skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That site is amazing and engrossing. Thank you for this link - I think I'm going to loose myself in excel for a few hours. Nutrients/calorie and nutrients/dollar are incredibly useful metrics for anyone while shopping!
What is the list?
"sex worker" must be the greatest euphemism of the decade.
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On this site people in H1B and other non-immigrant statuses are routinely called "immigrants" so it's better to clarify that only immigrants who obtain an immigrant visa or adjust into immigrant status are required to have vaccines and other medical procedures.
what about the fact that the constellations have move significantly since the dawn of astrology thousands of years ago? shouldn’t something be updated, or why is/isn’t the “calendar” way off?
So how do they explain away the USSR (which I presume is understood not to have operated under similar economic incentives)? They also believed in vaccination and did vaccinate their population. Were they complicit in a world-wide cross economic-system conspiracy to get everyone vaccinated?

I think these people are constructing a made up excuse to excuse themselves.
Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on PR concerns.
> Especially given the rich history of money suppressing/biasing scientific studies in the past: smoking, asbestos, j&j baby powder, round-up, etc.

This is enumeration fallacy, and those are the exceptions, not the norm. Economic incentives work for the public good far more often than not.
Designing Good C++ Game Middleware
I got an MMR booster shot at work last week at the clinic in the Google NYC office. They also do annual flu shots using contracted out nurses (the clinic is too small for that big of a rush in a single week).

None of this is mandatory though.
Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger
South Korea Constitutional Court Overturns Abortion Ban
I'd describe many Googlers as high Intelligence, low Wisdom.
Well,

About the only way to get actual privacy is: individuals valuing privacy, individuals having the tools to protect their privacy, and states not actively removing those tools (which can mostly be prevented by protest and refusal).

This isn't I think this will happen. Every indication is that you won't see individuals caring about privacy. Every day the attitude that there's something insincere about not being online with your real name seems to get more traction, along with the belief that "sharing your life with your friends" can somehow now be compatible with privacy.

It's just that individual is about the only way this could happen. Because no institution wants to do more than protect your privacy from everyone else.
It’s only 97% effective... why are you so sure that the google engineer is unvaccinated?
5% of children get pneumonia from Measles.

0.01-0.1% chance of Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis which can develop up to ten years after initial Measles infection. SSPE will very slowly kills you in the worst way imaginable (slowly lose your mind, control of your body, then as your brain continues to get damaged your major organs will shut down one by one). There's no cure. Babies have a significantly higher risk.
Sleeping is for babies.

Just leaving this here. Earn crypto by doing tasks.
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> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

- Tenth Amendment, Bill of Rights

The federal government does not have the right to create agencies and regulation at will. With certain exceptions (e.g. the DoD), it is reasonable to conclude that many federal agencies are, in fact, unconstitutional in scope.
Overlocker when not in the US.
Thanks for the link. Watching it I can't help but feel a little sad. Prof. Stein is a highly trained mathematician with a track record in establishing successful software projects like Sage that many people benefit tremendously from (watching the video I learned that he actually started Cython as well!). It says something about the state of affairs -- the general lack of awareness and interest in the development of math unless it benefits some business directly -- when he could not find the resource needed to develop the math software he loved the way he wanted to. Maybe he really enjoyed working on the sync protocols, text formats, backend databases and file systems etc needed to get CoCalc running smoothly. But I wonder if he had the resource he needed would he make the same choice? I say this as I have a son who is double majoring in CS and math. As a freshman he is already mostly done with upper division math (3 A+ in honors real and complex analysis) and is taking graduate math classes. Yet it seems prudent for him to at least put in the minimum effort to get his CS degree to keep his option open. Eventually it will be a hard choice down the road for him as well.
I wonder if technology could be used to push back against this problem.

For example-- what if there were a hub for videos that would analyze an anti-vaxxer's viewing habits and recommend level-headed, reliable scientific content in the sidebar?
I don’t personally care. I don’t want to work for those companies but if I did and if I were missing a record I’d say fine—another booster won’t hurt. But I imagine it would be a non-trivial issue for them.
Westworld-level tech? Technology at a level of... going cartoonishly haywire and wantonly murdering all humans? I’m not sure I follow your point.
> the current consensus is that the various social causes aren't important enough to pay for them

No, the only consensus I see from this article is that this particular approach to solving a very important social problem doesn't work.
2017 ACM Turing Award Lecture by Hennessy and Patterson nicely summarizes the emphasis on domain-specific languages and domain-specific architectures going forward. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234352-a-new-golden-ag...
This! Plus the fact that one can't question studies/motivations/priorities without being labelled as a crazy anti-vaxxer.
To be honest I'm not. That's not even how vaccination works. Her immunity and whatnot. I'm just commenting on the line of logic above.
tl;dr: a very entertaining account of climate-change beliefs across history. Personally I found the writing style very pleasant.
Maybe, but it helps make them less of a "trash rag"
For the kind of statistical significance (read: confirmation bias) that astrology relies upon, anything will work. Horoscopes could be written based not on astrological sign, but on the first letter of street name of a person's first address and apply. Search hard enough, and some sort of correlation can almost always be found.

