skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not even the complete question though -- because by all accounts, Covid actually results in a higher incidence of myocarditis than the vaccine does.. Given the tenor of the conspiracy theories here, the landscape of questions is too nuanced for HN I guess. Ideally, the vaccine recommendation would weigh:

Incidence and seriousness of myocarditis (ISM) naturally / in absence of covid or vaccine, ISM following vaccine, ISM following Covid, ISM after being vaccinated but later catching Covid, relative risk of death / or the other litany of problems following unvaccinated covid infection, same but with vaccinated covid infection and the increased chances of avoiding infection after being vaccinated.

It's possible that vaccines are leading to more myocarditis, covid is certainly leading to more myocarditis, most cases of myocarditis are undetected and resolve on their own with no health impact at all.. as expected, weird antivaxxers are harping on point 1 to the detriment of anyone actually interested in public health.
This is an interesting concept. The biggest disadvantage would be losing a digital archive every two years (or as necessary).
I hadn't really gamed in years. Until Steam Deck
But think of the shareholder value they could accrue.

Honestly, I'm not very mad at instant ink because the printer market was so broken. A subscription for another appliance would be pretty maddening, though.
I agree with you, there’s a weirdly political zealotry when it comes to such things.

I took the Sinopharm vac as I felt hesitant to take what I considered to be brand new tech in the MRNA vaccines (I ended up taking the MRNA one as well but that was for travel reasons where I live). And people online acted like I was a conspiracy theorist, for preferring the tried and tested tech of the traditional vaccine.
This marks you as a tremendous outlier.
Fascinating. Without a detailed knowledge of biology, it seems like this could affect any cell type, why would heart muscle cells specifically be targeted? Are the spike proteins just more likely to get stuck to the surface of certain types of cell?
yeah, to be fair I only know it through the C++ `auto` keyword, but I dislike its overuse. It's great for weird templated iterator types but I prefer to see the concrete type if it's a reasonable length.
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Obvious according to who? I literally directly addressed that claim, so I'll quote it again for you:

> 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.

If myocarditis is a result of the immune system response to the spike protein then infection by COVID and/or vaccination can potentially trigger a response, with COVID likely triggering an even worse response with what we know and how it travels through the body. Additionally, as I also mentioned and will quote:

> 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.

We distributed smallpox vaccines and managed to eradicate smallpox thanks to being thorough.
It doesn't need to sound good at all for it to be useful.
Like with the AI Art creation, it can be a starting point for artists to play around and rapidly try different concepts, and then interpret the concept using high quality tools to create something really quite remarkable.

It's all about empowering artists to explore more possibilities.
It's one of the few places we can vent about HN without being reprimanded, rate limited and eventually banned.
I would also love any references to existing companies, research groups, or the problems in this space if you have the time to share. I found the posted list underwhelming and more of a marketing shotgun approach to try and take advantage of the push for "climate tech" but not solve any real problems.
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Wow that’s so scientific considering those are completely different strains of Covid and one infection you got immune naive and one you got after an infection and a vaccination. It’s so clear as mud
> The argument implies (but does not state, because of the absurdity), that spending less money would raise scores.

I think the correct take away is spending on education is only very loosely coupled to outcomes once some very low threshold is met.
I found this guy's course helped me a lot

https://job-interview-answers.com/
The Bad Requirement -> Bad Implementation -> Better Requirement -> Better Implementation cycle is going to be improved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

The US Army calls it observe–orient–decide–act.

"The approach explains how agility can overcome raw power in dealing with human opponents. It is especially applicable to cyber security and cyberwarfare.

According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe–orient–decide–act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby "get inside" the opponent's decision cycle and gain the advantage."

Humans using AI will be well "inside the loop" of non-AI humans.

I don't think AI alone will eliminate jobs, but jobs that use AI to get inside the loop of other companies will quickly eliminate the competition. Why would you pay and wait days when you can pay and wait minutes or hours for a quicker Ask-Show-Ask-Show loop that quickly narrows down on what the intent of your Ask was (even if Ask #1 was poorly thought out or worded)
Love this blog!
I’m sure they hadn’t considered that.
You could even apply to jobs you don't intend to take unless they blow your socks off with a huge salary increase. It's supposedly a good thing to do anyway. If you do 3 interviews/year, after a few years, your stress would likely be lower during interviews.
This already happens all the time in the current status quo with no need for AI.
In the sense that someone asks "I need a program that takes x and does y" and the AI is able to solve that problem satisfactorily, it's an objectively correct solution. There will be nuance to that problem, and how its solved, but the end results are always objectively correct answers of "it either works, or it doesn't."
> risk of the vaccine is higher?

