skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 100% machine code branch test coverage is legally required in some of the environments that SQLite targets. That is, there must be a test that exercises both sides of every machine code branch instruction emitted in the final binary. Basically, every branch must have a justification for why it exists. I feel like that's not such a bad target for rust to aim for.
Yes. That's the reason why I'm searching every once in a while for some studies.
Wouldn't it be better, then, at this point, to focus on hospitalization numbers rather than infections or deaths alone. As vaccines have been, reportedly, very good at preventing hospitalizations.

It doesn't matter if there's 1 death, if hundreds are being hospitalized per day, overflowing the health care system.

The problem isn't just mortality rate of covid-19 itself, it's also how hospitals are other treatments are affected. You better hope you don't get sick when the health care system is overloaded or at capacity.
> I wish more devs tried to utilize modern css and js directly instead of relying on frameworks.

Its all well and good saying that, as long as you do not value your time.

Personally, I would rather use a reasonably up-to-date framework such as Bootstrap 5 because Bootstrap has already taken care of the majority of those CSS hacks that are often required to make things look right on various browsers.

And frankly, why re-invent the wheel ? Most "utilize modern css and js directly instead of relying on frameworks" likely ends up looking like "a lot of boilerplate with a few customisations". So why not use Bootstrap for all the boilerplate and spend your time more productively by focusing on the customisations ?

P.S. JS is not a strict requirement for Bootstrap, it can be used CSS-only. But one added benefit of Bootstrap 5 in particular is they've removed the jQuery dependency.
Yeah, 100% this. There was a local incident here where a driver intentionally drove his car into someone walking to a protest, and our big paper (owned and operated out of Orange county) wrote it up using the whole passive voice and accident headline. It was attempted murder and they still did that nonsense.
This seems much safer than most autonomous drones I've seen (or planes/helicopters). I hope this works out.

Having a bunch of them in the air in a constant cycle synced with the warehouse could compensate for the lost speed and could result in more distributed last mile centers. So package delivery is closer to ordering time, rather than sitting in queued bunches.
what song is this?
Surely AI can also be taught some boundary conditions like "thou shalt not build SQL from strings"?
Please summarize your opinion of the dynamic instead of making us watch an hour long video that we don't even know we want to watch to find out.
Even a 50% reduction in spread is huge in a population. Maybe we aren't getting that with masks, but it's not a binary "you are protected"/"you are not protected" problem.

A 50% reduction and we still all get covid. It is actually binary -- either we have a realistic and obtainable plan for zero-covid (which we do not) or everyone gets exposed to covid eventually.

A 50% reduction in spread might be helpful in certain areas where the hospitals are on the verge of being overwhelmed (in which case just close the schools for a few weeks), but in the United States there are a lot of mask mandates in schools being pushed in areas where the hospitals are not under any significant pressure. That is nonsense.
> This leaves a whole lot of room for an active attacker on the network to prevent all forms of encryption, rendering TLS essentially useless.

This is a common misconception about STARTTLS. It is certainly possible to implement it poorly (and that has certainly happened). But there are no inherent security issues with a correct implementation. An active attacker can just as easily block TLS handshake packets on a direct TLS connection.

The problem used to be that many software implementations (not just XMPP) would happily continue unencrypted if STARTTLS was not offered. But these days everyone requires TLS, and will not proceed to connect unless TLS is in use (regardless of whether it is negotiated or "direct").

However the future is certainly direct TLS, that has been obvious for some time. It has many advantages, such as allowing the use of off-the-shelf middleware such as loadbalancers and proxies, and bypassing certain firewalls. It's also easier to implement, and there is of course the (relatively new) ESNI which is beneficial.
How do we un-dog-whistle it?

I mean, look, if black lives matter (and they do), then all black lives matter, whether they're killed by a police officer, or whether they're killed by other blacks in inner-city violence.

We need to continue to have the conversation about police killing blacks. We also need to have a conversation about inner-city violence, and try to figure out what can be done to help. We need both. How do we have the second conversation without it being shut down as an attempt to shut down the first conversation?
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The Angular/React model also threw a huge wrench into the Bootstrap way of doing things. The latter relied on a smattering of ad-hoc JS for things like modals and tooltips. It dovetailed nicely with jQuery, but I remember it was wholly incompatible with Angular. There ended up being an "Angular Bootstrap" package specifically designed for that, and I remember it felt like a regression at the time that everything would get siloed under these JS frameworks.
The thing is many humans did not survive to get us here. I think this is a key point a lot of the antivax crowd doesn't see.
> Can you just put hydrogen into an existing helium blimp or would you need to design a new one based on flight data?

