skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote about exactly that 10 days ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567159

The main part about that topic:

“If it turns out that even vaccinated people can spread the virus (as in: "they can still become infected and only get less sick"), and that is estimated as very probable by the experts at the moment, the existence of other vaccinated people will not protect the high risk groups -- the so-called "herd" will never protect them, only the vaccine, and only if it works for them. Which they won't know in advance:
The experts also don't expect too high protection of the vaccine, as it is known that vulnerable are only some percentages protected by the similar vaccines (sometimes even less than 50%). So the masks can turn out to remain more important than we hope at the moment: then, the estimated protection if both the infected and the vulnerable wear a good mask could be higher in many circumstances than a vaccine. That was the sound basis for this claim:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/cdc-director-says-face-masks...

In Redfield's own words:

“If I don’t get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me,” he said. “This face mask will.””
I am all for legalization but this stuffs sound exactly like what was written a few years about Marijuana. There were tons of articles about how Marijuana use will do things like saving the environment, saves the rain forest, cure cancer and so on. For some reason like to overshoot with this predictions of the benefits of these things. In the end our capitalist world will probably prevail and whatever expansion of consciousness happens will be at the surface level.
there is an invest like the best episode about valuing art that might be a good listen. If the idea is to standardize prices and be an information source, this is great.
Re you sure they weren't hods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_hod

Used to carry bricks up and down steps
I think this is used as an intentional strategy of control, at least somewhat. Make a jillion tiny little laws that are impossible to keep track of or follow, that way you know everyone is a criminal if you want them to be.

Then if someone is acting up, it's only a matter of figuring out which unrelated laws they are already breaking.

It feels like this is the defining premise of the US tax code.
Very good documentary. An unnecessary tragedy.
I love when a game unlocks a new genre that further refines and perfects the formula... Dark Souls, Factorio, etc.
But its not the high density that's expensive (the downtown core is actually the profit areas), its the medium density with sprawling suburbs that is what us so expensive to maintain for the very reason that localized infrastructure may work -- space between homes.
> Shall we accept 45x as number (and what it value will be, 45 or 0)? 045? 045x? What date is 1/2/3, 1-2-3? And so on.

I think the point is that the answers to those questions may well be application-specific. In which case it is better to not bake them into the file format.
If cinemas had never existed, just TVs in people's homes, and a startup (post pandemic) tried to pitch the idea as

"Its like theatre but for films, everyone buys a ticket and then you play a film on a really big screen and you watch it with a few friends and lots of strangers, we think we can get exclusives for a few months before they go to streaming"

Do you think anyone would be interested? Discuss.
No, I don't think I'd ever want to do that. I've lived for a short time in a dense urban environment and I hated it. I've seen pictures of European cities and they seen way too cramped for my taste as well. Like it or not, you will have to deal with the fact that most people don't want to live cramped up.

Also, do you think the people will just abandon their land if no one else buys it? "Nature" won't pay for it. They bought it from someone else and will therefore expect to be paid before relinquishing it.
> 3) Act as a filtration mechanism.

which begs the question - why must university be a filtration system such that others (like employers) get to have a free-ride off of it?

Presumably it's just an unintended consequence of university study and qualification - that employers don't want the expense of sorting out candidates, and that someone capable of graduating with a degree must have some level of competency.

So, what if the gov't make university degree something that employers cannot discriminate with - like race or religion. If they want to ensure their candidate is capable, they can administer a test (or pay a central examination service provider for such a test). A candidate looking for jobs do not require a university degree, but do require taking this test (or have taken a prior test and show the results).

This way, university can remain "pure", rather than a gateway which people pay as an entry-fee for employment.
> because modern people really don't want to live in them.

At least in the US, I doubt this is true, by and large. Given the sheer number of people in them, it seems to strain credulity that most don't want to.
I have had to service/replace parts of my Samsung dryer 4 times in 3 years, have never read any other positive notes about them. Their appliance quality has went downhill and I am never buying Samsung appliances again.
What I would prefer over a self-hosted commenting system, is a way to automatically publish on Hacker News my blog post, and to have the comments here, as the discussions are almost always more interesting here anyway.

I know that this does exist already, but what I would like too is to have the hacker news thread of comments shown on my website.

