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> Yet it's called Fibonacci series with no attribution to its origin.[1]

I gather that you are not trained as a mathematician.

Much is made by the Hindu right wing about Fibonacci series. Before I explain, a minor correction, your comment makes it seem Fibonacci invented or claimed to have invent it. He did neither, he cited Indian publications describing the series.

Now back to the main point, hardly any mathematical result is named after the mathematician who invented the said concept, let alone first studied it. Consider Dirac delta functions. It was not invented by Dirac and neither is it even a function. Consider Taylor series, Taylor was not the first to come up with that series. Look up Stiglers law that describes the phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy True to its character, Stigler was not the first to observe this.

Its quite rare to have names correctly attributed in math's. Usually the name goes to the one who popularized the notion, the one who got the notion the maximum number of eyeballs and ears.

But no, that's not what you will be get from the Hindu right. What you will get are stories about "our rightful place was taken away from us by conspiracy".

Everywhere it is known that democracy started in Greece. Vaishali was a democracy much before that. That does not mean there is a conspiracy to do Hindu's under. A lot of it is just lack of knowledge and us not being in the forefront of human and modern civilizational accomplishments.

Tell me about one modern civilization scale accomplishment that came out of India recently that has changed the world. Artificial Satellite in space, not us. Humans in space, Moon -- not us. Computers -- not us. One computer language -- not us. Superconductors -- not us. Internet -- not us. When you lose that spot you lose the attention. No one is going to pay any heed to the fact that yeah democracy came to Vaishali before it came to Athens. They will listen even less because its the same folks who claim that Hindus had nuclear weapons during Mahabharat times, who talk about some truly genuine and notable historical facts.

> > some old Hindu science of flying machines, plastic surgery between humans and elephant heads. All lost because of outside invasion).

> I do not subscribe to this nationalistic view

Our prime minister does.
I never claimed Facebook didn't engage in censorship. I was talking about Whatsapp.
In medium-large companies, work and promotion are about showing off. Even if you do real work it's more important to be noticed than to do it.

In that light, I don't understand how you and the OP could consider that it's preventing to do real work. Powerpoint is the real work. And it shouldn't be difficult to justify spending 1-2 days on it, with 100 people assisting to the presentation as witnesses, unless your manager really doesn't want you to give presentations (it's showing off your team so it's good for your manager too).

I get it that it's not part of the engineer mindset of course. If I have to give some advice to strong engineers who do good work, that would be to take credit for your work.
"scammers, spammers, and other marketing specialists"

I like that line for some reason very much. Finally marketing specialists are being named in the right context.
Well they could certainly seed their initial data by scraping Apple's directory, like most of the podcast player apps do. As for not having mind share, that's not necessarily a reason to just throw in the towel. Lot's of problems have this kind of chicken and egg scenario. Get something up and running and then try to chip away at the mindshare problem by getting podcasters to list there and podcast players to use this directory.
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The U.S. has a similar regulatory regime to manage vaccine liability. But it's not a free-for-all; vaccines need to meet certain criteria before they qualify for this program.

This is a huge reason that these companies are concerned. If they are pushed to release a vaccine too early, and it harms a bunch of people, any evidence they bent the rules at all will be used to try to break their immunity from civil liability. It would be a field day for personal injury lawyers.
The vaccine hail Mary is weird to me. We've seen that herd immunity can be achieved (see Sweden). People under 65 with sufficient levels of vitamin D have extremely low odds of dying from this disease, less than even the flu. The CDC reported that less than 10% of deaths reported were from Covid alone. We're probably already near herd immunity with hospitalizations plummeting everywhere. Why are we still pinning everything on hopes for a vaccine?
WTF. This is going to kill people. A lot of people.

Look, the usual situation with vaccines is that we are weighing (1) the danger posed to the few people who get sick while the trials are going on; vs. (2) the risks taken on by everybody who gets the vaccine. The vaccine might have a small likelihood of triggering reactions or otherwise having adverse effects, and spread over the entire population these edge cases can add up to do more damage than the disease itself.

Again, that is for typical vaccine situations. A pandemic is totally different--the number of cases is exponentially increasing and ripping through the entire population. So our options are:

1. Wait the additional 6-12 months it would take (even accounting for the immense investments that have been made) to get a vaccine to go through all the normal regulatory hoops we would demand of vaccine development outside of a pandemic. During which time COVID-19 rips through the population leaving potentially millions dead and hundreds of millions of recovered with disease-related tissue damage.

2. Wait, but stay in lockdown to keep the disease at bay, but in the process massively drive up suicide, domestic violence, and divorce rates, wreck the economy, and force people to spend their savings and/or trigger massive inflation through pandemic relief.

