skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A possibility [1] [2], though contagion is shortened substantially with vaccine, so unlikely still. Probably a good idea to wear masks and physical distance until infections go down.

This virus being novel and widespread, there's nothing to do to stop random mutations. But avoid training it, and get the shots.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-transmission-vaccinate...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34268529/
Another thing that Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens: letting 399 unwitting human beings carry Syphilis for years while you treat them like lab rats[1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
Another illegitimate occupier defeated. Is anyone surprised?
A bright lad with a few years experience finds a way around the mitigations for a flaw found in the previous version. Bear in mind Apple is a $T1 organisation and he ... isn't.

Not only does he perform a rather well polished dance but he writes it up in an entertaining and well presented way. I suspect english is a second language too which makes the whole thing even more impressive.

Just to reiterate: he waltzes around a key aspect of the security in iOS 14 - that is disturbing to me. If he can do that, what do you think a well funded nation state bunch of noddies gets up to?
"Man accidentally gets charged new features, but then reverses them without any hassle."

Don't get me wrong, I hate Tesla and how they treat their customers but this isn't a case of that. I have a Model 3, and my friend who ordered a Model S is getting screwed with delivery and it's ridiculous. I have another friend who signed an agreement for Solar Roof and Tesla is now refusing to honor that agreement and wants him to pay double the cost now. It's very crooked, but what this article is complaining about doesn't appear to be anything except bitching and moaning over something that was easily reverside.
> Compare with the US: a system of laws, checks and balances can prevent the most determined tyrants from seizing power.

The laws, etc., help a lot, but they are built by people and can be dismantled by people. The founders could have built an authoritarian government; IIRC Washington was offered much more power than he took, and his resignation after two terms was his choice to put democracy first.
I don't deny the system has some benefits, they just aren't benefits I will gladly give up my own freedom for nor the freedom of my fellow citizens.

I don't want to do away with anything; I just want "you" out of my devices, where "you" don't belong anyway and where you haven't been up to this point. (Well, you still aren't there because I don't use an iPhone, but hopefully the point is clear.)

Also note that I'm not against the use of such technology in certain situations, such as in unencrypted cloud storage. Though concerns with lack of oversight exist there as well! But installing this on end user devices goes a (huge) step too far.
Wait, they charge several thousand for autopilot? Isn’t driver assistance tech rather standard on most consumer vehicles?
To play the devil's advocate: you can find many articles as pre-prints, for example on biorxiv. And it stays there for free even after the article has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. So you CAN access the article without paying to the publisher.
Sci-fi carbon coins could save our planet
Your understanding is 100% correct. Moreover, last I read about it, covid's peak viral shedding was in the pre-symptomatic or early symptomatic stage -- it's most infectious in walking, healthy-ish people.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/11/covid-19...

(The submitted paper is about "highly lethal pathogens" where
"host death greatly reduces transmission". That's the opening line of the abstract, and I'm baffled how anyone would link this to covid).

(edit: first version had a horrific typo, /s/incorrect/correct/)
True, but the questions are still very poorly posed even if you are from the US. Does a corner of a wheel count as a car? Is the square box containing a traffic light a traffic light? What about the horizontal pole on which it is suspended? What about the vertical pole holding up the horizontal pole? If there is one in the distance, does that count?

You have to play a game of guessing what other people will guess, and yeah, if you aren't from the US that's a huge handicap, if you aren't neurotypical that's a huge handicap, if you have bad luck that day that's a huge handicap. Google doesn't give a shit, the people who put the captcha in place don't give a shit, you just have to deal with the little Kafka nightmare they dump you in and hope it doesn't lock you out of something critical.
> The complaints in the article sound ridiculous

Or maybe they are so far removed from the actual events that you can not tell the seriousness of them from just a random news article?

Is it so hard to just trust the people who say his behaviour was awful?
Being excessively sensitive to carefully chosen four letter words used appropriately for emphasis is a form of toxicity.
Good, they are a joke.
Good vs. Great Interview Answers
No, the messaging to the doctors was that there was essentially no risk of addiction.

> This pain population with no abuse history is literally at no risk for addiction

> There have been studies suggesting that addiction rarely evolves in the setting of painful conditions

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/31/opioid-epidemic-nejm-let...
That price is insane. Is Tesla a car company or a software company? This has to be where their profit is coming from.
Is 16k really a limited vocabulary? The only reference I found online had that as the amount of vocabulary for the highest levels of language proficiency.
I usually add something else to ensure its unique because unlike in most TV/Movies, "Horse battery staple" and "Horse BAttery.Staple!" Are miles apart and any legit password cracking tool won't know that there was 20 common characters between the first and second example
It's not just Massachusetts finding that the vaccine doesn't prevent infection. Iceland[2], France, Britain, Germany[2], Australia[3], and Israel[4] are seeing diminished effectiveness of vaccination. The Israeli study in particular is interesting because it divided the vaccinees into two groups of equal size, partitioning by median time since vaccination (146 days), and found that the cohort vaccinated earlier see less protection than those vaccinated more recently. That seems to suggest it's not necessarily the delta variant that's making the difference but time since vaccination.

