skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using the numbers from the Wikipedia summary. I also checked to see if those numbers include long-term effects which is unclear from my cursory review.

I don’t know how many people are in hospitals with life threatening conditions but I suspect it is more than a quarter million, or even half.

Based on personal experience in deskside hospital IT browser vulnerabilities are a significant vector. We spent a lot of time re-imaging machines.

There have been ransomware attacks at hospitals including deaths. A coordinated attack using this vector could easily cause as many deaths as nuclear weapons have.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hospitals-b...
Finding passwords in the public Gists feed
I'm very worried that as services revenue becomes important, the aggressive rent-seeking behaviour from Apple will only increase and they'll start damaging user experience even more.

Heck, iOS 14 booted with an Ad notification and in settings to buy their subscription services.
Essentially no vaccines are 100% effective, and 90% is actually much better than expected for covid vaccines. The people in the trial are being actively tested, so symptoms are largely irrelevant.

To be clear, these trials work by giving the vaccine to a bunch of people and seeing how many catch COVID. They're not challenge trials, where people are deliberately infected; your friend's conspiracy theory could kind of work with those (assuming that for some reason not everyone in the group was being regularly tested).
I would bet basically anything that inferring "did commit" from "is suspect" works very well in aggregate.
Contract tracing seems to work just fine in the Asian countries that have successfully stopped the virus in its tracks, and if China's 1.3 billion people isn't at scale, I'm not sure what is.

But yes, it does require having few enough infected people to make it feasible, and places like the US and most of Europe are waaaaay beyond that point now.
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Killing the driver sounds too drastic. The tweet would probably lower your social score, which in turn is in violation of the Apple EULA ("Our exclusive products may only be used by persons with high social score"), stopping the car and blaring the alarm "Please disembark.".

And since you're in the middle of the highway in rain, you don't get out. "Your license to use this car has been terminated. You are now trespassing. The authorities have been alerted.". And then the police show up and shoot you because their data mining software says it's mostly black people that have such low social score, so the iGlasses the cops have say you are black.
Shorter telomeres: Scott Kelly DNA now not identical to twin after year in space
For all those people in this thread praising his work, now's the time to put your money where the mouth is. If you have used his work, push your companies to sponsor/donate. Asking irrelevant questions like whether he has a job does not help the situation. The community's response to events like this is what determines the future of open source. People like to complain about copyleft vs libre licenses. But if you have benefitted much from open source software and are hesitant about contributing back financially, you are part of the problem. This is not just about Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Fortune 500s. If you are a tech startup with revenue or funding and uses his software in your products, consider a 5 to 6 figures contract, or at the very least a significant one time donation.
The 1976 Swine Flu outbreak and subsequent bungled vaccination campaign comes to mind
I think that intended to say that it's not important in the sense of being able to use Solid. It's up to you to choose who hosts your Pod (or you can do it yourself), and that's where you are able to decide whether the host encrypts your data at rest.
OK, you made me laugh:

See also: mutt, tail, sleep, roff
dry ice manufacturing companies?

Do You mean the Co2 supply chain? We make a lot of carbonated beverages; there will likely be no shortage.
Learning Through Play
Internal tools they’re a bit of a mixed bag
That last point is a big problem. When we require people to have smart phones then there is no more privacy from government surveillance. Their authority becomes more absolute, and any fear of populist upheaval is gone.
You're right, this approach would require a strong protection against deanonymization of votes, which could allow attackers to guess who voted for each candidate, for instance according to voting time and location.
Is 90% protection better or worse than wearing a mask?
What Can Silicon Valley Expect from Joe Biden?
One thing that's great for societal stability is not too much inequality of wealth. Another thing is cultural homogeneity. We're probably seeing both at play in Sweden.
Has any1 had success compiling it on mac? I get a link error involving libclang.

thread 'main' panicked at 'Unable to find libclang: "the `libclang` shared library at /usr/local/opt/llvm/lib/libclang.dylib could not be opened: dlopen(/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib/libclang.dylib, 2): Symbol not found: __ZN4llvm11raw_ostream10resetColorEv\n Referenced from: /usr/local/opt/llvm/lib/libclang.dylib\n Expected in: /Users/erin/.rustup/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libLLVM.dylib\n in /usr/local/opt/llvm/lib/libclang.dylib"', /Users/erin/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/bindgen-0.55.1/src/lib.rs:1896:31

That's from doing "cargo install pijul --version 1.0.0-alpha".

