skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you assuredly get R0 below one with a leaky vaccine[1]?

Nobody was assuring anything. It won't get it below R0 by itself, parent comment already told you. It's the combination of seatbelt, airbag, while not speeding, drinking, smoking or talking on the phone what keeps people relatively safe on the road, not any single of those elements.

> R0 can stay >1 with 100% vaccination if the pathogen is contagious enough and the vaccine is leaky enough.

Yes. That's why the epidemiological consensus is for vaccinated people to keep wearing masks, particularly indoors.

> There is a very real chance that we're going to look back on delta fondly if a Marek's disease type scenario unfolds

Excuse me from what I'm going to say, but the Marek comparison is an antivax favourite from the gross misunderstanding that you seem to share with them.

The Marek scenario is the result of imperfect vaccination, plus the massification of the poultry industry, plus the fact that infected chickens can carry and transmit the disease for life, including those vaccinated, which is absolutely not the case with COVID-19.

The disease existed before, but outbreaks were relatively local and self contained.

Now, from the second half of the 20th century it started being a major concern with the industrialization of farming. With a vaccine that keeps chickens from having complications or dying, but not from shedding virions for life, all while living on top of each other 100% of their lives, sure, you reach enough selection pressure to make the disease evolve for the worse.

COVID-19 vaccines may let you be contagious for a few days, then the infection eventually clears, and the density of our dwellings is orders of magnitude lower.

> Then again that's pretty much optimal for big pharma if they have a vaccine that's effective against a hypothetical omega strain that will reliably kill or maim the unvaccinated.

Yeah, this goes deeper into tinfoil hat territory. I'd just like to say that interestingly most of big pharma failed to produce vaccines and have been there largely to give the manufacturing power to the small research groups and small/new biotech companies that actually created them.

Luckily there are dozens of vaccines from all around the world by now, I think competition will do the rest.
And worst against sun
Let us comb this a bit.

When you mention that set of population as deserving the consequences, it does not seem too far to me from "People who want trains instead of cars deserve trains". Is this relevant? The big problem is, people buy controversial services, hence finance them and endorse them, hence strengthen them, and in some cases these services make the acceptable ones extinct: the big problem is that people do not refuse what is not sensible, and sensible people have to pay.

Already here where I live, I cannot get essential services¹ because that practice made them extinct!!!

¹(exactly: public administration, tick; banking, very big tick; medicine, not yet. And you did not mention ___the cars___, and more...)

Other note: you wrote

> nearly no one owns their phone

and some of us are stuck with more reliable older devices, which soon may need some kind of replacement. If you know the exceptions to the untrustable devices, kindly share brand/model/OS/tweak.
I feel like the threat of misinformation wouldn't be as significant if trust in institutions wasn't so abysmally low right now.

Everyone needs trusted sources to make sense of the world, and if politicians and traditional media sources have repeatedly demonstrated that they aren't very trustworthy, it makes sense that people will start looking elsewhere for their information. On top of that, advertising is pretty much just half truths and lies by omission at this point anyways.

Of course it is a lot easier to simply deflect this responsibility onto social media, but do we really want to be empowering these mega corporations to be arbiters of truth? Social media by design isn't really capable of moderating the inflows of content responsibly as it is.
If you’re interested in SoC x86 hardware, you might enjoy this custom super tiny 486 SoC build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1E2vjpcRo
For the ones among us who are not familiar with foone yet:

They only post on Twitter because blogging doesn't work for them [0]. The Twitter thread UI sucks and that's unfortunate but somewhat unavoidable in this case. I still prefer it to not getting any of foone's "weird hardware" discussions at all.

You might have to click "Show thread/more" if you do not see all of the posts. Or just run the post through a website like threadreaderapp, it will collect follow-up posts by the same user and compile it into a page similiar to a blog post.

[0] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128
One could envision false positive images that don’t even display in iMessage when sent or that are nested in other file types, etc.
Dunno but Tesla delivers about 800k vehicles per year which is about to bring them to top10 or so.
In the EU the PSD2 directive obliged banks to provide strong authentication for customers login process and various operations on the account incl. payments ofc. Most of the time mobile applications are being used in the result - for either login confirm or as software OTP generators (biometric verification is also supported); the lists of printed codes are rather obsolete now and some banks may actually charge your extra for sending you text messages with such codes. I know there are hardware security tokens but in all these years I haven't seen anyone using such here.

So, it's rather hard to avoid banking apps.

Also, the PSD2 directive implements the duty of providing API infrastructure for third-parties. [1]

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/mip-online/2018/html/18...
only one comment mentioning the fly swatting?! Well, now there are two, including a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oJRsw_Abs
> allergic to negative mentions of china

Not exactly. Some of us would rather first and primarily focus on the disinfo artists who are destroying Western democracies than point the finger at a country that doesn't claim to be free and fair and open.

