skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you are getting your "correct" answer, but the numbers you are reporting don't seem to agree with reality.

For example, recent data from the UK
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... shows [Table 2] that the probability of a case given {vaccinated, unvaccinated} is within a factor of 5 of each other (in fact, for some age groups, the probability of being a "case" is higher for the vaccinated). Also, the probability of being hospitalized is within a factor of 10 between the two groups for all ages [Table 3]. There is no way to get the three orders of magnitude difference that you quote given these figures.

> why are Americans overwhelmingly flat out wrong on this statistic?

Speaking for myself, if somebody called my phone out of the blue to ask me a stupid question (are you republican or democrat? what's the probability of hospitalization?) I would make up an answer just to troll them. I would probably mention Bill Gates' chips as well. What's my incentive to tell the truth, given that I believe that all polls and media are a bunch of liars?
LOL at the title, I think the silver lining is your moderation becomes a barrier to entry/competitive advantage if done well and kept hidden. It's one of the last things in software that's hard to copy.
How challenging would it be to design something similar generically, such that you can just define the "pain" and "reward" and just have some random 3D model in a 3D world take random actions until there's no more "pain"?
Hushmail did it years ago, until they were eventually forced to backdoor their client to steal a surveillance target's pass
phrase.
I find that altering my hosts file manually and using the new focus feature on MacOS Monterey fits perfectly for my workflow.

I don’t have installed apps that distract me. It’s simply websites (Reddit being the worst in my case) and notifications.

I’m also using a separate user account for dev work and everyone at work knows I check slack and my emails twice a day and they can call me at any time. I’ve found it cuts down on distractions because it’s easy for people to ping me with small things but they feel a significant reason is needed for calls.

Focus on iOS has all notifications muted in my work profile but allows calls from my co-workers and partner.
The parent comment was "Why are koalas nasty"?

Their answer was "Koalas have chlamydia."

How does this not add to the discussion? And this doesn't need a source, that fact is well understood but not obvious to everyone reading this thread.
I think in general car enthusiasts who enjoy working on their vehicles and modding them are not interested in Tesla's. The general lack of repairability and aftermarket parts drives people like me away. Honestly in my opinion it feels like renting a vehicle. It works for some people, just not my taste. Most of the people I work with would rather tune a diesel truck or work on an old four-banger Honda than ever consider buying a brand new Tesla. for as many jokes as I can make about the Ford Mach e mustang, at least I can get parts for it.

Anyhow a lot of gear heads in the automotive world come from a place of wanting things to enjoy mechanically. To truly own the machine you need to understand the machine to truly understand the machine you need to open the machine.
I dont think it's necessary true (and certainly not helpful) to say the parent is being "edgy" - though I have noticed that's the new internet insult used to casually dismiss different ideas.

His point also could have been that the app exists literally to share your sensitive personal information with other parties...
C4 is a language for describing systems. I use structurizr to catalog everything and to better understand the relationships and problems.

It can then create multiple views. For instance focus on one component and filter which relationships to show.

I end up with 8 or more views, a few of which are useful to highlight a problem or problematic dependency.

It can export plantUML as well as SVG.

plantUML is more open and more widely applicable. C4 is a process of cataloging.
> locally there is and will be a lot of hiring

locally as in in the Silicon Valley? Or did you mean it another way?
Wow! How are you able to achieve the cost reductions? Is it different hardware, software optimizations, or both? Also does this suggest that OpenAI is charging 6x markups on their models... >:(
This particular breach was, I admit, probably not a design purpose. Apparently they unintentionally exposed completely different personal data than they originally intended to.

On a broader scale, it makes sense that people who build vaccine passport apps and people who are passionate about personal privacy are non-overlapping sets of people.
If this can really show me multiple virtual screens that would be good enough for me. Sometime I just want to turn my head and see the status of something without needing a Bloomberg terminal space station setup, or the closed-ness (claustrophobic and uncomfortable over long durations) of an actual VR headset.
You don't have to work in ads or tracking technologies. Unless you are quite junior and needed to accept whoever was willing to take you. But based on your knowledge of the industry it seems you've spent quite a bit of time there.
I don't think they thought beyond the requirement of "scanning a barcode and submitting a query based on the contents of the barcode".

The barcode probably returns a userid or something else that's guessable or iterable.
The first party asserts information a to third party which only the second party can verify.

