skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There will be no significant herd immunity effect.

This is a statement that lacks critical nuance.

Will there be herd immunity that eliminates the virus from the population?

I agree, the answer is probably "no".

But vaccines significantly reduce the chance of acquiring covid upon exposure, and they reduce the period in which you're infectious if you experience a breakthrough case.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

The result is that R is significantly reduced in a highly vaccinated population. This reduces the rate of spread and the chance any one person will be exposed, thereby protecting the vulnerable.

I know everyone is throwing around the example of Israel's experience, but no one seems to be considering just how much worse things would be for them if they didn't have a high rate of vaccination. The answer: a lot worse. Especially when you consider that, even with Delta, vaccines are highly protective against hospitalization and death:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
Yes. The flat assembler is much more useful. I can use it to produce executables for Linux, BSD and Windows.
> but investigators found he never did any work for the company.

Not just him, but there were about 50 employees at this Saudi aviation company that were being paid and not showing up to work.

Clearly this was immigration fraud to bring people to the US, but I’ll bet these “ghost” jobs haven’t been cracked down on by immigration authorities.
"If workers merged and formed a coherent Union, and acted as a single monolithic entity i.e. 'all labour in the colonies comes from a single Guild'", will they win a bargain to get paid $1million and the capitalist only get paid the minimum?
The means of distribution (or as you call it, the means of logistics) is part of the means of production, yeah. The mechanism by which products of labor are moved throughout the world is just as much a part of the means of production as anything else.

It's one of the reasons that folks are so keen on privatizing things like the Royal Mail (one of the places that the UK right is ahead of the curve on the US) and the ongoing attempts to do the same to the USPS.
At this point anything done with covid as an excuse should be thought of as a power grab.

We have vaccines for those that want them.

We have drugs that treat it very well.

There’s no reason to censor information or shut things down over it.
I never even thought about the legality haha. Love this bot, will be sad when it's gone.
> bit-packing with int_fast8_t allows you to represent

I assume you meant `int_least8_t`?
> taking things from you under duress or coercion is not consent

This was his job. With his private sector employer. Who paid him money in exchange for services.

Someone being forced to resign because their work requirements are incompatible with their beliefs is part of having a moral code. You're not entitled to be able to work in a specific job.

Refusing to being tracked with an identifier, when you're working in a security sensitive job, is absolutely "an undue hardship" on your employer.

And the idea that alternative accommodations for a background check exist is bullshit. By definition, they all boil down to attesting to your identity + searching for a certain class of records against that identity.

(I'm all for creating equality by leveling the playing field for things outside of individual's control, but at some point, you're harming everyone else's equality by making bad-faith... faith claims)
Individual states are allowed to choose how to apportion their own electoral college votes.

In the pst those votes were allocated proportionally to the votes but now almost all states assign all EC votes to a single candidate.

I’m not sure what the supreme court can do here if the states change the way they want to assign votes.
I was not defending the law.

But the App that is the subject of the article serves to reduce the severity of that law and thus reduces government overreach. To be upset about the App, rather than the original quarantine law, is to be focusing attention in the wrong place.
The right to be exploited?
I use and really like GoatCounter: https://www.goatcounter.com/ -- it's free for non-commercial use, and low-cost for commercial use. It's a little less sleekly designed (and more nerdy-looking) than Plausible Analytics and some others, but for Hacker News users, that's probably a plus. :-)
I want "much equal to", and "very much equal to". Which, in scientific terms, or floating point comparisons, would probably make some sense
> USB 1/2 has a single differential pair so you can only transmit or receive but not at the same time
>
> USB 3 has differential pairs for RX and TX so you can do both at the same time.

Just in case this leaves some readers thinking it's only possible to transmit or receive on a differential pair, not so:

Copper gigabit ethernet (1000Base-T) transmits and receives at the same time over all four differential pairs, using adaptive equalisation and echo cancellation to separate the outgoing and incoming signals on each pair.

The signal processing is quite power hungry, and doesn't work so well at higher speeds. So it makes sense that PCIe wouldn't do this.
From a purely-technical perspective, I don't believe account-to-account direct transfer is possible in an ACH file. The file format (see part 4 of that article) of the "PPD Entry Detail Record" specifies one end of the transaction, but the other end is always the entity transmitting the ACH.

