skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of dark money flowing into rewriting history to say that any response to COVID—which has killed >1 million Americans and disabled millions more—was an overreaction so the next pandemic won't disrupt businesses so much. That's what this op-ed is part of, nothing more, nothing less.

That's why this really simple thing became so controversial. I mean, if a virus sticks to droplets then it's better to put less droplets into the air. Masks do that. Easy? Should be.
If a production environment gets contaminated, they just take the whole product behind the barn.
Well we are chasing it because it is still no where near good enough.
That only works if you don't casually toss away your layers.
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Poe's law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody in such a way that someone won't mistake for a genuine article."

I cannot tell if you are serious or joking.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Yeah we handled the mask issue so poorly.

It very quickly stopped being about finding what is a reasonable policy to just a stupid culture war fight over all masks all the time vs any masks anytime are communist police state designed to make your child gay.

Just dumb dumb dumb.

Even in places that handled the pandemic fairly well like NZ their mask policies were kind of silly.

My peeve that I will never stop being angry about is we knew from quite early on that COVID was airborne and surgical masks were not very effective. But public health authorities refused to communicate this to the public. They did not make an effort to make people aware or to issue N95/KN95 masks and update the policies to reflect more balance about which places it’s optimal to mask vs not.

It was just left to individuals to work it out on their own.
Has anyone got this to actually do anything at all yet?

I see all of the half demos where it doesn't complete anything, I've tried it myself and.. well, if we're being honest it was shite. I've seen a whole load of tweet threads saying what it could be used for..

Literally just looking for one example of a successful run. Anything at all.

I can definitely see that there may be potential (if not this then the ideas that come off the back of this) but even I don't have a real use case for it yet, I'm just tinkering.

I guess my XY question: Am I being suckered into the web3 of AI? Lots of buzz, no use case.
Is this some sort of a public service article from Bloomberg? Just say No to the negative thoughts about dollar.

On a serious note, I recently read that there a big difference between the Reserve currency and the Payment currency. Interestingly, the Reserve currency is not US dollar, but US Treasuries instead. I guess it makes sense, as China, for example won’t be able to keep trillion USD Reserves in a bank account, it would have to invested in some highly liquid market, like US Treasuries. This can only change slowly, and the dollar reserve status will continue for quite a while. Replacement of Sterling for USD took some 30 years, for example, 1914-1944.

On the other hand, the status of USD as a Payment currency is changing quickly. I am not sure what the implications are.
There is still an opportunity for Qt to win in this area - they should make it really easy to create (well documented) bindings for new languages (that integrate with their runtimes)
A knock-out study will work as well as the precise definition and measurement of the phenotype you're looking for will allow. The point you're making is well understood by geneticist. There's about 22K genes in the genome, if your typical genetic screen returns a list of a 0 to 1K positives, no one is claiming that the 21K genes are absolutely uninvolved in the phenotype.
1. There was a serious and highly infectious virus circulating. However this is no longer true hence the rest of society having moved on.

2. The asthma analogy is irrelevant.

3. Societies in east Asia wear masks when they're sick; to prevent the spread of illness. Somewhere along the way this narrative has changed to it being a magic invincibility cloak and credited to Asian society, which it never was.
The collective "they" I was referring to was society at large. The general public. But even among researchers working on solutions to these problems there certainly is a limited amount of resources to fund their research.
Computer Folks Ignore History
If you wanna play with some different looping AI architectures yourself, you can try AI Studio: https://aistud.io

and follow along with the AI System patterns series I've just started: https://aistud.io/blog/ai-system-patterns-parallel-conversat...
The feature was basically free so they figured any value they could generate from it was free money. That thinking backfired.
A lot of this predates generative AI. I know someone who used to be really into photography competitions and the like and he basically got discouraged because the photos he really worked on to get perfect right out of the camera were suddenly starting to lose to digital photos that had been enhanced in Photoshop in various ways.

Photos used for editorial purposes in newspapers and magazines at least historically had pretty strict rules about manipulation generally--including the removal of distracting elements that had nothing really to do with the core "truth" of the photo. I suppose the thinking was that manipulation can quickly become a slippery slope.
De-Identification: Mask your data without losing its utility
Again, argument requires them to suggest it's fact, which they did not. Your interpretation of the framing is subjective. They said "To get the convo started: The skeptical take" which clearly offers distance between their view and the statement. You are uncharitably ignoring this.
I'm having trouble understanding the authors point, it's not explained in much detail. Feels like an economist saying "This is a strong American dollar. You can tell it's strong by the way it is.."

