skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be confirmed by data collected in Israel: [0]

> More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

> Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

They calculated that Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection.

[0] https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762
IIRC after entering your name, "How old are you ?" was the first question on YC's original application, even before asking what you are working on.

It was out in the open back then but perhaps it was removed because it is less relevant now. A 50 year old applicant today would likely had likely been hacking on a computer as young child and YC is getting older too so the culture differences are less significant today.

But if I had to guess you have a 10X better chance getting into YC as a 50+ with co-founders than as a 30 year old solo founder. I am always surprised any VC will fund a solo-founder.

Personally I had applied numerous times to YC as a solo-founder. But as soon as I had co-founders I was invited for an interview. I was 45 at the time and no one cared.
>I love that it is "about 22:00" rather than 22:03:37.

Agreed. I view myself as a pretty casual person, someone who's not overly concerned with the minutae of modern life. But with a digital watch, it's "12:47" and not "a quarter to one", which to me sounds infinitely cooler. With a slightly inaccurate mechanical movement, I fall into the latter manner of speaking, which is more what I want to be. Weird psychological preferences, but something that counts, to me.
Wildfire management organizations' budgets have been so skewed to remedial action from preventative that indigenous "Cultural Burners" in British Columbia have complained that when they've sought agreement to do controlled burns in spring and autumn they are met with plans for batteries of firefighting equipment on standby. It is a colossal mismatch of scale, since the Cultural burners tend to limit their focus on their own local, ancestral territories. Thankfully the B.C. authorities are now doing a rethink in favour of the Cultural burner concept.
I think a lot of people are either stuck with images of Apple under Steve Jobs or Apple under Tim Cook's marketing.

It is at still nice to see people are finally asking these sort of questions.
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Not to forget the gained efficiency of distributing huge amounts of fuel to a single location vs. small amounts to many locations
https://archive.is/oBBrR
Informed decision is a high bar.

I'm pretty sure that most go with habit and convenience. I mean.... Apple could lock MacOSX down tomorrow and charge you $100 for terminal access and "informed decision" people would still argue how good MacBooks are (they aren't that good)
I have a partially completed YC application — Once I came across the (required) age field I simply decided to not go any further.

I appreciate that YC are upfront about age being important because it tells me two things: (1) I shouldn't waste my time and (2) YC's morals are not in alignment with mine anyhow.

Regarding the latter: It's not a huge deal - I can understand why they do it. Screening based on age is just not something I would be comfortable doing.

But hey, it's not my money after all.
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OCaml doesn't have linear types.
What are you quoting? I would like to read more of it.
My suspicion is the main reason is that the costs of providing checking account functionality are high (banks subsidise this with penalty fees and marketing loans/mortgages and credit cards to their checking account customers as well as earning significantly higher returns oj their investment portfolio than they pay depositors). As much as in theory I'd love to hold money I might need to spend in the near future in fungible, low-risk government bonds, the middleman provides quite a lot of value in convenience.

Presumably you have put some thought into how you're going to manage these costs (beyond not providing branches) or what checking account functionality you are uninterested in providing.
In the Northeast, just buy it from the north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_%E2%80%93_New_England_T...
I guess I don't quite understand the target audience? I put in my average checking amount and it quoted me at how I'm potentially missing out on $262 dollars/year, at which point, I think, yeah okay, but I have FDIC-insured deposits, so I don't feel too compelled to forgo that for the promise of maybe adding another $262 to my wealth. I'm just simply not keeping 10s of thousands of dollars in my checking account. To me, that's what a savings account and/or investment accounts are for.

So who are these people keeping so much money in their savings account that they want to invest it, but are not already being served by other offerings from traditional investment firms of high-yield savings accounts?
Allow it or don't buy our product is a fairly disingenuous take on "opt-in".
Yes, but it also means an already inefficient system takes an absolute nosedive in efficiency.
Fifteen years ago the principle security worry in running a web application was that some "script kiddy" would break in and deface your homepage.

Today the threats are much more real. Ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, even state actors.

An enormous point of weakness in modern software is the supply chain - many projects now have thousands of nested dependencies.

Most of those dependencies represents at least one human being who can be threatened with a crowbar and forced to ship an exploit, which can then infect vast numbers of production applications.

