skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I predict that within a year or two at the most, more vaccines will be mandated that are now voluntary, such as yearly flu vaccines. Mandating vaccinations for the audience is true extremism. I will not patronize a business that demands such proof. I applaud (pun intended) his demonstration of conviction.

Quoting in full, just in the case it gets deleted. To downvoters: you'll have to delete this one, too.

I agree with that comment, of course, and can't wait to join my fair share of class action lawsuits!
> What price might you charge if the major purchaser for your drug has committed to pay whatever “other customers” pay? Biogen, the drug’s manufacturer, came up with a price of $56,000 per year.

So then I should be blaming the people setting the high price, as they're choosing to do this.
>He was in the early battles against the white supremacist texas education officials.

I find this interesting as I received my education from a texas public school system. It was not a horrible school as it offered AP courses and even started a CompSci class type class my senior year. I focused my energy in math/sciences, and coasted in history/literature. However, as an adult, I'm realizing that the history that was taught definitely left a lot of details out. One thing that I realized was how European focused the history of WWII was, and the Pacific conflict was all focused on the "big ones". A little on Midway, but clearly it was focused on US involvement. There was nothing on what Japan was doing in China, and very little on what Stalin was doing in Russia.

It wasn't until I got to my first few history courses in college that I realized how much of the Civil War was not taught. Go figure from a Texas view point I guess. I had the same professor for the 2 classes I took because I liked how he taught the first class, but then heard from other older students that he was pretty famous for knowing there were blank spots in the average public school curriculums.
it seems that manual submission is necessary.
> I'm not sure how you can say apathy toward spreading a contagious virus is not societies "fault".

Moralizing spreading an airborne highly contagious respiratory virus is one of the most toxic, dangerous things we’ve done. It’s absurd. It’s a virus. It does what it does. People catch it. It’s nobody’s fault.

The people living in your red state are perfectly fine holding their beliefs.
> I cut calories and I lost weight" is not anecdotal. It's factual

I think perhaps you're misunderstanding what "anecdote" means? Anecdotes can certainly be factual - the point is not that it's false, it's that it's not sufficiently representative. In particular, I wasn't challenging his assertion that cutting calories allowed him to lose weight, only the implicit claim that doing so is a universally straightforward and successful approach to effecting actual weight loss.

> and all the rest should be explored alongside drugs

Well yes! That's my position! I don't think "drugs will solve this problem", I think the problem is solvable, and that we need to understand it and its context better in order to do so. I'm a tinkerer, I've been experimenting with my own habits, diet, and activities constantly trying to better understand how I can be healthier and still happy, and there have been some real gains from that process.

I feel like (a) you don't agree with the approach Fella is taking (which is fine, you've clearly looked into it more than I have), and (b) you've decided that my opinions about the effectiveness of diets are somehow "on their side". I think I've been really clear about this, but I have no stake in their game, aside from being excited to see that people are trying to do something other than convince fat people that this diet will totally work (and if it doesn't it's because they were yet again bad people that deserve to be fat.)

> "the physical, psychological, and emotional components" is a long way of saying "it's hard", and "the experiential variance I'm describing" is "the payoff did not seem to be worth the cost".

Not even close. But you seem intelligent, so I'm left wondering if you're intentionally misinterpreting me to score some kind of internet points?

The intent of those phrases is to emphasize that the costs to the humans involved vary. They are different. So yeah, "the payoff did not seem to be worth the cost", in the same sense that a man with a bad knee would evaluate the cost/value of paying for a taxi differently.
I put sunscreen on my face and neck let my arms and legs soak up vitamin D.
I have read the FAQ on the page. What a wonderful, pleasant person.
No, Brisbane actually, but I have heard some good things about Sydney's from a cycling group that reports on things happening locally but every week mentions a project from elsewhere in the country (Space for Cycling Brisbane).

These are some of the fist ones through the CBD - https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/traffic-and-transport/roads-... - As part of this they closed a major bridge in the middle of the city (Victoria Bridge over to South Bank) to road traffic. Before it was two bus-only lanes and two car lanes, but now it's three bus lanes and a separated bikeway.

They're also building four bridges over the river dedicated to cycle and pedestrian to link up different bike routes, and the State Government has been doing some good work with their 'Veloway' next to the M3 highway. A lot of intersection and road upgrades (and new roads) are starting to add separated bike paths too, like the overhauled Kingsford Smith Drive that finished recently.
I'm for reducing the number of cars on the road, but I do think that street parking is already a pretty big step up from the alternative of like huge parking lots.

And like for deliveries... what do you want people to do? Not stop in front of the place they are delivering?

