skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please share said tax systems. Everything I’ve seen is an upstream tax on each ton of emissions. Its not about funding things, its about disincentivizing emissions by forcing the cost of externalities onto the production itself.
When children are vaccinated. It's not clear if the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity, i.e., you are protected against the bug and also can't spread the disease, so most people who have children or are around children will ideally not take undue risks.

I'm not sure if under-16 cohorts' trials are underway already. If they are, and if children are going to be vaccinated before their next school term starts, then society as a whole may consider dropping the current precautions.
I think it might be due to a form of jealousy. Sad to see HN so unenthusiastic about a guy who is probably the most amazing entrepreneur of our time.

It's not that he hasn't invited a little bit of controversy (eg. comments about the diver, covid, etc.) but I think those are inconsequential when it comes to HN's attitude toward him.
80% as good is 1000% as dangerous. Tesla's vehicles perform just well enough to convince many users they're good enough to "self drive" and ignore while failing catastrophically in edge cases and absolutely not being ready to completely ignore. Tesla's reckless "autopilot" branding contributes to this.
But Waymo hasn't had any deaths and has over 20 million miles driven?
The Testing Mindset Myth
There's pretty much no reason to use MIT Scheme unless for a course, despite its historical significance and influence. For one, it's no longer supported on Windows. I would recommend using Racket with the #sicp language extension.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Language.html
Wife works in pediatric infectious diseases in SF. “Community needle stick” is common enough to get its own acronym. They’re the folks that have to make sure junior doesn’t now have Hep A. Super normal.
Like 200 million
From the article:

- autopilot was not engaged, only cruise control

- the anti-collision applied brakes but not soon enough

- the driver walked away without a scratch
You are basically describing augmented reality, where devices give you superhuman knowledge to give you advantage in life (know things before they happen). We will get there, but it will be a rocky road if it doesn't destroy us (e.g. China's social credit system). The implicit bias built into such systems is so hard to remove and is part of the Big Sort issue in society today.
I personally would recommend Racket or Clojure. Both of them are much more opinionated and closer to Scheme than Lisp, which is a bit more loosey-goosey (i.e., not focused on functional programming), so to speak. If you really want Lisp and not a Scheme-like, then Common Lisp is the only choice.
To nitpick, I think it’s more accurate to say what government does isn’t borrowing. And fractional reserve banking isn’t lending, it’s accounting fraud.
It would be interesting to know what the components are. It's difficult to find a cheap microcontroller than can act as a USB host.
You are at a much higher risk from all kinds of humans, with varying levels of skill, in different states of mind manually driving these vehicles.
> So even though these workers are more tightly supervised and managed than any regular employee, they have no rights.

Except that they have the right to quit. Any article that calls workers with the right to quit is hyperbolic and already made me doubt other "facts" that are written.

> The DoL was a known problem in 2010.
> One of Trump's last-minute regulations was a rollback that protected workers from being misclassified as contractors. The Biden admin could reverse that regulation.

Well that wouldn't fix the exact issue being described as happening in 2010.

This article (if true) has a lot of powerful things to right. Such as the cost for training and quiting or how businesses can decline to pay fees. As an article talking about misclassifying workers it does an awful job of misclassifying slavery.
Sorry I wasn't clear. Making a backend module for LLVM would presumably allow me to translate a lot of languages into VBA or Power Automate, or maybe Power Query M which is something I'd like to do because I am not a SWE and my machine is locked down at work, and it's more interesting/amusing to work around that than to get myself into a developer position.

I don't want to write a parser. Although I'm aware of bison etc. I just want to get the intermediate representation into a language I can run, so as to leverage the front end compilers.
You're not too far off; all SDC systems (including Tesla & Waymo) use disengagements to train on. So it's not accidents themselves, but human takeovers prior to what might otherwise have been an accident.
try "a tour of the calculus" which dives into the genesis of many mathematical premises in order to explore why calculus had to come into being, before explaining what calculus does.
Bloomberg also has a vaccine tracker that has more information

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
Instead of trusting this anecdote, why don’t you jump over to YouTube and search for “Tesla FSD” to see what it really looks like? Lots of very instructive videos available from people on the beta program.
Self driving is an unsolved problem, so I don't see how Waymo's CEO is qualified to say whether or not Tesla's plan is "how it works."
The Bloomberg number is _shots given_, so one person receiving two doses counts twice. The link above counts _number of people_ with at least one dose.
Exactly. Fixating on the vaccination percentage is simply using a number that's two steps removed from what's actually important.

It's like trying to decide if it's too rainy to go out by figuring out how many people are watering their yards right now, when you could just look out and see if it's raining.
United sent me (a Global Services level customer) a case of wine last month as a "token of their appreciation". Now I know why! They're just purging inventory.
Can you please speak more plainly? "[T]hat half of the political sphere"? "[D]eplatforming and dehumanizing half the population"? You seem to be using coded language to refer to a hodge-podge of unrelated things and blowing them up into some sort of strawman.

