skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so true, and most people in these spaces will still defend the metrics they're using. I've encountered this a lot when trying to suggest how advertising could be a social good.
US death numbers are not an outlier once you consider

1. The US population is on average over 30lb overweight compared to the rest of the world with significant comorbidities (In the United States, 36.5 percent of adults are obese. Another 32.5 percent of American adults are overweight. In all, more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese),

2. has very old population similar to Italy (though this is similar to Canada too)

3. has tons of tourism during winter

4. Canada has a population density of 4 people per square kilometer and population of 1/10th of US. This density is even bigger factor for COVID and crazy dense cities. US has a population density 36 per Km2. US also has the third-highest population in the world.

5. New York was been found to be the origin of virus variant for majority of the US states - something Governor Cuomo played a big role in. Plus back in March, the American Health Care Association told Cuomo, Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer etc to stop ordering infected patients into nursing homes. The governors ignored the AHCA and removed their own family from nursing homes while forcing others:

https://www.ahcancal.org/News/news_releases/Pages/Long-term-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191811

US numbers could have been better if it didn't have such major obesity problems.
When you introduce the functionality to disable a traditional safety product, you have to think about the dependency chain and how you design that system to prevent issues. Vehicles with a switchable airbag tend to display a fairly prominent red light when the airbag disable switch is used. I'm pretty sure that on some vehicles I've had, it's hard-wired to light up when the switch is used to disable the airbag. You'd have to break the light to "override" that warning.

It is possible the makers of this product have done likewise, and the arming of their system is done with the same signal that's used to display a green light. But given the sheer complexity of it (Bluetooth, app Integration, server side checks), it seems likely this won't be the case - maybe the light is only momentary, in which case such hardware failsafes won't be in place.

Nonetheless, adding complexity to a safety critical product should be scrutinized and held to the level of engineering as any other safety critical product.

A safety critical product which will cease to function in its safety role without the ability to call home to a server seems to fail at some early hurdles of being engineered as a safety product, so I would respectfully disagree with your starting point that they've thought about this and engineered their lockout as a safety system (since it fails unsafe, rather than safe).
>They should have made either a sequel, or a full REMAKE, not a lazy-milking-re-release, it just plain stupid

The community would have lost its mind if Blizzard tried anything like a remake, purely because Blizzard has spent all the goodwill it had a long time ago and did nothing to make people think it wouldn't conk it up. To the point everybody was knee-jerkingly refusing any change at all to the game, regardless of how minor or justifiable it would be (which was a mistake, Classic would have been much better with some increased difficulty).
> The problem is that, in this case, "Default Deny" can mean someone is dead.

That's not really accurate. Did you check out the product description or FAQ? https://www.klim.com/Ai-1-Airbag-Vest-3046-000 Default deny would mean the user doesn't ride, because the deny happens before you go, not during the ride.

Yes, if they were to shut off service after signaling it's okay to ride, then it would be an affront to safety standards, and they would lose in court. But... they're not shutting off service during the ride...
To me those are the best games, it feels like you were evenly matched :)

I hate getting just completely run over way more, personally.
> But monads don't compose with each other, do they?

They do if they're[0] traversable (cf literally `Data.Traversable` in Haskell), which almost all specific monads are. You'd have something like:

newtype Comp f1 f2 a = Comp { unComp :: (f1 (f2 a)) }
instance (Monad f1,Monad f2,Traversable f2) => Monad (Comp f1 f2) where
(Comp a) >>= k = Comp $ a >>= (map join . traverse (unComp . k))

Edit: 0: actually, only the inner monad needs to be traversable.
The US government paid about $27 per dose and is also willing to pay $40 to the person that puts the shot in your arm if your insurance doesn’t cover it fully.

Two shots costs about $130. If you fly to the US and spend any reasonable amount of money, the government has come out ahead with all the taxes you’ve paid on your spending, especially since you need to stay a full month to get both shots.

This isn’t a scandal, and people shouldn’t feel bad about it.
I would argue initial release of Warcraft 3 was single player focused, with multiplayer as a feature, however I think post launch support was more multiplayer focused.

However I think that was the model of many of the older games. Once the game has been developed and released, single player improvements are largely either bugs, quality of life improvements or platform changes. The first 2 were needed less because of old school blizzard's dedication to quality.
Bezos sues, Musk launches.
Is the goal of the vaccine not to slow/stop the spread? If Canadians end up needing a third shot some time down the line, but the first one spread out does it's job, isn't that ok? Far from bungled, I'd say they made the best of what they had.
I think the weapon comparison needs some style adjustment. I compared 3 weapons and my eyes are having so much trouble following the lines that I thought some of the rows were misaligned. I think that effect is due to the highlighting feeling like it's actually alternating row colors. After I figured out what was going on, I started looking at the cells that stood out because I figured those must be the best numbers. Except that's backwards from my intuition too. To me the darker background draws my attention because the contrast between that and the text is higher.
The game became anonymous and lost the sense of having a server community and getting to know the regulars. Cross-realm everything and the phasing systems were fundamental changes.

