skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There remain differences of opinion among scientists on how effective non-medical masks are in reducing COVID-19 transmission.

However, on the question of medical-grade masks, there is clear research that now shows some masks (e.g. FFP3 masks) are effective in stopping COVID-19 infection.

Covid: Masks upgrade cuts infection risk, research finds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57636360
Does this work for Linux?
This is a good, if not opinionated, guide. And to be fair, r/homelab and its ilk are so full of options that it's easy to become overwhelmed.

Personally, I settled on Supermicro because they're modular, and don't care what brand of stuff you throw in them (HP is notorious for spinning fans to turbo if you put non-HP disks into them), although I may be picking up two Dells to complement the one I have for a Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster.
I don’t know. The research I can find shows natural immunity is effective, but we don’t know the half life of it.

It also shows vaccination is effective, but we don’t know the half life of it.

So the CDCs stance is to vaccinate even if you have a natural immunity, because the vaccine _might_ do better. But that doesn’t seem to naturally follow.

It wouldn’t bother me if companies weren’t considering forcing you to vaccinate to keep your job, even if you have a natural immunity. These stances have real world consequences. You are asking people to trigger their immune system, something complex and not fully understood. Companies are taking these recommendations and using them as policy, forcing the recommendations as corporate laws. If you are going to force this on people, the way you are communicating isn’t how you do it.
I'm neither amazed, nor surprised at the utterly insane amount of antivaxxers here in any way.
So, layman's question about black holes, almost 100% sci-fi derived.

Starting from the time mechanics shown in, e.g., Interstellar. If when you're near a massive black hole time passes differently (more time passes away form the hole, so to speak), couldn't it be said that the regions near and far the black hole are drifting apart in the "time dimension"?

If we take the black hole to be an extreme case of that, isn't the black hole a region that is drifting away so "fast" that light isn't fast enough to reach "us" on the outside?

In that case, there would be no paradox, right? Whatever is inside the black hole is still there, but with no way to communicate.
Typescript is miraculously productive on the front-end as soon as you've got people writing at different "layers"—someone writing a frontend library, someone else handling state and actions, someone writing components for re-use, someone making it look pretty and using those components. You can be sitting right next to someone using code you wrote but rarely need to discuss it because the types communicate everything so damn well.
Razer is a terrible company, which is tragic because they started out as an amazing hardware company. When they pivoted to being a spyware company I stopped buying their hardware. I've been happy with SteelSeries so far. Their Rival 500 is a great mouse if you want lots of buttons and configurability.
My bank uses 2FA in which they send a pin to my email on login (I know it's not the most secure thing, but it is what is being used). Though if I lost access to my email, I can go to my bank branch with identification to get it changed in 2-3 business days - during which time I won't have access to a number of online banking services.

Steam also has the same system.
>"I think we might actually achieve Java's dream"

Keep waiting for a miracle. Meanwhile native applications solve problem with ease. Sure some applications are totally make sense as browser based but you can't just color everything the same. This dream will never materialize for way too many reasons, including political ones.
Yeah, everyone I've talked to who is not taking it used it as a secondary argument as to why people who don't have other concerns should still be cautious.
This is because "work" is a garbage word which is never defined in these discussions. It could mean anything >0%. People have different definitions of work, so they can disagree on if they work even if they believe the % is the same. This is the terrible state of semantics and debate we live in.

>Learn to think with some nuance.

unnecessarily rude
That's a good point about the OCR obfuscation. I'll try to find some more info about E-Verify- thanks man.
For pregnant women the conclusion has been in for a while that COVID-19 leads to a higher incidence of hospitalizations and complications and it has been advice from OBGYN's to get vaccinated with Pfizer ASAP: source - my wife is currently pregnant and we were told this by our OBGYN, who also suggested Astrazeneca would be unlikely to be harmful but couldn't professionally recommend it as their were no formal studies (but a large number of pregnant women have been vaccinated with it not knowing they were pregnant).

For pregnant women the current data is that vaccination is conclusively necessary because they cannot possibly hope to avoid COVID-19 infection when giving birth and while pregnant are much more likely to be severely impacted by COVID-19.[1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/spec...
I like Sabine Hossenfelder:

- https://twitter.com/skdh?s=20

- https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
> What's the easiest way to scan whole windows file system for directories with this issue?

tree c:\ /f prn

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
Your argument proves too much. Compare: "You can simply not smoke the cigarettes".
It’s only currently approved for those who are immunocompromised, for which data show that vaccines don’t result in the same level of antibodies for them.

