skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People get sick with covid multiple times. Our immune systems are just naturally not good enough to deal with this virus.

Covid will stop being a concern only after safe and incredibly efficient antiviral drug is developed, which might take decades.
What WHO needs to do is revisit their mistakes and acknowledge meddling with Chinese leadership, win public trust. It's not the same 80's World Health Organization that made profound impact in the health of many nations. Some of that work continues to happen, but as you said the leadership needs to come out clean or they're going to have a problem with people trusting the entire organization.
Bet your sweet ass they tested that smile in the logo.
You didn’t answer the parent post. Your point was, in game theory, there’s no benefit in attacking the network or the loss is huge that it doesn’t worth the the attack. The parent post gave the counter point that there could be a benefit which we haven’t thought. If Dr Evil is heavily invested in 2 network, he might destroy one to focus on the remaining. The chance of the attack is low but it is not zero
Plants also produce negative ions. May be the cheaper and prettier option.
I concur! Just finished watching it at 1.5x speed.
> what am I supposed to do

Not have any more kids, and discourage others from having kids as well, because you know that they will come to harm.
>I'm planning to renounce my citizenship over it ASAP and would rather die than return

This is just kind of hilarious. I have no other words.

OP please just stay off facebook
From telling people it wasn’t airborne and they shouldn’t wear masks to saying no booster shots, their credibility is toast.
Could be written by GPT-3 if you never try to run it.
disney was once a small creator.

The thing with double standards is that there's just so many to choose from!
> ...what am I supposed to do, test my fucking pepper?

I think a large part of the USA keeps electing politicians whose philosophy seems to be absolutely that – you "get the choice" to test your pepper or not, and market forces will eventually drive out the bad pepper companies.

This can be backed up by the fact that one of the past administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency was a thinly veiled oil and gas lobbyist [1], and the other one was a former coal lobbyist who relaxed standards on mercury [2].

So, thinking through the options, a few suggestions that look at solving the problem from all sides possible:

- From the data available to you, avoid the spices that are more likely to have high levels of heavy metals – thyme and oregano in particular seem to have higher levels for some reason

- Raise awareness of this report to trigger the capitalism response. If the companies are embarrassed enough on social and regular media, they will be motivated to control their heavy metal levels when it has an effect on sales.

- Keep electing politicians that are less likely to roll back environmental regulation. This is going to take a long time to have a systemic effect though. Voting in local elections is especially important, people often ignore those.

- Maybe, test your pepper? Food heavy metal tests seem to be commercially available [3]. Groups of concerned parents could pool in for a test of common spices.

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[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/22/scott-pr...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/health-ap-top-news-virus-outbreak...

[3] https://www.agqlabs.us.com/food/heavy-metals-food-testing/
I don't do sarcasm (and it's against the HN guidelines, btw).

"Sleeping the most less" is a beautiful turn of phrase, even if ungrammatical. Or maybe because of it.
But they don't have to implement CDMA2000 like other countries' models even though it uses Qualcomm chip.
>> …it’s a lot of voices.

A looooot of voices.

https://thevaultproject.org/ron-johnson-holds-expert-panel-o...
You might be interested in company-mode [1].

[1] https://company-mode.github.io/
Forgot about the "water dripping from your nose when you lean over" part. That's definitely gross!
$45-$80 per hour is way too low for "elite" talent. If you advertise "rigorously vetted elite remote talent" you need to make that vetting process transparent, or offer better guarantees that you stand behind your vetted developers. A seven-day trial period with full refund looks good, but serious projects tend to fail nearer the end than the beginning. And what elite developer will commit to working for up to a week for free?

The information on the site consists almost entirely of marketing fluff. Where's the description of the rigorous vetting process? Evidence of your expertise vetting developers, finding customers, managing the inevitable bumps and conflicts during a project? Where are the lists of satisfied customers or elite developers and their accomplishments? If you intend to act as agents you need to establish credibility. If you intend to just match keywords in job descriptions and CVs then you're just competing with Upwork and Fiverr and hundreds of similar matching sites.

