skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is bordering on racist

I stopped reading right there, in the future please hesitate to use self-defeating arguments like this in your counter arguments.
> The people who believe Vitamin D is their Lord and Savior are reacting to the fact that the establishment has almost entirely abandoned the pretense of "diet and exercise" in favor of pharmaceuticals to the exclusion of almost anything else

It doesn't get much more establishment than the NYT, and yet somehow their pages are filled every day with "diet and exercise" articles. Not really sure what you're trying to say here.
Everyone always trots this one out but it’s horse sh*t. There have been long standing widespread efforts in basically every country to raise the awareness of obesity and the benefits of a balanced diet and exercise. These are enormous public health campaigns which continually fall on deaf ears because people would rather not change their behaviour. These messages have continued for the last 2 years, but are utterly drowned out by the more acute problem which is the spread of covid and morbidity and mortality attached to it
Whether or not that's true, it's not a money grab.
I think the insurance products being built are pretty interesting, for one.
EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
Agreed, that's my thought too.
Can you point to a single policy that has demonstrated (in an intellectually honest way) ANY efficacy in slowing covid? One??

Vax passports, cloth masks, N95 masks, face shields, closing schools, cohorts, WFH, clean/dirty pen jars (my fave), plexiglass, 6 feet, travel bans...

The grim reality is that there hasn't been a single policy that's been shown to have made any difference at all. NONE. There's literally nothing to do other than stay home if sick and get vaxxed if you want, the rest is all theater and much of it has horrible tradeoffs.
It has a much shorter lifespan thus in one human lifecycle it has a much more time to evolve. Humans (or other higher animals) are not powerless. They have sex. The random recombination of genes when reproducing can create an environment hostile to parasites/viruses in its offspring. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis for details.
Compassionate people should have a problem with being enslaved, mentally and physically, by a disease that, according to your stats has killed 0.06% of the world population - albeit, it's debatable how many people died as a direct result of it.
Isn't he a doctor of nursing who teaches nurses?
Why would you remove the excess deaths caused by hospitals not being able to handle non-COVID illnesses due to taking care of COVID patients?
No one has actually scanned my QR code so far, only scrolled down to see it say "two doses". So it doesn't matter.
We need real keyboards. The oldschool, 7 row layout, please. PLEASE.
You're off by a factor of 10, it killed 50 million in 1918-1920, 1-4 million in 1957-1958, 1-4 million again in 1968-1969, 700k in 1977, 100-200k in 2009.
And, indeed, if you build your site via a service provider or platform, an SSL solution is usually provided.

Building a site from scratch in this day and age is a lot more analogous to building your house from scratch. Nobody to blame but yourself if you buy substandard locks and thieves get in. Only here the metaphor breaks down, because if you aren't encrypting your HTTP traffic and it is intercepted, it's your users who suffer, not the site owner.

I, too, pine for the days of simpler internet. But that was a function of the user base, not the technology. It was always insecure... it simply hadn't been exploited yet. Now that it has, and is, site administrators owe it to users to secure their connections.
... somewhere in 2031 on HN ...

webbr - a Rust web browser (2022)
hmm..., making critical infrastructure directly dependent on other (possibly hostile) nations sounds like a good idea. What could possibly go wrong?

Btw, didn't china had widespread outages due to market failures recently? If so calling china "the world leader in the development and deployment of grid technology" seems... let's say a bit off.
With that said, then a one sise fits all vacinne is highly unlikely, correct? That there will be variants and mutations that will out pace (so to speak) the protection a given jab is engineered to offer?

Long to short, if death prevention is the objective then we need to shift to finding solution that are less specific but still effective. For example, anti virals.
It's been my experience as well. I mentioned before on different threads that as a hiring manager I've been told by HR to move all non white male candidates to the phone screen step automatically. Regardless of their resume.

It does not make me comfortable at all, and I'll admit, it actually creates a bias in my mind when I do perform the phone screen for these candidates. It's completely counter productive because even if they are excellent candidates I feel like I'm just being strong armed into calling them regardless.

