skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> scaremongering is spending 2/3rds of an article playing up how teflon poisoning our blood is some tightly-guarded secret by nefarious actors

Issue is - it was tightly-guarded secret by nefarious actors, and still is because "informing" as you say does not do anything. I do not know how you call the people who poison other people for the sake of profit, but historically if you do it on small scale they call you murderer and you end up behind the bars. I would like to avoid quoting Stalin here. By many country law, for instance if you see crime in progress (rape, murder, robbery...) and you do not do anything about it you are defined as accomplice, in DuPont no one said anything, they had mortgages, families to feed, salaries and investment to protect.

So, DuPont knew all along that their product is not safe because they paid for the tests, and they hid the results. Their explanation was and still is that Teflon is too valuable and it is American product. So, lets scale this down, let's say I make a alcohol beverage, and it has poisons levels of methanol, and I know about it I know it is deadly, but I serve you that drink never the less because my excuse is, "I would be too ashamed and I will lose profit", so my question to you is what I am doing criminal is it evil and wicked?

Now, what if you scale that same beverage to the entire planet, and you do not tell anyone, because business is booming? People are poisoned slowly ...

"In 2019, DuPont led the Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index.[34] The film Dark Waters dramatized a legal case against DuPont related to contaminating a town in West Virginia with unregulated toxic chemicals which poisoned thousands of individuals, this case led to DuPont finally settling all 3,535 cases for $670.7 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)

In DuPont case they settled for $670.7 million and no one ended behind bars, and government needed years before reeling finding, while at the same time DuPont was lobbying and using different kind of other tricks to stop the entire case. DuPont for instance delayed the case, and prolong poisoning of all people on the planet, by finding loophole that says that case can be run against them on person bases. The entire battle lasted for 20 years.
And you tell me that is not nefarious?
How many people do you know that had perseverance to continue battle for 20 years, when you are running out of resources and everyone is abandoning you?

And I would like if you could explain me what is "actionable information"?
You cannot go to hospital and say, please extract PFAS and PFOS out of me, it is deposited in our bodies, slowly killing us and we cannot do zip about it, only thing we can do is go for DuPont management (as it seems from the 2019 they have not change the way they do business) and shut them down forever and put all connected behind the bars.
Hi Cory, I've seen you post Place Card Me a couple times on the passive income project threads on HN. I'm really happy to see that your efforts on that project and others are paying dividends, and I find your story and stats here really inspiring! Thank you for sharing :)
I was talking with a doctor friend today, who indicated that a 70% effective vaccine will be basically useless in the face of a more contagious strain. She said even if 100% of people get the vaccine (not likely), the 30% of people for whom it is not effective would allow it to spread to a greater extent than we would want.
I think he means a remote worker in Tempe, AZ will not be any better or worse than one in Salida, Colorado. All else being equal.
I use to think UBI was a good thing, but looking at what's happened in the past year, I was completely and totally wrong. UBI would likely be a complete disaster. It'd be less Star Trek and more The Expanse. This is a horrible idea.
A better analogy might be two kids standing at the bottom of a tree arguing about what the fruit tastes like, but they’re too small to jump or climb to get the fruit and find out.

It’s not wrong to want to find out what the fruit tastes like. Both kids have good ideas about what it might taste like, and there are many such plausible ideas. But the tree is tall, and remains out of their reach, and all they can do is speculate. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of other interesting things they could be doing.
Not every ethical notion needs to be legislated. I don’t think anyone is suggesting everyone enforced to publish all source code, however, not releasing source code can be perceived as unethical...or shady AF if that makes more sense.

The fact is, it may protect against piracy but practically all consumer software nowadays is doing something on your device that you wouldn’t approve of. The only realistic way for a user to know how their resources are being used would be to look at the source code.
My favorite front end frameworks
Are Visa/MC really able to store and use data for that purpose wrt to e.g the GDPR? Advertising/marketing certainly isn’t necessary for what they are doing so it would be requiring specific consent?
you guys are now fucked.... so .... fucked
US agencies operate in "Most Western Countries".

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44313905

- https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP/...

- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias...

- https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/death-athens-rogue-nsa-o...
I used to live in San Francisco and like to travel so I've used Google maps all around the world. While it is fairly accurate everywhere I strongly believe that the accuracy is proportional to your distance from Mountain View.
Well, then they’ll have 1 mile walking time to surrender.
OTOH, I made a different trade-off by staying in my home country, which has some but not that much tech.

Now it looks like this move towards remote will mean that I won't have to sacrifice all the interesting jobs for the sake of lifestyle choices.

