skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another colonial era street, which actually still exists, is Stone St. It was bisected by the construction of 85 Broad street, which was built on top of stone street. However the street actually continues THROUGH the lobby, which is the original cobble stones, and is still a public space (although you have to go through security to travel the original street). There are excellent bars and restaurants on the outdoor parts of the original stone street.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Street_(Manhattan)
What is so shuddery about windows?
I run windows + WSL as my main for years, and it's just as stable as my mac.
Chinese Spy Agency Rising to Challenge the CIA
This is even more interesting, 32767 is the max signed 16-bit int. And it wouldn't wrap to 0 after that for sure.

Btw does it allow 0? Amstrad's BASIC does not (oficially).
Totally agree about using bait with reproduction control for roaches. I tried almost every roach control thing from Walmart and Home Depot and called multiple exterminators, but then I found Vendetta Plus Gel Bait. It's a birth control-based Gel bait that kills all German roaches hiding in the house. Wish the big stores would sell only that instead of all this other useless crap.
The impression I got was that Massimo was paying fairly for the development team of a medical product.

As soon as the technology had a consumer application, the market value of the expertise changed drastically.
The last lighthouse keeper.

https://youtu.be/PgDQTKJuqwA
Never forget the icon they used for Windows servers: https://i.stack.imgur.com/5rYVr.png
Excellent, now let 7thaccount discover that. I suggest he or she starts with C.
Google have their "Machine Unlearning" challenge to address this specific issue - removing the influence of given training data without retraining from scratch. Seems like a hard problem. https://blog.research.google/2023/06/announcing-first-machin...
Aromat uses iodised salt, so despite Zweifel the swiss have nothing to fear
This text is is derived from observation. Yes, that weird stuff is real.

The methods are difficult and strange, however. So it's no wonder that few are actually doing it.

We're like cavemen who dug up the remnants of an ancient particle accelerator.
Can’t recommend Ezra Klien’s episodes on Israel and Palestine enough.

There is no specific episode that stands out more than the rest. But any of the content since 10/7 is really great.

I find his coverage to be very nuanced and he’s brought on a bunch of guest with a wide range of viewpoints.
The nostalgia is overwhelming. This (Scratch 1.4) is where I learned how to write and read computer programs. In a way, this environment is my home.

Unfortunately, keyboard input doesn't seem to work. Try making a

[Forever if <Key Space Pressed>
[Say "hello"]]

script and it doesn't seem to react to space key presses. (Chrome browser on Linux)
> And, yes, nobody has tested the severity reduction in a proper trial. It would be expensive, difficult and serve little purpose.

No purpose except for actually knowing whether it actually reduces severity.

> What we can observe is that given matched populations the unvaccinated die at a considerably higher rate than the vaccinated. Beware of some bogus "studies" to the opposite--which didn't use matched populations. Those at higher risk are more likely to be vaccinated and a vaccinated high risk individual can easily still be more likely to die than an unvaccinated low risk individual.

The sad reality is that you can't do matched population without a randomized controlled trial. You can't control for confounders you don't understand.

A recent hillarious example is the well-publicized paper that showed a drop of over 90% in Covid-related mortality after the first booster. Other researchers managed to obtain the data and it turned out there was also a similar drop in non Covid related morality. This resulted in the following correspondece, which is well worth reading:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683

A choice quote from the authors of the original paper:

> During the B.1.617.2 (delta) wave in the United States, similar associations were observed between the use of mRNA vaccines and lower mortality not related to Covid-191 and mortality from any cause.

They mean that many of the studies showing a drop in Covid mortality after the mRNA vaccines, also showed a similar drops in non-Covid related mortality. In other words, the vaccinated population were healthier at the outset and the drop was bogus.

You need a proper clinical trial here to make this claim, as the observational data is ridiculously confounded.
> The burden of proof is the reverse, in any field of knowledge it's on the person making the claim.

You made an unprovoked claim of inaccuracy based on what?
I recommend any of the plus series models (units with + at the end of the name; ex: DS1522+). They typically have better processors and support more features than their non-plus counterparts.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231227182903/https://www.nytim...
Chemprop is not new, it has been around since at least 2020.
Mojo is vapourware from a private company (and we all know how those turn out re programming languages) until proven otherwise.
Synergy is great, its widely used on complex lab equipment where different parts are controlled by different PCs, sometimes running different OSes.
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/37c3/relive/11859
>>That is why vaccines need FDA approval in the first place.

this is probably where the most of our different world view comes from, I believe the FDA is just a corrupt organization rubber stamping big Pharma, and serves no actual safety purpose. Given the revolving door between the major companies and top level positions in the FDA and the actions of the FDA during COVID I have lots of examples to prove my position.

