skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at countries with high vaccination rates but still dealing with uncontrolled outbreaks, the breakdown of the infected pretty closely mirrors the percentage vaccinated in the overall population.

If the vaccine provided you with strong protection against infection, you'd expect the numbers to be highly skewed towards the unvaccinated.
> should be throwing an insane amount of money and equity to get a Sheryl Sandberg like executive

This is correct but also bittersweet.
> There doesn’t exist any official Git GUI.

There absolutely does. It's called Git GUI. It's right here: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/git-gui
My notion is that life is a long, drawn-out amphetamine withdrawal, and this study supports that notion.

("amphetamine" loosely meaning energy level, not meaning the actual drug family)
Thanks so much! If you want to learn more hit me up and if you know of anyone that would be a fit as a mentor we do have referral program.
This could be said of any service that benefits from allowing people with similar interests locate and talk with each other. I'm not a fan of Facebook, but if it wasn't Facebook it would be someone else, and if it wasn't someone else, it would be because of draconian measures taken by the state that will eventually turn on anyone who has any opinions that differ from those in charge of the state.

I hope all of your opinions exactly match the ruling powers at all times.
You obviously don’t own a Tesla. This isn’t possible.
> It looks like viral load diminishes faster which is a plus

Here's a graph from one such study that backs your claim

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1421874289398194187
:) Thanks. Cool story. Just perusing your other posts and saw your son wanted to learn linux? Not sure how advanced he is or his inclination but could you go with the OS course from MIT? There's a good PDF book that covers the basics of a linux-style OS to give a good overview. I crammed on it for a system internals interview with FAANG. It was fun! :)

The parallel and distrubuted operating systems group
operating systems engineering course
model operating xv6

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2018/xv6.html
Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit
Ok, here is something that happened that could have triggerd this:

Back when I used WhatsApp I got a lot of nice photos from friends and family there.

WhatsApp doesn't (at least didn't) have a way to export them but I could find them on disk and I had an app that copied that folder to a cloud service. Problem is this folder contained all images from all chats.

Now I'm not very edgy so most of my pictures are completely non-problematic (in fact I don't know of any problematic ones), but once in a while someone will join one of your groups and post shock pr0n.

I've long since stopped backing up everything since I use Telegram now and it allows me to selectively backup the chats I want.

But I wanted to mention just one very simple way were doing something completely reasonable could result in an investigation of an innocent person.
Your lobbyists might get some extra favors if you don't pass the blame on congress.
What worries me most is that hackers and others with ulterior motives, will engineer a situation creating a false positive, or worse. If you want to absolutely destroy someone, accuse them of possessing pornographic material of children. Even if it turns out to be absolutely false, the stain is still there, the bell cannot be unrung. Damage both in the short and long-term to reputations, careers, the lives, will be devastating. None of us are safe from this.

“yeah but there was that one time Apple thought she had kid porn on her phone.. she said it was a false positive, police investigated never prosecuted etc., but…better to not hire, etc..you know..just in case”
Authoritarian governments have never needed preexisting technical gizmos in order to abuse their citizens. Look at what Russia and the Nazis did with no magic tech at all. Privacy stems from valuing human rights, not easily disproven lies about it being difficult to actually implement the spying.
I read that drug overdose, alcohol poisoning, and suicide have increased. May need a few years to study this...
What are the consequences to limiting wolf population in just one state?
Here's my hope: E2E encryption. Maybe the government is throwing a fit about Apple harboring potential CP on its server if it's E2E encrypted, so apple says, "fine well review it prior to upload, and then E2E encrypt the upload itself"

I can hope, I guess...
As I see people straining to defend Apple, coming up with all types of reasons about on-device image checking will not be abused or expanded, about how people shouldn't really expect to not be scanned, I can't help but just think of Apple's own words and current public position on privacy.

Here's their privacy page: https://www.apple.com/privacy/

First sentence:

"Privacy is a fundamental human right."

Apple has adopted this as a "core value". Their executives use this exact phrasing.

It is an extraordinary claim. They don't say, "We think privacy is important". They claim it as a fundamental human right (i.e. applying to everyone, unconditionally) and wrap themselves in the banner of it.

How anyone can square that with statement, that self-described "core value" with their recent on-device image checking announcement, I really have no idea.
Apple is a fairly large company, that gives them some monetary leverage over governments. It's not as simple as you make it seem, I think.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28149210
Just create a new account, problem solved.
The conversations/exchange of messages are private between the mentor and mentee. The identity of the mentees and their questions are never shared without prior consent. Mentors and mentees agree to terms that protect their privacy. We ask that mentors accept the terms before onboarding.
Food for thought

> BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-economy-biontech-...
Please elaborate on these magical methods.
Probable summary: Of course it's not, and that was an argument used to jail antiwar socialists handing out pamphlets.
Exactly why people avoided taking naughty pictures with film. Digital, on the other hand, is private. And should remain so.
U.S. vaccination levels by county OVER TIME
I’ve struggled with this and my solution was to quit and change career to be a tradesman, starting school again at the end of the month.

