skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes. That's why the epidemiological consensus is for vaccinated people to keep wearing masks, particularly indoors.

There's still no reason to believe that adding mask wearing to a leaky vaccine will reduce R0 below one. We'll probably find out though since we're running a huge, albeit uncontrolled, phase 3 clinical trial right now.

We do know on the other hand that a sterilizing vaccine can guarantee herd immunity on its own with vaccination levels well below 100%.

> Excuse me from what I'm going to say, but the Marek comparison is an antivax favourite from the gross misunderstanding that you seem to share with them.

If I were an anti-vaxxer why would I be advocating a (sterilizing) vaccine? And that kind of passive aggressive insult is a common habit of the kind of midwit who vastly overestimates his own intelligence, but let's not waste time on ad hominems shall we? I simply gave the Marek scenario as conclusive proof that imperfect vaccines can select for increasingly lethal variants. It serves as a kind of limit case where everything is maximally unfavorable. Now the question of concern is can similar viral selection occur when some of the variables, such as infection duration of vaccinated individuals, are different. We cannot conclusively answer in the negative with the data we have, so a tail risk exists.

> Yeah, this goes deeper into tinfoil hat territory.

No, it goes further into considering tail risk scenarios, which is something that most people are reliably bad at.

> Luckily there are dozens of vaccines from all around the world by now, I think competition will do the rest.

I will be greatly reassured when competition creates a sterilizing vaccine that eradicates SARS-CoV-2.
The solution is to go back to the original spirit of the Internet, when it was a set of open standards connecting people and organizations. Somehow it got forgotten and now we have a bunch of commercial companies giving you the same stuff in exchange for your privacy and who increasingly control everything you do.
The corruption of revolving doors pays for the grandkids college.

"While he was Minister for Trade and Investment, Robb approved Chinese company Shandong Landbridge Group to lease Port Darwin for 99 years. As soon as he left politics, Robb was hired by Shandong Landbridge on a $880,000 per year salary. In 2019, Robb left the position, shortly before a new foreign-interference law took effect."[0]

Good work if you can get it and still sleep at night.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Robb
At the risk of sounding stupid, I have no idea how bit-shifting and bitwise operators work, though I've worked in the field for over a decade and am now a Staff Engineer or whatever. There, I said it.

It's just something I haven't gotten around to reading yet. I suspect some code would be made clearer by it, but even when doing something similar I wound up using the math textbook was to do it even though I suspect the bit operators would be much faster.

https://github.com/sudhirj/shortuuid.rb/blob/master/lib/shor...

https://github.com/sudhirj/shortuuid.go/blob/master/shortuui...
Think of spreadsheets as an IDE for functional programming so your brain treats them as software.

Arguably, the more code works like a spreadsheet (functions transforming values, lists, or matrices) rather than stepwise ‘if this then that’ sequences, the better.

Put another way, logic can be woolier than math, in that concise mathematical formulation tends to removes ambiguity when reasoning over inputs to generate outputs.
Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
Beam is already a well known brand as the Microsoft acquisition that got renamed to Mixer, and then sold to Facebook, and was the gaming community's favorite Twitch alternative.

Any reason for the name collision?
> Who do you think is financing the profligate lifestyle we live, compared to our true earnings?

Globalized labor and environmental exploitation, of which the wealthy are gaining the most.
One should actually be a bit careful to state such intent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Amendment_(immigration)
> Because you know in some countries there are materials that local government find more offensive than mere child abuse. And once surveillance tech is deployed it's certainly gonna be used to oppress people.

In Saudi, Bahrain, and Iran there is no minimum age of consent – just a requirement for marriage. In Yemen, the age of consent for women is 9 (but they must be married first). In Macau, East Timor, and UAE, it's 14. [1]

I would allege that in all of those states they would probably find the perceptual hash of government criticism far more important to include on the "evil material" database than anything else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Asia
Do you have a citation where US (federal) law requires one to have a foreign citizenship in order to renounce US citizenship?

Or, would it be possible to renounce US citizenship without foreign citizenship, perhaps while maintaining citizenship in one's state of origin in one of the seven states—Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming—which levy no state income tax, or in one of the two others, New Hampshire and Tennessee, which don't tax earned wages? In other words, could one reside overseas but maintain a tie with a particular state within the USA without any relationship to the federal government?
Do someone have the answer to the following questions?

Why did the mRNA technology remain unapproved for a long time since its inception?

What exactly was relaxed in the approval process that lead to its EUA?

