skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.

and

> Men frequently say to me, "I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially." I am tempted to reply to such,—This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Both by Thoreau in Walden.

I do wonder if interaction is a requisite to a happy life. Or if the perception of being a misfit is the true cause of these unhealthy outcomes. For those who are content to be alone, is the need for interaction still as important or can this be offset by a greater comfort with one’s self and a deeper connection to all of Nature?
You were (legitimately) attacking my numbers elsewhere but here you are posting completely inaccurate information. Israel is nowhere close to "90%" vaccinated. Haaretz from 4 days ago reports them at 78%: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-vaccine-data-how-...

Given the vaccine is not approved for people under 12, there's no way it could be 90%, as 28% of their population is 0-14 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Age_str...
How do they bootstrap the verification when you say you lost your key?
How? TOTP does not embed the domain, as it is generated on a separate device which does not communicate with your browser, and does not know the target domain. TOTP is literally HMAC(shared-secret, time-interval) mapped to a short range (e.g. mod 10^6).
How is that possible? Codes from authenticator apps I've seen are 6-digit decimal codes. I don't know much about how it works. But I can't see how this is immune from mitm. I pretend to $SERVICE and ask you for your authenticator code. If you fall for it, you'd give me the code, which I can use to impersonate you for the next 30 seconds.
Same as with what probably happened with HCoV-OC43, another betacoronavirus very similar to SARS-CoV-2. Evidence indicates that it caused a worldwide pandemic that killed a lot of people starting in 1889. Now it's endemic. Most of us catch it when we're young and healthy which gives us partial immunity later.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/175...

Eventually almost all of us will be infected by some variant of SARS-CoV-2. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing death.
> It is incredible to me that climate change is still considered to be nonsense by so many people.

Most will take that denial to their graves. For some, many even, it's part of their cultural identity to reject all indication that their lifestyle isn't the flat-out awesomest and most moral way to live in the whole history of humankind.
Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also is)
A phone seems to be a pretty low price to give up your privacy and time.
If interest rates go up and that causes housing prices to drop, the same monthly payment can now only purchase a lower-cost house. People might not be able to sell for what they paid. Then if they need to move they must bring cash to the table. Even those that can afford to bring cash might still decide to go the foreclosure route.

In 2008 we even saw people pro-actively defaulting because they didn't want to make payments on something that was worth half of what they paid.

I'm not predicting any of this, but it is a possibility.
Elon Musk's 'Tesla Bot' Is a Shitpost
If a company offers me access to slack/email/whatever if I BYOD that's nice... but it's not something I'm going to take them up on unless 1) they're extremely young and don't have the infrastructure to manage things or 2) the responsibilities I'm taking on are so heavy that I feel the need to be always on call (and receive appropriate compensation).

Otherwise, if you're hiring me as a developer, I will develop with all my effort during work hours... and then go home. If you occasionally need me to stay late to supervise an off-hours deploy that's cool - no worries... but if it ends up running 4+ hours over a normal work day I expect time in lieu (possibly just starting late the next day).

I feel like I'm at the sort of ideal balance of defensiveness and compliance for an employee - I want to help make your company run better... but we signed an agreement on what I'll be compensated for that effort and what the expectations are and we'll stick to the agreement excepting sane and reasonable requests for minor deviations - a BYOD policy is not one of those. I am not pulling down half a mil - I don't even make six figures US - but I'm still expensive enough that a good work setup: computer, chair, keyboard that doesn't suck and phone if you need me to have it - are entirely incidental costs compared with my salary, employer taxes and health care costs. If you, as an employer, are going to try and make both of our lives more complicated over a one time 200$ cost to the company (and plan cost - which could be non-existent if wifi-only works for the phone) then you don't have your priorities straight (unless, again, you're like a three person startup then whatever - I get there's already way too much crap each person is trying to handle).

I disagree with Rachel in the fact that I don't think it's ever a good idea to BYOD - even paying for it yourself. Cleaning company software off the device is going to be a pain - and it's going to be a pain when your employment ends which is a period in every job's life that could always use every advantage it can get to be drama free.
Am I the only one who typically just uses speakerphone at a low volume? Most calls I receive are at home, and I hate holding my phone to my head anyways. That or a headset solves the issue...
You're exaggerating. Skepticism is is a multi dimensional spectrum. Certain flavors of "skepticism" have been abused and, well, society has shifted its trust accordingly.
I assume there's not a lot of incentive to give the end-user that sort of power over their devices
stop giving facebook money
I'm grateful for you pointing this out, because it shows a very different picture to what I saw, I'm going to have to dig that up and see what the discrepancy is.
Totally agree! I make far more than my harder working, smarter friends outside of tech.

