skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>turn their guns outward

Different kinds of calibre guns, so far PRC has not brought out the big ones nor firing with intent to kill. PRC foreign propaganda is still overwhelmingly boring "tell china story well", distinctively different from Russian troll farms. They're fundamentally different attack vectors. Both also influence diaspora, as does every country. There's just more Chinese abroad with perspective of both systems, and frankly the western narrative is frequently blatantly misinformed that most don't see defending the homeland as promoting illiberalism. Most are shocked at how quickly liberal minds can be brainwashed despite free media. Still, actual current day analysis shows PRC is doing very little relative to other players contrary to these headlines. Maybe still developing capabilities, or keeping options in reserve.

>counter-measures

IMO this is just an asymmetry between liberal and illiberal systems that can't be bridged without the former adopting tools from the latter - which by all accounts is happening, i.e. the China Initiative is Mccarthyism / red scare redux. Kill chicken to scare monkey works everywhere. Manufactured consent like this article overblowing actual state of PRC influence ops which is continuation of coordinated anti-China reporting since Trump. As always fight propaganda with propaganda, but ultimately, diaspora / immigrants in western countries have freedom to root for their homeland. This includes pro-CCP PRC nationals, and even the ones who renounce PRC citizenship after naturalization.

>As far as coordinated pro-CCP behavior on HN

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. Some spaces (like tech) have more Chinese than baseline, so you'd expect to see the effect multiplied. IMO most do it for themselves for tribalism, which is natural behaviour.

I don't subscribe that there's anything ironic about PRC nationalists hoping over GFC to "enjoy" free speech. VPN access is cheap, use not strictly enforced, accessing western internet is not some verboten activity like many westerners envisions it to be, it's entertainment. It's like using VPN to circumvent geofenced media, except for nationalists who like to troll. Reality is there's much more Chinese with English fluency and hopping the GFC is much easier than vice versa. The amount of westerners who have mandarin fluency and ability to comment on weibo is miniscule. And they don't need to since lots of pro-China diaspora / tankies on western platforms to troll, whereas Chinese nationals have to actively seek westerners over GFC to troll. VPN is just a premium subscription to participate in another cultural war. Culture wars are sad.
If they are actually hard core truck guys(as in, people that actually use their truck for its truckiness), they will probably be turned off by the 65" bed length.
Exactly what I mean - the cards end up just being a tech tree in practice. The PDX games really do just need more _content_.

Haha - If you ever end up writing that game, send me a beta invite!
I worked with a company a long time ago that was using Interbase as the backend for a few websites. It had the interesting property that if you were using the command line client to connect to the server, and you used ^Z to pause the client, then the server would hang for all clients until you resumed it.

I know it’s completely unreasonable to judge Firebird today for Interbase 20 years ago, but admit that’s still the first thing that pops to my mind.

Do you feel Firebird offers something SQLite doesn’t?
> The only way to judge the effectiveness of measures is to see how many people have actually been infected

Can anyone provide links to recent peer-reviewed primary sources that estimate the number of individuals who have been infected in the U.S.?

If ~70% of people are asymptomatic, and we assume just about everyone has been exposed to and infected by the virus - haven't we already achieved herd immunity in the U.S.?

EDIT: Answered in solid source provided by animats - the seroprevalance estimate for the U.S. is 21.6% (95% CI - 21.2% to 22.22%). I also found a couple recent primary sources regarding the asymptomatic rate, see thread below.
I am surprised it isn’t tied in to US politics somehow.
Why haven't we spent time bolstering healthcare then? Why have all the field hospitals been destroyed as fast as they were put up?
The higher death rates in NJ/NY etc were due to COVID being new, and treatments being unknown or experimental. The death rates in South Dakota were because idiots felt the need to clog a small town with 500K cyclists despite warnings from almost every reliable epidemiologist.

It's the difference between getting surprised by a deadly bug, and having state governments that don't give a crap despite being forewarned.
Australia needs to cut the crap with expats
Measles is one of the most infectious pathogens known to man with an R0 between 10 and 15. Even with the delta variant, COVID doesn't seem as transmissible so the threshold should be closer to 80 than 95.
Different accents isn't bad data. Your vision of the world of "english is only spoken with an american accent" is what leads to horrendous speech recognition APIs, like Google's.

If your ML model can't handle multiple accents, it is worthless.
So UK is what living with covid19 will look like for those in highly vaccinated western countries?
It's the same transaction throughput regardless of the number of miners.
When China declared their emergency on 12/31/2019, the rest of the world should have closed their borders to travelers who had been in China for the previous 60 days.

If the U.S. had done this the rest of the world would have followed. It could have been done in conjunction with providing supplies, and volunteers to assist China with their emergency, of course China would have rejected the help because they were still trying to craft the narrative.