I do not embrace it. As you mentioned, brushing off concerns by saying "well, it's time for all these oppressors to know how it feels" is dumb. Those who think like that don't care about justice for the future, they just want revenge for the past. And it never ends well.
Samsung T5 SSD.
What evidence do you have that travel bans stop covid?
Garmin Vivoactive 4 on sale for 279 CDN. Usually it costs 479 CDN
Setting up certbot is easy, not a big burden for indie devs. Or if you want to know nothing about tls & certs, just get hosting that comes with tls.
You can accomplish this without clicking on any ads. Just send a DM to someone with all of the keywords you want to see ads for, and you will start seeing them within a few minutes. It's the best way to find new startups with highly specific relevance.
Thanks. At some point Twitter itself didn't let you read threads without logging in, but it looks like they changed that...
I imagine some MBA saw a way they could augment the payment card feature to extract money, and bringing that to their manager is a good permanent gain for them (since they most likely won’t have to answer to the PR team).
With Encryption being applied to every site as a requirement is relatively new since google made it a requirement in Chrome.

Previously it was only required for secured transactions like purchases and working on health care records etc... And very rightfully so.

Now Google Chrome flags even simple (informational) sites for not being encrypted, and (quite possibly) rightfully so because of the potential for tracking/abuse, but adding encryption to a site is costly for independent sites (not hosted on social media or corporate platforms like blogs etc...

You shouldn't be required to encrypt a baking recipe site if you don't want to... Ultimately laws should discourage data abuse, and/or encryption should be inherently provided for every site/app uniformly by all web host providers (natively and inherently, and at a far lower price than it is now, generally speaking).

Too many people are running widely varying encryption measures, and implementing security in too many different ways to ensure that it is stable across the Internet. Security is best when it is uniform, fortified by rules and regulations, and updated ritually.
There’s a reason why my nursing colleagues have a (relatively) high degree of vaccine hesitancy and are losing their jobs - a proportion of them are just not capable of understanding the science and think that their experience (and Facebook feeds) are worth more than actual data. All of my anti vax leaning social media content comes from those colleagues (although let’s be clear it’s a small percentage and like all broad sweeping statements it applies in general only)
The various vaccines have different ways of acting, some will be less specific but also less effective from the start, some will be more specific but run a higher chance of being outdated by future mutations, all of them can only be tested for efficacy against the known strains. So yes, this probably will remain.
B.1.1 decendant associated with South Africa with high number of Spike mutations
So it can fit on a reasonably sized QR code probably.
I'm always fascinated by the idea that some political genius way back in the 4th century realised that the Roman Empire was doomed as a military empire, but could survive as a church (of all things), and then managed to persuade everyone that this was a good idea and get it done. The Roman Empire changed its previous policy of wide tolerance regarding religion, adopted what had been a weird cult as the state religion, and survived its military annihilation (at least in the West - as you say, the story in the East is different).
This article was captivating. Not the normal HN experience but I'm so glad it was posted here.
Source?

AEDs on average are probably never used, but still important to buy.

I think drills are like that: if you need it, it's worth it. If you need it and don't have one, you'll have wish you bought one.

Though developing a good relationship with someone who has a drill that would let you borrow it, might be a better option than buying one, for many people.
> It's basically just a way to work around regulations. Technically the game doesn't deal with a real currency, but they give fungible tokens that can be relatively easily traded on third party exchanges.

so, pachinko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko#Prizes
If you shave sufficiently many yaks you will eventually come across a yak that is ill tempered. Place the yurt behind the angry yak and watch the yurt get yeeted when the yak kicks with its hind legs.

Snappy yaks yeet yurts yonder.
"immunisation with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine reduced the chance of onward virus transmission by 40–60%" [1]

That is not marginally less and which is why people should be vaccinated. Also unvaccinated people place significant strain on the hospital system preventing elective surgery and increasing my costs as a taxpayer.

[1] https://khub.net/documents/135939561/390853656/Impact+of+vac...
I usually avoid loops.
Guess I got sorta hooked by this new age functional school.

But recently realized even layman brains on drugs can understand some loop and goto statements:

"Eat Sleep rave Repeat"

Sometimes they are just the best to write logic.
"copious leisure is right around the corner, if we can just muster the political will! But it doesn't work out like that. We still work a lot."

This is worth thinking about. What do people actually do?

