skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't they learn to be sensitive when certain characteristics like that come up occasionally, especially since they aren't really a predictor of being a threat? You might as well say "the TSA's job is to be alert for abnormalities, so unfortunately it's inevitable that if you wear polka-dotted socks then you're more likely to be pulled aside for additional screening." It doesn't have anything to do with anything.
The scary thing about anti-vaxxers, at least to me, is how susceptible educated people can be to essentially baseless fear mongering.

So when I worked at Google I (and many others) got into an argument with a software engineer who had strong anti-vax opinions and honestly, it's mind-boggling how removed from reality people can get, even people with a supposed science education.

I'm glad California has started clamping down on personal belief exemptions. That still leaves medical exemptions and unfortunately it seems like some doctors are complicit in giving baseless medical exemptions.

In New York we've had cases of immunization records being falsified. I'm not sure if it's by doctors or parents (maybe both).

Honestly any medical professional who falsifies immunization records or provides bogus medical exemptions needs to be jailed.

So I'm honestly not surprised measles is showing up in SV tech companies.
I was surprised too, I worked on software for Surgery checklists a decade ago and thought it was standard practice and that only our digitization of it was new, the effects of a checklist have been known for quite a while now. The software I worked on would track every instrument and screw taken into a theatre (using hand scanners), the doctor would have his list of steps for the procedure and the equipment necessary, standard emergency packages were available for the exceptions, etc. It's not just for the direct patients either, some disease can survive instrument sterilization so knowing who else they've been used on can be important.
So much diabetes
Open source does not mean anti-commercial to most people.
Tyrian Purple: The disgusting orgins of the color purple
> As Google fights criticism that it has let anti-vaccine disinformation flourish on its platform

When you thought you were getting information about a measles outbreak, but really you're being told that Google doesn't censor people enough.

This is a really slimy way to operate, and if BuzzFeed News didn't have enough to be ashamed of themselves about lately, add this to the list.
Microsoft said they refused to provide the tech due to the bias against minorities caused by the training data.

How difficult is it to fix this bias? For example, the model can be told to only produce a match when a confidence level is higher than a certain threshold. Then the threshold can be increased as needed on those subsets of faces where training data is lacking. Would that work?

Also, why not build more diverse training data if this is a pervasive problem? It is not free, but neither is it cost prohibitive for someone like Microsoft.
Except it's not, because exponentiation is not something reserved for integers. Just because you can write out b^4 as b * b * b * b doesn't mean that "that must be the rule". How would that rule even begin to explain how to calculate b^2/3 or b^π?

It's a cute little rule to use in middle school, when you get your very first glimpse at exponentiation, but it's also incredibly wrong if you try to actually use it with the rational, real, or complex numbers =)

(https://www.reddit.com/r/3Blue1Brown/comments/a6mqsf/how_is_... has some more information in case you want to know what _would_ be a way to understand exponentiation for all numbers, not just integers)
Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library
> The only people affected should be those who were too stupid to take the vaccine.

One dose (normally scheduled at 12-15 months) is 93% effective, two doses (the second usually scheduled at 4-6 years) are 97% effective, and there are people too young or with other non-stupidity reasons for not having (yet, in the case of age alone) even the first dose, so, no, it's not just stupid people at risk.
"...Measles was declared eliminated (absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months) from the United States in 2000. ..."

Measles History from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html
Who is going to want to attend a school with zero reputation
What kind of article is that? "Google causes measles and now one of them has it".

Is that ironic? Is this journalism now?
Only in the past year has it become mandatory for women at an elite level of cycling to be paid a salary and it's less than beginning male pros who are just starting out. Probably less than a dozen women make over five figures a year. 95% of the advertising money in cycling is generated from the men's Tour de France. The organization that runs the Tour de France and a few other races, these are mostly for men with sometimes a day or two set aside for women's races. All the money gets generated by the men's events, gets poured back into creating men's events. For a different type of story, we could look at women's tennis. The cigarette brand Virginia Slims became the sponsor, the sport was televised, and the women started earning ballpark what the men were at least in prize money back in the 70's. It helped that there were few women at the top of tennis and they organized together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Slims_Circuit
There are a few superstars in cycling but the farm system or whatever you want to call it is full of potential riders to replace the current ones so it's too easy to get strike breakers if cyclists tried to do the same thing.
Yet in the context given, it's timeless and relevant..
Even at 300 phone checks a day, you're probably not unfolding the phone each time. it has a screen you can get to without unfolding it, so many of the quick phone checks you do can be done without unfolding it.
I'm sure cost is not a concern for Google employees though.
In my state (NC) there's a statewide database that physicians report immunizations to. Prior to its creation in 2005, county health departments were a good source for immunization records (they typically handle immunizations done in schools, IIRC).
I feel this way about college-educated adults that I meet that believe in Astrology. So nuts how many I've met since moving to New York
It is free or almost free effectively everywhere in the western world, the problem is that some people actively choose not to vaccinate.