For others, it seems that with Pfizer the antibody level drops over time.
It sounds like just the Schrodinger Equation, Quantum Mechanics 101
Looks like Windows only?
The emphasis on freedoms comes about in the context of a world where powerful entities (governments, private corporations, wealthy individuals) are often oppressive, cruel, and/or corrupt. In that context, it is useful to constrain their power at all times - even when it has negative consequences in the short term.

In the immediate circumstances, I don't disagree with you - but that's a result of the circumstances. We happen to have an extraordinarily safe and effective vaccine available, and COVID-19 is debilitating, deadly, and causing havoc in our healthcare system. It's less obvious that anti-disease measures governments took in the past, or may take in the future, should be seen as uncontroversial.

Taken to an extreme, your argument could be used to prevent the propagation of certain combinations of genes. Similar arguments were also used to justify mass-spraying DDT to eliminate malaria.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...
I told a visitor from Japan that we don't have bribery scandals because we legalized bribery with our election financing system.
Only if you truncate the sentence as you have done.
This is wrong in two big ways:

1. The FDA requires six months of clinical data to establish safety before FDA approval. The normal requirements for FDA approval absolutely were followed

2. With longer-term studied it's not like we don't know anything about them until it's complete. Data is released on a rolling basis so we know how the results of the studies so far, and (surprise!) data so far say it's safe.
My bet on the next step: Port forwarding for NAT busting and zero open ports, with "smart edge cloudflare caching" -- like ngrok, but with edge features.
Makes a lot of sense. Save energy, travel further and carry more.
Unfortunate that I won't have a blimp arriving at my doorstep though (yet!) :P

Good luck!
Tuskegee Syphilis Trials
Interesting, I don’t have an expectation of privacy when it comes to unencrypted emails. Likely due to them being regularly scanned and archived at work etc.
You're making an awful lot of assumptions that consumer appetites are for "garbage".

Yes there's absolutely cheap stuff made in China.

But it's also critically-acclaimed novels and television series that speak to the issues of our day. It's desire to travel and experience other cultures. It's things like wanting to learn the basics of another language with Duolingo. Or it's medical advances.

Yes I do think consumers will always want more improved or up-to-date things. But I also think it's awfully judgmental to perjoratively label those things "garbage".
I seem to recall them walking back the conclusion that dogs do not transmit well, but don't have the reference at hand. I wonder if they were actually mistaken at first, or if the virus has simply evolved in the direction of being better transmitted by dogs?

I wouldn't be surprised if they end up concluding that pigs can catch and transmit as well, eventually. Birds does seem to be more likely to hold true, as I don't know of any non-mammals that have been found susceptible yet.
Yes this dynamic is caused by people reflexively downvoting and flagging posts which suggest facts or ideas that do not match their own opinion and cause them cognitive dissonance. Prefacing comments with vaccination status is how people have started mitigating those ad hominem fueled reactions.
Yes, that's operation warp speed and it worked great. That's the reason the US.had vaccine enough to go around while Canada was struggling to get everyone their first dose.
> Influenza kills thousands of people under 18 every year:

No, it does not. You didn't actually look at the numbers. One of the worst years overall shows 115 for 0-4 and 528 for 5-17:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

There are some years where the total is a little over a thousand, but most are well below.

Don't spread this bull.
> Mr. Karzai envisioned a Taliban surrender

Seeing what the Taliban were able to do after being “completely defeated” makes me wonder if Karzai’s vision was realistic at all
> America is supposedly a country full of antivaxers.

And there's zero evidence supporting that premise. The US has historically been superior to Europe when it comes to vaccinations for example (look at Europe's long history of bad measles outbreaks). It's the difference between garbage propaganda slung at the US and reality. In reality the US has a tremendous long-term track record of making and utilizing vaccines, which is also why the US didn't disregard developing and distributing vaccines for this pandemic, and in fact was one of the world leaders in both categories.
Why would she be forced to take the injection if she's not a threat? They're destroying her professional and personal life over her refusal. She better be considered a threat for this to be at all rational or ethical.

I will continue to disagree with your one size fits all prescription. It would be trivial to allow an antibody test in lieu of vaccination.

Responding to your edit: I already answered the original question. Allow an antibody test to prove immunity. Stop demanding vax as if it's the only way to acquire immunity.

It's quite funny to me how presumptuous covid vaxx advocates are. They seem to be saying, "you're going to have to relent eventually. What do I need to say to speed that up?". As if there aren't people who will listen to what they have to say yet continue to refuse and have perfectly valid reasons to do so.
While my figure of 3-6 months has been revised upward to 6, 8 or 10 months, the core sentiment of my post remains unchanged: Vaccine immunity is believed to be better. Vaccines are still believed to be good for 2-3 years based on how similar vaccines for other coronaviruses have worked. That is either enough time for the immune system's natural protection to atrophy, or for the virus to change. That still means vaccine immunity is likely to be more robust protection than natural immunity, even though the general sentiment seems to be a shrug for how long protection from the vaccine will actually last. [0]

That's why they still exclusively discuss being fully vaccinated, and discount natural immunity. They believe it's better.

