skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp currently handles local backups entirely incompetently and infuriatingly despite claiming (IMO dishonestly) that the feature exists, providing inaccurate and incomplete documentation. This is nice to see, but far too little too late for me to trust the app for longevity.

I recently had the issue for the second time of losing over a year of messages due to dysfunctional WhatsApp backups, about which I wrote a blog post of complaints/rants [1]. The user, as far as I can tell at least on Android, currently has no viable option besides uploading their messages, unencrypted, to Google.

[1] https://vinayh.com/posts/2021-08-28/
Good comedy seems to stem from connecting one topic to another in an unexpected way. It's why puns are funny.
Then why wouldn't you just take one of the vaccines that meets the old definition of vaccine that you hold the esteem for? I get that anything new is less trustworthy by default, but that's only two mRNA "vaccines". The rest are attenuated, or inactivated, or sub-units of other viruses or COVID itself.

In all cases they make your body respond to proteins, that's all. Given the respective effective rates from mRNA vs. traditional vaccine methods if anything it's the halo effect of the effectiveness of the mRNA that are boosting the success rates.
DRM, walled gardens, and divergence from plain text, open videos and images will destroy most of modern history, copyrights, cancel culture will destroy the rest.

Removing history will cause it to repeat.

Put it in a museum and it will be raided.

V for vendetta foreshadowed the need to secretly store history.
That's not really a similar crime; that's a crime against another corporation.
A Common Feature of Galaxies Is Challenging What We Know About the Universe
Oracle spelled backwards, "El Caro", is Spanish for "expensive". I can never forget this tidbit when dealing with Oracle.
Not when the robbers are writing the rules.
This site has been popular in some aviation sports like paragliding. At least from my casual observations.
I use it for surf forecasting. When you click on "waves" icon, the menu extends and there is an icon for a surfer. Click the surfer and not only do you get a different "heat" map but wherever you click will give you the swell for that location.
People will prefer to use Apple's system if the cost is close enough to the same. The larger/more trusted the brand making the app is, or the higher the cost difference, the more likely the user will be to go to the trouble of going off platform to make the purchase.

Most of the revenue Apple makes is from top apps and top brands, which is why they had no problem cutting the rates to 15% for the little guys already, the little guys are a tiny slice of the overall pie.

There is no way this will overall increase Apple's revenue, especially as companies concentrate on building solid 'Apple fee avoidance' funnels. Not to mention that many pay-for apps will very likely convert to free to download and then push the user to pay for the app externally to the app store as a 'one time lifetime subscription'.

This is going to cause a massive revenue loss for Apple if it stands.
The general idea is nothing new. Quoting Heinlein's "Farmer in the Sky" (1950):

> We were busy with inoculations and blood typing and immunizations and I hardly got to school at all. When I wasn’t being stuck or being bled, I was sick with the last thing they had done to me. Finally we had to have our whole medical history tattooed on us—identity number, Rh factor, blood type, coag time, diseases you had had, natural immunities and inoculations. The girls and the women usually had it done in invisible ink that showed up only under infra-red light, or else they put it on the soles of their feet.
As long as it was a legal option, I would immediately exclude all of Texas from having user accounts or advertising on my network. In the case of FB, public pressure would immediately work in my favor.

There are plenty of financial groups and apps that exclude based on territory due to local laws and regulations, I believe it is a legal option. It's a little flex and would result in short term advertising revenue loss but should end any further meddling in my "free" to join business.

"Your representatives believe they have the right to meddle in the content policies of our organization, they do not, until these foolish new regulations are repealed, Texas is no longer part of Facebook, please contact your representatives about this matter, a download of your account content will remain available "here" - Thank You, The Lizard King"
For modern industrial farming (ie not you on a patch of ground you manage with tools you can pick up and carry) seeds are usually anyway purchased in bulk from a specialist. What you've described is a problem, but it's coincidental to the existence of GM.

AIUI The spectre of GMO preventing seed saving got into the picture by the following route:

1. GMO opponents feared a GMO could spread in the wild, which sure enough can happen, and as with the whole "Vaccine might turn me into a chimp" (the Astrazeneca vaccine is based on a virus that infects Chimpanzees) thing they exaggerated the resulting risk, they argued that it's possible for genetics from the GMO to be copied into other things. So, maybe your weedkiller resistance gene gets copied into the weeds by some means.

2. GMO developers went OK, we can make a "terminator" feature so the modified plants don't reproduce, mitigating the problem. Nobody relies on self-seeding of crops for industrialised farming anyway and that'll fix your concern right?

