skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was possible to keep covid entirely out of remote populations like Iceland, NZ, Australia using biosecurity measures. Actually turned out to be almost embarrasingly easy compared with the reality in many countries. It is not practical, economical or desirable to maintain this status forever but it is nice to know we have that capability and many other countries don't.

All we can do is get fully vaccinated, have good public health measures such as masks in high density areas and isolation of sick people (with income support) and that is about it. When we hit 80% full vaccinated here in Australia the non-essential flights are going to resume and states that have maintained Covid zero for nearly 2 years are going to be asked to give that up. It is a public discussion we are having here and I think people are accepting. The arguments are mostly about when and how we pull down the quarantine measures rather than if we will do it. I think we are walking into this with our eyes open.
Materials to get lights on are getting scarce
Appears to me that you've already answered your own question and my advice to you is that you should trust your instincts.
Over three millennia ago, humans had the Bronze Age, which included two global markets (copper and tin) and had international trade without any central authority setting the prices.
Anybody serious has moved from "perimeter security" to "zero trust" in network architecture. We need to treat more of the real world the same way.
Effects of Ivermectin therapy on the sperm functions of onchocerciasis patients [pdf]
In the classic formulation, a “shopkeeper” is not only an expert in the product, but also in matching product to people. Someone can come in and say “I played Grim Fandango and Monkey Island when I was a kid and I want something like that for my kid but with modern graphics” and they can say “Have you tried Machinarium?” But this cant exist without some business model for the shopkeeper.
>This isn't the Hotmail age where everyone expects free email.

Protonmail does offer a free tier, which is the problem. I'm sure they would be happy to take a payment instead, as the whole point of phone verification is to impose a cost on account creation. Perhaps they can rework their account registration flow to offer the ability to upgrade to a paid account at the verification step.
I appreciate the direction Charlie is going with these lists.

The best creativity tends to come from restricted/limited choices. By making a general list of stereotypes and tropes ahead of time, it will help to come up with unique ideas or to selectively pick the trope of choice to advance the story.
I was involved in a massive study (n=40k) of Canadians related to financial matters. In Canada, just over 50% receive financial advice from a financial professional (advisor, accountant, etc). However, a mere 40% of those receiving advice (in 2014 it was ~30%) are aware that those professionals charge for their services (they all charge!). In the same research we asked a financial literacy quiz with basic questions about debt, investment, and common retirement products and it was extremely rare for anyone (other than a very small contingent of saavy 30-something males) to get all the answers correct.

Questions about debt are the most often misunderstood. When regulators ask us what we think - we have the same answer for them as the companies that paid for the research: engage Canadians and teach them about financial literacy - it should be part of the high school curriculum! If this is happening in Canada with it's rather high rates of education, it's probably happening in a lot of other places too.
I'm not sure 7 years is necessarily the ideal number, but overall I love this idea, since companies currently have no built-in incentive to provide long-term software updates (and, arguably, have a strong disincentive, as not providing software updates may make it easier to sell profitable hardware upgrades).

On the Apple side it generally hasn't been so bad (the iPhone SE has gotten 5 years of updates, which is pretty much unheard of in the smartphone world), but Android still remains pretty miserable in this regard. You're lucky if you get one major version upgrade during the life of your phone.
Lie that you care about user privacy, give sucke- I mean, users' data to law enforcement anyway, blame the users when they get nailed due to your snitching. It's a perfect business model!
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stored procedures/functions in javascript, out of the box ?
> bioavailability

Are there estimates available that you find more compelling? I’ve been using PDCAAS as my metric since its the standard for daily value on nutrition labels.

Context: vegan for ~6 years, barbell strength training for a couple months now, and trying to eat to support muscle growth.
I think several of the responses to your comment are misguided. If you believe them you'd think that the reason this is to be expected for Rust (and even normal! good!) is that (a) Rust is a systems language, (b) Rust deliberately has a small standard library, and (c) it doesn't matter anyway because compiles are cached.

I'd say, first of all, that it does matter, because very few projects with hundreds of (transitive) dependencies are going to be able to take security sufficiently seriously. And because minimizing the number of other projects you rely on is good engineering (see: left-pad).

I don't think the other two explanations are much better. Compare C as an example. With C you can use libcurl which is well-maintained, actually supports far more protocols than simply http(s), and uses far fewer dependencies to do it. It also runs on an insane number of platforms, so portability isn't the issue here either.

I think it primarily comes down to cultural differences. Rust is a newer, "cooler" platform, and attracts a very different audience than C does. Because of that Rust's users will be more apt to follow common modern programming practices: using a language's built in package manager and so on. (This culture both contributes to the development of languages like Rust and is fed by them.)

