skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago HN front page had this article about the RNA sequence in the vaccines:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

They use DNA printers to produce the RNA. Just like electronic voting machines without a paper trail I do not trust the RNA sequence is the same as what clinical researchers developed.

RNA can do more than just produce proteins:

https://knoji.com/article/list-of-11-other-types-of-rna/

Can I say what type would be used to do something nefarious? TBH I have no idea, but the possibilities seem limitless. That’s why there’s so much funding around RNA vaccines now - they could potentially cure almost anything.

Compare that with inactive virus vaccines like China’s Sinovac. The ingredients are well-known, you can’t change a dead virus to do anything crazy like alter gene expression, if they added something harmful to the vaccine it would be very obvious. Also China even open-sources their inactive virus vaccine and exports raw materials to other nations to manufacture them: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-01/12/c_139661608.htm

A plot to add some "secret sauce" to a vaccine wouldn't work in that scenario. So I can trust open-source inactive virus vaccines. I can never trust an RNA vaccine until I can verify the RNA code in it. (equivalent of a checksum in software). So until we have DNA printers at home I’m not taking it.
Cool. A few questions, don't feel obliged to answer all of them: Is it a custom instruction set? What are similarities / differences to desktop vector instructions like sse/avx (or tpu etc "neural processors")? What's the sw/compiler stack like, how easy is it to port software, or is sw more commonly custom written for the platform?
They saved 6.8B seven years ago. If they put that money in broad market index, they already made the fine amount by now and then some.
Apple employs 90,000 people in the US; there are two complaints, one of which was filed by someone who has an extensive axe to grind: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

I'll let you make up your own mind about the likely merits of their specific complaints.

As far as the article and it's headline, "U.S. labor agency investigating..." is clearly intended to imply that existence of such an investigation is notable, when in fact:

"The NLRB receives about 20,000 to 30,000 charges per year from employees, unions and employers covering a range of unfair labor practices described in Section 8 of the Act."
How do you handle domain events that are the composition of columns of different tables?
In 2017, I interviewed with Elizabeth Holmes to be Head of Finance at Theranos
Emacs? But the syntax is so regular all you need is indenting and paren closing.
Funny, I was just thinking about murder ballads earlier today. I enjoy British folk rock (especially Steeleye Span) and murder ballads are pretty common there.

I think my favorite version of the "Omie Wise" song is by Pentangle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPLBJi3foKE.

My favorite song of theirs, "Cruel Sister" is also a murder ballad, also with drowning, albeit with fantastical elements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wf8W45l8k8
It's not a benchmark. It's a point to show that at some point individuals can't stop the giant machinery of the state even though individuals disagree. Some police tried in Germany, I'm sure, a lot of them died most likely and still look what managed to happen.
I would love to be able to use chicken on a regular basis, but unfortunately it is an enormous pain to get it install on a system at the same time as mono because the mono c# compiler and the chicken scheme compiler have the same name [0].

0. https://bugs.gentoo.org/645728
So they reinvented Nix except badly?

(Eventually people will come around to the Nix model. Especially because it's, essentially, like what happens when you install apps on phones.)
Tasmanian here.

Not just NSW, Victoria has officially given up as well.

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews said just yesterday covid zero is no longer possible.

Tasmania will receive a repatriation flight from the UK next week, 100 people have n to hotel quarantine in Hobart. I won’t be surprised if it leaks in to the community.

The vaccines we have are not sterilising. They don’t prevent infection nor transmission, looks like they only reduce the severity and transmission.

Australia has definitely lost this fight, the virus will spread to all states, it’s just a matter of time.

Quarantine is leaky, people will mit perfectly abide by restrictions.
> it's just not even a choice and I struggle to see how any one would chose a the former as a preferable option.

What if you do not possess a smartphone? What choice do you have, then? Are you just forced into hotel quarantine or do they lend you a smartphone? (Genuine question.)
Yes I think You are right, even before 1968. I believe FD Roosevelt managed to convince the press not to photograph him with crutches or in a wheelchair. There is no such thing as an honest fair and impartial press or politician.
I don’t want to reduce the rest of her message, which is sobering, but the photos were on a work device that she was encouraged to use as a personal one.
For better or worse, Australia is a federal state and individual states have a wide degree of freedom to impose rules on their populace.

I'm a little surprised we didn't see similar moves in the US, but COVID spread so quickly there that it would have been kind of meaningless. The maritime provinces of Canada, though, had a very similar arrangement at one point, effectively cutting them off from the rest of the country.

All that said, I do think Australia is on a very slippery slope here and the current government is no fan of civil liberties. The restrictions on leaving Australia are particularly indefensible.
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I've been saving my ire for business, media, and political leaders pushing denialism for ideological and crass personal/political reasons. The hapless people that believed them and died as a result are their victims. The doctors and nurse that had to deal with that are victims as are the family left behind.

