skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it even attempted to explain anything…

This is nice: https://youtu.be/7eO23oeXJlw
The abstract is quite explicit about the limitations of the study, namely, that all the people without a parachute jumped from a very low altitude (mean of 0.6m) and that the results should not be extrapolated to jumping out of planes which are much higher than that..
This is fun, but I wonder how to remove it again? If I just select another wallpaper it instantly overwrites it again with your parallax wallpaper. Fun lil project tho!
At least Google compensates those employees!
> do you have unusual hardware?

No. I do tend to use old hardware, but tried it on a mainstream new laptop one time. On that, I couldn't get the WiFi to work with it.

What baffles me is that on all of these machines, Debian works out of the box. In fact, Debian's never failed me on any of the many machines (including laptops) I've put it on.

Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I can't explain the difference. As I said, it's been a while and perhaps they've fixed issues, but I've moved on. My life is no poorer for it.

The only thing is that it means I can't recommend Ubuntu to people (not only because I wouldn't be able to support them if they have trouble, but what am I supposed to say? "I can't make it work, but use this!"?)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/avian-...
Actually that’s great! Considering takeoff is the most taxing part of flight.
Its not a loss leader.

$25 was the patient support program for diabetes. That still exists.

The drug isnt approved for obesity, so they dont get access to the program. Its actually illegal for the company.

This is a case of the company stopping people from doing something they shouldnt have been doing in the first place.
I think there's a strong argument to be made that modern web browsers are a good deal more complex than operating systems -- or at least most kernels.
If this is indeed human to human transmission, humankind will look very different next fall.
There's a reason actions you suggest like a no fly zone have not and probably will never be taken by NATO. Russia is a nuclear superpower capable of destroying most life on earth.
If the weight stays off even after 10 years on the drug, then that's great in my book. Nicotine, caffeine, and bariatric surgery all reduce your appetite in the short run, but your body eventually adapts and your weight starts climbing again. Until we've got more than a couple years of data, I'm not holding out hope that this drug won't eventually lose its punch for maintaining a lower weight.

The main problem to my mind is that cheap, easy, accessible foods are high in both fat and carbs. Fat is satiating, but super calorie dense. Carbs are less calorie dense, but spike your blood sugar. After your blood sugar levels drop, your body signals that you're hungry again in spite of the fact that you've eaten plenty of calories. So now you're starving again and you've surpassed the number of calories you can reasonably utilize without storing it as fat. Add in the fact that evolution hasn't even begun to catch up with the current situation where calories are not a scarce resource (in the US and similar countries) and your body is screaming to eat while the eating's good. This causes you to comsume way too many calories and nowhere near enough vitamins and minerals.

It's a lot of work to eat right anymore. You're working 40 hours a week if you're lucky, you're exhausted and feel like shit and you may not even be able to afford what you need to be eating to maintain a healthy weight.

And, just to make things more fun, there's 1000 sources telling you 1000 different things about what you should and shouldn't eat to be healthy. Cholesterol is bad for you - wait, no it isn't. Eat whole grains. No, don't, that's sugar! Eat fruit. Oh no, fruit is basically all sugar. No it isn't, it's full of fiber and that cancels out the sugar. Don't eat fats, except unsaturated fats, but those are calorie dense. Vegetable oil is unsaturated, but that's bad for you too in a different way.

It's damn frustrating. If it were as easy as just eating less, no one would be obese. Back to the point of the article, however, I don't think it's as simple as taking a magic pill. How many miracle weight loss drugs have come and gone over the last decade? I'm not holding my breath that this is the one that will turn out to work forever with no severe downsides.
Apple I operation manual (1976) [pdf]
Polyphase Tayloe mixers[1] already balance out up to 21st harmonics in practice.

It would be interesting to see actual details at least linked to in these type of press releases.

[1] https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn17c.html
Which attacks exactly?

The sandboxing features are documented: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html
Why concern trolling in particular rather than good old traditional fake concern?
Joking aside, that does seem like it would be very useful. Kind of reminds me of the analogies that were common in initial semantic vector research. The whole “king - man + woman = queen” thing. Presumably that sort of vector arithmetic is still valid on these new LLM embeddings? Although it still would only be finding the closest vector embedding in your dataset, it wouldn’t be generating text guided by the target embedding vector. I wonder if that would be possible somehow?
It's complicated, first there is not just one H5N1 virus, there is a family of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_vaccine
Or David S Pumpkins music every time the doors open
Religious beliefs become stronger in the light of contradicting evidence. There will be a "god of the gaps" approach with conspiracies as well.
Nope. Check how Frenchness came about (there used to be many languages in the current French borders). Check all the various wars (Napoleonic Wars, Finnish War, WW2, much further back we have Mongol War...).

Germany didn't exist 200 years ago.

Welsh nearly went extinct.

