skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equally we have many studies showing that vitamin D helps to reduce risk from covid (hint: it doesn't).

More studies show that ivermectin has a positive effect in covid patients. In fact, ivermectin has no effect or has only a very weak effect in certain patients.

In medicine observational studies suffer from certain problems that are hard to overcome. The biggest is that the groups are not equal. For example, smokers die younger. Covid risk increases exponentially with age. Consequently, covid will kill more people who have reached greater age as a result of not smoking. The researchers may think that they control for these factors but in reality it is very hard to do.

If you take a random article, it says smokers have greater risks from covid: https://www.renalandurologynews.com/home/departments/mens-he...

Not much evidence in either way, but before we study for reasons how smoking could protect from covid, we would like to know for sure that this is really true.
Factbox: Fake olive oil scandal that caused Spain's worst food poisoning epidemic in 1981

> * About 100,000 individuals were exposed and clinical disease occurred in 20,000 people, 10,000 of whom were hospitalized, according to Science Direct website. More than 300 victims died and many more were left with chronic disease, Science Direct said.

> * According to the survivors' organisation Seguimos Viviendo more than 5,000 people have died over the years and there are 20,000 surviving victims with poor quality of life and incurable afflictions.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fake-olive-oil-scandal-...

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_oil_syndrome
> Even a Unicode reference website that I just used to recall the code is broken by it.

I like to imagine that sites like this have noticed the bug but have the sense of humor to choose not to fix it.
Identify your distractions: Start by identifying the things that tend to distract you and distract you from your work. This could be anything from social media notifications to loud noises to hunger. Once you know what your distractions are, you can take steps to minimize or eliminate them.

Set goals and priorities: Set clear goals and priorities for your work, and focus on completing the most important tasks first. This will help you stay focused and avoid getting sidetracked by less important tasks.

Create a conducive environment: Create a conducive environment for focused work, with minimal distractions and comfortable surroundings. This could mean working in a quiet, distraction-free space, or using noise-canceling headphones to block out external noise.

Take regular breaks: Take regular breaks to refresh your mind and avoid burnout. This could mean taking a short walk, stretching, or engaging in a mindfulness exercise to clear your mind and refocus.

Use technology to your advantage: Use technology to your advantage by using tools and apps that can help you stay focused and avoid distractions. For example, you could use a productivity app that blocks distracting websites, or a time-tracking app that helps you manage your time effectively.
I am serious, and it's all about how things are named and how the OS interacts with you.

Some examples (imagine you've never used a computer before):

- "file explorer" on Windows, "finder" on Mac. This is just an example of naming that I think it's just confusing to users, among many other names

- a red "X" to close a program on windows, a random square with no color differentiation on the Mac

- a clear view of what programs are running in the taskbar on Windows vs. the current active program in the top right

- taskbar showing date + time and the calendar "on click" on Windows vs. time, date on click & no calendar on the Mac

... and the list can go on. I honestly believe they screwed up by acting too smart, when people wanted something simple that makes sense to them.
I love it how you pretend to be helpful only to turn out spiteful. Are you even aware of what we're discussing here or are you just trying to take out frustration online?
This guy [1] (on twitter) says they are using Davinci 003, and claiming it is what ChatGPT uses.

[1] https://twitter.com/VarunMayya/status/1599736091946659845
Where do you buy this imported butter in America?! I must know.
A Lisp REPL Inside ChatGPT
Not only this, Things are very confusing for people. During checking at my last flight I asked the officer about if Ohio ID would be sufficient for the real ID requirement. She couldn't answer because she didn't know how they issue it these days. If this a TSA officer, what about ordinary people?
The side of the equation you're ignoring is maintenance. Commercial fleets also have garages and FTE mechanics maintaining the vehicles in the fleet. That all costs money and needs to be factored into your cost analysis.

I work for a large public utility generating electricity. We switched our fleet to electric trucks years ago, and not because we're an electric company - frankly our bean counters don't care about that! It all came down to lower operational costs, higher reliability, and vehicle longevity. Being an electric company we don't have to worry about charging infrastructure, but still - the electric vehicles proved to be significantly cheaper to operate, and not just in fuel costs.
Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game
Can we talk about the great cover-up of zinc deficiency now?
Supposing minutes after Carlsen resigned it came out that Niemann had carried with him a device obviously designed to cheat, would Magnus's behaviour been justified then?
Severe Covid could cause markers of old age in the brain
The question is "are you passing that ID around as an int? or as a byte array?"

It may happen that the data type in the database is an int... because the database does math on it (or its source - seq.nextval type thing).

