skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focusing on the date aspect for a minute: is it possible to adjust the data (before the deidentification process) and convert relevant absolute dates into durations? For example, is it possible (and is it useful) to adjust the data so that it says something like "patient abc123 entered the study in 2021 and 83 days after receiving a vaccine they showed started to show symptoms. Symptoms ended 3 days later"
No, it's proof that you are already in hell.
This is pretty amazing. I'm exhausted after flying for an hour, let alone weeks. Really, really hats off to her.

If you've got a bit of spare time, you might like this video series, which features a bunch of young US male pilots flying across the Atlantic in a small GA plane. It is quite an interesting journey. And no, there isn't a toilet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Uf-ynoDUE&list=PLoruKoPAfK...
Hmm... looks like fake receipts.

For the claim "Alcohol consumption increases the risk of CVD", they cite the following paper, which actually shows statistically significant reductions in CVD from 75 to 150 g/wk.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29676281/#&gid=article-figur...
The person you're responding to is not exactly wrong. But since the users dropped to 0 pretty quickly it's likely that every team with any monitoring at all got paged. At least that's what would happen at the moderately large company I work for.
The children at my wife’s daycare are treated the same way (vectors of disease) by a selection of paranoid parents, inciting fear to the point that daycare closed last week. My toddler was crying a lot, wanting to see his friends.

Who are we making these sacrifices for?
I feel so conflicted about this.
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We've changed to the HTML doc title above. Submitted title was "Teen fly solo around globe".
iOS leaks requests around the VPN, sadly. I don't run an LTE base station and I don't have a jailbroken device, so I can't tell you how much, but I do know that with a VPN enabled and set to always, I get mobile-network IP DNS queries to my DNS server (not sent via VPN).

iOS is not a privacy-focused OS.

Having a discrete device means you can also connect multiple mobile devices via Wi-Fi on the same SIM, and do your own monitoring/filtering of traffic (such as blocking all unencrypted DNS, and installing DoH profiles on devices, or running an unencrypted-dns-to-DoH forwarding proxy).
So that next time they can spend 96 hours on recovery, this time adding a split brain issue to the list of problems to deal with. Jokes aside, the write-up is quite good after after thinking about all the problems they had to deal with, I was quite humbled.
IMO the fact that it's impossible to have a state without "doubleness" and professional politicians is not an argument that idealistic approach to politics is wrong per se, but rather the argument that all states are fundamentally broken systems that have to be dismantled in the long term for us to make further meaningful progress in politics.
Yeah, there are certain unicode chars that I use a lot because they are convenient: option-; => …, option-shift-dash => —, option-0 => º, option-G => ©, option-M => µ, option-2 => ™, option-+ => ±. But most of the emacs conflicting ones aren't super useful to me, so I think I can live with them gone: ∑ƒ∂˜π∫†ç¬
There is such a thing as being unnecessarily and overly cautious, however. This sure seems like a good example of that.
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So that is your belief, your words, not theirs. What are they actually saying?
Nope, if it starts spinning it means you have a tank to fill (toilets, water heater, etc), or a system to pressurize (hundreds of feet of pipe). In the minutes required to do this, you could be leaking gallons into a wall.

Why do you think a burst pipe will flow at or above the rate of a single toilet fill? Sometimes it might, but some frozen pipe bursts create very small breaches in the pipe wall. A tiny, steady stream inside a wall will barely if at all register on the spinner, and might not be audible at the valve. But it could cause a lot of damage.
You're right that silverware will tarnish much more quickly because of the addition of copper (and possibly other metals) -- so a bad example from me. But whilst pure silver is much more resilient to tarnishing, it will still slowly tarnish because even normal indoor air is prone to contain trace amounts of gasses with sulfur like hydrogen sulfide, which will react with the silver. Whereas I don't think pure gold does.

My guess would also be that most people who had school chemistry would order the silver, gold and platinum correctly in terms of their relative reactivity (and value) because this replicates exactly the order of fanciness of credit cards, record sales etc.
Rust is great for reliable production systems, for sure, but for 'let's quickly prototype this new feature', it’s too strict. Imagine figuring out a perfect algorithm and spending a few hours implementing it just to be told by the borrow checker it won’t let it pass.

When this new features start to queue up I’m happy to have leaks as long as I get to try out ideas quickly (later you hardened them). And it’s hard to convince Rust to let it go.

Maybe it's my inexperience with Rust, definitely need to give it a second try for more than three weeks but haven't had a good reason to do so.

