skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite the actual historical research not being so hot or voluminous, I find Bataille's theory of General Economy a much more robust and more tangible way of describing the conditions of modernity while also indicating a specific response/solution, namely, that we have to re-learn to sacrifice, not accumulate, excess, like our ancestors did for most of human existence.

We don't build ridiculously grand and inefficient structures like Pyramids and Cathedrals or practice ritual sacrifice because we no longer entertain the notion that human economy necessarily involves realms that require the destruction of excess production (and no, the destruction of excess dairy or agricultural production in the name of market controls on prices is not that).

All the way up to early modernity humans unanimously understood economy like this to some extent, even if Abrahamic religions changed the flow around so that economy of surplus came to revolve around the excess of desire-production in humans specifically rather involving the entire realm of goods (Judaism still understood the older arrangement to a certain extent: we know that Cain and Abel burned produce to God, or that Jacob was on the cusp of sacrificing his only son to God; in Christianity, as Nietzsche noted, the debtor, God, pays himself back with his own flesh, and Christian practice proper is this immolation of the 'excess of the flesh', human desire, to our own more godly selves, our souls).
There are commercially available antibody tests that can distinguish between antibodies from natural infection and from the common vaccines.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...

>The first vaccines distributed in the United States induce antibodies to S protein. Thus, presence of antibodies to N protein indicates previous natural infection regardless of vaccination status, while presence of antibodies to S protein indicates either previous natural infection or vaccination.
Well unfortunately COVID forgot to ask my opinion before gifting me with one for free
Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
I’ve perused Hacker News almost every single day for 5 years. How do I break that addiction?
I expected this for the mRNA vaccine, but source?
I have been told to disagree with this post. Therefore I disagree with this post.
In 2010, after a long anatomical study, they performed DNA barcoding on a slice of the snack and found it to match that of agave’s by 89 percent [narrowed] down to Agave Sisalana. [...] Next, they chopped off its leaves and there it was: the fat, white, watery trunk familiar to millions of Indians from food carts. They ate a slice from it, and it was tasteless and crunchy just like Ram Kand. The findings were published inCurrent Science the following year.

When I look at the Jicama plant it doesn't even remotely look like an Agave. It certainly doesn't seem to me that DNA barcoding would yield an 89% match with Agave Sisalana.
> people who have had Covid, and are now wondering if they are as immune as they can hope for, considering all other available interventions.

They are not "as immune as they can hope for" and would benefit from vaccination, after having had COVID, in that respect.

Links posted already, but mainly https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-you-need-to-get-v...
Most likely flagged as a generic malware from heuristics because of the API calls their tools use.
youtube-dl is the only proof I have that some of my favorite content ever actually existed
I am under the impression that a lot of places consider recovered cases as equivalent to fully vaccinated.
The difference is between this and say mandatory seatbelts is that the car won't refuse to start if it thinks that someone isn't buckled. I would refuse to buy a car that did try that, as that's just asking for inconvenient sensor failures that leave you stranded.
I’m sorry you got sick, and I’m glad to see this study suggesting you have durable immunity! I worry that since it’s dated July 14 it may not have enough data on the Delta variant to be useful in considering your risk going forward. I hope you remain in good health.
It is normal for antibodies to decline after an immune response, it doesn't mean the immunity is gone, the immune system remembers how to produce them when needed.

The paper you link actually says that the memory B-cell populations appear to be maintained after the waning of the antibodies. B-cells are the cells that remembers and creates antibodies in response to an antigen (like the spike protein on the surface of the virus).
All: I know it's an activating topic, but this thread has tons of comments breaking the site guidelines. That's not ok.

If you're going to comment, make sure you know the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That means making substantive points thoughtfully.

If you want to put down or yell at people on the other side of this $hot-topic, or any topic, please do that somewhere else. We're trying for a little better than internet default here.
Nope. "Password Storage" should not be a business that exists in the form of "if you don't pay for good password storage, you're not allowed to have it." Especially if it involves storing your password with a third party.

The technology to store passwords safely has a marginal cost of zero (it's software). People storing passwords in third party places increases the threat surface, always. Finally, it's "ecological" in that safety/security of this sort needs to be evenly distributed to work its best.

I'm not saying we shouldn't pay people to make things safer, we absolutely should. But this is a bad model for it.
Two were an order of magnitude off. You are correct that others were much closer. The winner of the primary only about 40% under - and he was the Brooklyn Borough President.
There's some chutzpah in an anti-vaxxer pushing fraudulent Covid miracle cures and invoking Semmelweis in the very same post.
Hah I love it. They figured out the best way to monetize it was to pass the speculative action on to a lower layer of suckers. They even hold the auction before the domain expires, so they have relatively little skin in the game.
The existence of methodcaller confirms for me the good choices made in the design of Lua.

