skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Among Kentucky residents infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, vaccination status of those reinfected during May–June 2021 was compared with that of residents who were not reinfected. In this case-control study, being unvaccinated was associated with 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with being fully vaccinated."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

"Effectiveness of two doses remains at least as great as protection afforded by prior natural infection. The dynamics of immunity following second doses differed significantly between BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1, with greater initial effectiveness against new PCR-positives but faster declines in protection against high viral burden and symptomatic infection with BNT162b2. There was no evidence that effectiveness varied by dosing interval, but protection was higher among those vaccinated following a prior infection and younger adults."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.18.21262237v...

"We examined whether sera from recovered and naïve donors, collected before and after immunizations with existing messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, could neutralize the Wuhan-Hu-1 and B.1.351 variants. Prevaccination sera from recovered donors neutralized Wuhan-Hu-1 and sporadically neutralized B.1.351, but a single immunization boosted neutralizing titers against all variants and SARS-CoV-1 by up to 1000-fold. Neutralization was a result of antibodies targeting the receptor binding domain and was not boosted by a second immunization. Immunization of naïve donors also elicited cross-neutralizing responses but at lower titers. Our study highlights the importance of vaccinating both uninfected and previously infected persons to elicit cross-variant neutralizing antibodies."

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abg9175
Electric cars still create large amounts of pollution. The number one cause of micro plastics near waterways is from car tyres. Then manufacturing and mining pollution.

It’s a awful idea to replace all cars with electric cars.
Focus groups will tell you all sorts of bizarre things; you're talking to a handful of people who are pretty unlikely to represent your average customer base. The story is a little too cute.

I suspect this failed more because it's an awful way to compete, trying to increase sales by seriously cutting into your margins.
"... following a selective tender process in November"

Remarkably slow process given that we are dealing with a pandemic.

Worth pointing out that "Australian gov to use" should read "South Australian gov to use" (South Australia being a state of Australia).

EDIT: As this thread is attracting attention from people who have views different from my own I'd just like to make it clear that I'm in favour of controlling the actions of people who choose to endanger public health and nothing I said above is meant to suggest otherwise.
https://netsplit.de/ keeps some stats and a channel directory
No, no, no. This is HN. We are, like, possible COVID restrictions are good thing! Violate quarantine?! Beat them all up! It is for the children! And grandma! Google tracking you to place an ad in front of you for a better set of headphones than the ones you are currently shopping for that you can simply not buy? Now that's a violation of human rights!
And I've seen plenty of chargers in parking lots with none of these things.

You don't have to "think" anything. The practical outcomes speak for themselves. Chargers are going in at gas stations right now.
Couldn't agree more - the fact that my request to go on a stabbing rampage was declined due to "the good of others" is a travesty against human rights and the freedoms that come with them.
If anyone wants to play with a speed of light, there [still] is a fun web game called “velocity raptor”.
Australia is already on its way to being a failed state by now. Police and military patrol the streets to enforce rules, “papers please” tyranny is required to live, and soon they’ll demand complete surveillance and control in your own house.

Wake up before it is too late.

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 are even now trying to limit how many people you can have over in your own home. It is a failed state. Wake up before you are enslaved.
Ubuntu Podcast to End After 14 Years
As the co-maintainer of Ergo, since I joined the project in 2017 it has never (to the best of my knowledge) received any funding from Andrew Lee or any company affiliated with him.

In terms of ongoing specification and development work, we take direction primarily from the IRCv3 working group, in which we are both participants: <https://ircv3.net/charter>
YouTube is also forcing the popular Rythm Discord music bot offline
There is no such thing as a "reasoned discussion" with someone who genuinely thinks that "my glasses get fogged up :(:(:(" is a legitimate thing to even bring up in a discussion where we are talking about people dying. The only thing you are interested in is mental gymnastics to justify your own actions so that you feel good enough to pat yourself on the back ("I used to wear masks, I'm a good person I swear!") even though you continue to do the objectively wrong thing.

