skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting comment I read somewhere else was that the realpolitik case for discrediting treatments is that deploying the fast tracked vaccines is predicated on a legal emergency measure, for which the key requirement is there are no other viable treatments.

I don't think there is serious controversy that the vaccine rollout is being used as leverage for imposing digital identity schemes and for establishing a variety of other ostensibly temporary powers that will not be rolled back, and so it is difficult to "trust the science" on this as the question has become 90%+ political. The consequences of a non-vaccine treatment being available would obviate the need for all the supporting systems for it, and derail a large co-ordinated effort that has been some years in the making. If you know anything about digital identity, you know what's been going on in that space right now and who/what is driving it. Conspiracy theories about mere pharma profits are distracting and don't think nearly big enough.

If we really want to get everyone vaccinated for c19, we need to commit to no domestic vaccine passports. If we require the passports, the rollout is going to stall, you're going to mass-disenfranchise 20%+ of the middle class, and when we have to deal with a threat with a more serious fataility rate, there will be no institutional credibility left to respond to it.

I'm not sure we should be haggling the details of chemistry and biology we aren't equipped to reason about when the real policy issue of passports is something we all have a stake in.
I would suggest that pushing beyond Dunbar’s number to maximize growth and “engagement” is always a mistake for any kind of online community.
The "American ruling class" are probably flying private out of Teterboro, not riding Spirit out of LaGuardia.

Security theater was a pretty direct response to 9/11. Now no politician wants to roll it back lest they be the fall guy if another terrorist attack happens after that.
I was popular, even a bit of a bully at times, and I agree with you 100%.

I was cruel to others because I was miserable myself. I hated every single second of the excruciating boredom of being forced to sit down and shut up for 8 hours a day. The US education system is fucking garbage.
I suspect HN has weights for popular words, e.g. "YouTube" gives +5, "anti-vax" gives -15 and so on.
I'm not talking about the content of the article at all. I'm just talking meta about how that seems impossible. #4 position with 6 upvotes seems impossible, but maybe I'm wrong and somehow it's was just the most disproportionate upvote-rank ratio I've seen yet.
At this point the only reason I stay on Facebook boils down to "squatting" my own identity.
If there are gender segregated schools that just means heightened fomo+posturing. There is no way in which post-pubuscent humans are going to ingore the other gender school's existence.
You can use the whole 127/8, but only if you've added the address to your loopback interface.

Unix sockets skip all of tcp though, so I'd recommend them vs loopback, if possible. I hear Linux short circuits a lot of tcp for loopback, but there's probably still a bunch of connection state that doesn't need to be there. FreeBSD runs normal tcp on loopback, and you can get packet loss if you overrun the buffer, and congestion collapse and the whole nine yards. Great for validating the tcp stack, not the best for performance; better to skip it.
If so, they aren't transparent about it.
My favourite part of this fraud was:

> It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,”
How to make a custom message converter for Log4J2
There are vast amounts of scrap iron in salvage yards all across the country. Might not need to mine anything at all.
It's currently 14 votes and 31 minutes old (and fallen to spot 5). So 6 and call it what, 15±5? Neither is at all unusual. Being quickly voted on is worth more (in terms of the ranking) than the same handful of votes over hours or days.
>Even if I had no professional obligations, I still wouldn't have autonomy. Young children, like software projects, take up all available time.

As long as time is limited and we can't replicate ourselves to be in more than one place, some lack of autonomy is expected. But nobody talked about total autonomy here. The post, and I, mean the casual autonomy to not to be forced to do something you didn't chose at any point.

Young children you can chose to have or not (and take the time hit that goes with it).

Whereas if you have no money and need food and rent and so on, not working is not a choice.

Autonomy is not about having all free time all the time. It's about chosing how you want to spend your time (if that - like having kids - comes with restrictions, those are still your choice, since you opted to that).

Lack of autonomy is when you can't opt out - like when you don't want to have kids but your parents force you to an arranged marriage, or when you want to have kids but can't because you can't afford it, or when you want to spend time with your kids/family but need to work, and so on.
It's not unusual, HN's front page ranking algorithm is heavily biased towards new submissions.
>An independent Linux(R) distribution with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more.

For me, this niche has always been filled by the venerable Slackware distro.
I'm sure I am, but my point was at least locally, Craigslist is still quite active, and not apparently stagnating.
it's really pretty trivial at this point. Buy yourself an all-in-one raspberry pi 400, and use it, if you are worried about screwing up.
Makes sense. It's just that #4 position with 6 upvotes is the most extreme ratio I've seen yet. When I said that it seemed impossible without manipulation (on a post now flagged), I did not mean that manipulation was happening, just that this seemed unusual.
Recommend watching the full video, basically meta-analysis are only as good as the underlying data. Because these studies test various protocols, it's likely you're going to underestimate the drugs effectiveness. (Later studies are more likely to have better protocols).

