skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two issues (police violence targeting the black community and internal violence in the black community) are closely coupled, though. Broadly speaking, communities that don't have reliable and safe access to state-empowered law enforcement (say, if there's a threat or history of law enforcement applying violence unjustly or indiscriminately or simply an absence of law enforcement) will turn to resolving disputes internally, and that "resolution" tends to be more brutal than what is applied by a modern police force. Historical examples include the US old west, Scottish highlands and many versions of organized crime (notably the Sicilian and NYC mafias and the Central American cartels).

When the news media, being (for better or worse) a driver of public opinion and thus electoral policy especially at the local level, ignores both issues (as they have a long-standing habit of doing) while playing up (or even fabricating) reports of black-on-white violence, it exacerbates both issues as well as strengthening the feedback loop between them by driving support in the broader community for more hard-line policing.
Here is the Tennessee reporting. NO ICU beds.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/08/19/tenn...
Sure, but everything also said its spread through the air...no coughing == less droplets. The spread concern would be if people aren't taking the same precautions because they aren't showing symptoms, but if still wearing masks or social distancing then the transmission should be less.

That being said most people aren't taking precautions any more because of this...I've seen people directly exposed for up to 2 days to someone with COVID w/ symptoms who then gets an immediate negative test and goes on with their life and not wearing masks in public/work. No amount of yelling or shaming does any good when people are oblivious to their own self destructive behavior.
Also, the Apple system allows for a way of verifying matches to screen for false positives which the encrypted approach would not.
> I’m very much in support of it being hard to be a part of society if you refuse to take one of the most basic steps to protect other people in it

Flu vaccine?
Smoking cessation?
Hand washing?
Race/gender/religion sensitivity training?

These seem like pretty basic steps. Should we bar entrance to society based on these?
In some Countries, one of the current common shouts is "vaccinate everything". It seems that in part, this is to relieve the hospitals, and in part, to reduce contagion as much as you can (the transmission rate in the vaccinated is lower or, in the exceptions emerged, resolves faster).

Now, let us suppose that cats may be vehicles. "Vaccinate everyone" and "cats do not matter" is inconsistent.
It’s ‘Back to That Isolation Bubble’ for Workers Pining for the Office
Love Will Taurus Apart
Based on their presentation and design choices (and a tiny bit of experience) it looks to me like the limiting factor is actually bandwidth and latency not flops or electricity or heating or space or even the cost of the transistors themselves. A ton of flops doesn't help if you can't feed them data to process.

The reason they gave for doing things like "knocking out the walls of cabinets" was bandwidth, not space.

It turns out that the highest bandwidth solutions are also quite compact. One giant piece of silicon instead of many smaller pieces of silicon is great because the different parts of the giant piece of silicon can talk to eachother very quickly with very high bandwidth. Short wires are better than long wires, because you have less noise so you can fit in more signal (also less latency).

It's also just not clear to me how you imagine making things bigger would make them cheaper.
Thanks. I have been reading through the docs for a while now but I am not sure what to make of it.

What would be the minimum number of commands I have to type into a command line (Say in a fresh Debian install) to get a simple site up and running that lets users do the basic stuff like sign up, log in, log out, change password, delete profile?
Yes, and my calculations are after electricity costs of about $0.12 kW/h
The only reason there is fear is because people keep posting stories like these without putting them into context.

It has been clear for a while now that the Pfizer vaccine works and is safe. Just because Pfizer has chosen to keep collecting data doesn't make that there is any doubt about that. This is also why control groups have been given the option to get vaccinated too. It would be highly questionable to prevent them from getting vaccinated when we know that some of them might die without the vaccine.

And Pfizer doesn't "make" 1.9b of 100m doses. They might have 1.9b in revenue but producing the vaccines isn't free. And 1.9b is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the savings we have already seen thanks to the vaccine.
So, we still have the same problem. Web-sites think—despite there is being no way to tell that a user doesn't want dark web-site theme, just uses dark UI—that they should definitely unarguably force on a user dark theme. If it's obvious that there is no way to tell exactly what a user wants, but only tell what browser UI a user uses, maybe it'd be more reasonable not to force dark defaults just because the browser has dark UI.
Can you point to any papers demonstrating natural immunity? I ask as my virologist friend, working on covid-related projects, says to me that it hasn't been shown to be plausible. Which, intuitively, makes sense because of (1) the positive effects vaccines have on reducing severity of the disease and (2) the cycle of variants we see and its path forward.
How do you get half a death?!
Modernization/UX improvement projects are badly needed in many areas in free software where the underlying technology is great, but the experience of actually using it is not.

