skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A kind of similar funny example is in Xenophon's Anabasis, where he mentions "millet-eating Thracians", which always cracks me up. Lots of people ate millet, including Greeks, but this group got referred to as millet-eaters. Seems hilarious to me.

"When all of them had been prevailed upon, they continued the march with Seuthes, and, keeping the Pontus upon the right through the country of the millet-eating Thracians, as they are called, arrived at Salmydessus."

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1...
Fortunately, given the purported scope of the hack, it seems we'll be able to actually quantify that. How many of the websites weren't hosting violent or extremist content? If this is real, we should be able to get an exact percentage.
This is where it’s important to get pedantic about the technical details of what precisely we mean by “money” and “lending”. If money only refers to cash in vaults or reserves at the Fed, then a commercial bank loan doesn’t create money. But it does create a claim on money, which is (more or less) perfectly convertible to money on demand and thus all economic agents treat it as money.

In theory a bank could create an infinite amount of money claims, at least up to the point where nobody wants any more at the interest rate offered. However, the bank is also subject to capital requirements which determine how much risk it can take relative to the amount of equity it has (this used to be called the “reserve ratio” but that is an outdated concept).
Brigading is likely a detectable pattern with enough data. Sure, it'd be hard to distinguish between residents of some chan brigading their enemy and somebody being a target of public shaming due to cancel campaign, but in my eyes it's a feature.
Andy Ngo is a grifter.
I'm personally skeptical of the dangers of radiation. This guy died when he was 87 and he's just holding onto things I would be worried to hold onto.
>>Should those people just be allowed to assume the risk? Not while the costs are predominantly social.

Then eliminate socialized healthcare. Your imposition of socialized healthcare is now being used to rationalize imposition of forced injections. Government can have a healthcare system that is entirely opt-in, for both taxation, and coverage.

Or how about just deprioritize unvaccinated individuals with COVID when there is a shortage of ICU beds.
Thats because that page doesnt show the full list. Try this instead

https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/57f3825493d04867c3d192fd93...
Isn’t telling someone your name is Hanson when it’s not lying?
> natural immunity will turn out in the end to be the ONLY effective thing which gets us to to herd immunity.

There are many illnesses for which humanity never reached natural herd immunity. Smallpox was consistently deadly for millennia, for example. Malaria's still going strong. HIV is kept in check by treatments, not immunity.

The COVID delta strain has an R of at least 5. Using naive models, this would mean that we'd need at least 80% immunity. But even if we achieved 100% vaccination, it's not clear that current vaccines (or natural infection) can provide 80% immunity over the longer term.

So realistically, I suspect that COVID will simply become one of the risks of life. I fully expect that I will catch it multiple times in the decades to come. But I get an annual flu shot, and I'm willing to get an annual COVID booster if necessary.

And there's no guarantee that this will all blow over soon. The worst case historical coronavirus appears to have jumped to humans around 20,000 years ago, and it looks like it exerted heavy selective pressure over many generations. See https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/science/ancient-coronavir....
"when we objectively don't have the same opportunities for easy effortless well paying employment that makes buying a house a very achievable goal relatively early in life."

I'm not sure where you got your picture of the 1970s and 1980s. "Easy effortless well paying employment" is not how most of my cohort would have described our jobs, particularly the "well paying" part. I'm not sure what relatively early in life is: before 30? before 35?
I'd have guessed that brands would be able to differentiate themselves on even heating, how well the reheating sensors work, etc. But I guess not.
For whatever value of "young person" I am in my mid 20s:

Climate change is going on and will have some unfortunate consequences, but the world is not ending and there's hope for advances in carbon capture etc. Civilization will march on and find a way.

The state and federal government, for all the ways they've failed in protecting my rights, let me bootstrap my career with student aid, being the first of my family to go to college and now having a great career in software.

A loud segment of my peers will rant about how America has no social mobility and the boomers ruined everything. In the anecdotal cases of people I know, it seems the ones who applied themselves to any degree are doing pretty well for themselves (owning businesses without a degree etc), and mostly people who just want to smoke weed and do nothing all day will be the ones saying they should get UBI and the boomers are evil and everything is collapsing.

