skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NFS.net probably wouldn't tolerate many of the clients that Epik takes pride in hosting, though they do take on some of that type to fund their MFFAM efforts.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq?keywords=offensiv...

> What is the "MFFAM" policy?

> Because we believe in free speech, we host a small amount of offensive content. Some days, that's really hard to do. There are views expressed using our service that we find personally repugnant. (Although we don't host as much of that type of content as one might expect, given our extremely broad Terms & Conditions of Service. The simple fact is that our service is for smart people, which disproportionately excludes people who hold those types of views.)

> Nonetheless, our content policy does occasionally put us in a position of accepting money to host sites we find abhorrent. But we have no interest in profiting from sites like that. For that reason, since our founding in 2002, we have what we have more recently started calling the MFFAM policy: Morons Funding the Fight Against Morons.

> When we find a repugnant site on our service, we mark the account. We receive reports about all payments to such accounts, and we take a portion of that money larger than the amount of estimated profit and we donate it to the best organization we can find. The best organization in any given case meets two criteria:

> 1. The recipient organization does share our values.

> 2. The recipient organization is as opposite (and hopefully as offensive) as possible to the site operator that funded the donation.

> Examples of organizations that have received funding over the years include the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, local chapters of the NAACP, the National Bail Fund Network, the American Immigration Council, the Trevor Project, and others.

> This policy isn't perfect by any means, but neither is the world we live in. MFFAM does let us help the organizations that we hope will eventually get us closer to that perfect world. It helps the people who operate repugnant sites understand that they are here because we tolerate them... barely... not because we endorse them or their views. It also does a pretty decent job of further thinning out the number of such sites, as a fair number of people who run them only believe in free speech when they're the ones talking.
> The brokers then sell them for 2x-5x that amount. Reporting that same vulnerability to Apple can net you up to a million.

If this is true, I'm super-curious about the economic incentives involved. According to Apple's Sept. 2020 balance sheet, they had over $143 billion in current assets on their books. They have deeper pockets than basically anyone else on Earth, including many state actors. They could 10x their current bounty and it would still basically be couch money for them.

So why are 0-day brokers and their customers able to outbid them? I would think that Apple has much more skin in the game than attackers do, and much more to lose from being the #2 bidder. But judging by the going rates you mentioned, that doesn't seem to be the case. The only thing I can think of is that the small minority of parties with both the means and motive to outbid Apple (the respective governments of the US, China, Russia, etc) are in fact the ones doing so.
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Slice o' life in space, cleaning up trash. What's not to like? :)
> Why would a reinfection be worse?

I'm not a doctor. There are numerous reports from people who got a second infection that it was worse.
OP's statement recognizes that incentives matter. If you remove the incentive to do the right thing, people will simply not do the right thing--If 2020 has taught us anything it has to be that! You can't just rely on everyone being a rational actor and let Nash Equilibrium keep society functioning. It becomes a gigantic Prisoners Dilemma with everyone choosing DEFECT. You complain that "not recognizing natural immunity" is lying, but you did not address the fact that doing so incentivizes behavior leading to better long-term results for society.

Think of all the untrue things that are said every day in order to not induce panic in our financial system, to discourage bank runs, to discourage hoarding/scalping, to generally promote a functional society. This isn't lying, it's results-driven communication.
Without knowing how many people were wearing masks, you can’t say the much about the 10% figure.

You get approximately[1] the same outcome if:

(a) masks are 100% effective but only 10% wear them, and

(b) masks are 10% effective and 100% wear them.

Is this study showing (a) or (b)?

Let us assume (b) masks only help by 10% and R0 is 2 without masks. If exponential transmission is occurring then in ~11.5 days you have the same number infected with masks as in 10 days without masks.

Either way the study has ended up with a 10% figure, and that figure gets misunderstood or intentionally misrepresented. If you want to argue for the effectiveness of masks against those that don’t wish to wear them, then personally I think it is a terrible study to argue with because 10% sounds shitty.

[1] Actual numbers depends on a heap of other things, but just assume those figures are right for the sake of making things easy to understand.

Disclaimer: I wear a mask during Level 2 lockdown in the South Island of New Zealand, and mask wearing has no partisan meaning here AFAIK.
From an economic perspective, if the cost of the vaccine is less than the cost of the test, you just use the vaccine. "Natural immunity" makes sense as an objection if the individual had a recorded earlier infection, but administering 300M pre-infection tests and 200M vaccines is likely to be less efficient than just administering 300M vaccines. The more sophisticated of a test you demand, the stronger this argument becomes.
The first vocal skeptics were Kamala Harris and Joe Biden back when they were referred to as the Trump vaccines.
Please do not take HN threads further into political flamewar and please follow the site guidelines regardless of how bad another commenter's posts are, or you feel they are. Doing this only makes the thread even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks, it looks like I’m going this route. It’s a bit pricey to transfer all domains at once so I have to pick and choose. For anyone else in the same boat, they offer a promo code “TLD21TS8” which reduces the transfer costs by 64%.
> Unless you mean when the FDA/CDC was worried about a run on masks, which they were right about.

