skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what point you're making, but I have noticed that "google Chicago shootings" has become something of a racist dog whistle, so if that's not your intent there may be better phrasing with which to make it.
This question need only be asked if we continue to insist that every person should have their own private vehicle to get places. Why can't we go back to trains instead and use bicycles or e-bikes for the last stretches?

Most car journeys are under 5 miles and are probably as fast on a bike if you account for the time spent sitting in traffic in the car. Any longer journey is happening along a highway which could just be replaced with rails that can bring trains of way more people at way greater speeds from place to place.
There is absolutely no chance of a material shortage being a long term problem, even for the currently problematic cobalt.

No need to mention LFP, or spinel chemistries, which have neither cobalt, nor nickel as such, and will not be impacted by cobalt prices at all.

The problem is entirely the supply chain. 9 out of 10 cells today are made in China from Chinese components, which themselves are produced in China, from ores refined in China. And there are few suppliers, so they hold prices high.

Around 15-10 years ago, a lot of lithium batteries were manufactured literally in garages, with chemicals mixed in household buckets. Today, it's no way possible to outcompete the fully automated line with manual assembly, except probably for the biggest cell sizes.

There are less than 10 companies around the world with fully automated cell lines, and they set the prices, and largely the pace for the entire industry.
Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine wins full FDA approval
In my area in Norway there are now over 50% EVs. Not new sales but total cars. Since it's a "villa area" everybody charges at home.

No issues with the grid :)
I wish utilities were more open about this data. I would love to see if EVs have done a good job (or maybe too good a job*) flattening out the overnight demand curve. Back in 2012, Georgia Power evangelists were marketing this as a path to greater efficiency: The "base load" caters to minimum demand, and if the curve flattens out, the way I understand it, they can get rid of some of that temporary/spiking demand generation.

But that's not saying it's better for the environment. Here in georgia, my impression is that base load is coal generation, and the more expensive natural gas peaker plants are actually cleaner-burning? The desire for more data is to really just verify all these half-baked impressions in my brain.
Not to mention that IP address blocks are effectively the original NFT.
Most of these are valid points, but they are some interesting attempts further away from the hype:

Uncollaterized loans:

https://docs.truefi.io/faq/

https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-goldfinch-crypto...

Fast, feeles, higher tx troughput crypto, NANO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/lxbhh5/nano_c...
How do you account for prior immunity as well as the "pool" of people that would show up as a case going down as well?

Both those factors would result in a softer curve without any vaccination.
Fortnite Became the Modern-Day Community Center
Fortnite is the perfect example of what a Metaverse can accomplish. Read Limarc Ambalina's excellent piece on HackerNoon about how the Fortnite metaverse has become the modern-day community centre for kids and adults.
> Plus mandatory face masks in public transports.

Not true. There is no national requirement to wear a mask on public transport. London Underground and the Manchester Metro have used mayoral powers to require mask wearing - with variable compliance. Elsewhere its down to individual choice.

> Plus mandatory self-quarantine if you are pinged by the NHS app.

Not true. The app gives a recommendation. Only the NHS test and trace service can legally require you to self isolate. And for that you need to test positive (pcr) and not be fully vaccinated.
There was an abbreviated Phase I/II and a Phase III. Not sure if the data were released.
> And not given the declining effectiveness of the vaccines.

Times like these I wish HN had a downvote button, since that’s total misinformation.
> when you're trying to set a record swimming the English Channel

Your training time to competition time is about 99:1 (on the high side for the competition time). The record attempts (or the emergencies) are a poor continuation of this analogy when it comes to programming.

> unconditionally advising people to swim with weights, is simply bad advice

So we should advise them to use floats instead, since it makes swimming so much easier?
I notice that these bindings are published by StreamLabs. I think their whole application is an Electron based monstrosity. It sure had the sluggishness to indicate that it was when I tried it. Meanwhile vanilla OBS has been performant for as long as I’ve been using it.

So that’s one use case; building bloated Electron based software where a native application was doing the job excellently already.
That's not revenue. From Facebook's perspective, that's an input, a resource they have to obtain. Users are a supplier of raw material that Facebook distills & refines and sells on to the customers that pay them actual money.

Like any business, they have to maintain a good relationship with their suppliers. In this case they have to provide a platform that users return to over & over again. But they optimize their business towards revenue generation, not suppliers.
The point he's making is that despite lip service by the media little has changed.
We need public utility alternatives to FAANG. Everyone deserves an email address that can't be taken away from them just as much as they deserve a mailing address.
>Why is it not drivable?

Long winters with heavy snow fall and icy road conditions. Sure, some folks drive them year round. But the number of rwd cars on the road when snow is on the ground is nearly zero.

