skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The common sentiment in the US is that Mega Corporations have government influence that they shouldn't, not the other way around.

Wikileaks was seen as a national security threat because it leaked files in an unredacted form. Wikileaks has even released sensitive personal information like credit card numbers and social security numbers.

The reason Wikileaks was targeted after the election was because it was seen as a front for Russian manipulation in the US elections.

And unfortunately Sex Workers in the US have always had a hard time with payment processors. The law you're talking about went into effect in 2018, FOSTA-SESTA, and was painted as a law to help fight sex trafficking. Backpage was was the reason the law went into effect and that website was used for sex trafficking. Safer sights got caught up in the new law.

From what I have read the change in handling OnlyFans might have been a response to the BBC investigation about how the site dealt with people posting illegal content. [1] They used a warning system instead of immediate consequences for people that brought in a lot of users and revenue.

It's also not just US laws. Both US COPPA and EU AVMSD laws on porn and age verification made YouTube ask for credit cards or a driver's license in order to verify your age.

The UK has much stricter rules on the type of porn you can consume and make, the US is relatively wild in comparison. [2] The US definitely has issues but if any country can be blamed for draconian sex policies, I would argue it's the UK. Internet filtering was implemented "for the children" starting back in 2013.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58255865

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_U...
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Andrew Wakefield's medical credentials were revoked and his falsified research was retracted. The system worked.
And yet these "data-centric" programmers are in for a world of hurt and confusion when they crash into their first numpy or psycopg2 import.

Better to start them with the actual foundations of what data looks like, in my opinion.
“I’m young, so I have nothing to worry about”, is a sentiment I’ve seen expressed all to commonly.
You decided to persist, but this is still too meta with respect to the actual topic at hand, and still not interesting. [And there's too much logical inconsistency (and blind hostility) here besides.] This is my last comment here.
> The unvaccinated probably do spread COVID faster and with more frequency.

No, it's the other way around. Transmission is correlated with viral load. In the unvaccinated, high viral load leads to early self-observable symptoms. The vaccines are designed to suppress symptoms, so a vaccinated person can be infected and transmitting, without knowing they should be isolating. That's why the CDC recommends testing of vaccinated people after exposure, https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210729/cdc-reverses-guidan... (July 29, 2021)

> Even if they’re not showing symptoms, fully vaccinated people should “get tested 3-5 days after exposure to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and wear a mask in public indoor settings for 14 days after exposure or until they receive a negative test result,” ... “Our updated guidance recommends vaccinated people get tested upon exposure regardless of symptoms,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, told The New York Times

In dense urban areas, many of the remaining "unvaccinated" are likely to be Covid survivors with natural immunity, which offers nasal/mucosal immunity in upper respiratory tract, which is not possible with intramuscular (arm deltoid injection) vaccines. A future nasal vaccine may offer such protection.
> by 2014 it was fairly obvious that Google was no longer interested in furthering Google Talk

Definitely, but I think it was a huge PR failure that we in the XMPP community were the ones to sever the conversational link. Users shouldn't be expected to think about the protocol details, hence this thread, and it was an XMPP community decision that resulted in people being suddenly unable to talk to their friends.

We provided perfect justification for any Google project manager to look at the stats and see zero incoming s2s connections as justification to kill Talk entirely so they could Move Fast™ on Hangouts or whatever.

I guarantee we pushed more overall XMPP users to WhatsApp/FB than we pushed Google Talk users to privacy-first XMPP hosts since it's not like Google popped up any alert in the GMail Talk UI explaining to people why their nerd friends all suddenly vanished from their buddy lists. The moment any of those people used a non-XMPP service to reach out and ask "What's up?" we had already lost :/
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Isn’t the von Karman efficiency of small airships very low? I struggle to see how you can claim “ An airship is the most efficient way to fly because it gets most of its lift from buoyancy”.

Either way, seems like a cool project- I wish you luck!
It is better, definitely safer. But it's not perfect. I write rust on a daily basis. I've written a lot of C++ in the past. It's safer, but I have memory safety issues in both. It's more a matter of degree.

For a large existing code base that are well written I think it's easier to improve the safety of the existing code than rewrite it completely in a safer language.
You can view other peoples iCloud photos. https://macpaw.com/how-to/icloud-photo-sharing
The module stuff is what has me looking at it. We’ve got a bunch of Node services that are relatively small and single purpose. Using tsnode, adding a build step, tinkering with ESM/CommonJS to work within the monorepo TS project reference graph... it feels like a huge PITA with mostly unnecessary overhead.