Were they? I imagine federal government has the power to expropriate and ration masks, if necessary. This is way better than lying and then making a surprised pikachu face "why don't they trust us?", no?
It will never cease to amaze me how often we forget the absurd balance of power involved here.

There is an island across a tiny strait away from China’s mainland that literally claims… the mainland. It has existed for 80 years. It’s now kinda sorta being dealt with as a power would, but even that’s questionable, and even that strait is not even important to the region. This entire struggle is happening while Malacca is just sitting right there in the US’s Infinity Gauntlet with the Hormuz, Suez, Panama etc. Wild.
This is as false at it can get: https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/poll-finds-startli...
Okay? Who is that? Who specifically? The drone pilot?
That'a a great point, and you're correct on the impracticality of the evil-maid attack. However, my point remains when it comes to less-than-honest repair shops or second-hand sales where wiped devices are not suspicious. I want to know if my bootloader/kernel may have been tampered with before I am able to trust the apps.
> Why wouldn't you just have the vulnerable adults get vaccinated?

My comment covered breakthrough cases. Those occur among the vaccinated.
>> FEE opposed the Marshall Plan, Social Security and minimum wages, among other American social and economic policies.

AS do I, in a sane world, with a sane court none of those would be constitutional as they are completely outside the scope of the powers granted to the federal government. FDR had to literally extort the court to get them stop striking them down

>>Yikes.

Good rebuttal to all the points, you have convinced me that everything is terrible and we all should embrace socialism as our one true economic model /s
> If the R Naught is more than 1 then you don't get any benefit to vaccinating a population that isn't vulnerable.

Is that actually true, though? I'm vaccinated - am I not better off having that vaccine, being less likely to be hospitalized or die even if I get a breakthrough case?

Even if natural immunity via infection is better in every way (no idea if this is true, but suppose it is for the sake of this question), am I not better off having that occur while vaccinated and therefore less likely to die?

It seems as though natural immunity is great if it doesn't kill you. And even if the death rate is low, 1% of a large number is still a lot of dead people. We could reduce that number and just deal with the less severe breakthrough cases.
Another explanation could be that advertisers are trying to increase the visibility of the product being sold.
What about using the antimatter as engine fuel?
a) they don’t work for their intended purpose and b) they fog up so quickly that they may as well not be clear.
Have you seen USA Facts?

https://usafacts.org/data/topics/government-finances/spendin...

Edit: looks like they’re not as up to date, unfortunately.
Would a catchy song like the one from Singapore work?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2T3YgyaHA
Yeah I agree with that much
That's... still a minority? I'm not saying it's impossible, but here's a link saying that the risk here is minor: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.20241836v.... You can throw out all the theorhetical risks of a vaccine all you want but the harm of avoiding vaccination is readily apparent and obvious.
data lake = HDFS, GCS, Azure blob, S3, any blob store (backed by blob store, file based)

data warehouse = Oracle, SAP, BigQuery etc (backed by database, SQL interface)

data lakehouse = Spark, Presto, Databricks, Snowflake (warehouse backed by data lake)
It looks weird but my doctor's office gives out masks with large clear centers to help some of the hard of hearing staff lip read, and they seems to work just as well for the duration of my visits.
> No one has died getting their immunity from the vaccine

Wow. Really? No one? There are 13k+ COVID-19 vaccine related deaths on VAERS alone.

Those are ONLY the ones that have been certified and given a permanent VAERS number (as opposed to a temporary VAERS number that is given out initially).

The report submission process is time consuming, most of those are submitted by doctors and it's a crime to submit false info as well.
Ardour uses XML for its session format, which is not a line-oriented format. Git can handle it, most of the time, but is not ideal. Something that groks the concept of XML nodes would do a better job (i.e. less conflicts duing merge resolution).

Ardour comes with a small set of basic "curated" plugins written in C or C++, that are "blessed" by us. Writing DSP plugins in Lua is also possible, but generally discouraged and, as you guessed, you can't provide a dedicated GUI for them, nor can they be used elsewhere (same limitation as Reaper's Jesusonic plugins).

However, even if those details were improved, the idea that a DAW manufacturer is going to be able to supply the precise EQ that demanding users want, let alone noise reduction, polyphonic pitch correction, and so, so much more, strikes me as unrealistc.
> but a smaller guarantee is still better than none at all, innit?

