skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never used TypeScript. I've also never heard of this survey before, and I certainly didn't fill it out. I don't think these two facts are unrelated—according to their data, the vast plurality (48%, almost a majority) of the people who filled out that survey did so because they were on the mailing list for it. It's by no means a random or representative sample of the community. People who are more interested in surveys & new technology and are more likely to sign up to answer future surveys.

Meanwhile, the StackOverflow 2020 survey, which reached twice as many JS developers (54k vs 23k), saw that only half of JS developers reported using TypeScript. (not counting any developers that reported using TS but not JS, which would drive the percentage further down). Again though—people who are more likely to fill out random surveys are going to be more plugged in to new technologies and more likely to adopt them.

I've never used Typescript, and I don't plan to. I don't care about static typing. It's nice occasionally, but I don't find that the structural problems I need to solve day to day when working on large codebases are the sorts best solved by static typing. When working on hobby projects, I don't use JS compilers at all, the set of JS supported by modern browsers is already very expressive and iterating very quickly.
> This is why there is an evolutionary pressure for all diseases to keep your host alive

Lethality should be distinguished from "keeping the host alive." For example, HIV is more than 90% lethal (untreated) but can take a decade before killing the host.
> I was sold a vaccine that limited hospitalization and death and we have three vaccines that all do this, frankly, miraculously.

Really? What news do you watch? I was sold a vaccine that was 90% effective at preventing COVID infection. [1] Now we're at less than half that.

> I was sold an immune response that made my body more resilient to it. I have not seen any evidence that this is waning over time.

Huh? "Based on our latest assessment, the current protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and death could diminish in the months ahead, especially among those who are at higher risk or were vaccinated during the earlier phases of the vaccination rollout." [2]

> Now, delta is a new variant of the disease that wasn’t the subject of the original vaccine study so why should this now old 2020 vaccine be as effective against this new 2021 variant? It shouldn’t be but considering the vaccines effectiveness at preventing hospitalization and death against the new variation that it wasn’t even built to combat its actually OVERDELIVERING against its goals. Another miracle

It's almost as though vaccination of half the population and no kids wasn't enough. Here we are, having lifted mask mandates and lockdowns because the vaccine was "good enough", only to be treated to a Delta surge. If that doesn't scream "we have no clue how good the vaccine is," I don't know what does.

Everybody knew that a mutation in COVID was likely to happen, which only makes those reckless decisions even more disgusting to me.

Let's be clear: I don't fault Pfizer, Moderna, etc. for not creating a super-vaccine that defeated the pandemic single-handedly. I'm irritated because our government's complete ineptitude around addressing the pandemic is leading us into this surge. We gave up our other mitigations FAR too soon. The effectiveness of vaccines keeps declining, both because of Delta and because it just doesn't last very long.

Everybody I know (me included) thought we would get back to life as normal after getting vaccinated. We got bait and switched.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/29/health/pfizer-and-moderna-cov...

[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-booster-shot-for-...
Yay - this is actually a key issue.

If you've traveled internationally you QUICKLY get a sense of how folks feel about their govt. Corrupt govt? Everyone is cheating that govt as well.

So if you are a cop, your bosses are taking your pay, they are in bed with XXX and YYY, then yeah, forget ANY chance of clean policing - "spot fines" here we come and services to highest bidder.
Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here...

Misusing science is a problem regardless of whether ML is the science in question. It's /already/ a big problem within criminal justice (polygraphs, psychopath tests, etc).

Avoiding 'obvious' mistakes is helpful in reducing the amount of work human raters/evaluators need to do. Automatically classifying 90% of data and leaving 10% for humans can reduce human workloads by 90%, or enable new use-cases where doing 100% of the work simply wasn't feasible. Using ML in this way doesn't make it 'fake AI.'
How far along are you on getting FAA approval for beyond visual line of sight operation? Or will there be a pilot on the full scale version?
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> or a vaccinated person might get sick from the virus that they were vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated

The statement is true. If you're not vaccinated, and you get COVID, there's a non-zero chance that you'll be the source of someone else's breakthrough case.

This statement is also true: If you're vaccinated, and you get COVID, there's a non-zero chance that you'll be the source of someone else's breakthrough case.

So, the quote is kind of useless. The unvaccinated probably do spread COVID faster and with more frequency. So, the directionality of the quote is fine. But it reads like a boolean statement, which is incorrect. COVID is almost certainly endemic at this point. Vaccines clearly help, but it's incorrect to blame all of the mutations and spread on the unvaccinated.
> I recent came across a technique for having a more substantial discussion and it was to ask: "Well, what would it take for you to change your mind?"

