skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m vaccinated, but against this vaccine mandate. My proposed method is this:

1) If you want to get vaccinated, get vaccinated.

2) If you don’t, don’t.

3) If you go to the hospital with a COVID infection, your care is covered by insurance if you are vaccinated. If you are not, your care is not covered by insurance.

This allows people to make decisions about their bodies, while also fending off the two main arguments I see for why everyone should be vaccinated. Those arguments are:

1) Unvaccinated people are hosts for mutations which can break through vaccines. Since we are already going to be doing yearly updates to this vaccine a la flu vaccines, this is not a concern to those who want to be vaccinated as they will get fresh protection each year.

2) Hospital beds are being filled with COVID patients, thus blocking people with e.g. heart attacks, car crash injuries etc. from getting care. With my plan, the unvaccinated will be disincentivized to go to the hospital to get COVID care, thus freeing these beds up. Again, this respects personal choices.

But forcing people to do something to their body? Not cool with me. Also not logically consistent with being pro-choice, which most of my pro-mandate (anti-choice) friends are.
Some states (including big ones like California and NY and conservative ones like Mississippi and West Virginia) have no exemptions to school vaccine requirements other than medical exemptions.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exe...
where does this vindictive attitude, especially given that you know nothing about the job or circumstances surrounding it, come from?
It always surprises me when conservatives use the economic argument wrt vaccine deployment because doing so means they assume an intrinsic value of $0 on human lives.

Penny wise, pound foolish.
They would be making a lot more money without the vaccines.
So we should mandate everything that saves lives, no matter the cost to freedom or infringing of rights?

This is the issue with technocratic government: zero understanding of anything deeper than “if it works, do it!”
BMW sells cars that need an paying upgrade in order to use some of the hardware. https://www.carscoops.com/2021/04/bmw-makes-you-pay-for-soft...
It writes Javascript, that doesn't count.

I doubt it read any API specs and implemented the code for that matter.

The sentence he wrote in this case is probably a programming language that got transpiled to JS.

disclaimer: Only saw the picture because the article is behind a paywall.
Why would stackoverflow ever change their tune on this? They can't. Once they've given an answer way back in 2012, it remains their only answer and if you are using more updated methods, then if you go to stackoverflow, you'd best hope the wisdom of 2012 is still applicable and relevant.
I have Netflix on my PS3 and when you pause you only get the noisy overlay after idling for 10 seconds or so. I press UP on the DPAD and it goes away, as UP does nothing if your focus is on the pause/play button. You can do it with SELECT too, it's also a dead key.
I believe it's time to roll up sleeves as a civic duty.
Please do! I look forward to being wrong. Nobody likes a Cassandra (although Cassandra turned out to be right) and I'll gladly concede these warnings were alarmist if the trends I see discontinue without mass unrest or turning over the governments via voting.

I agree with the consensus about Covid. I don't agree that means we won't have a permanent 'VaxPass' system in place serving as the camel's nose for a CCP-style social credit system based on health compliance. I wonder what you thought about the Patriot Act after 9/11 or Snowden's leaks? 20 years later would you say that all blew over?
When this all started and the stats for influenza deaths came out (usually as a poor attempt to downplay the seriousness of COVID) I was shocked at my own ignorance as to the effect of influenza. I'd previously tried to but been inconsistent in getting my flu shot, but now that I understand the human cost that's changed for me.

It amazes me that people would be hesitant to get it and that there'd even be need to mandate it now. None of the same arguments can be made against the flu shot that can be made against the COVID vaccine (and in fact if we had yearly COVID vaccines those arguments would be moot there as well), but I'm sure we'd have a ton of vaccine deniers there, which really just proves it's ideology and feelings over any sort of real concern.
In which case 'hey, someone is opening the door an insane amount, which is not good for the fridge or your food' might be a handy alert, so you know what they're up to and can stop them?

(I'm not saying it should be internet connected for that purpose though.)
You know what kills more than COVID? Sugar which causes cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. If we're going to go after COVID for the havoc it causes, there's a long list of similar issues that could be tackled with the same type of mandate.

I don't look forward to our health-police state we apparently decided was a great idea. Well we didn't decide, because that would have required congress to pass a law. This was just some old man skipping congress, likely knowing this will be overturned by the Supreme Court, but desperately needing to change the national debate away from Afghanistan.
The dutch national broadcasting service had a program around 1980 where BASICODE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE) for homecomputers was transmitted.

Lots of home computers (ZX Spectrum, C64 etc) had audio I/O for storage on cassette tapes.
The fact that it happens a lot doesn't make it any less true now and the fact we've had sustained stress on the system for a year and a half isn't typical.

