skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you post a link to the WaPo article that has Fauci saying that the reason he said masks are ineffective was to preserve the supply for medical staff?

I would be ok with Fauci saying masks weren't effective because the best science avialable was incorrect at that time. Science can be flawed, especially early on when facing a new disease. We might not know if the virus is surface spread or airborne. We might believe that it is transmitted through droplets after a cough - something medical staff would experience much more of than people at a grocery store. There are all kinds of reasons they could be wrong. So the CDC, and Fauci, would lose no credibility with me merely by being wrong, in retrospect, if they were presenting the best answers science had that that time.

Now, if the CDC deliberately misled, then it absolutely isn't fine. The CDC has authority because they are scientists. We respect and follow their advice not because we believe they are our noble leaders, or our moral betters, or know best for us, but because we believe that what they say is the truth, grounded in science. If they in fact used this trust to deliberately mislead, it would be devastating to his credibility and the credibility of the CDC for a very, very long time. For our own benefit? Perhaps, but it would still be a deep betrayal of his specific office because of the source of his authority.

The CDC could say, in that case, "we believe that masks are effective, and N95 medical grade masks are best - however, there is a shortage right now. Because cloth masks can provide some protection for essential activities such as grocery shopping, and medical grade masks are essential for medical providers who will work in close proximity with many infected people, we implore the American people to allow all medical grade masks to go to medical providers, and we support regulations that require these masks be reserved for medical providers".

That would be fine. But you can't represent science and truth and then lie about the science. Not if you want to be trusted ever again.

To be clear, these are scenarios. I'm not sure it's entirely established that Fauci clearly knew that masks were effective for day to day non medical use and deliberately told people the opposite in order to keep them from buying masks. I've done some reading, and Fauci stumbles a lot over this - he keeps saying two things at once - that it wasn't clear that a masks were important, and that we badly needed to reserve them for medical personnel. The second statement actually badly undermines the first, IMO, because it would provide a justification for lying (even if this isn't what he did).

Anyway, if you have that WaPo link, please send it. That would change how I see this situation.
Anecdotally, swaywm and Wayland work out of the box for me on 13. Significant headache on 12.
>"But the difference only emerges when the children are teenagers"

I don't see how that disproves what you said.

The extra stress of dealing with 1.5 women in the household causes more marriages to get to the possible divorce threshold at which point everything you've stated subconsciously kicks in.
Hooray! Nice work Drew.
The Bible and other holy books aren't copyrighted. Anyone is free to publish their preferred version of the Bible or the Quran. Yet disagreements over the meaning of these texts have been happening for millenia.
Okay, but you're arguing for better labeling in general about food production, ingredients, and storage -- not that people shouldn't be able to use the word "meat" on a Morningstar package.

I mean, I would love if every product was clearly labeled whether it contained animal by-products, it would save me from having to read ingredients on everything. It's annoying to have to check to see whether a loaf of bread in the supermarket contains milk or not, or to have to search online whether some obscure ingredient is an animal gelatin. And additionally, yeah, there is a lot of confusion around buzzwords like "free-range" or "organic" which basically mean very little. You're right about that stuff.

But the words "milk" and "meat" are not part of the problem. It's fine if almond milk is in the milk isle and labeled as milk. Calling it almond milk-substitute would not have solved your problem with accidentally buying UHT milk, because "milk" itself is not a specific enough word to solve your problem on its own.

And to jump back to the original comment I was responding to -- "milk" is also not specific enough of a word to communicate what the nutritional profile is of the food you're consuming. Yes, there are concerns about people not knowing what is and isn't healthy and not being able to identify how food was produced and sourced. No, forcing plant-based substitutes to drop the words "milk" or "meat" won't fix that.
If you're motivated enough to believe something, you'll find a way to believe it regardless. If there are smart arguments in favor of what you want to believe, you'll go for them. If those don't exist, you'll seek the next best.
This is much ado over almost nothing: "between the ages 13 and 18, parents of first-born girls divorce more than parents of first-born boys. The odds of divorce within this period are 10.7% for parents of boys, and 11.3% for parents of girls." https://theconversation.com/parents-of-teenage-daughters-mor...

10.7% vs. 11.3%. Not much difference.

What little difference there is could be explained by, for example, the father sexually abusing the teenage daughter, not by trouble caused by the daughter.
I like this idea. Added it as an option on the site.
I tried the A&W fake meat burger (I think theirs is Beyond brand) and I have to say in the context of a burger with toppings, it was quite good. Probably 95% as enjoyable as an A&W beef burger.
I can buy organic, grass-fed, no-GMO, sustainably pasture-raised beef. Can I buy a higher-quality vurger? AFAIK not (right now).
Maybe color digital ink has become too expensive during these austere times...