I don't see any intent to do any censorship or rewriting history here. It looks like the Boston Globe wants to make sure their past coverage doesn't produce unintended consequences from naive searches of people's names on the Internet. What do you think they're trying to do?
There are physiological reasons for poorer tasting food and beverages in-flight. Even if the wine is good, the changes in air pressure and environment can affect the taste, a lot.
Freedom from being surveilled, fucked with, controlled and ultimately murdered in an industrial fashion that will make Hitler seem like a little girl with pigtails skipping across a meadow matters to everyone, some people just don't know it yet.
Wikipedia often has a "History" section on these large/broad math topics. Though sometimes it requires you to be relatively familiar with the lingo to follow along (See the History of Complex Numbers [1]).

Specifically, for complex numbers, the problem of finding roots of polynomials is what led us there. Cubic polynomials (ones of the form ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d) gave us the first hints of something like an imaginary unit. Even if the root is just a real number, expressing that number in terms of radicals (n-th roots) usually contains some square root of -1 that isn't eliminable. After lots of debate about the "existence" of such things, we eventually discovered the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.

For Calculus, you just need to look at Newton, Leibniz, etc. This subject was strongly motivated by physicsists trying to solve hard problems of the day.

Logarithms essentially encde a relationship between addition and multiplication, something that has been recognized for quite some time! [0]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_logarithms

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#History
why would you optimize your website for someone who only visits the one page?
I had a bit of a frustrating experience getting my elderly parents signed up for a jab today.

They are patients of a local hospital conglomerate. (I realize that’s typical in the States, Kaiser et al., but I’ve been living in Ontario, where you’re not wedded to some particular chain.) The hospital system said they’d notify patients who qualify, which both of my parents do, in spades. Dad was just in the ICU, during the pandemic, thought not for COVID.

Now, how did they choose to notify people? Well, how would you choose to notify elderly patients? A phone call, right? Perhaps a letter in the mail? Maybe a text?

Ha. No. They are apparently notifying people…through their patient portal app. No push notifications. No email notifications. The message just appears in your inbox, and it’s up to you to find it.

Which is, you know, less than optimal for the patients in these 1a and 1b vaccine groups. You know what a lot of elderly people aren’t great at? Constantly checking an app to see if they got a message.

Of course, for all I know, they may have other methods to contact people. But do they communicate those methods anywhere? No.

Ugh. I know. This is all complicated and rolling out at record speed. I get it. The logistics of this whole mess are horrifying. But just the teeniest bit of information and UX design here would got a long ways.
It’s because the phone serves as another small layer of fraud protection
That's not exactly true. The phone has GPS, which is precise location data, and independent of cellular service.

The carrier only has tower triangulation, which is less accurate but still valuable.
Rent control is an interesting argument because it's clear that it lowers total surplus but there's no way to really know if lowers total utility since the the rate of surplus to utility conversion is dependent on wealth. So now we get people arguing past each other instead of with each other because their priors aren't aligned. One group wants to maximize surplus and the other utility. We need to answer that question before we can move onto the policy decisions.
Here is one (few info scrambled for privacy).

http://public.oinam.com/photos/meeting-notes-sketch.jpg
so i drew a picture for my daughter and couldn't figure out how to print it, because krita has no print function. between krita and gimp, i know why adobe can charge anything they want for Photoshop. i honestly think its subterfuge
> What is the purpose of a human life?

There isn't one. We're simply the result of a bunch of lucky events and evolutionary forces.
Bloomberg gives number of shots given, not number of people vaccinated.
> For example email didn't become prolific until large centralized players became the dominant force.

What? Email was massively popular before gmail even got into the game. It was popular when Microsoft bought hotmail. It was so popular I remember a dial-up ISP (Juno) offering a free email-only dial-up account.

Email was one of the only easy to convey selling points for early Internet.

Online shopping was a shitty Wild West and most web pages consisted of some basic info and a visitor counter. But being able to send a “love letter” across the country in seconds was amazing!
> Tesla has taken thousands of dollars from customers with the promise that they will deliver them “full self driving” in the near future

Isn't that between Tesla and the customers who paid for it?
Try Air France in business or first.
This whole thing is hopeless. Mutations will invalidate the vaccine, lockdowns will never fully stop the spread. Year after year, each reinfection you get damages your internals a little more, drastically lowering your life expectancy.
Seriously watch every Alan Kay (not the survivalist) video on youtube, you will not regret it. It's practically criminal that they have such low view counts.
I think NT at some point run drvers and some other subsystems in lesser privileged rings than ring 0. Not sure if this was dropped in later versions.
They’re also designed and marketed very differently. The lane keeping in my Subaru isn’t good enough for me to fully trust it, so I monitor it carefully.

