skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that other people have to pay for your negligence. People not wearing masks means doctors and nurses have to work harder, and expose thenselves to unnecessary risk. It means you may infect vulnerable people and they could die. Not wearing a seatbelt means the firetruck has to be called to peel you off the asphalt after an accident. Not wearing a rope while climbing means a helicopter full of medics is going to have to airlift you out. This behavior creates a drain on the system, and that is why there are basic public safety laws.
> Maybe I broke my hand, that' doesn't require an ambulance - my life is not in danger. What's the point of self-driving if you can't rely on it when I need it most?

The scenario you are proposing, that a autonomous driving service would deny to drive you to a hospital unless you pay them to upgrade the service, is far fetched, since nobody would buy such a service in the first place and it would go out of business. There are plenty of alternatives to ensure this, including calling an ambulance, which costs less than $999 (after insurance).

> we will loose our rights to ownership.

That's a much broader issue than autonomous driving, but even given that, what exactly do you propose to "own" in the case of a self driving service, beyond the sensors and the computer in the car? The map and traffic data, and the software that make up the system will have to be continually updated because the world is constantly changing.

The autonomous driving system's creators can either add the cost of those updates to the initial sales price (i.e. Tesla's model), pay it via a subscription, or VW's proposal which is neither a large upfront cost, nor is it a recurring subscription. This makes it accessible to a larger population.
A few hours, I realized pretty quickly that the resolution was a problem for text readability. I don't see how virtual monitor distance would help; I found the minimum size for readable text to be unacceptably large.

As soon as pixel density ~quadruples, I'll make a serious effort at switching to VR for work.
Great read.

One thing I've found (as a person who advises engineering managers and startups) is that recipients of advice seem to value non-contingent advice more. They just want simple answers that don't make them think.

When someone asks me a question like "how should I interview candidates?", my default answer is "it depends". Tell me about the role. The company. The culture. The product. Remote or in-person? What's the team like. Then i can give a framework that gives you the answer. But people want answers like "use take-homes" or "do 2 behavioral interviews and 1 coding interview".

Same for technical decisions. They don't want to hear "it depends". They want to hear "use Rails and MySQL hosted on Heroku".

So I naturally find myself being pushed to give non-contingent advice.
Cases "went down" (and also up) 3 times due to wave effects.

Since the vaccine, the ups stopped.
Again you have to ask yourself why are you having such a hard time convincing people to take a so-obviously-safe harmless, and life-saving drug?

And if the only answer you arrive at is "well because those people are stupid .. misinformation ... disinformation ... and they need to be educated" you need to stop and re-evaluate yourself and leave just a tiny bit of room for the possibility that you may be wrong instead of taking a "I'm absolutely right without any doubt" stance.
Flaming?

Please.

You are free to provide a counter-argument.

Here’s the key question you have to answer:

After decades of not only inventing, but using, promoting and educating about the advantages of a specialized notation for programming. Did Iverson start J because it was a distinctively better path than APL?

No. Of course not. After nearly thirty years of brilliantly creating and promoting his notation Iverson made a mistake. It would not be the first time in the history of technology this happened, and it won’t be the last.
Miami-Dade county: 18,474 deaths per 100k
San Francisco county: 63 deaths per 100k

That’s an accounting of the cost associated by not locking things down.

What we have yet to see is what the economic impact is. However, the city of San Francisco has a budget surplus right now since economically we did better than expected.
How can science claim they are safe when we haven't even had the chance to do tests for long-term effects yet?
Thanks for reading it. It was one of the those ideas bouncing around in the back of my head for a while but hard to put into words then I read something about Tetlock and the dots sort of connected for me.

Software advice isn't totally a prediction, but it sort of is.
Glossary:

Springy Search - ElasticSearch

beetleDB - CockroachDB

bongoDB - MongoDB

StopLang - GoLang

IronOxide - Rust

YourSQL - MySQL
Do managers who accept contingent advice from you tend to produce better outcomes?
I think recently RL or DL is going crazy with design.
This is very nice to see.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01515-9
Gotta rotate the supplies.

