skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discouraging is one thing, but they discouraged with a false made up reason (masks don't work). Supposedly their real motivations were: if we say to use masks, then people will just distance less and spread more; and healthcare workers need the masks that do work right now. It would have been better if they simply admitted the true reasons at the time.
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> Unconditinal medical care is one of the corner stones of our society.

Are you British or something?
There will be a tethered version priced at $2k without the builtin PC. Cameras are gonna be included, though.
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I don't even blame Trump for all the Covid deaths that happened during the Trump administration. There were a bunch of factors involved, and state governments and the attitudes of US citizens had a lot to do with it as well.

Trump made several colossal fuckups, especially when it came to his public communications, but he made some good decisions as well (letting the early shelter-in-place orders happen, stimulus checks, freezing student loans, pushing the vaccine program, etc).

All I'm saying is that of course Biden would have had higher deaths while he was in office than Trump, unless he managed to convince ~95%+ of the public to get vaccinated right away, which was never going to happen, and unless the whole world got Covid-19 under control in about the same time period as Trump was in office while the pandemic was in the US, and if there were no other more infectious variants that happened during that time.
bash 4 supports `|&` as an alternative to `2>&1` which looks better in pipelines
e.g.

$ docker logs container |& grep word
It's interesting that you're concerned about the long term _effects_ of boosters, but COVID is nothing to worry about since you're only concerned with _deaths_. Seems disengenous.
>This makes it much easier to get to profitability[0] and never raise again after YC (especially as a SaaS).

More money is better than less money, sure. But a couple founders and a couple engineers making reasonable salaries and 500k gets you, what, 1 year? 1.5? Profitability might still be challenging.
I think you misunderstand the regulation. The law doesn't apply to the plant itself. It prohibits people from from artificially propagating it further.

> Might as well try to ban kudzu while you're at it, lol.

It is already on the list.

https://www.agriculture.pa.gov/Plants_Land_Water/PlantIndust...
First off, "respected VCs" turning INTO shills, as if that's a recent phenomenon?

Ok, snarky comment aside, I agree with you on that point, and all the other points too.

I think the feeling of elation took a nose-dive when the fake-it-till-you're-acq-hired plans took greater precedence. And actually BEING acquired often meant the product got tanked. So, yeah, as a consumer I share your disappointment on that front.
It's just a paywalled article on letter locking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterlocking
The Signal Foundation is in Benevity, which powers lots and lots of corporate gift matching. I give a yearly matched donation each december as I try to reach the max matching for my company.
Thanks for pointing that out, wasn't aware of it, just subscribed too.
Apple is also capturing DNS queries, so they minimally have that as a data point.

Regardless, the more general concern that parent seems to make is what is to stop Apple in the future from monetizing this data? I think the only thing protecting us as consumers is their policy. And as we all know policies can change very simply with a change to the terms of service.
And price out the low end of the market that is your bread and butter customer and best word of mouth. They want to get these into the hands of farmers and ranchers and blue collar construction workers who will tell their friends "hey this works even better than my old ICE F-150, you should get one too!".

They're already having problems doing that with the huge markups of the dealers. Letting them hit clearing value would be even worse.

Ford isn't interested in near term profits on this, they are interested in building a base of happy customers.
AT&T hits all of those for me.
>The problem is that it's always true.

Is it, though? We've got here an article about a multibillion dollar company using its money and influence to peddle a view that's beneficial to them and trying very hard to make it look like it's not actually coming from them. This is absolutely not always the case. This is more than just run of the mill people being open to changing their minds then, is it?

>in every instance I've seen, including this one, it was deployed as an argument that some specific belief should be disregarded

I think you've misread the post above, because at no point in that comment was it suggested that said belief should be disregarded.
>I'd say that maintaining 200+ projects is just insane really.

Yeah I don't want to call out the writer or anything because I don't know but that ... that number worries me.

Unless we're talking about one off packages nobody uses, can only do so much well.
People's stances should change as reality and conditions on the ground change, not based on some arbitrary number of months/years pulled out of the sky. What makes 3 years special, or 5 years? We may be at the very beginning of a COVID decade or even century. Do you know for sure how long this will last? Does anyone? Part of why we can't get past this thing is politicians declaring "We must be back to normal in [TIMEFRAME X]" where TIMEFRAME X was arbitrarily chosen and has nothing to do with reality.
Seems like such a restriction could be subverted with an expensive sublease and a contract to sell at the first-available date.

Where there's a desire, there's usually an arbitrage...
While I'm sure there is some mis-classification of causes of death, note that often there is not a single clear cause of death. Specifically, someone with terminal cancer might still die to Covid. Or the cancer (and treatments) might have weakened them enough that they were more susceptible to Covid. In that case: did they die from Covid or cancer? In a sense both. A story from your barber is not only anecdotal, it is quite possibly based on misunderstanding - especially if the barber is inclined to distrust Government.