I acknowledge we have some serious issues with healthcare costs and some other things but I've just never related to my doom and gloom peers.
You're quoting a site that talks about "pole shifts and earth changes" and complaining about misinformation and shitty predictions?
In most systems, it is considered a bug to be fixed, not a feature to be proud of, like Facebook people are.
Yes. The explanation given under that rather provocative headline does not mention how the OMI project being open source, as opposed to closed source, enhances its status as a supply chain risk. Microsoft could have just as easily not released that code - it still would have included the vulnerability.
Saving lives cannot be the only consideration. There has to be limits on the power of the state to restrict and compel human behavior. We shouldn't live under medical tyranny.
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The run-proof nature of an 'approaching-cashless society', is a facet of this I'd never considered, I suppose the point is that it'd be infinitely propped-up thanks to be so detached from any real world asset. I'll have to learn more about the other points and their relationships to money creation and supply though. I'd never thought about the reversibility of money, outside of normal means of destroying it, and I'm not completely sure if I understand it well enough to agree or disagree. That said I feel like if there's a context for these creations (or maybe realizations) that reminds me of a kind of monetary inertia and that puts me on the fence still. Always so much to learn about this kind of stuff :)
> Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too?

Overweight people can't transmit their overweightness to me through a virus or bacterium that they breathe into the air.

If they could, then yeah, we'd probably have some kind of legal mandate on it. Just like we have a bunch of restrictions on smoking now, because indeed, that's something that you push into the air.

The general rule is that your rights stop where others begin. Most issues of health are purely personal, but infectious diseases are not. Because they're infectious.
Where is this information able to be confirmed?
If you think the data is normal-ish but want to account for skew and kurtosis, you can try fitting a distribution such as the skewed Student's t -- there are R packages for this.
Baby granddaddy has an interest in the outcome.
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If I was married - it would be much simpler. Unfortunately - in all likelihood - I will either never marry or be married around 40. Buying a house to set down some roots when you're single, changing jobs every 1-2 years, and have friends spread apart in a sizable geographical area... well, not the best idea or easiest decision to make. Especially when none of the houses I can afford are the ones I want.
Shock; understanding isn’t reached by merely mapping the particles; it’s particles and waves.

I feel like there is a fundamental philosophy to science we decided did not matter when we switched to “just compute it” effort.

Yin and Yang, particle/wave duality, matter and fundamental forces; weaved into human culture going back forever there is a commonly occurring meme one might distill as “nothing exists without the right balance”.
Climate change is bad but technological collapse doomerism is completely unsupported by science.

People like the romance of dramatic and exciting extremes, of paradise and apocalypse. The mundane probability of having to adapt to somewhat worse conditions isn't that entertaining.
>vaccine efficacy is much lower than natural immunity

Citation? The linked article quotes medical experts who say the opposite.
Fair enough. I tend to think of most of them as paying just a small amount where the main goal is to get treatment, but I'm sure some pay better than others.
I thought they are light weight ways of declaring a structure. From there they take different paths for immutability extensibility allocation … etc
> I'd have been genuinely scared to death about the ozone layer being depleted or acid rain making the planet unlivable by now, yet here we are.

It's retroactively very extreme sounding, but that's because governments collectively acted to enact environmental regulations. The ozone really was on its way to just vanishing and still isn't fully recovered.

The difference is that governments are full of people who don't realize that active efforts prevented disaster scenarios, and they're paid to say the bad things that are happening aren't happening. What was a slow moving disaster is now accelerating and people are still pretending humans can magically fix everything they knowingly fucked up.
I read through through the paper. they do a much better job of substantiating their arguments than you do.
>nothing happens to you because you're rich

What do you believe happens to non-rich people who lie to reporters when accosted by reporters in public?
I think (but correct me if I'm wrong) that sometimes HN puts "controversial" articles - like, I'm guessing this one could be construed as?- on the second page automatically? Not entirely sure why but I think I remember dang mentioning that one time.
>We also know that the Covid vaccines are not immunizing, and a large amount of virus can be passed on from vaccinated, to the unvaccinated.

I'm flagging this as dubious. Everything I've seen points to smaller viral load and shorter durations for breakthroughs.
This is the second Azure disclosure from the guys at Wiz, following the one with Cosmos DB few weeks ago. Now, it’s much more interesting when you take into account that Wiz was founded by the guys who sold a cyber security company, Adallom, to Microsoft and then served in senior roles around Microsoft cloud security post acquisition. Assaf Rappaport, Wiz CEO, served as fhe GM of the Cloud Security Group at Microsoft for five years [0].

I wonder what the people at Microsoft are thinking of this situation.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/assafrappaport
For the kind of reproducibility nix needs, ./configure && make && make install is not enough. It needs to track and manage the artefacts created by the build system, not just run a script.
Or just click on "view the full file" to see the full list.
That's something that can certainly happen in the lifetime of my grandchildren, if I have any. The problem is that even a two or three foot rise in seas (the current projection for Miami in 2060) requires trillions of dollars across the world so sewage and other nice features of civilization continue to operate.