I don't like Java at all and prefer Clojure when on the JVM, but as you said, the Java ecosystem(libraries get the job done) and the GC are definitely good reasons to pick it up for a webapps.
> especially in a country like Spain.

especially while Spain continues to waste money on entertainment consisting of animal cruelty
You’ll find something very interesting about the mean center of population in the US (Texas County, MO). It’s the point from which the Delta wave of the pandemic emanated.

https://covidestim.org/
Just curious, what industry specifically do you work in? I find it odd that you spend this much time trying to convince me it's a customer's fault their $150 monthly bill is suddenly $20,000.
After developing some intuition for relativity you realize that asking whether FTL is possible is more akin to asking whether you can remain inside a circle after traveling radius + 1 from the center, than it is to asking whether a car can be modded to exceed its top speed. It is nonsensical, not logically coherent within all currently known physics and it goes to the fundamental nature of motion itself.

It can't be ruled out, but neither can Russell's Teapot.
It's almost as though repeatedly raising prices increases revenue at the cost of subscriber numbers. Wild.
actions > words
Yep I agree, that's my point!
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You aren't "modelling the world." You're trying to substitute some quick logic, instead, which just doesn't work for the vast majority of real world problems. You have to imagine yourself in the future to get the right answer, but you won't. Why do people avoid this?

In my experience, because anxiety. A little quick logic doesn't bring up emotions in anything like the way literally putting yourself into imagined scenarios and walk-throughs does, particularly ones where everything doesn't go right. I share this in some ways, due to a nasty childhood; but I have a friend who has racked up a lifetime of very bad decisions from bad marriages to dead pets, which continue on every month, every day 'cause there's no way in hell she's gonna imagine nuttin', never. Needless to say, her childhood was probably nastier than mine.

A few months ago, when I delivered a radiant heater to her apartment when she had COVID-19, she spoke to me, thanking me from just behind the door right as I put the heater in front of her door just a foot away, with windows open in her apartment blowing air out around the door. Goodbye to a couple weeks for me. Logic, no visual imagination or other simulation 'cause it made her too anxious. She literally didn't grok that I was inches away or could be. Just used some logic about politeness. I was stunned she was within 10 feet of that door. I never would have been. I use my visual imagination in life and death situations, at least; and I'm slowly expanding how much I'm willing to use it.

See ffggh and "simulation," here. Same point, but they said it quicker.
Just curious, do you have anything particularly embarrassing to share? Easy to say when everyone on Tinder can’t Google your name and get “alcoholic with herpes”. I would also be open to share if there was tangible benefit today because I’m healthy. But in the future who knows.
With such chauvinistic attitude there is "no clear benefit" for tourists to visit Spain and leave money, that adds to taxes.

There is a Georgian saying for this type of behaviour: do not disgrace your whole nation(with your personal arrogant attitude).
Ages ago, while debugging some zxing oddness I came across a routine in there called 'isProbabllyURL' which was mangling some of my non-URL data into URLs. It was keyed off of a '.' in the decoded text, like basically a regex of /\w+\.\w+/
Ummm… no. In IRB applications and informed consent documents you have to be very clear and specific about who you might share their data with under what circumstances. And these documents tend to be legally binding.

So this editorial is kind of nutty. To give you an idea, this is kind of like asking banks to release customer account data to the public.
The correction calculation here is based on a price-to-revenue* multiple, not on an outright price reduction.

My read is “revenues are finally coming in to support the previously very frothy valuations”. That doesn’t seem like a terrible state of affairs overall.

* - edited: previously said price-to-earnings
I recommend https://www.amazon.com.br/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-H...

It has concrete points to focus when debugging and a bunch of examples for each. And it's easy to read as an introduction to the subject.
Sick and tired of the big banks? Why not put your money with people who are just as unethical, but also less competent?
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Perhaps more of an encoding performance issue on the host computer?
My understanding is that it varied based on the level of local resource scarcity.
They have the right to opt out of any given encounter, but the gist of law enforcement is intervening as you well know. Anyway, word lawyering is dreadfully boring and it seems that’s all you have to offer so I’m ducking out.
Digital artists already get paid, primarily via paypal and patreon. (including internationally)

I know this because I pay my digital artists already, primarily via paypal and patreon. (including internationally)

I also know this because I have friends who are digital artists who receive payments for goods and services, primarily via paypal and patreon. (including internationally)

It's an outsider view that artists have any serious payment problem outside of a tendency to set their prices too low out of modesty/imposter syndrome. (which is a common problem for many kinds of independent contractors)
Right, but the day before the outage, they enabled streaming for a service that didn't have it turned on. That's a discrete config change, the day before the outage.
Seems like a bunch of people throwing a tamper tantrum to me. "I can't get away with all the shit that I used to get away with, so I'm going to throw a fit".
Apparently since US citizens were onboard, the US has standing to seek the officials' arrest.

