skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In America, I think COVID will fade, everyone will eventually get infected, more deaths and hospitalizations will occur until all the unvaccinated get it, then excess deaths and hospitalizations will return to baseline, and the vaccine will become more of an optional thing, the next GOP president will remove the mandate. Some other unknown crisis will replace COVID as the main story, maybe a huge recession or terrorist event. I guess we will see.
Is Minix inside Intel Management Engine or the AMD equivalent of any concern? I'm not clear if the bundled firmware is already open sourced?
I can guarantee you, it is not. This is 100% about what you just said and 0% about French history teachers, of whom I've met none, or Puy du Fou, which I had never heard of before these posts.
I've wondered if the meme of "we have to bury nuclear waste now" is a fossil left over from the cold war, when surface spent fuel could be converted to fallout by a ground burst.
stupidity

I always treated stupidity as a fifth element that can bring great and surprising tragedies to humanity.
I am a professional weight lifter. I gave up all my specific training to do yoga. 5 minutes of warrior 3 and a couple of reps of rocking off of knees in crane pose, and I am able to compete at a 615 deadlift for 10 without all the CNS fatigue of actually training for it.

I also stopped running - the benefits of Yoga are sine parallela. It's truly an ancient art. No wonder Alexander never conquered them and Oppenheimer read the Bagavad Gita.

*this post is a work of fiction. However, this is the level of magic the parent is ascribing to something that's not a bad general mobility routine. Taking a nap at the end of the session is nice too. Namaste.
Vaccination still reduces infectivity even for those who've had COVID.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

Vaccine antibodies bind more broadly to cover new variants, vs. antibodies from previous infection.

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/scitranslmed.abi9915

So why is "accommodation" necessary?
The userland. It’s mostly bloatware in the age of containers
There was a trucker strike in Australia. I got the impression that it was limited to TWU (the equivalent of Teamsters) demanding more money and better working conditions. I never saw what better working conditions actually meant.

I'm more concerned about 20% of the truckers being fired for not taking the vaccine. Logistics is already stretched thin and it would make it much worse.
in terms of "increasing brain function", I 100% agree with that amphetamine.. lol
Use Tools That Suit You and the Problem
Corona viruses aren't novel, the common cold is one of them.

There were no accurate spread models in 2020, no studies how masks would affect the spread of the common cold.

There was ridiculous advice that the famous droplets would sink to the ground before covering a distance > 1.5 meters,
that masks would not help at all and much more.

Now they admit that the virus is airborne!

Sorry, #FollowTheScience slogans and calling others fools does not help.
This. Back in the XML days, I had to spend way to long reading XSLT and WSDL specs just to do basic things.

JSON Schema takes 15 minutes to learn and it's a heck of a lot better than writing my own validator.
Check the FAQ. Both IME and PSP are covered.

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd

2. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
For those looking to sanitize input from Typescript, I highly recommend the runtypes library: https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes

It let's you specify type definitions a DSL in Typescript using syntax very similar to Typescript's type definitions. Once you define your types in the DSL, you get Typescript types and parsing / verification for free. Not as general purpose as JSON Schema, but 1000x cleaner and easier to use.
I'll just leave this right here. https://mazdatweaks.com/
Nobody really wanted to count deaths and long time effects on people from Chernobyl neither. Because, IMHO, people knew. Accurately counting would have meant knowing, an nobody really wanted that.
Nor XPath.
Ha! Last time I tried putting a rpi into a fridge… for cooling - it broke because of the humidity :)

Should’ve used the freezer.
Automate the user instead of re-designing the product.

What is needed, is a cold air recycling suction device, that similar to the open fridges in super market, stores the cold air that flows out like a waterfall - in a waterfall.

But instead, lets harass the user.
Looks like a case of Stockholm syndrom.
I wouldn't have thought it was at all believable by alternate history standards (and I think Stirling has actually acknowledged that?)

