skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you still got the flu it doesn't necessarily mean you got a different strain. Vaccination AND infection prime your body to create long lived producers of virus specific antibodies to provide many built in processes of your immune system with immensely better targeting. This process can take days during which your bodies immune system will function but not at an optimum level.

Vaccination isn't a guarantee that you wont get sick. Picture your body like Omaha beach on D-Day the more boats landing the better the chances that the invasion makes it past the beach no matter how well armed the defenders.

If you are 18-50 the risk of the flu isn't very high but the risk of the shot is comparatively microscopic. It's still worth it on net and it decreases the chances of infecting someone less healthy or older who as mentioned before is imperfectly protected by vaccination alone. You not spreading or as much is fewer invaders on their beach.

Anyway I highly recommend "In Defense of Self" https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Self-Immune-System-Really/dp/... its a little old but well written and comprehensible.
>"Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old."

”I’m sorry, I cannot answer that query because it has ableist connotations. I am a large language model by OpenAI.”
https://mattst88.com/

A blog I rarely write, and some pages about my collection of pet computers.
Someone's going to eventually offer this as a service that groks all your data and makes a digital clone of you. It would perhaps be handy to have a me with a better memory. Or maybe that would be a nightmare. Not sure which.
copyright notice just means they have at least partial copyright. It doesn't mean they have copyright to all code.
When they're being careful, they state "dedicated biomass for electricity production", which is... not something I'm aware of anyone doing? Seems more like trying to head off a future bad idea than criticizing something that happens today... again, when they're being careful with their phrasing.
First, so you don't believe it's possible to plant DNA? That it could never EVER happen? Gawd you're naive, and also seemingly unaware that DNA isn't necessarily proof-positive.

Second, references please. We'd be especially interested in ones where two people were in the same bed and both went out in silence. Nonetheless, that doesn't help with incrimination here. That doesn't make him any more guilty, does it? (Hint: Nope).

Third, you're completely discounting what his PhD work was in. Imagine doing PhD level study and making ALL the classic bone-head mistakes. How does that make sense to anyone reasonable?

Fourth, I'm not leaving out anything. I'm saying - and to your point (thanks for mentioning the plates) - everything presented "as is" is circumstantial. I never mentioned a mastermind. Only that, car stealing...easy. Phone stealing...easy. DNA...super easy. Changing plates...hardly proof of guilt.

Where you and "the facts" are failing is simple:

- No eye-witness
- Car and phone !== person. Nuff said.
- No motive

The reality is, based on facts - as they are today - my theory is just as good if not better than yours. So yeah, there's that. You can calm down now. It's ok. It's simply a "what if" discussion that's obviously beyond your small-minded capabilities.

p.s. Also, references to Occam's Razor as a legal tool in a court of law would be a big help.
Not consistently, not all the time, but often
enough that there is something there.

This is like deciding that a parrot that occasionally produces a relevant response is capable of understanding spoken English: it's an illusion that our human brains eagerly trick themselves with.

People had an identical reaction to ELIZA when it was originally released, and it's as far from "AGI" as it gets.
> Well, start by having WebGL and WASM catching up with modern hardware, instead of lagging behind native tech for a decade

Exactly the reason why the web sucks: chasing the wrong targets and ignoring what is actually needed for development.

Just having proper controls is several orders of magnitude more helpful than having yet another way of building graphics from scratch. Too bad https://open-ui.org/ is twenty years too late.
Others have suggested autocomplete before. I opened https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/issues/120 in response as a place to talk about it. But in general my opinion is that it would probably actually be harmful to learning for beginners, and I'd need to see evidence to convince me otherwise.

Here's my favorite explanation why: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/a/634

Here's another similar discussion: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/5777/python-...
Mine is in the smaller of my (two) garages.
No this is not the same. Antibiotics kill bacteria, across the board, indiscriminately. Bacteria can evolve protection from antibiotics. It is not clear that this will help out compete the rest. Taking antibiotics for a minor cold can cause antibiotic resistance to appear in OTHER bacteria unrelated to the cold.

Vaccines are specific to the thing they prevent.
enkid's people have had a remote outpost near the center for some time now. They have not reported finding any life so far there but can we really trust them after the Saturn 3 disaster?
that's not at all how nightsoil works lol
I agree (with minor caveats).

The important thing is that these AI systems are only going to get better over time.

IMHO, the early 2020's for conversational AI is akin to the 1980's for personal computers.
Perfectly said. Medicine is too new of a science, and it's already corrupt beyond repair.
They have standing because its a statutory tort and because and to the extent thar they allege the kind of action and injury that the statute makes compensable.

