skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is there any evidence that this matters or has a noticeable impact?

I came across this paper [0] that seemed to be saying their tests showed that the vaccine antibodies better handled the receptor mutations they created (how much better? 100%? or 1%?), but that antibodies from a natural infection target other parts of the virus besides just the receptor (possibly offering broader protection):

> Therefore, antibody immunity acquired by natural infection or different modes of vaccination may have a differing susceptibility to erosion by SARS-CoV-2 evolution.

> The neutralizing activity of vaccine-elicited antibodies was more targeted to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein compared to antibodies elicited by natural infection. However, within the RBD, binding of vaccine-elicited antibodies was more broadly distributed across epitopes compared to infection-elicited antibodies.

There's so much they don't know about the immune system. The above doesn't even get into T-cells.

> I also imagine that the vaccine simulates a much higher viral load than a mild case.

I found the article on these Massachusetts cases interesting. They found a bunch of vaccine breakthrough cases, not cases amongst people who already had covid. On it's own that seems to imply natural immunity might be better, don't you think? Have you seen anything to the contrary?

Maybe too close to call at this point. Could go either way.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34103407/
I think you could buy long term treasuries at the currently high interest rates. When interest rate goes down, your treasury value goes up.
Most likely, I presume, is that telling people whose livelihood depends on the internet that other people do not research on the internet everything they develop beliefs about is apparently not a great idea if you are concerned about fake internet points.
A friend of mine living in an apartment complex with parking facilities at basement level recently told me that firefighters having inspected the area had come to the conclusion that they will make no attempts to go down and put out a fire if there are EVs parked. There will be fire until there is nothing more to burn, house still standing or not.

Seeing a car battery burn kind of makes me understand why.
I'm reminded of how Digital Research (the CP/M people) was originally Intergalactic Digital Research, but they dropped the Intergalactic out of concerns that it made them look unprofessional (although I think at that time they might still have been operating out of Gary Kildall's kitchen).
I recall seeing the video.

Sobering, disillusioned, and morbid. A heavy weight, a bolder. Reality for a few, but shelter for the many. Or is it?

Anyone care to share what he gave up his life for?
Aside from some amount of inspiration, this seems to have nothing to do with Erlang. Kind of a gratuitous use of the name IMO.
That $99 price is for the Sketch program. The creator (Alin) just wanted a subscription model similar to it. The pro version of Lunar is $23 for a year of updates and support.
It's water heater only. I don't think they are thinking about global scale yet :).
Maybe call it ByteDollar or something like that.
>So I contacted an investigative reporter with whom I had had an established prior relationship and told him that I had something the American people needed to know."

Most people don’t have an established prior relationship with an investigative reporter. I wonder what other stuff he leaked.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apples ultimate goal was to control the monitor playback ecosystem and implement DRM such that they could get a cut of any medimedia you consume through your Mac. They'd 'curate' the content to prevent you know piracy, or whatever.
I think a lot of the muffled aesthetic is a consequence of the decisions made in the recording/mixing process, there's a strong room reverb across the recording particularly noticeable on Ringo's drums which combined with the high-end softening of the Fairchild 660 compressor featured on Beatles records gives it a "rock concert while standing in line for the bathroom" color. I could be mistaken but it sounds like a lot of the instrumental parts were recorded in single takes in the same room compared to say Abbey Road where it sounds like they were tracked independently. A consequence of tracking multiple lines together is there can be cross-instrument fuzzing that results in "muffling", it can be an intentional effect though for a more live sound. Just my 2c
I know someone who works on policy for a major App Store (not my employer, or I wouldn’t be blabbing).

They outsource content testing to an overseas operations team whose metrics are based on numbers of cases reviewed, with no review quality metric. Of course, they get what they incentivize.
In 1985, they did have mainframes at the Pentagon. But they dated from the 1960s.

My first job out of college in 1989 was to go to work in the basement of The Pentagon for the Defense Communications Agency, as an Analyst/Terminal Operator for those old pre-Multics Honeywell WWMCCS mainframes. One of my first jobs there was to help modernized the classified Airfields database from COBOL 66 to COBOL 77.

At the beginning, we used glass tty terminals that were wrapped in faraday cages, and all local printing was done via a screen print function to local thermal paper printers. We could use the line printers, but those were not directly accessible to us, and we had to go up to the Operator window to ask for our output.

They later upgraded the terminals to EMF-hardened IBM PC XT computers with removable 5GB hard drives, known as WIS-CUC terminals. That was like 1991. Note that this was PC XT technology from like 1984, not PC AT.

The unclassified PC AT type computers we used outside of the classified environments probably had more RAM, larger hard drives, and more I/O capacity than those ancient Honeywell mainframes.

So, no, there weren’t any supercomputers at the Pentagon in 1985.