In general, there is reason to believe undercounting Covid is more of a problem than overcounting. I just read that in India there may have been 6 times as many Covid deaths than officially reported.

To really estimate Covid fatalities it is not enough to count reported Covid deaths, you also need to look at other numbers - specifically "excess mortality": How many people have died in the last 2 years compared to in "normal" years? See https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid . These numbers suggest that official numbers are if anything undercounting Covid deaths, even in the US (which has good reporting in detahs in general), and multiple times undercounted worldwide. True, a few of the excess deaths are likely indirect rather than from Covid itself: Work-from-home leading to less traffic leading to more speeding leading to more traffic fatalities. People not getting or delaying needed medical care because of full hospitals - or just fear of getting infected. Homeless people freezing to death because they fear shelters (or shelter capacity being reduced). And so on. I'll leave it to experts to try to estimate these effects. Regardless, Covid has killed a lot of people, and arguing that the "mass media" is deliberately exaggerating the danger is plain disinformation and wishful thinking.
That, or they don't just have a reporter working that beat. Outlets frequently choose to allocate reporters based on the likelihood that another outlet will beat them to the presses. Or more saliently: your supposedly "disinterested" source has an undisclosed positive interest.

Reuters has historically typified the kind of reporting that's labeled as "neutral." We have no particular reason to believe that their ex-CEO has had any undue influence on their newsdesk's neutrality.
So this would not be legal to block in California?
I'd bet he was thinking of this whole back and forth (blog posts, conference talk) with Matrix: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom
I believe T-Mobile's newer plans (Magenta tiers) don't do this.
the real competition for bike paths will be for normal unpowered bikes and slow pedal-assist ebikes competing with fast throttle "ebikes" and electric scooters/mopeds.

The fast bikes are still not fast enough and safe enough to ride with cars, but too fast for regular bike paths, so what will give?
I think you're inventing a past that didn't exist. Were this pandemic to strike in the 70s or 80s (or earlier), we would undoubtedly have given people little choice to be vaccinated, but we also probably wouldn't have forced people nearly as much. Today we are stuck with these people running around talking about their freedom, when one of the main reasons for government is public health.
There may be nothing stopping wealth inequality from rising alongside living standards for the poorest--but that is not what is happening right now. That trend ended in the US during the 1980s, and it is no longer true that "the rich are getting richer while the poor are also getting richer."

On a global scale, it may be possible to show that the world's poorest are improving. I hope so! But when people talk about income inequality, they're generally referring to national economies, where living standards for the poorest have been declining as the number of billionaires skyrockets.
I have been also wondering about this. My impression is that Tamil Nadu is much better in terms of health care compared to many Indian states. So, its strange that the parents are refusing to get tested. I am thinking that the parents are afraid to take public transport, and they don't want to burden their NRI son/daughter, so are making up excuses.
I guess the concept of advertising in media in general is literally a conflict of interest, right? Unless your content is very narrowly targeted at X, and your ads are narrowly targeted at Y, and there is no overlap between the audience for X and Y?
I don’t think this has any real impact on Demo Day. Seed rounds have inflated so dramatically at this point that $500k is just a drop in the bucket. Most venture scale companies (which if you’re in YC you most likely are) are raising $3-$5m seed, and then $10-$20m Series A. Of course, this is pushing valuations to astronomical levels.
I have written a similar tool[0], also using the YAML format. The output is a small web app, contained in a single HTML file. We host our YAML project bookmarks in a Git repository and automatically deploy the generated web app, so it's available to the whole team. I do the same with all my private bookmarks.

[0] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
well, i mean, if you can raise externally at a $35m valuation (current top of market for early stage) and you go into YC for $2m, you* may be the one without a brain, not YC.

*you in the general sense, not you specifically :)
I'm in this group. It's not that I desperately want to go on a vacation or back to a normal life, whatever that is, but that the governments around the world have demonstrated total cluelessness on how to fix the problem. And I am even OK with that! Nobody knows and it's ok. But at least show some form of a plan and stick to it. Instead we have just a ton of interest groups each pulling in their own direction. So we have lockdowns, maybe something is gained from it, but then everything opens up, we need to save restaurants etc. and then of course we need another lockdown and so on. We're not accomplishing anything, that we have a new worse variant every nine months is proof of that. So yeah, I got my booster, I wear a mask, test when meeting larger groups of people (and others do too), but obsessing about it all day does not accomplish anything.
Was wondering WHY one’s most important secrets would need to be shared.
Er.....what?... as far as I know 躺平 has nothing to do with that. Is the author absolutely sure about that? I guess it has individual interpretation no doubt but I'm pretty certain it's not what the title says.
Prior discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26724237

The CEO has posts in the thread as well.
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I'm guessing the logic would be that the Movie Producer would sell the NFT's that you could "redeem/use" at specific cloud vendors and the vendor charges the studio for bandwidth etc.

