skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>because it only protects people from dying

Is there any evidence in South Africa that it actually does protect people from dying? If there are only 2,000 people in the study, it might be too small to conclusively say whether it's protecting from severe and lethal cases.

All I've done is skim the article, so I'd love to be corrected by someone with more information. Given that about 1/1,250 of the South African population has died of coronavirus, I'd guess that a 2,000 person random sample over the course of a couple months wouldn't be large enough to expect much in the way of deaths, even with a placebo.

If there were conclusive evidence that the vaccine eliminated deaths from the South African variant while still allowing mild cases, I think the situation would be different. But it sounds like there are still a lot of mild cases without much evidence re deaths.
I really don’t get the weird cult of people seemingly obsessed with Lennart. The man sets out to solve really hard problems in the Linux desktop space, isn’t afraid of tackling complexity when it shows up in the problem domain, and is obsessed with correctness. That last one gets him in trouble from people who want him to be more pragmatic but I personally really appreciate it. I really admire him for being the poster child for knowing when to say no.

He pumps out really high quality software (seriously, read some of his source code it’s really easy to hack on), is genuinely innovative, and all people seem to do is shit on him and make him out like he’s some Linux daemon laughing manically every time a sysadmin gets frustrated.

Anyone who uses the phrase “potteringware” please listen to him talk at any conference he speaks at like All Systems Go. He really is down to earth and really thinks through problems before tackling them.
Ask HN: Good Project Manager Certifications?
Hey all,
I am in a PM role since a year and am wondering how to improve my formal skills in this position. In your experience, which project management certifications make actual practical sense to get? IS the PMBOK standard stuff still valid in the software world? Or does it make more sense to get e.g. a SCRUM master training?
Thanks in advance!
You know you turn that DNS server off by adding "DNSStubListener=no" to /etc/systemd/resolved.conf right?
Awesome, what changes can VR bring to a coding environment? It would certainly be cool to fly around and observe a complicated network of code in action.
> It's not like you know the candidate.

You don't have to know someone to have empathy for them.

Rejection can be tough for people. Especially those who get excited about the job.
> Because of the fragmentation, I don't have to use systemd, or pulseaudio, or snap, or Gnome desktop, or most other things I don't want to use for whatever reason.

I think part of the very reason some folks like you don't like to use some of those things is their shortcomings... which likely come about in part due to the plethora of choices leading to fragmented efforts on the development side. People shift their attention to the newer/shinier things all the time, and nothing ends up becoming rock-solid to the point where you wouldn't even think about wanting to replace it.

To put this into perspective, consider how bizarre it would be to hear end-users complain "What if I want to replace the Windows Audio/Task Scheduler/etc. service with something else?" in Windows land.
And a good investment. For example, an 86,000% return on $43,000 in campaign donations: https://truthout.org/articles/you-too-can-buy-a-congressman/.
Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
> Linux is fragmented

It’s actually quite an astute observation. I read recently that there are over 600 Linux distros and only about 500 are actively maintained.

> Web developers who use Google Analytics are stupid.

The adjective is wrong, but it’s also fair to say that there are free solutions for analytics, and some may go straight to using GA when they don’t need to.
Maybe just good ol tcpdump?
Remove Online Information
Hey, just discovered boringproxy from your link. Looks like a really slick solution!
I was taken aback by this the most when I saw some lobbying dollar amounts earlier this year — I don’t recollect the specifics but most are probably rounding errors for multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 companies, let alone trillion dollar tech juggernauts.
The stories that get repeated are the ones that get remembered. Even if the information is out there for those who dig, I believe that storage and recall are fundamentally the same thing when it comes to our human memory :)
Then there's Don Martin's cartoon in Mad Magazine:

"FONEBONE IS WATCHING YOU"

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fonebone-is-watching-you...

Fine art, indeed!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mona-lisa-by-da-vinci-do...
Mostly unsubstantiated FUD.

If you are looking for any meaningful comparison data, looks elsewhere.
Ambrosia is pretty unique.

Fuji, Gala, Macoun, Macintosh — well, I tried most of the list, they all are worth a try.
The Oxford vaccine which was paused is not mRNA it is adenovirus.

GSK has recently announced plans to produce a multi-valent mRNA vaccine for distribution next year so mRNA is not necessarily limited to a single variant. https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/gsk-and-curev...
It almost feels like you're being misunderstanding and misquoting on purpose.

Genuinely voluntary apostasy, punished by death, happens. And it's clearly 'not succumbing to social pressure' to do it in countries that criminalize it and punish it by death.[1]

And then you replace 'integral part of your identity' by merely 'part of your identity', however that's the important word you're omitting.