Seems like a win to me, at least.
I remember reading about some construction bricks with removable access panels along these same lines, but apparently I was hallucinating because I cannot for the life of me find these regardless of any combination of search terms on both DDG and Google. I also remember them still being in the design/prototype stage, so they're probably vaporware.
I just found a use-case for the sleep( rand(1000) ) function :-)
damn thats pretty cool
Why putting character flaws into quotes? They are still character flaws, the same way as same behavior is if it is not coming from rich powergul person.

There is no reason to pretend it is something special. If they helped him to get more money and more credit and what not, that does not make them not flaws.
The same reason iphones have animations for transitions, to stop the average joe from getting confused.
People stopped using gold because of greed and power. They introduced a usurious system in order to collect wealth to a small group of people, resulting in the mess we're in today. Gold, silver, and commodities are the superior solution.
If it doesn't have a clear and easy workflow to subscribe then use, it will be doomed to be never widely adopted. Show a video on your main page that shows it can be done in less than 3 minutes or otherwise I know for a fact that people I know will never take the time to try and adopt this new "social network".
Happened to me in much same way in Malaysia, when I went there on a holiday from Singapore using a bike of my coworker.

It was a surprise to get into such thick jungle so close to civilisation.

Though, I myself though I will never get into such a stupid situation, and probably those two thought of the same.

As somebody who spent childhood in Russian far east, I think wasn't even told not to fare into forests for it being so obviously dangerous as shown by lengthy necrologues in style "Ivan Ivanov 1980.1.1 went to forest on 2000.2.2, never returned, presumed dead"
A key nuance often lost in this discussion is that most companies have a mix of engineers along an interesting dimension: those competing locally and those competing globally. When everyone is local, it easy to conflate the two. When everyone is remote, you suddenly have a bimodal wage distribution if you are in a tech hub.

Some people are paid a lot for where they are (like truck drivers in the North Dakota oil fields) and other people are paid a lot for their skills (like professional athletes), and most are paid for bits of both. Some skill sets are rare and in high demand globally, concentrating in places like Silicon Valley and Seattle because that was where you could get the best compensation if you happen to have those skills. There is no implication that a large pool of cheaper but similarly skilled people exists elsewhere — professional sports would look very different otherwise.

Ironically, I’ve lived in Seattle but worked remotely for European companies for years. It has always been highly competitive with the best that FAANG/unicorns have to offer in terms of compensation, which surprises people but I’m not compensated for where I live — that is incidental.

I will make an observation based on experience I’ve seen few people make: there are many companies not located in SF/Seattle/NYC that would pay almost anything for a rare-skill engineer but they are located a long way from a major tech hub and they would never be able to convince a rare-skill engineer to move there. If you have these skills and the world goes remote, that suddenly becomes part of your buyer market. It works both ways and this isn’t theoretical. There are a lot of opportunities in places few engineers look because they don’t want to move there.

As an engineer, positioning yourself to operate in the global market does not imply a race to the bottom. For the highly skilled, it can often imply the opposite.
The higher resolution shots on the manufacturer website look more like it's coated with something.

https://uavtek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Bug-Nano-1A-...

https://uavtek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Bug-Nano-Ima...
I think google don’t use OSM data.
Great work! And thank you for making it available for everyone.

Did you also run tests against other libraries such as glib?
Spain will register people who refuse Covid vaccine, says health minister
Except for Pretty Errors, nothing else is useful for me.
And why are so many packages related to ML/AI? Is there no development for anything else anymore?
That sounds to me like "if we don't let our suppliers use child labor, those children's families will starve" argumentation.

We in the west are complicit in the use of child and slave labor when we buy products produced in this manner, but because it happens on the other side of the globe and is cheaper that way, we turn a blind eye.

The solution is not to ignore the issue. The solution is to draw a line in the sand and say "this is unacceptable, clean up your act or no deal", and for that to be backed by international trade agreements. It is up to us, as the lucrative market they wish to sell to, to make these demands.

Full transparency and accountability in all supply lines is a must. It should not be possible to hide behind "a supplier did this, we're not responsible".

I hope we'll see a move to more local production, instead of shipping stuff around the globe like crazy. It makes no sense for me in Europe to have my clothes produced in Asia, when we have world-class textile and garment production right here, with better environmental control and worker's rights.
Seemed to take a surprisingly long time. Let's hope the time had been well spent planning the roll out.
> bsolutely off-topic, but can somebody advise on the best resource to learn the most up-to-date Python for somebody who is mentally stuck on Python 2.7-3.2? I always referred to Python when I needed to quickly write some tool for personal use, but never professionally, even though I am a professional programmer. And recently while writing something like this I was struck with how bad my Python actually is in 2020, compared to how other languages I know currently look.