If there's an argument for it being a public space, it's also a public space for things like deliveries, dropping people off, etc. "People should be more careful" is a glib thing to say for this stuff, and I think we should make improvements to things, but if we're talking about public space, cyclists are _also_ not the only thing on the road and accomodations can be made for stuff like delivery
Thanks for the tip! I'll make sure we update our arXiv description.
I will never again accept a job where I must use a work-provided machine. I spend 8+ hours a day at work. Being forced to spend that time in some crappy, bloated, locked-down OS is 100% a quality of life issue. If I can provision and manage the machine myself, fine. I'll even purchase the hardware. Prefer it that way.
> Anyone who's ever tried boxing knows how exhausting it becomes very quickly.

True, most people have about 30 seconds of actual fight in them, if that. You really don’t want to go to the ground with someone who does it often, you will not win.
So you do it manually? That's exactly what Typescript was created for, to use tooling and automation to handle these and it's been repeatedly proven to reduce bugs and increase productivity because of it.

Using typescript is very progressive, you can add types line by line if you want. There's not much setup really other than using TSC to compile the files.
From what I've seen from cars being put apparat by Sandy Munro company the complexity of EV cooling system maps roughly 1 to 1 with ICE. Both need cooling loops basically.

There is however a staggering difference between companies. Compare cooling in Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model Y.

Tesla just brutally crashes Ford in how much they are able to reduce number of parts, especially hoses and hose connectors. Tesla has something like 3x less hoses, 3x less parts and half the mass of the coolant in the loop (22kg vs 9 kg).

Maybe part of what you are seeing is inexperience and incompetence of ICE car manufacturers.

There are also other things that legacy car manufacturers are not willing to risk like megacasting. Something like 50 parts reduction in one cast, and good chunk of the factory floor for Tesla. And apparently the idea was out there long before Tesla but nobody tried it. While Musk loves taking financial risks if they can deliver significant engineering benefits.

https://youtu.be/m1kHsd3Ocxc

Not to mention that while Tesla may be not great at software engineering, ICE car companies and their supply chains are just ridiculously bad at it.
> I have a cat, but she's pretty unexciting by Internet standards

Ironically, this easter egg makes her exciting.
It's not quite so simple. Government backed money has some intrinsic value because if you don't have any the government will put you in jail for not paying taxes. The IRS does not accept crypto.

You can also get into "everything is make believe" easily enough, so this isn't very helpful either way.
> I’m assuming

Literally the first two sentences of TFA address this.
The airplane reported both 500AGL and 1NM (nautical mile) which is oddly the exact lower limit for altitude, and the exact limit to distance for 'advanced operating' drone from the airport, as far as I understand. Why those exact legal limits? What are the odds of that?

If the drone operator reported those numbers, they'd only be 100ft outside of where they should be legally.

Since both '500' and '1' are pretty arbitrary numbers, any reasonable margin of error puts a ton of range for the drone to be flying in safety while the pilot being at error. Or both.

This seems to be a 'threshold' issue, not some arbitrary invasion of space, but we'll have to wait for Transport Canada, hopefully the drone will have precise information. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You're oversimplifying. It took the US a full decade, with countless military intelligence resources, to find and kill their #1 target, OBL. But somehow if we were just more aggressive, all the enemies could have been quickly swept up?

These are soldiers who don't wear uniforms. There is no standing army or targets to "rampage" through, unless you mean entire villages. You're saying if the US had just been less tolerant of civilians, more Taliban would be dead. And what of the relatives of the civilian dead? Now they are your enemy, and the Taliban regrows like a hydra. Keep killing without regard, and now whole tribes side with the Taliban against the clear enemy. Provinces flip, and eventually the whole country is filled with an enemy you created.

The mission changes character once a critical mass of the country supports the other side. Certainly it would not be "nation building", just outright occupation, which works exactly as long as an overwhelming force is present. The conclusion would have been the same in the end.
The fact that we've let one disgusting abuse to creep up on us is not an excuse to green light all of them. Uniform may not be the hill to die on, but a pretty awful thing nonetheless. In ex-USSR during early 90s, when many rules around school discipline were effectively spayed, what went out - let me tell you - red ties first, and uniforms the close second. Despite all the scolding from principals and teachers.
Because these choices matter. Again, you're not going to ever get people on board with such data.

That's what I care about. This isn't being pedantic, it's trying to help get people's attention. This does not.
I took two earth sciences classes and even I can’t name any. The best I can do is that silicate is SiO4. I think. And it’s this tetrahedron thing that makes for really tough minerals like quartz. Maybe.
that's why you seize the Ferrari, it seems they instead, hey, you have a Ferrari worth 100k, you now owe us 100k and will sell the Ferrari to get that 100k, and then they sell it and get 200k, you now have to give them the 100k because you only asked for the 100k, not the Ferrari.

