skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A drug should be approved once it is very likely causing more good than harm.

Err, that sounds really scary and wrong to me. Seems to me that a drug should be approved when all the side effects are known, results are well characterized among a large sample set over a sufficiently long time frame, and it is determined that the drug is "safe" in the absolute sense.

It may be the case that we are better off taking a vaccine in a pandemic _even though we are not 100% sure it is safe_ due to the opportunity cost, and that's what emergency authorizations are for.

Even if the FDA really did their due diligence here, it will not convince anyone who was not already convinced; it is obvious that they were going to approve it no matter what, because the political fallout of not approving it after so many people have taken it would permanently destroy what trust remains in the US public health system.
> nobody gives one shit about uncontroversal and more effective mitigation techniques like air filtration and circulation.

How much would it cost to retrofit a bunch of schools with this stuff?

Ideally you'd do both. Have better air circulation, and institute masks when the regional caseload goes above a certain threshold.
I’m not aware of any evidence that vaccinations of any kind cause addiction. Please provide citations.
Not directly related, but if I could have 2 thing from ETS, it would be:

1 - Ability to atomic rename a table. It's a fairly common use-case that you have a lock-free read-only map, rebuild it in the background, and the swap the newly-built one with the live one.

2 - Copy-on-write so that reading from an ETS doesn't require copying the data to the calling process (for more than just large binaries)
Getting banned from this kind of place should be considered a medal of honour.
I have to agree with a sibling commenter, you've weakened your case by jumping from a driver to a desktop application. If we follow what I think your implicit reasoning here is, then we need to just throw Electron in the dumpster because there can be no good time to use it/no sufficient defense.
Or maybe they're just arguing for the third group: people who already were infected and recovered.

No need to double up on the unknown risks of you already have immunity.
Location services is the device level control. You can pick which devices pump locations out and turn it off entirely for a device if desired. Google only tracks location from a device if you give them the OK (most do for maps / weather etc). Then they use that location to communicate with their servers and serve you the data you want that is location based. This location (and they enrich it with wifi stuff etc) is available to all apps on your device that have permission to use it plus all server they connect with that use it.

Separately for google apps themselves you can go here:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068

Because they will track location at app level across both play and ios etc. So even if you are on a device WITHOUT location service, google may still be getting your location data through an app on the device.
It seems reasonable to argue that the control group should have access to the vaccine, but it still makes them not really a control group anymore right?
Oddly, one of the most common invasive plant around Seattle is Scotch Broom. That stuff cannot be controlled.
Worth noting that Moderna seems to have a much stronger and different side-effect profile, especially on the second shot. Might explain the difference you're seeing.
> WARP keeps your traffic secure, private and fast

Reminder: sending your traffic to Cloudflare means entrusting your privacy to them, the US government, the government of the countries where their datacenters are, the datacenter ISPs.

Is it better than your local ISP? Difficult to tell.

But creating a monopoly that controls most websites, DNS and VPNs is very dangerous for the world.

If you care about privacy and freedom of information for everybody, please support Tor instead.
You can't get your fluid to the surface though with that pressure differential. And as your pipe fills up, it reduces the pressure differential, and pumping it out would cost more than the electricity you could get from the turbine.
Nice, then we can all lift the lockdowns and do away with the masks. Thanks, science!!
You're stating that as if it is fact when you know it is not. I don't think we should shutdown for unvaccinated and I have never said we should. I also don't think we should shutdown for those who are "at risk" but vaccinated.
I suppose that the teachers that chose not to be vaccinated would not want to impose that on their pupils.
> It takes three or four more steps to get to forced farm labor.

Make that "one or two more steps":

> Prisoners to plug worker shortage in meat industry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58303679
In my experience, the "they are a private company..." argument is quite often given as an ironic or sarcastic retort, pointing out a perceived inconsistency or hypocrisy, rather than a statement that "actually, the system works". More of a "by your own logic...".
For those of you like me having trouble with the abstract nature of modern physics, I have to recommend the relevant PBS Space Time on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF-9Dy6iB_4
I wish they'd kept the original 3D look-and-feel of the 2.3.x series (the one with 3.x looked slightly different) distributed with all the major versions since (as an option).
Oh, please, the majority of Americans believe that a child suffers when both parents work outside the home

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/04/08/chapter...

It's completely and totally socially acceptable to tell women they are basically abusing their children by choosing to go to work whereas so-called "stay at home moms" are hailed as heros. Staying home to raise children is considered "real work." If you are female you are not "allowed" to find spending all day at home young children anything but hard work that's incredibly fulfilling.

People lost their god-damned minds and there was profuse apologies when a Hillary Clinton rep made the accurate statement that “Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life." You would think she was called a serial killer with how people reacted.

