skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading that chart right, it is the percentage of sicknesses caused by each virus type, not the rate of sickness in the population. So we don't have information in this chart on the absolute prevalence. The change in relative rates may suggest which measures are relatively more effective on different viruses, but doesn't help us analyze the effectiveness of the current narrative.

On the research presented in the original article, what predicted implications would this research have had for March 2020? I thought 2020 seemed like a fairly average year for colds up until March, when COVID spiked. Is that suggesting this benefit/effect weaker in a population than the test measures in a individual, or just that March could have been much worse across the world? (for example, was hypothetically Italy having a very low rate of colds at the time?)
> athiest of a kind we'd consider close to New Athiesm

twitch

It's Atheism. "A-" as a negation like in apolitical, atypical, aseptic. And "theism" meaning "belief in god", same root as theology or theocracy.
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Not on something that everyone depends on that increased crashes by an order of magnitude?

Even some basic testing on a real android device would've caught this
When I was a black teenager I got lucky in that I didn't encounter much racism until much later in my late teens when I was well on the way to wanting a job in tech. I know others who encountered it earlier and lost interest.
Political activism, that is, working to influence politicians and the public mindset, is the only way society and politics change. You are saying that political change is usually unimportant, and so the homeless, the poor, and minority concerns can be cast aside.

Dropping words like "evil" for any destructive activity is itself absurdly absolutist.

I mean, I do believe that politics should be extracted from parts of society so we can go back to some kind of harmony, much like we don't eat food or exercise or meditate 24/7. Politics and political consideration, however important, are exhausting and we can't go on thinking about it all day every day.
HMD was established, by Nokia, to produce phones, since Nokia wasn't allow to under the agreement with Microsoft, and is run by ex-Nokia executives. HMD bought "back" the Nokia Mobile division from Microsoft. Nokia holds shares in HMD. nokia.com sells the HMD phones. It is a bit more Nokia than just by name.
Numerous people have been removed from popular social media platforms, and I've yet to see any of them make a comeback, let alone go up against Twitter/YT/FB etc.

It is unlikely we will ever even hear about Stripe openly leveraging their influence. They will talk to Substack, who will bring the issue to their investors, who will tell Substack that Stripe is higher up in the food chain than the writers.
I guess a few break-out companies might be the rising tide that lifts all boats.
This isn't a good thing or a bad thing, it's all in how we respond.

This could lead to greater transparency, openness, and accountability, or it can be abused by a small group of people for their own power and profit. Nothing hypothetical about it either, both cases are already true.
Rust Is Now One Step Closer to Entering the Mainline Linux Kernel
Service extracts data from public companies earning reports, and provides various reports and aggregated views over this data.
More details are on the front page.

Some interesting screens:

- dynamics of revenues across sectors and industries: https://finintelligence.com/app/sectors-map

- full dashboard of company earnings (MSFT): https://finintelligence.com/app/company-period/13931408/83

- dynamics of revenues for specific region(China): https://finintelligence.com/app/segment/51393

- all reported revenue components in one tree (GOOG): https://finintelligence.com/app/fact/28639567925?tab=calcula...

Service runs some heavy queries and currently can be slow under heavy traffic.
Now it's fully flagged, and I think the information you just stated means it will stay that way.

I just don't get why a user would flag this.
I disagree. If P=NP, then we could very well start searching the space of polynomial algorithms until we find something that works and discard anything that is not polynomial - which we can check apriori since the halting problem assumes we can't peak into the Turing machine, when in practice, we can.
Lessons learned bootstrapping an app with no login
Oh, it's human music! Love it.

This is my favorite so far, especially the lyrics :D
Had to leave the office, to not disturb anyone with my laughter.
https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/classic-pop-in-the-style...
The quality of the housing is going to be proportional to the wealth of the country per capita. In the US, we simply allocate quality of housing based on ability to pay, so many people have incredibly bad housing conditions.
It's really good, actually. I don't think they stream 4K but for most people that barely matters (screen either too small or too far away for it to make a huge difference).

They have a rotating selection of Criterion films. Heavy on documentaries (of the plays-the-festival-circuit variety, not the narrated-by-David-Attenborough variety) too, if you like that sort of thing. Usually several fairly-recent good movies as well. It's where I watched Ex Machina, for example. Kids' features really lacking, mostly low-quality stuff that would have been (maybe was?) bargain-bin straight-to-VHS material back in the day. No substitute for PBS or Disney+ for that purpose. Material for adults is much stronger.

Views are limited per-month but unless you consistently watch more than a movie a week on that service specifically you'll never have a problem with it.