As they say in the article, next time, if they seize 36 bitcoin, then you have to give up 36 bitcoin, not the dollar value they are worth at the time.
The measured difference in community transmission between masks required and masks voluntary was 21%. This was not statistically significant because it was underpowered, as GP correctly stated. Saying that no statistical significance means null hypothesis is a kind of type 2 error, which was difficult to make given that the point estimate did not even support his claim.

I'm frankly surprised that Zweig made such an embarrassingly simple public mistake that any statistician could have pointed out to him had he bothered to ask. His readers might not have that kind of access, but he certainly could get this answered in five minutes.
Hm, I haven't used a ThinkPad in half a decade so I think you're thinking of someone else. :) 'ggreer perhaps?
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"Documented danger". Has it ever caused a crash or other damage? Or just "documented danger", unlike the myriad other undocumented dangers I listed in my other comment?

20 seconds seems like an extraordinarily long time to be able to hold a handheld laser on a moving target. Exaggerate much?

You seem to think it's a world-ending danger. I don't. That's fine, I don't fly so whatever.
Yeah such garbage logic, the company is clearly exploiting here
Do you have a tagging system, or do you just use search? Or is it a prodigious memory?
How do you get the coins out without KYC?
> Q: Interested in selling gail.com?
> A: Sorry, no.

I wonder if that answer would stand if Google offered her $3M USD so they could recover some of their lost traffic.
DRGs based grouping?
My point is competitive programming or math competitions isn't a field specific skill. It teaches you various ways to solve various (life) problems in general. Brute forcing, divide and conquer, backtracking, recursion/Induction can be applied to anything.

I'm not opinionated. If there is any other way of proving that someone is good at these tactics, I'd love to work with them.
Is Biomedical Innovation Happening at Theranos Outside Peer Review? (2015)
Again, disagreeing with their risk assessment is one thing, but pretending the database itself is misinformation is dishonest.
Creating a throwaway because I don't want this to follow my profile (which identifies me).

I'm one of these high-skilled foreigners (phd, 5 years experience in applied ML). I make market rate salary in local currency (~35k USD/year) plus substantial bonuses (75~90k USD/year). I work for a major corp, and I think at least a couple dozen folks make similar money with similar experience.

I'm not posting to brag; just to contextualize (and agree with parent) that, yeah, maybe that money would hire a recent grad in California and gets my phd+exp here, but I wouldn't say we're "cheap"

I know you're discussing H1Bs and I'm talking remote work - just feel like it's worth poiting out that the same set of people fill both roles; so if remote salaries are X I can't see how you could pay less than X to a H1B. Why would I move to a much higher COL for same/less money?

I mean, maybe some folks for the express purpose of leaving their country, but still - remote work should push H1B salaries up for skilled foreigners, right?
Identical twins would be a problem. There's no foolproof way of verifying identity today.
It might be possible for a system to observe you and generate a set of identifiers. I doubt we can make anything accurate enough to be usable today. Maybe in a decade or two.
Hey Vignesh! My cofounder and I ran into this problem at our last startup. Mind shooting me an email (email is in profile)? Would love to share some of what [somewhat] worked for us.

For full disclosure: I’m trying to build a better way to validate ideas, and I think I too can learn a tremendous amount from talking to you.
...and doesn't have a disability. Canada is awfully ableist, even when it comes to those who have skills and high paying jobs.
But why would it be a debt? They stripped him of the proceeds of the drug deals: 36 bitcoins. Why is the cash value of those bitcoins at the time of seizure relevant? If they had seized his car, and it depreciated between when they seized and auctioned it, does he owe them the difference too? Why should the legal system treat seized assets as equivalent monetary value debts?
Company hires lobbyists to ensure Medicare isn't allowed to negotiate drug prices, then convinces the public it's Medicare's fault. I can't believe we're still falling for this shit.
Thanks for citing that recent serological study which presents evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating the U.S. as early as 13-16 December 2019 (here's a slightly better link [1]).

FWIW here is another reference with similar findings [2], and also a paper (cited in the OP) suggesting infections were massively under-reported early in the pandemic [3].

> By mid-July of 2020, 16.8 million people had an undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 infection, almost five times the rate of diagnosed infections. [2]

> I wonder why this study has not been repeated for blood samples collected before December 2019?

Speculating but it's probably because such research is expensive and knowing the exact date of the first infection may not be particularly useful.

[1] Serologic Testing of US Blood Donations to Identify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)–Reactive Antibodies: December 2019–January 2020
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472

[2] Identification of the first COVID-19 infections in the US using a retrospective analysis
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-707353/v1/baa84b8...

[3] Undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/601/eabh3826
You can also find a company that just buys you a computer you would like and gives you root on your machine, right?

