skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your link says that flu shot coverage is 51.8% for all people over 6 months of age. The 64% number is for children.

Flu vaccine effectiveness is not great because they have to "guess" which variants of the flu will be most prevalent months ahead of time due to the manufacturing lead times. A lot of experts are optimistic than the mRNA vaccine technology will lead to more effective flu shots.
Wouldn't Linus/Greg be heavily criticized for such cooperation then? The nature of this experiment prohibits it from total consent with the process been experimented on.
Don't even suggest it.

Billions of people on earth consume pornography. If this theory was right, there should be billions of serial killers.

And remember: in the 1970s, his "extreme pornography" would be something a lot more tame than you can pull up during your lunch hour today.

Some people are just naturally ill-fit for living in society, and the fix in not policing pornography. The fix is mental health medicine and psychiatry.
I'm skeptical since you spelled it "herd" (or maybe auto-correct strikes again.)
But yeah, keeping your system free from the systemd cancer has always been a good idea.
yes part of the schtick is making certain people react like that -- it makes the piece go viral
I'd also like to see the data normalized by number of flu tests administered. Maybe people are just not getting tested for flu to avoid a possible covid exposure.
I never really thought about how America's aversion to public transit could be a positive in a pandemic. Interesting point.
AFAIK fomite transmission on public streets and other places sprayed by such "deep cleans" isn't a common spread vector for any widespread disease, so eliminating it can't make a meaningful difference.
“Basic statistics” like occasionally wearing a mask and putting up signs to distance despite massive contrary evidence like mass protests and spring break? your numbers are a joke.

Who knew defeating flu was this easy all along!
Apart from what others said. Flu is seasonal and (most of the time?) starts in Asia. With very restricted international travel flu simply has less possibilities to come over.
This sounds like you're starting fights, honestly. Maybe you can propose an itinerary and someone can post a reasonable way to handle that in an EV?

If you're demanding to know that there is no where that your hypothetical gas vehicle is going to be an exclusive choice vs. an EV, then clearly the answer is no. Different vehicles have different capabilities.

And that includes your car! Do you normally get nagged by helicopter owners about all the places they need to be that your ridiculous wheeled thing can't reach? The whole thing seems a bit specious.
Please see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26983342

My concern isn't access to single objects, but rather filtering of complex search results.
That's not at all an obvious explanation.

There obvious explanation is that different diseases have different levels of infectiousness. It just so happens that the symptoms the flu causes make it less virulent than covid-19.
I doubt Zuckerberg will be personally involved. It will be all engineers.
Minor point of contention: There was no "Germany" to have "national heroes" in 1795. F.A. Wolf was Prussian.

Prussia, in turn, was very much in love with classicism (like pretty much everybody at the time), which pretty much amounts to worshipping Hellenic and Roman culture.
Golf is not a political act.
Hey this is cool! Looks like a great idea for an underserved market, well executed.
Me too. I'm more productive at the office, the daily routine helps me get into "work mode". Home is my place to relax, working at home was a dissonance I never quite resolved. I think many people at my company struggled with this, even managers, because they started working at home late. We ended 2020 with our days being a mishmash of personal and work activities 16/7, it was horrible.

If there was another lockdown, I believe we would manage it better, but I'm convinced remote work is not everyone's best scenario.
Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but the "torch mobs" have been pretty active as this situation has unfolded. There is nothing "preemptive" about it. The zeitgeist is pretty obvious.

As to the "ridicule", putting aside the out of place attempt to moral high ground about a rhetorical turn of phrase, yes their commits were so egregiously flawed that ridicule was the only response.
It looks like the lead faculty is likely going up for tenure in a year or two.
Third party stores are extremely limited on Android.

* Install dialog pops up every time you want to install an app

* No automatic background updates

These things can be changed with root, but you shouldn't have to root your device to gain this basic functionality.
... And I'd still like some update on the UMN IRB, which exempted this research.

Graduate students will make mistakes, and as much as this was stupid, reckless, and unethical, graduate school is a time to learn.

Professors will make mistakes. That's less excusable.

IRBs are set up exactly to prevent stuff like this. My experience is they don't work, and UNM's clearly doesn't.
What in that link sounds "not very accurate"?
Again, in the article:

https://groups.google.com/g/androidscript/c/Mbh5TZ6YYnA/m/Gf...

the person already speaks to a real person with an appeal and is still rejected.

What else do you want Google to do? People need to stop making themselves so dependent on Google and Apple to begin with.
Nano is definitely more friendly for the untrained user, but I thought they were saying it was better for a user that is well versed in both.
That's a good story about how debt works. I hadn't heard that one before, thanks for that!

However it's a completely different story than the original post, which is about Amazon claiming credit for "producing value" when trading one thing for another thing of equal value.
I am so baffled by this viewpoint, I really don't understand it.

