skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not about cleansing doubters, but rather political opposition. and it's never been about effective pandemic mitigation from either major party. it's entirely about flexing and coalescing power.

no matter what your political affiliation might be[0], we should always oppose such naked political power-grubbing.

[0]: note that i'd strongly argue against having one, not just as a matter of principle, but simply to make politicians really (rather than superficially, as it now is) work for our collective and individual support.
For a moment there it sounded like you were equating his inflammatory research with the feces left by his office and the vandalism of sound equipment during his sessions.

Many of the responses he has gotten would be criminal outside the institutional process. It's a specious comparison.
Bret Weinstein and a Web of Lies
Isn’t this a site for people who take some things too seriously?
https://archive.is/AHLRM
If you feel the urge to buy or sell NFTs I feel bad for you son, I got ninety-nine problems, but this nonsense is none.
Wonder how much light it needs. My office is dark to the point the rare visitors complain. Give the thing a little headlight and make it sing "hi ho hi ho" as it rolls.

Makes me want to go have a look at the VOC air sensors and see what just having one avoid smells might cost.
What risk? You literally expose yourself to more risk driving to work than with getting any vaccine.
Am I the only one who sees the interest in NFTs as an indictment of the whole crypo scene? NFTs abandon all the arguments that crypto people have usually used to argue why cryptocurrencies have value. People are dropping all pretext and openly admitting that these things only have value because they are artificially scarce and therefore maybe someone else will pay you more for it in the future. There is no other value. And now that we see that alone is enough to drive up prices, I start to wonder if anyone really believed all those arguments for cryptocurrencies or they were just too scared to admit that this was always all about trying to ride the artificial bubble for as long as possible.
In Texas to be a public employee you must certify that you will not boycott Israel. This is an actual political position that’s disallowed.

Under Biden’s change (correct me if I’m wrong), I can believe whatever I want about vaccines and say anything (so: have a political position)… as long as I get vaccinated (this is not a political position).

Not to mention that both ruling parties at the top are urging all to get vaccinated.
Let's call them parrot
https://felixcrux.com/library/what-you-need-to-know-about-op...
Reduced transmission because of the vaccine is not a binary
If only your toe measures it, you may treat your toe as an external measuring device.

But from the viewpoint of the toe would it have collapsed?

Extrapolating that, why isn't your consciousness just another measuring device that's become entangled with the system?
The Flu isn't one strain. It's many highly mutative strains, kinda different from the handful of stable strains of covid.

That is all FUD. Natural immunity does fine, just like the vaccine you may be reinfected but the effects will be severely diminished.

Look, this shouldn't be a surprise. Evolution is a bit better at this stuff than man, it's been doing it longer.

I'm all for people taking boosters if they want to for some reason, but don't push false information.
> What solution do you propose to ending US money hegemony over the world?

I don't, it's the least-worst option. The US hegemonic order is better than a Russian hegemonic order, which is in turn better than a PRC hegemonic order. But make no mistake, the currency alone isn't the reason for US hegemony.

> Or do you support that? I mean, are you like, F those children in the middle east, let's send more of our boys to be cannon fodder, etc.?

Hey remember that there World War? That was fought on hard money. Napoleonic Wars? Hard money. Boer War? Hard money. Basically any war in any history book covering pre-mid-century 1900s was fought on hard money. All of colonialism happened on hard money. There will always be sufficient lending resources available to fight a war. That's not a function of monetary policy that's a function of social policy - a matter for congress, not the Fed.

> Do you LIKE letting the big banks steal the country's wealth?

