skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the people spouting off about "dont trust the experts" seemingly their process is to watch whatever youtube videos that confirm their preset opinion and then slam dunk their confirmation bias as if they are world class researchers.

As to the validity of masking and social distancing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/02/children-fl...
"The flu killed nearly 200 children last season. This time, 1 has died."

The notion that masks "might capture [exhaled] droplets" has a ton of circumstantial evidence behind it, and also as you note is a low cost low risk intervention. Which is why for those who are willing to wear masks, the use or lack of use of masks becomes a kind of proxy answer to the question "sooo... do you care about other people?" because as you note, they protect other people primarily.

Also, to categorize 'masks protect the wearer' as "misinformation", is a bit of a category stretch I think. "Vaccines are more harmful than covid" is misinformation, whereas "masks reduce the risk of spreading and catching covid" is.... not really in the same category as the former statement.
>I usually use FAAMG instead of FAANG because I don't understand what Netflix is doing in there.

FAANG is about the pay, not the prestige of the company. They pay so far above the rest of the market that they are really only competing for talent with themselves. Average total comp at Netflix is well north of $500k for an individual contributor.
We already know the agreements arent working. This is a more honest, fairer approach for everyone.

Drop the vacation clause if its easier. Im a british resident with a British account, show me what's British-licensed and forget IP Geo faff or vpn detection or whatever. Just ask for proof of residence once in a while.
Misinformation is the excuse. This is banning a political party on whatever reason they think they can get away with.
Someone who has accumulated a million likely has had a above average salary and SS pension, i.e. probably $30K a year. A spouse will make that $45K to $60K total. Thats a decent place to start, with additional retirement savings income.
With the Apple iCloud Keychain supporting one-time (the google Authenticator style) passwords from the next major Apple OS release, I have no reason to continue to use 1Password.
What do you think journalism was like in Zenger's time?
> Stopping the pandemic doesn't require eradicating the disease. Malaria remains endemic and largely unvaccinated, but controlled.

I'm literally responding to a comment from somebody who is advocating for eradication. That's why I pointed out that eradication is not feasible. I am well aware of the whole mitigation vs containment vs eradication distinction, and I maintain, personally, that focused protection is and was always the correct strategy to follow.
These companies are maintaining systems that are analogous to message boards.

Why not just view this as moderation?

This viewpoint makes it a lot less sinister, in my opinion.
Rand Paul was hired of the people of Kentucky. He had no qualifications to public discourse outside of Kentucky and DC.
It really doesn't have to be "junk" though. My last 2 cars have been 5 or 10 years old, and they both drove great, and didn't have any maintenance issues I wouldn't have expected in a new car. Both were in the 5 - 10k range, with pretty limited depreciation. The costs were gas, and a few oil changes.
That's the wrong discussion to have. What's unacceptable is that a platform in a free speech country edits speech to conform to an authority it doesn't have.
> A person with an associate's degree in biology from a community college has more knowledge of the biological sciences than you, the grandparent poster, and most people on the internet.

My Master's degree in Biomedical Science would probably beg to differ with you, but anyway.

I don't claim equal KNOWLEDGE to a physician. Let's be clear on that. And given that this is my first post on this article. What's being stated here is not that Paul is necessarily "factually incorrect", it's that he is, to his own benefit, spinning and "refactoring" studies to imply they showed results that they didn't. And given, according to you, that he has this knowledge, he should be aware of concepts like reducing transmissability, or that a study that talks about the ability of a virus to live ON or IN the material of a mask says very little about said mask's ability to mitigate infection from person A to person B or vice versa.
Uhm, each of those things is on Twitter, however it is tolerated selectively on an ad-hominem basis. Maybe except for the nuke construction tutorial, but it would be useless anyway.
If you're referring to the material used in most goiter style masks, then I can vouch for it doing nothing more than the aerator filter on your kitchen sink. Yet this is accepted by "science following" industries as an effective mask against an aeresol-transmitted disease. I get the "better than nothing" argument but forgive me for not feeling comfortable with the "any mask is fine" messaging. Either recommend/advertise/mandate masks that are tested to prevent spread of infection and fit tested when appropriate, or drop it.
>If Netflix can build a sophisticated VPN-detection service, copyright holders will be much less willing to license their content to upstarts who can't match its capabilities.

Have you missed the events of the last few years? Netflix's future competition isn't going to be scrappy startups, it's going to be content providers with their own streaming service.
Does Scrapy's slow speed actually matter much? Your main bottleneck is always going to be network calls and rate limiting. I don't know how much optimization can help there.
At this point the environmental lobby can hardly claim ignorance.
I have seen them abused though. Like, lets take our entire database and throw it on a table on the main window.

