skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most art consumed today isn't about human expression, and it hasn't been for a very long time. Most art is produced for commercial reasons with the intent of making as much profit as possible.

Art-as-human-expression isn't going anywhere because it's intrinsically motivated. It's what people do because they love doing it. Just like people still do woodworking even though it's cheaper to buy a chair from Walmart, people will still paint and draw.

What is going to go away is design work for low-end advertising agencies or for publishers of cheap novels or any of the other dozens of jobs that were never bastions of human creativity to begin with.
"Interestingly, we recorded inflammatory foci predominantly in the right heart, which may suggest a gradual blood-stream derived dilution effect and based on this finding it is at least tempting to speculate that inadvertent intravascular vaccine injection may be contributive."

Does this indicate that the authors believe aspirating the vaccine during administration would reduce the risk of myocarditis? I don't have a biological background so I would be interested in hearing someone else's take on this but that sentence seems to indicate that the authors think ensuring correct administration would lower the risk of post-vaccine complications (which from what I've seen, remains low but non-zero). If that's the case, then perhaps the issue isn't as much with the vaccine itself as how it's being administered.
I just sat in a Burmese restaurant with an automated barista. Korea has been long ahead of us on automating food service too. Automatic 24/7 drink making machine hands are common in Seoul.
> approved religious exemption

The wording is a telltale sign that the exemption is pure BS.
Myself, I've only conducted dozens not hundreds of FAANG-style coding interviews. I also loathe the format, and it does indeed wear on me. I hate every second.
This resonated with me. Well said.
I am vaccinated but I am upvoting this post because I believe that it is important to investigate these cases to determine how to improve future vaccines. I really don't like how this topic seems to be treated like some fringe conspiracy theory. Maybe it is just a conspiracy, but we won't ever know until sufficient research has been done.

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.

My position depends on us having a good understanding of the vaccine's effects however, and right now I feel like we don't.
False, the idea that pure net deaths is the only way to think about all that happened is the common thread that people have been clinging to for far too long. It is time to wake up, and remember principles of bioethics, the risk of authoritarian coercive forces, and the nature of dehumanization campaigns. You do not mandate rapidly formulated, under-tested, frontier technology emergency drugs for all humans to work and live especially once there is evidence they may have a consistent mechanism of action that can cause sudden death, and especially once you learn the risk from the disease is highly dependent upon demographics and other comorbitities in a way risk from this side effect isn’t.
As I stated in other posts, this isn't really a fear about losing my job as much as on losing my will to live...
Business Profiles on Google Maps drives the monopoly.

If you want your business found on Google Maps, you need to provide the address, hours, etc. This is one of the first things you do when you open a business, even if you don't have a website.

Not many people bother to add the same to OpenStreetMap and that's why everyone uses Google over OSM to search for businesses.
We built a giant LED sign on Castro St
The idea of "HP Instant Ink"-like subscriptions for home appliances is vomit inducing.
I know of a few people who have opted to not get the vaccine. One lost his wife. Still not vaccinated. You might need some more qualifiers for the word "mandated."

Myocarditis is a side effect not worrying about because you have the same or greater chance of getting it if you get infected with COVID: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

It's also really really rare in both cases.
> but aren't the side-effects of covid well established, on average more severe, and much more common?

You forgot to account for the risk of getting the virus. If you choose to get the vaccine, the probability is 1. But what's the probability of getting Covid? Definitely less than 1.

For certain age groups (young men), the risk of complications * probability of getting the vaccine (1) was more than the risk of complications from COVID * the probability of getting it (let's say 0.25 or so).

Remember, COVID hasn't been shown to be particularly dangerous to young people...
It states that they cannot provide a definitive proof or a causal link, not that there isn't one.
> Instead of replacing crappy jobs and freeing up peoples time to enjoy their life, we’re actually automating enjoyable pursuits.

But in my case, I don't happen to find drawing or painting enjoyable. I simply don't, for nature- or nurture-based reasons. I also don't believe that everyone can become a trained manual artist, because not everyone is interested in doing so, even if they still (rightly or wrongly) cling to the idea of having instant creative output and gratification.

I think this lack of interest is what makes me and many other people a prime target for addiction to AI-generated art. Due to my interest in programming I can tweak the experience using my skills without worrying about the baggage people of three years ago had to deal with if they wanted a similar result.

So without any sort of generation, how does one solve the problem of not wanting to draw, but still wanting one's own high-quality visual product to enjoy? I guess it would be learning to be interested in something one is not. And that probably requires virtuosity and integrity, a willingness to move past mistakes, and a positive mindset. The sorts of things that have little to do with the specific mechanics of writing code in an IDE to provoke a dopamine response. Also, the ability to stop focusing so hard on the end result, a detriment to creativity that so many (manual) art classes have pointed out for decades.

