skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this is an example of 3 negative features of free markets, exacerbated by a kyriarchic system, but I think it's fixable with work.

The three issues I see: One, the short-term market incentive was for them to have something patentable and controllable. Two, the money accrued to them but the harms fell to others, creating a huge negative externality. And three, free markets in goods tend to create markets in political power.

This is all exacerbated in a kyriarchic [1] system, one where domination hierarchies are normalized. Negative environmental externalities tend to fall on disfavored groups. The workers getting poisoned with lead were lower class; especially in that era, their deaths were seen as acceptable. Toxic spills don't happen on the Harvard campus or in wealthy suburbs, because however "safe" that stuff is in the official view, it's not so safe that elites will live next to it. Etc, etc.

We could eliminate a lot of this with just by preventing any money flow from business to politics. No donations, no gifts, no ads, no PACs. Perhaps no lobbyists. Politicians live on fixed budgets, any private wealth is put in index funds, and they are restricted after public service in what they can earn. The finances of politicians and former politicians are entirely public. The finances of executives and companies are also entirely public. We have well-funded, independent ethics watchdogs.

Then on top of that we have well-funded public science systems with empowered public health authorities. That definitely exists in the US at least in patches, so I think we could make rapid progress here.

And then I'd want to see strong laws where people making and profiting from harm are always held accountable. If we look at the 2008 financial crisis, nobody went to jail. A lot of people got rich doing dodgy things, and a few of them had to give a fraction of the money back. That did not teach a lot of lessons. One could argue that's ok in finance (although I wouldn't). But when it results in physical harm and death, I think the money and power should not be separable from the consequences. Currently CEOs and execs take paydays and walk away from things where I think negligent homicide charges are merited. Instead of "Gosh, I didn't know" being an acceptable excuse, I think the standard of "knew or should have known" and "could have acted differently" should be sufficient for execs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy
What is a non-arbitrary time interval, then? Over what period of time should these risks be assessed? It's common sense that one would want to know what the results are over the months following the jab, so how is that arbitrary?
I immediately sought a paper model of a scutoid on the internet so I could build one (or two) ... Vi Hart did not disappoint:

http://vihart.com/scutoids/
It's one reason that software engineering should become a real Engineering profession and not just a title. If your employer asks you do something unethical, it would give you grounds for pushing back. Who would risk losing their license to practice because of a deceptive cookie notice?
Definitely not. Smoke is bad for the lungs.
luc montagnier has a long list of insane public claims for the past decades (things about "water memory" comes to my mind , but there are others).

He lost credit a long time ago, way before covid, so i would be really cautious about citing anything he has to say about the virus.
> to all the conspiracy-fueled madness that led to 1/6/21, which is the only other day that began to feel like 9/11.

THAT is an interesting, and wildly speculative, take.
No, that's not what I'm saying. Whether you're unvaccinated or vaccinated, you are asymptomatic during the times you're most infectious. By the time you develop symptoms you're statistically not that likely to infect people if you're unvaccinated. If you were vaccinated, you would have cleared the infection already.

And in vaccinated people even that infectious phase is lower.
Why I prefer Neovim over VSCode [video]
A short video on why I prefer using Neovim over VSCode for my daily work as a programmer. I show some quick examples about the biggest advantages. My Neovim configuration can be found here:
https://github.com/David-Kunz/vim/blob/master/init.lua
Full FDA approval has happened though. It was basically just a formality that anti-vaxxers managed to find. At this point the vaccines are known to be safe, they have billions of doses given.
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Refined oils aren't that poisonous. You could probably drink a gulp of pure octane and suffer no more than alcohol like effects and an upset stomach.
No experience yet on power management, but even as a noob on Linux, and someone who didn't install an OS since Windows XP, I got Ubuntu running within 2 hours on my X1E Gen2 today. Pretty straight forward, and all functions work. I didn't try fingerprint scanner and dual GPUs. The first already was a nuisance under Windows and the latter deactivated from day one of ownership to get multiple displays properly running. Even Steam and most of my games are running just fine.

That being said, he nVidia GPU managed to suck the battery in 2-3 hours depending on the game being payed under Windows as well, everything around 4 hours on normal working is fine.

Installing software under Linux / Ubuntu is, well, strange. But solvable. And I really do like the old-school, non-cloud feeling of Linux way better than Windows 10 and One Drive.
I am fine with people being hesitant to get the vaccine, as long as those people are fine with being excluded from all non-essential social activities.

