skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually my colleagues at the office didn’t wash their hands before eating and showed not so great overall hygiene. They also missed many days due to “stomach bug”. And then there’re people with children, they’re always sick. Yes, it’s been a great year in terms of not having to deal with many people. But I have to say I’m a bit worried it’ll go back to usual soon.
Why are you presuming that the problem of trust would be solved by having more paied developers involved ? Usually a problem of trust is solved by having less people involved
I get what you're saying, but it's a one-off thing that the guy built especially for his Yaya.
Part-time schedules are still preset schedules.

They do not allow you the same flexibility to work for the next 30 minutes, take a few hours off, then work another hour this evening without doing anything more than just starting or stopping the app whenever you feel like.

How would you replicate that with part-time hours?
> the idea that the "disappearance" of flu is driven by political desire to label all respiratory illnesses as covid cases would be an example of a conspiracy theory.

You’d also have to claim that mislabelling was done deliberately for it to be conspiratorial.

I don’t think politically motivated distortions of perception are conspiratorial if those who are prone to mislabel things due to their belief system do so without realizing.

Not saying that’s an applicable explanation for the disappearance of flu, as it seems way too universal, just going further into semantics.
When you're coming back from a busy trade show or convention like Defcon in Vegas, that Centurion lounge is almost essential for a decent place to sit, eat or nap in McCarran.

And using Delta's lounge would mean having to fly Delta. Ew.
I'm pretty sure this is plucking a fruit and not an iOS device. Can we lower case the word apple in the title? As it should be based on the original title?
Africa's Expansion of AI Surveillance – Regional Gaps and Key Trends
I’ve been developing in PHP and exploiting apps written in PHP for over ten years.

A lot of the insecure by default functionality and footgun functions have been deprecated or removed in the latest versions.

Most of the modern frameworks e.g Laravel et al also have abstractions that protect you around a lot of the functionality where long hanging vulnerabilities used to lie. It’s rarer to find things like XSS, SQL inj, file inclusion vulns.

Type comparison will still do crazy things if you aren’t strict, but they have introduced typed properties in php 7.4.

A double edged sword is that a lot of modern development relies on package managers like composer, which means you can be exposed to security issues through the sheer number of dependencies pulled in to some of these frameworks.
Commuting by car when remote is an option is environmentally irresponsible. It's also bad for my health and I hate doing it. I'm never going back to the office.
I'm nervous that there might be a confusion between levels of abstraction here. Let me try to ground the terminology a bit, and see if that helps first.

As a recognized term, "graph isomorphism" would lift to category theory as "category isomorphism". These are not entities within a category (uh, per se), but they're relationships about and between categories. A graph/category isomorphism describes how two graphs/categories can be equivalently described in terms of each other.

In graph theory, a bidirectional path is a pair of paths within a graph. Two nodes are part of the same strongly-connected component if you can travel between them both ways. In the transitive closure of a graph, two nodes are in the same strongly-connected component if and only if the edges a->b and b->a exist within the graph.

In category theory, an isomorphism of objects is a pair of arrows f, g within a category between the same two objects -- such that their compositions fg and gf are both equivalent to the identity arrow. (In graphs, the paths fg and gf must be considered equivalent to the empty path.)

In a graph, you might naturally think of isomorphic objects as those that "relate" the same way to all other objects -- that is, if you didn't already know which node you were looking at, you couldn't tell the two apart from a vantage point anywhere else in the graph. This intuition broadly carries into category theory, though you can have multiple edges betwen nodes -- that's why the `fg = gf = 1` rule needs to be added. The transitive closure guarantees that for any isomorphic objects A and B, any path entering (leaving) A (B) can be extended to enter (leave) B (A), and the identity condition guarantees that the extension we added to cross between the two objects didn't add or remove information.

Put a slightly different way, if I have a path X -> Y that passes through either A or B, there is no way to distinguish whether the path went through A or went through B.
I would assume those networks will be shut down sooner rather than later in most places. I think 2G already is gone in the US.
I'm not sure our knowledge of the ocean is sufficient at this point to designate an area as "non sensitive".
By the way, now that we are already talking about R ~= 1 ...

Over pretty much the last year you could observe, in different countries all around the world, that the reproduction number was 'magically' floating around 1.

Only recently did I learn that this effect was puzzling for epidemiologists as well and was only solved around 2012 (?) in a model that assumes a network of information about the disease in parallel to the network of disease transmission. The resulting feedback loops lead to the meta-stability of R=1. Super interesting how society acts as this distributed information processor, similar to 'the market' in economics.
From "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" chapter on "Process API" (section 5.4 "Why? Motivating The API") [1]:

... the separation of fork() and exec() is essential in building a UNIX shell,
because it lets the shell run code after the call to fork() but before the call
to exec(); this code can alter the environment of the about-to-be-run program,
and thus enables a variety of interesting features to be readily built.

