skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can go down the list of projects on https://coingecko.com/ and they always need devs. Every project in crypto is remote-OK ("decentralized").

I know one of the people doing https://dxdao.eth.link/ DXDao is a collective of devs that work to build decentralized applications ("Dapps"). The decentralized treasury (~$30million USD) funds proposals that anyone can make. They do weekly calls. You can just join their Keybase and start contributing and earning for your efforts. There is no CEO or hierarchy and you can work your own hours and your own pace.
COVID may be man-made as well. Or at least enhanced.
> No one has ever prevented a climate change induced event so far

Well apparently the ban on CFCs has had a beneficial effect and the hole in the ozone layer is no longer the issue it had been
Idk about the "Prestigious Universities earned their fame for the most part" when implying that then causes their students to become way smarter.

IMO to compete in the "college admissions race", smart/motivated students will often compete like crazy to get into the prestigious university system. So because so many very smart/motivated students compete to get into the programs, the prestigious universities get their pick of top tier students who will end up graduating who could turn out to be smart/competent programmers regardless of the actually quality of the program.

I'm not saying these top schools have crap programs, I'd imagine they do have great programs as well, but I'd guess those same students would become good/competent programmers coming out of any program.
Just to add on to what you're pointing out, the existing UK data[1] makes this even more obvious. Technically it reports that about 2/3s of the total deaths were of vaccinated people (402 fully vaccinated deaths, 253 unvaccinated), even though only about 1/3 of cases are in fully vaccinated people (47,008 vs 151,054). But this is totally expected because the vaccinated rate in the >50 age range is extremely high, and they account for practically all the deaths (from those groups the <50 age range only accounts for 60 deaths, with 4/5 of those in the unvaccinated population). In that >50 population, there were way more vaccinated cases than unvaccinated (because the rate is so high), so if you calculate the CFR for just that age range it's actually about ~6% for the unvaccinated and only ~1.8% for the fully vaccinated, so in reality those who got the vaccine had much better outcomes even though when combining both age groups it looks like it was much worse.

[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> It's also with chrome super easy to open a page without the normal browser UI that looks like an app

Yeah that's what Electron is.

> add a .desktop file and presto it's an app

So Chrome has turned the .url into a .desktop and ruined what .desktop means. Neat.

> it would actually be superior in many respects

Few, not many. And those respects are garbage because it's a still a web app masquerading as something it's not.
I don't get your point. To reiterate, I'm challenging the idea that on HN you're likely to find stronger support for electron vs against.
Even the worst people in the world may have some good contributions. For example this comment, by kovarex (factorio dev), expresses my opinion on it better than I could: https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/o2ly6f/friday_fac...
The counter that is commonly used against that is "well when it affects other people's health, then you don't get to choose."

There are a lot of assumptions in that counterargument that people will hope you don't examine, for example, the assumption that the probability of a covid transmission ending in harm crosses the same probability threshold if, say, drunk driving ending in harm. I say it doesn't. And since the stakes are so high with what we're talking about allowing the government to do, the burden of proof is on needing to prove the individual's likelihood for serious harm being high.
FYI: Unicomp still makes Model M keyboards (with USB! and Windows keys! if you want them); and Elecom trackballs are wonderful

I'm hard on that stuff; i killed multiple original 90's manufactured Model M's and wore out a stack of MS trackballs over those 2 decades. One of the fancy logitech "G" blinky lights keyboards lasted less than 3mo under my hands. Kensington cheap trackballs quit moving right in days and stop working in months.
I think the only reasonable default is to not talk unless I've given permission for it to do so.

But I recognize that I'm in the minority. So much so that I can't trust software to behave itself, so I've had to use my firewall to disable all outbound traffic by default, so I can add exceptions as needed.

It's amazing how rarely such exceptions are actually needed.
Co Founders are already quite often reasonably gung-ho risk takers.

I think what's often lacking are attributes like empathy - I'm not sure trying to further militarise startups helps that.
I don’t think this is the right take. The actual opinion poll numbers suggest that the “never vax” population has remained fairly constant over time, while the “vax hesitant” population started higher and has gradually decreased.

See for example https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/unvaccinated-america-in...

There’s a pretty stable “never” population at 14%, and you see that as time goes on the hesitants have been gradually been getting won over.