I still don't really understand the logic of all of that, but I understand how it on paper would work. It'd kinda be like when you get a coupon for a free object from the store. Store fulfills the order and sends cost up to manufacture.
One that doesn't apply to individuals only based on their birth.

There are plenty of autistic people that do and don't have trouble communicating. Like there are plenty of neurotypical people who do and don't have trouble communicating.

Sure, the percentages are skewed very differently, but it's nowhere near all or nothing.
The bugs are not at fault here. The people who created the environment for them to thrive are.

Edit After Downvote: I get it - They were a major nuisance to you. Lanternflys weren't a one time thing. This has happened before - remember stink bugs? This has happened many times and it is going to get worse. Please don't shoot the messenger.
I'm surprised nobody has build a torrent catalog on bittorrent itself.
I think that with the DHT mutable item one should be able to publish a torrent containing a list of torrent with comments and updating the list easily.
Not this cough. One of my children has this and he sounds more like his 86 year old uncle than a normal child, and it's been going on for ever, without much in terms of improvement. I really pity him. But I'm coughing just as bad...
"My heart skips a beat. It's been happening more frequently, so I look it up and they're apparently called "palpitations." I ignore it. It's 9am. I'm anxious. Nothing out of the norm, though.[...] But even having more than one cup of decaf brings on the shakes and skipped beats. The caffeine microdosing adds up, I guess."

If you feel permanently anxious in the morning to the point that it's perceived as normal it might not be the caffeine that's the issue, and a few cups of decaf have so little caffeine it should not give you any physical symptoms. (a few cups of decaf contain about as much caffeine as a few pieces of chocolate). Might be worth checking out if there's some other reason for it.
They're also trying to morph into a service model. Requiring all sales be first person effectively ensures Ford gets full data on its drivers.
"cousin outside your family" is an oxymoron in most of the western world. getting this concept accross is why the constant is so awkwardly worded.
One could imagine a scenario where e.g. you buy this, fall on hard time, and have to sell it to make it through.

Seems like a small minority of possible cases, unless you really didn't have the means to buy it in the first place.
I like that he kept a ritual going with the press: using non-caffeinated herbals. I'm thinking about quitting caffeine too. Caffeine plus neuropathy makes very shaky hands, and I don't need ANY extra free-floating anxiety.
No, the claim is that the schools named colluded to fix financial aid to avoid bidding wars over students that need aid. This is legal so long as their admissions process is need-blind. However, the filing repeatedly mentions that the defendants allegedly give preference to "children of wealthy donors".

So it's save money by colluding on aid calculations or save money by picking wealthy applicants, and explicitly not both.
And we don't know the long term psychological effects of wearing masks and social distancing. Those may be substantial as well, especially if it goes on for more than 2 years.

Long term COVID is known to exist, long term effects of vaccination are not and there is no reason to think they are likely.

(me: vaxxed, boosted, happy to boost some more. My 7 year old: vaxxed. My attitude: exactly as described as a "VAD" in the article)
Think this begs the question, Why? Saying it's company-wide is fair. But honestly I think people have their own cases and can make the judgment on too much/too little info
Positive and negative anecdotes don’t directly cancel.

Suppose 990/1,000 people that took a pill where fine and the rest died. Clearly it’s a serious risk even if you’re almost guaranteed to be fine. Looking at anecdotal evidence would show “most people where fine”/“10 cases of people dying!” But let’s change the numbers 999,999,990/1,000,000,000 took a pill and 10 died, now is it a serious risk or roughly as dangerous as driving to work? You still have “10 cases of people dying!” but it’s nowhere near the same thing.
The received wisdom is that the only safe fork is the one followed immediately by an exec(e,l,p,v). If you can't exec(), then keep your design as simple as possible, consult your OS manual, and address your failure modes.

Asking any compiler to prove that your program's fork() is safe is asking an awful lot. :) If you're referring to Rust's notion of safe/unsafe code, "unsafe" explicitly refers to unsafe memory operations. It won't cover operational issues such as "threads won't be cloned" or "signal handlers will get dropped" during a fork. (Even if they were tracked: are those behaviours safe, or unsafe? That depends on the semantics of the program.)

