skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inherently we aren't good or bad, but just provide tools to do things with.

Our users have built some pretty positive businesses though, so I'd say yeah.
According to this study by the University of Cambridge, FFP3 masks provided "31-100% protection (and most likely 100%)": https://www.authorea.com/users/421653/articles/527590-ffp3-r... (preprint).
Easily:
1) invade China.
2) profit
Sure, so long as you don't need groceries in a major city.
That hasn’t really been my experience with water.

As far as I know it costs about the same as any other good to transport in small volumes and is incredibly cheap to transport in larger volumes, on par with oil.

I do tend to agree with you tho that if you want government to transport it, it gets ridiculous as one would expect from tasking government to do something nature does for free, and the private sector does extremely efficiently.
Huge odds. People were anti-vaxxers before, and were just looking for an excuse to justify their position. Goal post moving is a thing to be expected nowadays
I used to think he had some points, and for that matter I used to belong to the EFF before I got fed up with them, but after I saw him speak in San Francisco about the dangers of digital rectal thermometers, that was the moment when I realized that this is just a crank.
If you want to use locked version deps from VCS you point to a specific tag, not a branch IIRC.
Love that whole “décroissance” concept and all those pushing it… Let’s skip the extra steps and just become Amish while we’re at it.

The solution to modern problems shouldn’t ever be “less”. It ought the be more!
> how much paperwork you can cope with

This. I gave up after reading the list of documents I would have to produce.
Yes, those _are good, i have an Alt-F9 alternate desktop for guests, but a 2 letter password for her to bypass the screen-lock and change the music or something would in fact remove my sometimes duress, i think..
Load is already lower at night. Increasing grid peak load times at night first can provide substantial a buffer as well as total usage ramps up ~80,000,000 killowatt hours [1]

Do you have estimates on "100%" electric usage for today's currently miles drive on gas?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
The government often is compelling people to in areas where basic safety precautions are not required in public spaces.

In nearly all other aspects of life, inflicting harm on others results in some sort of liability. Unsafe activities are regulated. However, in this time of massive death, massive hospitalization, massive long term health complications, basic safety is being thrown out the window to appease political tribalism.
Cars can carry much more than a bike, I can't do my grocery shopping with an e-bike.

Cars insulate you from the environment, heat, cold, rain etc. Bikes can leave you sweaty, freezing, or wet.

Rail is a complex solution. The UK has lots of rail but I'd do anything to avoid using it for anything other than day-trips. Commuting or depending on rail is a depressing experience. Granted the UK's rail network is Victorian but even with a modern infrastructure the challenges of running an efficient rail network are numerous. Some countries nail it, it's doable but I am skeptical that the UK could replace motorways with rail in any meaningful way.
After his death, Akhenaten's monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs. Traditional religious practice was gradually restored, notably under his close successor Tutankhamun, who changed his name from Tutankhaten early in his reign. When some dozen years later, rulers without clear rights of succession from the Eighteenth Dynasty founded a new dynasty, they discredited Akhenaten and his immediate successors and referred to Akhenaten as "the enemy" or "that criminal" in archival records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten
Even if we had that data it wouldn't be a fair evaluation of vaccine efficacy. The elderly are the most vaccinated demographic, have the highest number of breakthrough infections, and have the highest mortality rate. There are too many confounding variables.
'drops hostility to coal' is perhaps not the embrace of green energy that you may hope.

{sigh}

From March 2021 [0] "The Australian Labor Party will support an expansion of Australia’s gas industry" ,

From April 2021 [1] "abandon any carbon emissions reduction target for 2030" , "recommit any Labor government to continuing to support the mining giants based on the lucrative extraction of the main fossil fuels—coal, gas and oil."

From June 2021 [2] "The Labor leader will use a speech to the Minerals Council of Australia to reassure mining companies that the opposition supports the continuing export of fossil fuels." ,

And so on

> They're in a tricky position, trying to placate the nearly-Greens voters on one flank and the CFMEU on the other. Which is why the Liberals are pulling political stunts like waving coal around - it is very hard for Labor to respond to. They have a nasty split in ideology there that they have to manage and it makes political sense to pressure it.

They're not 'in a tricky position' so much as 'they are a collective of people with substantively differentiating viewpoints but a common interest in power and money' - hence the friction.

I envy your idealistic take on Scott Morrison's impartiality towards his largest donors.

[0] https://reneweconomy.com.au/labor-to-support-gas-and-ccs-alo...

