skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny was just about to comment the same thing.

I think deaths amongst unvaccinated would skyrocket and then they would isolate themselves or get the shot.

The difficulty is having people dying in the street while beds are sitting vacant to keep them open in case of vaccinated ICU needs. This is non-tenable and would create outrage. Only really workable in a place like the USA for the uninsured.

Also there there would not be the appetite to see huge death stats compared to other countries.
> The USPS is an unnatural monopoly which stifles any carrier

The USPS is required to deliver to everyone, even when it doesn't make monetary sense to do so. They are an important piece of US infrastructure.

They are also incredibly constrained by legislation. They aren't allowed to just raise prices as needed.
Yeah, it's a mess.

Personally I think web UI via WebView2 is the only way forward; Chromium is far and away the most powerful UI framework shipping with Windows these days. Even if "native" UI frameworks were doing everything right, it's hard to compete with all the investments in Chromium.

P.S. WinForms isn't dead; it's maintained by the .NET team and it gets a lot more attention than WPF. But, well, it's WinForms :)
I mean of course it's propaganda. The military would have no need (or desire) to disclose this publicly otherwise. But what really matters is whether or not it's true; are there really reversible attacks on US satellites, or is this just saber-rattling and trying to pre-sell US citizens on a new enemy?

I have no idea if it's real or not, but it sounds plausible, at least the passive attacks. It's mere speculation, though, that this can or will escalate to physical, irreversible attacks.

I think it's also likely that the US is conducting the same kinds of reversible attacks on adversaries' satellites, too. Or at the very least, we have the capacity to do so, and have tested it on our own gear.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. It's exactly the opposite of what we're trying for here.

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That's the first example of "not fast" that came to my mind actually.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's exactly the opposite of what we're trying for here.

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We don't need DNSSEC because we have TLS certificates. And as we all know, no large tech company has ever had trouble with misconfigured or expired TLS certificates.
Suburbs have of course always existed, but the proportion of the population living in them has grown significantly since the period you note. Between 1950 and 2010, the suburban population quadrupled while the city center population doubled:

http://energyfuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/suburb2.gif
that's tripped out. where did you hear about that?
I once liked Vivaldi. However, a few months ago I started to dislike it, since it adds more and more useless stuff instead of being innovative:

* Graphics RGB color diagram
* Mail client
* Calendar client
* Since over a year I can't play back video, that ha audio, because then the browser hangs for minutes.
* Theme editor
* Philips Hue integration
* Razor Chroma intergration
* (sophisticated) time based theme changes
* built in Vivaldia computer game

and these were just the things I found in the first four settings categories... Oh, Notes comes to mind... that doesn't belong into the browser, it belongs into a separate application...and so on...

Yes, the tabs are nice, the quick command (F2) is nice, there is a few other things (it doesn't crash, which is a big one!) but the only reason I am still with it, is, that I have already stored so much information in it and I am too lazy to switch.

It's a browser, that is slowly getting infantile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063026
"then anything that harms Arm's market position is also a geopolitical risk to the West"

This is some seriously flawed thinking extremely convenient for corporate interests. Mixing up marlets with national security leads to the kind of atrocities that make totalitarian states proud.

"Coca-Cola Co.'s Colombian bottlers are working with death squads to kill, threaten and intimidate plant workers,"
Doubling something to fight an enemy that can grow exponentially? Good luck with that...

Also I recommend reading a bit about what working on a covid unit is like - it's hell on many levels. Even just the ammount of death and personal tragedies they witness is insane and easily PTSD inducing.
Dumb question - do AWS S3 endpoints change DNS that much? Is the DNS resolution limit an issue with this specific workload, or just a general issue?
Monitoring, alerts etc are not the same thing as being able to put a cap on the amount of money Amazon can charge your account for services per billing period.
> Say one can send the exact cryptographic fingerprint and impersonate me. How is this anything better than me just sending password to authenticate?

If you're genuinely interested in this topic, you will, I think, really enjoy what I'm about to tell you.

You can setup a system where: 1- you never tell the server your plaintext password at any time, ever; 2- the server does not know your actual password and cannot determine it; 3- you can prove to the server that you know the password, and they have strong proof that you do know it; 4- nobody that eavesdrops on you can do likewise.

Cryptography is magic. And it mostly has to do with the authentication protocol being multi-step. IE: you don't just send your password or fingerprint, you send X and the server sends back Y, and you send Z, and so on and so on, but after a few steps, you have proven yourself. And since it's all being done on GHZ speed computers and gbps networks, it's fast enough for human use.

There are better algorithms than this one, evolutions on the idea, but the most common one discussed is Secure Remote Password Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...

