skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I guess the claims in the articles are not "debunked" solidly. Not sure why you claimed it.

> (1) you have serious concerns about possible side effects
> (2) you have serious concerns about efficiacy
> (3) there is no pandemic going on
> (4) you want to market your product

Please provide citation for this claim for the list of pre-conditions for phase 2 trials.

>so they decided to monitor the first couple of million vaccinations closely

Where is this data? Is it publicly available, and was it based on voluntary reporting?

>because the number of people that have now been vaccinated is orders of magnitude larger than the largest ever phase 2 trial.

I see this flawed logic getting thrown around, again, and again, and again. I don't think that "number of people vaccinated" does not without a control group where no one is following up and based on voluntary reporting is substitute of a clinical trial.

Why do you think such observational data is sufficient, when all the health agencies have rejected such observational results when it comes to things like Ivermectin?

So again, two questions. Citations for the pre-conditions and data from the initial couple of million vaccinations?
There are many towns in the USA where transit will never be viable because they are too low density - no one is going to walk 20 minutes to a bus stop a mile away to wait up to 20 minutes for a bus to take them on a 20 minute ride to town if the other option is a 10 minute drive in a car.
Dogecoin is proof of work, so is Litecoin, and Monero, and Ethereum Classic and....

still should be more inclusive to validators, delegates, stakers and others, thats a separate discussion
This has also been happening in the iOS ecosystem.

I have had a few iPads over the past 10 years, and most of the usable useful apps that I used to use are now unavailable due to killed backwards compatibility.

Or, if they are usable, most have been replaced by subscription service based versions (which would never make sense to purchase for tasks I do so infrequently).

I miss the early days of iOS and all the simple apps released for a $1 that did one thing well and ignored feature bloat. Those days are gone.

Hopefully we are at a stage now where apps made today will run for a 100 years…

Actually, that would be a good wager: at what year will an iOS version be released wherein apps that are subsequently released will be available to mankind, without update, for 100 years.
Still, wouldn't it have been better to update it to python3, and maybe post a pull request?

And publish the updated script here?

There is still the matter of the psycopg dependency, but those are pretty benign to install globally.

Or am I missing the point?
How do they determine what factor is a predictor and what isn't?
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why not just have 3 tables? one for gold, one for silver, one for bronze.
My favorite are the photoshopped images where the sizing is completely off.

This sewing machine's image[0] looks huge! When in reality, it's $20 and mostly a "toy" machine; not much bigger than 4AA batteries[1]. Or maybe the dude is just really small.

More hilarious than nefarious as in your case.

[0] https://my-test-11.slatic.net/original/8dcf4c63812b0453fc3ed...

[1] https://laz-img-sg.alicdn.com/p/3126136a068a0eca84086249126b...
Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse
List from the top divided by number of residents:

Looks like New Zealand is on top, then Australia, Netherlands and Great Britain (there might be stronger countries down the list, I just calculated the first scores).

China is last, the US second to last and then Germany.

United States 0.508836076
People's Republic of China 0.117310443
Russian Olympic Committee 0.754847645
Great Britain 1.48721921
Japan 0.752177356
Australia 2.996845426
Germany 0.734939759
Italy 0.928689884
France 0.745600954
Netherlands 2.604166667
New Zealand 7.551020408

I wonder what it says about countries/societies sport system that are near to each other, like France, Germany, Japan and Russia at 0.75
> Apple has no business checking if they send or receive nude pics.

Furthermore, if Apple is deliberately, by design resending them to additional people beyond the addressee, as a feature it markets to the people that will be receiving them, that seems to...raise problematic issues.
At the early onset of the Covid-19 pandemic started, many countries sent special planes to repatriate their citizens either from the Wuhan region, or from other countries where they got stuck because of a sudden borders close. The US also organized flights, but I was personally very shocked to learn that they charged close to $1,200 for those trips, although it was clearly a case of force majeure. That was the moment I thought that Americans don't actually get their tax money worth in terms of government support, while being subject to taxation on their worldwide income even when not residing in the US.

To be clear, most if not all countries chartered special flights for free. Later on, some more flights were organized with the help of airline companies, but those were paid.
>If you read the article, it wasn't outside lawyers. He was freed because one of the doctors...