Sure it's great for the devs who only work with test databases with 100 records, but that main client who has 1000s of records just grinds to a halt.
I use chrome shortcuts.
In extensions, look at the option to assign keyboard shortcuts. I have set it Alt+D combination. The 2FA codes are copied in the background, and when the screen comes, ctrl+v does the magic. Simple.
Well, you can’t get fossils from rocks which have melted or metamorphised. If you try you might get lucky and find some relatively unscathed sediments, but I don’t know enough geology to say for sure how much of the plate would have escaped metamorphism.
Rand Paul is the GOP now? You might want to tell Trump that.
Kind of like how the Europeans have been routinely performing mass civil disobedience against Covid restrictions over the past several months?

Just about every other day I see a new protest against Covid restrictions involving tens of thousands of people in a random European nation (Spain, Italy, Britain, France, etc). Or how about the giant anti-lockdown protest in Sydney in July.

Rand Paul should be calling for civil disobedience. The authorities have been wrong over and over and over and over again about Covid. They've lied, over and over and over again. They're not worthy of being trusted. And the typical cloth mask most people are wearing doesn't work for shit against Delta, it's entirely a sick joke on the public at this point. And lately the grotesque political elites have been telling the public to do one thing, while they party at large gatherings entirely without masks, blatantly mocking the public.
Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since

- the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1],

- playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fucking DRM)

- not having to search through a cupboard of boxes for the disk I want to watch (convenience)

- not being arbitrarily restricted to 720p or less on streaming platforms ( because I have the audacity run Linux ) even for movies/series I would "buy in HD"

- etc. pp.

[1] From what I remember from using that software years ago: extremely laggy interface, audio volume slider does basically nothing above the "2%" setting where the sound will just be so loud it nearly blows your eardrums (even with Windows audio setting for that program at ~10%), basically no useful keybindings apart from <SPACE>, putting the popout menu on the screen to get more controls almost always locked the program up for >20 seconds, the software had giant ad banners for the other garbage made by that company, etc. pp.
Neither. You should consider other people for a change.
If you’re providing something in game, regardless of what it is, and not all players have equal access without external software too .. it’s an unfair advantage.
Can we get back to electing him President now?
They share political, anti-vax-mandate content with a maximalist bent that, last I scanned, reads as Q-adjacent
Nothing off the top of my head that's succinct and readable.

You'd do well to paw through the Bell Systems Technical Journal -- there's some amazing stuff in there like the origins of Unix and C [1], or Shannon's information theorem [2] -- but some details of the network itself are either hard to search for, or might not be there at all.

1: https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1991

2: https://archive.org/details/bstj27-4-623

Most of the old phreak philes are focused on the billing and routing aspects of the network, not so much on transport. I remember a few test equipment manuals had good introductions to the structure of a T1 frame, for instance, but perhaps not an exhaustive treatment of how that came to be.

This is an interesting question. It must be out there, mustn't it?
You're of course free to use whatever software you want or do whatever you want. But I think assuming that you're going to see a malicious actor updating your password manager to steal all your data shouldn't be too high on your list of things that you think will realistically happen. I'm not saying it's impossible, just one of the least likely things to happen.
They don’t advertise it, but if you contact 1P and demand the standalone one-time price, you might still be able to get it. I’m using 1P, and when I contacted them about a one-time upgrade, they were evasive but ultimately admitted that pricing model was still on the table.

And the day it isn’t, I’ll switch to the native Apple password manager. I believe in owning software, not renting it, and I won’t reward greedware.
It’s a dog whistle for fellow prestige whores and status collectors. Literally nobody cares what megacorp buys your time from you. I’d posit that if you’re optimizing for comp and stock options you’re either a well-balanced person with priorities outside your career, or the complete opposite – obsessed with chasing status symbols and a myopic idea of success.
KeePassXC and syncthing work really well together. My passwords automatically sync between devices without any interaction.
To what degree does a cloth mask protect the wearer? Enough that high risk people should feel safe going out with one on?

Because that's the messaging that a lot of people got. "Masks work" [if enough people are wearing them in congregate settings] might make sense to some tiny subset of people who obsessively follow the current understanding of various covid mitigation strategies. For people who don't, that reads as "masks protect you from covid", which I don't think is a claim that anybody serious is even making.

"Masks work", without the additional context and nuance is itself misinformation.
This is a good use case actually - Apple seeks to prevent "thought crimes" from arising around breach of third party terms of service etc, like this. Even if a user may be acting legally around copyright (overwhelming public interest of newsworthy material that's likely to be removed).

They also don't permit GPL-licensed software on their store, since the extra restrictions they impose appear incompatible with the GPL license.

