skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who thinks that government and Big Tech are going to setup a platform just for this one disease and just for the duration of the pandemic are simply not fit to vote in a free country. This is the beginnings of a social credit system, à la China/Gattaca.
Thanks for this. Indeed, I do have an idea I wouldn't be afraid of pitching, even though there's a minimum amount of money I'd need for success.
> Yes, the traditional PC user will be migrating to Linux & BSD, but they will be such a small number globally it will be a rounding error, and eventually it will be harder & harder to stay on those platform when the hardware industry is entirely serving the closed platforms.

I think there is some hope as the example of Valve shows.
> If the vaccine is as effective as it seems, then this decision feels positively nanny state to me. It takes away an individual's agency to inform themselves of the risks on both sides and make an informed decision.

Do people feel the same way about schools requiring vaccines, or children getting the MMR, Hep B, or Polio vaccines?
Medvednikov seems to be good at marketing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Given the over-prommise-under-deliver launch of V, it boggles my mind that it gained so much traction on GH.
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New ThinkPads still have these! They have trackpads too but you can disable them in the bios to avoid accidental clicks.
> We don't know factually if a beetle can think and remember.

What does this mean? We don’t know the exact capacity of the mind of a beetle. We don’t know how its subjective experience compares to our own. But we know that the structure of neuronal tissue allows information to be stored, just like we know that the structure of DNA allows information to be stored. The relay on chemicals, temps, and pressures where weak chemical bonds and be reliably broken and made.

> We don't know how some aquatic life can survive in the mariana trench.

Again, what does this mean? This feels like the misunderstanding when we say “we don’t know how the pyramids were built” which means we don’t know everything about the exact methods used, but we understand the general technological levels of the time. While people take it as “the ancient Egyptians had a secret technology” or “they couldn’t have built them”. We haven’t been able to observe certain behaviors or exact mechanics or feeding habits for some animals, but we understand how they survive.

> Biochemistry is indeed chemistry but it isn't as straight forward as we'd like to imagine. Till this day there are cell structures we are uncertain of and would be completely wandering in the dark were it not for cheap but powerful computation available 24/7.

Understanding the exact mechanisms is not the same as understanding why cells would be round, or why a semi permeable membrane is important, or why they need energy to resist entropy, or how they need a reliable way to encode and store information,etc.

Understanding very specific and exact biological processes is not the same as understanding basic constraints placed on all matter. If its too cold for chemical reactions to regularly take place, that is a constraint. If a material does not have a structure that can be broken down and remade, that is a constraint. The inverse square law is true everywhere, which is why we can say we won’t see giant flying dragons on any planet.
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You could do it with a bunch of INDEX-MATCH formulas and pre-calculating base tax per bracket:

=(income-INDEX(bracket_min,match(income,bracket_min,1)))*
INDEX(bracket_tax,match(income,bracket_min,1))+
INDEX(bracket_base_tax,match(income,bracket_min,1))
At times it seemed to me that repeating stale guidance was the only acceptable messaging, and I found it to be thin data with a somewhat chilling effect. Other influences abounded, but the effective knowledge transfer was disappointing in my view. There are other numbers to know than today's death record and the same mask reminder.
In my (admittedly) very limited usage/understanding of Zig, this is a fairly accurate description of where the memory safety comes from.
>The problem is space doesn’t belong to anyone in particular. Who’s going to enforce it? I suppose the UN could, but, unfortunately, it’s completely powerless.

Countries can just tax them at launch time based on the payload
I don't think that the city should be able to impose this arduous constraint on private businesses. These businesses have already suffered greatly under the capacity restrictions of closures. Now they're being asked to turn away potential customers and enforce unpopular rules without compensation, under threat of substantial penalties.

If the city wants to impose this rule, then at the very least they should handle the enforcement. Outsourcing the mandate without compensation is absurd.
Over the past 40 years elected officials have done a great job of passing legislation that shows they are incompetent, corrupt, and have no ones best interested except their own and will use any excuse to increase their control over people.
> It seems pretty weird to ask the indoor business owners to be the ones who are in charge of controlling that the vaccination rate is increasing and to be the one who are punished because the vaccination rate is not high enough.

So far the data coming out of the EU has indicated that when passports and certificates were introduced, there was an uptick in vaccination the day the measure was introduced. Estonia, for instance, has seen this happen.
If glyphosate does in fact turn out to be dangerous, then some sort of carcinogenic secondary product seems like the most probable source of carcinogenicity for glyphosate. However, there seems to be a lot of confusion from glyphosate critics about which products to test and as a result, I'm not aware of any definitive research that shows a) there are secondary products which are relevant for glyphosate used as directed that b) also definitely cause cancer.

