skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All vaccines have side effects -- the side effects are quite rare but are sometimes severe. Several thousand people have life-threatening reactions to vaccination each year.

The standard vaccination schedule is comprised of vaccinations with benefits which outweigh the medical risk and cost. If you travel to less developed areas you may receive a wider array of vaccinations.

For an eradicated disease there is no benefit and therefore no reason to assume the risk, or cost.
It would be unfortunate if otherwise eradicated diseases make a reoccurrence because of the ill-informed anti-vaccination movement. I hope this drug and others never has to see use in the future.
How the hell did rgbrenner get down votes for this?

It makes me think anti Trump people are in this permanent psychological prison where aspects of reality that don't agree with their pathological need to see everyone around Trump as rabid animals begin hallucinating immediately.

Oh right. We all do it, it's well documented, it's called cognitive dissonance, and it literally literally makes you hallucinate.
Hopefully he wasn't bullshitting with those insurance files. I have been waiting for some quality leak drama for a long long time now.
So what competition are you expecting to emerge as a result of this? Making a successful mobile operating system at this point is very very difficult. Even Microsoft couldn’t do it. If you handicap Android all you’re going to have left is iOS and cheap phones loaded with carrier crap.

The whole situation reminds me of progressives in the US that keep voting for people like Nader and Sanders and effectively make conservatives win. Life very rarely offers us our ideal options.
It seems "left" and "right" can be used differently in different countries / times. In the US today, left is synonymous for liberal (typically democrat), and right for conservative (republican).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_s...
I used xdebug somewhere before 2011 and found it really good.

Never got my JS debugging up to that quality.
Have you used NetBSD and if yes:

1. Why did you choose it?

2. What are your impressions?
Walmart practically did this but with a little twist back in the days. They opened multiple extra stores within a very small geographical area. Some stores were actually losing money but it didn't matter to them because they used it to completely destroy all competitors in that area and forced them to close up their shops. Once everybody is gone, Walmart has accomplished their mission and then proceeded to shut down the extra stores as well.
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If Assange is going to get anything from the USA is extradited to it and charged with trading in knowingly stolen material to undermine the candidate of the 2016 election he didn't like. Based on what was in the last Mueller indictment we'll see what happens between the US and the UK.
Obligatory link to the Onion's Blockbuster Living Museum video:
https://entertainment.theonion.com/historic-blockbuster-stor...
Intel CPUs provide a crazy amount of performance counters. I bet that the numbers you want are in there somewhere. Look into the perf tool.
Why have you chosen NetBSD?
I think it’s a bit more nuanced - they’re all giving people a full copy of their data, but you can’t do much with that on say FB> Twitter.

This to me smells like preemptive action against legislation. Sort of the companies choosing which limb or organ to give up instead of dictated by legislation
That's the result of technology, not moral standards. People are the same as they've always been, and I'd describe the moral evolution as a random walk, more than anything.
Why I don’t invest in AI
Good. His lies about the Catalonia situation were Russia Today-tier of disinformation and fake news. It’s completely normal that an ally of Spain doesn’t want to cooperate with that.
People aren't generally vacinated against small pox becuase it has been eradicated. If it comes back, it's because of biowarefare or research mistake.
Unfortunately even then it is not enough. After all the grim and painful history of Jews, look at the plight of Palestinians under occupation.
How do they know that the treatment is effective? I would assume it has been tested only in vitro, unless they infected and cured volunteers.
I think parent uses far left like far left in US politics or average European, not like Venezuela or Soviet Union. The latter two were of course incompatible to freedom just as the extreme right. I do believe that the "almost far left" are much more compatible with freedom (think Sanders on steroids) than the "almost far right" (I guess current GOP?).

It could be that this is just incidental in that the public are currently more aligned with what the left wants so the right currently has to be anti-freedom if it wants to get elected. If public opinion shifts drastically maybe DNC would resort to trying to restrict voters instead of encouraging them?
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I’m never going to understand the praise for Julian Assange. He may have started out with good intentions, but his turns towards Putin and subsequent actions are pretty unforgivable in my estimation. I can’t see how a moral person could stand by his decisions, honestly. I think Pussy Riot summer him up best:

"But Julian Assange, he openly works with [Russia]," Nadya Tolokno told The Daily Beast in an interview Thursday. "It's not a secret. He's connected with the Russian government, and I feel that he's proud of it.

"I generally support the work that WikiLeaks is doing, but I'm not that thrilled about his decisions that are unethical, in my view, concerning his connections to the Russian government."

Tolokno said she visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London two years ago, saying their meeting convinced her WikiLeaks has ties to the Kremlin.

