skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m getting a little tired of articles or chats with people where you get the impression that people think the vaccines will create some sort of covid-proof bubble around them. This is the only explanation I can find for people acting surprised that vaccinated people get sick.

No, it’s because until the Delta variant became the most common variant, the vaccines essentially did create a covid-proof bubble around the recipient. The trials for Comirnaty and the Moderna vaccine both showed >90% effectiveness against PCR positive infections, not just against hospitalization and death.
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Here you are not distinguishing between your perception of (or, rhetorical misinterpretation of) the ideas within my words, and the actual ideas themselves (as you also do with the events of that day). I wonder which one it is (maybe a little of both?).
It actually does more than fixing the mess now. With pipewire >=0.3.34, there is now support for a2dp duplex with both faststream and aptx-ll codecs (if the headset also supports them, of course). No more hsp/hfp crap.

I think linux + bluez + pipewire is the first ever software-only stack that can achieve this, as a USB dongle would be required on other platforms. We shall declare 2021 as the year of linux on the desktop!
I'd love to hear how you think Pipewire and ALSA/Jack are competing.
You weaken your position by speculating about the motivations of those who support of the vaccine mandates. It is just as easy to speculate about the motivations of those who reject vaccines. Perhaps they just want to create chaos for the current administration.

Your hypothetical HIV vaccine example is not relevant to the situation with Covid. As stated in the original post, the current mandate is to ensure workplace safety. It is not possible to contract HIV in an elevator or under normal workplace conditions.
Why exactly is this better than atlas / blas / any library using it, e.g. Eigen?
$2k e-bikes are probably more robust than the $600 scooter I was riding and would definitely be my choice next time around. For anyone interested in e-scootering though, avoid the Segway ES series like hell and make sure you do your research.
In CAP, the P happens whether you like it or not, and you get to choose between C-but-not-A or A-but-not-C.

IRC is an AP system. It stays up (+A) in a netsplit (+P) but the resulting servers are not consistent.
It was a conspiracy... by GM.

Conspiracy: n. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

The word conspiracy doesn't mean the same as "conspiracy theory" and even that doesn't necessarily imply something wacky like reptilian aliens secretly controlling the government.
In theory there could be such a library but in practice I don’t think there is. Maybe because maintaining something like the STL is a non-trivial task.
I never had a case when Google with quotes did not work as intended. Can you give an example?
> The freer a society is, the less control and influence bureaucracies and gatekeepers have, and the bigger the incentives are for gatekeepers to help others achieve success.

I am personally concerned that gatekeeping is increasing significantly lately, and I'm concerned about the effects that will have on long term economic growth and inequality.
> Aren't we heading towards overpopulation?

No. Population growth slows down as nations rise in economic prosperity, and is projected to cap out at around 11 billion.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-by-gdp...
>governments, big corporations,

Behind all of those is lawyers. Contemporary copyright exists exclusively for the benefit of lawyers and people who can afford lawyers.
> Would you be okay with a card showing your religious affiliation

If there was a good reason for it, possibly. But this is a ridiculous analogy, because there is no plausible reason for this. On the other hand, there is a good reason for strongly encouraging people to get the vaccine, as well as an excellent reason to restrain pro-virus people from spreading it more.
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> We didn’t have satellite TV on the plane > watching the local feed of a Florida station going in and out. > Master Sgt. Dana Lark: There were two TV tuners, worldwide television tuners [at my workspace on Air Force One]. They were like old-school rabbit ears—UHF and VHF frequencies. We didn’t have the ability to tune into CNN, Fox, or anything else

This is one interesting bit.

Did the tech not exist? Or was it because it was pre-web (On the log scale 2001 was close to zero) and time moved slower so wasn't thought it had strategic importance.

> I was really worried that someone was going to fly a plane into that school.

They seem not to have had a retrospective, or are still political enough to not admit mistakes.

This was a serious issue. SAMs in Washington was not, literally landing Airforce one where it needs to go is it's job. How did that happen?
For example you can already embed messages inside Bitcoin transactions and then crawl and index them all from Bitcoin's blockchain. Organizations can prove and verify their Bitcoin addresses using PGP.
In microbenchmarks, on a long pipeline RISC, or similar microarchitectures like NetBurst (P4), I could see that being true. But we're long past that era now. It's the same misguided assumptions that leads to several-KB-long "optimised" memcpy() implementations whose real-world effects on performance are negligible to negative.

If you don't believe me, read what Linus Torvalds has to say about why the Linux kernel is built with -Os by default.
"It's worth considering what the point of having so many people is...."

What's the point of having people at all, right?

