skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This logic of selectively applying externalities based on an arbitrary threshold of risk tolerance is not a good argument.

We might as well blame all the fat people as well. If they were thinner we’d have saved lives.
YouTube doesn't belong on the list. The process you're describing is fully legal under the DMCA and has been the operating mode for every site that allows user submissions.
I agree with your last point
There is a consistent inconsistency which is that people think because a model was trained “on the Internet” it “knows everything” on it.

Hardly.
Alternatively, rational discussions assessing events and consequences from COVID-19 policy are finally starting to happen, and people who were against the authoritative advice (at the time) are saying comments like "it's hopeless to talk about COVID because you get downvoted for stating my pet theories which were clearly right."

Unfortunately, that thought process was the same one as the Texas government officials opening up way too early, sacrificing both economy and health instead of just economy. In my opinion, what you're calling "challenges the covid status quo" is just reheated retreads, and downvotes come because folks are just tired of contrarians muddling any feasible approach to assessment and evaluation.
I understand that is what you want, but you cannot reserve yourself from being interpreted when posting on a public forum.

The language you chose to use and the details you chose to focus on is what triggered the response. If your point was that the cartoons was distracting, you could have made that clear in a less disrespectful way (or let the content speak for itself), or perhaps consider if it was worth contributing to the discussion.

Again, you double down on one definition of this particular subculture in another reply. It is reminiscent of how others have tried to define what certain subcultures related to sexual orientation (some now more mainstream) entail, while not being part of them, and I hope you understand how this can be problematic. I appreciate that this may not have been your intention.
Are people blind to not understanding that providing war material and support can be considered as engaging in the war?

Germany warned USA about this in 1915.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4535149/newspaper-warning-not...
> Dahl himself authorized changes to his work to keep them marketable.

Is that the same Dahl that said:

“I’ve warned my publishers that if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me. Never! Ever!”

“When I am gone, if that happens, then I’ll wish mighty Thor knocks very hard on their heads with his Mjolnir. Or I will send along the ‘enormous crocodile’ to gobble them up.”

He was referring to his Norwegian roots and to his earlier story of “the greediest croc” in talking to Bacon, who apparently felt just as strongly about the subject, telling him: “There must be no changes to an artist’s original work when he is dead for any reason whatsoever.” Crossing himself in jest, Dahl replied: “I just hope to God that will never happen to any of my writings as I am lying comfortably in my Viking grave.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/25/roald-dahl-thr...
SOCs without wifi / bt somehow don’t excite me.
I‘d like to see Espressif move up the food chain and make a Pi Zero 2 W competitor. Their new chips are RISCV already, and quite powerful. Only thing thats missing is RAM and MMU.
Not sure this is the technology at play here, but ATL Server, a C++ based Microsoft web technology discontinued in 2008 basically supported two files extensions - .srf and .dll. See e.g. https://github.com/redpower1998/ATLServer/blob/bf3fd601bf281... .
Why isn’t it great? You’re the first person I’ve met that has made this assertion.
What kinds of specific policies do you have in mind?

Seems like the reason people in the US don't build houses in the empty patches in the US is because the economics of agglomeration mean much greater efficiency/economic growth when you build them in existing large cities. How do you fight this without making the country much less economically dynamic?
I don't know much about the earliest car roadways, do you have a link with some info?

Granular gradation is still a major part of modern roadway construction, there are just certain standards that are very typical so they get used without too much thought required. For some applications a visual inspection is enough, but there's generally some standard proportion of sieve analysis required (eg. 1 test per 10000tonne produced), along with proctor tests (to determine maximum dry density) and frequent nuclear densitometry. I've even seen loads of aggregate get rejected due to the large aggregate being too oblongated.

When you get into concrete or asphalt mix design, the aggregate standards can be even more strict - chemical makeup of the stone can be important to avoid alkali-silica reaction; minimizing fines increases the strength of asphalt mix but creates a tougher riding surface; etc etc etc.
This is true. The fix is to start your own company and do consulting instead of being employed. Some companies are cool with this, some aren't.

This allows you to even out high income periods with low income periods, thus avoiding the high margin tax on income.
> This includes the Batgirl movie, which was in post-production at the time.

They screened it and it was so bad they threw it and the 90mil they spent on it in the bin as there was nothing salvageable. Sometimes, despite all hard work and good intentions, the final result is still trash.

If it was going to make a billion at the box office, they would not "write it off" for tax purposes.
Did you ever work on a game development project where you would have rather done what you did versus using Unity?

Would you want to work in a way where performance didn't matter?

How could you tell the difference between the following two scenarios:

- A specific kind of higher performance was important.