I said within a certain demographic... For old people, the vaccine is obviously worth it. Boys/men from age 10-30, probably not. Hell, a bunch of EU countries literally stopped giving young people the Moderna vaccine:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/11/10/germany-f...
Thanks. It has been an absolute grind in many ways but I’ve found my way forward.

In terms of being the smartest guy in the room.. I know the feeling but in my last role .. pretty much everyone there was highly intelligent. The only person I can think of who (probably) wasn’t would be the office manager.

In the end, while it was a bit of a weird moment to at first to no longer be ‘special’ in that regard, it was a lot more rewarding. (And how nice it is to be in meetings where everyone can keep up!)

Even then - people appreciated my creativity and ability to distill complex ideas into simple explanations.

The challenge has an ADHD person for me has been to recognise exactly where my limitations are and how to put people with the right skillsets into roles to balance me out.

Regarding drugs I tried Vyvanse and didn’t really like it but now am on Ritalin and despite stereotypes, for me it’s been great.
Currently it's "-Xms30g -Xmx30g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+PrintCodeCache -XX:ProfiledCodeHeapSize=500m -XX:NonProfiledCodeHeapSize=500m -XX:NonNMethodCodeHeapSize=24m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1024m -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=1024m -XX:ParallelGCThreads=24"

Everything after G1GC was suggested by various helpful experts on HN, Discord, by email and other media.
Ironically, wood is starting to look like a very promising building material for tall structures that is comparatively green.
Tell that to this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34004500

He is acting like it's support of anti-vaxxer claims. And it is why these articles get shared. Because they contain a very slight, practically negligible affirmation of the smallest portion of their claims. And that, in their eyes, is enough to proclaim victory.
Sha-2 is already quantum safe.

Sha is not a digital signature algorithm. That is a different type of crypto primitive.
I mean, isn't most of that "It's trademark infringement, but it is both financially tedious and a PR disaster to go after any but the most prominent cases"

Which is why e.g. Bethesda is not going to slap you for your Mr House or Pip-Boy fanart, but will slap the projects that recreate Fallout 3 in engine X.
Is Frunk Rust's Shapeless (from Scala)?
I am looking out for you, yes, little guy. Point is I am skeptical as to whether that individual has any actual insight. Then again, making a different account to post that one message may make sense since it is sensitive info. Sounds incorrect either way.
I believe congress can only make recommendations, they can't actually pass any judgement from a hearing.
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You asked for an epidemiologist. I gave you two of the world's foremost practicing infectious disease experts : Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, Mass General chief of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Monica Gandhi MD, MPH, Associate Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF.

It seems you're being intellectually dishonest
Author here: We were blown away too. This project started with a question in our minds about whether it was even possible for the stable diffusion model architecture to output something with the level of fidelity needed for the resulting audio to sound reasonable.
YC can’t solve that. I agree it’s an important cause, but it’s really hard coordination problem. If we can make progress without, just by using tech to lower emissions, that’s a clear win.

Having said that, a CO2 tax just makes the financial incentives for change better; someone still needs to build the better system after funds are reallocated. So if you already started a cost-reduction startup, you’ll have first-mover advantage when the CO2 taxes come into play.
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It's simple, Does it hurt Elon's feelings? If so, ban them.
In case they don't answer, I would guess they are referring to VAERS data, and some random guy who once claimed it underreports everything by 40x. This is not logistically plausible (where would you hide 40x more patients than expected arriving at hospitals?), and I have seen some recent studies suggest that the underreporting factor is actually <1x (meaning it is overreported) when doing statistically random sampling. But that does not stop people from repeating the claim ad nauseam.
Why would it not be allowed? This is a good thing!
It would be really cool if it was possible to natively inspect the state of a Rust generator in a type-safe way
It's 90% of "it".
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Neuralink doesn't work.
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The true hospitalization risk from COVID could be 1/4th to 1/10th that given that cases are widely estimated to be 4-10X what was reported.

The serious adverse event definition and rates are defined here: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/ut...

1 in 9000 doses reportedly results in a SAE, so if you are mandated to take 4 doses, your risk becomes ~0.04% or ~1/2500.

This also does not factor in the risk of "adverse events of special interest", which can be serious or non-serious (though neither seems great for the end user).

