skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is against user's best interests in using a search platform. It's making google a joke and meme target, and they couldn't care less since they are virtually a monopoly. It only goes to show their arrogance to not do something about it.
And omicron arose in vaccinated people and traveled the world in the respiratory tracts of the fully vaxxed.
The graph showing Omicron outcompeting Delta is, I think, actually good news. The worse condition would be if they don't even compete, i.e. Omicron was so different that having either Delta or Omicron wouldn't make you immune from the other. The pretty abrupt decline in Delta as Omicron ramps up, suggests pretty strongly that they do compete.

I think this one might be The One. Everyone will be immune soon, perhaps, one way or the other. But if Omicron and Delta compete, then it seems plausible that the existing vaccines would at least help a bit with the severity of symptoms.
Google already acts upon DMCA requests, delisting sites if requested. They add a small note to the end of their results to inform you if the page should normally have had more search hits.

So this raises so many questions. Has _no party_ requested to delist TPB under DMCA?!

That sounds incredible if true. But the only explanation I have for Google feeling like they need to go this far, delisting on their own initiative! It's like a scenario that should never have to happen, and something they should never do either.

So what's going on here?

Update: Ugh, editorialization... Apparently court has been involved here and while Google may not be individually targetted and forced YET, so "voluntary", it's easy to see how Google see the writing on the wall and choose to comply. No point in fighting this with such a clear cut DMCA violation. But in this case I'm still surprised it took this long!
The costs of masks are small but not zero - there’s pollution, there’s bacterial infections (masks that aren’t replaced every few hours are Petri dishes), there’s cognitive delay for babies, there’s horrible experience for the hearing impaired lip readers.

If your reasoning for refusing to wear a mask when you go to Walmart is "What if a lip-reader can't tell what I'm saying?!" then I think you might be a ... well, I won't put the word here because some people don't like it, but it begins with C.
The State Attorney General dragging the case out because they refuse to look at it. They also filed it under the wrong statue so their arguments are incorrect.
Svelte? React? Vue? Tbh I like anything other than angular. I mean really… fuck angular.
> They attempted to kill Kyle, but he defended himself.

Again, not trying to paint these guys as angels, but it does not seem that this is correct:

- the 'mob' chasing Rittenhouse that led eventually to him opening fire on Rosenbaum were shouting 'get him', and may even have shouted 'kill him'. We know that at least one of these people had a gun, but this gun was fired up into the air, rather than at Rittenhouse, and Rosenbaum threw a bag of clothes at Rittenhouse. Yes, Rosenbaum was approaching Rittenhouse, and Rittenhouse was probably scared, but it doesn't look like Rosenbaum was about to kill him.

- Huber's half-hearted hit with the skateboard hardly seems like the kind of force he could have mustered if his intent were to smash Rittenhouse's head in (it also seems from the video as though Huber was already moving away from Rittenhouse by the time Rittenhouse shot him)

- Grosskreutz approached Rittenhouse with his pistol drawn and pointed at Rittenhouse, but did not fire at him, instead opting to try to disarm him. If he'd been trying to kill him, he'd have had the chance to do so.
>If HTML allowed you to trivially import reuseable components like you can with JSX

Sounds like WebComponents.

>I'm looking at Astro...

Never heard of it and just gave it a quick glance. Hadn't heard of the "islands architecture" it implements either, although it is similar to some familiar concepts.

In fact, it reminds me of the way we built sites years ago (pre-AJAX even), when static HTML was just delivered by the server and there was little-to-no JS involved, save for some effects.

And, that's the funny thing: in spite of all the myriad paths and paradigms, we seem to be coming full circle. It's funny in 2021 to see a "new" project advocating for a "new" approach that is essentially "SSR static HTML with minimal client JS FTW!"
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Not an official study but just an observation - its very possible to avoid lockdowns so far, by implementing true vaccine passports. Israel did that without any shutdowns during the 4th wave. Basically banning non-vaccinated people from most public areas

and by true, that means something you can actually validate isn't fake, while checking for ID at the same time. And also not allowing in un-vaccinated children because of fairness. Deadly viruses do not care about fairness

At least here in NY, USA - I have my vaccine passport checked very often, but verified with my ID about 10% of the time. So that wouldn't have the same effect
My understanding is that a lockdown is only supposed to slow the spread and alleviate pressure on health services so that they are not overwhelmed. We saw what happens when they are overwhelmed in India - Many more people die that could have been saved.

