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> They believe, wrongly in my opinion, that vaccines cause other medical problems serious enough to justify not using vaccines. To me, that's legitimate dissent.

I don't get it. How is this any more legitimate than actually being a Luddite and saying "technology and modern medicine is bad"?

Would you say that racism and bigotry against minorities becomes legitimate if it's phrased as "this minority group will give you a disease if you let them near you"? Because that's actually a pretty classic feature of racist propaganda.
there are significant differences as discussed elsewhere. Additionally, you can't read globals or other complex computed expressions from the locals window...
Vaccine effectiveness durations are studied. They vary by the vaccine you’re getting (which I would hope is obvious but your comment is very much a blanket statement).

Many of them might decline in efficacy but that can mean 90% effective which is very good. Furthermore many of them have mitigating effects if you do get the diseases anyway that reduce risk of death or complications.
It's important to note that there was an agreement in place (and renewed in 2015) to allow the ports to automate aspects of cargo handling. This protest is in response to construction of additional automation-enabling equipment and is evidence that the dock workers realize their high-pay jobs are really at stake here. On one hand, they are absolutely fighting progress, on the other hand this is evidence of what's in store for the autonomous vehicle industry in general over the next decade.
Anti-vaxxers are like terrorists: they don't really do much per se, but the FUD they spread does immense harm to society. Defunding & deplatforming such groups is a methodology that is practically inescapable for as long as laymen are liable to believe anti-vaxxers or be afraid of terrorists.

Of course, the real solution is education: both of the purveyors of misinformation and of those who fall victim to it. That's a multi-generational process that should ideally happen in parallel with short-term fixes.
The US and the UK (or even Australia) are more appropriate comparisons of countries than the US and Norway as a result of legal systems based on common law.

It makes a difference when comparing justice systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Legal_systems_...
You should in fact practice television avoidance. It's an awful format in just about every sense.

You should not begin listening to more radio to compensate. Reading more newspapers and books would be more appropriate. Something movie trailers, television, and radio all have in common is the coercive use of music to manipulate how you feel, particularly when trying to persuade you to buy something or vote for somebody.

Try this simple exercise: instead of watching CNN on television, go to CNN.com and read the stories they have there in text. I assure you, anything important they have to say on television will be written down. And in text form, it will have less flashy graphics to daze you, the emotion in the television personality's voice will be neutralized, there will be far less repetition and typically more details organized in a more coherent manner. And perhaps best of all, the advertisements will be much easier to filter out.
Every time I get a flu shot I get an info packet about the Harm Compensation Program https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html

Is this not a trivial counterargument to your claims: anyone that was harmed by a vaccine is eligible for a lot of money. Yet few people reach for this fund.
I think this decision had 2 motivators, in order of importance:

1. Business

2. Ethics

The ethics effect the business. GoFundMe does not want to be known as a company that helped an organization allow the resurgence of Polio for instance. From a business standpoint, GoFundMe needs to maintain positive PR if it wants to keep making money. It is none of GoFundMe's concern if these anti-vax individuals or organizations move to a different platform.
It would be similar to a tsunami or earthquake. Hundreds of thousands lost in an instant. Only much much less likely. Think Haiti 2010 or India in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Deadliest...
If you want prevent Meltdown and Spectre patches from slowing down Your PC, on Windows you can use the InSpectre tool: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm

On linux add the following boot parameter: pti=off spectre_v2=off l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier

I saw a measurable decrease in build times in Linux. '$ time make' dropped nearly 10%.

Of course do not do this if you visit sketchy websites, install dodgy software, or open random attachment in email. That said, I can't find any evidence that any mass attack has been based on these exploits. <tin foil hat> Have a feeling our machines are made slower to make cloud providers safer or sell more CPUs.</tin foil hat>
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https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/recalls.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/23/asia/faulty-vaccine-china-int...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/world/middleeast/syrian-c...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-merck-gerberding/former-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...
Since we're the only ones in the subthread, I'll just delete your comment. (Am a moderator here in case that's not clear.)
Your case wasn't a security issue though, right?! Also, I might be wrong but I don't think that PayPal's offering is of a platform that makes it easier for you to cancel transactions.
IT employee jailed for deleting ex-employer’s AWS servers
Even given my experience, I wouldn't rush to vilify them as criminals. I take an SSRI daily myself and it _helps_, and I owe gratitude to the science that has been done to get this far.

The problem is that all of these doctors are operating _without data_. They'll tell you that your seratonin levels are too low, or this or that, but if you ask them how low... they can't answer. If you ask them why they're low, they can give you common answers, but none that are unique to your physiology.

