skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect nobody commenting here is equipped to analyze critically the science being done either on the virus or the vaccine, yet everybody speaks with authority on what's relevant and what's bullhockey.

A high-school biology class will give you good general priors and instincts about how things generally work and is as good as you're gonna get trying to understand what's going on currently without a relevant degree or a few years of hindsight for the politicization to die down.
Infections generally leave antibodies behind therefore I'm going to assume people who have been infected have some immunity to this variant.
Masks reduce the spread of spit therefore I'm going to assume they are generally useful to combat the spread.

I'm sure this will strike some as being anti-science but having seen how the sausage gets made wrt science and medicine I don't trust myself or the journalists to interpret or qualify the new results we get every week.
I think the EU timeout for the proved infection is 6 months unfortunately. So someone in the EU decided that a COVID infection's protection only lasts 6 months.
Thanks for trying to bring more precision to the discussion. I also cited that blog post elsethread, and, having reviewed it, agree it's not the single best piece of evidence. It establishes a narrow result which suggests a generally better immune response from vaccines, but does not prove it.

If I had to cite a single preprint to support the assertion, it would probably be this one:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v4

Obviously this study also has limitations: it speaks only to Ab levels, while obviously the overall immune response is a lot more complicated.

I agree with the "waving of preprints" claim. Unfortunately, hyperskepticism, rejecting drawing conclusions because of the inevitable limitations of any study, is also a politicized position, and unfortunately I see a fair amount of that as well.
Perhaps inflation was a concern in an economic system where 1) A physical commodity (Gold) was the store of value, and 2) Debt was not easily accessible.

Neither of these are true anymore and inflation now will be a reflection of true scarcity of a good / service (e.g., housing) as opposed to the transaction costs associated with procuring it...
> we will help you find a good place, where you will earn more and work even less.

LOL what?
The dot com boom is a reasonable point in time to make the cut. But it's never a single event. Ever other posters referenced 9/11, which was definitely another major event.

I'd add Columbine as another event, which occurred in 1999 [1]. That seemed to have a lasting affect on that cohort, which was also the group that got hit hard in the 2008 downturn.

But maybe a better line is the rise of Facebook, which shifted the story from the promise of tech to the promise of social connections.

Of course, technology will never be able to safe us, and the human condition is what it is. So, really, while a small passionate group seemed excited back in the mid 90s, it was always false gold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre
It seems to support the harmless claim. Basically water, coffee, red meat, sunlight and so on are more dangerous than kratom if you look at similar numbers.
That’s actually incorrect. Someone was kind enough to cite in another reply to me.

I’m honestly a bit disturbed how much confidence software engineers have in their consumption of virology research. My good friend has worked in it for 10+ years not including a doctorate and worked on an mRNA vaccine.

I trust his takes more than any media and certainly more than some of these folks replying doubting the state of the science. Vaccines are the safest and best protection against COVID one can get.

Not specifically replying to you with that, just the general tone of these threads. Folks are out of their depth.
Imgix is a cdn!
They’ve made an enormous difference- you and I are both alive and relatively healthy. I stepped on a couple of rusty nails in my life, glad my doctor didn’t prescribe a few carrots to keep tetanus at bay. Put a terrain enthusiast in charge of a public safety agency and watch. I want my food inspectors and water treatment engineers to believe in germ theory.
No. Apple was the largest component and now it’s 19th.

Also amusingly, DJIA is unable to include Amazon since it would obliterate the rest of the index.
I've been to Tokyo 7-Elevens, but the 7-Elevens in China are just as good if not better. There's so much fresh food and healthy snacks. When I was in Beijing, we usually got breakfast from the 7-Eleven across from the hotel each morning.
Austin's Pandemic Influx from Hollywood: “Growth on a Turbocharger”
Chrome removed alert() from cross origin JavaScript
> I think organisations like AA do great harm when they tell their patients that you're an "addict for life".

I really don't think you are the kind of "addict" that AA is designed. They are often for people who have hit rock-bottom due to their alcoholism.
Mrz is just encoded string. But it says nothing. For proper validation you need to get the readable values as well.
> For what it’s worth, the null hypothesis is that they are just fakes and the commenter is at best trying to illustrate a point.