This is why even though I've _reduced_ my use of bottled water, I keep an active supply of bottles on hand at a level sufficient for an emergency and consume through the stock to keep it fresh.
What headset, how large are your monitors when scaled to a standard viewing distance (18-24"?), and what do you prefer?
> the rest is socialization, pointless meetings, lunches, or trying to look busy.

The parts that for me made the job bearable. The rest is legacy support for CRUD apps. The office is a perk for people with few other outlets.
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B still looks too bloated to me. I'm sure a more lightweight embedded option is possible.
Your description is a bit hard to follow, but it smells kind of like something Ecto schemas could deal with?

That is, by defining an Ecto schema for your data structure you can go almost directly from raw json to clean, correctly casted data.

To use an example similar to yours, this is how I process data from cryptocurrency exchange APIs—just write up a schema for the shape of the response, parse the json into a map and throw the map into Ecto.Changeset.cast. Even if everything is a string in the raw data, it will be correctly cast into integer/float/whatever as defined in the schema.
> but then he proceed to say that it does exactly that to fight foreign proteins

No he doesn’t say that and is not true. mRNAs are “commands”. They encode proteins — each triplet (of nucleotides) on it will translate to one protein building block. They are semi-stable and are actively destroyed in the cell so they can only produce a few protein molecules. So injecting mRNA will give a temporary command to the cells to produce this protein so that the body can learn to defend agains them once they are released from cells.
WHO says Covid-19 had been circulating in Italy in October 2019
Can any international entity stand up to this abuse of power?

And how come we give a free pass to American politicians that choose to ignore this behavior?

The world feels backwards.
"This person bought a vacuum cleaner yesterday, they will probably want to buy another tomorrow" is what personalised ads are.

I wanted to check the price of the cheapest SSD price I could find on Amazon, and I've been getting sale notifications of cheap-ass 64GB SSD since. Of course these advanced AIs are not so intelligent to see that I've bought multiple 1TB and 2TB SSDs lately or hundreds of different products, but it has decided I'm actually interested in crappy disk drives instead.
I am confused, why would someone want a car from a kit?

It's made of hundreds of parts, some weight more than a grown man and you could seriously injure yourself or assemble it incorrectly. It's not gonna be an ikea kit.

We've created assembly lines for this exact reason and they are really good at their job, why would you go backwards unless you are seriously into DIY or an arctic explorer flatpacking them?
Thanks for showing the Toucan service. I'm trying to learn Portuguese and so few tools offer it.
You're basically suggesting reimplementing semver in a clunkier way. Just bump the major version but continue supporting the old major version with security releases etc.

This is a solved problem, it's just that some library maintainers don't practice proper communication of breaking changes.

If your breaking changes are a total paradigm shift in the intended usage of the library/API then sure, it should be a new library. But quite often those breaking changes are just things like "field Foo is now required when performing process Bar" in order to prevent some sort of invalid state from being reached. In those cases communicating the breaking changes via versioning is the way to go imo.
The time wasted in traffic turns an 8 hour work day into 9 or 10 hours. I would work 8 hour days for $120k. But in order to get me to work 10 hours I would need more like 200. 12 hours I would be demanding 3-500k probably. Time is not fungible.
A commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut (1994)
Great article Adam, fyi the LinkedIn link on your website is broken. Was trying to look up your history.

Also Ctrl F: "beleive" -> "believe"
That matches what I've seen. An acquaintance of mine who's native was very distrustful of the vaccine and got angry when our state allocated early doses to Indian tribes, saying they were testing it on them (they've since calmed down.) Though on the other hand, a tribal elder I work with was extremely stoked to get the vaccine as soon as possible.

