skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they were. Each of the vaccines used around 40000 people in their trials. It is an equal to series of crash tests.

But there are effects that are so rare that do not come out unless the medicine is administered to larger group of people.

This is the reason why every approved medicine is kept under extended surveillance.
> Unless app stores kick out apps that fingerprint devices, I don't think we'll see any non-fingerprinted devices any time soon.

Talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water on making Apple and Google the equivalent of government with the ability to define the rules on all software that anyone can exist without even considering using actual government :(.
1. Gradient descent almost always finds a non optimum local min (it is not guaranteed to find a global min).
AS someone who has seen his friends for years toute crypto, but never bitten.. i did this year. (those friends have passive incomes in the 10k's per month now in crypto that can be readily exchanged for dollars)

Parallel economies exist. In the mainstream economy, your mainstream interests have every aspect of the market cornered. You only get in once they have taken all the worthwhile positions.

In the crypto economy, and yes, its a fully fledged economy and social network in 1, u can get in on the ground level and ride that hype up. You dont have to know that guy at that investment firm with that connection to that hot deal.

DeFi and the blockchain are allowing you to startup international companies in the blink of eye. Just the way traditional companies outsourced to the 3rd world, then import these goods and sell to a premium in local markets - as a crypto enterprenour u can now employ these same "call centre staff" (who were layed off in covid) to "play games for you" and you are able to pay them a HIGHER RATE then Apple or insert any any "tradtional stock" "traditional company". in phillipines for instance, you can get loans against SLP, u never need fiat. You can pay for goods at corners stores with SLP. micro-transactions in e-sports is legit and it will only get bigger.

People forget that captialists have BUILT a system and REINFORCED that system to ensure THE STATUS QUO. Crypto is about giving those people the FINGER. Those people kicked and screamed, but now they are ON BOARD. Bloomberg isnt as effective at causing a dip then say Elon though. Tether, like the real-estate markets all over the world, couldnt handle a big sell off. Covid showed that.

Sorry Bloomberg, your consoles days of cornering the market as gone! Your traders now need to keep there ear to the crypto ground, cause the crypto cultists are using there social networks to come for YOU. They can organise millions of bids in minutes. Your incumbents are not the only people who can pump and dump on retail investors. Tether is simply using tactics established by centralised finance. They poineered the China hustle years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Hustle

Lets stop pretending that the traditional stock market is built on fair and sound princples. Lets stop pretending that bankers get held to the same accountability as the ordaniary folks. These tradtionalists are incumberant in every aspect of the mainstream socio-poltical life. Like, the whole stock section of the nightly news is just as a way placate the general public and further there position and ideaology. One that preys on moms and pops and superannuation schemes.
Plenty of cryptocurrency enthusiasts read HN, and some might flag negative press.
> Why are we putting so much faith into the statements and research of pharmaceutical companies

Nobody is.

Regulators are largely looking at facts on the ground before making decisions.

But since the vaccines are proven to be safe given hundreds of millions of doses there is a lot more willingness to trust them.
Unlike heating up balloons filled with different gases - climate change isn't something that can be demonstrated easily. I don't disagree with your statement in general, but when it comes to climate change I'm offended by any contrarian who passively sits back in their chair and shouts "prove it" - you aren't owed that.
Would the way to counter this be using a default / well-known wallpaper? You'd have the same the wallpaper "ID" as several others who stick to the default wallpaper.
lol this is literally all false. toys - no, the gi-joe does not improve anyone's mental capacity.
sports - are mostly played because people all over the world spend billions per year watching them. the athletes who play them end up with a damaged body, permanent injuries, and lots of back problems after 30.
playing poker - the old man losing his house in vegas is training. gotcha.
now, bitcoin mining - people want to do it, people are paying money for the energy to do it, and that's all you need to know.
It's not sufficient to cherry pick an example of agreement to refute the original comment. There are obviously many things scientists agree on, but there are also many complicated things scientists disagree on, especially when it comes down to the details. The key point is that the public tends to treat science and scientists as monolithic in their views. The truth is far different and there is an enormous amount of diversity in thought and lots of debate within the scientific community on many, many topics.
Mnuchin Says Crypto Stablecoins “Shouldn't Be Like Casino Chips”
LOL !

"The chief financial officer is Giancarlo Devasini, a former plastic surgeon from Italy who was once described on Tether’s website as the founder of a successful electronics business.

The only reference to him that turned up in a search of Italian newspapers showed he was once fined for selling counterfeit Microsoft software.

Elsewhere on the website, there’s a letter from an accounting firm stating that Tether has the reserves to back its coins, along with a pie chart showing that about $30 billion of its dollar holdings are invested in commercial paper—short-term loans to corporations. That would make Tether the seventh-largest holder of such debt, right up there with Charles Schwab and Vanguard Group.

To fact-check this claim, a few colleagues and I canvassed Wall Street traders to see if any had seen Tether buying anything. No one had. “It’s a small market with a lot of people who know each other,” said Deborah Cunningham, chief investment officer of global money markets at Federated Hermes, an asset management company in Pittsburgh. “If there
were a new entrant, it would be usually very obvious.”"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
A mouse model linking the myocarditis risk of covid mRNA vaccines to accidental IV injection:

https://www.researchhub.com/paper/1266246/intravenous-inject...
1. You are correct, there are two different perspectives: 1. designer of channel (what most of Shannon work is about) and it deals with what you called 'potential information' and 2. message receiver/sender perspective.

2. True

3. Very true, using psychological terms like 'surprise' or in general psychological terms in strict theories is very often misleading but tempting becasue any reader can always contribute something (like own interpretation) to such theories so later he is personly/emotionaly bounded to it more.
> However, aspiration and status-seeking are things that are much more universal, and they've figured out how to milk those. Good for them.

Sorry, I find this idea distasteful as it is very disrespectful to the "student".

The Masterclass courses are neither cheap nor short. Most of them don't seem to be very good, either. An actual teacher can provide some tailoring and motivation, as well.

Spending the same amount of time and money with a local voice coach instead of with Christina Aguilera's Masterclass (which isn't very good) is going to be far more productive for a singer.

I suspect the rest of the Masterclasses are the same.

Of course, none of this is new. The "Hot Licks" series of guitar videos did this like ... 30 years ago? And similarly, most of the videos are garbage, but a few are amazing (Jimmy Bruno and Emily Remler spring to mind--Emily Remler talking about all the stuff she did while spending an entire year to fix her "broken rhythm" (that any of us mortals would kill to have) was enlightening).
It isn’t just children, I’ve heard plenty of adults say they believe the world will be basically destroyed in 30 years and have heard countless others say they aren’t having children because climate change will be so bad they don’t want to subject them to the hellish conditions expected.
From the article:

>“They shouldn’t be like casino chips,” Mnuchin said Thursday at the Bloomberg Invest Global virtual conference. “If you are going to issue a stablecoin, the actual money should go be held in a regulated bank, in a trust account and the people who hold the stablecoins should be able to exchange those for real dollars at any time.”

[...]

“Stablecoins should be invested in U.S. Treasuries or things that look like U.S. Treasuries -- money-markets of highly liquid, backed investments,” said Mnuchin.
PG seems to be the only person who has built a successful business using Lisp. While thousands of successful companies are using C++/Java/.. etc. why do you think so few companies have succeeded with Lisp?
> and whatever happens becomes a lesson learned that the Navy trains on in the future.

Former enlisted here. Unfortunately death by power point doesn't solve the problem of overworked sailors.
Typically though other image formats have better options. gif, apng, webm, etc (and chrome killed support for the non image case). The main place x-mixed-replace makes sense is a dead simple webcam that takes a picture every x seconds. Even then, in the modern world it probably makes more sense to just implement some streaming video stuff. MJPEG is not bandwidth efficient.
Buybacks are dividends. There are no companies that have no plan to ever offer buybacks or dividends.
That's fantastic sharpshooting. One instance of assumption (that wildfires are caused by climate change) doesn't refute the human impact on climate change.

In addition, science has not yet made a conclusion on the forest fires (the governor may well be proven right), and the Siberian feedback loop is a wildfire and was caused by climate change.

The governor ignorantly commented on an unknown. Deniers deny known facts. There is a huge difference.
See: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services
Thanks, this is informative!
I mean, I don’t think you’re wrong; I think the main reason that people haven’t complained that much about being stuck with epoll is that a lot of this is somewhat abstracted nowadays. I’ve only used epoll once to play with it, and most of the time when I need nonblocking IO, I use Java NIO or Netty or something. I generally do not care about how pretty the underlying code powering these things is as long as it works and as long as my code is pretty.

Granted, that’s not really a good excuse for Linux having a crappy system, just why I think there wasn’t ever a ton of urgency for it.
Not that I entirely disagree with you, but.... It is easy to fabricate consensus on objective issues when you wrap them in subjective language, such as "at low velocities".

Who is the objective authority on what constitutes "low"? You are. It is subject to your own interpretation, as is the consensus- a different point of view might cap "low" as being higher than what you do, and as such will see no such consensus, or see the consensus as blatantly wrong.
Drink the water.

Look around. This whole thread is about how the tradeoff of artificial sweetener is worse than you think it is. In toto it's pretty bad in fact. There is no 'health case' for diet soda. The person who put those four words next to each other in your brain was in marketing, probably when you were still a kid.

There's a hedonic treadmill with sweets. If you stop consuming processed food with refined sugar for a while, the common complaint is that they are too sweet to drink. We have to acclimate ourselves to drinking soda regularly. Can you see how screwed up that is?

Artificial sweetener is trying to keep our unhealthy relationship with sweets but cut out the consequences (or rather, trade them for other consequences).
you dont need a license or any degree to make a web page
Note that "existential threat" has a technical meaning which excludes things that cause the collapse of your economy, livelihood, and way of life, as well as causing hundreds of millions of people to die. So, "climate change is not an existential threat" doesn't contract even the claim that climate change is the most serious threat that humanity currently faces. :-)

But it's also true that pretty much no scientists believe that climate change is an existential threat, and also true that people can be punished for pointing that out.
In Montreal I have no idea but in Sherbrooke the salaries are generally low, I make ~90k (plus a solid, well managed, pension plan) and work for one of the best employer in the city.

I could look into remote work but I am quite confortable where I am. I love the 35 hours workweek, the 21 days of paid time off, the week and a half around Christmas, my private office with a marble window sills (that I will use only 2 days a week when the telework plan is finally officialized) , the 7 minutes commute, the low cost of life and my beer aficionado colleagues.
Wouldn't be bad to have more lawyers and doctors.
"While solving problems, new problems persist"

Duh, that's reality. There's no pinnacle. We solve problems forever or we are all erased from reality.
Tesla to Move Headquarters to Austin, Texas, Musk Says
It turned out that 26 of those 27 scientists who signed the Lancet letter had undisclosed conflicts of interests due to connections with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9980015/26-Lancet-s...). Chief among them Peter Daszak, President of Ecohealth Alliance, whom we now know was involved in gain of function research with WIV that involved SARS-like viruses that could bind to the ACE2 receptor (https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jvi.02582-15).
Notably, Tesla cars have never used Lidar, which is a lot more precise than radar, but it costs more.
That presumably depends on where you live. For example:

> In the UK, driving or attempting to drive whilst above the legal limit of 0.08% BAC in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 0.05% BAC in Scotland or unfit through drink carries a maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment, a fine of up to £5,000 and a minimum twelve months' disqualification.
> when the government is constantly defunded more power is handed to private corporations.

Defunded?

Please correct me I'm wrong, but I think that the overall Federal Budget has risen dramatically in this time period.
Odd, I would think a lot of companies would target this Demographic. If I’m selling knives, trucks, atvs, boats, hunting and fishing supplies, farm equipment these are my people. It would seem like a great Demographic to for advertisers. I don’t understand why they would censor it.
Myocarditis is not fatal, and not permanent.
I’d prefer we completely get rid of work hours.

Just tell me what we need to get done, I’ll do it, remotely of course. I’ve had various companies expect me to work extra hours for no additional pay , while never offering an extra day off.

Hell , I’d be down to do a 80 hour week if I know my average week is only 20 hours
There's a ton of space between "the world will be basically destroyed" and "conditions will be pretty bad for many people in the next few generations", but that space is kind of hard for many of us to imagine or talk about.
Eager, but not "too." Reading this site I see very little interest from developers in professionalizing their industry. That would require standards bodies, licensing, and many other layers of management and cruft.

Personally, I'd say good on developers for welcoming all comers. Hack the planet, you know?
I would argue that he was in opposition to the corruption of language and thought period. It doesn't matter by whom. It does not matter if those who abuse other are fascists, communists or capitalists. Left and Right are not sane political words, they are the very thing he criticized.

Orwell was a well reflected critical thinker and he spent a lot of time studying propaganda, social-political-philosophy and the life and reality of the lower class. He was a social-liberal but not a free-market-libertarian. These words have far more meaning then left and right. But more even then a social-liberal he was against "ideological-identity-ism" for lack of a better word.

Those who believe he was primarily an author of dystopian fiction should probably read "The Road to Wigan Pier" for some dystopian non-fiction. Those who claim to know his political opinions should read his collected essays. Anyone who can think critically will not not agree with all of them, but the world would be a better place if more people agreed with some of them.
It'd be interesting to see Google decide to charge a premium for ads on climate denial videos - pass on no more than the normal share... and put the extra earnings towards fighting climate change. Essentially: a climate change denial tax.
There's been decades to make a decent and well recognized credential like lawyers/doctors but the industry was having none of it, so I guess we are getting "commoditized".
But you need to be connected through the ethernet port, and not through wifi, right?
Circumstances are more complicated than I wish to go into here, but everyone did well at their jobs, so I have no latent upset with anyone over it.
Silly question, could it have been an animal? Would hitting a full-grown blue whale or anything less at 30 knots cause such a disturbance? Also is there any way to detect marine life at close proximity?

I saw the story about USS San Francisco earlier today and that led me to reading about the USS Thresher... Really sad story but it led to changes that years later resulted in the USS SF surviving intact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)
For 25-35 year olds Americans COVID-19 has been the most likely cause of nonviolent death.
Don't neglect the .01% you get back after 40 minutes. Otherwise it is as if you are considering a scenario where 2 to 3 drinks are being downed in quick succession.
Were any of the person-driven accidents fatal, do you know?
USDA/AHA > Tucker Carlson (who is vaccinated BTW)

> If you want to listen to a bunch of well meaning morons ...

Oh the irony. The sad reality is that anti-vaxxers are highly susceptible to being manipulated and that is actively happening by people who are completely hyprocritically doing so for their own personal gain.

Every living president (including Trump) and governor is vaccinated. All but 3 Senators are vaccinated. All but a handful of Congresspeople are vaccinated. Fox News has a vaccine mandate for their office. Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham... all vaccinated.

Yet they're happy to play into irrational fears for their own empowerment and enrichment. That's all that's happening here.
> If these were caveman times and those people were drinking from a different stream, we would tell them not to drink from it.

Fortunately our understanding of statistics has advanced somewhat since the time of the caveman.
My experience as well. I worked in industries (Games development) where no open-source or proprietary solutions existed for what we needed. So we built it ourselves. It wasn’t that hard and we never had problems with it because it did 100% exactly what we needed and nothing else. If any new feature was needed we simply added it. I would routinely get an ask from a programmer, artist, musician or game designer and would have it implemented and a new version ready for them within a day or two. The productivity gains were immense.
I am so tired of people implying that they believe in science. Science is not a religion requiring belief.

Science is a way of postulating that something may be real given the a available evidence. A true scientist should be ready to change their understanding of “real” when presented with new evidence.

Belief or faith is trusting something is real without evidence and is the antithesis of science.
wow, what a jerk. this is some seriously classist BS right here..
> Read the whole comment I replied to. There is no one trying to just censor conservative opinions, they are trying to censor conservative misinformation.

Exactly. There's there a popular bit of spin that tries defend mis/disinformation by confusing it with political opinion.

One of the signs of American decline and weakness is how several bits of blatant mis/disinformation have lodged themselves in the conservative discourse, and the conservatives who have problem with that are too weak to do anything about it.

I'm not saying that couldn't also be true of liberals, but that doesn't and shouldn't mean conservatives are off the hook for their own problems.
The US has been off the gold standard for a long time.
> Tether says (or at least used to) that they have 1USD in the bank for every tether issued.

Yeah, they've since walked away from that particular claim (which was a lie). They do not have 1USD in a bank account for every USDT issued.
No, this doesn’t work. You’re not short USDT/USD in the above which is what people really mean when they say short Tether (since we’re talking about losing the peg).

You’re already short USDT anytime you buy crypto in USDT terms (i.e. BTC/USDT). But if Tether nukes, and you’re long BTC/USDT you will likely lose a lot of money, even if BTC/USDT goes to the moon. Why? Because BTC in terms of all other fiat (BTC/USD) will implode.

You must have a short crypto vs long fiat leg to net off and leave you with a true Tether vs fiat structure.
Advertising bring out the worse aspects of popular culture as can be seen by these examples... which leads to the following "prediction": in 80 years there will be a similar posting to the then-version of HN, bearing the same title. The ads will be different though, they'll show examples of how men, preferably white men, were being portrayed as bumbling no-good-for-nothing idiots who only survive because there are women around to help them along. It is as if the creatives had a look at those old ads and thought 'good idea, we just need to adapt it to current popular culture'.

Good ads did exist, once... but they did not take creatives to make them. Computer Shopper magazine was a good example of such ads, a phone-book sized tome filled with data sheets which included pricing. Those ads served their purpose, so much so that people actually spent money to buy the magazine which only contained ads. OK, that might describe most glossy magazines but in this case people actually bought the thing because of the ads, not despite the ads.
Isn’t the current best practice to train highly over-parametrized models to zero training error?
That’d be a global optima, no?

Unless we’re talking about the optima of test error.
I just let my year-long usenet subscription lapse after signing up thinking it might be like when I was at university back in the 1990s.

Hahahahahahahahaha

It’s a complete wasteland of meaningful discussion, everything is spam or pirate porn or copy-pasted nonsense. I have no idea what you would legitimately use it for now.
You're correct - but that funding is being more concentrated in certain segments of the government and national programs like what could host video sharing have thus been impossible to conceive of.

Also - the overall budget is a terrible thing to go by since wars cost a boatload of money.
The short answer is yes, the bar for a developer is much, much lower than for a lawyer, a doctor, or an accountant, requiring much less training. Doesn't mean that there aren't some forms of development that require considerable skill and experience, but many positions just don't.
For lawyers, passing the Bar and education are just one requirement. In some cases your criminal record simply classes you as not "good moral character" and you are denied admission to the Bar or school (w/o significant effort)