skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistically, based on the paper you linked longer testing to pick up this side effect would have been the wrong decision. It seems to me that longer testing would have caused more deaths than would have prevented RVO. From your paper:

Based on the official COVID-19 death reports, it is estimated that vaccinations have prevented 14.4 million excess COVID-19 deaths worldwide between December 2020 and December 202139. Thus, vaccination is the most effective method for preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

The number of reported ophthalmic complications has remained low, and vaccine-related retinal vascular occlusion is very rare, although the number of COVID-19 vaccinations is enormous.
Always evolving, but technology has surely influenced natural selection - a lot of illnesses/conditions that might have killed people prior to them reproducing are no longer factors in that regard
OpenBSD: Cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
So, the EU is now in charge of deciding USB implementation?
I am not sure if I am quite getting your point here, but if we're talking about indexes, I've just implemented indexing using FoundationDB and writing to the index happens in the same transaction as the main data write (not really sure why it would ever be otherwise). Definitely not "+1 raft quorum check".

Calling FoundationDB "just a layer on top of TiKV" is… well… :-)
When a better USB-C plug happens, the standards will get updated, instead of millions of people having to buy 10 versions of a damn plug NOW.

It's not like the EU standardizes emergent and rapidly evolving things, it's a freaking plug and "stuck in the past" isn't exactly how I describe the EU.
She acts as if she has dissociative identity disorder and that the other person was not actually her. Looks more like she was just a good actor and still has the ability to fool people into thinking she is something else, like she did to the author.
Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine (phage therapy)
Origin and Spread of Early-Ripening Champa Rice: Impact on Song Dynasty China
Doses seem to accumulate, that’s why you need days off, too, and they recommend not to mix macro and micro doses. I’ve read somewhere that after a big dose you should wait ~1 month for the effects to wean.
> a substance that enhances the body's immune response to an antigen

What part of OPs response makes you think they don't know what an adjuvant is?
I buy from AliExpress often. Most recently a batch of anodized metal business cards, before that a bunch of home automation sensors. I could get the same sensor from Amazon for a lot more money, I did get one for a test piece before buying 16 of them.

My experience has always been a good one. Just be prepared to wait a while for delivery, the business cards were about three weeks.
Like with physical business, if you can't guarantee proper security - you should not be in this business.

Companies cut costs on cyber security whenever they can. And if you try to expose it you can get sued. It's about time this ends. Hopefully everywhere soon.
I think this would be an issue in any study. I assume the purpose of a double blind is not to convince those in the treatment group they have taken nothing — it’s to convince those in the placebo group they’ve taken something, and then measure that placebo effect.
I rode this with my parents just a few years after this accident. I don't recall any mention of it at the time. My mom was an anxious sort and I'm sure if they had said anything we wouldn't have taken it.
Wasn't it like 10 years ago that they had a 3B line monorepo for the entire org? Does g3 still have a stranglehold on the org?
I can actually see a humbled TJ Miller taking a SV spinoff job to relaunch his career, at some point. A prequel would be challenging though, because of aging.
Lead acid battery banks are common in the 3rd world. Basically a must have if you want to use desktop hardware. Of course this increases the overall demand, which in turn may cause additional outages. The counter point being that some of the outages may be caused by corruption in the government run electricity monopoly. As for the climate rhetoric mentioned in the article, these same corrupt officials are taking "climate reparations" in at least one case I know of.
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Russian, it appears. Well hidden indeed! I was thinking the likes of Danish.
If this bullshit passes over any judge/jury ffs what's wrong with murica
I don't think this is in any way authoritarian, no one's personal freedom is at stake here. The regulation is for hardware companies, not you.

There is no "unfair advantage" to USB-C patent holders, it's a standard that the industry settled on in a cooperative fashion in which Apple was itself a major player.

No one prevented the industry from working on a "patent-free" different standard.

Point is, you can't and shouldn't promote _different brands of connectors_ as it defeats the purpose of having less waste if in a household iPhone users are gonna use a different charger from the others.
I only care about her crime to the extent that some people may have suffered as a result of getting inaccurate test results or paying more for a service under false pretenses.

These days I struggle to see the ethical issue with defrauding the government manipulators and monetary system monopolists who had invested in her.
This was intravenous though, so I’d assume the effect to be much stronger than when taken oral.
on specific consumer products people tended to look forward and probably still do. On major framework, user interface or OS changes which KDE falls into I think people always have always been at best ambivalent about.