I’m happy about each one.
I'm reminded that my college roommate traded his unworking truck for a case of good beer.

He got the better part of that deal. (You have to put a price down on the title when you sell. In this case it was technically $1...)
Mandatory gym memberships and no sugar would end the pandemic probably faster

Edit:

Obesity source:
1. https://www.axios.com/bmi-obesity-severe-risk-factors-covid-...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...

BaSeLeSs BrO ScIeNcE
Yes, but some are better at never getting infected in the first place, like chicken pox, hepatitis or measles.
I've gotten to the point in my life, where I'd much rather work with people with a good sense of humor over smart people. Smart people do really dumb things. At least funny people can laugh about the dumb things they do instead of hold a tribunal.
There are NO ICU beds in Tennessee.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/08/19/tenn...
Do you believe it's possible for a sufficiently advanced society (think Star Trek) to develop a vaccine for a novel virus in a short period of time? What do you think this would look like?
Yes, sorting sounds like a good option.
I've just built in some additional scoring that increases points if last visited was recently. This only works for very recent visits (history/lastVisited), within the time frame that history is being fetched, though.

For bookmark/dateAdded, it might help to display the date added and to allow sorting by it as you suggest. I'm thinking about it.

However, the scope of the extension is rather not being a complete bookmark / history manager replacement. Rather a quick search / navigation tool.
It's all open hardware, so you can run off your own if your so inclined and design wood enclosures.

The draw of these is that they are fully (properly) programmable and can run QMK.
projects like `trex` [1] take the heavy lifting out of the equation, and are nicely compatible with a lockfile. This may feel familiar, even somewhat similar, but after using it for a short time I state with confidence that it's not a package manager. This paradigm is enjoyable.

[1] https://nicedoc.io/crewdevio/Trex
Am I the only one who doesnt use cloud services/iot for these very reasons? Never felt “right” handing all my personal photos and messages to Apple or M$, and owning an appliance or gadget that’s connected to the big bad internet just seems like a privacy violation waiting to happen.
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9388751

FPGAs are entering FAANG level datacenters and some faint awareness is seeping into the biggest tech companies but I don't foresee it entering common use anytime soon. Good use cases are just too uncommon and people who know how to build logic designs for FPGA are also too uncommon for that to happen.
British had a saying: you can rent an Afghan but you can't buy one

I heard the above saying during Soviet invasion but I cannot find the origin.
Researchers develop an implantable AI system
3D printed prescription glasses are possible now
A Systematic Review of Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19
> The more we try to control the virus by social distancing, the more the virus responds by becoming easier to transmit.

That is a mischaracterization. I mean, it's true, but only in a specious sense that all organisms respond to changes in their environment (including vaccination techniques!). It's absolutely not an argument that pandemic mitigation strategies are universally doomed to failure!

> We cannot control this pandemic long term via social distancing

Again, this is wrong. And in fact it worked to control covid (not perfectly, but well, well under what you'd expect from the early exponential curves in places like Milan and New York) for almost a year before vaccines showed up.

You're making another common mistake here, and imagining that all arguments are about absolutes. In your mind, mask wearing either Works Perfectly or Must Be Abandoned.

In the real world, you wear masks when the pandemic is at a high infection rate and growing, (like now) because marginal improvements are important ("every little bit helps"), and not as much when it's low and shrinking (as it was in June, when I even went to a few restaurants unmasked!).
Empathy is addressed as a negative:

> ...the overfamiliarity problem. That one founder will become too comfortable, start taking liberties with the others that they would never dare to do in any other context, by virtue of the fact that ‘they’re all friends’.

Dealing with our own and others immaturity, or lack of professionalism, in a caring and sympathetic way seems like a fundamental difference between the military and private life. The military kicks you out or keeps you down, and non-military groups try to help everyone grow while tolerating problems. I wonder what the military attitude would be to the common business idea of growing into the job, or learning on the job? (Or the Dilbert principle.)
> Some 18-49 year old parents have cancer diagnosis that they're living with and are taking immune suppressants, or they're taking care of older family members.

