skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
every health system has flaws. You're talking about one of the most complex components of any economy - 10% of spending in Australia, up to 20c in every dollar in the US. there are no simple fixes.

> If it's so important to vaccinate, why not build a much better live data system that concerned individuals/parents can query in real time

I'm not sure what you mean. The evidence behind vaccination has been out there since Jenner in the late 1800s. The idea that this is an argument that needs rehashing every year or so, for what is undoubtedly an invention that has saved more lives than anything humanity has ever invented (with the possible exception of sanitation and sewerage) is in the first instance a victory to those who wish to sow doubt in an area where there is none.

Now, having said that, you can get a bit more nuianced - for example, generally speaking the NNT to prevent a case of the seasonal flu (dependign on the prevailing strains of the year) is around 20-30. Ie. 20-30 vaccinations for one prevented case. Whereas, when it comes to Hep B and Smallpox, your NNT is effectively 1 (depending on the titre response from the vaccine). As a result, we have eliminated Smallpox from the wild and massively reduced the disease burden of Hepatitis B.

But we don't force every person to have the flu vax every year. As a healthcare worker, I consider it my responsibility to have mine, because I am constantly exposed to the elderly and young and others with compromised immune systems, where infection poses a very real risk to their lives.
Other communicable diseases (ie the childhood vaccination ones) that are really what the anti-vaxxers are all about being 'pro choice' on, are significantly more deadly than the flu (which, depending on your stats and year of illness, probably rate somewhere around the 0.005% death rate and 0.01-0.02 severe infection/needing hospitalisation rate).

Against the numbers of lives saved and morbidity avoided by vaccinating for these severe diseases, the risks of vaccination are basically the same as that of crossing the street and getting hit by a bus. Let's keep in context that The current wave of anti-vax hysteria was kicked off by (Former Doctor) Andrew Wakefield's false study that claimed that the MMR vaccine caused Autism. The death toll from his bullshit propaganda, just in Samoa in the last 6 months, is 83.

Whilst there is a non-zero rate of harm from vaccination (ranging, at the worst end, apparently 1-2 deaths per million vaccinations for Smallpox back in the day, down to just rashes and fevers on the low end, but including Guillian-Barre Syndrome which may mean a patient needs ventilator support for a while), the discussion around risk-benefit is not an equivocal one - the evidence is literally littered in journals and around the web from publications stretching back over 150 years
>Generally speaking, multi-display monitor support is a mess on Linux (especially if you so anything slightly out of the ordinary).

Works fine for me on i3 (X11).
In short: it's great, learn it.

Slightly longer, it may seem useless at first given that TLA+ doesn't verify code you write, but is rather better thought of as a formal design language for designing abstract state machines. However, it is extremely useful for clarifying thoughts and serving as a concrete design artifact for other engineers to examine. Also because its apparent weakness that it doesn't verify code you write is in my opinion a strength because it means you don't incur a dependency on it if you or your team doesn't like it and wants to throw it away. You lose no more time than what you put in.
High-pressure ridge blocking storms from reaching Calif. can be seen from space
Not if it requires constant supervision, yet lulls the driver into a false sense of security such that they are predisposed to not provide that constant supervision.
I think it's crystal clear under US copyright law that on-nadir satellite images are not copyrightable; the elements of creative expression that normally give copyrightability to a photograph (composition, lighting, framing, choice of angle) are entirely absent. Feist, Hearn, and Bridgeman seem to provide a clear-cut answer in such cases. What jurisprudence are you thinking of?
Cryptage
Salut salauds
Melbourne: 9 days (near chinatown, the G, The Espy)
Sydney: 9 days (Circle Quay, Barangaroo, Blue Mountains)
Cairns, Airlie Beach, Yeppoon, Hervey Bay, Brisbane (2-3 days each).

I'm American, my card doesn't do contactless, nor chip and pin. I also used old straight swipe cards while there for fun.

