skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't you sharing air with others in any common indoors space?

I thought that was the whole aerosols debate that's basically settled by now, i.e. virus can stay suspending in the air for extended periods. With the Delta variant's characteristics this is also a much bigger problem (i.e. the same indoor space that might have been ok is no longer ok).

There were early studies with the less infectious variants that showed how people situated far from each other in indoors spaces infect each other.

So the mandate for masking in any common indoor space seems to make a lot of sense.
It's been nearly two years and COVID is likely not going away.
> For me, it's whatever I need to do to get through code review without arguing too much.

This seems like a horrible attitude, if everyone did this codebase will go downhill really fast. Sometimes you have to use better/new practices and successfully advocate for them in code review.

> Don't add linter checks for these things, it's condescending.

Automated standardized checks are "condescending"?

> but that I'm in the habit of doing whatever my linter tells me

Sounds like you need to improve your lint checks. You _should_ usually be accepting the vast majority of lint auto fixes.
> Why aren't masks effective to reduce the spread for that age group?

This is a good question and I think it is an important one since the title implies a different situation than what was actually tested.

So the 11% reduction was due to an effort to increase mask wearing compliance by means of...

> Providing free masks, informing people about the importance of covering both the mouth and nose, reminding people in-person when they were unmasked in public, and role-modeling by community leaders

It's probably not that masks are less effective on people under 50, but that the information campaign was less effective at influencing that group to wear their masks.

Also, the results are interesting:

> The observers found that just over 13% of people in the villages that received no interventions wore a mask properly, compared with more than 42% of people in the villages where each household received free masks and in-person reminders to wear them.

It seems that there is much more progress that can be made in getting people to wear masks. And we still don't know how effective 95%+ compliance will be at reducing the spread.

Finally, the report does note that villages provided with cloth masks had worse outcomes than those who were provided with surgical masks.
I actually have quite a few friends and family there. They all support him, some begrudgingly (as in "we know he's a crook and a thief, but comparatively speaking, he's doing a pretty good job"), some enthusiastically. So between first hand knowledge and Western propaganda, I think it's prudent to choose first hand knowledge, at least for me, who has it.
Whether or not it will succeed as a gaming platform, I think the Deck looks interesting as a piece of hardware. I was ready to reserve one during the previous round of hype, but held off for now when I saw "Expected order availability: After Q2 2022" (previously the 512GB one was Q3 2022, referring to https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck ) after they'd claimed it'd be ready by the holidays this year. Bit of a red flag for me.

(I also snagged a Steam Link when they were on sale for like $3 before they stopped selling them. I think likewise that was neat to think of as a little Linux computer.)
>> Which are generated from files.

> No they are not.

An indexed data store is still some file or files on a filesystem. Databases are not exempt from creating files unless they are working with raw disk.

> This is simply untrue. Hacker News for example is made of web pages which are not generated from a file or bunch of files.

Where is the information stored for Hacker News? I suspect it's in a database that stores its data in files. Every HN page is generated from data, which is stored in files.

In general, pages are generated from data which is stored in files.

>> And there is still static websites.

> So what? Nobody said that no websites are based on files. Only that most web pages are not.

"Most" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Is it "most" as in, most visited? Or most pages by volume?
> normal evolutionary constraint for a virus to become less-harmful (to maximize transmission)

I don't know why we're taking it for granted that maximizing transmission is the same as being less harmful. The delta variant seems both more harmful AND more transmissible (and developed in an area that didn't have vaccines yet last fall).

There seems to be a good case to be made that, say, ebola is too harmful to be super transmissible. I don't think we can say the same for Covid yet. The majority of cases have never been fatal, on the contrary, being transmissible is what's made it a public threat and mass scale killer already. "Transmitting it without symptoms" has been a thing since day 1.
Perhaps not an answer that fits your criteria, but I have been using FreeNAS for several years now. My configuration was simple - SMB with a few jails running Gitea and Syncthing (and other misc self-hosted things off and on). Haven't had to touch the config in years -- only tinkering was for the sake of tinkering, not maintaining.
So I got started when I only wanted to tinker and experiment. Bought an old Core2Duo motherboard and put 8GB DDR2 RAM on it. 2 3TB hard drives plus an old laptop hard drive for the FreeNAS install. ZFS mirror. Few years later the motherboard stopped working (not sure the problem, all capacitors seemed fine by my multimeter). Data recovery was relatively easy. I have a SATA->USB converter meant for smaller laptop hard drives. I connected one of the desktop hard drives to it by a SATA cable with the plastic on one end cut away to expose the pins (to turn it from female to male) and fit it in the USB converter and the unmolested end to the HD. Powered the HD from my power supply with a normal SATA power cable. Hooked it up to my laptop (with ZFS on it, of course) and bam! Was able to recover files.
I didn't touch the setup for a while, but finally I bought an older Supermicro motherboard for its inexpense and ECC compatibility, got 2 CPUs to place, some ECC, and connected the original hard drives to it. Nearly plug-and-play. FreeNAS was able to resume from where I left off when the previous motherboard died. Updated to latest (as it had been a couple years!) and didn't have to fiddle with the config. Maybe not power efficient like you were asking, but I'm happy with it. That's my NAS "war story" -- a mild one, anyway.
> But more importantly, read this book if you want to understand how profit in medicine corrupts medical professionals to the point that they can become perfectly willing to kill their patients, for the right price

