skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Depending on the person and the prevailing culture it may be perfectly normal to more or less ignore someone outside the office

Precisely this. When about town in public, I ignore everybody except my closest friends or family, or people I have arranged ahead of time to meet up with. For me, this is an application of the Golden Rule. I do not like it when work acquaintances approach me in public and start trying to idly chat me. I don't like it when that's done to me, so I don't do it to others.

Hearing that some people will interpret this as racism or similar is disappointing and disconcerting, but I'm not going to change my behavior. If somebody is making those assumptions, that is disappointing but their assumptions are their responsibility, not mine. And frankly, treating others as I wish to be treated takes precedence over treating others as they wish to be treated.
With fewer moving mechanical parts, and exhaust problems to inspect, what is there to even inspect at 3 years on an EV? That seems like an easy political fix.
>a 30 year-old Pakistani immigrant in Bradford

Are there reasons for hesitancy expressed among the population?
So err... easy root access to any Windows 10 machine until this is fixed?
I don't doubt that you've found those statistics, as sociology is an incredibly difficult field from a methodology standpoint. Unfortunately there are problems with nearly all methodologies. There are two potential sources of the discrepancy in information here: how do you define crime, and how do you define poverty.

The definition of crime has a lot of data collection problems. Official crime rates are compiled by police reports, and if there is a bias in policing or prosecution, there will be a bias in reporting as well. There are methodologies that are used (all of which with their own problems that make them suitable for some analyses but not others) to allow for better analyses to be made. It is through these alternative methodologies that we can even make claims like "black people are twice as likely to be arrested than white people for possession of marijuana": pure collection biases hide the fact that black people and white people are consuming marijuana at similar rates.

The definition of poverty is also fraught, though not for systemic racism reasons. Poverty can be defined in relative terms or absolute terms. It can be based off of wealth, or it can be based off of income. It can be based on household income/wealth or individual income/wealth. It can be defined in terms economic mobility (the ability to change wealth over time), or point in time measurements. It can include social capital as well: some definitions of poverty take into account education availability, parental education levels, etc.

In fact, you mention single parent households, which is deeply tied to poverty. child abandonment rates have a strong inter-causal link with poverty: high poverty causes income earners to abandon their children, and children without income earners in the household not only live in higher poverty as a result, but are likely to perpetuate the poverty. And disparate policing certainly has its own contributors to poverty, because it takes parents away from children.

A good overview of the various methodologies and existing literature can be found here:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3226952/Sampson_...
Yes, scientific uncertainty is a thing. It would be great if we instantly had tons of studies and replications showing exactly how effective different measures are, but that is just not how it works. I can cite many models that show masking works, if you're curious.

This same line of argument was used to question climate change for decades and to support the argument that we should not take any aggressive measures to avoid it.

There's a good chance wearing masks in schools makes the community safer from serious illness. And the risk in wearing masks if they prove to be useless is...what exactly? That masks are a little uncomfortable?
There's a whole pile of twitterese phrases like this that are used to fly under moderation radar. Some refer to specific standard sections of Wikipedia's biographical articles in order to highlight that a person's Jewish, some are like this (that's why the "google" is important to triggering one's "this might be one of those things" alarms—a common pattern for these is directing people to look at another resource, using set phrasing)

Yes, seeing dog-whistles everywhere gets tedious (for all concerned) but the above is, unfortunately, a real thing. I'd be surprised to see it used with that intent on HN, though.
>Natural immunity is ... more susceptible to variants

Do you have a source for this? I have looked it up a few times and all the information I saw indicated that natural immunity should transfer to variants favorably, because natural immunity targets several parts of the virus whereas the current vaccine only targets a single region.

>natural immunity is weaker

This is true on the margin, but it is still quite good. Vaccination breakthrough cases are very rare at <0.1% of cases[1]. The CDC reports that natural immunity breakthrough risk is 2.34 times higher than vaccination[2], but you have to remember that the base multiplier is still incredibly low. By this logic, cases from natural immunity are at worst 0.23% of all cases!

I think it is very misleading to be grouping those with natural immunity with the unvaccinated when it is so close to vaccination in efficacy, and drastically different than those with no immunity.

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
So long as I'm confident that disabling the iCloud Photos service also disables the scanning, I prefer the local scanning + e2e encryption.

