skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Six cases in seven million administered doses. One death.

Meanwhile, hormonal birth control causes clots in 1/1,000 women. No one blinks an eye.

The vaccine hesitancy this engenders is likely gonna kill more than that one person.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1381936112311148548

> Public health bureaucrats have some weird habits in how they reason under uncertainty and how they communicate to the public. It might help if they sought out experts from economics, sociology, psychology, etc., instead of telling everyone to stay in the their lane.
That is easy actually, many just have to do like in other professions and pay for their tools, instead of expecting to be paid, while the authors of their tools need to survive from charity.
>Comparing their asset balance with the market cap of its stock is complete nonsense.

Ben Graham, one of Warren buffet's mentors, wrote a famous book called the "Intelligent Investor" which has several chapters on doing exactly that.

Think about it...if a company sells $10 billion in stock, the new stock adds $10 billion to their market cap and they get an extra $10 billion in cash which goes on their balance sheet. And likewise, a company can buy back shares and the reduction in marketcap from destroying shares is equal to the amount of cash assets being removed from the balance sheet. There's a link here.
Are you saying companies and the financial industry are operating outside the legal system? (I'm being facetious here but only slightly... ;-)).
Not on FF on my device...
The Great Awokening: Identity Politics versus Christianity
I think also coming from "humble" beginnings can mean you're happy to "settle for less" as some may see it. I'm a mid-level developer, reasonably successful, with one bachelor's degree, and a modest home I bought. Some folk might not see that as much and want to achieve more, but I am already much better off than I imagined I'd be 15 years ago, growing up in a financially poor family in council housing.
> ...the debate is still raging.

And it will keep on raging until every delicate sunflower is getting the same inclusive rays of sunshine and not ONE offended flower is left in the dark complaining. (Which is forever.)

Or Mastercard eventually changes its 'offensive' name. Which ever comes first.
Now More Than Ever, President Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson?
Scaling Language Model Training to a Trillion Parameters Using Megatron
How is this different from other accounting tools? Is there a roundtrip from spreadsheet to monethq and back to spreadsheet?
Nvidia Announces Availability of Jarvis Interactive Conversational AI Framework
We love Phaser, but while possibly more powerful, we felt it's a lot more complex and harder to get started with. To demonstrate try comparing the hello world examples from Phaser vs Kaboom.
If you’re interested in knowing more about how this event and other ecological factors influenced the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (to coin a phrase...), “The Fate of Rome” by Kyle Harper is a great read or listen, if you prefer audiobooks (ignoring every time the narrator mistook causal for casual...)
Salesforce vs HubSpot CRM
Decide whether you should go for Salesforce Vs HubSpot for selecting the CRM of your organization. Learn about their niche difference factors and then choose.
We are never getting anywhere with these vaccines being used by 80% of the population when less then 1:1,000,000 issues are a cause to pause.
If you're interested in:

-Embedded/cyber-physical systems software (firmware dev)

-Driver development (applies to Win/macOS/UNIX/iOS/Android)

-Contributing to the Linux kernel/OS dev in general

-Contributing to many large OSS projects (Apache, ffmpeg)

-Exploit/malware dev/reverse engineering

-Emulator development

you'd need to learn C.
Yes, no boilerplate but also the library is pretty straightforward. All in this one file: https://github.com/replit/kaboom/blob/master/src/kaboom.js
>a 17 year old successfuly seducing a 21 year old

Most countries have laws allowing relationships within an age difference of 3 or 4 or 5 years.

But some people want to blur the lines around consent claiming that a 15yo can consent to sex with some 45yo without the latter being held responsible.

> the mechanism via which the harm happens is different, as is the amount of harm

I never argued otherwise.

Just like for any other illegal behavior, legal systems are designed take into account the circumstance and impact of an event.

But this does not change the initial point about informed consent and rape being rape.
Wanna play htb together at some point?

My email is in my profile.
>You want to reward smart, clever, inventive individuals. But you do also want to make sure they don't automatically get privileged legal or ethical treatment which encourages destructive narcissistic and authoritarian behaviours in the culture as a whole.

How would you address this? It seems that you're making a point that if a person became rich AND they didn't have a safety net — they are most probably toxic individuals. If I understood you correctly, it feels that such rhetoric penalizes the "smart, clever, inventive individuals" that come from poor background. As someone coming from poverty I find these statements unfair and paternalistic.
Supposing that it was an isolated 'the skies go dark' scenario, then being self-sufficient in food is quite a complex question to try to answer, as most food chains require the skies to not be dark, at least not all the time.

An interesting (and today, happily, academic) question is what happens to the UK in the event of, say, AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation -- aka the gulf stream that sends warm air up from the equator) shutting down. Noting that London's only 4 degrees latitude away from, say, Moscow.

