skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antibody tests weren't available in sufficient numbers, and testing centers were already overloaded with PCR tests (on top of the usual medical testing and labor shortage due to infections)
A couple of years ago Materialize had all the buzz, not sure what is the difference.

https://materialize.com/
> Seperately, it brings potential as a source of funding to spend elsewhere specifically because some of the national questions aren't really open. If you are confident in the ROI, you can run ads there to drive fundraising -- especially early on -- and then spend those raised funds in contested elections elsewhere.

Exactly. A lot of the ads are fundraising ads, like this one: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR059412260615...
Why does it matter? Previous infection provides only temporary protection. BART wouldn't be able to say "keep getting infected as often as you can if you don't want vaccination".
You're correct, I was mistaken. Although my mistake may actually help to support my stance.

It was used, and marketed, for morning sickness primarily in other countries (Germany in particular). It's an important distinction, because the US FDA actually stopped it's approval in the US. It seems that "only" about 20,000 American study participants were given the drug at that time. So more than half of the dead/deformed babies came from Germany.

Had the German equivalent of the FDA prevented the drug from going to market many babies might not have been born with deformities.

There are VERY good reasons to be slow in approving drugs that might impact a fetus.
My understanding is that yes, it actually is normalized to have the lengths all be the same, and thus the angle from (hyperdimensional) 0,0,0,(...n) is all that matters. The "distance between two embeddings" is able to simply to cosign of the two angles.
> This discovery also links to another important finding of the last decade – the first chiral molecule in the interstellar medium, propylene oxide. We need chiral molecules to make the evolution of simple lifeforms work on the surface of the early Earth.

It would be really amazing if we were able to know if both chiralities are equally represented in the space. Apart from the life itself it is astonishingly interesting how life evolved to be monochiral.
That's kinda concerning... does the site have XSS/sanitization problems?
It's really hard to draw causal links here. It could be any number of factors or required all of them together. In fact, if that had worked, why didn't COVID or other strains die too? And China had much more severe & prolonged lockdowns but that didn't eliminate anything extra for them.

Don't underestimate the impact of stock viral interference - flu & COVID are both respiratory infections and COVID was much more infectious. Some flu strains probably just couldn't remain competitive with the combined set of other flu and COVID strains.

While masking and social distancing have a beneficial impact on limiting the spread of respiratory diseases, there are practical reasons why it doesn't work to eliminate it altogether and ignores the possibility and likelihood of other resevoirs to reintroduce the disease. For example, if North America remains masked & socially isolated by the virus persists in Europe, then as soon as North America opens up you'll get the virus in North America again. And imaging a simultaneous world wide lock down is a laugh - even during COVID governments were not globally coordinated and even within national governments there was mixed local coordination.

Aside from all that, let's say it was purely a result of masking and social distancing. The consequences of that were quite sever & catastrophic, not to mention that no one actually stayed away vs limited their normal contacts & there were plenty of practical reasons it wasn't possible (e.g. getting groceries). Life involves death & risk and it's pretty clear that even before the vaccines became available many people were not OK with the tradeoff COVID entailed (e.g. Florida).
I really wish they would have continued to make the i3 and reduce the cost. It was perfect for a lot of people but the price was just too high.
I think the coldest I've drank a beer was about -17C. Made memorable by going to finish my beer after talking for a few minutes and my lips briefly froze to the can. Plenty of people I know drink beer outside while and after skiing.
Sure. It's probably more helpful to think of this (like almost all things) on a spectrum.

HN is definitely on the social media end of the spectrum. For example, all your listed examples have very hands-on and comprehensive, opinionated editorial control. HN has moderation, but not really editorial control per se.
I see multiple Cybertrucks every day driving around LA.

I'll admit the design has grown on me, and we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms".

I would love to see a cross between the Model Y and Cybertruck in the future.
Yet when another country does it? "You're meddling in the election!".

Mhmm, okay.
It depends heavily on where you are in life and what demographics you belong to. If you're a guy in your 40s with a wife and kids and a white picket fence there's probably no harm in quitting. I was drawn to social media (and earlier forms, like forums and IRC) because I grew up in a backwards, repressive rural community and was outcasted in school and was able to find "my people" online. Online social communities are how a lot of people who are rejected by society due to disability, sexual orientation etc. get all of their positive social interaction from.
Isn't the whole argument against Tether that they print Tether out of nothing, buy Bitcoin with it, and now have Bitcoin (and increased the price of Bitcoin)?
Why?

They will have a lifetime of headaches filling out forms anywhere else.

It doesn’t seem wise to troll the people who will make choices about where you spend your final days.
Fascinating stuff.