I've got an address that qualifies for two library systems, and the one I'd normally use didn't have it, so I had to get a card for the one I'd practically never use otherwise to gain access to Kanopy.
Problem with optical phenomena is they don't get picked up by radar and infrared cameras.
Prince Harry Takes Job as Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp
> I think this wildly overstates it. Much of the good innovations have been adopted in Linux.

The main innovation can't be done by addition. With plan 9, many special cases are removed. You no longer have to wonder what happens if you try to create a Unix socket on an NFS file system, and then mmap it: There's just 9p. Everywhere.

9p is nice, but it isn't special. Making the whole universe 9p is where the improvement lies.
What do you think where Heroku apps run? Why would anyone truly caring about hyperscale trust Gitlab to handle that?
There's probably a way to circumvent these limit by using multiple satellites working together[1], combining images to form a synthetic aperture[2], using an aperture mask[3], or a combination of any or all of those. Actually I'd be surprised if state-sponsored spy agencies were not already using this.

[1]https://hypertelescope.org/project/hypertelescope-space/

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_masking_interferometr...
I will give you $999 if it's just noise in exchange for $1 if it's not.
> There's no place to "discover".

hm. Here's a story: on our second visit to China, one of the main targets was Mount Emei, which is a well-known tourist hotspot. On the top, because of the buses and cable cars, there were probably thousands of people - we couldn't see due to the ridiculously thick fog.

And then we started to walk down. The shortest path down on foot is ~50km stairs. We met roughly 10 people, including the monks in the monastery we had to sleep midway.

Had there been people there before? Yes. Is it secluded? Yes. Did it feel like a discovery? Yes. And I'd even count it as a spiritual experience, despite the fact that we never really left the civilization.

Another story: when we were in Uppsala, Sweden, we visited a place called Norra Lunsen. The young lady in the ticket office literally asked as why do we want to go to the middle of nowhere - and indeed, we met a single person there.

The point to "discover" at our current stage of evolution - in the sense of we can't yet travel across star systems or galaxies - is not to go to places where no human has been before, but to find places that give YOU a new experience.
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FTA:

“Starting in the late 1980s, a group led by Rob Pike and UNIX co-creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed Plan 9. Their motivation was two-fold: to build an operating system that would fit an increasingly distributed world, and to do so in a clean and elegant manner. The plan was not to build directly on the Unix foundation but to implement a new design from scratch. The result was named Plan 9 from Bell Labs – the name an inside joke inspired by the cult B-movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space."

Plan 9 is built around a radically different model from that of conventional operating systems. The OS is structured as a collection of loosely coupled services, which may be hosted on different machines. Another key concept in its design is that of a per-process name space: services can be mapped on to local names fixed by convention, so that programs using those services need not change if the current services are replaced by others providing the same functionality.“
I didn't know about Criterion Channel. Shame it's US only. I'd love to have that.
WeWork lost $3.2bn last year; pitches itself as “tech co.” to investors
Funny you contrast MLK with... MLK. He said that quote, although he said it meaning that riots, however bad, are indeed a sign that a group feels unheard, and it's worth paying attention.

I agree with your conclusion that politics is about convincing others. That takes more patience than many people seem to have, who are eager to tell the "non-woke" how wrong and bad they are if they don't immediately accept the new gospel.
> real-returns of investments typically exceed the gains on housing[1]

In markets where people want to live. Owning a couple acres around the far-flung suburbs of Seattle or DC will net you some good money.

No one is buying housing in Gary, Indiana. Floods have annihilated many towns around the Mississippi River, and there is plenty of real estate in Detroit and New Orleans that sure as hell ain't gonna exceed the S&P 500 anytime soon.
Having hundred of millions of smart people heavily incentivized to game whatever metrics you come up with is a bit of a handicap too.
Prince Harry the life coach
Not everybody knows that facebook is evil. It's not something to have an opinion about.
Woo, where can I share my experience?! I'm on a LTE connection in rural Arkansas!
Please don’t wear your wife
Title needs a (2017), I think
I do not understand what you mean here.
I personally detest the phrase Tax Avoidance. If an exemption exists and allows me to pay a tax lower than I would have otherwise, what tax was avoided? Why are exceptions viewed differently than the tax tables? They all collectively constitute the “tax code”.

Tax avoidance means “following the tax code and being an honest citizen”. Why would you apply such an Orwellian term to something so banal?”
what's the erg? a rowing machine?
I found a lot of secondary sources mentioning both Canard and Mediapart as original sources. And Canard is not available, so I took what I could get.