So to answer your question, you would have to define 'objectively better'. Are you referring to economic outcomes, number of deaths or some other measurement?
A few weeks ago I did some research and started using the Toby tab manager plugin for Firefox and Chrome: https://www.gettoby.com/

I set up a "Frequent" tab group at the top, which has the pages that I often go to but that have weird URLs that I always struggle a little to find the right URL.

I really started using it for cross-machine tab parking. I always end up with a ton of tabs open across 2 chromebooks and my work machine, and "OneTab" helps, but has no ability to manage across multiple machines or browsers. With Toby I created sections for "Tooling Research", "General Work Research", "Logging and Monitoring", and individual projects that I seem to always want to get back to by leaving tabs open.

The down side is it takes a good 2 seconds when I hit "new tab" for it to load. I have been quite happy with it though.
How is this any different than what google does in google app?
Oh I didn't realize/forgot that PNG was losssless, thanks!

I'm curious how this file size would compare to a JPG at, say, level 85.
Real-Time Vehicle Tracking System Using PostGIS
I clearly remember devices marketed as digital books in the early 90s, but back around the time we were both born it was just about reading an ascii file on a glass teletype I suppose :)
It's a multi-language pseudocode interpreter so you can write and run code in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French in your browser.
Actually, that’s a reference to a movie called Inspector Dupin which is based on the book. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9135798/
> I live in Japan and everyone here wears a mask, but more importantly, wears them properly

I lived in Japan, and have many friends in Japan. This is true only if you redefine "properly" to exclude all indoor environments. People in Japan routinely gather inside without masks, then put them on when they go outside. You can watch the TV news and see people gathered in bars and restaurants with masks off, but then they wear them religiously while walking around the city. Absolutely pointless behavior. I see this behavior amongst my own friends regularly on Instagram and Facebook.

Moreover, it's fairly common to see things like "chin masks", like this:

https://zqxkk1h5ljq1vh5rd1kit5ok-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

I'm not sure what these are supposed to be doing, exactly, but sure, I guess people are "wearing masks".

> Many Japanese people are already attuned to wearing them during flu season, and everyone wears them if they think they are getting a cold

This wasn't even close to true, pre-pandemic. I was regularly sandwiched between people on trains with obvious head colds, sniffing their snot every 5 seconds. Sure, some people wore masks, but it wasn't "everyone". Not by a long shot.

> Masks are, of course, effective.

This is an assertion. The best available data from randomized controlled trials shows a minimal effect:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/do-masks-reduce-risk...

> Masks work.

Repeating this phrase, without evidence, does not make it true. Even ignoring the top-line RCT evidence, you have to define what you mean by "masks" to get close to a meaningful statement -- a chin shield is obviously nothing like a cloth mask, is nothing like a full-face respirator.
When people don't have the crayons and pencils they need to express themselves, they will reach for what is available.
The whole point of micro financing like this is about giving people the chance to afford more expensive, quality items. Instead of buying a cheap electric space heater that heats their place but drives up their electrical bill because of inefficiency they can buy a real replacement central heater. Of course you are right that it can be abused but at least they have the chance to make better financial decisions because of services like that or as Terry Pratchett wrote in Men at Arms they can now afford to buy the expensive boots:

The reason that the rich were so rich, [Captain Samuel] Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Guess I'm going to stick with my bank for lending.

Better has lower rates, but a mortgage is not like buying a phone. If things go south I can't just eat the loss
Valid. :)
I once recognized a former football teammate from the stands years later when he was in full pads and helmet just from how he ran onto the field. No doubt an AI could be even more accurate, which is why I recommend wearing a mask and riding a hoverboard everywhere.
Imagine if the conclusion is "the lockdowns were useless".
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The only thing riskier than smart contracts would be smart contract insurance products atop smart contracts. I'm sure they only allow for vetted contracts, but the incident discussed in this article was not a contract hack, it was a website hack to change the approve addresses. If that type of thing is going to be covered then it's well beyond smart contract due diligence. That would require evaluating end-to-end op sec practices on an ongoing basis.
My point was that organising something and making it accessible to people doesn't have to mean "without doing so in the way that makes money".
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I find that the most relevant information is given by Dr Fauci.
Everyone needs to trust the science and Dr Fauci, and stop reading anything else when we know the rest is misinformation.
Depends.