Now, if you want to talk about NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, then that’s a different story.
Why is accountability so primitive in 2021?

As dumb as it might sound, I feel the US still has a big share of honest good people, compared to what I have seen abroad. Sad to watch.
I'm in a state that has hard and fast lockdowns, I am also 2x pfizer vaccinated. I'm in support of hard and fast lockdowns. they have proven to be very effective and at a minimal cost to society in general.

we do however need to financially support the hardest hit industries (hospitality) better. lots of casual work in that spce and those people need their work to survive.
You DO need a study to understand this. Humanity's track record with 'you don't need a study' isn't exactly stellar.

If you don't study stuff like this, your models of the world won't update on 'obvious' things like geocentrism or spontaneous generation.

The last century saw enough of these rationalizations for human behaviour - they miss the mark more often than not.

Now for why they decided to use facial expression software on the other hand...
It's true about the stereo thing. So many people are used to almost laughable stereo that the Beatles' records were remixed to yet so many (including myself) see these as the canonical versions and were inspired by this lopsided mixing technique, copying it for decades to come (mostly in independent music). But ya, there is something to it... pan the bass and drums hard into one channel and the guitar and a way too loud tambourine in the other! It really does actually sounds great :)

I actually lament the lack of way-too-loud percussion in "music these days". Well, ok, I'm opening myself up for a deluge of "but what about this style of music that makes percussion way too loud!???" Well, ok, I guess I'm just talking about guitar-driven music here. So ya, I guess I'm saying, "Guitar-driven music need louder tambourine... damn these kids today!!!". I'm not saying that but, you know :)

[edited for grammar]
There are unintended consequences in what you are saying… If the amount earned falls below the cost of teaching, a quality professor will forgo the teaching opportunity in favour of industry or research.
I’ve enjoyed the interactions I’ve had with people from HN. My suggestion? Use a Matrix address
I deeply wish they'd just said fuck it and shipped a Python interpreter in an early Firefox version. Yolo, let the chips fall where they may.

Google briefly tried to make client-side Dart a thing, but nobody* ever used Dart at all, for anything.

*statistically...
You can have reasonable C FFI from several other languages. Notably in this context Rust.

Of course if your code is just a thin layer of glue it's not worth it, you'd spend all your time getting into and out of the FFI. But if you write a non-trivial amount of code that actually does something because it isn't just a glue layer, C might actually not be the obvious choice after all.

In the particular case of Rust, somebody else apparently already did this work (not tested, and thus not vouched for): https://crates.io/crates/gstreamer
Well, and only if they can drum up enough support around their social media complaint. I imagine lots of developers don't have any real recourse.
Normally I wouldn't suggest Crystal [1] with Rails Shop given how different they are, but Stripe uses a tight subset of Ruby and Type Check everything I am wondering if they have ever looked at Crystal and what are their thoughts on it. Given they are looking at Java and Go as well.

>Architected this way, the Sorbet Compiler turns Ruby into a language for writing Ruby native extensions! Instead of having to write C, C++, Rust, or some other compiled language to write native extensions, people can continue to write Ruby but gain the benefits of native compiled speeds.

To me this is the biggest feature that could impact the whole Ruby Ecosystem. Along with another Ruby JIT that is currently being tested at Shopify.

[1] https://crystal-lang.org
An Excel spreadsheet with VBA would have been a huge improvement. I figure the Pentagon probably did that about twenty years later.
I wonder if there are people who don't view intelligence agencies negatively nowadays.
Some lefties learn to write by either hooking their hand above or angling it below below the line being written, sometimes complemented by slanting the page toward or away from their writing arm.
Because most of them are happy with the new dude? It's careful not to counter the crowd now.
Well, that's a damning rebuke to grid-scale battery storage. Is it wise to have this time bomb (e.g. Tesla powerwall) inside every house?
That must be recent, I didn’t provide a street address.
Be careful trying to boot 64 bit Ubuntu off a hard drive. You have to uncompress the kernel, or the boot will hang.
That's always been the case...
> Lunatic's design is all about super lightweight processes. Processes are fast to create, have a small memory footprint and a low scheduling overhead. They are designed for massive concurrency.

> All processes running on Lunatic are preemptively scheduled and executed by a work stealing async executor.

Sounds like Erlang to me.
Gold is also nearly twice as dense as lead (which is around 11g/cm^3, slightly more than silver.)
This couldn't possibly have negative consequences.
And the down votes flow in.
If I was able to create new energy out of nowhere in my bare hands, you would be astounded. Of course this is not possible. Energy must come from somewhere else. When you create new money, you have seemingly "new energy" in your hands, except the value of that "new money" came from everyone else's money, the existing base. Their money became worth less (inflation).

