skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seeing that Hong Kong was literally an NED-sponsored [...] color revolution ... such as assaulting fellow Hong Kongers for merely disagreeing with them[...].

Your comment is vastly disproportionate, and does not explain what happened.

Your comment suggests the following:

- Hong Kong’s protest was mainly due to sponsorship by the US, that is, it would not happen to this scale without US’s sponsorship (via NED).

- Hong Kong’s protest was mainly undemocratic (using your examples).

When discussing a social movement of this scale (millions went to the street, protests went on for half a year, with aftermath still affecting current events), we must judge whether your examples represent the majority or the extremely rare minority of what happened.

Just like the social movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, the movement led by Martin Luther King, or the recent BLM movement would not change much even if hundreds of protestors did things that go against the main thrust of the movements (which did happen).

To make this concrete: imagine blaming the BLM on CCP because they supported it [1], which is absurd [2].

We know that:

- The pro-democracy group had a landslide victory in the 2019 election (during the protests) [3].

- Many Hong Kongers left Hong Kong after the National Security Law [4][5]: a higher percentage of Hong Kongers left Hong Kong after the NSL than German left East Berlin after the split of Berlin.

Blaming the Hong Kong protests on CIA, NED, and the US does not explain the above events. Just like blaming the BLM on CCP does not explain the trend.

A much simpler explanation is that Hong Kongers do not like CCP rule, and they show it in the protests, in the election (when conducted fairly, without screening of candidates), and in their acts of leaving (when faced with the NSL and screening of candidates in future elections).

I suspect that the popularity rating of CCP, or of Kim’s regime in North Korea, would plummet if people know what is going on (that is, when the state censorship and propaganda are gone) and they are allowed to express themselves (for example, with a fair election). We just see this happened in Hong Kong.

[1]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/01/commentary/w...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/technology/no-a-black-liv...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/hong-kong-resi...

[4]: https://news.yahoo.com/almost-90-000-people-left-040718900.h...

[5]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/world/asia/hong-kong-popu...
This is so great, thank you.
> Free-market extremists provably ruined more lives than all terrorists combined

So did architects who designed unsafe staircases...

Or air pollution...

Or mosquitoes...
The CCP's "secret" is consistently materially improving the conditions of 1.4 billion people over decades.

You have to answer the question: why wouldn't the Chinese support their government?
Normalizing Population Receptive Fields
Would be but is surprisingly not.
Why have so many high ranking people moved to NZ?
The fact that a truthful, fact based comment like this gets downvoted tells me that you all are just scared and cannot a=handle the truth.

These are leaky vaccines. That does not mean there is anything wrong with them. They are just leaky, They will not end the pandemic or endemic.

The flu vaccine is another leaky vaccine:
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/truth-about-flu-shot-i...
American Express cards have a bunch of those. Paired with Rakuten, I got paid $5 to buy 1password.
There is a common function even without the holiday - a flushing of older inventories and potentially making their fourth quarter numbers look better.
Absolutely worth it, but it needs mentioned that bundled in Emacs is a sytemd job for launching the server at user login(!!!):

systemctl --user enable emacs.service # For next login
systemctl --user start emacs.service # launches it just this once

This means I never have to even THINK "I should boot the editor", because it's already ready.

Add a keyboard shortcut for emacsclient and you're golden
Natural immunity (including from variolation and small doses of the virus that everyone is constantly being exposed to — acting as a constant low level booster) is formed in response to MANY proteins on the virus, and not just the spike protein.

Most vaccines based on an inactivated virus throughout history have stimulated such a response.

By contrast, the mRNA vaccines induce a far more limited range of responses — only to a specific protein. So the surface area for the virus needs to mutate escape the immune response is far smaller than from natural immunity or “inactivated virus” vaccines such as the ones which eradicated Smallpox, or Salk’s Polivo vaccine.

