MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by honestymonop | 2025-11-30 16:06:01+00:00
One perspective is that the quality and issues of vaccines can vary. Some have more side-effects than others, and some have more issues than others.

Like one specific polio-vaccine that very rarely can mutate into a contagious variant [0]. Or one vaccine for chickens that had some rather serious overall issues [1]. Or that some of the Covid-19 vaccines, hastily developed, were rejected by some countries, while other Covid-19 vaccines were accepted by those same countries.

And vaccines demand a huge amount of trust. Vaccines can be abused in lots of ways by governments, organizations and individuals [2]. This is extra unfortunate, considering the huge potential benefits of some variants of vaccines. Vaccines also require trust in competence and public control [3]. For urgency reasons, standards and checking of vaccines were lowered during the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccines are also often administered to healthy individuals, not merely sick individuals.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease

> Because vaccination does not prevent infection with the virus, Marek's is still transmissible from vaccinated flocks to other birds, including the wild bird population. The first Marek's disease vaccine was introduced in 1970. The disease would cause mild paralysis, with the only identifiable lesions being in neural tissue. Mortality of chickens infected with Marek's disease was quite low. Current strains of Marek virus, decades after the first vaccine was introduced, cause lymphoma formation throughout the chicken's body and mortality rates have reached 100% in unvaccinated chickens. The Marek's disease vaccine is a "leaky vaccine", which means that only the symptoms of the disease are prevented.[12] Infection of the host and the transmission of the virus are not inhibited by the vaccine. This contrasts with most other vaccines, where infection of the host is prevented.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

> The fact that the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in 2011 to help find Osama bin Laden is an additional cause of distrust.[120]

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories#Cutter_inc...
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 16:06:48+00:00
It's pretty clear objectively that Fauci did a lot of lying and misleading.

1. Fauci admitted on TV that he'd been misleading the public about herd immunity numbers. He said he'd painted a rosier picture than reality in order to avoid making the world fear that we could never overcome the pandemic. -- https://thenationaltelegraph.com/opinion/dr-fauci-admits-to-...

2. Fauci admitted in Congressional hearing that the 6-foot social distancing rule was made up, with no experimental evidence. -- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/03/anthon...

3. Slightly more controversially, Fauci misled us by dissembling under questioning by Sen. Paul. By a strict technocratic definition that nobody he was talking to was privy to, he told the truth when he steadfastly maintained that there had been no GoF research. But by the plain meaning of the words, he was clearly lying. -- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/fauci-says-rand-paul-egregio...

I'm not sure these citations are the best, I don't have time to read through all of it, but hopefully it's illustrative.
by kijin | 2025-11-30 16:07:03+00:00
You could set up a script that lives in the cloud (so you don't have to), receives PRs through webhooks, fetches any associated diff, and stores them in S3 for you to download later.

Maybe another script to download them all at once, and apply each diff to its own own branch automatically.

Almost everything about git and github/gitlab/etc. can be scripted. You don't have to do anything on their website if you're willing to pipe some text around the old way.
by RandomBacon | 2025-11-30 16:07:07+00:00
I'm looking for the quietest 6 bay NAS possible.

I have a beQuiet case and six 30TB HDDs, and I plan to put the Ubuntu with a Plex server on a NVME SSD and do a ZFS 4+2.

Can anyone point me to a better/quieter set-up? Thank you in advance.
by hylaride | 2025-11-30 16:07:49+00:00
From the people I know that studied at places like Harvard and Yale (which since I'm Canadian isn't a huge sample size), I've been told that there are essentially two different streams of undergrads there - those on legacy admissions and those who qualified otherwise (either via brains, affirmative action, or other means). I was left with the impression that the legacy admissions are mostly people who've coasted through life. The rest are a full spectrum of people.

Most of Harvard's endowment is via alumni, so it doesn't surprise me in the least they continue with it.
by andrewstetsenko | 2025-11-30 16:07:54+00:00
The whole point of bringing up that (satirical) Winnie-the-Pooh study was to show that very different people can still work and live together in the same group. That mix is part of the benefit.

We don’t always talk about how community itself supports people with different mental and neural traits. It just shows that diversity can hold a group together rather than break it apart.
by theevilsharpie | 2025-11-30 16:09:19+00:00
> You are probably using some annoying pedantic definition of unstable. Most people mean it to mean “does stuff crash or break”.

English has a specific word for that: reliable.

Pedantry aside, having a complex system filled with hundreds (thousands?) of software packages whose versions are constantly changing, and whose updates may have breaking changes and/or regressions, is a quick way of ending up with software that crashes or breaks through no fault of the user (save for the decision to use a rolling release distro).
by deryilz | 2025-11-30 16:09:22+00:00
As another commenter said, sometimes upgrades require manual intervention. You can fix this using a tool like informant which shows you all the interventions you have to do before you upgrade.

