skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in very poor taste to conflate the issues of social distancing and vaccination acceptance with treatment of medical staff. If everyone social distanced and got a vaccine, there would be no issues with medical staff being overworked.

If everyone did what they wanted, what would the medical staff do? Go home and let them die on the sidewalk? Kids dying in the streets by no fault of their own wouldn't go over well.
Obligations don’t work that way, do you get paid for paying your debts?

The personal benefit from the obligation to serve on juries is the option of being tried by a jury of your peers.
Frankly, even given private planes and all, I would probably not have chosen some place outside the US to ride out the pandemic simply given that it adds a potential level of complexity in the case of an outbreak in an uncertain world. But there's nothing inherent to Pacific islands--including those in the state of Hawaii--that would make it inherently irresponsible to take a child there for a week or for months.
I have no idea why someone like Shaq never tired underhand (maybe he did in practice). His free throw shooting was, by far, the weakest point in his game and no one is going to mock him, except maybe himself.
I would pay for a service like this, but $1 per image is too much. Does it really cost that much to run the neural network and create 1 image?
Money laundering is when you make it look like illicit money derived from a legitimate income stream, paying the taxes that result from such income.
yes, they will. There is a comparison of west-side fires in mexico compared to california (close by areas) where in california every fire is immediately fought, where as in mexico there are more frequent fires, and in general they are less destructive. Sorry but no time to search for the sources now, had it back in school... Thats what I was refering to, a fire all 5 years still has less material than one every 10, no matter the growth rate
I may be misremembering—I was a kid at the time—but I distinctly remember the "wow" effect only working if you were sitting in the driver's seat. To me that suggests that the signals were delayed to the nearer speakers to center the sound stage around the driver rather than some arbitrary point above the center console.

But looking up photos online, I see the button I was talking about labeled as "Ambience", which kind of suggests the method you're describing.

It also turns out that using the Internet to find technical info about a 40-year-old car that was never popular to begin with is very hard!
This comes up once in a while, both when I talk to people who've been in the field much longer than me and when I interview new folks. We had a couple of people try to add bit shifting and memory management into the interview process, and we're a shop that does APIs on Go & Java, apps on Ruby/Rails, frontend on React/HTML/CSS, mobile apps on Kotlin, Swift, and data on Postgres, Redis, S3, DynamoDB etc. Most people in this kind of shop simply haven't heard of binary operations or malloc/free and none of our codebases have them. Lots of people had a hard time letting go of the notion that these skills were "foundational" or coming to grips with candidates not knowing this but still being effective developers.
The immune system doesn't lead to variants, randomness + time does.

Selection pressure to see what variants become dominant happens later. They aren't being actively "designed" in any sense.

That's why anything that would make real progress has to happen quickly and broadly, without large left-out pockets (not that rejecting a vaccine is any worse than not being offered one in the first place, here - that's the issue that is mostly being ignored for now, since we have no current solution).
Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles
No that would be getting two doses when I’m already effectively immune. One dose as a booster if you have antibodies. It would essentially be like getting a 2nd dose for those who haven’t had it.
It worked pretty well for anyone opposing vaccination with technologies first time approved for use year (mRNA) or two years (viral vector) ago.

Anyone not buying into these proven 1-2 years old technologies is crazy anti-vaxxer.

Same reasoning can be used with anyone opposing scanning your private images, after all you have nothing to hide.
Phase 3 trials were concluded last year. That's why the vaccines are available.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Did you mean that you were waiting for the regular use authorization rather than the emergency use authorization? OK, that's expected early next month:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

You might want to make your reservation early, since I hear a lot of people claiming that they're waiting for that. Of course it's the very same vaccine that's available today; it's just a matter of going over the paperwork to make sure all of the i's are dotted and t's crossed.
US salaries are much more than salaries in, say Europe/UK (for software engineers). Is it worth maintaining US citizenship in order to make it easier to work remotely for US companies from outside the US?
True, but Covid has the additional trait of being transmissible. It's reasonably likely that anyone sick enough to need hospitalization passed the infection on to someone else at some point. And it takes just a few minutes to almost completely eliminate the possibility of hospitalization for Covid, but obesity (for example) could take years.
As a permanent resident living in the US I find myself wondering if it thusly makes sense to never take US Citizenship. It seems like I can easily abandon my residency the moment I want to retire and leave the US. Am I missing something ?
How similar are Airyx and Hello to: https://www.darlinghq.org/
I think activism implies service to an idealistic cause. I don't believe CNN has any idealistic causes, they're a capitalist firm servicing their market.

I don't mean this as a defense of CNN in any way. They're clearly giving their audience what they want to hear which drives revenue, making them more of an entertainment company than a news company. But the problem of for-profit news is bigger than CNN.
Your freedom stops at others immune systems. Think of this as a choose your own adventure. And if you don't wish to be vaccinated or wear a mask you are opting into the road less traveled. What's with all this negativity?

But smoke all you want, they already factor that into health insurance costs. Drive drunk all you want, but don't whine if you get caught and they throw you in jail and take away your car and license. WTF undocumented sorts? You're all over the map IMO.
> the point I was trying to make is that Bitcoin is beyond the tipping point

It’s no longer about Bitcoin. It’s about alternative asset classes. I think the new ventures in the crypto space have realized that BTC is old news and that the real money is in creating endless new crypto assets and ventures.
As I understand it a one way to disincentivise centralization is that when your node loses access to the network you lose more money if at the same time many other nodes/stake do not have access to the network. So it would be profitable to have an independent server and internet access.
Oh I knew this. Doing the Sococo media mixer, we understood that audio sensitivity is orders of magnitude more critical that video. Heck, video could stall and delay and be fuzzy and folks didn't say much. But miss a single sample of audio at 44KHz and folks would speak up.
Or maybe your mental health is shitty after intubating people and watching them slowly die, over and over for 18 months, with no end in sight.

Money can't fix that.
Case in TX where this was overturned. Employer was Buc-ees. The amount in question was far higher, about $100k, as the employee was given a $X/hr raise contingent on at least Y years of service. Court ruled contract violated right to work. This may mean bonus clawbacks can't work.
Why would people sell rather than fork to a version of the network where those ETH did not exist? One of the benefits of POS is that when you fork away from a malicious actor, they have to start over from the beginning while in POW, they can just point their hardware to your new chain unless you change the mining algorithm and screw over all the other miners.
Scan for child abuse today; scan for wrong-think tomorrow. I'm liking the idea of Graphene OS more and more each day... or just going phone-free entirely.
I love these types of charts. It looks like I am doing real work!!
You're the only one inventing a false binary. The US legal system locks up more people than any country on earth, and the majority of its prisoners did not do anything morally wrong. Most of them didn't even go to trial, and a huge number have not even been charged.

It is so blatantly corrupt and psychotic a system, it's quite honestly ignorant to even compare it to any notion of "perfect".

"Kafkaesque" is going easy on it. It's objectively the extension of chattel slavery in this country. It's a crime against humanity.
> 1. Languages don't have null errors, programs do.

> 2. I don't need a study to show that a program has less than or equal null errors in a language with null safety, because the program in a language without might still have zero. If you're going to make a logical claim, then let's stick to what's logically provable. If you're going to hand-wave...well you might as well use a dynamically typed language ;-)

I think now you're just nitpicking and being uncharitable for the sake of it instead of responding to the overall point of my message I took care to write.

> Studies also have long shown that bugs scale linearly with code size, a very strong correlation. So let's say null-references are 1% of you total bugs, but you now write twice the amount of code, that means a move to a null-checked language will significantly increase your total bug count, despite eliminating a certain class of bugs.

> (In fact other, older studies showed that type errors accounted for 10% of bugs, so if you can save just 10% of code using a dynamically typed language, you're ahead in terms of bugs).

Most software engineering studies have so many confounding factors even in isolation that combing results from multiple studies like this is nonsensical and misleading. This reads like brilliant satire if I'm honest.

> And being aware of this makes for much, much better engineering judgement, IMHO.

You didn't reply to the question about if you've written large projects with strong static type systems like OCaml or Haskell. If the answer is no, they're worth learning for more awareness instead of relying on likely very limited and/or flawed empirical studies in my opinion.
To be fair to the poster, they said that they sold their US propert(ies|y) which if they are older Americans probably releases an amount of capital that substantially covers the cost of the building they may acquire in Spain.

But yeah, when the median US household income is about $68k, early $200k a year puts you far outside the middle class, even if it doesn't feel that way. [ yes, cost of living in NYC or SF has some impact on this, but not much, given the median household income in those cities not actually being much above the national figure ]
They want to exempt miners who are making Bitcoin from paying taxes on it? Why? They are making revenue from this activity. Of course they should pay taxes on that revenue.

This makes no sense at all.
Well.
1. With the improvement of the rust ecosystem, using rust has made database development faster and easy, for example datafuse use the tokio to implement the pipeline https://github.com/datafuselabs/datafuse/tree/master/fuseque....

2. Couldn't agree with you more with easier-to-manage as a first-class feature, but some times easier-to-manage is built on stability, that's what datafuse is trying to do.
Have you talked to anyone not getting vaccinated in your state to try and gather why?

