skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that healthy children have the largest asymptomatic infection rate (over 50%).

I assume this also means significantly lower long term adverse reactions to COVID when compared to the general population and especially people over 60. If you have seen any studies that show otherwise please do feel free to share.

>We found a statistically significant trend toward a lower asymptomatic percentage with increasing age

>Our results indicate that children have greater asymptomaticity compared to the elderly. We also found that cases with comorbidities have lower asymptomaticity compared with cases with no underlying medical conditions.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/34/e2109229118
When I went over to Germany for my Oma's 80th birthday in 2001 or so my girlfriend (now wife) and I made a trip out of it and were going from the party (which was in Bavaria, though my grandparents are from Mainz) to Berlin afterwards to visit friends and check out the city. When I was telling my Opa and his friend about our plans, his Bavarian friend remarked something like "Ah, yes, Berlin, it's not very nice now, it's pretty ugly and dirty, but we're working hard to fix it. It will be much better in 10 years."

We then went to Berlin and had a wonderful time similar to what you're describing. It was still a pretty chaotic and interesting city, with lots of art squats and cool parties. Probably not as cool as it was a few years earlier, but still pretty neat.

I understand in the intervening years Berlin has started to become a sea of condos and boring glass buildings and inflated real estate like every other western city. Or so I hear. So yeah, they "fixed" it.

That same trip we passed through Leipzig and it seemed pretty run down but kind of interesting bit obviously not as "active" as Berlin. My techno friend had good things to say about it, though.
You don’t know my gender, and the article has no author name attached.
Right, and that's why we have GDPR consent and legitimate interests and all those other terms to come to something that is legally definable.
Interesting interpretation. In general, Northern Europe is far less individualistic[1] than USA. Don't mistake deeply entrenched (perhaps invisible) traditional hierarchies for the lack thereof.

I view anarchism as another expression of classical liberalism, with the same structural faults re: decentralization, etc.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
> Um, millions of posts on Facebook and Twitter were removed. Not very inconsistent, weak, or random - and certainly not warranted by scientific evidence or Daszak's analysis.

I am against censorship of FB and Twitter, but realistically, FB and Twitter posts have essentially no informational value so it doesn't really matter if they were suppressed.

> As for China's behaviour, it has been very consistent about keeping independent investigations well the fuck away from Wuhan; and I don't really give a shit what their reason for that is.

If you don't care what their reason is, then you're not in a position to make a rational argument about what it says about the lab leak hypothesis.
Why not write on Substack? I'd love a comments section for your newsletter.
I'm not prevented by anyone. No one will impose a fine on me for speaking my mind at work. They may just terminate me, which is of course their prerogative. They can terminate me anyways. Small businesses with individual owners are also burdened by this legislation.
I really hope they actually issue a hefty fine here, instead of just a "now stop doing that".

Not issuing a fine would send a signal that simply ignoring the law until you're told to follow it pays off, since the companies involved certainly made much more profit in that time than they would have made had they followed the law.

Also, the fines should be issued to everyone involved in this mess - middlemen and library providers like IAB, the ad companies actually collecting the data, and most importantly the publishers that sent their visitor's data to them.
But don't you think it's even a little suspicious other countries have been administering another infamous antiviral that happens to be a generic drug? I mean it's at least a coincidence that pfizer is somehow the one doing all the heavy lifting here... are they that good of a drug company? Aren't there other doctors, virologists, etc out there?

I just feel people are too quick to accept a for-profit mega-corporation as the defacto source of all things covid cure.
What about during the last couple years of the pandemic?
The idea of object permanence is not abstract in the sense that I mean. You get to experience it. But could anyone grasp eg. the idea of Einstenian time dilation without language? Or 4+ dimensions?
I went through a similar situation during the end of my studies while also having a part-time job at the same time.

> It has been really challenging going through the daily tasks at work

Was the same for me. I used to visit her one hour a day. I'd recommend spending time with your mother as it is possible but also making sure you don't neglect your other in-person social life. This can go for months or even years. If there are other family members living close, you should create a Whatsapp group and alternate visits if that is possible. And of course tell your company, they'll understand if your performance is lower than normal.
Move fast and break legs.
FileCream
> The only question is to what degree can someone else control what you do or say?

Someone else can't control what you do or say, but they can establish consequence for what you do or say. Nobody can control whether you assault people or not, but they can certainly put you in jail for it.

> Anything else is awfully invasive don't you think?

I don't think so. Information that you got for the specific purpose of providing a service shouldn't be yours to spread as you see fit. In fact, there have been strict legal procedures in place for a long time for certain professions (e.g. medical sector) to enforce this.