However, when you get it, you don't need to have it be an int that you can do math with. Even if you keep the same underlying implementation of it, pass it around in a way that doesn't let you add two IDs together or mutate it.

The easiest way to do that is to store it as a String.

One of the advantages of taking it to a String in Java is that it becomes immutable and so can cleanly be used as a key to a Map and prevents the easy math operations on it without taking it from a String to a numeric type (and back). If you see someone doing `Integer.parseInt(someId)` it becomes clear that they're doing something wrong with that.
"Then why buy the game?"

While I agree you "shouldn't" buy the game, we shouldn't even be giving legitimacy to these practices at all. We generally try to prosecute snake-oil salesmen, shutdown hucksters, put con-men out of business, etc..

There are unfortunately many reasons why people might buy the game - false advertising, lack of proper research, peer pressure from a poorly informed populous. You may be tempted to say "you should do your research", and while I agree you generally should, its also true its impractical to research everything. The same way I shouldn't have to go into a grocery store and have to worry about if the peanut butter is poisoned with salmonella, a consumer be able to purchase a product, and have the reasonable expectation that they can do what they want with the product within the confines of their own home.

Finding out after you have purchased a game that it is arbitrarily locked down, and that you have little recourse to get your money back, is a form of fraud.
The classic argument is that people should be wearing bike helmets when climbing ladders, using stairs and having a shower (a lot of people slip in the shower). However, when examined logically in terms of head protection, people think that it's only appropriate for cyclists.
It goes both ways. Americans are way too casual with lunchmeat and prepping raw meat and vegetables on the same surfaces.
Brings so much good memories!
[Edit] and their macos8 emulation is even better
The hijackers were going to crash the plane and kill everyone on board and anybody at the target crash site. The calculus for using a plane as a missile has changed. Passengers simply won't allow it to happen and there is a locked cockpit door. A similar event isn't impossible but nothing TSA or air marshals do is preventing a hijacking.
No, UK not only has no ID card but also doesn't have the equivalent of an SSN. The National Insurance number serves the same primary purpose as SSN, for associating tax payments, but it doesn't otherwise serve as a unique identifier for each citizen - it's not used on credit card applications for example. UK has lower %age of drivers than US due to strong public transport, so mandating a drivers license for ID isn't feasible.

The UK just bought in new ID rules for voting which bizarrely allow for things like a senior citizen rail card to be used. (it's being brought in by our conservative government for same reason as US - to disenfranchise certain voter blocks - hence why a senior citizen rail card is fine but a youth or normal adult one is not)
I think they are using the same api as ChatGPT https://github.com/clmnin/summarize.site/blob/0e4da39fa4355a...

Is this even legal?
He had to be served the papers in person, but went completely off the grid. They spent so long trying to track him down (and re-visiting his listed address) that they finally got permission from the court to "serve" the notice by both email and notices in local newspapers running for a month straight.

I'm assuming that Teller didn't do any of that himself and had his lawyers organize it all. This "default judgment" was many months in the making because the guy stayed hidden.
Prison is a great deterrence, if targeted at the right people, in this case the executives.
I've been following this twitter account for my daily dose of retro sci-fi art: https://twitter.com/70sscifi
Yup. You need to SSE it though. Pretty simple actually (I'm OP, btw)
> Anecdotally my only family member who regularly smokes just got COVID.

I’ve never had Covid either despite repeated close contact with others who’ve had it

I smoked for 9 months over 35 years ago but I think it’s safe to say I’d be classed as a non-smoker
No - the costs are the same for any ID card, the only difference is if you jump through the extra hoops to have them issue a Real ID:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification...
Now you won’t have to get a Real ID for two more years
Lightning infill: Ribbed support vaults for 3D printing of hollowed objects
Think of it as information, not voltage. An XOR produces information. A lot of XORS with ANDs make a calculator which opens up an entire vectorspace of mathematical information.
This is not a book for beginners.
I used Chat GPT to build a Twitter bot without knowing any programming language
I tried to use it for help with a wordle. I think the word was EJECT and I had E?E?T. It seemed to understand what I was asking, but came up with 5 and 6 letter suggestions that didn't fit.
Not that it's true, but that it's suspicious enough to be worth investigating, yes, of course?

Is that not obvious? Did you pay attention AT ALL during Jan 6?

In any "not very large city," this should always be considered as a possibility.
I have said all along that the only thing government had to do to kill crypto was ignore it and allow it to collapse under the weight of it's own corruption and incompetence.

By the way, what did the last Republican administration do to regulate crypto? Absolutely nothing. Since when do Republicans cry out for more government regulation?
The whole point of level playing field is that they must be remunerated, so there is no instance of someone doing something for free.