When I was younger I liked some styles of music and felt them part of my identity too. Some used to mock and critisize them, and now that my tastes changed, I can see why.

However, particular musical genres were never an integral part of my identity the same way people are gay or not, or have a particular ethnical background.

Attributing some special powers to a class of mere opinions is wrong, misguided and often used as a tool of oppression.[2]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law
Is it hard for non-engineers to use/understand GraphQL and JSON?
I'm thinking to let the managers(not tech background) and the designers in my company to use GraphiQL(GraphQL GUI) to read and write our database.
There is no security concern because these are the GraphQL APIs also used on admin web panel.
My question is how hard it'll be for non-tech bg people to learn GraphQL and JSON result?
Inclusive environment does not mean you have a diverse team already but that you have an inclusive team. That generally means ensuring that your company feels like a safe space to candidates. That means paying very close attention to even the small things your team does especially during interviews. In my experience, minorities and women have a lifetime of training in spotting red flags early as very bad things can happen to them otherwise. Do they talk over people? Do they interrupt people a lot? Do they make "harmless" sexist jokes? Do they act angry or aggressive? Do you give problems that require a certain social context to solve?

There's also how you do the interview process. A smaller company should be able to do a more personal interview process and lean less towards metrics that can be scaled to millions of interviews. Top university is a viable metric but can you cast your net more broadly? Internships are good guides but can you do a code test or contract-to-hire instead if the candidate was too busy working manual labor during the summer? Can you partner with a boot camp to get access to their best graduates?

edit: Also, you want to ensure that your interviewers don't confuse blind confidence with skill. Imposter syndrome in particular seems to affect minority and female engineers which can be interpreted as a lack of skill even if they give the correct answers.
AWS App Mesh now supports mTLS
> the green button originally did something like resize the window to an optimal size (IIRC)

Indeed, it's called "zoom". Fabulous when it works correctly, and one of my favorite features. You can still get at it with Option-Click (on the green), when the application supports it (not all do). Double-click on titlebar might also work, but I can't really check atm.
Your pricing page currently shows “Test” in the Intervals row on the Free column. I imagine it should instead say “1 day” or similar. Just thought I’d give you a heads up
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD are not the same operating systems, they don't share the same kernel. There are custom distributions of FreeBSD for specific use cases, such as OPNsense, but they are the same operating system and kernel as FreeBSD.
Are you also college educated? Under 30, middle-aged or old? Why treat "White Guys" as a monolith?
Laser Cutter Works Together with CCD Camera to Cut Patches Demonstration
The Oxford one is not an mRNA vaccine.
I don't think there is such a thing and I'm not sure why. It seems like everybody that writes something does it to convince you of something they believe, insteading of providing a neutral informed review of the facts. You just can't trust reporters to be honest or to know what they are talking about.

The best bet seems to be finding subject matter expects with opposing views and listening to their arguments and the evidence behind them, then coming to your own conclusions. I.e. a lot for work.
As you're describing it, talent seems like having developed a set of cognitive skills that fit better with a particular task. Or maybe it's about personality traits.
That's not why it's done though. It will often be accompanied by pseudoscience justification that doesn't hold up to rationality or accepted science.

Even if that wasn't the case though, what do you expect to be gained by enforcing that discipline?

You have a finite amount of variables you can control, and wasting time thinking about details that don't matter is a massive drain. When training for a show, you should be focussing your effort on the things that make the biggest difference: overall food intake, macros, exercise, resistance training, meal timing, micros, etc.
Pls log in and report back
I learned this back in the day when running into daily transfer limits on free file sharing websites. Big hassle when trying to download multi-part zip archives on a weekend.

Nowadays people upload to Google Drive, plus other hosts have more relaxed limits, so I haven't had the need to do it as often. But it's still useful to know.
One of the hard parts of being a person from an underrepresented demographic is having to bear an unequal burden to help make your company more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. There is a tremendous amount of talent out there from underestimated groups, but many of us don't want to work places where we're going to be the only person. And as your interview panel is the most crucial touch point with candidates, the folks least represented end up taking on an inequitable load in hiring and other initiatives. On top of having to perform extra well to overcome the assumption some people will always have that we don't deserve to be there--as evidenced by a significant percentage of the comments here. And it stings extra when that effort doesn't produce results, because the top of the funnel isn't diverse to begin with. The question asker feels complicit, but in my experience, it's often every stakeholder that feels complicit, because it is really, really hard to to build an org that is more diverse than the average (let alone anything near society), and you still have to meet other objectives. The diversity objectives will always be the most expendable, and so the cycle continues.
> ... what?

