skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We eradicated smallpox and (almost) polio because we had highly sterilizing vaccines and no animal hosts. That situation doesn't obtain with SARS-CoV-2.

Vaccines are highly effective at preventing deaths and I do encourage vaccination, but vaccinated people can still catch and spread the virus. They are probably less contagious on average, but unfortunately that isn't enough to control community spread.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03944-y

Acknowledging reality isn't being a doomer. Don't engage in magical thinking.
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28530963
Fair comparison, but still a really low bar. It's safer, but not really any easier.
This is a good analysis of what's wrong, although it doesn't go into how we got here or how we could get out of this mess.

If you're interested in those topics, you'd probably enjoy reading Strong Towns (strongtowns.org), and if you're _really_ motivated you should consider becoming a member. At present, Strong Towns is the most influential group in the broader "YIMBY"-sphere, and is starting to have a real impact on the way municipal leaders operate cities.

Ultimately it's going to be a very long journey to change the culture so that we can change the laws (to permit incremental development and return to more scalable transportation patterns). Every additional supporting member makes a big impact.

(disclaimer, I'm a member)
Perhaps it would simpler to encourage some companies to leave those cities (tax policy?) rather than to build/subsidize new housing.
Cute analogy but it's not an honest or accurate one. Look at what's happening in Australia as an example.

They're going to force people who quarantine at home (rather than a government-mandated quarantine "hotel" with guards) to install and use an app. Facial recognition, GPS tracking in your own home. And it will randomly ping you, and if you don't respond within 15 minutes it'll send the police to your house to conduct an in-person quarantine check. Source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

They're arresting people for making Facebook posts against lockdowns. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

Australia presumes to say how many people can visit your home. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097

Do you really want similar systems built everywhere? Do you really want to have to show a covid vaccine passport to go to the theater or the gym or the bar? What about those 100+ million Americans who have antibodies from past covid infection already?

Do you believe that there is a point at which we should raise the alarm about impending tyranny? Do you believe that there was ever a point in the last 4 years where we had a President who may have had ties to supremacist movements? Do you believe that there was ever in the last 4 years a legitimate risk of tyranny taking over the land when he was in office? When would you personally depart from your cute but ineffectual seatbelt example and take a good hard long objective look at the system being built? I don't trust these people. They want power and control.
We also have no good scientific evidence on whether parachutes are effective. You can't knowingly run an experiment that could cause harm to the participants.
Honestly I simply can`t be bothered to search for a source that was in a newspaper and on TV 30 years ago. These predictions have been happening for a long time, I lived through them.

I`m not a climate change denier, but shitty predictions definitely hurt the cause of legitimate concern.

Here's another quick Google search from a (more?) legit site: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo...

Of course anyone in the Gen X/older millennial category should know what I'm talking about anyway (unless they slept through the first decade of their schooling).
Some of the early floppy disks had a surprisingly large amount of space. I think the Tandy 8 inch discs had around 1.2 MB, so in effect, your 10MB hard drive was only five (ok, four) times the space you could have available with a dual floppy setup.

By 1990 or so, 40MB hard drives were becoming available, and floppies had shrunk physically, but not gained much capacity.
Since we will all likely be exposed, I find it hard to fathom the logic that it’s not better, from a risk perspective, to encounter it vaccinated.
I do think it's strange that so many in the science of obesity think that human biochemistry can be modeled with spherical cows.
The whole process is basically:

- Flash SD card with Raspberry OS Lite using the Raspberry imager

- Create /ssh (empty file)

- Create /wpa_supplicant.conf with wifi details

- Put the SD card in the Pi and connect the power

- ssh pi@rasperrypi.local (password raspberry)

It takes < 10 min from unboxing a pi to being SSH’d into it.
If a carbon tax won’t pass in liberal Washington I don’t think there’s much hope for the rest of the US, TBH.
I would hesitate to take one study as definitive either way. Also, I've seen data pointing to important variables of possible interest moderating the potential effectiveness, including age, and severity of first infection.
A reason I've heard is that small businesses borrow against their home equity usually, so if you're house is worth more then more money to pump into your business, this is a good thing so they say.
> The question was basically, "Find the median of a huge data set without sorting it," [...]

You can use eg QuickSelect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickselect) or Median of Medians.

They don't sort the data, but they do need linear amount of storage.
I am Gen-Z and I'm pretty sure I won't have children. They cannot grow up in a Hell we created and that they never asked to exist in. It's something I think about very often.
Explicit yielding of execution is often very important, for example, UI code or any case where exact OS thread matters.
"It’s noteworthy because it’s bizarre behavior and he’s related to her."