>>Everything else you said is true for all kinds of appeal and not just for vaccines

Incorrect, the Vaccine process establishes an extra Judicial process where by a committee at the DHHS gets to choose if you were actually injured by the vaccine or not, skipping the jury process completely. if you are denied by the DHHS you have to jump right to the Expensive Appeals process, there is no way to fine a standard civil lawsuit and get a Jury of your peers.

Also there is no way to form a class if the FDA screws up and a vaccine causes harm to 100's. 1000's or 10'000s of people, each case has to go through the process individually

I understand that this point you believe the FDA is infallible organization that only cares for the individual, but the FDA has proven time and time again that to be false.
I don't buy into the idea that one evil action is an excuse for another evil action. Innovations cannot be "stolen" unless you view knowledge as property, which is evil. And there's no doubt about it, the US government and corporations are using these technologies for just as evil of purposes as China.

I fail to see how allowing people and corporations to claim ownership if ideas can be anything but parasitic. If I see a good idea, I'm going to use it. You think it's okay for some goons to come over and throw me in jail for using the "wrong" ideas? That's obvious comical evil.
Trying to fight with iMessage is a fool's errand. If you really are concerned about your mother or other family being able receive messages from you then maintain a private cicd server to continuously build GrapheneOS and hand your family members a device pre-configured where plain phone/SMS* are completely disabled with the one messaging app be it Element or SimpleX to be used.

What you do is hand them the device and say "use this if you want to reach me". Give them a Yubikey to add to their keychain for disk encryption/decryption on the device. Give them a piece of paper with a six-digit PIN on it and ask them every hour throughout the two days you see them for the holidays what the PIN is.

>> "but I shouldn't have to do all this"

"Everything that we know and love is reducible to the absurd acts of chemicals, and there is therefore no intrinsic value in this material universe".

Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you they are chemicals. All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? or will you perish like a dog?

[*] 911 calls still enabled, also note that 911 works without a SIM card.
Seems like more of a 19th century problem that red states are reintroducing.
I was curious about your point about normal diet and have just looked it up. According to tables 1 and 2 in this article [0], it may be hard for some people to get enough (RDA) iodine from normal, not fortified foods.

0. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-HealthProfessional/
I imagine the author to be a long time / lifetime new yorker and that they assumed the reader to be the same.

I had no problem visualising the situation not because I have some special brainpower but just due to knowing the building and Manhattan.
> if this is true

To be clear, your parent is telling the truth in a very literal sense. However, as always, the devil is in the details.

First of all, this is a pretty recent development. The insulins available for cheap at WalMart used to be significantly worse.

The second bit is that wait, how can it be worse? Well, "insulin" isn't always one thing: there are a variety of brands and ways of synthesizing it. They also have different properties. So there are certain things about this specific insulin that may not be great for a variety of reasons. Type 1 folks (I have less experience with type 2, so I just don't speak on it) that have more money or better insurance tend to use two insulins: a long term one, and a short term one. You take the longer term once per day, and then the shorter acting one on a more "as needed" basis. Of course, everyone's health works differently, and so the exact specifics here are between you and your doctor. Anyway, the point is, that this insulin is short-acting, and so to use it correctly, you have less leeway with time and dosage, and that can be rough. And mistakes can be deadly. Josh Wilkerson is a famous example of this in 2019: the insulin his doctor desired for him was gonna be $1200. He opted for taking this WalMart insulin instead, and made a mistake while taking it, due to the differences between it and his previous insulin. For that, he paid for his life.

The third is, this is still inacessible for various reasons, including money. WalMart is not located everywhere. It still costs money to get to WalMart and back. Also, it's $25 per vial, but that says nothing about other costs too. How many vials do you need for a time period? Depends on the person. And a lot of factors. But let's just spitball one: this bottle has 100 units in it. A starting daily dosage, in my understanding, is like, 0.4-1 units per kilogram of body weight. I weigh about 200 lbs. If we take the low end of that range, that would mean I would need roughly 32 units per day. This means I'm using two and a half vials of this per week, at $80/vial that's $200/week or $10,400/year. It really adds up.

This also doesn't take into account other costs: you're gonna be needing to buy test strips as well, so that you can have some idea of how much you need to take. You're also gonna need to buy needles. These are single use. Oh and don't forget that, while you can buy these needles over the counter with no prescription, pharmacists are able to refuse to sell it to you for any reason, say maybe if they think you're going to be using those needles for other kinds of drugs, so you'd better not be in a bad way when you go into the pharmacy, or risk literally having the medicine that allows you to live with no way to put it into your body.

