skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that a badly made website is something that helps people that need a mental health professional? The website is bad with bad unscientific advice. It's a questionary about feeling shit and not ONE of the answers is see a professional if you end it with "I still feel like shit" the answer is "Well that just happens sometimes".
A lot of testing centers / labs such as Lister or Thyrocare can do in person sample collections, such as this one below are available.

Its quite easy to get a test done at home. (Mentioned of lister metropolis because they had come home for some other sample collection and mentioned of this) . You can check aggregator apps as well that provide this list.

https://www.metropolisindia.com/parameter/trichy/covid-19-rt...
Is it theft? Who owns such a fossil can be complicated. Sometimes it might belong to whoever pulls it out of the ground first, depending on where it is. In somewhere as ancient as Britain, you will need legal advice before deciding who if anyone owns such an object.
And? What should an average person do with this knowledge -- "may have killed"? Get petrified once again and, of course, rush to get jabbed, or get a new booster?

And then, of course, keep waiting for other scary news, and yet new solutions dictated by the governments and corrupted doctors, which will always involve jabs and boosters, and QR codes.

What's the point in this kind of knowledge? Does it impove or harm your life?

Compare the mortality rates of bubonic plague and covid, and see whether the latter is really dangerous for an average person.
> But the OS doesn't have an "open drag-and-dropped file, extension .png or .jpg" function call, it only has "open file" which lets me open ~/.ssh/id_rsa too.

A programming language doesn't have to expose system calls directly. It arguably it shouldn't, in fact, for exactly this reason.
My intuition is that hardware based startup failure rates are significantly higher, still.
Where do you get new (X220) batteries?
I am a physician and my contribution to this conversation might not be appreciated, but here it goes.
I work at a medical university with two medical colleges and a wide healthcare system and we were involved in the clinical trials for Covaxin (India's indigenous vaccine) as we as Covid care and immunisation. As a foot soldier, I am tired of fighting stories such as yours that raise doubt on statistics with anecdotes. The statistics maybe flawed, but we need some scientific rigour in decrying them. Not 'my parents said' stories.

The anecdote about faking covid test results is plainly wrong. There is a mechanism for registering every PCR-RT test that is done along with the Aadhaar Unique Identity Number. The results need to be validated at different levels. These have been digitised. You can access your parents records online and verify and validate them too. All this is available on your mobile apps. The digitisation and workflow management make faking the results very difficult if not impossible.

Hospitals are specially licensed to treat Covid. Not all hospitals can admit covid patients. It is not like every small clinic or hospital at the corner can simply admit patients. The total bill for ANY COVID RELATED ADMISSIONS are capped. The test fees are capped. There simply is not much incentive to fake results when the fees cannot be charged on whim.

Of course, common people like your parents are fed misinformation by the social media (anti-vaxxers movement in the US) and a lot of fear about corporate profiting, big pharma, etc are the usual trope.

Big pharma sure profits, but they profit most off such staple as baby powder and insulin. Their profits, data of efficiency on vaccines etc are under glare of scientific scrutiny, while their pain killers and opioids are where they don't get any investigation.

The death rates on the other hand in India are under reported and there is a huge backlog that is being cleared right now.

You may not believe it, but India's response to the pandemic has been nothing less than fantastic, given the sorry affairs of its health infrastructure. The mechanisms at every level worked satisfactorily. Were they miraculous? no.

Efficient given the resources? Yep. It could have been worse. Far far worse.

Edit. Oh I forgot to add... our hospitals lost a lot of money and our entire budget. We had to borrow to keep things running and are in the red for the next few years.

So all this 'profiteering'... try running a hospital.

Edit 2: The local administration commandeered our hospitals to set up Covid wards. Admissions were made electronically for hospital based observational wards. Food and medicines were made free for all the admitted patients. Also, Oxygen.
Did I tell about the overtime payments to doctors, nurses and paramedical staff? All from the hospital funds.
Patients paid nothing. Thats right. Nothing. Not a cent.
I don't trust ETH for this reason, and it seems eth people have not taken measures to prevent this from happening again -- probably they will not hesitate to do it again. Thankfully there is more to crypto than eth
Holy shit! Such a huge yet complete fossil! Is it one of the best preserved fossil of an ichthyosaurus?
I like the idea of the AGPL but I also like the idea of a startup being able to build on free software without giving away their code.

I’d hate to raise the costs of launching a startup.

Are there any potential solutions?
It was previously possible for an attacker, especially a selective one to impersonate the domain of a major provider like Paypal or Dropbox in the display address. I think the fact this is no longer possible is a good thing. Phishing has got a lot more aggressive, and obviously if these measures were not being deployed the situation would simply be a lot worse.
They are enormously different strengths of social contract though both in terms of number of participants and consequences for breaching it.

