skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, there seems to be grounds to believe that people are extra susceptible to infection and illness during the period between the first shot and the two weeks following the second.

Can you link some data on that? That would certainly change things if you are at higher risk of illness than an unvaccinated person between getting the shot and immunity kicking in. The data I had seen like from the Pfizer trial[0] indicated that your immunity keeps pace with an unvaccinated person until about 2 weeks from the first shot, then surpasses that.

> Is it? Even if one has had Covid19?

For somebody who has had a confirmed positive case of COVID I don't think there's enough data to say confidently. As far as I know natural immunity is at least as good as vaccine immunity. The risk associated with getting vaccinated seems to be low enough that it's pretty harmless though. And anecdotally there are a lot of people who are "pretty sure that cold they had last year was COVID" but never got tested. I wouldn't want those people to conclude they shouldn't get vaccinated just because they think they might have natural immunity. Again, I don't assume malice just because a politician tries to keep their message simple.

[0]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
Do we say "death from car accidents" or "death with car accident"? Do we discount terminal cancer patients, diabetics and asthmatics from car accident stats because they had a preexisting condition? In the case of covid as with car accidents, it's a distinction without a difference. Yes people are more predisposed to die from covid because of them, but analyses of all-causes excess mortality do not support the hypothesis that there is a large difference between deaths with covid and deaths from covid.

EDIT: except when there isn't enough testing, which underreported deaths with covid towards the beginning of the pandemic.
The Other Sara Morrisons are ruining my inbox
Its encouraging to see this. Efficient carbon markets are going to be a key aspect of solving global warming. Ultimately there are human needs (and corresponding industries) that will likely need to emit - packaged goods, meat production are a few examples. However, if there was a carbon market where they could offset what they emitted by paying someone to scrub >= what they emitted, that would make the world more carbon neutral than not letting anyone emit at all. Carbon scrubbing plants like the one in the article are one half of the solution to this problem! Thanks for sharing :)
> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

That's the whole thing. I think the most literal interpretation is that people have a right to bear arms, and you cant infringe that, by telling them they can't bear any arms. Obviously reasonable people will differ here, but I don't think it's fair to say that it unambiguously grants the right to bear any kind of arms at all.
I'm working on just that. The GSP NTP server is handled by a different Pi, but makes little difference. I used Chrony and it's working like a charm[1].

I'm settling for a regular RTC[2] rather than an atomic clock for the fallback though.

Designing the PCB's is taking a bit of time though, me being rather new and Nixie tubes being 170V does slow things down a bit.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28372861

[2]: https://www.nxp.com/products/peripherals-and-logic/signal-ch...
Yea I got the name wrong and mistook it for BBC Worldwide
> HR typically wants their diversity numbers up badly so if you're gay

You're right, I always fail that interview question where they ask me what my sexual preference is and I say women... ...Seriously? you are just making stuff up now.
It's interesting to see how, in America, tech is seen as a gateway to prosperity and something worth investing in, while in Australia it's described as a pit for subsidies.

I guess the number one customer for Australian natural resource has incentives to make sure the country stays dependent on said natural resource exports for it's prosperity. Keeps them docile...
I'm hoping people who didn't grow up with 1990s country music at least look at the link and realize that the original comment is clearly a joking reference to the premise of that song.

(Also, for any musicians who dislike or are ambivalent toward country music, maybe even give it a listen. Those Nashville studio musicians are ridiculous.)
There is a Firefox version that works I guess.
Your vascular system goes all over your body...
I used Thunderbird for a while, then I switched to newsblur (paid, but cheap) so that it would fetch articles even when my computer wasn't on and so that I could access it on my phone.
> I'm imaging some poor software engineer in 2065, having to maintain an enterprise legacy stack... levels of FORTRAN/COBOL->C->C++->ZIG->RUST->PERL->PYTHON.... all the way up....JS..etc..

I have good news and bad news: That programmer will not know any of those languages, as they will just program in English and GPT-3000 will convert it into code.
Until this specific thread I've never seen or heard it referred to as "TSA Pre". It has always been precheck. I suppose now I'll start to notice people doing it.
I've had a series of bosches and cleaning the bottom filter is a very common operation - anything large that is left on a plate and doesn't dissolve (like a raisin) gets stuck below the filter (dunno how it gets through the filter but it does) and eventually that area clogs.
Wouldn't a forward proxy that speaks XP's level of crypto be easier?
For most people, calling AAA is probably the way they're gonna go, instead of changing their own tire.
Using Twin Neural Networks to Train Catalog Item Embeddings
>There is not a mechanism which allows you to stop working and freeze your social relevance in place as some sort of videogame checkpoint type manner.