Medical school admissions are the strongest example of this trend. Given the same MCAT score and GPA, Asian people are accepted at a rate significantly lower than average and something like half as often as the most favored groups. (https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-chart-illustrates-graphic...)
MS suspends donations to politicians who backed attempt to overturn US election
> it used 2 nuclear weapons which would be considered a crime against humanity if there were justice in the world,

By which you mean "if I were sole judge of everything happening in the world" - but you aren't, and it isn't.

> and barely anybody mentions it now.

You just mentioned it. And your comrades mention it all the time, both in the US and abroad. Scarcely any discussion involving anything political - not even having anything to do with the US, as for example this one - can pass without mentioning it. I leave it for you to judge whether "barely anybody" adequately describes yourself and your comrades.

> America is not yet 250 years old. China is 5000 years old.

Yes, and? 5000 years, and it culminated in the Cultural Revolution, where educated people were hunted down, free thought was suppressed, cultural artifacts and knowledge were forcefully destroyed, all traditional values were discarded, tens of millions of people were persecuted and many of them murdered, and country's development has been set back by decades at least. I'm sure there are a lot of things over China's 5000 years of history which one can be justifiably proud about, but these years should be source of shame, not pride. And yet, the same organization that perpetrated it still rules China, and under essentially the same ideology, only slightly tweaked.
> The original argument was that authors should be seen as the owners of their works

Sure, but to debunk it the question arises:
What “copy” has to do with their work? How it magically
becomes part of ownership?

It’s a copy by definition, and it stays so as long as it’s not claimed otherwise by someone else, isn’t it?

If someone else claims to be the new owner of it and now it’s his original work, then yes, we have attempt to steal ownership,
but otherwise it’s a copy! What it has to do with the ownership? The link between those seems to be missing.

> and that ownership is a basic human right.

Again what a copy has to do with the ownership?
Copy is maid by someone else. How controlling what others can think or do with certain ideas can be seen as a ‘basic human right’?
That the

> Nobody in my family is religious

point is out of place (because whether the family is religious seems to have little relevance)
There’s a whole other avenue that’s not covered here: theft of voice actors voices. It was covered by a voice actor on YouTube, as a warning for other actors. The first is only two minutes or so, the second is a bit over ten, but goes into more detail.

https://youtu.be/p5onpLkhq50

https://youtu.be/vr7YbfzSd5A
> Graph embedding algorithms for euclidean space are flawed because you essentially need to add an additional dimension for every node.

A euclidean embedding can't even approximately embed a graph as simple as C4, no matter how many dimensions you add. Nevertheless, I've been surprised at how good the results have been when blindly embedding stuff in euclidean space (e.g., word2vec) given the high error floor for any possible such embedding.
End users might not complain about that but most end users do not care about that. For those that care there are replacements like Process Explorer/Hacker.

And people have tried a LOT to replace stuff in Windows, it is just that Microsoft doesn't make it as easy as on Linux.
This[0] was an interesting read back '19 comparing total political spending with the size of the almond industry. It's a weird comparison.

[0]https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Don't worry, people are creating new gender identities every day. There will be plenty more diversity to be had
Mind you it has been a few years since I have worked in C++ professionally. I understand why you might like it. But in my opinion, it is a dumpster fire.

My friend who is a music producer has a saying: "You can't polish a turd."

With C++ and CMake, this is apt.
Programming Is Philosophy
In here we file taxes over internet. Tax administration takes about 10 hours every year. I am self employed dev, deal with multiple countries.
The one I have (latest model I think) you need to wave your hand in front of (closely).
Because it hard for a single author or organization to enforce across millions of humans.

It's like locks on doors. Yea, B&E is illegal and the lock helps as a forcing function/indicator. Easier to lock a door than chase 100s of thieves.

DRM is like that for a publisher, and digital theft is loads easier than physical theft, otherwise publishers are really set back for getting compensated for their works (see author above).

I get you don't like DRM but should software be a tool for stealing others works?

Note: I loathe DRM but when I pay for content/books, I respect the game.
I don't have any way of knowing how rational this is without running more experiments, but when I'm down to final selection between a few products, I search for "<product> sucks" on Google.

If the results seem fairly rational, I may have second thoughts about going that way. If the negative reviews come from people who seem unhinged, then the fact that they bubbled to the top is a good indication that only nutbars hate the project.

Call it hyperloglog as applied to counterarguments for a product.
If that code were Netflix-centric then that would be a bad thing, but it isn't - so its not.
I imagine this differs from person to person, and that some people would find rejecting people (especially person after person) to be draining.

You're trying to hire because you want to find someone to help you and you're hoping this next person will be the one to be that help. The person looking for a job obviously wants to find a job that will work well for them, and especially during this pandemic it's entirely possible that the stakes are higher for them than normal (do they currently have a job? Are they moving out of fear of their job going away? etc).

