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>>> at the end of the day smallpox is eradicated, polio is cornered (I hope to see the eradication day), meleases is reduced to very small levels (eradication looks more difficult). All of them used to kill a lot of people.

>> a) were vaccines the only factor involved in this improvement

> a) Yes

Once again, a confident binary answer to an extremely complex problem.

How did you form this conclusion? Do you have anything you could show to substantiate it? Something like some charts demonstrating that incidents of all of these illnesses were essentially constant, and then only upon introduction of vaccines they began to decline? I've done some reading on this specific topic, I am interested to know if you have. (I happen to have great philosophical interest in the actual vs self-perceived basis of knowledge among zealous advocates on any matter.)

> b) Absolute safety is imposible.

I notice you kind of jump between two conversational styles, the first style ("a) Yes" above) is confident proclamation of a specific truth with no substance to back it up, and then now more of a highly rhetorical, subtle changing of the subject style. And to make it even more interesting, you then include a mathematical formula to give an impression of certainty, but in the process you've completely removed the actual point of contention (harm due to vaccines) from the discussion. Things like this are what I am looking for in these conversations: how do pro-vaxxers come to believe ("know")the things they believe.

Even if absolute safety isn't possible (something you have no way of knowing), safety isn't a binary, it's a continuum.

Have we done everything we can to study vaccine safety? Are there any flaws in the current system? Have you even done any reading on what the system actually consists of?

I will offer you a second chance to demonstrate how much you know about this, by reminding you of a question in my earlier comment that you seem to have accidentally missed:

>> In both cases we only can show that the correlation is so small that we can't reject the null hypothesis.

> And by what means has any correlation been studied? What specific data is used?

> Has a machine learning approach that examines all vaccination records and compares it to all subsequent patient medical issues, of all kinds, not just autism, ever been performed? Does the necessary data for this even exist? I wonder if that fact could even be determined from reading any official websites on vaccine safety.

I'm interested to know your answer to this - perhaps you are aware of something I am not, and I can learn something new. (Also, please do not accidentally overlook the questions earlier in my comment, and if I happen to have failed to answer any of your questions, please point that out that failing as well and I will rectify it.)
The majority wanted Project Maven and search in China?
I was amazed there was even a Resist@Google group within Google. I’m okay with people protesting the companies actions but Google seemed to be internally supporting protests on company time and property. Which has pitted employees against each other across political lines.

I don’t see why Google cant just keep it apolitical in the work environment while being open to critiques externally and not caring what their employees do politically in their spare time.
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Rimac would be the supercar equivalent for EVs I guess
If you don't like the ethics council... and you protest it, and then they disband it ... that would involve a dramatic change if your role was on it.

Retaliation or not, there would be some change. So any change, not sure I buy is/isn't retaliation.
They didn't start selling them to the troubled iPhone users. They gave them away until the end of September that year:

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/how-to-get-your-fr...
You are the only person calling it non-ergonomic. Hopefully no one gets misled into believing your multiple comments are multiple people with the same opinion.
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I don't like wired mice for the same reason I wouldn't want to use a wired Wii Remote. I use my mouse by physically moving it around my desk, and I find the tug of a physical cable to be distracting.

I can't say I've ever had tracking issues with the Magic Mouse either. I certainly don't have any with the wireless Logitech G305 I use now, which was designed for gaming and feels particularly precise and responsive.

If we were talking about keyboards, I'd be more sympathetic to your viewpoint. Although even then, I like the clean look of my wireless keyboard, even if it means I have to swap batteries once every couple months.
In societies which enforce human rights, privacy is upheld through laws, not left to the market.

Leaving it to the market leads to horror scenarios like the one we have to live through right now: the USA's banana republic privacy laws are hurting all of us.
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What happens is that some people work on projects that never see the light of day because they’re not fully thought through or fully staffed or really as important enough. But they can still spend years working on them.

The show is (by design) over the top. But there is a piece of truth in it. That’s why it’s funny for everyone who has been at these companies because everyone can see real-life resemblances.

Before someone downvotes me: I am implying that SOME people are like this. By no means the majority or god-forbid everyone. Resting till vesting is a real thing though.
I've figured for a long time that the hazing interview process is partly to select for people who'll play along with whatever the company does.
Good reporting. A few more points:

1. In the famous California power mix charts, 'Other' includes power bought from different utilities where the exact generating method is abstracted away. You can mentally think of the 'Other' as 'Unsure'.

