skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that it implies that many Googlers are antivaxxers.

MMR vaccine is given at 1 year, pre-school starts at 3 years. Making a rough assumption of uniform age-distribution at daycares, it's expected that about 1/3 of babies won't be vaccinated against measles.

Edit: Linked article disproves this theory: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/tech-companies-and-vaccines/ . "According to the California DPH data, ..., At a nearby Google daycare, ... Just 68 percent are up to date with their MMRs". ... "The California DPH numbers only cover children between 2 and 5 years old"
Even if n*log(n) turns out to be asymptotically "perfect", I'm curious what the constant overhead is.

If it takes 15 minutes to multiply two 64-bit numbers, it might not be as "perfect".
I remember mapping being really slow on 2G. 3G improved things but peak time would see issues. 4G finally saw mapping work well 99% of the time for me since the speeds were always good enough.
I think OP thought navigating office politics to accomplish what you describe would be quite troublesome, and they would rather bank on the current department chair keeping C4C from taking action after they leave, rather than fight for basic rights inside UW.

UW is not kind to their employees: https://www.usatoday.com/story/college/2015/04/23/4000-uw-st...
We had a case of measels in my London office 2 weeks ago was quite funny coming to the office and seeing an HR email with a PDF of a scanned government letter which contained a mandatory disclosure and advising people to contact health services.
The solution is what has been suggested earlier: allow users to choose their own 'store', don't lock them to a single vendor. This is already possible with Android where F-Droid is a good example of a 'store' where the chance of being exposed to these shenanigans is close to zero.

Currently iOS users lack this option so for them the only way out is to change platform.
FWIW here was Google’s response in the linked article.

“The reported numbers for the current year are lower simply because many parents have not yet provided updated immunization records. We've asked them all to do this, so we can update the figures.”
Possibly! The examples are to show how input types are specified in iOS 12.2, not necessarily how you should do them. For the time being it will need to be another attribute in addition to the types that worked on iOS < 12.2.
They also have large conflicts of interest -- they don't just own a big chunk of a company, they own a big chunk of its competitors too.
Yes of course. My critique of the system as one meant for the fostering of elites carries the corollary that it's not a great one for underprivileged students.

The actual solution is not messing around with admission criteria, but rather tackling the unequal distribution of opportunity at the primary and secondary school level.
But Eve was nowhere to be found. That's how you know it works.
How about lazily turn <a> into <img> without hurting performance ? It's useful if the network is slow.
Which means that 11 of 18 do not.
>unwashed masses don’t know that so it doesn’t matter.

They seem to be able to find epic's fortnite just fine. What more do you want?
Here is a solution for this problem: let's devalue mobile advertisements. How? Simple: every time you see an ad, add the product advertised to a blacklist. Refuse to download any app that advertises to you. I've been doing this for a few years, and have felt no negative effects; in fact I have way less app clutter on my phone, and I still find all of the apps that I look for.
Advertising has changed in nature; it used to be about increasing visibility of your products. Now it is about compelling people who don't want or need your product into buying it, by using deception and psychological manipulation. So how do we kill the beast that the ad industry has become? Don't feed it.
(I'm the OP.) Quick answer: "about $15/student". Our pricing page is here https://cocalc.com/policies/pricing.html, and people and institutions do regularly sign up for all the subscriptions and packages listed there. They were all created based on demand from users. We get a handful of new courses each week, and few individual subscriptions each day, though volume depends a lot on the academic cycle. One of the reasons I'm confident to resign from my UW job is that the business aspects of CoCalc are definitely working.
The single source has many advantages but also many negatives.

Android apps run the risk of becoming facebook apps. A rising platform that had a lot going for it. Little by little more restrictions pushed many away and turned into what it is today.
Well, yes. Of course they are. I was poking fun at the government's two-faced perspective on a government surveilling their own citizens.
I don't think anyone was really reporting on it notably until a big NYT[0] article a few weeks ago.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...
I would expect some of this has roots in anti-vaxx, but is it possible more of this vests in the increase in social mobility (between states, between economies) and therefore the rise in out-of-herd contact risks?
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.

This would naturally be a fairly massive invasion of privacy, but does your right to privacy and right to not vaccinate trump the right of the company to protect their workers? Eventually it's going to come to a head and either companies will force vaccinations or the government will.
The average depth of the ocean is about 4km, so a thermal expansion of 1x10^(-4) per degree C (right order of magnitude), would result in about a 4m rise per degree increase in average ocean temperature. Which is obviously significant.

