skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They spread fear, uncertainty and doubt (and COVID) at every opportunity

Except they don't. The people who are vaccinated aren't afraid, uncertain or in any doubt. Nor can they contract COVID from unvaccinated people - otherwise what would be the point of the vaccine anyway?

> they consider themselves on a crusade

Who cares? Why do you care what some other people think? If you're vaccinated, their choices literally have zero impact on you.

> Society is under no obligation to let dangerous fools remain comfortable in their foolishness

Last I checked, we were talking about the US... so ya, they are allowed to be foolish, particularly since the only people they are potentially harming is themselves.

So... what is your plan? Are we storming people's houses with armed men to forcefully vaccinate people that don't want it? Or are we just sitting on some high horse?

I'll tell you who's spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt - it's the very same people making these arguments. Get a vaccine - or else! But you'll still need to wear a mask - or two - and quarantine at home and be careful who you're around because the COVID will get you regardless.

It's complete poppycock. Given those choices, why would someone want to vaccinate if literally nothing about their life improves afterwards?

I think what we have here is an intolerance for other people's choices... and a desire to compel people into submission of what some other people believe is the "right way". Both sides are guilty of willfully ignoring facts when convenient... so who's right? Good thing we're in the US and don't have to care - both can be wrong and go about their business without bothering each other.
It does seem a bit niche, but there's been modest traction so far. And sure, I'd be curious to hear how your Monte Carlo implementation might differ. Feel free to reach out on email/discord if you'd like to chat more.
> Specifically, how does the phone know which web page its owner is looking at on their laptop when they scanned the QR code? You need to arrange that it's not possible to take the QR code generated for you and present it to a sucker for them to scan instead so that you're signed in as them...

Isn't this a problem then with WhatsApp Web login too which shows a QR code (presumably not tied to any one account as the web-client seemingly generates it without any user-input) that the app then scans to initiate auth?

I was also wondering if its a severe vulnerability, given that the phone (roaming authenticator) continues to be in the possession of the victim, and they retain the ability to revoke other keys / tokens (which could additionally be authz restricted) shared with untrusted devices (client/platform), much like how one would revoke leaked API keys?

Btw, am I correct in guessing that FIDO2 solves this "trust gap" problem with CTAP2 relying on BLE, USB, NFC to prove user-presence? Thx.
Elizabeth Norton's Lives of Tudor Women overlaps somewhat with the period that you're interested in.

History of Private Life, edited by Aries and Duby - volumes 2 and 3 cover the medieval and renaissance period.
hmmm, maybe it's just me but your tone seems thoughtfully heartless.

You are heartbroken that public spaces can't be used by all, but you aren't heartbroken that so many people have no other options other than to live in those spaces.

Your compassionate solution is to bring back slums, flop houses, and chicken wire hotels (I actually had to look that up), so that you can get back to using your precious public spaces free of those less fortunate.
Good call, I should have thought of that.
Matt Levine (Money Stuff) writes in uptalk and people love it.

But he's trying to be goofy when he does it.
> Obviously a hasty addition given the font doesn’t match.

This is an assumption though...

> They’re going to use the facial measurements to serve ads and “measure effectiveness”

Also an assumption; where do they mention specifically that they will be serving ads which are using facial measurements?

And then...

> I’m not part of the company so in this section I make assumptions that could very well be wrong.

It seems like there are assumptions throughout the article though. :D This warning should probably be at the top.
No kidding. They spent $50 million to be laughed at by anyone who's heard of sed or vim? Yikes.
I have an autoimmune disorder (caused by a drug trial of an immunotherapy I was on due to cancer). I haven’t taken the vaccine because my cohort has been excluded from every trial and study. There is no (serious) guidance on how I’m supposed to schedule my regular biologic shot in concert with a vaccine dose. The CDC actually has a section on their website saying how people with auto immune issues were excluded from trials, and that they should weigh risk/reward with their doctor. Then in the next sentence they recommend getting the vaccine anyways. Totally unscientific and dangerous position from the CDC.

During this past year I’ve had to disclose my medical condition to my employer against my will due to my county’s disclosure requirements. And I have to fight with coworkers who say people in my cohort should “just get it” despite not being included in trials and despite there being no timing/drug interaction guidance.

So a big FUCK YOU from me. Vaccine requirements, along with vaccine status disclosure requirements, have destroyed my medical privacy and ostracized me at work. I’m trying to take a scientific position based on trials that actually included people in my position, and not end up like the guy you’re talking about having to take 3 and 4 and 5 shots because my biologic suppressed the immune response. Basically you’re asking me to take all of the risk of injecting an experimental drug into my arm, perhaps 1-2 times more than the typical person, without any of the reward (immunity), AND without any actual scientific basis for the treatment in the first place.

Again, FUCK YOU
Blaming China is pointless: Western countries had control of their borders and did not act.

