skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probable NPD/psychopath was observed unleashing a withering tirade of screams and abuse at his poor helpless children, one crumpled on the ground, the other face puffy and red from crying long before any intervention ( no good deed goes unpunished ) reminiscent of a mix between a tantrum and a drill sergeant breaking down new recruits.

He claimed that he was within his right as a father to scream at full volume for 30+ minutes, blaming his kids for breaking up his marriage, threatening to cut the vacation short if they didn't stop crying and complaining about being hot and their feet hurting, and, as more proof of his psychopathic and narcisstic nature, went on an epic tirade about how "inconsiderate they were of his feelings(!)"

when, after much hesitancy, it was decided that a word was in order, he claimed that he could mistreat his kids and use them as aggression displacement mechanisms/ emotional punching bags for his work and relationship stress to his hearts content because they are "my kids!"... "that's reminiscent of (oppressive and authoritarian countries) mistreating their dissidents and claiming that sovereignty exempts them from any criticism" but apparantly that nuance was lost on Mr Attention Seeker.

Bully your kids in public, at a high volume, till they are crumpled on the floor crying, for an extended duration, and when someone has the temerity to ask you to "Seek therapy", immediately yell about being "harassed", insist that your son corroborate, lie and exagerrate, mischaracterize, selectively edit, misleadingly caption, and accuse them of racism and threaten to have them cancelled.

Rather than let it go, as his vindictive and vitriolic nature (gets angry easily and stays angry) led him to posting the selectively captioned highly abbreviated video of the interaction, along with a false and misleading narrative, claiming racism and harassment, in a cynical attempt to abuse and punish those who had the courage to say something about his horrible and completely inappropriate behavior.

This has unleashed a storm of further abuse.

Sockpuppet emails to employers, media, members of congress. Impersonation attacks with photos cribbed off of social media repeating racist tropes. Screen shots of said fake comments reposted to twitter, further inciting a mob. Threats of violence. Job and reputation hanging in the balance. All because of a vindictive abuser now economically outsourcing his abuse to digital Flying Monkeys.

Massive wave of attacks currently inbound. Any thoughts or advice?
The critical difference is that there's no culpability or consequences or Erin Brockavich-style showdown with the Big Lawyers from Big Pharma.

For the "vaccine court" you're just presenting a claim that vaccine X could cause condition Y, that you developed condition Y after taking vaccine X, and that there's no other reason you'd suffer from condition Y. If the court finds it plausible, you (and your lawyers) get paid, and everyone goes about their business the same as before.
Cheating is really rampant in CS degree programs and it’s very difficult to do an actual test of coding skills in a reasonable timeframe rather than pure memorization.
Genuine question. I know this is not the situation we find ourselves in but, if your options were on-device scanning for CSAM+encrypted iCloud Photos (that Apple could not decode) OR cloud-based scanning of iCloud Photos which would you pick? Are you still opposed to all on-device scanning?

Edit: Thank you all for your replies. I don't share the exact same concerns as some of you but I appreciate you sharing your thoughts/reasoning. I really did what to know what people thought about this in the context of an E2E iCloud-* and it's been hard to pick that out of all the other discussions.
I don't actually believe in freedoms.

One person's freedom to do what they want with their body conflicts with another person's freedom to live in a drug free society.

This leads to a semantic argument over the word and what freedoms are right or wrong, which is just trying to construct your own axiomatic system, but you can't ever prove the correctness of the axioms that you adopt. Its a pointless endless argument and you can't ever come to any agreement.

The thing to look at is outcomes and unintended consequences.

And really this about the fact that our hospitals and ICUs are going to fill up and we only have a limited supply of people to run them, even if we could have Elon Musk pump out a million ventilators or something. Getting coercive about vaccinations is something that apparently has to happen because not enough people are doing it. And the vast majority of people do actually want an ICU to go to if they get into a bad car accident. That's why freedoms don't actually matter. Our hospitals are turning into fucking warzones and we should be dealing with this like we're on a war footing.

And in this case the enemy is a virus, not human, we should be able to agree as a species that we'd like to defeat its efforts. Instead we have humans with brainworms simping for the virus.
> Are photos uploaded to iCloud encrypted client-side?