I suspect that there’s probably a local minimum for safety, where the autopilot is good enough to lull users into complacency, but not good enough to actually be safe.
Why KubeEdge is my favorite open source project of 2020
Doesn’t seem like that condition leads to termination. As things return to normal, fewer surveillance tests will be conducted by definition, so the test positivity rate will rise.
This principle is glaringly obvious in retrospect, and seeing it put so succinctly actually changed my mind. I previously thought Tesla's approach was an achievable long shot, but I'm now convinced it's fundamentally wrong.

The safety-driver model pursued by Waymo and every other autonomy startup is the only responsible way to train an autonomy network because the drivers are specifically trained to look out for edge cases, versus consumers who will easily be lulled into complacency once the system looks superficially like it's running at level-5 competency.
I'm not so sure the second one is something a person would never do. The second car also brakes very late, for instance. Did autopilot break at the last second for the Tesla, or the driver? I'm also bearish on autopilot and am not saying the Tesla performed well, but I bet human highway drivers run into stationary traffic all the time too.
Who else got a Google Play notification about this 'communication app' suggestion who turned out to be WhatsApp ?
It's not clear yet if arm injected vaccines will provide mucosal immunity. They'll prevent serious disease but epithelial cells in the nose, mouth, and so on can still be infected and shed virus. It's the same for flu vaccines. There are nasal vaccines which do provide mucosal immunity like flumist but during heavy flu seasons only the old and young have access.

So, even if you're the required 2 months post vaccinated you probably shouldn't stop wearing a mask or social distancing until 100% of the population around you has either also been vaccinated or been infected and recovered.

When will the entire population be vaccinated or already infected? At current rates it may be a year or two.
Same guy? https://www.youtube.com/user/HeatonResearch
When you're not yet paying yourself, your costs are your living costs and opportunity costs (in addition to the given fixed and variable dev and prod deployment cloud costs).

Early feedback from actual customers on an MVP can save lots of development time. GitLab Service Desk is one way to handle emails as issues from users who don't have GitLab accounts.

A beta invite program / mailing list signup page costs very little to set up; you can start building your funnel while you're developing the product.
That number has been thrown around for here immunity. But I don't think it answers the GP's question because

* Herd immunity numbers assume no ongoing vaccination -- they more or less say, "If life went back to normal, would the virus slow down or speed up?"

* Age-related mortality and age-related vaccination rates are important. If we vaccinate all of the people who are at serious risk, the danger is mostly gone. There have obviously been deaths in populations not at serious risk, but not in proportion to the economic costs of locking down the economy.

And as an aside, vaccine immunity is estimated to be about as good as post-infection immunity. And most estimates of the actual infection rate put them several times (some estimate 8-10x, but that's looking unlikely IMO) the measured case rate.
I'm interested in how vaccinating a small number of people can make a big impact on the effects of the pandemic. The risk of death and severity rapidly increases with age. We also have a good idea of the kinds of preexisting conditions put you most at risk. We have already been targeting health care professionals (increases health care capacity) and people over 65 (the majority of the at-risk population).

If we are able to reduce the severe case rate by 10x or 100x, do we even need to reach herd immunity or would to be best just to remove all social distancing controls and let it burn itself out, knowing that the negative impact from those infections would be small enough to not put a strain on healthcare resources?
Anti-trust isn’t as simple as “look how easily users can switch”. Microsoft got busted despite how easy it was to get another browser because they leveraged their position of power to push IE.
Interesting point. I did want to point out a slight update to the moralist caricature though: I think these past 12 months have made clear that the modern moralist would be more concerned that you drove to a republican political rally or to patron a stubborn bakery than controlling your drinking habits.
This reminds me of Velocity Raptor, a game in which you solve puzzles in the relativistic 2+1 dimensions. Sometimes one game is worth a thousand popsci.

https://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html (webgl, no flash)
If you are using AP or FSD and you take control suddenly, that will sometimes send data to Tesla so that they can improve the autonomy. I don't know what the ToS say, but Tesla are pretty open about the fact that the cars do that.
Nowhere close to London or NY

SF is like a foodie Frankenstein. Lots of options from around the world, none of them crafted perfectly.
I mean, in this case you are talking about a crime (false charges) committed by a child. That adds a whole other level of complexity to the matter.
Man this is a perfect project app for learning python.

Gonna make a goal to use a JavaScript web GUI to pass data to python to generate a fax that sends burrito orders. Should be a perfect into project
> Moxie has publicly said many times that he does not believe in federation or third party clients (and will implement client blocking as well as using trademark suits if the problem gets big enough)

Well that's a shame - I wonder if, given moxie is a member of the HN community, he'd clarify what is meant by that. I had a quick search and didnt find anything.
While I agree that the Waymo, et al., way is the only responsible way, that is not an argument against Tesla’s way being workable, just that it is grossly unethical.
Any STM32F4 microcontroller. Or I believe that new Raspberry Pi microcontroller can operate as a USB host as well -- and its programmable I/Os might be a useful way of interfacing with legacy hardware, too...
There is no housing crisis.

