skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total Deaths in Ontario:

2019-2020* 115,126

2018-2019 109,019

And the overall death rate is roughly inline with the population growth, which is about 1.7 percent and normal variation. If official number of COVID deaths is accurate. 9,400 people died of COVID in Ontario.

Assuming those 9,400 deaths were all in the ICU and none at home or palliative care. There are 400 hospitals in the Province. So average of COVID deaths per hospital/per year is 9400/400 = 23.5

I can easily see how 23 more people in a community serviced by a hospital could have committed suicide due to drug abuse over losing their business, job, or livelihood or just being locked up with nothing else to do but think.
Completely uncomparable cultures, it does not remotely make sense to draw parallels between these countries.
I witnessed a lot of Japanese exchange students happily purchasing a bottle of "green tea" in the states only to see a look of pure shock on their face as they tried it.

It only takes a few weeks to get used to unsweetened tea but it's so much better for you, and honestly really refreshing. Oi Ocha and Ayataka green tea are my personal favorites. If the states had more of a vending machine culture (like Japan) with these healthier drinks in them, maybe it would catch on more. That's probably too optimistic of me though...
>https://blogs.teksavvy.com/look-at-this-picture-then-look-at...

Yup, this is exactly what I'm paying for by subscribing to TekSavvy.
I disagree that it's necessary to explain anything at all in one's spare time for free. Proper explanations require work--not just the work of forming an answer, but of learning the material in the first place. They're not something that anyone is entitled to just because they asked a bunch of questions. If the latter were the case, we could all get college educations for free just by asking questions to the right people. But it doesn't work that way. Nobody owes you anything.
They’re not told to build censorship tools, they were likely told to build tools to help prevent terrorism and child abuse material. The rationale for tools like this always starts from a place where we can all agree.

It’s like asking why scientists would ever invent atomic bombs, they do it to stop Hitler, its only later that those in charge decide it would be good idea to drop a couple on civilian populations.
This feels so 2003!
What continues to amaze me is that the US completely ignore successful programs run in other countries. The US spent more $ per person on education, healthcare, homelessness etc. and get consistently worse results than countries in Europe for example. I wonder if it is a weird “US #1” kinda thing that makes it impossible to admit that the US can learn from other countries? Or is there some other explanation? Perhaps an unwillingness to actually solve those problems because of a general individualistic/selfish/not my problems mentality?
These suggestions are very extreme: ban ingredients, use artificial sweeteners.

What about America means that you can’t just use less sugar and eat less sugar? Plenty of other countries don’t have this problem.
add a 100 to that!
Watching blind people use phones is probably similar.

It’s amazing to see someone in full sun using a phone, face not pointing at the phone.
The problem is not lack of jobs. The problems is that a larger and larger % of the population doesn’t have the skills/IQ/whatever to do those jobs. Or the cost (car etc.) of getting the job isn’t covered by the pay.
You could unplug the hard drive and complete the operation using a Linux live USB or cd.

Even then you are probably at risk of exceedingly clever exploits that can live in the bios.

I would say that generally the answer is no. If you plug a physical device into your computer you should assume that it's at least possible it can do things you would not like very much.
> It's deceit, but in a similar category of deceit to telling a user the resource is 404 not found instead of 403 or 401 because you don't even trust them enough

Is it the same? Showing a 404 is a security measure that applies equally to anyone lacking sufficient privileges. Ideally an app should prevent you from getting these, or show a message like "Not found, or no access".

> It's deceit with the purpose of stymiing further malicious action.

Shadowbans are powerful moderation weapons. Too much so, I'd say. The moderator is both prosecutor, judge and executioner. Who is the lawyer? Who revises after a time if the shadowbanned person has redeemed themself? Maybe their bad behavior was just a temporary fit, or even a mental breakdown they have since recovered from. Or they just become wiser grown-ups over time. All very human things that happen, but now they have a harsh sentence applied to them, and they may not even know about it.

