skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not repeat fascism. It killed tens of millions of people. Millions more died for liberty, don't take it in vain.

We've already returned to pre-2020 levels of excess deaths in the U.S. [1] We have been there for months. Unless Covid mutates into something completely different, it's likely that 2020 was the worst year we'll ever see for it, because it was novel and no one had immunity at the beginning of 2020.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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I don't have strong feelings about whether or not the feedback is sexist but one way I'm thinking about it is if you posit that there is such a thing as an authentic self and you posit you should be allowed to be your authentic self at work, then I guess any advise to change your tone is not appropriate, be you man or woman.

But I don't think we live in a society that is exactly behind the idea that men or women get to be their authentic selves as work.
The tax credits are the same regardless of your plan, and for modest income the credits are substantial: even for $100k, the credits are $500/mo for a family of 4. Not that healthcare still isn't a significant expense, but the assistance is meaningful.
You can easily do this with AWS Lambda and the boto3 library. You get logging, metrics and alerting if you want too. AWS has a generous free tier.

For python devs, this is a great framework to easily create and deploy them - https://github.com/aws/chalice.
I dunno the last time you went and visited a homeless encampment in the US, but many of them do indeed have showers and internet, too (sometimes provided by the government, other times just because these tent cities are legitimate cities).

I've seen a lot of tents with cooking areas too, and some even with portable generators, TVs, and fridges.

So can we exclude them from the homeless statistics yet?
Step 0 of improving package delivery is to make sure every location has a simple package locker available.
Supercomputers have been built like that for a long time (decades) now, albeit with ultra-fast networking and storage to back them. There is a whole lot of research and money poured into specialized algorithms and software optimized for distributed machines. And that's far the only form of distributed computing in use.
> “Many seem”

Citation needed for such an extraordinary claim.

If you don’t mind, could you share data on the UK, a place where nearly all adults aged 30+ have received two doses of the vaccine? It simplifies the discussion because there’s no question about self selection bias. If there’s any negative effects, it should surely have manifested in a large subset of this group of tens of millions of people, across ages and ethnicities.

Not just a handful of cases here or there. I’m talking about 0.01% or more of this population suffering some persistent harm. Not something that disappeared after a day or two.
I think I basically worry that the policy is not very effective. It doesn’t really allay anyone’s fears about the safety of the jab (I’ve seen people claim that the FDA giving it full approval rather than emergency approval would help but I don’t really believe them.)

But then France recently announced a similar policy and saw a few protests and a lot of people getting the vaccine. They like to protest more in France than America but I think Americans (even in NY) are perhaps more vaccine-hesitant.

I think I would like to see:

- more effort to make vaccines more accessible (wider range of times of day; working with community groups to have pop up vaccination events that include non-vaccine things so people aren’t scared off; maybe trying to let people know where they can get vaccinated and that it’s free; requiring employers to give people paid time off work to get vaccinated; etc)

- other incentives for vaccination (I see examples like being entered into a lottery or getting free donuts, but I mostly prefer just giving people cash to get vaccinated. Say $100 or maybe even $1000)

Another thing would maybe making it easier for businesses to only admit people who are vaccinated or have some suitable exemption but I think the latter is hard for privacy reasons and I think the former is just inviting businesses to decrease their custom which they are not normally wont to do.
Can you clarify

>I think it might be the unfounded accusations of this money going to pay for police misconduct

? It seems that you're saying that the money paying for police misconduct is unfounded but that contradicts your second sentence.
Which actually makes sense.

When you're risking your own life, you'll likely be at least somewhat careful.

When you're just flying an empty test vehicle you'll be much more reckless, and thus way more likely to crash it on other people's property or other people.

Hence, much more tightly regulated.
I think you meant raymarcher, not raytracer in the last sentence
The fact that your movements will be stored centrally and a profile developed has far more reaching implications and concerns that bad actors (future elected officials and their minions) will use this power to the detriment of society.

