skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical illness that is now endemic to most tropical countries and (unlike malaria) has no chemical prophylaxis and (unlike yellow fever) has had no effective vaccine.

This article describes how there is now a dengue vaccine, which seems like great news, but there's a catch. Dengue has a very unusual feature where getting it twice is not only possible but is frequently much worse than getting it the first time, in the specific case where the second strain is different from the first strain. The second (or subsequent) infection with a different strain can cause a much more severe illness which may be fatal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever#Predisposition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever#Severe_disease

"While each serotype can cause the full spectrum of disease, virus strain is a risk factor."

According to the article, the new vaccine is effective at reducing the risk of dengue infections, but is also comparable to a prior infection in terms of increasing the harmfulness of subsequent infections! So if you get the vaccine without ever having had dengue before, you're less likely to get dengue but it's also more likely to be worse if you do, which is probably a bad tradeoff for most people.

The article goes on to say that the FDA has now approved the new vaccine for use (only) in areas where dengue is present and (only) when the patient has a confirmed history of prior infection -- in which case the vaccine is believed to reduce risk of subsequent infections without also increasing their severity. But a prior trial period of the vaccine in the Philippines did not have this restriction, which means that it's believed to have decreased infection risk while increasing infection severity in some children, some of whom died when they later contracted dengue from mosquito bites. Parents' awareness of this history also reduced their willingness to have their children receive other vaccines that were known to be safe:

"As result, vaccine coverage for childhood diseases in the Philippines, such as the measles, has dropped, WHO says. And the Philippines is now facing a large measles outbreak, with more than 26,000 cases and more than 355 deaths during 2019."

:-(
We have exactly this problem. I would appreciate if somebody explained how we should fix this. We need HTTPS and we have buckets with dots in their names
Also in millions of manuals, generated PDFs, sent emails... Some things you just can't "update" anymore..
It's really disastrous change for the web data integrity.
Sure, but that's what chemistry, biology and information science are for. Calling it "new physics" is at best inaccurate.
It's very hard to teach someone whose cup is full. Very smart people can rationalize their bad ideas faster than other people can talk them out of them. But that doesn't mean you've actually explained yourself. If you can't explain things to other people, do you really understand it yourself?

At this point Wolfram is lost to us. "What the hell are you talking about, Steve?". I was just fantasizing about resurrecting Richard Feynman and having him ask Wolfram this question but it turns out I don't have to:

In a letter from Richard Feynman to Stephen Wolfram:

> You don’t understand "ordinary people." To you they are "stupid fools" - so you will not tolerate them or treat their foibles with tolerance or patience - but will drive yourself wild (or they will drive you wild) trying to deal with them in an effective way.

> Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love! That is my advice, my friend.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to the best of my ability
YouTube addiction: binge watching videos became my 'drug of choice'
It’s not a huge problem thanks to S3 batch

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-batch-operati...
I agree on the principle, but shouldn't we examine if the deterrent is working? Can we look at rates of fare jumping in places with less strict laws? Maybe try reducing the penalty and see if rates of fare jumping actually increase?

People tend to act like it is a given that a stricter penalty decreases the occurrence of the crime, but that isn't always the case.
Ask HN: Is licensed software still a viable business model?
I'm building a desktop app for developers which I plan to license and sell at a freemium model, with restricted feature set for free.

I almost feel bad doing this, like I'm following in WinZip's shoes, and I expect a 7zip to come along, replicate or improve upon my functionality, and open source it / give it away for free.

Should I be afraid of this? Is licensed code still a viable business model? Seems like everything is SaaS these days, or otherwise so complex that nobody could clone it without unreasonable effort (i.e. 3d games).
Who cares? GP didn't say anything about "market" or "not-market". It's dumb that we're here. Full stop.
How about some kind of RFID card (like the Clipper Card system in the SF Bay Area), but with all payments waived if you have proof of residency in the cit(y|ies) served?
They closed the only bookstore they had in my town and moved to a mall (Coles), it's a place now to buy pricey stupid gifts and popular books too I guess.
It tries it’s best
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/s3-config.html#...
I thought you were comparing it to not having a valid ticket for transit in SF. I can see that it would be harder to prove intent in the parking meter situation.
Ellen Pao says startups will fix Silicon Valley's diversity problem
What phone? I'm still using an iPhone 6S and they are seemless. Some textbooks that are like 300+ mb start having hiccups though. Probably due to my oldish phone.
> What's with these ideas?

Paying off the slaveowners is not just an "idea". It actually happened. In every other country that ended slavery. That's why I'm drawing the comparison. Every other country managed to end slavery without fighting a war that cost a million lives. So why did the US have to?

> what part of our history to 1860 would lead you to believe that it was our policy to pay money for freedom?

You're missing my point. Of course it wasn't our policy to pay money for freedom. That's why we had to fight a war that cost a million lives to free the slaves.

My point is, why wasn't it our policy to pay money for freedom? Why couldn't we do the obvious thing that all the other countries did to free slaves without it having to cost a million lives?

And if your answer is "we should never pay money for freedom", why not? The slaves were freed either way. Wasn't freeing them the goal? Wouldn't it be better to achieve that goal without it having to cost a further million lives?

> on the question of just ignoring the violence against slaves

You're missing my point again. I'm not ignoring the violence against slaves. I'm pointing out that that violence happened regardless of how the slaves were freed. So when counting the cost of freeing the slaves, you can't factor in the violence that happened while they were slaves, because that violence had already happened; freeing the slaves with a war that cost a million lives didn't make any of the violence against the slaves while they were slaves go away, any more than paying the slaveowners for the slaves' freedom did. The million lives it cost in the US Civil War wasn't instead of the 400 years of violence against the slaves; it was in addition to it.
The person who can't afford $2 is now going to pay $50? From where? How?
This sentiment gets expressed every time programming is made more accessible.

It always turns out that the difficulty of "setting up a basic [hello world application]" is entirely unrelated to the essential complexity of the problem space and attracting a broader range of new users is later viewed as a valuable advance.
I have been coding for now 15 years, I still feel like a complete noob and try to assimilate new information every day. The way to keep yourself motivated is to do something that you like. Solve a problem you actually have or create something you want, and in the process try to use whatever it is you need to learn.
This is just 2+ year old wishful thinking. As TFA discusses.
A lot of that is a fairly recent development, though. Lots of buckets laying around from the years it largely didn’t warn you.
Fluid transmissions have lots of interesting advantages. Some of the top robotics shops in the world have started using them.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa...
Instead, data center services should be built using stateful application servers or custom in-memory stores with domain-specific APIs, which offer higher performance than RInKs at lower cost.

I'm in the midst of implementing a stateful application server-cluster with custom in-memory stores with domain-specific APIs. Basically, it's a way of implementing a game loop and a multiplayer game by specifying lambdas going against in-memory entity databases and in memory spatial databases. However, to do this, I have gone from using PostgresSQL to the Badger fast key-value store as a database. I'm mainly motivated by the desire to keep everything in golang and eliminate all outside dependencies.

That said, what I'm doing is increasing the granularity of the server processes. The server processes are composed of Actor-like things which are responding to async input queues. So my experience both confirms and contradicts some of the the things said in the paper.
I found out about the Dengvaxia controversy after frequently reading about measles outbreak stories that often mentioned people who were from or who had visited the Philippines. As a soon to be parent, the consequences of this and the antivaxx "movement" utterly terrify me.
> I think it should be pointed out that expensive jail time for a few people could serve as a deterrent that results in enough increased fare revenue to offset the cost

Rational deterrence theory and associated studies generally hold that the scale of deterrence means very little if it isn't reliably put into use.

That is to say, picking out a few unlucky rule violators and inflicting tremendous punishments on them has very little effect, while reliably inflicting minor punishments on most people who violate the rules has a much more noticeable effect on compliance.
And people with no disposable income get zero representation, and aren't even worth pandering lip service.

Doesn't sound sustainable, but it's an interesting idea to play with. You could adjust the price-point to make it more or less price-competitive with lobbying and conventional bribery, and to serve as a sort of tax. Might make for a good cyberpunk setting.
A playground of experiments related to this algorithm (more than 40 experiments): https://github.com/filipedeschamps/doom-fire-algorithm/
I'm not sure that I understand your point. I'm not arguing that increasing minimum wage is the only cause of inflation. I was saying that like inflation, increasing minimum wage affects everyone in the economy eventually.

Don't you agree that if you arbitrarily increase wages for a significant segment of the population, that segment will now want more of the goods and services they could not previously afford? Increased demand will drive up prices for those goods and services unless supply increases at the same time. If prices do go up, those with more bargaining power will seek higher returns for their labor. The net effect will be that almost everyone will see their income rise to some extent, but the supply of goods and services they are chasing is going to remain essentially the same. So almost all of us will be paying more for the same stuff. The only way that won't happen is if supply could magically increase at no extra cost – but that can't happen because we've raised the wages of all the people that supply those goods and services.
> ... A scroll lock keyboard light ...

Oh, this was a fascinating read! Thanks for encouraging my perusal.

http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~zhangwm/Paper/2018_10.pdf
A simple answer might be "time to move to another static hosting solution".
> Small businesses exist even in places with no laws

Only because other power structures emerge with their own rules. I think I’ll take laws over "lawlessness".
> You can make it harder to do on accident

That's a major point of exfiltration prevention, both because accidents are a real problem and because reducing the opportunity for accidents makes it easier to establish that intentional exfiltration is intentional, which makes the ability to impose serious consequences for it greater (especially against privilege insiders with key contractual benefits that can only be taken away for cause.)

Technical safeguards aren't standalone, they integrate with social safeguards.
Nasa: Giant ‘God of Chaos’ Asteroid Will Fly Past Earth in 2029
Plenty of people on both sides have "batshit crazy" ideas, except one leans more heavily on mob mentality thanks to the self-righteousness that comes with the unshaken belief that you have the moral highground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMc8pczn-hs
> ML requires a solid math background

B-t.

> at least those who don't just copy-paste code snippets from SO

This is like the late 1990's listening to "real coders" complaining about web developers using Javascript all over again.
Well of course it's not identical - they were assembled independently (this one by some random schmoe in New York) optimized for different letter and digram frequencies in different languages. I'm actually impressed by how similar they are.

Another reason for difference, aside from frequency differences in the two languages, is that this keyboard distinguishes some characters that aren't on modern Hebrew keyboards. For example, there are separate אָ and א, בּ and ב, etc.
The ride is a fixed cost to some extent no matter how many people ride the train. The system gets $2.75 times the thousands that ride that one train. So it's $2.75 times many thousands and not just $2.75.
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Uh, hvac is how you measure wealth?
Because you don't have to learn yet another set of functions in a language that makes it stupidly easy to blow off your own feet, and yet still have all the advantages of those systems in a language that is actually _designed_ for calculating formulas (hence the name FORTRAN, i.e. FORmula TRANslation).
It's hard to prevent data exfiltration by an attacker with physical access to your premises, but it's much easier to prevent exfiltration (especially of large quantities of data) by compromised devices.
The meme, in this case, is that the OK sign is support for fascism/nazis/etc. That's the meme that the "bored teens" are spreading, and the meme that the NYT bought.
Someone wrote a paper on how to win the Battle of Winterfell killing all wights [pdf]
Makes it faster, reduces complexity and would allow them to reduce prices too
> That is, except "first past the post" which is the system in the UK and US. ... I'm sure you can see how this is a problem?

The two longest lasting, largest, most successful democracies of all time - I don't see the problem.

The arguments against winner-take-all are mathematically maximizing a collective total happiness score for single elections. But governments are run by people, not math, and I've yet to see anything addressing the psychology of election systems and especially not over time.

If instead election systems are scored on how well they do after 250 years or how few world wars they start then winner take all is the only winner.
Perhaps. I think there are generally three ways lobbyists can exert influence:

1. By nurturing personal relationships with politicians. I may be mistaken, but I feel like this is probably the most effective method. You want to exploit the natural tendency people have to want to help their friends, even decent people.

2. By helping politicians get what they want (e.g. reelection, but also first election, or election to a new position).

3. By providing compelling arguments and objections to various policies, grounded in special knowledge about their industry. These compelling arguments may be good (in which case the lobbyist's influence is actually a good thing), but they may also be bad (misdirection or lies).

I think lottery is less vulnerable to 1 and 2 (but not immune). It doesn't help against 3, although having seasoned lawmakers does, since they can see through the bullshit.

Either way, it's speculative, and it would need to be properly evaluated somehow.
What I heard was "You can practically scale indefinitely". Which I guess is more true of NoSQL. As is I/O savings. But it's not something I've ever heard it advertised for.
RetroArch-AI-with-IoTEdge: Use Cognitive Services to Translate Retro Video Games
The mentioned git-in-git problem always annoyed me, at least it should be possible to store .git/ subtrees anywhere else but on the toplevel (it very likely is already supported in the data model). Then git can scream at me for not using submodules, and I can then silence that warning because I obviously know what I am doing!

legit might be an esoteric use case for that, but storing raw testdata for git hooks (not a zip or the commands to create the repo) are actual usecases.
I built a thing recently that I thought might be appreciated here:

Using IoTEdge with Cognitive Services Containers on top of lakka.tv to translate Retro Video Games: https://github.com/toolboc/RetroArch-AI-with-IoTEdge

Curious what you all think about the idea? Personally, I was hoping to use this to translate some games that I picked up recently in Tokyo. Would an ability to play foreign games via machine translation on the fly be something people would actually use?
I know this is to battle discrimination, but aren’t they also encouraging it?
I still do it all the time - but I consider each instance disposable and all data is replicated to at least two other hosts in different AZs.
Yea, same process. You just repeated what I said. What exactly do you think is different?

1. Are you trying to talk about separation instead? Detaining together is because many people weren't prosecuted, so enforcing the law will lead to possible separation. From your own article: "Prosecutions were rare prior to the Trump administration... The fact that previous administrations did not broadly prosecute all illegal entries..."

2. Parole is not related to illegal immigration. It's for humanitarian emergencies and granted in rare cases where family is dying or other extenuating circumstances. It specifically authorizes the person to enter and therefore they are actually allowed to be in the country. An illegal immigrant may be granted parole the same way they may be granted asylum and will no longer have an illegal status for the duration. https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significa...

So parole is one outcome of processing but while they are waiting to be processed it is again only 2 options: detain or deport. And detainment might lead to separation during prosecution. None of this is new, it's just actually being done as the law states.
I brought it up because I had heard that the original iPODs ROM was extracted using the "click" sound and a microphone. I can't find any reference to it now...

There is also research about using modem lights (even in the background of a room) to figure out what people are doing on their dialup internet connection. Those RX and TX LEDs are actually blinking at your data transmission rate.
Let me know when you figure out how to make anything truly "free". We'll build a perpetual motion engine and get rich.
http://f5oclock.com
The side effects seem bad, but even for those who have never had the disease, by my reading, their overall chance of hospitalization is lower. If that's true, you have to blame the sensationalistic reporting for not mentioning that overall the vaccine is a huge positive.
Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system
If you want to know all the details, the spec itself isn't too hard to understand either, and comes with a bunch of flowcharts on how to decode the Huffman tables and the run-length codes for each DCT block:
https://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf

I highly recommend writing a JPEG en/decoder as an exercise in coding; getting to the point of being able to decode almost all the images you probably have or can find on the Internet shouldn't take more than a few hours and <1k lines of (C) code. Once you've done that, you'll be ready to take on a simple video codec, like H.261. I find it self-motivational because the results are very visible (and if you have a bug, all sorts of fun effects can appear too.)

(As you may have guessed, I've written a JPEG decoder, as well as JBIG2 (partially), H.261, and MPEG-1, each of which is roughly 1kLoC. Currently thinking of trying JPEG2000 too, which is over an order of magnitude more complex.)
The Tricky Task of Policing YouTube
I think this is right. At least the lonesomeness and monotony. That's how I remember my childhood and I grew up in Alaska in a tiny fishing town in the 70s-80s (...) so that put a lot of my experiences back a bit, but the flip-over of the internet in the 90s and then, you know, phones, just changed everything. The way that extra time can be absorbed now, entirely without friction, is a step change on the pace of how a person experiences the world. Long idle times are more painful now, though they were always a little painful. That acute discomfort drives us back into "action" and we've built a world around ourselves that is one big dopamine feedback loop and . . . that's fine.

Like it's not better or worse but it's just how we live and it's extremely different than how we lived 30 years ago (and so on down the pike) and these huge step changes happen more and more often the richer and better at communicating we get. Which is totally, totally fine.

Sometimes you gotta marvel at those fast changes. Glad to see people studying/documenting this. Amazing to think how this suite of emotions will be coded in another 20 years.
The sitcom that spawned a president
Related: This a JPEG visualizer in just 250 lines in easy to read Python 3.0 code.

https://github.com/aguaviva/micro-jpeg-visualizer
If you're taking a high deductible plan-- which you should be-- you should be contributing the (often substantial) savings on your premium to an HSA. In fact theres very little reason not to max out the HSA for the year. Once your HSA is at the IRS annual maximum, you have an enormous buffer between the often 20% rate post deductible and the Out of Pocket Maximum-- which the HSA will usually cover most of. You should also participate in an FSA, which being frontloaded can absorb early-year shocks.

An HSA is among one of the most tax-advantaged programs you can participate in; I would argue that it is better to contribute just enough to your 401k to get the full employer match and stick all the rest into an HSA.
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The theory behind this is, a stable company should have plenty of debt, as it can easily pay it off (because it's stable), and is generally cheaper than equity.

A company should also have only as much cash as it needs, else management will waste it

So a private equity company sees a company like Remington, with too much cash and not enough debt. It borrows a lot, buys it, and minimizes cash reserves. This tends to increase the market cap substantially

However, this obviously has some downsides, if you don't get the default risks just right...
Free speech is a right, I'd argue a human right. Inalienable, guaranteed, innate and hugely important. Yes, you can live without it.

But so you can live without the right of free movement, without equality before the law, without freedom, without right to being alive, and this is actually how most of our history was. These rights are a rather recent innovation.

But should you? Should we? Eroding human rights only leads to dystopia. Human rights are an innovation of civilisation, of progress.

Not being able to see that makes me very sad.