Just like I don't expect my doctor to spread information about my hemmorhoids, I don't expect my bartender to spread information about my drinking habits.
Again, this illustrates are badly understood and hard GDPR is.

Browser preferences are opt-out currently. ie, users has to go set some flag. The GDPR requires informed affirmative consent.

"Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous."

So having a website that track you unless you set some browser flag is not enough. Many folks say that you need specific consent to track. That is why there are so many pop-ups on EU websites.
Tired:

> Xi also wants to use AI’s awesome analytical powers to push China to the cutting edge of surveillance. He wants to build an all-seeing digital system of social control, patrolled by precog algorithms that identify potential dissenters in real time [1]

Inspired:

> In the future, public health officials could use machine learning for early detection of vaccine hesitancy on social media. Then they could use algorithms to automatically distribute targeted information and go on the offense against the spread of health-related misinformation.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-a...
Sugar and HFCS = bad.

What about carbs? It seems that we are throwing out the baby with the bath water. Does anyone have any good studies about carb consumption not focused on sugar?

Something like Keto diet (no carbs or sugar) vs Plant Based (lots of carbs, no refined sugar)
people who say the 30 years thing say it generally implying that the failure has been due to humans underestimating the difficulty. when in reality, this is not a justified position, given the lack of funding for fusion. now that we have the tailwinds of improved tech and more investment and unified desire to address climate change, the "30 years away" assumption seems likely to capitulate if anyone is continuing to make it today, as the OP did.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/U.S._his...
They do sometimes. See the FIRE and fatFIRE communities on reddit (and also leanFIRE but that's not "rich" people).

- https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence

- https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE

- https://www.reddit.com/r/leanFIRE
Combine this with mental health laws like Florida, where a mere suggestion that you might be at risk for self harm is enough to take away your rights, and we can just start proactively institutionalizing people for being statistically likely to self harm. Yay progress?
> XFCE and MATE need quite a bit of mucking around to actually look "normal"

That's an odd statement.
Sure XFCE may not be as polished or consistent, but most distros will ship a pretty consistent desktop.

Mate on the other hand received plenty of UX work from Red Hat and Canonical back when it was still Gnome 2 and you still have all the themes and styles from that era, to me it doesn't get more 'normal' than that. (OK, they changed the accent color to green and there is apparently no easy way to change that, but I'd say that's the only step back in that regard.)
It was not always conspicious consumption, but certainly yes consumer buying power has gone down and so has the price performance ratio, particularly over the last ten years.

There were legitimate improvements between every generation of thinkpad I am aware of up to the Tm30 series, the Tm40 series was a a sidegrade and so was each that followed up until the arrival of the Ryzen chips.

key: Xm30/Tm30 with m for model - m = 2/4/5
Exactly. Also, most of the beta testers said that they were very satisfied with the speed of Tesla’s response.

This is the system working how its supposed to.
0A36307 is the OEM battery you are searching for the X230. I managed to get one manufactured in 2020 from a reputable distributor in Germany - in an original Lenovo box. But yes, they come at a price. However, after a battery that overheated, I'm willing to take the hit on this one.
This is exactly what seems crazy to me. Why does augmenting my capabilities with technology arbitrarily subject me to additional regulation? I should either have a right to do something, or not have that right. That's what "inalienable" means. In this case an inalienable right to free expression.
Likely these charter planes are related to the illegal Biden administration relocation of millions of illegal aliens across the US from the southern border.
In Norway, some children developed narcolepsy after being vaccinated with Pandemrix. The average time from vaccine (or influensa) until developing narcolepsy was 8 months.

https://www.fhi.no/nyheter/2017/pandemi/ (in norwegian)
Here's one of the videos of the left turns at lights "regression" possibly: https://twitter.com/bagguley/status/1456628357131644928

But this was on 10.3.1, after the article and after things were reinstated.
Don't worry, they'll A/B test it and release the one with the least body count.
If you're not physically together, which you aren't for the majority of the time, you're isolated anyways.
This article is kind of clickbait, on top of being almost 2 weeks old. The beta software mentioned here was only released to a subset of people who had a 100/100 safety score and opted-in to the program. Regular folk don't have it yet.

I'm not sure why its newsworthy that a private beta was rolled back. For the rest of us FSD is still just vaporware.
Why would you submit a site just showing a login screen?
The error was a false warning of a collision danger ... so it was in fact being safer than it should have been.
The thing is that Qt and Gtk3 and onward all consume more resources than Gtk2
To opt out just wear a coat with "_nofsd" printed on it in large font.
for a decentralized social-like network nodes closer to the root need to have influence on nodes closer to the leafs, but leafs also need to move around and maybe connect to multiple root-like nodes simultaneously.

