skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, it was up when I posted this. Here is a shorter version (without a FAQ): https://health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pages/Maryland-Departme..., here is their dashboard showing no updates since Dec. 3: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/, and here is a news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLTaIW24fxU.
The booster shots are only after 5 or 6 months, depending on the state - and the bureaucracy "experts" have managed to turn people away because six hours (!) had been missing to make the six month spacing (e.g. https://www.waz.de/staedte/velbert/sechs-stunden-zu-frueh-ke...).

Our bureaucracy and inability to improvise in times of need will kill us all.
The above comment doesn’t say that beekeepers would try to prevent propolis, just that it would be a side-effect of better finish related to other purposes.

And wooden frames are definitely sanded.
Can collecting has been wildly popular over here in Portland OR for as long as I can remember. Basically no cans that are set on the curb ever last long enough to get picked up by waste management. Typically it's homeless people who collect them but there's also enterprising immigrant families and seemingly people from other walks of life who do it, some who try to collect at more industrial scale by filling their cars with cans.
We ARE using the most accessible and economically efficient resources (coal and oil). The only reason we even have the phrase "renewable energy" in our vocabulary is because we were able to advance our civilization thanks to coal and oil far enough, that we can worry about the consequences and their mitigation.

The only evolutionary leaps to suboptimal energy production that I'm aware of occurred in cases where a more efficient energy source simply doesn't exist (eg geothermal vent communities on the ocean floor).
This was one of my top favorites back in the day.
Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want. The worst the federal govt can do to me is imprison me, or worse, kill me. It’s time we hold these fascists accountable.
Every year the supporter of Swift will claim new project are all going to be Swift right down to system level. And every year they have been wrong. It doesn't seems Swift is replacing Object-C in system level usage anytime soon. And only even partly in applications. May be Swift 6, when they finally introduce ownership. But that is looking more like 2023 at the earliest.

It will be worth looking at the stats again in 2024, 10 years after Swift was introduced.
Ummm... I think your friends were scammed. By the radio company. Never intended to procure the (very expensive) tix.
> And wooden frames are definitely sanded.

I'm really sure mine aren't, they are just straight off the machine - they were just cut. Same for the boxes. They cost US$0.79 each, so the process must be pretty streamlined. If they were sanded is was super half arsed.
Could the process vary from place to place? I'm in New Zealand.

Edit: the vendor seems to say they aren’t sanded.

“The fine toothed saws and cutters we use are so clean cutting you'd swear that every piece has been sanded smooth.”

https://www.ceracell.co.nz/3-4d-mahurangi-frame-33mm-flatpac...
> Religions that oppose abortion typically don't have a statute of limitations on when the cells from them are okay to use to grow cell lines to use in testing.

You literally just made this up. I cited the pope himself.

Using abortion as a complaint about vaccines is disingenuous, and it deserves to be treated as such. If this was the case, we wouldn’t be hearing about this in 2021, it would have been well known for 40 years.

The sad truth is, evangelicals didn’t care about abortion until they lost segregation as a political rallying point.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-...

I repeat. The whole complaint is a lie.
interesting, where do i read more about these 3 traits?
Are Swift and SwiftUI different languages? I naively assumed SwiftUI was just a library to create and render UI components, but I’m not familiar with iOS/macOS development. Just surprised to see a distinction between the two in the article.
As a Chinese, I can't agree with you more.
Google and Facebook are a direct cause of the decline in the quality of newspapers and journalism in general through their intentional strategy to capture as much of the value from news as possible, even though they created none of the actual content.

This means most newsrooms can't afford as many editors and fact-checkers, can't dedicate journalists to complex subject areas, can't afford to have journalists spending weeks or months on particularly complicated and deep stories, etc.

They surely knew what the consequences would be of starving newsrooms of income, yet went ahead anyway and didn't bother to even think of let alone implement alternative models to preserve valuable news.

