skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking at death rates over the entire course of the pandemic so far. To see how measures against COVID affect deaths you need to look how rates change during the pandemic because measures taken changed over time.

Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York all had a huge spike in deaths in the first couple of months of the pandemic. After that, their months were roughly in the middle of the pack compared to other states until vaccines.

In the post vaccine months they have been bottom 20%, while Florida has been in the top 20%.
If a solar panel has a catastrophic incident, you replace it. If a windmill has a catastrophic accident, you replace it. If a gas plant has a catastrophic accident, you replace it and have five funerals.

If a nuclear plant has a catastrophic accident, Western Europe could be uninhabitable for generations. Likely? No. But completely possible.
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The Musk package doesnt seem that bad. Did any one think the metrics would have actually been met so soon? The ones after the first one he got are even crazier.

Yeah stock price as the main or sole focus for rewarding doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
What is the benefit for society of allowing HFT? This is what we should be asking ourselves.
The money machine will embrace and corrupt whatever works.

Not looking for meaning doesn't mean spending the rest of your life at Disney Land.

Life is fleeting, love is fleeting, everything that means something is fleeting; framing and clinging destroys its essence.
Older stuff, Man-Kzin Wars, Stainless Steel Rat

Newer stuff, We Are Bob, Undying Mercenaries. Expeditionary Force, Old Man Wars

Risky Stuff, Forbidden Thoughts

All kinds of twists in the stories.
You're trying to make an argument as to why the placebo indirectly could have had an actual effect, but this is exactly what the study showed that id did not have. There was no effect, only a reported improvement which did not correspond to an actual improvement.

eg. "Study reported the subject did not see any red apples, only green" and your asking "Maybe the subject was wearing tinted glasses that could made a green apple seem red?"

The answer is obviously no, that cannot be the case, because that would have led to an observed red apple, and there was no such observation. Just like there was no observed improvement in the asthmatic response from the placebo, then it's also obvious that there was no indirect improvement from emotional ease, because if that was the case, then there had to have been an observed improvement.
The question is why China feels the need to do this.

The acknowledged superpowers are China, Russia, and the United States. The prior were in agony in World War II, and action by the latter was instrumental in their preservation. For this, I feel some measure of satisfaction with my country, for defending our true allies in that conflict.

I remember massive armament and food shipments to Stalin, and U.S. bombers flying out of China.

https://history.army.mil/brochures/72-38/72-38.HTM

All three tacitly agree upon sovereignty and borders, with a few minor differences (we could mention Taiwan, the Crimea, and perhaps Cuba).

Minus these, I believe that the three can and should enter agreements for the mutual defense of their borders, as we have done before in times of dire need, and may do again.

None should tolerate the invasion of any. If this question were completely resolved, perhaps this particular "cross of iron" would not be necessary.
They do not live with the same restrictions though: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...
> the central bank can only print money as long as trust in the currency stays, and that trust isn't infinite.

The central bank can print money without bound. Some of the effects of money printing changes with confidence in the currency, but the core effects that it targets don't really change until people radically change behavior to reduce use of the currency as a medium or even measuring stick for routine transactions.
Yes, that is why we were testing it.
On what basis do you think this is likely? What part of IPFS gets faster when more users are online? If the file exists on a system in the network, it should make a connection and start fetching the file within milliseconds ideally. It's not like we are distributing multi gb files where more seeders means more speed, this is all just slowness in setting up a connection.

Even torrents take 1-10 seconds to initiate downloads with an absolutely massive network.
Heh, I played with this when I was working in the Second Life/Virtual world bubble (around 2008). Back then it was called OpenSim and the code was a mess, not made any better by running in an itself very buggy (at least then) Mono runtime. Enthusiastic hackers working on it though!

Back then the client (viewer) was still closed source, which seems to have changed since.
> Recognizing people in images is only one of many types of data that Facebook gleans from that content, and I don't want anything involving me being processed in any way by that company, whatsoever.

Which is a basic right under GDPR.

No private entity is allowed to store or process data about you for their purposes without your consent.