[1] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/02/labo-a02.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/02/coali...
Going to MIT and Harvard is more about ambition than "smarts" is my thought on it.

On average smarter, but that more has to do with population size than anything. If you limit the comparison to the top N from state schools so that you were looking at the same population size, state schools would end up out in front on the "smarts" scale but lose on the "ambition" scale.
Astrazeneca and J&J are both non-mRNA vaccines.
That existing risk was already at the limit of acceptability. New risk being added on pushes many past that limit.

It's made worse by the fact that this additional risk is being left out of the discussion so often. People talk about what's good for the children and their parents and the economy, but not about what the teachers need. They're being treated as disposable, which exacerbates the perception of risk further.

Discussions about school openings that ignore a critical factor are not going to result in what people hope for.
> https://docs.truefi.io/faq/

> https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-goldfinch-crypto...

Both of these sound like they made a regular bank, or a p2p lending platform. You could make exactly the same thing they're proposing without crypto. The goldfinch one is weird, as it completely glosses over the part of borrower defaults.

> Fast, feeles, higher tx troughput crypto, NANO:

This looks interesting, but the problem is the same as with Ethereum: too many coins, each with different technologies and protocols. Meanwhile, BTC still is the best-known one and the one with the highest market cap. The energy usage problem is not going away anytime soon.
I don't disagree that the current system functions well: I'm just saying abolishing them is not the answer.
> Shouldn't people have the right to choose what they take?

It's not this simple. Not taking a vaccine during a pandemic has negative externalities, since you're increasing the risk of infection and death of those you interact with, you increase the likelihood of consuming scarce resources (such as ICU beds), etc.

I largely agree with you, but framing it as a simple "individual choice" issue is reductive at best.
> That's why I don't really understand why there are still covid restrictions in countries that are close to full vaccination, like the UK

I cracked some ribs three weeks ago and coughing / sneezing are really painful. I am keeping my mask on because I really don't want even a mild cough, for whatever reason.

More generally, the vaccines are not 100% effective, the virus can still be transmitted and spread. For lots of people, getting COVID is still life threatening, even if the average case is not as bad as it used to be.
Unlikely you'd be able to redeem it. The token trades on 3rd party exchanges so there's no way to prove you lost it vs sold it. You have a choice between holding the tokens in a wallet vs on their platform (which is how you'd redeem for physical), I'm sure if you're using the latter it's a different story. I don't know for sure though.
> herd immunity will be reached at 70% vaccination + infected, ah no actually only vaccinated count and it's 90%... did I say 99%? No, it will be 100%!

70% is enough for the original Covid. Covid moved the goalposts to Delta which needs different numbers. This is not experts moving the goalposts, this is Covid changing on us - as was always expected to happen and why experts said we don't know what % is required until Israel showed 70% was enough for the original Covid strain.
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Why not a subdermal physical switch that could be actuated through the skin? Like a push-button toggle or slider-switch?
The people I see complaining about Electron sound like they never did commercial frontend, and usually bring up stuff like Visual Basic making me think they haven't done frontend in 20 years or done anything non-trivial with GUI (if you actually used VB to build serious apps you'd know where the codebehind and using threads to avoid blocking the UI leads you).

Just a very loud minority. I don't particularly like Electron but compared to the alternatives it's the best choice for a lot of apps (as demonstrated by the success of many apps using it, despite "performance is the most important feature" crowd).
I'll take a stab at this.

The value for me is in knowing that I am standing in front of the same canvas that Da Vinci stood in front of. It's similar to going to a historical site and standing where history you've heard about was made and seeing/hearing/smelling something of what the people who made it did. It builds a sense of human connection, a shared experience, and makes something you "know" to be real "feel" more real.

Da Vinci never stood in front of the "atom for atom copy" of the Mona Lisa, and generations have not come from around the world to see it. We're receiving the same visual stimulus, but the ability to participate in the human connection is reduced because we know it's a copy. (Worth noting that if we didn't know it was a copy, then this wouldn't be a problem.)
Ah, yes - that locale is not supported. From the Caveats section:

For best results set the LANG locale environment variable to `C` or `en_US.UTF-8`. For example, either by setting directly on the command-line:

$ LANG=C date | jc --date

It is possible to add support for more locales and you can always override the built in parsers with your own plugin to support it.
Vaccines are pretty low margin. Jumping straight to production for a vaccine that winds up not approved would prove pretty expensive, and most of them aren't an emergency scenario that would justify that risk.
> The e-bike has maintenance costs close to 0.

