skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article clearly shows evidence that masks reduce the spread of covid.

In your critique you've changed the question you are debating (again) to 'does a surgical mask filter particles of the size we assume covid to have'. Because the answer 'not flawlessly' and the critique 'sample size 4' (when there were <100 cases in the country at the time!) support the answer you already had before your even read the article.

This is the conservative (and to be fair most people's) response to information that disagrees with whatever narrative hold.

Coupled with the amplification of a conspiracy presented with no evidence "masks are an exercise in political theatre and political control" and you have the right's playbook on pretty much every issue these days. Climate change, abortion, economics, disenfranchisement - experts say one thing, the right pulls out slivers of factoids "what about volcanoes and methane from cows" "what about pregnancies that have gone to 24 weeks" "what about communism", all micro-facts with almost no relevance to the overall discussion, designed to distract, enflame and stall in order to preserve the status quo.

On the left, there are similar issues, but at the end of the day, the left acknowledges and defers to experts on the subjects. The right has propagated such distrust and anti-intellectualism we have reached Trump as the ultimate demonstration of idolizing agreement over effectiveness.
There are definitely more manufacturers that provide an official way to unlock. For some others you have to remove the backplate and short some pins or whatever. These days it's probably more convenient to just use one of those root boxes though.
The real issue isn't the drugs -- it's mental health. Most drug users who become addicts started using drugs to cope and escape from problems they have in life: depression, anxiety, bipolar, PTSD, etc.

If we started treating the real source of the problem -- mental health -- then there would be far less appeal for these types of people to turn to drugs to begin with.
What about launching on Setapp?[1] Do you have any experience or have you talked to another indie Mac dev with experience? I’m a user and kind of a fan, curious to hear the dev side of things.

[1] https://setapp.com/
> Understanding at a high level "experts use fancy math to make my vote private and immutable" is easy but also requires a lot of trust.

A lot more trust than the current system, where voters and observers can at least believe what their eyes see. With a digital system nothing they see happening necessarily means anything! They can't verify it, and thus they shouldn't trust it.
No matter how sophisticated the modelling, how would you know whether it's accurate? A model can be highly sophisticated, yet quite wrong.
The article repeatedly makes the mistaken assertion that sending a 'Yo' constitutes 1 bit of information transmitted. This is mistaken as the information also holds temporal information, which is actually what is very useful. It's not a Yo at some random point, it's a Yo now. It's really encoding "now!". Still not very much information but a ton more than 1 bit, its a timestamps worth in fact...

/pedant
Look at gun deaths per 100000 in MX. Guns are very controlled in that country, you can only own a 22LR or a 38 revolver. Gun deaths are still right on par with the US. And of those quoted 39k deaths, 13k of the were homicide, with suicide taking the majority.

> At some point you've got to look at that situation and think "Is the fun of making things go pop worth it?"

So again, you are taking your opinion and projecting it onto others. You may think removing guns solves gun crimes. Mexico stands blatantly against that. You may think violence stops when guns disappear, then you see knife and other brutal attacks. You are stating you don't need them, so nobody else does. The second you the victim of some violent crime, or lose a family member you'll change your tune, as you see tons of democrats doing now.
Thanks for the links. I hadn't seen those.

Wow. Those were rough.

TLDR: Barn, horses, open door, darn.

Social media created the problem, makes enormous profits, harms all of society, and is not only powerless to mitigate it, has no responsibility to do so. Because Freedom Speeches™, or reasons.

You attribute most of the blame on stupid users. And yet. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey retweeted a bot. https://youtu.be/V-1RhQ1uuQ4?t=1159 So then what hope does the average person have of doing better? (Rhetorical question.)

A la Merchants of Doubt, I've always wandered how skeptics, shills, and apologists sleep at night. Surely Sandberg, Zuck, Dorsey, et al somehow manage. But what about the drones? So I'll be watching the career arcs of the people interviewed (Del Harvey, Yoel Roth, Renee DiResta, others) to see where they land.