I went down a rabbit hole with this particlar ad: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR132650406472...

It links to a website called fultongrandjury.com, which I at first thought would be an official government website, and what initially made me curious was the idea of spending money to advertise a government website, getting this additional credibility. Like, if the facts are so strongly on your side that you merely need to spend ad money to point people to official sources, that's a strong signal.

> Fulton County Jury is a project of Our Community Media, Small Town American Media, and Small Town Truth.

None of these are linked, but they can be found with Google. Our Community Media appears to be a website with stories scraped from Google News, one even has the Google News default image. Small Town America Media claims to support Small Businesses, Telehealth in Rural America and Digital Literacy. Their latest news: Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws Are Political Theater by State Politicians.

Small Town Truth is probably the most inspiring:

> For over 200 Years

> American has fought for truth

> Now....

> We need you to help

They have page dedicated to "discovering truth", telling it apart from "russian fake news"[1] which is copied from and links to a medium post.

None of these websites have information about who's behind them. No person. No address. They have contact pages, but these are just forms, probably to add you to some spam mailing list.

[1]: https://www.smalltowntruth.org/discover-truth
NAT is useless for that. Firewalls are the tool for blocking connections.
What do you mean? All Bolts support level 2 charging via the standard J1772 adapter up to 7.2 kW or 11.8 kW depending on model year.

Level 3 charging aka DC fast charging was an option on them, so not all have the extra pins needed for a CCS charger.

I'm pretty happy with my 2017 Bolt which has the DC fast charging option. I wish it had distance-keeping cruise control; it's frustrating because it has the cameras and will even report following distance on the dash, but doesn't have the adaptive cruise feature for whatever reason. I also wish it charged a bit faster; 50 kW max is a little slow for road trips.

Next car is probably a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5, which has has both features and is also pretty reasonable. Prices on the used models are slowly coming down.
this is really nice. well done
This is what happens when you don’t teach politicians basic formal language theory.
My fav "abuse" of the system was a car park terminal that was running some flavour of Windows with an antivirus software.

It had a scanner for the barcode of a ticket, but, it understood lots of other barcodes/encoding systems and must have been logging to the filesystem.

So... saw someone encode the EICAR test string to a QR Code and put it to the scanner... that caused the AV to popup which covered the entire screen and made the terminal unusable!
That concern just doesn't ring true to me. I'm in one of the most liberal enclaves in the country, and every parent I know wants their children in private schools for the educational benefits.

I have progressive friends who teach in public schools but pinch pennies to send their children elsewhere. It isn't because they want to abolish education education.

I see atheist Chinese immigrants who pay top dollar to send their kids to catholic schools because they know it maximizes their education and path the IVY league.
Cox Automotive generated the data[0] sourced in the second "paragraph" from the original article.

[0] https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kelley...
I think that should be obvious. Overconsumption of red meat has been associated with, like, every bad thing ever. Generally, nutrition advice only really focuses on overconsumption.

There's basically nothing that's always bad to eat or drink, the only exception I know of is alcohol. And even that is really really low risk if you drink just a little.
Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
FWIW Android also uses SELinux & I believe selinux-policy. Have no idea about the quality of the implementation.
Law isn't code, it's meant to be understood by humans and not computers.

Also, companies are allowed to have spaces and hyphens and other punctuation in their name, in fact the only requirement as I understand it is that private companies have to have 'Limited' or 'Ltd' at the end and that's it.
Ok, they blocked you putting the HTML in the company name, but what about the director's name?

I mean, if it's your legal name, and there's a legal requirement that the names of company directors be published...

I feel like this would be the most effort ever put into making an org take a bug report seriously.
> But main reason mainly is that it would give those with enough money to afford these "expensive tv ads" a leg up.

I think the main reason for rules like this is because it's literally politicians and political parties shoveling huge amounts of cash to the media, and 1) one of the purposes of the media is to inform people about politicians and politics, and 2) the politicians who are elected will oversee the media and their mergers. An intimate relationship is created where democracy demands an adversarial one.

It's rotten. It's the same reason no media can criticize any drug in the US, since they were allowed to advertise to the public. I'm sure there's some value in having people ask for specific drugs from their doctors, but that's minimal; the main value is being immune to any criticism unless an e.g. television station wants to lose 20% of their income.
Not necessarily. People who had placed the preorder were looking for a vanity vehicle, which it sure is. And, those people are not going to cancel.

I’m interested in the customer base once that market is exhausted.
Somehow I just knew a few of you'se would consider the implications of walking uphill to a pier
It sounds like they're going to hate that in the future when they have to fill out paperwork and argue with bureaucracies that say their documents/paperwork don't/doesn't match.
Looks like Putin, at 72, still enjoys working with high profile agents personally. What a dedication to the craft.
You are right about all of this. It is also true that phthalates and BPA-like chemicals pose considerable harm to people today.

You clearly know this, and much more.

Why not go one step beyond “hey anti all plastic people, not all plastics are bad” and help them get educated on, avoid and solve the harms that do exist?

Lack of nuance, on either side of the debate, mostly comes across as propaganda (to me)
Anecdata, but in the Bay Area I see a Cybertruck almost every time I go out. At the beginning of the year it was once per month. Now there are two or three Cybertruck owners in my immediate neighborhood.

I don't like the look, personally, but my kids love it.
adontz did above, that's what they called this user-tolerance-for-experiments metric. I didn't mean to imply you would too, apologies.
New York Public Radio is cutting staff and programming – again
https://archive.is/pBDXs

Relevant snippet:

"Tesla sold almost 17,000 Cybertrucks in the third quarter, according to Cox estimates, making it the third most popular EV in the US during the period. The only other EVs that sold better were the Tesla Model 3 and Y.

So far in 2024, more than 28,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. That's more than Ford's F-150 Lightning, Rivian's R1T, and Chevy's Silverado EV, Cox data shows."
Love Arc, and although I see a lot of pessimism around the announcement I don't see any issue with calling Arc "done" and only releasing bug fixes. Chrome would great today if they called it done 15 years ago. What else do we need?
"We have taken immediate steps to mitigate this risk and have put measures in place to prevent a similar occurrence."

Somehow I doubt that.
Building a Company for Hackers
Yeah, freedom of speech is a joke.
A* has entered the chat
I was completely shocked to find out how many people use search in those apps to query open questions rather than 'search the web' via something like Google
There is no such thing as religious grounds to refuse COVID shots. Religions are traditions and practices built up over a period of time, and COVID shots were brand new. They were within their rights to refuse to take those shots, but this could not possibly be a religious objection.
Errors and Using Your Ear
So what you are saying is I should start a vpn haha
3. At least several hundred billion tons of commodity plastics have been mass produced over the last 70 years with little to no quantified, attributable environmental damage from these plastics. Most microplastic is essentially inert dust that is no different from other organic or inorganic dust such as pollen or clay. Plastics are not allergens because they are non reactive and do not stimulate an immune response. It is very likely that blood of animals contains plastic molecules along with thousands of other molecules in trace quantities doing no more harm than natural silt in a river system.

You're missing a couple points yourself. For example, the article is talking about phthalates. These are additives added to plastics. These leech from microplastics. So your rant about how plastics are inert shows you didnt even understand the article yourself tbh.

There is plenty of evidence that these compounds are harmful and affect the biology. See the section on wikipedia on phthalates. What there isnt is much evidence and experimentation showing theyre NOT harmful.
Would you like to elaborate more on the territory part? As far as i understood you talk about emergence of properties beyond the sum of the elements but might be mistaken. Im fine with links to libgen.is or lengthy pdfs if necessary.

I'm currently working on trees for a nested controller approach and constructing / deconstructing differing branches. So even though i don't feel stuck right now i'm always willing to take hints for taking another path.
IANAL, but (or rather "so") I disagree. I can with some effort understand law jargon, but it certainly is not written to be understood by humans. I'm convinced computers are much better at it, but lawyers suffice.
I find the sentence easy to parse. So I’m curious, how would you have phrased it?
could you possibly have encoded the public part of a GPG key in there? Imagine turning each states ID system into the first step of assured communication
If you want vitamin C without the sugar load of drinking orange juice, you may be interested to learn that bell peppers have a much higher content of vitamin C than oranges, either per gram or per calorie.

Edit: Let me offer some USDA data points for those who are curious, but not curious enough to bother Googling for themselves.

Red Bell Peppers: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/170108/n...

Green Bell Peppers: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/2258588/...

Oranges: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/746771/n...
Does this mean that Dijkstra’s algorithm can perform better than something like A*?
The motivations behind alcohol consumption and food consumption aren't the same. The one "link" between them is that both are susceptible to addictive triggers. I would say most obese people essentially function and think like alcoholics, except their coping substance is various unhealthy foods.
It's possible, for example, that they are instead concerned about anyone consuming the data in some automated way, and are trying to protect downstream consumers who fail to sanitise the data correctly conveyed from Companies House to them. This is such an extremely rare type of company name that it might genuinely be reasonable to "throw an exception" when asked for it, even if you are perfectly capable of giving it, when you don't have much trust that your consumer will be capable of receiving it.