No, that's not “the null hypothesis”. It is a positive claim.
I don't know if it does or doesn't, but Republicans and Democrats use different keywords, not just semantics. For example, 'law and order', 'police reform', etc. It's certainly possible for ML to pick up a bias in the presence of such differences.
"What happens in an Internet Minute in 2020, for example:

- Zoom hosts 208,333 meetings

- There are 404,444 Netflix user streams

- YouTube users upload 500 hours of video

- Consumers spend $1,000,000 online

- 1,388,889 people make video/voice calls"

Mind blowing if you think about it. I really want to focus on the positives of WWW in this thread. I, like million others, am making a living out of WWW and that itself is so amazing. Thank you Tim Berners-Lee and everyone else who made this happen. A remarkable Invention for the human kind.
Well, that's the theory. They're still not certain it's actually agave.
You can use 2FA to encrypt. OK, it would be 2FE, not 2FA, but it's the same idea. Just encrypt using a Diffie-Helman key derived from a secret contained on a device. (Of course, if you're going to do this, you could just as well keep the vault itself on the device.)

> Further, allowing anyone to download my encrypted vault just feels really uncomfortable and unnecessary.

It is unnecessary. I said you could publish your vault on github and still be more secure than a third-party provider. I didn't say you should do this. Of course you should try to keep your vault away from prying eyes. But you should not rely on this for your security. You should only ever rely on one thing for data security, and that is the integrity of your secrets, which should be small enough to be stored in your brain or in a device that allows them to be used without being read (2FA/E). That's the whole point of encryption.
> when you have a former Fed chair as Treasury Secretary, alarm bells should be going off...but, of course, this is all long forgotten

Can you elaborate on this point? I would think a cabinet member going to the fed and not coming from the fed would be more alarming. What am I missing?
This paper further supports the fact that naturally acquired immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is 1) robust and 2) durable.

1) Robust means the immune response recognizes many different parts of the virus.

2) Durable means the immune response remains detectable - and likely effective at protecting the individual - for a long period of time.

A robust immune response is important because it provides a certain degree of protection against variants of the virus.

This robustness is why some people hypothesize that natural immunity provides better protection than vaccination - however this hypothesis has not been conclusively proven in the literature yet. If you're aware of primary sources that say otherwise please share them.

For now, all available evidence strongly suggests that individuals with naturally acquired immunity are at least equally well protected as individuals who have been vaccinated. Here are a couple more supporting references [1][2].

As a final point - in the literature there is some evidence & concern that the current mRNA vaccines induce an immune response which is highly targeted toward the spike protein [3]. When combined with mass vaccination campaigns, this creates tremendous selective pressure that can further enhance the fitness of the virus, and lead to increasingly infectious or virulent variants [3][4][5][6].

It's clear that vaccination poses little additional risk - but also little benefit - to previously infected individuals, and consequently our vaccination campaigns should be highly targeted toward vulnerable demographics to reap the most benefits and minimize the risks to public health.

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...

[3] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[4] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

[5] mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03324-6

[6] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...
Posh: A Data-Aware Shell
I thought there were some features missing from vaultwarden compared to bitwarden. I think the one that stuck out to me was lack of AD integration. Any chance you’ve seen a list of what is and isn’t in vaultwarden? My search hasn’t turned anything up. Maybe they’re at feature parity now?
I actually respect this email for honesty. Corpspeak gets really tiring after years upon years of hearing it. Here's the corpspeak version of the title: "Sharpening our focus on core principles". Or "Doubling down on X". Would you like to read that instead?
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Electron is technically not native, that is correct. We have never hidden the fact that we use Electron.
No story really. Just a lot of grind, developing a niche, finding my perfect model of clients, building a site, a boxed product to sell, and a large library of copy-paste code, working fixed price, working with good recruiters to get good cheap coders. Gradual progress. Took 10 years to get from 50K to 500K per year.
I take it the code is solely owned and licensed by the seller, so he has the right to sell ownership in this regard?
As they say, "“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

If I worked at a company like this I would spend my time doing visible work that bumps up the metrics regardless of whether that was what really brought value to the company.
I wouldn’t understate the role of companies like Google that pioneereed “exploiting idealism as a PR strategy.” The IPO listing claimed “Google is not a conventional company and does not intend to become one” and their recruiting tag line was “Do cool things that matter.” They leaned hard into social issues like gay marriage and paid lip service to FOSS and hacker pet topics. But over time they’ve shown willingness to sacrifice any amount of user privacy, willingness to censor and suppress, willingness to illegally collude against labor, and willingness to embrace special rules to protect elites in their club.

