skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrgh, you're doing it too!

The core essence of a conspiracy theory, the thing that demands it be debunked, is that it's unfounded. It's an attractive idea without evidence, and one of the tools used in propagating it is to flip the script and point out that the absence of evidence is in fact "absence of disproof", and thus... evidence.

So what are you doing? You're taking an assertion without support (that covid is a lab leak) and then framing it as a legitimate argument by pointing out (1) that it is "not that clear cut" (by which I assume you mean that there's no evidence but not disproof either) and (2) that people who say that it doesn't have support were somehow arguing in bad faith with "poorly constructed" arguments.

This isn't a legitimate fact under dispute. It's just not. There's no evidence, literally, beyond the mailing address of the lab.

> In my opinion, when something is debunked, it should be done in the most rigorous manner and stay as politically neutral as possible.

In my opinion an argument debunking something should be done with simple facts, irrespective of political concomity. Being wrong isn't a political opinion.
Bingo. That's exactly the problem.
I originally was discussing social and political issues I was interested in. My approach was looking at academic research or government reports and putting their findings into the context of my personal political beliefs.

The popular video - I just happened to notice on YouTube that someone completely unrelated was lying about something. They were faking a technical issue and accusing a company of something. I made a video that proved the original was a fake and explained how they did it.

When my new video exploded in popularity I thought "debunking" was the way to go. I also had the problems that I didn't really know any other similar fakes to debunk, so I probably picked things that were either too obvious or I'd pick things that turned out to be legit so far as I could tell and just share my results on that.

I've since removed my attempts at debunking and even my popular video from my channel. Didn't undo the damage though. (Also possible my channel was failing for other reasons not related. It was never clear to me how the algorithm worked).
Right, you're are making a big deal out of a kid getting a headache sometime in a month.
Meh. The money is already (basically) spent.
Laugh now, in India they also said no need and survive the fittest, and now it's everyone losing their parents.

Ill give it to my kid, I dont see a downside. She won't die of a vaccine.
It's almost as if there is correlating data between that and the human psyche. Someone should look into that!
I don’t have a problem with USAA, I don’t think they’re getting up to the kind of bullshit the large banks are either.
I expect this has been studied, and likely is already being done. Maybe not directly in notification timing (though I wouldn't be surprised), but I expect this is part of what goes into newsfeed rankings - it optimizes to keep the reader scrolling, but also can optimize for rewarding the poster by spacing out their "likes" for optimal dopamine rewards.
I've always been very open with coworkers about salaries. And in my experience the underpaid people were always not like me ( white and male ) and frequently better at their jobs than me.
Just to be clear, you're saying "uname -s == Linux" => "/proc exists" right? Not trying to be pedantic; just having a TIL moment.
I'm looking at the table you cite, and it's listing side effects such as headache, fatigue, and chills. "Severe reactions" makes it sounds like they had serious adverse events. If 2% of kids get severe headache, fatigue, or chills for a day or so, so what? And I say that as the mother of a 14-year-old who is planning to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
I mean, if we're already subsidizing low wage jobs with social programs like food stamps, why not just make the extra UE benefits permanent? It'll rob those companies of productive labor they were paying substantially less for and force them to either do without or pay more.
I’m also frequently confused when people refer to Windows laptops as in a different league of battery life. Modern Windows laptops do just fine. M1 is a cycle ahead, but the Ryzen mobile parts are actually very good too.
> I think it’s fine.

Good. You can do it on your own dime, then.
It would be interesting to model the way different societies would deal with such an event. Some presumably would have a run on toilet paper and other essentials. Other societies might ration resources on a need basis.
Pretty much none.
I agree with you that it’s bad practice to enter your login date into an arbitrary app.

However, you and the gp should complain to your bank because it’s their job to provide a secure confirmation method. My banks push the confirmation to their app that has separate without the possibility of stealing my bank credentials (in trivial ways).
Neither does mine, but at this point a lot of services have popped up to fill the gap. Ten years ago western Union worked in a pinch, now there are lots more options
That is such a clich'e line, yet the link between taxes and spending is not as direct as most would have you think. Re fiat money
From my understanding eBPF is sufficiently constrained to where the halting problem is solvable for all representable programs (in eBPF).
yes, ish. But Postgresql has no reordering of table columns builtin, mostly due to the limitations of the internal representation of its schema (also called features) and in how the DLL is performed.

Adding or removing a column in this system does not require postgres to rewrite the whole table, which means that old data can stay in the table effectively forever, as long as there are no other rewrite-required DDLs performed. Additionally, columns can be updated to SET NOT NULL / DROP NOT NULL, further complicating the whole system you're trying to optimize.