(My take is that if I can't trust Apple when they say this is the case, I also can't trust that they're not already being made to scan all my photos locally, so...)
https://www.gamesradar.com/ps5-and-xbox-series-x-shortage-ex...
And the great thing is you don't even need Razer device to exploit this! You can just any Linux device, e.g. a phone running LineageOS as in this PoC https://twitter.com/an0n_r0/status/1429386474902917124 https://gist.github.com/tothi/3cdec3aca80e08a406afe695d54489...
The inclement weather where our airships have the biggest advantage is in fog or limited visibility due to autonomy hardware/software in geographies with traditionally VFR approaches. Based on our experiences flying our current prototype, the full size airship should be able to take-off and land in wind speeds of 25-30 kts.
I think that the important bit is that if you've got vitriol to spill about the twitter format that you keep it sealed. I'm guessing you don't care, which is right and good, but some people get upset (and presumably inform the authors) about twitter style posts.
Which is no different from any other VPN provider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

This is the investigation referred in the story.
But what's your point?

The first word of your comment is "Imagine", then a bunch of description, then the last line is a summary of this imagined world. Ok, I imagined, now what?

You've taken a romanticized narrative of the military and then abstracted the terms so they could apply to startups. I can't engage with it as an analogy because it's an imaginary YC on top of an imaginary military. I can't engage with it as a position because you haven't made any claims outside the scope of this world you described.
I missed the original HN and twitter threads referenced in the post, so I might just be repeating something that was already said there...

But, in nearly all cases I would trust a bespoke Wikipedia scraper over using the output of Wikidata or DBpedia. Not to disparage either project, because they're great ideas and good efforts. I have a firm grasp of RDF and SPARQL queries (used to work with them professionally), which also makes them tempting to use.

One issue is that Wikidata tends to only report facts whose subjects or objects themselves have articles (and thus Wikidata entities).

For example, compare the "Track listing" section of Carly Rae Jepsen's Curiosity EP on Wikipedia vs. the "track listing" property on Wikidata.

Wikipedia has:

1. Call Me Maybe (link)
2. Curiosity (link)
3. Picture
4. Talk to Me
5. Just a Step Away
6. Both Sides Now (link)

while Wikidata has:

1. Call Me Maybe
2. Curiosity

So not only has it ignored any tracks that aren't deserving of their own articles, but it also missed one that actually does have an article (track 6, a cover of "Both Sides, Now").

> Others asked about the data quality of Wikidata, and complained about the huge amount of bad data, duplicates, and the bad ontology in Wikidata (as if Wikipedia wouldn’t have these problems. I mean how do you figure out what a Wikipedia article is about? How do you get a list of all bridges or events from Wikipedia?)

Often the problem isn't that Wikipedia is wrong, it's that Wikidata's own parser (however it works) doesn't account for the many ways people format things on Wikipedia. With a bespoke parser, you can improve it over time as you encounter edge cases. With Wikidata, you can't really fix anything... the data is already extracted (right or wrong) and all the original context lost.
>Facebook's folly

Nicely done ;)

Seriously though, it seems to be very well-written, at first glance. Thanks.
Put a NBA genius player in a community college basketball team will be hard to reach his potential. People surrounding you can make a big difference. Birds of same feather not only flock together, they can flock better/faster together and enjoy that process too.
If your wife has had COVID before she got pregnant, or during and recovered just fine, then that's a very different proposition to my wife who has not had COVID. You're burying the lead hard and frankly if you want to argue against the CDC and ATAGI[1] (the Australia advisory board) then the onus is on you to provide the extraordinary evidence that they shouldn't be believed.

Your proposition is "a virus many times deadlier then the flu in a target group who have more serious outcomes from anything, what could go wrong?"

And your evidence is: "well for someone who currently has effective natural immunity.."

[1] https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021...
> This is logistically impossible and completely unrealistic. If you can find any literature or any experts suggesting that this is feasible, please share.

This doesn't need to be 100%. Large swaths of the world rely on help for vaccines. Instead of distributing aid evenly by country, it could go country-by-country. "At the same time" also doesn't mean everyone gets a shot on the same day, just not spread out over years as we're doing now.

> Even if we did manage do achieve what you suggested, the current vaccines do not guarantee sterilizing immunity.

They're about 50% effective for delta 6 months after vaccination, and about 95% effective for the original at vaccination. That's a big difference. We don't need sterilizing immunity; just for R0<1. Yes, the odd person will catch COVID19 from a deer, but if 7 billion people catch it, versus 1 million, that's a 7 million times difference in number of mutations.

> The key is that using a diverse set of strategies helps reduce the possibility and risk of vaccine resistance.

I agree 100%. This is the key. What amazing to me is the effectiveness of proper PPE. I don't understand why anyone uses cloth masks anymore. Proper masks are cheap, available, and help far more than vaccines or drug regiments. My opinion is that we should have vaccines, modest social distancing, N95-equivalent masks, universal HEPA filters, move what we can outside, etc. I think if we do all the cheap things consistently, we'll eliminate the need to do big, expensive things.