...

The separation of fork() and exec() allows the shell to do a whole bunch of
useful things rather easily. For example:

prompt> wc p3.c > newfile.txt

In the example above, the output of the program wc is redirected into the output
file newfile.txt (the greater-than sign is how said redirection is indicated).
The way the shell accomplishes this task is quite simple: when the child is
created, before calling exec(), the shell closes standard output and opens the
file newfile.txt. By doing so, any output from the soon-to-be-running program wc
are sent to the file instead of the screen.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/cpu-api.pdf
> GP made it seem like whites being a big part of current techno scene is bad.

I don't see that; I don't see any "guilt", using your word. Can you point it out? People have other motives.

My impression is that you brought your own (reactionary?) bias to it, using a reactionary talking point whether it really applies or not. Why bring down someone who is trying to expand their experiences, knowledge, and community, in a world where racism is common and leads to many people being excluded. We should work to include - that's great, creative, positive; there's no reason it needs to be motivated by guilt.
> I think it's less clear than one would expect.

In WA State (https://esd.wa.gov/employer-taxes/independent-contractors), there is a three part test. If you force someone to mow your lawn with specific equipment, and at a certain time, they would be en employee; they are not free from control.
You must have no understanding of the word "directly" then. Do you think the military, trade deals, etc directly touch people's lives? Of course the average person isn't going to waste time educating themselves on these topics, they are going to pick someone who represents them to. I think most people might know a little something about their own jobs.
This is why I really enjoy the Kindle I just bought. A single use: reading books.
The fact that Pluto only runs dependent cells on changes mostly solves this for me. For example, a cell can load things into the variable data, and then another cell can apply a function f(data). If I alter f, data is not reloaded and f(data) automatically runs.
> There are true gig workers. And then there's the huge number of "non-employee / gig-work" where its just a collection of companies avoiding social security taxes.

That doesn't make a lot of sense when the employee still has to pay the tax. Nobody is avoiding it. The claim that employers pay half is just a feel-good claim with no economic basis.

There is no real difference between paying $10.62 to a contractor who has to pay $0.62 more in social security tax and paying $10 to an employee and $0.62 to the social security administration. And the employee would (all else equal) choose a job paying $10 as an employee over a job paying <$10.62 as a contractor, so the companies hiring contractors have to pay that much more or offer some other countervailing benefit to be competitive.
I recall a strawberry picker from around... 2014?

If memory serves, they achieved speed by reducing harvest %.
Sight-impaired people hit as Bureau of Meteorology blocks some textmode browsers
Miyoko’s mozzarella is delicious, both cold and put on pizza. It doesn’t have any herbs added to it.
Right, preferences and "guys teaching little kids is creepy" play a role, and maybe some other stuff.
Have you ever invested after receiving a cold pitch?
There’s no way to avoid them even if you don’t have your own. There’s always a parent-colleague you have to deal with, unless you WFH.
You are essentially describing a supersized plaque assay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_quantification#Plaque_as...).
After doing some academic research I have a sour taste in my mouth for it, and this makes it even worse. Disappointing from UMN.
Say 1 in 10 people have flu and 1 in 10 have covid. In a population of 100, 9 have just flu, 9 have just covid, and 1 has both. Those 19 people present similar symptoms, and anyone among them has roughly a 53% chance of having each disease. They take a flu test and it comes up positive. Now they're either one of the 9 with just flu, or the one unlucky person with both, so there's only a 10% chance they have covid.

The impact of this effect changes if has-flu and has-covid are correlated, but it's still there unless it's a 100% correlation.
Sanitizing your hands every five minutes is obviously a disorder, but I don't understand why on HN the downvote army is triggered by suggesting that you should have clean hands before eating food.
Damon Wild, that's good stuff.

Here, crack a cool one and breathe this in, for a little while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RFY8GK5PAA
We were comparing carbon input to food output, gram for gram. Caloric/nutrient density is completely relevant.

You've thrown that basis out the window by adding additional foods and reframing the argument.
> Today, to encrypt your communication to websites, you use HTTPS which rely on a vast network of certificate authorities.

This fact has been irritating me for a long time. Because no one should believe that every single certificate authority is tolerant to any attempts to steal the private keys. But that is exactly the underlying assumption behind HTTPS being the only way to use HTTP in a more secure manner than exchanging in plaintext.

Let's think about this scenario: Suppose that I built a web service for my personal use and hosted it in public cloud. I don't trust any certificate authorities, so I created my own TLS certificate without using them. I installed my own certificates on the machine from which to connect to my web service. Now the server for my web service is serving in HTTPS using my own certificate. Am I safe? No. Because any entity with access to the private key of any of the certificate authorities trusted by my machine, is capable of intercepting the communication between my machine and my server, simply by MITM.

