skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but there were also overflowing hospitals in 99.9% of the country

Italian and New York hospitals were overwhelmed because a) both places put sick elderly into old age homes. (42% of US COVID19 deaths in 2020 occurred in old age homes!) b) Like elsewhere early on, doctors put everyone serious onto ventilators in a mistaken belief that they should treat patients like they do ARDS cases based on blood oxygen levels. This damaged healthy lung sacs and caused long-term dependence on mechanical respiration that doctors found almost impossible to wean patients from, and other side effects like deep vein thrombosis; Nick Cordero is an example. (This article from April 2020 <https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-...> was completely vindicated in retrospect.) Neither happened after the first few months.

And no, none of those field hospitals built in parking lots and stadiums everywhere were used. In Wales, for example, Millennium Stadium was converted into a temporary field hospital with 300 beds and capacity to expand to 2000 beds. It was such a big deal that a public contest was held to name it Dragon's Heart Hospital <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Heart_Hospital>. However, said hospital never had more than 46 patients at one time, and was closed in six weeks for lack of use!

Even in NYC, which really did see overloaded hospitals briefly in March-April 2020, USNS Comfort treated a total of 179 patients. USNS Mercy treated a total of 77 patients in LA.
I'm also seeing a lot of 1016/1018 "Origin DNS errors" across a variety of web services. I saw this on my own company's website first around 21:40 UTC, although it's not bad enough to materially affect our traffic volume.
That’s why I wrote “But why would this technology be any different to prior new technologies…”

We don’t have the environment to change it
If McDonald's paid their workers like software engineers, they'd have to charge at least $50 a burger, assuming the sales volume stays the same. But if burgers were $50, the sales volume would drop to zero, and the business would collapse.
This is a real concern. Turkey abuses the mechanism (European and Interpol arrest warrants) regularly.
Nice job & congrats!
I have been curious about when/where destruction of evidence takes place. Presumably during the crime, the perpetrator does their best to hide the evidence.

Does it only become destruction after you have been informed the police are interested in you? What if you do it before a warrant is issued? What if your device will self destruct if a password is not entered every N days and you withhold that information?
would've thought they were already bought out and enshittified once they moved to mass produced canned lattes.
Mass shooters tend to be right-wing incels who take the Judeo-Christian ideals of sexual purity and denial to the point of violent frustrated extremism. The people into "weird anime porn stuff," meanwhile, aren't hurting anyone.
Wow. Regardless of where you are politically, this feels like an important outcome.

The American political system depends upon the quiet service of thousands of ordinary citizens to pull off an election and we should have no tolerance for powerful people using their bully pulpit to intimidate them.

We can disagree on policy while requiring civility.
which was one of the better things that could have happened after Daniel Jezek passed. lego has been a good steward of it since.
What Is a Machine Learning Pipeline?
I really appreciate this reply, since this is something I've always been curious about. If you have time, I would really appreciate it if you could elaborate on this point (maybe with some equations), but you've already given me a ton to think about, thank you!

Also, is the new basis orthogonal to the original, or just another orthonormal basis? I don't see why it would be orthogonal to the original.
Right now, somewhere, an engineer is investing an unusual amount of 404's :)
I’m sure someone with a gen ai product would love some discount compute
This is a children's book about animals. What am I missing? Are we just laughing because words used to be used differently?
Old internet was exclusionary. It was small because no one was on the net in those days, and those that were, were wealthy enough to have a computer and internet access.
> If you care about privacy as a human right, you really need another amendment to make it solid.

You would need some kind of catch-all amendments stating that the enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to deny others, and that the powers not delegated to the feds are reserved to the States or to the people. You could put them right at the end of the original amendments for emphasis as a closing statement of the Constitution.

But if we enacted those who would ever enforce them? The feds would probably treat them as if they didn't exist.
"Kids these days, the things they're into; have you seen it!? It's weird and scary. Back when I was a kid, I never did anything weird and different; everything in my childhood was normal! Why can't all these kids today just be normal! Playing their occult Dungeons and Dragons, that Harry Potter witchcraft. They're probably sexual abusers! Why else would they sit around pretending to cast spells at each other!? It's a demonic sex cult is what it is!! That violent DOOM game is probably why we've got all the drugs! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!"

Is this the person you imagined yourself becoming?