In California, any qualified pharmacy can administer the vaccine and be reimbursed for it by Medi-Cal.
I think this is a sad reminder that beliefs do not correlate with intelligence and even smartest people are not immune from doing stupid stuff.
A major one.
There are a collection of people who are unable to take vaccines for medical or age reasons. They rely on herd immunity. If herd immunity is compromised, then their risk increases. For someone considering to avoid vaccination for personal reasons, this is an example of moral hazard.
Pinterest prices IPO above range
They could create an electronic payment system to raise capital for their rockets.

And before we jump into this rabbit hole, yes, they can totally fund their own payment system with $4K and a small yellow pages startup. :o)
What are the standards for UK vaccinations? I've read that there are different vaccines used for MMR and some countries have a single dose or 2 spread apart. I have no idea what's preferred or why. Just curious.
One of these things is not like the other

Astrology outbreaks are not a concern of mine
Even when the moon is in retrograde
Cancer patients, AIDS patients, organ recipients all have compromised immune systems. They'd all be at risk because of irrational choices their colleagues made.
There’s nothing in Jewish teachings[0] to justify an anti-vaccination stance. However, as an insular community it is particularly susceptible to anti-vaccine misinformation[1].

0. In numerous states parents wishing not to vaccinate their children are permitted to sign a document stating that their religious convictions do not allow them to; based on this signature the child will then be permitted to attend school under the law. It is reported that small numbers of parents in Jewish schools have signed such documents. For a parent of a yeshiva student to sign such a statement in the name of Judaism is not just inappropriate, it is false. Whether a posek will rule that childhood immunizations are obligatory in halakhah or are discretionary (but highly advisable), there is no position in halakhah that says there is any prohibition or compelling reason to refrain from such vaccinations.

http://www.hakirah.org/Vol13Bush.pdf

1. “How Orthodox Jewish Nurses Are Fighting 'Anti-Vaccination Propaganda' Targeting Their Community”

http://gothamist.com/2019/03/26/orthodox_jewish_nurses_vacci...
There's tons of things that you "do to yourself" that are controlled via legislation -- smoking is the best example. You're free to do it at home, but not in places where you can adversely impact the health of others. Your freedoms end where my rights begin, so to speak. If you don't want to get vaccinated ... don't leave home. If you want to enter a public area, you better have your shots.
Thank God it's only measles, it causes encephalitis in just 0.5 % of the cases, and the mortality is only 0.25 %. Imagine it was mumps! A frequent complication in men is orchitis, and there are really gruesome photos with the scrotum the size of an orange!
We are not in as bad a shape as japan, but you are right.

The stock markets around the world have been propped up by central banks since the financial crisis.

The FED stepped in with a few trillion in QE to save wall street. The ECB implemented their own QE. BoJ also in japan. And even china has stepped in to prop up it's stock market although their stock market is much younger, smaller and less systematically important.

And so the world goes round and round. Historically, printing money and artificially propping up assets doesn't end well, but if everyone is doing it, maybe it'll work out?
Not necessarily. If they start making increasingly scummy deals (even more so than what Facebook is currently doing) to sell user data in return for quick profits, then things could get far far worse as Facebook burns to the ground.

Mark Zuckerberg, as bad as he is, is not the worst case scenario.
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OP said in the comments of his blog that he didn't actually consumed them, instead he gave to relatives.
If you have a surviving birth certificate, there's no reason it's not also very feasible to have a surviving immunization record. In my case, when I moved out of the house after high school my mom sent me with a photocopy of the original (handwritten) booklet. I still have the photocopy, along with additional records for vaccines I've gotten since then. This does remind me that I should digitize them.
Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them

Matthew 25:29

This reminds me of the power law that Peter Thiel talks about. He says that in any given field, a few people will dominate and the rest will get nothing. In Theil's example, one or two companies will dominate a given market while everyone else scrambles after a small piece of the pie.

But this seems to apply to other areas too. For example, a small group of composers wrote most of the repertoire of classical music that's played, while the rest of the composers are forgotten and hardly played. And of those composers, it's only a small number of their works that is widely played.