On the other hand you have a huge contingent of people in the US who pride themselves on being basically ungovernable. I'll point out countries that were successful dealing with covid are either authoritarian. Or have populations that are governable.
> We also do not carry persistent surveillance tool to control whether we do not steal or assault, so why not handle quarantine the same way?

That's an easy answer. Consequences.

When one single person not following the rules can force the entire state into a lockdown (as was the cause in NSW) the trade off makes a lot of sense.
> But that's the goal right?

Part of it.

Human doctors will not only tell you if there's something funky in the image, but will also interpret it in light of a patient's medical history, symptoms, possible diagnoses, etc.

Subtle shading near some structure involved in one of two possible conditions might be very important, but an obvious cyst in an unrelated organ likely means nothing. People are weird close-up!
Genuine question: has any subreddit actually ever managed to "come back" after being quarantined? As far as corrective actions go, it just doesn't seem like there's much of a distinction between "killed now" and "deliberately smothered to death", right?
That's basically an involuntary loan.
I picked up Common Lisp mostly because it intrigued me and there’s a decent market for Clojure and Haskell. Google Flights is still based on a CL flight search engine. Walmart processes all their receipts with Clojure. Target does a bunch of data sciency stuff in Haskell.
Sometimes I just hate the internet and its extreme bouts of populism. Everyone wants to air their dirty laundry in public and the Twitter masses celebrate it. We love the clicks, we love the drama, we love hating on Apple, or Google, or this guy or that girl. "Did you hear what he said?" or "Did you hear the rumor that..."—it's a high school cafeteria for adults. We get so caught up in other people's lives, we forget to pay attention to our own.

And we thought reality TV was bad.
> It's only NSW that's struggling (which co-incidentally is the state giving people the option of quarantining at home with the use of this app).

Actually it is South Australia, which is COVID free.
Two months later, 2021: Biden retreats disastrously to rebels armed with second-hand AK47s
I even do a minimal version of SXML in python, using python's lists, because it's much better than the DOM/builder way.

https://github.com/dgoffredo/dgoffredo.github.io/blob/372300...

You could do the exact same thing in javascript.
Do people from elsewhere continue to want to immigrate to the US? Do you find yourself wanting to immigrate elsewhere?
Ah, thanks, updated.
In some countries it is allowed to vote, but your employer or landlord may request you to prove to you that you voted for the „right“ guy by sending them a picture of your filled out ballot.

A feature like this (properly implemented) could actually be great for those countries.

The slippery slope argument still applies of course.
> Australia, despite being a wealthy country with strong ties to vaccine manufacturing nations, did not prioritize these vaccines and instead has relied on rolling lockdowns and other invasive measures.

I think most people in Australia would strongly agree our vaccine policy was a complete and utter disaster. Probably the most expensive mistake in Australia's history.
Fun fact, Reddit admins are very light on the moderation, allowing you to make these genuine comments, while the volunteer moderators run the subreddits how ever they like, most of the subreddits censor extensively.
It isn’t a miracle. The site uses an unusual land grab / moderator power structure in the subs.

Reddit “pays” moderators through cachet to do unreasonable amounts of work.

Then, Reddit runs ads between all the highly curated posts, earning revenue off the backs of these mods.

It wasn’t so bad a few years back. The ads were mild and there were zero dark patterns.

Today, the setup seems more off balance than Amazon delivery driving was this spring.

It makes sense an IPO would be planned, they are pumping revenue.
It's about power efficiency, not total power draw. Use less powerful fans with an inefficient setup and you're not cleaning your air as well. Engineers put thought into chassis design and motor/fan specs.

For this same reason I decided to get a used box from a reputable, long lasting company with top of the line CADR, and I can find plenty of aftermarket HEPA filters that are compatible.
Probably true, however it is possible that in a system where money is everything, not being able to afford food, although it's being given for free anyway, cold be enough to turn someone suicidal.
Not the first time that happened...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis

In B.C. alone an estimated $4 billion in damage has occurred to over 900 buildings and 31,000 individual housing units built between the late 1980s and early 2000s, establishing it as the most extensive and most costly reconstruction of housing stock in Canadian history.
“Voluntary” can also mean compulsory. Unless you’re willing to risk going to prison or having your livelihood destroyed by not turning in your weapons.
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In Denmark, because they’ve reached an 80% vaccination rate.
https://archive.is/cBFKD
If it's perfectly possible, please do so. I don't think it is.
It is not necessarily a choice people make. I mean, as with everything, people make choices that lead to risks that you can uncharitably blame them for, but people don't necessarily directly make the choice to live with an HOA.

