skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See Crypto AG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG) for a company in the cryptography / privacy industry that was owned by intelligence services.
They're talking about the B-cells and T-cells created by the injected mRNA vaccines, which are certainly more or less permanent, and always waiting to be activated on any future infection.

Those are what prevent severe disease, but they don't prevent infection.

The protection against severe disease from a 3-shot series of the mRNA vaccine is in all likelihood completely permanent.

For the nasal vaccines to fail to produce that cellular immunity would be a massive failure.

The short term durability of neutralizing antibodies seen with EVERY SARS-COV-2 VACCINE NOT JUST THE MRNA ONES is likely a feature of immunity to respiratory viruses. The "one series of shots to never contract the disease again in your lifetime" style of immunity probably doesn't exist for this virus. Certainly we don't know how to create one right now.
Professional-managerial class. Originally it was a term in Marxist and paleoconservative analysis to refer to an emerging class of workers who do not own the means of production (and hence are not "capital" per se) but have ended up de facto doing all the management of capital because of the distributed power and ownership structures endemic to modern society (and so are not quite the proletariat either). Colloquially (as the parent is using it) it is used derisively to refer to busybody white-collar workers who produce nothing of value and seem to exist only to further bureaucratic obstruction.
The first IBM POWER was also split over several chips (Wikipedia says up to 10! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER1#Physical_description)
Ada had a lot of companies that missed the boat on earlier languages seeing their opportunity to really get the monetization right this time. It helped that Ada was so complex that some rando in his basement couldn't write a good compiler for it like they could with C, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, LISP, etc... It was expensive to develop so it was expensive to purchase. Even better, such a huge compiler for a new language is doomed to be buggy, especially at first, so they can make even more money on expensive support contracts.

The only thing missing was a reason for programmers to switch to it. There were promises that the code would be safe, and that if it compiled it should just work, but the buggy nature of the compilers undercut these promises. Actually, it sounds a lot like Rust minus the buggy compiler part.

The idea that the defense contractors would drive the industry over-estimates just how much code they write. Sure it's millions of lines every year, but compared to worldwide C development it is a drop in the bucket.
The CCP is more than "a person".

The CCP is an adversarial government with a strong incentive to weaken the US.

Talking about the CCP as if it were just some people with different ideas is not a good faith argument.
> Reading from the reports you can see they considered a troubling amount of connection between the two but that is the benefit of 5+ years of investigation a hindsight

How is this not “collusion”? I didn’t follow the whole thing closely at all. This isn’t meant to be a political argument. I don’t trust either party.
You did 5 minutes of internet research, think you know what you're talking about, and now think I owe you something. I can't help you.
Could you have spun off the placement part of the business into a separate identity (which didn't bill itself as "adult") and kept the profits there?
Stumbling upon gwern.net in 2012 was life changing for me though
Difficulty and expense being a requirement for real journalism doesn’t mean that low-quality journalism can’t also be expensive.
"professional managerial class" which is basically interchangeable with "petite bourgeois" in a lot of contexts.
This is obvious to anyone who's changed the brakes on their car. Front brakes are massive compared to the rear.
I'd like to be presented with more information before a random website demands my phone number.
There's a lot you can do with the vectors themselves without needing to embed any more text (e.g., clustering, exploration, visualization after dimensionality reduction...etc). Here's a previous embeddings exploration of top HN posts: https://txt.cohere.com/combing-for-insight-in-10-000-hacker-... A lot of that code can be used here as well.

If you want to query for a search term, you can use a trial API key which is free to use for prototyping. The embedding model itself is not open source, though. [co-author of the post here]
If what you're saying is true, how come astronaut programs have many more applicants than they can take? People have other goals in life beyond economic incentives.

People volunteer for the military, and I don't think anyone's under any illusion this is risk free. The important thing is not lying to people about the risk involved.
> actual number of successes vs partial successes vs launch failures vs fatalities are the best data we have

Current vehicles are vastly different from the originals. What we’re trying to do is predict the probability of the next launch failing. Equally weighting far historicals and recents is bogus statistics.
Depends on which one. All the ones described in religious books seem to have very poor alignment, though.
That is what happens without liability, finally cybersecurity laws are fixing this.
My understanding is that pilots frequently fly parts of the cruise so that they have adequate "stick time" to stay fresh and familiar with the machine.
I don't know what you're considering "high powered", but hunting rifles actually tend to be on the larger caliber side of things. If you're shooting a large mammal, using something like a 22 is just unnecessary cruelty. You want a round that will kill as fast as possible, so .338 in, .30-06 or 7.62 mm are the calibers of choice. If you're talking about .50 BMG as "high powered", then lucky for you, "high powered" rifles are almost never used in crime. They're just too expensive. In the few cases that they were used, I can't find a case where the "high powered" nature of it was actually relevant.

