skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are a "political wedge issue" not because of the "conspiracy nut in every village", but because the scientific literacy of the general public is astonishingly low, and the second and third order consequences of public health policy are tremendously complex.

We must encourage discussions that move beyond overly-simplistic dualistic framing such as "vax versus anti-vax", "individual choice versus public health", etc.

Looking back through human history we can find numerous examples where scientific consensus was wrong, or where we created powerful new tools that backfired in unexpected ways. Diversity in opinion and choice is natures way of arriving at optimal decisions. Although it feels like friction and divisive arguments to us now, these are critical discussions that help expand everyone's knowledge and awareness.

At one level it appears to be chaos, but at a higher level it appears as harmony. We are now living in the age of the super-organism. The age where we all must become acutely aware that the separation between you and I - the separation between self and other - must be dissolved and reformulated, for the survival of our species and our planet.
We're replacing that image and you are right about the size. We have to fix that.
more than 93% of the faculty, staff and students at my research institute are vaccinated.

Having a PhD is pretty conflated with both race and political affiliations. Who knows what the effect would be after attempting to control for those things.
Bootstrap is really awesome.

People complain that it has a very recognizable style, but they ignore you can use it in SCSS (instead of the compiled CSS) so you can configure it to your leisure and make it look totally different.

When using it in SCSS you can also strip modules you don't need to reduce its size too.
I live in Tokyo, if you judge it on cultural variety it's a definite loser (although there is quite a bit of variety, just not comparable to a place like NYC or LA). The reason why I prefer the cuisine there has little to do with that, though. Rather, I've come to love the "taste" of the city, as in the general criteria by which people judge things as "delicious" is very different than what the average New Yorker or San Franciscan would land on.

The Japanese palette tends to favor much lighter flavors, less oily and rich foods than the American palette. People typically value the natural flavors of the ingredients, whereas when eating out in the USA you tend to get really sweet or fatty sauces that mask the flavor of the base ingredients, even at nice restaurants.

It's not that it's better or worse, it's just a different definition of what "delicious" is, and I happen to prefer the Japanese ideal.
Missed the step where the search result takes you to the google hosted AMP version of the page and it takes forever to figure out how to escape that hell.
It's realistic, they are learning about the particles that make up everything on Earth. But not necessarily pragmatic, in that there aren't likely new uses for that knowledge in the foreseeable future. Still, imagine what we can do once we've achieved a model of how it all really works.
I've noticed a trend in the last few days (past week, actually) where people have complained about Twitter imposing a login-wall. Threads on this from /r/Twitter on Reddit, for example, have details on users unable to view tweets without having an account:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search?sort=new&restrict_sr...

My premise is that the public sector shouldn't be so closely tied to such awful actors. Twitter's track record is increasingly user-hostile.

One user's point:

> The complaint is “As a taxpayer, how can I access public information from a public agency, without being forced to put private information into some third party database?”
One part is missing: the IM window will make sound and show a respectable or attractive person in avatar.
That's my point. A lot of cities have great food scenes, so saying "LA is the world’s best food city, and it’s not close" says more about the author than LA.
nice teardown.

Also just noticed on the fully fleshed out marketing site now a speaker/dock accessory. Teenage Engineering really got their paws all over the design of this thing eh? Neat.

https://play.date/#playdate-stereo-dock
I have not proposed a lockdown in any of my comments. I think you are looking for an argument with someone who wants another lockdown. I have not seen anyone proposing a new lockdown and think that the majority of people in the UK would neither support another lockdown or even think it is necessary.

Literally the only country that should be considering a lockdown at this stage is New Zealand due to them being a great way to prevent spread if there are very few cases in the general population and the majority of people are unvaccinated. For everyone else the only realistic solution.is vaccination for as much of the population as possible.
It's not an issue of being able to call C code in general, which almost anything can do. The codebases for these modules use CPython API bindings to do it, though, and those won't be available in an alternative interpreter, so you'd need to completely re-write all of these libraries to use different bindings to interface between the underlying BLAS and CUDA libs and your interpreter.

Which they can do, but that is a heck of a lot more work than just writing a Python interpreter.
Honestly, all of your stuff sounds like rationalization. Rationalizing putting masks on kids despite there being little evidence they work, are something society wants, and won't have any negative impact on kids. Don't forget, kids have agency. Has anybody asked them what they want?

And it isn't my job to provide proof or data. I'm the critic. I'm the one that wants things to operate as normal. All the burden of proof is upon those who wish to force my child to wear a mask her entire school day 5 days a week. Thus far, all I hear is "OMG CASES", "kids are resilient", and a bunch of weak rationalizations. Nobody has made a case who or what we are protecting. Nobody has provided an end game. Nobody has proven it won't harm kids. Nobody has even asked kids. It's disgusting, really.
I never posted my real birthday on social media, but then one day it magically showed up on IMDB. That one still pisses me off.