Instead of living in a world where we get to openly criticize companies like Patreon for their choices and leadership failures, and instead of ex-Patreon employees being able to more easily go and get new jobs..

..you'd rather live in a world where en-masse layoffs are not even viewed as a noteworthy event, aren't public, and instead just viewed as a "sucks to be you" private situation?
But researchers don't operate within a vacuum, research is a social effort. The faculty member and the graduate student who dreamt up this line of research have discussed it with others and they all thought it was a splendid idea.
Why? Facebook engineering is highly regarded.
money bad am i right
> Things will go wrong (as they have), but this wasn't some sort of catastrophic failure like Deepwater Horizon or something

The thought is to stop this kind of thing before we get another Deepwater Horizon (or Montara or Ixtoc or Bohai Bay or Barataria Bay or so on), not after.
chess doesn't require the processing of rapidly changing visual, inertial, tactile and auditory information while at the same time performing fine motor-coordination.
Why? On the tech side, engineers at facebook have contributed some great open source work.
Same here. I like nano because it's a simple and intuitive editor that doesn't do much (though it does have some surprisingly powerful features once you know the shortcuts). I already have a full-blown IDE running on another screen and I don't want to spend any energy trying to stay on top of another one.

In other words, I would not use nano as my primary editor, but it's perfect as a secondary. If I need to edit more than a few lines, I'll just load up the file on my usual IDE.
I used to work with you there and you were interesting for the only person building useful software in the whole org. Soon you will learn to hide the fact you worked there.
Flu disappeared globally. With no incoming cases, it would have had to spread simply by internal transmission, which by definition would be less than usual.

Also, there were probably minor restrictions people took upon themselves, like staying home when they had flu-like symptoms, or shunning people that coughed.
This is a false dichotomy - you don't have to choose between a locked-down walled garden and a chaotic free-for-all. There is a lot of space in-between.
A fantastic day for China, and for anybody who supports China's peaceful rise.

Full coverage: “Live: Special coverage on China's first space station mission” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLtZlWvre88

Launch is at 52:45 https://youtu.be/JLtZlWvre88?t=3165

I'm impressed with CGTN, they normally don't show launches live if I'm not mistaken.
I rarely write commit messages until they're ready, so I usually :q! when I realize I actually don't want to commit just yet.
You always fight the last war. Covid measures started as flu measures, and to a great extent still are even though we now know (and knew fairly early) that the transmission modes differ significantly.
Well, blues is the son of jazz music :)

PD: I didn´t put Blues/Rock as separate entities, but two genres where late blues albums could be considered something as proto-rock. And ditto with jazz-swing-blues. It's like a continuum.
Within the scope of the project, Linus and Greg absolutely could deem this acceptable on a project basis. Individual contributors might then leave the project once this comes to light, but if the project owners say “We need you to submit an 8 hour video of paint drying with every commit”, that’s their right to do so, and if they say “We chose to allow researchers to waste hours of your collective project time for a experiment”, that’s their right to do as well. If they want to guide the project down seemingly-unproductive paths because they truly think it’s worth it, then they will.
Hum, I think I've only heard of this speculation coming from people who deny covid is a big deal and not that that position should be dismissed out of hand, but the overwhelming evidence is that the strong version of it at least is wrong.

I'm also struggling to understand how symptom overlap would lead differences in the number of confirmed cases with PCR tests. These aren't cases confirmed by doctors talking to you and running through a checklist, these are tests that with a great degree of accuracy confirm if you have flu or covid in your system
Ask HN: Nine years after, how much of this is still true about PHP?
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Until a few days ago, I hadn't touched PHP for nearly 10 years. I was surprised to see so many new things. There is no doubt that its ecosystem is still massive and will continue to be so for decades ahead. What I am wondering though, is whether some of the old "ghosts" plaguing the language have been removed or replaced with something better.
Anyone experienced enough to comment on that?
The EU has already regulated on this, and it's in force - EU regulation 2019/1150.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

Article 4 in particular is relevant here.

Regards cookie prompts, I am must admit I think these are an example of "malicious compliance" - there's no requirement to show them unless placing non-functional, non-essential cookies. You can legally deliver your web page, store items in a shopping basket, and store logged in state - nothing prevents that.

The issue is that (right now) there isn't enough enforcement of breach of these rules - most cookie walls don't actually prevent the cookies being placed, and therefore are ineffective and illegal. The use of dark patterns to attempt to coerce consent is illegal (as consent must be to GDPR standards).

Once people stop placing third party cookies and cookies for purposes like tracking and analytics, they won't need a cookie consent prompt. In a sense the EU is raising awareness of something people had no visibility or ability to see. Perhaps the new iOS prompt will become similar. This helps people to differentiate private services, as now they will be more convenient, and hopefully succed.
Let’s not forget that the marginal tax rate for highest brackets was over 70% until Reagan .
Nope. LWN built the feature that subscribes can share links as a feature. If you subscribe, you can share.

