skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Younger people, under 30, and children are getting it and ending up in hospital.

To emphasise this point, in Victoria, Australia, most of the cases are in the 20-29 age group. Most of the active cases are in the 0-9 age group.[0] NSW data doesn't have the pretty graphs, but the raw data [1] bears out similar groupings.

[0] https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/victorian-coronavirus-cov...

[1] https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-covid-19-cases-by-a...
Terrible headline. Amazing they can do casually mention forcing medical treatment on people. What happened to consent?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ
FWIW I looked at University of Alabama tuition now and for an academic year was 10k in-state, or 5k/semester assuming 2 semesters a year. (With fees, room, and board, the total comes over 25k/year.)

So you most certainly can't fund your education at the same institution working at a gas station now with only 5k student loans.
I see both, all the time (where relevant). I understand the hate, so I tend to forget it. Justifying the horrible user experience for cost or "without electron the app wouldn't exits" is something I don't agree with and as such it sticks out more. You might be in the other camp and just have different perception.
The Next Million Cloud Customers
Vanishingly small percentages of jobs require security clearance.
yes, there's "rego" - the registration tax, collected by states on cars owned by residents of that state, and used to maintain the roads in the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_registration#Aus...
In addition, in April we didn’t have the delta variant in the US.
Which towns in Canada are dumping untreated sewage into the water? As far as I'm aware every province has an environmental ministry that doesn't grant exemptions from sewage treatment. So if it's still ongoing...
Great concept. Making music is hard. Such experiments with visual manipulation of music can help make it easier.
Intubation procedures are often performed by respiratory therapists.
I like my mouse with programmable macro buttons. It doesn't have any fancy lights, just a small multi-purpose indicator that shows battery level, sensitivity level, and which set of macros I'm using.

I also like my $0 basic USB mouse that works with everything I plug it into. I think it came with a Dell PC but who knows as the logo has worn off. My fancy macro button mouse never leaves my desk but my cheap mouse has had plenty of travel. Same with my keyboard, I've got a nice one for my desk and a dirt cheap compact one that travels.
there is a lot more friction in understanding sclang, but the server here is the same (scsynth/supernova), and to me, Sclang is really one of the most beautiful things to work with. Wish I could get paid to work with it
Please enlighten us: provide resources

I am sure the HN community will be open to actual proof - not marketing material please

Note: The fact that this comment was downvoted says something
Ages ago I built a 'lego' system. Basically I figured out you could build any lego shape from 5 basic voxel types, cube, bevel, cone segment, sphere segment, cylinder. Think I was calling them lego atoms, as you could scale the resolution depending on the amount of detail you needed. Not sure if that is true anymore with the more interesting shapes they have introduced. Not sure only 4 would cut it anymore.

I only took it to the paper/whiteboard design stage. The problem I had was voxels became wildly more memory consuming when you introduce more than a binary there not there type. I was looking at 10-15 megabytes in memory just to describe a simple 2x4 brick with the min resolution and it still worked as a lego. At the time I was lucky I had 96MB... The exe was pretty small (maybe 1-2MB total). The data on the other hand I could not find a nice way to compress it enough to work without a few dozen bricks filling my memory space. Mostly I got bored with the project and moved on.

The 'voxel' style has one very nice quality about it over the ldraw cad system. Unintentional gaps are nearly impossible to have and overlap is dead easy to find. Correct overlap lets you do interesting things in that you can intersect things correctly and it will just work on the snap grid. The ldraw system has to jump thru a few hoops to make it look like it is working. The effect is the same but more of a pain making sure your floating point is correct. ldraw has a nice quality in that rotating an object in freespace is 'cheap' and you only have to rotate a few points. Whereas a voxel system like I designed you in effect have to rotate everything.

At this time the ldraw system is the choice to use if you are doing this though. When I built my system there were maybe 200 different bricks total. Now there are thousands.
I've seen the original Dahl post about his mistakes with NodeJS, and why he wanted to do Deno, and to be frank, I'm not convinced.

It's not that I disagree with Dahl on most of his recognized mistakes (though some I do, most especially that a standardized, embedded packaging system was a mistake, despite the legions of warts of NPM), it's that most of these mistakes feel like little nits or one-time costs that just don't bother me at all in the Node world.

I mean, it feels like the best thing going for Deno is out-of-the-box TypeScript support, but with Node it's trivial to have a template project that integrates all this for you, then it's 1-and-done. Perhaps the other thing I like about Deno is it separates the standard library into its own package instead of being part of the Deno-runtime version, but again, this difference is definitely not enough to make me switch.
> I never understood why Mac folks were obsessed with keyboard shortcuts, but now I know.

No. Most Mac users are obsessed with keyboard shortcuts because they're faster and more efficient. This is true whether a mouse experience was super optimized or not. If you're typing moving to a mouse takes a lot more time than using a keyboard shortcut. Similarly being a left-hand shortcut wizard is highly effective when combined with a mouse as well.

