skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “There are very good reasons that the World Health Organization has repeatedly affirmed their guidance for children under 6 to not wear masks,” said a pediatrician who has both state and national leadership roles in the AAP but who wished to remain anonymous because they did not want to jeopardize their roles in the organization. “Reading faces is critical for social emotional learning. And all children are actively learning language the first five years of life, for which seeing faces is foundational,” the pediatrician said.

This kind of soft censorship being used to bolster party lines on Covid is completely out of control.
Kind of a combination of Delta and unvaccinated. Delta is more infectious than previous variants., which means that we need more vaccinated people to reach herd immunity.
There actually is a middle ground, in some cases - csrutil can, for instance, allow you to disable unsigned kext blocking but keep the rest of SIP enabled.
Love the creativity! Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately from your perspective), Ancana creates the LLC for each home so people can't game the system. We do allow people to buy more than 1 share of any home, so that would get you access to additional dates.

In terms of rentals, we 100% agree. Some of our rentals are in communities that have their own short-term rental rules. But in other properties we let the co-owners decide if they'd like to allow rental of the property when it's not in use. In this case the rental income could defray the monthly costs or go straight to the owners.

There is a sublte but important difference between how you can book time in an Ancana home vs. a timeshare. With Ancana you have the flexibility to book stays throughout the year, anywhere from 2 days to 1 year in advance. With timeshares you are typically locked into a block of time and oftentimes the same dates year after year. But this is great feedback on how we can further differentiate ourselves, thanks!
Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames
i suppose i shouldn't be, but i'm honestly surprised that anyone could offer this as a serious opinion.
I really think for the Oculus side of this, they should be on the hook for refunding a significant portion of the cost of the user's Oculus library when they ban the account.

This would put the cost of a ban to Facebook for real users in the order of hundreds of dollars which is more than enough to have a support person do a realistic evaluation of the situation. It also reflects the non-recoverable portion of the cost to most users - you can sell the headset, but you can't transfer the value of the library to anybody. That is a straight up and very significant financial loss.

While other aspects of the ban policy are obviously still very problematic, the fact that an arbitrary ban that is caused by actions outside the user's control can result in hundreds of dollars of losses sits at a whole different level and should be legally problematic for Facebook.
There is a really interesting example of the role of the surface vegetation for groundwater in Bamberger Ranch[1] in Central Texas.

Central Texas was massively overgrazed by cattle in the 1800's and 1900's, and the ecosystem was completely transformed from prairie grass dominant to cedar and mesquite dominant vegetation. This resulted in a drastic loss of groundwater and utterly transformed the ecosystem.

David Bamberger restored 5,500 acres to close to original condition and the results are amazing.

[1] https://bambergerranch.org/
> On the other hand, it also means that any bugs in the dependencies are baked into each application, and fixing those bugs (which may be critical security issues) requires rebuilding all the downstream code.

I'm afraid I don't buy that argument at all.

Because Python is either the same or worse.

You've got the potential bugs in the Python code itself, and then the potential bugs in the random Python dependencies. You've got a whole stack of potential bugs there.

P.S. What's that nonsense about "closed-source" Go binaries ? If its an open-source project then its open-source until its compiled ! If the code's on Github then you can clone it and do as you please if you're not happy with the author's Go code.
this, the beneficial organisms in the more healthy fermented foods are difficult to find in other places and can have good effects on your gut flora if yours isnt in the best place
This gives a whole new meaning to bar fly.
To me, this screams that you are in an organization where technical performance is not critical to the success of the organization.

I mean, look, I don't want to return to the days where if you were technically good, you could be a sexist jerk or a racist jerk or just generally a jerk. I don't want to work in that kind of an organization. But... equal weighting? Your organization isn't fighting for its life on technical merit, I suspect...
I wonder if building a messaging app is the secret to promotion at Google. I cant think of any other reason they would have so many.
If you have a tutorial on how to do that to a Mac from Linux I'd be eternally grateful.
Correct, though both layers remain active. The application-level firewall in the macOS GUI and the packet-based pf layer work on top of each other (I believe pf is on top of the application layer one but not 100% sure).

So if you have the application firewall on, opening ports in pf won't help.

I'm kinda surprised pf is still in there to be honest. I know some security solutions like McAfee Firewall use it under the hood. But they could do similar things with network extensions. I have expected them to drop it for years now.
Are the agreements standardized and publicly viewable now?
I'll step in and say that the Atmel AVR is damn awesome processor, it's just that it's hooked up to on-chip peripherals and the address/data bus is completely internal. This means that if you want to connect something to an Atmel AVR, it will likely be over some serial protocol, like SPI, I2C, or UART.

This is what you want, like, 99.9% of the time.

