skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and [I] use my influence to help correct that as much as possible without sacrificing operational readiness.

So racism/sexism is okay as long as it doesn't hurt operational readiness? Or do you not consider this racism/sexism, if so how are hiring decisions based on race/sex not racist/sexist?
Have you by any chance sold any Android phones you used to own at one point? Google I think does associative linking based on phones. If your phone eventually found its way to India, Google might have started to think something similar. This happened to me personally, except I was both of the people in the exchange, that’s how I know.
Congrats on your experiement!
Yeah, people forget the muslim ban happened before COVID.
Measles is a VERY different virus than COVID and even flu.

> The surface proteins that the measles virus uses to enter cells are ineffective if they suffer any mutation, meaning that any changes to the virus come at a major cost.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150521133628.h...

Since the COVID shots doesn't prevent catching and transmitting the virus, at least the current shots aren't going to achieve herd immunity / get rid of COVID.

AstraZeneca vaccine's lead researcher and head of the Oxford Vaccine Group, Andrew Pollard, stated that the "idea of achieving herd immunity is mythical" and "not a possibility" because "vaccinated people can still be infected and transmit the virus". He also warned against making any vaccination policies and programs based on the idea of herd immunity because the virus may mutate to an even more transmissible variant among vaccinated populations.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/herd-immunity-is-mythical-wi...
If you can detect neutrinos below your thumb, I’m officially impressed!
Yeah, I tried those out in a scratch pad. They don't compile.
Available free on project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm
Ahh, I see! Thanks for the clarification!
For me this new variant of concern is quite concerning unlike some other variants of concern that don't concern me much in the country where I reside.
I didn't think I (as an experienced software engineer) would struggle so much to save a file until I had to use Office 365. I wish Dropbox was more popular in your average small business office.
Sure, but that is not what the study said, and not at all what the observed difference means.

They found a tiny effect in symptomatic seroprevalence at a single point in time.
But horoscopes, my god. They're not outside the box, they're outside reality. It's like a physicist believing in perpetual motion.
Racist and xenophobic president
I have been watching a youtube series on the collapse of civilisations :

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew

episode 2 is about the Bronze Age Collapse and the interesting thing for me is how little is known about it.

There are many theories, but ultimately we do not know why these waves of migrations caused the destruction of major, ancient empires. A volcano erupting in Iceland is one possibility, leading to famine and a domino effect of migration and collapse.

It seems almost like a World War before there could be such a thing, with the civilisations involved not robust enough to survive such a conflict.
Not really, we just don't know, and it could legitimately go either way.
Chise is a she/her-shaped creature as far as I know.
Yes, but most people don't consider that $1000 as lost money.
Wow. It never occurred to me to approach it that way, thanks!
I’ll reply to this and some of your other comments in this reply.

In a lot of cases, SSL is not expensive or time consuming. It is a single line in cron. I appreciate that this is not the case for your hosting, but economic pressure is one of the main ways SSL can be more utilised. The fact that you’re considering moving away from them, suggests that their business will suffer in the long term, if they don’t make integrating SSL easier/less expensive. This is good economic pressure, and its likely the best pressure that can be applied right now, considering the glacial pace of technology laws in almost all countries. You seem to be generalising your situation and applying the blanket “it’s too expensive” argument to everyone, even though it’s mostly a non-issue for people who have better hosting providers or not as much legacy.

Arguably, building a website with a login is a LOT easier and cheaper now than it was 10 years ago, because Let’s Encrypt is such a well known option. If they wanted to do so 10 years ago, they would have most likely had to pay through the nose for an expensive certificate. You seem to also have forgotten about these people with your blanket statement about hosting websites being more expensive for everyone.

Is the security provided significant in simple sites? Probably not. However, having SSL be a default is good overall. It gives less chances for operators to screw up because non-HTTPS raises very user-visible alarm bells. If your site is small and non-revenue generating, then why does the security alert even matter? It doesn’t prevent anyone from accessing the website.

Your 2FA argument is wrong. Sure, there may be multiple reasons for mandating it, but for regular users, 2FA is good defense in depth, that offers protection against password compromise. Again, the average consumer doesn’t necessarily have strong passwords or unique passwords across services. 2FA is good protection for them.

Also, if mining user data was the main reason for 2FA, big tech wouldn’t support hardware security keys for 2FA. Mobile 2FA is a usability compromise because it targets a lowest common denominator that (almost) everyone has.
From the article:

>A travel ban is not an evidence-based solution unless you stop all travel from every country.