Tables are simple key-value maps, with an optimization for dense arrays, while symbols are strings with a parser-enforced grammar. A method call is syntax sugar: table:method(...) is converted into table.method(table, ...).

This means that "methodcaller" is simply table[string](table, ...), which I've used in a few places to good effect.
I know you are being sarcastic; but I think this probably affects all political teams who otherwise would be giving up a significant advantage by not at least hiring some firm at arms length to try to fleece their supporters this way. I think it’s even better for everyone to ban it so that everyone doesn’t get trapped in this race to the bottom.
Which also doesn't work when using a private window.
Sure, dry mass of fuel cells vs dry mass for fuel cells vs total mass need for fuel cells.

Also, that’s just the start. Team fuel cells are also dramatically lower efficiency so you need a extra solar panels and all the associated equipment with that. Which again scales linearly with energy demands.
It's easy to use and setup. If pricing and closed source is OK with you then it's worth it. We've used them few years ago and then switched to ES. Think of it like of pre-docker Heroku.
Reading this comment, I assumed PACER was a private provider who sells access to otherwise freely available material which originally might be scattered and unorganised as government things usually are. Charging for access would therefore be reasonable.

But a quick search reveals that this is in fact a government-provided service. So your government charges you 10 cents per page to download PDFs from a glorified file server.

The US has around 1.5M people working in the legal field. Let's say each of them does 10 document lookups every day. 15 million requests in an 8 hour workday comes out to 500 requests per second. Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure a modern workstation could handle that, let alone a dedicated server or ever a few of them with good caching and client-side load balancing. SCOTUS spends 16M yearly just on building maintenance, I think it's safe to assume they can afford a handful of servers without having to resort to microtransactions...
Where is the anti-vax material in that post?
According to [1], in California, total out of pocket for a first time cell phone violation is ~$150, total out of pocket for a subsequent offense is ~$250. Let's conservatively assume that for 75% of drivers, it's a first time violation. Average fine is $175.

According to random internet search [2], the saturation flow of a lane of traffic is about 1900 vehicles per hour. Let's assume a 4 lane highway at rush hour is about 80% of saturation, which yields 6,000 vehicles per hour.

Assume 50% are offending, and you can positively catch/convict 10% of those, so 300 vehicles x $175 = $262,500 in fines per hour. At 10% finder's fee, you could make $2,625 PER HOUR just sitting by the side of the road with a camera. Not bad!

1: https://www.drivinglaws.org/sb1613.php

2: http://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-every-traffic-engineer-...
The immunity acquired from infection may be more robust against variants since a broader set of antibodies are produced.
I think someone needs to play big techs own game and find some cases where this algorithm underperforms based on race or gender, publish a bunch of clickbait articles and get the whole program canceled. Erosion of privacy and authoritarianism isn’t enough to gain traction.
I could see a case to vaccinate people even if they have natural, durable, and long-lasting immunity to Covid-19 after infection if it makes their immunity even stronger.
South Korea to test grenade-launching drones
Yes but they are really talking about habits/triggers there. They have another saying: "Wherever you go, there you are." The core assumption of twelve-step programs is that the problem is defects of character in the individual.
For me it's the realization that I don't even know what I lost. I just have lists of dead URL's.
Publishing your vault of passwords on a public GitHub repository seems like a pretty bad idea, no matter how well you trust the client-side encryption code.

I'm no expert on the subject, but I suspect these password managers use a sophisticated mechanism of authentication (for accessing the vault) as well as encrypting of the actual contents of the vault.

The effect of this means that Bob's encrypted vault cannot be downloaded by an attacker without the attacker first authenticating to the server.
And now so has this one.
Nothing is ever invented by the person it's named after [1].

[1]: https://taylor.gl/blog/11
The requirement for booster shots may be for increasing immunity to variants, not the original virus. If you survived the original virus and got an immunity out of it you are just as vulnerable to variants as anyone who got the vaccine.

Basically, subsequent shots are security updates.
Hey, please don't break the site guidelines like this. We ban that sort of account.