I think politics is a big factor too, honestly. Misinformation flows through echo-chambers and everything becomes partisan.
> In fact, if you don't know about biology or virology, the "I don't know if vaccines are safe" is a totally reasonable stance to have

That's not really a stance, that's just a statement of fact. The problem comes when people assume that this statement of fact about their knowledge imparts any information about vaccine safety.

I'm broadly of the opinion that someone who "do[es]n't know about biology or virology" should:

A) keep their opinions on biology and virology to themselves, and

B) listen to the people who do know what they're talking about when their decisions will affect others.

It's all fine and well to make decisions based exclusively on your incomplete personal understanding when it only affects you, but that's not the case with vaccination.

> and not getting a vaccine is also a reasonable decision if you're not sure about the safety.

Imagine you're standing at the edge of a river. There's a bridge to cross the river, but it looks a little rickety and you're not too sure it's safe. Alternatively, you could try to swim across the river.

Now imagine that you've just seen 3.75 million people get eaten by sharks trying to swim across the river, and there's a team of architects who have inspected the bridge telling you that it's safe to cross.

I would not describe anyone who tries to swim as behaving reasonably.

NB: throughout this comment "you" is used as a generic third-party pronoun to describe any individual, not you personally.
Where along the way did society come to implicitly accept the (completely false) dichotomy that the only two possible options are "ads" or "shitty journalism"?
How can you test the effectiveness of this drug against smallpox?
I'm curious to hear if anyone's multi-az setup (RDS, ECS, etc) handled this event without much of an issue?

I assume so but would be nice to know its working as expected!
I worked at a company where the support team was moved temporarily next to the HR team.

Someone in HR somehow found a way to complain that "they're not very social and they're always at their desks working".

I was kind of blown away that somehow that could be a thing to complain about.
> Videocalls. Whiteboarding. Interviewing. Strategic work. Reading emotions and connecting to people. What was a matter of just getting six people in a war room for a week and getting that hard problem done now takes eternities and every meeting is an energy hog.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but, you're doing it wrong. As a leader you should be adjusting to the dynamic that ensures meetings respect your teams' time, have clear outputs and follow-ups, etc. As someone who has been, and will continue to be, remote for many years in a leadership capacity, it's not the attendees of a meeting's fault if the person putting it on doesn't respect their time.

The reality of remote work being forced in the office crowd that I see is a reckoning of where mere presence was taken for value. I would never expect to get the best work out of someone by sticking them in a dungeon for a week. Let them walk in the sunshine with a headset, sit in the shade with their laptop, or take a breather to enjoy their own safe space while exploring new ideas.
Because, for example in Canada, there have been 1.4 million total cases of Covid over the last year which has on multiple occasions stretched particularly ICU capacity to the limit. In a much shorter time period we have administered 27.7 million doses of vaccines. We give more doses every 3 days than we had cases in 14 months. Natural immunity is almost negligible compared to vaccination. Getting to herd immunity levels with actual infection will result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and damage our health (and healthcare system) for decades.
"Don’t hide higher-order functions

Higher-order functions are great, so try not to hide them away. If you’re working with collections, you should prefer to write functions that operate on a single entity rather than the collection itself."

Excellent advice -- and not just for Elixir. I find myself applying this technique often in Python, for example. While the example is fairly simple and contrived, the consequences they note ring true.
It's pretty simple. If you start from these two premises :

1- All reporting on Xinjiang is rooted in content from organizations linked one way or another to American/Western defence industry (ASPI, Zenz, BBC, etc... )

2. These groups have, as their modus operandi, used seemingly neutral and informative outlets over which they have influence in order to shape public opinion to manufacture consent.

From then on its pretty easy to come to those conclusions. It's empirically true that quite a bit of reporting on Xinjiang is false, and it's also true that the US uses the issue of Xinjiang to back actions that have a 0% chance of helping victims of human rights abuses there but that materially improve the American geopolitical solution.

