skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is some of the funding tied to entities that are under the control of the CCP?

Per Sam Husseni's reporting[0]:

"""

Meticulous investigation of U.S. government databases reveals that Pentagon funding for the EcoHealth Alliance from 2013 to 2020, including contracts, grants and subcontracts, was just under $39 million. Most, $34.6 million, was from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which is a branch of the DOD which states it is tasked to “counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks.”

Most of the remaining money to EHA was from USAID (State Dept.), comprising at least $64,700,000 (1). These two sources thus total over $103 million. (See Fig).

Another $20 million came from Health and Human Services ($13 million, which includes National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control), National Science Foundation ($2.6 million), Department of Homeland Security ($2.3 million), Department of Commerce ($1.2 million), Department of Agriculture ($0.6 million), and Department of Interior ($0.3 million). So, total U.S. government funding for EHA to-date stands at $123 million, approximately one third of which comes from the Pentagon directly. The full funding breakdown is available here and is summarized by year, source, and type, in a spreadsheet format.

"""

If this was a lab leak, it's an international issue caused by the hubris of at least two countries working together on a footgun (e.g. at Wuhan lab, and Ralph Baric's previous gain of function research on bat coronaviruses [1])

[0] https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/peter-daszaks-ec...

[1] https://twitter.com/gumby4christ/status/1361175723407527939
Just use an incognito window
People like to rip on the US war machine, but as far as percent of GDP, the US isn't even the biggest spender. Also, the entire world benefits from the US army, which helps protect global trade routes. For example the US patrols for pirates off the coast of Africa, protecting ships that are taking goods from one country to another in which the US has no involvement in any of it.
Advocacy group sues Johnson and Johnson over products marketed to Black women
Yeah, if you perform a migration to a newly bought iPhone, you'll see they have this nailed down.

Just needs to be an instant thing now.
good idea. we'll consider incorporating that moving forward!
AZT was demanded by the gay community, in street marches and protests.
By 50 my ideal career would be "retired", with enough savings and passive income (from investments or whatever else) to sustain a good lifestyle for me and my family. Plus, who knows how long this software gold rush will actually last for. It may not remain as lucrative a career as it is now.

While I generally like my job, I sure as hell hope I don't have to spend the next 20 years of my life attending standups and updating Jira tickets.
That's correct, so far. It appears that humans who have been vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine still have a strong immune response to Delta variant. In fact, far better of an immune response than people who were infected with a previous variant.

Source is MedCram, easily the best source of medical information on YouTube, specifically at 7:05: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RWGh19yTXw
By the way, using the correct kinetic energy formula, one can arrive at this striking analogy:

E/Ek = c/v

This tells us that the rest energy (E) of a body is to its kinetic energy (Ek) what the speed of light (c) is to its velocity (v).
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Have hit my rate limit again. FWIW the comment was upvoted and left so for 36 h or so before I made my other comment on “real engineers” being worse than software engineers because they kill people (which was rather flamebaity).

I don’t want to transform this into a discussion of the original but I specifically intended to mean that to imply that the whole thing is that crypto functions like M3 and that value transfer is the underlying goal, legal tender just being a tool. After all, we use IOUs commonly (Splitwise exists on this principle) and they aren’t legal tender. I felt there was enough there to make the connection.

But anyway, if you think it is a logically incorrect comment, that’s on me to communicate better. Thanks for the feedback.

Anyway, I can’t have this discussion any more with you, because I have to save my comments for the most information transfer (I have an account rate limit).
make sure you keep a foot into dev in case you change your mind!
Effective immunity against current variants isn't too likely to be an issue, but new variants that circumvent that immunity seem pretty likely to me seeing as we're already seeing this to some extent with the Delta variant and we're nowhere near suppressing case levels to the point that we'd slow new variants from emerging.
Yuup. 80% of democrats (and a majority of Americans) support Medicare for All but the DNC rejected it from their 2020 platform. Sadly, lobbyists are running our party system to a much greater extent than the citizenry.

https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer...
> It’s on the front page of nearly every major news source nearly every week

It also gets flagged off the front page with regularity, as was this thread.

