skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize I would get a bill when not seeking medical intervention at all, especially for $11,000 or $33,000.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-call-investigat...

Over 600k American petitioned banning Bill Gates' Foundation obviously.
NYC contact tracers were forbidden to ask if people attended a protest

Refusing to collect that data point is completely understandable from a public health standpoint. There is substantiated concern that people may end up on cop shitlists for attending a protest, we know that there is police overreach, and the only way to keep the pigs out of the trough is not providing it at all. NYPD is notoriously corrupt. If any single person ended up being harassed by the cops as a result for telling the truth no one will ever work with a contact tracer again.

Sad that the cops can't restrain themselves in a time of public emergency but that's the reality we live in.
Edited my comment to include the URLs. Let me know what you think and if you have any questions. I can try to pull some SMEs in to answer them if you'd like.
Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols
Can you just submit it again with no additional changes? As an aside, I am a pleased customer and love your app.
If the web browser wasn't grandfathered-in, the Apple & Google App Stores would ban it.
Then you need to support the train-specific OS, and find developers who know how to write code for this train-specific OS, and IT staff who can install the train-specific updates onto the train-specific OS.

As for why they would not use Linux? Leaving aside that these probably predate the wide adoption of Linux, Windows is often used in embedded devices which need graphical interfaces/displays. Again, ease of finding developers and third party tooling is a big driver.
" if they think this is going to win any minds of wechat user, they're just dead wrong."

The US government is not trying to 'win the minds' of wechat users.

Also, why would Apple pull it in China?

I think you are misunderstanding the motivations for the ban.
The problem with this take is that browsers are really good and downloading and displaying static (to the browser) content which is the basis of server-side hydration. SSR is almost always going to be faster but it will beat the crap out of your servers depending on how dynamic the pages are.
NPR's podcast Planet Money did a piece on brushing which goes into bit more detail than the BBC article: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/606517326
I'm friends with everyone I know, including my managers, if I've had some sort of extended contact. I went kayaking with my last manager for instance. I've even made friends during interviews (where I didn't take the job).

I've had "managers" that I've only talked to once a month that I didn't become friends with but that's to be expected.
More likely it would be iOS and Android apps, with all that that entails.
I edited my comment to include the URLs. Interested in what you think, let me know when you have a chance to review.
Doesn't Wikipedia do something like this? If not, the WBM/Archive.org does something like it on Wikipedia's behalf.
Sometimes I really wish we devs did to Apple/Google what we did when anti-net neutrality were forced on us to get this: unite and stop making apps and updates for one day to get more public attention to the 30% extortion and such arm twitting by these two companies.

If 10 big companies and thousand of devs joined Epic right now, Apple would be willing to bend a lot more than its current stance.
> The IRS has nearly all the pieces it needs

Some things would need to change to make this statement true. Stock brokers and portfolio managers would have to be forced to stop reporting gains without basis. Without the basis the IRS has no idea what your gains were.
I can understand posting a link, plus an archival link just in case the original content is lost. But linking to an archival site only is IMO somewhat rude.
I had to laugh at their test. Two hours? Many people can sustain a high pace of work for two hours. But how about as time wears on? There's a lot of assumptions going on here.
I've always had great luck visiting my reps, either at home or in DC. The rarely get visits from actual voters and they and their staff love getting someone who is not a lobbyist as a guest. If you do so, have an ask, and most importantly have a story about how you or someone close to you is affected by whatever you want changed. Every time I've got things to move in a positive direction, and never once was I asked to make donations.
Lol.

https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/please-write-a-short-o...
They would probably reject the screenshot too.
All of the points in my previous post still stand. This was not a notably risky fire-weather watch (which is part of why this fires behavior is so concerning), and the area where these folks were headed did not put them at particularly elevated risk. It's fine if you would have chosen not to go, but I probably would have made the same decision as these folks.

I'm not aware of any wilderness backpacker fatalities caused by wildfires in California. The hazards here are very different than those of avalanches or flash floods, which are actually usually easier to predict. Any experienced outdoors-person knows that. You can pick a bone with them for taking photographs, but I think their decision to continue with their hike (which started before the fire had even ignited!) was much more nuanced than "there was a heat wave." If you cancelled your trip any time there was an increased risk of something, you wouldn't get outdoors very often.

Also, there's only one 's' in the plural of "Sierra." The word "Sierras" is equivalent to "mountainses." ;-)
I currently use Nvidia GeForce Now to play games on my laptop when traveling. $5/m and lets me play most the games I own at 4k. Saves me on weight and device price.
It's hard to get the numbers, though. I mean, I guess we could ask....
> How does your employer know what "the appropriate amount of taxes" is?

It's an approximation based on your revenue (and they know how much they'll pay you). At end-year everything is tallied all proper and as taxpayer you either have to pay the missing bits (if you have extra revenues which weren't accounted for by your salary) or you receive a wire transfer from the state (if you had deductions which weren't taken in account e.g. dependents or whatever).
Not sure what the argument here is. Different builds for prod, qa and test?

Even if that was workable, which is a question in itself, there is still configuration outside the packaged application. AWS keys, metrics and logs, dashboards, that sort of things.
If I recall correctly, Tesla open sourced their patents in 2014. Couldn't other car companies implement their own version of Tesla's equipment and skip a significant portion of the R&D needed for EV development?

Obviously that would take more work than just buying directly from Tesla, but if they built their manufacturing line to supply their own Tesla-invented tech then they should be able to sell it to other manufacturers, right?
I brought Chef into the online side of the NFL several years ago. We still use it, though less and less as we get more things into containers. I've got my gripes with it, but I'd never second guess my decision to use Chef, or trade it for anything else.

Those problems sound like people aren't taking the same care in their cookbooks that they are in their regular software. If you write bad cookbooks and don't at least give a cursory review of the community cookbooks you use, you'll end up with a mess. If you treat it like the customer facing software it is, I find it a pleasure to work with.

Our cookbooks have CI pipelines that run some basic tests and we have automation around rolling out changes. We rely on a lot of conventions to avoid storing state, but we still have nodes auto provisioning their own storage and load balancers where necessary. It's let us stand up a ton of infrastructure and make changes safely and quickly. That's not to say we couldn't have made Puppet/Ansible/etc work, because IMHO it's more about your development practices than anything else.

edit: we only use Chef Infra and some Inspec. Not talking about Habitat.
The only reason that p value is a bit high in that second multivariate analysis is because of the uncertainty of how much all the different risk factors like hypertension, T2DM, age >= 60 etc. affect ICU admission numbers.

But even with those variables controlled, the 95% confidence interval is 0.003-0.25, which at worst is a 4-fold reduction in ICU risk.

We should also note that the Calcifediol treatment group had 14 patients ≥ 60 years old, and the non-Calcifediol group had 5. So the study looks even better with that in mind...
>I don't see AR taking off any time soon, even if the "end state" success makes a lot of sense.

Replacing (laptop) screens with glasses / virtual desktops would be a big ergonomic win and good start, it could improve existing workflows (enable desktop productivity on mobile).

AR/VR mainstream success is difficult because it doesn't really have mainstream predecessors in the real world like the iPhone had (phones, mp3 players, cameras) that made smartphones a nobrainer purchase. It's predecessors are actually laptops, tablets and computer monitors.
> According to Citizens' Advice, if an item is addressed to you, there has been no previous contact with the company, and it arrives out of the blue, then you can keep it.

You might not want to, through. I an was almost-victim of another scam where the scammers opened an account at Best Buy using my information with (someone else's) stolen credit card, and ordered a laptop and shipped it to my address. I returned it to the store immediately and notified Best Buy of the scam, but the next work day a FedEx guy came with a prepaid label (from the scammers) to pick it up. The idea apparently was to confuse me about the return, so I'd accidentally ship the laptop to the scammers rather than Best Buy.

It would've worked too, but I'd already returned the package in person and called the police (because I'd assumed the scammer's plan was to steal it from my doorstep). I didn't realize something was wrong with the pickup until the Fedex guy was almost ready to drive away, but I waved him down to get a look at the label.

The name/address on the was that of a recent immigrant living in New York City. My understanding is that he's probably just a schmuck who got taken in by some fake work from home scam to transship the stolen items. He may even think he's working for Best Buy to process returns.

In any case, I think if I'd kept the laptop I'd have been guilty of receiving stolen property, at least. At worst, I could have been assumed to be a bumbling scammer and charged with credit card fraud (though, being a white professional worker, that probably wouldn't happen since I would probably be given the benefit of the doubt, but other people wouldn't be so lucky).
Technology selection is a black art in many companies. Sounds like people were open to listening to the opinion of a developer in your case. Often-times the selection heuristic is habit or history. The right companies will pay more attention to reasoned arguments of their own developers.
You can pay a tax professional for about the $100 that turbo tax apparently charges.

There is an OSS tax solver here: https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

Only does IRS, not state, works fine for me so far.
A Challenging Combinatorics Problem
They both do it, the question is how often and for what reason and the nature of the data.
Google's gaming service seems to be floundering, as per usual with Google product ventures. However, if it can work for gaming it can definitely work for desktop.

One could imagine a future where you have a dumb terminal like a chromebook and you rent time on a powerful cloud computer, and only pay for the time you actually use it.

There's a lot of obstacles to doing it well, and even if you do I don't know if the economics are good enough to justify it.
I've had to do that for development because my internet upload is only 5mbps and I needed to push decently large docker images to our private repo. So I provisioned a cloud VM and SSHed into it.
> they are hard to take seriously.

Why? What convention would you use?

If you think these are estimates of related healthcare costs, you should probably re-read the paper.
I said no need to take so much.. for no reason.

With advancing age, higher amounts (+ magnesium and K2) mimic/amplify the actions of hGH/IGF-1 pushing back toward youth. More D3 is often needed with age for the same effect.

The combo is also protecting bone and the higher amount of magnesium does countless things: released when the body is ready to unroll inflammation, opposes excess lipid peroxidation, opposes lipofuscin, lengthens telomeres, shifts the calcium:magnesium balance such that less calcium is absorbed into stressed cells, keeps calcium dissolved, decalcifies, vasodilation at skin (improves nutrient flow, slowing aging effects), binds and clears heavy metals as excreted, sensitizes to LH, increases testosterone/progesterone and IGF-1 (directly and indirectly), aids in clearance of estrogens, opposes stress, lowers cortisol and aldosterone, shifting to DHEA and potentially anabolism, improves sleep if taken at night (ZMA for males), etc...
Then you saw a set of images curated to support a specific narrative not representative of the larger group.
All the metrics for advertisement sales have been gamed for as long as I know of (at least 20 years); this goes for paper, online, television, and radio. Smart advertisers know what's going on, and they take the 'gaming' into account.
Isn’t that Windows NT?
Which part of the body needs to be exposed to UV light in order to produce Vitamin D?

If I wear a baseball cap and jeans and expose only my arms, is that good enough? Or do I need to expose my face?
Teslas can already charge at any standard electrical outlet or Level 2 charging station with adapters that come with the car and at any Level 3 charging station in the US with an optional CHAdeMO adapter, so it's more like they've set things up so you can fuel your Mercedes at any gas station, but they built a series of Mercedes-branded gas stations throughout the country that are cheaper, faster, more convenient and exclusive in addition to the standard network.
And they're getting bought by Intuit (TurboTax)...
Neat release, but the amount of stuff Google adds to Android every year simply pales in comparison to what Apple is doing. Nevermind the fact that 80% of Android users won't see this stuff for another 3 years.
> the only reason white people exist in the first place is because of vitamin D

Is there a study to back up that claim? I haven't seen anything claiming to prove that lighter skin was a definite cause of a need for higher vitamin D levels. In fact, the article would seem to prove this theory wrong. Vitamin D supplementation does not help with much of anything as far as we can tell so far.
Fortnite Users Flee After Getting Caught in Apple Dispute
this could very well be the case. in which case, using oculus as a model -- the company's promises to you as the user are only as good as the last company who acquired them.
In the pacific northwest, helicopters are almost never used for searching. The are just too expensive/dangerous and often useless as they cannot see through fog/cloud/trees etc. Everyone heading into that backcountry should be prepared to spend a night or two in the woods. That doesn't mean hauling a tent but it does mean hauling some warm rain gear, a proper flashlight (not a cellphone) boots and some basic first aid training.
I disagree. It's like a painter putting their name/face in a painting. I always smile when I hear his humming come through and I rather enjoy his own vocal counterpoint.
You might get better support with ReactOS I suppose, at the same time... you might have more reasons to need support.
> A lot more people have some degree of social anxiety than one might think, especially in IT.

I was interning at this place and the team lead would come and ask the interns what they were doing (at least once a week) and ask really in depth questions. It was extremely nerve wracking because this was the only interaction I had with him and he kept a air of "hard ass" around him. Every few weekly meetings he'd ask the interns for more information and put us on the spot.

It sucked. BUT by the end of the internship I think we all felt a lot more confident speaking and defending our work. So I guess his plan worked, and honestly I'm happy to have had that experience. I think it made me not only a better worker, but a better employee. At the end of the day, we all are in sales in some form. So I do not like the idea of someone else giving the talk, because that's not the person that gets the training from it.

What I'm trying to say is that talks like these really should be used to help your team members with anxiety. A bit of low risk exposure therapy. Speaking is a skill and it is an extremely useful one to every person at every stage in their career. You are supposed to train your employees and sometimes that means making them a little uncomfortable.
I’d say being brainwashed is the most generous assumption you could make about someone supporting the CCP.
How We Saved Our Neighborhood from a Wildfire
Correlation confused for causation? Say it isn’t so!

/s #APillForEveryIll

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“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” H. L. Mencken
The changes in the update aren't related to the rejection at all, unfortunately.
I would agree.

The no-code is an illusion in the enterprise realm - before you know it, you are waist deep in the custom code.

No-code can really work only for small businesses imo.

I come from enterprise background and that is one of the reasons I built Titanoboa - to make something that makes it easy to rapidly prototype new integrations on the fly.

I summed up some of my thoughts on this topic here: https://www.titanoboa.io/repl.html

The main point I am trying to test with Titanoboa is this however:

State Machines <-> Process Designers is a spectrum and one product could handle the entire spectrum (or part of it).

Titanoboa makes it possible to pre-define workflow steps and make it "no code" while also making complex custom integrations possible from the same environment with the same concepts. Plus also distributed data handling is in the mix.

I guess now the challenge is how to market this versatility or whether it could create more confusion...
Several studies have shown that asymptomatic infections may have long-term impact. The valuation may be taking that into account -- you might not get that bill today, but maybe you (or your insurance) will pay that over the course of your lifetime
Did you read the article?

> It is an essential hormone, definitely, but not a magical pill that will ward off disease. There are conditions that benefit from Vitamin D supplementation - for hypoparathyroidism, a condition that can cause dangerously low calcium levels, Vitamin D is lifesaving. For otherwise healthy adults, the benefit is less clear.

Takeaways: it's not clear what preventative benefits it has.

Even to use your vitamin C example, it's also widely touted to take vitamin C for general well being, such as helping colds. But its preventative benefits aren't clear [1]. Nobody has ever said vitamin C is useless, but it's just not a panacea (much like the article claims about vitamin D).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1160577/
That's true.

It's also true that, if I wanted to build a nice subdivision under El Capitan in Yosemite, I would find that I'm quite unable. The collective hivemind that makes up the body politic prefers a national park over houses.

So now that we've acknowledged that Mammon isn't the only god in our pantheon, perhaps we can make better decisions on that basis, going forward.
There is a Book-Parcel scam in India, and I was one of the victims.

When you register a new company, your details are out there in the open, targeted by scammers, spammers, and other marketing specialists. I'm usually paranoid and am good at detecting BS, but this slipped through.

On a fateful day in 2015, while I was driving, the security guard at our building called me to say there is a book order, and the mailman was asking for cash payments. Highly unlikely because I always pre-pay and don't do the Cash-on-Delivery, which is 90%+ of the eCommerce in India.

I had earlier helped the guard's family, especially his daughter (similar to my daughter's age), with some school fees and gifts. So, he is always looking for ways to "repay" me. He offered to pay off the ₹2,500+ for the "official book" order.

In the melee of me driving and the "official book," I told him to go ahead. I paid him the amount he paid the mailman but never told him about the scam lest he feels terrible.

I still have that book-order well packed to remind me of the time when I was scared. I will have it as part of my collectibles (family museum).
When I worked for Boeing there was some critical factory equipment that still ran on Windows 95 and even Windows 3.1. IIRC, the manufacturers had gone out of business so Boeing actually fabricated parts as needed to keep them running.
Every Morning Routine these days
For anything important you can't beat a good save to pdf feature in the browser. You can then upload the pdf and link to that instead. Someone should make a wordpress plugin to do this automatically.
Call me crazy, but isn’t this “single biological neuron” actually 2 locally connected layers with a field width of 2 and unshared weights with a third fully connected layer at the end? With a relu nonlinearity?

I’m not surprised this does well on MNIST and I’m not sure it breaks with present research directions in deep learning. This network could be built pretty easily in torch or tensorflow.
The 80/20 Rule (comic)
The problem with computer-as-a-service is that I'll still need a computer to use the CaaS.
Make it 5% of the work time. Make it part of the job (I also doubt you're working 8hrs at full productivity mode)
The way I dealt with something similar is to replace any link with COVID with a message that says "Due to Apple policy, we cannot show this link in the app. Please click here to see this page in Safari, where it is allowed."
I've gotten epackets containing bows, stickers, and similar low value items that I didn't order (never seeds, though). They came from aliexpress sellers and contained a note saying that the item was a "gift" as a "reward for my business" with a store that I never bought anything from.
And also the effects of those couple dozen are nonlinear and the degree of nonlinearity probably varies from subject to subject.
Send them a screenshot of all the studies that show masks have no effect
I would not value the public health cost dollar estimate of an asymptomatic infection at 11k. I would not value the public cost dollar estimate of a non-hospitalized infection at 33k.
This is the subject of the article.
Developing a productivity tool for Remote work and online meetings