skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. If I can take a crack at the exercise for the reader, I think the inconsistency has fairly straight forward reasons, even if they're frustrating: humans are terrible at reasoned risk analysis (if they even see the value); people prefer absolutes and easy heuristics to "it depends"; most people have first-hand experience with the extremes of smoking and drinking and it's thus easy to vilify; the best defense of vice is pleasure, which isn't much of a defense in the eyes of many, whereas exposure to pollution and cosmic rays is impossible to prevent without giving up near-universally valued things (transportation, energy).

We see similar patterns with nuclear power, climate change, and pandemics...
It is quite egregious that purchases in app stores cannot be migrated but as far as FAQ states, you don't lose access to that Google account and as such you don't lose access to the purchased content. You just lose access to the email and productivity suite. Think of the scenario where you sign up to a Google account using a Hotmail account: you can make Google apps/content purchases in that account
I'm genuinely curious - OP has commented about their direct work with pharmaceutical companies on datasets like what we're discussing. Do you have any history of direct work with similar/same datasets yourself?
Is the risk for the two even remotely in the same ballpark?
Kind of a clever name though, reminiscent as it is of androids and sheep.
Different prevalences of variants over time and different rates of infection over time would complicate such a time-based control.
Spotify is missing Spatial Audio that both Apple Music and Amazon Music supports. I might switch to Apple Music because I don't like how pushy Spotify has become with their podcast agenda and not supporting Spatial Audio.
My claim was about a combination of policies, pressure, and loss of trust, not policies alone. I don't purport to know the coefficients, but the cited studies do support my claim. I suspect the most damaging policies are unofficial--top down pressure from politicians to avoid an embarrassing incident and district attorneys who don't prosecute (why should officers risk a confrontation with a dangerous criminal if they can't trust prosecutors to keep them off the streets?).
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Not sure why you are doubling down on insisting all airlines suck, when not everyone agrees. When I was Platinum Plus (not even the highest level) AA held up a mostly-full 737 for about 25 minutes because my incoming flight was late and that was the last flight to our destination that day. I was the only person on the jetway, and they closed the cabin door before I even sat down -- in my upgraded-to-first-class seat.

Sure sometimes flying entails hassles and inconveniences but not every airline is awful and certainly not every employee lacks compassion.
In fact the jpeg doesn’t matter at all, that’s just aesthetic.

An IPFS url is a commitment to a file. It’s only the commitment that’s important really.
I have less a problem with the cut, and more a problem with how they achieve it. It harkens back to company towns paying workers in company credit that is expensive to convert to USD.
I also use dank mono and really like it. Its similar to JetBrains Mono and Roboto Mono, but a bit crisper and slightly more space efficient. Looks equally good on my Mac retina display and my Windows 1080p display.
I've discovered Iosevka a while back, and never looked back. EVERYTHING is Iosevka now. Code, terminals, editors, file managers, the whole flippin lot. I LOVE it, it's like that 80 columns mode on old apple IIs, just perfectly legible, and double the amount of data.
I now get 4 panes of terminals side-by-side on my screen, 95 columns wide (and as many rows as I'd like). Christmas!
...so far.
> but it’s pretty obvious we won’t see substantial police reform unless we defund them.

I disagree. While we can't just throw money at a problem and expect it to get better, we're going to have to invest in police far more than we have done to get real change. No one wants to live somewhere where police don't have the funds to do their job correctly. We all just want police to do their jobs correctly. That requires oversight and that requires funding.

We have to buy body cams for every officer and build/maintain the backend systems to support them, we have to pay for better training in deescalation tactics, we have to pay for better tracking of incidents and reporting, we have to pay for new hires to replace problem officers, we have to pay for independent oversight boards and community programs. There is a lot of work to do and all of it is going to require extensive funding.

Accountability is the key to reformation, not defunding. That means removing the police's ability to police themselves (something they've failed at) and having independent review boards handle minor issues while district attorneys and judges throw police behind bars for major ones. Changes are needed throughout the justice system to make this happen.

You have to invest in something to repair it, not starve it. Some reforms, like investing in mental health services, restricting civil asset forfeiture, and demilitarization will mean that some departments can get by with fewer officers and might shrink their budgets, but I suspect we'll just be spending much of what we save on oversight and training.
I forget about the "control = by character, meta/escape = by word" idea because of that. (Maybe "smaller unit vs. bigger unit" is more accurate? I dunno.)

