skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Linux I just use xbindkeys to get the extra buttons to do something. The extra mouse buttons work out of the box with X with no drivers, they just need to be assigned to do something.

I have 2 extra mouse buttons for switching between virtual workspaces and another 2 for volume control.

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/config/config-...

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/config/files/x...
This is all a whataboutism. You don't like the slogan because you want it to be about one thing, but the movement is focused on another thing.

But, would you believe that the two things are related? Black people have been subject to overpolicing since, well, police forces were formed expressly to recapture escaped slaves. The police have had an enduring impact on black populations, ensuring that black people are significantly overrepresented in prisons. Poverty is a spiral, and folks with a criminal history can't get honest work so they return to crime. Kids without good role models are apt to end up in jail before they're adults. Extreme levels of black on black crime are a natural, I'd say unavoidable consequence of the circumstances. And the police, the courts, the prisons, maintain the hedges of that spiral into poverty.

If you've been listening to BLM activists and have only heard anti-police rhetoric, and missed the points about systemic poverty, and the entire remainder of the criminal justice system, then either you haven't been listening very carefully, or you've been getting your information from a biased source that's filtering the message down to what they want you to hear.

Black on black crime is absolutely, horribly, heartwrenchingly, problematic. It harms our entire society. But you don't fix that with a stronger police force. We've tried that. You fix that by addressing the inequities across the board, starting with the criminal justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hAVT2sDqQ&ab_channel=Oscar...
How come people write like this about one particular vaccine but not the dozens of other mandated jabs that have saved peoples lives.
Removing dead thunderflies stuck inside an LCD monitor (2009)
But that's the crux of medical ethics of human trials. You can't treat people like mice, no matter how valuable the data gained would have been.
TLA+: Viewed from 40k Feet and Ground Level
That, I don't know. Since we've been together, prior to COVID, I never recall her mentioning they had trouble getting nurses. If there was a particularly busy night, the nurse manager had a number of nurses on-call who would then come in to staff beds. Now, that's impossible. They're not there. On top of that, the nursing staff calls out sick far more often now than before.

Are these difficulties because there are fewer nurses on the market, the existing staff are burned out, there are better opportunities to work locums, or some other factor? Not sure. Mostly, it's to say that there was never a conversation between us on the lack of nurses prior to COVID.

As far as physicians, also not sure. I will say that demand was consistent prior to COVID, but now demand for both temporary and permanent positions is extremely high. They won't stop calling. Something to understand here is that the supply of new critical care physicians takes a very long time to ramp up, four years of medical school, four years of residency, and two years of fellowship. They're not easy to replace.

As a final side note, whether they do or not, they would all like to quit. They're burned out. This has gone on too long. The families dealing with end of life care are often abusive. Virtually all of their patients are unvaccinated, which means that this is preventable. They're frustrated that their professional opinion has very little impact on the public discussion of COVID, especially when they deal with the issue so intimately and they spent a good portion of their life dedicated to understanding and treating the issues behind illness.
"Dangerous" and "fatal" are not the same word. The Delta variant is more contagious, meaning more children are being hospitalized. Even if the Delta variant isn't "more dangerous" per case the same level of danger is more prevalent because of the contagion.

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...
If you authored a book in which you just trashed a particular subject, I would read it.
regardless of whether or not the shipment arrives: on time, damaged, or at all

Weren't extremely generous provisions like that offered by the US government last year in order to jumpstart vaccine development and production ASAP?
When a novel situation presents itself, sometimes we do not have all of data we would like and clinicians have to make judgement calls to the best of their knowledge.

We may not have trials or studies (these things take time) to back a very certain and/or specific claim such as "do masks prevent the spread of Covid 19?" What we do have, is fundamental knowledge and common sense and so typically, in a clinical setting we ask these questions when any new situation arises (as it happens often in medicine):

- Does this reccomendation cause more harm than good?

- is there even a slight chance that this clinical decision would increase the percentage chance of survival?

- is it worth the inconvenience it could cause?

This is called Clinical Reasoning. Thinking critically and clinically is a core tenet of the field.
Do any downvoters care to actually explain their reasoning? Wikipedia puts flu deaths during the last pre-pandemic season at 60K in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statis...
OCaml at Bloomberg
I just want to do one (big) round of grocery shopping a week. I drive 15 min past 3 smaller grocery stores to get to the one with a decent size/selection/prices.

I wouldn’t want to have a large grocery store much closer because of the amount of traffic it generates. As I see it, almost all shopping and commerce is much better in walkable areas, but groceries is one of few things I want a huge store for, and I’m ready to drive some distance to it.
in_flight: FxHashMap<u16, QueryInfo>

this makes me think of one possible micro-optimization: u16 is small and memory is cheap, so you could just have

in_flight: [Option<QueryInfo>; 65536]

you might get away with not having the Option wrapper, depending on how your code works

anyways, fun project
Long-term we should just adopt the practice of wearing one if you're symptomatic. It helps reduce spread. This is what Asia started doing after SARS. It's considered a courtesy, just as we consider it a courtesy to cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing.
At least with a bike trail, its much easier to turn it back into rail if needed.
Has there been a flu season in recent history that caused the hospital system to collapse?
Can you prove your statement by providing an example please?
> there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects.

Thanks, but I’ll still be thinking about it.
There's a few comments about baby diapers. It's not explicitly stated in the article or paper, but I believe this all pertains to adult diapers only, due to the fact diabetes prevention is mentioned.

Type 1 diabetes is not (known to be) preventable, and Type 2 diabetes must be inordinately rare in infants; if there's ever been a case at all.

Perhaps we're still a little while off receiving electronic notifications telling us we need to change our child's diaper.
Agreed. It's some variation of an "appeal to authority" logical fallacy (there may be a different logical fallacy that fits better), where the truthfulness of what you say is somehow thought to be influenced by whether or not you've had the vaccine. Even though those 2 things are completely unrelated.
>so misleading I can't make an informed decision on what to watch

I'm finding this to be more and more the case. It seems like a competition on who can withhold the most information about what the video is actually about. Soon enough all youtube videos will be titled "???" and the thumbnails will just be random static
And then you end up with antisemitic child trafficking porn ring on your platform, people ( rightfully ) hate you for it, and there's legal trouble.

There have to be content rules. Once they're there, various interest groups ( advertisers, religious nuts, "concerned parents") will exercise pressure to add their "demons" in those rules.
It definitely hasn’t been clear “for a while now” that the vaccine is safe. They do seem to be effective, though.

It really depends on what your definition of “safe” is. The vaccines have stated side effects, some of which can severe. The side effects are relatively rare, but non-zero.

The other component is time. We’ve proven that the vaccine is mostly safe…for at least a year out. After that, we have no data.

You don’t have to look that far back to find things that were deemed safe at one time have disastrous consequences years down the line. Cigarettes, asbestos, etc.
I wasn't the one who made the claim
We should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID!
That's a good point. Though it is an importantly different point: it's trivial to avoid this feature, to the point that I've never once used it.

(Though I gather that there have started to be exceptions, as with dating apps. If this becomes more widespread, I'd agree with your concern)
Pytorch

Tensorflow

Facebook’s folly
I think they are aiming at the elderly; most babies dont need their glucose levels monitored constantly...
"Compared with a baseline of 1-foot separation with no masks employed, particle count was reduced by 84% at 3 feet of separation and 97% at 6 feet. A modest decrease in particle count was observed when only the receiver was masked. The most substantial exposure reduction occurred when the aerosol source was masked (or both parties were masked). When both the source and target were masked, particle count was reduced by more than 99.5% of baseline, regardless of separation distance or which type of mask was employed."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00256...
Why do headless CMSs switch to work with GraphQL?
for comparison, all cause mortality[0] in infants (<1yr) is ~500/100K, and for 1-19 year olds, ~100/100K. for kids, covid is not even a blip on the mortality chart, being 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller.

[0]: https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/infant-child-and-teen...
Can someone explain like I'm five what the massive bandwidth is necessary for?
I watched a few talks from Sam Aaron, you can find a ton of them.

I would recommend this playlist to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPKaHV7Q5U&list=PLaitaNxyd8...

and the help > tutorial section of sonic itself.

Those two are just amazing: https://youtu.be/a1RxpJkvqpY, https://youtu.be/GPan4gRSwZs
Nicely done!

It’s a neat game. I wouldn’t call it a great tool because it’s impossible for me to interpret the music from the blocks themselves without playing it. That being said I’m sure that wasn’t the original intent of the app!

2D info is much easier for me to decipher.
Masks, tests, etc. are foremost ways to mitigate potential harm, not to 'wear down' people.
I worried about this too. But I think my attitude has changed after watching lots of the PBS Space Time youtube channel. They do a great job of breaking down these concepts at a level where highly interested non-physicists can get what feel like the real details without dumbing it down too much. They have good videos on many physics topics, and regularly explain new discoveries.

https://youtu.be/QLSIZg0npuA
Masking is good. Ventilation is better. Screening is better still. Until a comprehensive screening program can be put into place or all ventilation systems can be updated, we should continue to require masking indoors until the risk to those who could get infected is lowered by vaccination or until a good treatment is available.
The main issue is that quantum mechanics and {special | general} relativity are non-intuitive. Any classical analogy is a leaky abstraction at best.

There are communicators who can pierce through this effectively. However, they tend to be researchers who do not have the time to spend writing pop-sci articles.
I hope you mean when hospitals are at capacity and not before.

I would be OK with prioritizing those who were proactively vaccinated if we get there. Latest data shows 8-9% of hospital beds are occupied by those with Covid, including those with a positive test but no symptoms

https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html
Where have you been that you consider every place the same? The pit stops on the highway yes, but the difference between San Juan, NYC, Idaho, and Fairbanks is immense.
Some governments - especially those with weak currencies would not want money transfer to be that easy. They would like the system to have as much friction as possible.
The myopic focus on antibody levels is misplaced. We know that for Covid there are much broader forms of immune response which are not captured by antibody titers and are quite long lasting.
I'm wondering how many people will continue to judge others for their personal health choices??
Also not atomic powered as I would assume from title
> Twitter, FB, etc still try to do rule-based moderation. Sometimes they later discover there's problem content that the rules don't cover.

Ex post facto laws are prohibited, ie. retroactively make something a crime and then charge people for breaking that law. This is something Twitter et all do all the time. The law is rules-based, and something like that is what this article is recommending. Whatever Twitter et al are doing is not that.

We can take a cynical guess at what they're doing though: negative PR minimization. Negative PR is proportional to the size of the mob that's upset about it, so this ultimately reduces to mob rule. The law is intended to eliminate mob rule.

> They still have these complicated appeals boards and processes.

Their appeals process is not complicated. It's "my word goes, so you'll take my judgment and like it; you have no representation or say in these decisions, and I'm not going to tell you what rule you broke or specifically how you broke that rule; I can in fact change any rule arbitrarily so that you are ex post facto guilty, and there's nothing you can do about it, but we're going to be performative about abiding to 'rules' to project the illusion of impartiality and fairness, unless of course the rules inconvenience us". There are countless examples of this.

Governments also try these tactics from time to time, but with the separation of powers they are often smacked back in line by the courts. Do you see a comparable separation of powers in these corporations?

> So I consider what they do 'not so far' from what the essay recommends because it's the same paradigm, just terribly implemented.

I disagree. It's not the same paradigm because the principles and processes at play are not remotely the same. These companies are acting on the principle maximizing their profitability, which I think leads to the negative PR minimization principle, which ultimately reduces to a form of mob rule. This is often the opposite of fair and just, and this article is about requiring these corporations to legally uphold other principles to re-align their incentives for fairer outcomes.
Not given up but I would like to find a physicist on twitter who can layman's terms some of thes developmemts.
The research is out there. CDC does not arrive at policy based on whims or fancies. Trust the process rather than your "vibe".
Where is the flaw of logic in these points:

1) The vaccinated are not getting it anywhere near the rates of the unvaccinated, so they are not spreading it at anywhere close to how much the unvaccinated spread it.

2) If they do spread it to another vaccinated person, that person is highly unlikely to get very sick at all.

3) If they spread it to an unvaccinated person, that person is much more likely to get sick and have a better opportunity to spread it to even more people.

4) People who get sick & end up in the hospital still have lots of time before they get to spread the virus before being hospitalized.

5) Vaccinated people who get COVID are infectious to others for significantly less time than unvaccinated people.

6) Current does not show vaccinated people causing new or more powerful strains. [0]

7) New strains are still significantly less infectious & dangerous for those who are vaccinated.

So I fail to see how your points are relevant from an overall risk-reduction point of view. Available evidence points towards vaccination as a superior risk reduction mechanism than the alternative (which I guess is do nothing? If not, please clarify) that you are proposing.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-variants/f...
for a moment I thought it would now be possible to call a serverless lambda function with excel being the runtime.

I've been through scenarios where sophisticated calculations were done in excel by domain experts and then it was necessary to translate them into code by developers, so having an excel-as-a-service would be great.
Mobile and Electron apps often weight hundreds of megs. That's enough data to hide an entire classic-style OS in the spaces between the data. While I don't know whether someone did insert such a recursive compiler, they certainly can do it unobtrusively enough that it doesn't raise any suspicion.
The difference in curriculum in the Community College I went to and the "real" college I am going to right now are astounding. There are four year CS students who are going to college and don't know how to write a line of code, contrast that to the community college where the expectation is that you create real function programs from scratch. I wonder if this is the case with all colleges, and if so why are FAANG companies not recruiting from CC's by default.
That's not $19 administered, that's $19 to acquire it and the privilege of having 'all the special extra cold handling' to do.
Not gonna lie, one of the nice (unintended I'm sure) consequences of no one making software for Linux is the extremely wide range of hardware drivers built-in. I've never had a mouse (and a bunch of other hardware) not work on Linux in the last 15 or so years.
Cities would have burned? You're delusional... We would have taken it day 1.
In general (and I don't mean you), parents have had zero regard for others being infected with the flu for as long as I can remember. I've gotten the worst flu of my life (coughing for months) from a visiting parent with an infected child (the parent knew it and did not tell).