And then it becomes a much more fascinating question.
Building Apple-1 step-by-step on breadboards
There’s no need for a bank to nanny their customers. If you don’t want to book the trade, don’t book it. Going beyond that in some tortured logic to ensure they tie up extra money (possibly incurring unjustified margin calls on other positions) has almost exclusively downsides for HSBC.
I find that there is a lot of value in learning "how the sausage is made". Implementing your own baby version of the things you take for granted in higher-level languages is an interesting exercise — e.g. things like dynamic dispatch.

These are things that are not directly useful, but help you have a better mental model of how your language of choice actually works.
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The individual blood clots that birth control increases the risk of has nothing to do with the massive immune system induced clotting that these vaccine cause. The former is rarely lethal, the latter most often is.

Is it too much to bother with details, or we'd rather generously assume everyone is dumb except on Internet forums?
It’s a pretty common quote from Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald, used as a quip.
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The consequences of segregating society like this compound over time. This is why we're seeing a growing number of people unironically calling for the return of the guillotine. Kick a dog enough and it'll bite, or whatever.
Sharing frequency (Pirate Bay) is a measure of popularity. If popularity and critical success were the same best seller lists would be topped by literature Noble prize laureates.
Adobe really oversteps the line when it comes to auto-renewal. They will refuse to stop the auto-renewal on your subscription unless you make the request within a tight window lasting a few weeks before your renewal date. Obviously they want you to forget and get suckered in for another year.

This was unacceptable to me, so I simply got on the live chat and (politely) bothered their sales reps until they stopped it for me. As a last "screw you", they cancelled my entire sub, rather than just the renewal. But, hey, good enough.

Adobe: Never again.
At a glance "Pirate Bay is the ultimate literary critic." makes sense, but it's not the whole truth. But there are bunch of things that should be also considered such as number of books available on Pirate Bay, type of books available, and then the cross section of Pirate Bay users that are interested in those books.
On hn, there is sort of bubble of people who think that working for startup is best thing ever and everyone else is selling the soul.

HN, for obvious reasons, over-estimates how likely it is a startup will succeed, and over-estimates how much an early-stage employee will make on an exit, and also over-estimates how many valuable experiences an early-stage employee will be exposed to. Vastly.
> The former is rarely lethal, the latter most often is.

Again, we're looking at one in a million stats for getting the clots, and one in six deaths amongst that tiny group of cases - without information yet on their comorbidities.

COVID itself causes clots. A lot more than 1/1,000,000. If you're afraid of clots, get the vaccines. Even the J&J one.

https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2020-11-23-study...

> Overall, 20 percent of the COVID-19 patients were found to have blood clots in the veins...
> Facebook's acquisition of Instagram? Google's acquisition of YouTube? Android? DoubleClick? Amazon's acquisition of Twitch? I could go on.

These examples are not comparable to what the OP was saying, e.g AOL/Time-Warner, Compaq/HP are mergers of giants with lot of employees.
I had a similar concern, that's why we started with Python initially (see my top-level comment). However, Kaboom's programming model is actually quite simple. It doesn't suffer from any callback hell. You should give it a go.

It's modeled a bit after the block-like paradigm introduced by Scratch, which I guess you can call "async" but seems really intuitive for kids.
> More difficult to read

Subjective, and I do not find it more difficult to read. On the contrary, I often find shorter and denser expressions (especially around obligatory fluff that doesn't actually do much) to improve readability and make it easier to focus on the interesting part.

> more difficult to edit

Subjective, and I do not find it more difficult to edit.

In general, as long as you're not using a magnetized needle as your editor, creating new declarations or moving declarators around shouldn't be a challenge. It is trivial.

Nevertheless, if we want to consider the relative difficulty of various trivial edits, it can go both ways as far as multiple declarators per line are concerned. It can be easier to edit when you have a set of related variables and you need to change the type once. If you split them on a bunch of lines, you need to remember to change every line, which is more work and larger diffs. Oh the horror...

> but the worst thing is how difficult it makes diffing code.

I agree that it can make diffs a little harder to read but I have not found that to be a big issue in practice (having worked on both styles of code professionally and as a hobby for more than two decades).

If diffs were such a major concern, then we probably should adopt an assembly-style syntax with one instruction per line and no nested indentation. That would keep lines inherently short, so you don't have to locate and read the small change on a longer line. And you'd never have to pick small changes from a large hunk that is large mainly due to changed indentation. (At this point, I'd like to make a point about how splitting everything to more and more lines isn't always good for readability but I think I made that point already.)

By the way, you might wanna try out one of these modern diff tools that can hilight the actual change on a diff line.

> You should try using some kind of code versioning, git is a popular choice.

