skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the perception of public trust is eroding significantly the more we learn and the more fervent the mandates become. We pulled the swine flu vaccine for way less back in 2010, I think it was 12 cases of GBS only! The fact that I know of people who have either had mycarditis AND clots tells me the rate is much higher then reported by VAERS.

The reason damn near everyone except for adamant anti-vax have the perception that VACCINE=SAFE/GOOD is that 93% of experimental candidates are rejected and it takes 10-15 years of trails and data to get full approval. It's the reason you are confident giving it to your own children the safety standards are so stringent. These comparisons to your chances of car accidents and being struck by lighting are totally bogus, you need to compare the data to past vaccines! And yet we think we got this mRNA/Adenovirus vector formula right on the first try times 3 different brands with 2 years of reduced trials?

That's all gone out the window for the sake of the pandemic emergency and that's fine as long as the choice is clear and consensual, let those who want it take the risk, but don't mandate it. The VAERS data is abysmal, worse then the past 50 years of all vaccine combined, and yet people are now in the mode of dismissing the VAERS system entirely because its self reported, with no alternative to fall back to! The FDA even had the option of setting up a separate system for covid vaccine adverse event reporting and rejected it. Fine, then VAERS it is! The only system we have ever had to judge this by.

At what point is it ethical to hand someone a long list of side effects that occur at x50+ higher rates then past vaccines and then say "but you must take this or you can't work".

I think in 10 years, we will see this technology as higher risk but much faster turn around times compared to traditional vaccines. Just be up front about it and let people choose.
It isn't a good idea for a production system or anything, but the code itself seems pretty clean. I've seen infinitely worse bash scripts than this compiler.
In a company that operates worldwide, which country's or culture's principles and values should take precedence?
This is a very broad statement. It's likely true in some cases, but access to food is wildly different depending on where you live and how much you make.

Consider these individuals (not meant as an exhaustive list of archetypes):

1. A high-income American who lives in a large city, owns a car and/or can afford grocery delivery

2. A middle-income American who lives in the suburbs and has access to a grocery store, but is price-sensitive when it comes to food

3. A low-income American without access to a car, who lives in a "food desert" in a large city and does most of their shopping at a bodega/corner market

4. An American who lives in a rural area without a grocery store for several miles

The way these people engage with food is wildly different, and only those in the first group could be rationally considered "lazy" if they chose processed food.

If your goal is simply to feed yourself and your family, you're likely going to optimize more for calories-per-dollar than you are than for freshness. When compared to processed food, fresh produce is actually incredibly expensive.
It's not necessarily the same here in the Nordics.

The alternative is not stopping vaccinations. Men under 30 are given Pfizer.
Yeah, it's a choice. The Linux Foundation and Rust Foundation are 501(c)(6)s (i.e., business association) non-profit; the FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) (charitable) non-profit. Sounds like ZSF is also a 501(c)(3). There are pros and cons to both approaches. I think a large enough ecosystem (e.g., Linux) might benefit from having both types of non-profit organization around.
Is oversight of and transparency into recommendation algorithms, to make sure they don't overprioritize vitriol and sow division, really creating an "Official Copy of Reality"? At this point I'd say our reality is actively being fractured by the effects of these platforms. The solutions suggested by Haugen, whose disclosure is driving this broader conversation we're having, are related to fundamental algorithmic design that feeds addiction and propagates completely false or harmful information – which is not exactly content moderation by the "powers that be".
Tangent note: I wonder if this tweet illustrates yet another way Twitter is driving us crazy.

> Please, get vaccinated.

> I will respect your decision, but I would also like to have you on the team the next 3 seasons. Here is the data, consider getting a vaccine.
Happy to hear it.
> ... communications directly related to the immediate safety of human life or the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the public where no other means of communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event.

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=1a361a6eb3d1594e6a...
this is exactly why the dogmatic culture around vaccines is toxic. Nobody should be forced to take a vaccine before the side effects are even known.
The belief really doesn't matter in light of what we know now, which is that Facebook itself believed that there was harm and proceeded anyway.

A better analogy than those I've seen. Facebook is like a wildly popular hookah spot, probably partially due to the fact that this hookah spot is knowingly putting crack in the hookah (in a world where maybe not everyone knows how bad crack is.)

In comes a guy who, yes against all the "rules", hands out mouthpieces that filter out the crack. How bad is this guy now? How do we feel about him?
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> which I strongly consider a waste of money

Do you consider all research on AI ethics and bias to be a waste of money? The EA folks are doing some of the best work in that field, and have been focusing on it for quite a while. People used to consider biosecurity and pandemic preparedness a waste of money too, but hopefully we know better.
I read this as "Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 pounds in 6 months."