I’m sure some in the “never” camp are using “it’s not been approved” as their current first-line given reason. But I think you need to break down the groups a bit more. There are genuinely people who are not fundamentally anti-vax that are just nervous about how fast the vaccines were developed or scared about what having “RNA” in the vaccine means (I don’t share these concerns but I understand where they come from). Some of these people will at the margin be persuaded by things like full approval.
Yes, and perhaps _not_ use pam_duress for remote logins, in case you want to keep your duress password simple (think "password" or something similar, actually memorable in a duress situation).
C++ with Qt also seems like a good choice, although it is not free for most types of commercial use.
Although I wouldn't contest your opinion about "ceilings" etc, because I don't know much about it, I would contest that elite universities select from a pool that is above most people's top end. I suspect the average intelligence of Harvard, MIT, or Stanford students is higher than the national average but still within the first deviation - in other words, most people in the population who are interested in university are probably "smart enough" by nature to succeed at one of these schools.

Socioeconomic factors playing a role (even a majority role, in my opinion) in access to elite education isn't about $20 million gifts. It's about living in neighbourhoods that have good primary and secondary schools; it's about living around peers who think going to university and even elite universities is normal and achievable; it's about being able to afford "personal rounding" activities like organized sports or music lessons; it's about being rich enough to be able to afford to give volunteer hours.

This "privilege" doesn't make those people bad or invalidate how hard they worked, but we should avoid thinking their success is due to some innate, "natural" superiority like just being smarter.
"By looking at other vaccines historically and seeing that side effects tend to happen in the first few weeks."

"Other vaccines historically" work on fundamentally different principles. We can not use that data to assume that mRNA vaccines are going to work the same way.
But their parents are (or can be) vaccinated, thus imune to the disease.
For a slightly more wonky take on this with more speeds & feeds: https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-exceeds-coal-for-first-tim...
No one cares one whit about the battery/memory/CPU requirements of software they can't run in the first place.

And at least in my experience, spinning up a VM to run windows only software is a bigger battery/memory/cpu hit than running electron.

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I would love it if Electron was better on those fronts (not to mention a few others) but it's good enough for most of my current use cases.
Do you hear that? It's the sound of millions of goalposts being moved.
Really, I think we should sincerely and earnestly question what problem the police are presumed to solve. The most useful functions they serve in my area are to help direct traffic during construction, for which they absolutely do not need weapons. Otherwise the idea is that we will be safer if a handful of armed people drive around at their whim staring at pedestrians. They can't go back in time, nor do their methods demonstrate any hope of preventing anything. What do they do? edit: I should add, for anyone wondering what my positive contribution to this is, that the idea of a community taking measures to keep itself safe and peaceful is not a problem. But also that isn't what police do in theory or practice.
Some other software, other than Google, might follow the link automatically. Because the standard allows that.

That is literally the opposite of what good native email clients have been doing for a long time. They won't even open linked images and the like by default, to prevent tracking.
Where I live, 50% are unvaccinated. That's not a small minority.
> Just make a standard ticket ecommerce site and add some functionalities for ticket resale.

A generalized system for selling and validating ownership of digital things makes implementing ticketing easier than building an entire digital ticketing ecommerce site up from scratch.

Ethereum gives you digital wallets, ownership tracking, ownership verification, resale markets via 3rd parties or p2p, and digital wallets natively.
The kids weren't in danger, that appears to be changing very quickly with the new variant. Let's not be like George W. Bush standing on the aircraft carrier saying "mission accomplished", when we're still in the middle of this thing.
> How does covid transmit to wild animals like deer that have almost no interactions with humans ?

I've been within a few feet of wild deer plenty of times in my life. Humans have a lot more interaction with wild animals than you would think once you move outside of urban areas.
Just a tiny bit offtopic, but for a different kind of competitive programming, I made https://yare.io (1v1 StarCraft-like RTS, but you control units by writing javascript).
jacquesm here famously built the sorter; everything except for the boxing it up step.
If you are taking on a new job, take your peace with you.

To get a new job, signal that you will find that peace wherever you go with whatever tools they use. It might take a while (about a year), and sometimes it doesn't happen, but if you believe it you can usually make it so.
> how does covid transmit

It seems likely that they were drinking sewage-contaminated water. Ingestion of contaminated water is the source of a staggering variety of illnesses for both humans and animals. Souce: I work in environmental monitoring.
It's socially irresponsible and the impact to others is possible death. I wouldn't have a problem if these people weren't spreading death to others, but instead, they choose to force themselves on the rest of us because "freedom". The same people that don't understand vaccines are also likely to think masks don't work, so they take zero precautions when it comes to their safety and others.

The focus is just, these folks are robbing everyone else of their freedom and happiness.
Nobody's saying they're not allowed to choose, this is more of a discussion about how some people may never really be truly satisfied with the safety of a vaccine regardless of how many studies are published and how much information on the subject is available.