Basically... we’re a “TypeScript native” project from day zero... so why do we need to be weighed down with all this cruft from historical JS ecosystem decisions? I’m planning to try swapping one of these services to Deno to see how much easier it is.
Here-in lies the problem for me:

select * { wd:Q9682 (wdt:P25|wdt:P22)* ?p . ?p wdt:P25|wdt:P22 ?q } -

I am extremely motivated to learn how to use this: I have a deep desire to extract data from Wikipedia, and I'm fascinated by graph databases.

And yet, despite trying on several previous occasions, SPARQL has completely failed to stick in my brain.

This is partly my own failing: I'm confident that if I really dedicated myself to it I could get over this hump.

But it's also a sign that the learning curve here really is tremendously steep, which I think indicates a problem with the design of the technology.
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>Good article, but doesn't mention the other reason that covid-19 is never going completely away: animal reservoirs.

You realize there are thousands and thousands of viruses that are circulating every day for billions of years. New epidemic or pandemic can happen anytime anywhere. You can only mitigate it not prevent it.

>It is implausible that it will ever cease to have an animal reservoir, especially given the finding in Canada of 30% of white-tailed deer having it.

>Of diseases that get as widespread as this, with animal reservoirs, I don't believe there is any case of eliminating it.

Exactly

>But, like vaccines can teach the immune system how to respond more intelligently (and less self-destructively) to covid-19, hopefully society can learn to respond more intelligently, and less self-destructively, to the fact that it's always in circulation.

For example society and in particular Institutes of Virology should take extra security precautions when experimenting with gain of function viruses.
The amount of code which would have to be `unsafe` in a library like sqlite would be absolutely minuscule if it would exist at all, and much easier to check for than literally all of the codebase?
Almost; I "learned" with Java/Python for years then learned with C.
> The Chinese government forcibly installs spyware on people’s phones today. What Apple does or doesn’t do is of no consequence to them.

And that makes this okay? You're defending this use against us too.
One possible harm I've seen postulated is moral licensing, i.e. wearing a mask makes people feel safer and thus makes them more willing to be indoors in close proximity for longer.

A counter-argument says that wearing a physical thing can act as a constant reminder of covid, causing people to act more responsibly.

Back on the harms side again, there's a possibility that teaching kids "just do this and don't ask questions" can have negative consequences. Again, the counter argument of letting them ask questions and carefully explaining what we do and don't know can be a positive.
No, I meant differently: 9 months are plenty.

Chances of infection given behavioural patterns, to be defined, × probability of damages post-infection, given demographics etc., to be defined¹

vs

100% for the chance of vaccination, × probability of damages post-vaccine (post 1 week, post 1 month, post 3 months etc.), given demographics etc., to be defined.

Probably you meant that according to available data, the probability of damages post-vaccine seem very low. Some people are concerned because those numbers do not seem to match the anecdotal they have around, so they would like to have better data - because some possible consequences are much more than nuisances. I say, if some entity kept an active monitoring ongoing, of the adverse side effects, much stronger reassurances - or less hesitance owing to confusion - could be given. I could only find passive monitoring around - USA, Europe, Australia, Canada etc.

¹The vagueness is such that in the context of this line, the last article I read mentioned values between 2.3% and 40%.
I really don't think I am making that claim. As far as I've read SAT scores before the age of 10 are a good marker of intelligence. Of course you can prep a large extent to get into a good school as a high school student.

I attended a small state school for undergrad, and a top school for grad school. There were no extraordinary students at the small state school. I was top of the class. When I went to grad school I was quickly humbled as very much average in that selected group. Everyone studied/research all day long in grad school, it wasn't really a matter of who was more driven, everyone was driven.

All my point is and has been, is that extraordinary people self select to go to good schools. That brings up the average overall compared to low rank state schools.
With context it is obvious that she is just saying if Trump alone says take it, then she won't be taking it. Which is understandable in the context of the moment since I believe it had been recently revealed that trump was communicating with the FDA demanding that they approve it immediately.
It’s been done for at least a hundred years, well before Orwell. Nice try though.
Teaching kids that they have no right to privacy is a great way to raise people who don't respect the privacy of others.

Parents don't have an inherent right to know every single thing in a child's life. By that token, if a child is gay, and their parents are rabid anti-gay bigots, they still have a "right" to know whether their child is seeking out information relevant to LGBT teens. I'm sorry, but I wholeheartedly reject that premise.
Still hot, still pretty darn useful.

