skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here are some Hong Kong'ers with a different perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-m6FDMYg0

So? In 7.5 million people, you can find examples of pretty much any opinion you can think of. I can find videos from Westerners who will lecture you like they're reading from a CCP propaganda script.

> Those US flag wavers were limited to some in Hong Kong only.

Of course: anyone who did that in China outside of Hong Kong would have been arrested immediately, just like anyone who would try to do that now inside of Hong Kong (due to the new national security law).

> The rest of the population (including Hong Kong) has a very different opinion.

I'm not so sure, even before the national security law, a call for liberation would have been pushing the boundaries. If an opinion is literally illegal, it's impossible to say with any kind of reliability how prevalent that opinion truly is (or what kinds of opinions people would hold, without the threats and their second and third order effects).

> Furthermore, how exactly does the US plan to liberate people? Here's what's done so far:

> - Hong Kong Human Rights bill, which damages the Hong Kong economy.

> - Banning Chinese companies, which damages both the Chinese and the US economy.

The most obvious is to drop the economics uber alles outlook, and limit engagement to areas that might eventually lead to positive results on the human rights front.

>>> "We support you, we just hate your government. So we'll forcefully liberate you, even if you didn't ask for liberation."

>> You do recall there's a pretty high-profile movement of Chinese citizens, some of whom were waving American flags and asking for liberation?

> Furthermore, how exactly does the US plan to liberate people? Here's what's done so far:

I didn't say it had a plan or that it could, I was merely pointing out that as a matter of fact, that liberation was wanted and asked for.
1. I vlog about my 10 year perspective on maintaining and growing my software business (a web app marketplace I bootstrapped in 2010). Things like architecture, stability, performance,seo etc. I'm a strong believer in ignoring the fashions and searching for the timeless in software, and this is my attempt.

2. Once a week at the moment. It's a lot of effort but I hope to monetize eventually (similar to railscasts or Laracasts).

3.Self-hosted (to avoid platform risk) plus YouTube (for organic inbound)

4. https://www.semicolonandsons.com/l/rails
"Is this the worst-case scenario? It doesn’t sound nearly as bad as covid-19."

This is a case where the media hysteria surrounding the risks of Covid isn't helping anyone. If polling is to be believed, the general public significantly overestimates their personal risk of mortality from the virus:

https://us.beyondbullsandbears.com/2020/07/28/on-my-mind-the...

As noted by the link above, the vast majority of that risk is concentrated in the oldest/sickest people. If everyone in the population is given a vaccine with even a fraction of a percent mortality, it could vastly exceed the risk posed by the virus to younger people.

It would be tragic, for example, to see any serious side-effects from a vaccine in people under the age of 20, who have essentially no risk from infection.
Yeah - its some unprecedented stuff for a vaccibe. One important thing to remember is that its impossible to test two important factors for vaccines in a short trial - long term side effects and durability of the immunity. I mean, it's not physically impossible. You could take a few hundred participants, vaccinate them, put them on a ship going at some percentage the speed of light, and then see if they have any side effects and do a challenge study to see if they're still immune. Short of playing with the fabric of space time (and ethics) - you're not really getting that data from any of these trials, which is why as I mentioned even with completed trials this timeline js unprecedentedly short.
The effect needs to be strong, because in ordinary times, many social circles cross paths and a much higher level of human contact occurs. The average person won't read into the nuance of 'the vaccine is X% effective, depending on risk factors Y and Z'. They'll rush to their ordinary behavior. While there isn't a vaccine, it's easier to obligate folks into social distancing. That strategy won't exist anymore once we have a vaccine, regardless of its efficacy.
A variation on this theme: make people frame their comments as falsifiable predictions. This is what Philip Tetlock advocates with his Superforecasting concept and sorta implemented here:

https://www.gjopen.com/

The hitch: making good falsifiable or verifiable predictions is tough and time-consuming. Evaluating and judging them requires even more moderation.

And let's face it: most online comments are not about advancing the public discourse. They're about getting a quick dopamine hit.
Finally. Turbotax is fraud on so many levels I cannot even get started.
Then why don't you actually state what it is about Adam Curry that makes him alt-right in your mind. You have not done that yet.
Fair. But I do think "better = good". It fits my main query of 1. Well funded 2. Trying to solve meaningful problems
Thanks!

> You still need the mutexes because multiple threads are writing to the same variables at the same time

I understand that for the "data" for which the push exists. Do we however need it for res_mutex when the value that we want to update is a single (I guess integer) variable for which atomic add could be performed? Is there something like atomic add?
Tech firms face growing resentment toward parent employees during Covid-19
All podcast apps still primarily use the Apple Podcasts Directory to index/search the shows and episodes.

