skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>potentially serious consequences

What? I'm not following vaccine news closely.
I now wonder what will happen to US Embassy's Weibo account. My impression is that their Weibo account promotes "unpopular" opinions but has mostly been left alone.

But I haven't been a Weibo user for the past >5 years so my impression could be way off.
This is also true of film reviews. I remember seeing some movies from countries like India in the IMDB top 250 before they updated their algorithm to account for what you mention.
The article is fascinating but one thing I am finding very common on these engineering blogs is no easy path back to the company or service. Understandably the logo at the top goes back to the blog homepage and the copyright at the bottom is just static text.

I could search or visit one of the social pages linked to in the footer but it seem like an obvious link one would want to have.
Getting covid, which a grocery store worker is more exposed to than your average hn poster, has potentially serious consequences.
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I'm not rich. I can't fix the whole thing.
I don't think that is how it works, we have labour laws for a reason. If vaccines can be mandated by companies where to draw the line?
There are lots of perverse incentives in dentistry.

I've had some dentists do the "mouth mining" kind of thing.

I have my four wisdom teeth, and one dentists was immediately "We should schedule you to have those wisdom teeth out." He's not the only one that asked, but "why should they come out?" always has these vague answers, like "might cause crowding".

So, I've had my wisdom teeth all my adult and they are sort of a litmus test for dentists.

I've heard navy seals require them out, I thought for some deep water diving reason.
"Essential workers" are in the next group to be eligible, so now is a valid time to plan for their uptake.
That's your first contribution on a year old account?
God is real, unless declared integer.

In FORTRAN, by default, any variable name that starts with I,J,K,L,M or N is an integer, otherwise it is a real type.
Third this, re: rotator cuff rehab being a likely necessity, as with detailed hand exercises for typists. :)
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What goes into selecting a processor/computer for a satellite/space mission
A guide that provides an overview of 11 important criteria to consider when selecting an OBC for a satellite.
> If we assume that Oumuamua is an alien construct, what "new vistas of exploration for evidence and discovery" open up that we are not already pursuing?

Chicken and egg problem. We won't know until people are with unconventional ideas are free to try pursuing them without being mocked as "tin-foil hats" or "conspiracy nutjobs" or whatever.

Let's take a moment to remember how many similarly not-at-all-related-to-space travel inventions have been made due to fighting the space race (who gets first to the moon) (like the CDs).

I believe the quote is not a specific evidence for anything. It's a call for us to adhere to a slightly different principle:

"Let's explore, for we are far from knowing everything and we shouldn't mock people who investigate things that to the majority look absurd. They might indeed be absurd but every now and then we make interesting discoveries".
Janet Yellen is a very highly-regarded academic economist, and was famed for the depth of her preparation, both when she used to teach at Harvard, LSE and elsewhere, when she was an economic advisor and as a fed chair.

She studied under a nobel prizewinner and is co-author on many papers with her husband George Akerlof, who is also a nobel prizewinner. She's no intellectual lightweight.

I'd be really surprised if she hasn't done the work to understand these details.
I seem to recall that registering for iMessage requires sending the ID (or a signature maybe?) of real Apple hardware. So you could reverse the API but unless someone has hardware that they don't plan on using iMessage on it won't help much.
Lean manufacturing or Toyota production system is pretty relevant. The concept of sub-optimizing metrics seemed especially topical to the article.
>> When looting and vandalism are allowed to reign supreme, the atmosphere alone sets the stage for more violence.

>> Violence begets violence, whether it's committed by BLM protesters or a mob of Trump supporters.

By that logic, you should be blaming the police. Why did you stop tracing back once you got to BLM?
It's more interesting to me that it seems like many egos can not accept the idea that maybe they aren't that interesting after all.
Because I don't like the idea of Chinese people thinking I hate them because I don't.
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I think there's a stray "no" in your second sentence, so I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly.

If I am, I'm not sure how to reconcile your first paragraph with your third. None of the issues you mention are "broadly agreed". They may poll well with everybody, but the opposition in Congress has been repeatedly re-elected on promises to oppose them. If they are passed along partisan lines, they will be battlefronts in the next election. Expect to hear "rammed down our throats" a lot.

Maybe, just maybe, you could get some actual bipartisan support on policy changes about China. But it's not actually all that popular an issue -- except when reduced to racist name-calling. It's important, to be sure, but any policy change will have winners and losers, and you can expect the losers to scream bloody murder. That will quickly become cemented along partisan lines. It's a thorny, tangled issue with many, many parts, and and substantive policy change will require years of detailed negotiation.