Okay, why not do that? China's done it. Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand require a week+ quarantine for international travelers. It obviously works: it stopped two Omicron carriers at the border in Hong Kong. Why not do that?

If COVID-19 is such a serious threat that it requires shutting down all schools for more than a year, why not take the comparatively minor step of halting or drastically limiting international travel?
BTW, talking of coffee, if you haven’t tried roasting your own coffee, you’re missing something.

I’m not a coffee snob and can’t tell difference between regions and so on. But coffee fresh roasted, using an air popcorn maker in my case, tastes amazingly better than anything else.

I just get green coffee samplers since I don’t care about one region vs another, just fresh roast, wait a day or two, fresh ground gives great results.
How do you strip the DRM, is there a FOSS tool for this?
As soon as you bias based on any trait YOU are the one discriminating.

You think you're helping correct society by helping one group over a perceived disadvantage, but all you are doing is enforcing a another kind of discrimination

You can't correct discrimination by discriminating back or tipping the scale one way or another, the only way to defeat discrimination is to throw away the scales.

Utopian societies are the motivation for all kinds of genocides.
I almost corrected you before realizing how brilliant you are. Well played.
Not being a power user of libreoffice calc I can't say what excel does that libreoffice can't. Office is kind of like the crown jewels of Microsoft. Well that is before azure came along I guess.
When you can prove in a court of law that person "x" infected person "y" at "Z" date/time - then you can say this with even a minimal level of confidence.

Don't want to get sick? Order groceries online and have them delivered to your door.
Is it? Cite the evidence. Editorials and commentaries don't count.

All of the good evidence (RCTs) on masks is extremely marginal, at best, and there hasn't been a single RCT I'm aware of that showed any effect of the other interventions.

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/do-masks-reduce-risk...
Also unbundle Safari from iOS and put an end to the browser engines ban. That's far worse than default software on Windows and Android.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally_testable_code :

"Clearly, any valid codeword should be accepted as a codeword, but strings that are not codewords could be only one bit off, which would require many (certainly more than a constant number) probes. To account for this, testing failure is only defined if the string is off by at least a set fraction of its bits. This implies words of the code must be longer than the input strings by adding some redundancy."
Furries come from a broad cross-section of civilization, though tech has outsized representation as a profession. It's highly likely someone you know and respect is a furry.
Pronouns, the original type-hinting system.
And linked in and minecraft.
I’m not really the type to fuss over wine glasses but I was gifted a set of Veuve Cliquot champagne flutes (similar to the glasses that come in this set[1]) and they really are beautiful. The shape of the glass makes the bubbles fizz to the top in this tiny perfect spiral in the center of the glass. You can tell they were designed by someone who cares about champagne and pays attention to its presentation.

[1]https://www.champagneking.co.uk/product/3904/veuve-clicquot-...
Death per million inhabitants in these 4 countries: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

You can also compare with other neighbors and Europe: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
anyone paying attention.?
"On Evangelism" [0], written by me in 2015. I was once one of the few tech evangelists at AWS. I think it's worth a quick read.

[0]: http://brunozzi.com/2015/04/30/on-evangelism/
I still have my bouillon, chicken and beef.
Agree 100% -- that whole paragraph has some flimsy logic. The only bit of evidence they provide for travel bans not working is:

> For example, we had a travel ban with China in March 2020, only to be infiltrated with a European strain.

Isn't this a good sign that the travel ban actually worked -- i.e. created enough of a delay in the spread of covid to result in a meaningfully different pandemic than we would have otherwise experienced?
Thank you. I should've specified I was looking at larger 6/3 cup variant. Seems like Amazon.it has that for 75€ versus 120 USD, but I agree that it's a fair price given import costs, running a business, and theoretical customer support.
Have you read Clay Shirky's "Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus" [1]?

He argues that technology does free us from more and more work, and we find ways to spend this time, by wasting it, or by fitting other things into it.

E.g. the lazy Saturday when people can just do sweet nothing, watch TV, play games, or maybe feel bad about nothing good to do is a very recent development.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jm3/6724931
You’re definitely mistaken - you get up to 4K in the browser with Safari - it’s highlighted in the UI even I think.
Maybe it doesn't? At least not until medical science catches up to allow the level of social/global interaction we had been taking for granted for decades.

