skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Connection between coronavirus disease-19 and exposure to wireless communication
Biontech has proven to have 93% efficacy against hospitalization after 6 months [1].

- 1: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Free credit monitoring is the biggest scam of all:

- Company doesn't follow security practices and leaks data

- Feds get notified if it's a big enough breach. Btw, this is from the good will of the company

- Data Brokers...erm, Credit Agencies, then monitor for the data...i guess the insurance company sent it to them too, so they know what to look for?

- I don't know who pays for this (originating company, tax payers, etc)

- Credit Agencies now get to monitor you. Watch what you do under the guise of protecting you. While still building your credit score.

- Hopefully the info leaked and being used is accurate. If not, the Credit Agency has no obligation to fix it unless you say so and even then it can take a long time to remedy.

This just seems fucked.
Modifying the procedures and allowing people to work before they're through arbitrary redtape does. The EUA the vaccine received is the same concept. The reason the vaccine was developed faster wasn't just the number of scientists working on it, but the amount of funding directed towards it. Increasing money to education programs would increase the amount of people they can train, allow for further optimizations to be developed etc.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

This is "A law that authorizes mandatory vaccination during an epidemic of a lethal disease".

Now, I'm vaccinated and support vaccination (though, I'm on the fence about forced vaccination - though I do think it can be a fire-able offense, if you can't telecommute). However, does 1.6% reach the bar of a "sufficiently lethal" disease, especially now that our medical system has regained its footing and is more capable of handling the number of patients now that vaccination rates have reached 70%?

Bodily autonomy is an important right. Forced sterilization, as referred to in the article, was a nightmare. Forced mental care facility commitment, was/is fraught with abuse, especially when we consider lobotomies. Granted, this is nowhere near that, I will agree. But, as you say, precedents will be set about what is or is not legal to circumvent for body autonomy due to an epidemic of a lethal disease.

Is social unrest use a lethal disease, caused by social media? Should steps be taken to "inoculate" us from ourselves?
> with an implicit type contract (potentially generated) through the creation of these files

Racket is able to automatically convert static types of Typed Racket into contracts when values flow between typed and untyped worlds. This happens automatically and transparently, which means you don't have to worry about almost at all. One advantage Racket has over JS is the module system (well, it holds the same advantage over almost all the other languages), which allows typed and untyped code to reside in the the same file, yet have a clear boundary between them.

I can't find it right now, but there was a paper describing how it works. It's probably somewhere here: https://github.com/samth/gradual-typing-bib (if you're curious enough to read many tens of abstracts...)
The RISC idea was to not include in the ISA instructions so complex that they would require a multi-cycle implementation.

The minimum duration of the clock cycle of a modern CPU is essentially determined by the duration of a 64-bit integer addition/subtraction, because such operations need a latency of only 1 clock cycle to be useful.

Operations that are more complex than 64-bit integer addition/subtraction, e.g. integer multiplications or floating-point operations, need multiple cycles, but they are pipelined so that their throughput remains at 1 per cycle.

So 64-bit addition/subtraction is certainly expected to be included in any RISC ISA.

The hardware adders used for addition/subtraction provide, at a negligible additional cost, 2 extra bits, carry and overflow, which are needed for operations with large integers and for safe operations with 64-bit integers.

The problem is that the RISC-V ISA does not offer access to those 2 bits and generating them in software requires a very large cost in execution time and in lost energy in comparison with generating them in hardware.

I do not see any relationship between these bits and the RISC concepts, omitting them does not simplify the hardware, but it makes the software more complex and inefficient.
The thing that you want was around in the 90s already, and it's called multiple windows without tabs.
I totally agree… what’s interesting is that some of the reasons that FTC provide are totally not what’s interesting (self driving).

I have a MacBook Pro with M1 ARM chip, and I love it, it’s extremely power efficient, I don’t really have to think much about charging it. It wouldn’t be possible if NVIDIA could force its chips on Apple.
I'm not sure what you mean by "until when?".

> do you think they wont start forcing the needle?

The article is about _fining_ people, i.e. negative monetary incentives. Your reply outlined a bunch of positive monetary incentives. There's probably enough research out there which of the two works better (negative or positive), so I won't get into that. I will say that I think it's quite a stretch to say that either is a step-up to "forcing a needle in you", and that I find it a bit disingenuous to imply that this slippery-slope argument only applies to negative monetary incentives.
I have the 24 port poe model and swapped the fan for a noctua. The stock fan wasn't noisy by rackmount switch standards but it was more than I prefer to have audible in my living space.
In TFA from the parent comment, it states that the reduction is directly correlated to not having appropriate staffing; not necessarily a count of physical beds.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to about a “defense in court”, but I also don’t know what the appropriate solution is for that situation. Teaching / training people takes time, and compulsory service at the direction of the government seems like overreach.
U.N. Taking Down Private Websites – Domain Level Censorship
Here's Matt Stoller's explanation: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/ftc-sues-to-block-nvidia-...

I'm guessing "the law" is probably the Sherman Antitrust Act, which is still on the books, though enforcement went out of fashion in the 1980s. Seems to be making a comeback, though.
Exactly. Filtering information from misinformation is also a good selling point.
Want a war? That’s all you’re going to get if you persist with this paranoid hypochondriac fascism.
Virginia Opossums don't eat ticks
Still, this is not different than other contracts. Negotiability is not an essential element of any other contract. Nor can other contracts contradict law.
> It just means I learnt a new fact.

and that you're comfortably within a fact-based frame (perhaps "meta-frame" is more appropiate). Which is a very effective frame which enables cooperation with millions of others but nonetheless is a frame.
Hand sanitizer? We’ve know for over a year now that hand sanitizer does nothing against covid because that’s not how it spreads.
> Sometimes rights clash, which is why you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater despite having the right to freedom of speech.

The decision about yelling fire in a crowded theater originates from Schenck v. United States, in which the Supreme Court decided it's OK for the US Government to suppress anti-draft protests; consider if you wish to build arguments on this foundation.
How about showing some leadership from the “leader of the free world”?
This reminds me of all the tech people (from Bill Gates on down) who think society can solve its toughest problems by supposedly sidestepping politics, as if they were not political actors and their “solutions” devoid of political context.

Also, charter schools are the education equivalent of “greenfield” solutionism alluded to in earlier comments.
> where files in the recycle bin came from

Great, another feature I don’t want.
Well, how much does it cost you to rent a car for a weekend?

I just checked and it appears to be over $300 for the tiniest clown car available near me.

That is roughly triple the federal mileage reimbursement rate (assuming 10Kmi per year), so I'm guessing renting every week would be more expensive than owning.

Moreso if you drive very little, because insurance, gas, and maintenance are less when you drive less. They're not pets; they don't have to be fed and walked when you're not interacting with them.

But I would be more concerned about the cost of having things delivered. I'm not sure if the scenario you are thinking of is going to the store to get a week's groceries, or to the mountains to snowboard.

I'm also wondering whether the context is "every software engineer makes at least $500K" or "all the people with $1000 in their checking account will be first against the wall when the revolution comes".
no. That was a rethorical device I used in my comment.
I think the author invited this though. Half the article is a well thought out discussion of important problems. There is some nuanced thinking about markets and capitalism that addressed both the pros and cons.

But the article started and ended with completely unsupported claims about how the world is going to hell and "we all feel it".

The commenter you're responding to merely pointed out that, no we don't all feel it, most people actually have things very good these days. And that doesn't mean there aren't still major issues that we should be working hard on.
Yeah, I'm learning to schedule my deep work when my energy is the highest and the house is the quietest. Remote work is great esp when I lived alone, but now I'm finally my afternoon time blocks get interrupted more & more.

Curious, Matt how do you enjoy life beside binge watching Netflix? What are your pursuits. I've been at this founder journey so long, that most of my pursuits fall into work-related or comatose in from of the tv.
It's shocking how just four years of Trumpism have made it difficult for Americans to even imagine a US government agency actually doing its job, as it was intended to do.

We now just automatically jump to assuming "fuck everything, except making more money and Mercuh".

Sad.
The flu shot needs to be updated yearly, and it mostly prevents hospitalizations and deaths. Seems pretty similar.

The flu vaccine is about 70% effective against getting flu[0], but it varies wildly by year. The Pfizer mRNA vaccine is about 50% effective against catching COVID five months later[1] (for the delta variant, anyway), but the third dose seems to push that up substantially.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/how-effective-is-flu-vaccine

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The article says that Germany is planning to make the shot compulsory, literally this article that these comments are ostensibly discussing, in the second paragraph, so I'm not sure where you got the idea nobody is going to be forced to get vaccinated, but the gaslighting isn't appreciated
Perhaps true in the north american colonies but in proper english it is a perfectly fine term referring to an injection.
> I simply don't understand why one person needs to undergo a medical procedure to enable someone else to experience the safe conditions they want.

Me neither, I think it's completely unreasonable.
Wow blast from the past. I think I was using Copernic all the way back in 2003... Forgot all about them. Thanks!
Even if it’s around 1 forever, if the effects are mild as they are with vaccinated people, it’ll be manageable as flu is.
It’s still slow to start up. That’s partially because of .NET in general. There is a lot of code to read and JIT before a .NET application runs.
DeFi and the Hyper-Capitalist Counterculture
Regarding 2 and 3, it feels like a major factor here is the huge number of people who have forgotten (or never knew) that vaccines as a category aren't automatically 100% effective, because all the hard work to wipe out diseases like measles from the general population has already been done.
In fact, germany had a vaccine mandate against smallpox until 1975 https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impfpflicht and we have one against measles, though the mandate only requires children and people in certain fields of work to be vaccinated (teachers,caregivers etc.) The German constitutional court ruled in 1959 that the vaccine mandate against smallpox is constitutional.
A war with sneezers?
>> But requiring others to get a vaccine to attain some arbitrary risk ratio just doesn't make sense.

Uhm, we do this all the time: licensing, seat belts, etc. Welcome to modern society.
One of the most salient thing about rights is that people constantly disagree about them and they often disagree with each other. For example

* My right to speak freely and say cruel things vs the right of someone else to live a peaceful life free of terror.

* The right of a privacy for a politician vs the right of the pubic to know about their character & personal life.

* The right of a capitalist to buy out all the competition vs the right of the consumer to have choice.
Part of the thing with echo chambers is that the search terms themselves can be indicative of a particular bubble. For example, there's a difference in the people that refer to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms by the official initialism, "ATF", and those that use "BATF". There's a strong antigun control bent to the `"BATF" guns` query, compared to the `"ATF" guns` query.

If you're indexing forums or social media, the same site is going to give back the bubbled responses, possibly without the person even being aware they're in a bubble.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22BATF%22+guns&client=safar...

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ATF%22+guns&client=safari...
Still alpha software, but may be usable already: https://github.com/garage44/pyrite
Why should a vaccinated person wear a mask? Do vaccines not work? What is the point of getting one if I still have to wear a mask?

Naw. Masks need to go away.
> Let's make this virus extinct.

Here's the core problem - unrealistic expectations. Even the CDC has backed off from the whole "make the virus extinct" mantra; they haven't spouted it for over a year now. Which is a good thing - it was utterly ridiculous from day one.

This virus isn't going away. It is carried by animals. You going to vaccinate every animal that we all come in contact with? Ha! You are not going to shelter in place or vaccinate away this virus. We had better figure out how to coexist with it in a rational and reasonable manner.

The good news with the Omicron variant there are no reported hospitalizations in South Africa. So it's more virulent, but less bad. Here is the perfect path to herd immunity - a variant that people can get a mild infection from and have stronger natural immunity to than the vax would give, as well as broader protection to variants. Actually any protection to variants would be an improvement over the current vax - there has be zero confirmation from the CDC or vax makers that the vax provides any protection against Delta, let alone Omicron. All they make are vague promises about it reducing the reaction. Big deal! If the reporting by South African doctors is correct and Omicron is as mild as they have seen then what exactly is the vax doing? Nothing - except exposing you needlessly to potential side effects.

BTW that Omicron is more virulent but less bad is totally unsurprising to anyone familiar with viruses and who wasn't politically motivated or shamed to pushing the ridiculous narratives around COVID right now; this is totally expected behavior as viruses mature in the wild and was predicted by many virologists last year. Virologists who were then quickly derided as quacks, truthers and worse since they dared to challenge the widely accepted groupthink. Same crap that happened with the lab leak, changing stances on masks, ignoring of massive spike in reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and more - hot takes that turned out to be VERY wrong later but amazingly the corrections never get the same amount of publicity as the initial propaganda.
I'm not sure I support a vaccine mandate.
I'm just saying that the vaccines work and it's foolish to claim otherwise.

I can understand hesitation to get vaccinated, but I'd like to ask those same people if they take any other medicine at all and if they have read the pamphlet that comes with those.

Also I'd like to ask if they are fine with getting a completely alien and known harmful substance into their body, the substance we call Coronavirus.
Frictionless payments are a relatively small part of it. The bigger part is figuring out who needs to be paid for what.

Consider gitcoin, for instance. Yeah, it processes payments, but more importantly it tracks developer reputation, user donations, and facilitates aggregate decision making (re: voting on how to spend the money).

Are you saying that eventually, the users will vote to have ads included in their open source software? I think not. It's only when somebody is able to exploit a privileged position as owner-of-the-medium that you get greed-driven service degradation like that. But we're learning how to build ownerless mediums. Whatever problems they have, I don't think they'll be the same-old middleman problems that we're used to.
So I could go to a doctor and ask for exemption on the grounds that I'm a young male and I'm most susceptible to getting Myocarditis from the shots? Or that I've already had Covid and there's good evidence that I don't need a shot?

I don't think so.
Is there a semi competitive Risc-V core implemented anywhere?

It all seem hypothetical to me now, fast cores would fuse the instructions together so instruction count alone isn't adequate for the original evaluation of the ISA. Now I'm not sure that there are any that really do that..
That's not quite what's being asked for. I think it's more like super+1 for "move workspace 1 to the current monitor". I haven't quite figured out how to do that in sway, although I'm pretty new with it.
>I don’t think any expert nor any public health department is working with the goal of eradication in mind

I believe I speak for many when I say, "I have no idea what the experts' have in mind" (and that's not a good thing).

So they're trying hard to get everyone vaccinated - a noble goal, perhaps, as our current roster of vaccines diminish symptoms and greatly reduce hospitalization and fatality rates. But..."Stop the spread, get vaccinated"...what? Like the parent said, all of the currently-approved intramuscular Covid-19 vaccines have proven to have a negligible effect on transmission rate.

Early on, experts probably made an educated guess or wish that these vaccines would be sterilizing and started information campaigns on this premise. When this turned out to be not true, their "Stop the spread, get vaccinated" became "You unvaccinated are the problem, you are holding us back, and you will be locked down immediately". Rather than address their mistake, rather than open up transparently, they doubled down on the lie. Not a good way to build trust.
Too bad we can't just fork a copy without ads and use that instead.
A movie cinema is calibrated to a certain decibel level and should have a predictable frequency response.

So it should sound the same, or very similar to, his sound lab.

If the quality of the sound in the cinema is bad, that's the cinema's fault.
> [People] in continental europe people live in cold and damp houses in the winter.

Really?
FYI this is exactly what the hashbangs in DDG do!
I miss that.

When I was at work, I had a trio of old 20" (1680 x 1050, IIRC) screens. They were 2005FPW Dells that had a—for the time—beautiful IPS display. I got them used for around $80 apiece. Email on the left, documentation and browsing on the right, and code or database windows in the center.

Now in my home office it's a pair of 24" 1920x1200 displays. They're great, but I miss the centered "main" screen, and the larger sizes are wasted on the peripheries anyway.
it's not that it's slow or resource hogs, it's janky which gives the same impression as being laggy
... yeah, okay, I disagree with everything. I don't think it's acceptable for a government to insult its citizens, and I do think boundaries should be respected.

Nothing more to say, our worldviews are too far apart.
> [RISC-V] leads in code density among the 64 bit architectures.

You keep baldly asserting this in virtually all of your very many replies here, with a vague appeal to your own authority, but you haven't shown anything. Given that the submission is precisely an example of bad code density, if you're really here in the service of intellectual curiosity then please show instead of just telling.
Adding a gatekeeper collecting rent isn't a solution - the people using SEO are already spending money to get their name up high on the list.
You won’t be forcefully vaccinated. But you can be fined for not taking the vaccine and you can be restricted in what jobs you work in. That’s how it works with the current limited vaccine mandate for measles.
I have an instant on switch and quite like it. Worth noting however that the unifi-style all in one management interface requires using their cloud service, it can't be self-hosted like unifi. The switches can be configured locally (individually) but the access points can't.

Wish they would reevaluate that decision, as I've heard good things about their access points.
Many "normal" people aren't gamers. My mom and my father in law used PCs frequently at home, never played games. My wife doesn't play on her Mac (but she does on her iPad). I am also not a gamer, and I've been heavy microcomputer user (hobbyist and professionally) since 1984 and haven't played many games since my Commodore 64 days. (I know, I'm talking about "old" people. We're still normal.)
> Counts of deaths in the most recent weeks were compared with historical trends (from 2013 to present) to determine whether the number of deaths in recent weeks was significantly higher than expected, using Farrington surveillance algorithms (1).
I was also very sick after my first dose. Completely fine with the booster. Don’t assume you will react the same with the booster as you did the first dose.
Dude, it's nearly 2022. How do you still not know that covid is an airborne virus and hand sanitizer doesn't help anything?
Well yeah, but what you said is exactly the problem here... Vaccines were promised to be safe and effective against infections... then astrazeneca killed a few people, Jansenn killed a few people, moderna was stopped in finland, sweden, denmark etc., and of course people lose trust. In slovenia, for girls under 25, we currently have 1 death due to the vaccine (jansenn) and zero deaths due to covid (with a bit over 50% of the population getting covid - around 1mio). Also the changing the definition, from "preventing infection" to "preveting hospitalizations" doesn't help.

I got vaccinated to protect myself. I am aware that even with 100% vaccination rates, sooner or later i will get in contact with covid (and/or i probably already have), and the vaccine is protecting only me. I am not afraid of the unvaccinated, and I don't care if they choose a greater risk, it's their life, and their choice.
>then declare it public domain already…

Well that ship has sailed, as ARM is owned by the Japanese Softbank now.

Previously, it was a UK firm, and now the UK is trying to introduce legislation to prevent this from happening again.

ARM was UK's "oh shit" moment. That influenced their move to declare nuclear weapons industry "public domain", i.e. nationalize it:

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2020/11/02/Britain-to-natio...
That's an amendment. I guess it's better than nothing, though: it has the definition of AVCDecoderConfigurationRecord (because it extends it).