skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty sweeping statement.

I know several people who have been hospitalized immediately after getting the Pfizer shot. I know one woman, whose daughter is a nurse, who died immediately after getting the shot. This daughter told me that in the hospital she works, all doctors publicly recommend the shot, and most doctors are privately pro the shot, but by no means all.

She said that the doctors discuss this among themselves professionally, and there are legit doubts and fears.

Despite having waded through many technical articles and endless discussion threads on mRNA, autoimmune responses to mRNA, yadda yadda, I consider myself not knowledgeable enough to have a "legitimate" opinion. Even so, I would think anyone above 50 should get the shot, and anyone who is young and healthy should talk with their doctor.

But plenty of responsible people are learned enough to be anti, and even more have seen the vaccine send themselves or their neighbors to the hospital. They are not "emotional people who will parrot whatever piece of misinformation supports their worldview"
> we're all on the same team as far as I am concerned

Your peers have burned through all the believability of this line, by using it when it is a lie.
Almost the entire business of a bank is to profit from maturity mismatch by borrowing short, lending long and taking the interest margin.
The most recent case similar to this one is Mochizuki's work on the ABC conjecture, which has still not reached the point where it's accepted by the majority of the community due to its complexity. There are lots of parallels between Mochizuki and Freedman. They both had to break a lot of new ground, and they both had trouble communicating their results to enough people to become part of the official canon of mathematics that can actually be taught to others.

Freedman at least convinced a few key people, but AFAIK Mochizuki's work has never been understood by anyone not named Mochizuki. It may be complete BS, it may be earthshakingly brilliant, but either way it will evidently take someone's entire career to prove it.
In theory a large corp netsec team may buy zero days vulnerabilites and then either disable the affected systems or engage directly with the vendor.

Alternatively depending on how nationalistic someone feels NSA could be a eithical buyer for them as well.
I'm wondering if there is any image that results in accuracy of 1? Or 0.999 is always the best.
Hard money is money that is hard to produce. Such as gold, silver and bitcoin. The alternative is money that can be produced easily (soft money, easy money), like modern fiat currency or glass beads, which were used to buy slaves from Africa.
I'm being sarcastic. Bitcoin in an amazing solution that allows people working in the west to send money home direct and takes this trash company out of the equation.
What is your scientific basis for betting that Prof. Pollard is incorrect? Even though vaccination likely reduces the risk of transmission, we have no evidence that even a very high level of vaccination would be sufficient to reduce R0 below 1.0. It's impossible to reach 100% coverage and even countries with high vaccination levels are still experiencing uncontrolled community spread. We can flatten the curve to an extent (useful for reducing impact on the healthcare system), but it's unlikely that we can significantly reduce the area under the curve.
Retro resolution for retro cars. Absolutely appropriate.
Disclaimer: I'm a Clubhouse contract developer. Opinions here and elsewhere my own.

Yeah. Ten weeks for an Android app to meet feature parity with an iOS app that had over a year of development with millions of users is pretty astonishing.

There are many edge cases that come up when something you develop is used by millions of people and they typically get handled as they come up during your growth period. For example, when I worked at FreshBooks over a decade ago we had to support invoicing with currency conversion support for expenses. Some users wanted to input currency costs in the original currency and have us automatically convert it to their native currency, others at the currency conversion they were billed by their native currency via their bank's conversion rate. Still others wanted support for one or the other, but with different reporting flows for either. The fine detail of how to handle different circumstances isn't apparent until you've actually had to deal with it for your customers as they use your application.

So to go from app on platform X to app on platform Y with near feature parity is a lot more work than just slapping something together.

Is every error response handled correctly? Are the user safeguards implemented properly? Does it work across different kinds of devices? Are the third party APIs for payments, etc, wired in correctly? Why does this third party service fail for this new platform at 3% when the existing platform fails at 0.01%? Is every error case handled for every third party service? Is the exception logging wired in properly? Does the backend record misuse correctly despite the fact that the platforms provide different information on request? Does the UI respect the native controls where necessary? During the time from project start to the time when the project finished did we make sure to include all of the features added to the already supported platform?

