skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said *avoidable* risk. Avoidable is the key. Driving a car has risks, that doesn't excuse idiots driving drunk or racing into my vehicle. Unvaccinated people are literally like drunks. They can be drunk at home, they don't get to be drunk while on the road, and I shouldn't have to stay home so that they can drive dangerously.

> Doesn’t the vaccine cover for this? You get the vaccine and it reduces your symptom

I don't want reduced symptoms, I just don't want your germs. And I wear seat belt or helmet but that doesn't give you a pass to booze up your commute, even though it would reduce the symptoms of rear ending me.
I promise you there is tons of actual keyword based content filtering going on. We had to build an AI just to detect which keywords different carriers block. Anything socially contentious, like "BLM", "election", "covid" increases the chances your message will get a 30008 error aka carrier-level content blocking. More disturbing is that plenty of carriers will also block messages but report them back to Twilio as delivered.
Thanks for sharing your story. It really helped me. I'm sorry to hear about your stepfather.

In my case, I grew up rural, but when I lived in the bay area for 15 years I had a wonderful non-blood family. I am now back where I grew up and I enjoy it but it is hard being so lonely.
Hi Adam, I'm a fan of your writing, but your experience in riding and monetizing Tailwind's explosive growth is obviously a massive outlier.
> I'm also actively not taking username "gunapologist" as related in any way.

rotfl touché

> I'm seeing "belief" without substantiation in both of those sentences.

that's why I said "believe". my opinions about what facebook should and shouldn't be doing are simply that.. opinions.

if I were to say any of this on facebook, it's possible that I could immediately be banned, and where's the fun in that. (that's a serious question.. isn't facebook supposed to be a fun place to communicate? if we have to worry about the ban hammer, how is it either?)

Moderation should be like HN: light, but still there. If it gets too heavy, civil discourse dies. If it disappears, then the place might turn into lord of the flies. (although, I hope a place like that always exists, too.)
I mean, similarly to my certainty Donald Trump was lying that his taxes are under audit, and thats why he can't release them. Do I have exact knowledge of Elon's head state, no, but I can make inferences from all his actions since. If a buyer truly existed to facilitate that transaction, that would be public knowledge at this point.
What is it about Covid-19 that made people crazy. All lab worker need to be MMR vaccinated as well as many others. What is it about C-19?
It's on one of the lists, but the weather here looks pretty good to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antofagasta

Never too hot or cold, and it never rains. Of course nothing much grows there.
It does not imply that. It would be effectively impossible for that to happen. PCR testing is a crude form of genetic test. Influenza viruses and coronaviruses are not closely related. It's more likely that a genetic test would confuse influenza for ebola (another negative sense single strand RNA virus) than for a coronavirus infection.
There are already so many startups in this space. I suspect the solution isn’t more/better technology, but taking away people’s ability to operate IT services through higher insurance premiums.
Great books outlast the author. Nobody is going to put up a Wikipedia page saying how much money I had in my bank account when I died.

Not that you should necessarily care how you get remembered as you're dead anyway, but I think it's worth it to share knowledge and give to the community if you think you have a contribution worth making. I'm certainly glad other past giants wrote instructional material even if it didn't make them rich.
Yes. We have figures for it. In 2017-18, there were 1.21M flu tests over the course of 33 weeks.

In 2020-21 there were 1.11M flu tests over 33 weeks.

Results: Essentially a 0% positive test rate vs a peak of over 25%. A peak of about 125 cases vs 20,000 cases.

1: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/54973
2: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2020-2021/data/...
The European Union pulls ahead of the United States in vaccinations
This feels like the right solution. ISO probably isn’t properly funded.
Stallman was looking out for USERS, not developers. the problem was the developers thought it was them that Stallman was wanting to protect.

GPL, and Libre Software is about keeping software open from the Dev to the EndUser. Non-Copyleft "Open Source" is about keeping libraries open for Dev's to exploit into their closed source products...

There is a big difference, I support Free Software, not "Open Source"
The page says "at the time of original publication." right after exploit likelihood; with patch released for it as well.

So it's more like victims not updating their software.
Varda Space Industries aims to build first industrial park in space
To make it clear...They did not "take a picture" of a Blackhole the first time, at least not in the way
most people think of "taking a picture" as in the sense of visual evidence like in imaging the moon, galaxies on long exposure, planets etc...

The team multiple times used terms like we have "visual evidence", "photons" and "telescopes" when referring to
their radio telescopes.

They did something great, no doubt about it. Still, as we confront other science challenges like demonstrating safety of vaccines, evidence for human impact on the planet and as it causes global warming, I do not think science teams should push that much the use of certain words and concepts in the context of making their work more accessible. Its demeaning to the "general public" who actually is probably quite well educated and does not need these word plays.