(Not to mention the quote from the article you took offense to wasn't even actually demeaning, people state their preferences all the time. Nobody gets uppity and offended when someone says, for example, "I don't want to be chained to a desk all day," which is a common preference people state. Your offense at a non-offensive statement basically reinforces that a woman with young children isn't "allowed" to state that they desire to be away from their children to participate in the workforce - stating that preference is literally offensive.)
You agree that as society you make some concessions for the greater good? I assume you (roughly) coming with speed limits, yes?

And driving slower almost certainly takes more of your time every year than getting a shot. Both measures save other people’s lives. I don’t think you have a leg to stand on here.
Because DNS based adblocking goes further than ads blocked in the browser. Its also effective in mobile apps, and other devices such as Smart TVs where it is not possible to have uBlock do the filtering.

I agree its effectiveness is wearing down as ads are served via the first party domain, but it still does make a difference.
Okay, I looked, and found this.

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
Buy far out options on antiviral companies? Too late bro, the rate of climb is way down over the past 3 scare runs, which really pumped the price it was great, plus all the obvious drops where you could have made a decent amount on short calls after each news segment about everything opening up :D hahaha I mean seriously dude, you wish you bought in.

Also anecdotes are all there is right now, that's society right now, either you're making money while people pick sides and sell the merchandise like t-shirts that say "I'm vaxxed and I'm awesome" on Amazon, go buy one. Give me your money. I made money on the Trump crap too :D

Anyways you're all suckers and those of us who give 0 craps about sides are laughing all the way to the bank. Keep it up, once you've burned it all down I can buy it up for a pence.
The surveillance infrastructure IS the point. NO point just doing it in the cloud. It HAS to be on device.
> Well, what would it take for you to change your mind?

For me number one would be: if the CDC starts tracking re-infection rate in the non-vaccinated, and puts that data front and center as key KPIs on all their releases.
My own suspicion is that it does probably help on the margins with young kids and delta, but we obviously don't have data on it yet. On paper, erring on the side of caution is desirable even if it proves needless eventually, since there's no direct health downside.

Unfortunately, since this is also a political issue, erring on the side of caution with mask requirements and being wrong generates more mistrust amongst the older people who have opted out of the vaccine (i.e. those already distrustful of the CDC and at risk of serious illness just have one more reason to dig in and ignore the advice to get vaccinated).

It's possible that such mask mandates for young children may prove harmful because they further entrench anti-vax sentiment (even if is ultimately proven that they have marginal benefits in reducing spread).

This is a fascinating and complicated issue indeed...
> Deno has replaced shell scripts and Java in a lot of places for me.

> - Single executable: Write programs that run the same on Linux/Windows without forcing the user to download the entire universe like other runtime environments.

OK, I understand your comment wrt Java, but with shellscripts? What universe are you downloading?

For that matter - your 3 listed reasons make a very argument for "a normal compiled language". Consider an older/popular one...C++. It's very typed, compiled to a single executable, and "bundling" is "linking"(you can do it any way you like, including staticly linking all your deps).

If I understand your comment, are you saying that previously you wrote software 2 ways: shellscripts and Java. You replaced them with...any entirely new interpreted language(JS)?

I'm not denigrating JS/deno/node/whatever, I'm pointing out your 3 reasons are built in features to any compiled language in the last 40 years.
Would integration into Danish society be worse if immigrant communities formed insular enclaves? I can see a rational reason to encourage cultural intermixing, so that different cultural groups have to be aware of and support each other.
I'm not totally sure what point you're making, but we do strongly recommend the flu vaccine for people interacting with the elderly.
Yeah, if we can't get something like edn (json but well designed and extensible) then jsonl is at least OK.

> people tend to forget this

There are people with strong opinions about this that don't even understand why you need something like JSONL in the first place and I'm surprised by that. If they never use unix pipelines I don't get why they feel we want to hear their hot take about how they should be redesigned.
Probably as simple as the linked channel (Reflective Channel) has about 40 videos over the past 7 years, and Veritasium has more than I can count. So Reflective Channel has just had fewer videos to promote, and thus, a smaller audience.
I don't know about you, but I'm particularly motivated by endurance activities in the cold. The mental aspect of accepting the cold's effect on you is often more interesting than the motoric process of running or swimming.
I don't know why they went with a title that makes it sound unjustified. From the same article:

> The tweet shows O'Toole being asked if he would bring private, "for-profit" health care to Canada. He quickly responds: "yes."

> However, in the original recording [...] the Conservative leader also noted that universal access remains paramount.

