skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words
in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.
A great many of the current problems on the [thing] were caused by government-imposed
embargoes and inflation, not to mention government's long history of conflicting
and haphazard policies. Our ultimate goal, of course, is economic independence for
[thing], and through steps like the tax reform bill, we seek to return [thing]ing
to real [thing]ers. But until we make that transition, the Government must act
compassionately and responsibly. In order to see [thing]ers through these tough times,
our administration has committed record amounts of assistance, spending more in this
year alone than any previous administration spent during its entire tenure. No area
of the budget, including defense, has grown as fast as our support for [thing].

- President Ronald Reagan[1], 1986

Sometimes it is appropriate to invest vast sums of public funds into unproven technologies and ideas. The pandemic seems to be a textbook example of where we can reasonably expect our federal government to act swiftly and decisively, for the greater good.

That does not mean we should simply shrug our shoulders when, in hindsight, it becomes obvious a lot of misfeasance occurred during this unprecedented time. Billions of dollars were thrown around everywhere with very little oversight. It may be decades before we fully understand where all the money went, and most would likely be shocked to discover pandemic-fighting funds were used to prop up pet projects and ideological programs instead. Funds pitched to the public as destined to fight the pandemic were instead used for anything but - and collectively, red or blue, we are all suffering the consequences of those poor, often obfuscated decisions.

We should scrutinize the relationships these farma companies had with the federal government before, during and after the pandemic. They mostly received a blank check for the government to "solve" the pandemic, and it's debatable if that is what really unfolded.

[1] https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/presidents-new...
what news outlets do you read?
- People with LC usually have normal everything. Blood work, EKG, spirometery, sleep study, whatever. Everything comes back fine.

Not everything.[1][2][3] Brain damage is showing up in MRI scans.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

[2] https://neurosciencenews.com/post-covid-brain-21904/

[3] https://nnn.ng/study-finds-altered-brain-function-in-long-co...
No I haven't, I was using sarcasm, to indicate that I think the CEO is straight up lying about the anecdote and it's just something he is using as cover for the policy change.
> Textbook example of whataboutism.

No.

Whataboutism would if we were arguing about "China bad" and I pointed out "Saudis worse".

But we're not. My point is that "protecting democratic values" is quite obviously NOT the prime motivation for US foreign policy-- this can be seen VERY clearly where US interests conflict with "protection of democratic values".

The Saudis are just a very obvious recent example, but there are countless others-- like the coup against the democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, or the whole Snowden affair (spying on fully democratic allies, but also showing that even internal democratic concerns--constitutional rights + governmental agency accountability-- are secondary to national interests).

The whole Snowden thing would have been an excellent opportunity to build credibility in this regard, to reassure citizens and allies alike, by simply admitting: "We did questionable, undemocratic things, but we're gonna fix it!", start by throwing James Clapper into prison for a few years, dissolve the Guantanamo bay concentration camp, and reinforce your citizens constitutional rights to not get spied on by your own government. But alas...

/rant
Study finds new pathway for clearing misfolded proteins
nelsoch (OP), please don't be offended by what I am about to say, I don't intent to offend you. I am just sharing a valuable advice I received for everyone in this boat.

When I was at my first job, I too went way beyond my scope of job descriptions and did many things. Everyone appriciated me and I felt I was a vital part of the company. That is when my new manager gave this advice. Though that the time, I was annoyed by him and felt he was a pain in the ass. I was too young and stupid to understand what he was telling, so he just forced me to comply. Which, in the end, helped me a lot.

I had to fill an excel sheet of all the things I did and forward to my supervisor. I only filled what was my job and didn't put in the extra things. The manager asked why I was not informing the company of what I was actually doing in the company. The manager said that I was not giving enough focus on the work I was hired to do and doing other things. Though, my supervisor was very happy with my job.

Then I started begrudgingly (curing my manager) filling everything I did in the company. Again I was called by the manager for not fully reporting what I was doing. When I showed, that filled everything. It turned out my supervisor was deleting the extra stuff I was putting in. That is when I realized that my supervisor was just praising me. But didn't report this to the manager.

So, I just stopped doing other things and just did my work and avoided anything that was beyond my description. Then I started getting official email asking me to do extra things and started getting "certificate of appreciation". That lead me to getting extra pay and bonus. My increments were also higher, and I got promoted too.

Then, when I moved to other companies, I just stuck to my job description and didn't do anything more. I set the tone from my interview. Whenever I was asked to do anything extra, I always bargained for what I was going to get for the extra work. I made sure that extra expenses (like petrol,road toll & parking charges for travel) were compensated, and I got extra time off.

Basically, I understood that only when the company was paying for my extra services, did they appreciate it.

