skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the default assumption given practically every other known virus, and is the core assumption of all epidemiological modeling. Somehow all what is known from epidemiology and virology has been thrown out of the window during COVID. If SARS-CoV-2 is somehow involved the sky is falling on us on any moment unless otherwise proven. Bizarre.

Don't know if they have a part in this, but at least it's extremely profitable for pharma to assume there's no immunity but what they provide.
Javascript does exactly wat it does but I don't see anybody rushing to praise it
They are talking about mandatory vaccinations for some schools.
courses offered by polytechnics and online learning platforms not being up-to-date, restricted and uneven access to expert implementers
Stripe Atlas simply for the peace of mind that Stripe will work. There’s no other great processor that accepts startups business if they block ur account U’re done.
> the second amendment enshrines the ability for those such as the disabled and women to have a fighting chance against a violent attacker

The 2nd Amendment never had anything to do with crime and self-defense prior to DC v. Heller 2008. Militias do not enforce law. It also, fwiw, has nothing to do with hunting. The sole original purpose of the 2nd was to be a check against tyranny. That is all it ever was until Justice Scalia invented the idea that the 2nd Amendment was a right of self-defense because most Americans (incorrectly) believed that it was... but it was not and is not true that most Americans believed a right of self-defense was included in the 2nd, only those repeating the false propaganda of the NRA.

> Since we've gone off to the first amendment, do you believe "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" only applies to an organized militia and not individual people?

You missed the point, but I'd like to see a single individual try to peacefully assemble.
What you are saying is that a small, relatively rich country can invest in supporting their own language: that, to me, is not political, but as raised previously, financial. It's also a good incentive for other big players (Google, Microsoft, Apple) to invest in a language that has prospective customers willing to spend more.

Serbian government would certainly support Serbian language voice recognition and synthesis, but probably not with as much money as Iceland would.
everyone ditched gnome as soon as their design head started to mandate "copy apple on everything, even the dumb things"

i wasn't even too sad with them shipping features missing 90% of the old functionality while they got the code right, but doing that just to copy apple frivolous design choices was just too much.
I know three people who got it twice and another who is a friend of a friend. Only one of those is known to be immunocompromised. Two of those got it the second time after also being vaccinated. I do wonder though if some of the second cases aren't people going in with the flu and having some covid fragments in their nose.
I was glad for Australia’s straightforward “lock down to zero until we can do something better” strategy but since then several “better”s have arrived and the Morrison government has been unable to accomplish anything. In fact the whole lockdown regime appears to have been a lucky first guess, as no sensible action has subsequently been taken.

And locking your own citizens out has never been legitimately defensible. But Australia has long taken a “fuck you” attitude to her ex pats, unlike other countries who court them as valuable members of the country.
> Vaccine isn't necessarily easy for everyone, and catching COVID isn't necessarily hard for everyone

There seems to be this prevailing belief that Covid infection == near certain death, when that's just not the case, but try explaining that...
> And it's heavily skewed towards tapping into that exclusively as that's the cheapest source and PoW is location neutral.

Are there any big miners who are known to be using stranded/wasted energy that would be produced anyway, as opposed to operating stranded plants that would otherwise be shut down or have capacity reduced? I only really follow the publicly traded miners (and with a bearish thesis), and I've seen a lot of miners getting dedicated coal/natural gas capacity but very little in terms of recapturing wasted energy.

And these are (mostly) US-based public companies, so they have the most to gain by projecting an ESG image.
> If you can't make a bad choice, you can't really make any choice.

We should consider the wider context here. The unspoken presumption is, that when a play-through of a big RPG lasts dozens of hours the typical player plays it only once. Hardcore players may learn a lesson from a strategic failure for their next play-through, but for the typical player it just means a disappointment. This is the reason why there are so many questions of novice players on RPG gaming forums about which class to choose or which build to use. Of course, if you are playing something like NetHack that expects you to attempt multiple play-throughs, then there are no real strategic failures. You only have to cope with a lot of tactical failures, which is okay.
A modern incarnation must navigate the maze of low-density vacation homes, private property, ski resorts...
I think a lot of people, myself included, would like bills to be hyper focused and ban the use of riders.

There are a few reasons for this. One is that it is easier to keep track from the public perspective. A title should reflect the contents of the bill (in this case it is not obvious that bitcoin regulations are part of infrastructure). This could help reduce confusion and manipulation. It helps with transparency because it reduces the cognitive load (Note we can still talk about a "plan" or "package" that is a group of bills and so many conversations would stay the same).

The second part is that it helps reduce squabbling over nuance. A current bill might be 99% agreeable but that 1% is pretty contentious. If it was more compartmentalized then we could pass 99% of those things and get them in place faster rather than throwing the entire thing in the trash and restructuring (which often links back to the first point). This also reduces some of the toxic nature in politics where sometimes politicians add a component to nuke their own proposals so they can complain about it to their party's constituents.

