skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are some bad signals... but you are also being very serious. And if you are like this, it may be the wrong company for you.

On the other hand, I always assume people are trying to do good... Sometimes it may not look like it, but maybe that's because of some other factors.

just maybe:

- there are some new topics with vendors, that you will need to steer when you join, and actually it would benefit you later to join these calls.

- they couldn't set another date, but maybe the vendors are not that flexible and company will have to wait another month or so

- 4-5 meeting, it's like 4-5 hours, if you are going to work there for 6 months it's gonna dilute to nothing

- maybe he asked you to join the calls, but you can just not accept the invite, refuse, and nothing bad happens

- principal-agent problem, sometimes bosses do not know the details

- they mailed you the computer, why do you care, they can re-mail it
Why do people always forget that credit cards are powered not only by electricity, but with an absurd amount of bureaucracy as well. Has it ever crossed your mind how many man power and work hours goes into management of traditional banking systems? And how much energy that consumes? Across every country and every town.

In PoW blockchains, on the other hand, it's just electricity.
It can indeed be compared. They both utilise computational capacity in an algorithmically distributed fashion as a means to an end. The former requires specialised single purpose hardware, is a profligate waste of resources and mindshare for no sound economic, technological or environmental reason -- whereas the latter piggybacks in the cycle gaps on spare commercial and domestic computing to analyse radio telescope data with the goal of perhaps some day finding genuinely world changing evidence that intelligent alien life is out there in our light cone.
And then if it turns out that lockdowns actually cause deaths due to youth suicides, they’ll be swept under the rug and be used to excuse more lockdowns.
They? Who, where? Which law?
A buffer overflow is a simple coding issue, not a C-style memory safetey error.
Talking is good. This seems very aggressive and probably illegal. Also, the next person may be tasked with whatever OP decides without any input themselves.

Charitably, the new boss just has some tight constraints making them need someone to start immediately. Less charitably, new boss is seeing how far this person can be pushed regardless of laws or normalcy.
>> Think a back-end that concatenates XML into a big global string over the span of thousands of lines of code, then passes it to a function that parses it and outputs it again as JSON.

If you squint hard enough this is cgi-bin
Despite the common saying, possession and ownership often aren't the same thing.
And if you get it notarized, its an even better analogy.

You know, like titles.
This is cool, but to be usable for serious research (i.e. peer reviewed publication) it has to be compared to a gold standard device to make sure the data is valid.
Oh yeah, that's an antibody drug, so probably not a good chance of manufacturing it.

Good luck!
A more brief, but less objective, way of saying this is "young female cousin via female parent". As others have pointed out, the Chinese care to track this relationship.
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Not the pubic funds!
How's the display going?
if current you isn't furious with previous you, you are doing development wrong
China tests for COVID very aggressively.
I’ve got the T470 (as it has the old docking + charging port PLUS thunderbolt), modded it with the N140HCG-GQ2 panel (1080p, 100% sRGB, 400 nits, 8bit), with a 2TB NVMe SSD, 32GB of DDR4-2400MHz RAM, etc. I've got two 75Wh batteries I can switch between.

Overall I get great performance even for stuff like running IDEA and a spring web app in a docker container, and I get 13h+ of battery life out of it (+10h if I switch the external battery to the second one I keep in my laptop bag).

I'd wish the 30th anniversary thinkpad (coming this year) will be just an upgraded T25 with a modern ryzen processor but in every other way identical (I know, an unrealistic dream)
It's a great way to highlight that you don't actually understand NFTs. If you're actually against NFTs (like many of us), then please don't use that explanation, it'll make it look like you don't actually understand NFTs.
You're correct about the saying, but it actually feels like both when you think about it!
What are you talking about? Do you not think ownership of a digital asset is enforceable in our current legal system?
There are exactly 220 comments on here as I write this one.

On a post about ThinkPads, this makes me happy.
If OP’s parents are anything like my dad, they have zero interest in trading their warm homeland with its familiar language and culture for cold northern Europe. My dad would rather die in Texas than live in Germany, much as he enjoyed spending a week here this summer meeting his grandson.