A novel was written about this from the relationship side in the 90’s by a webdev: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, I haven’t read it but it’s in the mail.
That's out of context, which the preceding sentence establishes:

>by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.

Otherwise simply raising the price on something would be rent seeking.
> Why is nobody recommending a highly saline nasal irrigation as a prophylactic? Or even a lower saline nasal irrigation with a very diluted amount of hydrogen peroxide???

Is there any indication that any sort of nasal irrigation is effective at all?
It didn't get the attention it deserves (only 27 upvotes as of now)
He's probably been paying our new price for his subpar tier burritos the entire time.

I'd almost shed a tear.
One of the main reasons their monetization is so bad is that their mobile app is terrible.

Mobile Apps are important for monetization because they are much less vulnerable to ad blockers, people are used to ads taking up more of the screen in scrollable content and in most cases carry more traffic than desktop versions.

I think the disastrous experience buying and targeting ads is bad too, but the lack of a decent mobile app is a huge factor.
You also must trust that it's actually automatic, kind of like police dogs. Turns out their main function is to provide "probable cause" when their handler wants a search. This opens the door to the same thing except now it's a free warrant to access any device, as long as you pay Apple to automatically "detect some CSAM" first.
There's no doubt that the media are thought leaders and I think for the most part set the narratives for the public to divide itself over, but I really think the Reddit hivemind is the base for the emergence of novel phenomena, the stuff your read on there certainly isn't all manufactured by the media.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...

"Does this mean Apple is going to scan all the photos stored on my iPhone?

No. By design, this feature only applies to photos that the user chooses to upload to iCloud Photos, and even then Apple only learns about accounts that are storing collections of known CSAM images, and only the images that match to known CSAM. The system does not work for users who have iCloud Photos disabled. This feature does not work on your private iPhone pho- to library on the device."
Also bear in mind that Apple makes the spectacular statement they they consider privacy a "fundamental human right" and that it's one of their core values. [0]

It's mind boggling to imagine that a company comes up with that stance and advertises it so proudly without ever having considered that it is at odds with what governments around the world will want.

"I know we said privacy is a fundamental human right but that was before the U.S. government asked us to give them your data"

0. https://apple.com/privacy
Because it is not useful for anything, causes immense damage, and many of the people that promote it are crooks.
This is what real estate is for; they are and have been all my life stocks. We are ruled by Market Logic so that everything becomes quantified (Mbembe Necropolitics) including the Public Commons of Human Shelter.
One consequence is more elk and moose.
Because the "man made" conspiracy was not based on any evidence or research. They were promoted by media personalities with no scientific backgrounds spreading a false narrative deeply rooted in white nationalism and helped to promote anti-Chinese hate crimes.

Obviously real scientists and social media platforms didn't want to be associated with or help to promote that at the time.
There are absolutely establishment forces at work on HN, both overtly and covertly.
I think I could have this conversation with people of many ages. For me my mid 20's was when I started to notice more weight gain. I've put it down to now working an office job where I am sitting most of the day, as opposed to standing up and walking around in retail. My job is also more stressful which has led me to be less active after work as I just want to "relax" when I get home.

I have no doubt this also means I eat slightly worse food or larger portion sizes. Luckily I've noticed it and started to make lifestyle changes to prevent it further.
Who buys Full Self Driving for 10k and thinks you can’t pay attention? The only people I ever see say that are people that don’t have it.
Unless you have specific information otherwise, this doesn't appear to be debt financing, so they never need to pay it back.
It’s almost certainly happening right now but we won’t know which simple service will be worth hundreds of millions for some years.
If only there was a separate 2fa generator with a browser plugin to autofill, that's really the killer feature.
Who wants to be the government who shuts down Apple? These are politicians we are talking about.
Problem is that it is incompatible to "get what we want".

For people who bought into managed garden the minute it is dismantled you lose "all apps need to stick to do not track me request" you get mish-mash of everything.

This is cost to give others freedom to side load. There is no way to put genie into the bottle if it is out.

Only way I see it would be possible is that Apple could offer fully locked iPhones and multi-store iPhones. Then market could decide what works better.

Developers, especially on HN, cannot accept there is group of customers that just doesn't want to interact them directly.
THIS is the question. My guess is that leadership has been working on something that isn't public - but VCs saw it and liked it.

