skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wildly inaccurate.

The data cited in that ABC article, published in 2008, is taken from the 2006-2007 flu season. Over the last 14 years, much has changed.

For example, in 2019-2020, over 80% of healthcare workers received the flu vaccine, including over 90% of those who work in hospitals.

Source: CDC https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/healthcareworkers.htm
The problem is that we don't have a great indicator of quality other than price. Why do I think the $30 or $50 will be better? It probably is, but I have no way to tell if I am getting a better quality product or basically the same just sold at a higher price. It is hard to decide to take this "risk" when you don't know.

Trusted reviews and recommendations can solve this but they are hard to come by.
We don't need two eyes to drive. And we don't need two eyes to gauge depth. Neither does a machine, but adding stereoscopic cameras is not hard.

The stereoscopic effect is very poor on driving distances, doesn't help us that much. Primarily we use clues form the environment to gauge distances. We also have to focus our eyes to the correct distance - that also tells us how far an object is.

Primarily we have had an insane amount of training to understand our world. An understanding that a self-driving car will never achieve unless singularity happens. It might not need that, but it will need other ways to compensate for it.
I think posts about covid vaccines should be written with Mr. Rodgers level of caution.

I think this post fails here and there despite trying really hard.
I was under the impression that adverse reactions to vaccines are pretty common actually? Many of the times I have gotten shots I had to wait in the room for 10-20 minutes afterwards so the nurse could verify I wasn't allergic. I think everyone should get vaccines, and they are more than safe enough for most people, but they aren't as safe as this article is implying. There are also historical examples of vaccines that caused non-trivial medical issues with segments of the population (the narcolepsy issue that occurred with a vaccine in Sweden a few years back comes to mind).
Flying to Russia from Canada would increase your risk of getting covid prior to receiving the vaccine (and the 10 days or so that is needed to build any kind of immunity).
> Since he got sick from the flu shot (even with the weakened virus) many years ago, he now avoids them

As most/all flu shots don’t contain weakened virus (FluMist, the nasal spray, does contain weakened virus, but the shot uses either inactivated virus or viral proteins), this doctor seems a bit out to lunch?

Moreover, it’s possible to get sick from another strain of flu or because the vaccine hasn’t yet become effective - it takes a week or two to be useful so an anecdote of getting sick before then doesn’t indicate anything about the flu shot.
Easy to explain: being a doctor means understanding the dirty insides of profession thus know it is mostly bs. So naturally they don't trust it. Just like developers who do outsourcing, never do their own products because they know it's bs, and priests usually don't believe in God because they know dirty insides of the Church. In general, it is very hard to sell stuff if you buy into your own bs. Many otherwise great people failed for that, like Hitler - he lost because he started to believe his own propaganda.
See another commenter.

Somehow you can make the same answer without denigration.

I don't believe in "anti-vaccine market penetration".

My model I use is that ALL people are ignorant of most things that happen around them and only SOME people are knowledgeable about SOME of the things.
They are making their own engines now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Engine_Corporation_of_C...
What’s the reasoning behind that? Why is work a fundamental part of life? I don’t feel deeply rewarded.

There’s no such thing as the sanctity of work. This is just ancient propaganda.

I think it’s the complete opposite. Happiness would increase with UBI because it would increase leisure time. Just look at how many people say WFH has made their lives so much better. It’s not because they can spend more hours hunched in front of the computer managing slack notifications.
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Which says:

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Obviously, not everyone can be above average. Exactly half of all drivers have to be in the bottom half when it comes to driving skills and safety.
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Maybe, but the bottom half is not necessary drivers worse than average.

I do not know how you would calculate "average". But there are people on the road that could pull down the average a lot. So that more than 50 percent are better than average.
What's the difference between what's in these vaccine and what is in the seasonal flu shot?
I dont buy much stuff these days but my last cell phone for example, I bough it from my regular supermarket!, same price as Amazon (just a Blu phone, nothing fancy), 1 year warranty, and I could check it first for a while so I had a better idea on what I was getting.

I liked Newegg too for PC parts and other stuff so I am dismayed to see they are going Amazon's way too.
One thing this article reminded me of is just how damned prevalent simple ARM based CPUs are in the world. Piles and piles of ARM chips running Linux, or in Apple's case some kind of Darwin derived OS. It doesn't talk about processing power, but these tiny embedded CPUs are far more powerful than a Commodore 64 or most early CP/M or DOS based systems which many small businesses relied on.

Just crazy to think about.
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To be clear, over 90% of healthcare workers working in hospitals are vaccinated against the flu every year:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/healthcareworkers.htm
Most of that 1% being people with pre-existing conditions.
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It applies to companies that collect data about EU citizens.