Also, you can use a tool like snapper + btrfs-assistant (both of which come pre-installed on Cachy IIRC) which lets you fully revert your filesystem (snapper rollback) or partially (snapper undochange) if something breaks. Just make sure to use a btrfs filesystem for that.
by taolson | 2025-11-30 16:09:33+00:00
AoC has been a highlight of the season for me since the beginning in 2015. I experimented with many languages over the years, zeroing in on Haskell, then Miranda as my language of choice. Finally, I decided to write my own language to do AoC, and created Admiran (based upon Miranda and other lazy, pure, functional languages) with its own self-hosted compiler and library of functional data structures that are useful in AoC puzzles:

https://github.com/taolson/Admiran https://github.com/taolson/advent-of-code
by goku12 | 2025-11-30 16:09:43+00:00
> Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead

Did the mantra change again? Wasn't it called 'hustle culture' previously?

> For some, the term can mean not working nights, ... While this divide may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic

Actually, it can be anything from 'mandatory' to 'completely impossible' depending upon who sets the limits.

> “I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, ... “I call it work-life integration."

I admire the rich people for their ability to cook up intelligent-sounding alternative terms on a dime! However, based on the elaboration of the concept, 'work-life disintegration' sounds more appropriate.

> When Morris is visiting family, for example, her main focus is on them. But if there’s something at work that needs her attention, she won’t wait until she’s back in the office to do so.

What an inspirational example! I will remember that for the day when my compensation also justifies such dedication.

> Morris’ insight comes as young professionals are demanding more out of work, ... Along with an inadequate salary and burnout, lack of work-life balance is one of the top reasons why Gen Zers would quit a job

Hmm. Sounds more like Morris' demands vs Gen Zers insights. I mean, how can someone think about jumping back into work at midnight when they are constantly worried about paying their rents and transportation costs?

> The pursuit of work-life balance can also cause mental distress

As opposed to?

Option A: Working unpaid/unlimited extra time

Option B: Being on call 24x7

Option C: Being on text with boss during your child's football match

Option D: Any arbitrary combination of the above

> We hear these things from others, [like] trust in the process [and] balance is so important, we need more balance, it’s the ultimate goal

> It ends up being very frustrating and can lead to anxiety, because we’re constantly feeling like we’re not in balance.

So you become distressed by aspiring to be peaceful and satisfied? Is that like being sad because you want to be happy?

Forgive me for being cynical. It's completely fair for well paid (often exorbitantly) executives to have standards for their responsibilities and dedication. But when you project the same onto young employees, some thought must be given about their spare cognitive and emotional capacity after their struggles to make two ends meet. When leaders start recommending 50 year mortgages, your first priority must be to evaluate the compensation that these employees are paid, as a percentage of the value that they generate, instead of peddling idealistic, if not inhuman standards using language of subtle guilt tripping. A bit of sensitivity will take you a long way in these troubled times.
by staticassertion | 2025-11-30 16:09:44+00:00
> - How does this help with malware? I want to craft an environment where any program trying to read f.ex. anything inside ~/.ssh is automatically denied. I don't want a malicious build script to exfiltrate all my sensitive data!

Your package manager would specify a policy that only allows specific access by build scripts. Or you'd use a wrapper.

> - It seems that this software is well-positioned for us to write application launchers with, is that true? If so, well, I like the idea but it seems too manual.

It could be. It's for anyone who knows what their program does, basically.
by maxglute | 2025-11-30 16:10:02+00:00
Compare against the typical OCED nation, US spending ~18% gdp on health, about ~8% higher than OECD average, i.e. 2T+ rent extraction per year for net lifespan that is statistically worse than OECD average. 6 months of US excess health spending buys you entire HSR system in China that's frequently being panned as overbuilt and wasteful. Meanwhile look at recently built Brightline Florida, with ~120 deaths per billion passenger km, normalize that to EU, JP, PRC HSR billion passenger km, you'd get 15k, 50k, 310k fatalities per year. Imagine PRC losing Cincinnati every year due to rail deaths. Now Brightline extra dumpfire execution but just to highlight at some point there's too much red tape, and red tape doesn't always buy you value. Sometimes the system is so broken and you end up the worst of both world quadrants: high cost rent extraction & less than first world outcomes because the accumulation of redtape itself is leading to substandard outcomes. AKA premium medicore. Extra worse in some sectors when it's not simply opportunity cost inefficiencies, i.e. you lose on something else. A sclerosic money flow recycling maximizer can also makes the thing it's pumping money into worse than expected.
by lousken | 2025-11-30 16:10:17+00:00
Of course there is a need - if you get a brand new PC don't you want it to perform as it should? Or do you want to wait another 2 years for that to happen?

