skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not blood samples that are positive for antigen, but blood samples that contain covid-19 reactive antibodies.

Now, cross-reactive antibodies is a thing, so I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to these number unless they can show that e.g. blood from 2017 had much less covid-19-reactive antibodies than the blood from 2019.
Nope. Your whatever device is probably limited by the hardware it has and could never theoretically get that speed no matter how close it is.

Even WiFi routers advertise their maximum "capacity" as someone noted in another comment, which refers to the bandwidth they can support when multiple devices are connecting at the same time (and they usually add up their 2.4GHz performance to the 5.0GHz performance, so you'd have to be having devices of both types to achieve the maximum advertised).

And only then you start worrying about how close you are :)
Another argument is in regular expressions, where you can see that concatenation distributes over alternation: A(B|C) is the same regex as AB|AC.
PCs only happened because Compaq managed to screw IBM and with it created the clone market.

Had IBM been able to prevent it (and they did try with PS/2 and MCA when the courts failed), there wouldn't be PCs as we know it, rather like every other 16 bit computer of the time.
If this is correct, people having antibodies, then it would be even more interesting, imho.
But the symptoms of covid are very similar to e.g. the flu, and this would make you and your partner some of the first people on Europe to have had covid (given exponential increase in case counts it cannot have circulated for long before early 2020). My prior on anybody having covid in Europe in Dec 2019 is extremely low, I think yours should be too - just having been really sick is no evidence at all.
The better stat would be how many applications rejected they are a regulator their job is to stop those that don't meet the standards. I think many western kids of today complaining about goverment regulations should go and live a few years in a few 3rd world/Devolping countries. This is the main reason though I am pro nuclear I don't believe it can be source of electricity for the world in the near future. Not because of the tech but that it will be run by humans. Enough Humans are self serving greedy assholes that put nuclear tech in hands of everyone is impossible.
Yes! This really sums it up - they have their place, but it takes experience and good judgement to know where they are appropriate, and how to divide up concerns.
Have you checked your phone for malware?
I have a very crappy phone, a 120$ samsung, and I don't struggle that much.

Have you tried using an adblocker?
Nobody should be running tls1.1 only (and incapable of opportunistically negotiating for 1.2 or 1.3 instead) on their public facing httpd in 2022, I disabled everything below 1.2 on some rather high traffic websites several years ago with zero impact.
- LineageOS images are usually released for years after a phone's official Android support is dropped. Just ditch your official Android image for LineageOS, and most people won't even notice the difference.

- If you're more brave and Linux-inclined, you may also opt for PostmarketOS.

- Next time, avoid buying hardware released by Google. Those guys are religiously following the Apple book when it comes to hardware: premium stuff with high profit margins, that gets deprecated within 3 years so they can just reiterate. If you buy Google products, you are funding planned obsolescence.
One way to date a post is to copy the url into https://archive.org/.

But I've shared similar frustrations, yes.
I have absolutely no insider knowledge.

However, we have seen lots of incidents where the actual problem is that we'd relied upon something that seems like it should be true and actually isn't. So what about a situation where an HTTPS server accepts tls-alpn-01 validation attempts but actually it has no idea what tls-alpn-01 validation even is ? Maybe it takes some (or all?) TLS extensions and just pretends to accept them.

On a bulk host I think you could abuse that to get "validated" despite having only a very tangential relationship (sharing an IP address) to the validated name, similar to the problem with previous TLS based validation methods.

The draft RFC for tls-alpn-01 says TLS 1.2 is mandatory, so, while that might be unrelated, it also might be that there's a bunch of servers out there which get this wrong but don't speak TLS 1.2 and the expectation is that nobody will upgrade them to speak TLS 1.2 but still get this wrong (or maybe for other reasons their misbehaviour means they'll catch fire in TLS 1.2)
And still, even though I pay for the TomTom app on my phone I have switched back to using google maps as default: It loads way quicker, and I only have to type a few letters and it suggests what I meant (even if i made a few typo's). Search is almost instant. Traffic information is good enough. And I can quickly load a satellite picture if the destination is unknown and it is e.g. unclear which side of the lot the entrance is on.

TomTom has better traffic information, way better guidance on complex roads (google maps will tell me to take the exit, and it small font it says 2400m, which is the next exit). It has better traffic cam warnings, shows max speed more reliably etc.

But also it is slow and clumsy to search for a destination, especially if you do not have the exact address (like a shop by name).

As I have practically unlimited data and good coverage everywhere I go, offline maps are more of a drag than a plus. Just saw amigo mentioned, will check that out now
EU cancels antitrust fine of € 1.06B on Intel [pdf]
I’d imagine it’s a little bit of both to be honest.