If your immune system is already compromised, there's TONS of other stuff just as scary as COVID. The risk of the flu to these people in past years was just as high, but this argument wasn't used because the entire world can't put life on hold forever.
Hi nice you meet you. Im not going to take the covid vaccine so guess I'm an anti-vaxxer. I'm also an anti-smoker, anti-badfooder, and anti - crime kind of person.

I've been living normally without lockdowns or masks for about 18 months now. So has the rest of my country Sweden. So excuse me if I'm not running around fearing for my life anymore. I'm pretty much convinced we all have natural antibodies by now.
You can't force people not to get vaccinated for several years in the middle of a pandemic.
[edit] this might be a good starting point:

- general overview of complex systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system

- nonlinear dynamics (maths-heavy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system

it's the underlying topic of study in systems theory in the same way that mathematics is about axiomatic models; you won't see it explicitly mentioned that much unless you go into the more pure, self-referential subdisciplines.

cybernetics focuses on things like feedback loops (where cause-and-effect runs in a loop - ie, it is not linear), systems theory works on higher-order patterns based on feedback; it spans out in many different directions (systems theory is extremely transdisciplinary) and there's a lot to it so I'm not sure what specifically I could direct you towards. "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows is the typical recommendation, but I find it very diagram-focused and that's probably the least interesting part about it in my mind.
Sure, but we're nowhere near the planet's maximal capacity, won't be for generations, if ever. By the time we're remotely near that, a Dyson sphere/ring could extend that for hundreds of generations more. The idea of maximal density may bring to mind dystopian sci-fi, but eg Judge Dredd's urbanized New England was less dense than Kowloon/Hong Kong is now. The demand curve, thus, is functionally infinite, same as the sun's lifespan. It'll expire after millions of years, but even my great grand children will be long gone by then, so the astrophysics of it mean that the statement "the sun will last forever" isn't literally true, but functionally, it is.
I have this mouse and it makes me sad. It's actually a solid mouse too!
Ditto, it's something I rarely notice and that never bothers me. I game on Windows, use Linux desktops occasionally, and work on macOS mostly. Former mainly-Linux user, too. Whatever the defaults are for Mac cursors don't bother me a bit. In fact the only system customization I really do with a new Mac is to install Spectacle, and then use its defaults without configuring it further. That's about it. Oh, and set caps lock to an extra ctrl, which you can do through the normal Mac settings panel with a few clicks. Otherwise, I don't even know what I'd want to customize, behavior-wise.
> What's the speed? I bet it's SuperSpeed/UAS one way and High Speed/USBMS the other.

> This happens because you need a mux to handle flipping the SuperSpeed lanes, but not the USB2 ones. Cheapo Chinese designs omit it, which is not compliant with the standard.

Why doesn’t the USB Consortium do anything about non-compliant cables and whatnot? (such as trademark enforcement) It damages consumer trust when they’re lied to.
I think I've flipped the other way on this.

I am sick and tired of people believing that their "rights" are more important than public health. I would very much wish that people would recognize this for themselves, but I don't see anything inherently wrong with forcing people to comply if they don't. We've done this for decades already; for example, many/most/(all?) school districts in the US require certain vaccinations[0] for children, else they are not permitted to go to school (and in many places, not sending your children to school, without other arrangements, is illegal, so they are de-facto forced to comply, absent allowed religious/medical exemptions).

Sure, you might say that the scope of some of these new and proposed vaccination rules around COVID go much further, but I don't see a material difference. If we haven't been up in arms about requirements around childhood vaccinations, I don't think we can reasonably be upset about businesses requiring their employees to be vaccinated against COVID.

At this point my patience with the vaccine "hesitant" is gone. Unless you have a valid medical reason, if you are refusing to get vaccinated, you are actively inviting great harm on the health of your community, and that needs to stop. I do agree that literal vaccination by force would be going too far. But I am absolutely thrilled that my city requires vaccination for many indoor activities right now, and requires employees at those indoor businesses to be vaccinated, and that many private businesses are implementing their own vaccination requirements. It's the right thing to do, full stop.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/laws/state-reqs.ht...
If you want a graphical frontend for libratbag there's piper.
He didnt die of a gunshot wound he had a comorbidity of blood loss.

Ah well, he tested positive for gunshot wound but thst was 28 days ago.

This is not an inconclusive mess in the peer reviewed scientific community when people use real data and studies to back their claims. The problem is that you are not sourcing your opinion from that community you are sourcing it from pointless online bickering and a confirmation biased perspective.