Information posted in the phone books during the time of phone books couldn't really be weaponized against you like it can be now. So yes, times have changed. Just because something used to be done doesn't mean it should still be done that way.
>The tragedy is that the better projects were never on the agenda of power at all. The tragedy is that the one thing that those with power and influence could agree on was war-fighting.

There's not much more I can add to this. Society is made up of choices and we chose to slaughter people around the world instead of choosing to provide healthcare, education, or any other constructive benefit.
Thank you for pointing this out. When a company also serves as a universal login system, who the hell gave them the right to block you from accessing those third party services because you did not comply with the rules on only THEIR system?!
MRI is my modality of choice too. I’m currently loving most of what Siemens is up to (with some notable exceptions).

The hell of US knows no bounds. Most modalities calibrate a display and then display images (with varying degrees of post processing). US calibrates the screen, sometimes with each boot or even each probe change. Their black levels are abysmal.

> saves the images as some variation on a theme of screenshots

GE has a habit of making DICOMs from screen grabs. I’ve seen it on their PET, CT and MR systems. It causes irritating problems - like reference lines won’t work so you can’t cross reference.
I don't think anybody that's unvaccinated wants any restrictions either. So if it was proposed there would be no more restrictions on society would you still turn away unvaccinated people from hospital? Going off your logic they are no longer impacting your freedoms.
I run Nightly and it had the very annoying issue that overruling the browser to actually download the HTTP-only download would fail 100% of the time. I hope they fixed that because there are still hundreds of valuable, older resources out there that I regularly download documents from.
So you actually complaining about people who don't know what they're doing? How is this related to Scala?

When you have people without clue on the team no language will safe you. You can also crash Haskell programs by throwing exceptions or just using List.head…
Cool project, I like the idea. How loud is this thing, as compared to a drone?
> If you have devs who don't know how to write secure code

The problem with GHC is the developers are not writing the code - they're simply accepting what's being written for them, often in large quantities at a time.

> don't have security engineering support

Valuable, but my analogy was intended to point out that it's not inherent in the tooling.

> Was anyone checking the security of code copy pasted from Stackoverflow

Yes, other users on Stackoverflow via comments and other answers. They're not perfect, but their checks and balances exist as a facet of that tool.

> Hopefully this work gets fed back into Copilot

Only if it's open source, and a large volume of it, to boot. In other words, I don't hold hope that the security situation will be better anytime soon.
I tend to take the side of the accused in these modern day witch hunts, in light of the fact that (a) people can recognize their sins and repent, and (b) that human progress is more important than some adequately small hurt feelings. It's a rational position that has only been challenged with appeals to emotion. Appeal to emotion used to be a fallacy of reason, i m not sure it is anymore
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"Masks aren't effective"

"Masks are effective"

"Vaccinated don't have to wear masks"

"Vaccinated should wear masks"

"COVID is not airborne"

"COVID is airborne"

"COVID came from a wet market"

"COVID came from a lab"

"If you caught it, you have immunity"

"If you caught it, you might not have immunity"

It's not difficult to understand why there is so much confusion. Our government was and has been quite inept at its messaging in both Trump's and Biden's administrations. The sad thing is many people still hold up the government / bureaucrats / politicians as omnipotent. It's called the novel corona virus because it's new. What we think today may not be true next month or next year.

I think one of the big problems of course is the government / bureaucrats / politicians are afraid to be straight with us. They think we'll freak out set everything on fire or something at the first hint of bad news. I feel their elusiveness is much, much worse; now trust is pretty low which makes the already ineffective government / bureaucrats / politicians' messaging even more ineffective. The government / bureaucrats / politicians found a hole and made it much bigger.
> I guess my view would change if they lightened up on Revenue Collection, and solely zoned in on real crime? And what is real crime? I guess murders, white collar crime, organized gangs. It's not drugs.

Then I would suggest you do not look up the statistics on how many "real crime" cases get solved. Murders, most of which are done in the moment and not planned out at all. Even premeditated must be understood to mean "X tried to extort Y, fight ensued, knife was used, Y died", and very much not "the butler, after 2 years of slowly preparing for the moment, set in motion his plan ..." like in the books.

Of all murders, the police solve about 60% of cases. Every other crime it goes down significantly (and theft is far below 10%).

There's a reason actual premeditated murders usually make the news for a week.
> Look at it this way: if it really had the long lasting effects that the ads wants you to believe it has, then it would be a medicine and wouldn’t be sold OTC.

I think this is a little simplistic. The FDA isn't inherently interested in anything effective being deemed a drug, even when it comes to oral supplementation.