The site needs editing or professional writing. Small errors add up to give the impression that site was thrown together in a hurry from a template. Clicking "Apply to join" or "Hire Now" redirects to tally.so, a separate form collection site, not exactly inspiring confidence -- web forms aren't a hard thing to do.
> All epidemics come to an end eventually, vaccines or no vaccines.

Yeah, but sometimes only after wiping half of all humans.
Learn Smalltalk.

myObj 4 "this sends the number four to myObj. Yes, comments are in quotation marks"
4 factorial "yep, numbers are objects too"
0 + 4 "sends the 4 as a message to 0"
myObj arg1: 1 arg2: 'a' "if you need more than 2 arguments you use keyword messages"
For a company the size of facebook, I am having trouble understanding what is the difficulty in rolling this out.

At this rate, the virtual world they are making will take 100 years, or simply, it will be even more difficult to trust facebook.
As I understand, hand washing isn't as important as they thought it was at the beginning. They thought it transmitted by touch more than it does.
Sometimes metaphors are less than helpful. This is one.

> Neither will your distance from him help very much.

The amount of piss distributed is still determined by volume, so more distance => weaker concentration, which... helps a lot?
Maybe. Certainly there are enough people on these pages promoting all sorts of unrealistic BUILD BUILD BUILD programs in all sorts of contexts that it's hard to tell the difference between satire and something else.
Markets tend to be pretty bad at dealing with huge and relatively sudden shocks without causing a ton of harm to incumbents (i.e. existing residents who live and work there).
I remember buying cassettes and then CDs, either from a known distributor or litte hole-in-the-wall shops.

When digital music was getting big, it was mostly experienced through DJs at parties. They got their records from distributors and there were ways of pressing small amounts of vinyl cheaply.

Artists who didn't have a record deal had to hustle, selling their tunes directly from the trunk of their car or any means necessary.

Lots of musicians didn't make their money from these routes, instead they gave their music out for free as promotional material for live shows where they charged tickets.

Even if we jump forward to now, there's a few listener-supported models like soma.fm which may not last forever but have survived without resorting to ads or piracy.

Piracy is fun for the consumer, while it lasts, but it suffocates the artists and was never a viable solution.

For anyone willing to pay, there is always a way to get your wares if you know what you're looking for.
Healthcare, homes, schools, and workplaces should have been encouraged to improve ventilation at the very beginning of the pandemic, but tardy recognition of the airborne route by leading authorities in 2020 stalled any progress that could have been made at that stage.

I cannot relate with this judgment, regularly venting (about every 20 minutes, I believe) has been the standard in schools and day cares where I live for at least a year.
Purg, Wolf Creek, & Loveland haven't had big lines any times I've been there. My mother said Los Alamos, Santa Fe, & Taos lift lines are far better now on powder days than when she grew up thanks to more chairs on lifts + high speed lifts.
Am I really understanding this article correctly? It's claiming that it's bad that FB is delaying encryption because encryption is good, but also bad that it's adding encryption because encryption will help child predators, but that these two points are not contradictory because child predation is only an issue on social networks and not on other messaging services?

This article sounds like it was written by a markov chain trained on members of Congress bloviating about encryption and "protecting the children".
Having the WHO bludgeon countries into obeying standards *set by China.

I mean, let's get right to the point, shall we?
Is your hypothesis that it won’t snow anymore?
3G is supposed to shut down in July but curiously 2G will live until December 2022.
If:

* A vast majority of infections can be traced

* You have an infection whose only traceable contact is for a few seconds in a store...

It seems pretty likely that the infection happened in the moments surrounding those few seconds. Especially when we have multiple circumstances like this. Especially when it agrees with our underlying understanding of the germ theory of disease.