Kidding aside, even if that represents a biased selection, there are some for which I cannot imagine why they went from an identifiable brand-typeface to non-descript type face that is detached from previous branding.
If someone lives to 200, 500, 1000, does their brain "fill up", run out of room for new memories? Do you forget entire decades from earlier, do you stop being able to form new long-term memories? Do you pick up a book and wonder if you've read it before? How many times?
If they are in the metadata. If they aren't, it can only "train" on the feed as a whole.
This article got me interested to learn more. There's a related phenomenon called the Rydberg Blockade[1], wherein a group of Rydberg atoms can be tuned to multiple quantum states and because of their large radii, form a coverage area over space in which those quantum states are excluded for other particles (by Pauli exclusion?). There's work to create large arrays, 1D and 2D of tens to hundreds of elements, of Rydberg atoms with packed configurations that can be continuously replenished atom-by-atom. This bit is being used for optical coupling in quantum computing[2].

But this got me wondering... does this mean that such a 2D array of Rydberg atoms, continually replenished, could effectively operate as an energy capturing force field? I'm imagining a surface that for a given maintenance energy is minimally dense while maximally extensive in space, and medium duration (the Rydberg excitations last longer the more they're pumped, e.g. micro and milliseconds). Also because of the dipole coupling and high-frequency tunability (~100s of atoms in packed arrays < 1s again see 2), it could be quickly restored from perturbation.

If so, this seems to present a candidate for energy capture from photonic emissions in e.g. fusion reactions, but crucially, one that could be maintained without large amounts of mass or that mass ablating away. That might make a handy energy shield for a spaceship fusion engine (I believe that's a key problem for small fusion engine designs), esp if you could recycle the captured energy :)

[1] https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/atomopt/rydberg-atoms/
[2] Quantum Simulators and Processors Based on Rydberg Atom Arrays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MXIVZLaCII
In my experience, it's the opposite. Inefficiency can be orders of magnitude more expensive than the cost of the added effort to avoid that inefficiency.
I'm surprised that people seem to overwhelmingly prefer the Apple aesthetic compared to Thinkpads. The red and black design and keyboard make for a better overall experience and look in my view.
Why greed is an unhelpful characterisation of rational economic choices
I made and posted this idea yesterday, expecting exactly zero attention, so paying for Glitch didn't even cross my mind. It's on a /premium/ plan now, so it's ready for anything.
Does not seem like it with 14-CURRENT. It was not added the last time I looked at when 13 was CURRENT.

https://www.freebsd.org/where/
Maybe try ordering from insight.com? Or check the hololens subreddit, apparently there are a number of companies which can get one out to customers within a few days.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210207003003if_/https://www.eco...

link without paywall.

didn't get one thing: is it only the father who is doing all the fighting with his daughter?

also interesting:
"In light of all this, it is intriguing to note that Dr Kabatek and Dr Ribar found one type of couple who seem immune to the daughter effect: those in which the father grew up with a sister. Having seen things somewhat from a sister’s point of view may act as a sort of social inoculation. "
Lineage breaks the Android security model.

I'd use GrapheneOS where possible. Consider making it possible where it's not.
I see it as them trying to compete with meat. Impossible has higher cholesterol content than beef right now, but I have a feeling this will change as the industry matures.
Most recent release, Demo 5, from July 2020: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/tree/demo5

Previous discussions from a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210227

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14072121

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12358177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8955140
I wish FreeBSD booted faster. I recall it took nearly a minute from turning my machine on (with an SSD and a recent Intel i5 processor) before I was prompted for my login credentials. It's little things like that which make the system feel a bit dated, at least to someone like me who is an outsider to FreeBSD but has used Linux for a decade. I also wished FreeBSD needed less configuration to use as a desktop (see https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/freebsd-on-a-laptop/ for what I mean). Also, does Zoom work on FreeBSD?
Girls calmer in their younger years? I have some outliers then! Hopefully it means we’re prepared for teenage :-)
This is pretty sweet! Specially it being free. I just added support for Libre Translate to my Javascript translation library, `translate` [1]:

import translate from 'translate';
translate.engine = 'libre';

const text = await translate('Hello world', 'es');

Please let me know in an issue if you start charging for it at some point so I can point out how to get a key and everything!