This is called retirement
Seconded with respect to Joplin. It's the only solution I've found which lets me sync iPad notes & photos & videos to my linux boxes & android. Perfect for dumping screenshots and adding context to them and for copying pages down for later reading / annotation. Oh and it's all E2E encrypted through dropbox (I want to get it on a personal cloud soon too, but alas the chefs never cook themselves gourmet food). The only "missing feature" is the lack of an in-built ability to "share" but as a personal journal I think it's perfect.
Show HN: AI batch background remover and auto image enhancement
You can find Zig's explicit goal as stated by the creator on the homepage:

> Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Agreed - everyone is trying to frame this as a they are no longer betting on Hydrogen. They are betting on both horses - and moving away from O&G. Smart move since they work across different industries/use-cases and different countries (policy drivers).
LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
Certainly not.

People who were paying attention back then knew this. This kind of intrusion is a ratcheting function.

I feel like HN is a sort of older crowd, so a good chunk of those who can read this probably remember pre-9/11 travel, but for those that don't:

I have, nearly every day of my adult life, carried a Swiss Army Knife. It's insanely handy, and not at all something that would be parsed as a weapon. (Even in 2021, the models I favor are legal for personal everyday carry in the UK, which is at this point somewhat notorious for restrictive knife laws.)

Before 9/11, I carried it on the plane, in my pocket. I was also through security in mere moments -- sure, we still emptied our pockets, and took off big belt buckles (not me, but I live in Texas, so I saw it often) or chunky jewelry that might set off the metal detector, but security was a very very quick process.

Nobody cared how much liquid you had in your carry-on.

And we were almost exactly as safe then as we are now. Security expert Bruce Schneier has pointed out repeatedly that the only things that REALLY made a difference post-9/11 were (1) the reinforced cockpit door and (2) the now universal understanding that passengers must resist.

Everything else is bullshit theater. *And in point of fact TSA is very, very bad at their job, and has NEVER prevented an attack.*
I had this happen too. We put our fingerprints onto an "ID" card we got to keep. As far as I remember the fingerprints didn't actually go anywhere else.
Dishwasher detergent only (i.e., stuff specifically marketed as for going into dishwashing machines)

Absolutely don't put dish soap like Dawn into your dishwasher - it will foam up, shoot out of the dishwasher, and absolutely wreck your dishwasher and surrounding kitchen with foam.

If you're curious what this mishap would look like, check out this image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=put+dish+soap+in+dishwasher&t=ffab...
More likely trying to get money out of China. Getting a US loan against your Chinese assets is a good way to do that.
> The US has a very high pay ceiling for H1B but in most other Western countries it should be feasible to do Visa sponsorship for an Afghan or Syrian web developer and his family.

And then you'll see people from the countries with a lower bar whine on this very forum of low pay...
The difference between theory and practice in Bosch machines is very large. They don't really work that way, in my experience. Instead, the whole filter complex ends up with a huge gooey mess that clogs the whole filter.
Mustard gas for the masses!

Absolutely agreed though, it's a very internally inconsistent viewpoint from my perspective.
I got such a kick out of my 7 year old at my grandparents. We turned on some random movie that was half way through and she said: "Oh, let's watch this, start it from the beginning." When I told her that's not how cable TV works, she looked at me like I was telling her some kind of stupid dad joke.
I've never looked into Nomad. Your comment's gotten me interested now.
Most substrate technologies are not, on their own, "problems that need solving." What real-world problem does TCP solve? WebRTC? ICMP? Nothing, without application-layer protocols on top of them.

These low-level protocols are essentially frameworks for building solutions, solutions that take a standard shape specified by the low-level protocol, and thus allow for standardization in libraries and tooling.

Web3 is a substrate standard, a specification for how browsers should frame RPC and event-streaming requests to "p2p 'light client' HTTP gateways". It's not an application-layer protocol.

Ethereum's RPC protocol is an example of a Web3 protocol, just e.g. SMTP is an example of a TCP protocol.

Web3 is a nascent concept, in that it doesn't really have other things built on top of it yet. Its implementation is a de-facto outgrowth of what people did when building the Ethereum protocol. But the concept of "a Web3 protocol" isn't definitionally tied in any way to the Ethereum RPC protocol, any more than TCP is tied to whichever application-layer protocols it co-evolved with. (TELNET was a major one, I believe.)

Web3 can be a useful framework even if the only thing people have built on it so far (Ethereum) isn't useful. (I won't claim one way or the other whether Ethereum is useful; I'm just pointing out that believing one way or the other about Ethereum being useful is irrelevant to whether Web3 as a low-level protocol is a useful tool for building protocols.)

> And of course a browser plugin solves can get around those problems.

