skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a website https://longbets.org/ Long Bets that's let people do this. Essentially it's to publicly state to the world you are betting, and the winner donates to charity. I would do this here with my real name.

My requirements:

- The time of day or night of my choosing

- Anytime type of weather - except:

- Will not be during snow or with excessive ice coverage (although this should be fine, IMO)

- Must not have a driver physically there who takes over, nor be driven primarily by remote drivers (remote support could be an option, but it's not a "remote control car" robo taxi)

If you accept, I'll arrange it and wager the $1000
> sqlite is renowned as a project that tests meticulously; they claim 100% branch test coverage

You realize that there are lots of test coverage metrics and none of them tell you anything about the correctness or safety of the code or about how thoroughly the edge cases have been tested, right? 100% branch coverage is neat and may indicate that the testing is thorough, or it might just indicate the project is chasing it as a metric. I’ll bet on compile time lifetime and ownership analysis guaranteed by the language every time over metrics of how good the test suite is (a test suite is important but classes of bugs are just impossible in Rust and don’t need testing/coverage in the first place).

> that is: they can't use Rust because they can't test safety checks that don't even exist in the language they use today

Can you back up this claim? This feels like a very FUD statement as any high level language (including C) has a risk that the compiler inserts branches that aren’t present in the code. Regardless, AFAIK, coverage instrumentation happens at a level below where the distinction between C and Rust matters, so any coverage should be the same. I buy the argument that replicating the test suite may be time consuming bit, but the claim that there’s something inherent about Rust preventing branch coverage feels extraordinary to me. Also, I’m not even sure where the extra branches are being inserted. Are you referring to drop statements the compiler injects for lifetimes?

> And the track record of that approach is, well, right there for you to see.

Constant CVEs and a fundamental inability to handle maliciously crafted files? I’m not shitting on the SQLite team. The project is amazing and a marvel. I’m just saying that its C heritage has some inescapable realities. Also remember that studies tend to show that the bug rate is pretty constant across languages in terms of LOC. This you want the language and stdlib doing as much as possible for you if you’re prioritizing correctness and security.
Good question. Who are they now protecting? People who refuse to get a vaccine?
Some Norwegians in the 1950's ran a pilot plant for about a decade and produced 150 tons of electrowinned iron.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
Or use something like https://github.com/zverok/wikipedia_ql that uses Mediawiki API
> The FDA has not reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or to prevent COVID-19; however, some initial research is underway.

This headline could change. There are doctors using it as part of their treatment protocol and reporting successful results.

This science is inconclusive at this point.

I haven't done a detailed analysis, but it does appear that countries which administer ivermectin to their population regularly have lower covid stats. They are mainly in tropical Africa afaik.
> Freeways are orders of magnitude easier than dynamic city streets

Yes they are. Although it's still not an easy problem. Occasionally I get sucked in to watching highway accident and road rage videos on youtube and try to consider which ones a ML could realistically handle. It's still a very complex random environment, even on interstates far away from cities.

I don't believe full self-driving has any chance of being a reality this century. It's far too complex a problem in an environment where all the edge cases do matter.

> annotate the world

This I do believe may start to happen in coming decades. But this is effectively an admission that actual self-driving isn't really possible, so the problem gets redefined to a smaller and easier scope.

Although even that will only work in limited access roads where nothing else can be present. Like barrier-separated HOV lanes but for these trucks.
Japan kept doing it after Spanish Flu.

Unfortunately, given that 1910s America and 2020s America both had significant (and in my mind, unwarranted) resistance to wearing face masks; I would not be surprised if "wear a mask if you feel sick" fails to make it into common understanding in America a second time.
To answer your first question, we constantly improve the computer and mathematical models to improve the accuracy of the 'posture session'. We also offer in-depth analytics about your posture tendencies and also provide and constantly update libraries of exercises and (ergonomic) educational videos. Moreover, we constantly develop new features that users ask for, that are meant to tackle other parts of your wellness while you work (i.e. walk breaks, exercise breaks etc.)

Using a posture correcting garment or brace will actually make your muscles weaker, since they rely on external force to maintain your posture. This is very detrimental long-term and has a negative effect on your back health and overall health. They also don't help you build good posture habits, since you just have good posture while wearing a brace, but when you take it off, you're very likely to have bad posture again.
>Why do you let the opinions of some out group determine your behavior?

I'm not sure what you mean? I have no control over how another group chooses to discriminate.

>is there someone you trust with a credentialed medical opinion you can talk to about this instead, like your family physician?

There's this presumption that people who are making the 'wrong' choice are simply uninformed or haven't sought 'qualified' medical advice. It's a bit condescending tbh.