Bonus question: I'v never seen the notation "[0,n[" to represent a half-open internval before (I've seen "[0,n)"), but it does have a certain logic to it! Is it novel or standard in some places?
Anyone know anything about Tina OS, or have contacts at Allwinner who might know about it? This article says it is based on Debian but other pages on the web say it is based on OpenWrt.
The GPU only supports 2D acceleration. 3D acceleration would have been a really nice addition.
Why shouldn't I be afraid? If my parents get infected there's a close to 100% chance that they'll die, due to their existing conditions. And I have to visit them, so do others. There's a real risk of infection there.
Measles is also famously contagious, with R values on the order of 3-6x higher than COVID-19.
A Content Security Policy without 'unsafe-inline' is fairly close to what you describe.
Until we have an effective prevention or cure, we have to reduce the chances of catching it, especially during the period where people are spreading it before they show symptoms. Since it spreads mostly from prolonged time breathing the same air, the point of lockdowns is preventing those situations from arising. Quarantining after you become symptomatic is too late and without legal weight too many people won’t avoid situations to stop community spread.

That matters because there are things that you have to do, and you don’t have a way to control other people’s decisions. Closing high-risk recreational activities means that someone can go shopping with less risk because the people near them weren’t hanging out at the bar the night before.
Evernote at one point a few years ago had a pen and paper thing with a grid on it they could recognize. You took pictures of it. I think it was made by moleskine. Has this been updated? This was to my recollection about 5 years ago when I first saw someone using this technique of hybrid analog/digital capture.
Flu has a unique capability to recombine that allows it to mutate more readily than other viruses. Hoping that the more simple coronavirus will be less fortunate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_shift
Lots of talks about `Domains`. So I looked it up [1] and here is what this is about:

> the virtual machine contains a number of domains, each running as a separate system thread in the same address space. Each domain has a relatively small local heap, and a large shared heap is shared between all domains. The local heaps are collected with OCaml’s existing minor collector (modified to use thread-local instead of global state), and long-lived objects are promoted to the shared heap.

> We maintain the invariants that no domain ever follows a pointer to another domain’s local heap, and that immutable fields of objects on the shared heap only point to other objects on the shared heap. Mutable fields of objects on the shared heap may point to objects on a domain’s local heap, and we describe how reads of such fields are handled in Section 4.

> Since local heaps are only ever accessed by a single domain, no synchronisation between threads is required when a domain collects its local heap. This allows us to sustain the high rate of allocation of short-lived objects that many OCaml programs exhibit.

[1] http://166.78.252.20/meetings/ocaml/2014/ocaml2014_1.pdf
Chrome is also changing very rapidly. I imagine Firefox's ESR branch may be safer just because less change means less new code in need of review over time.
Nordic countries say hi! Those are all standard over here. We pay more taxes yes but we don't have to worry about the extra costs of the above, so it's a clear (to me) net win.
This is 90% protection against disease, not necessarily 90% protection against infection. There's an important distinction:

* Protection against disease means that you don't get sick. You may still contract the virus and spread it to others (the Salk vaccine against Polio works this way).

* Sterilizing immunity means that you can't even get infected, so that you can't pass the virus on to other people. It does not look like there's any information about sterilizing immunity in this press release.

Importantly, this means that even with this vaccine, the virus may still be able to spread, and only vaccinated people will be protected (i.e., no herd immunity).
The risk was to insecure customers, companies house services weren't vulnerable to this to begin with.
Imagine you work at a campground or you’re trying to trim your lawn and one of these psychos starts yelling at you about their Zoom calls. Mental.
The AT version is a little better in that regard, but also seem to be somewhat rarer. I'm still waiting on the "modern" Model F.
Every now and then Gravity shows up on hn and it always makes me smile--a couple years ago I added some built-in array methods as one of my first forays into compilers and I had a lot of fun with it. Probably my first "real" OSS contribution.
I ended up with 1k GitHub repos while testing the GitHub API with CATS
In your conspiracy theory, surely, they'd just have announced after polls closed? Why wait for it to be called? Also, this vaccine was actually developed by a German company, who would likely resent their partner playing this game.

This timing is consistent with when we've been told we might see early results all along, really; it shouldn't be that surprising. Expect announcements from other teams over the next couple of months.
Costs and Benefits of Metaphysics
The analogy is imperfect, but it's imperfect in both directions - we don't have to make 300k planes and fight Nazis, we "just" have to produce a bunch of vaccine and some freezers.

It should be substantially less difficult than winning WWII, which again - we were capable of scaling up industrially to accomplish.

> this is only observed during the initial spread before herd immunity kicks in

When will that be? NYC's new spike is demonstrating even their enormous outbreak didn't generate enough of it.
If anyone ever considers writing a Nim variant that compiles to Zig, I suggest that it be called "Zinnig". Aside from being punny it means sensible/rational in Dutch, which seems appropriate ;)

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zinnig
A robot – and only a robot – wrote this article
genetically modified adenovirus
My take is that this is a "correlation does not imply causality" case.

