skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick question... the filters let me select the Language the show is in, but I don't think that necessarily implies which country it's available in. Is there a way to filter per country/region the show is available in? I enjoy watching shows from different countries (different languages) but if they are not available in my country, then it doesn't matter.
Depends on the level of desire, no?
While Amazon didn't explain their action (only that they were "confident") his tweets explain some of the strategies he has to use in order publish from Nigeria. He could be linked to actually fraudulent accounts by accident through vpn, fake us addresses, or the US bank "mimic" service.

> I won't be publishing anymore. At least not while I'm on the continent. I don't think I'm supposed to. The obstacles I've faced on the path to this are indicating that. Firstly navigating payment and publishing at all, getting shut out of platforms when I put in the region I'm from, having to pretend to be from the US or somewhere in the West. Using services that mimic US bank accounts, Having to essentially, even literally lie I'm American, being unable to use PayPal, or the usual payment methods. This isn't even the first time I was banned. 1st was from Draft2Digital for being Nigerian
No MacOS / iOS / Safari support.
I think I know the answer to this, but how bad should I feel for being a software engineer with little-to-no knowledge of deep learning. I suspect it's not bad at all since the software engineering field has split into a few camps, and mine - backend systems work - isn't in the same universe as the machine learning one, for the most part.
I agree with pretty much everything you're saying, except your conclusion.

I definitely see the value as a way to sell solar. And I agree with it. I think many people will only do it if it makes financial sense. But I don't think that means it needs to be the only carrot or stick. I don't think we really have time to pretend that only One Simple Pitch will get us there.

Nor do I think it means that the conversations about it need to be so thoroughly dominated by it. I'm not talking about the OP here, I'm talking about this thread, on which nearly every top level post is just someone declaring whether solar breaks even for them or not. I don't think this is terribly useful dialog, and it makes it very hard to talk about anything else.
It's interesting that COVID and vaccines for it are treated so much differently than others. Does the average person on the street know which variants of influenza are currently circulating? Do they have a preference for manufacturer of their influenza vaccine? Do they know what type their influenza vaccine is? Probably not. But suddenly everyone cares deeply about all of these things for COVID.

To me it's simple: I ask my doctor what I should do and then I do it.
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This announcement of "we're going to have boosters (probably)!" (August 2021) seems to cover this quite well: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0818-covid-19-boost..., as does the then-published first version of general booster info page: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821000645/https://www.cdc.g... (later iterations via https://web.archive.org/web/20210715000000*/https://www.cdc.... )

What would you improve in the message sent? To me it seems the parts you ask for are pretty much there?
Many years of careful study and practice. Some people think cutting words are as easy as being sharp, but it's an art form that requires patience and dedication.

Also I respond to a lot of crypto bros who think the same old tired mantras are witty replies. Governments didn't become dominant entities by happenstance. Most people don't want broad tax evasion, endless scams and seriously environmentally destructive practices in the name of an asset that isn't actually decentralized, where all transactions are public and where you pay enormous transaction fees along with gaining a serious security burden.
I'm not an angry conspiracy theory guy but the government gave me the idea that we could beat corona if we just got everyone vaxxed and follow guidelines.
Two years and 3 jabs later it's still SNAFU.

At some point you get demoralised. And I know it isn't anyone's fault which somehow makes it worse.
The Alex Jones supporters at least have someone to hate.
> This has largely been a catastrophic failure. More Americans have died from Covid under Biden than under Trump (not that it matters)

True, but Trump only dealt with Covid for about 9 months at most, and that was starting from 0 cases in February, meanwhile Biden has dealt with it for 13 months at this point, and also took office in the middle of the major winter wave, and then the Delta wave in mid 2021, and now the Omicron wave at the end of 2021, which were much more infectious and mostly affected those that could not or refused to be vaccinated (once vaccines were widely available in April at least).

Biden didn't create those waves, by the way. This is a global problem, and judging by how the US got the variant spikes after most of the rest of the world did, likely didn't originate here. He could have been like China or Australia and enforced hard indefinite lockdowns, but it was clear after the one Trump agreed to a partial two-week lockdown that the US public wouldn't even comply to that, so good luck Biden imposing any future lockdowns.

Yes, the majority of people were vaccinated in 2021, but I'd argue a good chunk of those same people (waves hi) were self-isolating as much as possible until they got vaccinated anyway and were much less likely to be included in the deaths of 2020 anyway.

Biden definitely could have done a better job managing Covid (ordered increased home tests made and ship them to citizens before Omicron became a thing, for one idea), but there's a good amount of the population that wouldn't have listened to him no matter what measures he tried to push.

I also disagree with you that Democrats are going to downplay covid (the media might, but it sounds like it's just to force people to go back to work and kids to stay in school because they're too afraid of the economy getting worse).

