skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally every vaccine in the United States comes with a liability waiver. Since 1986, you've had to sue the US Federal Government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...
One possible scenario that's not evil: If they get something wrong and correct it, people that don't believe the correction can pass around links to the archive.org version before the correction.

Not saying I agree with the decision or that's why they did it, just a possible reason.
Would not a brit compare with a football?
returning errors doesn't have to have cluttered code. Just because Go messed it up doesn't mean it's bad.
"We were always at war with eastasia"
Reprinting and attributing is allowed. Copying and not attributing it isn’t, because besides the whole theft aspect, it implies that you yourself observed or researched the given assertions.
Putting the concern of those who may misinterpret the changes above the goal of the truth, is also known as deception.
Encyclopedias stand the test of time with addendums, to facilitate corrections. Removing the transparency merely allows for cyclical references in the news.
That number has been trending downwards for ages even though we’re not capping income: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...
You might want to look at the multiple peer reviewed studies I posted in a different reply, because you are spreading misinformation.

There is a big public health motivation (completely understandable) for why they don't talk much about natural immunity.

A lot of people, my lovable but dumb as a rock sister included, who had some symptoms after socializing with people who end up testing positive, who never got the test themselves. They just assume they were infected. We definitely don't want these people to skip the vaccines. But again, managing the behavior of morons is a separate activity from determining the actual truth of the matter.
Journalism is changing. And to pretend like it's not is adding fuel to the fire.

Younger journalists are less likely to see their job as being a neutral arbiter of truth and more likely to see themselves as part of the culture war.

I'm a liberal but just as the ACLU is not the same organization it was 20 years ago, neither is The Gray Lady.
Mark Rippletoe of Starting Strength has some counterarguments to this. E.g. being fit and heavy is better for bone density than out of shape and slim so in older age one is less likely to break something.
>News sources which print, voice, or provide air time to outright lies and fabrications are still considered news right?

If it is always followed by a retraction and only happens a small fraction of the time then yes.
Well of course who are you to decide what is addictive vs. what is, by some type of utilitarian calculation, maximally happiness increasing in society.

To many people kids under 13 are addicted to video games. To many others the creators of those games are adding happiness to our society and the negative effects are minimal and outweighed.

Vice versa a cold nuclear fusion device can be used by the US military to try and oppress some group across the world for indefensible reasons.

It's not realistic to apply moral arguments to people's wealth accumulation in any legally binding type of way. Of course we know creating Playboy is a worse way to accumulate wealth than say inventing an efficient battery technology, but how to write this into law that can be applied equally to each new case isn't clear at all.
> but the black hole would still have an extremely strong pull on it

No, it would not. Newton's third law: if an object has zero net pull on the black hole, the black hole also has to have a zero net pull on the object. The shell theorem is more general than you are assuming: it doesn’t matter if the heavier object is inside or outside, the surrounding object doesn't need to be spherical (it can be any shape as long as it fully envelopes the black hole) and the black hole doesn't need to be centered. I know it is a counter-intuitive result, but it can be easily proven with calculus.

See for instance this sentence about Dyson shells: "Such a shell would have no net gravitational interaction with its englobed star (see shell theorem)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_shell

Edit: Related, what is bigger? The gravitational force the Moon exerts on Earth or the gravitational force the Earth exerts on the Moon? Veritasium has a nice video explaining the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTdMmNZm2M
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As I said, it was a good plan. I don't remember exact numbers, but low deductible (maybe $2000), low co-pays, lots of things covered such as (some) fertility, mental health, etc. We were 39/34 at the time.

It was not a health share ministry or barebones catastrophic. It was something like Blue Cross Silver, though I don't remember the exact name (and the name would reveal more about my location than I probably should share.)

My comparison was to a plan with a previous employer that cost me $400/month (my portion) and was worse. So paying "$300 more" for a better plan also took a lot of the sting out of it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/kamala-harris-s...

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/2020-vp-debate-kamala-harris-o...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/kamala-harris-not-tr...
Given that is never gonna happen, all you can do is get yours, accept the risks of covid like you accept every other risk in your life and return to 2019 normal.

There is literally nothing more you can do. The vaccines we have are the end of the road. The goalposts cannot ethically or morally be moved any further no matter what all these politicians and health “experts” say.
These millionaires are useful idiots, it will be fun to see how their houses get confiscated in the name of further down equality one day. Everyone must be equal, and the most equal place on earth is a collective graveyard, a thing that collectivists are so succesful at replicating every single time they try to bring equality into your lives.
I was only addressing press releases. I don't know about wire services. It's my understanding that publishing them as your own, or implicitly your own because of a lack of attribution, is just plagiarism.
Indeed! Interesting. According to wikipedia it may have been a feedback loop primarily in the direction of the car.