Why doesn’t this article or many others delve into a distinction between natural immunity / inactivated virus (J&J) immunity and mRNA vaccine induced immunity? It seems like all the reporting is rigged, with almost everyone including scientific journals like Nature seemingly staying away from criticizingmRNA vaccines, and ready to carry water for them even in the absence of evidence in their favor.

With the LARGEST studies out of Israel and UK showing thatnatural immunity is far more robust while vaccine immunity wanes and is more limited against mutations, most articles IGNORE this in their reporting and often even claim the opposite — that you should get vaccined even if you have been immune for a year.

Homeless people and those constantly exposed to low levels of viruses have more robust immune systems than those who were isolated from everything.
You definitely should be able to (and can!) have e-bikes without governors, however, an unlimited e-bike is (and should be) legally treated as the equivalent of a moped/motorcycle, not as the equivalent of a bicycle.
Any examples from, say, the NYT?
True; though I'm pretty sure the WinAmp anyone here actually has any level of nostalgia for, is WinAmp 2. WinAmp 3 was so lacklustre that they brought back a lot of WinAmp 2 stuff and called the result WinAmp 5. (And then everyone continued to use the Classic skins, which WinAmp 5 supported.)
Appeal to authority is not a logical fallacy, although some people argue that it is. Put more correctly: experts know better, but aren't perfect. For example, were I to cite Peter Duesberg, a well known virologist, about HIV transmission, I'd be wrong, even though he's an expert virologist.

I assign higher priors to subject matter experts until I have reason to believe otherwise.
>I am glad that the world has a diverse set of governance systems.

Except when it comes to Taiwan, right?
I heard about her disappearance from social media for a time. Can you link information about her kidnapping please.
And that’s when you become a master of your tools and can wield immense power with them! But in all seriousness, PHP is a good language, and coupled with a modern framework like Laravel, it’s great to use.

I’ve used it since 2002, and have recently got back into it properly after a decade in architecture roles, and it feels very welcoming and love using it. And I _have_ tried the whole JavaScript thing, but simply find it’s ever changing build tools, package managers, etc a pain. Just my opinion though.
Kotlin is for Android apps. Scala is a Java replacement. Those frameworks are unrelated.

Are you talking about building an Android app?

I've built app in different Javascript frameworks. Angular, Vue, React.

If I was building a website I would use PHP over Python, Golang or Javascript frameworks because what you get out of the box doesn't compare.

Each language does something well. If I was building AI python would be my first choice.
Therapeutics and treatment protocols require a lot more medical staff to implement than a simple jab.

The only way to keep cases to a low enough level to be successfully 'processed' by the health system is to maintain fairly severe social restrictions - and maintain them forever.
WHO calls emergency meeting to discuss new Covid-19 variant
This is silly beyond belief. 18miles? Easily done in 6-8 hours. Sticking to the dumb managed schedule vs hanging out with the locals?! What a fool. What a dumb trade of potential experience. What story would his grandkids want to hear? “Dad spent a night with locals in a tent serendipitously” or “Dad did a Disney-fied hike by himself”.
So silly. Disgusting.
> it would return a string|undefined. It doesn't.

It does do that, with the `noUncheckedIndexAccess` flag I mentioned. The same is true with arrays: `arr[index]` in reality may or may not return an item (the index may be out of bounds), but by default TypeScript gives it type `el` and not `el|undefined` so that every for-loop in the world doesn't break as soon as TypeScript is added. But it lets you enable this check optionally via the compiler flag. This is a good compromise IMO.
Ask HN: How to motivate someone who has lost perspective?
Last year I created an online order system for my youth movement which enabled us to sell anything we wanted online. This was needed as an alternative to the real-life events we could no longer organise and allowed us to continue financing our activities.

Recently, a man (~ aged 65-80) sent me an e-mail in which he told me he was impressed by the system I created (I guess because it automatically sends a personalized e-mail with his order details). He also told me he was interested in informatics (mentioning Excel and C#) but has lost perspective. He seemed upset about that.

