skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that model have an unfiltered exhalation valve? That would make it useless to protect others, which is a big point of masks.
Wouldn't they want their kids to live the same life?
This is a shitty post. No description of the scam itself and incorrectly asserts that YouTube giveaways generate permanent consistent income for a single group.

How does it follow that 200k over 12 hours => ransomware is less profitable. Are all 14 transactions victims? Are all 14 transactions paid to the same actor?
There was also uselessd, which was the systemd init system without the rest. https://bitbucket.org/Tarnyko/uselessd/src/linux-devel/ It was a joke, but nonetheless if you like systemd's init system them you are probably going to like uselessd, because that's what it is - systemd's init system without the rest.

At 82k loc it's huge for what it does, but nonetheless is order(s?) of magnitude smaller than systemd. If it was active I'd trust it more that systemd on that basis alone.

I can't say I'm a fan of systemd's event driven approach. A system whose state depends on it's configuration plus past state is usually a nightmare to debug and control compared to a system who state is dependent on it's configuration alone - and that's how it has worked out for me and systemd.

The simple cases work fine of course but systemd's power over what came before it is it's dependency relationships it allows you setup. But they are the very things that break in weird and wonderful ways when the events it's reacting to fire in an unexpected order. If you could set them up reliably without much thinking it would be a big win - but as it is, not so much.
Also your approach is more honest than saying ‘keep science apolitical’.
N95s are effective, but I really don't understand the endgame of healthy, vaccinated people wearing N95s at this point. I know there are benefits in certain high risk situations, but covid is going nowhere, are we really gonna spend the rest of our lives wearing masks everywhere? At a certain point, we just need to accept that life comes with risks and we can't avoid them all, and trying to just ruins our ability to enjoy life.
That's what I'm wondering as well. On which platforms? Group chats? Discord? Discourse? One I've never heard?

I ask because I've been flirting with the idea of having more closed off groups, playing with using Discourse for it, as it's a self-hosted platform and I can tweak plugins/themes and close it off to the public. But I'm open to others, and more so, really just curious to learn about some of these communities, how or why they've chosen the level of exclusivity/inclusivity that htey have, etc.
1984 Was a criticism of the Soviet system and totalitarianism in general, and China was, at least in the first decade, heavily inspired by the USSR and its tactics --so there would be overlap.
I've reported so many of these. Every time there is a SpaceX launch these fake videos fill up my recommendations from "ElonMusk" and "Space X"
Unfortunately, I no longer work with enough Tesla owners to have a reasonable sample, and I've lost my tolerance for the Tesla corners of the internet years ago. Someone should talk to owners and do that, but it's hard to get straight out of Tesla owners since so many are personally invested in Tesla succeeding. "Yeah, it's been 100% reliable, they've replaced my drive unit twice, battery once, six door handles, a LCD screen, but it's all under good will NDA care, so... er, sorry, I can't actually tell you any of this."
> It's sad that we had the opportunity to do so via vaccination but failed to capitalize

We likely never had this opportunity; omicron spreads too well and evades existing vaccines too well. The good vaccines are down to ~50% effective, and omicron is 2x as contagious as delta. There was a short window between vaccines getting approved and delta that heroic vaccination campaign could have worked. And I mean heroic. It would have literally had to be 90% of the world population in a few months. Factories never could have scaled to the point, there'd never be enough public trust to hit 90%, and too many countries are incapable of running a campaign like this.
> Correction, all of mobile users use Safari on iOS today.

Some mobile users have Android, so correction incorrect, but real bad phrasing on me :)
Steam Deck isn't a desktop tho
When people say something is straight out of 1984, they mean that it's something that'd be perfectly in-character for the totalitarian government from that book to do. I don't see anything absurd about saying that.
Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
My challenge is that the over the ear ones just don't work with my hearing aids. They have a tendency to pull them off, and let's just say at $3k a pop, I'm rather careful I don't lose one.

I do think it's good that people learn to detect fakes, but the challenge in a way is trying to order 20 of them. You don't want to wait a week for the order to show up, and discover you now have 20 fakes.
It’s common for a media company to have a file and even a pre-written obituary for famous people. That way there’s no need to cobble together an obituary hours after getting word that, say, Steve Jobs has died.

I take it that Scientific American didn’t have a pre-written obituary for E.O. Wilson.
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Wastewater monitoring data shows that the peak was probably a few days ago in the SF Bay Area. Other areas may lead or lag by a few days.

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater
By "afraid", I meant that we think it might happen, and think it would be bad if it does. Similar to how people can be afraid of global warming.
I once came home after a work night out, and started coding on...erm..something.

