skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you agree that "Given a ~75% vaccination rate, the fact that >75% of cases are 'unvaccinated' implies strongly that this is an issue of unvaccinated - both in 'spread' and number hospitalized." but then you also say "That is basically not true, by your own reference."?? That doesn't make logical sense.

Like I have said before, it's a potential severe symptom mitigator which also wanes off over few months. That doesn't mean it prevents transmission or infection. My comment was in reference to "vaccine passports" which make no logical sense when they don't prevent infection or transmission.

Also, the hospitalizations and deaths are vastly in elderly, obese or immunocompromised. It makes no sense to force it on young, fit and healthy people, especially not on kids.

You are aware that Pfizer is already talking about a 4th shot right? How many more shots do you suggest people should take?
I studied the impact of advertising for apps a few years ago and there was a similar effect: advertising reduced the decision time (which can be surprisingly long, while 50% reacted within 24 hours, 20% did so more than 3 weeks later). If your analysis window is too short, you will mistake this effect for a genuine increase.
Ask HN: Why is tech UX so bad in general?
I have just tried to get my access back to my bank account.

Since I switch numbers frequently due to moving countries, 2FA is hell for me.
To get my account back I need a selfie with both my face and ID visible. Very hard. Guess it's due to security.

After some hours wasted I got it done. Time to transfer the file. Of course gmail does not send my email.
Fear not, I am smarter than that. Upload to Drive. Nope, does not work either. Weird.

Upload with facebook messenger maybe? Hmm they compress images like hell.
The other day fiverr was not loading orders for like a day. Wise.com turned chinese for no reason. Google cloud resets my functions to private randomly.

Am I losing my mind? Getting old? Too busy? Frustrated? Am I just a shitty developer? How do non techies cope?
I wonder if you could cut this down by focusing on know implementations and their random number generation. That is trying to figure out if weaker random number generation at any point was prevalent...
It's like passively playing the world's worst lottery in terms of odds, but hundreds of thousands of times every second. It's fun but the odds are astronomically low.

I have a script[1] that generates a pub+private key and checks against a massive file of addresses with BTC[2]. The list of addresses is loaded in memory as a python `set` so checking is O(1), but I feel like optimisations at increasing the rate are futile, since no matter what you're basically rolling the die and hoping RNG lands on your side in your lifetime and your universe of all possible universes.

1. https://github.com/theden/btc-heist

2. https://bitkeys.work/download.php has a weekly updated CSV of all known addresses with nonzero BTC balance
Fascinating article, but I think it could benefit from some more examples. Since it mentions "a tree evolving into a dandelion (or vice-versa)" and then a paper about wood evolving independently at least 38 times in the Canary Islands, the perfect example is Sonchus Canariensis (https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?p..., better picture: https://garden.org/pics/2014-03-30/Kelli/5ef4db.jpg). I saw this plant during a hike on Tenerife a few years ago and found it so fascinating that it has stuck in my mind ever since. It's basically a colony of dandelions (ok, they're a bit larger, but still clearly dandelion-like) growing on long woody stalks. Not quite a tree yet, but definitely a shrub. I guess its peculiarity of only having leaves at the tip of its "branches" limits its growth, because the water circulation in a "tree" is made possible by the negative pressure produced by water evaporation on the leaves, so a "branch" can only get so long with leaves only at its tip?

And, since it later also mentions theoretical "insect birds"... well, there are some insects who are regularly mistaken for hummingbirds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth. In photos you can quite clearly see that it's an insect, but if you see it in real life it hovers around flowers just like a miniature hummingbird, and it's a bit large and bulky for a flying insect, so the confusion is understandable. BTW this is also an example of convergent evolution, and it's interesting that these moths don't exist on the American continent, where the actual hummingbirds have occupied this ecological niche.
Remember that the ones spreading this theory before any evidence of any kind, were very much pushing a biowarfare angle. They still are but now they are more diluted ammong the larger group supporting a lab leak theory.