If you know more than someone else, that's great, but then please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. If you can't or don't want to, no problem—but either way, please don't post putdowns.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I absolutely don't think it's a strawman. Nearly to a person, the people in my life who have not gotten vaccinated and have not yet gotten Covid-19, if asked, have been making this argument: it's not that bad, it's not worth getting the vaccine.
Actually being infected with Covid (symptomatic) probably does confer the best immunity possible, for sure. You should still get vaccinated after that though, because research suggests that vaccination can significantly help alleviate long COViD symptoms which a large fraction of patients have. Haven’t seen actual numbers on the immunity boost conferred by post-Covid vaccination though (no reason to think it’ll not add at least a slight bit).
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Thanks, @lakkal. Enjoy.
[1] is not generally supportive of your very broad statement. You must qualify you statement with some indication of this stated limitation: "carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein"
Can end-to-end encrypted systems detect child sexual abuse imagery? (2019)
you mean like how people got so fed up with ToS-mandated arbitration that they all decided to file motions simultaneously

it worked that time...
May be not.

> The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared to antibodies acquired from an infection.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
We always see Hellenized / Romanized versions of other lands (e.g. "Persia", "India", "Africa") so it's nice to see the release nickname reference the eastern name for Ionia.
New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Will Be Archived
Total mass for a fuel cell system still wins against any battery system.

And solar panels go up to 200 W/kg these days (UltraFlex/MegaFlex design), with up to 300 W/kg in labs. They're the least of your worries.
There are many other examples generate from this Notebook on my Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/media
While I largely agree with your points, your comparison to MC/Visa isn't sensible. The EU has limited the interchange fee to 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards, but that goes to the card issuing bank anyway. MC/Visa charge scheme fees which were not capped in such a way.
Dr. Drew had the opposite reaction where he started drinking wine and smoking cannabis. He compares the symptoms to suffering from head trauma.
Your body might accidentally create an immunity to a portion of the virus that mutates. Perhaps the protein produced by vaccine mRNA forces your body to create an immunity against a portion of the virus that is less likely to mutate.

I don't know if this is the case, but I offer this as an example of how our biological systems may be complicated beyond intuition.
It’s a highscalability blog post, though, which usually focuses on precisely the clustering, sharding, etc aspects.

Not saying you’re wrong, but it’s just a different audience that would be interested in the actual search algorithms.
I was expecting it somewhere on the product page or FAQ, TBH
Want to know something more messed up?

In Oregon/Washington the workers, even in the grow ops, are making minimum wage. I could not believe it, even the extract runners.

In Cali, at least where I'm at, most pay with weed only.

None of the workers on the west coast are classified as real workers and as such don't qualify for benefits, and they also enjoy the prospect of being raided at any given time as it's still federally illegal.

I spent a lot of time in the weed business traveling up and down the west coast last 2 years. It was disgusting. I'd ask about jobs everywhere while looking for decent vendors, I was shocked.

Back in the day when it was regulated, I did POS installations, custom POS software, alarms, and set up CCTV with remote viewing for a lot of the local shops, etc. They were supposed to use California weights and measures certified scales but they all used cheap re-calibratable ones. And remember, this is when shops at least pretended to follow the rules. Almost all of them tried to pay me- an actual business, with costs and a brick and mortar location, with weed. And not at their costs- which was nothing initially they operated on consignment but they paid out $2/gram for top shelf weed they sold for $20/g. They tried to pay me at $20/g. I had to step away from all dispensaries completely. I would even go to LA just to buy after that.

Also I would see these people making more money than they could count, and still being unbelievably shady. One place was lying to vendors they were out of town so they didn't have to pay them while counting out stacks of $5k to put in shoe boxes to stack in their home as their storage unit was full. They then tried this exact technique on me when I served them their bill.

When I reminded them I installed their entire network they had me come by to collect cash.

Greed doesn't begin to describe what is going on.
This is by far the best reporting on this issue I’ve seen on HN or elsewhere.

If you skipped the article to read the HN comments, I wouldn’t bother. The article’s discussion is much better - just read that.
That's fine, but even the "right" people need to interact with the "unwashed masses" sometimes. If your cryptosystem isn't readily accessible to everyone, it's kind of useless.
I’m not sure this is clear. Yes, this is what has been stated in the media, but I have yet to see data to back the claim.

And in particular it has been shown that natural immunity produces a much broader set of antibodies that may allow the immune system to cope with variants better.

I’m not advocating natural immunity btw. I completely agree people should get the vaccine.
I don't disagree that this could be done with HTML but 2 considerations:

1) It did not take 2 years, a huge team and a million dollars because of React. Like I said React is just using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

2) You're assuming the requirements will stay that simple. Maybe the person making the decisions has better insight than you?