Furthermore, I have seen no-one in the health community that has recommended not getting the vaccine if you've already had the virus. Compare this to, for example, chicken pox, where they only recommend the vaccine if you haven't had it.

In the context of this thread where the comment I was responding to was trying to argue that natural immunity is being short-changed somehow, I think the sentiment I'm expressing is perfectly accurate regardless of how exact timelines have been shifted in the past year. You still need to get fully vaccinated even if you've had the disease. Nothing about that has changed.

[0]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.13372 -- This study was published this month
With regards to control, it would have been highly unethical to withhold the vaccine from them once it had been shown to save lives.

Second, Pfizer’s vaccines in terms of value produced are worth trillions. Even making $10 billion is completely worth it.

In terms of what we as a society should value and pay for, I would rather us pay a lot of money to Pfizer to develop life saving vaccines than 100’s of billions for ads or weapons.

I actually would like for Pfizer to have made even more money than they are making now.
I'm a code monkey at a power company. Don't mess with the SCADA or anything that deals with power directly, but I'd argue I could be doing worse for the world.
Many comments here say that that's what browser says but there is no way to distinguish UI theme from content theme 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 for everybody that these content negotiation 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 in case user wants.

Hence, my post here to show this situation. There is no need to force dark theme in the absence of enough information from a browser as to user preferences.
Iranian American here, funny story about that thumbs up gesture:

When we were kids, my Persian grandma made us dinner and she asked in farsi if my little sister enjoyed the meal, having food in her mouth she gestured with a thumbs up. Thumbs up mean essentially f- you. My grandma froze, shocked, then realized what my sister meant and we all laughed.
Converse.js was "the best at the time" when I tried about a year ago. I just tried it now and it is far improved, so that's good.

JSXC was so-so when I tried a year ago. They seemed to be more focused on "Add XMPP to your web-page/webapp" rather than "use as a standalone" and a lot of the UI decisions seem informed by that (it very much tries to only use a fraction of the display, and managing more than about 3 chats starts to get crowded). Perhaps with theming I could make a good standalone app out of it, but it feels like swimming upstream.

[edit]

Didn't address your comment on Dino; I don't see any signs of it being abandoned either, this is more my cynical rule of "every time a jabber client gets stable enough that you can use the one from your distro's package manager, it gets abandoned" it's purely empirical and Gajim is the only exception to it so far in the past 20 years.
"Put a chip in it!"
A large number of those objecting to the vaccine have serious needle phobia and don't wish to admit this publicly.

The most common presentation is mild anxiety, but in more serious instances, a needle phobic person may pass out or be genuinely convinced they are having a cardiac arrest.

There are alternative delivery methods being tested, such as by Pharmajet.

I suspect that when needle phobia is addressed in a less hostile light, you may find an increase in uptake.
Yep just like I was required to get vaccines to go to school when I was younger and so was everyone else.
Microsoft seem to be fiddling around with eBPF, would be nice to see verified driver bytecode for simple stuff.
You are right about quantum mechanics and general relativity, which requires more advanced math, and it's hard to create good and useful analogies without it.

That said, if you can handle basic high school math, you don't need any leaky abstractions for special relativity: explain experiment with speed of light measurement and it's consequences, then explain thought experiment about the light clock and mathematically derive time dilatation out of it.
> We're all in this together

I used to think this too, but the “Covid is a hoax” crowd have made it very clear that we are not
Black holes are thought to be information destruction not loss. Things moving super far away are lost but should still be out there, things falling into a black hole disappear and then once the black hole evaporates are gone forever. Or at least that use to be the theory.
This this a Bifurcation of the issue. lumping people whom; have a cation bias, are alt medicine nuts, classic anti vaxers, etc, together shuts down discourse and divides people.
Jim Butterfield introduces the Commodore 64 (1983)
1. If "long term" is a matter of years, then yes, the vaccines have been shown to be safe long term.

2. New data shows that the vaccine is indeed safe for pregnant women and it's not recommended that everyone 12 and older get a vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0811-vaccine-safe-p...
Delta wasn’t dominant by May. Does this still hold?
> The masks part is easy.. it has no effect..

> Also mostly you get covid when not wearing one..

The conclusion I would draw from your own beliefs here is that we should be wearing masks all the time, especially around family... not that masks don't work.

