skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article or in the DPH records? Wired did a follow-up the next year and found much higher vaccination rates[1]. Regardless, just based on the variance/number of adjustments, I'm not sure the DPH records are really a very accurate picture of the true vaccination rates.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/silicon-valley-daycares-still-...
Definitely less than 1/3, as older kids are more likely to go to day-care, but I couldn't find any data about age distribution at daycares...
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That is kinda hard to predict. All those efforts by various people to create a decentralized social networks might finally find traction, if FB crashes. At least we can hope. I suppose it could go either way
This appears to be working again for me as of a few minutes ago. Thanks to the folks involved in fixing.

EDIT: minutes instead of hours
>tax foreign ownership at a significant rate

If these "foreigners" should be taxed now, why shouldn't you be taxed also? because at some point in the past you were a "foreigner" relative to where you are now.

>We have to maintain laws, secure it, pay for externalized maintenance (the road out front to start), the water, provide ....

You're describing....property taxes, which still exist. If anything, lower population density reduces demand for those services, so their property taxes should be lower.

Listen if you hate foreigners, think there's an Asian "plague", and get behind the trope that 'foreigners are ruining my neighborhood, country, city' just say it. But before you do, you might do well to read some history such as the Chinese Exclusion Act [1] and it's racist legacy despite being legitimized at the time by "protecting American labor"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Amazing that a disease that was eradicated decades ago can be brought back so easily by human stupidity
Thanks for posting that; the output clearly makes more sense if you’re familiar with the movie.
> Perhaps you can remain connected to the department as a visiting scholar.

I will, though as an "adjunct". It's of course unpaid, but makes it technically possible to do some things with the university (e.g., be on a Ph.D. thesis committee).
I think the work case is the weakest possible. You're not owed a job, and you're certainly not owed a specific job. The reality is that vaccinations don't just affect you. They affect people who aren't physically capable of being vaccinated (compromised immunity, allergy to vaccine, etc.). If you bring the ratio down below the herd immunity threshold, you can spread serious diseases to those not physically capable of being vaccinated and putting my existing employees at risk.

If I, as an employer, am forced to decide between hiring you, an antivaxxer, which risks killing even one of my existing employees, you're not getting the job, period. I owe them a duty of care before you. And their families too. And babies too young to immunize -- is it okay if they die?

This stems from a similar misunderstanding of liberty as the "freedom of speech applies to Twitter" argument. The first amendment protects you from legislation infringing on your free speech. It doesn't require private companies to broadcast your speech at your sole discretion. The same would be true of a hypothetical vaccination rule. Even if the government weren't able to legislate in this regard, nothing precludes any private party from refusing you food, a home or a job on the basis of your vaccination status. Being an antivaxxer isn't a protected class to the best of my knowledge.
So if google's app store is so bad (and I tend to agree it isn't great) what is preventing the rise of a better alternative app store? They exist, but as far as I can tell none have gained any traction.
Thank you for the explanation. I was wondering how I can apply karatsuba's method to multiply for e.g. 103 X 1022.
In general, if your primary care doctor doesn't have it, try your high school. If they don't, try your pediatrician. (Or your parents, potentially.)

We're really bad about centralized health data in the US, but schools keep track of immunization data. How long they retain your records will no doubt vary.
> Do we need screens that fold?

In the economic sense of “is it a thing people want and will pay for because of value it provides”, yes, or, at least, there are people who need the screen size and will accept folding as the way to get there.

> I think folding screens are a “one up Apple” feature that Samsung came to market first with but is not ready or necessary in primetime right now.

I think it's more about the premium Android feature wars than about Apple.
>> If that's what we as a society want to do.

I guess I'd argue that we as a society don't really want to do that, and if we as a society paid attention to privacy/security more then we'd force the companies doing this to stop. Or we'd force our government to pass laws that would stop it. But we as a society only have a limited number of hours in our day, and most of society just doesn't care enough to apply pressure where it would make changes. I think most people just don't see why it matters.
We are on track to complete barrel past 1984.

> Hey, you should be forced to take injections in order to get a job, welfare, housing etc.

So eager to throw our privacy out you don't even see that you pretty much chucked the rest out the window too.
There are several of those in the form of alternate networks, (Minds.com, Mastodon, etc) which could very well rise to prominence if Facebook were to fall.

The issues with corporate social media are now well understood by large swathes of the public.

