skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expanding on this, CGP Grey had this amazing video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk) of why European diseases in the Americas were so bad on the people that were already here when the two worlds met but you hardly heard of Europeans getting any super contagious illness from the people living in the Americas. Meaning European genomes had some adaptations (as well as antibodies?) from dense and unsanitary living, as well as animal farming in European prior to contact whereas that type of living setup was rarer in the Americas.
QR codes also work with older phones, I assumed in my earlier statement that Walmart was going to use their system no matter what so asking for Apple Pay is an additional burden for them. Cheaper to make you change than change all of their equipment in the us. Recall Walmart lives for cheaper.

#stores Canada 402. #stores US 10585. Canada has been doing touch for years. US started not that long before covid and seemed to require signature vs pin. A whole lotta money to switch for little gain. Don’t visit all that often and not since covid, sorry.
No, he managed to combine three traditionally uncool things, namely 8 bit computing, accordions and ragtime music, resulting in an underflow of uncoolness which is extremely cool.
How is the law firm profiting?

As a New Zealander, I think only the government can enforce similar laws. I am unsure whether a private citizen could get representation here, or whether there could be any civil penalties.
> People who tested positive for the virus reported at least one of 62 symptoms more frequently 12 weeks after initial infection with SARS-CoV-2 than those who had not contracted the virus.

It was also a self reported. Self reporting for something like this is probably going to be useless.

In fact what might be more interesting is using this as an opportunity to study med student syndrome.

EDIT: Looking at the quote again, less troubling than the self reporting part is the 62 symptoms, I mean how many of you know how much hair loss you've had over the past year vs 12 weeks. They did have a considerable control group, but I also know there are plenty of ways to massage data.

But seriously 62 different possible symptoms? This seems like a very wide list of possible symptoms cast over a very wide net of people.
I mean… if anyone watched the trial this whole thing is a joke. He may have done something bad, but the trial was Soviet level.

I followed the trial and this is the way the “trial” went:

1. Plaintiffs / Judge claimed he had evidence (marketing material on sandy hook - claimed he never had marketing material)

2. Jones said he didn’t

3. discovery didn’t prove the evidence ever existed

4. Judge then said “guilty by default, because he must have destroyed the evidence”

5. Jury trial commences for damages - judge tells Jones he can’t claim not to have evidence, can’t claim innocence, and a whole list of other stuff

6. Jury trial talks about a bunch of unrelated stuff that other people said.

7. A few times you see a clip where Jones mention “sandy hook is a psyop” or “this parent laughing before fake crying is a crisis actor” (paraphrasing obviously). But never mentions people by name, nor outside what is presented on the news (CNN for instance)

If anyone knows about defamation. (1) defaulting never happens (2) you have to name the person and have to claim an explicit in the defamation that you know to be false, with the purpose of causing damage.

It was real interesting to watch, but I imagine it’ll be overturned
What is your specific suggestion? It sounds like you're saying that we should assume it's all just stupidity, and there is no intentionality to any kind of apparent psyops/agitators/shills, and we should just pretend like it's all good.

That's naive. We simply end up with forums where, if such bad actors do exist, they have a much easier time controlling the narratives. Better to harbor a modicum of suspicion, for the sake of protecting the genuineness of the community.
Still, it's an observational study with no reasonable, plausible mechanism of action presented. Worst of all, the study participant were in no way blinded: they knew, from testing, that they contracted a virus that was the constant focus of fear and uncertainty and pushed by media, quite literally 24/7, for months.
Showing off in crawler stats who is dominate on the internet.

Had not thought of that.
He already declared bankruptcy, they said during the trial — their goal is that he never can work again
Dry up - v. - to become completely or excessively dry; to decrease and stop; to cut off the supply of
Thank you! For me, this is a fantastic find of treasures beyond belief. Thank you for making my day wonderful, and I wish you the same!
I’m skeptical how good anyone is at identifying any of this.

The amount of “you’re one of them” or “you’re just a troll” out there on the internet when someone simply doesn’t agree or even understand is seemingly infinite.

It’s a nearly weekly accusation thrown at me on Reddit.

People’s willingness to believe someone else is a troll or similar seems to just mean they never have to consider any ideas they don’t like.
Apparently systemd-resolved, which I think is the DNS resolver used on most modern Linux distros, defaults to DNSSEC=allow-downgrade, which means it will validate DNSSEC if it's working, and disable validation otherwise.

Supposedly this still has some compatibility problems, which is why Fedora (at least) still has DNSSEC=no as the default, overriding the upstream systemd-resolved default.

It would be great to identify and fix the majority of those compatibility problems so that DNSSEC validation could be enabled by default.

