skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search on Rumble/bitchute for the Senator Ron Johnson hearing featuring vaccine-injured from the original Pfizer vaccine trial, whose injuries were then excluded from the trial results despite clearly having been caused by the vaccine.

Considering how limited the trials were, it's difficult to conclude the wider number would be vanishingly small, given even just one or two incorrect exclusions of vaccine-caused injury, which could reasonably happen even by chance.

Given the context that Pfizer has been repeatedly tried and criminally convicted for highly unethical practices and fined in the billions for it - along with the rest of big-pharma - it's unfair to regard the suspicious as "fucking idiots".

Certainly, the characterisation offends me, as I personally know multiple people who were definitely injured directly by the COVID vaccine, of every major variety: Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, and Moderna.

Statistically, that should simply not be the case, were these "mRNA" injections as safe as they were marketed to be.
From the article

>...The smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology.

That's how you go beyond current LLMs. They'll figure something.
They already do massive buybacks.
Great, I'll write you an email later tonight
Oof, that sounds like some dysfunction. Can't really argue with adoption, though.

Pity this was in internal forums, I thought it was on HN.
Starting today we are using solar power so Gemini can generate infinite scammy blogs and websites.

Google Search will then use hydropower to index this LLM spam into our search engine.

Next, our wind powered Display Ads network turns visits to these sites into positive revenue.

We have achieved a purely self sustaining business run 100% on renewables.

A first for Google, and a first for the industry.

But there’s more.

Without the need to feed, house, and support human content generators we are making even bigger cuts to our impact on the planet.

By close of 2025 we aim to eliminate thousands of jobs, leading to huge carbon savings across the board.
people here don't RTFA when there'a juicy contrarian stuff to say instead
CaPiTaLiSm WiLl InNoVaTe!!!1!
HN titles are capped at 80 characters. Some of your fake titles are much longer, making them simple to detect even without reading.

But there’s a bigger issue than that: most of the “satire” entries were just plain bad. They read like titles from a right-wing version of The Onion where the “joke” is using divisive rhetoric like “liberal tears” to criticise “woke” and “leftists”. They try (and fail) to be funny. Real HN titles, in contrast, are mostly informational and thus simple to detect.

Fun idea, but I don’t think it really works in its current state. It’s neither a game (no challenge) nor satire.

Also, the contents of the lists at the bottom recording what was already picked are switched.

Finally, the Subscribe option is unclear. Subscribe to what? Whose news?
You can’t ensure your privacy on a “device you own” if you don’t trust the device manufacturers.
Illustrator definitely has more sophisticated tools than Figma. Figma's basically got the pen tool, point manipuation, and a couple of boolean operations, and that's it. It's perfectly fine for making simple icons and so on, but you would suffer if you tried to make a complex illustration in Figma. Affinity Designer has a lot more than Figma, but less than Illustrator.

A practical example would be the "Divide" operation. This is the boolean operation that creates new shapes out of overlapping sections, for example if you had two partially overlapping circles and you used Divide on them, the result would be two pac-man shapes and a leaf shape.

Though it has Boolean operations like Union, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude, Figma doesn't have Divide at all. Both Affinity and Illustrator do.

Divide is a really, really powerful step in building complex shapes out of simple ones, so when I need to use it, sometimes it's easier to just open up Affinity Designer, even if the rest of the design is in Figma.

Beyond this, Illustrator has a host of neat ways of working with vectors that neither AD nor Figma do. All kinds of warp actions, meshes, and a really nice system for recoloring shapes quickly. It's been 5 years since I opened it up, so I am probably forgetting a lot of important differences.
> 5-10y is not uncommon now

Is it?

I'd be curious on survey data on that if something is available.

Personally I've never encountered a startup that had anything other than the standard 90 day after you quit exercise window. I know these long exercise windows exist but as far as I knew they are pretty rare.

> gamble ~50k

That's a huge number though, I'd never gamble that much either.

