skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what its worth, this is more because none of those advertisers (except maybe the one whose belt you actually bought) know you actually finished and bought a belt!

Everyone who wants people to buy their leather belts advertises to people who have searched or previously looked for "leather belts" and that is you...

In a perverse way, it's actually good for you to keep getting belt ads. If you just stopped getting them all of a sudden I'd get worried because it means the purchase data of belts was sold and combined with your past search data to server you new ads in an even more devious way.
The mRNA vaccines were developed to target the spike protein of the Alpha variant. We got lucky it works so well against Delta, or else they would have had to roll out a new vaccine.

Based on your wording, it sounds like you have the mistaken impression that the mRNA vaccines are expected to account for and target all future variants. A future variant may have a large enough mutation to the spike protein and render them 0% effective. But they can rollout a new vaccine very quickly with EUA. Sorry if I've misinterpreted.

I don't remember ever seeing #s promising long term effectiveness, but eventually later seeing a chart with projected effectiveness waning over time. What they should do is be careful to present variant specific numbers. There's too much generalizing, like I did as well, lumping Pfizer and Moderna together.
How would the location search slow down with inceased block size?

And is the algorithm to do so faster on a quantum computer?
>impulse buys

Or financial instruments for all kinds of shenanigans, to include tax evasion using freeports to park nearly arbitrarily-priced assets (the best kind!).
Quoting the vaccine manufacturer’s own gold standard study is “rubbish”. I honestly did not see that one coming.
But how many React components are that simple? Almost none.
> They are the incumbent but Stripe is far better.

This was my point. PayPal disrupted the banks and ACH processors. Stripe perfected the UX/DX.

PayPal is much larger than Stripe, afaik it's net worth is more and it's revenue is 3x.
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a fantastic, highly recommended read. It covers Humboldt’s life as an adventuring proto-scientist as well as the impact he’s had on the world’s great scientific and artistic minds (Darwin, Goethe, many more). Despite his huge impact, the world has mostly forgotten about him, sadly.
> coming from a totalitarian USSR and now living in a totalitarian Russia

> Quick example: beside vaccine deniers, youtube now also bans users who doubt the official election results. What could possibly go wrong with that, right?!
If half the carpenters decided to build houses for free, there would be less paid work for the other carpenters though... Society's needs in carpentry would be partially satisfied by the free work.
Post offices, libraries, and telephone calls all transmit misinformation every day. Shoot, misinformation gets spread across tables at Dunkin Donuts as people talk about life.

And that's not even getting more political and pointing out all the liars and fools in charge of newspapers and even governments. I'm not saying they're all bad. I'm saying we're not considering banning politicians and newspapers for being too incorrect. Partly because the practice of choosing and empowering censors is even worse.
The WHO claims/guidances could absolutely be interpreted as such. Here's from 2020-04 when WHO changed their stance.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/10/8298906...

Sweden may be seen as a bit of an oddball but either way the head of the national public health agency was consistent in saying masks did not provide any benefits for individuals pretty far into the pandemic.

https://www.bild.de/bild-plus/politik/ausland/politik-auslan... (paywall)

https://nyheter24.se/nyheter/944114-tegnell-om-varfor-munsky...

Not mentioned by the GP, but what was up with anything resembling a lab-leak theory getting the "unquestionably fake news" treatment for months?

I have not done any extensive digging into the vaccines myself and can't with good conscience say I'm well-informed. It still seems to me that the risk-trade-off is strongly in favor for getting vaccinated. Even so, I have full understanding for people who now have 0 trust in the public narrative. It's clear that there has been (still ongoing, I assume) a strong propaganda campaign that has at times been using misinformation and censorship (if you count deleting/shadowbanning social media content as censorship), involving governments, traditional news-media and social media. If the narrative around the effectiveness and risks of the vaccine holds, why do this?
the issue isn't brains

no algorithm running on a cpu can move a muscle --

it is precisely that movement is a spatiotemporal property which means no turing machine can realise it

movement isn't a symbolic operation
This is particularly true if the “users” aren’t the ones who are signing the cheques. Sometimes shiny stuff that looks good in a product demo or on the trade show floor is what it takes to actually move units.
YouTube moves to block and remove anti-vaccine content
The phrase is still defensible. There is an implicit "focus on..." at the front, because it is impossible to live life without systems (we form habits automatically, which are basically systems) or goals (as the article convincingly argues).
Lawyer who exposed Volkswagen emissions scandal now exposing Covid mass murder
It's actually only around 60% of the nation that's got a single dose or more. We aren't anywhere close to 98%.
> Functional programming doesn't shy away from impurity.

