skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>New Zealand had 26 deaths in over a year of the pandemic. Not 26 per 100k population. Not 26 per day. Twenty six people full stop. Because in fact "We go hard and we go early" works.

We could tackle smoking and obesity similarly to similar effect.
Then why do many try to force you to enable SMS even though you are a well known customer? Sometimes it is a soft-force and a few URL changes until you bypass the request.
Darn it, yes. At least that is my impression. "Boring" services like my bank hardly ever support it or something that would work with Authenticator.
> It can almost always be easily traced to a particular person

Once KYC gets involved.

If I receive coins in my desktop wallet for the cookies I'm selling, how will anyone know who I am? Of course they're not much use until I cash out and then it's a different story.
I think you will find, if you deep dive, that this is less about statutes passed by Congress and more about case law/jurisprudence derived from case rulings.

Also important is that these are not two giant melting pots silos of data. Your mobile phone provider has multiple types of data that require differing burden of proof for LEOs to access. Some require an actual warrant, whereas others may be obtained simply by asking or purchasing (due to the Third Party Doctrine).

Similarly, Google has massive troves of different kinds of data. Your Search Queries may not have the same level of protection as access to your Google Maps location data which may differ from WiFi wardriving, which may differ from Google Phone account data, etc.

Historically, land lines had very stringent protections in US law. A “Tap and Trace” warrant had specific burden of proof and requirements for LEOs who listened in (there were fantastic scenes in the Sopranos and The Wire that showed criminals frustrating police while being spied on), but I believe mobile phone call content is governed by different statutes.
“The South Korean legislation would be the first law in the world to require companies that operate app stores to let users in Korea pay for in-app purchases using a variety of payment systems. It would also prohibit blocking developers from listing their products on other app stores.”

“[Apple and Google] have appealed directly to South Korean lawmakers, government officials and the public to try to block the legislation, which is expected to face a crucial vote this week.”
Have you tested this with Alaskan mosquitoes?
This sounds more like Brave's shtick, but I agree. I'd love to have a couple of symbols that warned of paywalls, ad/content ratio, cookie consent, etc.
You're welcome! I know what you mean, though. It's like everyone, even a law enforcement officer, thinks it's okay to scam others, even a drug dealer.
> arise in infants (half of cases)

Meant to inquire about this with my other response. Do you have a source for this?

My daughter was diagnosed at 2 (almost 3) and doctors gave the impression this is younger than average. We're also in many Facebook T1D parent support groups. There are certainly some diagnosed under 2, but it seems to be quite rare (1% maybe).

That's all anecdotal though. I'm genuinely curious about formal stats.
The moment I downloaded the new version, without even having used Gpay for years — I knew — I knew they used some web-based or write-once bullshit just by the latency in the tab swipes alone, I can discern it distinctly and am sensitive to these deficits in performance (unfortunately).

Then I thought, "ah shit" searched "Flutter Gpay" and sure enough.

Sigh. When will they learn.
I called it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724802
Yeah, I am sure they are.

I was actually thinking more of crappy $800 50lb "mountain bikes" with those cheap-ass all-plastic grip shifters and shitty "suspension" forks VERSUS an $800 basic city bike with low-end Shimano internal gear hub (or even single-speed).

I think many folks have developed a taste for actual practicality in their cycling needs and this is a good thing.
You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist. I don't want most of my online accounts tied to a real ID. In Asia it is apparently common for everything including video games to require your government ID to sign up.

If you make that frictionless, privacy and alt accounts are gone.
What's your budget?

What is the preferred / required lifespan of the hardware? Keep in mind that iOS and Android devices have limited vendor support. For Android that's as little as 0 months from purchase (source: direct experience), though IIUC Google are targeting 3 years. If you buy used, you're well into that window. Apple's committment(s) are better.

Does this have to be mobile / battery powered? Or would a mains-powered, fixed-locations studio be sufficient / preferred?

If not, a small form-factor PC might suit this need (and could be a viable option for similar bare-iron segregation of workloads). You'll want a decent video chipset, though I doubt anything fancy is required. Look up Intel's NUC and similar units. There's a slight price premium for the small size, but lower-end systems are reasonable.

Given you're looking at Microsoft already, I'd suggest taking a look at Windows Surface as a mobile option. I've no experience with that myself.

There are apparently dedicated Zoom systems being sold and DIY'd, with budgets ranging from about $100 to $22k (!!!?)
Could be ultrasonic tracking beacons, see here:

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/hundreds-apps-can-listen-beaco...
“A gem trader said the stone was found by workmen digging a well in his home”. Not a farmer’s place.

