skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it would be better to vaccinate spreaders first - those in 20-40 range. Because they spread COVID more than elderly, and also in old countries (like EU) 20-40 is a smaller group than 60+.

Besides 20-40 range, also people that work at grocery stores, which are always open and can spread COVID. Elderly stay at homes have less contacts with other etc.

There was a preprint regarding that in the US, but everyone focuses on deaths and doesn't think of causes.
CEO's want all the little people back in the office so they can have their minions back.

Management have no idea as noted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547499
Beautiful, almost every frame is a perfectly plausible and very tasteful abstract painting. But it seems a bit obsessed with cars, not a very meaningful image. Would it be possible to nudge the net to other concepts?
What an asinine post.
Does not MS employ people like Sylvan Clebsch?
I am sure they employ a lot of folks that understand the actor
model.
I've been remote for three years.

My favourite way to solve that dilemma used to be going to a cafe for a few hours. Guess what I haven't been doing since the pandemic started?

At the moment I'm blessed with plenty of space, and the office is the office. But still fewer social outlets than I would like. Summer can't get here soon enough.
Public Health care =/= nationalized health service

e.g. germany is holding up a ton of vaccines for the second shot right now, so no, we are not using everything we have. Supply is one thing, distribution is another. And the EU has trouble sorting out the latter, a problem that will hurt even when supply increases to a point were there will be more doses than needed around June/July.
I just use the native app from 1Password for that reason (getting pw from toolbar). Slower, but at least I know what's happening.
he's a SDE at Amazon
Firstly, this post does not even mention or describe what kind of information was exposed and makes it seem like some inadvertent tracking that's not serious in any way. You can continue with your root cause analysis, but you already know very well about what kind of information was exposed and shared with Facebook. The least you could do is own it and alert people about it.

> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously...

It's astonishing that there is no apology of any kind on this post. Is that too much to ask for such a grievous violation?

> On March 8, 2021 at 8:39pm Pacific time, a new Facebook campaign was created that started firing a Facebook advertising pixel, intended to only run on marketing web pages. However, it was inadvertently configured to run on signed-in pages.

It went unnoticed for two weeks, with Facebook gathering information about the customers' files! And yet, no apology!
> Where's the anti-trust?

Consider one of my favorite "stories in two headlines", and extrapolate :)

- NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution (2009) https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

- Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly? (2011) https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/
I have used Thunderbird for many years now, but it's starting to give me some problems, so I'm thinking about finding something else. E.g. it always shows the last folder opened as the windows title when switching between tasks, and filters are not always working as they should. Are there any good alternatives?
What people in the OSS land don't seem to understand is that the button shapes and control colors are not the killer feature of MacOS.

I can get a "looks like OSX" theme for KDE easily, but KDE will still be weirdly unstable, and have tons of impedance mismatch between it's components. You can't make a Ferrari out of a Ford by painting it the right shade of red.
Discord doesn't require a phone number AFAIK. I have used an account without a phone number attached for nigh on three years now.
Sorry, hospitals in Poland started filling up with younger people.

Virus mutates and if it can't infect elderly it will infect younger and does.

Median age of hospitalized people is getting lower and we will soon see that vaccinating elderly wasn't the best choice (they don't spread COVID that much - don't take part in waves, are just victims to those).
There's a lot of axios in there. And no guardian. I found this surprising.
Thanks! It was two things. We found that we were sharing links and content in slack while using video so it played a central role to communication rather than being an after thought like in zoom. It means we can do shared whiteboard and other interesting things down the line. We also wanted to feel the "presence" of people without staring at them. In a social setting you're not really staring at people. I don't think technology has replicated that. Our hack was just to shrink the video and it really worked.
My anecdotal and unscientific evidence that the world will go back to offices is that I'm interviewing lately and interviews have started returning to in office. This is in an area that legal office capacity will only return to 100% next week.

Interviewing works well remotely and has an incredibly high travel/task ratio it seemed like a no brainer to keep them going remotely but alas.
> Even Deepmind's starcaft bot was stupid in this sense. It didn't understand starcraft strategy at all (which was visible in it's nonsensical unit combinations it was building) but simply out-microed its opponent, it just had better mechanics.

Protoss Alphastar was fantastic. It was definitely not just out-microing opponents (after later refinements Alphastar's micro limitations were very human-like), but really had an understanding of build orders, positioning, choke points and the like. Here's a great game it played against Serral (one of if not the top Zerg player in the world) where it holds fantastically against Serral's aggression and is able to use the layout of its own base to pick apart what looked like a winning position for Serral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6qmPNyKRGw
> Once replaced a python script while it was running. Expected time, python: 12 hours. Time to get it running in Crystal: 20 min. Time to finish in Crystal: 12 minutes.

