skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every person I’ve met has had covid at this point

I know a half-dozen people who have long covid at a level it impacts daily life. I believe all were immunized before. For myself, I definitely have reduced lung capacity (e.g. how far I can swim underwater is significantly reduced). I'm not an athlete and it doesn't matter, but if every time I catch covid reduces this by a similar amount, it definitely will add up to where it does matter.

> When you look at the randomized control studies, long covid (excluding those intubated) basically doesn’t exist.

References? We must be reading different studies. As a footnote, there's no such thing as a "randomized control study" here (unless we were willing to intentionally randomly infect people with covid), which suggests you might not be qualified to read studies....

Most studies I see show long covid in the low double-digit percent range.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9978692/ has a nice reference trail.

Click around and you'll see most studies do, in fact, show pretty high levels of prevalence

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=long+covid-...
Besides the other responses so far, consider this: the consequences of mistakes about this are asymmetrical. A doctor could be exactly correct about the probability of "making it up", but the cost to the patient of a missed diagnosis is not balanced by the benefit of correctly dismissing other cases. A conscientious doctor could try to consciously account for this, but there's no feedback making them get it right (and pressures against, in our current reality).

Also, when a patient succeeds in getting a correct diagnosis after trying multiple doctors, the previous doctors generally will not find out about their mistake, so there's a bias against them actually learning the right probabilities: you can expect them to be overconfident on this score.
You can read about Taiwan's system here: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...
would love to hear some feedback
> "because it harms one person ever, we can’t accept it"

Not a single one of the things I mentioned above only affects only a single person. The current harms in America today are sizable enough and severe enough to justify privacy. None of this is niche. If you think that current discrimination is something that only affects one or two people, you are burying your head in the sand.

Anti-discrimination privacy rulings did not get affirmed by the Supreme Court because it was a niche issue. The numerous anti-hate groups today (who all collectively agree with my point of view that modern privacy matters) are not focusing on niche issues. The essential privacy protections that allow for modern advocacy that you seem to take as a given are not niche issues and they affect huge swaths of the population.

Your math is wrong.

> And to be clear, the only person dismissing the holocaust here is you, by equating it to something completely different.

Gosh, you should let the ADL know that they're dismissing the holocaust: https://www.adl.org/resources/news/politics-privacy
> That said, boringcashcow.com has inspired me to try to come up with a simple programming project that could turn over 4 figures a month. It made me realize in software you can just go for base hits, not home runs, and still make plenty of money.

Would you mind sharing more details? Story? What is the app? I am really curious :) If no, that's fine, thanks for the tip anyways. I will definitely check out the website. My biggest problem is coming up with ideas for an app/business.
Sonic Youth were art school asslickers. Their "apology" was performative tribute to buy cred.
It feels like we are well on our way toward the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner hype cycle for ChatGPT. It’s losing users daily. People are saying that it’s gotten worse since launch (don’t know if this is true but it’s what I’m hearing). As far as I know, it hasn’t revolutionized anything except spam generation.
(It was not fun times. It was "hey everyone, all our problems will be solved by adopting XXX" which inevitably introduced a new set of problems which could be solved by only adopting half of XXX and all of YYY, repeat. Now that I think about it, I don't think anything has really changed, except that now the XXX has mutated into a XYZZY, we call it technical debt and then we retire to leave it for the next lot.)
Feeling and performing better after taking an aspirin as opposed to days I did not take it. Effects don't last more than a day.

Clinical trials and online polls convinced me to try homemade probiotics and multivitamins. I can link them once I'm not busy. No idea if they had any effect but might as well include.
> The only reasonable solution is to ban all user tracking now.

And that would impact tiktok how? The whole reason their is extra focus on them is because we can't regulate them effective so your solution would amount to nothing.
Does it give anyone that impression?

It gives everyone that I’ve talked to the impression that the US government is transparently bought off by Facebook and friends.
Never had to do that with Digital Ocean nor OVH
It kind of depends. There's a lot of poor clocks at boot up time, but a continuously running host usually doesn't get too off, too quickly; I've seen some things, but even at 10% fast/slow, you don't have to jump days unless you're checking infrequently.

On the other hand, with virtualization, who knows how long it's really been between clock ticks. Let's say someone suspends a VM for a couple months and then unsuspends it; hopefully the clock is synchronized, but maybe it isn't, and you do need to jump ahead.