Or else it was a lot of smaller stones: [https://www.indy100.com/viral/100-million-sapphire-gems-sri-...]
Monero blockchain lets you see nothing. The only way to track you is via centralized exchanges which are essentially banks anyway. If XMR is used as currency directly, the government is screwed.

Last time the US tried to sanction a Monero address, it ended up sanctioning a transaction.
I'm assuming this article is referring to removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and not directly from the ocean itself?

There have been proposals to remove dissolved CO2 directly from the ocean by turning it into calcium carbonate:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/combat-climate-cha...
good point, I didn't see that, so its still better than I expected. That being said, The Lottery isn't truly random. Hiring a Master's Degree holder(higher salary than the bachelors student), applying multiple years (Company longevity usually means better financials) and filling out the forms with correctly with a skilled immigration team (again, more financial requirements) all improve the odds. So you're definitely right that the selection bias isn't as bad as I originally thought, but it still seems to be present.
Checking Covid logic – if 1. vaccinated spread it same as unvaccinated
If you read the page it would tell you, no need to wonder.
I actually have no idea what C-16 is (I'm not Canadian and do not follow Canadian domestic politics). I'm just going off what previous commenters said about some pronoun mandate.

I am aware one's legal name can be changed, because here everyone has the right to change their name. Doesn't matter if one is or isn't trans.

My point is that if a preferred (rather than legal, by way of ID) pronoun is desired to be mandated (that's the interpretation I've understood, I could be misunderstanding) by the state, why not also mandate that one cannot deadname someone?

Not saying that it would be a bad thing to mandate non-deadnaming. Just that the conclusion seems odd, from the legal perspective, in that time period between when a deadname becomes dead and when that name is legally replaced.

By the way, I don't deadname people. Deadnaming is a combination of being an asshole and sticking one's nose where it doesn't belong. The state's legal opinion on that doesn't affect my behavior.
Please correct the following logic; as per my reading of the COVID19 related research papers and findings, so far clearly we know the following facts:
1. Current Vaccines protect people short near term and then you lose immunity gradually month by month (our vaccines are not "canceling")
2. Vaccine does not protect people from getting infected by Delta
3. When fully vaccinated person is infected by Delta they spread it identically or nearly the same at the same level as non vaccinated person as highlighted in a recent Oxford study https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/pfizer-recipi...

If we add on the above new finding that getting infected by any COVID19 variant either btw 1st and 2nd dose or after by the variant results in "ideal environment that is guaranteed to produce new more resistant variants within ~6m-12m! In conclusion COVID19 (with new guaranteed new variants) will "never stop" by relying only on vaccines"! (google Geert Vanden Bossche & Bret Weinstein where Greet explains it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyAovuUxro )

Then logical conclusion is: vaccine value is purely personal choice for temporary protection (vs proven and known potential risks). Therefore anyone that decides not to take it has the right as his personal only choice. It is their personal calculation of the risk for themselves.

Therefore decision of one group not to vaccinate shall by no means affect or threaten in any way the vaccinated group. So unvaccinated do not threaten vaccinated! (in any different way than vaccinated threaten the vaccinated - per above)

Then why do governments seem recently be pushing to get everyone vaccinated by ANY MEANS (DISCRIMINATING with practices such as; threats of loosing job or forcing you out, media shaming, big tech bullying, restricting unvaccinated ones from flying or using many essential things - comparable to Geto's and discrimination against Jews in Nazi Germany)? WHY?
No, they will be reviewing a version of the image. They say it explicitly in their design documents.
I'm talking about the most barebone controls, such as keeping a C++ IRC channel on topic.

You can split things up into official #C++ or ##C++ (unofficial), or #C++-Social, and then use your ops powers to tell people where to go, while writing bot-macros that answer basic questions.

Without controls, people can't even stay on topic. If (Insert Political Event) happens, even C++ channels get overwhelmed by those events, even though its completely irrelevant.

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And I do know that the #c++ channel is a bit zealous with its moderation. They're probably "too serious". But still, the controls offered by IRC exist for a reason. Guiding people to remain on topic is very helpful in practice.
> So not only has it ignored any tracks that aren't deserving of their own articles, but it also missed one that actually does have an article (track 6, a cover of "Both Sides, Now").

In other words, "scraping wikipedia" is the answer to the question implied in the HN title to this post. :)
Unknown: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63811/is-the-uni...

Also, has been argued philosophically for thousands of years https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
Social pressure

Still at play in most hierarchical structures imo
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Internet is only going to get more important. There’s no way domains are going to get cheaper. Any short domain will be worth millions given a long enough timeline.
Bitcoin Cash has CashFusion, which does not rely on a central server, and since transactions are less than a cent, you can shuffle your coins as much as you want.

https://cashfusion.org/
This all sounds well and dandy, except the best data we have for covid-19 shows a .2% - .3% infection fatality rate, about 2x or 3x worse than the seasonal flu, which is still -- as we learned in May 2020 -- highly gated to people with severe age- and weight- related comorbidities.

