skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that guy.

I'm going to simplify this for you. At the start, media and proponents used a mantra saying the covid vaccine is "safe and effective".

This was a lie, no question, at the time it was said. The safety trials are dubious at best, and CLEARLY no long term safety tests could have been done since there wasn't a long term span of time between when it was created and released.

So they lied. Exaggerated heavily at best.

If I catch someone lying, I don't trust them anymore. End of story. And if you can say a lie over and over, about a person's health, with a straight face, you are a sociopath IMO, not just a liar. Thus, the discussion is over for me.

When I listen to doctors and phds that are covid vaccine skeptics, they make sense to me. When I listen to proponents, they seem like shills at best and evil liars at worst.

You live your life your way and I'll live it my way. But I will leave the country (Poland or Mexico, both will allow bribes to bypass any government idiocy) before someone gets me to inject something into me I don't agree with. Luckily it didn't get to that because I'm self employed.
I'm not made of money, but I wouldn't even take the vaccine for $100k. I might consider it for $1million, but I'd consider it a massive personal failure of mine. That's how strongly I feel about it.
I thought the wording of the headline ("to say...") was a nod to the others having walked back similar claims.
> What I wish is to build a `Wasm-like` IR so that is what anybody target, and `SQL` is not the mediator.

Hey Mario, I believe I referenced this when we were working together, but one attempt at this was/is MonetDB's "MAL" VM: https://www.monetdb.org/documentation-Jun2023/dev-guide/mone...

It's a fairly minimalistic somewhat assembly-like ("Monet Assembly Language", MAL) virtual machine that executes both program flow and relational algebraic operations (against purely binary relations, from which they are able to compose higher arity relations): https://www.monetdb.org/documentation-Jun2023/dev-guide/mone...

It's not a bad place to start from as an idea.

SQLite itself has a virtual machine, but it's just too highly specific for its own storage engine and transaction model

Another approach is what Umbra does, which is (in some circumstances) to generate a query plan in the form of LLVM intermediate representation and then compile it down to native code (one could also compile to web assembly, I suppose, if you love the crappy performance :-) ). That works best for longer-running analytical queries, and they have other approaches for shorter, ad-hoc transactional ones

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00778-020-00643-4 gets into it.
> The road is in use 24 hours a day, and the rails are mainly idle.

This is a measurement error: you might see 300 cars in an hour and only two trains, but those 300 cars are carrying 600 people while the trains are carrying 1500 each. The road appears busy and the rail system idle, but the exact opposite is true in terms of volume of people moved.

(It could also be true that the train system isn't well utilized in your area, but the fundamental point about scale and measurement is the same.)

As others have pointed out elsewhere in the thread, the main cost of mass transit is actually labor, not the rails (or even trains) themselves. The US is somewhat behind the times in realizing this; just about everywhere I've been in Europe has healthy mass transit systems that run cheaper and more reliably due to increased automation.
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Thank you for these recommendations! I sub'd to a few of them, though a few others seemed a bit outside the things I'd normally be 'into'.
Well at least this doesn't insinuate a specific comment is astroturfing but rather that this practice exists (and I think that the existence of this practice is a reasonable topic to talk about, at least in this thread)
Many choices are made for us by society. Without going to extraordinary lengths, how should I assure that my life does not produce greenhouse gasses?
FWIW that’s the approach I took with OpenAI. However, Obsidian is a genuinely cool product especially considering that the client app is free. It’s not 100% justifiable to affect the business of a non-VC-backed company.
It's not arbitrary, and I don't understand why you think it is. It's not even a mathematical issue. At it's core, it has always been an environmental issue.

Fundamentally, the complaint is that the tritium water will cause environmental damage. => And will lead to damage to humans. If we go down to the roots of the issue, it has not, and never was centered around whether the bq/L was below human drinking limits. It has always been about whether the bq/L amount is safe for the environment. That's why I brought up the natural range in the first place. If anything, claims about it being safe to drink have been a distraction brought up to placate protestors. (And it misses the point)

Therefore, the powerplant should be (and has been) required to reduce environmental effects. When it comes to controlling the Catastrophically F'd reactors, they've been less than capable to say the least. But that's not explicitly related to the tritium water we are discussing about right now.

So, the goal should be to minimize environmental damage. In order to better ensure that, the Tritium water should not cause a major change in composition of the water. Therefore, the bq/L of tritium in water, should preferably, not change beyond the naturally expected amount. (ie: 0.4–1.2 bq/L) Hence why I brought up how your solution violates that basic idea, while the sea release does not. I even showed you the very basic napkin math that made me come to that conclusion.

