skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few vaccinated. These people were discharged from hospital in Madrid before 16 May 2020, so the last patient will have been infected only about three months after the high-volume vaccination campaign started. If you assume that analysis and writing the paper took a month or two, then the last patient was infected maybe a month after vaccination started.

But considering how much the chance of hospitalisation is reduced, that'll probably still be the same today.
Is there a push to move to smaller regenerative farms occurring?
Not exactly the same though related: IIRC there's another scam on Amazon where people self-publish some ebooks which are clearly gibberish, put a massive price tag on it, and use hacked accounts to buy them. Very low effort and essentially free money, because no physical goods are involved.
It's been discussed here a year ago or so.
The problem, and this goes back as I can remember, is that C folks use the remaining 30% of bugs causes, to dismiss any language that is sold as improving safety on systems programming.

It is Rust today, it was Ada, Object Pascal and Modula-2 in the early 80's, and anything in between since then
do you honestly believe that Russia would shoot itself in the foot? you may want to inject some sense of skepticism in what you read in the CIA-driven news outlets
GP's comment specifically says,

> 1. I want to be able to run my preferred free software.

and Apple in general is the chief abuser of this user freedom, less so on Mac devices, but extremely so on iPhone/iOS devices: it allows to run only vetted software, often against the interests of the users, and, in some cases, retroactively altering the deals [0], so "doing a market research" prior to buying the device, as many regular HN users suggest, won't really help.

[0]: Pray they don't alter it any further.
> What part of "if there's a remote zero-day" you did not understand?

What part of how about you look at CVE and see its been YEARS/DECADES since the last severe vulnerability do you not understand ?

OpenSSH zero-day my ass .... if there were any, they would have been found and exploited by now.

OpenSSH is written by the same people as OpenBSD. Those guys are OBSESSIVE about writing secure and correct code and they have the track-record to prove it.

Fact is there are millions (billions ?) of OpenSSH servers out there exposed to the internet.

OpenSSH is not the way hackers are getting in my friend.
I know of at least three huge, multi-national corporations using Github extensively - either via separate, protected orgs and repos directly on github.com, or a separate Github Enterprise instances on their own domains.
It does make sense for russia (or at least Gazprom). They've cut deliveries through the gas pipelines anyway. Now they might have needed a reason not to pay penalties for contract violation. By blaming random terrorists or the US they can claim technical issues beyond their control.
The storage provides 2-3 months' worth of gas. It being full is not enough to ride out a rough winter without rationing. Meanwhile even with a new LNG container port they still have to pay through the nose for all that American LNG.

Germany will probably survive without a rash of people freezing to death but economically it is going to suffer very, very badly.
Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America
“I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”
― Mark Twain
Here's a CSPAN video from 8 months ago of Biden telling a reporter that if Russia invades Ukraine the US will "put and end to" the nord stream pipeline.

https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8
Steganography is always fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Exactly - don't pay money, make your user agent work for you, the user.
yeah I saw that too. They take the books from archive.org, it’s public domains books.

It’s essentially legal, and I think it’s not that scammy honestly. People want these books on paper, nobody prints them anymore or has the texts.

edit: I also saw some people selling the OCR from these books, which is far worse. You need to guess the original, especially if it has some latin/german inside English.
It was unplanned because we had public health leadership which decided to ignore decades of pandemic planning and lessons learned, and a president who went along with it.
Couldn't you upgrade after the install?
Or just find a FOSS KMS and be done with it.
PASC happens regardless, which is freaking terrifying, and why I can't understand people in the West dropping masks and social distance and just happily justifying it with "I'm vaccinated, all's good", let's pretend it's over.

COVID has been terribly explained in the media, and emphasis now should be on how it is for way too many a chronic disease that people should avoid at all costs, a disease currently with no cure or treatment, which can turn you into a disabled person in the worst cases.
Well, what does it matter? What if a market develops for autogenerated junk literature. People can buy and read what they like best. Today a lot of literature is published that I might consider to be "junk". But there are people buying and reading it and enjoying it and that's fine.