Once you answer those questions, is there a number of people you'd like to propose as optimal?
This is an excellent synopsis of what drives LEO's anti-encryption propaganda.
But Mum, Kevin does drugs and he is fine, why cant I?
Not American or OP, in my country it is lot more likely the poor to have such IDs as without IDs they are not eligible for a lot of social benefits so that correlation is not necessarily obvious to many.
I dunno, it takes around 3 seconds to finish launching on M1 mac. Sublime Text is ready under 0.5 seconds
The Newton iteration is nicer for the inverse square root than for the square root. You can refine an initial approximation for `1 / sqrt(x)`, and multiply the result by `x` to compute an approximation of `sqrt(x)`. This less direct approach only needs FP multiplications and additions (and the initial approximation).
Never mind that billions of people are only alive because of fossil fuels, and it is so far not really proven that they can be kept alive without them. That kind of calculation seems rather silly.
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I'm a recent-lurker-and-signee; with the negativity and doom-scrolling that's so pervasive in our modern discourse, I'd like to kick off this thread on a positive note!

Moreover, recent signees might benefit from seeing discussions about the UX of HN for a couple of reasons. It would help spread knowledge about the features that come with familiarity, and provide some explicit notions of reasonable UX design for new UX designers.

*What do you like about HN?*

I'm a fan of HN's user-centric design. I really appreciate the favorites feature in particular, specifically about how favoriting a thread brings you to your favorites. It's a very functional bookmark system.

*What would you like to see improved?*

There are only two features I wish HN had: a way to remove the karma counts, and some method to receive notice about replies to comments/submissions. There's probably a way to cobble these features together, it would just be nice to have natively.

Wishing everyone and your loved ones the best! Hope y'all are having a good day, and stay safe :)
I am thinking the disagreement with GP can be resolved by assuming money is representation of influences and connections.

I’d argue that you can’t be poor with tons of connections with rich, and sole currency accumulation is not sufficient to be influential because it is only an aspect of your portfolio, but are usually well correlated with the level of influences as money exists as a representation of connections.
Do you mind adding an example of the behavior you're describing either here or in the OP? I feel like I've seen what you're describing but every quoted term I search for gets exact matches.
Is this something you can expand on, or just another argument to moderation?
I'm not sure the article does a very good job of explaining what 'gain of function" was done. This twitter thread from Richard Ebright is maybe better https://mobile.twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/14362036241247...
I don't think he means to claim that we don't have an active role in this. The argument is that when you're trying to listen to the experts, you have to be careful, because it's easy to end up listening only to elites who claim to represent the experts.
Dear LEO everywhere. Whatever safety you pretend I'd get by letting you break everyone's encryption, I am declining it.
> I doubt this description of "mild" fits most people's concept of the word

Hence the ' around mild in the title. But honestly sure they were sick but they did not seriously fear for their lives or require medical attention. Obviously being asymptomatic would have been more mild but in general this seems like a win.

People need to accept some level unpleasantness and risk in their lives.
China jams radio too

https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Chinese_Firedrake_Jammer
> All technology that is not impossible is inevitable.

Inevitable existence does not mean inevitable deployment, and certainly doesn't mean that the technology is commonplace or even successful.

Otherwise we'd be dealing with drones sprinkling anthrax spores everywhere, and humanized plague rats would be swarming the sewers, and backpack EMP cannons would be knocking out ATMs, and VRML would have succeeded in creating Cyberspace™, and digital cash micropayments would be a thing.
From trustworthy wikipedia: "A 2011 study found that the amount of NMHC pollutants emitted by a leaf blower operated for 30 minutes is comparable to the amount emitted by a Ford F-150 pickup truck driving from Texas to Alaska. The two-stroke engines used in most leaf blowers operate by mixing gasoline with oil, and a third of this mixture is not burned, but is emitted as an aerosol exhaust. These pollutants have been linked to cancer, heart disease, and asthma," cited with https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-... and https://www.wsj.com/articles/leaf-blowers-are-loud-ugly-and-...
I think also, in the case of somebody like Greenwald, it doesn't really matter how many people he reaches because he's essentially an empty envelope - he doesn't really hold substantive opinions. For example, he supported the Iraq war, only to moralize about how awful it was when US soldiers killed Iraqi soldiers. There's a lot of moral-stand-taking but no real incisiveness or heart.

PS: That's also kind of how you get a broad audience - by articulately broadcasting the sort of opinions that most people already have.
I don't understand how this woman became police commissioner. She's only ever failed and somehow that only ever led to promotions or commendations (e.g. a CBE).

Her main achievement prior to becoming commissioner was heading up a botched anti-terrorism operation that ended up with an innocent Brazilian plumber being shot in the head.

Her main achievement since becoming commissioner was obstructing an investigation into police corruption: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/15/daniel-morga...
ICEs use friction brakes.

