skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delta, so far, seems to infect whole households with ease in a way that we didn't see. Sydney, Australia is on severe lockdown at the moment thanks to a delta outbreak (it hasn't helped that, like many countries that handled the lockdown/test-and-trace methodology well, we fucked up the vaccination program).

I would imagine that a combination of mass vaccination (which seems to reduce transmission, although not by as much as was hoped) - and continued reasonable measures (mask wearing in crowded indoor places, better ventilation) we could achieve eventual elimination.

Alternately, on route to this less-than-comfortable-outcome, we could make strides in treating the long-term illness, improve short-term treatments and improve vaccines.

The other option is that maybe we'll work our way through the entire Greek alphabet of variations (and beyond; perhaps the Omega variation is followed by double-Alpha) with a large pool of sick people and vaccine escape whack-a-mole because people decided there was no options between "live in a bunker" and "free for all".
Pricey printer ink more expensive than champagne
> Abolish the water rights system and auction the water at a reasonable price.

If you put a price on water, then soon enough, commercial interest will figure out that you can put a price on any water. Then they'll figure out that the price of water should be at the equilibrium of supply and demand. Then for those for whom the water will be too expensive will have to be subsidized, then in the end society will pay a private company to have access to water. Moreover, the externalities will still be uncounted.

Water is a right, not a product. Like air.

Create laws to manage it in a reasonable way. For example, prioritize local production over exported production (either through taxes or by subsidizing), make sure soils capture water correctly by helping farmers to handle their soil differently, use water quotas (do we need those 10 cuber meters of water for a swimming pool or for agriculture?), etc.

Sounds like communism ? Sure. But water is a common.
An unfortunate reality is that a lot of signage also makes this mistake and advertises things like "0.25 cents per gallon" with the intent to mean 25¢/gallon. The poster's confusion is understandable.
FYI: the lancet has unfortunately become a rather alarmist journal of late. There are several articles citing "bbc.co.uk" as fact which is similar to a Russian source citing "rt.com". Those articles in turn getting cited by the beeb in the uk to publish daily mail style FUD headlines which are quickly buried on the site.

Ignoring this, I think most other comments cover the fact that this study has the normal problem with this type of study. Poor stats which aren't statistically corrected for the subset the population who end up in hospital due to covid. (or again the subset with symptoms strong enough to be tested and diagnosed)

The "its just a flu" crowd have unfortunate points that many conditions sound like immunological effects brought on by a severe reaction to a virus in some way.
Yes this is a different flu, but again we know this is not smallpocks or ebola and we should be taking advantage of this to determine the poorly understood impacts of covid virii on long term health of those who end up sick.
Apart from the fact that the USSR hid the disaster to save their ugly face and them being communists hellbent on conquering everything, the Western civilization don't owe them a thing. It's really the other way around - the USSR should compensate Western civilizations who suffered from USSR complete and total inadequacy. But USSR being piss poor and miserable, they hardly have anything of value.
That seems difficult to test. For convenience here is the text:

Revelation 13:16-18
New International Version

16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
The paper discusses how the variables were handled and lists the error for estimates. Is your objection that they calculated it wrong? Or that/how they used a linear model for adjustments? What's the range for "huge"?
>So, overreaction already killed more than even the (reasonable) estimated worst case scenario.

How did you come to this conclusion?

>My rule is, since they don’t care for my suicide, which is about 2 orders of magnitude higher than my Covid risk, I won’t vaccinate.

Not sure if I'm reading this correctly but basically not vaccinating out of spite?
I tend to see Linux with rosy glasses, so :

> a strong history of not prioritizing security or even considering it

is that really true ?
I didn't see a regression table in the paper. Did I miss something?

It just looked like a series of graphs and summary statistic tables.
You are not limited. You are strongly driven. It's different. Painfully different, I agree. But as time goes by, it becomes painful.
UK resident here, and I'm pretty sure I've only ever once been asked for ID for alcohol -- and that was at a private work event where everyone was definitely over 18 (and I was 38 and not drinking).

I've never been asked for ID for either OTC or prescription medicine, and while I obviously need to present a passport to travel internationally, the airline doesn't need to see it. And all my recent travel has been domestic, and not needed ID.

(Since I turned 18, the government scheme for when to ask for ID for alcohol has ratcheted up from nothing to "Think 21" and on to "Think 25" so a younger me would probably have needed to show ID at least a bit. But I don't think that's entirely unreasonable)
Whenever I see his name, I always think of this. I forget who it's credited to.