The reason is pretty straight forward. If you break something at that level you tend to break almost everything, and people have spent a lot of time building stuff on top. Shaking that in a big way is always risky. People tend to be more conservative the more you go towards the bottom of the stack.
The worst UI is one that changes unexpectedly.
Well surely I can't convince you, feel free to build the next AI startup on OpenAI then, and stop caring about any possible competition out scaling you once token limits on open source models become more in line with the walled garden of Google, MS and OpenAI's high API pricing ;)
Yes, delegating firmware management unaudited is giving away political rights. You do not know what is in there.

The ones who write the code make the rules. The ones who make the rules, wield power. Those that are attracted to the exercise of power, inevitably abuse it.

Trying to handwave that "computer says no" couldn't possibly be abused to political ends is literally shoving your head in the sand. DRM would not be a thing if computing was fundamentally apolitical.
> They'll never Ever discharge into the grid.

Tesla powerwalls already do [0] under some conditions so not that hard to imagine that cars will too.

https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/energy/powerwall/mobile-...

> Batteries designed to move around safely will always be more expensive.

But if they get bought anyway the incremental cost of using them for this when not on the move is very low
The idea that people would go to a festival and feel that their experience couldn't be complete without a smartphone or that, if they did feel that way, they wouldn't have made really sure that they had made backup plans for if their phone did run out of juice boggles my mind. People make themselves ridiculously dependent on devices that can run out of power, break, or get lost/stolen.
No, the EU follows the industry standards. The industry standards for connectors are currently decided on by USB-IF, as almost the entire industry is a member of it. This means that when USB-IF releases a new standard, the EU will add it to the legislation.
$300 160x120 @ 9fps FLIR Lepton, and its a DIY kit. Hilarious. Meanwhile INFIRAY P2 Pro/T2S+, SNDWAY SW-8256 is a ~$200 _25hz_ 256×192.
politicians know this can be abused, just like nsa, fbi or even local sheriff's... but they are glad because they're ones in position to abuse it.

my tinfoil hatted guess? china this past week had talks with FR, RU, BR and others. they probably got 3+ favors in exchange of this leak.

Or, someone wanted to blacklist someone else's key without a public name and included it in this leak. i wouldn't doubt MSI, intel and safe-pc-for-criminals-r-us keys happen to be present there.
That's the point, you need an additional cable. I charge most of my stuff with my laptop cable: laptop, Smartphone, Ebook reader, portable speaker. Only my headphones are still in MicroUSB.

As the laptop cable doesn't have an outgoing USB A/C port, I would have to carry an additional cable and charger if I had an iPhone.
Unpublished science for practical applications of course exists but that is called R&D and is not generally made public cause it’s corporate IP. If that’s what you mean.
> The underlying point you should be calling out if you want to present this argument is that "User freedom should prevail over companies' freedom".

I'm still baffled by the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause in that regard. While users are given some rights in the DMCA, companies seem to be perfectly free to trample over those rights using technological restrictions. If users then try to circumvent those restrictions, suddenly they are in violation of the law.
I don't recall what our application fee was for .name back in 2000, but it was somewhere well below a million (I want to say $50k or something, but it might have been more), so yeah, a lot easier to make a go of it for operators back then (We also had to provide funding guarantees from our investors for a few million, but those were funds that would flow into our company, so very different)

Of course ".name" also eventually ended up with Verisign after sales fell short of expectations (I still wish we'd held onto the vanity e-mail service we started out with instead - I wanted to hold on until we'd started charging to see what the conversion rates would be; the company we sold it to ended up achieving conversion rates that made it far more profitable than .name; oh well)
> And actually does anyone know if that’s allowed with these new regulations? Like what if the iPhone 16 they drop it entirely???

Yes the wording of the law is:

> In so far as they are capable of being recharged by means of wired charging, the categories or classes of radio equipment referred to in point 1 of this Part shall: [ Legalese way of saying USB-C charging ]

So if a device has no power ports it's fine

Wireless charging was considered for standardization in the early stages of the law (preparation, it never made it into a draft iirc) but the landscape was still too much in flux for a similar regulation to make sense, they'll revisit it in 2026
Sure but the point was, if Nintendo _didn't_ do that and instead offered these people work
Seeing no ethical issues with lying and fraud at a mass scale is an interesting take.
Wouldn't a metallic pin increase risk for shorts inside the port?

I personally use the toothpick end of flossing picks. They're usually very thin and the plastic material doesn't cause any hard abrasion.
Might not have made my point clear. It’s not dumb because I actually trusted the TSA to keep my stuff safe. I’m a carry on guy, myself.

It was dumb because they thought the key would remain secret only to them, and thus provide an elegant balance of security and safety.
No way. This is history. Also Brutus and Hitler would have preferred everyone to forget about them...
>They are just taking advantage of a dysfunctional academic system.

