skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Aunt was killed by the flu. She had a pre-existing unknown heart-condition and despite her healthy lifestyle the flu weakened her heart enough that she needed a heart-transplant in her early 20s. She died at age 27.

I tell this story whenever it is possible, to educate people about what the flu is capable of doing, whenever someone says the flu is "no big deal." Statistically, perhaps not. Unless you're the statistic that is.
Every single book is “banned” from “somewhere” in the US, so your 1) is true, but vacuously so.
Working from home with my desk in my bedroom, I grew to hate the always-on, bright blue LED on my USB-C laptop dock. I get it, you're plugged in, go away and take your light pollution with you.
These look like to be the non-enhanced scans. Compare https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/217878648... and https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/70f4b600092729ee3a719066227d7... (from the article https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/26/apollo-space... )
Lol. My response is "No. I do not like or dislike reddit."
I wonder what the methodology is. If I mail a copy of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" to some NYC school, and they decline to devote library space to it, does that mean it's "banned"? Or does it require an existing inclusion, and subsequent politically-motivated "banning" by upset parties?

Glancing at the list, it looks like quite a bit of the usual leftist propaganda, but also some bland stuff like "14 Cows for America". No one is really "banning" that in a sincere way. You want "banned" look for some David Irving down at your public school library.
> Isn't there a theory that any nootropic substance needs to have a downside or we would have naturally evolved it by now?

Couldn't that be applied to all modern technology? Humans obviously weren't meant to fly or we would have evolved flight; therefore airplanes bad. Why is this any different? Evolution is an extremely blunt force with only so many tools at its disposal. Besides, there would need to be selective pressure for being happy and content with life, even into late adulthood. Is there? That's not clear at all.
It was that now it's yet another content mill slowly being filled with Conde Nast clickbait and garbage articles.
I didn’t have anything early (I’ve never caught it despite multiple direct exposures, but I rarely get sick from anything anyway), but both my wife and son-in-law came back from separate business trips in late January/early Feb 2020 with all the classic symptoms. Both subsequently caught Covid in 2022 and both described the experience as very similar to their 2020 experiences.

No way to know for sure if it was Covid in 2020 since no testing at the time of their illness, but I would not be willing to bet against the possibility despite all the “it would have been impossible due to…” theorizing some folks have said on this thread.
Okay. But no complaints about burning huge amounts of coal then.
So, is it HuggingFace or Amazon? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326069)
> A few of the top voted comments

Not the top comment. My point was to show that the threads now have highly upvoted comments like that, which was not the case for the initial blackout.

And how is it possible not to cherry pick when picking examples? Would you rather have me pick completely random comments and say "one of these may show what I'm talking about but I don't know"?
.... written by a geoscientist. There are limits on the ability to transfer knowledge between domains (although this doesn't mean the geoscientist is necessarily wrong, and often even amateurs can find big problems with papers that got through peer review).
Covid-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

From [0]:

> Through DivErsity pArtitioning by hieRarchical Clustering-based analyses,5 the newly emerged coronavirus was deemed not sufficiently novel but is a sister virus to SARS-CoV, the primary viral isolate defining the species. The SARS-CoV species includes viruses such as SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV_PC4-227, and SARSr-CoV-btKY72. SARS-CoV-2 is the newest member of this viral species. The use of SARS in naming SARS-CoV-2 does not derive from the name of the SARS disease but is a natural extension of the taxonomic practice for viruses in the SARS species. The use of SARS for viruses in this species mainly refers to their taxonomic relationship to the founding virus of this species, SARS-CoV. In other words, viruses in this species can be named SARS regardless of whether or not they cause SARS-like diseases.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7133598
I remember being told the story of the two programmers. One was fast, a real code generating machine. Course he shipped with errors, lots of errors. He didn't document any of this code. But the bosses just loved the guy.

