skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest fear is immunity of an individual lasts around 6 month.Thats why we are looking at wave after wave in different countries approximately 6 months apart. Data from Israel is scary and kind of points to similar trend.
> deleting individual cookies isn't something any regular user ever needs to do

I disagree. A problem just recently with a gov site req'd you delete their cookies to resolve it (as an interim solution until they get around some year to fix the issue).
Where do you draw the line though? Body odor isn't pleasant neither is bad breath or alcohol breath. Are you suggesting a fine for those as well?
Most musicians don't make music for its monetary value, but because of personal fulfillment. All but the most successful 1% of musicians would find greater monetary value doing something else for the amount of work it takes to get to that level.

> People would have even less incentive to create new stuff instead of redoing old stuff.

In fact, I speculate the opposite might be true. How many big pop artists go into semi-retirement by their mid-30s once they've dropped off the charts? Why keep making music when you can comfortably collect off all your past hits? Certainly there's no economic incentive to keep working once you can collect sizeable rents.
Agreed. Duck Duck browser on Android has a very prominent "burn" button next to the URL bar which deletes everything. It's great!
You could be born in Switzerland to German parents, thus being German (with a funny accent to boot). Germany (at the time) employed jus sanguinis (=your parents matter), not jus soli (=your place of birth matters).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Or 550K per year. Just below cancer and heart disease.

(according to https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm )

EDIT: to fix the logic.
I dunno - I'm definitely a language purist, and even so, I will admit that the emoji is not redundant. It causes the emphasis of the sentence to fall on the word "love", rather than "work". It has a similar effect to "I would *love* to work with you", but without the awkward plain-text formatting.
Read the parent answer, it explains when deleting individual cookies is useful (even for non-devs)
My take is that cryptic error messages have always been a cross between 'protecting company secrets' and 'never really admit to a mistake'. Sure, MS or Apple could just throw up a dialog that said "Sorry, we trashed the file you were working on, here are the last 1024 chars" but people would actually be more angry then, instead of just "Error 1234 occurred" (or at least they'd have to go look it up to be mad).

As developers, we also have to be used to a lot of completely unhelpful errors. Yeah, couldn't connect to the DB, sure... oh, but actually because my code ate all of memory, why didn't you say that in the first place?
Im quite puzzled about how the blockchain figures into this, but in general a stem is like a track in a DAW, say, vocals, or guitars. By releasing the stems independently of the finished product, users can make their own music at will.

It's essentially a kind of open source music making. How or why the blockchain is actually invoked I don't know. More like Libre music with viral attribution?

The only thing that springs to mind is a way to track a kind of "forking network" or provenance of which sources made which end products. If you make a remix of a source, that remix can be added and the provenance is recorded. Others can then remix yours and that chain of provenance is kept.

At any rate, this is early days, expect better reports and better explanations to appear on HN over the next few weeks. Thought I'd share it now though.

Theres hardly any information about this currently.
I’ve always counted starting with the thumb, but use fingers only when showing a value lower than 5. And this is how my family does it too.
>That means not running off more and more

Googs: Fine, where are you going to go instead?

FB: Fine, where are you going to go instead?

Insta: see above

Twit: see above

These people are just fine without the 10 devs that might throw a hissy. (technically 9, because I have to count myself)
And now you're getting downvoted for passive-aggressively complaining about downvotes. You can get downvoted for almost anything if you work at it.
I'm not aware of many jobs that "drug" test for any use of alcohol. Yet with cannabis this is considered acceptable.
Seems like this capability would be better served with an extension. Most (as in nearly all) users will never play with individual cookies and the people that need to can turn to quality extensions with more capability than the browser is ever likely to build in.
Here’s a couple exercises to test your intuition about this disease.

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Year on year risk

1. Pick an area with good covid stats. The google data on cases/hospitalizations/icu/deaths will do

2. Compare the stats for each with the numbers exactly one year ago. You may be surprised to find that unless the country is Qatar, every number will be worse than year on year. Including hospitalizations, icu and deaths

Like other respiratory viruses, SARS-Cov-2 is seasonal. You may recall that last year around this time, Florida and Texas had big waves before the north. And America had a big wave before Europe. Europe declared victory late summer 2020.

This is a surprising conclusion. Going into winter we appear to be in a worse position compared to last year.

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Relative vs. Absolute Risk of severe disease post vaccine

Here’s another exercise. Most reading this are likely vaccinated, as am I. You surely read that this vaccination has ~95% efficacy against severe disease. Great! I’ll take those odds. But what do they mean in absolute risk terms?

Let’s say that last year your local area had 1,000 cases a day, and had the wild type variant. At that level you had a certain risk tolerance. Now, relative to unvaccinated you back then, you have a 20x lower risk. But, it is 2021:

1. Delta seems to have a 2x odds ratio for hospitalization (source below). Oops. Your absolute risk reduction is only 10x.