Did FB just said they are doing it though?
> In a perfect world fission power could be used safely, the real world isn't perfect, and the pro-nuclear crowds main argument seems to be to go around saying "we're actually perfect now".

This isn’t a criticism of nuclear power; it’s a criticism of industrial civilization and technological progress. You can make the exact same point about coal mining, lithium mining, power grids, hell, even campfires if you wanted to.

If I went and dug up horror stories about what happened before we had an electrical code and used those horror stories to argue that we shouldn’t have electricity inside our homes, it would be perfectly reasonable to say, “that’s why we have electrical codes”. And I don’t think it would be a strong counter for me to say, “but the electrical code isn’t perfect”.
Start with why Agile was created in the first place: The formalisms of critical path analysis and waterfall project planning did not work well for most software projects.

Why? Because software is often entirely new, contains no repeating tasks, Therefore schedule risk is high compared to other kinds of projects.

Agile gives a team flexibility to assign tasks to team members for each iteration. While legacy project management styles entail frequent replanning because you can't do a proper resource-leveled critical path analysis without a plan for resource deployment. Agile is not as precise about projections of project completion, but you know that precise scheduling is not possible for a lot of software development.

Agile gets slagged for wireframe-driven development. If your view of Agile is colored by people drawing pictures instead of understanding data and functional requirements, that's not why Agile was created.
They’re saying they want even more specific ”made for you” features - not just tailored for a person, but tailored for a person and a certain context (like they mentioned as examples - when they’re on their own, when they’re having dinner with friends, when they’re throwing a party etc). Presumably you would tell the app what your current setting is.
HTTP is an application protocol and most of this article doesn't make any sense.
The most interesting bit that always comes up with the DotNet Foundation is that all the trusted actors who you would expect to be associated are so worn out that they don't take much of a role, and instead less scrupulous and more power-hungry types take their places.
Most economists think that population decline is tightly coupled with the economy. It may be rational in individual sense, but as a society, it is pretty much a bad idea.

I suggest further reading: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/03/27/t...

That said, overpopulation is also a problem. In a resource rich nation, it is never a problem.
> From reading this article, I get the suspicion that not only the parents have no idea about computers, but neither does the author.

Huib Modderkolk is a journalist for a known Dutch newspaper and he is author of the book Het is oorlog maar niemand die het ziet. Its about several cyberwar events related to The Netherlands, and it uncovered how the Dutch secret service was involved in Stuxnet. I went to a presentation of his book, and heard he actually met agents to investigate the story angles (with different success and outcome). Apparently it got translated to English, There's a War Going On But No One Can See It [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0922WZF9W
I see this kind of claim posted a lot, but what does IPFS actually do that torrents do not? What is a new use case which has been enabled?
This is interesting. May I ask how do you do it from software poinr of view? As for CPU and memory for sure it is possible, but I'm more interested about how do you connect into exechange/broker?

Contiki, SLIP, PPP, or maybe some ethernet expansion ?
Sorry, I want to warn you, the following comment text contains rage and rants, please, do not read it if you don't want to see such things.

Every goddamn article I read about wireguard disadvantages contains following buzzwords: "big vendors", "200 clients", " rolling updates"....

Hello, my name is Aine and I want to setup family VPN. I don't have Cisco, I don't have 200 devices, I don't need rolling updates around the world. I need simple, fast VPN that will work. And you know what? Wireguard works OK. It's simple, it's fast, it works!

Why should I care about "big vendors" or "200 clients"? Why EVERY article talks about that bullshit?

I ask you a personal favor: if you ever will write an article about VPN, please, I beg you, explain how it works for small users use cases, like family usage or small business. I tell you why - because " big vendors " and people who need rolling updates of ciphers on 200+ clients all over the world will figure out pros and cons of different solutions without your almost the same article as 100500 Google results for "%vpnname disadvantages"
/rant
5 words contibution: vim runs on my server.
4 words contribution: mosh, tmux, vim, rsync
3 words contribution: no mouse needed

Jokes aside: if they wanted feedback on what's wrong with it they'd have made it free software.
There's a free software self-hostable server called "Headscale" somewhere on Github (not that I've used it). I saw a comment somewhere that Tailscale approved of it.