I have been thinking how I can help this kind man to regain his perspective in informatics but nothing suitable has crossed my mind so far. That is why I decided to ask HN. What are fun things to study/create/implement/think about? Or what is something he could do to impress his friends with? Or more general, what seems to be a good way to help him regain perspective?
the eternal cat mouse game, an escher triangle of misery, always going up and down at the same time, never really getting anywhere
I wanted to automate my house, but the results convinced me that starting from the absolute basics and growing from it is the best approach. It's more environmentally friendly too.

The only smart devices left are some smart bulbs, and I'm waiting for them to fail before replacing them with regular LEDs. Nothing beats the reliability and energy/resource savings of plain locks and buttons.
Seinfeld did this bit back in the 90's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPqWI90maA
Same, but it looks like they are trying to make Java out of it.
That assumes that the sticker price is the only externality. If it breaks, one has to throw away the toaster and order a new one, potentially being without toast while the new one is shipped.

For me, it's less about cost and more about not leaving a pile of cheap toasters in a landfill for future generations.
I'm wondering why we don't start producing mRNA vaccines targeting this other variant now. Seems like there could be some safety and efficacy protocol put in place to target emerging variants so we don't have to start from scratch in the approval process, requiring 30k-40k adults alone every year.
Great book. Great podcast by him as well: https://lispcast.com/category/podcast/
For anyone wondering, Wikipedia says:

Feigl-Ding holds doctorates in both epidemiology and nutrition, with his professional experience in nutritional epidemiology and epidemiology of chronic disease. Since this professional experience and research work are not in infectious disease epidemiology, the subfield most relevant to COVID-19, Feigl-Ding has been criticized for offering viral social media and other media commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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I think readers should form their own opinion on whether to label him a "scammer epidemiologist".
Helm is great and I still use it occasionally even after I recently transitioned to using orderless, marginalia, consult, vertico, etc. for most things like that. C-h b has become my recent goto for inspecting the keybindings on various modes; I used to do C-h m, but the new interface of describe-bindings is neat.
The reason was that the GOP was allegedly looking for an excuse to close the borders and further their anti-immigration agenda, and used the pandemic as an excuse.

"The president’s chief adviser on immigration, Stephen Miller, had long tried to halt migration based on public health, without success. Then came the coronavirus."[1]

"The idea that immigrants carry infections into the country echoes a racist notion with a long history in the United States that associates minorities with disease."[1]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/coronavirus-immigratio...
when I get the flu shot I typically spend a week with a non-functioning arm and feeling like I'm very sick. However, I still get flu vaccination because it seems likely that this maximizes the overall health of humanity, and I'm more interested in the health of humanity than my own, in the long term.
A bit dated now, but still a good analysis by Horace Dediu on Apple’s machinery expenditure here:

http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/16/how-much-do-apples-factorie...
You have been able to run WSL2 on Windows 10 Insider builds for a long time now (since 2019?). Is it still not possible to switch WSL versions for a Linux distro running on Windows Server?
> inactivated virus (J&J)

