skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post I replied to stated

> dubious mRNA treatments with unknown compounding risks for unknown numbers of people

If that was the case, after 100s of millions of doses given out shouldn’t these have surfaced in sufficient numbers?

Sorry about your condition, but there’s nothing there that suggests it is related to the mRNA formulation; you could just as easily experienced the same with a viral vector formulation or even without any booster (long covid, if that’s what you had, is not without relapses)

Development corners were not cut, that’s the point of the mRNA formulation, it is incredibly faster than conventional methods to create a brand new product. I assume what you meant was the regulatory requirements for safety, which yes were accelerated and reduced because of the emergency use case. Two years ago. Those trials are tests on large populations , phase 3 being the largest then phase 4 a post-marketing surveillance period [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research
The sentence you quoted specifically says "respect _the free expression_ of ideas", not "respect ideas". So get off your high horse, no one is forcing you to "respect what's said".
Zeihan is as critical of the United States as anyone. He’s just more critical of China and Russia. While capital may always chase cheap labor, his point is that it may not be able to in a fractured economic and security environment. It’s gonna be a hell of a decade.
> ultimately there will always be corruption if you process hundreds of petabytes of data.

Your statement is in practical terms false.

Error correction exists, and adding enough redundancy to make any corruption have such a tiny chance of being undetected that the whole history of the universe could go by without it happening is a problem that was solved over 60 years ago with the invention of the Reed-Solomon code,
I think you're both right. Introducing H2 as a fuel only helps matters if the energy used to produce the H2 is not from fossil fuels, and probably hurts otherwise.

Right now the world produces a small fraction of its electricity cleanly and the rest using fossil fuels. If you want to divert some of that human energy consumption from heating/cooling/cooking/lighting/computing to H2 production then how do you make sure the diverted energy is from clean sources and that those consumers don't take it upon themselves to fill the new hole in their lives with additional fossil consumption?

If you're going to say we should create petawatt-hours-per-year of additional electricity generation capacity in order to do this, that sounds great but the infrastructure doesn't exist and it will take decades-to-centuries to build it.

So, I'm very much in favor of developing and maintaining the technological expertise required to use H2 for energy. I'm not nearly as convinced when it comes to trying to deploy it at scale in the 2020s.
He's quite a humble guy and would think it's too much, I imagine. Separately he talks about his work being a craft and specifically not an art form
One of the standard X Window xkb options is to obtain CapsLock by pressing both shift keys, freeing the original CapsLock key for other uses.
Space warfare enters public discourse
Yes. This sub-thread was about “what happens when the additive package wears out; does the oil become full-time thicker or thinner than desired?”
Even if everything stated in western journalism were complete lies, I don't see how that would make the reporting out of autocratic dictatorships any truer.
Sub-Saharan Africa has of course also suffered greatly from SARS-CoV-2, they just have not the means to count their cases. SARS-CoV-2 does not behave differently in Africa than in other regions of the world, especially not in low-vaccination (or even no-vaccination) countries.

«Rather than an ‹African paradox,› the far simpler explanation is that COVID-19 has affected African countries just as the virus has everywhere else, but has gone undocumented.»

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/morgue-data-reveal...

In countries with a younger population, less deaths from acute COVID-19 are expected, although the number of additional direct deaths from COVID-19 is still substantial. The disease burden burden, i.e., morbidity, also remains high, maybe even more given the sub-par health infrastructure.
All generalisations have counter examples (hence it being a generalisation). The fact that the above link is a small portion of all the games officially licensed on the Dreamcast supports my generalisation.
Not necessarily. In the US they weren't even monitoring for them:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-do-you-miss-the-most-...
Given all information that has ever been observable, absolutely not… and while that doesn’t mean they should be silenced, it absolutely means they shouldn’t be allowed to present their idiot ideas as facts, absent opposition and loud disclaim.

People are free to hold stupid ideas, and they’re free to state those ideas in public, and the rest of us are free to jeer them for doing so… freedom of speech does not imply freedom from being laughed at and abused for holding on to such manifestly stupid ideas.
In this particular foundation, the set of real numbers is countable. It is "the" set of real numbers in that particular foundation.
Yet most people end up liking that car and the balance of features, looks and price. Sure, they’d love to not pay for premium gas and have the extra trunk space, but in the end they’d much rather have a car that basically never gets stolen, gets updates for years, and does what they want 97% of the time.

Meanwhile, other people spend far more time maintaining and protecting their cars that can use cheaper gas and they have full access to. But they have to be much more vigilant about what neighborhoods they park in, and once two years comes around they can no longer get replacement parts, and if the lock has an issue, people can trivially steal their car.