Taiwan started its lockdown procedures on people entering from China on December 31st, 2019.

Taiwan knew what was happening, and all governments should have had similar knowledge - they certainly should not have been waiting for China to tell WHO or whatever other lame argument that article makes.

I am sick of the same boring cliché arguments being trotted out about how we think China should act: how we act is what matters.

Sorry, off topic I know.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm

In the Provincetown, Massachusetts outbreak: "Among five COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated".
Facing ‘dire water shortages,’ California bans Delta pumping
> In a request to suppress the evidence, Holmes' lawyers argued that the government should be prevented from introducing Theranos test results at trial because a now-destroyed company database could have helped her rebut claims that the tests couldn't consistently produce accurate and reliable results.

Gonna be honest, I nearly admire the sheer fucking gall of it. Sure, the CEO didn't ensure it was retained, but yolo.
Skylab is pretty cool, occupied for half a year in the 1973, much earlier than I had known we had people hanging out in orbit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
Well, we've identified 80% of the people we have to worry about for the next decade.
It truly is a sight for sore eyes how long it's taking to jail the female version of Bernie Madoff. I get that it was white collar but c'mon. Anybody else and they'd see 5-10 years in less than a year.
Which I think is the silliest thing in the programming world, what with all the * soup and all the undecipherable template gibberish, and the love for haskell, scala and erlang around here.

I wonder if we should have gone the typescript way to make the language less readable, as joked about in this post: https://blog.adacore.com/a-modern-syntax-for-ada
Variants occur in both unvaccinated and the vaccinated.

Given enough time, a virus will tend evolve to become more infectious period.

Somebody else could confirm this, but it seems to me that the current known variants of concern are not responses to vaccination.
I’m vaccinated and generally quite pro-vaccine but this is just the anxious adults not coping well with reality thing timr is talking about. The whole “it attacks blood vessels” thing. Kids are largely asymptomatic and incur little damage of this sort. Their bodies heal up and it’s done. There is no real “long term” boogeyman with this virus. You can’t find evidence for this with kids because it doesn’t exist. The virus is gone and done within a couple weeks and it isn’t coming back unless you get reinfected. There is just no mechanism for this long term damage theory I have seen. Some kids have severe cases but it’s exceptionally rare. Yes it’s a virus and it does virus things but it’s really not that exceptional. Too many people are misapplying and misreporting the actual science and risk. To prove otherwise I think the burden is on you to prove such an extraordinary claim for such a relatively mundane virus in the scheme of things.
I'm having trouble with the demo... registration and login flows both end in a screen that says "Select a Kyri service Manager account to login" but has no list of accounts. Email in profile if you don't want to troubleshoot this publicly.
I can only assume your account is satire.
It sounds risky but what's so terrible about offering paying work to people who appear to need it? It's not like they were compelled to accept.
> I don't believe this will have much of a net effect on vaccination rate

Chile saw a big uptick in vaccination when a similar policy was implemented.
I use Yabai and it works very well. Similar to i3 in how it tiles, and quite customizable.
How I’m using WhatsApp today: because I have to in order to communicate with businesses and contacts that are required to use it in their home countries.

Ínstalled with no permissions to an address book, camera or mic. Somewhat of a pain that I can’t save contacts but at least it’s still possible to communicate.
>The market is making the ration decision. The city could always buy the expensive real estate and turn it into slums—sorry, "affordable housing"—but this is clearly not a reasonable allocation of limited resources.

No one is saying these need to be city owned properties. The market is making the profit optimizing decision. Regulation can but restrictions on developers and force them to build affordable housing that would still be profitable just not the absolutely most profitable option. It is the same concept as the minimum wage. Sometimes we need to make rules so capitalism doesn't prioritize profit over societal good.

>You'd be doing those in need of such housing a favor by relocating them to less expensive areas on the outskirts of the city

There are no affordable outskirts for a city like Los Angeles. The SRO housing in neighborhoods like Skid Row were some of the only places in the region that a person on minimum wage could afford to live alone. Forcing those people to move hours away from where they work is not "doing those in need of such housing a favor".
What’s the process for when a user gets a new phone? I dread getting one because my keys depending on the phone completely disappear and have no transfer mechanism.
This implies that getting the vaccine for the sake of others is far more pointless than we thought right? This would make getting the vaccine a much more personal matter, rather than a societal one.
He's right on this:

> SARS-CoV-2 is also carried by animals, which some hypothesize can spread the disease to humans. We will need to rid ourselves of dogs, cats, mink, bats and more to get to zero.

Which means the headline is correct.

Was there something in the article you thought was incorrect?
There are mods that add support for those things, but most people don't use them.
"By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies."