Five of my friends agreeing to share a dirt bike is a social contract after all.
Heard an excellent perspective on the Kazakhstan situation the other day and how it relates to bitcoin.

The Kazakhs are protesting and rebelling over high fuel prices. But why would fuel prices be high in a country with large oil and gas reserves? Well, funny enough China banned cryptocurrency mining, and a lot of miners (allegedly) crossed the border into Kazakhstan, where energy is cheap in the form of oil and gas. The proportion of bitcoin mining out of Kazakhstan has massively increased since then.

The miners drive up the demand for oil and gas, increasing price, leading to the protests.

Now, how true is all of this? No idea. But you can bet that in the coming weeks the Kazakh authorities will blame cryptocurrency for the entire issue, redirecting the anger people are feeling. Then, they too will ban it.

And if they're right, and this is what happened, you can expect to see this process repeat again in whatever country has the next cheapest energy,
Patents are enforced by governments that have massive amounts of guns and can shut down any company that violates them. I promise you nobody in the tech industry respects patents because of any "social contract".
Bitcoin mining can be compared with seti@home: There are some computations to be done (in BTC it is in order to verify transactions which creates trust) and results to be sent.

What part exactly do they want to ban? Can there be no reward for computations?
Considering that URSS named whole space missions only when they succeded, and they failed quite often, it's quite believable that China could lie on this number, a task that requires only to "hide" people and Chinese Communist Party is quite good at that.
Well, there were stories of unburned bodies found floating in the rivers, there are many who couldn't afford the cremation. There's the official rule (registration needed) and the reality on the ground: insufficient government service coverage leading to undocumented births and deaths.

Even China has a lot of undocumented births, because of the 1-child-policy: https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/chinas-hidden-children/ (IMO the accepted "legend" that there were a lot of abortions just demonized the Chinese, whether nefariously or on purpose)
Explain (ANALYZE) needs BUFFERS to improve the Postgres query optimization
Would you go as far as quarantining entire blocks of 500 apartments based on one positive covid test, and not letting people out even to buy food?

What the Chinese are doing there isn't nice. Both of my children attend sports practice this afternoon, and they really need do to that. Shutting up entire families for weeks without even five minutes of fresh air is worse than merely "not nice", it's damned harsh. But I can imagine that it'll stop transmission.
Pickin'em Up the Pawpaws
This is a question for natives of the Southeastern US.

There is a song that used to be popular in the region, involving gathering pawpaws, which are a local relative of custard apple and soursop. It could be sung "Pickin' up the pawpaws, puttin'em in the basket", but it is immediately tempting to move on to "pickin'em up the pawpaws, puttin'em in the basket".

My question is whether this latter form is the way anybody learned the song, or if grammatical discipline overcame the rhythmic temptation.

And, if temptation won, did anyone move on to "P'nickin'em'up the pawpaws, p'nuttin'em in the basket"?
> There's plenty of people here already that disagree on whether the intent was malicious.

No, I haven't seen many people try to argue that the intent wasn't malicious. Most people seem to be arguing that it's fine and npm and Github should allow it. Or the classic you shouldn't trust random software. If you ever wonder why people like the Apple app store just look at the Devs in this comment section. Makes it kinda hard to trust you.
You mean China has stopped reporting Covid deaths?
You're proposing to add extra complexity for some hypothetical scenario that is unlikely to happen. That's a bad tradeoff.
Co-ops are accountable to shareholders. Non-profits are technically not accountable to anyone but the board.
thats a great analogy! I now know what to say if someone asks me the same question
https://youtu.be/y_SXXTBypIg
I recommend you no longer recommend content aggregation websites to people who you want to see only certain content.
As a caring child of old parents, you should get your parents to NL where you can provide the best possible care for them, instead of letting them die in a place where they can't even get a COVID test done.
Patents are enforced by law. There doesn't seem to be any equivalent for NFTs. Many of the criticisms are valid because of that.
Agreed, although that doesn't negate the presence of socialized health care.
The harm caused by crime pales in comparison to the harm done by governments using tax money (much of which also indirectly contributes to crime). I would much rather contribute to the average criminal than the average government.
Anyone have a recommendation for a new laptop with a H processor? I want Thunderbolt and 8 cores.

I'm thinking about HP Zbook G8
Take-Two to buy gaming group Zynga in $12.7bn deal
The Economist claim China have had 140k to 1.9m excess deaths since the pandemic started in Wuhan (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...).