2. Intermountain's conversion to natgas has been long rumored, facing both regulatory pressure, environmental pressure, and infrastructure considerations. Large amounts of natgas is already piped through the Kern River Pipeline in this corridor, going to Nevada and California from the Opal hub in Wyoming. This is where Southern Nevada gets most of its electricity -- through natgas power plants alongside I-15.

3. There is a project called TransWest Express [1], to build a HVDC transmission line from Wyoming to Las Vegas to carry wind power from Wyoming to markets in the Southwest. This will run immediately parallel to the existing Intermountain HVDC line for much of their overlap, and no connection is planned at the Intermountain Power Plant (the latter line's origin) or anywhere else between the two for now. Vegas is presumably the destination for TransWest Express because it's a power exchange hub for many electricity suppliers and consuming utilities, but the overall effect is still a bit silly, because most of the power exchanged at the Vegas hub flows towards Southern California anyway on existing AC lines. One might imagine a different scenario where the Intermountain line gets split in two at Vegas, TransWest express only builds the "missing portion" between Wyoming and Intermountain Power Plant, and then there's an available chain of HVDC lines to ship power between 4 key interchange nodes...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16452926#16454026
"Helping the Chinese to own the libs" is a new one for me.
Hasn't that question already been answered by the fact that the epicenter of tech is in liberal Silicon Valley?

If conservatives could compete, they would have done so already. There are exceptions of course, but statistically, leftists are better at tech.
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awesome, really cool!
> They make a profit somewhere, they pay their taxes, period.

So, if I — as a danish citizen — make money from someone in France, I should pay taxes to both the Danish and French government?
3) increase the volume, assuming already profitable (or decrease the volume if loss-making)
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Seems the site went down, here is Google's cached text-only version:

*edit - wayback link below is a much better cached copy. thanks manchoz.
This should probably be handled the same way as donating your dead body for science (or profit): make this an individuals own choice. This improves societal cohesion: if the individual allows the release of this private data when it concerns him- or herself, any designated people are free to request this data, and each one of them should be free to share this freely, it's up to the individual to choose discreet people if so desired, avoiding anger between the mourning individuals with respect to the state. It also improves cohesion between individuals and the state in aother way: if the deceased chose to not release such private data, then the mourning individuals will be less angry at the state and more angry with the "poor" decision of the deceased...

As with all such systems you get the endless meta-fight of opt-in versus opt-out: as a stoichiocrat, my preferred solution is to provably flip a random coin toss, such that anyone who cares about this setting must explicitly opt-in or explicitly opt-out, those who act careless simply do not care about their setting, and the conundrum of systemic bias in the sense of all opt-in versus all opt-out is avoided. The probability of the coin toss can even be set identically to the fraction of people who explicitly opt-in vs explicitly opt-out (in example if 90% of the populace ignores the setting, and 7% opt for release and 3% opt for privacy after death, then for the 90% without explicitly stated preferencee a random 7 out of 10 people will have the details released and 3 out of 10 will have the details withheld)
Weird, I saw people elsewhere in the comments mention heatshrink tubing being substituted with electrical tape.

Definitely does seem like a weird thing to base an article on especially when Tesla does lots of other things wrong.
They have. Apple supported the policy development and language of the GPDR in the EU and has publicly come out as saying that it's the standard by which the US should operate also. The GPDR not only shows that it understands what's at stake but it gives consumers the control over the data and a means of verification of compliance. If you live in the EU, you can compel any corporation to send you a copy of all data they have on you and delete it from their system and then provide proof of deletion.
Maybe read the article?

> Google soon nixed the board.

> Whittaker said her Google manager told her to "abandon [her] work on AI ethics" and blocked a request to transfer internally.
Fake job listings to get developers to add to their templates collection is common practice for them. Terrible company.
> That looks very bad for Google.

No, it doesn't. Just read most of the comments here.
> Majority of googlers wanted maven. They wanted search in China.

