skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, from your own article:

> The government policy of full lockdowns (vs. partial or curfews only) was strongly associated with recovery rates (RR=2.47; 95%CI: 1.08–5.64). Similarly, the number of days to any border closure was associated with the number of cases per million (RR=1.04; 95%CI: 1.01–1.08). This suggests that full lockdowns and early border closures may lessen the peak of transmission, and thus prevent health system overcapacity, which would facilitate increased recovery rates.
No one could describe the color 'blue' until modern times
I woudn't say "newer" is better, but sometimes you need a bigger and more complex codebase to get more performance, stability and security.
>If you want a good argument against prostitution one route could be to understand the link between sexual expression and: intimacy, self esteem, love, relationships...

yes, but many actions have those links. this is the basis for the war on drugs that is just now ending in my country.

The argument isn't "does it affect people", but "does it CONSISTENTLY affect enough people negatively that it needs to be outlawed/extremely restricted?" Many of the argument I read against prostituion would be solved by... making it legal and having legal protections of workers. Or at least decriminalizing it for workers so they aren't punished for reporting abuse.
New OCR Annotation Tool to Annotate Native PDFs for NLP
I am out of the "ecosystem", but this is baffling. Why in the first place they designed this with on the device scanning?
To make the process "more private"? And while on it. iCloud is not E2EE. And we have Pegasus?
Apple is already in big PR crisis from Pegasus, and they release this "policy and government driven" innovation?
What a mess.
Beware of PHP’s strcmp() function when sorting
You won't find any. Masks reduces the spread by the person who has covid, and it only reduces the spread if he wears it at all time, which is going to be the case in a study but is never going to be the case in reality.

Covid doesn't seem to be only aerosol BTW.

The only things that works at an individual level to reduce the risk to catch covid is to talk to less people. Which again is easy to do if it is chosen by the person but not going to happen if this is compulsory.

Mask works in theory but don't works when compulsory, social distancing works in theory but don't work when compulsory. Thus the probability that a legit study prove that mask mandate works exists is 0.
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Apple does typically have release notes and an overview of fixed vulnerabilities for releases.

I think it is likely that 11.5.2 fixes a large vulnerability and they will only disclose more information once most people have updated to 11.5.2. And/or they are still preparing updates for Mojave/Catalina.
I found the post now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253293

So it seems to official. Strange things happen...
The article also has that list at the start, so duplicating it here in the comments is just noise.
>What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor?

The fact that you can (at least in theory) quit, recover and find a better job, or get promoted. Unlike humiliating videos of yourself being on the internet forever.
Find the binary of the service and chmod -x it as root.
True. It's just a reorg with business as usual.
Yes

The embedding needs to embed a social graph with similarity weights and predict ties. Of course, such partly cyclical graphs can not be guaranteed to embed in a low dimensional (aka far away from N) Euclidian or even Hyperbolic space.

Which means, among other things, that throwing any old Pytorch NN at the problem will not work, similar to how you can’t just Word2Vec to GPT performance since the latter employs many parallel Euclidian embeddings (or, in other words, any selection or aggregation of layer embedding is contextual).

Not that you can’t do it on Graphs, it’s just that understanding the issues is very helpful.

For example, understanding that Euclidian embeddings imply a triangle inequality while social graphs of similarity do not, is a crucial thing to know before throwing stuff at pytorch.
If you look at CPU performance relative to density as it has progressed over the last few decades, there's a clear decline in speed improvement. Denser only means faster to a point, regardless of Intel's process update failures.
Yes! Teaching is really hard, and is an independent skill from having knowledge about a subject. Many blog posts and articles are written by people who know the domain, but are not good teachers.

The same goes for teachers in general - you can have professors who are very smart, but are poor teachers. It's a completely different skill set... that's why it's so exciting when you find someone who has both!
Have never used OF, but does it really have a good discovery algorithm? From the outside it appears that most new subscribers are from the links that are shared everywhere, similarly to Patreon.
Which will then be squandered.
We use it to log in users. We quickly get complaints if something doesn't work well.
Any middleware Linux/BSD router could detect suspicious traffic.
>>Even at their worst they are 5 to 10 times safer then human drivers.

Except that it's a statistic that's abused to hell and then some. For instance, frequently companies use total number of deaths per mile driven, without any consideration of what kind of miles they were, and you know, that's kind of important. Like, driving at night in certain places you are far more likely to be killed by a drunk driver, but that risk is simply extremely low when doing a low speed heavy traffic commute in the city. If your entire commute is being stuck in 10mph max traffic, how exactly can anyone argue that your driving risks include being hit by a drunk driver at 2am or a 120mph motorway crash? It's like using the statistics for "animal caused deaths" which include venomous snakes and stingrays to estimate the risk of playing with a hamster. Yes, technically it's also an animal but you're using the wrong stat for your argument.