"He couldn't deny it," said Tolokno, whose full name is Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. "He often works with the Russian propaganda machine, and he doesn't try to hide it.

"Julian Assange doesn't try to hide that fact because he hosts at the Ecuadorian Embassy the editor-in-chief of the Russian propaganda team, Russia Today, and he has projects with them," she added.

Tolokno added she confronted Assange about advancing Russian interests ahead of America's.

"I understood his position: He's in a state of war with the American government," she said. "He's smart and charismatic and will use any means to destroy the American government.

"And we had a conversation if it was really the ethical thing to do that with the hands of another government [Russia] which is, in fact, much worse and a real authoritarian government."

[https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-...]
There aren't two types of software engineers. It's a spectrum, possibly multidimensional. The attraction to declaring two types of any kind of person is that you can bin all the desirable and undesirable traits together.
I'm sorry but I don't think you understand where Google's position is here and where the revenue is coming from. Here's a primer: https://arkenea.com/blog/big-tech-companies-user-worth/

Notice how conspicuously absent is the price of the phone or the number of apps you choose to buy.

It's not just Android, it's also the Google apps that come with it (you know, the ones that an OEM loses access to if it tries to compete).

And the revenue is not a percentage from every expensive phone you buy in the US. It's the user data that phone, cheap or expensive, gives them access to. So as long as the phone is able to provide data about your location, browsing habits, emails, music preference, searches, etc. Google will never care if it's a cheap one.

Why do you think Google complies with every request it gets from the government of one of its biggest markets that you forgot to mention, China? Because access to that trove of user data is almost priceless. Why do you think the likes of Facebook want to give free internet in Africa? For a Nobel prize? No, it's because that's paving the way to accessing more user data.

> I still haven’t heard anyone explain how they think this recent ruling makes anything better. Who is going to benefit from this?

The customers. I see you are commenting a lot but probably didn't bother to read the article linked here on HN. You are asking questions that have very logical answers available everywhere you look, even in real life. Which makes me believe you're not actually trying to get an answer, you're suggesting that competition law is wrong. Possibly just when some companies have to suffer.
Can we fund development and stockpile reserves of new, effective antibiotic, all while not selling it to anyone else? As an insurance against bioterrorism, if nothing else.
That depends on what you're doing. Sendfile, splice and copy_file_range are the fastest if you want to shovel things back and forth between file descriptors. The latter supports reflink copy if the the underlying filesystem does.

And I think there's some special casing in vmsplice that lets you transfer memory pages from process to process over a pipe. At least I've seen some patches for that, not sure if they made it into the kernel. Alternatively there's memfd.

But if you want to coordinate processes you'll use a shared memory and futexes.

If you just want to hand over an entire file to a different process you can send the file descriptor itself over a unix socket.
Crimson Hexagon sounds like something from a "nefarious organization" random name generator.
Sweden withdrew their arrest warrant.

Ecuador granted asylum not to shield Assange from justice in Sweden, but to prevent the US from using the Swedish case as an avenue to extradite him to the US.
I'd love to know what kinds of concepts you struggled with.

I do maybe 30% front end, then a whole bunch of everything else and often wonder what entire categories I'm blind of.
I really have to thank him for changing my mind about the Bush administration and his constitutional abuses. The media gave Obama and Hillary a free ride, portraying then as victems, so I was also to happy to see the truth come out about them. I hope the Trump administration receives the same treatment if secret constitutional abuses are happening/begin to happen
> Based on past experience, it is estimated that between 1 and 2 people out of every 1 million people vaccinated may die as a result of life-threatening reactions to the vaccine.

-- http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/smallpox/...
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fwilliams: looking at this comment, in hindsight, I wish I could soften it. I did make what can only be described as "general claims," and now feel more than a bit dumb for saying otherwise... sorry about that. (What I was trying to say, but evidently did a poor job of articulating, is that the authors of the paper are not making general claims, even though they do speculate about the potential usefulness of their work.)
Or climate change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-earth-warms-th...
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"I know sorting algorithms so intimately that I know to always reach for the built in .sort()" - hypothetical person in my head.
I don't think you can make the historical case that the past was uniformly more brutal or unjust than the present. I think it would be more accurate to say that in our current place and time, our current evolution of moral standards and expectations looks unfavorably (and rightfully so!) on human slavery, but there's no guarantee that we or others aren't regressing on other issues. That's probably a cause for humility as future generations will almost certainly look back on us and wonder how we could have tolerated those things that they will consider injustices.
Research chemicals are dangerous.

They’re mostly all synthetics derived from amphetamine class of drugs like MDMA.

2CE. 2CB. 2CI. Etc. and countless others. No one taking them know what it truly is.

They are dangerous. And more ubiquitous than LSD-25.