It's not noteworthy because it's bizarre behavior. It is specifically relevant behavior. This entire case is only about determining if she is guilty of engaging in exactly this behavior.

We should all thank the guy for providing such a great example of why not to believe any story her and her lawyers cook up.
I've heard about it for the last 30 years, glaciers that should be melted aren't, cities that should be underwater aren't, none of the alarming predictions have come true. In 30 years someone will be telling me just wait...
Something like QuickSelect is probably better in practice than median-of-medians.
Boeing's Fatal Flaw (full documentary) – FRONTLINE
To my mind, there are two angles to address. On the one hand, your argument really makes the most sense in the scope of "for people with a background in software", and due to the unique nature of software use and development, I don't think it would easily transfer to other domains. So, you can content yourself with making a point about people with a background in software.

Second, by bringing up free computer access at a library, it connects the point you're trying to make with the really complicated nuances around poverty. Even assuming we ignore smartphones and tablets (because how can you get any work done on one?), the demographic that only has access to a device with a keyboard at a public library is going to be almost entirely facing (at least) moderate poverty, and life in poverty just looks very different from the kinds of backgrounds that the rest of your piece implicitly addresses. So, you could focus instead on the wealth of free software tools available to the people who are in some range of circumstances to take advantage of them, assuming that access to a device with a keyboard isn't the primary challenge.
Climate scientists have historically maintained a tacit agreement to not discuss other solutions publicly, because they think reducing emissions is the best way to go and they don't want to distract politicians by telling them about other options. This has changed a bit in recent years (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-geoengineer...), but the change largely hasn't filtered to the public consciousness.
It's kind of a forgotten area for security. Most security tools and policy tend to focus higher up the "real computers", for lack of a better term.
> What happens next depends on whether we can achieve a level of immunity that prevents the virus from spreading.

Sir Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group that developed the AZ vaccine, does not think this is possible because vaccinated people can still get and spread the virus.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/herd-immunity-is-mythical-wi...

> “The problem with this virus is [it is] not measles. If 95% of people were vaccinated against measles, the virus cannot transmit in the population,” he told the U.K.’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on the coronavirus.

> Pollard said that while Covid vaccines might slow the spread of the virus — because fully vaccinated but infected people appeared, in studies, to shed less virus, giving the virus less opportunity to spread — new variants were likely to emerge that would also spread.

> “I suspect that what the virus will throw up next is a variant which is perhaps even better at transmitting among vaccinated populations and so that’s even more of a reason not to be making a vaccine program around herd immunity.”

It is increasingly obvious that we are going to have to find ways to live with this virus. It will be (and basically already is) endemic. Hopefully over time it will become more and more like a cold but until then, aiming for the impossible is only going to make the situation worse because more and more people are seeing that the narrative and claims presented by politicians and technocrats don't add up.
As hominem attacks are not a good way to discredit an argument though.
> I find JavaScript already too complicated

I get that you don't want it *to become* complicated, but as it currently is, JavaScript is still a rather simple language.
I'm suggesting exactly what I said. Would you like me to repeat it?

When beef has the 30x the environmental impact of plant based food per calorie, it would be hard to make the statement that fat people are automatically to blame for climate change.

The whole argument is just completely ignorant on its face.

Dispute what I said instead of making glib replies.

Do you think every calorie has the same environmental impact? No? Because OF COURSE NOT. So what are you even disagreeing with?
Best IDE in History – Borland
You basically point two the same two links over and over, as if this is sufficient. But it isn't.
Over the top.
I think it's not related. If you need to run ARM code on performance x64 core, ARM to x84 emulator is needed.

I believe this is for make applications like DAW (that often uses native plugins, some aren't updated well) port to ARM.
This makes no sense. The government doesn’t issue debt and then just sit on the cash. The debt ceiling is constantly being raised here in the US because every cent is spent.

The two events (1) Congress deciding to spend money (in excess of receipts), and (2) the Treasury issuing debt, are directly causally related. If event (1) doesn’t happen, then event (2) won’t happen. In theory it could, but in reality it does not, period.
Good point. Let's do an experiment and shut down Facebook altogether, and see if things improve.

Move fast and break Zuckerberg!
No, it's decomposing grass, expelled as cow burps.

That grass decomposes whether it's eaten by a cow or not.