2. Your local area has more cases now. See the first exercise. So if your area has 5x more cases, a typical multiple, then your absolute risk reduction for severe disease compared to same time last year is only 2x less. Oops.

Now, your peak risk will probably stay lower, as in a lot of places it is implausible that peak caseloads will hit 5x their peak loads. Among other things, ICU capacity would break before then. But this exercise is still valueable, as the merely relative protection of vaccination is unintuitive.

Oh, and the risk of an unvaccinated person compared to same time last year? 10x more! That preserves 95% efficacy.

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No one knows the future. Maybe these waves all peak, we hit the happy land of immunity as a herd, and we have a normal future.

But I say it is futility to declare victory over a respiratory pathogen until your country makes it through at least one winter with the level of restrictions you’d like. Summer is easy mode.

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Sources:

1. Delta hospitalization. This is actually relative to alpha, which may itself have had a higher hospitalization odds ratio relative to wild type: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/sars-cov...

2. Country stats. For quickly checking a country, google is fastest. But they generally pull from our world in data, which is the best aggregator: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Maybe you should have been aborted as well.
It's surprises me greatly that our 2011 Nissan Leaf didn't get to have LED taillights because "Federal rules" that hadn't caught up to current technology, but a car that smooshes people on the side of the road? "A-okay by us, we'll just do some investigations after it's too late and a person is killed", say the Feds.
Full disclosure: 0-day RCE backdoor in Teradek IP video device firmwares
Is Mask Use Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use?
Lots of comments here about Fantastic Fungi. If you enjoy that I also recommend The Creeping Garden which is about slime molds which have a lot going for them that makes them closer to animals than mold or plants or even fungi. Fascinating and well done.
The anti-abortion site is getting traffic, press coverage and activist attention in ways the site you mentioned (probably) doesn't. 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down'.

Even if the fairness in terms of TOS accountability here is in practice unfair, I think leaving issues to bubble up organically rather than implementing some sort of heavy-handed machine moderation/content monitor system (looking at you, YouTube) is probably preferable.
Indeed. Even webservers :)
Somewhat related: I removed Edge a few years ago because I didn't use it and thought it's just a regular application. A recent Windows update however just wouldn't install: Every time it would abort and roll back the update installation just after the reboot, reporting one of those mysterious and very helpful Windows Update error codes. After a few days of scratching my head I found out that due to a bug, that specific update [1] can't be installed unless Edge is installed (prior to the update). IIRC the reason is that helpfully Windows installs the lastest Edge version for you during the OS update, so that "you can experience the fastest web browser, Microsoft Edge!" (or something like that, you know the drill.

Nowadays it's not even supported to remove Edge since - according to certain Windows news outlets - Edge is somehow integrated into Windows 10 so by removing it you could break the OS. (Just why??) The aforementioned news outlets also ask why you would ever want to remove Edge - "Have you tried the new Edge browser? It's quite fast nowadays!"

To clarify: I am not opposed to Edge itself in any way, but the whole "Why would you ever want to do that?" rubs me the wrong way.

Another "Why would you ever want to do that?" story: IIRC, in Windows 8 there was a semi-official way to place your home directory on a different drive than your system directory. Back then I had a 128 GB SSD I wanted to use as a system drive for Windows, but because my downloads folder quickly accumulates a lot of baggage (> 50 GB) I wanted to place it on another drive. A few years down the road the upgrade to Windows 10 failed with a mysterious error code. Again, after a few days of scratching my head I found out that my setup (with the home directory on another drive) is not supported for the Windows 8.1 to 10 upgrade.

Common Windows news outlets and forums also commented this issue along the lines of "Why would you ever place your home directory on another drive?"
I guess I was too spoiled with the UNIX way (of separate mount points inside a unified hierarchy) to see the error in my ways... (/s)

[1] Sorry, I don't remember the specific error code or update number anymore. Perhaps the 2004 update?
British people dress smartly and often act smartly but I've never heard anyone say a a book was written smartly, if you see what I mean.
Yes, it looks like the ads started coming in when MS realized the potential earnings from a market dominant browser. Since they lost the browser war, they have now converted their operating system into a browser with integrated crap (like IE toolbars) in forms of bing search, cortana, app recommendations etc.
Piracy made Windows effectively free to home users so that put it on par with anything else that was free.

On the other hand, Microsoft pushed IP ownership to sue competition. From Bill's "friendly letter" to the Homebrew Computer Club though that little spat with the US gov't, the company was constantly pushing the limits of how companies could profit from IP well beyond social norms of the time.

"Piracy" is always, at best, a distraction from the real robbery happening. Cries of "piracy!" today are always a mask for corporate looting of the commons.
> Q. How many Macintosh Division employees do you need to change a light bulb?
> A. One. He holds the light bulb up and lets the universe revolve around him.