Also very few people want to tinker with every single little thing, they want a nice stable base that does what you expect and build upon it - that's why most people were fine with previous versions of windows. So if cachy fixes 95% of the issues for you, why not go for it? Saving time and headache is a reasonable thing for a focused distro.
by RandomBacon | 2025-11-30 16:10:31+00:00
The bathrooms at my workplace are fit for purpose too, but that doesn't stop people with bad hygiene from leaving a line of fecal matter at the rear of the seat (where the cheeks meet) and not wiping away sweat, lint, and hairs, or prevent them from missing and peeing on the floor.

I feel like a toilet, shower, and sink could be added to an efficiency apartment for 3m².

If people want to see how small a room could get, see ships, especially crew quarters. I could probably design something with a kitchen, bathroom, washer and dryer, bed, desk, and storage for 15m².
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-30 16:10:55+00:00
It's where we are. Everything everywhere is collecting data and spying.

If it exists in a database, then the government has access to that database if it ever wants to legally or otherwise. It's been like that since 9:11 and probably before.

All we need now is for the right person to walk in and turn the key. We're lucky that Donald Trump is probably too stupid to understand what he's got under his thumb.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-30 16:11:03+00:00
> Right. He'd just get a job and rent an apartment.

I'm not sure if you're suggesting homeless people are homeless simply because they refuse to go out and get a job and an apartment. But as someone who's been homeless and someone who's a friend of people who've been homeless, a very large number of homeless people bust their asses at work. Things beyond their control go wrong and they have no social safety net to fall back on.

Elon Musk could've vacationed barefoot in Southeast Asia for 5 years and still returned to be given some executive job offer, just as many other children of rich kids do. Most people don't have that level of good fortune.
by epistasis | 2025-11-30 16:11:24+00:00
Reading your links, I see lots of emotion and twisting of statements, and not much honest searching for the truth.

I see a need to mock and ostracize and to try to twist others' statements and words.

Do you not see that too? If there are better links to support your incendiary phrasing of points, it may help get the point across better. But I'm not sure you can find something that's not trying to misrepresent and sensationalize the issue.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-30 16:11:48+00:00
You don’t have to stick with your job in the US either, you just have to earn enough money to buy it yourself from healthcare.gov. But that goes for everything, from food to shelter to utilities, etc.

Probably half the jobs in the US don’t pay enough for the employee regularly see a doctor. It might protect them for the $500k emergency heart bypass, but they are not going to be able to afford the $10k out of pocket costs or the ongoing healthcare expenses after they lose their job.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 16:11:53+00:00
> The vaccines studies were heavily examined and critiqued inside the scientific community, and scientists found that they established safety.

See, that's my whole point: "examined and critiqued inside the scientific community".

If you didn't want the rest of society to accept "the rest of the scientific community" as a separate, privileged authority, then why did you even make this part of your reply?
by spinity | 2025-11-30 16:11:54+00:00
Lol, Thanks! This small engineering upgrade ended up delivering a surprisingly huge improvement. The mass-production version will be priced under $100 — the precision is too high for stamping, so every part has to be CNC-machined. That makes it slightly more expensive than typical spinning rings, but in terms of smoothness and spin performance, there is literally no spinning ring on the market that can compete.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-30 16:12:12+00:00
People without a degree: Work and pay high taxes for years while their peers are studying, and then continue to pay high taxes to pay for the high salaries of degree holders who used their degrees to get government "jobs".

People with a degree: Get free education and free stipends, then get paid by the tax payers for the rest of their lives in their cushy government "jobs".
by zahlman | 2025-11-30 16:12:36+00:00
> I had to learn by heart

Can you not write shell scripts on Darwin?

> source .venv/bin/activate # Activate the virtual environment

This is a convenience, not a necessary step. All it does is manipulate a few environment variables. You can just specify the paths to the venv's pip and Python explicitly.

(Of course, you can script around the expectation of those environment variables, if you prefer that workflow.)

Also, pip 22.3 added the ability to install cross-environment, which allows for creating virtual environments much faster `--without-pip` (see e.g. https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/01/07/python-packaging-...).

> [sudo] rm -fR .venv

I can't fathom a reason you'd ever need sudo for this cleanup.
by LanceH | 2025-11-30 16:12:41+00:00
I know nothing about this specific situation, so I'm not speak to that. I am speaking to "why keep your wealth as cash in a safe?"

I'm old enough that grandparents lived through the great depression. I know they kept wealth in a safe. A lot of their kids did as well. The grandparents had their gold money taken away, or their cash disappeared in banks. A lot of their kids followed along.