> I appreciate the spirited discussion but your comment does not seem particularly well informed - it completely disregards the concerns and arguments put forth by experts in the field, which I've outlined in my previous comments.

I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Those articles never define what “covid hospitalization” means. Is it people in the hospital because of covid or is it people that test positive for covid and are there for something else? There is a big difference between the two. Covid positive test results probably invoke a lot of extra overhead even if the patient has no symptoms and this could be a self made problem.
It's too bad this wasnt explored further, there could be non-weaponized use cases for a nuclear powered aircraft that can stay in the air for days or months at a time.
Can I now travel to the US and pay for one if I want as a non-US resident? So far that was impossible.
It is not illogical: those people have two fears instead of one.

Some chance of high probability of damages, vs full chance of low probability of damages.

This is why numbers are important... Fuzzy equation members like 'some', 'high' and 'low' are inadequate for this decision making.
Worrying about getting other people sick when you do not reasonable suspicion that you are sick is a moral trap. If something is "everyone's" responsibility, then it really is _no one's_ responsibility, because there is no way to determine who spread the disease to whom. In this case, it's best to simply take the steps you feel necessary to protect yourself and your loved ones.
I wonder if the unvaccinated who have the above concerns will still prefer to use Remdesiver which has only gone through and EUA at this point.
Not sure what the article is trying to say.

There's no chance it could ever take off anywhere where the CCP can't force people to accept it.

Barriers to entry - by simply forking any of the open source coins out there - are non-existent. Fork a chain, buy 3 Linux servers, issue a stablecoin, done.

Why would anyone sacrifice profit, privacy, property or liberty by using CommieCoin?
Cloudflare arbitrarily and without notice starts throttling the bandwidth of various websites that use them for their proxy feature. This is ofcourse their prerogative, and they can do whatever they want, but doing this without notice is extremely concerning to me.

Cloudflare has the ability, and has used the ability to speed gate most of the internet with no transparency. Can cloudflare please provide notice on when domains start getting speedgated? Until then I'm not sure it's a good idea to move any sort of remote access capabilities (e.g. Warp for teams) onto Cloudflare's infrastructure. Not until they get a better support team and are more transparent when your account starts getting limited. I've spent hours trying to debug this problem and it ended up being the proxy.
What’s the obsession with naming everything Zen. Zen-this, Zen-that. - And what does Zen have to do with commercial web services.
> political pressure on expedited drug approvals

I feel like people keep forgetting the definition of "public health crisis."

Time is lives. And economic dollars.

The standard process is designed around limiting harm. Not rapid delivery. Not maximizing good.

In times of business as usual, that's fine. In times of public health crises, it's not.

If we'd rapid approved HIV / AIDS treatments in the 1980s, the world as a whole would have been better.
How does preflight deal with selectors used to identify elements changing? This is the critical piece to solve before systems like this are useful. As identified in the paper discussed here:
https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/30/why-do-recordreplay-test...
Gamasutra is becoming Game Developer
Face mask policies on a community level.

Not with trained healthcare workers.
Yep. Bradley Wiggins's 2015 velodrome hour world record was 440W (since eclipsed in distance but not power). This puts into perspective how cheap power is in the industrial age. His hour record was the equivalent power of 35 grams of gasoline. Or it's about 5 not great power tool batteries (eyeballing eBay listings). It's gonna be tough when we have a world built for nearly free energy and we don't have the free energy anymore.
El Salvador’s President Insists Bitcoin Use Will Not Be Mandatory
This is one thing I've been keeping an eye on. I cannot find a way of doing that now; I don't think I can make the Möbius Sync the other commenter mentioned work either since it can only access files under its own App directory.
Technically it is free, until some native dependencies involve. Because you still need to setup build chains on each platform to make them compile. For example, vc on Windows, gcc on Linux, xcode on mac.

Besides that, unlike java, nodejs don't bundle a lot of stdlibs by itself.(It don't even have a lib for manipulate images!) So you end up being required to use custom native modules for some specific tasks.(If no js alternative available)

The nodejs way is build yourself, so you will have the right one. But since it is a bundled electron program, it doesn't work and you need to prebuild it.
The option to continue to allow non TLS should alleviate concerns. I can think of cases where vendor managed internal self signed certs are problematic and some IoT don't do TLS. Without getting into ideological debates, having a way to work around old, incomplete or clunky systems may be important to keep the browser relevant or useful.
> But Logitech’s software is a fucking car crash

The old software worked well. I was super disappointed when I got a superlight that it simply didn't work with old software. I'm on windows but describing the new software as a car crash is still extremely accurate.