Does somebody know some way to do that ?
Downloading science articles on an "open campus". Something that should be celebrated was instead castigated.
We got our first computer (an 8086) at home almost when it first came out. We were a PC/MSFT home (as was most of Europe). Didn't dabble with Linux until the late 90s, when I painfully installed SuSE. It was a hard time trying to get all your random devices getting to work on Linux back then. Let me tell you, it was a moment of bliss when ubuntu first came out. Aside of building and deploying docker files, I haven't played much with Linux in the last decade. The mac has the perfect blend of a great GUI with a Linux-y terminal and compiler tools.
Replicas of Michelangelo's 'David'
Really not trying to dismiss your perspective. Just pointing out your bias. Your views aren't entirely objective and pointing that out isn't being judgemental. Sorry if it came across that way.
There are limits in every country for free speech. It's usually images of child abuse, threats of direct and imminent harm to specific people, etc. I just did a post about this:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer...

Remember, at one time, saying homosexuality was okay was considered dangerous, hateful, flawed and needed to be banned. Saying god didn't exist could get you expelled from a university, excommunicated from your community or killed.

You only view some speech as okay today because you don't understand what some people went through to fight for that idea.

Assange is clearly free speech. However leaking that information is a crime if you're a member of the US military (hence Manning; maliciously prosecuted by Obama, and then also symbolically freed by Obama).

The NYT published information about Trump's taxes. That's free speech. The Person who leaked it committed a Federal crime. (technically NYT may be guilty of a crime here too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrvYNfsAgJY)
I love school and work from home, but school from home doesn’t work as well for a couple reasons:
- the professors are completely unprepared to do it effectively. I’m surprised they are struggling as much as they are. Many don’t seem to be drawing on any departmental prior experience, or even taking simple training on stuff like how to run a Webex meeting. Some professors clearly know how to do it better and it makes a HUGE difference. So that’s a big issue with the current situation. Some profs are doing a stellar job this semester, others are doing a completely awful job.
- for me, face time with fellow students is really helpful for learning, more so than face time with coworkers being helpful to work. However, in lectures you don’t get that much time to interact with other students anyway, so to me it’s not worth the time of getting to campus
Beg to differ... many people find city life to be completely antithetical to a life of happiness.
In my example I wasn't talking about formal meetings in conference rooms, but exchanges between people in the same office space. There's always a tendency for people to ask what's been decided in the meeting right after it ends when they weren't present. This could be reproduced in a remote environment. Indeed, I think the minutes from the meeting should be published, even in an in-person office.

> Culture has to adapt to the environment. There’s nothing special about it being remote.

I totally agree with you. The only issue is that this adaptation may take some time. In my client's example, this was considered a temporary thing. Most people were switched to part-time, etc. I think they merely considered the remote thing as a bump in the road, and this situation may be pretty common among companies affected by shelter in place directives.

I think people may be surprised by the sudden change, and they are looking for ways to adapt. In the beginning, they will try to reproduce what they were doing before, which, of course, may not work as well. Which contributes to their frustration. I don't think that if they were forced to stay remote for a long time (some six months to a year at least) they would continue trying to fit the square peg in a hole that's become round. Maybe some would, but I'm hopeful that a sufficient number of people would try to adapt so as the change the surrounding culture.
Taxes became a thing precisely because this model failed. The utopia of "common sense and decency" kicking in and ensuring public services are well funded is a false hope and does not work. Simply put, there is always a significant element in the populace that won't pay if they can get away with it, and making taxes optional just gives them an easy way to avoid contributing at all.
List Ends
I say look no further than the Oath of the Engineer.

Sometimes the simplest is the best. There'll always be differences in everyone's moral fiber, but generally speaking, be professionial, be efficient, come up with a plan to build every project that comes your way, ybe willing to say "No" when everyone else wants you to say "Yes" when put in a position in opposition to the interests of the Public.

It'll change from country to country, but the essence of it is universal to the field of endeavor, and legalism should have nothing to do with it.

Note discretion is nowhere included in that except maybe implied in professional. That's intended; as Engineers, we all must be on guard for those building things harmful to the public, and be willing, if Fate deems it necessary to inform other Engineers of the danger, and educate the non-Engineer enough that they can come to a reasonable conclusion on the matter, even if they don't end up swinging the way we think they should.