Of course you can blame Elsevier, you can blame the system too, but that's no excuse in exploiting the system and even worse the people.
>> there definitely is a ceiling

Is there though? Operating systems have 10K - 20K devs based on a casual internet search. Of course there are many services / processes but they are not communicating using an http API or message queue. Similarly, Postgres has 350 people. I don't think team size is a factor at all.
I live in Europe and I don't know many if any story of ethical hackers getting incarcerated.

In my youth in Italy, when I dabbled in "hacking", the stories going around at the time on IRC were that if you were ever nabbed hacking a server, you would get recruited by the local cyber police force (Polizia Postale)
How Deno’s Founder Is Rebuilding the Runtime of the Web
In 50 years a new plug will be standardised and people will use that
TEDx – Eliezer Yudkowsky – Unleashing the Power of Artificial Intelligence
You mean the kid from Nolan's Batman
If you’re studying history you talk to everyone regardless of their beliefs. You’d be better off just ignoring crap like that entirely.
I've been really happy with a Hubitat Elevation[1], controlling misc z-wave and zigbee devices. I've had mine for over three years and it continues to get updates[2].

Nearly every device I've considered has had either a provided or community written driver[3] available.

1: https://hubitat.com/
2: https://community.hubitat.com/t/release-2-3-5-available/1133...
3: https://community.hubitat.com/t/custom-device-drivers-wiki
Having lots of alternatives is not always beneficial for society as a whole.
This would have such a niche market, but also be so wonderful. I would love to have a physical switch that toggles between, essentially, secure boot and a user-programmable boot.
It is really easy to protect everyone's privacy by not using advanced analytics platforms at all.
The irony at the heart of software engineering
I've loved reading blogs and microblogs of Asahi Linux developers, like https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan, https://asahilinux.org/blog/, and https://rosenzweig.io/

They all have intimate insights into macos internals from reverse engineering it.
Also see the more recently updated https://github.com/oxfeeefeee/goscript, “An alternative implementation of Golang specs, written in Rust for embedding or wrapping.”
knowing the ramson is important for the window on how incompetent intel was... but paying a ransom for a secret is extra dumb. glad they didn't and announced.
> confusing process of finding my full name that they assigned to me

Isn't it always shown at the lower left corner of the window? Or the profile tab on mobile.

Also, the only part assigned to you should have been the #NNNN suffix, the rest can be your same handle as everywhere else.
The law explicitly states that it has to be reviewed every couple of years to determine whether USB-C it is still the best choice, or there has been sufficient technological progress to warrant a switch to a newer standard.

The fear for a "lock-in" is completely unfounded, as the EU previously quasi-mandated Micro USB and switching to USB-C was no issue whatsoever. Besides, nothing is stopping manufacturers from including both USB-C and another charging connector.
This is definitely not good news for iPhone users. The thing with lightning is that it is fucking robust. USB-C may not be as bad as the micro-USB but it is still more fragile than lightning.
People should be able to choose, if you love One Connector To Rule’em all just get and Android phone.
The author is in on it - "it" being a cynical PR managed portrayal optimised to garner sympathy and disassociate her from her crimes. The tactics are so blatant - introducing her as a "mom", the homely photo, focusing on her children, her first quote about how is was all a "mistake" and portraying her as a victim of things she didn't understand. It's honestly offensive.
i just spent a few hours last week looking for anew note app. settled on box.com notes.
its not perfect, but its what is best for me at the moment.

Just watched the video, and i love! your take , finally someone with a new idea.
need windows/web and android though....

good luck!!

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> Isn't there a chicken and egg problem there - no one will release products with new power interfaces

Yes, that's the point. Instead of anyone releasing products with new power interfaces the goal is to have industry-wide discussion on adopting new standards for everyone.

I think it's reasonable and only a positive thing. If the industry will decide that USB-C isn't enough they will revise the standard.
CS teacher here. This is my preferred way to teach stuff. Way easier to remember and understand knowledge if you know its origin story.
i guess they self regulated the leak to avoid github ban.... and to think at one point guthub could host the deccs keys. how times have changed
Because you can't have different ports on a smartphone?

You aren't forced to use only USB-C but to provide at least USB-C without artificial disadvantages.

Without those standards the users are stuck or need to rebuy all accessories.
> Academic research (one of the big complainers about the cost) could fix this easily - stop rewarding scientists for publishing in those journals!

From what I know, it's the politicians that rewards scientists for publishing in those journals. At least here in Norway, universities have been competing for funding[1], and publishing in higher-impact ("more prestigious") journals counts for more compared to lower-impact journals.

[1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/kd/vedlegg/uh...
Money might just become a convenient metric, because it can be traded for whatever your other metrics are later.