The government is constantly creating more money, which is why we consistently have inflation year after year. They do it in the name of stimulating the economy. They've done it so much, that many governments now have 0 or negative interest rates on their bonds. This is when things start getting very confusing, because saving money should yield you a positive return. Your savings account should pay you interest, but instead you pay the bank to store your money (doesn't actually happen at the retail level, banks eat the cost to keep you in their business).

The "social contract" aspect is that if you want something, you ask for it. Raise taxes? Lower taxes? At least there is representation at some level with a vote. Going to war in Iraq? Needs congressional and senate approval. Creating $100b of money you don't have and buying government bonds every month? Fed does this, and nobody blinks.
> Hale built on that letter with a statement that lasted a little more than 15 minutes. He said, according to POLITICO's Josh Gerstein, "What I’m really here for is for having stolen something that was never mine to take: precious human life."

> [Judge Liam] O'Grady responded, “You’re not facing prison for speaking out about the drone program injuring and killing innocent persons," and, "You could have been a whistleblower and garnered all this attention without leaking any of these documents, frankly.”

O'Grady has a fair point here actually.
You think AI is so primitive that we can't make any headway into the biggest problem we currently have? That seems like a fairly fringe view. Especially on a problem that has well defined data like medical imaging.
As with others, I trust Apple to safeguard this information waaaay more than constantly rolling the dice with shady app publishers every time I sign up to something.

That I can sign up to TikTok with "Sign in with Apple", with an auto-generated Apple Privacy email address and literally no other information, is quite amazing and useful.
Thanks for posting this on a Friday, this is basically gonna be my weekend now. I love the idea of meshing a lightweight process framework with webassembly.
Political asylum in a foreign country until the unrest works itself out.
Why are anti vaxxers so vocal? Or are there just more of them on HN? On any thread about the virus it seems the first comments are all ones that are negative towards the vaccine.

I don’t really get it, if one thinks the the vaccine is bad then Covid should be mega double plus bad. If one thinks Covid is mild, then vaccines should be like taking a placebo. It doesn’t make sense that there’s a huge fear and resistance to a small subset of virus proteins but a cavalier dismissal of the full blown virus. Why does that make sense?

It’s like being afraid of jogging a mile and being loudly opinionated about hating running but then quickly agreeing to doing a iron man marathon as an of shape individual.
WA says "yes"

when you do it properly, and lock down hard and fast. this half arsed and poorly communicated bullshit is whats screwing NSW right now. not to mention the poor compliance.
White-label apps never use Google or Facebook authentication and not Apple?
Sorbet clearly aims to be interoperable with the rest of the ruby ecosystem, whereas crystal is a relatively small garden - Ruby code does not defacto work in crystal.
I rewrote the core part in C, invoked one command line operation, and now I can call the C like it was JS and the core part is 10x faster.

I'm not even a JS dev but it is certainly literally mind-blowing once you see it.
O'Grady responded, “You’re not facing prison for speaking out about the drone program injuring and killing innocent persons," and, "You could have been a whistleblower and garnered all this attention without leaking any of these documents, frankly.”

However, if Hale had spoken to the public about the content of the documents but never taken any of the information, he almost certainly would have still been the target of an Espionage Act prosecution.

Not sure if the writer is naive or obtuse; it's pretty obvious that the judge meant using institutional whistleblowing channels, which would have legally insulated Hale. Of course, it's also that much more likely that the matter would have gone unnoticed by the public and and eventually been buried in red tape.
You don't have agency as a child when the largest chunk of emotional and physical development take place. Parents and environment play a huge role in defining the sense of personal agency and choices a person feels capable of. Increasingly it's being found that mental health issues can be passed down generations[0].

On a personal level, I think what you're saying makes sense and is a good healthy approach to life and maximizing potential by not doing stupid things. It is good to hold yourself to account and those around you as well.

From a social/macro perspective though, I think it's important to look towards the data on things like crime in a scientific and empathetic mindset if we want to build a stronger society and optimize for bringing out the best in people and making sure everyone has a fair shot.

Crime happens for all sort of reasons, probably a non-negligible amount is committed by people channeling the abuse they received as children and their abusers probably never got held to account in any explicit way. Or say you're a young kid raised in Sinaloa without much education, your parents actually poked fun at you for going to school and talked down at the things you learned in the classroom. Around you, not only are the most successful and powerful people narcos, but your economy is defined on the gains from crime. Of course the line blurs, are you a criminal if you join up with the traffickers, are you a coward for not and choosing to do 'honest' work?

If the world is waging war against you and your options while telling you it's your fault for being in the position you are in, maybe you stop thinking like a middle class civilian and more like a soldier on a dead man's mission.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/features/mental-he...
Not OP, but let me present my opinion.

