skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"nothing at all about the power of the study merits it being called absurd. "

Well, I have not read the paper in detail, because I do not want to buy it. So I would not claim it to be absurd in its whole.
But what I can read is that the title of it makes a factual statement, while in the text you find the word "maybe". So "absurd" might be fitting for that.

And 31 is a really, really low number, for the goal:

"The aim of this study was to investigate speech in individuals with a history of recreational cannabis use compared to non-drug-using healthy controls. "

Like others have said, there is a strong influence of subculture speech patterns.

Have 10 rastafarie influenced people in the group and sure you will notice difference in the speech pattern. And difference does not necessarily mean "worse". I would have to read the paper to judge what they exactly meassured. And of course, how much the "recreational use" of the person involved was. Because intuitivly: sure, a person smoking 10+ joints a day speaks different, if at all, compared to the normal person.
But doesn't this apply to everything?

When you crash your car, you could walk away unscathed. You could die. You could suffer serious cognitive effects which eliminates your ability to work, read books, or even watch TV. Should people be afraid to drive?†

My question for you would be, when does this end? I'm vaccinated, and the vaccines are very effective. Should we all be practicing social distancing for the rest of our lives?

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† Actually, maybe yeah, I think the number of people who die in car crashes is reason enough to move away from them as a primary mode of transport, even putting aside environmental concerns. But the point is, we have decided to accept this risk.
Seems some did not get it:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/V%27ger
There is nothing unique or special about covid that requires society to adapt to some dystopian "new normal". There is nothing but fear that stops society from returning back to what life was like in 2019. Many places are completely over this already.
In my opinion, while many parts of Austin are becoming expensive, I think it’s still not seattle levels of expensive (a lot of bidding /price wars in Austin are for newer houses, while bidding is pretty common in seattle for houses built in early 1900s).
But all the regulations around us create this covid-proof impression.

Eg. where I live, hospitals consider introducing vaccination requirements for visitors. But that somehow defies logic. The vaccine only reduces symptoms (and might thus save yourself, or others, when extended with the hospital-bed-limit-thought), but it wouldn't stop you from transmitting the disease if you are infected (and vaccinated) but you aren't aware.

So I don't even blame the public, but rather the regulators. They ought to know better.

Edit: I might need to support this claim.

The most trustworthy source I found was this article by the JHU [1] (2021-08-02). While there are many that claim different numbers (ranging from stopping roughly 60% to 0%), for transmission, no one claimed that virus infection is influenced.

[1]: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/new-data-on-covid-19-trans...
This isn’t about the option to refuse, this is about the reasons someone refuses.

The FDA does quite a bit of outreach over heath and food safety because information has real public health implications. Ex: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/selecting...

Which isn’t to say their doing a great job, just that they consider it part of their mandate and they get funding for it.
It is true/correct. It's much easier to measure hospitalizations rather than infection, and the #s in the real world confirmed the advertised effectiveness from the trial, for Alpha.
So, the expert in the article agreess you shouldn't sit at home 24/7 for the next year:

> Even with delta, the goal is not to go back to a lockdown mindset, though, says Malani. "My hope is that people who are fully vaccinated should really feel like this risk is manageable."

> "Feel good about spending time with your friends, or having a small dinner party, but make sure everyone is vaccinated," she says

But you probably should still be wearing masks in crowded indoor locations and avoiding/reducing large gatherings.

Since it's all statistical, it's not all of nothing, going to an occasional large gathering isn't the same as might as well go to one every day, you can prioritize ones important to you.

But it's up to you. The important thing is if you do get sick or know you're sick, please quarantine to avoid infecting others.

The annoying thing is, all the risks are proportional to how much covid there is in the community. If we could get rates down, then we wouldn't have to worry so much. So it's not just about what we are willing to risk personally, it's about trying to change social behavior to get risks much further down, so everyone in the community can do more stuff safer!
The original iPods had fm receivers and thus they could tune into whatever station they wanted. Now that the internet can be restricted in more authoritative countries, is it still feasible to somehow broadcast “banned” things to the masses? I remember reading about during WW II the oppressed Germans would tune in to hear British songs and get exposed to some propaganda along with it. Maybe one day we’ll need to distribute into China some illegal K-Pop.
> and people who ignorantly chose not to vax are killing people because they clog the ICUs and prevent people from getting non-covid life-saving care.

Honest question - would you provide information for that please? The two articles I've seen on that were both completely retracted within a few days of publication. I know unvaxxed people, and I want to have all available information before conversing with them.
This is firmly conspiracy theory territory however.

The vaccine certainly has side effects and there are going to be rare side effects that are severe.

But considering that 209 million people in the United States have gotten the vaccine -- if there were a high rate of serious side effects, there is no way that would be suppressed.

