skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a much smaller group than the people who have just been advised not to take it though, and I assume that people in that group would already have been advised not to take it. We don't know what allergies the affected people had AFAIK, but the advice goes far beyond people with a history of severe reactions to vaccines/its ingredients:

> “Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine,” it said.

I've never had a reaction to vaccines, I'm unaware of having a reaction to any medicine, so from what Pfizer said I could have been in the trial. But I'd be excluded by this new advice because I carry an epi-pen for a food allergy.
> has suppression or censorship ever worked to quench dissonance or convince skeptical people, again, whether right or wrong

Say this is true. How would you recommend measuring this?
If you only need backups in case of whole drive failure, AWS S3 glacier is cheaper at $0.004/GB/month.

But it's still $4/month/TB or $48/TB-Year. Assuming a two 10TB drives are $300 each (actually can get them for less than $200) and last 5 years or warranty expires. ($300*2 drives /5 years / 10 TB = $12/TB-Year). So AWS glacier is still ~4x the cost of buying physical drives with RAID 1 and keeping them at a friends house.

Honestly if there is any cloud storage that trades resiliency for price that would be awesome. As long as the cloud storage can tell me if any of the storage has been corrupted/lost, I'd except a 10% yearly failure rate. If my home raid is 95% and the cloud is 90% then I have an effective yearly data loss of only 0.5%.
My order from a restaurant that's a 5 minute drive away (raising a puppy, I can't really leave him alone right now) arrived almost 40 minutes after it was picked up.

I was given a credit that didn't even cover the delivery and service fees, let alone the tip that they don't let you edit after the order.
The real answer is that Google's promotion and hiring processes don't respect front end developers. Systems programming and distributed systems are considered "hard" and worthy of reward. This explains why Google's front ends are bad, and it also explains why there's a proliferation of non-composable distributed systems inside Google. As a second order effect, the design of those back ends also make it harder to make fast front ends.

And front end devs are often using tools designed for back end devs, like the Bazel build system. (Compare that to FB having online / incremental compilers for Hack, as far as I understand.)

So they either don't get the best people working on front ends, or the people they have aren't doing their best work because they're looking to move into a role that may be more respected or rewarded.

Before 2005, Google built two of the most innovative AJAX apps ever: GMail and Maps. People may not remember how awesome they were. When GMail came out, it was faster than Microsoft Outlook on desktop, which I was using at the time. You would click and your message would appear instantly, which was not true of desktop apps. The app startup time was also better than desktop! (i.e. seeing all your messages from a cold start)

When Maps came out, people didn't believe that the scrolling and zooming could be done without a Flash app. It also had incredibly low latency.

But somewhere along the way the company lost its leadership and expertise in the web front end, which I find very sad. (I worked there for many years, but not on front ends.) The slow Google+ app circa 2011 was a great example of that, although I believe the structural problem had set in before that project.

I don't think there's any question that FB and even MS are significantly more accomplished in these areas. They're the "thought leaders" (React, Reason, TypeScript, etc.)

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edit: Also, if you want to remember what Google UI looked like circa 2005, look at sourcehut: https://man.sr.ht/

It was fast, simple, and had a minimalist style (though some people mistake that for no style). There is probably a generation of people who are scratching their heads at that claim, but yes that's pretty much what Google used to look like: the home page, which lacked JS; News; Groups; Webmaster Tools; Ads front end to some extent, etc.
Also, even if people outside of those bubbles see and dislike those videos, the Dislike button is more likely to feed and reinforce their primary audience's persecution complex than to cause them to reconsider.
This plays exactly into their narrative. "If they didn't steal it, they wouldn't have to work so hard to cover it up!"

Megacorps should never become arbiters of truth.
> It's still the best state to live in, has great opportunity for many people and tries to implement long term policies benefitting is citizens and is a global leader.

This is all good, until we put another element into the equation. How about stability of the system? It turns out it's predicated on your current- and future- (especially future) citizens' productiveness and willingness to cope with ever growing appetites of the state government. It's been accumulating debt since 1990s, and all the growth that you attribute with a "success" tag is predicated on the expectation that the future generations will figure the solution to the ever growing debt problem. What happens in fact is that the government is stealing the future from the generations to come - it's they who will have to pay for the debt of the current government. And they may just rightfully refuse to do it by moving elsewhere.
The author is describing the time value of money
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money

The reason to to take the money now from venture is because it is more valuable now than it is later. The way this author is describing this though reminds me of the folksy, whimsical way some business books are written which makes this article so applealing: e.g. The Goal, How to Win friends and influence people, etc.
It's not pre-judging when the courts have dismissed the cases. They have been judged to have no merit.
Many, many billionaires live, have lived, and thrive in CA - probably more than any place in the world. In fact, I'd guess that more billionaires have made their fortunes in CA than any other place.

