skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If evolution isn't producing cancer in infants, what is?

See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education for one of many contributing causes.

Regardless of the myriads of contributing causes producing such cancers, natural selection eliminates these cancers, especially fatal childhood cancers.

> Your debate approach of declaring my position to be the opposite of what I say is no fun. I'm not going to continue.

The fact that I deduce a statement from your position which contradicts another of your positions is not a bad debate approach but simply an example of the principle of explosion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

That is what happens if you build a strawman: you pretend my argument relies merely on "the existence of a property" ignoring that occurence rates and probabilities actually span a spectrum, from marginally close to the impossible 0% to marginally close to a 100% certain. If the capability to emote bitterness is nearly universal among a species then it is a trait, not "existence of a property".
No. Every similar app (including the here posted Mac Mouse Fix) stops working, when more than one user is logged in at the same time. So I have two user accounts on my mac, one for work one personal and when both users are logged in and the app is started from both users the scrolling stops working all together
What do these prediction markets produce? Some people are saying "yes" and others are saying "no", and the answer is either "yes" or "no", but why bother spending money on predicting when society can spend money on replicating it? Wouldn't an actual replication attempt be more useful?

> The latter is a perfectly reasonable thing to do - it's not easy for an average person to "pay off some lab", but if they provide liquidity to the prediction market they are giving an explicit subsidy for anyone that can answer the question.

Is any of this liquidity going to actual (replication) research, because if it is not, again: what are these markets tangibly producing? Moving a bunch of numbers around a ledger does not seem very useful.
Some HN users habitually repost software release announcements to HN, whether there is anything notable about them or not. And other people upvote it.

Personally I think such posts should be off-topic for HN, unless they come with a bit of commentary or at least something for us to read.
The fact that many if not most of these firms unironically went all in on crypto, and no one got any real consequences for backing what was effectively just brown fat for the economy, makes me unsurprised at the garbage content they produce as well. Clearly many of them made money just by being in the right place at the right time and being lucky.
In Slovenia I remember having had a "smart" landline phone in ~2009 that could send and receive SMS. ISDN?
we are not entitled to it, but it was the sole reason why our team (and it looks like others did too) stopped using alpine and i believe that should be valid feedback to the maintainer.
Nothing of the sort. I think anonymity is a privilege that is granted and can be enjoyed while engaging with society or online however anon chooses, up to the point where anon's actions breaks the law.

edit: In the case described here I am especially unsympathetic for anon as they chose to defame someone's real life identity. In this incident there was no proactive monitoring by gov/law/inc. as you so fear. Instead the wronged had to hire private council and prove the defemation in court a priori. Even after proving the impact to their character the judge's ruling is only tentative, giving anon an opportunity to present facts supporting their claims (and if you read the judge's statement closely, had anon presented evidence, there would have been no basis for the defamation suit and no need for unmasking). And even if there is no facts and anon legit defamed the person, anon may still evade justice given the paltry noncompliance fine Meta would have to pay. So let me ask you, would you like to live in a world where someone could baselessly and maliciously accuse you of rape or other defaming acts without consequence?
If it was well understood what made it difficult, odds are it would be improving fast.
I'm going to be stuck watching videos of these things being delivered all day now.
The issue is there’s zero utility in aggregating knowledge on LK-99 as apposed to simply running these experiments. It’s going to take weeks not decades for someone to replicate it.

Markets are useful when people act more efficiently based on the information, but there’s no efficiency to be gained here.
The available summary of the preliminary injunction doesn't mention the messages themselves, but it does state that the plaintiff is being accused of (sexually) transgressive behaviour by the posts they want to see removed.

It's possible that this is just some abusive asshole using the court to clear their name. It's equally possible that the accusations are all made up and that the person who posted them has a grudge against the plaintiff for rejecting them. We have no real indication either way, other than that the judge believed that there is a chance the plaintiff is in the right.

Either way, I think it's fair to assume something went wrong during a date. I'm not sure what the rest of the parent post is referring to.
Physical changes to building codes and infrastructure have benefited not just those on wheelchairs, but just about everyone else with a wheeled thing for any other purpose. Parents pushing prams and strollers, people moving bikes into parking spots, carrying groceries with wheeled carriers, using mobility scooters, etc.

As others have mentioned: no, it’s the right tack; permanent changes to the built world benefit many and survive whatever byzantine rules might come in place to receiving high-tech wheelchairs from insurance or otherwise.
Because people like this game and release announcements is how things get advertised on the front page.
Yes, I know :)

My comment was ironic, solution like that are not practicable for common users.

The rise of alternative chat platforms (discord, matrix, slack) really demonstrates IRC was too limited.