So you have schizophrenia? Let's try bloodletting, leaches, and an assortment of drugs that will affect the balance of chemicals in your brain in unknown ways. Don't worry about the side effects, here's a cookie to help with the blood loss.
5) A private company making an ethical choice on what to show on its platform is not responsible for where the discourse moves to but making a difference in the platform they control is a good start and a stance other platforms should take.
Mind telling me which model? Could be my my piss poor CSS acting up at that resolution.
Learn Rust with Entirely Too Many Linked Lists
Ask HN: Anyone else fed up with GitHub's constant spamming?
Just a second ago I got a mail. Again. This time it's that "you were mentioned" on https://github.com/nanvix/hal/pull/160#event-2223260496

Obviously, I wasn't mentioned. I never interacted with that project. I haven't heard of it before.

This is a constant annoyance. GitHub spams notification mails for spurious reasons ("your two-letter user name occured inside a large binary blob" – yes, really!), for bad reasons ("someone tried to make his repo known and mentioned you"), and for no reasons (like this today).

GitHub's support doesn't care. More eyeballs for repos are good for them.

There are so easy mitigations: don't notify people unless they have already interacted with a repo. Don't notify people if their username isn't mentioned with a "@" in front of it and a " " after it.

And I'm pretty sure I switched off all notifications in GitHub's settings the last time I was annoyed by it. Just went there, all notifications are switched back on.
I mean, I'm not sure what a fictional show proves. It was certainly treatable in the 1960s and 70s, especially in a country with advanced modern medicine like the United States. But measles still killed a lot of people.
Nostromo, Did you read the article??

I would auger that its nothing to do with Race, It's to do with nutrition. While America has a lot of food, it does not mean its Nutritious. Nutrition is all important.
I seriously doubt only 4,000 people have seen the video. The real question is where does it end? Sure that video is terrible, but so are the clips from Mexican Cartels and ISIS, which are widely available online. 9/11, robberies gone wrong caught on CCTV, and tons of Military footage where people are shown getting killed/injured are still freely available. Then you have accident videos, both industrial and automotive/motorcycle. While gory, they can be argued important as people can learn from the mistakes made in those clips.

I don't think it's possible to truly block a video, and I don't think Facebook or a Government should even try. The end user should be responsible for what they choose to watch on these systems. At most, I think a simple graphic content warning should be in place.
I recently completed a very difficult job search where I unfortunately had to lean on my ethnicity (I’m Mexican) to pass through very overt screening against white men. I was shocked to hear from multiple companies, large and small, that they did not want men and white men in particular.

Now we see a YC co-founder giving 40 women $9000 to learn to program.

Where does it end? I was really sad that while I personally can survive in this environment (if I abandon my ideals of not being judged by my genetics), many good men who are passionate about their work are being pressured from all sides.

I honestly don’t see how any of this is legal but it’s such a taboo to talk about that fixing the problem seems impossible without a major shift back to valuing skills above demographics.
I tried to state this in another comment (which now seems to have been flagged/dead) that the author seems to have bounced around jobs a lot. Short tenures don't usually lend well in grokking the problem space and making a deep impact regardless of your skill level. Certainly not at a "distinguished" level.
Not at all. You can spend tons of money to put your case before a special "vaccine court" who rarely does anything while the case drags on and on until you run out of money to fund your own case.
Deplatforming is a censorship with modern characteristics.
Your views are wrong and deserve to be censored.
Embedded is a very huge field. That can be everything from aviation, military and medial up to some toys.

For some of those using something as Redis as the existing service might be interesting, for others it will be a no-go.

I worked on automative infotainment system in the past, and throwing Redis on an embedded Linux system there would have been fine if it would have fulfilled a particular task in a good fashion. I think I even proposed it once for something.
Darklands is perhaps my favorite game of all time. All the criticisms he raises are pretty valid, but there was something about it that captured my imagination in a way no previous game had.
It's the first game I ever remember needing a patch which I bought on floppy from EB Games along with a hint book :)
I guess a big problem is being realistic about the market needs. Maybe give up on dreams about humanoid helpers and focus on industries that actually are desperate for smart automation (e.g. logistics).

If you're interested in AI+robotics jobs check out https://nomagic.ai/ - we're hiring! Super exciting work with xooglers, academics and oxbridge/ETH grads.
>that vaccines cause other medical problems serious enough to justify not using vaccines = talks about vaccines.

>this minority group will give you a disease if you let them near you = talks about people.

HN, just fucking delete my account and ban my IP address, as you obviously have a huge fucking problem with my fair-mindedness.
In the limit, if all of your types are well enough labelled, you wouldn't even need positional arguments - it could be inferred / would only have one answer. For example if (using C++ pseudo code) "double slope_of(double x, double y)" were instead "Slope slope_of(XCoord x, YCoord y)", the same function called with "slope_of(y, x)" could un-scramble those arguments. Just consider all permutations of the argument list as static overloads, and disallow having two parameters of the same type. If the language supports Currying, you could then Curry any argument of any position at any time, because the unique types guarantee the compiler knows which parameter is being bound.
You could have a look into RediSLQ (RediSLQ.com) which is a redis module that embed SQLite, giving crazy fast performance.

