skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, but that news article seems incorrect. When I look at the hospital capacity for TN, according to the TN Dept. of Health, I see available floor beds, some available ICU beds, 62% available adult ventilators, and 1/3 available airborn infection isolation rooms. [1]

[1] https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov/data/hospitalization-da...
The government is moving to vaccinate younger and younger kids even though the risk to them from covid is much much less than the risks from the vaccines.
In the UK the scientists specifically came out against vaccinating kids because the evidence is not there, but the UK govt is 'ignoring The Science' and moving ahead anyway.
I have a Hugo blog running on Netlify. All I need is to know if someone has visited it or not. I'm using Google analytics currently but would gladly use something much simpler. Any alternatives?
Why did it piss you off? Is the fingerprint being used for something other than access? Is it even stored in a format that would allow it to be used for something else?

I'm pretty privacy and personal freedom conscious- for example I wouldn't go anywhere that made me scan a QR code or use an app. But I can't think of any concern I have with a private business using my fingerprint as an access token, unless I'm also signing that they can use it for other stuff.
i dont agree that any special group is being singled out. this is a basic tax structure decision. our current tax schedules would be just as intolerable, even if the rate of increase in tax as income goes up is not as high now. what you seem to be proposing is that the only acceptable, non-discriminatory tax is a flat tax, likely with no exemptions, and i doubt that would treat the wealthy better than this modest adjustment.

i also feel like those making over $5m a year are incredibly fantastically well represented in congress, have for my entire life been given favoritism & benefit, a constant march of tax cuts that they overwhelmingly benefit from, and that there are almost no instances of this group ever having had to make a sizable adjustment. these people are very well represented & that's the problem.
> Vehicle ownership, including gas powered motorcycles, is extremely common in many countries.

And I bet that the countries with cheap, polluting vehicles are those with lower life expectancy.
Anyone have thoughts on MASM compared to FASM?
Need to look at it in terms of PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

Norway does a bit better, but 20% of Norway's GDP is pumped out of the ground.
It is a religion, with many denominations. Not quite sure what the criteria is for when something varies such that it wouldn't be considered Christian.
The maintainer, Steve Summit, lives up to his name. He’s self-described as “five foot twenty-two”.
Ssshhhh, you’ll interrupt all the people who are desperate for an excuse to screech about their favourite topics of “failed states” and “taking up arms against the government”.
Capitalism already fails to exist without leverage and with a fixed supply of money. The equilibrium you speak of is already fiction.
I'm not sure why people are so weird about fingerprints and facial recognition. Your biometrics are not secret at all, any more than your hair color.

You fingerprint yourself in every restaurant with glass cups, and leave those prints behind when you depart.
Do you hold any beliefs you know to not be the truth?
An opinion without any sort of rationale doesn't mean much.
Technically the wrong type was used if no less than 32 bits was desired. A common failing when you learn a compiler/platform or two instead of the language. Such has been called many things, among them 'everything is a VAX'.
A law against spreading infections diseases (HIV, Flu or even covid) exist in many places (my country for example). Hard to prove in court, but the law is there. The principle is, are you ok with having to show a passport for a vaccine to be part of normal society to reduce the risk of catching/spreading a disease.

from CDC:

CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1)

Now, I am not saying that covid is just the flu, but 34k deaths in 2018 from the flu. Does this number also justify having flu shot mandates/passports? Or is it only if it is 340k deaths? 3.4 million deaths? 3k deaths is enough? I heard at a time some people saying 'if it saves only one life, it is worth it' so I wonder how much they will also do for all these other deaths.
Just to be sure, the web version of the second edition is freely available at https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/... .
ai is kind of a remote visage to intimidate & scare. computing in general is the risk here. computing, whether ao or other, has the potential to be Douglas Engelbart style augmentative. or it can be an element of control, mechanization, & prescriptivism.

ursala franklin delinated between prescriptivist & holistic technologies. i think it's a very important question of alignmemt for all computing, information, & connected technologies. it's hip & popular to stare into the crystal ball of ai, while it's still kind of fuzzy & only semi-defined, but there's a lot of places i think we should regard whether what we are doing is or could be augmentative, could alloy humans.
Polio is actually a very good analogy. Only in about 0.5% of cases does it affect the nervous system. Only in at most 30% of that 0.5% is it fatal. In 70% of infections it is asymptomatic. COVID is actually very much like polio.