Well, I can share a link to them and others can see them, including anonymous users. Just leads me to believe that either they aren’t or if they are, they have the key.
Very curious to know, are you and your family (if you have kids) have not vaccinated for other kinds of stuff like Polio, HepA, HepB, Varicella etc. or is your objection just for Covid vaccines?
Not to mention the Typescript parser can be configured to parse JSDoc comments for compiling an index.d.ts file for external users if need be
Even with your numbers it puts a kid's chances of ending up hospitalized with covid at 1 in 128. Granted we're probably way under counting infections in that age group, but I'll still feel much better when my kid is vaccinated.
Some people are unable to be vaccinated (due to legitimate medical reasons) and need to rely on others.
> You don’t get vaccine-skeptical people in rural Bangladesh to get vaccinated by telling them they’re idiots and making threats. Yet that’s been the main game plan with less educated rural people here in the US: berate the white ones for not being vaccinated ....

It could be that lower educational level is merely coincidental, and that the relevant characteristic is, instead, an insecure-but-obstinate egoism whose Prime Directive is, "You're not the boss of me!" If that's true, then:

1. scorn, mockery, and threats seem just about as likely to convert obstinate anti-vaxxers — EDIT: that is to say, not likely at all — as any other approach, because by this point in a pandemic, there's little hope that anything will convince stubborn contrarians that they should get vaccinated, not even the deathbed pleas of their fellow contrarians who realize too late that they fatally screwed the pooch; but

2. for the vaccinated, public mockery of anti-vaxxers could help to reinforce their sense of community with other vaccinated folks — and, more generally, with community-minded folks, as opposed to selfish individualists — by evoking primitive us-versus-them feelings, with "them" being the insecure-but-obstinate egoists. That could be socially useful, in a backhanded sort of way.

EDIT: We've seen this kind of behavior before in die-hard (so to speak) smokers; cf. the anti-smoking public service announcements by former smokers such as Leonard Nimoy, who died of COPD after smoking for years. [0]
> To many of you here: imagine the Trump admin trying to require you to take the vaccine in November of last year. Cities would have burned over it.

It's very political. There's a bunch of screenshots and videos floating around of left-wing people who didn't trust the vaccine because they perceived it as coming from the Trump administration when it was in place. Now that we've swapped presidents, the side of that have flipped - now a bunch of right-wing people don't trust it because they don't trust the Biden administration.

Oddly, it doesn't seem to bother anyone in either of these camps that it was both developed and pushed through initial testing under the Trump administration, and ramped up to full production and usage and edging towards mandates under the Biden administration.
How about a "needs assessment" tool for people switching to the Linux platform?

As I've been switching platforms, there's a lot of scary stuff and lots of unknowns. But once I started digging into what apps I actually use, it's a pretty small list. Some things are easy - like Brave. Other things are tough to replace though (i.e. Messages, Facetime with my family). But getting specific made it less daunting.
So much of this. In my CS class, I could hardly find anyone who actually had some curiosity to learn. Everyone does their homework by sharing answers on the class chat. And in team projects, either there is one person who does all the work, or they end up copying from google and stackoverflow.
Right now kids are in danger because they are getting covid and RSV at the same time. RSV is surging in many areas of the USA.
In NYC, teacher's unions refused to go back to work until a vaccine was available. Despite that, the vaccination rates were only 40-60% before the mandate that public sector workers be vaccinated.
XMPP is basically an abomination of a protocol. It's too complicated. Other people can explain it better than I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069810
Come on. If humanity were unable to survive without the help of artificial vaccines, we would never be here.
I don’t see anything in the article that says control groups received the experimental vaccine after 14 days. They don’t even unblind the results until they’ve gotten enough confirmed cases to determine efficacy. Perhaps some people had enrolled just before they received enough data to unblind?
If it was a big squishy poop at risk of an overflow blowout I would.
Styx browser and Einkbro on fdroid have this. Also, this acts like a switch and can vbe easily changed on a per site basis for Styx Browser. Try it!
Iirc theres images of 1908 spanish flu protestors inciting others to wear masks.

Also i believe there was a pandemic response force that trump admin threw out.
The hardware pays for itself with current conditions remain constant (which is never the case!) in about 8 months.

It uses high end graphics cards RTX 3060Ti and RTX 3080 that shouldn't go to zero resale value even in a year or two.

Mining for the same coin typically produces less and less of that coin due to difficulty increase.

However difficulty increase for the same coin typically associated with it's price increase as well.

So to derive most benefits from mining it's better to mine solid coins (like ETH right now) and hold them.

I currently mining non-ETH coin that increased in price 30% in a week by itself.

So this helps to make this venture more beneficial.

And then I use dedicated mining OS (HiveOS) that allows to control the whole thing fully remotely and in fact switch mining to more profitable coins dynamically.
Have You Already Had a Breakthrough Covid Infection?
> information about particles’ past states gets carried forward as they evolve

So I was curious and googled and found:

> the value of a wave function of a physical system at one point in time should determine its value at any other time

Is there a layman's explanation about what this ... is?
Should I assume that you're referring to a JAMA article or perhaps one of the Nature publications?

