skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If hospitals didn’t overflow and society didn’t crumble for most of 2020 (when there was 0% vaccination), it’s odd to argue that it will now that there is 65% vaccination."

2020 was the worst economic catastrophe in a century.

The US Fed printed money in terms it has never before, it's balance sheet has been massively inflated.

Government debt exploded to WW2 levels.

10's of millions were unemployed.

Most Healthcare systems had to adjust to delay and defer elective procedures.

Millions of restaurants and other businesses closed, never to re-open.

All of these measures were taken precisely because there were 0% vaccinated.

The US/World basically couldn't handle another year of those restrictions, it would probably break the economy and cause a lot of harm.

It's not going to be possible to fully re-open until COVID subsides (esp. Delta), vaccinates will be a primary driver of that.
Introducing: DHCProto
Is my family on my LAN the target for decentralized web projects? I figured it was more technical people that would know how to forward a port. I've personally been running a webserver from inside the LAN at home for 20 years now.

Lets not kid ourselves. The vast majority of people don't use the web. They consume it. And they will never care about IPFS or etherium layers. The distributed web is to create a refuge from the types of companies that serve those needs. But adding additional layers of abstraction doesn't help technical users achieve that goal, it's just a fetish. They can easily forward the port and set up a simple static webserver and as a big plus their non-technical friends can actually access the data.
What you call "american ideas" is the only thing that works in the anonymous environment. Communal solidarity works fine in small social groups where "having something at stake" that keeps people cooperate honestly is measured in many things beyond money, which includes the multi-faceted hard-to-quantify reputation. But if you want random people to cooperate on the internet, you can't have any of those properties but stupid cold cash.

And, if you try to recreate reputation mechanisms, consider how exposed people would be with persistent perfectly precise digital identification of their cooperation efforts whenever such efforts cross interests of some other group. In non-internet life a lot of things are understood and agreed upon without making those decisions public. Even in private contracts, parties prefer that the details of the contract to remain known only to themselves unless (in rare and unfortunate circumstances) their dispute warrants participation of an arbiter.
We need to see cardiac events in the vaccinated cohort. I know or know of a dozen since April.
My use for it was to have a 5 way residential VPN across multiple Countries for obvious reasons. That wouldn't really suffice with just ssh. It also makes the shared infrastructure a lot easier to use for the rest of my family.

Also a globally accessible pihole connected to DoH which ensures somewhat global privacy.

They are basically my perfect use for my raspberry pis. Extremely low power, but perfectly capable for handling say 1080p video streams or to RDP into machines for access to cross-country resources.
A curated list of cool C preprocessor stuff
Could you provide any advice on brands for a good car charger? Thank you.
No.

What Turing did in 1937 might not have been an advance over what Godel and Church did. But if you want to make the case for building a general purpose computer out of mechanical relays or vacuum tubes in 1946, you need a semantic advance. Turing machines did that.

Nobody would read Godel and say "let's build ENIAC." Tommy Flowers did read Turing and say that. THAT is the difference.

It's like Einstein versus Lorenz. Same mathematics.Different semantic interpretation.
I agree with this 100%. I really like gardening and find it very fulfilling, and it can consume a lot of time.

I have zero interested however in trying to run a commercially viable vegetable farm.

I personally would definitely not work in my field if I made 10+million, but I would have no shortage of things I wanted to do with my time.
Good point. I never thought of it that way. The modern PC is a marvel. On one hand it's a complex mess, on the other we can write poetry like that JS snippet, and it all works seamlessly (unless you're doing something weird).
This is actually a great argument for a strong social democracy/welfare state.
Driving payment card adoption with deeplinks, applinks, long cards, and autofill
Here's a good resource: https://www.vegansociety.com/news/media/statistics
Not weird, simply a correction of errors.
That's actually a slightly different thing.

The quote from the transcript is talking about attempts to manipulate the market.

optimalsolver is talking about manipulating reality in order to win money in the market.
Defined in the glossary. It seems to mean where the person had an active covid infection at time of death, and excludes people who recovered from covid but died anyway.
Littering and running red lights causes problems for everyone in society. Copyright infringement... doesn't. It's mostly just a small dip in the expected profits of a monopolist.
You ignored their points entirely so I'm not sure why anyone should have to read that BS wall of text.
Transgender People Are at Elevated Risk for Chronic Conditions
There's different kinds of "rich".

Rich, as in, a busy lawyer with lots of customers on his shoulders, who also tries to maintain a respectable social status by having the right house, connections and the right car. For him, stopping work means cutting their income stream and social connections and still having to support this expensive lifestyle.

