skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, it's not forever. Over time, when we know more about the virus and it changes more, there will probably be less-severe variants where we can mostly rely on vaccination.

Second, there are plenty of ways you can mitigate the need for masks and social distancing with people that you know. Just like you don't need to use condoms with a monogamous partner that you trust, you don't need to wear masks around vaccinated people that use masks and social distance around people they don't know.

Third, you're not sorry. You're going to get people killed and continue to hurt the economy (and people who depend on it) because you can't stand to put a piece of cloth on your face for 5 minutes, stand back a bit from someone, or eat outside. You're freaking out and being childish because you personally don't care about the consequences, while ignoring the consequences for everyone else. It's the same as people who refused to wear condoms during the AIDS crisis because "they're not normal".
You're probably in the wrong place to get sympathy for billionaires and megacorps.
Similar to skia or cairo? Except it doesn't actually target hardware acceleration? -- if it does, the documentation is pretty bad about expressing that. That's a pretty big difference.
Hold on... People tell me I'm not at all likely to die of delta now that I've been vaccinated. If the unvaxxed are only 11x more likely, then the vaccines do not work as advertised. It's like ... The rabies vaccine provides orders of magnitude better protection as does polio and measles, etc. The covid vaccines are not effective enough and it's becoming more obvious each day.
I was responding to the comment of "Even people with PhDs are questioning it...". A PhD in English Lit isn't going to help you understand how vaccines, mRNA or viral transmission models work. Listen to experts in those topics.
When I did eventually produce colors I expected to be generally perceptually uniform, everything bluish was much much brighter than I expected. Drastically worse than HSL.

I don’t think this is a problem with the color space, I think the JS source wasn’t designed to be used by humans.
You can probably get away with running your own (there a ton of open source ones, they are extremely simple to write and just a ffmpeg pipe) for your own servers.

I'd imagine these named ones in particular were looked into further because they were straight up collecting monthly fees for content they don't own or have the right to use. And adding ads for their own "premium bots" in every single message the bot sends. And gating features like volume behind $9/m plans.
Nobody could answer the question of what the money was spent on, so it's missing. This is a normal usage of the term, nobody is alleging that someone was walking down the street with a briefcase full of 2.3 trillion dollars and whoops accidentally slipped and threw it into the bushes somewhere but can't find it.

And I'm no accountant but I suspect there could be a reasonable middle ground between accounting for every single dollar spent, and accounting for 2.3 trillion dollars.
A global pandemic that overwhelms healthcare resources is not a normal thing for a country.
Sycamore v0.6.0 (a Rust framework for building web apps with WASM)
> I think Cheney was pulling the shots and knowingly and cynically ignored all of those glaring warnings

Finally some government blame that isn't brain-dead "Bush did it".
And intptr_t and uintptr_t for results of computations resulting in pointers. Sadly C's type system isn't really powerful enough to properly take advantage of these.
I guess I put more of the blame on the influencers because they are the ones making editorial decisions. Sure the platforms are optimizing for engagement too, but it's all content-agnostic. The influencers choose their words carefully, and they choose harmful words because it makes them more money.
But Australia isn’t violent, divided, and less trusting of one another. Neither are most of the western-style developed countries that turn to the state for protection.

> Unfortunately this creates a strong incentive for all governments to actually create such societies and increase division and mistrust in order to gain power.

Have you actually been to Australia before? Or Europe for that matter? Or Japan? Your claims don’t make much sense with the current examples. All we have is a developed country that heavily values the right to bear arms and has a horrible crime rate, while the other countries are the exact opposite.
I hear this quite often on the internet, yet I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen a person wearing a mask in public pre-COVID. I’m in the US so it is extremely uncommon.

Where has all of the concern for the immunocompromised been before this? The flu is quite deadly, you know.
Tell me what about this reduces government overreach and the severity of the law.

Returning travelers quarantining at home will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

It's a reduction in government overreach that you have a "choice" between one of their quarantine "hotels" or in-home surveillance? Is the part that is the lesser government overreach, the part where if you fail to address one of their random pings they'll send officers to your house to conduct an in-person check?

The app isn't the problem in itself. The problem is the enslavement. This is a system of enslavement.
> 20% of Norway's GDP gets pumped out of the ground. The US does not have that luxury.

Wrong again, the Nordics do not rely on oil to fund their welfare states - not even Norway.