Common sense should tell you every organization has a beginning.

I moved to where I am now, a couple of years ago, with the understanding there was no HOA.

However, it turns out there was what I'll call a "shadow" HOA - an informal group of people that would like to be one but don't have official standing (yet).

Due to some recent events, they are trying to make it official, have instituted a mailing list, have mentioned possibly having voluntary donations to support the legal costs, etc.

I don't think real estate agents selling homes in the neighborhood are necessarily telling people what's going on either.
The photos were on a company phone, owned and supplied by Apple, for company use.

According to the story, the contents of her work phone were legally required to be turned over under as part of the civil discovery process in a trial.

Apple does not require you to use company devices for personal, sensitive data, and in fact, is quite clear about the risks inherent in doing so.

Nevertheless, she chose to store nude photos on a company device, mixing her company communications with personal communications.

How are the consequences of her inappropriate use of company resources Apple's fault?
The IRS can not only give you civil penalties like fines. They can also give you criminal penalties. They also have their own courts where you almost always lose.
He says it’s not about climate. So why is Bill Gates investing in farmland?
Their historical record is much better than other countries, but the worst day being today raises some pretty serious questions about whether that record is likely to continue. In terms of a day to day comparison, France today reported 17,000 cases and 83 deaths among a population of 67 million - a bit better in terms of deaths, a solid chunk worse in terms of cases, but definitely not the wild orders-of-magnitude difference that Australian policymakers hoped to maintain.
Also XNA isn't an engine.
India’s startup hiring frenzy: A tale of premium salaries, bidding wars
I wonder if there is a safe harbor provision that could protect companies like Spring if they were to be less zealous.
The Murdoch press is mostly opposed to anything progressive governments (eg Victoria) do.

Once the conservative government in NSW implemented lock downs they were (mostly) suddenly on board.

This of course is more of an indictment than them just being opposed to lockdowns. They aren't opposed for ideological reasons, just for political convenience.
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Coding often gives feedback on your plan and design. You may not see its flaws as long as its only in your head or on paper. When you write the code and try to run it on your computer you often realize something is wrong with it.

Architects do a similar thing, they visualize in their heads and on paper, but then they also actually build 3D small-scale prototypes to get feedback on their design.

So I would say that coding can also be an important part of the design process. It is not just transliterating what's in your head to code-files on the computer, it can help improve the design which is in your brain.
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> Also, you can't work for the feds if you ever touch the ganja, which is ridiculous

I believe it is possible to get security clearance after cessation of drugs for multiple years, even drugs like Heroin. I found the full rules[0] while reading an AMA on /r/SecurityClearance.

[0] https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/Regulations/SEAD-4-...
My experience in taking to Schemers is that Schemers tend to think more in terms of a more normal “put code in a file and load the file” mindset. (Matthew Flatt of Racket fame is known for “the toplevel is hopeless” which has implications for the sorts of features necessary for truly interactive development.) CL, Clojure, Smalltalk are more on the REPL-driven development side of things.

Discovering this philosophical division was a bit surprising to me when I first started talking to Lispers outside of my CL bubble.
Modifying each application to add active-active replication sounds like a nightmare. I would seriously question where these requirements are coming from.
The amount of human capital that has gone into financial engineering is depressing. Thousands of brilliant minds who are designing complex financial products instead of useful technology.
Reading up and down the chain of comments and seeing your responses, I want to point out that your perspective alarms me, greatly.

There is no room for debate or testing how deep your beliefs are, because you’ve been clear on your position - so from a communication perspective you’re good.

From a perspective of self-determinism, I think you’re my antithesis.
> It has less friction than dealing with bank transfers between countries

I'd wager that you're wrong. At least in transfers between most European countries.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
The article doesn't seem to touch on this, but a psychiatric nurse from Minnesota noted that young children are going as far as resorting to self-harm to cope with the stress they are experiencing. Students are being required to wear the masks and being told that they are responsible for "killing other people around [them]" if they pull their mask down or refuse to wear it. It's nothing short of child abuse, and frankly quite disgusting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaLbowim9E
> It is understood that that limits on freedom of movement are, generally speaking, a bad thing. This doesn't mean they should never be put in place.

Yeah. The last year and a half has been a foray into the "gray areas" of our freedom that anti-maskers like to pretend doesn't exist. But if you take the argument about free travel to its logical end, we should have open borders between all nations and unrestricted migration. Of course, most of them are not on board with that idea, because one way or another we've agreed that restricting free travel serves the public interest. Covid is another instance where some countries have reached the same consensus.
What is meant by operation validation here? (I'm not familiar with graphql)

edit: according to most explanations it's about catching accesses to nonexistent fields, cycles, and other things you'd like a nice error message from - would be interesting to hear some security relevant cases.
Prompts one to ask what the incentive is?
Hmmm. Based in Brussels.

