skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that became popular would be targeted just the same. The solution is more secure OSes, not distribution filtering. I should be able to put a gelatinous abomination from hell on my phone and be okay. Mobile OS sandboxing is better than older PC OSes but it's still not perfect.
Nothing in medicine is as straightforward as that. Most cancer treatments end up wiping out or suppressing many different kinds of cells, and a temporary suppression of white blood cells is considered an acceptable side effect. AIDS will have to be cured. A strong immune system often attacks donor organ cells, so the immune system is intentionally weakened. We may eventually develop solutions for all three issues, but I don't expect it to happen in our lifetimes. Heck, I predict we'll be cloning body parts in labs to obviate the need for anti-rejection meds long before we learn to fine-tune our immune response.
Doctors Finders
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Does not work in Safari for me (latest Mojave version).

Happily works in Chrome and Firefox.
> is how susceptible educated people can be to essentially baseless fear mongering

The same argument is being used against the pro-vax community. The article by the ahem "esteemed" journalism that is Buzzfeed is an example that seems to be pandering to a certain audience. The kind of audience that is quick to insult anti-vaxxers as being some sort of stupid degenerate or other over the top propaganda. Propaganda being another reason not to trust the message.

> it's mind-boggling how removed from reality people can get, even people with a supposed science education

Same accusation going the other way. I'm don't want to get into the particulars (this will be a long thread), however, there are a number of pro-vax advocates who don't make a good impression with their obvious sophism. I can provide links to videos of debates involving highly reputable pro-vaccine advocates to back this up, but I want to keep this first post more at a meta level.

I understand that you are preaching to a certain choir & I will suffer the wrath because I dare question the orthodoxy, but that's the rub; our own presuppositions affect how we perceive the matter.

> giving baseless medical exemptions

Many people see forced medication as being a baseless intrusion by the state onto a population. For example, have you read "A Brave New World"? Injections were used to create the caste system. Forced inoculation & diet has been used to create an underclass in many societies. Many people also oppose Fluoride & Lithium being added to the water supply. For how long was Glysophate deemed "proven safe", yet we find out later it's highly toxic. Note that there were people who were opposed to the usage of Glysophate for a long time & many of those same people oppose vaccines.

There's also a lack of studies of the individual compounds & even less research into the combination of said compounds. Yet vaccine proponents are uncomfortably eager to deem vaccines as safe despite a lack of research. So safe, as safe or safer than saline solution it seems...It makes the pro-vaccine crowd sound delusional & religious at worst, or rash in judgement due to fear of the global pandemic apocalypse at best. Not saying there aren't good arguments, but much of the rhetoric being thrown around is hostile bullying, tbh.

I recommend that proponents of vaccines strongly discourage bullying from their side, because it completely discredits their argument of forced vaccination & makes them look like proponents of totalitarianism.

> In New York we've had cases of immunization records being falsified

Does this imply the validity of some studies are in doubt? New York, for being such a large population, seems to have a lack of outbreaks since the Spanish Flu.
Yes of course you alert the public. There's systems already in place for this. Ever since the 50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System
Vaccinations are really low-hanging fruit. Even severely underdeveloped economies get their pops vaccinated. It staves off mass pandemics. And it costs so little to prevent so much. I really can't understand these kinds of absurd arguments.
I have a friend in Mountain View with a bunch of symbolics machines in his garage. He's in the process of moving house so wants to get rid of them soon. Anybody who wants to give one a good home and can pick one up from Mountain View let me know and I can put you in touch.
New York in general is a very superstitious place. There are a lot of people here who came from the Old World a century ago and those superstitions came with them. Psychic readings, crystal balls, crystals, Tarot cards, all that.

But this kind of thing tends to also serve as a psychological aid. People with anxiety being told things they want to hear. For some psychics serve as de facto therapists.

This isn't to say there aren't charlatans and scammers who take advantage of the vulnerable and impressionable.

But on the whole, Astrology and the like are "harmless", at which point I personally don't care. People are entitled to their personal foolishness.
I ended up making a visualization for the second source just for fun. https://public.tableau.com/shared/X9CQJ7QKK?:display_count=y...

It's a path visualization from the starting and ending coordinates with classification of the entanglement recorded.

The second data source was just natural entanglements that occurred, not the plastic ones... kicking myself for not starting with the first data source. I'll probably end up doing the same thing for plastics.
I think English would be fine.