Interest rates have been on a downward trend for the past few decades. This is a new thing, that has not happened before. The Fed seem hell bent on making sure that there are no deflationary recessions anymore, and i think that is the true cause of the long term decline in interest rates.

One of the results of this trend is the hyper growth in asset prices. Reduced interest rates dictate a reduced time value of money, and higher valuations. This rewards the owner class with increased wealth, and doesn't do anything (and well actually harms) the rentee class, which pays the same rent for a home.

The problem is that this is not sustainable. I'm not sure if you agree, but we cannot keep decreasing interest rates forever. It would have to slow down and stop one day. What that means is that some future (or present) generation would not be rewarded with increased wealth that past generations have enjoyed. Essentially in order to fight deflation, the Fed has borrowed immensely from the future to openly gift wealth to the present, making the future less rosy.
Yep. Back in the hand-written letter days people must have thought “think how much time we would save if all this was automated and letters were delivered instantly!” Nope. We just send 10x more.
The Pentagon Is Experimenting with Using AI to “See Days in Advance”
that grows on a herb plant.
Thank you for putting it much better than I did. I am disappointed that the people in this thread are such big fans of bad regulation.
Apple surrenders customer data on over 30,000 customers per year to the US government without search warrants or probable cause.

This is disclosed in their own transparency report (FISA).

This isn't optional; Apple has to provide data on any user account the USG demands of them, without a search warrant.

Your trust in them is misplaced.
When helping debug issues folks are having I have to non-ironically ask them if they read the error message. Often they haven't and it says what the issue is and sometimes how to fix it.
The street address is not verified/authenticated, but the email and phone are.
You're probably being downvoted because it's hard to make out what you're trying to say. Perhaps rewrite in clearer language at the expense of being less poetic.
Bureaucracies love boilerplate text
Unfortunately this article suffers from the modern tendency of reducing eros to sexuality. The wider meaning of eros as a type of love always connoted a union; yes, like sexual partners, but also like a group of soldiers fighting together, a jazz band jamming together etc.

In fact, eros is heavily required today in team sports; when a team of volleyball players are in flow, the usual boundaries between different players are no longer salient, they have to act in so tight synchrony, they have to have such accurate models of each other's participation that, mentally they are lost in each other, they act as one, they are one. This is closer to the meaning of an erotic army that Phaedrus is talking about than a bunch of warriors that just had sex with each other.
> one time my HVAC stopped working in the middle of winter and I wouldn't know what to do there.

I thought so too, until a HVAC outfit ghosted me one too many times. All I had was a screwdriver and multimeter in hand. I was able to figure out that the power transformer was taking in 110v but putting out 0v into the board. So I googled the part number, picked it up at Home Depot and just un-mounted it and swapped the new one in attaching the wires in the same way. Easy peasy! It really was a lot easier than I thought. Just remember to take pictures of the wiring before.
Counting workers is misleading, you don’t replace a 40$ an hour jobs with a 15$ an hour job without consequences. Beyond that looking at the percentage of Americans employed shows a net drop even accounting for retirement etc.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001
That's just a bad fire department. There are procedures to put out lithium-ion fires that aren't just "let it burn". It's not chlorine trifluoride.
A bunch of "intellectual dark web" figures have been beating around that bush, doing their typical act of implying a controversial position with plausible deniability and a lot of qualifiers and then backpedaling and acting offended if called on it. It's the same dance they do with "race realism" and Bell Curve ideology and other alt-right-adjacent stuff they soft-pill their audiences on.

HN has a fairly large contingent of people with extremely high IQs who follow that stuff. My own IQ is obviously too low to comprehend the most advanced thinkers on YouTube.

I've already looked into whether I can get a third booster. Low IQ strikes again. I'll probably be dead from vaccine side effects within a year.
Hippies tried to levitate The Pentagon to end the Vietnam War
Nice thank you. I was originally using udev and launchd to drive actions based on events, but they took up to 10 seconds to switch. A purpose built tool would like the ones you linked I assume would not have that problem.
You wait

Product Makers will at some point realize they can sell direct and do it without AMZN. e.g. Nike, Apple

Competitors- Dick's, Best Buy will give product makers ultimatums- if we get undercut by AMZn, we're not going to sell your stuff- so you decide. Its nice to be able to buy and pickup curbside same day

Customers- I already find Amzn beating prices on eBay about 25% of the time. eBay shipping times are improving too
Thank you. However, the article is written by David Sacks.
JavaScript was contemporaneously developed alongside Java, to target a different niche:

https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/
So what would have been the correct channel for a "proper" whistleblower and why should we expect it to have had any impact when the "improper" whistleblowing didn't stop the slaughter of innocent people?
https://www.greenamerica.org/natural-gas-pipeline-and-infras... (Natural Gas Pipeline and Infrastructure Explosions Nationwide)