PHP is just too easy to hate, because of its massive popularity.
The article leaves out one very important skill: teamwork.

Teamwork is tested very well by contests like the ACM ICPC programming competition: teams of 3 people, one computer, and 7 or so problems to solve in 5 hours.

Speaking from first hand experience, my team won the ICPC (many years ago...) based totally on coaching on our teamwork. Essentially, we arrived in the competition city 5 days early and somehow got adopted by the coach of another country's team (which said they didn't need her help). She spent those 5 days observing us approach each phase of the contest, and gave feedback on every aspect on how we worked together: triaging the problems in the first minutes of the contest, who to allocate which problems to, optimising sharing the single computer, when to switch when stuck, helping each other debug, etc, etc. Right down to how to lay out our stationery and stack our working notes on the table.

After doing 2-3 prior competition problem sets a day for 5 days, we became an amazingly efficient machine. Not because we were individually better problem solvers (thought there was some improvement there). But because we all instinctively did the right things in the right order, there was no dead time, no miscommunication, and no stress about our performance versus others.

Thanks to Raewyn's coaching, we converted probably a 5th place into a convincing 1st place. And she'd already won 1st place with her own country's team two years earlier.

So the focus on teamwork paid off. Both in our contest, and in work situations subsequently...
iCloud does more than just uploading. It enables transparent sync and offloading of photos. This means if your device has limited storage, iCloud Photos can shunt photo data out to the cloud while maintaining a local representation of the photo's existence. These iCloud features are "baked into" the APIs that apps use to integrate with the system photo library, e.g.: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit/phasset#1...

You can come up with third party solutions that accomplish some portion of this use case (photo backup) but you'll never be able to accomplish what Apple does with iCloud Photos unless Apple opens its APIs.
One third of all FDA approved drugs from 2001 to 2010 were pulled from the market post-approval.

So it’s not 20%. It’s a third.
This isn’t going to replace other ways of making music, in the same way that people still walk and cycle even though cars exist
> does not relinquish the rights to run the code

I don't think anyone who's posted so far is a lawyer, but the claim is precisely that GitHub's ToS do relinquish the rights to run the code, so long as you only do so on GitHub and through their published interface.

GitHub ToS> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking).

> running it on a third party service does not magically launder the license

Totally agreed. By uploading to GitHub publicly you've granted an _additional_ license and asserted that you had the legal right to do so. It's kind of like when open source projects will also sell a proprietary license on request -- companies aren't magically beholden to the GPL'd version just because it exists somewhere; they get to choose which of their available licenses they'd prefer to use.
I guess we can look to places like Israel where there is nearly 100 percent, and the UK where there is a very high vaccination rate esp in the over 50s.

If you go to the gp/doctor and you tell them you are suffering issues after a vaccine they have to (by law) pass that on to the regulator and to the vaccine manufacturer. In Israel and in the UK reports to doctors about longer term side effects of the vaccine are within and below the expected ranges.

Reports on twitter may be high, reports to doctors remain low. You can draw your own conclusions.
It's substantially less silly than a small-time JavaScript component library adding 100% branch coverage testing requirements as a blocker to accepting a PR. But they do it for the same reason, to be able to advertise it and demonstrate reliability. This is how the sqlite project makes money. I guess someone's got to build the instrumentation tools that let them keep doing this, sounds like it won't be them. (Edit: not sure who else would have the motivation, to be honest. If they had to pioneer one thing, it should be that.)
> can someone write a script to compare current covid cases among countries as a function of vaccination rates

This isn't really a good idea, because cases as a function of vaccination rates won't tell you anything meaningful. Vaccinations aren't distributed at random - they are heavily skewed towards people at risk of serious health effects from the virus, and skewed away from people with low risk.

So if you were to tabulate that data, you'd be hopelessly confounded by the differing population structures among different countries.
> One group of ingredient that ASAP Science does recommend, alongside antioxidants and retinol, are palmitoyl polypeptides – if you use all three then you’re checking all the boxes for science-backed anti-aging skincare.

That paragraph sums it up but according to the article not all retinoids are the same. Read on for more scientific information on what's out there for your specific skin care needs.
That’s not the case in California. Mask wearing is only required for the unvaccinated. Theme parks and other entertainment venues must follow that mask requirement. Similarly, events of a certain size will require vaccine proof.
I don't think we understand enough about computer science or computer engineering (or something in the middle of those two things) to deliver large-scale C projects with rich, flexible interfaces safely. The last 20 years has just been a sequence of events where we've been surprised by new oversights, from buffer overflows to integer mishandling to uninitialized variables to UB. These problems compound; they're never solved, but rather beaten into development teams (at least the conscientious ones) and so even the decades-old problems recur, because it's not enough to know about the general pattern of a problem, you also have to viscerally understand all the combinatorics of those problems and all the new code that you write, all of which has the potential to create some new scenario that allows a well-known vulnerability to re-emerge. And even if you manage to clean the Augean Stables this way, you're still S.O.L. when the next new memory corruption bug class is discovered. A mug's game, a bad bet.

