skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before Jan 20 the democrats too were the "anti-vax" side. Do you want me to dig up videos of Joe and Kamala telling everyone they'd be insane to take the "rushed" vaccine? I don't think such overt politicization of this issue is helping with "hesitancy". And neither does the incessant lying about "stopping covid". Vaccine is not going to stop covid. It'll just make people 10x less likely to die once they get it. Notice the choice of the word - we'll all get it eventually. This is a less "satisfying" message, but I'd argue it's a more persuasive one, simply because it's true.
And this is why we should privatize "normal patrol work" the same way we privatize the construction of sewers and many other municipal services.

Look at private security like you'd find at any venue with tens of thousands of rowdy drunks. It has basically none of the problems that municipal policing does because the incentive structure isn't broken. The employers will readily fire non-performers or employees who are a lawsuit waiting to happen. The venues that hire the companies can find replacements if/when the companies fail to deliver what they're paid to. They also don't waste money on MRAPs.

Imagine a private security officer wasting time on a vulgar bumper sticker let alone arresting someone. They'd get chewed out or maybe fired for exposing the employer to liability for an unlawful arrest. That just doesn't happen to government police.

The broken incentives in policing cannot be fixed so long as they are getting their pay stubs on the same letterhead as the judges, DAs and city officials. They need to be kicked out of "the club" so that they can be properly scrutinized.
There it is! The one person who actually answers my question!
Do you want the government in control of censorship instead of Youtube?
>"Masking is something that not only has been very effective in damping down COVID transmission, but we also virtually had no influenza last winter when we had widespread masking," Cody said when discussing the mandate. "So there were other important benefits from universal masking."

just wait until she learns about important benefits of [almost] universal neutering.
Try this one, from a thoughtful MD who tries to follow the science:

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/19/covid-19-new-evide...
It doesn't just look bad when it's still, it's actively distracting while scrolling due it causing flickering. The only time dithering should be employed is to get rid of nasty banding. Otherwise just serve lower resolution images or use tricks that aren't nearly as noticeable like compressing the chroma more than the luma.
It must have been the video for The Knowledge Navigator [1], a conceptual video that came out in 1987.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator
Is Oakland representative of the entire USA then?

In any case the Atlantic article says the stats show violent crime is on the rise and property crime is not. FTFA:

"Perhaps America is in the midst of what is specifically a violence wave, not a broad crime wave. Even as violent crime rose, led by significant jumps in murders and aggravated assaults, property crime continued a years-long decline."
This video is blatant anti vax BS. Watch the first 30 seconds and that's beyond obvious.
I don't think we know how the Mohawk lived before the Eurasian plagues wiped most out. But do we know the Hopi, anyway, weren't burning forests.
> it is not "proving hard" it was always impossible

Well there's the Australian method, but I'd prefer things not go that way. I agree that people should have informed consent for vaccinating, that's why I try to inform people so that they consent.
Dextroamphetamine
Yeah, and even in the basic case of infinities/limits, it's pretty obvious that they're not equal. Otherwise you could make any equation work by dividing both sides by zero.
I saw someone post an antivax video in the comments about the toxicity of the spike protein the mRNA vaccine causes the body to manufacture.

If you have such concerns, read this: https://health-desk.org/articles/what-do-we-know-about-the-t...

The vaccine is injected into muscle and causes a localized immune reaction. The protein doesn't really escape the muscle. So it might damage some muscle cells and capillaries, but those are stressed all the time anyway and will regenerate.
The OP was about Sci-Hub.

Thanks re the latter point. I think the "however warranted" bit is significant (I usually put it this way: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), because human bias is always to overestimate how "warranted" things are in one direction and underestimate it in the other direction. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, etc.
Seriously, those MP3 players were nothing like the iPod. This is a bit like people going on about smart phones before iPhone. I had a couple of those and the iPhone was just so far ahead, that we are not really talking about the same category of products.

A product isn’t merely checking some boxes. Checking the “has hard drive” box doesn’t make any it an iPod.
There's a gui option for this but it's a bit mysterious.

