skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The misinformation/lies surrounding vaccine safety is nauseating.

>Before the vaccine, measles infected more than 3 million Americans and killed more than 400 of them each year. One in four people who get measles are likely to be hospitalized and one or two in 1,000 are likely to die

Anyone here gots math.. 400/3,000,000 is ~1/10,000. And note that this is the rate given 1950's medical care - I can't fathom the numbers would be like this today.

And the entire concept of proving vaccine safety by showing filing rates for the VICP are low is wrong. Many people are not aware of the VICP or they are told that the reactions are not related to the vaccines - why would they file?

I'm not arguing that you shouldn't vaccinate - but there needs to be more scientific and intellectual integrity in the process. The risks are whitewashed "Vaccines are safe".

Anyone interested in doing a little more research can look and play with the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) dataset at https://github.com/yehosef/vaers or the grafana dashboard I built at https://vizvax.com/

You can do a simple adhoc search for DIED=Y to see some interesting results. Remember that the only 1-10% of the events are reported (CDC numbers) so you can estimate the numbers to be 10-100 times greater.

feedback/suggestions appreciated.
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The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook's Cryptocurrency, Libra
"2 - Most cars add this feature, and those that don't see higher accident rates, and therefore higher insurance bills"

If you own a car, you will get used to it, so it won't be more dangerous.
I worked for State Government. They made a big deal of going to a 'pay for performance' program...You'd be paid for excellent work...Nobody would lose any pay...this program had no funding.

Somebody was bad at math...or they thought we were bad at math. It did not improve morale.
presumably they have to do some refurbishing and rehab when they get it back anyway. why not re-flash all the software then? or, somewhat more draconian, add in explicit penalties for people who tamper with leased vehicles, with a contract clause to that effect?

i mean, i don't doubt that the concern you mention might be part of it. but it sure is also a convenient way to lock people out of servicing their own stuff. and i doubt they're eager to give people the ability to service their own equipment without a strong public demand for that ability.

so the public should keep demanding that (as opposed to relying on the altruism of a large corporation).
I like Musk's plan of using Mars as a fuel-planet, I just don't expect a self-sufficient colony for some time. Mars is like an oil rig or a mineshaft; no place for children.
> Harder, I think. We have the technology to live on Mars (not to terraform it, just to survive on it).

There is a chance that nuking the polar caps would terraform Mars, I think we already have the technology for basic terraforming.

edit: wrong quote :/
This is just another way to skim off a few cents on user transactions.
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Using a “viral pay” system to determine distributed team bonuses
Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall
Depends on the company. In less exciting industries, well stocked lunchrooms and office supply closets are a bad sign.
> You could make this same argument about the existence of online banking.

How so? If I'm using Wells Fargo and I find out they have a breach, I can happily switch to another bank because they're clearly being incompetent. If a software provider that I'm using uses Plaid and Plaid gets hacked, then my banking data is potentially compromised. The bank has zero control over that, so there is no impetus for me to change banks, yet it's their data that has been compromised.

> Personally, I feel fortunate to live in a society where I am able to make that decision for myself rather than the government making it for me.

For most things, yes I agree. Do you think it's any coincidence that the banks haven't adopted modern/secure API access even though their consumers demand it? That's not the definition of a free market and is at odds with "having a free choice is better than having the government do it for me".
Ha, I'm sure it's different for different folks but I attribute my lack of burning out (knock on wood) to caring about what I do beyond a paycheck. That and leaving town for a weekend every month or so to tune everything out and evaluate my progress really helps. I get down when I'm unsure that my time is being well spent. Re-evaluating my trajectory often does wonders to keep those emotions in check.
I purchased it for a guy I know who is new to Unix overall. I spent some money (not a lot, sorry).
Would there be anything stopping Google making this offer to users? "Tell us your Libra wallet ID to get YouTube premium for free!"
> Why take an off the cuff opinion of a MD who hasn't examined the patient or seen his charts (all info was given verbally over the phone) as absolute?

While it doesn't change the overall point much, she didn't take the opinion of an MD that way; after getting the response from yhe hospitalist, she attempted to bypass the refusal by taking the case to a physician at her own clinic who had admitting privileges at the hospital, but who reached the same conclusion as the hospitalist had.
I paid, mostly because you were actually giving it away for free.
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This article says he was a crypto millionaire, which makes more sense to me with his age, wealth and computer background. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/he-was-an-infamous-colle...
extra links:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1170...
Corporate officers of companies go on trial all the time. In the UK it even happens for manslaughter - you can be held responsible if someone working for you dies if you didn't take the right precautions.
Was it the data that was merged with WhatsApp, or was it the infrastructure? AFAICT, FB can't connect what I said on whatsapp to what I say on Messenger because everything is e2e encrypted. They have metadata (would need it to route the messages, and for providing the service).