The grievance rhetoric has gone too far (and had awhile ago) when it's used by billionaires.

There is also strong reactionary political rhetoric here, the premise that taxes on wealthy people are nearly criminal theft, and nobody would want to live someplace where they democratically invest in their community (i.e., pay taxes). There's also the economic assumption that taxes, whatever their current level, are always too high; AFAIK, taxes on wealthy people are at historic lows.
What is "fascist" stuff? Earlier this year, people protesting coronavirus lockdowns were called "fascists." People protesting against government authority were called fascists.

Berkeley had to spend $600k in security to allow Ben Shapiro to speak, because "anti fascists" were accusing him of white supremacy, and being a fascist, and violently attempting to prevent him from speaking. And this was after they had successfully prevented him from speaking earlier in the year. Similar "anti fascists" pulled the fire alarm on Janice Fiamengo for speaking about men's issues. Warren Farrel had a similar experience, with people absolutely berating the attendants of one of his lectures for their support of fascism.
I think you're overestimating the average internet user. A lot of people think that because they view something online, it gives it authority. They fail to understand anyone can (and does) post content online.

I've often thought this way of thinking is a remnant of the media we've consumed in the past, where there were higher standards because producing media was more exclusive. Think print, radio, TV. On those mediums not just anyone could produce content.
> One thing to keep in mind is that the weight might not change much because while fat is going away, muscle mass increases.

This is why, when talking about health and fitness with friends, I always try to deemphasize weight loss. When I decided to finally stop being overweight and inactive (I played rec league soccer, which was miserable because it was my only exercises and I was grossly out of shape) I lost 40 pounds, then I put on 20 as I incorporated more strength (bodyweight) training into my routine.

And a couple colleagues who started weightlifting + moderate cardio saw initial losses of maybe 5-10 pounds before their weight became stable, but they were getting in obviously better condition even though they were still above their initial target weights by quite a bit.
You mean abatements & subsidies required to push "clean" vehicle policies that are among the most aggressive in the world?

Without Tesla & CA's policies, auto electrification would be at least a decade behind what it is today... Being at the forefront of environmental policy has real costs.
I'm not sure I agree. I generally agree with Buffett on it: "diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."

If a person is willing to spend time learning some the basics of finance, and learning about different companies, I think they would be fine with just picking a few stocks. They just need to be watched carefully. As they start to have more capital, they should look to diversify and look to take on less risk.

Plus, everyone wants different things. Many on /r/wallstreetbets see gambling on the stock market as a way to improve their lives, and I don't think it is the worst option. A risky stock investment is better than wasting money on a sports car or something.

In general, I think when you are very young a very risky investment is not a bad thing. As long as the money isn't needed for other things.
Can you get him a scribe? I've done projects over the years where I'm the "expert", and on those projects there are a lot of organizational details (like tracking billable hours) where I have brought in or asked for a project manager to be brought in, not to "manage" me or the project per se, but to take care of details like that so that I can focus on the work itself instead. Has worked well for me.
It's always amazing when I talk to conservatives about california how they know so many little negative details about my state. A lot of times I'll ask them about the budget of their own state and they won't have any idea.
I have one question regarding the current Pfizer data (it would be great if anyone with experience in statistics could help out):

UK healthcare professionals received this information called "REG 174 INFORMATION FOR UK HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS" [1]
It states that the "efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 [for 75 years of age and older] was [...] 100% (two-sided 95% confidence interval of -13.1% to 100.0%)"

What does this mean? With my very minimal university statistics knowledge I would say that they are 95% sure that the efficacy lies between -13.1% and 100.0% for age >=75. And that means: We simply do not know (probably due to lack of data in this cohort). Where am I making an error?

Thank you in advance!

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Please consider the policies that made your location expensive and of poor quality for families when voting in your new home.
While the sarcasm is dripping, it's also true. There clearly are people that can view a video and realize that it's is 100% BS. Yet, at the same time, there are other people that will watch it and 100% believe it. If it wasn't effective, it wouldn't be used.
I doubt car dealers will have much of a future in a world were you can just hop in a robotaxi for very little money and not have to spend on parking, fuel, maintenance, registration fees, etc.