It shows enabled, but immediately under has an unchecked checkbox.
If you are doing something so well and making tons of money, why spend money on what will absolutely ruin your core business? Personal computers weren't just going to supplement the copier business, they would seriously ruin it. But there was also a chance computers would flop so why spend the money on trying to ruin your core business and not succeed? People found uses for computers that the pioneers could never imagine so why would some CEO be any more imaginative? Disruptive tech usually doesn't come from the big companies, it comes from little guys who can take the risk because they have nothing else to fall back on. The big companies only get into it when they see that there is an actual market.
CDC estimates do show a 99.9% survival rate for the 18-49 age group. Survival rates do decline for the older age groups.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, it's the smart thing to do. But vaccinated people can still carry and spread the virus. They may be somewhat less contagious but we don't have clear data on that yet.
Why given a timeline, just say results are probably real after two independent replications, and there should significant pop science hesitation on publishing anything that hasn't been replicated yet.
Science changes as new information becomes available, that's why it's so great, it's self-correcting on a long enough timescale. If you want a 100% verifiable, stake-your-life-on-it-this-will-never-ever-change, answer, science is not for you. Using this inherent property of science as a way to deny it is disingenuous at best.
Some of these issues are not unique to Apple, though they may have led the way. Now if you want repairable/maintainable hardware, you have to DIY or go to a boutique builder. I’ve just ordered a new keyboard, battery, and ssd for a seven year old laptop, just because I could.

Of course, I’m reading this right now on my iPad, so there’s that.
Frankly, the agenda of this book puzzles me.

Is there political counterflow that compromises integrity in some parts of science? Of course there is. For millenia this has been so. From Gallileo to Darwin to Haber to Einstein, the political or religious disruptions arising from science theory or experiment or technology often prompt someone to argue that governmental policy should not change in the light new facts or a new interpretation -- not if that change disrupts cherished societal values or impedes vested interests.

It sounds like the author's argument is that political winds WITHIN scientific communities are fomenting bias in their work because they're not satisfied with publishing papers but now want to effect political change. Therefore they tolerate no dissent from an official party line.

Perhaps climate change warrants such circumspection, but I know of no other scientific subdiscipline that does. As such, the rise in politics in ONE scientific subject doesn't justify a book that seems to tar and feather ALL of science.

I suspect a book that attacks only the climate science community was deemed to narrow to attract a broad audience. And of course, exploring that topic wouldn't compellingly break new ground either.

Finally, it seems to me that this is exactly the WRONG time in history to be impugning science or scientists. Without concrete and viable suggestions of how to redress the forces that have broadly compromised scientific integrity (which I doubt the author proposes), chinking away at science's armor can only aid the cause of anti-science, and feed the rising barbarian horde.
No, it's not overengineering. It's working with unicode. You have to let go of the idea that a string is a sequence of characters separated by where your cursor pauses. It's not. Black Santa was a simple metaphor for more real-world scenarios such the chinese language, in which multiple characters form to create a new character.

Imagine if you had a Color key on your keyboard, and a Santa key on your keyboard. Each key individually has meaning. When the two characters are positioned adjacent to each other, you get SkinColorSanta as one single character.

What is the new length of your string? Two for each original Color and Santa characters? Or 1 because there is only one icon the represents the two together? Remember Swift interops with C, so what is the size when you need to drop to char*? Hope you don't plan to use 1!

How would you solve this problem? Swift is open source. Make a PR if you have a better solution.
I joined an online conference via WebEx earlier this year, made sure my audio/video were muted, and started typing my notes. The presenter stopped mid-slide and called me out because my keyboard audio was interrupting him.

I had to un-mute and then re-mute my audio to continue.

I know I shouldn't have relied on a software switch when I have a perfectly good hardware disable button, but WebEx embarrassed me in front of dozens of my peers, and I will keep that in mind whenever I get to choose what platform a meeting goes on.
I looked at NewPipe and its not what I am looking for. I think what I am looking for is settings in youtube that will reflect the way the youtube app behaves on appletv, if they exist at all.
I do wish your blog articles had the published date at the top.
Apple invented one people actually wanted to buy
What is SSI? (Skimming)
People keep arguing about the facts about side effects and long covid and death rates and hospital capacity. One side shows some facts in their favor and another “better” facts in another favor. This is pointless. If covid killed 10% or .00000001 of the population, censoring things like this is a terrible precedent.

Just as china has “private companies” do their censoring this is no different.

Just because the “facts” are very strong in favor of vaccination, and a majority of people are likely pro vax, this is a dangerous road.

Effectively the message, the story told about those facts is being dictated from government guidelines. You do not know what future stories will be forced to be believed in the future regardless of the “facts”.

Seriously just try and imagine a society who believes something you’re opposed too, where the facts don’t matter to you, and having it happen. Do you think you will never be on the other side?

This power will one day be wielded by those who you are adamantly opposed to.
To be totally honest I struggle to tell the difference graphically between PS3, PS4 and PS5 games as an example. I'm an older gamer and I tend to play retro games so I know I'm showing my ignorance here. But to me graphical advancements have been in the "diminishing returns" phase for a good while.
There is truth to this. The difficulty in getting prescription opiates does lead some to heroin I’m sure.
Yes, but delegation is always accompanied by principal-agent problems (like moral hazard). Lobbyists ensure that all but the most morally unimpeachable representatives will inevitably place moneyed interests before their electorate.
First paragraph of the FDA announcement answers all your questions, chucklehead:

"Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals."