The other big challenge: what happens if the ACH gets reversed? There's a time lag between when the ODFI pays out to the originating entity, and when the ACH is irreversible.
The Satanic Temple has been pushing to use religious exemptions around laws such as Texas' recent abortion law.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Sata...
We now only track sales, stopped Google Analytics or any type of third party analytics. Site analytics can be a waste of energy and time. Also, user privacy is critical for success. With this, we cut our competitors targetting our clients with ads.
No an immutable OS does not help, also flatpak is necessary and selinux not powerful enough. You just need sandboxing.
Because they aren’t just collecting a fingerprint - they are capable of monitoring you for extended periods.

Today, that means any arrest can be reported to your employer in near real-time, prior to conviction. As biometrics become more popular, employers and others will get access to more and more data.

In my personal life, I’m monitored by 6 different entities for compliance with various laws. It’s pretty gross and an invasion of privacy.
I think the downvotes come because I’m saying two unpopular things - the vaccines have known side effects and aren’t perfect (and in some cases the side effects are severe) and that people should still get the vaccine (unless they have a solid medical reason not to).

Neither option is perfect, but at this point I think everyone will get COVID eventually and it’s better for our healthcare system if the population is vaccinated.

The politicization of this has cost the most lives in the pandemic.

I just wish the government, media, and pharma were more transparent on side effects. To be fair, they were for J&J, but 80+ people had paralysis from the other vaccines and this wasn’t really called out as a side effect. That’s enough cannon fodder for conspiracy theorists and anti-vax to hold on to (“what else are they lying to us about!?”) that I think transparency would be better.
Circuit Level Simulation of Pong
When it comes to biometrics, why is it bad if I decide on the spot I'm not okay with it, as opposed to having decided as part of an institution?
Collective action is a complicated thing, and it didn't exist until the dawn of the last century. Remember non land-owning males just got the right to vote about then, along with women shortly thereafter.

'Labour Day' which just happened, is a day to celebrate the rights achieved by Labour in this regard.

But even with proper Unions, in most situations, they're not going to be able to compel salaries higher than owners and management - the underlying economic reality of the fact that there are 10 workers to replace every Union worker is a powerful pressure on the fairly artificial nature of Unions.

From even the most remotely classically liberal perspective, the idea that 'A factory hires 10 employees, and now those sole 10 employees get to determine the operating terms of the business' is a pretty unnatural construct.

Unions have waned at least in part because of much better worker protections and minimum wage, which seems to have solved a great deal of the issues, but of course tension remains and I think the way we do minimum wage (so as to put a floor on the lack of negotiating power of unskilled individuals) is probably not nearly as intelligent as it could be.
"In addition to the university and its personnel, we would like thank Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) for providing the funding to conduct this research. We also want to thank John Thiel for approaching Dr. Hulsey to conduct this research. We also want to thank independent, external reviewers and the public who provided comments during a two- month review period."

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Seems like exception handling and exception safety would be quite tough to achieve if you are just sprinkling STL throughout a mostly C codebase, no?
Basically, what the FBI told us about their fault: "We did not have enough agent speaking arabic" and "if the CIA shared those files, we would have had the ability to prevent this".

What i've heard from someone who worked with the DGSE at that time: the US gov was actually told by at least three agencies to be careful, and that the MI6 actually had details about trained pilots.
Reproducible builds are pretty standard in Debian.
Yes, mostly they do support to varying degrees. The current SA state government has increased in popularity over their handling of the pandemic. Popularity doesn't make something right of course and there are people who disagree but I would argue it isn't a failure of democracy at least as far as local state politics go here.

Covid is a fact of life elsewhere but we have no cases so to sell opening up the state to more visitors the government has to show they are able to control the transition and keep our hospitals working well. We still have comparatively low vaccination rates here as we have been supply constrained so we are going to lag behind what is happening elsewhere.

In a small state like SA people care more about their own families than the rights of people to freely spread an infectious disease. A few days of enforced isolation for someone with a highly infectious disease isn't all that contentious for most people. The alternative to home detention with an app for verification would be putting them in a secure hotel which does not scale or home isolation with spot police checks which wastes a lot of resources. Things will change as we catch up on vaccination rates and see what the real health impacts are.
Could you clarify your point?
Here's another weird one. One of the 9/11 hijackers [1] checked into a Florida hospital with apparent cutaneous Anthrax symptoms. After investigation of this incident, the FBI officially ruled out a link between 9/11 and the 2001 Anthrax attacks [2]. The main suspect in the Anthrax attacks, Bruce Ivins, committed suicide. A lot of unknowns remain and I'm still not sure if I believe the official FBI story about Ivins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_al-Haznawi

