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I wrote poorly: my intended meaning was "the only alternative to a systemic root problem". Lead in water is a good counterpoint because although it's "systemic" as in "the water system", it's not what most people mean by systemic in this context.

Drug use and single parenthood, though, are in line with my intended (not what I wrote) meaning, though. One has to ask why there is higher drug use and single parenthood, and it seems to me that the end result of asking why will be "systemic issues" or "nature of the people".

Of course, which systemic issues will remain a difficult question, and the answer will probably be a bit of a bunch of things. But overall, my comment was attempting to answer why I think BLM supporter focus on law enforcement violence, and "are silent" on black-on-black violence - it's because the latter is seen as a symptom, the former a cause.
I understand that both Covid/vaccines might have unknown unknowns and I also get the disproportional importance of long-term effects.

I don't fully understand what you mean by "the data quality doesn't allow for that level of sensitivity" - we have already had two instances where very rare side effects of Covid vaccines were recognised - blood clotting for AZ and myocarditis for Biontech.

You wrote, and that's what my question was hinting at:

> "one could question the potential for autoimmune conditions due to the way the mRNA vaccine works"

What do you mean by that? What is specific about the mRNA mechanism that could lead to autoimmune issues?
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> Doing birthday stories for the rich shows and being told to use the servants entrance seems likely a classist discrimination not a race problem at first glance.

Here's a thought experiment: imagine the Post sent a white female reporter to cover the same event. Do you suppose the butler would assume this reporter was a maid? It is just a thought experiment. We can't know the outcome. But Ms. Gilliam lumped this in with everything else because she assumed the butler inferred her class and role from her race. She might have been wrong, of course, but her inferences should count for more than ours. She was there. She lived that life in that time. It seems pretty likely that people in that time assumed black women with business at houses of the wealthy were maids and improbable that they assumed women in the kit of a reporter in general were maids.
This is both true and untrue. I hate to say it this way, but, the vast majority of the military doesn’t do anything, so maybe you get a lot of blustering about nothing. The closer you get to combat, the more it is like this. I sat through hundreds of command briefings, and I can’t recall a single instance of tactical spot correction. That could be the basis of a command relief. Orders are superior to any rank.
The threat model people are buying into here is that Apple can’t do what they want today, but if they deploy this CSAM detector, only then will they be able to do whatever they want.
At this point, a practical course of action would be to ignore dialectical pro/con arguments from paid and unpaid influencers on both sides, along with conflicted institutions that even on their best day cannot keep up with the pace of modern society.

Can we create an open-source tool that supplements the much-criticized VAERS, which is at least government (i.e. taxpayer) funded, regulated and provides open data for developers? Use standard analytics to extract the most common side effects, then start collecting crowdsourced data not only on side effects, but most importantly, on TREATMENTS and MITIGATIONS for those, especially the mild-but-life-affecting ones that don't justify R&D with future billion-dollar revenue streams.
Thank you for making such a great collection of libs!
The topic is programming, not electrical engineering.
Thank you for this. A well thought out response.
I love working at night, but not in addition to working the previous day. Has a bad impact on everything unless it's truly a one-off emergency or something.
>> US advisors were delusional, that seem to be sure now.

The numbers the military were giving them were completely inaccurate.

Biden said the Afghan army was 400K strong. It was not. It wasn't even close. The most recent figures put the Afghan army conservatively at 170K. Imagine touting a 4:1 advantage and then realizing, it's more like a 1:1 contest.

The Taliban numbers were way off too. The media and politicians were saying they had 50-75K, when in reality their numbers are closer to 100K if not more. Even back in 2018 they were saying they were 85K+.

The military chiefs saying they had trained that many Afghans was also wildly inaccurate. One of my family members was part of the Marines who were tasked with training the Afghans. He said it was nearly impossible to train them because they never took it seriously. They never expected the US to leave them. For many, it was a cushy paycheck that put them on easy street - it was never about defending their country, or having a sense of patriotism or duty. He repeatedly called them "clowns" and after a year, he asked to be reassigned and told his superiors the training was useless and there was no way these men would fight anybody, even with the best equipment and training they provided.

The assessments being made were incredibly off base and not even close to being accurate. The information that should've been coming out of there was the Afghan force was very small, barely trainable, and would never fight the Taliban or any other group regardless of how much you pay them or equip them or train them. Instead, politicians were repeatedly fed a fantasy about how the Afghans had a huge force, were trained by the best and fully capable to defend their country when the draw down or withdrawal happened.