There's an argument to be made that they should go ahead and ram through issues important to their base, on the grounds that they might as well be popular with somebody. Centrism and bipartisanship sound great in the abstract but rarely please people in reality. At best, they result in boring incrementalism. At worst, one side sees a partisan advantage in portraying everything you do as extremist. Actually, the worst case is that both sides use that tactic.

I myself still support the idea of bending over backwards to assemble a centrist coalition and passing things that have broad support. But I've watched those efforts fail, over and over, with very few successes, and have become very jaded.
Are unvaccinated individuals the biggest, or even significant, threat to immuno compromised individuals? I think even the common cold is deadly for such unfortunate people.
Unemployment data shows worrisome trends
I expect the same thing. My cousins and their friends just speak Welsh, but like anybody who's totally bilingual, they do randomly flip when a word or phrase comes faster in the other language.
>It's not yet clear that covid can result in lung damage more severe than a life of chain smoking

that seems like a very low bar to set
I think so. Not that long ago, humans spread across the world, first organically, then intentionally. We're at the infancy of spaceflight at the moment, the equivalent of putting food and water in a raft to go to the next island over.

We'll see humans on Mars in our lifetime, like the previous generation saw humans on the moon. Assuming the development and interest in spaceflight continues, we'll be seeing generation ships departing for the next solar system within the next 500 or so years (rough armchair prediction based on nothing at all). Of course, we have some massive problems to solve first, like biology, self-sustenance in deep space, cultural, financial, etc.

Anyway, my theory that we haven't seen other species yet is that space is vast and science fiction tech for light speed and beyond does not exist. If you have technology that can reach 1% of light speed, it'll take 10 million years to fly across just our galaxy. Humans evolved somewhere within that bracket. Even if the technology is there, you're seeing not just generations but entire species develop in the timescales of traveling the milky way.
This comment section is pure HN hubris and I am here for it.
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This is why healthcare facilities are staggering vaccinations across departments.

We still see <1% of those kinds of reactions to dose 2 though.
Both; the mechanical fuel pump doesn't work so well, so the engine has issues starting, so i added an electric pump. At that point it was easy to also add a DPDT relay since I was taking the whole thing apart either way
Give sufficient detail wrt what that freedom looks like. The moment you do I bet you'll hit up against some laws that your teenage self should have spent decades fighting against instead of writing code.
Time for patriots to join and add hidden coded messages for the people.
No, but it's similarly unwise to over-index on them.
Removing the symbols before doing the real work simply removes the problem from sight and gives people a false sense of accomplishment. The statue isn't the problem, the crappy conditions that are nowhere near the statue are.

These activities visibly focus people on the wrong thing.
Yellen says U.S. must 'act big' on next coronavirus relief package
Because businesses don't want to deal with the hassle of having outbreaks in their workforce causing business operations to halt, slow down, or fail? And don't want to be vulnerable to lawsuits claiming they spread the disease to their customers, or didn't adequately protect their employees safety?
I think if we could get the world unified on a single chat protocol we can expect things like this to emerge. Of course it will be unlikely to happen soon, if at all.

Plus we all know that Google really wants to own a chat app so maybe they will decide not to make it first-class in Android i fit seems like a threat.
When billion dollar companies are zero cost to the users there will likely always be a problem.
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You die and the first thing you see in the afterlife are three buttons: "Next level", "Spectate" and "Restart". Which one do you press and why?
Maybe this is a weird question, but why do people give drugs to their cats?

Is it to see them have fun? Is it so the owners have fun? Is it good for them?

I never quite understood why catnip was so socially acceptable when we view other drugs with such different eyes.
a) I feel Google is over-represented in our tech lives, so when it's possible to use an alternative I choose to.

b) GCM undoubtedly collects metadata about my usage of it

c) [falsified] AFAIK GCM requires a Google account, which means your usage of the system is at the pleasure of Google, and can be disabled for a myriad of Orwellian reasons.
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They already do.

Also: unlike most of those other things, this virus is clearly infectious, so it isn't individual well-being that is at stake.
Wow, this is a surprisingly sober look at using ML for this particular problem. I really appreciate how the author walks through every step and the rationale behind it, spending as much time on explaining the dataset and cleaning it up as she does on, say, the model they end up using.

It’s a bit of a breath of fresh air to see a post like this where someone clearly puts the work in to try and solve a given problem with ML and is able to articulate the failure modes of the approach so well.
It's just FUD. Trials show a good safety profile in a large population. A few people with severe allergies have had severe allergic reactions, but this is possible with any vaccine, and it's why the nurse usually has an epi-pen on hand when you get a flu shot. But again, this is very very rare.
Worth pointing out that innocent people were shot and killed and senators were evacuated while they confirmed the election result. It isn't "something I don't like" it is "something reprehensible which cannot under any circumstances be tolerated".
This is bullshit. Twitter has absolutely no information on the reality of XJ at all, so it is in no way qualified to block the account for misinformation, when it had no way to assess to correctness of any information about XJ. Western anti China propaganda is not a reliable source upon which to make determinations about factuality. Closing out voices that dissent to that propaganda line does not a more diverse, inclusive and open free press make, and does not help correct the lack of factual information.

