skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that the government is the one enabling contract law to exist, by making it enforceable. And so they get to say which contract terms are enforceable; and so they get to say which mutual agreements between private parties are iterated prisoners' dilemmas, and which are just ultimatum games.

Securities are valuable assets for the same reason that greenbacks have value: because the state is standing there ensuring everyone's playing a fair game. If the state didn't punish counterfeiting, greenbacks would be worthless. If the state didn't punish non-dilutive duplicate share sales (i.e. selling the same whole pie to two people), securities would be worthless.

As such, the state is creating the worth of those things, from nothing. Your effort into a corporation is additive, but the government's pre-invested effort into building the framework on which corporations rest is multiplicative, with the multiplier having started off, before that effort, at 0. Neither fiat money nor securities work in a lawless world. The government—that is, the People—get all the credit for making those things possible. Should they thus not get the reward? (Commodities do work in a lawless world, but not through tokens representing them. You'd have to bring those 10K bushels of wheat along with you if you want any credibility, which is pretty inefficient.)

Let me put it this way: if we were starting with a form of socialism where corporations exist, and have founders and executives and boards of directors, but no shareholders, with the government instead earning all corporate profits (which it then spends on things like UBI); and then someone proposed a capitalist class that would earn some of those profits instead, taking them directly out of the UBI budget... would that proposal be justifiable through any particular argument to natural rights/freedoms? There might be a practical argument, in terms of a profit motive incentivizing entrepreneurship and investment, leading to a "rising tide"; but would there be an ethical argument in favor?

> History has not been kind to nations whose governments break those rules and started nationalizing corporations. Not too long ago, North Korea was the side with the industry, railroads, hydro-elec dams, steel mills and manufacturing plants.

North Korea isn't a particularly good example; their economic stall is a result of trade embargoes more than anything. (They're actually doing as well as could be expected, given that they're an isolated, non-globalized economy whose only trading partners are much larger globalized economies [China, Russia] who don't need anything NK could provide.)

Meanwhile, China's own mostly-nationalized corporations do pretty well for themselves.

Hell, even Canada has tons of Crown Corporations, and everyone here is begging our federal government to nationalize the cellular infrastructure (and then lease it out fairly) because it'd be much better than the current oligopoly situation we're in.
Now imagine if machines got clogged 1% of the time and you had to fix them, or if items occasionally fell off conveyer belts onto other conveyor belts. The amount of redundancy and work that would create would be paralyzing, but that’s the bare minimum of recreating what goes wrong in the real world. I love factorio, but what always strikes me as most interesting is thinking about what it is you get to take for granted in one of the most complex games around.
Another advice reportedly from Texas, regarding fighting rising temperatures: just crank up the goddamn air conditioner.

We had advices like that from former president. Ideas like "if you don't run testing for COVID, you don't have many positives" should surely be accepted enthusiastically on HN.

/s

Seriously, why it should matter if CNN talks about that or not? Don't facts rule, and rule pretty assertively here?
"I stayed because I thought I would be incrementally safer against social engineering attacks."

In what ways?
> "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default." Alan Greenspan

While this is partially true:

1. Sovereign nations absolutely can and do default. See, Russia in the 1990s and the LTCM fiasco.

2. Even though they do not have to default and can always print money to pay their debts, doing so causes inflation. How much inflation it causes is proportional to how much money is printed.

Now, the dynamics of inflation are pretty complicated, so in certain circumstances you can get away with it for a while. But it is not the case that the government can print money indefinitely with zero consequences.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer.

Note that on this last link from Nature, we now know that past covid is effective at preventing known variants including Delta, per the first two links.

Source for # of Americans who had covid:

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

A new study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020
Ok, how about these, all $3k:

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https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-beautif...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-111-che...
I think what people mean by 'humanity is doomed' isn't about whether the homo sapiens species will continue - it will.

The fear is more that society collapses. Our way of life may be doomed. With our extreme focus on career specialisation over the past century, very few, if any of us have the generalist skills to thrive in a world equivalent to pre-industrial times. It's not something to shrug at. What country can actually live as a self contained unit without global supply lines and dependencies? What families or individuals could?

It's also true that there will be substantial areas of habitable climate. The problem is that people who weren't lucky enough to be born and live in one, won't simply accept their fates and die. Eight billion people will surge into a relatively small habitable band - in the process this will destroy the arable land and severely strain systems like water, power, waste and healthcare.
What if you do have a positive test in your history?
> Although some view the Fed's QE as a form of "money printing," it's not.