And Tesla has in the past lumped together all vehicle deaths for marketing purposes - so, motorcycle deaths. Hopefully I don't need to explain how that one is misleading and possibly fraudulent.

Like the article said - in these kinds of scenarios that Tesla is showing everyone, you are at an extremely low risk. Or at least, if the system is still asking you to keep full attention, then really, you've gained absolutely nothing. A modern car with front based collision avoidance radar(so all cars sold for a few years now) will avoid any collision as well as a Tesla would, without using teraflops of computing power to navigate extremely mundane driving situations.

Again, Tesla tech might be saving lives elsewhere, I'm prepared to accept that argument. But in the scenarios they are showing? Nope, don't believe that in the slightest.
India Readies an Amazon Slayer – State-Backed E-Commerce
NVMe devices can be split into regions with a different block size per region. If you look at the spec and are interested in building a storage system on top of them (as I was in a previous life) you will see they don't resemble a hdd at all.
It's a shame to put a file system on top of them and throw away all the iops. Also, there's no such thing as an atomic write. HDDs, SSDs, NVMes all lie to you in different ways. I've seen SSD power failures where in a whole bank every byte had it's 2nd bit set. So it's an illusion to think that you don't break what you don't touch.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast13/fast13...
This is pretty damn hard to do. Any legal entity owning land could split it into multiple entities, who're avoiding the progressive tax. There'll probably be a million loopholes for that. Changing zoning is politically difficult, but a much more simple and effective policy approach if you can get it through.
I've had no issues installing it from debian apt repos on arm64 and amd64... I mean, if you don't want to use certbot and prefer something else, fine, but I can't see how docker/pip/snaps are the only options.

They're even listed as alternative methods here: https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html

I wish at least one of the other people downvoting my comment would pipe in to what their issue is, or what I could be missing.

And yes, I've encountered the cryptography-switched-to-rust-thing in various other scenarios.
Consumer Containers?
The shipping container revolutionized the shipping industry. Standard size, re-usable containers.

When will someone invent standard size, re-usable consumer containers? These could replace cardboard boxes. Use it from truck to door, pick up used ones for the truck.

Tupperware?
IMO, yes because addiction can happen as a way to cope with things that otherwise feel unbearable. The internet has so much media, you’ll never feel truly alone.

That’s my experience anyway, all anecdata.
Sometimes a lengthy explanation is just a lazy stream of consciousness.

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” — Blaise Pascal.
> It's said to objectify women... The more that is normalised, the more it damages all women. If you don't think objectifying women harms them, then that's not a "good" argument, I guess.

To accept the argument at all is to agree with the original premise. Which I don't, even assuming we could come up with a definition of objectification we could both accept. But... let's give it a go.

Let's posit there is a thing that happens called objectification. Whatever it is, it causes men to treat women badly, specifically, causes unwanted advances and sexual harassment.

A man somehow catches this because he can pay a woman to give him an orgasm. He doesn't even have to actually do it. Just knowing this is something he can do is enough. Then he goes out and... what? Expects to be able to pay every woman for orgasms? He won't treat his woman boss with respect? I'm trying to understand the mechanism here.

Does this same phenomena happen in any other arena of life? Is it a kind of bigotry? Does bigotry operate a similar way?

> ...the Johns are treating women's bodies as something that can be traded commercially. The more that is normalised, the more it damages all women - not just prostitutes.

Sex workers are "selling their bodies" no more than your local bartender or barista does. Sex workers provide a service no more magical than they do either. If you were to expand on this "selling their bodies", I think you will find that it is meaningless.

So, no, I don't think it's a good argument at all until we can demonstrate that "objectifying all women" is something that happens when prostitution is legal.
> No, there is nothing to understand: the rule to minimize a variable's scope is mechanical.

I tried to explain my answer to this in my third paragraph.

> It's impossible to assume that even the very best programmer writes good code consistently, thus every possibility for failure must be automatized or mechanized.

This is a strawman, if I thought the feature was useful to prevent this I would give it more consideration. I have already attempted to explain why I don't think conservative scoping aids bad/confusing variable re-use.
Erm. Parasites which feed upon humans, were with us as we evolved.

Mosquitoes, noseeums have been with us from the start! If you live in a place without them, you are living where humans shouldn't, for mosquitoes thrive in environments where humans thrive.
>They are in the same universe and they overlap quite a lot.

not really. 95+% of the population will experience some sexual activity at some point in their life. It is argued as a basic biological need in some psychologies, and a basic pscyological/social need for the rest that may not want to compare it to food/water/shelter. 95% of the population will never do heroin. I argue over half will never even see heroin tools.