In short, comparing this to chicken pox or other epidemics with "massive body counts" is flatly asinine. It's a slightly worse version of the regular flu; always has been, seemingly always will be.

Fwiw, I've been saying the same thing for 1.5 years now, which is what the original data reflects, which hasn't changed since then. Whenever we get new data that changes our understanding, we should reevaluate at that point.
Yes, that's the obvious solution, and in fact we've bought Pfizer from Poland and cut various other deals. It's unfortunately not quick to do, although in my opinion the government failed to prioritise it as heavily as it should have.
New Zealand is not really a replicable model. It has a lot of unique properties like the combination of wealth, remoteness, culture, population density, etc. Not a lot that other countries can learn from it. Other countries could learn more from countries like Vietnam.

If you want to learn how to get a basketball in the hoop reliably, you’re better off asking a regular guy than a 7 footer who will say “well just put it in.”
> New Zealand just shut down everything over a single case

It's maddening to see someone peddling this narrative in a discussion on HN.
Just curious, what kind of applications are you thinking of?
Isn’t this what is happening in our universe as well? Space is expanding faster than light can traverse it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#Germany

Edit: it says the govt gets to "keep it", not him. If he has the seed to his wallet, is there anything stopping him getting at his coins?
FreeBSD src browsing on Linux and an rtld contribution
I did read Winchester's chapter. I actually found Gavin Weightman's coverage of Wilkinson in The Industrial Revolutionaries better.

I wanted to have more on Wilkinson, but I had to draw the line somewhere. This was already the longest post I've ever written by a good margin.
Not on amateur frequencies in the United States. (I’m not sure about other countries.)
>you can (provably) de-tumble

not really? If you have a transaction that has five equally sized inputs A_{1...5} and five equally sized outputs B_{1...5}, then the max extent you can "provably" de-tumble B_1 is saying "there's a 20% chance that it came from A_1, 20% chance it came from A_2, ..."
I don't buy the argument that Go makes error handling explicit. It is too easy to forget to check for an error in Go. Did you know that `fmt.Printf` can also fail? Do you explicitly check for `err` when using it? Probably not, because what Go calls explicit error handling is merely a convention, not something supported by the language, e.g. [[nodiscard]] from C++ or #[must_use] from Rust. And who thought reassigning `err` multiple times was a good idea? That again strikes a lack of functionality in Go.

What saddens me is that these kinds of matters will never be fixed in Go. Go has a stubborn anti-feature mentality and while it does help preventing feature creep, it overall harms the language in the long run. For a language created and maintained by Google this is a huge missed opportunity.
Lock your credit.
How would physics help with software though? My impression from trying physics is that its just that if you are smart enough to do physics you are smart enough that software engineering is not really hard but at most merely complicated.
That $56,000 Drug? Blame Medicare
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In that case almost all of the comments here should be downvoted or flagged.
Today I learned SpaceX is short for “Space Exploration Technologies”.
Netbox is really great for tracking infrastructure resources. Its a great source of truth that you can build on top of and run automations off of.
While it's taken Android some time, on newer APIs the system will simply prevent an app from requesting permissions if a user has denied it more than once. From https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...:

"At the same time, your app should respect the user's decision to deny a permission. Starting in Android 11 (API level 30), if the user taps Deny for a specific permission more than once during your app's lifetime of installation on a device, the user doesn't see the system permissions dialog if your app requests that permission again."
This is really neat.

As someone using Excel to do slot game mathematics calculations, sometimes the excel formulas used are very long, convoluted, and hard to grok when coming back to them. Many cells often exist as calculation cells only, used for intermediate steps which leads to even more logic complexity.

I’m excited to experiment with these to try and simplify some of the long, previously-deemed-necessary calculation methods.
This is why I'm unvaccinated... low risk
Why do we have too few engineers in the USA?

Because of stuff like this.

A professional engineer's license issued by the state make's you personally, legally liable for your work and the work of others who you supervise. There is no way to avoid this liability. Incorporation has no effect.

Engineers don't get paid
nearly enough for this --- which helps explain why there aren't more engineers. The entire system is rigged against them.

/rant off
> Today, thanks to air travel, the world is a village. Wuhan is exposed one week, and the world the next.

I'm really hoping we can reduce the intermixing by some degree by banning lineups at airports security screen and customs/immigration lines, but I'm not holding my breath.
I assume this is Sydney? I love the work the council have done to the CBD recently - I wish they'd emulate what they did to George St all over the city centre.
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Hmm, that is just about email. There can be other configs which we want to be different for work and personal. And having config in one file - like .work.gitconfig or .home.gitconfig looks better to me since I can find all the config at one place and do not need to look around all the places.

