skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people seem to be missing is that this study only covered a limited period. While surgical masks can slightly reduce the risk of contagion for individual interactions, over a longer period all of us will eventually be exposed regardless of what precautions we take. The virus isn't going away.

Think of it like a soccer goalie defending against an endless series of penalty kicks. He might block the first few balls but eventually one will get through.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

This is why it's so important for people who haven't yet been infected to get vaccinated. And take other steps to strengthen your immune system such as reducing obesity, maintaining adequate vitamin D levels, and engaging in the recommended level of physical activity.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/21/bjsports-2021-...
Haven’t most opioid overdoses of the past 5-10 years been fentanyl (or carfentanyl) overdoses?
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The raspberry pi part was pretty cool.
"AOSP Treble GSI" is another good top-of-the-rabbit-hole search term.

tldr if you have an even somewhat recent unlock(ed)/(able) android device, you can probably drop a very pure AOSP build on it pretty easily.
Writing Hello World for the original GameBoy is a module in the architecture course I teach.
My favourite part is that the NSA acknowledged to Wyden that they had written a lessons learned memo, and when asked to produce it they could never find it...

"In a July 2020 response to Wyden and other members of Congress, Juniper provided few new details of the case but blamed the intrusions on a “sophisticated nation-state hacking unit.” NSA told Wyden’s staff in 2018 that there was a “lessons learned” report, but the agency “now asserts that it cannot locate this document,” according to a Wyden aide. "
The original idea of nudging a vote this way was brought to my attention in a book by Viktor Suvorov (it was either Aquarium or The Liberators).

Some communist asshole wanted his nephew or something hired for some government position. He made the mistake of doing a vote by asking "all in favor?" because no-one raised their hands. What Suvorov suggested was the guy should've used "all opposed?". He said no one would've raised their hands neither but the result would've been very different ;)
It was a configuration manager for what was basically a Linux-based wireless router.

The Chicken compiler actually compiles down to C, which has the nice side-effect that you can easily include literal C code. Here's an example: https://www.more-magic.net/posts/scheme-c-integration.html
am dumb, i read the title as Mefisto and thought are we talking about D2 resurrected or Marvel theory
Of course! I didn't mean to say that French is only spoken in Quebec, you can read my comment more as a one of the French-speaking province, didn't mean to exclude anyone :)
> Linux is not accessible

Linux is extremely accessible.

Most popular linux variants can be downloaded for free, and it's easy to find solutions to most common issues you run into. I'd be surprised if there isn't a StackOverflow post or two that have solutions to the issues you ran into, and even if there aren't, you can usually get answers just by asking.

Some linux variants are better than others, and YMMV per use case, but saying "linux is not accessible" is incredibly inaccurate.
> Think about PRC vs. USA: 4636 deaths in PRC, 618591 deaths in USA, even though it's a four times smaller country.

4636 deaths as reported by the CCP to foreign journalists. Same party whose official line is that nothing happened in Tiananmen Square.
If they decline, you can't force them. The goal is not to reduce the metric to 0 homeless on the streets. The whole attempt is to help people who are homeless get back on their feet. When you have food, a place to stay, and support then you can start thinking about improving your situation.

There will be a number that will reject any help. But the overwhelming majority will want to improve their lives and programs like this will give them an opportunity.
People literally sacrificed themselves in numerous wars to give the rest of us exactly these abstract concepts of freedom and self determination.
Sometimes that circumvention itself has the side effect of QoL improvements. Like that Resident Evil 8 crack that significantly reduced framerate stuttering when the DRM calls were patched out.
It depends on the city. In the city I grew up with having a kept up front lawn was on the books as an ordinance. Vegetable gardens incure fines. No HOA but this is how it goes for a lot of smaller municipalities where it might as well be like living in an HOA. Not cutting your grass actually lead to the city coming out and cutting it for you on top of fines, but it worked out for some slumlords that this fine and mow job by the city was cheaper than hiring a landscaper so they would just do that and never cut their grass themselves on their properties.
why dont you just issue all the ttls concurrently?
Yup, I think you found it. The on-device one only applies to people under 13, and only reports to parents. And, IIRC, lets the child know that it'll be reported to parents before the child views it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/05/apple-communication-saf...
How much of it is "hiring friends" vs just hiring someone you have better information about? A lot of people interview exceptionally well but it's always something of a crapshoot how well they will do in the actual job. But for an internal candidate you should have a lot better information on how well they performed in other roles. You can have actual frank conversations with their managers/coworkers instead of getting BS references from people the candidate themselves chose for you to talk to.
Synology supports snapshots if you choose to use BTRFS, but it also lets you enable recycle bins so you can recover things you deleted.
>... IMO, children are a bit too young and malleable for racial-identity profiling.