And I have the exact opposite point of view with regard to HP rounds. If we're talking handguns, we're talking self defense, and in self defense situations, the only rounds you want are hollow point. Because they're designed to flatten out on impact, they go through a lot fewer walls, ceilings, and home invaders, making the shooter far less likely to accidentally over-penetrate into their family or neighbors. Using full metal jacket for home defense is putting everybody else at excessive risk.

Incendiary rounds are for fun, and little else. They look scary, but they don't really have any real effect.

This kind of illustrates one of the big issues with firearms discourse in the US: people who like having guns tend to know a lot about them, and take for granted that people have that same knowledge, neglecting the fact that there's a whole other group of people who know next to nothing about them. Then the people who know next to nothing about firearms propose gun legislation which is just baffling to anyone who knows anything about guns, like banning specific models of firearm, or certain ergonomic features, or banning silencers/suppressors (this isn't Goldeneye, they just make it less hearing damagingly loud to shoot).
With hindsight, we can now actually conclue that it was in fact, over the top. They claimed that buildingds would be destroyed and neighboring communites would be scarred for life.
How to Train a Defect Detection Model Using Synthetic Data
Punctuation in literature of major languages is intriguingly mathematical
Being able to produce research is a very different skill from being able to produce a very successful product. We have not seen google do that very successfully for over a decade.
I “unwillingly” have to share the road with people who murder 40,000 people a year with their vehicles. Thankfully we are developing the technology to get these reckless maniacs out of the driver’s seat.
Are you implying that inventing something is the same as being able to bring it to market?
Right. The criteria for this test was "Failure = CATO (catastrophic at takeoff)". It took off, it didn't CATO, it even hit max Q, therefore success. That's not "partial success". That's 100% success, you won the game show, but you didn't get all the points in the sudden death bonus round.
OFX. Horrible that it is so hard. Guess they all want you to use Mint. I don't want that. I just want to run an application on my machine which periodically fetches the data.

If I want it in the cloud I'll run my own instance. But I don't want a third party controlling all of that data.
> clearly the engines have not arrived.

I think Raptor2 as an engine has definitely arrived. Igniting and running this many at the same time has some work remaining however.
‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Crafted One of Its More Controversial Episodes
"After BuzzFeed News and ICIJ published a joint investigation, officials across the globe began taking action to finally thwart illicit financial activity and the criminals who move money through Western banks." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/fincen-files

"Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/insuranc...

"A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-...

"Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/secret-n...

"A Chicago Cop Is Accused Of Framing 51 People For Murder. Now, The Fight For Justice." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/detective...

"WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wid...
I feel like I'm in this group, and although the jury is still out, my personal anecdata makes me think it's one of two things.

(1) The virus is possibly hiding in the body creating these little reservoirs that allow it to persist.

(2) Some people are likely just more susceptible to damage caused by the inflammation or whatever in the system and just take longer to recover.

I have a feeling that it's likely a combination of both of these.
I'm not saying anything other than you're misapplying statistics when the number of samples is too small to have any degree of confidence.

> you're not saying that the spike protein was exceptionally dangerous are you?

You're going way overboard with this.
> I have a slight bias against journalism because I've personally been effected by a twisting of truth and being in finance (I run a trading firm) just the way investing/stocks are presented blows my mind (in a bad way)

This is kind of like saying "I have a slight bias against maps because one sent me in the wrong direction." People need a way to know what's going on in the world.
The giant upcoming Dominion lawsuit he’s named in is probably going to cost him though
> This sounds like the motive for religious war. Are we not tolerant enough to let other peoples have their own political systems?

You seem to be conflating morality with religion. There's overlap, but they're not the same.

> Maybe we still haven't gotten over the instinct that somewhere, someone is doing it wrong and we have to do something about it.

OK, see about that: are you tolerant enough to let your neighbor non-consensually beat his wife for being disobedient? Rape his kids? If you feel those things are wrong, do you think that's an instinct you should "get over"?
Numerous individuals have since transitioned away from Google, with reports suggesting their growing dissatisfaction as the company appeared indecisive about utilizing their technological innovations effectively.