The incumbents are still standing due to their powerful network effects - if they lose those, the public may be a bit more discerning in where they head next.
"And until lawmakers, corporate leaders and citizens embrace obscurity and move to protect it, your freedom and opportunities to flourish will be in jeopardy."

True! Look no further than NYT's initiatives to collect and sell their readerbase's emotional engagement to their content.[0] From their very own publisher:

"People have little transparency into what is being gathered, where it’s being shared and how it’s being used — to follow their movements, to charge them more for health insurance or to manipulate them with political messages — and even less agency to do anything about it." Mr. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times [1]

I don't mean to detract from the essay, but I'm pretty skeptical of NYT's "Privacy Project". NYT is the only publication that I read frequently that aggressively tries to prevent me from browsing in private mode with Firefox Focus and I wouldn't be surprised if they collect and sell the most reader information out of all major US publishers. I can only posit that though because they don't disclose any of that information. NYT's attempts at "data transparency"[1] are just excuses justifying the sale of reader information instead of answers regarding what information they collect, what information they sell, and who they sell this information to.

How long until NYT writers start facing pressure to produce stories that will maximize "emotional engagement", even if they're divisive and inflammatory? How long until emotional engagement is inadvertently used to discriminate against certain groups based on their reactions to controversial topics? These outcomes are an inevitability when profit motives are involved because humans are incapable of exercising restraint and saying "That's enough information, we don't need to collect any more or expand our current profit levels." NYT is repeating the same mistakes they're currently criticizing tech companies for and, as usual, the individual will suffer.

[0] https://investors.nytco.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...
Estimating and comparing entropy across written natural languages using PPM comp [pdf]
With regards to the question of "many Googlers being antivaxers", I wonder how common it is for a family to not think of themselves as anti-vax, but through bad luck in or poor research in selecting a pediatrician they end up getting fewer vaccines for their kids. Personally, I think I might know one such family where that seemed to be the case, someone who didn't seem to realize something kooky their pediatrician had said. I would imagine that would come up by the time they go to school though.
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Which language has the best bit entropy?
> I do wonder if we'll eventually get to the point where companies start either firing or requiring mandatory vaccines in order to work there.

If a college can request vaccination records I would expect an employer to also be able to. I know in the case of working at a veterinary office (or any sort of animal rehab) rabies vaccine is a workplace requirement.

I think a better question is if this is deemed enough of a public health emergency (which I think it could eventually be), that the information gets shared with federal gov and the wackos get thrown on the no-fly list.
I find it really interesting that I've been downvoted into oblivion for asking a question.
I do not know for certain, but it may be that homeless are easier to see in the USA (I have seen people living in tents/on sidewalk in sleeping bags on/under the onramp to the freeway in San Francisco/San Jose/San Diego which is still shocking), but the stats don't make the USA much worse than the UK/France/Germany/Netherlands from a quick sampling of western European nations. Of course how it's defined and how the stats were gathered are all important, but I've seen UK homelessness/rough sleeping discussed on the front page of the UK edition of The Guardian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...
Its actually practical to keep track of 328 million Americans now. All it takes is money. And it gets easier every year.
Sure. But the Bay Area has long had a large population of Indian immigrants without ever having a measles problem. This is almost certainly caused by anti-vax issues rather than immigration from poorly vaccinated countries.
Antibacterials kill bacteria.antibiotics can kill a number of different living things but not viruses
I would hope so.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/openmarket.htm

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/files/combinedfin...
Plenty of institutions require vaccinations. The military typically does. Often one needs certain vaccines to obtain permission to travel to certain places. When I went to university (UK) I had to produce vaccination records (and I think I had to redo one because the records couldn’t be found), although I don’t recall reading what would happen if I hadn’t had the usual course of vaccinations. I think working in a hospital requires this (although I’ve heard stories of evidence being faked in some US hospitals) and yearly flu vaccinations are very strongly encouraged if not required (this is to stop staff from infecting patients more than the other way round), and a large proportion of the population works in healthcare.
> everything that you do in any major city outside of your house is on record for eternity

And yet, legally speaking, does "a reasonable expectation of privacy" exist outside of your or someone else's home?