The issue is more about the permeability of hydrogen gas. It can seep through all kinds of materials, including metals, and then embrittle them.
Some past related threads:

Sonic Pi 3.3.0 (Beam) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971096 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23066922 - May 2020 (66 comments)

Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632999 - July 2018 (61 comments)

Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17483234 - July 2018 (3 comments)

Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888550 - April 2018 (1 comment)

Sam Aaron, Joe Armstrong – Keynote: Distributed Jamming with Sonic Pi and Erlang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036095 - Nov 2016 (4 comments)

Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 - Feb 2016 (69 comments)

Sonic Pi: Make Music Using Ruby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8825017 - Jan 2015 (10 comments)

Sonic Pi – A Music Live Coding Environment for Schools - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344827 - Sept 2014 (28 comments)
it makes perfect sense to me.
No way to impose any sort of external order there.
Russia was there, US/UK and half NATO have been there, the insurgent groups have financing via drugs and God knows what else(look at Colombia how much drug financed groups can hold back progress).
All the foreign forces have done plenty of damage and lost credibility.
Looking back, what in the world made Russia go there in the first place and then the USA? Why is this matter not settled yet?

This has gone past many administrations and advisors, and yielded nothing.

Does anyone know if the Taliban actually have some sort of popular support there or only by fringe groups?
> it seems to have no effect on spread

We wore them for a year. Covid is still here. It won't go away if we wear them for another year. It won't go away if we wear them for another ten years.
(2017)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585120
I don't think anyone is stopping you from breathing air. Interstate travel is still open. I'm allowed to walk around my neighborhood. No one is requiring me to show "papers" for any of this.

I know not everyone has the same set of restrictions on them, so I'm genuinely trying to understand if I'm missing something about how other areas are behaving. I know Australia is at the "papers, please" curfew stage, and that definitely bothers me a lot, but I haven't heard of anything like that in the USA.
I think some countries (such as the UK) recognize religious and ethical reasons. For example you can say that you're a vegan and can't take the vaccine because they're tested on animals.

But I'd rather be injected with a litre of smallpox than go vegan.
It depends what you are looking at. "Do antibiotics work?" is a slightly different question than "Is prescribing antibiotics effective?".

Of course you'd want data on how people actually take them, because to make decisions you'd like to know if the result means "prescribing antibiotics just doesn't work" or "we need to figure out how to make sure people actually take the prescribed antibiotics effectively"
If the dial was locked or missing, you could still "dial" a number by quickly tapping it with the on-hook switch the receiver would rest on, because that was the same effect the rotary dial mechanism was producing
Not if you it want a 1:1 duplicate
body weight exercises, running, walking, biking, or just getting vaccinated are all options.

Beyond that, I agree that mental health services are essential and should be provided at no cost to anyone who needs it, especially when precautions against a pandemic have a negative affect on mental health.
I guess they can get good deals with their customers too,... Edit: see another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28270545
92% of the Brits eligible for vaccination.
Don't know what to make of the frequency, to be precise. I understand the difficulty there, I'm just surprised that the prophylactic "I'm a ___" is so prevalent and apparently so effective.
Thanks to your feedback, I've added a new option to display "dateAdded" for bookmarks and two new options how the recentness of dateAdded affects the score. By default this is very low. (It will take a while until this is published at the stores).

See https://github.com/Fannon/search-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#... (first example, and for more details the options.js).

Regarding the sorting / filtering: I see the value in it, but this would be more work and I want to think it through first. Maybe I'll find the time to add it. If yes, maybe I'll add a "sort" mode that cycles between "score" (default)" "last visited" or "date added". Although only score is available for all types of results.
* {
background-image: linear-gradient(a big shadow);
border-radius: 5 million pixels;
box-shadow: 5 million pixels;
text-shadow: 5 million pixels;
}

...that should get you most of the way
From friends in some of these places it covers a wide range of things: avoiding the consequences of illegal building, accidents with bodily injury, as well as getting choice jobs without qualifications, etc.
Does the FDA think these data justify the full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine?
> Techniques are something used to achieve a goal, and if a person is involved in that goal, there's nothing wrong with using that sort of verbiage.

That’s what turning a person to an object is; to reduce them to something to achieve your goal over/with/through.

> You've made any attempt to change someone's mind out to automatically be something that's naturally evil. Ridiculous.

Ridiculousness is originating from your misframing which ignores the condition of participation vs instrumentalization I’ve laid out.

