skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iono, from page 6:

"However, taking into account the available studies evaluating pre- and asymptomatic transmission, a growing compendium of observational evidence on the use of masks by the general public in several countries, individual values and preferences, as well as the difficulty of physical distancing in many contexts, WHO has updated its guidance to advise that to prevent COVID-19 transmission effectively in areas of community transmission, governments should encourage the general public to wear masks in specific situations and settings as part of a comprehensive approach to suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission (Table 2)."

The later stuff is on filtration by cloth masks. I don't think that's why cloth masks are effective.

They're terrible filters. Don't think of cloth masks as filters. N95 does that, but cloth masks are useless for that.

What they do is alter the trajectory of respiratory droplets coming out of your mouth.

When you talk, your vocal cords vibrate, and that aerosolizes tiny liquid droplets from your respiratory tract. These droplets may contain viral particles.

When you wear a cloth mask, you're not filtering out those particles, you're altering their trajectory.

With the cloth barrier, the droplets catch on the mask, or are deflected at an angle that is not straight-ahead at the level of other people's mouth.

So if everyone is wearing masks, then it disrupts the vectors of virus-containing droplets being directed from one person's mouth directly into another person's airway, especially during vocalization.

The redirected particles spent more time in the air, and so have more of a chance to dry out before being inhaled.

It's one-big harm-reduction strategy, where the goal is not to completely filter out viral particles, but rather to make sure that you're not directly inhaling too many on a given exposure (sub-infectious dose).

That's how I think of it. There's no RCT or anything that proves it, but I haven't thought of any good argument for why this isn't a good model for what's going on.

Although hand-washing and physical distance are the gold-standard, part of the problem is that it doesn't seem to be feasible as an option (at least in the US), so we need to rely more heavily on the single best harm-reduction strategy, which seems to be masks at the moment. It's the difference between the best option in a lab, and the best option in a crowded grocery store or subway train where people aren't necessarily going to follow the rules.
I think music/podcasts would be a big sacrifice for me. I suppose I could do a dedicated MP3 player for music, but especially with podcasts the live-updating feed is something I really enjoy.
You can do the same thing with React though, you can arbitrarily render a React root anywhere, and an arbitrary number of times on the same page.

For instance, I work on an app that was originally written in Backbone / Marionette, but I was able to write generic connectors to allow us to drop in React at any point in the tree. Similarly, we can go back to Marionette / Backbone at any point in the tree. It's made gradually migration towards React possible.

Claiming React can't do the same sort of sprucing up as Vue is just a lack of imagination. Show me an old app, and I'll show you how to do it.
$100k in bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers earn $100M, DOJ says
Snake oil seems pretty strong. There's surely lots of SQL injections floating around that don't play the arms escalation game.

If they are selling it as foolproof, "snake oil" may be fair, but it does still seem to have some value.
> The jump instructions were 3 bytes

Absolute jumps ("JP") were 3 bytes, relative jumps ("JR") were two, whether conditional or not -- but, that's still longer than the 1-byte return instruction...; Though, absolute jumps were the fastest - they did not need to access the stack and adjust SP like "ret", and did not need to do addition like "jr".

I used to know the opcodes by heart, but I last wrote Z80 code in 1987, and last wrote x86 machine code in 1997, and nowadays I don't remember all of the binary representations, and sometimes I get the binary representations of the two mixed. I'm getting old ...
Exploring PL/Python: Turn Postgres Table Data into a NumPy Array
Not only is it an anti-spam feature, but a single personal connection gives substantial insight into a person's social graph.
If you like this sort of thing, I can recommend SALOME for its excellent Python bindings, each of which corresponds to a GUI action as well.
His Joe Rogan podcast is pretty incredible, if you haven’t seen it yet.
Yeah, let's follow CCP practices in the US, that'll show 'em!
Conventional banking and finance remains the bulk of activity within the country and I do not believe this announcement is declaring conventional products banned from the market at large. Rather I think this requirement only applies to a small section of the Indonesia financial industry, approximately 10% of the market.

https://www.ojk.go.id/en/berita-dan-kegiatan/siaran-pers/Pag...

Participating in the Indonesian sharia finance economy would be more akin to something like organic certification on produce. Most farms are not organic but if you want to label your products as such then you have to undergo a certification process with an agency like the USDA. In this case to be certified Halal you have to gain the MUI certificate which is recognized by the OJK Financial Services Authority of Indonesian. However, an Indonesian person is likely better person to clarify this more precisely.
Agreed. I "blame" Seldon's 2nd foundation for my disbelief in the long term effectiveness of any predictive and recommendation engine.