You can use formal methods to sidestep this! But my argument would be that at that point, you're really writing C In Name Only. By all means, if the aesthetics of Rust are that painful to you (I get it!), write C against a formal verifier. :)
I'm very glad i wasn't born in the US.
Though at least with pain, you could compare with previous reports from that same person. Pain started day 1, never subsided until 2 months after. Pain starting at 2 months is probably not a side effect, unless it's something that consistently shows up in the data after the same period of time since vaccination (background noise would not).

Maybe add a self-reported intensity scale for the symptoms.

Anyway, I can see why studies like these can be hard.
I've never seen a moped that you could pedal like a bike even in a photo.

As an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puch_Maxi
I have seen many trends, frameworks and „best practices“ come an go. The app our company provides is based on very basic tech, with little js, and server-rendered pages. But you know what? Our clients love it, we are profitable, and we keep growing while being able to keep the dev team small and flexible. Just ignore the hype and focus on what your users actually need and want.
In the article itself it’s got contradicting opinions about its usefulness. From it has little impact to it might get you off a minor speeding ticket or violation. It won’t get you off major infractions.

What it may do more reliably is give the bearer some benefit of doubt.

With bodycams however I’m sure there is now less wiggle room.

Corruption in the US doesn’t happen much at this level. It happens more on the turnstile from politics to private practice and back. The revolving door along with the institutionalization of non-elected officials (appointees) which circumvents democracy.
It's hard to follow logic when you make up your own facts to fit your argument.
> mandating kids to wear masks in schools

There's no evidence that wearing masks prevents contracting Covid (or any other airborne virus). It does a bit toward preventing spreading it if you already have it, but if you already have it, the schools send you home anyway. It's also not as if masks are themselves neutral either - constant mask wearing is associated with higher rates of bacterial pneumonia. Even medical professionals never wore masks all day (until last year), just when they were performing surgery.
Stop building new stuff?
H1B labor isn't mobile, so you can underpay and treat them how you like.

It's like when manufacturing complains about labor and skill shortages but the wages are terrible. When you need labor and can't find it, lots of times its just that employers aren't meeting the market rate for said labor. Hence their desire to get it on the cheap via importation or outsourcing.
What triggers the initial willingness to implement something with hypergraphs was indeed the Wolfram physics project! https://github.com/yamafaktory/hypergraph/discussions/11#dis...
That was a icon that initiated an install of the App from the App Store.
I wish that were true, but now when I see ridiculous things like this I realize that people are not joking.
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The problem with the first sentence of this comment is that it also justifies keeping stuff like ImageMagick around.
Self-report is a notoriously bad way to "study" almost anything.
I think https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite has become pretty popular. It’s a pure go implementation
Merriam-Webster changed the definition of the word "vaccine" on or before January 18th of 2021.

You can verify that they and a few other websites changed the definition by checking archive.org

I'm not sure I'd feel more comfortable with the mRNA stuff being called something different, though.

I'm low risk, I wear a.mask everywhere, always, I rarely leave the house, my "city" has less than 500 people in it, and I have disinfectant and UV lights for deliveries. I go out in the very early morning or very late night, once a month to go shopping. I "work from home". My wife cannot be vaccinated at this time, either. Just a couple more data points.
The things you can learn on HN.

"humanized mice footpads" are a thing.
> leaning towards masks for kids in schools not being worth it.

The problem is that we're dealing with "if it save even one child's life it's worth it" (for any "it") reasoning, which is impossible to argue against.
Fucking brilliant.
> such as chicken pox, once caused epidemics with massive body counts

Never happened. Almost nobody ever died of chicken pox. Fear mongering like this is exactly why nobody trusts the CDC and FDA. It's all quackery.
Speaking anecdotally - here in central Texas, we have a few species of mosquito, and my reaction to a bite varies from a small bump that goes away in a day to intense swelling and itching. And it all seemingly depends on which type of mosquito bit me.
Yea it’s bonkers, what’s the blade runner quote? “If you’re not a cop, you’re little people.”