skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first links cite Veterans Affairs studies. VA patients differ in many ways from other populations and in particular skew OLD. Median age of all Americans is 38.1yo. "The median age of veterans in 2018 was 65".

What immediately jumped out at me from the third link was:

"Median age was 64.5 years, 40% were Black, and 39% were female. 83% smoked within the prior year, 61% were overweight/obese, 83% had immune compromising conditions, and 96% had ≥2 comorbidities."

Observational studies of specific elderly and otherwise at risk populations are unlikely to generalize well to the rest of us.

There's also the issue of separating correlation/causation. Maybe frail people at high risk in general for complications are more likely to be infected multiple times rather than it running the other way.

Your highly pessimistic perspective is at odds with what most of the rest us are observing and this quick glance at your sources gives me some suspicions why.
Or Kodak inventing the digital camera and deciding to shelve it because they couldn't figure out how to sell film for it.
I repeat: I'm NOT discussing the relative merits of the Chinese/Saudi regimes- I'm using the Saudis as a very recent example of how US foreign policy is clearly NOT primarily motivated by "spreading democratic values".

You have so far neither addressed any of my actual points nor have you tried to make arguments in favor of your view.

What are your precedents that give you such confidence that US foreign policy is primarily aimed at spreading democratic values instead of furthering US interests first and foremost?
Ah, of course, lol.
There's something I don't understand. They're saying that two of the hex files were unreadable, due them either gibberish or being encrypted. But then they say he showed that this wasn't packet data. Was there something in the rules about these files being translatable to rtf? I don't understand how you can prove this isn't packet data if you can't even read the file.
How did they patch all the illegal stuff ChatGPT said at release?
Yes. HN will try to tell you otherwise.
I dont know what you mean by having no opportunity to change anything. There are several full stacks of rockets constructed and waiting to fly. They'll likely take what they learned on this flight and perform some upgrades to those boosters while they're refurbishing the ground equipment. That particular rocket might be gone, but there are several newer ones waiting to go!
Ask ChatGPT to create one.
> This is addressed towards the end of the post. PyPI intends to support other publishers in the future.

By dressing them down publicly for not supporting an obscure API.
I think this is exactly right, and explains why staunchly middle-income suburbs around San Francisco are filled with luxury cars. An $80k car feels relatively cheap when your mortgage is $1.5mm.
I am kind of in love with the Pickman electric mini-truck https://electrek.co/2021/01/23/alibaba-electric-vehicle-of-t...
but the import and shipping fees just make it too expensive to think about
This looks interesting, but not particularly well marketed. Probably close to $4K configured to do basic RF work but I found it interesting. I am a bit surprised it doesn't have a basic FPGA + ADC/DAC module that could provide transceiver functions. (it may, it could just be the sparse descriptions)

I have been noodling on the idea of a "modular" amateur radio and this popped up on my research on whether or not there was something out there already doing that.
Sniffagram tells me "Instagram account not found, private account or token expired" on every account I try.
Yea I'm not surprised.
That implies a lookup table requires me to provide a citation :) In fact, assuming space is not discrete, not only can a neuron be in any of infinite states, per quantum mechanics it can be in multiple at the same time.
Those are interesting cases. A similar but more ubiquitous strangeness is somatic mosaicism, specifically in the brain where it seems that "no two neurons are genetically alike."

I was in line for the Terminator ride at Universal Studios when I stumbled onto this article a few years back. Couldn't stop thinking about it the rest of the trip.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-surpri...
“The idea is something that 10 years ago would have been science fiction,” says biochemist James Eberwine of the University of Pennsylvania. “We were taught that every cell has the same DNA, but that’s not true.”

Edit:

Reading into this more again for the first time in a while. I'm amazed at how large some of these differences are. Many having 1 million base pair copy number variants.

"Single cell sequencing of endogenous human frontal cortex neurons revealed that 13%-41% of neurons have at least one megabase-scale de novo CNV, that deletions are twice as common as duplications, and that a subset of neurons have highly aberrant genomes marked by multiple alterations."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975283/

Couple this with...

"Megabase-scale copy number variants (CNVs) can have profound phenotypic consequences. Germline CNVs of this magnitude are associated with disease and experience negative selection. However, it is unknown whether organismal function requires that every cell maintain a balanced genome. It is possible that large somatic CNVs are tolerated or even positively selected."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772019/

I can't imagine our brains are just accumulating mutations of this size for no reason.