What am I missing?
that is one point of view.

another point of view is that freedom to tinker and repair shouldn't be limited to the super-rich, and that what you're describing isn't practical for the vast majority of the population.

i have exactly zero problems with society collectively pushing for the right to repair against greedy companies who'd rather not give it.

which is to say, we should legislate a strong right to repair, so that denying it is clearly illegal, so that we can take companies to task using something other than the invisible hand of the market.
Hudson Valley, somewhere around Hyde Park. I went over some of the features of the area here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20218742

What's so bad about the Albany area? I haven't been there since I went as a kid for some medical facility.
I really cannot understand where the impetus for these horrendous nanny-state laws comes from.
How's it better, really? Besides being exclusively one-sided, it tries hard to make up a very strange connection between the fact that the guy was treated mildly for hacking into his university network, and the death which essentially was caused by combination of paranoia, poor electrical engineering skills, and hoarded house (which is often a sign of mental problems too). Apparently, if you won't put a hacker into prison as early as possible s/he will cause a deadly fire!
C++ precompiled headers easily can give you your factor of ten.

Also, taking ‘its compiler’ literally: Turbo Pascal was over ten times as fast as earlier pascal compilers for the same hardware, which were multi-pass.
It is far more reckless to expose everyone in the public to your murder machines than one hapless contractor.

We don't allow people to drive without seatbelts because of the risk of them losing control and causing avoidable fatalities but half-baked autonomous machines vaguely guessing about what might be in front of them are perfectly ok?
The idea that functional languages are overall superior is just not accepted by the majority of software developers. In practice, most popular languages borrow many concepts that originated in functional languages, but don't restrict themselves to being purely functional.
> I've worked on a million line Go code base

Oh so somebody has finally managed to implement fizz buzz in Go. Right on!
Do you have a lot of influence over US monetary policy?

I live and vote in US and as soon as the majority of US residents decide to vote contrary to my wishes I have to accept the authority of whoever they elect.

Frankly I don’t see much difference.
There are lots of places where self-starters are absolutely not wanted. "We'll tell you what to do next, and if we don't, you'll sit and wait until we do."

Self-starters are boat-rockers and troublemakers, and generate dissatisfaction among the other, obedient, personnel, and management.

This is not to say that places advertising for self-starters actually want any, or would know what to do if they ever got one.
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I grok. Our business relationship was very good (thus my outburst) but our somewhat distancing (and very "proper" and "professional" Midwestern based) personalities in the 90s led to it being slightly embarrassing for us, then.

We obviously got past it, but it makes for an amusing story as she's never seen me that inebriated since, and actually didn't know I could get that buzzed as well as be demonstrative.
hearsay from my car enthusiast friends and this cursory internet search contradict that claim.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=modify+ECU&t=ffab&ia=web
Libra faces obstacles as Indian regulators want to jail cryptocurrency users
An alternative narrative is that standing on principle (for things like this) is at best orthogonal to the reasons I (us) have it as good as we do.

Just because the stories about people standing on principle are sticky doesn't mean they cause good outcomes. (Also, there's the other side of the coin, where people who stand on principles cause great harm, intentionally or otherwise.)
I'm guessing you've read Incandescence by Greg Egan?

It explores the possibility that general relativity could be discovered by a pre-industrial civilisation living inside an asteroid in a very tight orbit of one those nasty interlopers.
That's exactly what the post is warning against. It's really hard to explain without a concrete example, but basically, I would make two functions:

get_full_message and get_partial_message or something like that
One of my past employers gave us a "big Christmas bonus". It was a Twix Bar with a pen tied to the bar with a piece of holiday ribbon.

The pen didn't work.
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator: Criticism
I used to work at a kinda old, small startup shop. The office had 'filtered' water dispenser. BUT the filters had not been replaced for awhile and one day I noticed the water tasted filthy.

The CEO's office was right next to the water dispenser spot. As I was walking through the hallway, I noticed cases of FIJI water bottles in his office. And no, it wasn't for us. It was ALL for him.

For those who don't know, FIJI water bottle costs about 5 - 6 times more than regular water bottles.
It seems how people think that if administered by managers it validates the MB test as worthwhile
I think of Envoy as both a client side and server side proxy.

Typically (in the past) both client and server have been VMs or containers.

Client side it can do things like automatic retries, routing decisions and fault injection (among others). It's super useful.

