skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What about them? It's Pfizer's job to quantify how their vaccine prevents these in kids, not mine. Perhaps redo the trials with a larger population?

It’s not their job to do that, though. They have passed the standards of the FDA. It sounds like what you actually want is for the FDA to increase their standards and require more than they have for past vaccines.

There are multiple studies from outside Pfizer showing MIS-C, hospitalization, and illness in general affecting children as a result of COVID-19. If the vaccine can reasonably be believed to prevent illness then it follows that it will prevent or reduce all three of those.

Vaccine waning is a bit of a different story, but keep in mind the studies you’ve linked are only part of the picture. Other studies claim the vaccines remain effective at some % after 6 months. Personally, I just got a booster to deal with the issue.
Announce it for the future, clearly some alternatives already exist, some more engines get certified, some don't and owners move to those that are.

Ultimately it's a question of money i.e. how badly people want it.
I don't want to hear my neighbors music, kids, party, someone having sex. I don't want to participate in group meetings. I don't want to deal with flooded ceiling or looking at another apartments when I look out of the window. I don't want to hear that me and my wife are walking to loud when we've just arrived from work.

That's just off the top of my head.
You said

> The E2EE in Signal only protects the actual content of messages.

> [By] (simply saving the data) Signal could get access to things like contacts and phone numbers.

And the linked blog posts show that for a few years now they've been working on limiting their own access to this kind of data --- i.e. it's not as simple as just saving it (like e.g. WhatsApp is able to and most likely doing 100% of the time to build social graphs).

Now of course all of those things are likely vulnerable to some attacks, but that's another discussion and it doesn't change the fact that Signal doesn't have immediate easy access in the way you claimed in your original comment. The fact is that there are some barriers and they'd have to put some effort into either disabling these protections or exploit flaws in them to get to the data.
It's operated by the banks themselves, rather than a third party.
> IAEA is weaker than WHO (relatively speaking)

The problems tackled by WHO are mostly cooperative, while the ones tackled by the IAEA are mainly competitive. It's easier to get consensus on subjects where everyone stands to benefit than in subjects where everyone is looking to take power away from you.
Interesting question, but doesn't a "metaverse" require interoperable applications to some extent?

I think the Zuck use case was buying a t-shirt for a virtual avatar and I want to use that t-shirt in other applications. There is a matter of interoperability required at the level of the data that sits behind both applications as it pertains to the user that sits on the other side of those applications. (meaning just sharing data isn't enough, there is user level context as well).

And if you reduce interoperability to a single entity owned platform (like Steam), well other platforms will exist and the interoperability problem will be recreated.
In my experience, people waste performance and manhours at the same time. Many abstractions create more code instead of reducing it, at the same time making the code slower, harder to read and maintain. Would you rather maintain a couple hundred lines of straightforward code or thousands of lines of class hierarchies with delegates and whatnot?

See John Carmack on Inlined Code: <http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...>
That's definitely better pricing than I found last time I looked, my lenses end up being $163. My left sphere adds $7 and both cylinders add $19 each + $49 for the prism.
The point is that Roku are tiny underdogs competing against giants. If Google has only 10 people working on Chromecast, that's a choice they've made, not a resource constraint.
It was blood. The sheer volume of it, the color, not to mention the distribution pattern, left pretty much no room for doubt. Also, one floor above where it started there was no stain at all - but nothing appeared to be repainted.
AFAIK, the statistics still show Apple is in the lead, followed by Samsung and Huawei.

In my personal bubble, Garmin smart/fitness watches are the most popular, followed by Xiaomi Mi Bands. I use a Suunto smartwatch I got as a gift.
Ask HN: Why is Google paying Apple to be default search engine on iPhones?
I don't understand why Google pays Apple to be default search engine on Iphone when Google's market share and brand is so big that no way any other search engine hurts it anytime soon?

Allegedly Google pays between $8 billion and $12 billion each year to be default search engine on Iphones and Ipads[1]. They could stop paying Apple and save $12 billion every year.

My only reasoning is if Google doesn't pay some other search engine will for example Bing but then again Google is the most searched word on Bing[2].

So Google is entrapped in a situation where they are afraid not to be default search engine on Apple devices because Microsoft could jump in or even Apple itself with its future search engine. I don't see how this decision is reasonable because let's say Google pays $100bn in 10 years that's a lot of money that could've been invested elsewhere or even in Google Search itself.

This brings me to conclusion that Peter Thiel was right when he said Google bets that no one else will come with better search technology so Google uses its enormous cash flow to stay dominant instead of investing all that cash to improve search technology and and come up with search innovations[3].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/apple-services-success-story-bolstered-by-huge-google-payments.html

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58749525

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ
This study is examining correlation, not causation, and it doesn’t appear to provide any evidence to support the article title’s claim that changing one’s sleeping habits will change one’s college grades.

