skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't fully understand what you mean by "the data quality doesn't allow for that level of sensitivity" - we have already had two instances where very rare side effects of Covid vaccines were recognised - blood clotting for AZ and myocarditis for Biontech."

Sure. So those two issues are not only rare in relation to the vaccine, but also rare in the general population. In fact the clotting issue is occurring at the same rate as in the general population - 5 per 1M people. The types of stuff that will slip through the cracks will be things that are similarly rare in vaccines, yet more common in the general population and tend to be dismissed as unrelated without concrete evidence of that. For an example, take strokes in patients under 30. You have a general occurrence of about 5K per 1M. In order to show a significant difference, you would need a much higher number of cases reported. I believe there's some research being done about some covid vaccines potentially increasing stroke risk, just as covid has been suggested as doing this. I actually know someone who was hospitalized with a stroke between their first and second dose, and it wasn't reported.

This can be especially hard if even the fairly rare adverse events that have previously known relation to vaccines are being reported as little as 12% of the time. Keep in mind that these two events are listed in the packet inserts and are required by law to be reported by the medical professional and are still being massively under reported. What chance do we have of actually catching the rare events that have statistical "cover" of a large bed of naturally occurring incidents in the general population?

https://gnigh-66270.medium.com/vaers-underreporting-and-the-...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33039207/

"What is specific about the mRNA mechanism that could lead to autoimmune issues?"

This is just a theory. The immune system generally codes off of multiple proteins. If we are exposing a spike protein on a cell wall, then there's a possibility that the immune system may code off of the proteins normally found on our cell in addition to the intended partial spike protein. There's no data that I could find on pre vs post vaccination autoimmune antibody levels. So it seems nobody is looking at this. Even then, little is known about the relation of those antibodies and actual development of autoimmune conditions.
how long until this turns into concentration camps? Isolate, dehumanize, demonize, euthanize. We are somewhere between isolate and dehumanize.
The problem is mosaic and pretending one of the myriad factors is marker of a hatemongerer is itself hatemongering.
It's a somewhat relevant concern, but also less so because breaking changes in TypeScript are usually semantic (type-checking) ones and most of the times make it error on bugs (i.e. code that hopefully isn't in your codebase already, and if it is, you'll want to take it out). Deno doesn't do type checking, it just strips TypeScript's type annotations, which they're far more careful about breaking.

Even so, they could limit such breakage to major Deno versions with other breaking changes, if necessary. Not sure if they do.
I find it helps to translate the syntax into english:

> select *

Show all variables starting with ?

> wd:Q9682

Find item Q9682 (Queen Elizabeth 2)

> (wdt:P25|wdt:P22)*

Follow edges that are either P22 (father) or P25 (mother) zero-or more times

Everytime you follow one of those edges, add the new item to ?p. Keep following these edges until you can't anymore.

> ?p wdt:P25|wdt:P22 ?q

For every ?p follow a mother/father edge precisely once, call the item it points to ?q (if there is no such edge we get rid of the p)

The end result, is we have a list of rows containing pairs of (an ancestor of elizabeth, one of that ancestor's direct parents).

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I feel like one of the reasons that sparql is confusing is because people use their intuitions from SQL which is wrong - since the underlying data model is different but the syntax looks vaugely sql-like which leads to misunderstandings.
Cherry picking moments to ask targeted questions is more or less a form of persuasive arguing.

All laws restrict freedoms to protect the wider society. This isn't a novel concept. Not being able to murder is a freedom deprived of you. The question of "should any freedom that could possibly be abused to harm others be eventually outlawed" is obviously "No". Law is not the only tool to encourage better behavior.

But passing laws to outlaw any of your examples doesn't mean we're saying "Yes" anymore than outlawing murder does. Those are just specific laws. The question is "which freedoms should be restricted to prevent individuals from harming others". Your original framing of the question makes it an all or nothing case, but its not.

The state does deprive people of rights to raise their kids if they're really awful parents. That does not mean that making smoking in a car with kids illegal guarantees that this would be the associated punishment.
"They’ve lost my trust and that’s that."

Same here. There's a finality to this, closure.

I'm done reading about it, nothing more I need to say about Apple. I just purchased a System76 laptop and am ditching my MBP. I've been a Mac Addict for 20 years and now I've outgrown Apple. Privacy is a human right.

What I'm wondering now is "how do I replace my iPhone, AirPods, and iPad?"

Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216287

Ask HN: Do you use a Linux-first laptop? (System76, Librem, Dell XPS Dev Ed) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216287
Brilliant! Thank you for doing this! I wish I could send the link to almost every organization whose web sites I have had to endure. If you had offered me a rating pop-up, you would have been the first one I ever use (and gave 5 stars to).