And honestly, I'm not even doing justice to how cool these protocols are. It's an incredible topic.
Imagine being a billionaire because you convinced enough people to give you money in exchange for a promise.
I'm not in the US, I'm in Australia.

And I picked the flu vax just as an example. I should have instead questioned your statement that I wasn't in a risk group. Everyone is at risk from covid, admitedly some much more than others.

According to this data: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/covid-pandemic-mort... I'm at a 0.4% risk of dying of Covid, and a 8% risk of hospitalization. Those aren't small risks, the vaccine reduces that approximately 10x so clearly its a good idea

Actually, I've just thought of another good example - Whooping cough. Adults are actually at no risk whatsoever of this, but small babies are at severe risk so parents are reccommended to get this vaccination to prevent them passing on what is a very mild or unnoticeable disease for them to their babies.
Oh and when I looked up info on this and the vaccine, yes you should get booster shots for this as well https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/whooping-cough-pertu...

And, uhh yes Pfizer, which was the main covid vaccine used in Australia, is a mRNA vaccine.
Also those who believe everything their side says the early science don't you think it's odd the FDA wants 55 years before releasing the vaccine data they have?
Posting like this is obviously a bannable offense on HN.

You posted egregious flamewar comments to this thread, noticeably worse than the bad things the other accounts did. This is not allowed on HN because it destroys what the site is supposed to be for, and we ban accounts that do it.

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This was patched back in Aug. Why are you worried? Does your support team not even install four month old Windows Updates?

Edit: Downvotes why?
> nVidia is currently not playing in ARM's space

Look who ARM licenses to and what sort of products those clients manufacture. They are in direct competition right now in a number of areas.
All I want is that you guys take it easy on the Typescript. Keep the JavaScript recognizable, that’s all. We’re all friends, right?
Why censor the blacklisted domain? Without any evidence that the domain wasn't financing or supporting terrorism, I will assume that it was -- so I'm glad it's gone from the internet.
The model it uses is trained on a discrete set of categories. Somethings will not return any results, simply because there are no images indexed. Things like images of animals, dogs, a bike, a building - known objects will turn results. There is a fuller description in the blog post about what images will most likely work. There's only around half million images indexed. I'd put more but I ran out of disk space.
I used to use an AV receiver and then ramp up the volume on the center channel. Didn't need to even be 5.1 audio as the processing that plucks the speech out based on frequencies worked good enough.

Having said that, it turns out that I'm reasonably deaf in one ear. It's considered "Mild" hearing loss but wow is the effect substantial. My wife listens on videos on her phone at the same volume level that is literally me being able to JUST hear it. Moderate-Severe hearing loss must be impossible. And one of my ears is totally normal... only one ear has "mild" hearing loss.

Anyway long story short, consider getting a hearing test :)
> We have viable treatments that work and could be prescribed en masse. Not discussed, not mentioned.

Because the real problem are going to be people that will be far too sick for any treatment to help them avoid hospitalisation. And overloaded hospitals will not benefit a lot from the fact there is some treatment available.

The system will benefit much more from people not requiring hospitalisation in the first place, and currently that can only be achieved by having a large percentage of population vaccinated.
No, both have gotten much faster. This is just one release of performance improvements:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

It is worth noting that WPF can run on this latest version of .NET
Blood or saliva THC levels found to be poor sign of driving impairment
Seriously? The effort Rick puts into Paint.NET performance is unreal (check out his Twitter sometime). I've found it to be impressively fast, especially for how much functionality it has.

FWIW it was only recently migrated to a modern .NET version, give the latest version a spin if you haven't already.
Early winter heat shatters records in U.S., Canada
One would hope that security researchers worth their salt would install Windows updates that are 4 months old at this point.
Finding Stale Issues and PRs
NRO is different than Space Force. Space Force is relatively new and has a different mission.
I’ve watched this kind of stuff unfold for several years and this is where I think we went wrong: we allowed software to become “free” or “cheap” when it used to be $300, without acknowledging that this stuff still basically costs $300 to make!!

So now, every stupid thing has to be completely free just to be considered by any consumer, and every software maker has to beg, badger and berate users over and over to get them to try things and download things and sign up for things, all because we collectively forgot that we could have just paid them 40 bucks and moved on.

You used to have to pay for operating systems, and for a while it actually became more expensive (e.g. macOS was $99 but went up to $129 to everyone’s surprise before becoming “free”). You definitely used to pay through the nose for apps but you got a lot for that money. Mobile devices are largely responsible for the 99-cent-ification of software, most of which is now “free” with “in-app purchases” which is ironic since these “cheap” replacements sometimes cost hundreds of dollars more if you actually add up all the recurring in-app purchases they contain. And, of course, subscriptions.