I can't read the article because it's behind a paywall. I said he needed outside lawyers to rectify the situation. Just because he was freed doesn't mean his life is back in order. I suspect he has an arrest record, criminal conviction and a record of time served to contend with. Not to mention he hasn't worked in 2+ years. I'm sure his credit is toast. What happened to the place he used to live? I don't know if his voting rights have been restored. I would imagine a google search for his name would bring up at least one article on his conviction for employers to be deterred. Imagine what your life would look like if you just vanished from civilization for 2 years. The punishment is a lot more than just the incarceration.
Mould will damage a house, cooking fumes will only damage the temporary residents. Smells go away by the time someone else moves in.

FWIW I think every place I've lived in Australia has had a vented rangehood over the stove, but maybe that is just blind luck.
I was wondering, are there any games that use Grid? I would be curious to see some real-world examples using the engine, especially the multiplayer component.
Yeah, that’s part of using a terminal. Color support is janky and many keystrokes are indistinguishable from another (for example, C-i and TAB, C-[ and ESC, C-S-anything, C-arrow keys, and so forth). You can’t have a terminal emacs without these flaws.
False, they are scanning all photos in your library, regardless of whether or not you send them on to anyone else.

1 in 1 trillion is not a particularly impressive number, considering that users have tens of thousands of photos in their library, and there are a billion active iPhones.

That's if you do believe their claimed false positive rate -- which I don't (yet), because they have published absolutely nothing about how neuralMatch actually works. They have an interesting body of work around how suspected matches are encrypted so Apple can't see them until certain conditions are made, but nothing about how they identify suspect photos.
First cases of Covid Lambda variant reported in North Louisiana
Several soft drink companies have been trying to do this, with varying levels of success. It's easy to buy a 20oz Coca Cola from a cooler at any grocery or convenience store. On the shelf? They're 16.1 oz. A few years ago they tried to introduce a 1.5 liter bottle for the same price as the 2 liter bottle.

On the flip side, go to a Family Dollar and you'll find tons of items that cost a buck in near-full size packaging with a fraction of the product you would expect from such a package.
I guess what I have is personal experience measuring things.

Maybe people with gas stoves burn their food more because of the higher potential heat?
I'm not sure about the MHZ-19B, but I've been using the SenseAir S8 and the data that comes out of it has been rather noisy when powered by a switching power supply. If you have an oscilloscope, you might want to check whether your 5V rail changes in voltage when taking measurements. For example, mine looked like the picture in the middle of this blog post: https://blog.jean-francois.im/2021/05/08/building-a-simple-a...

If that's the case, I've found that the quality of the measurements fare better when there's a linear regulator supplying the power. I bought some LM7805s off DigiKey and they should arrive sometime soon, ping me if you want to know how that experiment went.
This are 7vs7, so it is super casual co-ed leagues and in NYC.
Something you play after work. There was only one or two, leagues doing this (the shrinking of times and packing) now it is most of them. 22 to 25 mins halves, are a luxury right now.

It sucks...

Ps. There are more serious leagues, but they tend to play in fields further away from Manhattan. And the current leagues profit out of the 'there is always newbies moving into nyc every year', mantra.
I’ve spent a good amount of time in this space, mostly WRT cleaning air in wood shops. One of the problems is that the 12% difference there is mostly the smallest particles, and those are the most harmful.

It’s hugely noticeable with smoke, for instance. Humans don’t have a great sense of smell, but we do very well with smoke. The difference between air with <1% leftover smoke and air with 13% leftover smoke is obvious to everyone.

The EPA has a lot to say about this, if you’ve the patience to wade through it — https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/air-cleaners-and-...
It's not necessarily dumb. It might be a short-term solution to a short-term problem. If the cost of wheat goes up, they shrink the size of the shredded wheat box. When the cost goes down, they may increase the size. It depends on logistics.

Part of the calculation of the size of the box and its associated cost is a logistical calculation which includes both manufacturing and transportation costs. From the article:

"This change also allows more efficient truck loading leading to fewer trucks on the road and fewer gallons of fuel used, which is important in both reducing global emissions as well as offsetting increased costs associated with inflation."

Depending on the trucks they have, the number of trips they need to make, the size of the boxes, and how much the boxes cost, a change in size (either larger or smaller) can affect manufacturing & transportation cost, which affects profits. If the cost of wheat goes up, the calculation changes, and they may need to change the box size in order to reconfigure their transportation - until the cost of wheat goes down again, when they will re-calculate and potentially resize again.

Also it's worth noting that "reducing global emissions" is not a lie or excuse. These companies really are making changes directly due to their new goals of reducing emissions. Sometimes that will result in less-than-stellar changes, like smaller boxes, or crappier packaging, or something else. It can be very hard to separate "consumer exploitation" from the externalities of competing goals.
Yes, companies subject to a consent degree frequently pre-clear actions with the FTC.
If we can’t open a window because the outdoor air quality is poor (polluted city) how can we reduce indoor CO2?
> Check out this [...] It explains Rainbow Tables != Lookup Tables

It explains that rainbow tables are lookup tables which use a clever method to reduce their enormous storage requirements by increasing the lookup time. That doesn't make them any less lookup tables.