In the history of our species, we have never been this connected on a global level before, we were potentially sitting on a timebomb just waiting for the appropriate viral trigger to bring it down.
I spent whole afternoon today thinking which template kit to buy so that I get nice set of component with neat design. There were so many of them so it was tough choice. But i think i’m going to get lifetime access to your service instead. I just wonder if you are planning on adding more components in different design style? Like the Tailwind CSS brutalist style (i think codeacademy uses something similar)
For conventional electronic and optical purposes this isn't a huge deal. You "just" modulate the signal to be transmitted onto a fixed-frequency carrier, and have the receiver ignore everything that's not a sideband of that particular carrier frequency.

It's one of those cases where "just" really does apply. IR remote controls work this way, using a slow bitstream to key a 40 kHz carrier that drives the IR LED. Scientific applications that need even greater sensitivity can take advantage of the fact that the expected phase of the carrier is known as well as its frequency. Devices called lock-in amplifiers are used to run a wide variety of experiments and processes using that principle.

Doing this stuff with neutrinos rather than photons, however, is one of those * * * * * exercises that the textbook authors put in as a joke.
We will never be able to separate this fine argument from the fact that gorm has been terribly immature for quite some time. ORMs take a long time to grow. Look at Arel and ActiveRecord. Sufficiently mature ORMs provide addordances to work around the fundamental N+1 and abstraction issues that always crop up, but they take time, dedication, and a broad community. Go is an interesting case in which there are enough useful applications that don't comprise "web apps" that we might not be in at the point of ORM maturity. I've used both gorm and go pg, and have definitely encountered frustrating limitations coming from both ends of the problem.
I figured you combined Tolkien with Martin, I bet it's a pretty common mistake.

Unfortunately any series trying that premise would need to wait like a century or pay Martin a ton of money, so you'll never know if it's interesting.
Yeah, I think the article missed the point on this one - travel bans aren't a panacea, but they definitely slow the spread and can buy valuable time at the start of an outbreak.

There's been too much binary thinking by the media and politicians - for example masks aren't 100% effective, but they do reduce the viral load by 30-50% which could be the difference between getting mildly sick and getting a fatal exposure. We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of better.
As with everything, it really depends on what you're doing. Do I want to implement an entire CMS and core business backend directly in SQL? No, of course I don't. I want to use Django's ORM because then I get all the nice QuerySet API, integrations with forms and filters, the nice Admin UI, etc.

But do I want my end-users to hit my Django ORM APIs 10,000 times per second? Absolutely not. So you write hand-optimized SQL for those and maybe run them in a service a little bit faster than Python/Django/Gunicorn.

It's the same database, it's the same "API". But you get the value of everything that Django's ORM provides and you just cheat a little bit by dropping down to the lower level for things that need it, and not everything needs it.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water!
I've been on team droplet-first for a while, so this is fun to read.
The markdown parser of the "Reddit Sync" app adds closing tags to things as well. Hasn't been annoying enough for me to switch.
You just don't build capacity against something that grows exponentially until it hits a substantial part of the overall population. Say a country like the UK, at the peak of the curve, would have 1% of their population getting sick everyday for a week or two, and 1% of that getting in a hospital (very conservative since 1% is the IFR and lots of people get out of the hospital on their legs)

You might have built the 90.000 beds you need, but where will you find the doctors?
> you can barely say the results out loud lest you get silenced by the angry mob

Would you chill out? People are disagreeing with you & presenting evidence, not burning you at stake. When did everyone get so damn fragile??
Should clarify: I'm not discounting the possibility that this variant spreads quickly, but given the known fact that it detects very easily, some sort of statistical modeling of how to correct for that (or a disclaimer that we are comparing apples to oranges) would be nice before making a pronouncement about rapidity
how are you equating hiring a diverse team (all skills being roughly equal) with racism/sexism? I think we might be working under different assumptions on the definition of those terms.
Do we know if Disney+ is returning a profit or operating at a loss in exchange for increasing its long term user base? Seems like the latter.

In regards to theaters being a "special occasion", I am not sure where you live but here in the US we have "monthly subscriptions" for movie theaters. For example, for ~25$ a month I can sign up for AMC Stubs A-List which allows me to see three films a week in any format I want (standard def, IMAX, Dolby Premium, 3D or whatever else they have) each week for the month. (Thats typically 12 films a month). This is unbelievable value, yet even to this day I see theaters are flat out empty with the exception of Superhero films and established franchises (eg. James Bond). I can't tell you how many films I have seen this year (since getting vaccinated) where I was literally the only one in the theater. For one film I discovered there is a regular light switch that controls the lights in the theater and so I watched the film with the lights on ha ha!

