skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
N95 masks... the masks that by definition result in a 95% reduction in viral load... you want to argue that those are "MAYBE better than nothing"? You shouldn't even need a study for that one - that's just basic common sense if you understand what an N95 mask is.

I can understand skepticism about cloth masks (where the effect is more a statistical one), or maybe even surgical masks, but to assert that an N95 mask is ineffective is to assert that viral load doesn't matter AT ALL. We're talking a literal 20x difference, here!

https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/epa-researchers-test-effe... if you really need some sort of citation for this claim.
Idk if I was a kid I would be playing around with this tech. Sadly, as an adult I am just scared of this tech. So funny how 20 years changes your brain and perception of tech. 100% a younger me would be in my ceiling room soldering stuff like this together and hooking it up to pc somehow.
Coinbase wants to know the legal rationale as to why it's a security, but SEC is stonewalling them and goading them to get into a legal fight. The opposite of "talk to us, come in" that the SEC claims the crypto industry refuses to do.
No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny
Thanks for this - I found it particularly enlightening. I viewed the Twitter thread thinking “damn SEC!” but now? While the SEC should probably be more transparent here, clearly CB is up to shenanigans, which justifies their threat of lawsuit.
It's written horribly, butstillbetter than Skype for business
And any reservation where the tribal council votes to go dry, the Federal government will enforce it. (Well, to the extent that it will, you know, actually spend the money to have BIA police officers assigned to that Rez.)
That’s okay, we already had that experiment in 1929 and 2008. Consenting legal adults can crash the economy for everyone.

Hell, just from 2008 Dodd-frank, banks are not allowed to invest without having very specific amounts of collateral (eg you better have a billion before you speculate with your customer’s billion).
Thanks for taking the time to write up this feedback. Yes it's obvious now we need to improve the examples, and I like your structure. Perhaps you can help us.

Would love to chat more.

PM me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/0xLukeKim if you are interested.
I can't figure out why NY Post is so obsessed with India! Look at conditions in US bro. We are handling pandemic in the best possible way considering the geographical, social and economical conditions.
Are the other companies already providing lending services public? Public companies get orders of magnitude more scrutiny from SEC relative to private companies.
"We think others should be sued too" is quite a different argument from "we don't know why we're being sued". In fact it strongly suggests the opposite.
Something tells me courts wont be too sympathetic to the "but other people are criming as well" argument.
Isn't it fascinating how media and parents fear that their children are confusing fiction and reality but in the end it's them who take fiction for reality.
MediaTek surpassed Qualcomm again in Q2 2021 as biggest mobile chipmaker
> Living in a democracy means participating in voting

I think living in a democracy means the right to peacefully decline to take part.

If people don’t want to vote you should reflect on why, not use force against them.
They're currently advertising for people to buy their gospel comics to use as Halloween treats.

I think I'd rather get the fabled apple with a razorblade in it than Christian gospel in my trick or treat pail.
Actually I moved from The Netherlands to Thailand, since I don't like the way things are going in The Netherlands :)

If you do hope to move to The Netherlands in the future, if you believe it's a better place for you, I hope you can succeed. I would agree based on the news from Australia, that The Netherlands seems the better option of the two.
Gemini is regulated as a bank/trust company in New York State. Coinbase is not.
> he glosses over that the report was on coercive quarantining enforced by the military

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/civil-liberties-an...

"In this context, Covid-19 vaccine mandates — much like mask mandates — are public health measures necessary to protect people from severe illness and death. They are therefore permissible in many settings where the unvaccinated pose a risk to others, including schools and universities, hospitals, restaurants and bars, workplaces and businesses open to the public."

Their stance is very explicitly about more than just the military.
To be clear, that's 1200 cases in one day. There are currently 26907 active cases in NSW.

The goal of the lockdown is to keep new case numbers as low as possible so a greater percentage of the population has the chance to be vaccinated. Nobody is suggesting it's going to zero. Living with Covid, as you suggest, is the end goal. You're advocating for the current plan.
> I wonder how many of these students that struggle were just undiagnosed ADHD and not deficient in an low IQ mental handicap sense.

I've got ADHD that was undiagnosed until a decade after finishing my degree, and maths was my favourite - and best - subject all the way from age 4 through to doing solutions to Einstein's equations involving 10+ A4 pages (both sides) of tensor mechanics for my final year project. My results across that time showed the more maths in a subject the better I did, the more writing it had the worse I did.

Doing maths is like reading is for me - an external cognitive structure that I can follow to make my own brain calm down while in that process. While I don't do much maths nowadays, I literally read whenever I'm not actively doing something else - I read a page or two of my book in-between clicking reply to your comment and starting typing this reply.

