skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I saw the first reports about Covid in India in 2020 locals on social media were suggesting that despite the reported mass deaths the unofficial numbers would likely be significantly higher because only people who actually made it to hospitals were counted and many people dying in rural/poorer areas (where tests or even medical care weren't widely available) were cremated without a diagnosis.

I'm not at all surprised to see that this may still be the case now a year an a half later.
It's like when people bashed Tesla and said it wont work because there were not enough charging stations across the USA, as if world changing technologies are realized in a day.

Tesla built a network of chargers to fix that problem. They didn't hand-wave it away with "it probably won't work that way in the future" - they came up with a real plan of action and executed on it. After that a lot of the skeptics came around.

The same is true for cryptocurrencies and NFTs I imagine. When devs in that industry come up with a workable solution and execute it people will change their minds. Until that happens it's entirely fair and reasonable to say that cryptocurrencies and NFTs have some serious problems, and claiming "it probably wont work that way in the future" is not an answer.

You can't just ignore problems by saying they're not problems. That doesn't work.
I would argue a care that is beyond my affordability is bad quality of care.
The unvaccinated haven't done nearly the damage policy has to hospitals. The US has like 6-7% fewer staffed beds than before the pandemic and has stupidly decided to fire unvaccinated healthcare workers that have almost assuredly developed their immunity naturally.

People seem to forget much of the world still has no access to vaccines. Every person being vaccinated with natural immunity is someone without immunity missing that vaccine.
Yes, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

And for India, The Economist estimates 1.1 to 7.6 m excess deaths, implying 27 to 184 (!) infections per 100 people so far.
I updated my laptop this year and I picked the XPG Xenia 14, it ticked many boxes and I honestly loved it:

1. Easy to unscrew and upgrade (I bumped the RAM to 64Gb)

2. Has 2 M.2 slots (I replaced the stock SSD with 1Tb PCIE 4.0 for the OS and apps and added a 2Tb PCIE 3.0 for media and data)

3. It has a thunderbolt port, so it supports an eGPU

4. It is incredibly thin and light

5. It has a decent collection of ports
I've used the analogy that NFTs are just a fancy notary public, and exactly as exciting.
Yes it is subjective, that's the point.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'm not yet convinced, but I will give this more thought!
“Late summer 2021” according to https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59915689, so months ago, but not much more.

They might not have known whether it was complete at the time they lifted it out, either.
How I Learned to Learn (or how to learn effectively as an adult)
Why would socialized medicine exclude this behavior? Medicare fraud in the US is in the billions.
How is zero covid an achievable policy for an endemic, highly contagious virus? The whole idea to me seems impossible.
I am still haunted by the time I was in Washington DC walking with some coworkers from LA and one of us stepped in front of a car at Union Circle, the car brakes, and the car got rear ended by another car.
Interviewer: “how do you feel about your government?”

Chinese interviewee: “I can’t complain!”
If there wasn't an energy crisis in Kosovo, would they still ban it? If the answer is yes, then yes.
That sounds like a personal problem. .deb and .rpm packages are nothing more than tar archives with a specific file structure. dpkg and rpm both have options to extract the package locally. dpkg -L NAME will show you all the files the installed package has placed on your file system (not generated ones by the code obviously but ones that came with the archive). pip has similar options.

More broadly, and I am sorry if I am wrong here, but what do you expect to glean from reading that code if you don’t bother reading the man page for your package manager?
Which isn't quite unfounded since the CopperheadOS guy literally booted him out of their first company and has since then AFAIK simply copied from GrapheneOS while running sleazy marketing. May be wrong on the copying part - please correct me if so, but that was my impression a while back.
Crypto Andys like to extol the supposed virtues of crypto like being extra-governmental, distributed and robust. A lot of gold bugs have jumped on this, often out of some misunderstanding of what central banks do and that "printing money" isn't the evil it's made out to be.