We had similar problem in my country with apprenticeships, that used to be unpaid. The good ones where snapped up white middle class children, while children from ethnic minorities had to work for money, not necessarily in their field of interest. That amplified the lack of diversity in the space of white collar jobs.
Now unpaid apprenticeships are illegal and that has vastly improved the access to jobs for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

It's exactly the same situation with OSS.
> also people on non-immigrant visas cannot get them

Which kinda makes sense as this is intended to be a pseudo-federal ID, right?
People prefer the path of least resistance until the price becomes too high. When people realise they are obese, they generally try and lose weight. I strongly suspect that with the next wave of AI, more and more people are going to come to the conclusion that the price is too high. There is significant tech pushback already, I can only see that growing as it erodes even more people’s values and livelihoods.
I'd rather have a federated ID system like what we have currently with state drivers licenses/voter id systems. Social Security Number/TIN is already used as a unique identifier for all financial transactions anyways.

It's messy and complex at times, but in the long run I'd rather deal with a bunch of small state level bureaucracies than a giant federal behemoth that barely functions (looking at you IRS).
‘Huge, Missing and Growing:’ $65 Trillion in Dollar Debt Sparks Concern
Yet the 9/11 problem was solved by locking the cockpit door.
Sounds like substantial fines are in order.
GDP calculations don't include this kind of stuff.
Last week, while driving my car, I had a car behind me flash his headlights and honking at me because I decided not to pass a cyclist in front of me in an area I assessed as too narrow to pass safely. So sometimes even automobilists experience psycho attitudes towards cyclists by proxy.
Yeah I found this out post-incident from the Backblaze blog, which I read pretty religiously but this particular nugget of info escaped me.
Building out better infrastructure is usually the most effective way to increase the number of people cycling (and to make it safer for those already doing so).
Ok but the UK is also an outlier.
PS: As to your edit the list of buyers was exactly the kind of companies I described with long haul trucking companies ordering token amounts. Walmart, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, etc took a bigger bite.

Sysco: The food distributor has reserved 50 Semis.
while
Flexport: Ryan Peterson, the freight company's CEO, announced the company has ordered one Semi.

https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-that-ordered-tesla...
> Doctors have prevented this by setting strict limits on how many new doctors can be qualified at the national level

It's a bit more complicated than this. The bottleneck to becoming a doctor is residency, there are currently less spots than med school graduates. Every single residency loses money, so they're supported by the federal government. Congress could increase residency funding and more residencies would be created, and in fact the AMA consistently lobbies for that, but congress has refused.
This is true, but there's a huge question of scale here — part of what makes stories about forgeries or hoaxes so entertaining is the relative novelty of putting together assemblages of plausible material. Even the infamous troll farms had limits for how many things they could write about at a time with convincing results. I think we're about to look back at that as the good old days before the floodgates opened.
Mosdef. Ravelry and metafilter are my go to examples of outliers. By what magic are they sustaining themselves?
> when the anti-cheat finds someone that they do not like, for example a developer who has tooling such as CheatEngine, WireShark, AHK, or WSL installed.

A lot of these folks are software developers! I’d have to do a poll to get wider info, but I know several people have AHK, WireShark and WSL installed, and have for years. But especially with online multiplayer games, the sentiment has always been that you necessarily give up some freedom to participate. For example, I don’t actually know a single person who dislikes ring 0 kernel anti-cheat, dubbed “spyware” by many.

> absolutely excessive proportions.

Citation badly needed, there are a lot of cheaters! The fact that I can buy a Cronus from a local gamestop, today, speaks volumes. I’d like to get cheaters in check first, how about we criminalize assisting in cheating, not actually enforce it through state-sponsored law enforcement, but make it so that gaming companies have an easy path to shut it down and bankrupt cheat-device manufacturers/retailers/importers. Something like DMCA. In the same bill we can hold game/anti cheat vendors accountable for bans.
UK doesn’t have ID either, but I think most European countries do
The cyclists have been the most blatant traffic violators for quite a while in the city. Ik any day if someone is running a red light it is likely a cyclists.

Now this type of article is just a another way of presenting such a mentality.
Anecdata but the more "official" covid subreddits /r/coronavirus and then /r/covid19 started off pretty free speech but then began bringing in more and more moderation and allowing less divergence from agreed upon narrative, if parent poster is a heavy Reddit user perhaps that is where their feelings come from.
"This will give people an extra two years to get an updated driver’s license or ID card; after the deadline, they won’t be allowed to fly without them."

Or they could just use a Passport (or Passport Card) for identification purposes. A driver's license isn't the only form of government issued photo ID.
There is no such technology. Ground penetrating radar can be used to find some large buried artifacts above the water line. For underwater artifacts the only options are side-scan sonar and lidar, but those don't work for anything deeply buried under sediment. A lot of sediment can accumulate in 12K years.

