skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Typically we would have tested this for a long time to see this effect (which is not unknown in the immunology community) but for some reason "we didn't have the time" and we rushed it into millions (billions?) of people

Well, in all fairness, the "some reason"s were thousands people dying _every day_ in western countries, overloading health systems. Anyone playing the "let's wait two more years, just to be sure" card had a _very_ hard sell.

To follow your analogy, this is probably a situation where there is vastly more wrong decisions to make, and the right ones require the benefits of 20/20 insight, which, well, GPT-42, maybe ?

To roughly quote a former PM from that period: "my job these days is to arbitrage between bad decisions".

This is were the scientific method of searching for the truth clashes with the politics of managing a human society. Not a particularly new debate, I suppose...

For "laughs" : I almost wish we'd go the complete opposite road next time, keeping the vaxxes in the lab as long a possible, just to see the opposition parties everywhere spread conspiracy theories about the "secret vaccine that the government does not want you to take", etc... Just, for a change.
That sounds like a nightmare, but I wouldn't let that experience sour your opinion of Google Domains.

I actively avoid Google products, but Google Domains is an exception. They make limited upsell appeals, their pricing is straight forward, and if it's available, they include privacy protection with the annual cost.

And they are clear about the lack of privacy protection for .us domains. This text appears when checking out: "Privacy protection is not supported for .US domains."
So in other words, humans also have zero real understanding.
How much do you make per year?
> I don't understand how you can say hoarding might not have been any worse if the CDC revealed how important masks were to safety unless you believe that no one was listening to the CDC anyway which invalidates your entire point.

I can say it because it wasn't tried. They went straight to lying and like you said, the hoarding still happened. If it was going to happen anyway why lie!?

I do honestly believe if they made a distinction between N95 and surgical masks, and their appropriateness in each setting, maybe it could have been different because I believe the world is full of good people but we'll never know. When another pandemic comes we still won't know. These lies that were told will never be forgotten and I believe the damage they caused in the long run is far greater than the problems they solved in the short run.

You seem to think that we've been living in a dystopia where governments have been lying to us forever, there's none you can trust, and everyone everywhere believes and knows this as if it were fact. I don't think that was anywhere close to true before the pandemic but I'm more likely to believe it today because of how many more people distrust their governments and the WHO because of their lies.
> Sane people don't kill people to save money.

Of course, that isn't true in the abstract. Some number of people die in the US annually for lack of government spending on healthcare, and presumably we could spend less and kill more people, or vice versa.

Government healthcare systems are kind of fundamentally a tradeoff between spending and saving lives.
My opinion is as long the dont solve hard problems they are just probability .

For example one of those top ten mathematical problems. Humans solved a few of those, lets challenge AI
I would suggest that, just as Canada decided they had to remove the “reasonably foreseeable death” criterion in response to a court decision, they’ll find some financial pressure in the future that forces them to expand MAiD programs. It’s likely to sound less like “we ought to kill some people to save money” and more like “here’s a great revenue-neutral idea for expanding access to the important MAiD program”.

If handing out lethal injections is considered to be no big deal, I don’t see how the Canadian healthcare system could avoid these pressures. You can’t make just one deal with the devil.
Show HN: Edict – Build apps with rules in TypeScript
Every store I've been in within the past couple of years has had warnings posted everywhere not to buy gift cards and read the codes to unknown people over the phone.

I'm not sure if there's an alternative, since I'd seriously rather not ID be required to buy or use a gift card.
> Many people point out that hospitals tend to have tough luck with anything except broken bones.

Many people talk dumb nonsense. Doesn't mean you should pay attention. Next time you have kidney trouble, appendicitis, an infected gal bladder, a blood clot in your aorta, a leaky heart valve or an infected tooth you'll be talking to a yoga mom then?
> Again, PMs and engineering managers get by just fine with standard natural language.

Actually, they often have lots of problems with “standard natural language”, which is why large projects tend to develop considerable volumes of specialized jargon (often multiple layers, such as project-specific, organization-specific, etc.), which is either subject to extensive documentation (which often becomes a maintenance issue) or which becomes a contributor itself to miscommunication as understanding gaps emerge as turnover and communications silos lead to differing understands among project team members and between the project team and other stakeholders.