Then there was the guy who was slow, but thorough. Part of that extra time was writing tests and doing lots of documentation. When he shipped there were never any errors, just send it to production. So when times got hard naturally it was the slow programmer who the bosses laid off.
Tricks Dr John Campbell uses to spread DISINFORMATION on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQC0tTECvQ
"In our system"?

As if there is a system that catches, charges, prosecutes and/or convicts everyone who breaks the law.
There was - a major one.

But Twitter killed ALL the third party apps beforehand.

Meanwhile the fact that Twitter's valuation has dropped so badly since Elon brought it shows the effect these individual protests had.
You beat me to it: "Liar! There's no Chicken Cannon on the $5 note!" (there should be, though)
I’m sure the millions that died are also frustrated our rights were infringed temporarily due to…fear.
Nice work! I’m really interested in this but I made the unfortunate mistake of tying all my apps to MS SQL a long time ago. I might still pick this up for future projects.
Although that is of course true, it's unclear how you translate that into policy. The ideal would be for the city to remove badly behaving people (regardless of homeless status) from public spaces and allow the well-behaved people to go and remain there. In practice, however, the city is unable to make that distinction, and a badly behaving person will, even if removed, return, resulting in the denial of access to the general public.
UFOs…maybe? At least some high profile government people are saying they exist.
Of course, a lot of strawman arguments are...
>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tj5WQVBmB6SQg-zP_M8u...

Why are you posting google doc links? These things are made to track you. Do not ever click such a link or share it. Absolutely one of the worst ways to share information.

In any case, when was the last time a book printer faced criminal charges for printing a book? A book reader for reading a book? A shop for selling a book?
Listening to Jigar Shah, head of the DOE loans program, indicated part of the reason it's so expensive to build NPPs is that each nuclear power plant is a bespoke operation and requires a ton of custom work, planning and certification, etc. The suggestion he made was to create a basic design that you can just copy-paste where suitable, allowing you to leverage economics of scale. This would seem at least at first glance to align with the recommendations in the article.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/jigar-shah-on-the-does...
Educative comment!
[Cries in outdated kernel]

One of the fascinating curiosities you're missing out on is Pressure Stall Information (https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html). Here's what the PSI gauges look like in htop when kernel support is available:

PSI some CPU: 0.37% 0.78% 1.50%
PSI some IO: 0.38% 0.33% 0.25%
PSI full IO: 0.38% 0.31% 0.23%
PSI some memory: 0.02% 0.04% 0.00%
PSI full memory: 0.02% 0.04% 0.00%
I don't think that's the case.

Where is "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein banned in the US by a state, local, or federal government?
Similar wisdom about arguing with your wife: Do you want to be right or happy? /i
Interesting... full time trader here and consider myself expert on trading vids/books/educational materials. The good traders i know have 2 things in common, they lost a lot of capital starting out (even after doing lots of sim/paper acct/replay trading) but logged mistakes and avoided repeats and (2) they understood that this is similar to learning violin, tennis, Russian or C++ in 1 respect, you have to read a little and practice a lot, reading Galamian by itself won't give you good intonation or RH technique on violin.

I was thinking about this yesterday, whenever i need to learn specifics about futures, options or commons, I go to /r/futures /r/options etc and read a lot of threads but what do i do if they're not there? So i'll be watching this if it develops further. I do see problems getting "experts" to divulge broker statements or trading live.
Yes, I definitely want my small GUI app to distribute a gigantic runtime and consume gigs of memory.
It is simply not possible for me to disagree harder with everything you said.

I don't think at all about editing text. Using vim is so natural, and so, so much faster.

I watch my mouse-bound colleagues when they screen share on an almost daily basis. It's painful to watch. I am far faster with vim.
Funnily enough there is also Reddit ReVanced, but with enough effort Reddit or YouTube could stop them working, so their existence doesn't change the argument about free/open APIs.
IBM compensates for errors, gets usable results out of quantum processor
It’s just XML
They can produce HTML and transform python into php etc.

