skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID IFR was always low. The CDC planning scenarios (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...) consistently showed low IFR for those under 50 even mid 2020 in their earlier updates. However this was obfuscated by alarmist journalism and divisive politics, as well as people confusing CFR and IFR. COVID wasn’t that dangerous ever, unless you were immunocompromised or elderly, or unless your measure of danger is based on a high risk aversion.

There is the possibility of rare lingering side effects. However studies show that the worst side effects, like ARDS, primarily affect those who are obese or vitamin D deficient. You could make an argument that it’s the individual’s’ responsibility to manage their own risks and vulnerability for that. Alternatively you could say that those comorbidities are common enough that they require society wide management.
Just tried with Disney+ and Minecraft. The Minecraft install failed as usual with "The developer did not intend this app to run on this platform." (This is not a server-side check BTW, Apple has it baked into their IPA encryption.) As for Disney+ it just completely failed to decrypt or install.
“ We had a chance to keep a new disease under control, but it's increasingly looking like humanity blew that chance.”

???

The article says vaccinated people spread the virus; if everyone wore N95s, wildlife could still be spreading COVID so it would come back once masks were off… (unless we discover a delta vaccine that we roll out to the world over the next N years while everyone isolates and that prevents vaccinated people from spreading)
India [0], and with > 1B people there, that's a whole lot of opportunities to mutate, and a whole lot of jabs to manufacture, distribute, and perform. In the case of mRNA vaccines, they need to be kept quite cold until basically day of use. India is poor and hot, it's non-trivial to say the least.

As others have said, this isn't primarily a US problem; 30.7% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 16% is fully vaccinated [1]. Even if 100% of the US population were vaccinated, it'd barely move those figures.

[0] https://www.thequint.com/coronavirus/covid-variants-found-in...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
as far as i can tell there's no git --configure. you may be confusing it with Xorg -configure, which is (very) obsolete and shouldn't be used.
> I think the truth is that we don't feel like we need a release. We've never had a security hole, our track record speaks for itself, and I wouldn't really want us to rush anything and blow that. There are some features that it would be really nice to have in a release (like 24-bit color support, and working around a recent MacOS clock bug), but I handed over the maintainership to somebody else about six years ago and that person is currently, I think, dealing with a bunch of stuff (look around the world the last year...). I'm not eager to step back in and bigfoot them -- especially when I'm no longer particularly familiar with the codebase (and recent commits) as I used to be.

I can appreciate that, but what do you say to e.g. the contributor that added true color support nearly 4 years ago?

cgull also hasn't authored or committed anything in mosh in more than two years, so his inactivity predates the pandemic by quite a bit.

Everyone loves your software, and that's the reason they want to see another release with the many improvements already in git, most for multiple years. I really don't think you're going to step on any toes by making a new release.

Pretty please?
Yes. India.
Ironically I have been riding with the local Yellow Cab again, the fixed prices they quote on their app consistently undercut Uber/Lyft and the drivers actually show up in a reasonable amount of time
You can upload press releases to pornhub, that doesn't make it a news site. Stop getting your news from youtube; problem solved.
Total guess: Slows down transmission. Those that are asymptomatic should have a lower viral load, which results in fewer cases.
Practical guarantee of brigading.
No... early social distancing would have dramatically reduced R0. It's exponential growth. Fewer infections => fewer mutations.

Proper masks (electrostatic or nano layer) are widely available, and they all but stop the original COVID. They cost a buck. The nano ones can be reused several times. Providing those prior to vaccines would have been cheap and effective.

Masks + vaccines + modest social distancing would have stopped it then. They would have been to rush to get vaccines to everyone, and to prioritize by exposures (e.g. service workers before WFH employees).

Plus, look at China. If we all did what China did, we'd be done.
Agreed, all that a good cdc response does is t+n the endemic.
You can actually detect from the server side if curl is being piped and dynamically change the payload.
> if everyone under 50 in the US caught it, we would have around 30,000 deaths.

Personally, I value the lives of people over 50 just as much as those under 50. A lot of important people to me and to everyone is over 50.

Any non-sociopathic loss function would deem the half million people in the US that we've lost completely unacceptable.

And with even greater spread, there's greater likelihood of the rise of a variant that kills those under 50 just as much.

The only people proposing we should have let it run wild and also actually understand the consequences are absolute monsters that should be shunned and never given any authority or decision making power.
No, that refers to job openings across industries, specifically mentions agriculture jobs declining as other industries grow. Look at the median age of say politicians or tenured professors to see what I'm talking about.
The measured viral load is substantially higher (e.g., 1000x in some studies) vs the original strain, and it is suspected, but not proven (afaik) that this translates to more exhaled virus.

