skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think this is a really intriguing idea once you push yourself past the knee jerk reaction of "wait you want me to put my whole checking balance in mutual funds?!"

As you know if you read enough about banking, and as the intro points out, banks already invest your balance in risky stuff. Namely they lend it out to small businesses, homeowners, and others at substantial risk for default. There are mitigations like collateral and sometimes securitization, but the risk is real and there and has blown up countless times in the past.

Yes, the stock market can "blow up" too. But at least you're capturing the upside of the risk with this model. Even interest bearing checking accounts share an infinitesimally small fraction of the return the bank can make on your money.

I'm not saying this is for everyone. When I was younger I would routinely deplete my balance and I do not think this is a good setup for people in that position. But at a more advanced age people tend to start carrying significant balances in their checking as a matter of course, and I actually think there is some strong if slightly counterintuitive logic here in this idea.
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The little, unsophisticated people: https://politicofire.com/2021/08/09/cnn-guest-suggests-obama...
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Seems like some people are unable to handle actual questions on anything that appears challenging and want to dismiss as being hyper critical and snarky for not just drinking the kool-aid.

There was no snarky tone-of-voice in your reply when I read it. Maybe cultural differences? Please, kindly inform me of the output of the power output per m2? Also, is there any information available regarding the durability (lifespan) of the product? Who's got time to be that formal on something as an internet forum? I read topic, now here's some questions I have is perfectly fine. Some people possibly just need to get thicker skins and realize that not everyone out there is trying to be an asshole and just stop reading things in that manner.
No. I refuse.

I'm vaccinated. I social distance. I have good personal hygiene. I've made efforts to mitigate the risks to my family and others we might encounter.

I respect your right to decide for yourself. I respect a brick-and-mortar business deciding it would only prefer to serve people who wear masks. I respect a workplace defining whether its employees should wear a mask (while providing reasonable accommodations to those would prefer otherwise).

But I have genuine doubts about the efficacy of the masks that are widely sold, used, and accepted. When I see selective enforcement and selective outrage, it's hard not to see so many of our government leaders as blatant hypocrites. When I see absolutely no sense of humility from our policy makers on what they actually know and don't know, it's hard not to completely lose trust in their leadership. And then, when so many peer appeals to mask or vaccinate don't come from a place of genuine concern or care but of a "you are irresponsible and brought this on yourself" or "you deserve to be punished", it's as if many are desperate to confirm the worst stereotypes that they are just authoritarian nannies.

And as a result of all that, it's difficult not to have an impulsive response of 'mind your own business'. I'm open to data. I'm open to discussion. But those who only bring condescension can go **** themselves.
And it goes deeper than that, including a point that woodruffw totally misses (perhaps he read only the first paragraph of what I wrote?)

If you are against anonymous cryptocurrency transactions, should you not also be against all end-to-end encryption? After all, it could conceal cryptocurrency transactions!

Or any of an endlessly growing amount of potentially dangerous information or assets, transferred peer to peer.

If you read what I wrote carefully, I clarify the issue so the substance can be discussed, rather than gotcha questions about equivocating words like “crypto”, as what woodruffw has done.

The issue is broken down into two things: 1) control over one’s own speech/identity/brand/etc so no one can take it from you, and 2) anonymity and freedom from consequences for illegal speech or transactions (according to the local lass in different countries).

I think nearly everyone is in favor of #1. The question is about #2. It is an interesting one - and notice that I myself do not advocate a position in my comment, just lay out the two issues and ask which direction you would be more comfortable for society to go in.
And I thought we were supposed to reduce global warming ;-)
> In a world where vaccines are widely available, there is little value in forcing the vaccinated to collectively protect people from their decisions to remain unvaccinated.

Three reasons unvaccinated-by-choice individuals continue to pose a public health burden:

1. Vaccines not yet available for children under 12

2. Economic costs of covid treatment for unvaccinated (including long covid) passed on to taxpayers / insurance groups

3. Increased risks of even more deadly / infectious / vaccine-resistant virus mutations emerging from ongoing spread
They wouldn't have a domain name, clearly. You'd have to type in an IP address manually to see their website.
> Now had the unvaccinated in the US bothered to get vaccinated, the Delta variant might never have taken hold.

That's conjecture. A conclusion from this study[1] is that vaccines correlate with dominance of fitter variants, including Delta. That suggests that it's possible that vaccines allow them to propagate.

"the decline in lineage diversity was indeed correlated with increased rates of mass vaccination. Furthermore, the decline in lineage diversity was coupled with increased dominance of the B.1.1.7 (alpha), B.1.1.617 (delta) and P.1 (gamma) variants of concern, suggesting that these variants may be “fitter” SARS-CoV-2 lineages.”