All comments I've seen on here assume they "keep doing things the same way" - but the fact is that they need to PIVOT to something new to make real money, and that pivot could be mostly a secret.

Ads are not their future - stop complaining about the user interface and poor targeting. That isn't their path to success.
>it's non-viable for online high resale value merchandise.

What does that mean?

The phrase "high resale value merchandise" sounds like it refers to the stuff that, in physical stores, is kept in a locked case so you have to ask someone to open it.

But that stuff is readily available online, isn't it?
"Presumably I still own my car when it sits in the garage at the shop."

Brilliant, and illustrates how far off we are. I'll be scaling my level of surveillance following your lead.
"A 2012 state law requires Wisconsin to hold a wolf hunt whenever gray wolves are not federally protected."

Not sure how to ask for an explanation of this without profanity.
the number of users is key, probably
There is no functional Economy and this is due to the policies in place that the outgoing generation supported or, in the least, did not violently protest. So, in that way it is expected. To watch from the cupola of privilege that we in the West resided in, the horrors of the world and think that, eventually that brute Market Logic would not fall upon us was incredibly cruel and naive. It is here now; as soon as you open the dimension of hollowed out and marked for death human - for example the entire Global South - it is only a matter of time before it comes to us. (Fanon; Mbembe)
It’s certainly an advantage for someone looking to get their foot in the door at an entry level help desk or IT tech job. I’d recommend it to students looking for their first tech job, or someone interested in tech who isn’t going to college. You won’t demand high wages with it — probably slightly more than minimum wage - but it’ll help you differentiate yourself from other candidates with zero tech related things on their resume.
"I don’t care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do!" <= Gene Kranz in 'Apollo 13'
That’s often the case for commodities, but not always services.

Many services are designed to go easy on the little guy, but hit big companies hard. Look at most software plans, where pricing is e.g. $5/user up to 25 users and $10/user if you have more than that.
> quit his job, wait a month, go to a coffee shop with a hoodie on, boot into whonix, connect to the internet with a 4g dongle, run a few lines of code, and get $600 million dollars.

Think again. In the wild wild west that is cryptocurrency the first thing people assume is an inside job.

People with a lot of money and a cut-throat ethic will send death threats to your front door merely for small bugs you accidentally commited to github or for a governance dispute on a forum where you posted pseudonymously.

If you dare steal money as an insider you had better make sure you know how to use it to quickly get high-end personal security for you, your family, and friends. This of course simultaneously outs you as guilty.

Any hack occurs and you are immediately woken up in the middle of the night to be interrogated by people you've never seen before let alone heard of, stomping through your apartment. Your life becomes a movie.

Angry vicious actors with few scruples and long memories will loudly and expensively hunt for you for the rest of your life so you can make them whole. LEOs aren't even your biggest concern at that point.

Being an insider or former insider after a large hack sucks whether or not you're guilty.
Well the US gov fighting it’s citizens would be a war crime. And then hopefully the entirety of NATO would come down on them. A gov cannot use their own military force against their citizens. Full stop. And speaking as a veteran, my willingness to fight would be based on the side my beliefs were based upon. If the order was given to kill US citizens, it was an illegal order and the chain of command has been broken. All bets are off.
> Having a good understanding of the problem domain in the same language and time zone as the employer is extremely valuable.

Sharing a common language is not a problem at all, nor is sharing (or meeting) in the same time zone.

I'd point the exact opposite regarding timezones, in fact. Not sharing a time zone means you can post a question to get yourself unblocked at the end of the day, and you'll already have the answer waiting for you once you log back next morning.
It has been discussed many times already. Projects like this don't produce a Lisp. It's a toy, Lisp-like language at best. Calling it a Lisp does a disservice to the proper languages in the family.
The question is how to avoid losing money on every user.
Charlie Stross characterized it as an "L5 orbital space colonies ... right here" in http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/11/berlin-t... .

In it he describes the business context that funded it, gives an overview of what's there, and muses on the surveillance aspect.

Overall he had a good time. "I happen like novelty swimming pools, artificial beach resorts in giant geodesic structures, and spas with clothing-optional saunas. I can even kind of cope with omnipresent surveillance and being tracked everywhere".
I think judging someone's understanding of technology by their aptitude of ... editing a word document may not be the most appropriate way of doing it?

At best, this test measures the ability of someone editing a word document, and poorly at that.
Youtube is now an owned Public Commons. In order to communicate we must pay rent to corporations as our commons is privatized. When the internet began it was public commons because no one owned it.
Thanks! These are all great questions. My responses below:

1. A large portion of the purchases are repeat and some of our mentees are more than 50 questions (100+ messages) in with their mentors. It does raise the question of offering bundles vs a subscription bases model for repeat use, which is something we are experimenting with at the moment.

2. The mentees get to rate their mentors after they receive a response and we spend time with each mentor during onboarding to make sure they understand the importance of a personalized experience.

3. This is an extremely good point. We do provide question prompts and bullet point the types of questions each mentor can answer. We are still experimenting with this to find the optimal solution. We track this by looking at the conversion rates and the types of questions that result in actual transactions (users are prompted to type in or record a question in advance).
> Pakistan and China have been getting progressively closer/interrelated

Pakistan is dependent on China for:

- funding for BRI projects, and probably operating capital

- organ transplants (Muslims prefer Uighur organ transplants because halal)

- China is in the process of diverting water from Pakistan to Xinjiang. Pakistan probably thinks being engaged will prevent their citizens from forced migration. lol.
The use case is very different here thought. For a handheld game console, it really has to work forever (or as long as the hardware lasts) without a single issue or ever requiring users to fix anything. The competitors here are nintendo consoles, and the playstation.

It's not acceptable to say "oh its ok you can just open the terminal to fix and I haven't had an issue in 2 years". It has to be essentially perfect or able to recover itself from any kind of software fault without much user intervention.
Upvoted because it needs repeating. And also https://xkcd.com/1053/
It's released here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python
It's more of a "clone" of the update mechanism in recent versions of Android. By "clone" I mean it was cloned the other way around.
https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python
The Spiralist: the gyre of James Bell Pettigrew’s Design in Nature
The only situations I'm aware of of general brand contamination are the @stopfundinghate ones, and that's very different - pointing out to brands when their stuff is appearing next to far right content.
At what point does free-speech become not free when it’s continually shut down? We’ve always talked about that you have the freedom of speech, not freedom from speech. Yet things are progressing much further beyond that, to a point where not just that someone disagrees with what you were saying, but they are going to shut down the ability for you to even speak to others about those things. Is there a line we can draw?

What if your cell phone provider or Apple interjects into your text messages to censor what you’re saying? Already you can’t speak your mind on any social platform without censorship, is the only thing left to do to stand on a street corner with a sandwich board handing out flyers? And even then, who says the government will not try to shut you down? Is that the line that we can’t cross?

We may not agree with what someone has to say, but it is absolutely shameful to try to silence someone just because we don’t agree with them.
Which is the most ridiculously meta argument. I have people all over the internet (amusingly never in real life) tell me to my virtual face that I clearly don't understand the product that I paid ten thousand dollars to buy, and that it doesn't do what I know damn well it does.

But I do, I did, and it does. So there.
I've got full access to Payscale's data sets ;)
I think you're misunderstanding their tactic here. They aren't working less than their peers, they just also aren't working to their 100% capacity at all times because it burns you out. I've done it myself in the past, and it works, for a time, but it's really only delaying the inevitable. The solution for me was to find a different company that valued what I brought to them, instead of treating me like a functionary in their "process". But, that's a hard thing to do, so I can understand developing a coping mechanism.
Yes, me! Just a few weeks ago my Thinkpad ran out of battery mid upgrade (`pacman -Syu`) and got corrupted so bad it caused a kernel panic right after the LUKS prompt. Only took an hour to boot into the live USB, chroot into the disk installation (`arch-chroot`, but don't forget to mount `/boot` afterwards!!!), and reinstall the entire OS with `pacman -Qqn | pacman --overwrite "*" -S -` followed by `pacman -Syyu` (to update bootloader, just in case).

Reinstalled the OS and didn't even have to restore a single dotfile.

Edit: You may have to update your live USB packages first so run `mount -o remount,size=4G /run/archiso/cowspace && pacman -Syu` (cowspace is a ramdisk so make sure you've got the memory)

Edit2: I really hoped "and didn't even have to restore a single dotfile" was enough of a clue that this was tongue-in-cheek. I migrated to Arch a few months ago after two decades of Windows so as far as OS reinstalls go, this was like Microsoft sending me a giant settlement check with triple damages.
The cost of these devices and services is offset by the fact that we don't truly "own" nor "control" them. That's the way the economics work. We (the people) are not going to give that up...

Cheap Nice/Shiny Private - Pick two
You can turn off iMessages and force the phone to use SMS, however you can't do it on a per-contact or per-conversation basis.
SilverBlue is not a clone of any existing system. It's a brand new setup which treats the OS as read only layered images. A little bit like docker. The key feature is that you can roll back a failed update by simply mounting an older image. You can also allow the user to customize things by adding on extra layers and if anything ever goes wrong, you just boot without the users layers to restore a stock system.

For consumer level hardware this is essential to make sure it never ends up "bricked". The average user can not and will not reinstall an OS manually so if the OS gets in a bad state, the whole device is ewaste now.
I'm putting the golden gate bridge up for sale.