> The bicycle's invention has had an enormous effect on society, both in terms of culture and of advancing modern industrial methods. Several components that eventually played a key role in the development of the automobile were initially invented for use in the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets and tension-spoked wheels.
While I think you hit the nail on the head, I think what we're seeing is a belief that the money being invested by billionaires is not doing anything useful, that's why people are calling for it to be taken by the government and redistributed.
Most "billionaires" have no where near a billion to tax.

This is the problem with net worth, its a made-up number. Most billionaires own companies which are "worth in principle" something to someone.

You can only tax that if you force them to sell, and if they can find a buyer.

Do that, and the number of billionaires would precipitously drop from a global few thousand, to a few hundred.
AP and Reuters are wire services, and other news orgs pay a large fee to syndicate their content
That's because it's not a discussion about taxes - rather, it's a discussion about the inequity present in capitalism as currently implemented.
You can print a retraction if you need to. Nothing wrong with fessing up and saying “we made a mistake, here’s the correction”, and reputable newspapers/news sites do this as a matter of course. Conspiracy nuts are going to do their own thing no matter what you do or say and if they’re determined enough, will have their own record, so you can only act in good faith for people who are willing to look at you and receive what you say in good faith.
Right now we support iOS and Android. But we have Mac support on the roadmap.
Also bike parts, raw textiles, and tofu!

For the tennis ball problem, I invite everyone to visit my balcony, where my upstairs neighbour's dog leaves all his balls.
Having lots of muscle mass isn't healthier than being slim. It's healthier than being fat, but being slim is going to be a lot easier on your heart, joints, and other organs.

(Have a look at people who are 80+ and fit. Most of them are slim. You don't see a lot of bulked up old people)
Not sure if they’ll be unhappy with their measly $20mm as much as they’ll be unhappy with not being allowed to continue playing the game. Imagine that any successful entrepreneur would be forced to sit on the sidelines after hitting $20mm of net worth.
Sadly, many an erstwhile reputable organization have devolved to engage in this practice.
The U.S. Needs to Reimagine Its Pharma Supply Chain
And any 'news' outlet that has cited Snopes was also probably spreading questionable information.

But very unsurprising to see this from the already biased 'fact checkers'.
You need more than $20million to build a reusable rocket company, a cold fusion reactor, or any number of other deep tech startups that require enormous investments which will likely never come from risk-averse governments.
A very large number of people got infected before they even had the opportunity to be vaccinated, so it's not just a simple choice of catching the virus or getting vaccinated.
On Dutch tv, there was a show some time ago about people designing and building specific tools for people with disabilities; like there was a special floatation vest for a girl with a muscle disease for whom regular flotation jackets didn't fit; and a guy in a wheelchair also with a muscle disease who liked photography and needed some way to mount his camera on his wheelchair and operate it; and other guy whose Playstation controller didn't fit in his hands etc.

It was right up HN's alley, they should throw some subtitles on it and put it on Youtube. So many engineers who love to build stuff for causes like this.
Seems like they are proposing a wealth growth tax rather than a wealth tax.
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It declares it standard, not "right". If you learn a foreign language having a standard to aim for is good and large deviations are difficult. Stop trying to turn this into right or wrong.
The WebGL demo has a checkbox for (Experimental) screen reader support but I don't have any speakers on this computer to test.
The point I believe you are missing is that this will not meet basic needs of others.

If you distribute the excess wealth, you will create a lot of inflation because if people have twice the money they will be prone to pay a twice bigger rent or a twice bigger restaurant check, or twice the money for the same land plot.

If you decide to somehow destroy the excess wealth (for example, burning cash or the houses they don't need), you will shrink a bit the economy by creating some job losses for those today working on superfluous activities of the rich such as yatch cleaning.
But once you get $20M, why would you continue working? You've got $20M, and enough passive income from those $20M to cover your expenses... why would you continue growing your business, employing more people, and doing more?

I mean.. a $20M bakery is a huge bakery with a lot of people... but a $20M car factory is basically nothing.
> came from entrepreneurs seeking to build great fortunes

$20 million per person is a great fortune. Show me any innovation that came from someone wanting more.
There is evidence of the virus in Italy as early as September 2019.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755
Although I'd imagine pickleballs are also made in Asia and thus subject to similar shipping issues, but maybe they last longer than tennis balls so you need fewer of them?
That is a good thing. I want to see those changes.

