skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty of unvaccinated elderly getting themselves killed. This article has charts showing deaths/ICU/hospitalized over the last 120 days. The elderly and unvaccinated are particularily impacted. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/covid-19-in-alberta-788-weekend-...

> In such cases, that's their choice, and no one should take additional precautions for those opting out.

Yeah it's getting to the point where if stubborn old people want to meet their maker sooner than later, well sure that's their choice and we should let them, but at the moment the hospitals are overwhelmed and this has negative impacts on everyone, as it delays all the other surgeries and other work that the hospital needs to do.

I'm fine with lifting vaccine mandates once hospitals are unlikely to get overwhelmed, but it's not at all clear we're at this point yet.

Going to be very interesting to see what happens in Alberta and Sask over the next little while as they're lifting the vaccine passports.
The Confederate flag was carried by one person completely covered and anonymous. The flag was brand new, still creased from the packaging. Trudeau's personal photographer was photographed following this person while taking pictures. There's several videos of many people in the protest harassing this person until they are forced to leave.
See: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/14/foreign-money-... Looks like some people in U.S. with .gov emails gave money.
Late 40s: Life is hard and then you die

Which is a useful concept to grasp!

If you get it, maybe you learn to drop your ergo and focus.

Nothing really matters, but feelings are real in the moment. So maybe you learn to do the right thing and have the courage to be a decent person!

Or you get fat and complain about the kids of today!
> Computers don’t have emotions

They don’t. But some days they are complete arseholes and you do begin to wonder.
I was very generous in my language here, they are actually asking for some extra-constitutional remedy involving "citizen committees" governing the country.

It would be much more reasonable for them to be simply demanding the normal resignation of the government and new elections, but we just had an election, so I presume they are well aware of the fact that the result would not be favourable to their goals.
> For me mid foot is more efficient

How on Earth do you measure this kind of thing?
Agree. I've moved my email routing service from Mailgun to Cloudflare, but still use Mailgun as SMTP server...
Yeah Apple News is a good step forward, but it's region-locked and not available where I live. I didn't know what about Twitter Blue, but the fact that you have to go through Twitter seems rather limiting.

At least it seems like some people have identified the market, hopefully it develops from here.
> Yes, for very specific groups of people. For the majority though it did practically nothing which makes forced vaccination of that majority immoral and illegal.

You're discounting the effects of long-covid. You discount the health burden of millions of people catching this disease at the same time. You discount the long-term effects and the fact that a substantial amount of the healthy population has symptoms 3 and 6 months after catching the disease. You discount that perfectly healthy young people have died. You discount the effects on the workforce and the rates of permanently disabled. You discount the hospital burden and the fact that saturated hospitales mean triaging and people dying of easily treatable causes.

> Forced vaccination of the very low risk majority has nothing to do with it.

You don't have a right to not be vaccinated to participate in society. Your profound ignorance on this as if the standard vaccination schedule for children doesn't have dozens of vaccines necessary to reach the modern standards of quality of life means you have nothing to add to this.

Your arguments are just one ridiculous, ignorance-ridden point after another.

It's a good thing that the people making most of these decisions, unlike you, have century-years of experience on these topics and have assessed the health burden on the population.

And most of us consider that a disease that's the 3rd to 4th highest cause of death, even at this point in the pandemic, is worth treating with extreme measures, lest we lose half a decade of life expectancy, not even getting into the effects for the survivors.
The good news is that you don't need the C api nearly as much because you don't have to call out to C whenever you want performance. Also, the extent to which the python C api is documented has actually been a major problem for them since it has effectively frozen a ton of python's implementation in majorly detrimental ways (eg the GIL)
Intellectual satisfaction and regular doses of dopamine high :-). 30 years and hoping for 30 more.

Edit: Added age :-)
There are so many ways to write R that can actually be very fast. R is a very different language as a whole and it has addressed a lot of problems these last 10 years. I might be biased but I really do like the functional side of R and how logical the libraries from Hadley Wickham have been designed.

Python still doesn't feel like a natural fix for data science work. I am guessing it is more bias opinion but why based on 0 for this domain????
I use safari, I suppose that is an app? All that stuff you mention can be looked up within safari.
Just for the record: completely disagree with you, and will never again in my career use a coding font that doesn't support ligatures.

