skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a finance expert so apologies if any of this is wrong but from my understanding there’s a new strategy now. The theory, is that stock brokers are taking advantage of a mechanism which allows them to create and trade hundreds of thousands of ghost shares in GME that don’t really exist which, if true, means they can never lose and the casino is rigged. Superstonkers are direct registering their shares which means stock brokers don’t have any ability to trade them. The theory, is that once they direct register all the available shares it will expose the number of fake shares the brokers have created causing the mother of all short squeezes as people start calling in their positions but there are no real shares available for the brokers to purchase and fulfil their positions. The superstonkers think this will be enough to crash the entire market and expose the traders to fraud as there will be no legitimate reason that will hold up in court for the vast quantity of these imaginary shares - they believe the quantity will vastly outweigh the acceptable number that could be created for the purposes of the mechanism. The percentage of the shares that have been registered so far is around 60% and growing. Whether the Superstonkers are right or wrong about the outcome won’t be able to be determined until they reach 100% or maybe close to it if the brokers start panicking beforehand and a short starts.

I don’t have any shares but it is really fun to watch as an outsider.
Isn't this not actually what the user you are responding to was saying? Smokers have worse outcomes, but they seem to get it less. All of your points address better outcomes, with the exception of the outdoors bit.
I agree with that, thank you for clarifying!
I’ve seen this, or at least parts of it, yes, but it doesn’t resolve my issue. The thing it lets you tell it “don’t show me these” is limited to a list of 5 things, none of which are “this is for a horror movie” or “this is horny”.

The other section about interests and brands, uh, well they seem to just not work for me? Like it keeps saying “we will populate this section once you’ve been shown more brands/ads”. I don’t have an ad blocker installed. This is both on my phone and on my laptop, and is the case for all my google accounts?

I know it at least used to have an “interests” section that I could update, but that didn’t really solve my problem either.

The reason I specified a viewer-tagged system is because it would, I would think, avoid the problem of [the categories that one can mark oneself as dis/interested in] being largely useless?
In a college hackathon, I wrote a chrome extension that crowd sources answers for online tests and displays them next to the questions. So if one person with the extension took the test already, everyone would get the answers even if the questions/answers are randomized. And in the cases where no answer was available (because the test system doesn't show you the correct answers at the end, or something like that), then it would fall back to showing you percentages so you have an idea of which answer everyone else was choosing.

The reason I built that was just because I was annoyed by how lazy my professors were. Almost every single class (which I was paying for) was graded based on your performance on copy and pasted, endlessly reused tests on Blackboard. Sometimes you could just search the question on Google, and find pdf dumps of the exact same test from 5+ years ago. If you don't cheat, you risk getting a lower grade than the people who do cheat (aka everyone). Why spend all that money going to college if you're just going to let other people get ahead of you so easily? The point of degree is to make you more competitive in the job market, but deciding to not cheat is risking that investment.

Unfortunately, I never actually used it or deployed it once. Coordinating a whole class to install and use a chrome extension for cheating isn't exactly easy. And as far as cheating in online tests goes, there are easier ways to do it.

But yeah, in-person proctored exams are how it should be done. It's the only thing that's fair to everyone.
To me the interesting smoking related issue is obesity & related problems. Most of the world has all put a lot of weight on in the last few decades. Is it a coincidence that is while we've given up smoking? Cigarettes actively reduce hunger and desire for eating.
> ... while SD is. Innovation comes from such extensibility, and in a way, this just shows how right Stallman was.

The cat is out of the bag and it's not going back in. We'll have totally free model in no time, just like StableDiffusion. These models may take money to train but either a philanthropist billionaire like emostaque pays for the training or several people team up to fund the training.

If we've got a closed OpenAI (funny name for something closed and for pay right/) today, we'll have an open one tomorrow.
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I have made it much easier to rank developers and other job candidates, with Trovinto.com

You can create the interview manuscript you need from just the job ad, then turn that into a questionnaire which can be sent with candidates and submissions are automatically ranked.
My wife had to go to the doctor to get some cotton removed cause she was using qtips
Locking the flight deck door, like the terrorists did, has probably been the biggest security upgrade since that day.
> According to the author of the article, the old license says it's for every version of the software in perpetuity. If he comes out with v2, that would be covered as well.

Well this is easy enough... "mIRC pro" comes around and "mIRC" is discontinued. It's kind of strange that the author didn't even bother to do this much.

