skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iowa, like most mostly-rural states (and many less-so), is unfortunately under the thumb of advocates of what they call "small government", which in practice means they instead favor government by the whims of big corporations. Big corporations, as a rule, favor not regulating toxic chemicals. As a direct consequence, regulation of toxic chemicals in the US has been hamstrung. Many toxins banned in Europe are still used in the US, just as many banned in the US are used in Mexico. Mexican cancer rates are worse than in the US, which are worse than in Europe.

Lately, paraquat is being blamed for the rise in Parkinson's Disease. It might be something else. Very few industrial chemicals get any testing before use.
I think the anti-government everything must be privatized thing is pushed because it's an opportunity to divert large flows of money into wealthy peoples pockets. The head of a publicly run company might make as much as a sr tech bro. The head of a privatized one can divert tens of millions a year.

Same as attempts to privatize social security. You got a cash flow of $1.4T/year and it drives the lords of capital bonkers they can't get their hands on it.
Social respect is not just about making bank: nobody respects crypto scammers. Among the kind of people who hire interior designers, interior designers get respect.
That’s my point, I think. It seems to me that moderators are doing the right thing by HN rules and context by tagging such discussions are not off-topic. Why is it described as “unfortunate” then?
You haven’t written anything of substance but antivax fearmongering.
Making bank while being laughed at (for a whatever reason, true or perceived) is not exactly prestigious.
IT geeks have 2 status points and 9 money points. Teacher has 2 money points and 7 status points. That's how it tends to work

In some societies money and status are more connected than in others
If you quoted the whole thing it would be more apparent:

> [...] they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Unfortunately.

What the author finds unfortunate is the flagging by users, not the moderator action.
Makes what proven?

The two parties make different claims. Ukraine says destroyed, Russia says damaged (the title of this HN post is correct in that it copies that of the article, but that title isn’t correct)

Ukraine probably doesn’t want to lie, but may be willing to exaggerate a bit to boost morale of their troops, with the risk of getting caught when more becomes clear of this attack.

Similarly, Russia may be willing to play down the effects, and has it easier in that “damaged” covers a very wide range, from “hit by one bullet, a window got broken” to “sunk in port after explosions, salvageable, but building a new one would be cheaper”.

See also the BBCs reporting at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67821515, which currently is cautious not to declare the ship destroyed.
Those countries would have been able to invade those other countries regardless no?
> for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed

This is still treatment. They aren’t administering the vaccine to healthy adults. The population is melanoma survivors with a high risk of recurrence.
Ah. In my mind “holding out” does not require a settlement offer to be proposed by the counterparty.

If you ask the price to buy my 2005 Honda CRV (license my patent) and I tell you $250K ($250M/yr), many would think I was holding out even if you (Apple) correctly roll your eyes and don’t engage.
For context, the Japanese market is as favorable to Apple as America is. Japan has a lot of very specific features that phones need to support[0] and Apple is usually ahead of Google on implementing them. This is in contrast to the EU where Android dominates because they used to be the only 'cheap' option.

[0] Most notably, Felica, the protocol used by all the contactless payment cards Japan's transit systems use. If you've ever been to Japan, you probably have a PASMO or Suica card[1] knocking around somewhere in your drawer. Japanese flipphones have supported that protocol since right when it came out. Apple added it at the same time they added Apple Pay and NFC support in the states.

Also, emoji used to be a Japan-only thing that required an NTT or AU SIM until westerners started noticing the funny faces and started writing copy-paste apps to get around the missing keyboard.

[1] Suica game but it's transit cards instead of watermelons
Tying means forcing people to buy an undesired good when they buy a desired good. Is anybody buying an iPhone who doesn’t want the App Store?
> the ones for the CV vaccine were listed on many pages of tiny text (both from Pfizer and from Moderna)

The size of the pages side effects were written on says absolutely nothing about what the side effects are or their severity.

> Then there are the long term consequences, many studies keep coming out with surprises (recent buzzword “Ribosomal frameshift”

Ribosomal frameshift is in itself not a “long term consequence.” It is simply that depending on where translational of a piece of mRNA starts, different proteins can be produced. This is an essential part of how our own (or any other organism’s mRNA) is translated into proteins. other proteins present in a cell can regulate which proteins can be produced - again an essential part of how our cells function. This has been known about for decades.

It is one of the main potential areas that could lead to side effects of an mRNA vaccine so understanding what other proteins might be translated and under what circumstances is important.

Please don’t fear monger without any actual evidence to back it.
Basically doesn't fit their roadmap.
> IT geeks are broadly understood to make bank

That's not a widely held belief in some countries. Try mentioning you're an IT person in (say) the UK and you'll be looked upon like a plumber. aka "nothing special"

Ironically, plumbers (and other trades too) are in pretty good demand so themselves can make good $ compared to the standard office worker. ;)
Math is hard, that's why I became an engineer!
Where, exactly, are the long term consequences of mRNA vaccination for SARS-CoV-2? Compared with, say, actually developing COVID? (Please note I’m not arguing that receiving a COVID mRNA vaccine is entirely risk free, however on a risk weighted basis receiving a COVID vaccine is much safer than having COVID)
One can write very nice code in C and modern tools also eliminate a myriad sources of bugs. Modern C++ can be nice but adds a lot of complexity. I am much happier with C.
> And on the other side because I think a more aspirational look will push you more than a strictly realistic one. If I see the muscled guy bouldering I think how I could become, and it just looks "easier". While if I see a regular person who can barely hold onto the wall I just think of how bad the experience might be and could end up not even considering it.

This is the part I pretty strongly disagree with you. There is a reason "Comparison is the thief of joy" is a popular saying. People are pretty quickly going to be exposed to the reality of the situation, at which point the gap between their fantasy and reality will be a huge demotivator.

In any case, there are lots of free stock image sites you can use to find images that actually depict reality. Not saying they aren't staged, but there are lots that I think would be "friendlier" to newbies, which is what your site is about.
That's called "lip service".
Again it is one reason why I wish the history of a browser could take a snapshot of the page I read. At least as a prosumer, opt in feature.

I could afford to store those when storage is so cheap.
If by "free" you mean that taxpayers payed huge amounts of money then sure...
There's a key difference here that cancer mRNA vaccine you are taking after you've been diagnosed with cancer.

Otherwise for Coronavirus vaccines you couldn't argue that risks are much smaller for any given person under any given conditions. E.g. a person could be completely isolated for the next 10 years and have virtually 0% chance of getting Covid-19, so in this case there's no calculation that could show a vaccine being with more favourable benefits/risks.

If there's a 1/10,000 chance of giving you a sore shoulder that would be worse in the calculations if you are for sure to be isolated from being anywhere near the virus.
Perhaps a progressive web app will work for you
Should this really be called a “vaccine”? I feel like that is going to give people the wrong impression about what it does. I think labelling it gene therapy, immune therapy, or something like that would be closer to what it actually does.

Also really interested to see if people will need and/or benefit from periodic re-treatment. I guess they can figure that part out if it makes it to market.
It's weird to to see the inalienable right of a US citizen to enter the US be referred to as "a glaring loophole"
Heh, there should be a cult for this. After I got mine, I use it at least daily (for breakfast sandwiches) and usually every single meal. It's like a toaster oven on steroids, everything comes out nice and crisp and evenly heated. I never use the big oven anymore.

I'm so in love with this thing I thought about making a cookbook. Only thing is, I'm a shit cook, and crispy shit is still shit XD
I had the chance to visit the new datacenter of my college and on the server exhaust side there is a radiator as tall as the rack with cold water in it. All the pipes are under the floor.

IIRC they mainly put power hungry compute nodes for the clusters in this new datacenter and I remember that servers full of GPUs had crazy power draw. The water then goes through an heat exchanger to help generate hot water to heat the campus and for the taps.
On first business day of next month add yourself to 'Who wants to be hired? (January)' https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring It may look intimidating to see 500 other people looking but with remote work the competition is high.
I hope i can agree with you. But are you really sure? The period seems to indicate that the “unfortunate” belongs to the moderator action and not the flagging.
Note that this is only needed if the website has no RSS feed whatsoever. If the website has a partial/truncated RSS feed that only contains headlines/partial text, you can use the "Article CSS selector on original website" feature.

That will retrieve the list of items using RSS but will fetch the article content by getting the URL and grabbing the HTML element you specified (like "article.post").
I tried many, many note taking apps and the one that finally stuck was VS Code. I had been using VSC as my code editor daily for years so when it released "Profiles" I just created a "markdown" profile that contained all the markdown extensions, settings, customisations etc. that I needed and that's it. I realised this is perfect because there are no new keyboard shortcuts, UI or apps I have to learn. I sync all my notes to a private GitHub repo. It's fantastic.

Once I figure how to export my ad-hoc notes I've accumulated in my iPhone Notes app and sync it to the repo I will never need anything else.
Oh, database backups are fun, especially if the database server is still running! You want multiple databases, all at a consistent point in time, without taking the system offline? SUFFER, YOU FOOL! The joys of realizing that file system snapshots won't help with data that's still to be committed and that taking a backup database-by-database means that two databases whose data relies on each other are no longer properly in sync really warms my heart. Oh wait, it's the whiskey that runs through my veins that does that, being a backup operator is a fantastic pathway into alcoholism. Especially once the databases become so large, that the time it takes to take the backup become a performance concern of the running system.

I think Postgres did it right by abbreviating their "Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery" as PITR because it's very close to PITA. But PITR and CHECKPOINT actually make Postgres probably one of the better database systems to backup (and restore!), so yet another reason why I think it's a fantastic database.
It isn't contrived, just incomplete.
You'd need to copy-paste it four times -- there is &, &const, && and && const overloads (the fourth isn't making much sense, but still).
Related:

Apple appeals US ban on Apple Watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773177 - Dec 2023 (83 comments)

Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771436 - Dec 2023 (108 comments)

Apple to Halt Watch Sales as It Prepares to Comply with U.S. Import Ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684156 - Dec 2023 (14 comments)

Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38682631 - Dec 2023 (482 comments)

Apple Watch violates patents held by Orange Co. tech company, ITC finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059668 - Oct 2023 (104 comments)

Apple Faces Potential Watch Import Ban After Federal Trade Ruling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38034964 - Oct 2023 (46 comments)
Of course there are. There are people who like the hardware, or the OS, or don't want a green bubble, but would be happy to have F-Droid or Steam on iOS, or get a discount on existing apps by buying them through someone who charges a lower fee. Or just have the competition to Apple's store which could cause Apple to charge a lower fee themselves.
It's pretty standard also to talk about "first-order Peano arithmetic" and "second-order Peano arithmetic". This is much more clear but inconsistent with the other usage which you describe.

Moreover, non-logicians don't talk about "first-order" or "second-order" logic at all. They just express the induction axiom in plain English, and in this case it is (as Stewart Shapiro argued) equivalent to the second-order axiom.
I think you're reading it as "Unfortunately, moderators occasionally unkill such threads..." when it's meant as "...they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless, unfortunately".
I have a few invite codes i'm never going to use:

bsky-social-kjc7k-6dlxp

bsky-social-hprry-cxs4a

bsky-social-vy5sf-4cqob
This is very much a class-based distinction. Upper class people do not respect you for "making bank." They don't talk about money at all and consider all talk of making money to be beneath them. They have a lot of respect for teachers because they recognize the nobility of the profession: shaping the minds of the future generation of leaders.
It means video games. And even amongst the most predatory mobile games, not all of them use gambling-adjacent "gacha" mechanics, plenty just have mountains of microtransactions.
It wasn't free, just paid by the government means tax money means money that's now missing for other things in countries like Germany because they still are fixated on the 60% debt ceiling based on an Excel error.
I still don't get it.

You are explaining error propagation, but my point is that _if you are doing error propagation (as you should do if you want to do things properly), significant figures ARE just for making deliverable pretty_.

You are talking about measurement uncertainty. Measurement uncertainty is written x +- y, with y being the uncertainty.

If you don't do that and use significant digit instead, you lose the information and precision: 10.0 +- 0.1 is 10.0, 10.0 +- 0.2 is 10.0, 10.0 +- 0.3 is 10.0, ...

This is why the other person was talking about "arbitrarily rounding".

You should _never_ said "well, it's a measurement of 10.0 with a 0.2 precision, so I can write 10.0", you should _always_ write 10.0 +- 0.2 (in which case, you can also write 10 +- 0.2 or 10.000 +- 0.2, the significant digits have no impact on any future results). Writing 10.0 instead of 10.0 +- 0.2 is just a terrible practice that does not have much justification, 10 +- 0.2 is always a better way. (and my point is that the problem you have with the significant number disappear if you teach people to use a non-clumsy way)

(and, no, you should not do the distinction "it's a measurement, so it's written differently", because in practice, a lot of "measurements" are in fact already a transformation, and sometimes you cannot even know for sure yourself. For example, a temperature sensor will measure an electrical resistance (with a measurement uncertainty) and then convert it into a temperature, and according to you, it should not be written the same way, just for arbitrary reasons)
Yes the word 'vaccine' seems misleading to me as well, as people tend to think of vaccinations as ways to prevent contagious illness. I think immune therapy is a much better term.
There are maybe no effects that we know about right now. Different people have different opinions on what their risk tolerance is, so there could be people that may outright disagree with your statement.

And there were even fewer such effects when the vaccines have rolled out back in 2020 with emergency approval, but without being used “in production” beforehand.

Now we know much more about the mRNA platform, but I still can’t exclude the possibility entirely for me. So I will take my chances and focus much more on quality of food, on staying fit, reducing stress etc. etc.
Wasnt the whole premise of Nick Lanes books it only occurred once ?
Yeah, if you have no effing idea what ninja or gn are
The target is really industry. If no one has to pay the cost of emissions no one has any incentive to change.

Look to the oil crisis of the 70s for examples - it was a bad time but the cost of fuel spurred a surge in sale of small cars because fuel efficiency finally mattered. On another front it spurred the cycling culture of the Netherlands - they didn’t take up cycling and build infrastructure to support it out of altruism, they did it because their fuel supply was nearly cut off entirely.

Innovation only happens when there is a reason to innovate. If carbon emissions don’t cost the emitter anything then there’s no reason to invest in ways to emit less.
The Wii was designed with digital content delivery from the very start, from what I know.

The NAND was only 512 MB, but it was easily expanded with a memory card for downloads. The security model worked somewhat well, with jailbroken consumers having to keep an eye out for Nintendo's retaliation during the active part of the console's life. While it didn't have a hypervisor (well, it sort of did - if you squint just right, the ARM processor was a hardware bus access arbitrator that would lock you out if you were accessing things you weren't privileged enough to access), it definitely did have an OS - multiple concurrently installed copies, in fact.

IMO, there is nothing miraculous about Wii's ability to support paid digital games. We don't find it miraculous when a hypervisor-less PC can run games purchased off Steam that were downloaded to an external USB drive. Why should we think it's miraculous when a games console does something nearly identical?
Thanks for the app recommendation! I've been thinking about hitting up the gym more, that should help.
The bullet lists and numbered lists don't work inside table cells. Not a deal breaker, but would have been nice to have the same level of formatting as outside the table.
>Imagine how fast you could think if you had a mentally stable whiteboard that you could perceive as clearly as you can see, and update as fast as you can think the changes.

Thinking about what I am going to draw or write on the whiteboard takes the bulk of time, not the act of drawing or writing. The "update as fast as you can think" part will likely be achieved soon with neural interface, yet it's hard to imagine that this will lead to "superintelligence" of some sort. Same for "mental file cabinets": real or digital files allow to trivially store information, and search systems allow to retrieve it pretty quickly, yet somehow Google didn't make everyone who can use it super smart.

Same goes for vocal speed: coming up with the words to describe the idea and coming up with the idea itself are different things, second being much more hard.

> At this point, IMHO, anyone pessimistic about AI has expectations far behind the exponential curve we are in.

The problem is that the crucial aspect of reasoning is missing in the state of the art models right now. We can make LLMs write to and read from files, but as long as there is a chance that any of its output will be incoherent (and there's a good of this chance now) and there is no mechanism to actually check for errors logically, the whole whiteboard architecture will be a huge demonstration of "garbage in, garbage out".
Lost me at "making past from scratch".
How are web apps impossible to install?
I'm a seasoned developer for the past 15-ish years and I haven't heard of ninja or gn before.

I tried typing them in my command line (macos 12.4) and I would need to install them to use them.

I was taught make in CS101 in college and the majority of other people's projects I've looked at use it.

So the advantage is ubiquity and familiarity. Which can be useful if your code base is going to have a large number of people working on it.
> Kindle Scribe

Oh cool! I was wondering when they'd bring back the DX. Looks like this is Amazon's take on the Remarkable?
That just sounds like outdated ideas are held and perpetuated by your upper middle class.
Your coworker's experience is more principled: Make is a mediocre tool for executing commands. It wasn't ever designed for that. Although it is pretty common to see what you are mentioning in projects because it doesn't require installing a dependency.

For a repo where an easy to install (single binary) dependency is a non-issue, consider using just. [1] You get `just -l` where you can see all the command available, the ability to use different languages, and overall simpler command writing.

[1] https://github.com/casey/just
Oops, I still don't understand.
With linear types, you don't have any aliasing so I don't see the value for borrowing.
(maybe I'm misunderstanding the idea behind linear types?)

Seems to me, perhaps wrongly, that since there is no aliasing and values are always used, once a value is not returned by a function to be consumed, it's lifetime has effectively ended. So it's automatic?

The point I was making about ssa, dfa, etc. was that it was putting these aspects into userland via the type system.
Otherwise for Coronavirus vaccines you couldn't argue that risks are much smaller for any given person under any given conditions. E.g. a person could be completely isolated for the next 10 years and have virtually 0% chance of getting Covid-19, so in this case there's no calculation that could show a vaccine being with more favourable benefits/risks.

Well yes, in completely absurd and unrealistic situation the risk of taking vaccine might be larger than that of Covid-19.
that might explain why i never receive an answer to all the CV i sent
The headline borders on clickbait. The topic is a skin cancer vaccine, not a cancer vaccine.
No, it's fine to offer similar products. Good on Netflix for this.

In the more general sense of the search topic,
I don't want a search to return things they don't have.
If it's out of stock,
say so prominently.
Don't make the user click through to the item itself only to see "out of stock".
Yes, but the article mentions age first,
then asserts vaguely "needs more tooling".
What kind of tooling?
For what use?
^ this is also cowardice.

there are always rationalizations for your behavior, but it may still be cowardice.
Thankfully there is an easy answer to your question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
You should do the healthy things to avoid cancer in the first place, but once you are diagnosed with a cancer with high mortality rate, it's a whole different calculation in terms of risks vs benefits compared to Covid-19.
Pride can be, and often is, expensive.