Being able to do things alone was always part of the design, but they made it where even the group things could be done "alone." It's nice to remove friction and pain points, but if you make the entire game frictionless there is no game left, just mindless queuing and loot collecting.
Bitcoin Cash has had more transactions than bitcoin for the last couple months. Ethereum has three to four times more while still being cheaper (though not much cheaper). It is cheap because the blocks are 32 times bigger so that throughput doesn't have to be only a few kilobytes per second.

Here is reality:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-do...
I see people saying this getting downvoted but I have to add to the voices: I'm disappointed in Canada. I recall the subtle pride Canadians showed early on in the pandemic when our rates were comparatively low and when we secured massive orders of vaccines. I even remember some subtle Facebook teasing about how the US could learn a thing or two from us.

Nearly all of my US colleagues have received both doses of vaccine. Yet, hardly anyone I know in my age group in Canada has even received a single dose (only those in front-line positions). The current debate is that there will likely be up to a 4 months wait to get the second dose for those lucky enough to have gotten the first.

I registered once my age group was made available on April 20th and I have yet to receive the notice that I am able to book an appointment. It is frustrating as even now they are announcing stricter lockdown measures including checkpoints on highways between provincial regions.

Part of my disappointment is I feel Canada was taken advantage of and our government let it happen. Other countries are willing to take our orders for vaccines and our money, but they don't worry too much about just delaying shipment. The Canadian government has been unable to do anything about that. Maybe our international reputation as being "nice" plays into it.

I can't say that I am angry, more disappointed and frustrated.
>Estimates for average life lost per covid death is around ~15 years

Source?
did you even read it? Google is committing to offering fully remote opportunities now.
They need a better name. This is a blue sky research initiative, and any AI is going to be based on some equivalent of a neural net.

I propose they rename themselves to something like "BlueNet", or maybe "SkyNet".
The UK has a "socialist" healthcare system similar to Canada's yet its vaccine rollout is doing better the the US.

I don't think the problem is your "socialist" healthcare system.
Blizzard missed the opportunity to capitalize on Defense of the Ancients and as a result they created their own worst nightmares: League of Legends and DotA 2, two successors of the original DotA map.

By the time they released their own version, Heroes of the Storm, it was too late.

Not to mention many other MOBAs that are direct copies of DotA such as Heroes of Newerth and many others.

That, and projects like Diablo 4 were the signs that Blizzard is now dead inside and starting to rot.

No sane person would make those decisions. Those decisions can only happen when a company is ran by powerpoint-oriented people that is disconnected from the customers.
Aside from jobs that actually need to be done in person, I think it really comes down to leadership egos. Probably just feels good to walk by a sea of minions on your way to the corner office.
I don’t know that anyone has said Canada is going great on vaccination, especially compared to its neighbor.

The delayed 2nd shot is a resourceful strategy (also employed in the UK) to get higher population immunity from fewer shots in the short term.
In the context of a large corporation, incredibly naive is just an euphemism for bad management. They launched it. An internal security audit found that it was being used for phishing. They planned to fix it but layoffs came along and they had to sunset Send.

So, yes, incredibly naive.
That's an instance where the product says it is working but it doesn't. Not where a product says it isn't working and it doesn't.
Right now Elon can bankroll SpaceX for decades without even noticing losses, just like Bezos with Blue Origin. The difference is that SpaceX has results and revenue.
U-2 Dragon Lady
It might be fruitful to look at the inverted — Netflix is doing the selling here. They’re selling the intangible product of publicity (exchanged for labor) to a group of people who are struggling to evaluate the “real” value of the product. And the argument is of course that the product in fact has no real value — it’s a trick.

The problem then is the same as snake oil; the demand exists only because the consumers lack information. And then keeping in mind that market principles only produce efficient economies when information is available and known.
Exactly! Because in the Jeep case there was an architectural failure where the attack surface (the radio controller) was connected directly to the vehicle control system via a CAN bus, speaking bare unauthenticated protocols that were designed before the idea of internet-accessible cars was conceived. So once your initial attack face was compromised, the game was up.

This is the writeup if you want details, certainly I'm no expert on this particular hack: http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf

What I'm saying is that Tesla seems to have learned from that experience and gone with a very different architecture where vehicle commands simply aren't accessible to the public-facing computer, from which motor/brake/steering control systems only get general direction (e.g. waypoints).