In fact, there is a lot of specialized, formalized, controlled language that is standardized beyond the organizational level (including visual languages), which is designed to mitigate parts of this problem (though it often fails, in part because usage in practice doesn’t consistently follow the formal standard.)
This question always comes up for me when people talk about the simulation theory. What exactly is being simulated? All of my perceptions but my brain is real, or am I also being simulated?
>Is there any rationality in giving one man (POTUS) more power than all the other 320M citizens combined? Arguably more power than ALL the other humans combined.

The argument here would be that running a country requires fast decisions. Putting that in the hands of millions wouldn't allow us to respond fast enough. The rational decision here is to choose a representative of the people, allowing that person to make decisions quickly and more efficiently than the entire population.

Its berfectly rational to trade speed for accuracy depending on the situation.

>What about Hollywood and the acting business? If you picked a random theatre actor would it really underperform Daniel Day Lewis so bad to warrant Lewis paycheck?

People have limited time. They don't choose movies based on a close analysis of the quality of a given movie; that would be an irrational use of effort on something that you'll only spend 2 hours watching. Instead, the rational thing to do is to use other proxies for "quality" or "enjoyment value."

One of those is to see which actors are in the movie. If you like a particular actor and know that there is a baseline level of quality, you are much more likely to choose that movie. This is a large part of the value that Daniel Day Lewis provides, justifying his paycheck.
Ah sure look.
The solution works until you expand beyond the US to people with sane date and unit convention :P

DD/MM/YYYY is the way

purely safari's fault, makes sense otherwise to have this on the browser side.

Next challenge: A sensible input for a date range with optional time of day. Have not seen a good one yet I think, especially when you try to correct your made input.
Consideration needs to be made when thinking that a policy which works in Singapore, one of the smallest countries in the world by area and one with a strong tradition of rather strict governance in the modern era, can be applied to vastly larger ones with some pretense of respect of constitutional civil rights and a history of distrust of strong government.
My experience with Trucaller is that it does just about nothing. I suspect that by the time a number has been marked as spam, the offender has already switched to a new number. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that scammers were monitoring Trucaller and it’s ilk to determine when to change numbers.
I was not aware HN had a phone app. Was this app created by HN?
> Street Fighter 3

I think it’s Street Fighter Alpha 3, and it happens in a previous game as well: Super Street Fighter II – see https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/8/88/... and https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/d/dc/...
Yes. They are not the same, and you know this. These social pressure tactics do little but turn people against your cause at this point. The difference is in intent. While it is possible they look the same from the outside, one intends to protect what they love, while the other intends to hurt what it hates.

Making these people out to be the same serves to turn people who might be convinced to help you into your worst enemies instead. No one likes being made out to be a bad person simply for seeking to protect what is important to them. The two are not the same, and too many people screeching that they are, and that conservatives all hate trans people is the issue in the first place. It's weird.
What distinction would you draw between these two groups of data?
Why would you equate ChatGPT with AI ? It's just a language model. I know it's fashionable to call anything machine-learning related "AI", but it makes for non-sensical conversations such as here where Penrose is using "AI" to refer to any potential future AI (something that at least appears to have human level intelligence), but you're using "AI" to refer to something completely different - a dumb language model.

Penrose is one of those people who is "religiously" against AI. He will clutch at any straw possible to argue that AI will never be conscious, or understand anything, or encroach on our human uniqueness and/or spirituality in any way. His favorite argument seems to be that our brain is utilizing (inherently non-computable - at least by non-quantum computer) quantum effects in the brain's microtubules, but I'm sure if it wasn't that it'd be something else. He doesn't WANT to believe, therefore he finds an excuse not to believe.
fish it out of the lake and pay someone $1000 to extract the tpm and restore it for you
Those would be useful for dealing with recruiters. not so much people whom I'd actually like to get coffee with.
Can you also unlock this model by pressing your nose (or someone else's) on the finger print reader, like you could on the Pixel 6?
Appeals to tradition and authority are not arguments. Look in the mirror for arrogance.
I’m very certain Chaos Engineering is known in the airline industry
I do simulated annealing for a living. Simulated annealing on graphs works great when a) the diameter of the graph is small (which for airlines corresponds to hubbie hub and spoke models) and b). when you can accept relatively approximate solutions. The issue it seems here is that southwest doesn't have enough pilots. Algorithmically, that means they can't accept approximate solutions!
The ruling party wasn't on my team and was often a source of misinformation during the height of the COVID pandemic. If I got banned for saying Bill Gates conspiracies were bullshit, then it sounds like that social media platform wasn't receptive to what I was saying. Boo hoo. Are you suggesting you'd force social media platforms to carry all voices, no matter what they're saying? How would you achieve that? Would community & content quality guidelines become illegal?