It's of course worth noting that China is one of the countries that stopped reporting excess deaths themselves since it would be pretty obvious that if China e.g. reported a million excess deaths then the majority could likely be attributed to SARS2 (whether they die directly from the virus or starve as a result of their brutal lockdowns).
I had a similar experience using Colemak near-exclusively for several years, then going back to using QWERTY in the office.
IMO, Proof of work crypto is fundamentally immoral because of the externalized environmental costs.
It's really too bad that Lucas didn't make any more movies after the first 3. It seemed to me that there was a lot of ground he could have explored after that. Oh well. Maybe some day he'll sell the franchise to a studio that will do great things with it. Here's hoping!
> just look at total deaths for the period. Where do you think they are coming from?

People clearly died. Now, the question is, they died directly from covid, or died from effects of the lockdown?
4 min drive? That sounds like perfect walking distance. It's better too, when you suspect you might have covid.
I did not intend to weaken my claim - I actually do believe that most of research is controlled by commercial interests in one way or another.

Governments and corporations alike allocate capital towards research that they think benefits the populace or shareholders. This is measured with a dollar value, like most things in life (thank you last stage capitalism).

While the influence on certain topics might be lesser, it is definitely stronger for other topics. The vaccines are a good example of the latter, since it’s a highly profitable venture with a TAM of the entire global population. You can see this in broad daylight where Pfizer wanted to make their data public only after 75 years (1). Surely good science doesn’t need secrecy?

If this doesn’t invoke skepticism into how most research is influenced similarly, I’m not sure what to say.

(1) https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importanc...
Yeah, keeps the code cleaner, no unwanted variable and imports as I have tonnes of these in my Java codebase. One can use IDEs to fix it but I am not gonna generate 1000 files changed PR for this and apparently neither did last 5-6 people who worked this project.

Maybe you have not worked in these enterprise type projects where Java/Go is most likely used. In these places anything that is not build failure / compiler error is not an issue to be fixed now or ever.
> If these negative outcomes turn out to be true, there will be no going back from this.

I really hope that we can have a sensible discussion about safety and relative risks with 90% of the population.

(Naive, I know...)
By "infrequently updated", I mean software where it is "ok" to be running versions released months/years ago in the official repos and not having to resort to 3rd party repos to get more up to date software.

Nearly everyone has to use 3rd party software at some point though. There just isn't a good solution for this on Linux. Too many people assume Linux users only use open source software that is in the official package repos. It totally excludes commercial software, niche stuff, etc.
unlikely ? all methods are broken eventualy when compute becomes faster
Old thinkpads are like framework laptops
USSR?

edit: After 50 years, TIL that URRS and USSR are synonyms.
That's not a given. As far as I know, there is no proof of the security or lack thereof of this kind of function.

Increases in computing power alone can't render SHA256 insecure; that can be proven by thermodynamic/size-of-the-universe arguments. You need an actual cryptographic weakness.
I have worked at my current gig long enough where the answer is almost always me,
Internet just went out all across kz again
It's (I believe) a reference to an old Communist joke.

A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: “Let’s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say. If it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: “Everything is wonderful here. Stores are full of good food. Movie theaters show good films from the west. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.”
It's worth noting the debt burden that different medical education systems place on physicians. Debt load and lost income are huge in the US medical education systems.

Many people that browse this forum will likely have lifetime income similar to that of a physician.
Well, Worldometer just shows the official data. They can hide the fact that North Korea has no data at all but China is way to big to do it. If the official data is a plain lie there's nothing they can do.
If they put a banner warning about it they could end up blocked by the Chinese Firewall, and with a massive DDOS attack against them from a random offended Chinese service.
I have no cryptocurrencies and feel good every time it goes down because it validates my decision.

That said, is this guy even correct about having no recourse to enforce your ownership? If I buy a NFT from a guy in Germany don’t I have the same recourse as if I bought a Rembrandt from a guy in Germany? Sure if it’s $100 good luck getting any movement or if it’s from a guy in Iran also good luck getting any recourse but if it’s from a guy in Georgia (the US state) don’t I have the same small claims court infrastructure as if I bought a used PlayStation from him? Same goes for that German guy, if it’s above some threshold there is also certainly some kind of reciprocal treaty in place for me to engage with the local German court/police infrastructure to seek compensation.
I think the general principle behind the criminalisation of such images is that the sharing creates market demand for the abuse; the hash of the image isn't what gets file hosts off the hook because their moderators won't be punished for manually checking and deleting images either. On that basis, I can see someone apparently knowingly purchasing tokens symbolically representing actual acts of child sex abuse for a lot of money being in plenty of trouble even if the images never touch any of their computers.

Perhaps their best defence would be that NFTs are complete nonsense which have no tangible connection with the mutable, third-party-controlled URL endpoint they are supposedly a token representation of...
China has pretty good testing infrastructure that they use aggressively when any cases are found. Surely the residents of Xi’an are being swabbed every week now.

