skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've tested and found covid-positive white-tailed deer all over New York state. Presumably there are other animal reservoirs.

Do you regularly interact with white-tailed deer in confined spaces?

> We now know that the vaccines widely available (at least those used in the US, Israel, the UK) have waning effectiveness, likely requiring periodic boosters.

What's wrong with a vaccine needing boosters? Many do.

> We also know those vaccines are non-sterilizing, meaning it is at least possible for fully vaccinated individuals to contract and transmit the virus.

Even more reason for people to be vaccinated. It keeps them out of the hospital.

Even assuming vaccine mandates in perpetuity, and widespread compliance, there will presumably be some overlap of "lapsed effectiveness" in the population between boosters. We literally don't have the capacity to administer boosters to all 200 million American adults exactly at the same instant, or even in the same month.

> Even assuming vaccine mandates in perpetuity, and widespread compliance, there will presumably be some overlap of "lapsed effectiveness" in the population between boosters.

Lapsed effectiveness isn't something that prohibits us from containing the virus

> We literally don't have the capacity to administer boosters to all 200 million American adults exactly at the same instant, or even in the same month.

It's honestly pretty sad that you think we couldn't do this. Have Americans really gotten that lazy?

> How exactly we are going to "eliminate" covid, given this reality? Many Americans are terrified that the goal is "elimination" of the virus. Similar to the War on Terror, wherein we did a tremendous amount of collateral damage chasing an endless, unattainable ideal.

I'm not sure what to say to this. "We don't care to contain it, therefore its' impossible to contain"?
Except Medium exists and this is still here??
I figured that might come up, but censorship whether govt. or not is seen as "oppression due to opinion".

Over-aggressive TLD spam filtering is just bad logic from infosec employees.
> Being therefore self-evidently invalid without needing external information beyond its text, the notice certainly doesn't impose any takedown obligation stemming from the DMCA even if GitHub wants to stay within the DMCA safe harbor.

Companies that accept DMCA notices have made it plain as day that they have no interest in determining the merits of any particular DMCA notice on their own. Why bother taking the risk of ignoring a valid notice when there is no upside to declining an invalid one?

The courts have also made it clear that they implicitly endorse invalid notices as a matter of course. I don't think any copyright-troll-as-a-service has ever been held accountable for rampant abuse of the system.

In short, the material of the notice doesn't matter. The DMCA is a "how to delete someone else's post" button that requires no collateral from the attacker and the insurmountable lift of dragging oneself into an actual legal process for the victim to fight back.
Isn't the required theory more like the opposite of Chaos Theory? That is, biological organisms are extremely well ordered when looked at from a high level, with extremely rare occurrences of chaos. From the moment an egg is fertilized, you can predict with excellent accuracy what that organism will look like months or years later, give or take a few details.

To beleive there is chaos at some level of this extremely predictable system, you would have to have a system that starts with simple rules (chemistry), evolves chaotically, but has extreme order emerge from that mathematical chaos.
Dandelion as Underrated as Underfoot
US is 76.3% white compared to Canada's 77.7% white. Still pretty similar. Actually, US's numbers are from 2019 but Canada's are from 2016. Canada's percentage should be lower than US's now, given the difference in their annual immigration numbers.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#Visible...

Or if you want to do the math yourself: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/pr...
What would you change about Rails?
I appreciate your honesty that it is complete conjecture on your part that the 2 months hadn't been coordinated.
I don't really understand why it's framed as withholding equity. It just wasn't offered, totally fair choice by the founders. If you didn't like it, why work there?
>The text including the .xyz link is notably absent. Until I realized what was happening, I would sometimes have some very strange text exchanges with people whenever I would mention my company or my email address. Once we switched to spotvirtual.com, this issue went away.

>Ironically, Google Voice also has the same behavior with abc.xyz.
They seem reasonable to me.
China seems to be the only country still exploring new nuclear fission technologies commercialization at government level. In the US and other western countries it is mostly by commercial companies so I feel China probably will take the lead in nuclear in the next few decades. As this requires decades long planning and commercial companies are unable to work unless they get quick results. I previously submitted about China's plan to convert nuclear waste to glass for easier storage. So China seems to have planned to use a lot of nuclear power in the future and has also made plans for storing the nuclear waste.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28507599
If you want to retain your freedom, don't sign yourself up for overwhelming debt.
I would advise you not try and make any assumptions about someone else's situation based on about 4 sentences in the comments' section.

