skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking for the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System https://vaers.hhs.gov

You can download the data and crunch it... https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html though note:

> Reports may include incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental and unverified information.

> The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted or used to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines.
I'm not sure vaccine or booster mandates make sense anymore because they're not effective enough against stopping the spread of omicron. Charging more for insurance for the unvaccinated still makes sense, though.
I was happy to see this article at least mention the option of making ransom payment illegal. Maybe we'll get there once insurance stops being a viable fallback.
I typically export my bookmarks as JSON from Firefox and use a custom script to loop through and convert each bookmark into HTML nodes. I use JavaScript to expand/hide nodes with buttons (styled with CSS). Overall pretty simple but really sustainable and easy to use IMO ... Pretty proud of it:

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A post yesterday suggested "reusing" the Callery rootstock by grafting something native/tasty/otherwise better onto it. Might be a fun option if if it's not too big already.

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I'm not sure. I'm a bit torn on that. If they can sustain themselves though some method, that's good, but I would rather that method be aligned fairly closely with their initial goals of security and privacy, which crypto pays good lip service to but it's always the best at achieving, given public ledgers.

I guess I'm just worried about perverting what makes it a good messaging client, and would rather they get money from people that support that cause so they aren't as tempted to chase some other path because the alternative is to shutter.

That said, that can happen even if they can sustain themselves through donations if the management/board decide to do so. Just have to hope it stays the course.
This is the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Your information seems out of date - AIDS is now mostly survivable and has been for perhaps a decade.
I think you should avoid T-Mobile if you can. Not just as a matter of principle, but also pragmatism. They have an extremely crude SMS censorship/anti-spam system [1] which even blocks links to lichess.org, the popular online chess website.

They have poor security practices like storing passwords in plaintext [2], and they had a large data breach (probably about 100M customers affected) last year. [3]

A̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶t̶o̶c̶o̶l̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶.̶

PS: This isn't protocol blocking at the packet/port level, so I may have used "protocol blocking" a bit inappropriately. Apparently Apple allows the carriers to prevent people from enabling iCloud Private Relay, and T-Mobile is doing that. Apple is probably doing so due to the pressure by the carriers. In August, four carriers (Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and T-Mobile ) signed a letter urging the European Commission to stop Apple from providing Private Relay. (According to a report by The Telegraph: https://archive.fo/BRUS4#selection-915.74-925.194) This, of course, still quite preposterous.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29744347

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776347

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28192423 (The first comment by @jonathanmayer has a list of other recent T-Mobile security incidents)
* step 1: Make bucket of money selling your private comm app to FB.

* step 2: Publicly declare your regret for that decision.

* step 3: Take leadership of big competitor to previous app.

* step 4: Goto step 1 for double profit and to continue tearing down functioning attempts at large scale private communications platforms.
Agreed.

If you're gaming the take-home exam by looking up the answer on Stack Overflow, you could game the same exam in person by reading books of interview questions ahead of time, and the interviewer can avoid that by making up new questions. (OTOH if you're gaming the take-home exam by paying someone else to solve the problem for you, that might be harder to tell.)
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To make matters worse, the article then exaggerates the problem while attempting to contextualize it:

"“We worked out that at 100% efficiency from wall socket to battery, it would take about 73 coal power plants running for a day to charge the 3.5 billion smartphone batteries once fully,” iFixit technical writer Arthur Shi told OneZero. But if people place their phones wrong and reduce the efficiency of their charging, the number grows: “If the wireless charging efficiency was only 50%, you would need to double the [73] power plants in order to charge all the batteries.”"

See the problem? Not a single one of their tests with a phone lined up properly on the coils had efficiency this poor. Neither was the average efficiency in their tests ever this poor. MagSafe has already fixed the alignment issue and one can certainly assume the entire Android world will have followed suit before too long.
I'm sure people said the same thing when we went from a 7 day workweek to a 5 day workweek.
I made a post yesterday where I advocated for this (with lockfiles) at https://maxleiter.com/blog/pin-dependencies but it was pointed out to me that pinning dependencies would cause duplicates in your rollup/webpack outputs. YMMV, as I haven't experienced that but haven't extensively looked into it
What would be the minimum useful version of this?

How do you work with physical sources?

What makes you think it's a pipe dream?
>Writing in Cell, Koren et al.3 demonstrate that inflammation in the abdominal cavity results in the stimulation of certain neurons in a brain area called the insular cortex, or the insula. Artificial reactivation of these ‘immune-imprinted’ neurons is sufficient to generate organ-specific recall of inflammatory responses that resemble the initial inflammatory episode.

Ok, so there are gut/vagal interoceptors for inflammation. Their ascending fibers land in the insula, which is, of course, the primary interoceptive cortex. What's new here?
RSV is the worst virus I've had in a decade, probably since I had shingles in my twenties. My daughter brought it home from daycare and both my partner and I had a low-grade fever for 2 weeks, and a bad dry cough for another 2 weeks after that that would wake us up multiple times a night. Daughter bounced back in about half the time. By contrast, Covid hit us all recently and we were all 100% within the week. Your mileage may vary.
Well maybe you guys are one of the rare sufferers of actual side effects/allergies and shouldn't get the vaccine, assuming any of the above is related to the vaccine and there weren't other medical issues going on. Or if there were maybe said medical issues interact negatively with the vaccine and should be accounted for.

That said all vaccines have side effects for some populations. There a reason why when you get your flu shot they ask you if you've had any previous bad reactions to flu shots. That doesn't make the flu shot or any vaccine a bad bet, sometimes you bet with 99% odds and end up the 1%.
A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020)
After reading the article I learned the reason why Ariane 5 rocket performed better than expected. Really cool.
Thing is, in many countries the union is for everyone on the building, and those in the tech floor benefit as everyone else.
As long as Apple gets its 30% cut, why is Apple incentivized to hire a bunch more staff with healthcare, vacation, and pension benefits who are paid to crack down on this? "Dear AAPL Shareholders, rejoice! We reduced our 30% cut of $10B per quarter from garbage in the App Store by spending over $1B per quarter to hire over 10,000 staff to eliminate these ill-gotten gains."
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> By purchasing an NFT you have the right to say that you are the person that purchased that NFT.

Complete and accurate.
Google Manipulating Browser Ext to Stifle Competitors, DuckDuckGo CEO Says
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> It’s long be standard practice for intelligence agencies in 5/9 Eyes to ask each other to spy on the others citizens when it would be illegal to do so themselves.

This goes against the actual agreements in place, where they have to treat the other citizens as their countries do.
Do we _need_ anecdotes though? We have a lot of data.
How does this square with the first sale doctrine?
Would GPL help though? It's a library used by tests, not part of the end product distributed to users.
Their exit nodes can still see the IP though, they can't connect it to an individual, but they can measure [mobile] popularity of any site on the internet.
> that they can easily test the efficacy of the virus

I think you meant to type 'vaccine'
That's an unproductive, defeatist attitude.

With proper discipline, it is straightforward to avoid it.
The author's numbers are questionable. The study is linked - 800 participants, the actual question

> Does the use of the term LatinX to describe the Hispanic or
Latina(o) community bother or offend you?

I'd say there's a difference between "bother or offend" and "found offensive". Breaking it down further

> 20% "Yes, a lot"
> 11%, "Yes, somewhat"
> 9%, "Yes a little"

20% 'a little or somewhat bothered' is a lot different than 20% offended

If we trust Wikipedia that Latinos are 18% of the US population and 20% of that population is "a lot" offended by Latinx, we get down to 3%. I'll grant that I was incorrect in my 99% assumption, but 97% isn't much better.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-81be-dee4-a5ff-efbe7...
Yep - Latitudes are always cheaper than their Thinkpad equivalents (example, my e6220 was about 2/3rds the cost of an x220 (this was about 5 years ago).
I suggest you talk it over with your doctor first.
Oops...I just realized alien abduction was a bad example, because it is not really in the same category as the other things I used for the crazy person's beliefs.

Those other things all involve belief in things they have been told but have not personally experienced. The alien abduction claim would be a claim that they have personally experienced alien abduction.
I'm disappointed that I read the headline wrong. I thought these NFTs were powered by CVS technology.
With a 6 month immunity window and animals reservoirs, you could simultaneously give every singe human the vaccine and it would still come back. You are misinformed that we ever had any chance of closing Pandora’s box.
To make me laugh
I have one-upped TXTCHAIN with PAPERCHAIN. In order to ensure decentralization, I have a webcam pointed at my PAPERCHAIN paper ledger that is active at all times. Other PAPERCHAIN paper ledger node-people maintain the same setup, and they duplicate the changes I make to my PAPERCHAIN, and vice versa.

Longest latency in the game, invest before it’s too late.
There's a set of books on this, called the "direct method" or "nature method"

A page with a link to several of these: https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books....

(the site that it refers to is where I initially found the same list of books, but it seems to be defunct)

https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazio... (defunct, it seems)
That's a short term effect (i.e. we already know about it), and one that actual covid is much more likely to give you.

Also, the problem with VAERS reports is the people may just have already had it - that's why side effects for medications sometimes list the original condition as a side effect.
The leaks described in the sources below do not give me any confidence in Reuters journalistic integrity:

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> but caffeine is a poison and only that, I think there is no debating that

There's so much data to dispute that that it isn't even funny. Countless articles have been written.

What's usually under debate is to what extent consumption can be beneficial or detrimental.

Caffeine is only very obviously a poison when it comes to arachnids.
All the ICUs are not at 100% right now.
Protecting users from their dependencies should be the job of their language's standard library. With a good enough stdlib, the number of dependencies required is much lower.
That is very likely an option, but probably not used a lot. I have worked with several people that had a similar schedule, but they did not start at the company with that schedule and of course took a pay cut due to the lower hours.

It is very difficult to argue for hiring someone that is not 40 hours. HR and management thinks in terms of full time (40) or part time (<30). The 30-39 hour schedules seem to be used to keep someone they really don't want to lose and not offered to new people. I have seen it with people getting close to retirement and people caring for someone sick or small.
I also worked for McDonalds in my teens and was covered by a union-negotiated agreement.

All it did was prevent me from working as much as I wanted, with ridiculous red tape rules. The union actively depressed my earning potential.

That's after growing up in terrible schools with incompetent and abusive teachers who were never admonished or fired because of union protection (side note: teacher's unions regularly protect sexual predators).
Are you saying that it's a violation of the MIT license to distribute MIT-licensed code if the author asks that you take it down? Because I can assure you, that's not how the MIT license works.
RCS supports E2E encryption, and Google's apps implement it.

(And I think the complaints about iMessage are its exclusivity - the best solution is an iMessage for Android.)
It does if his living a healthy life depends on hospitals not being 100% full of unvaccinated people being treated for a completely preventable illness.
There is no value in the endless repetition.

There's also no value in getting worked up about it.

The only viable response is to accept it's going to happen and have meaningful discussions elsewhere.
We do, when we are lucky to work in countries that see programming that way, not everywhere being a computer guy is that high on the society scale, specially in those where electricity comes and goes.
And don’t forget, compare also to the number who would have died if they not taken the vaccine.
This feels like you are trolling at this point. Nobody said they are less reliable. The excess deaths weren't even a point in this discussion until you brought it up. The other commenter specific mentioned covid cases and deaths.

You mention "factual data". The excess death numbers are estimates, per the CDC. They are approximate and could be changed as new information comes to light, etc. No problem with that, but not exactly facts as far as attributing a hard death count.

The issue with the VAERS data isn't people "spamming" it. It's that legitimate potential events are not reported. The purpose of VAERS is to provide early warning. This means people are supposed to report events that don't have a different proven cause. Noise from coincidental events could then be removed using population baseline occurrence. I'd the data simply isn't there, then it's not very useful for that purpose. I believe they also perform some cursory validation with the provider before accepting/confirming it, but I could be wrong.
I really don't see the horror that would be carriers charging for usage. I would rather that than pay for stupid things like "lines" or "devices."
Note that the headline is overly broad: this is just for tenure-track academic jobs. Non-academic jobs weren't in scope for this study.

More specifically, it covered these academic jobs in these departments: biology, engineering, economics and psychology.
Ford isn't aiming for perfect - they're doing something easy and more or less cost-free to dissuade scalpers from immediately flipping cars.

Will it prevent all scalping? No. Will it prevent some scalping? Probably, yes.
Whether or not the laser is in the visible spectrum matters quite a bit for it’s classifications/safety. According to IEC 60825–1 a laser from roughly over 1/2 a mW up to 5mW goes from class 2 to class 4 if it’s outside visible. A nearly 5mW laser could scorch many materials, given enough time.
> There’s one major distinction between humans and animals: language. Not like “me want banana” language like in apes but like fully “ideas within ideas within ideas” language, with recursion and case and noun classes and all that. It’s incredible. It’s astonishing. We are like gods compared to other animals.

Does emoting about a claim make it true somehow?
>The problem of the spread was mostly solved by vaccines before Omicron

Nah it wasn't. Unless you expected people to get boosted ad infinitum, which was never going to happen.
I knew I read about him before here, for good or bad.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448309
Totally different from ExcelCoin! CSVCHAIN is platform-independent.
It wasn't a comparison.

As the article states, AWS CDK depends on colors, if I want to use AWS CDK, I have to use colors too. I don't get the choice to re-implement that myself unless I want to stop using the official CDK library
It's worth asking, I think, how much energy should be spent against guarding against an attack like this in the future. I think every organization's risk model is different.

In this case, the Net interpreted Marak's actions as damage and seems to have effectively routed around them. There was disruption, but we already have systems in place for flagging broken or malicious versions (`npm audit` being one example).

For people willing to have the system work 99% of the time with the occasional Marak-screw, we already have a working solution in what currently exists. For people who cannot tolerate that level of risk, you have to firewall your package sources and only allow use of vetted code dependencies in your software.

Open source relies, in the end, on trust. Marak broke trust and that's all. The question isn't "How do we prevent people breaking trust" (that's impossible; humans have free will) but instead "How do we mitigate damage / protect that which cannot be risked if someone chooses to break trust?"
Great moderation yet again, Dang!

I'm curious what kind of tools do you have for moderating HN?

Like do you have a tool that highlights threads that are racking up tons of posts/downvotes/etc. or something like that? Or is 80% of your day spent reading every thread posted?
I was working on some markdown related code years ago, and didn't test against utf-8 characters. I put a comment in there saying as much, and "I hope this doesn't come back to bite me."

Sure enough, a few years later, I was diagnosing a bug in this software, and realized it only happened in documents with some utf-8 in them. After digging a while, I found that comment.
Please do not take HN threads further into flamewar. That's the most destructive thing you can do here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This virus will probably be around and mutating forever, like the flu. It's impractical to try to avoid catching the flu virus for the rest of your life, just as with COVID. Sure it's possible, but that's no way to live.
My current way to explain to non techies is that it's like those "Name a star" sales:

* Artificial seeming scarcity out of something that's inherently abundant

* No actual ownership of actual thing

* Instead, a overly-detailed focus on mechanics of the process: We will send you a gilded certificate; we will put your entry into a leather bound book; this cook will be registered with United States Copyright Office; it will be added to Library of Congress, etc etc etc - giving seeming legitimacy to the endevour

The only thing that's missing, and it's a critical difference, is the complete lack of secondary market for named stars :D
So before the tiny Danish nation of just few million people was allied with the US, you were occupied by the Germans, your Jews exported and murdered, many citizens dead.

And the Americans (and English, Canadians etc.) liberated you.

And then for decades, you were up against the Soviet Empire where the Americans provide a pillar of security.

And somehow this relationship with the Americans is bad, exactly how?

You haven't provided any evidence of wrongdoing in terms of cooperation with the Americans.

The US collects intelligence on everyone - so does Germany. And the UK. And ... Denmark. That's normal in 2021.
Exactly this! I think non-gendered adjectives are a nice addition to Spanish and many people are starting to use it! Adding "-e" to the end of words is far more commy tham adding x to it. Latinx sounda really weird in Spanish and latine sounda way better, it also integrates netter with other parts of the language, you can say ingeniere, aliade, but ingenierx or aliadx sounds amd looks weird and ugly.