So why not? It’s easy for them no?
But it's not, the head of the WIV even stated how unexpected it was for a SARS outbreak to happen in Wuhan and area not endemic to SARS like coronaviruses. If they wanted to be near the source they should have built it in Yunnan or even Guangdong where the last one broke out.

The lab is there for the same reason there are labs in Boston or NYC. Proximity to major research institutions
Just one more example of the Long Tail to add to the pile:

I'm a tabletop roleplayer (have been one for over 4 decades). I have more content legally available to me now than I ever have before. I've recently bought (ebook) copies of obscure RPG material from the 70s that I've been looking for for years. I can easily find quality content for current RPGs (like D&D 5E) even if it's extremely nich, and simultaneously and I buy great new material explicitly written for for AD&D's First Edition!
> Slamming into the back or coming through the side of a semi-trailer is not something that just happens to "dangerous drivers". It is something that can happen to anyone placed in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It's certainly an avoidable mistake, especially on an open highway where the trailer was 'edging slowly' out into traffic. Failing to avoid it results in danger. The article doesn't even mention extenuating circumstances such as a blind turn or something, but even if that were the case, the situation would simply require extra caution to successfully navigate the dangerous area.

"Dangerous" doesn't have to mean intentionally so or that the driver was reckless; the danger could simply be in lacking the experience to recognize the danger that exists.
I'm also disappointed. I hoped it would help me understand palato-alveolar ejective fricatives and how they differ from voiced retroflex lateral approximants.

Back to the drawing board!
Obviously Musk thought it was a fair valuation since he paid it. He then decimated the company value by saddling it with unsustainable debt, chasing off advertising revenue and lighting the brand on fire, none of which have anything to do with COVID.
Reformed Protestant schools in The Netherlands have banned books with curse words, heavy language, sex, occultism and magic. You are not going to find any Harry Potter books there.

School books, the ones you learn from during the curriculum, are also heavily edited so that Christian school still buy them. Bikinis, short skirts, tattoos, female pastors, dinosaurs, astrology, everything is left out of the books out of fear that Christian schools will not buy them. Publishers are very careful with what they put in their books.

https://www-bnnvara-nl.translate.goog/joop/artikelen/uitgeve...
It is perhaps noteworthy that this is the writing form that a lot of mainstream news articles take (advantage of?).

I also am not a fan of it, but I must confess I do enjoy seeing it used in the other direction.
I do. Public information doesn't mean compiled and available upon request.

I understand that every conversation I have outside my home is public, but that doesn't mean I have to support every one of those conversations being recorded and delivered to anyone who requests it
Somewhere, the gods of propaganda and susceptibility are chortling with delight at how easily even ostensibly smart people can believe things based on very limited data.
My sweet spot right now is Vim + i3 (or sway) + udxvtd and a fixed trackball on the desk
> Until relatively recently in the US, "banning books" was widely considered one of those morally reprehensible things that only authoritarian governments did, and people were outraged that the US did it at all.

This is why I loathe the “book banning” activists, because their entire goal is to confuse people by using deliberately misleading language.

The fact of the matter is that nowhere in the US has any book been successfully banned by any government in recent memory, in the dystopian, authoritarian sense understanding of the term “book banning”. Activists simply decided to call removing books from school libraries “book banning” to deliberately induce misapprehension that this sort of dystopian, authoritarian shit is reality, when it simply is not the case.
Figuring out what we did wrong and what we can do better is important. This isn't going to be the last global pandemic.
Where is bias – the model or the prompt?
I’m so confused. Book bans in authoritarian nations mean that you can’t purchase the book because the government prohibits it. Is that happening anywhere in the US today?
>This just comes across as a last-ditch effort to try to prove me wrong lol

Yeah, because all the other ironic examples (amounting to "just stop having the problem") you non-ironically agreed to variations of, were such well established solutions...
I mean, McDonald's does have coffee. I wouldn't say that is incorrect.
I remember reading most of those back at the time they were written.

