skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening to music? Looking at television screens? Pushing typewriter keys? Playing videogames? Programming computers? Video calls?

While more expensive when adjusted for inflation, all were commercially available in the '60s. You could make video calls in Grand Central in 1964, even if you could only call DC or Chicago and it cost $5 a minute.

The future was already here, as Gibson observed. The internet seems like the last thing humanity invented. Every meaningful (commercially available) "invention" since then has been an internet application or appliance (or has by now been beaten in the marketplace by an internet application or appliance).
Because the police can just point your phone at your face and it will unlock

https://mashable.com/article/police-try-to-unlock-handcuffed...
Please write this up with more detail, it deserves a HN front page story. That is horrifying.
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One of the issues with that argument is: If Biden's workplace vaccine mandate goes through, many of the remaining people who decide not to get vaccinated simply won't have insurance, given they'll also be out of a job.

Instead of paying more into the system, they'll be paying less. They'll still end up in the hospital. Defaulting on the hospital bill doesn't seem unlikely for many in this situation.

This is the biggest reason why this move by Biden is an idiotic gambit, relying on the hope that most of the holdouts are simply on the fence and need a manipulative push. He may be right, but the cost of being wrong could quite literally be large swaths of the US Healthcare System.

What's more, we're seeing concerning numbers of healthcare workers leave the industry. ICUs are not, generally, overfilled because they're out of physical beds; they're overfilled because they're out of people. No one in power is talking about this. Hospitals lose nurses making $70k, then turn around and pay $8000/week for travel nurses. Those nurses that left? You guessed it: many are trying out travel nursing. The rest are burnt-out.

The crisis really is not in the unvaccinated; its in our healthcare system, and it was growing long before the pandemic. A fractionally small part of me actually believes what some in the really, really fringe-right are saying right now: the administration wants the healthcare system to fail, because its another crisis which can be pivoted into single-payer or even nationalized healthcare. Well, its their fear, but its conversely my hope, because at least that would mean the people in charge have a medium term strategy for what seems to be inevitable at this point.
Or any other google product for similar reasons.
> Therefore, I propose that the argument between natural immunity Vs. vaccine is largely a distraction that people who believe the vaccine to unsafe use to obfuscate their goals. Since the data on vaccine safety is a settled issue, you're really just discussing if the US should waste money on multiple redundant workflows so that vaccine hesitant people can feel better.

I don't think this is a distraction, it's a difference in threat models.

Suppose a government official said that everyone should install a particular app on their phones. It's safe, they say. They ran it through antivirus checks and it came up clean. They measured performance of the phone and didn't see any regressions. All the old apps work normally. Major government security agencies are recommending everyone to install the app. Wouldn't it be normal to be suspicious? I mean, that app could do anything.

There are theories about the vaccine that are ridiculous. No, it doesn't have microchips. And so on. But on the other hand, the vaccine has been politicized by Republicans and Democrats alike. Democrats have a lot vested in the vaccine's success; if it turned out it had some serious flaw that was papered over because the benefits were perceived to be greater than the risks, it'd make them looks bad. In the same way that the operators of Fukushima Daiichi looked bad when their reactor failed, or BP looked bad when the blowout preventer didn't work. These are things where the experts said it was fine, but it wasn't. If you believe that government officials will cover up inconvenient facts for political reasons and your main source on the safety of the vaccines is government officials, then a rational choice is not to trust the vaccine.

If microchips aren't a realistic threat, what sort of realistic flaws might the vaccine have? Maybe it elevates risk of cancer or dementia twenty years down the line. Maybe it affects fertility in ways we haven't tested. And so on. Really we have no idea what the long term risks could be, we just know that the short and long term risks of Covid are pretty bad.

All that said, I got my two doses of the vaccine as soon as it was available, and I hope everyone else does the same. I'm just saying that given that some random person has no capacity to evaluate the safety of a vaccine on their own and supposing they have reasons to doubt that the people presented to them as experts regarding the safety of the vaccine would tell them the truth if there were real safety concerns with the vaccine, I can understand why they wouldn't want to get it. And I don't know what argument I could give that would change their minds. For the ones who've already gotten Covid and presumably have at least some reasonable amount of immunity, maybe there isn't really anything to be gained by trying to convince them.
This is really cool! I much prefer writing in longhand (I do for all my fiction writing). However my handwriting is absolutely awful. Maybe I need to try this out and see how it fares -- all the examples on the front page have nice neat handwriting :)
"Pile" typically refers to sliced deli meat, i.e. "pastrami piled high". You may confuse the customer into thinking that there's also deli meat on the burger when there isn't.
My suspicion is that a “hospital ship” is probably staffed with more than just the sailors who make it go from point a to point b.