Anyone know of software similar to steermouse on windows?
Many comments here say that that's what browser says but there is no way to distinguish UI theme from content theme preferences and it's impossible to have dark UI with light content due to browser limitation. Hence, as they say, it's a problem of a browser, not a web-site.
If it's obvious to everybody that these content preference signals from a browser lack crucial information as to distinguishing between UI and content preferences, maybe it's safer to keep standard default (usually light) and just offer and option to switch to dark theme in case a user wants and remember preferences locally till the next visit.

There is no need to force dark theme in the absence of enough information from a browser as to exact user preferences. Browser doesn't ask for anything. It just says what UI theme a user has. It's a web-site that makes a conclusion based on limited information and then decides to force dark theme on content.

Hence, my post here is to show this situation.
I eat an apple every day and still haven't gotten COVID.
Sure. But that means you're spreading the virus, you're taking a small serious health risk, and you're giving the virus tissues in which it can fall back to while simultaneously mutating under IgG antibody pressure in the lower lungs. That keeps the pandemic going.
Do you see how this escalating though? Already concerns are being blithely dismissed, and it only starts as optional and non essential.

In Australia you can see the next step already where it’s being applied to grocery stores. You have to start pushing back before it gets to that.
> If they fail because they are too fixated on waging a puritanical religious war both within and without Afghanistan, financed by wealthy outside countries with their own agendas, they will be overthrown again, either from within, or from outside.

Violent oppressive dictatorships can last very long tho.
> Secure by default. No file, network, or environment access, unless explicitly enabled.

> Supports TypeScript out of the box.

> Ships only a single executable file.

> Has built-in utilities like a dependency inspector (deno info) and a code formatter (deno fmt).

Taken all together instead of individually, Deno is clearly designed to produce more secure and maintainable codebases than NodeJS over longer periods of time and team turnover. All of these "by default" additions better ensure a common, high-standard baseline for any arbitrary Deno codebase over any period of time.

Individual developers often tend to focus on "how does this help me/improve my workflow right now?", instead of thinking like a CTO and focusing on "how does this technology make our IT systems more robust to long-term maintenance, developer turnover, and security threats?".

Secure by default means you shift security from the developer team into the framework. Say your original security-focused developer team attritions over time, and due to a software engineer shortage you're forced to hire less experienced or less security-oriented folks.

Even if you end up with a new team more oriented to "move-fast-and-break-things" than secure-by-design/correct-by-construction, your framework still provides a minimum security baseline they can't intentionally or accidentally violate.

That works in reverse too - say you're a new startup that can't afford to hire the best of the best yet. If you choose a secure-by-default framework like Deno, you're getting security and correctness from the framework for free, rather than having to pay a premium for developer talent capable of that.

Typescript instead of Babel means that all Deno codebases everywhere will use the same language, one that provides better correctness and security guarantees than most Babel options.

Built-in dependency-inspector simply makes that function more available and apparent to developers. Maybe useful for new entry-level folks, not so much for more experienced ones.

And I thought the value of a built-in code-formatter was demonstrated by Go with gofmt - all Go codebases everywhere are formatted the same way, making it easier for Go devs to get up to speed with a new codebase.

One of things that used to really annoy me about both Rails and Nodejs was how they were not secure-by-default and left certain security details/holes to be implemented/fixed on an ad-hoc basis on every new project by individial dev teams.

But the whole point of a framework is to provide common solutions to such common problems that all projects incur, so the dev team can focus on the custom and creative parts of the app, the value-added parts, the competitive edge. It's great to see Deno and others doing this.
The way I look at it when I see that and other, similar labels on a tweet is that Twitter is just distancing themselves from whatever is happening there. They don't really bother me any more than the EU cookie popups. Both of those things are essentially handrails for those who'd rather not observe, think, and then judge for themselves, but prefer institutions (public or private) to do that for them.

Some people use these labels as proof of their point or proof against someone else's point. I think that put's Twitter in an awkward position and it a bit abusive of Twitter's moderation. I truly feel for Twitter's moderation staff.
They need to be first-class. Not means the ergonomics aren't great and it won't be the developer default because it requires a library. It's not good enough considering how fundamental these two are in many languages (it's even in Java now)
> What is a covid patient? One that tested positive and is in the hospital for something else? Or one that is actually sick from covid? Because absolutely none of these articles I read clarify that tidbit and it is very important.

The stories on the reddits I suggested are all pretty much the same. Patient comes in struggling to breath, tests positive for covid, ends up with blood clots or pneumonia which pushes them into the ICU.

Here's just one of many stories of burnout [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/p9ps06/the_burn_ou...
Agreed. This might be the right time to make recommendations as well though, I think a big part of people not buying nicer stuff (things that aren't spying on you) is simply that they don't know about it. Or that its too high-friction. Which again leads to they don't know about a solution that will actually work for them.