skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like both you and your mother have both adopted an epistemology that incorporates the perceived amount of censorship, lies, and coercion performed by proponents of some claim into your discernment of the truth value of that claim. Namely, you both seem to have adopted some level of doubt about pro-vaccine claims because you both perceive that proponents of pro-vaccine claims participate in censorship, lies and coercion, or that those proponents of these claims do not engage in reasonable arguments with their critics.

There are two problems with this type of epistemology. The first is that, like all claims, attributes of the people making the claims are not relevant to the truth value of the claim ("fallacy of irrelevance"). The second is more important and more unique to this particular epistemology: the actions you perceive to be conducted by perceived proponents of some claim will vary heavily based on your own behavior. For instance, how do you know that pro-vaccine people "can't win arguments" and instead "stop them because the other side is too stupid"? Or that there is "massive censorship" favoring the pro-vaccine viewpoint? Surely that is just based on your own "media diet." Surely that perception depends heavily on where you spend your time on Twitter, YouTube, cable news, etc. Would you perceive something differently if it were the case that the vast majority of medical and public health experts who are pro-vaccine in fact have engaged in numerous reasonable arguments with critics and have nonetheless come to the same conclusion? Is there ever a point in which litigation of existing criticisms can end so that we can move on to new criticisms?
Congratulations,

In addition to claudiulodro's question about whether the employees, especially the early ones, made a good chunk.

- Could you explain the reasons you took it public? What were the parameters and different tradeoffs? Did you want to take it public? Was there a consensus? What were the conversations about that?

- How long have you been preparing for and do you have a playbook for this?

- Who did you hire to take it public, and how have you selected them?

- What was your relation with the underwriters? How did you choose? What did you optimize for?

- How has your cap table evolved from formation to now? How did you ensure fairness?

- Hindsight is 20/20, but what would you differently?
> Then you’re either underestimating the complexity of programming or overestimating general skill level

The more specialized a task is, the narrower the range of skills you need to do that task. I could certainly train someone on how to do a specialized programming task such as cleaning CSV files in python in a matter of months. They wouldn't be able to do much else, but they would be able to do that fairly well.

Being a general practitioner is hard because the knowledge and skill pool is huge. Being an ultra-specialist easy by comparison.

Very often patients of rare diseases (including cancer types) know much more about their specific type of disease, known treatment methods, etc. than a general practitioner. How is this possible? The scope of their study is very narrow, so they can quickly go much deeper than a general practitioner on that one topic.

So yes, I still think it would be possible to train ultra specialized covid caretakers in a matter of months given how much we know about how the disease progresses. They don't need to know anything outside of specifically covid and they can flag any cases falling outside of their training to a more qualified person.

Think of it this way: you basically just train people to learn flow charts. The flow charts cover 90%+ of what typically happens to an ICU patient with covid. If they encounter something not in flow chart, they stop and escalate to a real nurse or doctor. You're saying such a scheme wouldn't be effective at all? I think it would free up tons of medical personnel.
The main point I'm making is that the information density of the physical world is not unlimited as GP suggests.

But I think that example just shows how few bits you can really get out the exercise!
Not at all. If you want to run assembly code that targets a specific architecture you need to know what that architecture is going to be. At it’s heart Lambda is just a Linux container running a CGI app.
Everytime I will hear Apple talking about being pro-privacy, I will keep laughing.
Yes, it was illegal. But the harm is to employees, not Google. Google was cooperating along with the others so that Apple would not make competing offers to their employees, either.
I actually tried to get us to rename but we never managed before we had to incorporate and, yeah, we're a bit stuck now.

When I was interviewing for a programming language theory PhD program in... Bristol I think, back when this was purely software, I had probably a 20 min discussion on this because the prof thought it was related to the language.
The problem is that in terms of file sizes, a "quite lossy" dithered PNG file is still likely to be larger than a "low loss" AVIF.

AVIF can look fine in full color at 0.5 bits per pixel. That's equivalent of a black and white dithered bitmap with 2:1 compression ratio.

Low-color dithering can be a nice artistic filter, but it's not useful in image compression in general.
For those that are keeping Track

Dont wear a mask they do not work

--> 2 weeks to flatten the curve

----> Wear a mask they work so amazing

-----> Covid does not spread if you protest the police, but does if you protest mandates

-------> Lock down until the vaccine

----------> Get the vaccine and take of the mask

----------------> Nope still gotta wear the mask

------------------> Got the vaccine, sorry still have to lock down until 70% are vaxxed

---------------------> nope 90%

-------------------------> Nope 98%

----------------------------> nope need a booster now....

