skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it turns out that they weren't useful, what harm has been caused?

If masks are ineffective, wearing them amounts to theatrics/fiction.

If that fiction creates a false sense of safety, it can encourage people to take risks like interacting in closer proximity than they would otherwise.

I have no knowledge or expertise on if masks are effective nor have any children, this is just an observation of what seems like an obvious potential harm.
Hey, cherry picker, how is your business going?

> and the rate of serious cases among unvaccinated people in <<the under-60 crowd>> (3.2 per 100,000)
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I strongly recommend you listen to the two veterans describe the dynamic (try 1.5x speed). It is worth more than a 1000 hours of the bloviating punditry that crowds the airwaves right now.

The gist:

* On the ground: "rebuilding Afghanistan" was a total farce. Major Sjursen (Ret.) describes handing out bags of money to "local contractors" with virtually no oversight. He suspects that the Taliban were among the "contractors" and were benefiting immensely from the inept American policy.

* The US military/political leadership is entirely motivated by optics and self-interest. Virtually every report had to have a positive outlook; publicly recognizing the reality on the ground was forbidden, including using words like "insurgency".
I get that.

I happened to catch an actual, no-bullshit white supremacist recruitment program on a fairly high-powered (like, literally—they have quite a bit of broadcast power) local AM radio station a few months back (I checked their schedule afterward, out of curiosity, and much of the rest was religious programming—go figure). By which I don't mean they were explicitly saying "come to the Knights of Columbus hall at 7:00 on Wednesday for our meetings", but they were going through this plainly carefully scripted soft-handed discussion (two-host format) and doing a lot of "just asking questions" but somehow those questions kept taking them right up to the edge—and I mean right up to the edge—of "it's the Jews and black people who are the problem", meanwhile they're dropping one phrase or historical reference after another that's unmistakably from white supremacist "thought", as in, encountered basically nowhere but there, so their listeners have a nice list of things to google that will definitely lead them further down the rabbit hole. It was unreal. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, but they just kept going with that stuff, relentlessly. It was the entire thing they were doing, nothing else. It was very different from normal right-wing radio, which I hear a lot of (what can I say, I have a problem and enjoy listening to nutty crap when driving) and there was no doubt what they were up to.

There's some real WTF to be found in this country. Everyone freaking out about dog whistles is ridiculous, and those accusations are abused. But then you hear something like the above, and... yeah, it's a real thing sometimes. Very strange place.
Ask HN: How should I use college?
CS major, trynna join a bunch of clubs and want to keep up with my projects/startup stuff. Dont want to get sidetracked and thrown into doing what others want me to lol.
ah super cool. fully agree that taking a tree like that out would be a travesty. and I'm not insensitive to the infirm or disabled when having to deal with broken sidewalks, but taking those trees out would be a sin when there are other ways to address the root damage like the ramp you suggest or those rubber tile things.
Most of Razer's hardware is garbage, always has been. The only exception is probably Blade and a narrow selection of their mice.
That feels a little selective.

> Latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 89.8% of adults in England are likely to have the antibodies, with the highest percentage of adults testing positive for them estimated to be the age groups 60 to 64, 70 to 74 and 75 to 79 (all 96.8%).

> The lowest percentage was for 16 to 24-year-olds at around 59.7%.

The 92% (91.8% cited) is presumably from this sentence?

> In Wales, 91.8% of adults are estimated to have antibodies in their system
Pfizer secret contracts with governments (at least in Latin America) force to accept the non suitable nature of the agreement against the company. The receptor of the vaccine signs a consent of declining to demand outside his own country, and the government signs to decline demands against Pfizer.It is no one's fault land in your body.
Note: Afghani is the currency, Afghans are the people.
> [Scraping] is pretty generic, but SPARQL is hardly a proprietary query language - other things use it. If what you're into is obtaining data, sparql might more generically apply than [scraping] would. It really depends on what you are doing in the future.

Yes my point exactly! My point was that even when trying to consider the perspective of people different from us, we can end up writing for (and from the perspective of) people who are "into" the same things as us. Casual users like in the original scraping post are not much really "into" obtaining data, which can be a blind spot for enthusiasts who are. The challenge and opportunity in such cases is really communication with the outside of the field, rather than competition within the field.
This is actually a great idea, and I don't think I've ever seen it before. Especially email, I think that's super reasonable.