Soon the feature set could add:

* A notifications area to show the user when a new document is added

* A search feature to find documents

* A parameterized reporting tool

* An admin backend

* Restricted access based on user type
This is the tu quoque logical fallacy.
I think it goes more like this:

- I have $4M in dirty money

- I find some associate willing to exchange $2M in clean money for $4M in dirty money

- I find unopened SMB and buy it, put it for auction

- Trusted associate bids $2M, gets SMB and $4M.
> My logic is: If others eat it, it’s fine

People used to eat radium, inhale mercury, and play in piles of asbestos before we came to understand their long term health effects.

You might want to rethink this.
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Presumably you could embed the same exploitable image format in an epub?
Look, I kind of agree with the sentiment, but I think your comment doesn't paint a very realistic picture of the situation. I'd estimate that there are above 3 orders of magnitude more people working on Android at the chip vendors than there are people working in the community. Which, these days, includes quite a lot of user space work, as well as the kernel.

Essentially, any phone vendors other than the big names expects to get a fully-working Android image with their chipset to ship with the phone. And Google also punted a bunch of lower-end userspace work off on the chip vendors as well. Chip Vendors don't just ship drivers in that market. Not if they expect to sell any chips.

Source: Worked at a chip vendor.
Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
Not being or knowing people applicable to the comment does not make it a straw man.

Anyway, available sources so far seem to suggest greater immunity from the vaccine.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
What is the best way, paid or otherwise, to attempt OCR on a pdf of old typewritten text?
"direct action towards achieving a forced equilibrium"

Do you expect the head of Apple and Google to sign a public document "hereby we form an illegal cartel"?

At a minimum the competition and market authority should take an interest as to why there is no competition. If they botheresld to investigate, maybe we would actually find out if there is any wrongdoing.
They are following the FDA guidance for the convalescent plasma EUA, which does allow people that were sick prior to vaccination to donate plasma...it seems the Red Cross isn't interested in trying to communicate that to potential donors.

https://www.fda.gov/media/136798/download

If you expand the boxes on your link, you'll also see that they aren't specifically collecting convalescent plasma, as demand has decreased. Perhaps that is changing with the recent uptick (but given the demographics of blood donation, they'll probably have to change their rules if they need a lot of it; most people donate ~1 time).
This seems like the most important unasked question. Common sense would suggest the best case would be vaccination followed by repeated exposure to the virus yet hardly anyone is talking about it.
> The most realistic course of action (at this moment) of any corrective recommendation is to remove them from the ISS. They've been threatening pulling out for a few years now, so let them?

From my experience of life in Russia, I'd say this is one of the most effective ways dealing with people habitually resorting to the "do ... or we will sink together!" blackmail.

Let the saboteur succeed, and exceed.

You can swim, and the blackmailer likely cannot (and choosing the threat exactly for them fearing such outcome.)

If somebody brings a stick of a dynamite on the ship, shouting, and swinging it around, give them 10 more, and say good luck.

Such demeanour is wholly dependent on the other party's assumptions that they are harmed more than if they did nothing, which is the reverse in reality.
Can’t tell if the parent comment is sarcastic or not.
This is precisely my thoughts, as I scroll through the comments - jaw on the floor.
I couldn't put the quote into context properly, so in case you are also wondering, here is the full quote:

"The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared to antibodies acquired from an infection.", excerpt from the article
Identifying the relative effects of two courses of action is nowhere near a straw man.

Merriam-Webster definition of straw man: a weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted

Stating the actual side-effects of one course over the other is neither weak nor imaginary.
The title's been editorialized: Actual title is "When dissent is misinformation, fallacies become facts"
Sinclair oil has a dinosaur logo.
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"OLDTHINKERS UNBELLYFEEL INGSOC ... The shortest rendering that one could make of this in Oldspeak would be: ‘Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism.’"

Does this not perfectly capture the feeling of many left-leaning millennials toward boomers and gen-X today?
Isn't it weird how we are willing to sacrifice earth for the sake of a number on a balance sheet?

That number supposedly represents wealth but how does letting climate change happen maintain wealth?
For passports, I would use the MRZ instead. All of the passport data is encoded there and it's machine readable.

http://writecodeeveryday.github.io/projects/passportjs/
Am I doing something wrong by having my passwords stored in iCloud?
Don’t warrants have to name why ?

Like a warrant for CP can’t be used to collect evidence on another cases for say tax fraud.
Sadly, the 7-Eleven US loyalty card key fob doesn't work in Japan.
Has anyone bothered to point this out to tree huggers out there?

Some citations on this would be very powerful antidote to the misinformation out there.

I'm speechless