skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to not be on the US site, for now, but that's very discouraging to see. I don't know where to turn for electronics if Best Buy goes to crap, too.

(I smell a market opportunity for a retailer that sells only quality products...)
Since this article is written from a COVID-19 perspective on vaccines, and since I had a pretty nasty case of Coronavirus this past summer, I thought I would give my opinion.

1) Most (all?) humans on planet Earth are going to produce antibodies to COVID-19, or die. It's highly contagious and getting worse with new variants.
2) Given this, we have a choice: get the antibodies the easy way (take the vaccine), or get the antibodies the hard way (catch the virus).

For some people, the virus is no big deal. For me, it meant suffering for 2 weeks, and to others it is way worse, getting sent to the hospital, and some (a tiny percentage) not surviving it at all.

Given the risk of a new vaccine vs the risk of getting COVID and suffering, I would take the new vaccine 100 out of 100 times. I tell people that had I known how bad catching the virus was, I would have taken BOTH vaccines at the same time to avoid having to go through that. (Also, I'm under 40 and very healthy/athletic.)

I'm also highly averse to "optional vaccines" in the first place, and only give my children the absolute required vaccines to keep society and themselves safe.

Just my perspective on this, but I come across so many people who do not see things the same. In the end, a lot of people are going to suffer with the virus due to applying their fears to the wrong thing.
Would you happen to have the exact paper?
>The one sensor that is guaranteed to have sufficient information to drive in all conditions is vision.

Minor nit but humans can't drive--certainly not safely--in all conditions. You can certainly get to a point in fog, blizzards, and even very heavy rain where you really would like to get off the road if possible. (Not always possible of course and in snow particularly, pulling off to the side of a highway isn't a great option.)
I'm not Chinese.. sorry if I was too rude... Agree that slavery is just hidden now and called by a different name.. it's sad, America with it's literally unlimited resources can do much better for it's own citizens, but it's too divided on class and uses race problems to divert attention from the real problem that the lower classes are screwed over in every possible way.. I think if the politicians there were a little less corrupt it would have been so much more nicer for regular folk..
What the 70k figure tells us, is that such an income (adjusting for local conditions) is roughly the inflection point of diminishing returns for basic needs in Maslow's hierarchy.

It isn't so much that people are overall satisfied at 70k, but that people with more are _no less_ satisfied. It is a plateau. Many will still want more and may be unhappy. At that point happiness must be sought by other means (love, community, esteem, self-actualization), which might indeed involve the application of money, but it requires doing something worthwhile (from the perspective of that individual). Something money enables, such as a bigger house isn't enough (by itself).

It isn't that money above 70k doesn't improve wellbeing, but that isn't sufficient by itself to do so.
There's a very simple argument to counter this thought.

It's true mrna vaccines are new, but also the sars-cov2 virus is new. Your question shouldn't be if you're worried about mrna vaccines, your question should be if you should be more worried about mrna vaccines than about getting infected.

Serious long term sideeffects from mrna vaccines? Possible, but very unlikely. Serious long term sideeffects from covid-19? Absolutely, and there's a lot we still don't know.
Considering their sole description of the Duke of Edinburgh is "casual racist", I think they're having some fun putting this list together.
To use your physics analogy, the situation with Penrose and AI would be like someone going "see, Newtonian physics don't explain everything, I told you physics is unsolvable!".
That's weird, I run IntelliJ perfectly fine on a retina MBP with two 1440p displys (so I get to see both HiDPI and rgegular DPI working on the same machine at the same time), and my 4K Dell XPS laptop.
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2FA reduces the changes of someone logging into your registrars web interface as you. It does not prevent actual hacking, an inept or malicious employee or someone operating a compromised registrar.
It has to do with your argument being a bad argument.

> Only 10 in 200,000 died from a vaccine

This doesn't negate the fact that vaccines can be dangerous. This just happens to be the number for that particular vaccine.

> 10 in 200,000 deaths is better than 1 in 100

The 10 could have been fine without the vaccine. Who knows, it's just speculation; maybe they had pre-existing conditions, maybe they did not. But comparing numbers like this knowing that the 10 in 200,000 are drawn from a different population from the 1 in 100 is being disingenuous.
Branding is an emergent phenomenon in nature as well, e.g. flowers of particular shapes to attract bees. The book "Alchemy" by Rory Sutherland goes into this.
> I expect that in the end it will come down to a business decision, and that decision will be informed by an actuarial exercise: Will profits and insurance be able to cover the costs of defending and settling such cases.

I'm seeing type of phrasing occur more and more. Once the defendant can be named in a legal action, we'll start seeing SDVs. IMHO, the worry isn't that they will kill, but that no one is to blame.

