skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no Catholic Church prosecuting those who defy the official scientific position today. Galileo was not a lone dissenting voice - he was a proponent of Copernicanism, which he overstated the accuracy of his evidence for, feuding with the Church about whether he was overstating, and getting himself in terrible trouble with the Church. Once Kepler's models were confirmed with observations after Galileo with better telescopes the Church accepted. Later Enlightenment thinkers built a martyr myth around Galileo, and today the nature of his conflict with the Church is an ahistorical picture painted by later hagiographies of Galileo

This is a story that does not apply to our times. There've been many regular scientific revolutions even in the last few decades, the Church hasn't persecuted scientists, and the modern scientific consensus has followed with the revolutions. Whether it's the matter of the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, the revolutions in molecular biology, revolutions in astronomy, or other areas where advances are regular, those outliers actually advancing science have only briefly been ahead of consensus in the real world, but most outliers are cranks, and only those with an expert training in a discipline are likely to be able to identify real advances over crank science. The Galileo model of believing outliers virtually always leaves you in the wrong unless you are a domain-specific expert on the topic.

Look at using MRNA as a medical treatment as another example of a recent revolution, one that's now available in a safe, effective vaccine form.
The long-term safety is an angle that sounds reasonable, but isn't, and is used as an anti-vax talking point. A doctor is expected to know better.

First, historically, no vaccine has caused adverse effects beyond about 2 months. Second, millions have been vaccinated for nearly 9 months already. Third, the mRNA vaccine is metabolized in the body and leaves no trace of itself past 11-14 days. Fourth, it is not a daily medication.

A reasonable analogy of drinking a beer and being worried the after effects might hit you a year after the fact, because it's untested, is obviously approaching absurd.
> I agree. Please shut me up and post the links to long term human mRNA vaccine safety.

Please shut me up and give me any reason to believe that there would be long term effects.

You're asking me to prove a negative, to prove there's no god. It's the wrong question to ask. The question to ask is why you would think there is one in the first place.

The first vaccine was given almost a year ago, how long do we need to wait to placate your nebulous fear? Two? Ten? Twenty more? What basis do you have for selecting this timeframe?

The long-term data we do have is the 30 years of mRNA vaccine research.
And that there is the root of the problem I have with the recent discourse. That the ends (fighting covid) justify the means (silencing legitimate debate, chilling effects, authoritarianism). I disagree in the strongest of terms.

The real concern is what happens when a truly scary leader gets their hands on those new powers you've just handed them.

As always, these debates need to happen in the open, as messy as that is. Shine light on bad ideas, don't let them fester in the cellar.
Clinical Outcomes of Over-the-Counter Covid-19 Prophylaxis
Borat came out in 2006.
How do you provide these pay-only features on an open source project?

And who is doing the support?

It sounds like you are envisioning something like Red Hat.
Clinton? For all his faults, a two term president. And one that left with a federal budget running in the black. That requires some skills, even if I have no idea which exactly.

Edit: Come to think of it, Clinton was also a president that didn't start or prolong a pointless war, on the scale of the war on terror, Vietnam or Korea.
IIRC this was addressed in that book: his repute was tarnished by the wave of anti-German sentiment stemming from WWI.
You pay a decent cost to do the hash, it’s a compression algorithm of sorts. But the data is a fraction of the size and comparison is way faster. If you do many of these or compare the same ones more than once you amortise the cost very quickly
When Anthrax vaccine became mandatory for the military in 1998
"The average web page has nearly 1MB of images."

And probably 3 MB of JavaScript...
Dithered images cause significant problems with many lower end LCD displays. When I scroll any image on my laptop or my phone they change brightness while in motion.
For someone that has worked with RabbitMQ, is there a guide to the differences and appropriate usage of MQTT brokers with some real use cases explained?
A Linux distribution to liberate ARM Chromebooks
I agree, we should also require people to disclose their sexually transmitted diseases publicly. Especially HIV, which is fatal when left untreated and for all but the most wealthy it's detected so late it's a death sentence. It's important that we insure these people with HIV are not only publicly shamed, but also are barred from employment where they may transmit their disease.

This is what you mean, right? A real deadly disease being an actual public health concern, to the point that we should not only publicly shame people, but also bar them from employment?
I'm curious as to why did they needed to amend the constitution to ban alcohol, but they didn't need to amend it for the war on drugs
I'd rather have flat colors for background elements and bevels for "active" UI elements like buttons and checkboxes. NEXTSTEP-derived UIs (like Windows 9x) were razor sharp and easy to read... and it's funny how futuristic cyberpunk UIs, like the non-VR interfaces featured in Johnny Mnemonic, were envisaged as being more of the same -- maybe a drop shadow or marble texture on the beveled button -- instead of the indistinct flat-shaded hellscape of today.
Same here, tested dozens of images from our website (user avatars, product images and logos), and the vast majority ended up being larger and with much lower quality. We serve WebPs generated using the sharp library with quality=80.
Yeah, remember the "feminazis"? They were trying to actively abort babies for some weird reason and then they just suddenly disappeared and it was like they never even existed in the first place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi
I think a possible solution may be paying not in terms of money.

