skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, works for me. Stop PCR testing of the asymptomatic vaccinated. As long as you also stop testing asymptomatic people who have already had the virus and the asymptomatic unvaccinated.

Oh, you only want to stop testing and counting asymptomatic vaccinated? Sounds like another way to skew the numbers yet again to make vaccines look more effective than they are. Yet again you say? Yes:

-Just like in January when the WHO reminded test facilities if the symptoms don't match the PCR test results, you should re-test. Look at how much the case numbers dropped after that.

-Or in May when the CDC stopped counting breakthrough cases that didn't require hospitalization or deaths. So you can test positive, get sick but stay home, asymptomatically spread the virus to others. You could actually be a super spreader but nobody recognizes your case because you're invisible to the data being collected.

If the author gets their wish, Here's what's likely to happen: health authorities stop testing altogether for the vaccinated only (even though they can still contract, get sick from and spread COVID - albeit with less viral load so there's less of a chance of spread). Data will show that 100% of COVID cases comes from the unvaccinated. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated are asymptomatic, have very low possibility of transmission, but can still infect you and can still spread. But one group is accounted for in the data and one is invisible. Now does this sound like a good idea? It's anti-science quackery.

The author's other points are sound. Make this more about viral load than about detecting a single viral particle, I'm all about that. Without a change like this, the pandemic goes on forever they correctly observe.

Where was the author a year ago? Honestly a view like this would have probably been censored back then. There's still time to make common sense changes in testing like measuring viral load instead of searching for a single viral particle with a high cycle count. But not testing or tracking the vaccinated who can still spread is lunacy.
“At scale”. Name an example of a failed alternative, and i’ll show you a country where the CIA plotted coupes and waged economic warfare against them. We’re like an abused spouse - we keep hearing “i’m the only one who’ll love you” from our abuser while they cut us off from our friends and family.
The overall population is still way better now than it has been historically. I don't understand why both cannot be done in parallel anyway. It's not like we are investing everything in the space race, plenty goes on more earthly concerns.
He's right. Mobs don't do good in the world, no matter if you agree with their position or not.

"Hate can't fight hate, only love can do that"

Somehow we all think we're better at this than MLK was. No matter your beliefs, shame and hate won't help teach a different way.
Outlawing suicide is a lot older than Christianity. Aristotle was writing that suicide is an act of injustice toward state. And most probably he was not the first one to state that.
> Russia needs ‘information sovereignty’: a de facto Firewall. But to justify it, you need an ideology

Pretty much the core point of the piece but I'm not sure this is true. China of course has a national ideology "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and countless of phrases but often you also hear the straightforward argument that informational sovereignty is necessary for security, economic development and territorial integrity.

An even stronger example is probably Singapore. A very tightly managed society, but completely depoliticized with almost no ideology to speak of, Gibson famously called it "Disneyland with the death penalty" in his piece that got Wired banned from the country.

Traditionalists and other factions I think try to capitalize on the security state and to co-opt or capture it but I don't think the state is necessarily in control or happy about these movements.
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I always wondered why people chose the US over Canada.

But i just figured it was ego -- i want that $150k/yr instead of the $95k/yr + healthcare i'd get in canada.

I figured also it was the weather of California. The excitement of Brand American/LA/NYC/etc.

As an American, i still think about going to Canada, tho it'd be much harder now since i'm older.

And i used to joke 10 or 15 years ago that Toronto was going to be like Atlanta -- because of global warming. And I'd say, "I'm kidding -- but i'm serious."

Now it seems like we're on that cusp of that actually being true.

So maybe now that the California dream is dead, more folks will go to Canada voluntarily.
"into" was quoting an earlier poster and hasty typos abound :)

The discussion centers on the following expectation of graduates from strong CS programs.

> having working knowledge and being able to hack into the OS when needed.

Now, the course from the listed schools may prepare some students, but I am simply reporting that I have met numerous graduates who state very explicitly.

- they are not comfortable with a variety of operating system concepts

- they are not comfortable interacting with operating systems in any depth

I don't have a big diverse data set, but the impression given is that if you expect this level of expertise you will be disappointed regularly. If the strongest CS programs pre-selecting for smart and driven students can't reliably impart that skillset, why would I expect other schools to?
I felt a bit queasy reading that.
I think Ericsson sold Erlang initially
Here's a report confirming their identification:

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article89...

I said NC but it was Myrtle Beach, SC, sorry. Names: Rafael Aguilar, 31, and Carmelo Marmolejo-Calixto.

http://gunmemorial.org/2016/07/11/rafael-aguilar

Archived screenshot with his occupation listed as '2016 Clinton campaign aid (sic)': https://archive.is/pB7BX

Conclusive? No. But should have been seriously dug into instead of the giant deafening silence we had.