Long term, I'm not enjoying Spotify or youtube or netflix recommendations precisely because I know what they are trying to do.
I'm just running with the original example, contrived as it may be. Nobody here is actually talking about anything specific to points of any dimension.
If you're interested in understanding how postmodernism has been subverting meaning, motivating chaos, and how it's married to activism watch this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xILBpDOqD-A

It does a good job summarizing key ideas from Derrida, et. al.

At the end of the day, people are frantically grasping for power by spreading doubt into all modes of communication, institutions, cultural ideas, etc.
It was recent enough and not really adding anything new here at HN - that's not intended as disparaging, but the underlying content is essentially the same.

Not a dupe, agree, but a bit redundant, or at least worth flagging as recently covered.
To clarify, the "threat" in the title refers to China, not Taiwan who is the one feeling threatened.
> What's the use of only putting on their marketing site? All their customer problems/bugs would be with the clients and the web app?

So you acknowledge that they're using it to solve customer problems and bugs :)?
Don't be, there is no sense in religion in today's day and age.
Blaming the fires on Climate Change doesn't actually fix anything. We can stop all human emissions, 100%, and the climate will still continue to warm, fires would continue to burn, etc. I guess I am a bit tired of the "woe is me" political rhetoric, which usually doesn't contain any actual solutions and instead just tries to pass the buck on to the public.

Come up with some real solutions. CA, WA, OR are wealthy states, and could go buy up hundreds or thousands of firefighting aircraft. They can engineer homes with fire resistant materials and landscaping. Instead of promoting policies that encourage sprawl into wildlands, come up with better building codes and zoning regulations. Mitigate fires with controlled burns and forest management. And yes, if we want to curb climate change that's a noble goal, but maybe politicians could start by providing adequate civil services and then work up their ambitions from there.
The US government will try to reduce Chinese ownership in Tiktok.

Bytedance will try to resist fire sales.

What's the best compromise? Have an IPO in the US and have a lot of US investors in the deal, diluting Bytedance.
I hope not to trivialize things too much, but firefighting almost seems like a RTS game, especially if one can get drones/satellite/etc to provide real time updates to the "game map".

Even if there is the command chain that disrupts direct communication with your "units", the communication down the chain could probably be automated from the interface.
Whether they targeted the hospital might be relevant to what type of homicide they are charged with if they are caught.
I started playing with Vue in 2015, even wrote an article [1] about Vue which was pretty popular a couple of years ago (it was hosted on Medium then).

These days I'm focused on Svelte. It's faster and lighter, but IMO the best feature is you write a fraction of the code. When I go back to old React or Vue projects I want to cry. Svelte is so much more zen.

OTOH the ecosystem is minuscule so you are on your own. The support for TS and testing is not great either. Svelte is easy to learn but it's not very popular yet. I would understand if someone argued it's a risky bet although I'm building my SaaS with it.

[1] https://www.pierbover.com/posts/vuejs-good-meh-ugly/
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Most in-person social interaction is ingenuine in the same ways, but it's easier to be less genuine (more fake) over low bandwidth media like text. (And actually it's much harder to be genuine at low bandwidth, too)
Also this kind of action may intersect with constitutional foreign policy powers, which I think are far less familiar to regular people than other constitutional concepts from the Bill of Rights, etc.
Hat tip to the fantastic Browser newsletter (https://thebrowser.com/) for this one. As its editor & head curator writes:

"How can it be that forecasts of global trends and outcomes are almost always wrong, yet nobody seems to mind, no stigma attaches, and the appetite for them seems only to grow?"

From the article: "To understand the extent of our forecasting fascination, I analysed the websites of three management consultancies looking for predictions with time frames ranging from 2025 to 2050. Whilst one prediction may be published multiple times, the size of the numbers still shocked me. Deloitte’s site makes 6904 predictions. McKinsey & Company make 4296. And Boston Consulting Group, 3679. ...

I believe the vast majority of these to be not forecasts but fantasies. Snake oil dressed up as science. Fiction masquerading as fact."
> Should Google, Facebook, Netflix be banned in Europe?

Is there a decent European alternative to Google and Facebook?
I call this CYA (cover your ass) security. Passing blame for failures is more important than the technical merits of the product. If it fails you say "see ya" to the current vendor and hire a new whipping boy. Lol.
SALOME – open-source CAD and numerical simulation pre/post-processor
Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete? Maybe It's Both – Neuroscience News
Combining MinIO and VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Native Storage
Agreed. Thoe closed-source blobs and lack of docs also made it hard for WoA folks to write proper drivers for RPi4. I remember they had this beyond 3GB PCIE memory corruption issue for quite a long which is only recently fixed. I hope they can reverse engineer the GPU tho, it is nightmarish.
Unconventional Guide to Deconstruction in Engineering and Literature
@megous: “.. Shenkman was sent a 180 page evidence bundle from the prosecution on the morning of his testimony ..”