It was possible to positively identify a reinfection because the two infections were due to different strains. That was just the means of positively and objectively identify a reinfection. However, nothing was asserted regarding if the patient was immune to the first strain the first time around. In fact, it seems that the hallmark of reinfections is that they are far more critical than first infections. This also means that the first infections is far milder than the second one. Well, the thing about the immune system is that it is able to fight mild infections without developing immunity if they are too mild to trigger a full response from the immune system.
Ask HN: What are low stress roles in technology jobs?
Recently, I have realized that I suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I am seeking help with this but one of main stressor of my anxiety is deadlines and oncall.

I am trying to find job roles without deadlines. Once I worked as Business Intelligence analyst and that was one of a few jobs where there were no deadlines other than get it done asap. But that meant never really working past 5pm. And there was no oncall. If data warehouse was down after 5pm, we would bring it back in the morning. I loved it.

I am looking into data science jobs now but wondering what other options might be for someone seeking a slightly less stressful role?
Agreed, this is an issue with complexity more generally, but microcode seems like a particularly important case.

As far as I can tell from the software world though, it's pretty rare for anyone to try this kind of thing. When their software is Free and Open Source, some companies put telemetry in there (e.g. Visual Studio Code), but it's very rare for there to be anything this malicious hidden away in publicly viewable code.

The Linux world has collectively agreed to trust SELinux, for instance, despite that it originates from the NSA.
If the GPL is fine for them, why would FAANG need to use a different license?
Less relevant to European regulation, but the FBI's attempt to use phone taps/hotel room bugs to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. int committing suicide[0], is a good example of why we should be suspicious of even lawful intercept. Terrorism is bad, but I think we can all agree a world where the US civil rights movement was stillborn would be much worse than what we have. (They went after more civil rights leaders than just Dr. King.) More recently, FISA courts have a terrible record of filtering out unreasonable lawful intercept requests.

Are there any comparable post-WWII Eurpopean abuses that should make citizens think twice about blanket law enforcement back-doors?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
There's also participation on the contact side. In Western countries, surveys indicate we can't convince even half of people to install a contact tracing smartphone app. According to my state's department of health, practical experience indicates we can't convince even half of people to pick up the phone and respond to a contact tracing interview.

> Covid19 would also be over if people with symptoms would just stay home.

No it wouldn't. One of the things that makes SARS-CoV-2 such a problem is that people get contagious long before they show symptoms. Similarly to for influenza and the common cold, many people get contagious without ever developing symptoms.
> I honestly can't imagine going back to having the list of approved software for one of my most important computers dictated by a publicly traded company. I'm shocked other people tolerate it!

Because it isn't the most important computer for many (probably most) people - it's their phone/entertainment device and it does what they want; any semblance of it being a general purpose computer was never there.
Check out bunnie's talk on supply chain security:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5519
This is good news but I'm worried about the mutation already showing up in minks in Denmark. Minks apparently have a near identical respiratory system.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/denmark-plans-kill-15-mil...
It kinda makes sense though. IE is horrible, but it's usage share is in the single digits, so not a big attack surface to target. Chrome and Safari is far more interesting from a bad actors perspective
This is very cool, thank you!!
Maybe listen to too much Media/News etc, when you hear just bad things happening, you think it's just a matter of time until that happens to me or my family.

So you close your mind (because everyone else is bad, and every Adult that speaks with my children is a pedo) then you buy a gun (even if the chance is much higher that exactly with that gun something bad happens) and your Children's needs to be under constant observation and they need to learn that one should trust no one, you life in constant fear and because of that you vote for trumps.

>if I had enough time to get back for lunch.

Exactly that was my biggest fear, to late for lunch meant grumpy Mum and Dad..and no roaming for the next two days.
Has no one watched Resident Evil?
The real issue is thinking that is ok. Ownership has been degraded and devalued. There needs to be a new term that defines this new type of relationship between customers and corporations. And it should be illegal to call it ownership anymore on the basis of false advertising.
H-1B was for non-immigration, wasn't it? How is this not in favor of large corporations seeking cheap workers? What specific benefit do US-Americans get from this?
Yes. Pfizer have published info on their logistics, there are details in the wall st journal. Basic idea is a little box of ~1000 doses goes in a big box filled with enough dry ice for up to ten days. Average delivery time will be around 3.

edit: See https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-sets-up-its-biggest-ever...
Nah, just being tired of being told that only newbies do security errors in C, and the languages that are copy-paste compatible with it.

