skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about the data from Israel that shows efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine dropping to 67.5%?

If so what you are seeing is Simpson's paradox. The same data when broken down by under 50 and 50+ gives 91.8% and 85.2%. Breaking it down even farther by age group gives:

12-15 100%
16-19 100%
20-29 100%
30-39 96.8%
40-49 93.9%
50-59 92.8%
60-69 88.7%
70-79 89.6%
80-89 81.1%
90+ 92.4%

See [1].

[1] https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
The most important thing I have learned is to never approach a situation with preconceptions about the way you think things should be, and instead be absorbent of the moment so you collect the best possible data.
Take full advantage of the system. Smart. These people might never suffer no matter what changes, unless maybe there's some sort of purge.
Most musicians are not making their money from copyright but from performances. Only a tiny % of musicians ever get a record deal. Of those with record deals, the vast majority of the earnings goes to the record label and not the artist.

Earnings from copyrighted musical works probably follows a pareto distribution--something like 90% of earnings are accrued by <10% of copyright holders. So the copyright regime rewards, in order, 1. music distributors, 2. big name artists, and finally 3. most other artists who receive only token earnings.

Music was an idyllic vocation before records and long before copyright. There are many ways to support the arts other than copyright. Grants for public theatres, music education, and street venues would be more egalitarian and benefit more musicians than a copyright regime.
I don't. Didn't realize that paying a living wage was social security.
Corporations want taxes cut to nothing and complain when the public doesn’t want to protect their private property.

Funny how that works.

I notice it’s WSJ complaining.

More “government is inept” sentiment to justify private armies.
Hey, this looks super cool, I'm very interested! But when I tried to sign up, I got a message:

> We're sorry, but something went wrong.

> If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.

https://i.ibb.co/kmmvJ2R/Screen-Shot-2021-09-03-at-6-28-42-P...
There's a Hannibal character with the same surname too! https://hannibal.fandom.com/wiki/Eldon_Stammets
No need to be miserable in a union. If you don't like the union you just don't deal with it. Ignore their meetings & other communication. In the US at least, Per the SC's Janus ruling, public unions can no longer require fees at all, and the same goes for private unions in right-to-work states.
Before the Federal Reserve was formed, there were panics and bank runs every few years. Imagine the suffering of the regular people who lost their money in the panics and the anxiety of everyone with money in banks. The Federal Reserve and FDIC improve our quality of life a lot.
Sometimes I mix cannabis with more dangerous drugs like alcohol.
> Art Coviello is a salesman who headed the company that bought RSA and took the name. It would be a little weird to expect him to meaningfully know what a cryptographer even is.

I don't expect any random person to know, but why would anyone spend that much money to buy that company without doing enough due dilligence to what a crytographer does? I don't imagine they'd be any expert in cryptoanalysis, but you'd likely listen do your own cryptographers on RSA staff, right?
Definitely not localized.

Los Angeles and New York to name two other prominent cities, are drowning in an epic ongoing crime wave.

SF, LA, NYC all have the same malfunction in terms of city governance.

LA -

LA Mag, July 2021: "‘It’s a Puzzle’: Experts Are Trying to Figure Out What’s Causing L.A.’s Crime Wave"

A puzzle. Experts. Ha ha ha ha. Ha. Bullshit.

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/crime-in-los-angeles/

NYC -

"NYPD Announces Citywide Crime Statistics for May 2021"

"For the month of May 2021, overall index crime in New York City rose 22% compared with May 2020, driven by a 46.7% increase in robbery (1,182 v. 806) and a 35.6% increase in grand larceny (2,848 v. 2,101). Felony assault saw a 20.5% increase compared to May 2020 (1,979 v. 1,643), and shooting incidents increased to 173 v. 100 in May 2020 (+73%)."

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0603/nypd-citywide-cri...

Some of that is Covid reductions in 2020 (year over year comps), and some of it is still up considerably over 2019 figures. Murders in May were up 100% vs 2019 for example, burglaries were up around 17%. Felony assaults were up slightly vs 2019. Grand larceny was up about 25% vs 2019.
Probably because "unlimited" is the relevant part to the part of the company that cares - HR. If it was limited, it would need to be tracked. I get the objection to the fact that you can't literally take 200 days off or whatever, but that just feels like pedantry when at this point the colloquial meaning of "unlimited pto" is fairly clear.
Tens of thousands of people die in car accidents per year, nationally, so a few dozen fatalities in exchange for faster self driving progress sounds like a good bargain.
And what is your point?

