skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't the possible noise in non-covid deaths. It's this rather bold statement:

"None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators"

How would they know? What investigators and what criteria? If there was a 20% increase in seemingly-unrelated deaths, would it be detected? These are the questions that Pfizer should have explained but instead we just got this one pithy sentence. Also remember, this is industry with a history of fraud and criminality. GSK was fined billions for covering up heart deaths in a diabetes treatment only a few years earlier and Pfizer is up on the list too. Our FDA needed to be our advocates and a lot of people feel let down seeing this rubber-stamped.
> To me this reads like "Cars have won, give up on walking and biking in your cities."

Please consider that not everyone lives in a city with all amenities at walking distance. The countryside exists. We should not abandon those living there.
No, no, no. Explanation is inaccurate. The central dogma is the central dogma because information flow is primarily one way (yes there are exceptions i.e. epigenetics but primary information flow is from DNA to protein) and this is the fundamental tenet underpinning our current understanding of biology.

> A multicellular organism gametes divide only a handfull of times per generation.

That's what recombination is for during sexual reproduction.

> It does not contain informtion how to assemble the molecular machines from the proteins, or how "to be alive" in general.

Unless you subscribe to the creationist or Larmarckian schools of thought, this is flat out wrong. DNA polymerase and similar analogues like reverse transcriptase do not exist in a vacuum. There are entire branches of evolutionary biology dedicated to studying their formation. The main transcription proteins, helicase, polymerase, and ribosomes can all be assembled from the basic proteins they themselves transcribe. (Incidentally figuring out the ultimate structure that a protein chain assembles into is what AlphaFold does, bioinformatics and ML's crowning jewel)

> There is heritable information outside of DNA, that is epigenetic in its nature.

When biologists refer to epigenetics, they mean information carriage that's not strictly tied to the nucleotides. This doesn't meant DNA isn't involved. Most epigenetics I can think of off the top of my head all involve the DNA transcription mechanism in some way.
Hhere you go: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18755/intel-shares-stopgap-so...
Show HN: Yggdrasil 1.0 – Native executables for Shen
Yggdrasil allows for the generation of type secure stand-alone native language programs from Shen source programs. We are pleased to announce the release of Yggdrasil 1.0 which has a plug-in configured for Common Lisp. Yggdrasil requires Shen 34.6 which is now available from https://shenlanguage.org/download.html. Questions to https://groups.google.com/g/qilang.

More details on Yggdrasil can be found at https://shenlanguage.org/yggdrasil.html.
One might reasonably assume the creators of this stuf are training their models on real CSAM, and thus are guilty of many crimes in addition to the production. Everyone else training models to produce imagery uses real data, so why would AI generated CSAM be any different in this regard?
Duh, one can load preconfigured ACE editor with syntax highlighting with it.
All the answers you got are fairly state of the art, but it’s mostly descriptive. Very little testable or otherwise falsiable information.

The more we learn about developmental biology the more baffling the origin of cellular behavior becomes.
We’re so lucky the internet didn’t become a toll road having to pay crazy prices for domains and having to pay for sites at the ISP level for packages like cable channels.
I wonder what happens about the liability for content on these URL-websites. Is the liability now on the one who shares the URL, or on those who serves it?
Well, Prussian Imperialism went well until 1918. Quite a run, if you ask me. Not saying it was a good thing, but at the time it achieved Prussias goals.

There is a tendency to paint one beligerent of any given war as evil and the other(s) as good. That didn't even work for WW1, it does for WW2, the evil side clearly is the axis. When looking closer so, no side in WW2 was truely good. On the allied side there was Stalins USSR, bombing of civilians and the like. On the Axis nothing to defend so, especially the Germans started a world war with a planned and intentional mass tenocide at its core fornno other reason than murdering all jews in Europe.

1870, and in 1914, things were different. War was still an accepted way of conducting state business. And those used to be way less devastating than WW1 turned out to be.
>some kind of cardboard containers
>that are mixed with a lot of plastic.

Tetrapak?
Huh? I'm not being vague in the slightest.

Daley bulldozed the runway at Meigs Airfield in the dead of night.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/3/31/23662485/miegs-field-...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

That would depend on how it's broken.
You might want to reconsider your name:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X>
In game dev there was a saying like “you’re writing the game in C# so just write the game logic in C#” rather than making a run-time configurable / scriptable monolith
For those who raised an eyebrow at the mangled title: "On performing the folk music that was found in the archives". The article is about ballads that were printed (on broadsheet), distributed and sold on the street in (mostly Northern) England, at a scale the article calls "massive". However, they only contain the lyrics. The music was written for the project, not found in the archives.
they removed prettier in the codebase too, they really don't like formatting or typings in their codes.
Edit: ”…than just about anything else.”
I’m surprised this rethorical trick is so hard to recognize. It is as old as the hills and you will hear it from people from conspiracy nuts to priests, salesmen to politicians. So it is a good thing to understand and be aware of.