And grazing land use has been decreasing, but not land use for producing feed.
That's a pretty big "if" in your statement. I thought HN was better than this.
You're right, I made the mistake of assumptions that I based off my own experience. I'm a poor immigrant from Colombia and spent most of my childhood at libraries since my parents had to work but I was very lucky to have so many resources at my library and parent's encouragement that others may not have had. I still want to encourage others to make the most of what they have, if they have the ability to, but how could I improve the message without belittling others?
I think this whole “rah rah do it for the community” is the wrong message to send to the final group of the unvaccinated. The government needs to message on the benefit to the individual.

I can tell you that the ONLY reason I am vaccinated is because I want to maximize my chances of the negative consequences of Covid impact TO ME. I honestly don’t give two shits about anyone else outside my family. As some of you do gooders read this in horror, realize that among the general populace, most people’s motivation behind their decision to vaccinate is not that far from mine.

No one likes to admit it, but objectivism and what’s in it for me are a lot more prevalent than folks like to admit. If our government was smart, they’d realize that and shift the message accordingly.
> people in some minimal wage job seeing to get out and trying to get things done

Someone in a minimum wage job would possibly be trying to work overtime or a second job in order to make ends meet, and would have very little time/energy left over to do anything, let alone figure out how to break into the world of software development. Even considering a happy path where someone works ~40 hours/week, has a short commute, and doesn't have dependents to care for, it can still be incredibly challenging to muster the focus necessary to self-tech programming.

I understand that the resources to become successful at software development are freely available, but this post glosses over all the prerequisites (as pointed out by some other comments): ample free time (for years), a growth mindset, intelligence, resourcefulness, etc. If somebody already possesses all those things, then the idea that they can teach themselves valuable skills online would be helpful (if not obvious).

As you said, somebody couldn't accomplish this goal starting from literally "nothing". It might be helpful to identify and delineate what _is_ required to embark on such a journey. That way people who tick a lot of the boxes will feel empowered, and those that don't will have an idea of what it takes to get there.
Just a few days ago there was a post about Gen-Z flooding climate science/environmental jobs and the response was pretty similar to here (except for some great discourse on whether these jobs actually make a difference in the first place).

Even those taking action are seen as overly concerned/panicked children who are only doing this because of TikTok. I cannot express under this site's guidelines how absolutely grating and antagonizing this kind of view is. As if media didn't exist before the Internet and this generation is somehow a uniform drone of phone-addicted feeble minds.

Perhaps it has less to do with irrational panic and more to do with the certain loss of life that will affect us all.
Even though a large percentage of us adults are obese I don't consider it normalized since it'd a target of ridicule, there's a massive industry around losing weight, and I'm assuming if you ask most fat people if they want to be thin they would say yes.

For fitness I do want to be fair and point out general health and muscle building are parts of that health industry
thanks so much for the link, that is super cool!
And yet when you leave Safari (or any other browser) and use other apps and come back, and have your tab(s) reload and lose your position in a long webpage or have to re-fill a form... sometimes happens even after 10 seconds... then you wish you had more RAM
Fair enough.

My overall point, though, is that it is easy to imagine a horrible, negative effect on a child's psyche, but it is more likely not a problem. Humans, and kids in particular, are fairly robust and adaptable creatures.

In my experience, for most fears about X people have, X alone usually is not damaging. However, being surrounded by people who are convinced X is bad will make it more likely that the person will believe it. This tends to cause more issues than X does.

If a kid has parents and other close people around him/her who believe wearing a mask and not seeing people's faces often is bad for the kid - then it will be.
WXYZ-TV posted the following question on facebook a few days ago and received 155k responses.

"After the vaccines were available to everyone, did you lose an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19? "

https://www.facebook.com/80221381134/posts/10158207967261135...

The responses are not what you would expect. Certainly not what the media narrative is.
It's weird how under-reported any findings on side-effects are, another one to watch out for is hepatitis infections [0]

I also don't think it's particularly useful to frame this into a US domestic "the democrats in power!" narrative.

The issue is extremely polarized all over the world, rarely any place allows for any nuance outside of the imagined "anybody who doesn't want to get vaccinated fears Bill Gates 5G" two camps.

Trying to make this into a "Them Democrats are to blame!" is just more of that partisan kindergarten in a different flavor.

[0] https://www.dovepress.com/hepatitis-c-virus-reactivation-fol...
Someone is coding themselves a minivan I see.
Damn. Even with a great product, that's still a 40x multiple on revenue.
Are these people asleep? The vaccines are demonstrably better at producing immunity against strains other than the one you were infected with, particularly against Delta for people who were infected with vanilla or Alpha.
The sendmail "debug" thing wasn't a security issue until someone talked about it either, right? If only it hadn't been disclosed the RTM worm would never have happened...

