skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they adopt something as volatile as cryptocurrency as legal tender?
“Yet people are still more afraid of Covid than myriad other risks we accept on a daily basis” keep in mind a lot of people are older than 40 or have treasured family members who are 65 or older.

COVID’s risk isn’t symmetric across the population. It is definitely extremely dangerous though and killed 700,000 Americans, for instance.
I only know of Andy Kaufman from your examples.

Wasn’t some of his work very much reliant on what he didn’t say directly? An argument one could make would be that the information density is still high in terms of what is perceived or experienced. That would still be a kind of compression but it involves the context and audience to a very high degree. I think he sometimes made his performances so intense, that it would be unbearable not to engage with them.
I have a couple of friends who are much more politically engaged and insightful than myself. But all I see them post on facebook are low effort gotcha memes.

Facebook has a problem in that it seems to frown on "intelligent" content. Long form journalism, in depth analysis, professional content (industry journals, tech blogs etc.), none of this content really exists on facebook.

I have friends that read hackernews, we find similar articles from hn interesting. But I would never think of sharing one on facebook, and I would be surprised if a friend of mine did so. For some reason, facebook is just not the place where content like this is shared.

This is the advertising proposition of non-facebook media.
The ability for the Chinese rich to get money out of their country. For one.
Wealthy people also spend a much smaller percentage of their income on energy, so it depends how you look at it. A poor person is much more likely to notice energy costs going up despite using less energy.
> Automatic braking doesn't get much attention, but it seems like something that could be incredibly valuable if it got to the "clearly better than human" level.

It's important to point out here that a handful of back of the envelope analyses are out there that show that Tesla's autopilot is already "clearly better than human" level at avoiding emergency vehicles.

These are very common accidents. Emergency vehicles in travel lanes get hit all the time, crews are carefully trained to avoid that situation if at all practical, and taught how to reduce personal risk when that's not possible.

In fact (and I don't have a link handy) if you extrapolate out from a few different data sources it looks like Tesla's on AP get in these crashes about half as much as vehicles in the general fleet.

Now, that doesn't mean that these 13 events don't constitute a cluster worth investigating. And it doesn't mean that there can't be a bug worth fixing. It doesn't even mean that the media shouldn't write about it.

It does mean that we should be very careful with pronouncements about safety from a sample set of this size, though.
I’ve had a few recruiters ask me. I don’t tell them anymore.
> different people have different abstract representations of ... abstract ideas

I'm not sure I've ever thought about this in precisely these terms. Thanks
The results are all over the place. Some articles says continuous low-dose aspartame has effects [1], others say that aspartame has other effects on quorum sensing [2]. I'm not in this area so I can't judge any of this work, I just think it's interesting.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[2] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/18/9863
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this is not a previous discussion of this talk.
The only thing I can think of is monitoring of all transactions.
But why would he? It's none of their business
Based on the data in the study linked below, the risk for myocarditis among COVID-19 patients is 0.146%, and 0.009% among people without COVID-19 (study was done pre-vaccine).

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm

> During March 2020–January 2021, the risk for myocarditis was 0.146% among patients with COVID-19 and 0.009% among patients without COVID-19. Among patients with COVID-19, the risk for myocarditis was higher among males (0.187%) than among females (0.109%) and was highest among adults aged ≥75 years (0.238%), 65–74 years (0.186%), and 50–64 years (0.155%) and among children aged <16 years (0.133%).
This hits home for me. I really enjoy cooking but I’ve basically given up on weeknight meals that aren’t either leftovers from when I cook for fun or something prepared.

Like it is genuinely the most out of touch privileged statement but I have the money and am absolutely willing to buy the time. $30-70/wk (less the cost of groceries) to gain 8ish hours of leisure time and more variety than I would ever bother with is a no brainer experience at this point in my life.
The number of C19 fatalities under 30 in the US appears to easily exceed the number of vaccine-related myocarditis cases. The overwhelming majority of those myocarditis cases followed a benign course.

Later

Another thing to consider is that the myocarditis rate from C19 itself may exceed that of the vaccine, which would basically refute the argument against vaccination.

(By all means, pick vaccines strategically.)
This one: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I haven't personally managed (or even tried) to convince anybody because people feel personally attacked when their preferences are questioned, especially when these people believe themselves to be "scientifically-minded". I think everybody has to discover this on their own.
You don't even need to compare accuracy, you can just check the technology. Facebook model is trained on 256 GPU cards and you can fine-tune it to your domain in a day or two. The release was 2 month ago. There is no way any cloud startup can have something better in production given they have access to just 4 Titan cards.
El Salvador is the only place on Earth where you can exchange your bitcoins to USD without any questions are being asked. It is the wormhole between bitcoin and legacy financial system.
There’s no connection between car crashes in the US and risk of myocarditis from the vaccine in Sweden. Each country is looking at the risk for its own citizens.
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Layer 4 vs. 7
Really the issue is that Layer4 is now very fast even without DSR and its all done in the Kernel and even the actually network cards (some interest tech around eBPF). Layer7 such as reading HTTP headers is done in user space. The clever device try and switch back to layer4 as often as they can. Greg www.edgenexus.io
I'm not sure any of the studies that measured it for any of the 3 main vaccines are distinguishable from noise. All the numbers that I managed to find weren't.

I'm starting to think that we should redesign all the older vaccines to be more like those ones.
"Unlike with cryptocurrencies, NFT rug pulls leave behind JPEGs"

Man, this cope has me laughing.
Yeah. I'm as big a Tesla booster as you'll find but I'm in the "this is probably a bug in recognition" camp. They can presumably fix this via properly parametrized modelling. It's not a rare edge case at all.
Awesome, it works. Thanks!

Notes:

first go to facebook.com > arrow in upper right > Settings & Privacy > News Feed Preferences > and scroll the whole list to the bottom
open your console and run the script, and wait. The script takes 1.5 seconds per each "unfollow", so if you have 500 for example, it will take more than 8 minutes :)
That's because the US is descending into authoritarianism and the nordic countries value freedom, economic and civil.
> The company would obviously have the right to ban the person from their store.

Really? I don't think this would be legal, at least in the United States.

If they were causing a disturbance inside the store, sure.
Typically how severe is the post-Covid myocarditis in young males versus that which can be induced by the vaccine?

Also, since the vaccine doesn't prevent contraction of Covid, does it really make sense to frame this as though the two risks are mutually exclusive?
How do those favorability numbers compare to other large companies? Do people see Facebook as better or worse than, let's say, ExxonMobil or Bank of America?
You can do that way more easily will centralized digital fiat.
> For example, do you know what the risk of hospitalization from Covid is when unvaccinated?

> <1%

Risk numbers are totally useless when not stating the time over which the risk is incurred. A 1% lifetime risk is very different from a 1% daily risk.

For example, the 0.89% population hospitalization rate in the last 1.5 years for the unvaccinated from the article you linked corresponds to a 38% chance of hospitalization over a 80-year lifespan. (Note that this is just an example to point out the problem with GP's reasoning, in reality this is an overestimation as it neglects that you build immunity after an infection).
Covid is more dangerous to kids than chicken pox, we still vaccinate kids for chickenpox though. Hundreds of children have died of Covid-19. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...
It's not constant. I expect that people change wallpaper frequently.
Even in your rural example, those trail routes I find are mostly just scenic rides through parkland rather than anything useful for commuting. People mostly drive their bikes there and ride back to where they parked afterwards. Smaller rural roads might be fine, but I bet you aren't riding along the shoulder of a four lane state highway with a speed limit of 55 miles an hour very often, and those are the main connective roads between job centers and housing among rural and suburban areas in the U.S.
I'd argue that, for many problems, researching the issue is hard if you don't have a starting point. For instance, I currently have no clue about the natural language manipulation with machine learning. I would have strictly no idea where to start or where to start looking. I might be lucky and stumble upon some literature that I would understand, but then I might not.
The long-term studies I am way more curious about.

Heart damage typically can cause lasting effects. Many people may have heart damage and not even know it.

I'm not making any specific claims, just that it's unknown.

Here's an explanation of how a heart cannot or very slowly repairs: https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/cardiac-repair-regeneration
Instead of mandating that everyone should work a fixed work week why not just let people decide how much they want to work? The 40 hour work week is just a "social construct". Let the unit of labor be half a work day (4 hours) instead of a whole person. If people want to work 24 or 32 or 44 hours let them.

The labor market isn't much of a market if you can't even do something as basic as decide how much you want to work.
From what I understand citizens are allowed to swap the government for USD. El Salvador’s current president seems keen on building a Bitcoin reserve.
Word-of-mouth I've heard is that the backup IRC server was off-site working fine. The problem was that, because it was only used in emergencies and wasn't hooked into FB's central authentication, a lot of employees simply didn't remember how to log in to it.
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How are cryptocurrencies even "encrypted" and more anonymous than hard cash if all transactions are recorded in a ledger, the ledger that is the very basis of the currency? Isn't that the very antithesis of anonymity?
They've always asked me. But they've never asked for a W-2 to prove it.
They're restricted in the sense that the health authorities stopped recommending a specific covid-19 vaccine for a particular demographic. That demographic -- young males under 30 -- are recommended and given a vaccine from another vendor (practically Pfizer) instead.

That's rather different than the impression you might get from "these vaccines being restricted", or something similar.
Contrast this with the disaster of Kursk [1] which was a sad display of incompetence and arrogance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
Hm - it looks like HN pulled the canonical link? I mirrored it on my home page for that reason;

https://5f5.org/mirror/HowToAssertThatYourSQLDoesNotDoFullTa...
They can continue to price things in US dollars without letting American elites steal from them through the Cantillon effect. If you didn't know, they were using US dollars before.

Just my two cents.

The real reason is probably so the El Salvador political powers can enrich themselves, either through simply holding bitcoin, or some form of corruption.
I didn't give a dichotomy, I called out one. A straw man was given that any sort of reform is paramount to big S Socialism which """has failed every time its been tried"""

Political systems are not separate from economic ones.
It's an attempt to attract foreign investment to reduce dependency on US remittances
Project homepage link in the article is outdated and points to a sport bets website.

Wikipedia article includes a good link:
https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/
I keep seeing "after gaining 600 pounds in 6 months"
Not cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.

“The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust." - SN

Volatility is of far less concern than a 3rd party countries money printing.
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Apparently, a fairly high percentage of El Salvador's economy is based on people outside the country sending currency in, so I think the idea was to use a currency that makes it relatively cheap and easy to send money from the US to El Salvador.

That said, since they're on the US Dollar anyway, I think it might have made more sense to use a stablecoin like GUSD or DAI or something.
> never have to worry about overnight success bringing your services down.

But the chances of becoming a viral sensation are very small compared to the probability of longer-term maintenance headaches you'll likely have under NoSql. NoSql is thus similar to meteor insurance. I suspect egos are not making realistic estimates.
Don't forget the 20% exchange rate, and lower US taxes.
Gotcha, I misunderstood - thought you were referring to the scale of the raindrops relative to the tree, not the speed. The photo's a better analogy (and cool).
I'm curious how long that is going to last. Can the US not allow El Salvador to use US currency?
The "local currency" is US dollars. And now Bitcoin.
Thank you for such a kind comment, and I'm glad we can support your and the foundation's work! I've just shared this with my team, it makes everyone's day when we get feedback like this <3
as an aside: what the hell is the "o(n)" here? Some term that is proportional to n?
Cool idea. Bad patent description though:

“bicycle derailleur apparatus for controlling bicycle speed.”

Its controls torque actually. Speed depends entirely upon force applied, external road conditions and whatnot.
PDF? I'm sure we can think of more ...
It's more like a legitimately good streamer has to also be attractive to make money as a female. Not the other way around.
The article is too polite to tell the story of how Jobs really used Michael Dell's "sell the company" remark to motivate the troops:

https://lilly.tumblr.com/post/11230723028/steve-jobs
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FWIW, given my history and current payout schedules and that I die at 85 (when actuarial tables say I will) and counting the employer portion of the SS tax as tax paid and assuming I retire very soon, SS tax payed by me has a 1.4% real rate of return.

That being said, SS has some benefits that make it more attractive than other investments with that return (in that it's an inflation-indexed annuity backed by the US government), especially when mixed with my other investments.

Still not a fantastic deal for me and it will only get worse in the likely event I get more SS income over the years, but like all welfare programs it isn't meant to help someone in my current situation. Part of getting into my current situation was benefiting from welfare when I was part of a household wasn't in such an amazing situation financially.
"mistake"

I read the book written by the creators and it's pretty clear they never intended it to be a general purpose language lol. I'm paraphrasing but they basically wrote in the book "People are completely mad and are intent on using our DSL as a general programming language so we added half baked functions to it but it's bad and you should feel bad"
How would they stop them? Invade and depose the democratically elected president, then setup a puppet government to do their will?
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Typically they contain nicotine suspension and a small percentage of flavorings suspended in glycerin. It's basically the food-grade version of a fog machine at a night club (works the same way by heating a similar base to produce a mist).

I quit smoking years ago by using a vaporizer and quickly learned to mix my own liquid in order to lower costs, keep track of what was in it, and get lower nicotine than what was available in most commercial stuff at the time.

Not claiming it's as healthy as breathing fresh mountain air, but it's hardly some innately toxic "witches brew" of unknown compounds. Made a huge difference in my health and I haven't smoked in 7 or 8 years now. Sadly, despite the lengths many reputable producers of vape liquid went to regarding ingredients and preparation, many have been put out of business by harsher restrictions than those on actual smoking tobacco.
It don't wear off to 0, you're risk of hospitalization or death is far far far greater if you're unvaccinated (even with declining efficacy of catching it), the safety profiles are known to be great especially considering the hundreds of millions vaccinated, and unless you're very extreme you'll want to come out of the woods at some point.
Yes, thank you, I don't see any OCalm depart there, just depart from ReasonML is mentioned.
I can't speak for others, but I can tell you that I have been contacted by FB recruiters more than once, and turned them down every time precisely because of their reputation (and made it very clear to them, as well). I would certainly consider it a stain on my resume at this point.
Cumulative numbers since the beginning of time are kind of meaningless to evaluate risk, though. They can be useful to assess the damage when all is said and done, but risk is about the future and not the past. Also, probabilities should be per unit time, otherwise they go up forever by definition.

I think a better assessment of risk comes from the UK data https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

From Table 3, we learn that somebody unvaccinated in their 20's has a chance of 10/100,000 to end up in the hospital over a period of 28 days. So something like .1% per year. Vaccination reduces the risk by a factor of O(10), old age increases it by a factor of O(10). These data refer to a recent snapshot of a 28-day period, and I'd feel safer to assume that the next month looks more like the previous month than March 2020.
Most people who I've seen winter biking are riding some beater $100 used mountain bike into the ground during winter over a nice bike. Remove the derailleur, and there are still a lot of components all over the bike that will get fouled up with corrosion, dirt, oily sludgy snow, etc, so its better to ride something disposable during that season.
From NEJM Israeli study on Pfizer:

"In our study, definite or probable cases of myocarditis among persons between the ages of 16 and 19 years within 21 days after the second vaccine dose occurred in approximately 1 of 6637 male recipients and in 1 of 99,853 female recipients."

Moderna shot is worse then for boys. What again is the rush to vaccinate the lowest risk age group?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109730?query=re...
From the title I thought this was going to be about the sexual harrassment scandals that hit astrophysics/cosmology a while back.
Yeah I literally snorted some water I was sipping when I read that. Yikes...
I feel like this doesn’t optimize for enjoyment. Like shit this is what I ate when I was a broke in college. Are y’all not miserable eating this? At that point in my
life getting taken by my parents out to somewhere mediocre like Olive Garden was heaven.
After several officers where nearly injured/injured/killed because drivers ran into them as they were stopped on the side of the road, some states instituted laws that say you either slow down to 45 or you move over a lane.

Is that built into AutoPilot and whatever it's called on other brands? Humans have to do it, so cars should have to as well.
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Times like this I wish I were allowed to say exactly how much money a 1% fleet-wide loss in performance costs a big tech company.
Ryan Worl is offering to match up to 1K as well:
https://twitter.com/ryanworl/status/1446216478416584706

slimsag up to 500: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28792172

So I think that means if someone donates and then replies to the parent comment noting the amount, that amount will be quadrupled!
If your awk code is more than 20 lines, is it really cleaner?
It always bugs me they trot out the Mountain View crash as an example where a Model X struck an unmarked and unprotected jersey barrier end in what visually looks like a traffic lane. Further that multiple human drivers had hit the divider in the same spot and a near fatal accident occurred literally the next day into the same barrier.

If I put a brick wall on the freeway and paint it to look like a tunnel ala wil-e-coyote am I responsible for building the wall or is the driver responsible for hitting it?
Not a lawyer, but this seems like a good result for the internet.
> but it does not work like that. because you know that you would get a lot more customers if you cut your price 20-30% while keeping your profit margin.

That is very situational and hard to predict. There is a whole discipline behind this statement for figuring out the right answer.