skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not really any proof that hygiene hypothesis leads to better outcomes. Yes, the immune system generally only strengthens when it's exposed to pathogens, but being exposed to lots of pathogens also damages your body. And controlled exposure to pathogens (ie, vaccines) can trigger an immune response without injury. So, we're likely trading weaker immune systems for millions fewer deaths. Look at the mortality rates due to infectious disease in countries with poor sanitation.
Good read!

The critique shows that belief in God is not an easy thing to toss aside/refute as one might think.

Boghossian: “You need to become comfortable in not knowing and not pretending to know . . . “ Good advice!
Cats commonly hunt for sport and have caused the extinction of a few species. Gorillas will go to war with other groups. Plenty of human traits have analogues in other species.
Nike taps the comfort trend with Go FlyEase, a no-lace slip-on sneaker
Even if you use the system libc, if you pass the -static flag to gcc then you end up with a binary that depends on the syscall abi. If the kernel interface breaks, then all your programs need to be recompiled from scratch in order for them to work again. Are you opposed to static linking?
"The reason that other high-end headphone manufacturers lean heavily on plastic and even wood in their builds isn’t that they can’t afford metal. It’s because they’re interested in having human beings wear these products on their heads for hours at a time."
"“Are you confident that alternate search engines are going to be able to fill a massive void left by Google and Australians won’t be left worse off?”"

this is what a planted question looks like :-)
Right, the book overall is about global inequality, but he definitely addresses the defined poverty thresholds. These thresholds are used by the wealthier countries to claim an improvement in people’s lives, while they’re gaming the numbers to show a decrease in poverty.

Trying to boil down a very diverse global population, which may or may not even be paid, into a single $/day seems a bit ridiculous to me personally.
Tearing can be a gigantic issue when you have full screen videos or render games. However as far as I could find these are caused by the KDE/Gnome/etc. compositor not running in sync with the screen refresh rate. Find a way to bypass the compositor(KDE options to disable it, GNOME with full screen windows, or tell the X window to override the compositor) and it goes away. Its easy to lob all problems on X but whats next? Did it also cause 9/11?
> Same thing with checking temperature at the door (it doesn't work because people can either never get a fever or be infectious before/after one).

But it stops some cases, which is much better than no cases.

> Even when it comes to masks we still have very few of the public using well fitting N95 and manufacturers mass-producing masks that barely even cover the side of people's faces (i.e. they don't work as well as they could, even for cloth!).

Because the unfitted masks significantly reduce the amount of large particulates (ie, saliva) spread into the air, because they're caught by the mask which is directly in front of the mouth/nose.

Arguing that seatbelts shouldn't be used because they don't prevent all injuries doesn't make much sense. Sure, we can do better, but it's not "COVID theater". It's rational, useful actions being taken to mitigate the impact of COVID.
EU directive will destroy the european internet with over-regulation [pdf]
I've been writing a library to help me forecast my personal finances accounting for taxes, various expenditures, income, and unexpected windfalls. I started because I noticed that whenever I tried to forecast my future, I kept repeating a lot of code and thought it would be better to just build out a library I could re-use. Plus, it's been a cool opportunity to learn Rust :)

Library if anyone's interested: https://github.com/RestitutorOrbis/finsim
Yes, I am also not using compositing, which I always assumed means apps render direct to the framebuffer.

Does this mean that moving to Wayland (or its implemenation) is going to add 1 or more frames of delay to my output? This could be a part of why I have always found other modern systems to be less snappy than my own X desktop.
Lichenstein has had only 52 Covid deaths, yet is 11th in the world for Covid deaths per capita. What possible value is there in comparing raw death numbers, without a reference to the population of the country in question?
This appears to be a simplistic take.

The author assumes that "the media" are some homogenous lump that all thinks the same and pumps out the same content.

Each media company has a target audience, and it optimises for that audience continuously. Their viewers or readers like that "property" because it's views/biases/style reflects their own.

> "The media is becoming more progressive"

that's a broad sweep. The demographic is changing and the various properties are changing to reflect that. Granted, there is some leeway in a media organisation pushing it's audience to one side of a debate or other. However it needs the audience to go with it. However there is no evidence provided that this is the case.

I think the bigger issues is that people have realised that a small number of business are increasingly becoming arbiters of _everything_. Be that Tv shows, what opinions are penalised, who can trade where and for what price. (See the backlash from Facebook's fucking stupid PR spat against apple.)