The world would be better off without them, nevermind me.
I feel worse for Taiwan now than I’ve ever felt for Hong Kong, because in 1997 I watched that and know the current state was an eventuality. I LOVED the time I spent around Taipei. But considering the state of the US and World, whatever plans China has for Taiwan, seem like they just moved up a decade. After watching what just happened in Afghanistan, and us giving up our basically Chinese border base overnight without telling our allies, no one seriously thinks the Biden Admin will stand up to Chinese action on Taiwan right?

I want to go back before you can’t tell the difference between the Taiwanese and mainland Chinese.

And you highlight it; China has found a way to lean on the country in a million different ways.
You enjoy Apple pretending to be environmentally friendly all the while demonstrating they are no such thing? Why?
Economy and poverty
> you may change your mind and then be criticised

Yes, that’s exactly what is happening here - and the criticism is from the employees who were lied to.

> accepting below market pay is you may later regret it

While they might’ve been paid market value, it is still quite disingenuous to deny equity and preach an independent vision. And then using the work done by employees to sellout for a massive payday.
this feels so icky. there's probably many good reasons but i hate seeing an administration i want to do good increasing the survelliance state in such a critical, serious way.
Thanks, i try to not take more than a month to validate a micrstartup.
I think it’s frankly as ridiculous as anything believing we can build enough duplexes to bring down the $1.8MM median house price (SF).
While it interesting if a majority or even +10% of shareholders called for this (as the title might hint), the fund calling for this doesnt have much ownership to throw around.
Use `steampipe service start` to run Steampipe in the background [1]. It will print out a standard Postgres connection string running on port 9193 of your local machine. You can then simply point Metabase (or any other DB visualization tool) at it using the standard Postgres setup.

1 - https://steampipe.io/docs/using-steampipe/service
The person probably would have had greater chances of the request being taken seriously if he or she did not disclose the fact. Now that the powers that be know that it's difficult to harm oneself with one's own copyright, it might not take the request seriously. Should have made a cloaked attempt at least

In my experience, grievances are dealt with more priority when the listener believes a party actually feels wronged
Have you searched your inbox for emails related to your GitHub account so you could see which address they were sent to?
woah. couldn't put it any better than this.
do you make hybrid mobile apps? What frameworks do you use for mobile apps?
You made 20% more and broke into six figures. Congrats, you're an average tech employee with baggage. Everyone that remembers you will be a hard no on future interviews.

Congrats I guess.
i dont have blog, but i share my learning onn twitter as threads, so do follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/1HaKr
> "You cannot harm the computer in this way. Be bold."

What an empathetic, caring, tactful way to teach tech to kids. The whole instruction is like that, a really well composed message. No hypes or overpowering, just guiding children to quiet explorations.
Once worked on a website where they declared paying $10k/yr for a Helvetica licence was necessary and they didn't want to use a free alternative.

It's something that still perplexes me to this day...
I usually tweet WIP screenshots and tease whats coming, then I do a public launch on PH, LinkedIn, Facebook groups and Indie Hackers. But always before bulding a microstartup, I have the organic growth channel figured out.
I'm very long Moderna - MRNA treatment platforms seem like such a powerful tool to have. They created one of the best COVID vaccines so far using their existing platform, and have dozens of others in the pipeline for things like cancer and HIV. While sure there is a risk that these MRNA treatments don't work as well as the MRNA COVID vaccine, but I think the smart money is on many of them performing well.
1. The DMCA notice itself only contains the repo name and the DMCA submitter. Connection, sure. But a connection to what? Which brings me to...

2. If the person keeps going up the chain and sending takedown request to any copies, like archive.org and this website, the connection will be even more muddy.
How do you identify which problems are worth solving?
D'oh, fixed now, thanks.
Mine was a second-hand smuggled ZX Spectrum 48k. The first computer I ever saw was Galaksija, at the school where my mom and dad worked. The school later got a Lola 8, but by then my mom and dad bought me a used Spectrum and I was happily plugging the depths of BASIC, and later assembly.

Farewell, Sir Clive, and thank you for some of my best memories.
I really have never said I agree with something like stop and frisk so I am a bit unclear where you are going with this? I have been talking about perceptions of police in these communities not their opinions on one old police program that no longer exists.
Apple doesn't pretend https://www.apple.com/environment/ Anyway those aren't mutually exclusive - you can't replace transistors like you could a vacuum tube.
Not anymore. Now someone has to find this DMCA takedown request then go to archive.org to see the association.
> In being unpleasant to use

Yea.
I pick the problems i personally face and then see if it can be solved and has potential to make a revenue out of it. Then i pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build.
Many years ago we used a product called SSA-Names with Oracle databases. We used it to scrub several sources of data to extract consistent customer records after a company merger.

