skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Northern Europe's greater observed incidence of this side effect is obviously one of the deciding factors of Denmark's decision. It could be a statistical anomaly, but concluding is premature at this point, especially when comparing with globally-reported AstraZeneca-related blood clots.

Even at half the incidence of deaths reported in Norway, which would be on the order of 1:100,000, it puts the risk of a 25-year old dying from the vaccine at ~5 times the risk of dying of a Covid infection. At one tenth incidence, it's an even bet. That seems unlikely.

This seems like a pretty obvious decision to me, when looking at the Covid incidence in these countries. Given that alternative vaccines are available. I'm surprised at the level of controversy, honestly. Given the presumed science-based background for the topic. Just use one of the others.
Noob here. Does this imply the FBI can just remote control any PC in the US? How does that work (apart from having the client running on your computer of course)
I was going to say, there's thin line between illegal ponzi schemes, and other, schemes.
I love this UI. The seamless channel transitions just feel perfect. Not like I'm on the modern web at all.
Nice project :) For my own use, I keep a list of such youtube stations in a file and use a script to play through them (I can specify by srl no., shuffle, play a random station etc). Much more lighter on the system as I use mpv to just play the audio stream. Also, allows me to repurpose the script for various lists for various genre.
There are several countries that make it a crime to disparage the rulers, even if you do it outside that country and even if what you post is true.

On top of Singapore this includes Qatar, Thailand and... China [1].

One effect of the Hong Kong "security" law China passed is that if you "undermine" the regime outside China and transit through Hong Kong airport, you can technically be arrested and tried under that law.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838
What do you do with crimes committed by people who have little in earnings (students, unemployed, etc.) or folks who earn “$1” in income but obviously are otherwise wealthy?
The only real answer to improve your ability is practice. You might check out Toastmasters to build practice and confidence.

To improve your belief in your ability, practice helps. But there are a bunch of other psychological tricks you can try, just gotta find one that works for you. Like imagine no one is wearing clothes or other things. Personally, I'm a fan of finding a low stakes situation and just absolutely bombing it, doing so bad it's embarassing. Then I know how people start reacting as it gets worse and I can use that as a landmark in a situation where it actually matters
While it makes sense to bar congresspeople from trading (IMO), this article is wildly misleading.

The article's outrage depends on the reader not understanding how options work. The options contract was purchased in February 2020, more than a year before it was exercised. It's also not stated when the calls expired.

There's no doubt that congress uses their information to place favorable trades in the market, but this article is just manufactured outrage to get more clicks.
Good :) So you know what the contract and "best effort" mean and the kind of forces driving both parties.
"customer is already ruined": that is why they would probably EU will not go to a court but it just ordered 50 M vaccines from Pfizer, while rumours of the EU not renewing the contract with AZ are getting stronger (some EU/EEA countries have plans to move forward without it).

I just see a bad behaviour and PR from AZ. That and having a CEO that says that UK got it first because of the "best effort" clause when both UK and EU contracts have does not seem very professional to me IMHO. I am not sure why that happened.
The normal SQL way is with a recursive CTE and help from the query optimizer.
Differs more in feeling (constructing relations with joins vs. defining predicates with logic) than in substance from the Datalog way.

Sqlite official examples: https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html

MySql official examples: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/mysql-8.0-en/with.html
"a touch of syphilis" - "It's just a flesh wound". I've never had it, but the web doesn't paint a pretty picture.
The US is heading in this direction.

In the US they're now sending police officers to your door to interrogate you if you merely criticize the authoritarian monsters in DC on social media, including Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (to name two recent prominent examples of this phenomenon). That chilling assault on speech will get drastically worse during the new War on Domestic Terrorism campaign that is underway.
Just wait until your project gets copied and then goes to the front page - I've had it done.
My whole point is this is not well understood. It's not pedantry, it's basic miscommunication.

One small group of people think they know what it means. Meanwhile they are conflating two entirely different groups of people (people at work, and teens), and disregarding the cultural conventions of the rest of the planet. It makes them look stupid.
Making Up Your Mind
I've visited Singapore and it's a beautiful country but it's commonly understood they achieved their status through an authoritarian government.

I'm struggling with my opinion about this case - imagine a society where people are actually held accountable for spreading bullshit disinformation, wouldn't that be a net good?

On the other hand, powerful politicians suppressing dissent with crippling lawsuits tramples all over free speech and open debate. I'm from Canada so we don't have a hardline free speech movement like the USA but it is vital to democracy to be able to have discussions freely.

What I do think is that the penalty in this case was much too large for simply sharing a link, citizens must be able to criticize their public figures without fearing a penalty that is some multiple of their annual salary, and the average person can't be expected to have a fact checking department on staff to verify every link they share with their social media friends.

