skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was a potentially incorrect measure to take but also not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be.

Any lie from an expert is a big deal. We are supposed to "trust experts", right? Any lie makes them lose trust.

> Percentage of people/herd immunity: they straight up did not lie.

Fauci did. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

> Sounds like there is no study you can point to that was compromised?

Not one from the CDC directly, but https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/health/coronavirus-hydrox... .

However, the CDC is definitely fudging the numbers on deaths, per https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I... :

> COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is
assumed to have caused or contributed to death.
Now content consumption is a crime. Next we're going to curate reading lists, right ?
Well, no. That would be the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#First_generatio... in the 90s.
>aORs and 95% CIs were calculated using multivariable logistic regression, adjusted for age, geographic region, calendar time (days from January 1 to hospitalization), and local virus circulation, and weighted based on propensity to be in the vaccinated category (1,2).

What does it mean to adjust for local virus circulation in this context?
I'm more interested in knowing how do I buy gas rights for 87,000 hectares for $1. Any pointers?
The government still has the capability to subpoena the individual responsible for the behavior they don't like.

They've only gotten used to going after the intermediary, and it feels uncomfortable for them to have this power removed and reset back to the mean.
Exactly. This same thing happens one time too many, it gets outlawed.
My point is it's only suspicious to you. Another interpretation:

- Person is unemployed and so needs to find the best deal on everything. The best deal happens to be far away.

- person needs a vehicle so he can get to a job

- person has bad credit and/or is unbanked

- person is not in a position to buy a $14,000 loan ($30k @ 20%, prevailing rate for "deep subprime" used car loans per Experian)

This person is spending their last money to invest in their next job. How would you move the money if you don't have a bank?

Richer people buy cars from other states all the time, for example by paying CarMax or a dealer a transfer fee to move the car for them (and thereby are not getting the best deal as the dealer takes a margin).
I am interested to see what they will be testing in some of the upcoming posts in this series. It would be fun to be scrolling Netflix and have the transparency to know that I'm seeing the 'B' test.
>> Prior to studies being done, how do we evaluate who is a quack and who is correct

> You allow the dialog to take place and make up your own mind.

You want to replace a reliance on empirical evidence (science) with rhetoric debates instead? This is going backwards in terms of progress as a society. I think you do not really want to do that.
> In the fifth declension, the only word inherited as masculine is dies, “day” [...] Eventually, the feminine gender prevailed, and all Romance reflexes of dies are feminine.

What about "un día" or "el día" in Spanish?
Maybe institutional memory: "Whether or not Toyota wanted to continue production [of the 90s all-electric RAV4], it was unlikely to be able to do so because the EV-95 battery was no longer available. Chevron had inherited control of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH EV-95 battery when it merged with Texaco, which had purchased them from General Motors. Chevron's unit won a US$30,000,000 settlement from Toyota and Panasonic, and the production line for the large NiMH batteries was closed down and dismantled. This case was settled in the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and not publicized due to a gag order placed on Toyota."
Any sources? Because as I understood it when this last raised its head, the additional cases were barely above background, had low incidence of any noticeable symptoms, primarily in boys, almost all after the second shot, and evidence was suggesting it was possibly caused by hitting veins rather than muscle (and so could be reduced by doing a draw).

Would be interested if the evidence has changed but as it stood last time I looked at the numbers with the almost inevitability of infection in the medium term to me there was a clear incentive to vaccinate.
I mean one could say kubernetes has virtualized components, and requires VT-d extensions to operate at an accelerated speed, but I don't think containers are truly virtualized. So you can probably get away with a less than 5% benchmark if the stars aligned.

With a hypervisor you're looking at 10-15% overhead, typically. maybe getting down to 7-12% using tricks (paravirtualization, pci-passthrough etc). In my environment i am around 12% OH on a good day
I don't understand why nobody seems to care that apple shares imessages with CCP. Google and Facebook avoid that by not operating in China.

How can a company claim to be privacy friendly because it blocks ads while sharing private messages with a genocidal government?
Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage
As far as I understand Signal can't just save all the data because of how the app/server are architected:

They use sealed sender: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Private contact discovery: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

And a "Private Group System" which is supposed to keep group membership information from the server: https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/

Though of course they could still push malicious updates.
That's how you know they are real.
C++ next version with lots of crap cut down is called Rust. ;)
From a nearby reply there is a clue that it's a new Americanism. I have to resist the urge to send a complaint... I'm not ready to become an old geezer who complains about things changing. But I admit that I grit my teeth when people talk about their 'gas bill' and I genuinely don't know whether they're talking about petrol or heating gas, or say "gotten" instead of "got", etc etc; there's no way to say "but we're supposed to use British words here" without sounding like an arse...
great rebuttal, i learned something new! i wonder, do you happen to know how this might impact the conversation between gender and sex being two different descriptors? i'm unsure of how to go about looking at the etymological origins of both words, so help in that regard could prove just as useful. thanks.
Well that's a convenient set of arguments, lets politely agree to disagree.

