skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prions are considered infectious, although when they were first proposed it was essentially heresy that something could be infectious without containing any nucleic acid (DNA/RNA).

Whether they self-replicate or not is sort of a semantic issue. They replicate in the same way "fallen-down dominos" replicate.

Prior to being a prion, they are an already complex protein, but by folding a particular way, they become a prion, which causes other proteins of the same type to fold similarly.
It says on their mission statement that they do SIGINT and information assurance (i.e. IT security) and there is plenty of public evidence that they do both. Plus they've been deeply involved with designing cryptographic protocols and equipment for the US govt for a very long time which is part of SIGINT but it's not the offensive part.

https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission-values/
Less of this argument please. I would not like companies to have the choice to fire racial minorities just because it is "their company, their choice".

Edit: Protected classes is a legal term and is irrelevant to the topic here. If your argument can be used to support a statement or action that you consider incorrect or immoral then it is not a good argument. After all "Their company, their choice." has in fact been used in the past in order to discriminate against minorities.

But feel free to replace "racial minorities" with a non-protected class such as "blonde people".

Edit2: "You can choose to be vaccinated (minus the obvious medical exceptions), you can't choose your minority status."

This is again irrelevant to the topic. I am arguing against the hypocritical "their company, their choice" argument. This new argument is even worse because similarly one can say the disgusting "you can choose to bleach your skin if your company does not like black people".
It's definitely the wrong tool for public policy. I just think it makes sense when you look at everyone's motivations.
They did. And it's so bloody terrible, in terms of UI and basic "text appearing when you type" performance (load up a bunch of photos in a post and it lags exceedingly badly) that I moved my blog entirely off Blogger.

I've got some video of how badly broken the new interface is, in terms of "actually letting you write blog entries" in my post here. It went from perfectly fine to "literally unusable on the hardware I tended to write on, with a typical number of photos in a post."

https://www.sevarg.net/2020/10/10/end-of-blog-new-blogger-in...
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All type work spesily thise side
If you're building an NFT exchange for a web app for example, you will likely write a swap contract that swaps 2 NFTs. After you write the contract, you have to listen to events from your server, run a node, parse and format the events, stay in sync with the blockchain (even if your server goes down briefly)... and then integrate with your analytics provider. I've built systems like this for multiple companies and it's always a pain.

Blocktimize replaces all of this work with 5 minutes of setup. It also provides a mission control 'interface' for all of your active contracts and connections on both testnet and mainnet.
I agree it has those benefits and if I imagine those would create a higher quality of life, then each property that does have homes or businesses could be worth more. So city revenue could go up because 1) each parcel is higher in value or 2) the city could even charge more premium property tax rates to be in such a high quality city.

In other words, the city maintains itself more as a luxury good than a commodity.
Depends on the application.

If it is a business that needs
Standard CRUD, relational dB backend, a front end. The web app is in a zone that is perfectly viable and can stay in bubble.

Cosmetic Limitations can easily be overcome with custom plugins built using nodejs. We had to parse a large CSV once and wrote a bit of JavaScript to overcome it.

What I wouldn't do in bubble
- make a game. Tricky stuff.
- intensive math on bubble server. E.g. any machine learning should be done elsewhere.
- make something like bubble in bubble. Nope. Don't.
Approved? No. Investigated including human trials? Yes.

This is from 2018 - https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
My first thought exactly. This will cause nothing but confusion and Triton (the inference server) is well integrated into the space.

So it's especially weird to see it coming from OpenAI, and not a more random startup. It honestly makes no sense they would deliberately do this, unless there is some secret cult of Triton that is going on in the Bay Area world of AI/ML.
A bunch? How many, to the nearest 100.
It's actually 97% [1] and from anecdata from a friend there is at least one hospital where unvaccinated COVID hospitalizations is as low as 90% (and I want emphasize the obvious that it means 10% of hospitalized COVID patients are vaccinated).

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1017012853/97-of-people-enter...
The drivetrain in the Volt is exceedingly reliable. Like, 0 problems for most people. There's almost no maintenance required.

Other things in the car are the issue. Stupid things like the infamous "shift to park" issue (crappy $2 switch in the shifter mechanism so it doesn't recognize that you're in park even when you're mechanically in park and complains when you turn it off). Or just generally typically mediocre Chevy interior, etc.

