skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is remarkable how far cancer treatment has progressed, even in the last few years. I'm one of the unfortunate people who, through a close family encounter with cancer, knows more about this stuff than anyone should have to. The oncologist told my relative that if they had presented with this particular cancer just a decade ago, his recommendation would have been to start hospice care.

However, in recent years, a very effective checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy has been developed for the cancer in question. ~2x the success rates of traditional chemo, greatly increased overall survival statistics, and with massively reduced side effects. The results speak for themselves: this drug has granted my relative years of extra life in the worst case, and a path to a deep, long remission in the best case.

I think that as the technology develops, by 2040 we'll be looking back at the present state of the art with the same incredulity that we currently have for, like, bloodletting with leeches in the Middle Ages. I think they've been saying this for a long time now, but it's truer than ever that a real cure for cancer is right around the corner.
I have a (completely unresearched, unfounded, probably not accurate) theory that the exceptional prosperity in US that the boomer/early-gen-x generations saw, which had ultra-cheap housing relative to income across the US, ultra-cheap everything in the US, industries expanding so fast that schooling became less important in the US, all of that was a fluke.

For a couple decades a majority of people in the US had effectively gotten coupons for half-off everything they desired.

It wasn't normal, but it made those generations in the US so mentally lazy that it effectively poisoned huge swaths of the following generations, fooling them into thinking it was always going to be that easy. So now we're trying to sort out exactly why those born and raised in the US are doing so poorly now.
According to other reports, he was an Egyptian living in America. His citizenship status wasn't reported.

Not sure it matters... but it does complicate the usual "Americans behaving badly abroad" narrative.
It looks like they were lesser works, not worth the trouble (in the way you mean).

It was not a bust of Cesar or something like that.
The effort that it must have taken to lay the "Polar Express" cable for such a thin population -- you think they'd just use satellite access.
When foreign electronic companies came in, same goes for RCA.
Water rights are such a sticky subject and require a comprehensive overhaul, as is I fear there is no 'simple' way to go about pricing the use under the current framework.

How many stakeholders are there with water rights to the Colorado river across the various states, and how many of them would need to buy-in to a pricing structure to get it adopted for all?
I’ve had two hallucinagenic experiences (acid and 2c-I) and I never got any life changing experiences. Is it like hypnosis where you have to believe in it to have it work? I know someone cured of an addiction from her hypnosis so I know these things happen.

I would say I absolutely had hallucinations and the experiences were powerful and long lasting, but I’m still aware it’s a trip.
No one said they aren't. Yet there's always someone in any given thread about a Chinese app jumping to its defense saying "but Silicon Valley."

So should no one speak out against concentration camps, cultural genocide, and mass sterilization in China today because the same things have happened historically in the United States? China being an adversary should have nothing to do with it? If we can't point out such a problem with an app, then the road we're going down is we can't say anything else about China either.
It seems to use the same bag of tricks Facebook/LinkedIn/etc. use to track things you do "off-app": tracking code in share widgets, injecting JS into the in-app browser, tracking cookies[1].

If ByteDance ever releases an Onavo style VPN app, people are going to lose their minds.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-data-privacy
If you are honestly interested in an answer (which I doubt) here are some studies linked for the carbon impact payback: https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24332461-400-what-is...

It's around 6 to 9 months.
By Chinese law all data must be made accessible to the government. Of course, it's also an authoritarian state where the government isn't hamstrung by the legal system in any way.
While the Apple II and the PET/Commodore 64 were big here in Canada, I sure wished we had the BBC Micro here too.
I'd be wary of putting too much stock in the conclusions of an article which portrays Elizabeth Loftus as an impartial and objective debunker of false memories, as this one does. She was paid large sums of money to defend scores of men accused of child sexual abuse, extrapolating from her experimental demonstration that it is possible to implant false memories to the conclusion that this was common and the true origin of most recovered memories
This conflict of interest somehow always goes unmentioned in articles like the one from Wired.

Many CSA survivors today now say that the obsessive focus on "false memories" has been a significant obstacle to healing from their trauma and being able to discuss it openly.

https://twitter.com/mike_salter/status/1211442594821001216

https://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controv...
HEVC UAPI Mainlined
The independent analysis [1] concluded that "there are currently no adverse environmental, scenic, recreational, or economic impacts resulting from the drill break or presence of Remaining Materials 50 to 70 feet below the sea floor, nor is there a reasonably conceived scenario (e.g. earthquake, tsunami, long-term coastal erosion) that would expose the Remaining Materials to the surrounding environment and result in future impacts."