3. Some horrible compromise between the above two extremes.

4. Roll out the vaccines as quickly as they can be manufactured, starting now. Don't wait for Phase III results.

The Phase I and Phase II trials tell us that the vaccine successfully generates antibodies. The group sizes so far have been large enough to know that the risk of fatal interactions is less than the risk of dying from COVID-19 itself--indeed, for the most part there haven't been ANY severe reactions, at least in the major vaccines.

This "wait until the vaccine is proven safe!" is politically generated nonsense. There is no data-driven argument supporting it. Ideologues on the left assume that Trump wants a vaccine ASAP to win reelection, don't trust is understanding of the science, and therefore assume that early administration of a vaccine would be some sort of unsafe political compromise. Ideologues on the right believe COVID-19 is a hoax anyway. But even a broken clock is right twice a day, and the fact that Trump wants a quick vaccine approval has no bearing on whether it is a good idea or not; and in this case it very clearly IS beneficial to distribute a vaccine as quickly as it can be manufactured.
Maybe that's why I've heard the term so much recently as I just started getting into weather, and weather forecasting, particularly snow.
Which leaked cables establish that there were no prisoners on board rendition flights passing through the UK? And moreover, establish that this was a matter of policy?

Zooming out a bit, there is very little analogy between the Agiza/Alzery case and anything that could conceivably have happened to Assange. Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Alzery were asylum seekers whose asylum applications failed and who were then deported to their home country. The correct legal procedures around deportation were not followed (and of course the Egyptians broke their promise not to torture the two men), but it is a huge stretch to try to make an analogy between this case and some supposed plot to kidnap Assange once he was in Sweden. The latter would have been a vastly more flagrant breach of the law than a rushed deportation, and would have made a mockery of Sweden's original extradition request.

The simple fact is that it is extremely unlikely that the US would have kidnapped Assange from any location.
As noted I was using examples. I wasn't saying everyone who works for a bank can't commit code to GitHub, just that in the grand scheme of things it's more likely.

I just spent the past 4 years getting an MBA, my github repos are all horribly out of date because I had more important things to do. It doesn't mean I'm any less passionate about the technology.
The internet forgets all the time. There's a bunch of videos I can't find anymore and information on famous people and plebs alike goes missing.
The UK still runs a couple of courses, one 3 years full time. But it's an increasingly rare profession.

Beginner/amateur-level acoustic pianos have largely been replaced by electronic instruments. In fact it's almost impossible to give them away. Some homes still have them, but there are far fewer than there were twenty years ago.

I know the concert tuners who work in Leeds, and there's enough professional work for roughly one and a half people.

Even in London the total number of tuners serving the Royal College, Royal Academy, the concert halls and opera houses, recording studios, and the other music colleges is under double figures.
I have never and likely will never register for an Amazon account. When parcels show up mistakenly (and they do!) with that 'Prime' label I know right away I didn't have anything to do with me. :3

There's a lot of reasons I will never register for an Amazon account; the majority of which are directly related to the treatment of their employees, and if it wasn't that, it would be Amazon's complete unwillingness to do something about the litany of fake products filling it's virtual shelves, or the fake reviews that make it so we can't differentiate between the real product and fake.

I hardly believe I am the only person on Hacker News to have also held out. Seeing Bezo's net value vs. what employees are paid is enough to make it worth going down the road and paying a couple dollars extra.

I remember when COVID first broke out and Amazon refused to cover even sanitizer or masks for their employees, much less any extra compensation for volunteering to help keep the world together in a massive disaster.

Amazon epitomizes the 'slavery with extra steps' phrase from Rick and Morty, and additionally epitomizes the truly horrific nature of inequality of wealth.
That’s what I don’t get. Maybe if a customer received an empty envelope they would think something is up and report it? By sending a token item the receiver thinks it is a gift? But why not a postcard then which is easier to include?

Part of me wants to think this is an elaborate prank to see what happens when hundreds of people plant mutant seeds.
My brother had the floppy disk install for windows 95 . We recently got rid of the 20+ floppy disks that it took.
wow my 2nd grader had to do the edit-google-slides thing today and I wrote the teacher a nasty note about how stupid it was!

They couldn't come up with any other way to give a multiple choice sheet? I was convinced it was some kind of local terrible decision but now I'm concerned.

Follow this up with day-after-day of technical nonsense problems, kids interrupting the class all day, lack of breaks/time-awareness, and non-stop testing and I'm ready to stop dialing in.
Yeah, certainly we ought to see how animals and people with the vaccine react when exposed to the virus, but have we not already done that in the months these vaccine candidates have been tested? The current trials did things like give the vaccine to thousands of Brazilian health-care workers, which should have uncovered any issues like that (in the article you linked, the issue was uncovered by testing in a small sample of animals).
I'm not sure how exactly to respond either. Your response seems unrelated to the thread so far.