I don't care if you're vaccinated. I don't care if you previously wore masks. Those actions don't somehow absolve you of your current responsibility to continue wearing your mask. You don't get any "credit" for previously doing the bare minimum expected of you. That's not how this works.
Adam Smith also believed in a society where rich people would endow institutions for everyone to enjoy. Now that we believe that is solely the rule of the state, that assumption is gone.
Well… maybe. I mean, certainly we could find out that was the case and that there was a safer sunblock alternative we might have been using if we had only known about it- but compared to what we definitely know today about sun exposure I think this is a bit of a different story, especially for light skinned people.
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD RC.d System
An another amazing feature of Pipewire is that it made desktop sharing under Wayland possible. Really awesome piece of a software.
This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid positive and still out and about in the community. We should blame selfish people like these for such measures from the government.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...
The point of pulling the handbrake is to artificially trigger a slide in a controlled environment in order to verify that the student driver has the vehicle control skills necessary to recover. It's similar to what can happen driving on ice.
I wish they had probed a little further on their questions because I’m so sure the answer has to do with the fact that “a quarter-pound-er” is one of those words that has taken on an identity separate from its component words and just means “a normal sized burger” where a “third pounder” sounds like “a third of a normal sized burger” on first blush.
I'm looking for other studies considering this idea of "life years". Generally around where people's time is going, what is wasting it, or taking it away. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Not yet public.
I sell service around the software : I build the places in 3D myself.
um…no?
Through don't forget the context:

It's flat design in the title bar where everything in there (except sometimes the title) tends to be interactive.

Making the window header bars feel less heavy is important.

But tbh. the problem was placing all kind of stuff into the title bars. Works well for a few handpicked examples but in general it works just so-so and in context of cross platform it falls apart...

So IMHO they should instead of trying to use the space in the header bars of windows they should have tried to see if they can eliminate header bars instead.
> The trials for Comirnaty and the Moderna vaccine both showed >90% effectiveness against PCR positive infections

I don't believe the official trials for Moderna and Pfizer measured PCR positive infections at all. (They involved thousands of people, it was a time when PCR test were difficult to obtain; they remain expensive at that scale).

I have not heard of Comirnaty, not sure about that.

There may have been pre-delta studies that showed PCR infection effectiveness (Cite?), I don't think they were the official trials.
Yup still using because its dead simple to self host.
Can I interest you in

Katherine J. Wu (The Atlantic) - We’re Asking the Impossible of Vaccines // Complete protection against infection has long been hailed as the holy grail of vaccination. It might simply be unachievable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...
We're dealing with an endemic disease that is going on its third year. At some point, people and governments need to recognize that fact: it's not controllable and it will spread eventually no matter how dystopian you get.
What rights? Australia does not have a bill of rights. It has a very limited number of fundamental rights outlined in the Constitution but other than that you seem to be pretty much screwed, which explains why these draconian measures always seem to land in Australia first.
One time, many moons ago now, I noticed Pulse taking a reasonable fraction of a core and thought I'd zap PA to try to use less CPU.

Unfortunately, using my media player without PA actually used more CPU overall -- the audio player's CPU use went up by more than PA had been using. So I went back to using PA.
Pfft. Cars are way more polluting. For starters, they require removing huge amounts of land to pave over with roads.
From TFA:

>Downloading and using the G2G app is voluntary in WA [Western Australia], but the Government encourages people to use it

So not enforced, right...?

(EDIT: my bad, this refers to an existing app; the new app sounds like it would be a mandated download)
Everybody knows 3 is less than 4, so 1/3 must be less than 1/4.
People sharing names with celebs?
> Cloud-managed NoSQL databases is the potential for zero-downtime maintenance.

Aah yes... that magical "zero-downtime" cloud, lots of promises are made by the cloud providers in that area but all eventually broken at some point. Its a fact of life with technology unfortunately. :)

No need for the cloud with ScyllaDB[1], CockroachDB[2] and others all being used in production.

LetsEncrypt chose their setup for perfectly valid reasons they described on their blog[3]. Please describe your expertise for saying they're "doing it wrong", because its clear from their blog they put a lot of time thinking about it.

[1]https://www.scylladb.com/
[2]https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
[3]https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...
We just had hundreds of thousands of people go to the beach yesterday ignoring lockdown orders, I was worried about my country having read things like Gulag Archipelago, but the general population have shown where their line is. Still we're now a police state and the general population doesn't seem to give a shit about that.
Wow, who was it in their government who was discussing a NWO? Do you have any link / source / context?
looks like most of the documents are .md so you can use a markdown to pdf tool to generate a complete document
Poll is irrelevant. Tech workers should get vaccinated regardless of an mandates. And they should lobby their company to install a vaccine mandate if they're under 100 employees (the federal/OSHA mandate will handle 100 or over).

There is no reason whatsoever to not get vaccinated except under very very very limited circumstances and those folks should be working from home.
I wonder if there's an underlying cause for that attitude. I could see, for example, people working in a culture of high accountability and low trust trying to push decision making uphill lest they become a scapegoat. Meanwhile, places with a better office culture might feel more comfortable exercising autonomy and might value individuals taking the initiative more.
> This seems naive to me. You imagine that Krugman's columns in the NYT, Greenwald's pontifications on whatever platform he's on now, or little Matty Y's ruminations on substack are actually "dominating the discourse" ?