Still love driving mine, I'd have a hard time giving it up. It somehow feels very sporty. I find Toyota's very boring to drive.
This is the third comment I've had to reply to to point out that the J&J vaccine is also based on barely tested technology. Is this really not widely understood?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine
"think about the children!"
After watching the videos around the time this article came out, I spotted a man drowning in the ocean. I was on a cliff looking down at some tourists not familiar with the ocean. I couldn't get down to him or make myself heard to shout a warning. Fortunately, he pulled out of it and got to shore. It was the most helpless I ever felt.
no, I'm talking about doing something that's helpful, like insulation using asbestos that ends up being harmful as well. things can be both helpful and harmful in different ways.

obviously COVID is bad, no one is denying that. no one is denying that the vaccine is good. but to say that the vaccine cannot be bad ever or ever have potentially negative side effects is being misleading at best and disingenuous at worst. this is why people who are concerned about these tradeoffs should consult a medical professional.
> Do you have any evidence to suggest a risk with the mRNA delivery vehicle?

My point is, an appeal to history does not work when you are dealing with something new.

By the way, how long have we had vaccines based on adenovirus vectors?
Emergency Authorization also allows for production of the vaccine to happen alongside testing [0]..

Compared to Approval -> Production. If they drop the emergency use, technically they would need to stop production of the vaccine..

[0] https://vaccine.unchealthcare.org/science/vaccine-approval/w...
Comcast is dual stack, and will hand out IPv6 and IPv4. There are times when their IPv4 DHCP server is slow or seems to be out to lunch though, and during that time you might get IPv6 only.
They said that in the blog...

> At the same time, we recognize that many Googlers are seeing spikes in their communities caused by the Delta variant and are concerned about returning to the office. This extension will allow us time to ramp back into work while providing flexibility for those who need it. We’ll continue watching the data carefully and let you know at least 30 days in advance before transitioning into our full return to office plans.
I would trust google to know about their monster.

"Google and the USAID-funded Wuhan scientist Peter Daszak’s virus experiments for over a decade"
> The anthrax vaccines were receiving criticism in several scientific circles, because of both potency problems and allegations that the anthrax vaccine contributed to Gulf War syndrome.

That's the only excerpt I was able to find wrt that. Is there more?
100% agree. Great case for standard CRUD apps and has a coded plugin framework where some nodejs can extend if needed
This Medcram video explains how J&J vaccine works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qT7wLxkvU#t=1m30s

They splice DNA to put in a virus and the end result is exactly the same as the mRNA vaccines - custom spliced RNA code running in your cells.
Not sure what's up with down votes here. The sad reality is that this is a common reason for estrangement in the US both for parent-child as well as spousal relationships.
Literally the first line of the article: “ Google announced Wednesday it would require all in-office workers and visitors to be vaccinated”

Maybe click on it and read it before flying off on the handle?
Very true. The amount of energy spent on trying to persuade or vilify the “other” side is much higher than the effort that’s put into really understanding issues and trying to come up with solutions.
Not experimental when a billion people have had it. That's a 1000 times more than most medications
Just finished listening to a great podcast that touches on the safety and FDA emergency approval, see https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-... .

Some key points
i) we have more data on these vaccines than any other in history
ii) though we don't have long term data, there has never in the history of vaccines been side effects that wouldn't be detectable at this stage
iii) the FDA is really dragging its feet and should have given approval by June, latest. Vaccine companies have submitted all the data for review a long time ago and previous FDA commissioners generally agree it's taking far too long. The current FDA commissioner said approval will take until January next year!
I have never, not once been able to downvote on HN and zi couldn't care less. If something is egregious there's always the flagging option.

I don't see how anyone needs downvotes
I'm missing the explanatory, clear, close-up videos. The gamea with a pixel-wide kid somewhere in the background would then work to check on that learning.
When the cost of not taking action (not vaccinating) exceeds the cost of taking action (vaccinating).
Well thanks for the downvote. But isn't that card part of your medical history? What if they need proof you are vaccinated against measles? After all, its a proven vaccine...
Literally all characteristics? I think there are some which are protected by law and generally considered not cool to discriminate on. I'm just asking which ones are ok to discriminate on since apparently submission to medical procedures is one of the good ones.

I wonder how people would feel if an employer required other medical treatments, or the inverse: if an employee had a medical procedure the employer doesn't like.

Also, I'd like to clarify that your comparing a company requiring a medical procedure to be performed on all employees bodies to an acceptable use policy telling employees not to use Facebook on their company machine, right?
This is an example of the incredible ignorance around vaccines.
Hippa only applies to medical professionals i believe. Employers can always ask for your medical records. This has always been the case.
You don't have the right to put others at risk of harm. That's why, at least in the US, vaccinations are already usually mandatory for entering public school.
At MIT until only some years back this was true. They sold half they space so not any more (i think).
Link to the source is in the bottom of the page.

hosts:
- www.archlinux.org
- aur.archlinux.org

https://github.com/andir/ipv6.watch/blob/bd581ac70b900ba0c1c...

hosts:
- amazon.com
- www.amazon.com

https://github.com/andir/ipv6.watch/blob/bd581ac70b900ba0c1c...

