skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, illegal under HIPAA rules but possible precedent under the Affordable Care Act?

With Obamacare:

> Although insurers can’t charge more for health status, they can charge up to 50% more for smoking status [1].

Under HIPAA:

> What are HIPAA's protections from discrimination?

> ... you may not be charged more than similarly situated individuals based on any health factors. [2]

Vaccines are a health status, I would think this move by Delta is illegal, but Covid Emergency Powers has given the green light for all types of discrimination and broken laws.

[1] https://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-smokers/

[2] https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/EBSA/about-ebsa/our-a...
Love these cardiology-specific questions! Low risk would indeed be based on the history, labwork (e.g. renal function), baseline ECG including HR, and EF
not only that, but I remember reading while looking up stuff after an ACL tear that steroids would actually be counterproductive, in that the faster than expected growth of muscle would put more strain on the healing connective tissue and possibly cause reinjury.
It depends on your definition of huge.

Berkeley is a graduate school masquerading as an undergraduate school.

When I went, the undergraduate population was roughly 10k whereas the graduate population was roughly 20k.

The undergraduate school is factors smaller than the largest undergraduate schools.

EDIT: Largest undergraduate schools are around 60k! Even UofT Austin is around 40k.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-lis...

EDIT2: The prestige comes from 1) famous grads 2) the professors who are supported by the graduate students. The undergrads gain from the reflected prestige.
For the average person who isn't as concerned about privacy, Discord is absolutely light years ahead. Personally, I don't mind that Discord doesn't have E2EE or self hosted servers, I think having those would severely degrade the experience. Discord works so well because it's unified and /I don't have to screw around with somebody's poorly self-hosted server on their rural internet. If I want to send top secret messages to people I'll just use Signal.
Welcome to the Firefox Suckfest (2013)
To be fair, Google and Facebook both do plenty of content scanning, but you’re right that it likely doesn’t use the CSAM pipelines. Apple’s pipeline is probably even harder to repurpose since it’s designed very closely for this use case.
In a similar vein this Jason Isbell lyric always sticks with me

> There's one thing that's real clear to me: No one dies with dignity
Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip
Not in the EU, it will be blocked by privacy regulation..
VS Code, TypeScript, C#, F#, GitHub but it doesn't count... I've heard good things about OneNote, I guess.
>Apple controls the software that runs on it but there is nothing that stops you from modifying or hacking it to your heart's content

Nothing except all of Apple's attempts to make that difficult and a bad op sec decision. Oh and let's not forget the series of lawsuits attempting to make jailbreaking considered illegal. Luckily they failed there, but if they could make modifying their software illegal make no doubt that they would.

They don't own the hardware they sell you in the same way a landlord owns a home because they have transferred all physical equity to the purchaser. However, Apple's model really stretches the definition of "ownership". Would you say you own a adobe acrobat because you paid for it, or would you say you own a license to use it? Buying Apple means you own the hardware and license the software that makes that hardware be anything other than a paperweight. It's not a very attractive idea. Kudos to their marketing department.
Parody aside, we actually need something like this.

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of breaking changes to the web platform:

https://github.com/styfle/breaking-changes-web
Couldn’t agree more. I taught myself to program Z80 assembler when I was 11 and have been programming ever since. To solve real world problems you need to also understand the business environment you are in, the politics, the customer needs, the customer politics, the customer business model etc. “Mastering” software development is not only impossible (the field is too big) but also not enough even if you could.
Can someone tell me what the company Panic is all about? I've seen their (neat) building in Portland. And the Playdate sounds cool. That's all I know about them. Is there more?
Right on. If they think you're about to leave, they'll also be less likely to promote you.

Focusing on switching jobs when you already have a stable job puts you in a win-win situation.
Ok. If that is not the reason, then the question becomes what is the real reason.

Some analysts seem to think Apple should be getting into advertising business, which would partially explain some of the proposed updates. Naturally, if that were the case, it would render Apple's commitment to privacy about as useful as T-Mobile's. Then again, I might be giving Apple too much crap. Most companies don't even pretend to care.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-could-be-apples-next-...
does blocking 3rd party cookies suffice to get rid of this ?
How would you feel about advertiser showing booze ads to recovering alcoholics because they're recovering alcoholics? At some point the amount of fine tuned emotional manipulation that ads can exert on people becomes downright creepy. Like dealing with an expert con artist except everywhere and all the time.
Overuse of the word “the” in “Macbeth”
From Teaching to Turing to Silicon Valley
Win2K wasn't that hard to setup, and it got better when XP came out because driver support expanded. I've certainly had more difficulty setting up Linux today than I ever did Win2K in the past.
The cited study explicitly compares previously infected (not vaccinated) individuals to vaccinated individuals, so your claim is wrong.