> I don't think most consider the UN to be upholding Western values.

Of course my reply doesn't respond to your questions on western values. It's the first time you bring up "western values". That's why I asked what you're referring to as "our".

> China has a lot of PR power. part of which is exactly what the article and topic at hand are about. This is so far removed from reality that I'm not exactly sure how to respond.

Maybe you're right. I wouldn't know how to quantify it. Can you name a single thing in the past decade came into your consciousness from Chinese PR (that isn't re-broadcasted from western editorials)?

> Since when is the OIC considered "Western"?

Wait, I thought the west cares about the whole thing now because of Muslim freedom and eagles and all. Now Muslim opinions on Muslims are irrelevant? That's the most "Western" thing to say :)
It's not just the security issue - the ability to differentiate between tethered and non-tethered traffic means they're not treating them equally.
No, we are not at herd immunity. Because if uncontrolled, in US alone 3 million (probably more) would die.
It's not the worst case, just the worst one that's happened in a vaccine deployed at scale. The dengue vaccine is a famous example of why careful research and approval processes are required; it's effective and not too inherently dangerous, but was found to actually make the disease worse for people who haven't been infected in the past.
I have exactly the same feelings after watching the video.

I can understand the assumption that your audience is a bunch of bootcamp graduates who put React in anything they build. But at a Goto conference, shouldn't you be targeting a more sophisticated audience? What if your product is more like gmail, or Google Docs, or Facebook, or Google Earth, or Youtube? What would you think then of someone who tells you to let go of your desire to control the behavior of the anchor tag?
Amazon really wants to push Alexa into homes
I don't think tracking info APIs are particularly cheap at that scale. If the seller runs in high enough volume there is no need to check every single order to smell fraud.
Yeah US centric since that's what I'm most familiar with. I'm also very interested in gaming mechanics so I'm looking into ways of game-ifying constructive user submissions but without active moderation it is probably impossible.
Product Hunt for YouTube Channels
YouTube is the second most visited site in the world. It certainly is a great platform for entertainment and educational purposes. However, its recommendation algorithm renders the experience vexing. Issues range from irrelevant content to getting us addicted to the platform to creating echo chambers that reinforce our biases.

In light of this, I set out to create Tube Hunt, mirroring Product Hunt, letting a community ‘hunt’ YouTube channels and build on top of it a recommender engine. Eventually creating a customisable Chrome extension that injects content from these YouTube channels onto your YouTube page.

The newsletter is the first step of the project, if you want to discover new quality channels then subscribe to the newsletter. Site with more sophisticated features will launch when newsletter hit 100 subscribers.
Countries including the USA, under the VICP. Vaccine makers are at very limited liability.
Vaccine could be ready for approval in October, CEO says
Rob Enderle?
That is my understanding as well, but it is entirely irrelevant to the point being made. If someone on the anti-vax margins get the vaccine and proceeds to get sick and test positive, the are more likely to say "the vaccine doesn't work" compared with "I would have gotten more sick if I wasn't vaccinated". You also wont here all the stories of people who got the vaccine and proceeded to not get sick; so there is a sampling bias to hearing about cases where the vaccine doesn't work as well.

The concern here is about the longterm PR of vaccinations, not the technical benefits of the vaccine.
There really is a big difference between kindergarten/1st grade and even higher grades in elementary and above. It's simply not feasible to do remote school for the youngest kids. It becomes much more feasible 4th grade and above, depending on the kids maturity/diligence.

For the youngest kids, the worst thing you could have happen in this situation is for them to learn to hate school. The way this day went for my 5 yo, it seems like his enthusiasm for kindergarten via zoom is rapidly diminishing to frustration.
Not treating resources as cattle. I ended up having to maintain a fragile pet for too long that cost me much more than replacing it would have.
Robustness perhaps based upon "fluke" incidents leading to false positives having worse outcomes from being trigger happy on edge cases.
I don't think the Windows model is all that great either. Windows 10 flat out refuses to install on an Intel NUC, which is about the most bog-standard "WinTel" machine you could imagine. Windows appears to work because vendors are motivated to integrate their drivers properly, and because running privileged driver installers from fly-by-night software vendors is socially acceptable in the Windows community.
Does anyone know the dangers of a "bad batch" of vaccines, specifically with Covid?

