skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you live in Amsterdam, I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about. Unless you live outside the city in some upscale neighborhood.

Where I'm originally from, when you call the police, they don't show up. When they arrest the thugs, they're back out in a few days. Your freedom and safety are not guaranteed. In the US, my experience has been very different.

Not having open spaces will not prevent all this, but open spaces facilitate this sort of stuff.
that's a valid argument, also please keep in mind that obesity kills people in decades, while covid kill people in days.

And sadly there are some people would get fired because of overweight in some fields.
Texas Company Offers Truckers $14K/Wk During Tough Times for the Industry
I lit a match /
And it made a fire. /
And for my cigarette /
I wanted to take the fire from the match. /
But the match slipped from my hand and landed on the rug. /
And it almost made a hole in the rug.

Well, you know what can happen /
If you're not careful with fire. /
And for the light on a cigarette /
A rug feels rather too expensive. /
And from the rug the fire, alas, /
Might have spread to the whole house /
And who knows what would have happened thereafter?

There would have been a fire in the district /
And the fire fighters would have had to come. /
They would have honked in the streets /
And unloaded their pipes. /
And they would have sprayed fire /
And it would have been in vain /
And the whole city would have burned with nothing to protect it.

And the people would have jumped around /
Fearing for their possessions. /
They would have thought somebody had started a fire. /
They would have grabbed assault rifles. /
Everyone would have shouted: "Whose fault is it?" /
The whole country would have rioted. /
And they would have shot at the ministers behind the lecterns.

The UN would have become involved /
And the UN enemies as well. /
To preserve peace in Switzerland /
Both would have come with tanks. /
It would have spread, little by little, /
To Europe, to Africa. /
There would have been a World War and humans would be no more.

I lit a match /
And it made a fire. /
And for my cigarette /
I wanted to take the fire from the match. /
But the match slipped from my hand and landed on the rug. /
Thankfully, I picked it back up.
Delta is so transmissible that herd immunity is no longer achievable even with 100% vaccinated.
This also means that you can't participate in a neighborhood without agreeing to a legal contract with Facebook to use their services, as well as submitting to ad surveillance and tracking.

That's a dick move by the neighborhood.
The USA Fact-Check Algorithm from the Science Ministry was installed.
> No it's not. Republicans are more likely to be unvaxxed and more likely to own small businesses. They'll be likely picking up solid corporate candidates, amassing wealth and power, and will hopefully use it to end these stupid mandates.

This might be a bit snipey but... if you can't do the cost benefit analysis on getting vaccinated I think you're going to have problems delivering value to your company.
In the UK the COVID vaccine was offered nationally through a government site but you could get it sooner and closer through local GPs. They could stop once they had covered the old and vulnerable though. In my area, they carried on for a while but only if you requested an appointment in the comments of a private Facebook group.

I wasn't thrilled by the delay, but also thought the assumption of vaccine hesitancy from others in the meantime and hard to navigate process could put some off entirely.

But for everyone else, what a sign-up incentive!
It's also global targeted advertisement delivery network who tracks user around the internet without consent?
I agree that requiring large employers to require vaccines has a more significant effect on interstate commerce that a person growing wheat for their own use. I think it's a similar order of magnitude though.
Your certainty in it not existing to a level of alarm is just as ridiculous as your argument that "Tesla, et al" are lying of the capabilities of AI.

Yes, most people do not know what the difference between ML, AI, neural nets, and computation is - nonetheless we've reached the point in humanity where there is no question a pandora's box has been opened. There is very real reason why there would even be gag orders on public information given an entity achieved some level of strong AI.

And to your point of it just requiring more training, yeah, it kinda is that simple for the majority of tasks which is also enough to offer serious contemplation. A very wide depth of weak AI solutions that fake "strong ai" will probably be more dangerous long-term than a true "strong ai" solution due to the fine-tuning problems it would naturally have.

Big discussion, overall we need to be less certain on the state of things because there is very good reason why such an event would _not even be obvious when it happened_. A time of uncanny valley at the most and then you realize oh shit, AI has been running the world since... APT and DDoS patterns.
Doctors (as in, medical doctors) have what looks like the highest vaccination rates in the country; nurses fall right in the sweet spot of the U-shaped distribution that article posits.
> so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angy, and harmful messaging on FB platforms

And yet, you are still on them.
> more deadly, and more of a pandemic than it really was

Essentially 100% of people who contracted HIV in the 80s died from it. So I'm really not sure how you can say that it was thought to be "more deadly" or "more of a pandemic than it really was." HIV was a death sentence, and without treatment, it continues to be a death sentence.