Raspberry Pi comes with no guarantees at all and has well documented problems with flaky power and burning out SD cards. It works great for the hobbyist/learning system that it was designed for and might even be good enough for the blood testing system in the article, but active monitoring for intensive care? Just...no.
Again, I think you're taking my words too literally.

The main point is that we have a much greater degree of flexibility than typical discussions allow.
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I think the idea that they’ve been pushing for years is that you don’t need a camera anymore. You can do all this “pro” stuff on their phone.

It’s a good strategy too. Suppose they had an ILC camera . That reads “Apple isn’t confident that the iPhone is a pro-level camera”. Now that you’ve got that on your mind, Apple would need to compete for your money in a space where they definitely don’t have the upper hand in.

In other words, Apple makes more by convincing you that you don’t need Canon.
What lies are you referring to? Just out of curiosity.
Just your periodic reminder that the dollar figures here aren't apples-apples. Apple will pay you X for a vulnerability, and a broker might pay nX. But n is complicated. The ordinary way it works is that payments are tranched; you're paid in chunks, up to some cap, until the vulnerability is burnt. Once that happens, you stop getting paid, so n can be less than 1.

It's also always worth pointing out, even though it's not relevant to this thread, that the vulnerabilities we're talking about all fit into a similar mold; they're all generally some form of drive-by or click-by clientside RCE (they're some of the harder vulnerabilities to find and weaponize, and, from what we can see in reporting, they're not the kinds of vulnerabilities we see lots of disputes about with vendors, though I'm happy to be corrected).

And, as always, I want to point out that even at these eye-watering figures, vulnerabilities are cheap. The market competition to RCE vulnerabilities and implant kits is human intelligence. You will pay more just in health insurance and benefits overhead to run a single human intelligence program against a target. Every government in the world, from Germany to the Seychelles, can afford what the IC pays for vulnerabilities, and there's probably no figure we can realistically drive vulnerabilities to in the near future that will change that --- Iran can pull this kind of money out from under its couch cushions, and NATO and China's couch cushions are stuffed with it.
It’s only one less model with Lightning, the new 10.2” iPad and the new iPhones still use Lightning.
I think Hasura (automatic APIs for your DB) is the best thing since sliced bread. It handles 95% of my backend needs.
Yeah, or for example in Dutch 'scheikundeproef' or 'natuurkundeproef' which we did at high school: a test involving the laws of chemistry or physics respectively.
It is my understanding that the latest executive orders do require vaccination of US federal employees and contractors; other employers may offer weekly testing as an alternative. So I believe that, if you are a federal employee or contractor, you do in fact have to choose between getting vaccinated or keeping your job. (Or do you consider allowing people to choose to quit rather than get vaccinated sufficient flexibility to not be an "imposition"?)
The problem with the entire productivity culture is just how industrialized, bureaucratic and formulaic it is. You read the piece by Newport and there is Henry Ford, the assembly line, 'knowledge work', growth, and so on.

Words that don't show up once: freedom, exploration, curiosity, creativity (that does show up once in quotes technically).

Everything that makes life interesting is discontinuous and surprising and unique. Productivity culture is an attempt to bureaucratize human action, a sort of individual Whig history.

Newton was a genius, yet the man spent most of his life doing alchemy, trying to forecast the future with the help of the bible, and chasing dragons in the Swiss Alps, put simply, he was batshit insane and probably a failure by the standards of modern productivity gurus. Yet he also made contributions larger than anyone will ever do by filling up note-taking apps and tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch.
The side products might well be "people competent in running such a facility".

Why was Iran's "civilian" nuclear program always seen as nothing more than smokescreen?
Said the woman looking at the schoolkids marching around the oval "Look! They're all out of step except my Johnnie."
I'm not arguing with you, but I'm not 100% sure what specifically was wrong. Can I trouble you to provide a little more context? Was it stylistic? I originally wrote up my issues with his source as a paragraph, but that seemed harder to read. Was it the repetitive beginning of each line? Or was I just being too snarky?

Oh, and sorry.
I'm guessing that's eligible population as the numbers mentioned in the article line up more with around 66% of the total population, which isn't enough to stem the tide.
Actually, I think it's more of a problem that we're not doomed. Us rich people living in rich temperate countries with good barriers between us and the poor countries will be "fine" (https://giphy.com/explore/everything-is-fine)

We'll hide in our air-conditioned houses, eat greenhouse grown food since the natural environment is fucked, playing with our robot factory produced toys. Life will suck, but we'll be "fine". We'll be spending tens of trillions on flood barriers and other mitigation measures, but we'll be "fine". Most of us anyways, super storms will definitely get some of us. Others will die on the borders defending the rest of us from climate refugees. But most of us will be "fine".

Anybody or anything else that isn't a homo sapiens living in a rich temperate nation will be doomed.
(Mortgage interest rates went up greatly between 1975 and 1980, but setting that aside...)

