skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Think about that, according to Israel, 61% of vaccinated people are catching full-blown COVID and by implication, some lesser amount are catching an asymptomatic version.

the fact that you think that breakthrough cases are somehow rare in a highly vaccinated population is nuts. of course the majority of cases will be vaccinated people in a highly vaccinated population. and also, I read the presentation it was based off and the confidence interval on that statistic is off the charts variable.

> With at least 61% of vaccinated people getting a virus with one of the highest r0 around, the vaccine is 100% ineffective at killing transmission.

That's not how those statistics work. The vaccine is not "100% ineffective at killing transmission". The nature of how the immune system works is such that there is a drop off in free antibodies in your blood stream that are able to prevent infection over time. that's 100% how it works. the fact that there is less serious cases of covid with shorter infectious periods of time with less strain on the ICU systems mean the vaccines are working.

I get you are scared of the vaccine for some reason or another but the mental gymnastics are hindering our ability to move on as a society. the vaccines allow covid to become endemic like the cold that just makes most people feel a bit shitty for a few days vs. completely overwhelm the ICUs and kill people for unrelated things.
Why hasn't anyone told me about this?!?!? I love you so much for posting, I needed something like this for a personal project I'm fiddling around with in my spare time.
> That's why the founder can threaten them with the IRS, because they (likely(1)) do not rightfully (as defined per law) own it.

This statement is nonsensical - the IRS has no enforcement mandate for theft/fraud, nor does it have any authority to return stolen property. All the IRS would do is say "Hey, I heard you got an extra $NN last year - please pay your taxes on it".

It could even be argued that by reporting people the the IRS, the founder is implicitly admitting that the current possessors actually do own said crypto, otherwise they wouldn't owe any tax on it.
>If Merck makes a boatload of money off of this, the taxpayers will indeed be taking a cut.

Merck's effective tax rate was 15% in 2019 and 20% in 2020[0]

They make boatloads of money by underpaying their taxes [1]:

In 2004 Merck disclosed that it might owe the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) some $2 billion after the agency notified the company that it was disallowing deductions Merck had taken since 1993 relating to a partnership set up in 2003 as a vehicle for obtaining financing for the acquisition of Medco.

In 2006 the Wall Street Journal reported that Merck had set up a subsidiary in Bermuda that, in partnership with a British bank, was given title to the patents for the company’s blockbuster cholesterol drugs Zocor and Mevacor, thus saving Merck an estimated $1.5 billion in federal taxes over ten years.

Shortly thereafter, Merck disclosed that it was embroiled in four separate tax disputes in the United States and Canada with total potential liabilities of more than $5 billion. In 2007 the IRS announced that Merck had agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle its federal tax disputes.

They also make additional boatloads of money overcharging Medicare/Medicaid:

In 2008 Merck agreed to pay the federal government more than $650 million to settle charges that the company routinely overbilled Medicaid and other government programs and made illegal payments to healthcare professionals to induce them to prescribe its products.

In December 2011 the Massachusetts attorney general announced that Merck would pay $24 million as its part of a $47 million settlement reached with 13 drugmakers to resolve allegations that they overcharged the state’s Medicaid program.

In 2012 the Louisiana attorney general announced that Merck and four other companies would pay a total of $25.2 million to resolve allegations that they overcharged the state’s Medicaid program.

[0] https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/Merck-Co-Inc/...
[1] https://www.corp-research.org/merck
As dcow pointed out, it really doesn't work fine for testing, as it couples what should be isolated tests together, and prevents them from being executed concurrently.
The scale?
Ask HN: How do you automatically back up your Google account to another service?
After reading horror stories about innocent people being locked out of their Google accounts, I'd like to backup my Google data (Gmail, drive, photos, possibly contacts) to another cloud provider like OneDrive.

It is critical for me that the process is automatic and that the backed-up data are encrypted. (Google Takeout isn't fully automatic out of the box.)

I am thinking about some combination of Thunderbird, VeraCrypt/BoxCryptor, and insynchq (because it supposedly downloads Google Docs). Would anybody be willing to share their own setup?

Similar question was asked before but received few answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25420082
I'm not sure I understand. Aside from their password, does the user need to provide additional information to re-enroll in MFA on a new device?
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How are we violating the spirt of the law? Freedom of speech means freedom from government intervention. The founding fathers never said or intended that: newspapers must publish anything a private citizen wants to put in the paper.