This can probably be improved upon a lot but I think highlights the frustration with how things are done today and people are looking for systematic changes to fix those problems.
It's a good thing you know what the right takes are, though.
Yeah, if they took the path of ARDI's Executor from the 90's, it IS possible to have a completely clean-room emulation (of Apple) without violating any intellectual property.
Wow. Okay, so my theory about them trying to stave off future legislation is likely correct.
Thanks! That was a good read!.
besides massive cheating and drug use? Yahoo says china has the most gold, but the USA has the most medals overall. I don’t get the point of this article.
Pushing for near universal vaccination isn't at odds with wanting to maximize pharma profits. Quite the opposite.
Why not set all US system to have russian locale?
There's a difference between an accent and pronouncing words wrong. I would expect an English speech recognition system to handle the various accents there are in the world (the US has several accents of course), but it shouldn't handle incorrect pronunciation of syllables if it comes at the expense of recognizing clean data. If it doesn't come at its expense then I guess it's fine.
I was hoping that the punchline was going to be that the Rust compiler optimizes this down to a bit shift.
Come on. It's because when we were trying to flatten the curve, there were far too many people who denied it was anything more serious than the flu and didn't take any precautions.

Same with slowing the spread. People did not listen.

Because they were "free critical thinkers who can reach their own conclusions thank you very much". And they were wrong. And now they've put us here.
>I think building lots of houses in forests, is a similar problem as when people build lots of houses in flood plains.

So is the Bay Area a good place to build houses? Santa Rosa, CA?
The sound of falling Redwood trees is what they used for the sound of At-At's walking in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (those huge 2 and 4 legged walking machines). Boom, boom, boom. The Ewok scenes on forest planet "Endor" were filmed near the area of "The Avenue of the Giants" (Redwood forest) in N. California.
I suspect many companies are stringing dates along like this to avoid their teams moving away remote en masse.
vrrooom vrrooom, "that'll be $3000, sir"
Decentralized pools like Rocketpool do lead to more decentralization and are almost not affected by the economies of scale issue mentioned above (there is a small commission to pay to the operator).

While pooling hashpower doesn't solve the economies of scale mentioned above. If your hashrate per kW is bad you will get a very poor yield on your investment. There is also a commission to pay to the pool operator. Pooling in PoW serves only to receive a more consistent revenue stream.
Great source and includes the downloadable data, thanks for sharing.

> While antibody positivity in the oldest age groups remains high, it decreased slightly in some regions and countries. This means that some people in these groups did not have enough antibodies to be detected in the test, not that they do not have any immune protection against the virus.

I found that sentence intriguing, here is the link they recommend for more information to explain why people might still have immune protection even with low (undetectable) levels of antibodies [1].

[1] https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/04/28/antibodies-and-immunity-h...
It is a race between variants and vaccines... and the variants are winning.

I think the only solution is to engineer a benign variant of the virus... one that spreads easily but doesn't make people sick, and yet gives full immunity to those who are infected with it. Then gather all the anti-vaxxers by offering them free concert, pizza and beer, and secretly release the benign variant on them!

This is the only way to immunize the entire country. Once infected with the benign variant, the anti-vaxxers can be encouraged to go to concerts, crowded places, not wear masks, and so on. The benign variant will soon be the dominant variant, displacing all other variants!
"Computer says No."
Ah, I remember "Nynorsk" (sorry for the bad spelling and ASCIIation) localisation of GNOME from early 2000s!

Generally, it takes only a few dedicated people to get software localised if good enough infrastructure is provided by the community!

I hope that's what we see with Mozilla Common Voice too!
You had colour! Back in my day... ;-)

Really though, similar story here: my dad brought back an LC III and Color StyleWriter 2400, and before long I was drawing rocket ships and poo.

I realised that my pictures looked better in LogoWriter than drawn freehand in Kid Pix. And now I ended up writing software!
> Long covid is too frequent, otherwise.

Q: Is there something about this that we need to worry about particularly?

I ask in the context of having had the Epstein-Barr virus in my late 30s and having been essentially knocked completely flat by it for the best part of a month, and not having recovered to full fitness for several months more.

When I was a child, my Dad had shingles (apparently for the first time) in his late 40s, he was really quite poorly, that also took him months to get over.

Endemic viruses already do this stuff, if you've even had a proper dose of seasonal flu you'll know what I'm taking about.

Is there a reason (and non-anecdotal data...) to specifically worry about the long-term effects of C19 _more_ than all the other endemic viruses?
This is kind of an aside, but can mods edit links the way they can post titles?