They scanned the sky using an existing technique ( VLBI ), processed the data through a series of very innovative and smart data algorithms and created a synthetic image using these libraries:

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging

Then, the data was given to four different teams who come up with 4 different "blackhole pictures". Then they averaged it and published their "photo" while
calling it "visual evidence", their words not mine.

As these libraries have different color profiles ...

https://github.com/liamedeiros/ehtplot/blob/docs/docs/COLORM...

they could have gone for the violet profile ;-)
But then they would have more difficulty calling it the "blackhole photo" instead of what it is: A synthetic image that it is made from 230 Ghz radio data and very smart statistic inference algorithms. Naturally using the yellow color tone it easier to call it a "blackhole picture". It looks like something in Space...

No science journalist questioned them on that, and now they are getting even more "creative" with their imaging techniques:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarg...

They could have just said: We measured the size of the shadow, plus or minus, and we "think" its a blackhole but it could also be other object in the universe that looks like this. As they had to admit here at 1h.00.45 in reply to a question:

"What other objects in the universe could look like this?"

https://youtu.be/q6ZnAdNQNVo?t=3644
There are tons of tilesets for DF. If you want to get started, just picking one of the "Lazy noob packs" is the way to go[1].

[1]: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Utility:Lazy_Newb_Pa...
Iirc, he was asking a CDC official whether the application of a disinfectant to infected lungs had been investigated. A stupid idea on its face, but at no point did he recommend the consumption of bleach as a cure or a treatment for covid.
Perl almost does this. Various CPAN packages have different "use" lines where they can declare themselves to be written in a particular version. These can all live together on an interpreter recent enough to know all the dialects. This is at the module level, rather than the function level though.
What is the typical HN person.

I can see usefulness here as I do manage IT infra at work.. But i do agree its totally different than the Exploits i see attemtpted on my home IPS (which are mostly Netgear, D-Link PHP, webexploit/injections, and camera exploit attempts.)
I agree with everything here, FWIW. :-)
Buy a used 18-wheeler. The mileage is not great but safety comes first right? And you won't even notice pedestrians, as a nice added bonus. Any reference to Mad Max - Fury Road is just coincidence.

“If the government wanted people to drive safely, they’d mandate a spike in the middle of each steering wheel.” – Gordon Tullock

May I invite you to migrate to Western-Europe? You can even do without a car if you want to.
I'm in the process of leaving a manager. I'll happily disagree with a decision and present my alternative, but only once, unless they specifically ask me to explain it again. If I have to repeat it, it means they didn't listen properly the first time, which is disrespectful.

One incident in isolation is forgivable, but once it becomes a pattern, it's time to go.
"As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said the vast majority were also reporting symptoms. Seven people were reported hospitalized."

Wow.
Behind the Masks, a Mystery: How Often Do the Vaccinated Spread the Virus?
Probably not too many on HN using Drupal, for example. It's an odd-ball CMS that got implemented by a bunch of government agencies a decade or so ago (and most of them probably haven't been patched since).
Yes if you do it for yourself you rarely thank yourself for doing it. In a way that would be absurd, because giving thanks to someone means you are giving something to someone. But you can't really give anything to yourself because whatever you give you already have.

So it is quite natural that we prefer to do things for others. It makes you feel great when others thank you for it.
It looks like the author has a link to this study as a PDF:

http://www.justintyndall.com/uploads/2/8/5/5/28559839/tyndal...
I don't understand how this is relevant?
Adding the military makes it extra draconian-sounding, but even what Canada is done with their police is pretty alarming [0].

I have a feeling that in 20 years or so, history will not be kind to the politicians that put these policies in place.

[0] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-gives-police-authority-to...
Exploitation not being likely after installing the patch is like saying you're not likely to fall if you lie down first.

But yes, of course the #1 recommendation is for our clients to Always Install Patches Immediately. Always. And they never ever do it. For comparison, though, OpenSSH needed to be updated for a critical vulnerability last in... 2002, maybe? Secure protocols can be done, so it's not only the people not installing updates that are to blame here.
Care to share? From my knowledge, Google and Microsoft have no such restrictions.
But... why? It's so janky. Looks painful to hold, the games look like crappy flash games in monochrome, and the crank is just going to break off. What am I missing?
I'm imagining something like `foo@v2.3.1(x)`. Of course, `foo(x)` would still work, but it would probably just choose the top version, like how things generally work today. Integrate with signed VCS and call it a day.
Brasilia has a much higher number of pedestrian deaths compared to similar cities in Brazil, or other parts of the world. Why? Its (terrible) design.

Do not forget that city design has a huge impact on pedestrian deaths. In essence: larger roads, more deaths. Fewer deaths in old cities, because of narrower streets from past centuries.
Thanks for sharing this, but when I read stories like it, and look at the content sold, the concept is completely foreign to me.