From your first link, Dr. Perry's belief that glyphosate might be clastogenic is certainly interesting, but also a little weird. The proposed mechanism is that glyphosate causes oxidative damage to to DNA which causes strand breakage. This is not a subtle mechanism and I would expect evidence for it to be readily available from simple tests like the Ames test. If you have the research he's using to support this claim, I'd definitely be interested in seeing it.

At the end of the day, we're left with the same haunting question however, if glyphosate so definitely causes cancer, then why has it been so hard to figure out? Monsanto is much smaller than the tobacco companies were so it's hard for me to believe that Monsanto masterminded some global conspiracy when they were only about the size of Expedia when Monsanto were bought out. Many of the most important papers critical of glyphosate have a number of issues. The IARC monograph seemed to deliberately exclude contradictory data, including a study that one of the monograph's writers was directly involved in. Even then, the monograph wasn't particularly definitive. The oft cited metastudy that came out in 2019 seemed like a big deal, but on closer inspection, they had decided that out of nearly 40 years of research, they would only examine 7 papers. Not to mention they also relied on data from exposure levels far in excess of directions provided by Monsanto.

The strongest conclusions we have about glyphosate seem to be that for exposure levels 10-100 times recommended by major health organizations and Monsanto there may be an increased chance of some cancers, though the effect doesn't seem to be large. This conclusion can get funky because some data (the IARC panel was criticized heavily for this) suggest that past a certain point, higher levels of glyphosate correlate with lower cancer rates.
You’re not going to find that price at any reputable provider for 2019. There is BuyVM.net (very reputable), but they offer only up to 2012 I believe unfortunately.
> It seems pretty weird to ask the indoor business owners to be the ones who are in charge of controlling that the vaccination rate is increasing and to be the one who are punished because the vaccination rate is not high enough.

If their businesses are spreading the disease then it seems entirely reasonable.
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At my current company, my department would be able to find more experienced contractors for well below what another department here rents them out for.

So I can see internal pricing being an issue as well. Internal IT charges for quotes. MSFT just quotes.

This happened at a prior company as well. IBM was routinely hired over our internal team as they were cheaper.
What is the best online service to use to incorporate as a Deleware C-Corp?
I need to incorporate as a Deleware C-corp. I know hiring a lawyer is the proper way to do this but I have a low budget. Are there any online services that are solid to use?
The one created by the violence from gangs using American guns?
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Don't you have security policies to make you must go through IT?
Should we Open source our multiplayer VR app?
Hi everyone,

Some context; we've created a VR app that allows teams and/or friends to easily gather up and play different mini-games together. Currently, there are games such as paintball, tower defense, and team puzzle races.

We're considering making the game/map creation open source and letting people make their own unique creations in Unity.

Since it requires quite a bit of work and maintenance to make something open source, we'd like to hear if there is any interest for this?
Any tips or advice on this approach would be much appreciated as well!

You can check out the app here: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5749594168399388/

(feel free to reach out to me as well, jos@remiovr.com)
meteor is still around.

That said, phoenix/elixir's live view accomplishes the same thing in a database agnostic way. its sync system is built on channels and scales WAY better than meteor ever could.
The inconsistency with GNU date is more visible from Feb:

$ date -d "jan 31 next month"
Wed Mar 3 00:00:00 PST 2021
$ date -d "jan 30 next month"
Tue Mar 2 00:00:00 PST 2021
$ date -d "jan 1 next month"
Mon Feb 1 00:00:00 PST 2021
$ date -d "feb 28 next month"
Sun Mar 28 00:00:00 PDT 2021

Edit: This was on my unconscious mind for a bit and I came up with an additional test case to confirm a suspicion I realized.

$ date -d "2016-1-31 next month"
Wed Mar 2 00:00:00 PST 2016
date -d "2016-2-1 next month"
Tue Mar 1 00:00:00 PST 2016
date -d "2016-2-1 next year"
Wed Feb 1 00:00:00 PST 2017
$ date -d "2016-3-1 next year"
Wed Mar 1 00:00:00 PST 2017

GNU date will add the duration of the CURRENT interval (ignoring already occurred deviations, like leap years) relative to the specified base date.

The oddity in behavior I observed above is adding the length of the month of Jan to dates in Jan. I suspect only a programmer would find that inference remotely correct.
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> so as a customer, I need to keep track of all public keys of my customers?