Everyone has the right to enjoy substances as she/he wants.
No way bruh, you should publish these findings!
It would certainly have a lower chance to, in the sense that it will have been founded in a time period after past generations' unions have gone astray, and so has the benefit of historical experience to work with and to improve, to innovate upon. Certainly tech is an industry that believes better futures are capable of being built, rather than expecting everything to always be the same level of mediocrity.
From homeless to head of a sneaker empire ($100M in sales)
The G League has its own union that isn't the NBPA.

SAG is a weird example. Hard to get in without doing union work. Hard to get union work without being in the union. Can't do non-union work after you're in. The structure reeks of being rigged to temper the rate of newcomers.
This is not much different than the fact that oversleeping during the weekend does not help with the sleep deprivation during the past week... or weeks. One needs to rest. Every. Day.
a union dictates how the work is supposed to be done

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. How do unions dictate the way you perform your duties?
This is actually a really good way to drive home that arrays don't really "exists" in C and are just syntaxic sugar for pointer arithmetic.
If they got better jobs, then wouldn't the overall number of unfilled jobs be the same, since taking the new job would cancel out leaving the old one?
Someone stuffing crack in a joint is not a "pot smoker". They're a crackhead using pot to burn their crack.
Their reported numbers were like 350 last year, compared to almost 17M for Facebook. You could theorize Apple has little CP, except in the Epic lawsuit we saw exec emails released that said the exact opposite. So clearly not much scanning has been going on.
I don't want a conversation. I don't want it, and I don't want to compromise.

Plenty of people think the same.
Weird. If you're the king of the jungle then it doesn't matter what your managers or their emails or schedules say, now does it? Take your PTO and let the rabble do their rabbling, they can't fire you or else they'd be getting rid of by far the best man on their team and they wouldn't want that, right?
Today was my last day at Google
Show HN: I made a total market index for NFTs
"creation of an enterprisewide DevSecOps managed service featuring more than 800 hardened containers for software development"

An infosec manager/exec/director that made software solutions rather than a bunch of policy and powerpoint drivel?

AND he was in the federal government?

I can't believe it. My #1 complaint about practically all infosec orgs in large corporations is that they set policies and review barriers, but don't offer solutions.
That smacks of those harebrained terrorist entrapment plots where the federal and undercover agents are the only members of groups they've "infiltrated".

Scaling up detection also makes it more tempting for bad actors to seed more content to fabricate the appearance of an epidemic. We already have inaccurate gunshot detection systems, field drug tests, and expert bite mark analysis being used to convict people. Would a jury even be able to examine the evidence if it involved CSAM?
How is that possibly Apple's fault? Some people are hypocrites. Some people trust themselves more than their children. You're just stringing together random arguments you've had with people who happen to own Apple products and then trying to blame Apple for it somehow?
Maybe I'm not weighting the management complexity of running different OSes for different devices high enough.

If I upgrade to 2 Gbit internet (recently offered by Google Fiber in my area) a motherboard with only 1GbE would be annoyingly limiting (though I suppose a PCIE card could fix that). I was looking at the RB5009UG because it's relatively powerful (cpu,mem,storage) and has that 2.5GbE to cover my line upgrade, and I could pair it with a CRS305 or CRS309 if I need more 10G switching in the future. Though I admit that a clearer delineation between router and switch might be nice.

I chose 6TB because it's enough to cover my immediate use and it's the lowest $/TB right now (net 24TB is ~4x my current capacity and I've been kinda cramped). The idea is to upgrade to 14TB drives when it's full for a net 56TB. I guess the questions are: How much do I care about the upfront cost difference? ($650 vs $2000) How long before I fill up 24TB? (1/2y?) What will the price of 14TB be when I get there? (<$1300 total?) How much value am I getting from upgrading to new drives? (MTBF) How much trouble will it be to upgrade? I'm honestly not sure how to weigh these.

Is it 'get to pick your own case' or 'have to pick your own case, power supply, memory, motherboard, cooling fans, assemble wire and test it, ...', though I guess these are two sides of the same coin. I'm not afraid of assembling PCs from parts (I've used my own PCs for 10+ years), but if I'm paying a $400 premium for eliminating 20+h of the above tasks + a 1y warranty that doesn't seem like a bad deal to me. Though now that you bring it up I might downgrade to the $1200 Mini X and add a $200 SFP+ card myself.

Thanks for weighing in. :)
Other places, where it matters a lot it's like nothing you've ever seen or will likely see in the commercial sector for decades.