Privacy is #1 selling point for Apple phones for geeks, it for sure ain't some mediocre hardware catching what chinese manufacturers released 1-2 generations before, nor sheepish bragging mentality that is so popular in poorer parts of the world.

They broke privacy. It ain't some super bendy term that you can argue about and twist to suit your current needs, in similar vein as ie truth. Lets break it down - private means mine and mine only, 0 other access, here, there, everywhere. Anything else is not private, whatever 'noble' cause you wrap it in that keeps shifting with time, location, political regime etc..

They claimed they had it. Many honestly believed them. They openly kicked it out and failed at it so badly they didn't even grok it could be an issue. Then whole clusterfuck happened as we all saw from first row.

Apple doesn't have privacy, period. It can claim to have some other features, and with some they are correct. And that's about it.
Per the site, "MethaneSAT is the world’s first satellite launched by an independent NGO. Our only agenda is to save the planet." It is a satellite that monitors methane emissions, such as from oil fields. That's great I guess. I had thought it was going to be a new SAT/SMT solver, which would also be nice, but I can't really complain.
You're exactly right, you don't pay capital gains tax, and DAFs really are the poor man's "tax-exempt foundation."

Billionaires have access to much fancier schemes than this, and I won't even attempt to describe all those. But yeah, I imagine "donating their shares without capital gains taxes" figures into them.

I just noticed you said "trusts for their kids" -- that's something different. If the children can access it, it's not a DAF. But trusts are much more complicated, and someone who understands them (which I don't) can hold forth here.
>>(I've never seen a conclusive argument why the "software" running on the mind/brain must be parallel, though. But there could be such an argument.)

I don't think there is, but the way the brain is connected implies a great deal of structural parallelism.
I presume that this is facetious, but it's not too far off the mark. See this other great Nuclear Secrecy blog post, "In Search of a Bigger Boom":

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-big...

The scientist Edward Teller, according to one account, kept a blackboard in his office at Los Alamos during World War II with a list of hypothetical nuclear weapons on it. The last item on his list was the largest one he could imagine. The method of “delivery” — weapon-designer jargon for how you get your bomb from here to there, the target — was listed as “Backyard.” As the scientist who related this anecdote explained, “since that particular design would probably kill everyone on Earth, there was no use carting it anywhere.”
What is scanning if not reading every byte of your private images and using an algorithm to decide whether or not to call the cops on you? It's scanning.
You really just need to stick a courtyard in the middle of it, an extremely common design pattern in such buildings, including one SUNY dorm I lived in.

Or on a slightly larger scale, you stick a courtyard in the middle of several buildings, as is the case with most blocks in Barcelona or Berlin.
Complete protection by a single-dose skin patch–delivered SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
thanks Signal, thanks ACLU

https://www.aclu.org/
https://signal.org/donate/

Nothing is free, support these folks.
"Renergen estimates its helium reserve could be as much as 9.74 billion cubic meters—larger than the known reserves in the entire United States.
That's enough to fill about 1.4 trillion party balloons."

I love it when articles have random units of measurements like that!
> I suspect that there is a indirect jab in there somewhere and not directed against Mr. Mraz either.

Mraz is not a member of the OMC, so the jab wasn't at him :)
Problems with that: full screen the video and the poster disappears; if the video aspect ratio differs from the poster, or the video has an alpha channel, the poster will be visible underneath; browsers could change their video poster styles so that this would look different or even not work (though at least in Firefox and Chromium they do look the same at present).
What does any of this have to do with gun safety?
if they have been running pro-vaccine campaigns, thats very welcome..

It is the coercion / loss of livelihood and other threats, that are getting people up in arms (figuratively, and who knows, someday in real life)

Imagine if various establishments used a weight/health card where one is scored on some heuristic, and allowed access.

Just look at intellectuals like Noam Chomsky's prescriptions on how to treat the unvaccinated...
thanks Signal, thanks aclu

https://www.aclu.org/
https://signal.org/

Nothing is free, support these folks.
You indeed don't have to pay long term capital gains tax, although you do have to pay short term capital gains tax.
Sharing imessages with CCP that is ethnically cleansing uyghurs should certainly count as aiding and abetting genocide.
If you read the proposed project plan, OpenSSL next couple of releases are in fact "all about QUIC" So asking I thought the Subject line was accurate.
I have JavaScript disabled, so it appears for me.

The relevant quote is:

> In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.