By the way, many of the women you were looking at in those Playboy magazines were actually sexually abused; it was a time when women in that industry had basically no protection from that and no recourse when it happened. Nobody listened to them or cared about them. Meanwhile, literally nobody is getting hurt from someone drawing a picture, except your delicate sensibilities.
You make a good point! I don't know exactly how the internals of debian's package management work but I do know that it downloads packages from mirrors, probably unpacks the archive, verifies gpg signatures, parses metadata and starts resolving deps, extractice archives, launching scripts/triggers. Maybe if I have a better understanding of Nix internals like you it won't feel like a black box.
But how do you really know if the problem is fully understood? I often think I’ve understood a problem multiple times, and only reach a true understanding through repeated testing and fixes.
Do you think that kids should be shown imagery of a dog fucking a young girl
Ask HN: How do you keep your documentation, how-to, examples and blogs updated?
Blog posts, how-to guides, etc get outdated very quickly specially when you are doing multiple product launches. How do you keep them updated?
Also, as a user i face issue of outdated documentations, guides as well as copilot give outdated responses.
Hydrogen, carbon and oxygen are amongst the most common elements in the universe. So probabilistically life will be carbon based. And it will probably be first formed in water. But it would develop tools on land once opposing thumbs are formed (from climbing trees). So I think there is a high chance aliens with technology will look a lot like us.
The study considers the following "Very Left" [1]:

- MSNBC

- Senator Bernie Sanders

- Elizabeth Warren

- Vox

I mean, I suppose it is understandable if your political experience is solely American. But I do wonder if one considers these "very left", what will happen if they come across political concepts such as Anarchism? If they read Malatesta's writings, for example, would their minds just explode?

[1]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213020120#supplementa...
> Otherwise who cares?

People who can profit. And the idea of profit might be different in future.

That attic might contain a priceless vintage synthesizer, that encrypted drive might contain a priceless set of vintage unpublished club penguin screenshots that would make its AI approximation 0.03% more accurate. Etc.
Sounds like you used an incorrect instance type/size on Atlas
Gravel Institute, Thom Hartmann, Sam Seder, Richard Wolff, The Young Turks, etc
Ask HN: Possible to do B2B startup without accelerator or VC?
Is it possible to sell in B2B space without accelerator or VCs? My understanding is that accelerator like YC provide network advantages. Your initial liftoff which is hardest is already ready to buy.

Can you share strategies for AI (read: building and tuning models) startup to sell to B2B space?

Any descent size (50 or more) does not respond and large ones are out of question.

How to gain traction without talking to enough users and when they don’t respond?

Does SEO and Ads work better?
One quick comment on consistency - There is db consistency and app consistency. For e.g, you can achieve A, I and D on one table at a time, but fail on a multi-table write.

Once you deal with transactions which can update multiple tables at the same time, then consistency comes to play. All the tables should be updated at the same time or none.
TrueCrypt and other tools had this around for ages. Something with nested partitions. One key unlocked the main partition that you are supposed to fill with something credible. And then another key that looks a partition even deeper that should contain your true secrets.
But it's filtered already, both don't have any copies anymore.
The local Starbucks has regular staff turnover. I've observed that it takes a new guy about 2 days to get up to speed on how to make the treats and run the cash register. Over time they'll get better and more efficient at it, but not that much.
A professor I worked with liked to stop work in the middle of typing something. “As if I fell asleep or passed out while working on it”, he said. And the next morning, kickstart the flow state by doing the very simple task of typing the rest of the unfinished word. Followed by the less simple but still straightforward task of finishing the sentence/line of code. And so on.
The way I use genAI, is exactly as you describe - it's my ultimate rubber duck, one that's actually smart and can talk back.

I use ChatGPT as a study partner in learning new direct-skills, as a soft-skills partner in navigating business dynamics, and a strategy partner in product work. It's very good at helping me learn to think better.

GPT 4 is basically useless for outputting the type of code (or writing) I need on a regular basis. It just doesn't have the right context to even be a viable tool beyond boilerplate/bootstrapping.
I’m forced to pay taxes to the government and can’t opt out. Can still recognize that on balance it’s better in terms of building a larger, stable, more robust society than we’d have otherwise even with all the downsides that come with that coercion.
Many people learn databases by learning sql.

I recommend people learn DBs by doing a class like this and understanding b-trees.

Nearly Everything about the strengths & weaknesses of RDBMS is understood through knowing btrees and how they affect key insertion, lookup & ordering.

Most people try to speed up a DB by adding indexes -- but when you realize you're just adding one tree on top of another you're just masking the problem.

Some problems are well suited toward b-trees, and many aren't.

SQL is just a query interface to a remote b-tree system.
Updates to Social Features on Replit
I just love this idea of "emergent humanity". Makes me wonder how much of our own personality and speech is also just trained/culturized over our lifetime. Some of us also have bigger context windows than others :)
pihole is only doing DNS filtering. Can still be good but not at all similar to the content filtering that can be done by client-side extensions. It's also becoming less effective over time due to increased adoption of domain-fronting and DoT/DoH.

To get there with a hosted appliance you can run on a Raspberry Pi, you'd neet an intercepting and rewriting HTTPS proxy with the TLS certificates trusted by the client. Possible (corporates and ISPs/governments do this) but a lot more effort and security footguns than blackholing DNS lookups.