Why do I have to think of Nostradamus and The Mark of the Beast now? ;->

Besides that, I don't really understand what it improves?

I have that already. Be it via browser from desktop, via phone(Landline!(by talking to a human!)), or some crappy app on some f---ing gadget:

SEPA number, amount of money, some text, optional time and date(for not being instant), bzzzzt, there!

(Since about 2 years?)
That statement wasn't about politics at all. Let me put it another way: Had he been trying to get clearance for a normal position, he would probably not have received it.

I also never said he had access to everything. Nobody has access to everything. Not arguing for a shadow government--it's already a fact. It happened when classification rules went from "what would harm national security" to "what would cause problems if American citizens found out we were doing this."
Cracking heads. The rest is just PR.

They don't work for you. They know they don't work for you.
Dumb idea. You want to watch them work to solve. The insight gained watching is more valuable than whether they get the right answer or not.
I read a few articles in the past year, since supply issues first began showing up, praising both Apple and Toyota for being less reliant on supply chains out of their complete control.

In the last week, I've read several more doomsday articles like this one warning us it's going to get worse before it gets better, and both Apple and Toyota have been mentioned as now having to delay releases or scale back sales targets.
Eh. I feel like they can probably get a cheaper loan from somewhere else.
Given the capacity of hospitals to treat everyone, assuming we can max them out, it takes about 40 years til everyone has it, assuming in those 40 years, there are no additional births.
We are in the midst of a holiness spiral and you dare question the cargo cult science at the center of all of this?

It's never safe to be a heretic in the midst of a holiness spiral.
I think when you get home and your key doesn’t work on the lock, it might tip you off.
Deanonymizing the internet is regulatory capture for the advertising industry. Good news for Facebook and Google. Time to fight
> designing complex financial products

who's to say it wasn't useful? after all, somebody paid for this complex financial products, so objectively speaking, they must have found it useful enough to have paid for it.
Watching the protests in Sydney and Melbourne, it appears the Police are extreme eager to bring violence and force, and all too happy to enforce more and more.
The discount rate is usually based on a risk free asset. They could have put it in an index and ended up with a 30-40% decline in value as well.
Deanonymizing the internet is regulatory capture for the advertising industry. Good news for Facebook and Google. Bad news for the people that it harms. Time to fight
He knows eventually there will be shortages and the price of food will go up. Also he wants people to eat plant based burgers instead of beef based for health reasons. As the population grows farms can't breed enough animals to eat, but plants grow like weeds.

https://youtu.be/-k-V3ESHcfA
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Hello, my fellow Dijkstra Fan! I too started to push myself to use pen and paper before coding because i was inspired by his EWDs. Being one of the greatest proponents of Method/Discipline/Rigor in Thought i figured it would be wise of me to emulate the Master unquestioningly. And it worked!

I think a lot of people here are not getting the gist behind the use of pen and paper; so let me try to summarize it;

* They do not limit the concrete expression of any concept/thought that you might have. You can use text, symbols, invent new symbols, connect them in any fashion you choose etc. etc. They are free form and become an extension of your mind. See also the book; The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better.

* They force you to slow down your thoughts i.e. still your chaotic mind and help focus on the problem and its various aspects. This is invaluable in today's world filled with distractions. The books by Cal Newport are applicable here.

* If you choose to make your notes public, it adds another layer of discipline to really understand the subject matter since you have to anticipate possible objections and have the answers ready.

* Finally, they help clear your mind of the inessentials allowing you to ruminate and manipulate the essentials more effectively. Yet ancillary data is always available as needed.

If you look at History, all the greats wrote prodigiously. I firmly believe that it was one of the defining factors which directly led to their eminence. I was first inspired by the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (get the 2-vol large prints by Dover) before i started noticing the pattern.

PS: I read somewhere that Dijkstra wrote one of the first Operating Systems; The "THE" Operating System by hand on paper!
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It's time to tie alll Fees/Fines to 1040 income.

(Patent fees, DMV fees, judicial fines, municipal code citations, school tuition, and even property taxes, etc.)
No, that isn’t what “objectively useful” means.

Wealthy people pay for this engineering because it helps maintain and increase their wealth. That’s about it. There is zero societal benefit from something like a CDO.
The Prime Minster saying "we're not in a race to get vaccinated, there's no rush" was also a major contributing factor.

He specifically said there would never be drive-thru vaccine sites, no "mass vaccination" centres, etc. etc.

He honestly thought a head in the sand approach would be best, and now over half of Australia's population are in a strict lockdown (can't go more than 5km from home) because of his uselessness.
It happened in Los Angeles:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/17/los-angeles...