There’s definitely algorithmic prioritisation for new content but I think it’s also a bit of a “seek and ye shall find” moment happening.

As an anecdote, very recently I had the opposite thing happening. I was researching something about React and noticed one of the comments ( still applicable actually! ) was from 2015. My head exploded when I realised 2015 is actually 7 years ago so for a short time afterwards I just kept noticing old comments or old content everywhere.
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Tomtom is selling data to businesses that require raw map data to build their own apps like ride haling service, delivery service, etc..
Yes, many people don’t even read the manual when they can’t get something to work. Expecting everyone to look up how to solve problems they can seemingly ignore is simply not how many people are wired.
Jokes on him, China today has a nearly 90% home ownership rate, same with the ussr of old
> although I never seen it used in production

Well, of course boost has it, they use `<` and `>`:

[1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_78_0/libs/hof/doc/html/incl...
It sounds strange to me, too. I grew up pretty poor in the US, and we always took at least one family vacation per year. Often, it was a camping trip or the like. Sometimes, it was a visit to a city or national park. My parents were very, very frugal. We almost never had new clothes. I guess it was just a matter of what they prioritized. Looking back on it all, I’d say they got just about everything right.
Abortion is largely accepted by Catholic scholars if there is, otherwise, a high risk of death. That doesn't mean all Catholic medical practitioners would carry out such an operation. I don't think the respect is misplaced.
Haskell also supports using any old function as an infix function by putting backtics around it, for instance (x `div` y). It’s a nifty feature that can improve code readability (especially in more mathematical contexts) when used well, I wish more languages had it.
I don't. I have much more control over my assets whereas a corrupted government can seize my assets from a bank under their authority.
> I'd trust SpiderMonkey much more because it's battle-tested in the most hostile environment imaginable

Enough OSes are behind and everyone using spidermonkey is unable to keep up with the porting requirements in the short window of ESR overlap so you can read vulnerabilities for the latest ESR and apply them to everyone. It would be nice if duktape had complete sandboxing, etc, but it has the advantage that hackers have to do all their own research to mount an attack.
None of these can fix security issues in the binary blobs provided by the chipset manufacturer. And since this includes display drivers a security issue in the binary blobs is open season for every App on your phone.

If an App or website has access to an API backed by a binary blob supplied by the hardware vendor then keeping Android itself up to date will not protect you.

(Has anyone tried to exploit an old Android phone via WebGL? I’d presume that it’s feasible to exploit display driver bugs that way, which makes browsing the web on a phone without current security support problematic.)
It makes me shudder as well, the first thing that comes to mind is the paperclip maximizer - https://terbium.io/2020/05/paperclip-maximizer/.
Actual study: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...

Original press release: https://www.ahus.no/nyheter/koronaviruset-kan-ha-vert-i-norg...

Google translated version: https://www-ahus-no.translate.goog/nyheter/koronaviruset-kan...
This video is a good overview of the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d8svvqX1c0
This is absolutely true in many cases. If I had myself to pay £2000 for journal submission, no way. But it comes out of research funds. And that in turn comes from whoever funds the University – government, or student fees.
look who's having a bad day :)
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Despite Nietzsche himself citing old stoics in nearly every publication he made. He even adapted the old "Armor Fati" as his personal credo. You or the guy who made the comic should read at least "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" instead of quoting him badly. How do you live a dangerous life in constant fear?

"Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky."
-Nietzsche
Thanks for the tip!

Don’t know the guy/blog but looks interesting!

Also, I kinda miss the early 10’s where everyone was slightly less insane. This guy’s writing reminds me of those days!
> What matters is that everyone in a society has their needs met.

Well, if they are not having an income stream then they very well are not having their needs met given that engagement with the economic system for the delivery of needs has as a prerequisite that the individual or entity have a baseline level of monetary spending ability
Yes both Space ( in terms of 8x8 antenna+, ) and Cost. There is also the question of needs. Even Laptop are now going back to 2x2. With WiFi 6E, on a 2x2 you get 2.4Gbps max ( With 6Ghz Spectrum ), on WiFi 7 this get up to ~5.76Gbps. I know this isn't real world speed but I think it shouldn't be hard to achieve 1Gbps+ real world in half decent scenario. Which is plenty for Smartphone.

Broadcom also stopped making 4x4 WiFi chip, mostly because there isn't a market for it. It remains to be seen if Mediatek wants to test WiFi 4x4 Market again.