So yes, for me this is a very real concern!
Because that's not what's being argued here. Nobody in power cares enough to mass load ABBA onto your phone. But there's very powerful nation states who care, more than they care about anything else, to maintain power at any cost.
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They use GMAT, the General Mission Analysis Tool
https://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/GMAT/index.php
Because it keeps dumping carbon in the atmosphere acceptable for longer, which at this point just isn't acceptable anymore. Carbon capture is not about reducing the amount of carbon in our atmosphere but merely about reducing the rate at which it grows by prolonging the business models that are destroying our planet. Those business models need to get seriously unprofitable in a hurry. Carbon capture schemes are subsidies designed to keep them profitable. No carbon capture system exists that is economical without subsidies.

We're capturing a percentages of what we should not be putting in the atmosphere to begin with and even those percentages are questionable if you factor in the losses, the inefficiencies, the inevitable optimism about how much is actually captured, and the inevitable ease with which those inefficiencies are green-washed away. Most of these schemes are actually pretty wacky, leaky, and questionable and don't stand a lot of scrutiny.

For example we are green washing stuff like creating blue hydrogen which works by creating it from methane and than "capturing" some of the carbon in a way where it ends up in the atmosphere after some time anyway. The goal here is monetizing the methane in a way that companies can get away with it; not actually capturing the carbon. Likewise, other companies are planting some trees to compensate for their industrial scale burning of oil, gas, etc. they are capturing nowhere close to what they put out. Or people are "capturing" carbon by intensively turning soil into desert (which emits a shit tonne of carbon) while harvesting corn; which we then burn as well. There's no end to how messed up the carbon bookkeeping is for a lot of this stuff. Most of it serves just one thing: green washing stuff we need to stop doing urgently. Kill the subsidies and most of these schemes instantly stop making sense.
How do you know? Stating an unsourced claim confidently doesn't make it true.

Historically, plenty of societies had kids who didn't spend much time around their peers, aside from family. It's not uncommon for a family to be ma, pa, and kids living on a farm, or hunting-gathering in a forest. The invention of same-age peer groups in schools is pretty modern, on evolutionary timescales.

... and kids see plenty of faces at home and in other non-school settings.
I did not downvote, but while I too saw this article and thought that we should concentrate population more to allow more nature to be unmanaged, there's also just something incredible impractical about that. Humans aren't just a thinly spread collections of houses, farms, water supplies, electric transmission need to cover a vast area of earth if we're to keep something like our current quality of life and honestly I do value humans above all else. I'd go almost as far as to say all value flows from people. Nature doesn't I think have intrinsic value. Maybe some of the animals that live in it, but certainly not the plants and insects.
The Hindenburg was covered in aluminum paint.
It's both. The sun is actually pretty expensive to hit from Earth... Earth's orbital velocity around the sun is about 29.78 km/s. Even to fall into the sun, you need to kill most of that (not quite zero is needed, of course, as the sun has a wide radius... But closer to zero than simple Earth escape velocity).

The Parker Solar Probe, for example, pulled the trick off of getting a high-eccentricity orbit around the sun by slingshotting Venus seven times (the transfer orbit from Earth to Venus is about 3 km/s delta-v).

There's a pretty good overview of the math at the Space stackexchange: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/38612/how-much-les...
Which is definitely absent in mobile phone space.
> Can I ask, is this a real, actual concern? Why do I need to sign and verify my software is my software? Why is a hash not sufficient integrity verification?

Security is layered so there is no one thing to just secure it. With that in mind, how do you control which revision of something is deployed? Do you use the hash? What if someone pushed a different version to your container repo? Could that be somehow run somewhere? It may require someone gaining privileges but that is not an uncommon situation. This is why multi-layered security is useful.

If something is signed and verified you can know WHO it came from. Someone with access to sign it. In the situation where a bad actor pushed something to a container repo the verification step would fail and you would catch it.

This is just one example. There are many others.
Yes! The elements of Typographic Style is more Type oriented, likewise with Ellen Lupton's books. Grid Based Graphic Design by Müeller Brockmann is the one you want for grids specifically, and anything Swiss in general is probably fine.
You can keep that secret until someone goes to court or has police raid their house over photos that were supposedly end to end encrypted.

Like whatsapp saying their chat is encrypted, is it really? Well, Facebook is trying really hard to losen this up, why don't they just release an update sending them the keys?
I had a Seiko SKX-007 that needed some
maintenance, and I was quoted $600.

That price is awfully high. They were either trying to rip you off... or simply drive you away, which is possible if they were a shop that prefers to work on high-value watches for wealthy customers. Maybe they are an authorized Rolex service center and prefer to collect those hefty prices.

But, there's definitely not $500+ of labor involved at any reasonable market rate.