Those only measured patients who suffered acute symptoms. Those are unlikely to represent even a bare majority of infections although it's quite difficult to get accurate data for asymptomatic infections.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03696-9

"only 10% had been hospitalized"

I look forward to your citation of relevant peer-reviewed longitudinal studies.

Even more interesting from a medical point of view, what mechanism do you propose for developing long term immunity, where the innate immune system rapidly controls infection?
> all these options should be auto-discovered, and in fact are, in any normal deployment.

I think that's a slightly different thing than what was suggested. For some options, auto-discovery is fine. For security, I think the current consensus is just make the best choice you can, and if something really requires a major change, version the standard (major version, like from 1.x to 2.0, so it's obvious). Auto-discovery of a setting to do with security is just another possible location where a security issue might be found because or a poor implementation of the standard.
iCue is the worst software I've had the pleasure of working with. For months I was trying to debug lag spikes in games I was playing, turning off services, closing every application, using different wireless adapters, even connecting through ethernet was giving me lag spikes. Finally traced it down to iCue doing something in the background where it would pause/block all outbound traffic except for itself for a couple hundred ms every 10 or so seconds. God that was infuriating.
A great point. The same people decrying a vaccine that has been safely administered to nearly a billion people at this point and extensively studied will be the first ones to try all sorts of untested homeopathic and "alternative" nonsense.
Battles have rarely been massive charges from two sides of a flat battlefield, as we see in war movies. Historically, it's been really hard to get soldiers to charge to their deaths, which makes sense if you think for a second. Most armies throughout history were nonprofessionals levied by their lords or seasonal opportunists, who fought for extra income. Sometimes, the leaders would get the soldiers drunk before they went in, and they'd retreat and have to be coaxed into running in again.

Aside from all this, contrary to some sort of received chivalric ideal of loyalty and fighting-unto-death, a great number of military engagements in every part of the world were decided by bribery and deception. People don't want to risk their lives and are often tempted by monetary gain. Countless forts have fallen to people opening the doors from within. There's instances of Sufi leaders being admitted into forts only to open the gates. Hyderabad was conquered by Aurangazeb in great part due to bribery, too.

The calculus changes dramatically if the attacker has a history of lenient behavior toward those who surrender, versus massacre for those who do not. The Mughals regularly incorporated surrendering lords into their feudal system, with honors, income, and opportunities for social advancement. The Mongols razed the Khwarezmia because of their disastrous refusal of their envoys.
Is that from that one Armchair U study?
Installing piper on linux and using it to configure your mouse will most likely be faster than using the manufacturer's software.

Also no tinkering required if your mouse is supported by libratbag.
They were lifted because voters were angry and made that anger known to politicians, who responded in a political manner rather than a medical manner.
basically you just described dynamic languages here. We know why and how to program in a dynamic language. We don’t want that though. People that are using TypeScript are using it for the static typing.
Can you provide a source?

My understanding was that masks were primarily effective at preventing high viral load droplets from spreading the virus during short interactions.

I don't have any source to prove that to be the case because data on the effectiveness of masks seems frustratingly sparse.
What about: "I'm glad she did run not across the Men in Black in the middle of the night..."
> the Librem 5, which is a tad faster spec wise

Actually, Librem 5 is significantly faster: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p... (see "Reasons to buy").
Good luck with upgrading or downgrading anything. There's a reason why people serialise to well-known formats like protobuf and JSON, and it's because they are extensible.
ICD patient and avid cell phone user here. They tell us magnets will disable the device. This is by design, they include a hall effect sensor to allow medical personnel to disable the devices. They aren't exactly specific about how big a magnet and how close it has to be.

My device sends data to a base station which reports back and is also interrogated every 6 months by a electrophysiologist and they can see if and when it has been disabled.

Mine has been disabled twice so far, once by using the Boston Scientific interrogation device to turn it off, and once by a surgeon taping a magnet to my chest!
Neuroscientists Find Beige Fat “Indispensable” in Protecting Brain from Dementia
Once you have evidence the treatment works, it becomes unethical to not offer it to the control group. This happens in a lot of medical trials.

In this specific situation, they would have been condemning through a choice to not treat, a fraction of the control group to die.
Zowie has an array of gaming mice that are all high quality and driverless.
Seriously? Go check out Matrix or ActivityStreams, XMPP is actually much simpler.
It also didn't incubate the same way
https://web.archive.org/web/20210822151254/http://simia.net/...
Had to look into MLPerf as I don’t follow super compute.

