skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thank you, Linus for standing up to the wealth of misinformation out there and holding his ground.

Being a pompous ass might feel good, especially when you think you are (or you actually are) smarter than your opponent, but it won't sway anyone. In fact, it does quite the opposite. If you're seriously trying to convince someone they're wrong, you need to be kind, be patient, and have a calm, productive discussion -- explaining how traditional vaccines work, how mRNA works, how DNA works, and so on.

Yelling at someone on a mailing list will undoubtedly push them further into their comfortable anti-vax bubble. Linus is absolutely wrong to behave this way, but then again, emotional intelligence isn't really his (or HN's for that matter) forte.
I recently learned that one can "durably" (aka for months) alter the expression of it's genes though epigenetic changes. This can be induced by some peptide drugs such as bromantane and is a very interesting biohack/pharmacological mechanism of action.
Guys like LeMao James will agree with whatever they say lol, as long as they keep their checks coming.
They may not have the answers, but you would think they would have a better idea of where to look than someone with no medical experience at all.
> But I'm almost equally concerned that there's an awful lot of people on the pro-science bandwagon who don't actually support science, but simply don't tolerate dissent or questioning, and that's unscientific and potentially harmful too.

Dissent to the dominant opinion in any scientific field is always tricky, but that is a self-defense mechanism. Over time opposing viewpoints are integrated into the body of knowledge and may or may not replace or amend it. HOWEVER when we consider anti-vax or flat earth people they are acting in bad faith and their nonsense steals bandwith. It does not reserve respect and kicking them out harshly is a very necessary defense mechanism. Call it a memetic immune response with inflammation.
He should bring back the “retroactively aborted” comment.
Not popular here, but Apple might only be against targeted Ads if its done without Apple's participation.

The general assumption of many people seems to be that Apple is taking effort to make their user Anonymous.
But quite clearly it can not be in their interest to make them Anonymous to Apple.

To be quite blunt: If Apple's strategy serves them right, their future user should be free to choose in all areas of his life from the options Apple curated for him.
At what level of scale? Is this for all businesses, including my weekend startup? What qualifies for a bug?

You could likely do this for any publicly traded company, but the qualifiers for what constitutes a bug would take some time to define.
I thought (IANAL) that EULA with screeds of text and a "Accept" button have been ruled invalid (as in not enforceable in a court) many ties in most jurisdictions.

Am I wrong?
Some newsletters are purely informational. I like to update my customers on upcoming holidays because it affects how we do business. I also like to update them to remind them of where they can get our W-9 form for tax filing. They're not really the type to use RSS or check the website.
I just happen to know a lot of anesthesiologists and they went to all of med school - I didn't. They were easy to ask and know more than me. The first nurse, again, more medical education than me to begin with, was very interested in the science beyond his work and was obviously briefed on the situation at work as it changed. I just figured it might have been more common knowledge than it turned out to be.

My point is more that these people have far more medical education than the average person I interact with on social media, and didn't look down on my question but also wanted to know. People who knew less than them and knew even less than me were mad that I would dare even ask.
And this...

>But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me.

He hasn't lost his fastball!
Where I work there is an entire documentation department, that is almost entirely focused on their templates/standardized documents & proceess, than are are the actual content.
FDA approves drug to treat smallpox
Intel wants to survive the likely implosion of x86 in the consumer and, eventually, enterprise spaces. Nvidia wants to define the standard for, inter alia, the next few generations of CPUs and GPUs without needing Chipzilla-sized manufacturing expenditures (and the strings the come attached) or being held hostage by licensing costs. In both cases, the motive is survival and the expansion of their respective playbooks.
This doesn’t really aid your argument. The client patron relationship is a lot more like a master servant relationship than an employer employee one. You are not equals in any sense in a client patron relationship. And it’s a personal relationship, not a contractual one.
No. Then we shouldn’t be using programming languages. I have learned to trust humans to not get migrations right. The system can have guardrails for certain structures of migrations.
Angular vs. Vue? Which One's Right for You?
If you're using nginx-rtmp-module auth is actually extremely easy: use the on_play and on_publish callback directives[1] to implement whatever auth you want, a la [2][3].

[1] https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/wiki/Directives#on...

[2] https://github.com/Nesseref/nginx-rtmp-auth/blob/master/pyth...