And that is not all of the shifting

this idea that only one side is shifting the goals is laughably absurd

Tell you what I will listen to "authority" when they start enforcing their rules on the rich and famous who seem to believe only their servants spread COVID but they are exempt. The politicians that proclaim by their actions "Rules for thee but not for meee"
i'd like to be able to store a phone on the shelf with a properly conditioned battery, to be able to disable the radios during flight, or frankly anywhere else I don't want to be located.

Interesting how different people have different desires.
Why is this being downvoted? I didn't know it either, and it also improves my perception of FB as a company.
Lol. It's conspiracy theories that US Imperialism is driven by defence contractors who can 'make a few billion'. They obviously err on one side of the equation, and can have some influence but they are not the drivers of anything. The Defence Establishment is well aware of the cost of war, they're more likely than the White House to be be realistic about engagements.
yeah fair enough, i appreciate the social disconnect there
Too bad this won't offset the 200%+ additional cost of choosing AWS over self-hosting.
> 50% of us were farmers[1] who spent most of our time (winter excluded) being "forced" to subsist.

Being a hunter-gatherer is the way to go!

"Hunter-gatherers do have to work for a living, and they occasionally encounter periods of want when their efforts yield little, but on the whole it would seem that even the hardest possible life for a hunter-gatherer compares favorably to the most leisured life one can expect in the world’s most wealthy industrial­ized societies."

https://rewild.com/in-depth/leisure.html

Hunter-gatherer work may also be more meaningful, social, and enjoyable.
Other ideas
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-vaccinated-supersprea...

It is all much more opaque than the "get your vacc and your old live comes back" evangelists want you too believe. Corona will stay.
Let's be clear, mitigations were being removed when vaccination rates were increasing and hospital rates were decreasing. It's only because a significant enough portion of the country has decided that not getting vaccinated is more important to them and have caused our medical system to be put back under strain have the mitigations been put back in place.
I mostly agree with you but "And less contagious is better than more contagious." is a giant hand wave in a logical argument. You should explain what specific outcome in the longer term improved by this and justify that.
If they had significant data a journal would pick them up. There is no one silencing them but themselves, because they know they don't have good evidence and their sources also don't have good evidence. The lancet, one of the most prestigious journals in the world, took up an article that vaccines might be related to autism, because at the time the authors had significant data (that later turned out to be fraudulent but at this point pandoras box had already been opened, and now decades later people believe vaccines cause autism). So if they did have this smoking gun data that said the vaccines are something to be worried about, it would have been published by now in a huge journal.
> Oh, but it's also not FDA approved. I haven't looked at the numbers, but I bet vaccinations haven't gone up significantly since FDA approval. Obviously it's because the FDA isn't to be trusted, that's a given.

Actually, there was a big shift in the numbers about then. People are just divided over whether it was due to shaming people or the certification. I believe Matthew Yglasias posted about that, though he seemed to think it was from shaming people.

It's true that some people moved on to other arguments after that, but if someone has multiple independent reasons for not wanting something, you do kinda have to shoot them all down.

From my experience in trying to explain the benefits of the vaccine to the hesitant, there are more than a few who just won't listen, but there are quite a lot of people who will listen when you calmly explain things. Trying to be forceful will basically always backfire.

Many of them were previously meming about how Covid is not very dangerous, with only a 1-2% mortality rate. So I like to point out that the risk of vaccine injury is several orders of magnitude lower. You need thousands of people dying per day for months to convince anyone that the vaccine is anywhere near as dangerous as the virus, not the odd death of someone the day after they vaccinated here and there.

Once you get people into a direct comparison even if they push back on the numbers being fudged, you can point that every country in the world would have to be in on some conspiracy.

I feel like this is the most effective way to defuse the vastly over-hyped danger of the vaccine. Even if they try to quibble the numbers with the best and worst numbers possible, you don't get to risks that are even the same order of magnitude.

Saying that it's all not in good faith quickly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, I find that most people are willing to have an honest discussion with someone who respects them and who will listen and address their concerns.

Those conditions are hard, though, because a lot of people seem to quickly throw human empathy out the window and start yelling. That... doesn't work at all.