Genuinely curious about this - was there a poll or something?
I'm especially disappointed with my case, as organic solvents are almost all historically known aggressive carcinogens. This was not a case of "not knowing", even the 80's. I suspect similar for asbestos, coal dust, etc in that time period.
What you're describing kind of sounds like journalism to me.
Matt,

I am not a US citizen but my wife is and I have been pestering her to apply to USDS for a project manager/business analyst position. We value the importance of work you are doing but we rarely see openings for her role. Sorry for posting this here but it would be awesome for her to at least chat with you folks. She has plenty of experience working with federal agencies.
>Tesla is able to build the safest and best-performing cars

Am I out of date with the news? Are Tesla the safest cars? I am not a car enthusiast so I recall that Volvo has most safety features, did things change or is Tesla PR so deluded, at least I would use something like "one of the safest cars", provide some modesty,
Essentially anything else.
Rephrased slightly differently: The majority want opportunities that will advance their careers, increase their stock values, and keep the company doing well (which usually means bigger bonuses)
How does this look bad for Google? Honest question.
Microsoft used this strategy successfully for a while.
Most profesionnal microphone uses XLR connectors. USB microphones alreaded proces the raw signal somewhat (at least an analog to digital conversion step); usually you want dedicated hardware for that.
I was 9 years old, living in rural Australia. My mother woke me an my two brothers to see it on tv (at about 11 pm). We were tremendously exited by it all. My father had read articles from the news paper to us about the spacecraft (eg, it burned 13 tons of fuel per second on launch). We knew all the details of the various missions leading up to it, mercury, gemini, surveyer. We also watched Armstrong step onto the moon a couple of days later on tv in my classroom at school.
It's always hard to gauge this stuff.

The early moment seemed to have support but it seemed to sort of fizzle later on... but the media attention remained making it really hard to get a feel for the real scope of these issues / how many google folks shared their views.

I've worked long enough to encounter management who would retaliate, and employees that once they find a cause are willing / do everything they can to die on it. I don't know if ANY of what happened at google is one or the other or both or none.
I started buying audiobooks during my time in the Bay Area with round trip daily commutes of 2.5 hours.

Now I’m in a car for just over 3 hours a week and I’d rather lounge around with my e-ink Kindle.
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Ask HN: Are People Aware of the Brave Browser Fake Tor Tab?
The Brave Browser added a "Tor Private Browsing" tab. But it really isn't.

It's a Google Cloud Proxy tab, that then forwards to the Tor network.

What does this mean? It means that people will be lured into a false sense of anonymity. Many people will not understand they actually need to be running the Tor daemon to have any aspect of anonymity.

Google and the Brave team will be able to see every request a person makes and in some cases, HTTPS, for google certs. Try it yourself. Enable the Tor tab, then use any of the many sites that show your headers and see the Google Cloud Proxies.

What is their data retention policy and what enforces it? What is paying for that cloud? To support all brave users would require a large auto-scaling infrastructure.
Part of the problem is the missing fines:

If there is no regulatory punishment for ignoring the law, than any organization following the law actually has a commercial disadvantage against all the opponents not following the law.

That's way no one is willing to follow the rules. Legal requirements that do not get enforced are just meaningless.
In some countries that is kind of irrelevant because most end up doing masters anyway.
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>Whittaker also publicly denounced some Google decisions, including the appointment of Kay Coles James, a conservative think tank leader, to an AI ethics board. Google soon nixed the board.

I wonder how much that contributed. No matter the personal political leanings of the employees, most companies try to stay on the good side of both sides of the political aisle. When the president of Heritage Foundation (which is about as close to establishment conservatism as possible) was opposed so vehemently, it really created a rift with conservatives and now there are Republican Senators who now are calling for Google to get reigned in. The business leadership can’t be too happy about that.
Also worth noting that they demonstrated every other phone at the time could be held in all kinds of similarly ordinary ways that led to the same or worse attenuation. But the iPhone 4 had that conspicuous pair of thin black lines on the metal frame that people could see and touch to trigger the attenuation.
There are people sleeping on the streets blocks away from his factories. Sleeping on the floor of his hundred million dollar factories is not proof of anything.
It's bad to retaliate against workers who organize against sexual harassment and gender compensation disparity in the workplace. It looks bad because it is bad.
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I wouldn't call those capitalist, I think. Perhaps market socialist.
Most microphones used in audio production are passive with usually an XLR out, so you either need an active amplifier on the device or a usb audio interface in between
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I was wondering how long the pilots train for and how much they practice the routes used for the course.

>For six months, the pilots train for the routes, maneuvers, emergency procedures, and camera positioning required by the director for the most effective, picturesque coverage. Their filming missions are literally scripted to the minute by the TV director, leaving little room for improvised maneuvering.