What is known is that the virus ramps up in the infected people more quickly, and stays infectious longer, so for sure, each person is infectious for more days on both sides, increasing infectious opportunities.

In the vaccinated population with breakthru Delta cases, the viral load initially approaches the load of unvaxed people in the first few days after becoming detectable, but then falls off much more rapidly.
I would very much like to return to this sunshine state of mind.
Head of WHO Team Investigating Covid-19 Calls for Closer Look at China Lab
>Also: Firefox has been rather poor about user privacy. Integrating third party stuff that's difficult to remove, like Pocket, for example.

1) Mozilla owns pocket, it's not third party. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...

2) This is completely irrelevant to user privacy, because Pocket doesn't exfiltrate any data. The source code for the integration is open source, you can go look this up yourself.
This is just obviously untrue, and I have to think clearly so to almost anyone who has worked in the tech industry.

Every tech company I’ve ever worked for absolutely has recruiters on staff who absolutely do outreach and shepherd candidates into the process for specific roles we are trying to fill.

The idea that all unsolicited outreach is outsourced canned response quasi-spam just doesn’t fit with the reality I know from over a decade in this industry.

There absolutely are low quality outsourced recruiters in the world, but the idea that there are two disjoint sets with low quality in one and only very warm referrals or specific headhunting in the other, yeah, thats really not true.

These types of posts that are authoritative in tone but just clearly factually deficient are really the worst thing I see on this website.
To me ownership means I have exclusive control over who gets to use something and for what purpose. If I own my data, someone processing this data on my behalf has no right or obligation to scan it for illegal content. The fact that this data sometimes sits on hard drives owned by another party just isn't a relevant factor. Presumably I still own my car when it sits in the garage at the shop. They have no right to use it outside of purposes explicitly agreed upon. I don't see abstract data as any different.

Personally, I strongly favor privacy. I avoid all cloud services that don't involve local encryption. I have an old model rooted android phone with two firewalls. All apps have internet access blocked by default. I stay as anonymous as possible on social media. And so on. Recently my group at work moved our repositories to Github Enterprise. It made me uncomfortable. I voiced my concerns but they fell on deaf ears.
It would still spread in wildlife though, so it would have to be a forever prison.
This doesn’t make sense. People who are infected by delta variant will become immune to delta variant. So if they are infected and it runs it’s course through the human population, people will get herd immunity from it. Or if we create a vaccine for delta variant similar thing should happen.

But we also already know that we don’t achieve sterilizing immunity from coronavirus even with previous infection or vaccine. So it was never the case that we couldn’t stop transmitting the disease.
just a consequence of globalization, even 20 years ago the world was much less connected and things didn't spread as fast. Doesn't help that the entire planet wasted at least a month trying to contain it when rumors of something emerged in at least December 2019. Corona was being downplayed until basically the 1st week of March 2020

seems like Covid is going to be endemic like the regular flu where each year they have to try and guess which strain to make vaccines for
Interesting, thank you. :)

I guess in the long term an induction lane on the highway would make most sense then.
If the government were in charge of a social media site, the First Amendment would unquestionably apply to their moderation powers, so even though it'd probably be a mismanaged disaster in a lot of ways, it'd be way better than the status quo as far as freedom of speech and censorship goes.
Sort of reminds me of this girl I see on Facebook. She is an "entrepreneur". Her business? Helping other people start their own businesses! Yes, but what kind of business is she helping them start? Same as her own business - paid training sessions on how to start a business!
> But… that is inflation. Prices are going up. Such is the anecdata?

But what proportion do [thing] and [thing stays the same] make up of your budget? That's why the CPI uses a basket of goods, each in proportion to what the average person uses in their lives to find the average inflation.

And some [thing]s may be more noticeable than others: yes, gas may have gone up, but your care insurance perhaps hasn't, and so perhaps hasn't parts and maintenance. But you fill up more often so you notice those prices more and suffer recency bias.

In Canada, StatCan actually has a "Consumer Price Index Personal Inflation Calculator" so that you can find the quantitate number to your personal experience of inflation give your personal basket of goods, versus the average one:

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015...
Then grow a pair and point at government influence. Leak DOJ demand letters. Do something to indicate this was forced on them. Or is a gag order in place? That’s my bet right now.
Are there any numbers for long covid amongst breakthrough Delta infections?
Desktop apps use SQLite because it's the embedded structured datastore that already exists, not because they want to use SQL. If it was easy to embed, IDK, some kind of file-backed redis, I'm pretty sure a lot of apps would use that instead.
The video came across as an 8 minute commercial, narrated by Andrej Karpathy, the head of the autonomous driving effort at Tesla. There is a lot of shady ways to push a product these days -- but slipping this into my 'news-feed' has to take the cake.
The article said they get the hashes from some government entity. Perhaps it is available from there.
No, that argument does not hold. The rate of mutation is proportional to the number of infected people. Every person infected over the course of the virus' spread is a single roll of the dice to see if a new variant arises. If X% of the population gets infected over the course of the virus, then you get the same number of mutations/variants regardless of the timeframe. Letting a disease spread rapidly just means that those variants all arise over a shorter period of time.