Crypto skeptics (such as myself) point out the flaws in all this. For example:

1. It's not a currency. It's an asset;

2. Reversible transactions for fiat currencies is a feature not a bug;

3. People who can't manage passwords won't be able to manage a wallet so mass appeal is always going to be limited;

4. Crypto has its own vulnerabilities (eg 51% attack);

5. This whole system is hugely energy wasteful; and (here's the big one)

6. Government action could shut down crypto tomorrow so how robust is it really?

(6) seems to be contentious but there's a ton of evidence for this. China banned mining, for example, out of energy concerns so all the crypto miners moved to Kazakhstan, a country that may end up being invaded by Russia. What happens to those crypto farms then? Rising energy costs in the developed world are slowly going to turn the eye on crypto mining. You already see the US government cracking down on crypto anonymity and tax reporting.

All of this is enough for me to wonder if the solution to the Fermi Paradox isn't just that civilizations end up choking on micro-plastics and cooking themselves to death with crypto-mining. But hey for awhile there they created a lot of shareholder value.
from the article:

"Conspiracy theories (CTs) are narratives that attempt to explain significant social events as being secretly plotted by powerful and malicious elites at the expense of an unwitting population (Douglas et al., 2019; Samory & Mitra, 2018b)."
Might depend on where you live, but where I am the "er" in "laser" is like anything the "-er" for almost all words with that ending, but the "e" in "emission" is like the "i" in "igloo" (or like the second "i" in "emission").
I‘m wondering if they could avoid yet another breaking protocol change if SHA256 proves to be insecure (at some point in the future) if they made use of Multiformats [0]. At least IPFS went this way (Multiformats grew out of the IPFS development).

[0] https://multiformats.io/
To be fair, once you hit 5 years (or if you’re unlucky 3 years) it becomes just about impossible to get OEM parts from Dell or Lenovo and you have to resort to cannibalizing broken ones off eBay or your parts bin if you’re in enterprise. So either way you could end up in the same boat, except if framework comes up with a gen 2 it’s possible with enough consumer pressure they’ll make the parts cross compatible.
> this question will appear insulting but do you think there is a cultural reason why there is so much scamming in India or by Indians? I've read many hackernews posts on Indian swe candidate lying on the take home test or CV. 100% of the phone scammers I encountered here in Australia have a South Asian accent.

It's not "cultural", e.g. here in Germany we have a huge problem with phone fraud originating in Turkey [1]. The reason why scams are so common for "foreign" countries is relatively simple: fraudsters need people speaking the language pretty well, but do not want attention from domestic law enforcement... meaning you need a remote country with a shoddy/easily bribable law enforcement, speaking the same language as the "target" country, a huge supply of desperate, poor people willing to turn to crime for money and easy ways to transfer money from the target country to the source country and back to wherever the ringleaders are. For English-speaking countries, the biggest country where these conditions meet is India and the Philippines (and historically, Nigeria), for German-speaking countries it's Turkey (with historically close migration links from the post-WW2 "Gastarbeiter" era).

[1]: https://www.bka.de/DE/UnsereAufgaben/Deliktsbereiche/Betrueg...
As a gentoo user, this postinstall behavior on debian/fedora/etc was rather shocking to me when I first encountered it. With gentoo portage, either when initially installing a package or when upgrading it, nothing under /var/lib is created or modified, and the process itself is never automagically started or stopped. The postinstall behavior actually feels like a regression toward windows-style installer.

The cassandra debian package is a good example. If I let the postinstall script runs, then it will use the default config to start a single-node cassandra cluster, creating a bunch of stuffs under /var/lib/cassandra, which then need to be removed first if I want to build a proper image from the disk. Doing the removal as part of the automation feels too risky to me, as it may only take one typo to accidentally delete /var/lib/cassandra in production. Instead, I usually just put a policy-rc.d script to disable all postinstall scripts from running.
To all intents and purposes there aren't any that are functioning countries. Iran maybe, best of luck getting your code hosted there in an widely accessible way (IIRC Iran had membership until 2016 and technically does have a prohibition as a result but doesn't enforce it really).

