skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and knowing what's been tried and what has failed is important.
The line seems to be drawn at socializing the risks of full hospital ICUs in a region

Edit: why the downvote to near-dead? I thought that's what the author emphasized :\
Absent any scientific evidence, it's a rather extraordinary claim. There had been no human flight throughout human history until ~100 years ago, yet GP did not have any fear about flying with his family.
How we built Instant Logs
Probably from when Trump said he was going to get the vaccine out early, a couple days before the election:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/30/white-house-aide-sa...
And people want us to put all our eggs in this basket without ability to go back, even in emergency.. This type of ideology is more like one big death cult.
How many games didn’t get these patches? Let’s not forget cracking an 80s game is significantly easier than a modern title, too.
They would face all the potential side-effects of the vaccine without much of an upside...

How does it make sense then for them to vaccinate?
"Lying" implies malicious intent. It is not lying to communicate via the channels of public health the strategies that would optimize our utilization of public health resources.

As we are literally seeing in many states, obtaining natural immunity en-mass means that ICUs fill, doctors and nurses burn out, and morgues have waiting lists.

That "natural immunity provides decent protection" is itself a lie. Decent protection for whom exactly? It doesn't protect your community to act as a vector for this virus while you are obtaining said immunity. It doesn't even protect you from the risk of long-lasting post-infection disability. It is deliberately malicious and puts its believers at an objectively higher risk.
I prefer law like this to be narrow focus. I agree these things are important. But, I don't want overreach in the legal effort to fix things. The specific problem here is monopolies, the action is fixing behaviour of a monopolist.

Governance of privacy, security, ethics, don't lie in monopoly law solely.
Contrast with Windows 11 - inconsistent UI, and adverts and notifications/nags blasting at you from every place they could fit one in. The exact opposite of calm.
No. It does not suggest that. I use British English and that's not at all what it means. Maybe to those that don't know how to use it correctly and are seeking emotional connotations.

The statement is at most doubting whether you are British, but not dismissing or claiming the opposite.

>but to some may be considered offensive too.

It's offensive that someone might claim to be from somewhere and not understand a very common piece of knowledge from that place. Or at least I might want to claim it to be.
Yes, but doesn't that strictly invalidate:

> The total amount of money, the sum of all credits and debits, is the exact same

?
> pollute the node ecosystem with typescript

And there's the beauty of TypeScript....you can still use JavaScript as if TypeScript never existed.

Of course, many teams will fall in love with TS.

But you the library user don't have to give two farts.
Arguably society is in the process of crumbling now. Jan 6th was part of that, as were the BLM protests, the anti-vax protests, the contentious school-board meetings, the constant tug-of-war between Federal/state/local/individual authorities, high inflation, supply shortages, people refusing to go back to work, etc.
Long term plan in my mind was to get enough people vaccinated that community spread stops being a thing. We were almost there in late spring prior to delta variant showing up, but now the situation has changed and the percentage of the population that has to be immune to stop the virus has gotten a lot higher.

So now the long term plan is for the holdouts to either change their minds and get vaccinated (and many of them have), or for natural herd immunity to take over when there aren't enough people who have neither been infected or vaccinated for the virus to spread to. It seems like the current wave has probably hit a peak. No idea what happens next. New infections could dwindle away to almost nothing, or we might have another big wave. At this point anyone in the U.S. who wants the vaccine can get it. It's sad that over a thousand people a day are still dying of this, but those are the risks that people have for some reason chosen to take.

If we continue to have waves of new infections, I don't know what the long term strategy is. We could drop all restrictions and "let nature run its course". A substantial portion of vaccinated people are probably going to be on board with that as long as we don't have a new variant that the vaccines are ineffective against. We could keep rigid restrictions on masking, social distancing, and large gatherings. That's really disruptive though to schools and churches and a lot of businesses, not to mention taking a long term toll on mental health.

I do wish those in wealthier countries like the U.S. were more invested in getting vaccines to everyone that wants it, anywhere in the world. New variants can come from anywhere.
Perfectly captures what companies like c3.ai do!
I think they have a weird definition of creating money. Because they did say "The Federal government (through the Treasury) creates still more by issuing bonds to cover deficit spending.". So, they imagine the treasury printing the money, while the bonds are actually an IOU.

This is how I see it. Treasury makes new treasuries, and the Federal reserve buys them (through a bank, but it is a middle man only). Essentially, Federal reserve created money and loaned it to the government, holding the treasuries as IOU. This is further complicated as the Federal reserve is also mandated to give all profits to the treasury. So, essentially, the treasury did not create the money, only got a loan, but its loan payments are going to come back to itself.