You seem to be imaging the kind of analysis done for a suit that is not based on a statute providing liability, but on a conflict of laws trying to negate or enjoin a government action for violating a controlling law that does not provide a explicit right of action to the plaintiff to sue, but that’s not necessary when a statute provides an explicit cause of action.
Well python is also the only language have a full set of numerical / scientific / data-science software that is well-maintained. Seeing the Gigs of storage used by Rust / node without building any of more complex libraries, I cannot imagine how much more they will use when doing scientific / data stuff...
It’s fairly small, built by a team of 3 over the course of a few years. Probably less than 100 endpoints. Good coverage for the core, not for the rest. (Eg, zero tests for the main way the app makes money, photo books. )
Your units are completely off. From the article:

> According to Google, the world’s total arable land is about 1.38 billion hectares. Using the biomass LUIE figure of 580 m²/MWh/y, we get a total potential electricity production of 23,793 TWh / year.

This is correct:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%281.38+billion+hectare...
Discussed at the time:

Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned from container management over a decade - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11216020 - March 2016 (24 comments)
Try to Google: Does Jeff Bezos shop at Whole Foods?
Yeah back when I first started WFH (2015-ish) I skipped the flu shot for 2-3 years due to simple laziness until I finally caught the real thing. It was 3 solid days of 103F fever which was sweating in bed, combined with all kind of mild hallucinatory effects and complete incapacity, and the week after the fever broke I had a hard time just moving my body for more than 30-60 minutes at a time before having to lie down. The hangover lasted about a month before my energy levels got back to normal ("post-viral fatigue" before that term became popular -- also there's probably a risk of persistent ME/CFS or "long influenza" post-recovery).

For anyone with unvaccinated proper influenza there should be no question of if you're going to work or not. You're not going to be capable of it. Trying to order groceries online should be highly mentally taxing.

I'd strongly recommend once someone sees a fever above 100F that they get antivirals as well and not try to suffer through it like a dumbass.

(Tangentially, compare to people who "got the worst sickness of their adult life" in late 2019 and swear they were patient zero of COVID in the US -- probably just influenza, 19/20 was a bad season before COVID hit).
Google already provides a chatgpt-like experience with the questions it displays based on the query. It is unlike chatgpt in that google comes up with those questions but they are usually spot on and you can see the source where the answers are coming from. Perhaps all google has to do is provide a chatgpt like interface to that subsection of search results so it feels more interactive like chatgpt
I would love to have an interface where I could choose what I want to see. Obviously the speed meter would be a requirement with a minimal size, and probably the "danger, something is wrong with your car" one. But I would like to change the size and position.

My dream setup would be a large digital speed meter, and the gas level (and how far I can go on that). And that's all.

I have zero use in the engine temperature, or my consumption, or whether I am efficient with the EV mode, or whatnot. These are the only information I ever cared about.
Anybody got some BAS files so we can hack AOL? /s Clearly my age is showing...
It can be taught and there has to be general agreement. Building trust with early feedback as scope/complexity changes is crucial.

Wishing is indeed a terrible plan. Teams that treat estimates as commitments are dysfunctional. Estimates are a tool for budgeting in an agile-like world, and need to be refined as progress is made.
This is great! Thanks for making it free and open source.
Is there anything similar for TypeScript or JavaScript?
I am not a lawyer, but this seems like the school board have no standing (in the legal sense) to be filing this lawsuit. I do not believe that social media companies have the duty of care to the school boards to maintain kids' mental health.

Some of the things in the lawsuit are just stupid like arguing that social media causes them to need to do investigations into threats and such. You wouldn't be suing the USPS or AT&T for allowing the same thing, would you? Sure these aren't the same thing as social media, but whether a duty of care exists should be a relatively similar analysis.
That was a great weekend read. Well written, comprehensive and very empathetic in the way that I'm not. Expanded my brain today. Should it be orchestra arrangements? Bubbly alien tones? No, maybe it should be what the fish hear - stress, death.
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The LUIE figure we found for dedicated biomass is 580 m²/MWh/y: 580 square meters to generate one megawatt-hour per year. You multiplied this by hectares, meaning you multiplied area times area. If you want to determine the amount of energy you can produce from a given area (e.g. 1 billion hectares), you need to divide by 580, not multiply by 580.
Wow, this page is a gem
Have they not heard of it? The web is dead and as the poet said, giants will roam the earth once more.