I wonder whether a smaller company of experts(?) whose business is focussed on this is any more vulnerable than an established one with huge resources.
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The patent system is so useful, charging vendors billions of dollars for implementing an idea like “use the most obvious possible power saving strategies”.
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Drop the word 'green', its an interesting descriptor but accuracy wouldn't be lost in the same way (I believe).
Look at Doordash’s stock. It’s remarkably close in market cap to Uber. Right now it’s around 3/4.
The problem is that a lot of what people post falls into more of a gray area than legally bulletproof death threat. This is the problem with dog-whistling[0] generally, it's very easy to make statements that you can later deny the intent of, which makes them hard to prosecute.

For example, how would law enforcement go after someone who repeatedly said something like "Someone needs to take care of John Q. Politician because he's ruining the country"? That's just not legally sound enough to preemptively arrest the poster of that statement, but so many people talk that way online.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
You'll want to post that as a reply to the parent you originally replied to, since I'm not the one who said anything about design-by-committee.
Realistically, it was the worst case as modern designs are much safer. What are you imagining would be the very-far worse case and how would that arise?

I'd argue Fukushima was a worst-case scenario with a Gen-3 commercial plant.
Yeah I looked in to filecoin as well and it's not nearly as simple as setting up a raspberry pi with a 1tb HDD attached. You have to have a latest gen array of GPUs sitting there constantly cryptographically proving the entire content of the HDD every minute.

As with all crypto tech, its insanely inefficient and you may as well use google drive or s3.
And we've noticed compromises of multiple "Enterprise VPNs" reported recently.
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try vim on your laptop and VPS, and Markor on your phone. sync them up with rsync or syncthing and you have free magic
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That’s not how Cloudflare normally works: the HTTP cache is demand based and does not guarantee caching. What you’re describing sounds like their Always Online feature which regularly spiders sites to serve in the event of an error.
Imagine all of the great minds that are wasting their time in the financial services sector and understand why we are doomed as a species
There isn’t enough hydro potential on the planet to produce the amount energy we need.

It’s also worth pointing out that while hydro is renewable, it isn’t clean. Dams are ecological nightmares.

Hydro will like be part of our energy profile indefinitely. But it will never be more than a small fraction. And in the long run that fraction will get smaller as global energy demand continues to grow.
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Imagine instead of getting a grid of pixels once every 30th of a second, you instead get one pixel’s value, alone with its location, along with the time stamp at which the pixel’s change was noticed. Event cameras can have very fine time stamp resolution (orders of magnitude better than 1/30th of a second) and so a bright moving pixel can be tracked very accurately.
Nope.

Decay heat is below a half percent of operating after about a day. So 200 MW decay heat days later would mean a 40GW (thermal) reactor.

That's about ten times larger than the largest reactors in existence today.

Also, watts measure power, not heat.
I'd love to read about you trying to persuade the exchange to let you put that C64 in the colo.
Can you explain your setup a bit more in detail? I never thought about using git as storage
It is not the same when in a group just 1 has veto or when more have veto, for good or worse the 2 cases are completely different. If you think is the same I could elaborate but if it would be exactly the same MS could share it with 4 others from community right?
There's always a non-hipster something or other if you like proprietary software and have money for commercial use. But if you're paying anyway, there are more widely supported alternatives that already integrate with existing software. So Tailscale is a hipster proprietary paid VPN provider.
I do not understand the downvotes here. "It was obvious to everyone watching that the technology was going to change everything": how to disagree?
He was offered a choice. Forcing someone to do community service, ugh. Its tough work, IMO, because you do what other people don't want to do, and you need to act socially or physical labor (I'm bad at both, and I'm clumsy). It is never intellectually challenging. People like him would've fared better with a community labor which is intellectually challenging, or just some administrative job at e.g. the tax dept. Which is boring, but at least not very socially demanding.