In any case, the pursuit of money beyond meeting your own needs is more often than not destructive. I find that this story is a good reminder that you can have a financial goal beyond which you enter maintenance mode and focus on other things.
When folks are surveyed about what level of wealth would make them 10/10 happy, without variation, every wealth bracket reports back “double.” It’s a sickness.
The framing of this story is kinda bizarre. The author keeps insinuating that Holmes is charismatic but full of shit, but the first mention of this is 40% through the article (and the first 40% is pretty flattering of Holmes).

My takeaway, though, was that even now, as Holmes is counting down the days before reporting to prison, she is completely unrepentant.
Cookie Bugs – Smuggling and Injection
This again FUD. please elaborate with links from this reality of permissions or features that are only on iOS.
'The board was criticized for consisting "mainly of directors with diplomatic or military backgrounds"'

So that's for Liz. There rest also want you to forget this board of directors:

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO

Henry Kissinger, former Sec State, NSC

Sam Nunn, former US Senator

Riley Bechtel, former Bechtel Group CEO

David Boies, a founder and the chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner

William Foege, former director of the CDC

Richard Kovacevich, former CEO and chairman of Wells Fargo

Jim Mattis, later U.S. Secretary of Defense

Fabrizio Bonanni, former executive vice president of Amgen

...

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2013/...

So this is a very interesting on-going story. I really want to finally read about the actual story about this "most secretive company".
You either die an innovator, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Yahoo.
The most useful thing that's missing from pretty much any tasking system is suspense date: at what point is it chalked up as a fail and life moves on? This is the date most senior leaders in my org use the most. It is the coin of the realm.

The second most useful thing is the warning notice. If someone could reliably figure out how many hours/days/weeks heads-up people are going to need to execute before suspense, that would be amazing. But it's very hard for someone without visibility on your own workload to estimate that. If you're buried under a global crisis, sure people will cut you some slack on your HR actions, but you can bet they'll hold you accountable for budget. An executive assistant can make their career if they can make accurate warning notices for their boss.
Could you please post this as your own post as well or permit me to post this as a separate post to be discussed upon?
Or a spinoff about the dark side of Jared, exploring his hidden personalities
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I've been doing some searches since I asked the question and I wouldn't say there's a satisfactory answer. A mainstream source just saying that autoimmune disorders are on the rise isn't good enough, especially as most articles I've read couch that with "and we now recognise more of these disorders" or something similar.

There seems more evidence that allergies are on the rise. Maybe. I note that I found a lot of articles saying things like "autoimmune conditions are a Western disease" and blaming modern lifestyle. But arthritis is as old as the hills.

I'm not at all denying that they are actually on the rise, but nothing really seems to tackle this in a way that answers all the questions - is it on the rise or do we just detect and categorise it now. Does it occur because people live longer? In the past did people have these conditions and not know, have to live with it or die? I know that for my back condition people in the past got it and their back bones fused together over time, nowadays people tend to get treated with anti-inflammatories and now biologicals plus exercise regimes to prevent it. As there is a wide range of intensity within each autoimmune disorder the majority of people who had a condition in the past might be unreported.

So if anyone can point to articles or papers that address all those things I'd be very interested.
Is this something that happens often for iPhones? I've never seen anything like it with USBC in my non-Apple household.

Perhaps the "benefit" you describe is only relevant because the proprietary Apple cable design is so poor?
Microsoft is super happy about it tho
At the end of the day, if Apple needs to have a slightly modified design to accommodate EU regulations, that's a drop in the bucket. And if it's slightly inferior in some way, that's between EU citizens and their governments.
I remember adding this to a schools website I developed back in the day.

And I actually think, odd technical choices aside, it's not a bad idea. PICS is far preferable to governments trying to insert themselves into the internet and ban encryption, or private companies trying to maintain infinite lists of "good" and "bad" stuff.

I imagine that the porn sites would be pretty happy to add the content ratings too, since they don't want people who have opted out to visit. You could add a bit of government policing there if you wanted, forcing websites to properly add metadata, and forcing schools to set the filtering up, and that would be fine by me.
no startup can compete against an america company backed by endless cheap money. Not that founders dont want to turn a profit its just a cruel game and its the way its until cheap money ends in USA(it never happens bcz no gov wants recession on their watch).
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I recall somewhere that due to us getting better at protecting people from pathogens, immune systems get “less practice” at identifying friend from foe, increasing the likelihood of contracting an autoimmune disorder down the line.

I have no idea how accurate that is, but it’s what over heard.
But if the whole world adopted this kind of regulatory stance, there would be much less incentive to invent that better cable because you now have huge regulatory bodies that may block its adoption and thus mean most of that work was money and time wasted. This kind of thing may tilt the risk / reward of research towards the riskier end of the spectrum.

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing— just that it’s not without consequences.