The J&J vaccine wasn't an inactivated Covid virus. Instead it used an adenovirus vector in combination with the Covid spike protein.
Yeah I bought an AMD card a few years when they released the new architecture to support them. I ended up grabbing an nvidia card because I don’t play many games but I want to be able to run tensorflow etc but after a year AMD still had little support for any machine learning.
Lightweight AR glasses that can last whole day on a 1000mAh battery.
You say you don't know.
But the actual commonsense evidence is that Alpha isn't more transmissive, which makes Vincent right. Alpha, Delta, and every other variant has turned out to be the same when practically speaking as experienced in our actual cities and populations across the world. So Vincent is ultimately correct: the "evidence" based on modeling was lacking, and his second point was that politicians and the media should not
be rhetorically distorting the scientific positions that can be taken. There's a difference between taking reasonable precautions and oversimplifying scientific positions in order to "motivate" the public or to make media hype (both of which are TWiV's pet peeve, as anyone who has been watching their videos can see).
GT Advanced Technologies (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-66 SEC went after them in 2019)
I'd add cars to this list
Old school youtube...like letsdig18 and dirt perfect
I don't need a study to learn that Pfizer/biontech vaccines mess up with heart rate, especially when excercising. I know that from personal experience. The heart rate issues seem to be long lasting, but the vaccines are no good after 6 months, as we know now. My problem is that if just 2 shots cause such effect, then after a few boosters I'll have to take heart rate control pills. I'd rather pass on boosters and use the good old masks and social distancing.
> Edit: by touch typing I mean having your index fingers on fj and from there using ALL keys without ever leaving the starting position, and yes that includes shift, alt and control and special characters.

Yes, we were taught that all throughout school... Is the US school system really that shit? I'm curious where your scepticism is coming from?

Like really, I didn't know a single kid in university who couldn't consistently type 60 wpm. 40 wpm was literally required to pass high school, pretty slow, but not something you can do staring at the keyboard punching keys one by one. The kids who were really good at it were touching 100wpm. I could get highs of 80-90.

I can count on one hand the amount of people I've met who can't touch-type...
Yep.

Because an array is an object which has a 'truthy' value '![]' evaluates as 'false'.

Simplifies to a statement similar to 'false == false'.

A little useless arcana for those interested.

Well, not so useless if your expecting '!someEmptyArray' to evaluate to 'true'. Use '!someEmptyArray.length' instead.
in feb 2020 I knew this wasn't going to be an existential crisis (IE, it wasn't going to kill 90% of people,and if the economy tanked, it wouldn't be because the virus itself was so virulent) and that ultimately it would begin to look more like other persistent viruses. This whole thing has played out more or less like I expected based on my prior experience with viruses.

I am not happy that the people announced this did so with scare tactics (specific wording) rather than emotionless facts.
What if conferences are music venues? Film festival or that wonderful Nadal - Federer tenis Match ? What if having that collectible allows you a rather interesting benefit, like 10% discount next year (but just next year!). Can´t go, resell it for its money worth ^^
That's not an entirely new idea, and it's not entirely crazy, but it has a lot of issues.

What are the ethics in engineering a new virus and deliberately infecting people?
What happens if some of those people die?
What happens if your variant that has been engineered to spread extremely effectively mutates into something more lethal?
How do you test your engineered virus? Large-scale tests on people? How would that be faster or more effective than producing a new vaccine and testing that instead?
What happens if your tests show that the engineered virus is not as benevolent as you hoped, and is actually rather horrific? Can you put the genie back in the bottle?
On its own you can interpret it like that, but this is a bit unfair. I have already explained what I meant with my comment, I even have a comment that predates the one you cite where I explicitly claim that he can be wrong... My point was not to say that he's right because he's a professor. It was to clarify that he's not a random YouTuber.
The basic argument is that if you are vaccinated, and then contract the virus, the immune system will only produce antibodies for the spike protein in the vaccine, and it will not “learn” how to attack other parts of the virus.

If a new variant has a spike protein different enough, then you will not be in a better situation than an individual with no vaccine and no previous contact with the virus.

In contrast, someone with natural immunity would have the ability to produce a wider range of antibodies that target many different parts of the virus, therefore many more variants would be vulnerable to at least some of the antibodies.

(Caveat: the immune system actually is more complex than that)
I mean, it was true that shutting down the border to China was mostly a policy based on xenophobia than any actual facts, because at that point the vast majority of people spreading Covid into the US werent the Chinese. The huge NYC early spike started from an traveler from Europe.
"the population was naive to this virus"

That's precisely what made it abnormal. The population isn't naive to normal seasonal viruses.
Who takes the loss is a matter of societal acceptance. There are many historic examples of societies clearing debts through jubilees, negotiated settlements, nationalization, revolution, and economic restructuring.
Everyone has made errors, yes. Ideally we will make fewer in the future.