And no, I don't blame the average person. I blame those who disenfranchised and infantilised the average person in the pursuit of profit and power, and the intellectuals who played cheerleaders for it.

> FROMM: Like for instance, that we are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed.And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps. Actually, they have paid more attention to the danger of a flu epidemic than to the danger of the atomic bomb, because...

> WALLACE: Don't you think that's a little overstatement, Dr. Fromm?

> FROMM: Well, I wish it were, because what I see is relatively few people who experience, who feel, the danger, which we are threatened with, and who feel the responsibility of doing something about it.

> WALLACE: Or maybe, when you talk about the responsibility of doing something, maybe it simply is this: that we find it very difficult to make ourselves felt in this amorphous society in which we live. Each individual would want to do something but would find it difficult to make himself felt.

> FROMM: Well, I think here you point out to one, really, of the basic defects of our system: that the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making. And I think that, in itself, leads to a good deal of political lethargy and stupidity. It is true that one has to think first and then to act -but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

-- Erich Fromm, "The Mike Wallace Interview", 25th of May 1958 (!)

And then that "stupidity" is used to justify even more of what created it. It's a constant refrain on HN too, where "the average user" is used to excuse all sorts of shitty software and reduction of options. It's like saying that someone is too weak to go for a walk, so they should remain in bed until their muscles got stronger. We do this all over the place, in all sorts of areas, and have been at it for decades.
Except, not? Empathy as a practice is the process of thinking about and correctly guessing the feelings or thoughts of another. If you are given the 'answer' then it does not require any further though. It is trying to cross that gap, 'why did no one like what I said', that I think you find empathy in.
Literally neither. Same space, nothing changed. I pay maybe more on electricity, but save much more on food and transport.
But a downvote wouldn't correct that, whereas a comment improves the discouse because it captures the best they can do.

What's left in relief is something closer to truth.
It's pretty clear from the article that it means drowning IRL doesn't look like how drowning is portrayed in most media.
I thinks it's likely that you could "check to see if your fingerprint matches the one in your phone". But that is totally different than using your fingerprint to unlock the device and then take information off the device to prosecute you. However, it has been found a few times that biometrics aren't really protected. But in many cases a password can be. Because you can't be compelled to incriminate yourself with your own testimony per the 5th amendment.
If you are incompetent buyer that is kind of your problem. Governments don't have "buyer protection".

But, typically, governments have armies of people at their disposal and some of these people are experts that can read and understand documentation.

Demand your government to be accountable to find right people to do the right job of checking that documentation provided by Pfizer.

It would seem prudent to do this before you sign a contract for another couple billion dollars.
'yay' vs 'boo' is just a different label for the same thing, no?
Yeah that is a concern we think a lot about. It mostly comes down to the facilitator and protocols we've developed with our care and curriculum team that go into place when any "toxic topics" get touched on.
You aren't going to run out of room in hospitals, for goodness sake. That was debunked last year. Countries that didn't panic, don't have dysfunctional healthcare systems, and didn't make lots of healthcare workers stay away from work, were fine.
Well, it gets easy ones pretty well - misidentified arabica coffee as robusta but did at least get "coffee", and identified a mango tree - but tricky ones (the various weed trees on our farm) are even more hopeless than my own efforts.

To be fair, it's probably for houseplants more than anything. On the other hand, half the stuff growing on a tropical farm is houseplants.

Wish there were more information about their model.
> and the way macOS handles scaling means you have to scale by a non-integer factor.