My favorite theory so far is that it has to do with memory indexing.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2020.0037...
I would love to have a script that downloads specified friends stories so that I don't have to log into Instagram every 24 hours to avoid missing what my friends are up to.
Short examples but they look smooth. Flutter scares me as a really difficult challenge for the web, being post-Html & without user-agency, but I do think it'll be a kick in the rear to push folks to get better at actual webdev graphics & animation.
Authoritarianism is ok as long as it's only detrimental to people I don't like. Being vaccinated was a sad choice for many. These are real people whose lives have been ruined by an industry who's most important mantra is "do no harm".

https://twitter.com/MikeOMara
This account is actually pretty gut wrenching.
I meant dopamine, but I'm happy to throw seratonin in there, too, since it seems so related to depression.

Fwiw, MDMA affects 3 neurotransmitters: serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.

Having a low dopamine baseline can also be really bad tho! Hard to get motivated...
I feel like you danced around the wild success of the Saturn V a bit.
This is terrible advice. Great that it has worked for the author but it does not mean it's a good idea for everyone. 2 weeks is the standard and as long as you give that you maintain good relations. Most people are not as valuable or important as they like to think they are. I have seen very important people leave / fired and things still go on. (Twitter is still working - isn't it?) Once you tell that you are leaving, everybody's attitude towards you changes. You want to minimize that awkward period. There's nothing to be gained by staying longer than 2 weeks. If you have stock vesting, wait until stock vests before giving 2 weeks notice.
There are "tricks" in expensive cities to look for as much nation-wide pricing as possible

Amazon and Walmart online, Whole Foods and Trader Joes in person. Doctors and drugs who are in-network for insurance would be the same cost anywhere in the US

It really is mostly childcare and housing that really kills you in the expensive cities
if you can, please use non-studded winter tires. they are much better to the roads, and typically have very good winter traction (just change them out for summer).
France: Food delivery gig workers set to get minimum wage
read the conversation thread on https://gitlab.digilol.net/Siren/vgtu-article/-/blob/master/....
I really like the cut of those new Santa Cruz. Every time I see one I'm like "yeah, that's the stuff"
> You can import new tiny cars and drive them all you want on a farm or private grounds, you just can’t take them on roads if they don’t meat road safety standards.

If they don't pass emissions, they cannot be legally imported. It doesn't matter whether you want to use them on private property; that private property is still within the US, and subject to EPA regs.

People think the same thing about not having to register their snowmobile, ATV or whatever if they're hooning around on their farm or private property. Nope. State environmental cops will happily step onto your property, chase you down, and cite you.
It's value-judgement free if they had no hand in crafting or maintaining the loophole, but undermining popular policy with a loophole is a very common strategy for dodging regulation. If that's the case here then they aren't simply honest corporations just trying to sail the sea of incentives, they are more like a schoolyard bully who has grabbed an environmental cause by the hand and is doing the "why are you punching yourself?" maneuver.
In no states do we hit the Irish rates on your marginal dollar for someone whose taxable income is say € 75000. ( = $82000 )
In Ireland your next euro would be taxed at 52% but in say, NYC which may have the highest burden since it has a rare local income tax:

Using single figures, married is different:

Federal tax -> falls into the 22% bracket (covers taxable income $41,776 to $89,075)

State tax -> 6.25% bracket

Local tax -> 3.819% bracket

Obviously we have the same marginal system you do, so I'm only talking about how much of your "next dollar" is taxed but that adds up to just over 32%.

On the other hand, health insurance. One guess from Google says "a Silver tier plan in New York costs $710 monthly" so using that 710 x 12 = 8,520 a year, or about 10% of your income (note: since we deduct health premiums off your income, it would actually effectively reduce your taxable income and rejigger those tax brackets). And our property tax can be staggering in high-cost areas, and is obviously passed on even to renters. Mine is in the neighborhood of $8,500 a year.

Also does Ireland have a "standard deduction"? This is just an amount that everybody gets to subtract before even using the brackets to compute, so our brackets don't really start taxing at dollar #1 like they appear to.

Anyway, it's all ridiculous, I know! But yeah, it looks like your "€75000 earner" isn't all that disadvantaged compared to here. Your €200000 earner definitely is, though! :D

Sources:
* https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-...

* https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/new-york-state-tax

* https://propertyclub.nyc/article/new-york-city-income-tax#ny...
"receive keyboard events" or "draw pixels on screen" are not properties that arbitrary turing machine has. So it is meaningful to distinguish systems that have those properties (and/or others) from systems that do not.

Paradoxically computation is actually just small part of what computers do.
I believe okta can integrate with payroll systems - new employee immediately gets access to all accounts. Not sure if Google can do this.
This fails to take into account many mitigating factors and is too pessimistic:

1. For a person living alone modestly, $300k even in the Bay Area is more than enough to put away a decent chunk of money for retirement. Just run the numbers.

2. Pundits also vastly overestimate taxes, which are low in the US. The top tax rate is for anything above 400k, so the amount you pay is way lower if you make $300k/year.

3. High cost of living areas have more amenities overall which may not be factored into calculations. Things like walkability, so you don't have to pay for car, car insurance, gas, etc.