However I will say, in a lot of the CDC literature they inconsistently refer to "unvaccinated" individuals in a manner that often does not distinguish between those with prior infection and those who are immunologically naive. I think this has been a major point of confusion for the general public who are trying to interpret the results of such studies.
Much of their success was due to heavy rotation on MTV. The album cover had little to do with it in my opinion, was funny but didn't particularly affect the grunge movement as far as I can see.
Ask HN: PIP'd 8 weeks into a new job
I took a remote job 8 weeks ago at a high-growth startup as an engineer (no junior / senior modifier). I was fairly aggressively recruited by the CEO. I've only ever worked remotely because of COVID, and this is the first large(r) company I've worked for.

I had felt the job was going pretty well -- the tech stack is somewhat unfamiliar so I've been getting up to speed and not as productive as some of my team members, and I'd missed a couple morning standups due to timezone differences and insomnia, but I'd been talking to my coworkers often, video calling, etc., and we seemed to have a good rapport, and they'd complimented me on my work multiple times.

I saw a meeting with a person I didn't recognize suddenly appear on my calendar in the morning without any notice. I thought it was weird, but figured they were a new person and we'd just be getting to know each other. They were instead an engineering manager I'd never met before -- not my immediate manager or the CTO.

He started talking about my performance being an issue: that I'd been missing lots of meetings, and not completing enough points per sprint. I was taken aback, it was early in the morning, so I mostly just "uh-huh"'d and agreed with what he was saying, which may have been a mistake. The meeting was also only 30 minutes before I had to demo a feature to the engineering team, which ended up being pretty scattershot as a result.

After the meeting, he sent an email, cc'd to the CTO, my manager, and HR, basically saying the same things: that I needed to have better attendance at meetings and make a certain number of points per sprint, or my employment would be at risk.

I totally understand why those things are important and I've been working on improving both and trying to get up to speed faster, but I was really taken aback by the suddenness: I hadn't heard anything from my manager that there was an issue beforehand (I went back through Teams to check and didn't see anything).

Am I misunderstanding the situation, and this is just how large companies work? What should I say to my immediate manager / other people in this story?
Yeah this checks out for me. Some people at work were pushing to move from slack to discord and I've never felt more like an old man.

UX preferences aside, I think it's a really bad fit for businesses compared to slack, because it seems to also want to be social media, where you have one profile across servers, where slack and others are team-centric.
In fact, depending on where you live, water appliance efficiency has reduced sewer flows to the point where systems stop functioning, since a lot of systems are designed around a minimum amount of flow to make things move.

Most water consumption these days comes from the state's agriculture, which bringing more residents in would not really impact since denser housing would not really go in areas that are rural.
Obligatory. from 2012

"How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did "

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
The issue is the rampant misinformation being passed off as facts. Not opinions on trade offs of Covid harms vs lockdowns.
ElectronNET: Cross platform GUI for .NET 5
I built up my CAD and rendering chops with the free tier of fusion360. Legit and cheap way to learn the basics.
> but the batteries themselves are exactly the same form and function.

They are exactly not the same form:

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/vlCsffdOoZSTCyJy.med...

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/btDJQp5CYXdILTOO.med...

One is a big brick and the other is a set of 4 pouches carefully laid out to let connectors route to various parts of the motherboard. That is precisely NOT the exact same form.

Look at how intricate the battery replacement is for the newest MBPro:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Touch+Bar+2...

There are various terminals that weave in and out of the batteries. That simply is not possible to maintain the same weight and thickness by just carving out one big removal brick as in the previous generation of the MBPro.
GTK 4.4
I'm sure this is nothing new and they're just adding the doctrines of the latest guy to the existing communist ideology education courses.
> advertisements for Nitro when someone was trying to upload a photo

The gifting button is only beside the upload button on mobile, and personally I've never hit it accidentally. To me it just seems like they've made it more prominent, I don't see any intent to trick people into mis-clicking. Like I've said, I have no problem with them trying to make more money, they need to make a profit to keep providing a free service.
IMHO this is really another continuation of the "you will own nothing and be happy" trend that has been around for a while, but companies have started to really push in the last few years. Slowly eroding ownership and normalising mass surveillance is their goal, so they can continue to extract more $$$ out of you.
> All domestic students have to pay AT MOST of 1 year of out of state tuition, because you establish in state residency in your first year here.

Is that sort of thing normal? Not the 1-year time frame, but is it normal that living on campus changes your residency such that you can qualify for in-state tuition? That just seems bizarre; unless you are moving to the campus (or nearby) full time (that is, not "going home" between semesters and during the summer), it feels kinda wrong for that to establish residency.

