skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't think "here's a neat thing... tee-hee you can't use it!" Is funny. I don't know if "neener neener" was ever funny to me, even as a child. I understand that it's important to you to bandy about "subtle" accusations by using words like "entitle" so you can feel like you have a point, but there's nothing more there. If I felt entitled I would just ignore the license and use the code anyway.
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.

Besides, the virus is not standing still. It is responding to selective pressure by becoming ever more transmissible. The more we try to control the virus by social distancing, the more the virus responds by becoming easier to transmit. We cannot control this pandemic long term via social distancing, even with perfect compliance.
There was no way to defeat the Afghan Taliban without Pakistani help. The ideological reservoir from which Taliban recruits is bottomless; and with military and financial support from across the border, quite formidable.

Over the last decade, the US had lost all leverage with Pakistan. Pakistan is now fully allied with China.
Why does it matter what article writers who do not have healthcare expertise think?
> No regulatory body in America ever claimed it was safe to use before the side effects were discovered.

US regulatory bodies said that the COVID vaccines were safe before blood clotting and myocarditis were discovered.

> The FDA doesn’t have a track record being too cavalier when it comes to public health so I don’t understand why you would bring up an example of the FDA doing their job to imply they aren’t doing their job

You're a little too hung up on "The FDA". "The FDA" isn't a person. "The FDA" of 50 years ago isn't "The FDA" of today.
I use a Logitech M720, which can be used on a Mac with zero extra software (although you can't use the fourth/fifth buttons, side scrolling works, response curve doesn't need any fancy tuning, etc.)
Without claiming any knowledge of this particular case, the FDA has processes for accelerating approval for medication for which mass efficacy testing can only be done in the long-term, but testing for adverse side-effects is already complete. The recent approval of Alzheimer's medication[0] is one example of that.

From a quick Google, it seems that Phase III trials are about comparing a new treatment to existing alternatives, rather than monitoring side-effects. Perhaps the testing simply can't be complete before 2023, since it involves checking long-term immunity? In this case, the FDA may have approved the vaccine because they are confident that the risk of negative side-effects is sufficiently small, and that the vaccine gives some benefit - even if testing hasn't established exactly how much.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/28/alzhei...
Ha, fair enough. The antivax are now moving one goal post.

How many goal posts have been moved by Covid apologists? From the initial "two weeks to flatten the curve" to the recurring lockdowns, the vaccine that needs to reach a target of 70%, no 80%, no in fact maybe we will still have lockdowns even with 80%.
Liberty Prime first appeared in Fallout 3, which was released in 2008, so it could be possible.
I think you are misunderstanding the feature. Dark mode makes your OS tell all UI to show in a dark color scheme if it has that option. The websites are just doing what you are asking them to do.

What you want is light mode but to use a dark theme on your native UI. You can easy change that in GTK and QT and I remember it was possible to do in older versions of Windows. That will not change the prefers-color-scheme in your browser.
Strange as vaccines were only starting to be rolled out 5 months ago and yet my country and already starting booster shots next month
> less symptoms == less transmissibility

doesn't really hold up when asymptomatic spread (no symptoms at all) has been one of the main concerns for the entire pandemic
Apart from the security issue, it's really annoying, too. Say you refuse to install the Razer device driver - after all the mouse will largely work fine without it thanks to HID. Every time you plug the mouse in, Windows re-runs the driver installer.
For me it's the fact that I'm making the decision based on emotional factors. I don't trust big pharma and I don't trust the vaccines. Should be reason enough. There is plenty of things we don't trust in life, so we don't use those things.
There's no need to insult. This is a discussion.

What you want is currently not possible. The web community currently does not see your use case as necessary or in demand. Maybe they are wrong. But again, blaming the websites for this who are just following the standards set for them is misguided.
Obesity is something that can take quite a while to address. What baffles me is the total failure of some people to see one of the best ways to mitigate the risk of severe covid complications; TAKE THE VACCINE
the point of the vaccine for healthy people is to limit the spread of the virus. a virus turns your cells into virus making factories. immunized people have a lower risk of infection by the virus, so are less likely to become virus factories, and so are less likely to spread it.
Locality has everything to do with performance. It's why your L1 cache is faster than your L2 cache.
i'd guess you just need to pick an actual job title, then find a job (with that job title) that you want (that lists a bunch of the tech you're familiar with), then apply.

that's it.

go get an aws architecture cert while you're at it. i'd start with the easiest/entry-level cert, not even the architect cert, which is difficult, imo.