To that end, we should consider the amount and directionality of errors made by individuals as we consider what weight to give their current predictions.
It’s alright. After Black Friday loses influence you can do singles day and buy stuff from Alibaba instead shrug
There are really two primary camps - RedHat based (CentOS, Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux, etc) and Debian based (Debian, Ubuntu, etc). There are of course many other bloodlines - but these are the most common in production environments and more specifically cloud env. If you are familiar with one version of linux that is RH based, you will tend to gravitate to others with similar DNA. Likewise, if you come from Debian/Ubuntu you will tend to stick with those. At the end of the day they are both Linux, but each has their own approach to configuration, where things go, package management, etc.

You really can't go wrong with either - use what you prefer.
Prominent scientists signed their names to articles saying that implying the virus was released from a lab (intentionally or otherwise) was racist and factually wrong.

Those scientists, by and large, have walked back their statements and admit that the hypothesis that this was a lab leak that occurred in Wuhan is not impossible and that stating it is not necessarily racist. Also, those folks aren't considered "experts" any more (everybody else lowered their priors about those expert's beliefs).
And Toyota's reliability, pricing, parts availability, practicality and comfort.
You can be put into regular arrest without being charged for a crime for weeks in almost every country on earth and there is no obligation in most country to allow for more than one or two monitored calls that can be interrupted at any moment for any reason.

As far as I know Jack Ma never criticized Xi. He criticized (international) banking regulations that were ratified in 2009 in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and that he was not in compliance of. Legally in the United States that could very well put you in prison for fraud and you are not guaranteed the right to make a phone call or see family federally, though some states guarantee phone calls to some people on the day of arrest. Then the prosecutors can seal the indictment and you can be held for a year without anyone except your immediate family and attorney (if you can afford one) knowing. And then the prosecutors can drop chargers a few months later.

What happened to Jack Ma could have happened in the US because he was did something (fraud) that is a federal crime in the US. Thankfully it doesn't happen often. You also don't know that he wasn't charged. He recorded himself giving probable cause for a crime. It was really stupid of him.
Wow that went off on a tangent
Who the fuck wants this? The article claims to have shown why the are important but it has done nothing of the sort?

> If you have ever saved one of your ticket stubs from an event or perhaps your favorite vacation, then you understand the concept of POAPs.

It's a goddamn memento, why does anyone give a shit about it enough to put it on the blockchain

> Except, POAPs allow you to prove your attendance thanks to blockchain technology and store all your badges in one secure location.

I just, what the fuck? Are people so self-conscious that they have to "prove" they attended a event?
> you never have to think about the host OS ever again

This is literally one of the only things that is not included in a container image. The Linux kernel is the Operating System and you are subject to differences in its configuration depending on where the container is running. You are referring to the distribution.
Hedgerows were, and are, natural living fencing.

For farmers with livestock 'hedge-laying' is something that needs doing every 50 years or so (if well maintained) to ensure the lower sections are animal proof.
Take a look at the British National HedgeLaying Society (NHLS) which holds national championships. Our local farming shows often hold competitions too (a neat way to get some of our hedges done for free!):

https://www.hedgelaying.org.uk/pg/info/styles.aspx
VisionFive V1: an affordable open-source RISC-V single board dev platform [pdf]
Couldn't be more predictable. Just before festive period.
But why are you reading research papers with math without having studied math? If you want to understand them fully then you need to do the relevant courses, people spend years learning these things. You don't have to read them all, just the branch relevant to the paper.
Because to them they are buying safety/isolation.

We are all 'in this together', except of course, we aren't.
What was your original comment?
You don't need that much plugins at all. The only plugin that I use is gitstatus, and zsh-syntax-highlight, and both of them are avoidable without loosing features.