On and off Facebook???
Welllll... Technically it does (just use the norad id 25544 and the 'deorbit' service). A bit outside of the capabilities for a single Droid though :(
I'm sure he's open to hearing your ethical, compassionate, and politically viable alternate proposal. Go ahead and post it.
Allowing more denser zoning would help, but it doesn't fix the problem I mentioned. As I said, new construction is often replacing higher density affordable housing with lower density luxury housing. This is motivated by profit and not zoning.
This is cool, I’ve been thinking about something like it.

However I’m still slightly disappointed because I expected an article describing an M1 Mac Mini as a NAS, running Linux (this dream probably isn’t technically there just yet, as Thunderbolt [and network?] drivers are so far still missing from the Asahi project).
I take this as a positive in my personal financial planning.

Basically the idea is that financial planning should be done primarily for the long term, and therefore the data does not need to be managed in real time. I manually pull all my account totals once a year, update my model, and make adjustments then. If there’s a significant event (example: onset of a global pandemic) I will do a special edition of this process.

To be clear, I’m contributing to investments through the year, but when doing so I’m following a strategy I check about once a year.
> What's to say someone else can't be eliminating the other classes of homelessness in parallel

You both can and must address everything in parallel to actually dent the "homeless problem".

That's the point.

Let's say there are 5 primary classes of homeless. Even if you take one of them and reduce it to zero (and you will never accomplish this)--you're still left with 80% of the problem.

Only now the people approving the checks are angry because the "homeless problem" doesn't really look any better.
The European world-view on what constitutes fine aesthetic sense is derived from Renaissance mis-interpretation of Greek decoration as being white marble. The colours that our culture subsequently rejects as gaudy, tasteless, and are othered are based on this.

In reality it turns out that the Greeks painted everything batshit colours and Ancient Athens probably looked more like an 80s day-glo MTV video.
I think you're equating "random" with keyboard and "sequential" with mouse, but I also think of keyboard as "serial" and keyboard + mouse as "parallel".

I know my conclusion from your comment is supposed to be "keyboard is faster", but I'm not sure that's true. https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
And of course...

> At the time of the transfer of the database, an email from Holmes' attorneys included the password, but failed to mention that a private key would also be necessary for access, according to the judge's ruling.

Ooopsie, forgot to mention you needed that! Oh gosh shucks darn, the database has already been destroyed. But it would have proved our innocence, trust us!
This. People will be using them for skeet shooting practice after that.
Bernie Madoff ran a ponzi. He paid returns with other investor monies. Holmes ran a pure fraud. She put lives at risk with her tests. Potentially, peopled died. She deserves an extremely long and punitive jail sentence.
Hey! Yes we do, you can either verify the webhooks yourself as you normally would (we do not alter the payload, usual verification will work) or have Hookdeck verify the signature and resign it with a Hookdeck signature associated with your workspace.

For Stripe specifically, the later is best because of the encoded timestamp in the hmac signature and that's what we do for our own Stripe webhooks.

Does that make sense?
Steve Jobs said silliness like "insanely great". Why is "deadass" bad, except that Black people say it more than White people? I bet Elon Musk says "deadass" nor similar.
I have yet to see anyone claim doubt that sexism of any kind exists. What I've seen a lot of on HN is doubt that sexism against women exists, from people who will then claim that sexism against men is endemic. It's that double standard that leads people to question the good faith of the premise.
> Ie, go to africa, go to costa rica, where a drone will be going over trees instead of houses (who will complain?).

It’s a funny thing I only realised after spending a couple months in West Africa: Amazon is pretty much non-existent in Africa. They ship only to to more or less a dozen countries there, and a third of those are North-African countries.

And I’m not sure it’s a logistical problem. In 2014, less than 15% of West African countries’ populations had a bank account, let alone a credit or debit card.

And while mobile money definitely is taking off, cash is still very present and… well, most people probably don’t earn enough to make it worth operating there for Amazon.

Just a quick search gave average salaries for Senegal at less than XOF100k (~$180) / month.

In Ivory Coast, it would appear to be ~XOF300k.

Just looking at the prices on Amazon makes me seriously doubt it would be worth the effort.

And that's without even taking into account how different doing business can be in some countries.
In a place where the term nazi is branded on anything right of the extreme left views, I find your current position incredibly satisfying. Oh, so you are the authority on hyperbole?

What about the stats that indicate the African American population make up the largest demographic among unvaccinated in New York, and suddenly the comparison seems not so far fetched.
It's a lot harder to jail someone for lying about how they are managing a company, and for running a medical lab poorly, than it is for running a ponzi scheme.

Intent matters quite a bit in the former, but not very much in the latter.
"Your honor, because I destroyed the evidence exonerating me, we mustn't consider the evidence incriminating me."
> “These sorts of lies are normal for such nations”

“I was the CIA director.
We lied, we cheated, we stole.
We had entire training courses.
It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”

-Mike Pompeo, former CIA director and U.S Secretary of State [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/6RmEsPE7iq0?t=9
I have likely received more vaccinations than most people here, as a result of my travels and history. I have not been vaccinated for COVID-19. I did receive a positive test (a few days of unusual coughing and lethargy) in November, and confirmed with extensive antibody testing recently that I still have natural resistance. I am not opposed to getting vaccinated, if/when necessary, but now is not that time. I am well informed of the risk/reward matrices and the mechanisms of this coronavirus and its variants.

Your portrayal is disgusting to me, full of irrational hatred and prejudicial biases. It seems borne of an unwavering religious fervor, the likes of which we haven't seen in the West for hundreds of years. I do hope you find some peace within, rather than needing to spew your hateful language across the world.
The article notes that you can use MouseKeys on Windows. MouseKeys is great, but only works if your keyboard has a numeric keypad.

Since I've used ThinkPads for many years, I wrote a program some time ago I called JKLmouse. It gives similar functionality to MouseKeys, but works on ThinkPad and other laptop keyboards that don't have a numeric pad.

It does help to have actual mouse buttons like on a ThinkPad. If you have laptop where the only way to do a mouse click is by pressing on the touchpad it won't work so well, because just the act of pressing the touchpad is likely to move the mouse pointer slightly.

JKLmouse and the TrackPoint work together nicely. You can use the TrackPoint for larger mouse motions and then use the keyboard for precise positioning, all seamlessly.

There is an installer, but for programmers I suggest instead installing AutoHotkey separately, and then download and configure JKLmouse.ahk to run at startup. If I do say so myself, I think it's a good example of some well-written AutoHotkey code. Maybe it will give you some ideas of other things you can do with AutoHotkey.

https://www.jklmouse.com/
> Then all of a sudden I’m in tiny minority because I believe people should be able to choose what they put in their own bodies.

It's just being selective, because you had to be vaccinated to go to school and/or college.

And ain't nobody alive today that can choose to not ingest microplastics, PFAs, pesticides, many can't avoid lead in their drinking water, and none of us can avoid air pollution.

And COVID for that matter! I would like to choose to not put COVID in my body! It'd be great if I could CHOOSE that. But people are just wandering around spreading the plague like that's their constitutional right. Your unvaccinated fist is right in my face.
Can I drive a race car down your street?
If you’re vaccinated, your main risk from the Delta variant is long-haul
Existing energy industry is too entrenched in current technology to innovate? Widely publicized nuclear energy disasters prevents popular support? I don't know but this guy seems pretty smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFfxMx6WJs
a special shout out to the (nonworking??) malbolge programs on http://c0d3.attorney
I don't find the horizontal vs vertical nomenclature very helpful. The chart here spelled it out for me very clearly.

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
Thanks for reading and the kind comment :)
It was weird to read that. The inequity of water supply situations in California is pretty strange.

People who live near me in Mendocino County are claiming to have received letters from local government bodies saying that they don't need to conserve water. People like city council members have chimed in on Facebook discussions to note the same and they reference improved groundwater collection systems and other recent projects.

(It's hot and dry here though, and there's a fire in town currently...)

But I have spoken with people who live outside of California, who ask me what I'm drinking since there's no water where I live! And clearly, there are water problems to be sure--but they're somewhere else. In California.
Many long term systems are common with viral infections, however it’s important to realize their normally a function of infection severity. As such the reality that COVID causes a disproportionate number of hospitalizations means it also disproportionately increases the risk of these side effects.
Built this 4 yrs ago, YC said no. I made both API & SDK too. Good luck.
> However for a large fraction of people they will make you feel like shit for 2-5 days.

I'm healthy and 23 years old. I've had Covid. The feeling of being out of breath for 2 weeks straight is horrible. You'd think you would get used to it but you don't. It was a constant struggle that kept me from falling asleep. Feeling like shit for a couple of days, but only the "known" headache and soreness, is strictly preferable. I've been vaccinated with Moderna (the mRNA vaccine with the worse side-effects as far as I can tell) and had a mild case of symptomatic Covid. Getting the vaccine is vastly preferable to the chance of getting symptomatic Covid.
Um, what. I'm not sure you understand how R0 works, nor do you understand the point I was arguing. An acceptable level is a persistent value less than 1, but preferably much lower.

This fucking site.
Basically the entire national security mainstream.

If you consider "america should be the number one power and do whatever it takes to stay that way" to be an unbiased and neutral statement, then sure, Foreign Policy is unbiased.

I wouldn't go to them for a viewpoint inclusive of American rivals, though.
>Yes, the unvaccinated and many vaccinated will simply get very sick and die in large large numbers based on their personal choices, but such is life.

Those who are unvaccinated because they're immuno-compromised, allergic or under the age of twelve aren't unvaccinated due a "personal choice."

What should be done about those folks? Are you arguing that such people have "made their choice?"