Here's a bit of digging on some of the dangers of smallpox[1]. Apparently, you can get something called progressive vaccinia which eats away at your skin.[2]

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-most-dangerous-vaccine/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_vaccinia
You can look up those details on clinicaltrials.gov. They will list the timeline for the primary endpoint. That doesn't include recruitment delays though.

Here are the details for the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine.[1] It's a 1 year trial. From what I've seen, they vary in length, but have interim analyses scheduled on a regular basis (3-6 months). If they see a strong signal, they can seek approval based off that interim data.

[1]https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04536051?term=ChAdOx1...
I enjoy nostalgia as much as anyone, but there's no real need today. While attractive, this was a particularly atrocious line of OS in the reliability department.

The mind boggles at using it in a mission-critical environment and speaks to how dire and ridiculous the situation was in the late 90s due to Microsoft shenanigans and competitor blunders. When folks say to forgive MS now they've changed, perhaps, but point to this post so the damage is not forgotten.

Depending on budget one of these paths should be taken:

- Twenty year-old hardware is basically free at this point and can run a version of NT. Security/cost continues to be an issue however.

- Xubuntu or similar + (Wine || DOS/VirtualBox) would be more reliable and secure. If an unmaintained driver is a requirement, this might be the best choice.

- FreeDOS exists and is pretty good, for the truly ancient.

- React OS is a thing as well and there's a decent chance it can run older software.

Personally, I'd pick a Xubuntu or Ubuntu Mate LTS and whip up a native GUI in a robust language with plenty tests to replace such equipment.
Yup, I've been using the extension for probably about a year now and get the same issues they do. It really isn't that bad, most of the time backing out of the message once or twice does the trick, but it's funny because most of the time I get that message when going to the IA web uploader.
By including the quote from a political candidate the author is saying (without words) that her opinion on the mater matters. Therefore, the AUTHOR is telling me that I should care what Kamala Harris' opinion on the matter is. How can you not see that?
Figure 7 of the paper appears to show a large spike in cases in the "high inflow" counties, at 18-23 days and 24+ days post-Sturgis start (Aug 3).

However, a quick review of the maps in Figure 1 identifies those counties as Clark, NV (Las Vegas), Maricopa, AZ (Phoenix) and Jefferson/Arapahoe/Weld, CO (Denver Metro). None of those counties' own data reporting seems to match up with this supposed spike in cases that the paper suggests, starting around Aug 21.

https://media.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/download/COVI...

https://phdata.maricopa.gov/Dashboard/e10a16d8-921f-4aac-b92...

https://www.jeffco.us/4007/COVID-19-Case-Summary

Clark and Maricopa are clearly heading downwards. The Denver Metro graphs are a little more vague, you could maybe suggest there has been an uptick in cases but you'd be hard-pressed to definitively say there is a "spike" that contrasts with the long-term trend.

I'm having some difficulty squaring the paper's case data with the county governments' own counts.
... but that's not even a good joke, and wouldn't be worth the operational costs of launching it. com.google was a joke worthy of launching: https://www.businessinsider.com/search-google-backwards-secr... (though not worthy of maintaining once April Fools was over)
Not me yet but I have seen it twice, pushing a AWS secret key to a public git repository.
Can I do the opposite and only record events from known bots to determine their level of interactivity?

I sometimes buy fraudulent ad traffic and point it ad landing pages that should drive away humans, trying to fingerprint anything that sticks around. I'd be very interested in tracking bots that actually send you events.
Maybe because you outsource fulfillment to a legitimate company, and they will find it strange to send empty envelopes?

So instead you give them seeds to ship which probably cost less than the envelope itself.
That's an article about a single tiny town. Not the entire state.
Given that a vaccine may not provide total protection, they should consider how to sell a potential early, safe but only moderately effective vaccination. For instance, calling it a "COVID-19 Immune Booster Shot," and be very transparent that it reduces your protection against the virus but is not total immunity. Then the world won't lose faith in science and medicine when folks who had the shot are testing positive and even dying.

Hopefully either way the amount of news coverage will be enough that most people will get informed about it, in a way that they don't for most issues.
They deny this, but I have no idea how accurate the denial is.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#does-adnauseams-...
Potentially years.
The fix for that is easy: have the FDA authorization grant them immunity from vaccine safety or efficacy liability.
Hong Kong shocked by violent police arrest of 12-year-old girl
That's why they want to absolutely make sure it won't cause a damage. The vaccine in 1976 was rushed for political reasons and that didn't end up well besides hurting many people it is also still used as an argument why you should not vaccinate.
It should be in everyone's (and certainly the manufacturers') interest that the vaccines actually are safe.
> if you got a cold on board the sailors would throw you overboard to ensure it didn't spread)

Curious, do you have a source for this?
Oh man, I was way off. Thanks for this.