And the vaccines aren’t deadly - this is just misinformation.
Except most of the rich indulge in philanthropy as a form of further self enrichment rather than selflessness.
So not only are you taking their transport away you’re forcing them to move home/buy a new house and forcing them to find a new job.
Bloody hell, that’s a massive change.
From my understanding (mainly from Billy Elliott, TBH), a "scab" is a worker who continues working even when the union has called a strike.
>Also symmetric free falling, from a fire? Has fire become opinionated and decided to consume a steel scraper equally at all floors on all sides of a building

Yes, by way of having a hollow center (aka, the elevators) and dumping large quantities of jet fuel down it, essentially becoming massive chimneys.

There are some awful survivor stories you can find about hearing people stuck in the elevators and getting cooked alive.
yeah, there's been a lot of freaking out about this, but it's much less oppressive than being forced to stay in a quarantine hotel.
This is ridiculous, if a driver is not making money they will stop driving.
No matter what mechanism is used, investing comes down to putting money into a instrument to get a reasonable level of return given the risk taken. Passive investment strategies don't change this fundamental equation; they just hide the mechanics from the investor.

The $64 questions in today's economy are:

1. Will multiple expansion continue indefinitely, thereby enabling investors to achieve higher profits than one would expect via fundamentals alone (GDP growth, profit margins, tax rates)?

2. Is the risk in the index really so low that it makes it worth an investment, even if the return absent multiple growth is something like 3-4% a year nominal?

3. When risks do emerge, can the federal government indefinitely reward investors with lower discount rates without triggering any negative consequences?

None of these is directly tied to passive investment. In fact, I'd argue the fact that investors no longer actively track what's going on in indexed portfolios creates a benign neglect situation that is contributing to the current bubble and the risk of collapse.

My biggest concern here is that the bubble is so large that, if it collapses and the government stops being able to print money to "correct" that, even those with marketable skills and decent savings won't be able to escape the undertow of the recession/depression that follows.
This just goes to show you that fractions are irrational numbers.
Oof, thanks.
>>protecting scabbing

"Scabbing" is a pejorative term, that has been used to dehumanize replacement workers and incite assault and murder against them.
Around these parts, that would turn gp from a concerned citizen into a lobbyist, with all the regulations and what not that entails. I dunno about where you're from, but the moral is be careful when publicly paying people to petition their government.
Has anyone made a note-taking tool (like notion/obsidian/logseq) that builds off of a computational notebook tool (like jupyter/observable/starboard)?

Mainly just needs wiki style links and backlinks and a search function.
Is this could be a great idea?
Recently i joined a new team working on an e-commerce website for a big company, we use Bitbucket Cloud for version control and Microsoft Teams for communication.

First thing i had to do is to fix some minor bugs so i fixed them after that i opened a pull request, what was surprising for me is the time it takes (2 days) to have my pull request validated and merged, so by curiosity i asked my tech lead about that he said sometimes when he receives email from Bitbucket to review some PRs he simply ignores it because maybe he didn’t have space at that time. And i was like it’s easy it should be some bitbucket and microsoft teams integration app that can helps us to solve this issue, indeed we found it and we gave it a try it was working fine every time someone open a PR we get notified to do the review but it didn’t solve the problem, why ? Because we receive the notifications and if we ignore it because of bad timing we don’t have any kind of reminders to do so. And really this was the real issue for us and we didn’t find a way to solve it til now.

This weekend i was thinking why not building it my self and maybe share it with other developers having same issue what do you think is it a great idea ? I need your feedbacks, And I built a simple landing page to collect some developers emails for the beta version if you think that it could solve your issue you could leave your email to get notified when the beta is released.

https://pullthunder.com
Appreciate the kind words about America, friend. Even with our constitution it's still be a fight. Unconstitutional laws are passed regularly here, until they're challenged in court. Sometimes they fall, sometimes they stay.
Is the number after your throwaway name a counter of all the accounts you’ve had to create because they keep getting removed for saying silly stuff like this?
I asked this in physics when I first heard the twin experiment. The answer comes from more complicated relativity based on acceleration and depends entirely on which reference frame you meet in. If you travel back to earth you age slower, if the twin catches up to you they aged slower....