Especially at scale these things should be handled properly. And importantly there should be transparency of how the procedures work, what the status is, and what one can do about it.

I also wonder to what degree on the big social platforms there exist even more subtle measures than all-out shadowbans. Like setting metrics on a sliding scale to define the extent the AI should limit a person's influence on the network.

Maybe this already has a name, but let's call it "shadow suppression". With such measures in place a person's voice can be dimimished for a lifetime without them ever knowing. They get a Like or a Comment here and there, but they will never go viral or even reach the audience that they think they address, and no matter how good their content and behavior becomes.
Probably not so easily against a set of lobbies that includes some of the most powerful there are: agriculture, food and health insurance.
Emma Watson Best Looks
Are you sure? Litmus test ;) Are you for de-legalization of marijuana?

PS. I always assumed that decriminalization and legalization are synonyms because it never crossed my mind that possessing a tiny quantity of a substance, even illegal, can lead to jail. I'm all for decriminalization of 'personal use' quantities of any given drug.
Availability is a fundamental part of security - if the information you wish to access is made unavailable to you, that is a security failure. If the only goal was confidentiality, we would turn the computers off and bury them in concrete.
Just avoid the taking the train there. [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700672/
I don't know how true it is, but one thing I've heard about artificial sweeteners is that your body thinks it's sugar, and will make your body feel hungrier because it expects it to have the same calories as regular sugar. I still prefer them because I hate the sticky feeling sugary products leave on my teeth, but I've talked to people who think artificial sweeteners are pointless from a calories-in/calories-out POV due to how your body reacts to them. For all I know that's completely made up though, they might have learned that from Dr. Oz or other daytime TV shows.
Another way of looking at it: what was DFW in a position to (plausibly) do, versus what he did, as compared to Paul Graham?
Also don’t forget that you can have high unemployment and lots of available jobs at the same time if the skills doesn’t match up. It is complete rubbish and false to claim that we can train anybody to do any job.
Yep. I run it in web browser in separate user account made for that purpose.
What Is Vaers and What Does It Show? [video]
Seems like libraries should band together and create archiving standards, and just build on top of a common archiving infrastructure?
Using Julia and it's LLLplus library

using LLLplus
show(IOContext(stdout, :limit=>false), MIME"text/plain"(), subsetsum([122,275,185,597,647,216,713,457,146,518,316,489,711,645,477,804,671,231,621,98,87],4394))
([1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1], true)

Giving a yo-yo, doll, ball, racecar, car, bear, tank, checkers, jacks, truck, pinwheel as an answer
An NP complete problem is not any generalization but a problem where all solutions can be solved using brute force in polynomial time, also representing other problems in the same space. In actuality, an NP complete problem is defined as easy to find a single solution, not that it is difficult to find a solution.
If refined sugar were invented recently, it would be another illegal white powder.
No, I’m wrong about one point. Comparing it to an ideal world standard is fine, but it’s not the only option. Apologies.
Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home
Eh. Sure, maybe you'd see these results if people actually reduced their total consumption. Would just cutting it in packaged foods and beverages actually accomplish that though?
Even with body cams and cell phone videos, these boys are still lying. You can't reform this, clean slate.
I found the pictures I took after beating my childhood nemesis

https://imgur.com/a/ICIBZCw and https://imgur.com/a/JOWkTsp

have a go, though I think that was the strategy I was using as a child

(and the box actually says 6+... mean)
Don't they just get twice as annoyed when they realize that not only were they banned, but they were silently banned and wasted time writing posts that went straight to /dev/null? The only time shadowbanning seems like a good solution is outright commercial spam and link farming, where slowing them down is a win in itself.
American here. I generally stick to a vegan/vegetarian diet to try and work on my "numbers" from our company healthcare bio-screening. My woke moment was when I was told exactly how much sugar is in a teaspoon. 4 grams.