3. Terminator is now an excuse to say the GMO seeds are deliberately broken to prevent seed saving.

This is especially remarkable because Terminator is a specific feature, not included in most GM organisms, so, if that's really what you're afraid of then you'd only be opposed to those GMOs not the whole concept.
Habit tracking. With nicey colored cells for being a good boy.
I've been using Windy to keep an eye on Hurricane Larry and my friends and relatives in St. John's, Newfoundland. Looks like they're about to be clobbered in a few hours.
ICs are not the problem, this can be decoded with a soundcard within the pc... usually the antennas are more problematic, atleast for urban areas, because you need 2x5.5m long dipole to use those frequencies (13mhz), so doing it in dense, urban enviroments is hard (unless you have roof access).

Otherwise, with lora and a lot shorter ranges, you can create mesh communication networks easily, with $20-$30 of hardware (already assembled) - eg. https://meshtastic.org/
> HTTPS on content only sides is primary about preventing people with tampering with the website

"people" here specifically excluding Verisign & its successor racketeers, the NSA (plus bananistani national equivalents thereof).

> in ways which potentially can hurt you from just opening them

Running shitware is optional.

> It doesn't prevent JS injected into your side from being executed

The only solution to malicious JS is... to switch off JS. Asking people you don't know to pay the cert tax does not somehow guarantee that their JS is not malicious.

> ... check the signature before loading/parsing any content it isn't secure.

"Secure content" is what you obtained from someone you actually trust and verified with a pubkey you received out of band (ideally -- meatspace). All other content may as well have been authored by evil martians, despite any pretense to the contrary.

> by now pretty much not-undoable not-decentralized HTTS infrastructure

What part of "Where I still have the freedom not to use the Reich's master-keyed pseudocryptographic garbage - I will not use it" is hard to understand?

IMHO it is quite strange that the "HTTPS-everywhere" nonsense isn't immediately understood by everyone for what it is -- simply Google's latest effort to stymie ad-blocking (with the applause of NSA, whose mission today consists largely of efforts to retard the development of actual - i.e. not masterkeyed and not escrowed - crypto.)
> Why must I be vaccinated if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread?

"Why must I go the speed limit if it doesn't prevent an accident? Why wear a seat belt if it doesn't prevent injury? Why have airbags if they don't prevent death?"

There are no guarantees in life (death and taxes, notwithstanding). The bottom line is that vaccines significantly reduce spread.

> I am comfortable catching the disease and even comfortable dying from it (the numbers are vastly on my side)

The argument being that you have a slim chance of having a severe reaction to COVID?

You have an even slimmer chance of a severe reaction to a vaccine. Why not get vaccinated?
In Rome you can still find Mussolini’s obelisk and some fascist inscriptions here and there. Italians definitely don’t celebrate Mussolini these days (well, some do, but you get the point).
I have USB 3.0 and 3.1 hubs; I am not surprised about this article. USB 3.0/3.1 hubs are fickle as heck! And I noticed that they seem to emit some kind of EMF around the port which means they are unshielded. It rendered some USB dongle non-functional until I unplug the hub.

Now I have Anker 3.1 Mini-Dock (without the ethernet), it works well but it has issues with HDMI. For whatever the reason, the system think that the HDMI is plugged in the hub whereas it is not. So, It cause a strange issue with multimonitor since the system believes that there is a second monitor plugged to it. But yet it couldn’t show the second monitor in the display setting but it insists that it is plugged.
Men are whatever they want to be.
> Coupled with recent Microsoft effort such as Visual Code

Which is officially supported on Linux.

There might be reasons to run Windows, but this is not one :)
So the hostiles in this case would just tape guns with empty clips into the hostages hands.
Pathogenic antibodies induced by spike proteins of Covid-19 and SARS-CoV viruses
Please define what is good.
I agree, having lived in both the UK and Switzerland. If you can justify the cost, the GA in Switzerland is incredible and works for most trains, buses and boats in the country (the exceptions are usually private touristy rail routes that go up mountains). People can and do commute from Geneva to Zurich in a day and have mobile data the whole way.

Outside of London, UK public transport varies greatly in quality and all of it is very expensive and overpriced. UK season tickets for lines outside of London typically involve a fixed route on one operator and usually only support commuting: one there and back journey 5 days per week max. By contrast, the GA in Switzerland really is unlimited. It will work equally well for boats crossing the lake in Geneva as it will for the local trams in Zürich and the train to get you between them, even if you travel on a Sunday. It doesn't matter if you present it to cantonal transport people, or private train operators, it will work, no arguments. Pretty much the only people not part of the GA scheme are tourist train routes up mountains, and to be honest, that's fair enough - staff to the facilities on the top likely get a free ride up anyway and nobody else needs to commute to the top of the Jungfrau.
This will be available in Windows 11, so your processor does have to be able to upgrade to that. If you're fine with an OS reinstall there are ways to force the install.
What's interesting about this is I feel I could write DOS from scratch with little effort these days. But it would have no value today.

The software I write today is far more complex than what was available in the early 80's.
These MOT based spot welders transfer far more heat to cells than capacitive discharge welders. This can result in the damage to heat sensitive components inside the cells which is the same reason that soldering isn't recommended for lithium cells.