This is routing to a plain HTTP URL for some reason despite a valid HTTPS one existing.
Starlink against HughesNet and Viasat around the globe
I see your point but my first bit just meant to highlight the unfair disproportionate energy attention PoW has been getting specifically vs just about any other use case.

I don't personally think you should be making moral judgements about energy use though. Let the market decide what's a good use of energy. If you have a carbon problem, tax / regulate that, PoW won't care. It will adjust through difficulty adjustments.

But if you are worried about PoW boiling the oceans if left unchecked, the numbers should comfort you it's at worst going to tap mostly into wasted energy / mostly renewable and probably not have a noticeable impact even extrapolated to a peak outcome (and probably even be a net positive).
I imagined more along the lines of them hitting Shell HQ and extorting the execs for millions and millions. Shutting down a corporate office seems a more likely scenario than hitting a multitude of effectively independent franchises.
Public health in this context is the pretext for these empty talking points with weirdly capitalized letters.

It's a false conflict and a false dichotomy. The quality of thes arguments are self defeatingly poor, which is the point, because the people making them need others to blame. Hysteria causes hesitation. Solving the problem and merely keeping it in the air with what would be hate speech in any other context to manage it are conflicting goals.
The maneuver that always astounded me at the time was right clicking on the menu bar and pulling it down, to reveal whatever application was open on the "screen" behind it. (The Amiga had separate windows and screen abstractions, though I don't recall if I'm using the right terms.) No matter how heavily loaded the system was, whether it was doing floppy I/O at the time, etc., that pull down motion never became choppy. It did feel a lot like an RTOS in that respect.

You could overload the system in other ways though, particularly disk I/O in Workbench.
Or they could write short, tweet-style posts on a platform like micro.blog so they can still write in a way that aligns with the way their brain works while not having to deal with the way Twitter doesn't (and micro.blog will syndicate to Twitter for them so they needn't lose the Twitter audience).

I strongly suspect the real reason is they just doesn't care enough to spend time trying something different. And that's totally fine! They have absolutely no obligation to change just because a bunch of folks dislike reading tweet threads.

But there are absolutely alternatives out there if folks are interested in checking them out.
Let's not be hyperbolic. He may not have handled covid perfectly but there are dozens of governments and legislatures out there that literally made mask mandates and lockdowns illegal to implement. If he deserves prison what about them?
US has a high crime rate, because it has laws introduced specifically to increase the crime rate in specific racial groups; that’s where the War on Drugs came from.

China doesn’t count Uyghur extremists as incarcerated for the same reason the US doesn’t count their brethren it kills en masse in Middle East as death sentences. It’s just a different thing.

As for the rest of the list - most of it is just US state propaganda calling resocialization programs “brainwashing”, or leveling commercial buildings built without building permit “destruction of churches”. Some of that works exactly the same in US (forced labor), or is just entirely made up (“quarter million die”).

Now, some of the stuff is a real problem of course - death sentences and organ harvesting - but throwing it together with the usual US propaganda doesn’t help the cause.
Ah, Australia. Prison nation extraordinaire.

Here's the article the author of the blog post references: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-says-it-wi...
Your implication is correct that the CDC chart is mostly incomparable to the OP. The chart tries to combine incomparable data, which annoyingly requires interpretation of the legend to understand correctly.

The circles indicate nucleocapsid (i.e., infection only) while the squares indicate spike (i.e., infection or vaccination).

So, Puerto Rico is 70% infected and/or vaccinated (a square). Whereas NY is 13% infected (a circle).
Apple will scan local storage photos on iPhones for child abuse images
> C being a shitty language that does not force or even encourage programmers to handle errors

I don't see where this is coming from. Most of the world's top filesystems are written in C, and they work just fine. Maybe other languages could get better results, but it's hard to say with so little data.

> implementation knowledge about file system technology is generally stuck in the 1990s

If you are talking about me, that might be true, I'm relatively new to this and still learning. But there's definitely people out there with some serious "implementation knowledge". And tools like xfstests did not exist in the 1990s, that makes a huge difference.
Note that the recent numbers in the CDC chart all seem to be measuring antibodies that only appear from infection, not vaccination (indicated by a circle instead of a square in the chart), while the numbers from the article appear to be measuring antibodies that appear from either infection or vaccination, so they are not directly comparable.
It seems to depend a lot on current conditions and is ultimately probabilistic. I.e. it would not fail 100% at 1000, but some large enough fraction of the time that that strategy was not shippable for Wasm. IIRC it might only have been 10% of the time, but it quickly increases to 100% along a sliding scale up to the hard limit. Part of that is fragmentation as well, because Chrome uses an allocator underneath that can carve out fairly large reservations that fragment the address space.
I'm saying that the parent's comment about pushing for herd immunity through both means is not exactly true. We are moving towards herd immunity by both methods unintentionally, but the only method being pushed is vaccination. So much so, that antibodies derived from infection are not even being counted, but rather those persons are being told they need the vaccine anyways.