[3] https://github.com/Nesseref/nginx-rtmp-auth/blob/master/pyth...
In my country there is a simple rule: dog bites human; end of dog. This notion keeps owners a tad more involved.
Not sure how that is in other nations.
Or a lumberjack. In the forests of British Columbia.
mRNA doesn't change your genetic sequence in any way. It is
the exact same intermediate - and temporary - kind of material that your cells generate internally all the time as part of your normal cell processes

The m in mRNA stands for messenger.

I'm failing to find anything I consider to be a succinct explanation in layman's terms (other than the one in the piece under discussion: all that the mRNA vaccines do is to add a dose their own specialized sequence that then makes your normal cell machinery generate that spike protein so that your body learns how to recognize it.).

But from what I gather, mRNA vaccines basically inject your body with a coded recipe for how to manufacture the immune stuff it normally manufactures in reaction to an infection, only without having to first be infected. Not even with a dead version of the virus, as some vaccines use for trying to prompt the body to figure this out more safely than by actually catching the infection.

A few sources I looked at, without feeling satisfied with their explanations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA

https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/messenger-rna

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/translation-dna-to...

Edit: Thank you to everyone supplying a more accurate explanation in layman's terms. Much appreciated.
TL;DR you heard claims of vaccines' prophylactic effect lasting for years, from somewhere unnamed, and you correctly heard from people in the medical field that no one has any idea of how long it'll last, we're barely 6 months into have a sizable cohort to analyze this with in the US, which itself is far ahead of most of the world. Another massive factor is we have no idea how fast the virus will mutate.

Edit: oh, the irony of going -3 for this comment on this article...what's wrong people, lay it on me
I find myself doing the opposite. It's much easier for me to step away at 6pm sharp knowing that if anything happens I can jump back in an instant, vs the worry of being the first to leave the office, and being stuck in a train for a half hour.
He funds influence campaigns that lobby officials and owns media companies that try to sway public opinion.
Have you tried to contact an official car service center or official car dealer on this topic?

They may have no way to "report a bug", but they have to deal with customer complaints and issues which need service. It is possible that car service will actually report an issue to SW vendor.
People think that, but there’s basically nothing in nursing or anesthesia training that’s gonna deal much with the nitty gritty details of vaccines and how they’re developed and tested.

It’s like asking a car mechanic about steel production. Entirely out of their wheelhouse, even if they deal with the steel daily.

(Both could comfortably tell you masks don’t cause hypoxia or pneumonia, though.)
BitClout really exists, but it may be a scam. You can buy their coins, but not sell them.
The US removed this organization’s terrorist designation and is now promoting them as the voice of the oppressed Uyhgur people. I’m not trying to draw any equivalence.
I suspect the Bell-LaPadula model would be part of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%E2%80%93LaPadula_model

Much research was funded, and solutions were found long, long ago, to many of our current "problems".
People notice that government officials and the media can be intentionally misleading even when that's well-intended and may later pull a "we have always been at war with oceania". Once that lesson is learned "alternative sources" are a lot easier to believe.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
https://lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/the-experts-can-...
There's realtime video processing that happens on smartphones to turn influencers into anime doll creations, seamlessly! Most people DON'T EVEN KNOW IT IS HAPPENING!

The backgrounds on millions of peoples video conferences are shifted to something fanciful every hour.

There's trillions of dollars of value created by automated software compositing images taken by capture cars, and turning that into points of interest and regular (automatic!) address updates.

Ad engines are so incredibly effective, that inside a hundred milliseconds it can hold an auction and target you with things so perfectly tailored to what it knows about you that people are ABSOLUTELY convinced that Facebook and Google are listening in on them.

And you think this is an over hyped dead end?

Who cares how neural networks really work? This is good enough to get things done today, and likely well into the near future.

I'll also point out that the lags in AI progress generally have more to do with the funding situation than the actual progress of the applications. It turns out when you kill the fountain of money that was Bell Labs, you have to wait until the fountain of money is reborn as Google. This isn't really a major difference from what we started with in the 50s, we're still using most of the same concepts, they'd almost certainly be instantly recognizable to folks if you chalk boarded it out for them.

For you to say we hit a dead end back then when we're doing effectively the same thing, but with a much larger budget and talent pool is disingenuous.
>> They said that instead of paying $500 upfront for heated seats, they will be available as an annual unlock for say $100/year. Since they know an average owner keeps a new BMW for only 3 years, this is a saving for new buyers - isn't that great?

So what exactly is the problem here?

Isn't having the choice between several options a good thing from consumer point of view?
Isn't extracting more money a whole point of company to exist?
Honest question. How many people who can get jobs at SV companies are still sitting in crappy towns in the US? I'm sure there are some, but I'm not sure there as many as people think.

