skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in practice, people will deal with the exposure either by treating it as an externality ... or by carefully positioning sqlite so it isn't a meaningful part of the attack surface.

I think you're missing one of the ways. The one where people make no deliberate attempt to engage with the risk at all. No big throwing up of the hands. Sqlite is deeply embedded software, it takes years for a whole generation of smart TVs and security cameras and cars to find themselves in landfill and put a decade of vulnerabilities to bed.
I may be misunderstanding your meaning, but I think you mean that half of the country does not like Biden, and Biden is requiring everyone to get the vaccine?

Is that happening? I cannot find any federal law of any kind (let alone stemming from the oval office) requiring individuals to get the vaccine.
Elecom doesn't even try with their firmware. They send an identical HID descriptor regardless of what the device actually supports (x +y scrollwheel, 5 other buttons). Here's the linux workaround:

https://code.woboq.org/linux/linux/drivers/hid/hid-elecom.c....

If you use a recent Elecom device and an LTS linux kernel you need to patch your kernel just to get the buttons working right!
Say a possible way to extract gold is to run a hose outside your window and let it wash away the dirt. Sometimes flakes of gold are found after enough dirt has washed away.

It's true that many other people use water in other ways. I'm sure industry uses a lot of water.

Are you comfortable with this approach yourself?
> But if they choose to exercise their freedom in ways that limit my freedom (via resulting lockdowns, mandatory masking, banned social gatherings, preventing businesses from operating normally, etc.), then that doesn't feel very fair.

You can easily make that argument for plenty of things though. Didn't care for education and wanted to party instead? No welfare for you! Overweight? Sorry, you're limiting my freedom via increased healthcare costs. Broke your leg while skiing? Sorry, you knew the risk, now live with it, insurance is for real accidents only.
Your post sounds pretty good, especially when you don't conclude on what we are allowing by "letting them be", which is to continue the spread of a deadly disease.
In my experience (which was echoed by coworkers requests to resend messages, until we switched) there are a select few happy paths where it works reasonably well and a lot more where it doesn't. You seemed to agree with that in your original comment.

In general the problems with XMPP are rarely with missing checkboxes or things that miraculously don't exist somewhere in the hundreds of accepted and in-progress XEPs, but the long tail of user experience in the real world.
I second PBS space time, and would also like to mention the notorious Sabine Hossenfelder, she has a great educational youtube channel and does a good job at explaining things to the lay person.
> Health insurance is what is run publicly at a provincial level. But you can still pay out of pocket if you wanted to for a family doctor.

I don't think this is true. For e.g. in BC, clinics cannot sell medical procedures to a BC resident if the procedure could be covered by MSP. Several other provinces have similar laws. I agree with your phrasing of _what_ is up for debate, but the _current_ state is essentially a total gov monopoly on paying for health care rather than vice versa.
This is known to be not correct. When you are near the event horizon, you can still observe most of our ordinary observable universe, as well as subset of black hole's interior.

This is the direct reason/consequence of not being able to observe the event horizon when near it, or notice when you cross it.

The boundary is not clear, it depends on the observer.
There's an intuitive model that makes some sense of this finding: Masks, air filters, and distancing are effective at preventing transmission by reducing -- not eliminating -- viral load. What suffices to prevent infection from a 15-second encounter with a stranger in line at the supermarket, may not be enough when kids are in the same room breathing the same air 6 hours of every day.

We now know what it takes to protect a person from COVID in an environment where they are likely to be exposed to significant virus concentrations; unfortunately, getting kids to scrub up like COVID ward nurses is probably not realistic.
The idea that it’s going to slow your device down is an odd one.
> Every project prior to Bootstrap required revisiting styles and starting from scratch or creating an internal Bootstrap-like base that would be used

I went through several projects where team leads laughed at the idea of Bootstrap in their projects. They treated Bootstrap as a bulky, unnecessary mess of a framework that only inexperienced code monkeys used in spite of it being small and modular.

The dumbest one of all was a team lead who turned out to have little to no real world experience in decision making. He had some help creating an internal CSS framework. It was responsive, modular, mobile first, and had lots of builtin classes for font/element sizes, colors, behavior, etc. Sound familiar? His column-based framework was a terrible drop in for Bootstrap. Even the class attributes were blatant rip-offs, but the lack of robustness meant lots of inline CSS to fix elements.
> Why do we introduce so much complexity that needn't be to this entire thing?

Ignorance, fear, and our urge to pick The Best option.

If something is complex enough, at some point everyone is ignorant to some degree.
That makes it easy to let fear get a hold of you.
Still: whenever you invest, you want to invest in The Best Option since your resources are limited.