People with greater wealth don’t necessarily “deserve” it, whatever that means.
That sounds like being engaged to wait. I don't know this company but that seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
How is it possible that some kind of imaginative script can be enough to get SMS sim swapped?
Why aren't the operators requiring a strong identification via a passport or something like that? Maybe I'm really dumb but that just boggles my mind, whether or not there exist other types of alternatives to 2FA.
> Is it to the price level (e.g. under $1K) where an individual patient could pay a lab to sequence their own virus sample?

Sure. It'll run under $50 in bulk. Less, but not that much less, if you're only interested in sequencing the spike.

> How about the cost of sequencing one drop of the vaccine vial they received, as a quality control sample of the distribution supply chain?

This isn't a useful quality check. A negative result implicates your field assay rather than manufacturing.
That can't possibly be it. We're talking about a billion dollars business burning its main revenue source to the ground, and the main reason would be that they can't afford to do the easily-automated paperwork? The math doesn't make sense.
The examples they do give are all bland and unprovocative. There are many more, of course.
So in this story Facebook was responsible for $50 of charges, a business disruption and a huge and ongoing hassle. And Facebook refuses so much as to pick up the phone to discuss it. In the old days the equivalent would have been one of those roach motel businesses rated 'F' on the Better Business Bureau, buckets arrayed on the floor to catch rain leaking through the roof. And yet in this day it's one of the most profitable businesses in the world. Weird.
That's why they said you should use U2F, not TOTP.
Hmm, I did some contracting work for a hospital system that was heavily invested in Google Health for the EHR systems. I think a lot of that work was not going to be easily moved to another platform. I wonder what happens to them now?
Signs of a Sinking Ship (2011)
That's cute but also kind of horrific if you want to do anything else. You are essentially ensuring he's stuck in a sandbox.

My grandmother as mentioned uses an iPad which is the only user friendly tablet or "computer" I would ever give her.

She uses it for general browsing and e-mail as well, as well as taking photos and browsing albums in iCloud. No messaging though.
But they already get a copy of our Insurance Cards. Shouldn't that be enough ?
I don't think that distinction is useful on this question. Lots of non-sex physical work involves just being present, and lots of sex work involves skill.
This is one of my favorite Youtube Channels and all his videos are extremely well made and very educational! I can truly recommend every single video on the Channel
I don't understand any of that is a gotcha or in any way relevant. The entity driving a 3000 lb vehicle on a road shared with bags of blood and bones should be held to the same standards, whether it's a human or AI. Right now, AI drivers do not reach these standards, by their creators own admission. "I'm getting better!" or "I can do other stuff really well" is not a compelling argument that you should be given a drivers license.
You don’t usually get to choose what devices people buy. All my family is on Android simply because they’re not interested enough in tech to spend triple the price on an Apple device, and there’s nothing I can say to make them spend that much.
So what jurisdiction do you prefer then?
It's the way the internet is now, though, and it makes it so that is harder for average people to find and read and write blogs than it was years ago. In other words, it's tough going back to horses when all the stables in the city are gas stations now.
The road to healthcare tech is littered with bodies of failed efforts from all kinds of companies. Seems like a particularly hard segment to break into. I'm not exactly sure what the biggest reason for that is. Regulations? Social relationships/politics? Difficult to understand processes and landscape? Resistance to change? Maybe a mix of all of these?
At least in the case of vitamin D it's hardly pseudoscience. Multiple clinical studies have found that hypovitaminosis D is a serious risk factor for COVID-19.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
Facebook seems to be "too big to fail", at a point where their game theory is "the scammer is generating profits for us, so letting some of our users get scammed is something we can let happen".

It's pretty scary. I think they're really willing to let facebook die off and just keep instagram and whatsapp, I think that's their strategy.

Even facebook dating is buggy and not worthy of a giant like facebook. Maybe it's the how GAFA will start to decline.
I want to be very clear that I am not personally defending the concept of sanctions nor using them specifically against Iran. (I am also not denigrating it either: I am not well-versed in international politics or economics... I am heavily involved in politics, but at the local and regional level only.)

Further, I am going to take "what the sanction is targeting" at face value here (lifted from the article), as that is not what I want to argue: I am just looking at the definition of "providing service". If it were the case that the sanction doesn't say Iranians in general, but targets something more narrow, that is irrelevant for my comment.

> US law does not force companies to block IPs, but only prohibits them from providing services and trading with Iran, which goes back to politics, but my current argument is not commercial or political.