The crux is the speaker preventatively discredit any objection. In this case by suggesting they are irrational and emotonal.

“People will complain/get angry/be triggered by my theory X because theory Y is a dogma/cult/holy cow/religion/what they have been told to believe by mainstream media” - the point is of course that an objections to theory X might be perfectly resonable and fact based. Objections will tend to be defensive (“its not a cult, it is mathematically proven that…”) making them seem weaker.
I don't quite understand your main concern, but it seems others did and have answered. To elaborate on why Cantor's argument doesn't go through for the integers:

Assume you had a list of every integer. To begin with, you couldn't start flipping bits from the left since integers don't start from the left. You could however imagine them having a sequence of 0s extending infinitely to the left, e.g. 101 = ...00000101. If you did that, the diagonal argument is possible to perform only starting from the rightmost digit, and you do end up with some string of numbers.

The problem is this: If you do walk right-to-left flipping bits in such a list, the integer case has an "out". You do end up with a string of 0s and 1s, but by assumption it can't have 0s extending infinitely to the left because then it would have been on the list. In other words, the thing you end up with never has its "final" 1, and so what you end up with isn't an integer.

This is really the crux of the argument: Not every string of 0s and 1s actually represents an integer. However, put any string of 0s and 1s after the radix point ("decimal point") and that does represent a real number. So what you construct in the real version of the argument really is a real number not on the list (i.e. a contradiction).

It's instructive to do the same thought experiment with an imaginary list of rational numbers written out as decimals and see why the diagonal argument fails in that case too.

Now I described the above as a kind of procedure ("walk right-to-left") but that's really just for convenience. There isn't any actual iteration going on.
Do you mean the thing for reading a magnetic stripe? It's no surprise that can be trivially sent over an audio interface. That's how recording audio onto tape works in the first place.
It is anything but lightweight. It's a full Chrome browser that struggles to show even the most basic "text with images" pages and hides useful functionality in corners while pestering you with multiple CTAs
So what was keeping the President from just issuing an Executive Order increasing the email storage quota?
> I have empathy for you too

Thank you, but you're imagining things, and you're arguing against statements I never made.

Never did I state that anything was "strange", or say that people should change the way they think, or that I looked down on them for the way they think. All those are things rattling around inside your cranium, and you're looking for someone else to blame for them.

All I did was comment on what I noticed as a fact of the human condition, as it exists today. And you seem to agree, since you said it was natural that people think that way.

Take care. Please spend your empathy on someone else.
There is probably an audience for most things. I’ve read around 200 Warhammer books, I had to just say duck it and rate then on their own scale otherwise they’d all be 1-2/5 on my goodreads account, but I was there when Horus slew the emperor and I gave the experience 5/5.
I think Ruina [1] is extremely good as a single-person made RPG with very well-crafted world. I really enjoyed the roleplaying aspect of it (it came from a TRPG scenario by the author). Not sure how good the English fan-translation is though

[1]: https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Ruina:_Fairy_Tale_of_the_Fo...
Challenge: Testing Inf and NaN with `gfortran-13 -Ofast`
Feel free to reply what makes bitcoin bad in a way any different from other high tech.
Haven’t seen any mentions of miracle cures? But I have barely a passing knowledge of his work.
Have you seen his unedited press releases? He isn’t that bright.
https://archive.ph/AFjwo
Cisco Systems and Financialization
Who is responsible for this ?

EU or Russia or incompetent politicians
It worked out for China....
If God Created the World on a Unix Box (1996)
One downside I see to this is it being illegal to use a phone while driving, but interacting with your car stereo is fine.

Now I'm wondering if any car stereos have four-pin aux inputs to send headset button inputs or microphone audio back to the phone.
awry got me for a long time.
Yes we should stop innovating and let China and Russia create autonomous drones so that they can impose their very refined ideology based on conquest on the world.
We are so primitive my fellow americans, how dare we create weapons.
My theory is a lot of companies stopped selling ads on Twitter right before the purchase because they didn't know what would happen to the site. They didn't want to risk their brand being on the site.

They then spent that money on ads at Google, Meta, Tiktok ect. and they found out that their money was better spent with them because of how good these platforms are at serving ads.

They haven't come back because Twitter Ads are still trash.

The problem with Twitter is their ad platform isn't anywhere near comparable to Google and Meta. No one want to sell ads on a platform that also sells ads for scams, some of these scams ads use the X brand name in them lmfao.
Someone created a userscript to restore it, works great for me so far: https://github.com/Gerrit0/old-github-feed
> I often wonder when it it would cease to be in the interest of US tech firms to serve the EU market.

That would be a wonderful, wonderful thing. It limits the scope of these behemot monopolies. The immediate consequence would be different companies serving different markets instead of global monopolies.

