skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So anyone who has your phone number and thinks "hmm, is so and so on Signal?" will find out, yes.

It would be more privacy preserving to prevent that user from ever knowing the answer until I send them a message.

The usual areas this is a problem are for example: bad exes, poor former business relations, anyone who is harassing/stalking someone, and so on. I enjoy Signal as an app but it's a bit disingenuous to pretend that there aren't other ways of architecting a messenger system that could preserve anonymity better.
> I feel the Economist is very behind the times on this and is actually one of the key magazines read by empty suits,

Absolutely. With their views on bullshit jobs (no such thing as per them), remote work they are very much a establishment sockpuppet. If their coverage of things which I know a bit first hand is so shallow/wrong, I wonder if even stories on international affairs are any solid at all.
shaadi.com pre-dates muzmatch by something like 15 years... it was a mainstream service a decade before this guy launched.
Again, if understanability is paramount, ROOT is 2000 LoC: http://root.rupy.se
You're clearly uninformed on vaccination issues and spreading FUD in the process. Trying to paint me as insensitive is a cute tactic to hide your ignorance.

Vaccination helps reduce the risk of you catching the virus, spreading the virus, reduces the risk of hospitalization, reduces the risk of you taking medical resources from someone else.

The risk of a "severe immune response that will cause death" is statistically MUCH lower than the risk of catching and dying from covid.

Not accommodating your sealioning is the humane response.
According to "Logopedia", Match only started using that logo since 2015,[1] which does seem to be supported by their own press releases from 2014 using a different logo.[2] A news article[3] from 2011[4] shows that muzmatch had already been using the logo at the time.

So the stealing might have happened the other way.

1. https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Match.com?oldid=2485091#2003.E...

2. https://match.mediaroom.com/2014-03-20-Match-com-Hits-a-Home...

3. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/enterprise/...

4. https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012404/https://www.manch...
We're commenting on an article pretty much saying we have models which estimate in the right directing, but don't go far enough. Now we can learn from the changes and improve the models.

If you're discounting a whole field of research, can you provide more reasoning for why it can't be improved from the current results?
Los Angeles, one of the largest school districts in the USA, where there was no in-person school for over a year.
I have no kids so have 0 context, but discord servers are very easy to create. If your child wants to avoid your surveillance couldn't they just make a new server that you don't admin? If there are parental controls can't they just make a new account? Has this been a problem for you?
This story feels years old.
I appreciate your anti-collision efforts. ;)
It isn't manageable if health care systems are overloaded in a winter wave, that is why every small bit to reduce spread currently helps.

Nobody is arguing about the next 5 years, it is the first winter after we started a very successful vaccination campaign. Without Omicron, Covid would already be mostly over.

Also total school closures could be prevented if we adopt more nuanced methods (such as alternating days of attendance, air filtration, etc.)
None of that is relevant or actionable. Everyone including children will be exposed regardless of what we do. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments are pretty good at preventing severe symptoms.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
In this case though a user has tried to link something as obvious as "hospitals don't know on admission that you have covid, they just know you're sick" to try to claim that there's some conspiracy.

It's a clear attempt at misinformation and should not be tolerated.
Or any way of moving files around that doesn't translate UIDs or where translating UIDs is more work; ex. rsync will default to trying to match by user name, but I'm pretty sure tar won't always
No, if you want them, it's up to you to make the effort to get them.
*in reported numbers. That's a massively important caveat, since many countries are not reporting properly (i.e. Russia's death toll is likely 3-5 times the reported one, and India had at least a million deaths, but the reported number is 480K)

Would be better to compare excess deaths per capita (instead of reported COVID deaths)
sounds like the eyeglasses and sunglasses brands (and retail stores) that people might mistakenly be under the impression are independent companies, but are all part of Luxottica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
I forgot about this hilarious event where a regulator made the mistake of telling utilities they'd get bailed out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#PUC_...
Perhaps a shift in perspective is required. Academia is saving T-shaped people from a life frittered away on empty papers. This is a good thing since it allows them to participate in the market instead where their skills can be put to use.
ANALYZE is the first thing I run when looking at a problematic slow query, if you aren't aware of it, you could spend hours trying to figure out why the planner was doing A when it should be doing B.
I heard that story about coffee rather than chocolate:

https://www.metafilter.com/154838/and-also-something-somethi...

It is excerpted from the book "Wired to Care", which I haven't read and which sounds platitudinous, but the story stuck in my mind.