One of most successful decentralized system that is useful for what it was meant to do is DNS, which has this tree-like delegation in its core
Ok, now, what languages beside Python and Go provide Command line argument parsing? And Go doesn't do that in a `professional` way. You either write your own, which can easily turn into a clusterfuck or use a third party library. Even in Go, people use cobra[1]. Also embedding a lot of functionality in a standard library isn't great as well, because if some vulnerability is found, it's really hard to patch it, because you need to push versions and (for example on Linux) some distro maintainers won't push it for `stability` etc. A standard library should provide basic functionality (in most general areas), but not very advanced one.

[1] https://github.com/spf13/cobra
Hi everyone. I made a video about why I don't like TCP and why I think it is time to design a new message transport protocol (MTP) for the upcoming HotNets 2021 workshop, and I wanted to share it with hackernews as well.

If you'd like to see the full paper as well as the talk, you can find it here: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~brent/docs/mtp.hotnets21.pdf . Also, if you have any questions or comments, I'd be happy to try to try to engage.
>Now say John travels to another town, and the proprietor of a similar establishment in that town, wanting to provide John with the best level of service, calls you to ask "Hey, what does John like?", and you tell them.

That's unacceptable to start with.

>What has changed exactly?

You've automatized something unacceptable ?

>Don't you have a right to record who transacts with you?

Within a certain context, you do. The data that is untrusted to you is done so based on the assumption that you're acting in good faith and won't trade that information without consent.

>Isn't that information yours, to do with as you please?

Absolutely not, at least not in the legal systems we have in Europe.

>Can "John" command us to forget we ever saw him?

Yes, he can ! At least in my opinion and virtually every other European's he does. The right to be forgotten is an active subject of discussion[0]. The stance in the US is that it runs contrary to freedom of expression. The stance in Europe is that personal freedom implies being sovereign over one's own data. In technical areas, the right to be forgotten is interpreted as the right to erasure[1], which happens to be part of the GDPR. I've myself used that right several times. And I end up being very mindful of my usage of data in software I write.

>How is any of this reasonable?

Your ease of business doesn't trump someone's rights over themselves, the data they generate being a extension of it. End of story.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

[1]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
All of those things are basically religious terms to me. Some people subscribe to the religion that they have a "right to be forgotten" or a "right to their data". I don't subscribe to this religion, I want out.
The general idea of "the metaverse" at least as it exists in sci-fi is that there's only one - it's the metaverse, a singular, canonical, ubiquitous layer of VR over the real world. The assumption here is that, because Facebook is doing it, it will eat the world through sheer force of will. Every other platform will either be assimilated by Meta or rendered obsolete by Meta's control over standards and influence over governments. Facebook wins without even stepping into the ring, the game's already over, omae wa mou shindeiru.

I personally don't think it will go that way - I think no matter what Facebook does, it's just going to wind up as one of many attempts at VR in the marketplace (it's too late to capture the market and own it now IMO, and i just don't trust VR to ever be more than niche, even in gaming) which means the "metaverse" in this case is just marketing and hype.
> Combine this with mental health laws like Florida, where a mere suggestion that you might be at risk for self harm is enough to take away your rights

Citation?
Depends on the type of job. Making a new mission critical SaaS app? Sure, you're on call. But if you're making some small websites or blogs, or even outside of the tech space in something like carpentry, you can take all the time you want.

It's really about whether you have customers or not, and what kinds of customers they are.
There are plenty of deals that you make with vendors/merchants that are given in confidence; a merchant may give you 50% off if you promise not to spread it around. Other than those occasions, "shopkeepers" not only want you to spread around that you shopped there, they actually depend on it and will often pay you to do it.

As a customer, I have no interest in you advertising for me, so it's not comparable. Any information that you spread around about me is likely to give other "shopkeepers" greater leverage over me (which is why vendors don't do this in the real world unless they have some sort of financial relationship with each other.)
> It can be used as the window manager for XFCE or MATE, for example.

But that's on X11 then, right?
It's free. It requires signup because it creates a private filesystem for each user.
It's not allowed in most US states. If you already have a name with an accent most companies and agencies will just remove it.
Record, replay and measure user flows – Chrome 97 DevTools new feature
> In Trenta, we ran fusion pulses once every ten minutes. Polaris will pulse once a second (1 Hz).

It feels really far out from practicality. They have demoed a system that ran once every ten minutes, and they hope to build a system once per second.

I frankly don't think it is possible to heat things up to 100 million celsius and have that process work reliably. It is just too extreme.
What state are you in? What they are doing may be illegal. In California the rent is on time as long as you pay in advance of the deadline. If you send in six months rent all at once, then you are on time for the next six months.

