skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Covid infection of course also triggers myocarditis, and a much more severe version of it.
In some cases it's hard to tell where the line should fall. This isn't one of those.

In general you can't distinguish but fortunately that doesn't matter. Facebook doesn't block lies, it blocks "known misinformation". The information in the linked article is known to be false, and it is harmful, so it's blocked.
Hans Rosling had a talk about this topic[1] 6 years ago, albeit less about "mean" and more about how "bad" the world was, and more importantly, how bad people thought the world was compared to how it actually is.

Not too surprisingly, even media and journalists scored worse than random guessing.

So it's hard to point fingers to the viewer getting wrong impression of the world when the information senders themselves can't measure it (or send it) correctly

[1] https://youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg
Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work (1983) [pdf]
("Oeuf!" made me do a snort-coffee-out-my-nose laugh. Genius.)
We could never afford one but I used to go to the local camera stores and scavenge the empty film cartridges from their trash. They would demo the camera, and of course throw out the cartridge. But it still had a perfectly good battery in it.
Well, this is what is revealed by a quick Google search:

> On average, there are 9.1 self-driving car accidents per million miles driven, while the same rate is 4.1 crashes per million miles for regular vehicles.

(https://www.natlawreview.com/article/dangers-driverless-cars, linking to https://carsurance.net/blog/self-driving-car-statistics/.)

Mind that most human accidents happen in environments which are considered off-limits for automated driving systems at the current state technology as deployed. (E.g., narrow urban streets in bad weather conditions and difficult, varying lighting.)
Seems like we had a year, then? And did.. what?
Apple did once plan to allow encrypting backups, but dropped the plan when the FBI complained: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51207744

I don't think whoknowswhat11's account (that there was a period where backups were encrypted but it was removed because users didn't want it) is accurate.
So like Java then?
Builders of Teotihuacan Had Remarkable Knowledge of Science and Engineering
Never understood why somebody else couldn't take over the same sort of role. As I understood it, PJ wasn't particularly close to the case in any way, she was just interested and was collecting relevant documents and putting them on the web site. Can't we do the same sort of thing in a subreddit, or in various other locations?
As the creator of that graphic, I can assure you that any such resemblance was totally unintentional, as I was young enough when I made it that the thought would never have occurred to me.

I must admit that one of my friends at school made the same comment back when I created it though. I didn't understand what he meant at the time, but after hearing it again 15 years later, I just had a solid laugh, so thanks!

It does surprise me that whoever redesigned the site chose to keep that ancient graphic and logo...
COVID19 Transmission Dynamics Among Close Contacts of COVID19 Index Patients
For US military? The recent bombing notwithstanding, almost all my friends who are still serving think this is actually the best scenario that no one really wants.
> the execution that frankly could not have gone worse.

You really think this could not have gone worse?
I don't get it. Does this mean SCO had a valid legal point after all if IBM paid them $14.5M?
not to mention that freespace 2 can actually look pretty decent these days. there is a community project that has upgraded the graphics and models over the years. it doesn't look like a 2021 AAA game, but it far surpasses anything that could run on 1999 hardware.
It was unlimited. They added fibre to our entire neighbourhood and this was a special deal related to that.

I love the idea of a 50GB monthly cap on 1gbps Internet. Blow through that in under 7 minutes.
Why Lying About Storage Products Is Bad: An IBM DeskStar Story
Double vaxers lost the moral high ground to the morally superior triple vaxers. Double vaxers are anti-Science Trumpie losers who deserve to die now.
I'd definitely agree with the specific point of both paragraphs, especially because you said 'language designs' in the first. But I think the essay uses 'language' to mean what you do in your second paragraph, 'features'/stdlib/ecosystem -- the whole experience of working with that material in practice.

And in that sense, I think the value of 'weird' languages is that they can package so many different mutually-reenforcing design decisions together that they literally can have the 'think different' effect described in the essay.

Taking one example that's kinda-weird, kinda-mainstream -- a 'language' like Erlang includes way more than a Prolog-inspired syntax for a simple functional language, and when you look closely at it, it's not simple to just recreate by pulling in features ad-hoc; the language, its stdlib, and its VM complement each other and have informed each others' design.

Probably the feature that most comes to mind when we think of Erlang is that it 'goes all-in' on message passing in a functional language. 'All in' meaning that they've made decisions like: being willing to copy a lot if needed, little details like keeping a count of reductions, big things like pulling in concerns that are often left to the OS when working in other languages like process scheduling, preemption, and supervision, and providing a toolkit out of the box that supports building full systems via Nodes with Applications with trees of Supervisors of Processes (all of which are effectively language concepts now), etc. Well, every one of those decisions is eyebrow-raising to somebody or a lot of somebodies. But if you do go all-in on that combo of capabilities, what's it like?