You do realize, one of the other proposed solutions was actually release by air? After all, Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen. That plan was specifically dropped because the amount of expected tritium per cubic liter of air, would be greater than when released in water. The decision from the start, has been about minimizing the becquerels per cubic liter. Certainly, the government would accept nothing else.

I should point out, the water is more dangerous when stored. By default, the stored water has a significantly higher concentration until it is diluted. Certainly, higher than the safe level. A leak from the tanks would cause significantly more environmental damage. Just like with aircraft design, where every contingency is considered, we must also consider every contingency for when that containment fails. History has shown us multiple times, that inevitably, even the best built systems are destroyed by human error.

Quite frankly, your complaints are more arbitrary than mine. You are proposing that Japan should take the concerns of uninformed individuals, over the concerns and claims made by professionals.
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Agree. Plus companies have an interest in downplaying the theft rates when it suits them (to encourage shoppers without fear of being surrounded by thieves etc), and other times it’s in their interest to play it up (esp when security costs are too high).
Consumerism in Japan is absolutely wild. Still a bit of a culture shock for me. In the city I lived in Canada you had to go out of your way to shop. Here in Tokyo, it feels like every station has 10 malls literally right next to each other selling every variation of things you want. I'm bombarded by ads everywhere, I actively try to avoid areas like Shibuya and Ginza since it's just a consumerist hellscape. It must be incredible if you love shopping though.
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Global CO2 emissions need to be reduced by 45% very soon. Like by the end of the decade soon. Less than seven years.

There is no political solution. There’s no hope of any government taking any meaningful action. It’s all words and greenwashing. A substantial reduction in consumption for everyone? Blame companies all you like, but companies don’t sell what people aren’t buying. Consumers around the world aren’t going to scale back consumption by double digit percentages in less than a decade. They’ll revolt against anyone who tried to make them.

There’s no technical solution that can come on line fast enough. Renewable energy is just not going to scale up scale that fast. Especially not when governments are still subsidising fossil fuel, opening new coal mines, and coal power plants.

So what’s left? You can hope that the ‘worst case’ scenarios aren’t that bad, (and hope even harder that the scenarios the official reports deliberately omit the worst of the worst case scenarios, never happen). And even in the best case scenarios if we don’t reduce carbon emissions we’re going to see famine, pestilence and war. Maybe in the end war will accomplish what politics couldn’t. If we destroy enough of the world’s economies it might be enough to stop all the ice melting completely.
For printing the first 10 prime numbers, there's a one line solution to this problem:

print("1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11... and so on!
How long is the record for sea ice? I wasn't able to find it. Edit: Looks like since 1978.
It’s not real Starbucks.
Australia has many different seasons depending on the area's climate, which all define what is possible to eat: Noongar people from South-west Australia and Yolnu people from Northern Arnhem land have six seasons, Anangu of central Australia have ~five seasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_seasons
Is it though? When I share a song on a public BitTorrent tracker and get caught. Should each infringement be worth six figures?
What would you have the state do?
I didn't downvote you but I honestly just hate this kind of thing.

"You didn't have childhood trauma you say? Sounds just like something somebody who did have childhood trauma would say!"

Like what the hell are you supposed to say to something like this?
EBT eligibility varies substantially across the nation. California being on the maximally eligible end of the spectrum AIUI.

Even if you have EBT though, not all stores accept it, and you can't put gas in your car using EBT, nor buy non-food items like booze.

So it's easy to understand why broke people would shoplift. Baby formula in particular is a hot item for shoplifters since it's so easy to turn into cash. (and also why it's locked up near the cigarettes in many stores)
It might be worth checking some of the fly.io work:

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
I don't know to what extent you can self-verify your own system based on proof code you also write yourself. However I do know this topic of merging AI, Deep Learning, and proof assistants is an up and coming research area. I mainly follow publications from Talia Ringer [1] and collaborators on this topic.

[1] https://dependenttyp.es/
Also Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward
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It seems pretty clear that the commenter is asking for sources who try in good faith to be objective.
I heard baby formula was the up there until they started locking it up.
Corporations produce things and are regulated by governments. Both corporations and governments are created and run by people. You too, can be one of those people.
Arguably the housing supply shortage is a better problem to have than a population shortage problem ie Japan. The supply shortage can be amended with construction. The population shortage ... not so easy. There are many problems with a declining, aging, shrinking population. Particularly the distribution in the economy between the retirees that need to be taken care of and the workers in the economy that contribute to the economy. Many western countries would face similar problems if not for immigrations since birth rates are falling.
> Probably Uber should have some sort of extended test or trial period, limited working hours, special speed monitoring, or other safety controls in place for younger drivers. Of course this would be too cost-prohibitive.