So great, Windows is “free” now and web browsers no longer cost money like Netscape did but instead we get all this crap in our faces. Personally, I think we have lost a lot and we desperately need to re-learn how to pay, once, for software, again.
It's enough for the peak to swamp the hospitals over capacity for a week or two and the result will be very deadly, even just for non covid related cases.
It needs to transfer 4GB over the wire first.
Who said anything about low latency? The thing you get from a simulated block device is predictable, controllable latency. Latency that can be deterministically replayed. Latency that can be precisely normalized away in the benchmark results, without worrying about inter-batch anomalies (if using separate disks) or the effects of wear (on the same disk.)
Mitchell and Webb did a great riff on this: https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E
I am still not back to normal after my second shot. I have shortness of breath and horrible headaches I didn't have before.
I can't imagine getting another shot especially when access to doctors is very limited currently and they have been generally useless for my problems.
Something like this being mandatory is crossing the line for me. I would take measures to never take it, even if it means fleeing the country or finding other ways if the borders were shut.
I tried searching for an answer, but how do you get a site added to your directory? Who maintains it? Directories are a real PITA to maintain with any quality.
But your treatment one could say sites fronted by cloudflares are part of a closed web
Badge of honour I'd say. What was your transgression?
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just another reminder that teraform has a CDK. Everything has a CDK these days, at the end of the day the decision comes to your position on vendor lock-in/multicloud, and quality of the CDK. The fact that AWS/Pulumi have imperative CDKs is not that intersting
I'm really not sure if we're on the same page on the conclusion of the study, so I'll repeat it just in case:

Scenario 1: A vaccinated household member (the index case) is COVID-positive. The study finds that other household members are just as likely to get infected regardless of the vaccination status of the index case. There is no reduction of spread.

Scenario 2: Some household member (regardless of vaccination status) is COVID-positive. The study finds that other vaccinated household members are less likely to get infected. Spread is reduced.

That's basically what the WHO is saying - we may have had the positive impact of scenario 1 prior to Delta, but that's mostly gone. Scenario 2 still shows some effect on spread. It may be lower now, but it's still significant.

The article also states that "Vaccinating school-aged children may help minimize school disruptions by reducing the number of infections at school" and "there are benefits of vaccinating children and adolescents that go beyond the direct health benefits. Vaccination that decreases COVID transmission in this age group may reduce transmission from children and adolescents to older adults".
Cockroaches' prosperity relies on human's.
Of course, the fire marshal caused it to be closed to the public. Bureaucrats can't stand anyone having fun.
> Between 2015 to 2019, Iceland conducted test cases of a 35-to-36-hour workweek without any calls for a commensurate cut in pay

> The Spanish government agreed to a 32-hour workweek over three years without cutting workers’ compensation

Obviously it would be preferable to have 3 days a week off instead of 2 but not having one's pay cut, that's a fantastic bonus on top. I never even considered asking to keep my salary, I always just assumed I'd go down to 80% which I'm fine with.
> that could be used as a rationale to block literally every merger.

Even though that would hurt me businesswise I would happily sign for that future. And while we're at it: make it illegal for one company to hold shares in another. Just natural persons holding shares in companies would be fine.
+1 on this. Virtually all the sources interviewed are connected with the military or the government itself, which fits a propaganda model or at least a very one-sided view on the gravity of the threats. Not to say that the facts and incidents reported are false, but the framing of the narrative is problematic and missing key issues such as ---

1. To what extent are critical satellites already built to handle these threats?

2. How much of an offensive capability does the US already possess in terms of retaliation? [Edit : Seems like there are a ton of programs in existence already! How many more are actually needed?]

3. Are the views represented a minority or a majority view in the defense establishment?

4. Like [1], what do the JASONs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group)) or other groups that do not stand to gain directly from a budgetary increase towards defending such attacks have to say on the opinions of the general quoted in the headline?
Ivermectin has anti-viral properties, has great multi-decade safety history, and is cheaper than a soda.
It also has been shown to be an effective treatment when used early in disease.
LoL...
Is it really fair to say attack when they openly say “our spy satellites”. Is not spying considered an attack on those you are spying on?
Thank you so much for posting a transcript.

I ignore so many podcasts with clearly brilliant, interesting, valuable content in them because I just can't tolerate the tedium of having to listen to audio.
It's not just a back and forth in good faith. Small changes like plastic straw bans are often used to avoid taking action on things that really matter. It creates the illusion of progress so that the people really causing harm can continue without making any substantive changes to their bottom line.
I think, (or hope rather) that the mandates are well meaning, no I don't think this is dictatorship, rather I'm addressing your more "meta" point about social responsibility and the perils of one group being able to dictate to others without input.