I will remember it foundly but the era where IRC was the dominent open channel chat platform is at its end.

I just hope Discord will not be it's long term replacement.
> Europe also uses civil law, not common law, so there's no criminal, civil divide like there is in the US.

Agreed, except that Ireland en England are part of Europe.

Also (and I'm not sure on this part) in The Netherlands we have WvSr aka Sr (Wetboek van Stafrecht, criminal law) and there's privaatrecht (aka burgerlijk recht, civiel recht). Subpoenas would be vordering(srecht). Government issue these as well, but it seems to fall under civil law.
Not to take away from your point, but there is a better way than prediction markets, and that's careful objective research by non-experts (https://goodjudgment.com/).

It's been shown that teams of such researchers consistently beat prediction markets on these sorts of topics. Anecdotal evidence suggests it might be that the presence of experts and cultural preconceptions corrupt prediction markets enough to diverge the result from the "wisdom of the crowd" effect.
I don't know about the previous link, but conduit.rs has a Link called "Documentation" at the top of the page.

Installation is downloading a binary, setting up autostart and writing/copying a 10 line configuration.toml.
Wouldn't work if the 2 degrees is not in the orbital plane of Earth. Right?
Note that “bulk” in this context means a single large chunk, not a large quanitity.
I once did some minor patches on the OpenTTD code base, but didn't go far, as I didn't like the code style. (This is no objective critizism, I have an idea where they came from, but just not the style I at that time wanted to deal with for a fun/side project)

I assume the maintainers take pride in it, creating a game which is liked by many is rewarding. Especially if you like the game yourself.

Depending on your day job it can be quite relaxing to deal with other problems.

But if you don't like the genre and don't like the codebase and don't like the people in the community and don't like ... it's probably no fun :) in the end only you can judge for yourself.

One thing is certain: It won't earn you lots of money and it's unlikely to be the reference for a new job. (And therefore takes a work aspect out of it, which to me is good)
Hah, what a strange thing to attack someone over. I’m not sure who “we” is, but I hope you can all move on from this.
LK-99 is a brand new material that almost nobody knows anything about. The market is not a knowledge aggregate, it is vibes based.
And Silicon after Steel
> Europe also uses civil law, not common law, so there's no criminal, civil divide like there is in the US.

Yes, there is a civil/criminal divide, this is not so much related to being civil/common law

(and just because this is HN, see the graph at the bottom of the page for a French example - though they call it civil and penal jurisdiction https://cours.unjf.fr/repository/coursefilearea/file.php/105... )
Actually I was answering to the person demanding pills for sleep quality...
I've always seen libertarians not as pursuers of freedom but as people who want to replace the police with a private security force.

Libertarians want to live in a world where they are accountable to no-one. It's the ultimate conclusion of capitalism: wealth makes right.
Serfdom and (sexual) exploitation for those of us who are not rich.
You can tell curl to read its arguments from a file, in which case a shell won't get to interpret them first, perhaps this feature is aimed at that?
They're producing the wisdom of the crowd, which is a real and highly accurate piece of information. It's quite difficult and expensive to produce information as fast and reliable by other means. And they don't cost much, it's mostly money being moved around.

edit: I interpreted it as asking wether prediction markets in general produce value. In this specific case I'm 100% with you, they're absolutely useless in predicting wether this finding is going to replicate or not.

BTW probably 100% useless is going to be better than trusting a single reply in a HN thread. Even averaging out a group of replies on HN is going to be pretty bad, probably worse than averaging out a group of replies on Reddit.

The idea of wisdom of the crowd is based on the idea that knowledge about a topic (both false and true) is roughly normally distributed (as many things are in nature), so the averaged result of a large group of answers is likely to be close to the real answer, as long as there are no external factors pushing the whole distribution left or right.

Also, the final result is not going to be the answer if it's gonna replicate, but more the odds of it replicating (i.e. the odds of a paper like this being legit). The odds could be 1 in a million, and it still wouldn't affect the reality of LK-99 being super conductive or not.
No silicon age and plastics age?
When someone mentions cold fusion, they are explicitly referencing a net energy-producing process that operates at room temperature. That isn't what you are referencing.
How about this scenario:

I am the PI of a laboratory. I buy up the market and (falsely) announce that I succeeded in replication. Sell and make profit. Then a couple of days later I announce that I made a terrible mistake.

How do you prevent this scenario? I did nothing illegal, I just "not noticed the mistake I made".
I've only seen people get upset when others act like ICs on sports teams. "Ball hog" and the like. I don't think that's a example of one.
The blog post states the feature got implemented because a user wanted to use environment variables for values in configuration file variables.
Absolutely and people might be interested that in this case the prediction market for LK-99 is reacting in real time to new tweets from people trying to replicate. The “yes” spike to 32c yesterday was in response to a twitter account posting an image of a levitating grain in a tube. The credibility of that replication attempt was then evaluated by many and the market backed off afterwards.