So, YMMV.
They weren't protesting _him_, that's entirely different.
Here's the why: all of those vaccination requirements are known to people before they enter the job/school/military. That is wholly different from being in a profession and then one day being told you have to get vaccinated or get fired.
I'd focus on beating Safari in terms of power consumption, better native integration(iCloud sync) & using these as a springboard for anything else. It's very difficult to recommend Firefox/Chrome/Brave on a Mac over Safari unless someone really needs specific addons.
Greasing the wheels of authoritarianism by peacefully protesting—that seems a lot like victim blaming to me. Something is really wrong if our democracies can’t handle peaceful protest.
> it is contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

As far as I'm aware, an individual's rights to "life, liberty and security of the person" are not absolute. Whether it is a violation of the charter is a balance between the impact of the limitation (e.g. vaccine passport) vs. the impact of not imposing the limitation (e.g. higher ICU counts or whatever). The more arbitrary or severe the limitation, the more risk must be mitigated to justify the limitation.
Beauty! My personal preference is iA Writer Mono.
https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts/tree/master/iA%20Writer%20...
Notably the Canadian government has numerous examples of employing agents provocateurs, enough examples that there is a section of the Wikipedia article dedicated to examples from the Canadian government. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur#Canada
I get rate limited on mobile all the time. It doesn’t mean anything.
Yes, and where there's risk, there needs to be informed consent. Manipulation of trial data, collusion to censor, deplatforming and controlled media clearly limit informed consent.
I agree with the main points of the article.

> We could ask candidates on video (or in person) to see a photo ID and match the ID against the resume. But this would seem very weird. It starts an interview off in a hostile manner, and send the a strong message of distrust. Honest candidates – which are, remember, the vast majority – will wonder why the heck this company is acting so weird, and will rightly see this as a red flag about the company culture. There will be negative consequences for your hiring practices.

This sort of verification is already being used for some KYC processes by financial institutions (i.e., take a live video of yourself holding your ID that’s uploaded for verification). It’s probably a matter of time until this is so normalized with virtual KYC that people wouldn’t care much when asked to do the same by a potential employer. The process already excludes certain people (like the transphobic process mentioned in the article).

There is always a cost to the company for an incorrect hire, regardless of the underlying reason. So I would expect company HR teams to read that (widely shared) post and formulate strict identity checking and recording mechanisms so that they can absolve themselves from what may seem like an oversight or error. It also fits well with the typical HR style that’s more about controlling employees than about enabling/helping them (apologies to any good HR folks who are out there who struggle against the weight of the systems).
>If these protest are peaceful and about mandates, they should be protesting at provincial legislative buildings.

That's literally what they're doing. Ottawa is full of legislative buildings.

I understand that a very small fraction of protesters have done violent things.

That does not make the act of blocking streets a violent one.
Weak, unnecessary whataboutism that isn’t from OP, doesn’t add anything to the conversation, and doesn’t answer the question.
'Don't be Google': The rise of privacy focused startups
Depression may make people more likely to believe Covid misinformation
They are the main investor in goPuff which will win the instant needs market.
68000 processor on the Mac didn't support floating point operations.
Do you really have to? I wonder if there are workarounds.

It's nice though if things aren't the same loudness. You can also now listen to multiple apps at the same time with Audio Focus. Pretty amazing.
> "All shader languages are very similar to C". Even counting only mainstream shader languages, MSL is explicitly based on C++ and not C.

C++ is a C variant. I think they were more getting at where’s Shader Pascal, Ruby, Lisp?
Julia is a very pleasant language to work with. The type system, multiple dispatch, and package system all make it into top 10 of design.

The only change I would recommend is to have a way to distinguish between creating and setting a variable. Without this distinction it is very easy (especially for someone with dyslexia) to misspell a variable and accidentally create a new one instead of assigning a value. Something like this would be nice:

var x = 5

or even something like Go:

x := 5
If the company sends themselves anything they can read as a middleman, that's no longer E2EE.
How many BLM protesters were arrested, though? Something like 14,000? I don't think they got much of a free pass.
It takes a lot of ideology to think of truckers as "privileged".
This is so common in software jobs.

Weird edge case escalation happens, engineering team spends a couple days handling it.

In sprint planning/retro – "we have to make sure we never waste time over this again".

Team spends weeks coming up with an optimal solution to address this very specific case.

Original problem was rare enough that it doesn't happen again.

A different edge case happens. Rinse and repeat.
Yes but I don't see how that changes anything.
Phew. For a moment there I was unsure of how to qualify a legitimate protest. I feel calmer now that abledon has defined a threshold.
Why do they have to go through apple’s servers? Why can’t users select an alternative push provider? Why can’t apps be allowed to just maintain their own socket if the user is ok with the battery impact?
Watch the Toronto Police Service handle the trucker convoy/protests. No emergency powers needed. Police in Canada are generally well trained so I am baffled by what is going on in Ottawa only a few hours drive away.
https://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=2376560
Towards a Greater Federated Architecture
Like father, like son.
Anyone can "fork" it by making their own build. Which will quickly become worse than useless as it falls behind security patches. A secure fork is something that is easy to start, very very hard to maintain.

