skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an unrelated result, although the confusion is understandable.

You refer to a theorem, named after Hawking, that states that in classical general relativity the area of black hole horizons must always increase. The experimental confirmation of this theorem refers to the fact that the total area indeed appears to have increased for the black hole merger event observed by LIGO (which should indeed fall well within the realm of classical general relativity).

However, once quantum gravitational effects are taken into account this black hole theorem no longer holds. Indeed, since the real world should be quantum, it is expected that the area of black holes eventually does decrease: they evaporate by emitting Hawking radiation. This is however purely a theoretical expectation, since these evaporation effects are a loooong way from being observable; evaporation probably only becomes a significant effect on time scales far beyond the current age of the universe.

In quantum gravity there are nevertheless plenty of theoretical paradoxes and open questions, and the above article describes some recent progress by the theoreticians in this area.
Since it’s generally harder to recognise people of other ethnicities, maybe they either mistakingly think it’s not you (without other context to help them), or think it might be but don’t want to take the risk of offending a stranger.
This was my initial reaction as well, but considering the scale of Tesla I thought I should validate it.

Intel reportedly produces roughly 10 million wafers per year [1]. Roughly 70 million new cars are sold per year [2], with Tesla currently accounting for 0.5 million of those [3] with roughly 50% YOY growth numbers and a plan on continuing those for multiple years [4].

Cars/wafer is a pretty unclear number, at 5 Tesla is 1% of Intel's market (today), at 25 0.2% of Intel's market. It will take quite awhile for Tesla to hit intel's scale - but the automotive market as a whole might actually be pretty close to it if all new cars start including giant computers.

[1] 884k/month * 12 months/year, from https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/top-five-chip-makers-domin...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car...

[3] https://backlinko.com/tesla-stats (or see [4] but then you have to add up quarters yourself)

[4] https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/ZBOUYO_TSLA_Q2_2021_Updat...
I have used a few tools, but most of the ones that worked for me in the past died in the last few major versions of OSX. I don't believe Steermouse was one of them, though.
Pro tip: In fact, turning off JavaScript on a specific site is often a good way to get past their paywall.

On other sites, it just makes it not work. YMMV.
IDK, hard to say what's going on there.

In the worst case, it may just been that the vaccine effectiveness wanes over time.
Except that in reality there aren't 20 vaccinated people and 5 unvaccinated people with COVID. There is 1 vaccinated person and 49 unvaccinated people with COVID.

Regardless, your argument doesn't make any sense. If anyone -- vaccinated or not -- has COVID, they should be required to stay home. If an unvaccinated person does not yet have COVID, we should push them to get vaccinated, because then they will be much less likely to get the disease, and if they do get it, serious illness or hospitalization will be vanishingly unlikely.

Vaccination also reduces the "breeding ground" for mutations. At this point it's critical that we slow down the creation and spread of new variants that might do a better job of getting around our existing vaccines.
That link says "symptoms occurred one to two months after vaccination" or am I misreading it?
Not sure why you're being downvoted when this is a proven privacy issue. It's not about democrats v. republicans or iPhone vs Android, it's about our leadership as a whole, and what kinds of powers they have. The fact that our government even has access to our private communications should feel like a conflict of interests, especially in a nation that prides itself on freedom.
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The required changes to liberty are substantially different. Giving up your hobbies means making a major change to your life. Getting two shots takes a cumulative 2ish hours.

Do you claim you receive substantial benefits from not getting a shot? Because I claim society gets substantial benefits from you getting vaccinated.

You’re trying to make this a binary thing, but we live in a society where collectively we try to make small trades in liberty for collective benefit.

I do expect you not to drive 60MPH in front of my house where my children play. I do not expect you to give up tennis.
They're still collecting data for Tesla
1. "Data-centric"

2. Uses Python and a Python/Racket-derivative language (Pyret) exclusively

Frankly, I can't reconcile "data-centric" programming foundations that completely gloss over the dirty realities of bits and pointers--the real foundation of data and data structures.

It's extremely ironic to me that the first section of the body is titled *3.1 Motivating Example: Flags*. Flags? Like bits, bit flags, bools, the simplest form of digital data, right...!?

No, it's literally about building an OOP-style abstraction of national flags.
Ah security by obscurity thats really clever.
I don't believe Apple can unlock your Keychain. It requires your biometric (touch/face) to unlock from the Secure Enclave.
Content for one, do you see many memes here? tik tok videos? pictures of dogs and cats?

Typically the dialogue is more...dialogue than just cynicism.

