skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Endless studies and real-world data showing no efficacy and half the world doesn't care. A new one every week, nobody cares, they're stuck in their religion.

Last week: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8395971/

Conclusions: There was no reduction in per-population daily mortality, hospital bed, ICU bed, or ventilator occupancy of COVID-19-positive patients attributable to the implementation of a mask-wearing mandate.

Also last week: large Bangladesh study showing cloth does nothing, surgical 11% reduction but only among people over 50 and it still was neither statistically significant nor could be attributable to masks vs other factors.

Half the country doesn't care, they're forever stuck in their COVID jingoism, proud to tell people how righteous they are. So, enjoy those Freedom Fries, I mean masks!! I mean look at your response, like, "Oh no don't you dare say that 'there is no god' around here!!" It's just a faith-based issue at this point.
Do you mean like this other guy did?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab
Yes, the site owner's response seems excessively didactic when a system of mirrors would solve the problem.
They hired the developer behind Alien Blue and totally, totally destroyed it in a few months, so I would hope they leave Apollo well alone.
“Conspiracy theory” has such intense negative connotation that “conspiracy” alone is corrupted
And what about the stupid ban on liquids? This is even more nonsensical… Sure the airports shops are happy though. IIRC is related to a Heathrow 2006 attack…
"If someone did want to do something at such a sporting event, nothing is stopping them from doing it at the gates" - this has already happened in Russia (Volgograd, 2013). A suicide bomber blowed himself up in front of a security gate at the main train station. Between 37 and 50 injured, 16 dead as the result.
I guess it depends on the dish washer, mine has individual slots for each utensil so this won't happen. They all get a margin of space between one another.
Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting Windows Zero-Day Flaw
I've been dying for a browser mode that works more like Sublime's Distraction Free Mode (Shift+F11). The main thing I want is the browser to remain full screen, but render webpages as if the browser is about half-width. Blank columns on either side.

So many webpages with text are better if you view them at about half-width, and I often end up being forced to leave full screen and manually set the browser width to do this anyway. If anyone knows of an addon or script that accomplishes this, I'm curious to know about it.
As much as I wish it was, that last sentence is sadly not hyperbole.
Then they can cite an excess deaths stat then.
Fun aside: In practice I've found that most people touting what's easy to hire for -vastly- overestimate how difficult it is to pick up a new language sufficiently well to be productive in it and able to support it in production. This is doubly amusing when you consider that the same people also frequently tout how they want to "hire the best".
That might be true, but there is a difference in causing the deaths of passengers somewhere behind the closed doors by crashing the plane — and dealing with flesh and bone co-pilot right here and now.
>my friends use a constantly running tap while washing the dishes.

I realize this will sound whiny and justifying water wasting, but I am including tech solutions...

1. My hands are busy and filthy while I am washing dishes. I don't want to touch the handle. = Give me a foot controlled valve.

2. My kitchen faucet literally takes 2 minutes to get hot water. = Give me instant hot water (to a precise temp that won't burn me).

3. More water pressure makes it faster to clean food off and speed is of the essence when you are doing this chore. = Pressurize the water.

On a side note, I have determined that being the one in a relationship that takes full responsibility for the ever ominous dishes chore allows me to do less overall chores without complaint from my partner.
Yep, same idea as the vertical arrangement in many less expensive models!
Archive.is is an incredible service, but the fact he's paying out $3k-4k/mo out of pocket in expenses & time doesn't strike me as sustainable for the long term.

I'm reminded of some non-profit organization that was forced to shut down their websites because they ran out of money. In retrospect they could've setup a trust fund early on, stuck all their money in there, and then had a perpetual annual income from that for operating costs, instead of spending down. All fundraising could've gone into the trust fund in order to boost the annual budget, etc.
I promise you can make Linux wake from a low power state much faster than you can wake up the radios and negotiate a stable network connection with "the cloud!?". Not to mention battery life... Even if my host was connected over ethernet I wonder how realtime benchmarks would compare with whatever network hardware you have in mind.

I love the idea of having cell and wifi modems, but these seem like high priority secondary concerns to me personally.

I understand that I may not have the same vision as you exactly, but I really am pretty much your target consumer. I totally get the elegance of reimplementing the "dumb terminal", but I really challenge you to justify it.

On that note, do you plan to support PDFs?
As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers
When I was flying back from Tampa, a TSA agent told me I had to take out my phone and put it through the scanner. I kept telling him I didn't have a phone on me, but he didn't believe me and asked me the same question about three more times. I was surprised he didn't search me haha. Not a big deal or anything, just thought it was funny
But why have to pay a fee? Seems like the people that want "security theater" should have to pay - not the people that want less.
How apropos it is that hackernews has flagged this, I really hope that mods remove the flag here, this warrants debate and discussion.
I always thought there was only one interpretation? Let's look at this generic Venn diagram: https://slideuplift.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/2021/03/2-Way...

