skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because the rich copyright monopolists are all located in developed countries and lobby their governments for laws that benefit them.
Perhaps OS vendors should ship platform tooling, such as to make games easier to make. Not shipping games and apps themselves.

Like stable APIs for file sync, calendars, contacts, gaming, common hardware, etc.
>Are you implying that someone in government has alterior motives to desire a lockdown?

They have obvious ulterior motives. Political motives, or ass-covering. If they don't do a lockdown they will be utterly attacked by the opposition for 'not being proactive enough' no matter if there is only one more death.

I believe this is the principal motive, health being a distant second. Remember, governments act first to get votes, second to help population.
Haven't Walmart, Amazon et all been eating mom and pop businesses for years now?
Early Stage Startups Headquartered in San Francisco
Estrogen and estrogen-like plastics in waterways is a huge problem. Some people mis interpreted it, but that doesn’t discount the fact that plastics are a huge problem that are interfering with nature.

https://www.newsweek.com/female-frogs-estrogen-hermaphrodite...
Can someone explain whether corona is unique in this attribute of spreading versus other viruses? I would expect most cold-related viruses or other viruses in the human virome to exhibit this pattern.
It is rumored there have been 'infection parties'.
Thanks. That was hilarious. Wrong in so many ways, but hilarious.
> the claim that lockdowns work (they don't and this was known before COVID times)

This is a bold claim and I'd be curious to see you back this up. By "lockdowns" - do you mean actual, genuine lockdowns / quarantines (mandatory stay-at-home orders, government-distributed emergency food packs and other essentials), or do you mean capacity restrictions etc. that get called "lockdowns" in the popular media?

Note that my straw-man proposal (which I'm not seriously endorsing) is not that it should be prosecutable to have been wrong. Plenty of startups try to build something, and it doesn't work; they don't get prosecuted like Holmes. Holmes is facing prosecution for fraud, for knowingly telling falsehoods. If your implication is that academic epidemiologists, COVID experts, and the entire field of nutrition are all fraudulent as opposed to merely just going through the usual course of science - which, to be clear, I see as mostly but not entirely impossible - then yes, I think we have a rather serious problem on our hands, which we need to figure out for the survival of humanity, and I'll repeat my comment above: I'm very interested in knowing what proposals you have for solving it.
Wireless Insulin Pump Vulnerability Disclosed
When did it get renamed to "Omicron"?

Also, dammit, now it's a thing, and it's got its own little soundbite-able name instead of "B.1.1.529".
When healthy discussion is needed wrong terms do not help because they become propaganda terms masking the real meaning. In that case they should be reconsidered and corrected for discussion to have any chance for success.
> But we are definitely not allowed to have a single study where we have 1 definitely infected person stand in an air sealed room for 1 hour 6 feet away with someone not infected

Why not? Studies like that are a thing. And facts don't shut down hate as much as you think they do.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/09/11/...

(behind paywall, but there was also free The Intelligence podcast episode about it around that time too)
The same meaning of a group of twenty. "There must have been a score of cars at the drive-thru." It hasn't changed.
South Africa is also pissed that they've been cut off from the rest of the world. They might be downplaying.
I use iPad with Notability and it seems to be perfect. I keep my notes in Apple Notes and hand writing in Notability. Endless scrolling makes it so it doesn’t feel size limiting and features like circle a piece of text to move/zoom it makes usual paper feel outdated. I’m trying to migrate to Apple Notes for hand writing as well but they are way less than perfect for it for now.
> Have you ever worked at a large corporation like Facebook or Amazon?

Employee #2 at amzn.

But sure, that doesn't count because I got out before the company hit 20 employees.

I don't doubt that large corporations with heavy technology dependence engage in what you're describing to cover some aspects of their operations. I do doubt that is covers all aspects, and in particular, I very much doubt if amzn A/B tested the language described in the GP for the purposes claimed by the parent of my comment.