For a free and open source project, the ultimate goal IMO is growth and usability, to fulfill the reason why the software itself exists, and that can be done by donating that money in the shape of a hiring dedicated to work on the software. Some companies already do this, and i don't see why the practice couldn't be more established as a way to ensure a quid pro quo with the community.
> Singapore is actually very diverse.

The numbers I'm aware of show that Singapore is not diverse at all.

> Han Chinese: 74.3%
> Malay: 13.4%
> Indian: 9.0%
> Other: 3.2%

~3/4 Singaporeans are Han Chinese, ~88% are East Asian, and ~96% are Asian. That's extremely homogenous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore#Post...
Then r/politics should be banned but it's one of the biggest subreddits instead.
Sorry, should have been more clear... I'll take Fauci's word over somebody on Youtube (regardless of that Youtuber's purported credentials). Fauci has a career in public health. Random Youtuber, I have no idea if they even have thee credentials they claim.

And there's a big difference between a scientist saying "people with previous COVID infections have more anti-bodies than those with vaccinations" and Joe Rogan saying "COVID is fake/just the flu".

The first is potentially true and most of us aren't qualified to either verify it or derive any course of action from it - regardless of it's truth, vaccination is probably the appropriate action for any individual (better safe than sorry). Using the statement as a argument to avoid vaccination is bad policy.

The second is on outright fabrication, yet we still have a significant portion of the population believing that crap.
Covid did increase semiconductor market due to everyi going online and also other sectors like simple consumer electronics,cameras etc. This trend will probably not end. Humanity is going towards more tech every year.
The voice pitch thing she was doing was a nice touch too.
>Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality.

I think the challenge here is the media and the government are heavily promoting the MESSAGE that vaccine holdouts are screwing things up for everyone.

But the truth is that they are not. The unvaccinated are unvaccinated at their own choice. If they die from not being vaccinated, that's their problem.

I'm open to having triage laws at a hospital where, if they are overwhelmed with the unvaccinated, they can be sidelined for others coming in with other needs. The unvaccinated do have this strain on the medical system and it cannot be ignored. As many have said, the DEATHS from Delta and most of the hospitalized CASES from Delta are indeed among the unvaccinated.

But I think the right to chose is worth the cost.

Delta is also spreading around among the vaccinated. It is indeed true that Delta cases for the vaccinated are far more mild. Almost none result in hospitalization, never mind in death.

But Delta is endemic, vaccinated or not. For the first year of this virus, there NEVER was the assumption we could eradicate it entirely. It's a Coronavirus like the common cold; it WILL be endemic. There never was any other outcome once it passed into the millions of cases world wide.

The left's fantasy of authoritarian control and creating a perfect world from harm is simply unobtainable.

The common good is to learn to deal with this, as we do the flu. Reopen, learn, make the choices you think are best and deal with the consequences. This nanny state of lockdown to try to achieve the impossible is stupid, and turning tyrannical in it's pursuit of a utopia that cannot be had.
There is room for improvement in testing technology and processes.

But not to the extent of "One drop of blood from your finger can provide accurate tests on 26 different types of tests" Especially when some of those tests are only accurate with a large sample of blood
The problem is when people aspire to be scientists because they want to be authority figures rather than find out facts about the world. And then once they become an authority figure as they always wanted they just push their agenda because they never cared about the facts in the first place.

Of course lots of scientists cares about facts first, but the scientists with an agenda are much juicier for journalists to interview and write articles about so they are who we see.

(I believe in climate change, I am pro vaccine. Just noting this here since many will think that me having the above view means I am a climate change denier and anti vax)
I wasn't talking about hate speech, but the fact that you jump to thinking disagreement = hate speech is exactly why I don't talk about things with people unless they're close friends.
If freedom of speech - as a concept - doesn't protect the worst of us, it won't protect the rest of us.
> I guess what I'm saying is there's something fundamentally broken about how people process information.

As far back as you can go, yes. 2.5M years. But I think the point is not to call what exists "broken," but to understand and then use it to the advantage of humanity. Cult-like behavior is human behavior--i.e. the rule, not the exception. Now how do we use this to advance the species?
No wonder the email space is so behind. I'm already working on the next problem, NRTOIATFUSSP

(No, Really, This One Is Actually The Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem)
Are neo Nazis still active enough to be a significant part of the conflict around BLM? I was under the impression that while they're hateful and dangerous aholes, there numbers were so low to that interactions with them were rare?
You forgot:

If you are unvaccinated and previously got infected, you now have a much better outcome than being vaccinated, including from future variants of the virus.
Anyone else feel like suspense was a major step in the wrong direction for React? I've noticed so many more cases of applications breaking in difficult-to-track-down ways because of how errors are propagated with suspense. Maybe I just don't "get it".
Sure, and long before Covid, that was a valid (and much-expressed) criticism of them, as well as a general criticism of using non-federated platforms.