[1] https://www.icelandreview.com/society/covid-19-in-iceland-va...
[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/germany-france-and...
[3] https://youtu.be/46vq4Mn2DUQ?t=270
[4] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261496v...
X509's subject alternative name extension has nothing to do with TLS' SNI extension. SNI does not have a mechanism for locally-defined name types akin to X509's OtherName.
Why stop at 0.95c? Why not just let it go even higher so we can see what would really happen in FTL travel
Elon Musk’s Trip Through Hell: Inside the Scramble to Rescue Tesla
We have not heard the story from all sides with zero bias. So why are we making authoritative conclusions? Some of these threads feels like celebrity tabloid gossip.

Edit: Absolutely baffled by the downvotes. Do we really, truly, factually know all sides of the story? What's the disagreement here?
Dissecting Performance of Production QUIC [pdf]
They will have jerseys, available we'll maintained field, and usually one kind of end season celebration and trophys
> Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population.

Host death does not stop transmission of Covid-19 so I do not think this study is particularly relevant, if we’re reading it in that context.
You should not take the numbers which fit your view but look at all numbers.

The type of crazy events are getting more, the extremes also.

There are plenty of statistics telling us that co2 is going up, glacier ice down, temperatures up etc.

What's happening right now in Italy, Greece and turkey is extreme. The flood in Germany was extreme.

'i have never seen something like this in my whole life' was what you heard from plenty of people.

Canada's wildfire this year is already at 3 million, the drought in California is still ongoing and in new Zealand they have also issues with power generation through water.

You really should follow the science of it more closely if you still argue with numbers which fit your view.

Not sure though what your goal is. Are you worried that we spend too much resources on renewable and sustainable solutions globally?
Google Dorks are search terms that can find vulnerable services, open directories, that kind of stuff. Stuff you shouldn't put publically on a web server that a search engine manages to find.

This is an example:

>intext:phpMyAdmin SQL Dump filetype:sql intext:INSERT INTO `admin` (`id`, `user`, `password`) VALUES

It'll find publicly accessible phpMyAdmin backups, so don't click any of the results if you want to stay in the legal side of things.

Googling "Google dork" or "Google hacking" should provide you with more examples. If you try modifying the query a few times, Google will make you fill out a captcha.
> This paper is being wildly misinterpreted and cherry-picked by people who aren’t involved in the science, or qualified to consume it.

These days everyone is a vaccine expert and climate change scholar.
Nope. Please read the top 2 answers in today’s askscience : https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ozh9mi/is_the_d...
Benevolent dictators are said to be better than most other options.

So while I would agree with the communists that celebrity culture is a type of “opium” in their parlance, the drawback is you cannot know what else they will deem bourgeois, vulgar, counter revolutionary and imperialistic.
Minor volcanic eruptions could ‘cascade’ into global catastrophe, experts warn
Capchas hold you up 20 seconds every single time, whereas metal detectors usually don't alarm at all.
As far as I understood the problem with Captcha was and is that it is too American not in a bad sense but culturally. People coming and using the Internet from developing countries might not be able to solve Captcha because their culture is different.

I was thinking how to solve this problem and I came to the conclusion that it is very hard to design puzzle for every country in the world so I decided to put them in cultures something like Civ game but then again the whole process of solving Captcha should be easy not exhausting and time consuming.

My solution was to use webcam if available and make people wave hand or some other gesture in order to verify that you are really human. You can detect webcam presence and webcam input very easily. Or if mic is present you can use mic and pronounce some sentence in order to verify that you are human. As well as webcam you can detect mic presence and mic input easily so Captcha can not be cheated by automated bots.

My solution is humane input as solution to the puzzle or to the task not observing pictures and writing down the text because every computer bot can do it just as good as humans or even better.

Captcha should be easy to do for humans, easy to verify but hard to solve for bots.

In my opinion depressing Captcha is not the problem the problem is that bots came to the point where they are as good as humans solving Captcha but some people struggle solving Captcha because they are not familiar with American culture or simply they do not know English.
Looking at Provincetown, it's far from obvious that this is what happened. It seems more likely that a lot of vaccinated people got the virus in close proximity to unvaccinated people, but the chain of transmission mostly stopped there. Numbers in Provincetown have fallen and there were no reports of major outbreaks when vaccinated people returned home. So it would seem like you could have vaccinated-to-unvaccinated spread in some cases, but vaxed-to-vaxed is multiples less likely.