It's not intuitive but time actually warps and there is no true concept of "simultaneous" in a special relativity world.
Special characters is pretty iffy, even with quotes
Keynes also said “in the long run, we’re all dead”. But with these popular quips, Keynes wasn’t undermining macroeconomic theory, but certainly is communicating that policy outcomes are civilisational in both scale and timeframe.

Neither politicians, nor your investment advisor, use such a scoped time horizon.
I share many aspects of their ideological viewpoints, I would just rather see them operate from a more informed position.
Sure, compare away. How much did Apollo cost? I read some people that it took 400,000 people. The Apollo program had more or less a blank check, as did the Manhatten project. Both were completely unsustainable.

The space shuttle was unsustainable, too. Partly because the winged craft design was the result of politics rather than economic sense.

SpaceX, however, looks to be very much sustainable, and profitable. SpaceX has rebooted the entire space industry in the US.
Absolute nonsense. Please stop commenting on things you lack even a basic understanding of.

In reality, the Nordics have higher GDP per hour worked than the USA with much lower inequality and much higher public ownership.

And of course, the state played a pivotal role in space and phone technology. The following book on how government rather than the private sector is the key driver of innovation and technological advancement, is a great read, and has a key chapter focused on Apple in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State
It’s building the economy for communist slave labor nations that seek to grow their military worldwide.

Sounds wonderful if you like communism.

To me, as someone who doesn’t, that sounds bad.

Therefore we should be trying to end the trade deficit ASAP.
They are the most likely to go in a cage.. for society because experts and medical professional say it is important.
It seems that the decision to fire him was completely unjustified:

> APRS had requested that its employees be fingerprinted as a result of a background check requirement of one of its clients

> APRS terminated Harrington [...] without asking the client whether an exemption was available [...] even though alternatives to fingerprinting were available.
“It’s not government overreach, you have a choice of ‘temporary’ in-home facial recognition and GPS surveillance or staying at a quarantine hotel.”

Not only is this a laughable “choice”, the kind of manipulative choice you’d expect a tech manager to pretend to offer you when all his projects suck but he wants you to feel like you “picked” a project, it’s also naive to present it as a choice. You don’t wait until it’s mandatory for everyone to say something. You say it now when the machine is rearing its ugly head and you can see the writing on the wall.

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. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

Seems more than NECESSARY to cry wolf right now. The slope is slippery. We all know they will push these systems as far as they can if they are allowed to. Cry wolf when the wolf is coming, not when it has eaten your chickens already.
I was thinking of doing this (ircd, in golang, with an integrated bouncer and ircv3 features) myself, so I'm glad someone else has.

The place I was planning to diverge was to make a c2s bouncer api that could be used via http, so that mobile clients could work and stay logged in even when the app was backgrounded. That may still be possible with the bouncer protocol instead of http, but if you do it with http then you can make a js web client too, for a sort of self hosted irccloud.
I see, good point. I’m not convinced by this summary of the benchmark; N is too small, and they ignore the fact that views are much slower in Blaze than the others.

To be clear, I think it’s great to have multiple competitive C++ implementations out there.
It's good people realize what Adam Smith actually wrote, but this is somewhat naive thinking — if we, say, assume the rich value their status more than their wealth in absolute terms, the antagonism comes right back.

See https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf, this isn't the first time we've realized we know how to do a Capitalism that is seemingly better for everyone, and then fail to do it.
Moreover, it appears to be an optional way of allowing returned travellers to serve out their quarantine period at a place of their choosing rather than in a state-run, guarded, hotel room, or without regular police visits to their home. I would have thought HN would regard this as a sensible and efficient use of technology.
There's Emacs's Org Mode.
Same. My initial thought being, "Do Americans die more than once?"
Not a lawyer, but seems from the outside that they key thing is that another employee did get an alternate background check. So being told no accommodations are available is BS.

Seems like a pretty straightforward argument from there to saying the employee is being discriminated against for a sincerely held religious belief. The belief itself being fringe hogwash is irrelevant.

Plus the employee offering to accept an alternative form of verification seems to point to the belief (however dumb) being sincere.
Why wouldn't you consider the many experiments with communism in the 20th century to be attempts at eliminating wealth inequality? You could argue that they morphed into something different but the initial motivation based on hatred of rich people seems pretty clear cut. Not to argue that there wasn't also other motives at play.
Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim
Yeah, I guess another requirement, it should be as "invisible" as possible. So you could programmatically interact with Siri in the background and perhaps not notice.
The whole of Revelations is certainly odd, but that doesn't stop a whole lot of people from finding some interpretation of it they can believe in. That some people might interpret it to be a warning against biometrics doesn't strike me as particularly odd, relative to the oddness of other beliefs derived from [or justified using] this book.
>The economy is 100% contrived and what we declare it to be.