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Back to my own quarter baked idea, the "mitigations" explained via Smarter Every Day operate at the medium layer. And they have a conflict of interest. I'm wondering if there's something to protect individuals, a way for noobs to up armor ourselves. My first notion is something akin to iOS Screen Time, like a uBlock for The Outrage Machine, where your device can help you ward off manipulation (inauthentic nudges).
Sure.

I was just talking from my perspective. And I found Guile much easier than Nix.

The complexity difference of NixOS compared to, let's say, Arch felt like Git to Subversion. It makes totally sense to me that a fundamentally different model of package management would require some rethinking, but it didn't make sense to me to create such a strange language for it (like Guix has proven).
In Search of Poland’s Post-Communist Pizza Baguette
I'm not sure it's actually true that the quality of care is much better than Canada. The one negative I see to the Canadian system is that it's true people can wait months for elective (but still very important) surgeries like joint replacements. It's not true, as some propaganda states, that we wait months to see the doctor, can't get prescriptions, or die in the hallways of hospitals waiting for a room. In fact we can go to any walk-in clinic when we need to see a doctor, or to any hospital when we have an emergency, and be seen without an appointment. (You can also make an appointment with your family doctor if it's non-urgent). To me that seems far superior to having to choose from those covered by your insurance, and then sometimes being unsure of what will be the cost to you until after the fact.

I will agree with you that the standard of care for those with the best insurance in the US is probably better than the Canadian system. But the standard of care here is still very good, and even as someone who could afford that good insurance, I wouldn't want to switch. Also, the US already spends more public money on healthcare than Canada does per capita despite not having single payer, so it appears there's a lot of efficiency to be gained.

Edit: please don't down vote my parent in disagreement. They answered my question in good faith and helped illuminate that viewpoint. Shouldn't be punished for that.
I once thought this way too, based on common cold and flu spikes coinciding with onset of school. But that's also when kids are all on top of each other all the time.

We should sooner completely shutdown bars and restaurants before shutting down schools. Especially elementary school kids. They need to be in school more than we need entertainment.

I think more frequent, even if less accurate, testing would significantly help mitigate the spread by further isolating those who have a higher degree of likelihood for being contagious.
> Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question.

That's not what the Baselight[1] people are saying. :)

One thing that hasn't been mentioned here yet is that Resolve is available for Linux. It is BY FAR the best free video editor for Linux.

[1] https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl....
Highly unlikely any nation state would willingly fire a nuke for whatever reason. It's probably an act to shake up the capitol and flex his muscle for his supporters which is good politics.
For me there is a problem here in the fact that both, platypus and squirrel are museum skins.

I'm missing a critical discussion explaining if this fluorescence is natural, (and can be natural perfectly) or due to the the chemical products used to preserve the specimens. Those studies are lacking of a control group
Sounds very difficult to explain and unnecessary. Paper voting is easy to understand and transparent. This is a solution looking for a problem, we're trading simple, easy to understand paper ballots for complicated blockchain solutions whose benefits are....what are the benefits again?
> Pretty much all constitutional democracies over the last 150 years looked at the US Constitution and said “yeah that part doesnt make sense scratch that, patch this, keep the rest”.

Where can I read more about this in short-form (not a college Politics textbook).
Shocking, to me, that you consider forgiveness a higher priority than accountability.
Just when you thought the flying squirrel couldn't remind you any more of a platypus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24966094 (Biofluorescence in the Platypus)
HitFilm is a home-targeting package with some built-in effects and pro-targeting paid addons, and Resolve is a pro suite that happens to be mostly free and more intuitive than other pro suites. Resolve's color grading is its highest-profile feature and built-in on the free version, where most of HitFilm's color-grading features are gated behind paid add-ons or the Pro version.