Eventually postgresql might support some form of table column reordering that permanently optimizes out deleted columns, but I think it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. There are lower hanging fruits on the tree; altering existing table definitions in a backwards-incompatible manner is a lot of effort for likely very little gain.

As for column packing: Maybe this can be implemented for CREATE TABLE with an option, but in the current transactional DDL framework this cannot be implemented for ADD COLUMN, because we can't reorder columns.
That's an interesting point, actually. Samsung doesn't need to compete with the M1, it only needs to compete with Celerons and Athlons to make a profit.

As far as most consumers are concerned, even Exynos chips may be worth it for desktop use because they can use the extensive video acceleration support that mobile GPUs have which many desktop chips still lack.

Sadly, the Windows world is far from ARM-compatible. Few people install applications through the Windows Store, and bringing Linux to the masses with an alternative, low-power laptop processor will probably end up failing as well. I fear that the lack of software support will prevent Samsung for replicating Apple's success.

Maybe Samsung can stuff these chips into Chromebooks, those provide a limited yet cross-platform operating system that some markets are getting used to already. There are plenty of ARM Chromebooks out there, so I'm not sure how well Samsung could compete in that space.
Parents, elders, and compromised folks are vaccinated already in these parts.

Forcing kids to pick up the slack to protect those who refused is not fair or a good use of resources, imho.

Certainly technology will be better in ten years as well.
Yup. Look at the forces at work. You've got stimmy money, eviction moratoriums, and lots of crappy min-wage and better but still only a few steps from entry level jobs that need workers. All these things are incentivizing people in different directions. Some people are gonna go back to work. Some aren't. Some are gonna reduce work. Some jobs are gonna pay higher. Some are gonna get automated away. We all know where the dust is gonna settle. This is all just hand wringing over proportions.

But I don't own a business employing people near minimum wage so I guess that's easy for me to say.
> I’m very much opposed to enforcing EU values and views to 3rd parties.

I’m not at all opposed to the EU trying to regulate companies providing services to their citizens.

If you only regulate providers in the EU it’s a pointless exercise from the start, even if you don’t have a lot of ways to actually enforce your regulations.
Not "sometime in a month". Immediately after the vaccine.

And yes -- for an illness that is essentially asymptomatic in children, that's a legitimate concern.

Another way of putting it: this vaccine will make at least as many children as sick as getting Covid itself.
No? The first mRNA tests were conducted in 1990 in mice -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1690918/

We figured out the basics in 2005, specifically two scientists Karikó and Weissman.

A decade ago there were discussions about how to develop more complex vaccines -- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/rna.22269

Given the immense potential to address everything from parasites (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963228/) to cancer (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28101688/) to allergies (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30063806/), tons of research is being done on this technology.

Scientists have been working on and reporting on dosing strategies, managing immune responses, monitoring long term effects on animals, etc. for a long time now.

Which part is parody? Just because something is new to you doesn't mean it's new.
> they're painful to talk to.

Your discomfort is the point for them.

Quickly figuring out that you're in such an interaction and bailing before your day is ruined is the best you can hope for in the short term.
There's rumors of Google ARM silicon coming this year based on Exynos. We might see a similar chip in future Pixelbooks/Chromebooks.
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It's common in western Europe and parts of Africa.
Of course she won't die of the vaccine. She'll just have a lifetime of autoimmune diseases. Which might be worse
Pre-print for that paper was published 7 months ago and the sample collection date was from April-May 2020. Obviously there have been huge spikes in cases across the world since May 2020 with majority of infections occurring after that timeframe.

> Sample collection date Apr–May 2020
But why would you expect long side effect of an immunity triggering vaccine?
Okay this looks kinda useful, I actually like the idea of using a Telegram bot, I know many people will be against it but it's an app that runs everywhere; I always have quick access to it, and honestly it's the fastest way to share/save things, I use Saved Messages all the time to transfer files or save screenshots.
The risk of death from covid is low for this age group, but almost certainly much higher than the risk of death from the vaccine. The risk-benefit analysis seems to weigh pretty obviously in favor of vaccination.
> The best I can tell you is there is a level of performance where the cost of working in what is essentially an all-day meeting, every day, forever, is far greater than what gains might be obtained by having two people involved to get over whatever issues are better served by being in the pair.

And yet, my experience has been the exact opposite.

> It's much, much more effective for me (and most of the people I've ever worked with) to just reach out as-needed for consulting.

Fair enough. But, have you seriously (as I said in another comment, if you go in expecting it to fail, of course it will fail) tried it?
Ahh sorry my internal clock still thinks it’s ~2015ish, I should have said multiple decades — I was thinking basically after the 2000s
Yep. Newton tried to discredit Leibniz for example even though Leibniz was the first to publish calculus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz–Newton_calculus_contro...
It isn't perfect but I just end up installing nix (the package manager) and home-manager and hacking together my configuration through that.