LWN is a very fair and ethical organization. This struck what felt to them (and to much of the community) as a good balance.
Nano has/had some surprising defaults. Way back when, I was using nano to edit some file or another in /etc. When I wrote it out, it "helpfully" justified all the lines by inserting newlines to make them fit in 80 columns. My mentor looked at me disapprovingly, uninstalled nano, pointed me at `man vim`, and said "you're using this now. Thank me later."

Thank you, mentor.

I don't know if nano still has that as a default on any system that's shipped in the last 20 years, but I always give it the side-eye whenever a system has `EDITOR=nano` set and I run something like `visudo`. Am I about to break the entire system? Probably not, but to be sure I exit nano, configure `EDITOR=vim`, and try again. I know vim won't trick me like that.
Since this has varied so much by region, I wonder if there's any good evidence.

This makes a lot of sense. Schools have been surprisingly rare causes of COVID outbreaks, but are constant epicenters for flu outbreaks.
Usually only positive PCR test leads to a covid diagnosis and reporting.
Cardano developers announce cooperation with Ehtiopian governmen
That's a great question. Clearly this article is one answer.

Make yourself dependent on Google, or not. Tough decision.
There is no such thing as UMN ethics board, although they do have an ethics office: https://integrity.umn.edu/ethics. I don't think they get individually involved in specific studies unless there's been some sort of compliance violation.

It's also questionable whether the IRB should have considered this human subjects research and not given them an exemption.
It's also questionable whether, if the IRB had done that, the IRB would have stopped the study or asked for revisions to the study design (they would if they were paying close enough attention).

Professors at universities are typically given large amounts of freedom to conduct studies without heavy prior approval, it's a tradeoff.
This type of thing stops being useful when you travel a lot, the loyalty programs wind up making a lot of things much cheaper then they would be to new customers and easier to find and book.

And regarding flights this didn't try to take advantage of some of the common flight booking tricks which can reduce fares much deeper like stopovers, +/- days, and airline switching which are harder to search.
Short answer is that photos of people on the beach are an incomplete representation of the situation in Florida.
Sadly shared too soon: it's not yet released. I hope it doesn't end up as vapourware, it'd be fun just for the nostalia.
Blindly applying your advice (which was offered without qualification - so that's how I'll respond) opens the door for all sorts of concern trolling and contextless talking point repetition. That often-paid messaging serves a purpose to drown out nuanced and insightful debate with low-information content to defend a status quo or to run interference for an unpopular position to gather support without significant rhetorical challenge. We see that plenty online and in broadcast media, and is like that Buckley is described as doing but these days often more rote and mindless.

Allowing that sort of thing to mix with good debate waters down discussion. It turns people off to opposing viewpoints too, since they're so inundated with rhetorical noise that they need to dismiss most rhetoric out of hand due to the poor SNR. I don't think your position is a very good one.
I like the popular myth more: Copyright in the US is prolonged as required to keep Mickey mouse away from the public domain. :)
You’re right. Who knew it was this easy to defeat the flu all along. Turns out you just have to pretend to distance and wear a mask occasionally.

Flu shots be damned.

The smugness of such stupidity..
I don’t know if I’d go that far with the set in stone nature.

I’d just say that even if someone is educated well in one field - it doesn’t mean that they’re generally well educated or that they have good critical thinking skills outside of their field. I’m surrounded by PhDs - they’re all great at their field, terrible at everything else. Min/Maxed their stats very hard there.
Tumblr was destroyed precisely because of Apples puritanical views toward sexual expression (along with Tumblr's extreme laziness in moderating ACTUAL child porn). Discord may well be as well.

"Private companies have the right" always fails to account for the fact that these "private companies" are monopolies, with immense control over wide swaths of people's digital lives. No company can compete with them. No alternative to them can be created, because they will immediately be squashed, or fall into obscurity. Participation in these services is "optional," but more and more only in the way that having electricity or running water is "optional."

As a result, these "private companies" effectively become governments, ruling over digital countries you are forced to live in, and affording you little to no rights. And yet, they do this in an ACTUAL country, which DOES afford its citizens rights. Thus a conflict exists.

Ordinary "Private Companies" can censor whatever they like. Monopolies cannot, because doing so threatens free society.
The median R value for seasonal influenza(aka flu) was 1.28 (IQR: 1.19–1.37), whereas the R rate for COVID without any protection is much higher. It means people staying at home, reducing visits and social distancing might be enough to lower the R rate below one for influenza, however, not necessarily for COVID as the R rate is higher.

