skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzvktk

"We're thinking this is a lab error because these three are found only in sharks"

"Bond #4 has eaten through its beaker"
Brodie Knob
I was in this boat in college in the 1970s and I joined various sport teams/activities with mixed success - all of the few friends I made were other guys I met on the all male golf team. The sailing club was the best mixed gender club organized a bit like speed dating with random mostly opposite gender people assigned to crew each boat each week and a week long camping trip that should have been relationship gold but never worked out for me. Long after college I learned to force myself to talk to people I met casually and gradually became less isolated. Then I got married to an extrovert I met in a bar and the need for friends of my own was greatly reduced.
It's certainly a well-worn path from "founder builds great company" to "founder sells out" to "new management are assholes" to "company goes down the tubes."

What's worse, it's not always apparent from the outside. But I don't really know if TJ is going down that path, and you haven't presented clear evidence that it is.
OP’s statement is too broad and thus incorrect, but it is essentially correct about Abrahamic religions where the religious texts are clearly concerned with upholding state power. This obviously does not apply to many, if not most, other religions.
The immediate amnesia thing: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
The only get donations for their campaigns. If tech companies give evenly to both parties, it wouldn't matter to politicians if those donations stopped. If one party gets more than the other, one party would gain, relatively, if donations became illegal.

So the story isn't quite complete without mentioning: It's mostly the Republican party that has stopped acting in ways that could be considered good for the country. It's gotten so bad they are actively trying to undermine democracy in every imaginable way, including opposing any constraints on campaign donations and even the regular application of the few safeguards left after Citizen United.
> while medicines and medical devices deployed to hospitals and homes are heavily regulated in the US, medical labs are not

Relatively speaking, this is as it should be. There are ways to cope with arbitrarily-convincingly fake lab reports (most generically, do multiple tests and compare them), whereas there's not a procedural fix for your X-ray machines occasionally going THERAC. Those measures generally aren't actually in place, but they should be anyway to cope with eg human error.

But the regulations actually in place on both patient-proximate and lab-based equipment are insufficiently stringent. (Annoyingly, they're also gratuitously burdensome.)
It's not that Motorola failed to delivery a faster 68k, it's that IBM's actions forced them to invest in PowerPC at a time when they should have been focused on advancing 68k. The 68040 was quite competitive at the time with performance that beat the Pentium. And any time a company is forced to split resources across multiple product lines, none of the projects will be as successful as a more focused competitor. Since Intel had gobs more revenue from x86 than Motorola had from both PowerPC and 68k lines at the same time, Intel was instead able to invest more in development of x86 with multiple teams without the distraction of supporting dual architectures. Intel's progress accelerated while Motorola's limited resources were diluted across projects that didn't have any common infrastructure.

The complexity of developing validation tests suites for PowerPC alone would have sucked up all the software resources inside of Motorola at the time, as all the old 68k OSes and support code, etc had to be rebuilt from scratch for PowerPC. Not at all a small undertaking.
Do you live on campus?
It uses WebRTC for the video, but the audio latency of WebRTC is too large and uncontrollable.

As stated in the post, the audio uses a custom C++ UDP solution. As far as I know it's the first video calling app with very low latency audio.
If the social media platforms in question are taking down posts on the recommendations (or demands, take your pick) of the White House's senior staff, then I think it's fair to say that they are State Actor's.
The lyrics don't say the vaccine would stop the pandemic, it says it would stop the spread, which it does. You are changing the wording to make it seem more reasonable than it is.
My kids did well being the "go to person" for something other students need. Pdfs of specific textbooks that are hard to find. The "narrowed down" list of realistic choices for various scholarships, or internships for a specific major, or list of cheapest foreign study programs. Running a slack group (or similar) list of cheapskate opportunities (free food, etc).
Well, if we talking about the idea of censoring misinformation that goes against the well established scientific consensus (and not this particular case that seems to be a misapplication of this idea), then actually nobody is saying you cannot question it.

Deliberately spreading misinformation to wide audiences is distinctly different from asking questions in order to improve your own understanding. First of all, if you are aware that you don't understand it, then don't form public opinion. Most people are f* unaware (or ignorant of the fact), of course. And these are never really questions even if formulated as ones (i.e. having a question mark at the end and using the according word order). Putting up a video on YT and discussing how e.g. masks don't work doesn't become questioning for understanding (for your own understanding) just because the idiot phrases it like "Yeah, but if vaccines work then why do vaccinated people still have to work masks? And why do they get into hostpitals? And why do they die? And if masks work then why do we still have a pandemic?" Etc.

