skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
humanties and nat. sciences should agree to a common root: reflection
https://github.com/rene-tobner/unity
Apple has generally locked things down successfully.

There was concern about phone's being grabbed - street robberies. Regardless of whether you believe their were sweeping generalizations - apple ended up creating more power for themselves with their activation lock system. If they don't want to let you sell your phone to someone - they can block use of your phone. But folks trust them to operate the system reasonably, and so far so good there.

They have locked down their app store very tightly for a variety of reasons including supposedly for security. Users have accepted that.

Apple's competitors (google photos etc) generally are directly scannable in the cloud by google et al. Facebook and others routinely scan users photos. Youtube scans their videos etc. My guess is apple will explain why they are doing it and users are going to be happy.

And yes, users are linking things like ring doorbells and home security video cameras together or registering them so that the police state can use them.
Some of the first person accounts on reddit sound harrowing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/oxzmdc/florida...
This could have happened anywhere in the world, the US is hardly unique.
Century old standard set by drug addicted doctor, continues to this day despite the evidence proving it foolish and dangerous.

Funny tradition that refuses to die.
Will everyone you know with that attitude be so lucky? Or those that actually can't get the vaccine. You sound like a selfish jerk. Did you ever stop and think that maybe your family and friends won't be so lucky as to not need a hospital? It's not just for you!!!

Even if your young and healthy there's still a non-zero chance something could happen to you.

Why not just get it on the off chance?
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This is not about money. People go into healthcare because they want to help people. You can't go into such a job just for money, you'll never last. You have to fundamentally be wired to care for people. When people are not vaccinated and get sick it is extremely distressful for healthcare workers who are wired to help. That is the issue, not money.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning – 2nd Edition
Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
Highest recommendation for Robert Caro's The Power Broker, biography of Robert Moses. The guy who built NY's parks, bridges, highways, etc. How he acquired and wielded power. The impact he had nationally. It gives some insight into the game Cuomo and so many others are playing.

Politics is nasty. Full stop.

My only TIL that I can offer: Everyone should run for office. Any office. At least once.

Once you decide to play the game -- play to win -- every thing makes perfect sense.

Not to excuse it, in any way. It's just that folk theories aren't even wrong. So people get worked up about the wrong stuff. There will always be devils doing bad stuff.

What should we do about them?

(Haven't started Caro's LBJ biographies yet. I've gleaned that LBJ makes Moses look like a middleweight.)
Irix was the most clean and integrated Unix for the desktop that I've ever used, even Sun didn't come close with their offerings.
Centralization issues come along with liquid staking solutions like Lido.
Do you really think covid cold be eradicated?

The only virus we ever eradicated was smallpox, and only because that didn't have an animal reserve.

Covid will keep jumping between animals and humans. There are at least a dozen different mammals that harbor the virus. It can't be eradicated from humans while this is true. I have never seen any scientific authority talking about eradication as being a possibility.

Do you assume that we will kill all these animals all over the world to try to eradicate covid?
I listen to a lot of drone, dark ambient like Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker but lately I've found those "Sound of rainfall, black screen" videos on Youtube to provide a background that blocks out sound outside at a decent enough high volume and lets me focus
There is a paradox with app stores in that they play the gatekeeper and can arbitrarily not allow certain apps, remove them, or enforce certain rules on what types of apps are allowed, but then also permit all sorts of shenanigans such as this.

The developers of these types of apps are just pushing the envelope of what's allowed until they're called out and formal complaints are made to the app store gatekeepers.

The malicious & overly expensive apps should get taken down swiftly, but are allowed to linger for months on end, generating large profits.

Whilst app stores are policed, there exists a lot of room for exploitative apps. I imagine these app store gatekeepers are trying to keep a balance, but app stores seem heavily swayed in favor of scams, and malicious or overly expensive apps.
> patients see this virus as politicized

Unfortunately they are correct on this, this pandemic has been heavily politicized in the States, which imo was a very wrong thing to do. They tried the same thing in my country (Eastern-Europe), with a political party blasting their logos on “vaccine information” tents installed on the sidewalks but fortunately it hasn’t caught on that well.
I don't understand the regional disparities in nurse pay. I know nurses in CA and TX that make close to $200k.
We need to take away qualified immunity (which incorrectly protects the police officer involved from any kind of prosecution).

Next, the police officer needs to face charges for his role in this. He failed in his duty to the community.

