skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is a troll comment, but yes, I value my privacy over the lives of children I don't know.
End of an era! But let's see if this is a power play to get Tebas to budge.
Do you really have enough trust in the Apple App Store curation to just pay for random apps?

Last time I tried doing that, the app was bugged and Apple refused to refund.

My personal impression is that it's already overflowing with "soft scams", which has the same end result for users (wasting their money and/or time), whether the apps technically abide by the store rules or not.
But variolation requires manually treating people one by one.

We need a better way -- which is to convert the virus itself into a vaccine, which will then spread automatically in a community.
Yeah, it usually takes a little while to appear on other platforms, annoyingly.
What are the advantages of a permissioned blockchain over the same collection of entities without the blockchain? If you have a set of trusted entitites that sign and publish the data, why do they need the blockchain part?
"- The highest capital gains tax bracket in the USA is 20% [2]"

Not really, because they can arbitrarily change it and backdate the change at any time, and they are currently planning to raise it to 43% and backdate the change.

In truth, the US does not have a fixed capital gains rate.
No problem, we just have to improve our compilers until the above actually compiles to a single machine instruction... ;)
Vectorstyler is a new vector graphics app for Mac and Windows. It has more features than Affinity Designer: distortion envelopes, bitmap tracing, shape blends.. some features are even more advanced than in Illustrator. Check if it fits your needs.

https://www.vectorstyler.com
I've struggled a bit with LSP mode (at least for Elixir). I find it hard to use as a full-time IDE replacement, especially since IntelliJ has such good emacs keybindings.

However, as a general text editor, emacs is still great. And I enjoy org-mode.
Can we stop with this please?

> The fact that more people are in the hospital in Florida right now than at any time in the last two years

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

The metric you are describing is hospital census, which is _not_ at an all-time high right now.

What is at an all time high? The percentage of people in the hospital who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, regardless of their presentation.

The roundtable just yesterday confirmed that there are hospitals which have near 100% positivity, despite 80% presenting for things unrelated to a respiratory infection.

Some people are there for blunt trauma or routine surgery, but have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

I just don't understand the point of constantly misrepresenting this metric. It muddies the waters of actual concerns about the spread of the virus by making it seem like those are are concerned are dishonest.

Stop it.
Well that is under the false assumption of you own your mobile.

Which isn't true for Apple. Not too sure about Android. But everything you do on your Apple Devices, including its Hardware, Software and its Services, works more like Apple lend it to you for a price.

And as other mention, only the government and not a private company.
...not really? Bitwise operators can be explained in a couple minutes, tops, and follow naturally from another concept everyone working in computing should be familiar with: boolean logic.
I think congress put in some protections for.. employers, on this lol
That is a very naïve way to look at it. It is capitalism, and capitalism is brutal. So even if your view applies to some cases, it certainly does not to all.

Take Jeff Bezos' commentary after his ride into space for example:

> I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this. So, to every Amazon customer out there and every Amazon employee thank you from the bottom of my heart.

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1417515577275453440

I get it that we, the consumers paid for this trip. But his employees? What do they have to do with this? Isn't it supposed to be a "collaborative and mutually beneficial" relationship, which would imply that Bezos is not making money from his employees, but exclusively through them, and paying them what they deserve? Yet he claims that they paid for it, which implies that he is not paying them what they deserve, since it is the customer who is supposed to pay his salary, not the exploitation of his employees.
This seems overly cynical. The situation on the ground with regards to the virus is rapidly shifting.
VidEarth: Click dots on a Google Map to view video from that exact spot
These type of riders in must-pass omnibus bills are abominations.
I also added it after your first comment so might have snuck it by you ;)
I'm curious what it is that you're seeing, if you have the chance to leave an image!
> How many tech companies will just let their offices go when the lease is up?

Any of them which have learned how to produce as much value working remotely as they did working in an office, less the cost of renting the office.

Ha, who am I kidding? It won't be a rational choice.

The companies that will continue demanding in-office work will be those driven by a company culture that _distrusts their employees_. I expect that if sufficiently many companies opt to remain fully WFH and abandon offices altogether that those which demand office presence will be viewed suspiciously by prospective employees.

As suspiciously as one should view a potential employer who demands to install rootkit spyware on your personal computer when conducting an interview.
> The reality is we're just throwing kids under the bus to die

What the hell are you talking about? The CDC has said children are at less risk of death from Covid-19 than they are from influenza. Were we "throwing them under the bus to die" when we opened schools in every year before 2020 without masks and "stay apart from your biohazard friends" social distancing?

Also, "Study shows schools do not spread Covid": https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/75136706-f171-11eb-8f01-2...