(Emphasis added.)

In other words, he only tells us what is politically expedient. That is, by definition, what a political operative does.

I would suggest you not assume I'm ignorant before reading articles I link to.
For what it’s worth, English still has some remnants of a case system, too. We still distinguish the genitive case of nouns (with a case ending usually written “‘s”), and personal pronouns have four cases (I, me, my, mine).
Agreed, except when the government gets to make that subpoena a state secret
How to Build a Flutter Navigation Drawer (Hamburger Menu)
As I understood it 2-5yo (and then 6m+ but I can't recall if that was the same trial and timeline) were expected a few weeks after 5+.

So hopefully late November at latest. I presume you're asking as a parent of a three year old so fingers crossed you get an option soon.
English lost it’s gender and most of it’s verb declensions as a result of the Norse occupation. The Norse occupied around half of Britain for several hundreds of years. Both Norse and English had these linguistic forms, but the specifics did not match and were confusing to the adult Norse trying to learn English. They adopted a simplified version and that spread among the population.

The grammatical effect was stronger than the Norman influence because the Norse lived among the English unlike the Normans who were a ruling class.

The Norman influence was more in the vocabulary and spelling. Normans were the scribes, lawyers, etc. They introduced large numbers of Norman French words that trickled out into English. Their scribes used French spelling even when writing English words. That is part of why English spelling is so complex now.
I'm surprised they didn't come across such an explanation from their supposed online search. It just seems too obvious a thing no to come up at least once.

I tilt my head when I'm trying to make sense of a word I heard, other people do it, anime characters do it.
The problem creating demand for later-in-life fertility services for women is that the current structure of our society heavily penalizes women who don’t career-optimize during the years in which child-rearing would be (physically and mentally) least taxing and difficult. Long-term, I suspect the best answer will involve changing this structure rather than relying on complex medical interventions.

One scheme I think might make sense for the modern life trajectory is to have child-rearing skip a generation. This has a lot of medical, social, professional, and economic upside, and I suspect it more closely mirrors the way humans evolved to manage family groups.
my recollection is that illegal contracts are invalid and do not override the rule of law. you and I can sign a paper which says 'we agree not to be held accountable to US law'; but because that contract is illegal (you cannot just declare yourself to be immune to law), our subsequent actions are still accountable to US law. you could mug me the second after I sign that paper, and that would still be illegal.
people still leave unwiped hard drives into machines, sometimes because old and forgotten but sometimes because the usb bridge died but the actual hdd is working fine

beware
I think this is what the rich do with art, yes.
It's not cherry-picking, it's a well-known fact in Indoeuropean studies, and this interpretation is supported by some linguists.

For example (Luraghi 2018):
"More than simply indicating referential sex, Luraghi (2009b: 127 and 2011) makes the argument, with which Melchert (2014: 264) agrees, that an involvement in procreation may have played a role in gender assignment in PIE. It may have been a key factor motivating the split between masculine and feminine. Nouns that referred to male or female humans/animals were, for the most part, assigned to masculine and feminine, respectively (Lundquist and Yates 2018: 2095). For example, there was the masculine noun ph2tḗr ‘father’ beside feminine méh2tēr ‘mother’ and wĺ̥kwos ‘(he-)wolf’ beside wl̥kwíhxs ‘she-wolf’ (Lundquist and Yates 2018: 2095). However, words that indicated children and young animals were often neuter in the IE languages (Melchert 2014: 264), e.g. Gk. téknon, OHG kind, and OCS dětę (Lundquist and Yates 2018: 2095). The humans/animals to which those nouns refer are too young to procreate, so, despite being physically animate, they are grammatically neuter.

A questionnaire experiment determined that feminine anaphors were used more if Mädchen referred to, for example, an eighteen-year-old girl “as opposed to a two- or [twelve]-year-old one, where neuter pronouns were more frequent. These results show that speakers perceive biological sex as more important for adults than for children” (Corbett and Fedden 2016: 522). This supports Luraghi’s theory that involvement in procreation was a factor—alongside individuation—in gender assignment in PIE"

Words that refer to children and which aren't of neuter gender today may simply be of later origin, when the system stopped being productive. For example, the Russian word for "child" is rebenok, which today has masculine gender, but stems from earlier "rebia" which was neuter (a synonym of another word, "ditia", also neuter).
https://ebm-radio.de/index.php
My impression is that the majority of people no longer use it, but you see it often enough that I wouldn’t call it “rare”.
(disclaimer: I work for Netflix. Edit: I should clarify that I wasn't involved with this article in any way)

You can disable the behavior you mentioned. Go to your profile settings, and under "Playback Settings" you can uncheck "Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices".
I don't really agree on the cost. I ride bike by -15C and the only specific thing I have is studded tires, which are about 200$ the pair and last at least 4/5 winters. Pants, jacket and gloves are anyways needed even to walk in winter so no read additional cost. What's more When it's cold it snows and doesn't rain so you just just warm clothes, not even waterproof ones so I use to just have warm sweatpants. A car would be a least 400$/month so much much more expensive, which is Why I don't have one. Chain maintenance and oils are peanuts, I've spent less than 50$ in three years.

