skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not aware of any compelling data that shows the vaccines used in the US are either unsafe or ineffective. I am aware of mountains of evidence showing the vaccines to be very safe and very effective.

UPDATE: For those curious about the YouTube link below, it is not true that 25,000 people have died from the vaccines. There have been precisely 3 confirmed deaths directly related to vaccines in the US, all J&J and all for the same reason (which professionals are now aware of and is no longer considered a serious risk).
At least one airport I know of - KAWO - used to have it, but no longer does. Wonder what the story is there.
previous discussion when this was news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376236

also about the guy resigning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24448458
But there is motivation for ISP to use IPv6. They save a ton of money on IP addresses, and they don't need the infrastructure to keep a NAT.

And I don't mean only the cost of running it, in my country for example by law the ISP has to maintain a log for 5 or 10 years of all the IP addresses assigned to the user, and in case of a NAT even of all connection and source ports associated with each client. That is a cost that you will save with IPv6, just assigning an entire /64 subnet to every customer.

Of course you will start to save money at the point where we can switch off IPv4, that is not something we will see tomorrow, but if we don't start, the problem will not become better with time, but worse.

IPv6 is an investment for ISP, more than customers (that it's not true they don't care, they maybe don't understand the technical details, but when they find out that they can't play online with their PlayStation/Xbox because they are behind a NAT, they will complain to the ISP).
Jio has spearheaded IPv6 too, but OTOH Airtel hasn't but is still slowly rolling it out
This is a crime against humanity - our culture and history. It's profoundly disturbing that Rio Tinto gets to do this repeatedly with no consequences. To all Australians - what the hell??
> Because with comments I might understand where I was wrong

Someone can disagree with you without you being wrong. If you think they are wrong in their response...what good is being done? If you both have intractable positions then more discussion on the topic is just lengthening scroll bars.

Additionally if I disagree with you or just think you're wrong I don't owe you any explanation of that. You don't have a right to my time because we disagree. It's not my job to convince you. I may choose to reply to you (as I obviously just have) but it's my choice entirely. You may reply back to me and I may never ever read it, I don't have any requirement to do so.
Inside Blizzard Developers’ Infamous Bill ‘Cosby Suite’
Ben Nadel: Feature Flags Shift the Balance of Power Away from Designers
I thought your point was clear. As someone who is more of a “learner” than a teacher currently, I appreciate the thought of letting me, the learner, explain my current mental model and then a teacher helping troubleshoot that. Listening to this also helps pinpoint where I’m stuck, specifically. Often, a TA or professor will launch into their favorite explanation without first understanding my question.
In many communities (HN, Reddit, etc.) downvotes are ostensibly not to be used for disagreement. Forcing users to supply a reason could introduce enough friction to encourage more thoughtful usage of the downvote.
> My Internet bill is 25 pounds (~35 dollars) per month and from chatting with my colleagues in the US, I'm under the impression that this is quite cheap by US standards.

It's basically impossible to compare that plan with a US plan without saying what you get for that price.

I just checked. In my area (inside California), pure internet plans range from $20/month for 50Mbps to $85/month for 1200Mbps.

That being said, it is popular to bundle with cable/voice along with internet.
That's actually the easiest way to get to the Mun in my opinion. No need to plan anything anything just shoot straight up. If you don't get an orbital encounter initially just keep shooting up until you do, it'll happen many times before you reach Kerbin Escape velocity. No need to time anything or plan certain maneuvers.

Basically shoot upwards until you get an encounter, speed up until it auto slows you down near the Mun, then kill velocity to fall in and land.

Grossly and hilariously inefficient but actually easier to perform than the "correct" way (and typically faster in player-time).
The Chevy Volt actually uses a continuously variable transmission for that. Makes it sound really weird as there’s not a direct correlation between the sound of the motor and the speed you’re driving.
I grew up on lakes in Florida. I wasn't taught to "swim" as much as I was taught to survive in water.

Swim classes should be reframed as water survival classes IMHO.
The problem is that drowning looks exactly like someone just "jumping" in place in the pool. If you don't know what to look for, you might not realize what's going on, but for anyone who knows, it should rightfully set off alarm bells.

I hope someone sends the parent this game so they can learn without having a dead kid :(
Actually, IPv6 addresses cannot be longer than 32 digits. Some practical ones can be rather short, usually just slightly longer than a comparable IPv4 address. Such addresses would be used where remembering/ recognizing the exact IPv4 or IPv6 is relevant, such as the DNS servers or the network hand-off IP/ floating-IP on a firewall cluster or something like that that are used for the bring-up of other services. I have done my fare share of devops/ IT/ administration and engineering of largish enterprise and campus networks.