But I don’t see them not doing that test as an issue as they made it quite clear that their entire system is tailor made, like an ASIC, to focus on neural nets and specific, relevant compute pipelines to what they care about. I would imagine dropping a generic, broad based ML benchmarking tool will not only perform suboptimally but also not be representative of what they’re trying to do. It’s not meant to be a general purpose ML super computer, it’s supposed to be a super computer to solve a narrowish niche of problems.
But you do like the idea of a server-level scanner for a hash database assuming that you're guilty until proven innocent?
> It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools.

It really shouldn’t if you’re an educated person who is following what scientific authorities are saying. The science here is still uncertain, but leaning towards masks for kids in schools not being worth it. See: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-maski...

> At the end of May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a notable, yet mostly ignored, large-scale study of COVID transmission in American schools… Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective.

> In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms.
The nazism did not took issue with Jewish religion as much as they too issue with Jewish race.

Not being affiliated with church did not saved people.
To me this is the most frustrating and frequent hot take I hear; "continue to show vaccines are less effective than we were all lead to believe"

I was sold a vaccine that limited hospitalization and death and we have three vaccines that all do this, frankly, miraculously.

I wasn't sold a prophylactic sunscreen that prevented infection of coming into my body. I was sold an immune response that made my body more resilient to it. I have not seen any evidence that this is waning over time.

Now, delta is a new variant of the disease that wasn’t the subject of the original vaccine study so why should this now old 2020 vaccine be as effective against this new 2021 variant? It shouldn’t be but considering the vaccines effectiveness at preventing hospitalization and death against the new variation that it wasn’t even built to combat its actually OVERDELIVERING against its goals. Another miracle

So maybe that requires adjustments to the vaccine, perhaps on an annual cadence like the flu vaccine. Frankly I am fine with that.

I am disappointed that the vaccines don’t do more to dampen the spread of the disease but considering how defeatable the worst cases are with now multiple vaccine options I am highly confident that our deservedly well paid scientists and pharma companies can keep the progress flowing here and continue to improve over time.
Don't bother. Unless you're building enterprise apps that need to support OIDC it's completely the wrong product for making a static site a bit more interactive.
Nope, but in fairness, it doesn't make it particularly worse.
The VR Market in China: Moving Toward the Metaverse
No, it was never possible for original SARS to have r0 comprobale to nCov19. However that was the fear from the start.
Isn’t this a contradiction?

“Masks don’t work” and then in the next paragraph “mostly you get COVID when not wearing [a mask]”
Alternatively, someone could realize that existing CSAM that's so widespread it's in the database basically equals water under the bridge, whereas creating CSAM that isn't in the DB requires to harm more children.

Poverty and power imbalance is what harms children the most, by far. But we can't tackle that without stepping on the toes of greed, so we do circus instead.
I'd pick the latter. I doubt iCloud will ever be a zero-knowledge service.
It is likely that your browser either has a setting to disable this, or has an extension that exposes such a setting.

If you want your browser in light mode but the rest of your system in dark mode, that's a niche need, and not a preference you should be trying to force on the rest of the world.
I expect those side effects were actually seen within the first few months after being administered. It merely took that long for the company producing it to officially acknowledge it, because they are terrible.

You could argue that the same could be happening with COVID vaccines, but I think that is unlikely given the unprecedented level of worldwide scrutiny on these.
I don’t see this as a good faith conversation. It’s one thing to ask why people are using something, another thing entirely is to get people to convince one to use it. Particularly when the post already starts with a few statements of not liking it.
> Conclusions:
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.
If SLOBS is just a fork, then why is that a concern? Am I missing something here that will mean that the main OBS project suffers from this?
Ah yes the 1950s! When we thought we needed nuclear-powered long-range bombers that could stay in the air for months at a time as part of the deterrent. The USAF spent a good $10B 1950's dollars on this concept and funded some incredible reactors like the Aircraft Reactor Experiment [1] and the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiments [2] (which you can see yourself if you're ever driving through Idaho).

The ARE was interesting in that it was the world's first molten salt fueled reactor.

Once Kennedy shut down the propulsion program (because ICBMs had been developed and we didn't need nuclear-powered planes anymore), the reactor expertise from this program at Oak Ridge led directly to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE), which to this very day fuels all the excitement about thorium reactors and molten salt reactors.

Interestingly, China is just about finished building their version of the MSRE, called TMSR-LF1 [3], and is supposed to start testing it in a month or two.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Reactor_Experiment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion#He...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1
I believe a Russian man did domesticate them. IIRC it only took 30 generations to be very very doglike. I'm sure it Googles.