I grew up in Maryland and went to college in New York, but I never changed my residency to NY. I don't recall any of my out-of-state college friends doing so either (for example, we all kept our home-state driver's licenses).
I have a modest suggestion in the spirit of Apple's move.

As we know, there are people in the world who are running meth labs or creating explosives for terrorists in their homes. In order to safeguard the public, we shall have a detachment of dogs which will sniff everyone's houses every once in a while. When they sense something bad they'll alert their handlers and there'll be a manual inspection before reporting to police.

There's no risk to privacy here - dogs being dogs can't tell their handlers what they sense. We can also show the training publicly so people can verify the iDogs are trained to only sense drugs or explosives. So it's all even more secure than Apple's iPhone scanning! What says you?
Foreign investors are the real issue. It's apparent that some are even laundering their money by purchasing US real estate. Just because the big players are doing so with commercial real estate doesn't mean smaller players aren't doing it with housing. Many houses owned by foreign investors tend to sit vacant full time.

There's even lawyers who specialize in the stuff, telling people to setup businesses and have the house owned by the business to reduce their tax rate.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/a-kleptocra...

https://calmatters.org/housing/2018/03/data-dig-are-foreign-...

https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/a-guide-for-foreign-in...
SoftICE worked with dual monitors for debugging https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftICE
We have a similar situation at my work, but we have all since standardised on using Miro individually on our laptops (even for the people in the physical meeting room). It's just easier, everyone has the same amount of control over what's going on.

Usually the host of the meeting (they're over Zoom) will share their screen, which is then projected onto the meeting room's big TV screen. This allows people to keep track of what the main thrust of the discussion / collaboration is.

For the meeting room participants, we have a single conference room-style wide angle camera + microphone combo in the room, which joins the Zoom session as a single user. The people in the room don't need to join Zoom themselves, they just log onto the Miro board individually. It's very easy to see what's going on, as Miro displays where the other users' mouse cursors are at any given time, and we use the "Bring everyone to me" feature when it's necessary to 'herd the cats' :)
Great pickup - yes indeed, inpatient admission for drug initiation has been the standard for too long (30 years to be precise). We use the standard Fridericia formula preferred for assessing drug risk, but we also use Bazett correction for algorithm validation as it is used more often clinically
No, but it will decrease its effectiveness to some extent. One of the reasons this tech is gaining adoption is that it removes ad tech's dependence on 3P cookies.
From a recent BBC article on immunity, https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58270098

> There is a whole different suite of antibodies (known as immunoglobulin As) in the nose and lungs, compared with those (immunoglobulin Gs) that we measure in the blood. The former is more important as a barrier to infection. Natural infection, because it is in the nose rather than a jab in the arm, may be a better route to those antibodies, and nasal vaccines are being investigated too.

Intramuscular (arm injection) vs intranasal (inhaled) vaccines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28165287

Nasal vaccine trials: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28284504
Nope not at all. I am a Senior Architect, working for a high tech company, and having a formal meeting is really rare. There is almost no middle management. Team leads are trusted, are hands on, and have the full responsibility to deliver. It works extremely well and we routinely outcompete companies 10 to 100 times our size.
Not GP, but as others have described here, you can clone your entire disk to an external one (using an application like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner), upgrade the internal disk, and the restore from the external clone.

When it comes to hardware upgrades of the DIY kind, iFixit (https://www.ifixit.com/) is a great resource with detailed instructions, photos and even videos on how to do them for different devices. The site also sells tools and parts, but you don’t necessarily have to buy from there. For SSDs, OWC (Other World Computing, https://eshop.macsales.com/) has tested parts available for many older Macs.
So when are we going to address the gender pay gap on OF?
We'll have to build an assembly line for them.
Agreed, it was chuckle worthy and made a point. But had zero to do with why I wanted it.
Changing zoning in your neighborhood that you currently live in (and continue to want to live in) will likely change it, so for people to accept that risk they should be given an incentive.. for example within a given neighborhood what if the state gave those areas huge property tax breaks to allow zoning changes? Then there is a trade-off, pay less taxes and then you get something for the potentially different future. Maybe it’s better maybe it’s worse but saying to people “please just allow changes to the zoning” has not worked...

edit: basic thing I was thinking about was giving people incentives for YIMBY pushes in areas.. yea prop13 complicates it, but just wondering if there is any incentive for the folks that live in someplace already or the base assumption is that a very large percentage will vote against it?
No. The reference you provide characterizes it correctly: the FBI wanted Apple to create and sign a one-off build of iOS. The specific request was to allow automated passcode input and remove retry back offs and auto-erase constants.