And looking at how this page has been updated since the last time I saw it, another red flag is how they separate those out - with a dead link to boot. In my opinion a continuation of efforts that seem intent on obfuscating the ability to make individual risk calculations through this pandemic.
Pandemic's two-year global death toll may be close to 15M
Kind of, but without WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB.
Covid hasnt infected the lower respiratory tract since what Delta? come on keep up with the strains.
Or a filesystem that loses all of your files 5% of the time.
I'm also running a Zwave network and it's highly responsive with around 50 devices. A friend of mine is running a few hundred devices and I haven't heard him complain much about it, all of his actions/triggers/etc seem to execute pretty much instantly. I'm going to guess that his network topology has a lot devices that are only accessible by repeaters, or aren't using Zwave+. Zwave is pretty much _the standard_ for large professional smart home installations and scales pretty well if implemented properly.
> there is some significant probability that we may ultimately determine this to be the case

I still don't see proof of that.

> But probabilities matter when you are deploying policies like mandating kids take this drug to go to college.

Again, this study doesn't involve "kids".
Is there any evidence for (b)? My understanding is that you are just as likely to get vaccinated and "shed" the virus for just as long, but are less likely to be severely sick.
Interesting. I suppose it's because the Texas DMV potentially has consolidated record keeping whereas going to each Texas county court house records keeping has potentially more overhead and is a much larger project?

Changing a gender marker on a driver's license like most(all?) US states requires the presentation of a court order, the original of which is kept in each county's court records department. The Texas AG could theoretically request such court orders from each county in the state and get the same information. If Texas is anything like my state (CA) such records are accessible to the public unless sealed which is a rather uncommon practice(usually held for minors).
Tao's blog post ("A counterexample to the periodic tiling conjecture"):

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/a-counterexample-t...
> Aren't the side-effects of covid well established, on average more severe, and much more common?

There is no doubt that we'd have a lot more deaths without the vaccines. I suspect that is true for at least some of the lockdowns too.

In my experience, people aren't very good at assessing risks. Actively doing something that comes with a certain risk is often perceived as being more dangerous than passively hoping to avoid what is objectively known to be the greater risk.

If those risks are then contested or associated with a high degree of uncertainty, making an active choice often becomes a question of deferring the decision to someone you really trust. If you don't trust anyone, you're not likely to do anything.

An anecdote - I know a few people who didn't get the vaccine, or got it a lot later than everyone else, and more often than not they have had bad health care experiences in the past. When you've been on the receiving end of one or more mistakes of that kind, it isn't difficult to understand how waiting to see what happens seems like the smarter choice.
> let's say 0.25 or so

Where did you get this data?

> Remember, COVID hasn't been shown to be particularly dangerous to young people...

What are the top 3 leading causes of health-related deaths in your choice of demographic (15-24? 25-49?) in your choice of 2020 or 2021?
What scares me is a death of progress situation. Maybe it cant be an expert, but it can be good enough, and now the supply pipeline of people who could be experts basically gets shut off, because to become an expert you needed to do the work and gain the experiences that are now completely owned by AI.
I worked around this issue using xcape to map my Super key to another key combo:

xcape -e "Super_L=Alt_L|F1"

Then set the keyboard shortcut for xfce4-popup-whiskermenu to the new combo (Alt+F1 in this case). This allows other Super shortcuts to work without triggering whiskermenu.
Assuming reasonable logic around hashes, like "a SHA-2 commit can't be a parent of a SHA-1 commit", there wouldn't much in the way of downgrade attacks available.
Vaguely related: Mickey Mouse will actually be hitting the public domain in 2024. That's a year and a few weeks away.
My position is that Facebook should be protected under section 230. Section 230 says no online content hosting platform will be liable for what their users post as long as they attempt content moderation in good faith. My understanding of this lawsuit is, Facebook is being sued for 2 Billion USD because it was enabling hateful speech and targeted posts that lead to the death of man. Facebook is allegedly directly liable because of poor moderation.

The distinction you are making doesn't make sense. Are you making an analogy to the idea that you can use the word fire but you can't yell fire in a crowded place? Facebook doesn't choose individually what posts are highlighted, the engagement of other users does. The complete weights of what is highlighted are also unique per user. You're arguing that Facebook has a duty of care, but as it stands section 230 already addresses that. The duty of care is fulfilled with good faith moderation. The only way Facebook can be found liable is if section 230 is weakened and good faith moderation is redefined.