Sounds like you should take a look at Street Epistemology. It is a modern version of the Socratic method that asks questions similar to that. The goal is not to make your interlocutor change their mind necessarily, but instead to explore the reasons for the beliefs they hold and whether they may be sufficently justified or not.
Wow you are smart and good at money. Good Job!
Cases are more than doubling every 2 weeks. Hospitalizations are up every day.

If the numbers were flat maybe you would have an argument, but I strongly disagree that we need to "learn to live" with a situation that is rapidly getting worse. I do not want to learn to live with full hospitals and oxygen shortages, as is currently happening in parts of the US.
Your browser is asking for it. Disable the browser asking for dark ui or use a browser that doesn't by default if you think it's sensible default option.
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I dunno what you're on about, dogs do not realistically transmit covid. Their respiratory system is more different to humans than a cat's. Ferrets and other animals with extremely similar respiratory systems are known reservoirs and have already been culled in some countries.
That seems like something a company as technically-sophisticated as Cloudflare wouldn't screw up. Are you sure that's how it works? Even the crappy VPN software my employer uses does proper split tunneling.
I agree with this - it's the human connection that does it for me. As someone else already mentioned, seeing the brush strokes on the canvas and knowing that the physical thing in front of me was crafted by the hands of the artist however many decades or centuries ago, is a special experience.

Interestingly, when paintings like the Mona Lisa are concealed in those plastic protective containers, that experience is significantly decreased for me. It's strange, but that layer between the canvas and my eyeball has a major effect on my perception.
Otoh, wasn’t trusting human intel the reason the US claimed Iraq had WMD? (There are pitfalls to human intel too)
Thirding PBS Space Time, and seconding taking time to really focus and treat watching them like studying. I became really interested in physics about 2 years ago. Initially the content was really challenging but I forced myself to rewatch many of the vids several times and it was ultimately very rewarding. I have a good enough grasp on the core concepts that I'm able to explain them to friends in-depth and it makes for great conversations, especially when people are in a state of mind to pontificate about the nature of the universe hehe.
Waymo Is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest
If COVID is here to stay and previous lockdowns still did not stop the spread, even with vaccine rates at almost everyone, how is another lockdown going to stop it? This isn't just ignorant "muh freedoms" talking here but irrational governments playing god too much as if they could even possibly do that that without complete fascistic control.
Most Chinese surnames are ancient, but their romanizations are not:

* Names with the same pronunciation (homonyms) will probably end up with the same romanization. No romanization system has ever completely solved this problem, except by assigning arbitrary spelling differences.

* People will probably tell authorities the pronunciation of their name in their native language (Mandarin/northern dialects, Cantonese, Hakka etc.), which creates different-sounding versions of the same name. Worse, these romanizations are far from unified and don't correspond to the standardized romanization systems. Familiar example: Lee for the name 李 (Pinyin: Lǐ) and its homonyms.

* There are multiple romanization systems in use, which also yield different versions of a name, even if they all sound the same. A familiar example is Mao Zedong, whose name is Mao Tse-tung according to the Wade-Giles system, from before Pinyin romanizations of names became commonplace. For Cantonese names, a dizzying amount of romanization systems exist.

All of these render any surveys about Chinese names in the Diaspora extremely difficult, and most statistics completely garbage. For some families it might be impossible to recover the actual surname.
There is something very dishonest about saying that a protocol where a single electronic transaction takes more than a month's worth of electricity of a US household isn't a problem.
Note: Article is from 2017.

Original HN discussion (from 2018) for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585120
What's your plan for dealing with the fact that Helium is a non-renewable resource that we are rapidly running out of?

Have you done experiments into hydrogen safety?
Are population density factored in? My guess would be that a higher proportion of poor white people live in rural areas, compared with poor black people, and out in the sticks crimes are more likely to go unnoticed (you're less likely to get picked up painting or even shooting stop signs than tagging walls in a city, I expect) or to not happen due to lack of opportunity (what, you gonna go on a pick-pocketing spree at the Piggly Wiggly checkout line?)

(I'm not saying that's definitely what causes the difference to persist when income-adjusted, I'm just curious if you found that to be factored in, somehow, in the research you've seen)

[EDIT] I guess for international readers or US readers who haven't spent much time in the country, I should clarify that shooting street signs, mostly stop signs, is a (perhaps surprisingly) common activity in the rural US. You'll see lots of bullet-holes in signs if you drive around a bit in that kind of area. It's the rural equivalent of putting bumper stickers on the back of them, I guess.
Apple will see the results of the matched images however. Given that Apple believes their algorithm will generate an impossibly small quantity of false positives, if they start to see political images, sensitive documents etc. show up, that tips them off the DB is corrupt.

