skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry about negative experiences and/or regrets other commenters might have about their vaccinations. Measuring the risk/reward profile of vaccines seems far from simple, particularly in cases like this where the large benefits (no cancer) and risks (autoimmune problems) may both be quite rare for any individual. It is too bad if the study didn't fully capture possible risks in this case, and hopefully follow-up studies and monitoring can help better describe the risk profile.

It's worth noting the benefits of HPV vaccination do seem to be quite real, though. In the US, >20% of the female population has a high-risk HPV infection [1], and cervical cancer runs at ~12k new cases and ~4k deaths a year [2]. A follow-up study found women vaccinated before age 17 had about 88% reduction in cervical cancer, with around 53% for women vaccinated at 17-30 years of age [3] (presumably later-vaccinated women had a high chance of already having an HPV infection so the vaccine wouldn't be useful).

I think potentially saving >3.5k lives and >10k cervical cancer cases annually in the US is a pretty good return if we can get widespread HPV vaccination, though of course we should also work hard to study and minimize vaccine side-effects. I'm similarly hopeful of news about EBV as a cause of multiple sclerosis [4], which is another situation where preventing a widespread infection might prevent rare but serious illnesses.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db280.htm

[2] https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/Trends/1,2,73,1,3,value,23

[3] https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020...

[4] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/epstein-bar...
>Many pages actually remove the parts of the page you scrolled past as you scroll

There is a special place in hell for every web developer who does that.
> hackintosh is likely in the rear view mirror for the next generation of tinkerers.

Part of this might be that making Hackintoshes is so much harder now, but part of it might also be that OOTB desktop Linux is luxuriously good these days compared to where it used to be. Ubuntu and Pop!_OS linux are absolutely on par with MacOS for a user who meets the (admittedly higher) entry requirements for using Linux.
Using https://www.mcmaster.com/ makes me wish I were a hardware engineer. Makes every other e-commerce site feel like garbage. If amazon were this fast, I’d be broke within days. Why haven’t other sites figured this out?
Wasn’t the Sapir-Whorf theory debunked?
We don't know how to induce slow-waves yet, but lots of research around how we can increase the function.

The mechanism is very not unique. Unlike other neuronal activity, the slow-waves are synchronous firing of neurons, and almost all brains respond to interruptions 30 degrees off the peak of the wave.

It's much more health engineering than much of the medicine I'm aware of.

We've been working on this for the last 4 years at https://affectablesleep.com
That’s very possible, but I don’t want to invest time gaining knowledge in a proprietary platform. Microsoft already owns most of the default stack programmers use these days. I don’t want to contribute my energy to entrenching them further.
Installing is varied on macOS, but there's certainly a default way to uninstall applications - just drag the application to the Trash. That said I have some sympathy for your complaint, since things that have you run an installer can sprinkle themselves all over the filesystem, and though they leave a trail, there isn't a standard way to reverse that (I find AppCleaner pretty handy for removing all the parts in those cases).
There's never been any particular reason to worry about plastics recycling though, because at the end of the day plastic starts off as oil in the ground, and it's better if it ends up as oil in the ground (landfill).

What we don't want is for it to end up in the ocean or top-level biosphere: which is not a problem recycling addresses, since it's the wrong part of the lifecycle chain and in the wrong area of responsibility.

Recycling in general is oversold: it's a resource optimization strategy. It's most valuable for things with real limits on their production rate - i.e. plantation timber - or which are so expensive that recycling is just better (aluminum). But we have so much oil that...honestly who cares? The majority of the raw resources for plastics are burned rather then turned into useful products. If there's a good use of plastic waste, it's honestly burying it all in one easily reclaimable place so it could be thermally depolymerized as a useful input material later (i.e. when energy is cheap enough to make that viable).
I wrote what I did deliberately; I wasn't sure if any trials had tested the other cancers (although it would be incredibly surprising if they weren't similarly prevented).
First thought was of John McWhorter's book [The Language Hoax](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18579574), where he refutes Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think in that book he talks about this phenomenon too.
It continues to be frustrating that Elon Musk, who is pretty easy to impugn as hypocritical and is transparently primarily pursuing the suit out of a personal vendetta, is the only person who seems to have the resources to bring a suit at all. A lot of people, from AI researchers to developers building on their stuff, felt betrayed by the 2019 move to stop releasing code, weights, information about datasets, to the public. People have good reasons to distrust Microsoft, and their stated reasoning for the decision is obviously bullshit. But it really seems like there's no legal remedy available against this increasingly pervasive tactic of courting the goodwill of an open community and then pulling the ladder when an org thinks they can profit from doing so. GPL violations are famously hard to enforce, "embrace extend extinguish" seems to face no legal challenge because you need someone big to claim direct financial damage and that's infeasible for a public common good. There's no legal remedy for this kind of situation, but many people are substantially wronged. Their time and effort was poured into something that decided it didn't owe them anything, even the continued commitment to openness that drew them in to help. I'd love to hear a lawyer's take on it. What can anyone do about this? Is it just stupid to assume the research and open-source communities could operate without being exploited by secretive corporate entities?
The individual consumer cannot police the whole industry, but they can choose what part of the industry they support. If many care, they can make an impact.

