skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of ignorance here.

The current measures in place are simply preventive, more in the lines of caution and unnecessary spread, mainly to save our Public Health Service from overdrive and spare medical professionals that are exhausted at this point in time. We don't want to have unnecessary stress that hurts the whole health system, and compromises other health services.

The vaccines are working exceptionally well in Portugal!

Look at the hospitalizations[0] and death[1] numbers compared to last year, with the added noted that we had basically 0 measures since April.

We're only vaccinating with the 3rd jab people over 65, and people with weakened immune systems.

[0]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-ho...

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
It’s wild how few campaigns I am seeing for vaccination. I want 1950s era propaganda posters on every street corner and at every tv and radio break until we get these numbers to 100%.
wow, completely missing the point. also babies and children aren't smokers so there's no equivalency.

childhood is naturally fastest growth period anything disrupting hormone balance because of these traumas can drasticaally affect the rest of the childs life. think making them a mouth breather from disrupting immune system triggering asthma or allergies. this all connected and most people don't realize how much they are hurting their kids indirectly or even directly
"a rocket fueled self-hosted digital library" - what does it mean that it's rocket fueled...?
How many people are even using those masks correctly? There's a lot of people going around with old and contaminated masks or wearing them improperly.
This is a major improvement over how these things were done in the past, which often involved applying stimuli over brain diodes.
More likely a tinfoil hat wearer.
How was the government supposed to convince anti-vaxxers to do what they believe contains micro chips or what they believe is worse than the virus itself? This isn't on the government, this is on anti-vaxxers for swallowing garbage information, hook line and sinker.

And you didn't lose 2 years of your life. You're alive, you didn't die due to the pandemic, did you? That's much less than can be said for 5 million others, mostly older or unhealthy to begin with. They're dead because people didn't follow the guidelines early and it kept spreading and spreading.

So, be grateful you're not dead, and do your part to increase collective resilience.
I agree with this a lot - I went through a progression from simple -> full IDEs personally - writing a mix of PHP and JS for the web, along with C# for console apps, some python, and some terraform - I used to use a mix of a generic text editor with syntax highlighting and full MS Visual Studio.

Then it was VS Code, because VS Code gave me basic code completion and debugging which beat the text editor, and was massively faster than full MS Visual Studio. But VS Code's debugging features are buggy at best, PHP is a community supported language only, the .NET support is very easy to get tremendously confused/broken, and Python support for code completion never seems to work for locally installed packages etc.

Now I use the JetBrains suite of IDEs - PHPStorm, Rider, PyCharm do code completion, suggestions, etc on a scale that none of the VS Code community or MS plugins provide. PyCharm has really nice support for dealing with Pipenv. Rider has a NuGet integration. Rider debugging has always worked for me. An official JetBrains plugin provides the single best terraform authoring experience I've used. For me it really is the best solution.

Yes, the JetBrains IDEs are heavier than VS Code, and yes they cost money, but you're not cobbling together a solution from a disparate set of plugins and crossing your fingers. There's actual support.

With web development I find there's a lot of resistance to paying for dev tools - people are used to free. Additionally practically everyone seems to suggest VS Code at entry level to new developers. But once your project is non-trivial, it really isn't that good of an experience, in my opinion.
I have not forgotten, but Gates and Ballmer are gone and the market situation for MS is totally different. People don't have to take their Evil Empire monopolist crap of the past.
> Masks have a very modest impact on transmission.

False.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883189/
Certainly if you wear loose fitting cloth masks like most people I see; they need to be FFP2-rated or N95, tight-fitting, and sanitized (heat, ozone, or UVC, etc.) or replaced between uses.

Otherwise in general, they do work.

https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/do-face-masks-work-her...
It's somewhat common among truck drivers in Germany to flash the turn signals left-right-left-right to say "thank you" after overtaking (another truck).
Nobel prize winning inventor of PCR disagrees but his videos are automatically censored from all social media now.
I see this as a symptom of the stranglehold that money has on policymaking. Creative output is seen not as good because of the positive effects that creative expression has on people (both makers and consumers), but because it is a method to make money. The balance then turns towards the "creatives" that have money (Disney), rather than the not-yet-established makers that could re-mix or create derived works based on public domain content.
She's a well-known commentator on the pandemic. She is/was involved in the development of the Moderna vaccine, verified by various media orgs.

She's a credible commentator, but she tends to skew towards the positive end of the arguments. That thread is 3 days old, and there's a bit more evidence now that Omicron is spreading quite effectively.
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-068302

It's probably about a 10% reduction in incidence. Which I guess is quite modest in comparison to, say, vaccines.
Always Be Coffeeneuring https://chasingmailboxes.com/category/coffeeneuring/always-b...
There’s something about being a motor vehicle driver that just makes bicycle riders very bad people
More contagious means more deaths because more people get it.
More deadly means more people who get it die.
In both cases more people die.
Marketing texts happen to be misleading more often than not. But this exact excerpt you cited looks innocent to me. "Significantly" is subjective, of course, but other than that it's correct.
I think it might me interesting to ask the HN crowd: if you were to fix copyright, how long would it last and why?