The main one I recall for claims of not being open was that the drafts at the time had markup for marking things such as "use Word 6 line spacing" and "use WordPerfect 7 paragraph wrapping" or similar. The claim was that since those formats and behaviors were not openly documented having elements for them made OOXML not open.

That was a questionable claim for a couple reasons.

First, that markup was not there for use in newly made documents, and new word processors (including those from Microsoft) were not expected to implement it--they were expected to ignore it.

What it was there for as archiving.

For example at the time WordPerfect was pretty much the de facto standard for legal documents. Many legal publishers and large law forms stored all their documents as WordPerfect files, and had tools to manipulate those documents outside of WordPerfect. Those tools were based on reverse engineering of the WordPerfect formats.

These places had large archives of WordPerfect documents. Suppose they wanted to move to a more current, better documented archive format such as ODF or OOXML. It would be possible to write a converter that would turn a WordPerfect document into an ODF or OOXML document and change their internal document tools to understand ODF and OOXML, but since Star Office's and Microsoft Office's formatting options were not a superset of WordPerfect's that conversion would be lossy.

The straightforward way to deal with that is to find some way to add some extra data when you do that conversion to record what WordPerfect formatting options that you could not map to ODF/OOXML were in effect at a given point in the document. Make your tools understand the extra data your converter adds and then your tools can reproduce accurate copies of the originals when needed.

There were multiple parties that would be doing that. It would be silly for them to each come up with their own way to add that extra data. Some might make it custom tags. Some might make custom attributes. Some might do it with comments. Or CDATA. It would be much nicer if all the people who were extended ODF or OOXML to archive WordPerfect documents used the same way to add that extra information. That would make it easier if they ever wanted to exchange archived WordPerfect documents.

And that's what things like use "WordPerfect 7 paragraph wrapping" were: Microsoft saying "You all who have reverse engineered WordPerfect and want to mark in your document archives that some document uses some WordPerfect specific formatting, mark it this way". They did this for a bunch of older word processor and spreadsheet formats.

Second, I believe they took this out of a later draft.
This sounds relevant to what the Oxide Computer guys are doing (the Cantrill Crew, the Keepers of the Solaris Flame, etc). They're building AMD EPYC servers open-source style, and it sounded like they were making some headway in getting AMD to allow alternatives to the "proprietary vendor blobs" way of doing hardware.
S3 is dirt cheap. And you can use it drag-and-drop from the AWS web console if you like.

AWS CLI is also dead simple to pick up for S3.
Plenty complain, and coal is being rapidly paced out.
What rights are those? Do all humans share these rights regardless of geographical location or geopolitical affiliation?
A stellar example of adhominem in the wild.

Attack the argument not the person.
Apologies for the shameless plugin. I generally don't do this, but I just thought our product might be relevant for the use case you mentioned. We do not compete with Credal, but at Adaptive [1], we have been building a platform that helps with infrastructure access management and allows users to automatically generate and collect evidence, especially for CC5 and CC6 (logical access). Vendor security questionnaires become easy to answer when we, as an organisation, use our product.

We have seen reproducibility and access auditability in organisations that adopt products that access schema and metadata from databases, compute infrastructures, etc. comforts customers. Your customers care about security incidents like unauthorised access, privilege abuse, accidental operations, insider threats, etc. on the vendor's side which in my opinion are real threats.

[1] http://adaptive.live
I think your p value is pretty good here
AMD doesnt have to implement CUDA api, they just need to make sure their compute framework works well with pytorch/tf/MLIR or whatever high level framework is being used.