This last sentence seems disjoint from the bulk of the article, which singles out the family's guilt, how they dodged and lied to the FDA etc. Who are those murderous medical professionals, or does this refer to the MDs of the family?
While they’re similar, crème fraîche and sour cream are different foods. Sour cream usually has additional ingredients and is noticeably more viscous, and has a much more sour flavor. You wouldn’t really want to put it on fruit or breakfast pastries like crème fraîche.
> but my personal hate goes for this when used in list comprehensions.

I feel you. I still use them though because they are still more readable then alternatives.
Match CEO and Bumble create relief funds for employees affected by abortion law
> But Moderna and Pfizer are not among them.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

I suppose if the company involved in the largest health care fraud in US history doesn’t disappoint you, little would.

Or, maybe you’re just limiting it to the last year. Seems strange either way...
I'm still bullish on Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit.
As a simple example, the “trust this computer?” prompt standard on most phones. If devices like this were only known by states governments, this feature likely would have taken longer to become standard
Yeah, I'm not seeing much evidence of the allegations in this article. CloudFlare would be very, very stupid to have set up a cache stampede of the sort OP describes, and they don't use cURL as the user agent (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172556-W...).

I kinda wonder if someone's using https://workers.cloudflare.com/ to crawl their site daily. Or they just need to configure `ngx_http_realip_module` to get the originating user's IP address, if they're not currently processing the X-Forwarded-For header.
Hmm.. this seems to be about a few thousand requests per day that CF is doing.

How much can those cost him? Not more than a few pennies per month, right?

He could just stop using CloudFlare if he does not like it.

Calling it an "attack" is a bit much.
You left out the part where the requests are coming from Cloudflare IPs.
"Malone clarified that he was not discouraging the use of the vaccine but was providing people with as much fair information as he could about their risks."

Doesn't exactly jive with: "As a young healthy person, I still think natural immunity is the best way to reach some semblance of herd immunity for groups not at high risk. This feels like prescribing incomplete courses of antibiotics."
How's that an attack, really?
What I still don't understand about this whole situation is why McDonalds corporate would allow this to happen in the first place.

Is the profiteering on the contracts with the vendor actually higher than the lost sales from having these machines unavailable so often?

Is it worth marring your reputation with unreliable service? One of the appeals of fast food is consistency, that's what the franchise is supposed to provide.

Is it worth ceding this product to your competitors, who don't have as many issues providing it?

I must be missing something here.
Not GP but I took a leap of faith and ordered a Librem 5.
It’s supposed to ship early 2022 but I’m not holding my breath.
Does this person not know the difference between copyright and trademark?
The following is NOT a criticism of C. Just pointing out different problem domains.

> Modern high-level languages generally try to arrange that you don't need to think

> or even know – about how the memory in a computer is actually organised

Modern high-level languages try to arrange that you don't need to focus on the irrelevant. If you're working on, say, an accounting system, memory layout is not part of the problem you are trying to solve.

For certain applications, C is simply too low level.

A language is too low level when it forces you to focus on the irrelevant.

For low level operations you probably cannot beat C.
> The best guidance we have about these things are from the CDC.

Why not the WHO?

The CDC lied to us that masks were useless when in fact they believed that masks were helpful but they wanted to keep the supply for medical professionals.

> While they don't always get it right,

That wasn’t a matter of not getting it right. It was a deliberate lie that was harmful to the health of those who followed it.

> they usually have a good explanation for their error when they don't.

It wasn’t an error, and the explanation was that they lied in order to manipulate public behavior.

> It's a gigantic gulf to go from "they're wrong some of the time" to "I'm not going to get vaccinated, but if I do get sick, I'm going to go inject myself with horse paste because I trust whackjob talking heads on the internet more than licensed medical experts in the field."

It might be for you and me who have background knowledge about vaccines and viruses, but in the absence of that, why would trust the CDC who you know for certain have been lying? Medical licenses didn’t prevent that.

Also, it’s not horse paste. That’s a lie in itself. It happens to be used in horses, but it is also approved for use in humans as are many medicines also used in animals, for example Ketamine. Do you think ketamine is ‘horse paste’.

