skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo personally altered a state-driven study about Covid-19 vaccines last year to suggest that some doses pose a significantly higher health risk for young men than had been established by the broader medical community, according to a newly obtained document.

> Ladapo’s changes, released as part of a public records request, presented the risks of cardiac death to be more severe than previous versions of the study. He later used the final document in October to bolster disputed claims that Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were dangerous to young men.

If that's true, shame on him. The politicization of science surrounding covid-19 is both shocking and disappointing to me.
I found Notion frustrating to use across the different teams I manage because they really want you to do things 'one way'. The endless customization tutorials end up being really surface level once you try them out.

I use Taskade now https://www.taskade.com/
BS. Fake history is far older than "my brother knocked over the pot and broke it!".
F# was originally just kind of a passion project that MS insisted get productized to continue development. It's still very much an internal favorite within Microsoft Research and the Bing team, from my understanding.
The UK isn't 'Europe' anymore ...
> people who live it all day end up using when vernacular is called for

I think it's probably that, yeah. Just felt like a very de-humanizing label, for someone who isn't used to that world.

Beep boop, I am resource, here to provide service until ready for replacement with like kind, boop beep.
Hetzner's $4.20 Arm64 VPS Performance
There are a few categories of apps that can get away with non-native look and feel, or even thrive based upon actively doing their own thing in ways that work better for what they are. Blender is a member of such a category. Most things are not.

(Games are the most obvious category. Blender belongs to what I might call 2D/3D design, a category which would include tools like GIMP, Inkscape, FreeCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD—all ones that can go fairly fully native, but can also benefit from deliberate deviation in both look and feel.)
That what Carl bender talks about[0]
That quantized nature is due to are ability to only measure only real values, which can be a sparse subset(Null set) placed on different sheets of the complex function, like qunatized energy levels of the electron in atoms.
He also talk about research showing that exactly what happens when setting an experiment such that there is an interference which I briefly looked at a while back.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sm7SNlNUOI&list=PLOFVFbzrQ4...
Sticking to TFA, and not ancillary information, I found this frustrating:

> Instead, the research team ran 75 different models with the initial conditions chosen at random. By chance, some of these created distortions similar to the ones seen in the real-world data, typically affecting only one of the four lensed images. So, the researchers conclude that the distortions in the lensed images are consistent with a dark matter halo structured by the quantum interference of axions.

Essentially the best contender aside from WIMPs is, as subject of TFA, axions. And axions have near-random interference and standing waves, which essentially scatters about light bent by gravitational lensing due to uneven gravity in the lensing object.

Essentially, if you randomize the field enough, you can eventually find, after enough trials, something that seems to match reality. And it just so happens axions are the nice random variables we needed to inject.

That's where we're at: Just randomly select some parameters until the data fits, and lo and behold, it fits.
https://www.koin.com/news/civic-affairs/woke-agenda-ppb-staf...
Very fair replies. I didn't mean to call out Google + fans of Google in particular, but rather "Bigco"s and fans thereof in general.

Out of all of them I guess I'm more disappointed in Apple because they have cultivated this aura of superior UX (so that emphasis on UX should extend to when people have problems).. but then again it's largely just an aura.
Politely, I feel like this is the issue with OCaml as a community. You gave a beautiful answer about programming language design and composition. But how does it feel to write the language? How can you print a user defined data type? From reading around, it seems like your options are: explicitly pass a print function for that specific type, use a third party library for printing, or (my "favorite") don't. Or how does it feel to write a function that takes a generic that can be printed, checked for equality, and read? Or to convert one type into another type?

And we're still talking about semantics here. How does it feel to use the language server? How does it feel to read the code? To build the language? Ultimately that's what users judge a language on. Yes, Rust in some ways has a worse form of abstraction. It is global, not fully generic and doesn't allow for overloading. But it creates a user experience that is nicer. It lets a user print something and compare two variables and do type conversions without having to scratch their head, read a forum post and import a library.
Good question. GP is claiming that because ycombinator (YC) investors have put money into AI, we're going to see a lot of AI posts here for the foreseeable future. That's because YC companies use HN to promote their products.
>It's different when I do it!
I've looked at the "heat map" and I don't see anything that's inconsistent with a reasoned adjustment still based on risk, deemphasizing credit scores.

There's an explanation that the 760+ and 780+ bands are new, so a drastic increase in the previously highest band makes a lot of sense.

Also if I'm reading that article right, this is actually one time fee. So Reason is completely handwaving it into a monthly fee to conjure large numbers, making the Reason article even worse than it first seemed.