There are a few very small island nations, North Korea, and Monaco/San Marino, though I think Monaco has an anti-circumvention provision anyway.

Israel's implementation is full of holes but they still have one, technically.
DUIs are up, suicides are up, overdoses are up, and we keep putting off both routine and urgent medical procedures. There are people with cancer whose procedures are getting bumped because hospitals are full.

There's a meaningful difference between "died from COVID", "died with COVID", and "died due to circumstances surrounding COVID". Our excess deaths are the sum of those 3 categories.

I can tell you for a fact that "died from COVID" is not 100% of those excess deaths, because suicides and overdoses are up. I can't tell you what percentage are in each category, but this "all excess deaths are from COVID" idea is obviously untrue.

The CDC data doesn't even agree with equating excess deaths to COVID deaths. [1] Note that they call out accidents and diabetes deaths increasing 15%.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/podcasts/2022/20220107/20...
Sotomayor’s false claim ‘over 100K’ kids are in 'serious condition’ with Covid
[Veritasium Boredom](https://youtu.be/LKPwKFigF8U)
“Everything is fine back home in the old country, except i can’t find a store that sells any green ink!”
Then E-Mails which fail the SPF and DKIM checks should be rejected by the receiving server. Many mailservers still let them through though because they just don't check dmarc or put them in a spam folder or quarantine.
Ahh, finally governments are realizing how unsustainable bitcoin is.

I don't understand why it takes so much time for Government that BTC, animal farming, climate change shouldn't be taken lightly. I feel sad for those tax payers whose money were used to subsidize electricity.

And it’s so astonishing to me why crytobois don't switch to the better currency that doesn't use POW at least they won’t use exorbitant power.
They covered up reeducation camps for a long time. A strong authoritarian government is much more capable at blatant corruption and conspiracy than western nations are used to.
Xtree gold. And LapLink.

I was watching an old sitcom recently (Newsradio) and the prop computers on the set all appear to be running xtree.
Yup. I’ve seen similar gaming. Of the people who died in Singapore, 5/8th weren’t “fully vaccinated”, so they lump in the ones with one dose and those who haven’t met some predefined period of time post-2nd dose.
Maybe it's a good time to remind that Bitcoin is not Ethereum. Bitcoin has always focused on maximizing decentralization. This debate goes back to blocksize war in 2015-2017, when small blocks and decentralization won over big blocks and increased throughput. The idea is simple; the network is more decentralized, when more people can reasonably run a full node on their own home computer. It is possible to run a full Bitcoin node on a typical laptop or desktop PC, or a dedicated Raspberry Pi with external 1 TB hard drive. It doesn't mean that everyone has to run their own node; it's enough that it is possible.

For Ethereum and most other altcoins, it's not possible to run a full node on a home computer. That's why most of the nodes are run by companies such as Infura.

This is also the root of the argument why many bitcoiners think that most altcoins such as Ethereum are scams. Like the article suggests, they're promoted and sold as decentralized but in reality are quite far from it.
Show HN: Dupver - Deduplicating VCS for large binary files in Go
> Actual artists are off making stuff they can sell, and 99.99% of them don't know what an NFT is.

In my experience, it's the opposite. If you're an artist with an internet connection, then you know about NFTs.

Art communities across the internet have been fractured by the topic this year. Some have banned the posting of NFTs[1], some have built software to alert members when their work has been stolen and turned into NFTs[2]. Artists who speak out against NFTs are frequently dogpiled by crypto enthusiasts claiming that they don't care about their fellow artists[3]. Even famous artists know what NFTs are[4], since they've all been approached at some point by a crypto investor who wants them to make NFTs. As an artist, it's difficult to escape the topic, and it's causing quite a bit of backlash.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/rrb8s8/rpixelart_...

2: https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/DeviantArt-Protect-8...

3: https://twitter.com/simonstalenhag/status/136987854676887142...

4: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/20/22846654/brian-eno-nft-c...
My parents had 2 dogs, Irish setter and a mutt we rescued. The mutt was significantly smarter. I've seen her burying a bone she got in one place, notice that the other dog is watching, wait for the other dog to go back home, and rebury the bone in a different place.

