skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but flu shots are entirely voluntary. Meanwhile, there's legislation being considered in the U.S. to put people on Do Not Fly lists for not showing proof of being "fully" vaccinated. And who knows how far the goalposts can move when it comes to what "fully" vaccinated means. Next year, that might mean having had 4 shots, or more.
Since "I can't prove algorithms are unethical" implies a demand or requirement to prove a negative, I'm inclined to conclude that you're misrepresenting your source.
Don't just sign the last page. Initial every page. Always.
Trust Apple
>>>You risk allowing yourself to be ruled and abused by corrupt corporations

Absent Government there can be no corporations, Business sure, but business absent government looks very different

Corporations are fictional entities created by government regulations namely liability shields, to facilitate investment.

>As a citizen, you may have the power to vote out the ones that exist in governments

Reality says other wise, as a citizen my vote only carries the measure if there is a tie, there as never been a tie...

This mystical rose colored view of democracy does not match reality.

>You have zero power over who is employed at a corporation.

I would say my power to say who is employed at a corporation is about the same as my power to say who is in power in government, that is not even talking about who I have the option to vote for.

In my entire life I do not believe a Single person I have ever voted for as ever won the election... I do not vote for either Republicans or Democrats

>>I don't understand the willingness to subjugate yourself before powerful corporations

that is because you have confused my position. Allow me to restate it. I am not opposed to Government.. I am opposed to the type of government we have, I believe the constitution did not do enough to limit government.

Government should only be empowered to protect the individual rights. Specifically negative individual rights. Not "Human rights" which are often defined to include positive rights, things like Housing, Health Care, and all manner of other things the government must provide..

Government should not be the parent, the nanny, or the sovereign over the people. The type of government found in most of the "First World" is a complete inversion of what government should be, subservient to the people, not sovereign over them

Read The Law by Frederic Bastiat to glean an understanding of where I believe government regulations, and law should be at and how it should be limited
Not sure how I read “files overeat and lose sleep” but I was intrigued.
Only 66% of Israelis are fully vaccinated: there's a good 3 million hard-core religious orthodox who won't let science interfere with their deity's will.

3 million of blissfully and deliberately ignorant individuals who won't adapt their social behavior to avoid viral spread is more than enough to overrun any health system.
It's a shame that these games have to be played.
You sound like you're in your 20s. Even if you're early 30s, life is long.

Listen. I felt similarly to you. Then I was put on Prozac. I stopped having those feelings.

There's a data point. Any time I recommend that data point, people lose their minds. So I'll just state it and leave it up to interpretation. What worked for me won't work for you. (Are you sure?)

My point is, get your ass into the doctor's office. I'm sorry to phrase it bluntly, but if no one told me that bluntly, I never would have. I wrote about it here. https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1392213804684038150

The doctor's appointment was the pivotal change in my life. Before doctor, unhappy life. After doctor, happy life.

The problem is, most doctors don't seem to really care deeply about you. Or at least me. I lucked out big time by finding a small sleep clinic with an elderly doc. As I say in the post, she took to me like a mother hen, and she seemed genuinely pained when I expressed the sorts of feelings you're saying here.

Let me put it a different way. You're unhappy with your current trajectory, and you don't see it changing any time soon. I was unhappy with my trajectory, and the only thing that changed it was getting my ass into a doctor's office repeatedly until one of them cared about solving the underlying problem.

In hindsight, there was one other important mental shift. You're not broken. There's nothing "wrong" with you. That would be like saying you're a broken person because you have a broken leg. That makes no sense. And it makes no sense to go through life without taking care of it, or feeling like a crutch makes you less of a person. My crutch was Prozac. Yours will be what works for you.

Good luck. DM me any time, 24/7. Happy to listen about whatever you want to vent about.
In his early days Jiddu Krishnamurti was touted as the World Teacher by the Theosophists who 'discovered' and trained him. They made him the main guy of the Order of the Star. Then he stood up at a convention of about 3,000 members and disbanded the whole thing, abandoning the role they'd prepared. He said:

> I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.

I can't remember the article/blog post now but it was a commentary on that one quote, which led to further reading of his books and a certain view on life (I appreciate the irony/contradiction given the quote, and I'm not a 'follower' of his).
I wonder if this could also be used to more accurately time pulsar signals and be used to detect gravitational waves?
Out of curiosity: did they actually prefixed 'privilege' with 'white' during the training just like online activists do? Because this one of these imposing Americanisms which has no relation to reality whatsoever in some other parts of the world, like in Russia, for example.
It shows how ancestry and race are somewhat related, but it doesn't show that genetics determine race. You can pick groups within "Black" who are more closely related to a random "White" person than they are to a random person from some other "Black" group. You can also pick "White" groups who are more closely related to a "Black" group than they are to other "White" groups.