With the large majority of the world still unvaccinated, and most spread (apparently) curtailed between vaccinated individuals, the evolutionary pressure on the virus will still be toward longer incubation and less lethality. Perhaps if we ever reach a point of worldwide herd immunity by vaccination, and still have large scale circulation of the virus among the vaccinated, we'd be looking at a different evolutionary drift. But it's also worth noting that the relevant mutations in Covid-19 are on the spike protein, and there aren't so many configurations, only a few hundred; it's likely that all possible configurations have already been "tried", and are currently competing in the wild.
Giant toy plane with 50 electric motor props
While deep learning is the zeitgeist of Machine Learning atm, it is not the only part of it going forward with Natural Language Understanding. Qualitative analysis is a branch of ML that could help us with semantics and other parts of language understanding. I think Microsoft is doing research on this.
>> Multiple people said Suleyman would sometimes scream at employees in group meetings and one-on-ones.

This is the behavior you're excusing? If my boss screamed at me, I would tell them to fuck off. I'm shocked you think this is OK behavior, especially from a Google executive.

People are human which means we sometimes lose our cool, but it also means, hey I'm a human so don't fucking scream at me.
It's really hard to know sometimes which frames humans generally classify as 'bicycle' or 'traffic light'. The bottom third of a tire? The supporting pole of an extra set of signals in the background? I sometimes have no idea whose intelligence I'm supposed to emulate.
QAnon conspiracy phenomenon emerges in France, government to order inquiry
This is changing with new renewables installs, more than half of them include storage, if I recall correctly.
If you are a really smart, hardworking, gifted producer - you should probably do that. The essence of people management is about maximizing the results of each individual, developing them and building a team that is more productive than just the sum of the parts. It's a very different skill set and deployment of energy.
“Our users were getting exploited in our PDF viewer, so we added a stack”
Today’s askscience said exactly what you are saying, for those who want to read : https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ozh9mi/is_the_d...
I don't see anything in that about vaccinated people.

https://www.osfhealthcare.org/blog/fully-vaccinated-less-lik...

>“We do not have conclusive proof. But more and more studies and real-world evidence points to fully vaccinated people, who are not immunocompromised, are less likely to transmit the virus if they become infected,”
I do want to emphasize that this wasn't a "you can't do that" type of thing, though. You absolutely have the freedom to do it.

My comment was meant more in a "Do you really want to, given that this might have an effect that we both deem negative?" kind of way.
> do they not enpower their workers?

The US is pathologically concerned with blame, and with avoiding blame. Everything about the US makes a ton more sense if you understand that.

If you don't empower workers, then anything they do is their fault. If you do, then anything they do might be your fault, for failing to restrict them ahead of time. It's as simple as that.

So you let them make as few choices as possible (then, if they do and it's bad, you're off the hook).
https://archive.is/6OmH3
Tonne is the more common form for (but exactly equivalent to, assuming metric tonnes) the SI megagram (Mg).

Anyone that would use the hypothetical 'kilotonne' would use 'Gg' instead. Agriculture works in tonnes though, not SI prefixed grams, so it would just be 1000t.

(Source: from writing a lot of code for doing conversions and display and things with differently denominated quantities for ag users!)
Something I found very interesting when I learned about it several years ago: it's possible to formulate SR and GR with the Euclidean (++++) metric instead of the Minkowski (+---) or (-+++) metric. Such a formulation (there is a variety of them) is sometimes called Euclidean Relativity (ER).

See: https://www.euclideanrelativity.com/

Some ER research is particularly fascinating to me, e.g. Montanus' work on Flat Space Gravitation:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-005-6482-0

A new description of gravitational motion will be proposed. It is part of the proper time formulation of physics as presented on the IARD 2000 conference. According to this formulation the proper time of an object is taken as its fourth coordinate. As a consequence, one obtains a circular space–time diagram where distances are measured with the Euclidean metric. The relativistic factor turns out to be of simple goniometric origin. It further follows that the Lagrangian for gravitational dynamics does not require an interpretation in terms of curvature of space–time. The flat space model for gravitational dynamics leads to the correct predictions for the bending of light, the perihelion shift of Mercury and gravitational red-shift. The new theory is free of singularities.
Although if you’re on macOS Catalina or higher, the game no longer runs. And since the team abandoned it without open sourcing it[0], it can’t be recompiled for 64-bit.

[0] Although they did open source some of their scripts and shaders as a Unity plugin called OpenRelativity, which was cool.
If that didn’t happen to the Moon, why would it happen on even more difficult missions?
It is true. The claim was that the risk of addiction was extremely small. One of the ways this idea was pushed was cherry-picking a study that showed no addiction among 10k burn victims treated with opioids. Minimizing the risk of addiction was also a major component of the guilty plea and fine.