Or maybe this is just a tortured analogy to start with. If you don’t like Apple, just buy something else.
Tech =|= software =|= start-up. Those three things are unrelated, and the tendency to equate tech with software let a lot of issues on all fronts in the last decade or so.
My language brings all the devs to the yard
And they’re like, it’s better than yours
Damn right, it’s better than yours
I can teach you, but I have to charge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQEbD3NyDw
> Or if it does happen and inflation comes roaring back,

This happened in the late 70s/early 80s. Volcker made this mistake and had to jack rates a second time leading to a second recession deeper and longer than the first.

The current Fed has referred to this in recent speeches. I don’t think they’ll make the same mistake.
Show HN: WebGL-based talking avatar. ChatGPT with a face?
"We have the right to be oppressed and to oppress others. Free speech is just an excuse for those in power to silence marginalized voices."

Did the article quote the protestor wrong? Is "City Meme" a satire paper?
You mean, let some dumber guys do the dying?

You're in a hole, stop digging!
Definitely a concerning theory. As vaccine effectiveness is claimed to wane over time, I wonder how long it would take for such hypothetical negative effects to fade.
> Basically AI algorithms learn patterns, not abstraction

I've been playing around with chat GPT and trying to find useful cases.

I asked it to come up with python assignments, such that I could train for a certification, and I provided the syllabus, which includes the datetime and calendar module. Among the many syggestions, one stood out to me: creating a CLI which accepts a date and uses those modules to calculate the following full moon and print it.

Sounded cool, but there's a catch: those modules don't have any information about moon cycles!

I guess it matched some pattern regarding dates and moon cycles to produce this bad answer. It's a creative suggestion, but quite unfeasible!

We cannot use these models as experts who provided answers, but instead as creative, sometimes nonsense assistants, who can give their input but we can clearly filter the good ideas from the nonsense.
What makes you think that would be trivial?
How much did they sell for that $200M? (They have to be at least close to unicorn unless they sold well over a typical amount in that round.)
I've wondered why Germans use the street name before the street number. Seems a little inconsistent with the hierarchy of an address structure.
Before covid vaccines came around, if a doctor said to you "don't worry, that myocarditis is just a passing nuisance," what would your response have been?

Or put another way, if you had this from covid itself and someone said to you "oh myocarditis is just a passing nuisance side effect of covid," how would you respond?
The Real American Pie (2009)
> or those are a primitive type and you're just calling a function builtin the language itself

You’re thinking at a different level of abstraction to the Zig developers. Summing a primitive type is going to be turned into a couple of machine opcodes (but no branch instruction) and will usually be constant time, whereas an explicit function call will require pushing pc to the stack and jumping elsewhere, executing any number of instructions once there, taking an arbitrarily long time, making it more difficult to reason about.
I think it's at least strongly implied in the movie that he has to work much harder than (for example) his genetically superior brother to achieve the same level of performance. So maybe you're both right.
Lichee Pi 4A
Yeah. Imagine trying to hunt down misbehaving devices when every single one is an ap
The original play might have been this 1947 classic All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_I_Want_for_Christmas_Is_My...
Came here for Minor Threat, learned about Hank Williams instead :)

Minor Threat, Little Friend: "I'm waiting for a sign. Waiting for something. Got nothing but time"

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/42996/
> The inflation narrative is over, it’s all about a potential recession now.

You can have stagflation: a recession with inflation. This is the economic boogeyman that literally every central banker has worried about for his or her entire career. Inflation is certainly not “over” - still running extremely hot relative to the last decade. Better than before the rate hikes, but by no means good or over.
Those are, indeed, historically unusual beliefs… though the rise in their popularity being directly coincident with the spread of more-than-minimal literacy and the slow degradation of traditional and institutional obstacles to higher education does imply that inequality and religiosity are even worse proxies for “truth”.
You've got to make sure you don't miss anything important, as well as being able to distinguish between details which are incidental, vs details which are deliberate.

Which could vary from "very easy" to "does anyone know who put this file there, and why, 9 months ago?".
That probably is gateway for curious persons or who really wanna have Linux.

Myself included, and people around me keep using WSL without any slight hint of swapping [back] to Linux Desktop. I even know in person the guy who is on WoA (Windows on Arm) with Surface and WSL - he had enough 5+ years of Gentoo experience.

I've installed WSLg and disabled after ~ 20 minutes - just found nothing to run in GUI mode from Linux. Sure, others may, especially dev guys with JetBrains or whatever IDEs, but I literally couldn't remember anything beyond xeyes and konsole to play around with.