How well does that scale to modern Apple? Do they retain 140,000+ employees, each one expecting the world to revolve around them?
Regardless of your or anyone's personal preference for the law, it ought to be respected on the ground that the men and women who passed it are at least to some degree elected by the people. We're not talking about King Henry VIII here — this is a democratically elected republic trying to build laws that meet the needs and wants of their supporters. If GoDaddy is selectively enforcing its ToS to disable potentially legitimate government action then there is an argument to be made that they are unjustly wielding their oligopolistic power. Either GoDaddy should be required to enforce its ToS across the board or it should be required to do business with the Texas government. GoDaddy cannot be considered a content neutral provider under Section 230 if it is selectively enforcing. When this kind of thing has happened in the past, the government has enacted and enforced antitrust laws — e.g. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
I don't want "mental health support" from work. I only need that if my workplace is causing serious mental health issues in the first place. (Which it is at present.)
>image descriptors and occupancy grids

What can actually qualify for a patent in Software seems so unclear and variable. Did someone invent the concept of "Infinite Scroll" and just not file for IP protection so it gets used everywhere? Or is it copywrite of the actual code that delivers one Infinite Scroll embodiment in JavaScript_Flavor_1? Pirating software as in cracking a keygen of some whole branded Application is very different from launching a relabeled product clone with some reverse engineered feature parity. By some interpretations you literally can't implement a text box without infringing on IP. And I don't see a way, in advance, to figure out what patents overlap with your proposed innovation... you just appear to cross your fingers, file, wait for the examiner to pick a few citations out of a hat, and if you get past that rejection, then you launch said feature (if you haven't already) and review the take down notices case by case. The discovery process can definitely be improved but a lot of innovation takes place in spite of the as-is patent system; not as a result.
Part of setting up a Win 10 machine should include disabling telemetry, even though it's not easy.

https://winaero.com/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collec...

It probably won't be long before the Windows 11 version is here.
Basically they do the "normal" 1-5 with one hand (well, one of the several normal ways), then have specific gestures for 6-10 with one hand as well. Use both hands and you get to 100, I suppose.
Cannabis is a Schedule I drug. Alcohol is not.
On my FHD screen, all but the italics looks good, the italic parts are hard to read (but that’s most certainly the font).

On my QHD monitor, I need to zoom in (120%) to comfortably read the text.

The heading font looks ugly on both.
Going down a rabbit hole, but a colliding image could be an adult that doesn't look like an adult.
Yes, I was checking out both projects but got distracted and didn't notice which one I replied to. By the time someone kindly pointed it out the edit window had closed.
> So why is C like this, anyway?

Worth mentioning that C is over 40 years old, and was designed to be easily portable across a range of machines that had less compute power and memory than today's smaller microcontrollers.

As a result, a lot of things were left undefined, or were designed in a way to be easy to implement rather than easy to program for.

There existed other programming languages that were better, but their compilers weren't as broadly available, and their better features came at the cost of speed, which at the time was a premium.
Just how much of a middle finger can they give to users before people wake up and move to Firefox? There was a time Firefox had some performance problems but that time has passed, it works every bit as well as Chrome does now, if not better.
Has something like this happened before in history? Where we have the tools to avoid deaths both caused by COVID and the indirect deaths caused by a lack of healthcare capacity, but the people refuse to use them?
Single-Event Upset
Agree with all you are saying. The thing that baffles me is how the homeless can just take over a public space and it's just supposed to be, ok?

It's like some strange eminent domain situation. Seems obvious that I should not be able to just claim a public space for myself.

It also seems obvious to me that people don't have some kind of right to live wherever they want (like the heart of Brentwood in LA has been transformed from a beautiful fun place to a sad wasteland).

My solution to homelessness is basically reducing housing costs by dropping minimum parking requirements, height restrictions, min sizes units, etc.

And mental health treatments.

I'm generally su
>It sucks to say this on Hacker News, but you're being really naive. If I, as a power user, have trouble installing and even running Linux, how can you expect a normal user to do it?

It has less to do with technical abilities of the user and more to do with their general outlook and what they value. If you look for deficiencies, you'll find them. If you value the freedom and no bullshit experience, research the hardware and put in some effort to make it work.
My bet is they wait a few months and quietly announce that they’ll do the scanning on the iCloud servers instead. That would be relatively uncontroversial in the tech press and probably never make it to the mainstream press.
Some of the bonehead stuff will be caught by QA, but there are folks on some QA teams that get security. Sadly, developers talk down about QA so much that the people we need on QA teams are not going to go there.
Great idea, here are some thoughts for real Rambo coder manifesto who never says never and always:

* writes resilient code that is simple

* embeds microservices in monolith to get the best of both worlds

* writes only distributed code with transactional consistency at optimal performance without deadlocks

* all systems are consistent, available and tolerate network partitions

* distributed messaging has one-and-only-one delivery semantics always guaranteed

* applies same architecture and principles on full spectrum of problems - from writing kernel code to website for local tennis club

* webscale

Applying those and only those principles will not limit you. It will free you from worry and improve your family life.