I sometimes feel I lack some of those kinds of qualities, and yet I can somehow still generate interesting results with Stable Diffusion. It feels like a contradiction, or an invalidation of a set of ideas many people have held as sacred for so long, a path to the advancement of one's own inner being.

I will relish the day when an AI is capable of convincing me that drawing with my own two hands is more interesting than using its own ability to generate a finished piece in seconds.

So I agree that, on a bigger scale beyond the improvement of automated art, this line of thinking will do more harm to humanity than good. An AI can take the fall for people who can't or don't want to fight the difficult battles needed to grow into better people, and that in turn validates that kind of mindset. It gives even the people who detest the artistic process a way to have the end result, and a decent one at that.

I think this is part of the reason why the anti-AI-art movement has pushed back so loudly. AI art teaches us the wrong lessons of what it means to be human. People could become convinced to not want to go outside and walk amongst the trees and experience the world if an AI can hallucinate a convincing replacement from the comfort of their own rooms.
Also see previous HN discussion (top comment is the solution):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33865932
As we also coerce babies into screening for various diseaaes and for vax against the diseases that afflict societies without this science. That is how it works. That is why we mostly don't die from infectious diseases for the first time since we built cities.
The study does suggest there might be a causal relationship. It is not able to provide definitive proof however.
> Myocarditis is rare

In absolute terms, yes. But relative to other vaccines, it's much more common.

I also read that the chances are like 1 in a million per dose (not the right number, you get the point) but since its per dose your chances are actually like 1 in 40,000 after 3-4 doses.
Nothing will make you more productive than having resources to own your time.
Nothing will make you less productive than being pressed to use your time to get resources you need.

This is inane.
a few ideas, in no particular order

- stop burning fossil fuels to the altar of the crypto crazy

- stop burning enormous amounts of fossil fuel to produce AI models that poorly replicate human skills, without asking if someone wanted it

- support power efficient devices or appliances. I despise Apple, for a lot of reasons, but the M series is a big step in the right direction.

- don't buy Teslas, buy small cars that occupy a small parking space, if you live in a city. Better yet, don't buy a car, car companies will die eventually, better sooner than later, so we can make them a thing of the past like we did with horsecars. All of us would feel dumb riding or buying one of those nowadays, right?

- support companies that actually do what they say, "90% recycled material" or "90% carbon neutral" is a brand, it's green washing, it's almost never true for large corporations. It will take the aforementioned Apple at least another 20 years to become really green, as in CO2 neutral and as of their actions had no terrible consequences on real people, in the real World.

- The only ADV I was able to endure in the past 20 years was "buy better, wear for longer" by Levis. Which is actually a very good thing to do for the environment and for ourselves as humans. Fast fashion is stupid.
I wanted something simple:

I have a directory of photos. (I don't want any logins, uploads, or albums.) Show each photo for 7 seconds. Only show the photo in fullscreen (no filename or other text overlay). Shuffle. Repeat. Don't put device to sleep.

I loaded all the photos of my mom that I had on a de-Amazon'ed, de-Googled Kindle Fire, pointed this app at that directory, and set next to the guestbook at her wake.

This app was exactly what I wanted. Performed great.
And if you're worried about the effects of cultured meat, you can always just eat an equal amount of countercultured meat, just like how you can cancel out pasta with antipasto.
> to be a reasonable choice to not want to take the vaccine wouldn't you need to balance the risk of death / complications from the vaccine against the risk of death / complications from covid multiplied by the risk of getting covid

No.

Reasonable people make choices all the time that don't bear out under a cost-risk-benefit analysis like you propose. Those choices are still reasonable, despite perhaps not being strictly rational.

And certainly not as a matter of public policy. The value of individual freedom of choice is inherent unless there's an overwhelming and compelling reason to violate it.

There is far, far greater danger in society forcing issues of bodily autonomy to a vote than there is in someone eating too much sugar.
This sounds amazing! Could you share more info about your startup?
Unvaccinated people can't go to a good school, join the military or enter the country.
How ghosts of calculus and physics influenced what we pay for things today
That looks neat! Any (personal or third-hand) experience with it? I received some quotes from business brokers over the last few years but at 12.5% fee and a 3.8x multiplier it was almost never worth it for me.

