skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the big problems with VAERS is the reporting. So many things go unreported. The system is almost useless.

My father-in-law was hospitalized with a stroke about 10 days after receiving the vaccine. By law it was supposed to be reported, but it wasn't.

My kid had an issue 2 days after getting 4 vaccines at once. The treating doctors said they wouldn't submit it, but we could ask the administering provider to do it. I honestly don't think the PA that administered the shots even knew about VAERS. She wouldn't contact us back, and wouldn't even supply lot numbers or other requested info when we realized we had to file it ourselves.

My wife had menstrual changes after her shot. She didn't bother reporting it because it was a pop-up type clinc so it would be "too hard" to look them up and contact them about it.

Many doctors also summarily rule out things being related to the vaccine, even without evidence of a different cause. The whole point of the system is to father the complete set of data, then determine if the rate of occurrence for a reaction is significantly higher than the know rate for the population. We can't do that if the data isn't there.
> Do you deposit your savings to a new bank that's not had a single audit done?

Sure, because banks in my country are regulated, and deposits are insured, so I trust literally any bank.
Planetary-Scale Computing – 9.95 Pflops and Position 41 on the TOP500 List
old.reddit is ok, but it's rarely used for links. I know there's a plugin, but I can't stand the idea of adding plugins for things like that. The only reason I have a reddit account is because you can change preferences to be even better than old.reddit (e.g. turn off custom themes, disable outbound click tracking, no thumbnails, compact list, etc.). It basically looks like HN after what I do to it. I know it's all arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship but I hope a decent rescue ship gets here before it's all gone.
The people who would go to that site for the conspiracies will only get upset by the debunking.
Why not just levy a carbon tariff on imports? Ban fossil fuel production, export, and import domestically and then replace most tariffs with a carbon tariff. Also, make decarbonization look awesome by investing in cheap decarbonization tech. Convince these countries to decarbonize by making it easy, cheap, and sexy while making it basically a precondition of trade. And combine this with substantial decarbonization foreign aid. All much cheaper & better than war.

This is one big reason I think “Degrowth”/austerity approaches to decarbonization are actually counterproductive: they make decarbonization look super unattractive to countries that want to develop, particularly if they have substantial fossil fuel reserves.
Just go to https://teddit.net/
Physical engineering aside, the operating system used is also quite interesting
https://cntechpost.com/2021/06/22/chinas-tianwen-1-probe-pow...

real-time response accurate to 8 milliseconds range.
I am not that familiar with embedded software, but does that value really difficult to achieve?
If you are going to edit people's posts you should have the original and edited posts displayed below your post.
i know this motivation all too well in my line of work, but i hate it. its the code conservative approach that will just let things cobweb since people don't hate it enough for anki to change it app dev. granted, anki isn't some corp that has money to throw at this product, but theres such a high demand for this app to be better and it just isn't and people are just okay with it because its the best they have.
Very very nice! Despite I don't feel like I understand the context stuff (because not enough useful examples, i.e. not a single example card having context?) nor why would I need notes (are they essentially no answer flashcards?) this seems the first flashcard app I like. Easy to add a card, easy to retire a card, nice-looking.

How do I run through the cards one by one (rather than view a whole deck)? How do I force it to re-show cards I've already solved today?
If the reign of introverts is here, then the introverts should hold enough power to get technology and/or laws that will actually stop spam phone calls and texts. Those things are brutal to introverts. The deeper you are in thought, the more damaging they are.
Market cap stories (and price fluctuation stories generally) mostly aren't substantive enough to make interesting HN threads. They just turn into generic discussions about the underlying company or currency or whatever, and those are too repetitive to be interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.
Funnily enough the Instagram link in the blog post worked fine for me, because I use the "Privacy Redirect" extension which sent me to https://bibliogram.art/u/polite_cat_olli_official
Me shouting "I'm a VC and I don't spend money on coke" and then getting busted doing just that would not make news, as I'm nobody.
Same here.
Not to suggest that this is the best way to do it, but that’s already happened on Ethereum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
How often was that bug actually hit in production? How many people are allocating arrays of size 2*31? A bug is less likely to be caught if it's not exploitable.
No, because on-site evaluations without access to a lift or all of the shop's tools aren't very thorough. It amounts to a visual inspection, which I can do myself.