Lets not use stupid hyperbole here.

I think 99% of Mac users could plug a mouse in out of the box and use it just fine on a Mac. Those that need the extra support can just as easily install one of the many 3rd party utilities that better handle mice support than the manufacturer.
The vaccination is still not mandatory, right? Why do you write "excuse"? Are you really so full of yourself that you can not accept that people make different decisions from yours? Why do you even care? I assume you got the vaccine for yourself. So what is the issue? Why do you have to speak about your fellow humans in such a derogatory tone?
Yes absolutely. Those are in the minority of the home-made ebikes that I’ve seen, though - mainly due to range and power output. People love a bit of power, and they think any battery is just a battery.

I’ve seen a couple of “spicy pillows” smoke out, never a full thermal runaway fire - thank god
> There isn't any individual at Apple that could implement the demand. There probably isn't even a group of ten individuals at Apple that could do it without other employees finding out.

Sure there is. A number of different executives could do that. The CEO, if nobody else. The government sends the letter to the company's legal department. It's on the company to deal with it appropriately.

There's no need to prevent employees who will actually do the work from finding out.

Apple, like most other such companies, have complied with NSLs before, and they will in the future. The consequences for failing to do so are too extreme for it to be otherwise.
But clearly people are using it. GGGP is asking why people are choosing it. It’s a very straight forward conversation and I feel like you’re nitpicking word choices.
XMPP plus plus, perhaps. Or XMPPPP.
I recent came across a technique for having a more substantial discussion and it was to ask: "Well, what would it take for you to change your mind?"

Not that this is a silver bullet that automatically leads to peace and harmony, but it's a step in the right direction.
There is a great chasm between direct action resulting in tragedy and inaction for the preservation of autonomy having an infinitesimally small probability of directly resulting in tragedy.

Comparing choosing to drive drunk with not choosing to take a particular action that has an infinitesimally small probability of directly causing tragedy are not remotely comparable.
Coronavirus: QR scanning, manually signing in compulsory at all alert levels
Why is no one talking about the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, a nonbinding Declaration signed by the US and every other UNESCO nation?

Article 6 – Consent

1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information.
The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn
by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.

Article 11 – Non­discrimination and non­stigmatization
No individual or group should be discriminated against or stigmatized on any grounds, in violation of human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedom
Bookmarks are a form of technical debt!!
I'm less worried about objects, and much more worried about systems. For example systems of surveillance, systems of oppression, and systems that are used to kill.

For example take the targeted killings in Afghanistan: In my mind the person facilitating the database(s) that enable the Taliban to go door to door to exterminate people is much more at fault than someone who repairs or builds firearms. The gun is an interchangeable tool in a long chain of events that leads to oppression, the database is not.
Interesting post, when I worked in Vienna I had a guy who was from Nigeria on my team, his dad was a diplomat to the UN, I believe. One day he told me how long it took him to walk back and forth to work, but it didn’t make sense it took that long. He said because he was African the cops in certain districts stopped him every day to search him, claiming he was a drug dealer and basically just to harass him. So he took the extra time to avoid that district. What an eye opening conversation, to see that racism really does show it’s ugly little face everywhere, even in countries that aren’t really known for it. He was well dressed and worked in tech, mental gymnastics would be required to assume he was slanging drugs.
Anyone else feel like the fact XMPP needs this kind of signals that it's pretty... shit? (Excuse my language).
Yes, it is good enough, this is exactly why we still live in the 60's (see linux), this is why we still use windows, this is why there is no seamless GUI on nixes, this is why we still use terminals and users, this is why intelligent, and great operating systems got messacred, this is why there are only mediocre people in the IT, and this is why we can't have nice things.

But thanks for continuing the loop.
> we’re still having to take precautions because of the delta variant spikes, largely from people who didn’t get a vaccine

That's because the manufacturers lied about efficacy in the first place. The whole theory for these mRNA vaccines was that by targeting the 'spike' protein, the vaccine would be resistant to mutant strains because that protein is what binds to the ACE2 receptors and allows infection. If that protein were to mutate, then no binding, no infection.

> Where is our choice?

You choice was to fund therapeutics that cure the disease, or try to enforce mandates. You chose wrong, now you live with the choice.
He's complaining that he couldn't MITM their https requests.
I think of how the old Lotus Notes had a strategy for reconciling documents (not too different from JSON documents) that hasn't been matched ever since.
So piss off the users that do? For a while there wasn't even the keyboard shortcut. Throw up a scary warning if you need to but I feel like it's a basic system function that should be included. Some how Windows manages to allow users to toggle hidden files through the GUI and I haven't heard of too many disasters because of it.