Preventing people from seeing the change log of a page because "conspiracy theorists might use it" is dangerous thinking. Saying that it's okay to forego transparency because it could be used to bolster people who disagree with you is backwards. That's precisely why transparency should be retained - when you're the person disagreeing, it benefits you.
>foodbabe.com

Seriously? The same foodbabe that said "subway bread was made of yoga mats"?
If you live in a "good" zip code, sometimes magazines just show up for free.

My theory is that publishers want to push their reader demographics in some direction, they will find a zip code that matches what they are looking for and start mailing magazines.
What does the government know about managing tech companies?
Cool project!

Interestingly, the actual size of the files is almost inversely distributed compared to the line count:

Line count, sorted:
C# 246, Java 247, TypeScript 253, Python 264, Go 272

File size, sorted:
Go 5.9KB, TS 6.0KB, Python 6.3KB, C# 6.6KB, Java 6.8KB

Some of this may be down to longer identifiers in Java and C# compared to Go, but also visually it seems there is somewhat more going on in the Java and C# implementations.

I will note that I much prefer writing C#/Java versus Go, and find Go to be generally verbose, but I think that this is not a case for it - the verbosity mostly comes from error handling and lack of generic programming, neither of which is used in this project.
There are few "breathless headlines" about Lambda. Though notably it is the overwhelming dominant strain in Peru and other South American countries, having completely crowded out Delta and other variants.

I'm not a medical expert. I'm not a statistical expert. I don't purport any expertise or useful knowledge in those areas. But after millions of deaths and a complete worldwide changing of how we work, play and so on, it is remarkable how often HN discussions still fall to media blaming, incant accusations of fear mongering, etc.

If one were to believe the dominant HN commentary through virtually all of this pandemic, it has always been an overblown nothingburger, etc.

The media has done has a much better job at accurately informing than the comments that usually rise to the top in any HN-related discussion.

(to the point that I think any COVID related discussions should be flagged off HN at first sighting. There are a lot of spectacularly misinformed people on here who just muddy the waters with noise, and the net effect is always just misinformation)
And the author's solution does not work with empty sequences.
To not trust in the objectivity of most US universities is a huge mistake.

While the staff may have political inclinations, the majority of US universities are operated professionally.
Back when we had small town journalism, you'd get AP or Reuters as a service to be your world/national news department. The service was that they would give you a whole news department and you could copy paste the article and have your tiny news room writing about the basketball win and the bake sale.

That was the deal, but it's a subscription service for one. Secondly, the AP or Reuters got the by line in your paper.
Third, you don't change the article in any way. You don't use a piece of it, and ad you own comments. you paste the article on the page with an appropriate byline
You equate "what people are vulnerable to" with "what people want to see." "Engagement" isn't a measure of desire, there's little choice being made by the user to be shown what they respond to, but it's a measure of response. The person who you got to stare may not have wanted to see what you showed them in the first place.
And what if the stock valuation crashes before they can pay the bill? On hook for money they don't have?

Seems almost impossible to implement
Traditional investing doesn’t make billionaires, they needed to be good at running a business, inherit it, etc. Which doesn’t correlate to being a great investor.

So when you actually look at investments made by billionaires they tend to underperform. Part of this is simply seeking low risk diversification, but another part is many people assuming that because past risk taking worked so will future risk taking.

This becomes really obvious when you start looking into former billionaires. Vast fortunes regularly evaporate.
This is a great problem space!

As mentioned by an other commenter, from the industry point of view it is quitte hard to find the good researchers.

I worked on campus (both in Europe and US) for a Major insurance company trying to help with corporate R&D and there have been a lot of hurdle (see it as a list of pain points I faced when trying to collaborate with universities) :

- Some researcher are a little too much focus on their area on expertise and will refuse to work on their research outside of the field they have in mind, because either "nobody need it for that, it's mean for [insert previous research project of researcher]". Ex: We need some really precise Geolocation to estimate the level of a river bed for flood estimation near industrial site, found the good lab / researcher (previous paper in the space solving similar problem albeit not for river), go to them ready to propose a grant to work on the topics, not interested to work on river.

- Almost no researcher will want to work on a field that is view as 'solved', as they will not be able to publish. Ex: We are desesperate for better OCR tech, as we have an archive of hundreds of millions of document we need to make sense of. No machine vision / CS lab we approach want to do some research in this field as it is solved. Yet in reality the technology is generally not accurate enough on print character. Same story with Handwritten Character Recognition.

- Some researcher will try to promote their implementation of their research, but generaly the quality of the implementation is far from what we expect to put in production, and generally have little UX / modern stack understanding, if you are lucky it's implemented in JAVA, but a lot of things are a python notebook, some R or MatLab. They will however not want to collaborate on a industry ready implementation and try to push their implementation they are in love with.

