skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immune suppressed individuals and the people who interact with them I would assume are, as a population, used to taking care of themselves in the face of the common flu and other things which present danger to them.

The ease at which COVID, especially delta, spreads basically guarantees immune suppressed individuals will come into contact with it w/o everyone taking precautions.

You don't have to put your life on hold forever. Wear a mask, be vaccinated, and encourage others in your life to do the same. Live your life within the bounds that helps others survive this. We're in this together.
Metal Gear, for that matter.
Mozilla is being forced to follow the industry leaders here. And if ever HTTP is completely removed, that will first happen from their tech giants and browser choke hold, and Mozilla will have little choice but to follow behind.
It is implied that this is for adults:

> Moreover, to measure urine sugar levels in elderly or long-term care patients, sensors can be embedded directly into their diapers.

The paper itself explicitly states that it is for long-term care -- from its abstract:

> A self-driven sensor that can detect urine and urine sugar and can be mounted on diapers is desirable to reduce the burden of long-term care.

Modern diapers are remarkably complex. The super-absorbent polymer inside is really quite ingenious; and it's my understanding that brands have proprietary chemistry going on inside to prevent urea breaking down into ammonia and producing a smell, and damaging the patient's skin.

I sustained an injury to my spinal cord earlier this year, and all of this became much more personal – I have to say, compared to a urinary catheter (a device that can only be described as 'evil and tortuous') diapers are positively idyllic...
drive it drunk on gvt owned roads? where you have a license to operate it if you abide by specific rules? and you lose the license if any of them are broken?

that’s a very different comparison to something like going to a private business

what about driving drunk on your own land away from anyone
Didn't work in kiwi browser but worked in Firefox Mobile for me. Thanks.
Not drinking alcohol doesn't cause any issues. We've had people who've lived 100+ years and never drank. We don't have that experience with covid vaccines.
"Disingenuous" is a fancy way of saying "liar", which implies intent to deceive. Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If someone is COVID positive, then they are likely contagious even if they have no symptoms. This means that they must be isolated from the other patients that do not have COVID or else there is a high risk of infection spreading to other patients. In places like the ICU, where all of the patients are critically ill, any additional infection will likely kill them.

Isolation from other patients means that they need other rooms and other nurses. It is not safe to have a nurse go from a clean room to a COVID room repeatedly if they don't have enough PPE to fully gown between rooms. Otherwise, there is cross contamination. Currently, there is not enough PPE. If a hospital has the staff, they will also isolate the physicians to either COVID or non-COVID wards to prevent cross contamination. Often, they do not have the physicians, so there is a time cost to constantly changing PPE. Time spent changing PPE means time not taking care of patients.

When a patient dies in a COVID room, the room must be cleaned. This takes time and staff. Failure to do so can also lead to increased infections.

To be clear, infections that spread in the hospital are very well studied. It's the reason why hospitals have very strict rules about things like hand hygiene. It's one of those inspections that can cost a hospital a lot of money.

That's a long way to say, it's not a self made problem. A patient that comes in for something like a heart stent who is also COVID positive is far more work than one who does not have COVID. I do not know if these news articles are referring to these cases as COVID hospitalizations. In some sense, it doesn't impact the broader issue: In a good number of states, hospitals are effectively full. The reason behind this issue is unvaccinated people catching COVID.
In fairness, by 2014 it was fairly obvious that Google was no longer interested in furthering Google Talk. It was about the time that they were pushing folk to Google+ and Hangouts.

Google's XMPP server continued to accept unencrypted connections for many years after this point. I think the XMPP operators made the right choice, rather than letting Google weaken the security of the entire network.
Not sure how valuable this comment is except as a thank you! I'm once again back to bootstrap using VueStrap.

It's helped me learn(ing) vue and build fast. Just like the original CSS bootstrap helped me learn a lot about CSS.

I still use some of their patterns like css 'classes.'

I'm indebted again and great to see the dev community keeping up with new tech! For me taking templates and editing and building on them is a great way to pick something new up.
> When a real world business bans you on a technicality you don't really have recourse either.

It depends. In the EU, a bank account is deemed a right, as an essential utility.

If a bank bans a customer on a technicality, it could be construed as breaking this obligation.

Whether or not something like that could apply to something like an email address, however, is another question.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
I've never seen Facebook Messenger installed in Windows by default, having installed Windows 10 thousands of times. This sounds like it is included manufacturer bloatware.
The only people who are being selfish are the people who insist the entire human population change their behavior in an extremely negative way for more than 1.6 years for a virus that we now have remarkably effective vaccines for that anybody at risk can take for free.