Pot, meet kettle: from the Wikipedia entry on Britain's GCHQ JTRIG unit: 'The scope of the JTRIG's mission includes using "dirty tricks" to "destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt" enemies by "discrediting" them, planting misinformation and shutting down their communications.'

And: 'In 2011, the JTRIG conducted a denial-of-service attack (DoS) on the activist network Anonymous.[1] Other JTRIG targets have included the government of Iran and the Taliban in Afghanistan.[2]

Campaigns operated by JTRIG have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attacks and propaganda efforts.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...

Edit: See also https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-to-spot-and-defe...
Not to sound pedantic, but Local storage and networked storage are not alternatives. They satisfy different needs.

If you need reasonable access to your storage from more than one computer, you need networked storage(of any kind).

Alternatively, if you are running say a database server, and you know the primary storage could be local, it is ideal to choose better performing local storage and of course plan for backups to networked storage.

As much as I agree with your pain points of networked storage, it’s not like you can “replace” it with local storage everywhere.

I have dealt with a couple PB of networked storage for a research cluster. (FreeBSD+ZFS) over NFS on a dedicated network to a cluster of about 100 servers running recent versions of Linux. It worked like a charm while we admittedly kept things simple in terms of file system features.

All clients mount the appropriate NFS shares they need via autofs(only when they are needed).

ZFS being ZFS was just a marvel of software engineering, was solid as a rock. While giving us transparent compression, superb read caching in memory, and cheap snapshots.
A server may not need a gpu, most servers may not need a gpu.
>Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy

These are great in audiobook format... the internal monologue stuff really adds to the story/character
Could you please inform me how the requirement or use of a TPM increases surveillance? I am not too informed in this area.
Why would I want government to do it, when private companies like FedEx or Amazon can do it better, faster and cheaper?
Just because someone will want to have it NOW
That's an interesting take. It would've been interesting if Motif were open sourced a few years earlier, as there would've been fewer wars about the correct Linux X11 toolkit (amongst the commercial Unices, this was just settled with Motif/CDE being the winner).

The first Gimp version even was written in Motif, before its developers started Gtk (and bikeshedding Xt)...

(I wouldn't start with a 2021 vision, as that seems to imply bad versions of over-stylized web and app interfaces, being almost as bad as the worst of the skeuomorphic UIs)

So, looking at CDE, what was specifically "Motif" about it? I don't think the file management was as special and intrinsic as the spatial Finder, Win95s tree+file view explorer or even NextStep's Miller columns.

Prominent virtual desktop usage?

More "active" use of color?

I think the dtksh part could be something interesting. Bridging the gap between regular Unix shell scripting (still more common than VBS or Rexx usage on other platforms) and UI creation.

Now, I don't think this is the way of the future, but it's not like anything will come out of the Mac clones (Etoile, hello, Airyx) either, and this seems like a more original thought experiment.
>> That's completely ignoring the fact that driving is actually a productive activity with a goal

And most antivaxers and the unmasked are welfare cases with nothing to do but look at reddit, and so are a burden on the state and a direct cost to me as a taxpayer even when there isn't a pandemic. Hey, maybe this will work out great in the end.
Hi, can you let me know how to get in touch? Or drop me an email; james[at]Lottie[dot]org
Thanks
Google hits undo on limiting JavaScript capabilities in cross-origin iframes
> Given that there is still large scale climate change denial and opposition to renewable power

You will never reach 100% consensus on any topic and acknowledging it does also not mean that you have to support certain policies.

Don't point your finger at those that are in denial of your perspective, it won't help you solve anything.

If you try to ban them, they will get secondary support at least from people that support human rights like freedom of expression, which is also valid for wrong or stupid opinions.

So you have to go the difficult route of making a good argument for your position and convince others. There is no shortcut here.
There is little reason to pay this any attention anymore. The world has moved on.
Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location
back in the day it was not allowed, and then they allowed it somewhat begrudgingly. this was like 10y ago though.

no idea what the situation is now, but i wouldn't consider a phone that doesn't get those patches (project mainline) on time to be a serious option.
I prefer the term "financially independent". Just knowing you can walk away at any time without ending up homeless or in poverty.
And while they are at it, they really oughta think about how that Unixy 3D file manager from Jurassic Park would look if invented in 2021!
Wow, this looks amazing I would have loved this. I had to make do until I graduated to Deluxe Paint 2 and Soundtracker on the Amiga. I did have a mouse and art program on the ZX Spectrum but it was hard work.
> 400 years ago

If you read the children comments, you will see a more nuanced take on those stats.

> Continue to think the US is a dreamland while the median Dane have a much higher quality of life.

I don't doubt that; the US is not optimized for the median citizen. But neither is Hacker News - I suppose a median community would be some kind of an offline newspaper with readers' comments. If that excites you, more power to you.
Who Dares Wins.