One could argue one way or another, but the point here is that they unarguably more impact on public discourse and policy than Jimmy John Liautaud has, despite having much less money than he has.
Yes, but the author has presumed the % will be very low and perhaps beyond detection.

So can we at least get to "I know someone" ?
An inverted yield curve has accurately predicted 9 out of the last 5 recessions ;)

You can even see it on the chart in the linked article, in 2005/06 — that time, it was different.
Transmission probably should eventually be changed, so that support for BitTorrent V2 can be added. SHA1 collisions are only ever going to get easier, after all.
Good observation. That's not th standard as people here claim.

Companies often play such games. Esp to make their IPO look attractive. I went over Squarespace S-1 today who IPOed in May and saw they claim around 70% revenue growth in commerce from 2019 to 2020. Then somewhere in the document you find that they acquired a company in March 2021 but they include their revenue in their 2020 numbers. So the 70% growth is not really organic growth and they don't mention anything about the growth of the acquired company (Tock).
Lots of people use IRC still. Libera being probably the biggest.
Which countries tried it? I'm struggling to think of one, never mind "many".
That's just the excuse, and the excuses don't come very often so you have to pass as many bs laws while the average voter is in a panic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/vaccine-manda...
Other countries aren't smart enough to run up a massive and increasing trade deficit, year after year, forever and ever, amen.
Further, the more inequality exists (>GINI), the less social mobility there seems to be:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve
The people aren’t to blame for an extreme government overreach.
I don't think so, definitely a feature that I would like.
Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future by Tim Urban
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c05025

"Materials were microimaged and tested against size selected NaCl aerosol with particle mobility diameters between 50 and 825 nm. Three of the top five best performing samples were woven 100% cotton with high to moderate yarn counts, and the other two were woven synthetics of moderate yarn counts"

This image in particular: https://pubs.acs.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/achs/jou...

You can see N95 non-woven performs the best, but cotton twill does provide protection.

Cool analogy tho.
Rally your people and take it to the politicians’ offices until they throw out these policies entirely. Wear masks and go in big numbers.
Most conspiracy theories become impossible when you consider the number of people that would have to be in on it.

Sure, there are bugs in our history books (and lots of propaganda).
But if you discard facts reported in the media, then how do you know water is wet? :)

On topic: it's hard to know if classification makes sense. But I'll admit I don't really feel competent to have an opinion on the subject.
It's named for sizeof, a C operator which returns a positive integer but annoyingly the core C language itself doesn't define what the type of that integer is, the standard library does though, naming it size_t

Now, sizeof does measure the size of things, but, one of the obvious sizes you can measure is an array†, and that's definitely also the maximum index value for the array, so I do think it's fair to say that's (part of) literally why size_t exists.

† One of C's treacherous footguns. In the scope where the array was defined it's an array, and sizeof(array) tells you how big that array is. But, passed as a parameter it becomes a pointer and sizeof(resulting_pointer) is the size of the pointer, not the array :(
> lack of obvious mapping to a saturated color

30 degrees hue, 50% value, 100% saturated, looks exactly brown to me?

> brown is not "dark orange."

I think it is. In fact, take my 30 degrees hue, 50% value, 100% saturated, then gradually increase the value and see where you get to!
Why? You provided no rationale for this position. Do you have a drivers license in your country? Mandated insurance? Pay taxes? It's the price we pay for having such large populations in societies - we all have to sometimes do things that we might not want for the betterment of the society we live in.
I'm vaccinated now so I have no reason to quit, but I was entirely willing to before I got a dose.

It is not acceptable for anyone to force a medical procedure upon you. To that, some would retort "then surely everybody else should have the option to exclude you?". No, this is coercion.

I don't know how this is even an argument. There is disturbing trend upwards in infringement on people's rights. It feels like almost daily we have a thread on HN about another Big Tech company heinously infringing on privacy. Now some are saying we need to bribe people with keeping their jobs to do something they might not be willing to do? Horrifying.
> Much of Western Europe has similar GDP per-capita and much less inequality.

And also no SpaceX.

EDIT: We used to make the computer in your pocket, but now that too is in the US and China.
I asked; they said they've never heard of it and it was probably something to do with buying a phone on credit.
Study Cements Link Between Protean Morgellons Lesions and Lyme Disease
Oh haha, hey! I was employed by Andrew across a fair few of his companies (I didn't know Shells.com was owned by him while I was working there though). Buuuut this is entirely unrelated to him, same as my other project https://ircdocs.horse/

It's totally fair to make that link, but I very explicitly told everyone over at LTM/H (including PIA and Handshake) that Oragono/Ergo and ircdocs were not work projects in any way. And while I was working on Shells.com, I was very explicit that I wouldn't be touching any IRC stuff for money while there.