Maths involves a lot of "muscle memory" once you get past the initial hump. But it's often poorly taught at an early age to the level of inducing near-phobic levels of discomfort with it which to me seems strange. But I don't think there's any extra issue with having ADHD and maths

ADHD is very comorbid with dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia - around 20–60% of people with ADHD also have one or more learning difficulties. Dyscalculia affects as many people as dyslexia, but dyslexia is far more well-known and more likely to get diagnosed and helped with. There's a nice summary box of typical symptoms of dyscalculia in this paper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440373/
Lemmy's default instance leans heavily to the contemporary american idea of leftism. This doesn't affect the actual software in any way, only that community is a bit disturbing.
Enhance.. enhance.. enhance.. override security.. pencil.. joshua.. trustn01.. 1-2-3-4-5.. Swordfish.. warmachinerox..
I refuse to believe this. There is a way to fight deception, by using democratic approaches built into the tools that gather information. The only way to fight deception is through more transparency.

Information has to be more easy to understand, and the tools we (as the people) have right now pale in comparison to the tools that disinformation campaign managers have.

We need to even out their strategical advantage.
I say get them out of looking for speeders and light-runners, first off. That can be a whole other job.

Boom, you now need... what, 1/3 as many cops? Even that many? Might even help at least a bit with the whole "driving while black" thing if the people tasked with this are just looking for traffic violations and aren't fishing for other things (unless you're dumb enough to offer them up, and they'll be recording, obviously)
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Licence to krill: the destructive demand for a ‘better’ fish oil
I actually unflag after corrections. I think one-off flagging doesn't end up triggering any badness for the poster (and the rules for comments vs posts are different). Only once enough people flag something does anything happen.
He was so smug about it too, even to the end (see The Fog of War, 2003 Errol Morris)
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Their whole blog is gone

https://blog.coinbase.com
Coinbase competitors are largely operating in legally gray/black zone. Regulators do try to crack down and will likely to continue these efforts.
Other US companies providing similar products include Gemini, Kraken, and BlockFi. I dont think any of them are public.

BlockFi's lending product has already been banned by several state regulatory agencies, but if they've been sued or warned by the SEC, I dont think thats been made public.
The phone check in thing is for enforcing the two weeks home quarantine for returned travelers and close contacts of confirmed cases. While there are certainly slippery slope arguments to be made, let's not act like we've already slid down it.
repairability = better resale value.
more people would value this.
What motivated you to become a patent lawyer? Do you like it? What was the process like?
I would say a great deal of it is the media. Almost all the large outlets now are basically operating through a pro-Liberal/National political filter and pushing misinformation about the Government on people. There is huge complacency about the Government, and I think most of that is because many people literally have no idea what's going on. Probably less than one or two percent of the population would have actually heard of any of these mass surveillance or "national security" laws, the "eSafety" censorship laws, etc.

It used to be better, but Fairfax which had some fairly decent papers got bought out by Nine Media, whose chairman is retired Liberal party Treasurer Peter Costello. The paper's reporting has shifted to a very pro-Liberal Party bias since then. The News Corp papers were always politically slanted towards the Liberal/Nationals. ABC has been cowed by funding cuts and undermining by the Government appointing terrible board members and chairpersons, and they have literally pushed people out because they didn't toe the line (like Nick Ross, because he reported accurately on how bad the Liberal Party's policy on the NBN was, or Emma Alberiche because she reported on the fact that corporate tax cuts generally haven't been shown to increase economic growth when corporate tax cuts were basically the only policy the LNP had).

We'll see what happens this election. Murdoch might temporarily switch sides for a couple of months like they did in 2007, because he hates backing a loser (and I think Morrison's and the rest of this terrible Government's incompetence is a bit too obvious despite the protection racket the papers and TV news try to run). But if they do, almost as soon as Labor gets in, it will likely be back to attacks and undermining of Labor and pro-Liberal/National party bias...
Australia is China lite. In China people don't really have a choice, but in Australia people actually voted for this government, which makes it even worse.
That's not true at all? There is a ton of precedent for courts striking down selectively-enforced laws. Equality before the law is extremely important to how courts rule in the US.
I semi-seriously wonder if they did it because Apple finally decided to increment their number to Mac OS 11.

I also wonder if Apple went to 11 because Microsoft got to 10.
We don't have anywhere near the individual rights focus of somewhere like the USA, so anything around security is a wedge issue for the other side of politics. Means that things like this are too easily introduced and passed.
It’s a good way to shut down your competitors and get certain legislation in place where only your mega corp can meet the standards. They bought a lot of Bitcoin recently, which could be decent enough collateral to offer a SEC-sanctified lending product. The other low-end Bitcoin companies may not be able to play at a poker table with that high of a buy in.

The only other companies that will be able to offer something like that will be mega corps like the big banks, PayPal, etc. If they need to also buy large amounts of Bitcoin as collateral, that’s a win-win for their entire industry (price goes way up).