It isn't a cure-all but it is a whole lot better than what we had before and what exists in most other parts of the world.
What's so magical about 5? Why not 4x or 6x. 2x safer will be 500,000 lives saved yearly. We can see that even 1.25x safer is very significant. Just weird seeing that magic number 5x...
1.0001x is definitely not acceptable because dangerous drivers bring the total-human-safety metrics down. The "average" (median, or even maybe 25%ile) driver is probably much less likely to be in an accident (or fatal accident)than the drivers who drive most dangerously, e.g. frequently texting while driving or driving while intoxicated. So for most drivers, 1.0001x the average human rate would actually be worse than driving themselves, although they may find the risk acceptable.
Time will tell. The 737 max debacle doesn't inspire blind confidence in the West though.
To the user, the benefits of car use are immediately obvious, but the risks are more remote and abstract.
I wonder what they changed? You would think that Java code would simply be faster out of the gate with a native JVM. Perhaps there's more natively compiled Kotlin code than I expected?

Although I kind of like IDEA and (particularly) PyCharm in terms of functionality (and dark mode, which they've had for a while), I quit using them because I didn't like the sluggish/underwater feel.
Is there an open source covid vaccine? One that publishes the commented mRNA code for example. I don't use proprietary software on my computer so the notion that I would inject some in my body seems weird to me.
Honda did an experiment where they added LCD's to the headlights to give the car expressive eyes to communicate to people outside the car.

Also while it is scary to us and it will take a while there are already self driven vehicles we just take for granted like elevators and driverless trams/trains. Sure they are much easier to make but they weren't trusted at first.
Companies which respect your privacy and freedom:

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https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide

https://ryf.fsf.org
Deep thinking isn’t something “inherently good”. If you’re not inclined to it, I think that’s fine. Most humans may not be.

What I take away from reading profiles of the very intelligent is that for many of them the thing they’re known for also happens to be the thing they like doing and are inclined to it despite themselves. Some enjoy the pleasure that comes from deep thinking. Others enjoy understanding what others have thought up. It’s fine. There’s no competition.
I was seeing a specialist once who was being shadowed by two med students on rotation, and the doctor started talking about chemtrails. The look on the med students' faces when he started going into that...

Med school requires good analytical smarts and an excellent ability to retain information, but I'm quite convinced at this point that raw analyical ability has almost nothing to do with the ability to think critically to avoid insane beliefs. It's just not something that humans come built-in with.
BestBuy has added third party sellers online too: https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/about/selling-on-marketplace/bl...

Though they don’t seem to have many yet, I did run across it recently. In-store pickup items are still seemingly safe though.
We’re not the only ones to notice. Others have [1].

[1] https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/10489/pierre-cardi...
If you restrict your interest into people with pre-existing conditions, the death rate of COVID is even higher and any danger posed by the vaccine is even less relevant to them.

Maybe all ten children killed in the Cutter incident had pre-existing conditions. Most people have a pre-existing condition of some sort or another. It was an effort to inoculate generally, so that's why I used the death rate of COVID in the general population as a comparison.
The wager I am making here: If I'm in the first hundred million doses somewhere as an essential worker, if it has an unintended side effect, there's going to be 100 million reasons for them to fix the damage.

This will likely be the best most widely distributed medical treatment in history, so if something is wrong with it, the medical industry will be pushed as hard to develop a treatment as it was to develop the vaccine in the first place.

The riskiest treatment you can take is one for a rare disease or narrow use case. Because there's less financial incentive to fix it. When trying to divine any businesses' priorities, follow the money.
Just about any food is potentially unhealthy if not consumed in moderation. A bag of potato chips and a Coke now and then isn't going to kill anyone. But a couple bags and half a dozen cans a day sure isn't good for you. And a porterhouse steak every day probably isn't that great for you either.
I've questioned the lack of driving experience as a risk factor since the pool of experienced driver excludes those who died becoming experienced.

Assuming someone has a certain (constant) probability of excluding himself from the driving pool every year, over time the average percentage will drop as folks most susceptible from excluding themselves will have already done so.
Presumably you've all stopped using Amazon because of this issue, so they're motivated to fix it..?
This is the problem with the CDC’s plan. 40% of people said they will get the vaccine but “wait a bit”. So starting in phase 1 (demand exceeded supply) is the wrong strategy. That’s one reason why states have administered so few vaccines, even doctors and nurses don’t want it.

Start with administering to anyone who wants it, and restrict once demand exceeds supply.
I want to know who is responsible when the AI makes the wrong decision and someone gets hurt. I want that to be fleshed out first.