The majority of my NixOS configuration is written in NixOS agnostic modules so it works pretty well.

I share my NixOS configurations between one bare metal Alpine install as well as an Alpine WSL2 install.
I am not sure about IPFS but didn't Ethereum have a 51% attack last year?
> As it stands today, I can no longer reliably block hosts by domain name on my own network thanks to DOH.

You should be able to mitm all your own https traffic right? Not sure if that’s worth it though.
Age is a risk factor. Many European countries recommend AZ only above age 50 (Britain above 30) because of the risk/reward profile.

Also, the Pandemrix history teaches us that although adverse effects manifest within 2 months, it can take over a year to figure out problems (spoiler: pandemrix was touted as safe including by Fauci but was associated with 5X increase in Narcolepsy, a deveatatig life altering disease. There is a suspected mechanism but no certainty, so you can’t even say “we incorporated the lessons from that”)
Are there just too many games? I basically rotate my time between a space mmo called Dual Universe and Red Dead Redemption 2 on the ps5. That’s it - I pay a monthly fee for DU and paid 60 bucks a few years ago for RDR2. That’s it. That’s all the gaming I really need for months.

Go to the web or steam up and see a plethora of games and realize how little share of wallet most of these games get. Unfortunately it’s not enough to pay some designers any decent salary. Sad to say but it may be a problem that works itself out through survival of the fittest. Only the best games will get the most bucks and the rest will languish. But if there isn’t enough time for them, should they really exist in the first place?
I understand. It's a tough situation. Breathe, AWS is one of the better services to end up in such a situation with. This will get resolved.

Be a little patient, but don't try to superescalate by going through emails and what not. Just file a business ticket. If this needs escalation, they will do so.
Leibniz–Newton Calculus Controversy
> curtail hate speech and radicalization

Would truth be a defense? If you're accused of hate speech, but you can show that everything you said is true*, does that make it legal hate speech? Or would truth also be curtailed, in the name of fighting hate?

*Ignoring for now how truth is determined. For the sake of argument, lets say you have reliable, non-controversial mainstream sources for every statement.
Sorry, It starts on page 25 here:

https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download
You're right I see now I did use the word perfect. I was thinking about my conclusion, but yes. I can't work with a perfectionist and also controlling CEO. I can't buy shares from one either. I don't want to waste meeting time with one.

Typical initial hurdles and their solution:

The name of the company on the incorporation documents doesn't matter.

You don't need a lawyer to incorporate.

Just get the logo done on Fiverr.

You don't need a team page on your website. Nobody cares.

Your co-founders are not 50% or equal shareholders.

Keep most of the shares.

Do non-dilutive things.

Stop adding non-standard things to sweeten the deal to potential investors. They either want shares or they don't.
This is just a consequence of the semi-free job market the US has. Indeed people would return to work if their benefits were taken but would this be a good thing? Should people be forced to work like this? These jobs will soon be automated anyway. The key question is how we can share the benefits of automation widely such that we don't have giant swathes of penniless workless population.
> Until 2017, FANG was limited to Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet. Another variant of this acronym is "FANGAM," which includes Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FAANG

I think Microsoft is up there and competitive in the same landscape, and calling out their lack of inclusion in the original acronym is just pedantic. Everything discussed in this thread applies just as much to MSFT as it does to any of the other FAANG companies.
Again, the severe reactions documented here are not all that bad.
When I proposed a couple years ago (2019) that we remove all karma integers from the HN website for a week to see if the quality of the site would improve or worsen, people argued that it should be something they can opt out of.

The most common argument I remember was “I need unread counts to know if a topic is worth reading”, which suggests the early stages of addiction to high positive integers that we’re seeing on every other site.

Have we come around yet to agreeing that all like counts are harmful — whether Facebook, Twitter, or HN? Because I’d love to see what HN is like when people participate based on the content rather than the integers.

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745267
Hey all, I worked on this project this last weekend to create a simple online lab space to play with WebAssembly that I felt other online Rust playgrounds didn't exactly provide (specifically the ability to see my output as html). Curious to hear what you think!
Those early EeePCs were amazing. This is before the 11" Macbooks and Chromebooks, etc. Back then laptops were full-size and expensive. An EeePC netbook allowed one to have something they could put in their bag easily for only a portion of the cost of a laptop. They were absolutely limited, but if all you needed to do was basic stuff such as write a paper in the library, they couldn't be beat.
The article doesn't say it of course, but the big question is what happens when the government keeps the dole, at least past midterm elections?

There's tremendous automation happening right now, and it'll accelerate, to the point where if the government waits 2 years, a good portion of those jobs likely won't exist, and the government will never be able to get rid of the dole.