It gives you a lot of interesting concepts like "lightweight databases" or push queries result into streams.

Here the GitHub repo: https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL

Full disclaimer, I am the author.
Andy Grove's Writing Formed the Basis for Modern-Day Startup Culture
The irony is, it is. Unless you're "woke", in which case the ridicule is just something else to feign outrage over. And don't even get em started on the "social justice" bullshit!
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Do you really have control if you're making a choice you don't understand?
That the American prison system is worse at the job doesn't really excuse the behavior of the old asylum system. We shouldn't fall into the same traps. There needs to be significant reform of both. What mechanisms and techniques need to be in place, however, I am not in any way qualified to say.
well the Dutch are the tallest so literally everyone is going to be shorter. Brits, Germans, french etc..

Your point? (I feel you are trying to make some sort of different point though..)
The main competition for robots are people and people are cheap, plentiful, and incredibly capable. It makes sense that robots would only be profitable in highly niche areas that were too dangerous for people or so repetitive that the bot is cheaper than the person.

It seems like we'd need something like off-world colonies, a fertility crisis or environmental collapse to really create a need. I think I'm happy with the status quo on this one.
>[Anti-vaxxers] are like terrorists: they don't really do much per se, but the FUD they spread does immense harm to society. Defunding & deplatforming such groups is a methodology that is practically inescapable for as long as laymen are liable to believe [anti-vaxxers] or be afraid of terrorists.

You could replace that phrase with many different ideologies. Would you?
Clojure's got `(->` and many other useful macros that are the equivalent of `|>` (well, more flexible, in fact), and it has support for currying, so I think it's probably relevant.
GoFundMe is under no obligation to platform people that they do not agree with. If I had a crowdfunding site, I wouldn't platform anti-vaxxers either.

If the anti-vaxxers don't feel that they have a good platform to raise money, they are welcome and encouraged to make their own.
At some point something is so loud it stops being "sound" and starts being "shock" and imparts so much energy it can break things or set things on fire.
You can be socially liberal while being fiscally conservative (i.e., fiscally right-of-center capitalist).
Your links don't say what you think they do. 1) You're blaming the CDC for not holding people accountable, then linking the CDC ... holding them accountable. 2) The second two links don't have anything to do with the US, thus aren't in the CDC's purview.

Additionally, none of these talk about intentionally bad vaccines, which is one of your claims.
China has stopped buying Canadian canola seed
The term was borrowed from the cattle industry, where it was used to know who owns a thing, thus you know the source and have a reasonable expectation of quality.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
I personally use Harpoon: https://harpoonapp.com/

The tracking and forecasting it provides are absolutely excellent. It absolutely lets you specify income, expenses, budgeting, existing and proposed projects, and since it lets you add estimated income for the future, you can get an excellent view of what your actual needs are in terms of future work and income.

For example, with my most up-to-date data I know that I'm booked solid with good income for the next two months, but for the rest of the year I need at least 1 project a month to meet my financial goals. I'm abstracting a bit, but it actually gives you hard numbers for where you're at and what you need in the future.

Feel free to toss me an email if you'd like to discuss this further. My email is in my profile.
At my team, we use next.js for pretty much every 'web-based' product.

https://github.com/zeit/next.js/

It gives you SSR with React out of the box. It's really nice to work with, and flexible enough that we haven't had issues with more customized situations.
I don't have a good one. Private companies can do what they like.

And this will not end well for people, because the government doesn't have to censor any more that loophole has been by-passed.

The problem is when corporations convince the populace to agree to censor information that is damaging to their profits, and we buy it.
I guess people can change, I just trust someone who went into the space willingly rather than doing it only after they realize there is money to be made and fear of being left behind.

https://99bitcoins.com/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-says-bitcoin...
This whole thread is misguided.

You're starting from a position of what do I have (software dev skill) and trying to backfit a need onto it.

The right mentality is to think hard about your buyer: What are you selling, why would someone buy it, and how would they find you? Ideally it should be some kind of business need, like "I want to stop using Expedia at my hotel and transition to get more direct bookings" or "I need a very high-value, complex system migrated from one thing to another". The more risk/difficulty/P&L impact/fewer people can do it, the more you can charge.