I can only assume that the user base for a proprietary, Windows-only IRC client in 2022 is vanishingly small, so he may have rightly assumed not enough people would notice or care to cause him any headaches.
Reminds me of the Life or Death games
https://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-life-and-death/

I played quite a lot of this in middle school technology class. Think I actually successfully completed one of the simpler brain surgeries without killing the patient.
I live in a US city with a population over 2,000,000 that's seemingly incapable of producing what would be a very mediocre loaf of bread in Paris, for under $12. Actually-good bread simply cannot be had—there isn't any. One consequence of this is that it's impossible to get a decent sandwich here for anything but crazy-high prices.

And don't get me started on the croissant situation. Ugh. They're all too-big and disgustingly doughy (90% of them are in this category), or burnt.

I have no idea why this is the case, but it is. Like I know baguettes are price controlled so you can't compare those, but I mean any bread at all that's decent and somewhat affordable—simply not a thing here. You'd think someone could do it, but evidently not.
> Anecdotally my only family member who regularly smokes just got COVID.

50% less risk doesn't mean invincible. ;)

My anecdotal contribution is that my fiancée (who smokes) didn't catch it from me, even though we spent all days together throughout (me working from home, she not working at all) when I caught Covid 8 months after my 2nd (and last) jab.
Huh? People use Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) for decades to speculate on debt defaults...

"South Sea Bubble to learn how to regulate insurance to prevent this kind of thing." - AIG (at the time the biggest insurance company in the US) went down in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis because they insured sub-prime loans (CDS again).. So I guess there are lots of holes regulators still need to learn....
"Should racing games counter Cronus by removing difficult corners that rely on predictable turns?"

Your argument is that games are bad so they should have serious restrictions on them to make them stay bad....

This is nonsense. Games should be, first and foremost, fun. You will build and play better, more interesting games where there are fewer predictable turns (literal or figurative), when there isn't such an unhealthy obsession with protecting terrible mechanics.

For a very few cases where there is e-sport(s) like activity, fine, create your TiVO like experience (in multiplayer, e.g. combat simulators, racing).

"Anti-cheat systems have gotten incredibly sophisticated with incredible gains in cheat detection".

Anti-cheat systems are a large part of why I rarely play any AAA titles - they are slow as all 'F, buggy, and honestly completely trashy games. And if I bought one of these games and was randomly locked out of it, you can bet I would be demanding the blood of the developers be spilled.
I have only rented with Hertz for about 20 years, and finally gave about after almost several bad experiences. Tried Enterprise on my first trip last week and was shocked at how much better it is.
I am, but then again it's a relatively simple product, a (yet another) todo list tool. I often use others too because I want to see how they fare but I haven't found one that sticks. Maybe that's on me though and not the tool.
My father was originally from Manchester and there is a good chance he borrowed heavily.
I think everyone has been able to tell convincing lies for quite some time before language models even existed.
I believe that re-analysis was refuted by Dr Ian Walker: https://psyarxiv.com/nxw2k
One random guy's opinion (and a long-time K9 user):

Little UI design changes are NOT what you should be spending time/money on; they are a waste of effort given K9's already strong usability. I acknowledge it's your time/money but this does not make the app any more appealing. I know I sound like a broken record [1] but, at minimum, I believe Thunderbird could take quite a few users (who prefer privacy-focused apps) from both Google and Microsoft (not to mention 3rd-party apps [2] [3] [4]) by integrating functionality at the local level. This would be a considerable (IMO) differentiation in functionality. I will continue to use Outlook until there is a significant justification to switch to Thunderbird. And until "Thunderbird for Android" is significantly differentiated in functionality (i.e., ignoring UI), it will remain branded in my mind as K9.

- Signed: someone who still calls a tall building in Chicago as the Sears Tower

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728531

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callicia.b...

[3] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/mypho...

[4] https://generalsync.com/en/
It seems that the marinade goes on after the overnight drying though. That puzzled me since the bacteria would be free to reproduce.
> It’s a few hours, people can suck it up.

While I completely agree, this would just shift the problem to the terminal, where people would gulp down as much as they can at airport bars, and become unruly when denied boarding at the gate due to inebriation.
Reusable react components to maximize your coding efficiency
Linus Torvalds on Git (Google Tech Talk 2007)
you have directly experienced Christians directly expressing aversion to non-bodily-invasive state or federal ID, specifically on Christian grounds?
Only tangentially related, non-scientific, probably not interesting to anyone else comment checking in. My puppy always licks the inside of my ears and since then they are super clean all the time (like no external earwax at all) but I am scared of getting an ear infection.
> I noticed the article said end-to-end encryption is "available". I'd be curious to know what that means in practice.

If both sender and receiver are using Google Messages, the clients will negotiate an end-to-end encrypted session. This happens automatically.
> "First, there is no need for citation"

I'm no native english speaker, sometimes I make mistakes.

"there's no need to" in my language can translate to "it is superfluous because" and then you explain why it is.