I'm struggling to think of _any_ nastier fictional society, though. The closest might be alternate history portrayals of a late 20th century Nazi Germany, which are usually pretty awful, but they usually fall down a bit on sheer horror vs Stirling's Draka, particularly the later stories.
Why do you feel the need to tell people that the park creator is a nationalist? It is not a crime and the park is about history and entertainment for families and kids on school trip.
> the best fitting generalizations/abstractions in mathematics and physics also fit the most specific cases

Out of curiosity, how does this differ from the criteria of choosing the assumption which makes the equations easier to work with?

I feel as if they are the same, though perhaps lacking a careful qualification on my part: "which assumption makes our equations easier to work with (without introducing incorrect solutions)?"

Given the choice of abstractions, assuming each abstraction is apt as the next and none of them is "more wrong" than any other, wouldn't the choice of abstraction come down to ease? (or aesthetics, possibly)

I'd love your take, and doubly so if I seem to be coming at this backwards.
It’s an improvement because it’s a public contract that can be enforced both client(s) and server(s), and a relatively standardized interface format that is parseable by all manner of tooling.

Otherwise, it’s just in your code, where it’s potentially not just “hard-to-read”, but impossible to read for anybody but the authors.

That said, I’m partial to other solutions like protobuf, but what can you do.
a bit OT but I'm curious what's current status and usage data for YouTube-dl and its popular forks (e.g. yt-dlc, yt-dlp)?

They all seems to be active to different degree(last commit is 2mth, 2w, 2d ago)? and not merging backing to each other?
And more importantly, the fission products from the bomb condense/agglomerate onto debris from the ground, allowing them to fall out more quickly.
Fwiw I know an overweight alcoholic 65 yo woman, cancer survivor, diabetic and has cardiac problems (she had to be in a wheelchair for a couple years). Oh and she's a chain smoker too.

She's the perfect COVID victim. She got it twice, even though it was quite bad never had to be hospitalized and her health is now not worse than before.
Why JSON? Just use a simplified subset of HTML and ignore styling+scripts for commandline. And for GUI/Web you can still offer the full HTML+CSS+Scripting-experience.
> We still don't really understand how diet affects health long term.

I thought it was pretty clear that we do. Go talk to any physician and they will tell you the 3 things you control to increase your chances of a long & healthy life are:

1. Limit alcohol/tobacco
2. exercise frequently
3. eat a healthy diet

Are you suggesting for #3 they have no data to back that recommendation up?
As soon as they start approaching, you demo the flamethrower.
>> "Why should I learn Ada if I am not programming AIM-9X heatseeking missiles in my day to day job?"

Because it changes the way you think about programming. Taking about Lisp, Eric Raymond said:

"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot." Ada provides a different kind of enlightenment than Lisp:

1) Ada has a powerful type system that lets you define exactly what values are allowed and how they should work:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/stro...

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/more...

2) Ada has built-in concurrency primitives that very simple to understand and use:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/task...

3) Ada supports design-by-contract programming to precisely define the semantics between different parts of your code. Design-by-contract is ideal for large codebases and helps to catch errors similar to unit tests, but within the code itself:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...

Even if you aren't writing code for heatseeking missiles, learning about Ada can make you a better programmer.
These are not fast at all, but it certainly helps to have an NVMe drive and 16G of RAM (a huge improvement over the older HiFive Unleashed boards). They're fine for packaging and general development work. I don't think we'll see software optimized for RISC-V until more extensions become available in hardware, especially the vector extension.
We’ve had vaccine mandates (set by the states) to attend school for what, 50 years? Arguments like this are so tired and miss the forest for the trees.

Maybe think of the healthcare professionals so burnt out and quitting because people are so indignant to get the shot and end up taking valuable hospital space. I’d take forcing these hold outs (and trampling on their fREeDoMs) to get the shot in exchange for a functioning national healthcare system any day.
Having worked in FAANGs and a number of other large companies, I lost count.
Parent comment: "The goal is to get people to vaccinate, which is reasonable enough."