All of these processes will be subject to discovery in the very first trial generated by this technology. If there is evidence that governments are polluting the DB with non-CSAM content, then warrants issued on evidence from the DB can be overturned. Prosecutors in DOJ and FBI etc. have a strong incentive to ensure that DB doesn't turn into a free-for-all dragnet because it could work to invalidate their ability to use evidence from legitimate CSAM cases.
Most bank accounts use a username rather than an email for logging in (at least for all of mine), and if you forget your password and don't have access to the email you can revert to the 1990s way of doing things seamlessly and call up the bank or even visit a branch.
And we still don’t know the long term effects of kids breathing god knows what substances these cheap Chinese masks contain. We also have no clue what it will do to their language and social development. Yet people cheer on forcing them to wear one for an entire school day 5 days a week.
"data points from experts to justify that feeling"

I think that statement captures the divide. The belief that the experts have been shutdown in favour of topdown policies means trusting a select few experts who have used top down politices to shutting down discussion and threaten careers for those who do not tow the line. How do you get past that one side has total faith in the current crop of acceptable experts and the other sees them acting in favour of someone else's agenda thus has little faith in those experts.
In the past you could set the colors in preferences in Netscape. This was seen as a bad move (we know better) and today you have two choices: some kind of light (gray on white or dark gray on light gray) or some kind of dark ( gray on black or light gray on dark gray).
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Wish I could read the paper without having to make an account
Why did the FDA not hold the expected public meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), to review the latest data prior to this approval? The last public meeting was in October 2020. In the intervening 10 months, tens (hundreds?) of millions of doses of EUA vaccine were administered, generating an enormous data set which has not been through VRBPAC review, https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2086

> Transparency advocates have criticised the ... (FDA) decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval of its covid-19 vaccine ... Kim Witczak ... a consumer representative on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, said the decision removed an important mechanism for scrutinising the data ... "The public deserves a transparent process, especially as the call for boosters and mandates are rapidly increasing. These meetings offer a platform where questions can be raised, problems tackled, and data scrutinised in advance of an approval" ... She warned that without a meeting “we have no idea what the data looks like.”

“It is already concerning that full approval is being based on 6 months’ worth of data despite the clinical trials designed for two years,” she said. “There is no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed. “Full approval of covid-19 vaccines must be done in an open public forum for all to see. It could set a precedent of lowered standards for future vaccine approvals.”

... Joshua Sharfstein ... former FDA deputy commissioner during the Obama administration, said that advisory committee meetings were more than just a way of receiving scientific input from outside experts. “It’s also an opportunity to educate the public about the important work that the FDA has done reviewing an enormous amount of data about a product,” he told The BMJ. “It’s a chance for questions to be asked and answered, building public confidence."
There are no doctors that will tell you not to get the vaccine unless you go looking for one who will tell you not to. Covid sucks and is filling up the hospitals, and it’s crazy to me that someone decides for themselves that a potential unknown about a vaccine is worse to them than the real virus taking out people left and right. You’re basically saying that the medical establishment is incompetent in the extreme, yet the evidence for that is extremely low.
> At some point, even though my speed of delivery with my framework and stack setup is frankly very fast and I can provide real value to people, it seems the perceived value of the above shennanigans is greater than the value of actually shipping stuff that matters if you look at the job boards, technologies used and pay given.

One dimension of this is that it isn't just about your own ability to be productive as a solo developer (unless you limit yourself to solo-developer jobs, which can be an option!), it's about the org's ability to be productive as a (constantly changing, mixed-experience-levels) group. It's frustrating to see one's own productivity suffer for the sake of aggregate productivity, but it's a reality of our industry.

I can't speak to the particular situations you described but I can speak to this being a real trade-off that often has to be made.
Removing context from words seems to be in vogue these days. Having nuanced positions is the riskiest thing for politicians to do... you must take extreme positions on something or you risk being purposefully misrepresented by soundbites.

I can see why this party is upset such behaviour is being questioned. Its activist Twitter strategy 101.
You should look seriously at FSNotes, it’s got all your needs met I believe (have fun with standard notes- I found them very disappointing)
You do understand in vivo and in vitro are different terms for a reason right? That chloroquine worked in the lab but that the coronavirus can use a different pathway than the one chloroquine inhibits?
Makes me think 'barge vs. wagon'.
Honestly what world are you living in where Flow is even remotely relevant in 2021?
I'd go deeper and consider not just the internet. How does it affect your life if Visa and Mastercard decide they don't like you while Paypal freezes your account and keeps your money? What if the transportation services decide you're not welcome on board the local cabs, coaches, trams and subways?