I remember thinking at the time that I was onto something brilliant, only to excitedly pick it back up the next day and look at my code and realize it completely indecipherable. I don't even know what my idea was lol
Yes, Austria does, and it mandates FFP-2, which while not quite N95, is pretty close (roughly equivalent to the Korean KF94 standard - 94% filtering minimum, and they allow earloops and not just headbands, which generally fit a bit worse). Still lightyears better than cloth or a typical surgical.
The argument I'm making here is that the genre has expanded to include a lot of stuff that isn't carbon-copies of Rogue, and that we should come up with a new name for that. If you want to then use the name "Roguelike" to mean "games identical to Rogue" then have at it.
"Typing is Hard" is a popular list of languages and the decidability of typechecking in them: https://3fx.ch/typing-is-hard.html
Wait, anti maskers demanding cosplay masks are making the rules at the hospital? Or am I misunderstanding something?
When authorities are spot-checking your mask fit you run the risking of crossing into "you're under arrest because we don't like your face" territory.
Why do you need one?
Exactly. Finding the "most effective" mask and mandating it isn't practical anymore. I live in a developing country and there are relatively few antivaxxers here. Not a lot of people here are against mask mandates either. However, the Omicron variant still caused a huge surge in new cases. N95 is just too expensive. You could already purchase a meal for one person with the cost of an N95 here. What choice would an average person who works less than minimum wage?

The approach here should be cultural. Encouraging employees to not go to work when they are sick should be normalized. Labor laws should be revised to include more sick leaves factoring in how prevalent COVID-19 has become. Public spaces should be retrofitted and redesigned to allow for a better ventilation. Controlling what mask people wear and how they wear is just too difficult to implement. Government must shift their focus away from the action of its citizens to the environment the citizens participate in.
Or unless the others are immunocompromised people you are caring for. But I agree.
After using almost every serious distro over the last 25 years, I would have to say Fedora and OpenSUSE are top notch.
I'm still waiting for some scandal at the Watergate Hotel again, to see how many journalists demonstrate their total and complete ignorance of the history of their profession by referring to "Watergategate."
It goes two ways - you spreading it, and you catching it.

From the spreading perspective, even if you are healthy and vaccinated, you might have it and you might be spreading it. Especially with omicron variant.

And from the catching perspective, even if you're careful, vaccinated, boosted, etc. you still can catch it and get sick. Maybe it's not going to kill you, but it turns you into a potential spreader.
the ISS is not self sustaining and you can resupply quickly. For Mars you need to be able to survive for years before some kind of rescue is possible.
>What is less likely is the notion that evolution magically stopped

Well, the problem is that the science stopped being about "what is more likely" and turned into "what is more pleasant to hear to an average person". Back in the times of physical magazines and written letters, reading a scientific article required non-trivial effort, that worked as a sort of a selection bias, ensuring that the reader would be sufficiently educated, professional and open-minded [1]. These days, finding racism everywhere has become the claim for fame and meaning of life for too many people, so we all now have to take it into account.

The funny part is that genetically were are very similar to the cave people some 50K years ago, and the huge difference in life quality is caused purely by what we learn, what values we teach to our kids, and where we pick our role models. Any genetic differences between races would pale in comparison to something you can learn in your lifetime. But this baby has somehow been thrown out with the water - one side is now convinced that all problems of certain demographics are unfixable and are caused by genetics, the other side attributes 100% of them to an unquantifiable oppressor and thinks that burning books and renaming formulas will somehow solve them, but nobody actually wants to put effort developing personality traits and habits that actually help a person achieve success in life.

[1] as in "willing to examine weird-looking ideas from a rational standpoint, even if they personally don't like them" as opposed to "supporting the politically expected ideas even if they contradict the rational approach"
Hm, yeah, I guess that take makes sense too.
Imagine showing this to some people on January 15, 2022 and having them tell you it's crap. That's the way it is at times and that's depressing.
if text is a subset of symbols then there are symbols that aren't text.

if you mean to say that symbols are a subset of text, then that is simply confusion.
So when you send a child to school for the day, they are only going to be there five minutes?

>Fitted particle-filtering masks like N95s are up to 75 times more effective at preventing infection with COVID-19 than surgical masks, according to a study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

https://www.axios.com/n95-mask-protection-covid-958039c9-07f...
This might be true in the US but in some other countries the police aren't allowed to lie.
I was using the exclusive "we".
It’s funny, I totally forget the name canonicalization is there. Compared to the nightmarish and completely unreadable nature of C++ template libraries it’s really a non-issue.

But as @arc776 it’s actually handy for making your code based more consistent. Python was always a bit of a pain where different libraries would be either snake or camel case causing your code to have a weird mix.
It continues to amaze me how people go along with this.

The shots don't do what was promised. For healthy kids and young people, it is absolutely counterproductive to inject them. It will cause more hospitalizations through side effects than they will prevent.

What's more, there is now mounting evidence that omicron favors people who have gotten jabbed. So any notion that you get the jab to protect others is now also in question.

