skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"extensive data" is 44K patients!? Wait until I tell you about the extremely extensive data that tech companies at scale deal with every day. I run a large data science organization at a major tech company. If someone told me that it was going to take 3wks to analyze an experiment of this type, I would probably have to start firing people.
By that logic its not contradictory to be intolerant of people intolerant of intolerance. Or is it only valid logic with an even number of intolerances?
Yeah who cares about the lives being lost in the meantime?
I did not find the cost.org article helpful at all. It just seems to advocate that if a business has customers, then everything it buys is a business input, any sales tax the business would pay would be "pyramiding", and the business should be exempt from paying tax on all of it, even things like the pens, paper, and envelopes it uses for old-fashioned business correspondence.
And throughout those years, HN has remained the most constructive discussion of any slice of the internet I visit.
Funny that the don't mention Bangalore, where they have more people than HQ
Democracy is also intrinsically linked to freedom of association.

YouTube has chosen to deny associating itself with certain views, as is their right. It is no different than how Fox, CNN and others may choose what to broadcast.

Don't like that? Use BitChute or PeerTube or similar.
Have you seen the recent launch? A ship the size of the Soyuz rocket, built literally in a shed in the desert, which flies to 25km, turns off the engines, glides to the landing site -- then performs a 90-degree turn, in the air, in a second.

How is that a 'hype machine'?
I like your site. I might steal the design idea for our family's digital garden[1]. I'd love it if you can tone down the orange a tad and add a bit more contrast. :-)

1. https://oinam.fyi
What does Preact sacrifice to get down to 3kb? Browser support? Nothing comes for free I guess, so just curious about the too good to be true nature of it.

Why isn’t the React team putting in these enhancements?
> In any case, speech intended to incite lawbreaking,

The standard is "imminent lawless action." You can in fact advocate lawbreaking, including violent lawbreaking (e.g. people advocating punching all Nazis are protected).
Man, if it comes to the boomers dying then we still got like 20-30 years more no?
If you are genuinely curious, I'm worried about long term effects from this vaccine.

It's one of the most quickly developed vaccines ever. Being rushed by everyone in society and everyone is guilting people into getting it. They did trials but long term effects take decades to discover. Doctors used to recommend specific brands of cigarettes for example.

It's not illogical or unintelligent to be skeptical of the long term adverse effects of this vaccine. Plus I can stay avoiding crowds. I've been working remotely for years and don't have travel plans for a while.
> If their interests on Facebook (what they like, follow, etc) were mostly cat videos, Facebook wouldn't be recommending extremist groups.

You're right, it's not that obvious, it's far more sinister. Cat videos are unlikely to end with you being recommended extremist groups, because there likely isn't much engagement from cat video viewers and extremist groups.

People who are deeply unsatisfied with life, however, might engage if they see it as a way out of their dissatisfaction, inadvertently training the recommendation algorithm to promote extremist content to dissatisfied people. That strikes me as at least plausible, though I don't know if the data is out there to find out what people are recommended what content under what criteria.

> In the meantime, there's a heck of a gulf between whether or not Facebook lets a group be recommended, and actively censoring content dissenting to the chosen narrative.

I disagree with this part. I don't have numbers handy for Facebook, but YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. It is physically impossible for you to see everything that gets uploaded to YouTube. Even if they stopped accepting uploads right now, you'd probably still die before you saw a significant portion of the content available.

Removing something from recommendations is, in most cases, tantamount to censoring it. If there are 500 hours uploaded per minute, and we assume that each video is 15 minutes long (which is likely longer than the reality), that's 2000 videos uploaded per minute. Assuming random distribution of views (which it's not, because of the recommendations), your video has a 0.05% chance of being viewed out of the videos uploaded in the same minute as yours. If you widen that to videos uploaded in the same hour, it goes down to a 0.00083% chance. Widen it to a day and you're down to a 0.0000347% chance. You would get 1 view per 2.8M views if YouTube deleted everything before that day, and killed recommendations entirely. I don't know how typical my usage patterns are, but I only search for probably 1 out of every 25 or 50 YouTube videos I watch. If that's a typical usage pattern, then you would actually get 1 view per 75M - 150M views. If everyone in the US logged on and watched a random video, you would get ~2-4 views.

It's all theoretical napkin math, but there is a staggering amount of data in the hands of Facebook, Google, et al. I do agree that actually removing the content is more significant, but the difference between removing the content and just making it so obscure that it's hard to see unless you're looking for it is basically the same. It's like if newspapers would agree to publish your stuff, but only if you encoded it as the first letter of each line of text. They have technically published your views, they've just made it hard enough to find that the only people who see it is people who already knew it was there.