"Tort liability indicates that someone is held accountable for wrong actions (other than under contract." Tort liability is the phrase you would search if you wanted to learn about previous legal rulings related to this. I thought the Columbia Law Review article I linked was pretty approachable. It's not possible to talk about this in a meaningful way without understanding tort. I haven't tried to obscure or distract from my position intentionally.

I think Force v. Facebook was the proper ruling. There's nothing new courts have to decide, because section 230 already addresses this. Fundamentally, people are hateful and will engage and interact with hateful content. It doesn't make sense to blame an algorithm for not realizing a post is hateful and highlighting it. I made my position clear without technical jargon in the top comment. The DW article says the lawsuit wants to legally force Facebook to change its algorithm. The change would directly be related to moderation. This would be a slippery slope. Failing to understand the limitation of what an algorithm does is the only way you could expect a separation of the concept of posting content vs posting it "like that". I hope I was able to clarify my position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/technology/section-230-he...
I know that this isn't your intent, but I feel like this can be boiled down to the buggy-whip argument [1].

People have reasonable fears of technology disruption, but they tend to follow the same trajectory -

1) innovation

2) economic upheaval

3) new undiscovered problems arise

4) new industries develop to solve those new problems

5) humanity gets better

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5508260&page=1
The claim I am making is it appears likely to me that at least some of these cases are fatal, which would mean the underlying mechanism of action for this side effect of the drug can, in the worst case, cause death. This ought to influence the ethics of mandating it at a minimum.
So we are talking about redefining programming to be managing, redefining, bug fixing, troubleshooting the output of ML potentially increasing output but making the job more complicated not allowing the non coding pm to replace more skilled workers.
Imagine AI puts you into a separated oncoming traffic lane when visibility is extremely low (a few meters) and then disengages. It might take you quite a while to get out of such conundrum.
To be honest: I'm not generally a luddite, but in this case- I think we should nip this in the bud. I can see where this is going. You can argue back and forth about whether this will make the economy grow, but that's not the point. The profits from increased productivity do not accrue to the workforce but to the owners of the capital, in the absence of concerted, organized resistance, so I would not expect the quality of life for the majority of people to improve because of this.

The question is: do you like human beings? Because there is really no job that can't be replaced, if the technology goes far enough. And then the majority of the population, or all of the population, becomes dead weight. I'm a musician; how long before an AI can write better songs than I can in a few seconds?

This is fundamentally different than past instances of technology replacing human labor, because in the past, there was always something else that humans could do that the machines still could not. Now- that may not be the case.

There is only one choice: I think we should outlaw all machine learning software, worldwide.
Excess power would have to be very sporadic, too sporadic to offset fossil fuel generation - in which case it’s too sporadic to justify capital expenditure for electrolysis and hydrogen production. I just don’t see it.
It's a good question. I believe there is some preliminary study around that, and it deserves more
They're probably low, if anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercounting_of_COVID-19_pand...

The chart on https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm shows all cause deaths before and during the pandemic; there's an extremely clear difference, and it coincides closely with the spikes in COVID cases we've seen.

This method of reporting avoids all the complexities around "died with COVID" vs "died of COVID", people who never get tested before dying, etc.
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I find everything about McMurdo fascinating because it's such an extreme place. I looked at every one of these doors and read about them. And a friend of mine from college worked (works?) there after and has cool stories to tell.

Like penguin feces smells awful because it's predator feces raised to the fish power.

And emperor penguins are huge, and if they whack you with their wings they can break finger bones.

And people who newly arrive look "orange".

And this wasn't from him, but some other documentary: Chips left out don't go stale because the air is so dry. In fact, they may get crispier.
This is an excellent point. I think the problem is that because it's such a pure software problem it doesn't have an immediate "climate tech" alignment, so it stands to "dilute" these kinds of calls for funding.
Quantum computing threatens factorization and elliptic curves, i.e. RSA and ECDSA. Hash functions are considered relatively safe. The NIST's PQC standardization is focused on public key cryptography—I can't find any initiatives from them working with post-quantum hashing.
You have it backwards — the further from Boston you get, the more the communities are mooching off the GBA money tree.
Very true. And it's probably impossible to get an accurate count of the young people who fall into the following groups.

unvaccinated and got COVID-induced myocarditis

vaccinated and got COVID-induced myocarditis

vaccinated and got vaccine-induced myocarditis

vaccinated and no myocarditis

unvaccinated and no myocarditis

Am I missing any groups?