Surely you have some citation. Retail banks serve the Fed in that they expand and contract the money supply via lending. They make very little actual profit for their role. Return on assets on deposit for major US retail banks is roughly 1% annually. That's their fee for managing the money supply on behalf of the federal reserve, which exists at the whim of congress.
Yup--I have a FB account, only used for participation in some FB hiking groups, I never even look at my wall. I have a couple other accounts that were purely because it was needed to read, I've never written anything with them. I must be extraordinarily suspicious. Combine that with a clueless look at my travel history and it's straight to Gitmo time. (I have been in some countries that would be big red flags if visited now--but back then weren't an issue.)
While so far FSF have behaved responsibly it makes perfect sense for the Linux developers to not place their trust in an external organization.
'The Illinois-based worker explained that once the $15 minimum wage was enacted, part-time employee hours at their store were cut from an average of 30 to 21 hours a week, and full-time employees saw average hours reduced from 37.5 hours to 34.5 hours. The worker provided schedules from 1 November to the end of January 2019, showing hours for workers in their department significantly decreased as the department’s percentage of the entire store labor budget stayed relatively the same.

“We just have to work faster to meet the same goals in less time,” the worker said.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/06/whole-foods-...
Can you explain why a "talking point" immediately invalidates something?

>A talking point, often used in the plural, is a pre-established message or formula used in the field of political communication, sales and commercial or advertising communication.

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

Let me ask you this: is "Everyone (who can) should take the vaccine" a message that medical organizations are communicating with minimal variance?
How can an imaginary asset be hard money?
Use Ansible. Here is an example of one of my Django apps’ setup scripts: https://github.com/scancer-org/setup
I have been enjoying working on a cljfx project recently. Extremely fast to get a prototype together, proper multi core support for number crunching, whole JVM ecosystem to reach out for functionality. Probably not for the faint hearted but it has the advantage that it exists today.
I'd say the level of toxicity of current social media would simply not be possible in a scenario of dramatically reduced usage. Far less would be posted, it wouldn't spread so instantly, and so on.

The smartphone will invent ways to disrupt you all day. Even if there were no social media, it would be a video game, a stock trading app, whichever. It's a brand new capability to be able to reach all people all day, and it will be used.
To me it sounded like suddenly they were Rastafarians. Or perhaps Rastas out of the William Gibson novel, Neuromancer? I've read that more recently than I've read the history of Bob Marley and the Wailers, because I still have Neuromancer but sold Catch A Fire (I should go buy another copy, it was a very good book).

I doubt any of this was the intent.
Was thinking about this the other day.

Could we create synthetic cells with little mini scripts running inside? They could perhaps recognize a cancer cell or bacteria cell and then kill it.
I still found it lacking I/O ports for my general use.

No high speed serial ports, and yes I have tried the USB<>RS232 ports, they do not keep up at true high speeds/

No parallel ports, not for printer but to have high speed input and output of digital lines.

No I2C port which has it limits, but i can get a lot of chips that will work with it.

Some of us want I/O that will work with our own hardware.
> That is all FUD. Natural immunity does fine, just like the vaccine you may be reinfected but the effects will be severely diminished.

Why did Manaus, Brazil run out of hospital space in a 2nd surge? Despite initial infection rates of ~75%ish ?

Why was this effect then replicated in a 2nd Brazilian city of Araraquara city by a different research team? (Aka: a "2nd wave" of COVID19, despite a highly infected population?)
Fyi, the smallpox vaccine isn't as effective as the covid one...
I don't doubt it, but not in standard curbside recycling bins basically anywhere.
I use docker-compose on Ubuntu and when I'm on Mac, I use the same docker-compose.yml file running under Docker Desktop.

My docker-compose.yml file includes services for integration testing, like MailHog.
That's looking at relative risk not overall. It's not saying you lose immunity after 180 days.
> instead of the workers knowing the metric out in the open, you hide it from them and secretly judge them on it?

I'm not advocating this. But it's how most management is done. Pushing back only on quotas, without otherwise empowering the labor force, will almost certainly lead to such a regression.
I think that approach is quick and easy for an English only developer to understand and do, but it's hard to get quality results. A synthetic key tied to the context so the same English text can be translated differently as appropriate.