In the US, they've relaxed many guidelines and allowed student nurses without gaining licensure yet to practice because of the need [1].

[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200327.71403...
Gun control is not effective on a local level, c'mon.
I'm talking Australia-style ban of guns on a federal level.
This looks neat. It does have some novel product thought baked into it. Keep up the good work.

BTW, I like the "Not all in one" slogan in particular :)
You do realize that we vote for our government representatives, right? The 'government' is us.
Right on! That kind of terrible UX technology whose primary purpose is to draw attention to itself instead of receding into the background is the opposite of Calm Technology / Ubiquitous Computing, as described by Mark Weiser at Xerox PARC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser#Ubiquitous_computi...

Ubiquitous computing and calm technology

Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.

— Mark Weiser

During one of his talks, Weiser outlined a set of principles describing ubiquitous computing:

- The purpose of a computer is to help you do something else.

- The best computer is a quiet, invisible servant.

- The more you can do by intuition the smarter you are; the computer should extend your unconscious.

- Technology should create calm.

In Designing Calm Technology, Weiser and John Seely Brown describe calm technology as "that which informs but doesn't demand our focus or attention."

1996 Computer Science Challenges for the Next 10 Years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jwLWosmmjE

Designing Calm Technology:

https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/designing-calm-technolo...
Input validation errors should be reported using HTTP code 400.
The fact that this has been divided along sociopolitical lines should make it obvious that neither side is genuinely looking at the issue with clear eyes. It’s entirely tribal, as the comments in this thread illustrate.
You wouldn’t find posters like this even at a Trump rally: https://www.smh.com.au/world/farright-white-noise-of-alterna...

Compared to Europe, Trump’s “immigrants are bringing crime” stuff is on the gamer end of the right wing.
Sure a functor satisfies more conditions but that doesn't make it less of a function. Heck if you restrict it to mapping a single set of objects or a particular Homset it is a function, you just can't extend this to the whole category if the objects form a proper class (which happens fairly often).

The whole distinction between value-level or type-level is meaningless in general categories. Sure there's a distinction between morphisms between objects and functors between categories but you've also got the category of categories where the morphisms are functors between categories.

Edit: I'll have to concede that the article confuses them too much though, you can't just pick a random function and declare it to be a functor, especially when it's not clear between which categories.
Does it really matter? The more ambiguous the result, the better for them.
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Is Facebook allowing those? The censorship (authoritarian as well as consensual) is pretty heavy on facebook, twitter, reddit.

Isolating dissenters. Make them feel like lone crazies.
How do you feel when people say C is faster than bash? The speed your CPU carries out instructions is the same. A bash statement is usually more instructions than a C statement though.
Edit: I'm getting downvoted brigade-style for what?
This was supposed to be a forum of civil and intellectual discussion, ffs!
I'm not concerned. It's time to roll up sleeves as a civic duty.
That's right, but the fact is that the president's goal is to get everyone who can receive the vaccine to be vaccinated. He lacks the authority to issue a simple vaccine mandate for everyone and is just doing what he does have the authority to do. The vaccine is not just about workplace safety and people who work from home should still get the shot.
Historians feed off governments. This is especially true in France.
I really wish network routers would do this when delivering packets...

The other end gets far better information about congestion that way, and congestion control algorithms could be made much smarter.

Everyone says "jitter is bad in networks", but the reality is if the jitter is giving you network state information, it is a net positive - especially when you can use erasure coding schemes so the application need not see the jitter.
Yeah I was sort of expecting to have accelerated crypto, given the EAR export declaratioj I had to sign in order.l to buy this. If the CPU doesn't have any crypto implemented, what does? Some signature checking in the firmware?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, because such things can work. Just look at what Antoine-Augustin Parmentier did with potatoes. Same mental trick.
Doesn't the vaccine protect you from disease?
It's the only way to get anything done since the senate doesn't function without a super-majority.
You have to define the behavour of your UI elements as well as their placement, at which point you're writing a program.

The best language to write a program in is a Turing-complete programming language specially designed for that task, not some cobbled together UI-definition language with ad hoc add-ons to processing.
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That is not a JavaScript API, that’s a DOM only API, meaning it’s not reproduced in the language spec. This is important because it won’t work in Node, for example, without a 3rd party library or someone implementing it in Node core.

JSON however is supported in the language spec
>Why would you think that Jan 6th was not violent?

>They [the injuries] ranged from bruises and lacerations to more serious damage such as concussions, rib fractures, burns and even a mild heart attack.