i like to cite how in my just-passed job search i was offered a senior tech prod owner role (/architect/etc. -- helping to guide/run an internal architecture team), and turned down for an almost-entry level tech support job -- so don't expect interviews/hiring to make sense.

the phrase "missing technical knowledge workers" could more accurately be restated as "missing technical knowledge workers who will work for free" -- strategies to depress worker wages will never stop.

age-ism is very real but should work in your favor, since nobody wants to hire a 25 yo architect - at least not any big company - b/c all your peers would be 50.
I would love for vaccination to not be a political issue, it's just the sad truth. The vaccination rate is deeply coordinated with the Democratic voting rate.
Congrats, were you switching from an iPhone?
The company that can 3D print prescription lenses
To be clear: there are obviously lots of third party Linux drivers out there. But they're delivered, installed and supported by that third party. Security of the NVIDIA driver is NVIDIA's job, and no one is surprised. And as a result, you need to run a tool as the root user and elevate the privilege level yourself to get it installed.

Now, that user experience broadly sucks vs. plugging the same PCIe card into a Windows box and booting it up to get an automatically installed driver. But it's not subject to the same security problems either, which was my point.
I also have a bunch of 'things' that have been bookmarked for years: mostly movies and articles, some projects. This stockpiling has become tsundoku for more than books [1].

On one hand, divorcing myself from the initial impulse to consume or create something helps filter down to what I am and will be truly interested in. On the obvious other hand, the backlog grows to the point where I get paralyzed by so many options and the perfect ideas in my head that I end up not doing anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world
Storj DCS is a good option for storing and delivering user-generated content. It is globally availble - so you don't need to worry about AZ replication, and it's 1/10th the price of Amazon S3.

We were paying $100,000 a month storing user-generated content, and now are paying about $10,000 a month after migrating
Uncle Sam Wants to Play ₿
Of course a rational society would look at this, but it should not only look at this.

Unbounded utilitarian arguments can be used to justify any number of atrocities, and therefore must be bounded by human rights and other factors.

Ultimately, it comes down to what you are and aren't measuring when you are assessing "impact over the collective".
That's an interesting quote and you're 100% correct. However you only gave a snippet of the quote. The full transcript is:

Commentator: If the Trump administration approves a vaccine before or after the election should Americans take it? And would you take it?

Harris: If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the Doctors, tell us we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it, absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it I'm not taking it.

Harris is alluding to the fact that we should listen to people who actually have medical experience and know what they're talking about. You have to remember this was only a few months after Trump had tried to play doctor on TV by saying:

"So I asked Bill a question some of you are thinking of if you're into that world, which I find to be pretty interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said, that hasn't been checked but you're gonna test it. And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that too, sounds interesting. And I then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute, and is there a way you can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it'd be interesting to check that. So you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me, so we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it goes in one minute, that's pretty powerful."
Ohh I see. Is that a warning or a threat? :D
That's just confusing big-brand mature IDE suites as the definition for IDE though. Any dev working on an actual project is going to be using those tools with plugins/extensions, configured as an IDE.

A dev would require completely separate tools that provide that functionality to say otherwise.
So why do they offer these services for free? Altruism?
I think it is, when you read Pfizer's contract and fact0r in things like "Governments have to pay, regardless of whether or not the shipment arrives: on time, damaged, or at all". I suggest you browse their leaked contract: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20616251-albanian-pf...

Pfizer has also been strong arming small, Latin American countries, to the tune of trying to get military assets as "collateral" (https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/company-news/...)
For that specific project - no.

But I'm also using this code in a consumer focused desktop client, for gamers to record their own gameplay and review it back (replays.lol)

The obs-studio-node integration code can be found here: https://github.com/davidweatherall/replayslol-obs-recorder/b...

The purpose of this code is to find the active league of legends executable, create a 'Game Capture' source with the league of legends window as the input, and then add that source to a 'Scene', and then start recording when triggered, and stop recording when triggered.

The function (setupScene) on line 55 is the interesting OBS stuff.

Unfortunately this doesn't include any overlay stuff, but it's all done in a similar way, where I add a source with a locally hosted server as a 'Browser' Source on top of the gameplay, with the parameters of the URL telling the server what information I want to be displayed on the website.

The overlay is just a website, with a transparent background, and content determined by the parameters. - Here is what the website base code looks like - https://gist.github.com/davidweatherall/68e6d4422ce4c0b6fbcc...
Maybe if the chinese keep their same lockdown and close their border indefinitely, or maybe for new zealand this is the case but for countries in the EU and NA the cats out of the bag and it wont ever be eradicated.

I dont know who told you eradication was still an option but it stopped being one in feburary of 2020 when nCov19 started commmunal spreading.