It's a rather typical SV hubris, isn't it?
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> what you are (effectively) claiming is that the infusion of 300+ known carcinogens in cigarette tobacco has no effect on mortality, which is absurd on its face

It's not absurd once you account for the already present carcinogens from burned plant material. And even smokeless tobacco (chewing etc) causes oral, oesophagus, and pancreas cancer.
I didn't think of the form as "YouTube video", but you make a good argument. I divided it into the form "video" and expectations of the audience "youtube". Now I see it was arbitrary. Instead I should've thought of the distinction between technical limits of the form and non technical.
This is honestly sad, pathetic, and nothing to be proud of. There's no chance at moving up doing this line of work and depends entirely on the state continuing a recycling program that pays less and less as inflation rises. You put yourself at risk by competing with homeless for these cans. Any time you're not working you lose out on profit and that can happen just from getting sick or injured.

There's so many better jobs out there. My own immigrant parents started from doing service jobs in the food industry, driving, and kitchen work. They ended up doing all sorts of other jobs over the years but now own four properties with two fully paid off. This article isn't a success story, it's a story of failure.
A number of fair questions, I can only answer from personal experience.

My dad being a bus driver+conference phone tech and my mom an office admin we qualified for lunch and other aids as long as I was in school.

Many things were subsidized, but there were also things that weren't. It was hard to know when unless you always asked.

For smaller items sometimes it wasn't worth the embarrassment of always walking up to your teacher or school admin to ask if there was a discount for me. They knew who I was and what I was asking for. Super nice about it, but it doesn't make it feel any less worse. I also had to sneak away from friends. I also didn't want them around while I asked.

But you're right at a $400 required fee, usually there's a form of aid/discount.

I'll give the writer a benefit of doubt. Maybe there wasn't aid available? Maybe there was and it simply wasn't enough. $400 => $100 can still be very stressful.

Regardless, I thank my parents and grandparents, because being one of the lucky ones - I never went hungry.
> Most people, including governments, seem to be under the impression that the vaccines prevent spreading.

Indeed, but wrongly. "Sterilizing immunity" is a myth, even including historical vaccines [1].

> It is the only rationale for vaccination mandates that are being rolled out all over the world.

Nope, the rationale behind the vaccination mandates is to prevent the medical system (or, in case of enough infections, society itself) from being overloaded. When the entire staff of a power plant, for example, catches Omicron shit gets really hairy really fast.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...
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He shouldn't also be conducting the test. That's the conflict.

The wider conflict is that you cannot be employed by the testee and still a reliable tester. That's why we don't let people give themselves driving licenses for instance.
If you are still looking for a pure Swift ZIP handling library, you can check out ZIPFoundation: https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation
HAHAHAHAHA. What a classic.
FYI a great many immigrants were rich when they immigrated. A lot of rich people come to America because America offers so much opportunity to people who are already wealthy. Immigrants from overseas are especially likely to be wealthy. Indian-Americans are the wealthiest ethnic demographic in America simply because migrating from India pretty much requires being very wealthy to begin with.
All of these discussions seem to hinge on the assumption that intelligence arises spontaneously from nature given the "right" conditions, but that is an unproven and statistically unlikely assumption [1]. Just as a random byte generator will statistically never output a full featured operating system within the age of the universe (and certainly nothing resembling elegant source code), so are any random chemical/biological/physical processes statistically unlikely to ever spontaneously lead to intelligent life within the age of the universe. Intelligence is created by intelligence, nothing else. Call it "God" or whatever you wish, but it doesn't arise out of randomness, unless the randomness is constrained into highly structured output, which requires intelligence to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
yes but no. the problem was that in mostly big financially privilegized companies both ops, dev, net, itsec were it's own little fiefdoms. and there was no incentive to get shit done. because that would have required working with the enemy. that gets you nowhere on your way up the corporate ladder in your guild.

lack of education never helps, but it's laughable to point at that as a serious causally significant factor. outsourcing, communication barriers, trust barriers, organization barriers, ossification of the business structure led to serious loss of productivity of the whole enterprise.

the answer is the cross-functional team. agile. scrum. (and many names and many crazy offshoots) but the core recipe is good and sane: people above process. trust (and self-check) instead of mandatory responsibility separation to check each other. empower engineers to be able to do the right thing by default, engineer tools for everything, don't let non-tooled non-integrated handoff points develop, because that leads to fiefdoms and communication bottlenecks.
All red dwarfs are flare stars, with solar winds 10 times stronger, they heat less so planets must be closer which makes it even worse.
Surprising to see some of the same “but hospitalisation rates low” comments on HN when we are literally supposed to be the world’s foremost users of complexity theory and big O notation.