Because the average football match has more injuries than that. Oddly enough the only source that cites 138 cases also cites Brian D. Sicknick as dying from injuries sustained from protestors attacking him: https://archive.is/0kUab

In more detail:

https://archive.is/YVfFk#selection-367.0-371.193

>Capitol Police Officer Dies From Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage

>A United States Capitol Police officer died Thursday night from injuries sustained when he engaged with a pro-Trump mob that descended on the U.S. Capitol the day before.

>Mr. Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday and “was injured while physically engaging with protesters,” the agency’s statement said, although officials didn’t immediately elaborate on the nature of his injuries or how he interacted with the crowd. After sustaining the injuries, Mr. Sicknick returned to his division office, collapsed, and was taken to the hospital.

Meanwhile in the real world:

>The Medical Examiner report said “Brian Sicknick, 42 years old: Cause of Death—Acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis Manner of Death—Natural.”

https://www.klkntv.com/officers-death-after-insurrection-was...

I rarely see such ham-fisted outrage bait outside of the Daily Mail talking about immigrants coming to take your job and rape your daughter. So how much do you want to bet that all of the other 138 cases are due to police just being clumsy and stubbing their toes?
It wasn't luck. The price is frequently volatile but has trended up (to a great degree) since inception.
Very simple: does c suite use open offices? No, because they freaking suck lol. If you think collaboration is benefitted from open office layouts, provide more offices or dedicated meeting rooms instead. In a private office i can put an air filter, control the temp completely, take a nap, and so on.
Youtube throttles download speeds.
Yup. Interlaced GIF (for progressive rendering) was the norm during dialup BBS stuff. As far as I know, web browsers always supported it. Dunno why the custom didn't make the jump from BBS to web.
California used to have more exemptions and they were used heavily by new age/hippie types (i.e. not conservatives) to skirt vaccination requirements so the laws were changed recently.
> You cannot please all the people all the time when it comes to readability.

That’s why customizable Reader Modes are so good and should be supported everywhere *coughHNcough*
I’m not sure if you’ve read the article or not but a lot of what you’ve posted seems to miss the point of it (and thus my post too). Eg

> Item 4 already happens on a large scale,

The article states that some people are skeptical about whether to trust tweets because they don’t know whether it’s a bot or not. My post was expanding off that premise saying an optional label doesn’t solve that problem, it makes it worse.

> The behavior of concern here is Twitter accounts operating in service of somebody or something else, which might or might not be operated by a human, script, AI, or what have you.

The article puts puppet accounts under the same umbrella as “bots”. My post was continuing on from that premise.

> A more accurate term might be 'agent',

Maybe, but arguing semantics completely misses the point of the discussion.

> which also describes the day jobs of some of the people working on Twitter as their primary job :)

We aren’t talking about people who work for Pizza Hut managing their Twitter presence. We are talking about large scale use of accounts pretending to be an average Joe but who are controlled by a single entity as part of a larger misinformation campaign. It might be a human who posts the messages but the person controlling those accounts aren’t the same as the accounts report themselves as and neither is there a 1:1 relationship between account and human. Calling them an “agent” legitimises it as if it’s people representing an organisation but it’s not, it’s effective still a network of bots except you’ve replaced software with “fleshware”.

I mean sure, if you want a different term to make the distinction then I have no issue with that. But the point of the discussion isn’t what do we name these types of accounts, it’s how do we make readers aware of when they’re reading an opinion vs an undercover piece of promotion. It’s kinds of similar to when some jurisdictions mandate that paid promotions need to be labelled as an advert rather than a review.
Neat! Seeing this I'm considering making a similar project that takes a search and drops the preview pictures. No post-video-watching suggest + no 1 minute video shorts + no clickbaity preview pictures + setting a watch timer or something like that might get me back on youtube.
There’s a crude expression about smells and feces that applies here.

I used to struggle to understand why other people didn’t like using all the clever abstractions I came up with. I felt unappreciated and thought I needed to learn how to communicate better. It turns out I was communicating just fine. What I needed to learn was how to accept feedback.
Yes, if there is no difference, then we'd likely use the one that is easier or more aesthetic. The heuristic would differ depending on the discipline and the culture of the science.

For instance, Matrix mechanics is equivalent to the Shrodinger wave formulation, but it did not catch on for reasons listed here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_mechanics

Another system that did not catch on, is Nonstandard analysis, which uses infinitesimals. It is equivalent to the standard curriculum analysis that uses limits.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_analysis

It's hard to pinpoint exactly why these systems weren't chosen. It's not just aesthetics or ease of use. It's a bit of arcane history too. Nonstandard analysis took a while to make rigorous. And by that time, standard analysis had already enveloped the "cult of science." Once standards are set, they rarely change if the current methods are "good enough." I've always sought intuition with everything, so I know about these alternative methods.

