skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this, I do consider severity to include hospitalization and death:
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Note that it's now talking about effectiveness in transmissibility, rather than what defined effectiveness when they were being tested which was hospitalization and death -- which is still at 90% after 6 months, including against Delta.

I do follow many nurse friends of mine who share daily counts of local ICU case increases, and very much agree that I consider ICU capacity (or hospital in general) to be something that must be monitored. That was a statistic I didn't have -- and thank you spurred some more study digging and I found this:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115624

This feels pretty relevant, 90% reduction in mortality between those who got a booster and those who did not (for ages 50+), though I'm still looking at people for my age.

Anyway-- thanks, this is useful, going to dig more
How can That Editor still display Mario on the status bar?
I cycled Jan Haringstraat to Frederiks plein where my school was at age 10, and at 11 we had moved to North but the school stayed the same so that was the ferry every morning (from the far end of Nieuwendammerdijk).

It was quite doable. One vivid memory from those days: the fire in Hotel Polen, all the ambulances and firetrucks and having to detour because of that, huge column of smoke and then later reading about it in the newspaper. Pretty heavy day. I think I had just turned 12, that was one of the last trips through the center to go to school.
well if you're just an everyday introvert, then you need some promting, or else to summon the courage on your own to overcome your aversion to social situations. (digression, but the internet is a big help for this nowadays. you can watch youtube videos that walks you through how to ride the bus or whatever, for people too scared of embarrassing themslves to try).

On the other hand if you have a social anxiety you probably need some kind of stronger help to be able to function.

Either way the alternative of avoiding much of the world and relying on oehters to get by probably isn't preferable.
Winds break 100mph outside Boulder, Colorado as fires spread
> If the perpetrator is willing to plead guilty, there is no need for a trial.

I don't really think courts should take guilty pleas. I believe in some times/places in the middle ages, courts would not take guilty pleas in case the prisoner had gotten coerced into pleading. Sometimes, we have people with mental illness or other issues that will plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit.

Along the same lines of "reasonable doubt" in the US generally being enough to escape criminal conviction, I think we should err on the side of safety and perhaps even inefficiency in (not) letting the state exercise its monopoly power of force, coercion, and imprisonment against anyone for any reason, ever.
And my point was that "contactless" has more than one definition depending on context. I'm not going to respond anymore as I've been warned about arguing semantics on here.
Cash is easy to get by borrowing against assets.
They should string arm themselves into taking climate action.
> If you don't give any guarantees beside "it's a hobby project", you can't expect anyone else to use your software beyond hobby projects either.

That's a good thing. The companies shouldn't be expecting free code and free support. If they want something for a commercial product, pay for a commercial library with a support contract.
"...giving licensees the right to view and modify the source and integrate it with their own software, but not the right to redistribute, is to me a good middle ground for a lot of projects."

Licensees have that right with (most) free software licenses.

The downside of this is that, if the owner, Epic say, is not interested in changes you need, then you cannot distribute those changes no matter how valuable they are to you or anyone else. Further, you will have to maintain those changes in the face of whatever architectural differences the owner decides to introduce.[1] You are in the same position as the good old days of proprietary software (Believe me, you could absolutely pay IBM to make changes its OS's. If you were, say, Ford.) except that you get to see the source. Yay.

[1] Yes, you should be expected to maintain your own changes if the original maintainers don't want to. However, that's significantly more difficult if the owner is uninterested in your features or is actively trying to break you. (Microsoft waves in the distance.)
> a more prominent ability to cast him as a white knight protecting the state of Missouri against fiendish hackers.

The goal isn't to appear as a white knight protecting the state from hackers, it's to mount a crusade against big-city journalists.
> (fits on a floppy!)

*Without NetSurf.
Per the article:

The factory is central to Apple's efforts to shift its slave plantations away from China due to tensions between Beijing and Washington. Reuters reported last year that Foxconn planned to invest up to $1 billion in the plant over three years

I'm paraphrasing a bit, but only slightly.
Choice and opportunity for online course creators
US's manufacturing sector was 28% 1955, it went down post industrialization.
I live in Europe and the only hot topic I can think of, apart from the virus, is energy prices. The same energy prices the center-left wants to increase via CO2 taxes.
The First Real Smartphone, the Handspring Treo
> From a practical standpoint I think it is going to be an unmitigated nightmare: people creating AI revenge porn, fake porn of famous people, etc.

I honestly don’t see these becoming larger problems — once it’s ubiquitous, then it’ll quickly become meaningless; by default, everyone will assume it’s generated, the equivalent of cutting out and pasting their face onto a nude image today, and it’ll have relatively little impact.

