skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is ridiculous to criticize the "zero case" stratergy on one hand and doubt the "zero death" report without any evidence on the other hand. It is just like a craying baby to refuse the reality.

To @johan_larson, you don't have to bother to give out a bullet list about your analyses. You should had learned in high school that any case study and analyses should base on data and facts. However all points you listed are based on your subjective judgment. That will be earier to just say NO I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. Just like others comments.

BTW, as a chinese living in oversea, I thanks for the chinese government to be serious about "zero case", even that brings me difficulty going back to China. As long as I know my parents are living in the one of a few country which are safe for aged people so far.

If you are young or if you are in the middle age, you don't have to care about COVID very much. You can take care about yourself. You probably die if you get it but only in a less chance. However if you have parents and/or grand parents, go to read some article about symptoms or listen to the experience of people who recovered from COVID. Imagine how suffer they were and how they fear in the mid-night when they in the bed alone. (Because the illness could take a turn for the worse very quickly, and it turns to be very dangerous if no proper treat in time.)

If it is possible by the sake of your empathy, think about how many the "zero case" stratergy saved aged people in China and praise it abit!

If you refuse to admit the above. Just don't bother to doubt unless you do get any evidence. By the sake of humanelity empathy, do your best to stop spread around you. Reduce the risk to aged people in your familty and others beloved!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861752
I've seen blatantly discriminatory hiring practices favoring women at tech companies I've worked at with names you'd recognize. I was expecting some of this to surface when Trump was in office and get investigated, but it never did.
Correct. I'm aiming my comment more at the people asking about the moral ramifications ...
It's slower than Windy on my browser, and doesn't have ECMWF and AROME models.
Ah, I wish I could recommend some documentation outside the Ubuntu Core docs, but my learning process was pretty much Googling ad nauseam - usually ending up on https://forum.snapcraft.io, which is rarely a good sign :( For the stuff I did, past experience with flatpak helped a bit, and there have been a few instances where I've created bind mounts to poke sandbox holes where I need them.

I haven't had an excuse to play with lower level stuff like GPIO, unfortunately, but I can imagine some stable documentation would be rather useful there.
Well, time for me to consider switching away from T-Mobile.
This seems to be posted on a fairly regular basis every few months.
I can't believe Mozilla is posting stuff like this.
This is basically just an anti-masker talking point that's akin to school-yard taunting. It's not based in reality.
Of these SaaS is still vastly the cheapest; even hardware costs aside, because the timescales involved are fundamentally shorter.

Trying to raise capital for hard science (besides rockets and quantum apparently) is a real drag. We went to DoD contracts instead.
You are raising point which noone is disputing. Yes stuff broke, people’s time was wasted, this was the intention. However that does not necessitate malice. IWW for example calls these kinds of sabotage a direct action. The malice is towards the oppressors. The goal is to slow down production and such that our oppressors suffer.

This act is really no different then a strike. A striking worker is only malicious towards those who unfavorably profits from their labor. Other workers might suffer, but a true worker will stand in solidarity, for direct action is an act of love for the entire working class.
My grandmother was Canadian, as am I ... so nary a clue about the cost.
Apple does have a checkbox for "please learn things about me and serve me personalized ads" as well as another checkbox for "please send my analytics data back to you, I wanna share". Therefore they cannot categorically say they don't do it. But they certainly seem not to do it when those check boxes are off.
> I have to cover my face every time I talk to someone. That's in no way inconsequential. It's depressing and antisocial.

Is it? Why?

> I have to wear a mask while at the gym. That's in no way easy, particularly for cardio.

Of course it isn't at first. If society was such that we already used masks all the time I suspect people would just get used to it.

> I'm lucky that I can work from home, otherwise I'd be wearing a mask for nearly my entire day at work.

And...? We also wear clothes all day long at work. I suppose some people would call it bothersome or depressing or antisocial, but mostly we're all so used to it we don't even think about it.

I'm not opining on whether or not society can keep intermittently locking down forever, but we can certainly keep masking forever.
Thank you for the nightmares
I just went to donate but at least on Calyx, I do not have Google Pay installed. I just checked their blog post and they will add other payment methods in the future so I hope I can become a sustainer too.
They don't need permission to modify the code under the terms of the license granted by the owner.

The owner still owns the code and they can publish it or make it available where they like.
Messing with the Recipe
> Especially when the vaccine no longer prevents catching the virus or transmitting it.

The unvaccinated get COVID 400% more than the vaccinated, and the unvaccinated die from COVID 1,200% more than the vaccinated[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Indeed, and it's very hard to assess individual safety from broad based statistics. How do cycling injuries per mile translate into my personal risk? I've had one cycling injury in 50 years, when I hit a patch of ice on a bike path and cracked a rib. Ouch.