I thought I saw in the article that there are failsafes, but the allowed range is still pretty broad. But reporting is going to tend to be dominated by larger values, because smalller jumps are less likely to be noticed or more likely to be considered an accidental change.
I will gladly admit I have no idea on any of those things. I too could not find anything saying it was happening online.
Ask HN: How do you A/B test your landing page?
I've been trying to optimize my side-hustle's landing page for better conversions, and it's been difficult so I'm rolling my own solution w/ some hacky Google Analytics analysis. Curious to hear what solutions other folks are using?
It's not even reasonable for grade school children. They're not banning porn, they're banning books based on phrases taken with no surrounding context. Some character mentioned once in the book is gay? Banned (one of John Green's books is being banned for exactly this).
A researcher wasting his/her time in a promising result is business as usual. An important part of the work is to read papers and decide if they are promising enough to try to informaly replicate them and extend them.

There are a lot of details to consider. Does it makes sense? Who published it? Did that team has a gopd track record? Where was it published? Did somepne else used the paper as a base for a new paper? How long/much would it take to try?

Only after that, researches decide to try it or just send it to the paper bin.
> I admit I didn't RTFA but please, Hypothesis of interstellar trade.

This is a very interesting comment because it tries to nitpick the difference between "hypothesis" and "theory" without either understanding the difference, or checking which one applies to OP. A theory is a logical framework with initial assumptions (axioms) and rules of inference. If one creates a model for interstellar trade and discusses its assumptions/implications it is then a theory. I don't know what "hypothesis of interstellar trade" would even mean. This would be like seeing "Group Theory" and saying it should be "Group Hypothesis"... It doesn't seem clear to me what you're implying the article may even be about.

I know that many people will consider this comment snarky, but I truly think one of the issues in human communication is attempting nitpick something without comprehensively understanding it. Human communication is flexible, nebulous and ambiguous. Nitpicking communication willy-nilly does more harm than good, imho.
Man if you just return your phone once a year is that free upgrades forever? Assuming the phone costs stay the same as they improve yearly
For accuracy most of these discussions revolve around the dichotomy between China and EU+US but in reality if we look at emissions per capita the real outliers are the Gulf countries, Australia, US, Canada (in that order).

So lets not forget about the Gulf countries and Canada/Australia role and responsability in our public discussion on this matter.
I believe it has been found that the new h1 inhibitors like Allegra can inhibit TNF-a, so it could technically work on several inflammatory diseases.

This is what some biologics do.

I have spoke to people who had improvement after doing an antihistamine protocol. In the long covid/cfs space.
In my area most of these boxes have been painted artistically, and often very attractively, I suppose to prevent graffiti. It's always nice to see one I haven't noticed before.
Aha. I was thinking you were suggesting it be trained by the campaign. I'm usually bearish about how LLMs are being used, but if you created a corpus of legit sourced documents that humans could peruse, and added a feature to the LLM that allowed it to cite which document(s) it used to answer a question, that would be quite interesting.
You're misreading the text. The K-6 references are about banning teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity. The parts about "Age appropriate books" are specifically for all school levels K-12 (scroll down in the statute to find the twelfth grade reference). I guarantee you that these books were not on the shelves in K-6 libraries.
Jails are tricky and require third-party (?) tools and scripts to manage them effectively.

Docker is a third party tool. People use third-party tools and scripts to manage them effectively.

Having done jails for years and now having to get comfortable with Docker for $DAYJOB, there's not a huge difference in complexity, just different complexity, as long as you actually learn the tools.
I have a custom glass shower door that I bought at a discount because someone returned it. Not to Lowe's though. It was some local tile shop.
It's not a practical possibility. The black hole wouldn't last long and would be too small to actually absorb anything. It's the equivalent of asking if a nuke would set the atmosphere on fire.

Even a "large"ish primordial black hole would probably just pass straight through the Earth without anyone noticing.

Strange matter on the other hand...
I suspect this is the case of a retailer prisoners dilemma - if one retailer offered no-questions-asked returns and one did not then the one offering returns would get a lot more business. If neither of them offered unlimited returns they'd both be better off, but as soon as one offer it (defects) then they both have to do so.
That is a graph of the official exchange rate, set by the government and not moved by the market

Every day the government moves devalues the peso gradually.

If you search for a graph of the market valued dollars (MEP, CCL, Blue, etc) you'll find they look a lot more spiky

This one in Alphacast (a platform for economic data) compares the blue dollar to the MEP dollar https://www.alphacast.io/p/lisandroiriarte/charts/dolar-mep-...
While this Windows feature does sound quite bonkers as described, it is also baffling to me that the timekeeping on computers is such a mess; would it really be that difficult to have my multithousand dollar computer keep time at least as well as a dollar-store quartz watch? Have time already set in factory, and be correct to within few hours at least; enough to do networking and more accurate time syncing safely.
Thank you, reading now - do genuinely want to know. I understand how my message came across, but I do intentionally reflect how many attempts there have been to change the paradigm so far.
It is called "curation". Libraries are finite, pretending it is some awful act that they remove books is just stupid US culture war nonsense.