Although it will change the day to day narrative of a pedestrian. E.g., My thought process will change from this person might not see me, to, that car's AI might not see me. ... or even "Oh, its a Toyota, they kill more than Hyundai... stand back!" But now I'm just writing SciFi.
In the wiki an int compare(int * , int * ) function [1] is used, which is odd if the elements are not pointers (when P is defined). Shouldn't it be changed to int compare(int, int) when P is defined? I wonder if it impacts at all the benchmarks.

[1] https://github.com/glouw/ctl/blob/49b90312f9473057fd2ed77941...
Does self-driving have to handle all weather conditions right away? A sensible implementation needs to take the current conditions into account, such as the weather and the status of the road and car. If those are bad, it would refuse to active itself, similarly to how a responsible human would choose to not drive in bad conditions.
All of the standard procedures for vaccine approval were followed. Timeline compression happened mostly by parallelizing procedures.

(In the western world. Russia's Sputnik approval did skip steps. Which has probably saved a bunch of lives there, but it was riskier than ours).
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I hope people aren't driving with cruise control in the left lane. I think I'd probably pass on the right to get clear of them.
An other link to the New York Times where I can't read the article without creating an account o/
I suppose you're right. US would come to be known as anti-user-generated-content, as Australia came to be known as a place where the gov can compel companies to make backdoors. Companies would migrate their workforce, servers, etc..
Maybe not the death of the global internet, but not good for the US.

"Australian tech companies have said that the bill could hurt their business overseas, because customers would doubt their promises to protect encrypted data."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/world/australia/encryptio...
Is it? I regularly look elsewhere because I can't be confident that I am getting what I want.

I guess if they expect that the products are worse than they appear then making reviews useless would be helpful. But if they have some good products and good reviews I would be more inclined to buy.

It seems that there is the a low area what bad quality reviews help more purchases but for the middle quality and good quality products I would expect low review quality to drive sales elsewhere.
Maybe Benson Leung?

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/225719-amazon-bans-che...

Try https://usbccompliant.com/
On the contrary, I think as AV and other semi-autonomous driving tech becomes more frequent on the road, people will be more easily able to recognize it and won't behave irrationally as you mentioned.
Yes, exactly. It is often required as a condition of employment and (pre-COVID) in the hospital I am aware of, if you would/could not get the flu shot then you were required to wear a surgical mask at all times during that year.

"By occupation, flu vaccination coverage was highest among physicians (98.0%), nurses (92.0%), pharmacists (90.6%), and nurse practitioners and physician assistants (88.8%)
Flu vaccination coverage was lowest among other clinical health care personnel (81.7%), assistants and aides (72.4%), and nonclinical health care personnel (76.7%)."
This is a huge one. If PyCharm is indexing one of your PyPi or NPM caches, the memory footprint dwarfs your active code by orders of magnitude.
Anyone knows if the small number of people who do get side-effects from a vaccine would have been been likely to get a severe form of the disease if infected?

Or if the side-effect subset is random.
Which could be done today. The vast majority of people obviously don't consider that acceptable in general.
I think it depends on how deep you want to go in the unfamiliar language, and how easy it is for the candidate to find a reference on it.

Home assignments should never be hours long - you can find a myriad of threads here on HN saying that's bullshit and I believe they're right. But IMO the best candidates are the ones that can teach themselves and know where to look when they have trouble, and in the post COVID world a remote interview is all you have.

So let's say you asked them to print out the first 50 Fibonacci numbers, nicely formatted. Could they figure out what you're asking, learn the 4-5 basic elements of your language (declare some variables, set up a loop, add two numbers, and print it out) and send it back with less than an hour's work? I'd say that's reasonable. If they sail through that first gate than you can always ramp up with a second assignment that goes deeper.

But I'd provide a language reference right from the start to save time. Don't make this an internet scavenger hunt for no reason.
Nobody cares. The C919 can be as reliable as nothing else in the market, people will still prefer flying Western airplanes over the Comac.

Shitty bias is shitty.
They can be quite difficult to get into, particularly for those who haven't had similar experiences, but I think they are worth the effort. They are also stylistically brilliant and contain some great character sketches so they are worth approaching from that angle too.

They will give you great insight into the sense of unease felt by functionaries in a dying empire who can sense the end, and react in various ways to this (disillusion, cynicism, outrage, despair). He's also big on doomed or failed relationships which never quite seem to end (in particular catholic marriages), and of course the books shed light on the relationship of a lapsed catholic to God, who pops up when you least expect him. As you may be able to tell from that summary, they are not often light reading, though he does spice the stories with little jokes. A sense of doom and unease just comes with his world view I think and you can never escape that in his novels.