The drilling fluid is in a borehole ~60 feet underground, and has hardened into a solid (as it's designed to do when not under the mechanical stress of drilling). It's mostly water and clay, with a few additives, all of which are below their ecotoxicity threshold concentrations, even at full concentration in the borehole. And if the drilling fluid ever entered the ocean (which it won't), it would be diluted such that "concentrations of the drilling mud additives and their chemical constituents would be orders of magnitude below ecotoxicity threshold concentrations (and therefore non-hazardous to natural resources) and undetectable".

[1] https://oregoncoastalliance.org/documents_20/edge-cable/06_F...
1000 flocks of seagulls

edit: HN not being able to take a joke as usual.
facebook tried to provide equal and fair (market driven) access to political influence through their ad-platform; and they will be punished for doing so (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and subsequent relentless waves of bad PR against them).

political influence is not open, nor fair, nor market driven. is power driven; and the power is trying to re-assert this harsh truth.

and when I say "the power" I refer to the powerful people and their institutions who can make a political example a lá Julian Assange; the kinds of institutions and secretive traditional societies who can make somebody commit "suicide" in a federal prison; or get somebody in a presidential seat. facebook is in for a rough ride.

powers who would ally with china in secret "in order to better all of society".
powers whose only competence is keeping power, but not making power nor doing anything good with it. powerful institutions (of autonomous self-maximizing money) who know war, and war is what they will use their power for (and whence their power comes).

in another point in history I would be meeting some assassins pretty soon for daring to publish this in a semi-public forum. now all I get is dissuaded ("You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.") and buried in with the noise/spam and the garbage ([shadow]banned).
So - their discontinued model?
The test is biased toward people who study for it. Asian culture tends to demand more test prep so they do better.
I don't know about the financial aspect, but there are many studies on the lifecycle emissions of a wind turbine that you can look up. How much CO2 a turbine offsets depends a lot on the grid it's connected to, so there's no single number for "time-to-carbon-negative".

However, remember that all power plants have materials, and wind has the second-lowest lifecycle emissions of all renewable technologies (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf), and of course is orders of magnitude better than non-renewables.
I go through an android phone every 3 years. All my old models work fine (minus the battery life being less). Bottomline it depends on the usage.
I can't parse this sentence.
I know several companies that flat-out refuse to sell components to them. Last I heard, their standard payment terms were net 90, and the word was that they would often overshoot this by another 90 days with smaller businesses. Not getting paid for half a year could easily bankrupt a small company.
Has this been written up in some respected journal? (No, not Nature.)
This one will be harder for Google to kill off but I’m sure someone that pushed for this will use it for a promotion and then it will be half forgotten about.
Detecting Subtle Departures from Randomness
Things we still have that don't make "sense":

1. Spelling bees

2. Horse races

3. Rifle competitions

4. Weightlifting

All of those could be won by a machine or computer and each one went through it's Casey Jones moment, and each is still being done.

For actual "work" the human aspect is often not used anymore.
Did I miss it or was the delivery mechanism not really mentioned? I suppose that might be the secret sauce?

What happens once they stop the growth of cancer, say in the case of a tumour? Will it break down over time or does it need to be surgically removed?
> How many hours per day does a wind tower have to be working

You are asking about the capacity factor, but that's governed more by when wind is available, and is about 40-50% for onshore wind.

> and during which lifetime to be able to pay up

This is the payback time and there are several to consider.

For the embodied greenhouse gases of the wind turbine, about 5.3 months on average: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686152/

> for all that steel, copper, aluminum, and a couple of rare earth metals

About 6-7 years for the economic payback of capital costs (not counting the unaccounted avoided $ externalities of displaced fossil fuels).

https://www.semprius.com/how-long-does-it-take-a-wind-turbin...

Turbines last about 20 years.
Is it all vaccines or just Covid? Those required for kids to attend school? Those required to work in high-cleanliness biological establishments? Those required to travel to other countries? Will they prevent private businesses from requiring them of guests and customers? Does this make flu shots frowned upon, and suppressed in some states? How about monkeypox? Polio?

I guess people just lack empathy and just can't stand being inconvenienced, eh?
That's kinda the entire point. One of the (many) metrics for voting systems is called Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (VSE). This is basically a global L2 distance from each voter to each candidate. To maximize VSE we want to minimize that distance. In other words, we want winning candidates to be most representative of a population's opinions and values. You can see a comparison of different systems here[0]. Note that there are other criteria that matter, but there are plenty of methods that have high VSE and the other criteria we want. Also note that the spread in different types of strategies represents the method's vulnerability to manipulation. If a strategy still yields a high VSE then it is not an effective strategy.