That's what makes the controlling of sex more contentious than a very addictive drug. It's a normal (but private) activity that the vast majority of society participates in. It's legal to do it for free, it's legal to pay for content that has people having sex in it. What makes the barrier of paying to do it yourself different?
It does. I might go with this option. It seems like it'll be easier than running the router in bridged mode, and adding another physical router.
The same could be said for php, c, or even basic.

They get a bad rep, but it's perfectly possible to create something secure, stable, maintainable and performant
It is real and it affects those who lack self control the most including me. I can spend endless hours researching the topics of my interest and listen to the music at the same time.
Part of the arguments in the tweet is based on reports that caught some accounts offering live sex to paying participants. That's apparently part of what lead to the story of OF removing sexual content.
These studies do not support any claims regarding how covid spreads.

I suspect the main reason covid spread doesn't correlate with mask wearing is due to the size of the particles/aerosols, so few are wearing filtering masks (what you would wear in a painting booth), and so few masks are sealed around the face. And then mask discipline.

What I have observed is that masks are used a social queue; people wear them outside in public to signal "don't talk to me", and remove them in private when with friends. This behaviour is opposite of what would be effective, given that the right sort of masks are used, which is almost never the case.
Quebec, Canada.

Noseeums, as someone else said, are near invisible. They leave rashes, suck blood, can transmit disease.

The ones here (there are countless species) leave rashes which take weeks to go away.

If you've ever been bit by a deer fly, it's the same thing, except these are super tiny. They literally use their jaws to slice a hole in your skin, and suck the blood up.

They also love to suck water and salt from your eyes, so they land, but often get stuck and die because of you blinking. Then you end up with all these dead insects in your eyes.

They love to fly in your ear, I imagine ear wax and the moistness attracts. They bite there too.

So now you have rashes inside your ear canal, and insect crawling in there.

In spring, they attack in droves. Hundreds or even thousands buzzing around your head.

If you stand outside my house, in the spring, just stand still and stare ahead, within minutes they appear, and you are soon sightless for the sheer number of dead in your eyes.

They need to be exterminated.

I love birds more than most, but if 1/2 the bird species die, I'm ok with that, as long as noseeums do too.
What syntax did Go settle on, in the end?
Very difficult to do so as anyone can create (and distros do) a customized kernel and userland with severally different compiling options.

OpenSSL vs LibreSSL, Glibc vs Musl, X11 vs Arcan (or just the framebuffer/KMS), and so on.

Also, on exploits realize Linux and BSD run in devices very different from X86 right? NetBSD today runs even on Alpha, and 0days won't work with ease there.

Even more with the new RISC-V arches here.
Lego has an option to renew a number of days prior to expiration. LE recommends 30 days. That leaves me with 4 weekly attempts to renew my certificate.
Ever Given: Cargo ship returns through Suez Canal it blocked
Hi. Almost everything in the book is still applicable. You would probably have a Debian based-distribution there, but if you already use APT, there is no trouble switching from DNF. Debian is systemd based so most things apart from package manager apply.

I don't talk about on-premise specifically, but if you control your router, you can open specific ports and forward them. You might want to make sure your Raspberry has a static IP (and not dynamically assigned).
It's definitely going to get thrown out eventually. 100%. It can't hold a candle to Apple Pay and some exec is gonna convince the higher ups that they need to rebuild it from scratch.

I wouldn't put anything past the company that risked everything on Google+ and then basically abandoned it a few months later when they didn't see the mass exodus they were so delusional in expecting.
I know I'm old. My parents used to leave us in the car all the time when they went shopping. We even had spitball fights with the kids in the next car.
Currently giving an Internal Server Error, which given the question asked it doubles pretty well as a performance art piece.
Ha, will be up in a minute.
Industry Espionage as a Service?

In my old university, the people working on the genome studies had to sign a draconian NDA and they had a dedicated air-gapped compute cluster for it. If your genomics study can produce a patent for a new diagnostic method or maybe even a drug precursor molecule, that'll be way more valuable than everything you spent on security.

And already 8 years ago, hacking attempts by what was thought of as foreign government actors was a common experience in life science research. When I had to give a talk about our methods, we scrambled all the gene IDs for fear of the slides getting leaked.

So based on how people working in that field behave, I presume they would never ever agree to upload the data to servers outside of their control. Accordingly, I can only imagine this service to be used accidentally by inexperienced students (who are then on the hook for violating their NDA).
The scary thing about this is it talks about an authoritarian measure in China like it's a positive thing to have the government interfere in people's lives to such an extent.
I agree with you, and think it’s kind of obvious, which is why nobody is testing for that I think.