I sold my car in 2018 and have been living car-free in Los Angeles since then. For the times they are a-changin'...
Devil's advocate:

Clearly, they didn't change downballot races, because that would be suspicious. Any group smart enough to cheat at this scale would be smart enough to not make it obvious.
I doubt this policy is based on any sort of broad principle. Youtube just doesn't want its platform to play any part in the currently ongoing coup attempt.
The election was spammed with illegal ballots, and a tiny rejection rate in key swing states. This is not a conspiracy. This is the product of the rule changes put in last moment in many of the states. Rhe conspiracy is not being able yo check signature to verify the ballots. If this was done to levels approaching the previous elections, Trump would win. Btw, at this point Texas and several other states are bringing suits. So you can not claim its a wacko conspiracy made up by basement dwellers
>> Sunshine only works as a disinfectant when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation.

Agree in general, but where does it stop? What about articles? Web searches? Websites hosted on Google Cloud?

What about documented (albeit very limited) cases of voter fraud in favor of Biden?

What about documented (albeit very limited) cases of voter fraud in favor of Trump?
Balanced reporting of news during the election and of current president actions (for instance peace efforts in the Middle East) would probably have been a long way to not give credit to the idea that "the system" is pushing a particular candidate. Some people are thinking their voices are being silented, so censoring actions taken by Youtube or Twitter (NYP incident) are not only an additional nail in the coffin, they are actual validation of the fact a whole political side is being canceled.
I'm not saying I'm necessarily in favor of or opposed to the action described in this post, but I do wonder if beyond a certain scale platforms like YouTube and Twitter should be treated as de facto public forums.

Obviously 1A doesn't apply as-is, but maybe some equivalent should be implemented that does. At the same time, I'm not sure that's entirely fair since they aren't publicly funded. Or maybe it is still fair, or maybe there's some reasonable middle ground.
Yep. UK based, and Katie Hopkins has thankfully become far less visible after deplatforming (seems to have removed most income streams post-bankrupcy).
Stalin would be happy.
Just like a real world example of an echo chamber. We like to surround ourselves with people who think similarly to us.
Cruise is now testing fully driverless cars in San Francisco
Hi John--thanks for sharing these links. I do wonder if there is a fundamental difference between applications and infrastructure. Maybe it's the fact that applications tend to involve a greater share of non-engineering users (and therefore a greater reliance on someone else to host and manage the service)? Food for thought. GitLab is a great company, and I've read a lot of your strategy documents; it's a wonder you publish so much in the open, and I'm grateful for it.
Going Driverless in San Francisco
You should prepare yourself for a ruling that a state cannot challenge another state's laws before SCOTUS.
And you could always reprint the burned books at your expense as well.
> With CentOS, deprecation has a long tail, so whatever works on 8.0 is likely to work in 7.0 (going back to 2012) and maybe even 6.5.

And the reverse is even more true: If your app worked on RHEL 5, you can probably blindly copy it to an EL 7 box and it will just work (ask me how I know;]), and probably it would for EL 8, too.
Publishers have always been the arbiters of truth. "Anyone can publish anything targeting anyone" is a very recent development.
The worst is when they give the drivers a second order after they're already holding yours. So the driver has your food sitting for 45 minutes before they even start driving to you.
Assuming it's misinformation, this time but especially in the future.
Sugar – a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat (part 2)
Sugar - a typed lispy language targeting webasm/wat.

Part of 2 of the continuing saga of writing a small compiler targeting wat/wasm.

I talk thru the implementation of some of the missing features from part 1, which have now been implemented.
Hi hiq. I think WhatsApp's Live Location definitely satisfies many use cases. The biggest distinction I see between it and Zood Location is that Zood shares your location continuously, which is useful for families. The sharer doesn't have to re-enable the share every 8 hours. Zood also has an expiring share feature called Timed Sharing [1]. Zood will generate a link you can send to anybody (no Zood required) and the recipient(s) can view your real time location via any web browser, all end-to-end encrypted.

> There might be better vistas in B2B.

That may indeed be the case. It's something I need to investigate further.

[1] https://ara.sh/private/hn-zood-timed-share.png
Florida funds itself mostly through tourism taxes, however we also spend much less than CA overall. Just like different people spend different amounts of money, different states do too and need to tax less because of it. CA mostly spends money by paying cops, bart workers, toll booth collectors, etc 100-400k per year whereas Florida pays its government employees market wages.
Definitely try out the API (https://cloud.nextmv.io/) to get a sense for it. Note that these are canned models, and the systems under the hood are very customizable. You can find some more information in our docs (https://docs.nextmv.io/latest/). If you have another problem or need something specific, reach out to support@nextmv.io.
It would help if one side of the aisle didn't continue to stand behind a conspiracy theory that has failed in court _many_ dozens of times, now.
I thought this was a page about the procedural 3d graphics software Houdini :(
I see 2 opposing arguments here:

Social media is engaging in censorship, which means our society is screwed.