Beyond that, if SDCs are even just as safe as HDCs, I'm good.
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Culture of discipline. If government says you to wear masks, you don't run a rally because not wearing a mask is your "human right". You wear a mask.
I know a lot of parts for many items I use are made in China including the iphone but one thing I do notice is pretty much everything I buy that is entirely Chinese is crap that breaks in short order. I wouldn't go near a Chinese built plane.
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Essentially anything that deviates from WHO guidelines, that is to say conventional wisdom and orthodoxy...
Not saying this is good, but one should be aware that the flu shot is a bit of a special situation. Unfortunately it's a really poor vaccine compared to other commonly given vaccines, but it's an exception. The calculations how much the flu shot helps aren't pretty. You can also see this by the fact that in many european countries flu vaccination is not recommended for the whole population.

Most vaccines have amazing effectiveness. If you take something like measles, it's basically "take 2 shots and you have a more than 90% chance of being protected for a lifetime". This is a much easier win than "you need to have a shot every year and the effectiveness is varying somewhere between 40-60%".

Luckily it seems Covid vaccines are more like measles vaccines than like flu vaccines - at least in terms of effectiveness.
Armored Core Master of Arena was a 2 disk game that let you use both disks for 2-playstation versus mode.

Which was good, because there was a critical bug in the split-screen mode (one player had no radar).

And yes, I miss Bushido Blade. Even back in the 90s I was annoyed how much emphasis fighting games put on combos and complicated inputs.
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Unfortunately, Fakespot isn't catching it either:

https://www.fakespot.com/product/taktoppy-drones-for-kids-uf...

And the example from the article also got an A, but looks like Amazon may have fixed it? Only 54 reviews now:

https://www.fakespot.com/product/shwd-ufo-drones-for-kids-ha...
Using the law as a moral compass is a bad idea.
Cat API is pretty cool https://thecatapi.com/
> There will be cases where a court determines that the autonomous system was the cause.

At the moment, manufacturers almost totally escape blame for fatal accidents [involving human drivers] - it's understood societally and in the legal system that the human driver was the one at fault.

That isn't a totally accurate picture of the responsibility. The manufacturer provided a vehicle that included a risk of fatal accident. (Reducing this wrong and describing it as 'lives saved' feels uncomfortable to me)

With an autonomous system, blame for fatalities can no longer be placed on a human driver: and yet, there is still a failure of responsibility (maybe this will be a more accurate placement of blame)
> The provision received very little attention, in part because it wasn’t included in the text of the 5,593-page legislation, but as a “committee comment” attached to the annual intelligence authorization act, which was rolled into the massive bill.

Business as usual, hardly worth mentioning ... those who like politics and sausage shouldn't watch the process by which they happen.
What do you mean by getting people to implicitly commit to finish the conversation?

Do you just ask them explicitly to spend the time with you? I’m confused by the word “implicit.”

Intuitively that seems a great way to reach a productive point of the conversation, since it forces both of you to seek resolution so that you can go do your laundry after.
Oh it's way crazier than that, Deezer has already publicly said "We know about it and don't indend to patch it"

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/10/26/deezer-pirate-ap...
>One must go into debt to achieve a life that goes in any way beyond sheer survival.

I strongly disagree with this. Personal debts aren't like government debt, they need to be repaid. The interest rates on personal loans and credit cards are high.

Being indebted closes off opportunities that are available to people with savings. It enslaves you to your job.

Note this has very little to do with being rich or poor. Anybody can spend more than they earn. In fact the poorest need to be most careful because they are the ones most exposed to usurious interest rates.
Talc baby powder is very safe because it is required to be safe by law. If talc baby powder is not shown to be very safe, it definitely will not be allowed to stay on the market for decades after the government learns it is giving us cancer.
It isn't just a simple blue screen composite because distortion from the bevel on the glass has been simulated too.
Spoiler:

This is the best movie I’ve ever seen in my life period. This moment in the beginning draws you into the movie and then you have the intense effect of immersion throughout the film, and in the end the unreal scene where Ellie touches the universe bubble. It warps up leaving you with a perfect quality of awe and wander. The whole movie is a perfect trifecta of trifecta’s.
Friend in SoCal recently called his primary care physician to ask about COVID testing because he and his wife had some possible symptoms (persistent cough). The doctor prescribed him a steroidal inhaler (he's had asthma before) and told him not to worry about it, but that symptoms persisted more than a week he could do an in person consult after he got back from vacation in Cabo.

They got tested and quarantined anyway... and came up negative, but are still changing PCP.
> In the end the dead bodies count and it doesn't matter whether a cautious or inexperienced driver killed them

It matters to the safe drivers. Bad drivers are mostly a danger to themselves. At only "1.5x as safe as average", it's a good deal for the bad drivers, but there are probably a lot of "2x as safe as average" drivers that are getting a bad deal. They are in more danger than before.

Edited for clarity.
Serious adverse reaction are incredibly rare. And the fact that they keep you for a moment after giving you a dose just shows how seriouse even very minor risk of serious reaction is treated in context of vaccines. But you took it as indication of highly probable danger.

