skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Simply because nobody has a pre-existing immunity

There is good evidence that those who had SARS-CoV-1 had immunity that covered SARS-CoV-2. This immunity lasted for more than a decade.

> What I found scary about SARS-CoV2 is just how much it improved between variants.

Perhaps a leaky spike only vaccine was a particularly bad choice and the extent to which it drove these variants is not clear. There is additional debate amont the "virologist" community about this specific outcome.

> most gain-of-function experiments

I simply do not trust for profit drug companies to do this work. I certainly don't trust governments to do it either. Further, the idea that we can correctly estimate how nature is going to perform and then front run those outcomes in the laboratory is entirely insane and is explicitly anti-science.
Risky click of the day. No regrets.
To me it looks more like a continuation of the decline of brick and mortar retail. Even if I want to watch films on blue-ray, why would I ever want to drive to a Best Buy to purchase them?
> over 80% of people that have had COVID never even knew they had it

This depended strongly on which variant you got. Early on, it was inefficiently deadly. (In its current form, I don't think Covid is a problem.)

> over a 99% recovery rate

Fewer than 1% of Americans died from Covid [1]. On a case fatality basis, about 99% survived. Lack of mortality != recovery.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
I don't know it in the way that I know about gravity or garbage collection. But I know it in the sense that the end results of this complex system are at best subject to debate as a net win given metrics that include the environment and equitability. A system with the set of pros and cons that the current one demonstrates on a daily basis seems incredibly unlikely to me to be remotely close to optimal.

Now, what does seem true is that it is easy to tell stories about this system that focus on its pros, of which there are many, and thus to construct the overall impression that we should be cautious about changing or discarding it.

In and of itself, that's not a problem. However, combined with the fact stories about the cons are routinely marginalized, discarded as not serious, simply ignored and forth, this is a problem. It leads to a strong bias in favor of the status quo - look at the all the good things we get! we must careful not to lose them! - and an equally strong bias against change attempting to target the much, much less culturally visible cons.

When I see a system that combines externalities, wild inequality of outcome and this sort of builtin restistance to tackling the cons, my facile knee jerk reaction is to assume that it is rigged. More pertinently, even if the alternatives do present various risks, we should be exploring "the neighborhood" with an awareness that we may not even be in a local optimum, let alone a global one.
What is going on with that URL? Does it encode the entire post?

...Yes, it does. What an odd decision. I'd link to the page where he explains it, but it also has a half-page URL.
Natural law or appeal to human nature? Can you cite an example?
I am very confused by your story. Who's house burned down? the head of the VFD?

If so, I agree that vigilante justice is one underappreciated ways that social norms are enforced.
When I saw the headline, I thought it would be a neat article. Then when seeing the first data representation snippet, I thought "OK cool, that's what you conceptually have". Then I realized that it was the actual data representation.

The article is still neat, but more for the presentation. Of course you can get a huge reduction in data size if what you are starting out with is just about the most bloated representation you can imagine.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
> I would say, based on experience, that kids aged 3 or 4 would be similarly nonsensical

Is that how OpenAI positions ChatGPT? As useful as a four year old knowledge worker? Because that is not useful for the tasks people are giving it.

If the best defence that can be mustered to outright wrong answers is that a baby would make similar errors, there’s no point in even discussing OP’s AGI question. A good faith argument would recognise that when comparing to a child, we’re considering at a minimum the age and mental capacity to count and understand what a “multiple of” is.
I don't know but my local Walmart seems to give them pretty good placement to catch someone's eye if they're wandering through the store. I'm sure sales overall are still way down but they certainly don't hide the discs in the back.
To add to this... maybe YouTube could build a concept of bring your own algorithm or "curators" where I can follow a curator who either manually, or by using their own algorithm creates their own unique feed that I might enjoy more than YouTubes default. Maybe kind of like a spotify playlist or something. The curators could get a small piece of the ad revenue from videos they recommend as a sort of referral fee. This could also probably be done by an external service like a Piped, but they could instead just show their own ads instead of getting the referral fees.
Of course he did. His “Meditations” are his personal journal - he’s giving himself advice. Sort of like telling yourself to be a good person and not just think about being one
> Sometimes including actors that do not conform to certain ethical standards and trust worthy behaviors, leads to spreading infection and danger to the world.

The Chinese people are fine. You can see some great projects on GitHub for example. I hear Shenzen is something special.

The CCP is the problem, not the Chinese generally
This was the claim to which I was responding:

> Then we switched away from paper ballots to e-voting

You are objecting to claims neither I nor the OP made:

> punch ballots are not what people generally mean by hand marked paper ballots

In particular, nobody said anything about how the paper ballots were marked.

