skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the data presented, surgical masks are still highly effective even after converting the scales to linear. Add social distancing on top, it is almost as good as N95.

And I very much doubt that N95 masks are effectively utilized by the general public considering how many poorly fitted masks I have seen over the past year.

Before the pandemic there had been several studies looking at the efficacy of N95 vs. surgical masks at preventing the transmission of influenza in hospitals. Most of them never got anywhere because it was soon realized that even doctors and nurses cannot be trusted to wear and change masks properly during the daily routine. Let's hope things have improved by now.
Bill Gates doesn't seem to think climate change is a problem either https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/bill-and-melinda-...
Combining rsstail and youtube-dl can get you that easily.
Based on what I've heard and my own experience, raises are a pittance anyways. You have to change jobs.

My manager did the opposite, praised me for being the top dev, gave me a 7% raise, said that's the max they could give anyone, asked me not to tell the others.

The problem with being "the top dev" is there's no one to learn from, so I started looking for other opportunities anyways.

Never mentioned my old salary, and new company offered me 50% more.

And when salary comes up in general conversation the new company frequently mentions apologetically that they're a smaller company who can't afford to pay as much as others.

Raises cap out here at 6% if you're absolutely phenomenal.
> “If you took Mac security techniques and applied them to the iOS ecosystem, with all those devices, all that value, it would get run over to a degree dramatically worse than is already happening on the Mac,” Federighi said in the testimony. “And as I say, today, we have a level of malware on the Mac that we don’t find acceptable and is much worse than iOS.”

Even with video editing and photos. If you took Mac QuickTime and compared it with iOS features you’d be shocked…

I didn’t know I was missing a lot until I upgraded from 5SE to XS. As someone who worked on creative content at advertising agencies I was beyond shocked to see the gap between features, particularly in video editing…

I started to use my phone to edit files because it’s it’s a lot faster but my neck hurts :(
That wasn't a Quanon conspiracy: that was misunderstanding that I saw plenty of mainstream doctors and other health professionals promote. What it showed is that either they were intentionally lying - which I kinda doubt - or that they were so confident in what they had heard that they never bothered to do any research for themselves. Just reading the relevant wikipedia pages carefully would have corrected that misunderstanding.
As promised, the Show HN is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27227925
By what metric? By deaths per capita, my impression was the low masking states did worse, but I didn't rigorously check the data.
This is true, but it's important to consider that you could squeeze several billion of these processors into the space taken up by current CPUs.
You may want to check how much of your body weight is bacterial and how easy it is to exchange samples with others. Just own the things that make us human.
For what it's worth, unlike earlier CRISPR technology which made DSBs at desired locations, base editing does not make double strand breaks. This is described pretty well, I think, in the journal manuscript[1].

1 = https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03534-y
"many", because there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and many.
Show HN: Extract Documents into Data in Seconds Using Golang Veryfi SDK
fwiw, these are all addressed by IRCCloud or The Lounge (and some others to varying degrees)
As an example: https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...

I'm sure modern, all digital, methods like Venmo or PayPal use even less.
Yes. Crazy how hard it has been for people to get this:

Imagine a bulletproof vest with three larger-than-bullet-sized holes in it. Say you know someone is going to shoot ten bullets at you - would you not wear the vest because "the attack vector can fit through the pores"?

The point is people treat this as a binary 'safe' / 'not safe' switch, when actually risk is related to the distribution of exposure to dosage.
I don't think people need to know how they work. They just need to know that those are what doctors wear and that they are very, very effective. And much better than a mask you make from ad hoc materials.

Once N95 masks became readily available and cheap, it was (and is) mysterious why people weren't being told to wear them to protect themselves instead of wearing whatever was at hand to sort of protect themselves and others.
Hi, not using a throwaway so you know I’m sincere. As someone with a serious and currently incurable disability, I would support testing on one hundred billion non-human primates if it gave me a 5% chance of a cure.

I’m sure you’ll find people who don’t feel that way. But I can’t overstate enough how horrible it is to go from being a functional adult with all the joys and sorrows that brings to being a much less functional person in pain every day. That is reality for millions of people. I don’t feel that what GP did was gross. I think it reflects reality for people who suffer on a daily basis, and whose loved ones do.
Reminds me of parasites in Stargate giving their host longer lifespan and superpowers
There's a whole bunch of headlines that can be read as "this is really big" or "our measurements are very precise".
Those same factors explain a large portion of differences in educational achievement. Doesn't that mean the test is then doing what it is designed to do?
iOS offers the choice between male and female assistant voices and has removed a default.

https://www.theverge.com/22364180/how-to-change-siri-voice-i...
They deserve appraisal for its hackability: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
so if they become common the ransomware will change to encrypting the data slowly, transparently decrypting on the fly until it's finished?
They’re both electron based so both have issues. Must say I prefer Teams.
To me, "splitting the bill" occurs mostly in restaurants, which (as far as I can tell) isn't what this does. It would certainly be a pain in the butt problem ("Steve had the lasagna, and we agreed to go halfsies on the apps"). Tie it into the restaurant's billing?

