skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grand picture here is what many fail to see. The Starbucks proven payments model staging "unearned income" is what will continue to transpire as the payments world continues the devest control from the larger entities which will have no choice but to interface and interact with the changing tide. For those in the know we are seeing an explosion in demand of companies wanting to own and control the payments process as with so many middlemen in the fray everyone is being "fee'd to death". The card brands are becoming more and more like toll road operators which dictate who can use the roads all the while cutting off their own noses and therefore pushing adoption to the very thing that will challenge their superiority, the OnlyFans Mastercard impact on crypto for example. Exciting times in FinTech for sure as this window in time resonates with me just as the build up to the dotcom bubble was a blast too!
The fact that politicians act primarily based on political input is hardly a novel idea, and is not in itself evidence that scientists act in that manner when publishing scientific results. You're going to need actual data to back that later bit up, because at present you are just casting aspersions based on conjecture.
High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive, elimination of false-positives
So looks like more kids were hospitalized and more died from the flu? What bull are you referring to? Were you outraged about them in any of the last 20 years?
They could be like me: a weak person who took it because I was forced, but I still don't agree it's worth the risk for young people (I'd definitely agree for very old people).
And what are the chances that the $5k hardware packages they sold in 2016 are up to the challenge, when these $10k hardware packages they have are a few orders of magnitude faster?

Same thing come 2026: Tesla will almost surely have new hardware for that time, and I'm willing to bet that FSD still will be a vaporware product and incomplete. If it happened over the past 5 years, history tends to repeat and I can make the same bet will happen in 5 years into the future.
There is nothing to support the theory that shops are hotspots for spread, if that was true alot of supermarket employees etc, would have been infected, at a larger rate than average. However this has not happened anywhere.
> The science here is still uncertain, but leaning towards masks for kids in schools not being worth it

The science is uncertain but leaning towards masking children at schools being worth it. The fact that a study that included mask intervention in Georgia schools showed a double digit percent reduction in community transmission but was underpowered to be statistically significant by itself should not cause us to update beliefs very much, let alone update them in the direction of the null hypothesis, let alone update them all the way to the null hypothesis as Zweig has done, given that our priors are informed by CERN simulations, mechanistic experiments, and adult transmission studies that demonstrate effectiveness. That just demonstrates Zweig's poor understanding of statistics terminology.
Doing so would sacrifice privacy. I'll take the hit on my battery.
You're not addressing the issue posed by the GP.

If you experience severe enough side-effects from the vaccine to warrant a lawsuit, then you are still entitled to sue for compensation. The only thing that has changes is the entity who you are suing.

The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program makes this process much easier than a traditional lawsuit, as you merely have to convince a judge that your symptoms were likely caused by the vaccine. If they agree, you get paid.

If you sued Pfizer, then you'd probably be in a class action, going up against some of the best lawyers in the world, in a case that would drag out for a decade or more, likely have no real say in the case strategy, and would just have to accept whatever agreement the class representative agrees to.
> in 2019, the US supreme court said for the first time that there were no federal limits on how severely politicians could draw districts to give their party a political advantage, a practice called gerrymandering.

I still wish the SCOTUS had taken the view that the Guarantee Clause[0] necessarily implies that voters should choose their representatives, rather than the representatives choosing their voters.

Or perhaps they did base their ruling on that clause, but the conservative majority decided that "a Republican Form of Government" meant something else...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarantee_Clause
I asked in another thread (and got downvoted), if Apple does it on the user devices to save money. How much would it cost to scan everything on the serverside?
Tiger mosquitos gave my son a strong reaction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708019/
Agree completely, it's really fun. It's unfortunate it's factors so heavily into some hiring processes though.
Yeah, you really only see them at the state and local level.
> And then you end up with antisemitic child trafficking porn ring on your platform, people ( rightfully ) hate you for it, and there's legal trouble.

What legal trouble? Let's get precise.

> There have to be content rules.

No there don't. You receive a court order, you remove the illegal content. That doesn't require a lot of staff, or listening to "various interest groups".

That's what being a common carrier means.
It is popular not because it's a good idea but because go: using cgo is a huge imposition, so recoding everything in go so it can be used from go is basically the norm.

That is useless to sqlite itself, this exists only because of go's issues and is essentially unusable outside of the go ecosystem.
Does your hot take genocide-based solution include "tactical nuking" of Pakistan as well? Because the Afghan Taliban gets plenty of support from them as well.
2.34 improvement is the mean value on a marginal improvement.

If 999/1000 of vaccinated people were uninfected while only 998/1000 unvaccinated (but recovered) people were uninfected that would amount to that 2x improvement.

When you look at the error bars on those numbers (due to the ridiculously low statistics of the study) the conclusion becomes even more suspect.

Frankly a study involving less than a thousand participants is pretty poor justification to strip others of their rights.
Apple's Workers Are Apple
This is a dubious legal theory. The compelled action the government asked Apple to take in the case of Apple vs. FBI was a very minor technical change.
Definitely not more disruptive in New Zealand over the entire course of the pandemic and also we have suffered 600,000 fatalities as a result of the virus.
"We worked really hard to prove our favorite language has value"

Notice the "Why we like OCaml" page could have been written for C++

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9fNTDYWYAoxF17?format=jpg&name=...
Vaccine efficacy isn't 100% though. People can (and are) getting infected even after (enough time has passed but not so long they'd be due a booster since) being vaccinated.
Seems like a plausible explanation but how do you have any idea which species bit you in order to be able to draw a conclusion that there's a correlation?
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Exactly, this is my point. Napoleon's professional standing armies are a relatively recent (~200 years) and exceptional compared to the historical norm. Even Napoleon was able to take lots of territory by just negotiating with actors who knew they had no chance. People don't want to just go die; this requires a large amount of training. Not wanting to kill someone is something like a universal.
You think since it's only 25% of people want to return to office in any form (PwC survey) , reporters have to scrounge to get quotes for these articles; somehow phrasing it like it's the common opinion of people? Like the number of people whom want to go back are akin to the number of people who view Donald Trump should/(will) be 'reinstated', yet I don't see that crap on the front page of NYtimes.
I get this thread as first result from google.com in incognito window
https://imgur.com/nsvBk4O
Why should I have sympathy for those who have displayed a such reckless disregard for the well-being of their fellow neighbors? The best I can muster is some pity for them falling victim to disinformation. So many of us endured personal sacrifice over the last 18 months to help prevent the spread of covid, and now these people refuse to take even the simplest steps?
Indeed. If you need to filter out tiny particles from the air you breathe, you can't allow unfiltered air to leak in and out through the sides of the mask.

>Studies that have been done show that if an individual might get infected within 15 minutes in a room, by time and concentration of the virus in the room, add a face cloth covering you only get about five more minutes of protection.

On the other hand if you use the n95 respirators and fit them tight to your face, you can actually spend 25 hours in that same room and still be protected.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...
Ever heard of “cytokine storm”?
I read the abstract but it told me nothing. Could someone smarter to me help translate?

What are the profound effects?

What are Th1 and Th2 responses?

What are cytokines?

What are immune cell compositions?

Overall is this a good effect or a bad effect?
Rivest's proposal includes an "advanced transport" representation, a more human-readable version. Here's a sample: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/sexp-sample-a
> But I also wish that physics were less focused on understanding extremes

To defend this approach: Extrema are a good way to get a handle on a problem, which can then be extended.

In programming we almost always have to handle the null case ("what if the graph is unpopulated?") and often an extreme case as well ("What if we end up with 10 million users? How to we quickly respond to XXX").

In physics, like so many other domains, the poles are often the most enlightening region.

However, as you say, work on those extrema rarely translates into more common situations until a breakthrough happens.
How do the core maintainers, no longer at twitter, get paid these days? Is Bootstrap their main job, and if so how does it pay?
How young are you trying to go? Should we individually vaccinate egg and sperm cells?
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Visa jumps into the NFT craze, buying a ‘CryptoPunk’ for $150k
Hospital bed / ICU capacity is really just Hollywood accounting. They can prepare for surges and make more meds. There are federal and local incentives that get handed out to hospitals that are at or near capacity. So they’re always at or near capacity.
AFAIK, most of the cities on the west coast of Canada dump untreated sewage into the ocean.
Aside from how the patent office no longer checks for prior art, but lets court fight it out, there's also the fact that technically these are not duplicates of prior art.

Technically using a laser pointer to exercise a cat is a new invention. Technically after that exercising a dog is another invention.

But even when not as obvious as that, imagine that you file a patent for the phone, and immediately someone patents every "step two", like the phone exchange, the ring, etc, to the point where you can't actually use your invention without licensing the next step.

That's one reason patent applications can be vague. It's not that they are not going to do the next step, is that they are patenting step 1 now, and are "inventing" step two right after.
XMPP has a long history... Two decades of accumulated specifications can make it a bit overwhelming to find what you're looking for. It's important to have external individuals/collectives gathering the pieces they find important and remarks to achieve what they consider a good implementation.