It might be useful if I'm buying a car remotely and I need someone on the ground to look at it, though.
Isn't that a failure of the reddit devs rather than of Google? They could have the app register for amp.reddit.com links.
For those that want to consume some amusing fiction on this I'd recommend the BBC mockumentary Carnage.
Can I know your name, address, and phone number please?
As you get older, your ability to think critically declines. If it was ever present. Even someone very sharp can be tricked. You’re talking about a principle, not the reality of our society.
Oh, I’ve got a perfect example of a ‘Fuck You’ pattern in the wild, and it’s served with a side of ‘user gas-lighting’.

The gun.deals app, (specifically the iOS version, though I suspect android is engineered the same way), is your typical design of stacked rows of links for deals on, you guessed it, gun stuff.

As with these apps, the user scrolls down the list by dragging their finger upward. Except on gun.deals, the app will [intentionally] misinterpret the first contact of the finger as a ‘click’ on the row item.
This causes the user to have to back out of the item they had intended to scroll past. (While almost certainly delivering fraudulently obtained ‘impressions’ that the app maker can represent to advertisers and vendors they are selling data and screen share to).
> cites 16 Calories per edible Calorie of meat and 8 grams of protein per edible gram of protein produced.

Two things. Firstly, those are 16 Calories that would otherwise quite literally go to waste. They would be metabolized by bacteria, used to grow a bacterial mat in a compost bin, and then be released into the air in the form of CO2.

Secondly, I'm not sure what 8g of protein per edible gram of protein produced means. Ruminants like cows convert carbs and other compounds into protein by hosting gut bacteria. Without a cow or chicken or something in between, these amino acids would have to come from somewhere else. Same with B12.
Here in NL where I live there is this weird concept that the price of housing is not part of inflation. Whereas it is the single largest expense that people tend to have, before food and transportation. This is quite frustrating because people pay more and more in rent, 1000 euros / month is no longer exceptional, which leads to a crunch in the housing market and so combined with the low interest rates they are forced to continue to rent.

You can't win like that, if you're a single earner (because you are single or because only one of two spouses is working) then you're basically going to be squeezed for many years because you can not save enough for a downpayment.

This sort of treadmill is extremely hard to get out of and one false step or bad illness and you're in real trouble.

Meanwhile, rich people get to hand 105K euros tax free to their kids to buy a house of their own, and investors buy condos to rent back out at exorbitant prices because that's the only relatively risk free way of putting their savings to work.

It's really tough.
People in the comments seem to not be reading the article, there’s a lot of back and forth about whether the article is looking at the overall unemployment rate or just those receiving benefits.

> The number of individuals who received unemployment benefits decline by 13.8% by the week ending June 12, compared to mid-May, in states where governors explicitly said that enhanced benefits would end in June, based on an analysis by Jefferies LLC economists.

>This figure compares to a 10% decline in states that are ending benefits in July, and a smaller 5.7% decline in states that intend to keep the benefits until the funding ends in September.

As we can see it’s referring to unemployment claims, not the overall rate. So we don’t know whether people are workin or not.

That said, I would suspect that it is indeed due to more people going back to work. But there is again another reference to that in the article:

> In May, the Missouri's unemployment rate was 4.2%, below the national average of 5.8%, according to data from the Department of Labor.

Missouri seems to have been back to more or less full employment, or around there when it cut off the extra benefits. What i think a lot of people are missing is that the confounding factor here is that political choices like ending the extra benefit are correlated with lighter lockdown policies. It’s likely that these states have already been ahead on re opening as well. measuring the effect of ending the unemployment benefits themselves requires looking at that data as well.
Interesting, do you mind explaining how the "other object will lose a similar amount"? I find orbital mechaics fascinating and understand the concept of a slingshot, but I can intuitively understand how if we launched a rocket and slingshotted it around the moon, the moon would be affected by that
It's certainly plausible. I wonder how many of our institutions are really "just for show," like the TSA.
Yeah, I keep getting solicitors and I can't easily change my number to something only my friends know. I also can't easily separate my business number from my personal number without paying for a second phone subscription, even though it wouldn't cost the phone company anything more.
How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI
They have, but there is a certain tendency to ignore CS literature.

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Beyond-Object-Orie...

1st edition, 1998
Multiple reasons. First, the DateTime type in a typical database isn't even an RFC-3339 string; its a unix timestamp. That's it; an unsigned integer. This is very space efficient; far more-so than a string. So, then, why the indirection; why not just use the integer type directly? It communicates to the database engine the intent of the data stored, so the database can do useful things like, for example, time-based queries, interfacing with that integer in more human friendly ways when writing queries, displaying it in a more friendly way... its a low-cost abstraction, generally.