The study provided evidence that people who have good grades on average tend to get “better” sleep on average (according to whatever criteria FitBit’s sleep tracking feature uses) than those who have worse grades. It doesn’t provide evidence for any stronger statement than that; just that good grades and quality of sleep seem to tend to go together.

It certainly doesn’t provide any evidence to support the title’s claim “Better sleep habits lead to better college grades”; that changing sleeping habits improves grades.

That would be an interesting study if anyone finds a way to get it past the ethics panels.
L - an embedded subset of Common Lisp used in Roomba, ran in 1MB of ram total afaik including compiler and support OS.
I'd heard of posits before but hadn't been motivated to learn about them until your comment; thanks. Reminds me of CIDR for IPv4
I am curious, why is cloud-init not enough?
That we, "the old folks", just don't get it, limited by having passed our "exploratory" phase and well into "exploitation" phase (something I read here in HN the other day).

And they may have a point: after all, "the old folks" 30 years ago were saying the same thing about the Internet, well into 2000s.
A great thought experiment, though not necessarily an entirely fictional one. Social housing schemes, and proposals for 'universal basic services', are common enough and ought to be the positive side to the deflation of the housing market.

Mortgages currently dominate the average person's life.
> earnings from capital now surpass earnings from work

they are not comparable things.

Capital can be deployed on massive scale, but for work, a human only has at most 24hrs to work (if they don't sleep).
In general I think the size of the controversy tends to be inversely proportional to the size of the effect.

This seems to apply to a lot of things, from how many reps you do in the gym to how you apply thermal paste to a CPU to how best to cook a steak. It's not that you can't mess these things up, but there does seem to be a rather large number of methods that work pretty well, and the difference in effect between "pretty well" and "optimal" seems overall to be small enough to allow for controversy.
> We change the world around us in all that we do. We live in air-conditioning.

And we see that it clearly has a very negative impact overall so idk what kind of argument is that.

"everything sucked so we destroyed our environment and enslaved ourselves to machines to make it bearable"
The only thing China can reduce is online gaming. A reduction that will cause the kids to have less opportunity to connect with others, make friends, learn to cooperate, learn to trust people, learn to protect their identity and learn what to do when the trust is betrayed.

You know, the things that might come in handy in 20 years in toppling oppressive regime.

Meanwhile taking Chinese kids out of global shared culture that is increasingly more interconnected, virtual and gaming related so they only trust and feel at home when they are fed familiar government messaging.

But I'm sure goal of Chinese government is strictly improvement of peoples conditions.
Facebook also has nothing better to spend the cash on – $60bn cash reserves in 2020 and revs are $120bn/yr growing at 30% y/y, what do you even do with that?
Your "Any other country would allow..." faith in the honesty, transparency, etc. of non-Chinese governments is touching. But not realistic. Certainly not for large, powerful countries - with both the pride and means to withstand some international arm-twisting.

And if the Chinese government did allow such an investigation, and it found China innocent? How many of those currently inclined to hate or blame China would believe it? Not getting into such a "heads we lose, tails they win" mess seems perfectly rational.
These two links made a very interesting reading material. Thank you!
Volcanoes and deserts also generate stunning pictures.
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> This doesn't have that much to do with how a certain name is displayed anywhere.

Indeed it doesn't, so no thanks to you for muddling the issue by mixing that in.

> Can I get an airline to change their systems if they abbreviated my name on my boarding ticket?

Well, since they're the ones insisting that it look exactly like on your ID, if it looks different because they mangled it and then they don't let you board because of their own cock-up, then I'd imagine even you would be slightly miffed...?

So yes, you should be able to expect them to fix their systems so that doesn't happen, shouldn't you?

> The airline could say "well we have the proper name in this database over here". And so could the bank.

No they can't, because they don't: The point here was that this wasn't just some printing or other display function, but how the name was stored; as far as this bank was concerned, this customer's name was something it actually wasn't.

How one can claim this isn't in contravention of a law that states personally identifying data stored about people should be correct is frankly incomprehensible; our names are among the most personal things about us and our main identifyer.

All in all, your whole screed comes off as yet another piece of typical reflexive-but-unreflected pro-corporate (usually American) Libertarian dri^H^H^H propaganda.
That’s what confuses me. What does he expect from Mark, understanding the technical details of VR and such? Or not trusting Carmack to do his job well in getting the details right?
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It's easy to get entangled in definitions, metaphors and such. It's kind of pointless though. They aren't precise anyway.