> Salts might be 100 characters in length.

Absolutely. But in that case, the rainbow table would be having trouble with the length of the (salted) password, not with the fact that a salt exists. I will stipulate that a salt will automatically add extra resistance to rainbow tables (compared to no salt) while not adding any inconvenience to the user who has to enter their password. But in the context of a password security policy, what you're getting there is added convenience, not added security.

> It could be a book.

Probably not; the salt has to be stored on a per-user basis.

> bEanx actually works pretty as a fine salt, it wrecks Rainbow tables.

Only to the extent that it makes the password longer. There is no theoretical difficulty that salts cause for rainbow tables.
There's also https://tableplus.com/ - which supports an impressive list of databases and is all round amazing
And that's ridiculous. Outside of special cases like changes to DST rules, people expect to be able to perform arithmetic on dates and get results which don't vary over time, no more than other physical measurements and operations change over time.
I have a range hood. I haven't compared the VOCs when using it or not, but I can tell you they are rather high even with it.
I grew up on a farm with a lot of animals around, and spent a ton of time in the woods until I was 18. I have terrible allergies and asthma, so farm life was pretty awful. YMMV
How would you do that? The old device doesn't know anything about the new certificate, and the new device can't prove that it's the successor to the old device.
More Data Point to Lambda Variant’s Potential Lethality
You're great, Ash ;)
> Of course they didn't. After you are fined 5b it's no surprise you go full on defensive.

I'm not willing to cut Facebook so much slack here. They very much do not want any independent public oversight of their advertising operations (e.g. they want to release self-congratulatory reports with numbers that lack denominators, and they don't want anyone to be able to call them on the BS). I think any invocation of the consent decree is likely just a smokescreen for what they really want to do.
Not to the extent of Europe circa 1492
I prefer a binary increment: 4*gold + 2*silver + bronze
First of all, I want to say that I agree with most of what you said. I want be redundant and tell again the good parts of the Dutch culture.

However, I _strongly disagree_ eith a few of your points, which I think are over-the-top and incorrect.

And I say so given my experience of living in the Netherlands and working for two of the five companies you quoted.

I understood you are Dutch and making a good point against a possibly Usonian troll which has limited view of your country, its culture, tradition and influence.

However, years working for Dutch companies and living in the Netherlands allows me to state those points I quoted below are not true. (And I am not limiting my analysis to the companies I worked, but also government, companies I had to deal with, etc.)

The points are disagree are:

> Next-level automation. Rationality. Fast error-correcting. Reliability, do what you promise.

Rationality is one of the biggest "cultural shocks" I had when moving to the Netherlands.

It is _said_ that decisions are rational; in practice, it is the _opinion of the selected majority_ that matters, or a deturpation of the poedermodel.

And above it all,

> When you want to get shit done, and get it done properly, you call the Dutch.

Trading ia what flows in Dutch blood. It is part of their DNA. It is incredible. They are incredibly good at it.

That implicitly means they are great salespeople. And salespeople sells the buyer's dream, not necessarily a reality.

What I want to say is that Dutch are not exemplary engineers. Do not misunderstand me: they had instances of great scientists and engineers, but it is not their number one cultural goal as the comment I quoted implied.

And that is so clear that engineers, for decades, are brought from abroad. The exemplary Dutch engineering companies are _managed by Dutch_, but the products are (mostly) _designed by immigrants_ (which are incorrectly called _expats_).

So, the culture of "do it properly" (which is pretry engineering mindset) is not around, as implied.

The "get it _somehow looking_ done", however, is. And that is trading mindset.

Once I learned this cultural difference, I got piece of mind and started to be more effective at my Dutch job and society—and that is the "work smart" part you told about.

And it is not the Dutch are trying to fool people delivering _somehow looking done_ stuff. Not at all! It is just that their trading features comes first over their engineering ones.

Still, and again, I tend to agree with most of what you said.
I couldn't see the actual 'results' on the page anywhere though there's a couple of ad videos running. The page is cancer.
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Good points, one question - did you mean to say "6 independent tests", or am I missing something?
I did that once for a much cheaper dental floss. I ended up with ~120 units of floss I could never use (besides it was not great fit for my teeth).