It’d probably still be rude and stupid, but I’m fairly positive it’ll be much less damaging than it is today.

Effectively: if everyone stars in a porno, no one does.
You don't need (unreliable, prone to out of distribution breakage) deep learning for this. Bin packing is a well known problem in optimization literature and there are established algorithms for solving it with bounds on distance to optimality.
China is reliant on food imports and as such is extremely vulnerable to blockade. It'd be more surprising if they didnt hoard food.
Was NASA’s Historic Leader James Webb a Bigot? [No.]
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Artificial scarcity. What could go wrong?
Strong disagree (not about the law claims, I'll leave that to the law-knowers), but the moral implications of 'crossing a line'. It reads like they revealed security vulnerabilities that had the possibility to harm others. I think they can be allowed some leeway in their methods.
it is literally the exact same thing distributed over a larger area. at least miners are incentivized to use cheap renewable sources.
Would the warrant describe what is being searched for and why? If so could that be used to challenge unrelated "evidence" to the approved purpose?
The entire point of patents is to give companies a monopoly for a period of time in exchange for not keeping the information secret. The utility and merits of the system is certainly not without debate, but if you want the answer as to why governments are okay with it, it's probably because it was their idea.
The story of the Thomas-Rasset suit --- a civil suit, not a 2B1.1(b) criminal sentence argument --- is basically about how those 7 figure sums don't hold up in actual court. And that suit was about material with clear commercial value, not 1942 editions of botany journals. I think this example supports my point, rather than challenging it.
What "dashboards" are you referring to? I have not seen any dashboards in LastPass.

Why would it need to be a complicated bug? It could be as simple as:

If UnkownIP OR InvalidMasterPassword Then LogAndSendNotication

Instead of:

If UnkownIP AND InvalidMasterPassword Then LogAndSendNotication

Please tell me why it needs to be a complicated bug.
By that do you mean, should not vary in the data returned or should not break?

Personally I agree that changing a constraint shouldn't alter the data returned. But I'm happy enough if it breaks in a clear and verifiable manner. There are plenty of other situations where adding a constraint will cause existing SQL (if not queries) to break so its not really that much of a change.
Minecraft players built a library for censored news
Congrats on all of these, but especially #4 :)

As a fellow Ontarian, what attracted you to Florida? The weather? Job opportunity?
But when it comes to actually controlling the putting of the boxes in the truck the way the bin packing algorithm wants, you need deep learning. In case the robot slips a bit, changing direction a bit, on someone's handkerchief on the floor or whatever.
> There are far, far more energy intensive operations that we do daily.

Virtually all of the things you could mention have some net benefit to society.
I agree with your point about explicit columns being easier to read, but I still sometimes prefer implicit columns. An example: whenever you have numerous subqueries, all using the same columns, implicit columns are easier to read since there is less text on the screen. It's also less error prone to change just one line rather than numerous lines.

This feeds into my view of metaprogramming-like situations. Whenever the code-time-view of a program differs significantly from some runtime-state-view of the program, I think there should be a code-time way to view and perhaps edit both the code-time-view and some kind of runtime-state-view. A programmer shouldn't have to waste time digging through numerous files to evaluate what implementation slots into some dependency injected class, or find out what structure ends up in a python method parameter, or what a preprocessor directive ultimately produces. I know IDEs can handle some of these things, but I think better tools can be produced.

More concisely, instead of approaching code as the single and unchanging view of the program, perhaps it would help to approach code as something more dynamic. I have no concrete ideas as to how this would work.
Good example too, but this one can with benefit be written using the JOIN FOREIGN syntax, you just need to give the foreign keys suitable names such as e.g. "shipped_date", "order_date", "received_date". Or, to remind you of which is the referenced table, perhaps you want to include it in the names, and the names would be "shipped_date_calendar", "order_date_calendar", "received_date_calendar", but personally I would prefer just "shipped_date" or perhaps even just "shipped".
Definitely a problem. Bad-faith actors can screw up well intended policies making everyone look bad. Inspectors that verify the work-site conditions help, but can also potentially operate in bad faith. It's a hard problem to "solve", but still likely worth it for a company like Apple, both in regards to PR and ROI.
The first time I hear of a totalled car "through no fault of my own" that was not covered by the driver's-at-fault insurance.

But even ignoring this, the entire initiative is very yucky to me.
Even cooler:

> both implementations of AES and Threefish are written by the author(s)
I hear you, and you're not wrong, but the "why not" approach does feel like a slippery slope, which could be considered a logical fallacy except in that _it has already been slipping_. It is important for me for the numbers to justify the cause, and not just because "why not".