There was also an interesting unofficial history of Friendly's Ice Cream written by someone who assistant-managed one for many years. I can't find it online now. But basically it said the higher-ups kept watching the sales figures as they played with the prices, the decor in the restaurants, the promotional advertising, etc. It all seemed pretty random. Then the guy drew a graph and the only thing that really correlated well with sales was the percentage of butterfat in the ice cream (more=richer / higher quality ice cream). They kept lowering it to make the ice cream cheaper to manufacture until the ice cream became crap, then they would restore it, etc.
I think you're mostly correct. And this is a problem with the idea of trying to model for this given all the variables and outcomes. Climate change should be as simple as: 1) we have pretty decent models and data that show that man is having a considerable impact on weather/climate. 2) we live in a fragile system and are fragile creatures, between us and mother nature we lose every single time, and we lose big, 3) do you really want to find out where this ends?

I think most people just look around and see that things are changing. The attribution studies are sort of a moot point. It's the actual change that is going to make us act.

Already is, a little.

Nobody is going to understand all the weaseling around this could have occurred by chance but we think it's more likely to occur because we modeled it but our models can't predict those low frequency really severe events so we've modeled less severe events and are guessing. If we do start seeing more and more serious weather events (like we seem to be) there's going to be some drastic action (too late?) and if we won't then I guess we're ok by some luck.
You seem to have not understood what I've said. Whatever good will you may extend, the attitude betrays the complacency of an alms-giver. I merely wish to point out how FOSS can be manipulated by such an attitude to provide a fig leaf -- in "a few years time" -- for the rent-seeking behavior I'd hope you condemn.

Let me also apologize for my manner. I'm inept at expressing what I think is important without alienating those that might be most receptive to it. Truly, I wish I could have said what I needed more gracefully. I didn't mean to give offense.
Delta has a mortality rate of 3+% by the most charitable takes.

What's your reference for that?
It is not a non-issue. Because 95% of people will not disable it. This means that if Microsoft asks some company to make changes to their program, then they will have a lot of leverage behind that ask. Even if you personally disable the gatekeeping, you will be affected indirectly as the market for non-compliant programs will be unsustainable. Everything you run will be microsoft compliant, outside maybe one or two hyper-niche things.

This is what Android has taught us.
By age, I'm Generation X, but by philosophy, attitude, etc., according to my nieces and nephews, I'm a millennial (one of my nieces actually thinks I'm a zoomer... lol), but I think you're spot on with this.

I actually use whatever communications method the people in my life want to use.

My Mom is 71 and wants to talk on the phone. My brother is 42 and does a mix of SMS / MMS texting, phone calls, and the occasional Facebook Messenger. My cousin likes to video call with Facebook Messenger. My nieces and nephews like to use Discord / Instagram / Snapchat, so I use those.

It's weird - and more than a little stupid - how people get so hung up on a singular monolithic communication method.
note that apple did get sued by apple corps (the beatles music) when they began introducing music features to their computers with the IIgs and similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
trollcats
Right now it's in POC form, so it's just using a simple 'zooko:' prepend to identify Zooko messages (Zookos). Since it's completely decentralized on chain, it actually doesn't need ActivityPub or XMPP for help (all you need is the ability to download the chain).
this might be a derail but that kind of reminded me of the most distilled essence of "Chuck E Cheese".

"Come on down folks, for a good time with the family, eat some greasy pizza in our rat themed child casino..."
Discord is really where all the kids are.
Just 2 days ago this was posted with a source from 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835437

And now it’s reposted on WSJ in 2020? Why is this suddenly appearing everywhere?

Looks like someone trying to submarine a narrative about something.
What?

You clearly did not read the report that has proven autoantibodies were detected from mild covid cases associated with long covid symptoms.

How do you explain the rise in children’s hospitalizations in areas with high covid rates?

"A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, DC. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations are up 48% in just the past week."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-omicron-variant...

"An average of 672 children were being hospitalized every day in the US, as of 2 January - more than double the average just a week before. And the rate is rapidly increasing."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/covid-hospit...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-real-...

https://nypost.com/2021/12/25/new-york-dept-of-health-warns-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/08/26/child-c...
Looking at excess deaths per capita (over trend) gives you a good-enough estimate of effects of COVID. Countries like New Zealand are actually below trend (negative deaths from COVID, even with similar lockdowns)
You're correct it's around 200,000 acres or $2 billion. Chinese also own the largest hog producer, Smithfield Farms.

I saw a news report this week that China was the largest holder of U.S. farmland. A quick web search shows the Canadians own far more, 4,000 times as much. How bad is it in this country when you can't believe the facts American media is giving you?
> Please drop the hyperbole

What if I had told you 5 years ago that in 2020, people in Western countries would be forbidden from leaving their homes without permission, and would have to show a digital pass on their phone to be allowed to go into shops?

The technology for remote attestation already exists, and it would take less than a year to roll out checks for it across all ISPs in a country. As you say, it would need some sort of crisis for a government to demand it, but an ill-intentioned government with an offensive cyber-war capability could manufacture that crisis tomorrow if it wanted.