Every time I interact with davinci-003 it makes me feel more and more like the first real paradigm change is coming. We are still using our computers and writing our programs in the same way as 70 years ago, I emplore you to read 'structured programming' debates and see how we argue about the same things now. Every business product basically still competes with a word processor and spreadsheet. We have made hundreds of thousands of lines of code so we can auto focus the next field on a form, and it still doesnt work on 99% of the cases. The GUI was not a paradigm change, it was more of the same, maybe even worse, mobile overpromised, anything besides video is just worse desktop.

Lists and tables.. for 70 years

This is the first real change.

--

"And what doeth the saint in the forest?" asked Zarathustra.

The saint answered: "I make hymns and sing them; and in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble: thus do I praise God.

With singing, weeping, laughing, and mumbling do I praise the God who is my God. But what dost thou bring us as a gift?"

When Zarathustra had heard these words, he bowed to the saint and said: "What should I have to give thee! Let me rather hurry hence lest I take aught away from thee!"--And thus they parted from one another, the old man and Zarathustra, laughing like schoolboys.

When Zarathustra was alone, however, he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that god is dead!"
Definitely. I was talking more about going direct to FOH with a modeler. Using one as a preamp into a tube power amplifier works well in my experience as long as you disable the internal cabinet modeling.
What to do when free trials don’t work?
I run a business summary app with subscription prices of $50/year and $6.99/month. Unfortunately, some people sign up for the free trial that I offer but they use fake cards. So after 7 days the charge doesn’t go through. What can I do about this? I’m using stripe and Nodejs. It’s really frustrating because customers only want free. You try to charge but they insist on a free trial and when you give them that they abuse it. I guess I can do a money back guarantee but they don’t like that too. What do you guys think?
"Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old."

ChatGPT:

GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It is a way that we can figure out where we are in the world using special satellites.

Imagine you are standing outside and you see lots of stars in the sky. Well, GPS works kind of like that, but instead of stars, there are satellites orbiting the Earth. These satellites are way up high, so they can see everything on the ground.

When you have a GPS device, like a phone or a car, it can talk to these satellites and ask, "Where am I?" The satellites send back a message that says, "You are here!" and gives your device a special code.

The GPS device can use this code to figure out exactly where you are on a map. It's kind of like a magic trick! You can use GPS to find out where you are, or to find your way to a new place. It's super helpful when you're lost or want to go on an adventure.

Not bad!
Just look at the code in cargo. (A)rc is all over the place.

It's essentially a cop out to not have to think about ownership and lifetime, and not have to worry about the borrow checker.

The fact that this is so pervasive throughout Rust code is for me a sign that Rust failed to deliver on its initial promise. The borrow checker was meant to be its main value added. But heh, people still find value added to Rust otherwise.
> I really feel this is easily the best time to be guitar player.

I tell you what I'll trade you the gear for the chance to play the Marquis club in the 60's! There was so much to learn about what guitars could do back then.
The flu hasn't bothered me since I was a small child, and I'm not interested in fixing that which ain't broke. Maybe when I'm old and feeble I'll start taking the flu shot, but for now I have no reason to subject myself to those injections.
I experience EXACTLY the same thing moments before falling asleep (no thc). It's truly amazing. If I manage to jolt myself awake I will write them down, otherwise they will be surely forgotten. And the ratio is similar to yours, good idea/gibberish(or not feasible).
Untreated waste was used directly as fertilizer. Yes, it might be untreated sludge from holding tanks, not people directly shitting in the fields.
"You can try to be oh-so-smart and implement a "canary" that doesn't get updated if you get a warrant, but the court would consider not updating the canary as the same thing as notifying people that a warrant has been served."

The warrant canary is always thought of as a gimmick or a "legal hack" or a "smartypants" construct ... but this is the wrong way to think about it.

The warrant canary is a poison pill provision.

rsync.net is a real company. We have a proper board of directors and outside advisors. We have legal counsel. We have shareholders.

We could not possibly respond to any kind of warrant - extrajudicial or otherwise - without careful consultation with all of these stakeholders. That takes time and that means the canary will expire.

So it's wrong to think of this as an act of defiance at the time of service - that ship has long since sailed (2006).

Instead, it has shifted the landscape of warrant service, irrevocably, in advance.
I think this was framed around using google to answer a question vs using Chatgpt.

For example. Asking "How can I tie my shoes?" to google requires that I click on a link (or multiple) and hope for the best. Meanwhile Chatgpt is likely to give me a detailed walkthrough and answer any follow up questions.

