skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CDC admits that there has been severe cardiac damage to young people from the mRNA vaccines.

This leads to an obvious series of questions: just how dangerous is COVID for children? What mechanism is causing this heart damage? Could heart damage be happening without diagnosis, and manifest later? In a year, will we be able to fix this problem with the vaccines, or have protocols to prevent it? Are the vaccines more likely to cause permanent damage in children, than COVID, as opposed to temporary health problems? Are the non-mRNA vaccines completely de-risked from the proposition from causing permanent harm to children? Will CDC guidance in a year guide parents away from mRNA vaccines and towards different ones? Is there a correlating variable we will discover so we know which specific population of children would get heart damage from this? Etc.

https://twitter.com/cdcgov/status/1306689138612203520

More recent paper I found: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.0...

More questions: given this known to manifest in younger people, could it imply that age is inversely correlated with frequency? Will young children be less likely to report or articulate symptoms, even if they have increased risk? Given it seems sex coupled, is there an underlying variable correlated with sex that is a root cause we will soon understand, resulting in a vast risk reduction for parents who will be able to know if their children apply?

People claiming you can know if vaccination is a good idea or not for your kids have primitive mental models: the choice isn't to vaccinate or not vaccinate, but vaccinate now or (maybe) vaccinate later. When something is risk laden on both sides and is a dynamic system, the smart choice may be to wait if the marginal de-risking per unit time is high.

My personal view is that wrt children taking mRNA vaccines, there's basically close to free "money on the table" - wait a few months. If you've avoided COVID until now, its pretty unlikely your kids will catch it, nevermind be unlucky enough to get a severe case, which is extremely unlikely. On the other hand, it could turn out in a few months we identify the root cause of the heart issues of the vaccines, or alternative vaccines become available that de-risk it entirely. In any case, personal views aside, it's incredibly immoral to mandate this for schools, and it wouldn't surprise me if CA does this before we fully understand what is going on.
> Are you completely fine with incest between consenting adults?

The act, yes. The only argument I can think of against it would be that a birth resulting from such a union would carry a very high risk of defect. Assuming effective birth control, it's none of my business.

> How about self-mutilation?

Yes, without reservation.

> Is it strictly wrong to prevent people from committing suicide?

Yes.
Which is very reasonable. The SaaS product for comment moderation on a very niche site hasn't arrived yet (afaik. links welcome). Realistically though, you've outsourced the cost of that that work to dang/the team on HN. Which is what I'd do, but I wonder how dang feels about providing that as a service.
LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha1 is ready for testing
Yeah, gimme one sec and I will draft up a white paper on drafting whitepapers
When writing the first line in a new project,

one in an instant adds thousands of bugs :- )
To answer just what you have in your post with what is the lives reality of people of Switzerland:

- anyone who can get 100k people to agree with them decides what to put on the ballot

- the parliament, which can shunt responsibility to the people after a best effort

- courts, politicians, in the end additional referenda settle disputes

District gerrymandering is also a uniquely Anglosphere-related problem that doesn't cause nearly as many problems in Germany, Switzerland etc

With no offense intended, us nerds on Hackernews tend to lose track of the simple solution ala "just ask people", "let people have a discussion", "common sense will sort it out over decades" while the rest of the population has no problems with things which aren't easily formalized
I’ve enjoyed all 4 of these articles in this “Jackpot” series. Sort of exploratory writing. You can feel that he’s trying to find the truth, not necessarily convince. Plus it’s like all Gibsonian references.
Is it not tyrannical to prevent you from selling copies of Lord of the Rings without paying the author by that same logic?

If the majority of society was in favour of tracking everything then the opponents of that would have the same options of lobbying to change people's minds. As seen in the difference between end user reactions to GDPR vs ACTA, that seems like it would be much easier.
pink and blue were gender neutral.

pink was common for men, being associated as a shade of red to show masculinity

numerous articles and books on the subject (some other tidbits, FDR wore a dress when he was young as it was common for boys at the time until age 6/7)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/025300117X

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/08/pink-wasnt...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-s...
Somehow the rest of us manage to get quite useful work done in Go.

What’s your daily driver?
So you think that the nearly ubiquitous peeping-Tom laws are unjust? You see no purpose to them?
Thinking in 'First Principles' According to Elon Musk
I haven't read the paper, but why is comparing to dementia relevant at all?
It addresses the false dichotomy between checklist and full automation. Documentation loves to spawn future copies and variants, while scripts tend to remain single-source.
Frankly given the work I've done demonstrating the anti science direction policy has taken and the work I've done to call out the bad "science" since the start you should be thankful for the work I've done.

As for further "resistance" as soon as the 5G anti-vax nutters started i started looking out for me by putting money in the bank. My response from idiots insulting me over the last 2 years is too stop carrying about _your_ freedoms being taken. I'm looking out for me and I've had it with people pretending to understand topics without at least reading and properly understanding article summaries...
It's not part of the standard library, but Swift has the first-party ArgumentParser[0]. Other languages could use a similar model (though what "first party" means for JavaScript is unclear).

[0]: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser
I feel like a big problem here is that the Getting Started starts with a bunch of code that just... outputs a bare button. Starting with something like a combobox would show much more value.
Oh, I’d forgotten about that one! Right, those are X200 but she’s apparently got an announcement soon. Maybe X220? If so, yep, that would do it.

Why I got stuck on X220? Had been upgrading regularly since X40, but stopped when they got to the last of the V8 Interceptors, know what I mean?
Good one! I promise to wait for it right here until you get back!
You literally just said that the alternative is public funding.
Are you looking for something as simple as GET is for fetching data and POST is for inserts? Or something beyond that (state, idempotency,...)?
Government school.

In home I had no one to teach me maths (parents had elementary school education and doing farming work).

But here in India government schooling is pretty good if you have interest to learn. Everything from textbooks was free.

What we were told was, until 10th grade, to learn English and Mathematics properly. Then I got into CS and that's a different story.

Government school teachers were pretty good, I learned a lot of English, science and mathematics from books in libraries and borrowed by other people as well.

Still not comparable to those who could crack olympiads and high level exams, but it doesn't take spoon feeding from 5 years of age, to grow an interest in math.
Only if someone is violating the law by driving too closely too fast to brake in time though.
The store doesn't bar you from entering & shopping without a membership card. If they did, it could very well be that the GDPR would equally apply and forbid them from mandatory data collection as a prerequisite for shopping there.
They have a blog post about the open source license they chose: GNU Affero General Public License V3 (AGPLv3).

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses

From their blog post:

> If you used AGPL-licensed code in your web service in the cloud, you are required to open source it. It basically prevents corporations that never had any intention to contribute to open source from profiting from the open source work.

> It explicitly prohibits corporations from parasitically competing with an open source project. They won’t be able to take the code, make changes to it and sell it as a competing product without contributing those changes back to the original project. [emphasise mine]

The blog post above was discussed heavily on Hacker News back in Oct 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763734
It seems there's a general trend towards this sort of thing. Sort of like how red flag laws are popping up everywhere - use civil proceedings that bypass protections under the criminal system, don't tell the person about the hearing so they can't defend themselve in court, and don't even require any real evidence just vague unverified statements by others.
I graduated college in 2007, into the recession.

Back then, no one wanted to take a chance on someone who was inexperienced, which created an ugly dynamic where recent grads would be out of work for long periods of time, and it only got worse as time went on in unemployment, making for a negative feedback loop. A grad with 6 months to a year without post graduate experience was basically damaged goods.

At the same time, the millennial generation was in the news a lot, where the media were saying we were entitled, selfish, etc etc.

So it was like you were unlucky and disliked at the same time.

One time, I had some feedback that I thought would have helped the team I was working with - I was dismissed and told by my baby boomer boss that I needed to "pay my dues" before acting like I knew what I was doing. I had 6 years of experience at the time, though about 9 months at that company (though he had less than a year at the company). There were a couple of instances like that.

I think since the recession, the generations that were hiring after the recession (baby boomers and generation x) have been been conditioned to not trust less experienced (read: younger) people, and that attitude never changed. That's why you see articles like this - author seems to be from gen-x and is worried about pay for senior engineers in his cohort, but I am happy that less-experienced (younger) people will get the opportunity to work at a company like red hat.

Nowadays, it doesn't feel like companies want to take the on the "risk" or inconvenience of training inexperienced people, excluding Bay Area tech companies where the average age is in the 20s. Interestingly, those are the companies that are doing really well right now.

This feels like a dynamic unique to this time - legacy orgs are basically content with getting older [1]. There's a sense pessimism too nowadays, that it makes me wonder if the generations older than mine are afraid of the younger generation taking their jobs and / or driving down wages.

[1] https://twitter.com/uberfacts/status/1348723228924108808
FINALLY!

* Additional languages in the language list:

Klingon
It’s hilarious how a bunch of “investors” put together some money, invented a whole corpus of fictional vocabulary to replace existing concepts, slapped a web 3 label on it and voila - the most profitable global scam is born.
White paper sounds cooler
Super cool! I've had quite a few wearables myself so I'm a huge fan of what you are doing.

What does the onboarding time look like? And also curious if Terra works with Webhooks or http?
I've also seen a thread claiming that CPU C-states are screwed up after wake from S3. So it seems CPU sleep is buggy all around.
The solution, of course, is to give our virtual avatars virtual smartphones that they carry around in their virtual pocket, running virtual versions of Insta, FB, their text message apps, and even their calling app. You could do all of those things from within VR, no more isolated than before. Arguably less isolated, in fact.
I updated the Wikipedia article to reflect this coming problem. It won't be just ISO 9660. There are tons of software out there that measures their date since 1900 - the question is how much of it uses a single signed byte?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu...
You can still serve ads (based on the content of the webpage for example). They just shouldn't collect nor process any personal data.
What do you mean ? You mean I should have avoided using QString ? I created a program once and I wanted to be pure c++ in the algorithm part so I used the std::string there but I suppose some C dev will tell me that char[] is faster.

Usualy QObject based classes are needed to get the GUI working.
DigitalNote: Building a Hybrid Blockchain with Masternode Support
Effectively communicating a complex idea is a skill that's orthogonal to coming up with good ideas.

I advise other engineers, especially those early in their careers, to actively develop and hone their communication skills. It deserves far more focus than most people seem to give it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Act

The letter of the law says a judge or doctor has to initiate it, but the doctors often do it after a suggestion from a parent. I knew people in high school that were stuck in there for days without consent.
Yes, I figured that out long after my original post.

It's just that Sam's post didn't mention any (semi-)novel method for generating electricity from fusion, so the actual words - "they and their team have built a generator that produces electricity" - appear as either hype or non-information outside that context.
The title chosen for the submission is part of the end of the abstract, and with the elision seems to miss the point: «Thus, greater cognitive ability is generally advantageous - and virtually never detrimental».

Actual title:
Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes
I don't think Debian's automatic updates do major release upgrades automatically, do they? Those IIRC do require manual intervention - if nothing else you need to run the installer & possibly respond to prompts, but possibly more depending on your system.
Curious to know what programming languages he has under his belt / regularly uses.
As someone who soaks up information as a sponge, there's a wealth of knowledge to be gained from experts in their field, interactively, and access to Slack at a fintech company provides that in piles. I'm curious, how much time would you say you spend on slack/how do you interact with that?
I would love to hear from one of the Adobe team members about this. Are there separate React teams and WC teams? What’s that dynamic like? It feels like Photoshop on the web has been framed as ‘powered by web components’, rather than WCs being a minor detail. This post mentions “islands of React code” as if React is a legacy thing they have to put up with https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/
Due to my quirky position as a foreigner who works in the financial industry in Japan I will not comment on structural sources for observed pricing discipline, but if you're interested in this topic, you may enjoy the Japan Fair Trade Commission's writing on it: https://www.jftc.go.jp/en/pressreleases/yearly-2019/March/Su... It's an active area for them, according to their public statements.
The problem is closed book exams, not calculus itself, right?
The article says "During Q&A, the future attacker asked a few very legit, on topic questions".
But attackers are not dumb. They would circumvent whether loose checks the package manager may have. Just considering your suggestion, the obvious immediate exploit is to not deploy the attack payload right away. Nothing you will think of will evade defeat.
The way you praise them is so condescending. "western ideals", yes they're so superior they have "western ideals", ideals that trump all other ideals, the best ideals in the world.
Increasingly a fan of these dead simple, almost shoddy html pages. Haphazard but minimal.
I've started to see intelligence as a multiplier. Which is why it so often correlates to better life outcomes across all other factors.

While being intelligent won't make you successful on its own, anything you want to do is helped by being intelligent.
I did miss that, oops. That said, it's again unclear if that curve is pre- or post- biased sampling. If it is on the original data it is quite good, but with a heavy biased sample fairly meaningless.
Canadian startup is tackling the problem of NFT authentication
Artizyou is a Montreal-based platform for creators of all stripes. Our platform has been providing blockchain intellectual property certificates to creators for years, and we’re looking to bring our expertise to the world of NFTs, helping creators address NFTs’ inherent legal issues with the introduction of the NFC, Non-Fungible Certificate. We have partnered with companies like Deloitte and Algorand to tackle intellectual property security, and we have also recently launched our own coin, Artizcoin, with our IDO active on Binance Pancakeswap until 30 November 2021. Artizyou regulates all manner of creations using time-stamped IP proof-of-ownership certification immutably preserved in the blockchain. Additionally, we incorporate conventional copyright where available, as well as legal consultation and AI unauthorized use detection. We had the foresight to develop technology years ago in order to address some of the digital ownership issues many have failed to notice until now. In the future, we hope to open an Artizstore for all digital assets and increase the functionality of our coin.
1. Turn off everything that has a CPU

2. Unplug the router

3. Use analog tools

4. Pick an album on physical media and just let it play
> No Jews live in Palestine.

Israel is literally occupied Palestine.
I don’t really have any intensive tasks, unless you include VNC to the mothership, 80 browser tabs and all-day video calls from the hotel bar ;)
I realized it's meaning once I read the article, but I don't think abbreviations should be used in article titles. Things like APA style guides state you shouldn't use abbreviations in titles, it should be accessible to non-experts.
Hey, that's a great idea (to have lots of components for different CSS frameworks)!

Though it wouldn't benefit herotofu / would be unrelated sto the project so I doubt that it'll happen :)
FSD has been released to private beta testers for well over 2 years now. The 100/100 safety score is just the newest criteria for getting in.

>at any second it can slam into a head-on with someone going the opposite way

That would actually be newsworthy.
Užupis
There are lots of places where the no asshole rule is absent from workplace culture.
> what languages beside Python and Go provide Command line argument parsing?

Even POSIX gives you getopt(1) and getopt(3). What other language doesn't? I can only think of Java.
There are several problems, but a big one is just the way the news works. ICUs are designed to run at near capacity and are overwhelmed all the time if, for example, there's a big car accident. Right now, all eyes are on the pandemic and I'm sure it's true that there's places in the country where ICUs are full up with pandemic patients. But the way the news cycle works, "ICUs at capacity with COVID patients" gets a lot more clicks than "ICUs in this hospital are always at capacity, but now they are at capacity with COVID."

Also, there's been a couple of big hoaxes that have circulated like the one about how ERs were full of Ivermectin ODs and they were turning away car accident victims.

Here's the actual real-time-ish data of ICUs for the country:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-...

Right now the national average for ICUs is 68% occupancy. Also from that article:

>The national average I.C.U. occupancy in 2010 was 67 percent, according to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, though the occupancy baseline changes depending on the place, time of year and size of hospital.
Asking the other party if they registered a new device to their username called "Gameboy Advance SP" so you know your convo isn't leaking.
Could the feeling that you lack control of your circumstances be a contributing factor, and could the clumsy application of this kind of algorithm further diminish a teen's sense of control?
New Garbage Collector (2012)
Exactly. I am surprised that the 'devs' can't figure out a way to block only annoying/excessive scrapers. Most likely they are just lazy and then just put 3rd party 'solution' and job done. Pay me.
One of the thing I wish was really much easier to do with NPM is, when running `npm update`, to only pick up the most recent compatible versions from X days ago.

That is, for sensitive apps, I don't want to use versions that are less than, say, a month or so old unless I specifically override it. I want to stay up-to-date but not too bleeding edge, specifically to avoid situations like this.
Some of these patterns remind me of Hawaiian shirt patterns. Is there an influence, in either direction or from some third point? Or are the patterns shaped by the same production technology? Or am i imagining it?
The Periodic Table of Fictional Elements
Ask HN: What are some investigative / detective career in Software Engineering
I am currently a software developer. One thing I noticed is that I really enjoy is debugging and figuring out the root cause of unexpected issues.

I think piecing everything together, unravelling the mystery and thinking outside the box for solutions really appeal to me.

I am wondering if there's any career path that would involve a lot of detective, investigative work but also leverage my programming skill? The closest one that I can think of is maybe data science (i.e. gaining insights from analyzing data).

Something like this would be really cool but I don't think it's for software developers and is limited to a specific platform. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCR_LBzur-k)
Textbook manifesto by Allen B. Downey
Thanks, I didn't knew that story.
Idk my Thinkpad works pretty good with Mac. The main pain point is getting the correct wifi card. 35 bucks later and I have an airport card in it that works perfectly. Handoff, airdrop, the whole thing.

Trackpad works as good as in windows, but a Mac one is still better. The touch screen works, and track point works too. Battery life is the same or better than windows because I’m not burning CPU time on background updates unless I chose to.

I haven’t tried a dock, but HDMI out works fine.
Scaling hotstar.com for 25M concurrent viewers (2019)
Here is a concise summary of the classification methods and results of the paper:

> Modeling was conducted with a variety of machine learning algorithms using the scikit-learn library: K-Nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, and DecisonTreeClassifier, as well as XGBoost and LightGBM. Models were trained and tuned on the train and validation splits, evaluating only once on the held-out test set for our final numbers.

Direct link to ROC figure:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/...