Statements by political bureaucrats being in the language of their party aren't indicative of much. It's the same culture war gobbledygook as the Reason article, just a different flavor.
One anecdote as to why it has become clear telemetry is needed:

When prioritizing what we needed in order to launch 1Password 8 we did not prioritize an Apple Watch app. We rarely heard from customers about Apple Watch, and so the assumption was that very few people were using it. When we launched without it, it quickly became apparent that was a poor assumption. People came out of the woodwork to ask where our Apple Watch app went. If we'd had telemetry, we could've known that lots of people were using the Watch app, and just didn't have a reason to write to us about it.

-Ben, 1Password
It's time to stop making excuses. I'm coming at you with receipts.

This is interesting that you say that you can't bike in the winter, Finnish people have no trouble biking in the winter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

It also seems odd that it's no problem to plow and salt a gigantic interstate highway system in the USA but somehow it's impossible to clear some small bike lanes.

Before you say "only fit people can cycle," Netherlands has microcars that the elderly and disabled can use on bike lanes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0

It's weird that you say that installing and operating mass transportation is "completely infeasible" when that's the status quo in Japan.

Rail in Japan: (Wikipedia)

Ridership: 7.589 billion (2014)

Passenger km: 260 billion (2014)

System length

Total: 30,625 km

Electrified: 21,600 km

Rail in USA: (Wikipedia)

Ridership: 549,631,632

29 million (Amtrak only) (2014)

Passenger km: 10.3 billion (2014)

How does a country with less than half the population of the USA take 15x the trips and ride 26x the kilometers when their population density is only 10x higher. And, really, if you just talk about major population centers on the coasts and Midwest, the USA doesn't look crazy different than Japan. The Northeast Megalopolis has 3x higher population density than Japan.

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

For example, this very rural line with a single rail car has a more frequent timetable than Amtrak's Chicago to Milwaukee train, which connects two large metro areas that are within feasible commuting distance:

Video of the line demonstrating how rural it is. Each train only has one car!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRlmM8wI1g

Timetable (PDF link)

https://www.akita-nairiku.com/timetable/pdf/20220312_02timet...

It's also weird that you say that this can only work in places with high population density, when we know that's not the case. The population of Denmark is similar to Indiana, with Indiana beating Denmark in population density, and the population of Sweden is similar to Ohio, with Ohio having 10x Sweden's population density.

Explain then why there's no passenger train from Chicagoland (same size as all of Sweden) to Columbus, Ohio (same size as Copenhagen), a distance of 350 miles (which includes passing through two other sizable cities), but I can get on a high speed train from Copenhagen to Stockholm and cross into a different country covering a driving distance of about 400 miles.

We also know density has nothing to do with it because the USA was built almost entirely on rail. There are hundreds if not thousands of railroad town in the USA.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Railroad-Network-in-...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/03/mapped-histor...

> Rural US has chosen the privately owned car as its transportation system. It works well.

Does it work well? Car crashes are the #2 accidental killer behind guns (used to be #1). The USA's traffic death rate per 100,000 people is 6x higher than Sweden and 3x higher than Japan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Indeed, Leetcode is just slightly harder (or easier even) fizzbuzz anyway.

If you are given really hard questions in an interview or they ask for dumb invert binary tree like questions. It is most likely that person who interviews you is lazy or does not want to hire you but have no choice but to interview you.

I beleive pair programming interviews are the best. As they can be 1) Time limited so you don't take home and waste your time. 2) Can be a portion of a real world problem.
HuggingChat
Your app has a battery with a slider. "When should I stop charging".

98% of the time, I leave mine set at 70%. The car will charge to 70% and then stop. I generally use 20-30% of a charge during my day max. Get home, plug it in, and it's back at 70% in a few hours.

When I am going on a 100+ miles daytrip, I bump my charge to 90%.

When I am going on a 300+ mile trip, I bump my charge to 100% for the initial charge.

Takes a few seconds, pretty simple.
If everyone makes astounding money, noone makes astounding money. And meritocracy dies.
> If these are the kinds of people who are attracted to nostr

I think it's more that these people are around on every platform; but most platforms create (simple, vote-based; or complex, engagement-based) algorithmic filter-bubbles, so that you can live in blissful ignorance of these people's very persistent attempts to get your attention.

(A good example of an already-established platform that doesn't have this kind of filter, is Discord. If you join Discord servers at random, you'll often get flooded by DMs from bots trying to shove this same kind of content in your face.)

As much as the engagement-based recommender algorithms of sites like Twitter encourage "hate-following" and "doom-scrolling", they do have the nice property of inherently filtering out this kind of spam: these "human spambots" post things that can be predicted by their content to receive literally no engagement at all (since everything similar anyone's posted recently received no engagement at all); and so these spam posts get dropped out of any feed they'd otherwise appear in.