You would be surprised how much hardware and software doesn't support IPv6 properly. Sometimes it is the basic things, sometimes the more advanced stuff but that just means it takes a second or multiple days to find out. The problem is, it just is a similar but different protocol so you have to be quite diligent and check everything you need for the device/ service to work.

People do all kinds of stuff on underlay and overlay networks. E.g. some Dell VxRail hyper-converged appliances use IPv6 for the management network https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-She.... This is basically just link-local addresses for L2 reachability if I remember correctly but they could've gone with IPv4 there as well. It certainly would be more common for enterprise appliances to not rely on IPv6 for anything even when it shouldn't make a difference whether you do.
> Sexual activity among people in the same workplace isn't exactly uncommon.

But often prohibited during work, and when not generally not a job requirement, and when it is a requirement of a (legal) job, there's also a whole lot of intrusive requirements that would generally be considered peivacy violations in other work.

Breathing the same air as coworkers, though, is a practical requirement of in-office jobs, not something that might occasionally occur as an extracurricular activity during working hours despite being generally prohibited by policy or, if not, outside of requirements.
In the state I live the police can not force you to give up blood in a DUI case.

What they can do is take away your license for a year if you refuse.

Since you don't have a constitutional right to drive or a driver's license they can do this without running afoul of the state or federal constitution.

A subtle difference but then the law is filled with such subtleties.

You are not wrong though, as far as we know now bio-metrics are not protected. But I think this is just until some ruling comes down from a superior court and sets a precedence one way or another. I'm sad to say I won't be surprised whichever way it turns out though.
Shadow of the Sun (Book Review)
I host Internet facing docker containers that support IPv6 with '--net=host'. For those who don't know, this allows to run a container with exactly the same characteristics as a normal process network wise.
Viewert Giving Away $5 per Published Article
A request for 'solidarity' is a soft corruption of the scientific method. The word suggests that we pursue something other than the truth. It's intrinsic. That the Lanclet publishes such a request, on a topic of public interest, by authors who are implicated in serious lapses and negligence-- this reflects a shocking lack of judgment by all involved and most notably the journal.
a lot of jobs like machinists often get cuts on the job that expose your blood
Possibly related article on synaptic pruning in adolescence: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0334-7
I'd imagine it varies by OEM, as my BlackBerry KeyOne gives me the option to "Lock Now" when I hold the power button for 2 seconds. It does actually lock out biometrics, as I've tested it previously.
I'm not grasping the difference between fingerprint scan and facial scan. Both have been ruled as acceptable and not covered by the 5th.

Are you arguing that fingerprint unlock and facial unlock should both be protected? I'm open to that argument, but I'm not seeing how they are any more testimonial than providing a fingerprint (or DNA sample) for matching other evidence?
But why? Why do you need validation that badly?
>Furthermore, I would argue that self-reflection about why people might disagree with your viewpoints is a valuable experience in that it provides an opportunity to practice empathy and awareness in how your words are perceived by others.

It's easier to practice empathy when you're not blindly guessing at what bothered the downvoter.
Wow! Thats a good lead! I will check it out!
not an american but there is a concept of self incrimination. the idea is a person is not going to be forced to give evidence against himself. like no court can force an accused to say "say i have killed him, then convict him because he said that himself" or as it stands in india,

"The Indian Constitution provides immunity to an accused against self-incrimination under Article 20(3) – ‘No person accused of an offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself’. It is based on the legal maxim “nemo teneteur prodre accussare seipsum”, which means “No man is obliged to be a witness against himself.”"
https://interestingengineering.com/german-coal-plant-closes-...

Yeah they replaced wind with coal with wind.
Whats' wrong with Veracrypt?
I think it's hard to fine good PHP developers.

I also think it's damned near impossible to find React developers who are capable of doing anything that isn't React flavored.

For those reasons alone, I'd choose PHP over React, especially if I want to scale.
Your regular reminder that there is already a permissive licence that effectively prevents use by megacorps: WTFPL. Google won’t touch software licensed with it and Intel have also refused it in the past. And yes, you can add a “no warranty” disclaimer in your readme too.
I'm sure you're right! But there's always bad things happening. We have anxiety because we want something to be different. But the thing doesn't become different whether we have anxiety or not.

If I bite my nails, or hop up and down yelling, or stand still peacefully, the problem and the solutions are the same.
I quit programming after 3 years because I can't stand the leetcode interviews which all programming jobs suddenly require in my area.
Is Frontier known to be using M100? I haven't been following along, but it was trailed as using purpose-built GPUs (presumably also for Sierra).
What are the top complaints about Atlassian?
"Hack"? Cute. Is this guy's first day at programming?
We are, you know, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
The individual does, ostensibly, have voting power and economic decision making capability.