I used cards for most purchases except at the melbourne market and a few other places where cash was required.
other drivers will use the space to cause an accident. There is this tendency by some drivers to fill gaps. it doesn't matter how much space you have, its you versus all the other cars. Not just the car in front of you but the car behind and beside you on both sides.
Code paths introduced in order to execute any potential stack unrolling are inefficient and they make your code slow. Especially tight loops. This was common knowledge back in 2000s.
> The man barrier to translation was that, while at 14KLOC of Python reposurgeon was not especially large, the code is very dense.

Reasoning about somebody else’s dense code is probably the least favorite activities. When I hear about a language being “expressive” or having “flexible syntax” I shudder.
I have created a couple of courses to learn web development from scratch by actually working on a project.

https://www.learnwithcoder.com/

It has currently Golang, Clojure & Clojurescript single page application development courses.
While I am not a pilot I have been on the flight deck of a 747. Can confirm that the pilots do not touch anything for hours at a time. IIRC they mostly checked the weather, fuel, engines, altitude and heading infrequently. The aircraft flew itself all the way to the Heathrow pattern. I asked what would happen if they did nothing. They claimed the aircraft would circle above the airport until it ran out of fuel.

The plane flies on its own for hours or at least 747s do.
Can't you just not use it? The driver in the crash activated autopilot intentionally shortly before the crash. He did that and then took his hands off the wheel. I can't comment on autopilots general reliability but using it appears to be entirely optional...
Yikes. Not sure where you are located, but that sounds pretty frightening. Best wishes!
That’s a good and fair move imo. Now I hope he endorses Sanders.
to be clear, they were surprised that a chip reader worked WITHOUT a pin. and that I couldn't contactless. Everyone was saying "tap here" when I walked up to pay. "no tap". Pretty much every purchase.

They didn't know all the bells and whistles on their machine. It'd be about as surprising as if I whipped out a personal check and they found their machine had a reader for that.
I think that my point above is that spying is bad, we're forced to choose between two evils and rather than choosing sides we should armor ourselves against evil
I’ve never heard of Erdos Bacon numbers. My university professor Dr Tjaden pioneered the Bacon Number and it was a pretty obscure claim to fame he had.

I’m guessing his Erdos Bacon number was 3+1=4. He appeared in a documentary with Kevin Bacon about the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, and has a peer at the university with an Erdos of 3. What a world we live in!
Apparently it's a $7,000 option.
Reminds me of the emboss layer effects in really old (and probably new) versions of Photoshop
I personally have a hard time understanding std::error_code. Specifically I can't figure out when std::generic_category vs std::system_category should be used, and I worry that confusion between the 2 of them will lead to confusing and inconsistent APIs where it's hard to predict what error_code will be returned in what situation.
Thanks. There’s also a prefix(while:) that appears to be takeWhile(), which I also needed.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/sequence/312...
I'm not endorsing Tesla or their tech, and I stand behind what I wrote as demonstrating the alternative to taking "Autopilot" as a metaphor - taking it literally. If you don't like either one, what's your justification for interpreting Autopilot in a particular way?
That's not so easy - the station has to be very large to do that, otherwise people get dizzy with coriolis effects. With a large station comes the problem of dropping something sharp/heavy and having it crash through the hull.

A large station means every gram of material has to be boosted up out of some gravity well to it.

Whereas on the moon, the idea is to use the material already there.
Redux Toolkit
Instead of using Expected you could also use std::optional or std::variant. Expected might have a slightly clearer API for this use case though.
What an impressive contribution. We are lucky to benefit from the work of individuals like Dr. McEwen. Rest in peace.

(The note about his online pastor's qualification, used for officiating a wedding, was pretty amusing though)

Wikipedia notes that he was serving in an advisory capacity for AntiAgingGames.com, which seems to be defunct at present. I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on gaming.
They claim it was ("The dataset was annotated entirely by humans using Autti" via https://github.com/udacity/self-driving-car/tree/master/anno...).

But after looking at the data I'm almost certain there was some "tool assist" going on. There were dozens of frames in a row with phantom bounding boxes in the exact same location which made it look in some way automated (maybe user error
combined with a "copy bounding boxes from the previous frame" feature?)
Rob Landley about the /usr split
The author, Jemima Kelly, is an (excellent) reporter for FT Alphaville. If I remember correctly, her consequential losses were much larger. Not that TfL should care about that, but an example of how things can spiral.

FT link (free) [1]

FTAlphaville link (registration required, no paywall) [2]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e8a177d4-dfae-11e9-9743-db5a37048...

[2] https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/10/09/1570632197000/When-fi...
In the 50s(?) the US did that with DSTing cities. Don't think it did much.
Facebook Ads Should Face the Same Libel Law as Media Outlets
The craters from those above ground tests can be seen really clearly on a sattelite map view. It's startling to see how many there are!

https://goo.gl/maps/8J1avkiPsKewXLie8
A post-it note that says "American Express not accepted" is probably deterrent enough, rather than a technical solution.
Most people didn’t think the UK would actually leave, including a large part of the people who voted to leave.
How would you compare special features, if any, as well as advantages (and disadvantages) of using C# for developing an embedded DSL versus using Julia macros for the same purpose versus using specialized toolsets (e.g., MPS) for developing an external DSL? Please note that I'm aware of the Modeling SDK for Visual Studio. However, since it only allows integration with / targets the Visual Studio environment, it is not a good general approach, hence the question.
It is an extra cost option. Don't specify it and it won't be enabled. The hardware and software are still present in the vehicle, just turned off.

There's never been a Tesla incident, that I know of, where the system has turned itself on. Every single crash has been after a deliberate engagement by the driver.
> Various fly-by-night self-driving startups?

What is the alternative other than holding these companies responsible for the deaths they might cause ? The only solution I see is mandating very high insurance requirement than a human driver. For example 25M per death they might cause.
I argue that flash died long before the iphone that actually Flash died when Actionshit 3.0 (AS3) was added in June 2006. The advent of ActionScript3 into FlashPlayer 8.5/9 alienated the entire designer/non-coder community by adding a complicated language into a browser plugin

Hahaha oh god yes fuck AS3, it was a Serious Language for Serious Programmers that replaced a nice loose little JavaScript variant that was really easy to write messy beginner code in.
Note how that statement is worded. "Apple doesn't retain" means they very well have access to the transaction info, they're just not storing it. I wouldn't call that designed in such a way that they can't read your transactions. It's more of a promise, similar to how google analytics promises to remove the last octet from IPs if you enable a flag.
I wish he had been a bit more explicit there, TBH. What's better about Go strings?
Their inability to stop users from gaming their systems is a design problem they can solve by changing incentives and data policies. Their users' shadiness shouldn't reflect on the company's shadiness.

If you want to talk about the ethical black hole of AirBnb, look at how much money they spend on litigation agains the municipalities whose laws they flagrantly ignore to make some more money, rather than accepting responsibility for the negative externalities their business model has created. And rather than just play by the rules, they light their money on fire trying to "disrupt" cities where people can barely afford rents as it is.

Like I don't know how you AirBNB engineers can live with yourselves. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, knowing that all the RVs on the side of the road where working people sleep because they can't afford rent would be partially my fault. It's not like you can't make good money elsewhere.
It is the tip for that branch. Even if there exist other commits building on the commit the current branch points to, the pointer is still at the tip for that branch.

The point is that a branch is simply a pointer to a commit that automatically encapsulates all of the parent commits.
> & could go crazy wrong, very easily

The introductory post itself shows how easy it is to still mix up cards and buttons in this new style.
S3 is single zone unless you specifically request multi zone durability (most don't.)
Arguably no, it's not. This is why Waymo stopped working on level 3 and switched to level 4/5 systems. It's also why most vehicle manufacturers up until now have only supplied ADAS features which provide backup to the human driver (lane departure warnings, emergency braking assistance etc.) rather than features which drive while using the human driver as backup.

There are a few coming out soon (SuperCruise, Pro Pilot) that will offer some degree of level 2/3 operation. It'll be very interesting to see how that goes liability-wise.
Hey invert the question. Why is movie theater food so junky?

AMC has some "dine-in theaters" where you can order burgers, beer, other casual sit-down dining fare (think Applebees) at mildly inflated prices. You can order at the counter and also at an in-seat kiosk, and either way they bring it right to your seat, during the movie, in a hunched-down whisper-scramble.

It's great! It fixes the "popcorn-only-lasted-the-credits" problem, and also it's a meal: lunch or dinner, no mindless shoveling popcorn into your mouth.

Just a happy customer, but this seems like a new model. If concessions are the money-maker, start climbing the quality ladder.
Understanding your website with visitor recordings
I also own a Subaru. The assistance is very unwelcome for the crash detection at times. Living in Minnesota the exhaust from a car in front of you can set it off.

This can happen on start off of a green light and can completely decelerate the Subaru. The eyesight detects the exhaust as obstacle the car behind you is now at a loss why you are now immediately breaking off the green light. I’m not a fan at all and eye sight.

Additionally, you have to turn off the backup sensor to leave my drive way or it will slam on the brakes as it detects flowers that may be leaning into the drive way.

Car smarts don’t seem all that smart. I get a kid could be saved here, but driving a car crying wolf all the time leaves a consumer very frustrated. Dealership has been zero help in both regards.
I strongly second Bird and Hike! Such a great resource. I've emailed the creator (Jim) and he was super responsive; he encouraged suggestions or corrections too.
"the general public has an inaccurate perspective on airplane autopilot systems. Loads of people think pilots simply push a button then sit back and relax as the plane automatically taxis, takes off, flies then lands itself."

Is this just being pedantic? If you say the autopilot doesn't land the plane, maybe a pilot would agree for all I know, but "autoland" seems to be a thing, right? When I read about "autoland" systems, I also notice they use the phrase "autopilot-controlled landing". I'm not convinced this is about inaccuracy so much as imprecision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
The Linux Csprng Is Now Good
The website is http://anti-aginggames.com/
> Where does the faith in the tech and its future come from though?

Well now that you've put me on the spot like that and I have to think about it: baseless I suppose. Just a general faith that technology always improves.

> Wouldn't it be more logical

Yes, it would.
Because I want to save the time I have. I use Bulma for 100% of my projects because I want spending priceless minutes of my own free daily time for the application _core_ instead of flexboxing viewports and debugging compatibility for numerous clients (and proving my point here).
I know about DDT foging, but that was to kill mosquitoes, not really combat a virus directly.
If it was too slow in Python and now moving to Go. Could there a time when there is a need to move to Rust/C/C++ for even faster performance? Go seems an odd choice based on performance consideration alone.
So the messages on your phone are not backed up with the normal iCloud backup?

I know WhatsApp nags to turn on chat backup to the cloud.
But std::bad_alloc does exist and it's possible and sometimes necessary to write correct software that's able to handle allocation errors. What we probably need is some sort of a compiler switch, but it will significantly complicate writing generic multi-purpose libraries
The maddening part is every time there's one of these big mergers they pinky swear prices won't go up and surprise surprise they almost immediately do. I realize judges and the courts aren't really meant to have a memory about past technically unrelated cases but it drives me crazy.
>This "moving pointer" model of Git branches led me to instant enlightenment.

As opposed to any other VCS? Feels like that model is the only one that works with SVN too. I struggle to see how "branch is a container of commits" is a viable model to begin with.
Oh boy oh boy, I look forward to seeing this. The sinking of the Thresher has been of interest to me ever since a party I attended 25 years ago, where a very inebriated nuclear engineer apparently mistook my security clearance (none whatsoever) or my identity (absolutely nobody), and randomly decided to tell me the real reason why the Thresher (which I'd barely even heard of, previously) sunk.

The real reason, per his telling, was actually very close to the official reason: the welds on the coolant intake failed. The coverup, however, was this: the welds had actually been made using a new, then-highly-classified technique (some variation of electron-beam welding, I think), which the grunts doing weld inspection didn't have clearance to know about. So they were told to skip the inspection on those particular welds. Which yielded predictable results

I've spent the last 25 years wondering whether I'd accidentally stumbled across something classified, or was just being bullshitted by a drunk at a party. I look forward to finding out!
Stress is a rather generic term. Emotional stress and biological stress are two ways of distinguishing different kinds of stress.

Biological stress is not getting enough nutrients, having to deal with bacterial exotoxin/endotoxin [1] (as pneumonia, a hostile microbiome, etc), lack of sunlight (UV light -> Vitamin D; red light refreshes Cytochrome C Oxidase, an enzyme in the mitochondria [0]), consuming artificial sugar and other fake foods, etc...

Emotional stress is related to how a person responds to situations -- to quote the article, "why crappy childhoods make for adult brains that don’t work well". Different people can respond to the same situation in completely different ways... Some people are able to use their "crappy childhood" as motivation to make something of themselves, while others are disabled by their own similar childhood.

The tragedy of our situation is how the medical profession considers Dr. McEwen's work as interesting but doesn't do anything with it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome_c_oxidase --- this page doesn't talk about the use of certain wavelengths of red/infrared light to refresh the enzyme. search for 'red light therapy', then buy heat lamps if you're interested. My current setup cost around $20.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotoxin
eh, common.sh is a lot more complicated than it could be. example:

write_hex() {
hex="$1"
echo "$hex" | sed -e 's/../&\n/' | while read -r hexbyte; do
printf "\\x$hexbyte"
done
}

you can imagine other shenanigans with xargs or something, but I think this strikes the best balance between performance and readability (as far as shell script goes).

read_int16 and read_int32 don't work on big-endian systems, or if int is 16 bits instead of 32. the latter issue can be easily fixed by explicitly specifying -td2/-td4, but the former issue is not so easy. I think it requires either figuring out the endianness beforehand, or better, something like this:

od -An -tx1 -j"$offs" -N4 "$path" | while read a b c d; do
echo $(((0x$a << 24) | (0x$b << 16) | (0x$c << 8) | 0x$d))
done

oddly, this is used in ls-files already. and yes, I checked: 0x$a is POSIX, and the arithmetic evaluation size must be at least a signed long, which is at least 32 bits.

'for x in $y; do printf "$a%s$b" "$x"; done' is equivalent to 'printf "$a%s$b" $y' (assuming neither a nor b contain format specifiers). similarly, 'for i in {1..100}; do printf "$a"; done' is equivalent to 'printf "$a%s.0" {1..100}'. unfortunately, brace expansion is not POSIX, but these are both significantly more efficient (both in code size and execution time) than the loop methods.

sha1sum is not POSIX. I think shell arithmetic provides you enough tools to implement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#SHA-1_pseudocode directly, although it may be slightly slower than a C implementation. awk is probably faster than shell.
Ah. I must have misunderstood your point, that they were stunned at just how anachronistic American payment tech is.
Because nine hour runtime is really long when you're trying out different rules to make sure that the conversion happens the way you want. It's almost like a REPL with a nine-hour response time (not quite, but it's in that direction). That's so completely unworkable that a rewrite into something faster is basically your only option.
New features? They started rewriting it shortly after I was hired. Maintenance issues were always fixed by the grey beards. One of them was blind and used a talk box, a wyse terminal, and vi.
I don't like the idea of automatic braking, but arguably plenty of people had irrational fears about seat belts and air bags (although the fears about air bags seem to be coming back)...so I will seriously consider the new safety features once my car insurance offers a significant discount for them.