You know this game. These are not questions and the format (again, a YT video broadcasted to potentially the masses) is not appropriate for gaining knowledge for the person who created it. The direction of the information flow is just wrong.
First let's deal with the nitpicky semantics. R0 is is the basic reproduction number while R generally denotes the effective reproduction number. I am talking about R.

There's indisputable evidence that the vaccination is impacting R. While it's true that the accuracy of estimates for R depends on many factors and certainly there have always been some cases flying under the radar (though that has been studied extensively via antibody studies and other means) proxies like the number of people dying, the number of people hospitalized, while controlling for things like vaccinations are accurate enough to detect this.

There are tons of studies, random e.g.:
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/10/1245/pdf

Trying to argue confounding factors vs. the observations is IMO very weak. Ofcourse we can't tell anything with certainty in this domain. It seems like the people who want proof here set the bar impossibly high, no proof will ever satisfy them.

EDIT: adding some more references...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01316-7

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccinated-people...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/the-vaccin...

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mounting-evidence-suggests...

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ph...
They should switch to a model where the slot the empty container occupies is sold at auction.

I’d wager the difference between the current price of the slot and the value of the container is less than I’d be willing to pay for the container.

Alternatively, institute two simple rule: “No ship may leave the port with fewer containers than it entered with.” or even “no non-full ship may leave the port”.

If that leads to a shortage of movable empty containers (but the port is still full of immovable empty containers), add a second temporary rule: “any empty container stored at the port for more than N days may be ‘towed’ (by a cargo ship of the port’s choosing) to some other port.”
Well, a lot of organizations use email for internal and external operations processes and I would be very skeptical about sending contracts or legal documents via facebook messenger.

Through the magic of interoperability entities can set up their own servers or contract to external providers their email services.
I'm very pro-vax. Watched the video. Where's the lie?
You said it, North American cities. These are not safe cities according to my standards.
Attendees at hotels
The problem is they're showing they will behave as badly as they're allowed to. Not terribly good for trust if it takes backlash for them to act the right way.
the GP made a valid point for zoning: a safe environment for schools. but this comment and the other one are veering away from that main point.

of course we don't want anything carcinogenic or that dangerous anywhere where people live.

that doesn't invalidate GP's main point that schools need safe and calm environments.
>You got the ability to demand to see your data from every company and get it deleted, you didn't have that before.

This matters to the nerds on HN and Reddit,some clout chasers on Twitter, and no one else.
Can we store it in a mainframe? Asking for a friend
I'm happily surprised that this post is staying in the front of HN for so long.
The Flexport CEO may know more, but the Flexport CEO also has an agenda of being profitable for the Flexport CEO.

This may, or may not, align with being solutions and advice that benefits the public at large. In fact, it is becoming increasingly clear that things are currently "optimized" strongly enough that squeezing more profit out of the system generally corresponds to finding a sucker to take advantage of--normally the public at large.

Startups and their leaders have a "move fast and break things" attitude that is no big deal when imaginary things like software is involved that becomes a big deal when non-imaginary things like people become impacted.

Stacking 6-high triples storage space, sure. But it doesn't stop container ships from running back to Asia empty.

So, that storage space will fill up quickly, and we're back where we started only now we have dangerously stacked high center-of-mass (because empty) containers (this is an active seismic zone, you know) that nobody wants to pay to get rid of until somebody dies and their insurance rates shoot up enough to make it necessary to dump the containers.

At which point, the shipping companies will magically make the shipping containers go away--probably illegally to somewhere you don't want them to go to.
"RSS Discovery Engine"? I thought it was called a Spore Drive.
How do you debug? Human readability is valuable regardless of the size of the dataset.
You also have liquorice root. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice
Are you saying that this artist is just playing a character? Maybe in reality they really are a Biden supporter? I guess that wouldn't be surprising.
Tons of inane content ends up getting demonitized on YouTube because it isn't advertiser friendly.
YouTube also removed this parody clip in just 1 hour for being "hate speech": https://www.bitchute.com/video/xvjbNKSG3b8O/
> You can find plenty to debate within the science, by addressing the evidence. I note that none of the denialist arguments, including this one, discuss any evidence.

Right, but this is more of meta-conversation. I'm not going to go into the evidence here, we're a talking about the climate change conversation itself. I can assure there is evidence on both sides. The problem is that it quickly becomes an epistemological conversation on what constitutes as evidence. I can see good arguments on both sides, yet there is more political action on one side only with increasing pressure to control how entire populations should live their daily lives that seem to approach totalitarian levels. This of course benefits the ruling class, so it is no surprise those at the "bottom" push back against it. If instead we could see some leadership by example, I think Tesla has done well here, we could see less pushback. There's nothing wrong with green tech, but forcing it on society is dancing around the totalitarian utopia idea.

