skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lockdowns were a political choice to minimize impact on healthcare systems, not something that governments necessarily had to do. Obviously guerilla movements aren't going to suspend operations just because of a respiratory virus. The vast majority of Taliban combatants are young and metabolically healthy enough to be at virtually zero risk from COVID-19.

(And it should go without saying, but the concept of biological warfare is so abhorrent that it should never be considered as an option.)
Interesting, that makes me wonder if a similar restricted "acyclic control flow" mode could be built into WA; I bet that would be pretty useful.
Well.....

I think its more than that. images sent with iMessage are stored in iCloud, even if the device is not necessarily uploading.

How else would that have such warnings they claim in their announcement. [1]

And we have seen these systems have their scope/use case changed in the past [2]

To the point in the other discussion [3]. OP stated that Apples plans to scan and then upload suspected images are illegal. But i would think that they are only scanning images, client side, that users themselves are attempting to upload (either though attachments, or automatic iCloud backups etc) which would put Apple in the clear. In this case that would be iCloud images, or those that piggyback iCloud services like iMessage etc.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/one-database-rule-them...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110159
> There is a massive difference between spending my money taking my kids to the local open farm with shows, animals to pet etc or if I spend the same money hosting a party with lots of junk decorations that gets thrown away afterwards.

This strikes me as a very "first world problems" view of things.

What I meant is that there is a massive difference in consumption levels (both in term of energy and resources) between you and I living our comfy Western lives and the life of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of human beings on the poorest end of the scale.

Just a drive to the supermarket for our weekly shop probably consumes more energy and resources than months of consumption for some people on this planet.

Those people have the right to be lifted out of poverty and to enjoy a high standard of living, like we have the right to enjoy those standards but this is not realistic with 8 billion people. It's simply wrong IMHO to condemn humanity to restrictions and sacrifices, so if we want everyone to be 'rich' and save the planet at the same time the only solution is to aim at cutting population significantly.

This starts by a paradigm shift, we must accept that population cannot keep growing and should in fact decrease. Then adapt to that as it has fundamental impacts on the economy and social fabric.
Anybody who uses voice search on Google TV or Android TV (whatever they are calling it this week) should try the voice search on Amazon fire TV. It will blow your mind.
I have no idea where you guys are seeing these prices. Chalice, on the absolute high end that I've seen, tops out at 250/oz.

Nectar/Green Cross are my gotos, both of them are well below the prices yall are discussing. Green cross in particular has better stuff than the other venues as well. Maybe try shopping in Salem instead of Portland? Dunno, I never go into the city for weed.
It seems you are reducing the friction in using a more sophisticated investment vehicle, which is awesome. But I can only imagine that there will be far more friction with "where did my money go?" since there is quite a bit of history/custom that you are fighting with in terms of the checking account. Somehow gracefully setting up a slider-like ability to determine what amount REALLY NEEDS TO BE IN MY ACCOUNT OR ELSE I CANT MAKE RENT and everything else would probably be important; your wonderful value-add could be in the background doing all the necessary operations to match that user preference.

As it stands now, I need to consciously pick a fund, make a transfer, check it, withdraw, etc... But ultimately all I care about is broad definitions of how aggressive my portfolio looks and what I have in what is essentially cash. If you'd just modify all of those transactions into a simple slider for me, the value prop. would be super clear, and I'd also sleep well at night not fretting suddenly having less money than I need.
Yeah, it's a small world.

I actually took the opposite path and explored several of the micro-optimized ULID libraries in C# before settling down with NUlid which I decided had the cleanest API and documentation (and reasonably good response times to GitHub issues). The implementation of Cysharp's lib has a lot of Unsafe code, which I understand why they took that path (given the focus on Unity code), but I'm hesitant about it and I liked a lot better (conceptually) how much more Span<T> code mcb2001's CSharp.Ulid library had and if I were to micro-optimize a library that's much more the path that I would take. (But so far micro-optimizations of that sort haven't been a priority in my real world usage and I'll take the well tested library with the nice API.) I created a couple simple extension methods to do the specific "ToSqlGuid()" and "ToUlidFromSql()" that I desired for the SQL Server sort order. (Which is just shuffling the first six bytes of a ULID byte array to the end of the GUID byte array and vice versa.)

I actually trust that I can at least generate ULIDs in SQL Server, again because the part I care to be sorted/needs to be correct (the timestamp) fits into the non-endian-issue portion of a GUID in SQL Server. I've been using just the generator function from ulid-mssql [1] (I used it mostly just for DB migrations and it was nice to have for that). It was debugging the endian issues and Base-32 encoding issues of the "ULID GUID to string" functions where I gave up and decided I didn't trust doing that in database.

