skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how ostensibly smart people keep making the same error, time and time again.

First, they see the other tribe's worst members making false claims, engaging in fearmongering, or worse.

Then they consider the direct opposite position. In this case, it's "vaccines are dangerous" vs "vaccines are completely safe."

Then, they cherry pick analytical frames which validate the latter position.

And of course, along the way, box themselves into claims they can't possibly make.

And when reality sets in that the truth is actually less clean than either side presents, it further erodes trust in the side of the discussion that is considered the establishment or consensus.

Rinse repeat.

In this case, here's where the merit of the "other team's" view can be drawn from:

- These vaccines have not been deployed long enough, in comparison to other drugs, to make strong claims regarding their long term effects.

- These vaccines have been deployed in a system of unprecedented scope and scale, so this will act as a magnifier on any such long term effects.

- There are valid theoretical mechanisms being discussed for such side effects to emerge in the long term, and clear disincentives to collect data on them in the short term.

- They are in response to a disease which has evidence to support the idea there is a very broad spectrum of potential impacts depending on a person's individual age/BMI/etc.

Therefore, it is unfair to suggest that an individual who sees themselves as low risk to COVID, and potentially exposing themselves to a yet-to-be-fully-understood drug, does not have a valid dilemma in the choice around vaccines. It is a genuine dilemma that we should do our best to help provide the best information around.

For many, the choice is more obvious. For some, less so. But claiming the choice is always obvious is a recipe for the erosion of trust I mentioned since we ought to expect it to be the case that some long term side effects manifest, at which point any person who has allowed themselves to slip into claims falsified by that discovery will have any other things they said of merit bucketed as being untrustworthy.
Offhand I'd say that you are doubling the plumbing system plus you are using a much more corrosive fluid.

It would be an interesting experiment, since toilets use a great deal of water. Take a beach town, build a separate pressure water and sewer system, see if it's worth it. It's certainly more complicated than a sailboat's set up.
The fact that your immune system will overreact to the virus is probably the main reason to be vaccinated.
Could be PR spend.

Or people are starting to notice climate change, and aren’t aware that large scale batteries exist.

Also people divesting from oil (which will still remain hugely useful and beneficial for a long time) want to diversify into other energy areas.

Then there is lobbying. Nuclear often has big ticket projects that don’t have to foot the bill for their own costs (the nuclear industry has been made immune from liability under US law at least) so there’s a lot of money to be made and once you build the thing, consumers who don’t have other options are at your mercy as it’s a single source you control.
I'm not defending it, but there is actually a logical justification here -- it's not just insurance companies being evil.

When insurance companies sign up doctors to their network, doctors agree to lower fees (lower profit) but expect to make it up in volume, because the health plan will send them more patients.

But that only works if patients are made to stay in-network, which produces the guaranteed volume. So health care plans won't pay if you go out of network. The economics would fall apart otherwise -- plans wouldn't be able to negotiate the lower prices because a doctor's office wouldn't see any uptick in volume.

Now it depends on the plan, but there are often exceptions for when you're traveling and need emergency care -- they'll pay network rates toward that because it's not a visit that an in-network doctor would have lost.

Also, plenty of "gold-plated" plans will cover anything out-of-network as well -- because they're expensive plans they're willing to pay doctors more, and so don't need to provide doctors with volume.
One friend tried to switch from neovim to vim and found that vim is slower even if everything works. Otherwise no reason to switch.
No coherent aim, people just coincidentally had human restraint-grade zip ties with them at a peaceful protest?

Nope, don't try to whitewash this. Thirty seconds of google searches easily puts these efforts to lie.

> In the weeks before supporters of then-President Donald Trump assaulted the U.S. Capitol, TheDonald.win forum commenters debated how best to build a gallows for hanging — or simply terrifying — members of Congress deemed disloyal. What kind of lumber? What kind of rope? And how many nooses?

> “The website, TheDonald, played a far more central role in the January 6th Capitol insurrection than was previously known,” he said. “There are thousands of posts — with tens of thousands of comments — detailing plans to travel to Washington and engage in violence against the U.S. Capitol. The ultimate end goal of this violence was, on behalf of Trump, disrupt the Congress and overturn the presidential election.”

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/15/thedona...
I use to swear on RDS being an AWS certified person. AWS taugh us managed is the best and always put warning when you want to self hosted.

Then recently at my small company(an email forwarding app that process 500K email daily https://hanami.run) I want to cut cost and go with dedicated server for our Postgres database.

At that moment, so many cool thing appear. You suddenly give super power to tune yoru database however you like.

On the other hand, RDS and multi-az deployment is just DNS failure at the end of day. You still have to handle stuff like restarting the app to make sure it got the right DNS after RDS failover.