In my experience every "match-making" project has very different requirements so it is hard to have a general purpose product. It is easier to write custom scripts / programs to get specific tasks done.
I’m not sure the race between government entities and the private sector always favors the former, even when it comes to R&D. A prime (no pun intended) example of that is the race to sequence the human genome.
Protein folding helps some. Genomics help some. Computer models help with pharmacokinetics.

But all these things help you get to the expensive part more easily: testing safety and efficacy.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/big-problems

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ai-and-drug-discov...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/another-ai-generat...
Just an idea, even if it may not sound as cool:

Why not use a number YYYY.mmm.dd.seq (seq being the ordinal number of the commit within a 24h UTC period starting at 00:00Z), and you would get something that is relatively easily parsed by humans (you can omit year/month when talking about recent releases), has a simple 1:1 mapping to the git commit, and has the added benefit of being easily sortable - if you zero-pad the numbers, it will become lexicographically sortable without losing much readability.

This assumes you only release from one branch, of course.
This site is old and will disappear some day as have so many others. How many people are starting brand new sites like this?
Bitshift Variations in C Minor. Really gets going after a while: https://soundcloud.com/robertskmiles/bitshift-variations-in-...
It's human nature to make emotional decisions, not necessarily logical ones. I'm not sure how one would rethink the system rather than using it to our advantage.
> Do you regularly interact with white-tailed deer in confined spaces?

You do realize that people eat deer? And other livestock? Is it not a leading hypothesis that the origin of COVID-19 was an animal market? If it exists in the surrounding environment that's not "elimination". There will always be a risk of an outbreak.

> It's honestly pretty sad that you think we couldn't do this. Have Americans really gotten that lazy?

Yes? Is that not obvious? Though, not the point I'm making.

> I'm not sure what to say to this. "We don't care to contain it, therefore its' impossible to contain"?

You've interpreted my comment precisely backwards. Try this:

"It's impossible to contain, therefore we should approach it as a harm mitigation problem, rather than a candidate for 'elimination', through vaccination and early treatment, not dystopian lockdowns and restrictions"

Can you name another respiratory virus we've been able to completely eliminate? Any coronaviruses? Flu? Common cold? The ones I'm aware of are endemic.
It doesn't matter. If they do it illegally, you won't find out unless you find it on your car.
Wow nice job. How did you transition into being a full-time maker? Did you have a job and build one of these on the side?
Owners pay a small percentage of the sale to the employees as a gesture of goodwill.
And I would love to see EFF a little more involved in that matter. If things continues to goes downhill this far how many years left before big players decide to outright reject mail that doesn't come from a curated whitelist of their own?

The responsible answer should be IRL legal actions against real spamers because they'll always adapt to new arbitrary protocol rules faster than legitimate users, it's their jobs!

Even from an environmental standpoint I get tired of user-shaming articles about why you should delete your email for the planet. Maybe as engineers our duty is somewhat to propose a new version of the mail protocol that doesn't allow this much crap to fly around in the first place. Current solutions seems to revolve around the concept of "everybody should duck and cover if anything is suspicious" thus blocking some legitimate message that no sane human would reject should they be in charge instead of a basic AI.

PS: I'm not suggesting by any mean that you should punish any human being with manual moderation.

PS:PS: Maybe a NGO whitelist system is a solution, I'm just fearfull about which entity will end up with such power. But actually domain filtering is already kind of an implicit unpredictable non shared whitelist build on top of ICAAN register... So here we are already...
This is harrowing. What do we do?
Your telco is way more eager to sell your information.
Not true. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ The last line is "And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

The stories about Google removing the line were wrong. They just moved it from the start to the end of the document.
I got my kid to hate Cortana by doing a weird voice that nonetheless was treated as theirs. “Hey Cortana” is still a joke in our house. Maybe.

But to your point, those require doing, which is the difference. Regular use in mixed environments (airport terminal, office, waiting for the train, etc.) is TBD. As long as I have a password backup for the days I’m in bed sick.
This assumes that Chinese nuclear producers follow all the rules strictly and there is no corruption involved. The Japanese people lost their trust in the government and companies to keep things safe, which is what killed the industry in that country. While China isn’t going to face similar voter pressure, one accident like Fukushima could make things really chaotic quickly.
Yeah, but that's using 3D Printers to do it - the thing I'm thinking of was doing it using supplies in many homes and offices.
It has been technologically updated -- they do improve the tolerances and consistency, introduce wear reducing coatings, and stuff like that -- but it is fundamentally a small, light bullet in a tiny case. That's what defines it, so there's just not much more power you can get out of it.
How can be be sentenced for the crime if he was acquitted?
I’ve just recently found out about ESPrensense [1], which does this, but running on ESP32 microcontrollers, so it should be much less resource intensive.