The 6502 just puts its address and data bus on pins, and you can make the memory map for your computer however you want, as long as you are willing to wire up the logic. There's no privilege for on-chip resources... everything is off-chip and completely equal. With the AVR, the resources (RAM, flash, peripherals) are completely fixed but much, much faster. There are a ton of chips you can buy with SPI / I2C interfaces if you want the AVR to do something interesting, and you drive them with the on-chip peripherals. The on-chip peripherals get to sit in memory somewhere, but the external ICs don't. With the 6502, you put things in memory somewhere, figure out a way to decode addresses on the bus, and use a parallel interface for everything.
Is there anything particularly bad about irregular sleeping or eating? Maybe it would be better to eat when we are hungry or sleep when we are tired instead of looking to others to decide how to feel.
Facebook, Fearing Public Outcry, Shelved Earlier Report on Popular Posts
Same here. Can't call and it's asking me to update my number on the website.
> For instance, liars are shamed, even though it would be ridiculous (and harmful) to create laws against lying in all cases.

But lying under oath or false advertising are illegal.

> for example, the illegality of corpse desecration is not about harm, but about ethics - what it says about our society if it were legal.

That's morals, not ethics. And it's rooted in religions.
When you say it that way, it sounds really racist.
Can somebody ELI5 what this means, and what the implications are?
No, it isn’t.

The password hint bug, for example, was “only listening to Apple” in the narrow sense that the OS wouldn’t let you run your own implementation of password hints or login. But it’s not a backdoor.

There are plenty of built-in features that aren’t configurable, which is fine and good. Because most people have no idea what those things do, most of the rest shouldn’t touch them, and leaving them as configurable or editable opens up a whole class of malware.
You are a delight. Thanks for brightening my day.
Those applications can't get root, though, and that does limit user control of the device.

(I used to root Android phones in the 4.x days, and then stopped, and then went back to iOS as I found myself doing progressively less and less with my phone.)
Hungary:

Cheapest iPhone: 120000 HUF

Cheapest Android: 9700 HUF

Cheapest reasonable Android: 21000 HUF

Minimum wage after taxes: 111000 HUF
The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity (2020)
I worked for a healthcare company where the deal was you could get email on your phone but only if you installed am app that would allow IT to remote-wipe your whole device at their discretion. I declined.
Elizabeth Holmes Warns Lab Chief’s Testimony May Upend Trial
Some foods (like certain mushrooms or fish and the like) are actually poisonous unless prepared properly.

Those are obviously better after that processing since okay is better than sick/dead.

:)
Not all Dinosaurs are dead. I see a lot of them flying around everyday.
Wouldn't the victim have to send the code back to the scammer for it all to work?
I've upvoted the grandparent as I though "nice joke". Than I've read your comment…

There seems to be a reframing of the term "conspiracy theory" going on right now. I've noticed also something odd:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28251945
That's still "them telling you who they are".
Nah. I know the memes, but payments is far too core to throw out.
>If you're not the one writing the game/movie/novel, why would the artist permit you to invest and reap the benefit of their creativity?

AAA games are expensive to make, so are blockbuster movies. Even for non AAA/blockbuster movies, you'd still need some sort of financing. If UBI isn't a thing you'd need to finance your living somehow, which limits you to working part-time or requiring a substantial savings fund. novels might be fine, but you'd still might want a publisher for an advance or PR.
Journey into a Schwarzschild Black Hole
https://archive.is/KBgDK
Long COVID isn't a distinct disease, it's just a vague label for a set of non specific symptoms. There is evidence that some cases are caused by re-activation of dormant Epstein-Barr virus infections.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233978/

If proven correct that wouldn't be at all surprising. We already know that major stresses can sometimes reactivate EBV. It might be a good idea to also test all COVID-19 patients for EBV.
IIRC, Google will stop the "several day process" if you log in at any time.
> SolarCity

SolarCity was not Musk lead company, he was just an investor. SolarCity was acquired and is part of Tesla and while they had to remove resources from Solar during the manufacturing difficulty and scaling difficulty the solar and home energy part of their business is still growing very well.

I think its fair to say that going into solar was not as successful as Tesla hoped, but neither is it a failure. In the last year the growth of the business line has been finally showing promising growth.

They are starting to work with more outside contractors and they have the cheapest solar product on the market.

> Nuerolink

The company still exists, they are working very hard on a very difficult problem. They are still adding people. They are working on something incredibly hard, has never been done before and will require a lengthy regulatory approval process.

They did not announce a timeline for a product that they failed to hit.

What exactly is your issue with the company?

> Boring Company

They are growing, have an engineering team working on the technology. Their commercial bids are very competitive. They have established test sights in California and Texas. They have made quite a few improvements already and in the publicly available data their commercial bids seem to be competitive.