And to clarify to my original post ( cant edit any more ), I mean 4x4 antenna on LTE / 5G in iPhone 11+, not 4x4 on WiFi iPhone 5G.
This simple 20 seconds video was far better than hundreds of those link. I mean I couldn't visualize the whole set up and orientation and this video made things crystal clear.
Most people think that the process of moving is like a piece of cake, and they can handle the task without any professional guidance. But this is not true. When you choose the guidance of moving company in St. Catharines, you’re free from massive complexities. Several variables come into play while making this decision, such as how much money you have to work with and how much time you have to spare.
Note this article is just a rehash of a Sputnik article. Sputnik is the prime example of a propaganda outlet and well known for pushing wrong, madr up or heavily biased and unreflective articles (also known as 'fake news' in the original sense of lies and deception, rather than the modern American 'things I don't like are fake news' sense).

I have not read the original paper so cannot comment on substance, but don't believe a word of this.
I was referring to the fact is that Internet has become a basic infrastructure this days and people just use it. They don't ask or understand "where does it come from". They just use it. When you are born into something ("digital natives" as some call them) you don't even consider how it used to be. Current state is normal for you. This is your starting point and you build upon it. Same as electricity, you turn the switch and the light is on.

I had a black and white TV with no remote for most of my child hood. I remember it with nostalgy but I don't miss it. I had a TV with cathode tube until some 4 years ago. Then I switched to LCD TV but I had LCD monitor for some 16-17 years at the same time.
(OK, fair. It's of course not "really high-quality" compared to the top-grade stuff where they roast the beans in-house and all. It is surprisingly good, though, and comparable in quality to many smaller cafes.)
There are hundreds of similar diseases, in particular in the set of flu strains that are endemic. These can hit you hard with very similar symptoms.
When I lived in Morocco, the prices went down the longer I shopped with particular market vendors. The first time I bought oranges, for example, they were eye-wateringly expensive. As I became a regular buyer, the price gradually dropped until they were a fraction of the original cost. (It would probably have been cheaper to begin with if I'd haggled, but I am not great at that sort of interaction).
Pigs are already similar enough to humans that there are major risks from parasites; I don't think the small modifications we've seen so far would significantly increase prion risk.
> Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings.

Thank you. I will add that to my list of fantastically bad quotes.
>>Why not?

I'm not going to play this game. When someone says something is baseless, the onus is on you to show the substance behind the claim.

Asking "why not" is not even relevant to the statement.
> (I will avoid the more complicated subject of the maid...)

I'm really curious now. Why is the maid a more complicated subject?
Is there any evidence to this? Why is browsing the internet so bad for motivation?
Relative poverty is a pretty old and standard way of defining poverty. Adam Smith, for example:

> “A linen shirt … is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct.”
Having visited Amsterdam, but mostly the tourist bits, I'm curious: where do reasonably paid tech professionals live in that city? Can you give me some examples of areas to look up?
This is an insane proportion and the virus would have been picked up much earlier in a place like Norway which does lots of testing and flu sampling.
1995 webmasters unite!
I mean, given the depreciation on most new cars, it doesn't make sense to buy a new car in a lot of cases. But it depends on various factors like how much do you drive, does your employer compensate you for driving, how much maintenance does a used vs a new car need, etc.

Note that this is a very eurocentric viewpoint coming from someone who only has a car for shopping and family visits.

In my previous job I had a lease car from my employer, that made a bit more sense then given how much I had to drive.
> Maybe we actually need a better CA.

Go for it. Start one and tell us how it went.
Hah yes if I can't see a publish date on something I often look for something else. Not saying things need to be formatted/sorted by publish date (which I think is grandparent's actual point) but definitely it helps with contextualising content.
>>No, that's literally choosing between the least bad authoritarian entity available for oneself.

You're misdefining "authoritarian". Nothing I described in that example is authoritarian.

>>So let's push democracy into the economic sphere as well since according to you there would be no difference.

You're free to manage your own property however you wish.
> 50 years ago, Germany also still had a popular saying "Eigentum verpflichtet"

This isn't just a saying, but a part of the constitution (Article 14, http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.ht... )
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Sadly Amazon doesn't respect the NOT operator anymore:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20069/is-there-a...
I bet that being poor is in fact a harder pill to swallow than all of that.
Yes, it reduced harassment. Especially towards youtube's rewinds and other crap. Totally understandable. NOT!
There's many such words, since the languages share a common root. I'm Dutch but work for a German company and the main language is English. If we can't find a word, typically stuff not core work related, it's often quickest to say the German or Dutch word.
Just for anecdotical purposes, I do have/host a few of my personal projects on a dedicated Linode which I've had since the summer of 2011, that's more than 10 years now (wow! times does fly).