Finally, the police department needs to be held accountable for their role and pay damages to this man.
That's a really interesting point I'd never thought of before. Do you know of any discussions/articles on this topic? Would be interested to learn more, I always just assumed long doctor shifts was a combination of lack of workers and stinginess.
You seem to be suggesting that the AI will go directly from scanning your photos for incriminating fingerprints to reporting you to journalists.

I have to assume humans are involved at some point before journalists are notified. The false-positive will be cleared up and no reputations sullied (except perhaps the reputation of using AI to scan for digital fingerprints).
I know someone who works in hospital / physician group admin that said doctors are straight up quitting right now unless the hospital bends to their demands to only work 3 days a week. They can't hire doctors either and they have no way to accept new patients at the moment.
We know what the efforts of Covid are. I personally know people who have lost their sense of taste, one for over a year and no sign of it coming back and hates cooking/food now - I’ll vaccinate up just to avoid that.
On the other hand, is it right to be able to leave the country indefinitely, not contribute to the country at all, but still expect to have all the benefits of citizenship forever?
> Dumping Facebook and its products as I and others have done is one strong step forward

A strong step forward that gets nullified when Facebook buys the alternative app you're using, or when the app you're using does things as Facebook does.

You can propose all individual options you want, this is a collective issue that won't get fixed just by calls to individual action.
What were the recommended infection control procedures? Disinfect surfaces and provide masks? Kind of a big deal was that the nursing homes mostly resisted but ultimately had to obey the order
Los Angeles county is enormous and can address this.
Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
I explored an alternative way to view codebases to the typical folder/file list, showing a bird's-eye-view of its structure.

https://octo.github.com/projects/repo-visualization
On the contrary, penalties are higher the more nodes go out at the same time. If you centralize you expose yourself to higher penalties if something goes awry. The incentives of the system are designed to prevent centralization.
Yes, I think attitude towards personal time (or more generally, work-life balance) really is a facet of culture that's important to bear in mind. I've been lucky in that regard, as my managers and coworkers have been very forgiving when it comes to (say) taking off suddenly so I can take my rabbit to the emergency vet.

I wouldn't give that flexibility up for double the pay. If I'm ever in a job where they routinely abuse off hours or disapprove of taking time off, I'll be looking intensely for something to replace it.
Most people who fall under "health care workers" don't have a medical degree. Many, including techs and nursing assistants, don't have a bachelor's degree either. So, that population isn't really all that different from the general U.S. population in many ways.

Among physicians and medical researchers with PhDs, though, you'll find very little resistance to vaccines.
If something is clearly written, it shouldn't take 10 readings. Information density often is at odds with readability. In programming material, there is a difference between learning oriented explanatory documentation and dense reference documentation. Dense only works after you already understand the concepts of the whole. Before that you need clear, non-dense explanations to learn those concepts. Nearly all academic papers I've read are quite inaccessible to read. So either the phd training you're familiar with is a diamond in the rough, or the training isn't working to help write papers that are written clearly for people who aren't already phds.
> One reason some hospital staff say they are resisting COVID-19 vaccination is because it's so new and not yet fully approved by the FDA.

> "I want to see more testing done," she says. "It took a long time to get a flu vaccine, and we made a COVID vaccine in 6 months. I want to know, before I start putting something into my body, that the testing is done."

> Many of her co-workers share her feelings, she said.

Would have been nice if the article included responses to these concerns. Plenty of shaming about how dangerous passing covid to patients can be, but I didn't see anything that actually addresses the confidence problem.

edit:

Looks like a different hospital worked on the confidence problem with some success:

> "There was a lot of hesitancy and skepticism," says William Schaffner, MD, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious disease at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. So the infectious disease division put together a multifaceted program including Q&As, educational sessions, and one-on-one visits with employees, "from the custodians all the way up to the C-suite," he says.

Today, HHS data shows the hospital is 83% vaccinated. Schaffner thinks the true number is probably higher, about 90%. "We're very pleased with that," he says.
Ah, well according to Google the US are one of the few countries that does not require another citizenship in order to let you renounce citizenship.

So, indeed you could renounce US citizenship without having any other one... But that would make you stateless, without passport, etc. which does not sound like a good idea.
If I had to talk a wild guess, they give answers but you don’t listen or like the response.

Hospitals are designed to run near capacity. It’s reported every winter in the UK that they’re near or over capacity. And outside of winter they’re just as busy. 12 hour shifts, asking ungodly things of staff is nothing new.