> we can't not reopen schools because a lot of people depend on it as daycare and because a lot of people have decided we're "back to normal" regardless of what happens with future variants

No, it's because an education is a fundamental human right which is being denied to children, and the policy of closing schools has caused immense damage to their learning and mental health for practically zero benefit in reducing the harm caused by the virus.
The timeline doesn't work in your reasoning.

Vaccines aren't a factor as they weren't available when any of the variants emerged. The emergence can't be either the vaxxed or the unvaxxed's fault. Nobody's responsible or culpable, it's entropy.

Of the current strains which are active everywhere :
- Alpha emerged in the UK before vaccines
- Beta in SA before vaccines
- Delta and Gamma in India before vaccines.

Of the current variants of interest:
- Eta and Iota come respectively from France+UK and New York City, both before vaccines.
- Epsilon (not of interest anymore) came from California before vaccines. Same for theta in the Philippines.
- Kappa and Lambda come respectively from India and Peru, both before vaccines.

As for who's at fault for spreading : vaxxing 60% of the population only drops Deltas R_0 from 4.6 to 4.3.

It is immaterial whether you are vaxxed. The virus is smarter.

See my comment for details : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28076327
I’m sure people are doing this out of pure altruism and not for the massive tax/BIK savings that the government have set up

https://www.parkers.co.uk/car-tax/advice/bik-changes-for-plu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Or did you miss the sarcasm tag?
Yeah, it took me slightly too long that he was a founder of but not John Hopkins, so it was hard to drop the wiki link, thanks.

Great show called “the Knick” where I learned about this.
Deductions vary greatly between jurisdictions. Capital gains taxes vary greatly, tax-sheltered savings accounts may not be recognized, certain rollovers programs probably only exist in one of the jurisdictions, etc. None of these people renouncing their citizenship just make straight employment income.
This is only my opinion, but really, we cannot afford to continue like this for months and months, or hell, even years. Once most of the population will be vaccinated, there will absolutely be no reason to keep facilities closed anymore. The reason lockdowns were decided was because the virus caused hospitals and medical facilities to struggle under the weight of critical cases. With the vaccine, and even if new variants appear, the number of people having to go to the hospital will plummet. We'll have to find one way or another to live with the virus as it will never be eradicated completely.
There are absolutely studies out there.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57061 and similar for other years (this is data through 2018, but published this year, presumably after they are pretty sure that various delayed tax return filing has happened and whatnot).

This only goes back to 1979, though. If you find something with data older than that I would be interested.

Of interest in the document I linked to is "Exhibit 11. Average Federal Tax Rates, by Income Group, 1979 to 2018" and "Exhibit 12. Average Federal Tax Rates Among Households in the Top 1 Percent, 1979 to 2018", with the latter showing top 0.1% and top 0.01% average tax rates. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57061#data has links to various xls and csv files, including the data tables those graphs are generated from. Note that per "Appendix C" of this document, the tax rates in these graphs include some sort of individualized attribution of corporate income tax incidence and that attribution could easily be quibbled with. The more detailed data tables include more breakdowns into what fraction of tax is attributed to this source, but I didn't find it more finer grained than "top 1%".
I'm confused about why the methodology that they talk about is innovative. They talk about shifting when a sound event of a given frequency arrives, relative to another sound. But with digital audio, esp that you can prepare in advance, isn't this pretty simple? Like, given signals A and B, apply a band-pass filter to A (for the desired frequency window), truncate off the first k samples based on the time shift of interest, and add to B. Even if you do need it in real time, why isn't this equivalent to delaying B by k samples?

I must be missing something, because the researcher makes this sound like a cool new technique.
Why would they refund past taxes you'd paid?
Next up, Apple scans for cock pics. Android usage doubles next day.
> People who have antibodies are still getting fired from their jobs because they didn't take the vaccine.

Can you cite a source for this? I see people saying it, but I haven't seen actual cases.

Has anyone, to your knowledge, explained why they might pursue such an insane misapplication of basic principles of public health?
So you believe that prior to 1788 no right of self-defense existed? Do you then believe that one can't defend oneself without a gun? Surely you mustn't.

Again, the 2nd only concerns tyranny, and prevents the government from disarming militias in order to have a check on tyranny.

If you'd like another reason why self-defense was not nor should be included in the 2nd, I see no right to breathe in the Bill of Rights. I guess we have no right to breathe and we better pass an amendment giving us that right before we pass out.

The Bill of Rights was not intended to limit rights to those enumerated in the BoR, and I would say a right of self-defense is already included under self-evident and inalienable rights along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Honestly, I would wager the critical attribute would likely have been that Neanderthals were more naive than h. s. sapiens. The specific inability to anticipate and mitigate deception would put them at continual disadvantages in mating, pair bonding, warfare, and resource sharing/acquisition.
You can reach herd immunity on any one strain - but as we've seen, the virus can mutate faster than we can reach herd immunity.

