skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good chance this comes down to nicotine.

> Biological mechanisms exist to explain why smoking could protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection. I don’t pretend to be qualified to assess them, but the basic idea is that nicotine competes with the virus for the ACE2 receptor. The few studies looking at vaping have produced mixed results, but an intriguing study from the US found that Covid-19 patients who are smokers had better outcomes in hospital when given nicotine patches.
The next step would be to figure out why and if it can be duplicated without the negative effects.
> You'll have a lot of passengers attacking each other for no reason. This is a remarkably bad idea.

Why are people going to attack each other for no reason? Hijackers typically do very obvious things, like try to break into the cockpit and make announcements/threats to the passengers.

The training video could tell passengers to attack anyone trying to break into the cockpit or to wait to attack until the pilot instructs them to, etc. It would take a bit of thought for sure.

> Fact is: plane hijackings isn't really a problem anywhere. Low-tech solutions like locking the cockpit goes very far.

They're not a problem since 9/11 when passengers attacked the hijackers and then cockpit doors were reinforced. I believe the deterrent is the combination of these two changes.
> If this were actually true we would see elites and politicians constantly smoking

We'd only see that if the cumulative risk from smoking and maybe-covid was greater than the cumulative risk from vaccination and maybe-covid, and if the marginal risk from vaccination if one were already a smoker was negative.

As is, I expect this is true, but that the harms of smoking outweigh the decreased risk of covid by quite a lot, so this isn't actionable at the individual level, though it may be actionable for research into biological pathways.
Intel’s Take on the Next Wave of Moore’s Law
> Context is important,

No, context can be important. If all context were important, you couldn't talk about one thing without talking about every other thing. If your argument about why context is important in this case rests on if a hypothetical fact that "people arrested by police have collectively prevented more crimes than they have committed" would be uninteresting or even unfair without context, I'd deeply disagree.
> have access to infinite resources, knowledge, etc.

I find the pervasiveness of this idea fascinating since it usually falls apart on backtesting. There are tons of elites who get taken in by Ponzi schemes (just look at Madoffs client list), lots of very well connected people lost a ton of money in 08, lots of celebrities use Goop products, etc.

Are there counter examples? I have not found much evidence that there’s some secret elites-only repository of knowledge.
This story is trying way too hard to be controversial, starting with the incorrect claim that “back then Big Tech’s fact-checkers were still describing claims about SARS-CoV-2 being airborne and face masks preventing infection as ‘misleading’”. His recounting of his personal Google search results is an amusing anecdote but it’s just showing his search history - the same search without a Google cookie turns up a couple of recent peer-reviewed studies which found smokers had higher risks of complications from infections.

The actual topic is more interesting than the framing: it’s been observed since pretty early on and covered in both conventional and social media but there wasn’t a firm explanation, and nobody sane was going to recommend taking up smoking as a preventative measure so it’s unclear what other coverage the author expected.
> Pension funds, real estate both commercial and residential, and many other factors could lead to a bond market crash and a debt crisis that would have no way out since everything is so over leveraged on easy money already.

Why is the easy way out not 50% or 100% or 200% inflation?

It's massively unfair. But it's a lot easier than a decades long depression.

One could argue that the renter class of the world has gone through a decade long depression already from 2008.

Not sure why they wouldn't just keep that going indefinitely...
Only when there's a new update

macOS
In the last 4-5 years of occasionally looking for books to learn electrical concepts (at the armchair specialist level), this is the best one I've found.
"Less prevalent" seems unlikely, from the large number of accidents I'm aware of among myself and peers, maybe 25% have involved motor vehicles? Sure, they tend to be the more serious ones, but certainly if you do any sort of regular off-road recreational riding (esp. MTB) you're almost certainly going to come off quite a few times with no other vehicles involved. But I don't know how well my own observations extrapolate to the population as a whole - I suspect a large percentage of bicycle falls never get reported/recorded anywhere anyway.
I'm just going from national injury stats you can find in CDC WONDER and derived reports. Head injuries among American cyclists are a non-issue, far behind practically all other causes of head injuries, and using government powers to force cyclists to wear helmets is a complete waste of everyone's time.

My go-to reference for this is https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053381/1/Mindell_Cau... but if you want to translate it from UK to USA you have to do it yourself.
Sure, but not all of the subsidized students are paying nothing. Plenty just get enough aid that it works out to being about even with going to a public university, but with the added benefit of a larger percentage of the students being rich (and generally getting a better educational experience). The fact that having those rich kids at the school is actually the primary value proposition for expensive private schools shifts the priorities substantially compared to a "the rich kids aren't paying enough to offset all the other students" rote accounting.
You might consider Aquamail. I found it to be more powerful and configurable than K9 or Kaiten when I was on android.