[1]: https://espresense.com/
For me. at least here's what I think happened.

Way back in 2003/4, trusting a couple of guys with a social bookmarking idea and site seemed reasonable and useful.

In 2005/6, trusting Yahoo with your bookmarks collection and (at least part of) your social network around shared bookmarks was already looking sketchy. FAANG as an idea didn't really exist yet, but general wariness about what large advertising supported web companies were doing with your personal data was a thing at least some technical people wondered and worried about.

in 2009, an alternative showed up, run by someone who's name I recognised from https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_... and who's blog made him feel like "my kind of people", and someone I could trust with my bookmark collection way more than I trusted Yahoo.

For a while, I used both. Treating Delicious as the place my bookmarks were probably getting datamined by advertisers, and considering pinboard to be a somewhat more private place to save/share bookmarks (while still being on somebody else's computer).

By 2011 I'd decided it was totally worth it for me to pay this guy Maciej $9.84 for a lifetime subscription, in the hope that it'd allow him to keep his site/service running without the need/temptation to sell out to VC or FAANG or anyone.

In 2017, I found it hilarious the way that Maciej blogged about acquiring Delicious, and this helped cement the idea that he was "my people" and probably trustworthy enough to be the keeper of almost a decade's worth of bookmarks.

In 2021, I'm still using pinboard daily.
You could argue the city is trying to save public money and make public meetings as widely accessible as possible. Youtube knows full well that not all content is interchangeable, they just don't want to spend money on curating it. The hosting service is the nectar so they can spray the visitors with advertising pollen.
I think the answer is that it's a lot more than you think, but I posit the problem is discoverability. You just can't go on Google to find it anymore.

It may sound like a pedantic point, but the truth is that there are more websites than before and so even if you can't know about it because Google Search really sucks nowadays, maybe one day they could be found either through luck or a better search engine taking shape. Point is, discoverability is different from not existing at all.

As for sites that eventually become defunct, we have archiving tools that somewhat work. The Internet Archive could be far far better:

- stop bowing down to takedown requests

- make the archive and its tools easily self-hostable

- make it so a P2P network can distribute it

- improve the JavaScript response logic recording as if you really were on the site
I think "no taxation without representation" was a major one (unless you live in Washington DC, sorry)
I’m very aware of that, both from building libraries around the type system and watching the type system itself evolve over the last few years. While unsoundness is still a principle of the project, quite a lot of it has been addressed since 3.6 or so.

But an optimizing AOT compiler doesn’t need TS to be sound any more than a JS JIT does. It just needs to optimize the paths it has confidence in.

To the extent TS code hasn’t escaped type safety, a compiler can be aggressively strict and optimize wherever the types are unambiguous. And it can fall back to the dynamic compilation it already has otherwise.
Might just not have waited long enough. States are usually at their most repressive right before failing, because they become insecure about their power and take overt actions that engender discontent (where they might normally have relied on soft power) because the alternative is non-existence.
I can't see it as an option for my MBP, though I do have the monitor connected in a roundabout way, through a dock. Monitor did support FreeSync, which is the open one too, so wondering what's going on there. Monterey Beta 6 here (along with all the pains that that version brought).
That's a scary logic and it's the kind of logic that harms societies. Most violent leaders have used this style of justification for their actions.

We can not fight uncivility with uncivility. Doing so only makes the situation worse.

Sounds like moral panic to me. Do you not think neo-nazis are real or something? Serious question.
Spacejunk is not good and I expect is going to get much worse with all these “many and cheap” commercial satellites going up, plus I’ll assume a military encounter in the next 50 years to liven things up. Space tourism gets a little more exciting with 10,000 mph paint flakes knocking on your picture windows.
$100K ARR is not really that out of the ordinary for something like this, I’m inclined to believe them without verification.

One thing that bugs me, though, is that his solutions are in already very crowded spaces. It seems like it would be difficult to siphon off users without a significant marketing spend.
If they have a handgun chances are I'm dead before I can draw my own and train one on them anyway. I'm not Clint Eastwood and this isn't a hollywood western. Whoever has the drop wins and by definition that's the intruder since I'm not going to spend every second of my life with a gun in my hand.
TIL that GitHub are still using Hubot (or at least an account in its name) ... to process DMCA submissions!

Hubot (the framework) has seen little to no maintenance activity from GitHub since a few years back - I'd love to see something from GitHub for how the project could continue.

https://github.com/hubotio/hubot/issues/1541