Would be nice to see some stats from Microsoft on WSL auditory/usage.
I disagree - tech _is_ software and it’s so ubiquitous that it’s essentially invisible.
Zig's power doesn't come from the language features it has but from those it doesn't. Its killer feature is that it's a small language that can be fully learned in a couple of days (if you're familiar with some low-level programming). Simplicity is the one feature you can never add to a language that doesn't already have it and, for many, it is one of the most valuable feature.
Truthfully the internet is already full of crap a lot of it by design by different interest groups, countries spreading fud about other countries political parties doing the same for their opposition the web has become a cesspool. Majority of the people I personally assume at least 9 out 10 don't have capability or care to do the research to sift fact from fiction in the first place so this probably won't change anything.
I have been trying to make it work for me and teach me some python scripting or creating regexes. If you question it correctly it outputs out something even if you might not be able to run the first time generally it works. I fed it 2 csv files/text asked it if it was possible to go convert 1 format to another got a python script that I was able to convert large number of files. Now scripting and programing might seem trivial to large parts of hackernews audience but it will be a huge change for people in general.
From what I feel the AI keeps improving its answers is it being trained on the million of responses it get on the answers it gives.
Airbus vs. Boeing: An Experiment in Charting
cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '!a[$0]++'
Getting the working class to fight over performative wedge issues to divide and disempower them is entirely deliberate.

That is, until Russian bots grab $500,000 of Facebook ads and a crowbar and join in the fun.
> A) Has a clear specification (none of that "the implementation is the specification" shenanigans).

!C

> D) Compiles to native code for if not all, at least most of the platforms that C supports.

C

Good luck finding C & !C.
Seems like the natural conclusion of capitalism to me.
I agree about the record and tuple syntax, but that's actually a JavaScript TC39 proposal, not TypeScript. We already have # for private, and now they're adding the same symbol for different semantics, oof.
This is a cool idea but the Readme implies that ChatGPT is an exercise to the reader contrary to the title's implication that it's an implemented feature.
I hope for her sake they're not long names... The number of issues I've had due to too given names being too long has been quite frustrating. E.g. banking systems that can't fit my full name into their systems.
If i took a random sampling of a few dozen engineers in silicon valley they could build $0 of value most likely.
Not really. The law is clear that the duty is to the company. I know "shareholder primacy" is a talking point around Milton Friedman's philosophy, but as contemporary tech companies demonstrate, it's a false argument. Almost all the major tech companies of the past 20+ years have focused on long-term growth, not short-term profits/returns to shareholders. Amazon doesn't record profits and ploughs all surpluses back into the company for long-term growth. Steve Jobs ignored profits/shareholder returns for many years in order to focus on long-term health/growth of Apple. Reputation/welfare issues for employees (and now "ESG", for better or worse) has been a huge issue that all the top companies have had to make a priority (though as this article demonstrates, there are areas where the issue of employee welfare/fairness has not been heeded).

There's plenty of scope for further discussion about these points, but the key point remains: shareholder primacy is not law and not the focus of company directors' fiduciary duty, regardless of what people claim in self-serving arguments from various points of the ideological spectrum.
No way to do it from a regular laptop I suppose?
Search engines are not designed to produce accurate facts either.

Verification of facts requires direct experience through careful experimentation.

ChatGPT’s responses can either be verified or they are as unfalsifiable as any other confidently expounded conjecture found on your computer screen.
> Just that a C Ruby extension is not the same thing of "writing a browser at Google in C++"

True. It's, if anything, worse: the users of the extension might not even know it's native, will definitely assume it's fully safe, and will absolutely feed it attacker-controlled data without a thought. And the extension author won't have the engineering review and tooling that a Google has in place either.
>> what good are the kids of tomorrow without the old of today

Worshipping youth in its ignorance and speed while discarding the wisdom of elders is called fascism. The right question would be what can civilization hope to achieve besides a reversion to barbarism and "Lord of the Flies" if it doesn't hold its oldest, most vulnerable and most wise members, and their experience, in the highest regard?

The young have always been proud and disposable. And if they don't die young, they get old. Then maybe they have something more interesting to say.
Gattaca is a good movie. I can't wait to read this. I'd also suggest William Gibson (of neuromancer fame)'s Alien script.

Lots of good suggestions in this thread. Dark City's aesthetic and story-telling style made it one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen. You are in the dark most of the movie, both in aesthetic of the film and metaphorically in the sense that you don't know what is going on, but discover it slowly, and along the way you are lead to reach premature conclusions that turn out later to be false. I haven't watched this movie in years, but it's been permanently seared into the deepest darkest corners of my mind.

Another excellent sci-fi i came across earlier this year, from the late 70's early 80's is a polish film On The Silver Globe. The special effects are nothing more than lighting, photography, writing, costumes, set design, and excellent acting, but I can still say that it's psychadelic in the way it provokes the mind, the senses, and the emotions.
You can keep going if you don't hold anything for the swim back
EVERYTHING costs money. Tag every resource. Come up with ways to show cost avoidance and cost savings. This is will be appreciated more by management than any code you can bang out.
Hope to see you again at the Idris stop!, or will you be getting off the bus after everyone has turned into OCaml?
How many countries contributed more than could be stated publicly?
> Have you not noticed how most of the data is not even reported on now and near all previous studies stopped at three months?