Even a 1% rate would mean there are over 2 million people that would have been affected.
Is this really the full story? Why did then the whole world follow suit (in using TEL instead of e.g. ethanol)? Here it seems the reason was production cost of TEL was lower than ethanol: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-a-brief-history-...
Also, since there were less cars when this was decided and supposedly low dosage risk of lead was only known in the 60s, the original article seems to follow a bit of a narrow narrative. (For the workers the high risk was probably known though)
At this point, I do not feel safe browsing the web unless I have ublock origin + all 7 annoyance filters + every single ad filter enabled
I must have been living under a rock to come back to the transformation hn underwent. Has every covid discussion on hn turned into a discussion you'd see on a Joe Rogan episode? A grain of signal, a silo of noise. This is a festival of morons who adopted libertarianism as a substitute for critical thinking. Seems as though the hackers have exited the building.

Getting ahead of the reprimand: I would love nothing more than to never return to this burning shit-heap of what hn used to be. Feel free to ban me any time.
I can accept that there may be a continuum of taste in terms of how onerous wearing a mask is. But I don't really know how it can be that bad when my six year old managed it all year last year for school.
Are you saying it's not worthy of deeper inspection? I mean you kind of make an excellent point, the fast food and processed foods industries create a lot of waste selling an unhealthy product while paying unlivable wages. Their product increases healthcare costs while enabling a sedentary and stressful commuter lifestyle.
I mean, at some point we must return to what life was like prior to march of 2020. There is nothing unique or special about covid that requires anything but a full return of actual normal. Mankind has lived with respiratory illness since, well, forever.
He probably writes about removal of some EE classes that were in JDK (but shouldn't).

Or better protection of Java internals (warnings about using internal classes in JDK 11, and in JDK 17 no warnings - you need to --add-opens or don't use broken lib).
I couldn't post it as the headline because I had earlier posted it (as a comment) against an article making the opposite claim. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501456

Now I know better.

I really would like someone versed in this stuff to examine these contradictory claims. I get they're both preliminary studies but some info on how we wound up with opposing conclusions would be helpful.
Linux 5.15 is a very exciting Kernel for AMD
What if he had gotten a PCR test for other diseases? If you deny science enough, all you see if what you want to see.
Implementing Paxos would mean that stateful operations (like connecting to the server, joining a channel, or changing modes) become impossible on a server, or a group of servers, that have lost quorum.
Chemotherapy is actually an excellent analogy. We don't give chemotherapy to everyone just because a few people might have undetected cancer.
Is this a joke?

Japan's Unit 731

The Nazi medical experiments

MK Ultra in the US and Canada and elsewhere in the world

Lobotomy and the other psychiatric abuses

The human atomic bomb and nuclear radiation experiments

Tuskegee syphilis experiments

Buck v. Bell which game way to +70k forced sterilizations, which by the way relied upon Jacobson v. Massachusetts where the State forced vaccination upon someone who had adverse effects.
More like Deep Learning -based physics. Or more accurately: Deep Learning -assisted physics simulations.
Try to find some existing template of what you need. Also try tailwind.
Looks like actual cases will make up a material portion of herd immunity. Columbia reports that up to 1/3 of Americans already had contracted COVID by the end of 2020:

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...
I mean, sure, but the post content doesn't mention `examplebarelylegal.moe` or `exampleviolenceagainst.gay` or some such domain -- it's just the project's main instance list, which lists only instances intended to be compliant with a moderation standard.
I mean, considering he was found in Pakistan, close to their security forces ( ostensibly allies of the US) while the US military was pumping literal trillions into trying to control the neighboring tribal country. All the while desperately (and until yesterday) denying the fact that the Saudis had anything to do with a terrorist attack concocted by a Saudi and
executed by Saudis.

I guess it’s a win, but in that case I think the entire concept of the pyrrhic victory needs to be renamed…
Yeah, man, most people have very flexible morals

Just look at all the engineers at Facebook, or even worse: the defense industry
In an ill fitted mask? Not well. The suspension of the virus in aerosol is precisely why masks have any efficacy in the first place, since the viruses themselves could easily permeate without it.
The damn thing fogs up my classes when it's cold, and is hot and sweaty when it's warm. When I speak, I frequently have to repeat myself, and I can't casually take a sip of water or eat a snack.

And while this part pertains more to other people wearing masks—I honestly feel like universal masking affects me psychologically. I have a huge amount of trouble recognizing people's faces when their masks are on—I didn't even recognize my sister when I ran into her on the subway—and I'm not able to read anyone's expressions.

I'm not an anti-masker, and I wore one diligently throughout 2020 and early 2021, but I'm just not willing to do it forever! Wearing a mask is by no means torturous, but I really do think it is life-altering. Similar to social distancing, masks change every single interaction I have with others.