I don't know what I'd do with that if I were actually an Emacs user, though, since I use the Option key for typing certain characters a fair amount. Although I'm sure I could remap Emacs meta to virtually anything else, because Emacs.
Apparently, maintaining a historical and cultural element such as a language is not worth spending a neglectable amount of tax money because... it doesn't provide monetary returns?
> The project was never intended to go to production

:)
Why do you mix mandates and lockdowns in there? What does it have to do with the vaccine?

If you bring lockdowns into the picture, you have to compare to what would have happened WITHOUT a lockdown as well, how many more deaths in hospitals, etc. The countries that tried this strategy have a very high excess death to compared to those that tried to limit human contacts (especially PRE vaccine).
You're confusing "forcibly intervene" with "forced to intervene".
> And raw infection counts are not an answer here as the vaccinated and unvaccinated people are clearly not matched populations you can compare...

That's the point! That's why we need controlled trials. With an unvaccinated group. You know, the thing that you say we can't have, because it's unethical.

> ...without adjustments.

As usual, there's an XKCD for that:

https://xkcd.com/2560/
My parents and grandparents drinks wine daily… every single meal (no water at their table)… have done their entire life… grandpa died at 94 due to an accident… grandma 98 and going strong… both my parents are 75 healthy and a active (always around travelling). But for them alcohol is not a drug… is a beverage that goes very well with food! They never drink for the sake of it! As long as a person sees alcohol as a recreational drug he has a problem but it must not always be the case!

P.S. we are from Southern Europe
If you liked this you should know about endemic warfare and ritualistic warfare, in the most civil examples it amounted to a very intense game apparently where they'd just raid for stuff or women without killing each other. Sicilian decade long vendeta feuds are something like endemic warfare.
> Why doesn't Quectel have any firmware downloads on their site?

The telecoms industry in general is pretty shit and does a lot of anti-user nastiness like SIM locking or other arbitrary restrictions. It is not in the their best interests to let the user get too close to the inner workings of things. Security-wise it's also often terrible and security by obscurity is still very much the norm and would be threatened by more transparency. There's also only a handful of manufacturers of the underlying modem chips (Qualcomm is the main one) and they're all in bed with the industry and perpetuate the issue, and the barriers to entry to build your own module are huge both in terms of skill, factories/equipment needed to produce the chips and patents so there's little chance for a more open competitor to step up.

> And is there any way to get them besides downloading random files posted to forums?

If you can find a production-grade device that embeds the same modem that you have, search for firmware updates for that device - chances are it may embed the firmware for the modem too, which you can extract with a bit of reverse engineering. It's not great, but at least you're still getting the firmware from a more trusted source than random forum posts.

> Is there any advantage to using QMI (`wwan0` / qmi_wwan) vs ECM (`usb0` / cdc_ether)?

If you look carefully at the `ip addr` output of QMI vs ECM you would see that the IPs you got aren't the same.

In QMI mode, the LTE interface is directly connected to your system, the 10.... IP you got is the one assigned by your carrier (I am not sure where the initial 169.254.231.106 IP it had before you established the connection came from) and your machine is directly reachable from the Internet.

In ECM mode, you are given a fake Ethernet interface that's connected to a router and NAT gateway ran by the LTE module itself; this is also where that web interface comes from. In this mode, the module's router part is the one exposed to the internet and acts as a router/firewall/NAT gateway - your computer is not directly reachable unless you use that web interface to forward a port. Given the usual "quality" of these (as you witnessed by looking at the UI) I would not be surprised if there are exploits or bugs in there.

There should also be a third mode, where the modem exposes one or more serial ports that accept AT commands and you can establish a connection over it using wvdial/pppd just like good old dial-up. This is worse than QMI mode but preferable to ECM mode as you still get your system directly connected to the internet without relying on the modem's router/gateway part.

In general, I would recommend QMI mode - it is a breath of fresh air compared to the old school way of the modem exposing multiple serial ports and having to do dial-up on it. It does require some work but it's a solved problem - for desktop Linux look into ModemManager, or alternatively look into how OpenWRT deals with it for a potentially lighter alternative.
This is not my expectation. Law, like code, can and has been patched and rewritten.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. The topic is the social behavior of octopuses. It's not always bad for HN threads to go off topic—for example if there's an unpredictable direction which is more interesting than the original topic—but it's pretty much always bad for them to go in generic, pseudo-profound directions like this. It makes discussions more predictable, and therefore more (yes) shallow.

p.s. Please don't use multiple accounts to comment in the same thread. That's abusive, and will eventually get your main account banned as well.
I mean, we (ideally) pass laws to benefit society.

