skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have high-quality data on the vaccines and their side effects. We don't have RCTs with billions of people, but that is data we never had for anything and can't reasonably get.

Judging the risk/benefit ratio is the primary purpose of the regulatory agencies that approve vaccines. I don't see any reason to believe the claim that the vaccines are harmful for everyone below 50, that sounds quite outrageous to me. There have been adjustments based on new data for the vaccines a few times, e.g. younger people are generally recommended to be vaccinated with Biontech and not Moderna or AZ based on the side effects of these vaccines. That doesn't mean the risk/benefit ratio is bad there, it only means that we have vaccines with a more favorable profile for those age groups.
First, I'm guessing that what you provided is a lot less than someone would have to provide in a medical trial.

Second, demonstrating your willingness to describe yourself on a public forum is a lot different than someone expecting confidentiality when participating in medical trials. Most people do not have your level of comfort disclosing medical details. Furthermore, if a company were to break that trust, why would anybody participate in medical trials? The harm is not to you, it is to society.
I don’t love NFTs but I think it’s an apt analogy. Augusta membership card is useless, I can play golf at the public park.
Big Tech’s Supersized Ambitions
Lol. Well written bot. You assume so much. Most bots are not well written at all, and more often buggy as hell generating unnecessary extra load.
I think "defundthepolice" slogan has caused too much harm from the start by polarizing people and it will be used to cause more harm going forward being used by bad actors to justify their actions.
It should be changed to something that most people can agree on - something like "reformthepolice".
You probably live near one of the few containerized ports.

Sorry, I missed your response. I live near the lane between Detroit and Montreal. In the middle there's a very large intermodel yard north of Toronto. So 90% of what I see behind a train is containers, automobiles, lumber, grain, and tankers. From reading up on it, box cars remain popular with moving paper products, which makes sense to me as you can load much more weight than on a truck and time in transit is less of a concern than with other more sensitive products, less dense products.
I used to be Iosevka cowboy for a long time, and now I'm taking IBM Plex Mono for a spin and it feels nice and spacious. Not sure I'll get used to the very fancy curly braces though.

I do sometimes get the fancy of "going back to basics" and turning everything to default. SF Mono that's bundled with Mac OS is pretty nice for that.
"Inertia is a property of matter" - fundamental unchangeable property of the universe
I'm currently trying Tidal and that's the main issue why I won't stay. Somehow there only seem to be official playlists, so if I search for a somewhat niche genre [0] I'll probably not find anything relevant, except maybe some compilation releases of dubious value.

I managed to bring their auto generated playlists to an acceptable level by favoring enough artists, but it's still a very lacking experience.

[0] e.g. searching for Detroit house playlists gives me "Classic Rock Classics". Lofi house → "Epidemic Sound Christmas".
Very cool, the Jailbreak creator! Do such popular games earn enough to be able to retire? (although you wouldn't actually retire, since working is more fun)
tl;dr: government incentives
Up until now no one who made digital content: art, games, ebooks, newsletters, 3D assets, etc, ever made a single cent?

If it wasn't for NFTs no digital goods would be monetized?
I appreciate HTTPie but it can never beat the fact that you curl is almost always installed by default.
There's no need at all for some kind of organized conspiracy, just the typical shoddy work covered for by similarly interested parties. I am not saying that's what happened in this case, but it's not exactly rare. The life sciences are absolutely rife with bad work - even notorious Covid research, for example, many of the computer-model based research, which was only exposed because regular everyday computer programmers looked at it after it was published - and often their criticisms led to coverups and denial!

Conspiracy theorists usually do go nuts with this stuff, but usually there's no need for an organized "conspiracy" when class or professional interests are at stake.

For example, that's one very clearly stated reason why US government officials running scientific agencies shut down scientific discussion of the lab leak theory, and why most scientists went along with it: because of the risk that the public backlash might harm their funding - the same sort of backlash that led to restrictions on gain-of-function research in the first place, that they ended up working around.

> ‘I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence inspiring framework (WHO seems really the only option) is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony…’”

People quite naturally and regularly act in a way that appears coordinated without any actual coordination.
That’s because you’re reading a mass media report on the recommendation. It takes less than a minute of earnest effort to find the actual studies or briefs and scroll down to the sources.

https://world-heart-federation.org/wp-content/uploads/WHF-Po...
> I don't think I like the idea of "baking a custom build" with letter variants, though. A font file should be like an album - fixed at time of release, with one version uniformly published, so that if you use font X on machine A, and use font X on machine B, you get the same results.

I'm not sure I follow? I use a custom build, let's say "Iosevka Custom" and when I install the ttf files on multiple machines it looks the same..? You can download any of the different published variants and they will look the same too?

> I also don't think I'm on board with the ligatures for code bandwagon.

Good thing they are optional and you can completely disable them in your own custom build if you so choose :)
> The equivalent would be severely limiting it (for example, prohibiting business flying).

People fly to go on holiday and experience cultures other than their own which is something we should be encouraging rather than discouraging. I strongly agree with reducing needless business travel but if doing so also limited vacation travel I think it'd be a net negative.
Hesiod in his Works and Days (c. 700 BC) talks about the behaviour of octopuses, saying that when octopuses get hungry they will eat their own tentacles. Amazingly, Hesiod was right about this behaviour (octopuses do sometimes eat their own tentacles) but it's not because they're hungry, but because they're stressed.
It surprised me how many commenters thought it was serious.
Right, because the intended meaning is different than what the words literally say.
I'd say "no options except to kill a certain number of innocent actors who have zero agency" is a quite accurate description of the situation. We don't know who dies, but some people will certainly die from COVID in the near future, and we know (apparently) that the vaccine does reduce that number. We also know that a very small amount of people will (or already) have adverse effects and potentially die from the vaccine; probably a much, much smaller group. So yeah... sounds accurate.
I really love this, it deserves a wider audience. It's even got Marcion's Archon/Stranger God dichotomy in the shape of the Ori and the Ascended. And it explains all the puzzles that get left around the galaxy waiting for people to solve them.

I don't buy it as intentional, but it fits beautifully.

You know this would also apply to Chariots of the Gods, right?
I am not familiar with this field but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and I am not aware of any evidence absolutely ruling out the possibility. From my understanding we are still unsure about very fundamental aspects of physics and the universe so there are certainly unknown unknowns left which could dramatically change our understanding of everything.
> So tell me, what harm have I done to myself by sharing this information?

None, and yet you still aren't willing to put your name behind the statement "I'm healthy as a fiddle and never use drugs except the occasional beer".

Also -- and this will apparently come as a surprise to you -- people who have STDs, abuse drugs/alcohol, or have genetic disorders in their family don't necessarily want that info shared on the internet. Shocking, right?!

Apparently pseudonymous internet griping is an essential right but participants in medical trials should -- post-facto -- have their entire medical history shared in a wy that's at significant risk of reidentification.
Nicotine (especially when consumed via smoking) has some negative side effects, but is also a neurotrophic and can be quite beneficial.

Addiction and blood pressure are really the only downsides if you were to consume it in the form of, say, gum (and boy does the addiction suck).
Have you actually done research differentiating between the risks of tobacco exposure and radiation exposure?

There's no scientific evidence to suggest that small doses of radiation (< 0.1 mSv) is harmful to you, at all. In fact, there's even scientific evidence to suggest the opposite, it's called radiation hormesis.
Having recently become pregnant, a lot of the guidance for expectant mothers echos these blanket recommendations (sushi, deli meats, hot baths etc).

On the topic of alcohol, FASD is a massive concern, but it's known that it's correlated to how much you drink and how frequently you drink (enjoying a glass of wine once a month is very different than binge drinking multiple times throughout your pregnancy).

The thing is, researchers aren't getting pregnant women different levels of hammered, and then assessing how their babies turn out (unethical much), so they're left to infer based on reported behaviors. Hence the unreliability of the data, and the "no amount is proven safe" mantra. Maybe it's the same with this recommendation?

The other thing not factored into inferred results is other associated behaviors. I'd bet that statistically, women that are binge drinking through pregnancy are more likely to also be taking hard drugs than their non-binge drinking counterparts. So is alcohol fully to blame here?

I'm not here advocating for pregnant women and drinking. But it'd be nice to have the data and evidence behind these risks, so that people can be empowered to make their own decisions.

I've seen so many women on forums stressing over a glass of wine they had at christmas, or the time they ate a cold cut without realizing. Needless stress that could be minimized if pregnant people weren't advised as if they're children.
In practice, the person can be bucketed in an age, height and weight group and then the problem is solved and there is a constructive dataset.

Address and name are not necessary.

- Person 30-35, living in California, has history of obesity, suffers from type II diabetes, under treatment of med A, and med B.

- first dose: Jan 2021

- second dose: March 2021

Medical outcome: ZZZ
I'm not trying to bait anything, and I don't have any afterthought. I genuinely find it baffling that something ever got the idea of trying to change a term that's so engrained in IT culture, to the point I use it outside of English. Isn't it a point that's interesting to discuss ? I think it is, and trying to have it brushed aside is vexing.

NB: I remembered seeing your name somewhere, and indeed I have. I really enjoy your blog posts @ fly.io. I even have « Sandboxing and Workload Isolation » saved up somewhere as a note.
It's not a zero sum game. Not everyone who is an FBI agent can be a lawyer or a lawmaker.
I read these articles about octopuses, and then lament the fact that we hunt them down and eat them. Given all of the other sources of nourishment available to us, why eat them?
Highly configurable RISC-V SoC/microcontroller for all FPGA types
Where's Seattle in here? Also, it seems that, according to data, 2020 and 2021 have seen significantly less incidents than years 2015 to 2018.