It’s weird how the federal govt is like this across the board. Most things are “fine” being held together with bubblegum and duct tape. Some things matter a lot though, and when they do you get to see really smart people apply themselves in ways that are cooler than the movies.
I had a similar thing -- I wanted to get out of powertrain controls software (engine code) and into the much more lucrative, much longer term AV/driver assistance space. I found a position in the research department, interviewed for it, got accepted and then was blocked by my manager (supervisor's supervisor). This was sold as a "we'll look out for opportunities in 6 months" which (surprise surprise) turned into 18 with no hope in sight and a bunch of ugly reorg on the horizon, so I bailed for a different automaker.
Lol. Thanks for making my day better.

Edit: But to add to the comedy (all comedy is tragedy, and all tragedy is comedy according to the Greeks), that’s pretty much the reason why I don’t take vacations. It’s not going to change anything, so I much prefer to take days off so I don’t completely lose it.

The sadness is hilarious.
I don't see the relevance. Doesn't physics do the job of exhaustively explaining that behavior at this point? (I don't want to minimize that difficulty, as it may get into quantum physics if one hurls enough Socratic bombs at the explanation)

And even if you concoct a bad faith experiment to see how "priming" the water's temperature makes this look similar to the fungi example, doesn't mundane science still already cover that in terms of viscosity?

On the other hand, how would physics explain why fungi primed with high temperature stress recovered more quickly and grew more evenly in mild temp stress than the control group? Furthermore, how would physics explain why that improvement disappeared after 24 hours?

And what about the Beechwood example? What do you think of that one?

That's not to say we should anthropomorphize fungi, only that the experiments are vastly more interesting from a scientific standpoint than your analogy would suggest.
WeChat seems like a pretty big part of life in China and with the know your customer requirements I imagine those accounts are links to individuals. It must be a nightmare to have one canceled.
I'm concerned about lawlessness, but if the only alternative is that $950 theft is a _felony_ that's messed up. This seems more like a case of not being able to deal with crime than lax sentencing.
No, please. I've seen high driving first hand several times. Once after the guy literally told me "it doesn't affect me at all". Proceeded to drive over the kerb and get into the wrong lane.

It is very comparable to being drunk. Some people can in fact handle it, many cannot and severely overestimate their abilities.
One trick that I like is replacing { and } with <% and %>.
All computers use transistors. Should we expose them to the user?

Should we expose to the user the system libraries used by the OS?

Should we expose the source code of the OS? Because the OS is also made from a bunch of files.
It's a poor fit for this role, even if it is in practice what we have available today.

One of my favourite examples is volatile. Volatile is more crazy in C++ but it's pretty crazy even in C. In both cases the standard basically shrugs, "Hope you know what you're doing because we sure don't" and offers no real insight into what this feature promises to do for you. But there is no other mechanism provided for MMIO.

Think of Rust's std::ptr::read_volatile (and write_volatile). These intrinsics do the thing you actually wanted (reading, or writing, a fixed size blob of "memory" that presumably wasn't really just RAM) and thus are important for writing device drivers and so on with MMIO.

[ You may be thinking, "But I need the correct size of blob read or written or my driver won't work", Rust has generics, so these functions are generic over the integer type you're reading/ writing, if you read a u64 that's a 64-bit read, if you write four u8s that 4 x 8-bit writes and so on ]

But C's volatile is a type qualifier instead. Why? Would it mean anything to, for example, integer divide an MMIO fetch by fifteen and write it back? a/= 15; No. So then why make it a type qualifier? When volatile was added to C they'd only just invented simple optimisations like re-ordering so they had no idea this was a bad idea, and it seemed simpler than adding an intrinsic (though not by much) but today we know better.
A small correction, Babashka is implemented in Clojure, not Java, but, as such, it can also make use of Java libraries as part of its implementation. So Babashka can bundle both Clojure or Java libraries inside itself.
Google locks Afghan government accounts as Taliban seek officials' emails
Unfortunately our immune systems aren't that great at dealing with COVID-19. This has been extensively tested over the last year and a half, with the result that well over 4 million people have died (so far).
Yes that third one is a huge problem.
I was looking for a way to pretty print json in postgres today, the simplest I came up with is a 'json_mode.sql' script:

\t on
\pset pager always
\pset format unaligned
\setenv PAGER 'jq .'

then all selects of a json column are readable.
That's more like a config file for the existing, absolutely incredible, immune system sported by humans. Remember we can't even build a working single-celled organism yet (taking a natural organism and knocking genes out until you find a minimum viable set doesn't count.)
"as a rule"?
Usually robbers pull the gun before determining how much money the victim has in their wallet.

They could ask the potential victim first, and then, if the value is too low, not bother pulling a gun. But all potential victims have an incentive to lie and say they only have $1. Knowing that, a rational robber would pull a gun without requesting the info first.