As for sweden your comaprison to the UK is disingenuous. Compare it to norway and finland for real understanding.
First U.S. Covid deaths came earlier than previously thought
Wearing a helmet on an airplane isn’t a perfect solution to airplanes crashing but it could potentially save your life, but we seem fine with the risk trade off of not wearing one. No decisions we make about responding to COVID will be risk free, the question is which trade offs we should accept. No matter how much pressure is put on the unvaccinated some people will refuse to get it, and unless you’re suggesting administering it by force eventually that tactic will meet diminishing returns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTunes ; https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=SimTunes was a similar 2D music sequencer game.
The original title of Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: "A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines" was too long so I modified it to fit on HN.
The other war that comes to mind that doesn't fit the standard model of black hat vs white hat is the Vietnam war. It was impossible to defeat the Viet Cong because they blended in with the citizenry. And so, despite superior technology and enormous wealth, America and its allies were unable to prevail in Vietnam.

And yet, today, the socialist republic of Vietnam is hardly a pariah, or a communist menace, or a backwater or a threat to anyone. It is a rapidly developing economic power in South East Asia, with a dispersed diaspora that has integrated well with diverse cultures in Europe, North America, Australia and South America.

Have you ever heard of a Vietnamese terrorist shooting up or bombing a public place in the west over the last 40 years?

What does that tell you about the paradigm of us vs them?
> I wouldn't really call that "soon after it is administered".

The median delay between vaccination and the onset of narcolepsy in that case was 42 days. Not nearly the four years magic number that sharken was waiting for. I would call that soon after it is administered. Far more people are well beyond that period after the Pfizer-Biontech vaccination than were ever administered Pandemrix.

> And the same is also true for covid's long term effects

Those long term effects are visible soon after infection. Both of your examples seem to be in support of my point.
Agreed. Didn't feel orwellian or coerced at all to go to the doctor and get a meningitis shot before heading off to university. Nor did it feel orwellian to get a covid shot to protect my community.
A of 10 May 2021 at Facebook, over 15,000, suing for mental health trauma:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/facebook-cont...
Thanks for the downvotes.. still wont make the masks work. Get vaccinated.
This was reported a month ago and has been discussed ad nauseum, including issues with the Israeli data and methodology. Why bring it up again now?

Edit: BTW, regarding the data and methodology, here's a great write-up about why the Israeli top-line numbers can be misleading:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
I think it's fair to describe the SMS-like mobile messenger as the modern goal of XMPP if that is in fact what people are using. The goal here is to get broader adoption for the protocol, and the only way to do that is to make it easy to deploy and use for a mass-market audience that expects certain things already.
> It's quite a bit worse than npm.

That's a rather subjective take.

The rest of your comment can be fulfilled by `trex` https://nicedoc.io/crewdevio/Trex. Perhaps it's been a while since you took a good look at how the ecosystem has evolved. I just started giving Deno a hard look last week and I've already found answers for needs like this.
> Is every hospital getting overwhelmed though?

In the country? No. In large areas? Yes.

> I keep seeing reports of staff getting fired or quitting because of vaccine requirement. Maybe I’m getting fake news?

There are vaccine requirements being adopted some places, and there are departures related to it. But if you are seeing news suggesting that that is the major source of capacity strain (or even the major source of COVID-related causes of people departing healthcare jobs), it is, at least, distorted news.
Do you know if Deno chose to use strings instead of buffers to be more consistent with the browser? I know buffers can be faster, but overall I like that readTextFile is returning a string here. I suspect most use-cases ultimately want to handle the output as a string.
Citation? It's a bold claim, without any evidence to back it up. HN is different than the comments section of a news site.
Well in this thought experiment do you also have a government that wants to use HIV to kill off the homosexuals?
On the plus side, now people can remove the invasive software installed by education institutions and some enterprise companies
Competitive programming is fun. It’s amazing that some people seem to think everything is about career path optimization.

Are we not allowed to do things for fun or just to pass the time anymore without someone writing that we’re wasting our time since it isn’t boosting our career?
I personally know 2 women who had covid, were hospitalized, had emergency c sections and then died. That is a known risk. Your risk is hypothetical.
This has become a mainstream media meme, like the whole "masks don't work" thing from last year.

Yes, masks work. No, they don't grant 100% protection. Yes, vaccines work. No, they don't grant 100% protection.

These things are true at the same time. Learn to think with some nuance.
Ask HN: How do you deal with a Cancel Mob, DDoS'd threats of violence