And one other thing I forgot to mention: Seymour Hersh, one of the finest old-school investigative journos in the world, dug in to this and confirmed all sorts of weird things: the FBI got access to Rich's PC, Rich contacted Wikileaks, Rich had DNC emails on his computer and so on.
Those people are lucky to live in country with good fintech plumbing. Many poorer countries do not have that, and the citizens don't even have bank accounts.
>"It's really tempting to believe that with the right hardware, we can put everything on one powerful and inexpensive box"

This is what I have. 2 boxes only. One on my own premises in Canada and another on Hetzner in Europe. Each one can go down, no sweat. Also I do not strive for "live uninterrupted updates". All my applications and processes allow for short disruptions not to interfere with the main course.

Also I write native servers in C++ for backend and they process thousands of requests per sec without breaking much sweat. Way more than my business would ever need.

Same situations with my clients as well with the difference that for legal reason they rent computers or whatever goes as such from Amazon or Azure.
The issue is not overthrowing them, but finding a good replacement. Overthrowing one just to get another similar one is kinda pointless.
I’m surprised that this doesn’t happen more often. With drone technologies advancing so fast, it was truly inevitable. The next step is just to use the right coat to become invisible to radars and you’re GTG. Unless that’s already happening and they are just getting away with that and we simply don’t know.
That is the assumption. I don't agree with it - dying seems like a pretty rational choice for some people.
Generally, I think that shit rolls down hill and harms those without more often. Which is why I think this airbnb case is so interesting as it inverts the shit rolling direction in some cases. Those that are being disrupted and impacted in this case are those with houses and property. Silicon valley is almost disrupting silicon valley as equally as everyone else for once.
You are right that the homicides are highly clustered, but that doesn't mean there aren't more of them than in other countries.

However, what is happening is that most of those homicides are criminals killing other criminals and aren't very relevant to non-criminals. This greatly changes the balance of value vs risk to the average American.

The typical self-defense use of a gun is simply showing it and making some scumbag run away.
Do ICBMs have any practical uses besides delivering explosives?
> Every organ, vessel, and part of your body, especially your brain, is dedicated to keeping you alive for as long as possible.

On the contrary, I think every part of my body is dedicated to making sure my DNA propagates. But, being conscious, my cognition can overrule the evolutionary imperative. All the more easily if I've reproduced.

And death is not necessarily the worst thing that could happen to me. Search "locked in" illness. Or Alzheimer's. There are many illness states to which I'd find death preferable.
Oh yes, I remember being impressed by its awfulness. by comparison Clippy was...not terrible.

I think part of what made 3d and other very visual file managers so bad (or at best, very slow like Treemappers) is the effort to render everything accurately at once, which is bound to be slow across terabyte scales.

Maybe we would be better off exploring Voronoi/blob/fisheye network diagrams for representing context, with the size indicating the number of files nested within. The Carrot2 search engine implements a variation of this idea which is sometimes very useful for topic exploration.
> I’m angry because your sex and your color and your parents’ wealth and connections shouldn’t count for more than how smart or honest or hard-working you are.

Ironically, he's teaching in Toronto. It's known that it's really easy to qualify for Canadian immigration once one has sufficient means. Good chances the people in his class benefited from corruption in their countries.

> I’m angry because Nazis are on the march once again

My advice is: don't tell that to a WW2 vet...

> I do wonder if things like volunteer teachers don't depress other teachers' wages. Therefore indirectly the quality of teaching.

It's much worse. The class he's happily teaching for free would have been handled by a grad student (doing real research and publishing) and would have helped him cover tuition.
From all of the horror stories I've heard, it is not foolproof. For one, don't you get notified after the usage and charge happens? So one mistake that causes a large spike and the notification is too late.
i thought that kubernetes is our generations jcl (job control language on ibm mainframes) ; There is a remote similarity in how we are writing descriptors for tasks and then submit it for execution and wait till the mainframe has considered our specification. (suddenly feeling old because of this comparison ...)
Add "legally" to everything you said. Illegal? Its not so hard.
For me, naps are an exercise in lying still with my eyes open. Even more frustrating IMO. Am I winning the misery olympics?
No, "nation-state" is trying to make about about someone's smartitude. It's like "thread actor" in that regard, i. e. its a big word that important people use in their CNN interviews. The racing strip of sentences, basically.
It's also a 2-part cost.

To run a tip-line and collect tips: probably very little.

To act on that information, so you're able to identify and punish violators, without which there's no point in having a tip line: looooooots more.
> Reduces housing supply

I am a bit confused about this one. AirBnB does not destroy buildings, and they don't keep places empty, empty buildings make no money. In fact, before it started to be used as pseudo-hotels, it was a way for people to monetize the time they don't spend at home by having a tenant.