It's hard to imagine a scenario where future historians can't even translate 2019 English. That's either an apocalypse layered over an apocalypse, or a length of time beyond any human comprehension - tens of thousands of years - of dark ages. You need to be carving in stone or baked clay in the desert to hit time spans that long.
Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author
You are confusing revenue and profit. Vaccine companies historically don’t make much profit, especially when compared to pharmaceutical companies who make and sell drug compounds.
Celestial bodies give multiple calendars covering different periods, and taken in various combinations they give patterns that are at various rhythmic intervals. I wonder if that affects people's beliefs in astrology somewhat, that gives more opportunities for a coincidence to occur?
I'm saying something like a very simple mapping between operations and their assembly, which means it's easy to say rip out the multiplication and division and replace it with an alternate implementation in the code generator.
There are a lot of ads in your feed because that's the number Instagram has decided. Companies buy ads because it's an effective platform for advertising. I don't think links would stop any of this but it would contribute to a much noisier feed.
Yes.

And for 'discovered' things, there is no reason to make a mistake.

However, most of the time you are working on something that is New.
The idea is that eventually we'll have to go reversible anyway. Computation will have to run twice in order to run at more than 2X the clock speed of running once. Getting easy garbage collection is a side effect, not a goal of the optimization.

And, the result will have to be copied off before rewinding.
Steve Kovach, Mark Gurman, Deiter Bonher and Todd Hasselton all had screen issues. (Deiter's was a "screen bulge").

Marques Brownlee remove the protective cover, and Mark Gurman had his first unit where he removed the protective cover.
This looks really cool. Is there a demo application published somewhere that I could use to test?
Discrete fourier transforms have always been a way of doing fast polynomial multiplication -- which is also called convolution. That is we can do

(a0 + a1^z + a2*z^2...) * (b0 + b1^z + b2*z^2...)

As

fa = DFT([a0, a1, a2...]) # O(N log N)
fa = DFT([b0, b1, b2...]) # O(N log N)
fab = element-by-element multiply fa by fb # O(N)
return InverseDFT(fab) # O(N log N)

Now this is well established if we are literally doing a convolution of two sequences of complex numbers. But this is different from integer quite multiplication because:

1. Polynomial multiplication doesn't have carries.

2. It does inexact arithmetic on complex-numbers, we want exact results on integer digits.

I am guessing (2) is solved by getting modulo-arithmetic do the same algebraic gymnastics that make the FFT work.

Also I didn't think any of this was new -- I vaguely remember reading about fast convolutions using discrete algebras in old textbooks from the '70s. Maybe the hard thing was to do it in a way that leaves enough information left over to do the carries.
I've done a few computer vision projects lately and it's really amazing what you can get done with opencv for relatively clean data. In this case you're trying to identify circles and classify their color into one of several groups. This is pretty common, the main challenge is cleaning up the raw data so that the hough transform runs quickly and accurately, and the color cluster identifier is robust.

If you're pretty good with Tensorflow, you could do it with an object detector. I've built absurdly accurate object detectors using the TF Object Detector tutorial and just a little hand labelled data plus some good synthetic augmentation.

For this project's scope and scale it's probably not worth automating unless you're going to be repeatedly running the process.
I understand that people feel quite strongly about this subject, but rather than mass flagging people who support/sympathize with anti-vaxxers, it would be much more beneficial to reason with them. As this is a comments section and not a news article, discussing these things is perfectly fine and does not "platform" anti-vaxxers. To change peoples minds we must win hearts and minds, not alienate them.

With regards to making links between intelligence and anti-vaxxers (as some here have), unless you have hard numbers then you too are just as susceptible to drawing conclusions without strong facts to back it up. Some of the most intelligent people can still act illogically, just look at the unfortunate later years of Nikola Tesla [1].

> As Google fights criticism that it has let anti-vaccine disinformation

> flourish on its platform, [..]

Lastly, I don't like the phrasing of this article. There is zero evidence that Google has in some way purposely allowed disinformation to spread. There's a disgusting "serves them right" feel and I think that's really unfair. I am sure Google has put in many resources to prevent disinformation and what people see is what gets through the net.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Lambda School (YC S17) is hiring a data engineer
She works at Microsoft now [1]? Didn't see that coming.

I wonder what a researcher at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft does.

[1] https://theartofresearch.org/contact-us/
True, but you can short the stock from elsewhere in your portfolio (i.e., just a standard nonretirement account), and it's economically equivalent (modulo some stuff with taxes).
Heh, I got Doug to switch from D-machines to MIT-style (and those symbolics machines, as it happens) back in, what, 85 or 86. I'd been using Interlisp at PARC as well of course CADRs and Symbolics machines at various places including MIT, and was somewhat opinionated on the topic.

The symbolics service office was across the hall from me so I got extremely fast service when needed (I had two in my office, one with, gasp a color screen).
While you seem to want to paint anti-vaxxers as those simply having a bad reaction

No, and I'm not sure how to more clearly state that isn't my point.