The DOJ press release has a lot of additional details:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/belarusian-government-o...
The route is interesting: https://flyzolo.com/route/

I can understand some of the latitude changes to reach shorter ocean crossings, but it looks like the route was stretched in various places to touch more countries. Very cool journey.
You don't need to "compete with Disney"; and quite honestly I consider that to be a bad way to think about the production of creative works. If you think about production that way, then it just becomes a budget measuring game, and everyone in the industry winds up producing largely similar mass-market works. Producers like doing this because it boils down the complex process of actually making a movie, book, or game down into whoever is the best capitalist. The problem is that the people who are here for just Disney are just going to buy Disney, and ignore whatever competing product you churn out.

The best way to compete with Disney is to offer something they aren't (and, ideally, couldn't).

In the case of streaming services, many of the countries I mentioned before actually condition local market access on having a certain percentage of original works produced in that country. This is why Netflix has a lot of foreign-language originals; they need to meet that national production quota and the easiest way to do that is to just fund a lot of lower-budget productions.[0] Of course, these kinds of laws also put Hacker News into apoplectic fits, and it's also the same bullshit China pulls to get cultural influence in Hollywood; so I'm not going to try and sing their virtues too much.

Thing is, Sweden (or any of the other countries that regularly import most of their culture from America) doesn't need their own Disney. Nor do they need cultural protection laws or a bunch of anglohostile novelists[1]. They just need novelists, in general. Lots of them, and writing works exclusively in Swedish. Cultivating your own literary culture makes it more likely that some of those works will find international success[2], because the kinds of people who read lots of books or watch lots of movies are suckers for novelty.

[0] My current impression, which may be wrong, is that this is how we got Squid Game.

[1] Related note: France acts like the Red Sox of the former brutal colonists club sometimes, and I really find it irksome.

[2] ex. Nobody in the Anglosphere cared or even knew about Polish literature or game development until The Witcher.
> FTL travel breaks physics

Like quantum mechanics broke physics?
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I can't wait until they announce that DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) is unsafe because it can so easily lead to death in children and adults. Perhaps no amount of DHMO is safe.

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
I'm not 100% certain about this, but my initial thoughts are that low socio-economic backgrounds will have less medical treatment (especially preventative) so issues aren't caught as quickly meaning you'll have more health issues at the same consumption rates. Other stats such as higher socio-economic backgrounds tending to eat more healthy foods, exercise more, have a greater ability to have a fruitful social life etc, will all be additional factors.
That's admirable, but participants may not share your feelings and they have rights.
I've got severe problems with this posting on multiple levels.

First, the Twitter thread is, as Twitter threads are, entirely insufficient to express nuance or comprehensiveness. The linked slide deck (in Danish) is similarly quite short on details. Its references are also largely unsatisfactory.

The whole presentation reads as if it's by someone who derived their conclusions, then plotted their research. Phrasing and framing ignores obvious evidence of real-world problems. If Petersen were a doctor, he'd be the type to whom a patient clearly suffering, or dying from, some unknown malady might present, to which Petersen would run a standard battery of tests, all inconclusive, and declare: "There's nothing wrong with you, all the lab results are negative."

If there are real-world problems --- disinformation dominatiting truth, spreading and persisting far more readily, political and genocidal disruptions occurring around the world, mental health epidemics coinciding with the adoption of social media amongst populations, and similar such issues --- then at best we can show that the specific research was either focused on the wrong elements, or performed inadequately.

The fact that changes in media profoundly change societies is well established, and dates back within historical records to the emergence of writing and mathematics. It all but certainly extends to narrative and language as well. Printing, literacy, mass-media, advertising-funded serials, telegraph and telephone, radio, mass recorded media, television, cable distribution, Internet, and mobile algorithmic social media have all left their imprints, quite often in war and genocide.

See Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy and Elizabeth Eisenstein The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, for an overview of that thesis.

How, and why, Petersern comes to his conclusions concerns me greatly.
> Some of the stuff that was stolen was paid for by hard working law abiding Americans.

A stirring description of this mythical group. If you pay Amazon for something and it's stolen in transit, Amazon still owes it to you. You don't lose anything.

> Insurance premiums will go up and guess who's footing the bill...

UP will foot the bill.

Regardless, we should work to reduce crime, including against UP. But jailing innocent people because they are poor or minorities is not a solution, and hasn't worked in the past. Do you want to return to that?
To be honest, a better analogy is that the genetic code is an image of the disk drive, and we do understand the ISA of the processor it's running on. We have no clue what the operating system is, though, nor do we understood the boot process, nor do we even understand what the equivalent of the ELF file format is for this machine.
I'm a biochemist, and I'm as pro-vaccine as they come. The BMJ is a highly reputable journal.