Your summary of their position is so bad I've flagged your comment: "if it isn't 100% perfect you have decided it is worthless."
It seems to me that a lot of these projects aim to deliver really "good" apps: native UI, table output, etc… Results are great, but the UI building complexity also becomes quite high.

I think that's the wrong goal. The goal should be really simple definitions and ok quality apps. Simple JSON (or XML, don't care).

{ control: checkbox, flag: c, label: "Compile" }
What are we supposed to learn from that example? Companies developed safer techniques, government testing plans improved, it sounds like the system was improved in response to the kind of thing which happens with new technology.

More importantly, however, it happened in an era where everyone agreed that polio was worth avoiding. The modern antivax movement was founded on Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent attempts to cash in on test kits and lawsuits brought against vaccine manufacturers but it also critically depended on people who had grown up in a world of ubiquitous vaccination and preventative medicine, where vague claims sounded dire because the imagined baseline was “life is basically okay” rather than “I know multiple kids who died or were scarred for life” as their parents had known. Finally, there wasn’t a major political movement putting a billion-dollar propaganda machine to work spreading false claims and downplaying the real impact of a disease.
Yes then I think we’re in agreement and just talking around in circles! It seems the second statement is most meaningful in relation to how banks actually operate (based on my understanding of the paper). The example where 9m loans are made and none transferred out, and the example where 900k loans are made and 100% are transferred out are both extremes.
From https://www.improbable.com/ : Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK.

I agree, the winning research used to be much wilder, but they went a less iflamatory way in the recent years. When I now read about them from the 90s, there are some harsh burns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
Natural immunity is not as strong as the immunity provided by the vaccines and the immunity provided by both together is much stronger. Having already had COVID is no reason not to get vaccinated.
I read it as half-sarcastic.

A sincere half is that technical users can't quite understand what less-technical users would appreciate.

The tongue in cheek half of "why not just..." will always smell a bit like the infamous comment discussing how DropBox doesn't provide value, since anyone could set the same kindof thing up themselves.
Those monuments were built by Napoleon, what do you suggest, that they demolish them ?

Those monuments are not celebrations of Napoleon..
Is this the Web 3.0 I keep hearing about
you need to wear a faraday suit.
This is Trump minutes before the infamous quotes:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AA47/production/...
+ pull ups, rows, planks/hip thrusts, calf raises, some abwork (despite what everyone says about not needing to do additional ab work)
Lol this word has lost all meaning in the past 5 years. If everybody screams fascism, nothing is fascism.
You don't HAVE to stay at your current job.
See puzzlegen.cc in
https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee/

Order of magnitude improvement.
Ultimately technology cannot really solve this problem. People need to either learn to use Twitter less. (or not at all) or find a way to be more rational and skeptical about Twitter. I'm skeptical that this is possible, though, as even genuinely intelligent people seem to become swept up in outrage and narrative as easily as anyone else.
Scotch tape exfoliation is wonderfully low tech and whimsical as a material synthesis method, if that’s what you mean, but the Nobel was for graphene itself.

I guess I agree that the levitating frog business could one day lead to very impactful scientific advances, but suppressing graphene at this point is a high bar.
So does the flu vaccine, but we don’t mandate that
Same argument goes for general AI, weapons and everything else.
Let's go even further and mandate psychological and physical tests, to make sure there are fewer deaths.

You never know what goes through someone's head or whether a previous injury will lead to an accident.

I'm only half joking, this could actually help me :D
A yearly combination COVID and influenza shot will be the next mandate - at least in the fascist shitholes that are still subject to these rules.
I remember back in the day the milkman would drop the milk off in glass bottles, then take the empties away.

Simpler times.
When I get the MMR vaccine I don't need to worry about what versions of Measles it is and isn't effective against or how many months later I should start looking at getting another vaccine.