I personally find it easier to dispel with the illusion of an independent fed, and just say the government (which includes both fed and treasury) prints money.
We're so far down the lying/threatening/mocking road that it's going to take years, maybe decades, to recover that trust -- and that's if we stopped now.
I've known at least a half-dozen superb bootcamp grads, but the quality is definitely uneven.
I think Canada accepts positive covid tests as proof of prior infection, and many people already have those tests done and just sitting in their email.
They were usually very careful in the wording, saying no evidence outside of a medical setting for this type of virus. And mentioned it usually insane breath as conserving masks for medical workers.

It was manipulative and steering behavior, but in most cases I've seen not lying.
Natural Immunity might confer more protection to the individual against covid, but it's a terrible public health policy position if your goal is protect as many people as possible while you have perfectly good vaccines available.

For those 100m Americans to get that immunity, you had to have a lot of deaths and externalities pushed onto your hospital systems along the way. Healthcare staffing costs are shooting up, health insurance costs will likely rise across the board. Pressure from the delta waves are going to leave a lot of residual costs in the system, and it largely preventable.

Vax passports/documentatio is a whole separate issue, but I'll never understand why Americans are so adamantly against preventative healthcare measures.
This is awesome! It looks a bit like the love child between Visio and GNU Radio Companion re-spun for audio frequencies :-). I found the explainer video linked to the github repo[1] as a good way to figure out what its doing.

[1] https://github.com/awwbees/BespokeSynth
Xiaomi shows off smart glasses with an all-green, microLED, waveguide display
both comparisons are useful to me. masked covid vs. masked flu shows how dangerous covid is in relative terms, masked covid vs. unmasked flu shows how dangerous covid is compared to the risks I used to take.
> If I click a tab and then click back to the previous one, I expect to return to the same state I was in. If I change the text in one field, I expect that unrelated fields won't be impacted by that. Etc. This is a good starting point.

This is such a huge fucking deal. I could not hope to overstate the importance of UI flow & proper state management.

It took us 7 years of mistakes & learning to figure out how to do this correctly. We had to learn to listen to the customer and not give in to our inner lazy developer.

We now have total confidence in our ability to back-navigate through complex workflows, or arbitrarily switch between instances of them. Without breaking things. It is so intuitive to our users to be able to think "oh wait no i need to go back and change XYZ" or "I need to put this on hold so I can help this customer real quick". In our target market, the work is very complex and error-prone, so you are usually editing your previous inputs and double checking the new output. Every screen in our application has a back button & next button in exactly the same spots on the screen. I watch some of our users go back by muscle memory 3-4 screens within a second or 2. Mapping the users' brains to your UI is crucial. Really helps if you don't play RNG with the coordinates.

It's really easy to paper over these things, especially if you are doubling down on a sub-par solution. Getting your users to want to use your app is really important in most situations. Even in a B2B setting, we hear our customers complain about bad UX in some of their other solutions and how this causes trouble for training & adoption. Even if you are getting paid for it, you still don't want to use trashy software. I have used software that you literally could not pay me to suffer with on a daily basis.
I think this is just a red herring for the main discussion here. Of course that example is also terrible! Just because this discussion is about Instagram doesn’t mean we don’t care about anything else.

Speaking to your point more directly, the massive, massive difference is the primary user of Instagram and typical social media vs the primary user of these other platforms. The primary user of Instagram is shown addictive feeds non-stop. It’s really not possible or enjoyable to use Instagram without interacting with designs deliberately and literally trying to get you addicted to the platform. This isn’t true for something like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow. The primary user is going to come across a few articles now and then or search something. But they are rarely going to be interacting with an algorithm or design trying to get you addicted for hours a day.

Think about it like gambling. The only way to use Instagram or Tiktok or Facebook or anything like that is by pulling the lever on a slot machine, trying to get a dopamine hit.

The inherent design and purpose of social media platforms is to addict people so they spend as much time on the platform as possible, and then show them ads. That’s not true for Wikipedia or stack overflow. Those examples are more about policies that encourage toxic behavior or just crappy people on the internet, not a critique of the inherent platform design.
Within that Twitter thread, there’s an interesting article on science based medicine that goes into this topic in detail.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-ant...
(not the OP obviously) but here is my sense of "why":

I would like something with less blob dependency. Pi still have opaque elements in the SoC. Booting from attached media is a bit of "do this magic to one-time state in your board"

I would like more high speed disk. I got a JMicron controller for my Pi4 NAS, but I'm behind one USB bus. I think there are methods here which have less USB in the path to disk, and more controller choices.

Having a good Android port is becoming as important as the more classic UNIX experience via Linux/BSD
The article appears to conflate mopeds/scooters/vespas. I think the e-scooters you're talking about are not really designed or perceived to be apt for commuting.