You're a professional photographer, and you need a new camera. Your old one lasted a decade, so anything you'll buy now will be better and cheaper than the old one. Guaranteed! It's unlikely you know everything about cameras, though. But since you're going to invest in one, you want to get The Best option for the price. You're reading blog posts, reviews, and random comments by people on the internet, and it's becoming harder and harder to decide. There are so many factors involved that you become paralized, you don't know how to decide. Also, you don't know exactly if you're going to be making pictures in the jungle or in the ocean, how many pictures you're going to have to be able to take and how long your battery should last.

Then you read that the world's most successful photographer uses a camera that is rumoured to be able to handle all those situations, and has auto-renewing battery and infinite storage. The pricing is a bit unclear, but at this point you're so fatigued that you decide to just get one and find out along the way. At least you know it has the potential to be The Best.
Privacy is not necessarily anonymity and privacy and non-anonymity aren’t at odds.

I can be perfectly happy to publish public thoughts under my real name but take objection to large scale tracking, collection of data from private conversations, and back doors to my personal devices.
It’s these social feedback mechanisms that help us operate and make people more comfortable in society.
I genuinely wish you the best.
Why should one preclude the other? Defense in depth and all that.
That isn’t how this works. It isn’t my job to provide that evidence. Y’all want to force my 4 year old to wear a mask at her preschool. Prove it is necessary and won’t cause long term development issues.

It isn’t my job to prove it isn't necessary. I’m the one that needs to be convinced, not the other way around. Y’all are the ones trying to force this, not me.
Here as gift article / no paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/business/workers-eager-of...
My DDG search for "google Chicago shootings" is the same as thewakalix's:

https://imgur.com/a/EAQeubu

Here are my Google search results:

https://imgur.com/a/D8XLt29

As another data point, I've been hearing variations of that phrase online or in person for ages from my racist family and (former) friends.
Not to mention Candy Crush
I see; I share much of the sentiment.

But, tangentially, if not SQLite, what would you expose as a DB interface in a browser? SQL, while large and hairy, is both powerful and logical (in the relational part, not syntax). A plain KV store like dbm is no match to it. A Redis-like store is better but still more limited. Kdb's approach is sort of wonderful but geared towards time series and not much general-purpose. Is there an existing interface / language you would reuse to give the browser a rich database interface?
The first I don't know, but the second: Apple wouldn't do what everyone else does, they "think different" and made an overenginered solution. Maybe they thought they could sell it as "Apple devices are so secure we were forced to scan on-device".
Depends what costs you factor in down the line. E.g. I remember reading a study about Paris, that looked at the impact widespread AC use would have on the ambient temperature of the city. The optimistic guess was a rise of about 5°.

Where I live (Central Europe) air conditions are the total exception. Adding AC to flats is rarely ever done, thermal insulation much, much more often, even in old buildings. Maybe this is because the winters also get cold so thermal insulation has the extra pro of reducing the heating bill.
Yes this is exactly why people are prefacing their comments with such details, because after participating in enough HN discussions on topics like these you'll quickly realize how reflexive people can be - down-voting and flagging without any charitable interpretation or engaging in nuanced and informed responses that tease out the important themes of the discussion.
Can confirm, lots of people from my country have been traveling to Miami to get the shot. Some go for 10 days to get the Johnson shot (single dose), because they can't/don't want to spend a month for the two doses.

According to what I've heard, you can just walk into any Walgreens/pharmacy to get it, without paying or getting an ID check.

Not sure how legal that is though. I understand that those should be for tax-paying citizens.
If COVID was like getting engulfed by flames for children, you can be damn sure we'd be jabbing them. Why aren't we? Because it's way more context sensitive than the analogy permits, so it's a particularly useless analogy.
> why not just give every 5th person vaccinated in some large center a link and a code to enter observed side effects after 1 day, 3 days, week, and a month, and then maybe 3 months after into some website.

The CDC ran such a study. IDK about results, or how many people participated.

https://vsafe.cdc.gov/en/
This was already addressed.
Most towns do, occasionally - overflows happen. Article is from 2018 but I assume nothing has radically changed since then.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-enviro-report-1.4...
It's definitely a test reactor. You can see some program overview here [1]. This thing that's coming online is the 2020 several MW test reactor, not the 100 MW power demo.

[1] http://irfu.cea.fr/Meetings/seminaires-MSR/4_Programme%20Chi...
Interesting To get minused on this comment when all informations contained are scientifically accurates.
So close to having a Gundam, so close…
XEP-0191 (Blocking command): https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0191.html

It's a draft XEP, so it's not widely implemented yet. I know the server I'm using supports it via a plugin, but I don't think even Conversations supports it yet.