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/24/terrorism.anth...
This was an amazingly delightful read. I was hoping it would shed some light on a long-time project I had which was reversing the Oxford language dictionaries that were included on CDROM with the big printed texts. (I already did it, but with a debugger instead of by reversing the binary format). Alas, it did not, but it was super encouraging to see the enthusiasm and interest in language dictionaries.
This is why such things should be in archives but individual files, as least people can get a significant portion of the files from the torrent.
If he had 1/10 of his wealth in 2002, would he have risked it all founding SpaceX?
Won’t that be your response to any examples, then?
Page 109-110 [1] covers the collapse of WTC7, the conclusion is:

Despite simulating a number of hypothetical scenarios, we were unable to identify any progressive sequence of failures that could have taken place on September 11, 2001, and caused a total collapse of the building, let alone the observed straight-down collapse with approximately 2.5 seconds of free fall and minimal differential movement of the exterior.

[1] https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related...
There are many things to like about a Telsa as a conveyance. But if you buy one and you think it is anything more than a CaaS (car as a service) you are lying to yourself.

Two other considerations that completely rule out ever buying a Tesla for me are the astronomical insurance rates and the corollary which is that virtually any accident will be 10k+ and your insurance is likely to total the car so that they can profit off it at auction (while you get your 80c on the dollar out).
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/16378/586

List (as of 2019) of public domain versions.
Long time ago, Kx used to provide binaries for FreeBSD. I wish they would provide binaries for NetBSD (and OpenBSD) today. They have always had binaries for Solaris. Then they started providing binaries for RPi. How difficult can it be to build binaries on BSD, BSD is so easy to install; perhaps it could potentially expand community interest. Meanwhile we use Linux compat, but thats been removed from OpenBSD.
It turned out… not good. That said the entire JS interface was unclear what numeric types it expected and I have no idea if I was using it correctly. I’ll take the yucky mustard yellow browns I have for now :shrug:.
Good to know! [1]

> Vaccines offered through the national immunisation programme in the UK are not mandatory.

Which is probably why measles is not/no longer eradicated in the UK:

> In August 2019, the WHO’s European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) determined the UK had lost its measles elimination status.

But still useful to get a non-US perspective. (It's easy to forget how policies differ, worldwide)

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
you missed the point, which is that many of the people in Gitmo _were not_ "enemy combatants"
Read out loud what you are saying. You are saying that government ordering you to quarantine in your house, with facial recognition and GPS tracking in your own home, is less oppressive than being forced to stay in one of their quarantine hotels. And you're saying that in response to all the "freaking out" about this.

Keep in mind that when quarantined this way, if you fail to respond to their random, RANDOM, pings...they will send police officers to your house to do an in-person quarantine check. And not only that, but these so-called leaders of Australia are celebrating it and rubbing it in Australian faces. Source:

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...

You see that? South Australians should feel pretty proud that they're the national pilot for this. What an honor.
Not at all. I used to run a IT field services division of a big company. There’s a reason why these last mile services use contractors and third party vehicles!

A car isn’t just gas - it’s maintenance, depreciation, etc. For normal use, operating a car costs about $0.60/mile. Livery use like an Uber is a little higher due to maintenance needs.

When you work out what a driver actually gets paid, in many scenarios the driver is making very little, and in some they are losing money. Driving Uber is really monetizing automotive depreciation, while working for free. It’s a big accounting grift designed to run until the local competitors are out of business.
Not sure why I got flagged for mentioning Scooby-Doo. The censors have no sense of humour. Shaggy spoke like a stoner and got munchies all the time.

"Older teenagers and adults have admitted to enjoying Scooby-Doo because of presumed subversive themes which involve theories of drug use and sexuality, in particular that Shaggy is assumed to be a user of cannabis"

-- from wikipedia
Not to mention operations like "complex blends: Darken, Multiply, Color Dodge, Hue, Luminosity... etc" and many SIMD accelerations. It also has Node, Python, and C interfaces. Though I haven't found an excuse to use it yet. Surely there's got to be some excuse... ;)
I don't think I've seen a single person with a legitimate medical reason get attacked here. At least in my neck of the woods everyone is understanding if you can't get it due to a real reason and not when you're presenting a fake printed card from the "freedom to breathe agency"
If you’re reading about this for the first time, the politics are best explained by the most popular YouTube search result: against Black Lives Matter protestors.

It’s not a new phenomenon and I believe individuals can sue other individuals under the Clean Air Act now. Imagine losing your most valuable possession over it.
I don't know the details of this specific change, but in my experience its removal probably means it couldn't be left alone. If another piece of code that touches it gets refactored, the developer has to choose between trying to spend time fixing it, or just removing it. If it's an unpopular feature then removing it can be seen as the most reasonable option.

