skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have the opportunity to train with non-US militaries one quickly learns a bit of gratefulness. Our officer and non-commissioned officers are far more professional, and our junior enlisted are far better trained. There are some exceptions. British Royal Marines and SAS really impressed me.

So why does the US lose wars? Because we don’t let the military fight them to win. How else does a 21st century military lose to someone living in the sixth century?

The officer corp spends 10x more time restraining soldiers than gassing them up. It’s difficult to fathom what we’re capable of (even with the law of armed conflict).
> feels like TS is where its at.

Yes. It seems the majority of engineering decisions are tighly coupled to this expression right there. Future be damned because a Medium.com ex-FAANG said TS is where it's at

Bless them and the hype train, woe to developers 5 years from now.
We've been studying this problem for a product we're working on, and it seems like the depths of this hole get dark and very deep. We expect to need to hire someone to moderate early on.

As mentioned, there is child porn, various other forms of illegal porn, illegal violence, hatred, propaganda to incite violence, etc... Then of course any kind of content you might not approve of due to any personal or company policies, if relevant.

All of our material will be forced to be public so the user should have no expectation of privacy, but for many people this won't matter. Just look at Facebook; that's a public-facing service, and people upload atrocities to it constantly.
> its manufacturer and providers should not need protection from suits

Lawsuits are easy to file and costly to defend against. We commonly concentrate prosecution in the hands of specialists when the public stakes are high, e.g. crime and medicine. (Also, the liability protection is only until 2024.)
Why is their education fucked up?

What about the children who infected their parents and now they're orphans?
Side-effects may develop only after a while: a good reason for longer trials.
I think the NFT skepticism is understandable. All attention seems be going out to a very low amount of questionable art going around for a few 100K or even millions.

Browse actual NFT sites and you'll notice there's zero bids on the typical NFT. Clearly, it's not really working as a new market model. Yet.

Further, not really securing copyrights to the art itself I consider a design flaw. Without it, your ownership is make-belief.

All of that said, I'd still advocate to zoom out a little and keep an open mind to the idea. The way I see it, these are some of the first experiments in applying digital scarcity to the creative space. This first version being admittedly terrible.

Fast forward a few years and it may very well have evolved into something more sustainable and normalized. The reason I would hope for that to happen is that it may slash some very powerful gatekeepers.

When you're a photographer, right now you may need to license your work to Getty images, for pennies, them fully dictating the terms. When you're a small musician, you need to get on Spotify, them fully dictating the terms.

In theory, and hopefully in practice, next-gen NFTs can provide an alternative, a more fair market-based approach not depending on middlemen. Or at least less so.

The other advantage comes from digital property being programmable. For example, when minting an NFT, you can indicate there to be 5 copies, and you want 10% of any future resale of the piece.

You can't do that in any practical way using old school copyrights. Digital property is superior in that sense.

And there's the potential of cross pollination. Say a popular game commits to supporting NFTs. And in this war game your tank has a unique skin, that nobody else has. Instead of the game maker deciding on all skins, anybody can make them and sell them.

That would be another gate keeper slashed, and power returned to the community. Just this silly idea alone could create an enormous new market. There would be many more such new markets if/when NFTs become interoperable, instead of isolated.

We really need to leave behind this thought that when it's digital, it's worthless. Our lives are digital now. In the future, you have a digital wallet on your phone containing lots of items. Your money. Digital creative works. Maybe tokens from your favorite football club. Who knows?

Last, I find it really ironic how on an article like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274026

...consensus is that it's a very bad thing that 5 companies own all of the digital landscape. Uniform agreement. Whilst at the same time, rejecting anything "crypto".

Crypto is the only technology and movement that I can think of to have a chance at breaking down oversized gate keepers. Half of hackernews is complaining about big tech: tracking, lack of free speech, milking users, oversized power, creators that can't monetize, killing competition by acquiring small players, hording patents, the list goes on.

Can or will crypto fix all of this? No. Probably not even close. But it's the best chance we got.

I'd like my downvotes now, please, am going to mint it.
Pfizer is mandating it. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/vaccine-mandate-pfizer-will-...

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021... says the White House has as well.

> The White House didn’t even establish a vaccine mandate for its own staffers until last month, despite the shot being available to them early in the year.
What would you have us do instead? The elderly are severely at risk from the flu but we don't have winter lockdowns for them?
Seems like this is a missing browser feature. Maybe there's some extension for overriding the dark theme setting exposed to websites.
I've seen this take so many times an I simply don't get it. The notion that TypeScript can't be (some form of) strongly-typed because Javascript is (some form of) weakly-typed is just silly. CPUs are entirely weakly typed in this sense and this doesn't impact the typings of languages built on top.

