skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk, Bezos Have a New Rival. Porsche Joined the Space Race
In my experience with immune related diseases, and reading about the immune system, the takeaway from all of it is "The immune system is ridiculously convoluted, and nothing necessarily makes sense or doesn't make sense"

Given that I can totally understand why they would investigate something that seems self-evident. I wouldn't have been even slightly surprised if they found that high antibody count meant higher susceptibility to re-infection. The immune system really is a spaghetti code mess of a system, and has seemingly as many intuitive as counter-intuitive behaviors.
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Employer advertises job positions, runs interviews to reject every candidate
I agree. I had thought the plan was, "have heavy countermeasures in place until we get a vaccine or a cure, to minimize the amount of deaths and burden on our hospitals". We did that. One "bonus objective" was getting enough people vaccinated to make Covid extinct, but that was a longshot. And we failed, miserably, at the attempt.

So Covid is here, we will all get it at some point, there's nothing we can do about that anymore. Countermeasures will not stop that. The only point to some countermeasures is in specific locations where the unvaccinated are getting hit hard an putting a burden on healthcare systems. But that should be targeted and brief, and only to protect other people that need healthcare services. The unvaccinated that have the option to be vaccinated have made their choice.

I'd much rather be in the "herd immunity" timeline, but here we are.
A recursive signatory deriving root ID Rights + data use under control of people directly fixes this.. a process that repeats is a requirement to prevent second-class process from deriving system outcomes no longer produced "of, by, for" people, Individuals All, as root dependency of accurate governance in a civil Society. Recursive Signatory: https://www.moxytongue.com/2021/07/recursive-signatory.html
Kinda related ....

It alarms me the number of people I see just slam their laptops shut. I get they're supposed to be tough but Jesus. Some people really slam those screens that you can hear it from another office with the door shut.

Anyways, I'm surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.

Also, isn't the real kicker that these laptops only support one external display?
I'm not aware of any screen that can withstand a cheese explosion.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzknRy2XAAA_nD0?format=jpg&name=...
One thing that bugs me with studies like this is the lack of prior study. Unless I am unaware, there isn't an ongoing study of a large random group of people to determine infection rates, hospitalization/death rates, and antibody levels before and after the vaccine/infection. A robust study like this would also bring clarity to the variant debate.

There is no apparent way to know if the people who were breakthrough infections had previously not been infected. It is possible the people who did not have breakthrough infections, may have had previous exposure/infection that prevented the breakthrough.

A large, long running random selection study is desperately needed to get any true sense of what has been going on the for the past year+. I am unsure if the University of Padua Vò Study is still ongoing. I hope so.
Regarding the issue he mentions with unmounting of drives on raspberry pis, I've found the issue that fixed it for me was a reliable power supply.
Good analogy; even today it's hard to have a "cost vs benefits" discussion on the "War On [Terror,Drugs,Poverty]" or whatever you care to name, really.

"Covid theater" is as apt a description of so much of public policy this last year as "security theater" was of so much post 9-11 horseshit. It's all kabuki meant to show how well you dance with your tribe.
Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages?
Disclaimer: I'm a backender so I may have this all wrong :)

The script element in HTML has provided the language property since its introduction, though nowadays it is deprecated in favour of the type attribute.

But the browser-supported languages seems to have been almost entirely Javascript and VBScript.

Given that Javascript is considered to be an at best quirky [0] language (justifiably given its 10 day gestation) how come the browser ecosystem never expanded to accommodate more direct scripting languages - particularly in the early days when Javascript libraries were rare beasts? As I remember it Javascript was deeply unpopular with devs until libraries like JQuery came along to make things a little less painful.

Was it the baleful influence of IE6 or some other winner-takes-all effect or what?

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2998152-javascript
Craig Murray has some strange theories, and is pretty far from me politically, but him being sent to jail for this ridiculous allegation re: "identifying" "victims" of Alex Salmond is appalling.

It just shows how corrupt Scottish politics and the SNP is.
Somehow I missed the point in time when it became mandatory for employees to share their health conditions with employer. Do HIV (virus no less deadly for immunocompromised) positive person also has to report their status and current medication plan?
I think the big difference with the Lewinsky scandal is two things: everyone knows who Clinton is, so "the Clinton Affair" is not as precise; and Monica Lewinsky was not an innocent victim.
Such engagement would be better than how I've generally been treated as an opponent of climate change alarmism. Historically the arguments boil down to, emotional appeals like this story. Buy now or lose the opportunity forever! We are reaching an inflection point! This is a story angle I've seen dozens of times at this point and none of the dire predictions have ever come to pass. The other major one is "you're not qualified to have an opinion on the topic".

There are numerous pieces on how various branches of science have a very broken peer review process. The academic incentives are perverse, publish or perish, and peer review is a low budget method that has lots of issues that crop in.

