skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the EFF putting together some concrete proposals for changing the status quo. This is the necessary next step to merely identifying the existence of the problem that it seems like most channels I see rarely get past.
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Using Briar during natural disasters
As far as I know, hogwild doesn't really scale to very large systems and doesn't get used in practice, but maybe that's just because it's most useful on CPUs, which are inefficient for other reasons
Congratulations, Microsoft. Welcome to 1958.
We’re talking about health guidelines at the state and national level here. What matters is the big picture not a single data point. No one cares if Joe has the vaccine, we care that X% percentage of the total population has been infected or that Y% percentage of people are vaccinated.

We’re in a tech forum do I really need to explain this? The probability of an individual hard drive failing is small. If you’re building a gaming rig, you don’t need to worry about it, if you’re building a data center that small probability becomes a problem.

How can you possibly believe those choices aren’t having an effect when we are living the consequences of those actions? The number of cases are going up, younger people are dying, hospitals are filling to capacity.
The plant's lifespan would outweigh that, as we should plan for the long term.
Curious what kind of design workarounds we'll see for really hot and/or humid regions -- where I live, it's pretty comfortable to wear a mask 90% of the time. But where my parents live, it's a very different story: hot, humidity 90%+ a lot of the time, often rainy, few places have A/C. Wearing a mask is a lot less pleasant there and I suspect that's part of why mask mandates have seen resistance there.
This kind of thing is pretty common with complex systems that have a very long legacy. There's a huge amount of features, many of which are very niche and most people don't even need to know about them. Official docs tend to be unopinionated and cover everything, while third parties create "guides" and similar docs for the features that matter to them.

You see something similar with end-user software like Adobe's entire suite where the official docs are basically useless if you just want to learn the common operations quickly and so you have to rely on third-party books and tutorials (like the Dummies books).
> Why should vaccinated people be denied healthcare resources because they are overloaded by people choosing to ignore medical professionals advice and refuse to get a free vaccine?

If hospitals are full the voluntarily unvaccinated should be de-prioritised. (If they recover, they’re going to be right back in with the next variant.) But if the hospitals aren’t full, there is no reason to refuse care.
Pressure those who choose to go unvaccinated for misguided "personal freedom" reasons to reconsider their choices.
How about the cases of narcolepsy that were caused by the swine-flu vaccine Pandremix? As far as I understand it took around 2 years before it was officially stated that the vaccine was/is the cause for these cases. Until 2015 the numbers grew even higher because of the delay between vaccination and the first symptoms.

I wouldn't really call that "soon after it is administered".

And the same is also true for covid's long term effects. I'm still reading new articles/conclusions about those effects.
All patents (really, all licensable IP) should be subject to this.
are you overweight, elderly or otherwise immunocompromised? if not your risk of hospitalization or death [from covid19] is miniscule.

>it being hard to be a part of society if you refuse to take one of the most basic steps to protect other people in it.

there are a huge number of diseases you can knowingly spread with far more severe long term consequences while still being 'part of society'. frankly i do not think free and democratic societies can survive while trying to also fulfill the moral compunction not to let anyone die ever from transmittable illness, it is simply at odds with our biology. we, like all mammals are walking bags of filth and disease and no amount of indefinite containment will ever change that reality.
It's OK if a web-site uses the same dark theme as a brand style all the time. But there are some that force it ONLY when browser uses dark UI theme and it requires manipulation with browser theme setting to get the site in light theme.
Should the flu be mandatory as well? Flu & Covid have similar risks in children: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999241558/in-kids-the-risk-of...
> diaper sensors that can generate energy directly from urine

I'm guessing this could lead to light-up Huggies baby diapers.

"Takes the guess work out of busy parenting"
> COVID patients are overwhelming hospitals across the world

Extraordinary claims…
A pandemic seems like an awfully long and expensive way of doing that, especially considering they already did so before the pandemic through so many means (many of which actually make them money rather than cost them, I assume you pay taxes?)

The only group who can be said to have really profited off this is pharma. Maybe they have orchestrated the whole thing, but I'd like to see some evidence first.
Smart and works hard is important but I'm very much not convinced that success in competitive programming (or leet-coding in interviews) is the only, or even best, way to signal those attributes to an employer.

I'll also contradict myself on how important smart and works hard actually is. I'm just a normal programmer who has had a few normal programming jobs. The vast majority of my career has been about doing relatively low-key programming and data munging. When I think back on software engineers "in the trenches" of standard corporate jobs I don't see any deep need to be particularly smart and hard working. Maybe "doggedly stubborn" about not giving up and making some progress each day instead.
Does this take into account that folks in Israel received their shots a while ago?
A couple, their baby and their dog died on a California hiking trail
> Windows should not install random drivers from the Internet when a non-admin user is logged in.