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471...
Autism and Cannabis – The Zartler Family
On this episode of Let’s be Blunt, Montel talks with Mark and Christy Zartler. They are parents to twin daughters, one of which, Kara, suffers from Autism and Cerebral Palsy and struggles with severe self-injurious behavior related to her condition. Whole plant cannabis has helped to relieve some of her symptoms when traditional medications didn’t. That wouldn’t be a problem if they lived in a legal medical cannabis state, but they live in Texas. The Zartler’s risk the wrath of law enforcement and Child Protective Services (when Kara was younger) in order to bring their daughter the only medication that brings her relief from her self injurious behavior. They are sharing their story in hopes of helping other families who are coping with similar situations.
What is the best time to buy rail tickets in the USA?
Yeah, you're right. My brain made the association between XLR and generic audio cables without thinking.
There's no greater place to make a ROI, might as well charge for that privilege. If capital doesn't agree, then more money will flow to places it can be used.
> Now, those are some examples that are backed by law or contracts

exactly what i was thinking when i read your examples.

this isn’t trust in the company, it’s trust in societal infrastructure.

> if you don't trust any company in any way, then you could be missing out on some of the benefits of said company

maybe, but you haven’t shown that in your arguments. i would love to be convinced otherwise but have seen too much evidence to support the idea that companies should always be held at arm’s length.

individuals in the company can be great. but even they will stand by while you are put through the ringer because, understandably, they have their own problems (kids, mortgage, medicine etc) and you won’t be able to help them if they quit out of solidarity with you.
Hedonometer: Average Happiness of Twitter over Time
Rust should include in their license: "The Software/Language shall be used for Good, not Evil"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
The F-111 was always useful in the role that the USAF wanted it for: light bomber. It's the USN role that it failed miserably at. And the experience gained from the F-111 directly fed into the F-14.

The F-35 program hasn't cost over a trillion dollars. It's supposed to cost over a trillion by the time they retire it, sometime 50 years from now. That is to say, over the 70 years that the program is expected to last, it'll have cost over a trillion.

The F-35 is a replacement for the A-10 for CAS, but it's conception of how to do CAS is different, because we expect enemies that aren't just guys with a rifle to have the ability to hit stuff at low altitude. So we don't want to have our new stuff operate at low altitude. Literally every aircraft in the USAF/USN/USMC tactical fleet can do CAS in the way the F-35 is supposed to: drop munition from medium altitude. The F-35 is just supposed to be generally better at it (better sensor fusion, etc). Hell, we even have B-1 bombers doing CAS, by dropping bombs from medium altitude.

The F-35 isn't supposed to rival or surpass the F-22. It's supposed to complement it.
Heh... KLF worship
so how do you get the word out? And how do you make your product enticing enough to be chased?
IRBs are set up to prevent costly lawsuits against the university, although they were originally intended to avoid human experimentation like the nazis (and many eugenecists and other doctors in the US) did.
This is probably because the neurons involved can't switch fast enough. Our neural hardware is simply too slow to work in the time domain directly.
> I should have mentioned that any linear transform can be considered to be a single layer neural network

I think this should be turned around. A single layer neural network can be considered a linear mapping (but not necessarily an orthogonal transform or change of basis, like the DFT).

A more clear example of this are adaptive filters, which are trained in real time using gradient descent.

This is an important distinction because thinking of "X is a Neural Net" doesn't provide meaningful insight, whereas "Neural Nets with X properties are a case of linear dynamic systems, here's an example of how we can equate one linear transformation to a neural net" leads you to deeper conclusions on the analysis and synthesis of ANNs in the context of dynamics - which encompasses a much larger surface area than the DFT.
Flu is seasonal, and there are large pushes to get people vaccinated against flu each year. Sometimes those vaccinations are more effective, and sometimes you get more people vaccinated. This season it appears both are true.
The brains of Americans are not some sort of detached entity disconnected from the rest of the world.

People have hated rich people since the dawn of time, America is no different .

US tax rate is getting more and more in line with Europe, and why wouldn't that be?

Hatred for rich people is something known for centuries now.

Taxes aren't just a way to raise money for federal and local governments, they are also an elegant way which society has to allocate social hatred. You need a corporate tax because people hate corporations, a wealth tax is being discussed and on the horizon because people hate the wealthy, this capital gain tax is on the table because people hate those who make money via capital investment, that's because it's very far removed from doing any work which is perceived as "real work" by the population.
This is what adoption and maturity looks like. As the language starts to see serious use, you see companies start to consider the language's future and direction.
>Japan also didn't have coal.

Hm? Japan does (or rather did) have coal and mined it extensively during their industrialization. Since coal can come from peat bogs, rainy islands often have some. They also somewhat famously developed cars that ran on coal when their oil supply was cut off in WWII.

http://www.japansmeijiindustrialrevolution.com/en/site/coalm...
Are... are those still a thing in the first world?