skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the interview:

>Needless to say, masking is political hot button beyond anything I've ever seen in public health.

At the same time i think we've all done a disservice to the public.

When you actually look at face cloth coverings, they actually only have very limited impact in reducing the amount of virus that you inhale in or exhale out.

Studies that have been done show that if an individual might get infected within 15 minutes in a room, by time and concentration of the virus in the room, add a face cloth covering you only get about five more minutes of protection.

I've been really disappointed with my colleagues in public health for not being more clear about what can masking can do or not do.

On the other hand if you use the n95 respirators and fit them tight to your face, you can actually spend 25 hours in that same room and still be protected.

The bottom line though is by telling people that in fact just putting a face cloth covering on is going to protect you is simply not true.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...

Cloth masks are nowhere near good enough protection to allow children too young to be vaccinated to return to school.
> did not include an assessment of compliance (e.g., mask use).

This is not a rebuttal.

If you establish a policy, and people do not follow the policy, that's on you, not on the people. You don't get to compare your intervention against an ideal world and claim that "it would have worked, if only for those darned humans!"

> Basically was relying on self reporting. If a student contracted and was asymptomatic, not shown here, etc.

A great many of the pro-mask papers in 2020 that claimed to "prove" that masks work started from self-reported data (the infamous "hairdressers" CDC report comes to mind...if a customer was asymptomatic, they were ignored; there was no control, so it's impossible to know what would have happened otherwise; etc.) The standards for "proof" across the pandemic have been dismally low, and tribalism and politics have supplanted science.

The difference here is that we actually have examples from across the globe where kids weren't masked in schools, and no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. If we're going to be skeptical (we should!) let's be skeptical of every claim, and demand proof of effectiveness for our medical interventions before imposing them across all of human society.
What people make this aurguement fail to understand is that legally there is a HUGE difference between

"We will not make software that scans files on the device"

and

"We will not allow the software we made to scan for anything other than CSAM"

Under US law it would be very hard to force apple to do the first, but no where near as hard to compel them to change the database they of files they are scanning for...
Firefox Nightly did just block the downloads for a while. I think this implementation must have been based on feedback from that very annoying experiment.
Sure, if whatever they are spreading is feeding a global pandemic killing millions. If it's just a localized issue, of course not.
MMR vaccines are sterilizing, i.e. you take them once and done. No lifetime booster subscription.

Current Covid vaccines are non-sterilizing. They do not provide immunity that is equivalent to the MMR vaccine.

A future (nasal) Covid vaccine may offer long-term mucosal and blood/serum immunity.
I think too many people equate Bootstrap with just their grid system, and then assume "oh I can do this with CSS easily now". As a customizable baseline for styles and components it's much more than that. It's saved me and my projects from writing tons of bespoke CSS.
Apple workers collecting stories of abuse, injustice in workplace
Your post is the best explanation of blockchain's necessity.
People talk about having memory safety issues in Rust and Go, and my general reaction is that these claims tend to be pretty artificial (for instance: they've managed to introduce concurrency bugs that abort their program). If you've got a war story about a security-relevant memory corruption vulnerability you managed to introduce into a Rust codebase (that wasn't in straight-up `unsafe` code), I'd be interested in hearing more about it.

My position right now, before hearing that war story, is that Rust vs. C is more than a difference of degree. It's a difference of degree in security writ large, to be sure. But for memory corruption? I'd say the distinction is close to categorical.
I wonder if there has been research that attempts to answer the question of whether masks encourage less safe or more safe behaviour - it feels to me like something that would respond well to a well designed study.
Does living through it count? :)

Once Upon A Time every GMail user was also an XMPP user.
The US has historically had a very strong stomach for legally compelling action specifically to ensure public health, which has somehow not yet fallen down the slippery slope of genocide.

Here's some history... Basically, the US Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that states can take strong measures under the 10th Amendment, and the Commerce Clause can be used for federal interventions.

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/publications/yourab...

[on edit: ALSO, wtf: vaccine refusal isn't a human right... In fact, ensuring vaccination helps satisfy Article 25 of the UN Declaration.]
If the goal is just helping people, why would OpenStreetMaps be preferred over Google Maps?

I love answering questions on Maps and providing information for others (in my eyes: effectively working for them, not Google). Google Maps seems like it has a significantly larger user base, so my contributions help significantly more people.

It's very much a help-and-be-helped community, too. I can ask questions about businesses and have answers from other people in just a couple minutes. I don't imagine I'd have the same quality/speed asking questions on OSM (if they even have that feature?).
If it turns out that they weren't useful, what harm has been caused?