Those Seiko 7S26 movements are something like $50 new and even an amateur can perform the swap in a short amount of time without specialized tools (edit: well, maybe a hand puller, but that's cheap) and there are plenty of videos showing how.

There's no actual watchmaking knowledge required. That would only be required if trying to repair a module rather than simply swap it out.

The SKXxxx models are something of a classic but are hard to find now that they've been discontinued for a while; if you still have your broken model it may be worth more than you paid for it.
Sorry misread your message. You aren’t a grammar nazi.
The “Sci-Hub effect” can almost double the citations of research articles
I’m very fond of this watch, I picked mine up during a Macy’s sale for $300: https://www.hamiltonwatch.com/en-us/h69439931-khaki-field-me...

There are few different dial and strap combos, I just ordered a steel bracelet for mine.

It’s a bit thinner than the Seiko 5 SNK803 or SKX007, is a reasonable size (38mm) and the hand wound movement reduces the thickness since there’s no rotor. There isn’t a day/date complication either, just a three hand watch.
British Columbia implemented one with redistribution of revenue to the population in 2008.

Canada implemented it at the federal level in 2018.

It is probably the closest implementation to the bill proposed to the congress this fall:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2307...
I first came across this problem in Gödel, Escher, Bach in the 80s sometime when I first read it. Hofstadter does warn the reader to bring lots of paper when trying 27. Did I listen? Of course not.
Thinking about it, another client side solution would be to also scan images when downloading from iCloud.
That way pedos will have difficulty using iCloud, since the hash will be rescanned when downloading and the hash might be up to date this time. Would this allow Apple to not store the deleted image data on the client? This would still catch significantly less perpetrators than the server-side approach, would NCMEC etc. agree to this, or would pressure force Apple to go even further?

Either way, a workable client-side solution has to end up more encompassing than what Apple has done.
I find the quality of the photos from my phone to be terrible: wrong brightness, wrong color balance, wrong focus, wrong contrast, wrong orientation, motion blur, etc. The quality of the documents from the Fujitsu scanner is top notch. And the feeder is amazingly fast, specs say 20 ppm, which I think means 20 sheets, or 40 pages/minute. I also hate typing long file names on a phone keyboard. But if it works for you, then it works for you.
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I live next to a boulevard, 5th floor. The amount of black stuff that gets onto my balcony every day is absolutely insane. And to think that we are breathing that! I would fully embrace a full conversion for electric vehicle for that alone, this isn't just CO2, this is our air quality in cities.
Will play also be obsolete? Because work can be play, and play can be work.

Work often has a negative connotation in today's world, but it can also be positive, fun, and rewarding.

The economic whip (ie. the incentive of working to survive) might become obsolete, but that doesn't mean that people will stop wanting to work for fun, fulfillment, or to make original contributions.

It's unlikely many people would willingly choose to be garbagemen and toilet cleaners, and we'll probably all breathe a sigh of relief when those jobs are finally automated, but will we stop wanting to make art or music when AI can make it "just as good"?

Even in more practical fields than art or music, it's more likely that we'll see AI-human collaborations rather than AI doing everything by itself without human input.

What is human is constantly in flux anyway. Even if we consider just technology's effect on the human, there are humans now with all sorts of prosthesis that make them "more than human" in some ways, and this trend itself will likely continue, with things like more and more advanced neural interfaces, memory upgrades, sensory enhancement, etc.

The future of humanity will likely be as some sort of cyborg.
Yes, but the shortening of "app" wasn't.
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Both Little Wars and Kriegspiel are much simpler than AD&D.
My understanding is that NH35-powered watches are generally 13mm minimum (the divers at least) because the Seiko movements are generally on the thicker side as far as three-handers go. I'd look for something PT5000-powered on AliExpress like the offerings from Escapement Time [1].

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001053227921.html
And really, how different would it be if they were there? Stuck in a studio being fed information just the same.

I love those political broadcasts "Here I am outside a building where something is happening (but luckily someone in the studio is telling me what is actually going on)." And it's always raining.
Logging is only one tool in the big preventative wildfire kit, and is quite difficult if not impossible in many geographic areas.
Yeah, good cop, bad cop, game.

Bad cop: I want access to all your information.

Good cop: Oh, these guys are after you. Let me see if I can intervene for you. I can implement a selective limited search, that make these bureaucrats happy and at the same time will protect you. I am on your side, I hate them too. This is the best practical solution.
Hahahaha I came here to see if anyone else did this!

I didn’t think that a bit of coding was going to outpace hundreds of years of genius mathematicians - but a few minutes coding was a cheap price to pay to satisfy that ceaseless curiosity
> As I understand it, human reviewers for this program do not see the photo itself, but instead see the hash and make a determination from that.