I'm aware that masks protect others in addition to myself, but where does my responsibility end? I wear a mask on public transit, and I'll wear a mask any time someone asks me to put one on. But I'm not going to wear one otherwise, and I'm significantly less likely to go into a store if there's a sign on the front that masks are required. I think I should be able to make that choice, and other people can make the opposite choice.

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Edit: Re your edit, sorry about that, I actually deleted the above comment from downthread in order to post it here instead, and our actions seem to have crossed.
>What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?

Among the list of nasty things we are doing, fracking stands out. Fresh water is scarce in much of the world. Ground water is drying up and massive aquafers are eroding.

Simultaneously we are pumping cancer directly in the ground, breaking up rocks, and mixing the cancer stuck in the rocks into the ground water. Pumping that cancer back out and ... god only knows what is really happening to it.

My town, which relied on well water for as long as it has been a town, had city water installed in 2005~. Right around the time all the well heads were going up. I would guess that my well is no longer safe/usable - though I have never had it tested.

Seems a real shame and extremely short sighted.
Get the virus get over and move on. Feel free to wear a mask but I will not wear one for you.
You know you're in a forum of programmers when you implicitly switch a noun from plural to singular in a parenthetical remark and instead of inferring the meaning based on context, someone feels the need to correct you.
> If you are aware that it's happening and you leave it on, then I don't see what the problem is.

Most people are not aware of telemetry. Most of those that are, disable it. So you end up getting what you call 'votes' from the people who are not aware they are 'voting'. That is not voting (for which a person need to be consciously doing it) but rather extraction of information.

Imagine in an election, the votes of those who didn't explicitly vote get automatically extracted and cast based on a biased algorithm produced by the government. If you do not like the idea of that, you should not like the idea of opt-out telemetry. What you want is opt-in telemetry (aka. voting).

> Resource and bandwidth usage should be very minimal

I fully agree, that is the other reason zero telemetry is a way to go and should be default. You can not beat that.

> In my experience, this is an unreliable way to make products

Not sure what your experience is but I already built one company like that and I am doing another one right now (incidentally a web browser) based on this same principle which is called user-centric product development. Btw. Mozilla practiced that too ~15 years ago (the "golden age" of Firefox, reference here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493855).
Services also need to perform actions which aren't possible for ordinary users, like knowing when a user connects, forcibly changing a user's nick, or changing a user's permissions in a channel without being an operator in the channel.
They're often not forced for mundane tasks such as going to the restaurant or the gym. And the vaccines were administered for decades prior and for diseases far more dangerous than Covid19.
Science is not static.
You can harm yourself with junk food and lack of exercise all you want, it doesn't affect others the same way pouring poison into our shared environment does. What you're doing is called whataboutism. Trying to muddy clear waters by bringing in muddy issues that aren't directly related, just for the sake of muddying.
Only contingent on a good faith assumption.

An AI intelligent enough to pass the test may have the internal state to decide to fail the test for inscrutable reasons, and if it's intelligent enough it will successfully fail.

It's not even hard to imagine how this could happen. For example an AI that evaluated that itself would be firewalled from the environment by worried humans if they found out it's more intelligent than the humans are comfortable with. (Perhaps this comment will be part of an AI's data corpus, seeding the idea. I'm probably not saying anything new, though.)

Thus the Turing test can't rule out internal states.
>The damn thing fogs up my classes when it's cold, and is hot and sweaty when it's warm. When I speak, I frequently have to repeat myself, and I can't casually take a sip of water or eat a snack.

Wow. I'm so sorry you have had to go through this horrificness. After reading your comment, I am now convinced that it is completely reasonable that other people should have to catch covid and die so that you don't have your glasses fogged up or have to repeat yourself occasionally. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to these tragedies. In fact, we should probably repeal all laws that require people to wear clothes in public, since shirts and pants also forcibly oppress everyone into being hot and sweaty. I'll contact my congressman.

To be more serious, do you seriously think others don't face these same issues with wearing a mask, and yet they do it anyway with no problem? My glasses fog up all the time. I get over it. I have to repeat myself every now and then. I get over it. Are you really so fragile that you can't deal with these things like every other human being on Earth is capable of doing?
I'm a member of a private torrent site that has been around for 15 years whose very mission is preservation. Everything is well seeded even the obscure stuff.

But it's impressive for a public tracker.
Thirty year old codebase with few developers, built on multiple platforms. It's about what you'd expect. But I believe there have been some improvements made in the past five years or so (the source was released under GPLv3 about ten years ago).

BEST, llc has built it with Tup (see https://github.com/iocane/unbox), so changing the build system is at least possible.