Depending on your age you (the general you) might think how can people communicate then? If my family in europe can't be on facebook but I'm on facebook in the US? (Or substitue facebook for any walled-garden proprietary ecosystem).

The answer was the reality back in the 90s. The world was full of thousands of hyper-local ISPs. Everyone communicated via standardized decentralized protocols such as email and usenet. Nobody owns it, everyone can participate. This was the best of all possible worlds.

If cutting off the walled-garden monopolies from some countries or regions can move us back to that decentralized ideal, it would be a wonderful thing.
> This is a machine to kill people, is anyone worried about its carbon footprint.

Well, yeah, the people buying “machines to kill people” seem to see that as a concern:

https://www.defense.gov/spotlights/tackling-the-climate-cris...
Discs flying apart is most of the time from wrong usage, bending the disc while cutting or bending a disc by using a cutting disk for grinding and applying to much force. I did work as a mechanic for some years and have used angle grinder for hobbies 20+ years since, and have never seen a disc fly apart. (Still remember to always use safety goggles and hearing protection while using a grinder)
A new route to a quantum internet
So as askbjoernhansen helpfully pointed out, I can't actually just look at the reference timestamp and use that. I was a bit hasty when putting this together, I didn't initially read the spec, I just looked at the NTP response in tcpdump, saw that "reference timestamp" looks about right, and went with that.
I now know how to compute the actual offset I'm supposed to use, and I'll implement that instead. That computation doesn't involve the reference timestamp.
Still curious why the reference timestamp on this particular timeserver is stuck at that particular time, though. If anyone knows anything about this, do let us know!
Then the law changed while I wasn't paying attention.
Basically they've committed to have parking meters for the next 75 years - want to install bike racks, bus/bike lanes, ban parking in busy streets at rush hour, widen pavements for restaurant tables, close a road for a party, it all requires compensation to CPM. If in 2070 Chicago citizens are using hover cars or being dropped off by their Teslas which then drive home, the parking meters will still be there.
In case of scientific publications maybe there are many different "sources", and for searching purposes it is better to have the original title, you are right in that.

I don't get what you mean before it, but I don't think I want or can argue about it. I just generally prefer edited submission titles, for example in this submission or in a benchmark result page, or such.
Nah, this nonsense popped up at EU level also and got slapped down by the Parliament and Council suggesting that enough politicos understand why this is important, for now at least.
A normal person has as much reason to admit they own a gun as they have a reason to admit they own a mixer. As in, unless you discuss specific topics, it is completely irrelevant.

The difference is that if you go out of your way to tell you have mixer, you are weirdo. If you go out of your way to tell you have a gun, then you are someone who brags about having gun unnecessary, which means weirdo too, but in different way.
You've sleight-of-handed out "government" for "the UK" and linked two stories which don't really involve the UK government.

Furthermore if you read your own links, you will see that the "recent history" of the Rotherham offending is that there is an enormous police investigation costing tens of millions of pounds and a large number of people have been convicted, and the "recent history" of the fallout from Jimmy Saville is that another extremely well-funded enquiry was conducted (IICSA).

The general idea that the UK is particularly accomodating to paedophiles, or that an unusual number of powerful people in the UK are paedophiles, is not supported by evidence.

This meme mainly comes from a serial liar, Carl Beech, who's lies were credulously reported by people who should have known better.
Gaussian splatting is pretty cool
There is an excellent Rare Earth video on the Burakumin released six years ago:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SIsndKkasfI>
> Dean was doing an Erlang project so he asked “What example program would best exemplify Erlang“.

I wish such a canonical example was easy to find for every programming language, particularly those on the boundary between mainstream and exotic languages.

Most languages present themselves by waxing philosophical about HoTT, zero-cost abstractions, or parametric types. Show me an example where your language is clearly better than Python, Ruby, TypeScript, C#, or Rust, because those are the languages to beat, and they already have the entire infrastructure set up so unless you can demonstrably outperform them in some way, it's probably not worth my time to take a deeper look.
Switzerland lies in the middle of a densely populated region with 400 million polluting people (aka Europe). It's far from atlantic fresh air supply and mountain ranges trap pollutants.
Too long and I try to summer use the key point.
I think it’s more specific, something along the lines of turning a reference (pointer-allocated) object to a value-based object? But I’m woefully ignorant on this.
Changed my name, thanks for the tip!
Google faces multibillion-pound lawsuit from UK consumers
> and hit the jackpot.

And how often do you hit the jackpot? For larger lotteries, it's less than once in a million. So that leads to two equally unpleasant alternatives:

1. The attacker was informed where to find the key.

2. The attackers have compromised a large part of Microsoft engineering and routinely scan all their files.
We need road safety. But no genius in gouvernement has created a law that’s says it’s illegal to sell cars that CAN have accident. Generally the government goes after bad drivers instead of car companies.