Our man in Havana is quite fun without being too heavy, so that might be a good place to start. The Quiet American is also good and concerned with the end of another empire (the French colony in Vietnam), and the sharp end of the US intervention there.
I use IntelliJ on a 2015 Macbook pro and an equivalently old Dell Latitude running Ubuntu 20.04. The mac has only an i5 dual core processor with 8GB RAM while the Dell has an i7 quad core processor with 16 GB RAM. I hardly find any performance difference with IntelliJ on both the machines.
I agree with this description.

I don't expect access to something running a minimal SoC with code burned to its ROM. I do expect it for something with a general OS that runs arbitrary code.

This can get tricky with modern devices. For example, pretty much every router runs some version of linux. Most do not give you root unless you flash your own firmware.
I got this in Chrome, it worked in Edge
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Why is the flu vaccine "really bad"?

The average efficacy isn't necessarily high, but I don't see how that is enough to call it really bad. That gets balanced against the benefit it does have, the cost, the safety, etc.
It includes a full emulator, there's no other way to run code generated at runtime which it can do.
>CDC makes a guess for what goes into the next season's flu shot and they're only ~50% correct.

I hear this argument a lot and it doesn't make sense to me. If the CDC predicts strain A will be dominant and vacinates against it, shouldn't we expect strain A to be supressed?
Flood the queue with invalid numbers and timings can still be worked out.
I think they use a slightly custom JVM that modified slightly from the standard one. This release must include such changes, I guess.
It is not unusual at all to enter into a contract by registering an account on a webpage.
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I think I read that ninety something perfect of driving deaths or accidents are people being irresponsible in the manner you said, but can’t find a source again, so take it with a grain of salt.

I was able to find one that of the 37k driving deaths in 2016, 10-11k involved BAC over .08 and about the same involved speeding. Not knowing the overlap, 10-22k/30k is 27-59% of deaths involving drunk driving or speeding.

If it was on the high end of that, then to do better than speeding and/or drinking alone, you have to be at least 2.5x safer than human.

I wish there were better stats on the safety of the sort of driver you would let drive you around (e.g. you wouldn’t get in the car with your drunk friend behind the wheel).
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My point is that there are too many components to have complete control over the whole supply chain, so these types of issues will come up and hopefully responded to accordingly. I really appreciate that these sustainable devices exist, and I think they are a huge step forward.

Getting back to the initial comment I made... I think it's important to keep a company like Apple/Google/Samsung honest regarding their attention to their supplier's ethics. A company like Apple is going to be pretty responsive to concerns of worker mistreatment, if presented in an honest way. If we are too quick to incriminate Apple whenever a story like this comes up, it comes off more like we have an agenda against them, especially if we are not vetting the story before expressing outrage.
Yeah my eyebrow was already up reading this article but when I saw "Fitness" as a non-essential I lost all faith. I don't agree with the premise, though I can sorta see where the author is coming from, but if you think that fitness is non-essential given the state of the American healthcare system you're out of your mind.
> Personal debts aren't like government debt, they need to be repaid.

Why?

Serious question. Do you mean this morally (like, "you gave your word"), practically ("if consumers defaulted in high numbers, it would cause economic ruin"), or something else?

As Graeber points out, many ancient societies had a notion of jubilee years, where all outstanding debts were forgiven and debt-servitude eliminated. There doesn't seem to be a fundamental reason why personal debt should be somehow fixed.

Or did you mean that all just practically: in the US (??), one ought to avoid debt, because it's hard to escape in the current legal regime? (Which I'm not entirely sure I agree with; personal bankruptcy is quite common, but, sure, it wouldn't be my first choice.)
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I'm pro vaccine. I hope everyone who can gets one. These are just my thoughts on why we see skepticism.

The more the media treats covid vaccines like they're marketing the latest iphone release the more skeptical I become. It's very unsettling to me personally.

Black people in this country have the Tuskeegee experiment as a huge reason to be skeptical of vaccines.

Over the course of the last year the sense-making organizations have lost a ton of credibility by lying to get the outcome they wanted instead of educating us. The most blatant examples are probably when the surgeon general and WHO told us wearing masks would kill us because they didn't want us to buy masks that would save our lives, they wanted to save those for healthcare workers. Fauci has recently admitted he lied about his estimates for herd immunity because he believed it would aid compliance. Birx told us not to mix family and then had a mixed family Thanksgiving. The list of governors/congress/media personalities hypocritically breaking the rules they push feels unending. Fourteen days to slow the spread turned into shut down everything until there's a cure. These things have a cost, and we are seeing it.
And given the relatively low occurence of situations that would require a gun if you don't use it for sport, your choice seems rational and reasonable. I think you're also right about the sick people comment. The two people I know who committed suicide were elderly and started experiencing alzheimer's. Their decisions seemed quite final. I suppose if I were in a similar situation, I would probably find it a rational decision, but I'm not sure if it would be reasonable.