Plenty of non-medicine, non-FDA-regulated substances that work like medicines in some situations and do have real, repeatable effects are sold OTC.

Plenty of actual medicines that are FDA-regulated are sold OTC.
Funny that Specialized are worried about local bike shops given their track record. Want to stock Specialized bikes? They'll try and strong-arm you to dedicate the majority of your floor-space to selling other Specialized components, removing options for the existing customers of the shop.

Named your small bike shop after a famous bicycle race and French town (roubaix)? Specialized will try and sue you because they have a model of bike with the same name (and don't even own the trademark).
https://capovelo.com/Specialized-Threatening-to-Sue-Bike-Sho...
The US is not corrupt in the way other countries are in terms of daily life.

If you've been to developing countries - the comparisons are not even close.
Oh. So the libraries are hardcoded to only work with one specific interpreter, regardless of language? That's unfortunate.
Any time you use the government to force people to do something against their will, you have made the issue political. Politics is the business of force.
The real reason why Bjarne invented C++ was not having to deal with BCPL or C.

After his experience getting his thesis ready in Simula, only to rewrite it in BCPL, he swore himself not to put himself ever again through similar pain.

So after working for a while at AT&T, C with Classes was his way to avoid dealing with raw C, while having some of that Simula productivity.
One man's immunity to ticks (2015)
Nonpharmaceutical interventions do work. With Internet and E-commerce, full scale lockdown becomes tenable. Together with mass PCR testing, the virus can be eradicated.

The virus can't teleport, and it is here to stay only because the decision-makers thought that it was the cheaper option to let it spread (it is not), then didn't want to admit being wrong.

It is sad to see that with all the technologies available, the world is still in the middle of the pandemic.
Very often, they do not, especially if the site creators are not a part of their own target demographic
Absolutely! I didn't write JC to be the be-all end-all. I wrote it because I believe using structured text between processes is usually better than plain text and this tool allows people to try it out and see for themselves. The goal is for people to see the benefits and require tools to output structured data, either for old utilities, or especially new ones.

Lots of people have asked for this, but the argument has always been that it can't be done, it's too hard. So I created JC to help open minds and change behavior. As I've said many times: the goal of JC is for JC to never have to exist. Hopefully it will persuade people that there is a better way and we should expect better from our existing tools without having to completely change the way we do things today.

JC supports over 70 programs and file-types today. I slowly, incrementally added more and more parsers over the last two years. Now it's to the point that it's hard to find popular apps that don't have coverage. lately, I get requests to add parsers for apps that already provide JSON output, which I don't do. :)

And those old apps like `ifconfig`? Many of those haven't been touched in a decade. There's not a huge risk of the output changing any time soon. (Believe me, I know - I went through the source code in several of these utilities to be able to figure out what to call some of the undocumented fields)

What I'm trying to say is that there are 100 reasons to say it won't work until you actually try it and you find that it actually works pretty well and opens up possibilities you hadn't thought of before.
And now every Zoom and Whatsapp and meet.jit.si user is. This sort of thing didn't really go away, companies just decided to construct walled gardens instead of federate.
> Thus, when we get around to modernizing std::vector, the fixed version will have a different name, maybe std::vec, but conceivably std2::vector.

Let us hope that if such a name transition ever happens that the hideous plague of multi-case identifiers does not infect the standard. Leave that to (a subset of) user code.

Either std26::vector or std::vec would work for me. `std26::vec` would probably be better because of possible confusion (as to which vector implementation is desired) due to use of `using` directives.
I'm taking the recent 8-week course now. Highly recommended. https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/weeks-1-4-index/395
>everything the media has been telling you this entire time was a big lie to manage hospital capacity without tanking the economy
Facebook's Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair
Every instance? FB and the other social companies are the worst offenders.
craftily worded so well (the tweet anyways) I wasn't sure if this was a tech thing or for apple stand workers
Personally I find local bike and book shops to be excellent alternatives to Amazon. For tech stuff I go to Best Buy where possible (not exactly a local shop, but at least it's still competition for Amazon). Nice to see the suppliers themselves pull out of Amazon.
still not baseload energy and I am still not sure it beats nuclear per co2 spent.
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I guess I forgot to mention I don't have Google services installed either altough that isn't any different than having background location access disabled for the Google Maps app on an iPhone.

Is there some other mechanism that Google can gather location data?
That was the OP, Ms. Sarah Chayes, the interviewed party in the PBS NewsHour article/video, says that Pakistan intelligence services conceived of the Taliban, funded their religious schools and military training, and funded their entry and presence in Afghanistan.

