skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by “rejecting science”? First of all there is no singular “scientific community”, there are a multitude of different communities with their own norms and practices. (You’re going to expect big differences between the mathematicians and anthropologists!) And people in academia fight all the time over existing norms in sciences, sometimes fields get split over this, sometimes people really leave, and sometimes there are revolutions that change the norms of how scientists perform experiments and gather/process data. I’m not saying that I’m not endorsing science, I just want to say the practices of “science” is socially mediated and constantly in debate & subject to change. There’s a whole history of science (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science) to delve into if you’re curious about this.
Denmark just passed a law that limits the number of non-white people in a neighborhood.
Duplicate, junk science, fake news.

Regarding the claim, "never" really means "since people started monitoring it" which is several decades ago.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-and-new-cases-of-h...

HIV deaths were 348k in 1990 (which is the earliest year I found stats for on a quick googling). Around 4m people died from covid over the past year. We definitely would not want covid's mortality trajectory to follow HIV's, which peaked at 1.95 million, a 5.5x multiple of 1990's figure.
US Could Save Billions of Dollars by Electrifying Light-Duty Vehicles
Aren't the vaccines still not available for those under 12? And they're emergency use only in many of those countries? Not sure how you can say any country, even Israel, is "close to full vaccination". 28% of their population is 14 and under.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Age_str...
I wonder how much we'll change/have to change our behavior long term, for example 10 years from now. I'd imagine not much.

I'd say it's the exact opposite. It's known that immunity against coronaviruses isn't long-lasting (look at the Rev Jackson and his wife, both of whom were vaccinated early this year and are now in hospital) and that antiviral treatment needs to start early (does everyone really want to do a PCR test every other day so they can start antibody treatment early like Governor Abbot?)

We'll have to start wearing masks indoor and stop being in crowded rooms until the virus is eradicated. Right now, with the population half vaccinated, we are setting ourselves up for a re-run of Marek's disease, this time in people.
What studies?
Ah ya that makes total sense.

I will see what we can do to make that more obvious and linked to our paper reports thanks for the suggestion.
That's a popular quip, but I think it's actually a form of thought-terminating cliche. If you want, they're clients in the sense that a government torturer's victim is their client.
No it's not. There's still no evidence that there is any real risk to children. Please prove otherwise. Anecdotes and one in a million cases don't count.
Hah! That's pretty funny. By screwing the Australian public with the poles and wires investment guarantee they accidentally heralded 'the great consumer protest' of the fastest worldwide uptake of residential solar panel installations.

Something something law of unintended consequences...

To compound the shame of it, all the money spent on the 'poles and wires' initiative did nothing to contribute to the grid's ability to cope with the influx of power from the volume of rooftop solar installations, and so all that investment has just smeared problems around, and now there's a whole lot more planning and likely investment necessary to migrate to a rooftop solar heavy grid. Maybe that's all part of the plan (I don't believe that - never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence).

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-the-us-can...

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2021/australia-in...

https://theconversation.com/australia-is-the-runaway-global-...
Very disappointing to see a supposedly serious corporation giving legitimacy to such a blatant scam.
You mean it’s an investment of 150k that will likely be worth 1M by the end of the year, AND makes them seem hip.
As far as I know the virus H1N1 itself didn't really evolve in the sense that it got milder - all hosts either developed immunity or died off. Now our immune systems encounter one of the endemic, seasonal strains of H1N1 when we are young (or we get a flu vaccine) - however from time to time a new strain of H1N1 emerges that is dissimilar enough, see e.g. 1977 flu or the 2009 flu outbreak.
> Plus mandatory face masks in public transports.

I really hope this will stay forever, or at least until people don't learn to stay home when they get a cold
It means nothing in Canada or the US either.
As someone who has spent a lot of time (15 years? Maybe more?) looking at “next gen” / mobile electronic payments, I find it amusing that the crypto crowd looks at Visa and MasterCard as the ultimate form of endorsement and embrace.

Visa has the highest profit margin of any company among the largest 100 companies in the world — 49%, which is a significant leap over #2 (which might be MasterCard, at 41% — I forget if there’s anyone between them). When these guys give you a high five and want in on the game, you’re probably making the electronic payments landscape less efficient, not more.
OPTIe VERkoop :-)
False.

