skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Standardized autopsies were performed on 25 persons who had died unexpectedly and within 20 days after anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. In four patients who received a mRNA vaccination, we identified acute (epi-)myocarditis without detection of another significant disease or health constellation that may have caused an unexpected death.

Myocarditis was found in 4 out of 25 people who had received the vaccine and died within 25 days of it, and none had showed any sign of related disease.

What are the odds of any 4 out 25 people in the age range of the group with no record of any related illness having acute myocarditis?

It is so typical of HN that your vapid comment should rise to the top.

> Currently, I still believe that people should vaccinate, even if vaccines cause mortality/harm in some cases. As long as vaccine side effects cause less deaths and less harm than the virus, vaccination is still the way to go.

Where is the evidence of this, given that many governments have withdrawn the vaccines or even banned for them for young people, a category you probably fall into?
My girlfriend's kids were
What does optimize mean in this case?
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That's a different problem entirely. I don't want to host a website that makes me money via insane SEO and advertisements. It's literally just a private website me and my girlfriend use. We add recipes we enjoy and would want to cook again in the future. If an AI could code that for me, great!
> lower than the cost of drilling it out of the ground.

Shipping is a huge component of the price of natural gas. So it'll be a long time before they're cheaper than the price of natural gas in Alberta or Siberia, but they'll be able to beat the price in Los Angeles a lot sooner.
Well, I guess that's something I'm OK at.

I think I have a low IQ because I struggle with most higher level logic and math exercises/tasks, in addition to all of what I have mentioned before. Most decent paying jobs in society exist around those skillsets.

My psychologist said I did not have ADHD, simply, and that it's something that medical professionals would've picked up (or at least written down on my medical history) from my exhibited behavior earlier in life.
https://archive.vn/VE4TS
In the FAQ they state that they will "combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OSM community under compatible open data licenses."

Anything combined with OSM will be a derivative dataset. So the whole project will have to be released under the ODbL license. Or something compatible with it. I don't think this will really help anyone get away from those issues.
ksuperkey[0] addresses this, though it is unfortunately not widely packaged so you likely have to compile it. I haven't used it in a while, but it worked well when last I did.

[0] https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey
It's definitely not a standard name, but I call kind of reasoning error "active/passive bias": we're generally much more afraid of risks that manifest from action (mauled by a shark while swimming, getting in a car crash) than inaction (dying of obesity, getting hit by a car on the sidewalk).

In the case of COVID-19: you have to actively get the vaccine, meaning that people overweight its risks relative to the risks latent in not getting it.
Also check out the embedding model from https://text-generator.io

It supports some things that openAI can't do, it retrieves any linked images of web pages, analyses the images or images with text inside to help the embedding model
> The 'reasonable claim of ownership' extends to restricting transmission, not use after transmission.

It's not even clear you're correct by the apparent (if limited) support of your own argument. "Transmission" of some sort is certainly occurring when the work is given as input. It's probably even tenable to argue that a copy is created in the representation of the model.

You probably mean to argue something to the effect that dissemination by the model is the key threshold by which we'd recognize something like the current copyright law might fail to apply, the transformative nature of output being a key distinction. But some people have already shown that some outputs are much less transformative than others -- and even that's not the overall point, which is that this is a qualitative change much like those that gave birth to industrial-revolution copyright itself, and calls for a similar kind of renegotiation to protect the underlying ethics.

People should have a say in how the fruits of their labor are bargained for and used. Including into how machines and models that drive them are used. That's part of intentionally creating a society that's built for humans, including artists and poets.
> Consider a depoliticized example: you do 30 autopsies on people who had recently been to a particular location, let's say a certain grocery store in town. Enough people go to this grocery store that it's not uncommon for way more than 30 recent visitors to be dead unexpectedly by random chance. Further, let's say in the general population, a tiny fraction of people die of a certain food-borne illness. You have a pretty good guess what that fraction is.

It's not just "pick 30 recently dead who went to the store", though.

You've picked 30 people who died after eating at the grocery store's salad bar, and used that as evidence that the salad bar is dangerous, without checking how many skipped the salad bar and died anyways.
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> It isn't a panacea, and the last two years have drawn into sharp relief one of the major problems of the system: confirmation bias.

I believe I was explicit in saying it wasn’t perfect.