Anyway, you get the idea. Software MVPs are relatively easy, but quickly launching into an already developed user base takes a great degree of skill, and honestly one of the things I really enjoy about working here is the people and I've worked in tech for a while.
Every time Communism comes up on Reddit I see a thread like OP's satirizing

I don't know if I've ever seen anyone spouting that philosophy on HackerNews though..
eg: kitchen knives do not usually have cross-guards, whereas a bayonet does.

https://www.1911forum.com/threads/does-a-fighting-knife-need...

https://www.google.com/search?q=bayonet+crossguard

It's subtle, but true. I would imagine that a "kitchen knife" with a full cross-guard that was regularly carried in your belt and implicated in a crime would probably not be considered "just a kitchen knife".

eg: all the rules around gun shapes, sizes, etc. etc. so they don't become "assault-style weapons" or give people impure thoughts when they're out on the shooting range.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/748665339/the-pistol-that-loo...
and 5000 years of dictator rule, not sure what you are trying to say
Not really. I mostly oppose monitoring in the name of "security". But I also prefer to be considered an adult who's not a murderer and can handle their knives without help or active supervision.

So they can make "safe knives" if they wish but I would rather buy the other ones.
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Hmmm, fair point re: the Electron docs - maybe the inspector that Electron includes requires it?
Similar to drunk driving laws.
This is how they print bitcoins on-chain. Centralised payment platforms can do the same thing, except they would credit an internal account, instead of a BTC address. Hopefully now it's clear.
The only reason Hong Kong has had this period of independence is a side effect of western power subjugating the Chinese mainland. As the Chinese mainland grows in global power and the west decays into internal squabbles there should be no expectation that the pretenses of western power will remain intact.
I have friends across the political spectrum, but these days there is no shared commonality at all. Not just no commonality about what's good and bad, but no commonality about what is reality and what isn't. I can't even chit-chat small-talk with my conservative friends about current events anymore, because their idea of what is happening around the world is totally different than mine. I'll bring up some recent event that was reported on widely in the mainstream media, and he'll have no idea what I'm talking about because his sources of news never even mentioned it. And to his point of view, talking to me just shows I have a different set of gaping "reality blind spots".

If you ever had a friend growing up whose family was devoutly religious, you might have seen something similar: They run in totally different circles, all their friends are from their church, they take their kids to totally different movies, listen to totally different music. Can't talk sports with them because they literally can't name a football team. No culture overlap at all. Totally siloed off in their own world. That's what's happening with all this personalization and alternative news sources now, but instead of a small group of very religious people, it's 30-40% of the country!
The growing unrest amongst students, people and the political elite was caused by divisions within the party.

Deng Xiaoping believed in the need of absolute authority.

The death of general secretary Hu Yaobang (a reformist) fueled anxieties about the future of the country.

Foreign-backed regime change??
>and it is not allowed to make any more loans.

No. From the paper

>In reality, neither are reserves a binding constraint on lending, nor does the central bank fix the amount of reserves that are available.
Key subquote:

> More recently, though, with Bank Rate constrained by the effective lower bound, the Bank of England’s asset purchase programme has sought to raise the quantity of broad money in circulation.

In other words: "The interest rates are already at the bottom, but we need them to be lower, so we are going to make them effectively negative through QE".

The end result: the financial sector will eventually pop and flood the rest of the economy with endless amounts of worthless money, i.e. massive inflation.
But that's just it. We are all made from green goo. Viruses, bacteria, plant cells, human cells - they're all just a variation of this. Fluctuations that exist because the green goo isn't too stable over time.

Now, if you introduce a completely different type of goo, that happens to outcompete the green goo, the effect might just be total replacement of the green with grey. And who knows, maybe in a million years, that grey goo will evolve into a rich ecology, eventually giving rise to a sentient species. But from where I sit, I don't like the part where green is eaten by grey.
One thing I’m pursuing with pggen is serializing DB query results directly to a proto. It’d be super cool to write a sql query and have it spit out a proto and avoid all the boilerplate struct copying.
Let's take Biden's facts at face value.

CDC says the current running average is 12,156 covid hospitalizations per week [0].

175M vaccinated according to Biden

1 in 160,000 hospitalized per day according to biden

Total US population is 328.2M, so 153.2M are unvaccinated.

CDC says 1736.57 hospitalizations per day at present.

175e6 / 160e3 = 1094 vaccinated hospitalized per day

That leaves 643 unvaccinated people hospitalized per day

153.2e6 / 643 = 1 unvaccinated per 238k hospitalized per day

If the President and CDC are not lying, then unvaccinated people are NOT the problem.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...
> It's bleakly amusing that you think torturers are worried about some sort of credibility calculus. Where torture is sanctioned or tolerated, people are sometimes tortured for information, sometimes for compliance - but those considerations are often excuses offered to justify the torture to external critics. In many cases, people are tortured purely in order to terrorize others into compliance, or because the torturers are sadists who get off on it.