Astrology has some value, in the same way alchemy has value: it helped start serious scientific inquiry into astronomy. Sadly, while there are now vanishingly small amounts of people who take alchemy seriously, astrology is a relatively common belief to hold, even among people who are scientifically-minded. It puts me in mind of the first 9/11 truther I knew, who was a close friend who should have known better. However, at the time she was willing to buy into it, simply because it played into her anti-GWBush sentiments. This is after I explained how the statements were false, and backed it up w/ evidence (having queried my father, who was a mining engineer and had done building implosions in his career as a blasting contractor).

Unfortunately, "smart people" can just as easily fall prey to these types of delusions, it seems to be a common human trait (like all the logical fallacies). Thinking that one is immune paradoxically makes one more susceptible to these types of errors, rather the best defense is to recognize that no, nobody is immune. Much in the same way as ignoring advertising's effect on decision-making.

Edit:typo
Micro Modular Reactor
You're right about the money argument. However, everyone is effected by this infrastructure so the roll out should require some justification regardless of who's money it is.

The 95% of people who own cell phones don't necessarily need internet faster than 4g on their phones and would be happy with that working reliability, which it doesn't.

>It enables technologies like tele-robotics. It would allow rural areas to invest in a surgical robot.

That sounds good and all, but shouldn't we just build out the fiber network so that we have actually reliable infrastructure instead of janky bullshit running on a proprietary cellular modem? What level of reliability should a surgical robot be? I'd say 9 9's for myself to use it. Can a cell signal transmit perfectly 99.9999999% of the time with those low latency numbers ? I don't think so since it's relying on atmospheric conditions and no interference to function.

Ironically, 5G will further reduce incentive for the clearly useful technology of fiber to be deployed at scale.
H1b is frequently if not entirely issued to people with dual intent.

Regardless, unless you are an immigration lawyer and extreme pendant, H1b holders are immigrants.

The US classification of immigration intent is not relevant to whether they are immigrants in the common sense of the word.
Big fan of skittles - never crossed my mind. Very cool! Perhaps try different kinds as another follow up? Machine learning and openCV can do the trick for counting without sorting.
Staying in bed is a big issue with me. If I get less than 5 hours I take a major productivity hit. I've identified most drivers of my insomnia, but not all.

Low caffeine, go to be without a full stomach, get up at a consistent time, keep the room cool. Beyond that, if you have suggestions I'm all ears.
That doesn’t seem like much of an improvement: if it became popular, you’d see the same social attacks switch from getting people to install apps to enabling a new store. F-Droid is safer because it’s much smaller and mostly free software: that’s good for people who don’t want anything else but it seems unlikely to satisfy mainstream demand or survive a motivated attack.
A performance-portable atmospheric dynamical core in C++
Fair point. But that's a pretty misguided understanding of what religion is to scores of people.
Not really surprised. Farmers are less than 1% of the population and most land is farm land.
Little Rock is definitely wired though. I've lived in suburbs and satellites of Little Rock (West end, midtown, Maumelle, Jacksonville). Also smaller towns, White Hall and Jefferson county outside of any town, and had decent cable internet or DSL everywhere I've been from CenturyTel (I think it was) or Comcast, or AT&T UVerse. Really I wonder which "suburb of Little Rock" the articles example person lived in, because it doesn't match my experience. Granted there are some pretty remote parts of Arkansas that I'm sure don't have those options, but the Little Rock area seems well covered to me.
I'm the OP, and I do wonder if I would be too old for a FAANG, with the fault being on me. Building a company as an entrepreneur at age 45 (my age) feels very reasonable, and I've seen research that suggests that my age is perhaps even a sweet spot for building a company. In contrast, I think I would find it difficult to work as an employee at a FAANG company, since it's very different than everything I have done so far in life, and most other employees would be younger than me (informal observation based on having lunch at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook regularly).

More importantly, joining a FAANG company would mean completely giving up on my longterm goal to massively fund Sage development, and that would be very hard for me to do.
How can you measure a star's size? Wait for an asteroid to block it
It's not really useful. It's extremely easy to get plenty of nutrients and calories extremely cheaply, but that's not what people are paying for when they shop for food.
> Google is, by giving AMP-enabled pages preferential placement in Google Search results

That claim is gonna need evidence, and I've seen no evidence so far. Please provide it if you've got it.