I find it sad that so many in academia resign themselves to symbol pushing without a real understanding, and then repeat the same misgivings on their pupils. If methods do exist to achieve better intuition, then we should promote them. Often, alternative yet equivalent formulations do provide that intuition.

HN is a bit of a cult of personality itself but ironically, about every month on the dot, a submission gets front paged - geometric / vector algebra or quaternions, and how they simplify and clarify the intuition behind 3D transformations.

Yet the same HN has curmudgeon gatekeepers that also pop up like clockwork in any science thread, just to make sure all lines of thought correlate to the rote symbol pushing they learned. They didn't gain intuition, so they must feel that it's either impossible to, or that no one else has the right to intuition either.

Anyhow... I hope I answered your inquiry.
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> I’m writing these in the truthful form, rather than stating the myth.

And it seems you overlooked the article. Anyone coming to the comments after reading the article can be forgiven for being confused by the reversal that happened here.
In order to maintain privacy, I'd suggest that the Heinz bottle compare a ketchup image to a hash of over-empty bottles.

The iHeinz can then send a notification to the manufacturer who then passes it to the Ketchup Police.
I don't think it's the process so much as the outlook that's taught to younger students that the disapproval comes from.

It's presented as a much smaller frame of study than it really is. And often it's treated so mechanistically, that rather than teaching you how understanding is important and will feed into your very worldview it's presented as something you study if you want to build assembling machines or something.

My and OP's gripes might be more endemic to underfunded midwestern rural schools like I attended, but I'm sure it wasn't that rare, unfortunately.
No, it isn’t comparable, because those diseases wiped out 3/4 of the population. That obviously isn’t the case with COVID, even if our terrified-of-everything populace thinks it is.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
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there's no such thing as a conservative state, look at county level election maps. It's all rural vs Urban, even in New York and California. Suburbs are for the most part purple as well

people who talk about succession and splitting off have no idea what they are talking about, it wouldn't be clean at all
This is terrible news in two different ways: it's replacing a FOSS program with a proprietary closed-source one, and it's making the Chromium monoculture worse.
Do you have a citation for what it means for insurance companies to be "hammered?"

Life insurance companies - maybe?

But for most demographics, statistics that would concern an actuary have not changed.
I'm not sure why this is down-voted (but I have my suspicions). ICUs are f-ed because hospital's business models are f-ed. Without people voluntarily electing to get minor surgery and other elective services their balance sheets get turned inside out and they cut staffing. The fact that we had a massive uptick in people who need laborious ICU care (because covid) at the same time that people more or less stopped voluntarily going to hospitals was a double whammy.
Why? Temporary means "not permanent", it doesn't specify that it must be shorter than any given timeframe.
> No, you're wrong because you said "more protection is always better". That isn't true - sometimes the protection turns out to be worse than nothing.

You're arguing the semantics of "always" while ignoring the context provided. You're trying to win an argument, regardless if it's relevant to the topic.

The protection against covid (the vaccine/s) isn't worse than nothing. That is a fact, and what I'm arguing. You're stating I'm wrong, by carefully navigating around that into something entirely pointless.

> There isn't a freedom "to live", it doesn't mean anything. Everybody dies in the end no matter what. Nobody has ever had a "freedom" not to catch diseases, if I had that one I'd have exercised it a few times in the past; I don't like throwing up.

So does that mean that I have complete freedom to endanger others with my actions? I assume you don't think so, so there's obviously a line somewhere.

> They only opened up vaccinations to people aged under 40 in May, and it takes a few months to get both doses of the vaccine and that paper was issued in mid June. I'm not sure that tells us anything. Obviously if the majority of a population is vaccinated then unvaccinated people will be the majority of cases, that isn't in question.

That is exactly the point. The prevalence is 2.5 times higher in a group with much fewer vaccinations.
This makes good sense and I fully support this idea. I'm also in favor of heavily taxing soda and beer.
Has anyone reverse engineered the link between the CPU and the PCH? I think it’s called DMI.
Not sure why threads is in quotes here. I believe that’s just what they’re called.
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It's been a year this approach has been claimed.

Time to roll up sleeves for your civic duty.
I count myself extremely fortunate, as [knock on wood] I rarely get the flu. About once every 4 years on average, and most times when I get it, I'm through it in about 48-72 hours. And my clients are always very understanding and I'm able to still deliver while WFH, except in the very worst depths of about 12-24 hours.

There has got to be some genetic component where others have it way worse than I do, and yet still others skate by even better than I do. We know far less about biology than we think we do.
I really wish HN had a controversy upvote / downvote ratio - maybe multiplied by number of votes?
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"They never promised to prevent infection"

Are we really going to bother digging up the copious video evidence this is a lie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xcur3kwCyg