In a perfect world, or at least a tech user world, sure. But there was a compromise to make, either this (and that behavior can be disabled), or user stayed on admin account at all time. Which was the norm for windows since forever. Even on vista people disabled UAC.

From that point of view this is still the more secure outcome, at least the admin hatch is only broken through sometimes, instead of always.

Not saying this shouldn't be improved, but if you look not only at the end result but also at the path to get there, it does make some sense.
XMPP is a rather old protocol at twenty-two years. If anything it is other standards that are newer and causing the "standard proliferation".
I mean, they shouldn't use the bike lane. I agree with you.
But, here's the thing. If they are not modified they are very quiet, noise codes should be enforced, but asking for their property to be pretty much stolen isn't a bit much?
It's not.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr....
> This is one of the examples of absence of empathy

Isn't this an example of an abundance of empathy? If the user has requested dark-mode, websites responding with their best version of a dark-mode experience is an example of user empathy in action.

I operate in dark-mode 24/7 myself, and I've been pleasantly surprised at websites slowly supporting a dark-mode experience and automatically showing that by default.

There should probably be a one-click "override dark/light mode on this site" button somewhere, so that you don't have to dig into your OS to change it back. But the defaults here seem like the most reasonable, most user-respecting thing that could possibly exist.
> If the vaccines are effective, then the only people at risk are those that refuse to get it. Everyone is subject to the consequences of their autonomous choice alone.

Vaccines aren't a binary 100% or 0% effective tool, it's somewhere in the middle. If my 10 coworkers all get the vaccine, it reduces the probability of me contracting the virus, even if I got vaccinated myself. There is a communal aspect to the vaccine that you are missing here.
There's a bit more explanation of the idea in this blog post: https://ag91.github.io/blog/2021/06/18/moldable-emacs-vision...

At least as I understand it, the basic problem tools like this are trying to solve is the tendency of long-lived software projects to become increasingly difficult to maintain. We tend to like to blame this the use of outdated tools or programming practices. Moldable development argues that, instead of blaming our predecessors, we should focus on creating development environments that do a better job of helping us to explore and understand the design of existing software.

Since software design, tools, and practices are such a mixed lot, you'll never get all the way there with just a pile of generic off-the-shelf refactorings and code analysis tools that have been baked into your IDE. Instead, you need a development environment that allows you to create your own custom code analysis tools that are tailor made for the current thing you're trying to understand.
What I find most sad about your post is that you had to open by stating your vaccination status. So we effectively reached a point where you are only allowed to be critical of vaccination after you got yourself a shot. This is so weird and frightening, I dont know what to say. Things said and claimed by all sides in the past 1 1/2 years have made me really stop believe in humanity. It feels like a bad dream or a strange fiction story. One of these were you end up fully immersed. And you want to wake up, but this time, you realize you can't.

People are seriously writing here that they think if people are being fired, that pressure will "hopefully change their minds". Are you aware how cruel you are? You wish someone to loose their income just because they dont have the same opinion then you? When did this happen? When did we start to produce people like this? When did we stop to care? Did I really miss this wave of right-wing-minded people hiding on the left side?
This is misrepresenting the science similarly to arguing that seatbelts are useless because some people still die in crashes. We've always known that vaccination is not 100% effective but it's also not 0% — the data is complicated since it depends on the people involved, the strain, and environmental factors but it very strongly suggests that vaccinated people are less likely to spread than the unvaccinated.
Open source hardware and software is the only sustainable path forward.

Perhaps that DIY processor fab discussion is worth a re-read.

Edit:
HN Discussion of open source phones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208

HN Discussion of open source laptops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266315
Vuwu?
Adenovirus, Influenza (Flu Shot), Measles, Meningococcal, Mumps, Polio, Rubella, Tetanus-diphtheria, Yellow Fever, Hepatitis A, JE Vaccine, Typhoid, Cholera, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Plague, Rabies, Varicella, Small Pox, Anthrax

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> ~$ sudo warp-diag feedback

An app that requires me to use sudo to send feedback doesn't seem like the kind of app I want to be running with sudo.
There are two freedoms at issue, right?

1. The freedom to choose what goes into one's own body, in the context of receiving (or not) a vaccine shot.

2. The freedom to choose what goes into one's own body, in the context of an unwitting carrier of an infectious disease breathing SARS-COV-2 into your face.

A lot of the "I shouldn't be forced to receive a vaccine" people seem to be unwilling to make any accommodation for the people most interested in the second kind of freedom. If you don't want to get the vaccine, that's your choice. You should not be forced to do that. But you _also_ don't get to force other people to risk infection with SARS-COV-2 because of your decision.