These days it's hard to imagine not borrowing as much as possible because prices are so high and rates are below inflation. But back then why wouldn't someone, say, live with their parents until they can buy that $50,000 house in Palo Alto entirely from their savings? No doubt that seemed like a lot of money back then. But regardless, at some point, interest rates get high enough and principal low enough that you might actually choose not to borrow money.
More precisely it says:

"Any relapse or stasis in emissions reduction policies could lead to a plausible
worst case of 7°C of warming by the end of the century (10 per cent chance)."
> Unless you mean when the FDA/CDC was worried about a run on masks, which they were right about.

Lying for what you believe to be a good reason is still lying.
With Monero you can still let the government see your transactions, by sharing a view key with them.

And you also have the possibility to avoid taxes if you want. So, it's a superior system because it allows both use cases ;)
Thanks for the excellent reply. Sorry about the folks who are not equipped to understand it's relevance or contents.
Given the vaccines don't prevent transmission, why is it so important to you that the unvaccinated acquiesce or isolate?
you missed the fact that it's nixos based. It means it is a system to declaratively define compartmentalized well integrated(including GUI) system, at the moment it's based on Linux and other regular Gnu/Linux but it could relatively easy change any of them
Considering you've listed no requirements whatsoever that you'd want, which the raspberry pi can't meet (or any at all): how about a raspberry pi? It does have a big advantage in software support and documentation over various competitor boards
You give the bed to the person with the worse wounds.
> Shah's experience is different to most others this writer has talked to in that he doesn't see repeat attacks

The idea of repeated attacks and leaked data when the ransom is paid is delusional.

Yet somehow this idea persists.

I'm not sure if the average person believes it or just the ones who speak loudest. But it's seems an example of the masses believing something both illogical and not true. A bit like torture not working, the ability to mess with peoples brains is scary.
While this "limits of exponential growth" theory sounds plausible, the obvious rebuttal is "When will/did we reach that limit?".

Was there some point in history when each professor only taught one PhD student, or did each professor teach 2 students and the number of universities doubled every 5 years?

Similarly, for how long have the number of lawyers been exponentially growing? Shakespeare wrote "let's kill all the lawyers" in 1591, and fortunately people didn't take that suggestion seriously, so presumably we've had 400 years of exponential growth.

If there was one lawyer in 1591, and it takes 10 years for a junior to become a senior lawyer and start training the next generation, then there should be 2^40 lawyers right now. (That assumes that each lawyer lives forever, so the actual number won't be over one trillion, but still).
There are reported cases of individuals dying reportedly from the vaccine. I can't speak for the accuracy of the reports, but I am concerned with the lack of reporting thereof, and additionally the active censorship of those who speak of any issues.

[1]: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gofundme-de-platforms-dad-...
Y'know, Obamacare mandated coverage of alcoholism and drug addiction in all plans: That is, no one can opt out of paying for other people's problems even when they are caused by a completely optional activity.

I am all for a reforming health care markets and getting third party payers out of the system. Until then ...
> Interestingly, of all the buzzwords this distro uses, none include "immutable", which is the single most important concept in modern systems.

Since this system is based on NixOS and the Nix package manager, immutable is implied. Any change you make to a Nix/NixOS system results in a full rebuild of the system, and pointers to the new system updated. Current and all prior builds remain immutable.
> Gamers do not have a more intuitive sense for this than movie watchers, video/voice talkers, not to mention users who type text into bloated web browsers or lagged remote login sessions

I would be shocked if gamers didn't on average have a more intuitive sense of this than any of the groups you mentioned.
Key One Still and I Won't Let Go!
you can use fs snapshots and backups
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Instead, please make your substantive points thoughtfully. If someone else is wrong, for example, one good option is to patiently provide correct information.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
It's quite a common sight if you often download installers from smaller publishers. On MacOs you get similar warnings (even though Mac "notarization"[1] works differently compared to Windows certification[2]) Obviously it's up to you if you want to consider the application trusted or not. My rule of thumb for open source projects is that I trust them if they have lots of "stars", and Bespoke has 1.2k https://github.com/awwbees/BespokeSynth/

(but I'm not suggesting you follow the same rule, I'm not responsible for anything that happens etc. etc.)

[1] https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/win_cert/wind...

(edit: added links to Mac notarizing / Windows certification guides)
My mother-in-law works in Healthcare as N auxiliary nurse and caught COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic. She was officially recorded as positive by the govt (through a periodic PCR test at work, and received a quarantine order). She received one dose since. But even though they're saying an infection is protecting as much as one vaccine dose, they aren't acknowledging it in the vaccine passport as "adequately protected".

She'll get the second dose, but she was under the impression she was already covered, it's a bit frustrating.