I like a fixed term of around 50 years. That's long enough for a creator to monetize a work over a majority of their adult lifetime, but short enough that people would have the unrestricted opportunity to remix works they enjoyed in their youth later in life.
It's nothing to do with this particular comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=b0rsuk

B0rsuk, you may want to email dang.
I had to relearn writing on a remarkable tablet by basically tracing letters repeatedly.

The writing surface has less friction which makes writing different. And easily to be very sloppy. So like learning to write with a marker or a different stencil you have to relearn how to write again.
If you think this is bad you should see what they do to lab rats >.>
"People aren't using them properly" is an argument for better education, not ditching the things.
Indeed. I plan to start with London for now, but I am definitely seeing myself moving to a slightly calmer city a bit later. I hope to own a house with a garden later in life, and London housing market is pretty expensive from what I heard.
I suppose it's the distinction between finding the Haber-Bosch process good or not.
Regarding tests: It's still problematic that self-administered antigene tests have weak sensitivity (so even if you test every day the tests will miss many cases).

PCR tests cost something around 100€ a piece, so assuming Germany has ~90 million population, that's 9 billion Euros for a single cross-sectional population test.

Now let's add some speculative factors: Some 10 million (+/- 10 million) are strongly opposed to state-mandated measures. Some will evade the tests, some will fake them, some may become violent. These people are also among those who are most likely to be Cov-positive.

Also, testing the entire population would only help if you simultaneously lock down the borders to prevent re-import.

So while broad testing has its merits, I feel like the gains here would be mostly modest.
From https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheFamily ( https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/TheFamily?_x_... )

autotranslation> The Family defines itself as a long-term support for startups. In return for a variable participation in their capital, The Family offers start-ups that already have an activity and a clientele, strategic assistance. This is materialized by access to an ecosystem of innovative companies and investors around the world. Services are also offered at negotiated prices from companies such as Facebook , Amazon or Github . The help offered can also be international support via The Family offices in London , Berlin and more recently Brussels.
From 14 years to what now will be an eternity:

This original provision allowed authors the right to print, re-print or publish their work for 14 years, with the option to renew the copyright for another fourteen years. Today, copyrights can last well over 100 years, with the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extending copyright protection for most works to the life of the creator, plus 70 years.
Other than trucks blinking left or right, all of these are pretty common in the US.

As someone who grew up in a rural area, honking before going around turns on small roads or crossing single-lane bridges you couldn’t see the other side of was something we did regularly to avoid being hit.

I don’t experience this as much in larger cities though.
You're quite literally hilarious. Before you accuse me of political bias maybe you should have a look to see who you're arguing with.

The fact that the article has nicely picked a subject where they can score points off the FDA doesn't mean that all of the FDA, nor its mission of attempting to stop people from harming themselves is wrong per se, just that they got it wrong in that particular instance.

To try to twist that into saying that drug regulation is a bad thing and that consenting adults should be able to put whatever they want into their bodies is precisely the kind of idiocy that the CATO institute is very good at.

And just this once you're not going to get away with accusing the other side of your argument from having a political bias.
It may slow down for a maybe short while the emission of greenhouse gases originated by permafrost thawing.

But that won't solve that we keep adding big amounts of fossil carbon to the atmosphere, nor the amount of fossil carbon that we managed to add to the cycle so far that is what is driving climate change now.

To stop global warming net zero plus massive carbon capture is needed, moving pieces in a mostly closed (or at least with stable enough inputs) system won't do the trick.
There is not realistic healthcare infrastructure that could compensate for exponential grow of patients.
I use Firefox rather than Chrome just to support an alternative to a monoculture. When I was on Mac, I enjoyed using Safari. I'm not a power user--I just use tabs and bookmarks, and don't use sync. Mozilla makes Firefox hard to justify since it keeps adding features I don't really care about (e.g. Pocket). I just want a simple browser that is lightweight.

When I've tried out alternatives, I run into sites that don't work correctly. I don't particularly like Firefox, but it "just works" most of the time.
Just because Facebook is writing the protocol does not mean that companies will eventually settle on some sort of standard.

A lot of private companies write protocols that eventually become standards.
> I have no idea how someone can get so stuck up their assumptions as to say something like that.

The entire comments section of this post painfully admits the decline of Firefox as it has been quickly replaced by Chrome and the users do not care about Firefox's features or even its privacy features. Perhaps the 'assumptions' are backed by the market share and global usage mentioned in the article's website and the original source [0] assuming you have read both.