I don't know what to suggest though. This is almost an inevitable outcome of collecting this amount of content; a lot of it is going to be relegated to some esoteric corner where no one ever sees it.
YouTube isn't a broadcaster.

Don't confuse them.
Unless you're looking for an external consultant for the one month project, you're doing it wrong:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4k994j/if_...
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If they gain from either choice, we would be better off with the status quo.
Starsector is good too. http://fractalsoftworks.com

It has a dynamic economy, and opportunity to build your own faction.
> Who set a record for votes. He wasn't unpopular, he was the 2nd most popular candidate ever.

You have a point, but let me ask you: if a bag of rice had been the Republican Presidential incumbent in place of Donald J. Trump, do you think Biden would have received a record-setting number of votes?

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but it seems to me Trump's unpopularity was as much a factor in Biden winning as anything else that, and maybe that's because I live in a blue bubble, but even conservative outlets I followed were expecting the Republicans to be absolutely crushed this election and to go down in flames with the President, and they weren't. Not even close. Republicans didn't regain the House, but they saw net gains, and they retained a full 50% of the Senate. Harris's vote is only relevant if the Democrats can win in the Georgia runoff on January 6th, not just one, but both seats, otherwise she's just another President of the Senate without a vote. Considering that election is still an open question, it is a bit early to be calling Georgia a blue state. Elections are more than just the President after all, and Red and Blue States are only really Red and Blue after they've demonstrated a continuous unbroken Red or Blue streak for a few cycles.

So again, if the Republican Presidential incumbent was a bag of rice, would we have 1. seen record-breaking turnout in favor of both candidates and 2. a loss by the incumbent? I ask, and maybe this is just because I live in a blue bubble inside a blue bubble, because it seems to me much of the public turned out to register a vote of no confidence in the President more than they turned out to vote specifically for Biden. I wouldn't say most of Biden's votes were this, but enough to swing the election in a few key States? I think that's plausible.
I think its entirely reasonable for YouTube to be compensated if the polity concludes that they maintain a useful public service by providing a place for people to share videos and they adhere to reasonable objective guidelines on what content to permit and remove.
There is something similar, which I bought a few copies of the digital toolsets from UXKits[1] and my team loved them. I even bought the physical card, and it was a hot item.

1. https://uxkits.com
I highly doubt it's related to the election, but there is a "conspiracy theory" that is entirely plausible to me which is that the paternalistic leaders of the FDA/CDC believe that by taking longer to "validate" the data they are going to be better at convincing anti-vaxxers of the safety of the vaccine. The data analysis here is comically straightforward! This doesn't take 3wks! There's a reason the UK has already approved it!

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/ho...
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This is a really underrated point. This whole site is really "tech industry news" with some hacking sprinkled in, but its name at least is based on the idea of the hacker ethos. That whole thing about decentralization, distrusting authority, information being free? A curiosity for how things work and logical investigation rather than letting someone else do your thinking for you? Disinformation is a huge problem and I understand the impulse to grab for the easiest available solution, but this is fool's gold and anathema to what hackers and Western democracies claim are the foundations of their belief system.
Shorter commute to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court...

> The filing of such cases in the Eastern District of Texas dropped after the 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, which held that for the purpose of venue in patent infringement suits, a domestic corporation "resides" only in its state of incorporation. Meanwhile, the filing of such cases in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware increased.
This one is from 2008. There's this method from statistics called PCA that let's you reduce high dimensional data into a few (usually meaningless) newly-fabricated dimensions. It's useful to visualize complex data in 2d space.

In this paper, they did that with genes. And the 2d space that was left wasn't meaningless at all. It accurately recreated map of Europe.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/
Pointing the camera at a lavalamp has the same noise, AND movement aswell.

So lava lamps produce higher entropy than a potato everything else being equal.
How do you prevent them people from gifting their inheritance while they are alive?
Fun fact: most professionals and all official FDA documents use "FDA" and never "The FDA". It's a neat little shibboleth because it is so counterintuitive to omit "the". Use ctrl-f to find the pros in this thread ;)
> but rather it was ended by the checks and balances within the government belatedly stepping up to the plate.

Ok, and regardless of that, anonymity still helps people avoid consequences for their speech. Which is a good thing, given that the government has in the past done things like that.

> This is how such matters should be tackled in a free society

Well that is cold comfort to the people who suffered real harm, during the red scare. While other people were trying to solve that problem "the right way", lots of people still suffered harm in the mean time.

Things don't always get solves immediately. Sometimes, problems just exist. And regardless if things have been solved "the right way" or not, other solutions, such as anonymity still help.

None of this stuff is exclusive. Feel free to try and stop government consequences some other way. But regardless of that, anonymity still helps some people avoid some consequences for their speech, which is good.

> elaborate mechanisms

None of this is elaborate. Lots of people have pretty effective ability to post speech anonymously.

Instead, it would be you who would have to engage in large elaborate schemes to prevent people from being anonymous.

The default, easy, non-elaborate solution is what we have now. Which is that there are many platforms where anonymity is easy for most people, most of the time. And that the government would have to take pretty extreme actions to remove that from people, like court orders that don't happen very much right now for most people.
I’m assuming https://kapeli.com/dash
My figure is correct, the 11.7yr is wrong. It's a pretty good paper, but 2 major flaws that I think should be corrected.

From the paper:

> Both of the above calculations may overstate the loss of remaining life in that they assign the remaining life expectancy based only on age, without taking into account that COVID-19 deaths are disproportionately occurring among those with compromised health status.

So their 11.7 average years remaining ignores the critical bit of information that we know this person died of COVID. It is extremely unlikely that if you took 2 80 year olds, one who died of COVID and one who did not, that if neither got COVID they would live to be the same age. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a 10x difference. While they do mention this and add some caveats (a good thing), I think because it completely changes the conclusions of the paper, they should have gone with a range and not a 11.7 number, which seems very improbable.

> Avoiding 1.75 million deaths or 20.5 trillion person years of life lost would be valued at $10.2 to $17.5 trillion

Then they take the 11.7 figure from above and multiply it by the estimated average value of a year of life. Again, there is at least an order of magnitude difference between a year of life at age 90 and a year of life at age 30, for most people.

Finally, although my ~3.5 number is much closer to the truth than 11.7, there is a difference between life expectancy and "healthy lifespan", aka "healthspan" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136295/). Healthspan is a newer concept but I expect will be the primary term in a decade or two.

Thank you for providing the link, a good read.
I'm very weary of this approval. This is the first messenger RNA .. thing (this isn't a vaccine; not like any attenuated or inactivated virus vaccines that have come before it. This is something very different in the way it works). There are no Longitudinal studies. This will be a significant increased risk for people under 40.

We shouldn't see to fast track any drug, vaccine or treatment outside of the normal process. I wish the inhaled steroid controlled studies had completed because I was curious of that would have been a useful treatment (a lot of doctors are using them off label) and we wouldn't need something this untested.

Fast tracking medications is how mistakes are made. Let's be critical of how these emergency powers are used.
For sure, it's subject to even less regulation than broadcasters.
> Apple even has 20% of the mobile marketshare in China.

Source? That means one in every five has an iPhone in China.
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I’m not in the drug industry, but in mine you can never turn the full decision process into a push button. Its trivial to turn the tests on your main metrics (is it effective) into push button, but you also have to look to make sure nothing else concerning is present, and it’s muuuch harder to formalize “nothing else here to make you worry” independent of the data.
Covid-19 is a new disease that requires continued study before we can make definitive statements about its evolutionary possibility frontier. Having said that, we currently have extremely effective vaccines (far more effective than our flu vaccines), so we have an excellent chance of nipping this thing in the bud before it becomes endemic if we act swiftly.

It'll probably be at least a year before enough vaccine is produced that low-risk groups like children become eligible, so modified education in one form or another will have to continue till that point. This doesn't mean they can't go to school, but things like pods, wearing of PPE, social distancing, and other such things will need to continue till herd immunity can be achieved through vaccination.
I think there's a lot of stress/weird things going on beneath the surface in markets that few are talking about (stuff that kind of reminds me when 30Y UST was more expensive to borrow as collateral to use in repo for about a month before it blew up SOFR), a couple:

- 5% of accepted 30Y UST bids a couple days ago were at/below 8bps [0] (unclear to me how CB buying more, thus competing with those who are willing to buy such ~160bps off market will help firms who need 30Y UST on their balance sheets and Bid to cover is at 2.48), this was also the case for the last 20Y UST auction [1] and the last 10Y UST auction (8bps low, ~90bps off market now) [2]

- nearly every single tenor spread with the 30Y UST is consolidating near its 2.5 year highs (or higher for the longer dated spreads) [4] people keep saying "inflation is coming" but people getting 10-30Y UST at auction for 8bps says otherwise…