I wonder if there are parallels with flying. All those behaviors that ensure incredible safety of traveling just make people think it's dangerous.
I live in the world of the average, law-abiding working man in the USA. Violence is not an every-day part of life for me or anyone I know. Unless you live in an extremely bad neighborhood or a third-world country, violence isn't part of every-day life.

And anyway, if actual physical violence is a daily or weekly occurrence, the supposed bad influence of video games is probably the least of your worries.

"Have you ever driven in traffic, seen someone arrested, PAID YOUR TAXES?" (emphasis mine)

What the heck are you talking about regarding taxes? Also, traffic accidents don't really count as "violence" in the context of this discussion. Arrests are something that generally happen for a reason, so again not a normal part of life for most people.
Wow, y'all don't have much imagination. I mean, if money were no object, I could easily want a nice little place by the beach. I'm not talking some giant mansion with loads of servants, just a nice place, let's say 2000 sq ft. Ah, here's a 3 bed/3 bath condo of 1887 sq feet on the beach ... for $4.9 million: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Malibu/26170-Pacific-Coast-Hwy-902....

Obviously there are much cheaper places to live than Malibu, but again, if I had the money I wouldn't mind living there.
Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.
Did you just call Tesla a "luxury, polished" car? It may be luxurious because of the price tag and lack of polish for the money (i.e. you could easily get a more polished product for the same money). I.e. a Mercedes will get you more luxury and polish for the same dollar.

Tesla is, if anything, similar to Apple in how closed-off they are. Teslas are attractive because of their design and powerful electric powertrain, but polished they are not.
Okay. Is there anything rational about what this judge in Vienna did?
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That’s what robots are supposed to do, right?
I want to ask. You don't eat by proprietary recipes made food and drinks too?
Yeah, you will be last in line. An insignificant market with high entry costs. You won't have to decline, you won't get the chance.

You're probably behind Tahoe in the line.

Just like you don't get Google Fi or Google Fibre. And just like some countries don't get YouTube Premium or whatever.
In his case, also doodling with paper and pencil.
Lift weights (plus some cardio). Start your day happy with what's looking back in the mirror.

It's become a foundation habit (a habit that is the basis for other habits), leading to healthy eating, a positive attitude, and stronger discipline.

I bought 5-50 bar bells (core home fitness) and a folding bench early this year and use FitBod for customized workouts and tracking streaks.

I used to be focused on cardio only (running and rowing) and adding weights was a game changer for me.
In amusement parks you get a much smaller selection of the population than on the street or even at an airport. People who don't enjoy thrill just have no reason to visit them at all.

Aside from that, all the systems you mentioned are mechanically constrained way more than a car. Accidents happen, when these mechanical constraints physically fail, not when a computer makes a wrong choice because it failed to detect an obstacle or similar.
This is a huge problem. Or a single "product page" with "variants" that are completely different products.

I just outright refuse to buy from these sellers but it is clearly a successful model.
No, on the contrary: deaths through those drivers can be eliminated. It only makes sense to look at total number of deaths, including by alcohol, drugs, inexperienced drivers, elderly drivers, distracted drivers (smartphone, etc.).
MarkMonitor for businesses and large organizations. They have a lot of resources that can work with your legal team if domain legal issues crop up. They also have a legal presence in multiple countries that require you to have a local presence to get their ccTLD. They can super-lock domains so that if someone manages to change the root servers, they can instantly change it back unless a processes that you define is followed.
You shouldn't be downvoted. It's reasonable to be anxious.

A few weeks ago, a prominent and "mainstream" French doctor said that he wouldn't get an mRNA vaccine shot until he had access to the corresponding scientific publications (not available at the time). In the meantime, he said he wouldn't be able to make an informed decision.

https://www.sortiraparis.com/news/coronavirus/articles/23798...

Personally, I mostly trust the medical institutions of my country and I'll probably follow their recommendations without second-thoughts. Yet, it never hurts to have some doubts, especially in this context.

EDIT: It's one of these topics where you're not allowed to express the slightest, tiniest, doubt.
When a human kills someone with a car because they're drunk, or texting, I don't have much empathy for them.

I read a statistic long ago - don't know how true it is, but it feels truthy - that half of all traffic fatalities happen between 9pm and 3am on friday and saturday nights. The fact that autonomous systems will never be intoxicated, distracted, or emotional makes me feel much safer.
It’s called the HK (hunter/killer).
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What kind of items you typically buy? How are their prices looks like compared to items manufactured from other places (USA EU etc)?

I often heard YouTube comments claim that one got crappy Chinese products because of they paid cheap price. I don't have much experience in buying items directly from China (I bought a drill and impact drive from AliExpress, have been OK); want to learn your experience.
> Bad drivers are mostly a danger to themselves.

Source? It seems only logical that the number of accidental deaths goes up with the number of bad drivers on the road - not just because they kill themselves.