You are saying the equivalent of: if this were 150 years ago, and your crazy uncle thought that the moon was made of cheese, the New York Times would legally be required to put that on the front page of the paper. That's insane.
The attack still goes on. Email today:

Coinbase

Coinbase <https://verify-customers.elastic-galileo.185-150-117-78.plesk.page/>
Verify your email address
In order to continue using your Coinbase account, you need to reconfirm
your email address. To avoid service interruptions verify your email.
Verify Email Address
<https://verify-customers.elastic-galileo.185-150-117-78.plesk.page/>

If you did not sign up for this account you can ignore this email and the
account will be deleted.

Get the latest Coinbase App for your phone
Coinbase iOS mobile bitcoin wallet
<https://verify-customers.elastic-galileo.185-150-117-78.plesk.page/>
Coinbase Android mobile bitcoin wallet
<https://verify-customers.elastic-galileo.185-150-117-78.plesk.page/>

Whois info:

> whois plesk.page

Domain Name: plesk.page
Registry Domain ID: 41B85291E-PAGE
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: https://www.namecheap.com/
Updated Date: 2021-07-10T14:00:29Z
Creation Date: 2020-03-18T03:06:27Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-03-18T03:06:27Z
Registrar: Namecheap Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Organization: Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf
Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
...

Traceroute shows that site hosted by Hurricane Electric.

Anyone who lost money in this should sue Namecheap and Hurricane Electric. They will be stumbling all over themselves to tell your lawyers who their customer was, to avoid liability.

I don't even have a Coinbase account.
Why haven't humans designed a better ethics system for attorneys?
Ultimately the issue is the licensing of the patent (which is likely retained by Emory or its non-profit affiliate), and under Bayh-Dole universities can exclusively license it.

By introducing non-exclusive licensing, then you have a competitive situation in which the lower-cost manufacturer can provide the drug more cheaply but at the same quality and monopolistic pricing schedules cannot be introduced by the likes of Merck.

The taxpayer benefit is lower cost of drugs invented with taxpayer funds.
The biggest problem is the lack of good transactional facilities.
Most viral political tweets (on both sides) are super misleading. I’ve actually twice tweeted incorrect stuff by accident , and those tweets were on the verge of going viral before folks pointed out the error and I deleted/amended the tweet.

(FWIW one tweet was because a budget document itself had a misleading denominator, and the other because of a recent change to a law.)
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The phase III trial was cut short at the recommendation of the independent monitoring board. Apparently the effect was so strong they recommended seeking Emergency Use Authorization earlier, rather than waiting for the trial to finish, presumably so that they could save more people’s lives who might get sick and die waiting for trials to finish.
> Would you also agree that a coffee shop that pulls down objectionable flyers from their wall/window is circumventing free speech?

No coffee shop has 1/4 of the human population visit each day.
And my hoverboard still touches the ground! What a ripoff!
This is what is so frustrating here. Big tech knows they face scrutiny and regulation with people like Lina Khan coming after them. During the Trump years, these companies broadly began practicing censorship/deplatforming along progressive political lines. As that administration came to an end, they seemed to step it up even further, as if to say “hey we are ready to collaborate and do what you want, please spare us anti trust and labor scrutiny”. Glenn Greenwald has written some great articles about how sitting members of Congress have been abusing their position and leverage to pressure tech companies to censor their political opposition, in what may be a major violation (or loophole?) of the first amendment:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...
lol - the only thing unproven are that the patents for drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have expired and theres no money to be made. Isn't amazing big pharama has a new pill/non-vaccine treatment for COVID now? Funny that.

The gaslighting over any treatment other than the vax is beyond criminal at this point. Just watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM
The difference is that these companies actually have real assets, and holding stock legally grants you fractional ownership over them. Your hypothetical is more like an Enron situation where shareholders are told that there are assets behind their stock that really don't exist. That's why the stock price plunged when the fraud was revealed, and why my net worth doesn't budge when you grant me the account.

As a thought experiment, do you think that your ownership of a company is also meaningless if there are only 2 shareholders? What about 3 shareholders? At what point does breaking a company up into fractional shares become a ponzi scheme?
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Most babies are pretty capable of stealing from their adults. We adults not particularly good at stopping them.
That dip centred around 1954 in figure 6 is one of the clearest examples of just how exceptional the experience of the boomer generation is compared to all the rest of human history.
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> She believed that if the vaccine was actually as great as they're saying they'd be able to make more objective goalposts and win arguments instead of stopping them because the other side is too stupid to make their own decisions.