Instead of clearly defining what these things mean, I think it's better for clarity if we just focus on implications. That's what we care about anyway. We care that "The internet will be the metaverse" inasmuch as this statement has implications.

"VR Internet" implies, IMO, decentralisation standard protocols. Zuckerverse implies centralisation.

The WWW didn't grow because with one or two companies controlling it. It grew out of a mass of individual webmasters.
I think the poster is using the term “made-up” in a stricter sense to categorize it, not just to be dismissive.
yeah. we used to call it 'cgi on shared hosting'.

the true innovation in serverless is billing.
The Kumar study you cite has many limitations and alternate explanations - one, of which, isn't mentioned - that Medicaid fraud is rampant in New York State.

Kumar writes " one should be cautious in attributing this geographic variation solely to water fluoridation. Furthermore, the availability of fluoride in beverages and fluoride provided through organized programs, which distribute tablets and rinses in non-fluoridated communities, may underestimate [over over-estimate] the effect of fluoridation. A survey of third-grade children in less fluoridated communities in NYS showed that reportedly 20% to 80% of children had received fluoride tablets on a regular basis.34 About 100,000 school-aged children in non-fluoridated areas are targeted for participation in a weekly fluoride rinse program. In addition, toothpaste and processed beverages are the other sources of fluoride. Programs such as school-based sealant programs are also available in these areas."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925000/

The second link to a Calgary study concludes that tooth decay rates in Calgary, Alberta, have increased because of the city's decision to scrap its fluoridation program. But the study omits data showing that the spike in decay mostly occurred when fluoride was still in the water and used methods that a leading scientist says do "not provide a valid assessment," https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/calgary-fluoride-st...

The Juneay Study is more hype than evidence https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/juneau-fluoridation...
Not that I like hedge-fund managers, but isn’t the norm for them to keep a very large portion of their wealth in their own hedge funds? As for the rest of it, it only makes sense to keep it in index funds if not diversify in other types of investments that are not hedge funds?
Obesity hasn’t changed that much. Around 70% of Americans were overweight or obese before the pandemic. Diet is the most important factor in weight gain or weight loss. And except for a few dumb months at the beginning, parks and outdoor areas are open for recreation. I’ve been running 4x a week for the whole pandemic without issue where I live, nothing stopped people from exercising if they wanted to follow the health advice that they’ve been hearing for decades.

Vaccines aren’t a magic bullet. But they’re the most cost effective item we have. You cite some irrelevant statistics but appear to agree with my statement that the vaccines remain more than 80% effective against death.

The vaccine costs less than $100 and takes about an hour of time to do. There is no way to lose weight that cheaply or quickly and as a result people continue to ignore government advice and health campaigns urging them to do so.

Moreover, losing weight does not stop you from catching or spreading COVID at all, whereas the vaccines have been shown to reduce transmission.
> They were all hyped up that was China's fault

If I recall correctly, China's fault refers to how they failed to contain the epidemic due to their initial approach to the problem, which consisted of censoring and gaslighting reports from doctors in the field and intentionally failing to act on it before it spread.

Also, it didn't helped the fact that the CCP's propaganda machine started pushing propaganda pinning the blame of the COVID-19 outbreak on Italy and Spain when their failure to contain the Wuhan epidemic turned to a pandemic.
it was an authoritarian government sure, but it wasn't all bad. US at that time was dropping napalm on people
From my enterprise perspective Terraform is cloud agnostic, as you "only" have to once configure the CI/CD pipeline, secret management, and state management. Afterwards you are free to use any cloud you want and have all the benefits that come with Terraform (including infracost). Especially if you create templates, you can use Terraform in multiple projects quickly.

However, my biggest issue with Terraform is that the promise of dependency graphs is in practice broken. Providers will break once the underlying resources are not yet there. The hack to solve this is having several Terraform directories which you run after each other.

Still, I think multiple clouds is the way forward. You can negotiate prices down and use services are best suited for the projects. Especially with other players such as CloudFlare and Backblaze, which already have Terraform providers available.
Not that I loved how it landed I think it’s more that GoT was about as close as we get to a cultural touchstone as you get these days. Which is a far smaller audience than prime time used to be. A hit show on HBO would probably be canceled on network TV with similar audience numbers.

But the moment is over and now it’s just another show in a vast universe of streaming options.
“Good enough” is defined by the inability of stakeholders to conceive of transitive benefits. Compute performance suffers the tragedy of the commons.
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not to dispute your point, but netflix is a library
Holy heck man, that made me LOL hard. That has to be the most self-explanatory comment, period.
The drug war has claimed millions of lives and drugs have never been as plentiful. There are no words in the dictionary strong enough to describe this kind of failure.
I think it is done frequently in commercial development, just not as a product that would be sold directly. The whole point of hiring an architect is so that you don't have to build that team within your own company. Even if you bought a set of blueprints you still need expertise to check, adjust, sign-off and take responsibility for that. And you have to get all that through corporate management and politics. All for something that is probably not your core business. You might as well hire an architect.