Generally, when people write "Amazon" they mean the store (amazon.com) and when people write "AWS" they are referring to the infrastructure provider.

I agree that the URLs being tested should be visible on the page, so you don't have to lookup the source.

With that said, not sure how useful it is to say that (aur.)archlinux.org has IPv6 enabled, what you really care about is the repositories and so on, but those are all spread out so it'll be hard to test all of them. At least could test the official mirrors.
From the article "we’ll also share more details on an exceptions process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other protected reasons."
27.6% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. How much more data do you need to feel confident?
I'm calling it now, they will require all employees to have this, remote or not.
I'm not vaccinated. Why? Because before I had the opportunity to receive the vaccine, I had an antibody test for the virus, revealing I have a standard deviation more antibodies (after 6 months) for the virus than the average person does after 2 doses of the Pfizer vaccine (and ~3 months).

There isn't conclusive data (AFAIK) on the relationship between antibody levels and immunity for this particular virus, but it is not unlikely that people like me have better immunity than the average vaccinated person.

I would've thought an inclusive company like Google would take such basic immunological nuances in to account when stigmatising their own employees?
Not yet. The data can be accessed via API endpoints. So a script could fetch it and populate a new database.

The tricky part would be user authentication. It's built in. So those would need to slowly migrate and need a strategy.
Reproducibility of Scientific Results (2018)
A problem with most approaches to having the ICE drive the wheels to is that you don't run the ICE at it's most efficient setting. You gain in the drivetrain, but lose in the actual combustion. Whether you lose more in one than you gain in the other is an issue.
Also, at least in some years, people who got the flu vaccine in previous years are more likely to die from the flu.
That is just false. The current number of possible vaccine related deaths in the US is 1.
Those who chose not to get vaccinated are doing nothing to you.
This doesn't really work because every bad comment would have to generate a massive subthreads of repetitive explanations of its badness. It's also worth thinking about why this logic is so readily applied to downvotes but not upvotes. Presumably you learn nothing from a plain upvote so upvotes should come with a note as well, right?
Yeah, never fight the rip tide, you won't win. Move laterally - rip currents are usually narrow, and you can swim out of them sideways. The lack of control, though, is freaky and unsettling.
That could be done by not giving your medical history. Every vaccinated person should be delivered a proof of vaccination cryptographically signed by official authorities (eg. CDC in the US), with nothing more that "yes, Bob - ssn XXX - is fully vaccinated". Simple to verify by employers.
We sterilize everyone but them?
I'm not very sympathetic to the religious argument. Islamic leaders are approving vaccines, even if they contain pork gelatin.
This is a lie. There is still testing going on to confirm their safety and effectiveness. Here is a list of them:

https://www.pfizer.com/science/find-a-trial/search/BNT162b2/...
I mean, schools can force parents to tell them if their kids are vaccinated. There are exceptions to ADA/HIPAA "no information can shared/asked for at all."
Chrysler Turbine Car (1963-1964)
>It almost feels like we're feigning collective surprise that a big chunk of Americans decided to take a staunchly anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-rationality stance.

This is the natural result of 40+ years of sustained attack on the idea of government, on the effectiveness of public institutions, on the concepts of authority and expertise:

>Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"
Something else that is important to mention is that young kids can easily slip into a pool or jacuzzi and not make a sound. We might think we would hear a "splash!", but that isn't necessarily true.

I watched my daughter step of the ledge in a jacuzzi once and it was completely silent. One second she was walking and the next she was under water.

Keep your eyes on young children near water at all times. If they are really young and can't yet swim, either be with them or have them wear an approved flotation device. Going under can happen in a split second when your back is turned.
Getting a quote to build out service to an address through any residential sales channel at an ISP is an exercise in futility. They generally won't quote it to residential customers because the quote usually ends up being for some astronomically high amount (dozens/hundreds of thousands) that few residential customers could reasonably afford.

If you really want to have something built out for you, I recommend the following approach:

1. Find neighbors that are both frustrated with their internet options and have some money to spend

2. Call the business sales line for whatever ISP you want to go with.

3. Request a quote for yourself and mention that there are some neighboring businesses that would be willing to go in on the build cost.

Usually, you can at least get a quote that way and you can decide from there whether or not it's worth it. Once they've built out service to your location, other residential customers can re-use that same infrastructure, so they don't all actually need to have businesses of their own.

Sparklight is a provider in my area as well and they will build out business service to a residential location if there is business being conducted there (it's a pretty low bar to meet, and when in doubt, you could simply set up an LLC for yourself. I think it's ~$300 in Texas, which would essentially be a rounding error on the cost of the service buildout).

