skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, it's worth considering that 'California' isn't some big monolithic landscape.

The dangerous fires mostly seem to erupt from hard-to-access river canyons. Do you just let those burn? Light 'em up on purpose?

As a side note, these areas are filled with highly flammable buildings. 100 year old wood construction, shared attics in the small towns, nowhere near modern code.
N=1, but I now know many people who have been vaccinated that have since been infected, where as up until recently I knew 2 people who got it this entire time (I'm in SF). One of these new people is a co-worker who got covid last year, then got Pfizer vaccinated, then got it again and almost was hospitalized. He's 29 and fit, and as far as I know, is not immunocompromised.

All the data shows that vaccination provides protection, but with all these new variants coming out (expect more over time), I don't believe herd immunity is any more possible than herd immunity with the flu or common cold.
Heartbreaking. The US criminal justice system is a shame.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
How would "sent to jail" (with likely eve more abusive "mental health care" for "delusions") be any better than "sent to hospital"
> Why have all the field hospitals been destroyed as fast as they were put up?

Take your pick from:

a) They were a bit of a PR gimmick? Better for gov't to be seen to do _something_ than standing around wringing your hands and hoping things will improve...?

b) They couldn't be staffed and equipped to provide appropriate and useful additional care?

c) General hospitals were perhaps not quite as close to being overwhelmed as was reported?

There were stories that German hospitals may have been slightly economical with the truth in terms of obtaining additional funding for ICU beds, which perhaps weren't needed or even ever created[0]

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/corona-hilfen-schummelei-1-3...
Monero's PoW algorithm is RandomX [1], which is optimized for CPU mining. While it is possible to mine with GPUs, it is significantly slower and unprofitable.

[1] https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/blob/master/doc/design.md
Link? I’m trying to picture the apparatus you’re describing but it’s not making sense. Are there headphones involved or is it just a wearable microphone?
Interesting article!

I was wondering if there plans for supporting Continuous Aggregates on Distributed hypertables? Its currently listed as not supported under the limitations docs page.

I think the two would fit together perfectly as it will allow users to aggregate very large tables.
I wouldn't say needlessly. There are people in towns near my city that would normally be transported to the cities ICUs, but they can't because there is no room. People say the tests or the vaccine don't work but no one claims more than 3 percent of their hospitalized covid cases have been previously vaccinated. So, whatever the test tests for, the vaccine mostly prevents, and that thing is taking up way too many of my counties hospital beds. We can call it the flu, or the cold, or the vapors, but I wish everyone would go get their vapors vaccine so people who get in car wrecks could get fixed up in a timely manner.
could you use multiple perceptual hash functions with different salts, so that collisions would be less likely while allowing derivatives to be detected?
Shims in the kernel seem a bit anti-social, since all module developers are expected to contribute to the shared core code. Of course it can be done, and it has been done. But I think FUSE is better if all you care about is portability, and you don't mind the heavy performance cost. My module could be ported for FUSE of course, but it's a lot more work than it may seem, the kernel interfaces are too alien compared to a userland library.
To a different jurisdiction where it's someone else's problem.
>I'm concerned anytime media outlets have such close ties with politicians and political parties. Fox New included. But to me, one media outlet that leans conservative is way different than the other 5 or 6 major media outlets that run liberal.

And your point is what? 430 individuals is a fraction of the total journalists in the US, and an individual journalist donating to a political candidate != a news outlet supporting a candidate. But you know that, and are again attempting to insinuate something the data you've provided doesn't actually prove, at all. That's ignoring the fact that far more than 4% of the journalists in the US are conservative journalists... so either even the conservatives had no taste for Trump, or the numbers are bogus. If the numbers aren't bogus, it means journalists as a whole universally rejected Trump, and it has absolutely nothing to do with a liberal vs. conservative skew: the conclusion you're trying to draw from thin air.

>Just because they were begging for them, doesn't mean they were entitled to them over every other state. In the end they got over half the federal stockpile. For one state. Those were taken away from allocations that would have gone to other states. Every state was facing ventilator shortages (my wife worked in an ICU at the time in VA and saw the same daily). NY just got more because they screamed the loudest.

So you went from intentionally falsely implying they received 4,400 ventilators to now backpedaling to: they didn't deserve them. Like I said, you are clearly attempting to mislead people with things you know to be untrue while trying to act as though you aren't. It has no place here or anywhere else.
This is the least of Unity's problems.

Unity doesn't dogfood their own engine. Unity does not develop any games themselves. This is completely unlike Unreal, who has always released games using their own engine. Unity doesn't do it, and it shows.

