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To my best knowledge anti-vaxxer did not mess things up, govt+pharma promissed did. They start with: just a few weak to ease the curve, never a vax passport, vaccines create herd immunity and we can kick covids ass.

Now where we are: long lockdowns, talks of vax passports everywhere, no herd immunity, covid is here to stay with us (due to animal reservoirs), no overflowing ICUs but still gov'ts reigning with wartime-like superpowers.

The fearful/obedient have their vaccine, those who did not will not. Some died, most live. This is no spanish flu. So what was the problem again?
And when you get mugged in transit from the hotel to the airport or vis-versa your plan falls apart. Unless you are going to pay someone to drive a different route in a different car with your hardware key...
Not only is this in poor taste, they seem to be fundamentally different. People who apply for H1-B visa and immigrate do so voluntarily.
my current one (for the next week+), is mostly harmless.

i'd say most of my jobs have been.

and some have been insanely diabolical. some household names (think, banks), some small unknown tech companies that were in some way or another data brokers, etc.

my guess is that most people think their company is fine-ish or even good.

i would suggest most people are wrong.
I think it was just never implemented. The web page is fairly basic compared to the app, and AFAIK always has been (although I never used it much and haven't had an account in quite a while). Quite a few products are actually app-only now, without even any sort of web or desktop version.

A few years ago I had trouble using the Dutch thuisbezorgd food service, I think it didn't allow me to change my address or something and just kept erroring out. I contacted support and they told me to use the app. I told them I don't have a smartphone. They said I was out of luck.
The point I do not see underscored enough: the "graveyard of empires" reputation is built upon an accidental history of said empires the moniker is based upon being relatively benevolent compared to the Mongols. It isn't an intrinsic property of the people or geography of Afghanistan when looking at all available records, but of generally voluntary evolving war conventions.

Never underestimate the horrific wartime capacity our species are capable of unleashing. In the sweep of recorded human history, we happen to live in an era of relative peace, and even most of our worst wars today play by Queensbury Rules compared to the relative scope, scale and ruthlessness our distant ancestors regularly abided by. To give a sense of proportion, Genghis Khan is estimated to have killed 11% of the world population; scaled to today it is 0.84 BILLION. He would have literally erased the entire male population of Afghanistan and hardly noticed by his standards. None of today's relative decrease in bloodthirstiness is enshrined like laws of physics, and is but a thin veneer upon our civilization when push comes to shove.

Should climate change worst-case scenario predictions come to pass, desperation can erase that tenuous progress in decreasing human misery, relative as it is, in the blink of an eye. It is best we all remember that War Is A Racket, and anytime two or more sets of elites clamor for war, we'd all likely be better off they were all the first killed on the front lines, and then we all re-evaluate the "need" for war again with a new elite who want to go to the front lines.
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Definitly a good question, given that pedal bikes exist in a grey area of traffic definitions in many areas, but I will say in my area (small urban area of 150k population) 95% of bike lanes are in areas without sidewalks, just dirt shoulders.
:). Now I am sure that people haven't read the article or parts of the survey before commenting.

> Participants were asked if they had received the COVID-19 vaccine, and if not, “If a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 (coronavirus) were offered to you today, would you choose to get vaccinated.” Participants were categorized as vaccine hesitant if they answered that they probably or definitely would not choose to get vaccinated (versus probably or definitely would choose to get vaccinated or were vaccinated). Those who had already received the vaccine were coded as not hesitant in order to reduce bias from differential access to a COVID-19 vaccine among subgroups over the time studied.

PS The author states that Facebook funded the survey, which is an interesting datapoint.
Police either need public service liability insurance rather than qualified immunity so long as that doesn't affect public safety risk-taking for life saving, or the chain-of-command needs to hold officers to exceptionally high standards of conduct and professionalism.
Another data point to back this up: we've had hiring managers provide resume reviews for over 1000 students at CodeDay and "remove your GPA" is the most common feedback. I don't recall ever seeing someone say to add it.
I live in Washington State, where up until recently, birth records for anyone could be requested by anyone.

Address? If you own a home, already a matter of public record.

Phone #, not secret at all (heck it is part of many people's email signatures!)

Talk to an investigative journalist some time and find out exactly what info can be had publicly.

On a related topic, a few years back I went to a presentation from a member of TMO's marketing team. They mentioned how they used a ad-tech company to real time query the mortgage status of people who visited TMO's homepage in order to help dynamically determine what line of phones to show. Live in a nice neighborhood and didn't have a bunch of late payments? iPhones showed up.

To be clear, their is a vendor out there with an API that offers up, in real time, what your current mortgage status is. "You" of course are determined by a bunch of other web trackers.