[1] https://github.com/rmalayter/ulid-mssql
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines, Breakthrough Infections and Lasting Natural Immunity
> The entire Western world could be within a decade.

The political capital and will to accomplish what you're describing is absolutely enormous. That's the hard part.
Good point about cities, as Craigslist do.
It will be interesting to see if Taylor counter-sues, claiming "trade secrets."
Mushrooms aren't very scarce. Usually they made a significant part of the primitive human diet depending on biome. The gathering part of hunter gatherer that is.
The government hasn't really provided a definition of "substantially identical" for purposes of wash sales. Buying the exact same company is an identical security. Going from and S&P 500 index at one brokerage to another is a bit different. S&P 500 to a total stock market fund is quite different.

If S&P 500 index funds and similarly broadly defined funds from each brokerage house are available and deemed "different enough", it could significantly increase the money moves available before encountering a "required" wash sale.

I'm not familiar with the behind the scenes aspects of it, but it feels like there may be a clever solution out there that could augment some of the liquidity concerns you mentioned if you could batch the transactions together.

E.g. Alice has $1,000, Bob has $1,000, and Charlie has $2,000. They all have a transaction on the same day. Alice and Bob were on $Illiquid_Fund_A, Charlie is in $Illiquid_Fund_B. Alice and Bob trade with Charlie and everyone goes about their day.
Can be, for sure.

One thing I’ve enjoyed is a focus on just a couple of brands of old watches. I have about 10 Enicar watches; they made everything from simple hand-wind no-date watches (my favorite) to complex chronographs. They have a whimsical logo (a shark jumping at Jupiter) that matches the whimsy of their founder - his name was Racine, but he had an uncle in the watch business with that name, so he spelt it backwards.
Some people apply discounted cash flow analysis to current market prices, and conclude that the expected market return is -6% (or worse) under current conditions.

I'd prefer my checking account to have 0% returns to -6%.

It is simple for me to set up automatic deposits from my checking account to my brokerage account, and also include automated investment of those funds.

Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I'm not really seeing the value prop. I have an investment account separate from my checking for a reason. Many reasons, actually.

and to close, referring to your interest in portfolio theory, there is an option value to holding cash. Not saying it should be a major portfolio allocation, but having a certain amount in cash makes sense from a financial engineering perspective.
It seems I misunderstood the thread. I somehow thought we were talking about sails in space rather than in atmo.
I get this, but when the alternative is spreading a virus that can have vulnerable people end up on a ventilator or worse... is it not a small price to pay?

My nephew also goes nuts when he is strapped into a car seat, but sometimes you just need to deal with meltdowns and teach kids that they can't always get their way.
I'm constantly downgrading video on many sites myself, as I am perfectly content to stream in 720p max for movies, 480p for your average YT video, and even down to 144p for just streaming audio and podcasts. I only need 720p and 1080p for tutorials or online courses, and even then mostly because the streamers are using HD or UHD displays and I can't see what they're typing or essential UI elements I need to see.
I don't WANT HD or higher videos or user streams - it's wasting my own data on my end as well.
Inflated websites too with high-res images need a strainer these days to get to the information, or many sites have replaced simple text with HD video - which can get aggravating after awhile when I need to look up a procedure quick, and have to watch a 5 minute video instead of 4 seconds of reading the solution in text form.
> Beyond that, it's likely that mandatory nonpharmaceutical interventions such as masks and lockdowns will be bad for public health in the long run.

> Consider the possibility that all the masking and isolation we've done is setting us up for an extremely bad flu season in the coming year or two [1].

That logic is frankly messed up. That's like saying better die now, because if don't you're just setting yourself up to die later. In most situations, that extra span of life is worth it.

Even if that's true about the next flu season, it's not an argument against masks. It's a warning not to declare premature victory.
The risk level of my checking account becoming less valuable due to currency inflation/depreciation is minuscule compared to the risk of putting that money into the stock market.

The comment I replied to above suggested that checking accounts hold risk due to the bank making risky investments, which is fundamentally wrong for everybody operating with in the FDIC coverage limits (which is the overwhelming majority of Americans).
have you ever read Infinite Jest
This article does not cite any primary sources and does not present any new information that hasn't already been discussed here multiple times.

The big takeaway from Larry is:

a) elderly people with one or more comorbidities are a vulnerable population and will benefit the most from vaccination and additional booster shots

b) vaccine doses should be moved to developing countries with vulnerable populations that lack access to modern healthcare facilities

- "Brilliant said one group of people needs a booster shot “right away” — those who are 65 years and above, and were fully vaccinated more than six months ago but have a weakened immune system."