They actually are in some ways. I toured a former secret East German prison in Berlin, and they would keep prisoners for a long time, and psychologically torture them until they confessed, and would then send them to "trial" with their confession as proof.

I asked the guide why they didn't just physically torture them or falsify the trial right off the bat and he answered something along the lines of the prison guards thinking they were civilized people and wouldn't resort to such barabarous manners.

Torturers are still people and have some level of cognitive dissonance going on, but do require some kind of credibility.
Show HN: We were tired of using GA, so we built something better
The U.S. did nothing in the arrangement because their position wrt the CCP was one of engagement to balance against the USSR.

It was the UK, which caved because, as revealed in now-declassified democratic cables from 1958, Zhou Enlai flatly stated that the PLA would invade if HK was given independence.

The UK quite simply could not defend HK. It had failed to defend it in WWII against Japan (it couldn't even defend Singapore) and would have no hope against the CCP, even without the Harbour Tunnel to the Kowloon Peninsula, which had already been operating for some time.

Instead it opted for an agreement in the joint declaration and a hope that the CCP would lean more towards international norms as the Shanghai cadre assumed more control. Objectively a poor solution but, I have to say, probably the most rational.

Of course, we all know what happened. Deng's best laid plans came to naught and another 'great leader' emerged.
How do you stop fragmentation of large companies into subsidiaries who are all just below the limit where regulations kick in?
All patients/volunteers going into the scanner should change into a gown and remove their shoes. Places that don’t do this have a vastly greater accident rate in my experience.

It’s surprising what is conductive or magnetic. Many garments now include silver or other anti-microbial materials. I’ve encountered clothing with electronics inside or with metal in the labelling.

Burns are the most common accident in MRI and in someone sedated or under anaesthesia you will cause massive harm. It’s all scary, so I change everyone.

‘MRI safe’ is a risky claim to make, as something safe on one scanner is unsafe on another.
Following up after more thought, we had seen 'tongue motor imagery' (imagination of moving tongue) as clearly discernible in EEG. The motor cortex also has eye muscle mappings nearby. http://mrtnmcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/motor_imagery....

So it is conceivable that motor control of the eye or imagination of it could be detected. In the case of imagining dark or light perhaps this could affect pupil/iris dilation muscles.
If they could leave
I feel like the score has a significant part in this.
"If your confusion leads you in the right direction, the results can be uncommonly rewarding" --Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (as translated to English)
The Nazis were totally right-wing. Their purges shocked the world. It's not just a left-wing thing, it's a common theme across all forms of extremism. Left, right, religion-based (look at the Taliban now, they don't really fit in the left or right category at all)... It always comes down to the same thing. Not listening to the other person but choosing to silence them with violence instead. The flag they wave is different but the extremism remains the same.

What we need is balance. Left and right together. Agreeing to disagree and finding a way to work together anyway. That's democracy. It's hard but it's the only way.
Suetonius records the following as being sung by the troops at one of Caesar's triumphs:

> Urbani, servate uxores, moechum calvum adducimus.

> Aurum in gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum.

> Gallias caesar subegit, nicomedes caesarem, ecce caesar nunc triumphat qui subegit gallias.

> Nicomedes non triumphat, qui subegit caesarem.

> Gallos caesar in triumphum ducit, idem in curiam, galli bracas deposuerunt, latum clavum sumperunt.

hastily translated:

> Hide your wives, we bring the bald adulterer to our city.

> You fucked away all our gold in Gaul, then you borrowed more.

> Caesar is beneath the Gauls, Nicomedes is beneath Caesar, behold Caesar who is beneath the Gauls now triumphs.

> Nicomedes does not triumph, who is beneath Caesar.

> Caesar leads the Gauls in triumph, the same in the senate, the Gauls remove their trousers, they picked up his purple toga to carry it.
> Would the proof completely fall apart if the algorithm could update itself to handle the new information? The only thing stopping it is that in the formulation of the problem, the algorithm is assumed to not be able to change with new information (ie it's not an "online" algorithm).

Simple put the halting problem means that you cannot make a program (a static piece of code) that can determine in a finite amount of time if another program halts operating on some input. I.E. program P takes program H and input I and answers if H run with I halts. I honestly don't know what part of the computational model could be changed to make that not true (besides Oracles or Church-Turing thesis being wrong).