Some things are generally accepted:

"left" -> sets A, C

"right" -> sets B, C

"left and right" -> set C

now "or" is ambiguous... depending on the person, "left or right" may mean sets A, B, C or just sets A, C.

So to clarify, one can say: "left and/or right" -- this would be sets A, B, C

Or alternatively, "either left or right" -- this would be sets A, C
Well sure. Plenty of people are willing to invoke the force of the state over pants mandates and shirt mandates too. Masks aren’t really any different.
Amazing. I'm reminded of a similar scam where a conman claimed to have developed a device that could decode terrorist messages sent via Al-Jazeera TV and sold the CIA on it.
They didn’t cite excess deaths however. Hence my question

Again, you say “covid deaths”. That is not precise.
Take notes. I have a similar challenge. I'm probably never going to read them again (occasionally its very useful) but the process of staying active keeps me engaged.

If I'm only listening, I'll hit a slow section and my mind will drift to something else and I'll zone out on the conversation sometimes missing the important part.

Also sometimes I pre-state to people "I'll be taking notes on my laptop, I am listening and not doing email haha" kind of thing so people dont feel your being rude and ignoring them.
They have achieved little. Put Islam in a bad light, marginalize Muslims in the West and Muslim countries are still dirt poor.
Happily there's a change record that demonstrates that wasn't, unsurprisingly, the case.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend - or as Churchill put it:

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
I imagine the device may have been as effective as other parts of security theatre. Operators simply had to observe how nervous their suspects were. The high price added a needed prentense to the technobabble. Wondering if some buyers understood this?
I started programming WAP sites with site builders on cheap j2me mobile phone because I did not have computer. I picked up WML, then some HTML, then little bit of JS ans then I started using PHP scripts. I started going to library so I could programm stuff on their computers faster. I am still a PHP developer even after professionally developing in Python, Java and other languages and it is still my favorite programming language
> Because that aspect doesn't sound relevant at all - the court case the Howey test comes from was about securities fitting your description

The property sold in Howey was marketable and the service contract was held out to any owner, so while I agree that neither securitization nor marketability are requirements, marketability was present in the Howey arrangement.
Are you assuming we'd only use SRM and not continue the MASSIVE efforts already underway to lower yearly GHG emissions? And once we go zero, we're already seeing dozens of plans and ideas to handle what we've already emitted. Really, our current playbook is in its infancy and climate change is WAY out in front of us already due to our political and economic foot-dragging. I don't think we should nay-say anything nascent until we've found the most scale-able, economically viable solutions.
Of course, since that means the page requires javascript, and is thus providing an inferior user experience. Who wouldn't complain about that?
If by "samepage merging" you mean KSM[0], it's hugely expensive in CPU cycles (not to mention severe impacts on membw, l3 cache, etc) and outside of low-end VPS hosting has relatively few real-world applications. I'm not sure why it would be a useful thing to mention here.

0: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/ksm.ht...
Coinbase is worth $50 billion. I like Brian Armstrong more than I like the typical finance CEO, but his company is definitely an entrenched rich interest, and if we treat them as a scrappy underdog we're going to let them get away with things they probably shouldn't. You should be skeptical on principle when a billionaire tells you that a financial regulator is being unfair to them.
Three? You mean two? Branson and Bezos.
Depending on the format of the archives (hopefully WARC), the owner could hand the entire archive over to the Internet Archive or Archive Team for ingestion by Wayback Machine.

If the concern is perpetual access to archived content but under your terms, that is where the cost comes in. Somebody somewhere is paying for power, cooling, connectivity, and disks. The Internet Archive estimates it costs them $2/GB to host data uploaded in perpetuity. Please consider donating if you're uploading content for permanent archival and/or deriving value from hosted content.
It is not specific and left to the listener or reader to infer the correct or implied meaning.

I have usually seen it written with a slash: "and / or" which means one of either "and" or "or" and the reader or listener should interpret which one is correct.

In a Venn diagram sense, it would mean either an intersection or union.

>> It seems to me that it's something easy to say, and easy to feel "yes I understand that" but when you think more about it, perhaps that clarity present in the initial impression dissipates, and you're left wondering..."What exactly did I just say?"

It is not precise language. It is a shortcut phrase, similar to "you know what I mean?" Does the listener REALLY know what is meant or do they just think that they do?
> How did you first get into programming?

In high school, my friend and I realized you could program TI-84 graphing calculators. We made really simple games (guess a number from 1-100, hangman, etc.). I didn't even realize I was programming at the time.

I was also influenced by my dad (he was a software engineer, so I wanted to try it too). First formal education was an AP computer science course in 12th grade.

