skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily, this is the result of many things combined. Social media made it super easy to spread lies and misinformation. You could have a broken education before, but without the means to distribute your lies, your impact on society was small. Also Hollywood celebrities are the biggest contributors to anti-vaccination sentiment.

https://jezebel.com/heres-a-fairly-comprehensive-list-of-ant...
Lambda calculus, for example, has no ticker tape.
Very useful, thanks. I'm planning to move and my main criteria is the weather.
Part of the problem with trust in the medical community is how inconsistent doctors themselves can seem.

I’m on my 6th doctor (2nd urologist) and finally I think I have a diagnosis for a long standing issue. Every doctor has a different opinion or way to treat what I have. Some of it is because the science is actively evolving. But a lot of it is because doctors themselves have their own opinions about the science based on their own anecdotal experiences treating patients.

Eventually I have to go with the doctors opinion that “feels right” to me.

I know vaccines fall in a seemingly “obvious” category, but when my experience is fairly typical, I can understand the frustration with being told to take the doctors opinion as gospel.
> You don't have a great read on how many people actually get around.

I'm reading the numbers direct from my local bus authority. I'm sure transit ridership in Manhattan is higher (since they actually have a real subway system and such). But of course, most Americans don't have any access to LRT / subways, so...

> You're making the typical false claim that rich people can afford to not drive and poor people are dependent on cars.

Because it's mostly true? Especially for all the Americans who don't live in Manhattan, the literal wealthiest place in the nation.

I know this is going to sound odd, but most Americans don't live in NYC. Hell, most NY metro residents themselves don't even live in NYC (only about ~43% of them do, according to the census estimates)
Show HN: Desktop application to explore WebAssembly modules
An as of now fairly simple desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux to view all the definitions comprising a WebAssembly module (use HNWAVV as a coupon code to download for free): https://thewaywarddeveloper.com/webassembly-visual-viewer

No installation is required, if you don’t have a WebAssembly module around, here’s the Flate compression library written in Rust: https://unpkg.com/wasm-flate@0.1.11-alpha/dist/9eae6f5a6ee0cd2a3640.module.wasm

Right now the decoding algorithm is the most straightforward, which means there’s plenty of room for optimization. I also have a lot of additional features in mind.

All feedback is welcome.
Please try not to respond with personal attacks.
Enough to show it's at least on the same order of magnitude as the number of situations where the rule does hold.
I see plenty of musicians humping their instruments on the subway. It's not that hard to carry a guitar or two, some pedals, a pack of cymbals, etc. The venues are already equipped with the big stuff (pianos/drum kits/PAs) because it would be absurd to expect every band to lug in an entire PA setup or drum kit when they know damn well that most musicians are taking the subway and using roughly the same kinda stuff.

What specific equipment would you be carrying in that the venue wouldn't already be providing?
It's a difference of scale. A single bank is less likely to drag down a whole economy and might even be insured against certain types of losses due to criminal activities. In contrast to this, if the value of a whole currency is destroyed over night, then the consequences are way more severe. Bear in mind that currency speculations and transactions can even get traditional currencies into trouble, see e.g. what happened in Argentinia.
The correct response is to audit how you use it, especially what other libraries you have on the classpath. Per another comment on this submission [0], its unlikely that you've satisfied all the requirements for exploiting these CVEs. If you don't satisfy those preconditions, there's not much benefit in upgrading.

Additionally, 2.10 deprecates the unsafe behavior and introduces a new, safer alternative. See the blog post for more information there. [1] That might be a valid reason to spend time upgrading.

Obviously, if you're actually affected, then yes, upgrading or backporting patches is a good idea.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21171746

[1]: https://medium.com/@cowtowncoder/on-jackson-cves-dont-panic-...
Yeah that's cool. Let's classify your personal behavior by your host or birth country and see how you like it.

I see a throwaway account but let us know, what country are you from? Seeing how abusive US behavior is on the internet and in other domains, for me as an American, I'd be afraid to practice what you preach.
The best resource for me has been Matt Parsons' blog:
https://www.parsonsmatt.org/
It's the same thing, bread isn't conductive enough to shock you that's why it's ok to put bread in the toaster. Don't put pieces of metal shaped like bread in the toaster, don't put conductive things in the toaster like the piece of bread you just dredged in salt water.

>There's no obvious danger caused by putting bread in the toaster and not immediately starting it.

I don't get this. Is it an argument against the automatic toaster? Or are you advising me to keep my toaster unplugged until I'm ready to toast my bread because a toaster can be unreliable?
Beijing will have its revenge on Hong Kong
This is amazing and so on-brand. I can't stand Windows 10 interface, and this bundled together actually does look like a slick combo. I know I can install linux on virtually any laptop including a used Thinkpad, but let me put it out there: there's something special about the tiny bezel and a tiling windows manager. The look of awesomewm status bar near the tiny strip of black glass is enamouring.