This is how Apple described the request: “ The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by “brute force,” trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer.”

Or in their FAQ:

“Is it technically possible to do what the government has ordered?

Yes, it is certainly possible to create an entirely new operating system to undermine our security features as the government wants.”
Yep, this is how reality works. Have to be careful about what you ask.

That's why I never bothered asking my company if I could permanently WFH, just went along with everything until I found a new job.
In this case, I carried a phone that works outdoors in typical field conditions, including high heat, cold, and high background noise. iPhones are designed with assumptions that make them inappropriate for outdoor work — they have an operating range that leads to shutdown in outer pockets in the winter or in hot summer conditions.

With respect to the warranty and accessory stuff, I spent several years in that part of the hardware business — a product like AppleCare has 70% margins at retail (minimum), and unbranded cases identical to Apple branded sell for 60-80% less at retail.

Am I wrong about Apple’s abilities to manufacture durable products with different design goals? Maybe, but I doubt it.

MacBook Pros are a great example, when transitioning to unibody design, the MacBook lost replaceable batteries and other components, in exchange for a more structurally rigid frame and a very marginal weight/thickness savings. What they did achieve is a higher margin design by focusing on production efficiency and an attempt to push higher service costs to the consumer. (Which partially failed with the defective keyboards) The engineers produced a product that met its design goals, with the exception of the garbage keyboard.
Can you be certain you had COVID if you only had a positive PCR test? It seems like that’s only circumstantial evidence of infection. I would probably go with the vaccine just to be sure.
I hope not, I don't like the tiny realm vibe I get on discord servers. I find it too stiff and less friendly than most webirc sites (i know irc is not 10% of discord in terms of features but even then I find the added bonuses aren't worth that negative feeling.)
I'm right there with you. I'm increasingly frustrated by the experience of using my various streaming apps. I don't even mind having to bounce between different apps for different content. But just _finding_ the content I want is such a fucking chore sometimes.

One of the most annoying scenarios I seem to find myself in all too frequently is trying to get to the episode list for a series. The assumption that most of my services make is that when I click on the series card in the list of shows, the thing I want is to automatically be taken to where I left off. This is fine when it works (although it's a big damn assumption that the app correctly preserved where I left off, and even when it does that often dumps me into the credits for the episode I finished last night). But when I want to see the episode list, I feel like I just have to flail about and curse at the TV until I stumble upon the right sequence of buttons to get to what I want.

That's not even to mention the incredibly disheartening recent changes to the home screen of my (Shield) Android TV, where half the home screen is now taken up with ads for programs I will never watch on services I don't even use.

It does make one rather miss the days of a folder full of AVIs and VLC. I also had a nice Plex setup at one point. Maybe one of these days I'll get off my ass and heed the call of the open seas.
The reason we're focused on the state of it now is that we can switch at any time - especially if those barriers are shown to be ineffective or are removed at some point.
"But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for homeowners."

http://www.derekchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/s...
Here’s a source with stats: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/florida-covid-deaths.h...

> This week, 227 virus deaths were being reported each day in Florida, on average, as of Tuesday, a record for the state and by far the most in the United States right now. The average for new known cases reached 23,314 a day on the weekend, 30 percent higher than the state’s previous peak in January

Lots more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/florida-covid-ca...
It's the most economically rational decision for a very large voting block, but it is openly screwing entire generations as well.
More than half my neighborhood already gets massive property tax breaks from Prop 13. Some people pay like 1/10th of what a new owner would pay.
Netflix by Bots
Do you mean the common streaming sites that are all over the place now? Or some other better method?
The strict syllable count of the haiku poem is actually a myth. The haiku format is more about feelings in a moment, expressed as a snapshot.

---

Heat waves, drawing to a close

On the horizon, a form appears

haikuOS.employees++;
You can get an antibody or T-cell (https://t-detect.com) test.
> It would be far easier for everyone involved if I just brought a hard drive with new shows around for them every few months.

I do this for my family. 3TB external HDDs, each time I see them they give me the old one and I give them a another one freshly topped up (things added/removed based on suggestions/requests).

It's been a smashing hit and they all love it.

We all loved Netflix when it came out and paused doing this for a while, but it wasn't long until the fragmentation and geoblocking led to more requests for certain shows popping up again, and now we all pretty much got rid of all our streaming services and are back to the HDDs.
I don't think we should choose who gets to speak. What happens when you end up on the wrong-thinking side?

If you want to play the pedant fine, he has a right to speak.

But if people like you would stop judging who gets to speak and where we wouldn't have to depend on Joe Rogan's megaphone, now would we?