You can group people based on genetic similarity, but the racial classification of these genetic clumps is socially defined.
When "slavery" is mentioned in this context (wrt. black/white), it's reasonable to assume the person means it predates the Atlantic slave trade, which was not the only form of slavery, but it was the largest (and most visible) form of slavery involving predominantly white people owning predominantly brown people.

I make no claim over the validity of "white going first" predating the Atlantic slave trade, however. I simply don't know.
What is truly extraordinary about that paper is that it completely ignored the fact that ML is only a tiny contributor to overall power usage in computing, and also attempted to compare the training to intercontentintal flights, which use the same amount of fuel empty of full (and the planes do fly nearly empty). All of it makes it look like she just wanted to attack ML, rather than make a good faith argument.

The other part of the paper (the danger of trusting things that stochastically parrot well enough to exit the right side of the uncanny valley) is interesting.
What are the stats on that, especially vs. other severe respiratory diseases?

Asking because I've had "long covid" since long before there was a COVID, so either everyone's making a bigger deal out of it than necessary, or I'm actually much worse off relative to normal than I thought and I should really be questioning my doctors.
Yes someone thing like this. Exactly where we draw the line now is the hard question. I don't think we're massively off the mark but I feel we could be proceeding a bit more slowly is all. I'm not advocating the reverse gear or massively changing course. We're not quite out of the woods is the point.
Substratum Acquired by Epik
From what I understand: Not if symptoms appear many days after the infection. Covid easily transmits when it's still in the upper parts of the body. Once it gets into the chest/pulmonary system and you start manifesting symptoms and it start inflicting long lasting damages it has already contaminated others. What happens then and after that doesn't apply pressure to the virus to be less virulent or lethal.
In a Crichton novel, once mass-adopted, the "defective interfering" virus would recombine with the wild one to produce a new variant which is just like the wild one, except it replicates, infects and overwhelms immune systems three times faster.
Then why go on and on about how stupid apple is. Sure, they may not give you a free battery etc, but maybe just schedule the apt and do the standard replacement if you want to? This guy goes to best buy and then apple.

Did they literally turn down his offer to pay the $49 for a replacement?
>Everyone objects to 'victimhood'

Um, what? Victimhood has become THE status symbol of the left. If you aren't a victim you're an abuser, so anyone looking for status reaches for whatever victimhood they can get.

Victimhood is also a potent weapon - if anyone disagrees with you, you can claim they are oppressing you, denying your victimhood, gaslighting you, and so on.

Victimhood is the ultimate passive aggressive weapon in a culture that has seemingly forgotten that everyone lies.
s/woke/being nicer to people/g
You can disable SIP once and it will stay off (although maybe not if you do a full system update).
In my own experience writing and reviewing professional or wild code, a variable called 'i' that gets used for different loops in a function is pretty harmless, if it's reused in a consistent manner, such as only being used as an iterator for top-level loops. Is that re-use with older style declarations really such a sin?

And your rule for safer variables with minimal scoping requires the programmer to understand the lifetime and usage of different variables, and appreciate why it's bad to re-use things in a confusing way across a function. But, if they understand that then surely they can already write good code: with or without minimal scoping? What's the difference?

Yes, if they attempt to use a variable with one name and in a different block where it means something else then they might get a syntax error (or just visually notice it's out of scope). Why do you assume this error will help them correctly determine whether the same-name-variable is unrelated or just happens to start with more nested scope than it should finish? Or, rather, why do you think the scoping specifically is what will help them get this right? Maybe just drawing their attention to the need to give different names to disambiguate, or to keep better attention to the meaning of a variable throughout a function, is what's helping?
> What really should be happening should be a mass vaccination program

Compulsory mass vaccination using the current vaccines poses a serious public health risk [1][2][3]. See my other comments here for more explanation and citations. For these reasons, vaccination strategies should be highly targeted towards vulnerable populations, and should be heavily supplemented by additional therapeutic modalities.

