skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's silly to think we're going to have a safe vaccine on the market any time soon. It'd probably be safer to give everyone coronavirus common cold viruses if it can build an immunity.

..and Immune Enhancement Syndrome one of the serious consequences of the SARS1 and MERS vaccines that never made it past their trials.

There are a lot of factors to immunity beyond antibodies. Traditional vaccines are either close viruses in the animal world (horsepox for smallpox) or heat treated inactivated virus (flu). We know they produce anitbodies, but there are hundreds of other parts of our immune system (complement system, inane, etc.) that might interact and form memory as well.

Vaccines come out of bad places; from eras where hundreds if not thousands of people were going blind, dying or getting paralyzed by disease. It was easier to just test things on people back then too, and a lot of them died (Chinese were inoculating people with actual smallpox 300 years before Jenner discovered making a vaccine from Cowpox/horsepox).

In the 1970s, the Swing Flu vaccine was a disaster. Sure millions of people got the vaccine and were fine, but 3,000 people developed Guillain-Barre syndrome. Some still have trouble walking or smiling (see the 60 Minutes documentary from that era)

Vaccines need a lot of testing. I do not understand why we're trusting the man who gave us Windows 95 to lead the Gates/Gavi alliance responsible for giving us a "safe" vaccine in less than a year. That's insane.
Sounds like these 1970s laws were actually a Congressional overhaul of earlier legislation, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Econom...
I like the middle-ground; safety razors. They're exceptionally cheap and idiot proof. Mine really doesn't clog like cartridge razors either. Cartridge razors seem like a scam in nearly all respects, although I concede loading them is probably safer for the elderly or generally those with dexterity problems.
> I have experienced all of those things -- except replace "getting fired" with "my business failed".

If you’re in a position where you can easily start a (nonetheless failing) frivolous social app startup you’re already much more comfortable than most of the country.

> And it is harder than it used to be.

That’s the point. Certain individuals can still succeed today, but the fact that it is harder now than it was in the past is a point of concern.
I can only see this as being a disaster. Vaccines need very careful testing before administering them to millions of people.
Speculative Dereferencing of Registers:Reviving Foreshadow
I've met startup founders who pay for this data to help in writing their go-to-market strategy for series A.

I really wonder how much friction there is in using a market research firm and if that's a big deterrent to a lot of potential customers.
I guess in the case of Korea, patriarchy would be something influenced by past confucian culture. This would place a patriarchal figure as the head of a household responsible interfacing that household with society.. India is a far more heterogeneous nation, so any aggregated national data would require more detail to correlate with cultures. China has a lot of political intervention into culture in this area, for example pushes to have the state take on the role of the family, and possibly with their demographic imbalance, there are a lot of men who can never have families, so there is less pressure about failure in that sense?
I really have no idea.
Well it is asking a lot TBH. Get 50 customers to sign up with us. It is almost like free affiliate partner. Are they asking for app integrations or free sales people for them?
Ask HN: Have you ever left a job to later realize the activities were illegal?
If so, did you do anything about it after the fact, or did you just go about your life?
> The belief that you just need to use "standard toolkits" and accessibility "just works" is wrong.

Toolkits provide you the tools to do accessibility right. Toolkits don't do your accessibility for you. That is the biggest difference. You just misunderstood what I said.

> There is no law that mandates implementing accessibility for all commercial software.

Wrong! It applies to all software. Period.

"The Department of Justice (DOJ) published the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design in September 2010. These standards state that all electronic and information technology must be accessible to people with disabilities.

The ADA differs from Section 508 regulations, which are an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and apply to all information technology, including computer hardware, software and documentation."

In fact, the DOJ clarifies it further that accessibility is paramount and that even though the regulatory process isn't complete on paper doesn't mean that the software should remain inaccessible in the meantime.

'"The Department is currently developing regulations specifically addressing the accessibility of goods and services offered via the web by entities covered by the ADA. The fact that the regulatory process is not yet complete in no way indicates that web services are not already covered by title III."'

Source: https://www.interactiveaccessibility.com/services/ada-compli...

> ...or maybe the law doesn't actually say what you think it says.

It does. Read it.
"Do you think the companies believe that people buy that. That a company actually cares about XYZ. "

Oh, they absolutely do.

100%.

Marketing is all about aspiration, and companies are falling over themselves to be perceived as moral, credible, caring - it makes a huge difference.

In a very poignant example, Nike's switched from endorsing athletes for their prowess ... to their politics. The Kaeperinck sponsorship was a massive win for Nike.

Lulu Lemon is selling the 'ethics' of Yoga (for $200 yoga pants that make your butt look good!).

You noticed that the brand of water Starbucks sold forever was 'Ethos'. That's not an accident.

Terms such as 'ethically sourced', 'locally sourced', 'fair trade', 'eco friendly' etc. all over the place.