Tools that show translators the application context are really helpful, too. Bulk translation in a spreadsheet is an OK place to start when there are a lot of new translations to do, but everything needs to be checked where it's used as well. Especially for languages that tend to result in layout issues when added to formerly English only apps, like German (lots of very long compound words) and LTR languages like Arabic.
Random hint, unrelated to these two posts, but might of of interest to PHPers :

Use single quote around the string you pass to PHP to avoid having to quote variable names.

php -r ‘$a=“thing”;’

Doesn’t matter in the parent post’s case, but saves either having to worry about escaping or changing all of the quotes if you subsequently expand your single liner for whatever reason, so a good habit to get into. Same with Perl of course.
The Release of Grain v0.4
How are you rendering these vectors on Linux?

I'm asking because AFAIK unlike Windows with Direct2D, Linux doesn't have GPU-targeted vector graphics libraries. I have once made my own one when I needed something similar: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac#vector-graphics-engine
I thought we firmly kicked this idea to the kerb the last time they tried to push it on us.
Right. The antivax movement doesn't care about scientific consensus or anything like that. GP is implying these are reasonable people who have used reason to support their views, in reality they are emotional people who will parrot whatever piece of misinformation supports their worldview. You can't fix that with rhyme or reason because they didn't use rhyme or reason to even get there. These are people who don't even give their children the polio vaccine that they themselves might have been innoculated with in school.
The COVID vaccine is effective at preventing mass ICU occupancy. The smallpox vaccine is exceptionally effective when compared to other vaccines. Most other vaccines require 3-4 applications for reasonable immunity; same as COVID.
Whenever I see ** instead of a password I have a laugh because I know the secret is hunter12.
Slippery slope arguments are a way of avoiding discussing whether a particular proposal is good, by suggesting that they will lead to other, less positive developments. Better to evaluate each action on its own.

Vaccination requirements have been a standard practice for well over a hundred years now, and the case for mandating a vaccine for Covid-19 is much, much better than the case for mandating many other vaccines that are already required.

This is health-based, clearly, and not just "if you want it to be".
Sure. As a non-expert, I assume most drops of my blood have enough stuff in them to detect. How much can vitamin levels or viral loads change between drops of blood? Certainly they seem to draw more than strictly needed.
Medellin Became a Tech Hub
GPL by some quite popular interpretations of what derivate work means. I do not personally agree but those interpretations are common enough to be a real concern and I do not think it has been tested in court yet (GPL has been tested in court but I do not think this particular aspect has).
I see what you are saying but it could also be for example:

1) over time more inherent complexity has accrued, making vulnerabilities more likely to occur

2) vulnerability analysis has improved, meaning that vulnerabilities are being found today where in the past certain vulnerabilities (either same or different ones) were present without being found

and we don’t know that things are being added that’s “not needed”, or that they are “taking the eyes off the ball”.

Do we even know that they would be able to stay relevant without taking money? Taking money seems, in isolation, a good thing to me.
The internet’s ‘phonebook’ is flawed and outdated. It’s time for an upgrade
> Not to mention that both ruling parties at the top are urging all to get vaccinated.

Ah good, the stuff they come together on is always really great.
Punching yourself in the face, or nanny state discussions, is more akin to something like a seat belt law. We have seat belt laws to stop the individual from hurting themselves, not because we're afraid they're going to launch out as a projectile and hurt others.

But vaccination is a community thing more than an individual thing. If it were just about hurting yourself, then I'd agree that the discussion should be framed as paternal.
Roman slaves at least had a path to freedom. Or a good portion of them did. Many (not majority) became citizens eventually (or their children did) and many in fact became quite prosperous. Their slavery wasn't based on racial status, but on class, and slavery wasn't considered genetically predetermined, but a product of status and conquest. "Graduation" out of slavery was actually possible.