So yeah, like, don't get me wrong, it's a good thing that they sell it. But people like to act all "mission accomplished" about it, when it's just not that simple.
There is more than one company out there shucking old Insights and Leafs for their battery modules for stationary storage applications, check with them wrt resale value if they're procuring in your area before DIYing or trading the vehicle in to a traditional auto market maker.

If you can afford it, I recommend folks buy new EVs and leave old EVs to be repurposed for stationary storage (as current grid demand is voracious for storage, which will drive fossil generation out of the electrical mix faster). If you can't afford a new EV, certainly, a used EV is fine if you can live with the reduced range and fast charge challenges.
> you don't keep the production lines for spare parts around for another 20 years

As a controls engineer who supports a number of automotive manufacturing lines, this is not accurate. They're still running many of those production lines, just at lower volumes, or just shuttled to less important locations. They may eventually transition to alternative (more manual) production methods, and yeah, some new-old-stock exists, but they don't stop after 5 years.

In particular, I loathe the lines where they used polyurethane moisture-cure hot-melt adhesive. It's awesome for bonding wood veneers to plastics, and it's not a huge deal when you're in production running 2 or 3 shifts weekdays and one on weekends (it somewhat reacts with itself and cleans out the lines), but even when the supplier buys the expensive purge compound from Nordsen and purges it after they run the line for one shift a month, the next time they go to start it up after sitting idle and cold, something's going to be plugged up.

When you sell equipment to an automotive manufacturer, you have to design it for a service life of at least 10 years. And they'll use it for every one of those, and they'll hold you to it.
Ehh LLMs have become a fundamental part of my work flow as a professional. GPT4 is absolutely capable of providing links to sources and citations. It is more reliable than most human teachers I have had and doesnt have an ego about its incorrect statements when challenged on them. It does become less useful as you get more technical or niche but its incredibly useful for learning in new areas or increasing the breadth of your knowledge on a subject.
No one has mentioned ShareMouse yet? (https://www.sharemouse.com/) In my experience it has worked way better than Synergy. I switched after getting fed up with the synergy developers not responding to various multi-year old bugs that made the software unworkable for me (e.g. https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5992).

The only downside is that you have to "renew maintenance" to continue receiving updates to ShareMouse after a year. But I haven't done that yet and it still works fine for me.
I didn't mean to sound so hopeless -- you're right, there are people pushing in the right direction. But as you say, public health officials and elected leaders have by and large dropped the ball, stabbed it a bunch of times, and threw the deflated remnants down an abandoned mine shaft. All it took was some clever targeted manipulation of the most susceptible people and the weak spines / weathercock nature of politicians.

We knew back in 2020 that LC is a thing, and what the treatments could look like [1]. Researchers at the time likened it to HIV, and did so with the treatments as well (a cocktail of antivirals).

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/health/coronavirus-immune...
Finish the Tai Chi sword form (as in remembering the forms in detail).
Start with the staff.
This is a weird objection because if the expensive insulin did not exist (effective price = $inf) it would not apply.
> Some things with interesting iodine research: skin cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, asthma, polycystic ovaries, fibrocystic breast disease, other cancers. But yeah, it cures goiter...

When I search for breast cancer and iodine, I find links that suggest iodine may help prevent that disease - and Japan’s low rate of the condition is potentially related to high consumption of iodine.

Are you saying that all those conditions are due to excess iodine?
Comedian Tom Smothers has died
Agreed, it is unclear. It's also a very commonly discussed issue with generative AI and there's been a significant amount of buzz around this. Is the NYT testing the legal waters? Maybe. Will this case set precedent? Yes. Is this a silly, random, completely unhinged case to bring?

No.
Ya, clearly patents are a good deal for inventors. I just think a lot of people fail to realize that it's also a good deal for society.

Without patents, who knows how many ideas would be stuck in the heads of individual people, reluctant not only to try to bring them to market, but to even discuss them with anybody. Why would anybody want to become an inventor, if there were so little upside?
Yeah you're right, they should do something like change the colour of the bubbles to indicate a difference.
In special relativity you can only talk about ‘rest frames’ that are not accelerating. For instance it would say the laws of physics and speed of light, etc. are the same in my rest frame and that of a train going by at a constant speed. It doesn’t apply, however, for an accelerating reference frame and a rotating frame is accelerating and you need general relativity to work it out.
They’re saying that traditional computational drug discovery pipelines do all the stuff the authors are claiming.

So, yes, it’s been done at scale for decades.

The article makes all sorts of incorrect claims. For example, it says it has been 60 years since the last antibiotic was discovered, and that this works enables computational screening of antibiotics for the first time.