After that day I started seeing just how criminally insane some food products were and just how far most companies go to make sure you dont accidentally find out how much refined sugar you eat. tricks like changing portion sizes displayed to per-serving instead of per-package, or hiding behind vegetables and smoothie jargon for drinks to pass off a third cup of sugar as somehow healthy.

4 grams is a teaspoon. 3 teaspoons is a tablespoon. 4 tablespoons is a quarter cup.

EDIT: 3 teaspoons, is a tablespoon apparently.
> Left is night mode on the Redmi, right is the loved one’s Pixel 4a

This is it. This is crazy. Google has pwnd the night shooting market ever since there is a Pixel. No one comes even close, at least nothing even remotely close in price. This is why I am staying on my Pixel 2. For me at least there's no point in upgrade.
Probably you might need to re-read your employee agreement. Some of these policies are clearly stated and you signed up for them when you are employeed
Unless you are about to die in the next month imaging can take month.. there is a reason why there was a pile of clinics in Buffalo that used to cater to Canadians. You drive across get your CT done get a CD then drive back. Alternatively you wait 2 month. Now you are just fucked

Or you can “know” people then you can get it done tomorrow.
I don’t think that is quite accurate - the majority of the German people identified as Christian, and while Himmler did want to replace the church he was forbidden by Hitler because Hitler did not want to risk alienating the Christian populace during the war.

Alternate ideas that were popular at the time were Nazism as a state religion (which is what they depicted in Man In The High Castle), and “Positive Christianity” which basically removed the Old Testament, gave Jesus an Aryan lineage, and might have included Hitler as a sort of saint or contemporary savior.

But that said - the occult stuff has made for some of my favorite movies and video games. If not for the Nazis, Indiana Jones would have ended up battling gangsters and mad scientists with army of zombie Africans and its not the same movie at all.

(If anyone knows the name of that 50s adventure series with the mad scientist that used a machine to turn Africans into his zombie army, I can’t remember to save my life.)
Isn’t V8 written in C++? There’s no reason Python can’t be as much a Swiss Army knife, except that it doesn’t run in the browser, which was just a historical matter that it was JS and not some other language. Tcl was proposed, and Sun tried to get Netscape to run Java natively.
Make money and take profits while you can?
I get about 940 megabit down with Telus, on Vancouver Island. Not on speed tests but pulling down torrents, etc. Close enough to gigabit that I don't sweat the delta.
To be clear I think it’s neat that this guy is involved with their child’s schooling. I for one enjoyed it when my dad got involved—I usually learned way more from working with my dad than I did from the problem itself.
If you don't need top level performance, and for a cheap PC why would you, you can get a 1080p desktop sized TV (22 inches) for $80.
I'm glad these unwritten rules are all clearly expressed so that all 3rd graders understand them.

Because if you didn't realize all the things you were allowed to assume at the level of math you are doing, it might be really stressful to be given problem for homework tat's unsolvable in general, but solvable if you make the correct set of assumptions, and think you are expected to produce a solution for it.

Especially that part about 'if it's homework, who cares'. I'm sure kids are very clear on that one.
Ridiculous. If you asked a typical left-leaning person in a blue state where they get their news, the list of organizations they mentioned might be completely comprised of stenographers for the Democrats. That's the bubble. Ask a person on the right, and they're likely to be just as disgusted with Fox as you are, and to have a much more diverse set of sources. They have to.
"But the most amazing thing is that I didn't die. My Starship landed on top of a police car. And it died."
There are very online fora I am aware of that have any kind of arbitration or check on the execution of administrator or moderator authority.

Facebook is one (which is why they will be reinstating Trump's account in the future: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/06/facebook-response-to-overs...).
The mental gymnastics to try to assert that the right to privacy is bad.
That’s effectively what we’re doing by opening in-person schools.
if your employer controls your work computer, they can set it to trust their MITM CA.

cert pinning means they can't do that unless they're also modifying yoru email client binaries.
DARPA is interested in the WIG[1] craft (probably lobbied by Boeing, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad idea for defense investment). This solicitation reads more like a plane that can swim vice a ship that can fly. I always wondered why Russia cancelled their WIG program [2], which was more like a ship that can fly a bit than the opposite. The story behind brilliant Russian engineer Rostislav Alexeyev [3], who championed the Russian WIG is fascinating.

1. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/08/darpa-requests-...
2. http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-Ekranoplan-WIG.html
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostislav_Alexeyev
We handle this by incarcerating all of the lobbyists, politicians, and other traitors engaged in regulatory capture, who have compromised our public health and national security.

Is this your argument for everything? There are lobbyists, therefore let's do nothing? I hope you support ending this sort of legalized corruption in general then.
OpenAI codex solving unseen competitive programming problems
Sugar companies paying for studies on the dangers of fat were a great distraction. Nowadays high sugar content is ingrained in the culture. Some other countries are also increasing their sugar intake. Soda companies in particular drive this phenomenon.
I think that feature was only just added to 2021 model year Subarus. I have a 2019 and after coming to a complete stop it definitely requires the driver to press the accelerator to start moving again.
Honest question: why do people who can put down 6 months of rent stay instead of moving to a cheaper city? That’s what I would do in that situation.
Of course they're not idiots. They're googlers, which means they have a very specific worldview and a work environment that focuses their perception of the universe into a very specific way of looking at things, where "scale" is both the cause and solution to all problems and of course attackers use whole subnets at a time and need to be shadowbanned appropriately.
3 teaspoons is a tablespoon.
I have a Mamiya 645J and a Yashica Mat 124G and some old accordion type cameras more for show. I haven't used any of them in at least 20 years. I developed my own film too but only black and white not colour it's so much harder to get into.

I would feel so self-conscious now if I took them out they are so obviously a camera compared to stealthy cameras on phones.

There's so much knowledge need to take a great picture the composition, light levels, shutter speed, focus. It sounds simple but even with everything perfect I could never get a good picture.
You're moving goalposts. First you claimed that this wasn't censorship, now you're saying okay it is but it's fine for them to do so here. Censorship is unacceptable in private messages, there's already reporting functionality.
That's absolutely the problem. The current equilibrium is the results of an arms race. If any one manufacturer just cut sweetening by 50%, they'd be be screwed. We'd have to do it all together to reset everybody's tastes, and that's unlikely to happen.

It's a similar dynamic to advertising. In theory, advertisements give us new information about products. In practice, the biggest spenders are companies you've heard of pushing products you're familiar with. Approximately everybody on the planet knows what a Coke takes like but they spend $4 billion per year, or about 10% of annual revenue. Would consumers like it to be 10% cheaper? sure. Would Coca Cola Inc like $4 billion extra in profits? Most definitely. But they have to advertise because their competitors advertise, so we're all stuck in a wasteful equilibrium.
Are claims that sugar consumption has been declining in the US for decades true? https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/heatlhyfoodamerica/pag...
All the passé options still work fine :)

But yes. It's true http clients have churned quite a bit. Other things are settling better, for instance Ecto, Phoenix, Jason are very popular and stable.
What exactly do you have in mind when you say clean slate?
Your point might make sense for web facing software because programs where lives are actually at stake are written in Ada or a subset of C with rigorous static analysis and engineering processes.

Now, it can't be denied that C and C++ are weak from a security perspective and that they should be avoided for network software as much as possible. But the problem with your take is the subtle implication that Rust is "safe" (not just memory-safe) when in fact there is no empirical evidence or track record of Rust being successfully used in anything remotely mission-critical. I mention this because you brought up the bridge example when it is also possible that due to language complexity that the new "bridge" built in Rust would turn out to be even fragile (but just memory-safe).

