skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are not morally monolithic -- having been awful in one moment doesn't mean they can't be helpful or insightful in the next. I wouldn't listen in to someone harassing grieving parents, but I might listen to someone who had done that, if they were talking about something else.

This sort of hyperventilating moralistic fear of certain people makes me laugh, in its similarity to Victorian or conservative Christian communities. You cannot possibly want anything to do with that vagabond! I don't know, he has some vices, but he also has some perspective I am enriched by hearing. You don't have to fear sinners. Don't imitate them, but your life will be richer if you're less of a prude.

Milo is a gadfly. He offends me sometimes, too. And sometimes he has stinging observations I don't hear anywhere else. I don't want to listen to him every day, but I would be poorer for having never made the acquaintance. Alex Jones is energetic and occasionally unhinged, and when he says something completely insane that also happens to be true, I find it a comedy experience like no other. But he can also be a wakeup call to some of the naive views I hold. I don't want to listen to him every day, either, but I would again be poorer if I never had.

But at the end of the day, I really resent gatekeepers who want to make these sorts of decisions for me. I read history -- which means I read lots of things lots of very evil people have written. I would actually rather have the opportunity to read and study Hitler's words than have them banned on the assumption that they are too dangerous for me. I would like to think I am wise enough to judge evil for what it is, and I would like to be able to prove that to myself against real villians of history. The versions I was given in elementary school hardly illustrate the dangers. Goodness knows I can't avoid encountering dangerous ideas in the real world anyway, so what is the point of trying to protect me? I would rather be strong than safe.

People are not children. They can handle reading history's dangerous ideas, and they can handle hearing society's dangerous ideas. It is better to encounter those ideas on Joe Rogan with thoughtful and open questioning and discussion, than to encounter them quiet and unopposed in private. Strong people are better than safe ones. Victorian moralizing and shunning didn't really work out for them either.
If there has been enough study to be confident enough to strongly coerce most of the population to get the vaccines, how is it possible that results like this are still coming out and surprising people / creating contention? There are no other studies on this to even compare to?
Wouldn't hyper-threading be more like a highway in which certain pairs of lanes occasionally merge into a single lane temporarily? If one lane has loads of traffic, you're going to want to enter the highway on a non-adjacent lane.
A lot of places around the world have been in lockdowns that have made manual labour difficult, while doing sex work from home has been made much easier.
Why stop at 10? Is there some mechanical threshold we can't design around at that point? I'd propose 20 years should be the minimum.. unless you hate the environment.
I would donate also. The only reason I don't run it on my newer laptop is lack of wifi. Using Linux after FreeBSD is like getting dessert at McDonald's after a Michelin-star meal.
I should add, I also think down the road (should we execute on our lofty ambitions) we aspire to have a book catalogue that is as diverse as, say Wattpad!
Everyone's decisions affect everyone.

Anyone who used a plane. Went to work. Went out to eat. Left their home. All put society are risk. Have you left your home in the last year? If so you have put others at risk.
Ask these exact questions to the person who originally hesitated to vaccinate and got COVID.

The risk of hospitalisation/death wasn’t zero. And yet… they chose COVID through inaction.

And for what?

“I am not an anti-vaxxer but was holding out” spells “I am an anti-vaxxer but I lucked out”.
Well when you put it that way those TPS reports don't seem all that depressing.
"One of us smoked a cigarette."
I love the solidarity of this phrase. It's careful and subtly loving.
Thank you :) a number of things helped. Sadly, one of them was the death of my parents (but they were cared for and respected right to the end, and my darker take on their expectations can't hurt them now), and another was cutting ties with some family members.

Another thing that helped was Patreon, honestly, and I'll tell you specifically why: formerly I was making products sold commercially. This produced a lot of pressure to have 'hit' products, and a lot of fear when the ideas weren't coming, or when the idea wasn't selling. Going open source and Patreon-supported changed that to a more distributed system that was less bursty: didn't make as much peak money by a factor of three or more, but it was far FAR more predictable.

The increasing stability of this has been a huge help. I believe if society instantiated a basic income, that too would help many people avoid burnout, and remain productive, for the same reasons. Over-pressure is real, and damages productivity.
Honestly this position is pretty backwards. Forums shouldn’t be policing content unless it’s illegal. Why is everyone so desperate for regulated discussion?
I wish there was a way for me to transform this statement. The peer review process is a joke. Preprints are every bit as good as peer-reviewed publications, for now.