I would prefer to read reference content from the vendors themselves and not third-parties, so I don’t understand what draws people to this sort of content I the first place.

That is, I couldn’t create any of this, because I would never buy it myself.

Your story is nonetheless very interesting.

I don’t think anyone can argue with the results, but arguing with reproducible results is a bit more difficult.
I too had to re-read the title as my first read did not sit well either. I also wondered if htop is also susceptible, then ohhhhh. phew.
I don't think Copilot is useless at all. Today it's actually been very helpful for me with interactive, notebooks-based programming. And it's also just an early beta right now; as the model improves and the tooling around it matures a little more, I suspect I'll be using it a lot for interactive stuff.

Notebooks programming has a flow of "execute a small bit of code, check the results, and iterate", and this fits perfectly with Copilot since you still need to check if the suggestions work.

Maybe this kind of programming is where Copilot finds a niche, maybe not. I don't know. I'm skeptical of its use in larger applications where you can't trivially check if the code you wrote (with its help) did what you want. I think there needs to be a lot more tooling built around that to really make it compelling for larger applications like that, likely in the form of more editor tooling integrations. But I think it's promising. I wrote about that a little more here: https://phillipcarter.dev/posts/four-dev-tools-areas-future/...
Each book also comes with a "free screen". We programmers have dual-monitors or triple-monitor setups.

Well, Dungeons and Dragons dungeon-masters have 2 or 3 copies of important rulebooks (Core Rulebook and/or Beastiaries) because we get tired of flipping through the pages all the time.

But its not so hard to have two books (Ex: Bestiary1 + Beastiary 2 copies) and have a page on Goblins + a 2nd book with the page on Devils to run a Goblin+Devil encounter.
Yes, you are understanding it correctly. The idea is that you give the "requesters" access to the data, then enable them to do their thing with it (with training / support / shadowing) and publish their results as "data-products" so that others can leverage it too in their own "data products".

The "data mesh" is essentially the collection of these independent "data-products".

We already see management problems with self-service analytics like PowerBI, Tableau & Looker. Its too easy for people to create dashboards / reports that are subtly wrong and which cause confusion. There is a balance between empowering to build data products and centralised control. Too much empowerment of people who don't understand the right way to do something leads to a horrible mess of contradictory data. Not enough, and people can't effectively do their job. Governance and process is the key to finding the balance and enforcing it.

The issue with the data-mesh is that there isn't really any great tooling to support the management or development of data products, or a data-mesh generally. I am sure this will change over time as vendors start building hype around it.
No need for snark. All evidence points away from your point. Why should companies like Apple, Amazon, Google want their employees back in the office if they could get remote work for cheap?

VW made a multi-billion investment against off-shoring and SV companies pay hundreds of thousands for webdevs that completed six week bootcamps, just for them to be in SV.
> It's mildly interesting that you've decided to express your personal opinion about what is or is not fair use within in your license text, but the fact is that if a use of the work is deemed to be fair use under the law then the terms of the license you're offering are completely irrelevant. Your permission is not required to make fair use of the work, so no one needs to agree to your license.

You do not seem to get it. Yes, I understand that if fair use applies, my licenses don't matter. I get that. I promise I do get that.

The purpose of these licenses is to sow doubt that fair use applies to distributing the output of ML models.

Lawyers are usually a cautious lot. If a legal question has not been answered, they usually want to stay away from any possibility of legal risk regarding that question.

The licenses create a question: does fair use apply to the output of ML algorithms? With that question not answered, lawyers and their companies might elect to stay away from ML models trained with my code, and ML companies might stay away from training ML models on my code in the first place.

That is what I mean by "poisoning the well." The poison is doubt about the legality of distributing the output of ML models, and it is meant to put a damper on enthusiasm for code being used to train ML models, especially for my code.
There's always risk of a big company doing this, but in general, no. We're not worried.

Most startups die by suicide, not homicide.
> demand that the South African government put up sovereign assets guaranteeing an indemnity against the cost of any future legal cases.

The bigger issue was requiring to put up sovereign assets as a guarantee. That is not something Pfizer would ask of the US government.
Covid and chip shortages prob
Exploitation likeliness after patch doesn't really make sense. maybe you're reading it wrong? See the page for yourself.

Exploitation unlikely at the time of exploit discovery.

A patch has been released.

This means, the reason why it shows up on the list is because people are running unpatched software. And it's really alarming because the 2017 CVE is for Office 2007 that's ~15 years old (with a patch available!).
This somewhat rings true, just like the microclimate that Santa Monica and such has vs the greater LA region.

I have ran into more than a few highly intelligent/quite successful people living near the water in SD who decided long ago that they were completely content with the fact they were going to be renting essentially for life. Perhaps once they get to be exceptionally old they'll have a change of heart, but for decades or longer and likely many more, they've simply found the climate to be worth throwing a sizeable amount of their income into a non-equity black hole paying off somebody more fortunates mortgages.