If you find yourself eventually hitting a ceiling with HitFilm (and for family/fun/hobby videos, you probably won't), try doing the same things in Resolve before paying for HitFilm. Otherwise, stick with whatever works for you.

Oh, and if you ever get into buying high-end cameras and gear? The other big selling point in Resolve that it's made by Blackmagic and integrates deeply with their gear.
Still no tail call optimization? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chinese brands are huge on crowdfunding, even if you’d never know it
They aren't mammals but scorpions glow brilliantly under a blacklight.
You've been downvoted but I agree. We've had a decade of mainstream Linux based smartphones and it sucks. Locked bootloaders, bloatware, proprietary hardware drivers that don't get updates... this is what mainstream Linux usage looks like.

"Year of the Linux Desktop" makes people daydream about a world in which everybody is a console cowboy using and loving FOSS software. That's what I used to believe in, but Android convinced me that's a fantasy. If Linux ever won the desktop it would be a pyrrhic victory, like Linux 'winning' smartphones with Android or DVRs with Tivo. Software for the masses would still be locked down proprietary trash, no matter what kernel was used.
Yeah, good luck getting governments to agree on consistent levels of taxation on something, when it's also some nations' primary protein source.
Its a dumb name change, but this is a dumb name change that should have happened a while ago.

While ARM has ARMv6, v7, v8... Intel has been using specific names: Nehelem, Haswell, and Skylake (not to be confused with Skylake-X).

A numerical naming scheme, of v1 (Core2), v2 (Nehelem), v3 (Haswell), and v4 (Skylake-X) will be easier to remember moving forward.
Repercussions scale inversely with wealth, and power.
Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, and many others fall at China's top hacking contest
I don't advocate for those things because I'm egalitarian. I don't think internalized shame is the only motivation for equality. I think we all are born with a little bit of universal empathy and we shouldn't be afraid to tap it. I've seen a lot of social justice that is motivated by the thrill of the attack more than simply achieving equality, and it easily falls away from the delicate balance they claimed to want at the start.
IOPS differences are exaggerated. You can generally beat consumer-grade SSDs with just four HDDs.
> I know there are some ways that reduce the downtime, like hard linking the data between the clusters instead of version

You need to have a proper backup of the database anyway, so I don't really see the risk in using the --link mode (which makes the downtime pretty much independent of the size of the actual data).
You might find some interesting packages on the topic of sustainable mobility here: https://github.com/protontypes/awesome-sustainable-technolog...
A City is not a Tree
This email explains much better what is happening here.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-July/116135...
The problem with the systemd showcase is that it is progress, it just doesn’t look like it on the surface.

When you use “kernel names” you’re implicitly relying on the fact that your network cards initialize in the same order on boot which isn’t guaranteed. It’s the same reason you should prefer disk UUIDs over /dev/sda. For a long time sysadmins have used udev to pin eth0, eth1, etc. to specific network interfaces to solve this problem but it’s clunky.

systemd changed this in a very elegant way. The BIOS already assigns fixed names to network devices! If you use those you don’t have to query the device for its MAC to figure out its identity like we do with partuuids and diskuuids. The crazy names come from your vendor — nothing stops them from being eth0 eth1. Dell uses eno1 ens1 and enp0s1 depending on the kind of card.

Now by default network device names are fixed and if you want eth0 eth1 like you’re used to the process hasn’t changed.
resolve is the best and I am so happy with Blackmagic as a company. They really leveled the playing field for small video producers like me
Toyota president: Tesla has 'not created a real business in the real world yet'
> The article repeatedly makes the mistaken assertion that sending a 'Yo' constitutes 1 bit of information transmitted. This is mistaken as the information also holds temporal information, which is actually what is very useful. t's not a Yo at some random point, it's a Yo now. It's really encoding "now!". Still not very much information but a ton more than 1 bit.