The paper on which this article is based directly addresses that:

Marine sediments produced the majority (about 86%) of the world’s petroleum, while deltaic and lacustrine sediments yielded smaller amounts (about 11% and 3%, respectively) (Demaison, 1993). The organic matter in carbon-rich marine sediments is primarily composed of the remains of phytoplankton. The percentage of annually fixed organic carbon that accumulates in sediment (the PF) is difficult to estimate because it can vary over several orders of magnitude, depending on the length of time that organic matter experiences oxic conditions, and on other factors (Bralower and Thierstein, 1987; Bordenave, 1993; Canfield, 1994; Gélinas et al., 2001). Two types of marine settings are thought to have been the major environments for the formation of petroleum source rocks: silled basins with oxygen-deficient waters, and highly productive upwelling zones (which generated 78% and 8% of world petroleum stocks, respectively; Demaison, 1993).

https://www-legacy.dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_C...
It's a different question why something is popular on hackernews or why someone should use something. Deno is interesting and worth paying attention to, that does not mean someone should be sold on it or build something with it (yet?).
> You still need packages

Yes but with ES modules you can just import them straight into the code and there is really no need for a package manager.

> Does Deno implement its own TypeScript compiler? Even if it does, it's entirely at the mercy of Microsoft who are the only ones who develop Typescript specs.

This may be somewhat true. However I am not using typescript so I am not really sure about this.

My point is not really tied to the language typescript which I am sure will continue just fine. What I am much more worried about is all the packages hosted on npm. At any time Microsoft could do something to restrict it in ways I can't control. Highly unlikely that something extreme will happen perhaps, but I don't trust Microsoft enough.

For example, I could easily see them forcing everyone to use github for node packages in the future etc.
If Apple changes its app store search algorithm you're still mostly fucked.

If Apple decides they like your app and want to copy it's features into their own app or iOS itself then you're 100% fucked.

In general, relying on the good will and unchanging rules of a 3rd party platform for your business is inherently risky.
As someone from England I can confirm that's true, although I think both meanings as possible depending on the facial expression that goes along with the shrug
You could sell moderation as additional service, either AI based (cheaper) or employ actual people. Otherwise, developers probably should be ones responsible for moderating media uploaded through their apps.
I would be more worried about producing enough battery chargers and upgrading the electrical infrastructure to support all the charging.
Reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8420583/
What restrictions are there in the UK? As far as I know in England and Wales where the vast majority live there are none except for those around international travel or imposed by private enterprise.
I wouldn't normally chime in with a "me, too!" but it's worth reiterating that Steermouse is a godsend for mice on Mac. Whether it's sensitivity and acceleration or setting up extra buttons (and chording buttons!) it works splendidly and I don't know what I'd do without it. Using it with a Logitech MX Anywhere 2 myself.
> The big companies

Governments all over the world use email nowadays for all kinds of their own services, but which country offers free email to all their citizens? What about social networking or search? State broadcasters have existed for decades, yet nothing exists as fallback from big tech.
Yes, yes they do. And they're even starting to be honest about it, look at the press coming out of NZ and Scotland. Many of us called this the second the lockdowns started and we were right. Coronavirus is real, but it's nothing more than another SARS, H1N1, Hong Kong flu, etc. The only difference between now and then is now governments were prepped for a full on power grab.
I would contend that a Hallmark card has usefulness after being exchanged.

I can’t hang an NFT in my house. And doing so with Hallmark cards has tangible benefits to my well being. (the joy of seeing a thoughtful card with personal meaning, conversation starter if company is over, etc)

Perhaps something will be invented to reproduce that experience for NFTs, but I haven’t seen it yet.

edit: Format and speeling
Wow, that's a lot of hubris from the author.

I don't think anyone out of college for more than a few years thinks the "tier" of college you went to is the ultimate arbiter of how competent you are and can ever achieve.
You should look into Keycloak. It is an open source identity and access manager.
> In Japan, many people only keep their cars for a few years, then sell them back.

three major reasons for this, fairly separate from car-electrification.

1) mandatory (paid, around 900usd) motor-vehicle inspections at 3 years

2) cost of mechanical maintenance in Japan (few car shops, huge prices)

3) no tax reduction on older/vintage/used/low-cost vehicles (like the US value-based registration costs)

I don't disagree that the auto industry of Japan is likely also protecting their own interests -- but driving in Japan has always been a pretty big personal burden on people; I see no reason why electric cars are going to get a pass from the three things I listed, they require maintenance, have a high value, and fail inspections, too.

unless laws change those failed inspection cars are either getting exported , fixed, or destroyed. there is still an export element available there.
Nice bubble you live in.
Well, anecdotally... As a member of a youth program I spent quite a bit of time around elders of the native population of Canada. These cultures have a pretty sophisticated system of refining and passing on knowledge, which I found fascinating to participate in. I found that fellow program members who were very immersed in the western system of scholarship had a very hard time benefiting from the Native system of scholarship. Assumptions that come out of the Western system of scholarship, such as around the value of debate or abstraction, just don't translate well. It required a different attitude to learning, one I was probably more prepared for than my peers in part due to my time studying Japanese martial arts. There are cultural assumptions around how knowledge is discovered and perpetuated that are so deeply ingrained it's hard to imagine they'd be different in a different culture.

Now, the Canadian native population has lost a huge portion of its cultural base, they essentially have to adapt to the Western model. But Japan's system has experienced no such widespread damage. I don't know much about it, but I could see there being the same kind of deep differences with the western system that make moving products of thought between them difficult. Not just language barriers that make debate difficult, but assumptions such as the proper role of debate. The Academia is a common ancestor to most existing systems of scholarship today. Japan's system doesn't share it, so the water Japanese scholars swim in could be very different from the water the rest of us are used to.
> You still need packages

Which you import just like you would in a browser.

> Does Deno implement its own TypeScript compiler?

Deno is a JS engine that aims for maximum compatibility with browsers.

While not exactly a second class citizen, losing Typescript (if it comes to that) is something the platform can survive. Ryan is on record saying that adding Typescript support at a very early stage was probably a mistake.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBd4tPUBUQo
The vaccination rate in the UK is 67%. A year ago the estimate was that we need about a 75% vaccination rate to reach herd immunity, and I doubt that the new mutations have pushed that number down.
The driver itself is HTTP, not HTTPS. They were saying they hoped that the HTTPS call which tells it where to download the driver also contained signatures so that the later HTTP request could be verified. spoilers: it does not. So you don't need to mitm the HTTPS request, you just wait until they make the follow-up HTTP request, mitm that and serve whatever you want.
As I get more experienced

- I care less about specific tools and I'm way less dogmatic

- I'm more comfortable learning new tools quickly when it's necessary

- I realise that many new tools can be completely left out which greatly reduces the complexity of the project (you aren't always in a position to do this when you work with other people)
I think recognising the internet as a utility would go a long way to solving most problems with it. Enter hordes and hordes of bureaucrats and regulators. maybe not, but I'm sure a middle ground exists but were not there yet.
There are risks to all of us when we let millions of children act as a breeding and mutation substrate for the virus. I would think that would be blinding obvious to anyone with even a basic grasp of biology.

It’s also completely unknown what the long term effects of the virus are.

Edit: Disappointed but not surprised by the amount of anti-science on this site. I feel like a lot of people have let politics destroy their ability to think critically to the point of near suicidal ignorance. Sad.
“Fair housing violation or 'woke cancel culture'?”
The article's answer to this question is "the eventuality of endemic COVID-19 does not mean we should drop all precautions. The more we can flatten the curve now, the less hospitals will become overwhelmed". There are currently ~6000 COVID patients in hospital, which is a little less than 1/6 of the Jan 2021 peak and over 1/4 of the April 2020 peak. Which is to say, manageable right now but probably not something you want to let burn much hotter than that.
I had trouble believing you at first, but yeah...
https://twitter.com/mark_roszko/status/1429459359554224135
We're better than normal. My employer already decided to allow up to 60% time remote, no questions asked, forever. You can still come 100% of the time to the office if you want. Some restrictions are still in place, but the future seems brighter for the workplace.
With regards this claim, the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) addresses it in their recent paper about future evolutionary scenarios [0].

Scenario Four: SARS-CoV-2 follows an evolutionary trajectory with decreased virulence

Likelihood: Unlikely in the short term, realistic possibility in the long term.

Which makes sense as most transmission occurs in the presymptomatic phase, there's no selection pressure to evolve to be less deadly.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> The problem lies not merely with the incorrect assignment of the value time during lockdown as having zero value itself

I didn't assign zero value - I assigned it as 90% value compared to a year with no restrictions.

It's nice you used the time to improve your relationship with your wife, but I'm single and wasn't able to see my friends or family for 6 months. I like that you managed to make the most of it - but my life was put on hold.

> The idea that lives and time are so trivially fungible that you can come up with an acceptable number of hours stuck in your house watching Netflix to folks slowly suffocated in their own fluids.

This post assumes that me being inside for a year stops someone else being suffocated - but actually it's probably more like 100-500 people being inside for a year stops 1 person being suffocated (although they will still die of another cause instead, on average a few years later but sometimes many years later). Besides, it's the idea that my freedom (and that of hundreds of others per life saved) should be traded for someone else's health is my issue. Selfish? Sure, but we all are. Everyone on this forum could donate all their earnings this year to save tens of strangers lives in less developed countries but very few do in reality.

> Consider an 80 year old whose average life expectancy based on health was just a year. Certainly you wouldn't suggest he be killed if it might save some 9000 people an hour in traffic?