Personally while I wear a mask most of the time when out, I do feel that we really don't know as much as we'd like to think about mask efficacy. The trouble is your own reasoning here is inconsistent. Either masks don't work as well as we think and risk of infection is equally likely in public or at home, or they do work effectively but we don't wear them at important times.

The argument you should have from your own beliefs here should be for more mask wearing not less.
Let's go retro, with an "i-prefix". So "iVue".
From what I understand, hospitals in certain areas are running out of capacity as that graph indicates with certain states quite a bit more purple than others. But I would put unvaccinated people at the back of the line, even behind elective procedures and hope hospital management does whatever it takes to make sure others are prioritized.
Because it would mean spending money and the buck stopping somewhere other than the void.
Bad news. The vax doesnt work either. :(
Twitter adds warning label to tweet from Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland
Kenya does more peer-to-peer crypto trades than anywhere else in the world
You mean like Cloudflare Tunnel?

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/tunnel/
This is an incredibly bad faith argument. There is a whole lot of room between a 6 week bootcamp and a 12 year medical program. I'm pretty confident someone would learn to treat Covid patients in 2 years.

edit: your comment did make me laugh though. So perhaps you were just going for humor, in which case you succeeded and I apologize for being a wet blanket.
> Some people are smarter than others.

This is true, but most of them don't go to top tier schools. Which is not at all the same thing as saying most people who go to top tier schools aren't smarter than average. This fact is the root of a lot confusion in the area.
I would like to see an example of previous trials where the placebo group was invalidated prematurely by informing them and giving them the actual drug. If this is common practice I'm not aware of it.

Note the date on this article - this was back in February of this year: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...

Don't denigrate a perfectly valid criticism of deviations from historical norms of drug validation and approval by calling it a "conspiracy theory".
> But according to the rest of the world the answer is 'Yes'

It depends who you ask, and when you ask it. The understanding of 'digital ownership' may be shifting, as we can see in real-time with the OP thread, where Visa is making a claim that their ownership over the digital token is distinctly different than their ownership over the digital JPG file (and, apparently, distinct enough that they felt it worth paying a large sum to acquire).

Indeed, anybody can reproduce a JPG by right clicking and saving the image, and there are many valuable artworks in art history that can be reproduced with seemingly little effort — such as all white canvases (Malevich), splashes of paint (Pollock), and handwritten instructions on scrap paper (LeWitt).

And I do not think anybody previous to NFTs would make a claim that they "own" an artist's work because they captured it via "Right Click > Save As."

Another way to view this is: ownership of digital art is not a notion that had much social consensus around it before the advent of NFTs.
> An non-violent alternative, grant permanent U.S. residency to all Afghan women and children. And evacuate anyone who wants out.

Did you live in 2001?

There was severe distrust of "Al Qaeda cells", which were these hypothetical terrorists inside of the USA pretending to be a nice guy. But one phone call from Osama Bin Laden would turn them into a suicide bomber.

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I'm glad that we've built up trust with the Afghan people and are able to accept them into our society today. But that kind of thinking you're talking about would have NOT worked in 2001.

I think the Afghans have also learned to trust us to some extent. My friend had to kill a child girl soldier who fired upon him, hiding an AK47 in her Burka. It turns out that burkas are really good at hiding weapons. I don't think I've heard of any of those stories recently however.

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The US won the hearts of Afghan women and children because we built schools and universities for them. The trust did not exist in 2001, but the trust exists today thanks to literally millions of college-educated Afghan women telling our story and learning our values.
I don't understand how this could lift 650lb:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20ft+*+3ft+*+3ft+*+2+*...

= 28 lbs (13 kg)
You're on a site centered around technology and don't seem to acknowledge the scientific process...

You cannot, with 100% accuracy, model a virus that is mutating in a population that includes the entire planet. We have things we know worked in the past, we try them, and we then modify our next move based on the results. We don't say "well we got that one wrong so now we're just not going to try anything". If every scientist took the approach you're suggesting we'd still be eating raw meat and living in caves.
By "look at Israel", are you referring to this claim debunked by the AP?

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-644288348135

> CLAIM: The newest Israeli data on COVID-19 infections indicate a complete vaccine failure on every level. The data from Israel shows that nearly all serious cases and deaths are among the vaccinated.

> AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. The claim ignores the fact that Israel has only a fraction of the COVID-19 cases that it had in January, before vaccines were widespread. Furthermore, the majority of adults in Israel are now vaccinated with two Pfizer shots. No vaccine is perfect at preventing breakthrough cases, but the data shows vaccines are reducing the number of people who are severely ill, hospitalized or die from the virus.
Truly a golden age of absolutely insane nuclear projects, like Project Pluto[1], a proposed nuclear-powered ramjet that could theoretically cruise around for weeks or months before being directed to a target.

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