Extended contact makes infection much more likely. But people who are sick shed live virus, and there's not a safe level of exposure of live virus where infection is impossible.
That works numerically, but having housing directly connected to your job is very prone to abuse.
Ah, interesting! I didn't think of that.
Another 2021 Mazda 3 owner - I hadn't even realized you last point about screen position, but now that you've mentioned it, it's obvious. And frankly, fantastic. The physical-only controls are the entire reason we went with a Mazda, and remembering my 2016 Civic, watching Hagerty's review of the 8th gen Golf, and reading through this is just vindicating that choice.

I'd recommend a Mazda, on this basis alone, to anyone that asks - and ridicule other brands when it comes up (with someone that hasn't just dropped thousands on a new car).
It's difficult to roll out because the vast majority of users don't want it. Facebook is trying to find ways to add it without breaking UX and without making it too difficult for people in the EU (where encryption will be required) to talk to people outside the EU (where it may be optional).
That's a hard question to give a definitive answer to. In many ways, the answer is "no". However, as with most things in tech, there are always edge cases.

Sprint's network (which T-Mobile bought and is integrating into the T-Mobile network) never went fully VoLTE (voice over LTE) so if you had a phone that didn't support CDMA voice and you were on the Sprint network experience and you traveled to one of the rare areas where Sprint had coverage and T-Mobile didn't and there was no Sprint VoLTE available...

The thing about wireless is that there's always some vocal person who is getting better service from something that is worse for 99.9% of people. Of course, 99.9% means that you have one person out of every thousand and if you're a wireless carrier with over 100M customers, that means 100,000 people might be annoyed by progress.

In America where there's a huge rural population that expects all the amenities of big cities while the nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away, that can create some issues.

Plus, it's not just the 3 national carriers. There are also smaller carriers like US Cellular whose VoLTE support is newer, Shentel (who T-Mobile has more recently bought and whose network will get integrated probably in 2022/2023), etc. Those smaller carriers may not have upgraded all of their network yet. If you're European, the idea that we chopped up our licensing into hundreds of tiny license areas might sound weird (734 cellular market areas for the initial licenses, different sizes/shapes for subsequent licensing). VoLTE interoperability has been a bit of a nightmare and so CDMA has offered a certain amount of fallback for roaming (though that situation has mostly gotten cleared up, partly because T-Mobile didn't really have legacy compatibility to fall back on).

Finally, is it worth supporting? Ultimately, the support comes for free given that Qualcomm's X60 modem was going to support it whether Apple wanted that support or not. I think the iPhone 14 will support CDMA as well simply because Qualcomm's X65 modem will support it. I'm guessing that CDMA support will be dropped with the iPhone 15 when Apple moves to their own, in-house modems.

Verizon is shutting down their CDMA network at the end of 2022. By the time the iPhone 15 launches in fall 2023, CDMA will be quite dead. But legacy things stick around for a long time because even when it's not used by 99.9% of people, there's always some that will vocally complain about change and regulators don't like the idea of customer equipment being rendered useless.
Yeah, and by the same token, you don't know if the buyer offering the top amount is really going to pull through, giving an offer from OpenDoor a certain appeal.
I don't care about Google. I'm more concerned with the creators on YouTube.
That there's going to be shorter seasons, and the snow line is going to move up. This is already starting to happen.
Looks like no one answered your question here. Just tried to shoot your messenger. Was hoping for something more substantial.
I usually get back at them by saying something like, "When you have experience as much as I do, sometimes my subconscious mind will recognize patterns that will drive my decision. You may call it 'gut feeling', I call it autonomous decision weighting using experiential pattern matching. And there's no shortcut to that ability; you just have to have decades of experience. Which I do."
Perhaps the officers are aware of the legal ramifications of past incidents:

https://www.courthousenews.com/san-francisco-settles-suit-ov...

https://www.courthousenews.com/former-cop-charged-with-mansl...
If you have to do a coding test you probably didn't get the interview through contacts who can vouch for you.