So at the end of day, pick a hosting provider with reliable uptime(look at their history status page about outage in term of network/power). Tune postgres use tool like https://www.pgconfig.org/#/?max_connections=100&pg_version=1...

Add 2 read replicas(it takes like 10 commands to do that in modern postgres) for streaming replication.

Practice failover(promote read replica to master) once per month.

Then you will be good.
Governments should earn their taxes the same as a person should earn their income. Governments "earn" their taxes by making the benefits of operating in a nation worth the tax. Price fixing and collusion is illegal for companies to practice. Being a government doesn't remove the deleterious effects of price fixing and collusion. An international base corporate tax rate makes nations not care if the tax rate is even worth it to businesses. If the tax rate isn't worth it then a business will close or just never start.

Lets say that a corporation choosing a home nation is akin to you shopping for a good refrigerator. The refrigerator manufacturers don't like that one manufacturer is selling their equal quality fridges at 50% less than everyone else. There are two choices for manufacturers. Collude and fix the price of refrigerators or figure out what the 50% cut rate company is doing and try to compete. If the manufacturers choose collusion they can continue with business as usual without making improvements to cut cost or improve quality. But, they will cut cost, possibly sacrificing quality, as that is now the only way to increase revenue. The incentive to improve is removed and the risk of a refrigerator cabal outsider pricing at 50% increases. If the competitors instead choose to work on reducing cost or improving quality you as the consumer get cheaper higher quality fridges. Under the price fixing regime, when an outsider starts selling a fridge at 50% the fixed price the cabal either has to destroy them, bring them in the fold, or remove the price fixing.

With price fixing an outsider will always arise. Competition is the only solution that doesn't destroy itself.
> if the attackers had succeeded in their aims to overturn a legitimate and fair election, that would've been the end of the United States as a constitutional republic.

Hyperbole to the Nth.

Do we really want to go down the path of judging and punishing people for what they'd have been able to accomplish if they hypothetically had unlimited resources they really wouldn't ever have access to?

Everyone would deserve a death sentence in all instances of just about anything.
We don't need to "start looking at nuclear" we know how to do it perfectly well. We just need to start building reactors again.
Thanks Franze. Downloaded.

Quoting a few lines from the book:
A lot of SEO folks believe(still) this is true.

"Google has denied that Google Analytics and Google Adsense data is used to determine user experience signals for Google Search. Fact is that we don’t know exactly how Google collects UX data, but they do, and they are magnificent at it."
Especially when they talk about "bounce rates"
Is it rarer because of all the devs who decided that static types are a substitute for unit tests?
Maybe we don't need contraception, we just need predators.
Of course there is middle ground.

For instance, there are plenty of practical approaches that greatly reduce the number of abortions while still supporting women's rights.

But, for some reason, one side of the issue would rather not reduce abortion while still permitting women's choice because that would take away the 'wedge' issue as a partisan political hammer. So they insist on ever more draconian, misogynistic laws to force the wedge deeper and deeper. That's not because it's an unreconcilable issue. Its because they want the issue.
What is your comment supposed to mean?
No. We should just stop breeding pets altogether, and all these moral problems will just solve themselves in a few years.
- Avoid stating opinions as facts.

- Avoid stating seriously contested assertions as facts.

- Avoid stating facts as opinions.

- Prefer nonjudgmental language.

- Indicate the relative prominence of opposing views.
There is a shortage of engineers because companies don't want to pay them what their worth.
So, the idea is really cool. I do get what it does, and I played with it for a bit.

It is not very intuitive though. What I suggest is, for each cell, allow creating an "arrow" on the left, or on the right. Then, for each arrow, be able to drag it to another node (where you want).

Right now, I simply don't know how to link a node I created (below "party!") to "cleanup".

My project: https://cinematicstudio.app
Sure. Try setting a pair of headphones as a mic and then talking into them.
Add $1 to BOM, add $2 to price, problem solved.
Sure, but I don't know if I've ever heard anyone use the term "concentration camp" without qualifiers to refer to anything else than the nazi concentration camps (or something equivalent).

If someone says that something is "_literally_ a concentration camp" I think that most people will think of ovens and genocide.

Perhaps it's a regional thing, but that is how I interpreted it.
Thank you for this article, it introduced me to amazing works. I've been very interested in the field of GANs, style transfer, etc.