If the Western public wants to inhabit a fantasy world with regard to China, and exclude pro China voices, even if that's comfortable, it's to the detriment of the West. It's to the detriment of national security. I'm not for war, but the West seems to be, and this torrent of propaganda doesn't help their goal... If you're going to act like China is your event, at least know your enemy. If conflict and competition is the goal, living in a make believe fantasy world about China with stories that sooth your wounded sense of superiority, will not assist you. As Pompeo said, this sort of information control is about fake moral righteousness. It's funny, but also sadly appropriate, that he's also been one of the biggest hawkers of this controlled fake narrative.
An important note is that despite the large increase from last year we're still way below where we were in the 90s.

Also police are one of the few things that didn't have a big drop in the number of people working it this year so I'm not sure where the smaller deterrent would be coming from. There's very few people who are walking around thinking about killing someone that then see a cop are decide not to. A lot of murders aren't even premeditated they're short spur of the moment violent outbursts.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about...
Addressed below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25859743
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I disagree on a), b), or c) being requirements of dog-whistles. That just feels superficially wrong.
Opportunity cost is only an argument when doing one thing prevents you from doing the other. What's the limited resource here that would prevent a cable company from hiring more technicians and laying more cable?

Put another way, how does banning improvements in New York suddenly make improvements in Montana more profitable?
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A different approach is to incentivise behaviour sure, that doesn't mean it's inherently better.

A plant shutdown at 100ppm will likely result in running the plant at 90ppm to account for the risk of breaching the limit. But if I only pay an extra $100/min when run at 100ppm I'm better off running at 99ppm and just paying the extra tax when I occassionaly exceed 100ppm.

In your example, the tax incentivises you to pollute to the point you can afford. It might be cheaper to just pay the tax than actually make the required changes to your process.

However if the regulation sets a strict limit you don't have a choice, you have to make the changes necessary to comply with the regulations.

To the author's original point, it is important to look and what you are trying to achieve and why. In some cases tax incentives/penalties will make sense. In others strict limits/bans will be required.
"I've seen reports "

Data would be better. From what I've read, more severe reactions are extremely rare.
Here in the UK we call it "whataboutery"
Probably because of smaller size and better integration. Also, while I am not sure, I suspect the price is better, only if by 10%.
House of Leaves made me scared of my own house for months. +1
Domain-Driven Design for people in a hurry
Yes but there's a difference between being unable to study all ant species due to a lack of resources, and being uninterested in doing so.

I expect we'll continue studying ant species with the goal of studying all of them we can (assuming we don't wipe ourselves out or ant species out before we have a chance to).

Similarly I also expect we (or an advanced alien species) would attempt to study as many other alien species as they can as well, and wouldn't stop simply because they don't want to.

We've studied 12,500 out of an estimated 22,000 so far. It's not like we've stopped and said "ok we're good, no need to study other ant species."
>Server infrastructure is not Open Source

Exactly...it is a problem for me.
I’ve noticed recent sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies from all around the world becoming really popular. And I love it, it’s nice to see refreshing new ideas, as a non American I love Hollywood movies, but since they’re obviously American centralized the American point of view, ideas and “local jokes” are inevitable. It would be great if the rest of the world would have more blockbusters so we could learn more about other cultures and their point of view.
Then there's a scramble to get all your contacts to align in the same 30 days :(

Maybe free for up to 5 contacts?
Any kind of governance requires some consent from people, even if it is not in majority. A lone dictator with no support from the people fails pretty quickly based on our experience in the past a hundred years.
Yes, it’s exactly why we should be septic regarding ufo sightings and such. If aliens are so advanced, we are probably no different than ants for them. Why they should care about us? Why they should protect themselves to be seen?
BigQuery has a sample table, natality, that has all recorded births in the US from 1969 to 2008. It includes apgar_1min and apgar_5min fields.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data

(Fun fact: I was actually able to find myself in the table based on my birthday, my birth state, my parent's ages and their birth states.)
I'm currently using a non-linear version of it, DeepSURV [*], implemented in pycox for a predictive maintenance job. They are much more informative than a binary label and give space to make a business decicision as to how close to EOL you want to take care of the asset.