I have decided to buy no pure-ICE going forward.

I am a single-issue climate voter.

Enough people making these choices can precipitate change. Why is Tesla selling every vehicle it can make and have such a high stock valuation?
If you can explain how comparing North and South Korea is fair I would be impressed , previous dudes seemed to have no idea about history or their mind was missing the logic skill, maybe you can do a semi decent attempt.

Btw China is a big economy and many of HNers tell me that their are communists and the party dictates everything etc, so you need some other skillful argument to attribute all the good in China to US and capitalism and of-course blame all the bad on communism.

Also I personally believe that most of us understand by communism is not superior to the systems we see in Western Europe, my objection was to your bad argument that there are good clean data where you can extract clear conclusions.
I'd wager the most common type of developer/programmer/software engineer these days is what they call "T Shaped" [1] whereby you have a breadth of knowledge that you're somewhat familiar with, knowledgable of, or have experience with, along with deep knowledge and skill in one or a few areas. One might even say an expertise in a particular niche. I consider myself in this category where the horizontal part of the T is "fat" with more than a decade of experience in my chosen field, and a long vertical portion with deep expertise in two languages and an ecosystem. This is what the traditional generalist has shifted towards recently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
Can we stop throwing around cries for imprisonment for things which are (1) not even obviously a legislated crime and (2) not intentional? This has become a super common meme recently.

There are perfectly viable ways to financially disincentivize companies (or individuals!) from bad acts like this without building a society where the default punishment for anything zeitgeist-bad is imprisonment?

Prison is a last resort when you _can't_ get people to follow laws using other means (ie, a serial rapist is not going to be deterred by financial penalties). But if a CEO or corporation is doing something clearly for profit, there is an obvious and easy way to prevent it without taking someone's life away. It's barbaric and unnecessary.
It's not that simple. If there was a way to "rebuild" the engine (which happens around every 1500-2500 hours of operation naturally) and maintain the current performance on an unleaded fuel, it probably would have been mandated already*. (As someone who would bear that cost, I'd absolutely have supported the action and happily paid the money.)

The problem is that turbocharged airplane engines (the ones powering heavy, fast, working airplanes that buy/burn a lot of fuel) are already working close to the ragged edge of safe detonation limits on 100 octane fuel. Switching to a 95 or 96 octane fuel that contains no lead would not provide the same level of detonation margin, meaning that the engines could not produce the same level of power as originally certified, meaning that the approved performance data in the flight manuals would no longer be correct, meaning that the FAA would ground them.

The exciting thing about this week's announcement is that G100UL represents a credible path to certifying an unleaded fuel that's compatible and miscible with 100LL [for the transition period] and preserves the detonation margin and performance that the airplanes were originally certified with.

* This is not a matter of "install hardened valve seats and motor on" like we did with classic cars.
That's actually exactly the trade-off. There are limits on what pigs get to do. That's the entire point of civil rights.
First reply!

How are you gonna deal with the spam that we know to appear and clutter up time-ordered systems? What's to stop me (or m tribal group) wrecking a good discussion by flooding it with 50 nonsense posts to take over the front page?

Votes are absolutely imperfect and are not working as hoped. But they gained currency because sometimes any ranking system is better than none at all.
The mechanics are related with the Escape, but AFAIK, it's an entirely different body. The claim I've seen is that the regular hybrid version doesn't take up all of the battery space available, and that area is designated for the PHEV version when available.
What should my startup build next?
Please kindly enter a constructive reason for your downvote:

"ur dumb and wrong .stay mad!"
I suspect if they were to cause great harm, we would have known by now.

Known how, exactly. The only way that would be known is via official statistics, but the only sources of such data have serious reliability problems. Additionally any paper that tries to use these stats to do any analysis struggles to get published or gets immediately retracted because some people don't like the conclusions.

One thing that's undeniable though is that earlier vaccines had their approvals pulled after fewer reported deaths than these vaccines have racked up from just single causes of death alone. The same safety standards as before are not being applied. Thus it cannot be said that these vaccines are "safe", compared to earlier vaccines.
Here's a thought experiment.

Let's pretend that the virus did origin in the wild. No lab leak, no gain of function.

Why would the Chinese authorities try to conceal information about it's origin, apply pressure on the WHO and silence researchers in Wuhan?

China is trying really hard to gain a good international reputation right now through "vaccine diplomacy". Giving all available data to international organizations from day one would have given China an excellent reputation. After all, if it did originate in the wild there's nothing to hide; they simply stumbled upon it first.

Why is it not the behavior we're seeing from the country's leadership?
Actually we all knew the NSA was doing it, and what Snowden leaked was just the proof.
The propeller efficiency aspect is why I don't believe all the other "first powered flight" claims. The Wright Flyer had barely enough power to get airborne, and that's with the double-efficiency propeller.