The best thing is the notebooks which I can play with to generate images. I now have ~10 Colab tabs open waiting for testing :)
> One of the most unfortunate things in the past 6 years is that support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks became a partisan issue purely because they exposed corruption

No, they became a partisan issue because Putin's intelligence apparatus took control of WikiLeaks
…the consequences aren’t very severe yet, but the only inaccuracy is that the surveillance is 1000x deeper and more widespread now due to automation. One leader who decides to turn all this against people and the democracy’s gone, some Caesar like character who could appear in 5 years or 50
Florida, like all the other states that have a lot of condos (New York, Hawaii, Illinois, etc), have their own laws and do not follow the uniform condo laws that other states have. The laws of these states are responses to problems they have seen with condos in their own states.

Florida is going to learn a lot from this tower collapse and will pass a bunch of laws to try to prevent this from happening again. It will be very expensive for the condo owners. Some may even go bankrupt. But there will not be a huge wave of collapses 10 years from now.

Up here in Illinois, there are a number of laws that would reduce the likelihood of what happened.

- Condo boards have a fiduciary duty to protect the value of unit owners to the extent possible - including conducting proper maintenance.

- Condo boards must conduct reserve studies every 5 (?) years that go into detail about the age and condition of every major component of the building (including the structure) and the cost of replacement or repair. Then they have to make sure that the reserves will cover the expected costs.

- Condo boards can enact special assessments for repairs without unit owner approval as long as it is less than 115% of the total association dues for a full year.

- All board meeting notes, financial statements, inspections, contemplated repairs or special assessments, etc must be provided to condo buyers. Legally, a buyer can cancel a sales contract at any time with zero penalty up until 2 days after all the documents have been delivered to the buyer. This is also given to the mortgage company. You cannot get a mortgage on a condo in Illinois if the association is not paying enough into the reserve fund.

You can expect to see some of this stuff in Florida and you can expect that it will make some buildings “unsellable”. But they will recover - there is a price for everything, and hedge funds at least are sitting on tons of cash. It would really suck to live in one of these buildings. But at least you will stay alive.
I guess there's the potential problem of the inspector suggesting repairs for the sake of business. Mandatory repairs would likely be gamed unless there are robust checks and balances.
When I look in my spam folder, I am always pleasantly surprised at how effective my ISP is in spam detection.
It's worth noting that the risk of death stated for AstraZenica in this article, one in two million, surely relies on proper and rigorous reporting of the causes of deaths. As a thought experiment, let's say someone aged 65 happens to die one month after having received the first dose of the vaccine. Are we sure that the local coroner will check whether the vaccine had anything to do with their death if there is some more "obvious" cause of death like an underlying health condition? Are we sure to the level of one in two million? It would only take 18 misattributed deaths to make that risk 10x higher.

I'm not trying to start an argument over vaccines but it sincerely seems to me like there might be large error bars on the assertion that the risk of death from the vaccine is one in two million. And I expect aspirin is still far riskier than the vaccine so the central headline doesn't change. I'm probably missing something here so would welcome input from others. Hopefully Hacker News is a mature enough place to discuss this with level heads.

EDIT: 2 minutes after posting, first downvote. Maybe my previous sentence was too hopeful?
Many condos are converted apartment buildings. You can easily find condos which are 100 years old.

They do some nominal renovation, but the bones are essential the same
Well when framed like that they are.

Ironically I think you've hit the nail on the head, but not for the reasons that are obvious: each side specifically frames the issue in a rigid fashion so it certainly appears obvious that they are morally in the right.

Hence the binary nature of the conversations.

I take the approach that one should be able to CONVINCINGLY argue the opposite side before having a meaningful opinion on the issue. If you can't do that because you view the other side as insane or fully incorrect, then it might be you that's insane. I'm not talking about the-Earth-is-flat type issues, but issues of the day (whatever that day is over the course of time).
Diffusion of responsibility and the tragedy of the commons are pretty textbook psychological phenomena that I’m surprised more people seem to be unaware of. I would be surprised if any committee with custody of any asset were prepared to take quick, decisive, and costly action in the long-term interest of said asset.
I’d say cautiously maybe. Using lua to me seems like it could open doors for neovim that before we’re either not possible or very complicated to do with vimscript.

Neovim doesn’t have such incredible and almost ridiculous power to change itself like emacs does with elisp since vim is still not written in lua, lua is just used to access its api, but that api is quite extensive. So, maybe? Hopefully?
Because it makes the point that congress is completely paralyzed on most major issues, largely because of of the filibuster. They are leaving it to the executive branch and the courts to effectively write the laws. This is an enormous systemic failure, and Democrats shouldn't be high-fiving because they kicked the can down the road a little way. Why do we even have a congress if they aren't going to actually legislate?
So if China firewalls and keeps mining they could take over the chain?
Are American doctors really smarter than Dutch or Swedish doctors?
Can this be right? “ Two-thirds exit disclaimer icon of all bankruptcies filed in the United States are tied to medical expenses”

From someone living in a country (Australia)with proper government medical support, this seems insane!
Can you elaborate on what exactly is stopping someone from hosting their own repository for F-Droid and publishing an app that uses FCM/GCM?
Oh, I do derive emotional value from eating meat. Since when is this an argument?
Downvoted and I still don't know what the '+' is.

Some sort of gender or kink letter? Code for a cyborg? Programming language?
I have no interest in any of the ticketing/workflow/pm features (JIRA shop), nor am I interested in the container or package registries (Artifactory). I just use GitLab for the code repository, review, and CI stuff, and while those basic features do still get love, it's frustrating to have the Starter plan dropped so that the only paid option is 4x the price and the banner features are all stuff I don't care about.
American Growth Ponzi
> tree-sitter. google it to believe it

After Googling I have no idea what it is, it's a parser but for what? Syntax highlighting? That doesn't seem so impressive
Came here to say this. The book is captivating, can't speak to the movie.
One interpretation of the origin of such monsters, from Beowulf:

That bloodshed, for that Cain slew Abel, the Eternal Lord avenged: no joy had he of that violent deed, but God drove him for that crime far from mankind. Of him all evil broods were born, ogres and goblins and haunting shapes of hell, and the giants too, that long time warred with God - for that he gave them their reward.

The original Old English text refers to the monsters as eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas, swylce gigantas, and other translations seem to disagree on their meaning; however, orcneas meant evil spirits, according to the Oxford English Dictionary and to Tolkien (who was a leading scholar of Old English in his day job).[0]

(I assume you are not saying that "people from other communities" are actually monsters, but referring to historical ignorance.)

[0] If you can access the OED, see the entry for orc.
I have improved so much since I started thinking this way. Once I started realising that I made a mistake and that it was really my mistake, other things, a lot of things started coming into perspective.
Fee for service like any other consumer transaction.
In the virtual RAM accessible to the process the image might be continuous, but its physical representation could be different, as the operating system might use different areas from the physical RAM to expose it to the process. If you dump a computer's RAM e.g. in a forensic setting, you might attain such a state.

Same goes for file systems as well as the wear leveling layer of SSDs.
>A common saying in Canada "a little warming can go a long way for Canadian agriculture" is looking outdated now.

This was never accurate. The regions with good soil are already used. Northern Ontario isn't farmed because of climate, but because it's either muskeg or the Clay Belt. While the latter is good soil, all previous attempts to lure settlers failed because both muskeg and the Clay Belt are completely infested with black flies and mosquitos.

(Muskeg also covers Siberia.)
Alternate link for those hitting NPR's Cookie Wall

https://text.npr.org/1012317032

(for some reason the usual trick of substituting the www with text didn't work and kept on redirecting to their cookie pop-up)
I feel like these wireguard based solutions are still too complex for mobile/roaming client usage.
>Further opening up interstate health insurance would also probably help.

Can't wait to race to the bottom on this one. Which state wants to roll out the red carpet for insurers most? If I ever have a problem with Montana BCBS I'm sure, once I fly over, I'll be able to explain to the arbitrator in Butte exactly what my issues are and get a fair hearing.
Distinguishing real-time storage, time-series databases, and real-time analytics
What's the work, and the pay? Those 2 things will play big roles more than a dearth of candidates. Told my son for years if you want to make more money, find something to do that no else wants to. Turns out the same is on the hiring side.
This is a very poorly written article that myopically focuses on only the most extremely recent events in the culture war. Wouldn't a better article look at how wikipedia handles, say, the the civil rights act of 1964 and the rise of Evangelicism? Things that are, you know, many years ago and should be much more stable articles than these fly-by-night everyone is having a conniption over at this very moment?

Reading this article is kind of like I'm watching Jerry Springer except it's not as entertaining. As things stabilize the articles get better and as time stretches to infinity so too does the editing work eliminate bias on Wikipedia. Is it the greatest thing ever that you should unquestioningly read? Not even close. The author thinks it should be impossibly neutral. Nirvana fallacy.
Who left almost immediately, and has been railing at Wikipedia ever since.

(He also said a lot of negative things about Wikileaks, cited in the Wikipedia article you link.)
I honestly wouldn't have expected that. There was a time when ranting about the German system was a favourite pastime, and there a lot of ridiculous and annoying things going on, but the more I learn about other countries I actually am quite happy, or better lucky.
Let's hope it will be updated in distributions quickly.
I agree, this is abuse.
Yes it is very true that not very many people understand risk enough to effectively compare it amongst other risks.