Now do one for those horrible CRM messages "Thank you for XXXX. You are very important to us at YYY. Please click here to give us important feedback on your experience."

After I bought a new VW from a local dealer, I was getting so many of these "requests" that I called the dealer and told them that I would never buy another car from them again if I got one more of these emails. They stopped.
That's not how Cause of Death works. The specific complications of the zoster virus that typically lead to death are pneumonia and encephalitis. In other words, it's typically from inflammation of the lungs or brain. HIV/AIDS, cancer, etc. won't do that on its own. It's specifically from the virus due to a compromised immune system. If an underlying condition compromises the immune system, it's not that condition that killed them, it's the actual disease that happened to be more effective as a result.

For example, if someone dies from the zoster virus due to a compromised immune system from chemotherapy, you wouldn't consider that person died from chemotherapy or from cancer, you'd consider that person died from the virus _due_ to a compromised immune system from chemotherapy.

This discussion is absolutely bonkers. How can one person be so dense and not practice critical thinking? Your arguments don't even work on surface level intuition.
I wish they made some recommendations and application schedule. That statement alone makes is very hard to figure out which products are legit and which are not.

The average reader (me) just wants to buy 3 products, use them nightly, and move on, without doing hours of research.
> Linux Desktop has consistently proven that it has no interest in doing anything in a sane or consistent manner

Could you explain that a bit more?
I allowed scripts from cdn.jsdeliver.net and that was enough to get it going. Way less painful than getting an embedded third party video widget working.
It’s fairly difficult from the other side as well - contributing. I’ve been trying to complete wikidata from a few open source datasets I am intensly familiar with… and it’s been rather painful. WD is the sole place I have ever interacted with that uses RDF, so I always forget the little syntax I learned last time around. I have some pre-existing queries versioned, because I’ll never be able to write them again. I even went to a local Wikimedia training to get acquainted with some necessary tooling, but I’m still super unproductive compared to e.g. SQL.

It’s sad, really, I’d love to contribute more, but the whole data model is so clunky to work with.
I have never worked for a mega corp, so maybe this question is stupid, but how much can a company have a single culture?

As even in my 80 person company, you will have radically different experiences depending on the team.
At the beginning you forgot the Google data disclaimer, and the Google results ad.

Otherwise, I just go on Twitter, HN or Reddit to read an article and open it with a viewer like archive.is
Personally I always prefer Microservices and some sort of CI pipeline over a classic Monolith. Yes, it's painful sometimes but when using some best practices (e.g. one DB per service) it works surprisingly well and can offer benefits that monoliths just can't. But I think it's fair to write Monoliths for new projects - many people do.
https://world.openfoodfacts.org/category/tofu
My problem is the use of my own device to run the scan. It's a waste of system resources.

I'll restate what I posted on another thread about this [0]. There should be a clear, bright line here.

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In all these threads everyone is coming close to the crux of the issue, but I want to restate it in clearer terms:

There is a sacrosanct line between "public" and "private," "mine" and "yours." That line cannot be crossed by Western governments without a warrant. Cloud computing has deliberately blurred this line over time. This on-device scanning implementation blows right past that line.

Our tools before the computing revolution, and our devices after, become a part of us. Our proprioception extends to include them as part of "self." A personal device -- a tool that should be wholly owned and wholly dependable, like pen and paper -- that betrays its user, is a self that betrays itself.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28162412
Flex is a CSS Layout Module - https://caniuse.com/?search=flex
The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
They can take their content, but not their audience, making the whole thing rather useless. The only thing that enables that in film is the relative neutrality of cinemas and streaming platforms.
A hot spoon works too. It should not burn you though, just hot enough to be somewhat uncomfortable. I just run hot tap water over the spoon.
I was one of the kids that mosquitos loved. One night I counted 30 bites on my legs/arms, where my friend had one. This stopped after I hit 25 or so.

This makes me assume there’s some pheromone that could be extracted from a younger me, used to lure mosquitos to their death.
Bravo thanks for this.

It's a slippery slope tragedy of the commons that small actors can do nothing about really.

If Google were to start rating on this basis, or some 3rd party were able to (and then get enough noise and traction) it might help.

But it rather seems like there are a bunch of things that need to be done, not just one, including the controversial 'cookie issue' which I don't believe actually resolves the intended issue and creates a 'mini headache'.
Actual content was above the fold, it's already better than many websites.
Windows have built-in driver(s) for all the mouses too. You can just ignore these additional software and they work fine (as fine it gets in Linux, of course. Some additional feature may not work.)
You're right of course, but I secretly dream they would just change the syntax to straight up s-expressions.
I do all my groceries on a bike pretty easily. If you need to haul large loads, like gravel or cement or something, you can look into a cargo bike. Pushing a 1000+ kg car around by burning fuel is complete overkill for almost all journeys.