About the only thing Biden can point to as something good he's done, is the vaccine rollout, so if they downplay it they don't have much to go on.

But I agree it won't matter in the long run because the Democrats are going to lose the midterms, big time, and probably the presidency in 2024.
Some of your points have validity, but three are borderline dangerous misinformation:

- The majority of those who died WITH THE VACCINE had 4+ co-morbidities. The virus is still very dangerous to the unvaccinated

- The vaccine does indeed reduce your propensity to spread the virus, although it doesn't eliminate the risk.

- The reason for lockdowns is not to make the virus "go away". It is to control the impact on the healthcare system. We have now surpassed the previous hospitalization record and this thing is still going exponential. You may be fully vaccinated and at low risk for a COVID related death, but if you'd like to be able to get acute treatment for appendicitis or a heart attack, we need to take steps toward a lockdown immediately.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-breaks-covid-19-hospital...
Ha - it actually is!!!!

This is too funny - I was about to reply to you, and then decided to check my files. Lo and behold, I found that when I bought the components in March 2012, I bought an Intel E5-2609 (which is indeed a Xeon!) for $299. Had I not looked, I never would have guessed.

Thinking about it now (and I might be wrong), the machine has 32GB of RAM, so I might have bought the Xeon to go above 16GB. Can anyone confirm if that would have made sense at the time (or if my memory is just fuzzy?) ?

Chip details here: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64588/i...
Parkmobile; I was hit too.
> compared to the potential of being intubated in an ICU.

Comments like this are only intelligible if one considers the probability of each outcome.

Deterministically (probability 1) getting unpleasant vaccine side effects vs. deterministically ending up intubated in an ICU? Sure, give me a booster every month. But that's not actually the relevant calculus -- your probability of ending up in an ICU is already extremely low after two shots.
I am with you on all of this, with one small, slightly hopeful note. My under-5 is enrolled in the Pfizer study, and they are not starting over from scratch. The existing cohort is going to receive a third dose at >2 months past their last dose (starting at the end of this month, probably), and then immunogenicity will be reassessed. I am incredibly frustrated that pfizer and the fda have been so slow to roll the vaccine out to under-5s, but at least they don’t need to re-do recruitment and phase 1, etc.
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From YC's perspective, it's protection against dilution at the 2nd round.

Also shows additional confidence in selecting a winning cohort.
Balancing the grid is so simple that a whole flock of startupish ecosystem is flourishing around this very problem - building flywheels and other offsetting facilities to solve it.
Furthermore, a lesser-talked about side-effect of extended (semi-)lockdowns and associated measures is a general reduction in the physical health of the populace. How many of us have put on a few extra pounds? This survey [1] (which, admittedly, seems to be probably skewed by sampling bias), shows that millennials put on 40+ (!?) pounds over the pandemic.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1257041/average-weight-g...
Speculation does not impart value. Price and value are not the same
Yes I do strongly disagree with the wording (attack) here.

If publishing a package you control is considered an attack than the same could be said about the developer using the package or the admins deploying said package
It was intentionally tax incentivized via the tax code. There’s mountains of writing about it. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
You only have to do that if you're in a situation where your correspondent expects same-day responses. Mostly you should try to avoid creating that expectation -- or where you do want to provide that level of service, eg for customer interactions, that sort of email should be going via some kind of role address or internal ticketing system so that it gets reliable rapid responses that don't depend on individual employees not happening to fall ill and so you can ensure cover during holidays or whatever.

(I work a four day week personally, and I never set an out-of-office response.)
I get that it's kind of a funny, jokey thing that someone lased a military aircraft and it used a Wescam E/O sensor turret to track down the suspect, but this article gets a bit goofy talking about the "high target location accuracy and georeferencing" and "In this situation, the key for the crew is the coordination between the cockpit and the MX-20 operator in the back to “find and fix” the target. But this is something ATL2 crews routinely train for."

The reality is that your average police helicopter is probably better equipped to do this: It has high-zoom visible light/thermal sensors, with georeferencing to get exact lat/lon. Additionally, it probably has something along the lines of the Churchill/Shotover ARS system[1][2] that gives operators an overlay with street names, addresses, etc. Even news helicopters in the U.S. are equipped with those.

How pilots help police track down laser-strike suspects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xdgE4xz-o

This is a good demonstration of a police helicopter with high-res thermal imagery tracking down someone with a laser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c

[1] https://shotover.com/products/ars
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumcjbVzzLE
i used it but i had problems with bookmarks starting with chrome:// and "data:text/html;"
syncmarx
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/syncmarx/llcdegcpe...

is a good alternative
As GP, I agree. You hit the nail on the head there. I actually think the guy you're responding to and myself agree if we sat down and discussed in a more open and honest way. He's trying to prove a point about my opportunity, and win the internet. My response to that attitude always is: you win! See ya! It's why I don't use Twitter.