There is always a subtle anti-markets theme on many HN debates, likely from highly educated ans literate posters. I believe we still in this age simply don’t provide proper education on the massive benefits that markets bring to so mang problems. They are literally the nervous system of our incredible global organic economy.

In this case, why in world would you have something against prediction markets?

Is it fascinating the risk of a nuclear weapon detonation by December 31st of 2023 is accessed to be around 9%?

If anything we need to liberalize laws around prediction markets. Currently they are relagated to off shore and various backwaters. The CME should be listing tbese types of markets ideally and institutional money hiring top analytical talent would then participate.
Slander and libel are criminal offences in the Netherlands. If a crime had been committed against someone, they should have the means to seek justice.

Normally, you wouldn't need Facebook to disclose any names because Facebook isn't anonymous 99% of the time. There are plenty of anonymous and pseudonymous forums that would be at risk and yes they too have to follow warrants should the court decide against them.

If Facebook wants to stay out of such cases, they should either leave the jurisdictions where such warrants are possible (so planet earth, probably) or they should enforce non-anonymous posts so plaintiffs can sue each other without involving a court warrant first.
That's what they said

> But Tolstoy was an infinitely better literary artist than Dostoevsky could ever hope to be.
Haha. Thanks for introducing me to random.org.
Minor nitpick: the difference between blue and purple is hard to see for us colour-challenged peeps.
Saying an animal destroyed something is an expression of an aesthetic preference.

Saying you don't like it when people say that an animal destroyed something is also an expression of an aesthetic preference.
You're not understanding. The parent commenter said that the link was showing lots of installation options, but the link does not show that. I know there are installation instructions elsewhere, but I was just responding to what the parent was claiming about this link.
It seems like there're so many important deployments of Synapse that they need to keep it going. And I've read that the performance is way better than a few years ago.

At some point Dendrite was slated to support micro services on different machines to be able to scale up, but now they only support monolith deployments. It's aimed at "small" deployments and is used in their P2P efforts.
Would be very interested in any writeups on how NASA anticipates all the thousands of scenarios that can go wrong up-front and prepares for them. Sounds like there might be some useful thoughts there on how to write more resilient software
I was thinking steel reinforced concrete but yeah Aluminium or Silicon would fit here also.
> If you look instead of Price inflation, and instead shift of Market Inflation you will see most of the money supply creation directly lead to stock price inflation and laregely lead to a huge bubble in the stock market (that is largely still there) where basic fundmentals of a company did not matter to the stock prices.

There was (so-called) 'market inflation' in the 1920s when the US was still on the gold standard and so the money supply was fixed. See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

And also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

The supply of money has no relation to the existence of stock bubbles.
It’s so inspiring when you see how these things are just built to last.

quote:
“In the past, engineers have compared keeping the probes operational to keeping an old car running. The tech is severely outdated, yet it keeps ticking over – a trend often seen in the spacecraft of past decades.”

At some point us humans will probably simply have forgotten how to maintain them.
I can conceive of a whole gamut of therapies which I'd rather not be funding with my tax dollars or insurance premiums, but my list is distinct from yours, and it would seem fairly individualized.

So it seems like the best solution is emerging: there are Christian Health Sharing ministries which impose requirements on the morals and faith practices of their members, and they also disallow sharing of costs for treatments which contradict or deny Christian doctrine, as delineated by the ministry's guidelines.

So, people are free to associate with a health sharing plan that is not insurance, and promises to observe the tenets of shared beliefs (Christian or not). It works more like a mutual benefit society.

In fact, there are a significant number of psychotherapists and other practitioners (natural medicine too) who do not accept any form of insurance. The health sharing ministries work with their patients to pay the bills.
SSH client supports searching and selecting servers for batch login
Run `tmux` first, then run `tssh`, you can search and select servers configured in `~/.ssh/config`.

`Enter` to log in selected servers in split panes.

With `tssh -t -o RemoteCommand='ping -c3 trzsz.github.io ; bash'`, you can execute commands on selected servers.
This has given me an idea for an SEO-spam-proof search engine along the lines of Marginalia: crawl the internet for sites with no Google Ads
Good points.

Human dams are also an obstacle to migration and cause habitat fragmentation.
Do not forget the Carbon Fiber age.
Eth was mined mainly on consumer GPUs which as far as i understand, have too little VRAM for most AI training
I'd say that for a couple of generations at least (and perhaps further) those taking part in Guy Fawkes bonfires and fireworks did so because it's the thing you do on that day, not out of some anti-catholic sentiment. So while it's likely a big part of how this "celebration" got started, and everyone will have learned about it all in school, I think the vast majority of people in Britain itself (i.e. Scotland, England and Wales) don't believe or realise they're taking part in something with sectarian roots. I can't speak for how people in Northern Ireland feel, however.

I was never interested in it, really, as I don't like fireworks. I did find it entertaining once when I was a kid, we had just moved to a fishing village and they were struggling to light the bonfire. So some guys poured petrol on the fire, lit a flare and threw it on the bonfire :D
We've also been using the term Machine Learning for a long time to try to avoid this. Using "AI" where "ML" would suffice is just trying to cash in on recent hype for clicks.

Still an interesting result of course.
Another factor is that going to management to get more compensation is a given around many industries. You aren't going to get more where you are if you don't want to move into management, because you won't get more elsewhere either in the same state and they know that. They are not trying to pay you what will keep you happy, they are trying to pay you what will stop you taking your knowledge/experience elsewhere.

You just have to be aware of the market you are locking yourself into. I'm well aware I could be making more as a manager, or even if I let myself be called a “senior” which often overlaps in terms of having some responsibility for people/things in a manager-y way, but I pootle along as I am anyway because I know while I'm not exactly happy ATM I'd be less so the other way and I don't think that the extra compensation would balance that.

We may fall foul of AI in the not too distant future and end up stacking shelves for Tesco, but then again a lot of those management reports and decisions look rather automatable by the same LLMs too, if not more so…
This is fantastic and I may just take you up on it if you're still doing it!
Looks like there are a couple of use cases.

The expansion supports several transformations that can help build values:

"json" outputs the content using JSON string quoting rules.
"url" shows the content URL (percent) encoded.
"b64" expands the variable base64 encoded

Command-line arguments are visible to others (eg, through ps or /proc/<pid>/cmdline) so including a secret directly on the command-line may leak data.

(For context, here's a SO message asking how to avoid that sort of leakage: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3830823/hiding-secret-fr... )

You can use different files for different configurations, rather than depend on (global) shell variables.
Matrix does not need much resources per user or room
But if any user joins a large room with thousands of people, the server will need to keep up with all those state events.

So 100s of users wouldn't be much of an issue if they're mostly in the same room.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve used superconductors (I believe YBCO) when I taught physics lab. We cooled samples down with liquid nitrogen and put them over a magnet. They levitate, but not like in the video that the Korean team released. True superconductors enjoy “flux pinning”, meaning wherever you put them on a magnet, they’ll freeze in that position (or move around an axis of constant flux.) In the LK-99 video that they released, they show that the sample is repelled by a magnet. This seems to contradict the HTS claim and wondered if I’m missing something because surely so many experts can’t be this wrong.

My background is in physics, but not superconductors.
Hmm. But are they really "noted information security experts" though?

I would have thought information security would be incidental and only one of the hundreds of aspects of business that they might look at when safeguarding consumers transacting with businesses of all kinds -- many of which (say plumbing or construction or bakeries) may hardly have infosec at the forefront. There are far more prevalent poor business practices, of the routine type - say deficient services or false advertisements, that I believe go to BBB's attention.

I never came across BBB being quoted/cited in infosec and IT contexts -- it may be just my ignorance -- happy to be educated.
2 days late: but what a lot of the responses did not mention regarding specifically Japanese tourists:

Most people in Japan get very little Paid time off compared to the rest of the world. And the work culture is so toxic that people get shamed for actually taking their time off. Now, taking that into account, can you imagine that a Japanese person, actually fighting against that, and doing that big trip to a foreign city on the other side of the world, at great expense. They chose Paris for it's reputation. Now imagine their disappointment when Paris is significantly worse than Tokyo.[0] After all the money, time, and precious time off spent to get there, I too would have a mental breakdown under those conditions.

[0] Can confirm. I have been to both. Paris is nice as long as you don't look at the floor. (It is the only major city I've been to that had human shit on the side-walk in the middle of a major tourist area) Tokyo is better in all regards. It's cheaper, cleaner, has more things to do, is better run, etc.
> Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature.
Wikipedia

It works at near room temperature.

The goal of the reactor in the video is to produce isotopes. It does the job.
Loved F-117. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in the same league.
That's a misunderstanding of what IC means: "an employee responsible for performing specific tasks or functions within an organization without the authority to manage other employees". Keyword is authority, not leadership or teamplay.

Perhaps we need a better term, but the concept itself is fine.
Jason Oda, who made these (I think entirely by himself), was probably asked to design merch and album covers by hundreds of bands but only ever did one that I’m aware of: Lydia’s This December; It’s One More and I’m Free

It’s incredible (and so is the album)