One of the issues with this theory is that the average temperature of the ocean is below 4 deg C, and in this regime the coefficient of expansion is negative. So we might actually see a small sea level drop due to ocean warming.
A Risk Analysis of Huawei 5G
How does one know if they're vaccinated or not? Who has a complete medical transcript going back to their childhood? How do they even get the vaccination rate data? I call BS.
b^n is b * ... * b, not b + ... + b.
In four year it doesn't seem like they updated the figure...

Edit: I stand corrected, even if some parts of google are still quite low
I look at the pace that gene tech and organ printing is going and can't help but think that these discussions will eventually seem embarrassingly obsolete. People will instead be getting outraged about the blue furry winged people with clitoris implants on their earlobes.
Powerful people with no direct influence over their day to day. The Republican party and conservatives broadly defined aren't censoring comedy shows, picking up sitcom pilots, commissioning Netflix specials, etc.

The people nixing comedians' and other speakers' university events have real power, in contrast.
I wonder if like the 3G and the 4G rollout in most countries, the first batch of deployments will use the higher frequencies for the new technology keeping the lower frequencies for the legacy technology to ensure everyone retains access to the exisiting coverage while giving some people access to some coverage using the new tech. Then as user adoption of the new tech approaches a certain point the lower frequencies are reallocated to the new technologies when the risk of reducing coverage for users of the old tech is not significant issue anymore. I’ve seen this occur with 2G to 3G (3G started with deployments only at 2100 MHz but is now mainly deployed at 900 MHz replacing the previous 2G services in that band) and 3G to 4G (4G initially mostly in 1800 MHz but many deployments now are in 700 MHz reframed from TV and 900 MHZ reframed from 2G/3G).
I feel the problem is the complexity of permissions models. Rather than expose many fine-grained permissions, apps ask for wide ranging permissions. Good apps and Bad apps. because the good apps are written naievely from days past and didn't know there is now a specific APP_PERMISSION_THIS_THING rather than 'all files'

Because even good apps ask for all things, It cannot be used as a filter to determin bad apps.
PSA for anyone living in the UK: the measles (+ mumps & rubella) vaccine is 100% free under the NHS, no questions asked. Call your GP and get an appointment, easy as pie!
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Does the ability to do so give them a spot on the list, or do they have to flex the muscle before they can prove that it's there?
I copy your post, but make it available further up the thread. Even though I sync your comment’s edits to mine several times a day, I also control Hacker News so I get them to display your username in place of mine, as to not confuse readers.

Page and DNS prefetching exists, HTML exists, why not just link to the page on the original domain?
>Imagine if $OpposingTeam did this! There would be an uproar!

So tired of this in both politics and tech. Yes. There is always uproar from the haters. Both sides.

Anyway, Genesis does what Nintendon't.
> But that’s not the point... apparently you’re saying he deserves his success by merit. My opinion is that there are plenty of people of equal merits who didn’t start one of the top 3 social networks. I would attribute much of the success of Twitter and Facebook to chance.

How do you know? What evidence do you have of these imaginary other's merit?
Many rural areas don’t even have 4G yet. These areas even less likely to get 5G anytime soon IMHO.
I cant stand the "invasion of privacy" bull shit.

You (proverbial you) invade my health by walking about with measles. I think it's well within any group, even government, to mandate vaccinations that have been PROVEN to be effective. Privacy takes a back seat to health.

EDIT: And I love how this gets downvoted. Likely by people who vastly misunderstand mechanism of disease. Also likely the same people who show no courtesy to others when they are sick, and continue to frequent stores and social establishments, coughing and hacking with zero thought about it.
The virus moves more easily with increased social mobility, yes.

But it finds a solid ground much more effectively when herd immunity is compromised, as it is today in many places, thanks to the anti-vax delusion.
Are you saying that 1/3 of kids at daycares are under 1 year-old?
I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs
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No, "You're folding it wrong".
Considering just how many people from outside of the US Google employes it's quite possible that they simply came from a country that historically didn't have a good vaccine coverage for example India.

Heck according to this data https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sh.imm.meas

In 1980 even Germany had 25% vaccination coverage but I'm guessing it could include East Germany too so a developer in their mid 30's simply might not been vaccinated at a young age and if they didn't travel to high risk countries, joined the military or worked with at risk groups it was never caught.
2011 came and went buddy:

https://www.engadget.com/2011/02/07/sprints-kyocera-echo-dua...
Bullshit. Shareholders can sell their shares. Enough of that and institutional abandonment ought to do the trick.
How We Designed Loki to Work Easily Both as Microservices and as Monoliths
Partially off topic: if the US Fed bought publicly traded equities, would we know about it?
Zcash Protocol Discussion
Oh, good point about pain in dreams! I have also experienced this. I used to have a lot of lucid dreams, where I was often aware of being in a dream. I somehow hurt my left shoulder and was suddenly in excruciating pain. I woke up and my shoulder felt just the same as in the dream, very bad. I quickly examined myself for injury and finding nothing, the pain very quickly went away. I guess I cannot say for sure that it was not physical pain leaking into imagination land but that is certainly not how it felt.
The later keys are expected to be harder, so if someone is able to get 400 of them total, it would be very surprising if they were stuck on one of these first three.
I'd actually believe the "it's old data" explanation. Here's a searchable map of vaccination rates for day care, linked from the Santa Clara County public health department website:

https://www.shotsforschool.org/child-care/how-doing/

Put in 94041 for zip code and you'll get most of the day cares that Googlers send their kids to, including a couple Google proprietary ones. Most are in the green, and the only one in the red (Little Prodigy, near Castro Street) isn't actually near Castro Street anymore - they moved several years ago, indicating that the data is several years out of date. The Google proprietary day care I know of is The Orchard on Bernardo street in Sunnyvale; it's listed as having >95% vaccination rates, and it's also closed now (has been for almost 2 years), again indicating the data's a little old.
One of the comments in the code states

> According to many Haskellers, type signatures represent sufficient documentation.

And then:

> %% I am ... %% learning ... %% cabbage

You surely do. Hmm, so much wisdom in all this
I fully agree with you, particularly because not vaccinating means you're threatening the people who don't have a choice in the matter due to immune system or allergic reasons.

Unfortunately that's the framing of the argument though. It's people who value privacy and self-determination over everything else, even the health and well-being of those around them.
The flavor text provided by the organizers made it sound like they intended there to be an easier solution - that way you only need to visit a location in one of North America, Europe, or Asia to solve the first three keys.
We're already in a state of doing nothing. The progressive view is pushing for 5G upgrades and breaking the cable box model.
I definitely don't currently intend to work at a large tech company. However, I live in Seattle (where there are a few), and most of the Ph.D. students I've had over the years do work at such companies, so I at least visit them regularly. Indeed, basically all people you see when you go to lunch there are way younger than me (I'm 45 years old).

Since CoCalc doesn't have any VC investment, and does have a solid and diverse base of customers, it's basically designed so that it is unlikely to fail unless I do something really risky. An example of something very risky would be raising venture capital or getting acquired -- we won't do that, since we have explicitly stated we won't to our customers and on our website, because some customers have been reluctant to consider using cocalc if we do take VC. In the worst case, CoCalc would be what some people call a "zombie startup" or "lifestyle business"... i.e., not growing much, and just marching on. However, I love working on CoCalc, and our customers love using it, so even that situation wouldn't be failure...
What about their OS, Office Suite, DBs, etc? Do they turn down sales of those on human rights concerns too? Will Microsoft stop taking "telemetry" data with its software?

Would they reject any sales to saudi arabia, china, israel or even the US military if human rights concerns arise?

If this is part of a genuine ethical paradigm shift within the company, then I commend them for it. But if this is just a one-time PR move, then my opinion of Microsoft has dropped considerably.
"Privacy" can go stick itself where the sun don't shine, when the alternative is having the whole place crawling with two-legged bioweapons created by ignorance or stupidity.
America by comparison [0]. Japan has a declining population, the pension scheme is considered to be running on fumes by most, and now the stock market is propped up by government itself.

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-actually-owns-the-stock-...
Do we need screens that fold? Really? What use case? So we have a double thick brick when folded? I can’t imagine they are resilient to thousands of open/close/drops/over-extensions/etc

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.
This is sort of just the wide-spread symptom of the free-market-ish system practiced in America. Everything is being reduced to how to maximize RoI, reduce the cycle to realize that RoI and ensure that RoI will be realized. Going for a profit isn't a bad idea from a company, but focusing a company on achieving a localized maxima of profit misses out on the larger benefits long term planning can yield.
This is absurd. First of all, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06340.pdf which opens with the intimidating quote: "Spicing up selfies by inserting virtual hats, sunglasses or toys has become easy to do with mobile augmented reality (AR) apps like Snapchat"

Second of all, most universities in China are affiliated with the government; this one just has a snappier name. It would also appear the two individuals in question are grad students at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Third, MS has been and will continue to catch uneducated & poorly-researched flak like this for operating in China in any capacity.
Good point - I originally did that comparison in a context (MCAS) where the pitots were working, and just assumed it was the right answer here. I later found, from the report, that this drone does estimate airspeed as a function of throttle position, pitch, engine speed and air density, but doesn't make full use of it as an alternative.
I can't recommend you guys enough. Your platform and customer service are top notch. :-)
If you want to go even further into the details (caching/RAM/Swap), you really get closer to the fact that the communication density between computations is what really matters, and n steps in the Turing machine runs in n*log(n) time in reality.
> You shouldn't leave out the egg part.