Another option that you could look into is setting up your own ISP. I found that in my previous home, I would have been able to set up a tiny neighborhood ISP for ~$30k (for 15 homes). It's a large chunk of money, but divided up across multiple homes + ongoing service fees, it would have been pretty manageable. This was the cost for fiber-to-the-home and it was so low only because I didn't have to cross any public right-of-way, I was able to find a path for the fiber that didn't cross any other utilities or anything, there was fiber nearby (Zayo Communications publishes a map online where you can find this info), and I was willing to do much of the installation work myself. I ended up selling the house and moving instead, but it would have been a pretty fun project. You could also consider starting a WISP. https://startyourownisp.com/ has come across HN several times and is a really interesting resource.
> The turbine is also set to send power to a land-based electrolyzer that will generate so-called green hydrogen

why the "so-called"?
In what way would using ipv6 enhance your experience using this site?
I tasted this with the Display Dock for Lumia phone. My initial setup was USB/Wifi KB + miracast + android phone. And it worked just as well. Overseas phones seem to have more capabilities than what we get stateside.
really? huh, TIL.
This is completely contrary to what "excess death" statistics suggest, which is that we might be under-counting COVID deaths by quite a bit. We've had many more unexpected excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 than can be explained by the official COVID death counts, so it's highly possible that some COVID-caused deaths aren't being recorded as such.

It could be that a bit more than 625,000 people have died in the US due to COVID. Or it could be higher than that, and it may be a couple of years before we know for sure. It's not lower, though. Not at all.
I also think the fellow stating that we are not better off for having unleaded fuel is overstating the matter. Lead in fuel was quite strongly correlated with crime rates, no?
thats an incredibly loose definition and up for manipulation
Oh sweet. Sorry if that’s nosy but is your family Japanese? Otherwise I’m surprised they could use this! Looks great
From the data I've seen, they are potentially looking more effective at preventing cases than at preventing hospitalization:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-22/los-ange...

> Among fully vaccinated people, there were about 27 coronavirus infections for every 100,000 county residents in June, according to figures presented Thursday. But among people not fully vaccinated, there were 125 infections for every 100,000 residents.

> That month, there were also 2 fully vaccinated people hospitalized for every 100,000 residents — much smaller than the comparable rate, 11, for people not fully vaccinated.

So per 100k fully vaccinated people, 27 cases and 2 hospitalizations. Or: 7.4% of cases resulting in hospitalization.

Per 100k not-fully-vaccinated: 125 cases and 11 hospitalizations. Or: 8.8% of cases resulting in hospitalization.

What this doesn't tell us is "how many cases were so mild and occurred in people who aren't getting test regularly that they went under the radar." I don't know of any data telling us anything about what the "mild case rate" looks like for vaccinated vs unvaccinated (it would be VERY hard to measure without widespread mandatory testing).

But if you've got a case that gets detected, the vaccine doesn't really seem to prevent that case from hospitalizing you at the same rate as before. It just prevents you from getting those cases nearly as frequently as the rest of the population.
With the amount of ridiculous anti-vaxxing statements in this thread, I'm beginning to think there may actually be a large contingent of software engineers deciding not to be vaccinated.
There are tests for both presence of antibodies (quick and cheap, you can get one at many pharmacies or quick-care clinics) and T-cell immununity (IDK the cost or availabilty of those).
They are if you consider second order effects.
Did it every occur to anybody that a breakneck race to turn the browser into an app runtime so complicated only the established players (ie Apple and Google, not even MS could keep up) are the only game in down might be killing the web (globally connected hypermedia library)?
It’s a 400W+ machine blazing under my desk, with relatively low performance per watt and per unit of cost and high depreciation per hour of usage. With 6 ms latency to my major IX and the stability and backup professionalism cloud providers can offer I’d be all in for online desktop. Perhaps I’d invest in a bit more beefy Synology as an internet-down local machine, but my phone or iPad could offer that functionality as well. Going from full machines to terminal-screens would also save my household of 5 many kgs of electronics. That times a few hundred million households sure adds up.
Both apple and ms stole most of it from xerox parc (star desktop)
Does matrix support threads?
Deep Tech Dive #13 – Building with Collective Consciousness
Debugging the NoCode part in bubble is super super super easy.

When logged into bubble, add ?debug_mode=true in URL.

See the bottom toolbar. Step by step through any workflow action. (Event based paradigm) or inspect any element and check any state/property. Not chrome inspect tools. Bubble has its own debugging.

Backend debugging is slightly trickier. The logs are harder to read. Sprinkling some database entries makes it easy
This policy has nothing to do with opinions and political leanings; it's a physical safety policy for an office. Most offices would also deny you access if you try to get in and stab fellow employees with dirty needles you found by the bus stop.

You could argue the merits of Google not allowing employees the option to permanently work from home, but as far as their offices are concerned this is a very sane requirement for entry given the hazards that currently exist.