Can you please elaborate on this?
Denmark has just decided it will open up when everyone above the age of 50 has been vaccinated. That's a sizeable part of the population (35%?)
What bothered me is when a few scientists came out and said the virus showed signs of human manufacturing I posted to a few forums like reddit askscience about how from a science perspective was there any validity or was this unfounded conspiracy and there was no discussion.

Ive no axe to grind politically, simply think its interesting to explore and understand what indicators/benchmarks there would be etc. One of the claimants to human manufactured was a Nobel prize winner, which doesnt mean he is correct but to me seems to add weight to its worth discussing.

I did not see any real 'lets talk about the science' discussion anywhere. And on my post on /r/askscience I could see my post in new list logged in but not when I went in via a new browser... so not sure if a glitch/timing/etc or they have some ninja ban system but it triggered my interest for sure.

While I have no idea what the truth is this kind of thing and not trying to push views down any path, this lack of discussion and that maybe ninja removal really pushes me to more consider something is being actively obscured and therefore why. Ultimately, I suspect we'll never know the truth.
Here’s a weird anecdote.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a job I applied for (with the exception of my current job which I suspect was tailored for me and a colleague.)

Nearly every job offer I ever got I was reached out to by a recruiter.

It seems like, if I apply, I get blacklisted, but if I don’t apply a recruiter reaches out later and I often end up with an offer. This has happened with small and large companies. Sometimes even the same job but after a year or so. (Apple, most notably).

Does anyone else have similar experience?
But what kind of thing do you have in mind? Afaik actually taking care of old people is backbreaking work, probably not suitable for most retirees.
But some things make no sense at all. The most populated country on the planet - a vast, vast population across the area almost as big as the US - has been inexplicably reporting almost zero infections since like March 10, 2020 (way before any vaccines) while the rest of the world (except small and isolated regions), the richest and presumably the most advanced societies still can't get their shit together, are still FUDdding over the upcoming Nth wave and locking down again (see EU today). How???
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`M-x lsp-find-implementation`.
I had a similar story a few years ago, except it changed my birthdate rather than my name. Luckily I looked at the confirmation email for some reason and noticed it. Was a total nightmare to get that changed, although I didn't end up paying in the end.
> In the EU, your vote impacts the selection of MEPS not just for one small district, but for an entire country’s worth of MEPs.

With the result that candidates aren't accountable to voters, only to party bureaucracy, since their chances of reelection depend much more on where they are on the party list than on how many voters approved of their voting.

Not to mention that MEPs don't get to write the laws - the laws are written by the unelected commision.
The world as we now it runs on supply chains. And yet, pople still think electricity comes from a plug, milk from bottle in a supermarket. As does toilet paper, and we all know how that worked out last year. That people have the expectation that once a contract for a vaccine is signed, and the vaccine is approved, enough doses are immediately available to inculate everyone id dangerous. Especially since a lot of politicians seem to think exactly the same way.
I think price + unproven was a big concern for the less wealthy countries.

One has to keep in mind with the EU that we tried our best to avoid splitting the continent into winners and losers based on which countries were the wealthiest. Unfortunately we ended up being on the losing side together, but the driving idea wasn't wrong. :-)

It was also not wrong to want to do a complete instead of emergency certification of the vaccine or pressing e.g. Pfizer to take responsibility for unwanted side-effects. Other countries risked more and it seems that they were favoured by fortune.
Mercenaries and War: Understanding Private Armies Today
Why a studio? If you WFH you can choose anywhere in the world with the space.
Microsoft is surprisingly open to the actor model.
They’ve had various implementations of virtual actors after publishing the research, e.g Project Orleans for .NET and Durable ~Functions~ Entities on Azure.
It seems to me you could get away with it being most of your redundancy, especially on systems that aren't mission critical. I mean, between CoW and the Merkle Tree of checksums going on the machine would have to literally random walk into a hash collision for the data to be unrecoverable.
China were planning wasn't the right word. It should be "they were already dong it" . They burned through 100 Billion ( USD ), NAND and DRAM are coming up soon, although whether they are competitive remains to be seen. When DRAM and NAND were extremely pricy they could afford to have low yield, low quality NAND and DRAM and sell it at break even, now the market is back to "normal" they are back to where they were. All of that was from 2013 - 2018. Way before Western Media even had their radar on the industry.
I have little faith site developers care about password managers. Many even try to block them from working due to some perceived notion that they are insecure.
> it was dead bodies lying in the streets

I remember seeing these videos in January 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. Young, healthy-looking people, too. I'm very surprised that there were not similar instances outside of China.
Find and concrete answers is especially hard when the investigated actively hides and deflects.
A really impressive achievement, I wonder how they achieved it when the song was released.
TL;DR take the same work you did with paper and turn it digital and it will be more cumbersome not less. OTOH take the digital tools you have to change the offline work environment and everyone will me more productive than before.