Despite sort of the popular media push that there's some huge contingent of never-vaxxers, that actually appears to be a small proportion of the unvaccinated[1].

Are the remainder having doubts? Is it a transport/scheduling issue? Is there a misunderstanding about it being a multiple dose vaccine?

[1] - https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
Does your logic extend to "you've declined to lose weight and acted like being obese is nothing to be concerned about, so we're going to not admit you to the hospital"?
Excuse me, sweetie, but "think of the trans" is a very important movement. It prevents suicides, helps bring gender equality, raises awareness, and creates tech jobs for trans activists to assist in stopping online transphobia.
That would be false testimony, not hearsay. Hearsay ("John Smith told me he heard MeinBlut kidnapped the Lindbergh baby") is not allowed. Witnesses lying about what they saw and or participated in is allowed, although it can be lies.

Sorry, and as for "what is abuse", these are looking for exploited children. There are a lot of questions here, the morality of mass surveillance, the risk factors due to hash collisions (intentional or otherwise), etc, the one thing I doubt is an issue is a fuzzy line on "is this abuse"
> flying rockets just because

Hmmm... the Wright brothers flew airplanes "just because" and now we have relatively cheap, ubiquitous air travel. I'm happy to see Bezos and Musk investing in space travel - I think the end-result will be a positive for human civilization.
I understand that meaning, but it is very strange and confusing formulation. Just say it's 10x lower.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that illegality is irrelevant. Only what laws are enforced, and how quickly they are enforced, matters.
Eating healthy isn't difficult in a country like the United States and eating healthy prevents many medical issues. It seems pretty black and white from my point of view (I do understand that some issues are generic, those aren't what I'm discussing here).
Treating academia as one homogeneous group isn't helpful. In my field (CS) good authors do use concise and easy to understand language to get their points across. Of course domain specific jargon is included, but that is not surprising, as you can convey much more information this way (as you don't have to explain all known concepts over and over again). The target audience is usually well familiar with the language. Scientific writing is not usually meant to be consumed by readers outside a certain community.
OK fair enough. But what if her name had been something distinctly ethnicity-or-religion-linked instead of Dani Lever (which is actually pretty distinct though of course not determinative)? Is her name off limits?

Ironically, perhaps, your redaction was the only part of your comment that made me want to read the linked article, which I found 110% inoffensive (aside from the spelling errors!).

Sorry for the meta-discussion. Not much to say about the "privileged families raise privileged children, film at 11" thread.
Yes, which is why the federal government sent a ton of supplies (more than any other state by a large margin) and a hospital ship there: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/1...
He died, so it didn't do much help.
Usually it involves conversion of illegally gained assets into untraceable cryptocurrencies such as XMR (Monero) and then subsequent funneling and conversion of those assets back into USD via offshore exchanges.

IRS is offering $625,000 USD to anyone that can crack the Monero algorithm [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/09/14/irs...
It’s interesting to see some people get cancelled for things they said or did decades ago, but others don’t get cancelled for that. What are the considerations when they go for someone who said something decades ago (or in the cases of people in their early twenties, things they said on Twitter in their teens —and look at Jack, he said cancelable offenses when Twitter was young too but he remains a darling)
The dumbest idea ever -so glad that I am an Android user.
You know you’ve spent too much time in a chemistry lab when your brain tries to read OTOH as some molecule on first glance.
Well, it's 'danuker's logic, not my own.

I just want to know if they fully extend "do what you want" to everybody or if it's a situation of "do what you want for me, do what I want for thee."

If they do, then the answer would clearly be: yes.

As an aside, some of this is already done when resources are scarce today. The alcoholic who can't stop drinking isn't going to make it on the liver transplant recipient list. One of the biggest dangers of Covid has consistently been that it risks overwhelming hospital capacity, which so far fortunately has been minor (though has resulted in some tragic outcomes) but not something anyone should want to continue.
You're right that a few mistakes wouldn't impugn the design of the system, but in this case there is no ambiguity- the US justice system is intentionally evil.
Emergency Use Authorization is not an approval. The vaccines aren't approved medicines in the US. They have Emergency Use Authorization so that they don't need approval. If the US wants to continue using these vaccines after declaring the emergency over (perhaps months or even years from now), the FDA would need to approve them.

The standard (reasonable belief that the medicine "may" be effective) for EUA is lower than for approval (satisfactory proof that the medicine is effective) reflecting the emergency situation.

Hydroxychloroquine had EUA for COVID-19 until it was withdrawn. It remains an FDA approved medicine for malaria prevention, because the evidence showed it works for that and that did not change, but it did not have proof that it was effective when it received EUA for COVID-19, and it still didn't have such proof when the EUA was withdrawn.