[*] The underlying neural networks aren't deep at all.
rhetorical question, not even the Pharma companies themselves are liable.
In the specific case of the Transfer-Encoding header, it is defined as,

Transfer-Encoding = 1#transfer-coding

transfer-coding = "chunked" ; Section 4.1
/ "compress" ; Section 4.2.1
/ "deflate" ; Section 4.2.2
/ "gzip" ; Section 4.2.3
/ transfer-extension
transfer-extension = token *( OWS ";" OWS transfer-parameter )
token = 1*tchar
tchar = "!" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "&" / "'" / "*" / "+" / "-" / "." /
"^" / "_" / "`" / "|" / "~" / DIGIT / ALPHA

… which does not permit non-ASCII. As a generic header, maybe (but the decoding should be into ISO-8859-1, as the RFC notes…), but at the point at which you parse it into a Transfer-Encoding header, it is no longer valid.
Our cat loves olives too, it's the only vegetable he'll eat. Always wondered if it was a unique quirk but I guess not!
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What prevents presidents and other officials from holding "old-fashioned" press conferences, like they used to do just a few years ago? Has big tech supplanted the media?
> Cruise missile carrying submarines

At first glance I interpreted this the other way.

Yet it still might be interesting to drop a reconnaissance submarine from a passing cruise missile.
Olive wood too. Many cats will lick a piece of olive wood and seem to get some kind of high from it.

I've seen many cats lounging under (or on top of) olive trees in the Alps around Nice (France).
>I'd love to see how this works when you go back in time and kill your toddler self.

Logically, this would be consistent, as you are no longer present in the future, because you have travelled to the past. What if killing the toddler means you can't travel back to your understood future?

Your 'gotcha' doesn't really disprove anything, beyond raising another question which we can't conceivably answer.
They’re only (potentially) liable if they’re reckless or negligent in implementing safeguards. An employer who makes a good-faith effort to follow best practices is exceedingly unlikely to be held liable for sick employees.
That sounds like an incredible engineering war story. I guess it was done to somehow cut down RAM access? Or a bug in the registers?
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Which US state should any foreign developer visit first?

Maine.
Even as we expand our presence and every random ant has a better and better chance of encountering some kind of evidence of human existence, it still has to know how to evaluate what it's seeing.

An ant finds a peanut. Being a smart ant, it recognizes that something is strange about this peanut. It appears to be roasted. After thinking for a while, it develops a theory to explain how lightning can ignite fires capable of roasting peanuts. Simple and obvious explanation in hand, no further inquiry or speculation about the existence of "advanced peanut roasting technology" is needed.

I mean, why would supposedly advanced creatures intentionally reduce the nutritional quality of the peanut by roasting it, anyway? Yes, definitely lightning.
... what the fuck was that lol. What were they thinking?
This paragraph is a very good example for outsiders of how half of America got us where we are today.
> But a more long term solution without redistricting is to give up on the notion that states are equal. Just give more senators to larger states, and fewer to small states, and the current system mostly works; certainly better than now, and without the need for as radical an imposition as state-level redistricting.

Which is exactly what someone from a large state focusing only on their parochial interests would say. IIRC, the Senate being a place where all states are equal was a pretty important compromise when the Constitution was written.
Costs of development/maintenance of the use case as well as the unit itself.
It's generally in the range of /ɪ/~/ɨ/. Descriptions of English regularly conflate the ɪɛʌ with ə as they behave somewhat similarly wrt stress-related sound changes.
Nobody's leaving Reddit lol, Facebook for sure after marking birthdays/events on another calendar there's like zero value to Facebook for me & bulk of my friends.

Twitter, HN, Reddit, occasional IG for art/inspiration/friends updates
>China in the last 20-30 years has taken 700+ million people out of poverty so they must have done something right.

Their neighbors (taiwan, japan, korea) were lifted out of poverty even sooner, so I'm not sure whether this is indicative of anything. Your whole analogy reminds me of the how in a bull market it's pretty easy for any trader to make money, even though they might perform worse than an index fund or a monkey and a dartboard.
> Why they should care about us? Why they should protect themselves to be seen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
Note that Signal's crypto is more robust. This lacks forward secrecy, and Signal also has the Double Ratchet algorithm which provides some protection to earlier and later keys (/messages) if an attacker is able to recover a user's keys at a fixed point in time.
It's easy to sort the crackpots from the people who know what they're talking about post hoc! Not so easy before!
This was funny in an Andy Kaufman-esqe way where I'm not quite sure where the joke ends and insanity (mine or theirs) begins - can't believe they actually made a browser extension, did sign up for the Bad Unicorn newsletter tho
I wonder what the cross section is between people that object to this but think permanently banning Trump was ok, and vice versa.