This is like saying "if we don't talk about the bad things they never happened." Stories like this are weaponized nonsense; "the problem exists because of the people saying it exists"
One other nuance is the difference between wealth and income. Wealth is productive assets that generate further capital in one way or another. Income just gets used to pay for things.

Instead, I think it's basically ok to say that your point applies to people who have reached a certain threshold of stability and security in your life, and isn't meant to imply that people who haven't reached that threshold ought to be able to simply will themselves into doing the same thing.
> That doesn't seem to explain how the "controversy" seemed to form almost perfectly along existing partisan lines in the United States

Awfully convenient, isn’t that?
In economics, the most important question is "as compared to what?" You might be able to afford a gold plated system designed with 15-9's of reliability, but do you want to work 10 hours week to afford that system? On the margin, do you want to have a 10% smaller house to pay for that level of medical awesomeness?
That is generally true. Any one year model change does not offer enough to justify an upgrade unless you happen to need a specific feature or if you just don’t mind spending a lot of money just to have the latest.

At one time, when smartphones were a new thing, there were a lot of big improvements in each year, but as the lines have matured, there is less opportunity for dramatic changes. More and more people are waiting 2, 3, 4, or more years between purchases. In doing so, they benefit from the cumulative improvements all at once.
I bought a domain name from a domain squatter who used Epik and there's a 60 day waiting period before I'm allowed to transfer the domain away.

Their site is one of the buggiest I've ever used (no, really), so this hack doesn't surprise me at all. Now I'm trying to remember how much personal information I would have given them.
Epik "ended its relationship" with The Daily Stormer because of content hosted on the site and the "entanglement" (meaning PR issues). If you're not ok with that, then I don't think Epik is what you're looking for. If you are ok with it, then you can accept service providers disassociating themselves with "distasteful" clients, it's just a matter of exactly how distasteful they have to be.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/08/965448572/meet-the-man-behind...
Indeed! And most of the 20 contributors work for Microsoft. Talk about FUD.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were class differences. Wine and cheese for the patricians, bread and milk for the plebs.
Curious. My local government nationalized water, gas, electricity, waste removal, roads, bridges, trains, etc. Some of these were even for-profit private companies at one time or another. Seems common in the US...

Clearly it's a spectrum. Property rights are certainly the purview of governments to set & adjudicate the rules within their jurisdiction, as granted by their unique powers (nominally) conferred by the people.
"IQ isn't knowledge, and peak IQ and peak information aren't the same thing"

I understand that, that's why I spesifically pointed out that for majority of population, after school or university their education stops.

I am not claiming that 21 is the 'optimal' age, and its unclear which of these peaks is relevant to voting, but, in experience by the age of 50 most people struggle to keep up with new developments, and by 80 they are so out of touch they might as well be children.
I understand your frustration, but your comment is a bit off the mark.

> Yet he also made contributions larger than anyone will ever do by filling up note-taking apps and tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch.

I really doubt Cal Newport would recommend this.

> Words that don't show up once: freedom, exploration, curiosity, creativity

Pretty sure Cal discusses these often - some in a positive manner and some in a disparaging manner.
And a Pema Chodron book.
Not sure of either of their policies, but I usually buy my domains from Dynadot then transfer the eligible ones to CloudFlare after the first year. Both are cheap, and I'm pretty sure CloudFlare tends to not divulge much information.

All my ICANN addresses are fake though so that's never been a concern for me.
As someone with experience with severe mental illness (BP1) I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the importance of a stable environment when dealing with an acute mental health crisis.
Thank you heyitsguay, I'll definitely try to edit the article to factor that in. I'm sorry having not been more specific before. But how can I still target those that are fortunate to have libraries they can take advantage but just don't realize it? Not everyone is as fortunate, but I'm a poor immigrant from Colombia and spent the majority of my childhood in public libraries while my parents worked and that's how I started my background so it can be done, but like you said, not every facing poverty will have the same circumstances.
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You are assuming the supporting environment of the survivors will remain intact enough to allow recovery. That is a somewhat optimistic viewpoint. Most everything in the natural environment will be consumed before people start to die off in significant enough numbers. That will leave the survivors with something that is somewhat less than pristine, and will likely take several generations to recover to some semblance of previous carrying capacity and certainly with enormously reduced biodiversity.

God we did manage to fuck ourselves good and proper.