Management always value you based on how much they are paying you for your services. They are not going to asking around and see how much you contribute.
Yes, high mortgage rates should temper demand somewhat, all else equal. But the effect may not be as large as you might expect given the increasing prevalence of all-cash buyers.

Unfortunately, high mortgage rates also work to reduce supply. A lot of homeowners who locked in 3-ish% mortgage rates in the last couple years don't want to move unless absolutely necessary, because that would mean refinancing at a higher rate.

Looking for a home is stressful, but keep saving and be patient. I wish you good luck.
It's a shame that the Star Trek franchise is now completely void of philosophical explorations.
Do you have some examples on what granular controls are provided with Okta but missing with Google?
Hasn't changed a thing in Portland, Ore. Two friends looking for houses still getting out bid by multiple 10k's. Feel bad for 'em hope it changes soon.
A billion here and a billion there. Before long you are talking about real money. Rarely are government budgets based in reality.

Someone talks Congress into giving them X dollars to solve problem Y because many people think Y is a problem and want it solved. Instead they spend 3X dollars and only a tiny portion of it goes towards solving Y while the bulk of it goes into Z instead. Sometimes Z was the point all along and they were purposely deceiving us. Sometimes Z takes over because the people running the program decide that Z just became more important (to them at least).
>Why do you think we have more knowledge of the long-tail probability of the Shuttle than F9?

Because the nature of the two programs was fundamentally different. The Shuttle was a product contract, while CCP is a service contract. On the former, the govt has much more control, and will detail more rigorous acceptance criteria. This generally gives a much higher pedigree on quality control. On the latter, they take a much more hands off approach and have limited insight.

As an analogy, imagine you are making a big bet on acquiring a software company. One company gives you their source code, shows you all their most recent static analysis, unit test results, allows you to interview their programmers etc. The other company allows you none of that, but gives you a chance to play around on their website to see for yourself. Both systems seem to work when you try the end product, but which do you have higher confidence in?

At the end of the day, "reliability" is just a measure of how much confidence we have that a product will do what we ask of it, when we ask.
Assuming that this photo

https://twitter.com/LabPadre/status/1649062784167030785

is real, I guess not. What used to be in that crater couldn't just move sideways, it had to go up to get out of the hole. Engine exhaust hit the center of the crater, dislodged rocks, pushed them away radially and up the sides of the hole.

Four of the six engines later seen to have gone dark were in the outer ring. Coincidence?
Absolutely. You could also sub in Microsoft, looking at the internet in 2002 and asking, "how could this make Windows desktop better"?
How it was done with Firefox:

"Orthogonally to that, I had userContent/Chrome.css opened in the sidebar and on every key up I unregister and loadAndRegisterSheet with it :) (the styles were applied live to documents or browser when the sidebar was open and saved on unload)." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33924565
They might have to add a great grandfather clause
Yep! Who doesn't love a bit of gamification?
Anybody knows a link between stem cell maturation and emotional shock ? a good 10% of my hair became white after some event. I'm very surprised about the overnight change and the fact that they're not replaced.
It'll get a lot of people off the internet, and wreck the lives of those who stay addicted.
The politics is embedded in the technology, you can look to the original bitcoin paper or the genesis block contents.
> It's tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4.

You are comparing an organization to a DNN model? It would be tough for anybody.
Think about it a bit more clearly. Douyin in china might be entirely different than the douyin you see when you check it out with a western ip.

By checking douyin.com from my device, my ip and my advertising fingerprint, I cannot have any clue how douyin behaves if I download it from a chinese phone, in china.
No, there aren't. Sound is a classical wave, not a quantum wave, unlike light.

Also, crucially, space isn't quantized, and sound represents the variation of some particles' position in space, so its frequency and so on can take any value - again unlike the EM field.
Seems like a lazy way of saying, “anyone I identify as serving someone or some cause I don’t like.”
I agree and wouldn't want to have it in an antiseptic clinical environment either, but not everyone has access to good mates and a sound system, and they should be able to benefit as well. So I'm fine with clinical treatments being available.
Curious case of Martian network traffic in Linux
Yoo this killed me :D
How about we encourage deescalation and negotiations instead
This is not a typical VC based company. According the HN crowd this is the one company who can execute on AI and challenge Google and all other trillion dollar AI labs. In my opinion they themselves are aware of the fact they are one trick pony. Given how astute a VC SamAltman is, if there was any thing remotely innovative and defensible about the product they would have never done that.
Well the problem here is that the front didn't fall off.
How dare people be proud of other countries than the birthplace of the Glorius Leader.
brainchain.ai

General idea is gaining insights into supply chains using LLMs and other machine learning models for specific applications.
But as far as that specific trial - not anymore. Fogerty vs. Fantasy becomes case law, and so any future cases with substantively similar facts are going to be ruled the same way. That's how the law works.
> Again. Missing big fat disclaimer. "Correlation does not imply causation". It is wrong to jump from "Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances" to "Obesogenic PFASs may cause weight gain and thus contribute to the obesity pandemic".

