skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're missing something, it's probably because you dismiss what was said. I've seen that happen all too often.

For example, suppose a person doesn't want to become a linguistic or religious minority in their own country. When they logically oppose immigration, do you decide that you're hearing a dogwhistle for white supremacy? If so, you're discarding what was actually said and you're substituting false data that supports a pre-determined conclusion that Trump supporters are racist.

Another factor is that there has been some truly shocking projection and gaslighting with regard to corruption. Like no other president, Trump has fought corruption, yet he is relentlessly accused of it. The claim that Obama had a "scandal-free presidency" is a cruel joke; his abuse of the intelligence apparatus to target a political opponent made Nixon look saintly. Biden's family has gotten rich off of foreign influence; we have the evidence and there is no alternative explanation. The whole impeachment process started because both Biden and Pelosi had children collecting bribes from Ukranian gas companies, and Trump dared to tell the Ukraine that prosecuting the corrupt was proper. Looking back to Hillary, her actions with classified information would have put any normal person in prison for decades. The contrast with Trump is stunning. For years everybody has investigated Trump in hope of finding something, and everybody has failed.

The desire to put America first is real, legitimate, and proper. It's a job requirement for the president.

Cutting regulations shot the economy to record highs before that virus hit. Inequality actually dropped. Black and hispanic unemployment was the lowest recorded ever, with records going back over half a century. Trump knew what business needed, and he delivered.

Why do you imagine that "he doesn't care about the damage he does"? He is only damaging things that need to be damaged, like the choking bureaucracy. He cares, and he did the damage on purpose, because the damage was needed. If by "damage" you're referring to something like the opinions of the leftist leaders of parasitic countries, yeah he doesn't care and he shouldn't care. The job is to put America first, not to please foreigners.
+1 - Lines of Code mean very little, I'd rather see the impact that work produces.
To be clear there are two options: Revive and Restore. Revive just reinstalls the T2 firmware and reboots the system. Restore basically clears the entire system as stated.
Actually it seems more like the EFF had nothing to do with it at all and the unit test patch is the reason it was restored - just like Github says in the blog entry.
Interesting, thanks. Odd that this data was never part of the published record from the Post, and that Graham's source is apparently secret? Curious what you make of that? If the Post had it, they'd surely have released it. I guess it's sort of academic at this point, but it does point to a few different actors pushing this story in different directions.
I read Peter Frankopan’s history book “The Silk Roads” this summer and it was a great read. Totally recommend it.
that's a nice one to remember!
> Linux is nice, way better when compared to 15 years ago but, it's not perfect. I'm going to buy a new PC in 12 months and I'd need to make some research about hardware compatibility and performance. Especially on the motherboard side.

I've been using Linux exclusively since 2007 and I've never had any motherboard compatibility issues. I think the only thing that may be shaky is wifi, but even that's pretty settled these days now that the hardware is more or less standardized. I'm not doubting your experience, just found that an odd thing to single out.
Best of luck with your service! I hope you're able to keep with it and make it viable.
Obviously they built it, it's really not hard
try the web app and you'll see
> Unless they were also testing these other interventions, that critique does not apply.

How do we know they weren't? Since this is not a RTC, but rather an analysis of historical data, we don't know how much they divided up this historical data looking for correlations.
"Mandatory" vaccination for children in the USA usually aren't: all states allow exemption for true medical reason, and [edit: --some--] almost all allow exemption on religious grounds. Sixteen allow exemption for parental objection.

> We have mandatory vaccinations for MMR and for dTAP. Have you ever heard of anyone catching diphtheria?

Not specifically, but DTaP vaccinates against pertussis which has seen epidemic-level outbreaks in the past decade in multiple states.

I'd expect any SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations to be targeted at adults for the foreseeable future, but who knows.
Only thing you forgot is Dr. Tam's Oct 2 Tweet:

"Our goal for #COVID19 response remains to minimise severe illness and deaths. But this kick at the curve is a bit different. With schools and businesses open, everyone’s efforts are crucial.

This time, we’ve got to bend it like Canadians: give it the old double-double by layering PERSONAL RISK ASSESSMENT and PREVENTION PRACTICES and RECONFIGURING and DOWNSIZING our in-person #ContactBubble, as and where possible."

What a concise and clear communication. We should all aspire to be more like Dr. Tam.
> other serious issues and without anti-vaccination beliefs

This was redundant. Anti-vaccination “belief“ is a serious, mental, issue.

Against HN rules, but it’s time to stop being so easy on people who try to distort science and reality and call them for what it is. You cannot have a eye to eye conversation with anti-vacciners, flat-earthers, climate-change deniers, election-fraud believers and Trump supporters.