Disagree. Functional programmers often speak of implementing programs with a pure core and a thin layer on the outside that handles effects. If you don't have a pure core then you are not using FP.
Ultrathin quantum dot LED that can be folded freely as paper
The problem with microcontrollers for this purpose is memory, not processing power. It's typically measured in KB.
Agreed, and I'm not OP, but I'd define "general education" to include concepts like effective fact-checking and media literacy, and not just for our children but for older folks as well.

I think a big part of the issue are some members of the older generations who left school long ago when there was maybe one newspaper in town. The internet, which came much later, gives everyone a voice and allows every idiot to dress stuff up, make it look professional, put lipstick on it and amplify it with the click of a button. How do you know to apply critical doubt to someone's claims when you don't even know how damn easy it is to produce a convincing fake? And if you do have a doubt, how would you even start fact-checking when all you know is Facebook and Youtube?

Too many people have their guard down, sitting in the comfort of their living room browsing The Algorithm, and don't even realize they are being attacked.
I mean, did you even read it? It is anything but definitive.

"In this narrative review, we develop an analytical framework to examine mask usage, considering and synthesizing the relevant literature to inform multiple areas"

So it's an analytical framework.... let's read on

"Randomised control trial evidence that investigated the impact of masks on household transmission during influenza epidemics indicate potential benefit, although we should be careful of assuming these results will transfer to SARS-CoV-2. In particular, influenza has an R0 (the basic reproduction number) of 1.4 (21) whereas SARS-CoV-2 has an R0 of 2.4 or more"

So they couldn't find an RCT about COVID specifically, and they're not confident prior studies will apply.

And really the nail in the coffin:

"There are currently no studies that measure the impact of any kind of mask on the amount of infectious SARS-CoV-2 particles from human actions"

Like... this is not a good study, or even worth talking about further.

[Edit: Perhaps those wielding the downvotes would care to elaborate on why my analysis of this study is wrong? Or is it just more gut feels? What a joke.]
There are human "rights", and then there is Mother Nature's reality. Rather than thread after thread of arguing over whose fault it is and taking potshots at our respective outgroups, perhaps we should instead consider finding The Experts on reality. Perhaps they do not exist, just as we once did not have various other experts.
We actually do this quite a bit here in the States (and abroad)!

* Children are required to be vaccinated against several diseases before attending public school

* In Texas (TEXAS!), all university students attending in-person must present proof of a meningitis vaccine

* To travel to many countries you need to present a “yellow card” demonstrating vaccination status against specific diseases.
How does this differ from Facebook's Infer's "Quandary" checker, which also does taint analysis for Java? Only in that it supports Dalvik instead of JVM bytecode? https://fbinfer.com/docs/checker-quandary
I really like the new containers feature in firefox for this- I have a trash container so my main youtube container doesn't get polluted.
Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man for 'I Eat Ass' Sticker
Yeah, because in the USA nobody ever instituted vaccine mandates until COVID happened. Oh wait, sorry, I forgot about all the vaccines we require children to receive before they can go to school.
No because those people don't tend to fill up all hospital beds at once.
I think another way to characterize 'riskiness' is the volatility of a portfolio, IOW how much does it swing up and down over time. So everything else being equal, two funds with the same ROI may still have different levels of volatility, with the fund having the lower volatility being more desirable.
Google uses AI to try to improve two-hour rain forecasts
What's puzzling is why Trudeau immediately bowed down to Trump when tariffs were imposed, despite later being thrown out in courts. All he did was to basically threaten to not buy Boeing fighter jets and instead get F-35 from Lockheed (which he was contractually obligated to anyways).

No support for the industry, nothing. And that was for a flagship prestige technological project. Could you imagine the European Union just... giving up on Airbus? Or the American Government on Boeing?

I still don't understand why he reacted so submissively to Trump. Having the CSeries sold to Airbus at a huge discount was foolish: The plane already had a profitable order backlog.

Now Europeans are reaping the benefits.
Appeal to solipsism is not a compelling argument. It’s obviously been studied quite a while and feasible, the results speak for themselves. That govt is slow to react until forced is not apropos of anything.
> The original hope was that vaccinated people wouldn't get it at all, as per any other vaccine

This is false. No vaccine provides 100% protection. Even MMR, one of the most battle-tested vaccine provides ~97% protection against measles and ~88% against mumps.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html

If you get higher than 70% efficacy then it's usually considered very helpful for public health. Last year, we were not even sure if we can get 50% efficacy (a borderline for approval) but it turns out that COVID vaccines are so effective that it even works reasonably well for variants, with a caveat of diminishing effects over time.
I certainly don't need to justify my reasoning for using Facebook or Instagram to you, but I assure you there are some things which are easier when you have an account. Many small businesses exclusively use FB to post updated hours, for example.