What? Children are aware of the racial aspect of society by the time they exit elementary schools. Being a child does not mean society is blind to your race and that it doesn't act on it.
fortunately we have this thing called an “immune system”
I think this is an overly cynical take. Reputation and VERIFIABLE track record are what is being selected for here. If a hiring manager views this as known for a candidate, there is basically nothing someone else can do to complete. The hiring process simply isn't sufficient to do this fact finding.

In my org, managers aren't really friends, but they do have trust. A strong recommendation is impossible to overturn.
It feels like such a poorly designed system.

Or how about a system designed with intentional obfuscation as a means of selling more storage?
> the US government made corporations adhere to a salary cap to prevent war millionaires

It wasn't to prevent "war millionaires". Wage and price controls were imposed to prevent hyperinflation.

https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/the-complete-history-of-empl...

A tiny percentage of corporate employees become millionaires in this day and age. The percentage that could have done so in 1942 dollars is a fraction of that fraction.
They contact all your close contacts listed on the paperwork. Lying also constitutes perjury in this case.

The unofficial advice I’ve heard is to not even bother with SC if you use weed. Generally, it will be found out. I looked into this as needing an SC was a possibility with my current job.
This is the popular sentiment on most Canadian subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/pgr2sl/it_is_pas...

Anecdotally, I was personally assaulted for not wearing a mask because I took it off after needing to use my ventolin to prevent an asthma attack in a mall. I only need to remove it for about 2-3 minutes at a time the odd time I feel an attack coming on, which only really happens when the weather is really aggrivating me during the hottest summer months where I am. That was enough time for some lunatic to come suckerpunch me in the back of the head and run away.

I've seen people yelling and screaming at others, store employees putting their hands on elderly people not wearing masks and pushing them around. Mobs of masked people surrounding and intimidating individuals who were not masked in places they were not required to be.

There were reports of police breaking into homes and physically removing people that were visiting over Christmas.

I could go on and on...
Same even in Seattle, most people are not wearing masks on the streets anymore, everyone is tired, the Media will keep coming up with all the variants they want, until they realize people are not tuning in anymore. At least here, most people are vaccinated [1], regardless what you think about the vaccine, I feel like people will take the risk, and go outside, hang out with friends, walk their dogs, etc... I always felt like, if you are immunocompromised, you should take extra precautions, but pretending other people will change their life just for you, is extremely ridiculous.

[1] https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...
Bots on GitHub to troll TX abortion snitch website
Why Transformers Are Slowly Replacing CNNs in Computer Vision?
If you learn just a few things about mushrooms, they stop looking the same. Also, there are only a handful of deadly mushrooms in any given region, and you can learn those specific species as well. It's not that hard to get to 99.9999999% sure that you're eating an edible species.
Absolute nonsense. It’s merely walking through the chain of events and realizing that all dictates are backed by force.

The fact that people “don’t agree” means they’re morons. It is fact.
War on Drugs works perfectly right? Muppet.
Ben Nadel: I Wish My Relational Database Tables Were Narrower
"The deal grants "releases" from liability for harm caused by OxyContin and other opioids to the Sacklers, hundreds of their associates, as well as their remaining empire of companies and trusts.

In return, they have agreed to pay roughly $4.3 billion, while also forfeiting ownership of Purdue Pharma."

They pay $4.3B and lose their empire. More lawsuits would be for.. what purpose exactly? Put them behind bars? Who does that benefit exactly? Just some sort of vengeance?
Number 14 (pinky touching thumb, others raised) doesn't work for me. It hurts a lot.
I am not sure "strangely" is a good adjective for the reluctance. Many people do not like the taste of various mushrooms. Additionally, for collecting in the wild, there's a lot of These Will Kill You. Meanwhile, a carrot is easy to identify and tasty.
> You sure about that? When I was ARS, sure there were 3-4 farmers I met who took SOC and and soil health seriously; individuals who wanted to think about their soil as an ecosystem and grow their soils as they did their crops.

In the long run farmers are care about soil health make more money than those that don't. The rule of thumb is it takes 7 years before no-til is more profitable than conventional tillage. Once you get no-till going though it uses a lot less fuel (pulling a plow through soil uses a lot of energy).

Farmers have also caught onto the fact that modern computers and equipment allow you to see what parts of the field you doing what. When you sell the farm they will make it worth while to build up your soil as farms that yield better are worth more than farms that yield poorly.

In the end you are right - far too many farmers are not caring for their soil as they should. All the big ones are though as they have figured out the long term investment is worth it.
My understanding is that the blog post is a bit too opinionated, dismissing valid uses of language features with a perceived condescending tone.

The ternary operator is mostly a matter of style, and just be aware that for loops is often a better way to iterate through things than while loops. I wouldn't worry too much.
The Unsuccessful Treatment of a Case of “Writer's Block” (1974) [pdf]
Too late! Your comment commanded everyone else in Canada to speak English, and French is now excluded.
Are you looking to penalize the headline or the article itself? I.e. a good article can have a click-baity headline, but if your extension removes that based solely on its headline, you'd never get to read it.
No, police involvement and sweeps don't help.

What helps is continued outreach and trust-building. Homeless people can experience traumatic conditions in shelters that can cause them to avoid social programs.
Apple currently do scan for CSAM in their cloud.
See section on "compressive strength".
"Cloth masks" can mean anything.

I wish early in the pandemic someone would have made some piece of equipment to asses whether a given cloth mask is good or not. Most people have a few now and I'm sure they would like to use the best one.
The part about comments being weak resonate with me.

Personally I like to generate a lot of documentation for my own needs. (Lately I started a diary of chocolate bars I eat, but there's a story behind that.)

That's how I can pick up on Monday where I was Friday. If I get interrupted it's how I get back on track. It's how I can pick up the code I wrote six or eighteen months ago and repurpose it.

I'd be happy to file my notes with the ticket, but this would drive my coworkers up the wall, so I don't.
Pirating GPL Software
And now, the zeitgeist is if anything in the opposite direction: Capture One Pro, Raw Therapee, and Darktable have got a hell of a a lot better compared to Lightroom and C1P in particular proudly offers a lifetime license, not a subscription. Similarly, DaVinci Resolve has a free (if not FOSS) business model, designed explicitly to compete with Premiere, and, again, lifetime licenses. Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher are cheap, software that you "buy" and increasingly "good enough" for pro use, to the extent that many post about moving away from the CC treadmill to them.

Adobe arguably won this decade on the basis of the three generations you mentioned. I am not confident that they will win the next ones – the last time I printed an actual book, the publisher used CS6 ± Quark XPress internally (I wrote it in LaTeX; they had some tricks for printing it on SRA4 paper and wanted to use those tools to get the bleeds & trims right). The SaaS model was explicitly mentioned as a reason for sticking with the old software.
If your attitude is "information source X has ever put out information that was false, therefore I will trust no information it ever puts out," since every possible value of X has put out false information at some point in its existence, especially multi-century institutions like "western medicine," you're left with an inability to ever believe anything. They call this "epistemic learned helplessness" and it's an extremely unfruitful way of evaluating information.

Instead, recognize that all human knowledge is probabilistic in nature. The vaccine trials were all published publicly. Review them and scrutinize the methods if you think the conclusions are likely to be wrong.

It's perfectly fair to see that studies have been entirely falsified in the past, but understand also this is why the vaccine was developed in such a way that no single vendor has a monopoly patent on it. Coordinated fraud on the part of multiple researchers funded by multiple vendors in one of the most scrutinized public processes ever conducted is a lot less likely than when all of the information is being generated by a single source.
Maybe it's a cultural thing but my experience has been the exact opposite. As a software engineer you have to actively avoid taking a management position after a few years at any given company.
Is there a reason that you and many others default to the assumption that our leaders must be lying to us about covid? Not accusing, just curious why. Is it that hard to believe that there actually is a novel virus circulating which is quite deadly to some people, and perceived by many to be a legitimate risk? Likewise, it is that hard to accept that currently no-one really knows how to 'stop' it? Is inaction, denial and protest really the best solution to a challenge like this?
Just out of curiosity, what information about the integrity of the elections have you taken into consideration when coming into conclusion that the election was legitimate? How many of the arguments of the other side have you seen and rejected? Or did you just dismiss it out of hand?
On iPad your page shows for .2 seconds then blanks :-/
Nitpick: the acronym is actually "No One But US", IIRC.
I'm confused lately by articles like this and the comments on them.