"Indie self hosted podcasts" are still predominantly listed in the Apple Podcasts Directory.
They probably believe the benefits of providing their children with in person education outweigh the risks of COVID (and car accidents driving to school, and whooping cough, and flu and so on). Life is about managing risk and uncertainty.
Where do these parcel divisions get recorded exactly? I thought it would be a really fascinating open data source record to capture all the timelines of land being divvied up and sold and when houses get built through some map timelapse videos.
COVID has already caused at least that many people to have measurable levels of internal organ damage.
Interesting, I agree the 91% of ICU capacity does seem alarming, but what aspect of that is hospitals optimizing for maximal usage of beds for financial reasons? I would want to see how much an ICU was used in previous years and how often it reached 90% capacity.

Also given it was 91% on July 3rd, I'd be interested in knowing what the situation was on August 3rd and September 3rd.
The answer really is community. For example, look at churches.

Note that finding a non-personally-exhausting way to prevent a community from fracturing into a toxic mess of infighting is a problem. For example, look at churches.
Not exactly. They would always send a postcard or something similar beforehand allowing you to opt-out.
And not working that's actually the better outcome of a bad vaccine. It could also have side effects that are worse than COVID-19.
iCloud Backups are encrypted but just not using the on-device key.

Meaning that Apple can decrypt it when they are requested by authorities.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202303
Safer Phone Calls
> If an attacker gains access to your server, they can just inject javascript to gain access to whatever they want on the client's browser.

That's a little complicated right and out of the threat model of normal users no?

They mean to say if someone hacks into server and just copies the data, they will just have random nonsense.

For the javascript thing to work, you need to login after the server is compromised. And if they haven't realised their server is compromised by then, you shouldn't use them.
They are hundreds of vaccines in work. Not really. The rich are hunkering down and no one is rushing to use the Russian or Chinese one
I think it's just what the market is willing to pay. Prices in that range are par for the course with (ICE car) ECU mods too.
Someone sent a link to a recent episode and I didn't hear any of that. Maybe I just got lucky? In fact I heard more mocking of those type conspiracies than promotion of them.

Biggest turnoff for me was the "private jokes" or terminology that seemed to intentionally create a barrier to understanding without investing a lot of time to learn their language. Like being the newcomer to a group of people who have been hanging out for years.

What I did appreciate was the podcast notes which were like a full-fledged bibliography of every article discussed. Including the text of the articles.

As an example of what I would call mocking conspiracy theories, they used a "rain stick" and claimed to have accidentally caused floods and storms. It was pretty clear they didn't actually believe in rain sticks, but were having fun and kind of mocking such beliefs because it was all so over the top. But I could see someone taking their words literally.
Ask HN: Is GPT-3 a glorified Mark vs. Shaney?
A lot of this feels like people looking into their neighbor's bowl to see if they are getting more than them.

Love him or hate him Louis C.K. has a great quote here

“The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”

Times are tough, don't blame the parents for what they have to do, blame your management if they haven't adjusted team goals/metrics to take into account the new normal.
Apple is a fruit, also a company. Both can’t understand how apps work. The company one happens to employ people who can try to do that but not all people are familiar with all websites. It’s therefore developers responsibility to explain it to help the partnership work.

It’s unreasonable to expect that the reviewers be all knowing geniuses that make no mistakes. Simply work with them, it’s how business work. Publishing apps is not simply about writing code.

You can write a code, share the code but you are not entitled to have other people distribute your code. What you can have is a business deal with others, in this case Apple, to distribute your code and you will have to work with them to make it happen.
The new test equipment all runs Windows 10. It's weird to hop between pieces of equipment where some run still run MSDOS and others run Windows 7 or 10. They are all calibrated and still chug along doing what they need to do, just a little slower. The only annoying thing is when you can only grab data off the unit with either a GPIB interface or a floppy.
I agree, but that's what the challenge is. We have to solve for the values of X, Y, and Z where we're comfortable with people's inevitable rush back to their ordinary behavior, and it's extraordinarily hard to figure out what those values should be.
According to FDA, phase III trials typically take 1-4 years.

It's worth noting that, if there are any adverse effects that take a while to become apparent, the trial will need at least that long to be able to detect them. To my knowledge, severe vaccine reactions usually happen fairly soon, but a year before onset isn't necessarily unheard of for some vaccines. Also, that's just for vaccines that got approved; there may be some selection effects there.

The bigger one I'm worried about is whether or not the vaccine will confer lasting immunity. If we rush a vaccine to market in six months, everybody gets it, and returns to their pre-pandemic lifestyles, then we'll be in for a nasty surprise on down the road if it turns out that it only confers immunity for a year. It seems to me like we need to consider the possibility that an imperfect vaccine is worse than no vaccine at all.
That someone, like the doorman, will just pay it and assume someone ordered it and they'll collect from the someone.

Scammers used to do a similar thing here with xerox/laser toner cartridges.