Also, I don't think "online algorithm" means what you think it means. Online algorithms have no more computational power than offline ones; they just can get started with only partial information.

> Similarly, what if the model of math had mechanisms for recognizing paradoxes, or circular logical requirements, etc. I don't think either of those theorems would work anymore.

I don't know what a model of recognizing paradoxes would look like. The 1st incompleteness theorem is based on only a few simple axioms and reasonable rules of deduction. There isn't much wiggle room to make a mathematical model that isn't bound by it, but is useful.
Mad Max Fury Road was the best action movie of the last decade. Or two decades.
Executive Order:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Whitehouse briefing:

https://youtu.be/RSFRFVIJqC4

COVID plan:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/
An individual's lasting happiness is founded on their loving behaviour. This is the very simple lesson taught by every spiritual teacher, and it will always amaze me that the people do not understand this simple lesson and continue to think that they can become happy by feeding their greed.
Doesn't work, people!
There might be a chicken and an egg problem. If knowledge of theoretical mathematics would be designed like a framework with good documentation what you mention would be solved by simply referring to the corresponding part of the framework.

But to get that more people would need to be involved into transcribing proofs into formal language. Ideally, everyone. This is a higher standard, and somebody needs to ask for it.
The amount of deaths from IT security issues have been limited.

We see IT Security and HN making up stories like "Ransomware kills German hospital patient" to make themselves sound important - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/12/1012015/ransomwa...

They do exist, like directly with the Ashley Madison incident, but it's the indirect lives saved that would be higher.

The deaths caused by IT security being to high have been fuck tonnes of course.

It's hard to compare the two side, but I think it's fair enough not to trust 'IT teams'

It's also hard to know how bad they are compared to Public Relations or HR for instance or management and CEOs power climbing.

IT security directly attacks the worker, other departments attack the company.

It's a complex equation
they had lots of funding though....
A 10mil round in June-July 2020, that's more than 14 months ago. Plenty of time to get a decent base feature android app.

Also, they haven't added any features to the iOS app, and their voice quality in the height of it was really lacking (low qual. and lots of hickups), and there were room limitations, etc....

Anyway, it is remarkable what they achieved, as most of us (or our projects) will never get to that growth curve hype they did get, and hats up to them, and yet it is disappointing at the same time as it fizzled out.

Feels like Friendster from 2003. Explosive growth for a while, but struggled to scale with features and usage load until it fell away.
Amazon workers have the right to unionize if they want to. If state politicians can't convince them to unionize and instead have to pass laws targeting just that company because they didn't unionize then maybe there is a problem with the politicians instead.
All of the apologies for the blue comedy are grating. We get it, making fun of women isn't socially acceptable. You don't need to preface every single description of an off-color joke.
Doesn't he have a New York Times column now? I think I saw he had a What-If-looking article there, but I couldn't read it without a subscription
I would rather have a slow memory hogging app than no app at all.
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Yes, this is correct! But some people, and perhaps not the grandparent comment, understand the "money creation" point as that money can be replicated infinitely, that is a bank get $1 mil deposit and makes $10 mil loans, and those loans, if deposited, could lead to $100 mil loans and so on
Can it be detected that you are using fractalcrypt archive type?
I suspect it would, at least until the dependency on Middle Eastern oil is gone.

Humans are amazing at justifying actions. There's a whole school of ethical thought devoted to it (utilitarianism).
Each of these illnesses you state is multiple times more serious than covid. And each of their vaccines had the clear benefit of being an actual vaccine.
Maybe in the small circle of elite SWEs; the ones that can get easily get offers from multiple (or all?) letters of FAANG?

Otherwise, to non-tech laypeople and average SWEs, I'd say anyone who is a SWE at Google or any FAANG(MULA+) are held in extremely high regard and awe.

It probably has lost a bit of its shine to be honest. But it's still exceptionally shiny if you compare it to what else is out there. Remember the overwhelming majority of SWEs are not employed at FAANG or other top tech companies. They're employed at places like Wells Fargo or Home Depot or Bank of America. These people would be jumping up and down ecstatic to be offered a chance to work at Google.

If there is one company that seems to have lost a lot of shine for a SWE career in the past few years, I'd say it's Amazon?
And then they win?

Seriously, you need to think about this more carefully.

You're basically arguing that everybody should make their own rules, and disregard everybody else's rules, which is kind of antithetical to the whole concept of civilisation...