Sidenote: Most HTTPS packets will still carry the destination domain unencrypted (ECH is still not widely adopted and can be filtered). So even if DoT prevents pihole from being effective, you can still route all your HTTPS traffic through something like sniproxy and drop packages based on SNI extension information. You won't need to set up certicates for this and pretty straightforward on any Linux/BSD router.
Yup, the US Constitution definitely needs a right to privacy amendment. It is of course spectacularly difficult to amend, but an amendment that ensures a right to choose abortion (and other reproductive privacy issues) plus strong digital privacy rights might garner a coalition of both pro-choice people and libertarians, and that could be enough to get it passed.
Huh? That link discusses the treasury market. Nothing to do with equities.

Equities means shares in companies, which are what real economy is made of. The population collectively producing physical goods and services. Tangible real things, created by people doing actual work.
This seems a bit suspicious because there is a trend of defining right wing content as extremist. And I'm not interested in whether something is classified as a conspiricy so much as whether it is true.

I'[ll pick on Ivermectin through COVID as an interesting case. Now, obviously, if you have 2 groups and one has parasites but the other doesn't then the parasite-free group will get better COVID results. So as expected, people treated with Ivermectin got better COVID outcomes.

It took a long time to get the message out to explain that effect because in the spheres I listened to everyone who pointed out the statistically significant result got shut down with logical fallacies. Conspiracy theorist was definitely one.

I'd rather be completely correct, but I'm happy to fall for the occasional conspiracy that is backed by statistically significantly evidence. People who fall for that sort of mistake are going to get better results long term than people who ignore evidence. But this study would classify that sort of evidence-based reasoning as a right-winger being led into extremist conspiracy content. I mean, I dunno. A branch of the right wing believes in looking at primary evidence. That means they get things wrong, and sometimes right, in ways out of sync with the mainstream conversation.
>owned the top500 with xeon phi.

This is interesting - because what I heard (within Intel at the time, circa 2015) was Xeon Phi was a disaster. The programming model was bad and they couldn't sell them.
How is it bad to have job security and collective bargaining rights?

> I can't think of anything worse for software developers than having some politically motivated organization

Unions are not politically motivated. They are a social collective response from workers to counteract the disproportionate power imbalance between employees and corporations. All great advancements in worker rights were done by some kind of collective organized pressure from workers vs employers.

> Does anyone have any resources for stopping unions from being formed?

Your servility wouldn't help you a thing if your employer decides to go through another round of layoffs. You are just a disposable cog in the machine for them. You could be next, and yet you are trying to disband the only group of people that are incentivised to help you: your fellow workers. It's also within workers full rights to unionize, this is something that your predecessors fought tooth and nail to obtain. Shame on you!
> How do we know this?

Some life experience + common sense?

> In theory you could get from the status quo to actually working in a short period of time,

In theory we could build a rocket that would fly a person to the moon in 6 months.

> if you're sufficiently smart

If that's the case, you wouldn't be making such bold claims (or rather actually believing in them yourself)

> LLMs and image generation were the sort of things many people said were many years away,

Does that include the people who were actually working on them in OpenAI?

> It's obvious that his estimates are optimistic, but optimism isn't inherently malicious.

In some cases it's either malice or stupidity/delusion.
"Database Design and Implementation" by Edward Sciore is also a very great read with a lot of examples written in Java (actually a small DBS).

For actual research I'd recommend all stuff from Andy (Pavlo), Viktor Leis, Thorsten Grust, Thomas Neumann...
If an artist wants to make a living making art, the art has to be something people are willing to pay for.

If that's "selling out", then so be it. Why should society support the artist if his art has no value to anyone?
This is not very much different than the current state of the indie market.
Oh that is a great example, I'll update the post tomorrow.
The whole takeaway of the study is that the effect is significantly more pronounced on the right. More categorical details are in the supplementary material.
"ed" is easier to type than "ex" but mostly it's a matter of habit. On some systems, /bin/ed is a separate binary but /usr/bin/ex is actually just a symlink to vim, and at that point I might as well run vim.

As to why I run "ed" instead of "vi": if I get just a few errors from some script I just copied over, I could run "ed" and the error message is still on the screen (because ed doesn't repaint the whole screen). I would run vi and screen if I expect to fix more than just a few lines.
I never get tired of funny misreads of product names. I thought "our own busted framework" was self-deprecation until it showed up in slab serif on the next line.
What's the significance of this? Is it just a very old kids book about anthropomorphized animals whose archaic-language title can be read anachronistically to refer to gay people and furries?
I think there's a case to be made that if the contents contain a booby trap before the warrant is issued and executed, they found what was inside, a booby trap was inside. Similar to a canary, an action that causes destruction of evidence deliberately after the warrant was issued is not the same as a system in place beforehand that performs the action automatically in every case without input from the user. This obviously doesn't apply to say a passcode that wipes evidence as that requires deliberate action, but it would apply to something like wiping if the wrong passcode is entered 3 times.
That looks like the wrong rabbit hole for this thread?