Browser plugins do not practically exist any more. The era where you could ship an experience requiring users to install a plugin like Flash, and actually get adoption, is gone. Now a majority of browser installations in the world are inviolate apps running on a phone or tablet or Chromebook (or desktop PC with an App Store and code signing), where the device doesn't allow the user to embed other native code to run in the context of the browser. Only weak extension APIs are supported, and these intentionally do not expose features like speaking arbitrary L4/5 wire protocols.

The problems browsers have, can now really only be solved either by browser manufacturers themselves (as in e.g. the browser U2F API), or by operating entirely "above" the browser by using HTTP to communicate with gateways that do what the browser cannot.
This is true. A short lunch workout and a 1h siesta nap resets the brain.

(I definitely wouldn't recommend doing this working for someone else than oneself, or expecting anyone else than oneself to do it. And then not talking about it, so the others in your company don't know, and feel no such pressure)
Near nonexistent. Battery size requirements and battery charging rates make EV RVS either really expensive and really impractical for distance travel. You would need to put a huge battery (say, 300 KwH, which would cost $60,000 just for the battery), to get a reasonable range of 200-300 miles between charges, depending upon the efficiency of your RV. And then, even at a level 3 DCFC Charging station (providing 50 KW) you're looking at 6 hrs of charging to fully charge the battery.
The subject is dear to heart for many, if not most people who frequent HN. Boghossian is a well-known author in this context who was instrumental in bringing these issues up for discussion outside of academia. He was the last of the authors of the grievance studies hoax articles who was still employed in academia so his resignation is sort of a milestone, in what direction remains to be seen. The discussions around these issues often do end up in polarised factional disputes but that is part and parcel of the problem and not something which can be avoided by not discussing it in the first place.

For me the desired outcome of these discussions is that those who have been supportive of the introduction of indentitarian policies in academia realise the deleterious effects these have on institutional and, lately, societal cohesion - more or less in the same way that Marxists in the 20's of the previous century started to realise that the Soviet Union did not develop into the workers and farmers paradise they were told it would. This can only happen if the subject can be discussed in those places where it matters, in other words in places frequented by people who have been part of or are still part of academia. HN is one of those places.
I've completely switched to subscription and live-based content (mainly YouTube, with some Twitch). About 2 years ago I was only watching a handful of TV shows from traditional channels (BBC) and mainly there via iPlayer.
I mean k8s is basically an infra rewrite in any shop that was/is currently VM based. "Hey you know that fundamental unit of isolation you've built all your tooling around. Throw it all away."

Don't get me wrong, I would absolutely go with k8s on any greenfield project but there's a huge huge opportunity for someone to take everyone's VM orchestration tools and quietly and semi-transparently add k8s support for gradual migrations.
Netflix (and Amazon) literally list UK produced shows they had no involvement with except for buying the global rights to it after the fact as "exclusive/original content". I assume they do the same for other nation's domestic output too.

BBC have done co-productions with other enterprises since before streaming and have continued to do them with Netflix.
mozilla.org is for a profit organisation, do not listen to anybody else. they have huge profits from their Firefox browser.
What decentralized web can there possibly be when the overwhelming majority of users is on ipv4 behind symmetric NAT?

An no, tunneling traffic through a handful of relays is not decentralization either. And neither is storing the full copy of a blockchain elsewhere but on an end user device.
deconflate 'work' with 'location'; there's no "there" there
Polygenic scores are measures of the contributions of many genes to hereditability, what else do you think they are?

There are two questions here:

1) What genes contribute to human intelligence? Evidently there are some, as the structure of the brain humans are uniquely endowed with at birth is mostly determined genetically.

2) Do common variations in these genes contribute to common variations in human intelligence?

For 2) the answer is categorically "a few percent at most", even according to the sources you provide yourself. It's pointless denying this fact. Repeating that ~80% of variation in intelligence is genetic is displaying a limited understanding of inheritance.

To answer 1) it may be possible to identify those genes that contribute to intelligence by performing large scale genetic studies to identify the rare cases where a small signal is detected from one or several of these (a polygenic test, for example, as you are fond of).

Once these genes have been identified, one could then in theory investigate how they function, etc, in order to better understand the genetic basis of human intelligence, but it is unlikely to help understand the basis of the difference in intelligence between individuals.
You're right, I was thinking of BBC Worldwide which is now part of BBC Studios. Still, it makes a lot more money than the group gets from the license fee, which was my point.
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thank you for sharing -- as i was reading through i tried to understand what about the workflow was specific to github actions vs other CI automation.