Since the vaccine has been used population wide, will the missed studies or what ever due process eventually be done? Or will they be skipped, citing the real world usage (which was not controlled or followed up in a systematic manner)?
Don’t they have no capital gains tax?
Yup. Ref the GP post, between the human and the cat, it is more likely the human that is the brainless one. Sure, when cats are just lolling around having fun, they can be pretty silly and even dumb. But when they have an interest in anything don't underestimate them (and don't mistake their lack of motivation in a specific situation for lack of intelligence).

I can't count the number of times I've seen cats try to communicate something that requires multiple levels of understanding like your story - and I'm the dumb one taking what must seem like forever to the cat to figure it out.

If you observe them closely, you will see that they know the house and owners' routines better than they themselves do. For a while when we would watch Netflix then play with the cats before bed - completely different shows, timing, etc. - they would start showing up for playtime just before the ending credits (and we started carefully making sure that we weren't moving before then so cueing themselves). So while it seems that they were ignorant of the show, in fact they were in some ways more tuned in than us, just for their own reasons, not ours.

Don't underestimate cats.
I am considering renouncing my US citizenship and it has little to do with money. I've been living abroad for 10 years now and I have no interest in moving back. I am in regular contact with my family and friends back in the US and I also have a social local social life. All I'll be giving up is paying US taxes and being able to spend more than 90 days a year visiting.
Hospitals.

The US military docked a hospital ship in New York Harbor during the peak of the initial outbreak. That ship remained almost entirely unused [0] while COVID-positive adults were being discharged from hospitals straight back to nursing homes, where they died and/or infected others. The emergency hospital established in New York's Javits Convention Center went similarly underutilized [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_ships_designated_for_...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nycs-largest-emergency-h...
AI on the Beach
I don't see how wealth has much to do with it. It's a question of citizenship and taxes.

The other extreme is what we currently have in Croatia:

A vast group of people who don't live here have citizenship and they express their patriotism by voting for the conservative right without exception for the past 30 years.

If you want to be treated as a citizen — live here and pay your taxes. If you don't, the door's that way.
Keeping the cat inside also dramatically increases the life expectancy of the cat. And it also decreases to almost zero the chance of it catching toxoplasmosis.

Indoor cats don't really care about the outside, so no, it's not cruelty, as long as it's well fed and properly stimulated.
Moderna receives fast track designation for RSV mRNA vaccine
I don't see why people care so much. If someone doesn't come to an event of mine, that's fine. They can even give reasons like they weren't interested, it wasn't their thing, etc. That's fine with me.
Where did you get that statistic? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r..., the USA's suicide rate is ~40% higher than NZ's.
I really can't tell if you're intent was to debunk my comment (the tone reads that way but tone can be misinterpreted) however your conclusion ends up making the same point I raised.
> This 1992 "edutainment" title (a word seemingly devised to revile kids)

Funny, I remember having the opposite reaction — a game marked “edutainment” was one where my parents wouldn’t hassle me about playing it for hours. Odell Lake, Carmen Sandiego, Zoombinis… good times.

EDIT: oh man I just remembered SimAnt was considered edutainment too. That might have been the most hours I sunk into a game until Shogun: Total War.
But my friends roughly know my living standard... so coming up with an excuse that is most probably a lie will not be met more favorably I would assume.
How many of those children do you think had healthy immune systems?

Kids with compromised immune systems are at risk, and there at increased risk the longer this goes on. Are you willing to talk at the funerals of all those kids?

Also, your link is: At least 172 children had died as of Dec. not 2,000.
Humans? I mean, pedestrians get killed by cars all the time. So I wouldn't expect cats to be immune to them.
Thought the same, but it does provide them a legal argument that it's not MacOS
MacBook M1 multiple screens – cheap decent adapter
This one works for me with two full HD external screens:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ethernet-Compatible-Including-Chromebook-ThinkPad/dp/B09788CX6M/

Much cheaper than StarTech, and has decent connectivity.
Unless there are more than 20 million millionaires, you're talking about the top 6 percent of the wealth distribution. I wouldn't call that particular percentile "barely middle class". That term probably should be reserved for the 60th percentile, no? Middle being 60 to 40? 70 to 30?

Edit: fixed my percentile thanks to child comment!
Precisely. If I were to have neglected to point out the issue, or refused to lead the fix, I would probably have been promoted by now. Instead I chose the hard path and got punished for it. However, the team will benefit far into the future because they will no longer be fighting a schema that was just wrong. The only cost they had to pay was my career velocity.
The Twitter thread this whole HN thread is about shows just how to make collisions on that hash. So any image can be manipulated to trigger a match, even if that image isn’t CP.
I was referring to https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128 sorry to not make it clear.
Great stuff, looks fantastic! Congrats and good luck on the launch!! Everyone here is asking about SwiftUI :) I want to know what your backend looks like if you have the chance..