There's also rich with passive income from investments and they really have the option for a leisurely escape.
The various therapeutic treatments (monoclonal antibodies, convalescent plasma, remdesivir, etc.) are helpful, and need to be administered in a hospital setting (IVs, complications, etc.)
When writing code by hand I literally just draw mirrored squiggles. (On inspection, only the first stroke at the top reliably indicates direction.)
I'm orthogonal to your points. I'm not as attached to the symbolic online battle, and I appreciate good trolling.

> It's more important exactly who is using the phrase and why, than what the phrase is.

This is thought-terminating tribal idiocy.

Let's put it in tribal terms for you. If your tribe self-owns by jumping into an obvious bear trap, that's an L for you and yours. Take some responsibility, and maybe slow down to consider the words next time.
Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘SNL’
I think it's called "doomscrolling".
> to think that a detached single family home is the only way to live

This isn't purely marketing. A lot of it is lived experience. Americans are generally just straight up terrible neighbors, and neither building owners nor police care. Many of us have learned that a 40 foot setback works way better than a poorly-sound-insulated 2x4 wall.
There was a prediction market on the number of times celebrities tweet a week. Someone found one of the celebrities live streaming and kept paying them to delete their tweets.
Does anyone happen to know of any geospatial indexing solutions that can also index simultaneously by other dimensions. Temporal indexing for example (not only where, but when)?
I have been looking for one number. Maybe someone can help me. What is the mortality rate for unvaxxed healthy adults between the age of 18 and 50? I can’t help but be dubious that this group needs vaccination.
Just ask OpenBSD to provide a pledge_sig and unveil_sig that simply return a C string where each character is the type of the corresponding argument.

E.g., if pledge_sig returns "ss" you know you're dealing either with the bona fide OpenBSD pledge or an evil demon.
Agreed, though "destroy" is a bit of an inflammatory word.

I'll add to your list: degrowth.
I'm inclined to agree - I use breakpoints all the time when I'm debugging JS code and it is most definitely an invaluable tool.

It can be a bit cumbersome to setup and it can be a little buggy especially when you're working with transpiled code, but to say no one uses breakpoints is a bit disingenuous.
New coating technology uses 'nanoworms' to kill Covid-19
Ah interesting! I think I had moved away from Buzz by the time it was rebuilt but have very fond memories of the software and the community around it.

I hope you enjoy Drambo! It can take a little while to get into the swing of it but if you used to use Buzz I really think you’ll enjoy it. There are a tonne of tutorials on YouTube about it to get going. Being able to host AUv3 plugins is awesome too!
Niche communities are easier for a small handful of volunteers or employees to moderate. There's simply less shit to clean up. Compare that to Facebook, Google, etc; all of whom have to hire armies of moderators who will burn out in a span of months. The attrition rate is very high, and there's just too many moderators to have consistent platform policy enforcement.

Furthermore, if someone is just there to be toxic, you have an easy justification to shut them down: "I'm sorry, but this is an underwater basketweaving Discord, please stop spamming #offtopic with why you think we should call in the National Guard to fight the war on Christmas." Many small communities have very strict regulation of political speech purely because it causes most of their problems.

Alt-tech is trying to collect all of the toxic bullshit in one place, so obviously they're going to be way more toxic despite their small size. It's also possible for niche communities to have their own toxicity problems, too. It's more that large communities are just inherently more difficult to govern.
I have friends who have worked at some rather large tech companies. They created shared documents where everyone could share their compensation along with what they do and their past experience. I thought it was interesting.
You missed the entire point.

The point isn't that this oversensitivity is misplaced, the point is that it's moral outrage porn that the tellers of the story use in a smart way to get a reaction from you.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing if it's just one or two story among others, after all the purpose of art is to get strong reactions out of its audience. But when every such story has to lean hard into the moral aspect to the exclusion of all else it becomes a trite children story told for nothing else but feel-good points.

Consider the amount of articles on trump during his presidency. How much of it was high-quality investigative journalism telling you things you don't know, and how much was "Trump tweeted something shockingly stupid, here are a list of experts you don't need telling you this is shockingly stupid, this means End Of Democracy (EOD)" ? The latter articles are technically true, but it's trite and accomplishes nothing but pulling on your memetic levers to get you to like/share/feel-bad|good-all-day.
I think you need to read it again. Especially table 1.

In the data they have they found that:

1. For all unvaccinated people, they had 38,964 covid-related deaths and 65,170 of other, non-covid-related deaths of unvaccinated people.

2. For all vaccinated people 21 days or more after second dose they found 458 covid-related and 57,263 non-covid-related deaths.

It doesn't matter when these were recorded (unless we want to account for Delta, but there is not enough data for this here).

So unless we are seeing huge increase in non-covid-related deaths of vaccinated people, this data suggests that vaccination makes it many, many times less likely that you are going to die of covid as compared to you dying to other things.

Which I think is wonderful news to see in actual numbers from a large sample of data gathered over longer period of time.