And that's the crux. Many, or most people don't give a shit. Not about climate change, not about plastic in the ocean. Not about animals living in factories without seeing the sun ever. They care about their immediate surroundings, their taxes and the money in their pocket. They don't want further problems, someone else should take care of that (unless it increases taxes).
There are other ways to achieve that (optimizer features and decisions can be influenced by config settings, or by altering entries in statistics tables), but it's admittedly quite clunky. I agree that a production incident at 3am is definitely not the right time to start grokking these settings. The extension can be a good remedy for such cases.
The waves are actually tied to the synchronous firing of neurons which is the hallmark of deep sleep.
How much has income increased?

(Not 80% but you need to include that)
The future needs files (2021)
Not being eligible for a promotion at your current company doesn't mean you can't get a promotion.

I've switched companies 4 times so far in my career. Let's call entry-level "entry." The first one came with a double-level promotion (entry+2). The next one came with a demotion (entry+1), although they paid me more. I went on to get promoted twice at the new company (entry+3) working on-site. After that I stayed at the same level moving to the next company (entry+3) working remote. Then going to the next company I got another promotion coming in (entry+4). So I've only been promoted within the company twice, and my other two promotions were from switching companies.

I'm getting good performance reviews, but it's looking like entry+5 may be a ways away for me at my current company. I've already been contacted by a recruiter offering me a chance at landing an entry+5 position with another company, but I value the culture and the type of work I'm doing at my current company more than the level-up. In particular I can work from home most of the week and come in for meetings here and there.

Early in your career "N+1" is important, but at some point there's a lot more to your overall quality of life than simply chasing the next "N+1." I know some truly miserable people who constantly obsess over getting promotions, and getting those promotions often doesn't seem to make their lives any better. Some of them have just ended up getting bigger mortgages, and now they're under constant pressure to keep performing at the level they clawed their way up to just so they can make their payments.
Would it help to have some kind of a reverse plotter?

Imagine an XY gantry like a 3D printer has. The axis are free, so the device reads the coordinates as the user moves them. It in turn has a little servo motor in there moving the "stylus" in the Z direction. When trying to view an image, white would be mapped to "down" and black would be mapped to "up". This would make it possible to "view" simple 2D plots, or perhaps even equations.

User experience could be improved by using force-feedback motors on the XY gantry, essentially nudging the stylus to stay on the line.

Something like this should be somewhat doable for about $200-300, I reckon.
IIRC, the D forum also offers direct NNTP access. Would be interesting to compare web access with e.g. tin on a variety of devices…
Bengaluru is dying of thirst 'cause it's drinking its own Kool-Aid
I wasn't aware of this, I'd seen those URLs before but only in the context of Chinese ones and thought it was Chinese-specific.

It's interesting because I just went down an apparent rabbit hole inplementing Byte-level encoding for using language models with unicode. There each byte in a unicode character is mapped to a printable character that goes up to 255 < ord(x) < 511 (I don't remember the highest but the point is each byte is mapped to another printable unicode character.

See https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/9b63575ef42771a015060c9...

And the actual list of characters:

https://github.com/rbitr/llm.f90/blob/dev/phi2/phi2/pretoken...
https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm

> HPV is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives.
The CDC says:

"HPV is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get the virus at some point in their lives."

https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm
Big heavy spring, at least. I would dump it and let her squeal.
Peeling all the way all the politics / idealism from your comment and the value proposition between these two options is basically the same, with the difference being that on a proprietary stack there’s a higher chance of things breaking in a way that you low/no likelihood of fixing. It’s all good and well that it seems like this makes you personally want to throw up in your mouth a bit or whatever, but you are claiming objectivity that clearly isn’t here.
I really can't believe it took this long for the mainstream to notice this.

It has been common knowledge that 90% of the stuff is not recycled.

We need a huge material science effort to reduce the plastic usage.

All of the recent studies around micro plastic contamination is alarming.
I just asked the free version of ChatGPT.

> How much do you know about GCC internals?

> I have a solid understanding of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) internals, including its architecture, optimization techniques, and various components such as the front end, middle end, and back end. If you have specific questions or need detailed information, feel free to ask!

> Can you break down for me what I have to do to add a builtin function that generates some code following a specific calling convention?