It's just like when you do web stuff you may read from MDN, csstricks or smashing magazine. It doesn't mean that the W3C/IETF specs are useless, far from it. But in my view it's useful to find guidance in a nebula of specifications and endless UX possibilities.
> You [...] argue that we should hastily generalize safety results to these sub-populations

I never argued for "hasty" or "generalization."

Simple question: which sub-population are you talking about? Please exclude any sub-population where a statistically significant sample of vaccinated individuals already exists, unless your concern is limited solely to long-term side effects.

If you are concerned about long-term side effects, please cite at least one scientific study explaining why you are concerned about that PARTICULAR sub-group being vulnerable to that PARTICULAR side effect - we wouldn't want to waste time if you can't cite any scientific literature supporting your claim

(P.S. I've only made a single comment about vaccinated -vs- unvaccinated, so you might have me confused with someone else in this thread)
The whole point of clinical trials is to get statically significant numbers so that you can understand if the vaccine is safe, months after administration. It was done before the vaccine was approved.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577

Now you can debate the meaning of "safe". And you can make decisions based on anecdotes. And you can say it would be nice to have better data. But that is true for most things in life. Most people go to restaurants and drive their cars on roads with reviewing far less evidence that their car and restaurant they are going to are truly safe.
60% of Afghanistan is illiterate. An improvement from when NATO forces invaded 20 years ago, but not too much better. I don’t think your infrastructure dreams would have had any efficacy.
The latest developments (with a few exceptions) generally really are impenetrable without a solid foundation in undergrad physics, which meant that many of my trips to Physics Stack Exchange have given me a direct personal experience of being on the dumb side of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

The good news is, as others have already suggested, this level of education is now very accessible by e.g. YouTube channels:

https://youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime

https://youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL701CD168D02FF56F (Susskind, The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics)

I would add the channels:

https://youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

https://youtube.com/user/minutephysics

and the MOOC Brilliant.org

That said, I’m still definitely in the “undrergrad” level despite all this; I can recognise the equations of GR and QM, but not use them, and there’s plenty which I know I must be misunderstanding.
So, there's no way to figure out the effectiveness of vaccines from the data? Then how?
When I was a kid I couldn't care less about mosquitoes and during the summer most of the kids' legs and arms had mosquito bites and deep scratches, but for some reason some kids were never bitten regardless of where they'd hang out or sleep.

Not sure whether it's a good thing or not but now I am extremely cautious not to get any bites. This summer for example I avoided the backyard almost completely for this reason, with some exceptions when I covered myself in mosquito repellant spray. The mosquito candles I tried last time weren't very efficient in my case.
Your idea is the most Taliban idea I've heard.
A bored or malicious person will definitely be able to shoot our airships. The nice part about an airship is that if you shoot it with a gun, the hole will be small so it will take a long time for the gas to leak out. The failure mode is the airship will gradually lose lift and have trouble flying, probably on the order of hours before it wouldn't have enough to fly.

Most of the time we'll be operating over areas without people, so if the airships do get shot at, they should be in an area where they can safely land and be recovered. The envelope will be tough enough to handle birds landing on it.

Regarding banditry, we hope that we are providing enough value to these communities that there will be peer pressure to prevent it.

It's relatively easy to transport them when not in use, either keeping them inflated and flying to the end location, or packing them up and assembling/inflating on location.
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I shared an office with a startup doing this in 2005, they still seem to be around.

https://www.posture-minder.com
That sounds interesting, but complicated.

We built our adminless Internet forum [1] for the same reason. It's splendid on the dev side because initially we built traditional moderation tools (they still exists in the Git), but then we deleted it all and it felt much simpler.

Still waiting to see if it will work from a moderation standpoint. The site's been live for almost a year with no issue yet.

Edit: It's a text only forum, which makes this a lot easier. I was thinking about allowing images but with a high per image fee.

[1] https://www.peachesnstink.com
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> And there will be an about:config option to disable this

Only to be removed in the next release (possibly)...
The nature of these devices is that they're HID compliant but Microsoft lets them get away with demanding you should "improve" things by installing extra software on Windows.

Because they're HID compliant they do just work out of the box (on Windows or on Linux).

In Linux there is no "Oh! Oh! Install this proprietary bullshit to wring more money out of you. Please. Please! Come on, spare a few bucks!" step. If you don't want to do any tinkering the mouse Just Works™

But if you wish the little features worked, like apparently changing LED light colours, you can install third party software. At that point yes you are tinkering, but you aren't dealing with constant appeals to please let it change your default web browser, or whatever like in Windows, so that still seems like you're ahead.