When you talk to people who were over there and ask them what they saw and experienced? None of them are surprised by what happened. When you ask the Joint Chiefs and politicians in Washington? Total confusion and shock.
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No medical intervention is entirely without risk - the risk must be taken in context

1) Risk of potential negative long-term health outcomes from COVID-19 vaccine.

2) Risk of potential negative health outcomes (long and short term) from COVID-19 infection.

As well as

3) Risk of potential negative non-health outcomes from COVID-19 infection (social and economic, risk of infecting others, risk of overrunning ICUs)

With a proper risk analysis vaccine 100% wins for the vast majority of people and it's not even close.
The Fermilab channel is also quite good for short-form content. ScienceClic English has absolutely wonderful visualizations. All of them do make some subtle inaccuracies or skip things for the sake of brevity though. I think Sabine Hossenfelder's channel has the most accurate videos in that 10-15 minute range, but they're still only about 15 minutes long.

I don't have a proper education in Physics, but have been trying to self-teach and I think that none of the ~15 minute video channels really cover things to a very detailed degree. You really do need textbooks/lectures/real papers to actually understand it. The channel "Physics Explained" is pretty good for more in depth breakdowns of things, but it is quite dry compared to those other channels and still not really a substitute for a textbook or class.

And I don't even mean learning things well enough to get a job as a particle physicist or anything. Just some things, like say particle spin, just can't be explained in under a few hours and without the math behind them. They don't have a proper intuitive analog to our macro-level world.
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I wasn't aware that you could pass drunkenness through the air with no symptoms. That's new to me.

Are you suggesting we should all be responsible for stopping other people from drunk driving and also stopping anyone from getting into a car with a drunk driver? Are you also attempting to suggest that everyone else get should have their drivers' license revoked for the few that are caught drunk driving? That's essentially what masking, forced vaccination, mandated passports is.

Might wanna find a new metaphor. I'm sure you think that was an intelligent comparison but it absolutely sucks. You're comparing something that would take a deliberate act to something that might or might not be happening passively to you.
Let me guess: you learned programming in C and thus feel that everyone should learn the same order of subjects?
My guess - Americans with relevant skills already have jobs they like and are in high demand, and the ones who can up skill into programming positions are probably working all the time just to survive.

Foreign workers usually already have a relevant degree or experience (knowing atleast the basics) and don't have as much student debt.
Yeah. I wish magazines would do more work bridging the gap between scientist and layperson. Most articles are either "completely inaccurate or a metaphor at best" as you say, or they're just an unabashed, untranslated interview with a key scientist (like this article).
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Hashes are generally much better than nonces, especially for static assets. They ensure that the contents of the allowed resource are exactly what they're supposed to be. They're quite trivial to generate for static resources, though it should be possible to generate them for dynamic resources too.

Of course, I don't for a moment wish to excuse the behavior of patent-trolling companies like Datawing. I hope that the combined weight of Google, Mozilla, and the EFF can nip this in the bud.
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Frankly, I think it's a pretty silly concern.
Adding Rust support would reduce (presently) the number of architectures and platforms that SQLite can target. That would greatly reduce its utility for a lot of customers. Once Rust supports the same variety of architectures that C presently supports this will become a non-issue, but that's unlikely to happen in the near term.
While there are a lot of good points there are some which are strange IMHO (wrt. the save language section):

> import complete binary SQLite database files from untrusted sources

Standard sqlite3 contains features which makes opening databases from untrusted sources quite dangerous and as far as I know there is no "un-trusted" open mode, through you might be able to compile a hardened/restricted sqlite. Either way
it's true that using a "safe" language would not have
helped here.

> Safe languages insert additional machine branches to do things like verify that array accesses are in-bounds. In correct code, those branches are never taken. That means that the machine code cannot be 100% branch tested, which is an important component of SQLite's quality strategy.

But sqlite favors the use of asserts and what this languages insert are basically asserts...

> Safe languages usually want to abort if they encounter an out-of-memory (OOM) situation.

This might be true about go (idk.) but isn't this generalizing a bit to much?

Just to be clear that sqlite is and stays in C makes totally sense I just feel the author tries a bit to hard to find arguments beyond the necessary ones.

I mean:

- When it was written there where no chooseable "safe" language alternatives.

- Sqlite is extremely well tested, many (most?) of the recent bugs where not of the kind any safe language would have prevented.

- Safe languages don't necessarily help you with avoiding logic bugs. And while many do have additional abstractions/tooling to help with preventing logic bugs rewriting sqlite is more likely to introduce more logic bugs then it would prevent in the long runs. Rewrites are always a good chance to both fix bugs but also introduce new bugs.