I'm not somebody who really loves rules and regulations and I'll be the first person to say that America's "war on drugs" has been an utter disaster in multiple ways.

But, generally speaking, flooding a country with cocaine is not what most of us would call beneficial to society.

If you don't think that we should have a society and/or laws, cool, that's another discussion. But if you accept the premise that we should have laws, controlling the flow of industrial quantities of coca leaves seems like the good kind of law.

I mean, I guess we could just let Coca-Cola import metric tons of coca leaves, sell them to whoever the fuck they want, and then just... prosecute the people who do bad things with them? I think we would find that orders of magnitude more work and orders of magnitude less effective. There would be a large cost to society, and nobody wins except Coca-Cola, really.
It looks like from what you are saying that it's an incommensurable effort to anonymize reasonably the dataset (the majority of the risks can be hedge by bucketing, and then there can be subtle deanonymization edge cases but they don't scale).

It reminds me the FDA saying they can't release the COVID-19 documents because reviewing 44'000 documents would take 50 years.

It didn't take 50 years to produce them...

Yes there is some effort needed to anonymize reasonably the data but it's not an impossible task. It's a question of motivation.

Here, clearly, the labs and administration don't really want to put efforts into that.
Also a layperson, but I think there's been a lot of FOMO involved as well as a lot of magical thinking combined with a lack of good places to put money that have been keeping this market going. Sure iBonds are a great place to put money now, but you're limited to $10K/year and you can't put money from retirement accounts into iBonds - If I could I'd be putting it all in iBonds right now. How about real estate? Well, that looks bubbly too especially since mortgage rates are pretty much guaranteed to rise.
It was fascinating to watch tweets of people seeing the anomalous barometric pressure spikes pass through as the shockwave circled the earth.
If "payout per stream" is an important metric to you, then Apple Music is still the wrong choice though. Just like Spotify their payout per stream is still only mediocre. Tidal pays about twice as much per stream compared to Apple Music and Napster pays three times as much!
The first video reveals a more general issue that is not specific to Roblox: child labor in the marketplace of monetized user generated content. There are plenty of under-18 YouTubers. It's not even just online content: these questions came up in the entertainment industry a long time ago, but in that industry at least some safeguards were put in place.
Take a look at Firestore / Google Cloud Datastore. It's pretty much exactly what you describe - fire and forget. There's no concept of "node" (at least not from the outside).
There's no drift, OP stated this clearly in the original post when he wrote: "I strongly believe there is enough information to re-identify patients"

If you were to have access to my MRIs you could almost certainly identify me based on physical characteristics which can be seen in my MRI data which would correlate with data found on social media where I've sometimes generally discussed my medical conditions without going into specifics. There are MRIs for conditions I haven't discussed, in addition to the identifying ones I have.

There are a lot of people with fairly unique medical conditions and body situations (eg: missing a limb, surgical implants). The gap between "I got hurt in this way" and "here's the MRI scans of my body in detail along with other lab notes and other unrelated and possibly extremely embarrassing conditions" is huge
This is pretty interesting - even more so if we might see it in mainstream desktop and mobile ARM chips from the likes of Apple et al..
> As an outsider, I always imagined Google treated their DevOps people with the same disdain they reserve for their customers and contract employees.

This seems like an odd conclusion. SRE as a role was pioneered by Google (like they literally wrote the book on it https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/) and they treat it better than most other companies (on-call is compensated and waking hours only, among other things).

There are problems with Google's SRE culture, but "thankless" and "like contract employees" are not valid descriptors.
By this train of logic, Greece should bulldoze the Acropolis and turn it into a hotel.
Exactly. They DID make adjustments to not give Moderna/AstraZeneca to younger people because they had the side effect data and compared it to the risk of getting COVID and realized that Pfizer was probably better at mitigating those risks

Another clear case of someone implying totally crazy things (younger folks without the vaccine would have been better without the vaccine) with absolutely NOTHING to support it.
Its not a lie, it can still be e2ee as a protocol - thats stored client side in plaintext. If that client uploads it unencrypted... that's their fault. (conceptually).

I think its only a lie in that apple has it upload by default (opt-out) which means as you pick it up from a store, its not e2ee, even though minor setting changes (one boolean button?) can make it real e2ee.

Everything is "effectively plaintext" if anyone can actually read it. You could screenshot your texts, and that ruins encryption. And obviously in a multi-person setting any weak link ruins it for all.