The marketing absolutely works, even if on a cognitive level we have some degree of cynicism, the messaging goes right past our logic to associates a brand directly with an emotion, possibly sympathetic, possibly other thins like the love we have for our children etc..

If you look at celebrity brand marketing these days (i.e. how celebs market themselves), it's at least 1/2 social signalling. It's all about their politics, their charities, their causes, this is driven by smart agents, PR managers etc..

People are smart but crowds are stupid.
Free speech means congress isn’t allowed to silence the media.

Free speech does not mean you can say whatever you want without consequences.

Arguably, one purpose of HR is to help employees work well together. It is in their literal job description to be arbiter of decency.
It's all dogma and authoritarianism masquerading as science and reason. It's a dangerous time for free thought right now.
Forget about pundits, Bill Clinton made this argument: "The American people support this agreement because they know it's good for jobs in America and good for human rights and the development of democracy in China." https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/textonly/library/hot...

Now, did he really believe that? Was he just selling the American people a bad deal? The end result anyway is that this is precisely the argument that was made, and thousands believed it.
Is it just prettiness though?

When I worked in the defence industry (~15 years ago now), a lot of the coding standards for C/C++ (which was starting to be used more and more over ADA at the time) were very strict on the matching alignment of things like open / closing braces, so things like hanging braces were not allowed, both opening and closing braces had to be on their own lines.

The argument behind this was it made the code clearer, and more easy to match clauses / scoping - in a way arguing it was "safer" in terms of interpretation of the code.
No because wealthy people care about making more money not principles or nationalism.
I switched to safety razors because the place where I used to get my straight razor sharpened stopped accepting orders from regular people.

If someone knows someone in Sweden who will do a good job of making my straight razor... well, razor sharp, I'm all ears.
What are the things you need to do in a lockdown. According to GPT-3
I had a friend who took 4-5 months off unpaid leave every year at our large enterprise tech company. He had no dependents and was sufficiently independently wealthy that he didn't particularly care if HR threw a fit and didn't want him back. But he always came back, no issues.

I always wanted to do the same but I needed the income so didn't dare try. Which is exactly how the companies want it.
The good intention of overthrowing evils is something sold by Goebbels:

> " The West is in danger. It makes no difference whether or not their governments and intellectuals realize it or not.

> The German people, in any event, is unwilling to bow to this danger. Behind the oncoming Soviet divisions we see the Jewish liquidation commandos, and behind them terror, the specter of mass starvation and complete anarchy.
...
Two thousand years of Western civilization are in danger. ... We could see our venerable part of the world collapse, and bury in its ruins the ancient inheritance of the West. That is the danger we face today.

> My second thesis: Only the German Reich and its allies are in the position to resist this danger. ... Bolshevism set ideological as well as military boundaries, which poses a danger to every nation. The world no longer has the choice between falling back into its old fragmentation or accepting a new order for Europe under Axis leadership. The only choice now is between living under Axis protection or in a Bolshevist Europe."

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb36...
OK This is huge. Trump isn't just banning TikTok he's banning Tencent and it's holdings too from operating in the US. To put this is perspective Tencent owns Riot Games (League of Legends) and has stakes in Epic Games (Fortnite), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed) and Activision Blizzard (Call of Duty). Overall Tencent owns 108 companies across media, entertainment, fintech and education. This is going to be a mess. (universal music and Spotify also owned partially)

Also how will impact companies of which Tencent owns less than 50%?
That isn't my impression of how the web works. The second your bits leave your LAN, they begin traveling over infrastructure that is owned and operated by another private entity. They could rescind your access at any time, especially if the government orders it so.
Well, yes, you can and you'd be right. That's how existence proofs work. State funded projects make great moonshots, yes, and you have some great examples.

It's a great argument for Big Government statists that governments are capable of large scale technological progress out of the reach of common corporations.
1MB+ gzipped JS? That's a lot
White House has clarified that this will not affect the mentioned gaming companies and other holdings. Only WeChat itself.
Glitches in CA's disease reporting system lead to significant COVID19 undercount
Thanks, where is the official source?
It's only WeChat. Reddit, Riot, Epic etc are unimpacted
If you think this is a conspiracy theory then I doubt you understand much of quantum theory and how photons interact with matter. This experiment were running with millimeter waves is dangerous, and I've yet to see the research that suggests otherwise. I just dont understand how others are not seeing this, were moving far to quickly with our usage of photon manipulation technologies and I dont see the justification for it.
Common carrier laws prevent that. The same reason FedEx can't open your box and halt your shipment of UPS swag.

And no, Facebook is a website and app(s), not a common carrier.
Not the GP, but I'd recommend Merkur Classic Safety Razor 33C, or any of the Merkur models that are generally discussed as beginner friendly, and an sampler pack of blades.