I'll remind you HN guidelines, in case you forgot.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Absolutely, I certainly don't wish to see more people driving cars! But for any individual, if safety is your primary concern and you're deciding between a car and a bicycle, you'd choose the former.
Doesn't he provide power draw already? For your use case you can just use the idle power
I myself am guilty of this. I went to a technical college and had to spend three years doing hours and hours of technical drawing every week.
I was pretty good at it, but I never got into the craft. In the last two years of high school we switched to CAD using the PCs of the time (286, 386, the 486 was as valuable as the wedding ring handed down from generation to generation).

Now, almost 30 years after my days of technical drawing, I must say that I consider those hours spent drawing a terrible waste of time, partly because I did not go on to the career for which technical school was preparing me, and secondly because technology has made pen and paper obsolete and I see no particular ability to carry over from hand and square technical drawing to CAD-assisted design.

The latter is an important point to consider now that we are moving from a non-AI world (like 10 years before my time in technical school) to a little-AI world (my first 3 or 4 years of technical school) to an anywhere-AI world.
After being given this information, a reasonable person would conclude that while smoking might decrease their risk of getting COVID, starting a smoking habit (possibly leading to addiction) would mean likely worse health outcomes than just accepting the risk of getting COVID (which can be lowered significantly through much safer means).

Unfortunately, there are lot of unreasonable people out there. I would not be surprised if a ton of people, if they were to hear the WHO or CDC agree that smoking reduces the risk of COVID infection, would start smoking, and get addicted. Some of those who were already addicted and were trying to quit would decide to stop trying.

The issue is that this information seems to have been suppressed, censored, and outright lied about by authorities. Now, on one hand, I get it: organizations like the WHO and CDC are not only interested in the raw outcomes of trials and research, but are also responsible for influencing public health policy. I think it's pretty safe to say that telling people smoking helps protect from COVID would be against public health goals.

I honestly don't know where I stand on this. I think I'm fine with orgs like the WHO and CDC deliberately not making recommendations on, or being silent about, things that they don't believe are healthy to encourage. But outright lying, denying the results of trials that do prove a correlation, crosses the line for me.
I'm more concerned that we would see these essays _not_ being graded
by systems.

I can't imagine teachers reading through essay after essay, each a
tedious cookie-cutter nugget of banal pseudo-perfection. The teachers
will give up in no time.

There would be no point giving feedback, since it is not the student
to who you are giving it. Likewise, the students would have little
interest in feedback, since they have no personal ego investment in
their output.

Besides the best essays will be generated by those with access to the
better generative software. At this point there is simply nothing to
grade. What would be the point?

Once essay writing and grading bots are locked in combat it's only a
matter of time until that market exhausts itself and disappears in a
puff of logic.

Maybe this is all a good thing. The process of writing and grading
essays as a way of "measuring" knowledge has been a sham for too long.
It's a throwback to school from the turn of the last century.
Just to clarify, Aper also uses a client/server model, correct? It appears as though it uses a central server to totally order incoming change requests.
Donald Trump did not get publically vaccinated: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/politics/donald-trump-...

He got his booster in secret too: https://theintercept.com/2021/12/21/trump-admits-he-got-vacc...

Come back to actual reality please, you're inventing an alternate universe.
Apparently Musk doesn't believe in free speech if it hurts his feelings. Also, what's up with reddit and other sites promoting violence towards racist bigots? Being racist isn't illegal (just stupid), but assaulting people is illegal.
don't the ear plugs push the ear wax in?
I am very very aware that I lack the visibility a cyclist has. This is precisely what makes having cyclists in my blind spot utterly terrifying. It is even worse when I am driving something larger than a car, and when the traffic is slow-moving rather than entirely stationary.
Not at all, VR is a solution trying to find a problem. Why not just use a phone?
After I corrected the chat bot:

Q: this is wrong, John Locke believed in separation of powers, Hobbes was a proponent of absolutism.

A: I apologize if my response was not accurate. Thomas Hobbes was indeed a proponent of absolutism, which is the belief that a single, central authority should have complete control over a country. Hobbes believed that this central authority should be an absolute monarch, who would have the power to make all decisions for the country and its people. He did not believe in the separation of powers or in a system of checks and balances. My knowledge cutoff is 2021, and it is possible that my response was based on outdated information. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
My wife was terrorized by her older siblings, who told her if she swallowed a watermelon seed she would wake up dead the next morning.
Will anyone at MS learn a lesson from this and stop taking their OS development in directions the user doesn't want it to go? Or is that just crazy talk?
They didn't bring knives, they brought box cutters, because those private security groups were actually okay at screening things like knives.