LLMs modelling humans well enough to be fooled like humans, doesn't require them to be people in law etc.

(Also, appealing to what courts say is terrible, courts were equally clear in a similar way about Bertha Benz: she was legally her husband's property, and couldn't own any of her own).
this elides the discovery problem somewhat.
Ok so you’re saying you searched beach and got a shirtless man and that should be ok.

But the video is implying that searching for beach is going to give you gay furry porn and Hentai featuring children.
I don't see how the 5th amendment protects you against torture. You can choose to waive your constitutional right to not incriminate yourself, so surely you can also be tortured into waiving the same right?
I have done something like that at times. I find the bug in the afternoon. Now I have the satisfaction of having found it and don't want to risk the frustration of it not actually being the actual bug I found. So I saved it for the next day, to milk the satisfaction again, but also to be more fresh at it to fix it right and test it, or to better be able to deal with it not being the actual bug!
Though my boss at some point was puzzled "why don't you just fix it now?"
I suspect that the overall premise of the paper is correct, but it's interesting that they repeatedly reference lists of what they call "problematic" right wing categories such as “IDW,” “Alt-right,” “Alt-lite”, “AntiSJW”, “Conspiracy”, “MRA”, “ReligiousConservative”, “QAnon”, and “WhiteIdentitarian” while they seem to only recognize a single category as extremist left content: the "Socialist" category.

If you're specifically looking out for a long list of right wing extremist content categories, but only one category of left wing extremist content is there any wonder that you'd find that youtube pushes people to extremist right wing stuff to a greater extent than they do the extremely limited left wing extremist content being considered?
Well, it may be a B-tree, or an LSM-tree, a trie or whatever index structure suits...

Also, of course you may have covering indexes.
And a thing I've learned with a few executives doing stuff like this: what they say in person, call, etc. that's not being recorded is a lot more direct than what they say in an email that may get pulled in discovery for a lawsuit.
> And that's what Meta is probably going after with Threads, growth using the fediverse userbase

Facebook has 3 billion users, probably 90% of Mastodon users are on one of their services already. The entire Fediverse userbase is not just less than a percent of their userbase, but less than 1-2% of their annual growth, it doesn't even make a dent in the first derivative

It probably doesn't pay for the Threads servers and salary costs if they vacuumed up every last Fediverse user. At the bottom of all these EEE conspiracies is always a completely inflated sense of self
MLX: Fine-tune Llama 7B or Mistral 7B with 32GB
My guess is you would be charged with obstruction of justice. This would be similar to you destroying evidence requested under subpoena. Now, as a matter of legal strategy, this may be a better charge to face than whatever is on your phone. Of course, this is not legal advice and YMMV.
So how many people do you think really died from covid? 500,000? 100,000? how many more would have died without the lockdowns?

In your eyes, how many more deaths would have been acceptable if the economy would be stronger today?

We spent nearly $2 trillion in Iraq for a decade. 9/11 was the catalyst, and 3,000 people died.

I'm not saying you're wrong for being frustrated.

But to me these are all separate problems. The lockdowns almost certainly provided additional death. I think that's a noble cause. It wasn't only the elderly, even with lockdowns thousand of kids lost parents. No amount of being in school can fix that.

Now where's the $2 trillion for tutoring these kids and helping them catch up? that's what I'm mad about.
Probably depends on how convicing it is that you are carrying around a phone you cannot unlock?
I don't think people would care if mcd says they are short staffed. I think people care due to mcd lying.
To be fair, Wikipedia says McDonald’s is now 80 (!!!) years old, I expect many foundational aspects of the business have changed since then. But it is wild to see particular aspects of the evolution. I wonder how much was anticipated/planned, and how much “just happened”
> Google then used this for its chat service, but then stopped interoperating with standard Jabber/XMPP clients. This left a lot of people in the lurch, and that’s terrible.

I mean, yeah, that's basically the thing we're afraid of!
I worked on a team where we structured things so we had working groups of 2-3 devs + 1 QA engineer for individual features, which were typically less than a week. Idea being the QA person was involved in the writing of the acceptance criterion and the testing at the end, etc, but also along-the-way testing.

It worked exceptionally well, in my opinion but the QA revolted; they didn't like it, said that it felt like we were trying to make them into software developers. And so it ended, and it was back to "throw it over the wall".
Exactly. Intent also seems like it should matter. If your intent was "destroy evidence if the police comes knocking" that's one thing. If your intent was "have an extra secure safe to protect my secrets from anyone who might steal them" and you made that decision without knowledge of any warrant, that seems like it ought to be fine.