On average, America has very affordable housing.

The only 'crisis' is that there are a lot of people that want to life in SF. But that's not really a 'crisis'.

If the residents of an area do not want to turn their city into Hong Kong or Vancouver with 100's of high rises stacked back to back, it's absolutely reasonable for them to do that.

Unlike Hong Kong, California is massive and there's plenty of space.

There's vast land available for fairly dense development around Morgan Hill, Santa Rosa, Sacramento - and that's where people can go if they want to live nearby.

If the jobs in SF don't pay enough for people to live there, then definitely demand more pay, don't take the jobs or leave. The area is nice, but not that nice.

Companies should use the opportunity to spread out a little bit.
I think it might not be zero sum. While sometimes we have policies that maximize one for the sake of the other, not all policies will. Some will maximize both, others will minimize both. The solution likely includes some policies that will make tradeoffs (e.g. like rent control), offset by other polices that maximize surplus at the cost of utility.

Yes, this means some policies will be working at cross purposes, but different people in our society will be impacted differently by those policies. (E.g. there are some folks for whom rent control means being able to live in their community at all). So it might be best to not try to chart the most efficient course from the outside, and instead accept some inefficiencies if it means making positive moves now.
You want to use wf-recorder. This is in my sway config:

> set $screenrecord wf-recorder -g "$(slurp)" -f ~/screenshots/mov-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S.mp4")

> bindsym Shift+Control+F6 exec $screenrecord

> bindsym Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace exec killall -s SIGINT wf-recorder

Hitting shift-control-f6 will spawn slurp which lets you click and drag to set the area you want to record. This will then launch wf-recorder and record the selected area, saving to ~/screenshots/mov-${date}. You can use ctrl-shift-backspace to kill the recorder and end recording.

https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

https://github.com/emersion/slurp
Children are almost immune from the virus. Everyone below 40 is also extremely extremely unlikely to die from the virus, just to a lesser extent.
Whatever change an advocate wants is 'progressive and moral' everything else is not.
Kaiser is one of the good ones, too.

How can it be worse? Well, you can not have insurance, but you already knew that one. You can have an insurance company that's poorly integrated with providers, resulting in "edge cases" that somehow always involve you paying more. A lot more. Here's the one affecting me, though: insurance companies use pricing to ensure that my employer picks a new plan every year, which always has an extremely decrepit sign-up process every year, which no doubt shakes some fraction of the generally young and healthy workforce from going through it at all. It usually takes hours, even for someone of my technical aptitude, because you have to go on a scavenger hunt for the correct links, ID numbers, and codes.

It's not bad UX, it's brilliant UX, but the masters it servers are... not us.
https://www.amazon.com/Category-Theory-Context-Aurora-Origin... was a Godsend when I was in solitary. Fuck jpay - send letters by post.
In BC we've learned that we need to distinguish between the positivity rate for "testing due to symptoms or known exposure" and "testing for screening" (e.g. the film industry tests all their crew daily). The former positivity rate is much higher, but the latter may be more useful as a long-term trendline to follow.
Colchicine may be an effective treatment for Covid-19
> From what I know, the COVID-19 vaccine is only effective in reducing symptoms for those who get inoculated. Is it accurate to say this vaccine does not prevent infection or help develop an immunity?

These statements are not accurate, but I think that there may be a misunderstanding with the discussion of whether the vaccine prevents symptomatic spreading.

First, to the second part of your statement, no vaccine really "prevents" infection. A vaccine primes the immune system to fight an infection, but the immune system typically only recognizes the attack once at least some cells have been infected and start producing more viruses.

However, being vaccinated typically means that your body will wipe out the virus before it has a chance to take hold and make you sick. But this doesn't mean it is just "reducing symptoms" the way, say, Sudafed reduces nasal congestion without attacking the cold -- being vaccinated really does mean that your body's defenses are armed to fight and destroy the virus the moment it invades. So it's completely wrong to say it simply "reduces symptoms."

What I think you're confusing this with is that scientists are saying that there is still a chance that you can become infected and become an asymptomatic spreader, even if you don't get sick.

The scientists aren't quite sure if this is the case or not, because it wasn't measured in the large vaccine trials. It's very likely that the vaccine at least reduces your ability to spread the virus, if not completely eliminates it, because that's the way most vaccines work. However, the reason the question is still unknown because certain respiratory diseases can still be spread after vaccination, because those viruses can sometimes replicate within the mucosal tissues in the nose, "hiding" from the body's main immune system.