skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been vaccinated for Tdap recently very reliably predicts a 40% lower risk of dementia.

I gather flu vaccine has similar effect size. Nobody knows why. Ask, and people speculate about inflammation.

Having been treated for herpes lately -- valacyclovir, lately -- seems too to have outsize effect. I get all three.

People doing autopsies say brains they examine are very often laced with herpes virus and bacteria, vs. doctrine that insists nothing gets in.

US grants $2B annually to study plaque formation in transgenic mice. Approximately none of it goes for anything of value. When the amyloid boat sinks, a lot of biochemists will need to find something else to do. They would better look early.
nit: iotcl in the article should be ioctl
https://archive.ph/A1AFw

> About 89.7 percent of men ages 35 to 44 were working or looking for work as of November, down sharply from 90.9 percent before the pandemic. The group’s employment rate showed signs of rebounding last month, but has been unusually depressed on average over the past year.

I missed out on high school economics, so I am completely ignorant of whether I’m missing something here or someone wanted to speak to Paul Rizzo of Kenner, Louisiana really badly.
This is nonsense, most money in the world is already digital only, Euro too, only a small % is paper/coins.

I'm surprised by the amount of negativity around this news really.
I've been a huge AI skeptic and am impressed at the baseline output. However while trying it a lot you do see the "patterns", there's a clear house style to what the site generates.

It's not going to win any awards (sorry, if you're thinking that your amazing story about "Trinity from the Matrix universe meeting Darth Vader from the Star Wars universe" is good writing), but like a search engine being pretty good at finding things except when it's totally off base, the hit rate is pretty decent
I personally don't have enough fingers to count the number of times I've carried around a huge amount of cash. Buying computers, cars, and collectibles can all involve a ton of money. Also, when I was playing poker a lot, that wasn't an unreasonably large amount to have on hand.
It's not a particularly positive interpretation, but because it's the least bad, it's the most generous.
I think recently I dodged a scam too, i had an interview with a guy with camera off, website without tax code and all blanked off whois for the domain website
Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?
This isn't true. Amtrak has priority by law over freight in the US as long as they are on time. They don't get priority once they area late. What happens is that Amtrak becomes late and then they lose their slot and become further late.
This. When I lived in Europe I was getting 60+ minutes of walking every day just between work and home and lunch and work. In Korea, I get 40+ minutes to and from subway stations. Family in the US will tell me they went for a really good 30 minute walk, and the thought I'm too polite to express is "How is 30 minutes of walking special enough to tell me about?"
Jobs, Cook, Ive–Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter (2020)
It was free up through and including V7. Because of the specifics of AT&T's monopoly on the phone system, they were banned from commercializing other technologies. It was only starting with System III and 32V that they were able to charge for it since their monopoly was taken away and they were broken up into the 'baby bells'.
I am not too familiar with ChatGPT. Can you tell what was your prompt and what it responded with?
Honestly we need to build parallel rights of way anyways.

The freight rails are slow and dilapidated. It would make more sense for passenger railways to be separated from freight railways entirely rather than to try and squeeze into inadequate trackage. We don’t try to unload air freight through passenger terminals or vice versa.
Opposite. ChatGPT has lowered the bar to entry of creating drivel to probably 2c/750 words. When I saw it can produce text as good as some stuff I have written, it made me realize more imagination is needed to make my writing more interesting or go deeper into a subject than a bot can possibly do. i’m
Google detects and downranks pages that have mostly AI copy. And from what I can tell, OpenAI are working on watermarking their generated content so other platforms can detect it automatically.
Agreed. It's tried. We know it works. What are we even debating?
CircleCI raised like 300M of funding and still has hundreds of employees. Not exactly a startup...
Have you ever spent time in Germany? It is a very cash-based culture because people are understandably worried about government surveillance of their financial transactions.

Germany initially wanted there to be 10,000EUR notes for this very reason.

There are a whole lot of people there that want to pay cash for everything, including things like cars and houses.
nit: on their reasoning page: - non-existant should be non-existent
My Epson got crap printing color; so I got suckered into buying an HP. Color with non-HP cartridges prints outline.

Epson reliably chucks on in B&W.

The OEM cartridge vendors should be publishing HP workarounds.
In consumables, they are competing with third-party ink/toner - which is pretty much the reason for most of their nasty behavior. Still, it's their choice to sell hard to replicate printers at cost, and recoup losses on selling much easier to replicate ink/toner. They could do it the other way, but they don't, and I'm not clear exactly why.