Except, there is the cost intrinsic to this discussion, where going back to strings makes sense. That doesn't mean that decision comes with no cost. If you store someone's birthday as "1990-02-05", then need to answer the question "who has birthdays in the next month", that's actually essentially impossible to do in practically any database query engine. You have the problem of both ignoring the year field of that string (ok, so, maybe we just store "02-05" because the year doesn't matter for birthdays, moreso just 'dates of birth', we can denormalize)... but even beyond that, the closest most if not all engines could get is generating an array of every upcoming day in application code (02-05, 02-06, 02-07, etc) then matching on each. Alternatively, just sort on the field (sans year) then filter in application code, but that's also not happening in the database, which has negatives, and moreover, this would suddenly start failing across year boundaries, but you can special-case that by running a second query starting at 01-01 if the first one didn't return enough results...

There's no easy solution. Time is just really hard. Its good to have as many tools as possible in your belt, but with that you have to know when to reach for one versus another. There isn't one solution to any of these problems.
> The Internet dramatically reduced application lock-in

and smartphones brought it back.
I always see projects that were written in dynamic languages being rewritten in static languages, and never the other way around, fwiw.

Actually it was (and is) quite common to see crufty old (but statically typed) C++, Java, what-you-have-you re-written in Perl and/or Python (well before the introduction of type annotations, in the latter case).

Reason: there are multiple factors involved in choosing a suitable language, and static typing is just one of them (and by no means a universal deal-breaker).

I never heard anyone say “let’s rewrite this in Node” unironically.

Good for you (and I would never say that other than as a tired, old joke). But unfortunately "respect" for Node runs quite high in some circles, and not a few developers consider to be not just occasionally acceptable server-side language, but (from the way they talk about it) to be the bees knees basically.

Why? TypeScript of course.
If news sites know what's good for them, they should be disabling the comments section asap
> Critical thinking is the best strategy.

Every problem has a solution that’s simple, elegant, and wrong.

Humans are prone to fall for self-reinforcing belief loops like conspiracy theories. They subvert the mechanism of critical thinking a bit like a prion will misfold proteins and cause all sort of issues.
It's quite cost effective to do something like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
This is the reason why I don't use Instagram...and that it also tries to force you to install an app instead of using the browser because you know...they can spy more from a phone.
It doesn't... but the nature of Reddit has been clearly driven by the "new" interface. There's a lot less text-based technical content, and a lot more image/gif meme-based content because that's what the new interface is optimized for - and it goes out of its way to make it very, very hard to see the deep text nested comments that are the dominant feature of the old interface (and HN).

So, while you can browse the place with the old interface, the nature and trends of Reddit are mostly driven by the new interface.

Which is fine, if they want to go that way, it's just a shame that what used to make it any good is dead or dying.
This looks a lot like existing co-op programs, where undergraduate students are hired as (typically paid) interns and take a break from classes while they work. AFAIK these programs usually work really well, to the point where my undergraduate college became very competitive and popular solely because of its co-op.

Co-op work is not classwork, so it removes the incentive for students to submit lazy contributions for bad grades. Yet co-op students actually benefit their companies because said companies continue to hire them.

Of course, the main difference with open-source is that nobody is paying the student. But still - either investors in FOSS can "hire" students to work on various open-source projects, or the students can choose to work unpaid (perhaps for less tuition, or part-time work on the side, to make ends meet). But I really think adopting a co-op model would be easier and more effective than trying it in the classroom.
How is the online account thing going to work with laptops?
No more working in business class?
It is right there in the charter of the regulators of the three countries that I'm most familiar with. Spelled out.
88% of minimum wage workers are over the age of 20, with the average age being 35[1]. 36% are 40 and over.

According to this study[2], increases of 10% to the minimum wage are correlated with only a 0.36% increase of prices, and minimum wage increases may cause some prices to decrease, too.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-workers-older-88-percen...

[2] https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/does-increasing-m...
Replace HTML with something closer to hypercard - it would give simple interactions, database management and user interface that you need.

Failing that, Flash should have become open source and part of the W3 web standards, but opened up such that we could observe the code that's running.
The internet itself is pretty solid: other than a few technical tweaks, I think the infrastructure evolved as well as it could. One thing I'd like to see changed is a re-thought internet protocol that's more privacy focused: an IP address is an absurdly specific identifier, fingerprinting a user down to a single household in most cases. An ephemeral addressing scheme for clients that changes with every new connection would be really quite helpful, perhaps along with some safeguards that allow law enforcement to still track that ephemeral identifier to an internet connection in the case of abuse.