I'm astonished Microsoft didn't just outright ban this nonsense. It's an awful user experience compared to Linux where all this stuff Just Works and Windows could have that too, not with more engineering work but with less by simply not allowing this crap.
It's been dead for years, though the julia folks are apparently trying to resurrect it.
Unlike horseshoes, there is credible research and wide consensus among experts that masks work
>We know that dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, white-tailed deer, a gorilla, and a tiger have been found to have been infected with covid-19.

And at least one papaya, apparently. https://globalnews.ca/news/6910821/coronavirus-papaya-goat-t...
Apple shoving this false dichotomy at us is the problem. I choose option #3 - Apple (et al) freely scan everything stored in their cloud, while users' devices use encryption that renders most scanning moot.
Based on our current information, that's at best 33% of the population. Realistically in most countries it's about 15-20%.
Yeah, it got popular quick.

I think the bar was low for good design on the web, and they did a really good of making it out of the box seem like "good design".

I remember the first time I saw an open source thing was bootstrap based, without knowing what bootstrap was, I immediately asked "wait, what did you use to make it look that good, and how can I use it?" I could guess it was using some third party tool, it was just so much better than typical.
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Yes the American elite is mostly white. Do you expect that to change over night when they have had the majority of the wealth since the dawn of the nation? White people still are make up ,I believe, ~60% of the population so even if far more minorities become successful for a very long time they will still be the majority.

These things take time to change and real progress didn't really get going until the 90's. Everyone wants instant change NOW but fails to realize things do take time.
Ketoconazole blocks hormone steroid synthesis and reduces testosterone levels.
> FYI, ~6.4K people still die every year to chicken pox and shingles

BS. Maybe if you have AIDs or are terminally ill or have some genetic abnormality.
I'm not sure why the comment is dead, but I also don't really understand the comment. Could you explain it please?
I hope this is the case but there will be a lot of antivax pushback, unfortunately.
Nah. As long as costs are negligible and there's no corporate death sentence for repeat offenders (T-Mobile has had 5 breaches in roughly the same number of years), nothing changes. Equifax is still around, right [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach
Blaming the US Southern border for coronavirus spread is a racist and Republican (anti-immigration excuse-making) trope.
EPA average speed test is 27.74MPH. Not very useful.

https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/fe_test_schedules.shtml
I don’t think you need to square those options. I think that scanning people’s photos is very much an affront to privacy. Apple clearly agrees with me at some level because they are advertising that their system is “opt in”: you only get scanned if you turn on iCloud Photos. But this argument assumes that for most users this is a choice. For many users who have purchased iPhones with lower storage levels this is not really a choice — they have to use iCloud Photos to get the functionality they paid for, else they can’t synchronize photos and have to manually manage and risk deleting photos. They can use third party apps, but only with reduced functionality because Apple has chosen to privilege their own cloud service and lock those functions away from third party developers. To me it seems like Apple’s opt-in consent argument would make sense if and only if they offered users equivalent choices in third party cloud functionality: which they don’t.
I have the opposite experience. MS has enabled our company to save tens of thousands of dollars because of their unwillingness to compromise on backwards compat. Literally we take CD's burned a decade(s) ago and the software installs and functions just fine. In our field, software tends to cost five digits and upwards so its a big F* deal. I can't imagine any other vendor coming even close. I don't particularly care for their other products, but Windows has earned a ton of respect from me.
> Which you import just like you would in a browser.

Import them from where?

Also, if I have more than 10 packages, it makes sense to bundle them

> While not exactly a second class citizen, losing Typescript (if it comes to that) is something the platform can survive.

That is not what I asked/pointed out
It's not an argument but a question. Should we try to minimize harm in society at the expense of individual freedoms, and if so how far do we take it? Having the state raise kids is being seriously discussed in places like Harvard Law Review as an ideological harm reduction measure. Should any freedom that could possibly be abused to harm others (such as right to own a gun, right to refuse a vaccine, right to own and drive a car, etc.) be eventually outlawed, leaving only freedoms that let you harm yourself?
This is exactly where we think the big market opportunity is!
Yeah, true. Different doctors have different standards, and there are significant regional differences in standards of care. I've had several walk-in clinics tell me that I need an established GP to deal with certain issues.
> Do those exist?

IIRC a possible issue is the use of forks of gcc (or something else), I think it used to be common for console toolchains though maybe less so these days.
It would have to be a multivariate analysis. That's sort of the problem with x over y analysis - the question presupposes a very narrow range of answers.

There are good reasons to believe the vaccines help, but you don't want to beg the question when you start the analysis.