It's a bit like measuring outputs rather than outcomes.
The theory is that having some people casually coming and going will bring new variants into the country.

Which might be a defensible stanve if there weren’t various incoherent and knee jerk policies and exceptions all around.

I’d like to say, “well look, they’re simply doing the best one could given all the known and unknown unknowns”. But they aren’t even doing that.

Sad to think they might be doing the best they can. Australia’s gone from a strong sensible start to utter incompetence.
What's less capable about it? To me it looks less slick, but in terms of affordances it's way better.
No, they absolutely will not. I won't go into details but I can tell you from personal experience this is unequivocally false. The USA will in most cases do exactly nothing for their citizens in distress. Even the local US embassies will refuse to get involved in almost all cases.

You know who did get involved in our situation when I was with a group of mixed citizens from USA, UK, EU etc...? The UK and Denmark. France, the USA and Germany all did nothing at all.

This myth that the USA will save citizens from any situation needs to die. It's untrue and dangerous since it encourages Americans to do stupid things because they are convinced the Marines or Seals will come save them.
MySQL and MariaDB are REALLY great software. The real difference is not one of quality (both are proven performers, and both have survived the test of time, both are used at scale by some pretty giant customers), it is one of quantity. Postgres simply has more features by a pretty wide margin than does MySQL. For many DBAs and developers, Postgres is a more flexible choice due to the additional capability.
>While undoubtedly true, it’s also true that Linux is nowadays the default OS for VFX

That's mainly because it's cheap and VFX is like a "factory production line" style job. But VFX is also very much a niche compared to vector graphics and DTP (and even more so, compared to bitmap graphics).

In other words, if Affinity's concern is that the Linux market for their stuff if small, then the intersection of "the Linux market for their staff" that "has the standard platform for VFX" is much much smaller.
It strikes me there is a correlation with intelligence occurring.
Interview with Sarah Cone, Founder of Social Impact Capital
The last one on the list 30 - Arcosanti. Was actually built out in the desert of Arizona.
I too am not a lawyer. But banks and money transactions have numerous provisions in them to hamper criminals who try to hide money.

Perhaps I'm wrong about money laundering. But what if prosecutors instead hit you with smurfing? (https://www.goldinglawyers.com/smurfing-money-example-lost-e...)

Perhaps smurfing is closer to the mixing. The _intent to hide_ is by itself illegal in the law, and frowned upon severely in our country.
I have two people on my team who are both in their mid-20s. Both have had covid in the last couple of weeks, one hadn't had his vaccine the other only his first dose. The one without ended up in hospital for 2 weeks and was very nearly intubated. The other had a mild cough and has happily worked through it. I know which one I'd pick.
A friend who has a US wife is in the states now to visit family and also most importantly renew her Colorado drivers license for similar reasons.
I don't know, at the rate we're going it feels like they'll require 5 year olds to have the Covid vaccines to attend public school after finishing a five month, phase I trial in 3,000 kids.
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2020/10/29/indigenous-burnin...
Thanks! Although I'm not sure I fully understand your first point. Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US) or are you saying that in general, building SaaS in India is advantageous?

And yes, devxp is one of our main focus areas. After dealing with authz at prev small and big companies, we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app developers time across their stack. And in terms of Zanzibar, like others, we think it's a very flexible approach to modeling permissions and access control, so we're basing parts of our implementation on it.
This guy and his writing have been debunked pretty solidly, you are bringing a wet paper bag to put your bowling ball in.

Just read the bit you quote and try to wrap your head around it: according to him the vast majority of the recipients of the mRNA vaccine had local and systemic side effects, except of course that that never happened...

I'll say this again: there is no evidence that will convince you, but every bit of evidence that confirms your preferred position, no matter how far fetched is taken as gospel.
Also, here is an example of managing shared state with Unstateless vs. Redux: https://andy.wittrock.us/redux-vs-unstateless
For every purchase over a certain price this should probably be legally mandated. The same thing happened to a number of parents who had kids spend $1000s on the app store before they became more aggressive with deciding with how things can be purchased.
Wow. That's much worse.
Why complain? Renounce your citizenship and get over it.
Well, not just giraffes, ALL ANIMALS have been misunderstood, including humans. If we could just respect every sentient animal that would radiate into our society to increase moral and ethic health.
> secretly release the benign variant on them

Well, no. No need to hate on each other.
Exactly. This myth that the USA bails its citizens out of sketchy situations needs to die.