Maybe it could create a new genre of literature that is tailored to the reader's interests.
Does this deprecate TTLS records? I've only just begun to generate those
But we're not discussing the free space around roads, I'm talking about the width of the road X length of road X 2.5m where the bugs get splatted. If there are more cars travelling in that space, fewer bugs will be splatted by each car even if the level overall remains the same.
You denounce their pronouncement but what have you added to the discussion with your comment?

The explosions benefit Russia because it gives them cover for a permanent stop to supplying Germany with gas, something that was already a given because Germany would never buy gas from Russia again due to their atrocities in the war. In the Russians' mind it gives them the "moral high ground" rather than humiliation and makes out the West to be the villain. This is typical Russian logic.

On the other side there is no rational reason for the West to destroy the pipelines, outside of strained conspiracy theories that the US wanted to stop Germany from buying gas from Russia and buy it from the US, which was already happening. Nevermind that the risk/reward of such an action would be stupid for the US and that it has other, much safer ways to achieve the same result.
And that implies blowing it up?
Eventually we need to outlaw 99% of plastic use. We just can't keep doing this. The earlier we start with the easy stuff, the better, so why not start with it now?
> Windows Hello, Android's FIDO2 support, Apple's TouchID and FaceID, are all examples of platform authenticators. There is no reason why the Linux desktop community could not enjoy similar benefits

Don't those platforms all rely on strict sandboxing and code signing, so that funny-dancing-monkey.exe can't rename itself to google-chrome.exe then perform a passwordless sign-on to google.com ?

I always thought this stuff was slow to arrive on Linux because it demands things that are incompatible with the free-software ethos.
Sounds like impostor syndrome with extra steps.
Linux on laptop works really well on older devices in particular. Zero problems so far with Mint on old Thinkpad.
Macs just have different annoyances. Ever since the notarization crap was added, programs randomly either start instantly or take several second. For some reason this randomness is even more infuriating to me than being constantly slow. Another probably unrelated thing: It takes up to 10 seconds on my new M1 Mac for the first debug session to start in Xcode. Of course this is not the sort of evil malware the article is about, but for me as a user it's just as frustrating to wait for anything on a 21st century computer. An M1 Mac is so fast compared to a 30 years old computer that everything should always happen instantly.

All in all I like my Mac better than my Windows PC or Linux laptop, but Apple software is just regressing a bit slower than the others.
My grandma bought a mid-prized Android phone. All she does is lookup recipes on Youtube and Whatsapp her family.

After 2 months (!) she came to me with the phone. Somehow she now had ads on her lockscreen, her default browser was hijacked by some other browser app with ads, and multiple apps had persistent notifications and were running continuously. Among them AVG anti-virus, some cleanup tool...

I have no idea how they got there. Probably because they pop-up in Ads with texts like "YOU NEED TO INSTALL THIS".

My grandma can't differentiate between an Ad like that and a serious System update notification.

It's stuff like this that leads people to just "give up" and buy an expensive Apple device. For all their faults at least they protect you from this kind of nonsense. The Lenovo is just the same, really. A profound disrespect for their own users and the usability of their own product.
I would immediately reinstall a just bought laptop from scratch, as in through a Windows/Linux ISO, not through their own recovery, especially from Lenovo, they have been caught with Superfish adware/malware before:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/19/super...
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500066-s...
On the Nordstream explosion, Russia continued to push gas into the pipeline after the explosion. Why, if it is broken, lose that gas to kill a whole ecosystem close the Danish / Swedish exclusive zones?