That's correct, but it's interesting to ask: what should public policy be in light of these findings?
Also known as "normal job security" to anyone living in the real world.
>It is sadly perfectly legal afaik.

No it isn't.
You can use the cell towers to assist in mapping it correctly too as they are fixed position and the location is well known. Pretty sure the QCOM patents on it are out of patent by now. Not sure if the android/ios api will expose the whole list of towers the chip can see though. The chip can do it though.
Right but they probably had 10x farm hands and no yield contractual agreements.
Indeed, after long covid my wife showed heart damage too, though later scans showed noticeable improvements from her worst results.
This is a hilarious analogy because #1, I’m sure LeBron would say this publicly while drug companies pay millions of dollars to PR firms to lie about how much they profit from public research, #2 LeBron’s mom didn’t invent the techniques that made him a star player, while the publicly-funded research did this for MRNA vaccines:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jun-12-missions-to-venus-lea...
Nice seeing this little victory, but a big one for the students.

But to me is what M/S is doing with their WSL (and secure boot). They want to get to the point were Linux can only execute under Windows on new Laptops. The Companies that control Linux (yes, Linux is now pwned by corporate interests) do not care what really happens to Linux as long as Wall Street is happy.
Not trying to make this political, but BuzzFeed news was the first outlet to publish the Steele dossier, we know that didnt end well. Then the editor and Chief and the time left, for the NYT, wound up founding Semafor, took some money from SBF and failed to disclose it.

More here: https://www.axios.com/2021/11/14/steele-dossier-discredited-...
Maybe my comment is pointless because I'm not US american, but have you thought of, uh, fixing your feds? I mean, instead of either creating from scratch some ideal system or passing the hot potato to some privates which possibly have opposite interests?
Yes, I remember back in early 2019 when they announced the virus is all about you. How are you doing?
Probably not the actual cruise (30k+ feet at M0.7+), but definitely some of the nicer approaches and departures. Hand flying an airliner in cruise within the tiny strip of air it’s allowed to fly in (google Reduced vertical separation minima) is no fun.
I would venture to guess that a lot of HN readers pay for news from the various journalists on platforms like Substack.
Ancient necropolis unearthed next to busy Paris train station
Same government that pushed nutritional labeling. Where you can even know whether something does or doesn’t include grains.
I wonder whether all that debris was a factor in the engine failures?
Since covid was said to injure epithelial cells, I'm reading about glycocalix these days, a glycan layer on the edothelial apical surface (facing blood vessel inner space). When it's wiped it causes absorption problems, vascular issues.. could explain chronic fatigue.
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Figured it out, browser defaulted to http not https. Looks like the filters don't work on https.
Google is unsurprisingly more convenient if you're already using Google workspace.
On HN you can adore only Russia or China. Rest of the world is bad and unspiritual.
Macro’s classic pitfall – surprise – and how to make it your friend
Historically (perhaps prices have come down a lot in the last decade with the introduction of the L5 signal?) getting RTK corrections from a third party meant you only needed one $20,000 receiver, instead of two.
> "Only the type of rulers I like in other countries and in different times in the past are legitimate" is a silly notion.

"Some guys in fancy hats convinced some other guys in fancy hats that it was okay, so now all people for the rest of time are bound by that" is a much, much sillier notion.

If simply making a law is all that is required for legitimacy, then simply passing a law that says the monarch's property is forfeit is all that is required for it to be legitimate.
Impersonation is a bit different.

I wasn’t thinking about men with guns. I was referring to the current music copyright and royalty laws that are upheld by groups like RIAA.

You can legally sample another artists music, even without their permission or knowing. However, they have to be given credit, and everyone inline that was involved with the original song composition get a royalty.

An example of this was Jay-z’s 99 problems. Somewhere in the 90’s, Too Short mentioned to Ice T that “he had 99 problems, but a B wasn’t one”.. Ice T thought that was slick and wrote a song.

A couple years later, Rick Rubin and Jay-z borrowed that hook and put out a hit. Ice T said that he didn’t know they had recorded the song, and he only found out when he heard it on the radio. He said it was all cool though because he received writing credits, and royalty payments as a result.
100% disgree.

Consumers do not want a micropayment system built on the same idea of "shopping cart" where you have to click 100 times and enter a bunch of info to may a payment for 30 cents..

That is part of the problem, Visa and mastercard nor the banks want to make an easy friction free micropayment system because their systems are soooo terrible they could not stop the fraud, and they love the $0.30 per translation fee that makes them the bulk of their money.