Remember the XKCD "Python" comic? [1] Python is what I would consider an older language in terms of culture, but it captures the idea of being able to just import a library that can already magically do everything you want. "Programming is fun again", you don't have to write boilerplate or worry about managing dependencies any more. The problem begins when everyone has that attitude, including the people writing libraries that will be used by others. Importing a library that can instantly solve your problem is just one line in your Cargo.toml away - who cares that it's got 200 dependencies!

[1] https://xkcd.com/353/
I think the language team has done a great job. Rust may look a little ugly on the surface if you're just getting into it, but I'm super thankful they opted to require functions to always spell out all type signatures. Generics can get a little overwhelming but like any other skill, it just takes a few hours/days of practice to learn how to read them.
Note-Taking Strategies and Their Practical Implementations
Someone said the exact same thing to me when HCQ was pushed with bad quality studies by certain doctors to Fox News hosts who then pushed it to Trump. Higher quality studies later found it wasn't useful. So there.
Probably less than a fortnight in total? I'm in South Australia. We had a six day lockdown in Nov 2020 that was lifted after 3-4 days.

There was a week-long lockdown in July coming straight after school holidays, so it was like getting a bonus week.

There have been many changes for things like wineries and restaurants, and limits on home gatherings at times, but I assume that's pretty standard worldwide.

Currently with risk of delta arriving from interstate, I wear a mask entering a public space, but that's about it. We're comparably isolated though compared to the rest of the world, and have strict policies for international travel (quarantine on your return that costs thousands of dollars).

There are strong restrictions back in early 2020, but I think we'd taken our kids out of school voluntarily, and I don't know if there was ever a full lockdown.
If you are using SQLite and care about performance, be sure to run in WAL (Write Ahead Log) Mode: `PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;`[0]. WAL mode is significantly faster and does not have a "stop-the-world write lock" ("Reading and writing can proceed concurrently"). WAL mode is also more efficient with disk I/O, which makes it faster for single user applications as well.

[0]: https://sqlite.org/wal.html
> Engineering said that it would not be logistically feasible to offer a fully online option, citing a relatively small number of students in Hasan’s situation and the difficulty of recording separate online lectures.

That's almost malicious and here's why.

What happens if a student catches covid? They stay at home and just miss class for 2 weeks? What if a student is a close contact? Do they still go to class or do they stay at home? You're incentivizing students to go to class despite possible exposure.

My school has mandatory vaccinations and is a small school but 1 week in there's already 68 positive cases. Thankfully everything is live streamed and stored for future viewing, and some classes will also host a zoom with a TA for live questions during lecture.
I am fairly law abiding except for when it comes to the intersection of a vehicle and a heavy pedal.

But

Configuring logging on a user's IP address information on a private email service for what appears to be a fairly petty crime seems rather like dropping a nuke on an ant, both on the side of the French/Europol LE, and also for Swiss authorities, and then Swiss companies to be responsive to something so petty.

For something this "Organizing a Climate Camp" [1] involved I'd expect at least a serious felony, or a dramatic terrorist incident with loss of life.

If the crimes involved are truly so minor, it raises the spectre of what would they do for an actual serious crime?

I hope I am misreading this......

[1] https://www.liberation.fr/terre/2020/09/27/camp-climat-a-par...
You’d be surprised how many weapon systems used by the US military were not developed domestically.
Unique, inconsequential details and themes immaterial to the plot line add texture and realism to a work. Otherwise, characters and scenes appear shallow, boring, and generic.
What is your argument in a sentence, in plain language? There were many obscure words used and the writing seemed to go in circles.
I feel like Greg Egan manages to do both very well (e.g. in Diaspora or The Arrow of time series)

On the movie side, interstellar spends a lot of time on making things scientifically accurate, but also examines humanity much more than most sf movies.

So i don't think they're at odds.
They were defiantly a fad 2015 ish with sales booming. They are still around and popular where they make sense but the number of available models and sales have dropped back...still a ton out there obviously though.

There are a bunch of e fat bikes being sold at the moment as part of the e bike trend...who knows how long that one will last.
I’m with you, but I have even less confidence that we can do anything about the disinformation pipeline. Tech companies have attempted to disrupt it by adding notices to potential disinfo, like how Instagram puts an overlay on any story that contains anything that mentions COVID-19. YouTube has started putting little info boxes under videos about things like “the great reset.” Does this stop anyone from getting sucked in? Go browse /pol/ and you’ll eventually see this stuff discussed, and among the deluded, Google putting an info box like that on conspiracy content is even more evidence that it must be true, because Google is in on it.