HIV and COVID-19 are not comparable, and the politics around them cannot be boiled down to a single person's opinion at any one point in time.
Stock market returns have often been modeled with a Student's t distribution, often in conjunction with a model of time-varying variance such as GARCH.
I feel that way about Twitter. Lots of people in my feed complain about the baggage that dominates their feeds. Mine has none.

There is only one person who was bringing baggage (all men are terrible people, here is a never-ending stream of examples of what they do to make me so bitter) so I just muted them. Other than that person, the people who I've chosen to interact with don't bring these negative experiences, and hopefully appreciate that I likewise don't bring it to them.

Someone else in this thread posted a similar observation to some of the people in my Twitter feed. I personally think most people already know you can refuse to follow and can mute those who make for such negative experiences. If you participate in it, of course it's going to feel that way.
Write a blog post teaching them how to stop:

https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/
Still amazes me their infra team is supposedly the best in the world, and compensated as such, yet things like this happen.

Personally I'm glad FB went down for a few hours, but it's hard to imagine how that would happen in the first place.
I wonder how much this is country-specific. I always see Americans decry the content on Twitter. I'm in Australia and follow mostly Australians. I'm sure there is outrage somewhere, but I don't see much in my feed.
It sounds like you have a curated Facebook feed, and alot of shit on your Twitter feed.

The difference is that Facebook will more aggressively push crap at you. Twitter feeds tend to rot over time.
I do agree with you that privacy as a concept is variable, as with many other notions. I wasn't thinking with the right to privacy as a bulwark against a state's legal jurisprudence.

For example say a disgruntled ex-lover posts private medical information on someone else and this gets indexed by Google. Obviously this is a breach of privacy. I would extend that to any private information, and the person should have the ability to remove that private information.

I think it has also been made more and more clear that platforms should not perpetually and forever host information about individuals against their wishes. People change, and this should be reflected in the public square. In the old days, your shouts only existed in the memory of those that were there. Now they are as fresh as the day they were posted.

The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 12
states: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

The key is "protection of the law" and this is why I think that privacy should be regulated by government which extends its authority into "private" companies. Clearly that function is needed. However, I am constantly hearing the opposite case being made, that government should use its power to dig up information on law-abiding citizens as they could be doing something illegal.
Yep. I wouldn't say that there's no politics on my FB feed. But it's all either liberal or socialist -- because that's the consensus among my friends. And none of it is particularly nasty even when it falls out of that. It just doesn't get controversial.

Also, not from the US. From Canada.

Where I see the nastiness is when politics leaks into various hobby topic groups I'm on. And it's almost always Americans raising a stink (mad about masks, vaccines, "libtards" whatever)
yes. Here's wikipedia on the Apple II:

"During the design stage, Jobs argued that the Apple II should have two expansion slots, while Wozniak wanted eight. After a heated argument, during which Wozniak threatened that Jobs should "go get himself another computer", they decided to go with eight slots."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
I agree that the misuse is annoying-- and a Lot of people misuse the word. However, gaslighting has a specific meaning not quite covered by "lied to" or "manipulated".
I took the time to look up the employee turnover rate at a regional health care provider in order to write my comment. Can I ask that you expend at least that much effort (it's not much!) to support your claim with evidence?

My argument might be more subtle than my comment makes it seem; if so, that's my fault, because I wrote downthread as well and probably assumed people read both comments. A very large cohort of the workers in a regional health chain are not medical professionals, but rather support staff. Those are the employees that I'm saying are relatively low-skilled and replaceable. What's more, our current economic conditions make it straightforward for them to hop to other jobs right now.

What you're saying seems pretty unlikely, given the demographics of vaccination.
> I'm quite certain that all those non-standard URLs are all for internal links to OS-related information hosted on the web.

You definitely shouldn't be certain of that. If I go open a folder and hit F1, I get an edge bing search for 「get help with file explorer in windows」. The special embed at the top is a blog post on a site I've never heard of explaining that the question mark in the top right is for help. If I click that icon, it opens another bing tab with the same search. Below that embed is completely normal search results for 「get help with file explorer in windows」. It's actively worse than ddg and google.
Or media or practically everything else
I worked on the identity system that chat (whatever the current name is) and gmail depend on and we used IRC since if we relied on the system we support we wouldn’t be able to fix it.
In your list you left out a bunch of ads that were chosen based on targeted surveillance of the private lives of you and your friends.
These fired nurses have fallen quickly from heros to villians. What a terrible outcome for many who risked their lives and who helped so many survive. Feels like we are turning on them, blaming them for continued covid for not getting vaccined.