Microacquire is considerably cheaper and I love that they have the option to just list it yourself. Thx for the suggestion!
The risk: benefit analysis that supports vaccination is considering the earliest standards of care we had which were criminally misguided - no steroids allowed, plug patient respiration up with a machine to not spread the virus ,

These protocols are what killed people mostly and ultimately they are what is being used to justify universal recommendations for a vaccine.
Nuclear reactors are expensive mostly because the regulatory requirements make them expensive. There is a lot of room for advanced nuclear (e.g. gen III reactors) that can address a lot of the problems and bring down the costs. Unfortunately, we don't have a clear regulatory pathway here yet, but there is some progress being made recently.
I would argue that poorly specified requirements will be solved by an Auto-coder that can produce the end-result in a very short time. Allowing the PM, to see how bad their requirements were and make it more elaborate.
The study also states:

> In general, a causal link between myocarditis and anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is supported by several considerations: (A) a close temporal relation to vaccination; all cases were found dead within one week after vaccination, (B) absence of any other significant pre-existing heart disease, especially ischaemic heart disease or cardiomyopathy, (C) negative testing for potential myocarditis-causing infectious agents, (D) presence of a peculiar CD4 predominant T-cell infiltrate, suggesting an immune mediated mechanism
Proof of having a capability and proof of using said capability is not the same thing. Your line of reasoning is no different from people who bitch about security patches costing performance when there is no evidence of exploits in the wild.
On the other hand, the darker side of flight/fight/stress responses being such a hugely effective motivator is that long-term over-reliance on them can lead you to burnout as you age and will take years off of your lifespan.

Stress can be a healthy motivator, but it's generally unhealthy for stress and immediate survival to be your only motivator. Be very careful about over-relying on stress. Besides the physical effects, stress can also sometimes lead to sacrificing long-term habits that aren't immediately necessary but that are still important to build (exercise, career building, relationships, sleep, etc...).

There are two pieces of advice here that (in my opinion) are kind of contradictory:

- form habits (good advice)

- "no one used to care about whether they wanted to do stuff because if they didn't they would die" (this is a recipe for burnout, regardless of how well it might work for someone in the short term).

A good habit usually should not be stressful, it shouldn't be something you do out of persistent fear. There is something to the idea of having stimuli/motivators around chores that are difficult to ignore, lots of people benefit from that kind of setup. But... not because you're worried about dying if you don't do them.
That's right. Nim does as well. It's amazing. Once you get used to having CTTI and being able to use it, it's hard to program without it. Bonus points if you can do basic dependent types too.

In C++ with SFINAE you can effectively do CTTI-style programming in C++. C++ has long had runtime type reflection as well (RTTI), though it needs to be compiled in. Looks like there's a boost library for CTTI.
The discussion here is absolutely rancid. So here are the actual the salient points from the study:

> 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.

Out of 25 people that died post-vaccination, four patients had signs of myocarditis. That's a fraction of a fraction of people.

> Myocarditis is another manifestation reported during SARS-CoV-2-infection [24]. It is under debate whether myocarditis in COVID-19 is primarily caused by the viral infection or whether it occurs secondary as a consequence of the host´s immune response, in particular by T-lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity or as a consequence of the cytokine storm observed during COVID-19

We don't know whether or not Myocarditis is a result of the infection or the immune response; in either scenario people who are predisposed to myocarditis would likely have similar reactions during either infection or vaccine.

> However, the vaccine against smallpox, based on a vaccinia virus, is reported to cause (epi-)myocarditis in rare cases

Smallpox vaccines can also trigger myocarditis despite being a more 'traditional' vaccine.

> The reported incidence of (epi-)myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination [29]. Importantly, infectious agents may also cause lymphocytic myocarditis with a similar immunophenotype, thus meticulous molecular analyses is required in all cases of potentially vaccination-associated myocarditis.

The risk factor is low and the chances of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 in even otherwise healthy people is higher versus the risk from vaccination, similar to other vaccinations.

> Finally, we cannot provide a definitive functional proof or a direct causal link between vaccination and myocarditis. Further studies and extended registry are needed to identify persons at risk for this potentially fatal AEFI and may be aided by detailed clinical, serological, and molecular analyses which were beyond the scope of this study.

This is not a definitive link between the two, but rather a call for further investigation and to ensure that at-risk individuals are caught earlier and monitored.
The causal link (direct or otherwise, does it really matter to most people) between vaccination and myocarditis has been established elsewhere and acknowledged by the CDC.
Im not a skeptic but has to do with the mandate. Has to do with distrust in government, corporations, etc. not fully honest conversations about vaccine etc ..
The US executive branch attempted to make it so that your unvaccinated friend had to choose between taking the vaccine or being able to work at most companies.
Sitting on my hyundai kona ev. In 2833 kms, consumption was 13.5 kwh/100km
Listened to a few tracks, this is right up my alley, thanks!

It's a little less Tron and a little more 80's film soundtrack vibe (which is also awesome).. The style seems to have come back in vogue a bit (Stranger Things etc.).