Once a large enough mass of users would have DNSSEC validation enabled by default, the incentive would then be on the network operators to fix the remaining compatibility problems, as the users' devices would work just fine on other networks and they would perceive the fault to be on the incompatible network they were using, not on their device.
We "observe" collapse all the time, and can calculate the probabilities of the different possible collapsed states of a not-yet-observed superposed or entangled state using the Born rule. What we don't know, and can't tell, is whether we have seen an "objective collapse" (we live in just one universe, that undergoes a discontinuous change at the time of measurement) or in something like MWI. That is question for philosophers afaik. The experiment in the title falsifies certain models of objective collapse, but others are harder to falsify.
> Practically, you are unlikely to make more than 2x your starting compensation from school

I wouldn’t go that far. I don’t know what my parents made in 1968 or for that matter 2008. But from the time period I mentioned 1978 - 2008, if their income just kept up with inflation, it would have gone up by 650% according to the official CPI calculator (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=1968...).

Well actually, they retired in 2002 at 55 and 57 respectively - from teaching and factory work - and have been retired since then.

They’ve taken two 5 month long cross country trips and have only slowed down their shorter road trips in the last couple of years because they were worried about Covid
No?

> The Blink-182 tour, it should be noted, is “produced” by Live Nation, according to the Live Nation press release announcing the tour. In the U.S., they are playing almost exclusively Live Nation venues (in Blink-182’s hometown, San Diego, they are playing at the Pechanga Arena, a venue that is operated by AXS, which is a different company.) The tickets for all shows besides the San Diego one are being handled by Ticketmaster. The press release announcing the tour does not list any prices.
Should the amount of wealth someone can hoard be essentially unbounded, allowing them to become impervious to any civil consequences for their actions?
This ties in nicely with the Crohn's cold-chain hypothesis.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32949122/

It gives me hope that maybe one day we can figure some of these autoimmune issues out.
> made people 40 percent likelier to survive the Black Death

Didn't know likelier is a word that exists in English.

Also please for the love of god, support dark mode.
Having spent most of the day stepping on LaTeX rakes, I am really at a loss how anyone could think that making it more programmable would think that's a good idea.

There are very few bits of software that are more arcane and broken by default than this absolute crapstraction of a platform.
TikTok and Facebook fail to detect election disinformation in the U.S.
I agree it's false. But because the two perceptions are not mutually exclusive. Use delayed tit for tat. First take at face value, then learn from repeated encounters. That's the best part about forums versus social media sites: many repeated interactions with the same people. From that you can evolve trust without being a cynic.
If you look at IBM's history you can see how reliability and the ability to manufacture components in quantity played a huge role in the adaptation of both. Bell Lab's early point contact ones weren't manufacturable. IBM didn't move to proper ICs until 1970 with the System/370 because anything they made including the low end would be sold in quantities too high for ICs before then (System/360 Models 85 and 195 preceded the 370s by 1-2 years, but they only sold 60 total units).
I never realized just how bad this can be until I started selling/marketing my startup. I was so confused by the reaction to my participation on a few subreddits where my target customers hang out - I had never experienced anything like it before.

I started to see patterns (not only against my posts personally, although I quickly stopped trying to participate) because I began to understand the market players. It's unreal how inauthentic most of the content actually is and how much of it is straight up shill marketing. I suspect this is true for a large number of niche forums where specific products or services become "blessed" by the community.

The only way to accomplish this is with either a large network of puppet accounts or with the support of the moderators. Probably both.
It's interesting you say this. I read a book several years ago, I don't remember what it was. But it talked about how there used to be a lot of questions that were used to determine if someone was having a heart attack.

They then did a lot of stats and number crunching and determined that with just 2 questions they could accurately predict whether or not someone was having a heart attack 95% of the time which was a considerable improvement.

I wonder how many problems are we making worse by throwing more data at rather than making them better?
I think a topic can be extremely sensitive and still be discussed on HN as long as it fits a certain accepted narrative. The worry is this asymmetry.
Totally agree with all of that!

I’m nearly fifty and got diagnosed with ADHD about five years ago.

I got expelled from school at 15 for just never showing up. Despite being one of the smartest kids in school, I would do so well I a new class and then it would tank badly.

I’ve never held a job for more than 18 months.

I’ve had the benefit of being a well spoken good looking white man that interviews like a god and is very good at writing a resume, plus I had good people in my corner giving me excellent references. In a booming job market, getting work was easy enough.

But my life was going off the rails. Depression. Risk taking behaviour. Anti social issues and so on.

Saw a GP for serious cyclical depression issues. I was self medicating with caffeine and flu meds.

She said have you considered you might have ADHD?

I hadn’t considered it all.

Got referred to a specialist. He said it’s very hard to get diagnosed with ADHD later in life.