You are me!
Is there a place online where you can read more stories like these?
apitruecaptcha.org seems to working for this captcha which uses AI/ML out of the box
And it'll make no difference, all these wealthy don't have salary to tax or often time even cash, it's quite often wrapped up in the companies they've started or made super successful. This is the point that seems so blatantly missed.

Increasing taxes shouldn't be the one jerk reaction because there is scant evidence that governments are remotely effective at using the money we already give them hand over fist. I suppose they do keep droves of civil servants employed, but make of that what you will.

During covid we should have made it far more easy for small businesses to survive by cutting they're tax burden, the healthy would have had a chance to flourish and the already weak businesses would still fall to the wayside. Instead we'll handed money out to people who will many times buy the next Samsung, Apple Amazon whatever feeding the big corps that everyone here loves to hate.

It's so obvious that this is what happens that i can't understand how so many can be wilfully blind to it.
Well I have several zozo water tanks filled to the brim with clean rain water. Just give me a shout.
Ok, how about: I have no idea what this is, what it does or how to use it. The UX and words tell me nothing. The layout is confusing. A paragraph which outlines a high level vision: "we're building an experiment in how to do X with Y" or whatever would do wonders, even at the early stages of a project.
> To my knowledge we have to either charge these people with terrorism (definitely news), or wait until they’re abroad and do a drone strike (not viable with an imminent attack in the US).

Your knowledge is incorrect.

Insofar as a person is an enemy combatant in law, they can be militarily detained without charges regardless of where they are caught and what their citizenship is (and, if they are charged and tried, it can be by military commission), see, Ex Part Quirin, 317 US 1 (1942), concerning exactly this question with regard to German saboteurs in WWII, two of which were US citizens and all of whom were captured on US soil.

Also, insofar as they are enemy combatants, they may be engaged by the military with force anywhere in the world, regardless of citizenship and location. It would be silly if the military couldn't fight active enemies when they were in US territory but had to wait for them to leave, regardless of citizenship (for one thing, that would have made fighting the Civil War difficult for the Union.)
Looks like they approved the two-dose 62% ~effective~ efficacy regiment.

There was a lot of hope for the one-dose given the supply constraints or a retrial for the more promising half+full dose for greater efficacy.

I wonder if people will ask which vaccine they're receiving. 62% is kinda underwhelming when there's two 95% ones (Pfizer/Moderna), a 92% one (Gamaleya), and a 79-86% one (Sinopharm). With the latter two also not needing subzero temps.
Swapping out a small group of people abusing traditional power for a larger group of people abusing non-traditional power does not sound like a great "fix" to me.
Depends on the content but in good cases comments add crowd sourced fact checking to blogs. That's why I love reading HN comments on hot topic articles.
Looks stupid. The trailer is bad. Doesn't seem remotely worth pirating. Two thumbs down.
I'm glad to see we're one step closer to the future that Basement Jaxx predicted[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/U0eS3zC3Jco
This is classic operations research linear optimisation stuff.

You have an expensive two dose vaccine which has very high confidence but demands explicit temperature protocols be matched, and limited supply.

You have a cheap two dose vaccine with some evidence of at least 50% and probably better coverage, which can be mass produced quickly and issued to any doctor or pharmacy for use, with no stringent temperature protocol.

There is evidence of increased virulence in the infection.

The hospital system is at its breaking point operating over 100% capacity with severe staffing issues.

What do you do?

Chasing perfection when it turns out statistically giving more people a lower confidence single dose now can save more lives...

This is what operations research is all about.
In the peer reviewed study for the vaccine, it showed that it prevented hospitalisations [1]. Surely that’s still valuable?

Also a separate study seemed to show anywhere between 60% to 80% efficacy is needed depending on vaccine coverage - 70% requires 75% coverage [2].

> Simulation experiments revealed that to prevent an epidemic (reduce the peak by >99%), the vaccine efficacy has to be at least 60% when vaccination coverage is 100% (reproduction number=2.5–3.5). This vaccine efficacy threshold rises to 70% when coverage drops to 75% and up to 80% when coverage drops to 60% when reproduction number is 2.5, rising to 80% when coverage drops to 75% when the reproduction number is 3.5.

Also, does anyone know - supposedly the Oxford vaccine had swab tests for the virus every week to catch cases even if trial participants weren’t showing symptoms, whereas for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine they were only swabbing if someone showed symptoms. Would that not have a large effect on efficacy numbers?

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7361120/
"It makes little sense that the company should earn more from some employees than others for the same work."