What alternative is there that doesn’t have something resembling peer review, isn’t curated by third parties, doesn’t suffer from confirmation bias/groupthink, and doesn’t leave it up to authors to sift through 100s of papers of unknown quality a day to learn about what’s going on in the field?
I have a strong background in both and I think creating good art is worlds more difficult than writing good code. It's both technically difficult and intellectually challenging to create something that people actually want to look at. Learning technical skills like draughtsmanship is harder than learning programming because you can't just log onto a free website and start getting instant & accurate feedback on your work. I do agree that it's very apples and oranges though - creating art requires a level of intuition and emotion that's mostly absent from technical pursuits like programming, and this very distinction is both the reason technical people can be so dismissive of the arts AND the reason why I think making art is ultimately more difficult.
It's mostly just a joke about wet-bulb thermometers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

Actual web-bulb thermometers would either require manually adding water when you want to make a measurement, or have a large tank of water that gets continuously wicked onto a cloth which is wrapped around the thermometer. The general idea is that, if the surrounding air is dry, the water in the cloth will evaporate and cool the thermometer below the temperature of the air itself (the "dry-bulb temperate"). This is just the same evaporative cooling effect that makes sweating and swamp coolers work. If the surrounding air is very wet (humid), very little evaporate cooling will occur, and the wet-bulb temperature will be very close to the dry-bulb temperature.

I'm not sure how well a thermostat that only used the wet-bulb temperature would work. To actually calculate relative humidity, you would need at least a wet-bulb and dry-bulb measurement. But given that relative humidity in most places probably doesn't swing that wildly, I imagine that just finding a comfortable wet-bulb temperate for your thermostat might work okay in practice.
"People I know, my age, who are my friends, almost all of them are very credulous. If somebody's making a lot of money, they don't think: where's the money coming from? Or, is what they're doing ethical or sustainable? They just think: how can I get in on this??"
Terrifying to be sure, but compare the potential survivability of that crash with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPU6yZetlw

If you wanted to kill everyone on the plane you would not attempt a conventional water landing gear or not.
https://archive.vn/fsebO
Mac Mini M1: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8802877

Certification of the OS: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf which is linked on the page you posted.

It's a proper Unix machine. Costs slightly more than a nickel :)
Like father, like son, apparently.
> Just about everyone is essentially using cartography tools to do large-scale spatiotemporal analysis of sensor and telemetry data. The gaps for both features and practical scalability are massive.

Could you point to any readings or resources that would explain these gaps? I'd be quite curious why our current spatiotemporal analysis techniques would be insufficient. Is it the analysis tools that just need new techniques or is the problem at the source (i.e. the sensors)? Or?
I think a lot of the resentment comes out of "the experts" changing their narratives a dozen times about the efficacy of the vaccines over the last 3 years while browbeating anyone who voiced any amount of skepticism.
10+ years ago they used to ship to individuals in Canada, but I vaguely remember some negative word-of-mouth discussions about them when individuals got burned by "customs fees" which was actually companies like UPS ripping off people by charging unreasonable fees to do customs clearance paperwork. Mcmaster probably didn't want to deal with that.

If they do think you're a business (maybe this means someone at your business has ordered before), they will not only ship to you but instantly let you use net-30 payment terms automatically. I had one experience of ordering some parts to a university in Japan when I was a student, and the parts were shipped the same day, along with an invoice. I didn't even have to create a login. [0]

[0] I wouldn't be surprised if this is no longer true due to know-your-customer legislation.
JVM tuning is frustrating. The need for that is generally not an issue on Microsoft .NET.
I took 3 doses of vaccine but it is no longer effective at preventing infections. Studies that keep coming out show that Covid can have a lot of damaging consequences every time you get infected and they accumulate (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3). I have a job and lifestyle that allows me to limit crowded spaces by a lot during wintertime. I will try to avoid getting covid ever again as much as possible, and the vaccine doesn't help much in that. I think the danger from vaccine is very small, but , as in everything, i want to wait a few years before i can trust it.

But to those that plan to get immunized by simply getting Covid again I 'd say "good luck" because they are going to need it
I mean, why not embrace the future? Allow people to use AI in interviews, schools and exams. Everyone will use it at work, why not test AI management skills together with problem solving skills. Maybe the best skills of 2019 are not the best skills to have in 2023.
Your problem is you take things too seriously.

I don't know your financial situation, but if you aren't in dire straits, then why are you pressuring yourself so much. Why so much anxiety, relax bro. You're ruining your health too, bro I got anxious just by reading you.
"Screw those other people" is not my idea of a just system.

I'm glad you got rich as shit off BTC. That doesn't make you a good person.
This is not at all correct. By your definition looking at anything in greater detail is P hacking.

For example, peanut allergies don't exist because most people don't have reactions to them. You absolutely can ask the question for if peanuts are good or bad for a subpopulation.