People nowadays complain that gay pride parades have gotten too corporate, but especially by companies that are willing to exploit people in other ways. But this is simply the playbook Google pioneered, to take good will around certain social issues and use it as a decoy while you pick people’s pockets and put your boot on their face. I don’t think we can understate the extent to which good causes have been infiltrated by bad corporate actors and how much that had undermined our trust in our communities.
Ah I see, yes that makes sense.
Corporate doesn’t care about degrees amongst tech workers either, so he’s fine there too.
Orwell believed if language is pared down, so too are thoughts.
Why are you reading Hacker News from the same nym/container/IP as a logged in Google account that you care about?
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Did you even read the abstract of the TFA? This should not even be a cultural background issue. As an L2 English speaker myself I have never ever thought about throwing a thesaurus onto some established phrase so I can turn “artificial intelligence” into “counterfeit consciousness”, or “deep neural network” into “profound neural organization”. These are deliberate use of fancy words without trying to make sense.

Heck, we got a word for this sort of rampant plagiarism masking on Chinese internet — 洗稿 (manuscript (or blog post)-laundry).

OT: I do appreciate the funny phrase “elite figuring” for HPC. It’s kind of like how they translate things to Anglish.
Nice of them to include torrents, and I long for the day when the browser speaks it natively, choosing to seed for as long as the page stays open, as a good start

I like both the tone and the content of the torrent FAQ page they made, too: https://play0ad.com/download/bittorrent-faq/
I think smartphones might be a bit older than that. I remember using some phones in 2003 that already had a basic internet connection (wap), camera, and on which you could check your emails. The first versions of a blackberry that could do emails was 1999 I think. And PalmPilots in 1997. The iphone was just a cooler and more powerful toy.
Leslie Lamport has some similar narratives for his papers: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23344666
I could imagine it happening if interstellar colonization ever becomes a thing, maybe.
I mean your opening paragraph straight-up lies when you describe your product as a native application.

You aren't up front about the tech details of your product, despite posting on one of the most technical sites around... Not a good look.

Then you go on to claim you wanted to build a desktop app, and then you list React of all things. LMAO.

I'm sure your product is great but you need to refine your pitch. You come off as disingenuous at best while you're asking your clients to trust you with their cryptocurrency, in a market segment that's already rife with fraud and scams.

Anyways, best of luck with the launch.
Maybe it's luck. Maybe they're born with it.

What do you actually want?
Interesting, thanks. I think the transcript was specifically calling out the low value of human lives that were used in the past. This report seems a lot more rigorous than the other investigations and articles I've seen.

This is also from 2014, which means the net cost/vehicle has probably come down a fair bit (camera modules are <$5 and most cars including entry-level are shipping with screens already).
I read "1984" in high school and the language control was very much a part of the lesson.
Hmm, I wonder if there's a way to do this for a whole Docker container?
Maybe a future direction would be to train new models to identify plagiarism by training on this information. Use „non matching backtranslations for training classifiers. It’s again the typical cat and mouse game I guess
finally, an implementation for error 402: Payment Required !
For non tracking panels at 100% efficiency and 200W/kg assuming an optimistic 1/2 of total weight for solar collection is panels runs around 50 kg per MWh per month on the moon.

Batteries at ~90% bump that to 55kg/MWH. Fuel cells at ~30% bump that to ~170 kg or another 110kg /MWh, not that significant but still important.
This is pretty much how corporate news works imo. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen one article then generate a million more.

My favorite example, go to google or DuckDuckGo and type:

“Xxx number hospitalized” or “yyy new cases”

You can type almost any number and get a ton of articles. Not exactly a reprint, but they all seem almost generated
More likely they're being killed by the deep state to preserve the "insurgency" narrative.
> Agapitov held a press conference in which he explained that the mass layoffs were caused by the fact that the company has stopped showing 40% growth.

There’s the real story. Everything else is just a polite fiction to rationalize who got laid off.
If they move on into the speculated things, then we should take a stand. Current way is improvement what has been already happening.
Very nice, thank you!

The SVGs of the generated posters use the "Baumans" font, which can be downloaded from Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Baumans#standard-styles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28055160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071092
It's a bit of a shallow analysis but I lack experience about this so excuse me in advence. I see more and more people importing a lot of libraries to write Typescript code. Part of it is libaries to do things (like in the article), part of it is libraries to change the language (like fp-ts). In my (limited) experience I saw the same thing with Scala, with people using cats or equivalents. I wonder, does this happen in other languages to? Does it lead to ecosystem splitting? Is this the sign of a language becoming "enterprise" or "mature"?
There are two different buckets of people that OP is conflating:

* Those who haven't been infected yet

* Those who have already been infected

They're ignoring the second bucket, which is what GP was pointing out - only talking about the first bucket and pretending it applies to both.
I would focus on the overall positives at least in this thread. Yes there are lot of valid criticisms but that is more on the companies and not WWW in itself. WWW is Free, Open and you can do anything you want with it even today. You mention personal websites. No one is stopping you from getting a cheap server and setting up your personal website. In fact, I would argue it is has become easier to do that with so many cheap and reliable options (.e.g DigitalOcean, Vultr etc). I run my personal website using WordPress (another great invention) and I am free to host it however I want.
Managing acute pain is different from chronic pain. The 'new idea' you refer to is that people who get opioids in hospitals don't get addicted. Of course, the important difference is that when people get better after surgery their life is generally goin in a good direction. It's easy to stop using opioids when you are finally able to walk, work, move, live, love again.