So when I need to hire an attorney or a plumber, should I shop around, or pay as much as possible, so that i'm not paying one less for the same amount of work.
This is a list of people who successfully carried out attacks, it looks like. Not people who's attacks were foiled.
This is cool! I've seen this C-with-templates used in the past with ".X" headers but haven't used the technique myself. Having something based on STL might help people to center on one library instead of constantly reinventing collections in C (which I've also done for some structures, and open sourced though I don't recommend using it: https://github.com/nitrogenlogic/nlutils).
Convert your Shopify store to PWA for better performances (conversion)
Sure. Now imagine the toilet came as a subscription service, with DRM restricting you to premium brands of toilet paper and cleaning products, and built-in sensors that secretly analyze the chemical composition of your excrement, collecting data which the vendor sends to advertisers. Oh, and the toilet is always connected, which means it'll stop working if you lose power, Internet, or if the vendor abandons it or goes out of business.

That's the problem I have with technology today. All new inventions come with some degree of this bullshit. I'm no longer excited about any new technology - because the businesses productizing it will almost surely ruin it.
It'll be an unpopular answer but.. Google Data Studio...?
> each shot has to be heated up, administered, wait for allergic reactions, and then re-frozen again.

The idea that they would be thawing and freezing the vaccines for every shot doesn't seem plausible.

As far as I can tell, cold storage is only needed for long term storage of the mRNA vaccines. They'll both last for days at normal refridgeration temperatures, and the Moderna one is fine at room temperature for 12 hours.
What I miss as alternative universe is Copland having been a success.

Given Windows 10X original design goals, you might need to move to somewhere else eventually, if they go through with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrmrIlgbIc
Nope, but it's worth it to find out about dependency problems before the installation, rather than after.

Conda also handles C/C++ libraries well, which is a must if you're packaging DS/ML code for Python.
Or you could look at it as a tool for quick and easy prototyping.
Thank you for the correction, this was indeed what I meant to write :)
> Having spent several years in Chinese supply chain activities, the factories building iPhones, XBoxes etc. Are some of the nicest ones around. Clean, large campuses with organized activities for workers etc.

There are also really nice farms that treats cattle very nicely.
> There's a difference between a theory being untestable even in principle and being untestable because we have not yet understood the theory well enough.

If the theory is neither testable nor verifiable, then how do you (or anyone else) know you're even on the right track?
By what standard?
The article says specifically:

It has been developed at a pace that would have been unthinkable before the pandemic.

The new vaccine approval comes after Public Health England said the country was facing "unprecedented" levels of infections
Depends on the CPU - my old 2500K overclocked from 3.3Ghz to 5Ghz, so it was more than a few percent.

Current PC has a 10600K overclocked, only because I already had the cooling system installed and it uses the same heatsink mount as a 2500K.

I only ever overclocked a CPU for work once back in the late 90s, and that was due to an approaching deadline for a client and the need to process tens of thousands of pdf files.
Question. If we had two scenarios:

1. 300 people die each day from a random disease that didn’t exist the day before

2. 300 people die each day from a terrorist incident

Are those equivalent problems in your mind? Are the long term consequences of each about the same?
Also the reason the poorer get taxed so disproportionately is because much of the tax system is regressive with elements like sales tax and stamp duty.

The government certainly has the power to fix this, but not by stealing more but fixing the blatantly broken system
Hey man I don't make this shit up, but people buy into it... Even when they too think it is BS even if just to fit in.
>> the "lived experience" of the author

It's interesting that the "lived experience" of artists is fully factored into the personal branding and marketing of those artists. I wonder if academics just have an expectation that this is what diversity inclusion looks like.
Doing good starts from home. Arm your prison labor and minimum wage workers. Let us know how that goes..
Because cloning UNIX is more than done already.
The numbers are here.

http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1...
The announcement [0] says they are going to prioritize everyone in risk groups getting their first shot over some people getting two, and as a result might have up to 12 weeks between the two shots. That seems like a reasonable way of dealing with the supply constraints, without entirely throwing out the protocol established via testing.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/oxford-universityastrazen...
They could change the NS to point to the attacker's server. That one would respond to the MX queries with the new hostname and forward everything else to the original DNS server, ensuring no other differences are noticed.
Cough, Android and ChromeOS.
Can you expand on this? It seems you say you have less faith in humans. Correct?
I recall a few years back doing something like this implementing a binary heap just as a hobby project (https://github.com/Equationist/ctl/blob/master/pqueue.h). I was curious to see how unoptimized it was vis a vis the STL, and ran compiled equivalent test code for both my priority queue and the STL's C++ implementation, with just integers. I was kind of shocked to find that my implementation was like 30% faster when both were compiled at -O3 levels. Seeing this backport I guess there isn't anything fancy in the STL implementations, so it's less surprising that my naive implementation could be just as fast (or happen to be faster).
On Status/Income Disequilibrium
Well and yet this is what I did and it worked, after around a year of waiting.
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Why is an X-ray price 'unknowable?’