Until the shit hits the fan.

'Don't worry baby, I'll pull out in time.'

Just see you're not at the receiving end.
Or the last in line.

Having enough money and a good lawyer isn't wrong either.

Or just be to big to fail.

;-)
You could go back even further if you wanted. Possibly to the first handwritten letter delivered by a third party. That's where all the potential for censorship and tampering started.

Truth is even if our tools evolve, our chains evolve faster.
I think this could be more successful if they break it into parts. E.g. a window manager, and separate macOS emulator. And allow other BSD/Linux/Unix distributions to use them as well and install them as packages.
Great. I'm curious what would happen if you have auto-save received images enabled in WhatsApp and someone would spam you with child pornography images.
That's 150 employees that just dodged a bullet.

I feel more sorry for the 151st.
Naming models and subsequent database tables is hard. Or in other words, changing it later is the hard part.
Isn't Starbase [0] basically 0x10c?

[0] https://wiki.starbasegame.com/index.php/YOLOL
From the article: “Some of the most significant tactics found included tying the use of oil and gas to maintaining a high quality of life”

This doesn’t say anything about plastics vs using oil as fuel. When you’re making big accusations about misinformation you should probably be clear and accurate in your journalism
What do you mean, authorized by whom? The software applications I run have not been greenlit by any third party. Think about a model in which you code, than wait for authorization before deployment... The worst pulp novel.

What exactly are you talking about, the OS?
Basically what you see for instant messengers on Android: phones usually come with battery savings exceptions for WhatsApp, so when people install Signal, it looks bad for not delivering messages as reliably as WhatsApp.
I expect a lot of advertisements to lie to me to be honest, especially political ones. They should be marked as advertising and this is something that was actually improved in the last years, even just for affiliations as the industry tried to hide the nature of their messages.

There are actually rules against false advertising, but they are ineffective. So people should have no illusion on content in ads. So much can be transported in education.
Unfortunately, it's not a translation, I know people who speak (write) like that. It's very irritating.
Technically, I was talking about drunk driving, which kills a lot fewer people than (productive) driving. That's why I selected the limited case of people who innocently die because of a driver's wilful negligence, which is exponentially fewer than those who die because of antivaxers' wilful negligence. Probably even when there isn't a pandemic with an R6 replication rate.
I think GP is right that there's plenty of "form, not function" regulation - of the form, "must be no longer than X / no heavier than Y", etc.

But I think GP is wrong in considering this to be a problem. Rules may be expressed in a non-functional way, but that's often just a way to embody functional rules in a heuristic that doesn't require expertise to apply.

For a computing example, you may have a processing algorithm that has a tendency to explode in computational complexity on some datasets, because of complicated algorithmic reasons. Instead of explaining the exact problem to users, most of whom will not be able to understand it, you could determine that the failure mode is very unlikely to happen for smaller datasets, and just say "the input should be no larger than 10MB in size".

Other reason for "form, not function" is coordination - there may be many good ways to do something, but all of them require everyone to do the same thing. So it makes sense to pick a reasonable default and tell everyone to stick to it.
Yes true, sorry I’ve explained wrong: what I wanted to say is that is a very interesting system, but in order to be a full compact SoC like what we mean now, it should had only a GPU.
How about going further

Disabling CPU's speculative execution on untrusted code (browser) too
As I said above:

From the article: “Some of the most significant tactics found included tying the use of oil and gas to maintaining a high quality of life”

This doesn’t say anything about plastics vs using oil as fuel.

When you’re making big accusations about misinformation you should probably be clear and accurate in your journalism
Is there some way of verifying that the fingerprints in this database will never match sensitive documents on their way from a whistleblower to journalists, or anything else that isn't strictly illegal? How will this tech be repurposed over time once it's in place?
Compile with a C++ compiler, and suddenly you have a great deal more than nothing. For free.
When did I say I wasn't getting the vaccine? I think it's prudent to ask questions and consider the consequences of a medication before taking it.
I expected functions for complex systems like manufacturing or other business organizations.
You are welcome to question the requirements
According to AcoUP, transport cost over land is five times that over rivers, and twenty times that over sea.

https://acoup.blog/2019/07/19/the-lonely-city-part-ii-real-c...
And a "subject to other powers" company.
This was codified by Charles Simonyi in his dissertation on Metaprogramming, which he implemented at Microsoft.

The idea was there would be one software architect called the Metaprogrammer who would write the design and specification for the program. All the other programmers would implement this specification in as straightforward a way as possible without making any design decisions. If a design decision comes up, they refer it to the Metaprogrammer. This way you can hire large numbers of cheap low-level programmers, leveraging the skills and experience of a few experts. The idea was ultimately that the mundane code should be auto-generated.

It took Microsoft a long time to recover, if it ever really did.
>flat earth,

There is no rational reason to believe this. True. But there is no rational reason to believe "CDC/Scientists can be trusted" as well.

