skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Participants in controversial discourse have long said that the system wants to silence them -- banning such discourse actually makes that true.

In the past, they said they were censored and there was a conspiracy against them, and we could all say, no there isn't, you are active on major online platforms and nobody is suppressing you. Now we can't say that anymore. Not only has the suppression they falsely alleged actually started to happen, companies are even proud to publicly announce that they are part of it.

This is a total backfire because it makes it even harder to change people's minds by confirming what conspiracy theorists suspected all along. Online platforms have fallen into the trap of making one of the main assertions of online far right nonsense actually become true. It is a massive own goal.
> COBOL even exists on Windows these days

"these days"?? COBOL has been available on Windows since Windows 3.1, and was even a commercial success on DOS in pre-Windows days. Yes, it was principally used in finance on mainframes, but the mini- and micro-computer implementations were fully ANSI standard, and included extensions for CICS and other mainframe stuff.

(I worked on DOS COBOL runtime support, then OS/2, then Windows ...)
Im not intentionally muddying anything he mentioned reddit. That was a ban of hate speech specifically, not anything to do with masks, elections, or anything you mentioned.

I agree with others about radicalization and slowing the spread of misinformation but it's a fine line to walk and throwing around reddits bullshit like it will work for real life scenarios isnt going to help anything.

Deplatforming legitimizes and empowers fringe groups and that's not something we need to be doing.

As for your rants about trump etc I agree they just had no basis in my and parents arguments.
Why do you consider them part of the "regressive left"? Is it because you think they've behaved unethically, or are they hopelessly biased, or do you just disagree with them, or some other reason?
It's pretty "cool"?? Is that how Potsie and Ralph Malph feel about it too? Are they on Google's payroll?
Ask HN: Application Engineering Design Documents
How do you structure these at your work?

For a long time have used a mix of lists, prose, sequence diagrams, flow diagrams, network diagrams, etc. to illustrate ideas around a implementation- but I always feel like I am reaching for something more exact, standard and structured.

Would love to hear about how others have approached this problem.
"The development of a vaccine of this apparent efficacy at this speed is an astonishing "

It only took 9 months to bring the U2 up to operational speed. Things can move fast if you remove the politics.
I believe the author meant 100M infected by February (and assumed immune) + 100M more vaccinated is about 66% of the current US population of 328M.
This is obviously incorrect
Even so, a good RNG will make attempts to verify the quality of the entropy. For example, Intel's RNG will statistically observe bit patterns from their RNG. Eg, it fills up a FIFO and checks for the counts of certain bit patterns. If they aren't sufficiently random, it will throw away the data. Even if they dont have sufficient RNG data, unless you can predict how a PRNG is seeded it should be safe for quite some time without new true entropy.
Pneumatic press, nail gun, screwdriver, impact wrench, seems like these could work, while maybe not a direct dirivative. Some things persist, and are stable as others have noted. A cool thing about innovation is that the ideas are often things people didn't know they wanted until they see it.
flat earthers were funny until we needed their help to flatten the curve
Faction or not, you still have not established a principle to justify taking the action in the first place and so far all you've got was some circular logic. That's all I've objected to in your original post.
This is great news! I'll definitely be in line to get it whenever my turn comes.

A thing that keeps worrying me is the amount of people I've seen/chatted with (empirical evidence) that don't trust these vaccines. The most common comments they make are: "I don't want to be guinea pig", "How do I know the government won't control me", and more conspiracy theories. All of these fears seem to come from misinformation on the internet, friends and family get a ton of memes/fake news through WhatsApp highlighting the unproven negative effects of the vaccine.
Is there any effective way to control the propagation of misinformation on these platforms?
How would one even get started to tackle that problem?
Just northwest of the city it’s crazy. When the wind gets up in January there will just be thick yellow clouds of pollen blowing off the Mountain Cedars, and everything is covered in it.
I don’t get it. Earlier this year people were screaming this would be impossible. But here we are.
I am just going to do it and sell the machine once some absolute best of a machine comes out. 32 firestorm cores please! But still have to decide which one...
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/1...

> The actual number of coronavirus infections in the U.S. reached nearly 53 million at the end of September and could be approaching 100 million now, according to a model developed by government researchers.

> The model, created by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, calculated that the true number of infections is about eight times the reported number, which includes only the cases confirmed by a laboratory test.
I have tried searching various asian celebrities, no image result were shown for any of them. Although text search for them were good enough.
Infection count is a lot higher than case count. If you divide the number of deaths by an IFR of 1% you get 30 million infected so far, while with an IFR of 0.5% you get 60 million. There are probably half a million infections every day right now, so 100 million by February doesn't seem that far fetched.