> Trudeau retweeted the video and drew on it during a speech Sunday to attack O'Toole on the campaign trail

It's perhaps going further than I'd expect Twitter to (be able to at scale) - but it seems absolutely correct!

(Maybe I should disclaim: not Canadian, no particular interest in its politics or outcomes of this campaign.)
Yes, we should try to make everything easier!

I'm glad we have cars because sometimes I just want to get from A to B fast. (Maybe someone just wants to enjoy making some light music through a fake book or light up keys.)

Other times, I enjoy hiking half a day because you see a lot of interesting things along the way, and the experience itself is rewarding for other reasons. (Like, conquering a challenging etude works my brain in a certain way and is satisfying.)

Tons of people will opt to make music via the easier option. But many will still try the difficult path, because it is rewarding and your skills compound over time.

And sometimes, a person who first does it the easy way decides that he/she wants to do it the harder way. People like to learn!
ODINN => On Device, Intrusive, Neural Network.

You cannot photocopy a dollar bill. Kinda makes sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

Now imagine a "live" neural network running on your phone or camera that prevents you from taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night due to "Suspected Copyright Abuse".

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photographs-of-eiffel-towe...

Next imagine that a local government issues a digital "All Points Bulletin" which scans all pictures on all phones for a "person of interest in a crime (against the state)", conveniently associated with the emergency alert broadcast network.

First they came: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
The use of placebos in controlled clinical trials must be justified by a positive risk-benefit analysis, and the subjects must be fully informed of the risks involved in the assignment to the placebo group.

Continued assignment of subjects to placebo is unethical, once there is good evidence to support the efficacy of the trial therapy.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) since there was such strong evidence to prove the efficacy, it became unethical for the continued assignment of placebo.
Ask HN: Why is data-related cloud architecture so complex
In the years before the cloud became the new and exciting default for big and not-so-big data solutions, we had a relatively simple way to design and build data management projects. You had a database layer, maybe a data manipulation tool (if at all), and your efforts went into understanding and modelling the data. This was for all but the largest data volumes.

Now, cloud providers seem to have moved on to selling us these super-complex multi-services modern architectures. To implement those we are looking at more than 6-7, sometimes 10+ completely different technologies. From including your file storage (and calling it a data/delta lake) in the mix, through clusters of compute instances on top of it (eg spark), then an mpp system besides those, etc, etc, we seem to be making it all quite complex, when in fact neither the data volume, variety or velocity demand such treatment. It does seem like we are just throwing more and more software to solve non-existing problems and feeding an army of professionals along the way. Sure, for huge setups it makes sense, but I’m seeing companies handling data sets which can fit in sqlite buying into this and just going with it for dubious reasons.

It does make sense from the point of view of cloud providers and consultancies and I am wondering if it seems a little over the top to everyone or just me..
They do reduce it, however, even in the case of breakthrough infections.
I get the appeal of that for keyboards, but what's the appeal of it for a mouse? Is it only for g*mers?
Doing birthday stories for the rich shows and being told to use the servants entrance seems likely a classist discrimination not a race problem at first glance. Race seems to be the major factor for much of the rest of the article, which I'm not discounting. Whether maid or journalist count as tradespeople or guests is another discussion and the bigger question is why should it matter if the person is a maid or reporter why is it okay to deperson a class of people because of their job?

Back to the discussion of race, how far have we come from the hotel owners denying this black woman access? Airbnb recently has had issues with people attempting to discriminate on race.

Other discussion points aside this reporter got the job done and got the story: "You do what you need to do in order to get the story."

I believe the most important line from the article is here:

"And if you don't have people who see the world through different eyes represented, you just don't have a full picture of what's going on." Often I see only one party line, group think, everyone else is wrong because we are right and facts which don't support the narrative should be downvoted and suppressed attitude which will only create fractured communities and alienated people. To come together we must seek the truth, we must not silence different eyes, but must provide reasonable reproof with documentation to those who spread misinformation.
This happened with low-dose Aspirin for prevention of heart-attacks and strokes. The protective effect was so profound that they considered it unethical to let the control group proceed without it.
> I’d argue URLs are fine until you get massive use of a single package and it weaves itself into a complex dependency tree across multiple other critical projects. Then you worry about the what if’s.

This is already an issue with npm. My personal take on this is that at that point that dependency should be vendored as much as possible but obviously it's hard to fight the existing inertia on this one. Also worth noting that the [std lib][1] is an attempt at a pragmatic solution to the problem where these foundational packages that are seemingly used by every framework out there essentially converges to the standard lib. I agree it's not perfect at the moment but it's a start.

[1]: https://deno.land/std
You've hit the nail on the head for me. The part that offends me is that the scanning is happening on my device that I paid for, and had no knowledge of the eventual introduction of when I bought the phone.