Where my sympathies really like is with people who *want" the vaccine but cannot get one due to circumstances (no paid time off, live in an inaccessible area, under the control of an anti-vaxxer, etc.)
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I'm not the parent poster, but to answer: All the countries in which restaurants, bars etc. are open as normal, no "health passports" and other newspeak gadgets are needed, and the apocalypse still hasn't happened.
Check the art of problem solving contest books, or project euler. I honestly think the best way to build logical reasoning skills is through real math or cs challenges, rather than some artificially constructed logical reasoning tasks.
I assumed lower case socialist is the proper term to describe policies which trade individual agency for collective benefits, like publicly funded roads or fire stations. What is a better term?
We did have the tech in the 1960s to make gas tanks that were sealed against the rain, actually.

While yes ethanol is hygroscopic, 10% ethanol won't cause issues even in old vehicles (see people with old motorcycles) unless you keep it in for a long time without use.
More than just dangerous, it was a known death sentence to be working in lead mining/smelting and a common poison [https://archive.epa.gov/epa/aboutepa/lead-poisoning-historic...].

Like you note, it was also extremely convenient and relatively cheap. Pretty sure at least some of the chemicals we’re using now in soaps or for food processing will have something nasty associated with them once time has passed.
Cookies should be controlled by the client anyway. Just disable them globally, you'll only ever need them for a couple of sites
"Apple Banned my Quran app in China" at least would be factual.
Found a couple of resources for what they call Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Julia:

https://mitmath.github.io/18337/lecture3/sciml.html

https://diffeqflux.sciml.ai/dev/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJB0Bjo6tQ (Interpretable Deep Learning for Physics - I don't think there's any Julia in the video itself, but Miles Cranmer uses Julia for this work - he created SymbolicRegression.jl)
wait, what? are you saying that a change in the way the site functions is not a change in functionality?

Seems your argument is that the change is trivial, thus safe to ignore; that there is some threshold below which changes to functionality don't matter. Do I read you right? i.e. "Important functionality is not changed one iota"
> Amphetamine being popular like that is, however, insanity.

Wait until you learn about all the people that smoke and/or drink alcohol!
> You can stop trying to work things out from first principles. People have been buying online for decades now, and all the experience shows consumers are indifferent and clueless.

Who said anything about first principles? I’m describing real problems which are well known in the industry – and having been involved since the mid-90s I wouldn’t say that “indifferent and clueless” is remotely accurate. I know more than a few people who’ve had to replace cards because a small vendor was compromised and, unsurprisingly, they favor Apple/Google/Amazon now.

Most of the non-tech sector people I know think Apple Pay is what they use to buy coffee, lunch, groceries, etc. It’s not just tech sector people using it — if you look at their usage numbers, the tech sector just isn’t that big.
It is not because unvaccinated would pose a threat to others but because they are at risk of catching the disease from a vaccinated, infected but asymptomatic guest

Haven't read your link yet but I'd expect a double vaccinated 65 year old is still waaaaay more vulnerable than an unvaccinated 18 year old.
If you're here from a country that you had to escape, then you're a refugee, and unlike H-1B immigrants, refugees don't have to leave just because they lost their job.
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I'm sorry but that might be you rather than the chemical.
I'm not interested in virtue signaling, thanks. That's the only benefit that mask wearers get.

Quite amusing to me that you jump to that. It speaks volumes about what motivates you.
In the US there are issues with the organ donation checkbox. I am fine with organs going to save the lives of people on waiting lists. I am less fine with my tissues veying harvested by corrupt "non-profits" that re-sell my bits in commodity markets while undermining the ethics of medical examiners and coroners. I wish there was a way to do one and not the other.
> It's quite common that people have a point when they are presenting statistics, but they have made this point in error.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're getting at.

> You have fewer man-hours of encounters with strangers than you do with people you know

You can only speak for yourself, this is not true for everybody.
Imagine working for a company that does this shabby, slimey bullshit. What a fucking loser you have to be to accept that paycheck
It's a prism with one of its vertices sliced off.

I guess it's kind of nifty that a computational model predicted it.

But treating the shape as being so mysterious / difficult to describe is silly.
Show HN: Bubbles – JavaScript Library for cross connected charts and dashboards
Hey, I'm the creator of BubblesJS.

URL: https://bubblesjs.com/

BubblesJS is a javascript library for creating cross connected charts and dashboards.

Key features
- Supports chart types like line charts and bar charts.

- Support common UI widgets like interactive Tables, Filter Bars and KPIs

- charts and widgets can be composed together to create a dashboard of cross connected charts

- tiny library < 15KB gzipped

This library is motivated by my experience building charts and dashboards for my employers.
Using traditional charting libraries gives basic chart types, but applications usually require other UI widgets like tables, applying filters etc which need to be built.
Connecting these components requires lot of glue code to pipeline data, transform and filter it and connect these widgets.