Unity has a handful of features that either barely work or only work in some contrived prototype case. They still have 3 different rendering pipelines without clear direction on which you should use.

They have this whole new game architecture (DOTS) but it seems like you should not use it. It's just there to confuse you.

They have a new GUI coming soon? Maybe?

Mobile builds are a complete clusterfuck with all the native code plugins you have to integrate. As soon as you get a few native code plugins (which every serious mobile game does), it takes several days of messing with your build pipeline to make things build properly on iOS and Android. And then you have to do it all over again every year to keep up with platform changes.

They've also released a ton of plugins and features for AAA games and cinematics that are completely useless to indie devs and mobile devs. I would love to know what their revenue split looks like between mobile, AAA, indie, and everything else. From my perspective, they haven't done much the past 3 years to make mobile dev & indie dev better.

Still no good webGL export if you care at all about load times. I'm not sure if they have just given up on this or what.

The Unity Editor also just has weird problems sometimes. It gets exponentially worse if you have large projects too. This is why Unity never sees these problems because they only work with small prototypes. They have no "real" projects which can easily get into the 50+ gigabytes range. At that size of a project, you start to have more weird issues.

Unity is still (usually) the best choice for mobile and indie, but man I wish they would just spend the time to make their own mobile game, see the many pain points, and fix them.

I will say, they did create and release the Addressables system, which is a big improvement for resource loading on mobile. Also their acquisition of TextMeshPro and support of that plugin for rendering text, super good. Their shader graph editor is still WIP and tied into their rendering pipeline mess. Nested prefabs are also a huge improvement.

If I was Unity, I would setup 2 internal game teams. One team building PC & console games, another team building mobile games. Build real games, release them on the app stores, and keep them updated for 2 years. Who cares if they don't make any money, that isn't the point.
This is a realistic usage of the engine and it would expose problems that Unity doesn't seem to know about.
Why do you think those proposals you suggest are ones I would support?

I actually know people who help fight these fires every year, and they seem to have some rather concrete ideas in mind of what should be done and I don't think it involves kicking people out of their homes.
You only need one seat I think also. Just for when you're building to console (At least that's the way it used to be when you could only build to certain platforms on pro) Eg. If I was doing a build I'd just use the seat and if my colleague had it i'd ask him to relinquish it.)
Sony, Nintendo, Google and Microsoft, give tier 1 preference to Unity anyway, so this will hardly matter for those that actually get to be allowed to rent a devkit.

Not everyone that wants to develop for consoles gets the privilege to do so anyway, only when the game manages to win the hearts of publishers, and the company has a sound financial history to ensure being able to deliver the game.
As a company, Apple is obviously free to do whatever they please with their products.

As a self marketed "privacy" company. What a joke.
Yes. Which is annoying. Both can be measured, but apparently the commercial lab data only runs one of the two antibody tests.

There's also a blood bank antibody test. That's useful as a crosscheck. People who have blood drawn for medical purposes are in general sicker than average, and those who donate blood are healthier than average. So those set bounds on the measured values.
In practice exchanges end up holding most of the crypto, and they will decide how to use the crypto in PoS. With PoW it looks like miners/pools will quite rarely work as exchanges, so the powers tend to be separated. With PoS, it looks like exchanges will basically run Ethereum, and it look something like Blockstream Liquid, where group of exchanges basically mint the blocks.
Lets build mini Google Drive clone quickly
> Immunity from vaccination seems to be stronger than immunity from having the disease, but it's too early to be sure

Unless anyone can cite peer-reviewed sources that indicate otherwise, there doesn't appear to be any conclusive evidence on this point. In fact these publications provide evidence that naturally acquired immunity is just as effective as vaccination [1][2] ([2] hasn't been peer-reviewed yet).

> How long vaccine immunity lasts is an open question. So far, it's at least N months, where N is how long the vaccines have been in wide use. Beyond that is speculation.

I'm interested in recent peer-reviewed literature supporting this point, and would be grateful if anyone could share links.

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
Delaware C-corps are not do it yourself. Use your lawyer and your accountant. If you don't have a lawyer and an accountant, then there is a significant probability that a Delaware C-corp is not the right move right now.

In a lot of places, you can make a throw-away LLC with two sheets of paper and less than fifty bucks. Delaware C-corps are not that way.

In the earlier days of HN, "Ask HN: I have an expensive legal issue with my Delaware C-corp" questions were rather common. The lessons were often price of a new BMW expensive just for letting one sit with no activity.