4. More public services, another amenity . more convinence. like better schools, better public transportation, nicer neighborhoods (this may be subjective).

5. Expensive mortgage is not like pissing the money away--you are building home equity.
You can imagine a chain of GPTs, good chatGPT monitors your instruction and refuses to pass it to regular chatGPT. if your prompt does get passed in and generates an offensive content, monitor chatGPT will monitor to see if output said something bad and then refuse to return the result and apologize.
One of the scariest things I’ve ever heard about WWII

I kid!
What is cExtractor anyway? I'm not able to find anything that fits. Just https://github.com/JustCallMeSimon26/CExtractor
This is hacker news, AlphaFold doesn’t have an app, some obscure GitHub repo, a hyped up website or a bunch of VC backing, so it’s basically a waste of time.
YouTube I pay for because I watch it a lot.

Hulu used to have a ton of NBC procedurals and now it has less but I have some Disney bundle.

I recommend privacy.com for all these services in case they jack up their prices.
To me, you've described a situation that's infinitely more a feature than a bug.

They don't pay me, so I don't care about their profits, but the stuff they've more-or-less given away and people don't think much about is their best stuff. Colab, Docs, Scholar, etc...
> it's really hard to make self-serve work for business users

Mostly because they cannot be bothered (what else are we paying you devs for?), not because it’s actually hard for them to learn I think.
You can do so much with pure css. Using checkboxes elements to toggle menus comes to mind as one of the lowest hanging fruits. Also detail elements are great.
As someone who works in tech in Silicon Valley but who doesn't make FAANG-level salaries and who doesn't earn RSUs, it's enough for a single person with no dependents to live a comfortable upper-middle class lifestyle provided that the person doesn't have significant amounts of debt. I'm able to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the Santa Cruz area without roommates, make student loan payments, drive a new car, go to Japan once or twice per year, buy a new computer once every other year, make a few domestic trips on the West Coast annually to see friends, eat out occasionally, and still have enough money leftover for savings, both for immediate needs (six-month emergency fund, down payment on a house) and for retirement. It's not bad, though the pandemic-era inflation is quite noticeable and it hurts to see my paycheck not grow as fast as the price of food, services, and housing.

However, I'm 34 years old and I'd like to get married and have children one day. Having grown up in a low-income household, I want to be able to provide a middle-class standard of living for my future family. I want my children to have good educational opportunities and live in a safe neighborhood. However, these things are not cheap in America, and in Silicon Valley these things are very expensive, generally requiring the income level of two highly-paid professionals in order to afford purchasing a home in a safe neighborhood with good public schools. Private schools are also very expensive. I don't see a path toward home ownership in Silicon Valley unless I win the lottery (either something like the Powerball or I win "the startup lottery"), and so I see two potential alternatives: (1) continue to rent in/near Silicon Valley while exploring homeownership opportunities elsewhere (which is still expensive, but renting in Silicon Valley is much cheaper than paying mortgages on comparable properties), or (2) leave Silicon Valley and base my career somewhere else where home prices are cheaper, either taking advantage of remote work opportunities or starting my own business.
Well, I'm ok with Google having this "problem". Hopefully, they will produce a couple more of useful things, until it somehow kills Google or whatever.
Something is odd to me about the amount of training data needed.

It seems as if animals and humans can learn on far less training data and on a much dirtier and noisier data set. The data an animal or a human trains on has not been curated to remove misleading data or noise.

It seems that one can produce models with amazing capabilities by training them on vast curated data sets, but I get the sense real brains still have a lot of tricks that we don’t understand.
A sad story, but it looks like the "Why they didn't cure cancer?" comments each time we had the sad news of another person that died to cancer. For cancer the best explanation I found is https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162 There is a tradeoff, how to kill the cancer without killing the person, and it's hard.

My guess is that for transplants it's possible to make a similar sad comic. There are just too many small problems to solve, and solving each one gives only an improvement of 1%. One tradeoff is to select an organ that is as compatible as possible with the recipient, but you can wait forever until there is a perfect match. Another tradeoff is how much immunosuppressant to give, too few and the organ is rejected, too much and other illness kill the recipient. There are probably a few more...

> And for the patients who have called me or written from their post-transplant deathbeds, dismayed, “I did my best, I took every pill, every day. …”

I blame medic miscommunication here. Even if you follow each step 100% you still don't get a 100% success long term. Sometimes medic like to give the optimistic happy path, and don't explain the hard parts. My recommendation is to ask random questions about bad outcomes, they sometimes try to explain that it's not so bad and the explanation has some info about the unhappy path.

> Indeed, the prevailing metric for success as codified by the Health Resources and Services Administration is only one year of post-transplant survival, which relieves pressure for improvement.