I am well aware of the privacy and social issues around using those websites. Being careful and mindful with my access and the content I let them receive (e.g. limiting permissions via a browser instead of native app, not uploading my entire life to the site, not regularly interacting with the content) is how I manage my personal risk.

If you're aware of some methods Facebook is using to break out of the browser sandbox and access my content without my permission, then by all means I'm open to review any sources you may have to suggest that my mobile browser is an inappropriate tool for restricting access.
I think you're kicking the can of personal responsibility down, or in this case up, the road.

There are groupmind tendencies and competing groupthinks, as well as industrial corruption, in all of our scientific enterprises that I'm aware of. For me this is a serious issue, since I saw first-hand how pusillanimous scientists can become when their livelihoods or grants are endangered.

There is a war on for our minds. I think we each have to decide who we trust and don't trust. For many of us there is also a crisis of trust in our scientific institutions now.
Today I remembered why I shouldn’t engage with idiots.
I wonder if this concept can be used for Πcoin.
On the same call you could also tell them not to worry about the nuclear capable hypersonic intercontinental cruise missile that's on the way.
I think that complaint applies to the (vast, essential) ecosystem, not to the language and standard library. AFAIK, there aren't serious performance potholes to hit in the language and standard library any more. You're not paying a huge performance penalty for writing things the simple way, but things are uniformly pretty slow.

It's when you pull in fast libraries that composition breaks down e.g. the many-fold difference between numpy's sum method and summing a numpy array with a python for-loop and an accumulator.
First you say that lack of friends is torturous, then you say lack of friends saved you. Which is it?

High intelligence is actually a handicap for friendship, and average intelligence is advantageous for friendship.
A friend's wife, who is a nurse, had similar problems at her hospital. The nursing staff-including those working with COVID-19 patients-were not provided with masks. At the time, the hospital stood behind a shield of "we're just following the CDC recommendations." Of course, the doctors who requested N95s were provided with masks, which really sent home a message that the administrators didn't value their nursing staff.
I was hoping for a good old fashioned, negative developer rant.
The article specifically talks about how they have tested it with audiences, who were unable to tell the AI-generated bits from the original ones.
Well, it's about time.

While I cherish free speech and don't condone deplatforming e.g. political speech, the whole anti-vacination hysteria has caused enough harm at this point.

We need to improve education and scientific literacy. Not make it worse.
I don't really need to find myself, you know. I know where I am. The problem is more that others can't find me and don't even know that I'm missing. Maybe you're right about the reason, but even that's irrelevant.

It's scary. I happen to know this was done to me. How many times have others made you disappear without you knowing you were scrubbed without being given any notice?

This isn't my first account on hackernews (not my second one either, though with one exception they are all in good standing).

But my very first account, I was happily participating here for years, until someone kindly told me I had been shadowbanned and I don't how much of my voice was censored exactly and I don't know why.

So the issue isn't reddit. And apparently it's not really about me. The problem is exactly what this article is about, private censorship. Web3 is supposed to address issues like this (though, I don't know how much of that is handwaving and make believe). As soon as I can, I'm going to move there.

I just can't trust these corporate entities, they don't operate in good faith, aren't transparent and avoid accountability for their actions. The utopia that was promised to me has failed and is in full decay, the signs are everywhere. It's time to move on.

It's sad that a "normal user" like me ended up with those beliefs.

I just wanted to be left alone and allowed to voice my opinions, I don't want to have to deal with censorship, I don't want to have to tell others how I've been impacted by it, to make them aware of what's happening behind their backs. Instead, here I am having a discussion like this with others.

Am I even allowed to say this? Will this be wiped as well? I don't know. I wish this was all a joke. What kind of dystopian future is this? It's ridiculous beyond belief.
it is a really bad metaphor.

what fills up icu beds? obesity? not acutely, that will take years to infect another person.

the vaccines are not great at stopping the spread of delta but they are great at preventing people who get it from going to the hospital.
Like the rest of the Web, there's still a lot there—Google just won't help you find it.
The UK is having gas shortages and I saw a article where one of the gas stations was pictured and they had a glossy, perfectly on brand sign explaining the situation. I was thinking that a couple of decades ago it would've been crazy to get those printed and distributed to stores in less than a week.
> Removing speech of people sharing their beliefs about the risks and rewards of putting substances in their bodies or other medical decisions doesn't meet this standard.