That's not saying it can't have a hole. But they don't seem to have made the kind of messup that would permit an attack like the Jeep hack.
I think SCTP has everything we need, just more knobs need to be exposed [0]

I have gotten feedback about the performance about Pion's SCTP implementation as well. It is a hard problem. The amount of people who care about SCTP performance + WebRTC and are able to work on it is very small.

If anyone is interested in more about this [1] is a fun issue to read.

libwebrtc is also planning to stop using libwebrtc soon. That would mean all browsers (Chrome, Safari, FireFox) will be on something new. Could be good no idea yet. The ongoing work is here [2]

[0] https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/71

[1] https://github.com/pion/sctp/issues/62

[2] https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/+log/refs/heads/master/n...
My best guess:

1. We don't have enough pharma industry to manufacture our own supply. The founder and CEO of the largest Canada HQ'd pharma company was assassinated in 2017 and I'm sure that didn't help.

2. All of the U.S. supply was essentially created under the Trump admin. We were having a mini trade war and enforcing strong border control through that time. In more normal times we probably would have piggybacked on the American supply.

I think that is why our overall progress is more comparable to Europe and not the US.
Peter F Hamilton. Start with Pandora's Star if you want more Asimovish, or Reality Dysfunction if you want it more Lemmy \m/.
Do you think Twitter was better when it was simpler? I expect Twitter likely has some data to support their move towards more complicated and longer tweets plus more features.

This reminds me of how I think back on the "good old days" of playing Warcraft Orcs & Humans, but if I were to try and play it now it would be basically unplayable due to missing features and functions that modern RTS games have accustomed me to.
This sounds terrifying in its own way, but one of the best decisions I made at a tiny (5 person) startup a few years ago was sitting the smart, non-technical CEO down and teaching him SQL. All our data lived in a Postgres database, and he was amazed by the sort of questions he could ask the database. I showed him some SQL desktop tool (and helped him set it up). And showed him some different sql queries he could run and how to export data into CSV for excel. He instantly understood the “single source of truth” idea and why data modelling was important. He was gleeful about being able to change content on the website without asking someone else to do it for him.

I’m sure he’ll make a mess of something down the line, and I hope someone after my time added audit logs (to track what he inevitably changes and breaks). But there’s something deep and important in empowering other aspects of the business to interact with the computing silo. There’s a time for automation. And there’s a time before that where custom tooling isn’t worth building yet. And just changing records manually is the right approach.
Where does it provide "reasons that the previous common belief was not applicable to this unprecedented pandemic"? I've looked over the article twice and can't see what you're referring to.

Furthermore, what's the explanation for the (very counter-intuitive, and at least in this case seemingly incorrect) previous common belief in the first place?
Actually, forests in France have doubled since 1850 and cover today 31% of the total France superficy. It is now about the same size as it was at the end of the Middle-Ages. The peak of forest superficy was around the Xth century, mostly because after the fall of the roman empire, a lot of lands were just left out to themselves, because deforestation was quite active before that, with the gauls and the romans cutting forests for agriculture. Sweden is the european country with the biggest forest area compared to its size, but they are mostly coniferous trees, whereas in France they are mostly leafy trees. So, to answer the parent comment about regenerating wild forests and the percentage of forests France has: France is not in a bad league at all, far from it.
Some remote opportunities*
That is what I recall from the prior failures, and what they said they were doing to mitigate. Interesting to see only two lighting.
> The game is incredibly stale

This is what I would describe as the state of Overwatch. After sinking thousands of hours in this game, I stopped playing my favorite game because Blizzard didn't care.

1. They pretty much gave up on any new content for OW2 development.
2. Competitive was broken from the beginning. Good behavior was rarely rewarded and bad behavior was rarely punished. Most of my games were grind really hard to win and get 100SR, only to have two consecutive games where people would leave early and then lose 4v6 or 3v6 and have that SR disappear.
3. Elo hell was real. I was in Bronze because that's where I started from when I began the game, but eventually when I got better, I could never jump out of the ELO hell. I ultimately had to create a new account, and lo and behold I was immediately placed in Diamond.
4. SR awards were bs. I was a Moira main who'd get 40 kills and pretty much own the game, but just because Moira is rewarded on healing and there was a Lucio on the team, you barely get any SR for carrying your team, meanwhile Lucio reaps all the SR.
5. The event based content was so bad, recycled game modes from 3 years ago, recycled skins, recycled pretty much everything.
6. PvE modes were garbage.
7. Lootboxes were so frustrating, I at one point spent $50 to buy a fuck ton on lootboxes for a special event that had a ton of legendary skins, I managed to get just 1. Had a ton of repeats, that have minimal payoff.
8. Constant meta changes were brutal towards the end. Everything that came after Brig was just ridiculous.
9. 2-2-2 was BS. 3-3 was worse.
10. Everything, EVERYTHING was more catered to OWL than the player base.