There are extensions (Dark Reader, a dark/light mode extension for Firefox, is an example) which trigger multiple redraws of a page on load. On an e-ink device (my principle driver these days), the extension is a near necessity (ironically, to force black-on-white themes on sites, much more readable on e-ink), and page re-paints are all the more jarring and expensive.

Simple pages still load quickly and without disruption. Many complex sites don't. (NPR's website comes particularly to mind.)
You have to accept the premise that code as an absolute authority is a good thing, if you accept that premise, a DAO makes a lot of sense and can deliver a lot of value: no longer are we beholden to the weakness of corruptible man, we are now empowered by the strength of noble technology.

of course, as a software engineer, you know that is a hellish nightmare because the code we write is fallible so this entire thing makes no sense whatsoever.
SA is only 25% vaxxed. Perfect ground for new mutations
They won't care until liability is attached to it which will make their entire business model of profiting off "engagement" at the expense of others unviable.
The reality no one wants to admit is that there is ample evidence for both "sides" of the argument.
Great points. So how does someone know which to chose?
A law that bans murder. There is no freedom to murder so it does not restrict any freedom.
In Germany, a country with among the highest rate of ICU beds per capita, we reached a point where scheduled surgeries for cancer patient are delayed because of this. Yet alone to speak about emergencies, in some regions it really is a bad time to have a heart attack or a stroke. Or a serious accident.

Which is why I am so frustrated with people refusing to be vaccinated and with our politicians that ignored all warning over a calm summer, again after they did the same ting in 2020. Because reasonable, innocent people are suffering now. Sometimes I wished voluntarily unvaccinated people would be consequent enough to refuse treatment.
Is this not the same problem when interacting with any other site? There is nothing stopping people from navigating to faecbook.com and entering their account details. At some point there is a bare minimum literacy expected of users.

As to how they would know if it's the real smart contract: they would see what it was via their wallet after interacting with it the first time.
You ask these questions like they can't be answered by a trust for the river. The river being granted personhood allows other legal entities to form around it and make arguments for its interests.

It does make sense. Using "personhood" in this way has been the status quo for half a dozen other types of entities for going on generations now. Your complaints here strike me as similar to complaining about the use of "they" for the genderless out of a "but it's plural!!!"
We tolerate driving, construction sites, motorcycles, alcohol consumption, cops with guns and don't go into lockdowns during flu season. There's a number of people who need to die every day due to those factors, and you're okay with that. What is your number?
I agree that Kyle was in a place he should not have been. As to causing trouble, I agree with that, thought may others might not. It must also be stated that the people who engaged with him were also in a place they should not have been in and were also in the process of causing some mischief.

All of this just leads me to believe that no one of "good quality" shows up to those events with the idea of causing excess trouble (outside of peacefully demonstrating). How else could it be that the three people who he shot had vast criminal back grounds (which don't apply to his self defense because he did not know about the criminal history when he was shooting them) being that of a child molester and domestic abusers and Kyle himself was on video beating up some girl.

When bad situations happen amongst a crowd of people, the "good quality" people see themselves out and try to leave while the "bad quality" people get hype and try to instigate further.
Thank you nonetheless : )
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pandora-papers-uk-real-estate-h...

> But the recent Pandora Papers leak has revealed that U.K. properties worth nearly $5.5 billion, according to those who've analyzed the documents, have been purchased through offshore shell companies that hide the owners' identities.

> "Using a shell company means that no one need ever know that the asset is yours," said anti-corruption activist Duncan Hames, Director of Policy at Transparency International. "Indeed, the British government probably doesn't know."
This is a great article, I just have one tiny nitpick: please add the publication date!