Just the other day, there was a Rust GUI library posted here. The library uses a convoluted event handling mechanism of passing enum values as messages and additional book-keeping burden instead of straightforward closures just so that the compiler can prove the code is safe (just memory-safe, mind you). It is possible that because of such contortions required to pass the compiler, Rust could fare worse in the "general correctness" area[1]. It is just that we don't know yet. Even the particular safety issue that is mentioned in the GP comment could be solved by having built-in slice types and mandatory bounds checking (like Zig/Go/D). As usual, C/C++ have terrible defaults.

Again, I agree that there is a need for secure alternatives to C and C++. But the contention is whether Rust is that. Even Rust is actually far from optimal in the "safe systems language" space. There might be languages in the future that are as fast as Rust but more ergonomic. Microsoft Research, for example, is creating a research language named Verona[2] that aims to be memory-safe and concurrency-safe. There are also other attempts like Vale[3] that aim at this space. It is premature to think that Rust is the final evolutionary step in the landscape of systems language and suggest for everything to be moved to Rust ASAP. It often appears like reckless fanaticism.

[1]: There is, in fact, few "anecdata" of Rust being less reliable:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24027296
https://dev.to/yujiri8/it-seems-like-rust-software-us-bad-hk...

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...

[3]: https://vale.dev/
My favorite is the golf courses in the middle of a desert. Boggles the mind, especially when one realizes that we haven't even managed to provide clean drinking water to all the people on this planet yet, but we'll pump it in to the middle of Arizona for a golf course for rich pricks.
In particular I'd shoutout ggplot as an amazing DSL for graphics. It truly is a language of itself for describing visualizations as mappings from data to graphical layers. And yet being a library it seamlessly interacts with the rest of R just as you expect
Even with 3DS challenges, people are persuaded out of their one-time passcodes by phishing, using an increasingly elaborate series of text-message and voice-call based deceptions. I hate the term, but search for “smishing” and there’s a bunch of material explaining the exploits.

Depending on the region, only a small fraction of payments are enrolled in the framework to do that validation / challenge anyway, it’s been expensive to adopt and a lot of card acceptors are still nervous about abandoned carts and lost revenue.

Aaaand that’s not to mention good old fashioned stolen cards, counterfeiting and at the other end, full-scale identity takeovers.
Many security features are still bypassable by using the legacy system that should have been supplanted by now. It is a constantly-evolving (and frustrating) field.
I wish these phones had better US band support. Or that there were comparable phones for specs / price.
Considering that the current production release runs into stopped emergency vehicles, seems like they already pushed out untested code to the general population. That's a pretty basic thing that should have obviously been part of their testing from the start. If it wasn't, I'm not feeling particularly good about the idea that their production releases are "tested".
Is there a way to buy or really otherwise obtain their operating system and/or browser?

I have clicked around, and I read a lot of enthusiastic
descriptions, but how does one use it?

Is it only available if you buy the computer, they have designed which you can't buy?

I feel like I have clicked around in circles several times without gaining an understanding of how or when it was possible to use them?
It would be interesting to plot the amount of sugar added to various food staples over the years.
Other countries (Finland I think?) have had success getting 80% of the homeless population off the street. 80% is a lot better than 0%.
Except in the United States that will never be done voluntarily by the manufacturers or most consumers, we just had two years now proving "freedumbs".

The only "solution" is the cigarette model, all food now has an "added sugar" nutrition label, add a dollar to price for every added gram.

Those dollars go towards health care fund for sugar based diseases.

If you don't eat sugar-added foods, great for you and you don't pay for it. Just like the cigarette model (except goverments siphon cigarette taxes for everything except cancer/copd treatments).

Manufacturers will then also make low or no sugar foods that cost way less because they don't have any taxes.
Congrats on being introduced to the world of Philip. I’d like to humbly recommend ‘Einstein On the Beach’. It’s probably the work of his that I come back to again and again. It takes a while to digest completely, but when experienced in it’s element it is stunning and stands out as an utterly original work.
Remember kids, if you don't get caught, it's not a crime.