I can't think now of switching my 15" macbook pro I'm using for work for anything non macos due to mobile dev requirements, but perhaps in another life this is the choice I'll make.
> I don't understand how cloudflare can stay in business[...]

VC backing and recent IPO have them swimming in cash, but they currently aren't profitable.
It seems like you're effectively saying MADD didn't work. Drunk driving never became less than it was in the late 1970s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving

The claim they lowered drunk driving deaths by 1/2. I have no easy way to verify that but if true it certainly suggests people's behavior can be changed
Embracing Piracy
If your model can't predict its limits, it is an indication that you are already past its limits.

When you build a model, you build it to map the range of behaviors you are interested in. When mathematical infinities of any kind (like infinite computational power) emerge it's usually a strong hint that the model is not applicable, not an invitation to fantasize about the things you will be able to achieve following your model outside of its region of trust.

You question your hypothesis and then look for an alternative model that is more probable. You don't spend your resources doubling down on blind model following.

Assuming some priors and Bayesian updating your beliefs about how the world works is probably a better strategy.

I am not a Physicist so I don't have skin in this game, but the QM scene really look like a mix between snake oil vendor and religion, and doing more of this "science" by marketing firms isn't really any scientist should wish for.
Cars don't really work in Manhattan to solve the last mile problem. There's physically not remotely enough space for everyone to use cars to do so, nor would it even make sense to knock down apartment and office buildings and replace them with the massive number of parking garages that would be required to be able to do so.

Plus there's not enough space on the streets themselves, so the cars just crawl. Anything is better than driving. There's plenty of areas that are so congested during commutes that a brisk walk is faster than driving. Bikes, scooters, etc. are way faster than driving.

Cars might be a good last-mile solution out in Podunk, but they don't work here. The city is too dense for them.
The whole anti-vax thing started in the UK. I went to school in the UK and we spent a lot of time talking about how horrible some of these diseases were and how we can be thankful for vaccination and antibiotics.

It's more of a media thing IMHO: the media love scandals because it generates a lot of viewers. What better than a scandal involving your defenseless babies to drive those $$$?
My university(Gothenburg University) did this for the CS course. Haskell does a very good job at levelling the playing field since it was new even to those who had prior programming experience. As I recall about 40 people out of 70 did drop out during the first semester.
Almost daily HN covers some aspect of why everybody driving around in their own personal automobile is stupid. Cars kills and main people. Cars release particulate matter that's bad for our lungs. Cars promote sedentarism, that bad for our physical health. Car rubber washed off roads releases microplastics into the ocean. Cars are noisy, they cause congestion, and make our cities stressful, hostile and dysfunctional. Cars promote inequality. Cars and their associated sprawl cost us insane amounts of money. Cars are destroying the planet.

There are reams of research to back this stuff up. There were massive reams of research to back it up 40 years ago. There are demonstrably better ways to do this. Why are we so fucking stupid?
This was discussed yesterday, but I wonder if there is any economic analysis for how much a bus ticket should cost if they are operating on dedicated roads.

Whatever it costs to maintain 14th St between 9th and 3rd Ave, if it’s restricted to mainly buses, bus fares should pay to maintain it, like fuel tax and excise taxes from personal vehicles pay to maintain roads.
GTFS and GTFS-RT definitely work, but in practice it seems each transit agency implements them a little differently.

I'm actually a fan of the HERE Transit API. They've done the work of interfacing with a bunch of providers, and you can query their whole dataset with a REST API. Unfortunately it's proprietary and only free at small volumes. But I found it much easier to hook up than working directly with a transit agency.

That said, their coverage can be a bit random. For example, I ended up having to do direct GTFS-RT anyway because HERE doesn't seem to have real-time data for NYC subways.
Readable version, sans paywall: https://archive.is/eosgd

I was particularly struck by a claim tucked in the final paragragh that "One senior police official says privately that as many as a quarter of his officers are joining peaceful protests in their spare time."
No, avoiding vaccination is clever for two reasons:

1. There is a risk of harm from the vaccine itself.

2. When everyone else is vaccinated, it does not statistically matter whether you are vaccinated or not.

So the best strategy to reduce your own risks is to try to impose vaccination on everyone nearby except yourself.
Fractional Brownian Motion for Terrain Generation
Yes! Particularly OpenMapTiles has a fantastic docker setup to generate vector tiles for extracts or the whole planet: https://openmaptiles.org/docs/generate/generate-openmaptiles...
What kind of computations can you perform with Lambda calculus without any input variables?