If the second party has no awareness of the third party or of a relationship between the first and third parties, how can the third party access the second party's verification without the ability to access the information of any first party?
Well you can understand why in the case of masscan, it would be a pretty boring claim to say that masscan is “scanning the entire internet in 100 years from a single machine!”
I can strongly recommend 33Mail for this. I've used it for years with zero hiccups. $1/month allows you to connect a custom domain. https://33mail.com/
Wow this is really cool! How did you guys get such big speedups?
Alder Lake is apparently about 10% or so faster than Zen3 on Geekbench. Intel engineers are back in business come November.
This is addressed in the last paragraph. (Import duties based on generous estimates, if the import is from a country that doesn't apply an equivalent model.)
Due to how education authority is distributed and entrenched in the US, it is exceptionally unlikely they have the competency to build the software tooling they need for essential functions. Khan Academy tried to provide this service, but it appears there's been very little uptake. It's even worse if you’re a startup, with horrendously long and tortured sales cycles and your contract at the whim of career admins and politicians.

Charter schools as the developers or consumers of such software, as well as homeschoolers, would see better outcomes imho. Retooling public schooling apparatus is a lost cause (although there is likely some small impact to be realized if you're a technologist in a position where you can deliver disproportionate impact to your local institution).
The bee was very important for Indo-Europeans, because honey has a really good shelf life, a necessity when one is nomadic.

From the Rig Veda I 154:
“तद॑स्य प्रि॒यम॒भि पाथो॑ अश्यां॒ नरो॒ यत्र॑ देव॒यवो॒ मद॑न्ति । उ॒रु॒क्र॒मस्य॒ स हि बन्धु॑रि॒त्था विष्णो॑: प॒दे प॑र॒मे मध्व॒ उत्स॑: ॥
तदस्य प्रियमभि पाथो अश्यां नरो यत्र देवयवो मदन्ति । उरुक्रमस्य स हि बन्धुरित्था विष्णोः पदे परमे मध्व उत्सः ॥
tad asya priyam abhi pātho aśyāṃ naro yatra devayavo madanti | urukramasya sa hi bandhur itthā viṣṇoḥ pade parame madhva utsaḥ ||”

Madhva seems to be an epithet for the Vedic Vishnu, Indra, and later Krishna. The Sanskrit word for honey is Madhu, sharing the same root as mead. So you could loosely translate it as “mead-sweetened”. My hypothesis is that soma was not a psychoactive drug but mead drank in a ritual context.

The bee was so important to the Vedic religon that the earliest iconography of Vishnu is simply a bee resting on a lotus flower. This leads me to believe the Vedic non-Puranic Vishnu was a mead swigging warrior, as opposed to the later Puranic Vishnu/Krishna, who himself was likely a disciple/devotee of Shiva as evidenced by his many Shiva rituals in the Bhagavad Gita.

It’s hilarious to think how Krishna was retconned as Vishnu, when he is himself a huge devotee of Shiva!
What is the diagram framework being used?
The reason for our car dependent lifestyle is that America was specifically and purposefully engineered that way during and after WW2. Pre-war, Americans had a rich urban and small town life much like Europe had and still has to an extent. The only reason we lost it was due to misguided urban planning, encouraged by lobbying from the auto industry.
It's actually easier to just mine the tracks and be gone long before the train comes and derails.
This is for the Go. It's a great initiative to unlock the device at EOL. I would prefer it to be unlocked by law at purchase, but understand that often the cost has been heavily subsidized by the lock-in and mandating an unlock by law would result in higher prices. For instance, there is a business version of the Quest that is not tied to a FB account, but is twice the price.
It’s true that unfortunately over the years there have been enough bad actors where I can’t describe our commitment to privacy in a way that easily instills trust. We’ve definitely benefitted from many users’ trust over the years in that we’ve been able to build a product that’s smarter about the best way to work for most people. Really looking forward to packaging it in a way that will make you feel comfortable.
No, but they are planning one. The current proof of vaccination is a simple PDF with no verification features or signature. Anyone with a PDF editor can take an existing PDF and put their name on it. Alberta was not planning on having a vaccine passport system until about two weeks ago, when the number of cases and hospitalizations got so high the government could no longer ignore it. Because of the late start, it's going to take a while until the QR code system is ready.
>If it didn’t require facebook to run I’d absolutely buy one

I don't have an Oculus Quest 2 but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitting an image of my driver's license, without any response.

If a Facebook employee is reading this ... I don't want to create a fake new Facebook account (which would be against the TOS, anyway). I want my own back.
This Town Needs an Enema!
Ask HN: What is the most frustrating in web extension development?
About the closest approximation we have to a literal hell is prison, and that's where they belong at a minimum.
i can relate to most of the entries but i don't buy into medication. pretty much everyone would be more productive on amphetamines
The Firefox developer version¹ has a full file menu on its code viewer, with save, open, refresh, etc.

I believe you can activate it on the main build too, but I don't know how. Anyway, if you are debugging code, I highly recommend the developer version.

