skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People find this difficult to grasp, because of black and white thinking.

COVID vaccines significantly reduce how many people who get exposed to COVID actually get sick. They also reduce just how sick people get. Both of those reduce how COVID spreads, how much it impacts people's lives and how much it impacts society by people being sick.

But some people just have that black and white thinking where if the vaccine doesn't make you completely immune, it "doesn't work and it's all fake". If you get sick with COVID while vaccinated, you can't compare with alternate world where you weren't vaccinated and see whether it would kill you instead.
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If you're already using a relational database you should almost certainly set up indexes on your table ids and foreign keys. But that's pretty different from the examples in the post!

I'm not anti-index, I'm anti-"if you ever have a full table scan in production you're doing it wrong".
Some of the old Saxon fortified churches, like Biertan for instance are in the Unesco heritage fund. There is also one in Viscri where King Charles is expected to visit in two weeks or so. He has a holiday home there and it seems that he has quite enjoyed the place for some time. Of course everything is fully booked now. The authorities have recently closed the village to motor vehicles, in order to protect it and preserve its beauty. You could visit if you ever get the chance. I think the last week of July or the first week of August is the Haferland Week¹ in the area, if you also want to get a taste of local traditions. In Biertan there was a horror movie film festival in August, called Full Moon, but it was paused, then delayed due to the pandemic. Valea Viilor has a other Unesco fortified church that is lesser known but no less spectacular. It's close to Medias, where the manuscripts were found. The other places that are not in the heritage fund are rather sleepy and you have to go on a quest for the keeper of the keys to the church. We had a week long summer project to photograph these churches in 2004.

1. https://haferland.ro/en/the-haferland-week/
Something I say often is "utopia means 'no place'" or "no such place as utopia" - people too often focus on trying to build a perfect world/thing/product/whatever rather than focusing on how to exist in an imperfect world.
I thought about using a VPN for better privacy, but with browser fingerprinting so rampant now, I figured that this would be pointless.
> [War's] bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

Still as relevant to today's veterans as in 1935.
Cool work @shishirpatil - I'll check it out later & certainly join the discord!

Saying this, have you considered you may be responsible for opening the AI floodgates to the internet & are starting the apocalypse of Humankind? I'm only half '/s' here, the speed everything is moving at is insane.
Some banks don’t expose everything on their website, sometimes it’s only available in their mobile app.
Even ignoring that part - it's weird bringing up War and Switzerland.

All those wars Switzerland has fought...
Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet
I can't stress how much I'm not going to scan my eyeballs for magic beans that live in my computer. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
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"I wish shorts would die."

I'm pretty confident it will.

What I'm going to say is purely from the user experience perspective and will - for the moment - completely ignore that YT Shorts, as well as TikTok, are basically drugs and should be treated like that. Also, I have no inside knowledge of any of the products working and algorithms, it is just my personal experience as a user trying out both products in parallel.

With that out of the way: YT shorts is terrible compared to TikTok for the following reasons:

1. In my experience the TikTok algorithm adapts very fast.

I usually watch tech but occasionally dabble into music. When I watch piano videos for like 20 minutes TikTok treats me like I was a musician. Back to tech, also very quick. YT seems to adapt much slower.

2. The TikTok algorithm doesn't mess around.

My daughter likes to watch dance videos. As she has no TikTok herself we watch together on my account. Again TikTok adapts to that very fast and treats us like a teenager. But even before the algo is tuned in it never showed me anything inappropriate.

My armchair suspicion is that while TikTok finds a local maximum of what I want and reliably sits there until I nudge it out, YT has the idea to probe me from time to time if another local maximum might be better. This might be good in theory but when it tries to figure out if a latest dance craze video watcher would also like to see some naked raunchy twerking ladies it has failed miserably.

3. The TikTok algo is fine-grained.

Apart from tech and music I watch the occasional extreme sports video and I have my own taste there. I like physical skill but not so much strength. I like bicycle tricks but no motocross. Cars are generally not my thing except for Gymkhana.
This is no problem for TikTok. It is like the sports I don't like would not exist. YT on the other is all over the place with its suggested videos.

The worst thing on YT is that it occasionally shows me videos where people got hurt badly. One of these videos is enough to kill all the fun for me because I can never be sure not to see gore the next time. TikTok never let me down there.

4. YT moderation is terrible, TikTok's decent

My general impression is that TikTok's limits are wider but fairly well-defined harsh lines. YT 's limits are narrow, fuzzy and inconsequential.

5. YT is basically a TikTok rip-off when it comes to content.

Many of the videos on YT shorts are either copies or recreations from TikTok. I believe for videos that use content from the TikTok library it is infringement, but YT seems to look the other way.