It’s still one bit. The time is not part of the transmission.
I think there's a reasonable case that legislators should have a secret ballot so as to reduce their vulnerability to lobbyists and donors. Not sure if I agree but it's a reasonable position. I don't think there's any major country like that though. A representative volunteered and publically campaigned as being for X, Y, and Z, so either they vote for those positions and the public gets what they asked for, or they don't and they lose their job. In practice, life is more complicated of course, but that's the idea.
Only ~800 likes :(
Good! The terminology was confusing for me, I am not used to the word "resolution" in this meaning and measured by KiB.
Yup, this is typical marine biologists job. Mostly ignored by strategical and geopolitical reasons, but this what they do.
All the developers I have talked to tell me it's a waste of time and money, for the most part. It's more of "sure, why not" channel. But if someone has different experiences I would be happy to hear them.
why shit on this? it’s great software and works well
I'm glad things worked for you and I think people can always find someone to be with regardless of who they are but let's be honest, is it "a very limited idea of attractiveness" the GP has or are you just sidestepping "Let's not suggest that having shriveled up wheelchair legs is a boon in the dating market."?

Yes it's a horrible thing, yes it's horrible to tweet about... but you know what, it's also horrible to try to act like it's just not a hinderance and this kind of thing needs to be called out. It's great, in fact it's easier! No, it's not. It's significantly harder life. Nobody thinks "man, if I just woke up tomorrow without the use of the lower half of my body my dating life would be so much easier" because it wouldn't be easier, it'd be a great hurdle. In fact nearly everything would be harder. Again this doesn't mean you can't find happiness or that nobody will ever like you for you, I think that's literally impossible in this world, but this is unfortunately sure as hell not an easy path to either of those things. <- this also means you don't have to be in the same situation to not be "ashamed" of your partner, though some may certainly be it's not a requirement of how society operates.

I'm not sure you can make the jump "you could say the same thing about trans people" (more power to you) as the alternative to being or liking trans people is lying to yourself about who you like while the alternative to being disabled is being abled. One is all about who you are attracted to and who's attracted to you, the other is about being able or unable to use part of your body. Of course being true about the former leads to greater success in dating, the latter seems a bit of a stretch.
That's amazing. What's special about emacs to do that vs any other scriptable editor? I don't think I've used an editor that's not scriptable since the late 80s. All the ones I've used could run script and those scripts could call out other programs. Is there anything emacs is doing here that they's other editors wouldn't do?
> Jira to me is just an issue manager though.

People who buy into Jira heavily use it primarily as a communications platform, to structure and make searchable the stuff that would otherwise be lost in the swamp of email and Slack and face-to-face messages.

> aside from document that are attached to issues of course

Aye, there's the rub. The documents in Confluence are often less important than the documents in Jira. You commit the paper trail to Jira - the primary info you get from your customers and bosses. Confluence is just the docs from the legacy crap you forgot to update last year.
That's not what I said. I said, a law which is not enforced is not in practice a law. It's just worthless words on a piece of paper.

There's a difference between a law which is not enforced and a law which a particular entity (but not others) manage to evade.

I merely pointed out that the entity to blame isn't the corporations who follow the law as it is applied but the government who enforces it that way.
Well the other side of the second amendment, and one the left shuts down when it's brought up, is protection from government. Then there's the idea of militia's. Both of these are also reasons for people to have the "scary black rifles" in their house, and a central idea to the 2A. So add these to the questions: "Is it reasonable to believe the US may need a militia", "Is it reasonable to force citizen to provide this militia", "Will the US gov ever violate human rights such that the citizens of the US would have to defend themselves against this gov".

Then lets also consider that when you talk about self defense, and the possible loss of life, should we be forced to play the "just enough" game with defensive force? Who exactly likes gambling with their life?
Chappelle has gotten a lot of stick for it lately if you haven’t noticed.
Isn't that Brave? Granted, they have their wierd crypto crap, but the big selling point is adblocking by default.
It's sad because it's mostly political. Adobe is still close enough with Apple to support an Apple format that Blackmagic competes with. The lack of an open/neutral format that's on par with either BRAW or ProRes hurts everyone.
Notice you didn't answer any of my questions.
Just myself, I saw an increase in FOSS activity seemingly due to the Great Recession leaving so many unemployed. People had so much time on their hands that contributing to a FOSS project made sense for all sorts of reasons. After years of recovery, people are (were?) back employed and don’t have such time on their hands.

