skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is lifting a ban on the use on wildlife refuges. The use anywhere else in the US was never banned. So the ban had little effect on preventing bee deaths.

If bees are dying from this it needs to be banned across the United States for all farming.
Some non-mainstream browsers (ELinks at least) make <link>s visible. This is occasionally useful, but most of the time it just wastes space. :-/

You might want to use this web extension to make automatic AMP → HTML redirects:

https://github.com/da2x/amp2html

Or you could use this bookmarklet:

javascript:window.location=document.head.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]').href
Moral imperative of forced medicine meeting the moral imperative to protect the weak.

Who has more rights ?
Arrow Flight is still being developed and may be while before it drops to real user code. See ARROW-249. Indeed having a open standard runtime memory format for tabular / columnar data sets is key to improved performance
Had to look for a video of cows doing this. Quite funny to see their excitement to finally be out in the open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huT5__BqY_U
It’s true that it’s not as entrenched in the party platform as climate change however if you look at the supporters of the anti-vaxxer and anti-GMO movements you’ll find that they lean overwhelmingly liberal.
Interesting, force the poor to vaccinate according to schedule while allowing the rich freedom of choice. Sounds like income/wealth discriminatory to me.
So you can beat this game by using the "sleep sort" method: starting at minute 0, every minute play the card that has the same number as the current minute
Distance traveled has gone through the roof, but at the same time deaths per million people has been going down. Clearly "the amount of traffic on the roads" isn't a rational indicator for how paranoid you should be about traffic.
I wonder if adding a "layman abstract" after a typical abstract in the papers would help. It could state things that should be obvious to scientists reading the paper, but could prevent some mistakes when a random person reads it. Like "This is early research about a small number of people that X. We're not sure if Y. It doesn't contradict common knowledge Z or mean that Q is no longer true."

I feel like typical reporting of research could be improved this way.
The same way we do with other topics: guns, alcohol, driving.

We'd be in less danger if no one did anything dangerous ever, but that doesn't leave much room for freedom.

It's extremely frustrating to see people doing something dangerous you disagree with, but it's likely that we all do it at some point.
In computer science, most academic authors make their publications freely available, on their university websites. There's an online index for these papers, called 'citeseer'. Other disciplines are more enslaved to elsevier, but CS has always been more free.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
Getting rich by

charging insane amounts of money from sick people (healthcare)
charging insane premiums and still trying every way to not pay when a person does fall sick
charging insane amounts of money in fees from students, selling textbooks for hundreds of dollars, putting them in debt for life - all with not even a guarantee of half decent job when they finish their course
making sure workers get slightly less hours than required, so they don't have to pay benefits
creating private prisons (WTF)

and on and on...

How is any of this moral?

Ah, it is just business, nothing personal.

How many decisions are made with morality and ethics in mind vs legality in the business world?

This is what happens if we reduce everything to profit and loss
I don't think antivaxers are predominantly left wing. The whole Big Xxx (in this case Pharma) paranoia has long since left the camp of rational scepticism over suspiciously funded research and into the realm of uneducated lunacy that plagues both fringe ends of the ideological spectrum. But it is definitely more right aligned because it resonates well with the whole "my beliefs are at least as good as your scientific facts" thing that is firmly a right wing thing. This is further compound by the facts that fringe right is extremely well correlated with lack of education and by some studies even with lower IQ.
We take money form you to feed and care for people that can’t take care of them selves, we will take your children away from you if you put them at risk sometimes for a silly reasons as leaving a child home alone, we as a society force conduct all the time I don’t understand why is this so different.
Sounds a lot like traditional fiction publishing. They want exclusivity, sometimes indefinitely.
No. The problem with that, along with many libertarian beliefs, is that people do not exist in a vacuum. Their actions can and do affect others who had nothing to do with their decision. Take the measles outbreak that happened at Disneyland a few years ago, or the whooping cough outbreak in SV. Those affected children other than the ones who's parents didn't vaccinate.
AI has a PR problem, and AI researchers should not ignore it
A cop out: why don't we do something to address the education system that allows people to hold so strongly these anti-scientific conclusions? Don't want to stray off topic, but, as a society, we seem to have an increasing inability to distinguish junk science and random opinions passed as fact, from, you know, actual science.

If people understood herd immunity, understood that the underpinnings of the anti-vax movement are based on debunked fraudulent science, etc, this "anti-vax" situation would've never come into being.
I really wish people would simply forget about markdown and restart with a slightly more sensible and extensible markup. I personally always thought that some sort of latex/context with a simple markup for common commands would be more useful.
PowerShell has this; all cmdlet parameters are parsed by the PowerShell environment, so you don't have to write argument parsing code over and over; parameters to cmdlets are a standard form with many using the same common names where it makes sense.

