skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mRNA vaccines drastically reduce severe disease and death in elderly people, it's a really strong and easily observed effect. And they were developed in record time compared to any previous vaccine, so that is certainly a very impressive accomplishment.

Against earlier variants of the virus the vaccines were also very impressive in preventing infections. Far higher than the 50% minimum standard that was set when the development started.
Boycott was long seen as a necessary behavior to preserve democracy and free markets; flush old ideas. It’s free agency; can’t force people to do business with someone or believe in their figurative identity.

“Cancel culture” is boycott rebranded as a pejorative, to make the public mean and nasty for not wanting to heap figurative privilege on particular people anymore.

Those shrieking loudest about the loss of speech in the US are usually those who are privileged at the expense of speech that would improve conditions for others (do not speak of sick days for railroad staff, or making Walmart pay worker benefits to get their employees off social programs!)

Simple propaganda techniques are being leveraged to relabel free speech that suggests rethinking evolving society. Universities that are heavily dependent on government protections to exist fear change.

Unless research requires exotic hardware (nuclear reactor or something) there’s little reason to provide special accommodations for data mining academics that make up the majority of university work these days.

They can go freely speak in a park, or video chat about their findings. What’s funny is if you bring up how bloated with middle management unis have become you’re anti-intellectual too.

When a corporation, celebrity, or institution are complaining about being oppressed as they rely on “essential workers” who are effectively not allowed to speak out of line, I laugh.
I'm under 60 and have had AZ, both shots, then Moderna, then Pfizer.

Pfizer was the worst for side effects. Like a bad cold for 12 hours. Other than that, no COVID.
Tesla stock will rebound if they manage oust Musk and pick a different CEO. Until then the stock will be way too volatile for my tastes.
Nobody's saying that they have to be single-use batteries? Just that the rechargeable ones should be replaceable once they reach the end of their lifetime.
It wasn't the service rep who suggested that, but the support guy after I opened a ticket. I think this is an internal policy issue because he actually gave me the impression of trying to be helpful.

The service rep has been, overall, useless, when he wasn't actually less informed than I was (my knowledge being based on the AWS website).
The map is a just a joke...the whole point is that there are so few countries that have this format that it looks silly to represent this information with a map. Adding the ~2 other countries (Liberia + 0.5 Canada + 0.5 Philippines) would be more complete of course, but also the joke wouldn't be as clear
It absolutely cannot be. What you're claiming to exist in fact does not. You're welcome to prove me wrong, of course.
The BonziBuddy-model is another business model for AI assistants that seems attractive, where even if it doesn't try to sell you stuff, it spy on you and sell information to information brokers.
I think it’s reasonable to assume what is on the box comes in the box.

It’s not very intuitive that CE is merely available as an SDK option, and that it is only included in the boot media if developer wishes to do so.

Also slightly disappointing that it could have been the first console that don’t need to go through reset/reboot when changing games, though that would have been too ahead of its time.
That’s what I said. Don’t be surprised when the return over the next 10 (to 100) years isn’t anywhere near its historical return rates though.
I think that generative AI will keep getting significantly better. All the folks who keep saying it's not that good (which it isn't now I suppose) will start to sound like the folks who claimed that a computer could never become the go champion. The main issue raised is that it generates untrue things, which will be mitigated by some statistical/learned estimate on truthiness.
Then why the ruckus?
I don't know what this LOHC stuff really is, but it's easy to imagine that dissolving H2 in in an existing liquid would be much less of an undertaking than inducing it to become C8H18 or whatever.
Ask HN: How to recover a corrupted RFID card?
My office entry pass was demagnetized accidentally. How could I restore it to original settings?
Avoid Pinboard. It’s in bad shape and the creator seems to no longer care.[1] It used to be great, though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802
If I didn't see the post I would never think it's illegal. Also the FCC does not exist outside the US so is this relevant elsewhere?
> For the next year sit in cash [...] after the crisis passes

I feel like I've been hearing that for the last ~8 years at least. Stocks have been said to be "overvalued" for a long time... If you would've waited all that time you'd have missed out on a lot of gains.

In fact, you could even argue that we're at a low right now so that it's the ideal time to start investing more.

But the truth is we cannot know whether we're at a high or a low, or somewhere in between, so the best option is dollar cost averaging.
well, actually it was pretty common in the past, probably due to budget and/or technological issues

I would add to the list

- Logan's run

- The Andromeda Strain

- The Black Hole

- Stalker

- Escape from New York

- Mad Max series

and many others
Elon Musk’s Finances Complicated by Declining Wealth, Twitter Pressures
I liked the Simple Path To Wealth. It convinced to go 100% all in in VTI (the ETF version of VTSAX). It’s really easy to think about and I can sleep easy at night. In a company retirement fund where VTI isn’t an option, I go for the closest thing to an S&P 500 fund. It’s setting myself up for average returns and that’s what I want.
The AZ vax is not an mRNA vaccine. In fact the entire point of this article is that the adenovirus vehicle in the AZ vax is the culprit.