- Sqlite is extremely portable non of the safe languages have quite that level of portability sqlite wants to provide.
I have an idea: can someone write a script to compare current covid cases among countries as a function of vaccination rates. Same for deaths/1 miliion population. I don't have skills for that, but this is HN after all, so there should be someone...
(One of the parameters should be a timeline of vaccinations - vaccines tend to wane over time, we have a chance to figure out to what extent).
Maybe in a perfect world we wouldn't have to occasionally preface comments with "I don't actually believe the Illuminati are using mind control lasers on us, but...", but if we live in a world where people who actually believe that tend to say things that sound like what we're about to say, is it really an unreasonable disclaimer?
That would be actually nice!
You had me until the last one ;)

Does anyone have science on specifically sugar? I find that correlation too (only with lots of cheap candy/bad greasy food), but feels kind of Goop-like bs. what is the mechanism for that to affect bacteria on the face?
This is really cool, also surprisingly agile! Are the gas bags at earth pressure?
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It definitely makes sense to scan things that are passed around - mail is an example of that, and Gmail [and also Facebook, Twitter] scan for this, along with scanning for computer viruses, and in some cases (public posts) copyrighted content.

It makes absolutely no sense to scan people's photos that they aren't sharing with anyone else. Why are they bothering with scanning people's photo backups at all?

With the exception of "shared photo albums", I don't see why they're doing this.
How does a browser know which URLs are 'critical web apps' so that it can, if necessary, throw a big scary warning to the user? What stops a random website from self-identifying as critical (or not)?

The S in HTTPS guarantees things. If those guarantees are loosened, that can cause bad problems.
Ah, interesting! I guess it depends on your familiarity with Canadian politics. I don't think anyone who is following policies would think any of the parties are genuinely suggesting getting rid of public health care. That's just not really on the table.

The current system here does not allow private health care for things that are covered by public health care (in most provinces), along with a bunch of other policies that effectively make private medical care less than 1% of critical medical care, and changing that is the controversial bit. Though, we do have private care for things not covered by public health ("extended medical") and private insurance for that.

Though, not every voter pays attention or really knows the details of how the system works. A charitable, as you said, interpretation is that someone embedded in policy thought that part was not relevant. A less charitable take is that they are misrepresenting the issue hoping to mislead voters.
> I still think you guys are bullshitting me. What prevents me from looking up phrases from your post on the internet, pick out some social groups that also use that phrase and claim you are associated with it? There isn't even a way for you to falsify it.

I understand. If you don't keep an eye on the right parts of the right sites (including, in particular, Twitter, but also others) you've probably never seen this kind of thing actually done with the intent to slyly express racist or white supremacist junk. In the right places, though, it's commonplace and only barely veiled (questions from newbies who don't "get it" draw winky-emoji, or more veiled pointers so the newbie can triangulate the real intended meaning, that kind of thing).

> What rule is it breaking to tell people to "google chicago shootings"?

It's not, that's the point. They're dodges/stand-ins for other things, including prior whistles that are recognized as breaking the rules and do get moderated. The more deniable, the better.

In some cases, there's some unfortunate overlap between actual concerns about a real issue (black-on-black violence) which one might innocently express interest in, and precisely the same issue (and, specifically, Chicago, for this issue) as a common short-hand for rejecting the importance of other issues of violence against black people (you see how useful it would be for shifting blame or implying even worse things, if one wanted to do that, right?), or a kind of conversation starter for what amounts to a recruitment script.

[EDIT] to be clear, I'm not claiming you had ill intent. I'm explaining why that phrasing and topic set off some alarm bells for some people.
Both Roccat and Logitech are horrible in this regard. I skipped a thought mostly because I had to deal with Logitech crap the latest.
Apple has declared their criteria for evaluating the privacy of their CSAM scanning approach in their USENIX talk, and none of it relies on scanning all files. If you want to accuse them of lying, you will need to bring a lot more evidence since (i) presumably you believe they weren’t lying in the past and (ii) it would be an enormous liability if they were now.

There are many reasonable criteria under which the proposed model is superior for privacy. Perhaps the only reasonable criteria under which it is not is some kind of scope creep in what files are scanned. (Scope creep in what content is scanned for is a risk - an even greater one as there is no transparency over the hash list - of incumbent solutions as well.)
The WSL team in their GitHub have teased experiments with allowing the 9p server to do more outside of WSL and be an open protocol for Windows moving forward. Given Windows' backwards compatibility mandates, you may be able to understand why they are taking a slow and deliberate exploration process to figure out how much that is something they want to support in Windows moving forward (especially if it escapes the realm of "developer tools" where they feel they have more freedom).
Correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426329
> It's a draft XEP, so it's not widely implemented yet.

Just to pick on this, sorry. The XSF terminology is not obvious (it was inherited from other standards organizations).