Why are closed-capital markets in China a sign of a strong American dollar?
Zik.sh: Open-source ChatGPT like UI
Open-source ChatGPT like UI offering real-time messaging, conversation trees, and plugin support in line with OpenAI specs.
I really do believe world ending AI is on the other side of "can drive a car".
https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/13/3959868/photoshop-is-a-ci...

"Somewhere, deep down under the streets of Photoshop, down where the mole people live, is a little framework called "MacApp." It's a remnant from the very first versions, a fragment of foundation. MacApp originally let Photoshop communicate with the underlying operating system, which was then Mac OS 6.0.3."
While not that cheap, you could go to Space Camp for adults (over a weekend). Among other things, you get to run simulated missions—both from Mission Control and in a “space ship.” https://www.spacecamp.com/space/adult/academy
Russian oil exports back above pre-Ukraine war levels as India and China buy 90%
Oh, and another point: instead of bundling an image with the video stream, they could "splice" in near lossless I-frames into the video stream wherever there is a scene change, then extract them on the decoder end. This would have some significant advantages:

- Full backwards compatibility. The "AI decoder" encoded video would play in any regular video player

- No wasted bitrate encoding the same frames twice.

- No complicated colorspace conversion trickery needed to match the (RGB?) JXL image with the video.

- Theoretically, a full GPU workflow with no CPU needed, though researchers would probably do most work on the CPU if prototyping it with VapourSynth or PySceneDetect.

- The DL network could be formatted/trained in YUV420 (or a colorspace with a similar shape) instead of RGB, which could make it much faster/smaller.

This is not that crazy either. av1an already does something like this in AV1 and HEVC, splitting the video into scenes, running the jobs in parallel and then splicing them together.
We require government ID for people to buy alcohol, because we don’t want children doing it. How is this any different?

I agree this law is ridiculous, though.
Humans are prone to doing dumb experiments, like the ones with radiation and nuclear bombs last century, and the one we're doing now with greenhouse gas emissions.

We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us,
Except the ones who are dead.
Wait, how has Covid been worse than Influenza? Infuenza killed around 50 million people in 1918. There were far less people back then, and travel was slower.
If you're talking about vision, fine. But you were replying to a comment about ChatGPT and then brought up AGI. No offence, but although some vision tasks are AI-hard, in general vision has minimal to do with AGI. That's why I quit the field. Transformers in vision may not be very interesting, but they certainly are a breakthrough in language.
Why do you believe governments don't have backdoors in the open source ecosystem? It's very easy to slip innocent looking bugs into open source projects with plausible deniability. See e.g. heartbleed or the Debian OpenSSL bug. Note that I am not claiming that these bugs are made by state actors. Just to show that it is easy to slip vulnerabilities in billions of lines of open source code that are used in a Linux desktop system. Heck, the FBI even tried to slip backdoors in OpenBSD which is only a marginal project in terms of high-value targets [1].

If any government has backdoors in macOS outside open source software in macOS, it is probably very limited (the US government if any, but Apple seems to resist most attempts at weakening security).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/fbi-a...
WoW64 support was added recently, so you shouldn't need a 32-bit Wine in the near future. This is because some Linux distros are also ditching multilib support on x86.
Because, and this is obvious from the sign in the photo, they value us.

Otherwise, the sandwiches would clearly cost more.
Wow the takes on AI are changing so fast. I don't mean this author in particular but I mean in general.

old: ai trained to predict next word will never solve my clever puzzle

new: we shouldn't worship the god-like ai that can solve every puzzle
By "phone companies" you really mean Apple. You can do this easily in Android, there are even full-blown IDEs for various languages in the Play store. Google created App Inventor as an entry-level way of doing this. None of this seems to be particularly popular but it's an option.
Also pg_vector seems to be gaining traction
This kinda begs the question. Yeah, writing a smartphone app is already painful, and doing it that way on the device would be ridiculously more painful. Is that an inherent property of the form factor, or the result of systematically orienting the system towards consumption?

I say the latter. I used to program with great facility in BASIC on my calculator in high school. I was not even the only one who could do this. The input methods available were much less rich than what a smartphone can provide, not to mention the display. Now, in 2023, the easiest way to write simple programs on my phone is by emulating that calculator. Come on!
Even worse, they also love to write over-generalizing blogposts across wide swaths of the field.
> ... determine how data can be created, stored, and changed.

So you can record sound, store it in a "track", transform it to "mono" etc?

> ... It is contrasted with the remainder of the software that might be concerned with lower-level details of managing a database or displaying the user interface, system infrastructure, or generally connecting various parts of the program.

You might store the sound as a wav, export it as an mp3 - the undo tree might be in SQLite...

Ed: might make more sense with the term "domain"; domain logic, domain rules.