The problem of being forced to trust certificate authorities can be solved by adding the feature to embed a public key in a url. For example, it would be wonderful to have a url like httpsecure://rsa:PUBLICKEY/example.com/ to make sure example.com always responds using the key PUBLICKEY. IIRC, the Tor onion services is an instance of this -- the .onion domains include public keys.
> a driverless Tesla ran off the road, hit a tree, and caught fire, killing two passengers inside. The victims were reportedly discussing the vehicle’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature moments before the accident.

Yeech, that's tragic.

The admission regarding fully autonomous is not really a shocker... but it still lowers my hopeful expectations for sooner-rather-than-later leaps.
To answer the second sentence, no, I don't know that. Boomers are taking out 5 times as many benefits as they paid in, it is absolutely not paid for (many Boomers believe otherwise!)
Yes, I also hoped they're going to support Nextdns.
Maybe with a next update %)
It is the most common thing to do. What happens is a small percentage of flu cases get complications and need to go to the doctor, like for example you get it with other virus and your immune system overreacts.

This is the reason doctors know flu is not present, because they are not getting those cases they got every year in Winter.

Flu is the main medical issue in Autumn-Winter in most of the North hemisphere by quantity.
> If you are wondering who in the 1999 cohort made most of the contributions, it’s Laurent Montel and who in the 2010 disappeared in 2018 it’s “Montel Laurent”. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a nice way to merge both.

I've made a shell script to automatically rename specific authors in Git repos. It's based around git filter-repo, so you'll have to install that first. https://gist.github.com/nyanpasu64/d92f346d75131d5338466eb4b...

It may be possible to ignore email addresses when replacing names, I haven't checked.

Perhaps you could create a SQLite query or update to achieve the same effect in the aggregated statistics.
I was wondering about that, and if maybe they're just talking about the probability of the fix having worked in a clunky way.
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> That's an ad-hominem argument.

And yours was an argument from authority. You gave no explanation of or support for Mullis's arguments, and you gave no reason to believe his conclusion except a positive aspect of his reputation (i.e., his discovery of PCR in the first place).

In that case, negative aspects of his reputation (i.e., the fluorescent raccoon; or, closer to the domain in question, his belief on HIV and AIDS) are surely also relevant. They don't mean what he's saying is false, but they'd cause a reasonable person to approach his unsupported statements with more care.

For convenience, I'm linking my other comment below. This is a detailed explanation of why I believe almost all patients who test positive by PCR are (or were very recently) infected with SARS-CoV-2, fully referenced. It has so far received zero interaction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984429

If you think I'm wrong, please explain why, and I'll reply. If you think I'm right, then I'd also appreciate a reply. The belief that coronavirus cases are grossly over-diagnosed is a common element of claims that no precautions against it are necessary, which cause real harm; so I hope you don't want to falsely spread that belief.

ETA: And for completeness, here's a paper discussing the ability to culture virus from PCR-positive samples. I believe that's the real point Mullis was alluding to in his comments, that people who test PCR positive aren't necessarily shedding replication-competent virus; but that's a separate question from whether they are (or very recently were) infected.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
> However, I think first-party isolation causes CORS issues like when trying to pay with Paypal on another retail site.

Generate URLs with a time limited token as query param. No cookies needed.
The TUR is not the metric plotted on the website. Read the very next sentence in the section you're quoting:

> To calculate the pathogen detection rate (as displayed in Figure 2 [second data view] and on the Trend website), we compute the rate for each organism at each institution as a centered 3-week moving average. To adjust for the capacity differences between sites, a national aggregate is calculated as the unweighted average of individual site rates. Only data from sites contributing more than 30 tests per week is included to avoid noise from small numbers of tests. Because the calculation of pathogen detection rate includes results from patients with multiple detections, the detection rate for all organisms can, in theory, add up to greater than one. In practice, this does not occur.

The TUR is the the raw number of hits across all sites. They normalize this, which is why they talk about it possibly exceeding 1.0. It's why the Y-axis of the plot is labeled in percentages. The height of the bars is a moving average of detection rates across their network.

Regardless, this is still nitpicking. The point was that these other pathogens have not gone away. They have not. Even if you were right, it wouldn't change the argument.
If this was really a fact, surely you have a source for it?

Because if you are the one out of a group who comes up with a number drastically out of what other people estimate, it seems reasonable to assume you are the one who are in the wrong.

And of course unarmed doesn't mean innocent anymore than being armed means being in the wrong.

I am challenging you to a source for two reasons: to make sure you are not just making the number up, and because I want to see what the source defines as being unarmed and how they determine that.
Unions are good inasmuch they allow labor to bargain with capital by underwriting demands for better pay and conditions with the threat of work stoppage.

If unions aren't doing that because they are compromised or sclerotic or whatever, then they aren't much use. Who would argue.
> A lot of the time I feel like health food is really just a way for manufacturers to cheap out and then sell something at a premium.

