skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who decides you're too vulnerable to make your own decisions.

At what percentage of the overall populace being classified as vulnerable do we start removing the decision from the whole population.

But yes, something similar to Portugal would be my preference. Health treatment provided by government, possibly a "Health Premium" tax paid on tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc at point-of-sale to help cover costs. Different tax rates based on how "bad" for your health it is.
I think it's insane to do. I wouldn't want to open my NAS up to the internet. I can VPN into my home network if I need to access it remotely.
Those measures are not entirely different from the measures previously suggested, though.

Obviously your quoted poster’s concerns are less about “hand washing”, “wear a mask if you have symptoms”, and “stay home” while you recover, and instead are about an overreaction in which entire businesses are forced to shut down, children without symptoms are forced to wear masks even as they run and play, and people are forcibly prevented from leaving their homes “just because it’s flu season”.

This may be necessary, at times, for COVID-19, but as you recognized, not for the normal flu.

Given the spotty record of both public and private policy with regards to using actual science as a driver, these are not invalid concerns.

Or put differently, rather than presuming that anyone against “doing something” is against “common sense” measures, perhaps we should be supportive of making sure that we do something, AND that the “something” that we do remain in the realm of common sense, to assuage the very real concerns that “doing something” could mean something more harmful than good.
Ha, I've seen that clip and really enjoyed it. I also am pretty sure I saw some research that says that's not true but I've just been searching the last few mins and can't find it. I have a bunch of files from when I was working in the field that I really need to sort through.

But yeah, I also am concerned about how safety driven we are for things and unwilling to take risks as a culture but that might be recency bias because I'm reading "Where is my flying car?" and they basically make the same point about the regulatory state stymieing innovation in the name of safety (often for absurd things like nuclear)
A lot of "health food" is a scam, and isn't even healthy. It's actually kind of absurd how if you look at even the junk food aisle, you'll see tons of advertisements for "all-natural", "organic", "30% less sugar", "with vitamin B".

The vegan cheese isn't an exception: some of them are actually pretty good, but most are really processed with a lot of added oil. Although most vegans do seem to realize and accept this, because it still has the benefit of being vegan.

If you want real "healthy" food, get whole foods: vegetables, meats (or good vegan meats, look for protein / calories ratio), fish, yogurt, beans. Fruits and even grains are ok, as are nuts and nut butters - just watch your portions. Even a bit of cheese or olive oil is good because they actually have nutrients. Ironically, all of these are usually packaged plain and don't mention "low-carb" or "good source of vitamin B12".
My take on that is: since pandemic started governments have been pretty paranoid, imposing a lot of burdensome restrictions on their citizens, like mandatory quarantine. This incentivized people to never go to doctor unless absolutely necessary, which means that most flu cases go undiagnosed.
Hmm... I should turn my ATX apt into 4 "Parisian" studios then. Such underutilized space considering I have an almost vestigial "dining room" that has been used mostly as a dance floor and a gym area.
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>Being banned from consuming a substance because your body no longer belongs to you but rather is property of the state is not fine.

Sure but that's not really what's being discussed here right now, and there doesn't seem to be evidence that this has happened. From another perspective, governments are trying to do their best to protect their citizens from the malign interests of private entities who sell dangerous products. I agree that banning tobacco entirely would be too coercive, though.

Apparently Bhutan is the only country where tobacco is illegal. I understand your concerns with regards to prohibition but I think this is a slippery slope argument without a better example or a more compelling explanation.
> Socialized medicine by definition increases healthcare costs because it divorces the person creating the cost from bearing the results

Then why are healthcare costs in the UK (socialised) and Europe (typically private, but highly regulated with a social option) dramatically lower than US (private) healthcare costs despite similar levels of care? Unless you have evidence that it increases costs, I would suggest that you viewpoint is just ideology, and you may wish to consider revising it.

> It’s also worth mentioning that public health awareness campaigns frequently stretch the science in the quest to moralize more effectively

They also often do a lot of good despite this. There is a very successful public health campaign promoting the eating of 5 fruits and vegetables a day. It's not quite accurate. The science suggested we should be eating 9. But it's lead to people eating a lot more fruit and veg than they would otherwise have done, which is a good thing all round.
A single 3 pin XLR will only carry balanced signal for a single channel (which this might as well be). For stereo you either need two 3 pin XLR (as is the case for interconnects in high end or pro audio) or a single 4 pin XLR (as is found in high end headphones).

The way it works is so simple yet genius. Say the main signal is +x. Then one of the pins will carry -x. At the end, the receiving end will invert -x and add the two signals together. This gives x + -(-x) = 2x. So it gives twice the power. Great. So what?