Pakistan and the Taliban are pretty tight, and together can now control the poppy/opium/heroin trade, and crucial land traffic across Afghanistan, extracting their rent. Plus Pakistan now has "head space" when confronting India, margin for maneuvering.
I really hope this will turn out to be true, but:

> Ct-values decreased throughout the first 3 days of illness.

Days of illness are those 3 days "when immune system kicks in and defeats the virus", as I wrote. When host is ill, it is obvious and things like masks and social distancing are being used. But not for those 4-6 days of asymptomatic virus replication, when most transmissions are taking part.
Similarly Peak Design (a well respected brand of quality camera gear including backpacks) is not selling on Amazon. See recent HN thread [0] about Amazon making a cheap knock-off of their product.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26338525
As a Bay Area transplant to LA I would say that Los Angeles has a large and diverse food scene. There are lots of places to get good food, and because there are so many places it never felt that hard to get reservations. Even a place as famous as Bestia I was able to get same day reservations twice.

Contrast that with lines around the block to get good, but not life changing Ramen (Orenchi, South Bay Area). Or a near-mandatory hour wait for great Ramen (Ramen Shop, Oakland). Or giving up and never going because bots took all the reservations* (State Bird Provisions, SF).

* this is not fully accurate. A friends bot once went haywire and got too many reservations. I was able to attend on a spare reservation.
Accepting input from multiple (remote) keyboards: here be dragons
> I've found that some prompt engineering can be helpful: explicitly telling the model to generate secure code in the prompt sometimes helps.

As noted in the diversity of prompt section, we did try a lot of different/ reasonable changes to the prompt to see what would happen in our SQL injection scenario. In our case, asking it to make it secure actually made the prompt slightly worse (!), and the biggest bias towards making the code better was having other good code.

> There isn't a single default value.

That's what we also guess, but as you say, it's not written or documented anywhere.
What happened to TNR? So sad.
Why? As a private business I can exclude you for many reasons. If I believe you pose a health risk to me, and I demand you prove you've been vaccinated, that's my choice and it is your choice to take your business elsewhere. I might piss off or lose all my customers but that is my right. Again, no govt oppression or threat to your liberty.
Covid-19 vaccination used to reduce viral load of subsequent infections. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with the current Delta variant - both the CDC in the US and PHE in the UK have released studies finding that the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated people is basically the same. They're also not so effective at stopping people from catching the Delta variant, and when you combine that with its higher infectivity it's basically impossible to get herd immunity using them.
The secret sauce may be in the software, but the software they sell you is a 1998 edition of Borland C++, and we're all screaming at them to please just make their hardware an LLVM target already.
it's metaphoric. Language can be used outside of its typical idiomatic expression.
Am a current cyclist and eskate rider, and I also bike on (not busy) roads with my young kids. Nothing I hate more than being honked- or yelled-at to "just go" when I have the right of way but am exercising an abundance of caution to make absolutely certain I'm not about to get ploughed by a car which may or may not come to a stop.
I had to install software to turn off the lights on my CPU cooler (wraith prism included with an AMD CPU) - it's ridiculous.
When you are told there is a lack of beds, it really doesn't have to mean a lack of physical beds.

A bed that isn't staffed with a nurse is no more useful then laying in your bed at home.
Python's C API basically exposes the interpreter internal objects (these are very well-designed internal objects!). Anyone wants to support C-extension modules for CPython need to either keep their internal representation compatible with CPython's interpreter presentation (which severely constrains what you can do in your new interpreter), or have some kind of translation layer between.

See: https://docs.python.org/3.10/c-api/index.html and https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulati...
You are forcing children, who are entirely dependent upon the judgment of adults, to wear a mask every day of school--indefinitely. That is a pretty big ask. Especially with almost no proof that it is required, works, and doesn't harm children.
Some of this depends on what you eat. I’m vegetarian, and yes I know Catalan food is supposed to be excellent, but I would just never personally put Barcelona in my top-10 for food.
Here's one from just this past week (with plenty of prior/ongoing related mistreatment of journalistic activity in the area): https://caj.ca/blog/CAJ_urges_RCMP_to_follow_court_order_to_...
The most infuriating thing is when you go to the trouble of setting up 2FA and a strong password only to discover that the helpdesk will happily turn off 2FA, change your email, and reset your password if you call them on the phone with a sob story. They won't even send a notification to the old email address telling you that it was changed.
> My impression is that Los Angeles is the world’s best food city, and it’s not close. I have a galaxy-brained theory about why this is. Restaurants decline when they sell prestige, rather than food. (This is why Manhattan is often not a good place to eat.)

Stops reading and closes the window. Seriously, what the hell. LA is a great place to eat, but for the love of G... Paris? Tokyo? NYC also kicks LA's ass to the ground regarding food. I know my food, LA's great, but come on.