I think movies and ;possibly "old media" are just failing for peoples attention in favor of things like Youtube/Instagram/Twitch etc. After all there are 24 hours in a day and no way to expand that so everyone has to compete by taking away some time spent on existing forms of media.
Hard to hear the truth about your own ignorance.
Are you going to tell those 12000 people: sorry, but you need to die for my exceptionally limited view of economy?
> A large, randomized trial led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University has found that wearing a surgical face mask over the mouth and nose is an effective way to reduce the occurrence of COVID-19 in community settings.

> The researchers enrolled nearly 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19, which is caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the eight-week study period. The protective effect increased to nearly 35% for people over 60 years old.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...

Earlier studies said there wasn’t sufficient evidence, not that masks aren’t effective:

> Results: Fourteen studies were included in this study. One preclinical and 1 observational cohort clinical study found significant benefit of masks in limiting SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Eleven RCTs in a meta-analysis studying other respiratory illnesses found no significant benefit of masks (±hand hygiene) for influenza-like-illness symptoms nor laboratory confirmed viruses. One RCT found a significant benefit of surgical masks compared with cloth masks.

> Conclusion: There is limited available preclinical and clinical evidence for face mask benefit in SARS-CoV-2. RCT evidence for other respiratory viral illnesses shows no significant benefit of masks in limiting transmission but is of poor quality and not SARS-CoV-2 specific. There is an urgent need for evidence from randomized controlled trials to investigate the efficacy of surgical and cloth masks on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and user reported outcomes such as comfort and compliance.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33565274/

The cost of wearing a mask is basically zero when there is sufficient supply. While waiting to gather evidence, it seems like an easy low cost precaution while gathering evidence.

Slate Star Code (March 2020):

> Please don’t buy up masks while there is a shortage and healthcare workers don’t have enough.

> If the shortage ends, and wearing a mask is cost-free, I agree with the guidelines from China, Hong Kong, and Japan – consider wearing a mask in high-risk situations like subways or crowded buildings. Wearing masks will not make you invincible, and if you risk compensate even a little it might do more harm than good. Realistically you should be avoiding high-risk situations like subways and crowded buildings as much as you possibly can. But if you have to go in them, yes, most likely a mask will help.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...
who, what?
> The real question is what the limits of government support and 'encouragement' are.

In this case, they could encourage European competitors to YouTube by using their services and infusing them with some capital. By digitalizing the processes across the union, and by again, using European services.

They certainly have the money; maybe they can spend a bit less on those "[meetings and conferences]".

I'll give you another example. Because Germany is big in Pharma, they encourage the pharma industry along with its research and development. Because of this, when the pandemic hit, we were already exploring some interesting options. This should be the tech case also, not just pharma.

"but that was mostly the government fostering the demand side" - this is a great way to do it, yes.

> there aren't many cases where the government itself created 'innovation'

Maybe my understanding is wrong, but I feel like a lot of innovation comes from heavy government-backed entities. And then the capitalists come and distribute these innovations in various forms to the population.
I typically respect Apple products, but they also shove ads in the settings app...
Ooh, this sounds quite nice. And it would also be compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
This article is from May.

https://www.google.com/search?q=india+covid+cases&oq=india+c...

https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/national/ivermectin-obl...
And yet, their representatives do things like disconnect from Skype when asked about Taiwan, and they skipped naming a mutation the Xi variant.

So how much can you trust them? Probably about as much as you can trust who they’re loyal to.
As long as economics 101 is:
"Hello capitalism!" ... What do you expect?
Your arguments simply don't hold any water when we are talking about Flatpak. So I guess you can have candy but no water.
TCL is a terrible error-prone language. The fact that language rules are quite short (I think, there doesn't even seem to be a specification so who really knows) doesn't mean the language is good.

Brainfuck is stupidly simple but good luck writing reliable code with that!

I should make a TCL quoting quiz to prove how insane it is.
> Chrome and Gmail as default?

You don't... You can have Firefox and Outlook as defaults if you want. Ever use a Samsung phone? It comes bundled with a bunch of Samsung and MS crap, despite being Android. Samsung has their own web browser, their own store...
Cards Against Humanity pays you $5
pretty decent thing to want to get rid off. How does one fix urban planning 'in general' without improving individual things in particular?

This argument sounds like: "the authors vile anti-race-condition rhetoric reveals that he wants to get rid of unsafe memory operations, rather than improving software in general"
If it alters the reasons you bought the stocks in the first place, perhaps.