What this adds is the ability to deploy it as a client in more places...a couple of billion more places!
Do we have until 2050 for cities to go net neutral?
This is more or less Microsoft Azure's pitch.
So much crap... "defacto" science is now dead! Yes please, keep this hyper junk speculations running wild and wide, so these "space" programs can suck as much money as they can, and funnel the money into 3 letter word pus organizations in order to transform the world we live in in a prison. The American people are so gullible.
> The NP in this story is one of the people that fucked up.

And was sued for it and presumably (the case with regard to her was settled on undisclosed terms) forced to pay. But she fucked up by passively accepting the judgement of the MDs involved, so the upthread comment that this case might encourage (or “legally motivate”) NPs to act more independently is reinforced rather than negated by the fact that the NP fucked up and was held to account here.

> and yet he's vulnerable to a malpractice suit, and the NP is not.

You mean “he got out of even having to face malpractice liability at the trial and first appellate level, while the NP was forced to settle before even reaching trial.”
So you ask people to work overtime at a discount to their normal rate?
From the project's About page [0], it seems a fair amount of ML/DL was involved in creating the database.

"We developed a program to recognise printers’ ornaments and extract them from the full page images into a new database."

"The approach adopted here is a morphological one. A series of morphological operations (e.g. filtering, dilution, erosion, etc) is applied on each image followed by a series of heuristics to filter out those connected components that are deemed to be printers ornaments."

I followed the trail to the lead software developer, an expert in machine learning and data science. In his past projects page [1], he described this project under the heading "Image Processing":

"the problem was to automatically detect and extract printers ornaments from millions of scanned 16th, 17th, and 18th century books"

If they would release the dataset of these rough-quality images of printers' ornaments, perhaps someone from the public (i.e., open source) would be daring enough to try generating SVGs. I know practically nothing about deep learning (but curious and willing to learn :), but I'm supposing this wouldn't count as "second-order machine learning"..

Edit: Further down the rabbit hole, there do seem to be some promising/interesting work in this direction, such as "Conversion of Bitmaps into Scalable Function Graphics using a Pre-trained Neural Network Database" [2].

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[0] https://fleuron.lib.cam.ac.uk/about

[1] https://dirkgorissen.com/projects/

[2] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/67bc9f_358dcf74893e4021925ff0...
Agreed, it's not as though Visa/MC will decide to exit a country altogether foregoing any revenue.
The biggest noncompliant areas I know of are...difficult to even talk about.
openid is a dead protocol that stopped being supported by major websites and authentication solutions years ago. Not to be confused with openid connect.
The eval here seems to be providing the feature of exposing Lisp evaluation to the end user via some UI field. It's not "I used eval because I don't know about apply or macros".

How did this unreadable gobbledyook fail to conceal its use of eval from your eyes?
Archlinux has 67.0.3 already. Some mirrors are still not updated with it, but the one on kernel.org is. Just put that mirror on the top of the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file before running sudo pacman -Sy firefox.
A-12 is super hard-core.

Cheney has plenty else to rot in hell for, but canceling A-12 has to count more per unit victim.

But Apollos at the time would not have been running Unix. They had Aegis, which was much better. In some ways. (It took inspiration from Multics.) Some excellent features of Aegis have still not been mainstreamed. But Dragonfly BSD finally got variable expansion in symbolic links! Sort-of.
Assuming we have technology to reach a new planet 12 ly away, is going to a red dwarf star a good investment strategy?
Not even the tax can do it, because polluters will migrate.

You would have to combine the tax with more serious measures like duties based on either estimated or actual emissions level. Or outright bans.

Additionally mandating certain important practices like garbage disposal, reduction and methane capture.
This seems to be a false either-or because FB is probably not holding 100% reserves as actual paper cash in a giant Scrooge McDuck vault underneath their HQ. It's holding them at a bank, so that it can get the interest payments.

Thus, a user faces systemic banking system risks plus all firm/stablecoin-provider risks. That combined risk will almost certainly be strictly larger than the systemic banking system risk you'd face by just depositing funds in a bank account that you directly control.
You can get around this (a bit) by squirreling away and enhancing a "template" program in the languages of your choice.

For example, I have a "template" python script that does meaningful things like importing stuff, parses arguments with argparse, does logging with debug/verbose flags, and some other common things.

So starting a "throwaway" project, it's initially over-engineered but that quickly averages out.
Nuremberg Trials' Last Prosecutor Says We’re Committing Crimes Against Humanity
I think you missed the point. The point is that compensation in the Bay is much much more than $12k/year higher than other low-COL cities, and therefore the trade-off is worth it.
I've been volunteering to teach high school kids how to program for the past decade and it's been my job for the past two. As many of the other comments recognise, finding the joy in programming should be your number one goal. Having peers to bounce off of and push each other forward is a great way to do this!