Google does prefer sites that are fast to sites that are slow, ceteris paribus.

So if AMP sites are faster, maybe they get upranked due to performance, but not just because they're AMP.

So if a publisher doesn't like AMP they don't have to use it, they just need to make their sites faster on mobile.
The problem with early 2000's-style software delivery wasn't that you could choose which software to install, it was that there was no separation between programs, so that any random program you installed could add toolbars to your browser, steal all your passwords, etc. If iOS or Android made it easier to install apps outside the store, I highly doubt you'd see anywhere near the same level of problems, since everything is so isolated from each other.
Doesn't matter if they were previously immunized. A compromised immune system can wipe out previous immunity.
I can kinda sorta see that for new vaccines. But old vaccines like measles and polio? Those scourges are demonstrably defeated by the vaccines.

That’s what really drives me nuts about this. People lined up to receive these miracle cures. Devastating common diseases became near myths. All of this happened within living memory. And we’re to believe that it’s all a conspiracy by big pharma?
Everything about AI / face detection is open source. It is not like a chemical formula you can try to hide for a while... The will to use it is there. The will to pour millions into it is also there. We are then talking about just a year or two later than it would happen.
Simulation proves only the theory - sampling and experimentation proves the implementation. Otherwise it might be entirely possible for the packaging process to fill an exact match at a far higher rate - and for the mix to NOT be random.
>If you design something, prove it out with logic and math. It will work.
>Or you will learn where you were wrong.

In other words, if you design something and prove it out with logic and math, sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't...
It's interesting this person can program, but chose to manually count 27,740 Skittles instead of automate it in some way.

It feels like an almost-trivial computer vision problem.
I'll probably stand with Hume on this one:

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
The signup for our newsletter about the erosion of privacy in the middle of the article was a nice touch.
White noise machine to block out any background sounds which could wake you.
> Keep AMP, banish Google

Cloudflare != Google
Pareto Principle.
It'd be a conspiracy theory, but one that was unlikely rather than crazy.

There is evidence that foreign central banks are active in the US markets though [0].

[0] https://www.cmegroup.com/company/membership/files/CBIPFAQ.pd...
I did read that if you stripped out demographics, Japan was one of the best performing economies on GDP growth per (working) capita and productivity.

I often think the big challenge of economics now is perhaps not managing overall growth but managing sort of "decline" overall with demographic changes. If my theory is right, in 10-15 years after the baby boom generation demography will level out again and we will be back to higher growth.
Yeah - fair call.

From the photographer's point of view though, she'd negotiated a deal with the author.

That deal was then rejected (by the author's editors, who the photographer had no agreement with), and a new deal had to be negotiated. That should have always been a problem between the author and the editors (which is sounds like is where it ended up, with the author paying the price of the newly negotiated deal).

Going back to the photographer and asking nicely if she'd reconsider the details of the attribution is reasonable - but the editors pushing back when she said "no" with "WE APPRECIATE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THIS ISSUE (KNOWING THAT NO OFFENSE IS INTENTED ח”ו). THANK YOU" is, at least in my opinion, offensive - perhaps not maliciously/intentionally so, but certainly obliviously careless in assuming their religious traditions need to be understood and accepted by everybody else.

I think the end result was appropriate. I'm less certain the manner in which it was arrived at wasn't poorly handled and an attempt to pressure the photographer into a worse deal than agreed upon - even though that deal was "zero dollars, just credit me by name".
Beats rushing to the nearest plate glass window.
But a simulation would not be able to prove your assumptions correct and would do nothing but validate your math.

All your math can be correct but if your assumptions are incorrect, your results may not be accurate.
Thanks for that, absolutely a valid component and it is unfair to see you being downvoted. Tie this in with my other comment: When you influence a population's emotions towards a company, country, or thing.... it will be harder to overcome this than through just stating facts.
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* It is complex, written in an “unsafe” manner, using “unsafe” languages.
This is written by someone who knows nothing about 5G or communication software. Pretty much, the whole world is run on software written in unsafe languages such as C. Picking on Huawei on this is not only unfair but also ignorant.
..... Let's get this guy some cancer microscopy data!
Do not leave that tenured position!! The market has been pumped up so hard that you should be making stability-reinforcing life choices. There’s also just nothing comparable to the benefits of being a tenured professor in the modern labor market short of winning the lottery. Find a way to make it work with fewer people or look for other ways to increase your revenue/demand.
The cheapest 36 packs of 2.17oz bags I can find on Amazon are $20.99[1], which would cost $272.87 (plus tax?) for the 13 boxes used in the study.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Skittles-Original-Candy-2-17-Pack/dp/...
I have seen this behavior with my garmin (offline) gps.