A few weeks ago Best Buy sold off the the fact that I was in their store looking at robotic vacuum cleaners. (Either that or some app on my phone was using really good location tracking, but Android has seriously cut down on that, AFAIK background apps aren't granular enough anymore to get section-in-store data) While I was impressed with the ad tech that made that level of targeting possible, it also means I am not likely to step inside a best buy again.
Well no. The new settings panels in Windows 10 certainly do suck ass and contribute to the general UI fragmentation, but the systems that are the foundation of the Windows operating system are not disparately developed hodgepodges. The same cannot be said for Linux Desktop, although with SystemD taking over everything that might not remain true indefinitely.
VC-backed companies like Buzzfeed have made serious ad money peddling the lowest-brow "content" possible (excl. Buzzfeed News, which came later). They in turn attracted numerous entrants like Vox, Mic.com and a bunch of others. Together they've compiled quite the SEO landfill.
And this is why I do much of my browsing in lynx...
Possibly, though how often has a routine flu strain become a pandemic that overwhelms hospitals?
Since apparently it's easy to know what would happen in different hypothetical worlds, I think it would have been better if USA had not overthrown Iran's democratically-elected anti-communist-and-gradually-less-monarchist government in 1953. Even bloodthirsty warhawk Madeleine Albright admitted it: "the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development." [0] It was also bad when USA paid Saddam Hussein to instigate a bloody war with Iran, so skipping that would have been a good idea.

But we don't have to imagine a different world. Even with Iran's shortfalls in democracy, their leadership is better on most measures than USA's allies in the region Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, etc.

[0] https://1997-2001.state.gov/statements/2000/000317.html
You analogies and argument seems absurd to me. People can believe that cars kill too many people and also not believe that semis should not deliver goods to stores. The broad solutions involve priotizing pedestrians rather than cars and designing cities and transit to make cars both less necessary and safer for other road users. Instead we have regulations that encourage car manufacturers to make and sell bigger cars that kill more people for while achieving no extra utility.

Wearing a helmet while driving would increase safety for drivers at not loss of utility. The choice not to do so is indicative of the irrational ways in which we evaluate relative risks.

Balancing risk and utility is absolutely necessary, but we do a horrible job of doing that with cars.

> The same is true for illnesses. Yes, it sucks, and of course nobody wants to die, but we can't go on like this forever because it could save lives.

What are you even going on about here? You think that encouraging healthy people to get vaccinated to help protect other people is stupid because most people are willing to accept the risk of driving? You position makes absolutely no sense to me.
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> I don’t think anywhere in the US did anything that could reasonably be called a lockdown.

Agreed, yet people still clamor for more of the same ineffective nonsense while dousing their hands in sanitizer and erecting plexiglass barriers in front of everything. We do everything except what would make a difference: fixing indoor ventilation.
I'd be curious if the pyre-check compilation is any faster for you either by removing the inlining optimization flag (the `-Oclassic` here https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check/blame/36243764ab81a82...) or whether there's a way to compile pyre-check to bytecode instead of the native compilation step (which unfortunately it looks like there's no easy way to modify pyre-check's build config to do so).
To be fair, expecting reasonable responses from Twitter on any subject is a bit like panning for gold in an open sewer. The platform's whole premise is compressing things to the point it's the place on the internet nuance goes to die.
It's a pretty big stretch to generalize from your particular example, Google as a credential provider, to private internet firms altogether.

In the case of the Google login you're actually right. Once you get booted off it you'll have a problem. But this doesn't hold for all private firms. If you get kicked off Twitter you're just kicked off Twitter, it doesn't impact your ability to make payments or go about your day. Same for TikTok, whatever else have you.

There's a particular class of applications, identity and payment providers namely for which you can make a good case that they're infrastructure of sorts, but it doesn't really extend to the majority of digital services.
I think you’re seriously underestimating the scale of the genome and the number of possible combinations that might be responsible for some phenotype, even assuming the genotype -> phenotype causality was straightforward (which it’s not).

This is simply not a problem we’re going to computer our way through, at least until we have large scale quantum computers and way better data than we have today.
> Venture capitalists are very much aware of the risk of lower-ranking SWEs failing to recognise dangers out of insufficiently critical obedience.

Are they? Please give me more context on this, because I haven't personally seen any evidence of that.
I wouldn't call it bad management. It was just realistic management.

We knew by 2002 we weren't going to turn it into a shining pillar of democracy. The next 19yr were just people covering their asses and biding their time while the American public came around to the same conclusion.