- What DB are you using? (more than one? or just the one?)
- Did you build an API layer - what did ya use - how was the experience?
- Where are you storing uploaded assets?
- Where is your backend (API, DB) deployed - do you use any tools to manage that?

Thanks! All the best :)
>The best thing to do is forbid them re-entry into the country nor to hold controlling interest in any company in the US.

That seems unnecessarily vengeful considering that foreigners (that weren't originally US citizens) weren't subject to the same restrictions.
Building a random quote machine with a different stack each week. Today: Redux
I've considered it (not wealthy by the definition here) because of the prior four years and lingering weakness in the system of government. There was very nearly a successful putsch this year, and it's widely popular with the party that attempted it. I am patriotic and pay my taxes - I would pay more - but I have explored dual citizenship for the same reason that Germans did in the 1930s.
Democrats gonna Democrat
How the US treats expats is really bad.

No wonder that many renounce citizenship.
> They don't have as much political power

They're basically the North Korea of Africa. This is a massive understatement.
I think this a symptom of only the most moonshot-y getting associated with X in coverage.

Google Brain, for example, started at X. So did a bunch of Google's wearable tech, if I'm not mistaken.
Also - what’s the deal with exactly 150 employees being laid off - clearly not trying to identify problematic employees, but instead finding an excuse/methodology to lay off a specific quantity of workforce.
And look at the board that was in place for Theranos....
It's more involved than just left/right delay. We localize sound in the vertical direction and front and back as well.

This is accomplished by the delays created between direct into the ear sound and reflections off the outer ear folds.

These reflections create "comb" filters in the audio spectrum which we learn to associate with direction. Its remarkable.

A test to prove this was so was to fill the outer ear with plasticine and perform localization tests on subjects. They could not localize sound in that condition.

The early work as I recall was at the Heinrich Herz institute in the mid 1970s.

I am suspicious that part of what this article is reporting is due to phase cancellation effects causing similar filtration that people can hear as timbre change rather than actually detecting the time delay.

(Source: My recording engineering final paper)
Some day, you may learn that being rude, saying "fuck you" and calling people idiots before trying to make your case is not the way to get anyone to listen to you.

And if you don't want anyone to listen to you, why are you typing?
>Strangely after Uni and backpacking my earning potential increased dramatically but my happiness definitely plateaued

Not really strange. Why would something like "earning potential" correlate possitively with happiness?

Especially if for it to increase you also needed to spent time doing stuff for other people, indoors, attend boring meetings, day-in, day-out, lose touch with friends, forego activities, and so on.

Earning only makes things better when lack of money was a real concern (e.g. if you didn't have shelter, food, etc). But I presume you those that during Uni/backpacking years.
> SQL is dynamically typed,

No, it's not. It's strongly type.

The SQL standard clearly states that you can't store 'abc' in a column defined as integer (or date or timestamp or boolean).

It has some well defined implicit casting rules if you compare values of different types. But that has nothing to do with "dynamically typed".
The difference is between using a keyboard shortcut like vim's "yaw" to copy a word vs vim's "d3f," to delete the next three words. The former you can save to muscle memory and always do instantly. The latter you have to think about, because you need to adjust it to your needs in the moment. That will always take a moment of thinking time.
And where are all the Kavanaugh detractors making noise about Cuomo?

I'm also interested in seeing Anderson Cooper trot out the accusers and interview them about Cuomo.
There were plenty of empty beds in NYC hospitals. The hospital ship they brought was pretty much entirely unused.
I don't think it's entirely empty. There's a difference between a hostile entity who will try to harm you and whose attempts must be thwarted, and a mostly benevolent entity who will occasionally do the wrong thing if not given oversight.

Consider the different approaches to mitigating terrorism (proactive prevention against a hostile actor willing to make sacrifices to harm you) versus mitigating tax evasion (after-the-fact verification and punishment against a greedy actor willing to make rational selfish decisions).
Good luck, don't give up - that's what they expect. You have much more on the line (your children's future) than they do (their job) - though they don't feel that way about their power being threatened...can't give up.
There's this idea floating around in this thread that people get rich, then get richer in and then leave to evade taxes.

If optimizing for money really was people's intention, it's much more optimal to leave before you become mega rich.

You can move to Singapore once you have $6 million to buy a visa-by-investment. There's no cap gains taxes there, so your money can compound unencumbered.

Then again, not every ex-pat who renounces their citizenship does that, maybe because they don't want to live in Singapore. Some of us ex-patriate to countries with even higher taxes than the states.

Look at the number of people ex-patriating with a grain of salt. It's like the Drake Equation, there are many factors that would allow you to narrow the 'search space', and after all is said and done, there will just be a small amount of people who have outsized influence in the states and also evading taxes.
Overseas American here. The whole paying tax and getting nothing out of it really sucks. I’ve been out over 10 years, here are some of my good and bad experiences.