I was calling for this on Jan 3, 2020 on reddit, I had my account, which I had since I got a friends and family early invitation, was wiped from the face of the earth. Can't find a trace of it anywhere. Don't believe it when say the Internet always remembers.
Vaccine isn't necessarily easy for everyone, and catching COVID isn't necessarily hard for everyone; and underlying health condition seems to be primary determinant of that, not vaccination status.

Edit to add: feel good about downvoting critical thinking, ideologues.
> in a zoo

I saw one at (I think) Disney Animal Kingdom. It seemed to be curious because it peeked into the vehicle. I was absolutely astonished at how huge the head was. They look so tiny up in the air. It was like seeing a traffic light at eye level for the first time.
Not really. Officially and unofficially they are pushing everyone to the vaccine. People who have antibodies are still getting fired from their jobs because they didn't take the vaccine. There's even talk of requiring the vaccine for some schools, regardless of prior infection status. So the US is not shooting for herd immunity through either means, but only through vaccination. Even federal employees are being required to attest to their vaccinated status without similar options for those with antibodies acquired by other means.
Depending on how bad it turns out I could see a wave of HK emigration to the UK.

Similar how a lot of Asians living in Africa (Uganda Kenya etc.) did in the 1970's, Without the ethnic cleansing aspect.
I challenge that assumption because it really seems like major US companies have embraced progressive causes wholeheartedly. I can really only think of a handful of traditionally 'conservative' companies like Hobby Lobby and Interstate Battery. But I don't have to look very far to find a fortune 500 company donating to some progressive cause. Even McDonald's CEO has endeavored to make themselves a "Modern and Progressive Burger Company": https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/flirting-with-kale-o...
Completely agreed. I would love to be able to use an embedded version of Postgres. I have no interest in SQLite though because of the dynamic typing, reduced feature set, lack of advanced features, etc...
That's nothing unique american and quite standard for western democracies. Way more important than military force is legal support and diplomatic weight, to get you extradited, if you end up in your host countries legal system for whatever reason, which is the way more likely thing to happen.

It's not unheard of, that dual citizens renounce their more or less vaguely authoritarian citizenship when it's too dangerous to live or visit there with a dual one. Since then the other state has no obligation to intervene and is even blocked from reigning into the affairs of another nation.
Implement kernel audit container identifier
>>Protect by a world superpower military and diplomacy,

That's the argument the British crown once made for taxation without representation. It wasn't very well-received.

A country is obligated to protect its own borders and demand commensurate payment. I don't see a reason to pay for American military expansionism if I'm kept safe enough by my country of residence. Anything beyond that is wasted tax dollars or adventurism with the US government's own motives in mind. I shouldn't have to subsidize either one.

>>welfare and social security,

EBT, food stamps, COBRA, etc. aren't recognized outside of the United States. Social security is not a benefit. It's a Ponzi-scheme with a gun to your head taking money that was already earned and delaying it until you have strong chance of dying from a heart attack.

>>a stable place to return to in the case of trouble,

That's an argument that can be made for most overseas citizen of many countries. Yet these other countries have not fallen to shambles on the basis of lacking global taxation. There's no reason for me to pay for a "stability" I'm not in a longitude and latitude to benefit from.

On the contrary, there is a case to be made that United States is quite unstable itself as it has failed to contain a disease within its own borders and has also chosen to violate property rights under its unconstitutional eviction moratorium without providing just compensation. Even pre-COVID, some areas like Chicago and Los Angeles have had crime ratings high enough to compete with entire countries.

>>a country that ensures development of vaccines and provides them for it's population in the case of pandemics.

So can India, China, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, etc. Why should I pay the United States if I received my vaccine from these countries' labs and and medical resources instead?

>>medicare (or similar) for all as well as some other social benefits that make sense to enable more risk free pursuit of happiness and simplify employment.

An American citizen can't use medicare in a foreign country. Just like how a British citizen can't use NHS services in the United States.
The pursuit of happiness is a negative right, not a subsidized one.
To add to the list, Unity changed their policy on console development 6 days ago, and didn't tell anyone or even give an explanation (this article was written after a few developers noticed it in the license by chance). Whether or not it was a good choice is almost overshadowed by the lack of disclosure or transparency.
As the oldest known song fragments saved with music and lyrics says:

While you live, shine
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and Time demands his due

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph
> As someone who’s not a developer nor a full-time product person

Emacs was famously used by “secretaries” (as they were referred to in those days) not only to write documents and mail but to write macros to make their lives simpler. Of course none of them could “program” (which was considered quite intimidating) but they didn’t consider writing Emacs macros to be “programming”.

Back then Emacs was written in TECO so writing actual libraries was pretty arcane and not as easy as it is today.