Certainly at this point, it's a movement and there are latecomers who believe in it without having been personally burned. But I spent some years on a forum where active members were people trying to resolve serious health issues and being dismissed by mainstream medicine as nutters in a way they found very personally threatening because of their history.

Some of those people were very well educated and articulate. If you radicalize a small group of persuasive people, it shouldn't be shocking when the result is some kind of movement born of their efforts at self defense for survival reasons.
If the companies they buy end up making money, might this be an interesting alternative to taxes as a way to fund the government?
So true. And so deliciously snarky. Confession: I'm guilty of far greater stupidity. I've asked "Ship of Theseus" questions when interviewing candidates for object database companies, and conservation puzzles, like tessellating a chessboard missing diagonal corners with dominoes. Because "Thank goodness I hired coders who can discuss philosophical identity problems". At least people who can reverse a b tree on a whiteboard can code an algorithm.
Means it will distinguish faces better than a human in side-by-side testing. This is actually a thing, and it has been for a while. Humans aren't very good at telling if it's "the same guy" or not.
I'd rather hypocrites shit on each other than keep quiet.
The only wire-wrapped machines Symbolics shipped were CADRs; all their own designs were PCBs.
> Humans don't operate on truth, they operate on psychological & social-cultural motivation, and use "truth" as a pretext.

But I suppose you consider your critique of truth to be true? Forgive the seeming snark. It's not meant unkindly. This kind of thing is not easy to talk about, as philosophy's historical mess shows.

OK so its the case (or 'true'!) that most arguments are post hoc rationalisations for positions actually determined by a complex chain of psychological and social-historical causes. I agree. This is not an insight unique to European philosophy. Many disciplines and lines of argument get to that position.

The issue becomes how to mitigate such bias effects. My contentions are that (1) the empirical-scientific strand of the Enlightenment does a far better and more historically significant job of this than the philosophical, so your (or Adorno et als) target is already a relatively inconsequential one, and that (2) science does this by contraining its ontology within an etiolated language that mis- or under- represents the real world.

What's 'wrong' with the most important heir of the Enlightenment (science), if conceived as an inclusive framework from which to view the world, isn't that it's as myth-infused as pre-Enlightenment thought, but rather that the world it attempts to describe isn't where we actually live.
I'm glad you found the writing style pleasant. I found it grating and self-indulgent.
It's a good exercise for discovering that how right you think you are is mostly irrelevant.
This is some shady definition. There were outbreaks in 1999, so really what does "eliminated" mean? To me it has never been "eliminated".

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4925a1.htm
Or maybe, and this might sound crazy, just USE THE FUCKING IMAGE TAG.

Seriously, websites where the images are broken without javascript are FUCKING ANNOYING.

There are image formats that support progressive rendering. Use those if you're that desperate, but STOP BREAKING THE FUCKING INTERNET FOR NO GOOD REASON.
Except when it comes to global warming denial.
so...are shiny black objects better scanned into 3d objects now?
Fear warps cognition. It doesn't matter how smart or educated you are, fear will reshape the way you think, and in a way that's really hard to be aware of even if you're a generally self-aware person. The only way to break out of it is to distrust fear itself and postpone decisions about fearful topics until you've released the emotion itself. I almost think mindfulness should be a part of standardized education.
The source you quoted is a well-known quack.
This isn't about academic or mathematical rigor - this is about responsible communication of statistics.

You're right that a general audience isn't going to look at the source, nor think about variance of output variables. Therefore, it's the responsibility of us as communicators of statistics to relate the conclusions that can be drawn from the data in a way that first and foremost is not wrong or misleading, and secondly captures the concept as accurately as possible for the audience.

The first principle is the overriding obligation. Your simplification can capture as little of the information and conclusions supported by the data as you want, but it cannot imply or state conclusions that are not supported.

You're getting this response to your statement, from me and others, because your interpretation of the source can easily be read as drastically overstating the character (and strength) of the relationship supported by the data - even if that's not what you intended.
It's a thread about photogrammetry.
The whole reason the liability shield program exists is concerns that if pharma companies were exposed to lawsuits from the inevitable vaccination reactions that happen or are purported to happen, they'd just drop out of a low-profit market.
https://investors.merck.com/news/press-release-details/2019/...

$6.2B income in 2018.
How much of that are real transactions and not just miners trading with each other?
So I'd appreciate it if you didn't use people like me as a smokescreen for those that threaten my well-being.

I stopped getting an annual flu shot because people who were strongly antivax were helping me get well after doctors wrote me off for dead, basically.

I'm not using people like you as a smokescreen. I'm talking about my own life.