If they want to scan cloud storage, by all means. But I shouldn't have to have my device bogged down with this extra pointless computation.
Ethical Deliberations on Using Placebos in Clinical Trials
> In modern C++ you write with no controlling memory allocation at all and you dont write your own arrays with can be overflown.

The simplest and most straightforward way to access an std::vector item allows OOB read. Literally every smart pointer an be empty and will UB with no warning if deref'd in that state (that includes the brand new std::optional). The rules of X remain a tarpit lined with shit-smeared stakes, Chrome got bit by a GDI leak just a pair of years back because of that (a refactoring in an RAII object removed an operator= overload and started leaking GDI handles by the hundred when using chrome remote desktop).
I use esm in nodejs >= 14 since roughly 6 months and I'm almost back to where I was with CommonJS. Problems that I have:

- ESM modules are challenging to mock or monkeypatch

- I feel like the ESM implementation is more "magic" than require. I definitely would say I understood require better.

- Many esm features are still behind flags e.g. importing a .json file.

I'd guess that by the time Deno gets really good, Nodejs achieved same level of compatibility.
/tmp$ mkdir test
/tmp$ cd test
/tmp/test$ curl -sOL https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/download/v1.13.1/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip
/tmp/test$ unzip deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip
Archive: deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip
inflating: deno
/tmp/test$ cat > test.ts
console.log('Hello, World!');
/tmp/test$ ./deno compile test.ts
Check file:///tmp/test/test.ts
Bundle file:///tmp/test/test.ts
Compile file:///tmp/test/test.ts
Emit test
/tmp/test$ ls -lh
total 198M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 83M août 16 23:52 deno
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 32M août 23 19:12 deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user user 83M août 23 19:13 test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 30 août 23 19:13 test.ts
/tmp/test$ ./test
Hello, World!
I agree they should block this sort of stuff, but don't count on it; When I plug in a Microsoft mouse, a Microsoft IntelliMouse install wizard pops up.

In the end, the driver is running executable code which could (I believe) just start an EXE install wizard anyway so this seems unpreventable.
22% of all websites – what a stat! Incredible what such a small focused team was able to accomplish.
It's atomic and warrior by association or job description.

There are some tracked mecha in fiction, but they are usually considered inferior to the walker equivalents.

As far as robot- you've got it there. It's basically a wheeled version of Ripley's power loader from Aliens.
> The conclusion has been in for a while that COVID-19 leads to a higher incidence of hospitalizations and complications

Yes just about any symptomatic illness is going to lead to hospitalization and complications during pregnancy.

I understand how the language on the CDC page you cited may lead you to believe that vaccines are conclusively recommended, but take a look at this page from the CDC [1] (updated August 11th) for a more balance appraisal. They say that evidence about the safety is "limited" but "early data" is reassuring. Almost all of the links on the page you cited are to ongoing trials. It's a misrepresentation of science to say that the recommendation to vaccinate pregnant women is conclusive.

And if we're trading anecdotes, my wife's OBGYN advised her not to get vaccinated yet, because it's unclear what the long-term risks are for mother and baby, and because it's unclear if vaccination provides any additional benefits for mothers who have acquired immunity through natural infection.

If you can provide any citations to primary sources supporting your claim that vaccination is conclusively recommended I would appreciate it - I'm keeping an open mind here.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...
As long as they plan to keep the option up download over HTTP forever, I think this is a good idea.

However, I fear the day Mozilla will consider HTTP downloads obsolete the same wah they did away with FTP. The direction Mozilla is taking Firefox makes me distrust any barriers they're throwing up that are coined as "security" features.
I've never ridden a rocket, I doubt I will ever ride a rocket. How am I even approaching burnout? :)
I used a fake name/email... went through the 22 questions and got meaningless results.

Questions get grouped into 3 groups and you get a numerical score... literally it only says "Result: 22". No scale, no units, at best there is maybe a color scheme green, yellow, red? (maybe? not for me)

At least the groups have descriptions...

I got zero info from this, it was a waste of time
The modern take that TLS only is required and must be enforced for everything, combined with the fact that TLS cert providers operate with normal power law popularity, means that by blocking HTTP sites and making mixed HTTP+HTTPS sites unusable in ways like this large segments of the web will have single points of technical or political failure.

TLS-*only* centralizes. LetsEncrypt's charter is made to resist corruption but as it's scale and the money involved grows it will probably end up going bad like dot Org did. That would be very bad for the web. Keeping HTTP and HTTP+HTTPS support around without stigmatizing or hiding it behind 2+ clickthrough warnings would prevent that failure mode.