Moreover, it has been quite some time since Google successfully developed and sustained a high-quality product without ultimately discontinuing it. The organizational structure at Google seems to inadvertently hinder the creation of exceptional products, exemplifying Conway's Law in practice.

Read more about this topic here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-ai-chatbot-bard-chatgpt-...
Isn’t this a given as soon as there’s serious money in it?
PyTorch everywhere
Should have named differently. Title:

Show HN: Stretch HN
Dear spartanliving4u

I think it would be polite that when you seek engagement, you should respond to anyone’s effort to engage with you. I think it reflects badly on you that you have not done so. Maybe you are busy, but we all are.

Note in my comment above I was responding to your comment “I [am] having a very hard time raising money.”.

I honestly wish you the best - otherwise I wouldn’t spend my time and thoughts attempting to engage with you at all!

Yours sincerely

robocat
Professional managerial class. Generally used derisively to refer to people with high paid jobs who serve the interests of the wealthy.
What about other regular illnesses, don't they also leave some sort of impact on your body at the end of the day?

Occam's razor would suggest that COVID is just like other illnesses, for the most part, except for being an outlier in some areas (virality, severe symptoms).
When I was at UCB I was roommates with a grad student working on/with (not sure which) the 432. I was learning CS at the time and what he described did seem like a wild alternate universe of computing.
They're getting Innovator's Dilemma'd, the same way that Bell Labs, DEC, and Xerox did. When you have an exceptionally profitable monopoly, it biases every executive's decision-making toward caution. Things are good; you don't want to upset the golden goose by making any radical moves; and so when your researchers come out with something revolutionary and different you bury it, maybe let them publish a few papers, but certainly don't let it go to market.

Then somebody else reads the papers, decides to execute on it, and hires all the researchers who are frustrated at discovering all this cool stuff but never seeing it launch.
>I really wonder what goes through people's heads when they build these things that are universally hated.

Oh, they aren't universally hated.

Most of reddit users have only seen the "new" interface, so they don't know what they're missing.

And when they find out, they're already conditioned to use the "new" UI, so switching is difficult.
Who cares about protein folding when a hyped up ELIZA can confidently tell you lies

/s
Alpha Fold is a game changer, but nowhere near the game changer ChatGPT(4) is, even if ChatGPT was only available for the subset of scientists that benefit from Alpha Fold. We are literally arguing semantics if this is AGI, and you're comparing it to a bespoke ML model that solves a highly specific domain problem (as unsolvable and impressive as it was).
How much has the EU enforced it against small overseas businesses?
if we included testosterone supplements I think we'll find a correlation
I think this kind of misses the bigger reason that there isn't a lot of formal discussion on psychedelics; people are worried/nervous to talk about it too openly because psychedelics are "hard" drugs. Even for research purposes, they're tightly controlled which ends up suppressing a lot of practical research and you _have_ to rely on hearsay and anecdata to make a decision.

Edit: Also, as another commenter noted, because very few places allow you to get psychedelics legally, dosage and purity is always questionable; naturally you're going to have a bad time with something that is cut with really nasty drugs if you aren't aware of it and prepared for it, but this is pretty true of most things in life, even those not related to drugs.

Search engines, well, Google at least, are pretty complicit in this too, as it seems that sites discouraging drug use are brought to the top when searching for relatively reasonable things like "safe dosage $drug" or "$drug interaction with $other_drug". Even between different countries, the same search query on google will give quite different results.

I don't think among the people I've talked to that enjoy psychedelics have ever introduced a newbie to any drug without a safety warning and a fair amount of preparation, and in Amsterdam where mushrooms are legal, the shops are quite careful to ensure they are giving you the rundown on what to prepare for, dosages, finding a comfortable and reliable setting, safety, etc.

> but the "how" is largely ambiguous.

Honest question, have you taken any drugs that weren't prescription or alcohol/caffeine/nicotine? Because it's very easy to pinpoint how drugs (especially psychedelics) are life changing, at least for me.