I got the impression the story started at Canard, but was expanded upon by research from mediapart.

Example in English, plenty more in French if you google for them: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2021/03/22/ikea-france-g...
Linux is not yet a fully distributed OS, and even the basic foundational work for that featureset is only just being undertaken now (and then mostly as a natural development of cointainerization/namespacing features, which you might or might not see as drawing from Plan9 itself).
Excellent work, and thank you for sharing!

I see some immediate applications for this at my job. Much appreciation!
Bachelier's “The theory of speculation” (1900) [pdf]
Legality and ethics are two distinct things.
PanQuake
I appreciate the comment. I made an admittedly bold claim, though I do tend to believe it. Activism with skin in the game (e.g. the Tiananmen Square student protests, Vaclav Havel's dissident writings and jailing, Nelson Mandela's imprisonment, the Umbrella Movement, Mohamed Bouazizi'a self-immolation) can be extremely effective and can change the world, often for the better.

America's political activists today seem to have zero skin in the game. It mostly seems like a status and power game more than an attempt to fix something. After all, if the problem was fixed, what would these activists organizations do day-to-day? Why would anyone donate to them?
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If you used Go in the very earliest days, you'll recognise pieces of its toolchain in Plan 9.
I'm not judging him for that. I'm just saying that it's not only "pro-trans" people who seem to have that impression of him.
For your next free 45 mins...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the problem of P versus NP, which has a bearing on online security. There is a $1,000,000 prize on offer from the Clay Mathematical Institute for the first person to come up with a complete solution. At its heart is the question "are there problems for which the answers can be checked by computers, but not found in a reasonable time?" If the answer to that is yes, then P does not equal NP. However, if all answers can be found easily as well as checked, if only we knew how, then P equals NP. The area has intrigued mathematicians and computer scientists since Alan Turing, in 1936, found that it's impossible to decide in general whether an algorithm will run forever on some problems. Resting on P versus NP is the security of all online transactions which are currently encrypted: if it transpires that P=NP, if answers could be found as easily as checked, computers could crack passwords in moments.

With

Colva Roney-Dougal
Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews

Timothy Gowers
Royal Society Research Professor in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge

And

Leslie Ann Goldberg
Professor of Computer Science and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mtms8
Disconnecting from Work Is a Skill We Need to Rebuild
>which will allow us to solve some NP hard problems

No it won't
> It emerged last week that the team had not even asked to see the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s online database, locked since September 2019 and taken down altogether in the spring of 2020. That database is known to contain 22,000 samples, mostly of viruses, 16,000 of them from bats. These include eight viruses very closely related to the virus causing the pandemic but whose genome sequences have not been published. They were collected in 2015 from a disused mineshaft, a thousand miles away, where in 2012 six men fell ill with a disease very like Covid.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/15/world-health-org...
> But for both Rust, C, Zig, and many others, it's undecidable, so by this definition of complexity, these language are definitely too complex (and equally so)

My comments on this tried to be as careful and as precise as possible, and touched on this very issue.

> In fact, your desperate attempt to save your initial argument about complexity, by narrowing it to a tiny technical corner makes me cringe a bit.

Your emotional response here is so powerful that I think we're conversing on entirely different levels. I am sorry if my mild and careful statements have touched on something that you clearly see as essential to your identity.

> aren't neutral: what such claim attempts to do is insinuate the opposite

No. It is the most precise and careful statement that I can say, having followed the research for years and being a practitioner and advocate of formal formal methods. Anything I say, the more careful I try to be, it just seems to send you into further rage (and abuse). I think you're in a middle of a tantrum that's clouded your judgment, or perhaps, being a zealot, you cannot imagine any other attitude. Anyway, this conversation is making me very uncomfortable, as I sense you're in a very agitated emotional state, and I want no part of that.
1Password does do something to help combat the problem that OP had... they change the background color of any input that they auto-filled to be blue. Blue is a weird color for most sites and it should stand out to the user (generally in a field of white) after they auto-fill a form. I have had 1Password fill in the wrong inputs before and only noticed it because of this feature. I noticed an input higher up on the checkout form had changed blue. It caught my attention and allowed me to fix it manually.

Now in this situation, it looks like Substack's UI is to blame. The secret form field appears to be heavily modified from its original form state, probably masking the blue background that 1Password attempted to give it.