Libraries regularly remove books and buy new ones. It isn't some great evil that they don't include a certain book.

There are dozens of stories like this "X book is BANNED" and then it is literally some library not buying it.
It's even easier now than 12 years ago when I started. Better tooling, more efficient pre-trained models, and the whole prompting paradigm that makes a month long task doable in a day. You don't have to label as much as before, or not at all.

When you train small models on small datasets you get very bad out-of-distribution results, but when you use these LLMs they have already seen everything on the web so they are not as often OOD.
Just don’t get stuck thinking about it, that’s going to be your biggest barrier, realistically.
I haven’t checked lately, as cars have become better at crashing, but it was my understanding that putting on a helmet while driving/riding in a car is actually a really good idea, as car accidents are a leading(#2 in the below report, after falling) cause of head trauma.

Here is a link supporting that idea:
https://www.brainandspinalcord.org/motor-vehicle-accident/
So what your saying is the USA social media companies behave completely differently?
Or maybe the guy is actually conservative
Age inappropriate according to whom? I can think of all sorts of stuff that’s objectionable in places like Florida but perfectly fine elsewhere. Example: a story with a gay character might flip out Ron Desantis but not raise an eyebrow in Berkeley.

No one wants age inappropriate stuff. We just have some wildly different ideas of what that means.
I don't see any mention of Valtrex there. The point is, multiple studies have been done for antivirals in ME/CFS, and there is no difference in fatigue between arms.

EBV, HHV6 and HHV6 tend to reactivate during stress, but don't typically cause symptoms. I think what we're seeing in ME/CFS is this reactivation, but it's not necessarily what is causing the problem (if it was, antivirals would help, but they don't).
This is not true. It is possible for two observers inside the event horizon to send signals to each other. It's just that those signals cannot be sent to any radius larger than the radius they originated at.

The only danger to a human would be the tidal forces. For a supermassive black hole, the tidal forces at the event horizon are quite modest, so you really would not notice it when you passed across the event horizon. It's only when you get close to the singularity that the tidal forces tear you apart.
I’m getting Noria[1] / Materialize / Readyset vibes from this, or perhaps even Samsa[2] ones. (Incidentally, I’d appreciate it if anyone could elaborate on the differences between the two.) Explicit inspiration? Parallel evolution?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615085

[2] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/03/04/turning-the-database...
Yeah I should try pumping up my D levels. I take 2,000 IU/day plus mid-day sun exposure but it doesn't hurt to try it. From what I've read, short term Vit D doses can be pretty high without causing an issue.
If the message originated from twilio there would probably be an argument that that’s “online”
Great technology, works fine, at least 10-20 years old now.
Stock at a big tech company is incredibly unlikely to suddenly end up worthless. Let's say your base pay is $160k and you have $240k in RSUs vesting each year. It would be ridiculous to take another offer of $250k or $300k cash elsewhere. Maybe at $350k you might prefer straight cash. Someone else's cutoff might be at $375k.

In the end, you can't ignore it.
No sandbox is ever going to be truly secure. An enemy nation's app on a work phone with access to sensitive, maybe even classified data? No no no.
Is there a similar economics paper on interplanetary trade? The abstract seems to mention one.
> in particular, copper sulfide — were responsible for the sharp drops in electrical resistivity and partial levitation over a magnet, which looked similar to properties exhibited by superconductors.

Is this effect novel and/or potentially useful as a material?
I started working at a prominent AI company in 2020 with no formal background in AI/ML. I was able to bring outside understanding of language and theory of mind into use with large LLMs and create a role as a prompt engineer. My résumé was basically doing interesting things and helping make their models more useful.

Even though I'm not a formal researcher, I've been able to contribute to research projects and be included in papers because the field is so new.

The most important criteria I look for when I interview applicants is what they have built. Github repos, papers even cool Product Hunt projects can have impact.
A section 1983 suit seems reasonable, but I don’t think that happens much outside of voting rights, and outside of the feds bringing the case. But I am no expert.
These things can be weaponized by changing the definitions so I'm not as inclined to trust a model that could be trained by those with ulterior motives. But to your question: There were books available to me in late grade school and middle school that had sexual acts and they're (rightfully in my opinion) considered classics or at least important reading. Some parents might consider those inappropriate and if they had their way I might not have been exposed to those works until much later when their impact would have been vastly decreased.