EDIT: Given the comment @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29374358 I should probably just accept that for amzn at least, I'm just wrong.
I assume you are short selling Tesla then?
They've got an "official" Disney logo adjacent to the words. We were in the next table at the cafeteria (remember when that wasn't a scary concept?), big guy, big shirt, big letters. Nothing creepy!
Let me just chime in here, because while often a good idea, your comment is a little sparse, and this is an idea that can weird people out.

Background: I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea some years ago, and I've been sleeping with a CPAP device ever since. In general, CPAP follow-up and compliance rates are pretty terrible. Thankfully there's a very helpful community out there to help people with their various issues (reddit, apnea board, etc). I've basically tried everything and I've spoken to countless of people in the same boat. I'm just a guy on the internet, so take what I'm saying with a generous pinch of salt.

One of the most common issues with snorers and apnics (is that a word?) alike, is that things get worse when the mouth is open. When you're on nasal CPAP, opening your mouth will cause a lot of the air to simply blow out your mouth, which will reduce your effective therapeutic pressure (i.e., CPAP is now practically useless). If you're using a full face mask, an open mouth can reduce the fit of the mask, allowing escape, usually near the chin. This, too, can result in a drop in pressure, though usually not as dramatic as with a nasal mask.

There are basically zero good ways of preventing your mouth from opening at night. It happens to some people, not to others. No clue why. If it happens to you, nearly every "solution" sucks. Chin straps don't work, they will make your apnea worse by pulling your jaw into your airway, exactly where it's not supposed to be. Cervical collars are incredibly uncomfortable for sleeping. Mouthguards (like the kinds boxers use) are really uncomfortable for some people, but some people seem to tolerate them well enough.

On to the tape: there's only one reason to use it: to keep your mouth shut at night. Mouth breathing = bad. Especially when on nasal CPAP. Use a low-stick tape that's skin safe. I use a piece roughly the size of a Charlie Chaplin moustache. That's wide enough to keep my mouth shut, and narrow enough so that I can still breathe out of the corners of my mouth if I really have to. I do occasionally suffer a corner-of mouth-leak, but as it's a narrow gap, the CPAP machine can easily cope.

A word on aspirating vomit, as this seems to be a common concern. If you suffer from awful reflux, or are just unlucky enough to have to throw up while asleep, you're going to be having a bad time. Regardless of anything else. If you're on CPAP, there's a chance the pressure will be sending bits of goop down your airway. This is bad. If you're wearing a mouthguard, this will be worse. If you've taped your mouth, this too could make things worse. I once had threw up while on CPAP and mouth tape. Nothing bad happened, when the process started, it startled me and woke me up, I instinctively removed the tape and the CPAP mask before the vomit reached my mouth. Not fun, but no damage either.
Great video about Omicron up on https://hugotalks.com
See the material in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373534

All cause mortality: 21 died in vaccine arm, 17 in placebo arm.

You may argue the numbers are very small, but (a) that's not trivial to state; (b) there is no evidence the pfizer vaccine reduces all cause mortality in a controlled trial - on the contrary, and (c) one may disregard all cause mortality and only care about corona mortality, but in that case (c1) the numbers are too small (1:2) and easily proven to be meaningless, and (c2) it's a bad metric, since -- taken ad absurdum -- a cyanide shot achieves 100% reduction in corona death.
>Imagine if someone managed to inject malware into a core kubernetes component which gets pulled from docker hub or something.

Digital signatures are a typical way to protect against this. Pretty robust as far as I know.
So then why all the hysteria and banning of flights.
They skipped the Greek letter "Xi"; no prizes for guessing why.
There were some rather convincing case studies even early in the pandemic -- for instance, one news story from March 2020 identified a choir rehearsal as a superspreader event:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/corona...
This is not the current implementation.

Today you get 3 fastpasses, not one at time.
COVID is bad. When cases spike, people naturally take steps to avoid getting infected. They also want other people to do the same.