Though I see no reason to complain about the FDA dragging its feet, given that the bottleneck to vaccinating the populace is manufacturing, not authorization.
Black people and women are humans with equal rights. I believe this is basic humanist morality, but also they are a protected class before the law that can't be discriminated against in many cases. A false video is just a false video. Being a liar is not a protected class.

Why not nationalize YouTube is irrelevant to the conversation, but the end result would be the same. The government would then be providing a self publishing platform.
With more platforms taking an anti misinformation stance I wonder if HN is planning to do the same? Even though we have a smaller reach.
Another fun fact, the San Carlos airport nearby has an FAA identifier of SQL: https://www.airnav.com/airport/KSQL
When did the FDA ban Johnson&Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines? Why?
Isn't it common practice in Europe to have photos on resumes?
Why wait? I just built node myself, yes it takes a solid hour to compile but it works.
Is this happening? (Just wondering because of discussion elsewhere in this thread.)
Even if there was another strain, why would it make the current vaccine useless when the current strain still exists?
I feel like this article/comment/message board combination would go well in the James Burke "Connections" series, although it's probably not subtle enough.

Also the documentary on Aaron Swartz is really worth a look if one hasn't seen it, fittingly released with a Creative Commons license:

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...
Does anyone clearly define what is

American

Australian

English

White

' Right wing '

Hate speech is ANY SPEECH

Jews

Left

Anti Whites

hate hearing/seeing
I’m not sure how many people fall into “high risk”, but after everyone who needs the vaccine gets one we can all breathe a huge sigh of relief.

For vast amount of people living in the United States the virus isn’t going to be dangerous. But for certain groups it’s extremely dangerous.
Did you read the policy? It has nothing to do with hate or extremism at all. What are you referring to?
Trump threatened to fire the FDA administrator unless he authorized it today. That's not the hallmark of a careful analysis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/11/trump-steph...

From a personal perspective, I want a safe and effective vaccine as soon as anyone would. I do not want to be propagandized into taking something potentially dangerous just because it lets the business community make money. What I want is a careful, rigorous, and non-politicized decision making process before I can trust the output of an experimental process. This has clearly not happened.
Would like to add that the adcom meeting that happened yesterday wasn't unanimous even though efficacy data was strong because of they were asked to approve it for 17 and 16 year olds as well even though the data for these age groups was lackluster.

This likely didn't matter much to FDA because 16 and 17 year olds aren't likely to receive any doses before the full throated approval because they by and large aren't in the people first in line for the vax (1st line workers, vulnerable groups, old people).
Instead of whamming in a pointy cylinder, that stress and vibration might work it out back against the force of our whamming, we TWIST in a similar bit of hardware, only we wrap an inclined plane around the cylinder so that it cuts as we twist, making a walled channel that resists working out backwards under vibration.
> You don't need to protect speech everyone finds unobjectionable.

I wasn't talking about objectionable opinions or perspectives. I was talking about lies and falsehoods, which are becoming alarmingly widespread. Even now those things don't full First Amendment protections, which is why there can be laws against fraud and defamation, and the Supreme Court has even said "false statements of fact" do not enjoy protection [1].

You've recited many slogans, but it's important to consider what free speech is supposed to achieve, which, IMHO, is to allow progress towards truth. It's also important to keep other considerations in mind, and balance them. If you but too much focus on too small an area, you can easily find yourself becoming a Paperclip Maximizer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Living on the perhiphery of "Mormon Land" a while back had Californication-immunity as a benefit.
I'm working on fixing that ;)

Unfortunately we don't yet have covariant associated types, so my GC is a pain to use.

In all seriousness, I'm not sure if Rust will ever be a great fit for abstract high level programing. The syntax is just too verbose, and lifetimes are a leaky abstraction. It might make a good compiler target though. At the very least next generation FP needs to have a great Rust interop story.
I read this as the US Central time zone is convenient for working with people on both Coasts and those working remote.
They can't be added up like that though, since some of the previously infected will still be vaccinated. So it'll be more like 170 million total with 100 million vaccinated.
You don't want to go into "credible rape allegations" defending Donald Trump, of all people[0].

Also, there is no credible evidence, and there are certainly no legal allegations, that Joe Biden is a pedophile. That's literally just a right-wing meme based on him looking kind of creepy in pictures and on video.

As far as being a warmonger... that may be fair. Unfortunately, Trumpists lose any moral high ground with Biden trotting out shit like him being a creepy touchy old man, or him being senile, or other obvious nonsense like Hunter Biden's laptop. They just throw shit at the wall and hope it sticks because it worked once with Hillary Clinton.