The possibility of forks does little to prevent a Chromium monoculture from embracing, extending, and extinguishing the web. (Something like Brave, with an independent revenue model, does help some with the bad maintainer problem. But it doesn't help with the constant stream of everyday bugs in the underlying engine, ones that would get set in stone with a monoculture.)
Truckers aren’t forced to get vaccinated.

Ottawa residents aren’t forced to live in that city.
More people live in California than Canada so not surprised.
> preventing you from starting things like a tontine/friends cash pool without a business behind it

This is untrue in the US. Nothing is stopping you from contracting a tontine among friends. You just can't sell it to strangers.

> KYC means you have to send in recordings of your face.

This is untrue in the US too. Where do you have to do this?

> Accredited investor rules often mean only rich people can get richer.

I don't buy this. Most things that require accreditation are extremely risky.

The best asset classes (passive index funds) are available to everyone.

People of moderate net worth should avoid assets like venture equity like the plague.
Maybe the Fastest JSON Formatter
Drop a big JSON file into https://www.jsont.run will faster than other online json formatter.
Think of it a joint partnership between SpaceX and Jared. Jared gets to fly in space again in a "better, higher, faster" mission and SpaceX gets a discount on in-space experimentation of their capsule and technologies they're working on. It's a win-win partnership.
You're aware of the imposition of the government upon the before-they-were-protesting protesters, right?
Yep, total garbage! How we've allowed this sort of nonsense to be acceptable is beyond me. Notwithstanding the article itself is also heavily padded with crap for SEO...
A lot of employer offered plans at least have a guaranteed issue amount. Less likely on an individual plan of course, but even someone high risk if employed with a GSI plan could get some level of protection.

For me in my company I pay less than $25/month, I know co-workers who opt out…I honestly don’t understand that logic.
I didn’t see any security features mentioned… am I the only one a wee bit terrified? Am I just paranoid?
libphonenumber – parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers
Okay? There was talk about a law in the US that didn't get exercised. Facts and weasel words acknowledged. So what? I really don't understand why people insist on re-litigating the BLM riots, focused on what the American government did or did not do. This is a story about protests going down in Canada, and how the Canadian government is responding to them. The only connection is the huge infusion of American money into this Canadian protest, but instead, folks are doing whataboutism donuts on BLM's lawn. It doesn't apply here. Why are people doing this.
Start using pomodoro timer
> Affirmative action isn't racial discrimination, it's an attempt to correct for racial discrimination.

It's very obviously both these things.

It's an attempt to try to compensate for implicit/less visible racial discrimination, with very explicit racial discrimination enshrined into policy.

Not saying it's always a terrible idea, but pretending that it's not racial discrimination is exactly the kind of gaslighting discussed in the article.
Sure, but I think it's by far the best solution in general to a multitude of tasks in a world that's increasingly GUI centric. Generally mouse based interfaces are poor for the blind.

Sure if you find a piece that does a particular task in a blind friendly way go for it, but being a part of the modern world is easier with emacs+emacs speak than any other single tool I know of.
Stupid vs Stupid

That's a distilled version of a western political crisis. Where parties lost ability to use rational thinking. Everyone needs to be a part of the party that very divisive.

It's very stupid from both sides. One side want to stop entire country for just one medical requirement. Just do the damn vaccine and live your life. It has nothing to do with freedom or political part.

The other side trying lost the opportunity to use omicron as a temporary chance to go back to norm and make requirements easier. Instead they let it blown to a real political, supply and economical crisis.

Why just not be a centrist? Yes, mandate make lots of sense. Right now omicron is so easy. It's doesn't block hospitals. Leave them alone. Encourage others to do the vaccine in a stimulative way, not restrictive.
A rounded corners article with no squircle?

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Squircle.html
If you are 'fortunate' enough to catch weird code signing bugs, like MacCatalyst app with a few dylibs / so's then getting the correct code signature will be a game of cat and mouse -- Eskimo is even one to say just use a developer support credit because they are so hard.

Well, the very first time a Mac sees an app, there are special GateKeeper error codes that are never repeated... so if you are unfortunate enough to not know this and test your app on all the Macs you have in your possession, and still can't identify the bug, it was most likely error coded at the very first run time...