Chronic pain is basically the opposite. Where depression is almost guaranteed, and susceptibility to addiction is very high.
I'm not sure I follow the question. The main difference between the original line and the "why does it not work like so" line is the original is written as an async call and your line is as a sync call but all of that has nothing to do with the question of why call an external binary for something that has a built-in.
I used to have somebody reach out with an offer for a refund or replacement or something else for every single mediocre review I left. Most of my bad reviews about the product arriving damaged got deleted because it was the sellers fault, not the products fault, whatever that means, which is probably why windows 10 keys are still selling - almost 100% are fake or illegitimate in some way, but if you criticize that they might remove your review because “it was the sellers fault.” I stopped using Amazon a while back and I dunno if it’s still common
And we still can't get complex forms right.
I picked up some ice cream there once, probably the best ice cream I've ever eaten. It was completely unflavoured ice cream -- not vanilla -- and really amazing and subtle. Since then I've searched for other "just milk" ice creams, like Fior di Latte and so on, but they usually end up overpoweringly sweet and none have come close to that amazingly simple one in Japan from a small town Lawson's.

Unfortunately it was probably a limited run regional item and I don't expect I'd be able to find it again, even if I went back to the very same Lawson's.
Because they are government funded virtue-signaling projects.
Probably because inflation has never been particularly bad post-QE. We had inflation north of 10% in the 70s, it’s averaged a couple of percent in the last two decades.

Also, despite what the Fed probably wants you to think, QE is not money printing, it is a duration swap between different forms of existing money.
Ask HN: Prehistoric Long Distance Trading
I am trying to figure out a timeline of the earliest known long distance trading routes and how the trading happened in practice, anybody has some info or good sources?
If they are not retracted, they might get cited by other works which themselves might get cited. Suddenly this faked, nonexistent research has been "laundered" into mainstream and nobody knows anymore that there was a problem in the first place.
Yes, one or two developers stayed after 2 years
he hasn't sold any "ownership" of the code
We saw an antipattern developing at this job where most or all of the people who actually solve problems that come up would agree to use one tool or solution by the greater team would prefer some other solution.

The person who cleans up the mess should get some say in how big and the kind of messes that get made. The rest of you all fuckers disappear when the going gets tough.

I don’t entirely recall how we solved that problem but I believe it involved less transparency, which sucks, but so does burnout.
That depends on what you mean by "end-to-end encryption doesn't actually work". Of course E2EE works in principle. The problem is: how can I know that the code I am running is in fact a properly implemented E2EE system if I don't trust the vendor and I can't audit the code?
They also quote each other, without context it’s just word choice not the message. Considering messages are already tailored to different kinds of voters, spam algorithms are just another part of messaging.
Let's say your application,for whatever reason, sends 3 different timestamps to pg:
2021-08-08T05:00:00+01
2021-08-08T06:00:00+02
2021-08-08T07:00:00+03

Do you want PG to store the same value or different values?

If you answer 'same', you want with time zone.

Now your answer might be: "make sure your application doesn't do that" in which case your probably fine either way but then you need to make sure you do that correctly.
Don't forget how Google admitted their mistake and withdrew from the Chinese market.

Even though Google could have made a ton more money by helping China to build the tools of repression.

Don't forget that other large US corporations like Microsoft, Apple and Activision do build censorship tools and participate in repressing dissent.
Links please. If those at risk aren't given the jab then counts of death and hospitalizations are going to be skewed against the natural immunity.
You don't see a third option they could've taken instead?
All that's missing in the name is "ha" and it'd spell "kahawa" which means coffee in swahili :)
Does anyone know where I can find a digital version of historical FT / WSJ articles?

I’d love to run some NLP over that history to track sentiment over time.
Also expected human lifespans.
Tip: Never post positive reviews for any product you buy on Amazon. The seller / Amazon algorithm will increase the price of the product in the future if you do. If the product is bad definitely post a negative review with the facts so that others are warned.