The short term existential crisis is economic instability and mass migration leading to unpredictable warfare. The long term existential crisis is that south Florida really is gone along with the place where something like half of all humans live, the ocean life that supports billions of people dies out, and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns cause entire ecosystems to fail taking out huge chunks of humanity in addition to war over the remaining resources.
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He’s family. But maybe he’s playing a deeper con that the media fell for. We’ll see.
> the argument that wages should track productivity is false from economical point of view, in my opinion

This view effectively negates all the other values you expressed. If people contribute N% of overall value but their remuneration tracks value at the epoch of that sort of contribution, you’re effectively ensuring people will exploit that for their own gain without equivalent contribution. And you’re ensuring that they’ll use the power that gives them to protect that disproportionate benefit.
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>Overweight people can't transmit their overweightness to me through a virus or bacterium that they breathe into the air.

They can fill up hospital beds though, that might not be available for you when you need one!
I'm a recent Nix convert who also loves flakes and nix-cli and would love to see them get out of unstable and the docs updated to direct users toward them.
What shortages? The world overproduces food by no small margin. Starvation is a regional supply issue. In developed countries 30-40% of food often goes to waste. Alternative water supplies like desalination exist, and countries like Israel with constrained natural water supplies use it extensively. I think it's irresponsible to proclaim that humanity is doomed without a coherent argument as to why it won't be able to survive.
> Wearing a mask, as we did for 4-5 hours on a flight recently, weirds out my 2 month old since he can't see my face.

At the risk of adding some global diversity to this conversation:

In a bunch of countries with a significant Muslim population, many women cover their face/head far more than your face is covered by a mask when they go out. Their kids grow up fine.
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Being struck by lightning and hail sound plenty adversarial to me.

Meanwhile equifax and co just leave your data unprotected, no adversary required
He's her father-in-law, not exactly tangential relations.
I think that is largely the case in some circumstances. Specifically in agriculture, fast food and meat packing the temporary foreign worker program is used to hire people who will work for less than what Canadians consider fair, either purely based on compensation, or a combination of compensation and qualification.
Not typical? What makes this hack different from the Sony leak by lulzsec and the other high profile hacks by the various lulz copycats 5 - 10 years ago? The dump is completely reminiscent of 4chan/Anonymous hacktivists as well.

I don’t know anything of Epik before this hack, but to me it’s clear that it was only a matter of time for Epik, and people should be mad at Epik. Unsalted md5 in 2021 is just inexcusable at this point and I’m doubtful this kind of hack took any skill at all given the complete lack of security they employed.
- The vaccine hasn't been evaded. The efficacy has been slightly reduced.

- Not all vaccines need be quite so targeted.

- Naturally acquired immunity can also be evaded.
Exactly. It's not like Microsoft picked up a random unaudited open source project and shoved it into all Azure VMs. OMI is maintained by Microsoft and the fact that it is open source is a good thing security wise. I'd wager being able to look at the source code greatly helped the researchers in their diagnosis as well.
Buzz was my first "DAW" too. I immediately thought this kinda looked like what the buzz patching area might look like had development continued to now. I'm on mac now, but the thing that reminds me of Buzz the most currently is SunVox which is free. I haven't played with it in ages, mainly b/c I use live now. Did you spend any time in the tracker communities when Buzz was around? I was on em411 in various guises. Nothing like that community online now - too much noise everywhere.
A lot of people will pay for the antibody tests.
Math is thousands of years old yet many people have made significant strides in multiple fields in the last 200 years. In 1,000 years even more low hanging fruit will be plucked. Yet, I suspect a few people will be notable for their great strides between now and then.

Everyone can’t be Newton, but perhaps everyone can aim higher than yet another note taking app.
Yes, I disagree with you on many levels. First, solar and wind are not more environmentally destructive, at least in any appreciable way. Second, solar and wind can sustain modern human civilization. Third, clean energy has de facto not been solved because only a small percentage of generation is currently nuclear. Fourth, even what you describe were possible, construction lead time on known scalable reactor designs is many years. Fifth, even what you describe were possible, the fuel supply chain is underdeveloped and would take many years to develop. Sixth, all of wind, solar, and nuclear are just electric sources and we face a storage density problem not a generation problem. Seventh, the nature of the climate problem is one that has already happened and will continue for decades even if every human ceased to exist immediately. Eighth, nuclear is still not renewable. I could go on but I hope you appreciate that I disagree with you and think you are underinformed about nuclear power.

note: Uranium spot prices are increasing because the Sprott Physical Trust purchases and WSB activity. The spot market is a minor part of the overall markets. Plants purchase from producers directly under long term contracts.
Perhaps both?
Open source supply chain is a real thing, but not sure it's at all relevant in this case. In this case it appears to be an open source package that was simply open sourced by Microsoft as opposed to some broader community project.