To which the solution is make a VM or do all the un-niceties of removing the special security from the Mac, safe boots and all.
Do people not use an ad blocking extension? I use a Mac and I tried using safari but the lack of UBlock Origin makes it very difficult.
Their actual rates on most cryptos are much lower than 9%.

https://blockfi.com/rates/

BTC is 0.1% above 0.35 BTC. ETH is 0.25% above 5 ETH. I think we can agree these are not high rates.

On the flip side, the rates for stablecoins (GUSD, USDC, USDT) are quite high still, at 7.75%. But it's not impossible to imagine institutions borrowing stablecoins at higher rates than that.
My understanding is that its MUCH more popular in the UK
Really? You think gopuff is going to win that space? Why?
Your own link supports my claims. Many of the activities listed there have much less than 75% support you claim for vaccination requirements. The soft "somewhat agree" is certainly not a definitive vote for vaccine mandates that you seem to implying.
Ask HN: Monetary Policy / Economics Reading List
We in the U.S. printed too much money and it's making its way through the economic system causing inflation and asset bubbles..

Wait, no, the velocity of money is low, stupid, did you see the FRED M1v graph? It's the supply shocks.

I'm looking for some reading recommendations of separate, competing viewpoints on general monetary policy written simply, so that I can read all arguments and the foundational principles of the different economic perspectives (Austrian school, monetarists and so forth), and ideally each item should be as convincing as the other.

Even better would be a book that encompasses this debate.

Thanks!
To add on to this, the Emergency Act was designed to replace the War Measures Act explicitly because of what Trudeau Senior did. It has a TON of caveats to it and requires ongoing review and is time limited. Nothing that is done under the Emergency Act is allowed to contravene the constitution.

The posters here decrying this as authoritarian don't understand anything about Canadian law, experience, or mindset and are going by what they're fed by their individual media source of choice. The War Measures Act invocation by Pierre Trudeau was one of the most singularly divisive moments (some would argue it was necessary, some would argue the opposite) in Canadian history, and made parliament realize they needed to rein in the Prime Minister's powers.
ProteusISC – JTAG Controller Abstraction Library
Well then these terrorists, extremists, and criminals are already running to Signal, since they can chat securely amongst themselves in these groups with the added benefit of being able to donate and send untraceable, censorship resistant cryptocurrencies like MobileCoin to each other to fund their operations.

Best part is that it's all E2EE and the government will never know what is going on and how to stop all of it, unless they go after the services and servers Signal is deployed on (Google) and tell them to shut it all down.

When these extremists and terrorists discover the unlimited potential without consequences and little risks of getting caught by using Signal, it will just get worse.
Did that KYC for financial institutions not already exist, but had to be done in branch? Now can be done online.
Speaking as someone who was born blind Braille may not be worth using if you went blind later in life. I was forced to use it heavily until about 10 or 11 in spite of the fact that I wanted to use text to speech since it's quicker. It was totally worth it since it gave me a basic literacy foundation that enables me to type out sentences like these and be able to spell well enough that less then 1/5 of everything I type has to be corrected with Spellcheck. I have an 18-year-old braille display I got in school when I started programming more. It still works but I only use it once a month if that. I do everything with text to speech. The only time it was really useful was when I was doing assembly programming and had to look at hex values in a debugger. If you go blind later in life it may be pretty easy to avoid learning anything but enough braille to read signs for room numbers and bathrooms and do just fine.
>USB Hubs

you mean thunderbolt docs?
There's explicit dialogs the user has to opt into.
I'm just trying to figure out what you're talking about ("leaks leverage" what? what even is a "services" in the "domain" of... interviewing?), but ok.
>This could scarecely be less true of modern earbuds.

No software at all runs on those phones without Apple allowing it. They’ve censored Xscrensaver because they were worried about the political thoughts users might have while watching it. The AirPods aren’t controlled yet but most of the apps are forced to put disclaimers on the screen if you pull up anything controversial and if we’re being honest, most people are probably listening to the same pop music that is being pushed as “culture.”
I hoped someone would enlighten me. From the headlines I've read it appeared to be about mask mandates.
> Many people have health problems that are directly related to their own personal decisions. And yes, they should get treatment

I agree in ideal, but the next question to make that a reality is how? You'll have to find ways to scale the system and pay for it all. And that's where you can experiment with taxes, levies, preventative mandates, regulations and such.

This is how we managed to scale and offer those for smokers and all other prior.
It seems like AI is good at finding what's popular (video views/ad clicks), but it doesn't seem to be very good at science/engineering (drug discovery/self driving cars/radiology).