1) People ARE too "stupid". "Stupid" here is a placeholder for a larger discussion on biological, antropological, social and psychological evidence. Which all could be summed up as: We are meant to be just smart enough to survive, then some more. Average human capability for evidence evaluation and independent reasoning is quite low.

2) Effort for winning in an unbounded argument space is practically infinite. Debunking bullshit takes several orders of magnitude more resources than coming up with more bullshit.

There needs to be a point at which you should disqualify an arguing party as not worthy of further evaluation. That's another way for the other party to "win the argument". In this specific case, pro-vaccine people has long won the argument, and by a mile.
Off the top of my head, I bought (and totally loved):

CrossCode, Game Dev Tycoon, Curious Expedition, Screeps, FoundryVTT

I feel somewhat confident that there are others, but the devs of these games were somewhat public about what technologies they used. I can easily imagine other very popular games like FTL, Darkest Dungeons, Slay the Spire, etc having made use of browser tech, even though I have no idea if they did or not.

The fact that I bought these games (in some cases on multiple platforms), spent countless hours playing them, and never had a complaint about performance, should be evidence enough that browser tech is plenty good for delivering high quality games that people are happy to pay good money for.

Heck, the fact that it was possible to do this three decades ago ought to be evidence enough that you don't need something better than V8 (or even a potato) to make great games that "scale" in terms of number of players and in terms of purchases.

If you mean VM performance, you can always play the Computer Language Benchmarks Game: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

You'll find that of course languages like C++ and Rust can perform better. But is that level of performance necessary to pull off a great game with a big paying audience in 2021? Absolutely not.
People want to believe.
While believing they are more enlightened too. The irony...
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I understand "singleton" as "only one exists" and "it exists in the global scope". That is, if I create one instance of something in my `int main()` that's not enough for it to be a singleton. That's important, because there's more than one way to enter your program. Notably, tests don't flow through your main entrypoint.
The ministry of truth has deemed your tweet "misleading", you will now be escorted to isolation to reflect on your deeds.
If your platform is essentially a giant loudspeaker, and you see the public believing too many lies, and the lies causing damage, then it's reasonable to at least think about not giving your loudspeaker to people spreading lies.

(I also think it's generally bad, but that's my attempt at a steelman.)
I have never seen a credit application ask if you have been incarcerated, nor have I heard of lenders searching people’s criminal records.
The Next RNA Breakthrough? Maybe Bending Strands into Circles
This just talks about life spans. It doesn't talk about the impact the lower cost of electricity during that life span.

It also doesn't talk about the higher cost of the bulb and whether that would be offset by the lower cost of electricity.
How do you move $500K to another country? My country of origin goes apeshit when I send my parents $2000.
> Most developed contries have digitized their deed system, so I am not sure how you can con someone out of their deed.f

"Digitizing" something doesn't make it invincible to con artists - there's really no difference between me conning you into signing over a deed if it's paper or digital.
mmaps for read, explicit API for writing, a-la LMDB. Buggy readers can read inconsistent data but cannot corrupt the os.
Coffee shops aren't nations. Coffee shops don't have the power to control the perception of billions of people.

Like it or not, major tech platforms wield the power of small countries now. It's probably helpful that we start thinking of them this way and move toward some kind of equitable regulation.
If the user gets a new device then with this approach they would have to re-enroll in MFA.
Journalism is a dumpster fire. If the NYT wants to be considered reputable by more than 20% of the population, it needs DOIs to all its publications, cite-backs, and archive history and tracked changes in a transparent changelog.

As of right now, it's a blog by BAs (at best) with frequent stealth edits.
In Europe all banks are using 2FA, and it's usually based on TOTP (and enrolling the first phone is a pain usually requiring QR codes and whatnot). 17 years ago some were using smartcards as 2FA. It's doable and secure, to the point that identity theft is almost unheard of (and usually used more as a synonym of catfishing than in the American sense).

SMS is handy but it should be a last resort rather than the main second factor.
I would not mind a coffee shop that pulls down flyers, but I would mind a coffee shop that doesn't serve coffee to people it doesn't like.

I feel very frustrated by this because to me this is essentially the case of that religious baker refusing to make a gay wedding cake, except here we have a big company refusing to serve some people because it doesn't like what they have to say.

I would not require twitter to server anybody coffee though.
Yes. Moderation actions are actually explicitly called out for greater protection under section 230. The "publisher" exception is a lot narrower than people think - it's for when the purported "third party" making the statements isn't actually a third party.
Are most quote tweets not dunks on the original tweeter?