Also your bank may be able to do this for you. If you add your landlord as a bill pay recipient and set the due date as the 1st, the bank will mail the check on the appropriate day, and if it arrives late, will often cover the late fee.
This is why:

Software updates should not be allowed to be performed by car manufacturers.

Instead, software updates should be submitted to an organization like NHTSA, which then keeps the software for 6 months in escrow, until it is fully tested.

The software can then be uploaded into the car by authorized parties.

If a bug is found in a car that is potentially dangerous, then cars have to be grounded, or self-driving disabled.

To be clear, there should be no such thing as "quick fixes".
I don't think this is true: you can immediately convert your salary to non-cash.

My understanding is that stock comp is usually thought of in dollar terms, so if a FAANG companies doubles its stock, that doesn't mean the compensation package increases for new employees by 2x.
How does being Gay in the LDS church contribute I wonder?
I had the same problem and built this:
https://zigam.github.io/ginkgo/
"Never" is a strong word, but you're welcome to read the English-language reports of Japanese lenders which break this out for their consumer businesses. Factors which generally tend to depress it include low revolving credit use, relatively high underwriting standards for credit (not solely a positive thing—ask your favorite Japan-resident foreigner for stories sometime), formal or informal risk transfer, outsourcing collections to the yakuza by policy [0], etc.

[0] I feel it necessary to say "I am not making this up. It happened at first-rate financial institutions many times within the last 20 years."
There are some groups talking about "metaverse standards", but they're off in philosophical territory and nobody is paying much attention to them.

We need metaverse standards in at least three areas:

- Portals. You should be able to move your avatar through a portal from system A to system B, and it should Just Work, assuming B will let you in. That's what the author is talking about here. Systems not resident inside a web browser need to do more work to do this, but it should be made to work. This is what makes multiple virtual worlds a metaverse.

- Assets. You should be able to take your purchased asset, if you really own it, from system A to system B, assuming B will let it in. The NFT crowd does not have this. Try to export an NFT from Decentraland.

- Money. When in system A, you should be able to buy from anyone who wants to sell to you, and not be required to use system A's currency or payment system. This is what Apple and Epic are currently litigating.

For standards purposes, it's time to talk about the mechanics of this. If it works and some systems offer those features, users will clamor for interconnection. (And third parties will somehow bolt it on whether the systems like it or not.)
No. Aggregate interchange for top-tier Visa and Mastercard personal cards maxes out at ~2.3%.

Corporate cards actually earn significantly higher interchange, but even those don't aggregate out above 3%. Actually, the networks spend a lot of time policing banks from trying to arbitrage the difference by issuing corporate cards to individuals.

Payment processors like Square just know that their margins will vary by the type of card used by consumers, but aim to have an aggregate positive margin across all cards. Once you get into enterprise contract negotiations with them though, they'll look at your card mix to make a pricing offer.
Not to weigh in on this particular issue, but I think your objection here is another piece of evidence weighing in the favor of this overall approach. It's perfect to have this debate immediately and so early in the process, before any time is spent in detailed implementation.
Breaking hard inappropriately is pretty dangerous as well. It's a good way to get hit.
Good point, sumtechguy! I agree limiting numbers might not really help. However, giving startups the tools to understand the patent game might help a lot. What do you think?
Hah, we agonized over this just 4 months ago with our first kid, finally settling on "Samson", this app would have been a huge help!
And we're an all-FORTH shop so it'll never scale beyond the undergrad project I got a D in.
I hope this reply chain doesn’t grow in length, but I’m in the same situation (terminal), and father to two. I wish everything could continue as normal as possible while acknowledging that the situation has changed.
I agree with the other guy about this not necessarily being desirable but you could repurpose pronounceable password generation like this: https://caseyjmorris.github.io/pronounceablePassword/
out with old, old is the new new
That’s pretty dangerous.
Obligatory:
http://katz.fastmail.us/scientist.html
Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server
Before we go mobbing innocent open source devs on Twitter, it'd be great to know how far NPM has progressed on 2FA. Up until 2018 NPM didn't have 2FA at all. They just introduced it. It'd be nice if they could give some kind of progress report on how widely adopted it's become. Ideally it should be required for publishing packages. Or at the very least, it'd be great to have some transparency about which package authors are actually using it, who aren't, and who's delegated their authorization to some other vendor like Travis -- so we as users can make our own informed choices about risk. It'd also be useful to have charts that log dependency gravity over time since an important question in situations like this is: did RC and Coa go from 70k to 17m users yesterday? Or have they been established for a long time?
The "Evil person" and the "Pirate Bay owners" are the same people.

The ads are not fraudulent per se -- real humans are seeing the ads and interacting with them.