I've depended on rail and bike my whole life without getting depressed. The only thing that makes me sad is how many more cars and how much larger they are these days, causing more traffic, more pollution, and creating more danger for pedestrians and cyclists.

In some ways, rail is a lot simpler than cars and roads. You have one solution to serve everyone, rather than depending on many institutions to build cars, maintain roads, enforce traffic rules, etc. I've seen a pretty clear trend of worsening road quality, more disregard for rules and lack of consequence, and more wasteful vehicles as I've grown older. Instead we could have put all the resources that go into that system into one of more efficiency, comfort, and cleanliness and which worked for more people.
Same in France: Macron, the entire government and their health advisors said the following:

- Everyone should go to the opera/cinema to fight Covid (7th March 2020)

- Lockdown for everybody (20th March) (I guess people caught it in the theaters…)

- Masks are useless, absolutely useless for the general public (June 2020),

- Masks are mandatory (September),

- Blocking borders is useless, Covid will be here,

- Borders blocked during Lockdown II and III, if I remember the dates, because it’s useful (so maybe we should have stopped the direct flights between WUHAN and Lyon earlier than September 2020?),

- The idea of Passe Sanitaire (a generalized QR code suspending entrance in public buildings) is a conspiration theory (10th May 2021)

- Passe Sanitaire mandatory on August 1st, live and enforced in all public places except offices, including outdoor restaurants and public transport.

- Trust us this time, the vaccine is the right thing,

- But both research companies and ministers are exempt from legal responsibility on these vaccines,

- Given they injected 10,000 patients with AIDS in 1989, and took 6 years to admit it, and press wasn’t under État d’Urgence Sanitaire at the time,

(and also, they didn’t know that Benalla had kept and used 6 diplomatic passports after being fired, just to show how they work).

If anything, they have taught us to doubt everything they say: They clearly didn’t know what they were doing, and did governance-by-lying.
The last sentence made me laugh:

> The cause of the collision is not known.

I'll give you long odds that the cause was the drone being someplace it was not supposed to be.
With firebase, do you call individual cloud functions or does an API sit in front?
I also had a horrible experience using the recommended SPARQL interface to query Wikidata. The queries were inscrutable, the documentation was poor and even after writing the correct queries, they timed out after scanning a tiny fraction of the data I needed, making the query engine useless to me.

However, I had great success querying Wikidata via the "plain old" MediaWiki Query API: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query. That API was a joy to work with.

Wikidata (as a backing store for Wikipedia and a knowledge graph engine) is a very powerful concept. It's a key platform technology for Wikipedia and hopefully they'll prioritize its usability going forward.
What a ridiculous argument. User files are important, but locking down admin access has solved a whole host of virus/security issues that were present in, say, windows xp.

at the end of the day, users are responsible for the software they run on their machine. but viruses/worms that run amok are largely over thanks to restraining userland permissions.
Money.

The web was great until someone said "I love this, but how do we make money with it?"
And it might be a shocker to some, but there is more to life than myopically focusing on slowing the spread of exactly one disease. We have the rest of our lives to worry about. Expecting society to live a covid centric lifestyle where all that matters is “does it slow the spread” for 1.6 years and counting is does not make for a mentally healthy population.
Uh, why were they allowed to operate a drone within the glide slope of a runway?
Nobody mentioned it, so I'm just going to say: "tailwind"
You are not forced to use that service. Also you don't pay anything. What kind of rights do you expect in this case? It is not a human right to have access any webservice.
Oh interesting. Any recommendations that you have?
How we paid for the War on Terror
Entirely fair question I think. I'd add that execution can easily be the difference. Notably french startups generally have poor execution. For example, the entrepreneur in France generally has to get loan on his own person, indebting himself, "to be sure he believes in his own idea".
This is what SEO has become. Free audience comes from Google as long as you make "free," targeted content. The authors are trying to extract every ounce of value they can from making that free content. I'm hesitant to suggest Google interfere even more with publishers' autonomy but they're the only ones who can incentivize them en masse to change how they collect information after the clickthrough.
If I look at the groups in America who appear to have lost faith in their government, I see a lot of groups - Proud Boys, antivaxxers, antimaskers, anti-CDC people - who could not be remotely categorized as critical thinkers. Their behaviors have caused a longer loss in personal liberty because the pandemic continues. And, to look at the Capitol insurrectionists - there's not much accountability.

I just don't think there's much evidence that losing faith in government leads to any of those benefits. And my experience tells me that it does the opposite.
> Or maybe the whole 'if we just lock down for two weeks, this will be over' tops the list of stupidity

New Zealand had 26 deaths in over a year of the pandemic. Not 26 per 100k population. Not 26 per day. Twenty six people full stop. Because in fact "We go hard and we go early" works.