They'd call ahead and find out what kind of machine you have, and then ship a pallet of the right cartridges for it. Cheap refills, terrible quality, they'd be worth pennies on the dollar compared to the real ones. But, they fit and they print, so the alarm bells aren't ringing yet. Someone else must've ordered these, but they're "the right ones".

Some time later, an invoice shows up. For the amount you'd expect to pay for a pallet of genuine cartridges, which is vastly more than this junk was worth, but does anyone notice? Sometimes, it just gets paid; someone forgot they ordered this, yeah? Whatever, just pay it. Sometimes, this smells fishy enough that it doesn't get paid, and then the scammers call up (sounding like a legitimate office supply firm) concerned about the overdue invoice, and "if you've already opened them then it's not returnable, so yeah, you have to just pay it at this point."

All lies -- it was sent unsolicited, you're under no obligation to pay for it. But a lot of people will, especially if the cold-call weeks ago where they asked about the machine might be vague enough in the memory that, maybe you did agree to buy some?

So the scammers take $600 in product and get $4800 for it. Enough return to make it worthwhile even if quite a few don't fall for it!
I don’t know anyone who uses iMessage.

I don't know anyone who still uses SMS. What's your point?
Seems like TurboTax is probably not worth the hassle of trying to use for free. They try to steer you at every turn into accidentally accepting the paid features, and if you manage to make it through the maze there doesn't really seem to be much left that makes them better than any of the simpler competitors if you stick to the free tiers - no saving your information year over year, no automatically importing the super complex statements from robo-advisors like Betterment, etc.

It also seems like most software engineers won't qualify for free file anyway, because it has an income limit of $69,000 a year as far as I can tell.

One thing I genuinely wonder, at what point will digital/web-based services become the default for handling information by the government and every other large institution? Will it ever happen in my lifetime? Why are we still having to pay for 3rd party software to fill out physical forms? Even docusign, while it has become very prevalent for most contracts these days and is very convenient, is still requiring that you fill out a scanned image of a physical piece of paper, instead of just making the contracts web-based. Why?? Why doesn't the IRS just have a web app like turbotax for everyone to file taxes through? And if the answer is that the tax code is way too complicated that it's prohibitively expensive for the government to build a site as comprehensive as Turbotax, then fix it!
Ahh yes, the running joke of "But who will pave the roads", this has be debunked so many times it is now a meme in libertarian circles yet people still bring it up anyone some mentions that income based taxation is theft.

Sad reality is most private roads are better maintained than the public roads which driving to my home everyday is like a obstacle course.

Then there is the fact the vast majority of Roads (in the US) are paid for not with Income taxes but with User Fee's such as Gas Taxes, Car Registration, Wheel Taxes, Tire Fee's, Sales Taxes on Cars, and many other sources

But hey let keep up with the narrative that with out income taxes we would all be driving on mud paths
Let me clarify what I think the parent meant.

This announcement was made very shortly after Trump started making claims that a vaccine could be ready "late October/early November". Trump is a known fool, and even were he not, his losing prospects at re-election, combined with the criticism of his administration's response to the pandemic make it seem like he could be pushing vaccine makers to rush a treatment to pump up voter support.

I believe vaccine makers are diplomatically responding to the Trump headline by saying "We aren't going to rush this for the wrong reasons."
I'm pretty sure you can learn to remove your own appendix, how hard can it be?
Uber/Lyft just made their campaign to pay workers less the costliest in history
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but

a) current hypothesis is people with prior exposure to common-cold non-COVID-19 coronaviruses are by and large either asymptomatic or have milder symptoms than those without such exposure

b) presumably it should be possible to test people for these antibodies much as we can test people for COVID antibodies

If people would volunteer for the b) anti-body test in reasonable numbers, and a subset of them who have them would volunteer for a modified trial, we could possibly do a double-blind intentional-exposure test on people to confirm that the vaccine confers BETTER immunity than the existing similar antibodies do, right? Would it be possible to ethically and realistically use that strategy to accelerate effectiveness testing (if not safety testing) of any vaccine candidates? or would the smaller scale of that have only made sense for something more like Phase 2 trials?

Arguably, as long as safety is near perfect, we should be willing to tolerate only moderate (say, 90%) effectiveness (and I'd read one of the vaccines took two doses to get 100% effectiveness but was 90% after a single dose), but I don't know how safety is evaluated and obviously long-term safety and short-term safety are pretty different/I imagine a lot of people will be more concerned about long term safety and I don't know how you can reassure them on that on any kind of accelerated schedule.
Sometimes, it is about thinking-out-loud about an idea.

That is to say, getting multiple dopamine hits as you type a long comment and imagine people on the internet being impressed by a comment you wouldn't be motivated enough to journal about.
I understand your position, but I don't see why this is cause for getting worked up.