The current stats don't lineup with the theory that covid is being spread through unvaccined healthcare workers who should be fully masked and protected anyways. But the vaccine debate has turned political and the people who were the loudest praising nurses are the first to throw them to the wolves.

Nurses (employed still or fired) today feel forgotten. Celebrating them this year feels like a painful reminder of lockdowns.

It seems like society has turned cold hearted. Perhaps the endless social causes brought up as an identity page has caused people to truly not care.

How can you fire the very people who risked it all and saved you last year?
Hundred dollars for the printer, I think Zou are absolutely over spending here. Electricity can be saved by having shutoff and turn on with a timer.
it's not black & white
As a possible patient, good riddance as well. These people clearly don't believe in science and/or they don't believe in trusting experts and following their instructions.

That's the last person I want anywhere near me. Especially if they're nurses. I've run across a lot of nurses who think they know better than doctors, and this seems like a fantastic way to weed them out.

How much you want to bet "accidental" deaths go down after this?
Assuming you don’t need DNS to get authorization to enter the OOB access…
Trump is also BACK on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/

Hooray!
They already have: https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/pull/3846
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/covid/covid-19...
Trump 2024

https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/
do you know what coerced means?

compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by use of threats, including propaganda or force.

They're clearly coerced, unless you don't think getting fired falls under threats.
We have had out-of-band management ports & networks design for decades! I know the feeling of driving 8 hours because I lost connection to the device I was configuring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band_management
Show HN: Sell your Product Hunt launched product
I think it's a remarkable stretch to frame responsible editing ("the current evidence suggests reduced transmission with vaccination, but there's a confounding unknown") as "backtracking."
The only reasoning that makes sense at this point is that the US Government doesn't care if you have natural immunity. They want you to do as they say or suffer.
Generalized Quantum Search with Parallelism — https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9904049

“We generalize Grover's”…

“We extend the analysis to the case of a society of k quantum searches acting in parallel”.

Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about the topic, but the first link I googled seems to justify my intuition that this decryption could be partitioned so that many quantum computers could run in parallel (thus avoiding the limit on speed of information transfer you are hypothesising).

> Either way it's a bit beyond what's economically possible for any human organization right now. And I implicitly assumed the computation is fully reversible and therefore took negligible energy.

Agree - I’m just being that contrary Internet!
Didn't all public schools ask for student's vaccination card already? Legal and scientific
Which edition of herd immunity, the early 2020 or 2021 definition? It's a moving target you see...

https://web.archive.org/web/20201101161006/https:/www.who.in...

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease...
It’s just like YouTube. They need to tweak the algorithms for quality, not just quantity. Those are hard decisions for them because it will cost money in the short term. Ultimately governments will slap them down, which will cost much more.
I'd say you just have to dive in and try google or facebook ads with a clear goal in mind (like i want to convert 1 person to convert based on this copy). marketing/sales education isn't like a recipe that will always work. there's a playbook, you start to grasp the framework and when the landscape or algorithm changes, you have to adapt.
Not just your creds getting 'hacked', but also to secure your data against a court order. AWS can be compelled by a 3-letter government agency to turn over your data without even telling you. Encrypt it. Own your own keys.
> "how do I get this back online in a reasonable timeframe from a starting point of 'everything is turned off and has the wrong configuration'."

The electricity people have a name for that: black start (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start). It's something they actively plan for, regularly test, and once in a while, have to use in anger.
Thanks for the update, sounds healthy overall for the Rust GameDev ecosystem, especially if there are people willing to carry on with Amethyst Foundation projects in the future.

I love the idea of experienced devs working on projects or libraries aimed at making the lives of newer devs easier.
> 1. I just can't keep up with Vim wizards, they dart around a file at the speed of thought and I can't keep track of what they're doing.

My rule of thumb when there's this level of knowledge disparity is that the person who doesn't know what they're doing is the only one allowed to touch the keyboard. That way the knowledgeable person is forced to slow down and explain until the other person actually understands what they're intending.
Restoring is just as simple as flipping the switch again, but access to that switch is another matter when your internal network is also down and you cannot even get access to your office or datacenters.
The internet phone book to convert .coms to ip addresses only scales up to the load level of hte internet because results are cached at multiple layers.

your browser asks your computer which asks your router which asks your isp which asks .com's dns servers which ask facebook's dns servers for facebook's ip address.

each layer will cache the results so say, even if 100,000 people in seattle want to know facebook.com's ip address, only the 5 or isps who provide internet in seattle have to ask for facebook.com's ip address, so 100,000 requests, but only 5 actual requests.

even the per-device and per-home cache is helpful, because 500 page loads in 15 minutes still only results in 1 actual dns request.

