skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 12 billion or so COVID vaccine doses given also only have a history of ~2 years. If the adverse effects of it were say for instance, minor cardiac damage that resulted in no acute symptoms, but instead an overall reduction in life expectancy by 5 years, the costs of such would not be known for some time.

Can you explain how this standard of rigueur leads to anything less than a complete halting of medical research?

The original trials for the Pfizer vaccine were conducted on 46k people (half of which necessary recieved a placebo). At the time of those trials there was no shortage of willing volunteers to take part in the trial, no limit on the amounts of funding available and a considerable appetite to do something. Other trials have to make to with much fewer participants with hundreds to low thousands seemingly typical.
“Anything you can’t buy with money you can buy with more money.” - my friend
The Dell Latitude is a competitor to the Thinkpad T, X series corporate grade laptops. Vostro is a small, medium business grade laptop according to Wikipedia. I recommend getting a Thinkpad with Open and Free bios applied already from the ex-corpo market. Ebay used to list them as cheap as two digit dollars followed by the decimal point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude
Well the Android core devs were ex BeOS engineers, as were the iPod touch engineers (which later became the iPhone), so I’d assume the engineers knew what they were doing. Sadly, the DotCom crash in 1999 removed funding from BeInc, we could have had these devices a decade earlier.
I agree with that. I don't think this was malice though - just extreme stupidity (and hopefully criminal). I think they thought they could trade their way out of it.

That's different to malice which goes to motivations.
Correct. But that doesn't make it less surprising.
One problem with this explanation of how it might work is that it appears to know far more than 256 things - though I don't know how many. And even if it did know only that many, how do you construct the set of questions?

Actually programming the logic once you know it is the easy bit, it's constructing the dataset of answers and questions in the first place.
I hope you're right but from the outside it looks like everyone is just rebuilding the same thing.
Now that sounds very interesting. How are you competing in such a tight market? Most of used games places in my city vanished over the years and even gamestop is closing down some of its stores. Are you doing it online only?
> My opinion is that there is a hard and maybe unsolvable problem at the heart of the matter; trans children/teenagers clearly exist, and it may be that puberty blockers are useful for people who will eventually transition.

I think it would be fairer to say that people who desire to be the opposite sex (or both, or neither) exist, and if this reaches the point of significant distress, then it fits the criteria for a medical diagnosis, with which they may be offered certain hormonal drugs and surgeries, as an attempt to alleviate that distress.

Whether this makes them "trans", an ideological viewpoint under which they are treated as if they are the opposite sex (expressed concisely in slogans such as "trans women are women") in various contexts, is a different matter.

Which makes this issue two separate but related questions:

- Are hormone blockers, exogenous hormones and surgery an effective treatment for this group of people? (And if so, how do we tell who is actually in this group? Does it include children?)

- Should people who desire to be a different sex to what they are, be considered as such in law and policy? (And if so, should there be limits to this? And how do we balance the rights of others who don't share this ideological viewpoint?)
Thanks for the suggestion. I realized something was amiss when I was placing a rinsed plate on the dishwasher and by accident touched the wet steel of the kitchen sink. I was lucky that it was only a small tingly shock. However, I've had trouble in convincing the landlady to fix it, since the contract stipulates that I need approval for any modifications.
No credit is owed, no thanks are due. This is an unavoidable effect of usuing the MIT license over something like GPL.

Andrew Tanenbaum on choosing MIT for the MINIX project, which was used by Intel + the IC as a base for the Intel Management Engine (emphasis mine):

"The only thing that would have been nice is that after the project had been finished and the chip deployed, that someone from Intel would have told me, just as a courtesy, that MINIX was now probably the most widely used operating system in the world on x86 computers. That certainly wasn't required in any way, but I think it would have been polite to give me a heads up, that's all."

If you'd like to avoid a large company profiting off your work without attribution, don't use MIT.
Never heard of them, I've been in the crypto space for many years. Their social media looks like it's run by a teenager and I'm not not being facetious, it literally reads like a 14 year old boy runs the account. The person also writes so many tweets they'd hardly have time for serious work. Over 90% are jokes, memes and rumors.

https://nitter.cz/0xfbifemboy

Not sure how this stuff makes it to the top on HN.
There are miles between "account and server compromise" and the kind of things you get from email spam.

> All it would take is popping a poorly configured server and then spam can be injected into the feeds you've chosen to follow.

This is still way, way harder and more expensive than email spam. (Can be swiftly dealt with, after which you have to go compromise another server)
I wasn't making an appeal to authority, nor was I agreeing with V.B. I was trying to point out that finance may mean different things in different contexts. Not sure why you keep obsessing over this propaganda narrative, as if I'm a brainless NPC. I'm open to learning new things, and if you're more knowledgable then I'll listen.