I'm talking about very early in the startup. If the strike price is above a few pennies, it's too late (although of course depends on the number of options and your personal budget).
> Brad Landcaster lives, it is the upper Sonoran desert

Hmmm. I wonder if he's related to Don Lancaster, who also lived in the Upper Sonoran Desert. Was mentioned on HN that he passed away last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lancaster
Well if its not due to water supply then what lead most all development in tuscon to have rock lawns or desert scrub, while all over phoenix in neighborhoods rich and poor there are grass lawns? I assume this has to do with how local water is priced or how local ordinances are applied with respect to the available water supply, although maybe I am wrong in that assumption and that water has really nothing to do with it.
They aren’t set up to “save the planet” either. A company they spin out could be set up for that though. And by “spin out” I don’t mean logically spin out under the alphabet umbrella, with unlimited checkbook. I mean spin out for real, live or die kind of a startup.
Oh hey, you jumped on the "jumping to conclusions" bandwagon too.

Hopefully my question below helps widen your currently racist perspective to understand economics - just copy/pasting my reply to buffington:

Talk about jumping to conclusions.

You jumping to a race lens says more about you than me. Economics and numbers don't care about race. If you have a system with fixed supply and you flood it with demand, what happens genius?

Also, the flood of immigrants started in just the last few years - and I've been dealing with these issues with the Canadian system for 8+ years.
That is their core problem! The good news is that anyone who knows 2 or more other people that share an interest can quickly and easily start a group chat. They're free and if no one ever posts again, nothing lost. I've started group chats around something as momentous and permanent as fatherhood and something as silly and ephemeral as the 2003 film Master and Commander.
You can resize the window using mouse. Like any other regular window. I didn't implement the resizing feature using keyboard shortcuts yet.

As for repositioning window, you can drag the window by dragging the panel with the keyboard shortcuts on the left-bottom side of the window.
Is it even half? I expected way less.

Anyway it's absurd how meat industry gets away with their share of pollution.

I guess selling people to eat less beef is tougher than changing their power unit in the car.
The US is now the world's largest energy producer, oil and natural gas. Saudi Arabia's security context is anything but solid. I'd question whether they have much room to play with in terms of messing with the US (maybe at the edges, nothing fundamental). I suppose they could sign a large strategic guarantee with China as a form of diversification of security.
Right, because as one of your rocket customers, I'm totally fine with you disintegrating my one-of-a-kind payload
the problem with ad is that no matter what other revenue stream you have (e.g. if we could get micropayments to work across the web), ads would still make the number go brrrr on the balance sheet and thus affect the CEO's bonus. it's an attractor.
this is entirely logical. But not applicable to Earth, humans, society, etc.
Private chats solve the problem of anonymity allowing people to behave badly. In a chat you have reputation and you get kicked if you're an asshole.
BAML – write better and cleaner LLM functions
Oil demand is set to peak by 2030, mostly due to massive buildouts of renewables (with China taking the lead.) Oil isn’t going away, but anyone taking the “oil prices are going to soar long term” side of the bet is making an incredibly stupid bet that will end in tragedy. (Anyone making the “US oil prices will soar in the short term” bet has to deal with record US shale production.)

The losers here are the middle eastern countries that didn’t sufficiently diversify.
OPEC is desperate. 20% of vehicles sold globally last year were EVs and hybrids (to a lesser extent). The world is getting off of oil and the sandbox is not prepared for life after. A petrodollar was always to become irrelevant if climate goals were to be met.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/opec-calls-for-more-fossil-f...

https://www.iea.org/news/slowing-demand-growth-and-surging-s...

https://about.bnef.com/blog/electric-cars-have-dented-fuel-d...
Adobe Express is Adobe's move to web/SaaS creative software. You can give that a try. https://www.adobe.com/express/
Yeah, the ending of that episode is one of the most depressing out of the entire series (though I haven't watched the last season yet). The fact that even the "fuck you!" becomes commoditized and fake like everything else in the universe kind of upset me upon my first watch.