The existing vaccine was approved, and had a marketing name change. It continues under an EUA for younger people.

Why is this Malone person more trustworthy than the CDC+FDA?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...
I just reset profile in youtube settings periodically, their recommendations are way too sticky, like literally the same videos are shown for months even if I watched them already.

I wonder what all the highly paid "ML/AI engineers" are doing.
It's righty because pro-police policies are right wing policies. Sunsetting old laws takes away power from the police, and so is a lefty policy.
> To see what happens when you use FP for marketing purpose, you can take a look at ReScript, the current reincarnation of ReasonML.

Reason has always felt weird and half-baked. It had all that nice syntactic sugar for the benefit of javascript developers — but in the middle of it, there was some OCaml ugliness, like different math operators for integers and floats, or special treatment of recursive functions. Plus a half-baked async story, or lack of unicode support. It was all very weird.

But in other areas: I understand Swift was a great marketing success, and it is heavily influenced by FP, right (I haven't used it personally, so don't know). And so was Kotlin?
Why not just vaccinate your child then? That’s the protection against the soccer mom’s unvaxed children.
This.

My youtube recommendations are incredible. I've spent a lot of time liking and subscribing to things that interest me, and now my feed is full of videos about history and trains and machining and woodworking and science and all kinds of stuff that I could watch for days.
Zoom IMHO has nailed the workflow for clicking an autodial link on my phone, joining the call by video on my laptop and having the participant pin appear on the screen quick enough that I can type it right as the automated voice prompt asks for it on the phone

When you're hopping from one call to the other, having the ability to quickly drop and join the next one [EDIT: with audio from my phone] is a big win

That, the global Alt+A / Alt+V for the audio / video mute toggle respectively, and the "hold spacebar to talk" hotkeys make it the clear winner from an UX perspective IMHO, even if that X isn't really perfect

At the end of the day, most calls are virtually lag free so I care more about my ability to efficiently interface with the app than I do about a perceived streaming quality [EDIT: except, of course, for those participants who don't join the audio via their phone, as their voices inevitably suffer from some lag and distortion]
Patents on all the efficient ways to implement said ISAs?
And they may, but the effort to steal an iPhone has been increased with this, and the difficulty in recovering a lost (not necessarily stolen) iPhone has been decreased. It's a win for the typical consumer.
Here's the reality that took me waaaay too long to accept: some companies are optimizing for mediocrity.

Mediocrity (often achieved through process) has cold advantages:

- It's cheaper because you're paying people less.

- It's more resilient because people are easier to replace.

- It's more predictable because you're not asking for groundbreaking work.

- Etc... you get the idea.

The only real downside is you're not going to build an exceptional product. But here's the rub: not every product needs to be exceptional in every way. Thus most departments in a company are perfectly fine with mediocrity.

Those "good engineers" aren't wanted.
Louis Rossmann: My Business Is Being Audited by New York State
It's not about swastikas, it's about a hard and fast rule that speech is permitted because speech itself is not directly harmful to anyone or anything.

Humans, of course, respond to speech and frequently do violence, but the speech itself is not the violence (there is an extra step involved).

This "no banning speech" general rule is why it has been largely ineffective when people have tried to ban books, movies, music, or games. It's not the swastikas; those are simply a side effect of the same root cause.
Weird, hackernews changed my link again. It was working at first and now it's back to the home page?
But regardless of reason it still matters to the buyer. If Apple monopoly is giving me better products, then I am not complaining.
>and leave behind the hard drive full of mobile game advertisements

Funny thing you say that.

Because today on the front page on Hacker News, we find... Old game advertisements[1].

Irony notwithstanding, I hope that proves my point.

The hard drive you'd leave behind would be a treasure someone 40 years in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692049
This comment made my day.

Users not knowing what they want but knowing that they want it is a useful phrase.
> Combat disinformation by refuting it.

Got any ideas that might actually have a non-zero chance of working?
> Cantor demolished AI

Citation needed. Btw nothing in this thread has anything to do with AI. Perhaps you are using a very unusual definition of AI that programmers don't use? Or maybe I just fell for satire. It's really hard to tell on this site.
Citibank managed to do it with USD and still hasn't gotten it back.

Meanwhile in this case the miner gave back the money so maybe the tech isn't the issue?
That's a cool exercise! :)

However, it loses some of the niceties for offline check-in (the business name, in particular), without an in-app data source.