Just asking. I've been on the fence about this issue for years now.
Especially surprising since we have largely accepted that you can literally directly kill a baby on the self-determination argument. I'd be fine with that if it actually got consistently applied, but the strongest supporters of that have all sorts of other problems with self-determination.
Sleep myths 'damaging your health'
Don't you have to have lots of curiosity to be 'really good at coding', esp these days.
It's widely suspected that this is part of the job of the Working Group on Financial Markets...
The measles vaccine is required for a US immigrant visa https://www.uscis.gov/news/questions-and-answers/vaccination...
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Commenter is highlighting that a small org doesnt need that scale, so it's easier, maybe also cheaper, to run yourself.

Also worth highlighting that for the "email user experience" pretty much any system is better then Gmail these days.
Yeah that is true as Apples release schedule stays the same every year while Samsung’s release schedule personally to me is all over the place.

I hope Apple adds that Wireless PowerShare feature as the ability to use my iPhone as a charging mat to charge other devices would be handy!
Too bad there are no quantum computers. Who knew Hesse's "Glass Bead Game" would be the most important book I read in physics grad school?
I didn't mean to imply that the 1960's were full of grace. I was just saying we especially lack those things now.

And it is true that certain parts of culture at certain times did have a live and let live attitude. Or at least a there-are-more-important-things one.
So, what's the big deal here? The only people affected should be those who were too stupid to take the vaccine. The rest of us can rest easy and let Darwin do his work.
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The outbreak on the east coast was from a large orthodox Jewish community, who as I understand it, rejects vaccinations on religious grounds. Was the person in this case from there or in contact with people from there?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/04/16/how-patient...
You normally have to provide proof of vaccination history when going through the immigration process.
Same situation in US in my opinion. It’s crazy to not be all in on equity index funds, since everyone is invested in them via 401k and pension funds, of course the government is going to do whatever it takes to prop up the value.
Measles was never "eradicated".
I know I’m up to date and more with all sorts of vaccinations like Yellow Fever and boosters in adulthood. But I’m not sure how much I could prove with documents in hand (basically whatever is in my WHO booklet ). But that’s very incomplete, primary care may have some others, but childhood records are long gone with a doubtless long dead pediatrician. This is in the US.

ADDED: So, no, as someone born 1960ish I would probably have to get a test to prove I was vaccinated against all the standard diseases.
that is a seriously skewed candy budget... do you have any teeth left?
Have you transferred doctors within the US? I think that's where the chain breaks down, since as you mention there is no national system.
Measles was never eradicated, you're probably thinking of smallpox. We no longer vaccinate for small pox specifically because it was eradicated.
>I've been using Android without Google Play services for a few months and everything works fine.

What about maps? or Waze? Gmail?
Well I'd say Google Play's dominance is mostly because it is default. Additionally, there is a natural vendor lock-in as you begin buying apps since your purchases won't be available on other app stores.

There are other apps stores that have become relatively popular when pre-installed such as Amazon's and the various Chinese app stores.

https://www.appinchina.co/market/app-stores/
A fast load time when a page is indexed does not guarantee a fast load time when it is served up to the actual viewer. Serving the page from cache is the only way to guarantee that the page will still be fast when the user wants to view it.
Semi-tangential but the US has decreased labor mobility in the past decades https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2016/10/what-c...
That is true. What I meant to say is that any real threat of getting the disease in the US was eradicated.
No, man.

1) Your description is 0% correct; and
2) It's not a complaint. Maybe you don't know what a correlation coefficient is. That's okay -- I don't know what polyfinite rings are.
Happens more often than you think.

We'd probably have eradicated polio already but the Taliban keeps killing off humanitarians in Pakistan.

My dad's cousin spent his life trying to eradicate guinea worm with the CDC but now we have a bunch of civil wars breaking out in the endemic regions.
Yes, that's correct. The math department has been as flexible and supportive as they can possibly be. They won't let me be on unpaid leave again only because the university won't. However, it's not like the mathematics department at UW has a lot of money just laying around. I don't think they have even a single position that is paid for by an endowment. It's very different than other departments I've been at. I was Harvard University's math department for five years, and they had far more discretionary money than UW math; also other organizations on campus such as Computer Science have received significant donations. The mathematics department's money comes mainly from the school allocating funding in exchange for teaching many important courses.
If they are fed up, they can just sell the shares and move on. Honestly, what is newsworthy about shareholders being upset with a CEO? There are shareholders upset with every publicly traded company.