Where was your haughty indignation during the last bad flu season?

We have vaccines and had/have mask mandates, yet still staff are giving up. What’s your answer to that?
https://archive.is/nqEjL
>Also should note, I can't help but feel this focus on Florida, Texas, Arkansas, etc is because they have banned masks and vaccine mandates. If you look at actual hospitalizations and more importantly death rates you see something different.

But this is in the past (or cumulative over the whole pandemic), the news article is talking about now.

If you look at current numbers, you can see where hospitalizations are now. See https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

FL and AR seem to be hotspots to me
I disagree. Would you fly with a pilot who never learned the basics of lift and drag? Or hire a builder who didn't understand loads and support? But we call people professionals who build software with no understanding of computing fundamentals?

Even getting an associates degree in networking required me to understand how binary operations work and do variable length subnetting by hand, even though subnet calculators are readily available.

Maybe I'm being off base here in considering it a computing fundamental, but it is difficult for me to see things like this and not associate it with my super-computer phone routinely pausing for several seconds while I am typing.
They are disregarding doctors and scientists all over the planet, because they think their politicians are incompetent?

I think these people are beyond rescue. The period for trying to appeal to people or convince them to take the shot is over. Now we should simply let whoever doesn’t want the shot (completely valid position to take! Their body after all) not participate in anything like events, education, workplaces, restaurants…

People are free to choose to participate in society. Importantly, in the US insurers need to bump premiums to insane levels - or simply not cover Covid treatment for voluntarily unvaccinated.

Once people pay through the nose to avoid it, or can’t go to a restaurant, I think it’ll turn out they weren’t very hesitant to begin with, it was all just political.

Luckily these people could get an antibody test instead of a vaccine pass soon - because they’ll all get it eventually.
I would not plan on transiting the US for life if I were you though
Curious what the motivation behind rebuilding it in rust is, versus contributing more to Clickhouse? Obviously memory safety is a big one, but is that the only reason?

What are the other goals of the project?

Personally, I'd love to see an easier-to-manage system with replication considered as a first-class feature rather than bolted on at the end.
Remember when they declared independence and chucked all that tea off the boat because they were paying taxes to England? How ironic.
You aren't distinguishing the projects correctly. The CV project isn't the same as the DeepSpeech project (even though they were related).

And your point makes little sense, because if the site was not working how could the app get voice data into the project. I've had some involvement with these projects over the years so I'm not just firing off arm-chair comments on this. They wouldn't have been able to add this new voice data if the site was under developed as you imply.
> but what Facebook really purchased was political access.

I wish people would evaluate their own susceptibility to conspiracy theory thinking. There is no evidence of this other than "it is something I've seen in the movies that seems plausible," which frankly is more or less the same level of proof as "Plandemic" and "Antivax."
>It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation.

Empathy and benefit of the doubt for billionaires who vacation in Fiji and whose kids get a medevac flight to a major city when something goes wrong would look a bit more sane if those were commonly afforded to normal people as well. Which they aren't.
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Furthermore:

a) 100% of the world population can relocate globally without any need for visa so they can access the global job market and pick the best location

b) 1% of the world population has access to enough education to become highly skilled and be able to relocate legally. Everybody else has limited choice.

Another example:

a) Everybody has access to UBI and can freely choose to work or study or do volunteering, art etc

b) Unemployed people go hungry, homeless, get sick, get imprisoned
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An RN I know in New Orleans makes a paltry $28 / hour. Insidiously, they gave her 10k upfront for a 3 year contract. If she leaves, she has to give it back. She put it straight to her student loans so now she’s stuck there. I agree with op, we say we love our front line workers, but that’s just talk. I’m not sure but there’s not much of a union for them down there.
Vaccines are definitely making a difference at this point. But I think we'll find, to the degree we can make sense of a lot of noisy data, that a lot of what people ascribed to cultural, behavioral, and political differences based on their own leanings will be seen as largely happenstance.
The disgruntled nurses I know don't want more money anywhere near as much as they want things like lunch and bathroom breaks.