The sampler pack is key. Every person is different, and every DE razor user I know uses something different. I won't even tell you what I use, because it's not relevant.

As a secondary recommendation, shaving brushes and a proper shaving cream / soap are incredibly worthwhile investments. I usually suggest Proraso as a cheaper, but still decent starter soap to use until you have a better idea of what works for you.
There is no such thing as "tolerable" - there is only what one can tolerate. To phrase it that way asks the question who claims they're incapable of tolerating what.

"Intolerable speech" makes it sound like it's the speech's fault.
The very best ORMs are not anywhere near as good at 'compiling' their abstractions into platform-specific SQL than your standard C/C++ compiler is at producing optimized platform-specific machine code. Part of the reason for this is that SQL is already at a high level of abstraction comparable to the ORMs themselves; the relationship between Python and SQL is not comparable to the relationship between Python and assembly (or C and assembly, etc.)
Email? I know that seems dismissive, but people got along just fine before Facebook, texting, WeChat, etc. I suspect in reality there will be an endless whack-a-mole game with messaging services where people use a different one fairly frequently.
It's a product announcement by a Google employee and they're not selling homomorphic computing. They're selling a different product.
Now that you mention it, the gulf states do cause emotions in me not unlike those commonly associated with suicide.

Luckily, I never stay more than a day in transit. That makes life among the cement-fetishists who leave their SUVs idling overnight to that the AC doesn't have to catch up the next morning somewhat bearable.
Ecommerce. Among top 20 company in the world. We dedicate one month on every project just to support IE11.
What is his motivation for this right now? Is it just the distraction of the week or was there a specific incident recently that triggered this?
Seed Funding from Sahil Lavingia (Founder of Gumroad)
> If you’re in a position where you can easily start a (nonetheless failing) frivolous social app startup you’re already much more comfortable than most of the country.

I did work, hourly, for money.
The family in China should contact their representative and ask them to unblock Signal, Telegram, or any other method of communication. If they care about their citizens abroad they will surely do so.
From what to what?

Both are private ownership of public spaces.
Have u tried connecting via a vpn ?
> It’s about the habit of unnecessary spending. Many people (obviously not all) could handle unexpected expenses if they had better financial habits.

What you call unnecessary spending is what actually floats the entire economy. If everyday folks’ disposable income dries up, the whole country will suffer, even your bullshit startup in a converted loft in SOMA or whatever it is that you do that earns you a six figure living.
There is a significant benefit if you consider the billions of views their pages get every month. A lot of bandwidth saved. Lot of energy saved.

Every reduction is good in my view.
Yet none of what you wrote supports an interpretation of "women are incapable of X" which is factually false and intellectually dishonest. Claiming he supports such a position is just dogwhistling.

>Damore claims that he's pro-diversity, then makes anti-diversity arguments

You choose to see any criticism of diversity (even constructive) as an ideological attack.

That is the real issue.
The problem is that, at least in some populations, these viruses are only moderately less dangerous than COVID-19. There are recorded nursing home outbreaks (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/) where a common cold coronavirus killed 5-8% of residents.
If you want a cartoon explaining some parts of the immune response in the article--try Cells at Work! It's on Netflix, last time I checked. It is surprisingly technical.
There are quite a few studies showing that asymptomatic carry just as much viral load, and pre-symptomatic transmission is a thing as well.

But I don't think you want to be convinced. Like you said, it has become politicized.
> It'd probably be safer to give everyone coronavirus common cold viruses if it can build an immunity.

I'm still a little scared by the Moderna vaccine because the mechanism for RNA vaccines is so new, and this one's being rushed out. Give a choice between that an a month of common colds, I'd take the colds.
Indeed, Damore was careful to respect the difference between individuals and distributions. Of course everyone immediately ignored that and behaved like he'd been talking about the former.
This animation[1] is going to be the picture of the day on the English Wikipedia on August 21st, 2020.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_satellite_navi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2020-08-21
Borrowed from the best.
Maybe it's cause I'm european, but if it were up to me: yes, in a heartbeat. The closer to (local) monopoly a company comes, the more it advertises itself as a universal provider, the less choice it should have in its customers. The easiest way to do this would be a radical expansion of the notion of protected class to cover at the least exercise of any fundamental right (such as speech).

To be explicit since for some reason people here are afraid to come out and say this: yes, I want to take that freedom away from American businesses and I would if I could. (I'd take it away from European businesses too.) That's what a law is - that's what every law is.
Yeah, it comes down to hair and skin. I have coarse hair and soft skin. I wear out razors quickly and it becomes very noticeable.
but it never did happen, who's to say the US being the only super power with nukes, could've had a despot rise (one might be now), who if there were no other countries with nukes, might decide to use a few for the purpose of conquest.