The problem is that some steps are more conspicuous than others and that doesn't always align with efficacy. An obvious example is wearing a mask vs. washing your hands. They're both effective measures, but one can be seen by anyone and the other happens in the privacy of your bathroom, so one gets politicized and over-emphasized even if they're both of similar importance.

It works the same way for politicians. If things are going poorly, they're expected to do something. But their incentive is to do things that are conspicuous, even if they have a high cost and therefore a low cost/benefit ratio.

Almost any kind of mandate falls into this category because the cost/benefit for doing that thing is going to depend on individual characteristics. "Stay at home" may be a better strategy for someone who lives with amiable people than someone who lives alone and suffers from depression, or who lives with an abuser, but blanket mandates don't distinguish them. And yet when cases spike, Something Must Be Done.
How long ago was this? I bought an mp3 from Amazon (The Touch - Stan Bush) in 2019 and I’m still able to download the mp3.
On the one hand, people have been claiming for years that the world is sleep walking into authoritarian, kleptocratic fascism.

On the other hand, if you are even slightly sceptical that the same authoritarians might be using lockdowns to make public protest illegal and overstep civil liberties you are a conspiracy-believing, alt-right moron.
When people realized that "Nu variant" sounded like "New variant"
Semantic line wrap serves the same purpose, and can be done at any line width when viewing.

Even the simplest improvement in line wrapping of maintaining the leading indent is pretty much enough. Once I started using Atom and then VS Code, which both do this, I pretty much stopped worrying about line length except when it was semantically confusing (like many arguments to a function where I use newlines to separate the top-level arguments from the expressions).
wow, suddenly I feel like the film "Venom" was trying to teach me this, it's no good for the virus if it keeps killing its hosts, really its mutating itself while searching for a host that can coexist with it (as I understand it, much of our DNA is incorporated from viruses, but I don't understand it very well :)
Medical policy always seems to float around various ideas before they really grab hold. It maybe shouldn't but it takes time it seems.
I'm sorry but this is unacceptable.

We have shut down entire industries, made some people 2nd class citizens, and wrote blank checks to healthcare companies to solve this problem,

and your concern is lost heat and the environment ?

Any common sense government would have mandated open windows a long time ago, in most transportation systems and in federal buildings that could bear it, instead we wasted valuable time with politics
I've been to an allergist a few times and I've got seasonal allergies for pollen as well as dust mites and such. I usually sleep with my mouth open because my nose is always blocked at night which causes me to wake up in the middle of the night with a dry mouth to get water. What did you get immunotherapy for? Which allergies did it help with and how did you convince your doctor you needed it?
> very expensive web hosting of published papers

A problem that only needs to be solved because of copyright. Get rid of restrictive laws and watch people take care of storage and distribution for a fraction of the cost using decentralized peer-to-peer technologies like torrents and ipfs. Plus there's always the internet archive.
Works fine on my end? The canonical domain is blocked by some ISPs around the world, but there’s always the .onion site. You can find the links on Wikipedia probably.
Sweden Put Covid Passport Microchip into Hands
The dude on Reddit says:

> They could hear ATC but not other aircraft, because civilian aircraft are on VHF frequencies, military on UHF, and anybody above 60,000 feet (like the SR-71's) were on a separate, center-wide UHF frequency so they wouldn't have to switch frequencies constantly. So the SR-71 and F-18 pilots couldn't have heard those other aircraft requesting groundspeed, or heard each other for that matter.

The SR-71 had at least 5 radios, according to the flight manual [1].

• COMNAV-50 UHF. It had two of these, one in the front cockpit and one in the aft cockpit.

• AN/ARC-186(V). This one covers the civilian aircraft frequencies (and a bit more such as the 2 meter ham band).

• 618-T HF. This covered AM and SSB on 2-30 MHz in 1 KHz increments.

• AN/ARC-190(V). Another HF radio, covering 2-30 MHz in 100 Hz increments.

It was a spy plane. Listening in on other aircraft and ATC would help it carry out its mission, so of course it is going to have plenty of radios.