What are you applying your α-conversion and β-reduction operations to?
Wow, this is astounding to me! I always assumed people could replay events they had lived, just like watching a video. On top of this I can see and move around in the landscape around me in these memories.
I'd argue this falls under 'political conditions'.
Few hours ago there was link to article about quantum supremacy claims and one person commented how supremacy might be problematic word.

> The usage of the word “supremacy” is probably the primary thing that rubs people the wrong way. When I first heard of it myself, it did feel a little strange.

What is going on?
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ddop7k/fractio...
Reflections__Kernel_Summit_2019 [pdf]
This isn’t ‘evolution busting’, have to laugh at university PR. The drug has modest single agent activity, and is additive with a chemotherapy drug in an animal model (not synergistic). The mechanism of action is a bit interesting, it seems to make cells rush through the cell cycle.

The drug development is going to be complicated. The drug doesn’t work well by itself, so getting the right combination dosing and schedule is crucial. It also only works in some tumours and there is a candidate biomarker, so a clinically meaningful assay has to be developed. There is also no idea about toxicity yet. Long road ahead.
Is there any research into differences between people with a "mind's eye" and those without? (learned skills, chosen professions, natural aptitudes, whether it's genetic, etc)

All along, I've assumed this "mind's eye" ability was integral to being a human being.
I suspect the story have been adjusted and embellished afterwards in order to clearer teach the lesson it was supposed to. The students staging a coup and kidnapping the teacher sounds like a fun bit of roleplay which perhaps got out of hand, but doesn't really support the lesson that we all are easy victims of fascism.

Some other comments suggest the episode was "hushed down" because they never heard about it. It might also be that it wasn't as big as dramatic an episode in the first place, as it was later presented.
Should "undocumented immigrants" be vaccinated? How could that be achieved?
Collapse of a wave function occurs when one wave becomes entangled with another. If I shine a photon on a particle to measure it, and the particle emits a photon back to me, I am now entangled with that particle through mutual interaction. But to a distant observer, there is no wave collapse. If our universe is purely quantum and exists alone (not being bumped into by other universes), then its wave function would just be evolving unitarily according to it's Hermitian - totally deterministically (the wave function, that is).
A lot of HN users can't stand crypto simply because they missed out. Envy leads to childlike refusals.
There's still plenty of value in learning Haskell even if you're not going to use it daily.

I'd go as far as saying it's essential for anyone who likes programming beyond just a profession. Same with lisp.

You don't need to learn all of the language extensions or how to architect serious applications with free as the OP said but it's very useful
knowledge and one of the pedestals from which all other languages should be judged.

Plus you'll understand why Idris and dependent types are an interesting future development in safety and language design. While also understanding the source and inspiration of many features in far more popular languages like JS and Rust. And there may be a real future in it via PureScript and other similar projects.
Really interesting post. My suggestion: Hacking the stock market with AI's, algos, and current results from neural-science research, and large, accurate historical datasets and analytic models. There are lots of regs that mandate "prudent man" behaviour for agents and brokers, and myriad regs around capital required to execute or margin trades - but the domain of research-gathering prior to trade execution - is essentially wide open for "outsiders". Company officers face restrictions on when they can buy or sell company stock - but non-insiders have wide latitude, and in most cases are free to make buy/sell decisions whenever, and at any rate they wish to pay for.
You are free to invest and speculate - and lose - your own money. And the neural-science on this is interesting. Most wealthy speculators in commodity markets, mostly lose. Most gamblers at casinos mostly lose. If you have wealth, you are able to give it away (or piss it away), without restriction, unless your family members can get you declared "mentally not competent".
Also, environments where very complex regulations exist, allow and encourage "regulatory arbitrage" - structures can be created which take advantage of various regime differences. But the fact remains, few regulations exist which can effectively prevent someone giving away, or destroying their own wealth. (I recall a fellow in Sweden, who was ordered by a divorce court to turn over half his wealth to a former wife. He withdrew over $100,000 in life savings in cash, and carefully burned it all.)
People face few restrictions in disposing of wealth.
Charities exploit this fact relentlessly.
Also, there are few restrictions on attending school, or gaining education - except in truly horrible societies, such as religiously deluded cultures, which for example, prevent women from gaining education to maintain breeding stock.
But civilized societies encourage education, and often subsidize it. The existence of unlocked libraries (in ancient times, they were almost always locked), and our western-cultural concept of freely available science information, remains the greatest unregulated open space. It is also where the greatest opportunity resides.
Western culture is unique, in that it "deregulated" knowledge acquisition, and scientific inquiry in the early 1600's.
And there remains a risk of "re-regulation" of science inquiry. Imagine a world run by book-burning god-believers.
You don't have to imagine. You can study the historical examples. Quite possible that science knowledge may be restricted and access regulated in the future.
But for now, gaining knowledge, using that knowledge to get rich, and then giving away the wealth accumulated, remains an essentially unregulated activity.
The OCaml Software Foundation
...was that the university's attempt of a wordplay? "Busting" and "breast" in the same sentence? :)
Wow, this looks really good! I was looking at different chart libraries recently, don't know how I didn't find Apexcharts, but wish I had!
Python allows for very creative programming, just because every feature looks easy in isolation, when used together they can open the door to some head scratching.
We should seek to minimize incidental complexity; this is what an "explanation" is. "Explaining" the complexity of the universe by moving that complexity wholesale into an entity you're not allowed to ask questions about, doesn't actually "explain" anything at all.