In this case, the confidence interval drops, but the reduction in deaths and hospitalizations is still a very strong signal. However, the confidence interval has widened (note, the lower bound is still showing positive results).
At one point in the growth of social media there was a legit argument that a strictly correct (or even approximately time-ordered) reverse chronological list of all the things a user followed didn't scale sufficiently, past a certain level. While there really is a level of combinatorial complexity which makes it hard, I no longer believe it's any less scalable than the algorithm complexity involved in their little game of "pull the lever to see if you get something interesting this time".
I'll second this. The vocab is probably the easiest and most straightforward bit to train right now. Flash cards have already all but solved that problem as they provide the simplicity, an easily optimizable metric, and a dopamine hit from numbers going up.

The part that's harder is getting people to fluent conversations, both on the comprehension and construction side.
Copernican theory made worse predictions than Ptolemaic theory, but it was simpler. Both explained the same facts.

The acceptance of heliocentricity was an aesthetic judgement, one which favored simplicity, and predated the work on elliptical orbits which gave the Copernican theory, thusly modified, equivalent predictive power.
"Simplicity" does imple trivial or easy though, at least to an extent.
Was the Mattermost instance badly managed?

Because for us it was different. We got rid of Slack and decided to just use basic Google Chat we already had with Google mail. It was definitely a productivity boost and insanely decreased the number of times people messages each other. It was helpful.

So what, in your case, it had to with self hosting? Or did you mean it was just the magical effect of Slack being Slack?
Is there a link to the actual poll or its content?
The ratio of benefit to (individual) cost of vaccines is dramatically lower than almost every other drug.

Do you (or Johnson) post things about how we should "appreciate" and not forget the people who are harmed by other medical miracles, like immunotherapy?

If you're posting this in good faith (which I believe you are), then you're falling for exactly the fallacy that Johnson is trying to promote: that the scientific community is under-selling and under-discussing the risks of the vaccine.

It's part of a fear-mongering strategy that abuses the human tendency to extrapolate small edge cases as more significant than they actually are.
Well, technically the highest form of wealth would be: "I can do whatever I want today, AND, I can make others do whetever I want today".
It's not just a mindset that has been passed on but a mindset that is caused by circumstance.

I used to teach in China and one of the things I noticed that doesn't get attention is the impact of the one-child policy on that one child. You had a largely socialist system that turned largely capitalist so you have all these parents nearing the end of their careers without much to show for it (because they grew up in a largely socialist system) and their main shot at a better life is a single child that they expect to support them beyond what the state provides as they age. This is a recipe for a ridiculous amount of pressure parents put on their single child, and that single child is aware that they have the future burden of supporting two parents in the future. It was really enlightening to witness these consequences first hand.
Who are you talking about? The submitter - ingve - has many comments going back at least a year, including as a sister comment to yours.
For those downvoting, it's not the article. Can one not question the meta aspects about an article's ranking for clarification? I did not mean to imply any foul play.
Dang has a post about front page dynamics…somewhere on here.
It may be only a very small part but not knowing how to invert a binary tree may well knock you out of the process. The process is designed to cull as many people as possible as early in the process as possible. It is accepted they might miss a few good people but it is more important that don't hire a bad one.
If you waded through the first 3 pages of story looking for the answer like me, here it is: "in every single case that we were able to research fully, we found a convincing connection between a mystery package and an earlier [online] order."

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858193
I'm not up for arguing any of that stuff in general. The point is, assuming all of those are reasonable opinions, why Amazon? If the opinions are generic, then why don't they result in a broadly diverse set of observations about many different facets of our entire society?

Even if the context is limited to Wal-Mart, I feel (and this could be my particular bubble) like the hate for Wal-Mart has just faded away. I mean, you may affirm that you still think Wal-Mart is terrible, I'm just saying I haven't felt bombarded with that in quite a while. It feels coordinated in waves. Fake.

And this is where you say "shut up, whataboutism" as if I were an Amazon spokesperson.
I received a few packs of Surprise Chinese seeds July of last year myself. (In my case, marigolds, bitter melon & sunflowers.) I had no idea it was such a widespread phenomenon.

I can, however, report with 100% certainty that they weren't forgotten Amazon orders, simply because I don't buy seeds from Amazon.
How new are you? It's extremely unusual. Check the numbers in my other post.
It’s maybe a small part but the first part—-the technical phone screwn. Maybe I’m in the minority but I don’t write semi obscure algorithms for my day job so I need explicit prep for TPS.
Why this needs to be about anti-vax, as a company it is common to hire influencers to bad-mouth your competitors, could it a be campaign from a vaccine manufacturer?
It doesn't make sense with the current state of US rail, but in Europe the equivalent of commuter rail (in terms of distance covered and speed) runs on a pretty decent schedule during daylight hours at a reasonable price, a far cry from premium US commuter rail that barely runs during the middle of the day. (They also generally run through the city center to the other side of the city, but the N-S tunnel is a whole nother can of worms.)