> To add a built-in function to GCC that generates code following a specific calling convention, you'll typically follow these steps: ...

> I've gotten as far as step 4 already. Got stuck because I'm not familiar with the internal data structures and APIs. Can you show me how such a thing could be accomplished with example code?

> Certainly! Here's a simplified example of how you might add a built-in function to GCC that generates code following a specific calling convention. This example assumes you're targeting the x86 architecture, but the principles can be adapted for other architectures. First, let's define...

And I just kept asking it questions, drilling down into the complexity until I felt like I understood enough to attempt it on my own. It showed me the files I had to modify and introduced me to the internal compiler APIs needed to accomplish my goal. At some points it generated some insane code but it still saved me a ludicrous amount of time and effort.

Sadly it was a lot less useful for QEMU:

> How extensive is your knowledge of QEMU source code and its internals?

> My knowledge of QEMU source code and its internals is limited. While I can provide some general information and insights based on publicly available knowledge up to January 2022, I may not be able to provide in-depth details or specific code-level explanations.
> The COVID vaccine showed a positive impact in terms of disease severity and long term impacts.

We are talking about the children's vaccine.

The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children, on top of the already practically-nil symptoms that COVID itself had on children.
Sure, I agree with you, but you might want to consider that an indication if a seat is filled might be useful for other things as well — in the end there has to be a total calculation that factors the reliability of any given part (and rhe humans using it) in.
I don't agree, the web devs are making it worse.
There are many Postgres internals that people are usually not aware of, with more than one way to develop your module. I have a repo that’s a set of plugin templates here, that should be handy for your studies: https://github.com/michaelpq/pg_plugins
I'll try to invoke Cunningham's Law by saying: Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market.

I think the above is true, but I'd welcome counterexamples.

So, the way to depress housing prices is to build more houses. _Most_ housing regulations, including making it illegal for people to own four houses, reshuffle the ownership of existing houses, and don't depress their prices. As regards that regulation: if the super-rich aren't able to own $many houses, the merely-rich will buy more, and thus housing prices would be the same.
The vaccine protects men against a variety of cancers as well as genital warts.
9th gen intel? According to geekbench 6[0] the m1 is between 2x-5x faster with better battery life, so depending on your workload, it's quite possibly not close enough.

[0]: https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks/
That was 2001.

Core frequencies aren't going up at 2001 rates anymore. (And although Moore's law has continued, it is only just. Core freqs have all but topped out, it feels like.) Memory prices seem to have stalled, and even non-volatile storage feels like it's stalled.

My computer in 1998, compared to it's predecessor, storage was going up in size at ~43% YoY. It was an amazing time to be alive; the 128 MiB thumbdrive I bought the next decade is laughable now, but it was an upgrade from a 1.44 "MB" diskette. Today, I'm not sure I'd put more storage in a new machine than what I put in a 2011 build. E.g., 1 TiB seems to be ~$50; cheaper, yet. Using the late 90s growth rates, it should be 17 TiB… so even though it's about half the price, we can see we've fallen off the curve.
Windows update is agony compared to apt/yum.

A complete patch Tuesday session is twenty minutes of reduced performance, followed by a "don't reboot your computer" of unknown time both before and after the reboot.

Anything is better than that, especially when some updates either reboot immediately or kindly give you five minutes to close everything down (was tmux made precisely for Windows update?).

Exposure to apt/yum really makes Windows intolerable, just for this alone.
>The lot alone and hook up fees,

Along with many of the places people keep building are in areas short of water. Since most of it is SFH larger water transport infrastructure has to be installed at great cost and though places that are already developed. Then you add more expensive road infrastructure that taxes on the SFHs won't fully pay for. You build a huge infrastructure debt trap that we're both paying for now (from the past) and the us in the future will have to pay even more for.
Just remember all the people struggling with open office (not relevant because of google docs and alike) and video/audio codecs (Spotify, Netflix etc).

You can call me an old curmudgeon if you like, but I just don't trust the Cloud for storage. (Ever since a badly configured DropBox instance removed around a gigabyte of files.) So I insist on keeping all my Documents at home on my main system, along with all of my 'write once, keep forever' files.

In my early days, I tried to maintain the ability to use MS Word documents as they were all that was circulated in the 90s and early naughties. That included the use of WABI and other kludges. But with the later advent of ubiquitous .PDF files, that pressure for MS Office compatibility has disappeared. Consequently, I find I need only Libre Office Calc to do my spreadsheets, and Libre Office Writer to do my text word-processing. They can do everything I need.