A good engineering team with a lot of money can fit another language and another VM to the same kinds of domains that Erlang is a fit for. (Not that you can get people to agree what those domains are, even within Ericcson apparently). But their solution will necessarily look very different, and the difference between what's easy/hard in their approach vs. an erlang-ish approach is what the weird language can teach us.
I won't spoil this in case it is a surprise, but if you are familiar with this genre of music and have a guess as to who is at the center of the graph, the most connected person in all of Yacht Rock, your guess is almost certain to be correct.

Also don't miss this wonderful parody series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNTARSM-Fjc&list=PLBEB75B6A1...

If you previously saw the old low-definition videos, these are remastered HD versions, well worth a re-watch.

Stay smooth, everyone.
Sure I could draw up some nuclear doomsday scenarios. Would you like that? Or maybe dont take a common phrase literally.
Here's a video where they put a glove together and talk about its features and also show a bit of the grasping feedback feature: https://youtu.be/laZOSSEGqq8
We are all above average.
There's a limited number of drivers and they are competing for the most profitable trips at busy times. A self driving fleet can cover a larger area 24/7 because they don't mind parking for hours until the next fare.
I think it's entirely fair to critique a project that's currently in development against modern standards.

take a look at what the community has done with freespace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNChKy__yo
I've been to hospitals in Toronto pre-covid. Nothing but good things to say. I've always been able to see a doctor quickly. When imaging was needed it was available quickly. Etc.

I'm told that the wait time for very-specialized specialists is unreasonable long (and believe it), but the general standard of care here is very good.
I don't know if the federal government plays a role here, but the duty to report type laws for professionals are typically at a provincial level. That being said, as far as I know, they are fairly consistent across provinces.
No, the worst possible scenario would have been for the war to go on for another decade or two, first.
How about. "Insisting On the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land Paperback"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738201901/
I think the key differentiator here is "sovereign nation" – Afghanistan does not have a stable leadership at all, so it certainly seems acceptable to question their sovereignty.

And a nation without sovereignty is very different from a bunch of Taliban members in Texas, as least as far as most of the world's geopolitical dealings are concerned.

e.g. look at how the world just kinda let China obliterate Hong Kong's freedom – HK was never a sovereign nation state separate from China so there never was going to be much anyone could do.
True and Shakespeare spent his life only gluing words together!! The only valuable thing he did was coining a few new words when he dared chasing weirdness!
>You say that as if it's fact, but I'm not sure it is.

How is it not? Shadowbans by definition are deceptive; their whole intent is to deceive the poster into thinking that their message was sent and is readable.

If you post and your message appears to appear on the thread but only you can read it then...you are being deceived. The message board software is lying to you.

Since it is the moderators who decide that then it's the relationship between you (the poster) and the moderators that determines whether or not your post actually successfully completes or if you're being lied to.

That is what I mean when I say that shadowbans inject a factor of deceit into the poster/moderator relationship.

It's possible to argue that it doesn't, but it's also possible to argue that the moon is made of green cheese as well. Neither argument is the truth.

>There are places in the internet you can go to make sure you are heard and you can say whatever you want.

And there are places where if you are banned, you know it; if your comment is removed, you know it. My qualm in this thread is about the deceptive practice of shadowbanning.

> If you prefer to post here instead of there, then some examination on why that is might be warranted, and specifically whether the thing you are complaining about helps or hinders making this place somewhere you feel worth spending time.

May I ask -was it your intent to come off as being condescending and borderline insulting? If not, you ought to be aware that is how that sentence came off. And I'll tell you for nothing that being talked down to after spending 25 years on the internet does NOT contribute positively towards HN being a place worth spending time in.

It's also a hand-wave -meaning a distraction from my primary point which is about shadowbanning and the fact it injects a note of deceit into the moderator/user relationship.

There are pluses and minuses to everything; good points and bad points. Obviously since I will continue posting in HN I see more positive points than negative ones -but that does not change the fact ...and it is a fact... that I believe (and have no reason not to believe) that shadowbans have a negative effect on the larger community that they're practiced on. They make HN a place less worth coming to, and the fact that there are positives reasons to come to HN does not change that.

So -to long didn't read summary; shadowbans undermine posters' faith in moderators and serve to undermine the credibility of moderation as a whole.
I would love to see the camera feed.

Me too. The NTSB should demand it. The NTSB has statutory authority to override trade secret law in an accident investigation.

Subject to subsections (b) and (g), the Board shall make public any part of a transcript, any written depiction of visual information obtained from a video recorder, or any still image obtained from a video recorder the Board decides is relevant to the accident—
(A) if the Board holds a public hearing on the accident, at the time of the hearing; or
(B) if the Board does not hold a public hearing, at the time a majority of the other factual reports on the accident are placed in the public docket.
When 99% of your content makes the rest of it look good, you willingly assume that risk. Nobody should be shedding tears about this.