I could be wrong…
Very slim chance it’ll get sold. It’s going for an IPO to play alongside other cyber security companies like Sentinel One. The founders are already rich enough from previous ventures.
I missed a massive amount of high school and am doing just fine. Most of the work was a complete waste of time which I could easily catch up on.
“The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ah! Thanks for pointing that out. It's true that browsers other than Safari on Apple devices cannot do WebRTC, and that's what that message is for. Browser identification clearly needs a correction, so thanks, I'll get to it :)
I am using Azure on one project as per client's requirement.

One thing I can say, Microsoft hasn't changed a bit. It's a Win98 experience in the cloud.

Now we are fighting Microsoft silently blocking entire ASN of Airtel in Nigeria, and:

1. First, obviously pretending having no idea what are we talking about, and bullshitting us

2. Then not acknowledging. "We checked it, everything is fine"

3. When faced with traceroute - "Maybe it's a third party network provider"

4. When faced with WHOIS record - "I don't know what really to do"

5. "When faced with "this is the last day we are using you" they finally escalated it, and then "It's our DDOS team doing, we have no bearing on them"

6. So, you see it's their official policy to bullshit clients. They clearly knew something from the start, but tried every diversion, thinking they are talking to some $10 per hour anykey man.

Soon found out that Azure silently blocks a big chunk of third world ISPs, and other small datacentre providers without an option to appeal.
Interesting, just wondering are people still using eclipse often for its extensibility?

I checked a year ago or 2 on the plug-in situation and it sorta looked like a abandoned wasteland. IntelliJ seems to have absorbed most Java devs, while new tools such as VScode are the new go to for customization.

It even feels like eclipse foundation was abandoning eclipse a bit, as it’s pushing its web based tools…
People should use something else if Jekyll doesn’t fulfill their use case. Jekyll does what it is supposed to do very well. It is refreshing in the software world to have tools which are not always changing from under you.
The load on the medical system from obesity is largely predictable and stable. It's no comparison to how COVID overwhelms the medical system.

Nobody is going without necessary surgery or treatment because some other people eat too much food from McDonald's.
These days the word "butter" evokes an inoffensive pale white stick in your fridge, but in the days before refrigeration, butter was made at home. And while it keeps much better than milk, it can and does get seriously funky over time.

You can get a faint taste of this (literally) with French cultured butter like Pepe Saya, which blurs the line between butter and soft cheese, but if you ever visit Tibet or even a Tibetan temple, the entire place is permeated with the smell of what the Western nose and palate would consider straight-up rancid butter. No wonder the Romans weren't keen on the stuff. (Of course, I imagine the "barbarians" felt the same away about the ubiquitous Roman condiment garum, aka fish sauce.)
I'm not one of your downvoters, but these devs still had entire manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and executive teams behind them. Sure, developing the game could take a person a few weeks, but no one person was going to get that onto the shelves of Walmart alone.

That's the big difference today. A person can develop a good game in a reasonable time frame, but they can also put that game on a virtual shelve in front of about a billion gamers world wide.
Here’s an article about a farmer in Australia who had a mostly local fruit picking workforce for the first time because there’s no backpackers to exploit because of COVID. Shockingly, he attracted workers by paying decent wages, providing good conditions, and reduced costs by not using third party labour recruitment/management services.

It’s amazing to me that ‘good wages and conditions attracts workers’ is newsworthy, but it does seem to be something many workplaces are struggling with.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-31/farmers-paying-higher...
The YIMBY's stated goal of empowering developers to build more will only result in creating housing for the PMC. It does nothing to address actual homelessness.

The fact is there's so much competition and not enough available land to ever drive prices low enough for the service workers who actually keep our cities running to afford housing and you all know it. No matter how much you try and suck up to developers, they know where the margins are, and it will never be poor people.
Overweight people already have their costs internalized: that's what your insurance rates are.

This is also actually tremendously fair, because if you're fat but don't suffer any lifestyle illnesses, then your insurance rates are low - you are actually able to support your mass. But once those conditions start ticking up, so do your insurance rates.

The US basically leads the way on addressing the social externalities of obesity as they relate to the healthcare system.
Someone I play with got really frustrated at getting perpetually bad rolls in Settlers of Catan, to the point of no longer wanting to play. So I wrote down two copies of all possible rolls (such that they end up weighted appropriately) on small pieces of paper, and we cycle through them all. For that game, at least, it feels much better and feels more "fair". (It does add an element of "card" counting, but none of us are serious enough to pay that much attention. At most, we remember whether the 2 or 12 has come up yet.)
Anonymous is a collective with different motives. even if it wasn’t, anonymous was never much more than opportunistic hacks painted to look political.
http://4klang.untergrund.net/ specific details about 4klang for those curious.
Having to wait a month for a PCP or specialist appointment isn't that unusual in the US. It varies drastically based on what insurance plan you're on. My family member was booking their PCP 6 weeks out. My girlfriend's breast surgeon followup post cancer appointment was cancelled when her PCP's office didn't get the referral in in time and the next appointment was in Feb 2022.