The one thing I do think XMPP really has going on for privacy protection is that multi-user chats can be configured to not give out the real JID of members to other members, which is something I kind of miss in Matrix.
I was a web developer in the late 90s/early 2000s, then moved to low-level management...and over the years, i might touch a little script here or there, and maybe code up a boring website...but nothing needing such an expansive pipeline. Well, in the last 2 years or so, i've been interested (from an intellectual perspective) to start coding again...But, honestly, the cognitive load is enough that backend seems more straightforward for my brain now. (To clarify, i'm not s aying that backend work is easy, just that for me and my brain it seems more straightforward to tackle/learn.) Sure, nowadays browsers support css and javascriot far better than back in the day, but there's still seemingly so much to think about and do for front-end work that i'm moving more towards backend stuff...for now i'm just playing with stuff (sicne i do not do this anymore at my dayjob, and in fact haven't done it for over 15 yrs now), but if i lose my job or needed to drastically change my career (and head back to development), there's no way that i would enjoy the front-end...i would definitely choose the backend type of work. Maybe that's just me...but yeah, web dev (at least front-end) for me seems to have become insane.
From zero to quantum in 60 seconds
That's not a useful or constructive comment. At best it is, indeed, worthless; at worst, you're using your stature on HN to bully another commenter by implying that their opinion can be dismissed out of hand, because you, tptacek, say so.

I don't really agree with it either - it overstates the issues with occasionally using escape hatches in Rust by implying that they're at all comparable with the problems inherent with using C. But yours was still an unnecessary reply.
It is an empty slogan coming from you. You apply it so nonsensically here that it is obvious you care more about chest pounding faux-nationalism than the true meaning of those words. Consider the fact that right now in the US, no one is being forced to take the vaccine. No one. So your choice to defiantly refuse the vaccine is just defiance against a boogeyman you have self-servingly created, not an act of defiance against oppression.

Note: there are half-way decent arguments against taking the vaccine. Resisting govt oppression is not one of them.
(Title changed now. Submitted title was "What is this new AI term, foundation models".)
Had any interesting run-ins with lightning?
When I got mine, everyone was being given a paper with instructions showing how to sign up for the CDC symptom tracker. It was pretty easy and they would text you every day and ask you about symptoms etc. Eventually it tapered to weekly. After the second shot you updated that and it started asking you daily again. I got a prompt a few weeks ago (multiple months after second shot).
This project is certainly aiming to push things forward. Indeed a decade ago it would be totally unsurprising to see a client with a drop-down for "STARTTLS", "Direct TLS", "No TLS" (!).

I think it's best described as something of an evolving "current best practices" document. There is certainly room to tell developers to implement (or not implement) certain features. Indeed that is done already for some things (e.g. file transfer mechanisms).

I think this specific TLS example is unfortunate because it's something that is documented only for advanced use (recognising that some people may need it for specific purposes that some clients may want to support).
> entirely optional events and locations

Covid is a disease that overwhelmingly targets the obese.

But you can't go to a gym.

Do you consider working out an "optional" endeavor?

Not only is it essential to beating covid, but, working out keeps people sane. More young people have died from increased alcohol abuse, suicide, and drug overdoses than Covid. This all coincides with the insane push to de-humanize humans. We are social creatures. We are active creatures. For the past year and a half we have been denied these human needs. What is optional to you, is essential to others.

Personally, I don't care too much about losing the prospect of eating out, or hanging out in a bar. For others, especially young people seeing their entire social prospects evaporate before their eyes- this is life ending. For me, working out keeps me sane and not suicidal. I don't have the luxury of a home gym.

I chose to continue working out during the pandemic, training at "secret" gyms. For my health and my sanity.

All my other friends in my age group have put on weight and are more unhealthy than they've ever been. How does this help fight the pandemic?
> People also conflate 5 minutes of refueling with 5 minute stops.

This is definitely something to emphasize. Because of the difference in the refueling too, gas refueling is by necessity a "serial" task: you need to watch the vehicle every minute of that refueling because it is a dangerous substance with bad edge case behaviors, including but not limited to accidental over-fills that at the very least are obnoxious for over-charging you (if not the immense physical danger it might put you and your vehicle in).

EV charging is an easy parallel task: just like you don't have to watch your phone for every minute that you plug it in. You aren't wasting 15-20 minutes staring at a gallon counter and checking your car for leaks of explosive liquids.

Obviously there are lots of unsafe drivers out there (and lots of us on our worst days where we feel such unsafety a calculated risk) that will risk it anyway and try to parallelize tasks while refueling with gasoline, but I know I have at least one story where that went wrong (a fuel line bust while buying snacks). Electricity is so much tamer in comparison.
> Once you have evidence the treatment works

That doesn’t actually seem right though. You have control groups at least through all phases of trials to make sure “the treatment works”. That’s literally the point of the control.

Especially now that we know the vaccines don’t completely work to stop infection or prevent symptoms or spread.

I’m all for the vaccines, but it seems crazy that they didn’t even wait until phase3 was over for a new type that has never been tested on humans before.