To give an example to non-objectifying persuasion; people pay money to get their own minds changed through therapy and it still takes years with no guaranteed success. This is obviously not “evil” (at least not inherently) because it is participatory and comes from a place of love and growth and alleviation of suffering.
I agree I could have been better at not attacking the poster. I'll try to do better (though I'm not allowed to fix my mistake due to site restrictions).

I also think that if vaccine misinformation (which includes that vaccine requirements are just petty tyrants controlling people and not based in science, which is the root post here if you couldn't find it) isn't currently against the current guidelines, then that's an issue.
Obesity has also increased among wild animals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261232

While dieting can control obesity, we have decades of evidence to show it isn’t easy. Bariatric surgery does seem to work but is invasive and dangerous.
Have you tried Google?
If you can make them stealthier, accept crypto and/or cash and not ask a lot of questions, I believe you can double that market figure.
The case count for Germany atm is very impressive, but we ditched masks in June, and cases actually plummeted after that, and only started to rise with the delta variant. We still compared to most have a low infection rate.
Agreed with the others in those still being too hard to find. In fact, the opposite of what I recommended would be better since “view” is the domain word here, maybe use a distinctive, kind of unrelated ending word instead?

If you’re set on the tld being part of the name, from a quick skim of available Google domains, something like “view.haus” would work a lot better, but there’s a viewhaus in GDL Mexico already taking up eg @viewhaus and viewhaus.com.

There are a lot of tlds though!
That the Vietnamese don't follow a religion which they interpret as mandating the conversion or death of all non believers?

The Taliban have moral clarity and that's a huge advantage against the relativist post-modern muddle brained thinking that characterizes most of western leadership these days.
A third party could implement the PHAsset abstraction over their own implementation of a photo library action sheet and the file provider APIs. It wouldn’t get you to feature parity, but the major differences are but minor frictions if your privacy threat model involves nation state adversaries.

It is not possible to write an app on iOS that has permanent, transparent background network and runtime access, and it’s also not clear allowing such apps would be a privacy benefit for users at large. Apple already makes exceptions to this for certain apps (e.g. it seems like my Verizon Wireless app has background runtime). Are you suggesting that Apple should nominate a few photo services receive the same exception?
This doesn't resemble how startups or YC work in any way. In fact, I believe this comment has the fun property that literally every sentence is wrong.

Being a startup founder is not a "job at YC", your team isn't "assigned" to you, founders are not specialists, it's not a "salary job", you choose the problem you're working on, you decide who's hired (and fired), usually they're people you've met before, and so on. But here's the best part:

> trust to start your own business when you get out

You've already started your own business. That's what 'founder' means!

Edit: but from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279288 I think your point was that being a startup founder is not like being in the military, in which case...good point :)
I found it be informative, but coagulating
> It cannot "switch" languages in a way like "we stop development in C and switch to development in XYZ only; C-based code will only get security updates".

At a purely technical level (ignoring issues of platform support and all) it pretty much can do that, actually: integrate XYZ into the build system, build new features in XYZ, start converting old features to XYZ, end up with an sqlite in XYZ.
My email account is not part of my online banking authentication process, and I don't think there's an option to do so.

Though it seems the authentication process is not robustly secure anyway: a username & password combined with a personal question if it hasn't detected a login from your machine recently.
There are several commonly used tools to create ASCII diagrams, one of them, asciiflow [0], was featured recently on HN.

[0] https://asciiflow.com/legacy/
Got it, makes sense. To the extent this can be formalized, I feel this is a much better alternative than consensus based approaches
We are using Synology Photos in our family.

On iOS devices, it randomly stops synchronizing, and it is necessary to manually resume sync. Very annonying; most normal (not-enthusiast) users would be bitten, that they assume their photos are synced, when they are not.

Interestingly, Android devices do not have such issue.
Why would you reply with such confidence in something you clearly know nothing about?

Chicken pox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which can certainly be fatal if contracted as an adult (i.e shingles) and never been exposed to it as a child. _Now_, most people are exposed to it when they're children, when it's much less serious, but vaccination is still the preferred method because it can still be deadly in children in certain cases.

FYI, ~6.4K people still die every year to chicken pox and shingles. It may seem comparatively small, but that's still people who die. Before a vaccine was created, it was around 4x that.