I would argue it's actually worse with the keyboard shortcut on OS X because it's completely possible for someone to trigger Cmd+Shift+. accidentally whereas in other OSs it's a clear toggled option in the GUI.
One of the anti-vaxx or vaxx hesitant arguments is that Pharma can't be sued for damages under EUA. I'm honestly not sure how true that is precisely.
If you have Siri enabled, you can also say "Hey Siri, whose phone is this?" – Siri will answer whose phone it is, but also will disable Touch/Face ID.

Do one of these things at the beginning of any custodial situation.
Please, stop forcing a dark theme on a web-site visitors
Web services and sites really should stop using dark theme forcefully matching it to a browser or system dark UI theme. Users often use dark theme to distinguish UI from content, not blend content with UI. Properly speaking it's not very user and eye friendly to read for long white text on a dark background. Sites that automatically force a dark theme on visitors remind me of a noob user that learn a new colorful style trick in Word processor who starts applying it in every document.

It's good if a site offers dark theme option via some kind of switch but forcing it on visitors is not the brightest decision. E.g. browser version of Google Books automatically force dark theme while reading a book in case a browser uses one for UI.

More and more I notice that sites do that. And often they even don't offer option to switch the site to a light theme. They just use a browser's UI theme as a guide. It requires to switch a browser to a light one for such sites to use light theme. Thankfully, Google Books offers an option to switch but it's annoying to do it every single time I open it.

Dark UI is to distinguish from, not to blend with content.
I have always felt that a lot of anti-vaxxers will quietly get the vaccine when they meet back with the real world rather Facebook. But maybe that's wishful thinking.
What has Fox News got to do with anything? Do you see this as a political issue?

What about people with immune dysfunction? Are you going to dismiss them as Fox News viewers too because aren't having the vaccine?
Something similar to the Rubella vaccine that took about four years to be licensed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubella_vaccine
How do these 'conceptual ties' work? For example, suppose I create an NFT of the Eiffel Tower. When and how does that particular NFT become conceptually tied to the Eiffel Tower exactly? I don't understand.
I would say that the higher you get up the privilege level tree, the worse the software becomes. The people writing legacy BIOS extensions are the absolute bottom of the barrel.
There's a WeberAuto channel on YouTube, where prof. John D. Kelly explains them wonderfully, on live examples. What impressed me most is how simple the gearbox of a hybrid Toyota is – it's just three major parts!
We live on a finite planet. "More" can't last forever. That why people talk about degrowth. Growth is unsustainable on our planet. Either we degrow with control, or we collapse.

I suggest you play with the recently added timeline feature on Google Maps: notice how close we are as a species to a bacteria colony in a Petri dish. The forest areas of the world are especially impressive. You can see "mold" spreading on them at exponential speed.
I think in this case they recommend the standards, which are worth implementing. E.g.
"Our recommendations highlight only the XEPs you need to implement for a modern messaging application, ignoring historical cruft and excessive backwards-compatibility."
>Some of these people will at the margin be persuaded by things like full approval.

Maybe some. But, while I don't really like governments and big employers wielding sticks in this case, you'll probably see even more people decide that they're not hesitant enough about vaccines to lose their jobs or be excluded from a lot of activities.

And while those sort of requirements could be implemented before full approval, a lot of organizations apparently wanted the additional air cover.
In my previous job I helped wonderful people do questionable things. I worked in ad-tech in a company that was overflowing with friendly, intelligent people who were a joy to work with. But as we got deeper and deeper into the tracking, click-bait, SERP pages and marketing for gambling apps it just got harder and harder to justify. I'm not saying it's the only reason I left but every day I stayed I received constant reminders that I was fostering addiction, tracking people, and/or just wasting their time. Did I help make a lot of money for the mainstream media? Yeah. Is THAT even a good thing? Sometimes I'm not so sure.
It's unamerican to force people to do something. However, smokers, for example, pay higher insurance premiums and alcohol is taxed higher.
For the record, I volunteered for a COVID vaccine trial.

"mRNA vaccines have been tested in humans since 2011"

So barely 10 years. A study on a dozen or so participants, all white, college aged men with largely identical diets. I guarantee you that not one participant in the 2011 study was pregnant. (Btw, I looked at your reference. A Bush era press release was less manipulative. There wasn't a single peer-reviewed reference. All press releases and from interested parties)

Compare that with other vaccine technologies for which we have centuries of data, and inoculation in general for which we might have a thousand years worth of safety data.

Or did we forget about all the inconvenient facts about drug testing? We appear to have forgotten all the research done about regulatory capture and all the ineffective and unsafe pharmaceuticals the FDA approves.

But, nvm. #BelieveTheScience and de-platform anyone who asks inconvenient questions. And let's compartmentalize away the replication crisis modern science is going through.