The name of the game is not user adoption. The name of the game is pump the price, because that’s marketing on its own.
As the Australian government rapidly moves toward an authoritarian police state, does part of you wonder if they'd be so cavalier if their citizens had guns? Or if that might be a deterrent to tyranny at some point?
The article says the artifact comes from Dunhuang, China, which is unsurprising as Dunhunang is part of Central Asia, AFAICT. The nomadic tribes of Central Asia tended to spread religions quite far. They weren't particularly ideological, and you'd often find a mixture of religions among tribes and even within a tribe. Probably not coincidentally, much of the eastern part of the silk road was populated by these peoples.

Nestorianism, an early Christian Church part of the Syriac Orthodox lineage but which is now almost extinct, spread deep into Mongolia by a similar process (as well as down into Southern India), though it only made it to Eastern China twice, the second time when the Mongols conquered China.

China is geographically huge with a not insignificant part in Central Asia, so whenever you hear something about ancient cultural exchanges between China and most anywhere else beyond East or SE Asia, it's usually going to have happened in Western China via nomadic peoples of Central Asia, and getting from Western China to Eastern China is the bigger hurdle. Buddhism is no exception--Buddhism first reached China via Central Asian tribes, only centuries later from across the Himalayas, and it still took quite awhile to reach Eastern China.
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The concept is beautiful. I would use it as a main machine.

The idea has already been approached, but the realization of a specific machine for that has never been tried.

Do you know the project author?

ex:
https://github.com/olup/kobowriter
People are being silenced on all these platforms for all kinds of reasons. I think we are pretty much lost. People don't understand the impotence of not being censored and they applaude censorship when it agrees with their views.
yes. that is like QE at microeconomics level. nudges people to take on more debt .
> They have only told us that they are assessing our Lend product through the prism of decades-old Supreme Court cases called Howey and Reves ... These two cases are from 1946 and 1990.

Trying to make out like Howey is some obscure precedent from decades ago which the SEC is nitpicking over. The Howey test is the test applied to determine if something is an investment contract.
A "feminist" in hijab is like a jew putting a swastika on his/her forehead. Islam is THE religion of misogyny. The fact that a Muslim in hijab calls herself feminist is absurd!
A good habit when writing unit tests is to use assertNumQueries especially with views. It's very easy even for an experienced developer to inadvertently add an extra query per row: for example if you have a query using only() to restrict the columns you return, and in a template you refer to another column not covered by only(), Django will do another query to fetch that column value (not 100% if that's still the case, but that was the behavior last time I looked). The developer might be just fixing what they think is a template issue and won't know they've just stepped on a performance landmine.
That might change. Maybe they're going after Coinbase first?

Making an argument based on SEC's action or inaction assumes you have a good model of how the SEC makes decisions. I sure don't. Do you?
"But mom everyone else is doing crime, why cant I do crime? Not doing crime puts me at a major disadvantage with respect to my criminal peers." - Brian Armstrong, TLDR
Students are not the only members of a community or geographic area.

I’m unclear how this is a relevant comparison to “Covid in Australia” or “lockdown strategy” beyond ‘smaller numbers are smaller’

If you are going to compare the numbers you just provided (which are not a good direct comparison), then it shows that it’s considerably more out of control in your school than in NSW, which is the least contained outbreak in Australia.

26k active cases in 8.1M population. Approx 0.3%.

35 in 2645 is 1.3%.

Other states of Australia are considerably better. So again, what is your point?
The SEC is not under obligation to sue offenders in a chronological order of market entry.

They may have been looking at this space for a while, and Coinbase’s size made them act to stop the proposed product where a smaller actor’s existing product wasn’t weighty enough to sue yet.
This is essentially "why did you pull me over for speeding officer? everyone else was speeding too!" and it's not an argument that works in court.
How about the SEC has repeatedly refused to prosecute for X in the past showing they, like us and multiple other parties doing business in this space, do not believe X is a crime. Given they've shown they don't think it's a crime and we and we agree and also don't think X is as crime, we have no idea why they're prosecuting us?

I dunno, seems like an obvious interpretation but I could be totally missing it. I could care f.all about the SEC and blockchain coin stuff.
I think part of the confusion is, if the product is what they claim it is, it already exists with a multitude of other companies.

There’s a US company named Celsius in NY that already offers fixed interest for crypto and loans. Ethereum has a dozen different defi options for lending out crypto. This isn’t some new thing that the SEC has never seen before.

It seems weird that if the SEC intends to use that ruling that they haven’t yet applied it to any of the existing products on the market or at the very least released a guidance.
You seem to be referring to the South Australia Home Quarantine app [1]. There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about this app recently. I'd just like to clear up some things:

The app only applies to people that need to quarantine, not the general population.