Fun fact side note: A brain MRI w/ and w/o contrast in NYC has a retail price of $6,700.
This is true - hunger rates are rising since about 2015, but the link to climate change isn't singular. War is very influential, and the leading spots where you see hunger - Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, Syria are known for their situations separate from climate change.

It's also unclear if this is a noise figure rather than a trend. Overall hunger has been declining for decades. Less people die from hunger and weather than ever before if you move the running average out a bit (10 years for example)

I wouldn't discount climate change here. It's obviously part of it. Syria is a prime example, where drought has contributed to the civil war. But like all climate change - it's nuanced.
54 and likewise. I've been aware of IPCC reports for a couple decades now, just kind of monitoring what they've been saying and noticing that more often than not, the media reports only the best-case scenarios while at the same time the worst-case scenarios are actually what's come to pass and much more quickly than expected. The denialism in this thread baffles the hell out of me.
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Is there anyone who still uses averages ?
If you want to lower house prices, easier to just tax houses/properties more.

Increase taxation, the middle class homeowners will revolt. Political will is required to build more housing.
TURN is only used if STUN fails - I see from my analytics at the turn server provider that not even one session has been handle that way :)
>I don't even think that the causation "shaming -> less vaccination" is true.

You don't understand human nature or yourself. Shame on you. Did that make you change your mind? Didn't think so.

I'm sure persuadable people exist, just what percent, I don't know. There are millions unvaccinated in the US and it will change over time. Many people are taking the "wait and see approach." If you don't understand why, see the Tuskegee Experiment. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study) All I know is shaming will have the opposite effect, assuming the intention is to get people to vaccinate. Shaming people is a very selfish and self centered action. The news does it all the time so you get that little hit of dopamine to watch more. Fat shaming is counter productive, lazy shaming counter productive, poor shaming counter productive, homeless shaming counter productive. Drug shaming is counter productive. Why on earth do you think it would it work now?
>Let's say people in the 70s knew climate change was happening.

The broad understanding of it was known in the late 70s, and even accepted by politicians by the early 80s as a policy requirement before it became politicised later.

>I don't think we had the technology back then to do much about it. We could have slowed it down a bit, but not stop it.

If you think of the massive exponential growth of oil/gas consumption and the level of deforestation since the 70s - even just slowing it down back then would've bought a much longer window of time to tackle it with less disruption as well as develop technologies to help fix/mitigate it.
Our real estate and land markets seem hyper fragmented, not close to being a monopoly? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Of course not in all cases can we prove that the health issues are 100% the shot, but it looks extremely likely the shot causes health issues in rare cases [1]:

-Anaphalaxysis in 2-5 per million peoples

-Thrombosis (2 reported cases from J&J)

-Myocarditis / Pericarditis : 854 confirmed

The benefits appear to far exceed the risk at the population level. But that's not much consolation at the individual level if you are someone predisposed to anaphylaxis or thrombosis, which are potentially life threatening, in which case at the individual level the vaccine may look to not be worth the risks. Better screening tools could help identify individuals with these risks.

I'm also not sure there are any mRNA vaccines for which we have to compare in humans that have been out few years and FDA approved. It is my understanding the COVID vaccine was the first widely distributed mRNA vaccine in humans. I have no reason to believe they are dangerous, but they are lacking any long term studies in humans on any large scale.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
All-in tech podcast: false ivermectin narratives
This has been updated to include a spiel about Kent Dahlgren.

I'm not aware of the story there — is there some sort of feud between the two parties?
Please. Wand/broomstick stuff isn't anything novel. The rest is a stretch, obviously a desire to put more meaning into regular stuff.
A lot of banks are exiting retail saving accounts.

Here's an example of a big bank in the Netherlands ( in dutch): https://www.banken.nl/nieuws/23010/ing-adviseert-spaarders-o...
I choose a VPN service specifically because I do not want to run my own VPN service.