Ed2: somewhat tangential, but see also the original model-view-controller-(user) paper - the user holds a mental model of data/objects in the domain - and the application holds raw data in ram/disk - the UI needs to bridge these two domains so that a user can "apply reverb" from the domain concept to the actual data model (modify a wav file).

https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-in...
> Why would I run a Linux box as my daily driver instead of a my Mac that is real Unix, has a 16 hour battery life and I can get great polished native apps?

Depends on the apps you are using; what's the Mac equivalent of Emacs? How about Meld?

Yeah, this is a bit of a leading question; you can get great polished native non-xplatform apps for Macs but if you limit yourself to that category then the Mac is no longer as useful as a mid-range Windows/Linux laptop.

If you're going to insist on using only non-xplatform native apps when on Mac, you're in a niche (image/video/sound editing, maybe?)

BTW: What kind of Mac laptop do you have that you get 16 hours of battery life? My 5mo M1 barely gets 4 hours when using only video-calling, Goland, Chrome and some terminals.

In over a year of using a Mac as a daily driver, I've yet to use one non-xplatform native Mac application. so I am curious about what you non-xplatform native Mac app you are using.
What's the point in measuring it with high precision if it's not accurate?
And "employee ignores the threat despite being told repeatedly about it".

I don't know where some HN folks get their logic from.
Esoteric languages often elicit such contradictory responses.
It is worth noting that most users use KeyPassXC with the mobile applications Keepass2Android or Keypassium on Apple. A complete picture of the security of the system must therefore necessarily include an audit of these tools as well.
Bellevue "rural" near Microsoft. 1Gbps symmetric from Ziply for about $90/month. With an option of up to 10Gbps for $300/m (that one's new).

I am staying on 1Gbps, but will likely upgrade within a year.

Right now I'd prefer to pay extra for IPv6 though.
One of the rare cases where I want a native application, something that can update and launch my games.
Maybe, maybe not. But they're definitely happier lives for the 10-50 wild birds and 50-200 wild mammals a cat would kill each year. Domestic housecats will hunt even when well-fed.

"The greatest good for the greatest number of [sentient organisms]."

https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/keep-cats-...

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-...
It was introduced by employers. Removing pay transparency makes it easier to underpay your workforce.
Regarding plasmids, there is a similar mechanism of DNA exchange in human cells known as "gypsy transposons," that are viral fragments which were partially integrated into germline ancestry.

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...
How Did an Entire Sri Lankan Handball Team Vanish in Germany? (2021)
Yes, I remember how happy I was when GOG was announced, that a digital store with that ethos would exist. It's a shame that it has since become soured like that for me.
Yes, but those are external anyway so a kernel-based anti-cheat system wouldn't be able to catch them anyway. The point is to be better than the invasive stuff we have now.
Brussels sprouts are a great way to get nitric oxide.
Look, I'm not a fan of the Conservative And Unionist Party of the United Kingdom, but blaming them for the four different privately researched vaccines that the FDA of the American government decided to allow private healthcare providers in the USA to choose to offer during a transition from Republican to Democrat President is a bit much.

Or did your conspiracy theory just forget that 95% of the word population isn't American?
Google implements a zero-trust security model[0] they call BeyondCorp[1], which basically assumes any device may be compromised at any given moment. I'm not intimately familiar with their implementation but it seems designed to make precisely situations like this less dramatic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_security_model

[1] https://beyondcorp.com
People from outside Google freak out about this because at their company, in 99.9% of companies, running code on an engineer's workstation would immediately be the highest possible level of breach. Said process could silently insert code into repos, corrupt the build environment, replace packages in production, or whatever. If you never worked at a company that took it seriously it is hard to imagine that there are people who do take it seriously, and that it is possible to have technical defenses against committing unreviewed and unapproved code, poisoning the official build toolchain, or surreptitiously changing production software images.
Also nobody has thought about what the implementation will mean. I was 12 when COPPA went into effect and all the companies just deleted all my accounts: Email account, hosting, chat accounts, etc. It was easier than dealing with the logistics of getting parental permission (which I could have gotten, I started programming when I was 5 and both my parents were hacker types; I was supervised just fine). Which is that they're going to take the easy way out and a lot of people are going to get hit in the crossfire.