> What happens when there is a catastrophe? Bad things happen.

Yes, but the same corporations are not solving world hunger, yet are promoting a carbon tax and vaccines. More people die from hunger (almost 10M every year for decades) than covid as one example, even if we had done nothing about it. Glaciers haven't even melted yet, but obesity kills millions... at the same time hunger kills millions EVERY YEAR, yet climate change is a bigger problem... how does that make sense?
> Uber would never have existed without the App Store.

Maybe not within smart phones, but the app store has nothing to do with the success of Uber aside from forced inclusion in the transaction.

Believe it or not, software went decades being successfully purchased and installed by customers before app stores came along. Even on the Blackberry.
I would like to make some money with it to continue the support, but it's not clear yet the best way forward. Currently it's donationware, but other models could be a subscription, or some sort of premium/freemium model.

Really I just want to see how people use it and figure it out from there.
If problem is too many empty containers. Wouldn't actually subsidising shipping them off make sense? That is make it worthwhile for ships to load them on.
Every single administration in the last 150 years has been in contact with large organizations that are important to society. The statement alone is meaningless.

I'm surprised to see someone as intelligent as Mr. Bright complaining about his as a Constitutional issue when the amendment in question is about Congress, anyway.

I used to get really miffed when HN and Reddit would talk shit about conservatives, still really despise Google and a lot of companies, but when I read this thread and it is full of rhetoricr(check the song):

"plandemic"

"politicians are demons"

"biden lied"

It's the conspiracy theorist bingo. I like most techies just want to live a normal life, when I see people obtusely defending empty political rhetoric I feel like I don't have anything in common with the people using HN.
Go to the Raspberry Pi website, find the page for the product you want, the scroll down to the bottom to find a list of dealers. Availability probably varies by country, but I was able to find several configurations of the Pi 4B in stock in my country and pricing was in line with their recent price increase (sigh).
I no longer have any skin in this game because I decided to move all our products and the whole stack away from Microsoft five years ago, which meant lower costs, ability to easily go all in on K8s, etc.

Nothing about their strategy since has made me regret that decision.

Kind of sad to see them flailing about and screwing up, burning goodwill from VS Code and the like.

DevDiv still doesn’t get it, dinosaurs.
Business coaching is a huge industry
I figured there would be mathematical foundations to it, and it would figure Euler is involved. Very neat!
Yeah if we're talking about "neither credible or honourable" then surely governments and their intelligence agencies fit that description
Someone counter to popular narrative, George W Bush's administration prosecuted more corporate criminals than both the Clinton and Obama admins combined. This means even more when you remember that Enron was a financial backer for the Bush campaign and GWB personally knew many Enron execs. (Enron was HQed in Houston).

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/chanos-is-a-...
> we have this same segment of the population refusing to get vaccinated

As is their right. People should be able to make informed decisions about whether they get an injection. Especially right now in this pandemic. We're still studying the vaccines and their effects on people. Nobody knows for sure their risk/benefit profiles yet, there hasn't been enough time to draw definitive conclusions. It's entirely possible that these vaccines have risks we don't know about, or are only worth using on certain populations such as the elderly.

People who decide to take vaccines need to do so informed of these facts. Misleading the public about this will only strengthen conspiracy theories and lead to even worse outcomes.

> mask up, wash their hands, etc etc.

Yeah, I agree that's stupid. There's no risk to washing hands or wearing masks. Nothing wrong with refusing to associate with people who won't even practice basic hygiene.

> Those actions are harmful to society as a whole and should be treated like the attacks they are.

They may be harmful but that doesn't mean people should be oppressed because of it.
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not seeing the world ending, or sea levels rising and destroying cities. Sounds like it's not that catastrophic if it's already happening.
Doesn't KSA and Venezuela still have decades of cheap oil left? And aren't aren't cars electrifying fast enough and getting feel efficient enough that oil demand should start going down?
The Microsoft C++ extension is also not fully open source.
Why not just spend a billion on the Biden campaign then and save yourself the campaign trail headaches?
It is utterly nonsensical and foolish but I don't like the fact that it was banned.

When US media reports on activities like this in countries like China and Russia they call it censorship. When they report on the same activities in the US they call it "protecting the public from misinformation".

It's a very very slippery slope to ban things. Who gets to choose what gets banned? Who gets to say what is misinformation or not?

It blows my mind how shortsighted most of my left of center friends are on this topic. They seem to have this delusion that these levers of power are only ever going to be controlled by the people they agree with. In the early 2000s a lot of people I argued with were totally supportive of the Patriot act. They were generally conservatives and were just completely confident it would never be used against US citizens. Now those same people are witnessing calls from people on the left who wants opposed to Patriot act to use it against US citizens with right-wing politics.
Aside from that Catholic guilt and community aspects, people like to feel hope and purpose. Religious beliefs can offer both of those. I do like to point out that this effect will take place regardless of the truth of the belief system, so paint yourself a picture that brings "meaning" to your life however you want - as long as it's something you can actually believe ;-)
This is the conventional wisdom, but as you mention it's not politically possible. It would be hard for one country to enact all of these changes, let alone all the world's countries.

There is an alternative path and that is radical renewable energy production. Many of the things you mention are not intrinsically harmful, they are only harmful because of the dependency on fossil fuels. For example, shipping things around the world is not intrinsically harmful, it is only harmful because it today requires fossil fuels.

From this perspective the actual problem is a shortage of renewable energy. If we build vastly more renewable energy capacity then we can make fossil fuels economically unviable. Since that is a problem of money rather than politics it is much more viable as a solution.
> The WHO/CDC positions are consistent with the prevailing science.

CDC: Masks should be worn by children aged 2 and up: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-...

WHO: In general, children aged 5 years and under should not be required to wear masks: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-children-and-ma...

ECDC: In primary schools, the use of face masks is recommended for teachers and other adults when physical distancing cannot be guaranteed, but it is not recommended for students: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/questions-answers/que...

Doesn't seem very consistent to me.
I will not be part of your collective.
>Firewire external hd that I now dongle to Thunderbolt, have noooo idea how I'm going to get that to work).

Simply add another dongle, the Apple “Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter” and you’re good to go.

I just tested mine before posting this, from a FW800 drive with the Apple FireWire-Thunderbolt adapter plugged in to the Apple Thunderbolt 2-3 adapter. Works on M1 Macs too.
> By 2017, when Trump claimed that “crime in Germany is way up” because it had taken in “all of those illegals”, the number of overall recorded crimes was decreasing. Last year, crime in Germany sank to an 18-year low.

The Guardian would make a much stronger case if they showed how the per-capita crime rate of people with a migrant background is no higher than for other Germans. Possibly income adjusted, or looking only at non-property-related crime. Sure they refuted Trump's claim, but we shouldn't use Trump as a guide for these discussions anyway.

That is if we buy into the blinkered view of looking at migration only via the economy and crime-rate.
> Aren’t these the organizations that lied to the public in March 2020, saying masks were not effective?

A simpler explanation, that is consistent with data, is that community masking was never very effective, and that the current mask guidelines are 100% about politics and signaling.
Thanks!

I haven't ruled out opensourcing, but honestly I already have limited time and in my experience open source takes _more_ time commitment (I get that you will get free help eventually).

I'm making a VST plugin to stream output from a DAW.

Problem with Tauri is that you have to support the native browser, rather than just chrome, so it's more work to build and maintain.

Good luck with your project!

J
While I personally have reservations about mandates/passports for being able to travel domestically, eat at restaurants, etc., in terms of things like international travel, which is a privilege, there is a valid argument for treating people with no immunity differently as they are at a higher risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death. Those can cause high costs that are borne by others.

But yes, statements like the one about protecting the vaccinated from the unvaccinated have been head-scratching, which goes back to my point about how the CDC and other authority figures continue to bungle the messaging and shoot themselves in the foot.

I'm fully vaccinated but am not sold on getting a booster because I'm not in a high-risk group and understand the current science to indicate that the initial series I received continues to significantly reduce my risk of illness, hospitalization and death. Of the friends and family I've discussed boosters with, most say they have similar thinking. I find it hard to believe that somebody who has not yet been vaccinated will see Walensky's comment about the "fully vaccinated" definition possibly changing and suddenly feel eager to get the initial series.
This is really interesting, and the answer thread increases in value because of the additional examples given of lensed versions. Everything about its form makes sense, but you wouldn't just guess it.

Reading the rest of the comments reminds me why I left Reddit though. Every thread ends up like watching Beavis and Butthead outtakes and abandoned reels.
Solzhenitsyn also wrote “An Incident at Krechetovka Station”, “Matryona's Home”, and “Live Not by Lies”.