The alternative is just sticking your head in the sand.
It strikes me as a sign he must be incredibly desperate for money.
Thank you, I also wish you the best. I admire your optimism, and it comes from a true place in my heart that I'm sure your hard work will be rewarded soon enough in life :)
it's classic sci-fi Skynet type stuff. AI for example might come up with amazing new nuclear fusion reactor designs so it has access to more energy to do more processing. Could be great, could turn out horribly
What does a Bayesian word chooser mean to you?
Ridiculous assertion. You're guilty of engaging in ideology just by suggesting it.
A better question might be is When does Musk run out of rich friends and financiers willing to blindly hand him money?
School, at least in the US, gives you plenty of quick rewards. In my high school, we got report cards every other week. On top of that, you get homework and quiz results back quickly as well.

While the real reward is admission to a good college, you get the feeling that you are progressing towards that goal often.
https://archive.vn/NKZGj
And you can give every candidate a new version of it.
> Until ChatGPT, Deepmind or whoever else can learn to deal with my client or product manager, my job is safe.

Given the rise of "NoCode", perhaps clients & managers are more willing to meet in the middle than one would otherwise assume.

Given how managers seem to enjoy meetings, I can easily imagine one sitting down with e.g. Dragon to speak with e.g. ChatGPT in order to clarify, disambiguate, and expand requirements list(s) before feeding them to e.g. Alpha Code.
Sure, but how much of the total work time in software development is writing relatively straightforward, boilerplate type code that could reasonably be copied from the top answer from stackoverflow with variable names changed? Now maybe instead of 5 FTE equivalents doing that work, you just need the 1 guy to debug the AI's shot at it. Now 4 people are out of work, or applying to be the 1 guy at some other company.
try to study both and then come back :)
It's...not effective though. Am I listening to the wrong thing here? Everything I hear from the web app is jumbled nonsense.
Spread is just one social effect. I think the GP meant that there are plenty of other civic motivations, like not overloading medical institutions and minimizing the extent to which society needs to be halted to prevent particularly harmful spread.
https://archive.vn/0ntIe
It could, but then you put off grumpy people like me with old editors that don't do that kind of thing. Plus you need fancy tools to look at patches. And none of it is going to work inside tokio's select macro (or other useful macros), which could be a lot of your code, depending on what you're writing.

I'd rather work in a language where nobody has type information. It's a much more even playing field. ;p
I agree with your assessment.

But Musk owns Twitter and he can pick and choose what accounts he wants to allow.

I guess it is akin to me removing unwanted comments on my blog. His site, his rules, policies and ToS.
Just like AI can't replace programmers completely because most people are terrible at defining their own software requirements, AI won't replace middle-tier commercial artists because most people have no design sense.

Commercial art needs to be eye catching and on brand if it's going to be worth anything, and a random intern isn't going to be able to generate anything with an AI that matches the vision of stakeholders. Artists will still be needed in that middle zone to create things that are on brand, that match stakeholder expectations, and that stand out from every other AI generated piece. These artists will likely start using AI tools, but they're unlikely to be replaced completely any time soon.

That's why I only mentioned the bottom tier of commercial art as being in danger. The only jobs that can be replaced by AI with the technology that we're seeing right now are in the cases where it really doesn't matter exactly what the art looks like, there just has to be something.
Lots, actually. The word "computer" used to refer to a job that humans did, full time.
>water heaters

Are we being serious? I have an electric water heater. I have an induction cooktop, which is electric by necessity. I have an electric clothes dryer. (Is there even a consumer-grade gas-fired clothes dryer on the market?) The consumer experience is fine. I turn on the hot water tap and hot water comes out. What am I missing?
SHA-1 is still perfectly fine for some applications like detecting duplicate files on a storage medium

Absolutely agree, especially when speed is a workable trade-off and accepting real world hash collisions are unlikely and perhaps an acceptable risk. For financial data, especially files not belonging to me I would have md5+sha1+sha256 checksums and maybe even GPG sign a manifest of the checksums ... because why not. For my own files md5 has always been sufficient. I have yet to run into a real world collision.

FWIW anyone using `rsync --checksum` is still using md5. Not that long ago I think 2014 it was using md4. I would be surprised if rsync started using anything beyond md5 any time soon. I would love to see all the checksum algorithms become CPU instruction sets.

Optimizations:
no SIMD-roll, no asm-roll, no openssl-crypto, asm-MD5
Checksum list:
md5 md4 none
Compress list:
zstd lz4 zlibx zlib none
Daemon auth list:
md5 md4
Consider the income levels of the staff that work at shopping malls and what that implies for their ability to pay for reliable personal transportation.
Best desktop manager ever, it’s so lightweight but provides all the functionality you need, and super customisable too.
I think I'm being an idiot here, but what do you mean "video is an entirely different medium"?