When all is said and done, the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna) saved a lot of lives. Moreover they showed that the technology is safe and viable, so expect to see a lot more of that type of in-body, self assembling vaccine for everything from influenza to cancer in the next decade. Of course any formula can have unwanted side effects, whether it's generated in your body or not, but doing nothing and waiting to see how a virus treats you isn't safe, either. You could get pretty fucked up either way, but you're less likely to get fucked up from the vax, and less likely to get fucked up from covid if you had the vax. There's risk in everything. Do the math and take the route with best survival rate. In this case, even the AZ vax was a clear winner over getting covid unvaccinated in 2021.
On top of this implausibility, the criteria in the parent post was ‘there’s no “supernatural” element whatsoever,’ which given the heroic ghost of Kowalski‘s role in saving the protagonist (as a “hallucination”), should also rule it out. Never mind that the film was essentially disorienting scenes and
Sandra Bullock repeatedly shouting into the cameras
How does historical data support the statement that "safe means lower return"?
It is man against machine. If we fully understand how genes work, would you trust some private company to create a trustworthy social credit score based on any potential situation, even situations that are obviously not in the data set?

The story was about people blindly trusting a machine to say "valid". The police force didn't want to figure out the crime, they just wanted to find the one without the "valid". The setting that was presented was some sort of communist utopia where the economic calculation problem has been solved through a gene scanner and central computer control.
30 you say? Please list them.
the comments are literally conspiracy theories and dooming. Not very helpful.
Yes, but how many sprints is that? And what T-Shirt size estimate? /s
Nope, sorry to contradict you on the last one - it's better to go all in (lump sum) than DCA.

https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/o...
I think that “boring” here means “low sugar, few additives”. And yes, you can cook even better tasting food with pure ingredients and the right spices and cooking methods. But I also like to cook “boring” most of the time, in the sense of “giving my body something fulfilling with expectable taste”.
>what I'd call the 'performative left' and the 'real/old school left'

What you're referring to are known more commonly as Modern Liberalism and Classical Liberalism, respectively.

Modern Liberalism is, well, the Left: Control of speech, adherence of expression, safe spaces, equal results rather than equal opportunity, wealth redistribution, controlled markets, etc.

Classical Liberalism is liberalism as it used to mean originally: Free speech, free expression, free markets, equal opportunity, individual responsibility, etc.

It probably doesn't need to be said that Classical Liberalism is almost never associated with the Left.

Also remember: The word "liberal" and name "liberalism" are derived from the Latin word "liber", from which we also get words such as "liberty". Liberalism is about freedom, something that the Left staunchly argues against.
No, it can't. Which is precisely the problem.

There is an exemption for indoor low-power APs, but the manufacturer has to prove that the housing will not survive outdoor weather (usually rain). They have to deliberately make it not-rainproof.
If it starts to get unwieldy, that's an indication to me that I need to clean up my bookmarks, not that I need more tools to manage them.
How ChatGPT Works
The US literally can't fight a war 10,000 km from "home" (a friendly country with military bases) because we have an enormous number of bases.

Most importantly, we have tons of bases in Japan and South Korea[1].

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili...
I was divided on this issue, but now, I agree. The noble wheel of progress will continue to turn. They only have the choice to get out of the way or be crushed under it
It is mildly interesting that countries are feared more about "weaponisation" of the dollar than the reason of sanctions: Russia invaded Ukraine because of the wish of annexation. The article shows their priorities.
You don't have the crypto keys to do that.

AP firmware is 100% closed-source, vendor-signed blobs these days.
I'd hate to think what all those neutrinos would be doing to you. You are very much larger than a memory cell, for every bit flip you must be catching a trillion neutrinos.

Maybe OP's house is in the Van Allen Belt or something?
As a C programmer I am baffled by your attitude. Do you feel so threatened by people creating new programming languages? Personally I love that people are working on projects like Zig which try to be a better C. Rust is also an interesting project which has had a lot of positive effects on programming and programming language design, but it is not a perfect replacement for C and more of a better C++.

While some "innovation" actually make things worse I see a lot of interesting ideas coming from both Rust and Zig.

> The author confess he's not a great Rust programmer yet, so probably using Rust over a language he knows better, just because Google said it, it's not the best of choices.

He used Zig, not Rust.
> Why do you want to make Lisp more popular?

To make this happen faster. If I would not do it soon, somebody does it later.

> If you were sucessful, what would be different in the world, and why is that desirable to you?