Absolutely agree with your points that there is a concerted effort to make our elections look illegitimate by e.g. not allowing early/absentee ballots to be counted before Election Day, underfunding elections processes, designing elections so that some areas have incredibly long lines on Election Day, etc.
Wonder if this has anything to do with Elon supposedly asking his engineers to remove some plugs that prevent water ingress (page 280 of Walter Isaacson's book)
Exactly. Wikipedia is mainly an ideological turf war, and the combatants are usually pretty toxic and seem to have pretty major personality problems (which are frequently overlooked and forgiven if they have a long tenure and/or align more or less with the Wikipedia zeitgeist.

Even seemingly uncontroversial history/culture articles can be affected [1], though those tend to be fixable after some time, because they get far less attention from the main combatants.

[1] e.g. some nationalist trying to push their agenda by claiming important cultural artifacts/practices of their neighbor actually come from the nationalist's country, using dubious sourcing and interpretation.
It does a bunch of useful things already. Arguably most users of Copilot see it as having a positive contribution or they would not pay the price. Generative Image models are pretty good at fixing photos and creating vector art. Chatbots, even though they hallucinate, are consistently polite, helpful and efficient. They are good at sparking new ideas, playing fantasy games, debugging and rubberducking. Maybe they are also good therapists, when prompted right. They are universally used for summarisation, text based question answering, and extracting data in JSON.
like a lot of shows from that era (in my opinion), you may end up needing to push through at the beginning... but it does settle in relatively quickly. there are almost no bad episodes in the entire run.
I think the beginning of the end happened already when streaming became commonplace.
It's funny how people use word "passionate" as a synonym of toxic and abusive.

I had "pleasure" of working with this type of people with inflated egos and too attached to their work, so I can certainly picture it, but not in a way you think.

Be humble.
The only reason we're even still on IPv4 is because of NAT. End-to-end connectivity, public IPs everywhere, is how it should work. In the early days, this is how IPv4 worked. I remember having full, publicly routable IPs both at home, school, and work, no NAT. This doesn't mean you shouldn't use firewalls, though many in the early days didn't!
All the more so because law enforcement agents would require cause (warrant? subpoena? IANAL) to obtain the records, right?
That’s Norway, don’t involve the rest of us
Tucker Carlson's Media Company Secures Investment Led by 1789 Capital
Netflix 4k is laughably bad in comparison to Blu-ray 4k. Blu-Ray 4k has about 10x higher bitrate.
Actually, it is, try the test for yourself in your home over a 30 day period. Drop IPv6 at the router and in your main PC and devices by disabling it. At the end of that 30 days, it will become clear that Ad companies were using IPv6 to track people in the household when Ads for things completely unrelated to their interests and related to the other members of the household start showing on each others PC's and devices.
I think that sounds completely insane. The unsafety is an emergent property of what's done in the function, and entirely dependent on usage. If you were doing very disciplined use of an unsafe call, it's harmless.

Perhaps this would be a good feature of an assert, or something that breaks in a debugger if it's attached. But I don't think that is reasonable for production.
The criminal wire fraud was committed when he generated false identities to file the applications to ARIN. If he had only made up the need for the addresses, and not generated fake identities, then perhaps he would have been exposed to only civil liability.
Because you can have it now and not in three days?

Sometimes urgency is a factor.
100%. The main reason we created https://priceops.org is that there's a real mind-shift that has to happen for someone to realize that there's even a "there" there. Most people who've been through it understand all too well, but even there, it's tempting to think "Oh, if only we'd just committed ignorantly to a better pricing model..." not realizing that you'll always get it wrong and the context will always be changing, so it's critical to have an implementation that can respond to new information.

> 5. Pray that no one ever has to touch it again. (Or failing that, hope you've got a new job somewhere else before that happens.)

So many otherwise smart people make this foolish bet. It is an exceptionally long shot.

> Of course I don't wish them too much success, since I'd like to have some customers too.

Feeling is mutual, I'm sure <3 I think it's potentially a very big space with a lot of work to be done, so there's room for plenty of players in it.
I have unfortunately seen that many a time.
I thought someone burned down the VFD guys house in an act of vigilante justice.
High-strength and ultra-tough whole spider silk fibers from transgenic silkworms
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SensorSuspense

I mean, this isn't really that novel. Is this a factor of me being alive through the time period and the author is young and it predates them?

Like practically any movie with an aircraft carrier will involve radar blips and intercept vectors/times and comm problems and unknowns.
Love -> https://stabyourself.net/mari0/
But you wouldn't need to attack the paper voting; you can just attack the electronic reporting of a paper vote. That said, I'm pretty sure the issue is just that Fox News et al convinced a large portion of US that the election isn't secure while it actually was so it's just a perception problem and not a real problem.

Related [1] where the DNC refused to use correct caucus results and instead insisted on using the incorrect computations as they were a "legal document".

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/14/us/politics/i...
If you like this sort of analysis, read Angry Staff Officer.[1] This is written by a U.S. Army staff officer who sometimes critiques military SF.