Meanwhile, the modern TSA fails something like 90% of their own tests, in terms of letting stuff through. Many people who every-day carry stuff like knives talk about forgetting to remove their pocket knife, and getting it through TSA accidentally.
The article starts with an Indian dynasty in South Africa is cought with the most brazen corruption. Around 10% of the annual gdp where stolen, with the help of mckinsey.

The rest is a history of consulting companies and their (criminal) endeavours
Automations where though? I saw "Task is added to content-inbox" and I was wondering where exactly this "content-inbox" is. I had to scroll down to see that it's based on integration with other tools. I advise you to make it more clear that it's a tool on top of other tools, perhaps by making the integration more prominent.
apparently the only way to cancel it is to refuse to use it, en masse, its the low adoption rate by end user that keeps the deadline being kicked down the road
Nope, other 16 bit OSes and UNIXes have them.
If a flight diverts, there are good odds that the offender will be criminally prosecuted under 49 U.S. Code § 46504.

Big penalties. Looks like getting a few years in prison isn't uncommon for fairly moderate physical interactions (spitting, pushing).
Well, the armed forces have much stricter rules of engagement than police do, so that's one point in favor of soldiers.
One of my employers doesn't let us run our prod instance against our own systems as we do not think it is sufficiently reliable.
It was apparent very early that there were spread patterns only explainable by aerosols. The Diamond Princess was the earliest publicized example, with cases occurring onboard despite isolation in cabins. Japanese experts understood the lesson immediately and implemented a "three C's" approach to counter airborne spread: avoid close contact, closed spaces, and crowds.

Western governments and experts and the WHO instead took a "lalalala I can't see this" and to this day many still deny airborne transmission and advocate droplet and fomite precautions.

There was not in fact any great mystery about aerosol spread unless you were positively convinced it was impossible. The early tech fact checking was based on this denial, rather than a good faith uncertainty.

Zeynep Tufecki wrote a good article about how airborne spread was resisted: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...
What is perplexing about it? Most/all bacteria on the skin is sterilized by the boiling water. So the only growth on the bird during drying would come from additional bacteria introduced from the environment, which would be low levels, and then the bird is baked which would kill any of that off. There is very little risk of, e.g. botulinum toxins building up either as a result of this process. Seems safe if you understand food safety.
Politicians have access to the studies showing that such infrastructure when built has the desired effect, and studies showing that the number one reason people don't cycle more is that they feel unsafe riding among traffic, regardless of helmets. Governments have the job of providing infrastructure to enable cities to function, and in many cases better bicycle infrastructure is the cheapest way to achieve it.
My reading is a mutiny of armed federal employees is the unheard of part.

Be like all the FBI agents refusing to suppress minority groups or something.
Isn't this available for most books already?

I think the problem is - there's examples and anecdotes and whatever scattered throughout the book that make those ideas connect for you.

And this is different for everyone.

Maybe an ML you train yourself on highlights would be able to find the stuff that will connect for you - but I'm skeptical enough people read & highlight enough to train ML models to do this (or if it would even work).
Legal proceedings take a while to initiate and even longer (months/years) to conclude. Injunctions are more "do this immediately or be held in contempt of court".
TLDR: Author isn’t a doctor but googled some stuff and loves to play a rebel.
I've heard it said the single best thing that could be done for airline safety is getting rid of pilots since most crashes are the result of pilot error. Then ask yourself if you would get on a plane without anyone flying it.

Driving is one of the most dangerous activities people undertake on a regular basis, yet we are all numb to the risk since it's just normal. Changing a major variable in the risk profile of driving by introducing autonomous cars is a big deal since the failure modes are so foreign.

I think the autonomous vehicle resources should be more focused in the short term in making "uncrashable" cars as we're a long way off from true autonomy. Systems like automatic emergency braking that live in the background and act when the driver is making a serious error to prevent or dramatically reduce the impact of an event the car is certain will occur.
There is very good evidence that vitamin D in general helps your immune response. It may be that there is a second factor here (another commenter suggested that UVA light was also involved in this process), but the evidence in favor of boosting your immune response by getting sunlight every day is pretty conclusive.

I would be surprised if this study was a vindication of vitamin D, though, rather than a false positive. I think smoking has been shown to generally have negative effects on your overall health (and immune system).
I used a fastmail account and also got denied. Perhaps they deny anything not using a domain that's from a big email provider?

I too provided US State issued identification, which still resulted in my account being denied.

I generally think highly of the company, and want to pay them for their services; but they made it impossible for me.
Is that a reason to adopt no safety systems for a bicycle?
My big question is whether any US based companies hosted are beholden to the German government because it's a German based company.

This in turn makes everyone beholden to the EU regulations and German censorship regulations. Yeah no thanks!