For instance, I really like your view of finance as these emergent properties of human behaviour. My question is then: how do you propose we refer to the entities we currently have in place for trading of securities, market making, fractional banking, clearing houses, central bank issued fiat, etc? Clearly there is a difference between those "things" and what we do in DeFi, right?

So what label am I allowed to use to distinguish these entities from DeFi?
I'm pretty sure it was from Microsoft. I may have even the paper instructions, i'll search for them :-) Wikipedia: "FS1 Flight Simulator is a 1979 video game published by Sublogic for the Apple II. A TRS-80 version followed in 1980. FS1 Flight Simulator is a flight simulator in the cockpit of a slightly modernized Sopwith Camel.[2] FS1 is the first in a line of simulations from Sublogic which, beginning in 1982, were also sold by Microsoft as Microsoft Flight Simulator."
If someone really deals with life or death emergencies they would likely benefit from a device made for that with multi-week battery life and very broad range, like a pager. Doctors and firefighters still use those for a reason.

Short of that, it is probably not an actual emergency and real human people in front of you should have your full respect and attention with a rare exception being when you are trapped, like on an airplane. If you are not trapped then just leave. Using a phone in front of someone for any reason not relevant to the current activity or conversation is just a passive aggressive insult.

Phones are like toilets. No one wants to watch you use one.
OTPP has quite a solid reputation and this particular investment was a miniscule speculative bet. You can see the performance over time here [1].

[1] https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-advantage/our-per...
I had high hopes for SpaceX, makes me a bit worried if Elon is running rampant now.

Tesla Autopilot is also concerning.
I mean there's ways. They could just not sell to dealers who are found to be selling over MSRP. It won't be easy, but having an online direct channel makes it a lot easier. Depends how committed you really are, I guess.
48k of course, not 32k :-)
I intentionally left these out, as they are practically useless:

- using vw/vh for font size / inline block sizing breaks zoom

- for the above reason, vw/vh is only useful for layout sizing, and there it is (almost?) always equal to % units

Is there a good use case for vw/vh not mentioned above?
But the inevitable retro-futurism is one of the charms of old sci-fi!
The more I read about Startups / VC the more I think it is a scam similar to the blockchain scams. Just more elaborate. VCs should be the pinacle of deep thinking, meanwhile they pump money into the most ridiculous ideas, never doing due diligence and sometimes enabling outright fraud.
Ironically Binance's low trust makes their users especially diligent about on and off boarding their funds. Their model is closer to DeFi than their competitors who are CeFi

Besides what makes FTX especially trendy to cover was how he targeted mostly American, supposedly sophisticated SV VC types. He got funded by dozens of billionaires.

Funny enough SBF openly described his cynical scam months ago, explaining both how shit coins and greedy VCs operated.
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The fork was introduced to the Americas by the Spanish as part of their colonial conquests. It is a separate example from "Speaking English".
The extensive use of stimulants is alarming, though heavily speculative.

What does the league of legends article say? That part seemed crazy speculative. I'm bottom quartile at FPS and fighting games but I enjoy them and play a lot. Dota 2 as well. And I've been top 1 percent at other games. Even higher for a bit in Auto Chess. I hope this isn't evidence of brain damage...
> I own a Tesla and have had no problems with customer service.

Good for you, really. That doesn't invalidate the countless horror stories that prop up on those forums multiple times a day.
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The NYT article is headlined "How Sam Bankman-Friedʼs Crypto Empire Collapsed". The parts of the article which actually answer this question are, in their totality, as follows:

> Alameda had accumulated a large “margin position” on FTX, essentially meaning it had borrowed funds from the exchange,

Par 6. Common knowledge, finance-splained and followed by equivocation and hand-waving from SBF.

> On Nov. 6, Mr. Zhao announced on Twitter that he was selling the FTT, spooking customers who rushed to withdraw their FTX deposits

Common knowledge for more than a week (in par 28). More well-known things about the Zhao deal in the next couple of pars. Obv suggesting the two key questions, why did they need a bailout in the first place, and what was wrong with the business that led Zhao not to invest? Needless to say, neither of them is answered in the article.

> Her voice shaking, she apologized, saying she had let the group down. Over recent months, she said, Alameda had taken out loans and used the money to make venture capital investments, among other expenditures.

> Around the time the crypto market crashed this spring, Ms. Ellison explained, lenders moved to recall those loans, the person familiar with the meeting said. But the funds that Alameda had spent were no longer easily available, so the company used FTX customer funds to make the payments. Besides her and Mr. Bankman-Fried, she said, two other people knew about the arrangement: Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang.