Finally, if all of this sounds like TikTok advertising: It's not. I think both TikTok and YT Shorts are harmful products. The later is just lame too.
>A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

Just because people make fortunes from war doesn't mean that this is the essential characteristic of war. People make fortunes out of everything regardless of its cause.

War is a historic universal, and in fact it was most intense in pre-modern societies. Aboriginal cultures went to war not just for material reasons, but also for cultural reasons, ritualistic, and religious reasons. Long before we had organized commercial activity or opportunity for rackets we had warrior cultures.

The conspiratorial idea that war is largely driven by shadowy elites doesn't really hold up to anthropology. Far from it elites often even have to reign the flames of war in as populations whip themselves into a frenzy. The fact that war generally benefits few people, or sometimes even nobody at all doesn't imply that the majority of people weren't genuinely enthusiastic about it, although they'll typically deny it later.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062369>
I took a report down within 3 minutes of upload today. We have regularly received comments from our 3rd-party reporters that we are the most responsive.

You are wrong.
One party instigated by undertaking an illegal invasion of a sovereign state.

And one party instigated by allowing victims of imperial subjugation to seek protection against further imperial subjugation by joining a military alliance... or something like that?

These things are all quite different, it is strange to use the same word to describe them.
If I understand correctly, people can use Graphene OS anonymously. This was a workaround to use Google Play Services (Store?) anonymously. So the users want to have a piece of cake and eat it too.
Not to take anything away from Netscape, I do think there was interesting technical things happening with that browser, but the company never made money.

I would go as far as to say their 'real' product was an avenue to attack Microsoft - not the browser they made.

They got a lot of money by positioning themselves as an anti-Microsoft vector, had a huge IPO as an unprofitable company during the dot com boom, successfully entrapped Microsoft in an anti-trust case, then got acquired by AOL.

Of course I'm not a billionaire and I don't doubt it took a lot of skill to earn that money. I'm just not sure those are the same skills you need to build a profitable business or useful product.
Fed sets rates banks decide what rates to lend out for mortgages.

Just like we tax things at different rates, we may want to require mortgage lending at different rates, maybe a bit higher if necessary. I don't think that exists, but I could be wrong.
Please stop trying to justify a dystopian ponzi scheme.
And QuarkXPress launched in 1987
Smedley Butler, previously on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Hopefully you are personally unable to implement such plans because antibiotics are not without their side effects. It took twelve years between Levaquin becoming FDA approved in 1996 and the addition of a black box warning label in 2008 due to risk of Achilles tendon rupture.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2483892/
Nvidia Hints at Upcoming AI-Focused Spectrum-4 Ethernet
S. Korea successfully launches rocket Nuri in major milestone for space program
It is quite convenient both from the perspective of a stock Kindle Fire (commercial Android), and for LineageOS (non-commercial, unlocked, root available).

It will also indicate if the app requires Google Mobile Services, which would preclude correct functionality outside of MicroG or alternate implementations.
It's interesting to observe people repeat the "war is racket" line while also supporting wars because "their" side is allegedly the virtuous one (and anyone pointing this out is peddling "propaganda" of "the enemy" in the totally virtuous war).
I'm not going to tear it apart. They have done a good job doing it themselves:

"Worldcoin is not a dystopian nightmare."

Only in SV would someone pay $115M for new tech only to have to defend it with statements like this.
The USA sold weapons to the allies largely because the president genuinely believe hitler would invade everything if not stopped. Congress wouldn't let him enter the war, because the US has a strong Isolationist vibe, but the President believed if we didn't go stop hitler in europe, hitler would eventually find his way to coming after the US and by that point we wouldn't have any allies left.

This is AFTER the allies attempted appeasement. If a foreign country wants to war, you can't not war. The only alternative is to roll over and accept new ownership, but usually new ownership disagrees with the people on how things should be done, so that "solution" largely isn't.

There was a period were Germany seemed unstoppable remember.
Nah; the 2016 election saw many "leftists" that were dedicated to Sanders go on to vote for Trump.
A lesser evil against a greater evil. And then the lesser evil became the greater evil.
You probably meant to say that few people would argue that the answer to #1 is "no"
My recollection in postgres anyway is that low cardinality indexes aren't useful, because it doesn't take into account which side of the 1/99% you're on when determining to use the index.

What is useful is to do a partial index on values where foo=small % ,value because then it will use that index when it matches the query, but not when it's in the majority case.
Yeah, I think the question is what exactly the thread model is and what gets protected.

DoH as protection of my own traffic against snooping ISPs is very much welcome. DoH as protection of locked down apps and devices against their owners - not so much.
It's kinda brilliant to both build the problem and the solution
I really wish commercial apps would support alternative app stores. There are far worse offenders than Google, but it's currently quite intrusive and who knows if it won't get worse. I doubt the billions in rent they must collect every year on app sales really go on improving the OS experience.

F-droid repository format would be easy enough to support a commercial repository you could manually activate, with signing and all.
Sam’s strategy here is to create the sickness (ai) and sell the cure (worldcoin).

This is a complete grifting double hedging scam.
So you're turning 100 too? Wow, congratulations! </smile>

(I drill my law students in spotting and correcting phrasing that can be interpreted in two different ways, i.e., ambiguities.)
ATI hasn't existed as a brand since 2010. Every GPU since then has had AMD branding.

Typically, AMD GPUs have a slight edge over NVIDIA GPUs in the price/performance metric, but NVIDIA simply offers higher performance options overall.

But NVIDIA cards also absolutely demolish AMD in compute power needed for AI.
Because Lukashenko is dying.

And countries like Poland are seeing a unique opportunity to fill the power vacuum in order to change the government to one that isn't interested in being part of Russia's sphere of influence.

If Putin was successful in Ukraine it's not inconceivable he would have rather have invaded rather than risk it becoming pro-EU, joining NATO etc.
How could he possibly know the address of future non-CNN financial news links?
> our adaptive, AI-driven algorithms makes it the most efficient way to learn math that you're going to find

Can you elaborate on this? What do these algorithms do?
Change banks then. Free market at work
Not advocating for building indexes for queries you might later want to run.

But for the queries you are building today? Don’t build them such that they will gradually slow down over time.
The Artist and the Amiga
> I still shake my head at how they were able to successfully rebrand it from amd64 to x86-64

It's the opposite: the original name was x86-64, and amd64 is a later rebranding. See, for instance, the original web site for this (then) new architecture: https://web.archive.org/web/20000829042251/http://www.x86-64...
The US has death camps? The US was prepared to have 70 million citizens commit glorious smashed-jewel suicide rather than surrender?

Your facile equivalence is rejected with prejudice.
Then you will likely end up with your eyes being scanned by a state and profit-seeking corporations — along with your private data. We need methods to identify who is a real person in the internet of the future, and it should be privacy-preserving and independent of the state.
Retailer blocked 42,000 customers from its site for returning too many items
> I am struggling to find a coherent point in what you have written.

Obtuse?

Deflationary money hasn't been proven to not work. Set amount of tokens has its advantages over fiat that is printed infinitelt by the govt that issues it.
They were somewhat successful with WinCE from the late '90s to the early '00s.
My dude, whether Sam Altman does it or not has zero bearing on that. If you care about privacy and avoiding such a dystopian outcome, vote for common-sense regulations.
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I get the opposite impression: amd64 is something I see quite often, while ia32 is pretty much exclusively referred to as x86. (Even though for the average user, ia32 would be much easier to recognize as "32-bit", and amd64 as "64-bit", both of which are often found on download buttons.)
Reminds me of the classic parental rebuttal "life's not fair". True enough, but it's still worth trying to be fair in the here and now.
Or not have your eyes scanned at all with government regulations.
When I am ready to dive into this again, I will definitely look at this. I know I need concrete time dedicated to this sort of thing (repetition is the only way to master it really) but I'll circle back around to this soon!
The points I am trying to make is that it isn't black and white as "resisting attack", and that the history that is taught shouldn't be whitewashed. The Indians fought in the 2 world wars for the freedoms of others while their own freedoms were not guaranteed under British colonialism. 1/6th of all the "British" forces in ww2 were Indian, while India was suffering British induced famines due to redirection of supplies and scorched earth policy of the British in the south east Asian theatre. Do you think it's fair to them to not acknowledge this fact and teach it in history?
There is pg_upgrade and logical replication. I have used both and they both work excellently. Logical replication can be a bit of a hassle to set up though, especially if the database is huge.
Instigated is maybe too strong a word, but certainly at least provoked.

It's a testament to the awesome power of US propaganda that you can't throw a stone in Texas without hitting a house flying the Ukrainian flag, but almost no one actually knows the history and circumstances leading up to the war.

I think these two pieces provide some good background:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-...

https://archive.is/uvm3W
> What are you basing this on?

History. We have had a period of adaptation and experimentation with every other invention in history. This one likely will be no different.

> Won't it just be used to augment the amount of harm that humans can do?

Sure, but that's everything that makes us more capable. It also makes us more able to defend and create.
When building systems we are always making trade-offs between the present and the future. It's only "stealing time from future you" when you make bad trade-off; otherwise it's prioritization.