But China is much more developed than India.
S'ok. Remember when 21k was the ATH...
I’m interested in this worst performing stat. By what measure? Because I’ve always read that when controlling for the relative poor health of the us population regarding diseases related to poor eating and exercise habits, the US was a top performer for heart and cancer treatments.
What corporate structure let’s you keep money in the company like that? Is it complicate to set up and manage?
I would suggest start with getting familiar with the C programming language. I suggest use Beej's guide for C. Next, pick up the "The Linux Programming Interface" book by Michael Kerrisk. As you read the book you will get better at understanding source code of at least Vim and Emacs if not others.
Random thought dump of observations from someone who's dabbled in the space a bit (but is not a cryptobro by any means) -

Here's a thing about NFTs that I've seen a lot crypto evangelists and haters miss, and a sentiment that I think will grow once the novelty dies out: The "art" is irrelevant. It's no more than a thumbnail or a poster marketing it's utility, and that's exactly the actual important part - what I can do with it. Can I use it as an in-game item? Do I get access to your next podcast episode early in a patreon-like service? Do I unlock your next online course for free or get a 50% discount on your next concert?

This sense of multiple applications is what I think people may or may not mean when they use the term "creator economy", but I think it fits nicely. People argue that interoperability of assets is useless because "no two games would ever want to share an item, developers don't want that". But another angle to this is that creators can give utility to a single asset across a wide variety of applications for their fans.

Regardless, none of this has been realised yet and maybe this is just a pipe dream if the majority of hype in the space continues to revolve around useless, ugly ass monkeys that are shown off on twitter for some ego-inflating sense of elitism. It could go either way I guess
There's no indication whatsoever of this happening.

In the time since SHA1 came under attack, a lot more research has happened on hash function security. If this has shown anything, it's that SHA256 is more secure than people used to think.

People seem to have this widely believed idea that "all crypto will be broken eventually". But in pretty much all cases you can trace back that broken crypto was known to be weak for a long time. SHA256 is not known to be weak (with the slight caveat that it doesn't protect against length extension attacks, but this is a known property that matters only in very rare circumstances).
> Except, would you trust a notary public in, say, Sudan?

How can I trust an NFT? I don't know if the person minting it was the true owner, or just someone uploading stolen content. I don't know what the URL used to point to or if the content has changed. It's basically useless without something external verifying it.
Last 7 years were hottest on record
> For Ethereum and most other altcoins, it's not possible to run a full node on a home computer. That's why most of the nodes are run by companies such as Infura.

I have never tried to run a full node, but from what I read, the specs for a full node are nowhere near the realm of impossible:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/jv8ovb/what_are_t...

1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, an i5 is pretty run-of-the-mill.
I have had autoimmune reactions from other viral infections too.

I don't think I got any worse after COVID-19 vaccination so I don't regret having it done if it helps the overall public health situation.
That link is a deleted question and is not visible to users with less than 10,000 reputation (or logged out users).

Here's an archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20150914175753/http://stackoverfl...
Nice link, thanks! Good to see Mark Miller is still working in this space.
Yea, I agree.

The dark thing about NFTs IMO is that they only seem like they would work in a "world" where everything was locked down and rights-protected to the detriment of the user experience. In other words, all those "layers" where digital ownership could get fuzzy were removed by operating on some aggressive platform or protocol, like a Fortnite style Metaverse without copy + paste, local file storage, or self-hosting.
The zyzz way out of depression!
Echoing some of the other comments in this thread: Given how they are dealing with outbreaks, having zero Covid deaths is probable. But I don’t blame anyone finding it unbelievable; how extreme they take the term “lockdown” to is unbelievable to begin with.

Also, the aggressive lockdown strategies are also actively causing people to be much more susceptive to other fatalities. So while no people die of Covid, many, many are suffering or even dying as a consequence, without a trace in any Covid reports.
Write crap code, switch jobs and get 30-50% raise to maintain someone else's crap, rinse and repeat.

I feel like a well paid janitor.
Tax law
All current methods. Isn’t sha256 an order of magnitude more complex than sha1? It’s not like cryptographers can’t learn from their mistakes.
I'm afraid I can imagine what life would be like if I had you as a colleague, and I don't think I'd enjoy it. I'm not that sensitive, but I do think respect is important, and if you can't respect your co-workers, even after having it pointed out politely, I simply don't want you in my team.

If you struggle finding good projects at companies that respect you and your work, maybe this is something you could work on.
malware is malware. You don't have a right to change ur software to malware. "wElL yOu ShOuLd HaVe Tested" no you shouldn't push software in bad faith designed to crash apps that use it.