The arrival of delta (and the other four or five major strains) signal that that theory flat-out will not work, the virus is mutating faster than we are reaching herd immunity. By the time we actually reach full herd immunity, we will have strains that the vaccine only provides significantly diminished protection against - we are arguably already getting there with Delta.
The cost for permission from Sonoma County to build a family home in Santa Rosa can approach $60k.
Fully vaccinated, and I don't care in the slightest. The vaccines provide nearly perfect protection against serious outcomes.

I am far more upset by the idea of continuing this indefinitely. Desperately want to be back in the office.

People who want to return to work should be allowed to do so. Those who do not should be allowed to do so. May the most productive employees win.
These issues are definitely real and need to be fixed. However, I do think that the URP/shadergraph pipeline has been unfairly maligned -- I've gotten some great results with very few bugs using HDRP as a solo dev (granted, the target platform is PC and it's running on a newer non-preview release). I made this game exclusively with shadergraph and HDRP deferred rendering and it runs quite well -- https://youtu.be/Vwu7gTVgDzo
Same transaction throughput, but not same security.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...

Nope, federal law states they can hold you for 18 months. So long as they can claim to already know what's on the device (which they will, because Apple pinged them about it), they can hold you for 18 months.
I don’t think I’ve failed to read up on this topic, if you look at the link from the other user, you may be shocked…
Why does the IRS publish the list of people renouncing citizenship? And why does it filter for people with global assets over $2M? I feel like I am missing something for this to make sense.
I don't think it's a shame. It's intentional.

Considering the fact that the US prison population is heavily skewed in one direction, that the US has the highest per capita prison population, that prison populations are used as forced labor, I'm quite convinced it's intentional. The small number of people that are accidentally targeted unintentionally are just collateral damage nobody really cares about.
Is there a future for Bitcoin? An investor and a skeptic make their cases
KDE has changed, and other environments have changed.

Used to be I disliked KDE for 3 reasons: 1. it made me feel like I was Doing It Wrong and stuff sometimes didn't work if I didn't use K- programs for everything (and I disliked basically all of those), 2) it was the worst-performing and heaviest (disk, memory, everything) DE around, and 3) the config was insane, in a bad way—not that you could do it, but the GUI config manager was just a damn mess.

1 has improved a ton, 3 has improved a little, and 2 isn't true anymore—Gnome is much heavier and has terrible performance by comparison (try both on a resource-constrained device if you don't believe me).

I wouldn't be surprised if XFCE has gotten a little heavier, too, so the difference between the two isn't so stark. Especially default installs of XFCE on some distros, which include a lot of extras.
I ask this and 5 days later I have to replace my water heater smh.
Progressive does not always mean good for the working man. Progressive today seems to mean carrying a megaphone and proclaiming loudly about how you support some movement that will make you money. How many of these companies supported Occupy Wall Street?

Modern and Progressive Burger Company hires more Queer and Transgender people and still pays them half a living wage.
If anyone is looking for the Alpine article linked in the first paragraph, it's only available via Gemini, or via a proxy like here https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Pra...
True, I should say the best way that does not involve us transcribing it by ourselves. In any case, we'll work on this!
Also, we've seen more and more AI hardware being shipped built-in to phones.
I've always wondered about this in the scope of REALLY big tables. Migrating a busy table with a few billion rows will take 10+ hours, doesn't the redo log fill up? The amount of work that needs to be undone could easily take another 10+ hours, is there enough storage space for that?

Every busy production db I've ever seen has had big problems when dealing with 10-hour transactions, and I don't see how Postgres could deal with these kind of problems as they're fundamental in the data model.
Whether or not Model 3 is mediocre is in the eye of the beholder. The continuous numerical and quantitative comparisons Sandy Munroe makes are not. Examples:

- Numbers of fasteners in subsystems
- Total length of cooling hoses
- Total weight of coolant
- Weight of the body in white
- Efficiency vs. total energy of pack
- Part counts

And this is just what I can remember off the top of my head. So whether or not you think Model 3 is mediocre, there are TONS of quantitative measures by which Model 3 is a long, long way ahead of their competition. Also, note that in some places, Ford and Volkswagen are by Sandy Munroe shown to be ahead of Tesla both quantitatively and qualitatively.

It looks like Sandy Munroe is doing a fair comparison based on sound engineering principles. On the other hand, I think you just don't like what he has to say with regards to Tesla.
Under orders yes. Under pressure no.
> Different kinds of calibre guns

I'm sorry but you aren't paying attention to recent developments. Chinese trolls are attaching themselves to wedge issues in the US culture war (guns, BLM, etc.) in the same way Russia did, as a strategy of general harm. Also vaccine related disinfo isn't general/vague or long term in it's harm, it's doing real damage today.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-china-trolls-dubbed-spamou...