I agree that limits to freedoms are necessary but this is too extreme.
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While the Pixar people are probably not aware, they were actually in a race. There was a small group in Brazil using computer graphics for TV commercials that decided to do a full length movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_(film)

They had very limited resources and were using commercial tools instead of building their own like Pixar. They cheated by having their characters be aliens who were mostly blobs without legs or arms, though they like to complain about Pixar cheating by having many objects be physical models or sculptures that were then digitized instead of fully designing them in the computer.

They reached the big screen second after Pixar, but even if they had been first I doubt they would have been remembered.
So there hundreds of posts on CNNs, what do we find special in this post?
Blatant false equivalence. All of those are FDA approved.
A potential mechanism for Covid to produce lingering symptoms would be some kind of mast cell activation syndrome. I believe that "long Covid" is probably a mix of that, actual lung or vascular damage that takes time to recover (we have a friend who suffered lung damage and referred to the recovery period as "long Covid"), and some (possibly quite large) amount of psychosomatic subjective experience and amplification of lingering symptoms caused by the relentless hype on this issue.

http://farid.jalali.one/MCAS_COVID.pdf?fbclid=IwAR08nCA9isig...
Children spread COVID first of all. Second of all, COVID attacks blood vessels. The fact that healthy children seem safe now, does not mean that as they age, we won't see a rising burden of disease due to the long term effects of having their blood vessels attacked when they were young.

The science behind COVID-19 is evolving, I see new information in the news every day that changes how I see this disease (usually for the worse, though not always). To simply assume children are safe and propose a policy of mass infection is extremely short sighted in my opinion.

I'm still undecided re: mandates as this is correctly viewed as a massive authoritarian extension of government power domestically on top of the 9/11 restrictions that never went away (it is already completely tyrannical abroad). However, for a reasonable society (not ours) I believe COVID-19, especially the Delta strain, presents a level of population risk that the consideration of such measures is warranted.
Of course. But my point was that your "spending money" may still need to budget $10+K/year to keep a roof over your head. (Of course, you can downsize and move someplace cheaper.)
>This isn't a meaningful claim for 2 key reasons. There has never been a vaccine that had serious side effects that did show up shortly after vaccination[2]. The history of mRNA treatments began as an experiment in gene therapy, but has largely ben abandoned because the effects never lasted long enough. As of 2020 this is an ongoing area of research[3]. No one has figure out how to stabilize mRNA so that it has long lasting effects.

This isn't really what I'm worried about. Right now people are talking long COVID, subtle long term brain damage and it seems like mechanisms are still unknown. So who's to say that immune system reaction triggered by vaccination isn't causing same kind of hard to detect damage. I'd be much more comfortable with the vaccine if the long COVID studies included groups :

- no vaccination/hospitalised

- no vaccination/asymptomatic

- vaccination/not infected

- vaccination/infected

I'm not a risk group and have no problems with social distancing so I'm waiting for stuff like this to come out.
"Policygenius can help you compare renters insurance policies to find the right coverage for you, at the right price" and the link for renters insurance goes to recommendations for renter's insurance. This here is sponsored content. They are using an article about somebody being horribly maimed to sell renter's insurance. Because you can use it to pay off your immense student debts. This is awful
Part 103 aircraft don’t need a license of any sort. There are of course a bunch of regulations about how/when/where you fly it, but you don’t need any official training or certification.
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All of those kinds of transactions are voluntary with anonymous alternatives except for flying. This will become a scanable thing because if it doesn't it won't be a workable system.

BTW I'm opposed to scanning for flying too. No fly lists are an example that came out of this practice. They'll do the same with this new system - no go lists for those with a low enough social credit score.
Your body NYCs choice.
"Do not touch Master Y's balls."
Such a great story teller. Always on the look out if he does a talk at the BM :)
My 2 higher levels post post included an alternate phrasing of the test case they specified:

""" None of the examples in the article use a more vague syntax, such as "0 days before the end of the month". """

---

They asked:

"""
What’s Feb 28th + 1 month?

Does the human expect the last day of March? Or the 28th day of March?
"""

---

It's implicit, the human only expects the month to change, because the input isn't a descriptive phrase "the end of the month" adjusted or not, it's a literal date. That's why my other test cases show the same behavior for the end of the month.
I feel exactly the same. It gets worse as one grows older. At my age, I am supposed to have kids, house etc. I am not interested in those things, and people think something is wrong with me :(
this also isn't the type of thing that governments tend to lie about. it's not like a scenario where a contractor overpromises and underdelivers and government media has to do damage control. they're also not announcing some new leap in scientific understanding. it's old science.
My debit card has a contactless pad. I think there’s a transaction limit on it of a few hundred dollars, but someone could very easily tap it and drain my account if that was all I had.

But even that misses the point: not everybody has the means to wait 5-7 days for their bank to mail them a replacement card, even if no money is actually taken from the account. This is compounded when you consider that most of the companies that offer cheap banking accounts don’t have great branch service.
They've found a niche there where drone deliveries can work and be worthwhile. Getting lightweight but vitally important payloads (medical supplies) quickly to locations hard to access by road.

Amazon is in the business of delivering bulky and heavy packages, often of low value and importance, and poorly-but-cheaply packed into oversized cardboard boxes. I can't imagine a very large percentage of Amazon deliveries would be in any way suited to drone delivery, especially when you've got to limit it to destinations with a suitable landing/drop zone, within a certain range of a depot but away from dense urban areas (too high-risk to operate in)
Not really. Horse drawn carriages were also dangerous to get near, iron shod hooves on cobbles were loud, and they left big piles of unsanitary dung.
Yes, almost no one who is fully vaccinated ever died from COVID. But those who underwent a real COVID rarely ever reinfected again, set aside suffering even mild symptoms. There are literally lower thousands reinfection cases in the world (0.5% by PCR research in Denmark), while infection cases among fully vaccinated are ordinary, especially with Delta variant.

> Or they will serve as a mutation vector for the next, more transmissible, deadlier variant.

Unfortunately, hosts with partial immunity (natural asymptomatic cases or half-vaccinated) are more suitable environment for virus mutation. In tabula rasa host virus just takes over the system by storm, all mutations are in equal conditions. Weak immunity means new mutations are having an advantage and natural selection completes the case.

And now we know that even fully vaccinated people are relatively easily contracting Delta variant. You may draw the conclusion.
Doesn't the army give housing and food allowances? Do you even pay anything if you live and eat on base?
> CCP has proven to us that we can't trust their word. Over and over again.

Are you able to substantiate that claim?
My thinking is that for major projects they mostly deliver against our intuition. What are the counter examples which are over and over again?
Just write the ket describing that state and specify over what Hilbert state it is. At best, "superposition" does not mean what you are using that word for. It just sounds like nonsense right now.
I would like to QA the game using the cobra effect - if my kingly subjects start farming cobras then I know the game-AI is seriously good !

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There's no "holocaust" in my post, please don't tar me with that brush. Apartheid, "separateness" in Afrikaans, seems entirely appropriate here. Except that there won't be vaccinated bars and non-vaccinated bars, there will just be vaccinated bars, those who refuse to show a vaccine passport will just have to go sit in the park or something.

For the record, I'm fully vaccinated, but if/when bars start demanding vaccine passports in the UK, I stop going to bars.
Sure, but it seems at least a little unreasonable (at least disingenuous) to me to argue that “I want to be able to take unvaccinated members in my party into a restaurant confident that the other people in the establishment are proven to be vaccinated because it's dangerous if unvaccinated people gather in a public, indoor establishment.”

If unvax’d people represent such a risk to others in your judgment, you should not be part of putting unvax’d people in your own party into that situation.

(For context, I’m pro-vax, got vax’d literally the first day I was eligible, and have a kid under 12 that I can hardly wait until they’re eligible. I’m against any vax passport scheme that even theoretically allows tracking/correlation of my identity/location if shown to a party intent on tracking me.)
No, the current boosters are the same vaccine as the original vaccinations. The booster shots are given as the antibody count in your blood drops over time and the booster shot keeps them at the maximum for another half year or so.

We don't have precise data about the required level of antibodies to stay healthy yet and in quite a few countries the infection rates are currently high enough to pose a real risk for vaccinated patients in the vulnerable group. The safe play is to give booster shots to keep the immune response at its best.
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Sure, but one of my most commonly used keyboard short cuts is the one that pops up a fuzzy search over all the available actions/settings. Whereas with the mouse i have to dig trough a ton of sub menus and often even have to google to find what I want.
It does it does! Very tempted.
Sorry, I don't trust any media when power or money are on the line. Talk to real people.

I'm curious, what solution do you propose to exclude the 23.4 million non-citizen residents, 10.3 million illegal residents and 5.2 million felons from voting? How do you verify that somebody is legally permitted to vote?
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Problem is, we might not be able to build them fast enough.

China is currently the leader in deployment of nuclear power, but even there wind power overtook it in terms of GWh delivered in 2013 and the difference was been widening ever since.

Similarly within a decade solar went from delivering 1% of the energy nuclear did, to 70%. At this rate it will close the gap before 2025.
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Regarding your first point: phones are already intrinsic to authentication, whether it's through SMS OTP, TOTP, or push notification verification. Wherever you have 2FA enabled (other than email magic link), you are generally SOL if you lose your phone. We are well past the days when people would forget their phone at home, and most people have their phones within reach. That said, our early customers are looking to deploy Keyri as an option parallel to password-based auth, which, while not ideal, is a smooth way to transition their users to a better UX that just happens to be more secure.

Regarding account sharing: agreed that the "robbing" language is harsh and should be toned down. That said, it is a problem that deserves a solution. For example, there are companies like data providers that charge businesses hundreds or thousands per month for access to their platforms, and they face massive account sharing issues from these businesses that can totally afford to pay for all of the seats they need but are not willing to pay because they don't need to - they can just share accounts among their employees. At the same time, I'd argue that any account sharing, even if it's for a $5/month streaming platform account, is unethical and a violation of TOS - companies should have access to tools that definitively prevent these violations. They currently already try to stop account sharing through IP logging, cookie tracking, etc., but those methods are not as reliable as changing the auth mechanism altogether to something like Keyri, in which credentials are not free-floating strings that can be passed from one person to another.

Regarding OpenID: OpenID providers (Google, FB, etc.) don't see your private keys, but by registering and logging in on various services through them, you are giving those platforms yet more data about yourself. That is why these platforms provide OpenID auth services for free. This privacy threat is nebulous, but privacy-conscious people like myself don't use OpenID for this reason.

Edit: an article on OpenID privacy issues from people who know more than me: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/basin/pubs/asiaccs20.pdf. Excerpt: "s. Unfortunately
OpenID Connect is not privacy-friendly: the identity provider learns with each use which relying party the user logs in to. This necessitates a high degree of trust in the identity provider, and is especially problematic when the relying parties’ identity reveals sensitive information"
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No, you should be able to express it the way I mentioned in other examples: Base .plus( N months ) where N is whichever month after the reference you want.

.plus .plus .plus isn't correct because "x months" doesn't have a fixed size. You are NOT saying Base .plus(30 days), NOR are you saying Base .plus(4 weeks) ((which BTW, I'd expect to stay on the same weekday)). You're incrementing by an unstable value.
To be honest I don't pay attention to my paychecks. I work in Silicon Valley and have things direct deposited into my bank account, which I never check.

Theoretically, my current (and past) employers could have left out a dozen paychecks and I may not have noticed.

I don't think it's that unusual. If he doesn't have any money in his bank account it may be more noticeable.
> I strongly disagree with anyone who is hesitant about getting vaccinated, but I still feel obligated to protect them as human beings and not just abandon their safety even if they don't want to protect themselves.

> I still feel obligated to protect them

Seems like all troubled folks are loose now with this crap.

How about getting yourself a pet?
You mean it is the stupidest thing you read about this year?
That's true, but if he's talking about walking around LA it's not really seasonal resorts that are in question.