I think that it's entirely possible that someone would find it stressful to reject a stream of applicants - repeatedly telling a series of people, to their faces, knowing that they're people and not just faceless applicants, that it's not going to work out might very well be stressful to some people.
Back the Kickstarter and if we reach enough funding we are adding support for your own music on a memory card ;)
It's horrible for environments with split horizon DNS. It presumes that the only network that should exist are home users consuming public Internet cloud services.

For privacy it's a discussion of do I trust my obnoxious non-US ISP or a US based .com with seeing all my browsing habits based on DNS queries. At least I could have legal recourse with my ISP in my own country, and there is slightly better privacy laws.
I’ve stumbled into type driven design a few times and found it nicely productive. But of course it just tells me that the same of the function output is correct not the content.
> It's bunk, but if it represents a large portion of the population then I'd say it is fair to judge bodybuilding based on that;

Do you usually judge groups based on the worst actors in them?

Part of the problem is that at the high levels of bodybuilding everyone is on steroids and other drugs, thyroid, clenbuterol, diuretics, etc and there aren't any studies to tell people how those should be taken in order to make yourself really lean-- those are the spaces that pseudoscience jumps into the most.
What evidence does the software have that you agreed or continue to agree to the terms encoded into the piece of content? If you intend to not copy text from a file, for instance, you are certainly free and empowered to not do that.
If any Ubuntu maintainers are listening: PLEASE STOP DOING THIS
...it actually is, if it's true. most quantum-resistant crypto has focused on public-key cryptography. and quantum annealing is much nearer-term than regular quantum computing, that's the kind of machines that D-Wave is building and selling today.

it would be extraordinarily disruptive if this turns out to not be empty hype.
But why does it need to exist in the first place when my system has exactly 0 change in behavior when it's disabled?
This might work in a B2B relationship but as an individual, there is no site on earth that is getting me to give you my bank account or driver's license info as part of a "free" or "trial" plan.

Maybe. MAYBE. I'll give you a credit card number since I know I can always dispute/chargeback if you turn out to be dishonest. No way do you get anything that can't be 100% undone within a few minutes.
Ultimately this is not up companies to decided, but for lawmakers to simplify taxes and reduce loopholes and complications.

I am self employed, and it took me a few years to figure out properly how to pay and not overpay for all my taxes. The entire tax system is insane, depreciated assets, tracking car mileage, LLC fees and taxes, annual report filings, and paying quarterly taxes.
> Just look at athletes before widespread steroid use. They have spent way more time training than actors and haven't looked like that even in sports that require dehydration like boxing.

How widely are you thinking, and where are you getting your stats? People have been using steroids for decades now, so comparing pre-steroid athletes to modern day athletes is apples and oranges. Exercise science has come a long way over the decades, not to mention the cultural ideal body images have also changed.
Honest question, if nobody likes systemd, then why is it still around and why is it so difficult for me to find a distro that hasn't adopted it?
You don't have to use systemd-resolved. Most distros have been using systemd but not systemd-resolved for years. Fedora only just started using systemd-resolved by default in the most recent release.

It's like, yeah, that's a funny thing to also live in systemd.git, but systemd-resolved is functionally a separate product from systemd.
Then.. why does it exist? More importantly, why is it enabled by default?

Does systemd want to be an init system? A logging system? a dnsmasq replacement?
> You can probably refuel a hydrogen car at home eventually too. The problem with electric cars is that there's not a single thing that fuel cell cars can't replicate.

First. No, we're not going to have home electrolysis. It would be expensive and inefficient.

And that inefficiency is what will make hydro cars also ran. While EVs are heavier, they are less expensive to operate because there is energy loss in every phase of getting power to the wheels. Extracting hydrogen, compressing it, delivering it to the end point, and extracting power from it, each phase is an efficiency loss.

I already have what I need to charge an EV. It will take all night, but I rarely drive more than 300 miles in a day so that's just fine with me. And it's cheaper than hydro will ever be. Particularly if I put up my own solar to charge it.
I don't doubt that many actors have used steroids, especially in the past. I simply doubt that many stars use them today, given that they don't need to anymore. Stars are given months to get in shape before filming begins (in the case of the Marvel actors, approximately a year before filming), and that's plenty of time for someone reasonable in shape to develop a muscular physique without steroids.

Getting a visible 6-pack is a lot easier than people think it is. It doesn't require steroids, just discipline and time.
I’m in my mid-30s and American; I can’t recall ever having seen or heard this phrase in my entire life.
I’m the opposite because I’m tired of all the choices today. Just pick for me! Anyways Loodio will have a memory card reader so you can upload your own music. :)