Here's the issue:

Failures aren't cached.

so while 100,000 people in 1 second trying to get facebook's ip only resulted in 5 requests going to the core dns servers, now results in 100,000 requests in 1 second trying going to the core servers.
Broad strokes paint outside the lines.

For a large portion of the population, COVID isn’t a death sentence. I had COVID not long ago and it was like every other flu I’ve ever had—aches, lethargy, over in 3 days. I didn’t even know it was COVID (instead of a normal flu) until my sense of smell was gone. (Back a week later)
Have you tried changing the default app for .docx files? It just does not work. Right click on a .docx file in Finder. Hold down the Option key and you'll see "Open With" change to "Always Open With". Select LibreOffice or whatever you want. OK, that file now opens with LireOffice. But no other. WTF?

This is no "simple setting" and is the same BS that MS does.
Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea
I picked an awful month to start dieting…again
Doctorates =/= Medical Professionals
Huh? I got this done for my work. Quantitative antibody tests. Results came back 1 day later, cost $50.

You're just another NPC who "trusts the science" which really means you trust cnn and fauci. Idiot.
> And delta is so transmissible that herd immunity is no longer achievable even with 100% vaccinated.

There is ample evidence that suggests the exact opposite[1].

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2106757
A Hero and a Hoot – Lars Vilks, 1946-2021
a break-glass policy if you will
It doesn't reduce risk to irrelevance - there can still be some serious consequences - and the more unvaccinated people we've got around the more likely we're going to see even more variants which may bypass the efficacy of the vaccine and force us back into full lock downs.
Southern states stay inside in the summer.

Northern states stay inside in the winter.
Most of my followers and followerees on twitter are artists, so it's pleasant. I ignore all the other crap.
When have we capped the potential revenue of companies successfully in the past? I've never heard of it
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Windows does that with anything that's not from a big publisher, not really an issue for developers I think.
> You don't know that. There are ways to take precautions to the benefit of your fellow citizens that do not involve taking the vaccine.

That's certainly true, but I expect the intersection between "people who don't trust vaccines" and "people who don't take any precautions" to be overwhelming.
They should do cops next. 95% of the Chauvin types are also anti-vaxxers. Union leadership would be decimated if only pro-vax cops were left.
> replacing random surface mount components until the machine turns back on is not a repair

Definition of repair, according to Merriam-Webster [1]:

> to restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

It seems to me like Louis' repairs qualify. A customer walks in with a broken Mac or iPhone, he identifies the part that is broken, then he replaces it. Do you have an alternative definition by any chance?

> He charges more to do those repairs and they generally don't hold

Do you have any actual evidence that Louis' repairs are unreliable? Do his customers eventually complain about them?

> Apple themselves say they do same-day repair

Okay, but what about the data stored on the old mainboard that gets thrown out?

> They are by far the most pro-repair company in the smartphone space

Again, we seem to have different definitions here. My definition of "pro-repair" excludes any companies actively lobbying against right to repair and implementing unnecessary software features to detect replaced parts.

> If you want to get a pixel repaired you have to go to shady third party chain stores that are contracted by google

Maybe if you (and others like you) would stop shilling so hard for Apple, turning a blind eye to their anti right to repair lobbying, and encouraging others to do the same by tenaciously defending their anti-user practices on public forums, we might actually have a chance at getting right to repair legislation passed, and then you could easily get your Pixel fixed, and your iPhone, too.

Apple's lobbying and precedent-setting makes everything worse for everyone, not just for Apple users.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repair
Wrong, you do take a chance getting the vaccine. The media and SV have been instrumental in keeping that fact from most of the public but the risks are very real. The benefits are also far less than originally hoped, we're seeing ICUs all around the world filling up with "fully vaccinated" people.

The risks are unknown, the benefits are unknown, the censorship and group-think is real though. Fuck that, I won't be getting any of the current vaccines, I'll go homeless and defecating on the streets of SF before I allow any of the current Pfizer, J&J or MOderna jabs into my own body. Novavax looks a lot more promising, so if safety data for it isn't censored by the media and social media including Youtube, I'll gladly get one.
Do they (you?) call him that at FB?