The reason why people say remote first is because when remote is an afterthought the workplace, everyone who is remote has reduced productivity and has to run after people to get information and keep informed.

Just using Slack isn't enough. I'm watching a multinational "startup" where my wife is working every day and the boss(of the mothership) is a control freak that schedules an average of 10 meetings with her per week. Meaning she has to work after those meetings. And with everything being remote there is no accountability on the work hours. Facebook has the same problem.

The problem is that employees tried to fit their ridiculous offline work into an online work place. Instead of taking the online work potential and changing the way they work accordingly. It's the same reason why digitalization in most places results in more work even though it should be less.

A simple example is that for most distributed workplaces there is no reason to do synchronous standups. There are plenty of tools that allow for structured asynchronous standups across multiple timezones.
It seems there's 2 music pieces with some minor variations.

I think maybe the GAN overfitted to these particular songs?

Or it found 2 attractors in the space of all music videos :)
BBC Documentary – 100 Years of Bauhaus \ Walter Gropius (2019)
If you vaccinate the old, hospitals don't just "fill up" with the young.

That is exactly what would happen if you let the pandemic roll at R > 1. People aged 40-60 are about a third as likely to get hospitalised as people 60-80. So if you triple the amount of cases in a population while having zero cases in the old age bracket, your hospitals will be just as full.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
I got the same exact video. I wonder if that's because its not random or just doesn't have enough videos
All you need to do is look at how many, many more hours Japanese students have to put into studying kanji to know that your perspective isn't accurate. The basics of learning Japanese are much more difficult that a latin language. What is more, the complexity means that people are very prone to forget how to even write kanji. To the degree that is is often a game show topic.
Because the US doesn’t actually operate like that; it was just Trump being stupid and evil. Now that we have a president who’s not a vindictive moron, we’re functioning properly.
>> It looks like it has become fashionable to write Go related posts as they sure get the attention on HN

No, not really. I filter for Go, Rust, Nim, and Dart on HN. Rust is the most popular with at least a post every day or two and Go about half that time or less. There used to be way more Go articles in past years. Some of the recent Go posts have gotten traction so maybe you're seeing that.
How is it hair splitting?

If the EU had paid for the vaccine's development, they could have had the deal instead.

But they didn't.
Not going to try that and am happy that this is all blocked here.
Why did we create another task tracker?
Short video by Tom Scott on the subject for those interested.

https://youtu.be/HfHgUu_8KgA

tldw; Older homes in the UK had a water storage tank in the roof space that fed the water heating tank. This couldn't be classified as drinking water so wasn't allowed to be combined with the safe mains water that fed the cold tap. These days modern houses mostly use combi-boilers with no storage tank, so mostly both hot and cold are drinkable and it's not an issue. But preferences still lean towards the separate taps.
Hearing about it on CH right now.
Probably passed on Slack due to anti-trust, since Teams + Slack would be owning a large majority share of group chat.
It's a different set of skills though. Aerospace engineers and related software, electronics people don't see many openings of relevance in FAANG. The competitors are more like Airbus. And while SpaceX work is appealing (not Mars though, that's dumb) there are things in your life other than work.

Also, e.g. Google TAG does amazing security work, I'd be happy to work there -- if I had a clockwork mind like taviso! But we can ethically rank working at the various tech Zaibatsu another time.
Azure seems to be doing well.
> the desired outcome of winning the conflict

Requires political victory. War is extension of politics, not alien invasion defense.

Thus, a planning AI that can handle tactical targeting task but can’t handle politics probably “can’t war” going by definitions.
Org-mode is too big, but you don't have to use all of it. You can only learn the tiny subset you need and simply ignore the rest.
Wow, please try again.

Why would I trust you this wont happen again?
Slightly more complex. The type code distribution is based on how often the type is likely to occur in your average document.