When you say "App Store apps", are you talking about the packages managed by package managers like Synaptic which is used on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint/etc. ?
"For an institution that had historically promoted from within, first with Sam Altman, now CEO of OpenAI, then Ralston, the Tan era came as a shock. Within YC, many staff had wanted Michael Seibel, the cofounder of Twitch and YC’s longtime batch leader, to get the job. Multiple sources remembered longtime partner Dalton Caldwell vocalizing what others were feeling, too: we’re all just employees who work here, message received. Seibel, meanwhile, wrote a letter to YC’s board to explain his disappointment at being passed over, despite broad internal support. He vowed to support Tan moving forward, anyway. Caldwell and Seibel declined to comment on those incidents through a YC spokesperson."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/03/08/inside-ga...

https://archive.is/a4Tno#selection-615.0-623.266
So..... Now they have to permanently "rent" them (maybe from a company they have ownership in)?

Maybe we should just build more houses.
It's always been extremely funny to me how arguments like this and from the curl author go. "Yes, I had to change curl away from strictly accepting two slashes, for web compatibility. But `while(slash) { advance_parser() }`? That's completely unreasonable! `while(slash && ++i <= 3)` is so much better, and works almost as well!" Ok, whatever...

As for your claim about living standards, I'd encourage you to read https://whatwg.org/faq#living-standard
>Imagine noticing a weird rash on your arm, but as soon as you look at it, your glasses immediately diagnose it as a potential MRSA infection and pop up a notification allowing you to call an urgent care clinic that’s open right this second.

This isn't really an application of 3D glasses, it's a "diagnose my rash" smartphone app. The 3D adds nothing. Your other examples similarly lean more heavily on the "always-on camera with problematic network connection" aspect, than 3D.
Makes sense

Still you wrote "HPV vaccine is best known for causing", thats what I wanted to fix
Each time somebody is spitting on risc-v vector extension, it is the same false argument of fragmentation, and each time somebody fixes it with the real truth (pre-ratification of some vendors).

Arm/x86 fan boys?
I was expecting this to go one level deeper and point out that bloated sites that are critical, like: banking, medical, government -- can lead to problems paying bills or getting timely information (especially in the case of medical situations that aren't quite emergencies but close to it).
Niger revokes military accord with the United States
Yep. 8 GB RAM isn't great, but for basic use -- web browsing, word processing, some light photo/video editing, etc -- it'll be perfectly adequate. Not everyone needs a supercomputer.
in mid 00's, I had ADSL with iirc ≈300 MB included in the monthly payment, with an extremely predatory rate over the limit. I used to stretch it for 3 weeks out of a month browsing with images disabled (and bulk of my bandwidth spent on Warcraft 3).

that would last for a few hours of lightweight (not youtube/images/etc) browsing now.
So MacOS is trying to be smart, changes their API, and now we're blaming the JVM for doing something we don't understand?

At least they could have provided a path back to the old behavior.
I was thinking the same thing, but I wasn't sure how long ago it was.
Function URLs aren’t part of lambda, they’re just a thin abstraction around API Gateway v2 (http APIs) that allow all calls, and have randomly generated domains, so you’re not gaining anything and losing some functionality by doing this instead of running an API GW with lambda proxy integration yourself. If setting up API GW is too difficult, you could use SAM or Serverless Framework to automatically provision it. Then you can have a real domain, SSL, failover, endpoint validation, etc.
I just understand that its evitable, but I’m confident I’ll live for a long time. It’s not death necessarily that I fear, but the trauma it’ll leave on the people that love me when I die.
I'm not denying there is a supply problem, what I don't agree with this that it'd be because of some silly obsession with protecting greenbelts. Protecting greenbelts is important, and there are alternative policies that can incentivize house-building without losing more green spaces.

If there is one British obsession, is the expectation that every family should aspire to a semi-detached in the suburbs, with the result that (outside of London) developers only build small flats for singles and childless couples. The semi-detached model does not scale, while flats do. Developers should be forced to include larger flats in new builds, and councils should start thinking in terms of making town centres denser and more attractive to families.
At this point I feel like Linux may be more likely to just work than a windows machine. I just had the unfortunate experience of setting up windows 11, and the number of ‘please wait while we get things ready for you’ was truly astonishing.
In a virtual memory operating system, every program has its own address space. Accessing an unmapped address is not the same as trying to access another process's memory.

It's also pretty common to use memory protection to autoextend stacks... Allocate the stack size you need, ask the OS to mark the page(s) after the stack as protected, catch the signal when you hit the protection, allocate some more stack and a new protected page unless the stack is too big. Works for heaps too.

Let the MMU hardware check accesses, so you don't have to check everything in software all the time.
I have this suspicion that all of the antibiotic usage has lead to a rise in allergies, especially those in food.

I am not sure how to prove this, but more articles like this around gut bacteria seem to suggest a link.
Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob
With FSDBeta v12.3, we've made a step change in vehicular autonomy