But there is a positive side to it, where would the anti-virus, hardware memory tagging and security consultancy companies be without languages like C, there is a market to keep alive out there.
I often use my browser with JS default and it boggles my mind how developers use JS for things that could be perfectly done with HTML and CSS. For most websites used as websites (reading the content), not apps, JS is completely reduntant. Moreover, it looks like most JS code is used for all possible trackers and ads. JS is great (or: decent enough), but for apps, not for HTML documents.
Pandemrix causing narcolepsy comes to mind: https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/influenz...
That's just normal pre-purchasing, though, which would have happened regardless of that particular program. They also have a few hundred million doses ordered by the EU.
I'm currently recovering from Covid-19 and hopefully won't need it, however this line sounds a bit strange:

"It uses a completely experimental approach - that involves injecting part of the virus's genetic code - in order to train the immune system."

I did my flu (not Covid) vaccine shot about 3 weeks ago, just before catching the nastier one, and according to the doctors it works exactly that way, although this one of course doesn't contain parts of SARS-Cov2 but rather various other winter flu virii (H1N1-pdm09,CNIC1909,H3N2,IVR-208, etc).

So if the approach is the usual one, testing is likely where the most time is spent; that should speed up production a lot.
We could still sell software if distros decided to add support for selling freedom-respecting software through the package manager. Some people still do it (see RCU on http://davisr.me , it's a $15 FOSS third-party program for stuff related to the ReMarkable e-ink stylus tablet)
If by "processor" you're not restricting yourself to single-chip microprocessors, then probably something like this:

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

...probably equivalent in performance to a minicomputer from the 70s.
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Oh indeed you are 100%. Thank you for that link, it explains so much.
Did you own a smartphone before the iPhone came out? I did, more than one. It was not a tool, it was nearly useless, useful only for basic plaintext e-mailing, SSH, and very very basic games.

It was the new Real Computer-alike capabilities (CPU instruction sets, OS and the libraries, RAM and storage amounts - Windows Mobile 6 was incomparable shit) of iPhone and subsequent Android-based devices that made these devices actual tools, capable of browsing the web and enough performance for games and apps, and these same capabilities were what made them the social plague. Seems like we need less Real Computers in the world, not more...
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I never understood the need to name suspects - address and all - in this country.

In my home country suspects that are (or are about to be) charged and convicted with a crime have their last name abbreviated (e.g. Paul S.), which seems completely reasonable to me. You're innocent until proven guilty, for one. But even if you're guilty and convicted, your punishment should be limited to whatever the judge rules it should be.

I don't see the need for public shaming beyond whatever punishment they get in court should they be convicted. When someone is released after a prison sentence they have a right to resume their life. They did their time, after all.

Sorry if I sound like I'm rambling a bit, English is not my native language.
Which town is that?
For me though, the thing about TBL is he isn't a glory-hound, my sense of him is he gets involved in interesting problems that he thinks have serious benefits and gets stuck in. He's been thinking and working on this current problem for quite a while, takes it seriously and it is very close to the domain that he has been involved in for decades now. The name may generate some buzz, but I suspect the project may have intrinsic value in its own right.
Physicists develop an efficient modem for the future quantum internet
Common Beliefs That Can Subtly Screw You Over
There was some response. Was it sufficient or not - it has never been verified. Attempts to vaccinate animals with SARS vaccines ended with terrible outcomes of ADE.
> The only annoying part is still that the image dimensions are not reserved appropriately, even with present width and height attributes. So the layout can jump around if you scroll past the not yet loaded image. If you have an idea how to deal with that within picture groups, I love to hear about it.

See https://www.andyshora.com/css-image-container-padding-hack.h...

I used the trick on https://jessicakhope.com's blog-post pages. View the source on https://jessicakhope.com/blog/family-workcation-in-portland-..., for examples.

The site is static and is generated by hugo. The image container paddings are generated at compile time.
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Also not so good: this is a corporate press release. The data will come later.
Saying Switzerland has "vastly" stricter gun laws /might/ be true if mushing the U.S. into a whole, but it ignores the very important variations at the state level. Some states have very strict regimes that compare to Switzerland's, and in some you can just walk into a store and buy long guns if you're of age.

I totally agree about the responsibility thing.

Concerning the "dog shoots owner" headlines, you should ignore that sort of thing. Those sorts of incidents are super rare. They hit headlines /because/ they're rare and therefore interesting.
They don't do anything essential. You could replace them with jigsaw puzzles and we'd be fine and likely better off in many ways, because that's less addictive and less resource intensive, too. We just wouldn't have as much fun.
Given that Web is practically turned into ChromeOS, I see that we are far beyond that point by now.
Risk of COVID19 long term effects is far worse than mRNA side effects IMO.