They literally have an always on track of your location with them while you are driving for them, it wouldn't be too much to hook that into a OBDII interface to monitor safe driving.
Here are the smallest ones on my subscription list.

No idea where I found this - brand new channel. The first video earned a sub immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/@Scott_dgl

Seen here on HN, followed immediately. <4k subs currently.
https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingIsHacked

17k subs, high quality, but pretty small still. And the detailed focus on the main project is great.
https://www.youtube.com/@StevenBennettMakes
There’s second order effects as well. When the law abiding witnesses theft, particularly repeated theft, they associate the location with a lack of law and order. If they’re going to steal, what other laws are they willing to break? Do I feel physically safe here?

This has a cascading effect where the law abiding will consciously avoid the locations where these thefts happen, causing even more of them relative to the legitimate customers entering the store. It’s a vicious cycle.

> I think the people who do it should be punished.

It’s really that simple.
IIRC, submissions are downranked as the commment to vote ration gets higher and higher.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-...
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Does YouTube know we have ADHD even before we do? This was in my recommendations this week. I did not think I had ADHD since I am rarely hyperactive. But everything in this video fits me to a tee. Been looking for adult ADHD treatment here in India but apparently every single one of them is a pediatrician.
This is about stealing something physical, not bittorenting a song.

Eg an Apple laptop has a cost to build (cost being money, materials, time). If Apple sold that laptop at $2k, I don’t think they would value the loss at six figures. Given how little Apple discounts things, they probably value the loss (fairly) around the MSRP or ~10% or that.
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Maybe only legit people would be allowed to use it. Clean money in, anonymous clean money out.
I really wish we'd hear more from them. That was an incredible project.
While I do agree most modern cybercrime laws are pretty dumb and naive, why isn't the same being said of other international crime organizations like interpol or the un peacekeepers? What makes actual global law enforcement acceptable while this not? And could whatever making these orgs acceptable be added to this treaty?
It's not at all obvious that either of those things are fields in the QFT sense, especially since MOND and particularly emergent gravity models still match observational data so well and that dark matter and dark energy are (in the case of the latter, literally admitted by Einstein himself to be) paraphrased as 'data minus existing models equals something we're still trying to explain'.
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The conservative parties where I live are hard to vote for because of their selfish ass climate policies. The recent trend has been using short-term poverty relief to justify removing ALL carbon pricing with the mere downside of doing several times the economic damage over the next few centuries particularly to the poor. Personal self-interest just being a convenient side-effect of this oh-so principled stance.

This world won’t be able to outgrow its environmental debts forever.
Your reaction is how everyone reacts before their own crypto is stolen.

I don't know how crypto proponents think they can simultaneously wave away this level of fraud but still seek economy-wide adoption.
> How about the coral reefs that were in absolute collapse are coming back?

The recovery stopped last year, and we're heading into El Nino conditions which will probably cause another mass bleaching:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/09/recovery...
Why not use existing OCR/document extraction tools [0]? There are a number of options, and even a custom implementation is probably a reasonable side project given some standardized structure.

[0]: https://rossum.ai/lp/data-extraction
Greyhats and especially bug bounty programs, pen testers, etc, have explicit authorization from the owners of the systems to access their systems, and perform ethical hacking with a mutually beneficial goal, hackers get paid, and the company gets a little bit less of an attack surface.

That’s not illegal

What’s illegal is accessing a computer system without the authorization of the owners of the computer system. Technically speaking, port scanning the internet is illegal hacking, as you are not authorized to scan each port number on any of those machines. Ever find a random ip and give port 22 a few random tries over ssh to see if the root password is “guest”, you just committed a federal offense, because you were not authorized to access and attempt to login to that system. Is anyone going to report port scans to the fbi? Failed ssh loggin attempts? (Use a vpn/tailscale and don’t expose ssh to the internet anyway).

I often wonder where “knowing” someone’s password and “hacking” their social accounts falls in this discussion. You see or hear about it all the time. “So and so hacked my page” If you have someone’s FB login info and they have no idea that you do, you may have permission to access FB, as everyone does if you accept their TOS, but you don’t have the account owner’s permission to access their account, and if FB knew it wasn’t the account owner, they would not allow that either. So if they don’t allow that, you’re likely violating their TOS, and no longer allowed to access their systems, so maybe it could technically be able to be prosecuted as illegal hacking, idk.
That's to add one additional rung to the escalation ladder. It's a good thing.
Fuck. I need to quit
Well, I would agree that "humane" is a poor term to use when describing software in general, but especially for open vs. closed source. I also realize that my comment was a bit harsh on Obsidian. I think they have a fine thing going (although I personally don't need note taking software like that); I just would love to see more and more software become open source and I think this would be a prime candidate for open sourcing.
> I myself grew up in a monoethnic country, with the presence of a unifying cultural common ground; for example, I could rely upon the fact that a popular television show was being watched by nearly everyone in the country, even in the remote corners. And that's just one minor example of what adds up to the sense that yes, this stranger next to me has had a similar life to me, at least in what we were taught in school, the media we consumed, the food we grew up eating, the behavioral customs we expect of each other, and so on.