Socializing in masks is massively inferior. It sucks talking to other people and not being able to read facial expressions or to see smiles. Right now American health officials are asking children to an spend the majority of their waking hours for an entire year of their lives (or more??) around friends and teachers without that essential human experience of seeing smiles. That is harm in an of itself. Even if the kids bounce back, and you can't find a developmental difference in any statistic, that year of their life, a year they will never get back, will still have been a year of being deprived of essential human connection.
Wikipedia asks people not to crawl it. There are database dumps that you can instead import into your local MySQL and work from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Pl...
Whether meant for adults or not, juvenile diabetes is real and often overlooked. Anyone who has children or ever hopes to have children should file away the fact that fruity smelling diapers/urine could indicate a real problem.
Yeah true, it's really only about family doctors. Medical procedures, specialists, and hospital bills are a different matter entirely.

If you think your current family doctor is not diagnosing you properly you can already go get multiple opinions for free. And with more and more family doctors being accessible by phone and video chat (covered by the province) the benefits of a private doctor are pretty limited.
it'll be marketed to eldercare and in the end the only ones buying will be overly anxious parents of newborns

(anxious first time father writing this) :D
I need something to reasonably explain to my wife that all these things don't work, the brand indoctrination is profound and the credit card bills hefty.
Any good study on all the things that don't work?
same here ! This would have been the most exciting feature ever!

Build a backend for Excel
This is fascinating and a great description to the threats facing Amazon. When you cede responsibility to Amazon that your business requires to perform adequately (in this case it seems to be the ability to match a bike to its compatible parts) than that is a risk for Amazon to lose its place as the internet’s mall if it cannot offer a way to stay relevant. If zero bike parts are available on Amazon today it might become bigger and bigger markets tomorrow, that a company like Shopify is better aligned to serve.
What's all quackery?
Yes, but where are the data? What low means? What is expected range? Just 1% would be a lot of people to have longer term side effects. Etc.
No. People don't need another enterprise solution which is just a repackaged version of last-year's, someone-else's enterprise solution.
Representative democracy is a decision-making process. I’m talking about the process that precedes it; of making sense of the world through dialogue.
Here's what the bulletin actually says

"Through the remainder of 2021, racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will remain a national threat priority for the United States. These extremists may seek to exploit the emergence of COVID-19 variants by viewing the potential re-establishment of public health restrictions across the United States as a rationale to conduct attacks. Pandemic-related stressors have contributed to increased societal strains and tensions, driving several plots by domestic violent extremists, and they may contribute to more violence this year.

Foreign and domestic threat actors, to include foreign intelligence services, international terrorist groups and domestic violent extremists, continue to introduce, amplify, and disseminate narratives online that promote violence, and have called for violence against elected officials, political representatives, government facilities, law enforcement, religious communities or commercial facilities, and perceived ideologically-opposed individuals. There are also continued, non-specific calls for violence on multiple online platforms associated with DVE ideologies or conspiracy theories on perceived election fraud and alleged reinstatement, and responses to anticipated restrictions relating to the increasing COVID cases."

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisor...

Doesn't sound Orwellian to me at all.
rustc has seven supported vxworks targets, incidentally.
What a mighty impressive beast.

But yeah. We say that for every Z CPU. This one is no different.
Correction: there are a bunch of screenshots and videos about people saying they would not trust a vaccine just because President Trump said so. Given all of the awful advice that was common from the then-president (e.g.: hydroxychloroquine), that was perfectly reasonable.

You can probably find exceptions, but the widely spread examples I am aware of all then went on to talk about believing it when it came from the CDC and other authorities.

I would argue that there has been little flipping. Those who were not going to get the vaccine under President Trump are also not going to get it under President Biden. The recent "boo"ing of former President Trump at his recent rally when he recommended people get vaccines is just the latest evidence of that.
With your other reply, I think I understand your point better. The situation of the military is super different from startups. Maybe also implied that means that we can't bring over giant lessons. I really agree with this.

I think the more different the context, the more specific the ideas you bring over should be (the trend seems to be the more different, the bigger the idea). So instead of trying to tell me the value of communication, I'd rather know in detail how one unit handles debriefings. Then I can maybe pick up some tips or try the whole thing.
That was cool. It reminded me of Orca, but in 3D.

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-orca/
> When scraping HTML from Wikipedia, one is using general-purpose well-known tools. You'll get slightly better at whatever general-purpose programming language and libraries you were using, learn something that may be useful the next time you need to scrape something else. And most importantly, you know that you'll finish, you can see a path to success. When exploring something "alternative" like Wikidata, you aren't sure if it will work, so the alternative path needs to work harder to convince potential users of success.