Also, censorship is forbidden only to the government and to common carriers (which Facebook is not). Private parties (with very rare and reasonable exceptions) have the right to control what others do with their chattels.
I mostly agree. But I think there’s a bit of survivorship bias here. We don’t hear about all the things that go right.
Perhaps it's because the parent can't distinguish between the person and the work. Show me someone who's produced remarkable output and hasn't done shitty things.

The 'hype' is about the work, not the person.
A magazine, or any business, that is used by regulators to find out who to scrutinize will not be in business very long.
You make a very sound argument about the engineering perspective.

Unfortunately, many of the folks writing such software aren't (formally-trained) engineers. Would you suggest that they receive training which allows them to think of software as infrastructure? I'm genuinely curious, not being sarcastic.
The PDF linked to in the post: https://web.archive.org/web/20181123120243/www.insidemathema... (the original link is dead)

Also, I wonder if posting a photo of the work with pencil annotations violates the CC NoDerivatives license.
The equipment left behind is at worst bad optics. The Taliban effectively controls trillions of wealth in the country now. Millions (or is it billions? Doesn't matter) in old equipment is just a drop.

A journalist (Beau of the Fifth Column) I trust on topics such as this covers that, and other common questions regarding the last couple weeks. The equipment being left behind is the first couple minutes: https://youtu.be/KUMomGe4fjY
IIRC one of these people, perhaps Óscar Toledo, wrote a usable OS fitting in either 512 bytes or the MBR (which is a bit smaller afaik).
Because our military engaging in missions in the Middle East is exactly what started this mess in the first place.
Billions of dollars of US weapons and intelligence shit.

It's like you're not understanding.
There were also a number of "cryptopunk" sales for 888.88 ETH today. Totally normal and organic market behavior.
Ask HN: As a full-stack engineer-founder, how do you find good designers?
They couldn't have matched the time of infection, since not everyone in the study was (re-)infected during the study period. The point of the study was to see if there was a difference in the infection rates, so just picking from the people who got infected would have completely distorted the results.

But they would have arranged the study such that both people in the matched pair were considered for exactly the same time period. E.g. if the vaccinated person in pair was fully vaccinated on April 20th, they would have started counting re-infections for the previously infected person of the pair from April 20th too.

Local infection rates should be the same, since the pairs would be matched from the same geographic area and the study contstruction ensured they were considered for exactly the same time period.
well thats US citizens, what about the afghans that helped US/Allied forces whose life is in danger.
I agree that there aren't a ton of convincing examples mentioned that aren't relevant to people who already agree w/the value of lisp-style macros -- but if you're interested I used the example of erlang when responding to a comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343140

FWIW I do actually agree w/pg about macros; I use them day-to-day for more mundane things than his impressive fully-bottom-up approach to programming. But each time I do use them, I feel like "thank heavens I don't have to reach for some weird external codegen tool to do this".
Thousands rally for voting rights, D.C. statehood in Washington
This stuff is the Million Dollar Homepage but for crypto. A bunch of faddish mucking around which almost entirely obscures where the value is being generated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage for our younger readers ;)

Over here, gold bullion NFTs with individual numbered bars tied into a legal framework which ensures that NFT ownership gives bar ownership, bridging the physical/legal/digital domains.

And they're CO2 offset, with the calculation of CO2 impact and the CO2 offsets bound into the NFT too. It's a building block of a new economy, with the environmental and social costs of trade bound right into the product description data.

You can safely ignore the rocks. But there's action elsewhere in the ecosystem.

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/can-the-world-... (what I do for a livin')
> Leadership fails to plan for worst case scenario, because it's not politically expedient to act as though it might happen.

Not only was this the worst case scenario, it was also the most likely scenario. And it does not take a geopolitical expert to foresee it playing out.

The shit show that has been happening there for the past couple weeks was completely unnecessary. At best it was incompetence on the part of the US leadership and at worst malicious with a goal of destroying what little international foreign policy capital we had left.
Would look odd for you to take out tons of money through an ATM though.

Someone who needed to game that system probably spends enough that it would be very hard to explain away those withdrawals.
USA enriched many defense contractors. After twenty years we minted a lot of millionaire white collar paper shufflers. A person could have made a two-decade career simply processing security clearance paperwork at the multitude of sub-contractors.

It is shameful the American populace dutifully paid their taxes for this waste.
> I never said that I support China invading Taiwan. That would mean I advocate

No, stop. I said nothing about you supporting troops. I am talking about support of the moral argument, about how we can, from a moral perspective, disregard their "perspective", when thinking about what is right or wrong, or to get moral advice.