90 minutes later after my life history we started a trial on Ritalin!

Overall - ADHD is a curse. It’s not a super power. And Ritalin, Adderall etc… are not miracles.

I could write a book on my experiences….
How would an outside reader be able to detect that this sort of manipulation was occurring?
Just curious, what kind of work flow do you have to run to accept that your host can stop anytime?
https://xkcd.com/927/ comes up every time the word standards is mentioned to the point that I figured the number would be enough
here you go :)

http://www.townhistory.org/category/families/dickerman/

edit: was too quick with the link :) Not the town
Program to check whether a triangle is right-angled or not
Not this ignorant comment again. AI will replace software engineers long before it replaces doctors. There is an arrogant ignorance of what doctors do that always shows up in comments when topics like this pop up.

And yes I'm a physician and MLE. So i understand both worlds clearly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkroom_manipulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodging_and_burning
> I honestly think its just easy to hate on well-known companies. Wouldn't be surprised to find out that most posts that go that way are legit.

What happens is that probably bots/alts do all the work at first to bad-mouth specific companies often enough, until it gets a critical mass and all simple-minded NPCs end up parroting the same narrative.
An even more fine-grained binary search technique for isolating compiler bugs is optimization fuel:

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06/debugging-compilers-with-opti...
I guess I just see the causality in reverse.

People "moving around in their careers" reads like a euphemism for laid off, downsized, given the pink slip.
Because that would be treating the value of an individual as dependent on the power of the entity they are interacting with, which is a bit weird.

It isn't really a defensible position to say that you have an interaction with someone and to work out how they ought behave you need to go and do a tally of their assets and mull over their balance sheets. It'd be tantamount to saying we'd need to know what Haim Michael's assets were to know how to feel about this article. The law shouldn't change depending on whether he is broke, has $100k in savings or is a multi-millionaire. The issue here under the law is whether disabled people can access his website or not.
As in many other areas, the younger generation raised on Web 2.0 are far beyond the Web 1.0 crowd in regards to industriousness and psyche. Nobody writes or reads stuff like this anymore. They just install Shinigami Eyes and move on with their day
I work during the week. I like business “aparthotel”. I know I’ll usually have a comfortable desk in the room with an adjustable chair. Decent “premium Wifi” at Hiltons (Diamond member) and a level of consistency.
Think through the money flows.

Developer buys land. Spends all their money on land and building a house.
Investor comes along and buys the house to rent it out.
Developer now has money to buy another lot and build another house (and other developers notice that they can build houses and get paid to do so).

Without the investor money in step 2, developers build a lot fewer houses in steps 1 and 3.
That leads to the US healthcare billing practice of over inflated billing to see how much insurance will pay. If you give people money without fixing prices, the prices will rise based upon how much free money was given.
theres no problem too big or too small that enough lawyers cant fix
It could be that after we train a biological nural net for decades it can get pretty good at intuiting things even if it can't explain how.

The numeral net in question is the Drs. Brain.
That has nothing to do with the ridiculous argument made above.
Literally anything stateless.
"think of the children"
People uttering that should be immediately shot.
You're literally linking to a youtube video where 10 seconds later Alyssa is saying "this should all be sufficient proof that I'm not Lina"... and Lina engaged in an interactive Q&A while Alyssa stood around demonstrably not the person responding.
How is that robotaxi working out for you?
Relating your work to something on Steve's agenda is kind of what I was describing. As another pointed out, there were some amazing technologies that came out of ATG. It is impossible to know if they would have been interesting to Jobs though at the time.
I use llvmpipe currently and I can assure you that it is no where near as smooth as a setup with hardware acceleration. The 3900x is probably even faster than the M1 at software rendering and it still isn't fast enough to give a consistent 60fps with the browser using most of the screen (shrinking the browser window makes things much more smooth).

Even extremely fast CPUs suck really bad at pushing pixels compared to even the weakest GPUs. It is very much usable though!

Currently llvmpipe is able to use up to 8 cores at a time but not more, and does use SIMD instructions when available from my understanding. There is another software rendering system in MESA that allegedly uses AVX instructions but I have had a better experience with llvmpipe personally.
Fed Rate Hikes Approaching the “Breaking Point”
The guidelines ask you not to post stuff like this. If you're actually worried that a story was gamed onto the front page, mail hn@yc and tell Dan & co. Otherwise, everyone's got a set of front page stories they don't like, and the game where people pick their least favorite stories and claim they're gamed is corrosive to the site.

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is a pleasure to see the results of state-of-the-art photography and imaging technology.
I would have assumed most advanced militaries would have a maser or similar capable of cooking civilian solar panels at 500km by now.
The mysterious strangers I have in mind are Blackmagic Design, who write Davinci Resolve, for both Mac and Linux, and have the economic incentive to. They made $576 million in revenue last year so it's not that far fetched.
Ask HN: Open-Source Alternatives to Twitter?
guessing twitter of yore is no more with musk at the helm so what’s better next?
> A certain amount of empty property should be expected - they do require renovation and repair.