The systemic issues finance systems prevents anyway from making a viable micropayment system
Phones and other devices with cellular radios still use differential GPS by way of the cell towers (which have known, fixed positions) to do those corrections. You can notice this because, when you don't have a cell signal, your phone is considerably slower to get a GPS lock and less accurate when it does. Presumably these farms are out in the middle of nowhere and so that's why they can't do the same thing and need a satellite-based augmentation instead.
Am I the only one who thinks this is Sundar screwing up big time? If there's only one AI team, and it fails, then you blame whoever is leading them. If there's multiple teams, and they all fail, there's only Sundar to blame.
So the history prompts are collections of text/audio pairs?
I, for one, appreciate a megacorp purposely sacrificing revenue when they're not confident that the negative externalities of that revenue would be minimized.

Google could have built a search engine where paid results were indistinguishable from organic results, but the negative externalities of that were too great.

Google could have remained in China, but the negative externalities of developing and managing a censorship engine were too great.

Google could have productized AI before the risks were controlled, but they sacrificed revenue and first-mover advantage to be more responsible, and to protect their reputation.

This behavior is so rare, it's hard to think of another megacorp that would do that.

Google's far from perfect, they've made ethical lapses, which their competitors love to yell and scream about, but their competitors wouldn't hold up well under the same scrutiny.
Typically these systems are broadcasting data obtained from many private regional reference stations on the ground. Look up “VRS RTK” as an example.
How ESG investing controversies can impact fossil fuels
Do you have the order of magnitude right at $700/day? That's not much at all.
And yet, $300M is only 1.25M subscribers at the current $20/mo rate. If we say that they need a $1B / year to be comfortably profitable, that's ~4.2M subscribers. A good rule of thumb is that you can hope to convert about 10% of your free user base to paid; one random source says they have 100M monthly active users - which at 10% conversion, is $2.4B / year. I think they'll be fine.
A mature aersopace company would have processes in place to check the material for these specs before use.

Would a "mature aerospace company" also know to not use O-rings outside the temperature range specified by its engineers? Or know to test whether foam traveling at high velocity would penetrate the TPS?

Look, this is hard stuff. It's very easy to tell when you screw up, but very difficult to tell how close you are to screwing up. You're deluding yourself if you think some entities are immune to screwing up just because they've been around.
Global EV Production: BYD Surpasses Tesla
The aircraft manufacturers offer multiple passenger configurations. It is the airline's fault if your trip is uncomfortable. The A380 has less pressure to squeeze everyone in because it already doesn't fly full much of the time.
You couldn't. You had to literally be there to get access. It was an in-person event with some people deemed to "be worthy enough" to get their hands on "the data".

I just hope that some kid got their college paid for, by selling this crap to Mike in the first place :D
I think many overlook the degree to which the housing market has been distorted by banks, private equity, and companies like AirBnB.

With a housing crisis in America, any decent, democratic government would have implemented regulatory changes to block or penalize purchases as financial instruments rather than homes.
Show HN: forth.news - A newsfeed for news
Hi HN --

I want to share a project I've been working on, especially given the loss of verification blue checks today on that other site.

We're journalists who were frustrated with how news works online. The vast majority of Americans -- and even more under 40 -- get at least some of their news from social, even if they say they don't trust social media. Further, local news is even harder to get in the hands of people who want it, because by definition it appeals to a more narrow audience.

Forth.news is a newsfeed that looks like social media -- you can sign up to follow individuals, topics, and organizations -- but the feed is exclusively populated by vetted journalists. We're definitely still ramping up our coverage, so there are some blind spots -- but the idea is that you can see what's happening in your area, and get news you can trust, free of spam, misinformation, or hate speech.

We have lots of stuff in the works -- including a mobile app, liking posts, etc -- but we're building as we go.

We'd love to hear any thoughts - founders (at) forth (dot) news.

(And if any journalists are reading this, please reach out to join -- https://journalists.forth.news)
Is this [1] the correct playlist for that episode? I never really got into DS9, was more of a STtNG and original Star Trek series fan.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8yCrMFYXyQ&list=PLxidGOcLnJ... [videos][playlist]
We should just let the market sort it out. If people don’t want to pay as much as a website needs to be run, they should just not use the website, it can go out of business if necessary, and space can be opened up for a more efficient service provider.

I mean we’re basically allowing for an information asymmetry here, right? Which messes with supply and demand. Economists should be pissed.
If the images go away when the user stops paying it doesn't solve the problem very well, though.

If I expect a typical image to be 1MB and get 10000 views, I could prepay 30 years of cloudflare R2 hosting with one penny. That's the kind of model I'd want when ads aren't an option. But it's really hard to build something around microtransactions like that.
Millions died from it globally. Your anecdote is not only irrelevant but also comes off as incredibly self-centered.
A history of BuzzFeed News, Part I: 2011–2017
The “BuzzFeed is the most important news organization in the world” era.