This. Does not. Go. Away.
> If you google for the exact phrase "google Chicago shootings", including the word "google"

This thread is the first result for me. Not kidding. Could it be that you made it up that its a dog whistle? I'm doubting your good faith here.
why would you want that? nobody would wake a baby to change a diaper.
Hannibal is famous for never losing a battle, over a decade campaigning on foreign soil.

And he lost the war.

Because of political forces outside his control
So I am a membr of the trackballs subreddit. I run almost exclusively linux so I don't run into this issue, but two of the popular brands for trackballs are Logitech and Elecom. Elecom's software is far worse than Logitechs (also their firmware only vaguely respects the USB HID spec, so none of the extra buttons work with a generic HID driver).

There are dozens of threads asking about how to use logitech and elecom trackballs on Macs and they all end up with "Well, I finally got steermouse and all my problems have gone away"
Using a Logitech M185 barebones wireless KB + Mouse with no issues on a Mac. Plug and play.

2021 would be the first time I've even heard about headphones needing the vendor's app to work right, or input peripherals needing to install its own drivers like its 1998.
Whatever open source hardware brands survive will have worked out these basic problems. The travails of early adopters.
Nah. I'm on a Logitech 720 (bluetooth, wireless, many buttons) and didn't even know there was anything that I could download for it for Mac. It just works.

... but I don't care about customizing button behavior or anything like that, and only have a mouse this fancy because I wanted to 3-device switching on it (so I could easily use it on Windows and iOS, too). Though now that I've got one I'm kinda in love with the free-spinning scroll wheel and would have trouble going back to a normal one (though I hated it at first).
Just like fauci

2 Shots of vaccine to end covid -> Most Americans will have to take booster shots -> Booster shots may not be one time thing
Why is this a necessary constraint? (Not trolling, just curious if this has been investigated.)

Our neurons don't have a global clock, it doesn't seem to be a problem for us. My intuition is that as long as the input is changing continuously and not through random presentation, and at a rate where big changes happen at a lower order of magnitude than the average compute rate, it wouldn't matter all that much in terms of accuracy.
"Our failure to understand [the Taliban's] dynamic has had consequences."

There was no "failure to understand". This narrative that Afghanistan was a well-intentioned strategic/tactical failure is utterly misleading. The dynamic reality was very clear to every one involved (who cared to know), from servicepeople to 4-star generals, but the military's culture of careerism and corruption prevented these truths from being publicly acknowledged [1].

[1] - https://youtu.be/_bo7P_podIk
Those are all your opinions, presented as if they're hard facts. Let me tell you how this plays out for me.

When I visit a dark theme website, all is good for maybe half a minute or so. As you say, less light hitting your eye is somewhat pleasant. But then, somehow, the eye strain starts. My eyes seems to defocus, and it becomes harder to make out letters. I have to squint, and after maybe a minute that no longer helps. If I don't stop reading then, but keep going for a few more minutes it gets progressively harder. Then when I look away, I am blind.

No kidding, can't see a thing, just a grey blur everywhere. Takes several minutes to get back to normal.

I have no idea how common this is. I asked an optometrist about this once, and she looked at me like I was from Mars.

Dark themes are not the solution for everyone, and default dark themes everywhere is my personal nightmare.
>>> training your body to see the virus sooner and know how to attack it with less "training"

This is literally how every vaccine ever made works.
I never said I was confused in my comment. Reasonable people can disagree about the necessity of vaccines for every single human. I'm making the case it is not necessary and that it is unethical. I could have gone into how these vaccines would be much more useful given to at-risk populations throughout the world instead of low risk, largely already immune young populations in the West. That's another good angle of this.

All that being said, I don't think scare mongering about social credit systems is helpful in this discussion. Most I've talked to who support vax pass are resolutely opposed to China-style social credit systems and I believe such a system would be difficult to implement in the U.S.
I've got a Roccat Kone Aimo Remastered (ROC-11-820-BK, P/N GM1820-02-A01). It's got a wheel (with tilt), 2 clickable middle buttons, front/back, and a a sort of "shift" key for the mouse (hold it and any button can be mapped to an alternate function). Pretty comfortable (to me), and the driver can save all the settings to hardware in the mouse, so you theoretically don't need to keep the driver installed after you initially set the mouse up.
That's simply not what the research has found.

Edit: Allow me to clarify - the research everyone is citing that says masking is effective in teachers and ineffective in students (the 37% number) predates both the delta variant and widespread infection in Southern states. Further, masking is understood etiologically as a prevention method and has been used successfully in other outbreaks and in other countries. Clinicians and policy makers as a rule work with incomplete data in an emerging situation, so unequivocally stating that masking kids in schools doesn't help is a very bad misrepresentation of both the data/research and the implications to policy.
This is precisely what government is for. To protect the interest of it's people over a companies bottom line when the people themselves can't.