Strange times.
HN: "Ban congress from trading."

This is so short-sighted.

Congress isn't even the issue, it's the ridiculous wealth inequality.

We literally can't compensate the most important public servants enough.

Let's say personal wealth had a cap at $1,000,000,000, and the most successful public servant (president after long terms in Congress, Supreme Court judges) could reach that via compensation over say 60 years.

What then?

Edit: To address the expected HN response: "But tax shelters!!!... Or "wealth safe havens"..."

Great! Let them migrate there and doom their future generations.

Bezos will make more money while I write this comment than the president will earn all year. Give me a break.
> 9 million - including many children, and mostly people of colour - die each year of starvation.

The sad thing about this kind of argument is that it never goes away. Whatever happens. I started an argument more than a year ago with a guy, when we had 3000 deaths. World wide, total. He kept saying that it's less than the number of people who die in car accidents in a day. And he was right. What he didn't get is that without counter-measures it would grow exponentially for quite a long time and to quite a large total.

And it did grow and we continued this argument for months (with 1-2 comments a month) he had to keep raising the stakes. Next it was less than the number of flu deaths per year, next it was less than the number of car accident deaths, this time per year, then the number of HIV deaths, and then he just stopped arguing. I pinged him at 1M last June, never responded. I don't think he changed his mind.

I see your argument as a continuation of that. You just raised the stakes again, but however much the total count will be, you guys will always find something bigger. Implicitly stating that it's only worth taking counter measures against the worst cause of death. (Be it lockdowns or vaccines.) But it doesn't make sense. This is ON TOP of all those. Also, let's not forget that the only way we managed to keep it down to 3M is by imposing pretty strict lockdowns worldwide. Without those it would have been a lot worse. And even with these lockdowns the health care system is waaay overloaded in a lot of places, which means that COVID kills indirectly as well.

Yes, help people who are starving: we can easily do so by donating money. As long as you have the money. But don't make it worse by not vaccinating and letting COVID kill others, kill even those who are very poor (they definitely have worse chances) and kill the economy which obviously means more people starving and less help for those who have already been starving.
> Do you people really like such music?

I like it, but I use it moreso for when I want to tune out noises in my surroundings with something other than say, "bird noises" or "distance thunderstorm".
Warrant: Web Application Authorization as a Service
You can't just fine billionaires and expect that they'll reform.
When did the ship owner accuse the pilots of causing the accident? That wasn't mentioned in the article, and it doesn't change who is ultimately responsible for the ship.
Very good points. One question - any advise how to deal with people who "borrow" your presentation, in other words, they interrupt, and start explaining the concepts for you. It could be out of good will, an attempt to "help", but it can definitely ruin the flow for you. I tend to counter-interrupt and continue, but wondering if there's better solution.
From Wikipedia:

"On June 22, 2009, Sorkin hand-delivered a customary pre-sentencing letter to the judge requesting a sentence of 12 years, because of tables from the Social Security Administration that his life span was predicted to be 13 years."

Letter was submitted 11.81 years ago.
Depends on the specific SQL flavor, e.g. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/queries-with.html

Logica instead seems to create tables and drop tables?

https://github.com/EvgSkv/logica/blob/main/examples/Logica_e...

It looks like Logica code isn't actually translated to a (large) SQL query, but Logica code is dynamically interpreted by some interpreter that calls into a SQL database as the virtual machine.

Not sure what Logica really provides here. Datalog usually comes with elaborate techniques to make sure only what's really needed is calculated instead of just generating all values every fact generation "iteration".
Show HN: An interactive vintage map builder
So did I, until I’ve decided I’m too old for dealing with it. I’ve been working professionally with Linux systems for 20 years and counting, and finally decided that at home I just want an appliance that just works, even if it doesn’t give me all the features/flexibility I’d want.
Goodbye GPL
Should you be giving this kind of medical advice on HN?
Research gives us the problem not the answer
My question is, how do I fetch some info from an API hosted on some other server? It's just a bit of json I need... But it keeps getting blocked by CORS.
Had to Google

DNM == Dark Net Market
WHM == White House Market, a large DNM
Why not do both in parallel? A few decades of pausing space progress now could have a much bigger impact than later, and it’s not like space travel is so easy that we’ll suddenly wake up colonizers of the entire solar system. Did you fully mature before you went out into the world? Sometimes making relatively small mistakes is the fastest way to learn. “Move fast and break things”, but on the species scale.
I'd love to hear more about this. Did you deploy it to the encore managed environment, or private cloud? Which "escape hatches" (e.g., dropping down into plain http requests) did you end up using and where did you encounter friction?
All of that is probably a fair assessment of "fill in the blank" in media. I'm not saying it's right, but it's certainly not a problem of a few individuals, it is THE problem with information - all information - at this point in our history. Bari has to get clicks. CNN needs views. Rogan needs listens. Kendi and DiAngelo need to sell books. And outrage is currently the best way to build a successful business. The rest of us are just caught in the crossfire.