Obviously any reasonable person with a knowledge of opioids could see that these claims were BS, but it's remarkable what motivated reasoning can do, especially when there's profit involved.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
I know this is making the rounds of the 'covid vaccine bad'[0] crowd, but isn't it the case that the yearly flu vaccine doesn't guarantee immunity? How has such a vaccine been flying by with such a potential danger present?

[0]https://youtu.be/tiwsv51Il4k?t=98
There is no tax on weed in the Netherlands, and I always have to ID myself (mid 30, Rotterdam)
I love when the inexperienced stand up like an expert.

There's a huge difference between having a plant that is alive and a plant that is producing quality flower of enough quantity to make a difference. There is much better info on the web a simple search will show you compared to me describing to someone that already thinks it's super easy.
When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software
I'm not too sure this question is well-posed, there simply isn't an isometry of space that would take a trajectory traveling faster than the speed of light and make it inertial. As such we have no description of the laws of physics that someone would experience on such a trajectory. So how things like red/blue-shifting etc. would work out is simply not knowable.

Now if you were just wondering what you'd see if you simply changed position really quickly then you can just imagine putting lots of cameras in a long straight line and triggering them in turn to simulate a superluminal speed then you basically would just see the stars move more quickly than possible. You'd also see time progressing backwards on the stars that you are 'moving' away from and more quickly on the stars that you are 'approaching'.

So the stripy stars bit is not really that far off.
You'll be growing crops year round, indoors. So you could be miserable. Curious if they select for plant strains that give off less pollen.
> The only thing "the SJW crowd" has changed is which words are now seen as offensive.

Well, that, and also bullying thousands of well-meaning projects into doing silly renamings they didn't want or need to spend energy on. Introducing thousands of silly little bugs and problems downstream, wasting thousands of productive hours.
> In elite schools like Oxford, the drop out rate would be close to Oxford's

Typo?

Lots of US 4 year colleges have terrible graduation rates. It’s not just community colleges.

The UK also doesn’t have a culture of “drop out and start your own company.”
I visited around 10 years ago and found it to be a truly interesting country, though indeed mired in recent controversy and historical bloodshed and all the political to-and-fro discussed in the article, but also full of delights and fascinating people and strong cultural elements (grilled meat! Late night dancing!), a clear cross between old Europe and the new world, more than any other perhaps. My anecdote on the finance system: the local street market had signs posted by the local government that mandated prices-in order to curb inflation. That was a first for me, seeing vendors unable to set their own prices.
>> Behavior patterns were not productive.

I agree with you on success often being in spite of, or regardless of negative traits. That said, there are quite a lot of arseholes at the top... or maybe being at the top allows arseholes to indulge.

Jobs, by most accounts, was a real arsehole. Musk, by some reports, at least at time. Gates too, had a reputation for nastiness. Lots of professors are known for bullying and meanness. Film directors, rock stars.... In fact, most people have encountered areshole bosses at some point.

I'm not saying that arseholery isn't a problem. There's just sense of willful ignorance here. No one wants to admit that they tolerate arseholes in positions of power, but most everyone has them. Creating an environment of no tolerance would be novel, probably hard.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware
I did imply that. And it's an unfortunate consequence that sometimes those on the spectrum can exhibit "asshole" like behavior but one does not need to be autistic to be an asshole so I've made a false equivalency and I am sorry.

What I was trying to get at is that all this hero worship of sociopathic myopic founders and 100x engineers who "get results" that somehow gives them license to be assholes, we've transcended that.
The authorities actually are trying to get us to use their app which does indeed generate a new code every time. However this is something I don't like because then I have any tracking of the actual app to worry about too. Especially because their lineage is pretty murky. I've gone to a lot of trouble to get facebook and google out of my life and this feels like a big step back. So I use the paper code exclusively.

Of course that also presents issues with people not owning smartphones, not knowing how to use them or having dead batteries as you mention already.

But what you describe would be better than the current setup if the operator is really transparent about how any personal info is used, yes.

All the covid tracking apps during the first wave were really privacy conscious (avoiding personal info, using open source etc) but the whole QR thing as introduced in Europe doesn't seem to have taken this into account at all. Of course that's because it's more personal in general but the whole open source thing has been dropped too. Only Switzerland seems to be doing that now.
What goes around comes around.
Can I volunteer Elon Musk?
VAX VMS had
this sorted around 1983 with SET PASSWORD /GENERATE. We have gone backwards since then.
So all we need to do is have everyone use the same centralized vendor/institution and bitcoin is fast and free!! Wait a second...
> Who drops out of Oxford unless it’s to start a business? You’d almost think he was an intelligence asset of something.

I think you've been smoking too much weed my friend.
But more measurable.
I think in the past journals prohibiting the use of preprint archives was more common.