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/translate

> Note: it takes few minutes to show on npmjs.com, but if you do `npm info translate` you can see how the new version has been published.
Bong break over; we're back. Pretty hungry, though.
So you'd be exchanging cat pictures million times a day? That'll stand out well.
Married people can have separate bank accounts.
This is true. One of my in-laws' neighbor practice a religion not included in the official list of recognized religions, so he just register himself as a muslim instead. Ultimately, this field doesn't really matter though in day to day life, and might be removed entirely in the future.

> Someone later explained that in Indonesia you legally had to tell the government what religion you followed, and "none" was not an option.

While Indonesia is not a muslim country, believe in God is actually included in its foundational philosophy, and thus hammered into your head as part of your education since primary school. You can believe any god, but not believing any god is definitely strange here and many people would have trouble accepting that.
It seems like an easy, quick win for people who aren't strongly inclined to fully transition to a vegetarian diet. I've replaced ground beef with vegan meat crumbles in all my recipes, and it _just works_. I brown them at a little lower temperature, I pay a little more for the crumbles, and otherwise I can completely replace that portion of my meat consumption with other materials.

Vegetarian patties, mushroom-based recipes, etc can be good and stand up on their own without comparing them to meat, but meat substitutes are good too.
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There's lots of controversy about opiates being excessively addictive even when used 'on label'. I didn't find it with a bit of searching, but I remember an article about the 'extended release' aspect of Oxycontin tending to encourage addictive use patterns (because it didn't really work for 6 hours).

Figuring that out wouldn't necessarily be an up front trial kind of thing though.
The internet mob functions by downvote. The fundamental unit of cancel. Thus reality is shaped.
Government pressure is getting those anonymous coins to be delisted from exchanges.
There's not a ton of reason to load it in loader.conf (which is the bootloader configuration), by the way. The recommended location would be rc.conf kld_list, which is after userspace starts. loader.conf is only really needed for hardware drivers needed to load the operating system from storage devices (and most such drivers are already built in to the kernel).
Turns out Mastodon has RSS/Atom.

"Your feed URL is [instance]/users/[username].rss or .atom" [0]

NOTE may vary from instance to instance.
E.G. "social.tchncs.de/@[useralias].rss

And (haven't tried it) an RSS-TO-Mastodon method: [1] using 'Feed2toot'

[0] https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/100523448408374430

[1] https://carlchenet.com/get-your-rss-feeds-to-mastodon-with-t...
I've learned well that when popular news not come with actual numbers, one can assume that the numbers aren't spectacular.

It tends to print then whenever they be spectacular.
There's not a global secret cabal of scientists who can meet in the absence of media attention. If a paper is presented in a conference to other scientists, journalists can (and will) write breathtaking headlines about it.
What happens with house payments in such cases? I suppose the house goes to the mother, but she can't pay mortgage alone and the father can't pay the mortgage plus rent plus child support plus everything else.
The morality of fictional universes is dictated by how the author constructs the options which their characters might choose. When the characters reflect on their choices and consider the effects of their actions, then they exhibit morality.
I mean, people think all kinds of things that seem plausible at the time and look crazy in hindsight to future generations. This is what progress looks like.
> Also, does Zoom work on FreeBSD?

I used Zoom on FreeBSD. By use I mean I was able to be in a meeting, see screen share, share my screen, but I had to dial in for audio and never tried webcam.
Thank you so much. Happy to hear you appreciated the straightforward approach. I'm so tired of signing up for services, managing passwords, and having buggy experiences.
Fair enough, but all things being equal you'd have to just weigh the evidence produced by people who say global warming is real vs those who say it isn't.

But that's assuming that people really will want to know what is going on, rather than that they will do their damnest to believe the things that are most convenient to them, and that will make all your carefully prepared evidence moot. It won't matter at all how right you are, you will lose the argument.
TypeScript lib that enable projects to interact with PrestoDB
Ketoprofen is way better.

I'm not sure why they stopped selling it OTC though.
I was thinking about making something like this (with the same name!), but my take was going to be a bit more manual with the use case of getting the 10s answer out for a 10m clickbait video.
I grew up with no sisters and have my fourth daughter on the way (first born girl too). Wonder what the differences are for those of us with more kids than the average.
What a neat project. I think I’d enjoy contributing.
I fully support this. I think it would result in a lot of good innovation - e.g. ways to raise meat while reducing carbon (including methane) emissions.