In short, I don't think the author was able to fully express their claim without making broad unsupported statements. Finally I don't think a16z's media push is going to get overly far _unless_ they provide content that people want to consume at the correct price and place.

If you want to see what I mean, just look at what happened to the "let's disrupt hollywood" Effort, which amounted to nothing. (hollywood is disrupted, but by the pandemic, disney, amazon and netflix, not a startup)
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25930096
> if the law is this corrupt, breaking it is justice. however you might have an unfortunate accident if you go against these kinds of secretive entities.

I think the point of secret warrants and gag orders is that they can simply put you in prison for violating them, and you'll have pray ACLU or Amnesty International will be able to get you out...
The Meme Economy
A simple keyword map generation service for SEO launched
I'm okay with them downvoting us now. Hopefully these comments will jolt something awake a few months (years?) from now when the story is "corrected".
One of the best features of my Lenovo Chromebook Duet (a 10" ChromeOS tablet) is that it reports itself as a laptop with 1920x1200 screen so you get actually usable webpages and not the mobile crap.
Well it's not as bad as Mao.

I'd put the Xinjiang camps somewhere worse than Tiananmen and somewhere better than the cultural revolution. Where would you put them? [0]

Then there is Covid, that's 2,240,000 dead at least. Plus enormous economic and social damage [1].

Crushing democracy in HK (democracy which was already laughably small and limited) and moving to a pure dictatorship - do we accept that? The expectation was for China to become more democratic not less.

Then there is all the aggression towards their neighbours, from trying to steal islands to launching an attack on India, a nuclear power!? I'm far enough away not to worry about fallout but millions dead in a nuclear war would be better avoided than commiserated.

I won't deny that China has improved economically. But its social progress has been very very slow and in the last 5 years its been going rapidly backwards. This can't be ignored anymore, either for humanitarian reasons or for the impact its having on the rest of the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

[1] https://covidgraph.com/
> What's dumb about the law now?

There's a few threads about this law on HN already and there's no reason to repeat those arguments again and again. Regardless, my point isn't that the law seem poorly written ; it's that Australia is well within it's rights to regulate it's own internal market regardless of what people on the other side of the Globe think about it.
> air purifiers that kill viruses,

I'm hoping that this is unique to my country but a lot of such "kills virus" products I've seen are a)diluted bleach, or b)ozone generator, or c)UV lamps, none of which is safe near a person and none of which is effective at its job. It was my impression that there's no need to consult 4chan to assess the cost and benefit associated with inhaling bleach.
Re: costs, don’t forget that Google was already saving all of that content for search - they still use feeds to get content updates.

On the topic of monetization, this was covered in some of the articles at the time. This isn’t the best one but:

https://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/

“ Wetherell agreed. “The reader market never went past the experimental phase and none was iterating on the business model,” he said. “Monetization abilities were never tried.”

“There was so much data we had and so much information about the affinity readers had with certain content that we always felt there was monetization opportunity,” he said. Dick Costolo (currently CEO of Twitter), who worked for Google at the time (having sold Google his company, Feedburner), came up with many monetization ideas but they fell on deaf ears.”

http://massless.org/?p=174 goes into more detail about the history and I think in retrospect the subsequent decade really supports his argument that Google leadership is unwilling to try to create new markets rather than enter already proven ones. Trying to barge in on Facebook with an unwanted, un-QAed Google+ only left Facebook stronger and ensured that all subsequent Google products had launch-day questions about cancellation because so many influential people used Reader.
The most common use case for a Mac in a business setting is for building iOS applications.
Mindless Overcommunication
In California, once the guidance changed on masks in April they were still hard to buy so the guidance was “if you don’t have a mask, just wear a bandana or scarf over your face”. We have studies showing that this doesn’t work nearly as well as a surgical mask much less an n95, but I still see people doing it all the time.

There hasn’t been a public health campaign in the past 9 months to say “now that the shortage is over, wear a mask that actually works” which is crazy to me.
Any equipment used could have been repurposed from past projects, or borrowed from existing ones. If that's the case, it helps explain why they might green light the project even if it has a low expected chance of panning out. Might as well use it for something.
Positive Spillovers from the Pandemic
I did a remake of an old swedish game (SinkSub/DepthCharge) for android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bute.bi106...

It uses a custom opengles engine instead of using unity or something for free, as I wanted to practice opengl and android development.