But I’m glad the learned helplessness around programming has largely ablated, in part through improved tools and in part through simple acceptance.
I think that GamerPay might be in the clear, but they require Web API keys from users. The terms [1] of those keys don't seem to allow for sharing API keys with third parties like this:

>
2. License to Steam Web API & Steam Data. Subject to these Terms of Use, you may access the Steam Web API, implement the Steam Web API in your Application, and distribute Steam Data to end users for their personal use via your Application, all in accordance with the Steam Web API documentation. This license is subject to the following restrictions: [snip]

> You agree to keep your Steam Web API key confidential, and not to share it with any third party. This license is personal to you and specific to your Application. You agree that you will be personally responsible for the use of your Steam Web API key.

When you request an API key from Steam they ask you to include the domain of your application. GamerPay instructs users to just put their own username in that field.

[1]: https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apiterms
Hey! Thanks for the mention!

Authzed is focused on delivering all of the capabilities of Zanzibar (rewrites, consistency, scalability) in a consumable form to everyone outside of Google. We've started with Zanzibar and are iterating from there, rather than cherry-picking particular concepts from the paper.

You can checkout our post on "What is Zanzibar" to learn why you'd want the whole package: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

Congrats to Warrant! There's plenty of room for innovation in the developer UX for permissions, especially with frontend code.
The original ONS (Office for National Statistics) analysis is here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Much more detail, more rigorous, primary source, and no pay wall.

(@dang: maybe use this as the post's URL?)
Like any feature, perhaps it has to do with the volume of anticpated use vs the effort to support.
This assumes infection leads to immunity. It doesn't seem to be clear that this is true.
The thing is there's nothing preventing making a portable API providing the most important capabilities datatypes did. It's one tiny little library. The challenge is cultural, not technical. Without a reasonable hope of adoption, there's little value.

It's also not as simple as it being part of the OS, though space constraints certainly would favour OS libraries - the Amiga world is full of APIs that were adopted across the board despite not being part of the OS.

E.g. XPK is a good example: If you want to support compression in an Amiga app, you'll most likely use XPK, which gives you instant support for every compression algorithm someone wrote an XPK library for.

What is more likely to have mattered was in general whether or not a potential user would be likely to already have a library installed. My first hard drive was 20MB. What an application chose to install was a big deal, and that certainly encouraged people think about sticking to options that were popular and that likely to would save space.

Regarding the "hard border", it's worth keeping in mind that while datatypes could be used for visual elements, it could also be used for "headless" load/save/conversion. Putting something like it in e.g. Gnome would be less valuable than providing the "headless" part, because the format conversion is the most valuable aspect. And that part is incidentally also the easiest part to make portable.
Ok, it’s probably not the norm, but i’ve heard from multiple people saying they needed to stay awake for 80+ hours. Maybe because it was college and they were also taking classes?

I can reliably say that they’re still very overworked. 12+ hour shifts is the norm, and sometimes even 24 hours.
Biden, in a Push to Phase Out Gas Cars, Will Tighten Pollution Rules
If apple really cares about security then those images in iCloud should be stored in an encrypted form that makes hash comparisons impossible. If they are hashing them then they have access to them in plaintext. If I used iCloud I would be more worried about the wider implications that creates.
Like many people, I barely send SMS these days. I thought I'd have a look at my texts from the last month, to add to this discussion.

Here's what I see looking in my messages app - the last message in each of the most recent "conversations" :

50% off Pizza

A 2 factor authentication code for a government website

A person responding to a text I'd sent saying I'd phone them back

Another 2 factor code for some app

A conversation I had in a rare moment where I had phone signal but not a data connection

A link to my latest phone bill

A message from my countries national health service saying I could finally get a 2nd dose of vaccine

A text from my bank

Someone I know well enough to have their phone number, but don't talk to enough to have switched over to something else
It's a strange directory because it mix the old and the new implementation of Racket. But IIUC you are not looking at the internal content of the files, only the size. Perhaps you can fill a bug report in the d3.js package. (I'm not sure it's a bug, or just a very weird case.)

In the part that says "direct link to your own repository" you can add a link icon for people (like me) that doesn't read all the text. (I was going to suggest that as a feature, but looking again I found it.)
This may be off-topic but: What's the relationship between Coqui (an OSS TTS startup) https://coqui.ai/about and Mozilla? I recall that the project at one point was called mozilla/TTS (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/) and now I see that has a fork in the startup's own repo (https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS). Presumably Common Voice is used to train mozilla/TTS and other OSS TTS solutions?
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I may just be unfamiliar with the lingo, but I believe one of the items in the "For operations" drop-down list may contain a spelling error/typo. The list item currently reads "Heathtech", but the page it leads to reads "Healthtech".
elixir too, since the underlying technology is the same (arguably it's even easier to read in elixir than erlang). This was super helpful when I was writing a dhcp server.
We seem to be trying to "flatten the curve" and "slow the spread" to needlessly take extra long to get to the same final place - natural herd immunity.
https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo which is open source, Pytorch based and regularly publishes new models and checkpoints.
> Out of curiosity, what is this weird way of computing popcount you mention? I haven't seen it before.