And, unfortunately, it low resolution doesn't help that much with error correction: v1 does seem to be slightly easier to scan, but only a little, and the ratios of codes scanned is pretty much the same across all versions:

ec_level L M Q H
version
1 38 46 54 65
2 32 39 49 52
3 32 41 43 50
4 32 40 46 49
5 30 39 42 49
...
39 32 41 46 50
40 31 41 47 51

total 1257 1600 1839 2001

(This is the table in the "Error correction really does make scanning more reliable" section broken down by version.)

By this table, the most-scannable encoding under the experimental conditions from the post for that data is ec level H, which requires version 3 (without considering the field-of-view required).
Oh I believe it, when I was young I could tell if CRTs were powered on (even if the screen was black) just due to their whine.
What has always annoyed me is that the spec never says, AFAIK, if the 23rd bit should be ON vs OFF for a signalling vs quiet NaN, which means that you can't portably set a value to a quiet NaN at compile-time.

SGI/Irix machines in the 2000s, for example, had perfectly good floating point but had the 23rd being OFF for a quiet NaN, while other machines have it ON for quiet NaN. And this is independent of endien-ness: these SGIs were big endien just like other big-endian machines that made quiet NaN differently.
It’s especially troubling when someone does “make their own” and then get banished at the infrastructure (payments/hosting/app store) layer.
TIMEFLIP2: Human-friendly time tracker device
These are all very good points. The ability for misinformation to propagate means that manufacturing consent has become a lot harder. As we've seen with COVID, that has some downsides, but it also has upsides because selling war is going to be a lot harder. Every tool has light and a dark side.
I watched "The Flying NaN" as a kid.
You made a decision before you had all the information, but you're so busy you don't want to reconsider your decision after learning new information?
You're describing so-called "server wages," which only apply to businesses with tipped employees (and do not apply in the seven "equal treatment" states, including California and Washington). I don't think it makes a huge difference in total unemployment numbers, because tipped workers represent something like 2-3% of all US workers.

(I agree that the concept of server wage is pretty awful and should be eliminated as a matter of policy.)
Yeah, I'm sure the police wouldn't check either. I'm sure it wouldn't help me get my phone back but (perhaps paradoxically?) I hope it at least is a bit of a deterrent.
Hey Paul, Where’s Rob Slavis?
Bam this one from hell, 1$ billion
That could have something to do with it, but as someone who lived in WA for quite some time - you don't go outside without clothing for ~7 months in any given year in WA either because it's raining and unpleasant. So that's where this hypothesis falls apart a little. My hypothesis is that constant relatively low level exposure to UV is more beneficial than acute exposure for just a few days / weeks in a given year. I don't have any data to support this hypothesis though.
Thanks nsa
My Lambda workloads are CPU bound so this is great but I get it, most spend their time waiting for IO.
>But this role wasn’t a fit, and the timing was off. The environment was not correct. The work didn’t have the impact they wanted, finding their dream job instead. Perhaps I was ineffective at communications, championing above, or slow at sponsoring elsewhere

This seems to miss the most obvious reason. That they found more money elsewhere. Of every developer I have seen leave, their primary motivation was a higher pay. Having a team you like is nice and all, but owning a house or being able to go on nicer holidays is better.

The company I worked at this year is falling apart because all of the actual talent has found higher paying jobs and all that is left is the juniors who will struggle to keep things running.
It's my subtle protest against the HN belief that people need to be warned against articles from previous years. That said, it's a bit alarming to realize I wrote the article 9 years ago.
Risk of rapid escape from biomedical interventions targeting Covid spike protein
This is an important question and I hope they clarify it.
I was under the mistaken belief that vaccinated people could still spread the virus. Thanks for the correction. Which begs the question. Who are we protecting? That group has chose to not be protected. The argument is circular.

Disclaimer: I support vaccination. I do not support authoritarian mandates in this case.
People who have designed other systems can point out many of their own mistakes, too. Being unable to spot any should inspire less confidence, not more.

Setting a 0 or 1 in SLT was another design error. People designing GPUs demonstrate that they know the better design sets a 0 or ~0 (all ones).

Huge instructions have been regretted enough to motivate abbreviated versions. Even in RISC-V.

And, as has already been noted in this forum, lack of a reliably available popcount instruction has been subsequently corrected, at great expense, practically everywhere.

All of which really only means I'm ready for Risc-6. With some care, it should be able to re-use much of the ecosystem work from RISC-V.
I think it's just context to help people better understand what they are reading.
You have to appreciate it, though, given that one of the posts on the front page of HN today is...

...old videogame advertisements[1]

The irony is just so, so beautiful.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692049
Reimplementation in rust sounds like you are trying to take much needs critical infrastrcture money and spend it on a fun project with small real world benefits.

Boring things like documentation and security patches would go further.