While I'm a big fan of people having a choice, due to the large amount of misinformation out there people are dying. We have people in my country that could have gotten the vaccine but didn't because of Facebook conspiracies and are now refusing oxygen in hospitals because they're afraid their lungs will explode - due to Facebook conspiracies.
Here on Linux, it (the Superlight) just works.

There's libratbag[0] if you want to mess with some DPI settings.

0: https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag
There's a great book on non-Aristotelian systems (particularly categories, replacing the Aristotelian definition (species := genus + differentia, for example human := animal + capacity to think, bachelor := man + unmarried) with the notion of prototypes + extensions.

I originally bought it just based on the title:

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind by George Lakoff.
And that's a good thing as that increases the speed of solar adoption.

Governments should increase taxes on oil and coal (and electricity generated from oil and coal). That's the only way to speed up adoption of other energy sources.

The income from this tax could be used to build wind and solar power, energy research or paid back as incentives to people installing solar panels.
I can absolutely judge someone for a decision that I want them to have the right to make. It's absurd to suggest I shouldn't be able to.

There's no good reason for the majority * of people to avoid the COVID vaccines. They're making a dumb decision.

* Of course there are exceptions, but it's a small percent
Can't say I'm a fan of any system that makes ticket scalping easier.
I live in a major city and I have never even heard of requiring vaccinations to buy groceries. Is this a thing that exists somewhere? I would love to read more on this.
I am hand rolling >.>
I don’t have ASUS ROG keyboard, but I unfortunately have ASUS ROG motherboard. I experienced similar situation: in order to use some basic functionality of the motherboard I had to install a bloatware which, by the way, didn’t even work properly.

I absolutely agree with your last sentence.
If you read them, they are equally part of life and so if they are a problem life isn't possible.

I'm talking about the mRNA vaccines. Others are more complex. They are also more studied though so your objection seems to be to the mRAN ones.
Probably because they introduced it afterwards, and thus to not break compatibility with all other apps they tried to make it transparent to the developer. Except it's not.

I get that Apple is going into the direction of forbidding local LAN communication because they want you to implement Homekit protocol in the hardware, except that is a pain, requires certification of the hardware and requires a physical chip inside the hardware.
This is a lot of trouble to go to just to avoid building a grocery store within walking distance.
The approval for that drug was a huge error but you’re incorrectly conflating that limited, conditional approval with the far more rigorous normal process. The FDA basically said that the manufacturer has 10 years to show a clinical benefit because the drug was shown to accomplish its purpose (reducing amyloid plaques) with an acceptable level of side effects — and that’s not completely off the timeframe needed to measure a slower disease like Alzheimer’s. In contrast, the Pfizer vaccine has been shown to be highly effective at producing positive clinical outcomes and has been administered to massive populations with very infrequent side-effects which are far below the risks of the disease.

I think it was a big mistake not to keep that as some kind of trial but my primary reason for that is because it encourages faulty conflations like yours. The message we should take from this is that the problem was NOT following the standard process rather than drawing any conclusions about the process which wasn’t followed.
mRNA vaccines have been tested in humans since 2011. https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-maga...
School choice doesn't work. The "success stories" are just funneling the smart kids into other schools while letting others fail while charter corporations make millions. The problem isn't the "school", it's poverty and the home situation.
With ML methods, they do benefit from taking data from millions to billions.

You can see that yourself with Google by searching for something obscure (eg. "how to unblock a drain jammed with cat fur") and getting three friends to click the 2nd search result. Come back in a week, and suddenly the 2nd result is now the first result! (ignore the videos and answer box)

It turns out just three new data points is enough to influence ranking for that query. It even affected related queries if you change the word "jammed" for "gunked".
> But money itself, those now belong to the bank and the bank can do (and actually does) with them whatever it pleases, without needing your knowledge, or consent, or approval, or whatever.

Is this actually the situation in developed countries?
My main question is are there any glaring issues you’ve had with the ortholinear design? I know there will be an adjustment period due to the layout but figured I’d ask about day to day usage. For example on the HHKB not everyone likes the ctrl position.
We could power households from the scraps in our food waste bins
>80% vaccine efficacy. We were hoping for 50% so that's actually pretty good.

CDC says 94% efficacy. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7018e1.htm

Immunocompromise is 6%. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/blog/immunocompromised-... - Estimates are that about 6.2 percent of adults ages 18-64 in the U.S. are living with weakened immune function,

The vaccine is 100% effective for healthy fully vax people. That 6% is concerning and will differ amount countries im sure.