JavaScript is strongly typed in the sense that every value has a well-defined type. It's weak in the sense that it has implicit conversion between types in a lot of cases, but it's not as though those conversions don't follow particular rules if you know the types.

TypeScript gives you accurate static typing on top of that, so long as you don't use `any` as an escape. Arguably, `JSON.parse` returning `any` is the 1-million dollar mistake of TypeScript, because it leads a lot of people to think that they get automatic runtime typechecking for free, which they obviously don't, which leads to comments about how bad/slippery TypeScript is stemming from their misunderstanding.

In my experience, you only need to work around typings in TypeScript when you're dealing with some absurdly designed API that only made sense in the super-flexible world of olden-days JavaScript, or perhaps if you're doing some meta-programming, generating class definitions on the fly or such.
India: yes.

The UK: in local areas, patients had to be diverted sometimes hundreds of miles to a hospital with space. all non emergency hospital care was stopped, and some emergency routine care was delayed.

Belgium was overwhelmed.

The issue is this, we can't just not admit the over 60s. even if we did, that would only free up 50% capacity (ie you could go one more cycle of exponential growth, doubling every n weeks/days)[source https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=...]

filling hospitals means that the resources used to treat both sudden hospitalizations and long term are diverted. so car accident/drinking/heavy sports/DIY injuries have worse outcomes, and cancer outcomes drop off a cliff.

if the UK manages to keep the total number of patients in hospital with covid to less than 7-10k that would be a brilliant outcome for winter. we are currently at ~6k, and its still summer.

The issue is there are not enough trained doctors and nurses. They take at least 8 years to train. that's the main constraint. Suitable beds can be made up in a number of weeks (see china and the "nightinggale hospitals") but if there is no staff, they are pointless
But Tesla likes to bring production in-house, whereas Apple outsources everything possible. It would not surprise me in the slightest if Tesla is looking to build a fab at some point in the future
I don't believe that applies anymore. That's when the vaccine is under EUA, which it no longer is for 16+.
That is, what my last sentence was referring to. It will be interesting to see, how it behaves.
There are ~30 million recovered from covid who have natural immunity.
I've never understood this point. White people are mostly murdered by other white people. Black people are mostly murdered by other black people. This should be obvious...most murderers know their victims, and they know them well enough to have a motive to kill them. When a police officer wrongfully kills a white person, we don't go around telling white people that they shouldn't care about police murders because more white people are killed by other white people than the police. Why does it matter when discussing black people murdered by police?

Here's something that you should consider: the police murder problem in the US is massive. If our police had the same rate of killings as German police, we would have about 45 deaths at the hands of the police every year. But we actually have over 1000. And black people are twice as likely to be killed than white people by our murderous police. Why shouldn't we complain about that?
A great many of my female friends in [Asian country] basically expect to be harassed or asked to go to a "hotel" at least once when they're out and about.

It's easy to roll our eyes at statements like these but that just feels like adding on to the issue.
The Delta variant is contagious enough that we'll never achieve a level of herd immunity sufficient to protect unvaccinated people. All of us will be infected eventually, it's basically inevitable. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Why ship node_modules? Because you want to ship the complete app. At least rsync comes to the rescue for quick deploy of 10000 tiny files remotely.
I'm not scared of Covid-19, I'm mostly concerned that as the numbers continue to rise and the hospitals/ICUs around me get more Covid-19 cases, it'll force the government to have to issue harsher measures to prevent the system from bursting at the seams because hospitals don't have limitless resources. People who don't want strict measures can't hand-wave that potential reality away.
> If you are talking about scenarios where full disk encryption is not enabled, then that is irrelevant.

That's fair, I was making that assumption because it is true in literally every case I've come across. But consider that if you have local access to a logged in account you've already got access to unencrypted files for that user anyway. You don't even need admin.
I'm not actually working meaningful overtime.

I am working a more flexible schedule where I handle some details from my phone AFK and work dedicated hours at times that fit better with family obligations.

I actually believe setting that expectation helps my colleagues.

And again, I work at small companies by choice. If we fail a product, the company may fail, then we are all out of a job.
> This is not something that can be resolved by bullying or mandates. It can only be resolved by open dialogue and debate between the two sides, which thus far, has been prevented.

Your second claim is massively untrue: all of the information is public and actual medical doctors overwhelmingly support vaccination and bend over backwards trying to help patients understand it (note that most of the high profile objectors either aren't real MDs and/or are speaking far outside of their area of expertise). The problem is that many people are defining “open dialogue” as meaning that untrue statements they make need to be taken as seriously as the consensus of the scientific community.