At this point, I suspect there may be a rule in economics that says roughly: it's better if your customers have to spend less money with you, but more often, than more money but less frequently. I.e. it's better to have them spend $1 every month with you than $12 every year. And I feel it could hold even if you correct for time value of money - it seems the businesses see some value in the frequency of repeat interactions with a customer itself.
Well, thats depressing to hear.
Aren’t mostly all government agencies 3 letters?
The official policy, in that it is literally US law. The subject of the article is an attempt to enforce said provisions.
Respectfully I disagree and science seems to be supporting that point of view as well.

But, even if you call it a cultural issue, it is still a health issue. It causes billions in additional care, shortens lifespans, is a risk factor for many other diseases. Those facts alone make it a medical problem.
Maybe? Unions like to make sure that employers put plenty of their members, especially senior members, on any given job. That could mitigate safety issues related to inexperience or understaffing. But they also tend to protect members from accountability for unsafe conduct, and resist the imposition of safety measures that members find annoying. They’re just pro worker. Workers are human and prone to incompetence and machismo as much as anyone else.
I agree that the velocity sensitive is good, but the keybed is by far the worst one in my studio, regardless of price. I have plenty of cheaper keybeds that feel significantly better.
Often it might be viable to implement prediction w/o necessarily implementing training (especially if there are published weights or a reference implementation). Not viable for papers where the key contribution is a change to the pre-training objective / training methodology / optimizer, but useful for papers where the key contribution is architectural.
Ask HN: Have you ever used an image consultant?
I don’t know anyone who has personally used one and my searching on this has been rather lackluster. Most of the image consultants I’m seeing are for celebrities appearing in magazines, advertisements, photo shoots, etc.

I’m looking for one based in SF or NYC that is more on the personal and professional level. They don’t just look at what you wear but the entire image overall. (Cosmetic work, fitness, context, etc.) I know this is a bit niche and probably mostly for certain execs but I need an image overhaul direly.
They're not pretending not to be.
As someone trying to create a frontend with plain HTML/CSS for quite a complex backend, I can attest to the fact that's impossible to maintain consistency between browsers.

It's not even about how each block's styling behaves, but how different combinations of tags, blocks and widgets are able to exhibit very specific issues in each one of the 3 main rendering engines around. In very different ways, that require incompatible solutions.

It's quite egregious.
It seems like this technology could be used to launch a DoS attack on government bodies.
I don't think this is a legit mirror. There's no results on any book I tested that works on the Tor link.
Much of the US rail network was built long after 1802 to 1866, so this doesn't really hold water.

And yes rail got to use eminent domain, because you can't build a rail line without it for the most part.
Is there anything proving this is actually Z-lib and not just a clone of it? Weren't the people running the site supposedly arrested?
I don't know, as an Italian we have massive issues with tax evasion in Europe, Italy especially. I very welcome limiting cash, I'm sick of paying taxes for all those that don't because they only want cash.

This surveillance thing coming from people shoving all their info online seems hugely overblown.
I think htmx can do the same with built-in events---just not built-in. In fact you may even skip that one today because custom elements are wildly supported since 2020.
American perspective: There are lots of conspiracies out there about CBDCs but in my opinion CBDCs would be preferable to the current banking system. Right now banks can arbitrarily decide to freeze your account for "compliance reasons" and there is nothing you can do about it. They can deny you service because you were born in a country they don't like. They can deny you service because they don't like your business regardless of whether it's legal or not (https://www.wsj.com/articles/gas-station-atms-are-a-banking-..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point). A government run CBDC would offer constitutional protections and replace this weird arrangement we have where anti money-laundering enforcement is outsourced to banks and banks fear of being fined leads them to being petty tyrants.

And people talk about the trucker protests like it was this unprecedented thing. That's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a company called World-Check and if you ever end up in the World-Check database you will never get a bank account again except maybe if you're an ultra high net worth individual.
When I played a lot of poker, I would routinely carry 30k or more. A single buy-in could be 10k. The people I played with all did similar things.

Moreover there are some countries (like Germany) where people routinely use a lot of cash to (say) buy a car or a business.
Are there any printer startups trying to disrupt this extremely user-hostile space?
These traits including naturally gray and white hair are recessive but they exist in the black African population, literally millions in number. People just rarely talk about or catalogue them outside of the African continent. Black subsaharan African parents give birth to children with every variety of these traits with regular frequency, this has been true for atleast all of Africa's recorded history.
The seller can turn around and spend the cash instantly, anywhere, whereas the cashier’s check takes at least a day to clear, and in theory the bank could hold the funds for some period of time while it investigated the transaction for fraud. https://www.helpwithmybank.gov/help-topics/bank-accounts/cas...
Well, tell that to Russian war emigrants. Opening bank account in EU for non-residents is a hard endeavor right now. Those who did it before the hot part of war started in February often finding their accounts frozen and literally were unable to receive their paychecks.
Longtermism: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-secret-obsession-wi...
Here is the direct link - https://100ktrading.info/filter?page=1&size=100&total_min=10...
I'd be wary of using this site and stick w/ the onion sites linked on the Wiki page until we know this is actually "official" [1] [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ytqzy0/eli5_zlibi...
And the builders and your friend loved to not pay any tax this way.