I really don’t understand why Big Tech should magically stop every crime on earth: child abuse, racism, harassment, etc…

I think the supreme Zuck is a dick, but pulling out of the UK market was the right move.
> Like an OS inside an OS, if you will.

So like Emacs, plus the GUI, but minus the ergonomics, but plus the features...

It's not wacky at all, but it's unlikely to be embraced with the market structured the way it is.
You mean JetBrains CLion? Rider is C#, which is great for Unity development and has support for that builtin.
Linking to a half-dozen separate arguments, and presenting no original conclusion or summarizing thought on what you took from those works isn't an argument. In fact it's very much not an argument - it's you presuming that I haven't read those, because otherwise how could I disagree?

My question was quite specific: what do you think we should do in the next 5 to 10 years? Apparently you've read widely on this topic! So widely that when asked this question, the only thing you did was throw book titles and author names around and talk about how great they are. Rather then anything about what they say.

I mean presumably all these distinguished luminaries drew some actionable conclusions right? Because you are calling for actionable things to happen - such as?
It’s interoperability. I can send/receive messages to/from a completely different system.

You might not like how they’ve implemented it, but it is interoperable.
https://www.techspot.com/review/2731-starfield-gpu-benchmark...

Surprise my 1080ti still there. And I wonder is it because it is an in-house engine and hence 4090 is not the top?
How Query Engines Work
If the source code is publicly available, it's Open Source, however much we may dislike the actual license.
Bus and Train are covered but Carpool is indeed an important arrangement (though not a new transport tech, more a behavioral adaptation).

But I think whenever carpooling is effective it probably means even more effective public transport is feasible. E.g. minibuses.
Give a normal person some steroids and strength/endurance training exercise regiment. You will have a person that is 80~100% stronger then your average male within 7~10 months. A lot quicker and cheaper then waiting 20 years for a embryo to grown up.
Understanding request latency with profiling
I literally read about that, or something very like it, in Popular Science about 50 years ago. They expected it to be workable in about 5 years…
There are furniture stores that cater to that missing middle. Places that sell solid oak furniture. Places that sell quality Amish furniture. Sure, it's not IKEA cheap, but it's also not heirloom expensive.

You just have to know where to look. And what to look for.
> But for me, it ranks right next to regex in terms of "things I (don't) want to see in my code."

Yeah if you don't like jq you likely won't like Regex, xpath, etc. Any syntax that is incredibly terse and complex.

Like Regex though, jq is too powerful to ignore and many times the best tool to use.
> Ethical never matters, money matters.

I was thinking about this recently as someone suggested it might be an American thing. But I don't think so - there are plenty of unethical companies in Europe, too. They often manage to exploit some loophole in the law and, say, sell expensive things to old people under some apparently legitimate guises. Or they'll fake car engine tests.

But ethical (=ethically neutral) companies definitely exist, and there are many of them.
Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code
Latest release adds integrate with VSCode that shows inferred types inline.
Can development on this engine be learned from zero, or is that a pipe dream?
I have been using https://nextdns.io for quite some time now and never looked back, highly recommend it! Having a built-in pi-hole available from anywhere and without having to manage it for my whole family is why i would recommend it...
> Siri

> Jeeves

> Yahoo

This is one of the main reasons why voice control looks great in Star Trek, but sucks in the real world. I want to be able to say, "computer, ${do something}", but with real voice assistants, I have to say "${brand 1}, use ${brand 2} to ${do something} on ${brand 3}".
France has their own version of Matrix

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observato...
the oil industry is in that same paper. it's the outlier in that its output is a bit higher than predicted, because of economic rent
Do you read it regularly? It is centre aligned but as a reader, I wouldn’t say it was Conservative aligned. It certainly is a mile off its alignment with the “Tory press” that typically set the new agenda.
There are many ideas in the pipeline for grid scale storage to smooth day-to-day renewable intermittency, but we also need seasonal storage. We need the ability to draw energy from storage for extended periods (weeks or months), to cover low energy production during winter.

The seasonal energy storage problem is one that humanity (and, really, life in general) has always faced. Many of our traditional food products are methods of preserving energy from the good times to tide us over in the bad times. We have traditionally adapted our activities for the season. I would imagine that part of the solution will be re-introducing seasonality to industry (e.g. making aluminium mostly in the summer).
What you're getting wrong is thinking that socialism would assign random jobs to random people, or somethng alike. Instead, a socialist system would probably consist of self-managed work where the benefit would be helping your community and getting to live in such a community where everyone works towards the benefit of the community. The surplus value of the work you do, and the work you need to survive like food production and distribution, would be distributed among the workers, not the owners.
that's not "socially necessary labor", so the labor theory of value doesn't have anything to say about something like that