We already have authoritarian Western nations like Poland allegedly using cyber-weapons against opposition politicians[0]. I don't think that claiming existing technology could be used in 5 years is a claim that "the sky is falling right now". The main thing holding back such a scheme is that it would force a lot of legitimate users offline, which is why I think 5 years should be enough time to make those affected users a small enough minority that a government could ignore them.

[0] https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/05/polish-watergate-tension...
> Canada had varied level of lockdowns too by province.

Schools have been open for the most part in Ontario and Alberta since Fall 2020.

> Canada has way lower vaccine hesitancy.

New York City has 82.5% of population vaccinated, about as much as Ontario [1]. Yet schools were closed for most parents throughout the pandemic.

> On average Canadians have fewer comorbidities.

Where the hell are you getting this from? Health Canada numbers say 64% adults are overweight or obese [2].

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-vaccines.p...

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications...
> LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best known brands are Costa, Ray-Ban, Persol, Oliver Peoples and Oakley.

Intense...
> Trying to paint me as insensitive is a cute tactic to hide your ignorance.

You should tone down the conspiracy theorist act and look for actual human beings with worries and a lot to lose because, you know, that's exactly what's going on.

Think what you will though.
> I would love to drop MySQL/MariaDB and go with PostgreSQL, but information like this makes me nervous that I would setup a footgun and be constantly debugging things because I am not a DB admin expert.

Has MySQL gotten... a lot better, or are you just used to its quirks? I feel like the UTF encoding and ... date format? timezones? are/were all really big footguns.
She is just saying that not all things need to be functional. It’s okay to keep something you never “use” if it makes you happy.
Indeed in the UK "Match of the day" predates the internet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_of_the_Day

Maybe the BBC should of been sharper on their trademarks or like many - thought it was so common, who would allow it.
This was an amazing presentation. Thanks so much for sharing.
Ah okidoki,
Meh linux , no linux both are ok, I’ve just had too many people genuinely call people jerks for providing foss tools that don’t meet their criterias....

Confused you with those, extremely sorry.
I think we can demand more of our bureaucrats, if all we expect are Bogons - all we'll get are Bogons. Increasingly, the only thing US administrators can do is spend more money on problems without delivering any improved results. This pattern is common across Academia, Private, and Public institutions.
I am not arguing with the desired outcome. But what I've seen more often than not is that people get addicted to the pills and never do stand on their own feet again.

And I agree with your second paragraph completely. I am sick of society pretending that people are "sick". They are not. They are responding naturally to an increasingly hostile world.
Yes, this exactly. Fundamentally in most legal situations, there is a huge asymetary between the litigants. Even in criminal cases you typically have a well funded, well schooled, prosecutor versus a law-ignorant and unfunded defendant.

Perhaps part of the role of the judge is to understand, and correct for, this imbalance - but I'm not sure how effective that is.

But back to the point, rules on legal costs, punitive fees and so on, all fall down when "the boot is on the other foot." There is no way for the small guy to take a big guy to court if legal costs are always paid by the loser, never mind punitive damages.

Equally while it's popular to default to evil-corp (with good reason) it's also important for big-Corp to have, and be able to defend, their intellectual property.

Writing rules that allow for fairness under all these conditions, inside a system that incentives combatents (lawyers) to maximise personal profitability, is, well, tricky.
I like the idea of renting out the house. This would ensure that the maximum number of people get to appreciate its beauty.
Almost every kid I know gets their parent’s old phones. Apple made a major effort to extend the supported usable life of their phones several years ago and it’s paid big dividends in terms of getting the kids started on iOS. A brand new $400 SE can easily be expected to give 5-7 years of service, which brings the starting price down to $60-80/a to say nothing of the used market. It’s hard to even argue that Android is the cheaper option unless you don’t mind running insecure OS versions for several years.
The article and headline are, in my view anyway, designed to confuse the reader into believing that there is some evidence that the drones are doing this.
I am sure that a sufficiently motivated researcher could find paid service date match making companies with something "match" in the name going back to the 1970s, when it was all done manually and by telephone, or the 80s and by fax.
[Submission Statement]: Right now, there are a lot of sentiments as it relates to de-platforming on various platforms. I was able to implement a completely decentralized twitter-like microblogging system on top of a blockchain, so this inherits the immutability from the chain with it. Since it uses Handshake, the posts are also name-verified.

I named it in honor of Zooko, one of the original Cypherpunks. Cypherpunks write code.

Onward.
Alexa is a camera line/category, not a specific camera.
Apparently yes.
Adding view-source: to the url works for me on FF android.
You have a wife and a kid and yet just rent, have minimal furniture and empty walls? How does that work? My partner loves making spaces “cute” and need some plants, art, etc. which I’ve come to appreciate.
Bravo Oscar was the call sign given to the commander of Collation forces in the Middle East when I was over there.
Your link is an outdated opinion piece from someone who makes money from cancer self help books.