1 - That is a different configuration of the same code as the main build, for web developers. It's not for developing Firefox itself.
Yes, great callout. Relevant to many of us, is that many ceramic coffee and tea mugs also leech lead, especially if they have the colored glaze. I'm using specifically lead-free glass now.
I guess he's going to fully experience the artistic capitalism of breaking a contract and absconding with someone else's work materials.
A Better Web View
I hate those digital QR code menus in person. First of all, it is lazy and honestly a lot more work for me to try and read on my phone.
Yeah, this one is fun :D Really nice catch!
Guessing at a 3-word comment's meaning ignores the point that it's nearly content free, so deserves the derision.
Would gladly pay it. Which is why I have an index.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/data-do-...
This has parallels with how iD always open sourced their previous generation game engines.

John Carmack was behind that too (https://youtu.be/iYk4Y5a6qmI interview about it).

It’s really good to see an engineer and leader who thinks of the greater good and what follows.
No, from what i understand just a PDF you download thats easy to edit: https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/calgary/2021/9/14/1_5585393/_j...

alberta yet again drops the ball. Maybe you are thinking about BC who rolled out a signed QR code that could be saved on the phone/printed + an app from the government that does verification.
They're also bidirectoinal, which means SpaceX can locate me at all times. GPS sats are just flying around broadcasting their time and don't get a reply when a receiver picks it up.
As predicted. say anything that casts Apple in a negative light here on HN and get instantly modded down. It's OK, I expected it.
It's the opposite of seamless, no? Instead of pasting the video (which macOS and Windows can both natively record) into your bug tracker or Slack, you have to first upload it to Dropbox Capture, share the link to that, worry about permissions and storage, etc... it adds more friction than it removes
Just FYI, FLQ was more socialist-marxist than they were nationalist which is why they had to be put to a stop for the safety of the people. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu...
Huh.

I always assumed it was going to be teledildonics.

..damn, a downvote. I mean, who can be against teledildonics? That'll be the main thrust of technology when our robot lords and masters take charge.
It was screaming fast!

We went from a discussion on how many colors a machine had, whether it flogged a speaker for sound, or had an actual sound system, to multi-media excellence, and it happened QUICK!

I sure enjoyed my trip through those times.

But, there may be more to come!

Custom silicon is on it's way back around the computing circle of life. The way I see it, the different options we've seen hold fairly stable for a decade or so have all converged on similar ground. Differentiation is sometimes more contrived than actual, like the software, or form factor of a device, maybe it's ports, mean more than the actual computing potential it has. Additionally, we've somewhat peaked in terms of sequential compute, and things like multi-media are fairly ordinary, and of sufficient quality many don't see a big distinction between pro efforts and gear and consumer grade gear. Or, it just flat doesn't matter.

And now the dam is breaking!

To gain advantage, and also lock customers in, leverage mindshare and data, other investments users have or are making, custom silicon is looking very appealing now.

On top of that, the bigger players have the resources to do the development, more of what people need to know about doing it is out there, and tools are more available now to the point where mere mortals can play in this game.

A quick look at something relevant?

Consider the Parallax Propeller 2 microcontroller chip. It's done on an older process, 130nm I believe. On that process, the creator and team managed to get an 8 core, 300Mhz plus design with a lot of features. That project took a decade or so, and north of a million. While high, that's not out of line compared to what it all was just a short time before.

Chips are done, available for people to buy and build into projects / products. It's a custom design with particular emphasis on real time, parallel or concurrent programming, and data streaming, measurement with all I/O pins capable of analog or digital operation. For some applications nothing will come close. A great example of what can be done now.

The bigger players have all done, or are working on custom silicon for one reason or another. AI, network, computation, etc...

Soon, we are going to head back to something closer to that era. More highly differentiated devices / machines. Maybe there is room for the kind of work BYTE did in some form...

But, whether that happens or not, we may well see custom silicon push things forward again in dramatic ways.
Unless I'm missing something that isEqualsFromIndex is reimplementing String's regionMatches method.

E.g. text.regionMatches(true, index, substring, 0, substring.length())
Doesn't the FOIA requester have to pay for those employee's time anyways?
Those are great ideas. I love the new Focus features in Monterey, too. One thing that MacOS can’t do is tell you when to stop working for the day once you’ve gotten enough focus work done. That feature is the one I use the most in this new version and I rely on it every day.
One of their last really good issues, including a version of this condensed intro to SICP: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6064/AIM-986.... (if that's the issue I'm thinking of).

I had stopped subscribing by then because it was getting more "consumery".
Your HTML includes a canonical link to a different site, which is most likely why HN updated the link. Canonical links are used to allow search engines and other services to figure out that two different URLs are actually the same page, so I think HN did the right thing. Other services will do the same thing either via canonical links, or open graph tags.

You probably want to remove/update your page to point to the right site.

As to why this is even there, probably bad copy/paste, or you might wanna check your hosting provider/software for issues.