That's a pretty big difference for most people.
I built my own personal version where it runs in the background and automatically downloads stuff I like (I highly curate my likes) or send to select playlists. Too often I go through my favorites and see deleted videos so I just cooked up something one weekend. I have an entire hard drive dedicated as an offline archive where I can playback at anytime, search the library and it even alerts me if any video or audio I saved was deleted (I have quite some rare pulled videos). It will also grab the subtitles/transcript if available, description and top 100 comments (if a tutorial etc).

https://i.imgur.com/yxlRTI8.png
We used to have an office in a not so glamorous part of an industrial estate in London. The street is beyond bleak,etc.. One day,to our surprise, we saw Team Galag Batmobile pulling into the road. Needless to say that's the last thing one would expect to see on that road!
> ...If only it could be taken mainstream.

A part of me actually wishes for utilities like this GUI app and the underlying youtube-dl to stay a tad under the radar, only to avoid getting them blocked somehow by the powers-that-be...i know that is selfish because at the same time i do like for as many folks as possible to have access to all the cool tools (after all i love to spread the gospel of open source software)...but, man, youtube-dl (and by extension, anything else built on top of it) has been such an awesomely amazing thing that i never want it to go away or get blocked, etc. Sorry if that sounds mean; don't mean to be. :-)
JSON format is simple and easily readable. It’s now so common and probably one of most used language on earth. That’s great! Now, anyone can create a decent API with basic programming tool available. And everyone will be able to use it.

Why does some people want to over-engineer it?

> { "$id": "http://xn--rvg" }

Oh no. Please don’t do that.
>Are these researchers soley focused on their next grant only, do they live in another world? Or do they sometimes pause and think about the ethics of their research?

Should we not do any third party security testing or vulnerability detection either?

Ignorance is not a solution to a potential problem but simply means you won't know about it until it's far too late.
In his memoirs (largely about 1848 and its aftermath), de Tocqeville said that the French could create anything but a free government and destroy anything but centralization. The first half seems to have been disproven.
In June of 2020, I waited over 2 weeks for the results of my test. A delay that long makes the test more than worthless for preventing transmission and determining best course of action.
People are libertarian for different reasons. Some of them just hate government and look for an ideological framework to justify it. I would say that driving licenses are a similar case.
Whatever. You can stop mountain removal mining for coal, and prevent environmentally sensitive land from being devastated for solar farms. Its not an either/or, since there is, in fact, plenty of other land that can be used for solar farms.
Can be XML as well, but I think HTML is too complex. The goal, for me, is simplicity.

<section name="Options"><checkbox flag="c" label="Compile" /></section>

It shouldn't be a hassle at all to convert a man page to a UI that speeds up actions and avoids common errors.

Anyway, this idea is free, so feel free to take it and do whatever, even full HTML (:
Hero, Perv, and Occultist Serial Killer All Rolled into One: Gilles de Rais
The big problem is they still want people who've recovered from COVID to get vaccinated. This is a very big deal and I wouldn't be surprised if the whole OSHA plan goes to the Supreme Court.

I've recovered from COVID and stand against vaccine mandates.
And yet they can have enough of a viral load to pass it along to any non-healthy people they come in contact with. Which is why this NOT a personal health issue, it's a public health issue.

As I have explained to several of my children's young friends "you are correct, COVID will probably not make you sick, but how will you feel when you find out you killed your grandmother by giving it to her".
I remember well enough. I still have early UK microcomputer magazines from about 1978 onwards.

We knew computing would be transformative. But very few really recognised to what extent this would be.
I think XPath is actually one of the nicer bits of the XML universe - there is a JSON equivalent in JSONPath that I have used a bit.
No wonder the audio sounded like a loop. I was wondering about what kind of encoding was being used, for this sound to be generated. Initially I thought it was related to the mp3 file I was "sending" (my computer has no mic), that it may have a pattern in it, but after attempting to send a pdf, the pattern was still there.