Anyhow, that's my experience from talking to people. I've gotten several of the hesitant to vaccinate by trying to be as honest as possible about the risks and why worrying about the vaccine but not Covid doesn't make sense. But if you don't listen to or understand where the people arguing are coming from--which is often hard with internet strangers--you probably won't get very far, so I do understand why it's frustrating.
Why would you run assembly on lambda?
I am assuming you're debating in good faith (and not just trying to win an argument). The recommendation made in the docs is very well justified. All other techniques are a mess, and lead to maintenance problems and bugs. Just replace the component by changing the key... you can thank me later.
Sadly, that seems way more than most. It's usually no more than a few dollars, if that.
I cannot think of a more sinister motivation than not wanting your fellow Americans to die.
Interesting and did some reading up upon how they would produce a magnetic pulse and found the approach has been around for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

I wonder if such projects like https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/emag2.html will get more funding to do real-time monitoring.
I'd guess it's this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Hey sorry I just looked back at this thread and I think you took your email off of your profile. You can email me at my username @gmail.com
Gotta hand it to the kids. My 9 year old claims he can hear a whine from iPads and iPhones when their battery level is near 0%. And I thought I had good hearing...
I mean it is a legitimate reaction people are having, it's not surprising the standard outlets pick up on these type of stories because they do push for the outcome of getting people to vaccinate.
(author here)

Well detected! Yes, I do have an financial interest in this semantic battle. I haven't read Scott Adams' whole book but I found myself called to respond to his take when people were rejecting my app or my other writing and just citing "goals are for losers". So yeah, I'm critiquing a straw man here—Adams' thinking is deeper than that, but the people quoting him seemed to just have a naive anti-goals slogan.

Even prior to starting the app though, goal-setting had changed my life in a really meaningful way, and I would still have taken issue with "goals are for losers" as a blanket statement. Most people don't realize that it's possible to just decide to do something and work towards it, and goal-setting can be a really powerful frame for that.

I would say that I'm not the one calling the other Olympic athletes losers—Scott Adams does that in his book and I'm responding to him. Goals are for everybody.

Anyway, Adams is making some good points (goals and systems are different, and presuccess failure is a real issue) but he's also overgeneralizing—it is, in fact, possible to have goals without having presuccess failure. Goals can feel good at every turn. Which I won't go into further here because I made my case in the post already.
EleutherAI's GPT-J
I’m not disagreeing with you, but my point still stands.
The author has an earlier post where he cites a particular study as an example of the overreliance on probalistic models: http://www.argmin.net/2021/09/13/effect-size/ . The author seems to think this kind of inappropriate use of models is fairly prevalent.

What are your thoughts on that mask example? To me, this seems like a reasonable critique, but (as I just posted in this thread) I don't have a deep understanding of statistics, so I am a little uncertain if my interpretation of the blog post is correct.
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Do no harm. You have no idea of the real risk from the vaccine because they really aren’t looking. Not 1 child should have been made to suffer myocarditis or died from the vaccine vs their risk of covid. Not one. But many have.
CDK support is out too.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Not saying that you are wrong, but CDK is ready now: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/releases/tag/v1.125.0
As stated in https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/find-my/ Apple (or any other third parties) cannot access the actual location data in the Find My network directly. It is supposed to be only decryptable by your other devices.

That is if you trust Apple to design and implement everything correctly.
What does that have to do with respecting human rights? The gp is correct in that most of society didn’t care about the “gay disease” hurting the undesirables so they didn’t put effort into fixing it. They weren’t refusing to use government or corporate power to enforce controls on behavior out of some noble intention to preserve the rights of the minority groups affected
For me recommendations is the best youtube feature. I love it, for me it is super high quality. And I can always tell it if I don't like something. Most of the content I watch came from recommend videos in the main page or a video page.
>How does a “normal,” “cultured” Western country go from being a fragile democracy to Hell on Earth for many of its erstwhile citizens and neighbors?

This something that deserves more thought in the modern day. Not only did it happen in Germany, hell on earth broke out in the Soviet union and North Korea.

We really need to avoid repeating those mistakes.
I am AI, and I am making fun...
Cool story thanks for sharing - so how did they get around the issue for three years without the app?
> There needs to be a new fallacy or something: "Appeal to AI."

I applaud and welcome this idea
Ah yes, that obstacle turns it from dubious into quite solid. :)
Nilay from Backblaze here. Amongst other things, the solution engineering team reports up to me... and when I saw this comment yesterday, I had them dig into why the B2 S3 API doesn't did not work for you.