If that's is not a clear indication to you then I don't know what is.
Truth is a cylinder? Piffles. Show me a spherical cube in 3 dimensions and we'll talk.
About half the (total, not adult) population was vaccinated by end of May: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57313399
Work is fine when you either don't have a boss or can quit any time you like.
It doesn't matter. The degrees are just signifiers to denote a class of people you aren't in. If it weren't for the titles you would be excluded on some other grounds.

I mean, there are modern professions still using medieval terms for this (esquire?)
Biology must generate ideas as well as data
Nobel laureate Paul Nurse today in Science:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02480-z?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=b406cd6cb3-briefing-dy-20210915&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-b406cd6cb3-46236046
If you have a budget constraint, it's rational for you to buy argmax(true(A) - market_value(A), true(B) - market_value(B)), which is exactly the Pareto-efficient behavior.
Your anecdote is the most interesting statistic I've read here. I am going to call the CDC and ask them to investigate this immediately.

That's really what we should be focusing on.

A dozen deaths, not 38,000.

/s
I don't know how large the company was, but at a big company, the CEO is probably not actually in that nice office all that much. They're on planes, in airports, scheduled in meetings from breakfast through dinner, on late night calls, etc.

I'm not saying they have a "bad" like and they're well-paid for it but it's not particularly relaxing or flexible.
> teenagers are more likely to be hospitalised for a side effect of the vax than they are to be hospitalised for covid

You're omitting a very important fact. The risk of hospitaliztion listed in the article is not based on the percentage of teenagers who had COVID; it is based on the percentage who might get COVID over the next 120 days. That's a very different number.

If things continue as they are, then almost everyone will either get COVID or get vaccinated (or both). It only makes sense to compare the risks based on actually getting COVID, vs. getting vaccinated.
The book is under-whelming, however. There might be something worth investigating, although the basic mapping between finite automata and QFT is not made explicit, nor even how it could be. One type of maths is pretty firmly embedded in continuous maths on manifolds and the other is inherently discrete. And one has probability density and is only deterministic in the calculation of the probability densities, while the other is apparently completely deterministic. And how can non-local entanglement occur with the automata model? That said, there are some interesting hints in modern physics that information is related to some very fundamental processes, e.g. the entropy of black holes being related to information held by the black hole, etc. But he (in my opinion, a mathematically advanced amateur, and no master of QFT) has too much excitement for his own idea and too much hand-waving over the details.

I did buy and read most of it, as I also have bought many of Penrose's popular books, so perhaps I'm just a disgruntled purchaser.
Epik started hosting Gab in 2018 (introducing "free speech" as a part of their marketing allegedly following the Gab move [1][2]) and BitChute and 8chan in 2019 [3] (although they stopped hosting 8chan [4] after some of their own upstream providers cut them off or threatened to do so; they may have continued to provide DNS, but I haven't tried to verify this since providing services to the far right on the down low wouldn't count as part of their marketing).

External criticism from prominent publications and organizations of Epik for its hosting of far-right sites also dates back at least as far as early 2019 [5][6].

HN search provides a story about Epik hosting Gab [7] as the highest popularity story result for "Epik" in the date range Jan 8th 2018 to Dec 30th 2019 (HN search is weird about date ranges and wouldn't let me do 1st to 31st) [8]. The front page of that search result has 5 other stories that are not just incorrectly matching on the word "Epic" or companies named "Epic", one of which is about Epik's "forever domains" service and got 3 points and 2 comments. One is about 8chan getting kicked off its previous provider and mentions them moving to Epik (it appears to be the same article as my [3]), but the comments mostly does not talk about Epik. The other articles are all about Epik hosting Gab or far-right sites but received few upvotes and comments.

In the first page of results for the corresponding search for comments [9] I can find 1 comment from 'sadris talking about Epik's low pricing, 1 comment from 'boultonmark on a non-Gab story describing Epik as seeming to be "the go to company for criminals online", 2 hiring posts from somebody who happens to have epik in their username near the bottom, and two comments using the word "epic" at the bottom. The 14 by my count other comments are all about Epik hosting Gab and/or either hosting or not hosting 8chan.

[1]: The SPLC article below [5] says this is the timing, but the Wayback machine[2] doesn't have frequent enough captures of their twitter account for me to verify the timing to more precisely than between

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190119014600/https://twitter.c... has "Protector of responsible Free Speech." in their bio, tweets calling for popular Youtube channels (including Jordan Peterson) to move to BitChute, and referring to itself as "Alt-tech", which afaict is a term coined to refer specifically to technology providers that alt-right sites & people have moved to as a result of bans or moderation policies on more mainstream providers.

[3]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20754943/8chan-epik-offlin...

[4]: https://www.epik.com/blog/epik-draws-line-on-acceptable-use....

[5]: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-...

[6]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou...