If their perspective is that they want to invade that other country, in a moral discussion, I don't care about their perspective, when determining if that is right or wrong.

So then, you would agree with me that if they invaded that you would absolutely condemn them, morally, and say that they are wrong and that you don't care about their moral opinion on the matter, as you disagree with it.

> I don't believe their desire to retake Taiwan is also a desire to attack the West.

Them wanting to invade Taiwan is a good enough reason, in and of itself, to arm Taiwan, and engage in severe economic or political actions against China, if they ever follow through with that.

Ideally, they wouldn't do that through, due to our actions in arming the opposition though.

Obviously, it would be way better if China simply never invaded, due to our actions, and if we could avoid war, and could avoid anyone being invaded.

The best action, is not to give in to their perspective, instead it is to make it so if they ever invaded, they would take a lot of damage, so that they then decide to not do it in the first place, and there is neither any war or invasion.
It must be my inner Loki :)
Taliban immediately takes control of Afghanistan leaving them with far more armaments than they began the war with. US faces many videos that are practically recreations of the liberation of Saigon.

I mean there are always outcomes that were never on the table like invasion and occupation of the US by the Taliban followed by unconditional US surrender that you could consider "worst possible scenario" but as far as things that could have actually happened go? Complete failure to achieve objective and visual symbolic reminders of nations previous most notable defeat is right up there.
Yeah. Those people who have never seen a hot tub before should hop in their helicopter and fuck off to Switzerland, wait out the sketchy transients.
Yeah, the only thing I get from this entire article is that there's going to be some massive investigations as to who these troops inside the airport that assisted in this were.

If I had to make a guess though, they're likely people disgruntled at the administration and see this as a way with potentially low consequences to get out of the military. Hopefully, there will be serious consequences for them.

Like, we seriously have a major story going on about active US military troops, in one of the most serious missions in the past ten years, actively going against orders... to do the bidding of current civilians? That sounds like court martial material.
I found this Popular Science article on the unveiling of the yet to be named SX-70 in which Edwin Land seems to have inspired a certain Steve Jobs.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=WZ6okH8FCs4C&lpg=PA65&ots=k...
I don't know what to tell you.

I literally said in the chat something to the effect of, "I was unable to pickup this order because the restaurant is closed." And I sent a picture of the restaurant with chains on the doors.

A couple mins later, I got kicked out of the chat and was unable to open a new one. I'm not saying GrubHub is evil or a scam or anything like that. I just don't understand, as an software engineer, how a fuckup of this magnitude could happen.

I think what must of happened is the restaurant closed unexpectedly, or was unable to find workers/supplies.
The article says the problem flagged were already being fixed...

Waste from nuclear is miniscular per unit of energy, just _40_ grams per person per year, all energy included [transportation, electricity, heating - all]. 40 grams. [1]

It was quite eye-opening to know that 1GW nuclear plant, working for decades, can keep _all_ of it's waste on site.

Given that no soul was ever harmed by industrial nuclear waste (it is mostly on site), existing baseload capabilities and _history_ of decarbonizing whole industrialized economies (France/Korea again), I feel it is harmful to completely discount this method of power generation, especially now..

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html#howmuch
Not necessarily. TSG back in 2004 negotiated with their law firm to cap legal fees at $31 million.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040831183432157
Many websites have not held up to HN's Hug of Death, to their credit, this one has.
Twenty years after the fact, Snopes comes clean about making up Lisa Holst
3rd possibility is that they are using a lazy implementation of a paywall/way to force you to register to read.
In two years this will be forgotten during the re-elect Joe show. Prove me wrong.
Could you briefly expand? Do you mean they want to be found in a position where they can be justified to shoot?
Scientists can’t develop a null hypothesis about the impact of the most studied virus in the history of humanity? If you have no null hypothesis then you shouldn’t be drawing conclusions from data, period.

Anyone who reads this site regularly is probably aware of the problems with non-registered data analyses in academia (often referred to as the “replication crisis”).
We should be incredibly skeptical of any non-registered analysis, even when sample controls are used. When the study is unregistered AND the sample is uncontrolled the default posture should way beyond skepticism - it should be considered meaningless until reproduced by a better-structured analysis.
The Anecdotal Buy Back Effect
Right or not, I think charitably, the person you are responding to is pointing out that this is not a new thing in social media sites. It's a decades old technique at this point.
I read and posted on Slashdot daily in the early 2000s. Back then then it was all about politics and inaccurate/flamebait semi-tech stories with the credibility of a tabloid. So, I don't think Slashdot has really changed.

Slashdot's audience, however, has largely moved on and the cultural significance of Slashdot has been taken over by other platforms.