But yeah, it's definitely good to be wary of these kinda links, given what happened to snoo's and fn/libera's team. If you wanna ask any more questions about my stuff in particular, feel free to ask here or send me a mail at daniel@danieloaks.net
Couldn't you move instead of forcing all your neighbors to bend to your wishes?
Your numbers are way off. The CDC estimate of fatality rate in the 18-49 age group is 0.06%. And that's highly dependent on co-morbid conditions.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
""Pfft... you don't need masks." The government said that because masks were hard to get and they wanted to control public behavior. This turned out to be a lie,..."

This is false.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201328
It's also currently illegal to organise protests or leave the country.
I am not american so not sure why this reply is supposed to mean anything. While highly encouraged, vaccines aren't even mandatory here and you can refuse any vaccine and still legally allowed to do anything (school, university, healthcare worker, etc)
I'm not an expert, and I'm not saying they're doing it wrong.

But for what it's worth, just because they thought for a long time doesn't mean they made the right choices. Some of their design decisions have been not great. You can still create perfectly valid domain certs for domains you don't control with a variety of common attacks. Then there was the ACME API vulns. Either they knew about all this and chose a simpler design that's more flawed on purpose, or all that thinking just didn't end up being correct.
One of my vivid memories of 9/11 is my sister's panic over the car bomb at the National Mall. We had some visitors staying with us that week, and 9/11 was the day they were going to go down to see the National Mall (needless to say, that was aborted).

Yet, in trying to find more information about it, I have found absolutely no mention about such a car bomb. It's not on any "false rumors that got started during the day" lists; it's not picked up even by the most insane of conspiracy theorists as suppressed information. I'm actually kind of curious where the idea got into my sister's head--the closest I can figure is that the original attack on the Pentagon was reported as a blast in an unknown area to the southwest of the caller, and the National Mall was suggested as a possible site by the reporter.

This goes to show two things. One, it's very easy to specifically remember facts (including reporting of facts) that never actually happened. Two, in a day of hectic reporting, it's very easy for wrong information to spread very quickly.

FWIW, you can find archives of television news coverage of 9/11 here: https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911.
> There is no reason whatsoever

Said in the forum where half of it boycotts Google because they don't like something or other it's done.

If you think Google has done something boycott-worthy, oh boy will you be interested in drug manufacturers.
> Covid is like 2 years old, and low interest rates like 15.

US interest rates were fairly low in the 1950s and even 1960s, and inequality wasn't as high then:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRUSM193N

Interest rates have been <1% in Japan since 1995, how's inequality there?

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRJPM193N
I think people like these deserve to be locked up! Either that or put a tracker on these people. I'm not saying that about all Covid positive people but just some of these extremely selfish pricks.
I've seen vaccine requirements in multiple software engineer contracts in the last few months.

Mandate or not, if I'm going into an office, I don't want to work with people who are willing to expose me and my family to unnecessary risk.
But we have not tried putting people into individual cages yet. We should do it for their own good. After all, COVID is terrible for grandma Suzi. If we space the cages at 10 feet rather than 6 it should totally work to stop the spread of COVID and it will all be good!

#trustthescience
It's just flat design in the window header bars not the normal window content...

And in GNOME more or less everything in the title bar can be interacted with.

And it's mostly symbols implying intractability.

So in difference to most flat design approaches I'm not sure this decreases usability tbh.
Which is why every scientist with the courage to speak out against the climate scam has been cancelled.
There are many different "rich economies" (as measured by National Income) with different levels of inequality. Consider, for example, the United States, Japan, Germany, and Sweden (in descending order of inequality). I think you're arguing something of a strawman - that there should be no inequality. Most people other than hardcore Marxists aren't arguing that - they are arguing over what levels of inequality are justifiable.
To be fair there was also collaboration between PIA and Linux Mint while I worked at PIA. That'd probably be a question best answered by the Mint people who're involved
It supports bidirectional audio if the headphones do and mSBC for better-than-tin-can audio if they don't.
In Germany, using torrent means 700€ fine (ISP reports).
The goal of this might be that they...
- Want to punish people that can't do tunneling
- Want to prevent content distribution
- found a way to get money from foreigners that don't know (This happened to a friend of min, 1 month after he got installed in Hamburg)

I hope is the 3rd
Why didn't they just release a a fifth pounder?