Doing all the right things of making it fault-resilient and robust in the face of attack, etc… are all the sorts of things I don’t want to have to do for a home-built system. If I wanted to do that, I’d go start my own VPN company and sell that service to others.
Hang on tight, we got this!
The news needs to show more videos of sick people and bodies stacking in freezers. That will do it for most. They're incentivized to draw it out though. They would love 3 years of COVID, at least profit wise.
Is it even possible to learn exclusively by immersion as an adult? I was under the impression that roughly around puberty, we lose a good part of our ability to just pick up languages and a combination of study and experimentation was required afterwards.
>> All that aside though- forcing fat people to get skinny isn't a valid comparison to forcing people to take a vaccine. One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day for potentially years

Well we could just tell the fat people they aren't allowed to eat in restaurants and can't keep their jobs. That way they won't be able afford or get the food that keeps them fat! </sarcasm>
> Epik has, at least as far as I can tell, a reputation for simply hosting domain registrations, not asking questions, and ignoring just about every request for information.

Give https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains a shot.

I'm not affiliated aside from being a happy customer for over a decade. You can read their abuse-handling terms here: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse
Mirror neurons: Enigma of the metaphysical modular brain
> I've always thought that even if you just let the player click a button to activate the random number generator, you give them a sense of control. Perhaps you let them hold the button down for a while just like how players rattle the dice for longer hoping for "luck" in the results.

That's the whole concept of these slot machines in Las Vegas. For some reason it seems vital to have the player his "go".
At least I'm on the right team, and didn't ignore it for a year and spread massive amounts of disinfo to this day.

Which side did you choose? Oh wait, I can smell it from here...

Did your sad little downvote make you feel better? sadflex
Additionally, the only plausible way to do it would be to test for seroconversion. That's a blood draw, so it doesn't save anyone from a needle, and overall it's probably more work and more expensive than vaccination.
This reminds me of something I’d like to see in JavaScript: Loops that accept `await` in their body without pausing the whole loop.

This is already possible with:

await Promise.all(arr.map(async item => {
await item()
})

… but it requires turning the iterable into an array first and it requires calling a function.

Is anyone working on a proposal for this?

async for (const item of iterable)
await item()
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> I am not sure that was ever true. In the Old Testament, there are lots of references to drinking milk.

Wouldn't the people who wrote the old testament have been considered barbarians by the Romans?
Not to mention that there are some 25 million teenage boys who are at higher risk from covid vaccination than simply catching covid.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

And it's also unethical to force it onto someone who has natural immunity, since their natural immunity is already on par or better than vaccination. So what's the point?

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
Why do we still not have data on the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID breaking all three down by groups that are unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, fully vaccinated, and previously infected?

It seems like we have some data — hospitalizations and deaths of vaccinated — but even that isn’t clearly and consistently reported anywhere that I’ve seen (e.g. try finding a chart in [1]).

We need to do better at tracking and reporting on this data, so that we can finally have answers to a lot of questions around effectiveness of vaccines and natural immunity from prior infection.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+hospitalizations+and+d...
Go to your profile and turn on showdead
What a googly of an observation.. I cant tell if this is trolling or not!
He isn't serious about this. Guarantee he has a tweet or liked a tweet from 2020 raging about Cheeto Mussolini's White Supremacy Vax. It's just politics, and has been, since early 2020.

Let us put the gays to the camps, they impose external costs to the healthcare system too (but we won't, because they are a holy symbol for these people).
HSBC is by far the worst banking experience I ever had. I only signed up for the generous sign up bonus. The app was very, very dated and only worked half the time. The website seemed to redirect you about 50 times on login, again, failing half the time. I could go on and on about how awful things were designed, but will not in the interest of time. I couldn't wait to get that money out and close it up. It's like they weren't even trying.
Do you agree that you liberty to swing your fist ends at a non-consenting nose though right?
Very nicely done landing page.
It's not interest rates.

$100k house, 14% interest, 30yr fixed: monthly payment of $1,427

$235.3k house, 3% interest, 30yr fixed: monthly payment of $1,427

Now that house now costs $706k in NYC and $932k in SF... the problem is supply.

Nationwide, it takes a higher income to buy a home than it use to (median sales price / median income): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=FYMk The problem is even worse in prosperous cities.
The CDC literally cited mask scarcity for medical workers as a reason the public shouldn't get masks. The whole "CDC lied about masks being necessary" is bullshit. The difference between the CDC and the anti-vaxx crowd is the CDC makes decisions in the public interest and explains the rational behind their decision making.
That's ridiculous. Hospitals fill up on a regular basis, now and before Covid. They like to keep as close to capacity as they can - $$. If we have more need for beds, we build more beds. We don't take away personal freedom.
> pushing natural immunity as the solution is as dumb as chicken pox parties

So, pretty smart? But I come from an era before a chicken pox vax.
Thanks. Thing is, in an open source system, there are no 2nd class citizens caused by the "eat your own dogfood" rules (or lack thereof). You want to change the GUI in Ardour? The code is all right there.

The question I was raising (which I think you understand) is whether most users care that this is possible if it can't be done without a rebuild (compiling).