It is my understanding that sanctions also apply even ignored you provide service to someone without compensation for said service, and it is also my understanding that providing access to a hosted copy of software is also a service (and one you are even providing to users at some cost; like, you are paying money for servers and bandwidth and disk i/o capacity to provide that service to users).

If someone is thereby told that "Iranians are routinely using your hosting service to do X, Y, and Z" and, taking on face value that "Iranians" are sanctioned in a way that prevents providing them service, then you need to be able to do what you can to minimize that usage. I know... it sucks :(.

(I say this with some force as I once was involved in an extended conversation with a lawyer about stuff like this where someone was asking about dropping a plane load of USB keys into a sanctioned area that eventually led to someone asking am exasperated question about what if we just let a bunch of balloons--with no payload!!--our over a sanctioned country, and the lawyers started being concerned that we were giving people free rubber ;P.)

FWIW, someone else here mentioned GitHub got around it... by negotiating with OFAC to get a license, a solution that doesn't automatically apply to other services and which sounds like it might not even be available to other near-identical services that operate at a smaller scale or provide some slightly different set of services or don't have some other negotiating chip we don't know about. It is not clear to me that it is fair to argue that everyone needs to fight that particular fight.
Nigerian Threat Actors Solicit Employees to Deploy Ransomware for Cut of Profits
People die doing all kinds of things that are absolutely worth doing. If we take too many cautionary tales, we end up swaddled in blankets on our couches for the rest of our lives (and then die early of our sedentary lifestyles, all the while hating the world we see on our TV).

Yes, they took a knowable risk (so does anyone who drives with their child). No, we don't know what killed them. We shouldn't let that prevent people from exposing their children to the outdoors, to places where mommy and daddy aren't constantly getting text messages, and from learning by exposure at a young age how to responsibly handle decisions under pressure.
"Legacy" is perhaps not the best word to describe it; what I mean is that new technologies, protocols etc being developed generally avoid XML. So new products and libraries don't have to deal with it that much. And older ones are already written relying on older versions of XPath etc, so there isn't a strong incentive to upgrade there. Even if we're talking about libraries that are still getting updated to reflect changes in the standards.

The comparison with COBOL is fairly straightforward. There's still plenty of COBOL code running in prod around the world - but you don't see much clamoring to add new features to it.

Oh, and .NET doesn't really cater specifically to the enterprise these days. It was definitely true back when it was first released (remember all the emphasis on SOAP?), and for a while after. But .NET Core was an attempt to broaden its scope, and it very much succeeded.

I should add that I'm not particularly happy about this. I did a lot of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 2.0 back in mid-00s, using Saxon, and I still miss many aspects of it. The new "best thing" seems to be JSON, but, while the syntax is certainly nicer, the tooling ecosystem around it is still nowhere near what we had back then.
That "new" Perl landed in 2015 as "Perl 6". It has been renamed to The Raku Programming Language in 2019 (https://raku.org #rakulang).
Does Twitter Allow Taliban-Affiliated Accounts?
It just isn't true that "The point of ethics is to shame people or practices" or that ethics has "no value production".

In general, a primary factor reviewers in computing conferences are asked to consider is the degree to which a submission make a "substantial contribution" to the community. What is or isn't a substantial contribution is subjective and entirely dependent on the prevailing ethical perspectives in various communities. Papers -- a key unit of academic progress (for better or worse) are entirely subject to concerns of ethics. Certainly, there are interesting argument around how much time and paper space should be spent on speculating about negative impacts, and people are having those conversations.

The fact that ethics is "trending" is because more researchers would like tackle ethical challenges explicitly, instead of falling back on the default of a given community. For instance, here is a paper that quantitatively (with reproducibility!) analyzes the values in ML papers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15590 This is one way to have a very empirically-grounded discussion of the topic.

IMO, many researchers can and do debate topics of ethics in AI, and in doing so move the field forward (and increase likelihood that computing will have more positive impacts than negative ones).
Buffer pool plays a big part. Very possible all the data is already in-memory, and for certain data sizes it'll be faster to just follow leaf nodes start-to-finish than it is to determine what pages you can skip.

Postgres buffer pool is a ring, and relies on "clock sweep" to decide what pages it can evict on each iteration. It has a shared buffer, and per-query buffers to eliminate shared buffer evictions (for costly queries). When doing index scans, worst-case the same page is being accessed in random order multiple times and it's evicted between those accesses so we end up with redundant disk I/O.