> To hand it all to the government is confirmation bias.

Your whole comment screams confirmation bias for your own ideological view. Drawing a clean dividing line between "government" and "markets" is of course a fool's errand because they aren't separate - governments create markets through enforcement of property law and many other laws and programs.
A fundamental tenet of government: the Shawcross doctrine
This is probably a good format for “intelligence is an imaginary construct, not a quantifiable fact”.
> Maybe you are a monk and can work hard for a company as a founder with very little equity

I suggested Musk would still be worth $19B. Truly I am a monk if I should want so little.
We’re back to nobody said the vaccines are 100% effective. You also don’t address the arguments raised and instead argue against things that aren’t being argued, like “booster scheme” fantasies. I think you’re just trolling.

It’s weird, because to the extent you are able to convince anyone, you can, at best, get some people killed. What even is the point of that? Worse, your mealy arguments could only work on the poorest critical thinkers, so you’re picking on the weak — the very people who need a hand. IDK, I couldn’t feel good about myself, doing what you’re doing.
Sorry for not being clear.

I have updated my comment. I meant it is not possible to make it work all the time.

In my experience, Google etc. have always done better when the search is about computing, e.g. when it is about IT terms.

In the long tail away from computing and a very broad definition of popular culture, it is not uncommon for quotation to make no difference at all. Particularly when the quotation has a slight resemblance to something broadly in popular culture...or god forbid a product.

It is of course possible to get exact matches in theory. I mean your favorite text editor can do it in your source files. And in the early 1990's Web Crawler could do it for the web.

But today, it's cosine similarity plus special exceptions looking at an arbitrary subset of the entire sharded index that happens to be in hot memory of the server cluster your query hits bounded by current load and the target service level for returning something.

I wouldn't be surprised that your experience has recently degraded in this regard.

The web is bigger every day.
Because they weren't?

This is like describing the freeing of the slaves in America as "attempts at eliminating wealth inequality" (and/or "hatred of rich people").

Yes, the people who owned slaves were generally wealthy. Yes, the slaves were not wealthy. Being given back legal ownership of themselves and their children could be seen as a kind of wealth transfer from rich to poor, but that wasn't the point of it.

Some historical context:

https://www.rbth.com/history/331117-how-abolishing-serfdom-l...
There often (not always) is no functional way to tell the difference between a belief made up on the spot and a “religious” belief.
I don't know if it still forces the behavior you want, but it's possible that "Verbatim" mode will meet your needs. To activate it, look under the search bar after you have results for the button marked "Tools". Click this, then change the pulldown from "All results" to "Verbatim". Alternatively (if doing it programatically) add "tbs=li:1" to the search query.
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Generally the courts in their wisdom have decided its not the States interest to be pontificating on which religious beliefs are valid and sanctioned and which are not. That would be putting the cart before the horse. If the State gets to decide, then you might as well throw out all religious beliefs. The state is the Church.

Hence the standard that the belief just needs to be deeply held.
I know that the knee jerk reaction is to give government more power. But you know, in America the power is with the people still.

If the State and corporations gets to decide what you put in your body, and what God you get to believe in, then the foundational promise of America is dead.
The last podcast I listened to, re Kafka, he sounded as if he'd been putting a bit much something up his nose. Then today I heard this suckerberg episode - crikey. Is Zuckerberg taking action re [redacted]'s book? I don't use twitter so haven't noticed anything beyond the podcasts.
Is Buffett indicator still relevant today with deep globalization? It does not take account of at least following factors:

* Companies like BABA or SE that contribute little to US GDP.

* Tech giants shift profits to low-tax countries.

* Income from US only makes part of global giants' income.

(I know almost nothing about economy so this is novice question, instead of a statement against the effectiveness of Buffett indicator.)
It is the article's headline, and there wasn't enough space to edit in the specific state. But is it actually a meaningful distinction as far as these policies being constrained permanently to just one part of Australia? Will this spread everywhere or is there a reason why this would only be constrained to a really small town no one really notices?
What if the BTC network was also a torrent back end.
I consider myself more of a climate lukewarm-er than full on my panic alarmist but I can agree on the less pollution for our world the better. My worry is more about the anthropocene than GW. I think tech will fix the latter but we have absolutely destroyed the environment
> Every one of those examples has nothing to do with requiring vaccinations to attend schools.