`<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.briiant.com/">`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element
Why don't you dual license under the AGPL and Elastic License? Then it will still be totally FOSS, but people who don't like the AGPL can just use the Elastic License instead.
I switched to using HACK I think when you first came out with the iOS version, and I still use it now. It works great, thanks!
Why bother programming these arms with near miraculous AI for household use when you could have pilots a world away clean your kitchen?
For everyone living in America, the title may as well be "Did you know that oranges are orange?"
Sorry I don't understand, what specifically do you mean?
Safari. Pretty much everything else you can test on any PC (macs included). And afaik only Chrome and Apple charge for publishing, and Chrome is cheaper.
In that sense, domains are also forever. What changes is its ownership and (hence) what it is pointing to.
You know? I call them the "Vereinigte Falschflaggenfuchtler" which means something like united wavers of false flags.

Think cheer leaders.

And we are the best cheer leaders ever, or fanbois, ankle-biters.

Things which come to my mind are [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky ,

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko

(Miraculously healed from her excruciating back pains

due to rough handling by the magicians of the

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charit%C3%A9

does this ring a bell, Nawalny, Charité, yes?)

All greeted by politicians at the Airport when they arrived here, by whichever diplomatic means.

And now that Nawalny thing. Which somehow stinks.

The same way the Skripal thing stinks.

Though I don't know what to make of Litvinenko, that stinks different.

One could even go further back to

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Hale &

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program in the context of

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinio...

and wonder why we have so many buddhist organisations here?

I'm not saying that there aren't any other parties playing similar games here and elsewhere, that would be unlikely.

It's just the endlessly repeated and obvious BS, which is so ridiculous.

Most recent example is some nobody who suddenly popped up as 'the hope' of the german green party,

pushed by media, talking empty phrases in interviews, lied about credentials/qualifications, got caught,

didn't matter, media pushed harder.

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalena_Baerbock

Media said boo! Fake-news! Uhhh... why?

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttenberg_plagiarism_scandal

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Schavan

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvana_Koch-Mehrin

[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franziska_Giffey

and so many more.

We (traditionally) don't like fake it till you make it.
That goes against our (percieved) sense of order! :-)

Anyways, back to that Gazprom vs. Germany topic. This is all non-news, noise, pushed by either brain-washed,

or at least uninformed people, or outright liars, having an agenda.
Seroquel is a relatively well-known antipsychotic drug, somewhat infamous for being abused in prisons. (Which, wtf.)
The author is primarily focused on the cost of hardware, while ignoring most of the challenges of software (folding clothes, the dishwasher, whatever) by saying software companies will figure it out with AI.

A low speed, low accuracy robot was tried with Rethink Robotics, founded by the Roomba guy (Rodney Brooks), who tried to compete with Universal Robots and got their clock cleaned. Nobody in industry wanted a slow, inaccurate robot, even at a good price.

What's holding us back in robotics is not the cost of hardware. There are plenty of use cases of $40k robots that are still not pursued because engineering special end effectors and integration is too difficult, not because of the cost of the robot. Reducing the cost of the robot to $10k makes no difference in those applications because it's not the gating factor.

The idea that companies will just figure out folding clothes and other complicated tasks because the cost of hardware falls is, I believe, fanciful, but I hope I'm wrong. Maybe "AI" will hand-wave solve it.
Everything you cited is part of the common good. So is infrastructure. Governments exist to pay for this stuff, especially the unprofitable endeavors that benefit everyone.

They essentially rob their population in order to do it. If a government isn't paying, it's corrupt.
Hey Brian! I've been using Rescue Time for the last 3 years, since I started college and I love seeing where exactly my time is going. I never knew you were part of one of the earliest YC batches so that got me really excited. Congrats on the redesign, I'm looking forward to checking it out!
I mean, that's a chicken-and-egg thing. The more people who use public transit, the more resources get devoted to it, and the less it feels "trashy" or like a place for "riffraff".

Conversely, the fewer people who use transit, the more grim it feels for those who do use it.

The existence of public transit does not necessitate crime.
Carbon credits and related offset "products" are going to cost a whole lot more once they become mandated by legislation.

Same goes for supply chain costs and retail products downstream of companies subject to those mandates.
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Is there an easy way to truly defuse various web APIs and anonymize browsers wrt that, except IP? I seem to be maintaining an almost globally unique setup for years judging by various browser privacy awareness tests, despite being a completely uninteresting person.

Should I, for example, use Docker containerized browser exclusively, or somehow use Selenium for all browsing traffic, or do something else drastic to that effect?
My comment was targeted at companies trying to take Google's crappy approach at this problem.
There are many fundamental decisions which can't really be pluggable.

Can the GC move? (Then you must be careful storing pointers if a GC can occur). Is it the user's responsibility to note when an object changes? (Which can be faster, but needs lots of bookkeeping code). Are objects kept alive by internal pointers, or only pointers to their start?