I doubt everyone is happy with the 1 year survival rate statistic. For example I found this: "Recent advances in heart transplantation" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039932/

> Perhaps this is why life expectancy after heart transplantation is little changed compared to when I received a heart in 1988.

Is this correct? Here I found some current numbers https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_can_you_live_after_a_he... Is it possible to find the numbers from 1988? There is a similar problem with cancer, because life expectancy has increased, but the change is not visible enough.
It makes sense though. Huge, competing tech companies means higher stakes due to winner-take-all markets, moats, and network effects, hence paying top dollar for talent to get products out fast and prevent competitors from hiring said talent or getting products out sooner. Given how profitable at least some of these companies are, paying top dollar is not a problem.
All around the western world, money printing to prop up the house price bubble is finally reaching breaking point, with housing costs completely decoupling from fundamentals, and inflation breaching the banks and flooding into consumer pricing.
US Dept of Energy Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge
You can see the vapor ghosting off it when they call MaxQ which is a visual confirmation. I assume people could hear it on the ground too unless it's too high?
If it’s about standards, how come 25+ year old cars are ok?
The tweet you linked was from an outage that lasted 30 minutes, it's pretty disingenuous of you to try and pass that off as status quo.

I do agree however that the labeling has gotten less prominent over time. I don't however agree that it has become subtle enough to considered indistinguishable from search results.
Instagram bot detection works well, too well for tools like these. They'll work for a short while, especially if you only use it yourself, but the API will quickly lie to you ("account does note exist") once they think you're a bot.

Your online demo already shows 404s for accounts I know exist.

I think the only way to get stable access to the API is to take over a device running the official app. I've been considering looking into running Android apps headlessly with Frida hooks for this purpose (should be possible on Linux through Anbox?) exactly because of the annoying not detection frameworks.

All I want is to show the stupid pictures a friend or family member linked me without having to hand over my data to these leeches. I guess that's exactly what their business model is all about, though.
If you want to put it terms of animals, maybe a session is an organism but the model is the DNA. We don’t “learn” from scratch, we have a model that develops our brain and processing centers and wires them to be able to learn from scarce data. This is somewhat what a session is like.
People won’t intentionally sell their house for less than they paid. They also won’t sell to incur mortgage debt. The sellers are likely distressed sales or other forced sales. Foreclosures are cheap for reasons.
Census GPT, GPT to generate SQL to query census data
> Meanwhile, in Houston, an employee only needs to gross about $125,000 to achieve the same purchasing power as someone making $312,000 in New York. A six-figure paycheck is much easier to achieve in Texas, according to SmartAsset’s analysis, since the cost of living in many Lone Star State cities is lower than the national average and residents don’t pay a state income tax. In cities like El Paso, Corpus Christi and Lubbock, salaries can be as low as $122,000 and still feel like a true $100,000.

The real reason people have been moving to these places.

There's no way to solve the problem. Unless you love living in those places, you can do much better for your future by leaving ,especially in this era of more acceptance of remote work.
> Elon was setting expectations a couple days ago when he said "Let's just not explode on the launch pad"

That seems like such a low bar? One wonders if the engineers/management at SpaceX cringed when he said that.
It’s almost all real estate cost.

I’ve lived in very expensive cities (Boston, Los Angeles) and now live in a moderately priced one (Cincinnati) and most things cost about the same except real estate. Gas (which I don’t use as I have an EV) is a bit more in California due to taxes but food, clothing, services, gadgets, utilities, etc are almost the same.

If I were a 20-something today I’d stay away from high cost cities. Real estate eats everything. I might consider living in such places for a little while to build network but would bug out after maybe two years. For example I’d say if you live in SF/SV and are approaching 30 and making under 300k you should leave.
Source code: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f3413564b1fa9c69f2bad4b040...

Source code for the platform: https://github.com/copy/life
Mike Jordan on current AI research
Curious for HN's thoughts on this.

Jordan has been working in AI/ML for a while, and is well-known in the field [1].

He summarizes his perspective in the first 5ish minutes. I wonder what you all make of it.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yxUduqMAAAAJ&hl=en...
No, even when the files are processed through cExtractor, the resulting data would not be considered "election data". The arbitration ruling looks sound to me.

> One of the contest judges testified that the binary data would yield a spreadsheet similar to the other one analyzed during the contest. But "without column headings, we have already concluded that such a spreadsheet does not meet the definition of election data," the panel wrote.
Apparently, Google employees were asked to test Bard pre-release, but their feedback was mostly ignored by managers intent on launching Bard as quickly as possible. Bloomberg obtained copies of pre-launch discussions in which internal testers describe Bard as "cringe-worthy" and "a pathological liar." One employee wrote a post titled, "Bard is worse than useless: please do not launch." Google launched it anyway a few weeks later.
They are starting to execute BAAs so for health care data they are taking it pretty serious