skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The scammers managed to ‘sell’ 3294 NFTs before the plug was pulled. There were of course no actual NFTs being sold at all, just money being straight up stolen—over $150,000—though you’d be forgiven for wondering what the difference is.

Crazy idea, but why not just mint the NFTs? You know who was scammed into thinking they were going to get an NFT, so just create an NFT and deliver. That's the good thing about digital scarcity, its not actually scarce.
And yet, first American confirmed death from reinfection in a unvaccinated person was yesterday:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/21/us-omicron-...
Mutations evolve in infected people. Vaccines reduce infection, both directly and via reduced spread. Hence fewer mutations.

But muations happen all the time. Is a particular mutation viable, does it spread, then outcompete?

Thankfully emperical evidence shows thr neutralizing antibodies response, due to vaccination, reduces spread of COVID.
The version numbers are lying. The Linux version is missing important features, like seeing more than 4 participants at the same time, or blurring the background. Also, for some reason it is often not possible to see the camera picture of participants when they start screen sharing (if they are using the Linux version, that is).
"How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases"

That's the full title of this work because the cut one here would suggest this is a general paper on droplets and aerosols from a historical perspective.
Is it really a theory that your government has used every major crisis to erode your freedom and privacy?
This sort of skepticism is called "Last Thursdayism." - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism

> Under Last Thursdayism, books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and literally everything (including your memories of the time before last Thursday) were all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older.

> Last Thursdayism functions both as a philosophical point on how our observations may not match with "reality" and a reductio ad absurdum of the young-Earth creationist idea of the omphalos hypothesis: if the world was created 6,000 years ago with the appearance of being made billions of years ago, what is there to stop us from claiming it was made Last Thursday?

It's boring.

Yes, there are other possibilities - the universe could have been created Last Thursday.

> I think I can also make a case for them being more plausible than the story.

And Last Thursdayists make the case that Last Thursdayism is more plausible than the usual cosmology.

So, go ahead and do it.

> Unless we have personally verified something, we cannot say "I know".

Have you personally verified that North Dakota exists? That New Zealand exists?

If you want a discussion about solipsism, go bother some philosophers.

Just Asking Questions - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions - is a form of intellectual dishonesty.
How do we build better colleges?
Rare things happen, rarely. It's a big world. Also that "may" in the headline is a logical hole that you can drive a truck through -- being PCR positive prior to death is by no means dispositive evidence that the virus is what killed the person. Pretty much everyone setting foot in a hospital today is tested for Covid, whether they went there for cancer, a heart attack, or the infection itself.

WaPo and "if it bleeds, it leads" coverage like this will give you a completely distorted view of reality. Stop feeding the beast.
Or our reality is forever changed unless one revolutionary treatment that is cheap, OTC, and reduce the death rate down to below 1%.

Otherwise, what end game are we talking about?
I loved Heretics because it's like a breath of fresh air after God Emperor. Suddenly there's a lot of action again.
Other parts of the immune system, specifically T-cell response. The simplified bottom line is that antibodies provide a quick response that also prevents many cases of mild disease. T-cell immunity lasts longer, appears more universal against variants and should still work relatively well against severe cases.
The problem is, people have different, mutually-exclusive ideas of what area is going to "pop". Is it going to be the currency? (in which case you should buy assets), is it going to be assets? (in which case you should buy currency)
As students, they probably have limited insights into what a role is worth. With this tool they can base it on data generated by the industry and get a fair starting point.
It’s among the worst I’m currently using, at the very least. The most amusing part is that you never feel like you’re on solid ground: given the app’s complexity, there is always some exotic new problem to be discovered at the least convenient time.

At least the audio is consistently good, though.
Pratchett would probably have corrected the APF if this were untrue.

https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/small-gods.html
You’re right. Mutations are more likely, the more infections you have.

Vacckne resistant strains of viruses tend to evolve in unvaccinated populations.
Seconding someone else's comment : what is your workflow for those tasks ? How does it help you to read academic papers ? Or to put formatting on markdown ?
The IP adress leak is also very common in a lot of "flashy" opensource projects trying to "solve" communications. Because apparently everyone wants his computer to visit a url to parse some data, so that one can decide whether the link is safe to click or not...