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259833v...
I could tell you how much blend new human relationships have become in my little bubble since the covid plan has been in place but I don't think that's the gist of it.

The gist of it is the stigma.

People feel marked. Dehumanized. Forced to wear the stuff by people that they don't respect or trust.

COVID is as much a health crisis as it's a trust crisis: people in charge have exhausted their credibility during the last decades of misbehavior, and citizens don't want to wear a mask because the message comes from those they have nothing but disrespect for.

The condescending tone of the citizens than are actually defending masking and vaccinating doesn't help either. I'm vaccinated, but if you call anti-vax names, you are part of the problem.

People have been screwed over for years, covid communication has been fubar, and we are all under a lot of pressure, so be compassionate. They have more chance to join the team if you understand their grudge than if you insult them.
I thought I read from a McDonald's employee at some point that most of the time you go at night and they say the ice cream machine isn't working, it's actually some automatic cleaning process that the machine performs on itself every night.
Covid will be here for years, if not forever. So at this point you might as well just admit that we will have to wear masks forever with this argument.

The pandemic is over for people that got vaccinated. For those that can't, they should evaluate their risks and act accordingly.
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Not necessarily! You can get plenty of nerd mileage out of Orient, Seiko and Vostok automatic/mechanical watches for a reasonable amount of money.
That was always the assumption. How effective was/is it against China? There's an "tragedy of the commons" wrt international trade.
India's population is approximately 4.5 times that of USA, so the actual ratio is "one American is emitting 35 Indians worth of carbon emissions".
Tough luck everyone, OP said he already pays too many taxes, so unfortunately climate action has to go on the back burner. But good news, at least while we are still alive he won’t feel like the government is taking took much.
Your comment is completely unrelated to the matter at hand, and the article.

The controversy here is about this law potentially placing reporting obligations on software developers who never have any custody of client funds. Sort of like requiring the developers of Excel to report on users of Excel using it to manage their money.

> I've also been struck by the proliferation of bank-like services without bank-like obligations. This stretches from fractional-reserve and maturity-transforming services like Tether to exchanges/dealers like Binance and ersatz money transmitters like BitPay.

All these centralized services that have some involvement with crypto already comply with a large number of regulations, and usually do much more stringent KYC than non-crypto payment processors do.
We could do it immediately.

We could literally copy their not-very-good designs if we had to.

Those plants are still effective and operational and provide a major economy with 85% (!!!) of their electricity.

They build them quickly and it's worked out fine.
I wish I could report passive aggressive comments like this... as they don't really belong to HackerNews.
Honestly at this stage if people had the opportunity to be vaccinated and didn’t I’m OK prioritizing care for those who chose to be vaccinated and are sick with non-preventable illnesses.

Triage has lots of ethical questions, this doesn’t seem to be among the most controversial to me. There are patients haranguing doctors for daring to tell them they are dying of COVID. We are exhausting our medical system to care for the uncaring.
Primarily links to other media. 8/28 links go to science/medicine sites. 4/28 to government.

1 www.whitehouse.gov
3 covid.cdc.gov
2 www.nytimes.com
13 www.theatlantic.com
1 twitter.com
1 jamanetwork.com
1 spiral.imperial.ac.uk
1 www.doherty.edu.au
1 www.medrxiv.org
2 www.nejm.org
1 www.thelancet.com
1 www.yalemedicine.org

since the start of 2021 https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrends...

nearly every state https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

struggling to get more shots into arms https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/unvaccina...

once again mask in public indoor spaces https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/cdc-coron...

in places where the virus is surging https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/delta-tra...

controversially dispensed with in May https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/cdc-guidel...

a scientifically powerful pairing https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/cdc-coron...

Nearly 60 percent https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations

holding their own https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/anatomy-...

all known forms https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-compariso...

contract the pathogen https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/90800/2/reac...

pass it on https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...

come down with disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891

the wiliest version of the virus to date https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/coronavi...

might also be likelier to land people in the hospital https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

set vaccinated immune systems up for success https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/cdc-coron...

protect vulnerable people in the vicinity https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/fully-vac...

the government said they could https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

as the CDC stipulates https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view

even 90s https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/141558717094187417...

a bit of a hit https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891

a nasal spray https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/health/coronavirus-nasal-...

Recent modeling work https://www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/news/doherty-institut...

backs this logic up https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

might slip on socially or seasonally https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/mask-mand...

boosters https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/covid-19...

other airway viruses as well https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/02/covid-19...

long been commonplace elsewhere https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/america...
False.

Even when it does use PGP, it is meaningless, explanation:

I just created a spare protonmail account. It asked me to pick a username and password, and my account is created.