Lots of developers don't have public projects on GitHub because their work is proprietary and private. I can't show any of my code without getting permission from my customer because they own the work. A lot of public GitHub projects can communicate "newbie" or "hobbyist" just as much as it might communicate "experienced" because actual work product you got paid to write probably can't get published for the world to see on GitHub.
If this is true I hope the world can reach this conclusion quickly, and get on with our lives.
After my daughter was born four years ago, I went through a two year stretch of awful chronic sinus/ear infections, probably triggered by her bringing stuff home from day care. Two rounds of prednisone, probably six or seven rounds of antibiotics, even an MRI to check my auditory nerve for issues after my ears got plugged up badly after one of them. I'm deaf enough as it is and it's immensely frustrating when my ears clog up and temporarily remove what little remaining hearing I have.

Regular sinus rinsing made a huge difference in getting that under control. I'm also a big fan of the NeilMed squeeze bottles and that's what I've been using for a couple of years now. That said, this year I switched to the Xlear salt/xylitol packets and I like them better. I don't know if there's actual science to the claims that the xylitol inhibits bacterial adhesion or any of that, but I do find them gentler on my sinuses and less unpleasant if some of the solution works its way into my throat.

I don't rinse daily, but the instant I start to feel even a bit crap, I'll pull out my rinse bottle, distilled water, and packets, and have at it.

I'll be honest, the other thing that's helped is that "world events" normalized wearing masks in indoor public places, and I will continue to for a good while (the 3M Aura foldable N95 masks are _fantastic_) for things like grocery shopping. Wearing them doesn't bother me personally and definitely beats spending two weeks with my head full of crud I can't quite get rid of, or with my ears full of fluid.
Half a millisecond is 20 samples missed. 44000 * .0005 = 22

But that's not what he meant, he meant that non-real time (soft real time, not even hard real time) OSs pause pretty frequently for relatively long periods. You might not miss any samples at all due to hardware buffering, but the effect on UI is tremendous.
Google SRE here.

Point of clarification on "losing skills" by not being oncall enough.

Google designs its SRE teams to scale sublinearly to the service, which means we're often responsible for entire portfolios, not just a single service.

It's common for individuals to be SMEs on a subset of the portfolio, as the focus of their coding projects.

Obviously the rest of the portfolio is also undergoing continuous change, and so to remain a broadly effective oncaller across the entire portfolio, you need regular production exposure to the parts you interact with less frequently.

Those are the specific bits that get rusty with disuse.
> Tough balancing act for researchers, trying to prevent both panic and complacency.

It really shouldn't be. Researchers should do their best to publish their finding objectively without consideration for how that will change public opinion.

Researchers have a responsibility not to making people feel or behave a certain way but to further our collective knowledge.
The Periodic Table of Data Structures (2018) [pdf]
Like the person you're responding to, I didn't get that impression.
Given the large amount of mutation in this variant, theory point to high likelihood of this being evolved from a single individual with compromised immune system, likely a person in advanced stages of HIV infection.

Source: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-concernin...

Globally speaking, most of the HIV positives live in sub-saharan Africa, with South Africa having 17.30% of adults carrying HIV, and countries around it in similar ballpark. This points to the variant being evolved in South Africa or its neighbors

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...
Hmm, this doesn't work for me in the app in Android 10 or 11. Perhaps it is region specific? I'm in the UK.

Edit: it does work via browser if you navigate out of fullscreen. TIL :)
You may notice the people who say that are hypocrites who believe their existence is legitimate and worthy of defending. Hint: they don't actually believe that.
Why would someone want to opt out of end to end encryption?
I think Car View was well intentioned. For me it caused more issues than it solved.