> and a mass antibodies level testing program at the same time

Antibody levels are used as proxy for protection [4], but higher levels of antibodies do not necessarily always translate to higher levels of protection. In fact, individuals with undetectable levels of antibodies can still have robust and durable immunity [5][6][7]. There is plenty of literature on antibody levels reducing with time [8][9], but again, antibody levels are only one aspect of a complex immune response.

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[2] Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti...

[3] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[4] SARS-CoV-2 antibody-positivity protects against reinfection for at least seven months with 95% efficacy
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33937733/

[5] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[6] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[7] Rapid induction of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells is associated with coordinated humoral and cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(21)00308-3

[8] Antibody Responses 8 Months after Asymptomatic or Mild SARS-CoV-2 Infection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920668/

[9] Naturally enhanced neutralizing breadth against SARS-CoV-2 one year after infection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03696-9
The initial goal of Google Books was to make the scans publicly available to everyone, but then the copyright system got in the way. Blame our politicians, not Google, for that one.
How would someone use that code to hack into my GV account? Wouldn't they also need to know my password or have access to my e-mail account to login or to reset your password?
Yes that was explained in the immediately preceding paragraph: "As a white person", I have been accused of racism. Off the top of my head, I can think of three instances over the course of my life; there may have been others.
It’s clear that W^X isn’t “solving security”, but it’s not a bad idea just because it’s a low-hanging fruit. On Apple platforms, I think that it came to be as a natural consequence of the ability to toggle RX mappings to be RW without a syscall.

Almost all DMA-capable peripherals on Apple Silicon (including iDevices) are gated behind an IOMMU.
Useful or not, I think it's more representative within that region than you let on and matches basically the activity causing this moment in the timeline from your link: https://imgur.com/a/G3D7AZ2
> Israel is a prime example - with the highest vaccination rate in the world

Israel has 60% of the population fully vacced, compared to iceland with 71%

>Israel's ICUs overflow as unvaccinated patients fall severely ill

https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sj1lzflgk
Edit: removed because it wasn't a germane comment.
> IHU Méditerranée

I'd wait a bit for someone else to provide a second opinion considering Raoult track records regarding covid.
It’s already well outside the top causes of death among the vaccinated.
Yes, thank you very much. Fixed.
Maybe one has been optimised more than the other, because one is more 'important' or has higher adoption?
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No way to infer a Q, either.
Since more people are vaccinated, they don’t always know that they carry. It adds a lot to the contagiousness. They may also be less careful, due to the insurance paradox (insured people have more accidents).
The average person, of any so-called 'race', doesn't know much history, economics, law, philosophy or sociology.

So it's not ridiculous to claim that a highly-educated person can perceive actual cases of racism that the victim, if lower-educated, cannot.

First-hand experience is powerful in some situations, but worthless in others. If it weren't, diabetics wouldn't need doctors.
> Once you reach your goal weight the hardest part starts.

For me it is not that hard. I just allow myself some leniency during the periods when there are many upcoming parties/birthdays/etc and can put in 2-3 kilos. Then I pick a period when there are no such events planned and go to calorie counting routine.

Of course, I maintain weighting routine all the time, every day.
Maybe because the most prominent virtue signalers today are not people, but corporations.
This is very common scam. AFAIK it’s a way to create a new Google Voice account (linked to your phone number) with the goal of using that account for other scams so that they can’t be tracked.

I fell for it, but since I already had a Google Voice account linked to that phone number, it didn’t work for the scammer. But he didn’t realize what it didn’t work.

I quickly realized that something wasn’t right (and Googled the mechanics of the scam) and then was able to waste his time for another 30min.

The reason I fell for it was because they use a text message from Google in some African language, so I didn’t immediately realize what was going on. Still dumb to not pay more attention…

But it taught me to not list my phone number in the open on Craigslist.
> People will say “listen to black people” while simultaneously dehumanizing all black people into a monolithic and tokenized opinion-vessel. I personally know black people, gay people, trans people, disabled people, who are exhausted of being that vessel.

Well everyone loves their boxes, don't they?

It's so neat and easy to put everyone in one of those and finding the right box for someone just requires a glance at them or maybe some exchanged words. And suddenly all that persons problems and motivations are understood, and it is known wherever what they say should be praised or ignored.
I don't fully understand the point of the article, but there's my take anyway. ;-)

I pay for YouTube Premium so I don't get any ads on YouTube. And I don't really care about the (crappy) algorithm because I only watch what I subscribe to.

I hope Twitter's utility will similarly increase as they pivot to (a) premium paid services, and (b) open protocols via BlueSky.