The more leeway we give the more they try to win public opinion and damage our world.
the experts followed the medical "standard of care". there was little discussion of what doctors were actually doing in out patient/ early treatment/prophylactic treatment. I don't think there was any studies about taking medicines or supplements for prevention. the drug studies ive looked at seem to be run by the drug companies and they aren't pushing vitamins and nutrition.

what I've learned while figuring out what supplements I should be taking is that the entire recommended daily allowance is based on avoiding acute diseases like ricketss or scurvy, and not based on a model of what is optimal for our bodies. when you look at diseases by latitute or wonder why our annual influenza pandemic is during the winter months, it makes me wonder why there hasn't already been studies of supplements. it seems like a perfectly straightforward study.
Can you elaborate more on (or give an example of) "mechanical honesty"? From the outside looking in, it doesn't seem unfeasible to implement biases in mechanical systems (especially government departments!), but I haven't given it a lot of thought.
AFAIK it's nothing to do with mullvad specifically. Using the generic openvpn/wireguard client (or other VPN service's client that are based on those clients) should also be fine. The only thing that might be an issue would be VPN apps that implement split/per-app tunneling.
that, and being too "macho" (all genders included). (Bulgarian here, living in Los Angeles). Also "not believing" science, and not trusting "authorities" - believing too much pseudo-science instead. No wonder Trump is being liked there - same "life goals" ;)
Sure, that makes sense, although I think the annualized number is quite interesting too as it appears a risk-off approach has led to a commensurate decrease in other fatalities.
not sure if you noticed, but the parent comment was joking about your typo -- you said EEF, not EFF :)
you get to choose what to validate. So you can figure out which of the ideas that are acceptable to work on is worth it.
Maybe, but I'm not at all interested in reading about what a normal life is for me, I want to read about different experiences.
My m43 lenses are cheaper than my E Mount lenses. 12-40 2.8 Olympus lens is less than half the price of a Sony lens with the equivalent focal length. Most my e Mount lenses are over $1k and all but one of my m43s lenses are under $1k. Glass cost more for the larger sensor.
God it’s amazing how they all said it to the one nurse.
> Perhaps a symbolic gesture to restore access a couple weeks before they would have been legally required to restore access anyway, but nonetheless interesting to see their willingness to set aside §512 safe harbor protections in the future if their reading of facts suggest a takedown claim doesn't have merit.

Do the DMCA legal requirements differentiate between good faith and tortuous takedowns? Meaning, is that 10-14 day range set in stone even if Github believes that the request was flagrantly over reaching or do they lose safe harbor protections right off the bat? Has this issue been litigated enough that there would be clear precedent?
The climates of Oslo and Stockholm are very similar. Helsinki is a few degrees (not that much) less, so you would expect higher transmission, but it's not what we see.
They are backtracking on the little snitch boondoggle? I hadn’t heard that.
One cautiously notes this is the exact scenario that Andrew Wakefield complained had happened with MMR.
Yeah, part of the assumption is that the bitcoin creation in the cheap area makes it impractical to do it in the expensive area. Essentially moving the existing bitcoin production to the cheaper area. Whether or not the economy for the two items in question would actually work that way, it's anyone's guess.
That's a DMCA argument (I'm not hacking).

But it doesn't really work: If you protect your house with no lock, not even a door, but just a little rope with a sign on: "Do not jump over or duck under this ribbon, or cut it!", that's, for the DMCA, enough - so you get into fun games where you claim that, say, a long random unique key that is right there in the HTML youtube.com serves which links to the video is a 'security measure' and that 'I shall read the URLs in this <video> tag and download what I find there instead of showing it on the screen' is 'circumventing this'.

How far can you stretch the meaning of 'circumventing access-control measures' before, in court, you lose your argument? I don't think anybody quite knows yet, but surely github doesn't want to be on the hook for it without microsoft's legal team and management signing off on the risk.

Furthermore, separate from DMCA's hacking provisions, there is simply the concept of who is responsible for any copyright infringement caused by stuff github hosts. As per 17 USC §512 (the so-called 'safe harbor provision'), the idea of claiming 'hey I just host this stuff, I'm not responsible for this, why dont you take it up with whomever uploaded this' is codified: You can do that, but it does mean that you _MUST_ take down the content in response to a takedown notice, and if you don't, then you are now liable any infringement that content makes.

The idea is that the owner of the data files a counterclaim notice, at which point the hoster (github) is free to re-host everything without opening itself up to liability, but only if, as per 17 USC §512, they do so 'no less than 10 days and no more than 14', and github did it in 1 day, so whoopsie there I guess.

At that point it does turn into a fight between claimer and counterclaimer: The idea behind those 10 days is that the supposed real content owner can then go file in court against the counterclaimer; merely filing a lawsuit is enough: Show that to the hoster (github), and they can no longer re-enable the content without then being liable for infringement by doing so.