Here’s work from 2022 that used conventional computational screening to discover a novel antibiotic:

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-discovery-antibiotic-resistant...
Looked it up. You mean the chapter „Guidelines for Creating Presentation“?
I feel like an LLM would do a much better job than GP.
We don’t need any more computer languages. Still, you will run right off and invent another one. Let me guess, your amazing new language uses IEEE-754 math and fixed-precision integers. Your amazing new language is broken.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-that-only-someone...
> GPT4 is absolutely capable of providing links to sources and citations.

Do you mean in the Browsing Mode or something? I don't think it is naturally capable of that, both because it is performing lossy compression, and because in many cases it simply won't know where the text that was fed to it during training came from.
So what you mean is that we need an standard compatible with multiple brands and later versions. Like AA batteries.
StarCraft II (2010) also still looks great, and scales well from low-end to high-end systems. CPU utilization in team games (with lots of units) is the bigger issue, but that's a hard problem in RTS games.
"Digital native" are the people who grew up with computers. Many kids born in 1980's and later grew up with computers in their earliest memories.

I'd call the current generation "Social media natives", because that is the biggest difference from the previous generation. 90s kids grew up with games and communication, but they were free from facebook, youtube and instagram.
I think "leaders" have lost touch with reality. Actually, people in general have lost touch with reality, with instagram and tiktok influencers essentially saying you are a loser if you don't have these luxury products that "everyone" has.
Sure, but even negligence may be hard to show here.

It's very clear that OpenAI couldn't predict all of the ways users could interact with its model, as we quickly saw things like prompt discovery and prompt injections happening.

And so not only is it reasonable that OpenAI didn't know users would be able to retrieve snippets of training material verbatim, it's reasonable to say they weren't negligent in not knowing either. It's a new technology that wasn't meant to operate like that. It's not that different from a security vulnerability that quickly got patched once discovered.

Negligence is about not showing reasonable care. That's going to be very hard to prove.

And it's not like people started using ChatGPT as a replacement for the NYT. Even in a lawsuit over negligence, you have to show harm. I think the NYT will be hard pressed to show they lost a single subscriber.
The reality is that before we had these medications, more people just died. Yeah sure in some sense it does not apply, but that's missing the point.
The debate isn't about whether the technology should be available to millions but whether (and how much) apple should have to pay for the technology.

Either Apple are guilty or being stingy, or Massimo are guilty of being greedy. Either could be responsible for the conflict.
Like a lot of non-mainstream forums, HN lives in a weird world, especially after the ban on political posting (here) and the rise of greater web content moderation (here and abroad) post 2015-2016.

With tech being a space that attracts everything from VC/finance/business people (usually a bit righter-wing), academics and journalists (usually more left) and hackers (who knows/free thinkers), I’m fairly surprised at the overall level of cohesion here.

One thing I’m more or less convinced of is that the tech world has changed a lot from the millennial era of “free thinker”ism and Obama-era liberal optimism. We now skew older, more conservative than 2009 (not necessarily right wing, but less “move fast and break things”), and, in some cases, more disillusioned with the trajectory of tech from a cool, nerdy backwater (pre dotcom boom) to a major cultural and economic engine.

As a side note, there are several good articles and documentaries that track cultural trends in HN, 4chan, reddit, and other online spaces in the transition from the wild-west to the walled garden. Will post links if I can dig them up.
What Happens to All the Stuff You Don't Want
> > The worst way to store and manipulate text is to use an array.

> Claim made from theoretical considerations, without any actual reference to real-world editors.

I also found this weird, especially when the author then extols the piece table (an approach going back at least to the early 60s) which itself is nothing but an array!

And the author did cite emacs as an example (emacs inherited that approach from TECO).
In Andrej Karpathy's intro video to llms ^1 he says this explicitly; one of the possible future innovations is to get llms to use 'system 2' thinking

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g&t=2100
The model weights clearly encode certain full passages of text, otherwise it would be virtually impossible for the network to produce verbatim copies of text. The format is something very vaguely like "the most likely token after "call" is "me"; the most likely token after "call me" is "Ishmael". It's ultimately a kind of lossy statistical compression scheme at some level.
> If you can’t use a 3rd party program even once without permission why would you assume you could use someone’s book etc to train a model without similar permission?

Because you're trying build a silicon brain, and a carbon-based brain is allowed to learn from books and articles without permission (e.g. reading them at the library or online), so why shouldn't a silicon brain also be allowed to learn that way?
For those interested in the talk by the Kaspersky researches, the cleaned video isn't uploaded yet but you can find a stream replay here:

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/37c3/relive/a91c6e01-49cf-422...

(talk starts at minute 26:20)
It's Aug 2022 so a bit out of range for the OP, but his alcohol episode convinced me to really cut down on drinking, from about 2 beers (low variance/rarely drunk, just a homebrewer with a craft beer obsession) a day to a day to maximum 2 beers a week. I sleep better and lost 35 pounds in the last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY