skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"not thinking the correct thoughts" would usually mean not subscribing to conventional opinion, not literally a euphemism for mental illness. And ones "morality" is usually considered to be a persons sober opinion, not things they do while on drugs.

Twisting the terms to fit the homeless means it applies to historical examples less - the persecution of certain demographics for their beliefs was not based on drug-induced anti-social behaviour.

> Plenty of people with homes are addicts

what kind of addict? What are they addicted to that they manage to keep a home?

If they are to hold on to that resource they maybe their situation isn't comparable?

> Plenty of people with homes suffer from depression or other conditions

What "other conditions"? depression isn't at all comparable to antisocial behaviour, but in fact if your depression leads to mania, self-harm, or self-neglect you may well be institutionalised.

> political opposition was considered a mental illness

And this was a determination made by doctors or medical professionals comparable to todays medical professionals?

How many of the politically opposed refused to take care of themselves as a result of their opposition? Is self-neglect difficult to distinguish from political motivation?

> differentiating between danger and inconvenience

The "inconvenience" of political opposition isn't at all the same thing.

laws and regulations exist guaranteeing political freedom, vagrancy shouldn't be crime itself, but anti-social behaviour shouldn't be excused on the basis of vagrancy.

> Is seeing someone in a park smelling like urine and talking to someone you can't see enough of a threat to be isolated and force-fed mind-altering drugs?

No, but where was that suggested? And by "force-fed mind-altering drugs" do you mean in all cases, or after a medical professional evaluates the person and promotes that as the best course of action (in which case its no longer based on the initial scenario you describe).

> Does making unproven accusations demonstrate enough possibility of danger that we should "lock her up"?

What are you responding to? What "unproven accusations"? I feel like you are making broad counterpoints to points never made.
Strongly agree to this that "Psychological flexibility is a set of skills. And if you learn them well and apply, you not only empower yourself to become happier and better adjusted, but also might just empower your relationship."
I thought it was more of a "protect the future" sentiment. It's probably shades of both.
Just cheery picking examples, huh? Each scenario would need to be evaluated individually and would likely have different issues. For example, the cops in Floyd's death ignored PATH training and the one's in the Taylor death lied to the judge to get the warrant.
Really, communes are important, as far as I’m concerned because they are laboratories for social change, experiments to see what works and what doesn’t as we try to create a better world.
(if people aren't familiar, that's a reference to the Chuck Yeager's Air Combat flight sim)
Where People Stick with Their Jobs
The existence of God does not preclude the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Even the Bible itself references intelligent non-human beings in Genesis. Read the Space Trilogy by CS Lewis.
Do we actually know all the details of who they’ve contracted with? I wouldn’t be surprised if
private healthcare providers in the UK already got their place in line.
Yeah. If by assume, you mean conduct multi-phase clinical trials with peer reviewed studies by people whose job and expertise is in determining the safety of new medicines.
Our migration to AWS Fargate: how we survived the AWS outage just in time
AirPods Max
> Have the old divisions between musical styles – a source of surprisingly bitter contention in the last decades of the 20th century – now healed? Do people now accept your chosen path of tonal harmony, melody, repetitive structures?

> No no no no no. Those divisions never healed. Those people just died! The people who don’t want you don’t change their minds. You outlive them, if you’re lucky. They’re all dead now, the older guys. The battle was never won or lost. The army just went away. What can I tell you? Isn’t that the truth? It’s biology. Nothing more than that. They’ve just gone away… and we carry on playing.

This seems true in so many things: politics, engineering approaches, even theology at times. Keep doing what you think is worthwhile, but don't expect to change the minds of the old guard: you "win" by having the newer generation accept your approach.
I would not say that it is not relevant. Raw pointers are a fundamental part of the language. It is just that Rust abstracts over them so that many users do not have to worry about them.

I see your point though.
I think doctors have to ask for ID if they suspect someone is not eligible for free treatment. I know this happened for two of my friends and they had to show ID at A&E, but that was during the heat of Brexit campaign, so this could make doctors feel encouraged to do such checks. I have not heard about it for a long time now though.
Have you gathered data? Not seeing a lot of citations there, whereas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incide...

Which is obviously a limited sample, should I continue or are videos of actual incidents, leading to actual casualties, really just "anecdotes"?

I mean we could go with just this: https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/16/doj-polic... and ask how the hell is this a thing since the starting point is "discharging a firearm in a populated area" and is reported by the DoJ itself as an incredible problem.

But I suspect you can't point to anything. The null-hypothesis here is definitely not "police procedure is absolutely correct". You know, seeing how the literal subject of this comment chain is "police raid on data scientist's house where guns were pointed at her children as part of a politically motivated shakedown for a crime which is by definition non-violent".
So, this post suggests that lockdowns don't "work": among other things, a lockdown may create reactance causing people to not not only avoid changing their behaviors to reduce risk, it may even make some perform behaviors to increase risk, to themselves and others.

It's just disappointing that, if true, the opposite doesn't work. If only this happened: the gov says "We choose to do no lockdowns, and just have a list of suggestions. No need to follow them. Do your normal activities" and the response: "You can't tell me what to do! Screw you! I'm going to wear masks AND distance, esp among vulnerable populations! Do my normal activities my foot! So there, suck it!".

Reverse psychology always seems to work better in marketing, and low budget movies and sitcoms.
I came at it the other way - make GTK apps look like Qt ones. Everything on my system uses Breeze Dark. The only way I can tell GTK programs from Qt ones is the "About" dialog, or the file picker. (Oh, how I wish I could use the Qt file picker in GTK programs)

(edit: QT -> Qt. Seasons greetings to the flagkilled throwaway who informed me of my mistake.)
I think a lot of people here conflates using kubernetes (not actually more difficult than any other container service) with running a kubernet cluster (a difficult mess and it was even included in the original post)
> AirPods Max are available to order starting today for $549 (US) from apple.com and in the Apple Store app in the US and more than 25 other countries and regions. AirPods Max will begin shipping on Tuesday, December 15.

Edit: After AppleCare, optional 3.5mm cable, and tax, it comes out to just over $700 USD.
I was curious how realistic the advice to dress in your finest would be, so...

In the US, at least, union wages would have brought in $20-30 or so per week. [1] Looking through [2], you could get a whole gentleman's outfit for roughly $50 or so. Even still, you'd be spending 2-3 weeks' wages on a single set of clothing - not to mention that you'd need somewhere to store all that, and you'd probably also need additional stuff to maintain it so that it looked half-presentable for your daring escape.

It's much more likely that, as someone in steerage, even your "finest" wouldn't have passed muster for the keenly class-conscious Brits on the upper decks. The fabrics and cuts would be different, you'd be missing fashionable accessories and key pieces of the outfit, nothing would be tailored, and everything would be in worse wear. (Not to mention your lower-class accent and diction would likely give you away, unless you'd somehow had the benefit of a pricey elocution tutor.)

[1] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/union-scale-wages-hours-...
[2] https://vintagedancer.com/1900s/edwardian-1910s-historical-m...
Windows actually used to be decent and fairly consistent, but I agree that it's gone to shit in the last decade. They botched scaling to HiDpi and fragmented their UIs in the sad attempt to chase convergence with touch UIs.
Cities as social and economic generators of success that churn prosperity
done, thanks! didn't seem to work though
Swiss villagers face 10-year evacuation in $1B bomb removal plan
That's what is happening at this moment in Thailand. There were no local transmissions for many months. Borders are closed and anyone coming into the country has to go directly to 14 day quarantine and test clean before they get out. But then some Thais went to Myanmar and snuck back into Chiang Mai in northern Thailand illegally. They were infected and have now spread the infection locally in Thailand to at least a few people. Some cases took flights to Bangkok. There is a frantic effort to track and trace everyone who might have been exposed.
I didn’t know so I looked it up. Looks like more body fat compared to body size is the key, regardless of gender.

> [1] No significant gender differences in total metabolic heat production normalized for body mass or surface area were found among subjects who completed 90 min of immersion (9 women and 7 men). Nor was there a gender difference in the overall percent contribution ( approximately 60%) of fat oxidation to total heat production.…On the basis of the above findings, we accept the first hypothesis that women and men exhibit similar changes in body cooling and M˙ during cold water immersion at rest when subject responses are corrected for BF and size.

[1] https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.2000....
In David Brin's novel Earth part of the backstory is that WW3 is basically everyone else vs Switzerland and everyone nearly loses (the Swiss almost use cobalt salted doomsday bombs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(Brin_novel)
So it wasn't actually biased. But at least they scrapped it anyway.
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Apple Fitness+: The future of fitness launches December 14
The vaccine wasn't tested for reducing spread - it was only tested for preventing symptomatic illness. We don't know yet if vaccinated people exposed to covid can spread it to others even if they don't get sick. Therefore we base our vaccination protocols on something the vaccine is proven to do, not something it might do hypothetically.
Stop thinking of them as restrictions that are holding you down; instead, try to see them as puzzles. And once those puzzles are solved, you’ll be left with something that’s much more creative had you never faced any obstacles.
Clever ways to grow your MRR
I have a question, does Google's Android licenses allow Android apps to be used on non-android operating systems?

I know that some Google provided APIs will be missing, but still, we could soon have alternatives, like OpenStreet for maps.
The more these big corporations involves in this process, the more we are gonna lose our privacy.

Centralization and too much power in certain amount of hands are the source of all evil.
Unless, of course, you intend to cap users at a specific amount for another reason.
Where React Went Wrong: Hooks/Function Components
If I were you, I'd try to get in contact with the libhandy developer and try to get a conversation started, e.g. on the GNOME discourse instance.

I think many in the community are interested in this, but have been waiting for hardware to show up.
Out of curiosity, what kind of money we are talking about? For example checking up sprained ankle at A&E?
Many of my friends being disappointed with NHS go for example to Mexico for private treatment and it works much better that doing it here, plus you can enjoy the climate and great food.
Preventing the target resolver from seeing client's IP address breaks GeoDNS. This is already a problem with 1.1.1.1 which doesn't honour the EDNS client subnet extension.

Given generally DNS is just the start of an intereaction, usually followed by the connection directly between the client and intended destination, I don't see what kind of snooping these privacy measures are there to prevent.
Last I'd heard, they overestimated how much they could produce and presold more than they could actually deliver at least at first.
The whole Pandermix risk is much smaller than the risks in the current pandemics. Narcolepsy is very rare disease and even increased risk due to that vaccine remains very low as absolute value and it only appears high if it's expressed as a relative number.

In establishing the shorter-term safety nothing was "rushed" now compared to the processes performed before (it was tested on tens of thousands of people). Regarding the longer-term safety, who would be willing to wait e.g. two more years before any vaccine could be used?

As the vaccination will be voluntary for common people, as long at there are shortages, those who don't want to get it should indeed leave it to those who will.
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Do you have actual proof of this or are you just going to make misleading claims yourself?
Arbitrage is not evil, it's just not noble. Most of us don't do noble work.
Seeing this post reminded me that when I had the 'flu vaccine a little while back, the Pharmacist advised avoiding Paracetamol (Tylenol?) afterwards in case it reduced the efficacy of the vaccine. A bit of quick Googling turned up study results from a while back suggesting this in relation to childhood vaccines. Just wondering if anyone here with experience in the field has a opinion on whether painkillers like these are best avoided for a short time afterwards.
South Dakota’s Balanced Covid Response
> And they stand to gain far more than someone working for $20 an hour.

And a lawyer gets paid $200/hr. What are you comparing? I'm not talking about whether it's "fair" that someone can be earning so little when there exists billionairs. That's for the philosophers and social commentators to endless debate.

But someone working for $20/hr earns that money, with zero risk of not receiving it after services rendered. Someone investing money is not guaranteed a return.

> If a millionaire doesn't invest and make captial gains, what does he do with his money?

So you're saying that because said millionaire has "no choice", he would be forced to invest and thus, society could leech more off him?
I'm sure people are planning one. That doesn't mean they will be successful. Most of the people with enough money to do this are alert for scams (though they might decide it is 80% chance of scam and decide to risk it anyway), so they will be looking to see if they will get the vaccine in the end, and if they don't think you will deliver they won't go.
I would expect anyone who gets a "black market" vaccine gets one of the not approved (yet) vaccines. That supply is sitting around and probably not tracked as much. Break into a warehouse (often with insider help, possibly at high levels such that most people in the company help you because your alibi checks out), get a supply, then send it to your black market buddies.
Pfizer has a legal market now and will do everything to ship to that market. Moderna is close enough that they won't risk it. The Oxford vaccine has a lot of companies who can make it and an uncertain future (60% effective when there is a 95%?) so it is the most likely candidate, for this. Russia also is making a vaccine that they might be willing to sell like this. China might as well, but I find it unlikely as they have other markets. Of course this whole paragraph is pure speculation: anything is possible.
I've seen all three of the "Portrait operas" live. The second two are definitely very different to Einstein on the Beach which feels more "modern" and experimental (but also really approachable - this is far from what many people expect of 20th Century avant-garde music)

Steve Reich seemed to want to also move towards more conventional narrative forms later in his career and seemed to sacrifice some of the elegance and purity to do so.

John Adams on the other hand came a generation later and those compromises always felt more natural and less forced for him.

(Terry Riley is the real maverick out of the original minimalists. He just does his own thing and damn everyone else. I had the pleasure of having a very brief chat with him after a concert and he was a lovely chap. I asked him about John Cale)
Do you honestly think Pfizer would come off well (PR wise) if they put millionaires in the front of the queue for cash? At a time when vulnerable people are dying? The $1.58bn wouldn’t be worth sinking their entire brand, not even close.
> ODoH ensures that only the proxy knows the identity of the internet user and that the DNS resolver only knows the website being requested

Who is the proxy here, and who the DNS resolver?
Very good points.

Even though they might feel the same, on a human level, there’s clearly a difference between being early in the learning curve and facing down a complex system.
Each building in Switzerland has an underground air raid shelter. So you wouldn't be able to kill too many civilians this way. And once you've destroyed all their aircraft, their SAMs are free to shoot an any target that's flying.

The idea is that the USA (or any other power) would struggle to occupy Switzerland, not to obliterate it from the face of the Earth. No country could defend against that, not even the USA.
> an actual run of the mill SOCKS proxy would have visibility of the user's queries and their identity, defeating the purpose of the design.

Why would it have visibility of the queries? If I send a TLS connection (containing my DoH query) through that SOCKS proxy, then the SOCKS proxy is unable to decrypt that TLS connection without breaking certificate verification and thus can't read my DoH query.
Debunked where? If they were I’d expect HN to be the first to publish
That's funny, that was the bit of copy that jumped out the most to me as well :)
Except a minor loss of sharpness, no difference.

I was pointing out the fact that expecting native-resolution gaming from a machine, whose display is totally overkill for its size (for gaming, that is), may not be the smart thing to do.

And it was even more absurd in 2012 when people built gaming rigs with 1080p screens and suddenly there was an ultraportable with a 2560x1600 screen (that was so-so usable for 720p or 900p light gaming).
Ask HN: Which Linux distro has the best UX these days?
I’m used to Ubuntu on the server and previously on a desktop, but my devices of the last 10 years has been Macs. If I’m going to install a new Linux desktop system, which distros should I try?
US ones from there: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Factory_Worker/Hour...

Chinese, from my own knowledge of contract manufacturing. While saying this, I mean that it is not necessarily that all of workers are hired at such seniority level, and, yes, most of them will be seniormost workers on their line.

Foxconn, Flextronics, Pegatron — those companies are completely out of this league, they focus on the bottom line only, and do not work in markets where professional staff on the line matters.

One of our own manufacturing contractors who specialises on things including automotive assemblies for Germans (they did some of the new S-Klasse electronics,) and medical devices has such workers, and they do go through all the problem retaining them.

Out of other high end contract manufacturers, GoerTek had particularly good prices, and quality level despite them being somewhat volume oriented, but shame, they dropped all non-audio business as of late. Same was for LuxShare, after they got Apple's business, it became impossible to get through to them.

Some companies with own manufacturing also been known for well paid line workforce, BuBuGao, and Huawei instantly come to mind.
Well, Fargate is simpler in the way that I define CPU+RAM, give it an image, tell it how many of them to run in parallel and let it run. If something crashes it will be restarted. If I want to deploy I push a new image.

That's pretty much it. The container cannot be accessed from the outside except for the defined interfaces like http, the containers cannot discover each other unless I use something else to coordinate between them. That is all restrictive, but it also makes things simple.

I still need to do health-check and such - so if I don't really need long running containers, I can make it even simpler by using lambda. (well in theory, I don't like lambda, but that's because of the implementation only)
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but no old bold pilots.*

*except Yeager.
This is a protocol, not a product. There is no set proxy, or resolver.
Why would they do that? If they are providing it free to those at high risk, why not provide it free to those at low risk? Why would they charge for this particular treatment when all other treatments are free? How could they ensure those who are poor and cannot afford to pay still get vaccinated?
> I think what we're seeing here is Conway's law in action. Most places I've worked don't define their bounded contexts based on separation of concerns, but rather on separation of reporting.

You're not wrong. I mean, one of the goals of microservices is to peel off responsibilities to a service that can be owned and managed by a small team.

However, what I've been seeing in these anti-microservices rant is developers struggling to acknowledge the need to reason with loosely coupled interfaces, reason about partial system failure modes that were always there in monoliths but we're either ignored or turned into critical system failures, and the microservices tax.
Statins were tested in tens of thousands and the treated population is probably 100x to 1000x.

With the Covid vaccine we’re talking 10,000x expansion of patient population.

And your body also uses neurotransmitters all the time but we don’t wave our hands and say antidepressants are ok because they just modify neurotransmitters. New technology means new "unknown unknowns".

But with that said, I'm not saying don't get the vaccine. I'm just saying, don't be so confident that there is no risk.
Could be some dust on a link connection somewhere messing up certain bit patterns. That has happened before.

https://www.fomsn.com/fiber_optic_connector/angelina123/why-...
This seems to require DNSSEC as a key function.
@tptacek ?
That can be good or bad.
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Qt 6.0
At $549 they better be rather impressive. The same amount of money can buy you some fairly high end conventional headphones.
"Hey, cool, something not in-ear, this could be just what I was looking for."

See's price: Nope... I'll stick with what I've got for now.

Those are some of the most expensive headphones I've ever seen and I thought Bose's QC3's at $350 were overpriced. This kicks it up a notch further. I'll be curious what the reviews show for sure, but too rich for my blood.
Just one data point, that might be of use to know:

We're currently running into an issue where we've used a table as a message queue in a database.

We gained a compliance requirement that we must log all access (including direct DB queries) to certain info in the database. One of the tables being used as a queue contains this data and is polled hundreds of times per minute making our logs ridiculously huge and we now have to move the queue somewhere else and/or split up the data.