What's your reasoning it is Reddit?
Long COVID exists. Personally, it's always worried me more than the risk of death from COVID.

I think people who haven't had a chronic condition (including doctors) tend to underestimate the impact they can have on your life. Long COVID symptoms may not be "severe" or "serious" in a medical coding dictionary, but those terms in a medical dictionary are quite distinct from their everyday meanings.

The best evidence we have seems to be that somewhere very roughly around 20% of people who get infected (vaccinated or not) get it -- more if you're older, less if you're younger. Experts don't seem to be willing to say much about what fraction of those people will have symptoms forever, or to what extent (very happy to hear otherwise if somebody knows better!).

While case numbers are high again (in the UK) and with the more infectious and virulent Delta variant having replaced others, it's not totally clear to me that the risks from long COVID are even all that much changed since before the vaccines.
I doubt the driver is actually written in JS (I don't think that's possible on Windows, Linux, or MacOS). As a client to help configure the driver setup and manage its updates in a consistent way across platforms... is it really that bad?
Granted, I am in my own little bubble, but at $WORK (pharmaceutical company where 90%+ people have a phd), there is nothing but enthusiasm for getting vaccinated. I wish there was a breakdown between disciplines - STEM vs humanities.

As an aside, according to random internet site, 1.7% of Americans have a phd.
Yeah, what does the vaccine do that the virus doesn't? There's a lot the latter does that the former doesn't. That's the part I don't get.
A lot of it is simply narcissism. Many people who are deeply involved in conspiracy culture have professional, emotional, or social frustrations and are grasping for explanations about why they aren't getting the things that they want out of life.
> One study has put the delta R0 around the same as Measles...which is 3x original COVID, but still less than Chicken Pox.

I think you swapped Chicken Pox and Measles in your example, as the delta R0 seems similar to Chicken Pox and Chicken Pox has a lower R0 than Measles.

Chicken Pox, which, pre-vaccine, was considered an infection everyone would get.
> This is precisely because there is high demand

Ok. At least somebody can exercise reason when necessary.

By the way (I believe that's is nonsensical but I also believe I am probably wrong - I am far from an expert), what's the point of force-vaccinating people who have obviously contacted the infection on many occasions and still are Okay? To me this indicates their immune systems are doing a great job and we should rather avoid teaching them (their perfectly competent immune systems) how they should do it. And I don't know about any evidence of vaccinated people being less contagious than those naturally immune.
On the medical side, the legitimate arguments I see is:

1) Concern over long term effects which we have no data on (legitimate but low probability in my estimation)

2) Natural immunity is slightly less effective than the vaccine against alpha variants, but still very robust. These people should therefore be exempt from the vaccine.

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On the policy side, the legitimate arguments/discussions I see are:

3) We should strive for a society where consent is obtained by changing minds, not force, even if this is extremely difficult.

4) Slippery slope concern- There is no hard limit or consensus on when public health outweighs bodily autonomy and other considerations.

5) Who owns the responsibility to ensure personal safety. (should the obligation fall on people who don't want to catch covid to avoid public spaces and take defensive action, or fall on people who could be spreaders in the public spaces)

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If it helps to have a productive discussion, I declare my tribe as vaccinated and encouraging others to get the vaccine.
According to data from Israel, immunity from having gotten the infection is much better at stopping the delta variant by a factor of around 7x.

Other research shows that natural immunity is long lasting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4
Does anyone know of any resources that talk about how endemic COVID might look for immune-compromised folks? I recognize there probably just isn't the research yet to make too many claims about how this disease effects people on immune-supressing drugs but I have found vanishingly little on the web that even takes a stab at what life should look like for those folks in the long run.

This is a rare Atlantic article that I think takes a level-headed and nuanced approach to a topic that requires some level of technical understanding. I tip my hat to Sarah Zhang.
The fact that police often threaten underpolicing of black communities in response to protests goes a long way to explaining why cops killing black people and people who aren’t cops killing black people are related. I wouldn’t say the movement is ignorant of this connection at all, it’s a big part of the argument. To oversimplify, black communities are faced with a Hobson’s choice of violence at the hands of police or violence at the hands of criminals. White communities for the most part can trust that the police will fight crime in their communities without subjecting them to violence in the course of it.
My house shouldn't be full of eyes and ears.

CSAM today, political materials another. This could also be used to identify whistle blowers, reporters' sources, and more.

I'd hate to have gay porn on my iPhone in a Sharia law state.

Or images of tank man in mainland China.

Imagine when the detector extends to not just files. Things typed or said.

This is a steep cliff, and we're drawing closer to the edge.
I've always thought that the vast aquifer in the centre of Aus, plus abundant sunlight, should make for easy desalination and irrigation. Glad to see someone's working on it :)

But they can chuck the leftover salt back into the ocean. That's harder to do away from the coast.
> Come on. If humanity were unable to survive without the help of artificial vaccines, we would never be here.

I never said that humanity couldn't survive without a vaccine. Clearly we can. We also can survive with rotten meat and with poor shelter and with rampant war and famine. Sure a larger portion of us would die, but humanity would certainly survive.

Anyway my point was that when you're infected with a virus, your body basically builds up the ability to recognize certain proteins that the virus expresses and uses that to fight it off. It takes time to build up the ability to fight it off. The vaccine exposes you to basically the same proteins so that your body is able to identify and fight off the virus more quickly after infection. So really the vaccines are just priming your immune system so that it can better do its job.
How far away from burnout are you?
The positive case count is not the denominator. The chances of your kid ending up hospitalized with Covid are 287 / 100K, or .29%.
And nobody is forcing them to remain teachers.

With the rise in gun violence at schools, teachers have had to undertake additional training for scenarios that they had not priced in their initial decisions. They did not like that, and they like even less being ignored in the discussion of whether or not to open schools.

So a great number will not remain teachers if they do not feel like they're part of the decision. They're used to being told to "do it for the children", but there are limits, and this will push many past them.
I'm a layman, so I'm not 100% certain on this, but I think this is a quantum version of Laplace's Demon; where if you know all the information about the state of a system, you can calculate what the system will look like at any point in the past, present, or future.
Here's an NPR article discussing a CDC study which found no statistically significant impact from kids wearing masks in school: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999106426/schools-are-droppin...

Key paragraph: Between Nov. 16 and Dec. 11, researchers found that infection rates were 37% lower in schools where teachers and staff members were required to wear masks. The difference between schools that did and did not require students to wear masks was not statistically significant.

A good recent article in NY Mag also discussing this issue, including the fact that the World Health Organization recommends against masking kids under six: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-maski...

Many countries in Europe have decided against masking for any students in K-12 schools because it is unclear that the harms outweigh the benefits. The idea there is some "simple" scientific & research consensus on this is wrong.
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I think the reality is that it's insane bloat trying to give browsers access to native libs. If I could just download and install apps in the browser that weren't sandboxed (don't @ me about PWA's they're not even close) then I think we might actually achieve Java's dream.
The real question is about future strains. COVID was pretty much completely stable for over a year (minor variants without anything super significant changing). Once the vaccine was introduced, a bunch of variants started popping up.

It makes perfect evolutionary sense. Loads of variations appear in every infected individual. The most effective version takes over and is most likely to be passed on to others.

Most vaccines are so effective that the virus never gains a foothold. With the mRNA vaccines, people still get sick. You get tons of mutations and the original strain is no longer the most efficient because of the vaccine. so now there's tons of room for variants to form which work around the vaccine. Once an effective bypass happens, it takes off and you instantly get a new strain, but more resistant.

At the current rate, we're only a few short jumps away from a completely ineffective vaccine.
I ask this passing no value judgment myself: how do you feel about the ethics of crypto mining?
Mathematically, thee solutions to the differential equation have a “time evolution operator” that allow the quantum states to be pushed forward or backward in time.
Can you please provide the source for the 6% figure? Thanks.
You're right. I take responsibility for the name, but naming things is hard!

As for the focus, you're right, there is a bunch of advice that is specific to this class of personal messaging apps. As time, resources and interest allow, I would like to grow it to document other "profiles" of XMPP as well. For example the Slack-like "team chat" use-case, or even IoT.

If you're using XMPP in a particular domain and you feel it would benefit from documentation like this, PRs are absolutely welcome. It's in scope.
It's appreciated! :-)
re. web client:
converse.js (https://conversejs.org/) is pretty cool!
By "win", I meant whatever strategic goal, clearly defined, we hope to accomplish there. And then we spend our full effort to achieve that.

If we do not know our goals, and not willing to spend blood and treasure, then what are we doing there?
But a good chunk of them would survive... and it would be really valuable to know why they survived without a vaccine.
That number does not mean what people think it does and is being bandied around as a result of extreme statistics illiteracy:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

Also, what is the world is going on in that preprint[0]? I can not follow their conclusions in Table 1 model 1.

Looking at Table 1 - Model 1, it looks like the 40+, early vaccinated cohort has only a 15%-30% chance of being infected as compared to the 40+, late vaccinated cohort.

The paper itself says they did some adjustments for co-morbidities, but has no description of what they did. So it looks like the paper's conclusion is directly the opposite of what's being shown in the Table 1 - Model 1.

[0]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.29.21261317v...
In some ways, I think privacy advocates could be shooting themselves in the foot here. I think that mainstream storage encryption (mainstream as in WhatsApp and Signal, as opposed to encrypting your NAS using linux commands) is very important for privacy, and that deploying it without running into CSAM objections and legislation is a Sisyphean task for for-profit businesses. Messaging seems to be more legally defensible than storage from a business perspective.

If you take as an axiom that mainstream businesses will be forced to protect themselves against contributing to CSAM distribution, then the choice to offer encrypted cloud storage to non-technical end users REQUIRES doing the scan on a trusted computer (Apple has chosen the phone itself).

I think the arguments that this can be abused are very real, but it's worth talking about how to fix that, because I think the alternative might be sacrificing E2EE cloud storage in the mainstream (as has happened with every other mainstream company). Perhaps more thought should be put into making this process auditable by the device owner (or by a trusted 3rd party -- say the EFF).

Or perhaps the scanning could be federated -- say I don't want Apple doing that, but I might trust a privacy oriented non-profit to "certify" to Apple that my personal photo album is CSAM-free. Can that 3rd party scan be blinded, such that I send data that is representative of my images, but I've already anonymized my photos using a transformation?

Could we audit (similar to certificate transparency):

1) What data from the device is being scanned? What data is being uploaded?

2) What "hashes" are being matched against, and how are those changing over time? Can the data lineage of the NCMEC database be audited? Would that pick up malicious hashes injected into the database?

Generally, I think our privacy paradigm needs to be built in such a way that it can actually be deployed in our policy environment. More realpolitik, less ethical grandstanding.
Corona is dystopian fascism.
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> US regulatory bodies said that the COVID vaccines were safe before blood clotting and myocarditis were discovered

The CDC paused the rollout of J&J after fewer than 50 cases to do further research and understand what factors cause blood clots. Once understood they resumed the vaccine rollout.

By that same logic - Tylenol/acetaminophen is also known to cause liver problems in a small number of otherwise healthy individuals. Is your logic here that Tylenol should also be declared unsafe?

> "The FDA" of 50 years ago isn't "The FDA" of today.

By that very same logic then what does the distribution of Thalomide 50 years ago have to do with the FDA of today then?
Are you proposing making it easier causes some detriment?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...

You were saying something mate? CDC is bro science?
it's... Getter-3 from getter robot?
> All that arguments about safe/bugs etc is old. In modern C++ you write with no controlling memory allocation at all and you dont write your own arrays with can be overflown.

People say this, but they never point to any large, popular projects that demonstrate it.

If you write any serious project in Rust, you'll quickly realize how unsafe "modern" C++ is. There's just no comparison. I'm happy for people to pick whatever memory safe language meets their needs, and most of those are garbage collected. Garbage collectors are fine for most software, but Rust exists for situations where they aren't fine.

> C was designed to move from asm to something highlevel. C made possible to write larger projects than in ASM. That's all. There is no absulute measurement of project size, only relative: larger->smaller. Go goes to "smaller" direction compared to C++.

By your definition, everyone should be writing Haskell, because a single line of Haskell can take tens of lines of C++ to express the same code. Haskell is immensely powerful in this way.
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thread from someone working on the study: https://mobile.twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1420059124700700677
I'm sorry. What?

> "In basic training, we had to shout everything and repeat every instruction we were given." ... "So that one day, if we’re getting shot at or shelled, we’d repeat instructions we were given clearly so that the message could be passed down the line without the individuals passing it on having to think about it."

The reason for repeating is maybe someday help a dude pass along a shout ... as opposed to confirming the accurate receipt and understanding of the order? Maybe the shout thing is a nice side benefit, but in no way is it the primary reason
And if that's all BLM did, far fewer people would have any issue with them. But you're simply ignoring reality if you really think that they limit themselves to unreasonable killings.
ummmm, caller ID are easily spoofed, no?
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Since your email address was also a part of getting into your bank account, now you've got a problem of getting your money, too.

There must be a billion ways to implement account deletion without this happening. The first one that comes to mind is giving the user 6 months of email-only access (so they can move to a webmail provider who will tolerate them).

At any rate, the root cause is that Gmail, the world's largest webmail service, is affiliated with the world's largest search engine and the world's largest repository of video. Never mind this essay about social media, the connection between these three services is a ridiculous, dangerous thing.