No, I haven’t noticed this. Do you mean reported in the media? I was never looking there for safety trial results. Do you mean in journals? Then that’s the just wrong—as is the claim that they stop at 3 months. You can look up phase 4 trials, for instance [0]:

> In addition to the standard ongoing (phase 4) trials, people who took part in the phase 3 trials of approved vaccines are continuing to be followed up (up to 2 years after their second dose) to collect more data – for example on safety, asymptomatic infection, and how long protection from the vaccines lasts.

Even the original BioNTech(Pfizer) clinical trial reports it’s methodology of surveying serious side effects for up to 6 months after second dose, which makes it a 7+ month study overall [1]

[0]
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-maga...

[1]
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.
1. I don't get FAANG job.
> But you are introducing the complexities of managing a fleet.

Depends on who manages the fleet. An EC2 instance provisioned by Elastic Beanstalk is quite easy, the problem is EBS can be an utter PITA of edge cases and weird failure modes.
Ad Astra is "story" wrapped around visual effects to allow Brad Pitt be used as lead actor. And there could be so much to it: The emotional controls, done by I assume AI? Great plot for a dystopian society. A rogue scientist at the edge of explored space posing a big threat? The Heart of Darkness is great, regardless of version. Various powers battling of the few rocks in what is otherwise an empty solar system? The Expense shows us how great that can be.

All of that in one film? Not so much. And then there a the logic holes bigger than a smaller galaxy. Earth is facing severe energy issues, up to the point a habdfull of dudes are fighting over three luna rovers? Could be fun, ubtil one realizes that there is apparebtly enough energy to be had to kill civilisation by energy waves created somewhere around Saturn... Then Brad is sent on a secret missions, and instead of flying on a military vessel to the lunar station, he takes acivilian flight wearing uniform. Only to land travle across the moon. The inly reason for that seems to be show some fancy lunar battle scene... I could go on...

Space Cowboys so, that would fit. As would Alien and Aliens, everything after Prometeus... If I want Eric Daenicken, I go read one of his books.
>Leftists are forced to lash out at the false definition of civility that lets people say "I dunno, trans people are icky, let's just not let them pee in public," but doesn't let people say "that's fucked up, where are trans people supposed to pee then?" Because these counter points don't get platformed nearly as much, either because of conservatism or, cynically, because what they have to say is less surprising / offensive / infuriating and thus they won't generate as much attention / clicks / eyeballs / outrage / engagement.

They just want us dead, literally, read it a hundred times. Whether is being killed or suicide, it's the same. Sadly we are an absurd minority (<0.2%) and the tides are already turning for their relief. I gladly don't live in the USA, I would be planning to leave if that were the case
Most commenters seem to recognize that index funds are the way to go, and they’re correct. There are some who are pointing out that the future is much more uncertain now and that index funds might not be as good a bet as they used to be.

Here’s the thing, though. Betting on index funds is like betting that our society will continue to function and continue to remain capitalist. If you make that bet, and you are right, all good. You have more money. If you make that bet and socialism rises, no problem. You might lose the money or be taxed heavily, but will receive government services and you won’t suffer later in life. If society collapses entirely, and it’s Mad Max, then it’s ok to lose all the money because money would have become worthless almost no matter how you invested it.

The one other thing I would like to add is that life is short. You never know how short. Father time is undefeated. If there is something you have the opportunity to do in life that you want to do, don’t hesitate to spend the money and do it ASAP. Financial investments are just a means to an end. If you can skip it and go directly to some of the ends, then get them while you can.
I wouldn't use either Zig or Rust in production just yet, but if you're someone willing to take that risk, then picking a language that is so easy to learn (learning Zig from scratch only takes a couple of days) is certainly an advantage especially if you're not using it much. There are definitely other factors against it, but I can easily see why this would be a very important one in its favour.
"especially with all the SEO & ad spam that's plaguing Google and others currently."

Well, if engines like ChatGPT are about to replace google, guess where the SEO and ad spam is going to go?
I don't think they are immune to it, if the spammers really want to get in. And then you have very awesome subtle product placements mixed in everything.
saw Ex Machina recently. can also highly recommend.
Cypher - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/

Primer - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

Quiet Earth - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/
With the exception of the ones specifically instructed, ChatGPT does not seem to respond with any acknowledgement that it can't do something. I was incredibly impressed by its ability to write a web scraping script for a specific website but when it reached the limits it would just write what it imagined is the correct solution.