skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a lion is killing the weakest members of your herd it is natural to want to kill the lion. But that victory can be a defeat for the health of herd. I wonder if a scientist in a lab somewhere decided that a disease that takes the old and infirm while sparing the young was a wonderful species of lion, a gift to the herd to be released into the wild.
> you will find vaccines inhibit viral spread

Is this true? Countries like Singapore and Israel are seeing huge spikes in cases despite having some of the highest vax rates.

My suspicion is that vaccines have the downside of suppressing symptoms, thus making the vaxxed more likely to spread covid without knowing it.
One of the issues is sometimes when groups grow big enough the moderators start putting in sponsored posts. There is an incentive to "sell out" groups that are big enough. Other times they just become strangely political even if the group originally had nothing to do with politics. Like some people get bored of sticking to the topic after a few years, and decide to use their groups to push their opinions.

It's definitely different group to group though-- some people won't experience it and others are puzzled why the "so I herd u leik mudkips" meme group they joined 10 years ago is spreading antivax images.
I mean, it only messes with the efforts of the advertisers, right? Not that they can detect how many views the sponsored block has. Ofc if this becomes too popular, the ad industry will eventually catch up, but this is long ways away imho.
Tiny Emulators
There's also an extensive write-up at https://hexkyz.blogspot.com/2021/11/je-ne-sais-quoi-falcons-...
I literally did not make the claim that no wagon options exist anywhere in what I wrote. What are you even arguing here? Why even make that strawman?

I compared SUVs to sedans and trucks because those are more available by volume by a long shot when purchasing, and most wagons actually fail to meet most of the utility criteria I listed, and those that do are designed far more like a low-clearance SUVs than as a "wagonized" version of a base sedan model.

Enjoy your day and whatever agenda it is that you're pushing. Goodbye.
I think your point is valid for e.g. not comparing municipalities.

But comparing countries of tens of millions of people I think is not dominated by noise.

But perhaps a more pointed comparison is the US peak death rate for J&J vaccine recipients was higher than the lowest unvaccinated death rate. That swing happened only from early June to early August. I.e. if you got the J&J shot in early June, you decreased risk by 15 micromorts/wk with that vaccination but in just two months, the surge increased your risk by like 28 micromort/wk.

I don't think that's a statistical fluke; I think the situation really did get materially worse in the US over that period. That proceeded from choices we made as a society.

This winter, our collective choices still have the potential to create impacts which will rival the efficacy of the vaccines.
Fun fact, you probably never could rely on scientists to interpret results correctly.
It’s been a long time since a “half gallon” of ice cream became 3 pints in size.
Also the emails saying things like "this could do to virology what chernobyl did to nuclear science".

They know their cushy careers and research grants are gone if they normalize the lab leak.
Reading things like this and how common it is for investors to take over, I just wonder how it is possible that a young - and presumably naive - Mark Zuckerberg avoided the typical VC pitfalls and board guillotine / "CEO replaces themselves to help transition company to the next level" path?

Was it just because Facebook's growth was so unprecedented they had no need to replace him? Or did he have a very good mentor or early investors that believed in him or helped guide him without taking advantage of the situation? Or was he actually just extremely shrewd at navigating board politics?
What an incredible essay. Top 5 I've ever read in insight.
Does anyone have good stats to share on how vaccination impacts transmission? I’m curious.
Or you'd have to dive, like in Waterworld, because every former coastal port is under water.
I was reading car and drivers list of worst mpg vehicles today, not surprisingly pick up trucks are awful. 16mpg highway with giant gas tanks.

No wonder people feel the pain when they have to pay like $200 to fill up and be able to drive ~400miles. I don’t have sympathy except for the ones that legitimately use it for work. Otherwise it’s massively wasteful and all that’s different now is they can feel how wasteful their car is.
You're preaching to the choir. It does seem more trouble than it's worth.

PS: If you ever get the urge to root the Android device or install Honda Hack, don't bother on a car you rely on.

It will slow down, crash, and possibly break everything and require a full factory reset. The Android hardware installed is so puny, it can't handle more than what's factory.
I found it very boring. I wonder whether Gates was using it to signal: "Although it takes place in a dystopian future, the robots aren’t a force for evil. Instead, they serve as companions to keep people company. This book made me think about what life with super intelligent robots might look like—and whether we’ll treat these kinds of machines as pieces of technology or as something more."
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but since the virus is now endemic everyone will eventually be exposed. You can't seriously expect people to tolerate restrictions indefinitely.
Not saying offline-first apps have no interest, they totally can have some.

But in more than ten years, offline mode have never been a requirement on any of the projects I worked on.

What I’m saying is that offline mode is just a feature like any other and it’s one with a huge cost in architecture complexity.