I don't know if this is a marketing tie-in or a sincere attempt to use landmarks as a legitimate navigation technique.
I happen to know with 100% confidence that some Google employees were recently abroad in an area struggling with a measles outbreak. Of course this doesn't mean it came from some place external to the US, but it certainly means it's not impossible.
Right, so he didn't really prove the implementation, he'd need to repeat his experiment a number of times. Trivial in a simulation, less so if you have to buy and count them.
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Ye but there was contextual alignment then. No country is doing moves like that in 2019.
More that your model was wrong and your math needs to get better.
The big hurdle is volunteering to be in the military. Once you have though, you can’t quit whenever you want and can’t skip without serious punishments.
That begs the question, shouldn't we be more focused on promoting strong immune systems?

"wiping out a previous immunity" doesn't sound like an immunity to me.
Herd immunity science is shaky to say the least:

http://www.tetyanaobukhanych.com/herd_immunity.html
Trouble is, people tend to forget they are domain experts. I trust my doctor for medical advice, but I don't consider them any more competent to dispense legal advice than a random acquaintance. However, it is common for highly-competent people in a domain to feel they are more qualified than average in other domains (which is a trait I actively work to control myself). Software devs seem very susceptible to this, since a large part of the field involves being able to quickly learn enough about a subdomain of knowledge to implement a required solution. I'm no expert statistician, but I have implemented multiple projects that required knowledge of statistics. However, I'm just at the point of "knowing what I don't know", while I haven't studied enough classical mechanics to truly grasp how much I don't know. So while I feel I have a good working knowledge of statics, asking me to design a bridge would be foolish. Sure, I may think I 'could' design a bridge, but that is just folly.
computer vision is trivial? when did that happen?and how was it made trivial?
Please share your data on everyone's shopping habits.

I take it you don't engage in strenuous physical activities far from grocers. For instance.
I've been witnessing a new store being built very near to our house.

A typhoon tore away the sign of a pachinko place near us (it hit a nearby building), and apparently instead of fixing their store they decided to close it down and sell the building to Don Quijote.

Seems like a good match for them, as the pachinko place is huge, with 6 wide floors that used to be gambling machines shoulder-to-shoulder, but I guess will now be tightly packed cheap goods instead.

Everyone here is excited by it, as we have no interesting stores otherwise nearby. The first I heard the rumors was from wife's barber, and they quickly spread and other random people started telling me about the new store.
I agree with hiring a CFO. It’ll cost more in the short term but could pay off in the medium to long term like you say.
Exactly. There are reasons why one may not be immune:

1. The vaccine failed to create immunization

2. They were not vaccinated at some young age, but always assumed they were

The article seems to suggest that this person was an anti-vaxxer as opposed to a casualty of anti-vaxxer ideology.
Do you have examples or a blog post that covers some of the checklist items? I find this interesting.
I think it’s this (skepticism that big-pharma funded studies can be legit) plus a reaction to the intensity of the aggressive push to vaccinate. (My friend put it to me this way- The government wants me to vaccinate my kids, but doesn’t want me to have public health insurance, paternity leave, etc. If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic vegetables?)
Yeah do it. Even if you had the shot immunity wears off. Where I'm from they gave out only 1 when I was young whereas the recommendation is now 2. There's is absolutely no danger in having an extra shot if you can't find out how many you had.
I used to spend time in an online antivax community because it was a good source of alternative health info. Some members had Phds and we're published authors.

Most people there had very negative personal experiences with vaccines. Either themselves or one of their children had a serious reaction.

It's known that some people have serious reactions. This isn't something made up by anti-vaxxers. But the current climate gets people with real problems treated as nutters who simply don't have a real medical issue.

When I was growing up, we counted success in terms of how many people got vaccinations, but there was no expectation it would ever be 100 percent. Now, we act like we "failed" to get 100 percent when we quote stats rather than counting the high percentage of vaccinated as a big success.

I think the root cause of the antivax movement is probably that we are leaving no room for those edge cases who have a genuine problem with vaccines, medically speaking. Those edge cases -- those people for whom this is a real problem -- seem to have concluded that the only way to protect their own right to choose is to make antivax the default norm instead of pro vax.

It's probably doomed because vaccines have proven to be beneficial to society as a whole. But if it is clear in your own mind that vaccines are a threat to your life, it readily becomes a hill you are willing to die on, so to speak.

I'm neither antivax nor pro vax. I think vaccines have their uses, but we need room for those edge cases to have the right to choose.

I get vilified by both camps because neither can tolerate a moderate position, which suggests to me they are both basically equally crazy. A reasonable person is aware that exceptions exist and that you have to have a system that makes allowances for that reality.
It would be like a sleep paralysis you could not wake from. The stuff of nightmares.