Regarding police responding immediately: you can't call the police until after robber has lowered their gun and/or left the scene. So by the time you call the police, you're no longer being threatened.
There's reasonable evidence that this is how the Sicilian Mafia started: lack of effective state enforcement of laws and property rights... Creating a situation where private security forces arise, offering protection from gangs of thieves and perhaps protection from the security force itself. Obviously, this is not what cvs is doing, but lack of effective law enforcement can lead to unusual and unexpected "solutions."
Yeah, but there's an interest in keeping those numbers around, and they have a disproportionate influence.

Who does grandma or cousin Bob call to "fix" their computer? Who's controlling what browsers get installed on corporate networks and at elementary schools? Or picking the online class systems (and compatible browsers) at universities?

They run off more than the one segment they piss off.
I'm a Windows user with as-portable-as-possible software catalog, and I approve of this message.

Jokes aside, I am mostly in a complete agreement with you on it. I'd only add that both approaches should exist, and that the package-people should (learn to?) provide a more portable variant of their software. I don't have much experience with Linux (which some of my comments just might show), but all that "black box magic" that happens behinds the scenes never sat right with me... especially since I have a supernatural ability to hit some edge cases where install fails halfway, and now you can't deinstall nor reinstall, and you're stuck in limbo. (Or finishes, but just won't run on account of something not working in the background, and, well, good luck finding out what exactly and how.)

Sure, portable-style applications on Windows are not immune from not working here and there, but across two decades now - it's mostly been set it and forget it. Different versions of software can usually co-exist, or even the same one (e.g. I specialize one for specific purposes), some even co-run.

I do miss some features of the Linux (file system versatility, mostly), but I've grown to live with it. And while Microsoft is increasingly making Windows unbearable, as long as I can bypass/block their idiotic decisions (Start menu, telemetry, updates) and make them work when I want, and how I want... I guess I'll stick to it.

[[Now, when the hell does Microsoft plan on fixing up the Exporer shell and its antiquated 25X-char path issues? (LONGPATH is enabled, but Explorer still shits itself on such a path. But I try to use DOpus, anyway...).

Also, custom(izable) open/save dialog replacements, I'd kill for those.]]
Let’s ignore the fact that you just shifted the goalposts from “emailing a 1 pixel image SWATs them” to an extremely wide scope for a minute -

Even assuming that is true that iCloud is trivially “hackable” - and as I understand it, that was never clear how those leaks happened - how does uploading to iCloud help when it specifically needs to be uploaded from the users phone along with the scanning metadata.

In fact, isn’t apples proposed implementation here the _only_ cloud service that protects against your proposed attack - while other clouds scan stored data and can be triggered by your attack, Apple’s requires you to upload specifically from a registered phone on their account; data stored on-cloud is never scanned.
You could probably get some milage with just a local store id and date on the box. If you want to get cute you could change the pill stamp.
> I think that might have been my introduction to how dumb the world of working for a living was going to be!

If that's the case, then maybe it wasn't a pointless exercise. Just an annoying and silly exercise.
Unions do sometimes make it hard to get rid of bad workers... not sure that's the same as "rewarding" them though.

I can't think of examples of punishing good ones though. Union contracts frequently have defined procedures for requesting a merit pay increase with a mandatory review process, along with similar procedures for reclassification to a higher level position, also with more pay, when a person's scope of responsibilities shift over time to encompass more than the original job description indicated.

I'm not in a union any longer, but that happened to me when I was: I was very good a specific portion of my job and gradually took on more complicated aspects of it. I applied for reclassification. My workplace had a maximum of 21 days to review & reply to the request, which they granted, and I got a higher title & a nice 20% increase in pay.
Mind sharing where exactly in Europe is 8 weeks vacation the norm? In Austria it's 5 weeks for everyone but law and that's what most tech companies will give you as well.
Unlikely, sure, but its happened countless times. Its not useful or interesting to say "you're probably wrong because you're not head of apple".
Surely you can see the difference between a company trying to change legislation and a company choosing its customers?

Even if you think that corporations should be allowed to influence legislation just as its individual employees can (if they are citizens), it's much easier to boycott a company whose policies you don't like than to boycott the laws of a government you don't like.

(In case the downvoters are incorrectly inferring my opinion on these matters, I should say that I'm not trying to make an argument in support of either corporate lobbying or corporate censorship).
Another good option according to published Backblaze data[0] is HGST.

[0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
>>> If the military gets it right with anything, it's encryption.

> Developers who know how to do this are relatively scarce. The military almost certainly does not have enough of them.

FYI: the NSA is part of the DoD. They most certainly have plenty of people who know how to do encryption properly, and securing military communications is also part of their job.

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

> The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense... The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems.
i think the fast food chain restaurants have streamlined it, compared to a mom and pop shoppe