I would forget about its existence until I was already driving. Now the interface on a touchscreen is different in subtle ways, like some gestures not working. Car View required attention. Driving is exactly the wrong time to learn a new interface.
would probably increase the cost for an already expensive product. But yes, I was surprised to hear the Remarkable lineup has no lights at all.
the fact that this guy claims he invented mRNA gives a strong clue to both his reliability and his reasoning ability.
Are they still saying it’s “impossible” the virus escaped from a Chinese weapons lab?
Luckily the vast majority of MacOS users these days don't use Safari, for reasons like this
It's basically saying, "I bear no responsibility whatsoever if this program messes up your system. It's not even version 1!"
Rhino 3D is my favorite piece of software. I used to use it for hours a day, and it felt like a natural extension of my mind. It was truly a perfect merger of UI and command line.

People keep on telling me how amazing Blender or SketchUp is, and they just can't understand that the perfect 3D modeling program with the perfect UI already exists, and has existed for over 20 years now.
That study doesn't mean that guns are bad security. They obviously lead to more gun related suicides, and can turn domestic fights more violent. However, if you are at high risk of being attacked (if you are a criminal defense attorney or a minor YouTube celebrity), the risk of being assaulted is different from the general population's.
> Grow and dry your own. That might be a particularly good idea if you use a lot of basil

Growing your own food to avoid heavy metals is actually horrible advice. To be done safely you need to get your soil tested; especially in more urban areas your soil is often just as bad or worse than the soil these were grown in.

Remember, burying used motor oil after an oil change rather than recycling it was common practice late into the twentieth century.
Police don't really stop crime, they investigate after the fact. Stopping comes as a side-effect of the government prosecuting criminals and making it not worth it to repeat offend.
The cumulative increase in anxiety this article is likely to cause is going to drown out the negative health effects of the elements themselves.

I'm all for cleaning up production, our food, and all the rest. But trying to make everyone afraid of everything, all the time, is not actually helpful.
Mostly low sec and null sec campuses used it. The tool doesn't make sense for whc, it's not a type of space where you roam, having a bunch of small fights in a row.
Catching covid is definitely not safe if you’re in that tiny minority that is strongly affected, mostly because the NIH advice for the infected is currently ‘Wait until it gets bad enough to go to the hospital’.
Well, it's true. If you never buy anything you never get scammed. And I find the emulated experience is just as good these days on top of it. But assuming you are going to start shelling out you should be able to know what you're buying.
Here’s a good thread from someone who saw it from the inside:

https://twitter.com/elegant_wallaby/status/14628453362888253...

Basically management assumed (as it seems that you do) that E2EE is a technical feature that can be flipped on without changing anything in how the social model works on Meta’s three distinct, unconnected messaging systems.
I don't think this is true?

Were defending against severity with a vaccine that only partially works.

Increasing potency of the disease might be one thing being selected for by increased vaccination rates.
I really hope HN never changes, so rare to see see something so true, yet insane to the average person at the same time.

This OS on a phone is "close to daily driver" and yet phone calls don't work.

I mean this not as a slight, I'm a huge fan of Linux on mobile devices, using them since Maemo, Moblin, webOS, SailfishOS, Jolla, and now postmarket and Pine.
Former Pro Calls for Investigation After Another Soccer Player Suddenly Collapse
A terrible take. We are fully connected to a point that national borders mean practically nothing. Only a coordinated response and open sharing of information can stop a disaster.
“it’s hard to justify any real value for a US copy of Super Mario Bros, no matter how old or sealed it is, as it’s just a newer copy of the same game.”

This point is lingered on for a while and I don’t get it. Nothing about pricing collectibles is a rational assessment of utility: value is essentially a function of rarity, desirability, and condition. Obviously, in this case, the US versions score higher on “desirability” for US collectors, because the whole point of buying the things is for the sentiment. You can, after all, emulate the games in a million different ways.

I collect civil war stuff, and we have a similar ‘paradox’. Confederate relics score low on “condition”, because the confederacy had worse iron. Yet, confederate relics fetch very high prices. Why? Because they score high on “desirability”: many of the few people who are VERY interested in the civil war are (unfortunately) very sympathetic to Confederates.