Isn't video a generic term for a picture with motion? Surely how that motion is captured is irrelevant so long as it's reproduced as a video?

I understand extra steps were taken, but the output here is clearly a video?
https://archive.vn/Ha03r
The problem isn’t with the states that issue the documents. It is with the companies that make the paper, which contains features such as watermarks and security threading to prevent counterfeiting. Consolidation in the industry has reduced the number of companies making it.

Thanks capitalism!

Really, what kind of a joke system runs out of the medium to record its own financial instruments because market incumbents stifle competition? It's just the sort of thing Adam Curtis described in Hypernormalization that contributed to the collapse of the USSR.
Professional artists have no chance of being automated away. They need all the productivity tools they can get.

The ones at risk (and complaining the most) are semipro online artists who sell one image at a time, like fanart commissions.
https://archive.vn/H0IQq
I guess the Washington Examiner doesn't have comments? I was really wanting to see what supporters of his thought of this.
> Your opinion is irrelevant if you're not contributing to the whole in some way (no matter how small).

"Fuck the poor."

I'm glad we got this far. "Oh it is democratic" to "yeah poor people are parasites who deserve to be crushed under my boot" in like six comments. Be honest and start there next time.
It appears to return "99 miles" for any pair of locations, even between a location and itself, or to nonexistent locations (like "Narnia").
A different angle on this: a single builder adept at using these tools will be able to amplify their skills to out-maneuver much bigger teams.
Webkit incident: https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/fallout-webkit-...
Covid No Longer 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated'
https://archive.vn/Mt5Xy
It's an important distinction you make and hard to talk about without a vocabulary. The terms I've seen music historians use for this concept were:

- generic expression: commercial/pop/entertainment; audience makes demands on the art

- autonomous expression: artist's vision is paramount; art makes demands on the audience

Obviously these are idealized antipodes. The question about whether it is the art making the demands on the audience or the audience making demands on the art is especially insightful in my opinion. Given this rubric, I'd say AI-generated art must necessarily belong to "generic expression" simply because it's output has to meet fitness criteria.
Would you mind elaborating on say a few specific asks for tools climate people would want to have, that are low-hanging fruit that people might be able to write in their spare time?

I'm very interested in doing something for climate change but I'd like to know what people want.
What is your back of the envelope math here? Clearly, the vaccine does not prevent infection. There is no evidence it reduces the incidence of harmful sequelae following infection. So how does this add up to support mandatory vaccination for young men?
I wonder if this technology has been sitting waiting to be discovered for a long time. I read somewhere that the astronauts who walked on the moon has gold-covered helmet glass to shield them from the sun.
But the vaccine does not help with those effects, and importantly it doesnt prevent infection.
Probabilistic and bayesian are not identical things. Moreover, GPT the deep-learning model is not a probabilistic next-token chooser. You can envision many different ways to choose the next word based on GPT output. OpenAI's API for GPT is a probabilistic word chooser paired along with GPT. But GPT is the model. It generates a set of probability distributions for the next word, not using a Bayesian process but something entirely different. GPT takes a vector space representation of a sentence and projects it onto some space (we'll call it GPTThink) and then re-projects that space to a new vector space. Then it uses softmax to turn that vector space into a probability distribution. That's not a Bayesian process.
Thank you, I will look into it. I've taken my fair share of meds in life, and losing my libido at 19 was an experience. I hope that doesn't also happen with ADHD drugs, lol.
Trump published his own White House Photo album. Usually the is a perk for the White House photographer. It will never end with him.

https://petapixel.com/2022/04/01/trump-undercut-white-house-...
Maybe. The way this usually goes is tools get better, everyone says we don't need devs anymore, devs use the tools way better than PMs, standards rise, PM code is junk again.
Economist Steve Keen debunks misleading studies on global warming impact
Mh, I wonder if it's my perception that's skewed. Like, ranks are not a reward at all, I expect something I enjoy, instead the rank was literally a "you must get a good rank or you are done for your life" kind of thing.
It was no reward at all, it was _expectation_.
Yes, highly recommend this setup. Displaying inferred type + compiler errors has been amazing while learning Rust.
Economists have fit ludicrously inadequate functions to model the effects of temperature increase on GDP. They disregarded rainfall and physics in general.

I feel betrayed by the IPCC for treating these studies seriously. This is particularly of concern, since the IPCC was created specifically as a non-industry scientific body to help policymakers.

I apologize for further propagating the false sense of security in a previous Ask HN[1]. But I thank elviejo[2] for linking me to this video. I published it again, because I think it is the most important discussion of the century.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999229

2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999547
I would add that the funding source for most research now is governments, which means that research is now optimized for getting government grants instead of for actually advancing science.