FOSS is pretty interesting as a way for otherwise non-cooperatives to make something useful together. Also seems like something similar to academics. Unfortunately, our economic system might force it to be a fluke.
I also will miss him. He and Jeopardy were a fixture in our home, and life. What a great human.

I'm willing to work on this. I have lots of relevant experience, and a can do attitude. I've tackled (mostly successfully) similar challenges like artificial hearts, dialysis, AI and surgical robots. Coincidentally I'm giving a talk on making an artificial heart in 45 mins at the hackaday remoticon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remoticon-tickets-115886905855

I'm confident we could solve this problem. Lets do it.
> We’re all familiar with projecting/crowning a winner with the understanding that it could change.

But the title is "Biden wins", not "Biden is projected to win".

It's obviously an incredibly close race, so there is a both a moral and legal onus for an even closer examination of the results. That has not happened.

For example, per the NYT, Arizona has 3% votes outstanding (estimated), but the margin of victory that has been called for Biden is less than half that.

The polls have just not been accurate at all this cycle (or the last), so using them to project victory is fraught with peril.

> New information can affect outcomes.

Indeed. ;)
>The command for bringing up a network device is now ip link set dev eth1 up vs the older ifconfig eth1 up. Does this really look like progress?

I mean... what does progress look like? The old syntax is less words, but it's still something you have to memorize. Why is this new syntax worse?

FWIW, I believe the newer syntax more closely resembles what you have with Cisco network equipment. It also supports newer functionality like net namespaces, and uses newer kernel interfaces. None of those advantages are mentioned in the article that I can see...

>autoconf has its warts

This is the single most charitable interpretation of autoconf's problems I've heard in my life.

> in fact according to this[1], meson authors claimed it to be one of their goals to force users to have a bleeding edge version of python3 installed so it can be universally assumed as a given.
> [1]: https://kevstras.com/programming/2017/12/18/meson.html

I tried and was unable to figure out what they mean by that. Am I stupid or does that article not say that?

> Built with debug information, it takes up 434 MB of my harddisk space as of version 3.9.3.

Then... don't build it with debug information?

> It's primary raison-d'etre is its support for the Microsoft (TM) Visual Studio (R) (TM) solution files, so Windows (TM) people can compile stuff from source with a few clicks.

It exists because it was created to be the build system for a specific project. I don't even know if it began life with Visual C++ project generation support.

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All in all this feels like run-of-the-mill cynicism. Some valid points but a complete failure to acknowledge why things are the way they are. Some days I wish HN had a downvote button.
Older Android Phones Won't Support Many Secure Websites in 2021
Lazy-loading for the web built-in the browser – works without JavaScript too
The problem with Voter ID isn't the ID itself, per se.

It's a problem when coupled with very active, intentional voter suppression from those who control what forms of ID are acceptable, and how easy it is to obtain them, which is known to vary across demographics.

None of this is controversial: I live in North Carolina and the courts have repeatedly struck down Voter ID implementations from the (supermajority Republican) state legislature because the implementations "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision."
Well if it does, I should have absolute power to disable it. My phone, my screenshots.
99 years of avoiding major power wars from Napoleons defeat to the Kaiser. There were lesser wars to assemble the modern republics from feudal antecedents.
Also FWIW gtk is not difficult to build/package, distros like Void Linux no longer have Qt 4, and gtk2 should be an uncommon dependency with GIMP, Inkscape, and Firefox dropping it or already having dropped it.
> illegal boats will start mounting guns.

This happens since decades near California Gulf in fact.