Older people have attachments other than their grown-up children.
That’s what the “past” button does.
Is this GIS code?
Clickbaity and really questionable science. The author did 0.1% sample survey of adults and asked about covid deaths in the family. I am sure a common man is no expert to tell if someone died of covid, or with covid or during covid - unless there is a medical report. I would not trust any conclusions of phone survey of such small size of general population. The paper would have more credibility if the looked at health records. I am just saying, this is hard problem and the authors of the paper did a very lousy job and with questionable standards.
the way Chinese government works is that thousands of local municipal level governments implements and then reports into the central government (politburo).

this basically becomes a huge prisoner's dilemma, no body in charge wants to look bad.
Yep, and yet it's the data the government uses for identifying issues...
That seems incredibly unlikely. People who have been hesitant to get the vaccine have been mocked and ridiculed for months. I honestly can’t even imagine what will happen if it turns out that they were right to be hesitant.

There are no caveats to all the statements that the vaccines are safe and effective.

Speaking personally, they’ll need to do an amazing job quantifying the risks and performing further long-term studies before I would consider an additional booster shot.
There's also a Rust-native version: https://www.philippflenker.com/hecto/
> I would argue that you can at the very least assume permanent availability of RAM, SSD, Display (it uses a commodity panel), fan, and battery

I mean, you can buy a new-ish Thinkpad where you can replace/upgrade all of those things. You get great compatibility and most hw/sw compatibility bugs are already known and have workarounds. Framework has to have some other value propositions as well besides being able to replace things you mentioned.
In my first corporate job out of college (a NOC at an ISP) I was asked to update the documentation for troubleshooting quality of service issues. I checked our wiki for what was already there and it horrendous. I started to mentally thrash the person and was going to go confront them about it. When I checked the edit history I was greeted by a single edit and my username a week after I started the job.

I learned a great deal of humility and compassion in that moment.
I find that half the time I'll wonder who wrote it, realize I wrote it, start to rework it, and then realize why I wrote it that way in the first time, add a comment and move on.
I personally don’t see the image as “impossible”, in terms of seeing it as a projection of a 3D object. I didn’t interpret ABDE as being flat (A, B, D, and E coplanar), and I didn’t expect G, I, and H to be intersections of lines in 3D.
The McDonald's app. Pokemon Go.
And I am not saying it has no value. Just that it doesn't have $100m worth of value.
To be more precise, NFT is a blockchain record confirming that you own that piece of paper :)

There was a scam scheme on eBay that if you did not read the item description correctly you would be surprised to discover that you paid $2000 for a picture of the laptop, instead of the laptop itself. NFTs are similar, except the element of surprise is missing. People still buy them, because the word "blockchain" causes their brains to shut down.
Old code is easy to dunk on, because it's far easier to write new code than modify old code.
Anything you’re going to do for work is going to be a significant part of your life. It’s a serious situation. Unless it’s selling lemonade on a corner as a kid.
Web3 and its communities sure make all the above easier to setup and get working.
The ultimate abstraction!
The Economist's excess death tracker is online here:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

The article was last updated in October 2021, but the data in the charts is current insofar as it's available.

Their methodology is posted on Github here:
https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-track...

They get their data from the World Mortality Dataset (https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality). They claim their modeled baselines fit a linear trend for year, to account for long-term increases or decreases in mortality, and a fixed effect for each week or month up to February 2020.

I haven't dug into the details of the methodology but it appears very sensible. Of course it's very dependent on overall mortality rates having been accurately reported to begin with.

If the Economist keeps this this chart going long enough, we should expect that in countries worst affected by covid, future mortality rates will fall below the expected baseline. The simple (if somewhat morbid) logic being that in those places the most vulnerable people will have already died.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. We can already enforce these existing property rights on digital assets. It's even better because transfer and ownership verification are easier.
> What if the US passed a law tomorrow that said that financial institutions who traded in crypto in any way lost access to the US financial system?

I don't see how such law can be enforced legally in not communist government.
Not OP. But it's becoming increasingly clear (to me, at least) that data about reality has been lost. And no amount of "statistics", "modelling" and accounting for confounding variables will get that data back. This applies to masks, lockdowns, vaccine effectiveness and treatment effectiveness.

Even if we do get a reasonable set of that data back via statistical means, I personally wouldn't trust it. Too many things weren't tracked, people had incentives to fudge numbers, data-integrity and duplication issues, etc. As much as I know there are lots of incredibly smart and educated people working on this, I see most of this as people running around throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks, some hoping to get paid for it, others hoping to save lives.