An alternative store ecosystem would no doubt emerge very quickly, which allows GPL software, or perhaps any kind of free/open source software (like F-Droid in the Android ecosystem). That would arguably be a good thing for independent developers and the open source community.
Well... some researches do, actually, make the analogous argument (dubiously, IMHO) that people engage in riskier driving because of seatbelts (just like Paul is claiming for masks):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation#Seat_belts
This is because most people want competition within a country (think local streaming services to compete with the big players), so companies will often grant the streaming license to those smaller companies that aren’t Netflix, which (as we’ve seen happen in the US within the last 3 years) is overall a worse experience for the consumer. Local media libraries (via a legal blu-ray selection & storage device of course) are the best since it doesn’t give the rights holders a say on where you can watch it, just that ‘I paid for it, so I’m going to watch it’.
>Using a mask incorrectly however, may actually increase the risk of transmission, rather than reduce it.

Read your link. Proper usage isn't hard to understand. If you touch your mask with your dirty hands it might increase the chance that you breathe in the germs that were on your hands.

Don't put a dirty mask on your face. Don't touch your mask with dirty hands.

Notice that these messages are different than "masks are a mind-control conspiracy" and "masks are ineffective."
Then does Amazon belong there? I didn’t get the impression it’s at the level of the others, but closer to Microsoft.
Yup! Very sad.
I've been using Airflow to coordinate scrapers that hit a number of various sites as part of a global market awareness system I've been building over the last year or so.

I have given up on BeautifulSoup and Scrapy since so many modern websites use obfuscated JS to hide the underlying data they are serving up, so I feel like its better to just act like a user and slowly walk through whatever site actions need to be done to get to the data you want to ingest.

Needless to say, as many have touched on in this post's comments, scraping reliably, and selectively retrying based on the many tens if not hundreds of different potential errors that can occur (either server side / API limitations, or client side based on the interaction that your browser, i.e. shit crashing, etc) is really almost an optimization problem of its own.

Definitely a boon to have scraping as an option, but as always, licensure of data especially if you want to resell it becomes a major concern that you should be thinking about up-front even if you kinda just want to hack things together in the beginning.
To be fair, if you execute a murderer they're not going to do it anymore.
> it's a statistical shit show to even show that masks have any effect at all

It's also a statistical shit show to show that condoms have any effect (against unwanted pregnancies, or sexually transmitted diseases), in studies using RCT settings:

https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/2/100

Do you think this should make us conclude, that condoms may reduce STDs or unwanted pregnancies at max 5-20%?
Global cooling was never the accepted science, that's an urban legend, like the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing.

Global warming was suspected as far back as the late 1800s, and well established by the 1970s.
I used to have imposter syndrome. Now I just don't care. I do my best and whatever happens, happens.
That doesn't sound like how it would be used though. If I can run your app all the time, and get an edge, why wouldn't I?
It’s not a coincidence: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/microsoft-antitru...
good to be inclusive on this one.
Create slice, store, reducer, payload action, custom hooks, add a provider, use selector and dispatch..

"Believe it or not, that’s all you need!"
Ad hominem much?

Skilled trades make bank. General labor doesn't https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/lab/d/tempe-construction-...

$30K / yr. That's a perfectly fine starting point, on par with what I made in the Marines. So I have a pretty good idea how much money that is, and it isn't anywhere that you are thinking about renting an apartment that has an actual marketing department and gets discussed here.
In the end, the revenue stream dictates the content. The revenue stream is ads. Advertisers don't want to be involved in some Wild West of content, as has been proven several times now. I don't think Youtube would survive as an ad free paid service.
Fashion? Seriously?
We now have two visions of a metaverse.

The augmented reality version is Google Glass with better graphics. That's what Niantic has in mind: "The Pokémon will finally be able to truly walk among us!"
With better hardware, that becomes becomes the famous "Hyperreality" video.[1] That's also Zuckerberg's vision: everyone wearing Facebook goggles and logged into Facebook at all times.

The virtual reality vision is less clear, because it doesn't really work yet. Moving around wearing VR headgear still doesn't work if you want to go very far, which is why Beat Saber is still the best VR game. Keyboard and screen, preferably with a big screen, still beats headgear for extended use. Nobody has a really good answer to that problem. VRChat is probably as good as it gets right now, short of the location-based systems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
It's already mangeld:

(1) choose third-party Apps or App Stores as defaults for categories appropriate to the App or App Store;

What does "appropriate" mean? From apples POV they will probably push that no "sensitive" default is ever appropriate for any App or AppStore and how is it handled? If I would be Apple acting like apple did in recent years I would require such apps to be white listed in a extremely cumbersome system which requires and Apple Dev account, allows later revocation by Apple and requires resigning every time you push a update which will always takes weeks and gets randomly denied because they supposedly detected malware or security flaws in you app. Making it "de-facto" impossible to set defaults to 3rd party apps.