Bitmap scans ensure each page is only scanned once and in-order, so it's a great solution when you need more than an index scan but less than a full table scan (worth of data), not to mention multiple indexes can be combined into one bitmap scan.

If every page is already in memory, the query planner may pick plans that look sub-optimal if you factor in disk I/O but are otherwise very efficient in-memory.
The interesting question is whether this process still functions if you're identified as a person of interest to Facebook.
6 houses, 600-900k each, at the time I was worth maybe 20 million, still have 2/3 net worth in btc/eth now worth 50 million
The only reason we don’t “need” vaccines for other cold viruses is that they’re very rarely severe, right? I’d certainly take the shot if they existed.
I completely agree with the author's rants on machine learning algorithm.

> consuming content through internet has become more and more manipulative.

This is 100% true. With those ML-based "personalized" info feed, users keep getting pushed biased information that matches their prejudice and is not a reflection of the true picture.

I'm actually dubious that what fraction of the pro-Trump conspiracy theorists had developed their conspiracy views "thanks to" Facebook et al's ML-based info suggestion algorithms.
Only on a mac.
I'm pretty sure you can do exactly that. On Android it's called a Work Profile, and I assume Apple has an equivalent although I don't know anything about it. It's not a VM, but the access is sufficiently constrained that it should be good enough against anything but a really malicious actor of an employer.
This is a top focus for us from a product perspective. What's interesting through our research is the overlap is probably not as big as we assumed. Some people want to use the home for special occasions (bdays, anniversaries), which can be spread out throughout the year. Some want it for holidays, others have their own holiday traditions. The demand is more evenly distributed than we anticipated.

But there will be conflicts no doubt. Our approach is to make access to the home as equitable as possible. Each co-owner can select their priority dates before the general booking window opens. This ensures each owner has access during high-demand times. Outside of the priority booking window owners are free to book anywhere from 2 days to 1 year out and can see which dates are available. We also limit the length of a stay so that even during high-demand times, multiple owners can enjoy the property.
There's a social-acceptability phenomenon where people say one thing (e.g. in surveys) and do another (e.g. what they buy).

Relatively early in 2020, some grocery and pharmacy shelves were completely emptied of Vit C/D/Zinc/Quercetin. When they were restocked, they would sell out again, even with per-customer quotas. This took place even with a complete news blackout on early treatments. As with HCQ/Ivermectin, we have decades of data showing very low risk of adverse effects from these early treatments. So the worst case is that people waste money on placebos. But there are studies showing that early treatment helps some (not all) patients to recover more quickly.

Just as we don't know why some people are injured by vaccines, we don't know why some people are not helped by early intervention with supplements. More studies are need for both, including funding for autopsies of those who die and retroactive genomic sequencing of virus/vaccine/supplement samples collected from the most severely affected cases.

India (origin of Delta) provides comparative data because some areas have rejected Ivermectin while other areas have embraced it. This is a ZH (sorry) article, but it uses data from Johns Hopkins, https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/indias-ivermectin-blackou...

> This data shows how Ivermectin knocked their COVID-19 cases and deaths - which we know were Delta Variant - down to almost zero within weeks. A population comparable to the US went from about 35,000 cases and 350 deaths per day to nearly ZERO within weeks of adding Ivermectin to their protocol.

> Let us look at the August 5 numbers from Uttar Pradesh with 2/3 of our population. Uttar Pradesh, using Ivermectin, had a total of 26 new cases and exactly THREE deaths. The US without Ivermectin has precisely 4889 times as many daily cases and 191 times as many deaths as Uttar Pradesh with Ivermectin.

At present, there are billions of dollars of economic incentives for suppression of early treatment, because vaccines are still under EUA that could be questioned by the availability of therapeutics with decades of safety data. If the FDA fully approves one or more vaccines in September 2021, perhaps there will be more economic incentives to perform research and studies of therapeutics.

Merck (original holder of the Ivermectin patent) is developing a new patented therapeutic for early treatment of Covid. Time will tell whether this is a genuinely new treatment or an "evergreen" variant of Ivermectin to obtain patent revenue. Either way, it would mean that at least one Big Pharma company has an economic incentive to promote early therapeutics for Covid, which could provide some balance to the currently polarized treatment landscape.
I would recommend Peter Godfrey-Smith’s book called Other Minds to appreciate further how fascinating these animals are (the book talks about other cephalopods like octopus too).
You can just weigh yourself periodically, weigh what you consume, and then compute how much mass has left your body.

As a diet, you could plan out what you want to weigh over time, and then before each meal calculate how far below that goal you are and limit your consumption to the difference.