I believe that the governments may be wisely replaced with one short script. I think I know how to do it with Lisp, at least for those citizens who want it so. But I need to clarify a few minor questions like this one.
All we know for sure is that someone is attacking Twitter via blackmail via hacking just after Twitter released bad PR for some of the worlds most powerful hacking organisations.

All the skeptic comments in this thread seem to worry about the veracity of the claims, but that’s irrelevant to the question of would FBI/CIA retaliate.
Everything I've read suggests that the myocarditis associated with the vaccines is rarely more than a passing nuisance, and that the rate of myocarditis associated with catching the virus without being vaccinated is higher in the same age groups.

Do you have any evidence to base your statement on?
Tarai Function Music (2013)
Funnily enough, that's where I'm at too. Just don't use a state manager at all.

There may be times when it's worth the cost, but otherwise just hang it on the global state and move on with your life.
This is a good list, although I don't remember The Cell being that good. Might be wrong :)

I would add Cube and Donnie Darko.
I dont think it's so much that the right likes them more. I think it's mainly that the non performative left can basically only really get noticed by appearing on, say, PressTV or RT.

They dont tend to own or control TV stations and the people who do control popular "left" media megaphones trend neoliberal and are overtly hostile towards them.

Hence why there's no hike in the minimum wage or single payer healthcare still but you can pick your pronouns at work now :/
You can't use Crystal to write ruby extensions, because it has a huge runtime and a big GC.
You can call Ruby script in Crystal though. [0]

And I think Zig would be easier to maintain compare to Rust because it is a simpler language. Sure there is a lot of breaking changes, but it's not much of trouble for a language that can be read in one afternoon (referring to the single page document).

[0]: https://github.com/Anyolite/anyolite
It's like if someone gets cancer after Chernobyl.

Generally impossible to pin down the cause for an individual, but a trend can be seen from looking at the whole population.

However any statistical analysis will have confounding variables (in this case, negative health effects of the virus itself, and the lockdowns etc.). Similarly with Chernobyl (the effects of the evacuations, and the general collapse of the Soviet Union around that time both had severe negative health effects). So basically any population level analysis of death rates etc. is always a bit dubious - how to tell one cause from another?

In the case of Chernobyl we already knew radioactive contamination is harmful (from previous experience). We know the AZ vaccine has certain potential complications (statistically). But it's impossible to pin down the cause for any given medical case.
If you want an explanation: the set is countable from "outside", that is the entire model is countable. But inside the model there really isn't a bijection between the sets of naturals and reals. This function is not an element of the model, and had you manually added it you'd experience serious problems.

It's not too surprising, after all the set of reals that can be named is obviously countable (there is at most one real number per name), regardless of the complexity of the naming scheme.

This theorem is a solid mathematical take on the old trope of "perhaps it's all a simulation".
Peekaboo: Text to Image Diffusion Models Are Zero-Shot Segmentors
More fundamentally, even if the code produced by ChatGPT worked and was high-quality, why should a new user have to rely on a chatbot instead of useful/up-to-date tutorials and guides?
You’re focusing on the memories and experiences of a person, but are completely ignoring the potential to grow, develop, and do things - something that 30-year-olds have, and 90-year-olds pretty much don’t.
This seems to sort of line up with something I've been thinking recently: the difference between nameable and unnameable reals.

Some "real" numbers may have no finite definition (i.e. there exists no finite algorithm by which any finite digit can be calculated in finite time), I tend to think of these as cthulu numbers.

The total number of possible names for real numbers seems easily countable (just list the possible papers describing the proof that a specific one is nameable, by length and alphabetically), and the real numbers that actually have names are just a subset (though determining which ones those are is an exercise left to the reader.)

Thus the uncountable portion of the reals seems to me to be comprised of cthulu numbers. That or the nameable numbers are what we mean by the reals and these cthulu numbers are something else entirely.
IMO you’re being conned.

Universities are agency normalizing agents of government.

We’re not talking launching some professor from a cannon but doing as humans have done for years and updating colloquial language models. This is freaking out the establishment as it does and has, and of course the establishment labels it as anti-freedom to teach them anything, because of course it’s the establishment; it teaches us not the other way around!

MIT is like a rack of Twitter servers; we could unplug it and society will keep going because it’s not immutably reliant on society. Many thousands of workers are though and only “essential workers” have an obligation to output real results.
If you have three hours (!) to spare, Kim Justice's documentary on Peter Molyneux is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ92jySWe0.

If you don't have three hours to spare and all you want to know about is Godus then, helpfully, the documentary is also available in several parts (which, I believe, was its original format). Godus is covered in part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ysOEFJhFY.