BubblesJS provides an intuitive API to allow connecting charts and transforming data while also providing cross connectivity.
Support for more chart types and better interactivity is upcoming.

Some areas of where BubblesJS can be used are:

- Exploratory Data Visualization

- Building dashboards embedded in applications

If you find any other uses for it, I would love to hear from you!

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~5 years ago in the UK, I used to say that there were more people on drugs in the library than there were in the clubs.
Your lies started with the mortality claims that are easily debunked with a 5s Google search, and you spewing these lies already frames everything else you’re saying afterwards.

For your second point, after you torture what the article actually says into a alleged national policy of the UK, I suggest you read up on exponential growth. It reminds me of the discussions in this country in March 2020, when everything was written on the wall, but people looked at absolute numbers and proclaimed that it’s not going to be a problem.

See, if you were simply lying about how expensive your car is, I couldn’t care less. But it’s propaganda pieces like yours that kill people, currently at a rate of half a 9/11 per day, all of it completely avoidable.
I didn't deny your argument, I accepted it. I merely pointed out that your argument lead to the same conclusion as my argument except that it provided even more certainty.

On the other hand, this comment is an ad hominem attack trying to categorize me as an irrational conspiracy theorist in the hope that readers would dismiss the logic in my comments.
Today I learned, The Animatrix and The Fanimatrix are separate, distinct films.
The higher the sample rate the more fine grained movement it can detect, and, with decimation, the better the signal to noise ratio. MEMS stuff is really noisy because they're mechanical stuff is wobbly enough and the ADCs are pretty sensitive since the mechanical stuff is so small.
See the snake game on the website.
Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
Stanisław Lem’s works of short fiction were labs of futures put to the test
I'm not sure it applies here?

Signal uses an OTR variant (I believe OTR masks the identity of the sender/receiver) -- not sure how thorough their implementation and protocol are[1]. Although if authorities already have the IP of one user they might gather a list of contacts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol
Looking at the first two, pasted below, I'd say the 2nd is harsh but that the 1st is genuinely wrong. You can say that someone is not a good enough programmer for you to work with. Saying that they are stupid and should never have been born is beyond the pale.

Kay, this needs to be fixed. ... Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fck does idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on? 0.621010024824

So get your act together, and push back on the people you are supposed to manage. Because this is not acceptable for post-rc5, and I'm giving this single warning. Next time, I'll just ignore the sh*t you send me. Comprende? 0.701378112737
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In college I studied both CS and Studio Fine Arts (painting), and subsequently while working in tech (startup SE) showed work – that I had painted "for fun" – in NYC art galleries. From there I became part of the NYC arts community and began thinking about interesting ways to combine art & code. I built a few of these in my spare time, which caught up to my day job and led to a SE position at a startup that built software for the art market.

Assuming you reside in a city that has a strong arts community, I would focus on the nexus between where you are at and where you want to be: how could your skill set move the needle in a creative field? If you're living in a cultural desert, take your search online.

There is exciting work being done at the application layer across creative fields from Generative Art (https://artblocks.io/) to revenue management for musicians (https://www.ampled.com/) to publishing (https://mirror.xyz).

At the protocol layer I'm specifically interested in royalty payments streams (https://superfluid.finance), fictionalized ownership models, and partial common ownership (https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/papers/ownership-and-pu...).

Asking the question in this manner indicates to me that you're lacking inspiration and the resulting specific intrinsic motivation; find this first and the steps to transition will become clear.
Brown is weird [1]. It's basically dark orange. Flesh tones fall into that same category - people are orange-hued [2]. Oranges/reds are mostly produced by various unsaturated molecules, such as carotenes, lignins, phenols, and tars, and browns are just dark collections of many kinds red-orange pigments. It does not map well to any of the common color spaces because its inherently heterogeneous.

The solution would probably be pallettes that let you pick arbitrary axes to move through color space.

1 - https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU

2 - According to Neil Harbisson, the guy with the color-sensing antenna, in-person conversation, but you can also verify with photoshop.
https://archive.is/47mdz
Agreed. I don't envy mass media writers, what with the constant pressure to make their subject matter somehow entertaining.
No vaccine mandates at all or just this one?
Some are, sure, but to the point I believe you're considering there's a big difference between benzene and bacon fat.
At least in Europe, amphetamines are 3/4€ the gram for high quality stuff. The supply, I imagine, is very large.
> talking about malware, especially when employed against the technically illiterate, as a national security issue will get you attacked online

Perhaps because "national security" tends to involve a foreign adversary?
> the state imposing that treatment by force.