At some point these MBA types who don't game, decided what's best for making more money and went ahead on executing in that direction. Player base was forgotten. And that has been pretty much the state of OW and all the Blizzard IP.
Canada produces lots of vaccines -- we just happen to not produce any COVID-19 vaccines.
Threads, too. And Favorites was a feature for bookmarking but users turned it into a Like button. Also I believe their bird logo was bought at iStock.
> Mass testing, even testing that's mostly at a stage unlikely to detect anything, and only occasionally on less-typical older animals, will provide new useful info.

What useful information does it provide? Is there any evidence that testing can detect BSE before symptoms appear? Japan had tested clinically healthy cows until 2017, when they decided to limit testing to symptomatic cows.[0]

> Waiting to test until an a old symptomatic cow "most likely to have the disease" shows up is closing the barn door after the mad cows have already escaped.

Obviously it would be ideal to detect BSE in cows that are younger and not yet symptomatic. But if there's no evidence that this can be done, testing provides a false assurance of safety. Testing older, symptomatic cows will at least give an estimate as to the prevalence of BSE and an indication as to whether safety measures are working.

It's much ado about nothing, anyway, since the US has only ever had four cases of vJCD from BSE, and in each case the individual had spent large amounts of time in countries known for having tainted beef. Perhaps dementia cases are misdiagnosed, but if there were a large danger of BSE/vCJD, one would expect to see those symptoms in a great deal of younger people.

[0]: https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/japan-japan-lift-age-based-bse...
And the official past tense was coined by Stephen Colbert when he told the hosts of The Today Show "I have twatted."

https://youtu.be/9PeUDX9_iLI
Diablo 3 was a disappointment at release due to the always online requirement (which was rare back then), the ultra boring campaign, real-money auction house, and no end game.

Diablo 3's expansion though fixed all of those mistakes set a solid foundation. It was very good for several years. But then they stopped developing it, presumably (hopefully) because they started to pour all their resources into Diablo 4... which I have high hopes for, but with Path of Exile 2 on the horizon, I'm not going to be too disappointed if it flops.
Indeed. For example, org-mode can easily implement both a Zettelkasten and SRS. There are ready-made packages for both.
It's a metaproblem that HN doesn't want to address. It creates an echo chamber that isolates dissent. There's a framework in any society, including those online that serves to isolate the higher man. Group think is required.

The particular opinion here is that everyone should get vaccinated. Any other opinion is down voted.

Solution: Downvotes should require an accompanying comment as to why. Downvoting without explanation does nothing to change minds or behavior. It just alienates people.

Ironically, if one gets a downvote without explanation, it only serves to reinforce the opinion of the downvoted commenter.

HN, like every community, and every person has blind spots and this is one of theirs.
WC3 remaster flopped so badly it killed the original WC3, and the ridiculous clusterfuck of that has ensured that I'll never buy another Blizzard game. You truly have to try to screw things up that badly.
Most reasonably large developed countries probably have the capacity if they care enough - for example, I don't think the UK was particularly well-equipped to do local vaccine manufacturing, most of the pharmaceutical industry here buggered off to other countries long ago along with the other manufacturing, but the government cared enough (and distrusted the US enough) to insist on local production anyway.
The difference would be supersonic/hypersonic flight during the fall.
Maybe their first AI system should be dedicated to generating field-appropriate marketing materials & stock images.
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Very good observation describes my gaming journey very accurately.
> If you had a capitalist healthcare system like the US, that would not give you a better vaccine rollout.

Actually, it would and that's what happened in the US. We had the private facilities and the drug tech to make it happen and that's due in part to not having an entirely socialized medical system. Like it or not money incentivizes drug research. I don't know how you could claim that if Canada had the ability to mass produce the vaccine like the US did that they wouldn't be ahead in their rollout.

Canada had the extra step of trying to figure where they were going to get their vaccines and when since they didn't have the ability to create it in country. That's a massive disadvantage.
this is pretty stupid but at the same time impossible to enforce. anyone can get a gifted-level math education by using the internet
Jesus Forbes, I can barely read the article, there's just so much crap on the screen. bah.
> if everyone is vaccines can we do away with mask requirements?

From my understanding, yes as soon as positive tests in the country (or some wide area you're likely to mingle with) are near zero. Until then, there is the risk of someone (not yet vaccinated) who carries the virus developing a mutation that can then try itself on the immune system of a vaccinated person (you). It'll spread if it's resistent, so we should avoid such contracts. As soon as we don't have it roaming around, I think we can do away with these precautions indeed.