I think you’re technically right; I would only call it outright printing if the Fed actually canceled the debt rather than rolling it over.
My info is dated, back in the day when LI was passed became federal law, I working in telecom and we had to have LI ports on all backbone ISP routers. No idea what legal process they had there, but operations didn't touch the LI ports. I heard it had a federal portal that the feds could access directly.

This was almost 2 decades ago, but on mobiles, they had a custom portal where you put in a phone number, and all traffic is logged, location, etc. Also they had a department to handle just warrants for data for mobiles.

This is almost the same way we did for child porn cases about 10 years later in photo hosting. Either a photo matched a known md5 sum of content, or a cop would submit a warrant, legal would contact operations and ask us to run the warrant script. The script would zip up the entire user's data and burn to dvd. The cop would walk into the data center and pick it up.

No chain of custody would include an employee. I'm assuming facebook/twitter has portals for feds now, since they already have government portals for cities/state employees.
It looks like the Linux Makefile is included in .gitignore

Linux build instructions would be great. I wasn't able to get the binary running on Debian 11 due to library version differences.
The virus is now endemic and can never be eradicated. The Delta variant is so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect to protect unvaccinated people. All of us can expect to be exposed occasionally no matter what we do.

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

In the US, adults who want to be vaccinated have been vaccinated. Children aren't at significant risk. So the best approach is to drop all restrictions and accept the risk.
Climate change is the underlying problem, but most of the "doomed" feeling I've heard from others comes from the inevitable strife that will follow widespread climate displacement, famine, drought, and other increasingly severe weather. Not to mention feuding governments.

My feeling is that we could survive climate change easily, but it's the other people that will do us in.

We've lost ~4.5 million people globally to covid and things have been a little weird (this is certainly an understatement for some). What happens when that's 50 million? 100?
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I've provided links supporting antibodies from natural immunity multiple times.

Example:

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

# of Americans who had covid:

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

A new study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020.

It's impossible for you to have counted the # of times I made this claim in my comment history without noticing the links. Please be sure you're trying to see the sources when I provide them in parent comments.
> People will figure out how to deal with the weather.

Wet bulb temperature has a very specific meaning for human anatomy. At that temperature, you cannot vent heat. There is no mechanism to deal with that weather. The only option is to die, and quickly. That is a direct consequence of our literal anatomy.
Planets is amazing, through-out singe-season story with an unexpected bit of drama and similarly unexpected resolution with a twist.
There are more unvaccinated truth tellers than unvaccinated liars according to the statistics.
I mean, that's fine, but it's not what the parent was asking for. It seemed that they were implying we needed to catch every pre-infection, and the lack of development of highly sensitive tests for pre-infection was evidence of some negligence. I was arguing against developing "T-cell tests" for prior COVID infection.

My comment was not intended to be an argument against any testing for pre-infection; I think the rationale for that is pretty solid, but I think that the regulatory establishment needs to be prepared to inform people that they might not be able to prove their previous infection and in that case they should get vaccinated.
That person is writing in a way that looks fact based but is not. As you noticed, some statements of what is supposed to be accepted as true are false.

For example, all the vaccines still protect extremely well against hospitalization and death EVEN with Delta. Which is what this whole discussion is about, why vaccines help to keep our hospitals open. So the fact that they would say that the vaccine isn't really helpful anymore because of delta is just purely false.
A government bond (eg. a treasury) is a financial asset already, like cash but not as liquid. The swap was done to help avoid the "solvent but not liquid" scenarios, not to create new net assets (in first order effects).
This is a well known technique. You can buy physical journals with certain questions as prompts.

I tried this for a while. It works in the beginning, but it wasn't long before I tired of coming up with answers to the same question every day.

The real question I have: Which fountain pen is in the picture?
Can you be sure the temporary side effects (caused by the engagement of the immune system) wouldn't be diminished for people with existing immunity? It might not be as much of a concern.
The droplet narrative is a year expired. Sure it happens but recent studies with infected chimps and masks shows full room dispersion after a relative short time.