To get around those issues, I built a capacitive discharge spot welder for tabbing lithium ion cells a couple years ago: http://robruark.com/projects/welder/welder.html
Urbit PKI Graph
Microsoft is a group of 180,000 people, it's too big to be classified like that. A small subset of them are making this cool thing, and you can debate whether or not their intentions are good, but that's about as far as you can go in making a broad moral judgement.
Abstract [preprint]

"This study, using a virus-free mouse model, explores the pathogenic roles and novel mechanism of action of certain antibodies specific to the spike proteins of highly pathogenic coronaviruses such as the COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV viruses.

"These pathogenic antibodies, induced during a highly pathogenic infection such as the COVID-19 infection, target and bind to host vulnerable cells or tissues such as damaged lung epithelium cells, initiate a persistent self-attack immune response, and lead to serious conditions including ARDS, cytokine storms, and death.

"Moreover, the pathogenic antibodies may also be responsible for infection-related autoimmune diseases, including those experienced by COVID-19 long haulers.

"Furthermore, the pathogenic antibodies can bind to the unmatured fetal tissues and cause abortions, postpartum labors, still births, and neonatal deaths of pregnant females.

"Novel clinical interventions, through disrupting the binding of these pathogenic antibodies, can be developed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

"In addition, the new concept explored by this study may be applicable to other infectious diseases, such as the highly pathogenic influenza infections."
https://earth.nullschool.net/
I don’t know how many people know this, but the balances on Oyster cards are refundable[0], so it is possible that they would indeed need to pay it out.

[0] https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/refunds-and-replacements/oyster-pay...
>I wish MS continued evolving WSL1

I do too but only from a techy POV. I think it was awesome they expanded their old posix apis into a drop in linux replacement and wish it could have continued being expanded.
Heads up that the landing page appears broken in Safari v14.0.3 -- the header logo and top-nav links are floating over the main hero image like halfway down it, and when I scroll I can see that the hero collapses, but the header remains, as does the big blue area behind it, taking up 50+% of the viewport.

Otherwise looks like an interesting project and I'll keep an eye on it!
I'm not sure how big a jxl decoder has to be, but there's a wasm webp decoder that zips to about 50KB. That kind of cost pays for itself very quickly.

And whether it loads faster or slower depends on your connection. But yes it hurts to not get the smoothness benefits.
Did you see it working?
I've had good luck with a Thunderbolt 4 Hub from Anker as of late. The hub has a power button of its own, and when the hub is turned off it turns off the attached USB-C-to-Ethernet adapter.
There's some truth to the idea. At the same time, I've met plenty of experts who are competent and productive in their work, but incapable of concise communication.

If you sieve through their rambling, you'll notice that they do have a mental model. The problem is that the model is very foreign to other minds, and they do a poor job describing it.

This might be the reason that some people are more comfortable communicating with formulas than verbal descriptions. They are eloquent when they don't have to come up with their own words.
In-browser media compositing via WebRTC Insertable Streams API
Keep in mind this discussion thread is about people who have already contracted Covid and recovered.

The benefits:

Unknown increase in immunity against alpha strain

Unknown increase in immunity against variant strains

...

The Costs:

Chance of currently known adverse effects

Chance of unknown adverse effects specific to vaccination of people with prior immunity.

Some recent data [1] suggests that those with prior covid infection 13X lower chances or reinfection with delta than those with 2 vaccine doses. If this is accurate, it begs the question of how much benefit is gained by vaccination on top of existing immunity in comparison to to the rare but known side effects.

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
Yea, but obviously no company will offer that option unless forced. This decision undeniably benefits app developers, but the benefit to customers is murkier.

Apple couldn’t previously require payment flow through Apple’s payment systems, as evidenced by apps like Audible where you have no purchasing in the app and just have access to the content that you purchased through their website. Since Apple couldn’t outright force app vendors to monetize through Apple payment channels, their cudgel has been to ensure that app vendors have no way to link to external purchase options in the app, and hope that this was inconvenient enough for app vendors that they would choose to integrate with Apple’s payment channels. And it worked for most, but not all of them. Some apps, like Audible, just chose to live with having no way to sell anything from the app.

If Apple can’t even do that, they lose the ability to provide for their customers a consistent payment experience across apps.
If you're confusing it with the Australian city, you should know they're both named after the same person :-)
Working on something like this actually, with a few differences of course but that’s the gist. Email me if interested in giving feedback.
Because it's vertical integration and refusal to deal. To me, it's very similar to the Hollywood anti-trust case, when movie studios used to own movie theaters. By your reasoning, those theaters should have just made their own movies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Anti-trust_Case_of_1...
Vaccine protection seems to substantially diminish over time / virus evolution. Israel is boosting with third shot. UK August data shows same rate of infection vax/unvax for over 40s, and only half reduction in infection rate for under 40s. (Yeah, I know, severe infection protection is much better, so far). Pfizer CEO is on-record concerned about vaccine escape and ready to prepare new jabs on a 3 month notice.