Wether your want to take it as far as xtian did is something that can be disputed. But it's definitely valid to connect the veracity of western claims on geopolitical enemies to US/NATO warmongering.
Sounds like it would have lots of noise.
Those are really for coherent gravitational waves (the same across locations across the world) not for interactions between individual small objects. Since they're looking for any defect in the inverse square law (e.g. due to extra dimensions of string theory) these would screw it up.

Light actually exerts a force (even like tweezers) so it's not a good choice for this kind of measurement.

They must have done an amazing job of removing any electrostatic or magnetic effects since those so quickly dominate at these dimensions. The gold ball isn't so bad to discharge, but typically glass fibers are used, which can build up charges. My expectation is that they used radically different frequencies on the two ball supports and very high oscillator Q (they're pendulums in a vacuum) to separate them mechanically since they have to be in the same chamber.

People have tried placing "screening materials" between the masses to reduce electro-magnetic coupling, but those tended to cause their own non-gravitational effects.
You may refer SXG, but it seems that anyway SXG overrides URL to origin. So this is irrelevant.
It’s Time for Utilities to Learn to Love Hydrogen
I’ve had covid19, wasn’t a big deal, more mild than the flu I had the year prior. In fact, half the people I know got covid19. The only people I know who ended up in the hospital were a couple of family members who were vaccinated.

Regarding the mechanism. Inflammation, we are not 100% sure where and what cells the mRNA is injected into and the spike proteins themselves have risk. Further, you’re training the body to attack these proteins... in the case of the second shot, those proteins are being produced inside your cells and being released, are we sure you won’t have an autoimmune response? We know the second shot reports the highest rate of issues. Where do spike proteins accumulate after they’re created? Etc etc

I’m not saying I know, I’m saying for most vaccines we wait 10 years because there’s the unknowns. Covid19 has very minimal risks and for those under 35 it’s less risky than the flu. In contrast based on VARES data your more likely (in that age range) to be hospitalized and die from the vaccine (depending on confounding factors)

https://vaers.hhs.gov/index.html

I’ve been bullish on people 65 and older getting the vaccine. Below that it doesn’t seem anywhere near justified.

Regarding suppression, families are having to resort to lawsuits to use safe drugs which have been shown effective in studies:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-elmhurst-hospi...

If you talk about these alternative drugs on social media your posts will be removed. Try it, post how you should try one of these drugs alongside of the vaccine.. that’s suppression.
I’ve already been diagnosed with covid and it was fine, a little worse than an average cold. Why should I take a vaccine and risk side effects for a disease with a 99.9% survival rate, when I’m not even bothered by it? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Is it possible that Apple Mail is a huge proportion of opens because they’re one of the last to NOT block it? I thought Gmail and outlook already blocked images by default…

58% of desktop opens just seems extreme given proportion of Mac vs PC use.
In Poland 3x more people died because the lack of medical care (non-Covid-19 cases) after the lockdown last year. Covid-19 deaths are statistical margin in my country. Paralysis of medical care was far more lethal.
> Think of a share of AAPL, for a moment, as being the combination of two things: the ownership of a tiny sliver of Apple, and a bet that Apple will increase in size.

That's not accurate though. It's a bet that the expectation of future dividends from the stock will rise. Popular stocks these days don't really do dividends, but that's because they can better spend the money to grow rather than pay out.

But there's still the general sense it might happen eventually and that's why it somewhat makes sense to give these companies high valuations. A fake share has a guaranteed lifetime dividend of $0.
well, not exactly, you are still as likely to get it if you are in contact with it, you just carry a lower viral load and shed the virus less. It does reduce transmission, but that's not it's main selling point. It's main selling point, especially with regard to everyone getting vaccinated, is that everyone will get sick eventually and if you do get vaccinated you're much less likely to suffer symptoms.