Yes. You probably want a reasonable limit. A customer might have ten phones, but if they have a hundred phones they already know they're a weirdo and you won't be the first one to tell them that. You will probably also want to have a way for customers to distinguish one from another, so that they can say "Oh I gave my old iPhone to my brother" and delete the unneeded credentials.

The good news is that as their name might suggest, they're not secrets, so now you don't need to worry about anybody stealing them. If Keyri did even a halfway competent job of this they're useless to anybody except you.
My body, my choice only applies when we're talking about terminating the lives of unborn children, right?
I think the snark is overboard, but I get what you are saying - but I will defend the article in that it's a neat experiment and it sort of highlights gaps in accessibility, like others in the thread have noted.

However, my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I currently have a Commodore 64 emulator I love playing around with - and doing everything in keyboard commands is a pita for things like word processors and spreadsheets even when you have the shortcuts in muscle memory.

There's a reason the mouse was so successful.
I'm not familiar with this research field but I would be concerned about what's the price tag came with that offer, and whether accepting that dataset is indeed in align with the research purpose, e.g. does it contain the relevant info, is it comprehensive, how could researchers prove that it's not manipulated / is the model used in production / is not biased towards FB's interest.

I believe it is reasonable for FB to react to scraping under the current circumstances. But it seems equally reasonable for the researchers to go with the data collection approach they chose.
You can do this with Tiller (https://www.tillerhq.com/), it pulls it down for you.

Also when trying to remember the tiller app, I found that Excel now has this as part of office 365 https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21292642/microsoft-money-...
No, the article states they are not.
There is no place for an out of dom signalling mechanism like alert() on the modern web. I would hope to see a multi-year phase out of something this integral. I can't remember the last time I saw it used for something useful.
Not to take away anything from the fun of figuring out Thunderbolt on Linux, and such. But, I wonder if a NAS with a 40 Gbps or even 100Gbps NIC hooked up to a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter would achieve a better result without extra effort.
I vaguely remember a paragraph from a Pixar interview around the topic of attention to detail.

I can't find the interview but maybe someone knows which one I'm talking about. It was around how the graphical designers put a lot of effort around designing the under side of a draw inside of a desk which no one will see. It was around the topic of going the extra mile for the things that don't matter to set the stage on how much they must care about the things that do matter.
> even though its brand new and barely tested out in production

What would get you to change your mind on this? Like, Rust has been heavily tested in serious production for years at this point. 1.0 was six years ago. Where is the bar? How much usage counts? What is no longer "brand new"?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/773790/Ostriv/
I like these people: https://www.delawareregisteredagent.com/

To be a Delaware corp, you must have a registered agent with a physical office in Delware, and these guys are right across the street from the Dept. of Corporations. You can get a physical office lease and have them open mail, forward it, or scan and send it to you. It's pretty cheap and this is all they do. Good service and good online portal, too.
I've seen this objection a few times and I'm really not sure why anyone that had COVID would be all that fussed about getting the shot. We don't know how long antibodies from having already contracted it last for, so why not get the vaccine?
Investment bankers are judged for using the mouse when using excel. It’s a rite of passage to be completely mouseless
I am pro-vaccine (and fully vaccinated), but I don't support this policy at all.

I don't believe this will have much of a net effect on vaccination rate, I believe it will disproportionately negatively impact poor and minority populations in NYC who already have a bad/mistrustful relationship with health care and government, and it is obviously a huge new governmental intrusion into our daily lives. It might well lead to anger and violence (as similar moves have across Europe).

These are my opinions, but I think the strongest arguments against it are facts: if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2. And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice.

This policy comes from an almost hysterical fixation on "cases", which are not a metric of any meaning. SARS-CoV2 is not going away. We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC, thanks to the very high vaccination rate amongst the vulnerable population:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-trends.pag...

One can certainly argue that there exist small groups of people for whom the vaccine is not perfect protection. This is true, but it's no different than all other viruses, which have threatened immunocompromised people forever. We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals. So while I empathize with them, this still seems like over-reach to me.
> I absolutely want to check, statically, that my user input is `ByteString`, or `String`

My condolences, you must have horribly unreliable user widget/user input libraries. My TextFields always deliver a "String" to me (unless I've set them up to deliver numbers). I don't need to check that statically.

> You are confusing "type" with "not a function type".

No I am not.