I'm MXRoute/fastmail/gmail/exchange on the back end for MX service providers.
I agree that "cover-up" is baity and therefore we should edit the title (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait").

However, I can't think of a good way to fit HN's 80 char limit without changing the meaning. The title needs to include both the author's claim about what the studies show, and the author's claim that this finding has been dismissed or suppressed or overlooked (pick a neutral word) because of its nonconformity.

I've put a question mark up there for the time being.
Too bad after 3 paragraphs there is full screen email nag. Might have been interesting article, but author apparently doesn’t want readers.
United Airlines Flight 93 crashed and everyone on board died. That does not seem like a problem solved type of situation to me.

The TSA is far more accountable than private security contractors. In fact I really like the TSA, those security checks became far more civil and professional and pleasant after the TSA came in.

As far as private security contractors -- this is what usually happens when they hire them for airport security. Because airport security is sinecure ... there is no competition or option, it is treated as a way to extract the most money by a well connected businessman. A well connected businessman will get the contract, and then attempt to extract as much value from it by spending the minimum amount possible on salaries. So all the "private security contractors" will be minimum wage jobs.

But the airport is a terrible place to work for a minimum wage worker. Travel to and from the airport is usually difficult and expensive, and parking is very expensive. In fact parking is usually more expensive per hour than the minimum wage. So most minimum wage workers avoid airport jobs.

So who takes these jobs? Minimum wage workers that cannot find any other minimum wage jobs. These end up being mostly ex-cons. So you get the situation that ex-cons provide security for one of the most vulnerable parts of our transportation infrastructure. This was the case pre 9/11 and it is one of the reasons why none of the hijackers had any trouble smuggling knives on their flights.
Billionaire Bone Bureau
I think it’s the compounding effect of digital clutter over time. It’s easy to create digital things and the tendency to keep adding features never stops.

Minimalism is a good thing for an OS as it really makes it easier to use.

Another thing to note: there’s a lot or duplication in modern software. For instance, each OS file browser has a search bar to help find files. But tragically, the browser also has one, and so do many websites in the browser. So we have a recursive, ever-expanding set of search bars—yuck.

And also tragically, so do many apps have built-in file browsers. Ideally there should be one mechanism to find things, one mechanism to organize things, etc. It should be simple but flexible, and apps shouldn’t have to roll their own, they should be able to gracefully use the one provided.

We’re at a weird point in software where the browser is basically the OS for many people. ChromeOS was an interesting thought but it’s more like a limited-feature OS designed to sell Google services.

We need to take a step back and kind of assess the situation more—and then make a nice little OS :)
>but unbiased, at least

It's Snopes. No such thing. They sold their credibility for a mess of money and political activism. No refunds.
Interesting. Or smokers having to spend time outside and away from crowded places.
@jb1991 btw did u know there's a way to make polls on HN? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
yummy cigs > vaccine
Really?
Hertz HAS $168M?
The most frustrating thing about people focussing on cycle helmets is that they have very little effect on cyclist safety. PPE should be the last thing that people consider when looking at road danger.

From https://road.cc/content/news/111258-chris-boardman-helmets-n...

> Talking about helmets had become a time-consuming distraction, he said. “We’ve got to tackle the helmet debate head on because it’s so annoying,” he said. “It gets a disproportionate amount of coverage. When you have three minutes and someone asks ‘Do you wear a helmet’ you know the vast majority of your time when you could be talking about stuff that will make a difference, is gone.”

> He said the focus on helmets had made cycling seem more dangerous than it really is.

> “We’ve gone away from the facts,” he said. “We’ve gone to anecdotes. It’s like shark attacks - more people are killed building sandcastles than are killed by sharks. It’s just ludicrous that the facts aren’t matching up with the actions because the press focus, naturally, on the news stories, and [the notion that cycling is dangerous] becomes the norm, and it isn’t the norm.
How would that have worked in this case? User posts Blender video $X on youtube, $idiotCompany files frivolous DMCA suit claiming copyright on $X, Blender loses its copyright on $X?
Trending down slowly, but still 40% of US households:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/612660/paid-services-bro...
There was a study about this and i was aware of this.

Not sure what qualifies as a cover-up It was also not broadly mentioned that vitamine d reduces the chance to catch COVID.

I don't see a big conspiracy in that.

Ps. If i remember it correctly, it was that COVID couldn't attach to some cells in the lungs well. Which reduced the odds to catch COVID.