> GitHub Actions make our pipelines accessible to any developer on the team

Do you reckon this accessibility is a combination of (i) storing the pipeline definitions in the application's source repo, where application developers can find them easily, not hidden/scattered elsewhere in other repos or behind management UIs, and (ii) a relatively simple and documented pipeline syntax?

The first example I can think of a tool that supported this workflow was Travis CI ~ 2011 - 2012. Appveyor offered similar capabilities quite early as well. Same workflow can be done with Gitlab, Google cloud build.

> we can even deploy each pull request to the cloud rather inexpensively and leverage GitHub's environments to help manage the cleanup for us. This allows our team members to review and test changes in their browser before we pull them into our development branch

Yeah, this kind of workflow is great. Another way this kind of workflow can be done is to create simple command line tools that developers can use to create and destroy temporary test environments running their speculative changes. In some cases, for rapid experimentation, it can be great to be able to spin up N temporary environments in parallel with different changes without tying it to pull requests. But I can see that tying the temporary environment lifecycle to the lifecycle of a PR might make it easier to share demos of proposed changes with reviewers.

Out of curiosity, how reliable do you find the environment cleanup is? I remember building a similar create-temp-environment / destroy-temp-environment workflow for ephemeral databases running in AWS RDS driven by jenkins pipelines. It took a few months of tweaking to figure out how to ensure the RDS databases got torn down correctly and not "leaked" even if the jenkins master or workers failed midway through pipeline execution. From memory we had a bunch of exception handling in a jenkins groovy scripted pipeline that would run on the master jenkins to try to do cleanup, and even that wouldn't work all of the time, so we had a second cleanup job on a cron-schedule to detect and kill leaked resources.
What a privileged position to find oneself in
Then the grift is to be a party hack and have the party arrange for a nice dacha for you, good schools for the kids.

of course, you don't hardly make anything, the party provides, in its benevolence!

edit: my point is that grifters show up in any particular structure. not to sling arrows at the USSR or the USA.
Honestly the last show I think I watched on the BBC was McMafia or possibly Peaky blinders.

When I go on I player I'm just bombarded with content about minorities other nonsense. BBC are going the same way as the Labour party they're alienating themselves from the classical British working class in favor of middle class Londoners and minoroties.

Radio 4 is about the only reasonable thing the BBC produces and even that has gone down hill dramatically.
RSS is still the predominant format for syndicating podcasts. I think it's to come under attack by big players looking to build a walled garden (Spotify and Apple in particular) but it's hanging on.
The build system for zig is essentially the same as CMAKE just in Zig and entirely undocumented.
Distros are mostly the same, there are only minor differences between them. Those differences amount to large personal preferences among some people (don't walk into a systemd bar wearing a Void Linux ballcap or you'll get beat up), but yeah, they're mostly the same.

To really grok this, try different Linux distros for yourself.
Zig itself doesn't cross compile C/C++ code, LLVM does the work for Zig.

> If you have a Rust project that depends on C code, you will have to put in some work if you want to compile it for a different target.

Rust is built on LLVM, and so its toolchain can also cross-compile C/C++ code. There are crates for that[0], and projects inspired by that idea[1].

> Give it some time, it will.

Given enough time mountains become valleys. Zig doesn't compile to C now; and won't be mature and field-tested for a decade or more.

0: https://crates.io/crates/cc

1: https://www.build2.org/
> Future of cars could be irreparable, vendor-locked in(parts), e-waste after 3 years if governments don't strengthen and extend their existing repair laws (if any) for EVs.

Future is now already for some cars, Nissan Leaf is a good example of this policy - insanely priced or just unavailable batteries make perfectly good cars unusable junk - this is worse than some ICE cars which are still repairable after 15 or 20 years of usage. I'm 100% sure other brands will follow this trend.
+100000. any more or less serious case deployment must be decoupled from build. It brings some challenges, but deploy and build are two different cycles what you cant put on the same assembly area. It can be triggered, but it should not be same pipelin
maybe this guy is why they forgot what caused scurvy in the first place https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
I should've thought about that before posting this!! But unfortunately nothing that's interesting, other than me embarrassingly testing stuff. Here's an example: https://www.mono.tn/tape/ZVPb31Y/
I just build a VS solution, call MSBuild, install dependencies via NuGET/vcpkg and be done with it.

And even better since they support binary libraries, I can focus on my own code instead of building the foundations first.
Researchers discover a gene that controls the severity of colon cancer
> Which it then caches, post-compilation, taking up binary space on disk comparable to if you just downloaded the pre-compiled target binaries.

I don't understand the point of this comeback. If you have the artifact cached it means that you compiled for that target, while the rest of the stdlibs remain in source form (also Zig deduplicates header files which is why everything fits in a 40mb tarball), and you didn't have to download anything manually. What else would you want exactly?