And, although it’s just my own opinion, I think if you want to be offline first, odds are that better stacks than the web exists for those needs.
Anything Adam Wathan or Erik Kennedy is involved with is usually a very solid bet.
Anything new here from the hundred other posts?

Some previous discussions:

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611551

6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845038

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16816663
> don't support paying you a wage that keeps up with inflation

Your employer doesn't care what inflation is. They care about what they have to pay on the market to get you, and they care what you produce.

Going to them and talking about inflation is making an irrelevant argument. Inflation isn't part of the equation that determines how much they pay you. Tell them your market value, and tell then your productivity. But talking about inflation is just going to illicit a 'so what?'
Is it? 0.2 percent of American's have already died from this. Or put another way, 99.98% is the current best real live actual number of how survivable Covid-19 is. Not some made up number with a bunch more 9's or 0's, but 99.98%. Three nines would be pathetic for a website's uptime. (I might be biased on that one, I do that professionally.) This puts it 3rd on the list of health reasons Americans die, behind cancer and heart disease and we sure as shit do a ton of things to prevent cancer in a large population (see also: Why we don't have more nuclear power plants. Hey guess what you get when you get exposed to poisonous radiation?).
Apple knows since at least 2016 of NSO activities on their devices and servers, while selling this image of privacy competence.

This long period of inaction, from 2016 to now is unacceptable.
And they're more convenient for the wallet
EULAs are also used to protect IP, such as by prohibiting reverse engineering. Preventing reverse engineering would prevent modding games, fixing bugs in software that aren't supported anymore, security analysis, etc... In my view, it'd be a net negative for society.
Canada's physical currency is pretty great:

No penny; typical nickles, dimes, and quarters; loonies and toonies ($1 and $2 coins); as well as very durable and fancily-secured polymer bills for $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100.

The only complaint might be that all the bills are the same size instead of on a log-scale like eu or aus, but I prefer it that way.

I wouldn't see much value in coins >$2, bills are far simpler to carry and don't make noise or scratch screens.
This is absolutely correct; look up Feynman's parable about the oil drop experiment, for example.
Yes, per month for very senior people.
The OS got in my way, rather than the player, trying to use 486 machines as mp3 "jukeboxes" back in the day—"the day" being when high-hundreds Mhz single-core machines were the norm, and 486s could be had at garage sales and such practically for free.

MP3 playback would pop and skip if anything else tried to touch the CPU, under Linux or Windows, even on Pentium machines (there weren't 30 background processes of dubious value constantly begging for time like on a "modern" OS, so this rarely happened unless you tried to do other stuff while the music was playing). Choice of player didn't make much difference. Contrary to common wisdom, Linux was, if anything, even worse about this than Windows, but neither was good. QNX or BeOS, however, could handle MP3 playback while multitasking and web browsing without any glitches, even on a 486—though I don't know if I ever tried with RAM as low as 4MB, most likely 16MB was about as low as I went, since I had several of these systems and was able to assemble a couple really good ones by borrowing parts from others.
A lot of small business owners hand out paychecks on Friday Afternoon and then go to the all night gas station to earn the only paycheck they will get. Once the company is successful they can make earn a lot of money, but in the early years a company will often have more bills than income and the founder loses.

Note that all night is important in the above, not gas station. Anyplace that will let you work not normal business hours so you can work your business during business hours is what you need.
Why not following railroad tracks?
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 [video][2m:45s]
They are from berlin (rocket internet). Cant find it anywhere but heard a rumor they once sold a german ebay clone to Google for big $$$ by pretending to be a huge company. They hired a aircraft hangar for the occassion
Thanks for all your work and troubles over the years.
You could build rings around rings. A couple of the designs on that page have multiple 'floors' in the same ring. I suppose those could be built incrementally in either direction (stacking new rings, or adding another floor to an existing one).

I think my train of thought makes a bit more sense for moon and asteroid bases rather than free-floating orbital structures. And asteroid bases - on the right asteroids - are probably going to house most of the people.

The ISS design definitely doesn't scale up. Everything off axis is a lever arm and the bigger you make it the more the whole thing tries to twist itself apart.
Just a couple more comments/questions:

"US is a lot closer to Germany than Russia" - do you think that's natural, or more due to US lobby organisations such as Atlantik-Brücke ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke ) and other agents of influence?

"NATO that dabbled" - it feels like it would be more appropriate to say "US that dabbed". It was Victoria Nuland who was handing out cookies to "protesters" (and a lot of other shenanigans involving Hunter Biden, Westinghouse, selling junk vessels which point to that).
Lockwise passwords are moving in with Firefox
A Forster or outback is not a coupe or sedan and the forester mpg is 33 highway.
Excellent post. Succinctly cutting through the crypto hype-squad and addressing the concerns, unveiling the shortcomings and outlining the possibilities of the current Web3 ecosystem.