As in, we can't just say "We have some social responsibilities so you must XX per the authorities" when XX is self serving, counterproductive, useless or harmful. We have an individual right, and responsibility, to weigh the dictates we are given at some point, perhaps not on all issues, but on some.

Other vaccines were not taken in to market in this manner. It is a novel vaccine.
Building an effective Faraday Screen is surprisingly difficult:

There are three completely different scenarios, blocking electrostatic fields, blocking RF energy, and blocking alternating magnetic fields.

The first can be achieved by a thin conductive screen (eg brass mesh with soldered seams), the second by thick copper sheet (with bolted seams) and the third requires thick magnetic material (eg iron or nu-metal).
Its never unreasonable to blame the victim, just bad taste.

Also consider its their tax dollars being squandered and mismanaged.
This will blow your mind: you can write a TF provider in real code that calls into the CDK that can be driven by TF scripts. You would do this to have a nice configuration language over the top of an opinionated set of resources.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately done it a lot lately. We ban that sort of account because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
100% custom.
Wouldn't Taiwan need a credible second strike capability as well? The US probably can't credibly guarantee their safety, so they'd need to be able to do that themselves, otherwise the threat is empty and useless.

But say the US really did arm Taiwan with first and second strike capabilities, I don't even think the US could stomach the reaction to that. How long could they hold out if embargoed by the PRC?
I was pretty fine after the first dose, but booster wrecked me.

> Don’t assume you will react the same with the booster as you did the first dose.

Works both ways unfortunately.
Its more of a historical observation. Fear is the powerful person's best friend. US has been surprisingly tame with it's authoritarian power grabs probably due to our checks and balances and state rights. I hear other countries are having much bigger problems with authoritarian power grabs.
It's not a lack of self-awareness. It's propaganda. Of course the US military is going to paint the people attacking them as the bad guys, even though the US military is likely engaging in the same kinds of attacks.
Part of the problem however is the theater’s solution is too naive — ideally they should be defaulting to 7, and then modifying for the exceptional cases, and then returning to default for the next movie.

What they’re apparently doing is hitting the exceptional case, changing the volume, and then leaving it there forevermore — so effectively picking the lowest common denominator. So every movie is screwed, except the movie with the most egregious violations
Unless you try it again, we have no quantitative basis for estimating your variance. You can brag all you like, but I'm not listening.
I don’t think you are aware of the definition of “to force”. It does not refer only to physical force.
And I like how they call it an attack while openly saying they were operating spy satellites. Should a country not be expected to prevent spy satellites from spying on them?
as mentioned in the other thread - the grant needs to compete with existing salary, or the OP would need to sacrifice potential income.

I dont think 100k for 6 months is ridiculous, because this is basically the starting salary for a grad engineer at a FAANG tech company. More, if they have experience.

What's actually ridiculous is "PhD income is $40k or less a year" - i think people (such as yourself) is so desensitized to low income as to feel normalized about it!
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. It's tedious, usually turns nasty, and is the sort of thing we're hoping to avoid here.

Also, starting a flamewar and then pouring fuel on the flames, as you did with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407387, is definitely not ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I used them all and kept using the ones that gave me unique results. Google was hands down better because of pagerank and boosts to dmoz listed sites and because they scanned the whole page ignoring keywords.
I'd argue that a level playing field and more competition in the search space is a good thing.
> Say one can send the exact cryptographic fingerprint and impersonate me. How is this anything better than me just sending password to authenticate?

The message can be signed with a private key to ensure you are not being impersonated. In cases where you'd also like anonymity, it is possible to add some salt as an input to the 'cryptographic fingerprint,' obfuscating the unsalted proof.

This video is good material for learning to reason about ZK proofs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3UlqJk3Kl0
Mojeek is returning great results I'm not seeing from any other search engine!
Human will find a way to migrate to another universe in next few billion years.
Definitely not in the Czech ICUs - the overwhelming majority is unvaccinated and the few people with a vaccine are usually either old, with other serious conditions or both.

And by the way we are barely above 60% vaccination rate and it shows - fighting hard with neighboring Slovakia for the two worst spots in the world for number of cases per 100k people...
Thanks!

It's surprisingly hard to get good technical transcriptions done.
That's cool I dislike taking medicine in general ...try to avoid any and all of it best I can as one of my organs was damaged from a med I took sometime in my life per my doctor. She advises take a little as possible which I do and really didn't want the vaccine especially cause it's so new. There's so many examples of new meds on the market that are later taken off but no choice with this junk.