This will change if pre-prints ever offer bona fide academic points, but for now, there is no difference in quality.
The NYC MTA subway terminals, for one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181866
Maersk takes biggest step yet to decarbonise container shipping
The latest Sailfish OS release is supported on all HW generations except the first Jolla phone. But the Android version you get depends on your HW. Only the newest HW generation gets a newer Android. All previous HW generations stay at version 4.4 despite the Sailfish OS upgrade.
You think that would be considered acceptable in most Middle Eastern countries? And, indeed, many Asian countries are relatively conservative about public nudity.
I think this is naïve. Taking Sandy Hook as the example, do you think Alex Jones' discussion on Rogan increased or decreased its spread?

It's very easy to pick up new conspiracies for a conspiracy-minded person. It's very hard to drop them.
> A cohesive home with both the mother and father present

Which can be torn apart by crime, police brutality, over-policing, or criminalization of being poor; get a parking ticket, fail to pay it, go to jail, lose your job, rinse and repeat.

(A sign seen at a BLM protest sums it up: "You kill our fathers, then make fun of us for not having one")

> where moral values are taught

I'd wager that the vast majority of parents and guardians teach their kids not to lie, cheat, steal, or hurt other people. How much those teachings take root depends a great deal on the child's environment and peer group. Don't believe me? Then why do parents pay so much money for a "good" school district? The moral values they impart should hold even if they live in a "bad" neighborhood, right?

> sad, government-run program

Who said anything about government-run? Churches, community groups and local clubs like the Rotary Club, even police departments (this last one is the government, I'll give you that) run after-school and youth programs to keep kids busy and engaged in productive pursuits.

Secondly, if both parents are working long hours, you need someone to keep an eye on the kids after school. Some people have grandparents or other relatives but not everyone is so lucky (the grandparents themselves might be working long hours; generational poverty is a thing). Absent that support, the external factors I mentioned above begin to dominate.

Again, I don't understand the hate for a movement that, at its core, claims to want to hold government servants accountable for the crimes they commit. That's generally considered a good thing across political lines.
I've always wondered that, too. Since BeOS was never open-sourced, is Haiku more of a spiritual successor than a direct descendent?
The infrastructure and compliance requirements of running a newsletter is very different from personal email (mostly to stay on the good side of antispam)
I think that the half days would have enough work time to keep from really getting going on personal things on those days and enough personal time to keep from really getting going on work.

I've thought of trying a schedule of working a 5 day week, a 5 day week, taking a week off, working a 5 day week, and taking a week off, and repeating that pattern.
What is "random" software, and what is not? Most people have no context for making that distinction. Avoiding software, or identifying honest expert help, can also be infeasible for these people. Most technologically experienced people don't appreciate or respect this massive hindrance the majority live with.
Why I considered a suit against T-mobile and Dropbox (2018)
Same with old.reddit.com links.
Especially as their kid probably spent it when it was worth a lot less, so they really have no way to repay that sum. Although it is a fair sum to sue for. If he had found their details when BTC was $1000 it would have been easier on everyone. Their kid was too good but not good enough at hiding his tracks.

I wonder if HMRC would be interested in what would have been a considerable capital gain which likely went unreported for tax purposes.
The team and I are building HourStack - https://hourstack.com. We are focused on scheduling and tracking time at the task level, which works well with billable hours. We also integrate with task, event, and issue platforms so you can drag existing tasks onto your calendar to schedule and track time against them.

This can be quite nice when working with clients across different platforms like Asana, Trello, and GitHub.

As for downsides, we are a young company and don’t have the full feature set built yet. We are working hard though and making great progress.
Wow, I had no idea that Linux and the SNES were released so close together (SNES came out 2 days earlier, at least in North America).

Coincidentally, they're both things I love! I wonder if you can install Linux on a SNES?
> So basically warring mini-states, mercenary groups, mafias. We've been there before, most of history in fact. In a lot of places with little to no government control, we're still there now.

Yes, I agree with you that a society without government where you would want to live is hard to achieve (hence why I'm not living in Somalia). I think it's in the realm of possible things, though. Maybe at some point in the future.

There is a nice example in Medieval Iceland:
https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...

> Regaining stability after dismantling the current monopolies on violence than ensure it will take a very long time, and in the interim the situation will be extremely violent. The world didn't start settling matters relatively peacefully until two massive world wars occurred, and even then it only settled matters between some major western governments, not the world as a whole.

I think the best approach would be to gradually privatise public entities, reducing taxes progressively and replacing with private alternatives: healthcare, education, police, courts and eventually national defense.
I agree maintaining stability could prove to be a challenge. I think in particular, switching the police for protection agencies would need some negotiations in place during a period of peace maintained by a central (national or foreign) entity.

I think that even just going in this direction, without adopting anarchic plans, and reducing the size of the government could prove to be beneficial.
Georgia would be a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vXJzkvr8Y
I never knew what dying meant until I saw my old man go
At the heart of science you are taught to question everything. It is a more honest state.
They die? Or you die?
First, you skipped the fact that this is about the Delta variant. Those folks have been refusing vaccines since much earlier than when Delta became prevalent.