Money can't buy happiness, but not being able to take care of your basic bodily needs can absolutely buy unhappiness.
See Figure 2 on page 4.

https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bt/R-REC-BT.1359-1-...
I went from an Amiga at home to an Indy at university (my uni got a massively got deal from the SGI distributor to outfit a couple of the computer science labs; nothing like rows of Indy's placed next to tired old Sun terminals white monochrome screens to make SGI look like the hot new thing), and while I never particularly liked Irix, it certainly felt closer to "home" in a way that Windows or even Linux didn't at the time.
Most mistakes happen on the hand-offs, known as "continuity of care", which is both shift-to-shift and phase of care back to health. Longer shifts help with the former at the cost of fatigue-based mistakes, so it is a balancing act, but not as simple as "shorter shifts". The challenge is unlike pilots and truckers the process points when you can naturally terminate a shift are far less defined and predictable. Ex: a pilot who's forced to divert and enter a holding pattern will extend his shift, regardless of the number of hours flown; every hospital shift in an ER is like this.
I mean, am I supposed to feel sorry for high-income people because they have to pay tax to continue to benefit from US citizenship and US embassies? I don't really, nor do I consider it getting "screwed." I think it is only fair that well-to-do expats should pay into the system like everybody else. If they don't want to, I welcome them to take the article's lead and give up their citizenship.
This is every Apple and Tesla thread. Goes to show how much people love their products.
Microsoft created and hosts the PhotoDNA service which all providers use, and PhotoDNA has false positives. All reports are supposed to be manually reviewed before being sent to Cyber Tip.
I see it as a huge risk too.

If the algorithm and the blocklists leaked, then not only it would be possible to develop tools that reliably modify CSAM to avoid detection, but also generate new innocent-looking images that are caught by the filter. That could be used to overwhelm law enforcement with false positives and also weaponized for SWAT-ing.
My dad bought an Isuzu Impulse in 1985. It had a fancy OEM stereo system with Technics branding, and a button for the driver to toggle the imaging. The button was on the 7-band graphic EQ that game with the car. (I don't think I've ever seen another factory stereo with physical EQ sliders like that.)

It was magic, if you were sitting in the driver's seat. Toggling that button made the sound switch from "okay" to "magically spatial."

I'm pretty sure that lead to a conversation about how we locate sounds. Also wonder how it was implemented in 1985. I doubt there were DSP chips in there. What's the "simple" way of adding delay to some speakers?
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the AMOC
This is yet another case of it being hard to take seriously Apple's curated store. Especially with the way the trial period works in Apple's system. It's a horrible system that operates on dark patterns.
Okay, here's the actual court document with a direct quote

"Monsanto even started the aptly-named “Let Nothing Go” program to leave nothing, not
even facebook comments, unanswered; through a series of third parties, it employs
individuals who appear to have no connection to the industry, who in turn post positive
comments on news articles and Facebook posts, defending Monsanto, its chemicals, and
GMOs."

[1] https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGo...
Is such a tradeoff common? Or do the best employers offer both?
As used in the Future Learn course on Earth Observation:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/observing-earth-from-spa...
I remember the story where some large gaming company permanently banned someone because they had a file with a hash that matched a "hacking tool". Turns out the hash was for an empty file.

This will end badly for humanity.
> Creating a company is not exploitative but rather collaborative and mutually beneficial (with workers).

If it's collaborative can we vote a new CEO?
Title shortened from: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation due to length

Article on paper: https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ocean-current-approaching.html
You have presented a good edge case. But consider this. If you wouldn't want to go into debt at age 5. Would you want do it at age 45/55?
Exactly. It can't be both ways. Nope, not living on taxpayers' money also can't take private sector job commensurate their skills.
No, "most humans" aren't going to moralize and want to give back to their country in the form of taxes as a thank you when they strike gold.

Being forced to give a large portion of my family's hard earned wealth to a tired, ineffective institution which aims to invest it in initiatives I think will ruin the economy? Why in god's name would I do that if I have the choice not to?
This is one of the most common things in the political world, we even have a name for it. It's the revolving door.

Extremely weird or naive to think of it as an implausible conspiracy theory.
How many stakers actually have enough to win blocks though.

What is the impact of shorting on PoS - what happens when I borrow enough ETH to win blocks, deliberately mis-verify TXs, and screw up consensus.

I know Ethereum has planned recovery for situations like this, but PoS introduces risks that will never be as present in PoW bc the latter has built-in latency to how easy it is to aggregate resources which increase market power and centralize around certain miners (ie buy asics and build a data center takes time, so you just have to watch mining pools for liquid malicious hash rates for equivalent risks in PoW).