And I doubt that the plans are even a large proportion of the price. There is communication, project management, scheduling, keeping aligned with all the other specialists, insurance, legal fees and just normal overheads. And when you want to build another building of a similar design the architect can reduce their fees to take advantage of reusing existing content. The architect becomes the go-to for a particular kind of development and can win bids based on experience.

If you can do it in-house the designs become proprietary and won't be shared externally.
Long, aggressive, and vague comments like this are very difficult to respond to because it's hard to understand what you are actually saying.

> "They prevented him from seeing a lawyer at all before the case starts, and before he faced the courtroom"

What do you mean by this? Are you saying that before his first hearing regarding the US extradition, he had not met with his lawyers at all?

Regarding the rest of your comment, it appears that you think there is some kind of IFTTT list of things that somehow "get the suspect to go free, whatever the crime". That's not how it works. You can have a prosecution stayed as an "abuse of process", but there's no single law covering this, just a patchwork of precedent. The definitive legal textbook on this (Abuse of Process in Criminal Proceedings) was actually co-written by one of Assange's lawyers. If this avenue was open to him they surely would have taken it.
Well, what is the causality there?

Communist countries were not as socially stratified as the West is now. In a Czechoslovak "panelák" (block of flats), doctors, professors, waiters and diggers lived side by side.

But the extreme growth of vandalism and alienation in this type of living was readily apparent by the 1980s. Lifts reeked of urine, graffiti was on every wall, glass panes were broken and trash receptacles kicked flat.

This wasn't a Communist-only thing either. Try finding an English translation of the heroin story "We Children from Station ZOO", written by a West Berlin junkie Christiane F. She devotes extensive passages at the beginning of the book to the soul crushing Gropiusstadt, which seemed almost constructed to make childhood more complicated and less joyful.

A hypothesis like "very bad architecture can damage humans psychologically" should not be dismissed out of hand, at least not without good evidence.
oh wow, roombas still run this subset of CL ??

ps: ohh that paper was on the frontpage not long ago, I just didn't realize it was used in Roombas
This is especially true in cooking. There is like one method for macron because if you mess it up it won't work. But there are loads of debates about 'real Carbonara' because spaghetti with fatty pork (e.g. guanciale, bacon), egg, and cheese (and maybe cream depending on who you ask), maybe black pepper - you can't fail.
Clearly there is a difference between the things you need to do to deliver text messages and telephony and the things you need to deliver useful internet connectivity.
Since the next best species that the virus can spread among (apart form humans) is civets then we should probably start huge research on viruses carried by them and we'll probably find the progenitor and most likely learn a lot of interesting things along the way.
Ternary operators are better for expressions, which yield a result, since you don't have to declare or initialize a variable with a dummy value first. If/else is better for general branching. Using ternary without assigning or passing the expression would imho be misleading.
I've seen ternaries used for branching and it's a smell imho, they're not really meant for that use case.
Uh, no? A library lends out books/media to people at no cost. How is Netflix, a publicly traded for-profit company, anything like a non-profit, usually government-owned library?
All this sounds good and practical, until an organization operating in your market optimizes their technology requirements. Suddenly that organization has both exponentially faster technology support for everything they do, and their expense in doing so is exponentially less than your organization. Optimized technology is not "good enough", it changes the nature of the conflict to revenues.
> Good enough” is defined by the inability of stakeholders to conceive of transitive benefits.

The whole point is that there are absolutely no benefits, at least relevant ones, once the performance is acceptable. It's a diminishing returns game. There is always a tradeoff between performance and cost, and once performance is acceptable then it's hard to justify wasting more resources to get nothing of value in return.
I never said it wasn’t possible, in fact I gave some examples of people who are - politicians and tv hosts who have gotten vaxxed.

Most people don’t fall into that category though. The “people” who are up in arms usually cite stuff like the vaccines rewriting DNA, being unsafe, untested, Nuremberg violations, “did my own research” and a hundred other reasons they found online to claim the vaccine is unsafe or ineffective.
Wikipedia has a history of carriage disputes between the company and other companies. Sure, the recent Google spat could have been a one-off thing, but they seem to have an issue with a lot of folks.

My personal experience is that when one individual has a bunch of problems with a number of others, it is probably the one individual that’s the problem.
> Yeah, I don’t think they’ve done much research on historical pricing vs. income.

Can you share what you’ve learned?