Cyclists have to figure out safety by guesswork. One thing that's reasonably certain is that cars cause the majority of cycling injuries (not counting mountain biking, which I'm not equipped for). I have a rule of thumb, which is that if a car can crash into another car, or into stationary objects such as buildings, then it can crash into a cyclist. So I look at where car crashes occur: Mostly on higher speed, congested roads, and especially at intersections. My first safety rule is route choice, and I avoid routes with a lot of car traffic. I rarely encounter cars on my commute to work.
> Is this really about EU telcos, though?

From that article:

> Via The Telegraph, operators including Vodafone, Telefonica and T-Mobile signed an open letter voicing their opposition to the rollout of the feature.

Those are each large telcos with operations in a multitude of countries.
People have co-evolved with dogs as companions for a long time. And many people have fond memories of dogs and experience with them as part of a family. This is not generally true of pigs even if their hearts are closer to ours. Even as someone who doesn't like dogs, I find the idea of harming one (even with a good reason) worse than harming a pig.
I was thinking the same, then I remembered that Google has its own phones, it owns Android, and it managed to start its own cellular network without a whisper. So, no reason why Apple can't do the same.
I guess you could immunosuppress the pigs until maturity, then transplant the organ?
Where is Mill CPU? Been almost 10 years since they started talking about architecture, but nothing tangible emerged yet.
Yes I was also surprised how this is hosted on arxiv. Can someone explain why this is ok ? It is definitely not a scholarly article.
It seems like people are mostly reacting to the title. This is what they are asking for:

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
>
> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
>
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
>
> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

Only #3 seems like it would be remotely controversial to anyone but adtech vendors and services trying to maximize "engagement".
>>>Something I have to wonder is are women and minorities... ok with this?

As a minority, coming from the largely blind-meritocracy of the military: NO. Same for the vast majority of minority service members and veterans that I know.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/ it feels like shouting into a black hole, but over the years I've seen suggested features implemented.
> What if it turns out the vaccines do have negative long term effects

This is like the inverse of Pascal's Wager [1]!

"What if taking some action results in negative long term effects that we don't yet know about? Better not do anything new just to be safe."

That reasoning could be applied to anything novel, and yet folks seem most ready to apply it to COVID-19 vaccination. The flu vaccine changes every year, but I've never heard folks expressing concern of the long-term effects of this year's new formulation. Let me rattle off a few more off the top of my head:

* Was there a large cohort of the population that refused microwave ovens in the 1970's?

* What if a doctor prescribes you a new medication that was developed in the last 5-10 years?

* VR headsets?

* Social media!

* Sitting at a desk in front of a computer working 8 hours a day

* Getting a smartphone

Is there some reason why we would expect a priori for the COVID-19 vaccine to have a particularly high risk of adverse affects that only show up long-term?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
I'm working on something even better. XMLambda (XMλ) implemented in Haskell, which is revolutionary and exciting such that I have investors throwing money bags of money over my backyard fence with a paper contracts attached (they don't trust other chains)

https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/XMLambda
They do have Rusty McSaltmeister...
Dude, this is a cool hypothesis. I tried to go get the SWITRS data to work with but the page is no longer loading. It includes time, IIRC, but I don't have the data to look at. If you can get a hold of it that would help (assuming the report time has time of crash in it) test your hypothesis. I'll do it on the weekend or something.
There are notes/photos on/of the camera in the previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16049954
well.. there are many urls that got posted repeatedly tbh
At one of my early software engineering jobs, my team was generous enough to entrust me with building a fairly complex component from start to finish. What I made worked reliably but the underlying code was spaghetti. I hope they felt no qualms about trashing it and have had an opportunity to refactor it since.
I have felt the same thing. The MacBook is an awesome piece of hardware, with a bad OS on top of it.
The many suggestions about what NPM should do differently are universally all really unsatisfying, rearrange-the-deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic level solutions.

At the end of the day, if you're running code that you didn't write or verify yourself, you're taking on risk.

IMO the next hugely successful package manager (in whatever programming language) will be the one with a really good capabilities model, so you can run untrusted code with much less worry.
You’re trying to claim stabilizing someone in the ER isn’t medical treatment. You are transparently arguing in bad faith and you know it. But sure, take your ball and go home since you can’t defend your arguments.
Yeah catching a different infection while you're at the hospital for something unrelated was pretty common even before covid. It even has a fancy medical name and everything.

I don't hear much about it these days but a few years ago MRSA was talked about commonly in this context. I think that was the big fear there as well. You go for a minor surgery or whatever and come out with a bone infection you'll never completely shake.
I just tried it. I'm on the cheapest T-Mobile prepaid plan [1].