Lately Google Admob DISABLED my ads (they say they are limiting my account even though I did not do anything malicious), but I couldnt care less
https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper - I've been working (intermittently :) ) on a nodejs or browser extension scraper for the last 3 years, see the other projects under the get-set-fetch umbrella. Putting a lot more effort lately as I really want to do those Alexa top 1 million analysis like top js libraries, certificate authorities and so on. A few weeks back I've posted on Show:HN as you can do basic/intermediate? scraping with it.

Not capable of handling 1 mil+ pages as it still limited to puppeteer or playwright. Working on adding cheerio/jsdom support right now.
Hey HN! I've built a small API to query SQL databases over HTTP. It's very useful if you want to query something fast without the need to install all the drivers etc.
We use it at Zero.sh to build admin dashboards and more.
It's completely open source. Let me know if you have questions!
“Salary” numbers almost never include benefits like health plans and pension contributions, and they definitely don’t include things like unemployment insurance payments, and payroll taxes.

I have never seen salary used as the total cost of an employee.
It won't last. Whenever restrictions have been lifted in Europe, restaurants and pubs quickly go back to full capacity. Right now in Italy and Poland, thousands of establishments have defied lockdown and reopened, and it turns out that a large number of local population was waiting eagerly to go out again.
Please don't support such dark patterns that are already used everywhere. Your comment honestly reads as if you don't want the game to be enjoyed and this isn't at all in the "I don't care if this project succeeds" idea of the topic.
Ubuntu Core 20 has arrived
I add fail2ban as good measure too.

I don't know about literally, but it helps.
Aerosols are exactly the droplets the comment is referencing
Just because my horizontal resolution is around 1200, I am not on a tablet.

It's amazing how many websites are incredibly unusable when displayed 2-up on my 27" monitor.

There's so much screen estate, but I often literally have to resize the window to fullscreen to find a search or login field.
Five reasons why researchers should learn to love the command line
7,000,000,000 * 0.00002% = 1400.
I have one of these too. I was baffled by many parts of the commentary. There's obviously a huge range of fastidiousness / standard for cleanliness in people but I have literally never felt the urge to try and pry off the grille to get at the fan blades etc.

And unless there's some kind of catastrophic failure of the gasket on the lid, you're really talking about a few drops of water leaking out, at most, if you carry it by the handle.
> which was solved by linking it statically

You could also have linked against glibc 2.23 or 2.22 or older instead of bloating your binary.
Google Deletes 100k Negative Reviews of Planned Parenthood from Unborn Babies
With respect to (1), data is a liability (running afoul of GDPR, etc), so if someone else can manage the storage then that reduced my liability considerably. Facebook might decide that their incentive to track you around the web exceeds their incentive to avoid this liability (of the two are even mutually exclusive), but for many avoiding liability is a powerful incentive.
> This kind of wording is alone unconstitutional in many countries.

Australia's legal system is Common Law, inherited from Britain. You won't find any kind of enshrinement of rights in our constitution. It doesn't work that way.

> Can you share more details? Source?

You can find the proposed bill here [0]. It doesn't name Facebook and Google specifically, but says that is up to the Minister to designate "digital platform services" that it applies to. Part of which is:

> In making the determination, the Minister must consider whether there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between Australian news businesses and the group comprised of the corporation and all of its related bodies corporate.

Which just so happens to be one of the key findings of a report in 2018 [1] by the ACCC, which may have kicked off Parliament's slow gravitation towards this terrible idea of a law:

> The ACCC is further considering a recommendation for a specific code of practice for digital platforms’ data collection to better inform consumers and improve their bargaining power.

In that report, only Facebook and Google are named, and in the presentation of this law as a good thing, ministers have only named Facebook and Google.

[0] https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display....

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-releases-prelimin...
When the Joker's Death Grin Is Real
> there are tools that provide synthesis from C/C++, Python and more software oriented languages

That sounds extremely interesting!
While all of these projects are amazing. Yours is the one that made me genuinely smile, thanks for that! There is something so charming and cheerful about creating a niche tool to support a niche tool.

Edit to add: Well documented too, full of surprises :)
And yet, people catch covid on planes. Even the article you cite explains the flaws in the research
An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens
Space race? Hollywood? Area 51?
> I have a mini-farm setup in my appt

Now this could be interesting...
Yes, tearing is visible in fast-moving videos or games (when run in windowed mode), but video players or games usually run full-screen, where tearing does not happen (as applications can do vsynced doublebuffering), so usually it is not an issue.
I don’t think this has much to do with your vertical screen as much as it’s the narrow viewport.
They aren't arguing that cloth masks are useless, rather that they should not be the standard.