That's the thing- I'm 50/50 on this issue. I believe there's inherent advantages that people have, and it's also about discipline and will.

Some people will never grasp opportunity when it comes knocking. That's why many that do grasp (and are lucky to have) opportunity are often pretty upset when others try to dismiss their success. I get that. It's true too. Both can be true at the same time, some are fortunate by no effort of their own, and some are unambitious. It's a Venn diagram of conditions.

But in 2022, everyone wants to be the victim. I don't believe in victimhood as a lifestyle. I firmly believe that "no one has more control over your life, than you".
Shocking to me that "lockdown", ie. population-wide government-mandated house arrest, was ever accepted by the public as a viable option.

COVID-19 doesn't effectively transmit outside, so mask mandates outside are at best useless.
your original comment was that the state has a right to forcibly vaccinate citizens. i am simply contending that was not a result of jacobson v ma.
Of course. How is that related to the point you're trying to make?
> Vaccination makes you much less likely to get sick in the first place

Do you have a reference for this claim? Nearly everyone I know that has caught it and has gotten sick in the past 2 weeks has been vaccinated, sometimes boostered as well. I don't think this claim is true with Omicron.

Vaccination makes you less likely to end up on a ventilator.
> everyone else who still would much prefer not to get sick and risk long covid but I will keep the mask on for now, thanks

But what's the plan? Covid is showing no signs of going away.

If things stay the same, is your stance going to change in a year? 3? 5?
Yes, I find that community interest tends to peak about 10 years before business interest peaks in any given language. Right now we have more companies using Ruby/Rails than perhaps we ever did, but community interest peaked 10 years ago. Perhaps we'll see something similar with Rust a decade from now.
In Québec we have similar prices throughout the province. "We" massively invested in hydro power back in the 60s-70s, and it's paying off very nicely.

What's funny is that everyone still complains about their Hydro bill, but that's because virtually every house is heated with electricity (baseboard heaters), and we have a pretty cold climate. For example, yesterday my house consumed ~180kWh and the outside temperature peaked down to -20°C.

EDIT: mistyped a number
Usually no, most people just use doctor-suggested or in-insurance-network providers and billing because it's easier than calling multiple places and hyper-optimizing on the math.

But we have to pay the bills after the insurance company does the calculation, which often results in annoying surprises.

The better your insurance, the less nasty surprises, which largely in the US means "the better you're paid, the less you have to pay out of pocket for health expenses" which is a nasty thing because then the people most likely to be hit with a big bill are those who can least afford it.
The military has required vaccinations for decades, it is an operational hazard for them. In 1950 you would get booted for refusing your vaccines too. This would have happened Biden or not.
Flu shot never made me more than uncomfortable for a day. Second shot of Moderna took me out of commission for 5 days. 2 of them being with 38C fever. I am done with the these shots. Did not get booster but did get Omicron over the holidays, it was like a weak cold that dragged on for a few extra days.
Troops get far more vaccines than the general public, it is mainly political that any are quitting/opting for discharge over a mandate for this one.
The other side of the "market" is also not very "free". Health care facilities are heavily regulated - and I don't just mean for safety. Try opening an MRI facility or other capital-intensive facility... You'll be required to obtain a certificate of need from a state board. That board will be heavily lobbied by existing supplies to minimize competition from upstart facilities. IIRC, around 2/3 of states have these laws in place.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-07-09/...
It's interesting that you phrase it that way, because I was thinking exactly the same thing, but from the opposite direction.

I caught covid early, and while (for me) it was a nasty bug, I recovered with nothing more than a lingering cough for several weeks.

Against enormous pressure I decided not to get vaccinated. Everything I read supported that natural immunity is at least as protective as the vaccine, and most studies I've seen say it is much better. This makes sense to me, a natural immune response in a healthy person should be stronger than a vaccine, given that all a vaccine is supposed to do is "train" your immune system via an immune response to a "simulation" of the actual virus (apologies for the gross oversimplification).

I thought the marshmallow test was in the other direction - the millions of people who acquired natural immunity through infection, but "grabbed the marshmallow" in the form of the vaccine. What will the long term effects be? We don't know.

FWIW, my immunity does seem to have been pretty effective, since I just tested positive for Covid. My only symptoms were a light headache and backache. My wife, however was sick for around three days with fever and sore throat laying right next to me in bed, coughing. I took care of her, kissed her on the forehead, etc... I didn't get as much as a sniffle.
If people are weaving in-and-out of traffic that means they're at least going faster than the majority of people on the road. Assuming everyone's going a reasonable speed, that means this person is an anomaly that's likely going a bit over the speed limit (if not significantly over). If I'm in the left lane going 70 in a 70, and you pass me on the right going 80, I can tell you which one of us is "more at-fault", and it's not apparently who you think it is.
I wonder if big places like Xerox PARC were like Google. It seems (of course I'm reading the legends from Kay and others) it was a lot more innocent and never deviated from good spirit and good work. Or maybe they also turned into a game theoretic mine field.
Correction of the post I was replying to
Things vary wildly across the world but in most of Europe people aren't allowed to use cloth masks anymore, and haven't been for at least half a year.