My main issue is, is modern science reliable enough to make such predictions? All meta science material I've seen says no, they are not. So my preference would be, fix the system so it stops producing sensationalistic garbage and then we can talk about what might need to change about fundamental economic underpinnings.
39 workers identified with COVID

36 responded to the survey about symptoms later.

Almost every study, even small and short-term ones, have some dropouts and people who don’t respond to follow ups
Given a standalone application, you might just be able to stick the executable in a .saver in the right place with the right Info.plist entries.

Perhaps you need to adapt your work to actually render on an NSView first ...
I've been WFH for over a decade now. For a couple of years I worked from a recliner because I had back problems. Something similar to this:

https://i.imgur.com/oCN6WmW.jpg
buy & store basic needs as much as possible
That’s really awful. These companies shouldn’t be allowed to exist. I mean, of course they always will, but many exist that aren’t like this.
Yeah I did that, when I was really tired and needed to lie down every so often. But it's not really conducive to programming. Mostly I work from a desk. I don't think it's too expensive. I'm not paid that much but I had no trouble affording a 400eur second hand sitting standing desk
2 different running PHP-FPM instances. Then, any web server virtual host can choose which one to use. Via SetHandler for Apache.
> just remember that it’s Linux

Hum... It's some Linux that appears out of nowhere and may go away at any time. This is the reason for most those container best practices.

Anyway, this really doesn't translate to "don't", but be sure to keep the transiency in mind.
So are S&P/Moody ratings yet those got us in trouble in 2008. Just because something is a universal practice in the financial industry doesn't absolve it from conflicts / potential legalities.
You use PHP FPM (Fast CGI) behind Nginx, so you run multiple PHP-FPMs each with their own PHP version. This falls out of stock Debian/Ubuntu already and can be easily extended to even most recent and older PHP versions through PHP Debian Maintainer Ondrejs PPA. Currently PHP 7.0 - 7.4 and 8.0 available via apt-get
> I think GCP is a very different beast from the rest of Google and that its approach to business has essentially nothing to do with the rest of Google's

That's true, I think it's more of a branding issue. Everytime Google shuts down a service, it reflects poorly on their entire offer.
Just as a heads up, the Discord server for this group is much more active than their forum FWIW. Lovely group of people.

https://github.com/RustAudio

https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw
It is no different than the "temporary measures" of the Patriot Act.

It boggles my mind how people think governments will ever give back power, once acquired. It doesn't work that way.
> But should we pave a path for people to double-down on problematic behavior?

What problematic behavior do you mean?
And COVID-19 will cost students their health and maybe their lives, not to mention their parents and relatives if they're anti-vaxers.
The "real world" is not a safe space. It never will be.

I used to have the same kind of knee-jerk reaction to content warnings; you might say I was triggered by them. "The world isn't safe," I thought, "so you should just toughen up." Now that I am a geriatric millennial, I find my views have softened.

For people with marginalized identities, it can be particularly unsafe; depending on where they live, they might face discrimination in their communities. The local government might want to kill them. Their own families might reject them. They might feel unsafe in their own home, with no realistic hope of getting out any time soon.

For people that have been victims of traumatic events, "toughen up/get over it" isn't really an option. Again, the world is not a safe space; it might be littered with reminders of what happened to them, which may be perfectly innocuous to other people.

For people who feel unsafe in their homes, communities, or the world at large, going online can be a very important means of escaping their situation. It may actually be their only means of escape; it's very possible that the only communities that they are able to access where they can feel safe are online.

Sometimes signaling is just signaling. Not all signaling is for you. I've seen lots of CWs that I don't understand, or that I privately think are somewhat absurd, which is really just the same thing as not understanding them. I don't think the people who used those were trying to signal how woke they were to me, though; I assume those signals were meant for somebody else.

The "real world" is not a safe space, but the virtual worlds that we are building are not subject to the same limitations. People should be able to tailor the spaces they create to be as safe as they want them to be, for the people they want them to be safe for. Do not assume that a signal that wasn't intended for you was made in bad faith.
Sorry for the late reply.

Who do you think allows customers to get away with this bullshit? Spineless management.

Everything goes back to this as a root problem.
Are companies expected to follow laws the day they get signed, even if it might take over an year to implement compliance? Think about it. Because here's what happened:

> The penalty is the result of a 2018 complaint by French privacy rights group La Quadrature du Net, which filed numerous lawsuits against Big Tech companies on the behalf of 12,000 people shortly after the GDPR was established that year.

This privacy group waited for the law to get signed, and promptly sued every big company that clearly handles user data.

Do you think finding everyone a billion or two would help them come up with a time machine and go back in time to implement a law before it exists so they're compliant by the time it's signed? Curious.
> or pay rent for almost 2 years.