You can't file a counterclaim until your content is removed.

Yeah, that means an utter bozo can take your content down for at least 10 days and there is nothing you can do about this. The DMCA is not particularly well designed in this manner (it doesn't protect against trolly crud well, and getting a barratry verdict in the US is borderline impossible). But that's how it works.

In github's shoes, the fact that youtube-dl doesn't infringe is relevant only insofar that they are willing to ride that notion allllll the way to the gavel in the ensuing court case, because they will be defendants if they ignore the takedown request. Presumably they weren't going to just do that without at least a close look by microsoft's legal team, and a signoff from the big wigs for the likely millions this will cost, given that US law in these matters is... well, have you ever seen one of those shows where 2 people are on a beam and trying to knock the other one off with a giant q-tip? US law is like that, except the ends of the q-tips are moneybags.
"Did nothing" is putting it far too strongly. They limited gatherings, first to 500 (March 11) and then to 50 (March 27), restricted bar and restaurant hours, and advised high schools and universities to go to remote learning (March 17).

That's certainly not nothing, but it also doesn't seem to have been enough. Contra the linked article, Sweden seems to be suffering worse than its neighbors with stricter policies: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/sw...
Not all new users are beginners
> The people who need non-repudiation already have it.

Can you really not think of a scenario where non-repudiation could be important even to people "not in power"?
I take your point. I don't have a choice, I have to confirm my app runs on the latest version because some of my customers will be going there :o)
I've been reading on Smith Charts recently. It makes me wonder how people got anything done without the ability to do something as basic as complex arithmetic easily.
I agree. Any globo-corp is going to do funny shit for PR. They operate on an entirely different level that most people don't really understand. This is really just a war game for them... and now they understand how much they can provoke their own users.
When I first started, I was looking for a free graphical client. I asked my more seasoned coworker what he used. He said, psql.

Skeptically I tried, and after a little while, I prefer nothing else. I was already sold on vi, so it's not much surprise.

I use the \i command a lot, to run SQL commands from a file. That gives me a chance to nicely organize and indent complex queries, and tweak them as needed (with vi, of course).

That's also I do migrations. I script them in a long SQL file (surrounded by BEGIN and ROLLBACK). When it runs satisfactorily, I change ROLLBACK to COMMIT and run it again.
I'm afraid I'm not really following most of your points here, but you may be right that my GP comment was excessive. It's always best to avoid shaming and easy to go too far.
Yeah, posting this with a different title from the page is forcing an editorialized view onto data which just doesn't support the title. There's no way to tell excess deaths from this one incomplete chart. I've flagged the post as a result.

That said, 12/10 * 77.5k = 92.7k, which is at the high end for the charted period. Adding an extra month's worth of late reports gives 13/10 * 77.5k = 100.5k. So, probably reasonable to guess that the real deaths are somewhere between these two, which definitely doesn't support the 'no excess deaths' claim in the post title.

It would be nice to see something closer to the CDC's ongoing excess deaths tracking:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Deaths are a lagging indicator of cases: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/sw...
Why Pinephone exists, and why KDE on it matters
I'm not setting you up as supporting anything.

I'm illustrating the severity of the identifiable public record.
When the Nazis started rounding up people to put in camps, they looked at the _extremely detailed_ Christian Parish records saying who was what and where they lived.

They were thought to be innocuous and important records to keep at the time. Actually I think in the Scandinavian countries the state Church is still responsible for recording all marriage & death records. They stopped tracking births for the previously mentioned reasons. (Hey, we just learned the importance of separation of Church and State, too!)

Nobody knows how important privacy is. Until they do.
Read Goldberg, Brewer, and Borisov:

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf
The problem is that it's not clear about it. It looks like it does quite a bit, and the counter-argument boils down to "someone could have cracked the secret key", which everyone always is told is the thing that is impossible. So you get plenty people believing and claiming DKIM can do that. This would be fixed by obviously breaking it.
Lockdowns do 100% work, if you stay inside you literally cannot catch a respiratory illness. You stay inside for 3 weeks and it will literally end the respiratory illness unless there's another reservoir you've failed to account for.

Non-compliance however kneecaps the ability of lockdowns to be effective, leaving you in a worst-of-all-worlds situation with a damaged economy and a largely unaffected disease curve. I would say the better way to frame that is:

- "lockdowns only work if you actually take them seriously" (as evidenced by countries that did: NZ, TW, CN, AU -- look at their graphs [1], they work).

- and "lockdowns may not be necessary to achieve sufficient results."