But expanding explicitly into deciding what users are allowed to see and express to each other is a million times worse than the type of banal malevolence that arises from "show people what they like to see".
Using the Goose load testing framework to troubleshoot Quick Edit: Tag1 TeamTalk
you're phrasing it like web hosting is some gargantuan unheard of task.

> It is not free to publish journals, or keep tens of thousands of them, with millions of articles, around indefinitely, for instant access by anyone on the web.

it's not free but it's pretty cheap. you can pay a tiny fraction of what the public universities are currently paying for access to these journals to maintain a repository of scientific papers.

look at scihub, is it being funded by Bezos, Bill or Buffet? no. if a single person can host all those papers herself backed by only random donations, I don't think any government or hell, any university would have any trouble doing the same thing with marginal amount of support.
Guietta: The simplest Python GUI library
Would you mind sharing the brand/product name?
> Eroding trust by overtly controlling information sets the scene for propaganda to take deeper root.

Your choice is to either put the propaganda in front of more eyes or have the current believers doubling down, and you choose the few? The problem is the general population does not critically think enough for the sit back and do nothing approach to work in the real world.

Also, let's be clear: the eroded trust is with a private company that owns a community-driven platform. I know I'm getting downvoted, but seriously, move on if you don't trust them, their entire business is made from you using their service.
Blockchain the homeless, serve us all a net zero carbon emissions economy
Have you seen the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy"? I don't know if they're a good example but the !Kung seemed to live an idyllic life of ecological and social harmony.
If all the big companies use open source software, that creates a nice level playing field for the whole economy. Anyone with capital can start a rival enterprise. Competition breeds innovation and drives down prices. The general public benefits greatly.
> Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-vax" (employing the slanderous use of the term).

I live in Iceland. Recovery from cov-sars-2 infection is considered as valid as a vaccine here.
The same goes for Norway and ( to the best of my knowledge) Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
They all recognize recovery from covid-19 as sufficcient protection.

Looking at US and Canada, along with a slew of terrifying commenters in this thread, the entire Nordic region consist of misinformed anti-vaxxers that have fallen prey to fake news by this definition.

We have also never put masks on our 24 month old toddlers. US and Canda WTF is wrong with you?
We have a very high vaccination rate here in Iceland but that did not stop hospitalisations, or deaths. But definetly decreased them.
Our high vaccination rate has had 0 effect on the spread of infections though. Even if hospitalizations have reaped the benefits because of it.
If anything we got the highest wave of infections we have ever encountered this summer. But with a clear decrease in hospital load.
We went back to mandates after only a very brief 4 week reopening because our high vaccination rate did absolutely nothing to stop the spread.

When this fact hit us in Iceland, when the summer wave hit, we as a country went into a state of mild shock. As so many
nations we declared victory way, way too soon.

No one mentions this in the news though.
Crickets.
We might not even exist for all CNN, Times, all the Posts and vox cares.

I am not in any high risk group. Got moderna 2 shots, I still have PTSD from the side effects of the second shot.
I sincerely thought I took the vaccine to help prevent the spread.
But I most likely went through one of the worst nights of my life for no good fucking reason whatsoever.
I statistically never needed the extra protection, I can still very much catch cov-sars-2 and still very much infect and kill another fully vaccinated vulnerable human being.

I guess I am now a misinformed anti-vaxxer
> Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM

Really? How common are Bitcoin ATMs? And if they are geographically common, how often are people using them beyond the novelty factor?
The faulty equipment in actual pharmacies is problematic, but I can actually see how prototypes out in the wild is a good thing.
It would be interesting to compare this with other low-hanging fruit attack vectors. If you already have physical access, what velocity controls are there in place to prevent me from just repeatedly running cash through the ATM to clear out the entire wallet? vmception is right that long game attacks are way more interesting.
What about a possible cover-up of legitimate business that went haywire?
I was talking about a shift from a Machine Worldview to that of a Living Systems Worldview. You can be an anarchist with or without that kind of a shift.