Good:
1. When I first got here, super cheap drinks put on by the marines at the US embassy. People would get wasted and it was an obvious security threat so those parties don’t happen anymore.

Bad:
1. No access to covid vaccine despite paying taxes and not having vaccine access in local country for a while. This was a hot topic in many US expat communities. Globally, Embassy and consulate staff were all vaccinated but it was “bad optics” for overseas citizens to have vax access.
2. Brother (also citizen) was on a trip to Kilimanjaro as covid was kicking off. The Europe travel ban was announced so I tried calling the embassy for travel advice, not even a return call.
3. While I haven’t personally needed it, if the doo-doo hits the fan, you’re on your own. You pay for the cost of your own evac, even if it’s a Govt flight.
4. The annual pain and cost of tax filing and bank account reporting.
5. The ongoing pain of trying to get financial services as an overseas US citizen. Banks, stock brokers, etc don’t want you.

It’s my understanding that in French government, they have a specific representative for overseas citizens. In the US, our voices are scattered across 50 states (and homelanders don’t care about us) so we always get shaft.

All that being said, I have no plans to renounce.
Most databases also allows you to remotely connect to them, does that mean that SQLite not offering that is unreasonable? No, it means that your understanding of SQLite is incorrect, as the use case for SQLite is not to offer remote connections. Same goes for dynamically/statically typed.

Your comment about this being a "design error" is also in bad taste. Have you tried looking up where this decision comes from and why it is like that? According to the SQLite folks, this is on purpose, not by accident.

> As far as we can tell, the SQL language specification allows the use of manifest typing. Nevertheless, most other SQL database engines are statically typed and so some people feel that the use of manifest typing is a bug in SQLite. But the authors of SQLite feel very strongly that this is a feature. The use of manifest typing in SQLite is a deliberate design decision which has proven in practice to make SQLite more reliable and easier to use, especially when used in combination with dynamically typed programming languages such as Tcl and Python.

https://www.sqlite.org/different.html
> To think that you can opt out of society is fantasy.

It seems to me that the wealthy who leave the country and renounce their citizenship are effectively opting out of society. It's not a fantasy for the wealthy. We live in a competitive world where people have freedom of movement. The wealthy will tend to go where they are treated best. I think society works well for everyone when the government keeps the tax rates reasonable. Over time, a government kleptocracy causes horrific suffering for the vast majority of people.
> You don't need to know biochemistry and medicine to know that you don't want carcinogenic elements in your food, right? In the same sense, you don't need to know how to check that a channel is private and secure in order to push for regulations that make your communication channels secure.

Yes, but you need to be able to conceive what cancer is and (roughly) how and why it appears in order to understand and fight the concept of carcinogens. Most people today still haven't realized the cancer and the carcinogens in the story of privacy. This is despite the fact that this was widely known in a prior time (see Stasi).

> Which is exactly the same thing I'm proposing: push for regulations that align with their interests.

Yes, except it's not happening because people are complacent, which is why people are fuming when they see stuff like this here.
Why trust CNN then who had Cuomo's literal brother puff him up with softball interviews about their mom and their good boyhood times at home while he was killing nursing home patients and knowing he was preying on women in his staff?
If you've only ever worked with weak typed languages you might be tempted to think that 'everything is/should be/can be a character string.'

it's likely that the author doesn't know about bitwise operators. This is similar to not knowing about modulus division (like in the classic 'fizzbuzz' test). Surprisingly, many developers just don't know about these things or if they do, they don't recall these features when designing a solution.
>Oh no! The tragedy of not spending everything you own!

Well, the trafic part is the spending your precious time accumulating money you haven't spent - which turns into totally useless when dead.
> The top five languages by total hours are English (2,630 hours), Kinyarwanda (2,260), German (1,040), Catalan (920), and Esperanto (840)

Some unusual suspects among the top languages, there!
Datasheet: https://www.kontron.com/download/download?filename=/download...

- Ready for Windows CE

- 10 (ten) MBit Ethernet

This must be super old.
Python devs promiscuously download code from internet, survey finds
On the contrary! The overall tax burden of many European may be lower than that of the US when you compare like for like. That is, the cost of all taxes in Europe and the cost of all taxes and the fees paid for equivalent services in the US.

For most people, that's taxes in Europe vs taxes + health insurance premiums in the US.

Even if the combined totals are equivalent or higher in Europe, government-provided healthcare provides cost predictability that doesn't exist in the US. One year I might pay a much lower amount in the US, while the next year a single medical procedure could easily double my expenses.
Afterpay has a growing list of hires that are obviously for political and regulatory fire supression[0].

[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/afterpay-square-mille...