Ecstasy - For a few brief hours, I not only felt good, but thought good thoughts about myself. It was a complete reset after many years of extremely low and dark times in my life, and after that I had a baseline of "hey, I actually _can_ feel good and think good things about myself; I am capable of it." And it was basically all I needed, a single time to break me out of years of depression

Psychedelics - It is an immense spark of creativity and just fascinating to see what your mind can invent and how everything has additional "perspectives", like the color of music, visualizing a world or scene in your imagination that you probably never thought of before, and the good sensations you have amplified by 1000x. Your mind makes connections and associations which sure, with time you could maybe reach sober, but it happens rapidly, effortlessly, and repeatedly on psychedelics, and the experience stays with you. If you've never had a moment of clarity, be it academic, problem solving, etc, then I'm not sure that psychedelics are the biggest concern for you :). These experiences _can_ happen sober, but at least for me, only with guided meditation over many sessions could I reach such an experience.

I'm not sure it's possible to be more specific than this with simple descriptive words, and I think the art and other drug-inspired pieces more than speak for themselves as to how it can be life changing.
> I don't think working out increases testosterone

You think wrongly, they're definitely linked:

"Exercise: Resistance training increases testosterone levels acutely, however, in older men, that increase can be avoided by protein ingestion. Endurance training in men may lead to lower testosterone levels." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Regulation
We get it, you are communist. Go away now.
GPT API is a successful product. All those start ups that are just a thin layer over GPT that are funded by YCombinator are paying for API use and that's profitable for OpenAI.
Well spotted!

1. Fixed
2. Sorry I didn't quite get this, do you mind explaining it more in detail?
3. Working on it
maybe microvascular stimulation helps hair follicles lifecycle
Yes it was. I don't understand how you could have a functioning legal system anywhere if a search warrant can be neutralized by saying "I don't have that" without any kind of search taking place.
What has OpenAI accomplished other than a lot more publicity for AI? If I've been following the story right, Google and a few others have created all the tech breakthroughs and OpenAI just created a way for common folk to play with it then sold out to Microsoft.
Twitter blue tick is gone
Add a login and a private employee leaderboard for social pressure :)
> ... in the tech industry, with our motto of “strong opinions, loosely held” (also known as “strong opinions, weakly held”), we’ve glorified overconfidence.

No. That the opinions are (or should be) “loosely / weakly held” means precisely that we aren't (or shouldn't be) overly confident in them.

Congratulations on writing an entire essay on how you didn't understand a wide-spread expression.
haha https://demo.suno.ai
> there is no way of building a cheaper rocket with a less reliability

Of course there is. The famous example is radiation hardening. SpaceX opted for redundancy instead. Not only cheaper, but more modern, too.

> in such as complex high-energy environment, there is no money to be saved by building less-than-perfect machines

SpaceX has launched zero humans. (EDIT: Totally wrong!) It aims to, so target reliability is high. (I would argue their track record in production is a product of their willingness to push the envelope in tests.) But there is a large market for cheap, if unreliable, launches. Because there is an emerging market of cheap satellite makers.
$$$$

The new UI enforces age gating via sign-in (switch to the old UI, and you can get away with "Continue"), which is better for engagement.

The new UI is mobile friendly, which is WAY better for engagement. (Most users are mobile users, even though mobile devices are worse than desktop PCs in every way except convenience.)
So, one could think a solution would be to not use modern browsers. But then this alone makes you stand out again I guess.

Maybe VPNs should start to offer “browser anonymization” as a service.
Is there a shortage of Nestle competitors ? The fact that people still buy Nestle tells you how much the masses actually care about Nestle's behavior, in dollar terms. ie, less than the savings that Nestle presents.

Using legislation "with teeth" to force something that the masses don't want is autocracy, not democracy.
> Tim Dodd got coated in dust and sand

i don't see that being that big of a deal, winds blowing west to east and no one would have ever even thought about it.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I read the methods section and the stats model doesn't seem to adjust for "calories consumed after dieting stopped". Those calories, as you point out, can be correlated with PFAS because of their association with high-calorie foods. This seems to me like a potential confounding factor.
What's the regulatory difference between neobanks and traditional banks that allows for this abuse?
SpaceX designed and built all the engines. The Raptor engine is the world's first full flow staged combustion engine to fly in a rocket.
It's Russia - so a pirated copy will soon be available online. Getting english audio / subtitles will be an issue though as with most Russian TV series / movies. (And yeah, it should be very interesting - we could compare how close CGI effects of other space movies match with reality).

(Do western sanctions effect the Russian movie industry? If not it should be available in western theatres too, soon.)
According to reality, they were right.
You wouldn’t believe what happened next!
Perhaps they could learn a new skill such as coding. I hear Python is popular
Same government that pushed the food pyramid? Where you’re encouraged to eat lots of grains. Basically the opposite of a healthy diet.