[0] https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/
> Some minors in the US are still involuntarily sent to "mental health" or "adolescent behavior" programs that are just conversion therapy centers

Are you talking about the kids who are identified as trans and put into conversion therapy?
Google Pixel Watch: Help by Google, Health by Fitbit
This is not true. There are chess leagues that allow unlimited computer assistance (most notably the ICCF, which organizes the World Correspondence Chess Championship), and you don't get anywhere close to the very top level by just playing the computer's recommended move every time.

Computers beat humans, but human+computer is still stronger than a computer alone.
Well, presumably you as an adult take better care of your devices than children do? So I’m not sure it is fair to take anything away from it.

As a more objective, non-anecdotal data point, second (and often third-, fourth-) hand market of apple devices is always blooming, not giving way to such a device churn as all the androids do (but again, it is not a fair comparison as most android is not high end out there)
That doesn't prevent the false positives, just cuts the process off before prision. And studies show that 2-10% of the incarcerated are wrongly convicted or completely innocent. Also, involuntary commitment could be a civil law which does not carry with it the same protections as criminal law, depending on how it's defined. So I'm still not seeing how this prevents false positives.
Here it was PetNet, it was amazing how much more the students knew about the computers than the teachers who were suppose to teach them.
Cobra effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina...
Involved parents will likely always improve the scores of students, but the disparity between those who do and don't need not be so dramatic.

It's fun to read biographies of 20th century scientists. Quite a few of them came from humble backgrounds and credited their success to education (and perhaps libraries). They often did not have well educated or motivated parents. Nick Holonyak is one such example. Carl Sagan is another.

And this is even more apparent when I look at the British ones. It's a bit funny given how rigid and uninspiring the British education system was.
A good photo has a lot more to do with lens, lighting, exposure, etc.

"Upgrading" a device can very easily be a regression...
I think you have inverted the logic: humans evolve because most of our problems are wicked. If our niche were simple we would not devote so many calories to our brains. (Something like 20% of the oxygen you breath is used in the brain alone!)
Too bad they won't actually say what the trigger even is. Could be one mass email.
The articles I can find with numbers show Whatsapp at about 2B users, ahead of WeChat and everything else. When I flew Southwest the other day the only apps the "free wifi messaging" bothered supporting were iMessage and Whatsapp.
The DOJ just called me about Adobe/Figma merger
I only hire people who use the software. I couldn't answer all of their questions. So I thought you guys might be able to help.
1. What is the cost of each and how has that changed over time?
2. Are there any true alternatives to these two?
3. Has Adobe innovated more as a result of the competition with Figma?
4. Anything else you could contribute to show how a user/consumer would be harmed by the merger.

Thanks for your help.
One year? With ROCE like that these things would be build everywhere and GE wouldn‘t downsize. Do you have a source for those numbers?
This is the format in a lot of tournaments where a pro is paired with an amateur. For example, in pairs snooker or pool, there are two ways to arrange pairs: Alternate innings and alternate strokes.

With alternate strokes, the better player will not only execute their shot, they will arrange to leave a shot that their teammate can easily make.

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But all that being said, if such a game becomes popular, cheating will still be a thing as the team will always benefit from having the strongest possible human player.
What legal system?

The legal system in China is whatever the party wants it to be.
As I understand he died close to air travel. Sitting cramped for hours can create blood clots in legs etc.
>This already exists though and is a technical solution to an economic problem.

Immediately followed by:

>The reason the money transfer fees exist, slow confirmation, etc is there is no incentive to do so otherwise.

Huh? Is it solved or not? It's unclear to me where do you stand.

de facto, moving ETH->ETH is faster and cheaper than using the standard forex infrastructure.
Edited; thanks for clarifying!

That makes this Stable-Dreamfusion adaptation even more promising.
They are a small startup.

They won't have hundreds of parties which they have documents under NDA and many NDAs have carve-outs for court orders anyway. All their docs are likely in Google Drive, Box or MSFT's thing, they can literally do it in an hour. If they try to do it in an hour it might take them 2.
Interesting intellectually, but sort of self-defeating as a field of inquiry. The delineation between wicked and non-wicked problems is itself effectively arbitrary and artificial. It is odd and somehow amusing to see the 'academic' (analysis-paralysis) lens focusing on perception failures in the (bias toward action/fail fast/fail forward) field of 'entrepreneurial' activity.

Compare to received startup wisdom: reduction is fine, often 80:20 is good enough, and failures are expected. You miss all the shots you don't take. Sometimes moving in the right general direction with wrong perception is the best path to progress. Learning is a goal.