Feels like a ripoff, since if it uses the internet, it can't be used offline as the title suggests.
Renderman XPU (2018)
The only thing I did with my Mazda infotainment system was update the firmware and the retrofit kit to support CarPlay. I find the commander knob not that hard to use with some experience, but with the AIO tweaks you can enable the touchscreen while driving. To each their own I guess.
> There was ridiculous advice that the famous droplets would sink to the ground before covering a distance > 1.5 meters,

This was based on experience with the original SARS virus.

Take this 2003 paper for example: "Effectiveness of precautions against droplets and contact in prevention of nosocomial transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)" [1]

It was a case control study in a Hong Kong hospital that concluded: "Practice of droplets precaution and contact precaution is adequate in significantly reducing the risk of infection …. The protective role of the mask suggests … infection is transmitted by droplets."

Following the science really, really does help. You just need to do it; fools of course don't.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12737864/
It's Electron, the Mac and Linux versions will look exactly the same.
A.I. can now write its own computer code – that’s good news for humans
My antibody test was more painful than the pair of injections.

Vaccination doesn't harm people with existing antibodies (they just rebuff it faster) and going through the process serves as a good booster.
What online media giveth, pervasive surveillance taketh away.
From the heart: respect to Germany for that policy.

I'm assuming you're in Germany/know someone in Germany when asking this and you might of heard something about it:
-Is it true that Hungarians are using some sort of medication as treatment? I heard it from a guy at work(hungarian) and was stumped.
$ man foo

Now tell me where the swipe-from-the-left and swipe-from-the-right and pull-down-from-the-top and long-press and double-tap and trippple-tap and pinch vertically and pinch horizontally and triple-finger tap for "modern" apps are documented?
IMHO the idea of accepting some bots (e.g. Google Bot) while not accepting others in robots.txt (e
.g. a new Google business killer bot) clashes with Internet neutrality.
How and when was racism redefinied?
You should be a better friend and maybe work through some of these impulses instead of seeking validation about being "right"
You're either lying through your teeth or using a very, very creative definition of "Europe" that excludes most of everything that once took orders from either Rome or Moscow.

Having to distrust your business partners is not uniquely American in the slightest.
Parsing XML is just grammar like JSON is ... that is not more or less difficult. JavaScript just has a built-in JSON Parser (which translate JSON into JavaScript object).

As a consequence, JSON in JavaScript is super easy. Using XML is medium-hard.

In .NET using XML or JSON is easy (not super easy).

In C++ using XML or JSON is medium-hard.

Do not know the state of the art for Go, Rust, Java, ...

As a consequence, JSON is - from a JavaScript developer perspective - the holy grail. From a .NET/Java/C++ developer perspective it is just another format.
You can take a look at these

https://www.datakind.org

https://techforgood.global
Nobody has the right to "be heard"! That's the thing. You have the right to scream it out loud, but nobody is forced to stand there and listen.

No - you can't falsely equate "being heard" by being on FB and Twitter to voting.

If my neighbor starts screaming Nazi talking points, I have the right to walk away. They still have the right to scream them.

Buy Facebook isn't "forced" to carry their views, either! And the Nazi believes what they're saying, so to ensure they're heard, they launch their OWN websites, print their own newsletters, and show up at protests.

No. Just No. Nobody is forced to carry anyone else's speech, and only people so weak in their beliefs as to "give up" when banned by FB and Twitter are complaining.
I understand modern weapons actually use enriched uranium tampers, for even more fission. This lets them be even smaller for a given yield.

Gold has been proposed for radiological bombs due to production of 198Au, which decays with a halflife of 2.7 days and produces a 411 keV gamma photon. I understand the 5 MT W71 warhead contained a lot of gold, due to a desire to reduce fission product production to reduce radar interference (it was to be used in the Spartan ABM).
You might want to read up on Israel before you assume it is because of the high rate of vaccination that you happen to be in a valley of infections again.