So do you consider the statement "CDC can be trusted" to be a batshit conspiracy theory?
And I think the vaunted "FAANG level coding interview" is a prime example of a setting where three months of hard swotting can make even a relatively dim bulb shine brightly.
Not a Tesla user but how well it integrates with Siri? Sounds like type of thing you’d want good voice interface.

Changing AC settings while driving would be great too.
It will also become a economic necessity.

Car dependence is not sustainable. Infrastructure costs need to be covered by the income they generate.

That is not the case with car dependent cities.

Here is an excellent playlist about how car dependence is so expensive:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6...
Oh! Is that what I've been missing for two years?

Well, when you phrase it like that... Hmm. Yup, I'm an idiot.

<3
> Come to think of it, I wonder if this Apple thing would even fly under GDPR?

Possibly? I’m not a lawyer, but if this is about compliance with a legal obligation, and they’re under that category of pressure? I think GDPR would allow that?

Certainly seems more likely allowed than the stuff Facebook complained Apple was preventing them from doing.
> but alas, for performance faster_map behaves a little differently and it must not be used as an STL container. Oops.

No one sane expects that every single implementation of an API must match the performance of its canonical implementation. Hell, I'm pretty sure that MS's STL in debug mode does not satisfy the STL performance requirements due to all the added checks, some being O(n) iirc.
So saying facts, that they planted 5 million trees, is “misinformation” because they also pump a lot of oil?

Not that there ever was a definition of misinformation but wtf is your definition? And how the hell do you objectively decide what is misinformation if facts can be that?

And how is Facebook supposed to measure what facts are actually misinformation by your standards? Should they build an AI that is able to recognise that because shell pumps a lot of oil they shouldnt be able to run ads about planting 5m trees?

Do you realise what you are advocating for?
Funny enough, the recent infrastructure bill in the US includes provisions for all new cars to be fitted with breathalyzer-like devices.
Your comment is valuable, but at least Nutrionfacts seems to present one side of the argument factually.

There are operations like 'Brand Power'[1] which masquerades like consumer fact checking service but in fact they just 3rd party advertisers for brands.

When I first saw their Ads in India, I thought it's disingenuous and then I learnt that they do the same even in developed countries.

https://www.brandpower.com/us/en/
Nope, one guy at a festival was about to try and I didn't allow it. Handed me to his boss who checked it manually.
Thanks for the link. Finally somebody using actual comprehensible examples to build a case.
A Minute on the Internet in 2021
From the article:

"So Blacks are being arrested at the same rate as others in the city, even when they’re not doing anything wrong. So while Blacks represent a hugely disproportionate percentage of police stops, they represent an even greater percentage of specious police stops not related to criminality."
Or that it's easier for more Danes to migrate to the US than vice versa because they're more familiar with the language and culture of the US than vice versa.

There are so many potential reasons; it's silly to draw conclusions about what country is "better" (on some underspecified scale) based on just migration stats.
Again, a non sequitur. Is there a point here?
Sounds like the difference is that only I can see how Facebook targeted me, rather than e.g. consumer interests organisations or government watchdogs being able to see how an organisation targets in general.
> It's a pity that she is working with FreeBSD, or it could have been of use to her.

I suppose FreeBSD made more sense as a base considering MacOS is derived from BSD.
And what is your point? So yes we have no idea what the long term (I'm talking 3+ year) effects of covid are. That doesn't make us understand the vaccines any better. You still have to make a choice between two somewhat unknowns. Yes so far the data does show the vaccine is the better option, but we can't know for sure. So you still should be as informed as possible before making a decision.
I dare it - turn off JavaScript!?

Websites doesn't require JavaScript, what really needs JavaScript are Singe-Page-Web-Apps-Somethings with anti-patterns like infinite scrolling. You get two things in return, a "super duper" fast web and a more secure web-browser. For example Amazon supports usage without JavaScript very well. Another experience is Stackoverflow, things like the preview and highlighting doesn't work. The highlighting can be added with server-side code but this will cost some CPU-Time - and it is not your CPU-Time. It is their CPU-Time? There is tiny feature I would appreciate in HTML-Engines "copy link to location" instead of using JavaScript - but there is this usable hierarchical address-bar a the top (which Google tries to hide) which already serves this purpose.

I'm not against JavaScript. JavaScript is just a tool but I ask the question if good websites require it? Hackernews uses 134 lines of JavaScript, this is alredy nearly nothing. Can you imagine using Hackernews without JavaScript?

My webbrowser (WebKitGtk) provides a permission panel for every website:

* advertisements

* notifications

* password

* location

* microphone

* webcam

* media

A first step would be adding there JavaScript, too? Maybe some nasty Cookie-Dialogs will disappear as consequence. But that is not a loss?