American slavery being built on "race" and white supremacy offered no such path. Even "mixed race" descendants suffered. Even after slavery was abolished, former slaves were (and often are) still treated abhorrently.
agree. I don’t understand why we are not there yet.
I'm mostly an app developer but sometimes I ask a backender "are we unikernel yet?" And they just look at me like I'm speaking alien to them.
...that is why I could never be a libertarian. People have repeatedly proved themselves unwilling or unable to live up to the libertarian ideal of behaving "rationally."
Native and yet still sucks. Most catalyst apps suck.
While we're at it let's remove the rapists and murderers from hospitals and let them die.

Lets also put a weight limit and a smoking limit on things so people don't crowd resources due to their poor decisions.

These "anti-vaxxers" that are fully vaccinated other than covid can just go rot in the streets /s
Why the hell are people fine with ubiquitous cameras in public yet when a camera is on a person they lose their goddamned minds?
More money than deities. Still cheapskates.

It's not enough to win; the other side must lose too.

Capital cannot concede any bargaining power to Labor, no matter the cost.

Just one historical example. The railroads nuked the unions (Wobblies), centered in Spokane WA. One tactic was charging more for freight to and from Spokane, the geographical center of the Inland Empire, than to bypass Spokane. So Seattle to Chicago was cheaper than Spokane to Chicago, even though the trains still go thru Spokane. Broke the union. And Spokane never recovered.
You do have a choice. Take the vaccine if you want to work in the federal government or find another job. The government doesn't owe you or anyone else a job.
Most GPL licenses permits their code to be redistributed as the same GPL version or any later version of the GPL, Linux releases as GPLv2 or later for example.

Perf does not permit the license to be redistributed as anything except GPLv2, so it conflicts with GPLv3 code.
And also Focals by North
Oh dear God, they actually used sea sponges? Why did I need to know that...

My ancestors might've been barbarians but they knew to use leaves and water :D
Open-source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M
Would you mind endorsing me on LinkedIn for "having dudes on bendy poles"? [0]

0: https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ?t=291
The UI features required are different, but like on websites, mobile-first works very well. There are some pretty native-feeling Catalyst apps on macOS: Voice Memos (has flaws), Jira (very native feel), Vectornator (pretty full featured and perfectly native feeling Mac app) and even unmodified iOS apps (Metatext) that run great, as well as smartphone-styled Apps (Telegram) that are great to use.

Sure. Keyboard shortcuts for text. Right click instead of long press. More precision. Hoveing. Swiping back on the trackpad instead of the screen. There are differences - but they're really not that fundamental. Minimal differences.

We can certainly argue about whether mobile first allows an app to use the full potential of the desktop. Maybe not. But I honestly don't care that much if the alternative is no app.
Natural immunity wanes enough to cause a "2nd surge" in cities that were 75%ish infected, such as Araraquara city, Brazil, and Manaus, Brazil.

I can agree with you that the 180-days thing is just an estimate from one study. Further studies are needed to narrow down the exact time when natural immunity wanes. But its a good "first guess" at the phenomenon, and should be within a magnitude of the truth.

From what we've seen around the world, COVID19 (or at least its variants, like Gamma/P.1 or Delta/B.1.617) is more than willing to reinfect populations in less than a year.
Even if they literally had no effect on transmission (which is false), it's still a positive for public health because they have massive effect on hospitalization.
If I'm wrong I'll stand corrected but, it behaves way too much like a web app to not at least be making heavy use of WKWebView.
Facebook wants more eyes.
Parent said GUI though.
In Rovelli's book he talks about going to Anton Zeilinger's laboratory to see the experiment in person. I assume you'd need a proper lab with carefully calibrated equipment for something like this, but I'm not a physicist.

Even so, an effect that can be demonstrated with tabletop equipment in a lab seems more intuitively real to me than something that requires a giant particle accelerator...