If the disease appeared today with its current severity, would the world stop?
You could also compare it to the ~$200 billion[1] in cash they have on hand.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-companies-most-cash-reserv...
Miners are incentivized to maximize their energy consumption. The fact that they're able to extract more value with energy efficiency is irrelevant.
Tesla recalls nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S cars
This whole LastPass kerfuffle has solidified my choice to continue using FOSS + self hosted password managers only. If my passwords get stolen, I'd rather be responsible for the loss than wait for a company to put out a squirrely statement.
It can be problematic, yes. If two vessels are approaching each other on a collision course, one is generally considered the give-way vessel, and the other is the stand-on vessel. As the names imply, one is supposed to alter course to avoid a collision, and the other is supposed to maintain course (eg: specifically NOT alter course) so that the other vessel can adjust accordingly.

Without getting overly complicated here, there is a whole structure to it, and it generally comes down to a combination of the locations of the vessels relative to each other (if another vessel is in a zone that roughly correlates to and area from straight-ahead/noon to 4 o'clock on YOUR boat then YOU are the give-way vessle) with precedence to the vessel with the least amount of maneuverability. The maneuverability bit is not granular like "your boat is smaller than mine and more easily steered" but more like "your boat is a tanker or a barge and maneuverability is measured in miles, not meters". So, a sailboat under wind power exclusively is less maneuverable than a power boat, but more maneuverable than a freighter. However sailboaters often seem to interpret this as "if my sails are up all other boats MUST give-way me to me", which is definitely incorrect.
Are these numbers for the US?
Ignoring how little sense it makes to say spoken word would be... digitally signed???

We've been at the point where a determined amateur could learn the skills to handcraft a false statement from a political figure.

The content is not the issue, the trust of that content is.

(In theory) the more authoritative the source, the more they'll require to treat a statement as real.

Right now you could get a good impersonator to say something stupid and send it to one of those half-trying tabloids and they'd run it even if they knew it was fake...

On the other hand a place like the NY Times might require more meat to the story, how did you get it, what was the chain of custody, etc.
>I live in Europe and the only hot topic I can think of, apart from the virus, is energy prices.

And real estate prices. Don't forget the insane real estate market.
It just seems stupid to not offer a sane working environment.

No -- Apple management sees this as a smart move, actually. Allowing these little flare-ups to happen now and then allows senior management to broadcast to the world just how cold-blooded they really are. Which helps keep the staff at home in line.
> It's absolutely not optimal, it's inefficient. Many companies have learned this, which is why you see things like "Unlimited Vacations! Free snacks! Company provided lunches!" etc, offered as perks.

You are very (very) wrong and need to read some history. I strongly suggest an economics primer like Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers[1]. It's the second-best selling economics book in history and well worth the price of admission.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82120.The_Worldly_Philos...
Apple shifted to Chinese suppliers to 'cut costs and curry favour with Beijing'
OP here: I have screenshots both of my purchase history and my current library. DM my twitter account and i'll send them to you.

Also as an update, the Disney+ thing seems to be incidental. When I open my account on a machine that doesn't have Disney+ installed it just asks me to re-buy them. Super strange.
Have you used Sberbank lately? I have a different experience and I'm not from the "older generation". Its mobile app is pretty decent, this year I got a mortgage loan and it went pretty smooth, I didn't notice anything bureaucratic or kafkaesque about it? I'm its client for 4 years now and I'm struggling to remember negative experience with it. They've been having an overhaul lately, maybe it was far worse before. Yeah the cool kids prefer Tinkoff nowadays but it's not true that only old people use Sberbank.
The global namespacing is what allows UFCS to work. You can rewrite parseInt("6") to "6".parseInt, but you can't rewrite strutils.parseInt("6") to anything.
Scientific American isn’t calling him anything. It’s very obviously an opinion piece, not an editorial.
Tangential to the thread, but I've never understood what people mean when they say this.

Do you run all your personal traffic through a VPS or something? That's not really offering the same thing as most VPN's. It hides your traffic from your ISP so they can't sell your data and snoop on you, but doesn't accomplish some of the anonymizing that an actual multi-user VPN can provide by adding additional traffic under the same IP.

So, what do YOU mean when you say you "do your own VPN"?
The fact that other activities waste energy doesn't mean NFTs aren't wasteful. It means that there are two wasteful activities.