And I know I've said this already but taking those "way too many steps" is exactly what you'd be asking them to do, so it's unclear why it's not worth it for you but it would be for them.
How about communist societies? What about feudalism?

In modern China, billionaires get cancelled and even executed on a regular basis if they go against the party.
> better off just building an ontology on top of their existing datastores.

I just made a view with three copypasta’d levels of joins on a parent-child relationship table to build up an ancestor_names column to be used in an analytics. The analytics team is probably going to just use regexes or if-statements on that column in Tableau to understand our performance with top-level partner names. If it gets slow I’ll make it a materialized view.

This. Is. Fine.

You don’t need a graph database or explicit ontology or even recursive queries to answer graph questions. It’s nice to have one, of course, but not necessary.
A perfect summary.

It was written 100 years earlier than the Haymarket affair (1886) and 200 years before Thatcherism and the Miner’s strike (1979, 1984).
> Keep in mind you are writing this in defense of a gov that presumes itself to be in charge of how many people you can have over.

I'm not defending any government here. I am pointing out that people are getting outraged without even understanding what they are being outraged about. When you do that, you undermine your own credibility and potential impact and make it easier for people in power to brush aside your outrage when you do know what you are talking about.

If you really care about these issues it behooves you to inform yourself as well as possible and be as accurate as possible so that you don't do more harm than good for your cause.
Think of the 'Super Guild' as just a corporation selling it's services aka labour, to other corporations.

The more powerful corporations will accumulate more of the profits that are available to be divided.

So each corporate participant will get back it's 'costs' i.e. the minimum requirement for equipment (and maybe include very base salaries) - after that, everything is up for negotiation.

The 'Super Guild' that had 'All of the Workers in the Colonies' would probably be able to negotiate so that the corporations it sold it's services to didn't make any profits at all.

So the 'Super Guild' would accumulate most of the profits, and then they'd have to figure out how to divide those profits among themselves.

There are actually is not remotely 'that much surplus' in these systems, and that if workers took 'all the profits' it wouldn't make them rich. Just somewhat better off. So if the 'Super Guild' distributed the profits fairly evenly, everyone would get a nice raise and that's that.

Since workers tend to spend most of their income, almost all of that surplus would end up back in the economy pretty quickly, and all businesses would grow. This is Henry Ford's realization: "I have to pay my workers enough to be able to afford my car!"

FYI you can see this in action with professional designations, like MD, RN. They keep wages 'artificially' high by limiting the number of those that can do the work. That said, even without their Guilds, because they do work that not many can do, they'd still command good wages.

The 'Bad Asymmetries' in the economy happen at either end: the unskilled labour pool, who's wages would be 'barely survival wages' (i.e. workers in favelas, no proper sanitation, no healthcare), and on the other end concentration of corporate and private wealth that gives immense advantage.

The former needs something like 'minimum wage' (we can do better than that) and the later needs smarter taxation, getting rid of loopholes, offshore, unfair lobbying etc..
"The inferred median infection fatality rate in locations with a COVID-19 mortality rate lower than the global average is low (0.09%). If one could sample equally from all locations globally, the median infection fatality rate might even be substantially lower than the 0.23% observed in my analysis."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7947934/
I've investigated and tried several (free) weather API's for my web app: https://uw.leftium.com.

Open-Meteo looks pretty good! The only thing that seems to be missing for me is precipitation probability. The weathercode is sort of a proxy for this... I'm also interested in sunrise/sunset times; direct_radiation is kind of a proxy for this.

Kudos for providing optional historical data with the same API call for the forecast. Many weather API's don't provide historical data, and even if they do, it requires extra calls. My weather app charts the previous two days of weather with the forecast for comparison. I feel this gives a more intuitive sense of the weather vs. raw numbers because weather is very relative. ("Warm" vs "cool" depends on your location and season.)

In addition, I am in the process of adding AQI forecasts, which requires even more network calls. It seems like this is on the roadmap for open-meteo. I was surprised to find there are so many different standards for AQI. Curious to know which one you plan to use.

One possible suggestion for optimizing the output format: sending seconds since the Unix epoch would save a few bytes per timestamp. I'm not sure if this would make any noticeable difference with gzip compression. The current datetime format is much more human-readable and may save a conversion before displaying.

These were the best (free) weather API's I could find. It's interesting how the three different weather forecasts can disagree so much:

- https://openweathermap.org/api

- https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-api

- https://darksky.net/dev (deprecated)

When I find the time, I will add open-meteo as to my app! I'll probably have more feedback then.