Also which other country does have an interest in cutting internet cables between Europe and the US?
I actually find it rather interesting how many people here, in a forum I generally assume to be better informed than elsewhere, seem wholly unaware of the dramatic decrease in insects over the last few decades.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the news partners are requiring them to include ads.
apple is also fanatic about battery life. it's just that the "phone" is no longer a phone, it's a mini-computer which by accident also does audio connections over a certain wireless technology ...
I'm not sure the plastic cup is a great example. Plastic cups are easier to recycle than paper cups, since paper cups are plasticised on the inside - resulting in a mixed material that needs to be recycled separately.
As I said: the message is rather inarticulate, so I wouldn't read too much into it.

But, although in general I dislike subscription models, they do make sense for newspapers. If they were to switch to "pay per article", it won't be long before the bean counters step in and turn the focus of the paper on social outrage and Kim Kardashian. It has the inherent danger of turning the NY Times into Buzzfeed.

And just in case someone is going to claim that Buzzfeed has serious news: the two are incomparable. Buzzfeed News' frontpage right now is literally Kanye, Kim, and Trump. Ukraine? Too far away. Sunak? Who's that?
I made aprompt discussion board to share AI art and Prompts
After Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany said it permanently won’t support the opening of Nord Stream 2. NS2 has been Putin’s number one priority for opening so he could deliver gas to Europe while sidestepping Ukraine.

Conveniently after the explosions, NS2 became one of the few working ways to get gas to Europe, and Putin offered to deliver gas via it. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/10/12/putin-offers-t...

That’s way he blew up what he blew up. To force Europe’s hand on NS2.
Got a 12th gen LG gram, literally everything just works out of the box with Fedora. Old hardware not necessary for Linux.
yet that simple change reduces bot login attempts drastically (2222 is actually quite popular, choose something else)
Funnily enough, before WWII I suspect a lot of people in Europe were predicting there would be no WWII because the consequences would be so horrific for the Germans that it just wouldn't happen. Then the Germans did it anyway. The outcomes were somewhat predictable - all their leadership was killed and their state was dismantled.

Just because the consequences for Russia would be unimaginably bad doesn't mean much. What is important is that the de-escalation happens. And part of that involves listening to what the Russians are saying earnestly, rather than going with millennia of monkey-instincts that say to stop listening to the out group when times are tough.
I'm similar. I can function perfectly and have a lot of energy and brain focus if I sleep 3:00/4:00 to 10:00 consistently.

I will have a half wasted day if I wake up before 9:00 even if I slept 8-10h that night. This is true even for a single night.

I don't need a lot of sleep. I need the right sleep. I have been months on a consistent 5h30min-6h per night and feeling great. Working out a lot with little to no injuries and quick recoveries, and getting a lot of work done.
Maybe demand is lower because the price is ten times higher than 2020 levels.
During the Windows 10 install they make it look like you needed to login with your MS account. They option to use a normal local login is right there but it’s named in some funny way so you don’t think that it’s the normal login. At first I thought this was just for the main admin account and let it slide, because I was only intending to use Windows for games (it’s not good for anything else). But when you want to create a second account, it tries to trick you into creating a new MS account.

What a flaming POS.
Can confirm. When I was a kid I was an offset printer. We used rubylith for that. Then I learned PC design. Rubylith again. Then I went to work for an IC design firm. No rubylith there; our product produced Gerber file tapes. But the old-timers still called it "taping out" because it used rubylith before the Gerber days.
> work provided laptop without the crap ware.

Those are usually slow as molasses thanks to mandatory 
crapware
 sorry antivirus.
Permissive licenses are considered non-free by the FSF, or at least RMS.

He is very concerned about this, as you can see every time such a topic arises on the emacs-devel mailing-list.
sounds like heavy editing to make it seem like eyes are on the mandibles or something
It does not benefit Russia. It benefits Putin by removing a motivation for other Moscow elites to depose him. They can't make a deal with Europe to turn the gas back on in exchange for Europe supporting their new regime.

Ordinary Russians need an income.
Unfortunately, it was terribly ineffective for that purpose. We closed them to reduce peak hospital admissions in the older population.
A ghostwriter commissioned to write a book on some hot topic is, essentially, a poorly trained and badly optimized neural network.
Related:

https://www.crn.com/news/security/zscaler-ceo-major-eu-inter...