You can never be sure what you’re getting. You can OD and have a psychotic episode.

I do not classify them as therapeutic psychedelics, and always advise against.

If you ever take a tab of LSD and it’s bitter or metallic, or anything but absolutely flavorless or just paper, do not take. Spit it out.
You are making the argument that because centralized systems have been proven to be able to solve certain kinds of problems in an acceptable way, that it follows that centralization was the magic bullet that made the systems successful.

This argument is analogous to saying that because all wars that have been won to date have been fought using swords, that all future victories will be won with swords.

In the myopia of any era, such statements seem trivially true, yet they are shown to be false again and again.

Let's break down what Youtube actually consists of: It's a hosting platform for videos, a security model, a content recommendation/discovery platform, a piracy/abuse prevention moderation system, an advertising platform, and an affiliate platform (content creators make some of the ad revenue).

All of these can be created as federated systems. There are some significant inefficiencies that give a federated system a bit of a disadvantage, but building it in a decentralized way also offers tremendous advantages.

Such a system will certainly replace Youtube at some point in the future as long as each of the mechanisms Youtube offers is available and performs with similar quality to what Youtube offers.

We've seen some fairly remarkable examples of distributed cooperation (blockchain systems) that many would have thought impossible a few years ago. Critics of such systems still point to centralized control as the inevitable way of humanity, but get proven wrong every day as decentralized systems gain credibility.

Credibility is the key. You are right that the average person who wants to flip around and watch funny content doesn't care how the system was built, but average users do care about the massively annoying ads, the freemium model and the myriad dark patterns that try to squeeze every last penny out of the ecosystem.

Analogous to how Microsoft took a big nose dive soon after reaching "peak annoying" with its tiered OS offerings, $1000 office suite and many other gimmicks that signal impending disruption, Youtube is getting very close to this pinnacle.

The little gimmicks that gradually autoplay you toward the most viral content and ads are pernicious dark patterns that create psychological pain for users and even though they are viewed as successful by the "engagement and profitability metrics" approach, they are creating a bigger and bigger void for some other service to fill.

The problem is, Youtube has created a category leading centralized product, which is now very easy to replicate. Just as Bing was able to easily steal much of Google's search market simply by copying many years of Google R&D in a few months, playing trending videos with interruption marketing is now a known product and any missteps can result in massive loss of market share. Google knows this and will not take risks to expand the platform's features.

So all it takes for a federated model to succeed is some insight into the things that the market wants that Google is too blinded by dopamine-fueled ad watching to worry about building.
Formats, yes. But if you want to do a massive migration between g suite and o365 you’re solution is hire a vendor or write up some annoyingly complicated script to perform it
This was from the Michael Pollen episode.
If you actually tried studying these topics instead of going behind shallow propaganda, you'd see how misguided you are. But actually liberals are not leftists, there's no left in USA.
Global South should be leading solar geoengineering R&D
You've never used a flash drive in the past 8 years?
Yes very valid points.

I am thinking of making flashcards with all the styling comments and really internalise them. Its like failing a driving license test everytime I create a pull request. haha...

Anyways, I was keen on knowing if this is a common problem (say like 10% of the population faces or its even scarcer).

I personally have never seen a project fail because the styling was a little off. I have seen projects succeed because they hit the customer early, and fail because they didn't do it a lot better than existing solutions. But then, to be honest, every project has its own flavours to success.
I don't think you understand how pro cycling works. Unlike other pro sports, cycling teams can't really sell tickets to spectators. Most of the revenue comes from sponsors for marketing purposes. So any change that makes it less effective as an advertising channel is a total non-starter.
If you’re a company that can develop a new, effective antibiotic, you’d sell it to everybody and make out like a bandit.
Lockheed and Boeing aren’t selling consumer goods into the Chinese market, and they’re not stealing IP from ZTE, to name 2 quick differences that pop to mind
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Gemstone III was my after school haven for the latter half of the 90s. I'd get off of the school bus and rush to log in. I would curse family members when they had to use the phone and I had to log off. I taught myself to touch type to keep up with what was going on. I took hours to roll new characters, and leveling up in that game was the single biggest video game high I've ever experienced (Dark Souls boss victories coming in second). I remember so much, so vividly: the virtual selflessness of healers taking on my wounds, fighting rats in the sewers, taking on jobs in the city to earn money, memorizing strings of map directions to move between hunting grounds, running to the safety of guards around city gates, and especially, especially, the friendliness of the people.
How is it the UK's fault that Assange chose to hide in the Ecuadorian embassy? They can't make him come out.
The decision was never about evidence.
This is a really interesting story. Glad you shared it. I suppose, being a CEO, one is entitled to such privileges. :)

PR = pull request. Created so that your peers can review the code and catch any issues (architectural, logical or just styling). I think the value attributed to them should be 100x to 10x to 1x (or lesser than 1x).