No, this is not correct. Human reviewers see a visual derivative which is separate from the hash. It’s basically a blurred thumbnail - enough to visually confirm that the image is not a false positive, buy not enough that the reviewers are constantly exposed fo child porn.

Also remember that multiple matches are required to even get to the human review.

The rest of your comment really doesn’t seem to match the system being described. It’s not predictive policing or anything like it, and it is obviously very much against Apple’s interest for it to generate false positives.
It's possible that very early lisps were interpreted—I'm not sure—but lisp had been a predominantly compiled language for many years before c++ arrived on the scene.
Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World" gets into the wargaming history of D&D.
> The only way out of this madness is to get the sensible representatives in Congress to move forward with an antitrust case

What are you looking for out of this anti-trust case? Apple is not a monopoly. There are numerous privacy-focused phones and Android distros available. I think there just isn't a huge market for a privacy-focused phone (no, 1000 people on a HN and twitter is not a huge market.)
Cycling a large asteroid between Earth and Jupiter could be used to slowly shift the orbit of Earth, most of the energy coming from Jupiter. Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits [https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126]
> How do you know which hash is the correct one?

Figuring out the correct hash is different from knowing that the software you got is from who you expected it to be from. If you sign 100 versions of something and you verify what you got... you'll know they came from who you expected (rather than a bad actor) but you might not know which version to run from that.
They are even louder than fuel burning cars over 50kph due to the extra weight. I would still rather hear loud tire noise than breathe exhaust as a pedestrian though
I can certainly ask every RV owner to agree to it and they are free to accept my terms or look for another lot. Or maybe I can say that every RV will be sniffed by a dog and in case it detects something, the RV will be entered to check for compliance with the rule.

Edit: to be clear, what I'm trying to say is that there are 2 parties entering an agreement here, the owner of the infrastructure also has some rights because we recognize the rights to private property.
The vegetation native to the western portion of the north american continent is adapted to fire. It's a necessary part of the natural life-cycle of many plants.

https://www.coastal.ca.gov/fire/ucsbfire.html

https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildland-fire-lodgepole-pine.ht...
Balancing systems do exist - I used to swim in Smith Mountain Lake[1] as a kid and that entire lake is a gigantic battery. During low demand periods they pump water into a reservoir to then run the turbines during peak demand hours. None of these systems are perfectly efficient - but we've got a lot of options in our tool belts for ways to balance peak demand that don't require more continuous production capacity.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Mountain_Dam#Hydroelectr...
>>But mostly, the war ended when the governments and economies of the nations fighting could no longer withstand the strain and started collapsing. (Russia is the most obvious example; Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were sketchy going in; Germany and France were the military superpowers but Germany finally fell apart with France about this far > < from large scale mutinies. Oh, and Britain finally paid off its WWI loans in like 2015.)

Huh? Germany lost. It couldn't have defended its territory by the time it surrendered. Britain and France could have easily fielded armies of the same size into 1920 if needed. There was no financial risk for them once America entered the war. The mutinies for germany began once it was clear that the war was hopeless. In comparison, the mutinies the french arm had suffered in the aftermath of the nivelle offensive were long gone by this time.
And their actions show that they aren’t likely to do any of the scary things they are being accused of.

That’s the point - people keep claiming some nefarious slippery slope, which is of course in the realm of possibility, but is not actually happening.
I'm surprised mismatching parenthesis was a common mistake in 2016 given the ubiquity of IDEs and text editors that should catch a syntax error like that.

== vs .equals() is pretty understandable considering that it's Java specific, and would be valid in most(?) other languages
They were chucked off the platform only to return and start from scratch again. I feel they may have been one of the few settlers who pushed Amazon a bit too far with their behaviour.

If Amazon was on the ball they would use all that fancy AWS AI stuff to spot when banned sellers reappear.
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Step 1: /give @p iron_ore 64

If you are going to cheat, you might as well be efficient
I wrote one many years ago as part of going through (I think) the project Euler series. No hope of actually solving it ofc. It's a fascinating problem because it just seems so simple. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out in the end that it's connected to some other seemingly unrelated (lack of) order in mathematics like prime numbers or whatnot.
Apple is literally going to spy on you... and then report you to the authorities.

I'd rather give all of my DNA to an advertising company.
At the end of the day, the data has to live somewhere. If not on disk, then in memory or straight from the network. If the device is rooted, then the user would technically have access to any of these, so it doesn't really matter.