This guy lacked two things: love, understanding, and genuine interest from his parents, and two: a 'guide towards the light side of technology'. I did not have the latter (though I did have a moral compass), but I am blessed I got the former, I believe it helped with the moral compass. If he was born 20 years earlier, I am pretty sure he wouldn't have been caught with petty DDoS crimes. But his troubled relationship with his parents? It would've remained.
I'm ... "only" ... aware of US call history data being available dating to the 1980s, through the "Hemisphere" programme:

https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere

There may well be earlier extant data. It was probably tabulated either on punch-card or magnetic tape, and certainly was used for billing purposes. Prior to the 1980s, large-scale data preservation was quite expensive.

If anyone has information of earlier comprehensive call history data surviving to the present, I'd appreciate being illuminated.

More citations of Hemisphere and call history data in an earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22208434
I think it was workflowy, thank you. Looks like they've added a ton of features since I first checked it out too, nice.
This comment thread is for people who don't think IPSec/IKEv2 is the worst invention on the planet and want to share life saving stories about it.
This will inevitably be downvoted, but (almost) everytime I see IPSec/IKEv2 mentioned there's a bunch of people puking all over it. Of course, it has a lot of options and configurations and you can fu*k things up, you have to study it a bit, like a brain surgeon has to read some books and do some practice. But once done that, it is a beautiful piece of protocol, excuse my language. It's fast, stable, it auto-reconnects, not to mention MOBIKE, it is simply state-of-the-art. I guess not everybody can drive the Formula 1 car of the VPN protocols. ;-o
I think I actually figured it out (a bit)

It must have something to do with long comments. Whenever I make a long comment, most of the time it just gets deleted after I reload the page. I even checked out the comment history which also shows the comment at first, then you reload and it disappears.

Then after 10 retries, I say fuck it and I just write a small comment instead, go back after 20 seconds and it's still there.

It probably has something to do with long comments. Not sure, but that's where the clues are leading me.
It's by default tricking you into believing you should trust it, so yes closed source is incapable of having true statements until proven wrong (source: you can't prove it by nature)
I am not sure where you see a rise of nationalism. Particularism for distrust of a broader subjection, for example, is more of a regionalism.
The part of the strategy that lives on the FPGA has to be fairly simple, but that doesn't have to be the only part of the strategy. You can do all sorts of deep and meaningful computation on a real computer, then export some settings for a simple event-driven model to the FPGA, updated many times a second.
$200k is a lot for most positions in the US. The median for a US dev is about $105k. I'm not surprised if you're not seeing positions higher than that.
Still waiting for them to sell a blank for the expansion slot. Something that draws no power.
I think there are some interesting treatment opportunities, but I also really don’t like the direction this is all going.

Locally, ketamine treatment clinics are popping up all over the place. We have so many in my city that they’re now competing with each other in radio advertisements, inviting people to come on down and get some ketamine for their depression, anxiety, PTSD, or even vague symptoms like stress. One of them even had a frequent visitor pass - Buy five ketamine sessions and the sixth is free! Another was shut down for a while when they were caught leaving patients unattended and one injured themself while on a high dose of ketamine. They were found to not even be performing screenings of patients - Anyone who showed up with cash got ketamine.

But it doesn’t stop there. Internet prescribers are taking advantage of the temporary COVID rules changes for telehealth controlled substance prescribing to give ketamine over the internet. I won’t name the company, but one specific provider is known for providing prescriptions for exorbitantly high doses of ketamine. From what I saw, nobody is turned away. If you’re willing to pay, you get a prescription for a lot of ketamine and you don’t even have to leave your house.

What makes this all worse is that ketamine is very much not a cure for depression. The antidepressant effects of ketamine are famously short-lived, so it’s used as a way to jump-start traditional therapy in normal settings. Not so at these ketamine clinics, which prefer you return to them for more and more expensive treatments each time it wears off, at least until you have such a high tolerance that it doesn’t do anything at all for the depression any more.

Whatever you think about the substances, I am not excited for a wave of “growth hackers” at psychedelic startups brainstorming ways to get people to pay for more and more ketamine or psychedelic sessions to improve their numbers. I hope the regulatory bodies step in and steer this back to sanity before these startups cause so many problems that these substances become untouchable again.