Finally, it is now also clear that these shots could have never created herd immunity, because an intramuscular shot does not create an immune response in the mucus membranes, which is your actual first line of defense. So the entirely sales pitch for the shots is also in question.

All of this is easy to find if you just bother to actually look around.

Stop applauding this, it's unethical and it just serves to cover up the failed promises of shitty politicians, shitty scientists, and their hysterical fans.
Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2Brz2oSQs
Oh wow, I had a reality-check of this a couple weeks ago when someone casually mentioned "investing into bitcoin" as something to do with a couple of thousand dollars at hand. And everyone agreed. In a group of people that are completely removed from the usual tech nerds.

I fear crypto hasn't been cutting edge for years. I still don't quite take it seriously, but apparently it is normal now.
This is unacceptable... Why people agree to this.
There are places which have not yet peaked, or have not yet started.

In the US, a few (mostly east-coast) states have peaked. West, central, and mountain, and south, not so much.

Given limited services and long distances in rural states, masking would be highly advisible.

(Numerous highly-advisable actions have, of course, been soundly rejected.)

Both the practice and empirical data on its efficacy would be useful in parts of the world Omicron has not yet hit.

I do agree the advice would have been far more useful 4--6 weeks ago. Call your local Timelord.
How did you verify it was pure CBD? Do you have equipment that would enable such verification? Seeming to have the effect you expect from CBD is not reliable.

CBD's effect on COVID-19 is to suppress the over-reaction of the immune system causing congestion and breathing problems. It does not interfere with the viral life cycle. So, it is useless to prevent COVID-19 infection.

In vitro analysis suggested that, in principle, ivermectin ought to help block COVID-19 virus in several ways. That generated interest to see if it would help.

The more reliable each study has been, the less effect it has shown. Something working great in test tubes (and even in mice) and failing when prescribed to actual people is totally unsurprising to anybody who works in medical research. Something promising that actually turns out to work clinically is always astonishing.

So, discounting promotion by people do lack long experience interpreting medical research results is not corrupt SUPPRESSION OF THE TRUTH. It is simple honest reporting, is doing you a favor, and you should welcome it.
Winter in Antarctica is getting closer.
Nothing complicated. It's the usual "send us btc/eth to get double back" scams.

The substack has other posts that have more context.
https://scaminvestigations.substack.com/

Screenshot:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/n49iye/scam_sent_...
That's YouTube for you. They will not change and it will only get worse.
I never panicked in the past about spreading the flu. I'd wear a mask and avoid visiting grandma if I were sick. But I won't live in a bubble just because there are things in the world that could hurt people. You can't reduce risk to zero. Why are we willing to fuck everything up to try?
I'm surprised someone building a high-end Linux-specific PC would go with an Nvidia GPU when it's AMD who has the performant open source GPU driver.
> It is CLEARLY stated in the comments

Are we seeing different comments? I scrolled three page lengths and just see jokes and reactions.
Crypto stinks and that's why I don't wanna touch it with a ten-foot pole. I lose respect for any company, which sprinkles some crypto into their service to make it look cooler when it actually makes it stinkier.
Bring the scammer before a judge. The same as when anyone scams you out of cash or gemstones or electronics.

"I put a ruby in a box and shipped it to Nigeria because an email told me to. How do I get it back?"

It's not a new problem.
Exactly. Then your entire system is at the mercy of Google.

Furthermore, why would Apple want an adtech black box on its devices?
For the kernel, or for the user-mode applications? C++ features aren't very useful for kernels. Presumably the author is more familiar with C and "C with classes" C++ and someone can rewrite the user-mode apps in modern C++ later.
I've been using FFP2 and N95s with the straps cut off, under a rather stiff cloth mask that is largely the same shape in the front as most respirators (so it doesn't crush the front), and is attached by a large velcro strap around the back the head (with holes on the side so as to go around the top and bottom of the ears). I've found this easier to put on and take off quickly, while maintaining at least as good a seal.

KN95s are a bit confusing to me in that, in my experience, they definitely don't have the common sense "this air is clearly being pushed through a filter" feel of breathing through a well-fitted FFP2/N95, but at the same time, don't give an obvious sense that there is a leak somewhere.
yes this is true - prolonged exposure - like students at school - masked with anything but full body protection will probably expose everyone. I am 180 degrees from my stance 12 months ago, now that vaccines have been released and proven.

Vaccine is the only defense.

But I dont mind masks, they have a lot of ancillary benefits. I wear them when I go in stores, it costs me nothing.
It's so dumb you probably missed it:

> The scam takes many forms... promising to double Bitcoin sent to an address... But of course, the promised doubled crypto never comes, hence a scam.
What are the risks for kids under 5 ?
Yep pretty amazing what CF makes possible combined with free tiers of other services. That hadn’t quite clicked in my head until I read your comment. Thank you.
Pop_OS looks interesting! Quick note to the system76 guys, I think the Digital Audio Workstation section seems off. Audacity is a great tool but it has more in common with a basic SoundRecorder app than LogicPro or GarageBand. It's more of a great utility that you use in addition to those. I think you missed Gimp vs Photoshop as a great comparison as well as Blender vs Autodesk tools for 3D modeling and rendering.