Thanks!
While I find pbs space time very good and entertaining, I am wondering if I am the only one who thinks the content is a bit towards the complex side?
:putnam:
Did it seem to you as if they "held that against you"?, I mean, that you said you'd work (a lot?) extra? Maybe they could look at that as indicating some lack of life experience,

Or was their intention with that part of the interview primarily informational, I mean, that they wanted you to get to know their company better?
> There's no evidence that wearing masks prevents contracting Covid (or any other airborne virus). It does a bit toward preventing spreading it if you already have it

What you just described is the same thing, it's simply a matter of perspective. If you wear a mask, it helps me by reducing the chances that you spread it to me if you have it but aren't experiencing symptoms yet. It works the same way in reverse. I don't wear a mask to protect myself, I wear it to protect others in the case that I'm shedding virus and don't know it yet.
Declining Salmon Population Threatens Fishing Tourism in Pacific Northwest
> We loved reading the thread a couple weeks ago about hydrogen vs. helium for blimps

Say it takes 1000 m3 hydrogen to lift 1 m3 concrete. Image a pyramid shaped cone 4000 meter long with a bottom 4 m3. Now imagine a balloon with a diameter of 8000 meters.

Clearly much to big to build [for now]. We pump the hydrogen out of it. How much extra lift does that generate before the balloon implodes? What other materials can we use? Would it be possible to make it smaller than a km?
Ideally they wouldn’t be able to scan my iCloud photos at all. There’s real value in being able to maintain privacy while also gaining the benefits of live, remote storage and backup.

The generous interpretation is that Apple moved this on-device to preserve user privacy. They just miscalculated the response to an admitted backdoor.
I think if you're coming at it from an angle where you're going to sit your wife down on the couch, show her some studies, and then wait for the "thank you for clarifying my thinking!" to roll in, you're doomed to fail / upset your SO.

I think the personality types you generally find in tech, which are so focused on what we can produce / output, don't understand that consumption is a perfectly valid hobby or interest for people to have.

I'd wager very few people actually buy the miracle claims on the products. I think they instead just find it fun. I gave my SO a lot of crap before realizing that some people just find stewardship of an object enjoyable. There's a whole subculture related to it. The ownership, displaying, and usage _is_ the hobby.
I plug my car in whenever I get home, but it only ever charges between 1:30 and 8:30 am because thats when my electricity is cheapest, so thats when ive set it to charge.

It's crude but if what you're saying actually became an issue, you could solve it by doing the same thing and charging people more at those high demand times.

What's actually more likely to happen though is covered in the article you linked: cars hooked up to the grid will charge when there's excess electricity, and discharge when there's a demand for electricity.
See page 8 here:
https://www.chademo.com/wp2016/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CH...
> you can just import them straight into the code

"Just import them". From where?

> What I am much more worried about is all the packages hosted on npm. At any time Microsoft could do something

So, how does deno help?
Okay, then give it more powerful engines, and weapons in the place of arms, and you have the beginnings of one of Keith Laumer's Bolos.
Clearly you and the authors have very different ideas about what data is. But then it just feels like a pointless complaint like complaining about an article for using American/commonwealth/British spelling.

Presumably your actual complaint is about the structure and pedagogical merits of the book, but then why not write that instead of moaning about definitions?

For what it’s worth, I disagree with you and I think there are good CS books that don’t really talk about bits or technical details of computers (SICP is a famous example). I also think that C style computer-fiddling doesn’t really help to build intuitions for modern computers as the models implied by C don’t really map to compiler output or to performance on real computers—if you want to know about that, CS-101 is probably the wrong place to go.
Regarding Apple scanning images, you actually gain more privacy than you have now. Way more. But the near-universal dislike of this initiative leads me to believe people do not understand either a) the current way in which Apple handles images and subpoena requests; or b) some aspect of the (admittedly complex) scanning implementation. But I don't know the precise area that people are getting hung up, so it's tough to address people's fear with the right facts to alleviate that fear. Hence the very one-sided, negative response to the photo scanning. That said, if you clarify where it is that you feel you will lose privacy, I will gladly try to address that for you.
Because the science is so hard to do, the products are basically entertainment. If you think of it that way it's hard for me to get too upset -- when it's affordable.

Some products are flat out dangerous though, and regulation is scant.

When my MIL was dying of cancer eventually then sent her home and "prescribed" various homeopathic concoctions (German insurance covered all this). At first I was appalled but eventually realized that as there was nothing left to do for her, the homeopathic bottles of water were a form of palliative care: giving her a sense of agency. I came to realize that it was a kindness.

Wearing makeup is often less critical, but given how important appearance is in culture, literature, and stereotyping, providing a sense of agency can be of enormous psychological value.
I start a lot of projects with JUST the grid system (included with SASS) and add anything else I need later (usually buttons and modals).
I was a US Army Officer for 8 years, worked in heavy armored units commanding tanks, and I upvoted this. I understand exactly what you're saying. This may be an "idealized" view of the military, but it's accurate in the broad details. You don't get to choose your team, you don't get to choose your mission, you can't quit, and you get no financial reward for excellence. It's very different from running a startup.