But then, Trump assassinated Qassem Soleimani, bragged about operations against ISIS and Syria, and has never backed down from threatening to use the military against anyone, like North Korea. I mean, he even tried to use the military against civilians in Portland. Hardly a dove. A dove doesn't increase the military's budget every year and add carriers to the fleet while cutting domestic health and education programs.

Second, yes, the people did want him. Joe Biden got more votes than Obama. More votes than any Presidential candidate in history. People voted for him despite historic attempts at voter suppression and disenfranchisement by the Republican Party. People voted for him in the midst of a pandemic.

That's how hard Trump lost. Cope with it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct...
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The virus is mRNA telling your body to make more, the vaccine is mRNA telling your body to make a small useless spike. Our bodies are amazing in their resiliency, we are constantly reading mistaken mRNA throughout our lives.

This is a great breakthrough to be able to use this to our advantage.
> "you peed in your pool and moved to ours, don't do that again"

The book _Ishmael_ had an interesting perspective on that.
Recently I moved to Apple Macbook Pro 2019. But after using this very expensive MBP, I am not happy at all. Hardware is the best in class while keyboard is the worst in the class. But my biggest complain is keyboard layout. It is not ergonomic at all. In windows/linux, WINDOW key manages window manager while CTRL, ALT can be used to manage applications. On internet, many places it is mentinoed that, use apple COMMAND key as control key and OPTION key as alt key. Ok thats fine. But this behaviours is not consistent at all across app. Many apps use CTRL key to control application additional to COMMAND key(e.g. in chrome/vscode, toggling tabs can be done using CTRL+TAB, not COMMAND+TAB). And this CTRL key is only one side of spacebar, very very unergonomic. Additionaly if you are a touch typer powered with mechanical keyboard, you can press CTRL key on windows layout using wrist. This is not possible on Mac as its first left key is FN.

After using MBP couple of weeks, my hand literally hurted like mentioned in video. I dont think I can operate MBP hours without looking at keyboard. In Windows you can do everything with mouse only. In Linux you can do everything with keyboard only. In mac, you need both and your hand hurts.
They needed to wait months to see if the people who received vaccine did not get the virus, and that they also were not harmed by the vaccine. This isn't some binary instantaneous outcome.
Usually, the place of the employees residence and the physical worksite; rules for interstate travel for work and state income tax are different per state, with some applying tax on the first day of work in the state, others having a number of days threshold.

The employer’s HQ generally has no effect, independently of it being a worksite for many employees.
I’ve heard this argument before, I’m still convinced that covering at-risk groups first is the best idea. Even if it still continues to spread for months, we can bring the deaths way down, and give our isolated elderly generation a much-needed opportunity to see family and friends.
I have enough faith in my local health authorities to assume that the line won't be a literal lineup with hundreds of people.

If my local bike shop has figured out the concept of no-contact service appointments by now, I'm pretty sure the health department can do it.
There is nothing even remotely radical about questioning an election, which this makes a bannable offense.
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Doxxing and harassment are already huge problems on the internet; a zero-anonymity policy would be terrible for marginalized groups because it would make spokespeople and activists extremely vulnerable. Imagine that whenever you said anything on the internet, every Trump supporter with a phonebook could find out where you lived. Then imagine you're (eg) trans.

Beside, plenty of far-right reactionaries are entirely unafraid of attaching their names to their beliefs. Just look at the stuff people say on Facebook. And consider that you don't need to publish your name in order to listen to a far-right ideologue
-- only to be one. And it doesn't take many ideologues to reach a large audience.

I don't know that there is a solution, outside of "encourage platforms to effectively deplatform bad actors." This has been successful in the past in dealing with movements which recruit heavily through social media, like ISIS — the difference is that social media companies have feared partisan backlash from conservatives if they apply these strategies against the far right.

This risks suppressing free speech, but I think this entire issue is a result of us wanting to treat social media companies as perfectly neutral universal forums. The notion of unbiased platforms needs to be abandoned, and social media monoliths need to be split into distributed, federated platforms, like email or Mastodon. This way, platforms can moderate to their heart's content: excessive moderation of any particular instance is less of an issue because users can always move to a different, better instance, but people who were justly banned will be isolated from the general public in their own servers.

This model will have challenges, foreseen and unforeseen, but it's got to be better than the current media oligopoly. At the very least, it's progress.
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I know these threads tend to get bogged down with the various things all COVID related threads do these days, but let's just take a second to savor this moment. The mRNA vaccines were developed in days[0], using only the genetic sequence of the virus. Yes, testing took many months, but science solved what is typically the hard part of the problem overnight.

Personally I'm hoping I get the mRNA vaccine not so much because they're currently the most effective, but because it will make me some small part of one of the most impactful scientific works of our lifetimes.