Boston Logan is the regional international airport, and if the trains were frequent and fast enough there's no reason why one shouldn't theoretically be able to take the train from a suburb to the airport. You'd save enough money from the long-term parking alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law lists "regulate the balance of trade by limiting the market for expensive imported goods" as one possibly surprising - but logical - purpose (among many others).
But here is a story that deserves on frontpage, but didn't

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941820
All of these "generations" are based on the USA anyway, so they might as well stick with Oregon Trail Generation if that is a concern.
Weinberg in front of me at the ballet for a modern work.

Someone says "Steven, what do you think?"

He replied "Swan Lake it's not".
I don't think you can call this anti-vax when when the ask was to favor one vaccine over another.
> On August 3rd, the WebAssembly CG will poll on whether JavaScript string semantics/encoding are out of scope of the Interface Types proposal. This decision will likely be backed by Google (C++), Mozilla (Rust) and the Bytecode Alliance (WASI), who appear to have a common interest to exclusively promote C++, Rust respectively non-Web semantics and concepts in WebAssembly.

> If the poll passes, which is likely, AssemblyScript will be severely impacted as the tools it has developed must be deprecated due to unresolvable correctness and security problems the decision imposes upon languages utilizing JavaScript-like 16-bit string semantics and its users.

So, the problem is that AssemblyScript wants to keep using UTF-16? I'm not sure I understand.

Is AssemblyScript the thing that lets you hand-write WebAsm?
Copyright infringement is illegal. Bypassing security measures intended to lock out unauthorized access is a crime.

There's no 'alleged' about it, the guy did it, he admits it, he doesn't get how much hot water he's in.
> Extra time spent to study for a particular test is.

if those studying made the intelligence of said person higher, then it's not a waste. It might be inefficient (because there may be faster ways to raise intelligence than these sorts of studying), but it's strictly better than not studying.

Otherwise, by the same argument, people going to the gym and "wasting" their time doing body building or training when they're not professional athletes are wasting their time.
Delusional for saying that redistributing copyrighted material stolen from a hacked server is illegal?
How new are you? I’ve seen this a bunch. The weird ones just fall into oblivion quickly.
A tutoring company. It’s stock ticker is TAL.
What is Nextdoor? Google showed a .com address and it was asking for an address, but it didn’t seem to recognise any address of my country. App isn’t in App Store either. Is that the service you’ve mentioned?

Is it something US only? Is it a social network that starts with your address?
Cass Sunstein: The meaning of masks (2020) [pdf]
I'd be satisfied with ELHighschool
this shouldn't be mentioned, now people are gonna freak out even if it's not an issue lol
>I used to teach in China and one of the things I noticed that doesn't get attention is the impact of the one-child policy on that one child.

Actually a lot of people noticed because the previous generation usually have a lot of siblings, like 3-4 are not uncommon.

Agree with you on the other points. The one-child policy is controversial but TBH I'm not in the position to shed more light on this policy. Back then people seemed to be really worried about over-population and others.

I'm not sure how this is going to play out. Population estimation seems to be pretty difficult to do it correctly because there are so many variables. But we will see.
Maybe controversial but I think the only way is benevolent dictatorship. Anything run by a large group of people eventually becomes political and corrupt or a money grab. People forget for the first 10 years of its existence up until about 2015 most people thought Facebook was a great company. Zuck could turn it back into that since he has control, but it’s a huge machine now and a public company so it would be very tough to do so.
> when you seed 5-10 companies engineering a solution

That's irrelevant to this particular article because the intellectual property for this development is owned by only one company.

> if it's possible, one of them is probably going to succeed and take all

> If there is still science to be done, sure, higher risk

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Your original comment implied by it's just a matter of spending enough on engineering. That's just not true.

So now you're moving the goal post and qualifying "it's just a matter of engineering" with "it's just a matter of engineering... unless it's also a matter of financing and other breakthroughs that may be needed".

> Unit economics are an optimization problem, which is literally what engineers solve, and you can hire them at scale.

Engineering doesn't just scale like that. You don't make a breakthrough in 1/10 of the time just because you hired 10x the engineers. There are lots of limiting factors beyond how many engineers you have.

> even paying a few scientists to develop IP for 2 years is a rounding error on what investors put into novelty software projects

This is just not true. The whole soft part of software is that you can shuffle around some code and have a completely different outcome.