All in all this is a great reminder of how far Desktop linux has come and how narrow the software gap is. In some cases, the Linux options are better or as fully-fledged while also being free\unencumbered.
“A fool and their money are soon parted”
The evidence for finding that Covid was airborne was discussed before the letter was written.

The Pacific Princess, where the virus continued to spread between passengers who were locked down in their cabins, was in January 2020, for instance.
Yeah maybe I’m holding it wrong.
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Speaking of National Geographic, I just let my subscription lapse and have no intention of renewing it. I used to love their longer articles but now they've just been getting less and less engrossing. Sometimes I wonder if it is me that has gotten depressed, and uninterested in reading them. But then I look at other aspects of my life and realize that no, its not me, its their content that has gotten depressing and uninteresting.
Companies are built either on things money machines can make (software, lets just call this 'machines') or either labour work (things people make).

1) Similar to how it costs wages, money actually costs something too & it needs a decent rate of return (no not interest). Someone investing can rather that cash elsewhere - especially since prices are up everywhere and its more profitable and there is less competition.

2) If interest rates go up, the machines/software etc need to work harder to basically exist (similar to how if the rent/food etc went up it costs more for a person to exist in a job so they need a higher wage)

3) If the machine isn't able to run profitably, it's basically laid off. With tech its just so cheap to make a machine that you lay off alot of them. Investors want their money back sooner so need more sure things and a better machine worker. If that side gig/moonshot takes 2 years to work, thats too much since the money can be put to better use somewhere else.

4) The valuations drop since the prospect of growth with the ability to invest in new machines decreases drastically. Google for example is forced to invest in 'sure' cashflow things such as fibre and google cloud infrastructure vs stuff that takes 5-10 years to make money if it even does (Nest? DeepMind?).

Think about it really hard. Maybe you've wanted to do a side gig - SaaS app or something. If Strawberries or whatever are in shortage and suddenly cost so much and makes way more money - why put your money in the SaaS app when you could somehow source Strawberries as the side gig?
What's with the apostrophes?
You will end up either paying high premiums or handing your money to patent trolls. Neither option sounds optimal as a bootstrapped founder.
> There is certainly an admixture of manipulating the public to achieve a desired outcome (rather than leveling with the populace) and gross incompetence and callous indifference at play.

When they decided they had to skip Xi variant, it was made pretty clear that the patricians have no intention of leveling with the plebs again.
>Ironically a smart contract is probably the safest way for a customer to engage in a doubling scam.

Press F [0][1] to doubt.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/hacke...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/poly-network-hackers-potential...
> And Bir Tawil is just a worthless desert

- good military outpost
- possible mineral rights?
“The foolish crowd is accustomed to place an equal value on the good and the bad: I give it the worst, for that is what it praises.” In this manner a writer of indecent farces was wont to excuse his errors and a sly poet who heard him answered in the following way: A master gave straw to his humble ass and said to him: “Take this, since with this you are content.” He said this so many times that one day the ass became angry, and answered, “I take what you are willing to give me but, unjust man, do you think that I like nothing but straw? Give me grain and you will see whether I eat it.” Let those who work for the public know that perhaps they blame the public in vain, for if it eats straw when they give it straw, when they give it grain, it eats grain.

Tomás de Iriate, Spanish (1750-1791)
Indeed. But this site is probably a pretty typical example of the scam: https://msnews.io/#rules

I like their calculator. Very helpful.
What about royalties? I made thissongplantstrees.com . it's a 31 second spoken word track that plants trees. 100 streams = 1 tree. So far it's planted 7500 trees (with another 1000 coming this month). I would love to get some remixes made but can't split the royalties (otherwise can't afford to plant trees)
I've actually used a mortar and pestle to prepare huge quantities of pepper for evenly coating a 17-pound prime rib, so I can answer that.

First, if you use a mortar and pestle, peppercorns will randomly fly out. This is not convenient.

Second, it will take you a long-ass time. This is also not convenient.

Third, you will have basically no control over evenness of grind/crush. And that evenness helps.

I know the $200 will make many folks blanche, but I'm telling you, that all melts away once you use this thing. :)
It's basically the Nigerian Prince email, but via YouTube and with crypto for payment.

I guess another advantage of the blockchain is that you can watch marks getting suckered in near real-time?
The case numbers are meaningless due to differences in testing rates. They don't tell us anything reliable about which strategy is more effective. The actual infection numbers are way higher because most people never get tested. The only numbers that are even somewhat comparable between countries are hospitalizations and deaths.