If you were to fix this pain points, and provide a tool allowing for discovery this will really be great (and I will be happy to use it).

However the really interesting collaboration emerge when you approach a lab for use of their research in a tangent field they didn't anticipate. I wonder if you could automate/accelerate/facilitate this with machine learning or something else.
Centralizing state power has never gone wrong in the history of humanity right?

And we all know how efficient government bureaucrats are. I can just imagine the joys of having civil servants dictating how you should run your company.
I have never seen Craig Federighi be this flustered.
it puts it into question because plagiarism like this is generally seen as unethical, and if you can prove someone did a significantly unethical thing, everything else they do can be put under scrutiny
This started well and went downhill fast with absolutely ridiculous examples.
What is Adda? How is it different from people discussing about a topic? I don't understand from this article, but it sounds like something I'd like to know more about.
Indeed, the general availability of something like an app means we can reach people who otherwise wouldn't have been reached and may not have learned about this kind of self-help skill, and there is a good evidence base that journalling and tracking feelings can really help people.

Great feedback on the message at the beginning, actually the next version will have an upgraded "crisis line" / SOS section in the app for people who need it. While we are clear that Iona is not a crisis service at the beginning screens, it also makes sense to have appropriate signposting throughout the app in case people ignore or don't read the warnings.
> a cognitive bias is a way that a solution to unconstrained optimization differs from a solution to a corresponding constrained optimization problem

That is a narrow and incorrect definition IMHO. Two resource constrained solutions can also differ wildly in their rationality (or reality approximation if you will) and there is no resource unconstrained general intelligence in the universe so we wouldn’t even really know what that normativity looks like.

Biases are more of a classification of errors specific to our cognitive machinery; framing errors, recall errors, precision errors, proportionality errors, inference errors etc wrt the best we could have done with it.
It's absolutely abstract! Who is this buyer, does he really have the money, is he going to follow through, is this legal?
Relentlessly resourceful, am I right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why is that a bad thing? It's clearly marked as an archive. I'm also not sure how that fixes the problem, considering that people could still pass around images, which are pretty much taken as seriously as the real site.
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It was always taught from place to place but I think what's new here is that it's being mandated for a whole state.

You might be getting a biased sampling of responses here in that people who haven't had it and don't know what it is might be the most vocal (or something else like that.)
Indeed. I've even used Discord to good results while traveling internationally, find any cafe or hostel with WiFI and you're good to go.

WhatsApp just had more time to get entrenched, I think.
Taxing the people who are accumulating all of the money is the only thing that makes sense. Writing it off as a folksy trope does not change that fact.
It's misleading if it implies the plagiariser witnessed, researched, or analyzed an event, when all he did was copy someone else who did those things.
Cute. My least favorite part of any language class I've ever taken is if I have to type anything outside of the standard US english alphabet, the standard alt code method was never good.
How many jobs do you think are above the average food service worker in a cafe? Maybe 2. On site “manager”, regional, then executive.

For some family chain like Chili’s or Outback it be something like this. 100 employees per store -> 3 managers -> 1 General Manager (32 in my metro) -> Regional Manager (2 maybe 3 in my metro) -> South East VP (maybe 5 in the US) -> President (1) -> CEO (1). That’s 3200 or more people at the bottom in my metro trying to get the top jobs.
"The obscene levels of wealth gained from the pandemic by a handful of mega-rich individuals should immediately be taxed at 99%"

Surely they should. Every sane being with a hint of a sense of justice and empathy surely agree.

But they won't. Because they pay a lot less to just the right people so it will never happen.
> Why does every IM UI library have a dropdown widget that they call "Combo box"?

They can call it whatever they want?

> A dropdown list is not a combo box

Who says?
Depends... We've seen the panama papers, and all the other ways to avod taxes.

And also, compare taxes eg. amazon pays to taxes your local mom-and-pop store pays (percentual)... [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-i...
On native apps with Qt text on any widget can be made selectable via a property.
> https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/safety-report-21.asp

This is based on voluntary reporting, which is known to have under reporting where even 10% events are not reported.

Even then the risk is a serious AEFI is 1 in 5095.
I remember watching a YouTube video from The Wall Street Journal where they had configured 100 bot accounts to essentially crawl TikTok to study how it develops profiles for each user. For most users it may seem rather innocent, but in the video the user was modeled to be someone struggling with depression and towards the end of the simulation was being fed mostly depressing content.

I think recommendation engines can be useful for discovering content, but using gradient descent to do this can also be extremely dangerous. There is seemingly no control for when the recommended content is slowly pushing someone towards self-harm or other acts of violence.