Draft here means the protocol is absolutely in use, it just means that it is theoretically open to changes. The next stage is "Final", and that is typically only reached after substantial time in production (it's basically a statement that the document is 100% finished and won't ever be updated).

There have been proposals to change the term "Draft" to "Active" or similar.

XEP-0191 is supported by practically all servers: https://compliance.conversations.im/test/xep0191/

And supported by all modern clients.
Pure fwiw, I currently do not plan to get the vaccine (but reserve the right to change my mind! ^_^). I'm not anti-vax by any means. I'm simply just hesitant with this vax, but encourage others with a different risk profile to get it.

It boils down to a really muddy mix of small things that all sum up to a decision against it.

For instance, I'm not the risk group and, due to being super medically conservative for _everything_ (to a fault!), I tend to not take medical interventions I don't strictly require.

I think that the vaccines are overwhelmingly safe from an absolute risk perspective, but among the least safe things we've deployed into wide usage from a relative risk perspective. It's tough for me to convince myself to take an intervention I don't need. Stack onto this things like the PREP act, guaranteed orders, big pharma's history, this being the first mRna vaccine to get through Phase III, and more hesitancy gets added on my side. As data from other countries rolls in, the efficacy side is also interesting, but that's a different topic.

Finally, there's just general disposition. Whether lockdowns, restrictions, or vaccinations, people seem to fall into one of two groups: those who favor public heath above all else, and those who favor personal liberty above all else. Due to some wrongthink, I fall into the latter camp. The behavior of those in the former camp pushes me away from my medically hesitant "wait and see" position, into one of, frankly, staunch dismissal out of pure curiosity to see how willing society is to marginalize those who made a 'wrong' medical decision.
Linux desktop clients not named "gajim" were very slow to adopt Carbons as the delivery method. And in Gajim you needed to enable a plugin. Things were very bad in the transition period (which ended about 5 years ago?). At work we setup a jabber server for a small group of about 6 people and then more people started using it. It was running an ejabberd that was too old to support carbons. Once it became clear that some sort of IM solution was wanted, we came up with a list of features. Upgrading ejabberd and recommending proper clients fixed every box except "iOS client with push notifications" (XMPP didn't at the time support out-of-band push notifications, it does now).
Corporations are strictly controlled, but the state is not controlled at all.

I’d hardly call that ‘the world’s strictest’.
I think it's all about branding, the same disgrace that plagues mobile operating systems: every software maker tries its best to force users install their logo on their screen, so that if yesterday one could use 100 services just by saving 100 bookmarks on a browser, now they need 100 apps, with all the implications wrt waste of space and resources, security etc.
Although perfectly legit, it's a practice that cannot scale.

Drivers installers on Windows aren't exempt from this nonsense as well since years, so every driver started coming with its companion app, very often a huge VB "thing" that did nothing important except showing its shiny icon on the desktop. Then years later they started phoning home to profile users, attempt to offer purchases for consumables (as printer drivers do), etc.
In the old days however one had a way to control it: the .exe was often a self extracting .zip, so it could be fed to 7Zip and the like to extract the archive without executing it, then one would throw away the unnecessary bloat except the relevant .inf file and a few dlls or other small files, point to that location when searching for drivers, and voila: driver installed without the cruft.

The question is if a giant ball of Electron bloat could be dissected in a similar fashion in order to extract the important stuff and throw away the rest. I hope so.
It's true that systematic surveillance of vaccine side effects is poor. For example, even when HPV vaccination of teenage girls became a thing, one of the obvious side effects you'd guess will freak out teenage girls (changes in menstruation) wasn't tracked very well. We genuinely don't know beyond "Clearly not drastic enough that it caused significant medical problems" whether this is something that was noticeable above background levels.

However one problem we have is that for mere side effects ("My arm aches a bit", "My period was a week late", "I feel kinda sleepy in the morning") we don't have good baseline data to compare with. I'd quite like to see someone study, e.g. if we change the Facebook blue colour slightly, and ask a study cohort, what medical "side effects" do they report for that? Clearly someone in a large survey population will report that their right thumb hurts now, and we can reason (but not prove) that's not going to be a direct result of the CSS change, but measuring what this noise looks like would provide a baseline for low risk vaccinations.
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Would be nice to see the results.
I remember sitting in Kautokeino bus with an older Sami man. Dozens of mosquitoes just sat on his forehead just waiting for something edible. I was only semi-edible with DEET. But an Italian couple was totally. It was incredible to watch, I wish I had a camera. Blood bath and genocide.
Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that a cloth or N95 style mask reduces oxygen to the brain by any measurable amount?