Not perfectly true. You have to renew brake pads, tires, chain and cassette at regular intervals if you ride a lot. They cost way way less than car maintenance though.
deno.land/x is _not_ a central registry. It's something we maintain as a convenience to the community, but we actually go to great lengths to make sure it doesn't receive preferential treatment from the CLI. Importing modules from nest.land, skypack.dev, esm.sh or jspm.io is common in the ecosystem and is something we're looking to keep encouraging.

It's also pretty easy to vendor in your dependencies so that they don't move between the time you commit and the time your server starts. We also support lock files so you don't _have_ to vendor your deps too. Versioning is up to the server you import from, but typically you'd put version in the URL somewhere (ideally a pinned version).

Security-wise, There are other articles out there that detail this but it's not fundamentally less secure than importing from npm as you're still pulling a JavaScript file from the internet in both cases. The cool thing here with URLs is that it's pretty easy to audit and create an allowlist of known-good and trusted servers to import from in your org.

As for vulnerability reporting & patching; I think we're still lacking a good vulnerability database, that much is true, but fixing deeply integrated deps that have vulnerabilities is pretty easy using import maps really.
Thank you, I think I'll rig that up.
And ICD is not a pacemaker. An ICD costs about $30K. When its battery wears out, the battery is replaced, not the ICD. So there will be no replacements of already-implanted ICDs because of this problem.

Also, it is a big deal to redesign an implanted medical device, as it should be. These are not tongue depressors. ICDs are the most tightly regulated device the FDA reviews.
Nice. I am at peace with the tools I use. I'm very confident that the tools, stack and setup I use, for my context (early stage startups) does provide them with real value. My concern is that the industry as a whole is moving away from seeing that as valuable based on the jobs I see advertised and I want to stay relevant so that if I ever want a job / contract in the future, I am seen as valuable to someone :)
I think it says a lot that the only thing you could mention about the technology was that you made money selling it. In what way did you make the world a better place?

Oh shit, sorry, I forgot: tech is about money, fuck the world.
That was the internet in the beginning as well. For the average person in 1996/98/20 computers and the internet did not offer anything.

Today cryto provides the only way to perform a money transaction outside of the censored markets. An example, onlyfans, poor hub decided to ditch a type of content to please visa/mastercard. Cryto would allow society to ignore forced morals on money transactions. If what onlyfans provide is legal visa should not be allowed to shut them down on moral terms.

It may not be useful to you. The internet wasn't useful to most in 1995. It might be more useful in a few years where the masses have joined and the network effect is in place.

I remember when computers were seen as not useful in the 80s.. a toy that could do very little. Things change quickly.
Specific claims by specific named people that you are claiming are lies?

The two have very different cost structures, but until recently it wasn't cheaper. It's just necessary if Australia doesn't want to get any hotter.
A lot of recovery you privacy is realizing the value proposition of social media simply isn't all that.

I don't do any "FAANG" at all, and frankly I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything of value. I guess I'm weird because I have a life beyond all of that.
I would use one as a source of universal online ID in account recovery, not for everyday use
The minute you require the presence of a non-standard tool for emergency medical attention that could impact an ICD, you've guaranteed that it will not be present in some cases. It's very likely that such a decision will have a body count.
Which still wouldn't be a logical argument, given that the same applies regarding long-term health outcomes regarding getting sick with Covid. But I suspect you are right.
It's native as in supported directly by the company making the software.

It's not some random 3rd party that's trying to implement a buggy client or wrapper. At risk of being shut down at any moment, and probably violating the company's terms of use. (which is a whole different conversation around the sad reality of interoperable software today)

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It's native in the sense that I, as a developer employed by a company using it, can easily drop in a linux release without having to have a long drawn out cost/benefits analysis trying to convince PMs that we should do it, because it's not months or years of additional work - it's some manifest file tweaks to get icons in, and possibly some additional signing scripts to be run during the final packaging.

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It's not native in the sense that it directly uses OS specific APIs, but who gives a flying fuck? Seriously.

I spend 95% of my time in a browser or a text editor already - "Browser with better system access" is just fine to me.

It turns out RAM and disk space are really, REALLY, REALLY fucking cheap. as in - I can get 32gbs of ram for less than the cost of a windows license. So I'll take my linux support, thank you very much. (shocker - I also like mobile web apps, and strongly favor mobile moving that direction as well - For exactly the same reasons).
Well it's the very definition of xenophobia, for racist reasons.
He isn't complaining that they use encryption.
I think a huge factor will be how many employers, colleges, etc. are now willing and legally able to require vaccination.