I mean, before AirBnB, where were travelers staying? Hotels are the obvious answer, but AFAIK hotels still have customers. So what is happening? Are there more travelers than before (outside of pandemics)?

Not saying that there is no problem with AirBnB, but it shouldn't reduce housing supply unless there is some deeper underlying problem.
Taxes are low, but other living costs are not, and can go absurdly high (from a German point of few).

E.g. as a employee people often include taxes and other side costs including rent insurance and health insurance into one blob. On the other hand in the US health insurance is often more costly and covers less.

So just running into some non trivial but not to big health issues can easily make the average cost of living over time worse then in Germany.

But without question the "cost for what you get" value isn't the best in Germany, some EU countries have better ratios, e.g. similar cost but a better health system.
I believe that's what they intended to convey, yes.
I'm not sure why there needs to be a lot of tech involved for a phone line for people to call in tips.
"sloppily doxxing" is not the standard for defamation in the US. In many cases, the standard amounts to "actual malice", which means pretty much that she'd have the prove the defendants KNEW she did not write said screed.

Have you considered that if the standard for defamation were actually as you hope it is/should be, she'd get about a microsecond to enjoy her victory over Nieman Lab before being crushed by Seth Rich's family over her rumormongering in that case?
Excellent comment until the last sentence. My advice: don't try so hard to pick sides, when both sides are terrible.
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> sounds like making the wrong investment.

It's not the wrong investment. It's a different investment.

Other billionaires are working on some of the problems on your list, too, if that makes you feel better. The most prominent one being Bill Gates. He's working on the "we lose millions a year to disease" portion of your list. Do you hate on Bill Gates because he isn't solving world peace ("fighting wars" on your list)?

Space dominance is a multi-generational thing. It's something that will take a LONG time to figure out and perfect. If in 150 years we see an unavoidable rock hurling towards earth, there won't be time to figure out how to keep our species alive. We need to push forward now to have a chance.
> I know software engineers who graduated with CS degrees from schools like MIT, Urbana Champaigne, and Stanford who took Operating System classes but could not realistically "hack into the OS".

That's surprising. Recent grads?
> Isn't trying to stop/lessen the damage we're doing to the place we currently live and which can sustain us better and more optimistic proposition than...

Why not both?
You don’t. You want to get to ‘no’ quick.

Then ask the next person.

Cold calls are cattle not pets.

One way of gamification is to try to get 100 rejections per day. Most people are not your potential customers.
Things have already changed since the first release of Kubernetes. Specifically hosted Kubernetes, aka GKE/EKS/AKS, is a marked step forwards from running Kubernetes yourself, that I think doesn't get enough recognition. We'll see what the future holds, but my prediction is that the future holds more layers of indirection, and the future of running web services is on AWS Lambda/Azure Functions/Google Cloud Functions, and other fully-managed PaaS, like Heroku, with more vendor agnosticism. Running Kubernetes, in addition to the technical benefits, also enables a company to treat AWS/GCP/Azure as a commodity, and can credibly threaten to move clouds when the contract is up for renewal.
Yeah, the idea that current space initiatives have relationship to preserving humans from the destruction of earth is ridiculous and contemptable. Even an incredibly polluted earth experiencing runaway global is going to remain less hostile than anywhere else for a long time. And that's not saying the species would survive on such an earth.
Why single out AirBnB? Why not go after Uber, Lyft and others running illegal taxis?

For all the talk of privilege lately, it takes a whole other level to blatantly break the law en masse under the guise of "disruption".
> The claim is strictly that going from 0 to hello world is easier on a calculator than it is on an iPhone.

That just isn’t the claim made. Again you just have just made something up.

Let’s copy and paste the claim and take a look:

“I wish there was something akin to TI-Basic for smartphones. A built-in IDE with an interpreted language, with easy path to compilation.

It’s easier to program a TI-89 calculator than an iPhone. Why can’t this be better?”

It turns out that it isn’t what you said it was.

As for picking a fight, you seem to be the only one doing that here.

You chose to reply to a comment that wasn’t a reply to you to make a personal attack based on an inaccurate rendering of the context.

Prior to that we were discussing the merits of calculators and phones for programming.

You might not like the content, but there were no personal attacks before you brought them here.
>Blue Origin has received $181M in public funding since 2019, and is slated to get over $300M more by 2024.