Ps 2. There's also an interesting study when you catch COVID early on and take pure CBD oil.
In the height of the pandemic when people were grasping desperately at anything that appeared to help (wiping down groceries, holding your breath to “prove” you didn’t have covid, drinking fish tank cleaner etc) I have to admit it makes sense to downplay something like smoking preventing Covid.

Covid had/has a pretty low mortality rate and now there is an effective vaccine. It makes sense to not encourage people to take up a highly addictive habit with myriad lifelong health effects just to maybe prevent a disease that would likely have harmed them much less than smoking anyway.
Yes, regardless whether RPI1 or 3. These boards are quite weak. I wouldn't want file system to one of the biggest bottlenecks on a running system. I had BRTFS on rpi3 before and don't recommend it. Both FS are CoW.
It's not so much batch these days as conditions.

Individual sellers probably use the same shipping method for every order and they may order in large batches which are transported at the same time. Although SSDs are a bit more resilient, hard temperature spikes in a single batch won't be detected after shipping. In the past, we would do this for hard drives because although parked heads are safe, high G-loads could actually unpark a head.
Addressing his specific point that “decolonization” of the curriculum in medicine is “dangerous” - As a practicing physician, I strongly disagree. I think the author likely has a completely inaccurate idea of what a medical curriculum even is, as I cannot reconcile most of what he is saying with what I’ve seen at several of the top medical training places in the country. Decolonization of medical curriculum in general is important as our euro-centric view of disease often ends up dramatically hurting minority individuals. This runs from obvious things like making sure physicians have pictures of rashes on melanotic (dark) skin in textbooks to more difficult things like incorporating non-European ancestry individuals in massive genetic studies and not simply discarding their genetic info (as has been done for a lot of large population studies historically).
Yeah this paper takes a heavily biased stance, even to the point of vilifying generally accepted and genuinely useful concepts like `return` statements. Not sure how the author can pretend that they are presenting any sort of analysis on the broad set of languages when they've already presupposed that everything besides their own language is wrong
OP: My suggestion is a better definition of what you'd hope to get out of such a book.

There are good suggestions here but I feel like you might be able to find better resources if there's more of an idea what you want to learn.

OHMs law is fundamental, but it won't exactly show you how to make anything practical. (and you'll find that 90% of electricity intro books focus on those concepts vs getting you into something fun).
The science bit says it's safe because the seasoning inhibits microbial growth during the drying period, but the recipe at the top applies the seasoning after the drying period. Something doesn't add up.
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ChatGPT is the best:

Once upon a time, there was a young man named Jack who had a golden screw in place of his belly button. Jack was very self-conscious about this unique feature, but he soon discovered that it had some incredible powers.

One day, Jack was walking through the forest when he came across a beautiful fairy. The fairy was in distress and begged Jack to help her. She explained that she was being held captive by a wicked witch and needed someone to rescue her.

Without hesitation, Jack agreed to help the fairy and set off on an adventure to defeat the witch. Along the way, he encountered many challenges, including fierce beasts and treacherous obstacles.

But with the help of his golden screw, Jack was able to overcome each challenge and finally reached the witch's castle. He battled the witch, using his golden screw to conjure up powerful spells and defeat her.

The fairy was grateful to Jack and rewarded him with a magical amulet that granted him the ability to fly. With this new power, Jack flew back home, feeling proud of his bravery and accomplishment.

Years later, Jack discovered that the golden screw could do even more than he had initially thought. He realized that he could use it to shape-shift into any form he desired.

Excited by this new discovery, Jack began experimenting with his newfound ability. He turned into a bird, a fish, and even a dragon. But one day, he accidentally turned into a duck and couldn't change back.

Feeling frustrated and embarrassed, Jack decided to give up his powers and return to his human form. He unscrewed the golden screw and, to his horror, his butt fell off.
work: daily - windows 10
Home: Plex server - once a month or when there's a power outage - windows 10
Home: main machine - every few days - windows 11
Home: HA Server - power outages - linux
home: PiHOle - power outages - Linux
Had the same thought.
> The article isn't for either of those things.

You'd never know it from the clickbait headline.

> Mandatory helmet laws are a matter of public policy, they have nothing to do with individual people making individual decisions.

Public policy doesn't do anything by itself; all it does is determine the incentives that people face when making individual decisions to do or not do things. So correctly describing the effects of a public policy is very important to individual people trying to make individual decisions.
Like, a generative model is a source of _some_ information that is refined with gates (classification models) conditional on the generated information?