I was into math/puzzles/logical stuff at that time, so a lot of the initial concepts that you have to learn were both easier for me to pick up and more interesting (compared against someone who knows what they want to build, but views the intermediate knowledge/skills as something they have to slog through).

> What is your experience with university?

MIT, CS degree. Both the degree and the brand name helped with finding work.

In practice, it's hard for me to identify explicit things I learned during school that have also been applicable and useful at work. I suspect that the most useful learnings weren't part of any syllabus (e.g. fluency with a language).

> How did you get your first paid work?

Internship, through which I received a full-time offer.

> What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

Currently funemployed, but previously an engineering manager.

The fun part is when the team's work comes together and produces a result.

The not fun part is when my line of thinking doesn't line up with someone else's. It is sometimes (often?) frustrating for me to debug why our approaches differ, then figure out how to make progress from there.
It's increasingly not even that convenient. The last half-dozen times I've traveled, "PreCheck" turned into me going through the regular security line, carrying a card which they ignored.
No to be flippant. But why is this here?

I can only assume this is some probe to see what can be successfully placed on the front page.
I went searching, because it does sound like quite the quotable claim. Almost everyone who talks about the efficiency of handwashing seems ultimately to be referencing the same paper[1], although virtually nobody cites it.

The peak of the distribution of water usage is in the 40-50 litre range, however a nontrivial number of people use an absolutely enormous amount of water. The paper gives some observations about different approaches to washing, although it doesn't describe them systematically.

[1] https://www.tempurl4.uni-bonn.de/forschung/haushaltstechnik/...
From the Wikipedia article:

McCormick told the BBC in 2010 that "the theory behind dowsing and the theory behind how we actually detect explosives is very similar"

Also:

He told The Times that ATSC had been dealing with doubters for ten years and that the device was merely being criticised because of its "primitive" appearance. He said: "We are working on a new model that has flashing lights."
Providing an example of just one or two companies for each categories but there are obviously much more.

* Carbon Capture technologies [1]

* Any of the companies working on any of the renewable source of energy: solar, wind, geothermal etc. [2]

* Energy providers (and other smaller companies) working on smart and/or micro grids: being able to forecast renewable production and intelligently balance it across the grid to avoid starting up backup coal/gas plants. [3]

* Plant-based meat substitute companies [4]

* Monitoring through satellite imagery [5]

* Low CO2 cement production (don't know this industry enough to link)

* Smart thermostat, insulation and other means to reduce energy consumption for heating [6]

* etc. etc.

A very good place to start to get exposure to many different solutions is Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/solutions

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[1] https://carbonengineering.com/

[2] https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels https://www.edf-renouvelables.com/en/

[3] https://openclimatefix.org/projects https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/fairs-events/fairs...

[4] https://www.beyondmeat.com/ https://impossiblefoods.com/

[5] https://ecometrica.com/

[6] https://www.ecobee.com
No, FINRA is an SRO, meaning they effectively police and audit the securities industry.
FINRA takes guidance from the SEC and enforces the rules by way of fines, separate from any action of the SEC.
> In your opinion, how important are the lives of people aged 65 and older?

I think you intended that as a rhetorical question but I want to point out that in the UK the NHS has calculated the "worth" of a single quality-adjusted life year. If a treatment gives less quality-adjusted extra life years than it costs, it isn't administered. In 2014 it was £20-60k [1]. This shows the NHS definitely does consider older peoples' lives worth less than younger peoples', on average.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-28983924
The Hegelian dialectic inherent in both.

A dialectic method of historical and philosophical progress that postulates (1) a beginning proposition called a thesis, (2) a negation of that thesis called the antithesis, and (3) a synthesis whereby the two conflicting ideas are reconciled to form a new proposition.
Reddit banned the main catch-all leftist subs, and all of the accounts that posted there are now not allowed to congregate in a subreddit or it will be banned, and they can't create subreddits, regardless of what they actually posted
Contrary to popular belief, XMPP continues to innovate. This is an advantage of the modular protocol design which allows evolution of the protocol by adding new extensions and phasing out old ones. Every year the XMPP Standards Foundation publishes a short list of what is expected of basic/advanced XMPP clients: https://xmpp.org/about/compliance-suites.html

I gave a talk and wrote a blog post about my perspective on "the ecosystem is moving": https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/

As have others:

- An Objection to "The Ecosystem is Moving": https://gultsch.de/objection.html

- "Have you considered the alternative?" https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternat...

- "Re: The Ecosystem is Moving" https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/12/29/re-the-ecosystem-is-mo...

There are many technologists who believe that Moxie's stance towards decentralization is wrong, or at least - not entirely right.
After the number of deaths and economic impact that resulted from the pandemic, I would be perfectly fine if we completely eliminated any type of security check associated with air travel. I would rather air travel be much like traveling by train, bus, or taxi instead of what it is now.
You said that quarantine was only for sick people. That's simply wrong.