"A study from the National Academy of Sciences Press establish that most of the COVID-19 particles emitted from those infected are aerosols, or consisting of 0.3 to 0.5 microns. “Droplets” consist of particles much greater in size than aerosols. The science shows however, that most COVID-19 particles are aerosols, not droplets. As such, they are less than 1 micron in size."

See Edwards 2/23/21

And this for a thorough analysis: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2021/04/06/masks-do-nothing...
Add in the wild and arbitrary decision that punitive damages shouldn't exceed ~9x the compensatory damages and the corporate behavior control mechanisms have been largely denuded (and many US states have lowered that even more).
Absolutely not. Roadroller currently targets the maximum latency of 1 second for "typical" inputs (~50 KB), so it would translate to ~50 KB/s decompression rate. If we were able to get any gain out of it the communication channel should have been much slower (~5 KB/s). At that point we would just avoid JS anyway.

It is possible to make it an order of magnitude faster (the decoder is size-optimized, not speed-optimized), but its usefulness is still limited. The algorithm (context mixing) runs a large number of context models both for the compression and decompression, so its run time is proportional to the number of bytes being compressed. In the other words, if the input size is 1 MB the run time is proportional to that 1 MB, no matter it compressed into 200 KB or 10 KB. The only way to make the decompression faster is to reduce the input size via preprocessing; that preprocessor would have to run the context models to be efficient however.

I did hear of a semi-serious use case where an embedded device has to ship a JS front end to its API and its ROM is limited and can't be expanded. In that case it would make more sense to put a custom compression algorithm. However a more reasonable answer would be to force `Content-Encoding: br` to the client and store a Brotli stream (which would be at most 10% larger than Roadroller anyway).
I can't regularly find fruit that was plentiful a few years ago at my grocery store. Produce this year was poor quality and wasn't available at the same times.
So you're saying this guy "hoodwinked" the reporter but didn't lie?

Maybe this guy only misdirected. What going on is significant. In fact, that changes nothing.

The story is that wealthy and powerful person showed up at the Holmes trial and made an effort to misdirect reporters. Whether he made overt factual untruths is irrelevant unless you the logic of a third grader.
I could be wrong, but I'm not convinced RaspPi is better suited for the task, even cost-wise. SoC are cheap these days - I have zero evidence to back this up, but I would wager most of the "cost" associated with e.g. ICU monitoring devices is strictly to non-technical aspects (brand name, margin, etc.)

In theory, an open source and safe design is definitely feasible. I just wouldn't marry "safe" and "raspi" on most days.
The difference is that people took action on the ozone layer and acid rain. Now they aren't problems.

I can't understand the viewpoint that climate change coverage is some sort of clickbait to drive ad revenue. I can't think of anything worse to read about. It's so depressing and makes me avoid the news and see less ads if anything.
There are societal costs for obesity as well, but they aren’t socialized early enough in the USA, and their increased cost burden on Medicare is paired with a decrease cost burden on social security.

Not that it’s an excuse (we should mandate vaccines and also deal with obesity on a societal level, both are good, one is more urgent than the other).
you put the orwin in orwellian
Well, some medical studies pay good money, so it's perfectly rational to sign up for these and hope to get the placebo.
Reminds me of the Alka-Seltzer campaign "plop plop fizz fizz." One tablet was enough, but there wasn't any harm in consuming two. So they just told people to take two tablets. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/double-bubble/
Not sure why downvoted, this is correct. The rest of the world was populated by small (i.e. less genetically diverse) groups who came "out of Africa". So "Africans are more diverse genetically than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined"

https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/study-africans-mo...

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2018/07/19/genetic-diversity-in-africa...

there are "Larger Genetic Differences Within Africans Than Between Africans and Eurasians" "and the genetic diversity in Eurasians is largely a subset of that in Africans, supporting the out of Africa model of human evolution"

https://www.genetics.org/content/161/1/269

The highest genetic diversity is actually among people who are small subgroups of "Africans" - Khoisan not Bantu.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6692

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24988-humanitys-forgo...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25471224/

So, genetically, just as you can't draw a line around "bony fishes" without also including land animals who are also descendants of bony fishes.

https://www.sciencealert.com/actually-there-is-no-such-thing...

Also, you can't genetically call "Africans" a well-defined sub-group of humans, excluding others.
Do you disagree that the clean energy problem has been solved by nuclear energy? I'm not panicked because I think we already have the solution.