Apparently its a failure because the first product they ever did didn't meet the your standards or something. The costumer of that product seems to be happy and wants to extend the project. But who cares about happy costumers, what matters if how much people on HN like it.

So how exactly is this a failure? I would be my ass that Boring Company valuation now is significantly higher then when it started. And I bet its already more successful then most startups.

If that is your definition of 'going nowhere' I wish my projects would turn into companies of that size.

> Hyperloop

Maybe go back and actually read what was said at the time. Musk literally said he wasn't gone work on it. So your critic is that project he never said he was gone do didn't get done?

That makes no sense. He literally said 'I posting this paper, maybe somebody wants to work on it, I have no time to do it'.

If these are considered 'failures' now I really have done nothing in my life. I mean I haven't even created a single 100M+ company yet. Seems to me the only one that actually didn't go anywhere is the one that he said he wasn't going to do.
This is what I'm worried about, to be honest. Not necessarily getting hacked but just getting flagged, banned and burned with no recourse.

This is why I commented on an article here some weeks ago that if they ever offered any paid user experience they'd be in trouble because they'd actually have to help their users with their issues.

These tech companies should offer actual support the moment you spend money with them with some actual recourse to solve problems, especially if it's caused by them. It's insane to me that they can just go and run away with your money or burn your account at a moment's notice, even when it's just some automated filter going crazy. At the bare minimum something like Amazon has should be the standard the moment you operate a paid digital software repository or sell a digital service or ads. Losing your investment should not happen to you unless you're a really blatant abuser and if you're the one getting abused your bank or credit card provider should never be your only line of defense.

I'm baffled that they have not been in any real conflict over this with any consumer protection agency for any of our governments.
I thought those were entirely separate things? There's now a GUI option for the unsigned kernel extension block (in the startup security utility). I don't think that's part of SIP per se. It's also the one you need to run any other OS. Whereas SIP is a thing within the OS itself as far as I know. But I have to admit this is where my knowledge gets fuzzy :)

The kind of control I'd want is allowing to add a signator for approved kernel extensions. So that I could add my own key and sign kernel extensions myself. Or trust another party to do this. Just like you can add your own keys to Secure Boot on a PC. The same with the app notarisation. Another feature that's essentially great, but fully under the control of Apple. For example, as a corporate admin it'd be great to be able to notarise which apps I'd allow our employees to use.

These security tools would be super powerful and useful if we would be allowed to configure them more.
HN post with original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233505
> Or, you know, just use a fully open device and open source software in the first place so you're not playing silly adversarial games with a device you rely on for everything.

Are you using open source hardware? And then how are you auditing the supply chain to ensure the hardware you're receiving matches the open sourced design?
The claim that calling something a conspiracy theory is always done in order to shut down inconvenient or provocative conversations is, itself, a thought terminating cliche.

"Someone called my rant a conspiracy theory, therefore I'm on to something!"
> Deaths per week are a function of previous deaths and population distribution. If more people die at the beginning, then fewer are left to die later. That's how dying works. Sweden's weekly per capita deaths peaked much higher than in the US or EU overall, and they've lost more people per capita than their neighbors.

Is this necessarily an issue though? They've managed to keep a reasonable way of life through those times while building a natural immunity to this disease. They're also not implementing any inhumane / dystopian measures like "health passports" and the like. At some point we have to look beyond the number of cases / deaths as the only "success measure" for dealing with this thing. The level of humanity (although hard to assess with numbers but easy to see for the humans among us) needs to be factored in here.

> My common sense says that people who refuse the vaccine should just be refused access to hospital resources if they get sick. It would neatly address a lot of issues.

Should we carry on with this logic and ban the [obese / overweight / inactive / drinkers / smokers / stressed / etc.] from the hospitals because they could have done something about their health that would ultimately have prevented them from getting sick? This is a slippery slope, but I'm sure you'll quickly understand why.

That being said, if I also no longer have to pay taxes that fund these establishments (and get refund on previous contributions), I might take your deal .. That's another discussion though.
Submission statement: The author argues for decentralising databases in science while maintain consistent file formats.

I am not sure about this. In genetic epidemiology we have three databases for genome wide association summary data called “sumstats”. Each has it’s own way of formatting the data and are in various states of maintenance. GWAS Atlas is no longer receiving many of the latest summary statistics. While MRC’s IEU database stores their fairly up to date sumstats as a very different file format (custom VCF) which is fairly simple to convert to a more standard format, but is confusing for the less tech savy users.

This arguably a pretty centralised system already. But it is already very difficult to be sure you have the most recent (and best quality) sumstats for a particular phenotype. Decentralisation would make this much worse! On the other hand, centralisation risks the singular database become unmaintained due to funding constraints and because the whole thing is likely managed by a single post-doc who needs to move on from their job every 3 years so that they have a chance for career progression.
FDA set to grant full approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion
Almost none of the 20% people mentionned had a MRI scan. So you don't answer the question.