Poland moved hundreds of miles.

The thing that differentiates those European countries from the African ones is mostly age. And even then its not always one-sided.

There's also countries like Vietnam or empires like India which got pillaged just as hard as South Africa or Rwanda.

Also, are you trying to make the point that multi-ethnic societies result in civil war? That goes pretty strongly against current public sentiment.
There is an encoding/decoding stage that is basically compression/decompression.

Thats less of a good analogy for happens in the middle. I am no expert here, but I think of it as water running through a giant network of specifically patterned canyons.
> Modern world requires eggs to last longer, could be 3 months before an egg hits the shelf at the grocery store.

Here in EU eggs have printed on them the date they were laid, I never seen eggs in a supermarket more than a few days older.
I was just answering your question on if they advertised it, because I was also curious of the answer, haha.

edit: How do you like extensions to notify of new features? I've seen some do a new tab popup post-install, some just add them and you discover them like DDG, and I'm sure a few have added new features I'll never know about because they're disabled by default. I've always found the new tab way annoying, and I've been slightly less annoyed by just adding the feature with a way to disable.
Those tweets are a lot less specific though. In general the government did fix it and the water is safe. But specifically there are still 5% of pipes that have lead in them (but apparently thesr are ones that are generally not for domestic supply or something).

So the exact claim matters a lot.
You hear this from police, too and it's one of the reasons police will often require you to go to a specific station, sign an affidavit, record an interview of you, and provide maximal information to show that your complaint is valid, and now your name is stored in their systems forever.

Which, you know, leads to situations where a complaint is filed, but eg there's fear of retribution. So maybe they'll fill out an affidavit but don't go downtown for an interview. Or they'll do everything by the book, but because they didn't know the badge number of the cop who physically harmed them, the complaint is dropped. This shit happens all the time.

Hell, I've seen complaints get dropped -- despite videos proof attached to the complaint -- that show cops slamming a kid against a wall and threatening to beat the kid up. Because the person getting slammed against a wall didn't know the badge number. There are probably ten different ways to figure out who the thug cop was, but nope.

Point is -- anonymous complaints are important because they give people with real claims of harm the comfort of reduced exposure to retaliation. Not being able to file a complaint because of genuine fear of retaliation is a threatened voice. Anonymity is important.
Interesting article though I had written on this in a different context titled the Instagram Effect in ChatGPT - https://abhishek-gupta.ca/aci/blog/instagram-effect-in-chatg...
The same applies to corporate networks - there is no good reason why the default office computer installations for your employees should have a browser without an ad blocker, there are some (not huge, but some) security benefits that make it a reasonable IT policy almost everywhere.
I always turn off text and voice chat as part of setting any game up. I don't care what others in a game have to say about, well, anything. I'm there to play. I rarely if ever look at the social tab of any game. One of the worst things to happen to games in the last 15 or so years imho is in game communications (second to only being able to play with a net connection). We used to use external apps like teamspeak and xfire and the like if we cared enough to talk to people, like if you were in a clan and needed to play cooperatively.
When I was faced with the big commitment of buying a house, that was a major factor. Grocery store, credit union, pharmacy are all within easy walking distance, hospital's just a little further, and going downtown is still reasonable if the weather's nice.

There's a bit of our road without sidewalk, and someday I'd like to fix that. But mostly, it's just really nice to live somewhere walkable.

I've done a lot of walking in non-walkable areas before. It is awful. And I think that's most of the country. Been hit a couple of times by the side mirrors of drivers who were driving right on the edge. Had to make my way on roads with steep dropoffs or ditches on one side and cliffs on the other. Crossing big highways. It's dangerous.

I can totally see why some people just won't do that and won't let their kids do it. But what amazes me is that most people don't even see that as a problem. It's something that can be fixed.
It's obviously wrong and will eventually be challenged.

It's ridiculous, all of the poeple here defending this.

Literally a call an hour to the police station, among the small number of people who saw the site just in the first few hours, and actually decided to make the call? That's clear evidence that enough people in the community were confused, and conclusive evidence of material disruption.

Moroever, I think the most 'rational' conclusion given the situation would be that the Facebook page was hacked, not that it was a fake account - that's what I would have inferred without doing much research.

The lack of understanding of basic communications here as well - it's as though people on HN don't know anyone outside of their bubbles.

Go into your community and meet some actual people. Old people, less educated people, migrants, people with disabilities. Just hop on the bus and start up a convseration with a random person to see what 'average' is.

Moreover, there is the problem of the 'authority of the brand' aka the emblem itself.

If a police officer came to your door, presented a badge and then started doing some whacky stuff, how long would the average person hold out before being sure it was a farce?

The badge/brand itself is a marker of credibility which makes the participant have to assume a degree of validity. Which is the whole problem with impersonating memebers of the justice system.