I've heard the argument before (temporary idea and effective means), which probably is true of the non-terminally ill. I haven't seen any data supporting it so far. I've also haven't seen any definitive evidence against it, only suggestive stuff.

There are some states with restrictive gun laws that show a slight decrease, but others seem to be unaffected (continue to increase). Just as there were less restrictive states that show the same mixed behavior. (CDC data referenced by both sides)

One thing that I saw in the CDC data was that suicide rates have risen over the past 30 or so years for all states. Non-firearm suicides are 27% more common since the 80s, but it didn't look at why firearms are decreasing as a percentage. RAND says the number of homes with at least one firearm has stayed fairly consistent over that time (40% -/+ 5%). So it seems that there isn't a substantial reduction in suicides based solely on gun control laws, but it seems it's also impossible to say if the number would have been higher without those restrictions. The fact the ownership has stayed the same, but firearms are a lower percentage of suicide cases could just be demographic or preference issue, but we don't know.

One interesting thing I observed which I didn't see studies about (because both sides are focused on just confirming their positions on pro/anti gun policies) is the correlation between mental healthcare service ratings and suicide. This is just rough, but I found these two maps appearing to be more correlated than the gun ownership and suicide maps/studies. Just something I found interesting and would need an actual study to look into it.

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/ranking-states

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/...
Used to be a brief period a few years back when you could order quality items on amazon.co.jp. All with free Prime shipping to US. Now it’s equally full of poorly designed and manufactured Chinese products.
This raises an interesting consideration for typesetting engines like TeX. Maybe we should only use the full stop character for sentence breaks, and to typeset initialisms use a directive like \initials{USA}. This also allows the style/template to determine whether (or not) to intercalate the initials with full stop characters when typesetting the document.
Most people who become seriously ill from vaccines have previously existing conditions as well. That's totally irrelevant here.
What do you call a conspiracy theorist with evidence? A conspiracy theorist.

I'd like to know why so many people have become so convinced they have the Truth (with the capital). I haven't as much faith in the sunrise as some people seem to have in whatever the Ministries of Truth are saying today.
I think TV shows tend to be much more of a mixed bag. The Sopranos (1999), The Wire (2002), and Firefly (2002) were all shows at the forefront of the current renaissance in dramatic television— they were all shot on film, but it's interesting that Firefly for example was natively 16:9 and cropped to 4:3 for its original run, whereas The Wire's "conversion" to widescreen has been a matter of some more controversy, eg: https://www.techhive.com/article/2854439/hbo-remastered-the-...

Another interesting aspect of Firefly is that the pure VFX scenes (eg spaceship exteriors) were rendered originally at 480p, so when you watch the Blu-ray version of the show, you can see a bit of an awkward transition where the shots of the actors are gloriously crisp, but the space scenes are clearly upscaled.
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I sent them an email with my request. The email address can be found on the CA Attorney General's webpage here https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers?combine=dt+client I used the form from Epic which is on this page https://epic.org/ccpa/ There are no costs associated with this and they are required to provide the information to you up to two times in a year. Not every business must comply.
I never said vaccines can't be dangerous. I was talking about the relative danger of a vaccine. A plausible upper bound on the absolute risk is the Cutter incident. Covid is way above that. Even a shitty vaccine that occasionally kills people at a rate of 10 in 200,000, it would still be a better bet than COVID.

The people getting the Polio vaccine (children) were the general population of people at highest risk of death by polio. The same is true for the Covid vaccine, at least for the next few months. Both are mass vaccination campaigns.
Mean is an average, not the average. Mode is an average. Median is an average.
Eating something is different to putting it directly in your blood. Kinda like the difference between running a program as an unprivileged user and as root. Regarding your question I avoid them, and it is surprisingly easy to do so, most chefs seemed happy to share their recipes with me. As for drinks the ones that I drink tend to be simple (water, carbonated water, alcohol, etc).
This is by far the best engineering hack of the year:

Use off-shelf-chatrooms-software to create rooms but instead of chatting you send ROM game commands to each other and allow for multiplayer gaming!
> Since NewEgg started up their 3rd party seller program, I've also switched to Best Buy. Running out of places to buy from that aren't flooded with trash.

I still buy from NewEgg, but the first thing I do when I hit the search results is to click the Sold by Newegg button. Might be a few bucks more, but at least I'm getting the real deal ... at least so far.
Yeah, it's a pain. I want Firefox to just come with a button that opens up a javascript console and editor with a canvas so you can start programming.

I wonder if things would be different if every web browser came with a user-friendly (and beginner-friendly) programming environment.
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I’ve started buying electronics from B&H Photo and Provantage recently. So far I’ve been very happy and the prices are reasonable.
Is there a good primer on the good faith arguments on both sides for the employee vs. contractor debate for these gig companies?