My sister is a nurse in the COVID ward. The other day she said they had 10 people on vent, 9 of them hadn’t been vaccinated, and that’s normal. Georgia is like 40% vaccinated even though you can walk into any Walgreens and get it. I haven’t really thought through the ethics of it, but I’m frustrated enough to think that if you’re an adult and you deny vaccines until you get COVID, we shouldn’t waste ER resources on you. It’s like we need to create a parallel society for the religious freedom anti-vaxers.
Not my problem. I pay Protonmail to work on behalf of users, and empower users to the extent allowed by law. This includes educating users about the adversarial actions that Protonmail itself can take against them (warrant, rogue employee, hackers). Otherwise I can take my $ elsewhere, email services are cheap.
have you done 23 and me? sounds like you might have some meanderthal in you
> What happens if a student catches covid?

Whatever they'd have done if they caught the flu in 2019.
Hilariously one of the reasons we switch to zt is because tailscale is being an arse in sharing private networks when you're not using a business email (literally felt like a bait and switch).

In zt i had a colleague join the network in less than 5 minutes. Just told him download and install the client, type something on cli. What you see is what you get.
fwiw, Tolkien wrote the trilogy only after fans requested an encore of The Hobbit. The ring's importance/malevolence was a retcon.
Very unlikely in all your examples, exceedingly unlikely the longer the game is played.
In most jurisdictions you can refuse to testify against yourself but you are still required to give up all physical evidence against yourself if an appropriate warrant requests them, the immunity only applies to things in your mind.

Things like hiding or destroying evidence of a crime generally are separate crimes of which you can be convicted even if you're acquitted of the original crime (e.g. burying a corpse in the woods or throwing a gun in the river).

Destruction of evidence with the intent to hide it from prosecution also may enable so called 'adverse inference' where essentially the jury/judge can assume that the destroyed evidence actually showed what the prosecution intended to find there. For example, if you're being prosecuted for possession of child sexual abuse material, there's a warrant for your hard drive, but it gets fully destroyed because you have rigged some device to destroy it (and the prosecution proves that you did that with the intent to destroy evidence) then the court may take it as a fact that the hard drive did indeed contain CSAM and treat it as sufficient evidence to convict you.

In short, self-hosted service on a rented service does not provide much protection.
Don't call it a "HoneyProt"!
Wow, thanks for the recommendation! Very much appreciated.

Happy to hear more angry/fast/chaotic. My repertoire in this department is sadly lacking
I agree that one should not use it for private comms. But many people have to use it, and they would rather not use a provider like MS or Google. For those people, mailbox.org is a good offering (IMO).
That thread [1] is 4 years old. Is there recent credible evidence of ReFS being problematic?

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/67h28o/bit_rot...
And yet, confirmation attacks and traffic shaping by global adversaries are where the actual design flaws lie, inherent to any 'low-latency' (read: performance trumps privacy) anonymizing network, and you know that. Even efforts such as the Invisible Internet Project (I2P) which pile on tactic after tactic to improve upon this, but are too scared to delve in outright mixing traffic, are vulnerable to traffic confirmation attacks.
"Trusting mathematics" would be a much more accurate claim if we were talking about mix networks, such as Loopix (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00536). But Tor is vulnerable to confirmation attacks to varying degrees, (depending on whether you are accessing clearnet or not, of course) which is very much worth noting in the context of a global passive adversary.
I had to agree with this, quite shitty step by step docs lol.

But out of frustration from tailscale we tried it, and once you get it, it's easy
Those 2, and "Plan 9 from Outer Space", are the 3 I generally hear "lauded" as the worst.
Mom and pop shops often just don't offer benefits at all. Go slightly bigger and they'll have a health plan that's easy to enroll in but the premiums and co-pays will make your eyes water.
In our own solar system, not all planets rotate in the same direction.

Venus actually rotates west to east, very slowly. Its year is shorter than its day.

Uranus rotates nearly 90 degrees in relation to the ecliptic.

Mercury rotates east to west, but has a special orbital resonance with Earth. Because its so close to the sun, for decades we could only see it well enough at certain points in its orbit. Because of the resonance, we basically always see the same face which made it appear to be tidally locked. It rotates quite fine, but it wasn't until the last couple of decades of sending probes by Mercury that its rotation could actually be detected.

There's just 3 examples in our own real solar system that disprove the "convention". Not even to mention the hundreds to thousands of other smaller bodies that are unique in their own ways.
So, hum, multiple consciousnesses create the same reality because our bodies, which are part of reality, are similar? Sounds to me this implies reality came first, but I'm just a simple man, not a book-writing philosopher.

... and the good old "visual illusions therefore 'anything'". About the level of argument sophistication I expected.
Burnout is when your mind associates hard work with failure. You have to correlate it with the right things.

Rest doesn't help, and doesn't get rid of whatever put you in the state in the first place. I was burnt after working 100+ hours/week on a startup and half a year of rest didn't help.