To answer the question directly, yep. I've spoken to my doctor about it. We'll probably talk about it again next time I go in for blood work. His recommendation is his recommendation.
> you might have heard about studies from Israel claiming that vaccine efficacy has dropped by some 60%

Yes, I heard it. 60% is not a constant, the effectiveness keeps dropping over time. So what gives? In country A, everybody has to take a vaccine every 5-6 months with lockdowns in between, while another country doesn't bother vaccinating, and life returns to normal? Is this what you expect from the vaccine?
China hits zero Covid-19 cases with month of draconian curbs
I wish they made alternative PCBs for existing mice. So you’d get the nice finish of molded parts, with an open firmware.
Misinformation and calls to violence (we'll apply the 2nd amendment to them) is not a legitimate political stance. Politics is debating the merits of a progressive tax system, for example. Politics is not calling for violence toward your political opponents and their supporters or arguing that the world is flat or interfering with the function of the organs of government.
Had to turn javascript on to read an article, very realistic.
https://trimread.org/ helps with this.
How did we get here? Does any and everything ultimately get absorbed by the marketing department?
And yet, today, the socialist republic of Vietnam is hardly a pariah, or a communist menace, or a backwater or a threat to anyone.

If it turns out that Afghanistan has substantial mineral resources, as some claim, that could happen to Afghanistan. With substantial help from China.

Perhaps China will build a road and rail link to Afghanistan. There's a narrow corridor that connects the two nations. No roads. No rail. Mountains. But it's a shortcut for the Belt and Road Initiative, so it might happen.
Take the opportunity to work on your writing.
I doubt the majority of people using expensive skin care creams are actually doing it just for fun and not for any actual benefit.

It's more common to hear people say, "it probably isn't doing much, but you never know." This is similar to people buying lottery tickets, "I doubt I'll win, but you never know."

"I just enjoy it, ok?" is probably what someone would say to get rid of a pestering husband. :)
> It's not like a job, where if it sucks enough you can just leave and find a new one.

There's timing issues in some cases (and more issues during an emergency with stop-loss in effect) but otherwise if you are enlisted, you can not reup after your period of enlistment. If you are commissioned you can resign your commission. And you can almost certainly get another job, on favorable terms, because most public and many private employers apply hiring preference for veterans.
Can you elaborate on why you think this gives us way more privacy than we had before? I don't see how adding on-device scanning does that.

I think that people generally understand what's going on and where this might lead us in the future.
The biggest thing with digital signatures is that getting one trusted by Windows means entertaining a racket enabled by Microsoft.

There are two types of code signing certificates: regular, and EV. With regular certificates, all you get is effectively a way to carry your antivirus-based reputation with you as you continue to sign new binaries with it. At first sight, Windows will still throw up smartscreen warnings about it being potentially dangerous, until it's seen the certificate enough to trust it for new binaries.

With EV certificates, everything is smooth sailing - only if actual malware is reported does your certificate get slammed by antivirus reputation, otherwise you can sign anything and it'll instantly bypass all AV software and Windows smartscreen prompts.

The issue with getting either of these is that absolute cheapest one you can get is $59 a year for 3 years via a reseller[0] of Sectigo certificates, and that is only for regular code signing. If you want an EV certificate, it's going to be $219 a year for 3 years at the minimum via the same reseller (do not try to go through the regular channels or you'll likely be paying 2x-3x more[1]).

Thankfully Microsoft is aware of these concerns[2,3] and there is a potential solution coming up called Azure Code Signing[4] however no new public information has been released since that video went up.

0: https://codesigncert.com/brand (this is just the cheapest site I've found - I am not affiliated with them beyond being a customer)

1: https://sectigo.com/ssl-certificates-tls/code-signing

2: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs/issues/...

3: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs/issues/...

4: https://youtu.be/Wi-4WdpKm5E?t=530
Everybody has pre-existing conditions, whether they know it or not, the cause of death is typically reported to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. People with chronic conditions often does due to acute causes, like contracting a virus. We often call this the cause of death.

If you're living with cancer and not terminally ill in hospice and die 2 weeks later after contracting COVID, you likely died of COVID.
Lol a few years ago I did a full-page capture of a web article. 60% of space is just ads, with actual content sprinkled among the minefield. The rate has only worsened since then.
I'm not sure how 21% lower is considered "not statistically significant", in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING > 0% is helpful. Full stop.

1) Is your government adopting a comprehensives and realistic plan to achieve zero covid? (Such a policy must include 100% international travel shut-down, zero exceptions. If there are exceptions, your government does not have a zero covid policy.)

2) Is ICU or hospital usage approaching capacity in your area?