> The meeting was previously reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Several day old scuttlebutt taken from another newspaper in par 30+. (And nicely written to suggest that it's an urgent eyewitness dispatch "Her voice shaking")

That's it. Literally no actual news reporting was done in this article.

The high standards of reliability and standing up to scrutiny are worthless, because they are not actually applied to any useful or new information, but just to the human interest color that 90% of the piece consists of. Yes, the 'facts' that SBF has 15 room-mates and not 12, and that he plays League of Legends not Terraria are rigorously fact-checked, but they might as well not be. The actual question of Where did the money go is completely ignored beyond what is widely known.

This isn't news reporting, it's a form of entertainment journalism, which allows people out of the loop to get a sense of the excitement and glamor of what's it like to live in the Bahamas and have your crypto exchange go bankrupt. (And it equally fulfils the desire for other clueless people to tut and sigh over the way the world is going.)
because resource inequality, unchecked, creates corruption
interesting, so there is a synergy! Of course, it doesn't do anything when you park your car when it rains ;-)
How does the AGPL apply in this case, does it apply to the apps you build?
With "mathemathical technology" I'm not taking about software but actual mathematics.

And no one is blaming maths.

If physicists realize there's something missing, they develop the maths they require. Or they ask their maths friends to do it. And it might happen if enough people care to pull it off. Same applies here.

(But it's not very likely since most sociologists are not very educated in mathematics)
You are only seeing it as a problem, because you do not understand the ”cascade” in Cascading Style Sheets.

Set your typographic scale appropriately and learn to rely on the cascade instead of fighting it.
I for one sincerely hope this does not become a thing

Python already has 'enough' metaprogramming support, the last thing we need is a sudden fad of libraries defining their own gratuitous DSLs
The Spectator also has a 'house style' of being as provocative as possible. I often find that even when they're arguing for something I ostensibly agree with I come away disagreeing with them because of how they have chosen to present their arguments. That being said, as much as dislike their style and sometimes their politics, they're a solid journalistic outlet and I would not accuse them of making up facts (even if they might not always present said fact in the most neutral light)
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll see if I can get my hands on a voltmeter. I too miss the days when things were engineered for safety and durability.
It was actually the National Museum for African American History and Culture.

https://i.imgur.com/jFSGqnl.png
As an ethical hacker, you will have to deal with a variety of security threats on a daily basis.

A security threat is any risk that has the potential to harm a system or an organization as a whole. Let's go over the different kinds of security threats.
If the story goes like FTX, we'll only know after it's too late.

Not being incorporated anywhere (which is the last thing I heard about the matter) is an extremely bright red flag, so that's some evidence (in the Bayesian sense) that something is off.
Because those pictures can produce some darn explosive puking.
This is hard to follow but I appreciate the pictures of the machines. How is this considered to be nuclear fusion without a description of the nuclear transutation products? In order for hydrogen to be fused to hydrogen, something like the CNO cycle is needed because Helium cannot stay together without at least one neutron. Hydrogen could be fused to oxygen, as part of the CNO cycle perhaps (I'm not an expert on that by any means) but even a few droplets of water fusing this way would yeild more energy than a barrel of oil.

Two nuclei positioned at 10e-18 meters would indeed be close enough to fuse IIRC but they cannot stick together without help from a gluon.

Nuclear fusion of any pair of nuclei would yeild some kind of radiation signature which would be best mentioned for a development concerning a fusion scheme but I didn't catch that in the pdf. No mention of Helium 4 on the output stream is a little odd.

I've seen tons of videos on free energy from HHO for cars. Personally I'm more excited about easy to install gasolene heaters for cars but I've not seen them in the country where I live.

I have my own crackpot idea for fusion and I'm not looking for investors but if anyone wants to read about it I'd be happy to share as long as (if it worked) you don't use it for evil purposes.
I think you'd probably start with a dense matrix of questions x answers populated by humans. But I imagine there's a clever preprocessing step that's used to build the optimum tree of questions, avoiding getting caught in a local maximum and significantly reducing the data you'd have to store.
One of the best things about SQLite is its license (or maybe I should say lack thereof).

While SQLite extension authors are free to choose whatever license they wish, I wish more would follow the core’s example.

(I realise there are legal doubts about the validity of “public domain” in some jurisdictions - I think ultra-permissive licenses such as 0BSD are effectively equivalent to public domain. Apache is a lot more restrictive than 0BSD.)
Rather confusing thing to try and pin on me. Could you elaborate on how I’ve caused you to think that?
Not so long ago I was a PhD student in a STEM department. With the amount of DEI and antiracist discussions had during our department meetings, it often felt that I was attending an MBA program designed for HR professionals.