This kind of thing is what I'd call "sharing expenses". And it's surely a fine thing to have an app for: less hard than trying to account for the details of a restaurant bill, but still an impressive achievement.

I know I'm just (ahem) splitting hairs here, but to me "splitting the bill" that doesn't cover what I think of as the most common case seems like it's going to confuse people.
I think the idea is not to perfectly blend in, but to get closer to that circle by being more relatable.
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That is true; but a large number of people are walking around with cloth masks believing that they are helpful, while that study has shown them to potentially increase risk.

It did show "Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%." So that was a positive for medical masks. Though some of the other studies address how those need to be used properly and not re-used.

The main point is that, in general, media has not done a good job of transmitting studies on risk reduction; they've mainly done propaganda, which can do more harm by promoting things like cloth masks and not informing people about proper use of medical masks.
This repo has been updated with the latest essay from PG i.e. Fierce Nerds. I am so thankful to ofou for providing it in this format.
Holy crap people - spend less money on your weddings. Instead spend that money on a honeymoon or setting up your future lives.

When I proposed I did it with a 30$ engagement ring that was quite pretty but cheap. When we got married we had a pair of rings made set with sapphires for 700$ a piece. For the actual wedding we catered in a few hundred dollars worth of indian food for the dozen people we had attend the ceremony - and held it at the house of a family member (a ridiculously scenic house, granted).

Honestly - the most expensive part of our wedding was my suit that was hand-tailored and made of raw silk (and that was picked out by my wife). My wife's wedding dress was bought off a rack and altered for about 120$ altogether.
In addition there's urban and there's urban.

Remove the imperial capitals (DC or London) or financial capitals (London or New York) and the next tier down ain't so much.
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Let people criticize things. I doubt you'd apply your comment toward your favorite political pet causes. Why are the Kardashians the one thing in our society that is not allowed to be criticized? This whole "let people enjoy things" is cynical, usually coming from the types of people who don't let anyone enjoy anything unless it is degenerate and mind-rotting.
Tamper-proof. Yes, that was the example that occurred to me.
There is no published limit, but based on my tests the network device for the c5n.xlarge has a hard limit of 1.8M pps (which translates directly to req/s for small requests without pipelining).

There is also a quota system in place, so even though that is the hard limit, you can only operate at those speeds for a short time before you start getting rate-limited.
> that requires maintenance and will probably go down more frequently than Slack

Been running Zulip for two years at two companies. Never gone down, not even during maintenance (zero-downtime reloads FTW), which was twice, for version upgrades.

> don't require any maintenance (Slack)

Neither does zulip.com, which is a managed service by the makers and maintainers of Zulip and costs the same as Slack.
In my city (San Francisco), the Tenderloin is nationally famous for having an "open-air drug market", which means a place you can go to _buy_ drugs with impunity. It also happens to be one of the most dystopian parts of the city, rampent with crime, overdoses, unsanitary conditions, and needles everywhere.

It seems like any rational person could see the connection between drugs and the dystopian aspects of the Tenderloin. What I would do instead is precisely what I would do if my children were addicted to drugs; tough love. I would make it impossible for them to acquire drugs and deal with the consequences of withdrawl.

Japan and Singapore are examples of countries that are extremely tough on drugs. I believe it is no coincidence that these places also turned out to be essentially the opposite of the Tenderloin with regards to public safety and heigene.
A site that is like HN, but where the posts are about actual tech advancement?
The detachable faceplate for anti-theft reasons was (is?) a very common feature for aftermarket radios/head-units/whatever in the US. Built-in ones have just increasingly moved to not being a discrete, accessible, interchangeable component, another way around.

I still remember when my dad had bought an aftermarket tape-deck-only radio, a Sony I believe, well into the era of the ubiquitous CD player (he just wanted a working tape deck). Someone broke into the car at some point and stole it and I can only assume they were very disappointed after looking closer.
Francis Spufford's Red Plenty touched on this in some of the vignettes in that book. Fun book to be read as historical fiction set in the USSR.
When the ultimate goal of zero emissions will be achieved, we will finally get a world where nobody is breathing :-D
A big part of why they are annoying and uncomfortable is the lack of one-way valves to make it easier to breath in them. In industry, when you actually need to wear a mask/respirator, they almost always have valves.

Unfortunately, we got stuck on the "wear masks to protect others" narrative, and people who actually were at risk were prevented from wearing much more effective, much more comfortable, masks that would actually work well at protecting them. Eg here in Canada, it's illegal to wear a mask/respirator with a valve on a plane.
For an article about communicating clearly, it was pretty poor at communicating clearly.
Who owns the United States? Who owns Linux?
The vote was taken Tuesday of this week:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/554332-oregon-count...
I currently have two plots farming and it looks like this:

Farming status: Farming
Total chia farmed: 0.0
User transaction fees: 0.0
Block rewards: 0.0
Last height farmed: 0
Plot count: 2
Total size of plots: 202.674 GiB
Estimated network space: 7357.090 PiB
Expected time to win: 20 years and 1 month
Can you be more specific about where you've seen people in eastern Oregon and modoc/siskiyou living on local subsistence agriculture? These areas are mountainous, high altitude, and incredibly arid, not exactly prime agricultural land. That's a big part of why they're so lightly populated.

As for jobs, their main employers are typically some combination of tourism, ranching, and most of all, government. Often it's colleges and medical facilities that are the largest employers overall, which critically rely on state funding.

I've definitely heard people in these areas who say they don't need doctors, schools, or roads, but hopefully we can agree that it's a silly position and not an argument most people would make.
Everyone is having assumptions about these observations. The conclusions might not be always right, but at least the observation is real. And when you observe that mask mandating states don’t do significantly better than mask-free states, then a curious mind rightfully starts pondering. No need to unterstand conspiracy theories (a difficult topic) to understand that science isn’t getting it right yet.
You're of course free to do whatever you think makes sense, but please don't expect other people to follow. The world is full of risks, but everything is a tradeoff - it's really bad if we start thinking random people are a danger to us.

And for what it's worth, I'm not anti-mask in the context of the pandemic - I've been wearing masks indoors since the whole thing started and I'll continue to do this until most people around me are vaccinated, for their sake.
if you can build an SSD that's hundreds of GB you can certainly build a ROM...
Much better article here: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/05/more-oregon-coun...
Just use create-react-app if you don't need any of the features provided by next.js.

https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html#recomme...
There are tons of biomedical research groups testing things on animal subjects. A lot of discovery and progress has been and will continue to be made with that system.

And I’d have any number of them tested on if it meant progress toward a cure for any number of conditions afflicting human beings. I don’t think that’s “gross.”
It invites rigor in studying mask efficacy. Some studies out there show inconclusive results of mask usage, and this article helps give us an explanation as to why we might be seeing that. The model shows that in an extremely virus-rich environment masking can be rendered ineffective, but in virus-poor environments, even surgical masks decrease the probability of infection.

Researchers need to measure concentration of virus in the environment as well as mask usage to show the efficacy of masks in real world situations.
Apple staffers urge Tim Cook to condemn violence against Palestinians
How much CO2 does Bitcoin actually create? Here's the math.
To be clearer - given Jones asserts that the reversal of satanists/globalists is good, are there examples of where such a reversal has had positive measurable effects on a society? I'm looking to understand perspectives opposite to my own here (as an atheist, non-American, liberal leaning person).
> and the commtitee

I'd argue that for a document like the C standard, if there's a well-known intended meaning, that is the meaning of the document - any other interpretation is purely academic.
If your financial situation allows it consult a professional.

Go outside regurarily, exercise would be best.

Techwise i think that Go is a good idea if you are coming from C++ and want to get into cloud and web stuff.

Instead of leetcode i would try to create a small tool involving 2 technologies that is manageable to create in a few days. Finishing something feels very good and the positive feedback can get you into a positive loop.
This reminds me of the film that kicked off David Cronenberg's career (and also one of the first films in the body horror genre): Shivers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivers_(film)
Hypothetical answer: A ban on plastic straws can unintentionally make life more difficult for individuals with motor disabilities.

Paper straws break down relatively quickly and can lose suction effectiveness as a result. Reusable metal straws can cause chipped teeth or gum damage if bitten down on by someone with poor fine motor control. No straws at all can leave an individual unable to ingest liquids entirely. Reusable soft plastic straws would be ideal, but the tradeoff is that now we've placed yet an extra burden on an impaired person (or their caretakers) in our society because now they'll need to maintain a supply of clean, reusable straws that they need to transport with them. Disposable plastic straws are "soft" enough to not damage someone's teeth or gums too severely when bitten down on, but are more durable than paper straws to ensure reliable suction over time, and they do not require any upkeep or maintenance for proper hygiene due to their disposable nature.
Rule of law, not majority.

It may look that way should “one side” or the other control an official political body, but at least for now, we still abide election laws insuring the “rule of law” bit.
> That’s only true in emergency medicine

What would you do about emergency medicine in your ideal world though?
These days, I'd recommend a 16 gig minimum if you game at all, with 32 gig recommended if you play RAM intense games.
John Blow is going to lose his mind at this.
assuming:
1) 100% capture of air flow
2) no fatigue (ie capture is same at t=0, and t=later)

anyone with glasses will tell you 1 isn't a very good assumption. As masks saturate in moisture, back pressure causes (1) to be more false.
Looks like Tylenol is/was owned by J&J... the same company that knowingly sold talcum powder that caused cancer:

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/19/859182015/johnson-johnson-sto...
It doesn't assume anything. It registers evidence for one hypothesis over another. If the evidence doesn't move your priors at all, then you're not thinking rationally. Of course there are other factors as well (which perhaps dominate), the strictness of the Dem/Rep split, etc. but this one piece of evidence should move you in the direction described.
> Everyone thought WASM would enable developers to write code in any language they wanted (with type checking and higher performance) and deploy it on the web.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...

> WebAssembly is a different language from JavaScript, but it is not intended as a replacement. Instead, it is designed to complement and work alongside JavaScript, allowing web developers to take advantage of both languages' strong points

"Not intended as a replacement"

WASM is a math coprocessor for JS. WASM can't even talk to the DOM API directly (which is the API you use to build web pages in JS); you have to write JavaScript glue code for any/all I/O in WASM.
No, the generated app includes client forms in react-admin
Tangentially, has anyone developed a good use for old plastic straws? Like melting them down to 3D printer filament, or maybe just switch to corn/soy based plastic that is biodegradable within a reasonable time? Paper and metal are just not good substitutes. I think some of the "anti-big government" sentiment comes from banning very useful items without some sort of acceptable substitute.
>"I keep hearing about all these amazing crypto products, yet outside of this very specific scene, where curiously only the VCs and devs involved wax poetic about it, you can never seem to find a real customer talking about their experience."

because there is none. A paper[1] described this as 'Veblenian Entrepreneurship'. Being 'in crypto' isn't actually about producing any tangible goods or services, but consuming the 'crypto/entrepreneur' lifestyle. It's a way for people to LARP as technologists or entrepreneurs without actually producing anything of use to the general public at large.

[1]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3479042
> Yeah that’s for sure. All these stories about people who were cashiers or factory workers and who bought their houses… Not happening anymore.

i also don't think that situation was a realistic mean to begin with. The one time in history where this was possible was in the US straight after world war two. A period when th e rest of the industrial world was blown to smithereens.

For most of the world, that period did not happen. For instance, my grandparents had substantial less wealth then my parents (who where born in the late 60's)
Not only that, there is one more thing to carry when you go out and impairment of social interaction because of lack of facial expression.
WBM: https://web.archive.org/web/20210519200046/https://www.alask...
For high level languages like node, the graviton2 instances offer vastly cheaper cpu time (as in, 40%). That’s the m6g / c6g series.

As in all things, check the results on your own workload!
> just certify CO2 offsets for example for each coin purchased

We have something like this in France. Energy providers (for example EDF, Electricité De France) must buy a certain number of CEE (Certificats d'Economie d'Energie, I think the concept is white certificates) every year, or face heavy fines (big enough that buying certificates is a big part of their activities).

As an example: let's say I want to change my window to have more isolation, which will reduce my energy consumption. This can produce a CEE, that I can "sell" to EDF, which will help financing the change.
Pinning to the physically closest core is a bit misleading. Take a look at output from something like `lstopo` [https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/], where you can filter pids across the NUMA topology and trace which components are routed into which nodes. Pin the network based workloads into the corresponding NUMA node and isolate processes from hitting the IRQ that drives the NIC.
Your website is super snappy. I see that it has a perfect lighthouse score too. Can you explain the stack you used and how you set it up?
I had the impression the phrase was being used to interrupt a speaker to ask a question. In that case, it would sound odd to the average American, and insinuate that you thought they were wrong.
It's one of the things people do when they're making fun of cop-speak. Cops are the best example of people who are trying to make what they say sound official, but instead just make it long-winded and bizarre.
Am I reading correctly that ~“GPG private keys were stored unencrypted” and ~“messages could be modified to include non-encrypted chunks, which the client displayed without indicating the distinction” both count as low-severity?
> And I very much doubt that N95 masks are effectively utilized by the general public considering how many poorly fitted masks I have seen over the past year.

I agree. When people can't even wear surgical masks properly, there's no hope with an N95.

> Most of them never got anywhere because it was soon realized that even doctors and nurses cannot be trusted to wear and change masks properly during the daily routine. Let's hope things have improved by now.

At the very least, everybody is washing their hands. Before Covid, you couldn't even get all the doctors to do something even that simple.