Glass is a new social media photography app for iOS that feels a lot like early Instagram, but it's a paid service with no ads.

So yeah, perhaps it's the end of social media as we knew it…but that's fine because new and existing services will adapt to provide people premium experiences (for a fee of course).

Remember, we are the internet. If we don't like what it is, we can build something better.
Its not really surprising, this is a platform designed solely for the purpose of keeping kids glued to their screens and spending money. And they are excellent at it. My kids are obsessed with it to the point where I have been planning a complete ban on gaming for a couple weeks to try and break the addiction. I know several (4) other families who's kids are going through the same thing. My kids are constantly asking for money as well to buy things in game, constantly to the point that it really reminds me of a drug addiction.
You’re splitting hairs.
Feinstein was mostly alone in her convictions but not completely.

Again:
> In the United States, there is effectively nobody in this position. The committee hearings on anti-trust and encryption have little overlap between interested parties or ideology.

> there is effectively nobody in this position.

Wrong. There are people and Feinstein is a great example of someone who worked quite hard to kill encryption while also being on various committees handling anti-trust.

If her anti-encryption bill passed or if she was able to push through some anti-trust through the Judiciary committee she would brag about it in her reelection campaign.

Feinstein is perfect model for someone who would gladly tout her legacy while on the judiciary committee and equally her accomplishments on a national security subcommittee.

You are wrong sir, now tuck your tail and go away. I’m done wasting my time with you. But now I know you quite well, you are a narcissist and you have to have the final word. So go ahead and prove me right…
They don’t.

They want to link a new GV account to a real phone number that is not theirs, so that they can use the GV number for other scams.

It only works when your phone number doesn’t already have a GV linked to it.
Yes. It is fascinating how our brains try to fill up the blanks in ways that are probably related to our experience and knowledge.
I think their argument may stem from the fact that they can’t remove themselves from their own frame of reference enough to understand yours. In their head, to have this abnormal diagnosis, you must either be exactly like their perspective of someone with aphantasia, or be someone who just doesn’t understand that your experience is just like theirs.

The problem with having a diagnosis like this is that a lot of people won’t understand what it’s like to not have the characteristics we take for granted to the point that it seems unreal. To avoid accepting that the scale of people who have experiences that they’ll never be able to understand is bigger than they imagine (and avoid cognitive dissonance), they must invalidate your experience.
What are great laptops below 3.5 lbs?

I know XPS13 and Lenovo’s Carbon X1.
I've always heard this is a great way to doom a friendship. Are you ever at odds with the other owners? I can imagine if you've planned your summer around a family vacation and the previous guest trashes the place (or breaks something making the place unusable) it could get ugly. Or worse yet, it is no pets and one owner starts bringing their dog.
Look no further than when Google decided to deprecate `alert()` on Chrome. Bunch of clowns with their heads so far up their asses they're inside out.
> This is what is called Cancel Culture. It is really not OK to be offended on behalf of someone else. When people do this, they are infantilizing (is that a word?) the supposedly offended and some of them don't like that behavior.

The Cancel Culture term is one that is thrown around as if it is only something that leftists do. And with respect to projecting offense to perceived racism, the left certainly has that market covered. But what about projecting offense to veterans when someone takes a knee to the national anthem?

The rush to define Cancel Culture is just as politically motivated and politically applied as the rush to define racism.
oh dang...good to know
Sounds like where I live in the Deep South except it’s 8am. The other day I woke up and it was 97% humidity and I could literally see the moisture in the air (not quite fog).
"I also have it auto-answer 2FA calls and automatically hit the # key."

One year at defcon - maybe 20 years ago - the speaker told an anecdote about a user who had set up a webcam and put their RSA token under it.

And we all laughed ... "haha what a dummy ... I can't believe users are so stupid" ...

But secretly I thought it was genius.
Do you pay for a separate phone line for the mule?
Believe what people tell me? No thank you; I was born at night but not last night. I prefer to observe what people do.
Their environmental contaminant hypothesis is very interesting and seems like it could be further confirmed or disproved with more data.

Can we link childhood obesity to areas with particularly high rates of some kind of industrial contamination? (Poverty as a confounding effect may make this hard)

If the watershed is part of the mechanism, can we confirm lower obesity rates in areas without much industrial pollution that have similar diet & exercise to obese areas? (Independent of the already-mentioned altitude effects)
Agreed. For me, the hallmark of a good system is being able to forget that I'm using it. That has never happened to me with Facetime.
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are they shuttering this one too