See the trolley dilemma - this is a different ethical decision (based on positive action, i.e. doing vs allowing harm).
OK, I did as suggested. Now can I complain about the Twitter format?
You mean when you or a team chooses to embed them into the project's workflow to that degree? Or are you talking about the worst IDEs no one should use while sounding like it is a general IDE issue with the industry standards?

Any decent IDE doesn't enforce such things, it is something questionable devs choose to incorporate. You may inadvertently do this if you don't know an IDE, and try to use excessive features available, but that's still on you for doing so. It shouldn't have been a decision made by someone lacking in knowledge/experience, whether a junior dev or a senior selecting an unknown tool without proper evaluation.

Or are you implying such features from IDEs can somehow be attained by non-IDE toolchains that don't also ingrain you in those toolchains to make use of said features?
> Is Deno ready for production?

Yes.

> What limitations have you run into?

Libraries that exist for node that can't easily be ported over that don't yet exist for Deno. But that is basically it. In the beginning it was a bit hard to keep up with the rapid changes as well but that seems like a positve thing anyway.
It's not about children getting it and being ill, it's about children getting it and spreading it. This is the concept behind 'herd immunity'. If we can cut the chain, we mitigate older and people with weakened immune systems from getting it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
> Visa will soon be out of business.

Visa is also buying the casino chips and spending it in the even more riskier casinos (NFTs):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/08/23/visa-...

"We think that NFTs are going to play a really important role in the future of retail and social media, entertainment and commerce,'' says Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa"

Also:

“We envision there could be a future where your crypto address becomes as important as your mailing address,” Sheffield says. “In the same way Visa’s been here through shifts of commerce before, we're really excited to help drive this new shift of commerce in the future.”
These herd immunity thresholds assumed that vaccinated people do not transmit the virus, but it appears that they do. Vaccines seem to be very efficient at preventing complications, which is great and good enough to neutralise this virus. But they don't seem to have made a dent into this summer's cases numbers. It doesn't look like vaccines will prevent the virus from circulating.

Hospitalisation rates have been pretty much flat vs previous waves (there was no wave last summer).
Israel has close to full vaccination, yet cases are going up because immunity is falling again and there are new variants. It's understandable why the restrictions are back again.
The NFT is sold under the false pretence that is somehow connected with some object of art, when in fact there isn't any such connection. This is what makes NFTs a scam.
What services are you proposing receiving at a hospital?
I think someone ordering a print of an expensive NFT they can prove they own is quite realistic.
Same for Denmark. We are at 85% first dose and 78% second dose for the 5.1m people a vaccine was offered, so we are at 75% of the population with at least one dose [1]. Everything is open, there is a suggestion to wear masks in metro, no idea about buses or trains.

[1] https://www.sst.dk/en/english/corona-eng/status-of-the-epide...
Perhaps an alternative way to sell this might be that Deno is authored by the original author of node. He introduced Deno at a talk "What I regret about Node.js" and presented Deno as the product of his lessons.
It has a dedicated “renew/upgrade” button, conveniently located where the left click button used to be.
Haha that's a good one! I imagine the same is true for extending your arms up to the air to ask to be noticed
You can easily serve 10000 static requests/second per core on a modern server grade CPU over TLS with nginx, which is written in C. Slap node.js and express on top and you might dip to something like half of that.

But the real win with using C (or rather, using direct syscalls) comes from how much of that throughput you can retain while serving dynamic content. At least on Linux, performantly serving a static file would have a syscall flow similar to the following:

file -> splice -> pipe -> splice -> kTLS socket

The performance increase comes from copying the file to the socket without any detouring of the data via userspace. This can easily be adapted for the case where you need to inject portions of that file with dynamically retrieved content, by using offset fields in the splice call from the file being served, and manually writing to the pipe to inject the dynamic content. You cannot easily replicate this construct in any other dynamic-content server framework I know of - you have to do it manually in C (or any language that allows you to directly invoke system calls).
Except that in kids COVID is about as lethal as the ordinary flu. It’s more transmissible, but the number of kids we’ve seen suffer serious consequences across the US has been very, very low. We don’t make kids wear helmets everywhere they go, though it would be decidedly more efficacious from a safety perspective. It seems to me some relativity is in order.
No. I work in finance IT. It might help some people, but I wouldn't say it makes the world a better place.
At least 22 dead, dozens still missing after 17 inches of rain in Tennessee
I did miss that. I still think humility and caution are warranted. The preliminary numbers for long covid in breakthrough infections were similar to the unvaccinated in the Israel report, for instance.
No.

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hesitate to feed the trolls, but this is a well documented worldwide phenomenon. Hardly just my personal experience.