skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC credits are non-transferable for exactly this reason, and also why billing information is required (even if you have credit). "Selling" a full account with credits (or access to that account to use the credits) would be super risky since it's still tied back to you, you will definitely be selling for less than the credit amount, and you would be on the hook if AWS invalidated those credits after-the-fact.
Proving it might be hard.

But a first step would be to get rid of its internal committee of the Chinese Communist Party. And to stop making joint venture with government agencies.

To put it in other words, if there was a dedicated spot for the US secretary of defence on the board of Google, how fast do you think other countries would take some actions against Google ?
At the beginning of the epidemic, joe rogan hosted M.Osterholm for an interview where he warned about a lot of the things to come: the rapid spread, the small effect of washing hands or masks, the airborne spread etc. It's sad that the epidemic seems to have turned worse than most ppl assume it would.
It's not you, now that you told me they are in every of the photos, that's weird.
I'm still rocking a Pixel 2 xl and despite Google being a bit... Uninterested(probably the correct term) in the market outside the US(and thus severely limited in supply and even functionalities), I'll admit, it's a brilliant phone. I'm definitely curious to see what the 5 will offer and I might jump on board with it.What bothers me is that it was a pain in the ass to get the 2 XL back in the day. I flew all the way to Poland to get it(and even there I had to order it and wait for the delivery) so the covid-19 situation will probably be even more painful. I'll have to wait and see I suppose.
Um.. it is airborne, that is why there are multiple super-spreader events that can’t be explained by someone interacting within 3-6 feet for 10 minutes. (e.g. cases of 1 to 100, 1:500 case reported as well).

If you walked into an empty hospital room that was just used with high air-virion density, you could get infected, that is why they decontaminate with the equipment you see.

I think the main reason this isn’t being communicated is because we will never have enough N95 masks to mitigate this (would need 5-10 years of 24/6 production to fill govt. stockpiles).
I think a key part is also the dose in which you get infected that leads to illness. When you're in the open air, breathing and chanting, the dose of the virus is so low, that the immune system can easily defend against it.

Also, the virus doesn't kill most people, the human immune (over)reaction does.
This is my laymen's way of describing a (deadly) course of the virus and disease.

1.1. person breaths in microparticles (aerosols) contaminated with the virus
1.2. breaths in low or high dose (in further steps shown as L and H)
1.3. (L and H) directly deep into the lungs [1] (almost like intracellular viral infection)

2.1. (L and H) innate arm of immune system tries to combat it
2.2. (L and H) adaptive arm of immune system is being activated [2] (takes at most 7 days to mount a significant response)
2.3. (L) virus replicates slowly and is kept in check, because low dose is easier to combat by innate arm of immune system (availability of Vitamine D seems key as it exhibits direct antiviral activities [3] probably Zinc as well as it inhibits RNA replication of the virus [4])
2.4. (H) virus replicates fast because the high dose can't be handled by the innate arm
-> This is the point when most people will either get more ill and be hospitalized, or recover. This is also when it's too late for HCQ and Zinc to be effective. (Set of studies showing effectiveness for early or late treatment with HCQ + Zinc + Azithromycin[5])
3.1. (L) virus is controlled and the innate arm of the immune system can handle the virus. The adaptive arm cleans up the last bits of the virus and person is no longer ill.
-> Low dose infected person might stay Asymptomatic or experience a Light Cold or minor fever.
3.2. (H) virus is out of control and the adaptive arm reacts with an overreaction of the antibodies resulting in a cytokine storm
3.3. Person gets severe inflammation and thrombosis and gets heavily ill.
-> High dose infection: this is the point of no return and anyone who reaches this is bound to have a long track of recovery in front of them, or death.

I've added some sources, be aware that for each source there's multitude of other sources claiming the same thing. Research yourself!

[1]: https://www.intechopen.com/books/rhinosinusitis/aerosol-part...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_immune_system#Functio...
[3]: https://youtu.be/Mdc7T2UTHBI?t=216
[4]: https://youtu.be/WZq-K1wpur8?t=447
[5]: https://c19study.com/
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> There is nothing simpler than misusing statistics

Lining up strawmen and knocking them down, maybe.
I like “imagining” them as geometrical because of the logical necessity of motion in the complex plane when processing their mathematical operations.
If you check that part of the thread again, you'll see that that "loyalty oath" is associated with Grover Norquist rather than Thomas Sowell (although I'm fairly sure Sowell also thinks that taxes and government expenditures in the U.S. are way too high).
Title is "How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone" on my end. Assuming that was the original one, some comments here seem to suggest they only read the custom title without checking out the actual article.
I bought a pixel 3 a while back and the USB C port stopped working. They refused to fix it so I was making payments on a phone that I couldn't use. Never again (At least through the google store).
Astronomers solve the missing baryon problem
That's really too bad - my own experience was with a dyson DC21 canister that I bought in 2008 - after 6 years the power head started intermittently turning off while cleaning. They sent an entirely new power head no questions asked. It kept working for another 6 years without any other issues, then it just refused to turn on one day. I called and asked if they could service it and they said sadly the unit was discontinued several years ago but that they could send me the factory service manual and that the issue was likely with the connection between the reeling cord assembly and the main board. Sure enough, I guess reefing on that cord for 12 years caused it to come loose - 30 minutes later it was back up and running and I still use it to this day. Worth noting that this thing still cleans as strong today as it did back then. Perhaps Dyson Canada is different than US - I've seen a LOT of refurbished dysons on various marketplaces so I'm guessing they are not flawless - the fact there are so many refurbs however leads me to believe they are exchanging them without asking questions and that they are quite serviceable.
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> You need to treat the virus at the right level of concern otherwise you lose credibility.

I agree with this but don't see how the use of the word "airborne" conveys concern. Maybe this is some american hollywood trope now that I remember reading the phrase "It's airborne!" in the original article? Wikipedia's article on airborne diseases certainly don't seem to imply that there's a strict definition of how long a pathogen has to survive in the air for it to be classified as airborne.

> As we can all see, credibility from the experts needs to be maintained, otherwise no one trusts them anyone.

While I agree with this, we're in an age of misinformation and macho power culture where saying "we're not sure yet so let's just be as careful as possible" apparently doesn't do much good in many places of the world. And I don't think a technically incorrect use of a word like airborne is NEARLY as significant as changing stances on masks and presidents endorsing quacks.
Not unless data caps go up. 4G is already fast enough to burn through my monthly data cap in under 10 minutes.
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It's really cost. An extra hotspot device is >$100/month. My line of sight is $50month. My phone has unlimited data as well but for things like a security system, it's not something I want to rely on primarily if I leave and need to bring my phone with me.
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You know who actually sells your data? The senators and congressmen who are constantly going on about how Google and Facebook are selling your data. I've donated a small amount to many campaigns, and I always use a different email address for each one since I own my own domain with a catch-all.

A few months or a year later, I get emails from groups like "stop republicans" or from local campaigns in states I don't care about to elizabethwarren@[mydomain.com]. And I only have used that email once to donate to Elizabeth. And it's not just one politician, it's all of them. Even ones we feel are so idealistic, like my Andrew Yang donation that I did based on his Reddit plea now receives emails targeted to my demographic about how it's my fault the democrats will fail to stop Trump, or lose California, or whatever.

Financial companies also sell my data. I get phishing emails to turbotax2014@[mydomain.com] which is what I used to file that year's taxes. [Edit: in retrospect, this one is probably just a hack or incompetence rather than intentional selling]

And which emails have never been sold or given out? The ones I use for Google or Facebook. Never in the past 15 years.
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Had an issue with my headset after 3 years and they shipped a new one out at no cost to me without any return required.
> In some languages (e.g: Lua, Python) the designers are ready to break backwards compatibility. C++ chose not too.

There are still quite a few Python 2 codebases that will never migrate to Python 3, and quite a few developers who still use Python 2 for new projects.

Anecdotally, several Python developers I know would rather rewrite their Python 2 programs in another language than put in the work to move to Python 3. A lot of them seem to be considering Go and Rust.

The way the Python 2 to 3 change was handled was a huge mistake.
what is the point of this? usually this type of comment is when there's something inscrutable in the title of a post but the title of this post is literally "Who Is Alexander Grothendieck?"; if you didn't know who he was before clicking you certainly know afterwards.
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Unpatchable Flaw Found in iPhone
Perhaps the government should broker some temporary rent-per-customer or rent-per-$ sales as a way to help both landlords and small businesses.
I feel like you're ignoring a key point here, which is that these stingray devices can MitM your phone by forcing it to send essentially unencrypted messages. That's both more technically complicated and more serious than passive tracking.
Decently covered in 10 minutes or so in video form: https://youtu.be/Kp_kqamkYpw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_baryon_problem
I've been a big fan of CreditKarma for a few years now, but they dropped the ball for me in a big way this year with some flagrantly incorrect behavior.

I used https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and it was fantastic. The interface is a little bit clunky, but the value is there. They charge $7 for "deluxe support" which was easily the best $7 I can remember spending.

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> for anyone who can unseat Autodesk

oh, is that all
> What other forms of righteous hierarchies are you thinking about?

Head surgeon and other surgeons. CTO and other engineers. VP of sales and sales people, etc.

Other forms of hierarchy would be upper and lower courts.

Whether or not these are righteous is dependent on if, for example, the head surgeon is actually experienced and talented and a good leader. If he's just some shmuck they pulled off the street or if he's only in that position because he's friends with the hospital president then that would be a tyrannical or dysfunctional hierarchy.

>That would be the tyrannical form and completely illegitimate.

That's my point. But hierarchy itself is not illegitimate. That hierarchy itself is legitimate is a reflection of natural law. That was my assertion.
I have read more books by Thomas Sowell than by any other author, by a very wide margin. The one which has influenced me the most is the one which best captures the fundamental principles underlying his view of the world: A Conflict of Visions. I'd suggest it as required reading for anyone who wants to fully appreciate Sowell's work, as it provides insight into how he makes normative judgments about the merits of economic policy choices.

In general Sowell does an excellent job of demonstrating through data that the outcomes of economic policies are often directly at odds with their stated objectives, but to really take a principled stand on what the proper objectives are in the first place you need a set of coherent first principles. A Conflict of Visions provides this backdrop, and once you understand that Sowell clearly adheres to the "constrained" vision of humankind then his other works fall into their proper context.

It's a great book, but not above criticism, so in the interest of thoughtful inquiry I'd encourage anyone to read the book as well as this review by Bryan Caplan, economics professor at George Mason University who is also an economic libertarian: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/sowell
Let’s say I do your suggestion over and over again ... well now this “throwaway” account just became my primary account credential.

Now what happens if Gmail or Github shutdowns my account. Now I’m locked out of all
of these services I used to signup for. Some of these services might be business critical.

That’s why I don’t like allowing a 3rd party to own my account creditials.
Maybe it's anecdotal? I've had my 3a for a year and the battery feels just as good as when it was new, I only have to charge it every other day.
Great line. For those who do not recognize the source, it's from "Harvey".
Looks pretty neat

Though I'm always afraid of using icon sets (especially for a big product) because if I couldn't find an icon I need then sometimes it's not that easy to find this icon from another source with similar styling
Hey. Someone who briefly worked on the Stingray team here.

I left the company that develops the stingray (who’s name is mentioned in the article but I shall not say it) because I didn’t feel comfortable with the ethics of how it could potentially be easily abused without legal permission and/or repercussion. I fear these technologies will become more commonly used against Americans by low level law enforcement without good reason and without responsible usage.
We seem to agree 100%. The GP expressed hope that better information (such as this article) will be able to change people's minds and alter the course of the pandemic. I find that pretty naive. The reason the pandemic took the turn it did is precisely because research, reasoning, expertise, etc is incompatible with the existing cultural divides in the US. Why would more of the same produce a different result?
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Interesting, my partner and I both have Pixel 3a and I find their battery life amazing. I charge it once a day, but not fully. But maybe I don't use my phone as much as other people, just some redditing here or there and scrolling youtube and casting what I want to watch.

Only gripe I have with Pixel 3a is the "crackling" noise when volume is at max. Seems to be software because sometimes it doesn't happen. Everyone I know with the Pixel 3a has it.
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Sadly enough, still only available in a few countries. :(
Leaving aside commercial methods or more...shall we say, exotic methods like explosives or elecroshock, bait fishing is generally more effective.

I do both: I trot bait when the river I fish is unsuitable for the fly.
Admitting that D even exists should embarrass the C++ committee.

Modules and contracts have taken something like 30 years combined, and they still aren't prevalent. The tried to borrow static if, but theirs is scoped and misses the point (the static if paper).

All of the aforementioned are maintained in a language that has less maintainers than C++ has committee members, with better solutions and orders of magnitude faster compile time.