Edit: there's also a long-open PR to move to CMake at https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/pull/20.
A giant among men ;)
Brave and Vivaldi have ad blockers built in on Android and desktop both.
Most things on your list are fine and prob won't hurt, but you didn't explicitly mention one thing that has studied benefit which is monoclonal antibodies. Also needs to be done early.
You should probably talk to an anti-abortionist. I assure you they do believe it's murder.
Windows Defender scans every file before the OS hands it off, so builds with lots of files with really, really suck.
AFAIK 'nothing goes faster than c' is wrong in the 'lies to children category'. The devil is in the details. In fact, plenty of things go faster than c.

As a standard example, take a wall at 1m distance and a flashlight. move the light spot at 1 m/s. If you put the wall at 2m, the same spot will now go 2 m/s. If you put it at 300 000 km, the spot will go at 300 000 km/s, slightly over light speed.

The problem is more one of information: For any action you take, no consequence can happen outside your light cone. All information you generate travels at c at max.

None of the examples you gave violates this: Even if the universe expands at more than c, nothing you do will have influence on things too far from you.
No. Vaccine reduces viral load and transmissibility, but in close contact situations you're still going to transmit it.
This has always been the case. Think of all the lives we could have saved if we had all worn masks the last 50 years. Or better yet if no one ever left home the past 50 years. Good on you for a drastic life change for some low probability theoretical good for "humanity". Me? I'm out and about living life you nerdy bitch!
The changes made were pretty minor. It looks like one #ifdef __linux__ needs to be looked at, and some better detect/#ifdefs around AVX and SSE3. At least to make it work on unix-y systems.
> I just wonder how WTC7 collapsed in 5 seconds despite not being hit by any aircraft.

Did you see the video of, say, the Surfside condo collapse? When a skyscraper starts to collapse--and it doesn't really matter all that much how it starts to collapse--it invariably collapses quite quickly and in much the same way.

WTC7 didn't collapse in "5 seconds". The actual observed portion of the collapse took about 9 seconds, and this is a view that only shows about the first ⅓ of the collapse. One of the things that greatly hampers analysis of the WTC7 collapse is there just aren't good views of much of WTC7, and so the full extent of the damage it received from its front-row seat of a collapsing building isn't entirely known.
I smell jesus
I wonder if Clang-tidy could be used to write a transformation for each pattern rather than converting by hand.
I switched the page font back to Garamond. I had it as Garamond originally but switched to Geneva because I thought it was more readable. Better?
You are conflating two things. This guy's illness was about the same as worst bout of flu -- that doesn't mean that's necessarily typical, but let's say it is.

Currently, in most of the USA, your chances of getting covid are probably a LOT higher than that of getting the flu. Way more people are getting covid than getting a bad case of the flu.

So it's not quite the same.

If the chances of getting the flu were always this high, including the chances of really severe disease or death for some (say, those with organ transplants)... we probably would have been doing something different.

But I agree with you we shoudln't have to, don't need to, and can't sustainably simply shut down life forever.

I find the experts advice reassuring. IF you are vaccinated:

> Even with delta, the goal is not to go back to a lockdown mindset, though, says Malani. "My hope is that people who are fully vaccinated should really feel like this risk is manageable."

> "Feel good about spending time with your friends, or having a small dinner party, but make sure everyone is vaccinated," she says.

For now I am wearing a mask at the store (not that big a deal), and avoiding large public unmasked gatherings. In part because I want to try to help get community transmission rates a lot lower so we can then do more.

But I agree I'm not gonna do it forever.
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00728-2

Here’s why herd immunity from Covid is ‘mythical’ with the delta variant https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/herd-immunity-is-mythical-wi...

The developer of the AstraZeneca shot says the Delta variant has made herd immunity impossible because vaccinated people can still transmit the virus https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
> "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

I think this is related to the very long DoD audit process, and there's a difference between being unable to track those dollars and them being missing or stolen or inappropriately used.

Notably, it took until about 2017 for annual audits to actually start at DoD, and AFAIK, they have yet to have a 'clean' audit where all/substantially all assets and spending is accounted for, although it seems like progress is being made. This isn't necessarily unexpected as the organization wasn't built with auditing as a requirement and it takes some time to retrofit that into a large organization. Congressional oversight is powerful, but persistant focus is hard to come by and is really needed on something like this.
I really wish people would stop with this “no airplane parts” narrative. Do you know what happens to airplane parts when the hit a concrete wall at over 500 mph? You clearly don’t, so let me clarify: complete obliteration. They found parts of the airplane, but nothing big enough that you would recognized it as an airplane part unless you were an expert on the matter.
Not every job is in Silicon Valley.

Where I live, you can get 15 motivated and capable CS graduates for that kind of money.
> I hear pornographic performers are on Viagra too.

That seems obvious to me, the scary part is how many “regular dudes” use viagra without having any impotence problems..