Electric (and hybrid) vehicles normally use regenerative brakes, and friction brakes only as a backup system.
>It continued with tests. It's much better to have a high rate of false positives than to have any rate of false negatives, so they pumped up the cycle count to accomplish this. They later toned it down. To the public, the tests aren't even questioned, most people believe they're pretty accurate, and most people are unaware that they have changed the criteria throughout the last year and a half. They sold it to the public like this because they knew that people would avoid getting tested and staying quarantined if they didn't trust the tests.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you have a source for this?
I find encapsulation more of a disadvantage than advantage. I want access to internals when I need to. Passing lambdas is not data-oriented, and it does not help to prevent tangled data dependencies
I just realized is it possible that Germany or at least Berlin has restrictions wrt. leaf blowers?

I basically never see them used on private property, only by the BSR (~berlin cleansing department) and even then it's not something I see often??

Time to google.
Shes a lesbian with the surname Dick... Maybe the stereotypes about police officers being kids who were bullied at school are right...
And for how long COVID antibodies will last? In the case of Spanish flu they lasted 100 years.[0]

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/flu-survi...
But how can the public know which submission to the blockchain is the ground truth?
uTorrent, a whole torrent client I remember using many years ago, was only ~100k in total.
You clearly have never set foot in an elderly Citroen. They are so full of holes that when it rains outside it is only marginally better inside. Ok, you have a nice fiberglass roof over you. But the bottoms of the doors are rusted out, the front vents end up directly in the engine bay (because: paper tubing, which is eaten up by insects), the wind sills don't line up with the windows and the doors close poorly.

On the plus side: plenty of ventilation ;)
Does anyone know what happened to rtfm.mit.edu? It was, quite recently, an FTP site where all the Usenet FAQs were archived.
You could also block the trackers with uBlock Origin. I use “I don’t care about cookies” because I don’t care about cookies. Not because I care about what settings are being set. I trust uBlock and other privacy protecting settings to actually protect privacy instead of the cookie prompts.
American Heart Association seems to still maintain that one should only get about 5% of calories from saturated fat (aka butter, olive oil, bacon grease) - https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...
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> It would be helpful to hear why.

Granny dying does not make me broody.
...I swear HN comments get dumber every day. Is this satire???
One suggested explanation for the first point I've seen is that it was to limit damage to the surrounding areas in case of an uncontrolled collapse. I don't recall any evidence being presented for this claim though, and it doesn't strike me as particularly plausible, as it doesn't seem worth complicating the plan to such a degree for seemingly little benefit.

The use of a missile rather than a plane has never made any sense to me - one unexpected photo, or even a plausible witness account, gives you a problem, despite there being an obvious way to avoid it. It also invites questions if the result is inconsistent with a plane crash in any way.
This seems like extending the "known knowns" concept to an additional dimension, involving truth.

In the known-knowns model, you have knowledge and metaknowledge (what you know, what you know you know):

K U -- What you know
K KK KU

U UK UU
\
What you know you know

If we add truth to that, you end up with a four-dimensional array with dimensions of knowledge, knowledge of knowledge, truth-value, and knowledge-of-truth-value. Rather than four states, there are now 16:

TT TF FT FF (Truth & belief of truth)
---- ---- ---- ----
KK | KKTT KKTF KKFT KKFF
KU | KUTT KUTF KKFT KKFF
UK | UKTT UKTF UKFT UKFF
UU | UUTT UUTF UUFT UUFF

False information is the FT and FF columns.

In both the TF and FT columns, belief of the truth-value of data is incorrect.

In both the KU and UU columns, there is a lack of knowledge (e.g., ignorance), either known or unknown.

(I'm still thinking through what the implications of this are. Mapping it out helps structure the situation.)
CSAM is terrorism now? Did the BBC mix up their notes on what nonsense to push as they work to end encryption?
> Lead causes brain damage and kills people.

With all the deaths caused by anti-vaxxers, one could argue that social media also causes brain damage and kills people.
As someone in a DevOps role who has three times been the steward of major migrations between baseline OS versions, I have often been frustrated at teams who have hard-coded -Werror into their build configs, thus forcing me to jump through hoops to patching it out because the new compiler has some trivial complaint about this or that and the build is uncompileable on the new target.

I understand the noble goal of being warning-clean, but I wish there was a way to implement it in such a way that it could also be globally disabled. Then I could get a top level build, but the local resolution of the issues would still be on the owners of the code.
Maybe Wikipedia article should be fixed then:

> Recent versions of Qt use the native style APIs of the different platforms, on platforms that have a native widget set, to query metrics and draw most controls, and do not suffer from such issues as often

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)
> What’s being done to address the 100 corporations that cause 70% of the world’s emissions?

I see that number floating around a lot, it's oversimplified and lacking context.

«71% of those emissions originated from 100 fossil fuel producers. This includes the emissions from producing fossil fuels (like oil, coal and gas), and the _subsequent use of the fossil fuels they sell to other companies_.»

https://fullfact.org/news/are-100-companies-causing-71-carbo...