But its not a commonly held belief. Many software engineers take pride on producing beautiful code. Its not about the product but also about wanting to be the best (say taking it from 99% to 99.9%). But it has its bad side - product can take a back seat to the new cool aid drink language on the block.
> Imagine you had a 2-day/wk job that pays ["half of what you make in a 40h/wk job"]. Would you mind having a 2nd job that pays the other half?

Where "half of what you make in a 40h/wk job" ~= (a) enough, OR (b) not enough.

If the answer is (a), then yes, I would mind. I would stick to 2 days.

That answer is not only true for me, research has shown it to be true for the majority of people for a US value of "enough" = $75,000/household (possibly could be updated for inflation/cost of living but the point stands).

You might be in the minority who wouldn't mind—in fact I suspect a disproportionate number of HNers may fall into that particular minority—but it's not true for most of the population.
I think you should edit the title to be Gitleaks v1.0.0 - Audit git repos for secrets

So people know :)
I've always considered this bit of writing from 2006 to be Assange's (and Wikileaks') central thesis:

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"The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance

[...]

The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption."

https://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936id_/http://iq.org:...

https://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

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I still believe that this will bear out in the long-run, and has already begun to bear out in smaller-scale cases, but it is becoming apparent that in many cases this is like a "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" situation, and has really barely begun.

As for Assange personally, I still kinda believe in him, though I recognize that is on shakier ground than it may once have been. After 8 uninterrupted years of however an honest and empathetic person might describe his conditions, I would not be surprised, nor would I particularly fault him for losing it a bit, and letting his personal situation (... being fucking personally targeted for destruction by an unfathomably powerful global-scale system of secretive injustice) compromise his personal pretence towards the objective neutrality on which his thesis's large-scale fruition is predicated.
How do they know if what they’ve taken is actually LSD-25, and not some research chemical?

Research chemicals pawned off as LSD is more common than ever. They are dangerous psychotic inducing deugs.
I'm reading this paper to follow along with this excellent implementation in Clojure of regular expression matching of sexps: https://github.com/cgrand/seqexp

Ghadi also made a version to parse PEG grammars but the VM is done in java i believe. Great talk about it:

talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q--oX5muxw
project: https://github.com/ghadishayban/pex
There was an interesting story about RedBox a few years ago. Hollywood was trying to block them from buying movies for their kiosks. So they were sending armies of employees with gift cards out to all the Best Buy, Walmart, and whoever else sold the movie and was buying them at retail.

Even though a supreme Court case has upheld rental rights, Hollywood is still trying to keep them from buying the movies in the first place.
Unfortunately I agree completely. Assange and WikiLeaks might have been on the 'right side' of things years ago, but things have changed since then. Siding with Putin is absolutely unforgivable.
We have 4 columns:

* Proposed
* ToDo
* In Progress
* Done

As a developer we mostly care about all but the first (though we drop random stuff in the first). The ToDo is always ordered with respect to priority but is generally irrelevant while one has work in-flight. That allows us to, without having to really notice, always grab the most important thing when we are free again.

As you can imagine the proposed is the ungroomed/vague/random idea list that is roughly ordered toward whatever the PO (or developers for us since we don’t have product) views as a road map - discussed every week or so.

Everything has labels and generally ties to the concept of an epic or bug.
I think you may be responding to a stronger, clearly wrong, hypothesis... in which some virus landed on Haight-Ashbury in 1965? And this is kind-of what I'm arguing against -- ruling out a whole line of thought because you take offence at some version.

Every STD has a massive incentive to alter sexual behaviour. Some do: Syphilis makes you horny. And we probably haven't found all of them: if AIDS was no worse for you than Toxoplasmosis, would we have tracked it down? So maybe a whole lot of sexual behaviour is influenced by viruses, maybe in lots of animals. Where would you look to test this? At behaviours which don't seem obviously motivated by standard Darwinian concerns.

Certainly this is a tentative idea, nobody should get too attached to it. Probably there are people saying this more politely than Cochran. Some of us like the blunt style, it wastes less time.
No those changes are in -current, and still a bit rough around the edges but much better.
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I am excited to see more positive coverage of psychedelics. But every time threads like these pop up, there are people who claim to know people who came away from a trip with some kind of psychosis/anxiety disorder. I haven't reviewed the literature in some years; can anyone recommend any modern sources which document rates of poor outcomes post trip? I feel like, while odds are in one's favor, these drugs can be a coin toss, I'd like a better feel for the odds.
Those work fine with USB 2.0, they're just slower.