A private discourse forum (actually any forum software, sometimes spam bots post gifs for usercounting!) does this to great effect with media too - it just allows embedding everything it seems.
And then there is a university rocket-chat instance - with a big general-channel: And link-previews (enabled by default) somehow don't cache the images serverside, but let every client get them, because that's probably what works easiest with k8s, because who has a harddisk.
It will get much sillier before the end.
If you use Git, Mercurial, Bazaar or SVN and would like to visualize where most of the recent effort of development has gone into and what people have worked on the most, have a look at something like Gource: https://gource.io/ In my eyes, those visualizations are really nice for an overview of how the project has evolved.

Personally, i've also had good experiences with Sourcetrail, for seeing how bits of code fit together within a codebase, although the development on it has ceased recently: https://www.sourcetrail.com/

Also, some are recommending text editors with plugins or specialized tools, but i'd also like to suggest just getting a really good IDE that's integrated with the tech stack that you use. Personally, JetBrains fills that niche for me: https://www.jetbrains.com/products/

Depending on the language and framework support, it can lead to an amazing development, refactoring and testing experience, albeit has some drawbacks in comparison to text editors like Visual Studio Code - it uses more memory and CPU resources (especially when indexing the project, a tradeoff that most IDEs out there make in one way or another) and also is a paid product, i just got the Ultimate package of all tools for my personal and work needs.

Apart from that, i'm not even sure - jumping around definitions in source code and seeing how different things are connected, what the dependency graphs are like and so on is nice, but understanding why things were built that way might require ADRs (https://adr.github.io/) which many companies still don't use, or trudging through issue management systems (like seeing what issue a piece of code was developed under, then reading the user story in Jira etc.). Or course, having READMEs and automated scripts for project setup or common actions in it, ideally versioned alongside the code, can also be really nice!

Personally, i think that we as an industry would benefit a lot from more focus on DX (developer experience), both in regards to tooling to explore codebases, as well as practices in regards to documentation for the actual devs to use and dogfood.
one is counting distance, the other one buckets.
alias the fn name to datebucketdelta to make the different problems memorable individually. :)
Possible scenario, yes. Plausible? Maybe. But there was no evidence presented, so I can see why somebody would ask for some. Why that comment asking for some got flagged is beyond me.

Another plausible explanation, at least in my humble opinion, but one without evidence either: Everybody and their kids (for school) were using some kind of video conferencing software for the first time in this kind of professional/educational setting and Zoom led the pack, which led to more interest by white hat researchers (and probably blackhats) as well as journalists. This newfound scrutiny lead to some first stories, and then people kept digging, because "Man exposes himself in virtual class room"[0] or "Does China spy on your business" or "New security problem uncovered. Is your kid safe in the virtual class room?" kind of stories generate a lot of impressions, and zoom had a lot of problems to uncover. Maybe it took some time to uncover the various problems, leading to a continuous stream of stories, maybe some outlets delayed publishing some stories, so they could milk a story at a time before coming out with the next one. Maybe Microsoft tried to capitalize on it, but that doesn't mean they were driving the news.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-55998557
The original title was too long for submission, so some cuts were needed. I tried to preserve the meaning as best I could

The SCMP has updated their front-page link to read

"China disciplines Alibaba Cloud for handling of Log4j bug"
The end-game is not so much that the virus adapts (which can happen but mutations are not that easily predicable) but that our immune systems become adapted. We can see this already. Previously infected and/or vaccinated people can get omicron but it will be very mild disease. Next year there will be another variant and people will get sniffles again. Next year another variant that could easily cause severe disease to immuno-naive person but for those who already got 2-3 vaccinations plus mild omicron or whatever it will be just sniffles again.

That's how most cold viruses work. It was clear from the beginning that covid belongs to this category. We just hadn't had previous exposure yet, therefore it was so severe. We overreacted when we thought that we can eliminate cold virus by strict isolation measures.
Dutch here. We also like to say (at least where I am from): "Je kunt mijn rug op en mijn reet af" -> "You can go on my back and off my ass".
BTW: the translated part from the Dutch "It can oxidize on my anus" is in Dutch: "Het kan aan mijn reet roesten"
Bi-annual is not necessary, even if immunity wanes within six months due to the seasonal nature of the beast. So at worst we are looking at something like the yearly flu vaccination. And also very probably younger and healthier people will be able to skip that altogether, just as with the flu vaccine.
It's a monospaced font. Though even if it should have to render everything at least once, it should be in the blink of an eye --- at this point I'm almost convinced that getting a laptop with 10th gen i7 class CPU, 32G RAM and a RTX2060 graphics card to absolve myself of desktop performance issues was a mistake as it forces my to run Windows for flawless Optimus interop and does not get rid of desktop performance issues either. Maybe font rendering is not optimized enough or not accelerated at all, but a few million letters the most of them not even visible should be nothing on this machine drawing 100W and more but not performing much better at this specific task than my Haswell laptop from 2014.
Recent Denmark numbers for Omicron, including Covid-recovered, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29633285