That's different from spreading conspiracy theories about putting substance in their bodies. Actual disinformation (blatantly false) and not just discussing their hesitancy to get a vaccine.
> Preliminary evidence suggests that these lung function abnormalities will improve over time

Conclusive evidence suggests that people who get vaccinated don't get lung function abnormalities. Why are you so dead set on refusing to get a vaccine haha? It takes a few minutes, it's free, and it's really not that big a deal. There's really no good reason not to get one.
You jest, but this is almost exactly how arithmetic coding works.

If you arrange your symbols and contexts carefully, you can even use this as a technique for progressive or lossy compression -- i.e. the more accurately you specify the ratio, the higher fidelity your result.
This is a fascinating opinion that I’ve seen various forms of.

I suppose it is objectively a fact that the author believes that increasing the supply of homeless people and allowing for the spread of a pandemic will help increase financial returns for some stakeholders. Stating the ” fact“ that one believes that human life and dignity should rightly be traded for cash does not make it an objective statement that’s somehow elevated above having an obvious moral stance.

Does the author have a crystal ball that shows various timelines, and he’s objectively reporting exactly what is shown? Or is this a human person with an opinion on the future from a specific viewpoint that’s necessarily influenced by his worldview?
Silicon Valley Answer to the EV Question Calls for Less Silicon
That's a red flag.

Hope the option package is worth it.
> The lab leak hypothesis absolutely has a bearing on public health in the future. You're right that even if the virus was leaked we can't unleak it, but debate about gain-of-function research and the safety standards of virology is critical to preventing future pandemics.

I think you missed my point: There's no point to public discussion. Governments, health departments, infectious disease specialists, should all be determining the source of COVID-19, and if someone was at fault, making changes to prevent it.

But the public discussing their conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19 is solely there to drum up political drama about China, and move discussion from science into politics.

> Can you go into detail about what harm public individuals caused?

Beyond the massive additional spread of COVID-19 itself because of people refusing to take basic safety precautions like masking or social distancing, or refusing to get vaccinated based on dubious claims by people who know nothing about medical science, now we've got people actively poisoning themselves by taking "remedies" that people have come up with which have no basis in reality.

...When I picked up heartworm prevention for my dog today at the vet, I had to laugh that there are probably people trying to get their hands on it to "cure" their COVID-19.
A friend of mine got permabanned from Reddit a couple of days ago for calling himself a faggot. Apparently reclaiming a slur is hate speech over there.
> I'm not convinced that the problem is all that more difficult than for Java.

Turing complete type system + turing complete macro system => you gotta run (compile) the thing to see what it does or is (Rice's theorem).

For a language like Zig, which also has a turing complete compilation step, due to it's comptime sytem, this limitation also applies, but Zig mitigates this with insanely quick compile times. So for these multi project analysis to work you either need to have a very syntax heavy language (Java) or a fast compiler (Zig). Although the latter doesn't really have that strong of a type system in practice (though I think you could implement a datalog engine like rust has in comptime and do arcane type magic then ;) ).

If you compile the packages yourself you can get rustdoc to provide you with the correct links, but then we're back to the manual labor part which I'd like to remove in order to get eco-system-wide docs.
careful, you are getting close to spreading misinformation here...
The point I was trying to make is Dish has spectrum, MVNOs do not. Dish has artificially increased the cost of spectrum by holding on to it and not building their own network, and in the process also increased the cost of building a network for others.
This kind of analysis is not quite possible to perform with all languages. With some languages doing this kind of data flow analysis basically requires you to run the code and as soon as you perform IO you're out of luck.
A coffee shortage is coming, and it could last three years, importers warn
Maybe this is better titled: Tip: How to upgrade to...

I question now, unless one is doing testing of some sort.
Encanto (Film)
My comment was in regard to vaccine safety/side effects, not long-term efficacy.
I agree that the media is overhyping AI without fully comprehending what it can and cannot do.

At the same time, I believe your criticism is a little off-base. Sure, it's hard to tell it apart from how a person would have finished the symphony. That, however, is precisely the point. That's what's so fascinating about it.
This is what I use:

youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions
youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay
youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen
youtube.com###related
youtube.com##ytd-comments
No, I'm saying it's not better that a relatively wealthy country like China continues to increase its usage in the cheapest and dirtiest fuel rather than much poorer countries.
Ten Problems for Fashion in the 2020s
Well this is the coolest thing I've seen in weather tech in a while. I wonder if they will pair this with additional city-level data collection - anemometers/mini weather stations on the sides of buildings, etc. I'm the barometer-data-from-phones guy running All Clear on Play Store US: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe...

with an interest in hyperlocal weather forecasting.

I didn't see much about forecast accuracy in this article, but, still, extremely cool. I do wonder how much accuracy is possible - you cannot necessarily know how trucks and other human-caused short-term atmosphere changes will affect the weather.