New Zealand's medicines authority did not need an emergency process because New Zealand's civil government had resolved the emergency, albeit at considerable cost. They concluded that the vaccine under consideration (the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine) did by that point have proof of effectiveness.

In one sense our loss is their gain, they were able to guage the effectiveness of the vaccines on other people, who were in danger of death from COVID-19, to establish that it was safe to use on their own people who faced much less danger.
I wonder if computers have something to do with this.
Apple should perhaps dogfood their system on their own employees first: https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/hills-man-arrested-on-ch...
This has been a period of constant backfires on a global scale - starting from WHO themselves right at the start of this whole thing when dealing with the first breakout in China, especially having experience with dealing with China (SARS). They knew information was being withheld.

So will this backfire be worst then all the other backfires, or other potential backfires? Honestly we have no idea.

I'm still baffled why the leadership of WHO hasn't been renewed yet... I get that in times of crises leadership shouldn't be changed, but they are stretching it. WHO lost a lot of their soft power during this pandemic.
It's not a big deal. It isn't that different than finding a significant amount of oil/precious metals on your land. As soon as you try to extract the value of the resource/crypto, the government will know. If you just sell it, the crypto exchange will report it to the IRS. If you try to trade/buy goods with it directly, any assets you get will create a paper trail that the IRS will eventually discover.

Consider the fact that illegal enterprises like drug dealers will pay a premium to launder the money (probably >=10%) and then pay taxes on the remainder. If you have the gains legally (crypto), it makes little sense to not just pay the normal taxes.

Also, if you made a significant amount of money on any crypto, you probably held it for more then a year at which point to capital gains tax is probably at most only 15% (<$441,000 ordinary income). And if you quit your job prior to selling (i.e had ordinary income <$40,000) then the capital gains would go to 0% (seems wrong (?) and maybe you would have to pay the alternative minimum tax... not quite sure).

Anyway the taxes are basically nothing compared to the benefits of having 100% clean money that can be reinvested and make 10-15% in the stock market.
Agree with all of this, except that I don't think these folks are currently reporting their holdings, as there is currently no requirement to do this.
So let me ask you this, if there were vaccine mandates to do xyz and you had a coworker, who you knew not to be fully vaccinated doing xyz, and the authorities have given a hotline to anonymously report violators, would you report this person?
> Problem is you end up with a vastly inferior hardware device that costs nearly as much as an iPhone.

The Pinephone is $150/$200.

> Would love to hear if anyone is actually using a Linux phone and enjoying it.

I have one, and I throughly enjoy it! One of the neatest things about it, and I still have to wrap my head around it, is that it can do anything you can do on a desktop. SSH? No problem? Dev environment? "apt install build-essentials". Want to install XFCE? Knock yourself out!

It is still missing MMS, which is why I don't use it daily, but that should be changing much sooner than later.
Dallas Oberholzer: the 46-year-old Olympic skateboarder who fended off a jaguar
> all while weather modification science here in the US is treated like alchemy

I don't fully agree with this statement, it's more that you're not just affecting your rainfall, but neighbors as well. As we speak, 8 of the Western states in the US are performing scientific trials together.

There's no hard data that shows exactly how much weather modification actually works. Some data shows 5 to 15% increased snowfall, but that's just statistical analysis. Once we get hard data that shows the cost/benefit, you're likely to see more weather modification efforts (e.g. how many dollars per acre-foot of water? Is this cheaper or more expensive than pipelines, or drinking water reservoirs? What would a budget look like for bolstering our agriculture? Can a state government budget a few million for the next year due to an anticipated reduction in rainfall? How many million would we need? What's the human and ecological (particularly beneficial bacteria and algae) impacts of being exposed to AgI?)

We also don't know how wide-scale it works. Yes, China can seed clouds to reduce smog to have blue skies for PRC meetings in Beijing, but can it work on the scale of say, an entire mountain range? Or the agricultural area of an entire state? Can't say. It's only been in the last few years that we've gotten RADAR and compute that's capable of analyzing our experiments.

Also another thing, you can generate precipitation, but even weather modification technology can't overcome a drought. If you have a high pressure system (like the one currently sitting over most of the West US at the moment) you're stuck with dry skies.
They've never promised it, and said it would cost $500,000 to build it for Linux. And that was in 2014 when the codebase was much smaller.
"CORBA was in fashion"

Exactly this.
Foone wouldn’t be foone in any other format. They make great content and I wouldn’t wish them to change anything.
China built the world’s largest high speed rail network (24,000 miles of tracks) and the first rails were laid down in 2007.

If you think they can’t do this in 9 years, you haven’t been paying attention.
Of course this would anger the PC crowd.