Here in SF, the streets are littered with rental e-scooters, but frankly I only ever see people using them for leisure at dedicated scenic paths like in Golden Gate park, or along the pier. The problem of generalizing it to general transportation is the same as the old-age challenge w/ bike commutes: bike lanes are spotty, side walks are not always smooth/clean of debris and sharing the roads w/ cars is not safe.

And what are you going to do with your ride when you arrive at the supermarket or the library? Lots of mundane logistics issues are just not properly addressed yet.
I've previously written a long-ish article about the role of Lua/scripting in general in the context of a libre & open-source DAW before:

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/is-open-source-a-diversion-fr...

There's really no technological reason for not allowing Lua to create GUIs within Ardour. It's more a question of whether or not we actually want to. Either way, you would not be mixing GUI and realtime code - the architecture of Ardour doesn't allow that.
Google Chrome and ESET collaborate in fight against online threats (Dec 2020)
Back in the 80s the need for ECC was much less because the gates were physically bigger and there was much less overall memory. Back then the chance of your computer having a bit flip was like one in a million per year, now with gigabytes of memory it's near 100% chance per year.
Because we don't have a good legal definition of "natural immunity"? Compared to that, vaccination status is official record which is subject to forgery law and its effectiveness has been well studied against most COVID variants.

Note that it is pretty tricky to define natural immunity in a legal way since there is no good scientific consensus on the correlation between some proxy of natural immunity (e.g. antibody level) and its effectiveness against infection/transmission.
Neglecting to get the vaccine is discouraged because it increases the probability of causing harm to yourself and others.
Ah yeah fair enough, I see what you mean. This is a general problem with all models though. Fundamental modeling issues will tank your conclusion.
There's a couple of key things here:

1. The sheer volume of fraud attempts. Economics often dictate that it needs to be cheap and fast to reject a fraud attempt.

2. Information leakage. It's normal to see people complain that '<insert service of choice> banned them and refused to say way'. There's a very good reason for that: They're trying to slow the rate at which fraudsters learn to exploit them. So they deliberately don't detail exactly what the issue was. Yes, it's super frustrating if you get innocently caught up it, but it's not arbitrary.

TL;DR: Like everything else in life, there are real and genuine trade-offs here.
This is very true and more peope should be aware of that
I really enjoyed this post! The author also wrote an interactive demonstration of the concepts (using Desmos). It's super helpful.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ty3jt8ftgs
Because I've been doing this for years and I know how we find exploits; we don't need source. Why would NSO need it?

NSO isn't an "unethical" player, they are "ethical" within their own twisted ethics (that most of us don't agree with). They aren't a spy organization outside the law, they're a company building tools for (supposedly) law enforcement. Being caught doing something blatantly illegal like using stolen source code would be the end of them. They can't afford that risk. They have absolutely no need to use source code. There are zillions of binary-only techniques for finding exploitable bugs (e.g. fuzzing). Source code just isn't nearly as useful as you think it is.

If you want a practical example: just a few weeks ago I got ahold of a peculiar, wholly undocumented embedded device (can't even find teardowns on the Internet, no public firmware downloads, etc) and within one day I had a remote root exploit working - this wasn't using an existing CVE in a library, this was a bespoke bug in this device's firmware, and the exploitation involved reverse engineering two authentication token algorithms and a custom binary communications protocol. No source code. Obviously this isn't iOS, which is quite bit more hardened, but that should give you an idea of just how easy it is to find exploitable bugs with just something like Ghidra, if you know what you're doing (I was: I was looking specifically for a kind of bug likely to exist, to narrow down the possibilities of where it might be present, and eventually found a suspicious point of attack surface that indeed turned out to be vulnerable; then it was just a matter of reverse engineering enough of the protocol and token requirements of that code to be able to actually trigger it remotely).

I was actually kind of annoyed it took as long as a couple hours to find it (once I had a decent understanding of the rest of the system); I was expecting even less, but it turned out they did a better job than I expected avoiding some of the classic mistakes - but not a good enough one :).
Too soon do people forget that there were budget Zen 2 SiPs whooping the M1's ass back in 2019. It was at the expense of a slightly higher power draw, but that's a price I'm entirely willing to pay for a full-fledged x86 chip. I reckon that I'll accept no substitutes until RISC-V hits the mainstream in a more major way.
> This isn't lying, it's results-driven communication.

Also known by another name, alternative facts.
the other link has a little, it's kinda just something i've seen around in different places when I was super curious about his music and how you'd produce stuff like that, specific ones I can find right now are in random threads[1] and in a red bull music interview he talks about it a tiny bit[2]

[1] https://llllllll.co/t/ppooll-max-msp-networking-system/28352

[2] https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/tim-hecker-lect... (ctrl f for "P-P-O-O-L-L")
They say money can't buy happiness, but in your case it can't even buy you the material goods you want. Just move! Even with the current housing crisis you could afford a small mansion in the midwest with half your income. Your investments alone are enough to pay it in cash. And I'm not talking about middle-of-nowhere midwest; I'm talking about suburbs for metropolitan areas.
The cruel part here is retroactiveness of the change. Pioneered by California's Proposition 30 in 2012 ([1]).