It's probably my favorite episode of the entire series.
I had a friend that interned for a state senator and she operated the "Robo Pen" to sign correspondence. I was impressed to see this listed on the site: https://www.drawingmachines.org/post.php?id=207
I've read once that the cost of building nuclear plants is logarithmic in time, as cost of fuels and especially regulations increase at that rate.
I agree Microsoft is a problem. I just wish you tech guys took an equally critical stance towards Google, a genuine ad company.
Zstd is a personal project? Surely it's not by accident in the Facebook GitHub organization? And that you need to sign a contract on code.facebook.com before they'll consider merging any contributions? That seems like an odd claim, unless it used to be a personal project and Facebook took it over

(https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md#co...)
Also strongly recommend Greg Egan, who I place in a similar bucket to Chiang.

Egan has some books that fall into an (afaik) completely unique sub-genre that I have heard described as "math-fi".

Some of his books are (credibly) described as a textbook wrapped in a narrative veneer. E.g. he has 3 books set in a universe with a ++++ metric tensor, and another book set in a ++-- universe. He painstakingly rederives many details of physics, chemistry, etc. to a level of detail that I've never seen even in physics textbooks, and then creates a story where characters in that universe discover its properties. The books are good even without paying too much attention to the math, but if you find that part interesting, he has detailed supplemental materials on his website.
Standing Up for Little Tech – YC Goes to D.C [video]
Looks like this post was buried, what part of the rules did it fall afoul of?
Probably because XML would need to be extended quite a bit to accommodate all of the multimedia stuff, attributes without values or quotes, special names for certain characters, optional or disallowed closing tags and whatnot that's in HTML5.

I think pushing in both the layout design conveniences and the strictness of XML data transfer in the same standard would be quite bulky at best. In practice we'd likely see a lot of nasty security issues in implementations and so on.
It's like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer is trying to sleep while on the jury, using fake eye glasses.
Can hardly try that out if this PR piece does not contain any code. We can judge it as well as you can from the couple examples they showed off
Mozilla reverses course, re-lists extensions it removed in Russia
Many of these are quite clever! I just wish he had a tumblr so I didn't have to scroll past a lot of unrelated twitter junk.

Some favorites:

- Hinge AR https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1620799382495924226

- Contact name https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1795470976555315429

- Message imbalance https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1800166023829787009

- Uber quiet game https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1799803638161789152
Show HN: What Are People Searching for on Google? – CustomGPT
If you have any feedback on how to improve this tool, please share it in the comments.

Thank you!
> Doesn't work? It seems to be working great for the industry leader.

What are you talking about? SpaceX's Falcon 9 is arguably the most reliable rocket ever made. They've launched hundreds of times in a row without failure.

If your point is that they're blowing up Starship prototypes, well... they're in the middle of a development program and they're not flying customer payloads.
It means when a character turns, sometimes another face shows on the other side where the back of a head or a rear end should be.
> Are there not more evergreen releases of Debian?

Debian sid or "unstable" is a perfectly fine rolling release distro.
Thank you for your feedback. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Major oil surplus seen this decade as demand peaks, IEA says
Any serious source on this?
Not only the Pentium D (2004) did not have SSSE3, but also the later CPUs until the Core Solo, which was launched at the beginning of 2006.

SSSE3 (a.k.a. Merom New Instructions), including PSHUFB, has been introduced first in Core Duo (mid 2006).

AMD has launched its first CPUs with SSSE3 only in 2011 (Bobcat & Bulldozer).
This really shouldn’t be the top comment. USD is very convenient and desirable to use and no other currency comes close as a replacement reserve currency.

If the agreement was extremely inconvenient the Saudis would surely have found a way around it. Rare is the economic agreement that stands against efficiency.

There’s a meme going around certain circles that the USD is doomed and everyone is going to use….Yuan, Rubles? The Euro? Yen?

It simply isn’t plausible. The USD wins out because it is very useful. I write this as a non-American who transacts business mostly in USD, including with non-American contractors and companies.