>One might think of this, then, as Bezos giving our money to people he likes in return for good PR and personal tax benefits.
I’m not sure what to make of the back and forth here. Colorism overlooked by older generations, and someone looking back on not supporting unionization and having a value shift, juxtaposed with Maoist shaming to support someone who wrote a book saying antifa (a concept, not a group) is destroying democracy and a musician supporting that person stepping back from the spotlight seems a bit jarring. At first this seems like libertarian pandering, but my most cynical inner voice is saying the writer is a troll trying to get people who hold farther right ideals to get themselves canceled. And I guess the trickle down effect from that milkshake that hit the writer in the face is going to make me buy the book, so maybe that’s the point.
My impression of the history of the "Noah's flood" story is that mythologists tend to trace it back to the origin of civilization in the fertile crescent, a historic flood plain.

Specifically, there are very strong parallels between it and the Gilgamesh flood myth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth
Yea, I think future residents should be allowed to join a city without being penalized. The artificially constrained housing supply and NIMBY-ism seems very unamerican to me.
ICBMs travel about 7km/s, Bezos and Branson both got up to about 1km/s, 1/7th of the speed, and 1/49 the kinetic energy.

ICBMs can be converted to carry a human in a tin-can on top into space, if you happen to find yourself in a space-race.
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It’s still alpha, and from what I can tell from the links referenced, a severe case of NIH. Hopefully it will be “made simple” and “de-complected” soon though so that I can tell what the point of it is in the presence of Leiningen.
I've heard it makes it illegal for vendors to void a warranty merely because you used it in an 'unauthorized' fashion. i.e. it puts the burden of proof on them to show that your modifications actually damaged the product. This protects peoples' right to repair by ensuring that they don't (effectively) get retaliated against through warranty invalidation when they get their products repaired by 'unauthorized' parties.

I think the relevant clause might be 15 U.S.C. § 2304 (c) but I'm not sure: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/2304

The enforcement of this act has been quite awful in the past, so I guess they're now planning to do a better job of it.
>I would love to know which countries allow real estate purchases like we do?

Both the UK and Canada for sure. I think Canada is considering a foreign buyers tax but I don’t think it has been implemented yet. In the UK, property taxes don’t even exist - only council taxes paid for by the occupant which makes leasing much easier.
I have the Flagship ANC headset from Status Audio and it's absolutely amazing for the <$200 range. Great sound for listening to music and comfortable enough to listen for the full length of the battery life (35 hours). I have fallen asleep with them on many a time.
https://www.status.co/products/flagshipanc
For a wired cheap alternate, the closed back studio monitors are fantastic.
https://www.status.co/products/cb1
I've had most of their headphones/headsets over the years and while it's not Bose/Sennheiser in terms of super high end, they are well worth their price points and can hold up to long term use and abuse.
Just keep in mind since they aren't a name brand, some software needs convincing to have them sync properly. I have had no issues with a variety of OS but sometimes stuff like web-browser Zoom has a meltdown over it both being a headset and headphones. I don't have any issues with the full apps with sound/mic recognition, and there's a good chance those issues are due to the aggressive privacy settings I have on my browsers.
I’m curious about infra of stock exchanges these days. Any resources you could point to? I’m especially curious how they handle sudden volatility and spike in trading. We usually talk about high frequency testing but very less about the infra that consumes all of those trades
>1. It's owned by governments at some level. I think we can all agree this would largely be a disaster at any sort of scale;

Not me! I've heard great things about living in Vienna where about 25% of housing is government owned.
Weirdly, a system where large sums of money are required to hold political power seems to result in low tax burdens for the ultra-rich. I can’t quite figure out how the two are linked tho… /s
You can also think of it as "what if golang had a real type system and ruby style syntax".
> They have to spend resources on the investigation, and build a pile of evidence. You think someone is gonna stake out every suspected violator for days on end?

The property is listed on AirBnB.com, where you get the address and the name of the person operating the AirBnB.

They don't need an elaborate sting operation. They just take the link, test book it through the website, confirm the address and name of the operator from the booking, and they have all the evidence they need. Hit up AirBnB for a refund (illegal rental) and it doesn't even cost them anything. Hour or two of work at most.
I believe the point is that in America, police SOP is to assume every call will involve guns because of the demographics of the country.
No one said they aren't. Some people just don't want their next door neighbor renting out their home/apartment to a bunch of tourists who don't care about how disruptive they are to the people who actually _live_ there.
This looks like a completely generic anti-regulation comment. Have you given any consideration to what specific behaviors would likely be targeted by right to repair regulations, and how that overlaps with the business practices of start-ups and other small manufacturing companies?

Small companies that can't afford lawyers to interpret federal regulations probably also can't afford lawyers to go after customers who don't choose to pay for the premium service plan, and probably also can't afford to devote engineering resources to developing their own hardware DRM systems.
That looks really interesting. I'll definitely be trying it out. Thanks!!!
The innovator’s dilemma.
> but you could always kill an application if it stopped responding.

Wasnt Windows famous for BSOD?
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Thanks.

I should have read the article before commenting.