If the argument is “the control petiole were at risk”, they should have been told their vaccine was placebo and ask for volunteers to remain in control, seems like flat out offering them real shot defeats the point, doesn’t it?
> Or images of tank man in mainland China.

The Chinese government forcibly installs spyware on people’s phones today. What Apple does or doesn’t do is of no consequence to them.
1.25MB/node is a lot of cache.
Worth noting it looks like the section on Rust was added in reply to some of the offhand suggestions of rust in that thread.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180317194408/https://sqlite.or...
Quite a lot of organisations are now running Office 365. It gets updated monthly with new features as well as security updates.

Even more conservative organisations will often be running Office 365 with a lag, still getting features after ~6 months.

If you need 100% compatibility that will always take a while, and I'm sure some big enterprises are on old style office. But it seems like the vast majority of small/medium business is on the Office 365 juggernaut now.
Mach Effects for In-Space Propulsion [pdf]
But what's the actual effectiveness of most people wearing their normal cloth masks?

It doesn't have to personally protect you at high effectiveness from getting infected to reduce spread at a population level.

Even a 50% reduction in spread is huge in a population. Maybe we aren't getting that with masks, but it's not a binary "you are protected"/"you are not protected" problem.
Obligatory links:

Rivest's proposal, with source code: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/sexp.html

McCarthy's Common Business Communication Language: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/cbcl.html
If you're in the Office 365 ecosystem, you can do just that (in a sense).

The MS Graph API has a workbook endpoint[1] that lets you do nifty stuff with Excel workbooks hosted in OneDrive or Sharepoint. Pair that with non-persistent sessions[2], and you basically get an Excel workbook as a serverless runtime environment.

If you structure the workbook with this type of use in mind, it works really handily. Create a non-persistent session, updated named items with the input values, run an explicit calculate on the workbook, and grab whatever result you're after (a table, named range, pivottable, chart graphics, etc), close the workbook session (or let it expire).

If you need to keep the data around for historical reasons, you can follow the same process but copy the template workbook and create a persistent session against the copy, so the inputs/outputs are saved.

You can also leverage Power Automate[3] (Microsoft's version of Zapier) to create an actual serverless function for your specific workflow that can accept your inputs, call the appropriate Graph endpoints for those steps, and return the output. Although the licensing gets funky, most people with an Office 365 license have some level of usage included already.

It's definitely not a solution architecture you want to use for anything mission-critical or high-volume, but it's super handy for anything that's going to be Excel based anyway and you'd like to minimize the surface area for human error during the process. Also nifty for situations where a process/scenario/PoC is still being matured and developed in Excel, but you need to use it for production use cases. Create a stable input/output interface with a Power Automate workflow (or other serverless interface) that consumers can work against, then continue your Excel-based process development without disrupting them. At some point when it's stable/mature, port it over to code that maintains that same input/output structure and cut over the downstream consumers to the new endpoint.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/workbook-createse...

[3] https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/
> Vaccine protection is much more robust.

This is insane. No vaccine works better then natural protection from real stuff - simply because its less stressful to the body and more stress equals better immunity.

I have nothing against vaccines in general but this is nothing but pharma propaganda.
Right so really more of an expressivity issue: the compiler is not smart enough to remove all branches which can not happen in a given program, so some of those branches will be completely untestable despite being in the final object code e.g. have a vec![_;4], structurally use it such that the index can only be in-bounds, the compiler may not be able to elide the OOB checks because it might not understand they're unnecessary for real-world code.
Why are you so obsessed with forcing vaccinations on people? Can't you just get vaccinated and enjoy your perceived safety?
Could masturbation be the cause of skin problems in teenagers :-) ?
Clearly.

> So, the anecdotal evidence would be...

I'm not trying to represent it as anything other than that.
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> Your compassion is noble but the reality is that few share it. Very few vaccinated people are willing to accept restrictions on their liberty to help protect people who are unvaccinated by choice.

It's not about protecting those that are unvaccinated by choice. It's also about protecting those that cannot get vaccines for whatever reason and also to stop breakthrough infections.

Also the majority of UK residents at least are still wearing masks[1] so I think at least that's some evidence that people do share this compassion.

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/uk-still-weari...
If the government said that unvaccinated individuals were not allowed to purchase food, would you consider that OK, because they're not forcing you to stop eating?
My interpretation is that they mean "easy" within the context of the problems raised within that question. See the final sentence of your quote.
It was more of a plea than an attack, but I can see why it seemed that way. I'd edit it if I could.

And since you're here, why aren't you doing more to [flag/demote/whatever] content where people are saying that Covid booster shots and their requirements are nothing more than "petty tyrants wanting to control what others do."? Surely that's worse than a small attack on the person saying it?