It's completely unrealistic to expect an individual to do the "right" thing here. When that right thing means their career ends.
> I saw some conspiracy theory ...

What conspiracy theory?

StatNews[1]:

> Pfizer and BioNTech speed up timeline for offering Covid-19 vaccine to placebo volunteers

> Pfizer and its partner BioNTech plan to offer their Covid-19 vaccine to any clinical trial volunteer who received placebo by March 1, several months earlier than initially planned.

and NPR[2]:

> Long-Term Studies Of COVID-19 Vaccines Hurt By Placebo Recipients Getting Immunized

> Tens of thousands of people who volunteered to be in studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are still participating in follow-up research. But some key questions won't be easily answered, because many people who had been in the placebo group have now opted to take the vaccine.

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/01/pfizer-and-biontech-spee...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...
“My body, my choice” is a political slogan about a woman’s right to abort a fetus in her body, which implicitly does not involve anyone else, unlike a transmissible pathogen.

More importantly, political slogans are not logical arguments, so one should not rely on them to prove things.
>for what gain

Those clicks!
This is a fact. Import maps, fetch, ESM + web import semantics, localstorage, WebGPU, WHATWG streams, WebCrypto. Deno runs the shared web platform test suite: https://deno.co/wptfyi. You can also just look on MDN now and see which APIs are implemented in Deno compared to Node :-)
Vaccines does not _prevent_ infection.

Vaccines prevent _diseases_ that can be dangerous, or even deadly. Vaccines greatly reduce the _risk_ of infection by working with the body’s natural defenses to safely develop immunity to disease.
>Hospital beds are filling up again. What's the mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people in the hospital?

An even better question is, how many are obese or have similar detrimental self-inflicted health conditions? All the data up to this point shows that obesity is more highly correlated with severe illness than vaccination status.
You could pivot to many things, for example this FDA approved drug that was later retracted:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information...

Or point out that the 737 MAX had approval from another federal agency.

We simple can't be sure, it is personal risk management. Requiring the vaccine is silly because vaccinated people can still spread it (especially Delta), perhaps even spread it more since their symptoms aren't as severe and they are far more willing to mix with large crowds.
> I've seen this take so many times an I simply don't get it.

That may sincerely be, because how it feels as you're using it doesn't align with the objective truths of how it behaves. The definition of a strongly typed language has been well-cemented for some time. TypeScript does not completely align with that definition, thus it cannot be considered truly strongly typed.
It wasn't a surprise result, you say? Then how could it be that lockdowns were lifted in the US with barely 50% of the population vaccinated AND without approval for children?
I think i'll stick with my cheap-o gaming mice that all run plug-and-play.

almost 100% of the big-name companies that sell performance mice have this wierd thing where they force you to download and install bloatware just to have your mouse work properly.

Had that problem years ago with my MadCatz R.A.T.. When MadCatz went out of business, my mouse turned into a paperweight.

Currently using an A-JAZZ AJ52 (about $10 on amazon). Been using it for over a year now and it works perfectly for work and gaming. Drivers are plug-and-play, so no bloatware installed along with it. It really is nice.
Just insert an `A` (maybe Assembly) after B, so that this becomes BACHS.

Has a nice ring to it. Maybe advertised as BACHS - a truly baroque stack
> This isn't true? They don't host porn and many other things, so they aren't a common carrier.

This is a reductionist gotcha? YouTube is obviously the de facto english-language video host on the internet. That position is weakening now vs TikTok and Facebook/Instagram.

Porn is a good example of the overlap between platform/publisher and how the publisher keeping it off the platform has allowed competition to exist in that niche. That could probably form the basis for a strong argument in favor of an enforced separation of hosting and publishing.
I feel like this feature was built because the engineering team spends too much time reading functional programming/ML zeal here on hacker news instead of a real user/customer desire.
The irony is that this feature will almost certainly be met with derision/scorn from the CS crowd and clueless shrugs from excel users.
Yes, they’re encrypted client-side, then unencrypted in browser. This is relatively easy to verify if you do not trust an anonymous comment, and I suggest you do so.
100% - it's an absurd reason for the existence of standups
I'm not aware of a single modern mouse that doesn't use regular HID for actual basic mousing.

All these mice will work as basic HID mice in any operating system. If your legacy OS can't handle "5 mouse and 3 keyboard", its HID support was completely broken in the first place.