Let's try an adjacent case:

You dress up as a real police officer, and then start acting like and idiot. Free speech? Why wouldn't the 'average person' know that you're doing satire? Go ahead and try.

"Judge, I knocked on the door in uniform, showed a real badge, and then told the person to do 20 jumping jacks! Clearly every reasonable member of the communnity would know that police officers don't ask you to do 'jumping jacks'!"

It's not up to the community members to have to use their inteligence to do some kind of discrimination, it has to be 'clearly' not a polic officer.

Which is why when the stripper shows up at the door, they don't wear real uniforms.

Let's look at the negative cases:

If it was clearly and obviously legal - then why don't they sell real police uniforms everywhere? So that you can go and be a buffoon for 'satire'?

There should be 100's of web sites that 'impersonate the police' but using 'real badges and branding'.

Let's look at the civil commercial scneario:

How long would you last running around in a real UPS uniform, making a fool of yourself making 'fake deliveries'?

How long would you last using a real UPS/Amazong/McDonal'ds logo/branding on your web site - changing only a few details for fun?

Obviously there'd be liability.

Whether or not that his man was doing 'satire' not is besides the point - he was impersonating Emergency Services.

Go ahead and do exaclty what he did in your own home town / region and see what happens.

HNers are making fools of themselves.
Boy, do I have something to show you: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/about
Instagram Effect in ChatGPT
David Wallace-Wells was just writing yesterday about the prospect of back-to-back pandemics, based on H5N1, at the New York Times:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/bird-flu-pandemic...>
> To minimize E[(X-f(Y))^2] is just common, traditional, nearly universal least squares with all the powers, advantages, and attributes there unto pertaining

For me that's hardly an intuitive notion. For example, in some econometrics textbooks you can meet the reversed argument: OLS is motivated as a way to estimate conditional expectation function. So one can ask, isn't OLS "just common, traditional, nearly universal least squares with all the powers, advantages, and attributes there unto pertaining" simply because it is a way to estimate conditional expectation? And now you are back to square one.

> you add an assumption not needed with my approach via the Radon-Nikodym result

Existence of a unique minimizer of E[(X-f(Y))^2] is a property of L2. You may carryover many properties to L1 by continuity but it isn't one of them. If you don't assume existence of second moments, it is non-trivial to show that min E[(X-f(Y))^2] makes sense if any. I think that you have to put specific constraints on X and Y, but I don't know which are the least restrictive.
> Gnome is super opinionated and Mac-like minimalist.

The problem with this is that Mac, unlike Gnome, actually works. Gnome just has weird holes where old functionality was removed (like application menus!) and never replaced.
My initial reaction was: why Markdown? That's (despite its name) a markup language, not some sort of data/configuration format. But then I saw that it allows you to consolidate the documentation and the tasks into a single place, and now I think this is a great idea!

Other comments have pointed it out, but the only issue I see is that shell commands aren't trivially usable on e.g. Windows. I'm sure there are good solutions out there for this, but I haven't found them yet...
How do you teach a chicken not to shit on its eggs?
This probably won't develop into a global pandemic - but the odds of global pandemics is constantly increasing as we continue expanding factory farming and shrinking natural reserves.

That's sort of the key tune of climate change: everything awful gets more frequent, but it's still probabilistic.
Not very well. Canonical learned nothing from Unity's failure.
> But, I think it is self evidently clear, to most people, that the principle of due process is something that matters outside of just this singular extreme circumstance of the government sending people to jail.

Yes, that’s why, e.g., the Constitution requires due process from government generally (see Amendments 5 and 14), not just in the criminal sphere.

But the 6th Amendment confrontation clause right is not the same thing as due process.
In the UK all eggs are unwashed and we mostly keep our eggs in the fridge.

I've heard the idea that it's temperature change which causes things to cross the barrier, and the fridge is the place in your kitchen with the most stable temperature.
What "accountability" are you referring to? They aren't accountable for the poor design of the legislation.
Brave on iOS blocks YouTube ads. I never see them anymore.
Is the United States Ready for Back-to-Back Pandemics?
I dunno if its still the case, but AV1 used to be about the same bitrate as the VP9 streams, effectively making them higher quality streams.

Another experiment I have done: download the AV1 and AVC streams, and average them with VapourSynth.
It’s a market for lemons [1]. You, the player, have no information about the teammates and opponents you’ll be matched up with. Therefore, over time, high quality and well-behaved players tend to exit the market, leaving only the cheaters and tantrum-throwers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
They may have the licenses, but do they actually do business under them? They did not in the past. So it always looked just like a fun ploy to gain some credibility.
I love stackexchange, but it is rather hostile to discussions. It is the best at asking questions, and getting them answered, but a discussion is cut short by the rules.
I don't see how it's fallacious, and I specifically set aside the performance tradeoffs as I knew the retort would end up being almost exactly what you posted.