Thought it was the only activity they had left!
Musk is very adamant that cameras are enough even going so far as to stop including radar in Model 3 and Y units shipped to the US. So even if it were the radar being confused according to the Tesla line it shouldn't matter the cameras should be enough.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/tesla-is-no-longer-using-r...
The alternative is not stopping vaccinations. Men under 30 are given Pfizer.
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From a public health point of view, deciding whether you should take the vaccine or not is an undoubtedly selfish and short-sighted way to calculate risks. It assumes that hospitalization carries no second-order risks which simply is not the case.

For any given area, the question that must be asked is if a COVID outbreak were to occur does that given area have the health resources to manage an outbreak. <1% risk is meaningless if you don't have an ICU bed. It becomes a public policy problem when someone in a car accident can not get adequate resources or if nurses are doing 18 hours shifts.
80% of Facebook staff in poll think whistleblower docs will hurt company
Cool! I'm trying to get feedback on my new idea https://bldbtr.tech/.

Competitors classify it as "Software Delivery Analytics" and they seem to position it for product managers, but bldbtr is an analytics tool for the whole engineering team. It's process and organizationally agnostic and will be the centralized location for teams to understand how they're performing.
I assume that's compared to normal figures (which are what, btw?).

Because if normal figures showed 145 cases of myocarditis out of 177M people, that would be embarrassing as fuck.
OK, but... so what if the world ends? The universe won't care.
For example, California has already passed laws to make cancelling subscriptions easier.
I don't think an average person changes wallpapers frequently.
I wrote an HNSW implementation in pure Rust:

https://github.com/InstantDomain/instant-distance

It works pretty well for us at InstantDomainSearch.

I like to think that this is a fairly idiomatic Rust implementation so it might be easier to follow than Facebook's FAISS. It's kinda similar in design to FAISS, so I think it might achieve similar performance, though we haven't spent enough time benchmarking yet.
a good start would be for them to pick any that they can consistently apply and then seek feedback, but ideally it would explicitly describe what the trade-offs are between user safety and profits

at the moment, the only principles they consistently apply seem to be: protect zuckerberg first, company profits second, everything else third, but that's just my perception -- they should make clear what their principles are so we can judge whether or not they consistently stick to them, and whether or not we need legislation to nudge those priorities around for the good of society
It is obvious that we are not going back to Petro-dollar system.
> support negative means

What do you mean by this?
It would have been interesting if it ended up like Microsoft today that sells their own hardware (e.g. Surface) and licenses out the OS. I just cannot see Apple giving up hardware of their own at any point. I doubt whatever went on with OS X would have transferred to the iPhone or iPods before it.

Truthfully, it would certainly relieve a lot of pressure on Apple surrounding the Pro models. There are certain models that Apple always look like its reluctant to build and the Mac Pro has been that model. It would also have made the virtualization story a bit better.
I have several major problems with this explanation (often endemic in the discussion more generally):

1. Shannon's original paper relates "the capacity [of a channel] to transmit information" as well as the potential of a system (e.g. the English language) to generate information. In other words, your pipe needs to be able to accommodate the potential volume coming from the source ("the entropy of the source determines the channel capacity"). The amount of information in a message or the amount of surprise, as the author has it, should not be confused with the amount of potential information.

2. Instead of "system" and "channel" the author uses the word "variable" which I find misleading. Channel (like a telegraph cable) and system (the English language) are specifically relevant to Shannon's discussion.

3. The discussion of "surprise," as the author has it, is misleading. Shannon is writing his paper in conversation with Hartley and Nyquist---all three specifically attempting to bracket out the subjective psychological factors such as surprise, in order to describe the capacity for information transmission in terms of quantitative measures, based on "physical considerations alone" (Hartley). Surprise reintroduces a subjective, relative, psychological understanding of information the original authors wanted to avoid.
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First off no one is guessing your key, do the math, it's ridiculously impossible. Secondly if someone finds your key that's your problem, its the same as any real life key, it's not magic. 3rdly no leap in computing, even quantum is going to change the fact that no one is guessing your keys. And bitcoin does not require the internet, it only needs to communicate with other nodes, there is even a blockstream satellite you can use right now without internet access. This level is technical ignorance is pretty astounding.
Done. Thanks for being so generous.
>Any advice or recommendations along these lines would be helpful.

I don't have much in the way of knowledge or experience to make such recommendations. I have never been a member of a union, and while one member of my family was a union member (he just took it for granted that it was necessary, although he did make significantly more money as a member of that union than before he joined -- although those two situations were in areas thousands of miles apart), I don't have any real insight about that.

I will say that from a historical perspective, unions, and more broadly, the labor movement (at least in the US) had a measurable positive effect on compensation and working conditions.

As for particular unions, it's difficult to say unless one is a member of that union.

I'd expect that there's value in collective bargaining, as it reduces the imbalance of knowledge and power between employers and employees. That said, those who manage/administer unions must have the best interests of their members as a primary focus.

If that isn't the case, a union is likely less of a positive for members.

As I mentioned elsewhere, unions (along with everything else) aren't an unqualified good, but it seems to me that in a market economy, limiting power/knowledge asymmetry make markets both fairer and more efficient.

I suspect that my musings aren't very helpful in terms of your search for other/broader perspectives, but it's really all I have to offer. I wish I could provide more.

That said, I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this here, as (at least in my experience) most tech workers reject (as I did for a long time) the idea that collective labor action can benefit us.

As I've aged and gained experience, I've become more convinced that incentivizing fairer markets (the labor market included) and a broader allocation of wealth has a positive effect on economic growth and stability.

That cuts across a broad swathe of policies and incentives, including but not limited to (note that this is US-centric, as I'm an American) broadly raising wages (consumer spending is 70% of the US economy -- more people having more money to spend bolsters that) while incentivizing re-investment instead of accumulation (re-investing in businesses that actually create concrete value, rather than gambling in equities/securities/real estate markets), as well as enhancing the social safety net (if you don't have to worry that your and your kids will be eating from garbage cans and sleeping in cardboard boxes, you're much more likely to act on entrepreneurial ideas you might have) creates a more robust, stable economy that's viable over the medium to long term.

I think that more power for the labor side of the capital/labor can push that forward. And in the long term would be just as beneficial for capital as it is for labor.

I've digressed a bit, but I think that it's useful to look at labor/unions from a broader economic perspective.

Your thoughts?
Ah, this is doing something dumb/misleading: it's not conditioning the chance of hospitalization on catching covid.

That is, the normal way someone interprets the question "what is the chance you're hospitalized due to covid" is "what is the chance you're hospitalized due to a covid infection", while you're actually asking "what is the chance you, a randomly chosen person, will be hospitalized due to covid [in the next year]". They're conditioning on a time window, and not a case rate.

Another way of looking at their approach is to consider what happens over the lifetime of a person. If you have a .89% chance of being hospitalized due to covid this year, what's the chance over your lifetime? Unless the risk drastically drops, it's something like a 30% chance of being hospitalized over the next 40 years, or for me, very close to a 50% chance of being hospitalized over my entire life.
That'd be extreme, but there would be all sorts of possible ways.

See eg

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-...
And what if that guy don’t give a f, what his e-mailbox has received? And what if he creates stuff under nickname?
Really wonder how fb are going in court let’s say after extension is being created and spread by ltd or on the names of people without property? Those “we will sue in court”, I wouldn’t care less, and laugh if it’s from fb.
If a human driver hits a pulled-over police car, or any other stationary object that can be seen well in advance, the problem isn't simply lack of braking.

Why would that be the talking point if an autopilot does that? Because we expect it not to be aware of the obstruction until within emergency braking distance?
In the 2000s they were among the go-to strategy games. The hot-seat mode probably helped. Of course, the publishers and devs saw little profit from all that following—unlike middle-aged dudes selling pirate CDs in mall stands.

HOMM 5 was developed by Nival, a major Russian dev and publisher at that time—though the 4 and 5 games weren't as famed, afaik.
The answer to the bonus question is opium. In particular the Forbes family (not related to the magazine folks) traded about 20% of all the opium sold in China during this period with the other 80% coming from the British East India Company and other UK-based trading houses.

Fun fact, the Forbes family is still one of the wealthiest families in America, they own their own massive private island called Naushon Island right next to Martha's Vineyard. They also have their own family museum in Boston where you can learn about their trading history in Asia which I'm super eager to visit And the patriarch of the Forbes Family today is... wait for it... John Kerry. When Obama made Kerry his secretary of state the Chinese weren't super thrilled, they have a long memory.
Well, for the really established religions, all the supernatural things happened 1400+ years ago.

Mormonism, on the other hand, was only 180 years ago. For some reason, that makes their supernatural stuff a little harder to accept.
You might argue that work like Mondrian's implies additional information, in the form of implied commentary on centuries of art history (arguably necessary for his work to be considered interesting or "good"). You might then argue that this makes up for the lower explicit information density.
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"Popular", "Modern Workloads", "meaningful ideas"

You are a buzzword machine with no substance. All of these are nothing more than an obsession with some idea of success.

Will modern apps, workloads, quote on quote "meaningful" things run on uxn? No!
But we can still research what you can do with modern aspirations and knowledge on an 8bit computer.

The goal is not to run some existing software, the goal is to learn. To make new software, new workloads, new ideas.

If you want to run "modern workloads", these days just grab a web browser- you can probably even do your GPU research in there!

Do that, that's wonderful if your research is about things you can do on normal operating systems like a web browser.
But if your research is about computers, you probably need to say, design a new computer (uxn) or expose yourself to different kinds of computers.
I suggest you do both, write a compiler and write a VM for it!

You'll get maybe a dozen users, and you'll learn, and you'll teach people things. All without any "success"
Well exactly. Big US banks are subject to deep scrutiny.
But the vast majority of covid fatalities under 30, would be in people with comorbidities.

You could easily argue for vaccinating everyone with comorbidities <30, without arguing for vaccinating everyone.

Also, even in apparently benign myocarditis, there may be heart damage which will not become apparent for many years.
> Also, skimming the terms:

This not a surprising term. By accepting donations to be passed on to someone else, they become trustees, which comes with hefty legal constraints. By having terms saying "we will try our best, but if we fail, we will try to honour your intentions", they can avoid winding up with little piles of money that can't be repurposed and simply ... exist.
> How to train large deep learning models as a startup

How to train large deep learning models at a well founded startup*

Everything described here is absolutely not affordable by bootstrappers and startups with little funding, unless the model to train is not that deep.
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Thank you, I'll pass this on. An important feature is zero copy arrays, which seem to be supported.
I assume it would be more like requiring US exchanges to reject bitcoin from El Salvador addresses. I know people have been stung before on this exchanges for having deposited or withdrawn bitcoin that is too few hops from a prohibited use like gambling. (But don’t have cites atm.)
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It was also sold to the President of El Salvador by some rather savvy salesmen who may or may not have had a prior long position in bitcoin before the announcement was made.
I think the flashing lights and appearance might degrade autopilot. Other cars also have issues because they use radar (except for some new models with camera-based systems like the 2022 Honda Civic) and ignore stationary targets when they see a moving vehicle as a more likely "target". Some systems use a combination of radar and camera (with camera providing low-speed, parked car, bike, and pedestrian detection). Then it's up to the quality of the algorithms and tests have shown that some cars are pretty poor at detection.
Agreed, painting this as some kind of power struggle ignores the effects on society that affect everyone, not just new age tech titans and the establishment.
In that case maybe their strategy might be to convert as much USD within the country into bitcoin as possible, wait for the inevitable next huge surge, sell at the peak and increase their central bank holdings of USD by a massive amount.
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/1...
> Volatility is of far less concern than a 3rd party countries money printing.

Not when you get your weekly paycheck, it's not.
Source for this is a book called Barons of the Sea:
https://www.amazon.com/Barons-Sea-Worlds-Fastest-Clipper/dp/...

Great book if you're interested in America's history in large scale drug dealing.
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-now-recommend...

"Ontario now recommending against Moderna vaccine for men 18-24 years old...This comes after public health officials determined there is a 1 in 5,000 risk of myocarditis — a form of heart inflammation — following a second dose of the Moderna vaccine."
I guess everything is a generality if you believe hard enough.
Standards always evolve and ultimately if the larger companies like Shimano, SRAM, or Taiwanese OEMs don’t adopt them, they’re a moot point.

Bicycle chainrings are the perfect example. There are established mounting patterns, but since the late 90s, Shimano’s MTB division and Campagnolo loved introducing proprietary BCDs.

And disc brakes have an established "International Standard" mounting standard, but no one builds actual I.S. mount brakes--it's either post mount or flat mount. (Yes, post/I.S. are practically interchangeable due to the adapter.)

Lastly for something as simple as a derailleur hanger, you figure there may be 5 or 6 different models to choose from, but nope: https://wheelsmfg.com/derailleur-hangers/derailleur-hanger-w...
That number for under 30’s is full of people who are extremely fat or otherwise have preexisting health problems. If you’re under 30 and seemingly healthy your fatality rate is much lower.