I'm not sure its that clear. Scrapping is pretty generic, but SPARQL is hardly a proprietary query language - other things use it. If what you're into is obtaining data, sparql might more generically apply than scrapping would. It really depends on what you are doing in the future. At the very least if you do scrapping a lot, you're probably going to reinvent the parsing wheel a lot. To each their own.

> he's ignoring the work he invested in learning that query language (and where to query it), for instance

And Bill is ignoring the work of learning how to program. None of us start from nothing, and its not like any of this is trivial to learn if you've never touched a computer before.

And to be clear i'm not objecting - there is nothing wrong with using the skills you currently have to solve the problem you currently have. Whatever gets you the solution. If you're querying wikidata (or similar things) everyday, learning sparql is probably a good investment. If you're interested in sparql, then by all means learn it. But if those dont apply, then scrapping makes sense if you already know how to do that.
Because it isn't fully featured - it lacks the majority of features of the native client
Mechas always have legs and look humanoid. It's a pretty big stretch calling this thing a mecha.
I've seen, and read many, many of these kind of articles on how to evaluate potential co-founders (they're mostly generated as part of a shutdown, and I get it, there were a lot of feelings involved). I put forth the problem, that evaluation is actually the -relatively- easier part; finding startup cofounders who both operate at sufficiently high levels of competence, at skills that are complimentary to yours, and can operate a startup (ie operating under conditions of knightian uncertainty/Goal ambiguity/Isotropy) is the very, very difficult challenge.
We have immunity, it's called the immune system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8045461/

This is a common attribute of infections and is really more of a math issue than anything SARS-specific. The bigger the initial dose, the sooner it will get to the impact stage, and the less prepared your immune system will be at that time.
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"...provided he's acting ethnically."

Well, one YouTuber I follow, don't remember which, was quite irate and disappointed regarding his coverage of a recent self-driving cars video (IIRC), that amounted to ~"barely a bit more than an ad". (Haven't watched the Veritasium's video in question yet, so cannot really comment on the veracity of the claims.)
I think you are misunderstanding what I've been saying.

"You are arguing "we don't know what'll happen with vaccines" as though you do know the long term risks of COVID-19."

I'm saying that the longterm effects are not known for either.

"Other coronaviruses have, but mRNA vaccine technology is about 15 years old - that's how long it's been in development and studied."

Do you have some links for this? The mRNA technology was used a little differently in the past from what I saw. Most of the research I saw were attempts to correct genetic issues, not trigger immune responses against the proteins created. Not to mention, the OP article even has the FDA stating that they don't know the longterm effects of vaccination, so it seems my statement is consistent with the expert opinion.

"But if you were concerned about that, you could take J&J or Astrazeneca, both of which are based on adenovirus vector technology and has existed since the 1980s - the clotting side effect is both rare and treatable."

It's a similar mechanism, right? You're just using a virus to carry the genetic material, which also involves an extra transcription step in the cell (what is theorized as causing mutations in the spike and thus the stroke/clotting issues). Still quite different from the traditional inactive or protein based ones.

Have either technologies been used in a wide scale way (1M+ people) on the timeframes you mention?

"You are engaging in some both-sideism FUD and misrepresenting the technology of vaccines while pretending a brand new novel disease is some well-understood thing."

First off, it's not FUD. I'm not fear mongering. There's no doubt expressed about known things. Sure, there is uncertainty about both sides, but even the experts acknowledge this in a similarly objective way (ie I lack the motive behind FUD). My statements have been objective about how one may be approaching the decision. Where have I misrepresented vaccine technology? I am not saying covid is well known - in fact, your statement contradicts your other statement about "both-sidism FUD" since I can't possibly be claiming it's well understood and simultaneously claim fear, uncertainty, and doubt about it.

If you read it, you can see the discussion is about how people might be approaching a decision with a mix of fairly well known short term data and relatively little known long term data, and how the value proposition changes.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/05/27/why-are-aztrazeneca...

https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/155536/bre...
> This is a reductionist gotcha?

I don't think you understood the post you responded to. The point was that if they were a common carrier then they would not censor anything that isn't illegal. They censor a lot.
You use the electricity, you pay for it. Why are you implying an ethics issue with that? Someone wasting the same amount of electricity to play games 10 hours a day is doing anything better?
> What's insufficient about the existing National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?