Also, for some of us 10 years is not very impressive at all. "It's not new, nRNA has been around since the 90s!" is a massive value judgement for the word "new". Not all of us work developing webpages with 3 month old technology stacks!
I'm been following competitive programming for years and know multiple extremely successful "grads" of IOI and ACM ICPC. I have an ICPC bronze medal myself.

The HN crowd will know Adam D'Angelo (IOI Gold) - cofounder of Quora and Nikolay Durov (IOI ICPC Gold) - cofounder of Telegram. My personal examples are Singlestore (billion dollar company) which I cofounded and Near Protocol - 5Bln market cap crypto company cofoundered by Alex (ICPC Gold). There are also numerous fantastic engineers that have competitive programming under their belt working for tech primes and startups.

People who win are usually very very smart. AND they learn to work hard - you can't win without great work ethics. Skills wise you learn many algorithms and data structures cold. Plus you learn how to write small program with very few bugs from the the first try. Do they come out as complete package of a well rounded engineer - no, but there are years ahead to learn and they are trained to learn fast.

Bottom line is I can't disagree more. People familiar with the subject are often lucky to have the team and come with great network of nerd friend. Of course you will find people from this world who don't succeed, but more plenty become fantastic engineers.
guess who got into a teir 1 uni abroad but doesn't have enough money to be able to go and now is stuck in a teir 3 uni in their home country? me! and possibly many others. my takeaway-a. if I got in a lot of idiots like me also did and b. if I'm not an idiot a lot of other non idiots also end up at teir 3 unis so don't judge a person by their uni
Do you have a credible source for that claim ?
The World’s Hottest Smartphone Brand Is Chinese–and It Isn’t Huawei
Airtable in 10 Minutes (Ish)
The Plague is one good example: https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
>I’m wondering what the odds are that people will pivot from “it’s experimental” to “it was rushed due to politics/greed”.

Disclaimer: I am fully vax, so not the target audience.

The subject is worth discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine#History

RNA vaccines have decades of failures. Following the normal drug approval processes 100% of RNA attempts have failed.

The only reason we got the vaccine today is because various governments got 'emergency approval' and therefore skipping why they have failed for decades.

Why is it banned to discuss this? Why is it unreasonable for people to be cautious about this vaccine?

I know many people who are against this vaccine who historically do get the flu shot and the normal vaccines. Are they being unreasonable? Shouldn't we be allowed to discuss such things?

The censorship over 'covid misinformation' and banning discussion over these reasonable discussions... is in of itself reason to not get it.

Not to mention how many times has Fauci been caught lying now? Lets not discuss stuff like gain of function. Just straight up lies that have been admitted to?

>I think a huge factor will be how many employers, colleges, etc. are now willing and legally able to require vaccination. It’s one thing to say you trust something you read on Facebook more than your doctor and quite another to walk away from a job because of it.

Now being coercive on top of this?

I think it's pretty reasonable to discuss some issues. Yet for some reason we have come here.
>The linux market is way too small
Maybe just amybe having 6*10^23 distributions wasn't that great idea.
America is supposedly a country full of antivaxers. Yet every day they give out 3/4 of a million shots (7 day average from google’s tracker). So I think there is a good case to be made for small victories changing minds.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/p9BPT
I disagree npm is hot garbage. I'd say it's more like "smoldering garbage".

Point being it most definitely was hot garbage, but I feel like most of the biggest pain points have been fixed. Not all of them, and the history of being hot garbage certainly rears its head every now and then, but for the most part npm just works for me these days and I don't have complaints.
Mutations were obviously going to happen from the get go. When questioned about this exact thing "experts" still stated that 70% would prevent this from happening, until they were wrong.
There are years of clinical trials for mRNA vaccines, as well as a countless studies done on SARS-COV viruses.

This is just taking some existing technologies and knowledge of the vaccines and creating a new variant of what's been tested before.

Also, we know have well over a year's worth of data on millions of people to look at as well.
There are an infinite number of things which could happen but there’s no mechanism or evidence making this likely. The vaccine doesn’t rewrite your DNA and it strengthens your normal immune response, which does none of those things.
Big screen in a lecture hall is one option.
People in the suburbs have to walk a mile just to get out of their neighborhood. And hundreds of millions of Americans live in these suburbs.
The implication is that most DIY ebikers don't bother with pedalling. Hand throttle keeps you at 50km/h fine.

Long seatposts that bring you up to a typical height are fine. The suspension is doing the work, no need to leave the saddle.
Do you have constructive suggestions on introducing cohesive design into open ecosystems without a guiding documentation project? (disclaimer: I started this one)
I’ve seen these. All fun and games until they’re forgotten in the basement for a while. Big puffy batteries just waiting for an excuse!

I went through an airport with a home-made LiPo in my backpack. Fortunately one of the TSA recognized it was just a battery but it was a really scary few minutes. Lots of very silent stares