I don't think I get your point, though. This seems to point more towards gun control, than increasing police budgets.
There is no reason to autocorrect a QR code scan. QR codes come with built-in error correction, so there’s a vanishingly small chance of a successfully-scanned QR code containing an error. It seems like Camera here might be treating QR code URLs as manually entered URLs or OCRed URLs and applying autocorrection logic.
More to the point, he didn't even share it. The concern here is re-identification and he chickened out of sharing his identity.
Which has nothing to do with "Defund the police". People hear "defund the police" and take it to mean literally defunding them, with zero budget.
> So tell me, what harm have I done to myself by sharing this information?

This is irrelevant.

The conditional probability of my willingness to post this information, given your willingness to post this information, is equal to the the probability of my willingness to post this information. P(X) = P(X|Y). This means that just because you are okay with it, I'm not...and additional people being okay with it doesn't change my opinion regardless of harm.
In my experience interest in crypto and content of Tweets are strongly correlated - the bulk of their Tweets will be shilling for whichever crypto projects they're trying to pump.

"Crypto Twitter" as a whole is just a cacophony of grifters shouting over each other trying to get noticed. There's precious little of value to be lost by filtering that out.
Usually there’s a central place where status is being updated and shared by everyone (a Slack channel for example) and everyone in the chain can just read/ping/respond there. Less of a chain.
"Attach the file to this issue," followed immediately by: "Note: Please avoid uploading directly to the issue using attachments."
GauGAN2: Nvidia’s New AI Draws Images with the Speed of Thought
FTA:

> Running all Roblox backend services on one Consul cluster left us exposed to an outage of this nature. We have already built out the servers and networking for an additional, geographically distinct data center that will host our backend services. We have efforts underway to move to multiple availability zones within these data centers; we have made major modifications to our engineering roadmap and our staffing plans in order to accelerate these efforts.

If they were in AWS they could have used Consul across multi-AZs and done changes in a roll out fashion.
Thanks, that makes sense. I haven't experienced that myself yet so I wasn't sure.
What is the difference between a painting by Leonardo, and an exact copy by a very skilled forger and Artist?

“Nothing”. Except, that we can prove Leonardo painted it as we have the history of ownership. The fact the jpeg isn’t unique isn’t the problem. It’s who minted the NFT. If you know it’s the artist, then only that “copy” is the real one. It’s all bullshit I know but there is an approximation of the above question.
"Outside the US" is a big world where not everyone does things in the same way.
> It’s hard to find any benefit to smoking, first hand or second.

The same is true about recreational travel. People expose themselves to high levels of radiation and travel risk purely for recreational purposes. Smokers inhale carcinogenic substances for recreational purposes.
The actual demo: http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/ (but seems to be currently falling over under load)
> It looks like you are trying to drift the intent and scope of the dataset disclosure.

No. Intent doesn't matter. That's the whole point.

To wit: there's a reason that reidentification attacks are called attacks! No one intends to be hacked, and writing a program that you intend to be secure doesn't imply that the program is in fact secure. So too with anonymization.

> having an open dataset of MRI pictures

But we're not talking about MRI pictures, are we?

OP strongly believes that, in this case, there is enough information to re-identify patients. I agree.
The Curse of the Grandmaster Title
If one is using aforementioned kitty-term, one can also declair a different font family per character/range-of-characters I believe..
> It's (¬p ∧ q) ∨ (p ∧ ¬q) meaning 'either one or the other' ((no pics and theft) or (pics and no theft)). So its boolean inequality which is xor.

This is the definition of xor, but it does not appear to be related to any of your previous comments.

> Pedantry is kewl.

OK.
From "Summaries":

> How People Get Rich Now

> Surpassed maximum word count permitted by OpenAI.

I'll take this to mean that one has to break the rules imposed by others in order to get rich. Do that which is not permitted.
Works great on all progressive browsers,

including Edge, Chromium, and Vanadium.
QR codes even have error correction so the developer can tune error rate…
This is a pretty typical opinion for progressive white men, who don't fear sexual violence the same way women often do, and often don't live in high-crime neighborhoods. When the violence reaches your front door, it'll be harder to be so privileged to think the answer is to get rid of all policing.
It's not just a pet peeve. They want to undermine it.
> Lately I would rather have a scotch and 24 hour later have it out of my system, than live with a thin daily mental fog.

This was absolutely my experience and resulting opinion as well. Ultimately weed is not as harsh in the short term for me, but the cumulative effects over even a week of usage start to become apparent in my cognitive ability. It's a little insidious the way it creeps up on me. For that reason I don't partake nearly as often and have fallen back to enjoying alcohol in moderation myself.
I think perhaps we are in (majority) agreement. My primary point is that g&t programs in the k-8 range don't look anything like what you describe. What you describe also happens, its just not called a gifted and talented program (at least in my experience).
The interpreter is the ribosome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome
You've misunderstood if you think your idea is mutually exclusive with mine.
By not having test cases for those specific domains, and by passing your input through some general purpose internal URL handling library that does more than you thought it did [1]. Neither is (very) surprising.

[1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/24/mkdir/
It seems like this `if (len > PAGE_SIZE - 2 - size);` is less natural than the correct code of `size + len + 2 > PAGE_SIZE`. Can anyone more familiar with C comment on why someone would write it the first way instead of the second way?
the covid vaccine trials had no control groups either
> I don't use drugs or have a history of metal disorders.

Very happy for you, but if you did, you might have learned by now that people (and employers) can treat you very differently after they find out you're an addict or have a mental disorder, and it's best not to telegraph that information to everyone except close friends you can trust.
Pretty darn cool hearing from you! But yes, you're correct on both points :)
Nice! My state doesn't.
It is an interesting read. Here's the pdf:

https://github.com/captn3m0/google-sre-ebook/releases/downlo...
Stressed or Jobless – Is this a reality in IT? Surveying IT professionals 2022
I would be happy if the google lens on my Pixel 5a would actually scan the QR code instead of just giving me google image results for similar pictures.
Honestly I would guess part of it is that streaming is supposed to be a performance increase. So during a performance related outage, it might be easy to overlook. Am I really going to turn off a feature that I think is actually helping the problem?
I mean, it’s not like anonymous datasets haven’t been de-anonymized before[0]. Successfully anonymizing data sets is a hard and subtle process, and it’s way harder than just removing major identifiers like city and birth date. For example age is obviously super important for vaccine and disease studies, and providing an age narrows down someone’s birthdate significantly.

And no, this isn’t under a “loose” NDA. This would be covered by HIPAA, which tends to be un-subtle about violations.

0 - https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/de-anonym...
Been at least four decades (four and a half?) since I read We, but I can't recall a single character from it that had more life than a cardboard cut-out. (A bit like Brave New World in that respect.)
I can choose to take a flight or consume alcohol, but I can’t choose to not breathe while you smoke next to me. There is no need to look for conspiracy theories as homework.
benefit of smoking is the buzz and social enhancement. it is not useless.
Nice! Great solution to a common inconvenience.
You touched on the reason I refuse to buy Samsung phones. In fact I'm mystified as to why Samsung devices remain so popular. When my wife and I were engaged she had one of the early Galaxy devices and it was awful.

You don't get the stock File Manager, you get the Samsung File Manager. The window manager is the Samsung Window Manager, or Launcher, or whatever. Hers even had a rebranded browser called "Internet", if I recall correctly.

All those Samsung-specific apps are (or at least were) objectively worse than the stock Android alternatives.
Assuming name isn't attached to the data, that'd require the spouse (or someone else) to do the legwork to link up the medical history.

When I say re-evaluate HIPAA, I don't mean "Hey, let's put everyone's name right next to every checkup and list it in a wikipedia like DB and email relatives about the results of every checkup". I mean "Hey, let's consider limiting the scope of the law and the penalties associated with it". It doesn't have to be a black and white thing.

That all seems like a worthy risk if it enables researchers to find that "Hey, looks like people prescribed medication X with medication Y tend to develop cancer Z way more frequently than the general public" or "Hey, looks like people with gene X respond way better to cancer treatment Y than the general public".
[I work at Google]

This seems to be directly contradicted by the article, which something like 3-4 other current and ex employees in the org who faced major issues, as well as some unattributed quotes. Further it notes that the team in question scores significantly lower on happiness/wellbeing than Google overall. Additionally, the "other employees" you quote were 3 sources provided by Google when asked for comment. Of course Google's will provide sources who don't have anything negative to say.
As a patient, I’d hope my healthcare worker is interested in both my privacy and not giving me communicable diseases.

Most real world scenarios involve rights that may conflict at times, like the right to free speech running into libel. As a society, we wind up having to decide how to resolve those conflicts.
# of Streams to make US $1:

YouTube Music: 1,250

Pandora: 752

Spotify: 315

Amazon Music: 249

Deezer: 156

Apple Music: 128

Tidal: 78

Napster: 53

Source:
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.66835/title.t-pain-disrupts-mus...

Original source: https://twitter.com/TPAIN/status/1476032631255060490
(not sure why this link isn't working)
Agreed with the addition that we also need protection from malware on sites.

The answer is a browser UI control for a rectangle that has a limited subset of tags available, for display only features, with no javascript. This would allow ads to become a 'display only' feature that is safe for users.

As a long time ad blocker - If they would remove tracking and malware, I also would be open to the idea of allowing ads on sites as long as the sites provide value and the ads are not overdone.