Calling it horse paste shows contempt for those who think it’s a useful medicine. Why would anyone trust someone who is contemptuous of them?

Remember there are hundreds of licenses medical professionals who recommend ivermectin for covid. Some of them are the very people you are calling “whackjob talking heads”. Deepak Chopra has a medial license and has written 91 books! It doesn’t seem like a medical license is sufficient to tell who is a “whackjob”.

I don’t think ivermectin is effective, but that’s based on my own calculus of how to integrate the various different opinions, none of which are all that trustworthy.
What's your point? Consumers still own their files.

Claiming that consumer-oriented software should "own" the files created by the software is the same as claiming that consumers are too stupid for their own good. Personally, I would not want to use software made by a company that believes that.
I think it's also important to note that there was no change in physical distancing seen in indoor environments (mosques) - maybe due to the fact that it's obviously easier to spread out when outdoors. I think we are fairly confident by now that the vast majority of spread occurs indoors [1].

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/223/4/550/6009483
> Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

This instantly conjured memories of my teenage self, distributing my own music on Napster and various similar “piracy” apps. I’d add references in the file names to artists who inspired me, to try to show up in searches (I always made this clear, never tried to deceive). It actually generated some interest! For several years I’d get the occasional contact from someone who found my music that way and wanted to reach out to tell me they liked it.

I haven’t recorded much for years, and there are some services that allow for discoverability like that without such a “hack”. But if I were serious about trying to get an audience today I almost certainly would make use of current “piracy” tools as part of that strategy again.
You also pretty commonly hear the opposite, too, though -- that there are too many sobriety/no on premise consumption rules that people are unwilling or unable to comply with so won't even consider shelters assuming that to be the case.

I think you're right that tracking those better and better communication of what's available are both needed.
One of the example requests is to a 27MB .webm file; videos could get pretty expensive with AWS bandwidth charges.
Apple is a third party.

Right now Apple says they only scan iCloud uploads. We can't verify that, but let's assume they aren't lying.

Why not scan your whole library? They can, they could make the argument it's to fight CSAM. I mean if you aren't uploading to iCloud because you're a pedophile, obviously we should scan your whole phone just in case. Think of the children!
This reminds me of the French Fries renamed Freedom Fries in the USA because of France opposition to the invasion of Iraq after 9/11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

The funny thing is that this name certainly has nothing to do with France :

"The origin of the name French fries has nothing to do with France, the name comes from the Irish. In the old Irish language, the word french means chopped. At the beginning of the 20th century, Irish people immigrated to the United States, Canada, and other regions. These immigrants popularized the term french fries to other countries. Therefore, French fries originally meant frenched fries, cut into strips. Frenched strips are larger than julienned filaments, so this is why it is called French fries."

(from https://www.potatochipprocessing.com/why-are-french-fries-ca... )

See also "The French cut" a.k.a. "Julienning" :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julienning
The way he takes everything so seriously, but doesn't become a joke himself. I love that dude's style.

I hope he gets funding to do a major show on Discovery Channel or something some day. He could be the David Attenborough of interesting but trival things.
> Tired of this excuse.

When it stops being true, it will stop being trotted out as the explanation for why Google keeps making their browser better for their ad revenue business.

> If the audience is the product, Google still has an interest in selling a quality product. That means not running off more and more of the most tech savvy "product" segment.

Why do you think the most tech savvy segment is the target audience? Do you have any idea how many advertising dollars there are in the 12-17 and 18-24 brackets?
He says it's hundreds of gigabytes of traffic. I don't know the prices but sounds more than a few pennies
It's hard to tell from the article, but aren't detailed cookies still available through dev tools?
> The WSJ reported that McDonald’s ice cream products account for 60% of the franchise’s revenue.

Is anyone else really surprised by this number? 60%??
> ZyCoV-D, which is administered into the skin without an injection

This is wrong. It is administered with an injection, just not a needle.
In Ottawa the federal government is required to post jobs publicly like that and people were still gaming it by opening the posting for just a short period of time and telling the preferred candidates when to apply. Now there's a minimum number of days they have to be up.
No. If you're a CF customer, all traffic comes from Cloudflare IPs, that's how it works, they're providing a reverse proxy for you.
Sorry I wasn't clear: I have read about Marek but what I didn't find is can it happen with COVID vaccines or not.
Cloudflare is a reverse proxy so all requests would be coming from cloudflare. Did the author look at the x-forwarded-for IPs?
If you are implying that providers are putting patients who don't need it on vents to drive profits you are tragically uninformed.