The web is a different story, especially social media. I'd like to make social media, and the web in general, more forgetful. "Digital natives" (second-flight millenials and Gen Z) are going to get screwed with the persistence and easy archiving of social media data. This is partially a result of the natural shift in cultural expectations that occurs over time, as well as a consequence of having their awkward-for-any-generation blunder years recorded forever. This is definitely more a legal change than a technical one, but I would mandate (1) a time span (such as 5 years) where public social media posts must revert to author-only private unless consent is otherwise obtained and (2) a prohibition against public mass archiving of social media posts from people who aren't public figures.

This type of mass archiving for the use of closed-off academic research libraries is acceptable, but merely going and hoovering up every public tweet or Youtube comment or Reddit post and and putting it up with a public search engine shouldn't be permitted. Treat it like many countries treat the census, and only allow publicly opening up these archives far into the future (for example, the raw underlying questionnaires used for the Canadian census are not released to the general public until 92 years after collection). Different story for public figures such as politicians, but we shouldn't archive everything that everyone has said in perpetuity.
My 3 year old daughter was recently diagnosed Type 1. Soon after her diagnosis I discovered a heap of articles about the Open Insulin Foundation. I was even on their website 24 hours ago. However, for the life of me I can't find anything "open" about the Open Insulin Foundation.

Could someone please point me in the right direction where I can read anything with more substance than a news article quoting an interview?

EDIT: Just to clarify. We're extremely fortunate that we're in Australia. Insulin is affordable/subsidised here, my daughter's CGM (and sensors) are free, and anything else we need is heavily subsidised too. I've no intention of biohacking anything to do with my daughter's Type 1.

I'm asking the above mostly because I'm curious. Admittedly I find it a bit scary that I know so little about the manufacturing of something that is 100% vital to my daughter's survival. I'd like to know more.
We're in agreement that lying about backing is wrong in any case, no argument there.

I in particular object to the notion that things of value should be 100% backed by actual USD, in bank accounts or cash. That's not how liquidity works, yet a lot of people intuitively believe this to be so.
Did they post any Soph videos?

I miss Soph.
Not in the big majority of developed countries... The US is also the big exception in that.
They can still have ads for people that don't create an account.

I think the point you are trying to make is that people are demanding free (as in beer) content, a la WinAmp of the 1990's. In the past 20 years, we've come around out of that greedy phase and have come to accept a certain amount of advertising for content. But when the non-free content dominates the free content (e.g. pinterest's SEO), it's a fuck you pattern and not consumer greed.

EDIT: IMHO
Content aside, this site is beautiful on mobile. Bravo.
It's rare for us to do anything like this. My guess is that as long as we tell people that we did it (and why; and as long as it was for a good reason), it's not something most of the community would object to. I don't think we need to build new bureaucratic mechanisms.

In this case, I could avoided it by posting a different comment with the same link and pinned that to the top instead, but then ChrisArchitect wouldn't be getting the karma for their contribution. That seemed unfair. Hence the above.

I do sometimes think about building an edit-and-diff mechanism for HN comments though! People could suggest edits to comments and they could be treated like pull requests. I can't tell if this is a great idea that would massively improve the threads, or an idiocy. (Edit: I was looking for a comment where I mentioned this not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25459870, and found another one where I mentioned it 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214456. That's nuts!)
> This includes rules that govern what can and can’t be sold in a business transaction. This is a principle as old as government itself.

If we're talking about a "business transaction" as in an exchange of physical goods across the border, then I agree. I said that it was unjust, not that it was without precedent. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I believe in the concept of government itself. The core of what government is, and does, is unjust. Arguing that governments have always done things this way carries zero weight with me.

Applying these rules (or any rules) to the non-commercial exchange of information, or even to commercial services involving no exchange of physical property, is the recent, and more immediately concerning, development.

> It would be nuts to ban the sale of guns inside a country…

I agree with you up to that point. But if they want to ban the import of "wireless handheld hold punchers" or any other contraband they should do that at the border, by stopping the shipments—which at that point consist of the buyer inside the country attempting to import their own property after the sale—and not by attempting to impose their internal rules on foreign sellers. Residents could buy them but would have to keep them outside the country, perhaps using them only while visiting the country the goods were in at the time of the sale, or somewhere else where they are legal.
Q1 2019, there was no Beacon chain running. They're pretty much live already but only running the skeleton chain to make sure such a sensitive system is given time to test and work out the kinks.

Given that the beacon chain has been running since December 2020 and people have locked in billions of $ worth of ETH, highly unlikely the switch will get delayed by long time now.
Not necessarily. Bills have serial numbers on them. They can also be marked.