Likewise for your question. We simply don't have data or knowledge about what people did or how they behaved differently that might have caused a non-covid death to be reasonably attributed to covid. Suicide rates, anti-social behavior of children not seeing people's faces, people hiding pro-active tests, dentists visits, hiding from leaving the house and getting depression, the list is huge and specifically unconstrained.
Apparently it matters enough for you to voice your concerns against it? And no, NFTs are not required to have any URLs in them, that's a separate concern, and parents whole argument is NFT === piece of paper with a URL, so how is that accurate?

But again, "it doesn't fucking matter" so no need to reply me, in fact, if you don't care you probably shouldn't, because replying would signal you do actually care.
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Excess deaths != Covid deaths.

I listened to the podcast again and he said he conducted serology studies pre-vaccine that indicate an overall lethality of 0.2% but 0.05% for everyone who isn’t 70 years old or whatever. That’s detection of antibodies with 0.05% false positive rate and then a follow up on death early on in the pandemic.

So one might point out that I changed my number from 0.02 to 0.2 and this is true. But what’s also true is that there’s a huge difference between 4% and 0.2%. And I was right to point out that 1-4% is bullshit. I feel mad because I remember hearing the 0.2% number all the way back at the start of the pandemic but everyone shouted it down. And here we are and it was right after all…
We're using NFTs as a way to represent IP, to bring more academic research to the forefront. It's not about shilling it on OpenSea all the time — we're collaborating with https://www.molecule.to/ and https://www.vitadao.com/ to speed up the cumbersome tech transfer landscape
For WYSIWYG scientific/math editors, see the open source TeXmacs.
Wish is down hard, from $24 at IPO to $2.76 now. What a bad deal.
>it's not really good news at all because even if you do it, hardly anyone else will, and the world will carry on just as it is regardless.

You're right, but I didn't mean it as a way to make things better, I meant it as a way to make your life better, assuming the world isn't going to change. The good news is it's your choice if you don't feel like being swept up in the torrent of digital noise.
I'm not sure I agree with your explanation.

Most NFTs are like a title to a house. Like a title to a house, you can:
1. Prove you own it;
2. Sell it to someone.

Unlike the title to a house:
1. The party certifying your ownership is not the government, but the consensus rules of a blockchain;
2. The thing you own is not physical, but digital in nature;
3. Your ownership does not prevent anyone from copying the file itself for their own uses.

Regarding your point that the object you own might not be consistent: because of the cost relative of storing data on a blockchain, the actual digital thing you own isn't usually stored on the blockchain, but a hash of that file (e.g. [1]). Unless hashing is broken, this is cryptographic proof that the object does remain consistent.

[1] https://github.com/larvalabs/cryptopunks/blob/master/contrac...

Edit: perhaps the notion of an entry ticket to a concert would have been a better analogy than a title to a house.
I wish I had saved my T3100. That machine felt like the future...and still looks the part.
Great. Now what?

The person who owns the URL on the paper can change the contents of that URL. Legally, the paper may be a gift, but I'm now the proud owner of a piece of paper.

I can similarly own a map to the Mona Lisa. Everyone in the world may even agree and attest to that fact! I don't own the Mona Lisa as a result. The Louvre can move it, take it off display, burn down, or do any number of other things.
> Where is the FUD? Your security FAQ mentions most, if not all, of our findings in the same or similar way.

Yes, but there is no fearmongering involved. I'm part of the people who appreciated your article for the technical arguments, but i strongly dislike the fearmongering vibe (unless we do the same with every other protocol which could be fun). I actually started to write that FAQ precisely because i was tired of the script kiddies on both sides claiming XMPP is either the best or the worst and this or that solution is so perfect.

> Back to OP's article where they look at some isolated properties to then declare a protocol secure.

Yes, that's a problem. Let's try to promote more informative resources. We joinjabber.org people appreciate all feedback and criticism to turn into docs. You're always welcome by xmpp:privacy@joinjabber.org?join chatroom if you have more info and/or would like to run more experiments in regards to privacy and security in the XMPP ecosystem.
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It helps to have a financial buffer. When I started freelancing in 2012, I could do so while keeping the unemployment benefits I got for getting fired in the bankruptcy of my last employer (they survived and actually had a healthy business, but they'd made some poor financial decisions driven by a bug in their home-made accounting system). I ended up not really going anywhere that first year, got a few minor gigs, but after a year I got approached by a recruiter for a bigger client, and that took off. I've been doing half-year to year-and-a-half projects for various large client, including a railway company and 4 banks.

But I rely a lot on recruiters finding me on LinkedIn. I hate LinkedIn with its dark patterns, but it's where 90% of my work comes from, so I don't complain too hard.
Right, but it's important to distinguish excess deaths caused by covid and covid hostpital impacts vs excess deaths caused by lockdown behavioral changes.