I ended up giving them all away that year with the Halloween candy. Told every kid to take one along with the candy. Accompanying moms kept giving me a thumbs up.

Likewise, my wife tends to freely give out stuff on our local buy-nothing group (though honestly we don't tend to do mass purchases anymore).
> And have you answer whether or not you now understand why people say that past forestry policy is the fundamental reason why this problem exists in the first place?

Did you miss the part where I asked if you missed the part where it's infeasible to do controlled burns on the scale that people around here are armchairing around because of the human presence within these wildlands?

It's not forestry policy that prevented controlled burns, it's urban sprawl. And there then is climate change that is moving faster than many policies already put into place.
> Look at the numbers of fully vaccinated people in Israel currently hospitalized.

The country’s Health Ministry reported last week that the two-dose vaccine is now just 39% effective in Israel where the highly transmissible delta variant is the dominant strain. The shot still works very well in preventing people from getting seriously sick, Israeli officials said, demonstrating 88% effectiveness against hospitalization and 91% effectiveness against severe illness.[1]

So 88% effective against Delta-strain COVID causing hospitalization. That seems pretty good!

I think many people saying "look at Israel" are looking at the decreased effectiveness in stopping any symptoms against Delta-COVID and think that - disappointing - headline figure (39%) is the protection against hospitalisation rate. It's not, fortunately.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/delta-variant-israel-to-give...
Any plants that purify air? I've read online about the NASA study that says Snake plant purify air but then I read that there wasn't really a conclusive end to that study. And that it's all mis information

I am not comfortable with an air filter at home so am searching for anything apart from that
I don't think we can conclude natural immunity and vaccine immunity would result in the same outcomes. Vaccines wouldn't exist if we thought that being vaccinated and not being vaccinated resulted in the same thing. If those differences exist, it's not outlandish to think there may be differences in evolved virulence and severity too. That's certainly conjecture too though.
I'd agree that HTTP/1 deserves a significant portion of the blame.

On the other hand, one maxim I've learned from my time bug hunting is that nobody ever validates strings in binary protocols. As such, I'm utterly unsurprised there are so many implementations with these kinds of bugs, and I'd say they could have been predicted in advance.

In fact… let's see… yep, they were predicted. Some of them, at least. In the HTTP/2 RFC, under Security Considerations, 10.3 'Intermediary Encapsulation Attacks' describes one of the attack classes from the blog post, the one involving stuffing newlines into header names.

Does that mean something could have been done about it? Perhaps not. The ideal solution would be to somehow design the HTTP/2 protocol itself to be resistant to misimplementation, but that seems pretty much impossible. The spec already bans colons and newlines in header names, but there's no way to be sure implementations won't allow them anyway, short of actually making them a delimiter like HTTP/1 did – in other words, reverting to a text-based protocol. But a text-based protocol would come with its own share of misimplementation risks, the same ones that HTTP/1 has.

On the other hand, perhaps the bug classes could have been mitigated if someone designed test cases to trigger them, and either included them in conformance tests (apparently there was an official HTTP/2 test suite [2] though it doesn't seem to have been very popular), or set up some kind of bot to try them on the entire web. In principle you could blame the authors of HTTP/2 collectively for the fact that nobody did this. But I admit that's pretty handwavey.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7540#section-10.3

[2] https://github.com/http2/http2-test
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At this point, variants will keep happening. Even if you get a high enough rate of vaccination in the US, large parts of the world such as Africa, India, and others have fairly low rate of vaccinations, combined with crowding, poorer healthcare facilities and not even a hope of full vaccinations until the end of 2023 or so in the best case.

Also, there is no isolating countries for any significant periods of time. People will travel, if not directly than via intermediate counties.

Pfizer/Moderna and others must be salivating at the new revenue stream from continued booster shots that will go on for the foreseeable future. Also, manufacturers of COViD detection and treatment equipment.
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How many doses of ivermectin are needed? If it is billions of doses for the vaccine, it is tens of billions of ivermectin, because you would have to take it regularly prophylacticly (forever?).

The ivermectin paste everybody is using for a few doses costs $7. People aren't paying wholesale costs for these drugs.

You can't say they pharma companies that make the vaccines are evil and only want money, but the other pharma companies that produce ivermectin are only promoting the drug out of the goodness of their hearts.
Prosecutors Seized $57K from This Man's Safe Deposit Box for Selling Bongs
As I understand it, one of the primary purposes of sex offender registries is to get information out about who is on them. I believe some people are forced to knock on doors in their neighbourhood and disclose it. In other situations they would just be getting ahead of the story.
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