Two years of scientific research on something hard (as in hardware) and also difficult/unprecedented is not comparable to building the next Slack or something, either in costs or the ability to staff it up. You could build a Slack clone today for <$10k and get to v1.0, and then it becomes just a marketing/sales problem.

To advance a new battery tech to a marketing/sales problem can't be done by a few people in a few weeks for $10k. It's orders of magnitude more expensive.
Agreed, sounded like a tactic to make AZ look better in comparison. Maybe someone bought their stock on the cheap.
What’s stopping them from “asking” $500/sqft? $1000? At what point is it fraud?
I'm not going to enter the discussion regarding UTF-8 vs WTF-16 for representing strings, as I lack the context to determine which one is the right approach if everything has to fit the same model. However, I think an approach that allows multiple serialization/deserialization mechanisms depending on the host/guest language seems like a nice way to move it forward.

If you want to chime in and retrieve more context, here are some relevant issues:

* https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/issues/135

* https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/issues/136

* https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1419
> Closed, source-available, software vendors are the anti-thesis of that. They want others to participate and contribute,

Whatever makes you claim they want others to contribute? They have a large engineering team, it probably wastes more of their time to review external “contributions” than add value.

> if I could modify the source code … But I can’t … legal.

You absolutely can. Where did you get the idea that you cannot?
It can still be, specially if the favored one is less available. Having people become picky is one plausible method to slow immunization.

It also propagates the notion that vaccines in general are more dangerous than they really are.
I like how the top comment is flagged+dead. It points out an obvious, but inconvenient truth: enough to get widespread approval and enough to get burnt at stake for that. It's like saying the earth is round in medieval ages.
A little annoying they don’t mention cost per kWh, just “1/10th of lithium ion” which could mean almost anything. If you say lithium ion costs $1000/kWh (not far from short-lived grid lithium ion or residential), then maybe they’re $100/kWh. Or perhaps they’re using $125/kWh and they’re really $12.50/kWh.

Also, working for 150 hours is no great feat. Just means they undersized the inverter and power electronics. If you did that with lithium ion, you’d also have much lower cost per kWh (for small systems with only an hour or two, the inverter could be half the cost or more), so going to 150 hours would also reduce costs by a lot as you’d be closer to the raw cell price.

I suspect that unless there’s a chemical reason why they have to discharge over many days, any real system is likely to be more like 12-24 hours as you’d be wasting the usefulness of the battery by picking an impractically small inverter.

Here’s hoping it’s actually a huge cell cost reduction while keeping decent round trip efficiency and cycle life.
"Nobody ever told me they didn't get my messages they didn't know about!"
There is some project-specific information on the Channel News Asia documentary titled "Race to feed the World," Episode 2, June 2021. It is available in this description of recent Marine Permaculture information, presentations and podcasts, available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DkZ11CpgSqdUnaNw2-Pt05OZ...
Those are two sides of the same coin in my view. Though I'm no expert on Roman history I've read enough about it to see such ebbs and flows.
It's interesting to me how different people come to different conclusions even on technical issues like "is this meta analysis sound after removing that study". Here's someone saying the exact opposite:

https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1416290819565244424?s=20

I'm no statistician, and am left rather unsure what to think.
Russian embassy says it's not Kremlin who pushes misinformation. Oh really?
Putin wants to destroy EU. He bombed Syria for the refugees to overwhelm Europe. He wants to stop Ukraine of joining EU. And his goal is to make as much damage as possible in Europe. He's waging a war. And misinformation is his weapon.
Apple didn’t rewrite their OS to get there, however. I guess someone at Google needs a promotion.
This seems to also impact Java and TeaVM, see this post:

https://groups.google.com/g/teavm/c/gpy0JoKYqbU
You're right, I hadn't considered that. It takes a lot more skill to build a transmission than a car seat.
i like the permaculture idea, they say it can fill up aquifers in desserts, the hottest place on earth is in death valley and permaculturist were able to grow food and have animals like bunny's return back to the area. we definitely have better solutions to the farming problem it's just that there is so much noise drowning out a better way, kinda like the electric car before that documentary "who killed the electric car".
It’s sad people think this way. In general people working at Facebook are some of the most liberal and open minded people I’ve met. They are part of a huge organization and probably doing things you would agree with in their little piece of the world.
Well, Tim Cook testified under oath that they had been doing the change to 15% for under $1M before the actual Epic Games lawsuit was filed, and that it had been in the works for over a year. And Biden had not been elected yet, even when they rolled out the 15% change Biden still wasn't President.

Unless you actually believe that Tim Cook committed perjury.
No. In California, for example, unemployment is handled by the Employment Development Department, taxes are handled by the Board of Equalization.
"The things the smart people around me did are things everyone should know to do."

Environment is everything.