Sorry. It is selfish to ask people to continue to cower away in order to assuage peoples fear.
Thats very possible...I was going off information my significant other mentioned to me yesterday that she heard on the news. Hearsay of hearsay...so my bad...
> The Deno-specific APIs (like Deno.readTextFile()[0]) are Promise-based and have intuitive interfaces

FYI, Node has Promise-based APIs for all filesystem APIs. Node also supports ES modules that use top-level await.

If you create a file `test.mjs` and put this in it, it'll work:

import {readFile} from 'fs/promises';
console.log(await readFile('foo.txt', 'utf8'));

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_filehandle_readfile_option...
> There is no big lobby interest for Ibuprofin at this time, so the financial incentives there are not suspect.

Clearly Ibuprofen is a product of big pharma, therefore if it were merely distrust of big pharma then using it and all other ordinary drugs like it would be out of the question. Additionally, there are big lobby interests for products and services we all use all the time. Why make exceptions for them? Not trusting big pharma is post-facto rationalization as reasonable caution evaporated sometime before the first 500 million people got vaccinated. No, there are simpler underlying reasons like being disproportionately afraid of the vaccine vs the virus or not feeling any risk and not caring about the risk of others etc.
The hospitals and doctors offices are run privately in Canada. Health insurance is what is run publicly. But you can still pay out of pocket if you wanted to for a family doctor.

The Tweet suggests its a purely private vs public debate which misrepresents the positions being taken. This debate is about extending the current system to be a total government monopoly on paying for a family doctor vs just having nationalized insurance as it already is. Two degrees of public.

I'm not even sure the Liberals are trying to make this a policy position anyway. Most likely it's about spinning the oppositions character.

In reality it's a minor problem. If you prevent a tiny subset of doctors from accepting voluntary payments they can just move to the US, like plenty of them already do every year. The argument that people are currently being deprived of something is pretty weak which is why hardly anyone cares.
Unfortunately we are not all in this together. One group is vaccinated and has done their part to protect themselves and others including those that cannot be vaccinated due to age limitations. There is another group that refuses vaccination, sees it as an impediment to their freedom and if they don't think Covid is a hoax then are quite willing to sacrifice others. There is no common ground between these groups and the vaccinated group very much sees the second group as needlessly prolonging this pandemic and engaging in a lifestyle choice that is very much a risk to their children.
A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead
3.2 serious outcomes per 100,000 infections.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
You can also buy a blanket for your infant child that will monitor their heart rate and blood oxygen saturation and transmit it to your phone, but that doesn't mean most people need or will even benefit from knowing that information.

Hopefully at some point we reach the point where we stop asking what else can be connected to the cloud and start considering what should not be.
GrapheneOS has been a dream so far on my used Pixel 4.

Turns out Android can be pleasant when you don't have to deal with oem ui changes and non-optional bloatware.
> There has to be some initial root point of trust.

For security critical web apps, this makes sense. For mere documents and simple sites without authentication or sensitive information, self-signed certificates should become acceptable, IMO.
> It's impossibly naive to believe such a mindset possible in capital-oriented businesses.

That is the perspective I was inviting to the table by writing this; just that it is a very different situation. I have no validated perspective on whether you are right or not, although I do have one experience failing to disprove the above.
It implies that the universe is deterministic, with the caveat that what’s deterministic is the universe as a whole, which includes umpteenillion extra “timelines” which we can’t see, in addition to our own.

There’s remains indexical uncertainty, as we can’t predict which timelines we’ll see. The answer is of course all of them.
> Rust needs to mature a little more, stop changing so fast, and move further toward being old and boring.

Didn't make any sense at any point post 1.0. Rust 1.0 code still works today modulo BC breaks required to fix unsoundnesses.

> Rust needs to demonstrate that it can be used to create general-purpose libraries that are callable from all other programming languages.

Also didn't make much sense at any point as the story there was always straightforward. But efforts like librsvg have pretty much demonstrated that (interestingly the libsrvg conversion effort started around the time that page was created, circa 2017).

> Rust needs to demonstrate that it can produce object code that works on obscure embedded devices, including devices that lack an operating system.

Rust is used in a bunch of embedded contexts. Whether Rust can produce object code that works on your embedded device is a more debatable question, depends on the existence (and quality) of the proper llvm backend.

I think there's also a gcc frontend in the works, but I expect it's essentially nowhere yet as it was only just started (few months old I think?). Though I believe it has financial support and a fair amount of manpower. I believe there's also an even more recent effort for a gcc backend in rustc.

So yeah this one I'd say there's limited progress yet but things seem to be moving in the right direction and picking up.

> Rust needs to pick up the necessary tooling that enables one to do 100% branch coverage testing of the compiled binaries.

Unclear what the issue is there so no idea.

> Rust needs a mechanism to recover gracefully from OOM errors.

That was always possible by working no_std, though of course required reimplementing your own abstractions.

With the linux kernel integration effort, a lot more work is going into "fallible allocation" APIs, and thus the ability to gracefully recover from allocation failures.

> Rust needs to demonstrate that it can do the kinds of work that C does in SQLite without a significant speed penalty.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oops. My brain parsed that last part as an email signature and I didn't read it. I meant to support the claim that the author describes empathy as a negative.

I wasn't in a military, but just a "basic training" is far more than I ever got at work, so I've always assumed cultural emphasis on training was much higher in military orgs
Your comment suggests you may think this is blocking all downloads over HTTP; it’s not: it’s only blocking a HTTPS → HTTP downgrade. I don’t believe any browser is making any noise at all about blocking HTTP sites, or is likely to try in the coming decade at least, though I do hope for them to start warning more about it, with more prominent “Insecure” labels and the likes.
Just to be clear, you're arguing against evidence based medicine and instead advocating for hasty generalization and jumping to conclusions based on the absence of evidence.

Somewhere between our two points is an optimal middle ground. The holy grail of exclusively evidence based interventions is lofty no doubt, and we'll have to do the best with what we know right now, but to aim for anything less is quite difficult to defend.
Wasn't the lethality of Marek's disease for poultry driven by immune escape from vaccination?
Delicious urine sugar.
Graphics Programming weekly – Issue 197 – August 22, 2021
With the discussion of getting Rust into the Linux kernel, I think there's more interest in graceful recovery from OOM errors. The new Allocator API will (maybe?) help this.
I agree. Saddened about this, considering the usual level of discussions in here.
Big models: What has happened, where are we going, and who gets to build them
It depends. Sometimes you buy EXW, sometimes FOB, sometimes delivery is guaranteed. Just depends on the deal. But mostly, yes, you're right.
It goes back as far as 1906: Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary) was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. The government barred her from working as a cook. She took a fake name and resumed cooking for others. After several people died, the government discovered her crime and imprisoned her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
But how are Spanish Flu survivors still immune after 90 years?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/flu-survi...
Nb. wave function collapse messes with this, and a computer would use something like lazy evaluation to avoid generating the Everettian multiverse.
I've spent the entirety of my 30-year programming career working with mostly (> 90%) foreign labor. The "skills" in question (that I have as well)... don't seem that hard to acquire. Yet I believe the employers when they say they literally can't find Americans who have them. Either I'm seriously underestimating how hard it is to acquire said skills (and by extension undervaluing myself, by a lot), or there's something else going on.
I suppose that a version of SQLite written in a safe(r) language will eventually appear, and hopefully become popular.

But it will take a long time to mature. SQLite the project cannot switch languages, sadly. The only way to migrate is that another project would grow beside in the meantime, mature, and become a viable and compatible alternative.
For some more detail, sqlite has makefiles for things like Windows CE and VxWorks, and the generic configure process builds on almost anything else sufficiently POSIXY, like QNX.
Dramatic? Maybe. But definitely not an overstatement, and nowhere near as dramatic as ideas like all social dynamics are oppressor/oppressed social dynamics, or that for example black people cannot walk around and therefore white people have privilege to walk around and therefore think and reason.

I don't mind mention of a racial past, as long as it is actually applicable. Want to talk about slavery in the Americas? Jim Crow and segregation? European colonialism? The Maori genocide on the Moriori people? Sure, we can talk about it. But Walking? Yes, walking apparently. An attempt to cram racism into every facet of life, even where it didn't exist and doesn't belong, is absolutely 100% and evil monster seeking to pervade all culture.

I don't watch hentai.
> More like Mechanic/Engineer Bot, not intended for combat uses, no?

Something like this would certainly be helpful at Fukashima, wouldn't it?

I am flabbergasted by the apparent lack of serious R&D put into solutions for contaminated sites like that.
I have a hard time believing that the word "entitle" was accompanied by no judgement, but if not, then I apologize for making assumptions. I find feelings of entitlement to be largely the result of selfishness or delusion, and so when I hear it applied to me, that's what I think is being said.
> we've dug in and haven't found much evidence that supply is actually drying up

Interesting. Is this a case of people over-hyping the problem or just that prices are going to rise to a point that people will stop wasting it?

> the best way to build a hydrogen blimp is to get lots of flight hours on a helium version first

Can you just put hydrogen into an existing helium blimp or would you need to design a new one based on flight data?

I was under the impression they required radically different gasbag designs due to the explosion hazards (not to mention the increased lift)
The market seems so small in 2021-2022 in fact because so many models have already been shut down. That to me is a strong indicator that the PHEV transition window is already closing and anyone thinking about it in 2022 is late to the party. GM has very explicitly stated that about the Volt, it's PHEV model that pretty much exactly met this transition window, starting in 2010 and being discontinued in 2019. GM concluded that the need for a transition vehicle was over and people were going to buy pure EVs moving forward.

(Anecdotally, as a buyer that invested in a Volt in 2011, I feel the exact same way. The Volt was a wonderful choice for 2011 but in 2022 I see a lot fewer reasons you wouldn't just buy a full EV.)
3.2 per 100,000 is not "a double digit percentage".

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
Governments are prolonging the restrictions and lockdowns. Unvaccinated people are not doing that. Governments are.

Demonizing unvaccinated people is the language of an abuser: "Look what you're making me do to you." The way out of abuse isn't ever to comply with the abuser's demands.
That is exactly what people are asking for and it is super selfish. Asking everybody to hunker down to assuage people who continue to be afraid.

Sorry. Life is short. I’ve sacrificed 1.6 years of it for something I’ve never been afraid of. I’ve played by all the rules, but enough is enough. It is super selfish to insist we continue to live this way. We aren’t living, we are being kept alive… life was meant to be lived.
Yes that's probably a factor. Exposure to endocrine disruptor chemicals such as phthalates (plastic softeners) is correlated with lower testosterone levels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25121464/

And we have extensive research linking low testosterone to obesity. In fact the causality appears to run both ways with low testosterone causing an increase in adipose tissue, which in turn drives a further reduction in testosterone production. Vicious cycle.

But diets have changed over time. Americans on average do consume more calories than 50 years ago, and get a higher proportion of their calories from sugars.
Unfortunately, it would seem the data would suggest yes.

Per the CDC:

From 1999 –2000 through 2017 –2018, US obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 42.4%. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
JavaScript: MPA vs. SPA, React vs. Reactivity, VDOM vs. No VDOM, JSX vs. DSLs
There's nothing stopping you from reproducing your legacy/monolithic architecture in the cloud. But to your point the options are endless, often confusing, and sometimes overlapping.
well-volunteered. Do you have a link?
Please don't cross into personal attack on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It's against the rules here and only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use NextCloud which syncs my photos from my iPhone to my in-home server. Then I use borgbackup to encrypt my photos/videos and send them to a cloud provider. All of it is automated and wasn't too much of a hassle to setup.
The risk of long COVID sticking around in immiserating form long-term once you have it is unknown, but the risk of getting long COVID (defined along the lines of at least a few COVID symptoms sticking around for a few months) is much higher than the risk of death from Flu (starting from the assumption of not yet having caught either in a given year). I hesitate to post anything here on this subject that's not carefully worked out, so all I'll say is my personal back-of-the-envelope order of magitude calculation based on public data, comparing with other per-year risks such as cancer, didn't give me any confidence at all.
Compare the severity of those viruses in children to Covid.

A more apt comparison is Covid to Influenza. You don't need flu shots to attend school.
iCloud Photos is a synchronization service that is integrated very tightly into the core iOS system. Even the basic APIs that allow apps to integrate with the system photo library are "iCloud aware" in the sense that the photo might not be on your device. iCloud Photos makes it possible to page photos on and off your device, which is a critical feature for people who can't afford to pay for the high-end iOS devices with extensive NVRAM storage.

You, as a user, can turn off iCloud Photos. But your device functionality will be limited. And you cannot replace that functionality with any third-party alternative that will have the same feature-set and access to the low-level device features: Apple ensures this through the design of their OS and its extensive security features.

There is a version of "you don't have to use iCloud Photos" in which Apple opens their OS to competing cloud services. But you can't say this is an option while also locking the device down to use one cloud provider.
>... isn't going to eventually unleash super deadly strains.

The Guardian had an interview last week or the week before with someone who appeared to know what they were talking about. They made the point that there are dozens of known respiratory viruses already, and that although they constantly mutate and pose new challenges, we have not seen them ever mutate into "super deadly" strains.

I take some comfort from that (even though it is clearly not a sure thing).
Higher vaccination rate == less spread == less mutations.
The branch coverage thing is a weird, artificial-seeming requirement that all the branches in the compiled code --- not the code as written, but the code ultimately produced by the compiler --- be testable. In other words: if the compiler generates a bounds check anywhere, it should be possible to test what happens when that specific bounds check fails. The problem is that sane Rust code doesn't give you all the tools you'd need to deliberately trip all the checks the compiler generates, because that is part of the point of being a safe language.
Per the threat model most of the people on here seem to be buying into, Apple can do whatever they want in an iOS update, including sending iCloud Keychain secret keys to a server they control.
Modern Visual Basic
> this feature will almost certainly be met with derision/scorn from the CS crowd

Why?
Not if the general population is mandated to be vaccinated.
Have you thought about using WebExtensions API? That way, you might have it working with Firefox.