The way to decrease the number of variants that emerge over the course of a disease is by decreasing the total number of people infected over the full course of the disease. That requires widespread vaccination.
0. I've initially been ambivalent or even supportive of Apple on this, because much of the initial criticism was uninformed and easily refuted, or hysterical. But I'm getting around to this being a momentous blunder.

1. I understand Apple doesn't like to discuss its plans publicly, but rather present the final product when it is ready to ship. But if anything was a good candidate for one of the rare exceptions, then this, no?

2. Why announce unambiguously that this feature is "available" in the US only at first, in other words, can be enabled/disabled/configured per region? What is the plan when country X comes and says "fine feature you've built there, here's our list of perceptual hashes of illegal imagery, and the contact data of our competent authority to notify in case of matches."? Replying "ah, sorry, we can't" is not going to fly anymore, ever (!).

Even if they walk this back, what defence will they have left in the future if any government requires them to implement this odious feature and scan all images on-device and notify some authority if anything untoward (in that jurisdiction) is found?
... or using N95-equivalent masks and mild social distancing ...

What's scary is gamma through omega.
First, there is nothing stopping a full legislative assault on end to end encryption, various such proposals have had traction recently in both the US and EU.

The lawyerly phrase is “knew or should have known.” It could be argued that now that this technology is feasible, failure to apply it is complicity.

Think about GDPR. Eventually homomorphic encryption is going to be at a point where “we need your data in the clear so we can do computations with it on the server” will cross from “failure to be on the bleeding edge of privacy research” to “careless and backwards.”
I would like to know more. My first suspicion is that most people don't track this data closely enough. Unfortunately after tracking this data for about 15 years, I stopped in 2018 (too cumbersome). I was able to tell you exactly how much money we spent on alcohol vs. dairy vs. veggies etc.

If only I had continued, I could've provided great anecdata here, because we never really "go out". And herein lies the crux. Many if not most other people I know go out regularly. Rain or shine, recently got kids or not etc. So the pandemic hitting would drive up their Costco bills even if prices stayed flat.

Happy to learn that the anecdata presented in this thread is from people like me. But otherwise my "felt" Costco bill has stayed almost the same (minus "normal" inflation).
> If "git pull --rebase" succeeds without reporting a merge conflict, then it's tantamount to having executed the command with "--ff-only".

this is not correct. git rebase, as with git merge, will automatically resolve conflicts using a 3-way merge algorithm.

> It will only ever modify your local

this is correct.

> unpublished commits

this is not correct. git rebase (in its default mode) rebases all commits that are not upstream onto the upstream. it has nothing to do with whether they are published or not. if you have a published feature branch, and git pull --rebase into it, git rebase will dutifully rebase all your commits.
Here, LMGTFY: https://lmgtfy.app/?q=What+is+the+nature+of+the+delta+mutati...
What damage was done, and what agenda realized? I thought censorship alone was the agenda.
Yeah but the gumshoe designers and marketing droids getting hired say they do!
Pronto claimed to do SF-NYC with zero disengagements in 2018.

https://vimeo.com/306969319
Enjin - Ethereum / Solidity Developer | REMOTE | https://enjin.io/about/careers

DESCRIPTION

At Enjin, we’re building out our core technology team and are looking for a Blockchain Engineer to push the boundaries of cutting edge game & NFT technology.

Who you are:

You are a self motivated and product driven engineer. You love to be on the cutting edge of a new wave of innovation. You are humble, yet confident, and are an effective communicator despite not sharing an office with any of your teammates. You are a proactive problem solver and are always looking for ways to contribute to the team’s success.

You have a deep understanding of Ethereum. You write high quality, open source code that is well regarded in the development community. You have a passion for games, and are comfortable being a pioneer in a space where hard problems are commonplace. You are sensitive to budgets and time constraints, but always aim for quality.

Must haves:

- Minimum 3 years of experience with Solidity

- Experience with tools like: Metamask, Remix, Etherscan, Truffle, Hardhat and Infura/Alchemy

- In depth understanding of OpenZeppelin contracts

- Experience with NodeJs

- Good understanding of Blockchain Core concepts

- Good understanding of EVM

- Good understanding of smart contract proxies

- Experience working with a well known DeFi/NFT project

- Passionate to work in Blockchain

- Excellent communication skills in English.