I've been given absolute hell for my medical choices, including my decision to stop getting a flu shot.

(Never mind that my choices have gotten good results. That ends up being some new excuse to attack and dismiss me.)
>The whole point of it is that whatever decisions people make wrt charity and welfare with their own money are the only ones that reflect their true morality, and thus, a free market will simply express the moral consensus of the society in which it operates.

Alternatively, emergent effects from the complex structure of the network come to dominate over the moral choices of the nodes and so therefore it acts more like weather than any actual reflection of a societal consensus, with the overall climate being driven by those who have inherited the most currency.
So centered in specific religious community that has their own neighborhoods, ambulances and police force and susceptible to outsider propaganda somehow? But not in any way on religious grounds? What's the reasoning? Just because religious leaders outside the community have different opinions doesn't automatically mean 'no religious grounds'. It just means they see things differently.
Funneling resources to people who create more resources does make sense, provided the assumption that those specific individuals are the key ingredient to the resource creation.

From what I understand, the people you defend capitalism from tend to assume that those individuals themselves are less relevant than is their place in the larger system.

Does this summary of the arguments line up with your experience?
Yo mama raised a fool?
These guys make a lot of limited run keyboards and have thought of doing a space cadet kbd: http://kono.store/ . If enough people express interest they'll launch a KS to fund it (they've done quite a few so their track record is pretty good).

I wouldn't want a clone of the specific space cadet -- the board flexed too much making it a tiny bit spongey. But a modern clone need not have that problem, and need not have such an absurdly high profile.
That's fair, English is probably fine. But you'd be hard-pressed to convince me all our massive data centers are going to survive. I don't think that will even require a civilizational collapse, just a company going out of business. Imagine what a full-scale depression would do. And the drive to push everything into the cloud has only gotten started. Just look what happened with Tumblr banning adult content and blocking people from making archives. It's already getting difficult to find hardware that can read old media, and the attacks on public library funding don't help either. We're building a Tower of Babel and storing all our knowledge inside.
The problem here is that you assume they're reasonable.

No one is antivaccine from a position of logic or science, because the position is completely impossible to support with either.

Antivaccine beliefs are functionally very similar to religion.
> That would feel like going back to the year 1999

That would be absolutely glorious.
Karatsuba’s algorithm is a shining example of creative applications of simple concepts.

I used to teach math to gifted elementary school students and used some problems from Japanese exams for the talented. I think the creativity and complexity of thought required to come up with this algorithm is about the same as some solutions to a harder problem in those exams. (The creativity required to solve them is significantly more than for American Math Competition, which typically involves difficult but quite conventional thinking.) [1]

More countries should adopt these Japanese-style problems in their gifted education as well as simpler versions for normal students. They are a great training ground for creative problem solving, which has become increasingly essential for successful careers in most fields.

PS. Hong Kong holds annual creative math problem solving competition for primary and secondary school students:

https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/curriculum-development/major-level...

There was also at least one international math competition for primary students in Asia-Pacific which focuses on creative math problem solving.

[1] AMC problems and solutions
https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/AMC_Problems_...
Yeah, TIL that https://status.cloud.google.com is the relevant place for login.
Disabling animations in Android can have some surprising æffects. For me the little "car" in Lyft/Uber refuse to budge without closing & reopening the app. Some status indicators go haywire too (like loading bubbles in youtube, and fake frequency histograms in music apps).

My laptop disables animations in low power mode and ironically that makes it feel faster than "performance" mode.
Centrally controlled misallocation of public resources on a large scale. A particularly nasty form of Socialism.
But the type of malware described in the article obviously is possible, given that it’s possible even on the Play Store. The OP posed switching to a decentralized model as a solution to that, and it’s hard to see how that makes any sense.
That depends tremenously on how his wealth is tied up, what is liquid, and how collateralised it is.

And wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power.
Under the assumption that it is a fair table. So what is the likelihood that it is a fair table knowing that 1% of tables play 80% red?
Yeah, 100% this. What's more, this is also quite common among actual scientists too. Quite a few creationists/intelligent design advocates are academics whose credentials are in fields completely unrelated to biology/evolutionary biology, but quite a few cranks/pseudoscience believers/theorists are in a similar situation.
In an ideal world, OS maintainers, instead of running a software store with a client-end on consumer devices, would run just a repository, with version control, metadata and downloadable packages for apps submitted to and supported on their platform, but allowed any third party to link to their repositories for fetching information or downloads. This would allow external review hosting, discovery, competing marketplaces, or even users directly fetching the application without navigating marketplaces if they knew what they wanted.

Of course, there's nothing in this approach financially for the maintaining company, so this was not going to happen.