So that still leaves my point: if you're vaccinated why do you care if someone else isn't? And if you aren't but you think everyone should be, why aren't you?
Amnesty international has previously backed factually erroneous statements of atrocities that were pivotal in justifying military action by NATO.
Yeah, I think that could be true in general. Tetlock found the hedgehogs were more famous and more wrong and I got the idea from him that that was because simple advice is more sticky and works better in sounds bites but it could also work the opposite way -- ie. the more people ask you for advice the more you learn to tell them what they want which might be oversimplified. So you get trained to be more of a hedgehog over time. Interesting idea.
My HTPC simply runs the browser for the various streaming platforms. Dynamic range is making life awkward in our little apartment.

I suspect that a dynamic audio compressor alone will get you many converts.
The observation of "foxes" and "hedgehogs" is interesting to me. If it's to be believed, trepidatious granular investigation beats blanket ideological perception in predictive power... I think we're tempted to use our broad lenses to predict things, because we find our worldviews can help us decide how to live in the chaos of our world. The sheer relief of believing "Oh, what I have to do is X," or "I sincerely think the world would be better if Y" gets overextended to fuel a source of pathological comfort. We can lose the present context in it, even if our ideology is actually broadly quite correct.
You didn't claim it was possible, you claimed it was a certainty:

> You would've all still caught it whether she was vaccinated or not

I will continue to call you out as long as you continue to purposely misinform people.
Actually, I agree... and while it's not clear that spacetime is a necessary complexity in this case, it is explicitly looking for quantum effects (e.g. the extra dimensions of string theory).
Exactly, and the medical community keeps going out of their way to not communicate with the public in the way the public would understand

The translation of this is “hey here is a potentially additional side effect that we didnt notice in our trials, lets do more trials so we can simply list the side effect or not since we are doing full clinical trials anyway”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468123

My second paragraph.
*Compared to the same month in previous years.
Even download & upload should be posted as bride/no-bridge speeds. Assuming they meant internet upload/download then it makes a big difference if you are testing using a 50Mbps internet connection or 500Mbps.

I'd be very curious of the Wifi & Ethernet can both operate at link saturation speeds so 1Gbit on the Ethernet. While the 4B has AC WiFi, just quick search shows it can only hit ~120Mbps with maybe 200Mbps maybe being achievable with some tweaks. At best it can do 480Mbps.

Considering the 4B costs ~$80, you would be better off buying a dedicated bridge. I think any Ubiquity AP can be used as a bridge for example. An old router would also work. I have a hard time thinking of a situation where you would want a 1-many bridge but don't need decent bandwidth. i.e most situations where minimal throughput is OK means you probably only need 1 raspberry pi for the task anyway.

Still it's a pretty decent project and good intro to networking.
But God is an artificial construct.
No chance to be children: life in Canada’s residential schools
How is it relevant? They are Uyghurs, and this terrorist group does operate in China too. The fact that this year they stopped being terrorists according to the US does smell like bullshit.

Certainly, the US didn't bomb them for their ethnicity. That doesn't make the statement factually incorrect, the flip-flopping there smells like bullshit and that's what GP was alluding to if we are reading the comment in good faith.
do repuhlican policies?
I think it's important for teams to establish best practices and enforce them. It's good for team cohesion and culture.

For example I've worked on teams that blocked PRs on minor typos in code comments. The signal this sent to me was "a little goes a long way, we care about the little things".

Sure enough that ended up being the cultural norm and the team benefited from that mentality. There were also downsides though! That's part of the trade-off, but the benefits of a unified "culture" outweighed the downsides by far.

What's reeeaaally bad is when you have competing points of view between tech leads and they passively enforce their own idea of what's "right" without regard for the other lead.
1996: OOP all the code!
2000: XML all the data!
2004: AJAX all the websites!
2008: JQuery all the browser code!
2012: Nodejs all the website backends!
2016: TypeScript all the JavaScript!
2018: Rust all the system code!
As someone pointed out the other day on a somewhat unrelated topic, luxury cars don't have touchscreens or Tesla TVs.

They are bad for driving. Dangerous, even.