Consider what «subsequent use of the fossil fuels they sell to other companies» entails. We're talking energy, transport, manufacturing, etc.
> I literally watched a group of 2 teenagers hop the fare gates, get on, then get off the station before the fare checkers got on

Wow… what a dystopia!

More seriously, is this really a huge issue? You can see that all day long in Paris, it doesn’t stop the transport system from being OK
It was a bit late at that point. I was near SFO in the evening and needed a room.
Assume he’s in a EU country/US state with high vaccination rate.
You make a good point; Now I'm curious how efficiently capacity is used with flight schedules exchanging large numbers of passengers with each flight, and whether smaller but more frequent flights would have any real impact on that equilibrium.
If you're going to quote Silverstein and give him the benefit of the doubt, then at least quote the full quote. The end of your quote is "... and then we watched the building collapse..." leading you to understand that he's referring to a cause and effect.

As in, they decided to pull and then the building collapsed. This means one of two things:

1) They pulled as in the context of some kind of an act of a pre determined demolition of the building

2) Something closer to what you're referring to, but with the foresight that the building WILL collapse and actually did as they have expected it to by their decision to pull the men (and women) and equipment. To which of course the first question is, why then? why at 5pm and not any of the hours before Larry made that decision. It only took about 40 or so minutes for the big buildings to fail.

Option (2) is equally problematic as option (1) in the context of 9/11. Given that the claim is that all 3 buildings (all the WTC complex really) has suffered an equal progressive fate made by 2 projectiles hitting WTC 1&2.
I lived in Berlin for a year and literally can't go to big cities anymore. The pollution triggers my asthma to the point I have continuous attacks despite taking all the medication I can responsibly take. Thankfully my home town is far less polluted, but even there my asthma is being triggered. I had a meltdown after having an attack _from opening my window for 30 minutes_. I can't imagine how terrible it must be for people without easy fallback options.
Egh, right? It's kind of annoying how whenever anyone suggests trying anything to improve society someone comes out of the woodwork to cry about government overreach.

Never an argument about the merits of the proposal, just some trite hand-wringing that somewhere somehow someone might be able to use it to their political advantage. Never even an explanation of why this one thing would be so dangerous when governments already by nature have vast authority to control pretty much anything they want.

Worst of all you can't reason against it, since it's not a position of reason. Regardless of what point you make they'll just dig in and ignore them. :(
>Once you answer those questions, is there a number of people you'd like to propose as optimal?

That's a good question. I'll take a shot at it even though you're not really asking a question but making a point.

Let's say that the one thing that people bring to the table is intelligence and the ability to design complex systems, it's something of an end-run on evolution.

How large a population do you need to build modern semiconductors, discover exoplanets, solve physics problems, do a passable version of the arts?

I would guess something on the order of 500M-1B which is roughly the number in 1800. You get most of the good and lose most of the bad if you're even slightly careful. The edge conditions of atomic war or a truly large nuclear incident still exist but the rest of our sins cover up well over time with that population.
In my leafy European country it was extremely rare to see them, and if one did, it was electric.
Leaf blowers are much more efficient though. They're not just using them because they're loud and polluting, they're using them despite those attributes, because they easily quadruple a person's effectiveness with regards to moving large amounts of leaves on a flat surface.
> I’m from europe and i have no idea what a leaf blower is

They love the stuff in Ireland. I have no idea why people use it. It doesn't do much better of a job than a rake would. It's completely stupid
We've taken an initial stab and it's functional but I don't like it.

There is an element of perfectionism going on here, though.

Thanks for the advice on getting pilot users' feedback.
On HN we are not supposed to accuse people of shilling but I see a steady drumbeat of low-brow populist evironmental advocacy links on this site every single day. Often the pieces are not even scientifically justified. At what point does this specific genre of "general interest" posts become disproportionate? This after all is supposed to be an IT tech start up focused site.
Most people die due to various diseases / accident / suicides, thus extending human lives collectively means reducing those human suffering. Implying extending collective human lives as "bad" is basically declaring you don't care about people's suffering and that you'd rather choose more suffering.
Flat design is basically a form of elitism. In order to understand how and why the computer works, you must subscribe to a cathedral of thought that exists at this stage more or less to protect itself and celebrate its own brilliance, because any real invention in the UI space had already basically topped out by the late 90s.

From this perspective, we have flat UI for essentially the same reason we're starting to see the formation of tech unions. It has been a long time since a lot of our industry has done anything new or even productive, and much of what we do is entirely self-serving, creating a kind of fragility that ultimately threatens the workforce. Endless UI churn producing worse and worse designs isn't a problem, it's a symptom that is impossible to ignore.
Because Sheetz is awesome! Way better that Wawa, lol. But yeah, I think they will all have to move in this direction.
Well we can get everyone vaccinated so we quit filling the hospitals with unvaxxed patients.