Another good example someone mentioned was "How did ww2 start?". Google gives you a path to find the answer, but Chatgpt will outright give you an answer.

I'd say Chatgpt's competition is really google assistant and siri vs google search. Personally, if I'm using "Okay Google", I don't want to be referred to links as that requires me having to pickup my phone.
Bad trip ?
No grandstanding in my opinion. Social media is a very dangerous and addictive drug that is difficult to police. It should be heavily regulated as it's destroying society.
There is no software maintenance
If that is indeed the case, then there would be legal problems associated with that. Either you are accepting cookies as a private individual, or you are representing your company. Very few companies allow (most) employees to enter into agreements on their behalf.
This isn't the first time I've gotten this comment so I'm looking to change the font stack. Any suggestions? :)
The bounding box, correctly, was set to the width without a newline. The text itself reported a width including the newline. So the text was wider than the bounding box. I think.
Thanks for the great contribution of snide condescension, mixed with more than a bit of confidently incorrect.
For those who care: it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287747, and yes users noticed and flagged it.
I don’t have a deep understanding of how these language models work, but what do I know makes think that saying “It is basically a lookup table” is sort of like saying “A car is basically a bike”.

Sure, there are some very vague similarities, but they are also incredibly different.

A bike and a car both take you places. But the kinds of places they can take you and how effectively they do so differs vastly.

Likewise, both lookup tables and LLMs take an input and then spit something out. But the similarities basically stop there.
And it's only going to get better over time.

As I mentioned elsewhere, conversational AIs in the early 2020's are like PCs in the 1980's -- a new technology that still has lots of early limitations.
Like Ask Jeeves on steroids.
Shorts all year long here in France, but mosquitoes all year long, 40°C+ longer summers, vegetation is hurt hard (above all deciduous plants)
That is probably true these days, unfortunately. The held-in-hand aspect was key to the device being easy to use safely. If the GPS had been mounted to the dash/vent instead (per current customs), then each button press would have taken more effort to visually register where the button was and verify that I was hitting it, similar to a touchscreen. Also, I suspect focusing on a more vertical screen would have required my eyes adjusting to cancel the ambient backlight, greatly slowly my ability to change focus.

I also did most of the driving barefoot, which it turns out actually is not actually illegal as many urban legends would have you believe. That too gave me much better control modulating the clutch, handy for things like rough dirt roads.
Microplastics are so pervasive that they're even found in human breastmilk now. Maybe it's fatalistic, but what is the point of worrying about this on an individual level beyond limiting use of certain plastic products? And it's not just microplastics - we're seeing other news about "forever chemicals," hormones in our food, the global drop of average male sperm production by 50% (!!!), etc.

At a certain point, apathy sets in. If this is our generation's mesothelioma, so be it.
It's pretty well-known (a bit less than :wq though).

What most didn't know (myself included) is that the behavior is slightly different from wq.
I very strongly believe that it's better to start with an easy language. Sure it's easier to learn Python after C++ than it is to learn C++ after Python, but a harder language will most likely frustrate and discourage beginners. I think it's a plausible risk that they might give up on programming and never want to try again.
Chicken protein is not as cheap when farmed sustainably and even if farmed sustainably it is rife with problems and risks. Where I live "ethical" (less densely farmed) chicken is 12 euro/kg and "organic" (sustainably farmed) chicken is 24 euro/kg (both thigh fillet) so there's a factor 2 right there.

If they could come to be just the same price as "ethical" chicken that would be amazing. I think it's been shown that there's not much market for meat replacements at a premium (like impossible and beyond). But I can't imagine there's not an insane market at the parity. I know I would buy insect burgers for my family at least once or twice a week if they had comparable quality to chicken and similarly priced.
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No, I mean C. People don't do that in C++, since C++ provides ways to define value semantics (copy, move, assignment).
Yep that's how a monopoly works.
> It ended up with a substantial fraction of their population being addicted to opium and basically non-productive.

Do you have any evidence of this? I don't believe this to be true from general reading, but can't back it up. My rcollection is that the workers would work hard during the day then smoke opium in the evenings.
I haven't had a flu shot consistently since 1994 in early elementary school and then randomly decided to get 1 in 2006 as my work was offering it

That's it.

Never had a the flu that I am aware of.

I would definately be interested if a shot that covered all types, but not interested in taking something annually personally for a what seems a highly remote risk of infection so far never catching the flu (when even being around others with it).

Is there any stats of people who had a flu shot but still got the flu? I hear it's always the case of oh it's a different strain spreading this season than the shot...
Or majority of people who say they have the flu it's really not