It's kind of like quantitative easing infinity, except for the poors.
A sports car... or a Forge World Titan...
Yeah, this is sorta why you sometimes find the same big box store within a few miles of eachother. It's not that they think they need that other store, it's that they think they need to keep that location out of the hands of competition.
But how would the government afford to pay all these benefits indefinitely? Unless the new normal will be to just keep taking out more debt in perpetuity.
While i appreciate the premise and absolutely agree with the author. The fact that it goes straight from, "I made a dumb tweet that people liked." to "it's an addiction" was a jarring transition.

This is one of those few times where more information would have made me get through it the first time without having to re-read, i felt like I missed something.

Not being too critical or anything; i appreciated the views expressed. Though the twitter logo is still visible at the bottom of the page.. so will our dear writer stick to this conviction i know not.
It’s over a much longer period than that.
It's not for every use case, but Big Query is often a very stupidly cheap datastore. Query results get cached, and repeats don't incur a charge unless the data has changed.

It's not a datastore to power a crud app, or anything requiring frequent queries, but it's a great place to stash gobs of logs that you may need to query at some point. Or it's great for serverless batch workloads and is often cheaper in both time and money than firing up spark clusters or something similar to do the work.

Quite frankly, it's awesome. But sure, they do use it as a tool for lock-in, and for some cases it would be prohibitively expensive.
Train firm's 'worker bonus' email is cybersecurity test
Wow what a coincidence, your username is the handle I most use on the internet when available
I agree, I'd like it better if it was something like "this website it asleep" while keeping a way to access it. Maybe something like "take a peek", because I wouldn't want to make people feel bad for "waking up" the website.
It's hard to tell based on the material available on the website, but it looks like their book isn't physical. If you go through the checkout process, it doesn't gather shipping information. I assume the <$1 figure was just the Stripe transaction costs.
Yes, Jest is slow. Performance-focused test frameworks like ava and uvu prominently display benchmarks demonstrating this.

Jest’s slowness, in my experience, is primarily rooted in three issues:

- The transformations it performs to support auto-mocking (AFAIK still its flagship feature) are constant overhead.

- Its process model is per-module, rather than per-test, limiting concurrency. A hypothetical test run with one test module with 100 tests is ~100x slower than 100 modules with 1 test each.

- Its process model is per-module (yes, I’m repeating this factor because it has another major impact on perf), but Jest destroys its dependency cache between tests, causing memory leaks to accumulate. Memory leaks in Node especially are common and trivial, where long-running libraries (like, say, a logger) set up some config-driven singleton on require/import.

I’ve sunk literally weeks if not months into trying to work around issues like these on teams that insisted on keeping either Jest or other tools with aforementioned memory leaks. And while I value performance, I primarily spent that time trying to mitigate problems (false positives/negatives in test runs, intermittent failures) caused by the poor isolation model.
Some people work the night shift and sleep during the day. Others have odd schedules. Just don't do this. It's paternalistic, ill-advised, and not helpful.
Thank you for your kind words!

Your LSIF approach sounds interesting, I'll look into it.

Another documentation host I know of is https://hexdocs.pm/ for Elixir packages.
“Real men have fabs.” - AMD founder, Jerry Sanders.

this is the new age. everyone can design a custom chip for its product without "real men have fabs". this is exciting. your custom chip designed for your own product can make your product stand out like Apple M1.
It has a name [1] except everyone is really careful not to say it to not piss off the right wingers and get called communists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
big respect friend :)
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DARPA's also brought us the Total Information Awareness project. Those project ran concurrently and they had diametrically opposed goals.

But it doesn't mean much as DARPA's seems to fund a lots of projects with seemingly opposite goals.
OK so if you take into account almost any transmission rate we've seen that seems like it easily balances out, even not taking into account potential for mutations and the classification of severe.

I have a "severe" reaction to alcohol every time I drink too much.
Hey I’m with you. I’m simply answering the question asked by the parent comment. I’ve found that most people on the left are reasonable and don’t think about JP much at all. However, I’ve observed that the people who are vocally against him are usually far on the left and use the ideological argument that I stated.
Most big YouTube photography channels have video descriptions absolutely stuffed with affiliate links. They have a strong incentive to both attract viewers who are already interested in buying gear, and to convince viewers who aren't sure they want more gear that they really do want more gear.

Most people putting out high-production-value videos regularly aren't doing it for fun or to make the world a better place; they're closely watching how much money they make from it.
Yes, I misremembered the 30 day follow period.

But it was indeed the 7 days following administration, not immediately after.

I guess I don't see a headache or fever from the vaccine as the same kind of sick as Covid, so no need to pursue the conversation if we disagree on that.