Secondly, children have a very low risk, the flu is more dangerous to them than Covid.

Thirdly, assume that the growing body of evidence is correct . The vaccinated coworker who has a new Tinder date every week and mixes with large crowds in clubs will still be a higher risk than a reclusive, un-vaccinated, masked individual.
There is nothing unusual about any of this.

A drug should be approved once it is very likely causing more good than harm. But obviously that doesn't mean you should stop researching that drug.

What's happening here makes perfect sense. We have more than enough information to conclude that it is extremely likely that the vaccine helps a lot and causes little harm. However if there are any rare side effects then we'd still like to know that, therefore it is a good thing that the patients in the trials are still being observed for anything unusual.
XMPP is fully Unicode-aware and always has been, so clients lacking emoji support are probably due to platform-specific issues. I'd be interested in specific examples if you can name names.

libpurple (and derived clients such as Pidgin) have been lacking in XMPP love for some time, they've been focusing on more fundamental changes within the project. There are signs things may be improving, but unfortunately it's only a good example of XMPP in 2006. Things have moved on.

As you say, Gajim and Dino are good modern clients, and actively developed. I see no evidence of either of them being abandoned any time soon.

Converse.js and JSXC are actively-developed web clients. JSXC just received an EU grant to implement group audio/video calls.
This assumes a whole lot. How do you know for certain that the person is treating you differently from others because of your background? Depending on the person and the prevailing culture it may be perfectly normal to more or less ignore someone outside the office. If you're constantly on the lookout for some nefarious activity you may start to interpret it where it doesn't actually exist.

I've definitely done the same and have had the same done to me even with people who I am rather friendly with in the office (across all identity characteristics). I'm more introverted than most and generally shy away from a lot of social interactions unless I have to or would obviously come across as impolite. The prevailing culture in my location is to generally leave people alone outside the office as engaging in smalltalk can come across as being annoying when they probably just want to get where they're going, indulge in their phone, or are mentally preoccupied with what they should do for dinner that evening.
Those who write angry responses with an opposite opinion are not a majority. That's could be an example of a vocal minority. If some people are loud in their disagreement doesn't mean they are a majority. Those who agree often don't bother to write. That's an understandable mistake that often leads to wrong conclusions. Just judging by comments here is not very useful.
> At this point my patience with the vaccine "hesitant" is gone. Unless you have a valid medical reason, if you are refusing to get vaccinated, you are actively inviting great harm on the health of your community, and that needs to stop.

Let me ask you this one thing: if I have antibodies already, do you consider that a valid medical reason?

To be honest, if not, then I feel like you are not arguing in good faith.
stay in game shape
I refuse to massively change my lifestyle and limit my freedom because some people have incorrect beliefs.

Post-vaccine, we are not all in this together.
The moderation of UGC is something that's killed off a number of my own ideas, at best 'parked' them. CSAM only goes so far, and frankly it's just too reactive - proactive defence is too costly for self-funding early stage startups such as myself.

Building the upload/delivery stream was easy, it's all the 'needless complexity' that adds value. You know, like privacy controls, access control, moderation, image formats and optimised delivery, indexing, search, tagging, etc.

I'll probably reimagine it and find better ways of hosting content but with my vision and UX. Maybe Cloudinary as folk have suggested, maybe some other SaaS DAM product with a solid track record - I doubt I'd trust an early stage MVP if my customers need to rely upon it. Too risky for my tastes.

Now if there was a moderation-as-a-service (MaaS?) that would have uses at the right pricepoint.
The Taliban could uave been defeated with the proper equivalent extremist commitment: kill all life within 1 km of any Taliban. No matter the country they are in. Tactical nukes.

An non-violent alternative, grant permanent U.S. residency to all Afghan women and children. And evacuate anyone who wants out.

Either would be cheaper, and involve less death and misery, than what has transpired.
Masks is too broad of a term as being used. There are OSHA environments where proper N95-type masks can protect you from aerosol risks for 8 hours a day.

The likelihood that a cloth mask can do that in a classroom however…

Best mitigator would be good HEPA room air purifiers, ideally multiple per classroom.