It's kind of like letting your direct reports screw off and job hunt on the job because your all getting laid off but the termination date is next quarter. Not great, but doesn't really matter to the big picture.
Why? Not even with proprietary nvidia drivers? If it's using a proprietary interface I'd expect those to be reverse engineered for such a major product.
> Printing money doesn't magically create more stuff, nor does it change the economy's ability to create more stuff.

You're right, there's not much to this until the monetary system is based on fiat-currency, at this point there's a soft obligation (maybe? I don't understand fiat well enough) to back the created money by building things in the real economy.

But what the USA has created with the fiat-based money is war, which adds bomb-making and building reconstruction into the real economy.

The war on drugs seems to create corruption. The only real connection is the time period in which USA's congress passed laws for money laundering, war on drugs, and fiat money (a little bit before, iirc)
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I also wonder what percentage of the population would truly be worried about ticks in the developed world. I have, afaik, have never been bitten by one or had much concern that I might.
Unaccountable mafia behavior. Until that changes, the public won't respect them except the fear of being summarily executed or property destroyed under qualified immunity.
I see this as the major issue. Any business has to pay the commercial landlord. That rent seeking behaviour is a huge tax to place on a business.

The only way I would operate a shopfront business of any kind is if I owned the building. But I'd need to build a business first that could pay for the building. If I can build such a business, then I likely wouldn't bother with the shopfront until you get "Apple" big.
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I bought a bike last year. I've never seen anyone as unhelpful as the staff there. I even decided to start servicing more complicated parts (fork/shock) myself to avoid visiting places like this. Bay Area prices for labor are insane. Maybe I'll give wheels for truing somewhere local since it's tedious and I don't have that much time.

On the other hand I've lived in places where truing wheels, servicing suspension fork and other regular servicing was really worth it. Prices were good, wait (1-2 weeks in the summer) decent and you were sure that they did a good job. No screwing around just to have the customer get wheel out of true 1-2 weeks later, they'd rather tell me to replace the spokes when needed instead of doing a crappy job. Whatever needed to be replaced (rotor, brake pads etc.) during the service was sold at online-like prices.

I completely understand that plenty of local bike stores offer no value to anyone who can do basic maintenance. I hope they go bankrupt as early as possible.
I'm not scared I'll run out of good bike stores. There's plenty of complicated tech that requires good technician. E-bikes and other trend also help.
I've found that washing the bite wound right away and taking an antihistamine like Allegra has helped keep the bite from swelling for me. Also adding tiger balm has helped with the itching.
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Thank you, I did not know EWG.

It looks like the US part of Open Beauty Facts is still lacking (618 products in the USA, whereas there are 16500 products in France). Here visitors add products infos and images which are then free for all to use (open licence). I guess in the long run it can make a difference. This project is quite young.

https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/who-we-are

https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/faq
It is inconclusive because there are many other studies that show that lockdowns were ineffective.

Do you know what is a metastudy? And that the biggest metastudy about ivermectin actually tended to support that it is slightly effective? So, how do we know that ivermectin is actually non-effective? Because those positive studies have big limitations that make the results very suspect.

It takes a lot of time to read through every study, its methodology, limitations etc. I have had not time for that but others have done and those reviews have very big error bars about their effectiveness and overall evidence is not very convincing.

Medicine is a field which is very complicated and as in stock market, past experience with similar things do not guarantee future results with different diseases. Researchers needed more than 50 years to realize that stomach ulcer is caused by bacteria. Before that they believed that no bacteria could live in such acidic environment. So, don't bring an examples about different diseases. It does work like that in medicine.

But now everybody on the internet is an expert and reads one study, selectively quotes something without even understanding full implications and thinks that they have proven everything. No, that's not a game I am playing here.

Especially your last question. My statement was that we don't forcefully take away cigarettes from smokers. I don't know if that would be effective or not but that was never for consideration. We don't do first of all because we value people's freedom to choose and we don't think that it is ever appropriate to force people like that.
> sooner or later your bike will get damaged by a wreck, falling over, getting backed into, or ending up in way too much water for too long. You want a pro who can tell you fix or replace.

If you ask a store, the answer will always be replace. They don't want to deal with liability questions ("but that store told me it would be good to ride"), so they will pick the safe answer.

This will be especially true for components like a carbon frame, where even the best equipped stores will lack the equipment to perform a proper check - like an x-ray device.

However the store might help you getting a discount on the replacement or get it warrantied.
I have a pile of Logitech Squeezeboxes running multiroom audio here, and it does all this sync stuff too, with much of that tech originating from 2001-2004.

Things were tight between them and Sonos until a Logitech pulled a Logitech and crippled the hardware lineup before killing the brand.