You cannot argue that the relative merits of two bad things makes one of them good, or even "not bad". That's not how anything works. Objectively bad things are always going to be bad no matter what else happens.
I agree that the security industry has a problem with inventing new terms when they don't contribute to understanding. I do think there is some nuance here though to "credential stuffing" vs "password reuse" - credential stuffing is a description of the exploit while password reuse is the vulnerability. In other words, password reuse is a user behavior that doesn't directly cause unauthorized access. "Credential stuffing" is described from the perspective of the service provider, which sees an attacker "stuffing" many thousands (often hundreds of thousands over time) of credentials into their product to see if any of them work. Of course only a tiny fraction do, but that's enough to create a big problem. It's usually not clear where the stuffed credentials came from, it may be a check to see if compromised passwords from other websites were reused, but more often credential stuffers just try a "top 100" password list against every user they can enumerate---so password reuse per se or a compromised credential list may not even be involved, just use of common passwords.

Researchers will sometimes modify services to log password attempts in plaintext in order to try to determine where stuffed credentials are coming from, but for obvious reasons it's not advisable to do this on a "real" service, so it's usually hard to know exactly what's going on---although the set of attempted usernames can sometimes give you a good hint, for example it's not at all unusual to see credential stuffing attacks where the attacker hasn't even enumerated users and is just trying common usernames. Some of these common username lists are kind of eccentric and you can recognize which one an attacker is using by some of the odder entries on it. I've had instances where googling a particularly weird username out of authentication logs just turned up exactly the perl script the attacker was using, uploaded to some compromised webserver where Google got wind of it somehow. I assume the username list it was using was originally from some real system but had been copypastad until it no longer had any relation to the original source. A lot of common password lists are like this as well.

The term "credential stuffing" should be viewed as a term of art and not used in communications to the public, but I do think it's useful because it describes a phenomenon which is different from, and may or may not involve, password reuse by users.

As a semi-related but amusing anecdote, there was for a time a fairly large-scale SSH credential stuffing effort by a botnet whose operator had made a mistake and mixed up the "username" and "password" fields in their credential list. Many SSH servers saw thousands of attempts with various usernames like "letmein123" and password "root" or "admin". I suspect the actual root of the problem was that they'd concatenated credential lists, not realizing they were in different formats. They may have even gotten the credential list that way, these things get passed around in really haphazard ways.
i am interested in this comparison.

my gut feeling is that the blockchain is more energy intensive. but i am curious how much energy is consumed by a global online multiplayer game like fortnite or similar.
Money laundering, speculation, pyramid schemes and pushing terrible ideas about ownership can be achieved without crunching a bunch of numbers to find low hashes or whatever.

The kind of video gaming that has you burning 300W with your GPU is hard to achieve in a different way.

It is a weak argument though and I think it's frustrating how prominently people make it rather than the much more important "it's bad to propagate scarcity based ownership structures to a domain where scarcity need not exist".
Oh, how I wish this were true.
Freeman Dyson said:

>Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby. They delight in the details of particular objects, and they solve problems one at a time. Mathematics needs both birds and frogs. Mathematics is rich and beautiful because birds give it broad visions and frogs give it intricate details.

It is my impression that those loving category theory are predominantly birds. I am a frog, and never really got the love for category theory.
You mean Foxconn, right? As per my understanding this is not Apple's factory, simply just a factory that makes Apple products.
> The bigger problem was how close they come to smaller vehicles, at speed

Which, but for the scale, is exactly what happened here:

> Maritime Management said the 160-foot tanker was traveling on its proper watch en route to Great Stirrup Cay when it was rear-ended by the 207-foot super yacht.

While 160ft seems like a pretty small tanker (some sort of local delivery ship?) a 200+ft yacht seems utterly insane, it's a large floating house. And yet it apparently doesn't even make the "list of motor yachts by length", whose cutoff is 246ft (75m).

Also per that page,

> superyachts range from 37 m (≈120 ft) up to 60 m (≈200 ft), and megayachts are over 60 m
I don't understand your comment. I said wind, solar and hydro are weather dependent?
Plus there are PoS chains like Binance, Avalanche etc that require very little energy consumption for nodes. I am talking about Raspberry Pi's.
Why are you engaging in the comments for an article about Aaron Swartz then?
It's the Disney produced star wars films that moved (Rogue One, etc.)
States aren't homogeneous, though, and rural people in blue states can be extra over the top in their performative Trumpism. For example, there's a good case to be made that California Republicans are much more focused on performative Trumpism than on actually winning elections.
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I think you mean famicom. Unless I'm mistaken, the famicom and the 64 had floppy drives add-ons (FDS and 64DD), but I don't think the super famicom did. Unless you're speaking of 3rd party tools like those used to copy games, but afaik they use standard floppies.
Not defending Amazon or anything, but bringing factories like this up to Amazon warehouse standards would be a massive win for labor globally. These conditions are the norm.