- Higher performance wasn't important: you'd get the same reviews, sell the same copies, whatever graphics improvements you got didn't matter, and maybe you even finish your game 2x sooner because you weren't writing an engine, all else being equal. But because it was intellectually stimulating to you to deal with performance, you committed code every day, which is better than nothing.
Public shaming needs to be an option again
From the title, i thought this would be a lot less egregious. If that’s what passes as exaggeration, then what passes as just lying?
Have to admit to skimming -- this is complicated, but neat! -- but I also have to say lack of pluggable per-container allocators in Rust is perhaps my chief complaints at this point; really miss this from the C++ STL, even if this article does point out how it can get snakey and foot-gunny.

I don't pay attention much the process or politics, but allocator_api feels like it is stuck in permanent limbo. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32838 -- opened 6 years ago, still pending.
I'm using several original BCM2835 Raspberry Pis and Pi Zeros (original) to compile pkgsrc packages for NetBSD on earmv4 and earmv5 because the newer ARM CPUs won't run anything below earmv6. There are some instructions the newer CPUs don't support that'd need to be emulated.

With a USB attached SSD, they're quite reliable and run for many months at a time, compiling non-stop with no issues.
Parents are the last person to vote on education so. Most are unqualified, all are emotionally involved.

Since we cannot exclude people from voting, well, that everybody can vote, directly on indirectly on almost everything is actually a good thing.
> The average American only made 60K in 2022

The average American does not run an organisation that delivered food for 90 million meals to residents of the greater Boston area last year.

> to the average voter, this salary is obscene

Any salary above minimum wage will seem obscene to the average voter if they're already inclined to dislike the person making the salary. But if you told them what that salary entails, and what Fortune 500 companies pay execs with similar responsibilities, they probably wouldn't think it so crazy.
I wonder if the "attacks by breed" distribution is different for mail carriers?
If you don't mind me asking, are you overweight and/or sedentary or prediabetic ( fasting > 100) ?

My doctor told me that being metabolically unhealthy weakens immune system and excersing and eating healthy will protect from frequent infections.

I don't know what to make of this.
It's the very peculiar, very strenuous insistence that children watch, and participate, as men cavort in women's clothes in a sexually charged manner.

Followed by the vilification of people with quite reasonable concerns as "transphobes" (a fireable, deplatformable, censorable offense) and "Nazis" (who have been deemed acceptable targets of unprovoked violence).

But for that, most Americans would go back to not caring. Regrettably, some don't understand the concept of boundaries or restraint, or think it doesn't apply to them. Possibly because we have many in the media/entertainment industry, government, and education system telling them that they're right.
> Bundle materials into tuition expenses.

Unbundling who the money is paid to is part of the reason this happens. It's socially forbidden for professors, who are white-collar workers, to ask for tips, so making you buy a book you never use of which they get, say, 30% of the price is the only way they can divert more money into their pocket from that of the students. Just see it as a "mandatory service fee".
What political science work is it ignoring?
Which is a parody of INTERCAL? Rust or DreamBerd?
> - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity

Did adults do better than children against SARS-Cov-2 immunity-wise? I would agree in general but I was under the impression that SARS-CoV-2 was a new virus nobody / few people were immune to.

Or did some people have for some reason an immune system prepared against SARS-Cov-2? How? Were there viruses similar enough before?
Ask HN: Why don't governments handle funeral arrangements instead of families?
Wouldn't most people want to save their family the trouble and expense and just have the government take care of their funeral arrangements according to their wishes?
You know, it's not just labor that contributes to economic output. Natural resources and accumulated knowledge and technology contribute too. Both belong to everyone with equal share. Giving people what their share of resources and technology has produced is only fair.
So…cars don’t “filter soot”?
I don't think there is a good way to study this, but one confounding variable I could see is that while kids in schools are fairly obviously great disease spreading vectors in general, the fact that COVID is relatively contagious might have made school spread less of a factor. In other words, for diseases that don't spread as readily, school spread may be a more significant factor since less hospitable environments might not allow them to spread at all or only very slowly.

Since COVID spreads well in all sorts of environments, whether or not school spread was controlled or not would matter less since it would still spread. And while parts of the US did have some pretty strict school closures for quite a while, other things being much less restricted might have meant the spread (or lack thereof) in schools didn't matter much since it was still spreading everywhere else. Whatever one might think of school closing as a policy, arguably the weirdest thing was that even in parts of the US that had more COVID restrictions in general, school closings were a uniquely restrictive outlier while everything else was relaxed. As was pointed out at the time, adults could go to packed bars far earlier than students could go to school. Even if school closings were worth it to control the spread, only closing schools seems like a questionable strategy.
Happy to have as a chip? Sure.

Willing to be shown making effort to that end? That is different.
Here's a weird idea, education should be free
Small-cell (SCLC) is definitely very aggressive and more strongly associated with smoking than non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), I'm not sure about 99% but that seems too high.

It's fairly rare though, the quoted numbers from SEER are 14% but from a clinical perspective most of us that deal with lung cancer feel that's discordant with our practices and likely an overestimate.

In either case, smoker or non-smoker you're far more likely to develop NSCLC with adenocarcinoma being more common than squamous cell (typically only in smokers for the latter but still less common than adenocarcinoma).

The typical adenocarcinoma most people get has a doubling time of roughly 1-2 years.
Thanks for the feedback. It's hard to strike a balance between too little and too much info. And I'm definitely someone who tends to present people with a wall of text. I did the leg work to ensure it works on most Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.

Some of the info is there, but Itch.io might present them after a couple clicks or in a drop down.

But I see what you are saying. I think I might add a couple posts to the forums and link to them on the main page. I could go into depth about which versions of OpenGL are required, etc..

Should I make a Windows ARM build?
Because that's not rarbg, rarbg is "rarbg.to", not rarbg.tw, rargb.to, rarbggo.to, rarbgproxy.to, rarbgmirror.org, rarbgaccessed.org, rarbgget.org
So the vast majority of passenger vehicles (diesel is very small %)…don’t filter soot? Not sure what GP said was accurate then.
Correct. I stay on the ground.
Found it![1]

[1] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA516975.pdf
> “the left" is perhaps too broad a group

When a political system has two parties, this is exactly what one would expect.

The book ban proponents and book editors are likely a tiny fraction of the population.

However in a two party system, they are part of their party.

This is what you get.
It's harder to maintain the workplace status/dominance hierarchy remotely.

A corner office is a useless status symbol when subordinates aren't visibly toiling away in their awful open plan office spaces.
Too late to edit, but here is the paper that I meant: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA516975.pdf. At a mere 12 pages it's an easy read. Needless to say, the military is almost certainly the highest quality source for info on the actual engineering practicalities of GPS.

First sentence of the introduction:

The Operational Control System (OCS) of the Global Positioning System (GPS) does not include the rigorous transformations between coordinate systems that Einstein's general theory of relativity would seem to require
Yikes, that would be a clear sign to me of a... culture fit... problem at work. And I'd immediately begin looking elsewhere.
Last I checked, covid has killed over 1,000,000 Americans, even though pretty strong measures were taken.

Your characterization of this as "hypochondriac" fear is almost unconscionable.
The people seeking to collect him illegally grounded the planes of other nation's leaders to look for him.

That seems like the reason you're missing.
The real power of Mastodon is in following hashtags, more so than following accounts.
If you are constantly exclaiming, you are likely to become breathless. Exclaimations are signified with an Exclaimation mark. Pauses and other timing can be signified with commas, dashes and ellipses.
Hyundai too. Pretty egregious
the state treats everyone equally, so no "according to their wishes"

But i m sure if nobody is interested in the body, a standard burial does take place.
We need to go back to build open protocols. Protocols instead of programs. And then let Open Source and companies build the programs.

That was a fight we had "won" on the days of MP3 (very painful), SMTP, MKV, among others during the 80s and 90s. The fact that people are now more willing to go back to install "real software" (in the form of phone applications) instead of web apps is an opportunity.
Haskell in C++: The IO Monad
That doesn't apply by default. While the US is enabling people to be more litigious, EU will mostly slap you with fines for doing bad things. You have the option to... not do bad things. (Yes, I'm sure there's some odd counterexample somewhere, but this holds in general)
> UBI would, and should, replace current welfare schemes. We already have those in place.

But that would still require a huge amount of additional money if you want UBI to be above subsistence levels.

Otherwise the amount received by current welfare recipients would have to be cut several times. Also what about disabled people and others who can't work? Would they get the same amount as everyone?
To what end? Like I'm not saying that there won't be people doing it, I just don't understand why a company that valued it's employees would be doing sentiment analysis on LinkedIn vs the many other ways they could approach the relationship.

Is the idea that a workforce comprised of people that obey or work around the stupid unwritten rules is going to be more effective?
NL works similarly but without the opt in, i.e. all your assets above a threshold are taxed at a fictitious income level, like it or not. Means they have no capital gain taxes at all.

Makes for great countries to be rich in, but if you’re a high earning low wealth individual like many early-mid career programmers you’ll be taxed to death.
I'm not saying it's not necessary; I'm saying it's not sufficient.

try {
pay();
} catch {
try {
refund();
} catch {
// "must refund the customer" implies we can't reach here
}
}
Having your "page" or "account" reach viral status doesn't matter as much on Mastodon. Most Mastodon users follow hashtags more than accounts. If you use a hashtag that lots of people are already following, lots of people will see it even if no one is following your account.