No doubt this bundle was deposited in the hallway and came without an envelope, with all the pages out of order, tied up with string and certain vital files missing.
In this case, you could use `htm`: https://github.com/developit/htm#usage
More broadly, I think the mere availability of mindless entertainment reduces one's ability to do anything else. I observe this in myself and others. In order to willingly do useful things, I need to be bored. That's when I feel a need to do something, and if that "something" is not Instagram or YouTube, I go for the more salient things. So for me boredom is a very useful state to be in. If I can't get bored (if entertainment is immediately available) I will not do anything useful at all. I have to make a conscious decision to not access entertainment during the day in order to get anything done. Fortunately I can do that without much of a drain on my willpower reserves.

But my son (and his peers) grew up in a world where everyone has Internet at all times, and the problem is more severe there. I'm trying to convince him that the way he's doing things now (basically 8 hours of YouTube and games a day, and lots of missing homework) will cause much regret in the future and will lead to a much worse lifestyle. So far I have failed to convince him of that though.
Why is Taiwan still so interesting for China? It's not like they could have anything that China hasn't. Is it that China is convinced that the island was rightfully theirs once and that they would lose face with any other outcome?
It kind of has to be done when people aren't there, or within the ventilation system. You can't have UV lights directly exposing people...
You can install whatsapp on a virtual android machine on your desktop/laptop. I did that for a while and used a dumb phone (new nokia 8110) as my main phone and hotspot for a while. I kind of enjoyed it, but a couple of things made me give up for now.: First, abysmally bad battery life when using it as a hotspot (and no auto wifi disable when no devices connected). Second, laughably slow charging. Like, not even net charging when using lots of data via wifi hotspot and even in best case something like 4 hours to charge from empty to full. I am still keen to buy a dumb phone that fixes these.
Who’s “they” here?
> Most social media interaction isn't genuine conversation between peers but a sort of status contest

But exactly the same is true for regular communications, especially for teenagers, whose whole life is making impression on their peers.
Coworking on Minecraft
Heck, sometimes it can be fun to get a little lost. "Oh, _that's_ where $FOO is!", as you accidentally go by it. Or "That looks like a cool $BAR, I'll have to come back and check it out"
> Raspberry Pi is an ecosystem which is based on proprietary technologies and masquerading as an open source friendly thing

It depends on what layer you care about. At the application layer it is completely open. Even if the chip designs and drivers were open source, you could claim that there are proprietary processes and supply chains for the hardware and material themselves. Unless amateurs could build one from scratch you will never be satisfied.
> From a user security standpoint, absolutely. But given that Europe relies on the US for military protection and trade, it’s unlikely to happen.

Military protection from whom? Russia? Russia is not in a place to attack Europe. And the US can barely protect themselves from Russia. Who do you think the US is protecting Europe from? Because the saviour of Europe seems to be Turkey and their willingness to keep all the refugees at their border instead of letting them flood into Europe.

And I don't think Europe relies on the US for trade. They export more to Swizterland and the UK than they do the US.The US are a massive trading partner, but to say they rely on them is a flasehood.

And let's remember the EU has banned American products before. Apple is the main contender for those bans.
Isis is also an unfortunately common name. Most of my coworker's apps stopped working and her banking became much more difficult sometime around 2012.
Being a little offensive is fine. The question and argument should be whether it's a corre t assessment about the field, not whether it will hurt their feelings to read this. If it's false, argue that. It can be offensive to priests to say there's no god. It doesn't by itself make it false.
What is the deal with the commentators emphasizing when the players “fist pump” and pronouncing it strangely? Such a silly gimmick.
I am not sure if parametrized statements solve 100% of your SQLi problems, but I know they at least offer basic protection. I have to study them in order to give you a complete answer, but I found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6786034/can-parameterize...
Yes Germany has both general IT guidelines and specific codes for hospitals. Also high levels of IT security are required by law for hospitals. And those standards, guidelines and analysis of industry sector typical problems are made publicly available by a government agency funded with tax money.

However: Despite a law being in place since 2015 many hospitals are still underdeveloped when it comes to IT and IT security in particular.
>> It's being able to buy rather than rent everything you want to buy. It's having productive assets.

If by "productive assets" you mean income/revenue producing, then I'm not sure we can all have that. Many assets like that require some else to pay rent.
Show HN: sus – static site based URL shortener
As someone who has been doing the DND mode for over 8 years now to avoid expecting notifications, it instead has taught me to reach over to my phone every 30 seconds to check the screen for any new ones :(

i've started to just chuck it somewhere if I'm trying to focus
Can't find it but it's one of the many, many, many links on this page: https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=illustrations%20
Thanks for the detailed reply. I will have to seriously give this some more thought. I saw somewhere else you mentioned you did it as an experiment at first - I think if I do it I will pursue a similar approach.