The percentage of failed ventures which can be directly attributed to reduction-related problems of founder perception is probably very small.
The virtual tour (copied from the Boing Boing coverage) shows how much more damage the tourist could have done. Two busts damaged was relatively cheap.

https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collez...
Full OS updates seem to matter less and less these days. I remember upgrading to Android 12, whose flagship feature was - a new theming system. And some rearrangement of the UI. Not really worth the downtime.

Maybe I'm just getting older. I'd rather have year over year consistency over what some committee of designers thinks is more "modern".
Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China
One thing to think about when reading news like this (which is something I learned through the first solar boom): While counterintuitive, it can at the same time be true that a technology is booming and companies building that technology are struggling.

It's not that surprising once you think about it: Booming technologies means more companies enter the market. Some will be able to produce cheaper or better products than what's already there. If the old ones can't adapt they'll struggle.
A group in Seattle actually got an Approval voting ballot initiative enough signatures to get on the ballot this year (where RCV has been trying and failing for decades), but the City Council, sensing their re-election chances under such a system in danger, intervened and modified the initiative to add RCV as a 3rd option, because they know they have a better election odds with RCV, and RCV will probably beat Approval on name recognition alone.

A cynical take would be that IRV has gotten traction in the US precisely because it does not seriously threaten the existing power structure. It might nibble away on a few edges, but if you look at all the countries and cities with IRV, they are not obviously better than those still stuck on FPTP.
Judging from OP's comment, they used OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text transcription model, which was recently released open-source: https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
This is how it should be here too.

Inequality is accepted in so many other places in the USA, in ways that are far worse than this.

The anti-intellectualism is a very, very real thing in the USA. In not good schools, you WILL be bullied for being cerebral.

At this point, no amount of understanding of "oh the bad kids grew up in poverty and had social/economic reasons for being bad" is going to fix these kids up.

You want to disrupt education for the rest? Teachers will disrupt the rest of your earning potential. Seems like a fair trade too, since the criminals are all getting laid and the MIT kids are all staying virgins. It takes 15 years to mint another "elite" educated individual. Just a few bad apples can destroy all of this work of trying to get someone to the MIT level. Get the bad apples out.
On my (Samsung) phone, that app reports "Your device is running a security patch from January 2022 or newer. It should not be vulnerable to this bug!".

So presumably the 911 issue is something different.
I think that friction and clashes are inevitable even when your co-founders are not assholes. No two people will agree on everything. Usually when the going gets rough that's when you'll uncover the differences. That's why I'd suggest:

- Make sure you have a good co-founder agreement that addresses the tough points and doesn't assume best interests.

- Try building something and working together even before you're committed to an investor or a client.
I think it was modified yeast bacteria produce a cell of exactly the right size to slip through the same blood vessels that the cancer did when it spread; unaffected blood vessels wouldn't let anything through.
out of curiosity, how old were you?

becuase I've been wondering recently what would have happened if I only tried hallucinogenics for the first time now that my brain is much older?
I think you can draw a fairly firm conclusion that the space is saturated based on this data (although I agree that the self-selection may be problematic).

It doesn't actually matter if they add a new subscription to replace the cancelled subscription - what matters is that they bothered to cancel a subscription at all.

That implies that for roughly 7 out of 10 people, they are burdened enough by streaming subscription costs to be actively working on reducing that cost. Even if that simply means that they traded one service for another - they worked to keep costs flat, rather than allocate more budget.
Crypto is bad at money transfers. It's low capacity. That's why nobody is using BTC to pay for pizza anymore. It's also bad at privacy, since the architecture for most crypto systems relies on storing a permanent, non-modifiable public ledger.

Your usage case doesn't really work because almost nobody cares about that. You'll find a few idealists interested in that, and a very few people that need to transact with some random person in Bangladesh. Pretty much everyone will just do a regular bank transfer or use Paypal.

What got crypto to become popular is the "get rich quick" schemes, which not only don't require stability, but rely on instability and people attracted to the idea of exploiting it for profit.
You can't steal my Bitcoin if I don't deposit them with a custodian. This is like blaming gold itself if the owners of a gold bank run off with the gold.
The payback period has been dropping over time and is now under a year, in some cases well under a year. This depends on many things including where it is placed, size of the tower and time of year.

Links to articles that reference the studies:
- https://www.windpowerengineering.com/wind-turbine-carbon-pay...
- https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24332461-400-what-is...

Wind can compete favorably with solar on price when you have the right conditions, which are both starting to beat traditional sources of power. It is hitting the point where you would select either wind or solar for price, when ignoring the desire for stable output.

One current issue for wind power is what to do with the waste. The blades erode over time and need to be replaced, but mostly consists of fiberglass. It's not a huge problem, but each advancement in technology brings a new set of problems to be dealt with. Still, I'd rather deal with fiberglass than nuclear waste.