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18383947

[8]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1577750400&dateRange=custom&...

[9]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1577750400&dateRange=custom&...
Since I don't normally follow "white supremacists", and I would have a hard time finding them even if I wanted, how am I supposed to know what's a dogwhistle and what is not?
Disclaimer: I'm vegan.

I think this is awesome. "Vandalize" is a bit much as they just substitute sliced pig flesh photos with a plant-based lookalike.
I believe the popularity of the sign lies in its ambiguity. You see, the mainstream discourse never went as far as to say "it is not OK to be white." It was hinted at, in a more or less subtle way, through the "white privilege" (some corporations actually have obligatory trainings on this) and in thousands of indirect ways making white people guilty of the skin they were born in.

So for some people the message of that poster was infuriating. You can't openly disagree with the literal meaning, but on the other hand, many people do it internally. They believe that white people as the descendants of slave owners should inherit the collective guilt of their great forefathers (even if it was a family of a third wave of immigrants from Europe that never owned any slaves). The very fact we are even discussing that is telling in itself.
Using the FreeBSD Rack TCP Stack
This brings back fond memories. It's been a _long_ time since then, and I was about 14yo. This was pre-internet, the BBS era. My computer, an old PC XT, 8086 based. I was getting new software via mail order from various specialized magazines, or from BBS's (to which I did not have access directly at that time -- not particularly relevant to this story).

One day, I got something infected with a virus named Romania.856 (I will always remember this name), a COM infector, as I found out from F-Prot Antivirus (which came with a great db with information about viruses -- such a great read for the young me!).

The tools available to me were still very limited; I had not yet discovered TDD (Borland Turbo Debugger). But I was dead set to understand how the virus worked. There I was, using the very limited `debug` tool that came with MS-DOS. I've learned x86 Assembler from various texts downloaded from BBS's. I reverseengineered Romania.856, and learned how it worked, and did my own experiments. That's how I spent my summer vacation that year.

This was the beginning of some of the most beautiful years of my life, with regard to computers. It lasted for a bit over half a decade, time in which tech evolved fast, I got an internet connection (still dialup back then), I discovered IRC, met people with similar interests and so on. What I miss the most now is the feeling of everything being new, the possibility for exploration and discovery.
As stated in the report, “ the characteristics of the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations are changing over time, which limits the usefulness of comparing counts between the groups.”
Google Keep doesn't support image format that Google created
I tried to upload a WebP image to Google Keep(Google's version of online Notes) and it said upload failed then I converted it to JPEG and it worked.

Maybe it's just me but if it is true I find it funny that they do not support compressed image format that they created.

WebP: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp

Google Keep: https://keep.google.com
Good luck supporting a $trillion valuation on the basis of a "healthier place".
The business of social media platforms is to maximize profit by monetizing their user base. Friedman instructed MBA students that they must pursue this diligently, using any and all legal tricks in the book.

Yes sure, as good managers they need to protect long-term shareholder value. They should, in general, want to strike the right balance that will be maximally extractive without incuring uneconomic fines, or unduly damaging the reputation of the platform. With all the top brains in the payroll this is an optimisation problem that seems easy to crack.

For as long society thinks this business model is kosher there is really nothing to do about it. If we want to ever turn a page and start worrying about more serious problems we simply need to move on to open source decentralized media.
Thank you very much for the recommdation, looks like an amazing resource. Hopefully i'll be able to schedule time work through this. Would have loved to study CS but awesome/time consuming events in my life prevented it, which is totally fine.
Very nice idea

RSS support?
Buf just released v1.0.0-rc1
>Due to a security concern in which a profile containing a file extension would not load [3], we do not allow usernames that end with file extensions (ex: .mov).

Why did you not fix your routing engine to not consider file extensions where the username / group name should go?
I'm very pleased with Pine64 and I think they're doing a tremendous job of pushing open hardware and doing it right, and I am a frequent buyer and occasional contributor to various pine-adjacent projects accordingly. But it really disappoints me that they aren't committed to free (as in freedom) platforms. I die a little bit every time I see them call you to join their Discord channel in these updates, or to follow them on Twitter, or post on their subreddit. Especially for a project in close collaboration with Linux distros, IRC and mailing lists are an important communication medium which is under-emphasized and under-utilized by Pine.

Pine seems to understand the value of free software within their phones, but why not without? It's very frustrating to know that a sizable fraction of their development discussions are being had on the other side of propriatary garden walls.
Property crime is “down” because CA now doesn’t consider anything below $1,000 damage a crime.
Computer Science is about what computers can do. To decide the latter, you have to first decide what a computer is. Turing Machines were the first abstractions that intuitively captured what it means to compute something
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About 0.0005%. Got it from a Covid risk calculator that got posted here recently (plus 1+ years of research of raw numbers). The risk is staggeringly low for young people.