All the climate alarmism and environmental activists has done is promote worse options like solar and wind that are more environmentally destructive and cannot sustain modern human civilization.
Projucer is GPL3, as is this project. I think it just needs a little better build instructions...
Scott Adams is a cartoonist with a degree in economics and an MBA.
He can't, because it's garbage.
> lying under a fake identity and then trying to deny it halfway through. Why would he use a fake identity and then try to cover it up,

The whole debacle is just bonkers. I agree the story might be mere "human interest" but imo it certainly is interesting! His behavior fits with the whole gestalt of fraud, entitlement and deception.
This is a fantastic article! What a great resource for learning how to implement realistic and great-looking shadows in CSS.
As that link points out, the majority of the high earners (top 1%), which were averaged to get to 42%, did not even reach the highest tax bracket. The vast majority it turns out. The highest tax bracket applied to less than 2% of the top 1%.
Face masks. It is also faster even when I’m not wearing a mask. I wouldn’t mind both.
I'm still relatively new to NixOS, having switched all my personal systems over to it this spring/summer. I don't do cloud dev atm, so haven't explored that use case yet.

But I believe NixOPs is the canonical way to do what you're describing in production/at scale:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/

(more below)

If you want a more experienced answer, I suggest asking on the NixOS forum or subreddit, people are quick to answer in both places.

https://discourse.nixos.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/

----

More useful NixOPs guides

https://www.thedroneely.com/posts/nixops-towards-the-final-f...

https://ops.functionalalgebra.com/nixops-by-example/

https://nixops.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Canada doesn't have a national health care system, this is managed by each provinces.

Quebec is the only province that will let you get only 1 dose of the vaccine, instead of 2, if you were previously infected. With that 1 dose, that's enough to have access to the vaccine passport.

But there are absolutely no places in Canada that accepts prior infection as being fully vaccinated.
My plan in March 2020 was to wait it out and do whatever I could not to get infected myself. I think at the time I said something to the effect of "I can't imagine this lockdown lasting less than six months." At first I think I expected most people to get it eventually, and the main concern was to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed all at once. Then after awhile it became apparent that it could be kept under control or not depending on how well people adhered to social distancing and masking. The vaccines arrived, which were supposed to be the thing to end the pandemic. It almost worked.

Now we have Delta variant which is far more contagious. Looks like we may be over the hump in the current wave (speaking from a U.S. centric point of view). What happens next depends on whether we can achieve a level of immunity that prevents the virus from spreading.
I think the point here is panic doesn't solve any problems and probably only makes things worse. We'd all be better off with level heads.
I'm not convinced that climate change has a high probability of ending technological civilisation[0]. Even large-scale climate wars might not end it.

The scenarios that fall short of ending civilisation, e.g. losing hundreds of millions of lives to famine or war, are obviously still very bad. This is not to downplay climate change in the slightest. It's just... at some point, people start dying, and that frees up ecological carrying capacity again. You need to make pessimistic assumptions about a lot of positive feedback loops in ecological and social collapse to predict that all human civilisation is going to be wiped out in the sense of regressing back to before the industrial revolution.

[0] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/13/18660548/climat...
How many just regular folks would actually pick Epik? Why?
Exactly, they were doing fine until they made a point to shit on all open source software instead of limiting their focus to this one, Microsoft-sponsored outfit.
"It's too ironic," said Griffith of the Times. "That Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud and the media has this whole two days of interaction with someone who was misrepresenting themselves from her extended family."

Just a shady group.
The infection is aerosol not droplet.
The tools don't preserve the literal contents of the file; only the JSON / XML semantics. This makes them unpopular. (Source: I decided not to use them because of this; I needed hashes to remain stable for some reason I can't quite recall.)
“I would think that Apple has much more skin in the game than attackers do”

What skin in the game do they have? As long as they aren’t viewed as way more insecure than Android vulnerabilities don’t really cost them anything.
The shocking story of Milla Jovovich’s family
As someone who grew up in the 128, i was surprised visiting SV and realizing no one in tech out west has heard of it.

I think its really lucky boston was spared the extra glut of cost of living issues that SV has. Route 128 area was never cheap, but not SV levels.
I'm being downed for reporting on the information that I have about this? Fine. Downvote me a thousands times I will not hold my tongue. ADD: I pointed out the info was from Andy Ngo so that people could take that into account according to their own view of him. EDIT2: Ok, I got the order of events backwards.