It's not the plague, but it has killed around 10 million people worldwide, and 700 thousand people in the US alone.

Countries that have a zero-CoVID policy, such as New Zealand, China and Australia (or at least some states in Australia), must use quarantine to prevent reimportation of the virus. For such a policy to work, it is critical that even people who do not appear to be sick be quarantined.

You may argue that China, New Zealand et al. should not have pursued a zero-CoVID policy (and in that case, you should be prepared to argue that the 4 million deaths that would likely have resulted in China would have been acceptable), but given that they've pursued this policy, they need to quarantine international travelers, even if they appear to be healthy.
Display all your Tweet's replies in an organised legible list
> To everyone claiming "ohhh that's illegal/unethical" I say to you: take it in your favor for once.

The rationale against doing this is as much practical as it is moral --- unless you're just doing this once for a single month and don't care if your account gets banned. AWS isn't like an auto-renewing subscription, where if the card declines, your service is cut off. They won't charge the card with a $5 limit until the end of the billing period. If you rack up more than $5 in charges in a billing period, you will be in debt to Amazon. They will certainly ban your account, so you'd have to make a new throwaway account with a new disposable CC each month.
I’m not sure that’s true. Mainframes can scale up as well, in my limited experience you get the thing fully loaded but don’t necessarily pay for all of it. If you need to scale up you just unlock another set of CPUs and pay the vendor a bit more.
I was a mediocre (bad) electrical engineer. Software just clicked. I personally believe EE is just harder. Maybe my brain is just better suited to programming and one is not harder than the other. I do know it took me 20 years to let go of the fact I’d never be a true EE. Ego is weird. Fortunately, even in EE, programming opportunities are aplenty and I was able to transition.
OS Hackathon: What is the open-innovation challenge?
The major change, at least in my country, is that healthcare is so focused on COVID that they are neglecting patients with other diseases. So the excess deaths are mostly effect of that.
I disagree with you, even in your hypothetical situation. I'd gladly wear a mask to protect 97-year-old obese smokers, if they were a vulnerable group. I feel like you invented this group to distance the vulnerable population from "us", but it just makes it sound like you have no empathy for other humans.
> "To understand Egbert’s mind, Dear gets so implausibly immersed in a D&D game run by a college kid that he loses his sense of self. A mysterious woman stalks Dear’s room while he’s out investigating the case, strange phone calls and notes hint at sinister conspiracies, and reporters camp out in the hotel lobby, ravenous for news."

This sounds like coming from the blurb of a Paul Auster novel.
He did so with a certain motive, Bill.

You can't just look at the end result of a socially proscribed action or crime, the motive is important. Examine this: why do we sanction research fraud? Because we want to discourage people from abusing the process to gain a personal advantage, like having an academic title that confers material wealth and social status without putting the corresponding work in. Having fake magisters in our midst dilutes the value of real magisters and undermines the concept of trust in our society as a whole.

Was that Boghossian's plan? No, he did not do that to advance the career. He did it to expose the anti-scientific ideology through the journals of the illiberal elements of culture, which in my view is a positive idea.

I understand the argument that disrupting an institution to make a point is a bad thing, c.f. <http://enwp.org/WP:POINT>. I assume he came to the conclusion that mere speech would not achieve the same result and risked a small harm to prevent a greater harm.
Well, yes, but also no

An empty query is not valid. There needs to be something besides the comment
It’s so hard to prove either way if TSA/etc are effective. We can count how many people they stop but there’s no way of knowing how many were just scared away.
None that I'm aware of. Thing to understand is that Notion and Confluence are vastly different products.

Notion is more for sharing a set of documents that are often used. And thus create some hierarchy of content without right management or structure. Works well if you are business owner or a team, or a small company. Or if you want to onboard noob users into documenting their work. And Notion is very good at that

Confluence works better to manage a lot of documents, give rights, structure content, organize. Confluence is not very good at it, but this is a difficult task and competitors don't do better

So depending on where you are at, you can pick the one which suits you best. They are others less popular tools than Confluence and Notion but still are in the two categories described above
There's a big difference between paying attention to costs and optimizing the transition, and listening to climate economists.

The best grid modelers out there for planning a carbon free electricity grid are not economists. They may be applying economics 101 as you call it, but they were not primarily trained in the field and they do not identify as economists.

Similarly, when it comes to how to change behavior. There may be some hints from behavioral economy in order to guide consumer behavior, but they will be minor effects compared to industrial policy, tax policy, and solid investment in new tech and deployment.

The National Review is a political magazine with a huge slant, and that slant is not towards a speedy and effective decarbonization of the economy. Quite the opposite. They are trying to convince their audience to listen to climate economists in order to slow the transition.