skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BMJ article is light on conclusions and is mostly just a report of facts. In the way of true conclusions I can find these:

> Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.

> for researchers who were testing Pfizer’s vaccine at several sites in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety

Which of these conclusions do you think make zero sense? The entire rest of the article looks like a recitation of facts to me.
Can you provide a reference for this, as I thought the boosters were just the original vaccines, hence exactly the same antibodies.

Yesterday I read that the customised omicron specific boosters being developed by pfizer and moderna are not going ahead as the existing boosters are deemed good enough, though I can't find the link for that now.
Of course not. There are no such things as "Democracies" anywhere in the world.

Those that tout themselves as "Democracies" are in fact "Oligarchies".
I have barely used it but that's not for trying. I have no idea why (possibly my subtype of dyslexia?), but I have severe problems parsing the layout of the Zulip message history/chat. It's a pretty bizarre sensation that I've experienced nowhere else.
Google don’t delete. They make unavailable.

If a judge said that owning that video was probable cause or whatever, they could produce every user who used to have that file.
Yup, mine got deleted a couple of weeks before my 42nd birthday, as they had determined I was under 13. I'd only been on it a year. The form for uploading my ID didn't work, just said "Sorry, please try again later" until the deadline for appeals had passed. Tried all kinds of file formats. Absolutely no idea what triggered it, or what I could have done differently.

Facebook is a once-a-week dumpster dive of community / friend news that I always follow up in other ways, so I'm investing even less in it this time round!
Yes, it would be very nice if we could all understand important things without misunderstandings based on personal biases or misinformation.

In the meantime, debating without harassing each other is the best way forward.
Pfizer to test third-dose of Covid mRNA Vaccine on Infants and young Children
> when a revolution starts, the participants have zero idea of whether or not its going to be bloody or relatively bloodless.

I think that's rarely the case, at least not when the people starting the revolution are reasonably sane (by which I mean they have a reasonably good grasp of reality and use that to guide their actions). I think the people in Eastern Europe who started "revolutions" when the Soviet Union fell had a pretty good idea that little or no bloodshed would be required.

It's quite possible that the people who started the French Revolution didn't realize how much blood would be shed, but to me that just means those people were not reasonably sane. And there is plenty of other evidence that they were disconnected from reality.

(By contrast, I think the people who started the Russian Revolution, and the Communist revolution in China, were well aware that much bloodshed would be required, and they were perfectly OK with that. That makes them reasonably sane by my definition, but it does make them "insane" by other definitions--psychopathic or sociopathic, for example.)
China pressures Germany's Continental to cut out Lithuania – sources
Yeah, they'll just pay it and head to the Christmas party. Quick email to someone in accounting to do a wire transfer.
Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
Google is going to go down in history as an example of what can go wrong by using advertising (scams) to fund "free services."

The censorship is getting unbelievable.
yes, it is a common problem, it is acknowledged in the function's documentation:
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/math/#Base.isapprox
...which is what floors me when Google made this statement. I thought the whole benefit of their Google drive system was deduplication of common files to minimize storage space costs. If they start tinkering with private files then people have no choice but to encrypt everything.

This will cause their storage requirement to explode. However, if the goal is only to prevent public sharing of content in contravention of the user agreement then I'm surprised it took them this long to implement this.
Yeah, I think this speaks to a much broader problem with how we attribute value in our society.

Monetary value has no bearing on actual value. For example, a smartphone is only $1000 because some people were paid $0 to produce it. Did those people not produce value? Take a fast food hamburger, it only costs $1 because it's not real meat (mostly), and the person who heated it up is being paid a wage with which they cannot afford reasonable housing and healthy food.
Everybody knows now that the left media "fact check" is just a censorship.
I'd like to see Congress investigating all that shit, but that probably won't happen.
Todd Weaver is such a con artist.
We landed on The Moon!!!
I guess what i meant was why gp had this motivation while their peers didn't, what is the difference.
I think we have a disagreement about the number of problems. I agree with you at to the 0th iteration but in the particular example of alcohol, the externalities are so large, the perturbation is important and we should make sure the model is “as simple as possible, but no simpler”.

So your statement “If someone is being belligerent or otherwise disruptive in a public space, whether or not they're drinking alcohol should not be a factor”

Please find a different example, or, if you believe in the goal of improving human society, please revise that statement. Belligerence and other disruptiveness involving alcohol should be tracked, because it can reveal the deeper problem that is present in some (honestly, many) cases of public belligerence and disruptiveness once a trend is established. Saving lives is important all on it’s own.
>Tesla's "FSD" has the "capability to drive a vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator,"

Tesla doesn't not have this capability, after few seconds not having your hands on the steering wheel , or not watching on the road , or not having a driver in a sight of camera it will ban you fron FSD Beta. It also monitors if you're using your Phone and warn you for that and after ban. This feature alone makes FSD safer compares to regular human :)
Steve Jobs wasn’t the innovator he was the guy trying to keep everything for Apple from a business perspective which you said should be distinguished from the people doing the actual innovative work. Also it’s an understatement to say that Steve could be a bit dramatic more for effect than anything else.
> Alternatively, it shows that ancient people were as terrified of baby ghost hauntings *as we are today*.

(emphasis added)

>I mean, it seems as valid an interpretation as the article authors' one, no?

What? No.
TLDR: Show your work, cite your sources, sign your name. Update content as new details emerge. Tada! Journalism.
> The garbage collection choices are going to be unique to the workload running on that server and have little information worth sharing that will speed up operations.

Java's GC is generational though. Which means that Java-style GC benefits from excessive memory (ie: the more free memory you have, the less the GC is run, and the more that any such object is "dead" before the GC is run).

With more "dead objects" left in the heap, a "bigger heap" benefits all processes.

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Consider this simple case: 1MB of live data in a 6MB heap. The garbage collector could run 10 times in some given time period (the heap drops down to 1MB each time the GC is run, and 10-runs means that ~51MBs were allocated in this timeframe 6MBs before the first garbage collection, and then 5MB for each of the remaining 9 collections).

Now what happens if you had a 11MB heap instead? Well, the garbage collector won't run until 11MBs were allocated (1st run), and with 1MB of live data after each collection, each remaining run would only be done after 10MBs of allocations. That is to say: only 5-collections would happen.

So with the same algorithm, the 11MB heap with 1MB of live data is twice-as-efficient (ie: half the collections) as the 6MB heap (with 1MB of live data).

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Java and its garbage collector is multithreaded these days and the analysis is more difficult. But that doesn't change the fact that generational collectors have this property, where the more RAM they use between collections, the "better they perform".

So just "defacto-sharing more RAM" means all of the individual Java-threads will be more efficient at garbage collection. Well-written heaps get more efficient the more you throw at them.
Shit I got to decom that Gdrive.
Yea, I meant in China but those examples you provided definitely illustrate how unlikely it will be to happen in China. It's pretty sad and I can't imagine having such a bleak future, especially for those that are more oppressed than others over there.
There's never been a better time to build websites
Yes, but if the IO one does <shenanigans> then you're as well off. Which is... not very.

EDIT: Just to say: I don't mean to be flippant.
Remember Aaron? Gave your Mac a futuristic Copland feel for the mere cost of 4MB of ram or half the total.
Using throwaway account. I work at a broker-dealer. This is part of a huge ongoing battle with the SEC. Broker-dealers under SEC rules must constantly monitor all employee communications, flagging for keywords and reviewing a large subset. These communications go to WORM storage and in practice are periodically dumped to the SEC. If an employee talks about work on a personal device that isn’t being actively monitored- huge fines like this one. You can beg your employees not to do it all you want, but ultimately there are only two ways for a company to respond to this enforcement: do all work over phone calls and not text, which the SEC is fine with, or start monitoring personal communications.

I’ll leave it to you all to decide which course of action you think JP Morgan should take.
OK but to be accurate, the Tesla Roadster came out before the Nissan Leaf.
Some of the founders of Black Lives Matter described themselves as Marxist, and it was that organization that popularized the term. And for them it would be a mistake to focus only on class. They would argue that there are multiple systems of oppression that interact with each other and need to be considered as a whole rather than individually, the critical race theory term for that is intersectionality. I don't consider critical race theory to be a center-left phenomenon. Right wing politicians would be overjoyed to find out that people on the center-left do.
It specifically defines 'dynamic driving task' in the definitions section:

> (g) “Dynamic driving task” means all of the real-time functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic, excluding selection of final and intermediate destinations, and including without limitation: object and event detection, recognition, and classification; object and event response; maneuver
planning; steering, turning, lane keeping, and lane changing, including providing the appropriate signal for the lane change or turn maneuver; and acceleration and deceleration.
It is different in spirit.

A marketing scheme intended to attract new customers is well within what's morally accepted. Also, it's not like every guy that goes to AWS re:Invent comes back with a brand new luxury car. What they get is just some good food and drinks, while they're there, and that's just providing good hospitality for your guests. It also does not happen behind closed doors, and most of the people that go are already existing customers.

vs.

Corrupt company approaches corrupt employee off the record to offer cash in exchange of contracts that would not get assigned to them otherwise (because if they were, they wouldn't resort to this).
It seems that your qualm is not actually with the author, whose phrasing is not unusual at least to my eye, but with the very concept of age-adjusted mortality as a metric.

Public health in concerned in part with:

1) Giving years to life
2) Giving life to years

In order to be able to draw conclusions about the relative risks of particular epidemics (whether caused by an infectious pathogen, or lifestyle, or many other causes), it is necessary to determine how much life the epidemic is taking (via projections of age-adjusted mortality in the subpopulations in question), and the degree of detriment in quality of life that occurs beforehand.

Generally speaking, if an intervention can save lives of a cohort who is likely to life 50 more years on average, it is viewed as more valuable than an intervention that can only save lives of a cohort who is expected to live 5 more years on average.

These are absolutely reasonable and mainstream discussions that happen all the time in the relevant fields.
I think you answered your own question they had server hardware with bad software , with community and ecosystem enablement they could get into it . Why they can’t release a server rack with m1 macs ??
I agree. These types of fines are relatively small potatoes on the earnings that occurred during this time. Having worked for a large US bank for a large portion of my career, everyone is typically trained yearly in an online course that covers records management practices and what to do. I know this because I was accountable for records management practices at the bank. The other question is, what happened internally? How come internal audit didn't catch this back in 2018-2019 time period?

At the end of the day, it's often more profitable, and in the shareholder's best interest to say I am sorry, vs. actually follow policy. At the end of the day, regardless if the C-level knew about it or not, they are accountable. And even if one of the largest banks in the US has to pay a relatively paltry fine like this, the CEO and the management chains that were participatory in this behavior should forgo bonuses. That will change things. Otherwise, this behavior will continue.
garbage palm rejection? i think it's great. have never had an issue with it.
Their influence largely comes from their ability to buy media timethrough PACs. Direct contributions to politicians is still highly regulated. You could argue that they can wield influence by threatning current politicans to fund the campaigns of competitors but at the end of the day this still happens through PACs buying media campaigns.

The influence of the Koch's or Adelson is largely hinged on the fact that Americans don't use critical thinking when consuming their media. Rather than trying to find a way to wiggle around the first ammendment when it comes to spending on speech, why not try to build an electorate capable of critical thinking? If you don't think that's possible, then what's the point of any of this?
It's not noticeable in full screen because the menu area becomes black, such that there's no notch standing out.
I see it as extra screen space for the menu, clock and taskbar.
Flamewar comments like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. No more of this, please. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this a lot with this account already. I don't want to ban you, but we need you to fix this if you want to keep commenting here.
leaf was a joke as a product in hot and cold weather due to their non working cooling/heating battery system. Even though it's perfectly working in some cases.
You can't remove it regardless. You gave Facebook rights to the data the minute it was uploaded.
And a lot of taxpayers who are not voters (non-citizens).
why not both? despite having it mapped there for 20+ years I still don't use the thumb-shift. but for some chords its really a lot nicer.
Often you can find a misbehaving process that somehow got into a weird state, one that you weren't tracing beforehand because you weren't expecting trouble and didn't want the overhead, and in those cases it can be tremendously useful to be able to attach some inspection tool to figure out what's going on so you can fix the underlying bug.
Tesla faces investor lawsuit over Musk tweets on 10% stock sales
Landlords are price takers, not price makers. The market for apartments is highly competitive.
That figure is "Weekly Downloads", not in total. None of them had updates in less than two months. Also, React has published 10x more versions than Redux. So if anything, Redux might be more popular than GP assumed.
Agreed. There is never a whiff of mention about revoking a banking charter.
It's not glossing over, it's a rebuttal.

> Western understanding of the rest of the world is severely lacking

I would wager that Western countries, on average, have a better view of the world than non-Western countries, if for no other reason than the privileges their wealth and liberalism entail. Do you think the average Russian, African, South American, Chinese, (Yes, I'm aware some of that list is continents, and some is countries) etc. has access to a greater wealth of information and experience with regard to the Rest of the world?

Keep in mind I'm not saying this as a point of superiority or anything, just pointing out your lack of a well-grounded point.
Let's please not throw out the baby with the bathwater and dismiss all fact checking as political, biases, or agenda-driven.

Not agreeing on basic facts in the prime problem in our current political discourse. Disagreement is usually a good problem to have and leads to testing the complete problem space.

What we are seeing now, though, is the absence of the problem space exploration. Instead any discussion is just dismissed by calling the other party's information "fake news". In that fact-checkers are crucial.

Can the fact checkers be wrong? Sure. Could they have an agenda? Sure. Let's fix that. Let's not dismiss them outright as some of the comment here suggest.
My lazy response:

If designed by a well educated philosopher or linguist, probably similar to some 70s or 80s language.

If by someone with no prerequisites then it would be full of ambiguity - just like natural languages.
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Actual site at https://www.usebraintrust.com/
It’s nuanced - I don’t approve when someone changes the terms of a deal that we already agreed upon. At the same time, I think there is a reasonable expectation that companies don’t have to support something into eternity (not that is what happened here, but in general I think support for a feature that requires maintenance is okay to have an expected lifespan).

Another nuance is that starting the car is core to the functionality, remote start is not.

If they were doing this only moving forward, for new sales, I think it would be totally fine. I wouldn’t buy that car if I cared about the feature, but I totally think it’s valid to have premium subscription addons.

In the situation where they have altered the previous deal and the service does not require maintenance by the company, it’s pretty fucked up and i would love to see a class action happen for existing owners.
PT Barnum had a saying about this.
And prior to this, 2 senior officials resigned because they saw this coming.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/01/two-senior-fda-officials-resig...
No, and Valles Marineris is about 7km deep in places vs the Grand Canyon's 1.8km max depth, not something a rover could go check out.

Robert Zubrin actually uses Valles Marineris as part of the plot in his work of fiction First Landing that lays out how a manned mission to Mars might go.
If a government severely punishes debate about its behavior or views it wants accepted and unchallenged, or has a system in place to eliminate information in the public sphere that it does not want you to encounter, through technology and overwhelming pressure on organizations and individuals, ...

... that's all you need to know. That is a situation designed precisely to stay in power despite not responding to a freely informed public's preferences.

If an autocratic leader actually asked its citizens for their preferences on whether the autocrat should stay in power, and abided by the result - it would not be an autocracy.
morn > mourn
It also tends to empower lobbyists, not in the sense of elected officials needing money for campaigns, but the officials and their staffs lack knowledge and sophistication on many issues.
> And I didn't get into the non-stop fires that have happened the past few years(which has really never happened in California before)

What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires
I clicked on those links curious what he was talking about and was shocked he was painting this guy as a martyr. I didn't finish reading the second article about another guy comeback since it similarly didn't seem to acknowledge the reality of what he wrote being patently horrible when painting him as some kind of homeless man messiah.
There are only 360 units on sale, total.
If I understand his argument correctly, Tesla would be in compliance if they allowed anyone who buys FSD to use it immediately, just like Ford allows anyone to use Blue Cruise on Mach-E.

One of the essential parts of the argument is that Tesla falls under current law because they are selective about who they allow to use FSD.

So Tesla could trivially be in compliance if they ditch the careful rollout. Give the software to anyone who pays for (instead of, as is the case currently, slowly expanding the number of people).

And maybe change the name to Yellow Cruise instead of FSD and stop telling people it's beta software.

And voila, compliant with CA DMV legislation.

I hope that this person understands his own argument in which case it's hard to believe that he is concerned about safety.
also:
https://0.30000000000000004.com/
> We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.

This is where Facebook is going to stop reading and toss out the letter. The claims BMJ is making may or may not be accurate – I personally don't have the scientific knowledge to judge. But ultimately Facebook is going to always defer to the authorities of the jurisdiction it operates in over random third parties.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Directus 9.3.0 Released
I am not a lawyer but that seems like some like a legal "gotcha" claim that most courts would frown upon.

They positioned these "fact checkers" as arbiters of truth. At no point in the past year has Facebook indicated that these were merely opinion.
Facebook users aren't reading the article. They're reading the title, and saying "aha, I knew it. The vaccine was unsafe all along." That's literally all the fact checkers said, "potential to mislead".
as an artist I just always think: okay I like this style, and I want something like it, but I absolutely don't want to copy, so I change it so it can't be recognized as "theft" later.
It's probably because you had no activity. Someone may have run out of ideas for deleting bot accounts and wrote a query that caught idle accounts with no posts.
I'm starting to wonder if these ban appeals shouldn't simply be handled by small claims courts.

Basically, the company has to have a human justify why it banned a fellow human. No response or no account reinstatement simply makes the company in contempt of court. If the company has a legitimate reason to ban it should be pretty easy to argue (this user posted this graphic content in exhibit A.)
Movies are letterboxed on a 16x10.4 screen anyway, and games could easily be letterboxed or not— most games have their critical HMI elements inset somewhat from the edges of the screen anyway because of TV overscan.
Both systems can run alongside each other.