Highly recommended read.
I could not disagree more. The world needs more joy, not less of it. This type of prank is the sort of thing I think that uplifts humanity, whereas you see it as a scourge. I could not care less about people having their TV programming interrupted, and everybody has had shitty days at work. I feel like we're looking at art, and I'm admiring it and you're calling it scandalous. I think we're just two people that would hate each other in real life and leave it at that.
That internal state is a burden on small teams though - you're efectively implementing the persistence layer twice. I'm totally onboard for SPAs as an option when breaking down an organization, or for solving a particular kind of problem.

But they're just not worth the effort for a form-oriented website with a small-medium team behind it. Almost everything about a web-app is harder with an SPA.
Being poor is incredibly expensive.
I will say that I didn't read the directions on some new freeze dried instant coffee I got and was accidentally brewing 2x the recommended concentration and felt like I was losing my mind for months until I figured it out.
> strikes are very much a first resort

I'm going to guess you don't know any union members.

Strikes are very hard on the strikers. You're suddenly taking no income but still putting in a shift on the picket line. Not only is there the real risk of the whole thing being net-negative, but you could lose your job entirely.

And a lot of time, you only strike because you've been squeezed financially for so long, you may not have much of a buffer for all that.

You make it sound like unions strike for sport. I suspect a conversation with an actual striking union member might provide a different perspective.
If your source info is untrustworthy affiliated reviewers, how does that aggregate into something I should trust?
Plex isn't perfect. But since my songs are on my drive, there is nothing locking me in to Plex should I choose to switch. That's the most important thing.

In the meantime, Plex is doing great work. Plexamp has been a joy to use.
It's not just the iCloud terms of service, though — they're using that to strengthen the case that NSO agreed to the jurisdiction of California courts but they're relying on the CFAA and especially the claim that the access to the users' device was not authorized by that user.

It would be really interesting to see what precedent comes out of this case and especially how that would affect a future case where Apple claims a violation of their terms of service but the user fully consented to that use.
So what do you, in your western culture, do with meat?
The requirements for presence are unspecified by Roskomnadzor, and these companies will basically be putting someone within reach of Russia under threat of imprisonment when they do something Russia doesn't like.
Sure... If your company is so attractive that the investors will go along with it. IMHO, Facebook's history is an outlier. Most startups aren't positioned with the leverage they had when raising money. I don't know enough about Palantir's history to comment.
> As someone who works flat-out to increase automation every day, I certainly hope the unlucky will be OK, but I am also convinced that they will be

It's easy to think that our actions have no consequences, or more accurately that "someone else" will take care of the consequences of the actions we take. And the more we say it to ourselves, the more we believe it.
No one should want to test this - it's terrifying for companies and developers alike.
Many of the debt players are realizing their advantage over VC is lack of control over your company. For example, check out https://timiacapital.com/. A lot of their marketing is around "Retaining control" and "No warrants and no harsh covenants".
While my experience with Wirecutter has been decidedly mixed, Mullvad really does seem to be the best VPN around.
Trends in real world container use
It's as if you don't get the point about legal standing. Apple can only take action now because of a court deciding that Facebook's TOS forum clause is actually binding. If they filed the case prior to such a holding, it'd have been dismissed.
I am not happy about this. I like having the standalone Lockwise app on my Android phone as a password manager.

When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps?

Also, having to open my browser for every password I need to copy on my phone just seems clunky and stupid.

I'm so fucking sick of Mozilla breaking their UX flows for every damn thing. Just keep the app!
Anecdotally, I've had 100% uptime on my ISP for the past 3 years and have read many a cloud provider's post mortem in that time.

My company hosts a large portion co-located in a datacenter and has the same uptime as my ISP. Clouds seem to be more complex which invites more opportunity for things to go wrong.
We should be asking: why aren't there any new cities being built?
But to access the same functionality with Firefox in android I have to go into 3 levels of menus or I'm wrong. Very annoying ...
> Imagine that every time I write a sentence I prepend "Banana699 says" or "Banana699 thinks"

It's more like starting paragraphs with ">" here. It'll also consistently be at the start of single lines, one above each other, so there's a clear guide on what to skip reading if you don't want to. With the benefit that if you do want to read it, you don't have to scan for context. Java likes putting context locally.

> but the mere presence of irrelevant info steals your attention

Except it doesn't. I literally just don't look at it if I don't care. And, unlike your username being repeated, it's actual information, a different value for each line.

> hovering over the identifier

Sure, that's also a way to do it. I have my java editor show the full type after each "var" instance, but even that's messy because it makes the editor more unpredictable (you can't move the cursor mid-type-description, they interfere with alignment, etc)

> Not all info has to be stored in the raw text

But there's still (unfortunately) a lot of value in having it. GitHub, or 'cat'ting in terminal won't provide you with the descriptions, and the cases when I don't have the thing open in an IDE will also be the cases I'm the newest to the project, and as such need as much help reading things as possible!