So lets just do 8-bits at a time, in binary. It makes it clear what's going on.

Your 8-bit number is: x = x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7

* 0x55 is 01010101 in binary.

* 0xAA is 10101010 in binary.

* (x & 0x55) is (0 & x0) (1 & x1) (0 & x2) (1 & x3)...

* (x & 0xaa) is (1 & x0) (0 & x1) (1 & x2) ...

* (x & 0x55) + ((x & 0xaa) >> 1) is: |x0 + x1|,|x2 + x3|,|x4+x5|, |x6+x7|, where |blahblah| is a 2-bit number taking up 2-bits of the 8-bit number.

* step2 = (x & 0x55) + ((x & 0xaa) >> 1)

* (step2 & 0x33) is now |00| |x2+x3| |00| |x6+x7|

* (step2 & 0xcc) is now |x0+x1| |00| |x4+x5| |00|

* (step2 & 0x33) + ((step2 & 0xcc) >> 2) is //x0+x1+x2+x3// //x4+x5+x6+x7//, where //blah// is a 4-bit number.

You probably can figure out the last step at this point. Take the bottom 4 bits and add them with the top 4 bits.

A 2-bit number (such as |x0+x1|) can only take on 3 values: 0, 1, or 2. As such, |x0+x1| will never "carry" outside of the 2-bit space you've allocated for it.

Similarly, a 4-bit number (such as //x0+x1+x2+x3//) can only take on 5 values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. The 4-bits you've allocated can take on values all the way up to 16, so you also never have to worry about overflow.
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/...

http://archive.today/8BDGX
We can hope. Some people have already become ill from COVID more than once.[1] This is rare, but it happens. Immunity from vaccination seems to be stronger than immunity from having the disease, but it's too early to be sure. How long vaccine immunity lasts is an open question. So far, it's at least N months, where N is how long the vaccines have been in wide use. Beyond that is speculation.

[1] https://www.brgeneral.org/news-blog/2021/july/can-i-get-covi...
Isn’t that what is happening? I was just in the US for a couple weeks (Portland, OR) and rules were minimal and optional everywhere. Not the kind of thing that would drive mental health issues, as best I could tell.
American here living abroad in Croatia, which does not have a tax or social security agreement with the US.

The only reason why I do not renounce my American citizenship is because the very rare disease that I have was discovered on NIH grant funds in the 2000s and ultimately saved my life.

I am not sentimental about being American, except for that.
I assume 18 USC 2258A, but they seem to be going above and beyond. Under current law, they are only required to report, they are not required to prevent[1].

Presumably, they are doing this voluntarily now to stave off future legislation around this that might require more invasive scanning.

1. 18 USC 2258C(c)
> until there was sufficient data to definitively prove them wrong

Yes, and that's precisely how good analysis and decision making is supposed to work. You're supposed to change your mind when the information you based your decision on changes. That's a _good_ thing.

For any given discussion, given enough people, there will always be a set of people that believe each of the possible things that _can_ be believed. We have people that believe the world is flat. However, the fact that _some_ of those people happened to believe what turned out to be true when the set of input information changed... doesn't make them smarted than everyone else. Unless they were basing their conclusions on a known and defensible set of arguments... it just makes them randomly lucky. You can have a watch to tell time... then ignore it and say it's always 12pm. When it happens to get to 12pm, you'll be right. But you'll still be stupid.
Not anymore, thankfully.
this data arguably shows that the choice really is between vaccination (+possibly weak infection) and infection. We can't hide from the virus.

This doesn't mean that the only choice is opening up everything, but eventually... yes. Concious governments should first try to get more people vaccinated. Long covid is too frequent, otherwise. (400k have it in UK, see: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/01/almost-400000-ha... )
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Here are some primary sources which support the fact that infection leads to robust and durable immunity.

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
They are both very impressive systems.
I have done many projects in both PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL

I do tend to get attached to the DB of my last project because I discover new cool things. And there are some differences.

But I cannot think of a PostgreSQL project that would not also have worked great in MySQL or a MySQL project that could not have been done with PostgreSQL.

I have re-implemented systems that used non open-opensource DBMS's on Windows and the convenience and performance (on the same hardware) were just amazing when using PostgreSQL or MariaDB.
But I don't even need it! Everything just works great! Super+arrow keys resize the window, I can even sequentially do super-left super-up to get a quarter tile. Alt-mouse to drag/resize, if I'm using a mouse at all. Easy to pin, shade, group, etc. It's snappy, does exactly what I expect nearly 100% of the time.