The world wide developer pool is certainly a bigger issue, but that's been around a long time. Remote is only part (and I would argue a small part) of the reason that outsourcing isn't used more often.

I think what we'll see is the super low salary areas rise and the super high areas come down a bit. I don't think it's about to 'get bad' for anyone with the skillset to work at a SV company though. In fact, it's more likely about to get much better for everyone else. I've already seen salaries in my locale go up since local companies are now competing with nearby big cities companies who are now comfortable with remote workers.
True. Perhaps dissent is a poor choice of words here, because I was never against the vaccine - I would default to supporting a vaccine. More - I didn't get why everyone was so optimistic about them and asked to know more. Even that was blasphemy to a few people - but ironically not to the people who are medical experts in SOME way.
Now we’re talking extremes!

If there’s malware on your PC that has complete access to your system memory you are screwed in every single way possible. I’m perfectly comfortable with having my OTP coupled with my passwords given this is the only real attack vector and requires an actively unlocked vault to expose secrets.

If this is the case, what’s stopping the malware from adding a key logger and MITMing your input to your bank’s website, Gmail or Coinbase?
Asshole or not, Linus is a role model for many. I bet a throwaway comment he makes about $EDITOR would change the preferred value for tens of people.

How many people who have never touched kernel source vaguely follow his antics?
Can you explain your workflow for landing new jobs? Where do you look first? Do you mass apply or seek out specific jobs?
I'll bite. He says it's crazy conspiracy theories. I have family hospitalized with blood clots after receiving the vax. She's out now, but that hospitalization will lead to a personal bankruptcy. It's not crazy conspiracy theory when your own family starts seeing negative effects. After watching what happened to her, nobody else in my family has any desire to get vaxxed. Nobody in my family is "anti-vax" as we've all gotten vaxed at birth, have voluntarily gotten flu vaccines in the past, etc. It's anti-this-vax, because it is not fully tested, and has caused real harm to people.

What happened to "First, do no harm"?
Of all the things that are different about processed foods that have been mentioned in this thread, this is probably the least important, but yes, there is still a difference... they don't "get liquified the same", because when you eat a whole peach you chew it, and when you chew it your mouth is mixing the pulp with digestive enzymes (in your saliva) and also priming the digestive juices in your stomach to adjust for the pH of the incoming matter! This turns out to be important enough that many nutritionists for over a century have emphasized the importance of eating slowly and chewing thoroughly. You can't really do that with a smoothie.

Extracting energy and nutrients from food is highly optimized by evolution for obvious reasons, even in the case of omnivores such as ourselves. Modern "ultraprocessed" food is not adaptive.
Well, there's a lot of evidence for mRNA transfer between species in other kingdoms; read on about reverse transcriptase[1] that is literally how some viruses spread when they enter the human body. Whether that mechanism still goes on when some of the components are missing, well, we presume it won't happen but there's not enough and definite evidence for that.

And for those who love appealing to authority, I do have bachelor and master degrees in bioscience, unlike Linus and most of the readers here, so :^)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcriptase

Edit, happens all the time, in many different contexts:

[2]: https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/23/4/735/620265

[3]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/193963607018768...

[4]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00294-018-0844-6

[5]: https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/19/5/1015 <-- not sure about this one, I only skimmed it

I could go on and on, but you get the idea, if there's something you learn (or should learn) in biology is that the exception is the rule.

Edit 2: Lol, would love to read you comments on this: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118
What proof do you want?
Nobody tell these guys about the adenovirus platform, which actually does enter the nucleus [1]. (For the avoidance of doubt, it doesn’t tamper with your DNA.)

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9160...
lol.......i'm trying to figure out how the onion spoofed Reuters.....
CDC plans “emergency meeting” on rare heart inflammation following Covid vaccine
Simple Concept for Crystalline Holographic Rewritable Memory in Amethyst/Citrine
Compaq killed Alpha and StrongARM, Intel just bought & buried the bodies.
> This notion that everyone skeptical of western defense contractor funded claims is paid by China …

I don’t see anyone saying anything about skepticism or ‘everyone’. I see pasabagi criticizing xtian’s specific comments and approach.

> I guess we are stupid enough to walk into a potential war the same way we were scammed into one not too long ago. We already forgot the lessons as a population.

Yes, getting scammed into a war with China would be bad. Assuming any negative comment about China to be an attempt to scam us into a war also seems like a mistake.
This woman did.

https://www.wired.com/2007/10/riaa-jury-finds/
Do you want to pay more for them?
The quoted epidemiologist says "These substances would not be found in our kitchen."

I'm not disagreeing at all about refinement or the health. I'm just saying these refined substances are absolutely found in our kitchen, and used in quantity. They're nothing special or unique to processed foods.

If you bake bread or cake or brownies, for basic recipes it's nutritionally virtually identical to processed crackers, cookies, and bars.
> It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.

I can't help imagining a distro developer looking out at systemd across a lava field and saying:

"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the badly designed legacy components, not join them!"
The mRNA recipe is for a distinctive spike protein on mainstream COVID, your cells unwittingly produce this spike protein, then your immune system says "what's this garbage?" and attacks it.
>Edit: I've never had a comment sink so fast. Cest la vie. I'm sort of glad other people think human civilisation is working. Maybe my depression just has me jaded.

HN moderation has failed to prevent the platform from being politicized and split up into rightthink and wrongthink, predominantly by allowing political and emotional shitposts that are behind a thin veil of "tech" related topics backed by HN's nebulous "Guidelines." It's just a mirror image of society itself so if things have devolved here for you, I assure you, things out there are much worse than they appear to be. Such is the price of diversity. You're never going to get to the bottom of an agreement on anything, and for every thing you think is going to improve things, others will say how it will make it worse. Good luck.
Same here. The automakers are trying to pull a fast one by conflating battery power with tons of licensed software with an attack on independent mechanics and serviceability. But I suspect that there is a huge market for low end EVs that can be easily serviced and don't have a lot of software.
Makes sense because some special functions were meant to be expressed as a combination of symbols. Natural logarithm was ○, backspace, star ; circle was used for logarithms and star was used for both exponentiation and the constant e.
Processed foods aren’t unhealthy. Unhealthy foods are unhealthy. The latter is a subset of the former.
They buried it, remember, they didn't invest it into CD's with high interest rates. If they did put it in a bank, then your whole point is moot, because any bank that pays interest is actually lending your money to generate that interest, so the capital was actively involved in the economy the whole time.

An aside: pre-central banking, that isn't how interest rates really worked. Inherently, interest rates increase with inflation. The opposite exists only at far below-market interest rates as an artificial byproduct of the way central banks typically inject money into the economy (by buying cheap/low interest government bonds), which paradoxically contributes to inflation.
I have stepped off the hedonic treadmill. I prepare nearly all of my own food and I eat extremely well. Ingredients are cheap. I don't live in the USA so my healthcare is unaffected. The internet is a thing so I can (and do) continue to educate myself for free.

But yes, I don't have an extensive wardrobe or a large house. So what?
Way to be presumptuous

> and I have a huge community outside work, but it I don't like waiting for the other 50% to enjoy it

I literally addressed this. I stay in a group home and have a large community outside work. I don't want to wait for 6pm everyday to access people I like.

If anything, try making friends with people you spend time with for 50% of your waking hours. Live a little
Well, it is the BBC.
> But from what I gather, mRNA vaccines basically inject your body with a coded recipe for how to manufacture the immune stuff

That’s not correct. The coded recipe is for covid’s spike proteins. Your body manufactures a bunch of those spike proteins and then has an immune response to them.
Is this just a two paragraph article or am I missing a 'read more' somewhere?
My grandfather had to drop out of high school, after his dad died from an infection. He unloaded trains for the A&P grocery chain, and proposed that they reorder shipments to save money. He retired in charge of half of New England. His computer center was a bank of women at fancy adding machines.

Fresh out of college, my father helped a senior programmer at Kodak automate testing for their film developing chemical baths. This replaced dozens of people. Kodak found them other positions, and moved my dad to the research labs. He used computers from the beginning, and told me many stories. On a family night in the 1960's I got to play the original "space wars".

In 1974 he came up with the color sensor pattern now used in nearly all digital cameras.
This article presents such a dark take on the employer employee relationship that I can’t tell if I am truly blessed for the jobs I’ve had, or this person has a distorted view of incentives and motivations.

I really can’t tell.
Government job security challenge: https://ibb.co/vxj3BKf
Maybe so, but I've observed that attitude to be far more prevalent on the anti-vax side than the pro-science side. You don't really see people who advocate for the vaccine calling anyone who disagrees "sheeple," "NPCs," etc., nor do they whine about downvotes or "being silenced," or misattribute moderation to first amendment violations.