The main reason to form a Delaware C-corp is to take outside investment that requires it. This is typical of Silicon Valley venture capital and much much less typical of any other form of investment and of most investors just about everyplace else.

Or to put it anther way, a Delaware C-corp exists to manage capital. If there isn't enough capital to justify a lawyer and accountant, then there is an impedance mismatch. Good luck.
the question also arises as to whether the tea party would have been more populist and more rightwing if the funders had not been billionaires...or whether an alternate and more rightwing populist movement would have arisen if the tea party had been there and funded by the rich
You Miss the Point with Bitcoin
Also, many cities put Homeless on a one-way bus to San Francisco and other "homeless friendly" cities.

I'm 42 and I recall Florida doing this over 20 years ago when I was in High School.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

For many years I lived in Beverly Hills (near Los Angeles). They have very few homeless so it's nice but the rest of LA (Los Angeles) is a disaster right now.

It's not just cities with Good Weather though because Seattle has one of the worst homeless problems. Although I don't have any stats it feels like it's mostly just a West Coast problem as I never hear about this from the middle of America or large East Coast Cities.
Super happy I took advantage of the sale they had a few weeks ago -- bought both Photo/Designer and now can finally say goodbye to the Adobe Subscription shackles.

Thank you.
That can't possibly be right, according to Fox News, Portland, OR is an authoritarian communist hellhole. Just glad you got out alive.
Use AND with a const 1 42 times and 0s for the rest.

Cant do it faster :)
Not triggered at all, except by the continued conflation of COVID with influenza. You specifically mentioned:

"Where was your haughty indignation during the last bad flu season?"

Show me a flu season that has exerted the same amount of pressure on hospitals and healthcare workers.
Kind of proves the point why next year is going to be the year of Linux desktop.
Concerns raised over long-term health risks of ketogenic diets
Unity is the only 3rd party engine that can build to Nintendo switch (At least it was quite recently, not sure if its still the case)
The vocal group you speak of overlaps significantly with the group that wants the price of all software to be voluntary donations. At some point, their desires become parasitical.
Reciprocal relationship = either party can end it under certain circumstances. If the taxpayer wants to move, the state has no moral right to force them to stay
A company's responsibility is solely to its shareholders, not to its customers. If those two goals align, win/win. Denying expensive claims increases profitability right up to the point they lose enough customers to offset those gains. Am I missing something fundamental about capitalism here?

I'm not saying that's particularly ethical behavior and they wouldn't get my business if I could help it, but if they choose to behave otherwise, they risk delivering suboptimal shareholder value, no?
Legally? You'd be breaking the law in North Korea, so technically yes, but that's not really the point here. Does North Korea have the ability to realistically threaten my assets, livelihood or freedoms? If so, then the proper legal advice here would be to pay it. We are not discussing ethics here, we're discussing whether or not following the "just ignore it" advice is a good idea or not.

In the case of the US, they have the capacity to make legitimate threats against me regardless of where I live, with zero defense provided by my sovereign nation. So what's the right move?
> >COVID does not seem to be bouncing between animal hosts

You make antibodies to all kinds of things. You likely have antibodies to cat viruses that have no chance of infecting you.

Again, stop the fear mongering.

> they always evolve to become less deadly.

As with any 'rule', there are exceptions, but that is the general idea yes. There is little need to worry about future variants.
Exxon Considers Pledging ‘Net Zero’ Carbon by 2050
> there were far too many people who denied it was anything more serious than the flu and didn't take any precautions.

Well apparently quite a number of people must have taken precautions, because that's the explanation for why the flu has basically disappeared off the face of the earth.
Well, that answers that then!
Last CDC prescribed extension.. Congress could do whatever they wanted (eg extend it indefinitely) It's going to suck no matter who does what. either tenants or landlords are going to be hurting.. or everyone via taxes.
> I am stunned so few governments publish such "in the wild" data

[warning: tinfoil hat...] Can you think of an incentive for governments to be honest with such "in the wild" data?

If you were a senior politician trying to assist your government in driving up the vaccination rate, then publishing hard data that 94% of your population already have the antibiodies is hardly going to help, is it?
Compounding Crazy
She wasn't retired, so I'd guess in her early 60s and didn't have any other major health issues from what I understand. But I'm glad you laid your cards on the table about not caring. I mean, it was already pretty clear.