Well, if you introduce noise into the chain, it gets canceled out!
Pin 1: X + noise
Pin 2: -X + noise

Final = pin1-pin2 = X+noise + X-noise = 2X

Brilliant.
> Keep in mind (I think) that it's increasingly difficult to pull off a full career of any kind of programming.

Can you expound on that?
I can't imagine attaching anything directly to the internet outside my router.
And iceberg mansions. The neighbors really love those.
There was a kids “radio” project with a similar ethos posted a couple weeks ago!
I think you can put the emulators in like a 1x mode? I do not look back fondly on waiting for things to load hahha
“dark characters on light background lead to better legibility and are strongly recommended independent of observer’s age.”

“the typically higher luminance of positive polarity displays leads to an improved perception of detail.”

"in users with normal vision, light mode leads to better performance most of the time."

So why go for dark mode if legibility, detail perception and performance is lower?

EDIT: please note that "dark characters on light background" is the contrary of dark mode; in dark mode there are light characters on dark background.
The contractor and client would negotiate those terms.
The idea that my own health is an external cost is crazy. How do you tax a free solo rock climber like Alex Honnold? A 1000% tax on chalk dust?
For the reasons listed above, there were 3 potential outcomes, depending on the success of the public health measures to contain the spread of COVID:

1. A high number of COVID cases and a high number of flu cases.

2. A high number of COVID cases but low number of flu cases.

3. A low number of COVID cases and a low number of flu cases.

If flu and COVID were independent, there would be a fourth potential outcome (high flu cases and low COVID cases). Majromax is saying that it was largely predictable that this fourth outcome would not happen.

The thing that the news articles are warning about is outcome #1 which, if it had transpired, probably would have been quite bad. Note that the experts in the articles are warning about something that could happen, not saying that it will definitely happen. And the reason it didn't happen is at least in part due to the warnings that were issued.
People "doing their own research" about COVID vaccines get ridiculed as science-denying nutjobs. Has something changed?
Syncing the passwords to your own computer so that you can set them up is a genius idea.
That doesn't work all that well in practice. I can probably trick your mail server into accepting spoofed mail. DKIM and SPF adoption being what it is.
Blockchain technology only became popular in the last decade and, as much as it has become a meme at this point, DNS is actually one of the best use cases for it. The current DNS is distributed, but highly centralized, and paying renewal fees for keeping a record in a file and a server running feels like extortion. An immutable, consistent and decentralized storage system solves those issues, and I can pay once and technically own that record for life. (Though Unstoppable Domains' prices seem arbitrarily high...)

So I'm hopeful that some of this new tech can disrupt the current system, which we know is inherently flawed.[1]

While I'm not going to use Opera anytime soon, we should celebrate this news and push for other browsers to do the same.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pp72gUYx00
So there doesn't appear to be ENS support?
I think it's a bad idea as well but I don't blame people for doing so because of how QNAP markets them.

Competing products are marketed in the same way.
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Let's jump straight into identity politics because certain extra stats(like all studies/decisions have) are given.

I'm assuming you know this, but just in case: projecting like this then complaining about "racial" anything has the exactly opposite effect you'd want.
This article is about techno specifically, not electronic music. There's a lot of electronic music that has nothing to do with techno - techno is a genre, like chiptune, trance or dubstep.
I guess we should always be specifying "Cow's" milk.
The kindle browser is so unusable that you wouldn't even be bothered with it.
And you likely have UPnP disabled.
I have a genuine question about this. If we discover issues within 60 days of getting the vaccine, what does it mean for the next 70 years of my life?

I understand that the odds of getting thrombosis are very low, but what about the chances of other serious issues cropping up later? Is this a reasonable concern?
I feel like adults are giving away their liberties bit by bit in the name of "protecting the children". I am sympathetic to the issue of kids getting addicted to smoking/vaping, but to ban any and all flavors seems like a horrible idea.

A drinker can go any liquor store and buy fruit flavored vodka. A recreational cannabis smoker can go to a local dispensary and buy fruit flavored weed - hell, even gummy bears!

As an adult I want these choices available and it doesn't make any sense to me that only some adult vices aren't allowed to have flavors while all the rest of them do.
It's basically the opposite of what's going on, but simultaneously looks really similar. The article says:

> ...address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ+ individuals, all of whom are far more likely to use these tobacco products

So yes, one motivation for an action like this is that an enemy against those groups wants to deprive them of something that they use more than others.

Another motivation for the exact same action is that an ally aligned with those groups wants to remove something that harms them more than others.