The bar for censorship shouldn't be so high that you legitimize misinformation by giving it a bigger platform than it merits. Social media can be a good place for discussion & debate, but in times when there's a national crisis occurring & you have people continually posting about how to take off-label drugs causing shortages for people who actually need it & injury to those taking it incorrectly, you run into misinformation causing real tangible harm to people. You cannot just ignore that. It's not just a run-of-the-mill philosophical debate about misinformation & censorship. The stakes are much lower in our discussion here.
You forgot to add the 'mic drop' ;)
Is it possible to simply pass them around like currency? Eventually the holders will want to buy something from Amazon.

Or, you invent a shop that also trades on Amazon and "buy" the stuff from yourself. That might explain some odd shops that you see online.
My wife gets a million hits on stupid items on FBMktPl.

This makes so much sense. Thanks!
VW's Golf: one of the best things of our age
I think that the protestors want as much support as possible. If you take the risk to protest then you want your allies and supporters to cheer you on.
What makes those higher rational aims so special? Why are they higher? Aren't you also distracted from your "purpose" by needing to eat and rest? So why not also by the need for beautiful company?

You don't really have a purpose in the greater scheme of things. Your desire to not be distracted shouldn't impinge on others. If it's so important to you then lock yourself away rather than chaining the dress code of women or anyone you might find attractive.
Or grow a beard and/or other body hair.
Ask HN: What tech advice are you giving to those around you for 2023?
You have probably given advice to the vulnerable young and older people (as well as to self-declared "technotwits") about technology in the coming year.

What are your top 5 tips for the coming year? I'm advising:

* Do upgrade any device that doesn't receive OS updates (mobile devices are a particular concern)

* On mobile, do use an encrypted chat app (e.g. Messages with RCS, Signal, &c)

* Don't use identifying information as a password
and don't re-use passwords

* Don't answer phone calls from unknown sources

* End any communication where someone asks you to do something insecure (e.g. "give me your password so I can check your account")
You should tell Elon Musk so he can put this into the next sentient Tesla model.
Banned by sctb on Oct 16, 2016 for political ranting.
I've been using Dropbox, then Nextcloud to keep the database synchronized on all my devices for years and years. Absolutely no problem at all, and dead simple.
...software engineer?
curl | bash doesn't bother me because I do it like twice a year from sites I trust. On the otherhand, the node crowd uses "npx command" all the time where npx will download and execute code from the net. Unlike "curl | bash", "npx command" is something you're expected to do 10s or 100s of times a day. Each one of those times is a chance for you to have a typo and execute code from some randon source like if you type "npm commmand" or "npx comman" or "npx coomand" or "npx comman dargument", etc...
Michael Shellenberger: How Progressives Threaten Cities
Hmm, this is not correct. I work as a employment specialist for individuals with developmental disabilities, and they rarely, if ever, lose SSI or SSDI if they start working, so long as they stay under certain thresholds (hours, wage and assets). We work closely with benefits counselors to figure out where the line is with each individual, then leverage our relationships with employers to help said individual hit that sweet spot where they are working as much as allowed while still able to collect.

This always results in the individual making far more than just collecting disability alone, even if the payments are reduced.

The idea of "all or nothing" is a myth that prevents a lot of folks on disability who want to work from doing so. If you happen to be such an individual, please reach out to a benefits counselor in your state and set up a meeting.
Predictions for 2023
The implementation might seem inefficient if you misunderstand the design; the system is working exactly as intended.
When we first immigrated to Canada my family kept some of our documents such as birth records etc. It was super cheap and my family felt security was beneficial.

I don't have one currently but perhaps I should.
The ePD dates to 2002 but stupid cookie banners only came into being around the same time as the GDPR in 2018. I think you can say the cookie banners are in some technical legal sense ePD's fault, but to laypeople it certainly seems that the GDPR is why every website is less usable and more annoying than it was just a few years ago.
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If they had several hundred pounds of old clothes they can build a gigantic pillow fort and huddle together in the middle with a candle.
This would be better than burning the clothes, as I assume they have enough food.
>"What's unique is the partial failure, it's never happened," he said. "This isn't a drill you can run."