Laws exist to protect innocents from people like you.
Handwringing over obvious outcomes doesn't help, it turns out.
Much more reasonable than an employer mandating a vaccine to return to an office setting.
"Understanding binary" on a basic level is different than being comfortable using bitshifting / bitwise operators.
Article 13.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."[1]

This suggests to me that Australia is violating the human rights of its citizens. Are there any reasons to think otherwise?

[1] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
There’s an irony in there somewhere given the original motivation for the “Boston Tea Party”.

No taxation without representation.
BS of Busy
The emergency has been everywhere and ongoing for almost 2 years now. At what point do they make an effort and the government says "Hey, let's permanently bolster our hospital systems. We'll hire X amount of 'surge' staff, create X amount of 'surge' beds".

But we don't do that. Instead we act surprised every time there's a surge, the media feeds off it and everyone starts infighting. I'm not convinced hospital capacity is really the problem people say it is.
> The "provably not the Founders' intention" part is the one where you're wrong, and the court opinion specifically discusses this, which is why I recommend that people read it before jumping to conclusions.

I am afraid not. The court may have had a historical review before discussion, but they did not examine the minutes of the Constitutional Congress, where it can be read plain as day that the Founders discussed at length and intentionally rejected including a right of self-defense in the 2nd. They talked about it and decided against it. To be plain, the Framers of the Constitution did want an armed citizenry, but only for the purposes of militia, and militia for the purposes of a check on tyranny, not for crime or hunting. Back then, pretty much everyone was armed, and they wanted the armed citizenry to form militia and they wanted to prevent the government from disarming the militia. The 2nd was never about about an individual's right of self-defense. Everyone has a right of self-defense, and we do not need the 2nd Amendment to have that right. The court's decision regarding the 2nd in that 2008 case was literally pulled out of thin air, and it will only stand until someone gets around to correcting it, and it may be a technicality, but it's wrong to include self-defense because it weakens the Amendment and reduces or eliminates any check on tyranny.

The point about the Black Panthers was simply to illustrate
a proper exercise of the 2nd Amendment in that famous instance at he Alameda County courthouse. Just being a gun club is not an exercise of the 2nd (in its original intent) unless that club arms themselves and assembles in such a way to put themselves' in harms way to prevent tyranny from succeeding.
> It also says that in addition to being more contagious, the delta variant likely increases the risk of severe disease and hospitalization, compared with the original strain.

Hold on, hospitalization and severe disease and death are completely different things. This is a disingenuous use of this article.

I mean, mono is severe (tired for months potentially), but not deadly. A burst appendix requires hospitalization and is a severe medical emergency, but is not deadly in the developed world. We can go on...
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Try again, the vaccine saves lives, and in that sense is not comparable to past injustices. It is of course comparable in that it's completely understandable that there is mistrust, but prohibiting people who don't want to be vaxxed from going into public spaces and endangering themselves and others is still a life saving policy. It's not "for their own good" , it's for the good of everyone.
Well, I work in security. Identity and access management specifically. So ponder this, if you wish. It's hard to have a discussion about security recommendations with decision makers without getting pushback over costs, time, complexity, and so forth. So of course it's always good to be able to say what problems the recommendations prevent, and give them some idea about the tradeoffs for not doing it.

But decision makers rarely involve security people up front. In most shops, security is an afterthought. You see, organizations build a website, or an app, make it work, and then go, "oh, hey, now we need a login for our users". At that point, there's almost always a slate of things that have been done that ought to be corrected before further work, otherwise you get what I call "sprinkling security sugar on top of a pile of manure". Yeah, you might get to a point where it's palatable, barely, but it's still a steaming pile.

Some of the things that make the work a steaming pile can be addressed by positive recommendations, but a great many are things that just need to go away. At that point, you're right, the conversion is going to largely be "don't do X, Y, and Z".

The question then, is, why not make the OWASP tool or other linter part of the development process from the beginning, rather than wait until it's all done and then ask a security professional to evaluate for you? Imagine writing a letter or spec by just typing and adding stuff without checking your spelling and grammar along the way. Now hand it off to an editor. Would you expect the editor to provide a bunch of advice about how to do things after the fact? No, the time for that past. The editor is going to point on the flaws, the misspellings, the grammar errors, and worse. Does that sound like saying "don't do that"? Would you be mad if the editor just ran ispell and a grammar checker and said, "fix these things"?

My constructive advice, then, is that you engage with your security professional before starting work, ask them for their input, and follow it. Not without asking questions about relative risk vs cost, of course, but giving them their due for being the expert in the art and having knowledge and context which takes years to acquire and put to work.