You don't seem to understand what I meant with "You are not going to statically type check your users".
(2019) and the discussion from the first post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919988
> most people just want somewhere to live

sure, except old houses sell for pretty high prices, implying there are plenty of people who want more than just a house.

I think there is a big difference between people without a house, who want to get on the lower rung of the housing ladder, and escape the poverty of renting (where rent costs more than mortgage payments, without any equity) versus those that have a house and want something better.

Cheap houses should be build (maybe even w/ government funding) to keep otherwise exploitative rentals competitive, but there should still be healthy competition & industry in higher quality housing.
yes meteor is still around but it's warts make it a nonstarter for me now that I know how it usually goes when in prod
The VDI angle makes the most sense out of all the answers I've seen. However, I can't imagine anyone concerned about security would do BYOD for laptops or desktops.

Every person I've ever seen using VDI has a company PC plus a virtual desktop, so there's no cost savings there. The main advantages I can see are easier backups and not having to worry about network bandwidth too much (just enough for RDP is good), but there are drawbacks too like dealing with remote printing, a lack of support for hardware security tokens, etc..

For example, try to get a YubiKey working [1] with WebAuthN or FIDO when using RDP / VDI. It's basically impossible and you're stuck with crappy 2FA like TOTP.

1. https://demo.yubico.com/webauthn-technical/registration
Interesting. Thank you for pointing that out. The "less developed" comment may have turned some people off, but FWIW:

> An EU Digital COVID Certificate is a digital proof that a person has either 1) been vaccinated against COVID-19, 2) received a negative test result, or 3) recovered from COVID-19.

Regarding negative tests it says:

> The Member States agreed on a standard validity period for tests: 72 hours for PCR tests and, where accepted by a Member State, 48 hours for rapid antigen tests.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re... (reformatted from original as plain text)

I wonder what the standard is for "recovered from COVID-19"; i.e. whether it's just a doctor's diagnosis, contemporaneous PCR confirmation, or subsequent antibody test.
"Blurting our thoughts out into the ether, be they smart or dumb thoughts is a pretty stupid thing to do."
Not sure how to respond to this.
Why is there human attention focused on this at this point in time?
Job postings never show the pay, don't let that be the holdup keeping you from applying to top companies, that you are in disbelief of levels.fyi. In my experience it's absolutely accurate.

I don't know anything about the ML world, I understand that can go even higher. But a sr software engineer doing backend, full stack, or mobile can indeed make $300-$500k at FAANG.
Not the guy you replied to but looking for similar advice. What's the best way to get in touch with you?
Failing upward and job security from complex systems is a strange thing. It's never done outright. Like, I've never had a conversation with another engineer where we conspire or they tell me they're going to or have built a complex system just for this purpose. It's only observed amusingly after the fact.
Whatever. Within a couple of decades at most we'll know who was right.
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Assuming there is an offer, nothing stops you from taking it. You can offer to pay more for chips, but your competitors aren't necessarily going to sell.
Yeah sure, but I'm not sure accountability for who knew what and when is the concern here. Maybe you are on to something? I haven't the faintest.
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In the past few years IT salaries in continental Europe have increased significantly and, adjusted for the cost of life, German salaries are significantly higher. French and Spanish are almost on par.

If you make less than 40K£ in London, you are likely to experience a form of poverty that is unseen in the continent (pests in your flat, revenge evictions, very very bad healthcare, etc…). Outside of London, salaries are ridiculously low.
Actually there already have been previously undocumented side effects with the new vaccines, heart inflammation with the mRNA vaccines and blood clotting with a couple of the others. These were the short term side effects that weren't caught during the safety trials. We have zero data about long term side effects.

While I can't give you an "actual pathway to a long-term problem" by which I assume you mean a mechanism of action I will note science is hard, scientists can't always predict what will happen, and serendipitous discoveries happen daily. The long term risk is unknown. I think if you're at risk for serious infection you should get vaccinated, if you're not really at risk it's more difficult to weigh the relative risks.
> but in paradox style games where you need to generalise a system to fit everywhere in the world

Interesting that you say this, because EU4 is filled to the brim with region-specific mechanics (to the point where it's actually kind of annoying).
> the demography of many European villages remained relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century

I don't think this is true. Medieval demographics is a very interesting subject and seems to have fluctuated a fair amount. Medieval populations doubled between 1100 and 1300.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography#High_Middl...
I personally doubt it. The 4x play loop emerges naturally once you start to populate an empty map. There is also enough excuses about historic (pre medieval) colonialism that this give similar justification independent from whatever happened in the USA.