The same applies to mask mandates, social distancing, etc. You are free to make those choices, but you are not free to stomp all over the liberties of those who are (legitimately) concerned about the potential health consequences of contracting COVID-19 - a disease that has killed over 600,000 Americans in under two years.

Regardless of your level of statistical literacy, it should be abundantly clear that the vaccine kills fewer people than COVID-19. If you consider yourself a "data driven" person, you should probably get the shot.
Isn't this the problem Java was trying to solve? Why did that go out of fashion?
(I'm fully vaxxed, and will get a booster shot if I can)
It's a complicated risk assessment situation.
My thought process was like this:
a) Realization: No strategy will be risk-free. COVID will not magically disappear.
b) Because of my work and my preferred way of living, I will interact with a lot of people, including international travel on planes, etc.
c) I am therefore very likely to be in contact with COVID infected people, of which I cannot guarantee they will be masked, or considerate.
d) It is therefore very likely that sooner or later I will contract COVID. It is likely, indeed, that I would contract it more than once, as long-term protection from infection seems lower than vaccination.
e) I'm not super likely to die from it, but the likelihood of short, mid and long term consequences is high.
f) I do not want to be the reason somebody else gets it (parents, friends,...)

Because of e and f, I think the risk of a vaccine is much lower. By now, we see very small risks for serious short and mid term effects. We know how long the mRNA survives in the body (I don't think we know that from the COVID virus, that could potentially hide for a very long time, as other viruses demonstrate), virtually eliminating direct long-term effects.
What remains are the unkown unknowns. Can it trigger something? Sure, we have observed that in other vaccines. But it is very, very rare, not only that vaccine can cause it, but also that if the vaccine can cause it, one is affected. Additionally: It is very likely that a COVID infected person would have a similar risk -- much of the immuno-response is the similar to a vaccination (but maybe broader). Since I assume a close to 100% prob to get infected at some point if unvaccinated, it's not an additional risk.

To explain the last point a little: A way you can construct a long term effect goes like this: If the presented spike protein is close enough to a natural,i.e. normally expressed, protein, the antibodies could affect both, and potentially destroy an important body function. That risk, I think, is actually higher with a full infection, since the antibodies learn not only the spike protein, but potentially more of the virus, so there is more chance of similarity with something else.
In any case, as far as we know, the chance for something is remote.

RE approval process: What calms my mind there is that all countries for which I normally trust the approval process gave their OK, including those which went with a different strategy, or where it was less of a political issue. While it's possible that they all got corrupted by political pressure, that's less likely.
Just wanted to say that trains without restrooms are the work of the devil. Actually access to restrooms is one of the major things which makes me prefer trains over buses, that and being able to read on a train because on a bus I get car-sickness pretty quickly if I try do to that.
Ignoring hard problems for short-term gains is an easy way to get market share.
"Everything not forbidden is compulsory." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_principle
Those could also be long term side effects of covid. A double digit percentage of people who catch the disease end up in the hospital soon after infection compared to fraction of a fraction of a percent of vaccine recipients in the time after they get the shot.

Your priors have to be absolutely outrageous if based on the currently available data you think the risks are even within an order of magnitude.
This kind of fragility is hostile to rational discussions. There's no patronisation to asking somebody a question about their beliefs; it's literally just a question. If somebody asked me that, I would take it as an opportunity to really explore my beliefs, and think about what conditions would cause me to change my beliefs. It has nothing to do with the other person or their beliefs. We shouldn't encourage this kind of fragility and victim complex that has become so common lately.
I’ve found many parallels between combat leadership and business/leadership/dev/ops

The principles of good leadership in “open ended” problem spaces seem to apply no matter the other variables.

Too often personal emotional reactions to the military or war (often misconceptions) overshadow the lessons and they are dismissed.

I’ve had people smugly dismiss these ideas because of where the lessons were learned.
Do you have any specific examples of this?: "weird, Orwellian ways that the government talks about it"

Public schools, colleges, and the military have been requiring vaccines for decades.

>It ends up feeling less like the decisions are guided by science and more like they’re guided by petty tyrants wanting to control what others do.

This sounds like a result of reading about what health care and government officials are saying instead of actually reading what they are saying.
> the web-site is wrong

How is the website supposed to know you prefer the content to be light but the UI to be dark?
Your comment hides a lot of depth and comes off as a bit flippant to me. BLM was largely triggered by cop-on-black killings. Civilian black-on-black killings (like those referred to in the quote) continue to get fairly little attention, even from the BLM organizations themselves. Indeed, this is a fairly common conservative criticism of BLM - that it's an anti-police movement, not an anti-black murder movement. (This is not to express an opinion on the criticism, merely to state it's existence.)
Slim Devices' squeezebox had this feature before Sonos. I implemented it in high school using visual basic. The most non-trivial part is that if you try to synchronize an MP3 or other encoded stream instead of the decoded PCM stream, you end up seeking to mid-frame points which causes invisible adjustments to the seek point.