This may come as a surprise to you but contagious respiratory diseases can be prevented.

N95 masks and clean air are known actionable cost effective solutions.

https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/wiss-cheese-model...
You don't blame match? It's a common word.

In any case this is very much the big guy vs the small. The accusation attempt speaks for all of this. They couldn't buy them. I can hear the rattled and frustrated CEOs confusion when they were turned down.

I'm rooting for the smaller guy, and what's way to destroy your companies image.
Can't blame them that they seize the opportunity that the system grants them.

It's however bizzare that the system would grant them a monopoly on something they didn't invent. They merely took it from the community of English speakers and branded it as their own.

Similar to claiming a patent on an invention that you didn't invent. Just took already existing public domain technology that nobody else would dare to claim rights on and slapped a monopoly stamp on it.
Tons of people are skipping routine screening and exams. Lots of people are straight up avoiding any medical treatment out of fear of catching Covid. (including routine vaccination!). Raw numbers aren’t helpful here.
The author states as much:

> Theatre has always been an important part of the workplace.

They're expounding that it's gotten worse during the pandemic, which I think most of us would agree with.
I went through about 4 different modalities to pay for a tutor for son in India. It isn’t all that easy.
Just reading the title of this post gave me a most perverse hearty laugh. I strongly applaud the deranged motherfucker who decided that implementing a quantum computer in SQL was worth the effort.
Next up: D-Wave emulator in COBOL.
ThinkPad X1 Nano G2 32GB RAM and communications bar with four 360 mic array
You state this with a lot of confidence!

>Urban planning is setup so you can't get anywhere without a car so kids are stuck online all day.

This wasn't a problem in the 70s and 80s. Kids would just ride their bikes everywhere.

>We don't have public spaces where you aren't expected to spend money.

Apart from playgrounds, parks, libraries, community groups, all kinds of events... I don't think we've ever had more free public services than in the 21st century.

>Our food is tainted and industrialized to have less nutrition.

This is true for processed food, but we still have less malnutrition (macro and micro) today compared to any point in the 20th century.

I think it's really easy to pick the popular talking points from one's tribe and pose them as the problem/solution in any particular situation. If the goal is to actually identify/solve the problem, though, this more often than not is ineffective.
Please talk to someone about this, friend, parent, doctor. Consider all options including psilocybin.
i'm getting 'we're having trouble finding this site' in my browser, not sure if this has been blocked in my jurisdiction
Is there something similar on linux (instead of keynav)?
Was catching up with a friend who hast some IT work in a trading company.
He says their computers will be locked down after a period of inactivity. And their work is measured by how active they are.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mouse+jiggler&crid=I2FW85QSN9CW&s...

So there are these devices on Amazon that move the mouse for you so the inactivity algorithm breaks and you're always online and active!

As a very hard working person I sometimes feel like an idiot.
On the subject of creative Lisp tutorials, I like Manga de Wakaru Lisp:

http://lambda.bugyo.tk/cdr/mwl/
Orion is a spy satellite for radio frequencies ("sigint satellite"). While it is massive, it's not an optical spy satellite and certainly does not have <10cm resolution.
Adobe Atmosphere
I feel significantly better when my spaces are clean and empty. It’s like my mind feels less cluttered. It goes the same for note taking - it is like offloading my thoughts. I write it down, and it frees up space. Does it result in more productivity? Unknown so far. But it relieves me.
In 2008 a Google talent sourcer (their terminology) reached out to me via IRC. As far as he knew he was the only one using IRC for that purpose at Google at the time.

I often use that as an excuse to justify "wasting" countless months of my life on it.
This is an example of why I largely stopped tweaking files in /etc and other system settings. I used to geek out over "tuning" and "optimizing" and "hardening" stuff but it ends up creating obscure problems. It shouldn't, but it often does.
Presumably Barack Obama
That's great. I will be looking forward to this.
The point of the telescope is to capture IR light from space, if the telescope itself were generating IR light itself it would disrupt the sensor and data that it collects. Part of why its going to take so long for it to begin operating is that it needs to cool down to ultra cold temperatures before beginning operation.
This is so simple to use and to be hacked. Very much insecure, as I can post a journal on anyones account. I have access to everyones account theoretically.
Lisp also has run-time type checking. In contrary to statically compiled languages, lisp doesn't throw away it's types at run-time, and is always type-safe.
I’ve NEVER gotten a spam or phish from a blue bubble. 100% are green.

Green could be any type of source. Android, Twilio, google voice, who knows.

But if a random number comes in and it’s green, more often than not it’s spam. If it’s blue, more often then not there’s a real person behind it.