Cuda itself will change over time, so no reason for AMD to pick cuda, because nobody writes CUDA kernels by hand, they use high level frameworks
But if the product is mostly monetized by ads, how can we expect that they let people use the API for free to create an alternative front end that gets rid of the ads? Reddit isn't Wikipedia.
yea, everyone here is acting like Twitter is the only company doing this. The news has all kinds of stories about large commercial properties being surrendered to lenders, people backing out leases. etc

Commercial Real Estate in many cities is in a death spiral
When you first starting Vim motions you’ll be putting thought into it, because it takes time to develop your muscle memory and learning where the motions are useful. But once you get going, it feels so much faster than using a mouse.

Just being able to use a keystroke to copy or replace text inside a set of parenthesis is so much faster than clicking and dragging your mouse cursor inside the set of parenthesis.

Not sure who is collecting the data on Vim motions being faster than mouse, but just from experience it feels way faster and more satisfying than using a mouse.
AMD Widens Server CPU Line to Take Bites Out of Intel, Arm
Wow, they included NDAs! Amazing!

See my previous comment about the problem of overly broad NDAs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=epicureanideal&next=...
The way to build standardized nuclear plants is for the reactor maker to build merchant plants, operate them, and sell the output into competitive power markets. It's like SpaceX building and operating their own vehicles, and how many renewable and natural gas power plants work.

It's just that no such merchant nuclear plant has ever been built anywhere. There's a serious lack of dog food here.
Thinking Deductively to Understand Complex Software Systems
We’ll Miss the Vulture
Are Gas Stoves Causing Asthma?
The fact that they own and operate a lot of sites that present themselves as part of the secondary market, and sell first-release tickets there, is not widely publicised; nor is the fact that many of the bullshit fees they attach to ticket sales are actually at the artist's request and paid to them.
The logic doesn't follow.
There are plenty of complaints about burning coal. I don't think I've seen an article arguing for that, and if I did I would imagine people would be very against the idea.
Yup. Is there a good/forgiving "drunken JSON parser" library that people like to use? Feels like it would be a useful (and separable) piece?
> Why are you posting google doc links?

Because that's the way the organization makes the information available. Is Google docs on topic?

> In any case, when was the last time a book printer faced criminal charges for printing a book? A book reader for reading a book? A shop for selling a book?

You forgot: "A book owner for owning a book."

School librarians in the US face prison time for owning books in parts of the US. Has anyone actually been prosecuted for those laws? Not yet, they are new laws.

Has anyone decided to stop owning books because those laws exist? Yes, absolutely.

The government telling you what books you can own, and if you do not comply, threatening you with prison is absolutely a thing that's factual in the US.
Not everything - the code blocks take the full width of the page and break the reading flow so hard.

Also the font title is just huge and so bold. Even on a narrow window.
use vscode with the neovim plugin. it has visual debugging built in and you can bind whatever command in vscode to a command in neovim if you want.
Where did you see that? I saw where they explicitly state that is not what they mean:

>Namely, they are not and have not been about the physical removal of a book from a shelf.
The biggest problem I see, as someone who has tried to get a heat pump installed in both residential and commercial settings, is that the trades are very, very slow to change. They have, by and large, built their careers on burning natural gas and are not willing to entertain the idea that it isn’t necessary, particularly where the new product requires less maintenance which is their bread and butter. It will change, but oh so slowly.
I don’t understand, if API apps not displaying ads is the problem, why Reddit doesn’t include ads in the feed and make displaying them part of the terms for access. They could even have a revenue sharing agreement with the app developers.
Let's say we go with your dystopian wishes and round them all up and ship them off to some other place - with all the problems that then causes just ignored.

Someone now loses their home after that - let's say to a fire and they didn't have it insured for that because the house insurance market is either dysfunctional or close to it in some parts of the US. You now have 1 homeless person again. Do you also ship them off again?

Do you just forever keep shipping off the unlucky and downtrodden people to some other place?

What if they lost their house, but have insurance paying soon, the insurance company is just dragging their feet for a few months. They will be fine, they will be able to pay for a new house or rebuilding. But until then they might be without housing. Ship them off anyways?