It seems to be a rule of the world that distribution is unequal, a small group of people do everything and the rest do almost nothing. A small group of people get everything, the rest get almost nothing.
We don't know how this person got infected or if they even work there so you can't make that conclusion.
OP didn't eat them, per the post.
All those illegal immigrants from India working at Google. Right.
Not only that, but a lot of doctors only keep records for so long. We recently had a measles outbreak in my area and I was trying to figure out if I had been vaccinated or not. My childhood doctor had destroyed the records after ten years and my parents had zero paperwork. I ended up just getting a round of the vaccine to be safe.
I like practical statistics, for example when betting red/black in a casino, what is the chance that you would lose 10 times in a row ? Just keep doubling they say, but eventually you will get a bad streak and wont have enough money or you'll hit the limit.
So here's one thing to consider about Astrology -- it is essentially a natural calendar. And there is the phrase that history repeats itself, or at least it rhymes. So putting those two together, I can see how people can look to the stars for answers. Well, that and confirmation bias whenever a coincidence happens.
> Pulitzer Prize winning editorial staff

That's no longer a reliable way of trusting the credibility. There's been many Pulitzer Prize news reporting which have come out to be completely false.
60kg.
>>it's mind-boggling how removed from reality people can get, even people with a supposed science education.

There's an old adage that science advances one funeral at a time - The scientific community is far from immune to this problem. People who are trained and employed full time to apply critical thinking and empirical testing still fall for superstition. It's an unsolvable problem until we reach a point where we can replace human brains with cold, unfeeling robots.
But why? I mean, I read the article and understand what will be done with it. But why?

Is it just to take advantage of Python tools?
well, there's always the Mobile Web. we just gotta get users to adopt it.
Please post this comment on NYT’s site.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/data-privacy.html...
You also have no say in how any of those companies are run, so none of those people are the ones being talked about here.
If you're vaccinated any real threat of getting the disease in the U.S. is still eradicated. There've been 555 measles cases in the U.S. so far this year. It's unclear how many in the current outbreak were vaccinated (though in the one sub-outbreak that does have data, NY/Rockland, 3% of cases had 2 doses of MMR), but historically, only about 2-3% of cases in an outbreak are vaccinated:

https://vaxopedia.org/2019/02/14/vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated-...

That'd imply that maybe 10 vaccinated people have come down with measles in this 2019 outbreak, out of > 300M total vaccinated people. By contrast, about 51 people die every year in the U.S. from being struck by lightning.
Thank goodness we hired someone who can reverse a b tree on a whiteboard (2016)
If it worked I would say yes. Uses of having a small device with a large screen are not that hard to imagine.
Thieves reportedly used car-sharing app to steal 100 cars in Chicago
Well, yes, but much like undercover work or espionage, it would make for a good story, anyway.
there were NO religious grounds(confirmed by a number of religious leaders). This was mostly due to anti-vaxx propaganda and closedness of the community
US immigrants are required to have the MMR vaccine, among others.

Edit: This is inclusive of foreign workers with H1B and other working visas.
With respect to Taliban killing off humanitarians, it doesn’t help that the CIA organized a fake vaccine drive to get Osama Bin Laden’s family DNA [0]. The fake vaccine in question was for hepatitis B, but if your threat model requires you to be suspicious of humanitarian workers, then you’ll act appropriately.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

Update:

I’m not sure why the sibling poster and I received downvotes: we both provided the same fact that a branch of the US government conducted their operations in such a way that harmed the perception of vaccines amongst groups of people in another countries. In both the anti-vaxx movement in some places in the West and this particular incident in Pakistan and Afghanistan, you have a similar kind of attribution error involving the concept of vaccination that led to action against actual vaccinations as a whole.
Why have some journalists written an article about one person getting measles out of a huge number of people working somewhere in California?
Its also a hugely lucrative ones for people who like working in Software as a job as opposed to Software Developers who like programming, enjoy the craft etc. Not to say that such people aren't good at their craft; just that they're more vocational: they understand certain technologies and know many different ways to configure them which is what businesses need and pay them good money for.

It can also be a stressful one if the tech you're familiar with goes out of style. Lots of re-training involved, years of experience is basically worthless, etc.
i never click on a consent box, i just block it.
the whole childs argument "well i thought thats what you meant" or "i thought i was doing what you said to" is not something that should be allowed to sidestep the purpose of GDPR to be scuttled and obfusicated.
Note that “anti-vaxxer” is probably a small subset of cant produce complete vaccination records. I’m not sure how acceptable a mandatory doctors exam and potentially booster shots would be to a lot of SV developers applying for a job. I don’t personally have a problem and early in my career got rejected from some jobs because of a small back problem. But can’t see it with the typical FANG applicant.
quite a patronizing view you have of "PoC".
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were statistically similar traits based around the time of year you were born / entered school
Thanks, I skipped over the comments. Apparently, though, it appears that the OP may not have started immediately handing them out to his/her relatives:

"Yeah, I learned from this experiment that I don’t actually like Skittles, which is probably good, so a lot of Skittles were bagged and handed off to relatives. "
I’m about to graduate college and I just last week had to take an hour to learn insurance vocabulary to decide if I should go to a doctor for something. It’s disgusting how complicated it is now compared to how simple the concept of insurance initially was when it was created.