I miss the days when everything was about sex.

https://law.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/the-outrage-industrial-c...
All I had to do is play a little Kerbal Space Program to understand how difficult it would be to clean up space junk in orbit. Orbit isn't like some 3D grid where you stick a roomba up there, and have it go back and forth until you get everything. Even if you have the technology that lets you grab anything you encounter, you first have to reach something. And then burn some fuel to match its orbit. And then burn some fuel to get to the next thing. And then burn some fuel to match that thing's orbit (more than before because you are now carrying more mass around).

It might be better to keep everything up there. Assuming the junk is re-usable in some way: If one day, we do manage to build some kind of industry in orbit, it will need to consume raw materials, and having all this scrap in orbit already means you saved most of the energy cost it would have taken to get all that mass up there.
Those who got in early made almost infinitely more than those who got in later (or who lost) - classic Ponzi scheme.

So did people who invested early in Apple, domain names, or property in Manhattan. I think the bare minimum you'd need to define something as being a Ponzi scheme is, well, a scheme - that is, an intention to defraud people, and I don't see such intent in the creation of Bitcoin.
> and don't go spewing their shit all over the cosmos

Why? What's the downside to littering on some random asteroid? There's no ecosystem that would care – not even bacteria – nothing and nobody would mind if you drop a plastic bag on 423 Diotima. Take a step back and think about why pollution on Earth is bad, and you'll realize that "polluting" an asteroid isn't ethically wrong.

Of course, that only applies as long as those asteroids are utterly devoid of life. Once there's an ecosystem, polluting becomes ethically wrong again.
I'll def add it!
Do some AmDram style tasks with a local AmDram group.

There are lots of rehearsals before an audience is subjected to your acting, singing, humour.

There are Theatre-Sports style games to warm you up.

And being on stage, Projection really build the confidence speaking to crowds
Tether, which is apparently backed by Bitcoin itself, fits the bill. They've printed $20 billion (BILLION!) new USDT since the start of the year, and the rate of Tether printing is currently over 4x faster than the rate at which new Bitcoin is being mined. And like Madoff's scheme, it can keep going until the tide goes out and we find out who's been swimming naked.
The ridiculous double standard is that we see physical devices -- glasses, hearing aids, canes, as corrective, but drugs that treat disabilities are seen as "crutches", which happens to also be a physical metaphor, but one that implies some transience, suggesting that eventually we'll get better and not need the drug.

Try telling a deaf or blind person that their assistance devices are "crutches" they'll eventually not need and see how that works out. Would you say a paraplegic in a wheelchair is an addict? Do you expect them to somehow magically grow legs and be able to walk, if they could just "give up" the chair?

That's what accusing people who need pharmaceuticals to function sounds like. It's implying they are morally inadequate for needing their drugs.
You're referring to reported income, that in Switzerland is a national tradition to hide.
Good questions! "Encore Cloud" is currently deployed to AWS and DigitalOcean under the hood.

As for being tied to us, that's a big part of why we're open sourcing it. We see that Encore can rather reduce lock-in, as the code you end up writing with Encore is very cloud-agnostic, but also quite agnostic of Encore itself (by virtue of using static analysis, you end up writing mostly regular business logic).

And when you use it you can deploy the applications to your own account at any major cloud provider, so you can use your existing trust relationships with your cloud provider of choice.

As for the name, it's a bit of a wordplay :). "en-" for "to bring about [something]", and "core" for "the part of something that is central to its existence or character" (in our case backend development).
Actually I just installed today and it was slower than catalina noticeable slower, so slow, that I'm going to revert or just reinstall catalina if this does not improve.
I like it simply because screwing the rich and middle as hard as the poors on trivial issues is gonna make it real clear real quick how excessive penalties for common civil offenses are and pretty soon thereafter the laws will change.

HN has this fantasy of $10k speeding tickets. In reality it's gonna look like 100mph speed limits, $100 fines for you and $10 fines for your nanny.
To go in the opposite direction, if you wanted to add an option for people fine with large CPU/GPU expenditure (i.e., if this were playing on a dedicated TV in an actual café), it might be fun to add a WebGL canvas and make lofi/vaporwave-inspired effects [0].

[0]: http://hands.wtf/rad
Wait, how does launching stuff to low orbits reduce space junk?