That said, the writer of this article does seem to recognize this, and I think his aphorisms are correct. Form a team that all trust each other, one way or another, have well-defined duties but be prepared to do each other's jobs when necessary, be ready for a quick change of mission and focus.

I think the analogy falls down in that you really need technical specialists in business. I don't think the Army way of taking someone broadly trained and experienced in "leadership" and putting them in charge whether they know the domain or not is your best bet. We do that in the Army because we don't have a choice and we have a ton of auxiliary staff in the form of senior NCOs and warrant officers and even civilian contractors who are technical experts and can help you with all that. If you have the runway to splurge on that kind of technical support staff to your senior leadership at a startup (and they'll actually listen and not get hurt egos), go for it, but I don't think most do and the founders need to understand the domain they're trying to work in.
I was 35 pounds overweight. Saw the writing on the wall and in three months I'm down 25-30 pounds. Stopped eating sugar and bread and only eat one meal 2-4 times a week.
> Moderna was approved on December 18, 2020

Moderna was not "approved" on December 18. Your own source says it was "authorized for emergency use".
Long time downloader of things from `http / port 80` here. I treat every Windows binary I download as if it's a trojan or something with some malicious behavior in it. One heuristic to look at is: Does this binary have a 'digital signature'[0]? If not, why does the author of the software not add one, and does not having a signature make the binary suspicious?

Even with a signature present, I still upload the .EXE to Virustotal[1] to scan for malware. I don't trust modern AV software that sits in your machine since it is a privacy concern, but Virustotal is a website that runs in the cloud and doesn't scan every file on my computer and report back to HQ.

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/16/how-to-verify-digital-sign...

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/
The vast majority of dev jobs don't require you to be good at CSS. Unless you're going for a front end position, which is a small minority of jobs, it's not even a factor.
I mostly agree, there is an omission of "edible" after "totally" that makes it read confusingly. However, I find the last sentence - "blood bath and genocide" - to be very out of place, to the point where invoking "genocide" to talk about some mosquitos getting swatted feels quite inappropriate.
Hi - I am actually the lead author of this paper! I'd be happy to answer any questions about the work.
Semantic search helps chatbots answer more questions
You'll be happy to learn that Snikket project just started a cooperation with Simply Secure to do UX studies on the Snikket family of clients: https://snikket.org/blog/simply-secure-collaboration/

Snikket, which a maintainer of modernxmpp.org (who also comments in this thread) is also a maintainer for, is a project focused on forking existing clients (in a friendly manner, contributing patches upstream) to provide a consistent UX/"brand" across platforms. Really cool project!
Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport
Maybe you're thinking of Blueprint, which is about 15 years old now.
About the Turing Award, after some trials and errors, I think this is the request:
https://w.wiki/3wmY

Disclaimer: I follow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2i8QpLDnWge8wZGKizVVw / https://www.twitch.tv/belett (mostly in French, sometimes in English).

Without these courses, I wouldn't have been able to write this request.
Pfizer was suposed to end fase III in April 2023, Moderna in October 2022... This is unbelievable!
Wellington used to say that the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men. Partly due to Napoleon's tactical skill I'm sure, but I think this also speaks to Napoleon's unusual ability to motivate men. They didn't want to disappoint Napoleon so they were more willing to throw their own lives away. I think the defection of the Fifth Infantry Regiment at Grenoble probably corroborates this. There, they had the opportunity to shoot Napoleon dead and slaughter his rag tag forces but instead they chose to join him.
Not sure about the ejaculation point. Especially with zinc, the amounts released from ejaculation are far less than the rda and the same is also true with the other trace minerals present in semen. Even if we account for multiple ejaculations per day, diet contributes much more to any possible mineral imbalances than ejaculation could. You really can't out ejaculate even just a single day worth of zinc rda food intake. At ~3% of the rda per ejaculation that's ~33 ejaculations.
I've found these to be pretty effective. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PDNCMMN
Related :

Open Beauty Facts : https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/

This database of products is a sister project of Open Food Facts : https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

Many apps are based on these two DB.
It is what all the cool kids are doing.
If covid was so dangerous to children that they were dying all over the place, they’d have been first in line for vaccines way back in December.