Title: Zscaler CEO: ‘Major’ EU Internet Cable Cut Was ‘Act Of Vandalism’

Most incidents of cuts in internet cables usually have benign causes but given recent hostilities it's worth keeping an eye on whether these incidents start becoming far more common than they have been historically.
Sad and frightening to hear. Funny though but here in southern Sweden and Denmark I've had the opposite experience.

Sometime around 2018 I started noticing a lot of fireflies, in a park in the middle of a major city. Which was not normal to me. Since then I've noticed them almost every summer.

And on vacation in Denmark it's the same thing, the air is alive with life. It has its downsides too because there are more ticks than ever too.

A lot of cities here have started leaving grassy areas uncut, they just cut a path through it for people to walk on. Also Copenhagen has started building "walls" of twigs, encased in a wire mesh. These walls act as safe havens for all sorts of insects and small creatures.
For me, because I know this is subjective, fucking with Linux to make it work how I want is less of a hassle now than fucking with Windows to make it work how I want (again).
Primate Societies Are Surprisingly Complex. So Are Their Gender Roles
My kids are 10 and 11 and the saw their first grasshopper last summer. They were everywhere when I was a kid. Christmas beetles are a rare find these days. I haven't seen a Bogon moth in years.
> I want my preferred free software to be able to access all installed hardware and use it to its full capabilities.

This would cost enormous amounts of money for practically no benefit whatsoever to the manufacturer. Modern hardware is complex so drivers are costly and Linux-on-desktop enthusiasts are an incredibly, incredibly small niche. Which, I must add, is just getting smaller and smaller as WSL and ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex subsumes many of the use cases. In fact, I am not even sure what is left.
> And cursed with a terrible housing market, especially for newcomers.

That isn't exactly unique to Berlin you know. And IIRC at least the local government tried to do something about it (but was struck down in higher courts).
It would be unusual if the insides were all made in Iran.

There’s nothing in the slightest unusual about opening a drone to find off the shelf parts.
Hey is a startup that is trying to reinvent and reinvigorate email. Apparently, world.hey.com is their blogging service.

But honestly, a post titled "Move the needle or Move on", from a URL that looks like it might be their corporate weblog, looks most of all like a shutting down announcement.
Brexit was a mish mash of motives. Some of those motives were explicitly collectivist, others were anti-individualist if not collectivist.

Brexit was partly fear of Muslims, not just job competition with Eastern Europeans. You see this in the discussion around Syrian refugees from people like Nigel Farage, Douglas Murray and Sargon of Akkad. They wanted to exit the system that enabled that. This particular motive was collectivist.

In addition, Brexit was partly the typical arrogance and wounded ego you see from declining and fallen empires. The glory days are still fresh in people's minds. There's a feeling that Britain is on the decline. People couldn't accept the egalitarian terms and low status of being just another ordinary EU member state. This also is collectivist through and through.
They should be chastised for this.
Actually eradicating bullying is impossible (if you think you did it, you're not looking close enough) so best to consider it a necessary evil - it's better to experience it in a relatively controlled environment and learn to deal/defend yourself from it so that you are ready with adulthood. Bullying doesn't magically disappear in adulthood and not being prepared for it may make it significantly worse.

Also, the problem with bullying isn't bullying itself but that people are receptive to it and don't defend themselves (partly because school rules prohibit defense). If everyone stands their ground and defends themselves, bullying will disappear. Bullying only makes sense when the reward (whether psychopathic self-satisfaction or bolstering your social status) is worth more than the risk (which is usually nothing if the target doesn't defend themselves). If bullying is guaranteed to result in a punch in the face, it will change the risk/reward calculation dramatically and make 99% of it not worth it.
I bought an external monitor two months ago or so. Since then there were a total of three firmware updates, each one throwing out the display driver before showing the update dialog which, when closed without confirmation, had to be fished out of the bloatware again for the procedure to continue and actually re-install the drivers.