This idea that sex or sexual acts are inherently "bad" is puritanical thinking and doesn't really serve anyone's interests who has to participate in the real world where sex is part of the fabric of our existence. If parents want to impose a puritanical mindset on to their children that's their business and maybe a compromise is that they should be able to exclude their kids from reading certain material just like they can excuse them from learning sex ed.
Can anyone recommend one that would work over a local WIFI network without internet access?
The government doesn't manifest out of the ether though, remove the current government and the next oppressor takes residence. Russia needs societal change, not just governmental.
This logic can go forever though. Oh you care about fast fashion but you’re not vegan? Oh you’re vegan but you don’t donate half your paycheck to orphans with disease? Oh you donate but not your kidney to a stranger?
Well the left side of the political isle has also became increasingly critical of him since 2016 when he briefly worked at the White House. He went from being a darling fighting climate change to an evil villain almost overnight.
>"A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved".

Nice.

Any idea if this has been used in a video game? maybe like Eve?
Show HN: Lamp – Crank – Piston – Tappets – Valves [video]
I would’ve. I was deep into Stephen King at that age.
Mr Harrisville having fun.
> and states where no amount of money can get your child gender affirming care. Tomorrow traveling for that care might be a felony too.

States that do allow your _child_ to get that kind of care are the outlier, not the norm and match the situation in most of the rest of the world. In most of the rest of the world there is an age requirement and usually it's at least 16 and parental consent is still required usually.
Are you also the writer of https://grugbrain.dev/?
News cycle? Maybe if you count Twitter as tabloid.

When the hype came people here were asking: 'why western labs and traditional media are so passive?'. Then Nature came with article telling people to calm down. People here called Nature and peer reviews to be in decline.
What's inaccurate about it?
Abortion Pill Access Preserved by Appeals Court, with Limits
But, a lot of those studies weren't using pure LK-99 but samples with lots of copper sulfide mixed in.
Homebrew install not working??

brew install --cask modern-csv
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
####################################################################################################### 100.0%
Error: Download failed on Cask 'modern-csv' with message: Failure while executing; `/usr/bin/env /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/4.1.5\ \(Macintosh\;\ arm64\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 13.5\)\ curl/8.1.2 --header Accept-Language:\ en --retry 3 --fail --location --silent --head https://t6a3m9g6.rocketcdn.me/release/ModernCSV-Mac-v2.0.2.d...` exited with 6. Here's the output:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: t6a3m9g6.rocketcdn.me
I understand the math, but waste and pollution are two different things.

There may be exponentially more waste, but if that waste would consist solely of heat that could be dissipated to the outside of the sphere (we're still discussing the Dyson Sphere structure), then there need not be any pollution at all.

I understand that it is impossible to ever reach 100% efficiency in harvesting energy. But in principle, if the inefficiency would be in the form of heat only, then one might easily dissipate more than 100% of that, and we'd even cool down. Note the use of the word "easily" in a context where we're actually building Dyson spheres.

Unfortunately, this is all very hypothetical, and perhaps that is the source of our confusion here. Building a Dyson Sphere will probably not start in our lifetimes, and present energy sources tend to do pollute our atmosphere, so there are still some practical problems to solve :/
Am I misremembering this? I thought a malware researcher reverse engineered the iOS app and said it was uniquely bad, or something to that effect.

I can’t find the link, maybe I’m crazy…
Yes, definitely. I am a generalist SWE, learned ML through Jeremy Howard's course and transitioned to the ML team at my company. 98% of ML in the real world is building a robust software system to support the models. The last 2% is actually modeling and simple models go a long way.
Skepticism here is warranted - the history of things that look like this in our space isn't fantastic. We've put a lot of engineering into trying to create something that is a power tool, and flexible enough to solve hard real world problems. It's early, and we've got lots of work to do, but that's the goal.
Remember that Strange matter is only dangerous assuming a specific range of values for its surface tension, otherwise it's harmless and doesn't catalyze the conversion of normal matter into Strange matter.
God save the faithful. Seems like a fair deal to me.
Can a state impose a tax on certain crop or product production within its jurisdiction?
> out of precaution I'd still rather not be the one to test the long-term effects of cooking with those on humans.

At this point that experiment already happened on previous generations, yah?

I want further research and restrictions on these things, because even the marginal effects on populations of billions means millions of people harmed, but we're so many decades in that "only beginning to understand" seems a bit overstated - if the effect size was hugely toxic wouldn't we have seen it by now (like cigarettes). Life expectancy plateauing or starting to tail off is not great, but there are a lot more obvious causes for a lot of that, and it's not critical yet.

I would rather be more proactive about new stuff in general than focused retrospectively on PFAS.
>I can think of all sorts of stuff that’s objectionable in places like Florida but perfectly fine elsewhere

Can you name a tittle that Florida has removed from public schools but you feel is appropriate?
Nothing in these discussions is about "outlawing" smartphone usage.

I do support regulation of production, trade and disposal of the products you mention, though.