I think this is part of the same definition issue. The sentence I quoted as an example doesn’t make it clear whether or not Watson intended for their choice of not eating eggs to be a personal one or one included in the definition of veganism. Certainly if someone told me they were non-dairy vegetarian I think I wouldn’t assume that they eat eggs (or assume that they definitely don’t eat eggs). I think I would err on the side of non-eggs despite that that would be the sameish as veganism. Perhaps everyone else disagrees with me and the phrase has a clear definition, but otherwise I think it shows that a lot of these terms are not fully defined and different people take them to mean different things when describing themselves.

Rereading the sentence again I think perhaps I parsed it wrong, in which case I agree with you.
Is it so far fetched to think amazon might manipulate reviews? Yelp and Glassdoor do.
That sounds like corporate speak for "We don't know exactly how many children in our daycare aren't immunized, but we're going to assume that every child who hasn't provided us records is immunized since it gives us plausible deniability."
How does this follow from the article? Sure, a walled garden isn't a perfect model. But opening it up further would make abuse, like the behaviors described in the article, even easier for developers to execute, and harder for anyone to stop.
Our incident management includes chatops automation that, among other things

- generates a per-incident Google Doc

- opens a per-incident Google Hangout

- pages appropriate people via PagerDuty

During this incident (which affected our customers who use Google to log in), people had difficulty accessing all three (our PagerDuty uses Google Oauth).

This was a good reminder to have alternatives for all crucial incident management services. (We have backup plans in case Slack or our automation scripts are down, but didn’t have backups for Google...)
Do I have an internet connection?
How do we all know you are stupid? We somehow figured it out
i thought a primer re: ZFS would be appropriate here.

https://www.howtogeek.com/175159/an-introduction-to-the-z-fi...
> How does one know if they're vaccinated or not?

Ask your doctor. If it isn’t in your records, an antibody titer blood test is definitive. For public health purposes, these data have been collected for a long time.
I'm also concerned about the fading concept of ownership. But, IMHO, the author gives up most of his credibility by spending the first half of his opinion piece picking a semantic argument over an advertising tagline.
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Dessalines ?

"In parallel to the killings, plundering and rape also occurred. Women and children were generally killed last. White women were "often raped or pushed into forced marriages under threat of death.""

"The national anthem of Haiti, "La Dessalinienne", written in 1903, is named in his honor."
I wonder if it counts 'not up to date' as older millennials that have only 2 MMR vaccinations. The latest guideline from CDC recommends a booster for adults in this case: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6701a7.htm

EDIT: Nevermind, you're strictly talking daycare. Probably looks worse with this factored in.
I am confused... Everyone I know has a complete vaccination transcript going back to birth. I have passed through 3 different national systems (one of them being the US, where the records are not kept at a national level), and all these places have records up to the time I left them. I did not do anything special for that - it was almost automatic, except for once when I had to pay for a cheap language translation.
Finally something to justify my 250mbit connection. Going to try this out. Thanks for the suggestion.
We are starting to look at preschools for our son, and I immediately strike from the list any that does not require immunization. It's disheartening how many don't have the requirement.
> i want no part of it. when a phone maker comes to the market without this locked down model i will buy it, and if windows goes this route i will drop it for linux.

> and yea i know you can sideload on android, but the unwashed masses don’t know that so it doesn’t matter.

I don't totally understand what you want. You say you want a phone (presumably OS?) that does not require an app store then totally dismiss a very popular operating system that has exactly that feature. Who cares if a large segment of Android users don't side load apps, that does nothing to prevent you from doing it.

I've been using Android without Google Play services for a few months and everything works fine. My bank apps work, the few social media apps I use work, WhatsApp/Signal work, Bing/Cortana work, I could go on but I think you get the idea. Most of my apps have been side loaded (or downloaded via F-Droid).
Design by Contract (DbC) was seamlessly embedded into the Eiffel Language and Method right from the start, way back in 1986. The ideas gained by using Eiffel and Design by Contract can be formative and help us in our approach to using other languages.

The foundational ideas around DbC and Eiffel for requirements and their proof still evolve and progress 33 years later with AutoReq. A paper describing AutoReq was recently published ..

AutoReq: Expressing and verifying requirements for control systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X1...
Good advice. Within Google, they have backups that depend on no production infrastructure. Something as simple as an IRC server that is always running on prem can be invaluable.
It's amazing how poor the filtering is. There are plenty of developer horror stories of legitimate apps being taken down by some broken, automated process - sometimes taking peoples' entire Google accounts with them. Then you're stuck dealing with more automated systems for support.

Of course these garbage apps make it through somehow. 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...
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Thanks! I'm currently working on realtime collaboration for ipywidgets, which is an interesting challenge.