This implies at least basic theory of mind and thinking about thinking. This wasn't the only evidence btw.

Before that we had a different dog, also a mutt. He was pretty aggressive and had a separate fenced area inside our backyard. There was a cherry tree just outside that fenced area and our cat liked to sit there, but only if the dog is locked in the fenced area. That dog learnt to close the gate to look as if it's locked and sit in there waiting for the cat to climb the tree, AND wait for us to go to school/work, and only then he would leave the fenced area and bark under the tree at the cat for hours. We only knew thanks to neighbors.

In general theory of mind is very useful to any social animal and especially to predators, so I don't think it's as unique to humans as some people say.
Eh I'm on the opposite side of it seeing my future mother in law raise a 5 to 7 year old through this whole thing and at first she liked it cause he's more of an introverted quiet kid so it seemed like it helped him at first but then we started to see small social issues with him start to come out and likely due to him basically missing his entire first and second grade. Kid is probably irrevocable fucked up now. The mask thing is just more icing on the cake.

Working from home the most I had to wear the mask is flying somewhere and I fucking haaaate it. And I say this as a trans person that enjoyed for once not being misgendered in public. The truth is me and my very liberal girlfriend are fucking over it and we don't care anymore. We're triple vaxed and fuck it. We've been going clubbing at maskless down town LA parties for months now and haven't caught it yet.

The fact that kids have to do more than I do as an adult is baffling to me. I legitimately feel bad for them.
I think it's the Russian tactic of trying to coarsen debate with the aim of people not knowing what to believe so they tune out of politics ("all politicians lie").
How come for you the starting point is that animals do not have feelings and emotions like us, and that we have to have evidence for it?

Why isn’t the starting point that they do have feelings like us and we have to find evidence against it?

Really, other animals are so similar to us on every dimension except language that I wonder why people reason this way. Mammals in particular. I’ve seen Denver the guilty dog. She’s behaving like she feels guilty. It’s harder to buy an argument that we are just projecting our human notion of guilt onto her, rather than she simply feels guilt.

To put it another way, your position implies that all of these things were experience — laughter, grief, guilt, shame, deception — might have begun with humans. For me, that’s a position you need a lot of evidence for.
Yes, I understand, my point is, why putting this absolute number into the article title?
I think you're mostly right. Although there are exceptions. Consider to opioid crisis. That's a case where profit motive directly leads to poorer quality care.

Regardless of that, high quality care isn't much good if you can't access it.
> the government has ensured that instead my company does for me.

How does the government ensure that?
When it comes to security (among other things), one simply cannot say that all the important bits are in the kernel. If that were the case, there would not be an issue to discuss here.
Neighbors reporting each other for crimes is a good thing. Codes of silence between neighbors are what lead communities to cover up murders and refuse to talk to police.

I suppose the actual issue here is the “pro social” behavior piece. I haven’t actually heard of any U.S. state where significant fines or enforcement of private home gathering sizes was done after a few months in March, most states relied on the honor system even if governors ordered allegedly strict restrictions (e.g. one “blue” state I traveled to required me to submit a form for travel, however, each time I went there I was never approached by police or anyone else to check my form and I easily could have never done it).
True, but what I'm saying is there's no reason to mistrust the hospitals as I've not seen the alleged behaviour at all. Add to that the fact that you don't even need to go to a hospital to get yourself tested in the first place - in most cities you can get it done by a professional at home (though it's possible OP's parents live in a rural area where this facility is not available).
The US does not have socialised medicine.
Of course the daily stats aren't accurate. Not nearly so, I believe. Some nations have better capability for testing. Some nations have people wealthy enough to get tested or provide free testing, whereas others do not. In some places, knowledge of COVID-19 does not exist.

Does / did anyone really believe that the USA is the leading the death count, when countries with more questionable infrastructure and huge populations like China and India exist?
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Yup. California is now changing the rules to allow Covid positive healthcare works to come back without any quarantine.

https://www.kcra.com/article/nurses-react-covid-19-protocols...