Vaccination has empirically been shown to reduce the number of major hospitalizations and deaths as a result of the virus. It's an injustice to undermine _any_ number of lives potentially saved or thousands in hospital bills avoided because you believe science is "quackery".
Already enabled in Nightly.
I did run into that engineer in-person at a Google event and grabbed a coffee with them. I think they're still at Google. No hard feelings but yeah getting any real support at Google is impossible and obviously not prioritized by the organization.
Moreover, there's a reason why people standardize/specify their profobuf/JSON/XML schemas, and it's because that's more extensible than unversioned, unnamespaced serialized data.
9 degrees C for men and 11 degrees C for women for 2 hours.
Unfortunately, with Delta variant transmission rate and vaccine breakthrough probability, and the fact that no vaccine yet has a sterilization effect, we will not reach herd immunity. This is a done deal. Let's work on alternative strategy.
> Despite the reference to “six month safety and efficacy” in the preprint’s title, the paper only reports on vaccine efficacy “up to six months,” but not from six months. This is not semantics, as it turns out only 7% of trial participants actually reached six months of blinded follow-up (“8% of BNT162b2 recipients and 6% of placebo recipients had ≥6 months follow-up post-dose 2.”) So despite this preprint appearing a year after the trial began, it provides no data on vaccine efficacy past six months, which is the period Israel says vaccine efficacy has dropped to 39%.

Also, about the author[1], before the usual crowd descends upon me with the downvotes/flags w/o reading.

> Peter Doshi is a senior editor at The BMJ and on the News & Views team. Based in Baltimore, he is also an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. His research focuses on the drug approval process, how the risks and benefits of medical products are assessed and communicated, and improving the credibility and accuracy of evidence synthesis and biomedical publications. Doshi campaigns for greater transparency of clinical trial data and leads the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative, which aims to ensure clinical trial publications are accurate, complete, and data are publicly available. Doshi also has strong interests in journalism as a vehicle for encouraging better practice and improving the research enterprise. Doshi completed a fellowship in comparative effectiveness research at Johns Hopkins and received his PhD in history, anthropology, and science, technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[1]: https://faculty.rx.umaryland.edu/pdoshi/
There is lots of competition for the top of the stupidity list.

NYC locking down all summer and then 'opening up' in September seemed top of the list to me. It's not that I thought they should have stayed locked down the entire time, its that they should have opened in the summer so they could lock down in the winter if they really needed it. But seriously though, locking down in the summer to only open up in flu season, really?

Or maybe the whole 'if we just lock down for two weeks, this will be over' tops the list of stupidity. or the fact people still want to lock down despite how epically they have failed. Germany masked, distanced, and locked down better than anyone could expect, and here they are sitting with 4 million cases, 100k dead and are still in the pandemic. They don't even share a porous border with Mexico/South America. To no fault of their own, they are hardest hit by the pandemic, and the US sharing a border with them the way it is meant no rosy outcome was in our future.

Or how about how everyone was anti mask in the beginning, including the CDC, WHO, and my very liberal coworkers. When I said it would be advisable to wear a mask when in crowded places March, 2020 - I was heckled for not following the science.

Or what about the fact we are 2 years into this and we still haven't built a significant amount of hospitals? if we had to lock down because of lack of hospital beds, well we better f'ing demand they have enough hospital beds, like real soon. This is why the lockdowns should have came at a price, you want to lock down then we need a metric that you are trying to achieve by the lockdown, we need timely updates on your progress to that metric, and we need an action plan such that this will never happen again (such as building more hosptials - hey, how about just opening the thousands we shut down in the last 5 years to make hospitals more profitable!). my views on that were called 'myopic'. so we gave them lockdowns without restrictions, and nothing was done. here we are in the same situation, odd.

As far as making the vaccines political, well they don't have to be. some research has shown that they don't do very well at stopping spread, so why all the fuss to force people to get vaccinated? just say do it for yourself if you want to, politics removed.

edit: just to be clear - I am not anti vax, I am vaccinated and I recommend to everyone to do the same. There is unrefutably evidence the vaccine prevents sever cases.
“In 1998, a now discredited article appeared in The Lancet which linked the MMR vaccination to autism. Uptake decreased significantly, and by 2003/04 only 79.9% of children were vaccinated. The Lancet partially retracted the paper in 2004 and fully retracted it in 2010, and coverage consequently improved, reaching 92.7% in 2013/14.”

From https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/vaccination-covera...

It took circa 10 years for the “system worked” outcome. Can 10 years of excess child deaths due to fraud be counted as “worked”? Surely beyond a couple of years to refute the findings is failure?
If you check my comment you will see that I agree that its good thing for people with associated diseases that can complicate recovery:).

So age and associated diseases should be deciding factor for every person. Or are you proposing something else?:)
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