[1] https://angrystaffofficer.com/category/star-wars/
Stick Your Ideas on Desktop
https://www.vox.com/22453571/lab-leak-covid-19-coronavirus-h...

That is where I thought I got it from, but I don't see it just scanning through. Either it came from somewhere else, or I got it confused in the section where they were talking about a Beijing lab. If so they have my apologies.
Is it just me or did the article just suddenly end after saying what amounted to "you need a separate pricing engine" and "we at tier learned this the hard way"?
Admittedly, the first is what runs in my head if I were reviewing a patch that touches something with which I'm intimately familiar.

The second is how I'd consciously phrase it, because I myself prefer someone not tell me the first one.

Maybe Linus doesn't do second takes (and that's not a secret).
This is the wet market theory, yes? I presume these wet markets exist in places other than Wuhan.

Yeah, nah, that one is only "more believable" propped up by e.g. xenophobia and racism. Falls way too neatly into "look at the weird Chinese people they eat bats" or whatever.

Pretty flimsy compared to "lab that literally does this kind of virus all day."
Google, Vic Gundotra I believe.
The displays are all owned by the company’s whose product they sell. Like there is a Microsoft area an Apple area and Samsung etc. They are all owned and maintained by the vendor.
> If reviews of bad code can waste their time to the extent that it's a serious problem, the kernel maintainers failed to set up a sustainable process.

This patch is coming from google, are you suggesting that google just be added to some black list they have?
Your example seems like something that the employee likely knew of though.

If it’s fully communicated that the background check happens in parallel and the new hire doesn’t expect anything to pop up, it seems like a good option (provided the employer is reasonable about trying to solve unexpected inaccuracies that may arise).

In my last two positions, I’m pretty sure my employment contract included a section indicting that at any time they can do a new check on me. And I believe my most recent one explicitly asked if I expected anything to come up.
You could mail order a machine gun until the 1930s and nonviolent felons could buy guns up until the 60s ( violent ones too a few decades before that ). Not much to challenge federally on some of these points until recent history.

Also the bill of rights werent fully incorporated upon the states until well past the signing of the Constitution. In this context it's kind of silly to compare backwards vs many regulations that simply didn't exist or had no incorporated protection.
Found it. Article and associated HN post:

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
Agreed. Streaming is wildly inappropriate for things like horror films where compression and macro blocking ruin the dark scenes.

The bitrate of a 4k blu ray sometime peaks above 100MB/s, yet most streaming providers max out around 20MB/s.

There will always be a place for the enthusiast who is willing to put up with a little hassle and higher cost for a better overall experience, and boutique blu ray sales have really taken off lately for this exact reason.

This isn’t the death of physical media, but it might be the death of retail physical media.

FWIW If you find yourself without a choice other than streaming, check Apple first. They offer the highest bitrate typically.
I tend to upvote what I agree with but I think I manage to only downvote low effort / uncharitable takes / spam
Tbf, front-loading washing machines can suck in socks.

Have had to pull one out of the pump at the bottom. Best part is your clothes are trapped inside with a half load of water. Or you can chance it and hope it can drain a bit at a time over a dozen drain attempts with burning it out.

I suspect another small article of clothing led to a clog in the line (apartment building). Nothing like a whole washing machine load of water back flowing onto your floor.

Fancier machines have an access hole to open up the pump. Annoying models have 3 screws flush with the ground that are nearly impossible to remove without an “airbag” door entry tool. A couple $9 ones from aliexpress can lift my machine and the dryer on top.
It's a dark pattern of getting people hooked on free then moving to a pay only model even though they still make all their money off your data.
You realize early on into the pandemic our hospital systems were struggling with the amount of patients that had to come in and see urgent care, right? As in, other people with more treatable conditions were dying because hospitals were filled up and there were no staff or beds available. Like this is just an objective fact.

COVID now is far more mild because of vaccination and how the virus has evolved (Omnicron being far more mild than the earlier variants).
The future is sears and Kmart like death spiral
Now do that with Deleuze.
There's pylyzer[0], but it's in the early stages.

[0] https://github.com/mtshiba/pylyzer
There was quite the kerfuffle around the Internet Archive and their controlled lending efforts wrt books online. The disappearance of media formats that could be physically lent out and the total lack of media owners being willer to offer the same digitally was the risk they were attempting to mitigate.