You're making a distinction without making a meaningful difference. They have everything to do with requiring a medical intervention by the state, which has led to abuse in the past. Jacobson led to Bell v. Buck which led to forced sterilizations. And I should have mentioned King Leopold using Congolese as vaccine test subjects.

> Only the last one has any relation to vaccine mandates at all and the causal link there is somewhat tenous given the sordid particulars of Buck v Bell (including the deliberate incompetence of Buck's lawyer). It isn't clear that case would have gone differently without the Jacobsen v. Massachusetts precedent.

Having a bad lawyer is irrelevant the judges still have to know the law. And Jacobson was crucial in the decision because it negated the limit the State has on bodily integrity. Also given that you backup your claims with no arguments, they could simply be dismissed with no arguments, but they needed to be addressed nonetheless.

> Given the strength which which you made your claim, I thought you would have better evidence to support it.

Forced medical procedures lead to abuses. I've given many historical examples. Your counterpoints are not supported by any meaningful counter-examples.

> I do think that the medical attrocities you list have had a lasting and deleterious effect on public trust of government medical ethics and contribute significantly to vaccine hestitancy.

Coercion and total lack of accountability aren't exactly the best marketing strategy.
> This guy who invents awesome working chemicals that are tragically bad for people on a worldwide scale

Cars and fridges bad, is pretty much HN at it's core.

These saved millions, probably billions of lives (depending on how you measure it)

Thomas Midgley Jr work making these more efficient means he is an amazing human being that helped humanity saving many many lives.

I guess people need something to justify pushing code around that does nothing?
> for a sincerely held religious belief.

You can't just let every single human claim whatever they want is a religious belief. To claim that having your likeness captured (whether it's a photo of your face, your foot, your fingers, or whatever) is against your religious beliefs is laughable. Does the person not have no drivers license (their face captured by a camera)?

If we can claim whatever we want, well it's against my religious belief to be fired.
For sure! Because this was for my own use, I need to put in some documentation for it to be useful for others. That, and pick a name :) It's all on my TODO list.

You're right: if you don't control the server, you basically can't intercept any requests without this extra AJAX call, or some similar mechanism like a tracking image served from your own server. Essentially, you need to make a request to your own server at some point!

The architecture is pretty simple:

1. Insert the AJAX request into each page, sending the page URL and the referrer in the payload. Because I found some weirdness with tools like Pocket serving my pages from some cached location, I use my static site generator (Jekyll) to embed the page URL into each page, instead of pulling it from the client side.

2. I support multi-tenancy on a single tracking server by using multiple domain names. Based on the incoming domain name, I have nginx attach an additional header to the request that says which site is being tracked. This way, I can have my personal blog and my newsletter website both tracked by the same tracking server instance.

3. Then, it's just a matter of storing the data (page URL, time of visit, referrer domain, which site) into a SQLite database.

4. And of course, I have a small web UI to view the data.

Note that I don't do anything with the IP address of the visitor. That's personal data that I don't track.
100k bytes = ~98 KB.

That's not material.
This does not explain anything. What if "the wealthy business owners collude against the workers while at the same time lobbying for laws that make it illegal for workers to combine" did not happen, will the low skill workers get paid $1million and the management get paid $1k instead?
It works for all-quantified statements about sets of size one.
> how you got fear-mongering from that article

Title of the article: "I got 'Mild' Breakthrough Case".

By definition, it is not a mild case. Any reasonable definition of mildness would not include the terms "My eyeballs ache" and "103 degree fever".

The article implies that even the mild case of COVID has horrifying symptomps which it goes into great detail to painfully exemplify. This is misleading. Absolutely despicable journalism, if you ask me.
It means nothing as these studies rarely take into account confounding variables. For example the vaxxed are more likely to distance and stay at home
The company is a debt collector - they are already a bunch of bloodsuckers from the start.
The dictionary app (and hence its database) may go all the way back to NeXTStep/Openstep.

Maybe not all of it. But I wouldn't doubt if bits of it went all the way back to the early days where a fancy dictionary was one of the star features of NeXTStep.
Another way to think about this is that historically equity returns are so consistently high that even with an accurate predictor of returns it’s not worth not being exposed to stocks.

Even if you know the next ten years will be in the bottom decile of returns for the S&P 500, you’re still better off than with cash.
Maybe check out the open source equivalent of gpt3. True that open ai has a sort of dystopian woke corporate air about it.
Returning travelers quarantining at home will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

Ahhhhh joy, the choice between a state-run guarded hotel room, or in-home surveillance with random pings that send the police to your house if you don't respond within 15 minutes.