The problem of long covid studies is they don't have a control group, so it is easy to say wrong things.

Its probably closer to 1-4% than 20%
One example here:

Amazon is losing 3% of its hourly employees each week, an incredibly high rate that means the e-commerce giant experiences 150% turnover a year

https://www.syracuse.com/business/2021/06/report-amazon-chur...
>But lying under oath or false advertising are illegal.

That's why I said "in all cases". Clearly, lying isn't only immoral in the cases of lying under oath or false advertising. It's still immoral for me to say that a ball is "out" in tennis when I clearly saw that it's "in", even if doing so is not illegal in most cases.

>That's morals, not ethics. And it's rooted in religions.

The difference is immaterial. Even most ethical codes are rooted in religious thinking at some poitn in their formation. That doesn't make them invalid ethical codes. Ethical codes are generally constructed on the basis of morality, or in some cases on the basis of professional conduct - but even that isn't only practical.
How Facebook aims to move work meetings to VR
Instead of marketing your work look for opportunities where your work or its extensions can create value and then share your work to create that value.
To reinforce Thoreau's sentiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=379oevm2fho&t=5s

What messes with me most is the socially-programmed expectation that I should feel lonely, and that it's not okay to be isolated (and that it's somehow like smoking 5,000 packs per day or whatever).

It causes me to constantly feel surprised at how okay I seem to be with being alone and like something's wrong with me or I'm not feeling the bad effects yet or something. :D (And the latter is true if you consider the erosion of your relationships as a bad effect, which I do.)
It's zero cost and zero effort to port someone's number out, or get a new SIM card issued for the existing account.

I've worked with a bunch of streamers and YouTubers, and the threat model is such that people have shown up with professionally made printed fake IDs to attempt hijacking in an actual retail carrier store.
Based on this article, Lore Harp of Vector doesn’t seem so different from Steve Jobs. She also prioritized design and ease-of-use. She also was an industry outsider with enough charisma to reach national magazine covers.

It’s not like Jobs invented GUIs himself — he happened to be in the right place to learn about all the work already done at Xerox and bring it home. If things had been slightly different, maybe it would have been Lore Harp who went to PARC instead.

The personality cult around famous founders is 99% selection bias. Sure, they were talented. So were hundreds or thousands of others in the same industry.
That foreign language thing is genius. I've never heard of that before.
Regular expressions, deterministic finite automata, and nondeterministic finite automata are all equivalent[0][1].

All three of these representations are capable of describing any regular language (set of symbol sequences, or more intuitively a set of strings), and the fact that a language can be described by an NFA, DFA, or RE implies that it is regular.

I am not hugely familiar with Pearl's "extended regular expression" system, however I was under the understanding that the set of languages it can recognize is a superset of the set of all regular languages. Based on [2], it would appear that Perl regexes can recognize all regular languages, and parts of the set of all Turing-recognizable languages.

0 - Introduction to the Theory of Computation 3/e, Michael Sipser, Thm 1.39, pp. 55.

1 - Introduction to the Theory of Computation 3/e, Michael Sipser, Thm 1.54, pp. 67.

2- https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=809842
The last time I posted something on craigslist for sale, the majority of responses were trying to get me to send them 2fa codes.
I disagree that many conspiracy theories can be falsified. How often believers, when confronted with evidence, find it convincing and dismiss the conspiracy?
You can get a switch that lets you select between HDMI signals, and quick-disconnect magnetic USB cables, that's how I deal with this problem.

Realistically I don't switch it more than once a day; during work hours I don't need my personal machine and away from work hours I (generally) don't need my work machine.
I wonder what the settlement for my data be stolen will be?

1. $10 off a new AT&T phone. When you sign a 5 year contract. Excludes all other offers.

2. A free month of AT&T limited service. When you sign a 5 year contract. Excludes all other offers.

3. Or absolutely nothing, like the last bazillion times.

The suspense is killing me. I hope it lasts.
IIRC, in the US, sometimes just give the old sim some random phone number (to keep you paying the bill) and don't cancel the line. In the EU, I'm pretty sure they cancel the old line.
The CDC Only Tracks a Fraction of Breakthrough Covid-19 Infections
Zahi Hawass, the archaeologist who found it has an interesting past based on past comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26974453
HN discussion on the released report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224327
So what are the percentages of people who will have long-term symptoms from Covid, how does that compare in severity and frequency to other respiratory diseases, and if it wasn't something people cared about before Covid, why do they care now?
FuzzBench: Open Fuzzer Benchmarking Platform and Service
I’ve been buying domains on AWS. They charge $12 per year. No issues so far.