Because of that design they are long and readable words but tab completable, and ctrl-space will bring up a menu of available matches starting with what you've typed so far.
E-readers are so cheap now that makes sense.

Years ago I built a little clock that displays "It's a little after 2". Ardunio-class CPU with a 2x24 character display. Looks dated now.

I'd like to build an e-ink unit that will run for a year on a battery.
As a vaccinated person who just suffered from mumps thanks to a loss of herd immunity, it's hard to not get upset reading that type of logic. There's an incredibly clear correlation between vaccines and reduction of suffering, and your actions don't affect yourself alone.
I cant‘t open this page in a sane way, because I‘m from the EU.
Yes it was! They have the issue at the archive:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05
I'm not dismissing anything. I didn't say the science is or isn't true, I didn't say I would or wouldn't vaccinate.

What I'm pointing out is that the side that says it knows, historically, has been wrong a lot more than we recognize.

>> Maybe you'd be more upset if you had a child that got sick in an area where vaccination rates were low. Or if you had a child that had actual, real, medical reasons why they couldn't receive the immunization and need to rely on herd immunity for their literal survival.

Of course I'd be upset in those circumstances, I'm not sure what your point is. Is it that we all need to get angry on the internet to save little kids? Because I'll tell you right now that's the least effective way to try to bring anybody to your side.
> unfortunately it had its time as a pseudo programming language period..

You are quite right. I should probably have said something more like "XML was intended by its creators more for machine than human consumption" (and, incidentally, creation; I think I have read that XML construction wasn't really intended to be done by humans either).
Discussion/debate on these topics should be encouraged, not silenced. Disagreeing with the CDC schedule shouldn't paint one as a crazy anti-vaxxer yet that is the case more often than not.

These vaccines are not 100% safe nor 100% effective. The guidelines to vaccinate are designed for the well being of society, not one's child. Some parents will care about their child more than society overall or edge cases from people they do not know. Vaccine side effects are not recorded as often as they should be.

And yes, my children are fully vaccinated (CA requires them to be to attend school). We were able to do that (mostly) our way.

I found the following book incredibly helpful though you may feel like a pariah for reading it:
https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting-Libra...
Yes, and vaccines that are very much less than 100% effective can protect an entire population if the vaccination rate is close to 100%.
Hm, it's not a complete response to your point, but I think the comparison is possibly mismatched, given the inherent risks with anti-vaxers, herd immunity, and the larger population.

The actions of a few can seriously impact large populations. The multiplier effect is, potentially, significantly greater than with guns/alcohol/driving. (And even then, those arguably border on even more divisive debates that we should leave for another thread.)
Do you work at EAW now?
A lot of people don't realize this, but macroassemblers are generally quite good at generating arbitrary binary data. Case in point: https://github.com/corkami/pocs/tree/master/mini
There's as many shades of "anti-vaccine" as there are people. I for one believe the changes in composition of vaccines in the 90s (different adjuvants, more combo vaccines as opposed to single ones) and the wildly increased CDC vaccine schedule requiring many many more times the number of shots as we had when kids is a big concern.

Big Pharma doesn't exactly have a track record of always using good judgment, but it does have a track record of using bad science and plain illegal activities like failing to report adverse reactions on plenty of things it sells.

Ultimately vaccines are a huge money-making machine for Big Pharma, and while the basic science of vaccines is sound and works, that's not the part that most anti-vaxxers are complaining about, but the fact that it's an ever increasing schedule of more and more vaccines, larger doses more bundled together with adjuvants that are at best "not gonna harm you" to at worst "may cause life-long issues".

When you're a parent and you're literally making choices that could affect the life of a child one way or the other for life (or worse cause his death), you take pause and weigh the pros and cons.

So instead of painting anti vaxxers as this "lunatic crowd of backwater parents who don't believe in science", let's stop to take a hard look at the very real forces in play and the Big Pharma interests that would love nothing more than to silence a movement that is eating at its bottom line.

The basic science on vaccines is sound. That's not what anti-vaxxers (the ones that actually did some research) are complaining about.
Data Structure: Sliding Window Technique Problems
You are right about anti-GMO but my experience with antivaxers was that they were predominantly anti-science, often highly religious and more commonly conservative or fringe right than the other way around.
Statement from Microsoft President Brad Smith on Aug. 3 DACA Lawsuit Ruling
Ask HN: Anybody following the ketogenic diet?
Saw this documentary called Magic pill on Netflix and the benefits of Keto diet look really unbelievable. Did some research and unfortunately I am not able to decide (just too much information, paywalls, affiliate links, etc).