Covid is here to stay. What is the long term plan? 'Boost' every 6 months with an ever changing cocktail that has not passed any clinical trials? In perpetuity? This is insanity.

I do not see any long term way out of covid pandemic other than natural immunity. Some studies have shown it is much stronger than vaccine protection. I hope they are right, or else the future is grim. Personally I really really hope that vax + mild infection works.

WE DO have a population for which natural immunity can be acquired at minimum cost: under 18s. For which the risk of covid death is ~1-2% of the already tiny risk of death from all other causes. Leave the kids alone.

What doesn't help: Messaging that so incredibly determined to pretend that natural immunity plays no role and that covid risk for a 10 year old is the same as covid risk for an 80 year old (in fact it is 1/1000).
I wonder what Linux exclusive software they are hoping to support. Everything I use in my Ubuntu daily driver has a Windows build or corollary app. I get how ‘you never have to leave Windows’ is a nice thing for their business, but I don’t see this being a reason I would stop dual-booting. The only reason I run windows in the first place is for a few apps, mostly games. Otherwise I really enjoy the bloat-free, ad-free, telemetry-free, snappy, tractable, and undistracted experience that is Linux desktop computing.

It would be nice if they did something actually useful, like add native ext4 support.
>Wine is closer to what WSL1 was

Not quite. Wine just translates windows syscalls to linux ones but WSL actually reimplemented the linux api inside the NT kernel (which was designed with the ability to use multiple OS apis.)
over under on when USB-C will finally "just work"?

five years ago I would have said five years

now I'd say 10
So it depends on your physiology, but a lot of people develop asymmetrically (carrying kids on one side, etc) or have a skeletal issue like scoliosis that causes that. Lifting - and by lifting I mean the big important movements like squats, deadlifts, OHP and benchpresses - works both sides of your body at the same time. Yoga breaks it up into one side at a time, which I've found has caused my body to become a lot more symmetrical. Yoga also includes a lot of strength movements that also improve flexibility, which lifting does not.

Hard to get into a debate about this because lifting does an amazing job of exercising just about everything. It just does it in a very different way with, I've found, higher risk of injury.
Same situation here. Dual-booting Linux and Windows 10, and I figured I'd boot into Windows often enough for it to get obnoxious. But I only ever get on there to play a few demanding games (which I already don't play often anymore), or make music with an A+ DAW for making music that doesn't run super effectively on Wine. Linux handles everything else I do like a champ.
It's about the culture. Windows doesn't respect your privacy and you are treated like a child, because most people who run Windows wants Microsoft to make all decisions for them, just like a parent.
I don't know if it was just my hub or the crappy router that Spectrum gives me, but whenever I used the ethernet on my hub with my laptop, it killed the ethernet connection to the desktop.
As the author of EasyBCD, I can tell you that interest in dual-booting has collapsed to near zero over the past decade.
I think hes referring to how you can run the VSCode GUI in Windows but develop on WSL because they built an integration. It's pretty neat. And most people are using Windows for other reasons (drivers, gaming ,etc), this just makes development not a pain anymore.
tl;dr: cheap hubs with ethernet failed, dedicated Apple ethernet adapter worked. Author still isn't sure exactly why.
I'll help you out, here's a documented case of transmission from one breakthrough infection to another breakthrough infection to two more:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/12/21-1792_article

It is 100% certain that some breakthrough transmissions can transmit onwards.

If I know that, it should be very apparent that wasn't what I meant.

There are people claiming that vaccines do not prevent any forwards transmission and that vaccination is 100% worthless for ending pandemic spread. Arguing that is wrong does not imply arguing for the exact inverse and that vaccines are perfect. I'm pretty sure that hell is the world where everyone argues in absolutes all the time and that I'm unfortunately living in it.
Yahoo was in all kinds of trouble when she took over. I'd argue she made a stupid mistake taking the job, not that they made a stupid mistake choosing her (whatever the motivation).
I see that those of us with a 7th gen Intel core CPU that "need not to worry because W10 will be supported for years" will immediately start missing functionality.
These are the states which ban car manufacturers from selling direct to the public: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes...

Not sure which of these states have tribal land near major population centers, but that would be interesting to cross-reference.
Florida tried to force internet sites to carry politicians' opinions but it didn't survive the first challenge https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/7/1/22558980/florida-social-...
The presence of an underclass of low-pay contractors depresses wages for everyone.
Reminds me of: https://youtu.be/zh8MiNzKkiA
It's Linux.
I have one of these modems. My sysinfo.cmd reports Linux version 4.9.135-Prod_19.3