I now wonder if these patents had something to do with it.
> The hard part, like any expression of the subconscious, is trying to separate signal from noise, but there IS a signal there. If there wasn't, the "conspiracy theory" would never catch on.

So what is the signal in such conspiracy theories as the Earth is flat and all the governments cooperate to suppress knowledge of this and to block people from going and seeing the ice walls that surround Earth; there are vast networks of tunnels under the US where millions of kidnapped children are tortured and raped before they are harvested alive for their adrenochrome which the communists and satanists the secretly rule the world ingest to stay healthy and live longer; or that most of the worlds leaders have been replaced by aliens (the ET kind); or that Biden, Harris, Pelosi, all of the Supreme Court justices, and many others have already been arrested for treason, tried in military tribunals, and executed, with animitronics/CGI/actors/whatever being put in their place to not tip off the other traitors until the military has dealt with them all, and then will reinstate Trump.
Except policies don't follow the context. Science says the old are vastly more likely to get severe reactions to Covid but we lock everyone down and still send Covid patients back to nursing homes.
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TLDR: how to secure your online presence by removing your phone number from all security functions. From 2019 but still relevant and useful, esp given recent news of the T-Mobile database breach [1] and related hacks [2].

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28202399

[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279326
Really interesting take. Now I wonder myself if the smaller sizes of fields in the 1800s to late 1930s enabled the great discoveries then.
Those headers are a biscuit(<-euphemism).
Given how often self-checkouts shit themselves and I'm left waiting for 10-15 minutes to actually get some help from a real human being, I now choose to shop only at stores that have real human beings on the checkout.

I would frankly rather pay slightly more per item and not spend any more time than I need to in a store. I have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, expecting me to screw around with moving shopping from a cart to a weighing area, a bag, and messing with the touchscreen is just too much for me after a long day. I'm willing to pay for service.
FWIW, having gone through support with Vanguard, they didn't even acknowledge that they were random strings when I said they would be. They seemed well trained, at least the one I spoke with.
Ouch! But true.

Fortunately, most Emacs users are likely hermits anyway.
Agreed, mostly. I do think it's possible that a species can gain traits through evolution that make them more compatible with domestication. Dogs, when we domesticated them, were not the dogs we know today. They were wolves with specific evolutionary advancements that made them less hostile to humans. Of course, we can speed that up too a bit arbitrarily through selective breeding. That was all "evolutionarily ready" meant to me.
Leaving aside the vast differences in physiology and effects of alcohol on humans vs mosquitoes, mosquitos can drink maybe 2x their body weight in blood. If you drunk 500 bottles of 0.5% a/v beer in 10 minutes it would likely have some effect.
I had a support chat on my business website for a long time; the "business goal" I wanted to further was to make it very easy for people to talk to me, ask questions, etc. I helped out a lot of people with very short turnaround times.

I removed it mostly because it takes a lot of effort to maintain a good level of responsiveness on these kind of things unless you have a dedicated support team.

Some of these support chat popups are a bit too in-your-face, but it sure beats hunting down some email address somewhere.
> Should I get a new number and replace my number at all services that use this number?

Here's a guide to removing your phone number from all security functions: https://blog.kraken.com/post/219/security-advisory-mobile-ph...

Just made a separate post about it here, since it doesn't appear to have been posted at HN before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=28283321
> 2) It's a way of getting to work if you're still working but public transit is shut down.

Did much of public transit actually shut down? In my local city it was deemed an essential service and everyone kept working with transit still running, with a mask requirement of course.
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> I think it's always economically advantageous to ignore the health of workers and let them birth and raise more workers and then die at a fairly young average age.

I don't see much economical benefit in my health deteriorating and me living much less than I otherwise could. I also don't see much economical benefit in being suddenly displaced from a privileged position and, at best, sent to a prison in a country which just shed excessive inequality - so prisons aren't that good.

So - which economical advantage you're talking about?
A mosquito can drink 2-3x its body weight. It would not be the same as a NA beer. It would be more like getting a blood transfusion from a drunk.
Good question, I haven't been able to find it among the other ICFP video uploads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwG9512Wm7jSS6Iqshz4Dpg/vid...

But perhaps they will upload it later.
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This is very cool. I can immediately imagine something like this being useful in copy of Logic or Live. Very nice way to make a score tangible in 3D, and there's lots of fun stuff you could do with such a technique and generative + audiovisual approaches.

Couple of questions:

1) Have you thought about split view? Split view would be nice (front and back), hard to follow the playhead through the loop otherwise as it becomes hidden halfway through.

2) What do you think about some kind of piano roll? The way you encode pitch into color with a keyboard works but it's a little incompatible with the piano roll idiom conventionally used in most DAW software. Would be very cool to have a 3D piano roll.