In the end, it's as simple as 'seek to this point' and then check if the point is off by less than some threshold, don't do anything. I did a few other fancy things like not seeking until the 'heart beat' lined up a few times in a row (duration in heartbeat was same as difference in time since last heartbeat).
I agree that Apple's track pad is the best out there. I find something are just not done well on track pads though. Certain games, certainly. Also things that require long click and drags.
There is no blanket logic here. This is not an atrocity. This is an instance of global pandemic, literally a 100-year natural disaster affecting all of humanity. It's not some slippery slope about your "freedom", stop trying to make it into one.
I really hate it when "modern" is used generically in technical documentation. What does "Modern" mean? Does it mean lightweight? Heavyweight? Easy to implement? Simpler? More complex?

The vague descriptions like "modern" usually mean "More like whatever the author's today's usecase is", and good luck trying to get anyone except yourself onboard with that...
The Athena Guide: Stitching Together Tables with SymlinkTextInputFormat
What was the old preparedness that we "threw out the window" in favor of lockdowns and masks? As far as I know, humanity has rarely bothered with any pandemic reaction beyond "stay away from the visibly ill" and "go out less".
It's almost impossible to get full digital sovereignty with existing widely deployed Internet tooling. For the domain part, something like Handshake could give us full digital sovereignty, but more people need to use it in order to make it useful.
I had a hard time finding it too. It’d be nice to have next/prev in the main body for discoverability.
I completely agree with you on prices for bikes being to high. I think the reason for it is that bicycles are considered luxury items. They cost so much because people are willing to pay more and there isn't enough volume in bike sales to justify large economies of scale that drive down the price - used bikes eat up that part of the market.

If you look at bicycle parts then it seems like half the parts get updated once or twice a decade. Yet the old stuff was mostly fine.
Actually, a recent study showed there is a "U" shaped curve where the least educated and the most highly educated are the most vaccine hesitant.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...
I'm sorry, but I'd rather use a two stroke kit than dealing with all the ethical concerns of (for instance) the lithium batteries on ebikes. Also, when using the stock muffler and a right oil mix they are absolutely not smelly or loud. An argument could be made for the respiratory system, but I don't see how would that be an issue when these are used outdoors
> Which? Next to medical reasons there are none.

COVID vaccines aren't eligible for the VICP and have a laundry list of horrific side-effects, that's plenty of reason for any reasonable person.

> It's just selfishness and not caring about the greater good and health of society, your neighbours, colleagues, friends or family.

You can say the same about fat people, smokers, drinkers, and all other people who take unnecessary risks of any kind. They're all burdens on the healthcare system that reduce access and affordability for everyone else.
And rapidly fell off. It only dominated highly vaccinated places.
I don't think it's profitable to build a leading edge chip fab with only yourself as the customer. At least, nobody else is doing it. Even with Intel's huge sales volumes they are still trying to bring in other customers to use their fabs to share the cost.

So I think getting in the fab business for Tesla would mean trying to be a direct competitor with TSMC, Intel, etc. by making chips for a large number of customers.

That seems way down the list of Tesla's priorities and best uses of dropping hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Unless Australians are an order of magnitude more vulnerable to COVID than elsewhere in the world, those numbers are more the result of low test rates missing infections than anything else.

In the US, the CDC estimates an actual mortality rate of 0.6%, compared to the ratio of cases/deaths of ~1.6%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Logitech is similar, tries to auto-update most days and ~200MB "driver" install.

Why the heck does a few hundred KB in actual drivers and a simply configuration program need 200MB? When I had an MS mouse intellipoint was only ~20MB, and the current MS Mouse & Keyboard Center is still only about 50MB (which still seems much larger than necessary)
You're blowing things out if proportio lol. Teslas are extremely loved cars by their owners on average. I doubt they would be so highly rated if they had regular issues are you're suggesting.
To think the unvaccinated should be scared of it reveals a perspective born of mania. I'm unvaccinated, had covid last week, it's preferable to a common cold. There is no way I will bother with the so-called vaccine, which is more of a mere remedy, when covid is so insignificant to people who are healthy. If you are so unhealthy that you need the vaccine (remedy) then you have bigger concerns.
For Clojure lovers there's Overtone (https://github.com/overtone/overtone), also created by Sam Aaron. Not sure if it's still maintained, however.