Do you have examples of the use of force?

> we don't mandate things merely because they're good for people

Vaccinations were already mandated for all sorts of things, from crossing borders to attending schools.
Windows uses ';' for path delimiter.
> short, sharp dip

Short? It’s been a year and a half with no end in sight.
> if your employer is paying for your family's healthcare

Isn't this true of every full-time job? But people quit and get new full-time jobs all the time.
Does IRC predates distributed state machines? Why can't the servers sync up the chat via Paxos or Raft?
If it’s not a PhD in biochemistry or something similar, then it’s not relevant to their decision making abilities. FDA approval is based on having enough data to determine efficacy and safety - with so many administered doses at this point there is no question about either of those things.
The problem is that if your definition of knowledge requires only three conditions (belief, truth and justification), then it has counterexamples, namely, the Gettier cases. So we need to either revise our concept of justification (for example, make it so that a knowledge-apt belief is justified only if it is for the right reasons -- but then, how to account for justified but false beliefs?), look for ways to supplement the analysis with additional conditions (for example, that the conditions are satisfied in a robust ways counterfactually), or reject the idea that knowledge can be analyzed altogether.

To make it more concrete how this sort of thing can get complicated quickly, consider your own explanation of the case. As I take it, you think that the issue is that "the justification is faulty". But how is it faulty, besides not being true (remember, we have reasons to want justification to not imply truth)? And also, there are Gettier-like cases where we cannot say that justification is faulty or where we can't find false premises (for example, cases where it seems like the problem is that the individuals in questions are not in an appropriate environment, see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem#False_premises...)).
The side effect was also great for communities on .net servers that didn't have services like user accounts and channels. Channel ops were battle-won and people who had them were much better at not sucking completely.
Downvoters FYI: the Taliban government includes four ex-Gitmo detainees.

https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-five-guantanamo-bay-afghan-13...
I think the argument is that someone who started learning music at age 27 is unlikely to ever professionally compare with someone who is also 27 but started music seriously as a career at 8.
I'm okay with everything else in settings like working in hospitals or to dorm in public colleges where updated vaccine records are required, where we were already doing it before. But not this one.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253

It's funny to be part of that history. As the article says, "for a file to live on, at least one person has to keep sharing it", and for a while, I was that person (see the comments on that HN post).
Very true. Vaccines have helped in great measure. OTOH, there are other forces at play. The very existence of covid waves that come and recede much faster than the increase in the vaccination rate should be an indication that vaccines, while very helpful, are not the end all of covid pushback mechanisms. For example in US delta is receding after a couple months of mayhem. R is estimated <1 for most of the states, see https://covidestim.org.

There is a point after which the effect of human measures becomes marginal. If anything because most people would have been already exposed to covid, with or without vaccines. I can't say whether we've passed that point or not, but OTOH the draconians have not made their case either. What concrete benefit do people expect from an additional 10% of the population being forced to vaccinate?

Long term there are concerns of vaccine escape. Pfizer CEO raised them recently, it's not just the 5G conspiracists. A new strain emerges for which vaccines aren't that helpful against severe complications. Some people, myself included (I am vaccinated thank you very much) are concerned that creating a population with immune monoculture is likely to result in strains bypassing the monoculture. The nightmare scenario is the emergence of a strain for which the vaccines are a net negative. Hopefully nothing terrible happens. But we don't know. Nobody knows. Perhaps we should not be placing all our eggs in the same basket, e.g. not (force) vaccinate everyone against the exact same protein.
That's funny, I just wrote about the exact same idea! I literally had not heard about it until now, but clearly many people have had the thought. Do you know of anyone actually attempting to build one, toy scale or otherwise?
It's similar to issues with performance enhancing drugs.

If your course is graded so the top x% get an A, and people are using drugs to get ahead, then there's pressure to take study drugs to level the playing field with your peers.

The end state is everyone taking drugs, and nobody being any better off academically.
Thats an excellent point. I wonder if flight batteries could be developed in small distributed cells with a weight / surface area that would allow them to hit a non-dangerous terminal velocity. And I wonder what the financial and environmental impact would be as compared to dumping jet fuel.
No I haven't, I was illustrating the absurdity of being so frightened by 9/11 that 4 years later you make the "stupid decision" of ordering your subordinates to torture prisoners. Note also that the people in charge of Guantanamo didn't have the power or responsibility to torture anyone, but they did it anyway.

Remember that the people making decisions about looking for a certain watch or using torture are not scared soldiers in Afghanistan, they're career officers and politicians who face no personal risk.