Personally, I'm a bit jealous of their ability to have that mindset and be perfectly happy people.
Google has safe harbor so long as they are a neutral middleman between the two parties with conflicting copyright claims. Taking payment from one party to ignore the lawful claims from the other party is not exactly neutral.

I bet if you asked Google’s General Counsel whether they ignore DMCA counter claims, they would say “no, we handle them properly,” not “yes, Sony Music pays us to ignore them.”
You have no idea what you're talking about and clearly have never actually seen financials of a business like DuoLingo.

:) My list of clients when I was still working at a firm include many tech companies ranging in size from vastly unprofitable startups to multi-billion dollar public companies, in industries including robotics, hardware, SaaS, PaaS/IaaS, biotech, media tech, aviation, and clean tech.

A number of YC startups were clients, including some that are still actively discussed on these forums today. At least one of the Groupon, LivingSocial, etc., cohort was a client...

DuoLingo is NOTHING like that. People pay a subscription for a service that uses software as its delivery mechanism. COGS is simple for them -> hosting + customer service. COGS is very different for Groupon and LivingSocial.

DuoLingo's hosting costs should be low. But content development costs should be included in COGS (being pedantic: COGS doesn't apply to non-inventory business activities, so we should be using the term COR instead). Content development and customer service aren't cheap.

And of course, gross margins are irrelevant if you're constantly blowing past your revenue numbers by overspending on "product development" (i.e., the tech side). History is littered with companies who claimed to have great "gross margins" but died because they overspent on "product development."
No, what I'm saying is that the AI is a tool which its creators use to create the invention, nothing more. It doesn't get listed on the patent in the same way other tools don't.
FTL communication is not possible. You have access to the entangled particle right now but, to send information, you are bound to the limits of the classical channel (the 10 year problem transmitting information about the entanglement)
They debugged the system, not the driver. The way they did that was to identify and confirm it was the driver that caused the problem and in what circumstances, so they could report it to the people responsible for actually dealing with that.

That's still a form of debugging. It's all a matter of perspective. If you had a hardware device that you were interacting directly with in an applicaiton, and you found that if you utilized in in a specific way it crashed, so you changed how the application used it so it wouldn't crash, that would be debugging the application, even if not really debugging the hardware.
The Litter Myth (2019)
I believe this is an audio claim for the clickety clack of typing... Not for the phrase "typing on my keyboard." I was confused at first.
Then I'm not sure what you meant to say about the patch being available and thus the problem just being not updating. The "exploitation not likely" statement is simply wrong if it's in the top list of this agency right?

Replying to your edit:

> that's ~15 years old (with a patch available!)

I haven't looked into this one, but you mention it's a 2017 CVE. That means the vuln was discovered (not even necessarily patched and disclosed) in 2017 and not 15 years ago. The age of the product isn't the same as how fast they install security updates (but yeah apparently 2-3 years depending on the exact timeline (the stats are from 2020), so that's practically never).
There has been a push for pedestrian safety. Just look at the plastic bumpers. Didn't the Tesla truck fail its pedestrian test the way it was configured when unveiled?

I agree that the driver tests are a joke. 90% of driving is making good decisions, yet there's not any real testing around this - even the driving test is not long enough to observe these behaviors. Instead it focuses on the other 10% of laws and physical ability, and pretty poorly at that (50 multiple choice questions yet hundreds or even thousands of driving related laws and regs).
Any day now Equifax is going down. The real difference is that humans have some institutional power over political jurisdictions and how they are run and exactly none over how (large enough) businesses are.
I am actually a UK citizen, and you can bet I've been thinking about this possibility a lot in the last few years.

(Though maybe the UK doesn't really count as "western Europe" anymore?)
There were plenty of proprietary source control systems around. At my first job in 1998, we used Visual Sourcesafe, later switching to Perforce.

At another job I had the misfortune to get to know Rational ClearCase.
> ATT doesn't repeat a phone call it has deemed interesting to millions of other people

True, it doesn't. Instead, AT&T repeats millions of phone calls it carries to a party deemed interested.
While he did recommend taking hydroxychloroquine as a cure, recommended the end of lock downs and actively rejected the use of masks.
I doubt it's even possible for a 'disruptor' to fix it - It's not a problem with products or services, it's a culture problem. Corporate IT has basically become the technical counterpart to middle management. Responsibility goes up the food chain to people who don't understand the problems, blame goes down to the front-line technicians, contractors, and often vendors who aren't capable of fixing the problems. We have two generations of Cisco and Microsoft evangelicals with no real understanding of the fundamentals. Certificate-culture has prioritized checkbox quizzes over real learning.

It will take serious culture changes to "fix" the corporate IT industry. Until there are actually consequences for doing unsafe things or using unsafe products, people will continue to take shortcuts.