It's unfortunate that the anti-vaxx idiots are misinterpreting or decontextualizing their content, but that's the anti-vaxx's fault and it's what they've always done.
Oh, just to add that

let b: uint = uint(a)

# can be written as:
let b = uint(a)

The type is inferred from the right hand side during assignment. The only reason I wrote this

let b: uint = a

is because in my example `a` was an `int`, so

let b = a

Would infer an `int` type for `b`, which compiles fine, and doesn't show the type mismatch I wanted to present.
> That's pretty much the central principle of anarchism (the political philosophy and practice, not the colloquial slur). Dismissing it as "impractical" is a bit premature - it's a concept well grounded in ethnological examples, and there have been plenty of very cool modern social experiments.

Would those examples entail a large reduction in social/technological complexity? The world has billions more people than would allow a return to hunter-gatherer or small-scale agriculture type societies.

Also I don't think something being a "central principle" of a political philosophy necessarily means it shouldn't be dismissed. I read some article about anarcho-capitalism once, and the whole thing struck me as something that may be conceivable or even realizable in principle, like Oganesson [1], bit simultaneously so impractically unstable that it might as well be treated as impossible.

> In any case, it's conceptually useful to orient vis a vis hierarchy in this more general way, even if the "full realization" is difficult to imagine achieving.

Yeah, it makes more sense to me to use it as a yardstick than as a map to someplace you can actually go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson
I'm not sure that's the only people that use TPG, but maybe it's the largest audience, I guess they know it better.
You didn't read it properly. The changes were rolled out months before, but the switch to streaming based on that rollout was made 1 day before the incident. That was the root cause.
https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/ brings me to something called "Comparison Edition". I was looking for a straight JS version with editable/executable code, and found it at the link named "Interactive SICP JS" (which takes you to https://sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/index)

The in-line editor is a bit intrusive (fills up most of my screen, unlike say eloquentjavascript.net) but it's still pretty neat to have run-able examples. Kudos to the creators.
We're working together with the maintainers of various distros now to first of all avoid this mess on the pinephone pro, and then on the longer term fix up pinephone in mainline.
Err you're right, they re-used something that implemented the Dynamo paper (Riak) and implemented on top of it the DynamoDB API.
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You will know when a patient visits a study site from the deidentified data. At minimum they will have two visits for shots and a follow-up for a blood draw. You'll also know at least their approximate age and sex. Publicly available location trace databases and purchase histories are probably enough to match a lot of the trial participants.
"There are no databases that you can link against if you strip out the major identifiers"

Isn't that provably untrue? https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/with-a-few-bits-of...
"Nothing that we pay for with our taxes provides a monetary return."

What? Roads, schools, subsidised healthcare. Even the next sentence is a non-sequitur. You're talking crap.
This is the wrong kind of approachable, because you have to learn a ton of random web things before you do anything outside the repl and before your program can even process user input and then people struggle with those two concepts that would be trivial to them if they could be introduced earlier.

Having seen what having javascript as a first language does to first year students I can't understand why this is considered a good idea.
You can't really draw conclusions about systems built on Linux vs seL4 from that though. You can have far more IPC in order to do anything useful in microkernels. I'm not dismissing either OS or architecture, but just saying that extrapolating from micro-metrics is very hard when their use in the different architectures varies significantly.
This is the way. Been in the process of setting up an XMPP server for me, my friends, and my family, to move away from Telegram. I like Telegram from a UI and functionality perspective, but there's too much trust involved.

If you're a normal person and don't have the knowledge or drive to set up an XMPP server, I would say Signal is probably one of the best secure chat clients at the moment.
> WhatsApp is also pretty good at that job

Definitely not. And the US does have pretty decent mobile internet.

> Also, who still prefers to make a call in this day and age?

People who have their social anxiety under control. When I was younger I wanted to talk to the opposite sex on the phone so I could hear their voice and flirt with them. Maybe the younger generation gets turned on by emojis and memes?
> having an open dataset of MRI pictures with the age of the patient, history of diseases would considerably help and there is no way you can link it back

Facial recognition works perfectly fine on MRI face renders. You speak awfully confidently about a problem you seem to have very little experience in.

As with cryptography: Anyone can come up with suggestion that they themselves can't find an attack against.
As someone else said, your math is off. Your point is still reasonable, though.

The uptime.is website is a handy resource for these calculations. For example, http://uptime.is/99.9 says

"SLA level of 99.9 % uptime/availability results in the following periods of allowed downtime/unavailability:

Daily: 1m 26s
Weekly: 10m 4s
Monthly: 43m 49s
Quarterly: 2h 11m 29s
Yearly: 8h 45m 56s"
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