> Our study has several limitations. First, as the Delta variant was the dominant strain in Israel during the outcome period, the decreased long-term protection of the vaccine compared to that afforded by previous infection cannot be ascertained against other strains.

Second... how do you reconcile your position with [1]?

> Kentucky residents who were not vaccinated had 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with those who were fully vaccinated.

Third, note that they describe another limitation:

> Additionally, as this is an observational real-world study, where PCR screening was not performed by protocol, we might be underestimating asymptomatic infections, as these individuals often do not get tested.

This is particularly important given that vaccines appeared to reduce viral loads (and thus transmission) for strains preceding the Delta variant, but they don't seem to have this effect for Delta anymore. One huge reason the CDC kept telling people to get vaccinated was to reduce transmission rates. It's not just about your personal health here. Yet people didn't listen, and now we have a strain whose transmission appears to be far less affected by vaccination. So if people are refusing it on that basis for Delta, that doesn't make it a "good point", but rather a self-fulfilling prophecy (and one that quite possibly sabotaged a public health campaign).

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
The adversary doesn't have to be a nation state, they can just buy the netflow data to run correlation attacks on it.
Thanks for this detailed answer.

I'm lucky that I don't have to work two jobs, am a native English speaker etc., and this definitely isn't easy for many parents in tough circumstances.

What I don't understand: how is it that school districts spend so much money, yet can't teach kindergarteners to read?

If I wanted to run a kindergarten class of 30 kids, where the kids were looked after all day, and taught to read by the end of the year (36 weeks), then I'd need:

1) A space to teach them, with furniture ($2k/week?, i.e. $72k total).

2) Three adults ($75k/year each?, so $225k total).

3) Some books ($3k?).

That would cost $300k, or $10k per student per year. This is less than many school districts spend per child.

With that setup, at any time, you could have:

1 adult conducting a 1:1 reading lesson

2 adults keeping the other 29 kids occupied

Each kid would get 4 x 15 min reading lessons per week. So, even if they were to be absent for 30% of the school year, they would still have plenty of time for 100 lessons.

What am I missing? Is there other important stuff they do in kindergarten, that could not be covered well if you were to set things up this way?
> but do you know how to setup oauth2-proxy in our K8s cluster? You don't? Oh well, thank you for coming.

I hate shit like this because I can figure it out when i need to so it, it's just not something I've done in the past. What's worse is I'll never even get asked this, my resume will just quickly be screened out.
> The market assigns value to things.

That's obvious. Does US case law protect it, though? And in what ways?

> There's no question that theft of BTC is theft

If you publish keys you discover, that's not theft. And that's my point.

How does the system deal with that? There's no technical means to roll back or prove original ownership (especially if you find multiple values for the key).

The legal framework doesn't have any precedent, and if doesn't seem to me like it would protect you.

If I publish, "Hey everybody! I found Satoshi's keys! They're 0FFF...", I didn't do anything wrong.
so like... what is it?
How many of us have written a post like this about a personal project ("I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in X, as my project resembles it somewhat", "just a hobby, won't be big and professional")? You never know :)
Hello waddlesplash!

C++ finally has modules as of C++20.

Do you think there's any chance that the Haiku source code will be organized around modules instead of header files at some point?
I run a family wishlist site called DreamList (https://www.dreamlist.com) and it is frequented by grandparents. Since 2020 we started working on a family journal to build into the site to make sure families are reminded to jot down and preserve their stories and potentially to give them to loved ones on special occasions. Some insights and lessons are more valuable than any material gift and you don’t have to wait till a terminal event to share them.
> Unfortunately it seems to me that addiction tends to defeat good cognition, awareness, intention, all the rest of the apparent defences

In those who become addicted, sure. But that's a small minority.

For most of us, something, whether it's good cognition, awareness, intention, or something else, apparently does defeat addiction.
I have no clue. My guess is that the platform is a known entity and users are comfortable engaging with other sellers on it, opposed to one-off markets. I also guess that there is cross collaboration and references and search ability
How pandemics strengthen links between viruses and autoimmunity
Resisting having everything pulled back into the advertising maelstrom that consumed Cable TV, even dented NPR, means ignoring their never-ending moves to drag everything into their gutter. Sorry, f*kers, calling something a podcast doesn't make it so.

I quit Cable because of the ads. Great films chopped into mincemeat! Never going back. No RSS, no subscription. Requests for Patreon donations, no problemo.
As they say, it's "complicated".

Antivaxxers by and large, used to be highly educated people (PhDs) and leaned dem. Now it's the opposite.

The neo-cons who advanced the accusation of WMDs are now supporters of Biden. And, interestingly majorities in _both_ parties support the withdrawal from AF.

So, it's not straightforward as you may wish.
If you approach norms purely from a "what does the law say about X" perspective, sure. But laws can change, and before we wrote it down in a book with legal constructs, a lot of people were not OK with the concept of "murder", "theft", etc. I think that from the comments here, you'll learn that a lot of people are not OK with some of the things your employer does either.

I do respect you for telling people here that you work for them, though. I just hope you will ask yourself every now and then if it still feels ok to do so. That's often a pretty good indicator of whether or not it is ok. Sometimes a better indicator than the law, even.
I disagree with this assessment I think, and am rather disappointed that this post was flagged. In the future (for me) it would be useful to understand exactly what is meant by "fulmination" in the site guidelines. The definition is broad and ranges from "vehement protest" to "exploding violently". I'm not trying to split hairs, but "vehement protest" is also quite vague. I think what I wrote is a pretty concise critique of the public writings of one of the site's founders and it's relevant to the way the HN set interprets articles like this (billionaire donates to soup kitchen). If you could provide some feedback on what specifically led to you flagging the post, I'd appreciate it. Thanks dang!
My understanding is that macOS doesn't ship those runtimes anymore.
Haha

In production, queries only run at 'build time', and we bake out static outputs to serve to your users. We mainly do this for performance reasons, but there isn't a connection to your db in the production outputs.

Today, you might be able to issue a drop table command from the local dev server though, and we really should make sure there are guard rails for that...
_Nobody_ chose COVID.

And, in the early days, there was no vaccine.

In the middle days, the vaccines that were made were used.

Now, those who shun a free vaccine - and haven't already caught COVID - are choosing not to lower their risk of contracting COVID in that one way... But that doesn't really help your argument.
Yes yes yes. Work does not love you back. Scale your love. Allocate it in appropriate increments. Sell your attention _dearly_. And remember you have a life outside of work.
Is anyone else troubled that the sticked comment from the moderator refers to a group of people as "plague rats", not once, but three times?

This definitely hearkens back to WW2 propaganda literature.
When the next asteroid hits.

Might get a couple of repeats of the mediaeval warm period before we drop into the next interglacial.

Ian Plimer reckons we'll be well on the way by 2800 when the ice cap moves south to covers the UK and Canada in a 2km thick ice layer.
Paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20210825195101/https://www.busin...
Why? Why do I suddenly need to know everyone's take about everything? Why is it important that we know what our favourite actor thinks about Trump?

Everything is publicity. It's not achieving some important social need, its driving people towards new products. Interviewing Alex Jones isn't doing anything except making more people know what an Alex Jones is.
You could put in a local redirect
en.wikpedia.org will serve the appropriate version automatically which seems the right thing to do, old.reddit.com will explicitly override someone's Reddit preference so that seems backwards.

IMO the link that results in the users preference being followed should always be preferred, not the link that forces the preference of the poster.
Yep. They were suckers for putting their podcasts on "RSS Feeds". All media is becoming the Netflix model. Spotify saw that as the new goldrush and was first to act. Now they all are.

It's not great for the customer... Yet. Maybe podcasting will continue to explode and we'll see a jump in quality, like we did with podcasts like Serial.
the best efficacy numbers come from a combination of viral exposure and vaccination, the greatest risk comes from infection with the virus.

there is a feature of the spike protien that is partially stealthy; it is conformational change.

the vaccine generates modified spike protien that is locked into conformation so that immune response is biased toward a spike protien with RBD extended to infect a cell.

natural infection will generate such response however to a lower degree, further however opsinizing responses are generated, thus provoking memory immunity.

the vaccine is biased toward producing antibodies that bind to the receptor binding domain of the spike, thus producing binding inhibition of RBD ACE2 recognition thus prophylaxis.

there is a hypothetical sweet spot where vaccine induced antibody titre is at peak and will inhibit viral entry and spike RBD dynamics, meaning reduced chance of unmanaged infection and reduced severity of illness due to perturbation of the RAS system via ACE2 interference
Whatevs. Joe Rogan, as far as I could tell is some sort of loud macho redneck type that does not have anything interesting to say.

On another note, Spotify is so buggy an application I am surprised how/why anybody is using it. The most common thing is that it crashes on my iPhone. I was considering buying it, but not after discovering how bad/buggy it was.
Athena is a bad tool that if you have too much data or your queries take too long will just error out and give you empty results, and charge you for the privilege. It's cheaper and less pain to host your own Presto if you need it.

How much is too much data? It depends. On things you won't be told. Varies day to day. Totally random.
I mean, it doesn't really exist, because the 2022 deadline got pushed when it became clear there wasn't another alternative ready. This one could just as easily slip.