So wondering if any HNers have tried it and what have been your results?
Wait, are you saying you're such a person? You weren't able to get the MMR vaccine?
Precision Policing
Drunk driving: you were able to drive, then you took alcohol, no you are unable to drive.

Going around unvaccinated: you were able to be infected and transmit a disease, then you (or your parents) did not allow others to vaccinate you, now you are still able to get infected and transmit.

I'm not against vaccination, but I'm critical. (See my other comment) US has by far the biggest vaccination schedule in the world, and is not exactly an example of a great public health system. Scandinavian countries have much smaller schedules than the US, and they have healthier children.
No, this take is bad. We do not need to allow things where the outcome is purely bad in the name of "freedom".
It's okay to downvote me, but please tell me whats wrong with my logic...
Isn't that basically the job description for most of us in economics/analytics/information/writing/consulting fields?

/haha, only serious.
GitHub will now tell you if your password has been pwned
I'll offer a counterpoint. Some people have extremely adverse reactions with vaccines. Those who have predispositions that can lead to extreme reactions should be able to opt out of vaccination because they may in rare cases be more harm than good.

Now, most people should be vaccinated and those few that aren't should hopefully be protected by herd immunity.

To say that the quality medical systems and herd immunity decreasing the risk of those diseases nullifies the dangers of adverse reactions is a bit unfair.

To close, I agree that most everyone should be vaccinated and that philosophical beliefs are not valid reasons to avoid vaccination. I do disagree in that I believe that there are a number of rare situations where vaccination is legitimately more harmful than just relying on herd immunity.
Huh? Worked for me. "All no".
Why are the authors of the papers giving rights to Elsevier? If the papers are being peer reviewed for free, why doesn’t SciHub corral the reviewers and allow authors publish directly to SciHub.

Papers upvoted by leaders in the field would carry as much weight as those published by any named journal.
I would make a lousy cheetah
While true, the numbers are not even, since the are more poorer people who do care about the extra money, so it may be a practical approach.
Cool.

I might use this for my smartwatch.
What is the motivation of the crime?
You were vaccinated for mumps, yet you still contracted it? Sorry to hear that. Are you pretty much immune to it now?
Jean is correct!

Of course, unbounded nondeterminism is a somewhat artificial example. However, the extra power of Actors over Turing Machines is critical for IoT and the implementation of Intelligent Systems.
God bless scihub!

Aside from it's primary benefit of making access possible, one of the really nice things about it is that it uses open standards (regular unauthenticated HTTP, DOIs, no clever js obfuscation). This means that whenever you're searching for a paper and see a DOI, you can do something like:

wget --recursive --span-hosts --no-directories --accept '*.pdf' --quiet \
--execute robots=off https://sci-hub.tw/$DOI

And instantly get a local copy of the .pdf. It's a hacker's dream!
Everything is rendered on the clientside, yes. One of the big issues right now is that one of the libraries which I use for layout (ELK.js) weighs in at 3MB which is huge (and most of the code is unused). But re-implementing it all from scratch is quite a bit of work, and I need to pick between perfect and getting something done. :)

> It's also way easier to edit and collaborate with. Could even be version controlled in a source-code way.

Overall idea is to make this into a wiki. I am also planning to add an ability to collaboratively edit the same page (like google docs).

In terms of version control, yes, also thought about it. It's a bit more complex, and I don't have a good architecture as a solution at the moment.
Government grants should come with open access strings (un)attached.
A bit late now, but part of me wonders whether the advances in communication technology have made it too easy to keep in contact with people we already know, and whether that's caused part of this issue.

Think about it. In the olden days, if you went to college or moved to a new, somewhat distant town or country, that was it for your current social life. You lost contact with your existing friends, and you had to find new friends at the new location in order to not be lonely again.

That lack of communication forced you to meet new people on a regular basis, and likely made college/university a good place for it for so many young people. After all, you couldn't talk to your hometown friends as easily now, and your family was cut off too. You had to meet new people.

Smartphones and social media sites and other such things make it so you can easily keep up with the people you already know, and spend all your free time talking to those you're already in contact with. The need for finding new crowds has basically died.
> Without hijacking this thread and/or turning it into a political rant,

Too late :)

> the propaganda of people "abusing" welfare is a 99% political agenda.

I agree that this sort of message is crafted to create moral outrage and, thereby, an outsized negative response to welfare as a whole. I initially responded in this way, but I quickly changed my mind when I heard the message that it's just so little.

That is, even accepting the likely-inflated numbers claimed for the abuse, it's such a small percentage of overall tax revenue (and even of social programs), partly because the benefits are so meager to begin with, that it's simply not worth consideration or discussion.