- Retail money market ETFs like OPER run by the same folks at the Bear Stearns desk in 07/08, who cant tell you how they get their rates[5] they get because its a deal they worked out with BNY mellon and US Bank ("They are controlled by the collateral schedules that OPER has agreed to accept from the counter-party. As such, US Bank does not post those details")

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/R_20201210_3.xml

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/R_20201118_3.xml

[2] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/xml/R_20201209_3.xml

[4] https://i.ibb.co/2M7GWhw/num-inverted.png

[5] https://clear-shares.com/download-holdings-usbanks.php?fund=...
To me, the second one makes far more sense. I see it as him first claiming that the afterlife will be a paradise for him, due to his aforementioned slaves. The final "Death is life" is a statement that life truly beings at death: the afterlife.
Ask HN: SWEs turned Founders, what technical skills best transfer to startups?
Student here aspiring to become a tech entrepreneur. While I've shipped side-projects to small groups of customers, I often feel that my technical inexperience means I can't readily translate my vision into a quality product through code. I plan to work at a BigCo/Startup first to better learn the ropes/practices before going it out on my own. The idea is that I stretch my technical capabilities so that when I build my own project, I naturally integrate practices even if I'm developing faster eg. Tests to ensure that my code changes produce the right outcomes.

To SWEs turned Technical Founders, what technical skills/practices/areas from your previous jobs were most transferrable to your startup?

Possible practices/skills I've identified so far include: Clean/Idiomatic Code, Test Driven Development, Design Patterns, CI/CD, Agile, UX Design.

As a caveat, I'm aware that MVPs don't need to be polished products. It's an easy trap to focus on engineering a product instead talking to users. Yet, I do think having the technical confidence is vital for the long-term development of a product.

Post was inspired from reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23446627
Russia has every right to spread disinformation in our country via an administration which was never brought to proper trial because witnesses were silenced. It’s a free country!
This is hyperbole and AOC would be the first to acknowledge it. If "the world will literally end in 12 years" were to take root, then it would be a massive problem for society, not just YouTube.
This is mostly true but the three religions you mention aren’t parallel in this respect. Apostasy in Islam is (typically) defined as someone who leaves Islam after being born into a Muslim family or previously accepting Islam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam. So it’s not a race or ethnicity, but in a theological and practical sense people are “born Muslim.” Put differently, separation of ethnic group, language, and religion are less well-defined in many parts of the world than it is among people of European descent.
I plan to cover CPython's memory management in the future posts. In a nutshell, an object gets destroyed when its reference count hits 0. In this case, CPython calls `tp_dealloc` [1] of the object's type. The `tp_dealloc` slot releases all the resources the object owns and frees the memory. The implementation of `tp_dealloc` differs for different types. Eventually, the `free` function of the memory allocator is called to free the memory. A memory allocator is a set of functions to manage memory. The default memory allocator for objects is pymalloc. It allocates small objects (<= 512 bytes) using the arena allocator [2] and falls back to the raw memory allocator otherwise. The latter calls the `free()` library function to free the memory.

The Python/C Reference Manual has a great section on memory management [3].

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject....

[2] https://www.evanjones.ca/memoryallocator/

[3] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/memory.html
My point was that none of the work required to prepare to begin the vaccinations was held up by the work of reviewing the studies and granting approval.

Furthermore, how many lives would be lost if society didn't have confidence in the approval process and declined vaccination? Russia is suffering this exact problem at the moment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/rusisia-vaccine-...
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I completely agree, there is no way Slack becomes irrelevant due to Microsoft. Ironically, getting acquired might.
I’m arguing about free expression and unpopular speech, not illegal speech.
I like the idea of in-IDE search to avoid context switch. However, I can only see the top-voted answer and can't even see what the question was. So I had to click on the link and open the browser anyways. Is it possible to add more context to completely avoid opening the browser? If so that would be a deal breaker for me compared to the VSCode/IntelliJ stackoverflow plugins (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Alexey-S..., https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9513-stackoverflow)

Also, can search on Github work without connecting accounts? By default Github allows you to search without logging in. So I was confused when I was asked to connect my Github account.
They sacrifice all the crazy performance optimisations that React has.
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Sounds good motivation for more better device documentation and open-source firmware.
Masks would also seriously put a damper on any other respiratory virus, such as the flu.
They have most of it listed in their docs here: https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/differences-to-react/
The current batch don’t deserve it.

But as a matter of principle and timeless policy, lawmakers (both politicians and their staff) are essential because face-to-face meetings are considerably more effective, and well-informed political action is needed to get us out of this with as few casualties as is still possible to achieve.