skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western Australia is also a state and we've regularly locked down all travel from other Australian states when they have community outbreaks. We have a COVID death rate lower than New Zealand and, like NZ, have lived essentially normally throughout COVID despite the travel restrictions.

Currently you can only come here from NSW with express permission and then you have to quarantine at your own expense for 2 weeks. Quarantine requirements kick-in whenever there's a community outbreak in other states/territories and the restrictions ramp up as case numbers grow.

It is easy for Western Australia and Tasmania to isolate because the former has a vast desert between here and the east coast and the latter is an island without an international airport (probably one of the safer spots on Earth). There's no physical reason Hawaii and Alaska couldn't have done the same, but it's probably not politically or socially acceptable.
Erm, your first thought is way off.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is actually the #1 cause of pneumonia. Streptococcus agalactiae also commonly causes pneumonia in infants.
Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France
It is far easier to lock down an island chain of 5 million people than it is to lock down a city of 8.5 million people.

But China knows how to do it, and they have much more density than the USA. You just need to be very authoritarian; e.g. marching people under guard to quarantine hotels from airplanes.
I'll give you $5 for it.
Apologies, I didn't intend that as a strong rebuttal. Just an ack that it can be convenient in a non adversarial way to confirm identity. Mainly during transition periods.

But, I fully ack that it is a poor piece of information to do this.
OpenSSL is also a general-purpose cryptography library
I created a PostgreSQL function to generate a v7 uuid. On my laptop, it is about the same speed as generate_random_uuid

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.new_uuid_v7ish3()
RETURNS uuid
LANGUAGE sql
AS $function$
SELECT (
lpad(
to_hex(
(
(((extract('epoch' from clock_timestamp()) * 4096) )::bigint << (64-36-12)) --36 bit seconds and 12 bit 4096th of a second
| (7::bigint << (64-36-12-4)) --Version 7
| (random() * 4096)::bigint --12 bit "sequence number"
)
),
16,'0')
||lpad(
to_hex(
(2::bigint << 62) --Variant
+ ((random() * x'4000'::bigint)::bigint << 48) --14 bits of randomness
+ ((random() * x'1000000000000'::bigint)::bigint) --48 bits of randomness
),
16,'0'
)
)::uuid
$function$
What kind of nonsense back peddle is this? You made a ridiculous claim, at least just say it's ridiculous instead of trying to gish gallop on to other nonsense.
I hate it. All it does is add if err != nil { return nil, err } to every other line. I love Go, but I have never understood the obsession with generics over putting try into the language. This is the biggest pain in Go, by far.

The vast majority of errors only stop or rollback the current action. An incredibly small amount of code uses errors to detect stop conditions or to retry.
What a simple minded world view. Do you also believe that “all Americans are …” and “all non-whites are …”?
“Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life.”

It’s truly maddening. My wife (very on the right) refused to get it and instead talked endlessly about hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, vitamin D. All of which she got from conservative media. Right now she is lying in bed wracked with COVID. Ate up with fever and a cough that sends jolts of panic through me when i hear it echoing down the stairs. It breaks my heart, man.

God help us and God bless all of you out there with sick loved ones.

Sorry for the sappy post. It’s been a rough few days.
Rich people spend $200,000 to $300,000 on bus/coach size giant RVs, or 55-foot catamarans, so that's not beyond the realm of possibility.
I think you interpretation is accurate - the prosecution can decide if it's seizing assets or cash, either choice has consequences.
I have a fair amount of experience in both F# and Ocaml and don't think the lack of modules harms F#. The trick I had to learn was to think of F# as its own language and not try to write it as Ocaml or Haskell. What I do sometimes miss in F# are existential types.

I also wouldn't say objects in F# are less natural. This is only opinion but, I prefer F#'s lighter object syntax and its object expressions are great. Active patterns also provide an expressive option for dispatching on abstract datatypes. The conflicts vs .NET I've found with F# OOP are when implementing comparison operators, or when interacting with frameworks that want public fields. Other than that, there's not much friction. I suppose there is friction when it comes to MS tooling for producing Windows UIs but then, F# also has Fable and Elm inspired UI kits for various platforms. Going AOT route will also meet with some friction.

Comparing languages comes down to what problem solving approaches they make difficult by default. In that light, F# is much more properly a "functional" language than C#. The language is designed from the ground up for recursive algebraic data structures, HM type inference, flexible pattern destructuring, null avoidance, exhaustive matching, computation expressions, idioms around composable higher order functions, clean syntax for function types, immutability and sound type guided development.

It also has a light python like syntax and like all MLs but perhaps even more so, is pragmatic when it comes to the use of esoteric design concepts. The philosophy is not to be functional and pure for their own sake but about composing language defaults which force certain types of correctness promoting approaches.