Retroactive changes of the (tax) law reduce the planning horizon and ultimately the efficiency of the economy.

1. https://gscpa.com/prop-30-retroactive-tax-increases-approved...
Yes, there'll be an option to upgrade your "Data Swimming Pool" into a "Data Infinity Pool" overseeing your own "Data Lake", with this extra enterprise feature for only $30k/month! /s

--edit: no idea why my post struck a wrong chord somewhere. Looks like the parent comment was not meant as a joke?
Solar monitoring system builds on Linux-based LoRaWAN gateway
The tangled history of mRNA vaccines
>You called it a ponzi scheme!

Yes. And then people had a problem with the word bullshit, for some reason.

It can be both bullshit and a ponzi scheme. That doesn't make bullshit necessarily a scam.
So? If lots of people independently choose to take the risk and they're not harming anyone else, why shouldn't they be allowed to?

The impact on the hospital system could be blunted simply by saying "This wing is for COVID patients, when it fills up further COVID patients will be turned away" and leaving the other wings for normal hospital patients. They have to do this for quarantine reasons anyway. Now that COVID is essentially preventable, it's a huge misallocation of resources to let all the hospital fill up with people who chose not to prevent it while leaving other ER patients to their fate.
Logseq: https://logseq.com/ (https://github.com/logseq/logseq)

Athens: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Tiddlywiki got particularly heavily smacked down by browser and mobile-OS changes/decisions, to be fair. For a fair amount of time, you could open a static file on your disk and it'd have access to any other file on disk, and eventually could even write back to disk... then that was locked down because it became a security issue (which really isn't surprising, but it is unfortunate for legitimate uses). For a couple (few?) years, extensions could easily work around this... now it's a huge hassle. And through it all, mobile has either not had sufficient features for that at all, or has had much stricter permissions that effectively mean no disk access at all.

The whole concept of tiddlywiki (as a single mutable html file) has become extremely difficult to maintain, where it used to be extremely simple.

The rest of the stuff tiddlywiki does is still great - transclusion is a great idea, and it works well. Server hosting is extremely cheap and simple. The UI has some very one-or-few-users-friendly patterns, and it really does do non-linear quite well. There's a lot to like about it. But once you go to web hosting, you're competing with every other website - the ecosystem is quite literally like a million times larger than cross-OS-and-serverless, it's not surprising that it's not all that well known.
The entire strategic partnership that caused Intel to buy MobilEye disintegrated and now MobilEye are trying to resurrect it with a Chinese car manufacturer on their own.

>. I think Mobileye revenue was up >100% last quarter?

As I say, they're doing fine. It's nothing like what they promised to do, and the company has restructured in a way that clearly indicates they'll be spun out in the next 24 months (like Mcafee). But the premise of the "big bets" wasn't shuffling at the edges, it was meant to be the future of Intel, and that's clearly failed at this point.
What does this quote mean to you? It is saying that if immunologists and epidemiologists do not recommend a vaccine but Donald Trump does then she wouldn't take it. As far as I know Donald Trump is not a scientist, that seems reasonable?

I'm not politically minded so I'm confused as to how you're interpreting that.
Multi-color 3D prints using the hot end temperature to define the final colors
50% exempt is still high. It is hard to believe it is currently 100%.
> I am so glad this argument has not been winning out in the JavaScript language design community. There are so many wonderful constructs that have been added in the last 20 years that are just sorter ways to write things that could mostly already be done in the language.

Beware of survival bias, though. There have been many proposals that aren't part of JS today.
That would maybe be a passing defense if you legitimately thought Donald Trump created the vaccines by himself and they weren't a product from Pfizer etc.
Republicans who support Trump more than party: 46%

...and yet Trump himself is vaccinated. American politics is weird.
Hmm. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccin...

> With or without treatment, the "clinical course appears mild"

> Patients commonly received NSAIDs, steroids, and colchicine for treatment of vaccine-associated myocarditis.

These are.. not comparable to typical COVID hospitalization outcomes, are they?
If I photoshop the moon into a picture and post it to a photography forum, most people will pick it up as a bullshit photo.

If I post the same thing to Instagram, most people will applaud me for being such a great photographer.

Everyone is wasting their time. Lots of people like bullshit.
> Wearing a mask, as we did for 4-5 hours on a flight recently, weirds out my 2 month old since he can't see my face.

How can a two month old possibly express that he's "weirded out" by a mask. As you said, you were on a plane, which was surely a novel situation for him, so even if he was behaving strangely you can't know that it was because of the mask. I think it's much more likely you're projecting your own fears onto him.