The first is rather debatable: mandates have been highly effective everywhere they've been tried because they shift the cost calculation to “do I feel strongly enough about this that I'm willing to give up something I like?”.
I think it's important to recognize here that human moderation in many cases means exposing people to potentially traumatizing imagery. Gore, child porn, you name it. I think providing this service ethically could be very challenging.
Good to get these reminders that our data is in fact not private and that our computers have other owners than us..
Covid has a low chance of risks. The Covid vaccine has a low chance of risks. People are bad at judging probabilities at the fringes.

Yes, the chance of risks from Covid is orders of magnitude higher than the vaccine. People are still bad at it.

Politics didn't help the situation.
I had to disable dark mode on macOS because of how bad dark mode was for so many sites. The common pattern is that they use some sort of framework that ships with dark mode by default, but then the designers override some of the CSS to make the light mode look closer to what they want, but it also affects the dark mode, completely breaking the site.
"Privacy is a human right" really does seem like it was only an advertising slogan.

When Apple says "privacy" they seem to have only meant from advertisers and hackers. I'm surprised and disappointed.
Portugal is at 66%
This presumes we can't tweak boosters to better target Delta, which seems like a silly assumption.
In a patch of Arizona, everyone knows Waymo. But few use it
The great thing about that excuse is that the amount of information needed can be set arbitrarily. There will never be enough information available to satisfy people using this excuse. It'll just be "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER"[1] until the end of time.

1: https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
Solar is a tiny industry compared with coal and brings in approximately zero export dollars.

For most of the past decade, coal has been Australia's second largest resource export, after iron ore, and since 2015 has averaged around one-quarter of annual resource export values and 14 per cent of total export values (Graph 2). In 2018, the value of coal exports was $67 billion, equivalent to 3½ per cent of nominal GDP. Australia's coal exports consist of different grades of black coal: metallurgical coal, which has a relatively high energy content and is used for industrial purposes (primarily steel making); and lower-energy content thermal coal used for electricity generation.

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2019/sep/the-ch...
I don't agree with this, in general. We shouldn't give up our freedoms. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (Benjamin Franklin) We should be motivated by a desire to help one another, and resist when freedoms are removed. That being said, if businesses want to exercise their freedoms to make life more difficult for the unvaccinated, so be it.
So, yeah, I guess the grandparents and older aunts / uncles they may be living with are fucked. But who cares about them?
The situation is not that obvious, and thus different places evaluate it differently. (E.g. here in Germany the protocol is one vaccine dose a few months after the infection, based on results that this has similar effects as the second dose of a two-dose regimen)
There are generic mouse drivers.
Facebook says post that cast doubt on vaccine was most popular on the platform
> abortion does not affect others

This is a bad faith argument that makes no effort to understand anti-abortion viewpoints. At least for some subset of their population, the whole basis for their stance is that they assign humanity at conception, not at birth. Hence to say abortion "does not affect others" is an opinion only valid in some viewpoints.

(unfortunately, I feel disclaimers are necessary around topics that people tend to not be objective and unemotional about) - I'm not anti-abortion myself; if anything I'm quite pro-abortion and think it should be encouraged in many cases. However I still try to understand the viewpoint of anti-abortion proponents
Sad to see smart people talking about "privacy" when children are in danger.
The UK dropped all restrictions with the exception of some travel related restrictions (to prevent the import of variants that could breakthrough the vaccine).

Any restrictions you see in the UK are implemented by businesses/local government (e.g. masks on the tube, or in some shops).
>>web-site is wrong if it assumes I'd prefer everything to be dark, not only UI

Uhm, no? It's the exact opposite. Nothing worse that opening a website in the middle of the night and it burns your retinas because it has pure white background. I have a dark theme on everything, of course the website should adapt. What's the point of dynamic web otherwise?
Gotcha... that makes sense. I've never required more than two buttons and a scroll wheel, which I guess explains that.
This is even worse in my mind.

"Oh I'm totally for vaccine, but not the one that went through full trials and helps stopping the actual pandemic going on right now, nope, that one is a no go better people keep dying when we could stop it"
SARS is simpler because people become sicker quicker and don't spread it about anywhere near as much.
It has nothing to do with 'trusting them' and everything to do with the threat model because it significantly increases the attack surface area.

Just because I want to grant system access to a relatively simply USB driver doesn't mean I want to grant the same access to a 150MB UI app.
Do you honestly think a world with unregulated drugs and medicine is a better one?
>If you have natural immunity, getting a vaccine seems rather pointless

Not according to a recent Oxford study. Quite the contrary, actually.

https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/covid-19/covid-19-infection-survey/...

>Two doses of either vaccine still provided at least the same level of protection as having had COVID-19 before through natural infection; people who had been vaccinated after already being infected with COVID-19 had even more protection than vaccinated individuals who had not had COVID-19 before. [my emphasis added]
Well, that statement of hers is blatantly stupid, I think we can agree on that.