Edit: I think I now understand your comment. I mean sure it maybe adds less space junk than launching things into higher orbits, but it doesn't really reduce it, right?
One problem is that there is a single process for all. Certain types of journalism and research should be able to ask for pre-approval of videos without risking a ban. The AI can still deal with the bulk of those requests.
I use Google Fi and I wonder if these changes are responsible for my recent problems with caller ID when I call somebody. My phone number is 512-xxx-yyyy and when I call anybody in Canada and some US phones I've been told my number shows up as +51-2xx-xyy-yy or just as unidentified caller.

When I text my daughter, my incoming texts show up under that number but she can't reply on that number. It's very frustrating.
I have social anxiety. Despite this--or maybe because of it?--I have worked in sales and have spoken at conferences for going on two decades.

The combination is not rare: Many people who have social anxiety find that “structured/directed” interactions with other people--like selling something, making a decision in a meeting with colleagues, or giving a presentation--are less terrifying than unstructured/directionless conversations, because it’s a lot easier to learn standard patterns, and the audience has a certain tolerance for prepared presentations and conversations.

Others will go into the details of how to get better, e.g. mindcrime’s excellent comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26807762

Cycling great Greg Lemond said, “It doesn’t get easier, you just get faster.”

I have found the same thing about speaking confidently in meetings and presentations: “It doesn’t get easier, you just get better.”

For me, it is still a struggle, but the evidence that I’m getting better at it is the motivation I need to step onto the stage or to raise my hand to contribute to a meeting.

My best wishes to you.
The headline is misleading. The stock was acquired via exercising call options that were originally bought in Feb 20, 2020 for a strike price of 130.

Amazing deal, but does it prove he was acting on insider information?
Nice idea which I will keep in mind, but execution is lacking. The demos didn't work.
So you just redefined a the name „Ponzi” to mean something else than the commonly accepted definition.
There are often problems with Reddit moderators, but at least you know who they are (sort of) and can talk to them. It seems like this there is a better relationship between moderators and a community when the moderators are part of the community, versus being an anonymous horde of interchangeable personnel.

(And of course there is Hacker News for another example, combining some automatic stuff with manual control.)

To get this at scale, though, it seems like you need a larger social network to be divided into many smaller ones in some logical way that’s understood by by everyone involved.

It seems like the inherent hierarchy (authors versus subscribers) and subdivision of Substack is likely to work out well for them.
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It takes me far more time to sort through all the crap I get in my mailbox delivered by USPS. I either don't answer the call, or hang up 5 seconds after answering.

In general I worry that blocking legitimate "robocalls" will make people miss important events. My mortgage company was trying to contact me and the phone was displaying "Spam Likely". Another instance last year was my city sending out an emergency alert for a hurricane.
Ah, but that's the value of the strategy!

Your roofer or doctor or whoever should have only a local area code. So out of those 27 spam calls, you only need to answer the 2 that came in from where you live now.

That's a 90%+ reduction! Not a bad strategy.
It would be based on the income of all of the money attached to you, including interest/dividends/appreciation within trusts with you as the grantee. Since wealth makes more money in virtually every way it can be stored, and since not investing it results in the "inflation tax," inflation + income tax = wealth tax.
I will second this. I went to a few meetings before everything shutdown (they still meet on Zoom, but I'd rather do it in person). It is very welcoming and I was impressed by how well many of the people who'd be doing it for a while spoke.
The current iteration of crypto yield farming seems more like a classic ponzi scheme to me.

"Here I invented this new coin. If you buy it and lock it up, you can generate new ones which you'll be able to sell to others who'll want to get in on it to. This coin serves no other purpose than this though."
Sounds like I'm gonna have a beer and rewatch "The Other Guys" tonight
A very fair opinion, in just the same way, many iOS users see the single store model to be a feature not a bug.
Charisma on Command is an okay YT channel.

Seconding Toastmasters

It’s about training the right habits.
Racism is racism, as far as I can see, it can apply no matter who it comes from or who it's applied to. If it's harmful, it doesn't get to only be harmful for qualified recipients. What's this reverse racism you speak of?
Before we get so excited about those high tech huts everyone is sleeping in these days, we should work on the problems we have right here in our caves.

Will huts help us share our mammoth meat more peacefully? Will huts make Atkinson Clan stop beating up Montanas? Will huts make Montanas any less annoying?

Mark my words, sisters and brothers. These problems will go with us wherever we build huts. Until we learn to make Montanas less annoying and Atkinsons less murderous, I say we stay in these caves.
Compiled autovectorization is miles more reliable than JIT autovectorization.
Buying equities in our society is done on a voluntary basis. What other possible pricing mechanism could there be other than people's opinion of what an equity is worth? If you want to throw your hands up in the air and call it funny money, because you don't understand what you're seeing, that's fine I guess. But understand the deficiency is yours, not the nature of the market.