Fortunately, there's an abundance of evidence that complex phenomena can (and do, more often than not) arise from simple rules. Apart from this being the goal of all physics, at which it has been wildly successful, we can find examples all over mathematics. The cellular automaton "Rule 90" is a nice visual example of this: the rules are only a few bits and the initial state is a single cell, but the behavior is a tantalizing mix of ordered structures on the micro scale and chaos on the macro scale - a suggestive metaphor for our own universe.

If you saw a picture of a section of Rule 90 without knowing what it was, and tried to explain it, which explanation feels more satisfying? A mathematical rule + initial conditions that fit into a few bits? Or "someone drew it in an image editor because they thought it looked pretty"? Which has more predictive power?
The problem is when you have customers who have internal no-CVE policies and a business-person looking at fortify instead of an engineer looking at the technology. Then they insist on special releases every month because Jackson has another CVE, and if you don't do it, their manager talks to your manager.
> even people who do not care about environmental things at all get it because it's fast, its sleek and its easy to operate.

This is the stated goal of Tesla. Make people buy electric cars because they're better, not because of the environment. Then the environmental stuff will follow but you can never convince the general population to give up comfort for the greater good.
In fairness, that initial fraudulent study was all over the media, and it did appear to show a real link between MMR and autism. Of course it did, he was faking the figures with intent to deceive.

The media and public reaction was, initially, entirely understandable. Particularly where few remember how bad measles and the rest can affect the unvaccinated. It necessarily took time to disprove and strike-off Andrew Wakefield.

What I fail to comprehend is that now he's no longer allowed to call himself Dr, he is permitted to spread his lies in the US. Somehow he has managed to become and remain something of a personality doing so.
I did read that before I posted that comment, and the explanation isn't what I got from it. Things like productions (catering services come to mind too) fall into a very different category than emergency or humanitarian services. I could support something that allows exceptions for reasonable needs.

I think focusing on the history as justification perhaps results in an incomplete argument. What people care about is how is this going to affect my life, so to really convince people who currently rely on cars to do business and make stuff happen in NYC, one needs to explain the implementation and how it won't make their lives way harder. That being said, I love history, especially the history of the places my life is intertwined with, and I enjoyed the article in that regard.
nope.. but close.
Really? Read /r/programmingcirclejerk which is mostly about Rust/Go these days. I feel both strong evangelism and elitism from the threads ridiculed on PCJ for that reason. Many originate on HN.
Really interesting to see how stable these recommendations are over time. I built a commercial GIS system at a startup almost ten years ago, and GeoServer, PostGIS and OpenLayers were the go-to tools back then too.

I left that startup soon after, but I heard that the backends for the GIS product really didn't have to be upgraded or revamped for years— PostGIS and GeoServer were just running solidly. Really a testament to the developers of those tools.
Okay, I'll bite.

How is the beach where Japanese people who had a BBQ left all their garbage behind, or bottles and disposable bento boxes laying around the streets, or mountains where there are whole areas filled with garbage you can see when hiking, whatever the reason and means, something positive?

We could do this all day, because it seems that you are missing the point. It is not all that clean and hygienic as other people seem to extrapolate. Japan has a lots of other issues that has been discussed in other areas of HN. I wish I had the link to a particular comment from a Japanese guy who told us just how misaligned our ideas of Japan (idealized view) and reality are.

With respect to the person who said that Japan has a culture of excellence, and said how Japanese people clean their desks: well, so do many Eastern Europeans (at least in my country), our cities are clean, and we do have companies here that put emphasis on efficiency and safety, but I would not say that we have a culture of excellence, or even dare to make assumptions about millions of people like this one: "that’s why even executives will clean up their desks and offices, something Americans wouldn’t even know how to start".
The timing belt on a $20,000 Volkswagen would have cost exactly the same.

Not to say that Volkswagen is the champion of reliable economy cars as they’re not, but, plenty of other cars have timing belts.
> they didn’t directly identify other vendors

Who cares when they do this
https://essentialapple.com/in-the-news/wwdc-2014-tim-cook-te...

> examples given directly in this thread

Just because someone feels this way it does not make it true. I bet apples own security team are 100% thankful for someone uncovering this.