[1] https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/
He knows. He just needs to make up an alternate reality to justify his own darkness.

On some level many of us simply don't give a shit about the fact that the virus can slaughter millions. We just don't think it will affect us and we don't want to be locked down. It's like a heroin addict. He knows the reality of his addiction but he needs to make up a reality to justify shoving one more injection into his veins, just one more.
"Ass-covering" is a really uncharitable synonym of "being prudent."
But they are repeating. So, by definition, they are not exactly representable in a (binary) floating point system. Again, that’s why 0.1 + 0.2 is not 0.3 in binary floating point.
Before to colonize mars there is a thing that we as species could, or should probably do (in my arrogant opinion), and is to put a copy of security of the human species in the moon, in form of a few boxes full of frozen reproductive cells. Maybe also copies from a few animals that are really essential to us as wolves, red jungle fowl or horses. If we can put it in the moon, we can put it in Mars, and that would be the cheaper way to put a significant amount of people in the planet Mars. This will be needed either to replace the people that will die in accidents in a such hostile environment, or to replace fast people killed in a massive catastrophic event in the earth, like a nuclear winter period and to alleviate the effect of bottle neck genetic periods in humans. We had some in the past.

The problem is that would grant like 30 years of safety. Maybe. Not much more, but could be enough.
I had something of a turbinate reduction surgery. More like a liposuction of the turbinate than a resection. The surgeon said it would be life-altering. It was, and it was a very good life alteration.
We're still doing this?

"Preliminary" is a key word, as is "clear". The clear evidence came (to the WHO, at least) about a week later. On the same day as the tweet, they provided further information that doesn't fit in a tweet indicating they expected things to potentially change:

> The timeline states that on that date, a WHO official noted in a press briefing that there "may have been" limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus between family members and that there was "a risk of a possible outbreak."

The WHO doesn't have a covert intelligence arm, so they only had what information the Chinese were willing to provide at the time. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/30/brian-fitz...
"right" is the right word, the point here is that it is *exclusive.

Speech rights and copy rights are both rights. Great that speech rights are universal in most democratic countries. Awful that copy rights are exclusive.
That sounds terrible. And the worst part of it is today you can’t rip it out and insert a good aftermarket part anymore.
https://mksm.dev/blog/2019-11-24__case-for-80-rule/ with some references
Isn't Delta vs Alpha a pretty convincing counter argument? It was more transmissible, more severe and better at avoiding acquired immunity.
> The OCR quality is comically bad

Why is handwriting recognition so bad? One would think that if we can build a machine to recognize cat pictures, recognizing a handwritten "A" ought to be trivial.
The "why" is that distribution is always cheaper than production of creative works. In other words, people who make new works are stuck with all the costs, while people who sell copies get all the profit. This also tends to be an asymmetric relationship: creators tend to be individuals while publishers tend to be large corporate enterprises with the ability and know-how to bury you. Copyright exists to force publishers to negotiate with creators that would otherwise have no leverage[0].

The idea that copies are supposed to be scarce is an invention of Disney marketing, and I'd argue contrary to the spirit of the law. The stated purpose of copyright is to increase the amount of works on the market (by giving creators some negotiating leverage with publishers), not to make individual copies more valuable. That's just a side effect, one that is supposed to be bounded by limited term lengths[1].

[0] For those wondering, this is also what drove copyright harmonization over the last century. Any difference in law between countries creates an avenue for publishers to find a way to cheat creators. Before the era of international copyright it was quite common for publishers to race creators to foreign markets, since translation was not yet an exclusive right of the creator and most countries did not recognize each other's copyright interests.

[1] Please stop laughing. I know life+70 is practically forever.
So it is like a natural vaccine that spreads itself to everyone for free?
No rights are "natural rights".
Well, unfortunately, criticizing anything vaccine-related has become an unholy thought crime, but there's an interesting prior example how a leaky vaccine (i.e. the one that don't stop you from infecting others) helped make the virus more deadly.