The type field is almost always 1 byte long, except for typed arrays (which would generally in aggregate be long enough to offset the cost) and two uncommon types/variations. These have an effective 2-byte type field (0x94 selects a secondary type plane, and the next byte selects the specific type from there).

The most common integer values (-100 to 100) are encoded directly into the types 0x9c to 0x64 (wraparound), such that interpreting them directly as signed 8-bit signed integers yields their actual value (type 0x00 = integer 0, type 0x64 = integer 100, type 0x9c = -100, etc).

Strings are also optimized such that types 0x80 - 0x8f are used for the most common string lengths (0 to 15) so as not to require a separate length field.

The rest have a 1-byte type field. There are also 3 reserved type codes left in the first plane in case something big comes up in the future. You can see the chart here: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...
Warrant canary issues

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/spideroaks_wa...
How so? Be specific.
The document is being sarcastic.

However, be thankful for religion, with its absolutes, over the Marxist ideology being promoted in the West today, which has no morality.
I couldn't agree more. There is so much evidence of China suppressing information I don't understand how so many people dismiss their role in spreading the virus beyond their borders.

They had a choice to make: country-wide lockdown and travel ban or lie about it and make it spread worldwide.
The former would leave their economy in a disadvantaged state while the latter would level the playing field for the rest of the world and give China opportunity to even earn some dough in the process (PTE sales). Now, this may be a cynical view but so are China's leaders. If you're someone who strongly believes this scenario could not have transpired, you're just naive.
> Does anyone have any idea how long this has been going on?

As per the latest Backblaze blog post, [1] it has been going on since On March 8, 2021 at 8:39pm Pacific time.

Here's the HN submission on that blog post that hasn't gotten much attention. [2]

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550506
Mumble has a terrible user experience, especially for non technical users. It also covers a really small subset of discord features, the Voice Chat.

Don't missundertand me, on a technical level Mumble is impressive and can do voice channels with thousands of participants, but on the clientside its just a mess.
That's about as profound as saying the value in Coke is the people buying it and not their secret formula and bottling machines.
It's actually good music. The visual parts match the music pretty well, too (though it makes me anxious if I look at it longer than 3 seconds).

I do wonder, though, whether it's just over-fits, and takes the original music with some minor tweaks.

Another interesting point would be to know if this music could be sold cheaply without legal troubles (or even distributed royalty free). Most of the music I heard is pretty neat, I could image using them in YouTube videos, or as podcast jingles.
I only let my password manager fill in passwords. It’s less efficient for sure but my cc details are in muscle memory and filling out my name and address doesn’t really bother me too much.
MyOrg v1.0 – The complete Business Management Tool
https://myorg.ai/

MyOrg is the complete work-lifecycle management product, that gets you to build your projects from concept to delivery, handle your team communications, set your business approval process, manage your attendance and all the essentials for businesses of any size and any industry in any region.

With MyOrg you can replace the daunting 'Subscription Creep' problem in your business where you subscribe to enormous applications and spend the fortune on unused subscription services for different teams and for different problems.
Don't forget about DAPR :)

https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks...
The protocol for bots is documented, but the client's additions thereto aren't. The API that they use is exactly the same.
I for one welcome our new AI influencer overlords!
I don't know about China, but the whole science around COVID seems to have a really strong cultural component that before was totally unfamiliar to me.

When looking at some German Epidemiologist blog I found something like: "Next thing on the list is to proof that government measures worked"

I would have expected something like: "I'm looking at data - and want to find out what helps"
Yeah and also I don't think introducing unlimited PTOs and stock options is the same as tasking people to take responsibility for architecting a product. The likely reason is that India still lacks talent in mid to upper-level engineering leadership roles that can make user-centric decisions and groom entry-level talent.
Citi lets you create virtual numbers with custom dollar amount limits and/or expiration dates: https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...
Jolly good they did that too as Merck is a US company, not an EU one.

And US companies ARE under an export ban.

So your point is?
I'm curious to know what emailing you would help with. Is it a lower than published pricing tier plus no 400GB minimum order? Or some special plan based on geographical location? Something else?

FWIW, I agree with you on your previous posts/thoughts and I'm all for pay for use and against flat rate/unlimited plans, as long as it fits in a budget.
Australia, NZ and many countries in Asia did just fine. You just need a government that has its shit together and a populace that complies with the government. When you're missing one or both of those elements of course you're going to have problems with a pandemic.
I wouldn't be surprised if ICE's powered by biofuel/synthetic fuel could be competitive with electic veichles given enough time to improve the technology. Most likely we are going to see some of that development as EV's simply cannot fill all the niches yet.