Lockdowns and mandates are something a region can instrument independently, and we now have lots of data to assess the benefits/impact of different degrees and types of lockdowns and mandates in jurisdictions that were impacted by the same number of new covid cases.
I think that's what the cryptocurrency/NFT folks are dreaming about: a society in which there are no official services (no official money, no officially sanctioned notaries, etc.), so that you'll instead have an every-man-for-himself kind of society where their kind reign supreme. Then they throw in examples of how official services can be corrupt and how fiat currency can be abused as a reason that we should all get on board with throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I can't fucking wait for the cryptocurrency/NFT scene to come crashing down. Not because I want to see people hurt, but because that should (hopefully?) shut these people up for a generation.
Isn't the whole point of a patent system the enforcement part? If you don't care about enforcement, you can just publish ideas to your personal blog or arxiv or whatever.
One point that gets skipped over a lot - the US is also one of the most unhealthy countries in the advanced world.

This is a big /part/ of the "worst outcomes" in the "highest cost, worst outcomes".

It is possible that you can spend a ton of money on healthcare - yet smoke and drink, drive everywhere and not exercise at all, and eat trash - that the healthcare spending is doomed to fail.

Europeans walk & bike more and don't eat as much garbage. Most Asians exercise much more, eat healthier, AND smoke and drink less.

Maybe the healthcare part is secondary to just generally taking care of your health?

It is well understood how terrible obesity is for you. Why should we expect the US to have better healthcare outcomes than Vietnam when Vietnam is 2.1% obese and the US is 42% obese. You can take all the heart medicine in the world. It would be better to simply not be obese in the first place!

This never seems to be a talking point. Have the statisticians controlled for all this when they come to these conclusions??
I don't know what my company pays for my insurance, but if I opt out of that insurance that money is lost. I know I pay $100/month (not the real number but close), and plans on the government health market start at $800/month (after the tax credit), plus by using the company plan they kick in another $100/month in a HSA match, and HSA money is a tax advantaged investment (AFAIK you can only get in an HSA from your employer). So by using my companies insurance it is like getting an additional $800/month in income (some of which is invested!).

I didn't look into details of the insurance market plans, but there were 40 different plans available there for me to choose from (as opposed to the 2 my companies gives me). I suspect that something similar to my work plan is more expensive than the one I listed above. I also suspect that if I was to look at all 40 plans I would choose something that wasn't not similar to the choices I have now. However with the amount of money I'd lose it isn't worth my time to examine my options.
If I understand notRobot correctly, each instance of this 'busywork' is initiated by an email, which is an opportunity for pointing out the importance of testing. It is a matter of fact that most people are susceptible (in some degree) to such influences, so if notRobot is making this point with each announcement, it may have some effect (though probably small) - and regardless, if the process turns away some people who consider this busywork too onerous, and some of those also take the same attitude with regard to testing, then so much the better, from notRobot's point of view! NotRobot is under no obligation to do anything any differently, or give any justification at all.
Nope, nope nope, not at all.

> After adjustment for confounders, we found that in households with the Delta VOC, the OR of infection was 2.31 (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.09-2.55) for unvaccinated individuals and 0.38 (CI: 0.32-0.46) for booster-vaccinated individuals when compared to fully vaccinated potential secondary cases. For households with the Omicron VOC, the corresponding OR for infection for unvaccinated individuals was 1.04 (CI: 0.87-1.24) and 0.54 (CI: 0.40-0.71) for booster-vaccinated individuals.

For delta, two dose vaccination helps. For Omicron, there is no statistically significant effect of two dose vaccination.

In no case is there an increase from two dose vaccination of attack rates.
You're right that you do have to verify it's origin, but the benefit is that you only have to verify it once, then the entire chain of custody can be derived. With a piece of physical art, the original creator cannot just give you an identifier that allows you to, with 100% certainty, check authenticity. You need expensive, manual, and fallible inspection of the physical object.
I didn't really suggest that the US Government spends money on healthcare, I was merely quoting the article: "Health care consumes 18% of GDP in America"

Please note that the wording implies that 18% of GDP is spent on health care overall not that the US Government is spending all that money out of its pocket directly on yearly budgets. The way I understand it is that it includes both money spent by public and private actors for all health related service.

I see this type of stat a warning that something might be dysfunctional within the system, and it's the government's job to get to the bottom of it.