One of the programs we run at work is an online 5 week competition where you learn to code (either with Blocky or Python) at the same time.
It's called the NCSS Challenge http://ncss.edu.au/challenge .
It's aimed at Australian students, but you can give it a go from anywhere in the world.

Teachers often run the Challenge in their classes and we have had a few code clubs run it too. It works really well having a group of kids be able to compete and encourage each other to solve problems.

There are multiple levels, but it increases in difficulty each week at a challenging but achievable rate.
At the hardest levels it gets quite competitive with students making programs to compete at playing games (last year was Big2) against each other.

I'd recommend clicking the "Try demo" button at the bottom of http://ncss.edu.au/challenge .
Even if you don't sign up, you can get an idea of what kind of problems we see kids getting hooked by.
I think there's a lot you could "steal" in terms of how to pose interesting yet simple and informative problems for teenagers to solve.
I travel to work at light speed already..
Lol based. Top kek.
Like the "icebreaker" ?

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/05/11/tech-company-st...
For fun casual reading, try comparing the source code of any BSD utility vs. GNU.

BSD tail: https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/457515/

GNU tail: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/tail....

Usually the BSD one is short and sweet and the GNU one is a bit complex.

GNU utilities may be high performance but they tend to be hard to understand.
How delightful :) I don't have much substantive to say beyond, that was a pleasure to read and made me very happy in a strange way.
It's funny to see that all grids fail on the web. Every single example i've checked the grid was 1-2 pixels off. It looked good, but it didn't match.
Misleading... this is what happens WITH EVERY site. What we want to know is...:
"What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser?"
If you add a safeguard to the function itself that disallows full_message as a positional arg, so no one is able to write "get_message(False)", then it's okay.

The key here is the reader being able to tell at a glance what the args are/do, without needing to hunt down documentation.
My favorite memory of visiting Houston when I was little is the bumper sticker that read - “I know hell is hot but is it humid?”
Thanks for the clarifications, that's helpful.

I wouldn't call it pay-for-what-you-use unless the pricing varies with your actual usage instead of changing when you change plans.
I had a TRS-80 Model 200 for a while, so this brings back some weird memories. I regret getting rid of it, really; it'd have been fun to have it around to bring to coffee shops for writing sessions now.

(Possibly) interesting trivia: the linked article mentions the AP used a typesetting system called ATEX. This was a big dedicated terminal/server system that basically used plain text with markup, similar to troff or LaTeX, although the markup was entirely different. The team that created ATEX split up and created two different pieces of software, both inspired by ATEX. One team created a DOS word processor called XyWrite, which was used by some major publications well into the 1990s and possibly into this century. (IIRC, it was also used to issue US Supreme Court rulings for many, many years!) The other team created PageMaker, one of the very first GUI desktop publishing programs. To the best of my knowledge, every version of PageMaker -- as well as the first couple of versions of its successor InDesign, and contemporary versions of its major competitor, Quark XPress -- could natively import XyWrite files. (While XyWrite is no more, it has its own successor program, an academic-focused Windows word processor called Nota Bene.)
Many people feel that regulating abusive monopolies which kill competitors in underhanded ways is a better solution than expecting greed to solve it.
Well, you can't put corporations in jail though you can most certainly fine them. Passing through criminal liabilities can circumvent one of the purposes of corporations (though those should properly apply in extreme cases).

I expect that a lot of people here would prefer not to be personally liable because some bug they were responsible for caused a significant financial loss much less an injury even though they worked for a company.

If you are an individual, you should probably set up a corporate structure and take out insurance.
If you enjoy the idea of propelling space ships using nuclear explosions, look up nuclear salt-water rockets (NSWRs, or Zubrin Drives). The idea is to dump pipes full of sub-critical amounts of radioactive salts out engine, combining outside the ship in a continuous nuclear explosion.
"1. The world could use an online independent currency"

If it is owned, it not independent.
relevant - https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/?fg=1
I assume such distros have a CI infrastructure set up? If they are building from source, they should be able to keep i386 ticking over (sans anything that has a hard requirement on amd64, e.g. JITters).
It is well known that motorcycles have a higher death and injury rate than automobiles that are human driven, I expect self driving cars to increase this differential? Will they ever make self driving motorcycles to allow them to catch up?
It may never be possible to make motorcycles as safe as self driven automobiles. Will we tolerate the deaths and injuries in exchange for greater traffic density? I think not.
I have driven in Taiwan and other Asian countries with huge numbers of motorscooters and motorcycles, and I was amazed at the huge number of young men on crutches and with limps. I asked my taxi driver why this was, and he said that people's knees stick out on scooters and motorcycles, injured knees are the largest injury that people suffer when they have an accident. The logic is clear.
There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. Not just prepare to hole up and wait it out.