Social media _has_ to engage in this type of censorship because if they _don't_, society is screwed.

I think both views are probably correct.

But if we're going to screw up our society, I'd at least like to be on the side that's acting in good faith. Maybe we can stave off the inevitable a little longer.
Or to put it another way, Fedora is (roughly, with caveats) the upstream for new major releases of RHEL, but CentOS Stream is upstream for minor releases of RHEL.
If you read between the lines, the private companies got their wish: a change in emphasis for the federal program toward doing the supporting work on nuclear materials science that (for example) Commonwealth Fusion has been suggesting.

The other wishlist item is to build support for doing cost-share programs with industry to implement the larger facilities. If this gets traction, then the government wouldn't actually build the power plant, it would be more like NASA COTS where they help sponsor private companies that actually carry out the work. The INFUSE and ARPA-E fusion programs are tentative steps in this direction.

Edit: BTW, rallying around an improved pitch is big deal for the federal fusion program. Budgets have generally been in decline ever since it peaked in the 70's, and for many years there was nothing much in terms of a vision for the next steps.
Why Math?
I'm not super familiar with AGPL and how it might address this issue, but I would love to be enlightened.
I would suggest that today, you're best off using TypeScript for anything more complex in terms of applications development. Will probably play around more with Deno bundling if I get the time, though currently using Parcel, which is nice enough, but slow.

I didn't like TS at first, but using the most recent version has been relatively pleasant and working with less experienced devs has been almost required in order to do further refactors. I killed a month trying to do a complex refactor ad-hoc, in circling around, I was able to convert the entire project to TS in a couple days, introduce typing for core state and a few other areas which allowed me to do the rest of the refactor in a couple days. That sold me on TS, as long as I don't HAVE to type everything, or jump through the hoops as I did on my first experience with TS, which was combined with Angular projects.

The casting behavior is definitely a foot-gun, but it's powerful as I mention for validation and ETL type workflows. The "falsy" values list is literally my guide marker in interviews for JS devs. It's usually a pretty good benchmark for how well a developer understands the language itself..

Totally agreed on the Date object. Absolutely horrible, and moment, while useful was huge and most other hacks aren't all that great either. The Date object really should be extended as probably the next major bump in usability in the system. Even if it was just extended enough for parity for what C#/.Net offers for their DateTime/DateTimeOffset then other libraries could flush it out and be much smaller.

One useful thing to know, is that assigning an object property to undefined will skip that property as part of json serialization and is faster than delete on the property I'll often do something like return JSON.stringify(Object.assign({}, original, {propToHide: undefined}) in node APIs. This is about the only useful bit from undefined I can think of off hand.

Global variable assignment by default is definitely a flaw.
I think you miss the point entirely. The broader public's perception of the drug is instrumental to its adoption. If the public are led to believe that the medicine is unsafe, the result will be a reduced level of herd immunity as fewer people will take the vaccine.

Medical institutions (CDC, BMJ, Public Health England), the Government, and the broader media (newspapers, TV stations, companies like Facebook) are responsible for encouraging safe and efficacious use of medicine for the good of society, but they can't do that when the narrative is co-opted by anti-vaxxers, the right, and other shameless opportunists.
You can't know anything, but you can form beliefs that have various levels of confidence. For example, there is reporting about the objective reach of Jones' properties post-deplatforming. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf... This type of reporting, plus my priors about how viral media spreads, inform my belief that deplatforming these individuals was moderately efficient for decreasing their reach. But it is an empirical question that would benefit from further study.
The Far-Reaching Impact of Dr. Timnit Gebru
I have an honest question: do you feel like you're taking advantage of the situation in an unethical way?

You seem know the service will suck and would normally not use it, but you do it anyways because you get free food, which is in turn effectively paid for by everyone else using the service, VC investors, and by Doordash taking advantage of employees/contractors by stealing their tips (in the past).
Optimistic. I would say: Definitely not a failure.

And I apologize for using unclear language. I should be thinking about a wider audience when writing in an international forum. Thanks for pointing it out!
By the same token, there are vast regions of California that are conservative rural and conservative suburban as you describe (hello 22nd district).
Remarkable to see this comment unironically on HN.
https://github.com/GlobeletJS is an alternative I've been following, can use mapbox styles
Incidentally, this turned out exactly what I had hoped it to be. :)
How does income tax disincentivize work? You still generate positive income with a tax.
Eh. Fluffier than I was expecting.
No incentive? AWS is crushing them, the UI is the product.