1Password is in a difficult situation here. If the autofill doesn't work (because the developer of the website they are filling, uses non-standard naming), then users will blame 1Password for "not working", not their browser or the website developer. 1Password therefore has to make it work with as many forms as possible around the web, most of which are built by lazy developers trying to throw up a website during a hackathon, or from a developer that learned to code from a 1 hour youtube video. It's a tall order, from their perspective, to try to make this work with as many forms as possible, while having the fewest (ideally none) false positives.

The one thing I can recommend for anyone who uses any password manager, is that before you click submit on a form that you used auto-fill for, you always look over the entire form again. Now in OP's case, I could see how they could have easily missed the extra amount (again, Bad UI substack), but this is general rule that anyone with a password manager should follow. Double check everything before you submit.
using heroku, we don't have to worry about infrastructure (much). having terraform in the pipeline kind of defeats that.
Integer factorization is not known to be NP-complete, so as far as we know, finding an efficient way to factor integers would not tell us anything about P vs. NP.

Also, analog computation schemes tend to rapidly encounter fundamental physical limits. If calculating an N-bit result requires a measurement with N bits of precision, then adding one additional bit tends to require twice as much energy, or twice as big an apparatus, or something of the sort. So even if the "computation" itself looks as if it's O(1), your resource consumption is still exponential.
Funny this reversal of network effect. In the decades prior people didn't feel negatively pressured to join, say the landline network. I may be wrong but it felt like an obvious desire and benefit.
What most academics and others like them tend to miss about the American suburbs, is that most Americans like their suburbs.

The American suburbs are the Toyota Camry of housing. Kind of boring and somewhat ugly, but affordable, functional, and ultimately well-liked by the end-user.
I don't know, I found the best way to fix issues with my posture was to strengthen my core and shoulders, while increasing flexibility in my hamstrings, hip flexors, and shoulders.

I also never brought my aeron chair home from my office space when the lockdown started and for the past year I've used a cheap piano bench at my desk that has no back. Forces me to stay upright all day and it's been surprisingly great.

There's really no device that's going to do it for you, strengthening and stretching even a little bit goes a long way.
I recently picked up a copy of Red Color News Soldier from the library, a photojournalist's description of events where call-out mentality is taken to the extreme (many of those who ran the call-outs later suffered brutal call-outs themselves, including the author).

One of my overarching questions as I read was really, "How is it that people come to support these events?" The initial conditions seem to require the right mix of organization, discord, and chaos.

The notion that the question is one of scaling is interesting. It isn't the internet that drives the emergence of large-scale call-outs -- humans have been doing this throughout history. The scaling argument offers a possible framework, i.e., is there a critical scale at which a call-out becomes systemically harmful?
Computational complexity is intrinsically linked to the computational model. It's actually meaningless to say P or NP on anything other than a Turing machine.
Could be. Covid is certainly more flu-like than rhinovirus-like. Kids were also not in school, and kids are historically a big spreader of influenza.

I generally think people look for "fancy" explanations for the trends, when simpler explanations (i.e. people weren't going to the doctor) work just as well.
So instead of having a complex ethical and moral framework, you turn to dogma.
Why does that user have to reveal any pronouns on the web? The default state of web based communication is ungendered. I have no idea what your pronouns are. If I was referring to you in a comment thread I would have to use "they/them" (or maybe "KittenInABox"). That's not a political stance, that's just English.
Somewhat off topic, but I would like to see this in commercial aircraft first. Dogfights? No, automated AI running through checklists and automated coordination with ATC ground systems. Today if the aircraft you are flying in has problems, the captain and co-captain work as a team to go through a long set of conditional checklists. This is precious time they don't have and very prone to human error. If something is not correctable, they may call pan-pan or mayday if they have time. First priority is to fly the plane. With "AI" the aircraft could have figured out the problem was about to happen, attempt several thousand combinations of corrections or compensating controls and ATC would already know the exact condition before a human uttered a word. Automatic escalation could bring on a set of support staff with knowledge of the aircraft if it can't self correct. Instead today we are depending on humans for this and then recovering a data flight recorder to see after the fact what went wrong. After we perfect this, then teach the aircraft dogfights for aircraft/drone avoidance, allowing aircraft to communicate their intentions. This could also help compensate for over zealous pilots pull back too much on take off, inducing drag/stall on a high angle of attack / low speed.
Ask HN: Swedbank discrimination against migrants
Swedbank (of Sweden) cancelled a MasterCard card because they find my activities "suspicious". I am 4000km away in a much cheaper Asian country. The card is on another family member.

We are family of migrants to Sweden. I think the decision was a discrimination against us. Some clerks got too cocky.

What is the proper way to complain and where to? Is there any overseeing authority? Thanks.
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