This makes a lot of sense because instead of seeing everything an account posts, most of which may not be what your are interested in, following hashtags means you will see all posts related to your interests, even if you're not following any accounts.
It is crazy that anyone can make this level of wealth without taking massive risk with their own capital.
But the vaccines have almost certainly prevented, at minimum, hundreds of thousands more deaths.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/report-covid-19-vaccines...
Is there a concept equivalent to US, salary employee? If so what are they expected to work?
More advanced prompt engineering techniques
Summary of more advanced and recent prompt engineering techniques from CoT to Tree of Thoughts, including e.g. RAG, FLARE, and React.
It's worth noting that Bhattacharya was one of the originators of the "Great Barrington Declaration," which advocated dropping almost all measures to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, with the aim of quickly achieving herd immunity through widespread infection. This was in mid-2020, before any vaccine was available. This strategy would likely have doubled the death rate in the United States, had it been implemented. That is to say, this study goes strongly against Bhattacharya's oft-expressed views on how the pandemic should have been handled, and one should approach Bhattacharya's criticisms with a good dose of skepticism.
Perhaps they start at -1 and proceed in both directions
connecting usb-c-only external monitor / vr goggles

so you need to have video signal and power on one usb-c output.
indeed. this is a thorny problem with no perfect solution.

on the one hand, you may throttle promising treatments and on the other hand, you may increase useless treatments.

publishing results is one way to mitigate snake oil, though this obviously doesn't eliminate the problem.

the general framework is to maximize transparency and freedom.

letting people volunteer for national healthcare like they can for the national army increases freedom, but we must also increase transparency to combat snake oil.
Maybe it's only the children who should be allowed to vote on matters that affect them.
Facebook, Instagram, etc. have shown that users are willing to put up with an absurd amount of bullshit and bad apps. While Reddit may lose the crowd who are aware of this whole issue, those users are likely the tip of an iceberg of "I just want to see ~~titties~~ kitties."

Reddit isn't a cozy corner of internet subculture anymore. It was instrumental in getting the orange buffoon elected, for crying out loud.
I also have registered 2 domains for the same account and I have no issues.

I also can't seem to find a fastmail.com domain registered for my account (I know it's probably a default one but I don't see it in my "Domains" settings page).
Do you think these statues are hate speech or obscenity?
Mechanical Tactics for ramping up on large software projects
This critique is by one of the authors of the Great Barrington declaration who argued to just let COVID rip through the entire population before there were vaccines, so take that with a grain of salt too.
> They have been making so many doomsday predictions that all turned out to be completely false.

Citations needed. Remember that we’re aware that the 1990 IPCC report’s predictions were accurate and that the mid-1970s “global cooling” thing was a handful of papers which never had mainstream scientific acceptance and were disproven by the end of that decade, so there’s no point in repeating false claims about either of those topics even if it is popular in certain circles.
The real irony is not noticing that this is the standard way people use ChatGPT and instead saying "you're using it wrong" - which is a convenient holier-than-thou argument that ignores the negative repercussions of this technology that we are literally observing and commenting on. If this is what ChatGPT mostly leads to - a wild amplification of fake news - then it's also ironic that OpenAI is claiming to make the world a better place.

GP did a perfect job of using ChatGPT the way most of the world uses it - as a shortcut for doing any real research or work. This inevitably leads to misinformation being spread and it's palpable how often I see people cite ChatGPT's hallucinations as confirmation of their own bias. I really don't give a fuck about how people should use it compared to how they are using it. You cannot manifest a different reality with aphorisms.

I'm not claiming this is a worthless technology with no positive benefits. I'm saying right now I can already observe enormous negative effects from this technology, and the upside seems relatively underwhelming.
Trillion-Dollar Treasury Vacuum Coming for Wall Street Rally
Loops are a code smell.
> Climate change is not a pressing issue

Where are you getting that image from? We're on a path to 2.0 Kelvin warming which will make large parts of the earth uninhabitable and displace billions of people. How is that not a pressing issue?
I’ve been thinking the same thing - a mix of “CTO on-demand” / “Cloud IT / platform operator” / tech support.

What would your ideal budget range for this role be? Maybe we can find a 5-star person, share out their time among 4-5 people here on HN…
Maybe the government could offer several popular funeral arrangement options that you can choose from.
Their clients are not paying for lawyers to sit on their chairs and click their keyboards. Billable hours is still completed specific work (even though it might not lead anywhere and/or help winning the case/etc. directly)
Those with the most to lose benefit the most from having a just and civil society, but that realization never seems to percolate through.
The US has had the Bill of Rights and its constitutional system / property protection for a long time but only recently has had the degree of NIMBYism that it's had.

It's easy to pretend the bug is actually an important and noble feature, but sometimes it's just a bug that needs fixing.
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