0% fatal, 0.13% ICU, 1.2% hospital
4.3% Covid-recovered
76% double vax, 7% booster
14% unvax, 2% single vax
77% no travel history

IF (will take several weeks to confirm) Omicron is mild and highly transmissible, then people may be infected and recover with protection against a range of variants. While natural antibodies fade, there is likely some ongoing protection from T-cells and memory B cells, e.g. studies showing some SARS1 protection after 17 years.
The people who were up in arms about it lose heavily in the elections however given that they are generally unionists they are given extremely generous coverage by our media who are are almost entirely pro union.

I also got one of these in Scotland and found it very reassuring and helpful, you could see almost all the other children around were using the same clothes / toys etc.
Ah bless, tell me your under 60 without disclosing your age.
Economically, yes, possibly. I'm rather concerned about the societal growth. Poland is, if anything, growing more intolerant, partisan, narrow-minded, and at times just outright stupid.

For example, the current, still fairly popular government, is alienating literally all allies around, for no apparent reason. Pissing off Americans over a forced sale of a US-owned TV channel, pissing off the EU for a host of petty and ultimately futile little sorties for years now, pissing off Czechs over an, ultimately, minor border conflict to do with a power plant, perpetual beef with Russia. Out of all our neighbours, we're not in conflict only with the Baltic Sea right now, but it's still early in the day.

This has all in fact intensified over the last few months, which see hybrid aggression from Belarus and a Russian army ready to strike at Ukraine, Poland's immediate neighbour. So not a good time to alienate allies and friends.

And worst of all, this seems to be popular. Screw these meddling foreigners. Education is being ripped to shreds for ideological battles. School history is being replaced with "History and Present", where the "Present" is literally recounting how amazing the current government is. Public funds are being raided for political points.

Meanwhile, Finland seems calm and collected. For its 2018 100th anniversary of independence, they built a huge library, and IIRC sent every child a book. Poland founded an enormous museum to its own awesomeness, somewhere in the middle of nowhere (so it can be grand enough), and hasn't finished it still in December 2021.
I like playing the "can I paste an image in today or not?" game - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes I have to open the web version to do it, other times not ...
How Does This App Blow Out Candles? [video]
Let’s hope so. Checkout this comment in 2-3 weeks to see how well it fares.
Same in All the Scandinavian countries
Wasn't Finland heavily influenced by USSR post-WWII? Hence the term "Finlandisation".
> Well that's interesting because I was also talking to an acquaintance that is a mortician, a few months ago, and he said that anecdotes like this contain absolutely no valuable data at all and only help to sow misinformation.

That was why I framed it as a personal anecdote. It really happened (unlike yours). It is not supposed to be a valid data point. No double-blind scientific analysis. Just a short personal story.

If I don't have anything other than anectdata, I am careful to frame it as personal experience and PoV.

I thought we didn't do stuff like this (sarcastic personal attacks) on HN, but I am often wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

...

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
They had this in SF via The Baby Box Co, but sadly they seem to be no longer around. It was nice having a nice colorful happy box to keep new born in. Here is an article about what it was https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/baby-box-co-launche...
Generally that's reserved for its own people, that was my point.

The Land Reform, The Great Leap Forward, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Hong Kong.

The persecution and genocide of Uyghurs / Tibetans / Falun Gong.
Life is just test-driven development, taken to an extreme.
The Strange Case of a Rise in HTTP 451 Errors and GDPR
Omicron infections appear no less severe than Delta:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29646061
Is HTTP 451 suitable for GDPR blocking? (2018)
Tackar! Came looking for this heh.
This derives from false pretenses, the US government can’t inflate away its debt; it gets rolled over and inflation expectations get baked into interest rates paid on debt (US treasuries are sold at auction).

Governments that borrow in their own currency reduce debt best via growth, since debt is stated in terms of GDP.

On the other hand, people who are short dollars — debtors with fixed debt — are helped by inflation. Have a mortgage, student loan payments, even car payments that aren’t linked to inflation? Then inflation does reduce your debt burden.

Inflation hurts those groups that are long monetary assets — those who own fixed debt, or cash. Its effects on other asset prices, like stocks, are less direct. For example, stock prices reflect changes in growth in the economy that may be hindered by high inflation (or high interest rates).