> Java is not bad enough to require you to use "new foo.bar.baz.class" …. Type inference simply applies a step further

There may be 10 or so classes imported in a file. There may be hundreds of variables in a file. foo.bar.baz.class would be duplicated dozens of times, and so is worth remembering. The type for a variable is duplicated.. twice, max? And, outside of "Type name = new Type();", it's useful duplication too, in most cases.

> because there is (currently) a finite (and very small) number of types that you need to autogenerate

Not quite "currently" as of Primitive Objects[0], which are available as a preview feature. And adding generics of primitive types is also a thing being worked on[1].

> I don't actually understand what that means. What's the fallback and who's doing it? when and why

An existing, pre-generics library has "void setProperties(HashMap map);". You want to pass a "HashMap<String,String>" to it. So you do, and it works.

> For me, liking a language means that, in absence of all other constraints and externalities (back-compat, hype and who-else-is-using-it syndrome, perf considerations,...), you would prefer that language over any other.

People can like multiple languages. Especially different languages for doing different things. Doesn't even have to be that constrained for some to arrive at Java. As-is, Java has wonderful IDEs, nice performance, trivial memory management, acceptable syntax, is portable, quite simple (both in terms of language complexity and usage, even if at the cost of verbosity), is OOP enough (if you're into that kind of thing), and will have libraries when you need them. Which is plenty for at least the things I do.

[0]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/401

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/218
NBomber – Load test any system with a distributed cluster
Modern and flexible load testing framework for Pull and Push scenarios, designed to test any system regardless a protocol (HTTP/WebSockets/AMQP etc) or a semantic model (Pull/Push). It's 100% written in F# and targeting .NET Core and full .NET Framework.
> as it wouldn't work when JS is disabled in browsers.

You can make it work when JS is disabled as well, you fall back to rendering regular HTML. It does require a little extra work, but it’s not insurmountable (e.g. using @conn instead of @socket).

>you have to scale more with more users

I might opt for additional optimizations once it gets bigger, but I’m not too worried about scaling Erlang processes.
Presumably the under 30s will get covid within a few years, and then they will be in the pool of people with significant immunity.
Google’s Kernel Image is the next step towards solving Android’s fragmentation
And if you don't trust your doctor to give you good information, then find another doctor. And never go back to the doctor you can't trust again.
How about The Strategist?
In which case, I've been using that term incorrectly for a long time. What's the correct use? Can you give an example?
GDPR's consent requirements are actually about tracking in general, regardless of the method you use to achieve it, not about cookies.
For the irrationally angry throwaway, here you go:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...

VAERS (an early warning system that allows unverified reports and requires physicians to report all seemingly related deaths) shows 0.0022% (9,810) of vaccinated individuals in the US died after receiving the vaccine.

Generously assuming all those reports can be directly linked to the vaccination (they can't), that figure is already three orders of magnitude lower than the 1.6% (772,000) of people who caught COVID that died. Looking at the linked charts, if we'd had the vaccine at the beginning, we could surmise that roughly 77,000 (87,000 if you want to add the unconfirmed vaccine deaths) of COVID deaths would have been vaccinated, and almost 700,000 would have been unvaccinated. Add in the potential effect of herd immunity, which we never achieved--who knows how well off we'd be if people hadn't wasted so much energy railing against the public good (for an idea, maybe look at how the polio vaccine went over with the public, and how many people in the US now have polio).

Every death is a tragedy. A little bit of elementary school knowledge of how vaccines work, combined with actually using your brain, indicates the degree of tragedy could be reduced at least 10-fold if all the irrationally angry people would just get vaccinated.
"less censored circles" is a wonderful euphemism for, i assume, some cave full of idiots.

Meanwhile, above ground, JavaScript, Ruby, Haskell, and Scala all have worse reputations than Rust.
You build web apps. The parent talks about web sites.

Not everything on the web is a full featured interactive application, this is exactly what they're talking about.
Gavin from Zebrium here. We've done some interesting things with GPT-3 - we use it to produce plain language summaries of log events that describe the root cause of a problem. See - https://www.zebrium.com/blog/using-gpt-3-with-zebrium-for-pl... and https://www.zebrium.com/blog/real-world-examples-of-gpt-3-pl...
Yes, but now you have to scale both the data layer logic and view layer logic when doing server side rendering.
Hey, my Qubes friends keep using it too. I'm not saying it's un-usable. Is dys-usable a word?
And I've never lost a paper bill, but I'm forever losing change.
Example at the beginning shows clear algorithm how to turn ratio between vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths, percentage of vaccinated and population size into actual death rates for vaccinated and unvaccinated.

I wonder why they didn't apply it to real world data later on in the article.
sadly this breaks a few sites since it doesnt auto accept cookies but rather hides the banner as far as i know