skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it can lead to authoritarianism.

But it's not wrong. Ever read random convos on the internet? Like on social media? People cherry-pick sentences from essays and paragraphs and people have entire conversations divorced from full context. Because people don't read paragraphs, and they refuse to not be in a binary state of Yes or No.

I'm not saying nobody can handle nuanced paragraphs, but I think if your message is always 5+ sentences with any complex logical structure, people will not get it. And bad actors will distort what you say to get people riled up in their favor.
Would you like to guarantee your emails will go into my spam folder forever?
This doesn't attempt to quell anything, it just points out that being certain of origins is probably going to require rigorous investigation. This is the same as with SARS and MERS which both took around 15 years to fully understand and also did not have full cooperation from the governments involved.

Like most science all of the statements here can be verified with respect to the sources cited. Saying that the origins of SARS-CoV2 have not been conclusively established but are of great interest is not controversial.

If there is any lack of credibility here it is with lab leak hypothesis enthusiasts failing to supply solid evidence and then claiming that criticism amounts to both censorship and a kind of indirect proof of their assertions.
Are you aware of how that number is generated? Why is it exactly the opposite in other countries?
Chris Martensen's analysis of the dump of Fauci's emails is pretty damning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZwMYw

The coordinated lying and censorship from leading institutions and media over the last 18 months does not make me hopeful that this time it will be different.
Yeah, that's an especially tough situation, and I don't think there are general right or wrong answers. So much depends on all the confounding factors. I'm glad you did what was right for you.
Safari is the new IE6 from a web developer perspective.
Why would they do it?

They will do it because they are trying to save lives. They think they are doing harm by allowing people NOT to take the vaccine. After all, how many people will die by unvaccinated people spreading the disease? They have a duty to save other humans! That is what I think they believe.

My problem is that this is an overstep. They should stay in their lane, rather than mandating the health of their workers. If someone at Google died from drunk driving, would it be fair to ban alcohol? Of course not.
Refrigerators had this kind of regulation applied to them decades ago, which is why they only use a restively necessary amount of power instead of the nightmare of waste that they used to be.
If we can build an overpass over a freeway for some teensy town of 400 people, it should be no issue at all to construct a handful of overpasses for wildlife. Imo the issue with these proposals is that these wildlife bridges are almost always dramatically overbuilt and overlandscaped to look natural for humans, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, when just a simple bridge and a fence funneling wildlife to the bridge would do. A deer doesn't need the bridge to look like a perfect natural feature. They walk along roads as it is just fine if that's where they are heading. We just assume they want some natural looking thing but I don't think there is data suggesting that these sorts of wildlife overpasses are more effective than a simple cheap ugly one.
That TL;DR doesn't follow from the main paragraph, which simply says we don't know if it's better to be vaccinated.
Then such forums where your posts can be manipulated so easily are a lost cause, and there's no point in getting frustrated about them.
> I thought either HIPAA (thanks for the correction), FMLA or ADA protected employees from being asked about medical information that could result in they being discriminated against in regards to employment things.

ADA does for some things, but not all things. Vaccination status is apparently not among them, though many of the things that would be involved in a medical reason not to vaccinate are.
Agreed, it may well make sense to have people get boosters at some point.
We are every day. Money supply - hello? Earth to major tom?
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That's kind of how Slashdot used to work: you couldn't just up/down vote, you had to pick a reason why, from a list. "Insightful", "Funny", "Informative", etc. for upvotes, "Incorrect", "Trolling", "Off topic", etc. for downvotes. Of course, Slashdot also had meta moderation, where you could occasionally be given the job of up/downvoting other peoples' votes, which in turn influenced how often they would be allowed to vote in the future.
"continued scrutiny"...

In terms of efficacy and safety, the facts are undeniable. No medication is perfect. If you've ever seen an advertisement for medicine, many of them come without side effects that outweigh the risk of not taking the medication.