You can search for Marek's disase - a virus affecting chickens. Here's a scary paragraph from the Wiki [0]:

>Because vaccination does not prevent infection with the virus, Marek's is still transmissible from vaccinated flocks to other birds, including the wild bird population. The first Marek's disease vaccine was introduced in 1970. The disease would cause mild paralysis, with the only identifiable lesions being in neural tissue. Mortality of chickens infected with Marek's disease was quite low. Current strains of Marek virus, decades after the first vaccine was introduced, cause lymphoma formation throughout the chicken's body and mortality rates have reached 100% in unvaccinated chickens.

The current pandemic is a completely unprecedented thing, but global vaccination does put an evolutionary pressure on the virus to escape the vaccine. So it's a trade-off between the current deaths and unknown deaths in the future. Sadly, we live in such polarizing times, that trade-offs and moderation have become a luxury we can no longer afford.

Some more articles: [1], [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/leaky-vaccines-can-pr...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-m...
The testing is the most regulated part. We DO want them to get this to market asap!
So a new strain isn’t allowed to spread before we know everything about it.
That's not what I said. Please don't attack a straw man. My main point was, and is, that the same attack-logic applies to ANY transaction network. The example with Doctor Evil was about other transaction networks.

Why would Doctor Evil attack a block chain network when he could attack global/national/regional credit card/wire transfer/ACH networks, many of which are built upon ancient pre-Internet technology, are full of discoverable vulnerabilities and critical points-of-failure, and are operated by cash-rish financial institutions with liquid, easy-to-short stocks?
Is it not possible to have a fully digital (built in software) synthesizer?
Agile Principles: Go Together
The correct response to that is to stop paying them then. You end up with the same result, but at least they're not wasting money at the same time.
Then we hold the people who profited off of Anaconda responsible for it rather than shrugging and going 'oh well, the laws they wrote say we just have to let them keep doing it.'

Easy fix to get it done, the rockefellers and rothschilds are visiting the bottom of the pit naked in 2025. Their choice as to whether it is still full of poison.
Germany: Dozens take illegal mystery Covid vaccine before police shut it down
Same for Dutch.

Honderd-vijf-en-zeventig. Hundred five and seventy.
Not the person you're replying to, but probably allergen immunotherapy, aka desensitization. Basically you're given ever increasing doses of whatever it is you're allergic to. Over time, you should build up a tolerance. IIRC there are tablets available for common allergens like dust mites. For others, you need to get regular shots, which is a bit tricker and riskier.
Wasn't that the most up-to-date data at the time? Are you claiming that they did find clear evidence and were lying about it, or that they somehow should have had evidence to the contrary at that time?

Just like any burgeoning subject, you should generally keep up with the expert recommendations. Expecting them to have had all the answers and get everything exactly right in a circumstance with as many unknowns as this pandemic has had is foolish. It's silly how many people are treating medical agencies like this as if they're complete amateurs because some of their educated guess have ended up not being ideal, or that they've updated their recommendations regularly based on recent data.

It seems like people are expecting medical organizations to be like politicians. Updating recommendations based on new data regularly isn't "double backing" or flip-flopping, it's updating recommendations based on new data. It does mean that sometimes their advice will not be correct, especially when the data is thin, but it's literally the best choice you have available.

I really expect a technical community to be better about this kind of stuff. Limited data means less reliable conclusions.
Never Gonna Give You Up (Remastered 4K 60 FPS) [video]
How then did this even become a"variant of concern" if so little is known about it?
What are you trying to show here? Could you maybe add a description to the video or at least let people comment on it so we're not forced to ask you here?
And Xi sounds like the Chinese leader.
You think 16 year olds are buying a car for the touchscreen?
Out of curiosity which Subaru were you looking at? I got a 2020 Forester with a touch screen but 100% of non-home-theatre and 75% of home theatre controls had physical interfaces. I was really quite happy with the balance.