The US may or may not have to pay its debts but this pact does not seem very relevant.
It is happening already, the extent to which it fully occurs is the potential part. The vendors are out there and shopping. Or, OAI and co are totally blowing smoke.

Latter is possible for sure, but I don’t think anyone really thinks the tech hasn’t arrived, or isn’t on edge enough to give it the serious benefit of the doubt. Things just have to develop naturally from Netflix in 2013 (laggy and small library) to Netflix in 2024, and we’re there. IMO it’s a willful blind spot from those benefiting from this change to fully argue otherwise.
It depends. Aside from housework, I spend time doing a hobby or going on a date. Some of my hobbies include electronics, baking, camping, tabletop gaming, robotics, programming, music, reading, and others that escape me right now.

I don't do them all on the same weekend, though.
Microsoft was specifically told by the US Cyber Safety Review Board that they cross the line of risk vs. profit earlier this year. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/13/tech/microsoft-president-...

I seem to recall from another article that Microsoft as told by the review board that they need to start focusing on security, rather than work on new feature.

A company like Microsoft shouldn't need a whistleblower to know to focus on security. It seemed like Microsoft was on the right track to becoming a better company for a good number of years, but for the past year or two everything seems to fall a part again.
Wondering how this is better than e.g. Tails
I'll bite - how much of this 4.4T revenue is non discretionary spending and how much is the discretionary? Because I think that roughly 25% of USG income was discretionary. Which is quite close to the 800 figure.
HTTP Streaming in Val Town
> Are these ads only bundled with a certain versions of Windows?

Yes. Enterprise customers can get builds without them, but home users can't.
Do you have a source for this? I couldn't find one with some quick searching.

(Not that I don't believe you, I hadn't heard it before.)
It's all bollox!
COVID is AIDS, drinking herbal tea will cure it, and the vaccines caused immunological damage.

We have a winner.

Edit: on second glance, you must be just taking the piss. Bravo.
Having some no-commitment sex for a season or three with a probably-quite-attractive woman while enjoying a little bit of the kind of luxury hundreds of millions of dollars or more buy you and having many of your needs taken care of for the duration? Maybe making contacts in the process to eventually land some easy money-making gigs that move you a couple rungs up the ol’ economic-opportunity ladder?

Like, if you can swing that and are a younger dude, I can see the appeal.

Basically a hand-me-down version of the appeal of being married to a rich guy, really, and nobody is confused about why that’s appealing.
I didn't enable support for images. It's on the product roadmap. I would like to add support for files too.

As for quick edits — I do the same trick too. I will add the quick edit functionality. I miss it too.

I'm not planning to add snippets. Alfred and Raycast are really good at this.
Ads allows for much wider distribution of content and much lower per-user costs. If you had to pay to access the content the number of people who can pay is necessarily much smaller and so those people would have to pay more per person than the ads make per person.

If you want to rely on donations, well, you won't find enough people to donate to support the amount of content we have today.
Demystifying Git submodules
Isn't IEA the agency that underestimated solar fifteen years in a row? I'm tired and may be confused.
Indeed - US lend-lease during WW2 would like to have a word.
I’m genuinely not sure how you rack up multiples of these without reconsidering use of the service.
Lol, I didn't know they raised that much!

Honestly, I thank them for their service, probably the best 100m ever spent on something like this.
2 of the 5 companies Ive worked for have been on google workspaces. Both fortune 500 companies
New money / old money?
The petrodollar era ended between the 90s and 2000s. The Saudis switching from swapping U.S. dollars for oil to swapping yuan for dollar-pegged Saudi riyals is peak nothingburgerism. (Did you know the British have always sold oil for pounds?)
Thanks, I'm not a male prostitute.

I'll do you one better, I'd pay good money to avoid these people. They aren't any more physically attractive then any other cohort of women (not to be mean but some of them look like Lena Dunham) and are a nightmare to be around.
I think his point was that olive oil when done right is a result of crushing fruit. The bastardization of that product is a travesty but it is still possible to get the real stuff.
> By pretty much every measure, Biden appears to be the establishment candidate. Who is out to get him?