Perhaps you could share your views of solarpunk. Maybe I don’t really understand it and I just see it as slapping a bunch of solar panels on houses.
Really? Has any public health authority said "it no one's business whether you have unprotected sex with strangers"? On the contrary, there were and there are many campaigns to get people to have less risky behaviors.
My claim - which I am testing with https://darklang.com - is that code being stored as text is a source of significant friction. There are certainly trade-offs, but the value of the non-text representation is under-considered, as is the cost of the text representation.
While progress in this field has been slow, it's worth saying that if this technology continues to proceed towards success, this is not just a life-saver but a game-changer for humanity.
Reviews may be public or private, Google and Microsoft did not make their reviews public.
Why Companies Price Discriminate and Why You Should Too
I use the phrase "engagement or enragement, they still get you".
not saying you're claiming otherwise, but both THC and CBD are derived from marijuana!

edit: this comment is wrong.
Indeed! The ability to make a mess then move on to a new crowd to abuse/scam/etc. without your reputation fully following you, is hugely enabling for sociopaths.
I don't think I've ever seen an account with an NSFW tag/flair. Posts? Yeah. Subreddits? Yup. Possibly a flair for your user on a particular subreddit added by a mod for some reason? Sure. But not accounts. Can you link to this tag?
Sure, the output of the culture industry can be compared to the output of any other industry.

That's why it needs to be preserved, especially if it's harmful.

We keep museums not only to be wowed by amazing artifacts, but also to know our past, what life was like.

And for the same reason, everything from Hitler's radio broadcasts to doge memes is worth preserving.

See my other response in the thread.
> The author forgot his last option: not installing any of this garbage in his home

That's me, the funny part is as a programmer people ask me for my recommendation on this stuff, my answer of "wouldn't install any of that crap in my house in a million years" confuses them usually.
It’s ultimately about the money, and taking advantage of your circumstances as an office drone in a dead end role. Same thing as stealing office supplies or insider trading, imo.
> Banning hate communities does work though [0]

That's like saying banning smoking in the park reduces smoking because nobody's smoking in the park any more.
Ah! I was actually struggling to understand how inputs had anything to do with it. I thought the input was being rendered with some pre-populated/injected value that in this case was the script.

<input><script.../></input>

Then again, if they were able to inject something into the input, chances are they could inject it anywhere, so as you said it has nothing to do with input fields.

Thanks for the clarification.
they literally decide truth and state their decided truth in UI boxes next to the video title, for certain classes of videos. this does not just apply to medical information.

(edit) my account is rate-limited for some reason even though I'm not engaging in any sort of flamewar behavior or anything, so I have to ask here instead: what's incorrect about this analysis?
> back in 1847

Semmelweis was basically lynched (and ruined) by his peers. As usual.

> responsible communication

Yes but the contextual issue here is that of censorship. Or if you proposed a method to filter general publication through criteria involving responsibility, that would require more details.
There was an article on the front page of HN about it yesterday (maybe day before). Became decently big news in Canada.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/milita...
Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains – A Truly Bad Idea
The "tilt" in tilt-shift (outside macro or microscopic photography) is a get it right in the camera hack for focus stacking...or focus stacking can be a kludge for tilt focus.

For HDR in the landscape, holding a graduated neutral density filter in front of the lens is a run and gun hack. Or mount them in a holder if you're "using a friggin tripod."

To me, the best hacks are getting it close in camera...I'd rather not be sitting at the computer managing twenty files so to speak. Sometimes of course it is unavoidable.
Or
It’s not true, because I know people with children under 5 who are prepared to socially isolate until their kids are able to get the vaccine because they believe you have a >50% chance of hospitalization due to COVID.

Some people are playing the long game and blaming vaccine holdouts, which in cases like this is irrational (but who said people are rational).
LOL no.

This is literally moving backwards.
The reason why this is true in Python is the GIL. In other languages without a GIL, multiple threads will run on multiple cores and can speed up CPU bound code.
Also, all of these vaccines that ARE mandated for children against said horrible and deadly diseases were tested for YEARS prior to becoming mandatory to ensure that they are safe for children.

It is impossible to have that dataset for the COVID vaccines. The time has not elapsed yet. The trials have not been done. They are rushing to approve them in a sense of emergency, which I do understand. I do also acknowledge that the data so far is promising! I certainly hope that the vaccines are safe for children and that we can use these going forward in the future.

But I want the process followed; the full 3-5 year trial test before these are mandated. The emergency push for this towards children would be different if COVID was killing the same % of children that it kills the very old. But the data is overwhelming clear the world over: children do not die from COVID; well over 99% have no deaths or long term issues.
Dithering for compression is a bad idea, dithered images are much harder to compress than undithered ones.
The fact that so many people are willing to choose a "lesser evil" is striking to me.

I wasn't even done with High School by the time I figured out that any dichotomy of two evils is a dead end, and that there is always a better place to focus energy upstream.

In this case, AI algorithms are the core problem. Their metrics for success (view time) appear to often lead to extremes. Nothing needs to be banned, it definitely needs to stop being suggested though.