Depending on where you live, I'd look to the government, versus Pfizer's website for clinical trial details:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results/details?cond=covid
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Some way of automatically propagating that network prefix to anything connected to the network would be nice. Otherwise we're just stuck punching in IP addresses like barbarians.
Just now on the frontpage also: a link to Hetzner's announcement of v4 address prices. Stick is coming on the hosting side.
Newborns, esp. if breast feeding, do have something of an immune system. Still a good idea to avoid the doctor's office if you don't have to be there. They are disease cesspools. If it were me I'd wait outside in the car and have them call me on the phone when they had the treatment room cleaned and ready so I could pass quickly through the waiting room.
Nah. It probably would in the UK (where they have civil parish councils, a sort of retirement home for weird busybodies), but in Ireland the smallest type of local authority is a city/county council. Donegal CC has to deal with 160,000 people and probably only gives limited attention to evidently insane islanders.
Yep - these bad actors will just pattern match or otherwise take things out of context (e.g. finding "contradictions")
Google is using a similar strategy to what Microsoft used in the late 90s. The difference is that MS implemented new tags and features in IE without any standard. Google is taking care of manipulating the standard, and then singlehandedly implementing these new features in the standard even if nobody else cares about it. Then it manipulates their services to require those features, so Chrome is the only option.

This is behavior typical of large corporations and monopolies, because they have the resources to throw at the creation of more and more features, at the expense of smaller competitors.
> Kids cannot receive it yet, as much as they want to

Do kids even need it? I was under the impression that child covid deaths (or even just severe reactions to the disease) were incredibly rare.
This is false. Data out of Israel now is that vaccine is ~40% effective (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-is-less...), while recovery is 99.9% effective (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.06.21253051v...).
My enlarged prostate doesn't pose a risk to my co-workers--my immunization history does. There's a big difference.
Heck if it's a general purpose web app - ie not only Chrome, maybe give Tauri[1] a try?

[1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
+1, it's been very reliable (have between 50-100 VM's there).
Yep, excellent point. We don't know the long term repercussions of getting covid either, so avoiding the vax because of unknowns may end up being the riskier position.
I don't use Windows Hello -- is there a setting that requires entry of a password instead of biometrics after a period of time or after a restart?
i wonder if the Show HN link should be changed to go straight to https://cinny.in?

The app is really impressively well done - goes to show how well an entirely fresh React app can run on top of matrix-js-sdk (and thus how much snappier Element can be :)
I live in one of these areas (Texas). Wolves were taken out by 1970. I do wish we would introduce them, but I'm not certain that my neighbors would be so happy about it.

In my area, we have city deer. These are deer that live in the green belts and navigate through the city. I wonder what would happen if wolves were reintroduced. Wolves normally keep to the outskirts of human civilization, but would they drive more deer into the city. Or would smart wolves head to the city for the easy pickings.
IPv6 has Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC) as preferred method for address assignment. This allows clients to generate addresses for themselves as needed. For that to work efficiently, the address space needs to be sufficiently large that collisions are unlikely even in larger networks. Because of that, it mandates a subnet size of /64.

More generally, a big difference in v6 is that you no longer have to plan subnet sizes at all. Whereas previously you'd carefully choose the next available address to minimize address waste, with v6 you can just assign the addresses in whatever way makes sense to you.
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"Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web." -Apple's HTML5 Showcase, 2010

Apple had it right back in 2010, when they showed the world what was possible with the web as a platform. They took a principled stance, and made the web as a whole better because of it.

If you ship a browser (especially if you don't let users install competing engines) then you need to support web standards. You don't get to pick and choose. Standards are not optional add-ons. Apple's own words!
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The data overwhelmingly shows that the vaccines are safe and effective.

The data overwhelmingly shows that COVID has a high chance of either death or longterm complications.

I know which of the two I'm going to take my chances with.
They were relatively rare, until Delta. Kids are also germ factories that will wipe it on everything and anything.

I'll point out that when we talk about how "oh it'll only be bad if you have comorbidities too", I'm pretty sure more than 75% of the US qualifies as having those. I'm not paranoid by any means, and I don't want vaccine apps or centralised databases to exist (anonymously signed timestamped attestations maybe), but the vaccines are not 100%, and my risk model dislikes being stuck next to someone dumping out virions for over 8 hours a day with recirculating air.

[side note: I've also worked retail in the past and that taught me to never trust the general public, and that some idiot parent absolutely will bring a kid in with measles, norovirus, and smallpox in at the same time while lying about how they're healthy so they don't get charged a $10 cancellation fee.]
What is good for biodiversity is good for us because we rely on biodiversity to generate crop varieties to feed ourselves.
Yes, it's a contrast between Russian and Western monarchy that is commonly emphasized. It's a true difference.