[1] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Australia&location...
It’s illegal in much of the US and Canada as well. It’s just rarely enforced.
Look at the date of the post :)))
Just don't update until you have to, or at least give it 3-6 months to let every other sucker find all the early bugs for you. Same goes with any operating system, not just OSX. You just don't need the "Oooh shiny".
OP's argument is if you care about this enough, you can set up your own mail server, rotate and publish your own keys on whatever schedule you like.
The one compelling thing to me is the smart battery management in Big Sur: it won't charge your battery past 80% if you don't need it (based on usage patterns) to protect the battery life. I'm also excited about the seamless switch between all Apple devices for the Airpods Pro, but not everyone owns those
Yes, unless you're infirm and you have to give a medical reason.

And it has bite, you get your wages garnished if you didn't vote, unless you pay a hefty fine.
The youtube-dl incident was not a section 512 takedown. There was no infringing material, i.e., content, to remove. The RIAA letter made no mention of section 512, referring instead to section 1201. Neither did this letter from EFF refer to section 512. This was not a section 512 takedown. The rules in section 512 do not apply.
>There is clearly a difference between persisting a media file to disk vs having it ephemeral in browser memory.

Is there? When "streaming" video, there most certainly is a copy of the bits being stored on a disk to ensure that the video "stream" plays cleanly and without interruption.

Are you making the claim that "streamed" video is never buffered/stored on disk? That's an odd claim to make. I'm no expert on video streaming, but I would be very surprised to find that all video streams are only stored in RAM and not on disk.

I may well be wrong about that. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could chime in.
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Several food trucks have sprung up in my neighborhood that seem to have an even better impromptu system. You walk up to the window, they hand you a small device and send you back to your car. When your device lights up, you go to the pickup window. There is no line at all.

I don't know how many hundred dollars it cost them to buy a couple dozen devices or how much it costs to wipe each one down and put it back under the infrared/anti-cootie lamp each use. But there are orders going out the window about every 2 minutes and no customers within 50 feet of each other.
Aperocky said "right now". And right now, the situation in Europe is objectively worse than the USA.
You get a really different picture on Twitter. And I'm not saying I know which one is right!

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1328048295109824512

I follow Gary Marcus because I respect his views on AI, but I don't really appreciate the editorializing.

One of the most horrifically inaccurate predictions in the history of public health.

The obvious difference is that cases aren't deaths (and the amount of testing affects the number of cases, etc.).

But if the plot is to be believed, then you could imagine that Sweden might NOT have excess deaths for 2020 (which is interesting in itself), but it could have many in the beginning of 2021.

Or maybe almost all these cases will be mild and cause few deaths. There seems to be an extremely wide range of COVID outcomes.
Yes, because it ignores the sentence that precedes it.
> I've definitely gone from "I'll buy a mac because it's a mac" to "Maybe my next machine will be Windows. It's cheaper, more reliable, and just works"

I'm still on Mojave on my 2013 MacBook Pro.

The main reason I'd still consider a Mac for my next machine is because there's no other manufacturer that seems to take their trackpads seriously.

Why is there no real competition for Apple's trackpads?
His story being true or not is besides the point, I just asked Valve support if I could bequeath my account to someone when I die and their response was no[0].

This is not right.

The fight is starting in France[1].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/MBDojXa.png

[1]: https://www.fanbyte.com/news/french-valve-steam-lawsuit/
I fail to understand how exactly yelp/grubhub would bill the 10-20% of the order amount of the phone call. The call is recorded, yes (a reason why they can forget about that in the EU, in the EU you would need to implement a system for the caller to deny consent of the recording while on the line other than "if you don't like being recorded hang up now"). But do they manually listen to every phone call, make sure the restaurant place tells the correct amount, calculate their fee and put this on a bill to the restaurant?
"Postman" seems like a pretty generic name.

Looking quickly online, maybe you're meaning this one?

https://www.postman.com
> It's particularly surprising because physical exercise doesn't cost anything and healthy food is extremely cheap if one can be bothered to learn how to cook.

It is conceptually easy, but I can assure you from personal experience that losing and keeping off significant weight is extremely difficult for some of us. I feel like I am in a state of constant war against my body and the part of my mind that thinks it is going to starve to death. I'm sure a dozen diet-cult people will come out of the woodwork to explain to me how I just need to never eat carbs or only eat within an 8 hour window and all my problems will be solved as though I never tried any of those things in the decade or so I've been doing this, but it isn't true.
I had a similar problem on LinkedIn when I tried to share an SDK I was working on. It's called Compound.js. The post editor thought that "Compound.js" is a URL, which 404ed, breaking the post preview, which was supposed to link to the actual URL which was later in the post body.
i have ytdl bound to some macros on my browser, so i can stream videos outside of the browser for accessibility reasons