I turned off WiFi, turned on iCloud Private Relay, and browsed to a site at work while watching the Apache logs for the hit.

Site showed up, and the Apache logs showed the hit came from 172.224.242.xx, which is in the block 172.224.0.0/12 which is assigned to Akami.

I turned iCloud Private Relay off, hit refresh, and the hit came from 172.58.46.xx, which is in the block 172.32.0.0/11 which is assigned to T-Mobile.

I then turned WiFi on and iCloud Private Relay on, hit refresh, and it came from the same IP that it had with it on when WiFi was off.

I then turned iCloud Private Relay off, hit refresh, and it came from an IP in the block 73.0.0.0/8 which belongs to Comcast, which is my wired home ISP.

Looks like there is no blocking going on for my T-Mobile plan.

[1] https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/plan-detail/t-mobile-connect
I completely disagree.

This happened even to demographics where essentially everyone already had a house.

But your neighbor has a pool.

But your other neighbor has a Range Rover.

But your OTHER other neighbor has a sweet home theater.

There's a huge gap between 'basic food and shelter needs met' and what people will compete for.
You have $375k extra runway to increase the valuation of your company. If you are increasing the valuation enough, then the extra runway is worth far more to you than the dilution costs you. Without this deal, a 375k seed would likely cost you far more dilution.

If you have a successful startup, then the YC 7% for $125k and YC’s 4% participating is far more significant in terms of dilution.

Let’s say you sell 10% equity in a 5 million post valuation seed round with no option pool. Seed investor invests $500k for 10% preferential shares. YC ‘MFN safe’ converts at $375k value for 7.5% preferential shares. YC also has a 4% participation right, so it puts an extra $200k in for 4% preferential shares. For their ‘$125k safe’ YC had 7% premoney, which ends up being 5.5% preferential shares*. YC has put in a total of $700k for 17% of the business and has made $150k profit (assuming no other internal costs!). Founders have 73% common shares with a post money valuation of $3.6 million.

Let’s say you use the $500k from YC as your “seed round”, so instead your first round is your A series selling 25% with a post money valuation of $20 million, and a 10% post money option pool (which usually all comes from the pre money investors). Round A investor invests $5 million for 25% preferential shares. YC MFN converts at $375k value for 1.9% preferential shares. YC also has a 4% participation right, so it puts an extra $800k in for 4% preferential shares. Pool gets 10% common shares. For their $125k YC had 7% premoney, which ends up being 4.1% preferential shares*. YC has put in a total of $1.3 million for 10% of the business and has made $700k profit. Founders have 55% common shares with a post money valuation of $11 million.

During all of this, the founders have the most influence over choosing investor amounts and timing. YC only makes money if the founders do, and YC is more aligned with founders than most other seed or VC funding. YC invests resources including money into the business, and profits only a small amount in comparison with the founders who mostly invest their time. YC also drives down costs, especially the most significant cost which is the founders time, but also with standardised cheap legal documents etcetera. Other VCs can waste a lot of a companies time and money.

* Edit: I think my YC 7% calculations are incorrect, because I was presuming that it was pre-money that followed the same rules as the founders shares. However “YC’s $125k Safe will convert in the priced round into 7% of the company’s equity (including any existing option pool) after all the Safes and other convertible instruments have converted in conjunction with the priced round.” That reads more like 7% post-money and then diluted by options pool. In which case YC ends up with ~2.5 percentage points extra and founders with ~2.5 percentage points less in both examples. If somebody wants some HN love hugs, perhaps make a simple online calculator.
"Arguing that "it's okay to do it because the others do it as well" is kindergarten-level argumentation."

?

Saying "Americans are evil because I heard something on the news and am going to assume a bunch of facts" is 'Kindergarten Arguing'.

...

"A key factor in a friendly relationship is to be able to tell your friend "no" without him/her getting angry. If one of the people in a relationship is forced to be subservient at all times we normally call it an abusive relationship."

This is a glib conflation of pop culture relationship psychology, with realpolitik nature of geopolitical relations.

...

"And I think you kinda missed the point: Danish politicians have done everything in their power to please the US"

I think you 'missed the point' by making broad, fabricated assumptions about a) what exactly Danish politicians are doing, b) the benefits received on either side and c) the materiality of the requests made by the US.

You don't know what was asked for and received from either side, nor the benefits to either party.

...

'Adult Argumentation' is the recognition of the material facts of the situation, of which there are many including the fact that Denmark is small and relatively weak, does not have the scale to work on a lot of defence and intelligence initiatives, it has to partner with 'good neighbours' on a variety of issues, and that Denmark deploys intelligence capabilities, including spying, like every other state.