In order to find anything I think the most productive approach would be to make some educated guesses about where settlements might have been located, then excavate those sites. But any sort of underwater archaeology is extremely expensive. And the cost goes up exponentially for anything much deeper than 100 ft / 30 m because that's about the limit for human divers to do useful work with cheap and simple compressed air scuba gear.
Whole drive failure. Likely the controller died.
> Why is HN always so damn against developers facing their hubris, or mistakes, or consequences for their actions?

Because it's clear what will happen. Software he supports will die off. And because we can empathize.
And graduates consistently not knowing how to code is why interviews exist.
Will SCOTUS side with other Christian beliefs? I'm thinking specifically of the traditional "peace churches", Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, and their historical opposition to war and killing. What if a Quaker decides to not register for selective service because of strongly held religious beliefs? What if a devote Mennonite subtracts 28% (or whatever the DoD gets as a percentage of the yearly budget) from their income tax? The latter has happened in the past, btw.

How far does religious belief and freedom of religion take us?
I wish this were the case with brexit.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce 2 years after acquisition
> attack until the pilot instructs them to...

Woah, that's... a bad idea.
NFT Wash Trading in the Ethereum Blockchain
Calling the total notional value of a pile of swaps "debt" is really misleading. If you and I do $1m in fx swaps, in no sense do either of us owe each other $1m. Currency swaps settle daily I think, so if one of us goes bust all that happens is that I don't get your payments and my currency risk goes back to what it was.

Anyway, headline is sensational enough that I'm not willing to read the article
The only thing here is instead of copy-pasting it into ChatGPT, you get to use a browser extension that does the job. Pretty convenient actually.

So technically, we are still using https://chat.openai.com/chat, with the UI
The feds do not need every citizen to hold an ID card, even if they might be trying to convince you otherwise.

Hailing this as necessary to prevent voter fraud is just as preposterous as the mark-of-the-beast nonsense covered by another child comment.

The current federated system using state drivers' licenses seems fine to me, it's been functional through all of RealID's delays.
Writing code is the equivalent of swinging a hammer. A more experienced engineer might swing it better than a junior, but swinging hammers isn't what makes an engineer valuable.

These AI models don't actually understand anything about what they're generating, not to mention the world they're supposed to building solutions for. They're just using statistics to predict the next likely output based on some input. Maybe there is a way to incorporate these things into the development process today, but I think we're still far away from seeing an AI replacing a human engineer.
You basically can't break into the cockpit anymore.
That is some truly trash luck.

I have wondered what kind of punishment is likely for someone who ends up diverting a flight.
So

accounting books != balance sheet

Book - balance sheet = “hidden”

“leverage ratio” as defined by pension accounting standards doesn’t include currency / counterparty risk.
Doesn't seem a very good idea to use anything like this (or call any method actually) except on NFTs where you have verified the code.

When you sign to authorize the contract to buy your worthless NFT, the contract will call something like safeTransfer(), but the NFT implementation of that method might actually just do something bad eg empty out your wallet.

This is a reasonably common means of crypto theft: drop an NFT into someone's wallet with malicious transfer code that actually steals their assets when they try to transfer it.
Yes, but now that we have a tool, it will never go away.

Nobody knows how to grow food, or build their houses, or do 100 little things that we rely on for our modern life. Do we really need to be able to "write" a sentence.

My kids (and my own) handwriting is almost unreadable, but by age 10 all of their work is done on a laptop. Do they even need to be able to write by hand any more?

update: I'm more concerned that we cannot yet run these tools locally on computers we control, and with information we feed into them.

I'm more concerned about the dystopian nightmare of having the advertising industry in charge of our sentence writing tools.
They already had and were using a legal pretext for not delivering the gas.
Original iPod did use Chicago though! Then when they got color screens they switched to Lucida Grande.
If you have to carry your passport around for things other than foreign travel there’s a greater risk of losing it.
Retribution is part of criminal Justice. We have no problem “rehabiliting” companies (except that it often fails), and we have no problem using retribution as an excuse to send poor black people to jail for long sentences. Why do we struggle with conceptualizing retribution for handling corporate malfeasance? You have a duty as a company leader to your fellow citizens. If you fail, you should be held accountable. I support prison time for the business leaders at Hertz who caused this problem to occur. Lock em up!
This article very clearly articulates at length that there is a problem hiring (and one can assume, retaining) good Air Marshals. Seems to me that randomly reassigning them to border duty is highly unlikely to fix that problem. The premises here don’t reach the stated conclusion.