Also it sickens me that people downvote your valid concerns. Kids need facial expressions. They need to hear and see each other to learn. I don’t know why that is so controversial.
Those types of contents are becoming more and more common on this forum. Doesn't seem like mods care.
>>> I suspect that we could have much richer conceptual tools for thinking about the physical world actually around us if only more resources went into looking at it

What I hear in this statement is more towards the domains of research engineering as opposed to theoretical physics. Sand piles are of course the bridge between the two ;)
I hope this isn't a weird thing to say but I always really enjoy the links you post. Your bookmarks must be an interesting place!
So those people aren't worth taking into account and can be written off? The number of Americans with an autoimmune condition is in the single digit millions.
I don't get why people are so afraid of the VaaS model (vaccine as a service). If we already buy all our entertainment on a monthly basis, then I don't see an issue in mandating quarterly or biannual immune system boosters to protect against the virus. Vaccine passports are a different issue. I would probably sign up for VaaS, but governments could use mandates aggressively, and it's not far off to imagine how people end up in concentration camps from there. As Plato put it, democracy ends in tyranny, so this is to be expected/embraced
Check out Examine, they also cover skin care topics.

https://examine.com/topics/wrinkles/

https://examine.com/topics/skin-quality/

https://examine.com/topics/skin-elasticity/

... among others.

Unfortunately there's not a lot of great science out there, which is crazy given that the cosmetics industry is nearing $0.5T annually.
A "lead foot" on the software development gas pedal, with no attached safety systems that are activated by anybody but the driver.
Well I’ll be damned, it’s an actual metal gear
> ...the military is ... not like a job, where if it sucks enough you can just leave and find a new one.

For a lot of people it is (once you reach the end of your required period). And if you don't want to advance you can simply bump along -- up-or-out only applies to commissioned officers.
Wooah the video is so hacker-cool. I would add a little mention on your videos to tell it's not CGI (real life/world footage or something), it might add to the impact and make it tiktok ready. Speaking of tiktok, might be an interesting platform for your videos.
I have some kind of "face blindness". I have failed to recognize members of my own family who showed up at my house when I wasn't expecting them, and once didn't recognize my girlfriend when she saw me on the street and grabbed my arm. She called my cell phone in tears asking why I had pushed her away.

I always have to greet people with the best halfway "hello again"/"nice to meet you" slurring my words I can and watch carefully to see if they recognize me, then in a panic try to figure out who they are. It is always a terrifying experience, but on many occasions when it has been someone of a different race they've made a comment indicating they assumed it was because of their race.
> Diseases that are endemic today, such as chicken pox, once caused epidemics with massive body counts, notably in North America. No vaccines, no advanced medical care, and no natural immunity meant that some villages just ceased to exist.

You may be confusing chickenpox and smallpox? Chickenpox is generally considered a pretty mild disease (many countries still don't routinely vaccinate against it), and was so historically as the infectiousness ensured essentially everybody would be infected as a child.

WHO guidelines are actually to only vaccinate if rates can be kept above 80% consistently, otherwise it'll likely hit older populations with much more dire consequences.
Up-voted because this is a complex dynamic that many people seem to be unaware of, or fall victim to over-simplification when discussing. The scientific literature supports the fact that vaccination reduces symptoms and reduces duration and intensity of viral shedding - but immunity acquired through natural infection also has the same effect.

So many people talk about "vaccinated versus unvaccinated", but this dualistic framing is not conducive to scientifically accurate discussion. There are at least three groups of people to acknowledge:

A) vaccinated

B) immune via natural infection

C) immunologically naive (have never been exposed to the virus)

The A & B groups will have very similar characteristics in terms of individual risks and risks to others. Group C is what many people mean to refer to when they say "unvaccinated people spread COVID faster and with more frequency".
With all the attention it has been getting I think its only a matter of time before CSAM-SWATing starts to happen on those cloud services. The amount of people who know that scanning is happening just dramatically increased in the past month.

And for all we know it may have already happened and someone is currently rotting in jail who shouldn't be there.

Middle aged dude raided by cops who find CSAM on their cloud accounts, claims that his phone got hacked. Lying sack of shit pedo, of course he'd say that, right?
just keep doing side projects. I've learned 10 fold on side project then I ever did in school or on the job.
You can't have the behavior without the mechanism. To me "doom scrolling" is infinite scrolling plus algorithmically-sorted feed, way worse than infinitely-scrolling a chronological feed where people will stop and go do something else as soon as they see anything for a second time.
Non paywall
https://web.archive.org/web/20210823161043/https://www.nytim...
i do partially agree. while it was once a very good educational channel, it has often been very opinionated, sometimes in good, but also in somewhat narrow ways.

for instance repeating that modified gravity is great and that strings/supersymmetry/etc is bad is a bit weak especially on a science education channel.

i have worked with strings and some of her criticism if founded, repeating over the years that people that work in those domains are intellectual fraudsters (i'm barely exaggerating) is wrong and especially damaging on an educational channel. consequently, there a whole mob of youtube commenters that repeat this (with no context) to whoever wants to hear that.

the same happened with Smolin and his book, following Green's book. TBH LQG is not yet there (despite recent interesting progress) and Calabi Yau compaction don't yield the universe we observe. Modified gravity doesn't seem to work too well too..

so yes, if you remain critical of what she says :)