My question is, why does a monitor even need firmware updates? I didn't gain any features, nor did I get an update report.
Genuine question: how much does plastic recycling benefit us? My understanding was that producing new plastic is quite energy efficient and only contributes to under 5% of global carbon emissions, which is pretty impressive for the amount of plastic we make.

I'm all for eliminating single use plastics where sensible to do so, and arguably the possible biological effects of plastic should make us consider reducing overall plastic usage, sustainable or otherwise.
The phones really are pretty much the same price as a similarly specced Samsung, and the computers are more expensive but also last longer.
> I can stop reading at this line to know that this isn't journalism, it's opinion at best

It's the "opinion" of pretty much everyone in the geopolitical community. Hardly propaganda.

And equating The Economist with Russia Today is just ludicrous and a sad demonstration of the effectiveness of the "Firehose of falsehood" propaganda technique employed by, well, guess who. (hint - same guys who blew up the pipeline)
Nice site, haven't taken a closer look but seems to have some good quality images in there.
I refer to the article "computers are better than students at writing essays".

It can't be both: either AI is now better at writing than people, or it isn't. If it is, then let's use it to write everything that it can. If it's not, then we don't have a problem.
Conspiracy theorists only believe this - what advantages does the US get from Europe freezing?
I doubt it. Instead they are focused on chasing down profits by engineering out the value.

My family has several 'copies' of a laptop from the same company, one of which is the newer model, by one year. The newer model is flimsy and has required multiple repairs to the display, hinges, keyboard, case, etc... Parts are easy to source for the newer model but impossible to find for the older one, although naturally we haven't needed any yet.
Energy consumption comparison in machine learning platforms
Symbian was used and developed in a time before "always-online" was a thing.
Check the battery life of your smartphone without internet connection. You'd be surprised.
Also, Symbian phones did not have more than 2" displays, that were also very dark (compared to modern day >1000 cd/m² oled stuff).
without any installable app (forget that shitty java mobile crap), the OS running on a specific phone was fragile and probably had lots of bugs and vulnerabilities.
The content and the traction it gets is insane, especially considering the target audience. I don't get why it's not banned or heavily restricted. It's a cess pool of fakes, propaganda, semi hidden advertisement, and other bottom of the barrel grade content
I see that for the US explosives can be a part of sanctions.
With Windows 11 there's no UI option to use local account at all. You need to press magic combination, launch cmd, execute some bat-file with unpronounceable name and reboot. Then this option appears.

I mean, it's one Google search away, so not a big deal, but they do push hard for MS account.
The secret to getting rich quick is to get other people to pay you for the secret to getting rich quick.
C++ Container Library
Mac also comes with all sort of crap installed you cannot get rid of. It may be a bit less intrusive than Microsoft, but it's basically the same strategy, just that they control the hardware and you don't notice it that much.

Linux gives you full customizability on the other hand, but it's not for everybody (yes, in theory there are some very simple and usable distros, but in practice users often need software that is not available on them, like Office).
While I broadly agree that modern Macs "have other annoyances", if this is the one causing you grief, you can get rid of it in 30 seconds.

`sudo spctl --master-disable`

Turning off Gatekeeper also turns off the notarization checks.
"Look, MS account signups grew!"
> BTW, anybody interested in my upcoming book on quantum heating? Quantum heating will even earn you money, because it will generate certain energy efficient by-products which you can sell at your favourite online retailer ;-)

As a seller of magic electric recycling heaters who you just bankrupted, let me repay you in kind: everyone, you can easily DIY this "quantum heating" thing: it's just an automated pipeline of GPT-3 to LeanPub and purchasing ads that show up in Quanta Magazine (hence "quantum"), where you run GPT-3 locally so you can keep your home warm with the heat generated by your PC.
Storing CRDTs in RxDB