(The article does suggest there were problems with Companies House originally, but even after fixing them, this kind of consideration may prevail.)
Great, They made its so defeating the lock isn't illegal. Too bad selling the tool to do it is.
This is certainly not true for the mainstream media in all of europe. It might be true for public television stations in some countries.
The alternative to buying ads is buying newspapers and other media outlets.
What are the downsides?

I read that it was [Vitamin E] acetate in carts that was causing EVALI lung conditions?

What nutrients does it require synthetic or natural production of, and how sustainable are those processes?

Have the given organisms co-evolved with earth ecology for millions of billions of years?

Acetate > Biology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetate
The law actually contains a list of permitted characters [1]

Your company name can contain curly left apostrophe, curly right apostrophe, and straight apostrophe - but no lower case letters.

There are also a bunch of rules about specific words [2] - so you can't have "Financial Conduct Authority" in your company name without the permission of the government department of the same name.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorporation-and...
You're probably thinking of the Element. There were a lot of reasons it ended up with a rabid fan-base: Honda reliability, available manual transmission, available all-wheel drive. It was overall a really practical vehicle for those who wanted something with a good amount of interior space who didn't care about frills or luxury. Amusingly the Element was targeted at then-millennial young buyers looking for "adventure," but ended up being more popular amongst older people looking for a practical daily driver.

The Aztek had some similar positive properties, but was from one of the particularly bad eras of GM malaise and was highly unreliable. It's had a tiny bit of a cult resurgence recently, but it was never popular in the way the Element was.
Not so much "modified their license plate" so much as put a banner across the license plate part of their car. No indication that it did anything; would be in the top 5 all-time dumbest hacks.
> The company now legally known as “THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD”

Hilarious way to change it to something acceptable
I think the assumption is flawed because the value generated by AI is spurious. The demand is there, and the supply hasn't yet run out, but people aren't rushing to rework their lives around AI. We haven't seen serious advancements that AI can spearhead besides non-LLM applications like computer vision. And those aren't new, they're decades-old.

To bring another analogy into the equation, AI isn't crude oil. No country depends on AI to operate, for defensive purposes or as a critical decision-making heuristic - it's a speculative market. AI is another test for businesses a-la cryptocurrency, probing the few last firms that claim to "innovate" to see what they can put out. So far they've done excellent on the marketing side, but just about nothing in terms of practical or valuable problem solving. In 5 years I feel pretty confident that LLMs will be treated like a sideshow attraction and not a practical tool used by earnest humans.
Aren't you comparing the wrong values. Those banks that failed had more assets than tether has liabilities.

However, the actual difference between assets and liabilities was significantly less than 120bn for those banks. With Tether, I imagine the collapse will go from 1:1 redemptions day 1 to "oops all gone" day 2.

So I expect Tether to be the largest "bank" failure in US history by terms of loss of value.
The reason theyre selling is likely due to a US small business tax loophole that allows you to write off things like range rovers and escalades as a business expense. coupled with US electric vehicle incentives state and federal, and its a pretty sweet deal on the most electric SUV per weight and length you can buy.

Honestly I fully expect to see these things crisping in the sunlit parking lot of a predatory auto lender in about five years, or rolling through the rough part of town on an 84 month co-signed auto loan with liability insurance only, wagon wheels, a lord beerus wrap and aftermarket stereo.

Like Range Rovers and Hummers they will be gobbled up by people who (with petite-bourgeoise socialism) can afford to buy the vehicle, but not maintain it. And if Youtube is any judge of build quality, this vehicle will start to fall apart the minute it exits the factory floor.
It's indeed the way it is so that you can indicate a square that must be water. What you propose sounds like a solver to me, and I much prefer solving it myself.
I had friends on FB going back to high school. Neighborhood kids we hung with after school. People I've met at various jobs over the years and become friendly enough to keep in touch outside of work.

Did we interact every day? Nope. Just casually. But we have a shared history going back 50 years, and had enjoyable low key interactions periodically.

Turning off FB killed all of those connections, and not all of them came back when I got a new account a year later. Heck, a couple thought I had unfriended them and felt slighted.

And to top it off -- I didn't actually have a problem with FB. It didn't ruin my life. I did (and still do) visit about once or twice a week. I don't doom scroll, I don't get all jealous of someone's vacation pictures, new house, new car, whatever. I did not actually have a social media problem that needed solving. I gave too much value to what randos on HN said.

> why it is important that 'your network of friends recovers'?

Because I enjoy the casual contact with all of these people I've known over the years. Even if I don't share enough current interests to spend a lot of time hanging out with them, I get positive feelings from staying connected.
There's a notable exception:

>when combined with a sufficiently efficient heap data structure

So it depends on the circumstances a bit.