If you spend long enough in a small room, even with someone wearing a mask the mask is not going to do much to prevent transmission.

I think that’s why the first rule of COVID is to not stay together in small rooms.

The important part is if you’ll be instantly infected by someone talking with you over the counter for a minute, and for that scenario masks are (apparently) pretty great.

The only way would be to wear N95+ masks yourself.
Imagine if our cognitive capability wasn’t exploited.
>How do you prove your prostitutes are no coerced?

I don't know. How do you prove that any paying job between a paying company and their employees aren't coerced and that the company isn't abusing their employees? As seen with some recent lawsuits, you don't for years until something eventually prompts investigation.

I imagine it's the same here. If it's illegal then the workers have no legal resource and are trapped until someone discovers the company (if ever. Many times these "companies" are just private individuals. i.e. pimps). If it's legal there's at least some chance the worker than defend themself against abuse if contracts are breeched.
Have you tried Signal? Say what you want about the philosophies and the deteriorating app quality but the call audio quality has always been superb (assuming the connection holds).
Please ignore all the other weird advice here about medication and therapy. HN has an unhealthy obsession with fixing symptoms not problems.

All things in life come with practice and experience. That includes socialising with people and making social connections. You’re going to screw up and all sorts on and off. What is important is to introspect and understand why after the fact and use that to improve your future social encounters. I’ve done it enough times and will continue to do it until I’m dead. No one is perfect and that’s what makes everyone so interesting.

The biggest barrier to actually doing it is your confidence and a list of what if’s a mile long from previous messes you think you caused. All of those things are surmountable problems if you face them. And also the memory of these problems for other people is quite short so don’t sweat what people think of you too much.

I can suggest a good place to actually get out there and make some connections is Meetup.com. I am always going out with random groups of people who I’ve never met, are all just as socially awkward and these mostly end up with quality social time at the end of the day. Sometimes we go our separate ways immediately but I’ve made a few long term connections out of that as well. All in all a massive improvement in my life.
I like the analogy to multi-head attention. Is there work on something like it for collaborative filtering embeddings, eg splitting up the vector into multiple subvectors and calculating distances separately?
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> Paying somebody to do something physical and paying somebody to physically use their body are two completely different things

I think if we were to explore and expand on this we would find the distinction to be non-existent. How and in what way are they different at all?
> If you genueinly think running linux isn't a UIUX downgrade....

You've betrayed yourself with this statement. There isn't one Linux. I know this might just seem like more of the complexity non-Linux users want to avoid, however users are free to install whatever desktop environment or window manager they like. You could even opt for a desktop environment that resembles MacOS in most ways.

I use MacOS in my professional life, and Linux in my personal. My Linux PC has my own personalised setup built around the i3 window manager. I can say without question that I'm much faster and more productive on Linux than MacOS.
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I hope you people realize that Health data handling is a heavily regulated area. If you break the rules you will face penalties. Plus what kind of data expected to be shared? Your blood pressure or allergy reaction to penicillin? The real goal of the project is not to steal and trade your data but to help clinicians find consolidated data about you faster and spend more time to help the patient.
Of course it's real! If it wasn't, would there be so many people scamming a quick buck to "treat" it? Of course not!
Tool tips are bad ui because they are invisible normally and are completely absent on touch inputs. Either use an icon so universal it needs no tip or use text.
Not sure about that in general, although it can differ for each state and could apply in your state. In general, US tax income from property taxes has not risen, in fact it's slightly come down as a percentage of income. That means that while the tax base (property values) have increased sharply, the tax rate for property has come down.

Most municipalities will first establish how much tax revenue they need, then look at the total property values that's taxable, and then set an appropriate rate. If property values double but municipal expenses don't, they can and do lower the property taxes. It's not a 1 on 1 relationship but given average property tax income as a percentage of total income has slightly come down over the past decades, it's clear that tax rates are being reduced as property values go up.
Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional – Uber
Cool tech, but so frustrating if it can't be toggled as an option. Reading this it's clear that I would be even more incompatible with macos now than when I left it years ago, just the lack of control.
He doesn't necessarily have the legal authority to require anyone to reduce their water usage without additional legislation, so he's doing what he can do and asking. That seems like a rational thing for him to do in my mind. Do you not think so?
Cool, but I’m definitely having my HTTP 500’s come back with a question mark at the end after this.
They don't provide E2E encryption in the cloud.

And generally speaking I want my device to be mine. I don't even want debugging or app verification requests happening without my consent. It's my device and when I upload to the cloud, I'll use my own encryption.
Wrong. Check your sources.
I never said it shouldn't be addressed if it is impacting the user experience
It's up. Should also load faster, without a problem.