skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that, my point is that as part of the EUA, patients are required by law to receive information about the treatment.

See section e-1-A-ii here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3

(ii)Appropriate conditions designed to ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed—

(I)that the Secretary has authorized the emergency use of the product;

(II)of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of such use, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown; and

(III)of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product, of the consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product, and of the alternatives to the product that are available and of their benefits and risks.

So I am saying, what percentage of people who got the shot actually received this information? Since the trials are ongoing, that should have been communicated to 100% of people who received the vaccine as part of informed consent.
Let's look in practice, as they exist: look at VAERS for example, it's in this exact situation (these are public records posted on a public and non-confidential HTTP server):

https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html

This is the type of raw records we are talking about, and they carry useful information.

Yes, maybe the dates could be anonymised better, if I know the age of someone, and I know when he got his vaccine precisely, and when he got his MRI and why he did it, then maybe I can find and connect back the record.
But how likely this attack can be done in practice, and why would you do it to someone who already disclosed part of their records, plus how does it scale ?

However, the benefits are really present, it's not sharing just for the sake of sharing but to bring advance to the global research and knowledge of medicine.

In practice, who is it ?
I don't know, who can know ? Doctors who can tie it to other pieces of information that we don't have...

However, in the meantime, the researchers and doctors who don't have these foreign keys, they can totally do interesting and useful discoveries about drug interactions and vaccine side-effects.
> They desire things that are impossible.

You say it's impossible, but do you have evidence to support that?

> elect someone like a Duterte

You're suggesting that for the United States? You think that was a success?

> People will put up with only so much insecurity.

Crime rates are low and dropping. Someone is working hard to create a sense of insecurity. Why? Isn't that the biggest threat?
I agree in contrast to the previous reply I made.
I still play with Shen, and I would love to see SICP in Shen, since Shen has ben implemented for many languages including JavaScript, but it's still a Lisp. I should try my hand at it if I really want to learn Shen.

I am also an APL/J fan and this footnote in SICP rings true:

[15] Richard Waters (1979) developed a program that automatically analyzes traditional Fortran programs, viewing them in terms of maps, ﬁlters, and accumulations. He found that fully 90 percent of the code in the Fortran Scientiﬁc Subroutine Package ﬁts neatly into this paradigm. One of the reasons for the success of Lisp as a programming language is that lists provide a standard medium for expressing ordered collections so that they can be manipulated using higher-order operations. e programming language APL owes much of its power and appeal to a similar choice. In APL all data are represented as arrays, and there is a universal and convenient set of generic operators for all sorts of array operations.
So how do we translate this to sharing contact information? I find it very limiting if we can only establish contact over TOR.

Maybe I should explain the problem I'm thinking (and I'm honestly curious if there is a solution).

Within one app I want to be able to establish contact with multiple types of people without revealing to others those identities (i.e. anonymously). If I use a username then my friends and family that have my phone number can see my username (similar to Snapchat). This also allows for cross-site deanonymization as I can't use that same username on sites like Reddit or Hacker News where I may actually want to establish private or group communication with other users. The problem here is that usernames are persistent and so identities will be linked (even if multiple usernames are allowed). I want to be able to connect friends, family, internet friends, and others without revealing any PII or letting others knowing who I've established contact with.

As I see it, there needs to be some zero knowledge contact initialization. How do we establish a (persistent) communication channel through untrusted platforms that do not reveal PII? And more importantly, how do we do this in a manner that is usable by an average person?
At their scale, it was probably an insignificant minority. I read that as nothing more than a wink and nod of "we see what you did ;)" ; which I appreciate. Some companies would have a fit and go nuclear on people for that, for no particular reason. As long as it is an insignificant minority, it doesn't matter, and ideally it's teenagers learning how something works on the side, and that helped grow some future hacker (in the HN sense) somewhere.
> If Facebook removes their app from the App Store (or cripples it), and says you have to side load this app, most Americans will do so.

The primary reason for this is that Facebook itself has a dominant market position (network effect) and is deserving of antitrust scrutiny. "We need this evil monopoly to protect us from that evil monopoly" has a better solution in smashing them both.

Notice that this argument doesn't work anywhere else. If your tetris app which is in competition with many others decides it wants to go out of Apple's store so it can spy more, nobody is following you. They'll just install one of the hundred others.

To gain anyone's trust for any app that isn't a monopolist, an alternate store would have to have a similar reputation for rejecting bad apps. But then the scammers wouldn't be able to make it into any of the stores people trust. The advantage is that some of the non-scammers that Apple rejects for illegitimate reasons, would. (Or competitive pressure would cause Apple to get better at not rejecting them in order to prevent it.)
You mean the android that has a massive malware problem? That android?

As for the second bit, the "generated information" is things like device ids, location, etc. The stuff that is necessary for a phone.

But clearly you're of the view that requiring malware, people having to give CC information to innumerable other companies, is a good thing, so I doubt we're ever going to agree on this.

I would rather not have to worry about software installing a persistent crypto miner in the background, and not having to worry about software invading my privacy, than installing whatever mysterious apps aren't currently permitted on the App Store, but you do you.
I think we can all agree there are stronger arguments for air travel than habitual smoking of cigarettes.
We print a lot of Amazon return forms, church newsletter crap, and live in a rural area. Although frankly, I would do anything to not add another item to my errand list when I'm in town.
> Yes, this is why you get those stickers on items from CVS/Walgreens etc., that say not to be sold individually

No, not to be sold individually is mostly from the manufacturer, and mostly about labelling requirements for sale. If the bundle meets the requirement but the contained packets do not, then the restriction is noted.

> as well as intended for sale at "Store Name"

That's mostly for advertising the stores exclusive merchandise for customer retention.
Layperson here. If it's affecting your life this badly, then you should probably see a professional (read: psychiatrist) if you're able.

Executive dysfunction can have multiple causes ranging from ADHD to anxiety to dementia. The internet is pretty bad at diagnosing period, let alone based on limited or incomplete information.
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The parent poster said that it would have happened even if they had cloud, ie. another datacenter. That's my assumption for the comment.

As far as I can tell from reading, Roblox doesn't have multiple datacenters. I find that really hard to believe, so if that's not true, then my point would be incorrect. If it is true, then if they completely duplicated their datacenters, they would be able to make the switch in one datacenter to streaming while keeping the other datacenter the old setting until they validated that everything was fine. That would have caught the problem, having slow rollout across datacenters.
I have a Synology router and two base stations for it. This one - https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac is the router and those two as base stations: https://www.synology.com/en-au/products/MR2200ac. The router connected to the bases via ethernet cable, this ethernet cable almost hits a gigabit and wifi speed on my mac, inside the network, is about 800 megabits to the router.

The cost of the router and two stations was about the same as for router and one station of various hyped products.

It has got lots of smarts, VPN server, DNS server, highly configurable and you can opt in into Synology cloud with DDNS and connection to home network using their stuff. There’s security monitor, something akin to fail2ban, etc.

Additionally I have a Synology NAS that serves as a server using docker and as media station using Emby package. Additionally my old thinkpad laptop serves as a build agent for Drone CI primary that is running in docker on the NAS.

Everything else connects to internet and home network via WiFi, 800 megabits seems plenty for everything I want to do.

I am not affiliated with Synology, just a happy user that finds that everything I need to work, simply works.
Cool.

Now start offering more part time roles.
pretty much the same, though i bumped it with a mesh network. consumer grade. I occasionally get twinges of guilt for being so lazy about it.

but after a day of IT related work i dont want to do more and more at home :-/
I search for them, with searches like "unicode vee"[1] which brings up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descending_wedge . Then I copy and paste. This mirrors my strategy of producing letters with diacritics by going to the wikipedia page for the diacritic and copying from the big table of Every Letterform Using This Diacritic that they all have.

These three pages are especially useful:

http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/math_symbols/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold

[1] "vee" because the LaTeX command is \vee. That said, "unicode oplus" didn't work well.
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No, we shouldn’t. Instead, we should work on ensuring that as many people are able to enjoy new opportunities it provides if they do desire as possible. Everyone should be able to enjoy life.
They are not gravitational waves but are gravity waves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
Twitter is not real life.
I'm just responding to the claim of the parent comment that public stuff on the internet should remain public... This information is expressly NOT public, not sure why the expectation is that everyone should be able to see it.
Then they would just send you 12 consecutive lawsuits. If they're that big and well-funded, they've got the time.
Are you aware of any country that has implemented a set of policies that obviously and dramatically reduced child abuse?

I see cultural variances, wealth correlations, etc. But never have I seen a program or simple set of programs that looks anything like a silver bullet on child abuse.

You could probably convince me of some programs that are beneficial (even if not a silver bullet), you are unlikely to be able to convince me that the benefits outweigh the costs of death and suffering to children from things like war, sanctions, food tariffs, etc. The state is always the biggest abuser.
With Omnicron spreading as it is, I'm kind of expecting that everyone will get infected this wave. And afterwards, everyone is then either vaccinated or recovered or dead and we can drop all of the precautions. What am I overlooking?
Insta buy. I love my SICP book. Need this for fun, perspective to teach juniors, and shelf art.

Yes, I pre-ordered.

For those complaining about it being in JS, probably didn’t read SICP as it wasn’t about LISP. This isn’t about JS.
Spot on. And some things are easily reversible to the extent that they alleviate the downtime, yet still leave a large data sync or etl job to complete in their wake. The effect of which, until resolved, is continued loss of function or customer data at some lesser level of severity.
If you feel like contributing to Pine64 but still would wait for their less mature devices like PinePhone or PineNote to become more stable, you can help them by purchasing other products like their embedded boards etc. Last year I got the Pinecil solder iron and was impressed by its quality.
I wish someone had told me about these dreams before I went to school/uni, so I wouldn't have ever slacked off causing me to have these worries in the first place.
I think hell is coded in Java
> I'm kind of expecting that everyone will get infected this wave

I'm very glad that not all places on Earth have taken this destructive and defeatist view.
IRL social circles are also, for the most part, geographically constrained to those one meets in everyday life. Possibly geographically distributed for professionals amongst co-workers or contacts within ones career track.

Online echo chambers, for better or worse, collect those of a similar interest and/or ideology from around the world. As with, say, Hacker News.

That may be benign, or it may not be. The inspiration and action are what matter. But the end result is that groups that would have no capacity to form and organise through physical contact, and which would be only very weakly integrated through print or broadcast medium, can emerge online. Again, that might be a positive or a negative development.

But what it isn't is either equivalent to IRL associations or a continuation of previous patterns of organisation.

And to that extent, Petersen's claims are grossly disingenuous.
What the studies have found is that drinking in moderation (at or below the 1–2 standard drinks a day limit) does not have cause a very large impact on life expectancy. This raises sharply after exceeding the limit.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sorting-out-the-health-e...

Personally unsure whether a reduced year or two of life is really that significant.
JSON lets you write numbers. They can have a sign, decimal part, and an exponent. The standard euphemistically describes this as:

> JSON is agnostic about the semantics of numbers. […] JSON instead offers only the representation of numbers that humans use: a sequence of digits. […] That is enough to allow interchange.

But can you encode/decode an arbitrary integer or a float? Probably not!

* Float values like Infinity or NaN cannot be represented.

* JSON doesn't have separate representation for ints and floats. If an implementation decodes an integer value as a float, this might lose precision.

* JSON doesn't impose any size limits. A JSON number could validly describe a 1000-bit integer, but no reasonable implementation would be able to decode this.

The result is that sane programs – that don't want to be at the mercy of whatever JSON implementation processes the document – might encode large integers as strings. In particular, integers beyond JavaScript's Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (2^53 - 1) should be considered unsafe in a JSON document.

Another result is that no real-world JSON representation can round-trip “correctly”: instead of treating numbers as “a sequence of digits” they might convert them to a float64, in which case a JSON → data model → JSON roundtrip might result in a different document. I would consider that to be a problem due to underspecification.
> Mach, used in OSX, is a representative of those early days.

Mach, the microkernel, is not using in OS X and never has been.

Mach, the API, is used (mostly due to legacy reasons).

OS X has a Linux-style monolithic kernel (with legacy Mach APIs in userspace).
What about perpetual motion machines though? :)
> i predict that tanenbaum will ultimately win the famous monolithic vs. microkernel design debate.

Tanenbaum already lost the debate a long time ago. Minix is running in Intel CPUs but it's hardly exercising the benefits of a micro-kernel architecture. General-purpose PCs are running mono-kernels.

Maybe the micro-kernel will prove useful at some point in the future, but that's just theoretical. But _this_ war was lost. Maybe they'll win the next one!
Why introduce `std::launder` rather than have the compiler take care of it?
Approaches vary company-to-company, but https://response.pagerduty.com/ is a good resource for understanding how it often looks.
More fabrications about me and my thinking, but no evidence of anything.

> Most people of color are not being brutalized by police. Most are not being downtrodden and being imprisoned unjustly. Quite to the contrary, most in this country are law abiding citizens making their way up the economic and social ladder.

You are equating abuse by law enforcement with criminality, which is the fundamental problem - privileged people think it only happens to criminals. You are right that they are law-abiding, and yet they still suffer abuse - that is the great problem of our society for generations, they've been saying it for generations, and people like you have ignored them for generations. I actually talk to people, not watch Fox News (or any other nonsense). If you think these issues aren't widespread, you live in a priviledged bubble. Go out. Get on the bus. Talk to people who actually live the experiences.
In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge
Typescript's main advantage is convenience and familiarity to JS devs. With typescript you just put type hints on your good old javascript and you get to keep using all your javascript coding patterns.

This comes at a cost of unsafety / unsoundness which is a tradeoff by design. Scala's type system is infinitely more robust. I use Typescript occasionally with all the strictest flags, and yet it allows invalid code that shouldn't compile, all the damn time. Such unreliable type checking is all but worthless to me personally.

Scala is hands down better than Typescript for functional programming. It was actually designed for that from the start. But it's not religious about it either, its OOP features are rich and integrate with FP features very nicely.

Scala.js community and ecosystem is small compared to Typescript, but very diverse and passionate. The mechanism of interfacing with JS is in principle similar to Typescript, but in practice takes a bit more setup.

Also with Scala/Scala.js, you get to a whole other level of productivity when you use the same language on both the client and the server.
70% Of Startups Offer Remote Work during Pandemic, YC data shows.

Let's see how this looks 2 years after the pandemic is over.
Yes, I am aware of that. I was referring to informed consent related to people who received the drug under the EUA. See here for more context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017165
Could you expand on this? I can't think of places where a string enum would be less useful than a numeric, although I can think of places where numeric enums fall over, e.g. if you have a value that can be one of two different enums and you have to figure out which it is - runtime numeric enum values shouldn't be compared because they regularly have the same value.
> As far as I can tell, this does not indicate that people can’t afford baby formula and diapers

It says that there is a significant enough segment of the market dependent on WIC to do so that it sets a price cap that drives market behavior enough to motivate sponsored theft by retailers as a means of keeping prices at a level that allow them to stay under the price cap of the WIC-dependent population.

Which is exactly saying that a mass of people can't afford baby formula and diapers, at prices the market sets absent theft, even with existing public assistance for exactly that purpose.
That's not the right read. Public software companies prices are way off outside FAANG.
Which country has successfully contained Omnicron?
I heard it was aweful if you've read the books. Couldn't be more different.
First 'winery airline' to launch in New Zealand
Scientifically speaking, the fact that someone was wrong in the past, doesn't mean someone else is wrong now, even if they use a similar sentence structure.

PS Yes, I am fun at parties, if I ever get invited to one again!
Depends on how much of the California influx is coming from Bay Area vs. L.A. or San Diego. It could still be a net southern shift.
Controlling how 'odd couple' surfaces and liquids interact
If it makes you feel better, they can still happen anyway! yay!
> being late to college exams while having no pants on.

An upgrade would be 4D underwear.
Then I suppose the planet should just switch en masse to English or Mandarin...you know, for beneficial "efficiency" because that is the sole purpose of human existence.
I wonder if this will last after the pandemic is over. If if ever ends.
It's relatively easy to calculate, and does show in a simple map something about the very complex internal immigration history of our country. But, if it were really hard to determine, it is not soooo important that we would be likely to bother.
I'm assuming that local resource scarcity leads to more social hierarchies to manage and politic over the scarce resources, while those with abundant resources tend to not have significant social stratification because there's less incentive towards infighting.

Seems like all societies would eventually devolve towards resource scarcity, since abundance will almost always lead to over population.
Holy crap take a look at some of the JS examples in Chapter 4 - functions declaring functions declaring functions returning functions
> Faster than light travel and time travel are both fundamentally impossible in our universe and can't be achieved.

That may very well be, and true in our lifetime, but given how little we know about a lot of things, and that in many cases we don't even know what we don't know, I would hesitate in making an absolute statement.
I'm surprised this is not 100%. 70% sounds pessimistic for remote work, tbh.
Access to the global talent pool and no costs on offices? Sounds pretty good to me!
What happens when cats appear?
90% I predict. There is little to no advantage of having an in-office work force for tech startups unless physical presence is necessary for the job. Managers can crow all they want about wanting to see asses in chairs but the data does not support it.
There was less income inequality between blacks and whites during Jim Crowe than today. You can expand that to almost every measure of well-being like broken families, suicide rates, criminality, etc.

This is obviously not a post advocating for Jim Crowe. But it is a post that is asking for an explanation as to why blacks are doing so much worse compared to whites today than they were during Jim Crowe. Do you believe we've gotten more racist?
Results matter as much as Intent does - communists had great intent, and where did it get them. Neoliberals have great intent and volumes of theory, all they have to show for it is a stangnant economy and rising inequality.
Doesn't the concept of Wormholes, folding space or Warp engines bypass FTL blocks?

You're essentially relocating from one location to another by bypassing the distance... Leaving this universe long enough to travel a comparatively smaller distance/time in another then pop back into our universe a long long way but short amount of local time later.

Sure you dont travel FTL but you do arrive in the location Faster than light would take to travel in mundane space.
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