What a sensible and efficient use of technology!
The underlying file format and associated libraries are probably largely unchanged from the NeXTStep era. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

http://toastytech.com/guis/ns20mail.png

(Edit: beaten by 30 seconds!)
Freedom and the pursuit of happiness are also essential.
> some people actually want an authoritarian leader because they don't want responsibility or more things to think about.

It's easier to leave work at work that way.

1. Show up
2. Do work
3. Get paid
4. Leave

Your brain is freed to think of important things rather than work minutia. Of course, jobs like this often are mind-numbing if you're not the type to think with one half of the brain and do with the other and don't pay particularly great (in general).
You may have gotten the reference already, but–I was actually referring to Horus being known as 'The Avenger' because he avenged the murder of his father Osiris by his uncle Set.
Nah, sue for religious discrimination when it's found out that someone else already employed also doesn't have a degree.
That's why I didn't say they do backport anything. I don't know how they run that service internally. But knowing how some large customer-facing services are run, I wanted to caution against calling out the "out of date" software that happened in many comments. Sometimes you can't "just update things" and rely on other ways to mitigate.
Sure there is. That's what amendments are for.
I think the next (or current - I've lost track) version of C++ has an idx_t type which is an unsigned int of some sort, which will be the recommended type for for loops.
Or as a way to misdirect away from your less favorable activities; past and present. Just look at Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and others.
It's one of those things, if you've ever managed a larger team, that's incredibly, incredibly obvious.

A single bad hire can suck up the vast majority of your management time, drain team morale, drain it further when you inevitably fire them, open you up to liability, and generally make your life miserable.

Bad hires do slip in, and each time they do, BOY does it suck.

You need a study for this just about as much as you need a study for "Don't touch the kitchen burner."
If you decided to travel during the quarantine, you already agreed to this. If you were already stuck out of country when the quarantines were added, then you have a point. However, it makes sense if they want to control transmission and either lack vaccines or have a bunch of people who don’t want to get vaccinated.

> It’s a blatant power grab. They want to spy on you and track you. They don’t care about your health.

That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Or the bits of vlue
Reminds me of epistemology, where this is a distinction between certainty and truth.
> Are there any freedoms fought over in America that truly do no harm to others?

One that comes to mind is gay marriage.
How is that distinction constitutional? Privately held beliefs are illegitimate unless they are held with a registered institution?
There's a lot of things that people who never read the bible will never find out about.

Numbers 31

> Now kill all the boys.

> And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

> but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
The copy and paste bugs are supported on all platforms, as you say, likely on account of the common code base.
Also, if you have 16 or 32G machines Windows machines you rarely see the performance issues. Working for a large corporate, in fact a very larger MS partner, probably why slack was not a choice, 8G machines are the par.
Employers collude to lower the wages they pay to employees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
> build the systems of your own enslavement.

That reminds me of an old web-based puzzle game, where you had to carry around CCTV cameras to make sure you are always being recorded.

At one point, the protagonist, in a moment of self-awareness, says something very profound that has stuck with me ever since: "If I am complicit in my own surveillance, does that mean I'm hiding from myself?"

Can anyone remember the name of this game?
Hot liquids are the worst. I find that takeaway coffee is disgusting because the coffee smell is replaced by the smell of melting plastics.
For me, the big thing I can't do with a web app is work around the keyboard. If I try to write a chat app, the keyboard will often cover the text box, and there's often no way to prevent this. There's no APIs for "tell me where the on-screen keyboard is so I can move the app UI out of the way" or even "automatically resize the window to exclude the keyboard".

The options for showing a numpad are also very limited. <input type="number"> exists, but it doesn't work for things that aren't numbers, like codes starting with 0.
Or they’re more likely to take risks out of perceived protection. Well designed studies do take these factors into account and ensure a sufficiently large and diverse sample size.
There is a federal government, but these articles (OP and above link) are talking about the South Australian and New South Wales state governments respectively.

> How do you know they won't make that the policy everywhere? Could that happen?

This would require the state governments to collectively agree on something (unlikely) or for Scott Morrison (the Prime Minister) to get his act together and actually do something for once in his ineffectual life, so equally unlikely.
What’s the state of Wiktionary like in your opinion?