Steve Weinberg returning from Texas

Brings dimensions galore to perplex us

But the extra ones all

Are rolled up in a ball

So tiny they barely affect us
Sad news. I mostly remember him from my early childhood. He and my Dad were in the Physics Department at Berkeley. He and his beautiful and charming wife were often at my parents’ parties. My condolences to his family.
The problem with that approach is that it's quite easy to make something you "need" that also isn't valuable to others. If the goal is to get paying customers, you also need signals that your solution is valuable enough to pay for.
Interesting that an automated scanner would care so much about the physical security measures. It’s not sufficient to look up the passport number to find the details it should contain, or check the digital signature?
I have an autoimmune decease and factor 5. Very similar symptoms as long term covid. Lots of inflammation, brain fog, cognitive defects.

I spent years being dismissed as depressed Or having anxiety.
When I finally was diagnosed and started treating condition with medications I could handle my cognitive problems and depression lifted.

Support groups for autoimmune conditions are full of people who routinely are dismissed by doctors.
> despite arguably being a physical state change and not chemistry per se.

It remove salt from the water but more importantly move it to the top of mountains, which adds energy into the system.
Chemistry happens when the water disolves sediments and carry them back to the oceans.
The latter point is an important one. Rust as a language for libraries cannot work the same way as rust as a language for applications. For the latter it is OK to depend on the cargo toolchain and be opinionated when it comes to things like dynamic linking. For the former you ideally want support in any common compiler (clang, GCC) and as little dependencies and constraints as possible.
> In some cases, medical differences

Sickle cell disease is an example of this, as it mostly appears in black people ("Sub-saharan descent").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease
I once got contacted by a major (at least by national scale) company with a history of 100+ years and revenue in the billions of euro, asking if I'd be interested in working in one of their departments, describing it as "a startup of some sorts".
> which aren't statistically corrected for the subset the population who end up in hospital due to covid

What subset do you mean?
Rust helps a lot with memory or concurrency issues. But not the rest. And in my experience, although the concurrency/memory issue are surely the most time consuming bugs, the "rest" is what takes 90% of the time...
As someone who's worked on this, I'm oh so conflicted. Yes, it's mostly a terrible idea, if CodeMirror and the likes work. On the other hand, there's so much default behaviour that's just excellent that'd need to be reimplemented if you started from scratch. It can't be denied that contentEditables have the advantage of just requiring much less code overall.

To this extent, I've written a hook for React/Preact that attempts to be a decent code editor basis on contentEditables: https://github.com/kitten/use-editable

Funnily enough, if you just search the code for "// Quirk" it's easy to see that this experience wasn't pleasant in the slightest. But it did allow me to write a code editor in just about a day which can be found here: https://trygql.formidable.dev/

I'd say, there's plenty of edge cases to take care of. But on the other hand, things like composition, selection behaviour, and other niceties are things that you just have to take care of much less
Well, I already say that Macs were pretty known for media/writting people such as journalists, artists, painters, designers, writers, and so on. That was pre-OSX.
Mac OS 9 with Quark Xpress and Photoshop were THE tools used in any newspaper/magazine HQ, no matter the country in the world.

Professional printed papers/music and video production = Mac. Period. No one would say otherwise in the 90' s.

But with OSX you had both the media/press people and the science people in your pocket. (Unix sysadmins with KSH, Unix utilities and SSH ready from the beginning, maybe not as a server but you could test all crap locally, and well, Aqua looked shiny, fun and shit would work; and for die hard C/C++/Perl/X11/Motif programmers porting legacy scientific tools to Xquartz and Motif with barely any changes).

And OFC, LaTex, with some GUI's showing the PDF preview.
Editing 1GB text file at 3000fps
Flight engineers simply read gauges and flipped switches, but were still considered part of an airplane's crew:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_engineer
Lots of nostalgia of course, but the Amiga was a glimpse into an alternative future where the computer was a productivity and creativity device, not primarily a media consumption device, while at the same time being friendly to beginners and intuitive to use. For instance the way GUI and command line worked together, and (starting with AmigaOS 2.0) applications could be wired up to exchange data and provide services to other applications in a consistent way across the whole system is something that went way beyond the UNIX command line and still is unmatched.

Switching from my beloved Amiga 3000 to Windows 95 was like being thrown back into the dark ages for a few years (apart from the games of course, Doom FTW!), until the rest of the world finally caught up (but not completely) with WinXP and OSX.
Too late to edit: yes, I know this doesn't work for everything and won't work for everyone, but its worked great for me, so my point is simply that your assertion that everyone has difficulties dealing with dependencies is false. Some people for sure do, but there are people, like me, who don't.
Also what street level theif is rooting a phone? This is not a normal-person kind of operation
In my case it was a mix of information, increased cranial pressure, and minor clots.