> My general feeling of the "coordinated pro-CCP" phenomenon is that there are many pro-China diaspora in western platforms whose threshold for engaging anti-China pieces is to downvote and move on.

The more that China diaspora see any criticism of the Chinese Government as criticism of themselves, the wider and more difficult to bridge the gap becomes.

> IMO most do it for themselves for tribalism, which is natural behaviour.

That was my point, everyone has a bit of nationalist in them. But the behavior i've observed from Chinese nationalists far out paces anything else i've seen. I fear the consequences of this trend, as if the Chinese government decides to start making more overt their current campaign of covert aggression, most Chinese will simple fall in line as they've been conditioned to do for the past decade.

> accessing western internet is not some verboten activity like many westerners envisions it to be, it's entertainment.

As long as your don't say the wrong thing, of course.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-now-sending-twitter-us...

I've seen a lot of westerners in HK, China, etc. take a blasé attitude towards crackdowns because they are convinced they are safe (which is mostly accurate). You do not and should not speak for natives in this regard.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3143207/...

Re: VPNS, according to my friends in the mainland VPN's are becoming more and more unreliable. This is purposeful.
Right. If things are already getting postponed during delta, there's no way anyone is going back during lambda.
Expanded Protections for Children
9M domain names are just numbers
Wow, this seems like a terrible, terrible idea on so many counts. It would certainly keep me from buying an iPhone -- the last thing I need is to get a visit from the cops because of false positives.

It also means that you can't have any trust about your data safety even if you never put it in the cloud.
Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii all have rising cases starting a month ago. But a month in, deaths haven't gone up. They're in single digits. You don't have to wonder what kind of effect delta will have on those states, you can look at the data.

Arkansas does have rising deaths. Florida does have rising deaths. The distinction between the attitudes (and the results) of those states and the "blue" states you mentioned isn't an invention by CNN. (Though CNN may be happy to profit from reporting on that distinction.)
In case anyone is interested, the taxation on Americans abroad isn’t new but has its roots in the 1860s with the U.S. Civil War: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-04-24/end-th....

FATCA is annoying. I don’t mind taxes. I want the process to be fair, predictable, and not exceptional. It’s a travesty the United States has been most of my adult life a failed state, which makes the tax treatment insult to injury.

- American Abroad (on the pathway to naturalization in a new home)
It raises the question, it doesn't beg it (sorry for the boring off-topic comment). https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/begging-t...
If you think there's a reasonable chance that you have CP on your computer why wouldn't you delete all the stuff? This is not complicated.
What this shows is that a single dose administered to a previously infected person provides greater antibody production than a non infected person's recieving two doses. The study also says that they are unsure if those higher levels affect a patient's ability to get sick or transmit the virus.

What I would be looking for is a study showing that prior infection has x% effectiveness as measured against a vaccine on a similar timeline.
Near me is a very picturesque mountain town, I would love to live there. However the houses are just woven into the forest, its only a matter of time until the entire place goes up in flame.

Yes, it is a beautiful way to build. It's also completely indefensible in event of a wildfire.
Not that I think it's good advice but it is very rare for connecting flights to go through the US, since it requires everybody to go through immigration even if they're not staying in the US.
I'm prototyping a very small LoRa tracker because I don't want to pay for cell service and commercial lora trackers are too large. However it is more for tracking itself as the cat removes its collar at every opportunity
> all of its competitors are essentially obsolete

For most companies I've worked at I've used either SQL Server or Oracle and from what I've seen when looking at job posts recently the demand is only increasing. Although I live in Los Angeles and not Silicon Valley.

Additionally Facebook and other large tech companies still use MySQL and outside of silicon valley many large companies still run IBM databases.

I don't see the other major databases being obsolete at all.

I've used PostgresSQL before for learning (~3 years ago) but didn't really like the web based UI compared to SQL Server or Oracle query tools.

Does anyone have recommended PostgresSQL query interfaces?
So instead of kicking them out of your homes, you price them out with taxes? Mind you, I'm more mirroring the sentiment of the people who would be affected by your policy rather than simply dismissing it.

There are policies, lots of policies. State, county, local. All up and down CA, but none of them are moving at the speed of climate change. Controlled burning is there, fire resistant buildings are there (although if you ez-bake a house it's gone regardless), building defensible areas (green belts) around cities that fuel control is economically feasible, all on the table. You can look at cities like Paradise, which was basically destroyed, for what these policies look like.

The thing is, these policies take money, and time. Lots of both, and they already largely exist.
Yes, very excited to become a Chinese communist vassal state and follow the north korean model.