Recently I've been thinking along the lines that the bigger a company (or the larger their ability to influence, discriminate, and in doing so screw individuals over), the greater their social responsibility (roughly: provide the service they've set out to provide without discriminating and unjustly taking action against individuals any more than is necessary to prevent immediate harm & abuse).

That small mom & pop store? Sure, kick me out and ban me if you don't like the shade of my mask or my manner of speech; I will look for another place to shop. The two big chains that own virtually every grocery store and supermarket in town? Well it's going to be very inconvenient for individuals to be rejected by these behemoths.

Private or not shouldn't matter, there are many companies who have huge potential to mess with your ability to live a normal life and participate in society and do all the things that other people can do.

And I really think this social responsibility should extend to all services, not just ones that the customer pays money for. So deep pockets and the ability to offer lucrative free services that largely displace competition shouldn't relieve a company of their responsibility. If anything, these seem to give them immense power and huge potential to screw people over.

The internet and online platforms are important but still just a part of the issue.. which is that corporations take over our cities and lives but have essentially no obligation to serve you.
Perhaps because "universal access" is a piece of pablum that doesn't really mean anything, and certainly doesn't exculpate against the charge that someone wants to open the healthcare industry to private profits. For Twitter to suggest that it is exculpatory is quite a large editorial leap and brings in all sorts of ideological baggage.
> Presumably, a trivial software update down the line could expand its ambit to locally stored files.

And backing up one level, this is why I’m finally working hard to take control of my devices and data from companies like Apple. This most recent episode shows that “a trivial software update” such as the one in iOS 14.3 can introduce this on-device scanning where non existed before. We knew it was possible of course, but now we have a clear cut example of it. They’ve lost my trust and that’s that.
This post inspired me to try writing some SQL that downloads all the LICENSE files of declared go mod dependencies: https://askgit.substack.com/p/query-for-go-dependency-licens... using a project I maintain.

Some flaws, but was able to download a bunch of licenses :)
Maybe it's a subtle reference to Planck's Principle [0], which is often summarized as "Science advances one funeral at a time"?

In this case, suggesting that younger scientists might invest their time into new ideas that older scientists would dismiss.

[0] https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-adva...
Thanks. Can the macros have loops and conditionals? E.g. keep sending left clicks every 0.01 seconds until I press the left mouse key.
No - I mean manufacturing. At a certain level of demand it could make sense, especially if the classes of devices you seek to produce are heterogeneous in their engineering - aerospace vs phone vs car.

The other advantage with vertical integration through the manufacturing piece is turn around time on new designs. It is a lot faster/easier to spin new test lots for speculative designs when everyone works for the same org.
Doesn't "universal access" in healthcare terms almost always mean access-if-you-pay-for-it? I.e. no longer universal and not serving lower classes?

That's how the term is used in the US
Here's one. I'm sure you can find others ("terminated for benefit"). For statistical reasons, terminating a trial for benefit is relatively uncommon (most terminations occur for other reasons):

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111...

Here's an article on the ethics of a placebo-controlled trial in the first place. It's complicated.

https://acrpnet.org/2018/12/06/ethical-deliberations-on-usin...
In my opinion you need a curriculum. If you are willing to spend, I suggest a bootcamp type of program and algoexpert. Otherwise an equivalent free version, i.e. a guided program into development and algo/ds.

The problem with leetcode and self study is that, as a student, you don't know what to focus on, everything has uniform weights.
Oh that's why they did that! I'd forgotten until your comment, but I remember thinking that was odd on an internship. Didn't occur to me that it was to prevent there being usable ports (and nor did I try to plug in any car park devices, like a good intern!).

My work was only confidential (and that only by default) but it was definitely interesting to be an in environment with secret sauce about, and processes for handling it. (Fire procedure not being drop everything and exit the building, for one.)
Great. When can my younger kid get it?
> OK, I understand your comment wrt Java, but with shellscripts? What universe are you downloading?

Are shell scripts cross-compatible if you haven't installed WSL?
just use linux
This is a reasonable conceptualization, IMO. However, the problem isn't that we can't access the information in a black hole (there are other places in the universe where information becomes inaccessible).

The problem is that black holes evaporate. If the particles released via evaporation don't contain the information about the particles that entered, information is lost when the black hole is completely gone.

The proposed solution is that the information is encoded onto the surface of the black hole and thus into the hawking radiation being released from that surface.
Show HN: Tmux Super Fingers
A Tmux plugin to open file links in vim, urls in the browser.