So you have to find a way to work really hard and be energized from it. For me, it was a road trip training trainers all over the country. It paid well enough to cover expenses, but I really just wanted to see the country with my wife and kid, and the training company even sponsored a "honeymoon suite" outside the route for a weekend.

Road trips are exhausting but fun. And it was a form of charity, giving back. Something I was uniquely positioned to do after being out of a job.

If you want a framework, I'd say figure out how you can share your talents with the world.
Also a paying ProtonMail customer.

While I concur that it's a bit misleading nothing is stopping you from using your own key and mail client (albeit with their "bridge" solution) to send E2EE e-mails.

If you rely on the keys they generate you can export them and use them accordingly but one should be weary of the handling of said keys if they were compelled to make a backdoor as others have noted.

That being said this does leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Don’t planets rotate west to east? Rotating east to west would make the sun rise on the west. The eastern “edge” has to be moving towards the sun for sunrises to work

Is there a different definition of determining a planet’s east/west side?
One really cool thing in the analytics space is the adoption of columnar data stores. PostgreSQL and MySQL don't do this. (If they can please correct me!). This is for embedded loads, situations where you might use SQLite, there are now really interesting alternatives like MonetDB and DuckDB. Paper: https://hannes.muehleisen.org/SIGMOD2019-demo-duckdb.pdf
This is a hard question to answer.

You can do most anything with the wrong tool.
I'd rather ask the question, when is PostgreSQL or MySQL the wrong tool for the job. I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer this, but I can point you in the direction of a book that has given me a much better understanding of the space.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
Volt is indeed very cool. Michael Stonebraker wrote part of the original Ingres code, didn’t he?
It seems unethical to continue to work as a medical professional and refuse the vaccine, since your chances of catching and spreading the virus to patients is higher if unvaccinated (though, thanks to delta the difference isn't nearly as much as it used to be.)
Well, there's one degree of hierarchial classification.
> Won’t just stop after some time to preserve bandwidth.

All online video players did this (continue buffer until 100%) at the time. It's the simpler and more naive option.

In fact, YouTube was the first to introduce the feature that it didn't pre-buffer the whole thing to save bandwidth many years later, and it was HUGELY controversial in the geek community.
Arrested for what? "Climate activist" seems like emotional manipulation.
I think Mullvad's approach is best. Choose a solid provider, handle encryption yourself. Mullvad use Gmail.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/using-encrypted-email/
Does "more traditional locking" mean that the clients request locks? Isn't it already offered by PG with table-level and row-level locks, and also in an extremely flexible way (letting the client developer define the semantics) by pg_advisory_lock?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.htm...
See, I like this idea. This is the type of thinking I'm paying Protonmail for.
Do you have any professional software experience? Having a portfolio is nice but professional experience is better and makes the portfolio less necessary.

A Java certification will be helpful but only for jobs that use Java. Java is a popular language and if you enjoy it then I would say study for the certification, make a portfolio, and get certified. But certifications aren’t usually necessary or even very helpful for most web development jobs. Most web development jobs involve JavaScript, and to my knowledge there aren’t any JavaScript certifications that any company cares about.
What I don’t miss is the price. Games sold from the cloud tend to be a fraction of the cost just a year after release. The caveat is that you only own a limited license for the game. Still, I prefer the current status quo vs the old days
That's false because the energy capacity for those things was there already, and those things did not grow and proliferate to consume energy the way you see Bitcoin consuming energy.

The problem with those processes is no one is willing to pay for them, ie. no profit incentive. That is a separate issue involving public spending and creating incentives to support industry.

What you've done is imagine ways to spend money/energy that isn't yours for a greater public good, which is pretty easy but otherwise overly simplistic.
> In my state (SA) this is public health data only that is protected from the police by legislation.

Good for your state. This article proves that this is not the case Australia-wide. I have never used the QLD app and never will.
I clicked on this comment section because I knew I'd cry for your heartwarming stories.

I leave very satisfied and thankful for your tales.
Check out DuckDB https://duckdb.org/
Maybe, but some governments are/were planning to ban combustion vehicles. There’s no doubt the big automakers are going to make profits off of their existing technology as long as possible.
You don’t need to insert a backdoor to hack Junipers crappy products lmao.
Something I still fail to grasp entirely: according to the Twitter feed discussed here previously [1] the NSA just wanted Dual EC "in there", even, if nobody would use it, but they could use it. (They would even allow the choice of alternative values for P and Q.) Was this relying on negotiating encryption methods while establishing connections? Or did this imply yet another attack?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28404219
I heard an interview with Bill Roper (of Blizzard fame back in the day), and he said they included junk on purpose to make the box heavier. If people were choosing between new games A and B, some chose based on which box was heavier as they thought they were getting more for their money.