You'd expect a lot more empty property than just what currently needs maintenance. If you have no empty and rentable properties, then when someone comes to you wanting to rent an apartment, you can't rent them one. That's a big problem for you.

This is the same reason you don't expect a secretary's day to be filled with work. You need idle capacity so that when something comes up, you can handle it.
It's always easier to believe your opposition is ontologically evil -- that way you never have to address your own epistemological emptiness. Of course, the fact that it's blatantly obvious that far too many "people" on the net are behaving indistinguishably from chatbots doesn't help matters.
> speech doesn’t have unlimited degrees of freedom in the United States.

Thanks -- Nobody said it does or should. I asked the person above me for the source of their statement.
I have wondered how to extend this to combinations of elements.

What if the bad outcome only happens when two or more elements are enabled?

Is there a generalization of binary search for powersets?

Can this be done efficiently?
This is entirely about fees.

When a Visa, Mastercard, Amex, or Discover card is used about 1-3% of the purchase amount is paid from the merchant to banks. When a debit card is run on a low fee network (you can usually tell because you key in your PIN), as little as 0.05% + $0.21 is paid thanks to the Durbin Amendment. The receipt will show "US DEBIT" instead of Visa/MC. On the back of your debit card there's logos like NYCE, STAR, PLUS, Pulse, etc.

Apple Pay originally did not support "US DEBIT" and all transactions ran over the familiar higher fee networks. It was only later that true debit support was added. What this meant is that merchants who upgraded to tap capable card readers not only paid extra for the hardware and certification, but would increase the proportion of higher fee "credit" transactions in their mix of transactions.

Walmart is a discount retailer. Their modus operands is cost efficiency on everything: cost of goods sold, trucking, staffing, and in this case the 1% saved when a customer inserts their debit card and types a PIN instead of not typing a PIN. If a retailer has a 5% profit margin, shaving card fees in half would increase earnings 20%. This is the same reason why banks don't let you make loan payments via card and property managers don't let you pay rent via card or add a 3% surcharge.
The Apple employees who I observed encountering Steve Jobs this way all left the next day and at some spoke about this with others and one posted on an internal message board about their experience. Did Steve Jobs attend all the tens of thousands of Apple employees in this way? Probably not. That this happened once seems remarkable. I'm sorry my attempt to recall colorful moments triggered this reactive detective thing in you. To me it seems that trying to present this is worth this risk of misunderstanding. It was a strange time.
If you know anything about building a house you'll know that; 1) not everything shitty is visible, and 2) not everything shitty can be understood by homeowners, otherwise we'd need no codes/minimums (we'd all be perfect architects/building scientists/craftspeople).

I could get behind removing almost all zoning, but code is just sensible.
I agree, not almost, 100% care about engineering culture only when considering a new job. Poor tech design cam be fixed by a healthy engineering culture, an unhealthy engineering culture can't really be "fixed" (only eliminated and re built well).
"The social benefits of adopting it outweigh the theoretical unfairness" of war and torture. Would you agree?
Trade carpenter here. IMO biggest problem for folks who banzai DIY home construction projects with no prior experience is the financials behind YouTube content producers. Their need to make engaging content unfortunately necessarily means dead simple tasks end up being presented as significantly more complex than they are in practice. I do agree that DIY construction is poorly suited for the lone individual though. Having a group of friends/family get together to bang out a construction project is a much better strategy.

Houses are routinely constructed in the "flat pack" style you reference. Modular homes have been a thing since at least the 50s (we see you over there Lustron). Weirdly "manufactured housing" performs poorly when compared to traditional stick built construction methods. There is this impression in the market that manufactured housing is in some way inferior. Based on my experience in the industry I'd personally take a modular over anything stick built any day of the week. Modules are built truck enough to shrug off getting hauled OTR for hundreds of miles and then get hoisted into position with a crane. No way in hell stick built anything is going to take that level of abuse and remain intact.

I deeply question the idea that it's reasonable for an adult human in the world to have no curiosity about, or experience with, how their home is constructed. While I have certainly paid my bills off the backs of folks who simply could not come to grips with whatever project was at hand I much prefer to see folks able to do for themselves and thereby avoid my markup.
The server is checking the output of the function.

Here is an example of what's running behind the scenes, to help you understand:

https://bugfix-66.com/contribute

The above code is what's being used for Bug #1:

https://bugfix-66.com/a6cb1e062ae0fdc47b43ec489aa40a958db728...

Is that pretty clear?