Nostr inherently cannot have any kind of online self-tuning algorithmic filter-bubble like this; such algorithms are powered by a global corpus of "everything everyone is currently posting, and every way that everyone else is reacting to it." Nostr relays only see the "notes" that are passing through them; and they have no idea what downstream Nostr clients think of those posts. So even if someone wanted to build a "smart relay" that does algorithmic filtering, there's no signal to power it.
It applies to systematic collection and processing of personal data.
This completely bypasses the OS.

The kernel never even sees it.

Addendum: To the people downvoting, the article is clear:

> During operation, the covert operating system (AMSS) has complete control over the hardware, microphone and camera. The Linux kernel and deGoogled /e/OS end-user operating system function as a slave on top of the hidden AMSS operating system.
I think the difference is largely uninteresting in this debate. Personally I enjoy eating meat and don't see myself giving it up entirely. I think there is a reasonable middle ground between 'we continue eating like we do now' and 'everybody will be forced at gunpoint into a vegan diet'. We could save enormous amounts of pollution and animal suffering by simply eating less meat. The existence of significant populations who have been living successfully as vegetarians or vegans for thousands of years simply demonstrates that we should not be overly concerned about side effects of reducing (not halting entirely!) our meat intake.

Suppose we (as in "the average first-world citizen") were to collectively half our meat consumption. Either by reducing portion size, or by eating it less often. The benefits would be amazing, and apart from people who make their living selling meat I don't see any real downsides.

Back when I was growing up I was used to eating meat virtually every day for dinner. These days I skip a few days each week, because I learned how to cook different stuff (and these days I have to pay for it myself, instead of my parents...).
Quick, somone write an article about how there are too many articles about how there are too many articles about AI on HN.
It does feel a bit like Bitcoin hype, in that I know there's something wrong with it but I can't quite put my finger on it or explain it. But this is why it's also likely to last a long time, just like Bitcoin did, because it's so enticing and yet so difficult to articulate exactly what it is that's wrong. I'm at that level where I'm just smart enough to know something is wrong here, but not smart enough to say what that is exactly.

I know that I can use ChatGPT for things where it doesn't matter much whether it contains factual inaccuracies. Where all I need is a lead, like the same things I would use Wikipedia for. Where the failure mode definitely doesn't lead to anyone being hurt (or fired). For work where the results matter to someone's career or health, yeah I would avoid it.
That's more-so dependent on the content creator. They can address specific problems, or the project as a whole. I follow a ton of DIY accounts - so I'll follow some that encompass the entire project, and some that focus on specific steps within projects.

FYI - the TikTok video length was extended to 10-minutes.
I didn't read the article solely because of the headline. Any statement like this made about any new tech development is automatically false.
These systems always strike me as a failure of the file system and desktop metaphor.

_The computer_ was intended to be the system you stored documents in, with paths to link between them, and any number of applications to do any number of things with them. Extended attributes are available for metadata. There’s not really any reason why things like Dropbox and iCloud couldn’t extend this to the Internet.

But it somehow became too unwieldy to really work this way (for me, too - I’m not arguing that it’s a good way to do things with the systems we really have). It’s a shame.
Only because Docker is broken. No other process manager would be confused by that.

Maybe we should patch kill itself? It wouldn't surprise me one bit if that pull request exists.
Private Equity Investor Silver Lake Has Tabled Bid to Take over Software AG
Discussions about the report on the Fortran Discourse:

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/an-evaluation-of-risk...
I think it's named suitably, even if it's not appropriate.
I think the difference between those other hype cycles and this one is utility. I found Bitcoin very interesting (Erlang as well, still do) but not very practical in my day-to-day life. Unless I'm going to be hired by a firm that specializes in that tech, they're just not very useful. Nerdy and interesting and fun yes, but I just don't need them in my day-to-day life.

On the other hand ChatGPT 3.5 has become immediately useful today. It's already saved multiple hours of time doing nonsense work, or digging around for an answer to that one problem I have. It's succeeded when Stack Overflow, Google, Reddit, and the Official Documentation™ failed me.

That's incredible!!

And like a car I don't really have to know or care how it works (traditionally I didn't care at all about AI tech). Sure, it's a new skill (like driving) that takes some practice to do safely and effectively, but I don't have to know the details of how it works. Just how to use it.

That's why this hype cycle is different, that's why it's not going away. It's useful, and we are collectively figuring out how to use it effectively. We do that through collaboration and communication and HN is one of the key points where ideas are shared. To put a stop on that now would be insanely short sighted. The criticism, post-mortems, retrospectives and "AI is dead" articles will come in time.
That's true. It was always hard for startups in Russia. And to try and go global meant one had to register company somewhere else (e.g Dubai, Cyprus) and promote it as multinational company or smth like that.
But why would "big gov tech" companies lower salaries? They still need IT workers with expertise.
AST Makes First-Ever Space-Based Voice Call Using Unmodified Phones
You def have very high degradation per my other comment. The model Y fleet average at 40k miles is under 6%.
You're right RISC-V just existing won't save us. I mentioned in a sibling comment, but my hope is that it leads to more competition so there are at least options. It probably is naive since these days there are tech startups and tech giants, and any startup that starts to gain traction will go for an exit strategy to be acquired, then it will killed. So things are probably not going to get much better.