Simple models are great except when they’re wrong.
Fulfill your happiness?!
ok well I had to upvote that, despite it pointing out I'm an idiot.
My German is rusty at best, but wouldn't one say "Der Hund meines Vaters" - or something like that but with correct grammar?
Spanish translation is also a bit shoddy: "Me importa un pepino" translates to "it matters/means as much to me as a cucumber". It's probably been translated that way to give it the same punch.

The saying is also used with comino (a cumin seed), pimiento (a pepper), rabano (a radish), all rather vegetarian, and culo (ass), and possibly other regional variants.

The "reet" in the Dutch expression of course also returns in "dat interesseert me geen ene reet".
In most cases "leaking your IP" isn't considered a problem. I leak my IP to hundreds of websites a day.

Of course there are concerns, especially on mobile where you may be able to do some location tracking.

Really the biggest place where IP leaking is a problem is gaming communities where people like to hammer IP addresses yo DoS people.
https://youtu.be/vHlbC74RJGU

I watched this talk, which describes the current von Neumann computer architecture as "analog communication with digital computing". This consumes more energy than digital communication with analog computing. Projects like Neurogrid, Intel's Loihi chip and pretty much any system that can efficiently run spiking neural networks.

Neuromorphic computing is where this is going.
This is not reddit. I have no doubt that in 2-3 weeks there will be numerous people who have died of Omicron. Given sufficient time, I'm sure there will be examples of people who die from the virus after reinfection.

As I said: it's a big world, and people die of incredibly innocuous things, every day.
The vaccines are pretty great. I am happy to believe that if a strain of COVID occurs which the vaccines are less effective against, then the strain will necessarily be less severe.

This is plausible because the vaccines target the spike protein.

While it is too early to say definitively—evidence so far seems contradictory—Omicron may be such a mutation.
I remember a few months ago I got a bug-report from a customer that "their site didn't show in link-previews in MS-Teams".
The URL includes a German "Umlaut": ü

After tracing the HTTP requests received from the link-preview generation on the server (logging the network packets) I found that the "Host" header wasn't the expected/configured xn--test--ova.de (IDNA to ASCII).

To "work around it" I needed to add an extra VHost in Nginx with the server_name "test-\xFC.de" (that just redirected to a non-Umlaut domain).

I didn't bother or even know where to report it (to MS). But apparently not using proper tooling for URL handling / HTTP requests makes one wonder about the quality of the product or even possible security implications.
What’s remarkable, to me, is how publicized these issues in Zoom became vs other software. Google also seems to have pointed their vulnerability researchers at it. I remember thinking at the time they were getting a lot more scrutiny than most software in that realm, which has the same types of issues. Maybe it just entered the public Zeitgeist and it’s all a coincidence, but as a long time infosec consultant that does vulnerability research I found it curious at least.
Realistically, i agree with your point and it's probably a good course of action!

> Ask, ask, ask. Yes, you can spend days or weeks poring over the code in various ways, but asking those who made it (ideally) or those who maintain it will give you the "why".

My question, however, is why aren't these things documented in the first place? In DevTernity (a recent software development conference), the concept of ADRs (https://adr.github.io/) was discussed. To me, it made a lot of sense: the code is the implementation, whereas a bunch of Markdown files can explain the "why" behind it, as well as all of the stuff that wouldn't appear in Jira or regular code comments or wherever.

After all, not every senior dev has that many hours to spend onboarding new team members, nor are their memories also that good to remember everything.
Bash: Looping over Find
Has anyone done a study on the track record of Imperial College London?

Here are the Denmark Delta numbers for comparison, 19,137 Delta cases:

0.07% fatal, 0.11% ICU, 1.5% hospital
0.9% Covid-recovered
50% double vax, 3% booster
44% unvax, 3% single vax

Tue Dec 21 update from South Africa, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/most...

> Dr Angelique Coetzee, the senior doctor who first identified the variant, said that the line of treatment for Omicron patients is "quite easy". "We start immediately after the diagnosis with low dosage cortisone and something like ibuprofen to help with the muscle pain and headaches and that's it. That's what we give. There's nothing else. There's no oxygen, not even antibiotics required," she said.
Briefing about the symptoms associated with the variant as it reaches the fifth week of its outbreak, Coetzee said, "Most of the cases reported so far manifest symptoms like body aches, headache, tiredness." "They may or may not have a cough; it is mostly dry cough with a sore and scratchy throat. According to a recent study, it affects the upper respiratory tract and doesn't affect the lower airways like the delta variant," she added.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem