skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the vaccine you're referring to. Pfizer dropped quite a bit.

This is the CDC study that confirmed this (plus summarization): https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1436389153533464597?la...
This cross validates the finding from the MN DPH and Israel MOH report on pfizer from June.

Moderna came on top with a VE of 95% under delta.

If you didn't read this: You should still be vaccinated. If you're under Pfizer wear KN95s, KF94s, and N95s. This not an arguement against vaccination.
I completely agree. Vim isn't lifechanging, but it's good. Once you're basically confident it's very nice, but you can still use other editors.

RPN calculators on the other hand...
>I never once saw an example cited of these so-called distractions from being mission-focused that wasn't just affirming the basic dignity of a group of people.

You are free to affirm whatever you want, and have all sort of discussions about society at large when your aren't being paid for your time by someone else to do a job that has nothing to do with affirming groups of people.

>I simply cannot imagine working at a place that doesn't recognize the humanity of their workers. Utterly baffling and heartless mindset.

Its baffling to me that so many people feel entitled to espouse their social and cultural beliefs in the workplace instead of doing the job they are being paid to do. The way a workplace recognizes the humanity of their workers is by offering good wages, good hours and a generous benefits package.
is there something like this for node? sorry if this is an obvious q; i'm relatively new
Cost overruns hit California bullet train again
what would be nice is turning the skill gap into motivation to make other people grow faster

but the reflex for humans is to fear and be angry (understandably, but a bad reflex)
That is interesting.

There was a time in my life (when I owned a desktop) that I would listen to music, play a livestream, play a video game cooperatively, and voice chat with my cooperative partner.

It was the perfect stimulation that would have me focused deeply on the conversation as the gameplay was the topic du jour. It came second-nature.
At low scale it's not a problem and at large scale it can't be hidden.

What would the nightmare scenario look like? Drama? The community gits gud at MIMO, to work around the abuse, and HFDF, to track it down and police it? I'd watch that movie. Hell, I'd play that game, sign me up!

If all else fails, what about new legislation involving cryptographic signatures and bandwidth quotas? What if those spawn a secondary market where people take the HAM test just to rent out their callsign for crypto tokens? Would that be a bad thing or spawn a crazy collectively-owned disintermediation of telcos? Would the world really be such a bad place if instead of paying $60 to ATT I could pay $30 to some teenagers who memorized RF facts long enough to pass a test?

I'd say that HAM can evolve or it can die -- but eventually the people holding it back will literally die and then it will evolve all the same. That's how actual evolution works. You can't stop the future. Still, you can hold it back, and it's unfortunate to see that happening, from a community of techies no less.
It's pretty manageable, like 15k queries per hour on and off since yesterday. It's been easy to flag and block. Not really sure what they are trying to do, the queries just look like a bunch of random keywords, almost like they are looking for blogspam. But it's too overspecified so they're not getting any meaningful results.

I have a hunch they are trying to estimate the ranking of like hacked WordPress installs, because their search terms look a lot like the sort of keyword stuffing you find on those.
If you're interested in playing with radio, HAM equipment/bands aren't even the easiest/cheapest/most fun.

You can buy breakout boards for all sorts of protocols and such (most in 2.4Ghz) on Adafruit et. al. for a few bucks, and hook them up and play with them with a RPi, Arduino, etc. to you heart's content. Without a license.

Basic HAM gear is, for the most part, expensive (with the exception of cheap VHF hand helds), limited, big, heavy, bulky, and/or typically nowhere near cutting edge.
You're missing a crucial point, which is that an XSS or SQL injection requests are different requests from those made during regular use. The intent of sending such a request is also different.

In this case, we are dealing with the same requests with the same intent, just made with a different browser. As stated previously, you cannot force my choice of browser.

Now please tell me which (real or imaginary) ToS clause this violates and how it could possibly violate it, even hypothetically.
Anatomically modern vocal chords only developed sometime between ~80000 to ~40000 BCE. So although that’s still quite a lot of time, it’s less than what is implied with cranial structure.

It’s actually surprising how late and relatively sudden vocal chords developed compared to the rest of the body, as what ‘humans’ had prior was totally incapable of modern speech. It’s an unresolved mystery I believe.
Eh. Sure it's takes a bit of effort but installing a Linux distro in a virtual machine and pulling and compiling some C code isn't exactly a massive project. It would have been a much bigger deal before the widespread use of virtual machines. Or, I guess, if you don't have experience with building things on Linux.

I completely understand that if someone doesn't use a platform themselves, there might be little motivation to test things on it. No hard feelings if someone doesn't care to do that. But it's not that much effort.
Three thoughts:

1. HFT firms have definitely tried to perform HFT communication on HF bands before, see [1].

2. IIRC there have been some undecipherable transmissions in ham HF bands that were suspected to be associated with HFT, but I can't find a source right now.

3. While you don't have any additional latency from routers and serialization delays in the path across the pond, you need to keep in mind that long-range HF communications rely on bouncing the signal on the F1/F2 layers of the ionosphere (an atmospheric layer with lots of charged particles/ions that act as a mirror to HF signals). If you're comparing HF transmission with a hypothetical straight-line fiber connection (assuming it the propagation speed in the fiber is comparable to the atmospheric propagation speed [2]), the fiber connection would win.

Additionally, bandwidth is an extremely scarce resource in HF bands (compared to cellular networks or other common VHF/UHF systems). There's a reason people still use CW (morse code) or even PSK31 [3] instead of SSB (voice) [4] in HF bands: You need around 500 Hz for CW signals, around 3000 Hz for SSB signals. PSK31 only needs 31.25 Hz. My point is: While you might beat latency of fiber connections and routers along the path, the throughput is going to be quite low for HF transmission.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/wall-street-tries-shortwave-radio-...

[2] Since you mentioned copper: Copper can be quite a bit slower than fiber depending on cable type, since the propagation speed of signals in copper cables depends on the velocity factor. Wikipedia gives a few examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor

[3] PSK31 stands for Phase Shift Keying at 31 Bd. The short explanation is that PSK31 is a bandwidth-optimized text transmission mode.

[4] SSB stands for Single Sideband. The short explanation is that SSB is a bandwidth-optimized AM voice mode.
I don’t think phoning home by default is part of the mission of being a ‘Privacy focused browser’.

Worse thing is Mozilla keeps projecting this empty message of ‘privacy’ whilst still continuing to be more than 80% funded by one of the most anti-privacy companies in the world who directly goes against their entire mission statement.

This is hardly surprising.
"It's just wrong" is wrong. It's complicated because it's complicated. Try explaining quantum physics. Complexity is a function of the shoulders upon which the new thing is standing. Cryptocurrency sits atop cryptography, which is conceptually difficult to grasp even for HN regulars.

The potential (I say potential because I'm aware enough to know that certain things are not yet proven) value for "most people" is a reduction of the corruption inherent in the processing of financial transactions. This is far enough separated from the average persons day to day that it doesn't seem to have value. But things like the GFC bring that awareness to the fore... briefly.

The terminology doesn't "shift all the time" and if that's how you see it then you're not keeping up and therefore your opinion and commentary carries little weight. The terminology you're talking about is new functionality offered by the ecosystem, it's not a rebranding or business pivot, it's a new branch of services.

DeFi is an example of the services that can be built upon cryptocurrency (with smart contracts) and, like the cause of this discussion, takes time to build awareness and a customer base.

Web3 is just another branch of functionality that can sit atop cryptocurrency / smart contracts. The terminology may well be bullshit, just like "social" was web-2-point-oh way back seven years ago, but it's the concept that matters, and the alternative, or disruption, that it facilitates.

Web3 appears to be a kind of meta-internet. Bullshit terminology aside, I'm interested to see what will come of it.
Out of curiosity, could you share the official messaging that contradicts my assertion?
How Maori Arrival in New Zealand Was Frozen in Antarctic Ice
Yes a G4 was quite a bit faster than a P4 clock for clock, especially on floating point and vector operations and used quite little power too.

You can go watch the annual videos where they show photoshop benchmarks running faster on the G3, G4 and G5s. But Intel did take the lead on occasion and kept up mostly. XP also felt faster in UI than early Mac OS X versions, although it did more and improved later on.
Prop 19's targeting inheritance exemptions will have uneven effects. The very wealthy won't be affected at all because, on the advice of their estate planners, they will have transferred their properties into corporate entities long ago. (Recall that properties owned by corporations aren't reassessed when stock ownership changes and Prop 19 didn't change that.) Heirs to properties worth less than $1m who intend to use the property as a primary residence are also unaffected.

There is, however, a large group of ordinary middle-class people, particularly in cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco, who own what were once modest homes that are now worth more than $1m.[0] Their heirs will be burdened when the property tax bills double (or more) in one year, even if the heirs use the property as their primary residence. More heirs will sell inherited properties, which is exactly what the real estate brokers who promoted Prop 19 intended. $1m+ is also a sweet spot for broker profitability.

The intent of Prop 13 was to stabilize property taxes after the double-digit hyperinflation of the 1970s by capping annual increases in assessed value at 2%. That created stability for individuals and businesses that led to massive investment in and migration to California.

Prop 19 undoes that stability, but only for a narrow group of people: heirs to $1m+ properties from parents who did not have sophisticated estate planners. From Wikipedia:

The Case–Shiller housing index shows prices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco appreciated 170% from 1987 (the start of available data) to 2012 while the 2% cap only allowed a 67% increase in taxes on homes that were not sold during this 26-year period.

[1][2]. On average, heirs to $1m+ homes in those markets will be hit with roughly a 103% increase in one year (170%-67%). So, Prop 19 hits a narrow group of people with a 100%+ tax increase when Prop 13 was supposed to limit increases to 2%. A compromise rule could have been to spread out the increase over the course of a few years, but that wouldn't induce more sales like the brokers' lobbying group wanted.

Personally, I think it would be fair to increase the annual cap from 2% to 4%. In a decade or so, that would undo much of the tax discrepancies caused by Prop 13. And the effects would be spread out, so people could plan for it. Increasing the cap, however, would never pass because it is clearly a tax increase on everyone and doesn't benefit a special interest like real estate brokers.

[0] The median home price in Los Angeles is now over $900k. https://www.zillow.com/los-angeles-ca/home-values/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20191011004252/https://us.spindi...
>So when we talk about (for instance) the price of AAPL stock, what we really mean is AAPL/USD. Or when we talk about the price of crude oil we really mean CL/USD. I am buying AAPL, selling USD. Or I am selling crude oil, buying dollars.

This sounds eminently reasonable to me.

However, it immediately reminds me of all the people (I haven't seen one in a while though) who go on about the geopolitical significance of what currency oil or other commodities is denominated in.

I'm just not sure how numerous and influential the latter sort of view is, and it unsettles me at times when they appear to be everywhere and the things you say aren't.
https://archive.ph/A8IGy
Some other details:

The captain had a remarkably good record of safety. This likely both helped cause the accident (it is believed he didn't react quickly enough) and helped make it shocking that it happened at all.

It was a civilian ship, so we likely have a fuller picture of what happened helping to make the story interesting. Military vessels often cannot have their full story told for reasons of national security. The most compelling details may be classified, removing juicy tidbits from the public record.

Enough people survived to tell the tale in substantial detail, giving us compelling tidbits like "the band played on." One survivor was a socialite who became known as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and her life inspired both plays and films.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Brown

Some people see the sinking as an act of God, punishment for hubris because they bragged it was unsinkable. For people who want to believe in a spiritual view of things or karma, it's psychologically and emotionally compelling that they made the brag and then not only did it sink, it did so on the ship's maiden voyage. It's like a story a hack author would write to promote ideas like "Don't be a braggart, you foolish fool!" only it really happened.
So Paddle says that they can offer an alternative iOS IAP service.

But Judge Rogers wrote "Apple could still charge a commission... it would simple be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission."

That indicates that if Apple decides to charge a commission on alternative IAP and figures out how to collect it, then developers may not save any money and may only benefit in terms of being able to sidestep Apple's user privacy requirements.
etymonline suggest 'Trauma' moved from it's more literal meaning of 'wound' to encompass 'psychic wound, unpleasant experience which causes abnormal stress' around 1894.
What's the implication here? Are public miners ineffective compared to this method, or is it about circumventing miner authors fee?
An app with a recommender system for Jokes. Swipe up means funny, swipe down means not funny. Then you see the next recommended joke.
Mandates are totally not happening!

But if they are, it's not in the US.

And if it is in the US, there's legal precedent, and totally valid.
Zapier Uses Listicles to Drive 5M Sessions
We have a serious information overload problem and the level of control provided by that extension is infinitesimal to what should be routinely available to all users.
The part that confuses me the most is that the two 'vaccine side effects' in question are the swelling of muscles in or around the heart... But side effects of (even mild[1]) COVID infections include _damage_ to muscles in or around the heart.

It seems like halting the use of a flu vaccine because of the flu vaccine causing flu-like symptoms.

[1]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
This just in, people who also happen to work are not mindless automatons. People like working at places that seem to align with their own personal views.

It's baffling to me that people believe I should turn off my brain when I'm at work.
>complicity with the status quo.

This is a non-argument because "status quo" can be construed as anything and everything. It boils down to "you're either with us or against us."

"If you don't actively support my pet cause on women's rights to own hand guns in California, it means you support the status quo. You support women being murdered and victimized without any recourse because you want to disarm them when they need guns the most! Supporting the status quo on gun rights is supporting women victimization!"
There is no fully approved vaccine available in the United States.

Most working people now need one to work or they face termination as loss of livelihood

Stop pretending it's not required. We're not all trust finders.
They also have a search engine that's good enough most of the time.
>Brave being webkit, it's not an alternative.

Brave is Blink not webkit - Blink has been developed by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel and many others. It is the standard for web rendering just as linux is for web hosting. There is nothing wrong with open standards.
Beyond Borrow checker, move/copy, and error propagation(different error in fn), what else should someone learn in order to have basic understanding of Rust?
Well, I've been looking, and mostly what I've been able to find is references to papers that show strong correlation with Buddhist monks and exceptional gamma waves. The paper I'm thinking of may have not been reproducible, and fallen off the radar. I would have seen it no later than 2011. I might be quoting a book on neuroscience as well (I went through a phase where I was looking at neuroscience for inspiration for AI research). I think the idea was that people who meditate while doing certain types of "mindless" tasks seem to be able to hold 1 wave around that task, while holding another wave around other thoughts. What I can't remember is if this was a one gamma wave per hemisphere scenario, or 2 for the whole brain.

If you're interested at least in consciousness and brain waves, you could do worse than to look into reading some of the references in "States of Consciousness: Experimental Insights into Meditation, Waking, Sleep and Dreams" Dean Cvetkovic & Irena Cosic Editors
> There is a difference between people/companies that believe that lives of black people matter and those that claim that BLACKLIVESMATTER.

FWIW, in this case, that "difference" might be that Coinbase was simultaneously treating their black employees poorly--dare I say, as "second class citizens"--while actively refusing to take a few seconds to agree with something as banal/obvious as "black lives matter". The BLM statement struggle was merely a catalyst for what were already existing and somewhat long-standing racial tensions brewing inside the company that had led people to feel that, with its actions, the company did not in fact care about its black employees... context you can't just pretend didn't exist going into Brian's "let's not talk about this and everyone go back to work" post.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt...

> The tensions at Coinbase came to a head in June, after the police killing of George Floyd. As many tech leaders publicly voiced support for Black Lives Matter protests, Black employees at Coinbase said on the Slack messaging platform that they were hurt by the silence of Mr. Armstrong and other executives about the matter. They organized a meeting where several of them told executives, often through tears, about their difficult experiences at the company, eight people who attended said.

Take careful note: this wasn't "merely" "our difficult experiences in the world", this was "our difficult experiences at the company". Seriously: too much of this comment thread seems to be hyperfocused on BLM statements--as I guess y'all really think taking a few minutes and a couple sentences to acknowledge that in solidarity somewhere is somehow a horrible distraction--while ignoring that this had started in the background of "Coinbase is mistreating its black employees so much that it had already lost 3/4s of them" (and that's before Brian's post, so a lack of strong improvement since then is telling). This is way more concrete than these abstractions.

> But according to 23 current and former Coinbase employees, five of whom spoke on the record, as well as internal documents and recordings of conversations, the start-up has long struggled with its management of Black employees.

> “It was the first time I realized what racism felt like in the modern world,” said Layllen Sawyerr, a compliance analyst who is Black. “I felt like I was being bullied every day at work.” She said she filed a discrimination complaint with Coinbase’s legal department before quitting in 2018.
Same here. Occasionally I will do an esoteric search and the only responses I get are obviously pages which were written automatically. They do not contain normal language, but rather a mish-mash of meaningless-outside-of-a-context text content. Very weird and hacky-- I always feel suspicious of such pages as if viewing them would somehow get me one step closer to getting my computer hacked.
If there is one thing I've learned from a company that went woke was that the supposed diversity that it reached was merely superficial.

They hired people from all the minorities necessary and ended up with culture that was even more monolithic than before. No dissent allowed.

I am a bisexual dude, and nobody at work (sans my closest friends) know about it because it's none of their business. I did not disclose it during my interview, I don't want them to ask me about it.
You don't have any kids, do you? On youtube they watch people creating minecraft worlds. When I talk to them about why they don't play minecraft themselves they tell me they would rather watch someone else. It so strange. They don't play video games. They watch other people playing video games. On instagram they just look at pictures of other people doing stuff. It's like they are living vicariously through other people's lives (most of which are surely fake) instead of living their own lives.
If you leave off the rest of my post, you're likely to misunderstand it :-)
Expect to be exploited for money!

I've been there. Resisted less than 1yr. Better to be free and have a life with less money in the pocket.
OH GOD NO. Man, I hated all that stuff at the time. If you're stuck in text mode, just be text. Don't try to mimic a GUI; it just looks weird and generally works poorly.

A web site that imposed this sort of interface would be a site I visited ONCE.
Yes, but ham radio is all about being open and a community of people communicating together

My question is whether this kind of regulated openness is more worthy of the spectrum assigned to hams than some alternative scheme might be. It's certainly not a very efficient use of spectrum.
The risk of covid death for a working age parent in 45-55 is about 1:1000. More interesting, the risk of covid death out of all deaths in said age group is 12.5%. Maybe adults have a right to decide for themselves whether a 12.5% increase in their death risk is worth whatever other considerents they might have?

Can we please stop acting like covid is some sort of a guaranteed death sentence, even if older and unvaccinated?
I often wonder how close the ancients were to all the knowledge we take for granted.

So much lost forever in all those burned libraries.
Yeah. Also I don't think most Firefox forks take security seriously. Jumping like this is like jumping into a house on fire because your finger got burned.