If Denmark is a 'lapdog' of any state, it's by far and away the lapdog of Germany which de-facto dictates monetary policy (Kroner is issued by DK but is pegged i.e. controlled by ECB), EU level migration, unilaterally makes dumb energy deals with the Russians giving them tremendous leverage and putting everyone at risk, to the point where once again, ironically, the Americans, literally as we speak are having to step in to protect all of you, almost 80 years after WW2 ended. And so many other things.

Thankfully, Danish and other European politicians have developed good relations with the US such that US support on issues such as Ukraine and Russian expansion are going to be well mitigated.

To put that in context, the US is providing a huge layer of security for Denmark, in exchange for what, exactly? For helping the US track down a corrupt politician using surveillance? Seems like a pretty good deal. Who is who's lapdog now?
I was about to say, aren't pigs smarter than dogs generally? Seems like a strange line to draw.
Unless someone can spare me $70,000 so I can pay the install fee for a Comcast Internet connection to my home in downtown Chicago, I have to stick with T-Mobile for my main Net connection.
This isn't correct. SAFE isn't a debt instrument - its a right to own shares in a future round. You are probably thinking of convertible debt.
For one helium-filled glorious moment I misread the title and thought the store for this was some exploitation of CVS receipts.
Put the reason for the weird code in the comments explaining why it is. Don't make somebody run git blame.
Yeah don't talk to a DB admin about SQL compiler issues.. :-P
> How many children died of the flu in 2020 during lockdowns and social distancing?

400

> Why are you comparing across years?

Many seem to have the misconception that covid is risky for children, while they are at low risk, so I highlight that the child covid death numbers from covid was low and comparable to a normal flu season like the one in 2019.
Man…that sounds like a scary future.

Pharma is a business. Children are just another demographic for them to expand into. In the aggregate, they have shown that they care very little about the long term negative effects of any drug.

Maybe that is OK when we’re testing MS drugs or on people with shortened life spans, but children need to be protected. They are stuck with any damage that is done for the long, long term.
As Its Population Soars to 40, Rum Isle Glimpses a Future in the Mist
Knowing that you fire microdroplets of tin with a specific shape into a chamber at 50khz and hit it with two laser pulses is one thing, doing it is an entirely different one.

How EUV works: https://youtu.be/5Ge2RcvDlgw
Why are people getting worked up about this 2021 post? The things it proposes seem very reasonable, and it's not like it meant changes to Firefox.

- Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:

- Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

- Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

- Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation. [links to Facebook algorithm deliberately promoting engaging disinformation]

- Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

Edit: I think flagging should ask for a reason to display with the flag. I have no idea why someone would flag this without at least reading the very short article and realizing it's not flag worthy.
As is usually the case in most direct action. Your average strike will cause much further harm then this act for other workers. However the goal is not to halt production, halting production is simply a means to an end, the goal is usually better working conditions for the rest of the workers. This is why you often see workers stand in solidarity with strikers even when the strike directly harms them.
> I don't think Matrix will be able to compete

Matrix is already competing. It's just taking a different strategy (going after governmental institutions and enterprises) than the one you'd like. The fact that Element is going after a market with a very long deployment/usage cycle makes me believe that Matrix has a lot more staying power than Signal.

Signal is nice, but it all it takes is one catastrophic bug - or one Government pushing to break it, or some good amount of years with lots of developers on payroll without any real revenue - away from disappearing or selling out.

> I think Urbit is our best shot at a better future.

No. The problem to "fix" is not a technological one. It's socio-economical. When (if?) individuals and SMBs learn TANSTAAFL, we´ll be able to have a diverse/healthy (and cheap) industry of professional service providers.
You can obviously do whatever you want to do. Understand you're in a miniscule minority however.
I just tackled that recently myself - mainly to publish my music library.

Glancing over the blog post, it almost feels overengineered.
Conveniently, the Chrome Bookmarks file already is JSON and I created a small tool that takes it as input and renders it with Handlebars templates. It also includes a simple way to get thumbnails and an HTML template with expandable folders (no JavaScript needed).

https://github.com/adrium/bookmark-publisher
They already have exactly this issue (not that I think it's a big problem), if you apply to YC and convince them you want to build the next Slack, but in reality you just want a comfortable life for a few months, that's entirely possible already.

But since their entire business model is based on them being able to evaluate people, they probably don't think the risk of this kind of deception is too high.

And I am sure they wouldn't sue you for it.
Gonna plug my version of bookmark management. It's hosted so they're available everywhere and the format is inspired by markdown.

https://targetblank.org

I also use pages for other strings I want to share like podcasts or for specific projects.