Sure, nukes are bad, all mankind should probably ditch the tech, but it's like a gun... i'd rather be in a mexican standoff, than empty handed staring down the barrel of a gun.

Currently, I'm not very trusting of our (US) government and their 'goals'. Trump may or may not have known Putin was murdering our soldiers. The fact is, at least there's some solace knowing nukes will probably never be used (except maybe by N.Korea - but as a suicide action by a crazy neurotic dictator), and that there's a sort of checks/balances system as far as they are concerned.

Nobody rational, wants a nuclear war or fallout or nuclear winter.

Russia never building their own, also allows one side dominate in power, and power corrupts, so maybe it helped even the equilibrium. Not saying them having weapons is great, but who's to know what future would await a nazi army rising in America and being the only country with nuclear capabilities. We still might get that future, but at least there's some balance from other countries in case certain scenarios happen.

It's naive to think 'our country' will always be benign and have everybody's best interests in mind... just as it would've been naive for Germans to think that in 1930.
Not quite, but I once left a job in which all the other employees were illegally wiring equipment with no electrical registration. I told management they were working illegally and the outcome was that they moved their operations to Taiwan and nobody in New Zealand got the work.
I was not entirely gratified.
WAL-MART, Starbuck, Ford, General Motors, GE, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, UnitedHealth, HP, IBM, JPMorgan, Pepsi, CocaCola... all these companies are easy targets of China. But the Chinese government is not likely to make any move unless really cornered.
> In the new study, published today in npj Science of Learning, researchers significantly improved the ability of native English speakers to distinguish between Mandarin tones by using precisely timed, non-invasive stimulation of the vagus nerve—the longest of the 12 cranial nerves that connect the brain to the rest of the body. What's more, vagus nerve stimulation allowed research participants to pick up some Mandarin tones twice as quickly.

I'd rather have the Chinese learn english than to have a device tickle my cranial nerves.
After 200 plus years, we haven't even controlled the cold or flu. Why should this one be different?

And what country is controlling coronavirus?
Imo lifetimes aren't that complex. They're just a wholly new programming language feature - learning lifetimes is hard because you're simultaneously learning the syntax and the concept.

Compare to something like generics where it's roughly the same idea in most languages that feature them, you just need to learn the syntax and maybe some edge details that differ between languages (Contravariance and Covariance say hello!).

If you've ever helped someone who's entirely new to programming learn their first language you might see some parallels with experienced programmers learning entirely new features like lifetimes.
Thousands? There are only a handful of ISPs at the top and, oh yeah, the last time they made a plan to collude, it birthed Net Neutrality.

So I'm not sure what part of it happening before makes it seem unlikely to happen again.
yes i know of a friend. he used to work for some b2b stay company in bangalore, india, the lady partner was a fraud.

she used to do black magic, do drug dealings, run prostitution rackets to fund her business.

he once realized this, he was threatened, if he will reveal it to anybody, he will be murdered. he went to police and the entire scandal was exposed.

finally he is free-lancing as a go programmer.
One factor is that China has had a Firewall blocking all foreign digital competitors and information sources for a long time.
When I read you're comment, I am not getting many positive vibes about those startups.

Contrast the language. With traditional businesses you have positive terms like profitable, sustainable, and solid. With the startups you evoke terms like hyper growth, magic formula, and (from other people's posts in a similar vein) disruptive. It makes the traditional businesses sound like they are directed towards long term objectives as well as societal needs like stable employment and viable products. It also makes the startups sound self-serving. These are people who take a gamble for a disproportionate return. They are primarily interested in the short term, so they end up being parasitic. They aren't providing society with things like stable jobs or products that will have a lasting impact. Claiming that a business is disruptive does not really fix that, since a business can only be disruptive if the gamble pays off.

Perhaps society should be looking towards more traditional approaches to entrepreneurship if we are to have a chance to fix our woes. Yes, I understand that it had its issues. On the other hand, these gambles on hyper growth are consuming a significant amount of investment dollars for outcomes that are of dubious merit.

Edit: made the second half of the second paragraph less of a grammatical mess.
I think they always knew this was not going to happen. But how do sell trading with a communist nation after 50 years of Red scare.
> Companies are banned in China for not following Chinese laws or directives.

Sure, but by that same argument, this executive order bans ByteDance/Tencent under American laws and directives (specifically, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act).
https://twitter.com/SamAugustDean/status/1291576813685108736 - There's been no official clarification, but an on-the-record confirmation from the WH via a LA Times reporter.
Yeah, "Airbed and breakfast".
It's not about money, it's about the contract itself. US companies are legally (criminally) prohibited from legally (contract/civil) engaging with a whole designated list of people/entities (the SDN list), as well as an entire list of countries (DPRK, Cuba, et c).

I imagine such bans will carry similar force.