The conspiracy theories these people were pushing as a lab release had themes of gerontocide, eugenics, mind control by 5G, microchipping, general anti-vaxx beliefs most blaming Bill Gates as a sort of Bond villain.

All of these are still being pushed.

Do we have more plausible sources an accident happened? Yes.
Was it reasonable to blame China for biowarfare against the whole world including itself, or to accuse Bill Gates for planning to exterminate half the population? No.
This brings me back, loved this game and I'm impressed with the updated version.
Your opinion is so incredibly off base it is borderline insulting as someone who has heart problems that will kill me. There are a lot of us and it had nothing to do with diet
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I'm not sure that it's premature. We use categories all the time, the time when they fail us seem to be rare in proportion.
Besides the gaming desktop, and the two laptops, I also have a normal old school desktop for the TV.

And honestly, I don't see why that's not a common practice. Super easy to use.

No Android fiddling needed at all.
This reduces that number of years by 28 digits, afaiu, and that is still a pretty big number of billions of years.
> The major VPNs log, this has been shown in court cases.

Some VPNs have proven no-log in courts, eg PIA.

The VPNs in your article are far from reputable.
Indeed, they are. Just like your comment and mine are included in the library of babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?comment:14
... not even close.

2^256 is a very large number. If you could build a computer that required a single atom, and could test the balance of a single account in a single nanosecond, and then converted the entirety of the earth into such computers, it would take ~2.8 million years for you to check 0.01% of all accounts.

Brute-forcing modern cryptography isn't something that can happen. The magnitude of 2^256 is close to the count of atoms in the entire observable universe.
Average time until collision.
How to save social media by treating it like a city
It's not.

This is regularly claimed but I can only presume it's by people who have never ever used a Mac, just looked at screenshots.

It does not work in any way like a Mac.
Wouldn't that risk contaminating the water table?
Yes you are. Just keep a low profile so they don't come after you.
Source on 90% vacancy? I find that completely implausible.
Also, using browser as UI should not mean downloading JS ever.
Severe and mild are measurable, clinical terms. It’s not subjective.

Severe Illness: Individuals who have SpO2 <94% on room air at sea level, a ratio of arterial partial pressure of oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen (PaO2/FiO2) <300 mm Hg, a respiratory rate >30 breaths/min, or lung infiltrates >50%.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/overview/clin...

> People need to stop framing death or ICU are the only shitty outcomes of Covid. Long Covid is far worse.

Long Covid is far worse than ICU or death? Surely that’s a typo on your part.

In the Pfizer clinical trial for 5-11 100% of Covid cases were mild. No ICU, no hospitalization, no death, and no long Covid.
In Germany you must accept returns and give back the deposit if you sell bottles or cans that have the deposit attached.
Not really because if you are travelling at the speed of light time isn't passing...
There are moped cars that are expensive, unreliable and quite unsafe.

There was the initiative to install a speed limiter to regular cars to turn them into "light cars" for kids but that didn't pass for some reason. EU regulations? How is it possible in Sweden?

Countryside can be really sparse, with current amount of people a kid's nearest friend might live 5 km away. Cars make so much sense there. Lots of people learn to drive really young with a "peltoauto", a field car. That's legal as it's on private property.
The article is talking about subpoenas – court orders for disclosure of relevant records, which override ethical and contractual confidentiality obligations, unless the person holding the confidential documents persuades the court to quash or limit the scope of the order. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/07-08/ce-corner
> but we know that some states go knocking on doors with gag orders.

Hence the need to buy from a reputable VPN, based somewhere where gag orders are not legal.

Personally, I'd believe a carefully chosen VPN provider to be more trustworthy than a random selection of Tor nodes.
Now that it looks like a phone number, one could unleash a horde of telemarketers at it.
They're the trivial wallet addresses (close to the beginning and end of the search space). I would expect them to be used for debugging and testing in the early days.
It is a military superpower; one shouldn't expect them to address their security in terms of charity and human rights.

As for security of Europe, the status quo was already changed when they successfully took Crimea, and I think EU leaders like Germans and France have admitted as much in practical terms.

The energy situation in western Europe is comical and mostly a self own. I can't even take seriously when they keep being hostile to Russia and act surprised when they get squeezed by Russia. Also Ukraine and Belarus can coerce countries downstream from them wrt. gas.
> Aug. 13-26

Why are you using data from August when newer data is available and shows 76% of cases in Ontario are now in vaccinated? I even mentioned that Canada had under 10% vaccination till June 10, so vast majority of the vaccinations happened after June 10. With their 3-6 month waning immunity, we are now off the "honeymoon" period and are seeing 76% of cases in vaccinated.

Rest of your comment tells me you can't have a civil discussion without dehumanizing people.
Someone recommended NameSilo many years ago here on HN and since then I use them. No issues so far.
You could check a lot more than 1B address per second.
This list is trash. Why, for example, is Hetzner missing in the cloud computation section? Or SAP? I could understand that they didn't want to over-emphasize any country and give a fair selection, but many countries, especially Germany, has many more companies in any of these spaces.
For all dutch people in this thread:
"the guy who knows all PIN-codes" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54CXA2eilk
I use plex and only archive music because my collection is rare and will degrade over time (vinyl). not owning the media is what prevents me from using these services too (apart from the lack of catalog). fortunately there's bandcamp and some other sites that understand the rights of the consumer. btw plex + plexamp is fantastic
If I had some coins on my machine and the fees were low enough I'd be tempted to put a few bucks on a new key and test this theory.
Apple’s behaviour killed many extensions. I use [Bloquealos](https://apps.apple.com/it/app/bloquealos/id1554895615) on iOS and the rare times i use Safari on Mac, but I recommend you to try Firefox on Desktop. It’s not as efficient as Safari but it doesn’t eat your battery like chrome and with the right extensions the overall user experience gets perfect. I can’t imagine abandoning all the extensions now that i’m used to.
Also container (enhanced -again- with extensions) are revolutionary.
Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)
Open Swoole Dashboard
Isn't it time to start reading German books? Duolingo was never meant to be an all in one solution.
Thank you Finland, can we stop exporting 1GW+ of our precious electricity to you year-round soon? ;)
You’re right that is what makes a tree. But don’t you feel that it’s obvious that different lineages of plants could acquire, and lose, woodenness independently of each other? And therefore 100% unsurprising that “tree” is not a monophyletic group.
Highly entertaining, thanks.

It's not all fun and games apparently, two years prison is a long time:

> The goat was stolen by a man, who then placed it in his backyard. He was later sentenced to two years in prison for aggravated theft.

Also, this made me chuckle:

> On 13 December fire crews responded to a call that the 'little goat' was burning, only to discover it was in fact a miniature Yule goat somebody had brought and torched at the scene.
Here's what we do at sentry.io :) https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/4cf958535563a6b7443...
Musing: will there be a vaccine or treatment that prevents infection, either in the infected or the infectee, as a preventative measure?
Can confirm. My son was definitely born with most of his behavioural patterns already formed. It appears to me that we as parents can only guide what is already there, and not completely reshape our children into whatever suits us.

I expect parents expectations of how much they can shape their children has caused more broken adults than anything else.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41962375
> I think that’ll hold true until around the 5k people mark.

The towns that are "important regional centers" in Northern Scandinavia are often smaller than that.
> If a German/French/Spanish/Italian person says Europe or European, especially if they've been to university, they a very likely to mean the EU and only the EU. These people usually don't consider Switzerland or Britain to the "European" as a consequence.

German, been to university. Same for my whole social system. That's absolutely BS what you're saying. Especially German speaking countries have a stronger bond than EU/Europe because of "DACH" and a shared culture (see the anthroposophy discussion recently).
Purely out of interest, how has this been proven?
To block on a DNS level on iPhone and Mac I use Lockdown which is open source and lightweight. Recommend it to everyone but the initial setup is a bit long because the built in filters are too scarce.
An all private keys are in π... somewhere.
I don't understand the silence, as I've said on here before - how can an Australian citizen who published articles in Iceland, who was captured in the UK be extradited to the US for crimes under US law?

You look at the Australian journalist who was working in China as a journalist and was imprisoned for vague charges, and there's an outcry.

Look at the Australian citizen who was captured half a world away they're trying to drag to the US for crimes under US law that weren't committed in that country - is there a difference? It could be argued the case of Assange is even worse. Imagine if China decided Assange was guilty of crimes under Chinese law and reached out like this, the outrage would be palpable.

Even the deputy PM has recently came out and said Assange shouldn't be extradited - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/barnaby-joyce-opposes... and said similar things.
the odds increase a lot though if you have millions of people all over the world using the site to generate pairs right? ;)

yes yes i know its still a shot in the dark but a man can dream.
My strategy is to put pre-commit in the dev requirements (which includes test-specific packages that would be irrelevant for production) and then CI can run the same hooks that pre-commit runs locally.

The objective is that ultimately no non-compliant code can be merged to master; the pre-commit hook (along with all other tests or whatever your CI enforces) is a mandatory step before a PR can be merged, and nobody is allowed to push to master directly.
Even if there were 10^18 wallets your chance of finding any private key is effectively zero
I have tried to use this to no avail the documentation (as usual is woeful) in the end I have brought a second sound card.

I want to use a daw to handle my audio for the online TTRPG's processing voice and playing back cues for when I am DM's

This functionality should be part of the core of windows audio - which given the rise in remote working improving the frankly crap widows audio should be a priority.
Someone sent 2.3BTC to the last possible address in 2017, worth ~$5k at the time. It was hoovered up to another address in a few hours.

Hobbies of crypto millionaires?
It hasn't been a month since the Omicron variant was reported to the WHO. All the indications could point any way and we wouldn't have solid evidence yet - it takes time for the disease to play out. NYMag can't magic solid evidence into existence when it doesn't really exist, especially from a week ago. This is the same sort of thing as got the "its just a flu" type mutterings while the pandemic was ramping up.

It might be a lot milder, and that would be nice. But if it turns out to be about the same then the speed of its spread is scary.
Couple years ago there was a similar site with the same idea about listing all private keys. If you "found" an active address it was immediately emptied. (I am not sure if it had a search bar or you had to edit the URL)
This one has a more condensed ui:

https://keys.lol/bitcoin/random
So, after a few minutes on the site, I found a half-dozen private keys with several transactions, but zero balance. Is the key-space so densely populated that this is expected?
Edit: Never mind, I'd misclicked on the "last page" button, which has a page with a fair few transactions showing.
The point of things like constitution and Universal Charter of Human Rights is not to actually prevent anybody to infringe human rights; people with enough power can always do that.

Rather, like any other form of contract, it is supposed to act as a tripwire which gives ordinary people information that the infringing party might actually try to do something worse. It's a defense in depth.

The powerful are in power not because they are better, or stronger, but because they control the information we have about them. That's why transparency is so useful in rooting out the corruption.

Unfortunately, the counterplay to this "tripwire" from the powerful is to disable it by making people cynical (like the boy who cried wolf), that they get used to it and dismiss these violations as false alarms. Effectively, they are saying, "contracts do not matter", and wrongly justify it by correct observation that contracts always rely on weak link, which is the judiciary system.

So we should try not to be cynical, and rather use this information in the future. Maybe at some point, some of us come to a decision whether to support CPJ or Reporters without Borders; and then this tripwire will give us guidance to make the right call.
Any intelligence agency with the ability to monitor the majority of Tor traffic (AKA a global observer) would have no problem at all doing correlation attack against a VPN provider.

> Intelligence agencies and bad actors alike have immense incentive to saturate the Tor network with bad nodes

Bad node owners largely not cooperate with each other, and this keeps Tor safe.

> the future of anonymous communication will be a mixnet resistant to correlation attacks

I2P has been around for 18 years. Please do use HN to advertise cryptocurrencies.
Who says thats not the part i love about my mame always something to do, and no Ive had both setups and kodi and plex suffer from the same config mess.
Replying to myself to add that I'm looking forward to a study titled "Vaccine effectiveness at preventing brain fog". That brain fog is scary.
You can also send the recording to people who missed the meeting - very useful for training sessions.
> I'm surprised that this doesn't fall close to the FDA's approval process for medical devices.

It will, but it takes a while. So far, medical apps where basically ignored by regulation, but that is about to change. In Germany, you can now register apps as "digital health apps" with regulators [1]. This created a new market, because now the app can be paid for by insurance policies. Hence, most apps already approved are in the "mental health" category and charge about €2,000 per year. Cheap compared to traditional treatments, expensive for a consumer app.

This has benefits and downsides.

Main benefits: Apps must comply with regulatory affairs. There must be data to support that the apps work as advertised. App developers must think about risk for the user/patient and how to manage it.

Main drawbacks: Considering the replication crisis in psychology, there is incentive to create weak evidence. Apps can claim to work, because they did a bunch of studies, but in reality, the app is useless. Since customers don't have to pay for them, but insurance companies do, there is less pushback from actual customers. Why would they care about a free product not working as advertised?

So far, this is something within Germany. I can imagine that other countries will follow. Add the new Medical Device Regulation (MDR), which harmonizes medical device regulations within the EU. The next step will be some global harmonization and thus, enabling these kinds of new markets for prescribed apps.

[1]: https://www.bfarm.de/DE/Medizinprodukte/Aufgaben/DiGA/_node....
Yes, a raspberry pi with a usb drive running samba and minidlna.

I started with an old nslu2, the pi on my network is slug5, as its the fifth machine that has done this job over about 15 years or so.

VLC installed on the chromecast works well with the little remote control, so local media is no harder than netflix or prime.

Edit: the original streamer I used was a Neuston mc-500, which could access network files. The nslu2 was a little slow, but 15 years ago media files were much smaller too. You could record digital tv with a usb dongle and play it back on the neuston which amazed me at the time.

Edit2: the kids had hacked PS2s in their bedrooms that had media players on them that pulled data from the nslu2 as well. It was cool, cheap and worked well.
Frozen tardigrade becomes first 'quantum entangled' animal in history
How to create smart playlists for Apple Music on your iPhone
Just give them a weekly quiz based on the content and grade that.

My math teacher in high school gave us a 15 minute test every week and would just randomly pick 4 students who must hand it in of which one presents their solution giving the teacher time to grade the tests. Doing something every week makes it less stressful.
I'm surprised by the amount of wallets its hitting that have had transactions. Like ~5% perhaps.

Would have guess a far lower number. Almost suggests bots would have perhaps luck at hitting a live one. Which seems somewhat counterintuitive.
Precisely. I think this has been on HN before, or if not then another “Wow you’re gonna be surprised by this — trees aren’t monophyletic!” article. Given all the surprising examples of convergent evolution, and given human tendencies to give vernacular names to paraphyletic groups, and given that it’s obviously easy for plant lineages to increase or decrease the woodiness of their stems, it is baffling that anyone would think it surprising that “trees” aren’t monophyletic.
The EU is not anymore quasi socialist than the US.

Incidentally I'd say most western countries are way too close to socialism, I'd rather see more private entities taking over security, healthcare and law making.

It's just that there is no money, so private EU companies suck so there is no money.
The lack of strong companies doesn't imply socialism. Most people in Europe has most of their trade interactions with other individuals and private businesses.