F# also has units of measure and type providers. They're probably less often used. But just the json, html and xml providers are useful on their own.

To be clear, this isn't arguing F# vs C#. Such arguments are extremely boring. It's emphasizing what core design decisions distinguish the two languages.
to prime your biases for when you watch them endure your company's contrived tests
why not sell the domain during your lifetime and enjoy the fortune - before dying?
Japan is having lots of problems with COVID. They are like Sweden in this regard.
Stack ranking will rapidly turn an entire massive corporation into a cesspool of Machiavelli wannabes.

Consider the dead lake effect, the good people will eventually be subjected to sociopaths and will leave, while the sociopaths will stay to fight among themselves.

If you don't know what it is, it is the management theory that you should be actively trying to fire/get leave/layoff your lower performing 10-20% and hiring to replace them.

The false god of this failed religion is that you can measure people's contributions despite cronyism and petty motivations, when the reality is that cronyism and petty motivations dominate.
Back in 2004, I had a phone screen with the folks at Time, Inc., for a systems admin position. Now, I'd been out of school for about 10 years at that point. The interviewer's first question was "what was your GPA in college?", and I was forced to confess I honestly didn't remember.

He stammered a bit, apologizing, and then hung up on me. I've always considered that dodging a bullet. It's a weird thing to ask someone with many years of professional experience. The only thing I could infer was that all of their staff were very young, and this was still relevant to them.

But then, every organization has it's quirks.
agreed on that point

my question is whether we should consider these crypto clean, or whether we should stop trying to determine if crypto provenance is clean or not as it doesn't seem possible to rely on the due process of every municipality worldwide, unless the state is deemed as the crypto washer - magically cleaning all crypto as it temporarily seizes and auctions them or returns them - in which case a state will take advantage of that
Nobody really needs to go to New Zealand unless they’re from there. London is an international hub for multiple industries. It’s much harder to prevent people from traveling there.
For elderly patients at least the risk of HIV infection is minimal so I don't understand why a false positive HIV test would cause a clinical trial to fail. Some cancer therapies also cause false positive HIV tests and that doesn't prevent them being used.
That's really cool. Is it possible to use it without a hardware TPM, for testing? I have used rust-u2f in the past for that purpose.
Here is what i am doing to validate ideas..

I launch them on appsumo marketplace which helps me get in front of active buyers

i have done this with blurweb.app(https://blurweb.app) click2contact.app(https://click2contact.app) sendsimple.app(https://www.sendsimple.app)

and will be doing the same for the others which you can see here https://twitter.com/indianappguy/status/1429157263353126912
Learned about this recently. Very useful for setting up commits to use different emails and commit signing to use different GPG keys depending on the context
I'm virtually certain that the pandemic disrupted everyday life in NZ more than it did in Florida. Now more people died, but Florida demonstrates that even at the height of the pre-vaccine pandemic it's perfectly possible to live a lockdown free life post-Covid without society collapsing.
Sweden government could just issue their shitcoin and make up the exchange rate with Bitcoin.
Hawaii is still allowing tourism from the USA, I assume NZ is not allowing similar tourism. They could have locked down harder (being an island and all) but didn't probably because their economy isn't as independent as NZ's is.
It's fairly normal scientific language to me, but it does have a somewhat unusual twist. The authors are saying precisely what they mean, not making semantic space for extrapolation. That can be confusing because my understanding is not that they "found pockets where languages had time to evolve independently", but rather both that the same factors influencing bear community formation were potentially influencing human community formation and deliberately leaving open the interpretation that bear/other animal geography directly influenced human geography.

All of that said, I don't personally find it an incredibly exciting paper. It's just an exploratory paper saying "here's a cool coincidence, someone should look more into this". Those are pretty abundant in any subject dealing with humans even if the underlying proposal seems plausible.
Yes. It makes sense if you think of it as debt - he had a debt of $137000 and they had seized assets to cover the debt. The assets covered more than the debt so the remainder was paid back. If the assets hadn't covered the debt he would have had to cover it separately.
Thanks, all great responses!
The idea is to take away oroceeds of crime, not to make bank
Can you elaborate more on specifics, like what type of objects do you store on Storj, how's the performance?
I count four or five objectionable points in your statement, bless your heart.

However, one understands that the sun has set upon the days of reasonable debate among adults.

Best wishes to you.
> Imagine how many startups simply don't come into existence because the founders are stuck on life long H1B visas.

This implicitly assumes that startups need to happen in the U.S. Another option that may be more preferable to some founders is getting access to appropriate capital and resources in their home country, or in another country of their choice. Getting rid of the exploitative H1B system is only a solution for some people and having every founder move to the U.S. isn't necessarily good for the rest of world.
$3.51 final offer
If this pandemic has taught us anything it's that hardly any of us need to go anywhere.