Perhaps though, with RISC-V options there could be a real solid open source option (aka a Linux phone). It wouldn't have to be nearly as mature and polished as the duopoly, but at least something that allows people to participate in modern society (much like desktop linux is now).
I think you’re wrongly assuming that the point of meme stock “investing” is to make money - quite the opposite actually
Meme stock traders thought they had another Hertz coming.

Hertz was going into bankruptcy in 2020, as the pandemic wrecked their finances. But then in 2021, in the middle of the bankruptcy, it turned out that their fleet of millions of used cars skyrocketed in price, saving the company from bankruptcy. Some other company purchased Hertz before the bankruptcy finished and Hertz shareholders then reaped the rewards as the stock climbed from pennies into $7.
Something like this should result in an automatic ban being applied on the manufacturer and phones using their chipset.. but here we are and there is absolutely no noise about this. Shameful
ChatGPT CAN'T NOT lie even if it wanted to, because it has no concept of truth or false, it's just generating sentences. A lie is just as valid a sentence to construct from a prompt as an accurate statement.
IT Crowd, one of the best shows I've ever seen. That said, the attempted American pilot was so cringey I had to stop watching halfway through

https://archive.org/details/the-it-crowd-us-pilot
Microsoft is bringing OpenAI into Office 365. I predict no loss of employment in busywork, just a bigger output of boring reports per worker.
But history is already pre destroyed? Roman emperors rewriting there predecessors into monsters, empires spewing nonsense to justify atrocities, the little lies the powerful on all ladder steps of societies tell themselves. Thats why historians have to be such detectives and goto sources who will not lie, like graveyards, drill cores and ancient cesspools. Cause the (re)written word, is almost always of no value when getting to the truth.
This caught my attention as well. They go out of their way to mention that the requests are HTTP, not HTTPS, which allows spying by all sorts of nefarious types. And then... they don't show the requests. It leads me to believe they are exaggerating all of this.
A quite overblown article from a company pitching their own "secure phone".

They installed a custom OS which apparently includes Qualcomm's indoor positioning service iZat, but is missing the EULA item to allow the user to enable/disable the service.

iZat exists for at least 6 years, and the vendors who implemented it usually have a separate checkbox in their startup wizard to allow it to work.

Example screenshot after a quick google search: https://lgk20.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/57-60.jpg
If a company is a terrible place to work for _some_ class of employees, it will eventually get around to being a terrible place for your class of employee. It's just a matter of time.
Dying notes are a fascinating thought, and relate to some of the cruft aspects I've seen with any sort of task-tracking.

That said, in my usual note-taking app, I have things like recipes I might make once in a blue moon, and I'd be very annoyed if I lost my late grandma's lasagna recipe.
> Then again, I did come to Europe for the rich history, I just didn't think its inhabitants would be so bound by it.

Europe is run as a continent-sized retirement home, by incompetent, hereditary elites who are utterly incapable of grappling with the fact that having a history is not a substitute for having an economy.

I feel for the people of Europe; they deserve better. So many of the smart, lovely people you meet here are stuck on absurdly low salaries in countries without any obvious future other than managed decline. Instead of being offered a future, they're offered endless relitigation of the past.
Far more likely that major crypto networks implement native privacy when feasible

Have fun going back to subpoenas and audits after identifying the specific individual or organization to target, what a concept
I also refers to "doesn't interpret the meaning of the specification in the same way."
> It's impossible for more than half of the sample to be below the median

No. It is very much possible when the measure is undefined, as was the condition setup before the bet was made.

If we take it to the logical end where your chosen measure is simply the inverse of my chosen measure, then those above the median by my measure fall below the median by your measure and vice versa, leaving the entire set of those outside of the median to be seen below the median (and also above the median).

As it pertains to the larger discussion, how the quality of a developer is measured has not been established, which means everyone is likely to measure differently and often in conflicting ways, and so most of us are bound to be below the median according to someone.

So, yes, this was originally pointed out in a humorous manner. The bet made on the basis of that joke was, indeed, unfortunate.
I guess they didn't perform a basic web search:

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2014/09/izat-location-tech...

https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases/det...
I’m sure this is going to make you laugh and/or annoyed, but what about Bitcoin is exactly “wrong?” Curious if after all these years you’ve found the words.
Believe me, you don't have to make quality software to win a major government software development contract.
Bitcoin hype will return with the next cycle :)