What country is that?
About $100k losses per week?

Is your wife hiring?
In my experience typing while walking has not been an issue but using a mouse with moderate to high sensitivity can be challenging. Using a gaming feature such as "sniper" mode to toggle mouse sensitivity when precise clicking is necessary solved the problem.
My kids were relatively advantaged (and quite possibly absolutely advantaged) because of the support, resources, and enriching activities we were able to provide them. There was nothing negative for them to “escape” at home; they had excellent nutrition, sleep hygiene, quiet places to work, attentive parents to help as needed, etc.

That was far from universally available to kids across my city.
Mask wearing when you know you're sick is something I would like to see more in the West (one of the few good things that might come out of the pandemic). Regardless, I imagine there are negative psychological effects of long-term society-wide mask wearing. Just speaking for myself, I found it very depressing not being able to see people's faces outside of a small familiar and social bubble for a year and I honestly dread going back to it.
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There was a time when I worked in the intersection of peripheral neuroscience and the immune system, studying the immune response of mammals to optogenetic therapies. It was a widely held belief that, in that problem space, the complexity of the immune system outpaced ambiguities and unknowns we had surrounding the PNS.

Basically, what I'm saying is take every statement you've seen in the media and documentaries about how complex the nervous system is, and consider that the immune system is considered equally incomprehensible today.

Not only is the immune system spaghetti code, but it likes to break all the time and, to our perspective, is full of weird and undefined behaviors.
There's a number of ways to deal with it now. Having different versions of php installed is the easy part, having the webserver send requests to these is a little more tricky. Using PHP-FPM makes this considerably easier as you can have different versions listening on different unix sockets, for example.
And my answer to people who believe this is always the same - please volunteer your their time to an active subreddit of your choice, preferably one with an active political aspect.

Look, I am not unsympathetic. I have personally gone through the whole cycle - I started from "the antidote to bad speech is more speech, not censorship", To advocating for better tools to handle misinformation.

I would honestly LOVE for the world to work how I thought it did. I worry about the tools we create to clean our "gardens". Yet, without those tools I know most large communities would fail to be governed.

I am largely tired, of these debates on HN where old arguments are rehashed, un-tempered with empirics. Heck, people should be upset that the data that can answer these questions is under NDAs.
> The New York Times did in profiling Matt Damon, “the sordid Amanda Knox saga.” Sordid: morally vile. Not a great adjective to have placed next to your name. Repeat something often enough, and people believe it.

This is pretty stupid. When you read, “sordid Jewish genocide” do you think “sordid” is describing “Jewish”?

There is quite a bit of bullshit in the article about power imbalances that isn’t coherent either. Both her and the murder victim had no power yet she is fine with putting the murder victim’s name up for an alternate headline.

There may have been a point in there somewhere, but it got buried by a cheap attempt to ride the #metoo zeitgeist.
But it should still be not-tracking until you agree (i.e. if you have no cookies set).
Just have the Itanium servers as something you can order, but not actually build the unless a costumer actually places an order.

In reality Oracle is off the hook given that Intel is stopping Itanium production.
>Children at band practice ... long after it was known COVID-19 poses almost no risk to children

I wish articles wouldn't start out right away by broadcasting their black-and-white side-taking (the evidence here being the implication that there is no reason to control the spread of COVID among children if they have less severe symptoms on average).
Could somebody ELI5 the legal basis for terms that automatically change without your consent being binding? What keeps a ToS update from promising an extra month of service for a paltry $1M each? Are those waters tested much in court yet?
At least could call it the Clinton Lewinsky affair. Calling it just the Lewinsky affair puts it all on her.
That little plastic slide cover people like to cover the camera with can crack the screen.

It's not that they're fragile. But in an effort to make a thin, and light device. The space tolerance between the screen and keyboard is very tight when closed.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211148
>If your work environment requires a camera cover at all times
>
>If your work environment requires you to cover the camera on your Mac notebook, follow >these guidelines to avoid damaging the display:
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> Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper >(0.1mm).
> Avoid using a camera cover that leaves adhesive residue.
> If you install a camera cover that is thicker than 0.1mm, remove the camera cover >before closing your computer.
If there is any reasonable amount of soil above it, I suspect the bacteria and fungi will eat it well before it gets down to the foam.
TL;DR it's a post about Elixir.
During the Pandemic, Did You Want to Make Any Life Changes?
In a premium product like a MacBook, I'd expect Apple to replace any fault like this no questions asked. And if it happens again, replace it again. And if it happens again, offer a full refund.