We should be seeing another announcement in a week for the Moderna mRNA vaccine as well as their committee review is scheduled for 12/17.

[0]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...
New Orleans is rapidly sinking into the ocean because of climate change (hurricanes) and poor management of the delta.
I was wondering as well... the data was submitted about 3 weeks ago...

I understand that it is extensive data (for about 44,000 patients), but taking 3 weeks to compile/analyze seems excessive. They should have put in an army of analyzers into it...

There are about 3,000 people dying every day.... it is like 9/11 every day, or 9 jumbo jets falling....

The FDA should be treating this as a war effort, and not drag their feet into pointless bureaucratic 'safety' theater.
This definitely appears to be their trajectory.

One would assume transition from AppEngine to Cloud Run would be directed by establishing a pricing differential that incentivises moving off AppEngine.
You keep posting this but it doesn't become more true just by posting it over and over again.
I would say no if:

- the effect is scientifically provable and quantifiable

- the effect is tangible & physical (not emotional harm)

- banning it doesn't violate fundamental/constitutional rights

So an example where I would say you should not be free to make the sub-optimal decision would be smoking in indoor public spaces.
Witty, but nails and screws serve different use-cases. Nails have better shear properties, for example.
70% is the kind of "default" number. It's based on 1-1/R0. If R0 is 3, then you need 66.7% to no longer be susceptible before cases start to decay. If the vaccine is 95% effective, then you need about 70% vaccinated to get 66.7% no longer susceptible.

But: 1-1/R0 assumes universal, uniform susceptibility and uniform contact graph, which aren't true-- so it's pessimistic. And some people have caught the virus already and are no longer susceptible through that means.

Many computational models put it at about `25% of people infected will result in herd immunity with normal behavior, and the US is presently at about 16%. Unfortunately, getting the "right" additional 9% of people will require vaccinating much more than 9% of the population (we're not as good at selecting the most susceptible and most involved in spreading as the virus itself), but substantially less than 70%.

Further, R0 is based on baseline behavior. I suspect a decent chunk of us will be much more careful for some time, which effectively changes the required decrease in susceptibility to cause a case count decay.

> Latest COVID-19 infection totals come to about 16 million. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...

Current COVID-19 infection total estimate per CDC is about 53 million infections so far. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
He didnt say easy, he did say boring, and I agree.
You claim that XP is snappy? Even on a 2020 machine VM, it still takes more time to boot that 10!
The Blue Tribe is an alternative religion is many ways.

The Red Tribe still has Christianity, so they don't need another one.
New York is attempting to do that, true. Usually it is your state of residence and the state in which you physically work that tax you (both, if they are different), but New York’s novel claim is unlikely to succeed for work by non-NY residents that doesn't occur in NY.
Details of the process here: http://www.zodiackillerciphers.com/
GP said "time spent with them", not "time spent thinking about them".
Is that true? Why would any of that be limiting for a person who could by any home in a given city?
I think the best we can do is lead by example in the short term, and in the long term investigate the failure of education systems that bring this about
It's my duty to take it, as well as government's duty to provide insurance against anything going wrong.
>Sort of like how radical Athenian-style direct democracy doesn't work, maybe radically giving everyone near-unchecked access to nationwide broadcasting doesn't work, either.

Ah yes, because Switzerland is such a hell hole.
Caters to the other side, therefore bad.
I haven't read the piece either and I also don't know what any of those acronyms are all about but how is "I didn't read this but I CTRL+F'd for terms I believe to be important and they weren't there so what are you even doing" a useful comment to make?
I've heard rumors in the medical field that it's impossible that having had COVID might be considered a preexisting condition in the future.
How does this square with their relatively low power consumption? (Honestly asking--I don't know about this stuff)
100M doses brings us closer to 17%. We need 400M doses to innoculate 200M people, which is what we need to achieve 70%, counting the 16M people that have been diagnosed with the disease.
White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or resign
This led me to Kay's full quote on ad blocking:

"A combination of this 'carry anywhere' device and a global information utility such as the ARPA network or two-way cable TV, will bring the libraries and schools (not to mention stores and billboards) of the world to the home. One can imagine one of the first programs an owner will write is a filter to eliminate advertising!"

[Kay72] "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages"
The application and data was submitted 3 weeks ago... it took 3 weeks for the FDA to drag their feet and just say the obvious...

It is like the titanic is burning and these guys are playing violin...
Man that takes me back, it used to be pretty common to see Mac apps advertise their leverage of AltiVec, even for “consumer” stuff.

It may be entirely imaginary but I always felt like the PowerPC versions of OS X were more responsive than their Intel counterparts, despite running on CPUs that were at a disadvantage in terms of clock speed. I wonder how much of that was due to the PowerPC arch itself.