- "So those people, I would say, should be given a third dose, a booster right away — as quickly as moving the vaccines to those countries that haven’t had a very high chance to buy them or have access to them. I consider those two things about equal"

Whether we're near the end of the pandemic or not is just semantics and drawing a line in the sand right now is useless.
My optimistic side agree with you but my inner cynic thinks that’s equivalent to saying “if we just get past our human hangups we could do it”. While being technically true, it’s hard to see a likely path given the current state of human affairs.

Twitter would also stop being a cesspool and start betting a forum of enlightened discourse if we could just put aside out psychological flaws but I’m not holding my breath for that, either.
It seems that the MapMetrics data mentioned either isn't available everywhere or (less likely) their site is being crushed. The data only loads for California and Colorado.
I'm not sure tobacco is a good comparison here. Tobacco was a relatively easy thing to tax/restrict/ban as it serves no real purpose beyond individual enjoyment.
I am for sure pro-Kytch in this, but seems a little backwards that Kytch has obviously acquired Taylor machines to build there devices, but now Taylor has to turnover all there Kytch devices.
It isn't all bad. The aging population will have to be supported by fewer people, which is obviously a problem, and one that can really only be solved by asking the elderly to work to a greater age.

On the flip side, Japan has incredibly dense cities with tiny houses. As the population drops to half its current level there will also be more space for living decently, with bigger houses, more green spaces, etc. It's not at all impossible that in such a situation, women may choose to have more children again.
> We need to change behavior. We need everyone that uses carbon to pay for its use (including the externalities) so that they stop using it as much as they are. This is why poor people can't be exempt. This is why the rich can't just pay for it. We all need a massive increase in the cost of everything that touches carbon (read everything)

This is a pro-climate and anti-human policy. Do you care more about human beings or the amount of CO2 in the air?

There are still billions of people who have no electricity. Let's get them closer to our standard of living before we make everything more expensive for them.
I like your explanation of how to think about money, and I think it's the right strategy for some people. But there are also a lot of people (e.g. if you have a decent amount of extra taxable investments) you can do better your checking account in the market. Yes, this has risks (markets can drop), but this is okay for many people. One way to deal with this is to just keep more money in the "checking account". This is fine, now that the balance is getting market returns.
They might have wanted to use the phrasing in their own papers. It might now get flagged as plagiarism....
The other day, I watched this documentary on a huge off-shore wind project off the coast of the UK. It uses some of the largest windmills ever created.

This project has a mind-boggling amount of complexities and involved a special large ship, one of the only kinds of its type, to move things around—very impressive project.

It made me realize just how revolutionary solar is. Also, why it can compete and be so cheap compared to other forms of energy production.

You just put this almost magical thing on your roof, and it silently creates green renewable energy for decades. Power plants can be complex and expensive buildings. Solar is just stupidly simply.
A handful of corporations are responsible for the vast majority of warming. It's not our fault, it's theirs. They did it, and they knew they were doing it. Any individual action may make you feel good but it does nothing to address the problem.
Low risk / low reward is the entire premise of checking accounts.

If this product was billed as “a brokerage with better tools for depositing/withdrawaling money”, the comments here would be radically different.
What did people do before CSS transforms?

I've been making an app with React Native and react-native-svg and even though react-native-svg supports transformations, I've had to do a lot of transforms with trigonometry (i.e. rotating a shape around a center point, then getting the new bounding box, which requires things such as Math.atan2).

It's made me really appreciate 1. how much easier front end web development is and 2. how far we've gotten. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate web methods like getBoundingClientRect() or element.closest(), and how easy it is to make animations with CSS and move things around with transforms.
False dichotomy. It can be both, depending on the issue. This is similar to U.S., although U.S. is much stronger on the federal level than EU is.
I think you're conflating animation and VFX. They both have different stories than the Japanese anime industry this article is about. These [1] are the kinds of studios I think of for VFX and none of them are in the Animation Guild.

The Animation Guild has been around since the 50s. There were fights in the 70s and 80s over offshoring. In my experience, in the past few decades the Animation Guild has great training programs, medical and retirement, but doesn't really swing its weight around over employment.

VFX was completely separate and has never been unionized. There were efforts in the 90s that turned into the Visual Effects Society, which is more about promoting VFX and recognizing achievements. There were efforts again when Rhythm and Hues closed the same year it won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects that also didn't go anywhere.

[1] https://studiohog.com/vfx-studios/United-States/California/L...
What I find weird, and interesting, is that you seem to summarily correlate a weapon with applying violence to someone. Weapons are frequently used in self-defense, specially among minorities and women abused by their partners. Weapons create a balance to an otherwise unfair and cruel power relationship.