The economy is an system that emerges from human behaviour. We can partially regulate it, but can't control it fully.
Ah, must've skimmed past that part! yeah, that seems pretty clear-cut. Thanks!
Cached: https://archive.is/BVCdk
Plausible.io, or just write something yourself
Totally agree with you on this one. Nobody really wants the govt to abuse their power to implement such measures. However, those few bastards are the reason why we all are having to suffer! If we all could agree and limit our movements until the vaccines targets are met, the death and hospitalisation rates should drop, statistically speaking! Violations like this are quite rampant in some suburbs/communities! One of my mates was at a takeaway food place in Craigieburn and an entire family of 5 with no masks had gathered behind him and were almost within a few centimetres. The guy got quite aggro when confronted by my mate! This is just getting mental!
"Evidence demonstrates that the authorized COVID-19 vaccines are both efficacious and effective against symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, including severe forms of the disease. In addition, a growing body of evidence suggests that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines also reduce asymptomatic infection and transmission. Substantial reductions in SARS-CoV-2 infections (both symptomatic and asymptomatic) will reduce overall levels of disease, and therefore, viral transmission in the United States. ... Data from multiple studies in different countries suggest that people vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine who develop COVID-19 have a lower viral load than unvaccinated people.(41-44) This observation may indicate reduced transmissibility, as viral load has been identified as a key driver of transmission.(45) Two studies from the United Kingdom found significantly reduced likelihood of transmission to household contacts from people infected with SARS-CoV-2 who were previously vaccinated for COVID-19.(25, 46)"

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

"Two studies1,2 from Israel, posted as preprints on 16 July, find that two doses of the vaccine made by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, based in New York City, and biotechnology company BioNTech, based in Mainz, Germany, are 81% effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections. And vaccinated people who do get infected are up to 78% less likely to spread the virus to household members than are unvaccinated people. Overall, this adds up to very high protection against transmission, say researchers."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02054-z

"COVID-19 vaccines appear to help prevent transmission between household contacts, with secondary attack rates dropping from 31% to 11% if the index patient was fully vaccinated, according to a Eurosurveillance study yesterday. The population-based data looked at the Netherlands from February to May, when the Alpha variant (B117) was dominant and the available vaccines were by Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/study-ti...

"There has been good news, too, on the subject of viral load in breakthrough cases. Researchers in Israel studied vaccinated people who became infected. The viral load in these breakthrough cases was about three to four times lower than the viral load among infected people who were unvaccinated. Researchers in the U.K. reported a similar result. They also found that vaccinated people who became infected tested positive for about one week less than unvaccinated people."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-crucial-vacci...
Being focused on envy of someone who has more leads to a life of misery. There will always be someone who has more, even in communist societies.

Focus on maximizing one's own potential is far more fulfilling.
That’s talking about herd immunity from vaccines. OP is talking about herd immunity from natural infection. So your links don’t invalidate the point, considering Israel research just proved that natural immunity is 13x more effective against Delta than Pfizer mRNA
Social media is not a toxin of any sort. To call it "toxic" is a metaphor that expresses the revulsion that people feel for the idiocies that social media channels have uncovered.

So I do disagree with the liberty of the metaphor in this case.

Social media is the business of providing channels of communication to people in exchange for some lucrative data. Other businesses do this too (television, radio, newspapers).

I am not at all a proponent of social media. The discourse is broken by petty, idiotic exchanges. The signal-to-noise ration is far too low and the sophisticated advertising techniques have become a form of surveillance that I reject.

But petty, idiotic exchanges have always existed. So have ignorant people, propaganda, gullible people, and fanatics. They can meet in basements, in taverns, in temples, in arenas... The fundamental problem is failing education and social disorder.

It takes great liberty of metaphor to compare social media to a real toxin. I share people's dislike of social media. But I will look back on the past decade and not blame any of the social-media companies for the idiocy of people who should know better through public education.
No, Morse invented the digital internet. It was wildly successful. Certainly, improvements were made later.

Besides, a digital protocol is not the result of "massive government led taxpayer funded investment".