Bit of a sad tale overall. Nevertheless, for reasons I've explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24377333, and despite all of this history, Peter Molyneux will always remain something of a legend to me.
Thanks! The "ACL not implemented" error mentioned there was misinterpreted by me when I attempted to set it up.
My feed reader service is https://feedmail.org. The simplest instructions for WebSub are those on the public Google hub https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/. But there are other public hubs available or you can run your own.
Almost no notion of free speech considers an absolute freedom to say whatever. Almost all conceptions of free speech deny the freedom to promote manifestly false and/or terroristic ideas (promoting killing a specific person, for example, almost no one considers protected speech). Always the problem is not whether there is a line, but where to draw it.
Whatever they do, you’ll still have pain points, because people tend to ignore the good and focus on what’s left, and what’s left is never zero for that’s how the universe works. Gods run into pain points all the time.

The correct question is not where our pain points are, but how far these pain points are from what we want to do, i.e. are these points a real pain or just our own perfectionist anxiety. Typing for the sake of typing may not help doing the job before thursday.
With interest rates so high and recession possibly looming a savings account would likely be best for the majority of your money. You’re looking for safe. In the US I would say open up a Wealthfront account (3.8% interest) and when you’re looking for more “risky” investing you can use their robo adviser to regularly invest some set amount of money. I am not sure of the equivalent in Europe.

But when talking about safety and return in investing in 2023 I think high interest savings accounts should not be ignored. (Backed by Gov Insurance like FDIC)
Thanks for letting me know, I wasn't aware of that, unfortunately I would need Premium API access to support cashtags and hashtags (I opted for the free plan...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat

> the FCC does not exist outside the US so is this relevant elsewhere?

Your own country likely has an analogue. Get thee to Google. Ofcom is the UK equivalent, for instance.
> A national firewall can be circumvented by VPN and many do

FYI, this can be quite difficult for certain countries. Source: I have had friends who live in China and the Middle East, and VPN IP addresses are very quickly found and blacklisted. It's not a one-size-fits-all solution.
> Do you feel so threatened by people creating new programming languages?

that's a lot of assumptions.

I never even said I write C code.

It feels to me that you are projecting your doubts on me to validate your choices.

I have absolutely no problem at all with programming languages, in fact I always try all the new ones I can, I can actually write code, with very different degrees of competence, in more than 30 of them, including Rust, my new language of choice to write NIF extensions for Erlang/Elixir. Thanks to rustler crate which is awesome.

> While some "innovation" actually make things worse I see a lot of interesting ideas coming from both Rust and Zig.

Never said the opposite though.

Just that a C Ruby extension is not the same thing of "writing a browser at Google in C++"

> He used Zig, not Rust.

I was referring to this sentence he wrote

Other options were not great as well. I can use Rust, but I have never been on good terms with Rust
Dietary Restriction Works in Lab Animals, but It Might Not Work in the Wild
I'd take a lot of this with a fairly large helping of salt. This poster obviously has a vested stake in this direction of technology working out.
> Why doesn't TypeScript infer the type of square (and hence x) from its usage on the next line? Anders is famously skeptical of "spooky action at a distance" where changing code in one place can cause a type to change and produce errors in other places that aren't obviously related.

I feel it in rust when current error spot jump wildly across all of my code as I'm fiddling trying to fix it or modify it. It's not pleasant, but funny when you fix the last few red spots in one place only causing the huge red bloom in far away place or red jumping back and forth between two far away places as you type.
D has been in development since 1999, so it's more complete than Zig and its ecosystem is bigger. It is not just “Zig with GC”. D has:

- Multiple production-ready compilers. (Zig does not claim to be production-ready yet.) https://wiki.dlang.org/Compilers

- A more stable API. (Zig's authors rightly expect it to change before 1.0.)

- A package manager (dub) and repository: https://code.dlang.org/ (Zig will get support for these but doesn't even have an HTTP client needed to back package fetching yet.)

- An HTTP server and client with SSL/TLS support. (Zig is too new to have these, although community libs are starting to spring up to fill the gaps.)

- Better documentation, including a very accessible tour at https://tour.dlang.org/ and books such as http://erdani.org/tdpl/.

Zig may get all of these in time but D had quite the head start. D is a good language and I wish it got more attention.
>> Notably, sub-Saharan Africa did not suffer greatly from Covid.

Neither did China. How stunning. It must be due to their fantastic public health systems.
The probabilistic and unverifiable aspects of GPT are what make me doubt it.

It's more like, "we've created a plane that can fly 10km 50% of the time and crash 50% of the time", which is worse than useless.
A crypto scammer that ended in suicide
I don't have the link to hand. It was figures from a forum for drivers discussing what "average mileage" would mean on a British articulated lorry.
I was not required back when I registered on twitter.

And yes I do have some burner phone numbers too if I need one but I generally just dont use services that need it.
I think those of us who lived through the 90s and 00s have a hard time counterdiscombobulating all the stuff that went down. People who experienced the 60s and 70s probably have similar difficulty.