Probably, but vegan cheese isn't marketed as health food.

> Margarine is vegan

I wish.
Not the parent poster, but I'll repeat the question: what benefits do you have in mind?

I mean it as a serious question, as it's not clear to me what the difference between benefits and salary is (not being from US).

I understand that the health insurance is one of them (and, to be clear, I do believe you should have that whether you work 0 or 100 hours a month).

But what are others? Pension contribution is just a part of your salary that you are required by law to put aside. Guaranteed minimum time off comes to mind, but that obviously makes less sense if you are already not working too much. What else?
Yes, NY is clearly is densely populated. I guess I would look for the differences with California.

LA has more people (13.2 million) but appears to be less densely populated with 550 people per sq mile.

I didn’t follow California but I know Florida was offered as a place that not locking down worked.

I can look into it a little more. Florida has a lot of cases, and most came after the first wave. The same with Texas.
This type of bland complaint is just a common way nowadays to signal that you are part of the In-group, that cares about people.
Covid was this years flu season.
Wouldn’t a good explanation need to account for everything it’s purporting to account for and not contain any details that can be omitted or altered without changing what it accounts for? An explanation that omits that reason number 2 would not account for why the output changes when the input to reason number 2 changes in isolation.
$1000 is much too expensive for a startup that is not yet funded, or one that is bootstrapped. Suggest you start lower with a pay-for-what-you-use model. Otherwise, you're looking at an enterprise sale with a longer sales cycle. Make it easy for people to try this thing.
Where I live parents don’t understand what a lockdown is. During extended school holidays the children are all playing together. What’s the point then?
I’m just a casual user, but three features I really like in Dolphin that I haven’t seen elsewhere:

- Split window, so you can have two explorers right next to each other.

- Tabs

- If you drag a file/folder into another folder, you get prompted about “copying or moving?”

In terms of health, I also appreciate that many of the devs frequent the kde subreddit, and they all seem really chill and receptive.
What proportion of programmers/projects are (a) so risk averse/untrusting that they are unwilling to update their compiler to the latest version, but (b) want to depend on the latest version of hundreds of miscellaneous libraries?
Write Gitlab CI Pipelines in Python Code
Yeah, airline loyalty is (was?) pretty much about focusing on one carrier (and its partners) wherever possible even if it's not always ideal. And flying a lot. I'd hit 60-75K miles a year on one carrier. Who knows if I'll ever do that again.

Hotels were always something I signed up for and used when I could but I never did unnatural acts to do so. May be different especially if traveling domestically primarily to $BIGCHAIN which almost always has an option.
I also do not really get the complaint, but it is along the lines of people wanting to write `julia-pkg install Pluto` instead of `julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("Pluto")'`. It seems it is a big pet peeve for some people.
What in the world is positive about Instagram or Tiktok? Twitter is clearly worse, but Instagram inspires nothing but vapid voyeurism and tiktok very well could be an act of espionage.
Debian's repackaging is not useful for Rust developers. It's a tiny tiny fraction of Rust packages (Rust has over 60,000 now), and it's not integrated with Rust tooling. It's not useful for anything other than the few binaries written in Rust that Debian ships.

Debian's policies are simply incompatible with the Chrome-like "evergreen" release model that Rust uses. I feel sorry for anyone who tries to use Debian's Rust. It is an awful experience.
1Password has worked well for my 90-year-old mother. I disabled the "ask to save password" option. If she needs a new account on something - which doesn't happen very often - I just use Screen Sharing (we both have Macs) and set it up for her. I also have her 1Password account syncing to mine. Although I do still get support phone calls when there's a glitch, it's worked out very well on balance, compared to the amount of support she needed before with account setup and not using the same password everywhere.
> Senior eng makes $400k+ TC.

Good thing Google only employs senior engineers... <image>eyerollsmiley-x1000.gif</image>

> The whole reason the area is so expensive is because FAANG pays so damn much to keep pulling in more talent.

No it isn't. That isn't the reason at all. The reason is a bunch of literal rent-seeking wealthy old people who fight new housing projects at every possible turn so they can sell their house for $2 million, or die and leave it to their kids, who will then sell it for $2 million.

> Most eng I meet at FAANG have no interest in ownership out of principal.

Press X to doubt.
>there was one non covid death above the baseline of the expected number of deaths

While a true (and interesting) statement, that's not what the OP said. He said "Excess deaths exceeded COVID deaths", not "Excess deaths minus COVID deaths exceeded expected deaths". Again, the second statement is true (based on his graph), but not all all what he said.
You can of course donate $20 mil to a charity that you can influence (a foundation of a relative or a friend’s family, say) and get that charity to buy the first painting at auction.

This way you pay cap gains on 19 million but can offset 20 million of charity donations against the gain.