>This is on par with "we had a snowstorm so climate change isn't real" levels of logic.

I find your analogy to be very telling. You have moved to another political issue that is quite divided along the same political lines.

>Abbott has a mild case and isn't sucking on ventilator.

Does abbott have a compromised immune system? Shrug?

Should we even discuss the possibility that covid testing has high false positive testing? That Abbott never had covid and his more recent tests only days later he tested negative.
For how long? Certainly you can't mean forever.
I didn't say there weren't other factors, there clearly are, but there are real differences in smarts between schools and to consider this controversial is something I think is more of a product of our present moment than something that people really deep down believe.

And I actually think I can speak to this with some amount of personal experience. I've been at both a lower tier college and a best-in-the-country university. When I was 11 I wanted to learn how to write software so I took courses nights, weekends and summers at the near by college until I was 14. I know how smart the class was and it was no where near as smart as the engineering students at the top tier university.

But that is ok! I think we overvalue intelligence in modern society, but to pretend that there are no differences is undervaluing the truth for the sake of political correctness or ideology.
Cybernetics and systems theory are both about the same thing, which is to say nonlinear causality, so you're right to observe a similarity. The difference is primarily that cybernetics focuses on the ground up modelling (often mathematically) of casual loops whereas systems theory (and systems thinking) typically focuses on the behaviour of the system as a whole and its teleological (in this article, called purposive) behaviour, as well as things like stable states (called attractors in the literature).

To use a software analogy, they're like white box and black box analysis respectively.
I manage a ClickOnce application and every now and then a call will get escalated to me because it has suddenly become untrusted by the operating system. The root cause is the software for the MX Master helpfully sets some reg keys to distrust all ClickOnce applications every time it updates. Customers have been complaining it on their customer service forums for years about it.
France has increased its public debt enormously (100% to 120% of its GDP). Maintaining the economy had a cost which may have serious consequences.
There's a possibility that COVID-19 was made in a lab, as a result of gain of function research.
Does this end the waiver of liability that was granted under the EUA?
I have occasionally dipped into this book for instruction and consider it a freely accessible reference:

Unix Text Processing, Dougherty and O'Reilly, 1987
https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

Cherry pick chapters like those on the Shell and AWK, and avoid those on troff, macros etc unless specifically interested.
Long-term mask-wearing seem like an entirely reasonable social change.

It's like any other clothing: you're protecting a vulnerable part of your body and also displaying respect for others. And it's mostly enforced by social norms: though in many places it is in fact illegal to go without clothing, people wear clothes regardless of the law. (I was in San Francisco at the time the public nudity ban, or shall we call it the "clothing requirement," was passed, and I can assure you that people were generally clothed in San Francisco even before then.)

As another comment pointed out the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255121), it's not just going to be SARS-nCoV-2. There's going to be a lot more easily communicable diseases in the future in dense locations. And there was the first SARS, of course, and countries hit hard by the first SARS already adopted a norm of mask-wearing in crowded locations like public transit, which helps them with other diseases that are "here forever" like the seasonal flu.

I think mask-wearing in public is going to become a sign of basic respect and decency and hygiene. We're already comfortable with "No shoes, no shirt, no service."
Don’t be old school on this one. Digitalize your menu
This is good scientific writing. The article discusses some nuance and hints at the complexity of the topic, but presents results in a widely understandable way.
Or they have other reasons for not getting it, reasons that are personal/mocked/dismissed by others, and the emergency approval was the easiest way to get these street preachers to make like a tree.
> Honestly I'm probably just going to stop using computers so much if that happens.

The state of mobile software (including the OS) has become so awful that I've already decided to stop using a smartphone entirely.
With ARM, the lack of control might deteriorate even further. While the underlying architecture might not have much to do with it, the accelerators in these SOCs just give more options for Microsoft to collect data and lock down devices even further.
A better analogy than driving drunk would be driving at all.
> Are they really overwhelming hospitals?

Yes.

> This keeps being repeated but most hospitals operate at about 80% capacity as-is.

They aren't overwhelming total hospital capacity, they are overwhelming specialized resource capacity, particularly ICU capacity.

> Places in Tennessee and Florida are currently, with COVID-19, operating at about 80%

In Florida and numerous other states (not Tennessee), there are significant areas over 95% ICU capacity. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/17/us/covid-delt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
I think their stock price says it all, didn't get too much of a bump on that amazing news.
"mostly meaningless" is an overstatement. The FDA oversees a lot of drug applications and gets it right a vast majority of the time. No human endeavor is perfect; if there's evidence that 20% of approvals are wrong then I'll agree that there's a problem.