100 or 200 years ago a more or less average person could set up cutting-edge scientific experiments with basic equipment and patient observation – this was the modus operandi of Michael Faraday[1] for example. Sadly it seems like those days are mostly behind us now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday
One of my friends is part of PleasrDAO, dodge NFT is working out really well for him...

EDIT: not saying I support it, just that ponzi schemes work for the people on top
> I'm not sure what possessed me to do this.

Because you are not only a gentleman but also a scholar, dang!
Tried Github; didn't like it.

1: I prefer EU companies with strict privacy laws. I only host with Switzerland.

2: Github won't be happy with 1/2 million unique IPs in a day hitting their servers when a post goes viral. (That's an expense on their part)

3: With a free GH account everything is public knowledge and every change made to your blog is visible via diffs. I don't want nosey people poring over every mistake I made in posts. I'm not sure it's possible to have a Github Pages instance that is private.

4: Whilst 3rd party tools assist in markdown generation (for use with Jekyll and Hugo), you still have to peek inside templates to customize everything to your liking. Something I am tired of doing.

5: Whilst TLS & HTTPS on Github pages is supported, I still have problems getting it to work properly. Seems to only work on {username}.github.io and not a custom domain.

6: There are issues with what URL to serve to on GH Pages. Do I use `www.site.com` or `site.com`? And how does the server negotiate which one to use?
Your vaccine does not work unless someone or everyone else has one? Has this been observed with previous vaccine products?
As a huge fan STEM fields and biology, I have to ask if this type of thing should even be allowed. We dont know - but what if the current pandemic is a result of "gain of function" research? Never mind weather it is or not, its plausible and that should raise concern. Anyone making self replicating anything IMHO should think twice, or thrice. Dont get me wrong, that stuff is really interesting - to the point where a lot of people won't be willing to seriously consider the question "should we?"
This feels like Holy Motors. Wearing these will inevitably change the way the bearer or the person pointed at will behave. They'll start being actors in their actual lives. Weird blending of life and film...
> ...we may end up in the same situation for education, where becoming an indentured servant for Amazon or Starbucks takes the place of what should be a public education service.

I'm amazed at this criticism. College is and was difficult for many people to handle because it's expensive. It's not lack of will or ability to find time.

I got my bachelor's degree while I was serving in the US Air Force at 40 hours plus per week. Yeah, it was a bit of a grunt. But I got the degree. I'm still grateful for their help in funding tuition as well as the flexibility to attend evening classes. I think most people in that situation would feel the same.
> The SSD... does not have any access to the Internet or RAM.

Not DMA or equivalent bus access?
Isn't this an unnecessary medical procedure for people who have already recovered?
It's getting closer. The display component is obviously the hardest part hardware-wise, but the battery, mic, camera, speaker, and compute components are all there now, and in a form factor that I actually could see myself wearing all day if the benefits were sufficiently compelling.

Also gives some insight into what future early consumer-targeted AR devices might look like. Up until now I've been picturing something like a slimmer version of Hololens; highly capable but a bit bulky, with a focus on slimming things down in future revisions. Now that I think about it though, a more successful consumer-oriented approach might be from the opposite direction; comfort and aesthetics at the expense of capability in the short term, with a focus on improving capability in future revisions.

Something like these glasses, with a simple low-res monochromatic display that only turns on when needed. Touch to wake and display contextual information relevant to whatever you're currently looking at. All heavy processing done on your phone, with an extreme focus on maintaining all-day battery life on the glasses themselves. I think something like that could succeed, given sufficiently compelling software.
If we are bashing "agencies", let's have a look at those tiny little projects like, SeLinux for instance. Or any other from this site https://code.nsa.gov/
I've been in a hand full of k-12 schools where there are no stall doors. You can walk in the bathroom and make eye contact with someone who has their pants around their ankles.
Either mismanagement or false reporting / fear mongering which runs rampant in covid times.

I don't know how you think that translates to poor natural immunity.

You would need to know the % of patients with covid of the ICUs that are overrun, whether they were previously infected, etc.