On top of that which wasn't mentioned is that Firefox cannot possibly counter Chrome's dominance since its creator Mozilla is still being kept on financial life support by Google themselves. Even with Mozilla receiving millions from Google, they are still failing behind.

To reuse this quote from the article: 'Soon Google are going to be in complete control of web standards, unless something drastically changes.'

Well if Firefox is the so-called 'alternative' to the Chrome hegemony, then they are doing a very poor job at convincing the end users to switch back to Firefox and stop Chrome's dominance given the global browser usage and market share.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
I started using Firefox again on my computers and mobile with the hype around Manifest v3 inevitably restricting future adblocking.

I see friends switching to Brave, but I dislike how they seem to be focusing their RnD into BAT/crypto features. Firefox also has the advantage of having addons on mobile.

It's a pipe dream, but I could see Google reverting to the don't be evil days with the rise of these Chromium forks and other ad agencies. Somehow change their business model away from ads, promote adblocking, and support addons on mobile. Checkmate Brave/Vivaldi/Edge/etc. Other than niche features or those apposed to Google will look elsewhere.
The (to my knowledge) largest study on community transmission finds ~10% reduction:

https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...

There are many other studies that find no or modest reduction. We need to accept lower results as an upper bound to effectiveness, especially when it comes to how the average person uses masks, versus how a health care professional.
BARE grew out of the idea to reduce one's Twitter timeline to bare tweets - blog-post-like writings devoid of media, links, hashtags, or any social interaction mechanics. Once you sign up with BARE, it will continuously check your Twitter timeline and only show you the long-form text-based tweets in it. Like a good old blog reader.

But why do that, you may ask? What's the point?

Because, we believe that this is one of the easiest ways to discover people's true personality, beneath the chatter and and social media clickbait. It is also a naturally distraction-free method to keep oneself concentrated over the content without the urge to skim and keep scrolling down. One of the easiest ways to evoke concentration is to reduce the sources of distraction.

Is anybody actually writing such tweets?
A lot of people. Check the tiny portion we follow here: https://bare.tw/ and discover the ones in your timeline by signing up.
The definition of the Coronavirus in the AMA medical Encyclopedia textbook.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/UvuXzdVwj3ed/

Proved right again.
"You lost"? You?

This isn't about you. And those 2 years are sunk costs for all of us.

You're engaging in magical thinking, here. We can't afford it. It's self-centered. And it does nobody any good, most especially not you. Might get you killed, though.

As an aside, no, the healthcare "sector" is not at all prepared, it has never been prepared, and it can't magically be made prepared, either. The only solution there is to avoid overloading the system. There aren't any other solutions. So rational people will continue to argue for all of the mitigation measures that we know are effective. Whether you like it or not. It's just as much "on you" to participate in that as it is "on" all of the rest of us.
Probably never, just to keep antitrust action at bay. Better to have a small market share competitor on life support than to be labeled a monopoly.
>How was the government supposed to convince anti-vaxxers to do what they believe contains micro chips or what they believe is worse than the virus itself? This isn't on the government, this is on anti-vaxxers for swallowing garbage information, hook line and sinker.

This is solely on the government. It's immoral to keep vaccinated people in uncertainty and include them in any sort of lockdowns.

>And you didn't lose 2 years of your life. You're alive, you didn't die due to the pandemic, did you? That's much less than can be said for 5 million others, mostly older or unhealthy to begin with. They're dead because people didn't follow the guidelines early and it kept spreading and spreading.

This is not arguing in good faith. Healthy people in their 30s are not dying.
Of all the 0.5m children infected in Israel only 200 were severe cases.

>So, be grateful you're not dead, and do your part to increase collective resilience.

I already did my part. Now my part will be attending a demo with all those "antivaxx / 5G chips believing people" and I will fight for my right to live a normal life.
This would be true if you had an involved user based that follows your communication channels and can give you feedback through the proper channel for each change that you might make. If you have a change surface of hundreds of features/parameters, then it gets rather tricky.

Edit: typo.
> Maybe if we're talking exclusively about the modern C-inspired free format, but IME most RPG code was written well before RPG IV

That's an excellent point. I meant free format code
Maybe a play on "batteries included"?
I think I am misunderstanding something. But wasnt the original Covid an R0 of 2.5-3? And Delta has an R0 of 7-8?