Do I have anything against diversity, equity, inclusion? No.

Did I often wish the department – which was already extremely diverse in age, gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, and citizenship status – would focus more on the work of doing good science, facilitating rich academic discourse, fostering cross-institutional collaborations, and driving more translation and commercial ventures? Yes. 100%, yes.

In many ways, DEI initiatives, anti-racist policies, and decolonization aspire to worthy goals. Too often, though, they feel like the product of meme-driven corporate training and consulting firms who charge wholly unequipped professionals with disparate expertise with framing their work with a funhouse mirror of their on-the-ground reality.

There has to be a better way.
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> The problem with long term support for my Android phones has actually not been the fact that Android devices have incredibly short security update windows. That issue has been somewhat mitigated with the newer Google Pixel phones which have five years of security updates

5 years of updates is still a short time. We only have one planet...

> The biggest issue for long term cell phone support is, even if we get an OS with a 10-year security update timeline like Rocky Linux, will the phone itself be able to make calls on whatever cellular networks exist 10 years from now?

I don't think this is the biggest issue : operators usually maintain a certain type of carrier for at least 20-30 years (in France, we are only talking about shutting down 2G - which still raises a lot of issue because of the many IoT devices using GSM...)

The biggest issues are IMO

- lack of parts to repair old phones
- no possibility to manage bootloader keys / relock the bootloader (not even mentioning devices with locked bootloaders)
- "stable-api-nonsense" ideology and no BIOS/UEFI/ACPI for smartphone => no way to have "one firmware to rule them all"
So that the vertical rhythm can be maintained in relation to the typographic scale in use across differently sized text, and so that the browser font size settings are applied appropriately but so that neither they nor the degree of typographic scale in use (font size) affect the horizontal layout differently in different elements.

Of course, one might want to deviate from that rule as appropriate to build layouts that do partially respond to typographic scale horizontally, but in my experience, that is very rarely good-looking and tends to break layouts.
Funny thing, I watched a video about Russian command style yesterday. They are still trying to do scientific management in the army, which works horribly in the uncertainties of war, especially when lies flow up the chain of command.
Vote out the politicians who are not prosecuting Binance then also. Not sure how two wrongs make it okay that FTX were ghost writing crypto regulation [1].

[1]: https://coingeek.com/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-pens-crypto-regul...
In Midnight Run (1988) when Marvin finds the Duke and Jack in the sandstone of Red Rock Country he exclaims "Am I lucky or am I just good?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gokkl2br7G8&t=152s

Later in the movie, when Marvin decides to ask for more money and takes a Polaroid of the Duke in the bathroom of the motel, he comments to himself: "I amaze myself... I'm always thinking."

The thing is, the character of Marvin is quite dumb, not a nice person and above all someone who never grasps the full picture -- but at the same time he has good instincts and is, in fact, a fairly good hunter. It's a dangerous combination.
This spider web is strong enough for a bird to sit on, a scientific first
If you want examples finding them will not be hard. Scroll down to find the infographic from the National Museum of African American History & Culture. It has points on work ethic, future orientation and time that fit fine with what you’re responding to.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/15/smithsonian-pushes-raci...
Ubuntu MAAS to provision servers - when new server arrives guys at the DC just need to plug it in and power it once, everything else is just clicking around.

Pyinfra to manage and install software (I'm fed up with custom DSLs, pyinfra is pure python)
But isn't that pretty much the distinction between value and reference types?
Agreed. This article is a fun read at best.
OTP put in something like that in the fund I was at. Yes it's small for them but it's still serious, the guy in charge wants to move on to bigger things.

Oh and I totally forgot to comment on the math. Kelly criterion, I don't get how the guy could have studied physics at MIT and not understood it. It's simply a result that tells you how much to bet of your stash if you are presented with some repeated betting opportunity. It's essentially an extension of high school level probability theory, with similar clean-room constraints (independence, etc). There's also a continuous version of it using Sharpe ratios, no surprises.

If you read anything about it, it's very very not smart to bet beyond the ideal size. This is actually the reason why a lot of people use less than the ideal, because you don't want to end up over the hump. Both the assumptions that underlie the result and the measurements of the parameters are not easy to ascertain, so don't act like it's a dice game within a known environment.

By the way anyone studying Kelly Criterion needs to read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proebsting%27s_paradox
I suppose what they really want, although "decolonise" is a very weird word for it, is for teachers to throw in enough information about the biographies behind the big names in math for students to not engage in unreflected hero worship.
Anecdotal stories indicates that the prophet really loved cats and they are considered to be clean and thus is allowed to be in homes and mosque's.

Dogs on the other hand.