Max compensation is $250k. Life insurance values my life far more. Documents are under seal. Payouts are paid by the tax payer, not the manufacturers. Cases are heard by HHS and defended by DOJ (more taxes footing the bill). HHS has repeatedly refused to add certain injuries to their compensation tables even after CDC directed research indicates that such injuries have been proven to be causal (eg: motor tics in those that received thimerosol containing vaccines). Most cases now go years before any decision is made when the original stated purpose of the program was speedy settlements (6 months or less). The only expert witnesses that might be allowed to speak in secret vaccine court will likely be the scientists that were paid to design the vaccine in question by industry. Doctors that have testified against industry in this court (and others like it in other nations) have had their careers destroyed by retaliatory tactics.

I find it quite funny and sad that you need to ask “what’s wrong with this special, secret court?” What’s NOT wrong with a special, secret court designed to protect a massive industry? NO PRODUCT CLASS should be protected in this manner.
You could probably do some kind of damped harmonic balancer with a simple mass on the end of a damped spring tuned for the expected operating range. Still increases cost but not as much.
People will always be sceptical of deviations from the status quo and politicians will always be there to capitalize on those fears for substantial gains of power. We have the most educated populis in human history and we're still seeing these problems. I'm not sure how you could fix vaccines becoming a political issue without major changes to the political structure.
Someone added a payload for Bash Bunny here https://twitter.com/hak5darren/status/1429463473700888577
And I thought on my companys HP ZBook the sound driver is huge with 500MB in RAM.
> Fear mongering like this is exactly why nobody trusts the CDC and FDA.

Do you believe beloch speaks for the CDC and FDA?
> It does a bit toward preventing spreading it if you already have it, but if you already have it, the schools send you home anyway

Most of the schools that do testing due so weekly. With delta someone can be contagious up to 36 hours after infection. That means someone who gets tested on Friday morning, goes to a poorly ventilated party with a COVID-19+ that evening and returns to school on Monday could spread the disease for a week.
Not really. I can't easily find any statistics, but I just based it on the fact that a few years ago roughly half of my techy friends used XMPP. Many ran their own servers and all of the clubs had one. The work one had hundreds of users online at all times. Today all of these numbers are zero. Roughly split 40/40/20 between telegram, matrix and discord.
According to this table [1], we spent about double on coronavirus public funding in 2020 as we do _every_ year for diabetes. As an emergent situation with potential for much more death, that seems proportional.

Also, according to [2], "The majority of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes." So the majority of deaths are possibly preventable, which sounds familiar to the debate around COVID.

Finally, to suggest diabetes and coronaviruses are at all the same is an ignorant statement. It's not like _nobody_ cares about diabetes. It just happens to be its own tough nut to crack. What have you contributed to the body of knowledge about it?

> What deserves such incredible non-stop daily attention? Answer: whatever makes the most money.

Indeed. This is why I strictly limit my news consumption, but it's not completely useless. I scan for trends and dig into sources and details. The stuff I linked in this comment took me all of 5 minutes to find with Internet searches.

[1]: https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spending#/

[2]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diabetes
> Though I cannot understand the distinction behind TLS and STARTTLS , I don’t think locking in one option will make it all that better.

StartTLS starts unencrypted then "upgrades" the connection to TLS if the client and server support it. This leaves a whole lot of room for an active attacker on the network to prevent all forms of encryption, rendering TLS essentially useless.

That's not to say TLS is perfect: having to trust an entire list of third-party CAs with their own incentives/pressures is a flawed model. But TLS is better than no TLS, so direct TLS is better than StartTLS.
It's the country code for Honduras.
> The biggest challenge with Excel features remains versioning: functions are tied to a specific Excel releases, and it takes years before enough people run a version supporting them.

Also seems difficult to maintain if these are cell-bound, and both the cell edition interface and the Name Manager interface were an incredibly poor edition experience from what I remember, but maybe that improved since?
If there are comments breaking the site guidelines that aren't getting moderated, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see them. There are far too many for us to see them all.

Referring to authorities as "petty tyrants" or whatever probably doesn't count a personal attack unless the "petty tyrant" is personally present. I don't think those comments are very high quality, but this is the internet. Trying to raise comment quality is like trying to lift a tsunami. We do what we can.

I don't agree that personal attacks are "small". I think they are particularly poisonous to community.
Observable Plot 0.2
I don't know if what you describe is the answer, but certainly I mean "someone is implementing anti-attacker processes upon new signups and existing accounts", so that the majority of abusive attacks are stopped before I'm required to Block someone.

As you describe with G-lines, without a centralized anti-attacker system, it is very much the whack-a-mole game that I'm accustomed to from XMPP or IRC.
Where police bribes are common they are usually for things like speeding tickets. Getting out of major charges with a bribe is pretty far down the corruption rabbit hole.
According to wikipedia, it still kills 6400 per year.