The unspoken part you have to hear there is "... within the economic model of the airline business".

Business continuity gets exponentially more expensive as you chase the blackest of swans: the sheer volume of plan development and maintenance, developing exercises, table-top vs. walkthrough vs. simulation, assumptions about how many different uncorrelated failures you're prepared for deal with at once etc.

I've no doubt you could run an airline to be as resilient as (say) USAF Air Mobility Command, but no-one could afford the tickets.
More on "monies" and plural mass nouns-

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/money-plural-u...
It's also an interesting take on how the 'end of the road' should look like according to different sets of people.

1) Some people believe it should be something akin to Warren Buffett, Bill Gates or the late Queen of England Elizabeth II.

2) Some others believe it should be something like LBJ, Donald Trump, Howard Hughes/Elon Musk.

In reality the 'end of the road' looks different depending on the prevalent personality of the individuals who are being blessed by enormous amounts of luck to get in such high positions.

The amount of conspicuous consumption is approximately the same and cuts across all the different personality types.
That's a narrative change, not a changing thesis. He knew at the time masks were needed by the general public but lied to the American public so that healthcare workers would have an adequate supply. He admits to that much. Again, a decision that was not his to make. He then realized that the lie was worse than he'd anticipated and started encouraging masks. Couple that with that Dr Fauci has been tied to being knowledgeable on gain of function research and most people can read between the lines.
In US the government is allowed tk kill you - as apparently capital punishment is constitutional.

Yet you are not allowed to kill yourself? I don't think that morally defensible
It is not a problem everywhere. I do not get snail mail spam or call spam in Germany. For post it was enough to put up a sticker that forbids advertisements. No idea really why call/sms spam isn't a problem.
Its easier for someone to obtain and identify your DNA than it is your fingertips or even your face.

Just think of how much you leave around all the time. If that's all on records with facial images, your face is certainly an identifiable metric of your biology.
If you run out of money in the future then simply open suicide pod business because that design sounds great.
Given all the things the government is capable of doing (drafting you, imprisoning you, taxing you, taking your property, etc), you are putting way too high a standard on this.

The government has an interest in the overall public health and will make controversial decisions to that effect. They've done it before and will do it again. There were also right in this case so that is kind of important.

I agree they could have been wrong, and that would have sucked. But they weren't. The processes and safeguards to the very aggressive policies got to the correct endpoint, and saved a lot of people's lives (in some cases against their will).
It's not inevitable. We know how to create nuclear bombs, and generally how to kill each other. We are not doing either of those wantonly.

And forgive me, but what agriculture has to do with AGI?
I very much share your concern and frustration, but even I take convenience over principle in some matters. I happily use TSA PreCheck, despite hating the fact that you have to put yourself on a government list to restore a level of dignity while traveling that the same government took away in the first place.

It's a constant struggle with a lot to sacrifice for your principles. See Richard Stallman for an example of someone who no doubt endures many inconveniences in his life in his ardent avoidance of nonfree software.
Does anyone buying an "exclusive" copy actually believe they're getting that?

The pricing is also interesting from another angle, if we take them at their word ("5 copies" vs "exclusive"): why accept 25% less overall? Assuming this is a cryptocurrency transaction, it surprises me the simplicity of dealing with a single buyer is worth that. Can anyone with more insight explain?
Gift cards are hugely profitable for companies so I can see why they’d be happy to turn a blind eye.
I still have my first 128MB thumb drive, bought in 2001 or so. Works fine. Holds a kdbx file fine :)
My wife and I spent a few hours this morning dealing with the cancellation of our return flight. Southwest has long been preferable for me in many cases, including my most flown route. Between the headache of this outage and the apparently dismal state of their operations there's a strong chance I never fly with them again.
My favorite:

aka.ms

Or “cudaserv.com”, which is auto enabled link scanning for Office365
Where I live it could take months (or even years if thr heirs of a deceased doesn't agree on the terms) to have the access to the money. It would be quite illegal to knowingly use the money of a deceased person, but things happens.
It's mindblowing that people aren't bothered by it.
Wouldn't being banned prevent them from posting?

Or does it just insta-kill all their posts?