I can assure you that "multiple variables per declaration" have never been a problem for me with git. Coincidentally, the source code of git itself does have multiple declarations per line so looks like it wasn't a big problem for the authors of git either. (Obligatory example: https://github.com/git/git/blob/89b43f80a514aee58b662ad606e6...)
What part of your economic education will prepare your kids for climate change? Now finance is more interesting because the finance community is really scared about what climate change will bring. Economists? Not so much.
Thanks for this.

For some reason it reminds me of what some political philosophers think is the most interesting subconscious axiom that divides and subtly defines the ‘left/right’ political debate; and that is the belief in free will (versus determinism).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318842505_Political...

Those on the left tend to default towards determinism, while those on the right point to stories like yours as proof that people can rise above their circumstances. (And then the left will retort that your particular circumstances determined your success somehow etc etc)

This debate opened my mind to why there is disagreement on almost every political issue. It is also an amazing starting point to many great discussions on being human.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your humanity.
As with everything, it is only as secure as its implementation. I do take some small pleasure in this though, having had to listen to so many people saying how much Flash had to die and WASM totally wasn't going to cause similar problems.
Most modern browsers started running plugins (including Flash) in a sandbox long before WASM or asm.js existed. Firefox's was named 'plugin-container' and for a while its multiprocess support actually piggybacked on that process to do non-plugin things.
Just don't. This kind of prescriptive nonsense isn't nearly as helpful as you think it is. People value very different things when reading code, and vertical whitespace is not nearly the universal good you seem to think it is. For myself, I much prefer to trade slightly more complicated intra-line semantics for the ability to see more of the code on the screen at one time.

C has been around long enough to develop multiple competing paradigms for how to format source code, each with copious existence proofs that "Good Code" can be written in them. Conform to what you're maintaining, don't start fights.
Very neat, and seconding impression of reminding of observable, but much more freeform. Here's a dumb little demo of appending some divs to a dom element, with random heights.

https://natto.dev/@dazld/7168773775bd401481366b7d62d14e8c

It's quite fun to think about the restrictions of this - getting an animation loop going, for example.
If Tesla announced it was going to sell all of its BTC tomorrow, would they get 100% of its notional value?

There’s a reason companies list “cash and equivalents” and BTC isn’t included in that line on the balance sheet.
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What if you can't or don't want to become a senior engineer?
At my current role, my manager would like me to take the next step and push to become a senior engineer this year. What this would require me to do is plan and manage building quite a big feature for our company. This would involve quite a lot of product work and project management, i.e. gathering requirements, ranking them in terms of priority, thinking ahead and making sure that whatever is implemented is easy to build on top of for other (non-urgent) requirements, managing expectations, etc.

My biggest problem however, is that my memory's not great and my mind's literally blank most of the times. I just can't think about "big" things. So even though quite a big chunk of this role, is coming up with a technical approach, even that seems far fetched to me as there are so many different components when it comes to building this feature that I will have to consider and I just can't keep all of that stuff in my head. And even seeing them on paper is overwhelming. I'm actually not sure if I'd be feeling any different if the requirements were clear and I was just tasked with coming up with the technical approach(es).

What if you're just happy (for now, for whatever reason) to not do too much product thinking or leading on an approach/implementation and continue doing what you were doing before? Do you have to grow?

(The problem with that question ^^ however is that I completely understand that the product side is part and parcel of being an engineer and that in order to be a good engineer you should also be good at product. You can answer questions like why you are building something, whether it'll be useful for your users or making the decision to not build something.)
There may be a way to get out of this by switching to another plan and availing of the 2 week grace cancellation period.

https://responsivedesign.is/articles/cancel-adobe-without-pa...

Happened to my daughter she needed InDesign in order to do a once off college project. She missed the small print and signed up to an annual sub (€300 total). She managed to get out of it using the method described above.
The bug was originally submitted to Google as part of Pwn2Own by two other people.

The GitHub POC was built using the patch and regression test by a third person (who you just replied to). While it's been patched in the v8 Javascript engine, that patch has not made it to Chrome (unless you're compiling Chromium from scratch) as part of Chrome's 2 week release process.
All the names in point 8 are misspelled, that’s the point.
Simplicity is also often an indicator of truth.

I think you completely missed another important point hidden in PG's article, besides the obvious compounding effect, and that is that unrealized gains would be taxed under a wealth tax regime.

To simplify with a ridiculous example: suppose I have $0 to my name and I inherit a family art piece from my grandmother that happens to be valued at $2 million. The next year, under a wealth tax regime of 2% above $1 million, I owe $20,000 to the tax man even though I don't have the money in my account.