In this case, leaving out an index for full text search meant I didn't need to maintain the software for that index either, which would have been stand-alone at the time I was building this. Possibly this even was a choice that was, in expectation, time-saving for future me.
Wars of defense are entirely different in my opinion.
Right? I would say "utopia fallacy" is the perfect label for this meaning over "nirvana fallacy" because it can never be misconstrued as something associated with the musical band Nirvana.
methods to generate a totally privacy-preserving form of internet native identification and Sybil resistance

I thought Stefan Brands solved this over 20 years ago without scanning people's eyes.
Right, height of the bull market hopefulness, back in 2017. I'm sure they honestly thought things would get that large.

It is also somehow coinmints fault that the town didn't know what bitcoin is. Come on, nobody was 'tricked'.

Look on the bright side, at least someone is in the property, paying for the electricity, which would have just gone unused, for the last 6 years.
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-belarus-strategy-document-2300...

A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in the next decade under the pretext of a merger between the two countries. The document outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic and military means of an independent but illiberal European nation by Russia, which is an active state of war in its bid to conquer Ukraine through overwhelming force.

“Russia’s goals with regards to Belarus are the same as with Ukraine,” Michael Carpenter, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, told Yahoo News. “Only in Belarus, it relies on coercion rather than war. Its end goal is still wholesale incorporation.”

According to the document, issued in fall 2021, the end goal is the formation of a so-called Union State of Russia and Belarus by no later than 2030. Everything involved in the merger of the two countries has been considered, including the “harmonization” of Belarusian laws with those of the Russian Federation; a “coordinated foreign and defense policy” and “trade and economic cooperation … on the basis of the priority” of Russian interests; and “ensuring the predominant influence of the Russian Federation in the socio-political, trade-economic, scientific-educational and cultural-information spheres.”
complementary text explanation of the video: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1stTJAjLmCXtqctdFOpuv4lyl...
> you just summed up Star Wars 1-3, only without having to buy the rights issues. so, yes, "prequels" and "canon" can harm the existing movies, or at least how people feel about them.

I know a lot of people feel that way, but it seems like self-inflicted harm to me. In the 90s I thoroughly wore out VHS copies of IV, V and VI. I came out and I thought it was a dull stinker (except podracing.) I really didn't like it, but it didn't change how I felt about the earlier movies which I continued to enjoy. They continued to be exactly the same movies they were before, it was just the new one that wasn't good. Midiclorians cannot devalue the original movies because they objectively weren't in the original movies. If you choose to believe they're now in the original movies, retroactively, because the IP holder says so decades later, how is that not a self-inflicted wound? When I hear these kind of complaints about later movies ruining earlier movies, all I can think is "stop hitting yourself".
It doesn't matter if the robots are sentient or not
Fun facts I gleaned:

- they live and hunt in trees, on the ground, and in water which makes them hard to classify

- their unique feet that allow water running were probably evolved to run across leaves in arboreal life and not for water

- they are closely related to Iguanas, and more broadly anoles (some of which i have in my own back yard)
Fun to think that it’s more or less how zVM starts stuff. It took me a while to mentally accept the concept of VM that zVM (in reality, I was playing with VM/370) has, which is not like anything non-mainframe users would be familiar with.

But you can also run Linux directly on an LPAR under the thin hypervisor (which I forgot the name) that runs zVM.

The indignity of the mainframe is that it’s booted under control of an x86 machine that itself boots up as an 8086. At least these days the service elements run Linux.
> North Korea could simply abandon their nuclear weapons program, stop antagonising their neighbours and then the sanctions would be lifted.

Stop resisting and I'll stop choking you.
I wasn't aware of this paper, thank you for sharing. Paine is an interesting character and mused on alot of subjects. Way more utopian in his ideas compared to his peers at the time. Obsessed with Revolution. Wouldn't say economics was his strength.
> that quickly outnumber humans in quantity and quality

I suggest you respond by enjoying the quality content.
Well, for example GitHub supports ssh keys for login. I assume it's not vulnerable to this, but I don't know...
It's to allow them to get apps. I wouldn't describe being able to run apps without being involuntarily tracked by a third party as "having your cake and eating it too." It's just a basic expectation of privacy. As it happens, Google makes this basically impossible to do without running afoul of their TOS, but I would characterize that as Google being unreasonable, not the users.
> Maybe this is a good cause to reassess the premise of alignment as a valuable goal?

Could you elaborate here? Alignment seems pretty obviously a good thing.
Newest college admissions ploy: unbearably high HN karma.
> better to deal with someone amoral who can be reasoned with

By whom/who?
OP does not.
APIs only send banks information and ask them to move money if they choose to. Crypto transactions actually move money permissionlessly. It's obvious which one an AI would prefer.