I've even had people build their own PCs when starting at startups because they wanted specific specs.
Most corporate entities have a fiduciary duty to maximize their shareholders’ returns. If your solution to a problem is “companies just need to stop trying to make money”, then you’re probably going to be disappointed.
AFAIK Doxycycline is more common for deer ticks. But having to get treatment after a random walk in the woods as can be the case where I live isn’t very practical.
> how many startups simply don't come into existence because the founders are stuck on life long H1B visas.

How many American computer science graduates go unemployed because of H1B's? It seems like a lot of entry level work is now either completely outsourced or performed by consultancy companies that hire largely non-citizens.

The problem doesn't even solely target new grads: https://m.economictimes.com/tech/ites/tcs-faces-us-trial-in-...
The question about firewalls is such a good one. In short, physicists identified this problem involving three parts of an evaporating black hole, and all three seemed to be entangled according to the usual understanding, but that was bad because “entanglement is monogamous”, meaning that a system A can’t be “married” (maximally entangled) to system B and system C at the same time. So it was proposed that maybe spacetime just ends, just inside the event horizon, and so the metaphorical third wheel, system C, is killed off or actually just never existed. It’s not like anyone’s been inside a black hole and then came out to tell us if spacetime ends there. So that’s a firewall, and it was a hypothesis for how to resolve the non-monogamy issue. But it does require a bizarre new phenomenon where spacetime ends suddenly in a region of low curvature where nothing was supposed to happen. So many people did not like this idea.

However, there was an alternative idea, which was that C was the “same person” as B, in which case its perfectly legal to be married to B and C at the same time. But B and C are really far apart, so that seemed weird. It would have to be that spacetime was joining these distant systems together via their entanglement. This was called ER=EPR, or roughly speaking the idea that the connectivity of space is defined by entanglement, so that these distantly separated systems B and C were actually connected via a very quantum sort of wormhole and thus were the same thing.

This new work on the evaporation paradox, amazingly, makes it clear that at least in some cases, ER=EPR is actually happening in an unexpected but concrete way—in these models, there is the emergence of a spacetime bridge of the distant entangled systems. And that’s what’s so awesome. We always suspected the firewall paradox would prove something about what spacetime is, because it was a very sharp paradox. And now, in this unexpected and un-firewally way, it has!
The last time drone training came up, I pointed out that drone operators have no skin in the game, and often act like it too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27618757

I was admonished that I was describing the behavior of only the most psychopathic individuals. So clearly my fears were unfounded.

From the avweb article: "The police department has not commented any further on the mishap except to say the drone was part of a police operation in the area."

Perhaps someone would care to explain how the department's response is substantively different from "opsie daisy"? Is it just that the pilot happend to get lucky this time, and the mid-air collision only caused a massive dent on the engine cowling?
For sure; there's risk/benefit to this kind of mitigation. One thing to note is all the actions occur before the user drops into a shell (or for desktop login the desktop rendering). If one is simply getting rid of LUKS containers or deleting VPN credentials it wouldn't take very long at all.

One could even write in a routine that removes the duress module entirely so it's a one-shot duress password that cleans up sensitive data, notifies anyone who needs it and then immediately removes all evidence that pam-duress was employed.

But you are right this is a tool with risks/benefits and the risks changed based on what's being protected and the context of the coercion.
I dislike CCP ideology, but its clear to me that if anyone can "fix" Afghanistan, its China. They accept ground realities and pursue their goals without taking up stupid challenges such as "bring democracy to Afghanistan".
Having a machine that is actually usable is orthogonal to having one dedicated to a job. Computers are dirt cheap, so have a separate one and it’s easy to keep your work products separated.

As an added bonus, it gives you one more place to run bloated^Wmandatory Electron apps.
Maybe we have different definitions of what "High skilled" truly means. All the "High skilled" people I know (those who actually qualified and got the High skilled visas in various developed countries) are influenced by the 3 points I wrote above. Also you are confusing immigrant (H1B is an immigration visa unlike L1) with emigrant, the mentality is very different between the two. High skilled immigrant != Emigrant
That is not correct, the vulnerability you are talking about is barely a vulnerability. It did not unmask transactions in the sense that no sender, recipient or amount (which are the properties that are hidden in the monero blockchain) was revealed. The issue only arises in some very specific scenarios, and the only information leaked is that you are more likely to be the one making the transaction (as monero hides the sender by using "decoys") in the case were you receive and spend a transaction in a very short span of time.

While bold cryptographic claims should be taken with responsibility, monero is researched and implemented by well known criptographers and researchers in a very serious way. Almost all (if not all) aspects of the protocol come directly from proven and well understood theory and published research.