As a matter of fact, those "infringements" already caused the death of an abused woman:

https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases16/pr20160408a.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Carol_Bowne

I invite you to broaden your perspective on the concept of gun ownership and the principles behind the 2nd Amendment. Black men and women bought 58% more guns in the first six months of 2020 than they did in 2019. Black women are being empowered all across America, along with another vast diversity of people, by the right to keep and bear arms.
Awesome! I ran WindowMaker religiously back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I have very fond memories of how elegant and snappy it was compared to other popular window managers & desktop environments of the time.
Thanks for explaining your perspective.

I guess I was too elliptical, because I mostly already understood what you've explained here - I thought the OP was making way too strong a claim.

Instead of just saying that, I asked why he thought the builders in question had their existence threatened.

The builders in question may not be able to legally build the systems they want to in the US, but that's really not threatening their existence.
Interesting. Thanks for that information.
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TomTom provides mapping data to Apple maps, Bing maps and they power many automotive in-dash navigation systems: https://www.tomtom.com/customers/

Very likely they use OpenStreetMaps to enrich their data and it's nice to see that they contribute back.
Ok so that's probably subjective to some extent. The fat part is definitely relevant. When making vegan Mett from rice waffles (original that is spiced raw pork), I usually add a fair amount of oil to somehow get that satisfactory feeling that arises when eating fatty meat. It somehow works, but not as much as I wish. Grated dried tomatoes give some of the umami taste. But the fat is kind of special...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app edit
Not exactly by numbers, but I subscribe to and like keyvalues by Lynne Tye - https://www.keyvalues.com/
It’s only low cost to you because you are making other people pay most of the costs. It’s a good trick.
> the image is fingerprinted on device and when uploaded to iCloud that fingerprint is compared with the "dodgy images" fingerprints and an alert raised if a threshold of matches is reached (what's the threshold and with whom?)

Nope. The comparison is done on the device and the threshold is set there as well.

I am not sure how alarmed I am yet at this whole affair but I do know that maybe 50% of posts I read about this have glaringly incorrect information which definitely dampers my alarmism.
It's a complicated relationship, since companies often struggle with respecting community norms and the overall goals of the project, but I tend to agree.
Where's that internet @ 5% of global emissions number from? It sounds suspiciously high. Networking is not that energy intensive compared to stuff that goes on in data centers and end user devices. Mobile network base stations are pretty power hungry though.

edit: there's a near 5% number in here, but it's not about internet or global emissions: https://internethealthreport.org/2018/the-internet-uses-more... - was linked from your https://sustainablewebdesign.org/ page. It's a 2017 estimate from Greenpeace about how much energy ICT sector as a whole will use as a percentage of electricity consumption by now. So it didn't predict the 'net would produce 5% of global emissions, it predicted all of global ICT would use 5% of all electricity - a much wider slice of a much smaller pie that also includes a lot of renewables and nuclear.
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The problem is, just taxing CO2 emissions doesn't let you control who gets hit by the price increases. It could very well lead to increases in food and transportation costs that would be disproportionately burdensome to the poorest part of the population. Raising the cost of those items is politically very unpopular since it tends to cause unrest.

So I think what we'll get instead is some complex system of first taxing everything and then subsidizing some forms of consumption (again, food and transportation), while trying to incentivize switching over to renewable energy sources.
The definition of a pandemic has nothing to do with how public officials respond to the disease, it’s about the level of spread.

We can both be in a pandemic and also not do anything about it if that’s what you want.
I wish I had so much money that $250k was a tiny fraction of it.
I strongly disagree. Good leaders know how to manage not only their own teams, but everyone else's as well, so much so that anyone that doesn't seem to be the right fit, can be effortlessly placed by a well connected professional network somewhere else, to allow them to thrive.

At best, this video shows a mediocre team leader.
For a while I would work as a coder during the day, and in the evening I would work in the mines, for my son.

"Dad we need more iron ore. Dad, make sure the furnaces have coal in them."

Eventually my kid worked out that you can build generators, effectively coding it in MC bricks and providing infinite resources. Probably the first time he's coded something, he just doesn't know it.

This made my evenings a bit less monotonous to start with, but then I was managing a factory instead of hacking out blocks underground.

One thing I never understood about the game was how TNT and minecarts are supposed to work, economically. It seems you need to kill creepers to get TNT? That takes time, even if you make a farm. And then when it blows up, it doesn't really blow up enough blocks to make it worth the time, surely? Same with the tracks for minecarts. How does the investment pay off? You need a huge amount of iron to make the tracks, and all it lets you do is transport stuff about as fast as riding a horse.