(3) hide or delete Apps or App Stores provided or preinstalled by the App Store owner or any of its business partners

Hide doesn't mean disable, it just means "make it not visible" and makes this paragraph in the end pointless.
PG&E will still take all the flack, not much to be gained in suing a nutty professor surviving on EBT.
Cars are terrible, but car culture is massively subsidies, and the few places with public transit fucked in housing prices.

It's so tragic.
Posted 5 times but never really discussed

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmartinfowler.com%2Fe...
I'd add..

3) The urban public likes purty forests to go vacation in.
I think if people care about their data it should just be anonymized instead of hidden.

Data from games is such a good way for people to get into programming and data analysis (Speaking from personal experience).

It's easily accessible, real and has a decent level of complexity. Would be a shame for it to go away because people want to hide their data.
What is "the new normal"? Is this related to the pandemic?
Bold, italics, and underline should all work in most terminal emulators!

I'm not sure about overline, but strikethrough should also work.
The book has two messages:

(1) Spend less than you earn. Thats why your unassuming neighbor could be well off.

(2) Businesspeople build wealth faster than employees, even if they fail a couple times along the way.
Modern history is pretty well covered.
When applied to everything, it's an RSS reader. For instance, Youtube offers RSS, so why not just put them in there? If you can find a podcast feed, you could put those in there, too. RSS readers aren't just for news sites.
Thanks for your comment. For LoL, OP.GG focuses on stats (post-game) and actually provides more stats than SenpAI. Blitz doesn't provide comprehensive tags at pre-game. For Valorant, both of them does not provide the features that we enable with the voice assistant.
And never attribute to stupidity what can be explained adequately by self interest.
Outside of sideloading, probably not. The rule Apple has isn't "only we use JIT", it's "only we load code".

The lack of third-party JIT entitlements (outside of a debugger entitlement in iOS 14.0 thru 14.2) is downstream of the prohibition on loading code. For the record, "loading code" implies that the code is coming from somewhere other than the current app bundle. Embedded JavaScript, Python, Mono, Flash, or any other interpreters running code that ships with the app are fine. (At one point, Apple actually threatened to ban these. It was concommitent with "Thoughts on Flash".) However, running code by any means from any other location - a third-party server, or even user-selected files - is very much considered malicious behavior by Apple.

The contours of this rule are particularly strange, though. It's not just a pure ban on all third-party apps that interact with third-party code. You're allowed to have third-party browsers. But they have to use Apple's WebView control to get access to a browsing engine. Yes, you can compile a no-JIT build of Gecko, but Apple will never approve it. In fact, Apple goes so far as to even prohibit projecting new web APIs through the WebView interface. (I have no idea how they're going to apply this rule to Safari extensions in iOS 15.)

Of course, Apple also wants to sell iPads as computers, which means that eventually someone is going to want to program on their iPad. This has resulted in quite possibly the strangest rule exception I've ever seen on the App Store. You're allowed to load code if it's code that the user can see and modify. The explanation being that these aren't "code loaders", now they're "learn to code apps". So, e.g. Swift Playgrounds and third-party JavaScript or Python REPLs are perfectly fine. But, of course, all of that has to run at interpreter speed.

Side note: Apple is hilariously inconsistent with this rule, when it comes to emulation. Riley Testut proposed a ROM whitelist on GBA4iOS which App Review said they were OK with, but then changed their mind on by the time it was submitted to the App Store. iSH - an app that emulates x86 Linux binaries - was approved, pulled, appealed, and then re-approved under the "learn to code" exception. iDOS 2 - an app that does the same thing but with DOS apps - was approved, and then pulled with a rejection letter that strongly implicates iSH.
Lower than Microsoft prestige-wise.
Perhaps you could point us to what cdc website you are referring to? Because on cdc.gov wearing a multilayer cloth mask is recommended, and they cite a number of studies on the effectiveness of masks which all show significant reductions in transmissions in people and populations which where masks vs those who don't. See "Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission" on this page:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
I didn't imply any such thing. One would think though, that if things were so meritorious, then it wouldn't have been this unadvertised, undisclosed scenario that resulted in discipline and investigations, but instead might have been touted as a worthy attempt to address educational challenges of POC.

I certainly wasn't saying that an evil PTA was threatening to lynch the principal if she didn't. But to discount the challenges faced by a system in a state which -to this day- has horrendous issues with systemic racism in the education system, and state that they entirely don't have an impact, subconscious or conscious on people within that system goes against every study and observation.
To my sibling comment: just kidding, first read this as Ron Paul.
Is there actually a song like that?
They do. Well in a good RSS reader, anyway.