I'm also not sure why I'd have to list the tradeoffs on a forum of developers.

They're self-evident.

HTML and the DOM are always going to be a less efficient representation of an interface than a component tree. CSS is always going to be a less efficient manor of appearance specification than direct properties on a component object. JavaScript is always going to be less efficient than something compiled down to machine language.

Each adds several layers of abstraction, processing and adaptions that add overhead. That's their whole point.

It's not exactly something you can "debate".
It’s a necessity for all humans to eat meat. Whether you eat animal or lab meat is the choice.
Bingo. And (as much as this crowd hates to admit it) the US undertaxes the middle class and poor to an incredible amount compared to other first world countries.

OECD tax vs GDP [1]

OECD rates US most progressive [2] (the rich pay more of the tax base, even when relative to their share of income).

[1] https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/tax-to-gdp...

[2] https://taxfoundation.org/news-obama-oecd-says-united-states...
> It's just not possible to use an Android phone as Google intended (and as the vast majority of users actually do) without that tracking mechanism taking center stage

These things are not as tightly woven into the OS as you make it seem.

It is very much possible. GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, roll your own AOSP-based image.

A completely degoogled Pixel series is even practical and realistic for casuals. As you say you miss out or have to fiddle a big for many apps which break without SafetyNet and other malware.
For what it's worth I was never able to make windows work with Ruby and Rails. I had to use docker or a virtual box linux environment.

I stopped using windows because of its incredibly invasive spying and reporting of user activity. I just don't trust it.

MacOS being based on BSD Unix and Apple making its money from sales, not spying, feels much better to me.

At this point, MacOS shortcuts are at my fingertips. I like too many aspects of the MacOS / iOS ecosystem including clipboard integration, facetime calling, imessage on MacOS etc.

I can use windows but now I bump against all my habits.
Dark mode will be available shortly after ipv6 is enabled, just wait a few more years.
Wayfire is like compiz but as an independent Wayland compositor: https://wayfire.org/
You'd be surprised what goes on, but then most people still believe in religion which is a legal form of insanity.
Well, GNOME actually exceeds macOS minimalism… at least in macOS I have the ability to hide the top bar, several ways to launch apps, a systray, graphical configuration for most things, the ability to change keymappings, and so on. In GNOME, I need 3rd party tools for all of that.
Yea - one upside of extremely deadly diseases is that they have problems hitting pandemic levels due to how quickly hosts die off - the "best performing" diseases are rarely fatal but often come with serious long term effects so the host can spread it around a fair amount before their system gets it under control.
Standing desks were the only desks that knowledge workers (clerks mostly) had in Dickensian times.

Good to see the tech industry bringing us back to the workplace of the 1800's.

Up next: Child labor!
Or a use after free bug from an unlucky player. With millions (billions?) of account-hours over the honeypot period surely at least a few bans are outrageous coincidences
I blame Ottis Toole for the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh, and Adam's dad for terrorizing Americans into this.

The difference between my childhood and those a generation later can not be more stark. We were free to roam far and wide, they were never let outside.

The generation after that had phones and internet, and never wanted to go outside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh
For one set of things, I’m using RHEL 9 with the free developer subscription: Sign up on the Red Hat developer site, and you get a self-support subscription for 16 machines. You do have to renew it regularly, though it’s an easy process.

For everything else, Rocky 9.1.
Kelly criterion is applicable to betting / trading, where you're winning / losing. If you never 'lose', ie., stay in the market, martingale seems really promising. For instance, SPY will never go to 0. The FED / US govt will never let it. In fact, it can't - it would destroy the US economy. So when you're playing a game where you know the graph will always to up and to the right, eventually, martingale seems appropriate.

FWIW, I trade futures on the side and have always been interested in DCA or martingale long strategies.
Guess I’d better quit as a paramedic since I’m apparently not fit to be around kids, let alone treat them in medical emergencies.
They will last longer in the fridge, but there is little sense in leaving them unwashed if you are going to refrigerate them, you just increase the risk of salmonella getting into the eggs for the reasons I explained. The conventional wisdom I mentioned probably dates back to the days of the ice box which have rather high humidity levels due to the massive block of ice slowly melting, in a modern fridge this is not as big of an issue but humidity levels in the fridge can be quite high, depends on what food you have in there.

I can not provide a source off the top of my head, been a few years since I went through my egg curiosity phase. But it is a simple experiment, take an egg out of the fridge on a hot humid day, you will see water condense on them, and if you let it sit you will see that water absorb in, it will disappear faster than evaporation could explain. This will be easiest to see on a washed egg since the bloom on an unwashed egg helps some, but the bloom is never perfect and each time water condenses on the egg it damages the bloom.
Experiments on mice show that the hormone leptin influences not only appetite but also pursuit of the opposite sex.

Wouldn't be the first creatures to have an appetite for sex.