But also no: learning more about this age made me realize that pre-Napoleonic Western Europe was even less liberal than I had expected. It is hard to learn about this age and not feel that policy was set entirely by and for the benefit of a small clique that held the levers of power.

Certainly some Western monarchies had more liberal pretensions than others. England of course is the prototypical example, and probably was the most liberal in practice. But it was a pretty big outlier amongst Western monarchies.

Learning more about Charles XII (Sweden), Augustus II (Saxony and Poland), Louis XIV (France): which one of these considered the suffering of the common people when they embarked on their wars of conquest and personal aggrandizement? Consider also how readily nobles traded realms when a larger or more prosperous fief came along. It's hard not conclude that these rulers treated their states as nothing more than inherited estates, to use and dispose of as they wished.

Comparing France, Spain, Austria to Peter's Russia: how much more liberal were these Western states?
The CTO and security teams and devs will care. The language decision has a broad impact on how to secure the application, engineering community (who can you hire), etc. It’s a big decision.
> It's similar to how a house fire can spread to neighboring houses regardless of the homeowner's preference to have it put out or not.

If I can make my house fireproof (analogy of being vaccinated) then I would not worry about my neighbor house not being fireproof catching fire and spread.
No we wouldn't.

The UNIX world and Windows would keep taking BSD code, assuming the court case would have ended the same way as it did, and that was it.

The GPL haters tend to forget that GCC was pretty much ignored until Sun started the trend to split UNIX into user and developer editions, and without GNU there wouldn't be a userland for Linus to plug into Linux.

Whatever, all UNIX clones that came after Linux (specially for IoT) are BSD/MIT based, so the long term roadmap is already quite obvious.
Do you care to elaborate? For example, it was science ex post facto that established Luc Montagnier and not Robert Gallo was the first to isolate HIV [0]. Interestingly, Luc Montagnier has a role in the lab origin theory of SARS-CoV-2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier
Makes me want to disable the facial login for my iphone
I agree that it's irrational for the most part. But even understanding that on a cerebral level still doesn't stop it from being slightly annoying / frustrating / whatever at times. The vagaries of human nature, I guess...
Do VPCs or subnets aggregate a larger block that can be used to write a firewall rule? I wouldn't find it quite as useful to have per-VM blocks issued piecemeal. It's not clear from the documentation that I read.
The phenomena of compelling biometrics for unlocking devices doesn't seem to be a new problem. They present a convenience factor, but from a security standpoint there's issues with others being able to compel their usage, spoofing, and not being able to change your biometrics (not within reasonable constraints anyway).
NAT64/464XLAT exists and it works. It can't really be "part of the protocol" because it depends on stateful IPv4 devices in the middle of the network. Ultimately it's up to the ISPs which IPv4-as-a-service mechanism they want to deploy.
Already posted 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27961414
Lead does not lubricate the valves, though that's a common misconception.

https://www.avweb.com/features/pelicans-perch-55lead-in-the-... (The fine author of this article sadly passed away earlier today.)
"Everyone else" is pretty broad and the kind of categorization I wouldn't expect from someone with an open mind
Hopefully the space will help mend the issues. I know my respect for my parents sky rocketed once I left home.
The EPA limits unleaded gasoline to 0.5 g/gal, but that doesn't mean your gasoline actually contains that much. The regs are meant to forgive some amount of cross-contamination from facilities that also handle avgas. I don't have any information on what values are typically encountered.

You're right, 0.5 g/gal is a lot of lead.
I don't mean this polemically, or rhetorically. I'm honestly asking because I've given this some thought, and it's not entirely obvious to me.

"Who are the unvaccinated hurting, exactly?"

It appears to me that a pandemic of the unvaccinated harms the unvaccinated.

"Those who cant get the vaccines"

Now, some people will point out that some can't get the vaccines. Except that ppl with HIV, GBS, autoimmune etc are all encouraged by the CDC to get the vaccine. Children under 12 have ridiculous low rates of harm from COVID. So the folks getting hurt by not being vaccinated are the ones who chose to be unvaccinated. (I have a fairly serious auto-immune disease and it's not obvious to me that I should get the vaccine. Some of the reported side-effects are triggering my auto-immune disease. I'm waiting for my annual appointment my specialist next month to talk about this)

"Herd immunity to end the pandemic"

Another objection is that the pandemic will not end, we will not reach herd immunity, unless we vaccinate x amount of people. Except that it's not obvious to me that pandemic will ever end - we'll just co-evolve with COVID to be less harmful. The reasons being:

1. We'll never vaccinate Afghanistan or Central Asia in general, South Saharan Africa, etc. so COVID will never go extinct [1]

2. COVID-19, being a coronavirus, will likely evolve quickly out of our vaccines' scope. Furthermore, variants bifurcate so even if we can make new vaccines quickly, there will be too many variants to have to target.