For ours is a postion of systemic guardianship and stewardship of the Will, made manifest through artifice, of humanity. Every nut and bolt fastened, every line of code written, compiled, interpreted, and executed; every transmission, transaction, every automated task, and task left unautomated is another fold in the delicate structure of the societies in whose service we ply our trade.
OMG, thats it, the answer is to merge cinemas and airlines into one venture - so if you want to see the latest movies, you have to see them on a plane
Long-term debt is going to be the ultimate problem. Commercial property is already looking very rocky, and it's going to have its 2008 moment within 18 months or so.

IMO this is a major social shift, not a temporary distraction from business as usual.
I'm not talking about everyone moving to the country. I'm talking about localizing power/sewer/water infrastructure in medium density areas like suburbs. If you read the article you understand that its the suburban sprawl that is the expensive areas to maintain. High density downtown cores fund themselves just fine.
>This comment by spez is also interesting

For what its worth, Spez was caught abusing his admin access to secretly edit comments in the past, including other people's comments who he disagreed with politically. I would doubt any comment posted on reddit where Spez has stake in, as he might have just changed the story sometime down the line.
http://archive.is/QQwnQ
onestly, no.
Not much has changed since two months ago.
archived link - for those who can't see the page - https://archive.is/N5drE
The trouble is those platforms just attract all the people who get banned from Reddit, and then you get this:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/voat-what-went-wrong/
The world is full of unfortunate places where armed people are plentiful and effective government is scarce.
Related: Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic research

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/14/uc-berkeley-launches-ne...
I dunno about that. Here in Chicago we've been seeing a massive migration out of the city to the suburbs for the past several years. In all of the reporting on the topic, no one has mentioned cold war fears as a motivation. It's always high taxes & failing infrastructure given as the reason.
No, it's more like if you go to a surgeon, he may suggest a surgical remedy because that's where his expertise is focused. Same here: a guy writing for this site is likely to focus his research on denser urban planning as a solution, and we should bear that in mind.
Thats such an absurd opinion. People live in suburbs because you can raise a family at an affordable price point and not have your children see people shitting on the sidewalk. People also dont want to live around millions of people in close proximity if they can afford it. I lived in NYC for 10 years and its a complete trap that you can't escape because you dont have the logistics or financial means to move out (and I had a white collar job in finance). I had to get very well off before I could move out. Thats the primary reason cities become over-crowded. Its a one way street especially if you're single. Not because they're so great.
I'm very glad people want to read my story but I think this comment makes my point. It's at the top because I carefully wrote it and purposefully kept it short and digestible. The long details of my life experience are linked rather than written out. People opt in to read more.

From past experience, the long, rambling, barely coherent rants I start with aren't effective or well received. :)

Note: This comment was eight times longer and took about 8 minutes to reduce to what I have here. And I seriously considered deleting it because it doesn't add much to the conversation. Only 20% of the comments I write survive to be posted.
Using the size of aerosolized droplets (0.35-10um) and the mass of human skin (20 lbs) would knock two orders of magnitude off, and drop the floor estimate to 50 megavolts.
Even just repeating his name gives me goosebumps, makes me sad, angry, feeling all together. I don't know, the system I hate so much, because of the ones that've always betrayed people like Aaron.

Such great documentary if you haven't watched already and know about this amazing human being.

His website (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/) is still online if you also want to read what he was thinking and making, before they cornered him, forced him, feared him, took his hope and killed him. I'm so sorry man, rest in peace.

Edit: I sometimes remember him with Tim Berners-Lee's poem:

Aaron is dead.

Wanderers in this crazy world,
we have lost a mentor, a wise elder.

Hackers for right, we are one down,
we have lost one of our own.

Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders,
parents all,
we have lost a child.

Let us all weep.
* once you force everyone to stop driving
Encoding is not encryption. Do you consider Morse code or Base 64 to be crypto?
How do you have case-insensitive passwords? Does it all get smooshed to lowercase before it's salted and hashed?
Both. There’s collision detection for interference. The actual devices on the AP itself time slice access.
That’s the beauty of it, magic pipes are easy to undo quickly so they are hard to detect.
> Many people who perform front-end development never seem to figure it out. They are dependent upon a collection of tools to do large portions of their job for them.

Do not feel bad about it. This practice applies as much to the back end development, the whole of programming, and human experience in general. There is only as deep as you can go. I would never be able to build a computer from electronic parts and bootstrap even a simple operating system from scratch.