Even if hospitalisation rates are a small constant factor lower, doesn’t everyone remember from CS101 that O(k^x) is bad news bears and that constant factor ain’t gonna save your assignment once the problem size grows just a little more.
I am a little bit annoyed with the direction of your argument. To counter argue, it is obvious in this case that the value that you get from this “underclass” is more that the cheap labour, it’s also an educated young person with passion and depth of experiences that you would struggle to get from “people already here” alone. What has been coming out “in the wash” for the duration of your history, I assume you comment from US perspective, is a prosperous country, so it seems you have been getting a great deal.
Yes, we have! Here: https://app.loopedin.io/bowwe Feel free to add your idea and vote for the features that you are looking for the most.
I don't want to excuse Boeing, especially the execs who created this issue. That said, sooner or later you can't keep cutting prices and maintain safety. Not without a strong independent regulator. And we don't have regulators anymore really, let alone strong independent ones...
If they are not on iMessage, you will see that before even sending a message to them. At that point I'll go and see if they have some other means of Instant Messaging like WhatsApp or Telegram.
I don't know why the server would give information about far-away chunks (maybe some tolerance due to possible desync why not) instead of an error code "you are too far" :/
> relationships with other people.

Sir, I think that's the most difficult part of being a worker as most can fulfill the technical requirements for a work with practice but investing in relationships is something I feel few can do successfully.

And I'm not one of them, I don't like talking and I've almost cut real time-communications completely. Due to which I refuse to indulge in great offers almost every week, As not many would entertain the idea of employing someone who communicates only via email.

Besides the pandemic induced remote work has made real time-communication via chat, video calls the de-facto mode for official communication. The stories of managers forcing employees to be online on teams during work hours and most of the day spent on useless online meeting-calls are stuffs of nightmare for me.
> Swift itself is also quite nice - although it’s evolving really, really fast

Coming from C# you should feel right at home (though the documentation seems better).

If I compare the C# code I was writing 12 years ago to the current one, it feels like 2 different languages.
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It will be interesting to see if this data is collected, '... having had a previous infection and recovered'. And then did not vax.

It is the control group of the natural circumstance.
For whatever reason HN nerds love stories about recycling even though this family is clearly poor and not making good financial decisions.
The reason boosters are needed after 5 or 6 months is antibody levels apparently drop around that time, booster tops that up roughly speaking. Having a booster dose within that time period does not magically make you more immune.
Nothing I said indicated the immigrants were rich or poor, the majority are poor though.

My point was if there's a nicer system than the US, immigrants will be flocking there too.

Luckily we have numbers on the rates of which people immigrate to which countries, and the average wages of citizens of those countries.

> Indian-Americans are the richest ethnic minority in America because migrating from India pretty much requires being wealthy.

Plenty of lower class Indian immigrants pool their money for taxi medallions, convenient stores, hotels, trucks, etc. to get a business going.

They integrate well and know how to climb the system. They send their children in as doctors later in generations. They don't always start rich, they work for it.

> A lot of rich people come to America because America treats rich people so well, at the cost of treating poor people like dirt. See: tax rates.

You'll find tax rates are better in the US than most other countries for lower income families. For businesses the US has only recently been competitive.
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After reading about it, I assume the λ(n) here is the Euler's totient function.

I think the author probably should give the definition of the function first, and then say it fits the equation "x^λ(n) ≡ 1 (mod n) for any x such that gcd(x, n) = 1" due to the theorem, insteads of the other way around (λ(n) is a number that match this equation).

(Also, it probably is more intuitive to say "x^λ(n) - 1 is a multiple of n" than "x^λ(n) ≡ 1 (mod n)".)
My father was illiterate, which left him very few options in life after spending his early 20s in prison for check fraud. During the 70s, he discovered he could pick up cardboard and recyclables from local shops and grocery stores and take them to the nearby recycling plant for decent money.

By the early 90s, when I was a young teenager, he would use me as free labor and I'd spend my weekends crushing cans piled as mountains the size of pickup trucks. You'd have to remember to empty the can first, otherwise old beer or worse would get everywhere and you'd go home smelling like a chain-smoking drunk. The only redeeming quality was getting to see all the different brands and can designs and dreaming about how they might taste from their lingering aromas.

We did this work on borrowed land in Tulalip, a local Indian reservation where he had made friends offering pickup recycling services. One early summer after a particularly grueling day, my dad handed me $10 and we made our way over to Tulalip's "Boom City", an open-air market of stalls selling fireworks of every imaginable kind. It was like heaven to me, the air filled with tiny explosions and the smell of spent fireworks while crowds palpable with excitement wandered among the two dozen stalls.

I had my heart set on a brick of Black Cat firecrackers, but my allowance only got me half way there. When the stall owner noticed my dad, he threw me the brick. "Oh, you're Ron's son. Just give me what you have." I couldn't believe my luck. After we got home, I called my best friend to let him know about my bounty and that I was coming over to share. I would never get there.

A few blocks from my destination I came across a yard sale, and as was habit spent a few minutes browsing things I could never afford. Most of it was your usual old housewares and used clothing, but among it all sat an old Apple II with a detached 5.25 drive. I'd only ever used a computer at school, and even then just during free time in the library playing "Oregon Trail" or "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

"I'll trade you" came a voice as I gawked mouth-ajar at the computer, and I looked over to find a man pointing at my brick of firecrackers.

When I got home and booted it up, I was greeted with the ">" prompt of Apple DOS 3.3 and no idea what to do next. In my excitement I recalled the seller had told me to type "loderunner", and the rest is history.

It blows my mind that a summer crushing cans, a brick of fireworks, and an old Apple II led me out of poverty. I was so ashamed at what my parents did growing up, but realize now they were doing the best they could under the circumstances. It's so easy to look at someone else and judge them, and assume they're the victim of their own laziness rather than complicated people with complicated histories and complicated situations.

My life wouldn't be the same if my poor, uneducated father hadn't been kind to his customers, a stall owner that was kind to a kid, and someone throwing a yard sale that saw the value of his old stuff in the hands of someone new.
Show HN: Verify NFT and Token Ownership in Your App
Hi everyone,

This is James, one of the co-founders for InLoop. We are launching InLoop Connect today, a way to add NFT & token verification to your project with just a snippet of code.

Basically, you tell us which NFTs or ERC-20 tokens to look for, and InLoop Connect securely returns which tokens are held by your users.

We built this because after we launched an NFT membership platform, the most requested feature from our users has been a way to verify token ownership in their own app.

Their train of thought was "Now that I've tokenized my community, how do I deliver custom benefits to members"? Some examples we heard were discounts on merch, cosmetics/badges, and access to virtual spaces.

We are planning to work on more integrations in the future with Shopify, Wordpress and Discord, so that it'll be even easier for communities to provide utility to their members.

Let us know what you think!
James
Carmichael's Function is the name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_function
Same. Especially Youtube videos explaining and showing something really simple that takes like 5 seconds but they go on for 10-15 minutes. I suspect it has something to do with Youtubes algorithms that encourages creators to make long videos.
>Once they killed Netscape, they literally disbanded the IE team.

I find that dubious. Do you have any sources for that?
Well, read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621262 if you want to know why this ended up happening :)
The only trash in this article is Kip.
> Yes, search engine results are for amateurs (except for finding the source, spec, base documentation, etc.). If you are serious, hold yourself and your learning to higher standards.

This is exceptionally gatekeepy and predicated on the assumption that everyone learns or consumes knowledge in the same way you do, which is just not true. We already work in a profession that has issues with gatekeeping - I think we should avoid exacerbating that.
> I've always thought that a job worth doing was a job worth doing well.

I think you were right, and I am learning that it doesn't have to be painful if you consider "your job" to be the best you can in the moment and given the circumstances (including co-workers that don't feel the same way).

As Lao-Tzu put it: "Do your job, then step back. The only path to serenity."
That's not a counterargument since maybe we should.
Very unlikely. The SAT minimums for unwanted minorities (south Asian and east Asian) are already tweaked to be far higher than for whites (the ones that don’t come through legacy and celebrity/donor/dean’s special paths, that is), let alone for people claiming black/Latino/native ancestry, in order to be able to admit fewer Asians.

The reason this school and others want to get rid of the SAT is that it is a quantifiable measure that can be brought up in court (and has been brought up in court) measuring exactly how much they discriminate against certain minorities. If they wanted to stop discriminating right now, nothing stops them from doing so. (Like Caltech is doing, for instance.)