Attempts to build flying replicas of the other claimants' machines don't impress me because they don't address the power needed to get those contraptions into the air with the engines available at the time. (The Wrights couldn't find an engine with the power/weight needed, and had to design/build their own powerplant.)
Someone already linked to the paper - but the eyewitness statements give a good example of just the extent and regularity of fires:

An eye-witness account of smoke in northern California forests (C.H. Merriam 1898, quoted in Morford, 1993) reported ‘‘Of the hundreds of persons who visit the Paciﬁc slope in California every summer to see the mountains, few see more than the immediate foreground and a haze of smoke which even the strongest glass is unable to penetrate.’’ C.H. Merriam traveled extensively in California and was Chief, Division of Biological Survey for the US.

I've seen estimates of everything burned every 5 years which I found credible.

Or this on use by native americans

“Fire was a constant companion, a kind of universal catalyst and technology,” says Stephen Pyne, an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, author and fire historian.

Yosemite itself was routinely burned to clear underbrush, open pasture lands, provide nutrient-rich forage for deer, and to support the growth of woodland food crops to feed and sustain what was once a large and thriving indigenous population.

https://www.history.com/news/native-american-wildfires

A lot of the hot takes about the amount of fire we have no ignore the real issue - too little fire in landscapes that historically were shaped (and need) fire. And no - fire does not destroy nature - though I've seen some Instagram posts of folks rushing into burned areas to get clicks and good shots. Seriously - come back in 1-2 years and be amazed in many cases.

Fire was 101 land management "technology" and indigenous populations used it over literally thousands of years to improve their environment.
What does SRV records have to do with the IPv4 shortage? Do you mean we should replace A&AAAA records with a IP-port combination?
Sometimes I get leg cramps in bed and I've found that I have to pull my toes upward to make it recover. Doing that seems to release whatever is cramping up for me after a few seconds.

I used to have to get out of bed and stand on it before I discovered the other trick.
> Does anyone give me more money for using IPv6?

Kind of, IPv6 addresses are cheaper than IPv4 addresses, so you'll save some money at least.

> There is very little penalty (financial or otherwise) for not going to IPv6.

Soon you're not gonna have a choice. Better to prepared for when that happens.
To add to this, what I would like to see in IPv6 personally:

1) Ability to get a personal prefix as a private individual or a small company (not a LIR or LIR-sponsored)

2) Ability to use that prefix with any ISP I choose - similar to how a consumer can migrate their cellphone number to a different provider.

3) RFC 6275 actually implemented

There are other bits and pieces, but I believe if these with 3 things were done, IPv6 would actually have a "killer app" which would make a strong argument for migrating over to v6.
"Anti-science". And here we go, let's start talking down to people like neanderthals because nothing in "science" has ever been wrong. It was also anti-science to even talk about masks.
Science is not a "belief".

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”

Richard Feynman. One of the greatest minds to ever exist
Zoomed out, yes the larger part of Adeliade looks similar to most cities but that part looks great from aerial as well. You can see the corridor.
Isn't the problem really about cognitive load though?

I agree with you that a 1 hour meeting probably shouldn't ruin your whole day, but I also feel like it can take a fair bit of time to essentially reload the problem I've been working on back into my brain if it happens to be a fairly complex one. This is compounded if it's an actual meaty technical meeting because not only do I lose my train of thought but I have to start a while bunch of other ones and also attempt to jot them down before returning to where I was.

Sounds like you've been at this significantly longer than me, maybe context switching is a skill I just haven't acquired yet...
Thank you for the links, but I was asking about the (since-edited-out) claims that these comments were being downvote-bombed. Submission ranking is considerably more complicated, and is not what I was asking about.
> The fact is, burning fossil fuels is cheap

Subsidized, even.
If you love programming for the sake of programming, better to keep it as a hobby or side thing. When it becomes full time job, specially in a legacy code base, all the fun goes away.
you don't have to be ML only - it can be Human lifeguard augmented by ML

Yep, when it comes to such things my background leans towards NLP. Not sure what the OCR state of the art is these days, but it used to be side-by-side human-assisted computer: The computer did the bulk of the work. For language translation (at least in lower stakes applications) it was the reverse: A human assisted by a computer. Even within computer-only NLP methods, they often benefited from a mixed-model approach using both rule-based & stochastic methods together.
Christian Drosten is a big name in Germany’s covid efforts. His name on this statement with Peter Daszak is quite a message.
Very true, though unlike a towering software stack, the chances that your hardware was going to suddenly start doing something surprising were lower (not nil, obviously, or we wouldn't have started virtualizing hw, but now any one of several package managers could take your app down).