Yet another example why cash has to be limited as much as possible.
> It would make thinking about finance much easier if you could directly convert a stock to a flow and vice-versa.

Can you explain this please?

Because I can't really see how converting stock to flow and more specifically flow to stock makes thinking abut finance easier.

But the idea seems interesting, what am I missing?
It is second system syndrome, and it absolutely is about the market. No wonder so many academic types fall to second-system syndrome, they don't think about their users only themselves. Second system syndrome is absolutely related to market success when you're talking about a commercial system like this -- how else are you going to gauge success?

Transparent distributed single system, for example. The strange and unexplainable obsession by so many computer systems developers. The reality is almost nobody wants it, yet Plan9 was almost entirely designed around this concept. A complete boondoggle. Even the nerdy people who get a kick out of this kind of thing will set up a single system distributed cluster and run a few commands and say "hey that's neat" and then go back to using Windows or Linux, complete with tools for remote administration of systems, and applications that can do clustering and distributed systems in the cases where it's necessary or helpful.
But these are "old" models from 5+ years ago. Implementing them is not going to help you get up to speed with more recent AI research. From the OPs post, it seems like he already knows these basics.
> For the oppressed who must write secure code in C/C++ but don't want to think about signed integer overflow, let alone undefined signed integer overflow, you can always use the "-wrapv" compiler option.

Very little code in practice. Wrapping by default is typically the wrong thing to do. The only reason things like Java get away with it is that when you wrap on overflow and then use it to index into an array there’s an addition bounds check to save you. In C/C++ there are almost no codebases that should not trap, hard, on overflow.
1% change is "sharply"? What's the measurement error in this percentage, and is it determined directly from a large mass of data, from statistical sampling of a large -> small pile of data or inferred from other information that was not included above?

Similarly, what was the change month-by-month in 2018 or 2019, the effect of COVID (which should be the largest?) and the recovery from 2020?
Rephrase the following consisely:

I ask ChatGPT to be consise, sometimes works, often doesn't.

- - -

I sometimes ask ChatGPT to be concise, but it often doesn't work.
The main reason American workers are not exploited is that they can easily get other jobs and would be difficult to replace (but when that’s not the case, they are).
The problem is that as a customer, it's hard to distinguish between the chats that are actual, human-will-respond-in-near-real-time chats, which are just a piss-poor FAQ bot that leads nowhere, which ones are a FAQ bot leading to a human, and which ones will ask me for an e-mail address (and if they do, which ones will spam me instead of contacting me in case a followup is needed).

Actual chat that's passively available on request and makes clear what it is is great. Anything that pops up, makes noise, or otherwise begs for engagement, or isn't "click here for human", is an anti-feature.
Sufficiently badly behaved software can definitely still screw you over, but with separate formats you at least have a chance to notice that there's a problem during the PNG -> JPEG part of the process.

Decoders like libpng will outright refuse to handle JPGs, image viewers will usually refuse to handle JPGs named "image.png" (invalid png file), and even some web browsers at least say "image.png (JPEG Image)".

With JPEG XL, images can get switched to lossy mode silently, without breaking anything, and then back, also silently, also without breaking anything. JPEGXL -> JPEGXL -> JPEGXL is a lossy compression that doesn't give you any intermediate state where touching the images will loudly scream "something is wrong here"; you just get compression artifacts, for no obvious reason, with no indication that they weren't already like that in the original image.
Yes, that's the way it works. But what's stopping a bad actor from putting up a bogus "Sign in with Google" form on their website solely to harvest credentials?
On the other hand it makes so much sense. We're the result of hundreds of millions of evolution on this planet, and we're very optimized for the actions that we can take in nature (e.g. Walk, swim, hunt an animal/grap a fruit, eat, reproduce).

No wonder why these are good for us, because these are our true traits.

Modern medicine, on the other hand, is a few hundred years old at best and generally work as a band-aid rather than solving the root of the problems.
I think what you're doing is just saying "there's stuff we understand" and "stuff we don't understand" and you're calling all of it "Physics".

And then you say "some other biological or physical process that so far isn't identified".

The assumption here is that we'll eventually "identify" everything, which is another very bizarre, if not voodoo, assumption.