Information like this is very dependent on the context of when it was written, and something that is "best practice" or "an anti-pattern" will not always be that way. Adding a publication date and/or a "last updated" date to the top of the article is very helpful for readers to align the information in their minds.

EDIT: I realized just after posting this comment that the publication date is in the url. Time for that second cup of coffee :)
That seems dated. Deaths per million is higher in many countries with significantly stricter lockdowns like Spain and Italy.

There are of course density, age, and other differences to consider.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
Good news is it’s pretty cheap to test!! Recently had some questionable ceiling tiles in my house. $35 test kit from amazon for a box with a label, pop in a sample, mail off, and in 10 days confirmed my tiles did not have any. If they had, would have hired someone to remove it and get it out of my house…
You have put into words, what I have been feeling.

Thank you
I do wonder at what point this gets serious and starts interacting with OFAC; if it really worked as uncensorable finance, we'd have seen a tanker of Iranian oil sold for bitcoin. Doesn't quite seem to have reached that scale yet. I suspect a lot of nonsense is tolerated by the US authorities because it's enabling Chinese nationals to evade China's export controls, though.
In Japan, how long can you keep a minimum distance of 1,5 meter or greater to any other human being while outside your home? Japan is not exactly known for its low population density, nor having a young population.

I think most would agree that if they weren't effective in any situation then hospitals wouldn't had used them before the pandemic. The question has thus never been about if mask works, as obvious they do, but rather at what level of risk that they start being more effective than background noise.

If I traveled to Japan I would distinctly wear a n95 mask both on the plane (a small tube of recycled air with minimal distance to each other for a long period of time), and inside Japan when near people. I wouldn't however go out to work/school if I felt like I was getting a cold, even if culturally people would look down on me for missing work. I can imagine that the social pressure would increase the general risk and thus masks would be a useful mitigation tactic.
I tried that too. It was just horrible. If we drop the pocketable feature, Data General One was quite good ebook. It was 1982 maybe.
Animations like this shouldn’t require much CPU load. The actual 2D translation can be done on hardware providing no reflow occurs.
Yeah, anyone who's been following the way the virus spreads will have seen how countries will be declared success stories that beat the virus, and then a couple of months later get an enormous surge. Or we'll be told that a country is on the brink of collapse, but then the wave breaks and the cases suddenly start dropping. Just to give one example, here's how Czechia was presented in the summer of 2020[1]:

> Anyone interested in a real world case study on the extraordinary effectiveness of face masks in suppressing the spread of the coronavirus need look no farther than Prague. In this capital city of 1.3 million, among the first in Europe to decree mandatory universal mask-wearing almost four months ago, life has now returned to normal.

Most of Europe in general was presented as having beat COVID before the late summer surge.

No matter what happens, people say it proves their preconceived beliefs correct. "This country is doing better? Well, that's simply because they did [THING I LIKE]. Now it's doing worse? It must be because they're not doing [OTHER THING I LIKE]."

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/14/how-czech-...
All but certainly a large part of the solution, though there's something to be said for a profit motive. How much to be said, and how much profit ... leaves much to be said....
My problem is that these restrictions only apply to the common folk, political and business elites seem to have a pass…
Even golden boy Trudeau who can do no wrong was spotted in Ottawa breaking newly announced restrictions like goddamn.
Twitter allows parody, so this would be hard to enforce without banning legitimate uses.
However, language isn't all about what's legal/illegal but also perception. Your average person is going to reasonably infer they use various countries to dodge taxes that they should reasonably be expected to pay if we take a holistic view of the world.
The fact the FBI had several informants in the Proud Boys is public knowledge.

The FBI is well known for “encouraging” radical Muslims to commit terrorism in the US so not surprisingly they’d do the same with right wing groups.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-before-jan-6-fbi-...
Approximately every house has an aerial, its presence is not a good indicator of if there’s a TV hooked up to it. I think most likely they just look through your window.
Nah HotBot and AskJeeves didn't have a problem back in the day. Google sounded just as ridiculous when it came out.
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Previously, I had greatly underestimated the impact physical fitness has on my mental health.

Incidentally, highly recommend -

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-...
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> Minimal containers shouldn't need that though.

In theory. In practice this is only rarely the case.
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