This description of poly-ethnicity applies to Japan more than I think you realize.

Food in the southern prefectures is pretty different from food in the northern prefectures. Particularly Hokkaido and Okinawa have very different food cultures than a lot of places on Honshu. Likewise the architecture and structure of towns, cities, etc varies pretty significantly. Okinawa is practically a concrete jungle and Hokkaido has a lot of red brick buildings that wouldn't be out of place in Russia or Europe. Cities in both prefectures are much more car centric than in cities of comparable densities in the other prefectures.

Even just on Honshu you have things like which side of the road/sidewalk you walk on or which side is the up vs down stairs being different by which prefecture you are in. Likewise, there are pretty significant differences in cultural customs and dialects between prefectures. A word or phrase will have a fairly substantial weight behind it in one prefecture but simply be light/playful in another, or vice versa.

But then the media being largely the same regardless of where you are in the country is pretty similar to the US.

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Point being that there is a lot of cultural variance in Japan that gets reduced to a perception of a monolithic culture even within the regions that are predominantly composed of Yamato Japanese people.

But when you start looking at regions like Okinawa, Hokkaido, Kagoshima, or the Izu-Ogasawara islands, you realize that they have far too different of cultures to be assumed to be minor variations of one mono-ethnic culture.
I am originally from one of the poorest countries, and my family constantly struggled with food for about 10 years. So I am well aware of the struggle. As well as I am exposed to poor people who immigrated to the US.

With all of that, no, I don't believe that there are people who actually starve in here. There are extensive food bank networks, generous religious organizations (most of them not that pushy), and in general people in the US are kind, despite what media says. I saw plenty of videos of people from my country showing food they got from a food bank, and most of them highlight how generous it is.

Despite all the struggle, my family never stole. And poor people around me rarely stole as well. Thieves whenever caught were judged by people around, and there was always social pressure to keep everything orderly.

What surprised my in the US is how normalized the whole thing is. It's always "stores have an insurance", "they are just trying to survive", and other excuses from people who never lived in poverty and just want to feel better about themselves.
This is just bad. You are not making the clever joke you think you are.

For one thing, shopping at Dollar Tree is not an antisocial behavior that harms other people, so you do not need to justify it by saying you needed to do it. You are free to shop at Dollar Tree whether you "need" to or not if it pleases you to do so.

The equivalency you're trying to draw between shoplifting and shopping at Dollar Tree isn't there.
I don't get it. Isn't that what people wanted to happen? Don't produce copyrighted work in the output. Sure you can learn from it, much like a director might learn from hundreds of movies he's watched. He obviously can't copy the plot from Die Hard but he can use elements he's picked up from it to make a Christmas movie.
If retailers really want brick and mortar style shopping, go back to trading post style. Take orders at the front, they pay, wait for the goods to be neatly packaged for them, then leave with goods. It halts all shoplifting and people can have the same selections.
Are you seriously asking this question? A quick googling shows that Uber is by far the largest ridesharing company by revenue, $31 billion in 2022. Bolt has revenue of $1.3 billion. For you to ask that shows that you are insincere in your analysis of this subject or deeply ignorant.
Absolutely. As a utility app for individuals, it's by far the most critical missing feature.

However, I need revenue to justify the project long term (I have no investors), so I'm prioritizing WAN. I've contributed to Tauri before, and I really hope I can keep using it end-to-end (cross platform dev is a mess).
It's not just the penguins.

The entire global ecosystem faces collapse IMO within 10 years or so.

The heating seems to have reached a tipping point.

The best thing for every non-human plant and animal on the planet would be for all humans to vanish overnight.
If you exist to squeeze the margin
do not be surprised when the margin squeezes back.
More likely is a huge population decline from cost of living being too great for most to have kids.
In my opinion all of these mental wellness apps start out in the good faith category but will transition to borderline scam. Same as most VC startups. Mental health service providers are expensive, and trying to get equivalent services at rock-bottom AppStore prices isn’t going to work. They’ll build up some reputation using VC money, and then when the time is right they’ll sneakily reword their site and introduce some “AI” component. Mark my words.
Nope, because shrinkage is an expense against inventory in the accounting books; fundamentally, it's a "tax" on your COGS to get to your revenue. Overreporting losses is just a bit of financial kabuki to shift underperformance over to something other than executive leadership.