It seems magical to think that humans evolved our perception and thought in this environment to be such things that could eventaully "identify" everything.

But just in case you don't actually think that. Then you're calling "Physics" all of the things, including the things that we'll never "identify". Again, seems very much like a magic claim.
(1) herculean effort to make it treat everyone with kindness and respect.

(2) improve AI.

(3) work out how to do both at the same time.

FTFY
Rerouting is mitigating. If the end result is lack of dementia, that's what's important. The fact that some percentage of the neurons are damaged is not a problem. The elasticity of the brain is an evolved trait, rerouting is what the brain does to keep working.
If you're not a public figure, you post on twitter and still get your rage-bait fame
This is one of the problems with 'anti-piracy' efforts. They work under the assumption that if not for free access millions of people would have instead paid for access to their priduct.

The reality is they would not...
My understanding is that in the socialist countries, like former Soviet Union, Cuba, East Germany for example, the children were considered property of the State and parents had only limited rights over their children. Obviously, in the child abuse cases, the parents will lose custody and for a good reason. But in socialist countries, the State is very heavy handed and parents could easily lose custody because of mistakes or various misunderstandings. The checks and balances are gone in a fully socialist system and once it goes the wrong way, it's very hard to correct.
I don't quite understand the exact case that is being ruled here.

"Copyright" is a concept from countries of "common law" (essentially the US). Most of Europe are _not_ common law countries, and have their own "author's right" systems with very different philosophies and applications.

Copyrights are somewhat enforced in Europe as a matter of facilitating trades with the US by carrying over corresponding authorship protections.

It seems the author here is shocked that US copyright law is not enforced verbatim by the rest of the world... No thank you.

For most of Europe, author's right is a given, you don't need to apply for it and pay a fee.

To me, the US has a very bad track record of legislation around patents and copyrights which is poisoning them. I would very much like it to be contained to the US and not spread elsewhere.
> This likely affects a number of people that is so small, that it's irrelevant

We as society are spending literally billions to make our cities and infrastructure accessible for people with disabilities. Their number also very small, but we decided it is well relevant.
Is it a bit much? Sure. But you're not paying his salary so you shouldn't mind much what some bigcorp does with their fat wallet.
If I know how to use Postgres as a relational DB, it does not mean that I know how to turn it into message queue. I guess I can build some kind of implementation but that would take time to research and implement it. And I can spend that time to implement RabbitMQ. Which is likely million times more popular than Postgres for this particular task, so I'll have more information.

I don't agree to this post.

One should use old, proven and stable solutions. If you need message queue, you need rabbit MQ. If you need cache, you need Redis. Don't implement non-standard non-conventional solutions if you can avoid it. Find out what's industrial standard and use it. Avoid dying solutions, avoid new solutions.

But also remember that you should have something unique. You don't want your business to be easily repeated by someone, because you will compete to margin zero. It's not necessarily tech thing. But it might be tech thing. You don't build cloudflare using off-the-shelf nginx.
Why is Harvard trying to intellectual-ize virtue signaling?

It's very simple. We live in a society where what you say matters, but what you do is irrelevant.

Raising awareness about climate change is more important than concrete action.
Ok. But that works both ways. The Germans then are culpable for their government’s actions as are the Americans for theirs.
It's generally the wealthy and the high class who can pick and choose how much they feel the impact of politics. Most people don't get to choose how large "their identity" is - as others will put them into groups and make decisions based on those groups. This way of engaging with it - which is perfectly sensible from his point of view - it just applies to very few conversations (though, of course, how upset we should get about javascript is one of them).
And now we have better reasons to keep cars off of city streets.
GDPR is a European thing not a thing for Roanoke, Virginia.
A fractal design would be equally interesting (possibly more interesting) and much more efficient. I should think nature usually designs for efficiency. Leaf, fern, ant hill, watersheds might provide ideas.
The US has a couple of ways that normal humans can transfer money electronically to each other. But they're old school (and require bank accounts) and that's why there are newer systems that people use instead.
> However while trying it a lot you do see the "patterns", there's a clear house style to what the site generates.

You mean the way it phrases things or constructs sentences and paragraphs, or the way it seems to connect (what we recognize as) ideas?

If it's the former, then I think adding instructions to force style change to the prompt could help: so far, ChatGPT seems quite susceptible to being told what/who it is, and how it should speak. Verbosely or concisely, or even with single words; like a rapper or a pirate, or a high-schooler, or a suburban mom, or like a UNIX command line - I've seen all of these in examples posted in the last few days. Doing this is really as easy as saying e.g. "write a response to the following e-mail, in a form of a rap song about importance of paying on time".