But please don't lump people like me concerned about infringement on rights and bodily autonomy with people who deny facts and cannot understand what a mitigation measure is.

And more importantly, please don't make vaccination a political issue. Because you will be dividing everyone over this much more dramatically.
Well that’s the case expressing any kind of opinion about COVID
> Your first link reports that out of the thousands of total cases, only 20 are in the hospital, 9 of which are in the ICU.

My first link reports 492 total active cases, not thousands.

If you want to use the total cases, then you should be noting that 820 people have died, and 20,212 have recovered. The mortality calculated from that is a simple 3.8%.

20 hospitalised cases out of 492 total active cases, is about 4%, and the 9 in ICU are about 2% of total active cases.
Nintendo Switch has sold units even when they aren't as big as microsoft
> imagine the Trump admin trying to require you to take the vaccine in November of last year. Cities would have burned over it.

I don't like "Imagine x doing y" arguments because it makes us insert our own biases on a hypothetical scenario that isn't the current reality.
the vaccinated still spread it. side effects of the vaccine are increasing at an alarming rate. it's a bioweapon and you would be wise to challenge your assumptions.
In theory, the OS should provide the user an option to apply dark mode just to the OS's UI or to content as well. This option would control the value of `prefers-color-scheme` with dark mode enabled.
> Mr Kibble's planning, as intricate and precise as a well-played game of chess, was nearly derailed once he left Northampton.

> "I was on a seriously delayed bus. The X7 from Northampton to Leicester got delayed due to roadworks and attempted fare dodgers.

> "The bus driver also stopped to speak fluent Italian to some tourists struggling to buy a ticket, which was frankly incredible public service."

I laughed out loud reading this last quote. I love this person's honest admiration of public service, even if it's something I don't particularly share.
> the only people that need to be scared of it are the unvaccinated

We often overlook those who were previously infected. I believe this is a common mistake that makes for inaccurate groupings, which negatively affect the common good.
Yeah, no. It started in mostly unvaccinated India.
Why should vaccinated people be denied healthcare resources because the resources are being exhausted by people choosing to ignore medical professionals advice and refuse to get a free vaccine?
You should make your browser use `prefers-color-scheme: light`, instead of asking every website in the world to ignore this option and default to your personal preference.
From 2018: "The latest and greatest in deflections and dog whistles: ‘What about Chicago?’"

... Of course, no one whistling “what about Chicago?” has any desire to resolve the problems in Chicago. If this were about Chicago, they’d be talking about the perils of low investment in communities, the shuttering of mental health facilities, school closures, police corruption or ineffective policing. There would be a push to bring back programs that were cut during the Illinois budget crisis. CeaseFire’s violence reduction strategies were working, until the budget freeze of Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) cut $4.7 million in funding in 2015, effectively shutting down the program. Though some funding has been restored recently, the momentum they had built has obviously been lost. “What about Chicago” is a convenient deflection, and nothing more ever seems to come of it....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...
My company had out local health official come to our town hall meeting at talk. About covid.

Over 94% of patients are unvaccinated... It's pretty clear in my mind what's happening here.
So 35000 deaths per year is ok? 100000? 250000? 1.5 million (diabetes)?

500000 hospitalizations (influenza)?

What deserves such incredible non-stop daily attention? Answer: whatever makes the most money.
Those are band-aids. A car-lockdown would save lots of lives.

GPs point is: compared to other drama, covid's hype seems out of proportion. I agree.
> i killed multiple original 90's manufactured Model M's

...how? I'm fairly sure I could bludgeon a man to death with my model M and run it over with a truck and it would still work.
Yeah, you are right. It is not exactly YAML's fault but how it is used. I am ok with using it with ansible/salt/compose. But k8s is stretching it to it's limits and makes it cumbersome to use.

And yeah, there is not much examples of HCL files for different software, but most of the time there is not much to adapt. Usually when i need to run something, i just take some random HCL file i have and substitute the docker image, edit the amount of resources and add storage and config via templates. And done. It might be confusing/intimidating at first, but like with anything after some time you should be ok.
Science does adapt. And as often repeated, we know little to nothing about COVID.

Lifting the mask mandate was a political move, and it was a poor one. Not pushing KN95/N95 when it was basically guaranteed to be increased protection was a poor move. Taking us out of lockdown, and failing to reinstate the lockdown, was a political move. Also a poor choice.

You're over here talking about science. Half of these decisions are being made based on politics. Wouldn't surprise me if the vaccine approval were also.
Community + mRNA, if I'm remembering right. Marketing is a joke for these ones. Every government agency on earth is doing the marketing for them for free.