Was a nightmare getting those under control but my symptoms eased up.
Then I got covid and it all started up again. Took months to get back to a baseline, but symptoms were identical, aside from loss of smell.
> As soon as I signed up I noticed there was no way to check if the domain being registered would come with whois privacy by default.

All False.

I've been on Gandi for more than 3 years and ALL my domains have whois privacy by default. [0]

Here is their article on this.

[0]
https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/common_operations/who...
Also see thread on Cloudflare blog post, on which The Register's article is based, with 190+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930151
Yup, exactly what I did, turns out my download was corrupt. Downloaded again, and it installed fine.
I sell self-hosted software since 2012, what can I say... Times change.

The problem with general public (people at home) is that most of them really don't want to pay for such software anymore and for the developer it requires to worry too much about stuff always getting broken as it runs in a galore of different configs.

For my stuff 90% of support issues are just bad permissions, bad mounted filesystem, somebody forgot to run apt update, etc. People really think that all those issues are our responsibility, just to educate the customer is a waste of everybody's time.
The wreck is actually on Inis Oírr, the smallest island.

Over the past few years it's kind of collapsed in on itself. It's not much more than a vaguely boat-shaped pile of rust these days.
I swear some companies do this out of some perverse habit: one place I worked at used to prefix repos, internal modules, infrastructure names, etc with the name of the company.

Which was so frustrating because we all work here, we know what it’s called, it doesn’t add anything, there’s no sister-company we share resources with, all it does is make it harder to distinguish between 2 similarly named, but entirely too long internal applications.
Single click is still the default on every mac. You have to turn on right click clicking. Most don’t.
Yes, turns out the downloaded apk was corrupt. I did a new download and it installed fine.
And everywhere it's daylight saving time. Doesn't stop people from saying daylight savings time.
>I'm still not seeing the excitement as a consumer because the apps aren't there yet.

Why would the apps ever be there if the hardware isn't? Wouldn't that statement be like complaining "the apps aren't there yet" for the iPhone 1 or Android launch? We know how that movie plays out.

>From a development perspective it also just feels… iterative.

But "iterative" is generally by far the most important part of technical success where mainstream adoption is required to get the most out of it. Nobody builds Rome in a day, it takes years reaching a critical mass of iterative improvements.
About half of maintainers get paid nothing for their work
Related: https://jalopnik.com/who-owns-who-an-automaker-family-tree-5...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/18n8a7tm9h...
> technically serving minors is “strict liability”

As an aside, strict liability in criminal law strikes me as unjust. There should always be a culpable mental state attached to a crime, even if it's just negligence so that people are only punished for behavior that the relevant legislative authority has deemed bad.
The commercial platform, it the f150
At this point you should have just sat on the same side of the table as your wife and left the other side empty.
It's the audio chat one: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/
Oh it was a typo. But I like it now. Haha
Yes, but virtually every Android phone is a cornicopia of GPL violations anyway so this is just cherry on top
No, the parent comment's point was that some people use clojurescript, just like soms people speak French. Sure, most people who use clojurescript can read javascript, but most people (in Europe/NA) who speak French will also understand English. And yet we don't criticise profs of physics in France for lecturing in French.
How many years of lockdown will people put up with?

I could see some places where someone’s entire childhood memory is being under lockdown.
In the UK, you have to show your ID if you want to buy scissors.
What do you mean? Self-reported ability typically goes way up.
> There’s no patches, it’s a zero day.

Seems that MS just released articles on how to prevent it but no update/patch.

Perhaps it's hard to fix, i.e., too many things on windows rely on it?
Simulation – Barriers are just information carriers
Huh? Mayak was a top secret military facility in a fairly remote area. Its incidents and disasters were only unclassified after the breakup, and weren't known to the population. Chernobyl, on the other hand, was impossible to hide.
You say that like it's better. Shooter? A guy who kills his wife or robs and kills someone is a murderer.

What happened in Christchurch was terrorism. Call it what it is.

> I didn't say anything about "brown people".

I did. Because you're trying to whitewash a terrorist attack, calling it murder. Whether or not you accept that that's where your unconscious bias took you, you're echoing the narratives around who and what a terrorist is supposed to be.
Quotes stopped working ages ago in my experience. Very often I’ll search for a thing in quotes only to follow the top few results where the quoted term appears nowhere using ctrl+f. We are totally subjected to what they think we want. DDG has started doing this too especially if there aren’t that many results.
The software freedom conservancy (publishers if this article) have standing but not many resources and a policy to do things as slow and expensive as possible so as to avoid pissing anyone off.
When I read this all I could think was "alot, alot".. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
Sourcegraph Handbook
I meant the part to have the month twice.
It seems like a statement in today's announcement...

> Personal results in Search include... Personal answers based on info in your Google Account, like “my flights” from Gmail

...makes some aggressively ambiguous wording in a previous announcement [0] apparent...

> Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change.

So I guess anyone who assumed that "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization" meant that your Gmail was not being scanned at all was mistaken, since today's setting implies that it was still being scanned for Search personalization?

[0] https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
It's not that easy though. First you have to rule out the night cases, and then it's not that easy to catch a moving object with your phone in the focus.

But I do agree with your sentiment.
the most alarming thing in france is that almost everyone in the middle/upper social groups is completely convinced the government is right and that it's worth it (aka : it'll get us rid of covid).

The only people worried about constitution at the moment are weirdos, extremists, and a very small number of people genuinly concerned about human rights in their own country.

I'm more and more seing this covid period as a perfect example on how this country could turn into a totalitarian regime as long as it's for the good cause(tm).
It also another example on how china is definitely becoming a major cultural influence over the world.
Most commonwealth countries.
What the Amiga has which more modern systems lack is:

* a stable - as in non-changing - platform from which to extract as much performance as possible by way of programming prowess instead of throwing a few more gigahertz/bytes at the problem

* a compact and rather elegant operating system which' state can be kept in the head of a single person, this makes it possible to reason your way through most problems

* the combination of the above created a thriving demo scene which, if they want to keep active, need access to compatible hardware so they can be sure their exploits can be demonstrated on "real" Amiga hardware

The same is true for e.g. the Commodore 64, the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum and a host of other popular systems. The Amiga was revolutionary at its time and as such attracted those who were looking for a machine to explore hence it gained a large following. While the absolute performance parameters fall in the dust compared to modern hardware [1] it still remains an impressive demonstration of what can be done with a relatively slow CPU combined with the custom circuitry and the OS which made the Amiga different from e.g. the Atari ST.

[1] pulling down from the top of the screen running some program to reveal the workbench (desktop) on an Amiga 500 (512K, 7MHz 68K CPU) preceded the Android notification shade (which Apple later copied into iOS) by a few decades, using hardware less powerful than what is integrated into the SIM card in that same device. On earlier versions of Android (1.x without hardware compositing, tested on a Qtek S200 which originally ran Windows Mobile) this was quite laggy...
Regarding caching, after years of not using any, we finally ended up using nebulex (with the in-memory cache) and it’s been excellent.

The ability to add cache annotations to functions feels really clean.

There’s also the ability to have cluster wide state but we haven’t set that up yet. We will soon.
Ok but you're mixing metaphors. No one's talking about writing web tutorials in French or teaching physics in Clojurescript.
That's funny, because AT&T with the rotary phone and original Windows UI, both of which have stood the test of time, were results of extensive and rigorous UX research. Hard numbers got the industry mainstream. Then we decided it was time to make things pretty, even at the cost of UX, and here we are.

Or put in other words, metric-based was awesome, but then we decided to focus on wrong metrics.
I pay over $100/mo for 5 Mbps up-speeds. There are literally no other ISPs that will offer me anything different. So, I use a VPS. Turns out, that’s not only better bandwidth performance, it’s also cheaper than the electricity from self-hosting where I am as well.
So one of the most wonderful things about relying on their proprietary closed source operating system is that you can't have external code audits. You just kind of wait for ethical people to come forward and explain bugs they've found and wonder, 1, how long has it been there, 2, how long have bad actors known about this, 3, how many other bugs are just like this or worse that they haven't found yet, 4, do I need to recreate VM images or can I trust the internal patch process to get it installed before I've been exploited, 5, does the patch actually fix the underlying security flaw or is it something they're calling a "feature" now that will always be an issue... I'm so grateful to not be a janitor for Microsoft Windows software anymore.
>The question is how you peg something to the USD without a centralized party that can lock your funds.

It is impossible, it has nothing to do with "gamblers". Speculators are actually what keeps the price more stable by providing liquidity
If I open a new private FF window on my phone while on mobile data and google something, I usually get a captcha. It's kinda ridiculous.