That is why I think a wealth tax is a stupid idea. Why not just impose greater capital gains and dividend taxes above a certain threshold, for example? That's where wealth is realized. Until then, you're talking about taxing "imaginary" wealth. (edit: or more generally speaking, taxation should happen on transactions, not on an assumed wealth "state")
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Here you could, too as far as I understand you just get 2 months free if you don't.

At any rate, what's even worse for me is that you can't cancel in the last 3 months of the contract with ISPs which nobody tells you so it's even easier to get stuck with it for an extra year.
>And even more so, I bet if you asked, they would give you a further discount for upfront payment (since it removes non-payment and early cancellation risk that’s priced in)

Not a lawyer, but come from a family of bankruptcy lawyers. If your landlord went bankrupt after you pre-paid, it could get dicey. It's a risk, and probably a low probability of downside, but I encourage people to do more research if interested.
> who is by law obliged to keep the house in a liveable condition.

Depends on the country. In Poland, the landlord is only responsible for heavy/structural repairs (cracks in walls, broken windows etc.), while everything else, like clogged pipe, broken fridge etc., is actually tenant's responsibility by law, and they can be held responsible (witholding of deposit, lawsuit) if they neglect it.
Golf always seemed interesting but more expensive and I don't think I knew a single kid who played when I was that age. I started bowling at ten and gradually got more into it until practice became free a few years later.

There does seem to be a fantastic window for improving at sports in that age range. Or maybe it's just that people have time at that age before homework loads and school activities increase a few years later.
It's a total boys club. I would have expected that people who self identify as progressive/liberal wouldn't treat me like I'm less than human, but I was wrong about that too. Maybe it's the state where I live, my town is famous for being host to a big white supremacy rally a few years back (you may be able to guess) and people are just awful here. But I've heard reports of harassment and discrimination from trans women who live in blue states all the same.
Downvoting without commenting... interesting.

I'd love to see what contributions to FLOSS the downvoters have achieved.
It's easy to tell yourself you are as good as Musk or Jobs or Bezos. And comforting. But there's also the possibility that they are truly different. More talented, more focused, more hard working, more driven. And more willing to take risks.

I don't know any of these guys, but I know plenty of people who got much farther in life than me because they were simply better than me in some respect.

I also know some people who got farther by pure luck, but the thing is, when I look around me, I find more cases of merit- than luck-based advancement.

So, yes, this, or that or that can hold you back in life. But, conversely, when you don't succeed in life, we always find excuses, don't we? It's never "I wasted hours on social media sites", it's "I didn't have the same connections as Gates".
Some can't bear the sunk cost of upfront reserved instance
I learned 3D graphics in the 80's, when it was research by a Prof. Glenn Bresenham at Boston University. He is an extremely gifted computer scientist, but is not THAT Brensnham. Regardless, when our graphics lab would attend conferences like SIGGRAPH we'd let people assume he was THE Bresenham and have a lot of fun.
> Whereas in the UK, cancelling an annual travelcard has at most a £10 administration fee and you get a refund based on when you cancelled

So, how do they motivate people to buy the annual subscription when there is no monetary advantage for binding yourself yearly instead of monthly.

In Berlin, if you get an annual subscription instead of a monthly one, you will get two months for free.

And if you cancel early instead of waiting for the whole year, you pay the difference between the monthly and yearly subscription for the months already used.

I don't see anything scummy or illegal here.
I'd still be renting if it wasn't for help to buy. The mortgage payment was the same as we'd pay in rent, so affordable, but saving up even a 10% deposit would have been impossible.
True, but that isn't money laundering that the article talks about because it is done by the State.

The Economist knowingly ignores various crimes by the UK and USA while whining how there's not enough money for the endless illegal wars they support. The more money is hidden from the State and politicians, the better.
I'm sure people say the same about drugs
Hmmm. There's got to be more to this story.

Tim Cook's Apple is a logistics powerhouse. Surely they have full control over their entire supply chain. Every detail planned long ahead of time.

Which screw part was it? Quick scan of all the popular reports doesn't identify the specific screw.

Why not change the design to use a more readily available screw?

Why not make a one time order of a box of screws from China?

Apple regularly provides the capital so their suppliers can ramp up. How much would have cost for that tiny Austin screwer suppler to double production? Probably less than the loose change found in Cook's office couch.

In conclusion, I don't buy this excuse. I dimly recall another report about the struggles the Austin plant had producing the Mac Pros. Bad fit and finish. Long turn arounds because there's no surrounding ecosystem of skills, suppliers, deep experience. Etc. Nothing that Apple couldn't have fixed; they just didn't want to.
Agree, users are a good start, also systemd for example provide ways to run a process on its own file system too, readonly, etc... I guess virtualization or containers is needed because of the unknowns bugs, bad use of technology and /or not being able to harness a system very well with non sandboxing methods.