An R0 of 2 sounds like a really low infection rate in comparison, but then it's increasing rapidly and outcompeting delta? I dont get it.
Weird, there's 'legacy' right there in the name. I wouldn't be surprised if that feature gets removed at some point.
No, there is simply many years of progressive insight. The FDA, like any institution isn't perfect, they got stuff wrong in the past, they'll get stuff wrong in the future. But overall they are a very large net positive, and to argue the opposite is usually accompanied by a mindset that would love a world without all those pesky rules and regulations.
The chipset the qcom modem they are using probably supports it. Would depend on the firmware and sometimes a grounded pin if it is on or not. Much like FM radio in many of these devices is 'there' but not turned on/wired up. For the new chipset that Apple is making I seriously doubt they would support that standard, esp if the big telcos are turning it off. But it would depend on what sort of contract they have with the telco.
Severe cases of the flu can certainly cause chronic issues, as can severe cases of COVID.

I am not aware of any compelling evidence that minor cases of COVID cause severe long-term symptoms at any substantial frequency. Assuming vaccine efficacy remains at a level where severe COVID cases are extremely rare amongst vaccinated individuals, I see no reason to worry.
The definition of the Coronavirus in the AMA medical Encyclopedia textbook.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UvuXzdVwj3ed/

Proved right again.
Especially when you're so drunk you can't spell HN!
Throughout this experience the mistake has been to make discussion of the virus about the tone and nature of the discussion itself. We are so accustomed to having all problems originate between us that it is as if our minds cannot grasp having to think about a problem with a force of nature on the other side of it.
FLoC has nothing to do with rendering, though.

Mozilla existing (and shipping spyware, just like Chrome) doesn't really do anything to stop any of that.
Maybe I misunderstood your reasoning but it seems like you're suggesting that Whatsapp for instance is forced to let third party clients connect to their system? That still gives Facebook access to data I don't want them to have. The whole point is to cut these information brokers entirely out of the loop, not force them into a compromise where they get some of what they want anyway.
If you're not using the EAP build of Rider, you're running an Intel IDE on that M1 laptop (see: https://rider-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/440192... ).

Try the Rider EAP with .net 6 - I find native arm64 .net flies on my M1 mac mini and M1 Max 14" MBP.
It surely is and always was to protect a return on investment?
True, but Taiwan is an island and South Korea is a de-facto island.

The effectiveness of travel restrictions will probably differ for countries with large and high-traffic land borders.
I’m using mine as a frontend for a simple HTML5 online game, left unattended at a conference so that anybody can walk up and start playing. Any entry-level hackery can be fixed by rebooting, any more advanced abuse can be fixed by flashing a fresh SD card; if somebody physically smashes or steals it, I won’t go bankrupt replacing it.
An offline reading feature would be great. Start the reader, mark some books for offline access, download them, go offline, read them, sync the page number with the server when back online.
My biggest annoyance is that the reader did not give margin on the left side where the writing menu appears. The writing menu has to be collapsed and then made for writing. Other annoyances like links don't work. And color does not appear Either.
And while we're in the Sahara Desert with abundant sunshine, sand and carbon dioxide, let's build a silicon carbide brick factory. Sunlight to provide electrical power and, via focussed mirrors, heat. Sand to supply the silicon. Carbon from carbon dioxide to be extracted from the air at $100 per tonne (well, eventually).

Silicon carbide bricks, emerging gloriously from their tungsten moulds, would possess supreme corrosion resistance and almost double the crushing strength of engineering bricks. High thermal conductivity should reduce cracking and spalling, further increasing lifetime. A short railway journey to the nearest port and water desalination plant whence they can be distributed throughout the world.

We'll beat the Romans! Our public buildings will last for millennia!
Tools are also free for open-source development: https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/

And for educational use (teachers) as well.

So I don't see a reason to jump on the freemium bandwagon. They offer a lot for free already.
Always latest - it updates itself everywhere. So if there was a change, it was so minor I haven't even noticed it, less complain about it. But either way: what was the breaking UI change months ago again?
Wiki's do not show HISTORICAL information.

The definition of the Coronavirus in the AMA medical Encyclopedia textbook.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UvuXzdVwj3ed/

Proved right again.
While they don’t specifically say what the “language server” is, if it’s the same protocol that powers VS Code[1], this is a big deal. It potentially means that language owners can build tooling that works across IDEs much more easily. Historically, JetBrains seems to have resisted the idea of a standard language protocol (which makes sense as it comes from Microsoft). My guess is it’s becoming impractical to reimplement every language feature for Typescript, C#, Go, etc. Embracing the standard LSP will mean less time spent on low level features and more time building JetBrains only value add.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
Existence feels like a benefit over non-existence. But this is a philosophical problem rather than a measurement problem.
Instead of learning english those people will now struggle both with english and programming, it is really a disservice. And when you'll collaborate with people using poorly translated terminology you'll struggle too.
TKC or “How a deaf man from Africa took over the cracking scene”
We had plenty of posters and advertising on this. Vaccination rates were great in early 2021, before an entire major political party decided to cynically pretend that fighting vaccination was somehow defending "freedom".