There's no 2x?
> "I can't be the only one who is incredibly uncomfortable about society going down this path."

it's dystopian. this is power that won't be reliquished by either major party, just like 9/11 surveillance and security theater. unlike some of currently fashionable political impetuses, this one is worth actively resisting, to keep federal powers in check.
There is a good bit of data backing up that natural immunity is likely superior.

https://www.biznews.com/health/2021/06/28/covid-19-vaccine-i...
Sample size = 1, I'm closing in on 50 and moved from programming to product management and then project management about 10 years ago. It was a significant compensation hit, and the skill gap took a lot to overcome (I am a much better programmer than project manager), but overall I am happy with the change. I took a look at my trajectory in my 30s and didn't like what I saw:

1. I didn't want to be a JIRA ticket monkey for the rest of my life, and people management seemed way out of reach.

2. The "win the battle, lose the war" pattern of projects started getting demoralizing: You're developer #21190 on the team, make the best technical decisions in your little corner of the product, but after a year it gets canceled or fails because some decision maker way above you on the totem pole blew a deadline/estimate by an order of magnitude. It's tiring to do your best work on projects pre-doomed to fail.

3. Work life balance sucks as a developer. I spent countless nights working through to 2AM to meet my ever-increasing ticket goals.

4. The technology-of-the-month treadmill gets you nowhere. I'm all for learning new things, but the constant emphasis on switching to a new fashionable framework just because it is new and fashionable, and just to put another keyword on your resume, is IMO a waste of learning.

All in all I felt like a well-paid cog under enormous pressure to always be cogging harder.
Big pharma is pushing for boosters before the science.

I’m happy that even Congress was skeptical of the claim in the last covid congressional committee discussion.
> in order to expire at peace

This wording made me chuckle, it sounds like something from a Blade Runner script to me.
Please show me where I was wrong in anything I said. I've shown conclusively that your statement quoted above was wrong, nothing you said here says anything other than you are angry and want to lash out.

> Perhaps you are unfamiliar with jailbreak

Considering I wrote one of the first high traffic'd jailbreaking guides for iOS and have been involved in the JB scene in various capacities (never a key role admittedly) since the very beginning, I'm pretty sure that isn't the case. ;)
There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation, like Othello's, would be gone. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at th eroot of Mammon, and to sell his own country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools or vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton, 1880, quoted (anonymously) in Hamilton Holt, Commercialism and Journalism (1909) https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft/page/...

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)>

Holt's book is an eye-opening view from the dawn of the age of mass advertising and the effects it had already had by the beginning of the 20th century on newspaper and magazine publishing. Holt, like Swinton, was a publisher.

The beneficience of advertisers in supporting journalism is ... grossly overstated in TFA.
Laravel is well-integrated with Vue.js as an option so you might want to look into that.
Yup. If you're concerned about being compelled to place a finger on the sensor, it seems a good countermeasure would be to train it on your non-dominant hand's pinky. And set a low failure count before the device demands a password instead.

I agree that if the demand was, "place whatever finger will unlock this device—in the orientation required—in this little circle," then that would be compelled witnessing against oneself.
> the number of programmers are increasing to the point of approximately doubling the number of programmers every five years

Like a Moore's Law but for computer programmers.
What is a perceptual distortion or aberration? Is it an umbrella term? What's included? Migraine auras? Vertigo? Seizures? Acid trips?

I haven't been able to find a precise definition.
But, but, but... Bambi!1!!

How dare you?
> "- little or no required education": maybe, but only for the rare prodigy. "Software engineers" without an understanding of math and some amount of formal computer science are necessary evils rather than assets. Or are doing low-level, low-thought work.

The key here is required education. You will be expected to have certain skills, but how you acquire those skills is up to you. At one past job, there were 6 developers on my team, and only 2 of us had CS degrees. The others had degrees in physics, bioengineering, electrical engineering, and one without a degree. In contrast, every doctor you meet will have a medical degree, and every lawyer will have a law degree. Both of these are expensive and require years of post-graduate education.

> "- No health or legal risks": a software engineering career will mess your body up bad if you don't intentionally work against that. For those of you who are young and don't believe me (and are programmers, sysadmins, devops, or otherwise spend all day on a computer), come back to me in a decade or so.

There's a difference between a job that literally wears your body down (construction, for instance), and a job that can lead to health problems because of a lack of physical activity. There's nothing you can do about the former, while you can address the latter by finding time to exercise a few times a week.
Apparently the queen is Rio Tinto's largest non-corporate shareholder.