Culture dies when libraries can't lend it (which they can today due to first sale doctrine applicable to physical media, whether books, DVDs, etc), and it's locked behind digital rights and streaming portals (where first sale doctrine does not apply). When physical media dies, you'll either be a consumer willing to pay "whatever the market will bear" for your temporary license (books, music, video, whatever), or a pirate. Archives can still accumulate culture for safekeeping (physically and digitally), it'll just be inaccessible to the public for a century or two sliding window into the past based on current flavor of copyright statute insanity.

https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringe...
Oddly enough my college-aged daughter just asked if we had an extra dvd player laying around, and if not she might get one/ask for one for Christmas. I think she's preparing for when she gets locked out of all of the family's streaming services, or they all go ad-supported.
As a creator of something restricted you are responsible for not selling to shell companies. You are required to do due diligence on everyone you sell to, and who they sell to ensure things never get to a shell company. Convince the courts you did your best and you are okay, but you need to be able to show you tried hard to prevent it.

This can be tricky. As an American I can sell to Canada but not Cuba. I cannot sell to someone in Canada who resells to Cuba. Someone in Canada is legally required to lie to me if I ask if they will resell to Cuba. Therefore asking Canadians if they resell to Cuba is not enough to show I did due diligence to ensure my stuff doesn't go to Cuba. (My information on US/Cuba relations are 10-15 years out of date, but the example is good even though I'm not sure if it applies anymore)
The best solution would be for HN to allow users to opt out of the karma system altogether. Your account would still have a karma and your comments would still be scored, but you couldn't see your own karma or comment scores. You could still upvote, perhaps, but not downvote. And you wouldn't have to put up with the asinine, counterproductive contrast-reduction effect, although you would still have the showdead and vouch options.

I'd check that box in a heartbeat.
You have no idea what I know about Russia, so do not claim to know that. This is over. Enjoy your declining economy, and your shitty mafia country. FUCK RUSSIA.
This is amazing. Thank you for that. I love the clean look of my empty homepage!
Up vote: was something interesting (not necessarily that I agree)

No vote: most things

Down vote: actively ignoring what someone is saying, "why doesn't this blog have a dark theme"

Flag: spam

Only place I try to keep to those ideals! I'm guilty of only upvoting/liking stuff I agree with fully on other sites, but really trying to use "was interesting enough to reread" as a metric for upvoting here.
Generally you'd get a network prefix from your ISP of 56 to 60 bits, your router would handle deciding how to make a network out of the remaining 4 to 8 bits of the network part, and then devices would automatically assign themselves unique addresses with the remaining 64 bits for the host part. One thing to note is that devices can and almost always do have multiple IPv6 addresses. Commonly: one for a local only address (like a 10. or 176.16., 192.168. address would be for IPv4), one based on the MAC address of a device, and now one (or a few) that is randomly chosen and periodically cycled to prevent some of the tracking issues you mention. The problem overall though is that the network part of the IPv6 addresses would still be the same and would be similar in tracking capability for a customer/household as how an IPv4 address is with NAT.
The requirements are so low because the bitrate is so low. 4k off an internet stream doesn’t compare to off the disc.

If you want DolbyVision, HDR, highest resolution and bitrate, physical media is still the only option that I’m aware of. Bummed about this happening because when I’ve tried ordering Bluray from Amazon, the discs sometimes show up loose in the cases and scratched up.
4k content from Netflix does not look as good as 4k content from Blu-ray.
Especially for dark scenes, Netflix's stream is full of decompression artifacts making everything grey and blotchy.
Could you please expand on that? To be sure I understand correctly: Those who resisted taking the vaccine would have been more inclined to do so had a specific country been identified as the source, or that it may have been a leak from a laboratory?

To state different: Was the unknown/disputed origins the catalyst for some not getting vaccinated?
I recently found this on Reddit (via /r/chiptunes[1]) and played through it all. Very well done!

If anyone was curious how this was made, it looks like it was made using GB Studio (according to the creator's posts on reddit[2])

Also wanted to point out that Frasier is coming back on Paramount+[3].

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/175owc6/frasiers...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/gbstudio/comments/174wrwh/frasier_f...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz--6tGukuw
I mean, it's open source. Don't like it? You can fork it and create something better.
Apple will sell you 4K downloads through iTunes. IME they're pretty good about getting you on to the latest/highest quality version of something if there is ever an upscaled edition released.
This article is paywalled, do you have a version without the paywall?
The process of cooking emits a great amount of indoor air pollutants regardless of the fuel source. Does it make more sense to only cook outside?
Some old stuff, because I'm old. But maybe some of it you haven't seen.

Crusher Joe (Sunrise, 1983)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Sunrise, 1985)
Serial Experiments Lain (Triangle Staff, 1998)
Macross Zero (Satelight, 2002)
Planetes (Sunrise, 2003)
Terror in Resonance (MAPPA, 2014)
The difference is that they have money and lawyers, and you don't.
Most of the article isn't about Tucker Carlson, but rather about the ecosystem arising on the right/center-right, to fund companies that are disfavored by existing funders. The article even references YC in passing, since 1789 Capital apparently used a SAFE to invest in Tucker's company.
From the paper

https://github.com/EleutherAI/math-lm

https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/llemma_34b

https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/llemma_7b