That it's open source there could an interesting argument made that it's easier for one to hunt for vulnerabilities when they can review the code. In this case what was the advantage or point of it being open sourced when it is clearly a Microsoft project for Microsoft purposes. Maybe for collaboration internally? But the open source nature of it doesn't gain much.

The open source nature–in this particular case becomes more complicated when the fix is in plain sight for a month now with a seemingly easy ability to take advantage of. So in this case closed source fix that wasn't public how to exploit maybe would have been better indeed.

The open source vs. not is a bit more of a red herring relative to the overall situation. It's certainly not the central theme, but when you overanalyze I can see how some of the analysis maybe happened.
Ironically, the OMI 'open source' package is Microsoft's.

The only recent commit was for "Enhanced security" a month ago:

https://github.com/microsoft/omi/commit/4ce2cf1cb0aa656b8eb9...
Who likely didn’t pay that as they had plenty of tax avoidance strategies, not unlike the ultra-wealthy today. The apocryphal story I read some years ago was that these rates were cooked up to make it seem like the wealthy were shouldering the burden of WWII rather than profiting from it.
You only need to create an empty file named 'SSH' in the /boot directory for ssh to be active on boot.
This is a broken link, the correct one is

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0004133

Try resubmitting?
> >with 10.5% of those with underlying cardiovascular disease, 7.3% of those with diabetes, 6.3% of those with chronic respiratory disease, and 5.6% of those with cancer dying of COVID-related illness. [1]

>That looks like a clean 17% reduction for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Sorry for not writing a complete reply but you can't add those numbers like that.
I’m pretty left leaning but I don’t think it’s right to leak all of their customers simply because some subset of the domains were used for unsavory purposes.

That’s not a fascist ideology, I think people should have their privacy respected and this will harm innocent individuals.
Blueberry or cherry
Yes: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...

As of April 22, the vaccination rates between the parties was almost identical.

The differential in vaccination rates is largely about people under 65. If you look at over 65 rates red states and blue states are much closer. 88.4% of people over 65 in Kansas are fully vaccinated. That’s higher than California, Illinois, and New York.
I often think of how many ordinary working people would be able to do more than just tread water and actually begin to build some wealth if there weren't rent seekers built into nearly every necessity for sustaining human life. As a society I believe we need to re-evaluate the relationship between profit-seeking entities and public goods.
Not to mention worker-owned companies and co-ops have shown to be able to weather economic uncertainty better. I will say, with the limited data we have. There is some truth that in America, various things rig organizing a company around the idea of co-ops and worker owned, so there are not many and not an abundance of data to be had on this. But the example we do have internationally, they tend to show that they weather the boom and bust cycles better.
I am happy with this announcement I traded in my iPad Pro V2 to order a new iPad mini today. I can use it in my overlanding rig and read books when I get to the camp site. This product announcement fits my specific needs well.
Exactly the connection I was helping OP to make. Indeed the parallels are obvious when phrased like this.
Gizmodo story: https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-claims-to-have-stolen-huge-tro...
Why have we consistently seen thousands and thousands of new vaccinations daily if no one ever changes their minds?
> You could argue that overweight folks are also paying disproportionately more simply by buying more food than someone who weighs 20% less.

Overweight people pay their tax in a significant decrease in their quality of life. Eating unhealthy is way way cheaper. I can confirm both after 170lbs of weight loss. My food budget quadrupled. Rice, pasta, and white bread are cheap. Meat and veggies, not so much.
At some level, agreed that it probably helped security wise for researchers. That the fix was committed in public and then vulnerability remained for a month and well still currently for customers is where one could make a case that the open source nature did as much damage as good.
Hey I have my suspicions but wanted to ask first :)
Which doesn't work as soon as they become moist.
If you're looking for alternate ways of designing an asynchronous coroutine API, Zig (https://ziglang.org/) and Go (https://golang.org/) have different implementations which might be worth reading into. Both avoid special syntax in the common beginner case, until you know enough to correctly write concurrent code (then you need async in Zig, and goroutines in Go). :)
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