3. Given points 1. and 2., heard immunity for a given country appears to be futile attempt.

4. Quickly vaccinating everyone before COVID bifurcates too much appears to be a fools errand. Anyway, you'd make more progress vaccinating the third world than trying to convince reluctant young people in the first world. In the third world the vaccines would be far more effective at stopping COVID's bifurcation (since they have a lot of young people who could safely be inoculated by getting the virus itself by removing all COVID restrictions)

[1] Not a dig at those countries, but a statement of fact based on the mistrust the central asians have since rich countries highjacked UN vaccination programs to advance their geo-political goals. Or poor quality vaccines/equipment that spread diseases amongst Africans.

[EDIT] While I am not vaccinated, I did sign up for a vaccine trial and was rejected. So please, try not to make this personal.
Only if HIV status has a significant relevance to your ability to perform your job duties (including things like the safety of other workers, the public, etc., when your work.)

Of course, unless your job involves something unusual like having sex with your coworkers or the public, that's not all that likely.
Because Google astroturfers are trying to cover up the fact that Chrome is 100% executing an embrace/extend/extinguish strategy to take over the web.
The trouble with comments is that good taste as well as intelligence is required of the comment author. If you cast your mind over your colleagues you see the problem.
I guess facial recognition is beyond printing a picture of his face?
Is that something you've seen happening? Seems far-fetched to me, since you can't contract HIV simply by doing office work in the same room with HIV-positive co-workers.
Some interesting history of climate anxiety with a zenith in 1975 https://t.co/oXM5Zf8V7d?amp=1
So are we going to outlaw being selfish? People waste hospital time and resources all the time with a plethora of things other than covid. Should we take away their agency so they can't do that anymore?
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Is there much that can be done to detect them? I know they're for sale for pen testing and what not, but I've never seen much in the realm of preventing or protecting against them.
actually, they just proved themselves "safe enough" over the past few months. If they weren't, it would have been detected by epidemiologists. In fact, they did manage to determine there were some extremely rare effects, which increases the confidence they didn't miss some major effects.
Sounds like a good program.

In Washington State, the newspaper articles on it always present it as one of:

1. the state sends out the helicopters and gunmen

2. the rancher eats the cost of the dead cows
Exactly. This is the only way to retain a free society.
This will never end. The variants are spreading now faster in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. This is not surprising. Virologists have warned us about this. However, they have been censored.
I think it is starting to be one of those things that most people on this site have come around to realizing. I'm eager to see whether it permeates the rest of society and what actions we start taking in that direction.
> Some vaccines take years or even decades to show harm. See Air Force pilots and Anthrax vaccine history. Rare but devastating consequences.

If you don't get the vaccine, unless you become a shut in, you're going to get COVID eventually (and being a shut in will probably become less and less tenable the farther we get from the peak). I highly doubt the vaccines have additional long term side effects that the actual disease doesn't have.

The situation with an Anthrax vaccine is different, because it's very unlikely for someone to get exposed to Anthrax.
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The site becomes reachable to IPv6-only hosts.

Some servers can work reliably with only IPv6, for instance, until you need to contact IPv4-only servers.

I would like my mail server to be IPv6-only, but that's not currently possible, for instance.

I wonder how many customers can realistically hide behind a single IPv4 (CGNAT), given that there are 65535 TCP/UDP ports.
> ADA does for some things, but not all things. Vaccination status is apparently not among them, though many of the things that would be involved in a medical reason not to vaccinate are.

Right - this is my point that I poorly presented. If you say you cannot be vaccinated for medical issues, obviously they must be presented proof otherwise any anti-vaxxer would say that.

However if said proof would be constitute information under ADA then you wouldn't have to share it no? However since there's no way to know if that's actually true without knowing it seems we're in a dilemma.