Cooincidentally she's used her powers to make herself immune from being blamed or having to worry about causing climate change. [1] Says it all really...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secret...
I wish I could find a "slam dunk" source that stated what the current threshold recommended by the CDC, but I can't quite find it. I've personally read many sources that talked about using cycle counts above 30 over the past year.

Some more discussion on this topic was on HN yesterday [0]

also, from last August:

One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27972195

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
Given that:

A. Pfizer isn’t the only vaccine option.

B. If one doesn’t take the vaccine, one’s chances of dying or being disabled for years or permanently are much higher.

C. If one doesn’t take the vaccine there is a significant chance they give the virus to someone else, killing them.

I think it’s the best option out of all non-great options to mandate vaccines in order to participate in crowded settings. It’s a matter of civic responsibility in order to partake in civic life. Sure it would be better if there was no Covid so no one would need an extra vaccine, but that world no longer exists. I don’t like the current situation either but it is what it is.

Civic responsibility isn’t brought up much these days. Liability shield for vaccine makers isn’t fair, but unvaccinated allowed to romp around spreading the virus without liability is also not fair.
Life and reality are very grim. IMO there are more reasons to be unhappy than unhappy. The only reason any of us is able to avoid crushing misery is by building up walls to keep physical reminders away and having mental walls to keep thoughts away. The climate's being destroyed, ocean life is being annihilated, slavery exists as much as it ever has, much darker crimes happen constantly and at horrifying scale daily, etc. There is no solution to these problems as an individual, just to find a way to avoid dwelling on the bad and selectively notice the good.
- a wifi popup came up and someone connected to it.

- the wifi is not connected to the internet or requires username/password

- user disables it

24 hours later, the user is racking up their mobile data plan because they forgot to enable the wifi again.

This prevents it.

Bluetooth,

- You disconnected from a speaker that was being used so someone else could connect

- The next day you go to get in your car in the morning and it didn't give you the directions through the radio. Whatever

- That afternoon it works and you don't think about it. It fixed itself.

Just different users.
It’s common in neurodivergent people and people of different classes. It’s a defense mechanism to appear to be normal. I started doing it in middle school because I was tired of being bullied and getting into fights.
But how can you possibly deliver email via IPv6 if their MX host doesn't have IPv6 address at all?

$ host hotmail.com
hotmail.com has address 204.79.197.212
hotmail.com mail is handled by 2 hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com.
$ host hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com.
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 104.47.57.161
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com has address 104.47.58.161

On the other side, if a host announces that they have an IPv6 address - do you think they do it mostly for spamers?

$ host gmail.com | grep handled | head -n1
gmail.com mail is handled by 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
$ host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has address 173.194.73.27
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:4010:c1c::1a
Oh, I wasn't even aware that was a thing. How does that work? Don't you have to buy blocks of IPv4 (which would be rather expensive) and then route them all the the Host. What advantage would Bringing your own IP have anyway?
My function/method/property/variable names can be quite long.

Most of my documentation is headerdoc-style stuff, at the opening of methods, or above properties.

I generally don't have much inside methods, unless I think the code is a bit obtuse, and needs a hand.

Then, it's more important for me to document "why," as opposed to "what."
Very interesting! What conclusion should I draw from this, that unlimited growth and pollution are fine?
Psychosis and psychopathy are distinct, for what it's worth.
Alison Bechdel, to mention the first who comes to mind, regularly gets very respectful mentions in the New York Times.
Yeah, don't diamond note you CAN use leaded, but recommends AGAINST it?
I think that’s probably the right outlook, but how would you run their product through your stripe
and take 3%? Wouldn’t that require the purchasers Stripe information to be a child of your Stripe account?
I've given some serious thought to going back to a dumb phone and a separate navigation device in the car, but I don't know if a stand-alone comsumer GPS with maps and turn-by-turn navigation is something you can even buy anymore, since 99% of people use their phones for that now.
Whenever I see articles like this (and there have been tons over the past decade), I can never stop thinking about how poorly designed IPv6 was for adoption. Tons of other people have commented on this, but if we simply extended the IPv4 address space, instead of having a parallel space with IPv6, the transition would have gone much more smoothly IMO.