Also interesting that 'think of the children' always only means the stupid, unsupervised children. Children growing up with technologically literate adults who can actually parent and whose parents might want them to be exposed to things can just screw off, we guess. So can those parents' rights. "Well, we don't know how to do it, so you're not allowed to raise your children this way/let them use these things."
Can you describe what is wrong with the person behind? I can clearly see the hands issue and even I can see a strange hair on another person near her left ear. But the person behind seems correct to me.
What are the main obstacles they need to be overcome to make this a reality?
Ironic considering your comment.
Parent post doesn't distinguish between those. It just annoys to see people always talking about governmental or corporate bureaucracy but when it comes to intelligence agencies suddenly it's like they're immune to it and become perfect panopticons of information gathering and analysis.
The web browser session must be authenticated. You can't just log on to your Googler machine and begin using the internal network with your browser. Gnubby must be satisfied.
Oh, I see, thanks for clarifying. The 10-year time jump forward in the opening, that I notice upon rereading, is confusing; I read the opening as all occurring contiguously. The confusing thing isn't the jump backward in the middle, that's clearly a flashback interlude; it's that A. the opening isn't contiguous but contains a 10-year jump, and B. when we return to the Freeman case, we've returned to it at a point behind where we left off, rather than continuing from there.
That's one reason I refuse to consider low-code environments that don't have a well-modularized and standard-following escape hatch to an actual program language.

As soon as you start writing custom modules, it should always be in a general-purpose programming language.
It ranges from much smaller to much larger than mitochondrial genomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrachromosomal_circular_DNA

> Extrachromosomal circular DNA is derived from chromosomal DNA, can range in size from 50 base pairs to several mega-base pairs in length, and can encode regulatory elements and full-length genes. eccDNA has been observed in various eukaryotic species[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and it is proposed to be a byproduct of programmed DNA recombination events, such as V(D)J recombination.

There are basically two ways to keep DNA from degrading in the cell: protect the ends with special proteins or DNA structures, or make it so that there are no ends to protect by having the DNA be circular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_chromosome

> Linear chromosomes are not limited to eukaryotic organisms; some prokaryotic organisms have linear chromosomes as well.

> a good number of eukaryotic species do harbor linear mtDNA <mitochondrial DNA>, some even broken into multiple molecules
It's 6 to 20 years. Not "only 6".

And that is, "simple" murder.
I agree with most of this post, but "Apple requires a Mac. It would be trivial to release an app builder that ran on the phone, but they don't. Apple even outright forbids such apps, or any kind of interpreted environment." isn't actually correct. They have a first-party app called Swift Playgrounds that lets you write apps on iPads, and other interpreters are allowed (Pythonista, Scriptable, iSH)

But yeah, native GUI dev is a mess. I wrote webapps all the time when I was in school though. Programming on a phone is kinda a pain because of the small keyboard and lack of browser devtools but it's definitely doable.
I appreciate that the author is using very specific meaning for the term “magical thinking”, but even with this, I am uncomfortable with the assertion that somehow understanding emergence has anything to do with magic or magical thinking, as (re)defined in the article.

Anyone who spends enough time studying biochem will have an intuitive understanding / acceptance that biology emerges from chemistry, which emerges from physics… But there’s not really any “magical thinking” (as defined in the article) involved.

Emergence of cognitive processes and experiences in the brain is not really any different in this respect. If anything, it’s people who insist that human experiences are “special” and “just different, obviously” that are doing the magical thinking.
Lofi air traffic control – LAX
As it seems by getting rid of all the industry.
> It lures users to download the software, run it, ignore the OS warning that the code isn’t signed, and then enter their password.

Warnings like this are useless when they bundle genuinely dodgy software along with software from legitimate companies I already trust and know. Those messages means nothing to me, and I ignore them, because they're warning me about something I already know "You're trying to run software you downloaded" — yeah, thanks.

> Make it impossible for user code to read the entire keychain

What I've always found kind of bonkers, is that MacOS allows any command to read the entire contents of your keychain (yes, with all your passwords). No auth, no checks, just full access via the `security` command.

> Containerize macOS more, making it impossible for user programs to access files written by other programs, in the way things work on iOS?

Maybe? I don't know if that's the right direction (it definitely isn't for me, and I'd jump ship), but perhaps that's the best thing for most people?
Community servers where the gamers are also the admins is the 'traditional' fix.

Matchmaking killed off that option, so we're left with controlling technical solutions like kernel code and relinquishing the client-side benefits entirely in favour of cloud gaming.

Honestly, I have no idea why people think Anti-cheat can work anymore than you can stop 0days or secure a bank account. Computers were fundamentally designed to be open machines that accept input on every possible level. We've locked ourselves into chasing a horse that's already bolted. Trying to secure the multi-headed hydra.

The day anti-cheat is possible, is the same day you end piracy, kill the cybersecurity industry and shut down 'unauthorized' code of any kind.

Do we really want that? Better to make cheater-policing the job of gamers themselves, with community servers and better tools.
Can you tell us more? What is the amount?