Is the war on drugs OK now again? There should be more people in prison for selling drugs now instead of less? Or is it OK to sell addictive drugs but only if you don't get rich doing it?

What's the new conventional wisdom?
If a study found the opposite, would we be hearing about it?
I think that is great, my problem comes with people trying to enforce their life of isolation onto others.
It looks like it will be made into a Netflix series. Other than hearing about the fundraiser/contest for one of the seats here on HN a few months ago, I haven't heard anything more about the mission.

The episode datea from the end of the video:

Sept 6 Episodes 1/2: The Mission Begins

Sept 13 Episodes 3/4: Prepare for Launch

Sept 15 Live Launch on Netflix Youtube

Sept 30 Episode 5: Return Home
>That's not a bad thing. Remember "flatten the curve"?

That isn't how exponential growth works unfortunately. As long as the exponent is greater than 1 eventually you will get a large peak.
Sounds very Pythonesque, indeed
> I'm sure this post will get a lot of anecdotal replies

I tried Ubuntu last year, briefly. Almost everything worked fine, except ... OK, I'm a trackpad user. I have a couple Apple Magic Trackpads and I prefer to use those over a traditional mouse.

It worked fine for, like, a day? And then out of nowhere it just stopped responding. Reset or reinstalled everything I could think of and it still failed to work. OK, whatever, I bought a traditional bluetooth mouse. Which went to sleep every time it remained still for more than a split second, rendering it basically unusable (not a problem on Windows on the same machine).

Maybe a whiz could have fixed one or both issues, but googling completely failed me. This was pretty basic stuff, surely? And yet I couldn't even get bluetooth mice to work on the most mainstream distro.

(Now, admittedly, the trackpad doesn't work properly out of the box in Windows either, since Apple doesn't provide drivers that work outside of Boot Camp. But at least there are paid drivers that work really well.)
My argument and your argument are seemingly unrelated.

That means that the full matrix of situations are available: I'm correct and you're correct. I'm correct and you're wrong. I'm wrong and you're correct, and finally I'm wrong and you're wrong.

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So lets just try again from the top. The study shows that an 8-week mask-awareness campaign in Bangladesh across 300 villages (+300 "control" villages 2+km away where mask-awareness did NOT happen) leads to a 29% increase in mask usage and an 11% decrease in COVID19 cases.

Is there anything wrong with this new, revised statement I made? It seems to be the big "A / B" test that everyone's wanted for mask studies.
Incidentally, if you buy 3M masks, there's a number on the bottom of the box that can be validated on 3M's web site.[1] They will tell you if that's a valid number and if anyone tried to validate that number before.

[1] https://safeguard.3m.com/Guest#/Validation
Please stick to the discussion and keep the hissy fit to youself.
I'm a techie vegan too, and think about the fungi kingdom too, especially after watching Fantastic Fungi and some other personal experiences!

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Thanks, that's helpful! What would you recommend for actually running the backup? Can I mount a Synology NAS over SSH or something? I'd ideally just run my normal backup scripts without thinking too deeply about the end point.
> In my opinion, Apple will break its brand if they actually go ahead and release "self-reporting to the authorities" device features.

I'm always astonished that some (random) people feel more confident on their brand analysis than the best people at this specific topic paid thousands of dollars at Apple to do just that. Or maybe I'm the one who is wrong
Someone sent it to me a little while ago.

Enjoy. https://youtu.be/5ByEppIvsDc
One thing not mentioned is that finger counting methods vary based on context as well as culture. If I'm counting to myself I start with the thumb. If I'm using finger counting as part of body language like by speaking about three points one by one, I start with the index finger.
> I find your identification of 96-97% of farmers as short-term profiteers rude and borderline offensive.

It could be right. The smaller the farmer the less likely they are to realize how much the investment in better farming is worth it. The very large farmers have the numbers showing the investment is worth it, they control a lot of land, but are only a minority of farmers.

I'm still with you that > 90% is a bad estimate, but it isn't as bad as you make it out.
Thanks for exercising being snarky!

I very obviously meant concrete brands and models that people would recommend.

I'm touched that you think I can't search for stuff on the net. :D