However, that is a personal choice, I understand :-)
Yes - but I think the 4 years that OP mentioned are not about the onset of symptoms, but rather the time until when the vaccine is officially not being used anymore or at least the time when these effects become visible to common folks (i.e. being picked up by the media).

In the case of Pandremix, the vaccine was continued to be used for 2 years or so after the first cases of narcolepsy became visible.
Stig, a/k/a Jonathan B. Stigelman, was something of a fixture on the Bay Area Free Software scene in the late 1990s / early 2000s, showing up at the occasional LUG or other events, and his "Brain of Stig" blog was always provocative reading. I remember running across his interview with L. Peter Deutsch (developer of the Ghostscript Postscript interpreter) at the time.

Sadly, Stig passed away of cancer in 2013, two months before the birth of his twin children. He's survived by his wife, Haiping Yang.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210824030153/https://lancaster...
Totally agree with you, after both of my shots are done. I have been vaccinated, my parents have been vaccinated. A major percentage of the country is vaccinated. Even if after vaccination, I can get covid, then I am willing to take the risk of dying. What else am I supposed to do? How many years will we be in this state. Let's just accept that this is harsh truth about humanity and move on.
I am not a fan of the Socratic dialogue style of writing. The signal to noise ratio is low.
They can also be useful to the wrong people. Image URLs also don’t have the requirement of keeping the username secret, but they’ve been used to find the Facebook account that published them so Facebook changed that.
You are making an argument about a single scientist and a single experiment.

I am making an argument about the aggregation of knowledge created by all scientific experiments since at least The Enlightenment.

Admittedly truth is difficult to pin down, but science has been the best engine for helping humankind overcome myths and superstitions and give tools for people to use evidence to come to a common understanding of a common objective truth.
> 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.

This is likely because you're projecting positions onto the person you're responding to that they never stated, and probably don't hold. If you read their comments again, you will discover they said they themselves are vaccinated, and offered no opinion about encouraging other people to get vaccinated as well. That was plainly not the topic of their comment. They are simply pointing out, correctly in my view, that life is not and never will be totally risk free, and at some point the risks that covid presents to the world at large will have to just be accepted, because the costs of lockdowns as countermeasures are simply too great. We can't continue to prioritize minimizing covid at the expense of all else forever.

As a side note, the fact that you read someone expressing skepticism of some measures of covid containment, and instantly leapt to "they must think encouraging vaccines is stupid" does not reflect well on you, and is a pretty strong indicator that you're spending a lot of time in an ideological echo chamber that's eager to "other" and strawman anyone that disagrees with its positions. Something worth reflecting on, if you're willing.
Yes because your way is the correct way, right? Anybody who disagrees is a dirty, alt-right mis-informed trump fucker. Right? Might as well just say it.

We made dramatic, massive social changes virtually overnight and continued them for more than 1.6 years. Why is it so hard to imagine that smart, well intentioned people might have a difference of opinion from the narrative we’ve all had shoved down our throats? Eh?

Just magically every single person who is smart and well meaning obviously has to support masks, lockdowns, school closures, and everything else. Otherwise they are a dumb stupid misinformed “them”.

It’s absolutely absurd thinking. The arguments made to force this nonsense on people represent some of the worst attributes of humanity. Gaslighting. Abusive. Bullying. Shaming. Narcissistic. Unscientific and completely intellectually dishonest.

Seriously. Knock it off. Y’all should be ashamed of yourself.
I blame Gödel's platonism. He showed us that our theories will always have limits, which is true. But there are two ways to confront this problem:

- Incrementally improve the existing theory, knowing that some of your goals are impossible and hoping that you don't get stuck on one of these.

- Develop as many inconsistent-but-locally-useful theories as possible along a method for selecting the right one in the right situation.

The latter didn't sit right with him or his contemporaries--more for gut-feel reasons than anything practical--so many of us are stuck in this rut where we just compete for opportunities to participate in the former.
They aren’t spreading misinformation at all. They are merely pointing out that the placebo injection used in the study has almost exactly the same serious adverse event rate as the vaccine itself. People yearn to attribute every event to a cause, but most of them are just random. Everyone has a “I got sick in October 2019 and I just know it was COVID” story.
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If you read the comment you'd realize your mistake, no need to be snarky.
Interesting to see that vaccine idiocy has made it to other countries. American soft power truly is something.
It's always a joy when I randomly feel the need to check and see if amasci is still up and running and am greeted with the comforting display of good old mid-90s HTML text and links offering all manner of interesting content.

What a dichotomy to the current "all pages must be apps/infinite scroll and optimized for ads" design that has reigned for the last decade or two.