As modest as the NZ economy is it's still a hub for a few industries, and people still wanted to come for business purposes.
> Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life.

Sadly, there is one thing worse: health "authorities" and "experts" completely disregarding therapeutics, e.g., Ivermectin, which is as safe and as cheap as Aspirin, and which reduces the risk of serious illness and death by up to 86% [1] (which brings the death risk to about 1/4 of the flu... aka a low enough level to not even warrant a news story), all because a politician said it works.

I recommend listening to episode #1671 of the Joe Rogan podcast, in which he interviews Pierre Kory and Bret Weinstein. Once you listen to this, if you are not absolutely astounded by what you learn, please let me know (unless the reason is because you already knew this stuff).

Edit: imagine being so ignorant and deranged as to down vote these well studied and cited (see below) facts.

1. https://c19ivermectin.com
Maybe I'm just a bonehead, but take topic sentence (one of many possible examples):

> In addition to testing the hypothesis that the linear extents of human language family boundaries represent potentially resistant areas to grizzly bear gene flow, we tested for the overall overlap and similarities in spatial structuring among Indigenous language families and bear genetic groups using analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

First of all, how many times do you have to read this sentence to understand what it means?

And, although I kind of get what it's saying -- both clauses seem like they could mean the same thing. I think you could rewrite it like this without losing any precision:

> The previous paragraph talked about how we found the spatial boundaries of language families and whether the gene flow of bears could easily cross these boundaries. Now we turn our attention to a similar but slightly different question. We compare the distribution of bear species vs the distribution of language families and see how much they overlap. As part of our toolbox we used ANOSIM (analysis of similarities) and MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance.)

I'm sure some people will say this is worse, but I like it more, and I stand by my original position that this paper is hard to read.
What are your thoughts on using gasoline or diesel and a free-piston linear generator to achieve much better watt-hour/kg ratio (as compared to li-ion batteries), without all of the gas handling and complexity of a hydrogen fuel cell setup?
Israel HealthTech Startup Got Your Heart in Their Hands
Scanner less parsers are strictly more powerful than parsers using fixed lexers. You can literally change the language you are parsing based on what you have parsed so far. I have code running in production doing exactly that.
NZ now has more than 100 cases. I wonder how high it would be now if they didn't.
Police state shithole.
Based on a quick check of the disassembly, _exit is dynamically linked. It appears that because of that dynamic linkage, there's some information stored for dyld to use. That data seems to be split across a few sections which are loaded with padding.

It's also a fat binary. It contains both an X64 and AArch64 version.
Right, I will second this, our law enforcement shut down the Florida Keys at what we call he 18 mile stretch. No one that is not a resident was allowed in. for a good deal of time it worked and to be honest, I am thankful that they did, as at that moment in time, we did not know what we where looking at.
1. Big pharma + medical community shoving opioids down our throats for decades leading to a nationwide heroin issue, all so doctors could keep driving their 7 series.

2. Fauci lied about masks. How can we believe him moving forward? Simply swap him out for the greater good and get better with messaging. Why the need to keep this one fucker’s name clear at the expense of millions of Americans faith in government?

3. We were lied to about WMDs, spent 20 years in the Middle East fighting for nothing. Many who fought and died were republicans and might be skeptical of our responses to large scale events.

4. Our political leaders knew about the Virus as early as November 2019, traded stocks and did quite well before, during, and after the crash in April 2020.

5. Local news is a joke so most people get their news and hear things via Facebook, Twitter, Big News...etc which create partisan knowledge bubbles.
I like your point about ~31 keys. Hadn't realized it worked like that with all images now being encrypted.

One caveat is that according to this article out today, Apple was not scanning iCloud Photo Libraries for CSAM previously:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/23/apple-scans-icloud-mail-for-c...

"Apple has confirmed to me that it already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, and has been doing so since 2019. It has not, however, been scanning iCloud Photos or iCloud backups."
Not really an option for these underground cookie markets. The seller on the other hand does have people's details because they need to send the goods somewhere. The buyer would have no idea who he's dealing with.
Here's an example of what I had in mind.

I was working at Apple during the time when the Infinite Loop campus was designed. I recall that the Apple execs treated the R&D engineers as equal stakeholders in the design of the working spaces. I had the pleasure of working in IL-3 for six years and it was the best office environment I have ever seen anywhere -- spacious, quiet private offices with numerous comfortable common spaces for conversations and informal meetings.

Apparently the interior design of the Apple Park headquarters was handled quite differently. Many employees were saddened when they experienced the working environment there, and some even refused to move in.
The whole term “The Great Reset” just doesn’t sit well with me. Then again “New World Order” didn’t either.
This sparks some interest in me, as I don't see what is surprising about the things she spoke about. Why/how are folks surprised? They expected more racism?
I agree - the downvoters are active today. Upvoted.
I should add that it really is doing nothing other than calling exit:

EntryPoint:
push rbp
mov rbp, rsp
xor edi, edi
call imp___stubs__exit
imp___stubs__exit:
jmp qword [_exit_ptr]
Many N95s have valves that aren't permissable as COVID masks anyways. They are mostly designed to keep pollution out rather than your breath off of other people.

I for one, am glad that N95s haven't been mandated. I found them extremely irritating when I had to wear them because of high pollution in Beijing. The masks we wear instead, in comparison, are much more comfortable.
I wish most crises weren't so defeatist. It's a fine line because, you need people to know it's a real problem. But framing it this way makes people say 'whats the point.' 700 years is an eternity, given our lifespans. Put another way, I think it's immensely more useful to frame it in a way humans better relate with. In 20 years, we can do what?

It also completely removes the innovation that humans can achieve. Reminds me of the NY Times saying in 1903 that humans wouldn't fly for at least 1 million years. Glad the Wright brothers and others weren't listening.
> You consider South Korea a success?

Compared to North Korea, I sure do!
This is very much what the UN charter is about. Article 2 has always irked me the wrong way. It's basically saying that any member has to support the UN in any action towards non members if it suits their view of peace and security. Which is obviously very vague.

5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.

6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text
I've never used it, but I've always been impressed with NearlyFreeSpeech's recovery procedure, at least as listed:

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#LostEverything

It's on the paranoid end of usable, it seems to me
“Everything I don’t like is an alt-right dogwhistle”
>If the police confiscated everything you owned to cover a fine for $100, isn't it reasonable to get the difference back?

Legally this is correct and exactly what happened.

The reason this is becoming an issue is that all the bitcoins that were seized were from selling drugs. The point of the fine is to match the profit of the crime so reasonably it should have taken all of the bitcoin regardless of the underlying value.

If he had sold drugs for a gold ring and then the price of gold went up, should he have gotten a bit of the ring back?
Honestly, they might be the most realistic about this whole thing. You can’t stop a tsunami.
You mean other than the decoy selection vulnerability that could be used to unmask transactions as recently as last month, right[1]? I would take most cryptocurrency outfits’ claims of anonymity with an appropriately sized hunk of salt.

[1]: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/7807
Atlantic Canada locked travel from out of region down almost completely ... as a result Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland have had the lowest rates (per capita) of COVID in North America:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-in-the-u-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble
Tell that to every municipality in the US over the last 20 years
This is an interesting update! Are Visa and MasterCard the reason behind the ban on sex content creators?
Glad you aren't

Then wonder what happened to law and order
Not being able to leave your house, and not being able to leave your country, aren’t the same. The difference in degree is big enough to count as a difference in kind.
Yes that seems to be the case, but I'm not sure that actually matters here. The timescales involved mean that there is plenty of time for carbon to move between air and water. The only factor of much importance here would be the overall amount of CO2 removed.

There might be some small time savings removing it directly from the ocean, but at 700 years out even 25 gigatons a year of carbon removal was insufficient. Given that kind of time scale, a few years earlier or later wouldn't matter.
Since when RGB Rainbow became Enhanced Function and dpi/buttons/accel/grip/etc became basic?
> They seem mad because they missed an opportunity to make 1.6M then.

I think it's more that they're mad because someone managed to make and keep 7 figures profit from a crime that they were caught doing purely because the justice system screwed up.

It's hard to keep the "crime doesn't pay" messaging when stuff like that happens.
This is a cool idea. A first step before first party integration into a piano roll could be a vst with midi output. I know this can be done because of plugins like Xfer's Cthulu. I'd pay for that!
I have one. I also have a /24 IPv4 address block. Back in the old days, you often registered both at the same. They were also free.
There's a broader version of that: "You can buy someone, but you can't make sure they stay bought." Applies widely to bribery, diplomacy, etc.
Things have value because we say so. How else can you explain the worth of a $100 banknote being higher than the paper and the ink it's made of? Bitcoin is the same.

All money is make-believe.
What about this article, which says the type level programming features constitute a turing complete system: https://mjj.io/2021/03/29/type-level-programming-in-typescri...

Edit: ok, it says it affects whether the program will typecheck, so it's consistent with not affecting code generation.

(More Turing completeness discussion at https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833)

Then there are other features that have no equivalent in JS. For example enums. And the handbook talks about what kind of JS they "compile to".
Don't be sorry. I wish you all the best and for her recovery.