Personally, i'm disappointed its opt-out not opt-in, but i think plaintext backup and easy backups are a net-good for the users, even at expense of e2ee. Most customers don't need e2ee, but many will need backups. That said, i think most data, especially texts, could benefit with auto-deletion of old content. Some things don't need to live forever online.
It is relevant because if we are dealing with a poisson-like distribution the chances of the event happening is greater over a longer time-span. We don’t know what distribution nuclear strikes and accidents occur with. It may very well be a distribution similar to Russian roulette. If it is, we really really shouldn’t risk it any further.

That is the flaw in your logic. It is assuming a favorable distribution when the distribution is unknown.
NATO will not agree to your proposed "deal". But they just might agree to a deal that says: "Evil Ukrainian nationalists have been using the prospect of the Ukraine's NATO membership as propaganda, in ways that disrespect NATO's founding principles as outlined in the Treaty. To deter them and as a reaction to that, we will not be accepting the Ukraine as a full NATO member for the next X [e.g. twenty] years, although we might cooperate with them in other ways short of full membership. We will also be respecting a buffer zone in the Donbass for that same time period, and will not be conducting any operations there, if Russia and the Ukraine agree to the same." This is also a kind of deal that would be very problematic for Putin to not accept! It is more humiliating for the West and Ukraine than much of what has been proposed so far, which is what Russians seem to like. So if Putin rejects it, he might lose a lot of his popularity.
Nothing that we pay for with our taxes provides a monetary return. That doesn't mean we should waste money, especially in a country like Spain.
> requires you to forcibly intervene

They are under no such requirement as shown by the citation.
Sorry about that. It was, as jjulius said, the combination of SF and "office" theme that I thought would fit.
But what about Matt Finestone?
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> That's an unanswered question (crime is complicated), but there are probably many factors, not least of all that people get arrested for misdemeanors and then they're found with felony amounts of drugs or weapons and thus removed from the street.

Being in jail doesn't stop homicides. In fact they have more homicides than the general population.

> It's not his analysis, he's reporting on the findings of studies.

It's both. If you read the studies, while in the abstract they purport to establish a causal link, they don't back that up in their methodology. Lehman combines this into a greater analysis.

> He doesn't profess that belief in the article.

He professes a causal link between police _protests_ and increased homicides, finishing his article with "But it does give support to those who propose a relationship between 2020’s wave of anti-police protests and the ensuing homicide wave still sweeping the country—and to those who believe that continued hostility to the police will lead to more bloodshed."

> The article posits that as a factor as well (specifically that loss of trust in policing leads to less cooperation from the community).

While calling out protests specifically as being causal wrt to homicide rate.

> "Your" model also requires us to believe that the evidence of decreased proactive policing is merely a coincidence, which is hard for me to stomach. I don't doubt that the loss of trust contributed, but I only think this is the "fault" of policing as an institution to the extent that the activist and media narrative is accurate (which is to say, "not very").

No, police not doing the basics of their job while still overall increasing their budgets, and particularly arbitrarily and capriciously enforcing the law would be a major factor in loss of confidence in the justice system. I'm not saying that it's a coincidence; I'm saying that it's part of the model. If you can't rely on police to respond reported crime, then you start handling disputes person to person. Meanwhile with budgets continuing to increase _and_ police not doing their jobs, any semblance of social safety nets disappear. That's the point of "defund the police", noticing that they refuse to do the basics of their job, and in fact the goal of using them as a catchall for all sorts of social services failed, so put that portion of the budget back into more productive uses.
This is the PR for the freelist improvement from that alibaba article: https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt/pull/141

Just to be clear, we are talking about this item from the post-mortem right?

> We are working closely with HashiCorp to deploy a new version of Consul that replaces BoltDB with a successor called bbolt that does not have the same issue with unbounded freelist growth.

EDIT: I see what you mean. The freelist improvement has to be enabled by setting the `FreelistType` config to "hashmap" (default is "array"). Indeed it doesn't look like consul has done that...
People are notoriously bad at observing/examining their own behavior and mental states, although it is possible. But those people would probably be better served with a pharmacological anxiety treatment or therapy
See the demo page for example applications of inside out tracking and virtual metrology.

https://github.com/markisus/pytagmapper/blob/main/DEMO.md
It's also a tale of reckless vanity.
yeah i could see how that can be annoying. maybe muting accounts with in their posts would help
Doing Always Naturally Great
This dosing suggestion is probably good for a lot of people, but for some, that initial "take a few puffs" could be way too much.
FAQ: What's happening with 5G and airport safety?
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Great idea!
It's still the go to format for prepress.