They have to wear either surgical masks or FFP2.
Can someone explain how it’s possible to block this? Just stop the whole IP range from the network?
Wow, I imagined stock comp would usually be based on current valuation.
I do something similar only because I’m a social caffeine drinker. I only go to cafes when on a walk or date, in prior times it would be during a break at the office with coworkers walking around the neighborhood. Nowadays that would be like 1 cafe latte every other week.

But the only reason I have any setup at home at all is because I occasionally wake up next to people that believe they need coffee in the morning. I dont really know how to operate the machine.

Adaptations.
> COVID-19 doesn't effectively transmit outside, so mask mandates outside are at best useless.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/01/07/deer-ohio-inf...

Are white-tailed deer commonly seen indoors? Or maybe, your assertion is full of crap.
Well, apartment buildings roofs are empty and only collect heat in the summer. Why install solar panels on a balcony?
Binary search in particular is surprisingly tricky, which is precisely what makes it useful for telling if someone knows how to program. To a significant extent, though, you can cheat by studying binary search itself, which is a surprisingly beautiful thing.

I like this formulation for finding the first index in a half-open range where p is true, assuming p stays true thereafter:

bsearch p i j :=
i if i == j else
bsearch p i m if p m else
bsearch p (m + 1) j
where m := i + (j - i)//2

Or in Python:

def bsearch(p, i, j):
m = i + (j - i) // 2
return (i if i == j
else bsearch(p, i, m) if p(m)
else bsearch(p, m+1, j))

The only tricky thing about this formulation is that m < j if i < j, thus the asymmetric +1 in only one case to ensure progress. If invoked with a p such as a[m] >= k it gives the usual binary search on an array without early termination. The i + (j - i) // 2 formulation is not needed in modern Python, but historically an overflowing (i + j) // 2 was a bug in lots of binary search library functions, notably in Java and C.

(Correction: I said a[m] <= k. This formulation is less tricky than the usual ones, but it's still tricky!)
That’s amazing news, thank you for letting folks know! Also thanks for participating in the trial, you’re doing a good deed for us all.
Verizon, AT&T to delay 5G deployment, averting aviation standoff
If someone fired a gun into a crowd, but no one was harmed, should that just be a fine? Why would doing something dangerous that could possibly damage a pilots eyes not be similar? Enough pilots have suffered eye damage (google it) from idiots with lasers.

In the US, a first time DUI with no one injured can get you 6 months jail in many states (some higher, some lower). This seems about the same.

Maybe penalties are decided including factors such as possible outcomes for dangerous behavior and as a deterrence to others?
American doctors all use fax machines and “heavy paper files” to transmit referrals. Who cares?

An enormous amount of working Americans have no healthcare at all. Would you prefer that?
Without saying anything about our company's seed investors (I wasn't here when we did the seed round), the YC companies I've been friends with raised their seed rounds from a mix of "firms" (I didn't do much digging but they all seemed to make lots of investments; ie, at scale) and friends or industry acquaintances. It may just be the case that we hear mostly the hobbyist perspective here, because the people who do seed investing seriously don't bother to wade into HN comment threads.

If you kick in on a friend's company, you shouldn't care what happens if their company has a soft landing; having that level of concern over an investment seems like a really good way to kill a friendship. The friendship is more valuable.
Yeah people like you who spread this myth is how we nearly had an insurrection here a year ago. Stop it. At the moment there is only one party working actively to dismantle democracy itself. Don't vote for it.
I think the marshmallow test is pretty flawed itself. But maybe the marshmallow test is actually a good analogy. I suspect many of the test "failures" were caused because the test subject (kid) didn't trust the authority figure (test administrator). When you can see a marshmallow with your own eyes, it's more believable. I think it's quite reasonable to factor in some probability that an untrusted stranger would "alter the deal". If you take the marshmallow now, no one can bait-and-switch you.

And it's starting to look like a pretty good description. There are plenty of people who were on-board with the "temporary" restrictions initially who are now doubting that these promised marshmallows are ever going to be delivered. I'm vaxxed. And I'm done. Good luck on getting your marshmallows.
At the risk of nitpicking, the T stands for Tablet, not touchscreen. The full product name is ThinkPad X230 Tablet, which is often shortened to ThinkPad X230t or ThinkPad X230T.