Ada was another language designed with safety in mind. They chose to shove fork() into an "Unsafe POSIX Primitives" package -- in other words, use these at your own risk. I think this was a good call.
A lot of people at all levels are having a huge boost in the power (or influence) they can exert. It's hard to convince them to give it away, especially when they have still a sizable crowd cheering them on.
If they really want to signal their virtue, they should call themselves AmericXns first before mangling other nationalities.
I wonder when will Apple launch their own network. Would be fun!
9-80 used to be extremely common in the oil and gas world. It's started to go away now that it's not just a "good ol boy" industry but plenty of supermajors still offer it.
> if privacy is your concern, you're almost always better off using a VPN

I am really skeptical of this. Not that ISPs are extremely trustworthy, but they're at least bound by some state mandated privacy protections which <Foreign VPN Provider> is not.
Interestingly enough, disabling cursor blinks on the intel 950 iGPUs resulted in increased powersaving: https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/ and http://tuxdiary.com/2015/09/29/save-battery-intel-linux/

A few years later, I checked that with powertop when I was using my thinkpad in uni and it was true and measurable!

I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it's funny how UI features can tax the power budget in unsuspected ways.
Inflammation in the gut is encoded by neurons in the brain
What pre workout were you taking? Some have over 10 cups of coffee worth of caffeine.
So do people who are vaccinated and catch covid, sadly.
No. It is not helpful, in the slightest.
>Lowkey waiting for crop dusters to drop aerosolized vaccine on the regular.

Yeah, just like with DDT!
It’s almost like the variants of the virus prevalent today are very, very different from those when those estimates were produced.
>Thanks to Fed's unlimited QE, investors can borrow almost free cash from the feds and pour them into the VC funds for investments.

Yes, there is a surplus of capital (and has been for a few years), so it's cheap. No, there isn't unlimited QE, and no investors are borrowing from the Fed.
My heuristic: If you have 5 or more arguments, you should use a config object.
"So far, there hasn't been any evidence (I've heard of) of long-term adverse effects of the vaccination"

A couple of people have died, I'd call that a long-term adverse effect. Presumably way less people than would otherwise have died from Covid, so not to say you shouldn't get vaccinated. But to claim there are no known long-term adverse effects is wrong.
> no sale over $X

There is no realistic way of enforcing this.
That's an uncharitable reading of it. A charitable reading of it might be "We've done everything we can do, there's nothing left to do now but roll the dice"
Yeah, I have a hard time seeing the courts enforcing this. There are precedents with books - publishers tried to prevent people selling used books, and the courts smacked them down.

I have a slightly less hard time seeing the courts allowing Ford to use technical means to prevent resale. (Though if Ford does it without informing buyers, that would probably be a major red flag to the courts.)
These are exaggerated. Not wide spread.
> The Indian state of Kerala would like to differ.

Kerala chief minister who is a communist is coming to US for health care next week.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-chief-minister-...
> There seem to be people arguing for the COVID19 sick doctors/nurses to come in and work as usual, even with symptoms.

I'm sure people are arguing for that somewhere, but it doesn't seem like it's anywhere I can see in this thread.
And death. And hopefully against long COVID (prior to infection, that is).
There's some real irony that the people most likely to spread COVID -- those who are vaccinated and thus don't show symptoms -- are the ones "allowed" to engage in the most risky behaviour like large gatherings at restaurants, bars, theatres, sports arenas. Meanwhile those second-class citizens who are non-vaccinated won't take those risks and will also definitely know if they are sick, hilariously probably behaving the most safely/cautiously, as everyone should. Just as expected, infection rates just skyrocket due to new variants and people thinking "I'm protected" as they act as if there's no pandemic at all. Great.
> If Apple wanted to make a public ad lambasting the carriers for undermining people's privacy, the damage would also force them to bend.

That ad would be candy to the Apple PR team trying to push the “Apple is secure and respects your privacy” campaign. I bet we’ll see Apple use the court of public opinion here, and win with it.
The main reason to wear a mask is to prevent yourself from infecting others if/when you get infected again. One usually becomes infectious before the symptoms become obvious, i.e. before becoming aware of the new infection. Wearing a mask is mainly for the benefit of others, not for your own. And it’s a game of numbers. The larger the proportion of the population who wears a mask, the more the spread of the virus is contained. It is a bit like democracy: One's own vote doesn’t make a significant difference, but the collective votes do.
Sigh. This is wrong, and I wonder why it is so hard to understand that it's all about probabilities.

Being unmasked for 50% (?) of the time (while eating, say) you are in an enclosed space is obviously less risky than being unmasked 100% of the time.
Welcome to living in a society, Some how we flipped the script on what freedom means.

If you do not accept the risk of coming in contact with things like the Common Cold, Flu, and now COVID, then you need to structure your life to be hermit, not have society bow to your fears