It doesn't really matter if these cracks are caused by issues in apples glass-making process or caused by users shutting them on bits of rice. In either case, the machine isn't suitable for its usecase. And on a premium product, I would expect the manufacturer to make it right.
I haven't seen any clear indication that acceptance has gone up. Voiced acceptance? Sure, but that's not a great measure of what people will in action.
Tried and failed, very embarassigly. Turns out not everything you read on the net is true :D

Last I heard there was some research on finding mixes of comensal bacteria that can replace the "stinky" ones. But currently, it's risky at best.

What I did get out of the experience is cutting on shampoo use. On hot summer days you can wash your hair as often as you want - but the extra washes should be water only, or at most conditioner.
I don't think it doesn't matter if you work from bed as long as you produce quality output. There are a lot of factors that affects your productivity but if you're used to work remotely, you can put on your laptop and put your game face on.
> how many companies wanted to dig into assembly instead of just waiting 18-24 months for Moore's Law to speed up their software?

The people that bought Itanium-powered servers certainly weren't replacing them every 18-24 months. At the price they paid, you were looking at 5-8 years of computing before replacement. Or more.

My employer bought a pair of the final batch of Itanium servers. To replace 10-year old ones. This was an insurance purchase. The original plan was to shift all of that workload into the cloud, but that's neither going quickly enough nor is it saving any money. If you have a workload for which Itanium does well, it does it really well.
A sliding glass door in the foyer of an office I worked in once just spontaneously turned itself into a pile of glass granules one day. I'm led to believe it's not a particularly infrequent occurrence.
Google to block logins on old Android devices starting September
In this case, the consumer is being confused into thinking the film is about Amanda Knox, which it isn't (according to the producer). So the marketing is deceptive, or the producer is being deceitful.

Either way, if Amanda had had a trademark on her name, she could have sued, I suppose.

I'm not keen on the idea of trademarking ones own name though. I don't envisage many poor people bringing suit for wrongful use of their name. It would be used by rich people to intimidate reporters, and we'd all end up worse-informed.

I think Amanda's complaint about the film and its promotion are valid, and I definitely think she should have been involved in the production. I think the producers should immediately start negotiating compensation with her, as a matter of goodwill.
There is but I'm glad that there is not enough support for it. It sucks if sugary drink is banned.

In the end its always battle between two sides. The winer get to decide the rules.
Pretty much every film based on real people and events takes liberties in service of narrative flow and drama. Sometimes one or more of the original parties are involved. Often they're not.
They may have meant that HP acquired Compaq, which had acquired DEC. Itanium was a joint project between HP and Intel, IIRC.
I find this farfetched given that the chassis design is effectively unchanged from the previous Intel models and this issue doesn’t appear to have existed before.
Ontario grows by more than 100k people per year. 10s of thousands of homes/year is losing ground, not even treading water.
To me the best defence is just always making sure you can later get what you are paid somewhere else. The people who take salary cuts later in life seem to be old people who didn't keep their skills up or adapt to a changing world where degrees were an ever harder wall to break through.

If you are regularly applying for jobs, it should be apparent when your value is declining.
Generally ADHD is not classified as a mental illness by diagnostic models. Many mental illnesses are comorbidities of adhd though.
The additional context around the same quote doesn't change anything as far as I can tell. They said the exact same thing about their previous computer systems, then just 1-2 years later would replace those computer systems because they were in fact not capable enough for self-driving. There's still no self-driving robotaxis on HW3 over two years later, when they promised it would exist in 2020.

Same thing with the robotaxi quotes. Elon was very clear on autonomy day and the days surrounding it. The promise was not shorthand for "vehicles capable of being a robotaxi", it was Tesla vehicles, and I quote again, "operating robotaxis next year with no one in them", and "I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year — not in all jurisdictions because we won’t have regulatory approval everywhere.". You don't need regulatory approval for hardware alone.

In another investor presentation Elon Musk made in 2019, per a reporter covering it, they were promising the Tesla Network to allow Tesla owners to send their functioning robotaxis out to pick people up for money would launch in 2020.

> Starting next year, owners will be able to flip a switch inside the Tesla app, and send out their car to pick up and drop off passengers autonomously, earning an estimated 65 cents per mile in fares. By Tesla’s estimates, owners might be able to earn $30,000 in gross revenue from their cars per year, or more than $300,000 in revenue over the 11-year lifespan of their car.
This can actually be a somewhat complicated issue when businesses are involved. When a family name is trademarked as part of a business, a different family member can sometimes be prevented from using their family name in a competing business, e.g. https://www.bullyhillvineyards.com/about/heritage
Yeah it is lagging for me too. And I do have hardware accel off as well, because of a chromium bug.
https://www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk for the festival they and their kid Jamie have been involved with, looking forward to that next year
I understand now-- Four Cheese may as well be a drillbit.
Technical debt doesn't even need to be related to future requirements. It could be building something that's only mostly right to get something out faster.