This reminds me a lot of the Le Matos soundtrack for Turbo Kid. [1] Their soundtrack to Summer of '84 has the same synth vibe but adds the horror soundtrack vibe, also recommended.

[1] https://lematos.bandcamp.com/album/chronicles-of-the-wastela...
It shows that the pilot was awake and alert enough to lower the landing gear at that point in time. Awake ⇒ intent.
How would a pull request's list of activities look like if you create it before running highflux?
> We claimed that vaccinated people would not spread the virus.

Who is "we", I have never seen anything other the claims that there were claims. Can you point me to an epidemiologist that made this claim.

> And we gave the companies producing these vaccines blanket legal immunity from any potential liability.

We have ALWAYS given vaccine companies blanket legal immunity. This isn't a new thing and there are good reasons for it.
When there is sufficient automation, a basic income for all becomes easier possible. Who will pay for that? Tax the usage of machines.
It's a very different experience if you go to Walmart and try to find smart devices.

ZigBee devices are still available, but companies I've seen that used to have them almost exclusively swapped to WiFi over time.

Hue is still ZigBee for example, but the old generic bulbs at home Depot? Gone. Liquidated. Nobody understands smart hubs. Everyone understands their app.

Bulbs, plugs, sockets, even thermostats. What do you think is the ratio of nest thermostats vs zigbee?

Big business buys thermostats from big retailers who sell in batches of hundreds. My dad's home, built a year or two ago, is wired up with zwave.

You don't see bulbs because the companies who set up zwave almost exclusively stick the switches in the wall and leave the lights dumb. Built to work for decades without configuration sort of thing.

My thinking is that the wifi stuff is going to eat ZigBees lunch, although your point about battery life is a very good one.

Zwave, in the space it's in, seems more durable to me. One day lights will go out and replaced with wifi bulbs that everyone can use, but the companies using zwave are way more picky and will not want to go wifi.
Seems reasonable to me. They want everyone to be at the office and vaccinated, but they’re not allowed to fire you because “religion”, so they made special accommodations to let you continue working without making all of their other employees have to be around you. You appear to be mad that your “exemption” wasn’t enough to make them pretend you were vaccinated?
Multiple US universities still mandate the shots for young students in total opposition to Europe, for example: Harvard [0], Yale [1], Tufts University [2], University of California [3], New York University [4], University of Notre Dame [5], Boston University [6]

[0] https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-informa...

[1] https://yalecollege.yale.edu/get-know-yale-college/office-de...

[2] https://coronavirus.tufts.edu/healthy-at-tufts/covid-19-vacc...

[3] https://campusready.ucdavis.edu/covid-vaccination

[4] https://www.nyu.edu/life/safety-health-wellness/coronavirus-...

[5] https://ndsmcobserver.com/2022/11/university-announces-addit...

[6] https://www.bu.edu/hr/hr-covid-19-resources/vaccine-required...

Is biology/science different in the US than in Europe?
the more interesting unaddressed question is, for whom? i am a young-ish healthy person, i have basically no risk of ending up in the hospital for covid. what is the risk tradeoff for people similar to me, rather than an abstraction of the entire population? what is the risk tradeoff for a young child, who effectively has zero risk of serious covid?
When I was in high school, one of my dad's coworkers had one of these. It had OS/2 Warp in addition to Windows, and I helped him clean that off to reclaim some hard disk space.

It looks like there aren't that many of these still floating around. Glad to see that people are keeping them alive.
>...we should always be questioning...

I partially agree, or at least think we shouldn't be discouraged from questioning, but there's only so many hours in a day, and a person can digest a finite amount of information.

I choose to trust US health authorities. Flawed as they may be, I think it would be worse to somehow try to verify every claim, or come to my own conclusions on every single question. I won't judge you for making a choice different from my own, but for me, and I suspect many (most?) people, having a doctor who you trust, following their recommendations, and getting on with your life might be the best strategy.
Is that really it? Over 1 million American's have died so far. That seems like it warrants some efforts to mitigate.
It's actually a non sequitur because you can still get Covid after getting the vaccine. It's not an either/or at all, and in fact most people who got the vaccine did get Covid.
Well your feeling is wrong. The data gathering to establish the risks is why we don't just update the mRNA monthly based on the latest viral RNA.
Scratched my own itch. Was freelancing for clients back then, just putting together simple WordPress websites. A lot of them needed a newsletter sign-up form and wanted something that kept them on their own sites.

So I built a generic "newsletter sign-up" plugin and then noticed that a lot of my users were using Mailchimp, so then I built one tailored for Mailchimp too.
That would only confirm that the new lichess version is faster, but not that scala3 is faster then scala2.
This is of course only true for runtime reflection. And which language does not have a runtime?