I want to know when insurance companies will start adjusting rates.
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I think HP home inkjet printers were the first to do this, over 10 years ago. Somehow any way of finding and installing a driver on windows would pull in a 500MB suite of always-running junk before the actual driver. No electron back then. (I'm still a bit of an electron hater though :)
Just force of habbit. Since most actions were easily accessible by my dominant hand, that's what I used.

And then when I raise my hand and the menu pops up, I realize it would have been easier to use my left, but already committed to right.
What functionality can a mouse have that couldn't have been standardized 20 years ago? I haven't encountered a mouse that had more than some sort of pointing device, scrollwheels, buttons and possibly some LEDs.
I'd love to but there mostly seem to be two separate markets now. You can have cheap junk with minimal features or you can have "gamer" hardware with an extra 0 on the price, components that might be much better but sometimes aren't, the kind of driver hell we're talking about, and lots of coloured lights.

I miss the days when Logitech made great, comfortable mice for normal desktop use, with a small number of useful extra controls and a minimal driver and UI to choose what they did. I miss the days when you could buy a comfortable typist's keyboard for a sensible amount of money.

I literally don't know a single brand that reliably makes good keyboards and mice for normal use any more. Every single one (and I've tried most of the big names) produces junk. Even in the £100+ range that is supposed to be high-end hardware, I have probably returned more than half of the products I've bought in the past few years because they had obvious serious defects out of the box or developed them within a few months of normal use.
What we can learn from spies according to the former head of UK Intelligence
There ought to be something like eviction rights for certain quintessential Internet services. Requirements to warn users, give a reason and chance to rectify, before an outright ban in which the user has a generous time frame to move their data.

Your landlord is a "private entity" but you're still a human being.
Yeah, people seem to be forgetting the anti-vaxx movement that was already brewing way before COVID.
> The big one in my mind is how do Pfizer, BioNTech, or the FDA validate safety of the vaccine over the long term?

By looking at other vaccines historically and seeing that side effects tend to happen in the first few weeks.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/af...

> Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose.
So much this! Electric cars also take up the same amount of space and don't solve traffic. Plus they use so much more resources with less efficiency of moving people. Making them self driving and fast comes into conflict with pedestrians and cyclists in dense urban environments. Would rather see high speed electric trains for long distances and trolleys, light rail, busses, and bike lanes for getting around the city.
In trafic a moped is better than a car, and an ebike better than a moped, regardless of regulations. If they impose a full helmet for ebikes I will hate it, but still choose that over a car.
So 0 covid is the only answer? I don't think 0 covid is possible. We would need vaccines that provide sterilizing immunity for that.
> Vaccine doesnt work.

80% vaccine efficacy. We were hoping for 50% so that's actually pretty good.

This is on par with "we had a snowstorm so climate change isn't real" levels of logic.

Abbott has a mild case and isn't sucking on ventilator.
wouldn't that effectively double the cost of production? It might be cheaper and easier to invest in some spring based dampening.
Anyway, even in their video, the vibration is out of control, moving the pipes around and making it look like it won't last too much in real life applications.
I'm more talking about some humans getting infected somewhere, then bringing it in from wherever they were, where precautions are lower than where you came from.

The way I see it, the long-term route is treating COVID like, say, malaria. You would get your vaccine when you travel places. Doctors would know what to test for based on your symptoms. But still, the contagiousness here is radically different. By the time you get to see your doctor, you could have infected dozens of people. So the most effective strategy is still isolation and pervasive testing?

IDK, I guess we will just have to sit there and see where we'll be with COVID in 5 years from now. Maybe the virus will really just get bored and go away (unlikely). If not, maybe people will get bored of being freaked out and more comfortable with the thought that electing a new government won't eradicate the virus but you can build more hospitals and keep getting your yearly COVID booster shots.
I imagine you're not regularly driving 500km in a day. :/
mRNA is a basic building block of life. Your body makes and breaks it down constantly. If there was any worry about it life itself wouldn't be possible.
Things change slowly. This reminded me of a fascinating book I read years ago, Volunteer Slavery, by Jill Nelson, the first black reporter hired for the Post’s new Sunday magazine in the ‘80s. Although the restaurants in the neighborhood may no longer have been segregated, some of the newsroom attitudes hadn’t changed much. The book also happens to be quite funny.

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