But ONLY if externalities are also fully priced & included for all other products - cars, plastic crap shipped from China, aircon, ... otherwise that kind of legislation is simply discrimination against meat-lovers.
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This is reminiscent of something I read about the kind of courage and mental fortitude required to break out of a cult or a strongly imposing religion. Basically, the reflex will be to take whatever pressure or evidence there is for seeing that 'x' is bad and to turn it on its head: to see the very act of presenting this information as the bad thing, and to disbelieve the information. Because to believe the information strikes so close to the core ego that the ego will self-protect by rejecting the evidence.

So there won't be any rude awakenings, or, at least not many of them.
I'd assume Mozilla did the due diligence and it may count for something.
I am really liking VSCode as my IDE in part because I can almost use it like I use Spyder.

I used Eclipse years ago and am neutral on it. I can use it if I need to. Just wouldn’t be my go to. I can say same for PyCharm; it’s very powerful but me and PyCharm never really jelled (lol!).
Taking your argument at face value and assuming you're right, I still want to point out that those subsidies are applied primarily to a subset of foods, especially feed crops for animals.

Our government isn't spending nearly the same amount of time and money trying to subsidize fruits and vegetables. Shouldn't we be just as worried about those products being sourced from other countries? Why are we treating animal feed so specially over other crops?

If you take the point of view that we're just trying to keep food production domestic, then it's still pretty clear that we care mostly about keeping some foods domestic -- primarily the ones that are necessary for a thriving beef and dairy industry.
Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood
My disagreement with your comment is based on the words “veggie patties”, which I don’t think really capture what’s going on with “fake meat”. These are not boca burgers, mushroom burgers, or black bean burger (which I eat a lot of), but something that actually (afaict) tastes like meat.
These logos give the impression that designers and marketers are less necessary, not more. Anyone could make logos like these: just buy a sans serif font, type out the brand name in Word, and adjust the kerning and tracking as necessary.
I’ve recommitted a number of times just because the last commit message was dumb or useless or worse - wrong.
The internet is and has always been appreciative (and chockfull) of light memes and cat videos as well...
You are not wrong that there are many people on the Left / spat out by the university ecosystem who have little integrity. The Right is, in my experience, on average worse. In many cases figures on the Right are only amenable to discourse because they are on the losing end and find it personally valuable, not as a matter of principle.

Or, you could say that if the Right were on top, those in the Right who say opposing viewpoints are communism / a fifth column / danger to America / should be suppressed would have the advantage.
I think India does this and has been doing it since WWII under “public distribution system”
I'm not sure that tracks.

Impossible burger:
Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Antioxidant), Soy Protein Isolate, Vitamins and Minerals (Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12).

These are common ingredients?
> Yet Linux is way more popular option both on the server and the desktop.

What does that have to do with anything? Why didn't you compare Windows with both so that you can claim the superiority of closed source?

Better check the stats and see what license types are growing.

> MacOs is a unix but how does that help the BSD community, as most code is build upon it and the changes don't really trickle back

It doesn't have to trickle back, that's the whole point. It's free.

> To each their own, but I would never release software under a permissive free license.

I'd never release under, and I always look for alternatives to avoid using, GPL.

To each his own, but it doesn't matter - GPL has lost. People prefer to be free of obligations, that's why copyleftist licenses can't win.
LOL that this personal fact was downvoted.
Related to that, I made an app in Glitch to send RSS feeds as ePub to remarkable. It’s great it has an API. https://glitch.com/edit/#!/remarkable-sync-app
From a strict evidence-based medicine standpoint we don't have clear evidence for or against vegetarian diets. But if you look at elite athletes whose livelihoods depend on keeping their bodies in peak condition the vast majority consume at least some animal products. So empirically that should tell us something.
If COVID didn’t do it, I’m not sure what will.
All he had to do was say "Instead of buying, we recommend making a cloth mask". The data in contemporary studies was limited at the time, but we had the historical experience of the 1918 flu suggesting that the simple masks used then were effective, and you get a win either way: cloth doesn't work, you still buy time and the population is predisposed to wear masks of any sort, even if they lose some trust in being given inaccurate reccomendations. Cloth does work, and it's even better.

As well, the aspect of HCW shortages, while real, inverts the "front line" of the pandemic to be in the clinics and ICUs and not ordinary gatherings. Prevent spread in the latter and you won't need so much of the former.

Fauci also made a mess of AIDS too, so his track record with public health is...questionable.
If the author is reading this: please link back to the introduction / part 1 where you explain the overall premise, not just to part 4.
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