The analogy to transistors and logic gates falls flat a bit when you consider that voltage is a rather simple univariate signal, while generated text is quite complex and multivariate. But I understand that the main point is the composability and filtering.
I recently went from North America -> Africa via Europe. I do have global entry, but i found the CDG experience to be more onerous than the one I have domestically in the US.
And your parents passing on their genes to you doesn't matter, from an evolutionary perspective? You have only "been given" those genes, as if by magic?
If the movies are real they flash their gun and badge to the flight attendant and give them a wink.
It definitely explains why the author's preferred language is not common in industry, though.
> Now you are assuming that "governments" and "citizens" are two disjoint groups with different agendas. That's a really bleak way of looking at it, at least in functioning democracies.

Functioning democracies are sort of like spherical cows or frictionless surfaces: they don’t actually exist but we pretend they do as a simplifying assumption. Sometimes we are having more sophisticated discussions about bovine anatomy or the friction of ice; other times we discuss the principal-agent problem as it applies to the administrative state within a democracy.
The failure here is in the word "use".

They are enjoying the effects of the CC license (as applied to the original content) without applying it to their derived content.
This isn't being talked about, but ...

If you play with and get a feel for the text 2 image generations, that "compress" 5 billion images into a 16GB model that coherent pictures can be probabilistically generated from, you can apply that "feel" to the language probabilistic generations -- and trust them about as much.

You're staring at a lovely image, decide to ignore eight fingers on the left hand, and not till five minutes later realize your hero has three legs.

For the purpose you describe, that works though!
> Yep, and what would be even more sensible is allowing users to 'cap' the charge level the way Samsung has started to with a "charge only to 85%" ability.

You can kinda do this with AOSP, but it's obnoxiously convoluted. You enable the adaptive charging feature, then set a silent alarm for 9:59, then set an alarm on something other than your phone so you can unplug your phone at 7:00 or so. (edit: or I guess you could get a smart outlet to cut power to your phone at 7:00)
In a similar vein, I am doing a migration from iCloud Photo Library from a completely self-hosted cloudless solution. Getting the photos out is easy enough, but there's no easy UI to export the albums and smart albums and tags etc. Was doing quite a bit of AppleScript programming before I discovered https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos
I certainly suspected it. I've declined to get a real ID everytime, because it seems like it won't actually be required, and if it is, I have a passport I could carry, and get a real ID for convenience at the next license renewal.

In other words, why pay for it now, if it keeps getting pushed back, and likely will continue to get pushed back.
because it is a way for the companies to wear you out such that by the time you get to the offer stage you take whatever offer they give you.
Same situation and reasons here.

Migadu has been perfect for my needs. The basic plan at $20/m is more than enough and it's basically dirt cheap. If you're a student you can even get it for half the price.
I really like their lax and understanding limit policy.
> What's the real difference between the government stationing armed soldiers in your town to maintain the peace, and stationing armed police in your town to maintain the peace?

One's subject to military tribunals[1], while the other is subject to regular courts, which from all evidence seem to be incredibly biased in their favour.

[1] Of which I know next to nothing.
It’s a trap. The non-public negotiation for his testimony will have a demand for immunity from prosecution. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets it, either.
I don't think humans are going to 'partner' programs, but they will use them to reduce their dependence on people they don't like which means fewer interactions with people outside the emotionally meaningful ones.

But what i think is a bit worrying is that people will start enforcing AI standards to their relations with other people. We see that already when people enforce Internet standards (like cancelous attitudes) to their real-life relationships and it doesn't always end in more happiness.
This one is super unfortunate, I understand that they were trying to protect the supply of n95 masks for medical personnel but they did it in a completely backwards way that destroyed the trust of a massive amount of the population (and it didn't help that WHO went out of their way to ignore evidence cause it was presented by Taiwan and was inconvenient for China).

I remember knowing super quickly that the answers being given were clearly political with a wink wink being given, but also if you weren't looking at the actual sources and were just watching fox/cnn/msnbc you weren't getting that metadata so can understand people being so frustrated.
From a linked article inside this article:

>In New Zealand the school chemistry and biology syllabus has been decolonised and now invokes the concept of mauri, or life force, to give the atomic theory a new spiritual dimension. This is because of a central diktat that Maori knowledge must be given equal status to other forms of knowledge, including science.

This strikes me as extremely similar to teaching creationism in schools.
There are several reasons why prison sentences make sense in this scenario.

Or phrased differently: without prison sentences the whole situation becomes a pure numbers game: did they get more money out of the false reports/not fixing the bugs causing this misbehavior then they now have to pay in damages.

These kinds of crimes will continue to become the baseline if there are no real consequences to the people actually being responsible for the deeds (this includes the CEO).
What's wrong with raw cilantro from Mexico? Geniune question.
I ran a very busy Tor node (not exit) that was also doing folding at home on the side on their cloud for years. Never have they complained or threatened to shut anything down. I have only good things to say about them