Being gen X, Elon has parents/grandparents that lived through the great depression and world war. That along with any other local factors makes keeping wealth in a safe not that unusual.
by Isamu | 2025-11-30 16:12:48+00:00
>this coastal elite attitude that the masses should do what we say because we are the experts

I think this attitude, that the work the CDC and other boring agencies do is elitist, or that those who defend it are elitist, is the root of distrust. The fact is that these agencies do the long slogging boring work to establish what works and what doesn’t, only to be undermined in social media for clicks and ad impressions.

The CDC had a very good reputation around the world for the work it did. Since covid everyone on the internet is somehow a health expert and the actual people doing the mountains of boring and thankless work are now seen as nothing more than gatekeepers to the social media platforms.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-30 16:13:14+00:00
I'm an not the relentless explorer and experimenter that you're sort of patronizing with this comment. I'm somebody who knows that you can put together a NAS with an old desktop somebody will give you for free, slap Debian Stable on it, RAID5 (4 or fewer) or RAID6 (5 or a few more) a bunch of drives together, and throw a samba share on the network in less than a day (minus drive clearing time for encryption.)

It is not some sort of learning and growing experience. The entirety of the maintenance on the first one I put together somewhere between 10-15 years ago is to apt-get update and dist-upgrade on it periodically, upgrade the OS to the latest stable whenever I get around to it, and when I log in and get a message that a disk is failing or failed, shut it down until I can buy a replacement. This happens once every 4 or 5 years.

The trick with big-name NAS is that they go out of business, change their terms, or install spyware on your computer and you end up involved in tons of drama over your own data. This guide is even a bit overblown. Just use MDADM.* It will always be there, it will always work, you can switch OSes or move the drives to another system and the new one will instantly understand your drives - they really become independent of the computer altogether. When it comes to encryption, all of the above goes for LUKS through cryptsetup. The box is really just a dumb box that serves shares, it's the drives that are smart.

I guess MDADM is a (short) learning experience, but it's not one that expires. LUKS through cryptsetup is also very little to learn (remember to write zeros to the drive after encrypting it), but it's something that turnkey solutions are likely to ignore, screw up, or lock you into something proprietary through. Instead of getting a big SSD for a boot drive, just use one of those tiny PCIe cards, as small and cheap as you can get it. If it dies, just buy another one, slap it in, install Debian, and you'll be running again in an hour.

With all this I'm not talking about a "homelab" or any sort of social club, just a computer that serves storage. The choice isn't between making it into a lifestyle/personality or subscribing to the managed experience. Somehow people always seem to make it into that.

tl;dr: use any old desktop, just use Debian Stable, MDADM, and cryptsetup. Put the OS on a 64G PCIe or even a thumb drive (whatever you have laying around.)

* Please don't use ZFS, you don't need it and you don't understand it (if you do, ignore me), if somebody tells you your NAS needs 64G of RAM they are insane. All it's going to do is turn you into somebody who says that putting together a NAS is too hard and too expensive.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-30 16:13:29+00:00
But you aren't referring to "the homeless," you're referring to "homeless." It's strange, and i don't think it's unintentional.

Anyway, i know for absolute fact that bike thieves have been charged by the Chicago DA. Here's proof: https://cwbchicago.com/2024/09/man-stole-bike-from-cta-stati...

So there. I can prove the DA is willing to charge bike thieves, you have a bunch of conjecture scapegoating homeless people and denying reality.

> Talk to people perhaps

I talk to people at bike shops, i talk to my coworkers, i talk to people at the bars, i talk to my friends. Unlike you, i live here, i bike nearly everywhere, and follow local media/social media. The problems you're describing aren't real and you've done nothing to prove they are.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2016/7/3/18365620/chicago-parol...

https://abc7chicago.com/post/teens-charged-in-attempted-bike...

https://www.oakpark.com/2009/07/28/7-arrested-on-bike-theft-...

You can present evidence for your claims at any time
by Puzzled_Cheetah | 2025-11-30 16:13:42+00:00
In the short run, I'd mostly agree with you. Something being parallelisable at a low cost lets you do more of it in a short space of time, and probably lends itself to what should be an earlier decision as to whether to reexamine your approach. You're going to have a lot more information earlier - all else being equal.

In the mid to long run, however, the costs mount up - however small they may start off as. You can make, say, 20 job applications a day - (not an uncommon thing to have people do if they were on mandated provision) - have a couple of hundred open in a few weeks and get nothing back. That takes something out of people. People will still spend time from finding and making those applications, energy, motivation, an awareness of the wider context in which their problem's structured....

There's a human component to the problem which generates opportunity costs for things that don't seem to have any. Like yes, technically, you can put 20 job applications in a day and then go and volunteer. But it's the rare person who's actually going to have the energy, motivation and awareness to do that when they're going hard on a broad search strategy.