Any seemingly contradictory statements are a sign that you don't yet get it. You simply have to accept them as axiomatic truths and you'll experience enlightement that awaits. Trust me. I have a website so it must be true.
The New York Times Company Launches Digital Subscriptions for Wirecutter
I would be so miserable if it had to deal with a union.

Though to be fair I am not overworked or undervalued. I imagine there’s a lot of engineers who large companies just grind through.
> This will single-handedly allow equality of opportunity to be realized.

In the long-term and not entirely. I wonder what the effect in the short- to medium-term would be on poorer countries who presumably would see a lot more emigration of demographics who have the wealth and/or skills to move somewhere with more opportunity, the "brain drain" effect of the money spent on educating someone and the loss of future tax earnings from their employment is a problem that exists now after all.

And again in the short- to medium-term how would unrestricted immigration play out? Immigrants are a net economic benefit to their new countries but does that hold for all amounts of immigration within a given time? It seems to me 500,000 immigrants in a single year is not equivalent to 50,000 immigrants each year over a decade even if in the long run the result is the same.

> The problem is that most first world countries' people would be worse off under this scheme (with people from under-developed countries being better off).

That's a very zero-sum way of looking at it. Globalisation and free trade have overall made the poorest countries a lot better off while also making the richer ones better off, shouldn't open borders do the same in the long-run? I'm not sure it would be good for countries though, which itself would have knock-on effects...

TL;DR open borders and free migration are great, but I can see a shit-load of short-term pain were it to happen!
Why would they need "cover for closing stores that they were going to close anyway"? They can basically just close them, and no one's going to stop them or cause a problem. Why would they need "cover"?
So your naming a vaccine a Levenshtein
distance of 2 away from Zyclon-D. Obviously this is nonsense, but it doesn't take much imagination to know marketing needs to step up their game if they want to sell to the antivax crowds.

Although I imagine the damage is done. In 5 years somebody is going to post a shitty jpeg with this brand name as proof for.... Things.
I cannot understand why this is being downvoted. We would have all been wearing N95's long ago if they weren't difficult for frontline workers to use 8 hours a day. People care about their own health by and large. They will use reasonable strategies for mitigation and reject those that are cumbersome.

The people pushing N95 mask requirements are not the same people required to wear them 40 hours a week. The people pushing non-N95 mask requirements are confused about the effectiveness of non-N95 "masks".
Then* not than.
Friend of mine got in the local paper for retrieving his laptop from a grab-and-run, by being a regular competitive runner and dramatically outrunning the guy.

Can't imagine anyone doing that for Tesco, though. Especially unpaid.
Repurposing Podcast E-Book [pdf]
Thank you for the corrections.
Copyrights and trademarks are entirely different things. Trademarks have nothing to do with GPL, or the software any of these projects are based on.

> That seems strange that elementaryOS developers would try to deny others the same rights that were essential in allowing them to make and distribute elementaryOS in the first place!

ElementaryOS didn't name their project "Debian".

GPL gives you permission to use software that is copyrighted, it does not affect other forms of IP. The GPL absolutely does not give you the right to use trademarks or patents -- even if they are embedded within those same projects.

See: CentOS/RHEL.
It was 3 AM, they were drunk
I didn't assume that he meant anything like that. Digging into the company a bit:

> Though results matter most and Technically Media prides itself on flexibility, as a guide, this role might expect to work roughly 40-45 hours a week.

> Technically Media offers 10 paid holidays per year; 15 PTO days accrued per year with additional P TO offered progressively; as well as a month of paid parental leave.

>Technically Media additionally closes its offices for the final week of the year to relax and unwind before each new year. This serves as additional paid holiday time.

https://technical.ly/job/editorial-director/

It's not the most generous but it's par for Philly area tech companies and its not a tech company, it's a journal.
"We're sorry to inform you that Apple iCompliance AI Eyes, as of last night's updated version 16.4.2, has identified the following violations of laws & emergency edicts in your recent local photo roll:

• Unmasked proximity with non-household member

• Unlicensed gathering of more than 6 people

• Association with unidentifiable individuals (no faceprints on record)

These are your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strikes so your phone has been disabled and you are now under arrest. Do not leave your immediate vicinity. As always, keep your phone on, charged, and in your personal possession at all times.

Due to large violation volumes, we are currently experiencing long physical arrest team hold times. Your arresting agents should arrive at your location in approximately... 5... hours.

Thank you for using Apple products, the leaders in Social Safety. 'Better Safe – Or You'll Be Sorry!'™"