Never ever have I thought of "monetising" them, I mean, even if I wanted that I don't see there being that big of a market for people interested in the location of Medieval villages in Walachia (even though some of them had first been mentioned in documents written during Vlad the Impaler's reign, maybe I could market that) nor for knowing where exactly were the locations and houses that used to belong to former Bucharest Jewish residents (that is until they were nationalised post-WW2), as I also have an interactive map for that.

I've worked for most of my career (~15 years now) in start-ups and small companies (that's what I think actually made me pursue those personal projects, I think working in a big company/corporation would have numbed me down) and I don't personally find unicorns that interesting, there's one located just down the street where I daily walk my dog and I don't feel any need to stand behind a big thing like that, I would have way less time to walk my dog plus I'd feel that experience would also numb me down, in a different way from working in a corporation, but numb me down nevertheless.
I already read the submitted article using Google Translate, and the article I linked here basically contains the same information, just in English. You can confirm this by simply reading the original with the help of Google Translate.
maybe you're right. but loss of taste and smell. sick for 2 weeks and symptoms that persisted for 6+ months, obviously can't prove anything, but everything was suspiciously similar to covid. So it doesn't surprise me to see covid being found in dec 2019 samples in europe
A personal blog with articles&videos, which tech stack will you recommend?
I was developer before, but have long time not coding, the previous blog I made was >10 years ago with wordpress.

I wonder what is the up-to-date tech stack to build a personal blog?
The costs are exaggerated. For example, it is not possible to replicably develop that software infrastructure for $50k. It is possible as a one-off if you're an engineer working on your own project, but for example, a biology journal couldn't drop $50k on that infrastructure. A lot of these things rely on individual heroics. I appreciate heroics, but they don't scale to an industry.

I'm glad for the good work they're doing.
If there is leadership in this world still capable of public debate ill be there to read, perhaps contribute.

Not so much interested in what people say as what it says about them and less interested in individuals than the sum of the parts.
Your comment method is so nice. Is there a reason you don't use a textarea for visitors to enter the text? Is your current method better against spambots?
There's a few libraries on PyPI implementing this idea:

- https://github.com/borntyping/python-infix (https://pypi.org/project/infix/)

- https://pypi.org/project/infixed/

- https://pypi.org/project/betwixt/ (Diclaimer: author here)
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It has the "Share on ... [Facebook] [Twitter] [Reddit] [Linkedin] [Hacker News]" in the right upper corner. Funny ?
What's more interesting, is that somehow very few new nice areas (towns, cities) have been built. Take almost any area in London with anything built after the 1950s, and in many cases the new buildings make the area far worse, not better. Kensington is still the size it was, and there are hardly any new Kensingtons available - and a lot less affordable for an average professional.

London is wealthy enough for there to be no 'bad areas'.
Afghan refugees know from experience that the heart of the Western Empire is the least likely place to be bombed.
"Back in the 1960s, the economist William Baumol observed that it took exactly as much labor to play a string quartet in 1965 as it did in 1865—in economics jargon, violinists hadn’t gotten any more productive. Yet the wages of a professional violinist in 1965 were a lot higher than in 1865."

This is actually brilliant and deep. We may argue a lot that music education became more expensive, violins themselves cost more, musicians should pay their rent, which is also increased century over century, but the fact stands still: it took exactly as much labor.

Talking about the rent: housing prices are driven by the average income (because the balanced market will extract maximum wealth from its participants). So the Baumol's cost disease can be one of the key inflation factors.
There doesn't need to be a purpose, it can just be curiosity. I think Young, who has removed the letter again, is misinformed about the negative impact such discussion can have. I believe at least some reluctance against the vaccine is spite which is just nurtured by demands of content removal. But also due to official sources giving out info that has been wrong too.
Just today I was reading a blog post about some framework (KubeFlow) not being “ready for prime time yet”, and even though the article had great technical details, the fact that it lacked a date made it so much less valuable: it’s highly relevant whether this conclusion was drawn last month or two years ago.

I understand why this happens, but part of me really wishes we could stop this. Maybe there is some archive.org extension that can show me “this page first appeared on $date”.
> It means the stereotypical commenters are 20-30 year old, white, male, single, programmers, living in the Bay Area and making $400,000 per year

I appreciate the clarity. What I don't understand is that given "stereotypical" and "typical" are definitely not synonyms, why do you think your stereotype reflects the actual demographics?