The app allows people who are required to isolate to opt to do their isolation at home, rather than stay at a quarantine facility. Nobody is being forced to use the app.

It is a way for authorities to make sure people are quarantining correctly, and to follow up cases of contact if people break their isolation bubble. Police are not arresting people for failing to check in. (My guess is that they would reset your isolation duration, follow up contacts and/or move you into a managed quarantine).

[1] https://www.covid-19.sa.gov.au/home-quarantine-app
> I would imagine that an action taken by the Australian Parliament would tend to be more durable.

I'm curious to understand why you'd think a law passed by elected lawmakers is more durable than a verdict by judges who have their position for life? Obacare was surely very controversial, but despite the best efforts by the conservative and an ideologically hostile Supreme Court, it remains in place after ten years.
No, unfortunately Australia is only 31% fully vaccinated!

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-inter...
Have they refused to prosecute X or have they not gotten around to prosecuting X? Gotta start somewhere and the statute of limitations is ticking so...

The wheels of justice turn slow but they generally don't stop when they get to ya just because there's a big line of folks behind ya.

Unless either the statute has expired or the SEC issues a written determination that you're in the clear you're not in the clear. And neither is anyone else doing the same thing.
From the Coinbase page about Lend:

>Lend your crypto to earn 4% APY

>Your principal is guaranteed

This definitely seems fishy. I don't see how this is possible unless if their position isn't levered. However, if they aren't levered, then why can't they just lend USDC themselves?
Ah. So, as such, Gemini could offer a security, which Coinbase can not do?
Swimming around outside of wrecks is generally very safe, or at least no more dangerous than any other type of open water diving. Just watch out for loose lines to avoid entanglement. It's a lot of fun and I would encourage everyone interested in diving to give it a try.

The real risk comes with wreck penetration. Inside a wreck it's easy to get stuck on something, or lost, or trapped under a collapsed structure, or stir up silt so that you can't see. It's not for beginners, and should only be attempted after significant experience and advanced training. In order to maximize safety there are a few general recommendations: always dive with a competent buddy, run a continuous guideline back to the exit point, carry a redundant breathing gas supply with adequate reserve for emergencies, don't exceed 100 ft / 30 m equivalent narcotic depth, carry spare lights, carry a cutting tool. Perfect buoyancy control is essential so that you're not flailing around and crashing into things.

In some popular dive areas there are wrecks that have been cleared out and intentionally sunk for divers. For example the HMCS Yukon off San Diego. Those are pretty safe and a good gentle introduction for new wreck divers.
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Existence of prior rule breakers doesn't mean that it is not forbidden. In reality SEC does try to pursue lots of crypto businesses and in general goes in the order of size rather than chronology.
Authoritarians wreck nations. It and paternalism is incompatible with functioning democracy.
And in crypto SEC is usually late to enforce. They only last week cracked down on the Bitconnect ponzi, which collapsed in January 2018 (that's an eternity in crypto)
Maybe, if it exists. Remember that it's only hypothetical, even if that hypothesis is a well-founded one.
The name that fits best imo is digital panopticon. It is a virtual prison for entire societies.
Perhaps you're misinformed.

The laws the article is talking about are the big problem - they're Federal and permanent (at least until we have a sane Government elected to reform and repeal them).

The COVID lockdowns are all operating under temporary state of emergencies under the State Governments. There's no actual reason to think they will be 'extended forever' like some crazies seem to think. For several states, our State Governments are actually much more competent and better in many ways than the Federal Government. Of course, a big part of the reason lockdowns are needed is because the Federal Government botched some vaccine deals with Pfizer etc. so we started vaccinating very late and have been continually supply-constrained since then.

The lockdowns have actually have tended to work effectively - for instance, in my state we've had a few lockdowns and have been able to quash every outbreak so far. So we've been mostly COVID free as we are at the moment, so there is no lockdown right now. Right now I can freely travel to any state except NSW, ACT and Victoria (which are hotspots). I would have to quarantine to go to WA though, but hopefully our state goes from "Low Risk" to "Very Low Risk" by their Government's rating soon so I can take a holiday there without two weeks quarantine.

The main actually ridiculous restriction is the Federal Government's ban on travel out of the country. That is wrong, and probably unconstitutional. Travel out should absolutely be allowed, just with the proviso that there may not be quarantine capacity for months to return (perhaps you should need to have to book in advance and pay a deposit if you intend to return in the next year). Although apparently it is actually ridiculously easy to get an exception to leave, I have a few friends that have taken jobs overseas and their applications were approved in hours with no questions (not even asked for any evidence they actually had a job offer).
That’s a possibility as well, and at the end of the day we only have Coinbase’s perspective on the interactions.

To be honest, as someone who follows crypto, I get the impression that the SEC simply doesn’t know what they want to do with crypto yet.