After 9/11, the media famously asked rapper Ja Rule what he thought of the terrorist attacks. Obviously he wasn't an expert in international relations or counterinsurgency tactics. If it offends you that the media ask celebrities and well known individuals what their opinion is, then I scarcely can imagine any mass media channel that won't raise your blood pressure.

I'd just ignore it and move on. Media wants clicks, it is what it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

It's why computers from the 80s can last until now without needing any recapping but computers from 2002 or so are ticking time bombs.
Good catch on -r not mattering, here. I think `read` is one I've had trouble with and assumed that was it since I bothered disabling it. But after grepping around a bit more, the only one I see that shellcheck would object to that actually differs isn't common enough that I'd gripe about it.

I don't actually have a gripe with 2034, here. It's a good example of a statement that the user obviously has to triage.

Likewise, I'm just using `local -p` as a cheap way to show that the variables populate, it wasn't part of the original code I adapted. Yes--the case for coupling to the output of local -p is when the output is going to be used to set variables again later.
Ask HN is just for text posts (submissions with no URLs). That's stated there.

Show HN is explained in the rules that are linked to from the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

... so it seems like all the information is present? Admittedly in a somewhat cryptic form.
Are you sure the polled people interpreted it like that?

I for one read it as politicians pushing for a quick release because the effects of the pandemic are so bad while the risk of side-effects is difficult to predict.
That does everything from ingesting an existing database to forms? Not really, not perfectly (not that this is "perfect" either).

There's some things that get close though, like Directus (directus.io). API-wise there's PostgREST ( http://postgrest.org/ ), PostGraphile ( https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ ) and Hasura ( https://hasura.io/ ). Commercially there's Supabase (https://supabase.io/) which is new and based on PostgREST and their own tooling, and SubZero ( https://subzero.cloud/ ) which is similar.

There are some non-ingestion (requires you to use the frontend) headless CMS options that may also fill this space ( https://headlesscms.org/ ) if you tilt your head and squint.

This space seems to be growing, primarily on the API side, I imagine the frontend side may be next.

Currently my favorite is PostgREST and custom VueJS forms (using Quasar for "rapid dev"), but requires lots of 'bring your own' work.
MicroG development is pretty much in limbo right now, with only one developer who has very little time to spend on it.

It's a shame because it is an amazing project.. It only started fully supporting Android 10 last month.
I ordered an item a while back that never arrived. Took nearly 3 months arguing with paypal in part because the seller was able to provide tracking information which mapped to a different delivery in the same zip code. Every time this "brushing" scam comes up I wonder if this what they are really doing.
Nineteen Children and Counting
The problem is correlations. The flu naturally varies in severity by region, age, time, etc.

Even the studies you linked, anything prior to 2010 is suspect by participant counts being way too low. More recent studies appear better, BUT we don’t have anything prior to when vaccines started to compare.

I’m not saying the evidence isn’t there, I am arguing it’s circumstantial - aka not definitive how much it helps. Flu itself varies in severity widely.

I’m honestly convinced the entire flu vaccine program / push is to keep the industry active. This is similar to the DOD spending money on new weapons they don’t need to keep manufacturing going
Let's quantify "a lot of people".

Out of 45 million vaccinated, 450 got Guillain-Barré Syndrome. I couldn't find info on if any of them died.

That would have been acceptable if it had stopped a disaster, but as it turned out the 1976 Swine Flu epidemic never really materialized as expected.

With Covid killing 1000 Americans per day, I think we should happily accept those odds of side effects or worse.
Who said those are the only two options available?

Python seems to have won.
You miss the entire point which is stopping a communist foreign government from collecting large scale data on US citizens. The US government doesn't give a shit about Google, Apple, and Facebook collecting information they use on US citizens.
Yep. One such story is a podcast episode from Planet Money https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
Dogpark: A platform to easily integrate and manage the FIDO keys used in any org
What’s your source for (a)? I think virtually every human being on the planet has been infected with some coronavirus common cold strain in the past.
No one flagged you as a troll. But the kind of discussion you were starting here is extremely tedious—it has been repeated a million times and provokes people into making dumber and nastier posts. Surely it's not hard to understand why we don't want that here?
Under normal times I would agree.

There is already employer liability protection in the Senate stimulus bill, I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort limited liability clause added for vaccine makers as well.

Also with only 38.9 approval rating of Trumps covid response, and him trailing in the polls I wouldn't be shocked to see him trying to pressure some sort of deliverable around the end of Oct, which is when some of the 3rd phase ends.

EDIT:

From Trump

> "We’re gonna have a vaccine very soon. Maybe even before a special date. You know what date I’m talking about."
We still have at least one OS/2 machine. Runs 24/7 :-)
Gotta match the weight of the package to the product weight.