Considering the stock is up nearly 60% in the last 4 months, it seems like most shareholders aren't upset at all since the stock is being bid up by investors regardless of the "survey/poll" by one of the proxy sponsors.

The author ends with "Of course, they knew that when they bought their shares, so what do they really have to complain about?"

Exactly. Shareholders, especially funds like Trillium Asset Management, knew of the share and voting structure of FB. It's pretty much shareholders share in the profits while Zuckerburg controls the company. So why write an entire article ( much of it blatantly anti-zuckerburg and anti-facebook ) about it? What an odd article. It, like most facebook related articles recently, comes off as biased hit pieces with no substance.
Those that require it, do you ask if they allow exemptions for "religious reasons"?
Although I value privacy and obscurity, this makes me kind of sad for future historians.
Or infants who aren’t old enough to get the vaccine, but screw them, right?
Just out of curiosity, did you actually consume them?
I use the Google Maps PWA and never really used Waze to begin with. For email, I just use the stock Android email app which looks and acts very similar to the old Gmail app before the recent redesign.
You can't put links in natural Instagram posts which probably drives many to advertisements. It'd benice to show a link to just your followers who are interested in an upcoming event but currently you are allowed a single link in your profile and nowhere else. So you need to say something like "Go to my profile, follow the link to my linktree page, and click on 'Easter promotion'". So everyone is left running ads which clutters our feeds.
And there are two articles from Buzzfeed in the front page right now. I think someone at Buzzfeed has figured out how to game HN.
sharing some others in case it helps

- https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go

- https://gitlab.com/tuxether/anancus
Interesting read! I would have liked more details about what specifically they found useful about artistic methods of inquiry. Hart writes that they were able to isolate certain patterns of thought; what were those?
I think those who legally immigrated to the US needs to be current on their vaccines to be admitted so I expect them to be a lower risk.
I used to think that too. I only started CoCalc when I realized after a decade that this probably wasn't going to happen (for me).
In this climate, if I had an infant I'd consider quarantining him or her until old enough to get the vaccine.
Have you used Marketplace? I was wary but had a better experience than the previous de facto local option Gumtree. I suppose having a real name and face for accountability works on some people.
Vaccines are dysgenic. The weak should be allowed to perish, otherwise the gene pool will degrade. Everyone who is vaccinated should therefore also be sterilized, and anyone resisting this should be killed. If you disagree, you’re wrong.
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They need to limit population expansion.
How does a CEO of a company turn their stock into a bunch of cash without tanking their stock price? Selling after a bad quarter makes it look like things are dire. If you can't perform well, make everyone think you are going to perform well. Anyone that wants to make a profit off of bitcoin needs to hype it up as much as possible
I would note that some ESG ETFs in which I hold shares (i.e. where the portfolio make-up and allocations are informed, to some degree, by Environmental, Social, and Governance characteristics of the eligible corporations - basically a somewhat more ethical version of an S&P500 index fund) exclude Facebook while retaining stakes in Google and other major tech companies. (Can't recall with confidence but I think it's a BlackRock iShares fund)
Still places like Googleplex pull in workers from around the globe
Ah sorry. I got paywalled. now wondering if the conclusion would have changed if they hadn't done the exclusion.
> "This is almost certainly caused by anti-vax issues rather than immigration from poorly vaccinated countries."

How many anti vaxers do you think exist? exist in the bay area? (not talking about just think its unsafe, but dont get the vaccine). *hint, its low

how many illegal immigrants do you think exist? exist in the bay area?
First, security in the payment process. Apple seems to doing pretty well there, so equivalent or better than that.

Second, offer a guarantee that the software on offer is free of malware and unreasonable tracking. Some degree of inspection and curation would need to be performed by the selling App Store as well as having agreements set up with the developers of the apps.

Third, real penalties to all parties if there was some sort of breach or other malfeasance. In the case of data leaks and other issues from the store, the penalty would fall on them. For malware, etc., the penalty would fall on the developers and/or the store for lax practices.
You're getting it backwards my dude.

Baby boomers turned 65 this year, the peak retirement there will ever be in the history of the world.

Individuals selling small amounts of stock, each for slightly below midpoint, actually has a much larger negative effect on prices than one large sale at slightly below midpoint does. Think about what the order book looks like over time.

People expect a sudden recession. The ride to the bottom is going to be a-historically long and slow, as retirement accounts unwind contractually slowly, and big institutional investors wait out lower capital gains taxes.