I appreciate that you mentioned you still have the LTE tablet - one of my biggest concerns was traveling and the HUGE convenience apps have on my life then.
If they banned them one would pop up real quick.
That's really an Angular problem; React and Vue have had very few breaking changes over the years.
>Or they can lull you into a false sense of security.

That applies to everything security related. "Don't review your source code for vulnerabilities, it may lull you into a false sense of security."
What are you using for a filesystem? NFS?

My worry would be saturating the older 100Mbit connections when downloading things like docker images.
One could suggest they were under attack, even breached, but their refusal to reveal details of their analysis suggests a worse conclusion.
Antimony [0] and libfive [1] also use custom geometry kernels.

[0] http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

[1] https://libfive.com/
The problem with banning "harmful" speech is creating the justification to ban any speech by labeling it harmful.

You fight harmful speech in the marketplace of ideas, by convincing those who might listen to ignore or counter it. Fighting it by forcibly banning it is just might-makes-right.
Nevermind I think I found it: https://freeillustrations.xyz/?ref=producthunt
> Discrimination is discrimination, no matter how you want to dress it up, and it's never OK.

Let’s agree on this 100% and then ask the question: how do we get rid of discrimination? If we have some implicit social bias that is causing a measurable difference in outcome for women, how can we get rid of the bias? If we take it on face value as truth that all discrimination is bad, the no discrimination at all is the ideal. I assume we both agree on that completely. In the mean time, before we’re able to fully eliminate all discrimination, which is better: negative discrimination against women resulting in the outcome of fewer women working and lower pay, or that plus an offset positive discrimination that boost the outcome for women so that there are more in the workforce and the pay is closer to equal?

We can try to push outcomes to be closer to equitable, but the most important question there, I think, is: will the affirmative action actually help remove the original implicit bias against women?

> The fact is that women simply represent a small percentage of the overall workforce in engineering.

That has changed over time, and is different depending on where you live. It went up from 0 a century ago to an average of something like 35% in the 70s, and has declined since then to like 20%. In some countries, the balance is closer to 50% and in a few places, its over 50% - spots in India for example. Isn’t that alone evidence indicating things have not settled, that we can’t rest on some notion that the workforce balance today represents the natural state of things? That we are obligated to ask why, and make sure men aren’t accidentally contributing to the discrepancy? (Especially given that in the past there is a documented history of that happening.)

> The only way to do that is to encourage women to pursue a career in this industry

What if the reason women are choosing not to pursue engineering is because there are still biases, and they know it? Then how would you encourage them?

> Discrimination is discrimination, no matter how you want to dress it up

What if the job you’re talking about being offered to a woman is subsidized and would not have been offered to a man either way? Is that still discrimination?
> Now I have a whole bunch of Pi 3's and 4's scattered around my home with no local storage at all doing cool things

Elaborate? I have a single pi3 as a Plex server, looking for more ideas.
Yes, there are multi-frequency devices, but they are all in the same "range" or "band" or "grouping" of frequencies (whatever it is we're calling that).

I'm talking about a combination hi-band, lo-band, GMRS, P25, paging, etc. radio. I should be able to tune National Weather Service on it if I want to.

When I talk about this, ham guys get all huffy about FCC this and that and what kind of anarchy do I want to live in. Whatever.

What I am telling you is that, on the ground, it's a shitshow (with regard to physical radios) and it's frustrating to know that it's a political problem, not a technical one.
I don't know, you tell me? I didn't say anything about Trump administration banning European internet service companies.
> Part of the problem was I started reading some programming books and wanted to code up things along with the text (like working through math exercises while reading a math book).

I tagged along on my then-girlfriend's business trip to LA because I had never been to California. She had the car and work during the day so there wasn't much I could do until she got back in the evenings. I had brought along a book on perl and learned both perl syntax and regular expressions one afternoon. Having to check everything by hand until I got back home required that I really understood the syntax and helped me retain it in a way that I think would have been more difficult if I just had a computer telling me if it was right or wrong.
Yes, the full demo of this engine is enticing. Thanks.
I've never seen an actual money making project that would require case that was designed by script. It seems odd but maybe I'm in the wrong I dustry.
I'm not sure this is ideal for users, no? Each time something is deprecated (e.g. nashorn in JDK15), I have to go check the long term support schedule, etc. And I have to imagine it's much harder to maintain, creating the potential for patchwork fixes across various JDKs.
Do you have children and/or have used most tech company's family account offerings?

Apple, for an example, has a "master" account which controls billing. All purchases made on any associated family account are routed through this master account.

My wife's purchases don't require approval, but all child accounts do.

Microsoft's account structuring is very similar.
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Their interpretation was fair.

>the other partner is certainly within their rights to be upset.

Obviously. No one here is trying to police people's emotions.

If someone doesn't want sex, then they have every right to "withhold" it from anyone, without being deemed "unreasonable".