If I understand you correctly is what you probably mean is that many developers approach their job mechanistically, without getting into understanding of the parts of the knowledge that would allow them be much better at what they do.

To that I say - it is because of immense and fast growing demand and the fact that FE development sits on the very top of one of the most complicated infrastructure stacks in human history.
If you are looking for a job, come and know the details
The Japanese central bank has been trying to increase the inflation rate for years, with limited success.
Randomized MAC addresses is a neat idea, it also helps bust through the time limits of free WiFi that only give you something like 30 minutes per day (because they use the MAC to identify if you've used up your 30 minutes).
Why not put a mailo: link at the bottom of a post, with a subscribe message to a listserv for the blog? If you really want, you could also render threads into a comments area.
Question: do you still play games? If so, how much? I absolutely love gaming, but I can really lose myself in it, and also sometimes think about what I could do if I would spend these hours on for example learning (I'm a web dev). Sometimes I think about quitting gaming entirely and spending that time on programming projects/learning entirely for fun. At the same time I like gaming, but I have a hard time not getting immersed in it.
Both those subs are sexist garbage and MGTOW is not "just a group of men who have decided to never date, marry etc.". It's a shitty community that frequently promotes sexist garbage like this [1, 2].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/MGTOW/comments/i3dqzi/very_superfic...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/MGTOW/comments/iwaqm5/we_equality_n...
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I love it! Seen a bunch of these before but none of them really stuck since their UIs felt so chunky and hard to use, gonna give this a try soon, good job :)
Yes and they’re legitimately paid to ignore the fact that internet access is a base need for everyone and should be cheaply available.
As you say, there are risks and benefits. "How" matters a lot.

I think you exaggerate though. A lot of the risk is down to extremely irresponsible use... many steps removed from the high level of medical supervision you laid out.

The basics are some mental preparation, a trip sitter, correct dosage and a proper set. I don't consider psychologists the only or necessarily best guides.

Like all drugs (including alcohol), they can interact with preexisting susceptibilities to mental illness. Being an experience, it can also cause trauma. So can non drug experiences, like rock climbing. Dosage, set, setting & preparation mitigate these a lot.

Psychedelics are not a danger free activity, but like most dangerous activities most of the irl dangers are from ignoring safety entirety. FWIW, I think the more normalised, discussed and non judgemental psychodelic drug culture becomes, the more responsible users tend to be.

..And for comparison, it's a lot safer than many sports and hobbies.
This is pseudo-science. Please refrain from upvoting.

You cannot prove (or imply) causation via observation. The only method we know to find causation is by setting up an experiment. This study however merely measures variables in a pre-existing context, without injecting independent variables. The only valid result you may extract from this is a correlation, never causation.

Please edit the title to reflect correlation or (IMO preferred) delete the submission, because such bad science surely does not pass the quality barrier of HN.
You can trace a lineage from that German (?) cheese to Brazilian música sertaneja (country music), as in "Rumo À Goiânia" (Road to Goiânia), this rendition by Leonardo and Zezé di Camargo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjGy20QQHk

My parents moved to one of the referenced towns, Uberlândia (Land for All) in the mid-1950s, and then to Goiânia itself later on. (Then Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Brasília. "Home" though always was Phoenix, AZ.)

Edit: cities, title translation
Show HN: DetailsPro lets designers use SwiftUI without any coding knowledge
In Canada maybe. More and more states in the US are going back to normal, and this trend doesn't show any sign of changing.
> if the vaccines aren't effective

The common public expectation is that “effective” means “one would not even catch the virus and won’t be able to transmit it to the others with the vaccine. In reality, “effective” could mean “those with vaccine and good response to it will get less sick.” Which is something, but then, some would not even get a good response, and still could get very sick, and they also won’t know that the vaccine they received can’t protect them. And everybody with a vaccine would still be able to infect the vulnerable at least during their own asymptomatic period.

With the flu vaccines the older often aren’t fully protected, only some percent of them.

Immunology is complicated.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
You take on new debts and try to persuade creditors you'll be paying them off real soon now.

This isn't snark - it's literally the new normal in many sectors.
you can also mvp this using apps like causal
Small feedback:

I did not initially realize that the upgrades are different from the "main quest" and was wondering why all my upgrades required parts that I could not produce. Not sure if it could be clearer than having the thing I was missing smack-dab in the middle of the screen, but just sharing some experience.