The worst season for me is mostly the fall where it gets around 0C with rain and wind and then it gets super annoying to ride. I'd take -5 and snow anyway over a windy rainy day at 10C
Appreciate the kind words! Capacitor is younger than anything on that list so it still has a ways to go in terms of market awareness, but the general reaction we see when devs try it out is very positive. When we explain to people that you can build a native iOS/Android/Web/Desktop app with your favorite web stack and existing web code in many cases, that's turning out to be pretty compelling. And, for people that tried Cordova in the past, Capacitor's DX is pretty dramatically different and improved.
The article eventually admits that kW/kg is being 3X improved. While rather aspirational, that at least requires no handwavium-plated perpetual motion machines.

Whether their 3X improvement is measured relative to fairly state-of-art motors...vs. some more-weight-is-great motors from a large freight locomotive...um, well, it doesn't say. In any case, the maximum energy density offered by batteries - vs. aviation fuel - rules out "like regular airplanes, but..." skies full of electrical pies.
If it's in their marketing, you can assume it's based on ideal weather conditions, and low-latitudes. I've done some solar-energy calculations for vehicles before as part of student engineering design teams, and I recall the results were pretty dismal. I seriously doubt a car solar roof would produce significant benefit in a place like Canada or Northern Europe as a practical range extender or a cost saver.

But maybe I could see the solar panel as a useful tool for camping excursions? The solar-panel use case appears (to me at least) to be when I want to drive somewhere far away, off grid, and where the car is going to be idle for a few days. Camping is the only use-case that I can think of that fits that bill. Although I'm sure other people might have some ideas.
They're for cancellation. Commonly, when your goroutine is blocking while waiting for an IO, like a HTTP response, you want to set a deadline. You can do that by creating a suitable context and passing it to the API that makes the request. When the deadline is reached, the API will return an error. You can also cancel contexts yourself, e.g. in response to user input.

It can be any blocking API, not just IO, for example you can acquire semaphore.Weighted in a cancellable way. The API has to be designed to support context cancellation, and most of the standard library is.
> “ Free checking wasn’t free. Instead of most depositors paying a predictable (and relatively small) fee for their checking account, a tiny portion of the depositor base was assessed many, many $25-$35 fees stochastically based on how frequently their incomings and outgoings were temporarily mismatched.”

In Australia this became illegal at some point. Maybe 10~ years ago. I believe the specific regulation was something about the fee must represent the cost associated. And obviously, the bank doesn’t actually incur any cost to reject a payment. Most definitely not $35 worth.

But they could argue they incur some cost related to a negative balance. They’re lending the customer money. So CommonwealthBank (CBA, major bank, and likely many others) gave everyone a $500 over draft on their “checking account” (colloquially not referred to as “checking” in Australia).

So now your account didn’t go negative, or reject payment. Overdrawing your account was a feature, and you paid for it.

Having an overdraft feature was free. You were charge a fee each month based on how much you used your overdraft, plus interest if you carried a negative balance. 1-100 of overdraft was $9. The full 500 was $27 or $35.

So effectively they reimplemented a very similar fee structure as a product.

While the outcome was similar, this feels a lot less scumbagy.
If you look into medieval northern European history at all, one of the things that is striking is how incredibly fragmentary what has been discovered/passed down is. Large swaths of what we "know" are often based on one ecclesiastical book. Or a single archaeological discovery in a field somewhere like Sutton Hoo.
Can you give more specifics? "French law" is quite broad.
Related to but not the same as the Summary released at the end of August: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclass...
Language is a human social phenomenon, so it’s unlikely that it will or even can ever be perfectly logical and free of redundancy.
The study confirmed that covid vaccines are marginally better than natural immunity against severe covid within 0-6 months since the immunization event. "Laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection was identified among 324 (5.1%) of 6,328 fully vaccinated [hospitalized] persons and among 89 of 1,020 (8.7%) unvaccinated, previously infected [hospitalized] persons."

Independent question: are covid vaccines effective farther away from the immunization event? Could we perhaps plot a chart showing VE performance over time? Time will tell.
And:

caught attempting to be a book cartel

hostile to right to repair

browser render lockdown in iOS

slow moving PWA support in Safari

deliberate slowdown of older iPhones due to battery