Unfortunately, intent is hard to measure, and the behavior is very similar. I think one of the key differentiators is whether that removal extends only to the class being 'protected' or whether it extends to everyone. To extend your hypothetical example, if people without a high school diploma were prevented from purchasing lottery tickets, and those with college degrees (like the people passing the legislation and their peers) were allowed to buy them at a discount rate, that would indicate malicious intent and discrimination against those who are less educated. On the other hand, if you take away lotto tickets from everyone, including depriving yourself of the ability to buy them, because they're universally bad and also because they cause an unusually high degree of harm to those with less education, that looks more like benevolent motivation. Of course, if you didn't buy them in the first place then your sacrifice doesn't mean as much...
I happened to read Kovid justification[0] of this kitchen-sink approach few days ago and I agreed with Kovid. Before I was dead-set against his idea, and now I understand why it is the best for calibre.

It boils down to database and robustness. Filesystem and OS have their particular way of how it manage the files. And sometime when the file are being used and when calibre try to modify/something to the file, it can lead to unpredictable situation such as data corruption. And some OS sandboxed/isolated the app from ever touching outside of it own home directory unless explicitly permitted to do so. Sometime, it can be a permission weirdness. It is less variables for Kovid to worry and putting the software itself in control of the directory.

Also, another variable that Kovid don't have to worry about is between the keyboard and the chair errors. Users does stupid shit with it and those management software are sensitive to sudden changes without the software's awareness. Sure, you can set the path to find it again (it can be a pain for some), it didn't mean everything is jolly good. Some will force itself to rebuild the database to ensure it accounts for every bit of data. Those softwares are THAT particular and I can understand why.

Zotero does the same thing (and they preferred it), but Zotero does allows users to decide where it should be. Shoko Desktop/Server preferred their own but does allows users.

And the biggest advantage of calibre's approach is that its library only exist in single directory. You can move the folder itself without worrying the data corruption.

[0]: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#id33
We use bamboo at my job, and it's java that generates a yaml file that is then shoved into bamboo. It's a completely shitshow. why would i use a turing complete language to generate a declarative yaml file containing turing complete shell scripts? Why not just write the shell script in the first place?
I've had it for a year or so on Firefox on multiple machines, never noticed any performance issues.
Much simpler to assume that selling to omnivores opens a much larger market than selling only to vegans. Omnivores want to eat cheese, and are not looking for "fermented cashew cubes", but might try "cashew cheese" if it was with the cheese and (cheaper/healthier/prettier/recommended by a friend).
FreeNas user for many years here, very happy in multiple environments- small home/office stuff and larger "production" environments.
But you can have 0. Just avoid the AstraZeneca one.
This is a great idea until you get hit by a bus and now your private keys are gone and your family can no longer recover your estate(house and investments).

Should a mechanism exist in your system wherein-by your family can reclaim ownership without your keys, means that whoever the chain says owns something clearly doesn't actually matter anyways.
I really think that Handshake is the superior DNS root + PKI alternative, so hopefully more projects adopt it.
Eric Garner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner
Q1 revenue

2021: $108.5 billion

2020: $75.5 billion

2019: $59.7 billion

2018: $51.0 billion

2017: $35.7 billion

2016: $29.1 billion

2015: $22.7 billion

2014: $19.7 billion

2013: $16.1 billion

2012: $13.2 billion

2011: $9.9 billion

2010: $7.1 billion

2009: $4.9 billion

2008: $4.1 billion

2007: $3.0 billion

2006: $2.3 billion

2005: $1.9 billion

2004: $1.5 billion

2003: $1.1 billion

2002: $847 million

2001: $700 million

2000: $574 million

1999: $294 million

1998: $87 million

1997: $16 million
I really wish there was a small NAS case that didn't look like a massive box. The QNAP/Synology 4 bay low power form factor is just killer for fitting into small spaces, but if I could put a core i5 in one of those with some flash to get some more VMs going and run linux or some BSD distro, that'd be incredible.

Smallest one I've found is https://www.u-nas.com/xcart/cart.php?target=product&product_..., but not quite as compact as I'd hope.

As I can't find DIY hardware like that, Synology looks to have a slightly more mature vulnerability response program than QNAP -- apparently they have a bounty? I've heard about less Synology flaws, so hopefully they're a slightly better choice on the software side.
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There have been more than one startup with the idea that an iPad should sit on your wall as a window into another person’s house.
So many communication silos out there these days. Loads of people use whatsapp and or signal, but those make third party clients impossible (or at least highly impractical). I wish every communications platform with more than N% market penetration was forced to open up to third party clients. I'm sure there are some practical reasons why this is a bad idea, but it would make life a lot easier.
The perverse outcome being issues for toddlers who don't develop strong immunity? The single year on year outcome 20,000+ to 1000- is amazing, but, what if this lays the seeds for a future influenza pandemic?
> They provide capital to move a case to closure. But how is that different from say a contingency basis from a regular large firm?

I haven't heard of Legalist & don't understand their model, but there are a few public companies that do litigation financing. Different models can be possible in different countries depending on the regulations.

For public companies in this space you can the read annual reports / analysis to get more of a feel for how they work as businesses.

Another model in the UK (unsure if this works in the US): it is possible for an investor to completely buy ownership of a legal claim (e.g. investor receives any money recovered through settlement or awarded by courts, and end up in control of the case & the corresponding costs). This is arguably superior for the funder to financing a case as it gives the funder more control.

Cases that might be better potential investments: can be resolved quickly, claim has merit and is likely to succeed if it goes to court, case has a greater chance to settle quickly and inexpensively without needing to go to court, defendant has sufficient assets somewhere that can be readily recovered (e.g. in same country not obfuscated behind layers of offshore tax havens)

A well run company doing this kind of thing should achieve attractive cash returns on invested capital, but will carry a portfolio of hard-to-value illiquid investments in lawsuits with maintenance costs.

By using data/statistics/software it may be possible to better estimate which cases are good investments / better manage risk of the overall portfolio of cases / reduce amount of human labour inputs required.
Some thoughts from someone who was there, on the fringe of it:

Detroit: is a land of wondrous musical invention, just new trends but whole new paradigms over and over, and it's never credited: Motown, of course; Punk (Iggy Pop & the Stooges, MC5 - name earlier punk!); Funkadelic (George Clinton et al); and Techno. At their heart they are creative, artistic, non-commercial (Motown being a big exception to the latter). Try to name other communities that match it, and give Detroit some due.

Techno: I've heard it described (by someone who would know) as the music of black middle class kids in Detroit. Think of what that means: Think of the historical implications, for the next generation after the civil rights era. Think of how rare that image is - today - in our public sphere, 'black middle class kids'. And from this perspective, to great disappointment, the black musical genre that America embraced was hip-hop, which sold itself as the stereotype many whites have of African-Americans: Poverty, violence, crime, lack of education, acting out, etc. That's what people associate with black kids - and that's what they bought - not futuristic techno; everyone in the world knows hip-hop is 'black' music; few outside techno know its origins. It makes me angry to this day. Here's a bit of that history, from the 313 (Detroit area code) techno mailing list:

http://music.hyperreal.org/lists/313/08.html

Through the 1990s, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and the other techno pioneers, legends and stars elsewhere, were unknown in Detroit beyond the small techno community. Every summer in Hart Plaza downtown, Detroit hosts various weekend festivals, such as a large country music festival. In 2000 a new one was added to the schedule, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. I can't express the shock, the bewilderment, of local Detroiters when a million people from around the world showed up - to Detroit? For electronic music? Why??? The visitors knew more than the locals. And I was there - my favorite musical memory - for the moment Derrick May, long ignored in his hometown, at last took to the turntables before a massive crowd in Detroit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xqV9_7rf0
Why would the conclusions drawn from the post indicate bad intentions?

The warnings you're referring to were predicated on a pretty generic and nondescript need to get people vaccinated. This was a widespread messaging campaign in the media, heavy on the threats but not specificity.

Instead of what was threatened all summer, what actually happened was that flu disappeared AND people were being chastised for poor compliance with local ordinances and vaccination.
What I would really like to see is a CI system that lets me write a script in a language of my choice instead of defining a pipeline config file. That way I can run the pipeline locally, put breakpoints in, etc.

Nuke [1] gets close but there are still a lot of tasks that don't have C# bindings, such as publishing build artifacts and uploading test results.

While I'm dreaming about my perfect CI, I'd also like the ability to download benchmark results from previous commits so that I can generate trend graphs and publish them in the build results.

To do this right the CI system would have to have an API using REST, GraphQL, gRPC or some such API format that generates clients in many languages. That way they don't have to maintain bindings in every language.

[1] https://nuke.build/
You're lumping the poster in with all the experts and novices. They're one person, saying one thing. You need a link to _them_ saying the opposite to substantiate your criticism of their statement.
> I think one of the key differentiators is whether that removal extends only to the class being 'protected' or whether it extends to everyone.

Very, very good point. It's not the only measure, I think, but it's certainly one of the big ones.
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Yes, and the lack of protein is horrible. When you are vegetarian, you partially substitute meat with cheese --- no way with these vegan look-like-cheese-somewhat products.

it's like 1.3g of protein per 100g (pseudo pasta 'cheese') vs 32g per 100g (Parmigiano-Reggiano) or 23g per 100g for Emmental cheese.