6 months seems satisfactory!
I don't really understand why it's surprising to anyone that they would face "internal retaliation" after exposing their employer as evil and boycott worthy to the entire world. By publicizing it to the degree that they did and attaching their name to it, they were putting their interests over the company. If my company started doing business practices that I didn't approve of, I would try my hardest to change the direction from the inside out or I would leave and then criticize. I don't understand the desire to stay with a company and accept paychecks while simultaneously publicly denouncing and leading protests against them.
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> They brute-forced production with that outdoor tent and lots of manual labor and cut corners to attain numbers, but that's not scaling, that's hacking the numbers.

They did that ... A year ago. Watching the quarterlies since then, they've taken that brute-force, all-hands-on-deck one week peak production number, and turned it into the standard weekly production number (ish). They are clearly progressing/scaling, just not as fast as Musk guidance suggested.
How long before we'll put some organic material on it?

Currently it seems we're doing everything possible to avoid doing so... what's needed to stop that? Ensured that we measured everything possible there is now in its pristine condition?

Imho, put some organic stuff on it, e.g. some of the toughest lifeforms, it may be the most useful thing humanity does :D
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>In a message posted to many internal Google mailing lists Monday, Meredith Whittaker, who leads Google’s Open Research, said that after the company disbanded its external AI ethics council on April 4, she was told that her role would be “changed dramatically.” Whittaker said she was told that, in order to stay at the company, she would have to “abandon” her work on AI ethics and her role at AI Now Institute, a research center she cofounded at New York University.
Some riders complain about the motorcycles, because other riders can draft behind them.

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> [The MacBook Air] drew audible gasps from the crowd, instantly redefining how thin, light and portable a laptop could be.

I was quite surprised at the time: the MacBook crowd seemed almost entirely disjoint from the ThinkPad crowd. The X61 predated the Air by months, was considerably faster, and only weighed 0.11 lbs more. The X220 was released just slightly after the Air IIRC, was even more powerful, and was lighter than the Air.

Admittedly, both ThinkPads were a good deal thicker and we’re nowhere near as shiny. But they totally rocked the ports, and they had enough ventilation to run at full speed continuously.
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There is an obvious power law visible here.

His big wins are orders of magnitude larger than his misses.
Most professional mics have XLR connectors. Condenser mics require phantom power as well (unless they are battery-powered) which a "normal" 3.5mm audio jack will not provide.
Agreed. The Titanium G4 to the Unibody pretty much laid the foundation of what the next 20 years of good laptops would be.
iPhone 4 owner here. That was never an actual issue in daily use. You really had to force it at exactly the right spot to produce this problem. Also other phones from that time had the same issue when they were squeezed like that.
So yes I got that free bumper, but never used it anyway.
First, there's nothing wrong with using quality USB audio equipment (or hats!), that's just crazy talk.

Second, you're talking about $30 or $40 per unit to upgrade to the capabilities you want. I wouldn't wait for Raspberry Pi to include additional ports, I'd check the couch for change.
Google actually does allow significant opting out, including for Google Analytics.

I do have problems with their defaults in many of these areas (in my main Google account I have disabled much of the tracking) and also with how certain features (e.g. Google Assistant) tie more of the functionality than necessary to extra permissions with dark pattern nags to grant them all. But the opt-outs are generally there.

(Disclosure: I used to work for Google, but I haven't in over 4 years, and I'm not speaking for them here.)
Proof of retaliation? I've yet to see anything concrete here.

If anything it sounded like they disagreed with the company's business direction. Leaders listened, made some changes.

They still disagreed...this time with leadership not feeling a change was necessary.

they then quit as they disagreed with the company's direction.
I did improv in college and I remember this book and the impact its “status” philosophy had on me. Its a wonderful way of bringing awareness to status dynamics in everyday life, particularly in narcissistic families or other status-conscious settings, where people respect “top” and disrespect “bottom.” But thinking that all human dynamics involve this seems very lonely and sad. Loving relationships should be between equals, there should not —- and need not —- be constant dynamics of dominance and submission. Theres give and take, sure, but to play that out through dominance and submission seems really bleak and lonely, and doesnt reflect my experience of life among people who are not obsessed with status. It would be a mistake for socially anxious people to see it as a prescription, but its a wonderful tool for understanding those toxic and competitive environments we were traumatized in, as well as much of human interaction outside a loving and cooperative context.
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The shadow from the Moon is on Earth though. I think the post has some difficulty grasping that eclipse is always relevant to the observer, not to something becoming totally deprived of light.
Not clear why you needed to put 'female' in your statement. Are you implying Google's actions are a result of their gender?
> Majority of googlers wanted maven. They wanted search in China.

Source, please.