Next, I send there a message from my other account. Yes, on the receiving end it does write "End-to-end encrypted and signed message", but encrypted and signed by what exactly? I have never created a PGP keys and loaded the public key to Protonmail on either account (and never used my private key to decrypt anything. This can mean only one thing: even if there is some kind of encryption happening, Protonmail themselves generate keys, and uses it for encryption-decryption, never asking you for anything but your password. And if they can uses these keys to decrypt the messages for you, they can decrypt it for anybody.

Protonmail also gives a user an option to export his private keys. Yeah, right. Your private keys.
Pinephone is a certainly a good bang for the buck, but the hardware is nothing special, and the killswitches are DIP (better than nothing, like Fairphone's current iterations). If you want a cheap solution, this one's the one to opt for. Especially a good option for people who live in (relatively) poorer countries/regions than US or North/West-Europe.

A lot of people in our world simply cannot afford a Fairphone. I can, and I applaud the project, so I went for it. I also applaud the other projects, and remember that perfect is the enemy of good. That a Librem 5 isn't going to be perfect in terms of security, is OK. Its their first iteration (and they had various iterations of it, which lead to considerable delays).

There's also some keyboard smartphones such as Planet Cosmo Communicator and Planet Astro Slide. And some other ones as well such as F(x)tec (which is a good successor to Nokia N900). These are also niche, specific, with their hardware keyboard (which include custom layout such as Dvorak). But they can run alternative OSes, by default. I believe that, for me, this (hardware keyboard smartphone) is going to be the ultimate usability dream, if the keys are large enough. I previously owned a Nokia E71 and Nokia N900, before touch typing became the status quo.

> [...] I recently read a interview by the former CTO that confirms it [...]

I also backed Astro Slide (and own a Cosmo Communicator), and am disappointed with their hardware downgrade from Dimensity 1000 to 800. I hate it when promises are not kept. But it happens. As mentioned I owned a Nokia N900 previously, but I wasn't fond of the keyboard, so I hope Astro Slide's going to be better. And, given its like the Cosmo Communicator (which I am used to), I am confident it will be. The big disadvantage of Planet devices is their slow updates, and being reliant on Mediatek (MTK) which means EOL soon.

With regards to hardware keyboard I read Pinephone is planning such as well, which is great news because its otherwise such an affordable smartphone. Pine64 sells a lot of other cool FOSS stuff such as Pinecil and Pine Camera.
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The kind of masks that everyone is wearing and everyone is okay with everyone wearing are pretty close to useless.

Given that context it’s pretty easy to see that this debate about visible public rituals is a proxy fight about other things, for both sides.

Someone wearing a bandana loosely over his face is conforming to the social norms. That it does nothing for preventing covid 19 isn’t the point.
Hi HN, original poster here!

We made a compilation (book) of questions that we got from 1300+ students from this course [1].

We believe that stackoverflow-like Q/A scheme is best for learning, so we made this.

Project Repo: https://github.com/rentruewang/learning-machine

Website: https://rentruewang.github.io/learning-machine

The website is hosted on GitHub, automatically built from the repo by github actions.

We are lucky to get some feedbacks on reddit here [2], here [3], and here [4], and have made changes accordingly.

It's still WIP. We really want to know what you guys on HN think. Any suggestions are welcome!

[1] https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~hylee/ml/2021-spring.html

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/oz7xab/open_so...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/oz78n...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/oz7p26/p_o...
> That's millions of people who are unvaccinated through reasons outside of personal choice.

Do you have a source?
I'm in agreement, but what is painfully unsaid throughout the article are the why.

It seems pretty apparent to me that Taylor is getting their hands on the Kytch device for the purpose of developing countermeasures to Kytch devices functioning at all.
The US produces much more economic output per ton of CO2 created than China. Carbon efficiency of economic output is a key metric that we should be optimizing for. This allows us to grow the economy on a per capita basis while still reducing absolute carbon emissions.
Seeing the Apple thing and the Australis thing and the EU thing, I'm happy humanity will kill itself by Climate Change.

We have built systems that make it impossible for evil to fail, it will always succeed. You can see it popping up everywhere - loss of privacy, climate change denialism, covid denialism, fascism everywhere, chinese extermination camps, ...

We will all die out and it is a good thing. We will all suffer terribly and that's good, we deserve that too.
You believe CP is evil. You believe privacy is sacred. You are Tim Cook. What do you do?

If this is a sincere effort, clearly Apple has failed to thread the needle. This announcement could also be a fumbled attempt to reframe what is already a common practice at the company, to get ahead of a leak. I heard from a friend who's related to an Apple employee that Apple scans the mountains of data on its servers, already, for "market research". The claims otherwise... marketing gambits.
Yeah, but the people who haven't been vaccinated have made a conscious choice not to. Who are we to get in the way of that?
in theory we could accomplish great things by spying on everyone but even a small amount of abuse of such tools is unacceptable. I dont think we can stop the mass spying indefinetly which makes me think the corrupt governments and dictators are increasingly viable low hanging fruits. there will be a point where we have no other choice but to dethrone them. if we fail there we will all be like the chinese captures in a panopticon of cameras driving large behavrioal datacenters.
Site returns 500 for me. But this reminds me of my own coilguns I made as a kid. Disposable camera flash circuits connected to a set of solenoids wrapped around a thin pvc pipe. Accelerated using a cascade triggering of each solendoid in series. Contact pairs directly in the pipe to close the next solenoid circuit when the metal slug reaches them.
Probably low grade physiological stress? Please cite something on this.

Also, doctors? Nurses? Different types of contractors? They've been doing this a while.
> You are also masking to protect children

That's a weak reason. Only 349 people below 18 have died of corona in the US since the start of the pandemic.
You believe CP is evil. You believe privacy is sacred. You are Tim Cook. What do you do?

If this is a sincere effort, clearly Apple has failed to thread the needle. This announcement could also be a fumbled attempt to reframe what is already a common practice at the company, to get ahead of a leak. I heard from a friend who's related to an Apple employee that Apple scans the mountains of data on its servers, already, for "market research". The claims otherwise... marketing gambits
Yes but it doesn't explain why we've allowed people to willingly not get flu vaccines or why prior to 2020 we didn't force people with flu-like symptoms to stay home from work or mask up even though flu kills tens of millions over the course of a few decades.
The US emits about twice the CO2 per year as India, 3x Russia, 4x Japan, 6x Germany, 7x South Korea, 8x Canada, 10x Mexico, 12x Australia, 13x UK, 14x France, and 18x Taiwan.

By your logic then shouldn't most first world countries also implement a strict carbon tariff on the US?
Is there an equivalent for water/hydrofoils maybe?
Yes, you are completely right, this is an investment account with the money management and instant cash access features of a checking account. It is not FDIC insured and you can lose money.

We are buying and selling the stock in such a manner that you get instant access to cash (e.g. at the ATM), which would be impossible or very tedious if you did this manually :-)
> Do your art skills scale with time? I bet not.

I’m not an artist in any way, but I would think it does?

The more you do something (anything), the better you get at it. Why would art be different?
Just to be clear, "crypto" is short for cryptocurrencies?

This legislation does or does not impact other cryptography use cases?

My concern comes from government's long standing opposition to personal cryptography. eg Clipper chip in phones.
This was great - I found the interactive demos really useful and I picked up some good new information from the extra context provided for each transform.

I hadn't clocked how useful it is that percentage for translate() means the element itself, not it's parent container for example.
It's a shame, because masks are so much less effective than vaccination. Last I saw, vaccination was 70% effective against the Delta variant. Masks reduce transmission by a paltry 10-20% or something even less. If we could just get everyone vaccinated it would make R much less than 1.0. But getting anti-vaxxers to wear a mask when vaccinated people don't have to is going to be impossible...

As it is, with vaccination rates so low, I expect COVID is going to be forever. I don't mind wearing a mask to protect unvaccinated people and help out our medical professionals keep numbers down. But, it's going to be rough. I was so happy, I thought we were done.
> I still fail to see why people are so vehemently opposed to masks.

In my case it's driven because of a) evidence for their being effective at all is lacking[1], and b) as you rightly put it “they are annoying”.

I'm not sure why I wouldn't be against that. Additionally, I live in Japan where the kind of mask-adherence those back in the west can only have wet dreams about is the norm here, and there's no evidence it's helped here either. You may have noticed the lack of crowds at the Olympics as Tokyo is under a state of emergency due to a wave of cases. Masks just don't seem to have any effect against the delta variant. I'm not surprised.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...
Author here.

You say that almost no one "needs" exemptions from COVID precautions. Define "needs".

The truth is that vaccine passports were labeled a conspiracy theory a year ago. Now, they are real. We are already slipping down the slope.

In NYC, with its vaccine mandate, the populations most affected are minorities.

In Massachusetts, a CDC study hints at the fact that vaccinated people and unvaccinated people spread the virus about the same amount, which points to the fact that the virus is going to virus, period.

If that is the case, then social cooperation won't help much, and the cooperation will cause us to lose bodily autonomy. That's not a price I'm willing to pay, and I don't think we as a society should pay that price either.
So do you think Eth miners will just write off their expensive GPUs and throw them into trash bin? It is rather obvious that they will switch to either fork (less probable) or to next best token (more probable).