a far cry from the FIFA World Cup where basically every bars broadcast the games.

Football is the most popular sport in the world and used to be absent from the Olympic and is now present in a mostly uninteresting format. Tennis is fun but not taken that seriously now that it doesn’t carry ATP points.

It’s fairly important for swimming, track and field and the other sports people never watch otherwise.
To be fair, we documented it happening in real time -

https://austingwalters.com/covid-19-vaccine-deaths-being-cod...

UK government was counting gene therapy (“vaccine”) deaths as covid19 deaths. Which I mean, kinda?

Regarding the fatalities, yes obviously part of them are from the gene therapy. The question was were they primarily from the gene therapy.

https://austingwalters.com/covid19-vaccine-risks/

It turns out all the predictions people were making about the gene therapy risks came to pass. I was credited by many of the “anti-vax” crowd for discovering the first real trend of this happening in the US cdc data (led to a lot of death threats and what not).

After my blog and people picked it up, the CDC did a major edit to the data -

https://austingwalters.com/changes-in-the-cdc-counts-of-deat...

The only time I’d seen that in the 2 years I had been monitoring it (I tracked the data from 2019 - 2021). No idea why, but tracked what changed.

Anyway, to your point. All of those were predicted by people who knew how the gene therapy worked (I did take bioengineering classes, and knew mRNA was highly experimental), as well as those monitoring data (where I primarily worked from). The data is frankly overwhelming in one area, but it’s difficult for people to admit what Obama put so well…

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1517239870875447297

It’s an experiment. We didn’t know the long term effects (still don’t), but the fact it caused heart damage (“rarely”) still means it probably happens a lot, but won’t be discovered for a while. That said Covid19 spike proteins are believed to be the cause; so the gene therapy and the disease both likely cause the heart damage. The thing with the gene therapy is the proteins were produced rapidly and we didn’t / don’t know how long it lasts or the rate. So it could cause more damage, imo evidence supports it was more damaging.
In many (most?) manufacturing industries there is an upper limit on export product performance. If you make steel, there are a bunch of types/grades subject to limits related to their use in nuclear technology. If you make microphones there is a limit on those that might be used in sonar arrays. Certainly all manner of limits exist in aerospace. Even game consoles have been limited (Iran). This is not an unusual regulation.
Regarding excess deaths, Dr. John Campbell has an interesting video on the subject [0], mainly regarding Scotland but he talks about other countries as well.

Of course, as excess deaths increase, average life expectancy will reduce.

Seems many countries have seen a big increase in excess deaths, but thus far the cause is unknown. These 'cause unknown' excess deaths are not attributed to COVID, as COVID deaths are a separate category.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wLu98NygrA
At the very least, it’s useful for bootstrapping agents.
Not gonna lie, I vastly prefer that. Not to say I bombard people with entire encyclopedias when messaging, but…I dunno. I guess, maybe this is the result of being one of those “elder millennials” I send text messages with the kind of intentional and to the point messaging style with the brevity of someone who pays $0.50 per message like it’s 1999 and isn’t running across the house to respond to every blip and beep my phone makes.

(Interestingly once I scared off a potential dating partner who is heavily into texting constantly and called me out for my asynchronous messaging habits and I flatly responded “sometimes I just want to put my phone down and do literally anything else”)
Or a page settings/preferences dialog reminding you that saving your settings isn't going to work. Sure maybe the user "should know that", but not everyone is totally in command of their own browser's settings.

Or a game warning you that your progress will be lost.

There must be tons of legit use cases.
From a resource perspective, it's fascinating how much money was incinerated on COVID.

Just in legislative health spending, and in spending by the Exectuive you're talking $1.2 TT dollars spent (with much more still allocated)[1].

Imagine if just 1% of that went towards cardiovascular health. We could have seriously moved the needle on the cause of diseases that consistently kills orders of magnitude more people. And sure, COVID had three months when it was the leading cause of death[2]. But just heart disease, kills nearly as many people every month.

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[1] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-o...
If we want progress, it's important to draw a distinction between the different effects of regulation.

Some regulation enforces the status quo, by helping entrenched interests use their power to crush potential innovators.

Other regulation restricts big players from abusing their dominance, and helps create a level playing field where innovation can succeed on its merits, no matter who's behind it.

It's not helpful to say that what we need is more rules, or less rules. What we need is rules that create a fair playing field.
This looks an awful lot like patent trolling.

IIUC, Qualcomm could have designed and fielded the exact cores Nuvia did, under their existing license. That Nuvia had rights under some other license to ship their designs should have no effect on what Qualcomm is (also) allowed to ship.

That said, Qualcomm is also an evil licensing troll, and if they agreed to stupid terms, that is on their heads.

It would not be surprising if Qualcomm sidestepped to RISC-V, or a proprietary variant of it that they like better, and left ARM behind. But maybe the microarchitectural mojo in the licensed ARM cores they use has permanently tainted them. If so, again, nobody deserves that more.