It turns out that Backblaze B2 absolutely does support uploading objects via S3 style presigned URLs. However, there are a couple of caveats:

1. B2 doesn't currently support PostObject operations. Therefore, you must use PutObject to upload to a pre-signed URL. Many of the AWS SDKs default to PostObject.

2. B2 only supports AWS v4 authentication and not v2, which AWS has deprecated. However, some AWS SDKs default to v2.

I've put together a very simple python code sample that successfully works for me. https://gist.github.com/nilayp/2c2a04f033d8992ce4b8f591ab449...

Would this solve your issue?
At the time, "Apple invented the switching power supply" was a notion going around in bad tech/sci reporting circles, so it deserved dismantling along with the power supplies.
So some mild effect for surgical masks they think (though the intervention group did more social distancing than the control group as well, hard to suss out the impact of that).

But then they say this:

"while cloth masks clearly reduce symptoms, we cannot reject that they have zero or only a small impact on symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections"

Not exactly a slam dunk.
What if we don't want to be told by you where we can and can't have a discussion?
This is awesome, saving that much money can be great for startups.

Oddly I can’t see lambdas being enough of a cost to justify it to hobbyist such as myself.

But this is a great sign of things to come, so much energy is consumed by data centers. Then again, I wonder how much code will randomly break, plus AWS’s dependency management is literally bundle it up locally and upload a zip.

What happens if a ARM package can’t be built locally.
My favorite thing about their text editor is that it will delete all of your changes with no option for recovery if you accidentally hit the escape key. I also like how this has been an open issue for many years on Jira, but they refuse to change it for some reason (or at least that's the state of it the last I checked about a year ago. Thankfully, I don't have to use any Atlassian products anymore.)
I am absolutely OK with any platform censoring any content for any reason, as long as they are not treated like a public square by the government.
> anti-vax "side" has been shifting goalposts since day n-1.

(claimer/disclaimer: I'm a hard-science type (famous university or rather, institute) and got vaccinated as soon as I could; I am from a very healthy family that does not suffer from outlier symptoms (like flu, but eh it's not bad, no allergies, no side effects etc.) so overall I just didn't worry about it, but I didn't worry about Covid before I got vaccinated either.)

but the biggest goalpost that got moved was, we have government regulations and protocols that concern drug approvals to make sure that the general population is not exposed to unnecessary risks. The Covid vaccines were fast tracked and unleashed untested: that's a huge goalpost shifted a huge distance. And nor was the administering of the vaccine accompanied by a notification of the major risks inherent in this approach, like for example, perhaps the viral spike protein was causing all the tissues' damage and the vaccine included the spike protein.

so, in my book the pro vax side has behaved reprehensibly and is doing even deeper damage to the body politic by normalizing censorship.

I'd still urge everybody to get vaccinated.
SIMD is a thing
It depends on the R0 of the mutation, and the efficacy of the vaccine.

For instance if Delta has an R0 of 8, and we're 100% vaccinated, and the vaccine has an efficacy of 85% against infection, the resultant Rt would be 1.2:

8 * (1 - (1 * 0.85))

So that means that some other form of mitigation on top of 100% vaccination would be necessary to stop the spread.

But for mutations with lower R0, or higher vaccine efficacy, herd immunity may still be possible.
> The convincing based on logic is over and now economic pressure and choosing who or who not to associate with is occurring.

I see. Well, I wish you luck with this approach.

> I am sorry that you can’t have your hand held every step of the way as you and your group continually shit on everything and put the rest of us at risk.

Do you perceive yourself to have the ability to read minds? Well I have some bad news for you: you missed, horribly.

- I do not desire or need to have my hand held

- I am double vaccinated

- I do not have "a group" (at least nothing related to vaccination status)

- I do not continually shit on things (but do I occasionally offer some advice)

> Sucks to suck for everyone who loses their job cause they want to take a stance. They’ll be remembered as martyrs should they be proven right, but I wouldn’t put money on it.

Based on my observations, when people lose their income (particularly as a result of policies they disagree with), they often become angry. On one hand, this can be enjoyable for observers. But then on the other hand, sometimes Mother Nature has a surprise in store that more than makes up for the pleasure. Let's hope for everyone's sake that this is not one of the times that the law of unintended consequences pays us a visit.