The far more interesting (political/economic) question, to me, is whether it does more good than harm.

In this particular case, I absolutely agree with ancestor-comments that "milking" the benefits rather than risking losing them by working a low-wage job is best, and not just for the OP, but for society and the economy as a whole. The faster the OP gets back "on his feet" and is producing near full capability and is earning (and paying taxes on) full wages, the better it is for everyone.

Neither society nor the economy are a zero-sum game, after all.
Perhaps a blunt question, but what took scientists so long to figure this out?
You could say this about pretty much anything with fines involved.

"It's OK for the rich to park on double yellow lines, litter in the streets, etc.."
Neat, though it sounds like this game could be trivially beaten by agreeing to sleepsort ahead of time (if your propensity to solve a game outweighs your desire to not be a killjoy, anyway). For a less trivial take on a cooperative game that limits communication (which is essential for any cooperative game, to prevent quarterbacking) I highly recommend Hanabi: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi
All this talk makes me think of the 'unkillable' T1 phage. Just a tidbit copied from the internet[1]:

'T1 is not easy to get rid off. The best solution of all is to not use T1-sensitive strains. You’ll need to bleach the hell out of everything as well as UV irradiate if possible. And I mean everything, water baths, glassware, specs, pipets, your wife and kids (the latter is probably deserving of a good bleaching anyways). This is serious business T1 can exist in aerosol form for up to a few months, so it’s going to take regular cleaning and testing intervals. In a previous lab it took about six months to a year of solid effort to eradicate our T1 infection.'

[1]http://genrepair.scientopia.org/2011/01/11/do-we-have-a-t1-p...
Iris Automation Is Hiring C++ Engineers – Perception for Drones
And a screenshot of some of the search results on science direct, beautiful. Plus I'm imagining the blog writers grinning with glee when they were provided/discovered this.
> The issue with flag waving is the association with expansive military actions, repression of minorities etc. As in, outside sport match situation (where anybody waves flag), flag waving people were and are usually pro expansion, quite hateful and fearful of other ethnic groups, authoritarian etc.

France has proven itself to be more than capable of that ugly side of nationalism, whether or not they are waving flags.
> Vaccines do have published risk of complications

Yes, so the selfish will avoid the risk and free-ride on the herd immunity. In a society that is irrationally selfish, the government may reasonably choose to give incentives to vaccinate. For example, the vaccinations might be required for admission into government-paid health care, or the government could compensate victims of the side-effects with care, cash, etc.
So President Chaos Gaius Caligula removes a ban on chemicals which pose a threat to our civilization and our very ecosystem for pretty much no reason. What else has he ruined today?
It is flamebait. It has absolutely nothing to do with the article at hand; it just serves to take a cheap shot at a publication the poster doesn't like.
The layman abstract is basically what cable news has turned into their business.

"Forget trying to understand this issue, let us explain how you should feel about it!"

It will immediately be abused. Still, probably better than the current situation.
It's unfortunately detrimental to one's academic career to not publish in the most "prestigious" journal one can. This results in researchers publishing in closed journals either to try and maintain their own careers or due to pressure from their department as a way of looking more attractive in grant applications.

Extremely prominent researchers and departments may be able to pull this off but everyone else in the trenches will be more or less committing career/department suicide by allowing this to happen.

Hopefully those who can stand up will but I wouldn't expect a sudden leap from the trenches until this situation changes.
> They have a considerable presence in India(former British colony) as well. They have 14 centres, all of which are in major cities.

India was also colonized by the French. In fact, the French still held onto their colonies in India for several decades after the British left.
I think this is the wrong question.

Strong or weak I don't think it is in anyone's interest to have a large percentage of the population die due to rampant disease.

So I will go with "forced" medicine, and fluorine in my tap water.
Someone who is posting obvious flamebait does not get to complain about people not following the rules.
And you still haven't. Unless "sizeable percentage" is less than 5%.

There have always existed morons. The internet has just shown light on what was once restricted to rumor mills.
Bharath Raj, who in his byline for this article describes himself as “hungry”, is shockingly inept at gauging the implications of what is he writing about.

His cheerful, go-lucky manner in the first two paragraphs about making things more efficient and less boring is incredibly naive to how these things are going to be implemented.
It's not even editorial prerogatives; it's narrative. Newspaper stories - they're called stories for a reason. Stories need structure and internal consistency. Ambiguity and incomplete information are upsetting to the reader.

Sure, the more emotive a story is, the better chance it has of spreading, but it doesn't need to be sensationalist - it just needs to engage the reader on multiple levels. There are different kinds of emotions you can hit in the reader that don't rely on sensational reporting. Appealing to a sense of tribal belonging is a particularly strong one these days.