Certainly the fossil fuel establishment, one of the strongest forces on the planet, would always prefer a GOP candidate over a Dem.

Other parties out to get Biden are likely corporate lobbying groups as the Dems have been showing some backbone with regard to regulations in recent times.
The article give the bellman equation that you need to solve.

V(s)=max c sc×V′(s+c) + fc×V′(s−c) + nc×V′(s)

V′(s)=min c sc×V(s−c) + fc×V(s+c) + nc×V(s)

You have to solve for all states simultaneously.

One way to solve them is by using fixed point iteration. aka successive approximation.

Pick some small alpha and update the value function in a gradient ascent kind of way.

Vi+1(s) = (1-alpha)Vi(s)+alpha ( max c sc×V′i(s+c)+ fc×V′i(s−c) + nc×V′i(s) )

V′i+1(s) = (1-alpha)V'i(s)+ alpha ( min c sc×Vi(s−c) + fc×Vi(s+c) + nc×Vi(s) )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_iteration
A deskwatch?
tl;dr Ad-driven revenue models let you distribute your content to the widest possible audience while still making money.

The marginal cost of digital distribution is (basically) zero. As a result, you have an incentive to chase the widest possible audience. This is going to drive your pricing downward to reach as wide a market as possible. The math is like this: A 1000x audience size is worth it even if you lower prices 99%.

At the same time, advertisers would like to reach as large an audience as possible as well. And, in many cases, you can charge _more_ for selling ads to a larger audience. (Either the ad goes to a huge number of people, as in traditional brand advertising, or you have more niches to target.)

So you simultaneously have incentives to drive your own prices to zero, because it drives up your audience size, and that simultaneously increases the prices you can charge for ads.

From an on-paper business perspective, it's simply the best model. It's why TV, Newspapers, and Magazines all did this before the Internet, and it's why the incentives are bent even more towards ads in a zero-marginal-cost-distribution environment today.

Yes, in the real world there are tradeoffs to all of this, but these are the major incentives at play.
As someone who lived down the street from a significant number of refineries which refined US oil, you're pretty wrong about this.

Most oil produced in the US is refined and used in the US. For a long time US oil couldn't be sold overseas. I don't know who would have been refining that oil if not for the US, given they literally couldn't sell it internationally.

The US produces around 12 million barrels of oil a day. The US exports under 4 million barrels a day. What do we do with the other 8 million barrels??
Well how about this instead:

- Keep the 404 page

- Use autocorrection only for minor typos
Australian Securities Exchange blockchain: seven years of sunk cost fallacy
I don’t think “DB OS” is a standard term, but what I believe the commenter means is that postgres has evolved to become an incredibly mature, well built set of DB building blocks that are exposed via extension APIs etc to implement whatever kind of database you want.

Sure, there’s the core row-major RDBMS you get out of the box, but could easily turn that into a distributed column-oriented analytics data warehouse if you wanted to.
What standard do you suggest to prove intent?
> That's prophecy, not time travel.

That is an incoherent statement. Prophecy is a form of time travel, in which information moves from the future to the past. It presents exactly the same questions that an object moving from the future to the past does, and is indistinguishable from that circumstance if the object has writing on it.

You might note that Frequency is a modern time travel story that is explicitly characterized in terms of time travel, while the only thing that can cross the time loop is a radio signal.

> Within that framework, "time travel" as it exists in any modern science fiction story is nonsensical.

I just observed that the ancient model is still a major prong of how time travel stories treat the subject today. They don't all use it, but many still do.

How in the world did you think it made sense to respond to this:

time travel also features really prominently in traditional mythology and the message there is always that the timeline can never be altered by any means.

with "where in Greek or any mythology does anyone [...] alter causality?" Why not read the comment before you respond to it?
In case this is not trolling, the brain damage may have been a bit more serious than you think. Not sure if tea can cure it. :P