Right now they are locked down (since last week) because they had one case in their community, but of course it isn't ever one case and they knew that, since that lockdown began there are now over 100 patients linked to that single infection. Under a lockdown the people who are surprised to discover that they're infected are (mostly) bored at home, not out infecting yet more people.

I think there's a fair chance they'll beat it again, and exit that lockdown as they did earlier ones. Because elimination strategy works.
IRC's operator model is pretty awful though.

In the 80s when IRC was designed, they didn't foresee the importance of channel #names. Today, we know that names are incredibly important (paying big bucks to keep your domain name in your control, as well as enforcing your names with trademark law where appropriate).

The fact that you can lose "control" of a #channel if you simply log off is a fundamental problem of IRC. Its a known problem: you have bouncers and services (ex: NameServ or ChanServ) to solve this problem.

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So "raw" public IRC doesn't work. At a minimum, we need NameServ and ChanServ (and probably a few other bots) before we can make a competent, modern IRC service.

I realize that's where IRC v3 was going (standardizing which bots were enabled). But it should also be noted that xmpp avoids the issue all together with a different channel security model.

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Hmmm, maybe there should be an IRC service with a policy to automate #op control to DNS lookups or something. That way, #channels can be connected to DNS lookups and unambiguous? I'm thinking something similar to email / DNSsec style lookups that proves ownership of a name.
I'm simply citing the article we're commenting on.
I think this is an interesting case because scraping this is easy (just one page) where the wikidata query requires dealing with modifiers which is a bit more complex.
yeah it's shared, MS was rumored to have a very strong and deep (haskell based long ago IIRC) driver testing system .. it's odd something that big escaped the net.
But your users ought to believe it works well to have google's servers respond to the activation link instead of requiring them to click it themselves, so no complaints.

The verification process serves only you, the administrator. To everyone else it's a tedious obstacle.

Nobody will reach out to you to say "I made it through the registration process just fine but it was slightly less burdensome than I expected, is everything OK?"

If you want to know if Google is hitting your activation URLs, check your access logs. Your users will almost certainly not realize it happened. Even if they do notice it, there is no impact on them and no motivation to inform you. You would have to be extremely lucky to hear about it from a user.
For me it's a step further. I cannot trust any company for more than privacy theater. Apple was simply the last to fall.

I'm starting to look at companies to see if they meet these must-haves:

1. E2E encryption

2. Open source hardware and software

Everything else is "nice to have". The current options out there are missing a lot of "nice to haves", but they will get better. I'll be a vocal customer telling them what I want.
> NAV Canada, the country’s air navigation service provider, had not been notified about the YRP drone, Transport Canada said.

They didnt ask
Our pediatrician's husband died unexpectedly in Nov. 2019 of an unknown disease with sudden, flu-like symptoms. This was in Chicago. I have no more information as to whether he traveled or anything else.
Another way to look at gerrymandering is that the principle of "one citizen, one vote" means that the composition of Congress should match, as closely as possible, the proportions of votes cast for each party.

It's difficult to say, in practice, what the remedy should be if the maps drawn don't produce that result, but a naive approach would be to let the over-represented party choose a district where they won and appoint the second place candidate to take their place.

A more sophisticated approach, which doesn't require the courts to revoke a candidate's win, is to demand that all parties attempt to gerrymander the maps as much as possible before the election, with the goal to select whichever map is expected to produce an outcome closest to the aggregate wishes of the population across the state.

After the election, if another map would have produced a more proportional result than the one chosen, then the drawers of that map win the right to draw the maps for the next election. As there is still a small advantage to being the party who gets to decide where the boundaries are, there will be a "winner stays" effort to keep the maps producing proportional results.

For details of how to measure the proportionality, Wikipedia has a good section that lists various indices, each with their own article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation#Me...
Children and pregnant women are the two sub-populations I mentioned previously.

> Given that COVID-19 disease is far milder in the majority of children than in adults, the risk–benefit of a pediatric SARS-CoV-2 vaccine must be carefully weighed [0]

> The prognostic significance, long-term implications and mechanism of this myocardial injury needs to be studied further, especially as vaccination efforts are rolled out to younger children. [1]

> While the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy data for the 4 authorized vaccines are reassuring so far, none of these vaccines has been systematically studied in pregnant and breastfeeding people [2]

> it is important to remain transparent about the lack of information, acknowledge concerns, and support those who decide to defer vaccination until more data are available [2]

[0] SARS-CoV-2 vaccine testing and trials in the pediatric population: biologic, ethical, research, and implementation challenges (Feb 2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-021-01402-z

[1] COVID-19 Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescents (August 2021)
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/ea...

[2] SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination During Pregnancy: A Complex Decision (April 2021)
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/8/5/ofab180/6220034
They were not but they did so anyway.