So is France and Canada.
To Woods’ Maxim — “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” — I usually add the clause “and 90% of the time that maintainer will be future you!”
The testing centers are free for the most part.
I developed gout in my mid 20s after a viral infection. My uric acid is always in the normal range and I get stereotypical gout symptoms including Tophi now that I’m 50. I can usually predict a gout attack when I get a cold, I have a feeling my immune system gets ramped up and my feet are collateral damage.

So I guess my point is, what percentage of the population is like my case and will eventually get an autoimmune issue from a viral infection? Omicron looks like it’s be eventually going to infect everyone, so avoiding the vaccine for a one in a million autoimmune reaction might be delaying the inevitable when you get infected by Omicron for real.
The package ecosystem is growing and there’s more good packages each year. 10 years isn’t 30, but it’s still a long time to show success.

That’s there’s only been a few problems like this despite millions of users is a sign of strength.

I hedge by pinning yo specific versions and keeping my own package manager (RStudio) to keep mirrors if the packages I scan. That the packages are open source means they are easier to scan or fork.

If a maintainer stops then the project can be forked. If nobody wants to fork then that probably means no one cares enough. And that’s ok.

Mostly it forces us to be flexible. I don’t think software is a thing but a process or cycle.
You can't just cremate a corpse by throwing it on some wood and pouring gasoline on it. Even proper cremation still leaves behind some "scrap" (of course medical devices and prosthetics, but also some bones can be very difficult to fully turn to ashes).
NFTs and DeFi was this pump.

New NFT "drop", someone purchases, takes a DeFi flash loan, "purchases" it from themselves for a ridiculous amount, sells it to the sucker, pays off the loan.

I'm bullish on crypto, but this is just another cycle. Same as - what was it, 5 years ago?

Maybe 40k BTC will be the bottom... maybe it'll slowly taper down to 30, 25.. then it'll be quiet for a while, then...
Most of confusion with email authentication historically came from two things: SMTP envelope address might not be equal to content From: address, and there was no clear policy whether to expect DKIM signature, or to which address apply SPF check.

SPF is enough to prevent spoofed source of SMTP envelope, but not for From: spoofing. (applying it to From: address would reject any forwarded mail, which probably isn't desired)

DKIM ensures legitimacy of From: address, and works correctly with forwarding. But DKIM itself doesn't specify whether you should require DKIM signature. (ADSP record allows to specify that, but it wasn't deployed nearly at all)

DMARC record is used to specify unambiguous policy, and it passes when either SPF is aligned with From: address, or there's valid DKIM signature. Thus DKIM+DMARC is enough to prevent spoofed mail, but SPF is usually kept in case some servers still don't support newer methods. SPF+DMARC would also prevent spoofing, but will also reject forwarded mail.

Note that SPF+DKIM without DMARC doesn't really protect against spoofing, because SPF checks only envelope address, and you cannot tell whether DKIM signature is required.
We have a post like this every month.

What incentive does the country have to under report COVID deaths? Get some glorious trophy from the west on its stellar COVID management?

Save face with people and continue winning elections? The people don't blame the government for covid.

Not to mention, the numbers are reported independently by the states, ruled by very different political parties.
I most certainly do not believe in eating to remedy feeling shitty. That's _your_ conclusion :)

I was merely taking exception to the _opposite_ point of view that eating less, to the point of skipping one or more meals a day, was universally good for everyone, without exception.
I've seen it in the launcher.
The gpus from that generation are quite shit. Nonetheless, the igpu version is better for battery life and linux. I changed my motherboard from w530 to t530 (igpu version) to get rid of nvidia.
Regarding 6 these crypto miners will simply prey for other country that has low electricity price (which may be using tax subsidized by citizen money.)

You didn't mentioned one big disadvantage:
7. Cryptos are also used by naughty people for hacking, extorting etc. And we already know how many of them are involved in mlm strategy.