Bonus Points:

- Experience with Layer2 technologies like: Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, BSC

- Experience with Solidity bitwise manipulation

- Experience with tenderly.co

- Experience with NFT (ERC1155, ERC721) contracts

- A good understanding of opcodes in Solidity

- Smart Contract Audit Experience

- A good understanding of popular DeFi projects

- Experience or understanding of Blockchain wallets/exchange
Yeah, those are called excuses.
> Also, some people are not antivax, they are afraid of new mRNA technology.

then they can get the Janssen (aka Johnson & Johnson) vaccine which is not based on mRNA but an Adenovirus vector.
It's not feasible to create a multi-language Wikipedia without introducing a lot of inaccuracies and/or significant complication, because different languages don't necessarily divide words in the same way.

A famous example is the word "blue" - the corresponding word can also include the green color in East Asian languages, while in Russian there are two different words for "light blue" and "dark blue" (or so I've heard). What would a single entry for "blue" look like?

As another example, the English page for "goose" obviously explains both domestic and wild geese, because they're the same animal... in English. In Korean, domestic (geowi) and wild (gireogi) geese are different animals, and I don't think people even know they're related. (When I learned that they were the same in English, I was like "Huh, why do English speakers have one word for these different birds... oh wait.")

Even in physics: Korean has words jajeon(자전)/gongjeon(공전) which mean "a stellar body's rotation about itself" and "a stellar body orbiting around another stellar body" - these are elementary-school-level terms. There are no corresponding entries in the English Wikipedia, because they're simply called "rotation" (or maybe "orbit" which is related but not exactly the same meaning).

As for exposition, the English page for "poetry" is a tome with examples from Ancient Greece, China, and Shakespeare, but only a single passing mention of any Korean - and none from Sweden. You could meticulously translate the whole article into Korean or Swedish, and its readers will still find it wanting.

And this is before we consider all the edit wars, POVs, and politics ...
> I find this an odd comment. Is a 100% Rust browser something anyone is clamoring for?

A 100% memory-safe browser is definitely something I'm clamouring for.

> At any rate, if that really is your goal for some reason, rendering engine is going to be your first problem anyway. Then a JS runtime.

Mozilla is working on the rendering engine. Memory-safe JS runtimes already exist (e.g. Nashorn).
We recently added support for multiple identities but it's not complete (or seemingly documented, oops). I'll take a note to look into fixing and extending it.

Edit: but also, GCM Core has nothing to do with the user.email/user.name in .gitconfig. I have a similar problem where I want some commits written with my work email and others with my personal, and I always forget to check it when starting in a new repo. I push them both using a single GitHub identity, though, so your situation has an extra wrinkle.
Mass Audubon got millions for “preserving” trees that were never in danger
I find there is an amazing amount of stupid/marketing-segmentation designed stuff.

It started(and continuing) with 3D printing and now looking into KiCAD...

I would absolutely be interested in projects with your approach.
GitHub mentioned this in their blog-post: https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirem...

> Tokens offer a number of security benefits over password-based authentication:

> - Unique – tokens are specific to GitHub and can be generated per use or per device

> - Revocable – tokens can can be individually revoked at any time without needing to update unaffected credentials

> - Limited – tokens can be narrowly scoped to allow only the access necessary for the use case

> - Random – tokens are not subject to the types of dictionary or brute force attempts that simpler passwords that you need to remember or enter regularly might be

I pretty much do the same thing, I just copy-and-paste a PAT from my password manager when I need it on VMs. The big benefit to us is that PATs are "limited", and mine only has Git repo access, so unlike my password, it can't:

- Delete repos

- Edit my GitHub organization

- Share my private repos with other users

- Add/remove SSH keys from my account

There's always the chance that a software you install on your VM would contain a keylogger (e.g. NPM/PyPI malicious libraries), so limiting the damage that your credentials can do is always a good thing.
I don’t get why so many tech people think that “allowing alternative browser engines” will do anything to change policy decisions made by Apple.

Like wish granted! You can now use Blink and V8 on iPhones! But…

* They still are required to delete website data after 7 days.

* They must distribute add-ones through the App Store.

* They still can’t run workers in the background because the browser is slept like any other app.

* They have to use Apple’s notification service like any other app.

* They can’t install things to the Home Screen because no other app can.

But yayyyy. Blink!
The question isn't whether I choose to get my news from YouTube or not, it's whether YouTube presents itself as a legitimate source for news consumption or not - and it certainly does. The idea is that some large subset of YouTube viewers will, as a result, assume that they're being exposed to a basket of news representative of the breadth of opinion present among media outlets, when they're actually not.