Also, the mustang is a 2dr coupe. Whether or not it is capable, most folk do not want to deal with car seats/strollers in a coupe. It's also not a car marketed towards families.

I just find it hard to believe there is much demographic overlap between folks that purchase a mustang vs a corolla or accord.

tl;dr - Due to targeted marketing and preconceived notions, the only people buying mustangs are those that want them. It's an entry level sports car.
It's not unique to MRIs, but it's one of the niche applications where this happens.

Working in certain environments (IIRC >2T) requires special training, that include things like "slow walking", since moving too fast would induce currents in the brain that could knock you out.

For a product that I worked in we had to find a cheap way to create a 2T static field for validation, the complications of each of the possibilities were amazing.
The relevant factor for 800v vs 400v isn't the current in the battery, but rather the current in the DCFC cable hooking to the car. We can't very effectively increase the amount of current, because the cable gets too heavy. So it increase charging speeds, we need to increase the power by increasing the voltage.
There are studies ongoing and Singapore is planning to vaccinate kids below 12 as early as next year. https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/3rd-shot-covid-19-vaccine-...
I meant “declining.” Revised simultaneous with your comment. If the vaccine immunity does not persist and requires boosters, we will never reach global here immunity. The parent article is on point.
And bugs.
India is trying. Under new IT rules 2021 social media intermediaries have to publish the name of an actual Compliance Officer based in India and acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve within 15v days.

Twitter was forced to do it, almost on the verge of getting banned. So was Facebook and WhatsApp.
>That's why I don't really understand why there are still covid restrictions in countries that are close to full vaccination, like the UK. There isn't really a next step after having vaccinated the population, it is "steady state". So do they want us to have these restrictions (countries you can't travel to, endless testing, mask requirements) forever?

Our government loves to pat themselves on the back having 80% vaccination. Which is more than double the usual flu shot rates. Yet here we are with a 4th wave, talk about complete lockdown.

At what point do you say that our approach is no different than the usual flu season? In my opinion that was long ago.

So why? Technically don't know the answer. You can look at it from liberties point of view. That the reason these restrictions haven't lifted has nothing to do with covid.

Another theory which seems legit. Vaccine doesnt work. If you follow texas gov abbot. TONS of articles slamming him for getting covid. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/texas-gov-abbott-who-banned-...

Texas Gov. Abbott, who banned mask and vaccine mandates, tests positive for Covid

But wait... Abbott is fully vaccinated. That's a huge issue. You can't slam him banning masks and all that. Vaccination is vaccination.

Article title should be "Texas Gov. Abbott, who is fully vaccinated, tests positive for Covid"

But that's where the politics of the situation come in. It's very evident covid-19 is completely influenced by politics. Which brings you right back to liberties point of view.
I guess the US military can now mandate it as they've said they will. Time to see how many of the people posting on social media that they'd rather take a dishonorable discharge will follow through.
This something I really don’t understand about Deno. I feel like I must be missing something.

How do I pin the versions of my dependencies? i.e. where is the package lock file?

If the idea is that every source file will specify the version it wants of every dependency, that seems unmanageable. Or if every source file just imports the latest version of its deps, how do I get reproducible builds?

I want a lockfile with an explicit manual step to update dependencies. “npm ci” seems to work well. I don’t see how Deno improves on it, quite the reverse.

Edit to add: hmm, there are some docs here that look relevant: https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_... But this reads as “if you really want package integrity, here are some awkward commands you can run to do it”. I strongly feel this should be the default behaviour that the tools should steer you towards. And in the examples on this page, the source code does link to specific library versions; I have a hard time accepting that that’s a good idea, except possibly for major versions.
Would you want to use an email account provided by your government?

State broadcasters are a good point, but we tend to claim they aren't really "by the state" but "by the public", and thus independent from the state. Countries that don't do that (e.g. Russia, China) have invested heavily to have their local versions of Google, Facebook & friends.
I was involved in a small group of poeple looking into creating a commercial LEGO sorting machine, which you would feed buckets of bricks, and they would come out sorted and indexed on the other side (in boxes).

We moth-balled it, because it would not be possible to make it at a pricepoint, which made commercial sense.
>I really wouldn't want to give introductory lectures in a room that seats 250 people and has been in use all day and then find out, like the Reverend Jackson, that the vaccine protection has worn off.

Ok then don't? No one is forcing you to go out.

Let everyone else make their own decisions. I'm kinda tired of the hypochondriacs forcing everyone else to do what they want. Everyone has access to the vaccine, they can stay in and mask all they want, they do not have to go near people. There's absolutely no reason to be locking down the rest of society. The only argument to keep these restrictions in place is if the hospitals get over capacity and that's not happening.
Returning to normal is a terrible idea when COVID patients are overwhelming hospitals across the world. How can things be normal if our healthcare systems are nearing collapse?

You might be willing to accept the risk of getting sick on your behalf, but by advocating a return to 'normal' before we have the capabilities to deal with this virus, you are advocating for putting even more stress on healthcare systems across the globe already on the verge of failure. There are patients in heavily-impacted areas who cannot access healthcare for other life-or-death concerns because hospitals are crumbling under the workload of COVID cases.

The article even states this; COVID is likely to reach endemic status eventually, but we are still nowhere near that. Ignoring it will have enormous costs on vulnerable populations -- even more than it already has.
If I were designing the mouse, I would nickname the upstream servers "Rats' Nest".
I did competitive programming. I believe you need to push yourself to your limits to understand what your limits are and why you may have some. It helps with self-understanding. One can then figure out how to go further, faster.

On a side node, it was in competitive coding that I first ran into students using Ritalin for performance enhancement. Until then I had never run into it before.
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If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading some of the history of how traditional utilities (electricity, water) came to be regulated: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c9986/c9986.pdf

Perhaps like cities traded franchises in exchange for access to digging up roads, we can trade franchises in exchange for access to privileged information. If you don't want to play by the rules, then please enjoy a total ban on storing PII or confidential data.
Free but not open source.

GPL is here to make sure the source code doesn't stay secret, and it is an essential part of the Linux development process, the driver model in particular. In fact, I don't see how a community driven, widely supported, monolithic kernel could be made without a copyleft license.

Linux without GPL wouldn't be Linux, and out of the free OSes (BSD, GNU/HURD, Haiku, Minix, ...), Linux is the most successful.
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html

"Legitimacy is a pattern of higher-order acceptance. An outcome in some social context is legitimate if the people in that social context broadly accept and play their part in enacting that outcome, and each individual person does so because they expect everyone else to do the same."
In this new release of inlets, you can now get insights into your tunnel servers through the status command and new Prometheus monitoring.

The inlets 0.9.0 releases adds:

* A new status CLI command to monitor tunnels

* Load-balancing of requests between clients using TCP tunnels

* An ARM64 Darwin binary for Apple M1 users

* Prometheus metrics for TCP and HTTP tunnels

Thanks to the community, customer and to contributors for their support.
> But if vaccinated people are also spreading it

It is not a binary 0 or 1 as far as if vaccinated people will spread the infection if they are infected. The vaccine lowers the chances, so the more people we can get vaccinated, the lower the chances can get.
Nonpharmaceutical interventions work pretty good. Plague is endemic in rodents in the Western US, there are actually a dozen human cases every year, but there aren't epidemics because we do rodent-proofing. Rabies has an animal reservoir, but we vaccinate our dogs.

Honestly, I don't understand the appeal of the ostrich strategy. Vaccination rates in Florida and Illinois are similar but in Florida, where they pretend Covid doesn't exist, the only thing they get is overflowing hospitals.
> Most are vaccinated, but they're still taking a risk

Pre pandemic they took a risk every day as well, so it's a matter of acceptable risk, which I believe is what the article was focused on. What level of risk is that?
I’m wondering what the odds are that people will pivot from “it’s experimental” to “it was rushed due to politics/greed”.

I think a huge factor will be how many employers, colleges, etc. are now willing and legally able to require vaccination. It’s one thing to say you trust something you read on Facebook more than your doctor and quite another to walk away from a job because of it.
Do you need a study to understand that a latex condom can catch infected seminal fluids while a cloth mask cannot stop the spread of droplets, or aerosols containing covid?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275509
Even if you use gmail for your domain’s email, you won’t lose your email address when google bans you. You will have to take an additional step of changing hosts to recover, but you aren’t stuck forever.

At least that’s what I tell myself to avoid doing the work of changing email hosts for my family’s domain.
Kinda normal to have to pay for software to get basic functionality working on Mac, though. Like BetterTouchTools.
Not sure about cobalt and nickel, but child labor is a problem for all kinds of resources and not just those that go into batteries. This is a political problem not a technical problem.
For anyone lacking some backstory here, OBS Studio is a highly performant, completely open source, native C/C++ app. It's honestly one of the best real time video compositing tools, and works directly with ffmpeg, x264, NVENC, etc. They recently released official support for Wayland as well!

Streamlabs OBS is a fork of OBS Studio with an added Electron wrapper. Streamlabs' primary focus for their OBS fork is to integrate directly with their paid services and other integrations. Due to the electron wrapper, "SLOBS" is known to underperform and crash unexpectedly.

Personally I'm concerned for the direction of Streamlabs OBS, with more and more of it's code becoming closed source or otherwise unavailable. They are also declining new streaming services be added to the tool, unless the service pays money, or has enough clout. For their business, the direction makes complete sense however I can't help but feel this is hurting the overall open source community.
It does once you have sufficient karma. Also, you’re wrong. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-booster-shot-cdc-...
PAXG, each token is a claim to one physical ounce of gold, held by the issuer. Issued by a fully regulated NYC based financial institution.
The more I learn about how it imports external/third-party code [1] the more I like it. It's got none of the hangups of NPM. No package.json nonsense (there are great script runners if you need them), and no cruft when importing external code (e.g. no need for yarnclean). The registry they do maintain is unique and immutable, which I was not sold on until I had this discussion [2]. I do still think they need some more guidance around how that works, and some contingencies in the event of bad actors, but it's just as good as NPM's registry imho. Native TS is a nice convenience for projects which call for it, and compiling is much more streamlined than bolting it onto a project yourself. It's worth noting that it does support plain JS, just the ESM flavor. And last but not least is the stdlib, which roughly aims to prevent the need for a million one-line packages spread out across the registry. Network throughput performance is impressive to say the least, and with leveraging Rust I can only see that getting better. The more I learn about Deno the more that I'm liking it.

[1] https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code
[2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/11809#discussio...
Greg Abbot even received a booster shot prior to infection.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-gov-gre...
Also, kids are absolutely getting sick from Delta.
Elon Musk said recently that he expects much of the car industry will move towards to lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) cell chemistry, which contains no cobalt or nickel.

LiFePO4 has somewhat lower energy density compared to nickel-based chemistries, but significant cost advantages.

Tesla already uses LiFePO4 cells in many of its standard-range Model 3 vehicles.
Should have used this link:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
> Well, I'm sure Logitech was sensible like most HackerNews developers and saved costs by using Electron

I'm not here to defend Electron, but most of the things Foone is complaining about would be terrible regardless of what base they use for the UI, and I'm not really sure what Electron has to do with this (or if it's even in use in this case).

The really egregious thing here is asking for a Firewall exemption and not including the base driver in the box. A slow driver with a giant list of dependencies is bad, but it's bad for its own reasons. Electron didn't force the devs not to include mouse drivers in the physical box, Electron apps will easily fit on a driver CD.

See also some of the other complaints popping up in the comment section here:

> I recently bought a Logitech G Pro X Superlight to use as my daily driver on an M1 Mac. [...] Runs as root, [...] requires manually setting permissions on a config file in order to save settings[0]

> Windows Update will download and execute RazerInstaller as SYSTEM[1]

> All of Razer's products are like that. I've been boycotting them since their keyboard wanted me to sign in to use my function keys.[2]

Again, not here to argue that Electron is good, but I don't see how any of the above is Electron's fault -- and I think even if you were happy with Electron, all of the above would still be egregious and unacceptable.

Is the idea that if Razer wasn't using Electron, they wouldn't force you to create an online account and to stay continuously logged in for your function keys to work? I don't think I believe that.

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274711

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274594

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275254
Ultimately, I don't think that's great for Linux on the desktop. Nobody wants to use a platform where everything is giant battery, memory, and CPU hog.
Reminder: this sort of metric is sensational but hardly relevant. The relevant metric is how much fossil production is left, not how much low-carbon production we add. All the more so because production peaks of renewables tend to be outliers.
IMO there are a lot of quality products in the gaming segment. The main problem is that the segment is bloated by so many "X but with LEDs and a higher price tag". You just have to do a bit more research before any purchase.
> Assume that I'm not. (I'm not, and it seems surprising to me that it seems that way.)

Fine - maybe I misread simple annoyance as personal offense.

> I'm just not interested in any discussion about the other things you've mentioned: usernames not recognized, who was talking to whom, advice about improving my situation, and so on.

What I said wasn't really about any of those things, so let me try again.

Your response here

> > Just because you don't understand the necessity of middle management or "paper pushers" doesn't mean they're not necessary.

> This is presumptuous. Having worked in groups where I understood my job and the jobs of my coworkers who held the same position as me at least as well as they understood their jobs themselves: unnecessary paper pushers exist.

struck me as a thoroughly unproductive way to debate. You made a bare claim to have seen something that others allege to be rare. Obviously the fact that you have seen it is enough evidence for you, but it shouldn't move the needle on anyone else's state of belief. Therefore, IMHO, it's not a useful contribution.

When I said improve the situation, I was not giving "advice about improving [your] situation"; I meant improving the quality of discussion.

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A patient in a hospital bed isn't of any real concern with this. There will be no alarms or nurses running if the device is disabled, only if the patient's heart stops. And their heart would have stopped either way, because the ICD isn't keeping their heart running. It's there in case it stops, and if they're in a hospital bed there will be people around ready to attend to them if their heart stops.