If the answer to those questions is both "no" (as it is in my jurisdiction which is requiring school kids to mask) then your statement is not true. A 21% lower incident rate is not helpful at all, everyone will still all get exposed to covid eventually.
How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants
It's high time this has happened. Certain large tech companies with abusive cultures have been open secrets for years (Ballmer-era stack ranked Microsoft, PIP culture at Amazon). But Apple's secretive, authoritarian nature has kept it under wraps for decades.

Apple is a huge corporation and there is a large degree of variation within it. But when things are toxic there, they can get very toxic. Middle managers can have a lot of leeway there, and HR is about as powerless as you can imagine. There is not much room for dissent against decisions there, forget "think different". The product schedule is all-important and can also be very stressful to work under. It's a situation that Apple employees can only sympathize with one another, but not much else.
Basically why now?
Secrets on how DocSend grew their business through product-led growth
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=4e530344963049 take a break.
My favourite Raspberry Pi 4 cases
You may want to meet people and make friends. It's going to be a lot harder to make new ones once you have got family and a job. And even if you manage to find time for that later, others might no longer.
Agreed, No argument there.
Yes. Everything about health insurance (which is what we're basically talking about) is a slippery slope.

Our health care system is unsustainable. And it's unsustainable because of one very simple reason: we want people to have absolute freedom and an absolute right to emergency care.

I don't think those two are compatible. I don't think they've ever been, but historically that contradiction has been papered over with others' money (either in the form of your insurance premiums or your tax dollars).

Cue present situation.

We have a scenario where there is a (1) free, (2) available, (3) well-tolerated, (4) effective preventative option in vaccines.

If someone chooses to remain unvaccinated, without medical reason, that is a pure personal choice.

And moreover, unlike in normal scenarios, their making that choice directly burdens everyone else.

Economically, through damage to normal economic functioning. And medically, through consuming limited hospital capacity.

These arguments could be made for other conditions (e.g. obesity), but in a much murkier and more tortured manner. COVID is crystal clear: if you can be vaccinated, and you choose not to be, you are imposing a greater burden on society.

Last I heard, the anti-vax crowd was big on personal responsibility. So why shouldn't individuals pay that debt of their own making?
> This. I wish more devs tried to utilize modern css and js directly instead of relying on frameworks.

Making any large front end application WITHOUT a framework or a view library is just a bad idea, even today. There is nothing in the DOM or spec-wise that is equivalent to the power of React or Vue, period.

When it comes to CSS, the situation is better. Flexbox, CSS grids, ... have made creating CSS layouts extremely easy. So CSS kind of successfully brought in a lot of things that were directly exploitable by front-end developers.

To this day, HTML and the DOM are JUST NOT RAD for complex UI, period. Web components have a few nice ideas but a lot of flaws (especially support on IOS). Whether you build your own framework or use someone else library, you will absolutely need something that sits on top of the DOM for large front-end applications.

So it's not by choice that most front-end devs have to rely on a framework. It's because the standards are not good enough.

> I try to do this for my own projects but there's gravitational pull toward frameworks in companies.

A simple example. you need a mechanism to manage the life cycle of event handlers on your page, if your app uses the history API. If you do so then you've already started writing your own framework.

Web components failed to address a lot of stuff developers use view libraries for. That's why it is not that popular.
_Every day we stray further from the light_
I don't think you're going to have that option regarding the booster. It is a critical step towards a social credit system that governments won't let go of. Just get the boost
sadly there are at least a few percentage points of people where that's basically the reason: they're dumb. I'm sorry, but it's true. Nonetheless, social media and other beneficiaries of fear mongering, definitely make this problem a lot worse than it would be without them.

I have a lot of trouble arguing with these people (friends, family) because I read daily about how bad covid is and they are simply ignorant. For some of them it's basically "he said, she said" (so like: who should I trust?) as if anti-vaxxers and science are on the same level of trustworthiness. And also when you talk about data they say something like "I don't trust the data" and rather trust some stupid people in their social circle. Also it appears like they feel like "vaccination can be bad", "covid can be bad (but not necessarily, my daughter had it and it was like the flu!)", so they rather try to avoid both. Yeah, logic...
Very bitter and to the point. I regularly wonder, do the people who want features like these installed — feedback form, "support chat" windows of various degrees of fakeness, subscription offer popups jumping in your face, and other absolutely baffling obstacles — really use their own web sites? Have they ever had to?
If long term safety is favorable, I'd to see more of theses.
Now I'm really curious how many African Americans are emigrating to Denmark.
We Exist – Internet Watch Foundation
Why can't Apple just fire them?
>you have an email address at Gmail
Gmail is not the only provider. Host your own mail. You will have to learn baroque things like operating systems, networking, etc., but it is doable.

>on YouTube
Create your own platform or deplatform those who dislike your "cucumber".

>because apparently cucumbers are a part of some neo-nazi slang
Yeah, icecream can lick back.

>your bank account
Make your own bank or deplatform the existing ones. They also need water/internet, right? Call the providers, they will cancel their subscription to keep their renome inmaculate.

>"it's not censorship if a private company is doing it"
Why do you want to use services where things like this can happen?

>without using their services, you may as well not exist on the internet.
Many people really greatful for this.

>What a wonderful world to be living in.
Sorry, it will be hard to swallow but you picked this timeline. Now instead of crying try to make the best out of it.
> On paper, erring on the side of caution is desirable even if it proves needless eventually, since there's no direct health downside.

Being treated like a toxic disease vector for two years surely has direct health downsides. Not learning to read faces surely has direct health downsides. Breathing god knows what those masks are made of every day surely has health downsides.

And it isn’t even my job to prove any of that. People that want to force kids to wear masks at school need to prove those aren’t something to worry about. They can’t just shrug they crap off and say “yeah well covid”. We are well beyond being able to simply use covid as an excuse to enact some restriction. Prove kids need masks and prove they won’t suffer long or even short term effects from wearing masks all day. Then and only then can you even dream of forcing kids to wear masks.
The content should be just the title repeated a few times, but phrased differently.
This reminded me of this scene from Saving Private Ryan:

Private Reiben : Oh, that's brilliant, bumpkin. Hey, so, Captain, what about you? I mean, you don't gripe at all?

Captain Miller : I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger.

Private Reiben : I'm sorry, sir, but uh... let's say you weren't a captain, or maybe I was a major. What would you say then?

Captain Miller : Well, in that case... I'd say, "This is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir, worthy of my best efforts, sir. Moreover... I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men - especially you, Reiben - to ease her suffering."

Mellish : [chuckles] He's good.

Private Caparzo : I love him.
A semester/year-long programming course that leaves students with not the foggiest idea of what "byte" or "csv" or "database" means has absolutely no business calling itself "data-centric". Full stop.

"Algorithm-centric" is a far more accurate description of what is going on in this book. And that's okay. Just not as marketable.
No. It is not.

The difference between COVID and something like cancer is that cancer is not highly contagious. COVID is. Further, it's contagious and deadly. That's why it requires special care. COVID is also not the only disease where these kind of precautions are taken. Another one is TB. Now, there are other diseases that are contagious, but not right now. For example, syphilis is both contagious and deadly. However, you're not going to catch syphilis when you're sitting next to someone who is positive. With COVID, you potentially will. That's why they have to test for it in the hospital.

Now, I will agree that vaccines exist and work. In the sense that there are people who choose to refuse vaccination, I will also agree it is a self made problem. However, this affects everyone to a high degree and not just the vaccinated.

Case in point, my wife and I are vaccinated. If she gets COVID, she most assuredly won't die, but she can't work in the ICU. She would risk getting her patients infected even though she is vaccinated. That means the hospital loses a physician in short supply. They're going to test you in the hospital because they can't afford you getting their staff sick.

This also affects you. You're vaccinated. However, say you're appendix bursts, you may or may not be able to get into the ER before you become septic. Yes, the ER will triage based on need. However, if there's no beds there's no beds and you will not be seen.

However, to reiterate, the hospital will always test you for diseases that they believe will affect their staff. You come in with respiratory symptoms. You're getting a COVID test. Having surgery? They'll test you for HIV. It's a protection issue. COVID is a pain because airborne infections are hard to contain.
I'm pretty sure that if a civilian was operating a drone in restricted airspace and a collision almost took out an aircraft, it would incur more than a fine and temporary license suspension. Just look at all of the folks being prosecuted for pointing a laser the wrong way in the sky.

http://jdasolutions.aero/blog/aiming-lasers-at-aircraft/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccine-mandate-natural-immunit... was linked in another comment, it points to 3 studies on the topic.
> They're called "new" developers. They don't have the same skillset of "experienced" developers. Luckily, "new" developers become "experienced" over time.

In my experience, the "experienced" developers produce inaccessible messes. While Bootstrap continues to be a web leader in accessibility.
Reminds me of all the times I've seen licensed engineers gatekeep the word "engineer" from us computer people :)
Relevant: https://appletoo.us/

And respective HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280134
> some research has shown that they don't do very well at stopping spread, so why all the fuss to force people to get vaccinated?

So why are they calling this the pandemic of the unvaccinated?

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/21/how-unvac...

- https://www.healthline.com/health-news/risks-of-the-delta-va...

- https://abcnews.go.com/Health/statistics-show-risks-vaccinat...

and the list goes on and on.

I have personally seen unvaccinated family members get sicker...plus countless of people mentioning the same.