What you don't want to do is come in and just be a coder. Those are a dime a dozen. Even though developer skill varies dramatically, there's no way to really bill for that. Most business buyers are going to see "C# developer" and want to pay the lowest rate they can. It is outrageous how little the pay difference (even at software companies) is between high and low performers. It's like 2x, it should probably be like, 10x (no company outside finance would ever tolerate this kind of pay difference). You will never win charging 2x when the other guy is charging 1x for what, on paper, looks like the same skill (a relationship/reputation can offset this partially).

Don't become a "consultant" unless you want to do sales and marketing full-time, as that is the end-state of a successful consulting career. If that isn't your cup of tea, either find a better dev job (if you want to keep coding professionally) or find a company like 10x who will place you with good clients and do the grunt work for you of selling, where you can simply come in and provide value as a high-skilled technical person (which has its benefits, including decent pay, work from anywhere, put up with less of the posturing/BS of typical office life).

Source: did this. Wasted a lot of time doing bottom-of-the-barrel dev work before I realized probably 95% of the software that gets written in the world is boring, not particularly well paid, and has no real career trajectory in front of it.
Zappos tried getting rid of titles and hierarchy. I interviewed there, and it felt unworkable to me. Power structures exist whether you define them or not. To be fair, I only got to observe it for a day, quite some time ago. Would be curious if anyone knows how that's going for them.

Edit: Found a 2016 update. Sounds like it was controversial, with lots of people leaving, but also sounds like they are still doing it. http://money.com/money/4183246/holacracy-zappos/
I would think it’s innate. Being tall usually means physically more powerful, so it seems like an inherent advantage for mating.
This is why the idea of labeling anyone who's not 100% on board with 100% of vaccines, 100% of the time, as "anti-vaxxers," and having corporations make a show of banning such speech on their private platforms is so strange to me. Let's assume that literally every current "anti-vaxxer" talking point is objectively incorrect... but, sometime in the future, some major manufacturer of vaccines somehow creates a public health risk, perhaps by contaminating a year's batch of vaccines with something toxic, or something. Would it be alright to speak out against that, or would anyone doing so get publicly labelled "anti-vaxxer!!" and prevented from spreading their legitimate concerns in various places?

I just can't understand why anyone would be in favor of corporations shutting down ALL dissenting speech on a particular topic on their platform. Perhaps the "anti-vaxxers" of today are 100% wrong about everything, but that doesn't mean that 100% of criticism of vaccines now and forever more is and will always be 100% invalid. Why would anyone think that?
Surveillance cameras in Volvo cars to detect drunk driving – VOLVO 2019
Or all the continental plates have shattered into a billion pieces and molten rock is bubbling up through the innumerable fractures.
(NYC) – Any tips for meeting people in the tech space in NYC?
Hello HN, long time reader. I am a recent college graduate who transplanted to NYC to work in the research side of finance. Do any natives have any tips or links to find finance/tech meetups (besides sites like meetup.com... I find that these can be kind of diluted).

Looking to meet people and learn a thing or two.

About me: CS major in college, in the research side of finance, and work on personal Python/SQL projects on the weekends/nights for fun (side projects)

Any help or direction would be appreciated!
> I think the MMT argument is that one can reduce the money supply through taxation.

The MMT argument is stronger: taxes only exist in a fiat money system to reduce the money supply (and, to create behavioral incentives with specific targeting.) Viewing them as “paying for” government spending in a balanced sense where you need $1 in revenue (or debt financing which you pay back with interest to a lender) to pay for $1 in spending is, through an MMT lens, wrong, and the result of applying commodity money thinking in a fiat-money world.

> MMT also (AFAICT) seems to make the central bank subservient to the finance/treasury people, instead of independent (which is the modern way of doing things). This control of interest rates is important for technical reasons:

It need not: a system which deeply incorporates MMT might retain a central monetary authority separate from the authority that makes spending and tax-targeting decisions (calling this a “fiscal” authority is perhaps no longer apt), exercising interest rate levers to manage inflation and employment levels as the Fed does today; it might even give it more tools by assigning it then ability to set the rates of broad, non-behaviorally-targeted taxes (like to control a parameter that is a factor in the rates of all income tax brackets), as MMT recognizes that general tax level is an important money supply lever and nothing else. The importance of public confidence in the money supply remains in MMT, and having technocrats insulated somewhat from the pressures of legislative politics primarily responsible for administering such policy under broad policy goals remains, as well.

It probably wouldn't be constituted the way the Fed is, which is driven by the desire of the government to give bankers confidence in the currency because the government will be going to the bankers to borrow debt in the currency to fund deficits.

Because what it would do is eliminate the practice of acquiring debt to finance “deficit” spending in the first place, which changes the constituency at which monetary policy is aimed.
If you're going to make a reasonably out-there suggestion like this, perhaps don't use "A Modest Proposal" because it gives your suggestion a certain context you may not want...