The insurance companies profit massively from the confusion they have created.
The Bakelite Telephone 1931
Ooh. I saw this in SK: https://www.techradar.com/news/lg-dualscreen-first-look-at-l...

Honestly I don't know why it exists. You could just buy a case and then buy two phones.
That also tells me another story too: being a Google engineer doesn't mean you're smart.

This further reminds me of all the people who got degrees with me who weren't all that bright either.
Eh something about astrology is really unsettling. Yes, not like antivaxers, but I’m with GP.
Another nice thing about F-Droid is that it uses Linux style "repositories" meaning that individuals/companies can setup repos for apps without needing to build their own custom app store. There are also multiple independent implementations of the F-droid client:

https://gitlab.com/gdroid/gdroidclient/

https://github.com/SkyzohKey/M-Droid
Where was the QR code?
Doctors use HIV in gene therapy to fix 'bubble boy' disease
The government is in a tough spot. The largest retirement asset for most people is their homes. The second largest is their 401k. With baby boomers starting to retire in droves, the government has no choice but to keep housing prices and stock prices inflated so that retirees can cash out. If housing or stock prices decline for an extended period, it would be politically and societally destabilizing.
I don't necessarily believe or put any faith in Astrology, but I do find it fun- perhaps some of the people you meet feel the same way?
> it does come before court

Yes, it comes before a court.

>people have a reasonable chance of not being extradited if they did something that we find acceptable in Europe?

Correct.
> then you must also believe

if reducing complex issues into simple dichotomies works for you, I'm not going to convince you otherwise. But the fact that you need such crutches tells me all I need to know about this conversation.
Thanks! You're referring to the Sage notebook, and the key feature is that it is web-based with some collaboration support. I believe it was the first instance of this at the level of sophistication that it attained, which was significant given the web development tools available a decade ago. I started sagenb in 2006 after seeing a demo of a local OS X frontend for IPython. I did a huge amount of work on it, but there were also many students who did too (e.g., a 16-year old in the Philippines named Tim Dumol). The Sage notebook (and IPython) was very much inspired by Mathematica, Macsyma, and Emacs. Jupyter notebook was written a few years later, and has a more modern architecture (it used websockets). Jupyter has a much newer client called JupyterLab, which uses more modern Javascript tooling, including Typescript, WebPack, Phosphor, and so on. I've been working hard to make CoCalc fully support the Jupyter ecosystem, since I love the momentum behind it and how inclusive the community is. In particular, I wrote a new Jupyter client that supports realtime collaboration.
Anything that removes friction in the decision-making process would result in higher conversion.
My favorite is an SNES emulator that's full of ROMs. Clearly a copyright violation, but somehow made it through state-of-the-art AI

I'd actually be fine with it letting stuff like that through, but filter out actual malicious to the user apps.
Their blog post better explains their whys https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scien...
Macros are expanded at compile-time, yes? If so, does that mean you can have obfuscation with zero runtime overhead?
Can’t emphasize this enough! Outages will eventually happen, you need to plan for them.
Because Google is a large employer so the possibility of contagion is large?

Imagine if someone working at Apple’s UFO caught The Plague. That would certainly be of some concern. Same with Amazon in Seattle, or even an Amazon warehouse. People come and go from all of those places constantly and one person could have an outsized impact on people who are otherwise completely unrelated to the origin of the disease.
>> It's an unsolvable problem until we reach a point where we can replace human brains with cold, unfeeling robots.

That would be a gigantic step back. You under-estimate just how powerful that organ between your ears is.
I think "journalist" might be a bit generous in this case! haha
I love the music for the demo video. Especially the second part. Oracle never sounded better.

Joke aside. Looks like a pretty useful tool. Seems to be focused on workflows.
Wow that is disgusting. Why does it need to include remote code to function? How can they even pretend this is an open standard when it has a backdoor?
It’s not clear to me why “educated” people should be free of ideology; they just have different kinds.
Honestly, for most people, an effective model is to think of it like a sport. It's something people obsess over, can impact their emotions and otherwise is pretty harmless
Oddly, the A1226 next to me has been my daily driver for 3-4 years, and prior to that used since it's inception as a daily driver for someone else.

It's probably one of the few remaining ones that just keep humming along.
This seems like a minor story that is being embellished and extrapolated out to be something way crazier than both the headline and the content suggests...

One case of the measles prompts a company wide email... And now Google must contend with the scale of such an outbreak.
Somehow amazing to me that I've lived across three continents and proven vaccination status numerous times and someone can't even do it within their own country.