Following the car analogy, it's like not stopping at seat belts and adding airbags and traction control and so on. The improved measure (high quality masks) is inexpensive enough that it should be the standard.
I read it as: Boeing biggest client telling that Boeing planes are safe to operate when Boeing is in deep financial trouble.

Credits I give to this study: none.
> doesn’t work nearly as well

At getting infected or spreading infection?
I find it infuriating that temperature check is still used everywhere.

It is a known fact that temperature in a body may not show upto 6 days from onset of the virus.

It creates a false sense of safety and is dangerous.

And half of those non contact thermometers are useless. And moat of the personnel dint even know how to use them.
Gam-COVID-Vac phase 3 trial results: 91·6% efficacy and well tolerated
gnus https://www.gnus.org/
> Why wouldn't they reject a ID/passport with some details blacked out?

In my subjective opinion, a better question would be: Why would they reject an ID/passport with some details blacked out?

The ID card and the passport both have serial numbers on them, as well as sufficient information (issuer country and the institution within the country), that any decent implementation of validating such data should be able to look it up.

As for the blacked out fields - they contain information pertaining to my social identification code, one that should be kept private under most circumstances (analogous to social security number in the US). It feels like that information could:

- provide absolutely no benefit to them

- compromise my privacy, should it be leaked due to improper handling of that data on their end

If not providing such sensitive information is grounds for denying account verification and termination of an account, then i'm perfectly fine with that and will simply look elsewhere, for other services. Other people may disagree with that and provide any and all information, the handling of which they deem acceptable, which is okay (hence, i mentioned that others' experience might be more positive/successful in that regard).

Maybe someone who works in the industry (not Hetzner in particular) and has worked with similar systems in the past may comment on what the mechanisms for validating ID cards and such are, and which bits of data are necessary and which aren't?
Indeed, my admittedly simplistic argument is: If your faith is the true one out of all others, why does it demand its adherents give it money and power? If it was the true faith wouldn't that be enough to drown out the rest? Doesn't that money and power corrupt the faith rather than enrich it?
Weight tracking site I made for myself and keep using for years: http://yadt.iotide.com/

It's no longer developed just maintained. There are two other users besides me :)
(the sample weight history is my own weight over the last 15 years).

MPD android client I made for myself and eventually published as a paied app (just to keep myself commited).

I keep developing and supprting it altough it earns in a month less than what I earn in two hours work as SW developer.
https://mafa.indi.software/
It's a bizarre measure, why wouldn't you mention it as 1 in 2000 unless you're deliberately trying to make the denominator look bigger.
GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java
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There is a wine grape varietal called St. Laurent which is cousin of well known Pinot Noir varietal and it originated from Burgundy, but curently you will find it mostly only in Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is interesting grape, but there are many problems with it: it is very vigorous so it take quite a lot of work to tend and the bunches are big so they tend to squeeze, crack and rot.

Thanks to cultivation dificulties as well as bad image from previous times (thanks to big yields it use to be used for poducing cheap table wines) make this varietal slowly dying: old blocks are being replanted by other varietals.

I think it is a pitty as St. Laurent wine is very interesting and quite memorable. Luckily I've bought few blocks with old vines and I am selecting plants with loose bunches and am trying to create new clone with more favorable growing characteristic.
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> Arguing that seatbelts shouldn't be used because they don't prevent all injuries doesn't make much sense.

That's an incredibly disingenuous/uncharitable analogy for what I actually posted. A more accurate one would be:

> Two-point Seatbelts cause massive internal injuries during an accident, why haven't we improved them/the guidelines in producing them after 40+ years? (see period from 1910 to 1960).

Cloth masks were created in a rush to fill a void. Then a year passed. In that year nobody spent time/money improving/researching the design of cloth for better coverage nor did we increase the supply/availability of more effective filter material/fitment.

It is fair to criticize the lack of improvement partially given the urgent public health crisis.
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Using require and check Functions in Kotlin
You can honestly say it has less features than you would like, but saying that it's buggy, slow and a mess is simply dishonest.

For instance, Wayland handle my multi dpi displays like a champ. Whereas xorg is a no end nightmare with no acceptable outcome;

In wayland, I have tearfree scrolling by default. Whereas on xorg I have to access some old magic knowledge hidden in the archwiki.

So, in a sense, wayland have more features (For me) than xorg, whereas xorg is the featureless mess (For me).
This is the worst when you're displaying two sites side by side on a 1080p screen.