Hospitalists could give a shit about hospital finances.
it is the punchline at the end of the article. i found it confusing though, and to be honest, lurid---the article deals with the Sackler family, their greed, lies and ambition.
Yes, lots of psychologists believe that that the need to 'rationalize' catastrophes is the reason for many conspiracy theories: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/096372141771826...
> Is it worth marring your reputation with unreliable service?

McDonald's seems to be doing just fine. Even so, you know as well as I do that short term profits trump long term health of the company.
This article had some stats of recent outcomes from offering shelter (and towards the better end of what's available) to displaced encampments: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/57-people...

Far from the worst uptake and outcomes, but also far from great.
This investigation deals with an add on device some restaurants were using to monitor the machines which the manufacturer claims can harm it and seeks to stop its use. I used to work fast food many years ago and we never really had issues with ours. We did however clean and disinfect them nightly.
They produce a chemical signal in the blood and when it reaches a threshold they all start producing toxin at once, before they can be identified by the immune system as a pathogen. It’s why the bacteria is so deadly. By the time you’re fully symptomatic it’s often too late for IV antibiotics to kill them in time.

They’re studying whether they can trick the bacteria to switch on sooner or block the receptors to keep them from quorum sensing.
> As a young healthy person

I personally worked with a "a young healthy person" with your attitude. He's dead now. This is not your average cold we're dealing with.

Most vaccine boosters are spaced out 6+ months, but the emergency nature of the pandemic forced the trials to only space them out 3-4 weeks. All of the data is showing that a 6-8 month booster will offer a more robust protection. Further more, a delta or any specific tailored booster is trivial with mRNA tech.
I fully admit to being a bit pedantic here, but you are not logged into iCloud on a device by default. Once logged in, then yes, iCloud photos is enabled, but that seems like a fair assumption if you are using iCloud services.

> And realistically speaking how many “normal” people will even be aware of how to turn this off and be willing to go to the effort? Will they have a choice? Sure, technically. Practically though the majority of people stick to the defaults.

I fully agree with your point here, but also, how many "normal" people deal in CSAM? The vast majority of people just won't be affected by this in any noticeable way.
Often, it's not the simple. Some times it takes months of trust building. Sometimes the person is part of a community, a community they may have been part of for months or years. Yes their life isn't easy, but putting them in housing might remove them from that support network. Often times people are terrified to move away from the only group of people they've known.

this is deeply on display in the "According to Need" podcast series released by 99% invisible recently. https://99percentinvisible.org/need/

Ideally everyone would see the benefits and realize this is better, but these people have a lifetime of other issues and being houseless is only part of it.
Just fyi, you can delete individual cookies in the developer tools.
If you have to be an insider to pontificate, then we can discontinue HN comments since meetings inside Apple already exist.
> They are similar skill sets but the domains are different.

Exactly. They're specializations, like heart surgeon vs. orthopedic surgeon.

> I have been at this for 25+ years and I remember the days of silos.

32 years for me. Silos evolved out of the wild west of the 90's and early 2000's. Which evolved out of the strict controls of early computers run by a cult of Operators where the devs couldn't even access the machine directly. It's a cycle, where management tries to remove people, only to have to put them back later. I've seen it over and over.

> I remember developers passing off code to QA and it coming back days later with bugs.

It is literally QA's job to find bugs that developers missed.

> In SaaS, that is production and should be the developers

SaaS or not doesn't have anything to do with it.

> As Ops, my goal is to make that as easy for possible for developers.

As a developer, my goal is to deliver high quality code that meets the requirements for performance, stability, monitoring, security, and functionality.

> They took developers and made them own everything from code to deployment to VMs. The developers had so many pieces to understand that the only guarantee was failure.

I've never seen DevOps done any other way. Hence my original comment.
I regularly use site-specific controls, mostly for Javascript. Let's hope Edge retains it.
I don't disagree, that is why I added a qualifier immediately before my statement about Delta.
Yes! Same here. Not just coworkers but people in general, e.g: other departments of the company to be unblocked or more efficient. And not only that but the industry at large :-)

Anyho. I guess we're all co-workers.
The “Readonly” Lie of TypeScript
It is probably very brittle. Diamond is a brittle material and this is basically a 'disordered' diamond. It is quite unlikely that any mechanisms of ductile deformation would be active in this material.
OpenBSD already officially mirrors the CVS repository to GitHub, and contributing patches via mailing list is substantially the same whether they’re created with CVS or with Git. In other words, Git users already use Git to work on OpenBSD.
> sees traffic spikes with a curl useragent

And from Cloudflare IPs.
But isn't their privacy marketing: we will protect you from abusive surveillance capitalists, not we will protect you from state level actors?
What needs to be enabled is what is typically called "origin shield" - this will make your CDN's edge servers use their own internal cache instead of refreshing everything from the source.

Author may also want to review cache headers returned for their content as it should be possible to cache at CDN effectively indefinitely.