Well, this is what.[1]

- Farming is tiny. Under 1% of the labor force. In 1900, it was around 40%. (That's typical of most developed countries. Since the US is a net food exporter, that's not due to imports. Food preparation is 10x the size of farming. (Farmers complain that they capture only a small fraction of the value of food as eaten, but they're not doing more than a small fraction of the labor involved.)

- US manufacturing is around 5% of the labor force. Some of that is due to imports.

In Kropotkin's day, those two categories covered most of the workforce.

- Health care, broadly defined, consumes a sizable fraction of the labor force.

An interesting question to ask is how much other employment is not really necessary. How much is zero-sum activity?

- If advertising was no longer a tax-deductible business expense, there would be a lot less of it.

- If insurance was standardized (as it is for Medicare), the insurance industry could be far smaller.

- If finance faced a tax on financial transactions and was restricted to the product set of 1980, finance would be far smaller.

This would look a lot like China's policies today, or US policies of the 1950s.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-major-occupational-gro...
SO, I am watching netflix in 720p on my linux laptop ?

How do I check that ?

https://cd-rw.org/t/how-to-enable-netflix-full-hd-1080p-on-l... Ah, there's an extension.

edit: https://www.netflix.com/fi-en/title/80018499 Aaand I have been watching 720p... :D.
Permanent loss of glaciers, vastly longer fire seasons, melting permafrost, coral bleaching, loss of farmland, etc. And anecdotally winters are just much less cold these days (I’m in Northern Europe).
And plenty of other systems as well.
no but it's aesthetically disgusting
When I was a child, I thought wine and beer were boring. Some people have to practice quite hard, to get into problems with booze and gambling.

I dislike the custom of using the word "addiction" to describe gambling; but it certainly shares many features with chemical addictions, including the role of habit.

I'm suggesting: for some people, being dependent on something is a goal in itself. Actually, I'm not suggesting; I'm sure it's so for my personal microsample, which is entirely based on chemical dependencies. But I believe it might also be true of various psychological dependencies, like gambling. I've just never known anyone that had a gambling dependency.
Omicron? Was not it Nu like few hours ago?
I like the longer name better. Our ministry of finance has already made a typo in a Facebook post calling it Mu (like the sound cows make).
Yes. Although variations on the vaccine require less approval than a totally new one. This process takes place every year for flu vaccines.
Haven't eaten meat in over 30 years. Had an Impossible burger at a fancy Manhattan restaurant one night, and the next to balance it out from Bareburger, to make sure it wasn't just how it was prepared. Never want one again as it made me feel I was eating meat. I love Beyond however, and keep a freezer full of their products at hand. Not so realistic.
In Germany antibody tests aren't used for that determination. 6 months from PCR positive counts as "recovered" in the German scheme, afterwards you need a single mRNA shot on top to count as fully vaccinated.
I'm specifically laying into people getting rich off of other people gambling and making a business out of it. If a group of friends wants to play poker, or if the Axie platform was a co-op owned by all of the players (and no 20% dev stake like most premined cryptocurrencies) I'd say "eh, it's their choice". But making money off of hooking into and pushing our vices is something I personally disagree with.
5+ million people have died from COVID.

Despite having most of the world being under lockdown as well as increasing vaccination. Without those measures it could easily have been hundreds of millions.

It is ridiculous and baseless to compare it to obesity which is not causing any significant strain on the hospital system like COVID is.
>There appears to have been something in the air in 19th century Russia that lent itself to the formation of socialist and anarchic activity. I’m not sure what it was, but it appears to have subsided.

That something in the air would probably have to do with a decrepit monarchy and deeply corrupt church working together to utterly screw over the people and deplete the country's wealth. Pre-USSR Russia is almost a poster child for the harms of the state.

The revolutionaries that followed[0] didn't actually care about abolishing the state, though. They[1] were just better at keeping people angry at things other than themselves. After all, they had a benchmark to compare against - as long as they weren't any worse than before, they could still claim to be continuing "the revolution", whatever that meant.

This even extended past the fall of Communism. There was a brief period of genuine interest in a free market, which was almost immediately followed by the country getting fleeced by fraudulent Ponzi schemes, and then a network of kleptocrats taking power.

[0] Once the revolutionaries genuinely interested in progress had been unpersoned and replaced with authoritarians willing to parrot Stalinist slogans. Auth-left loves to do this to the rest of the left wing.

[1] Or the de-Stalinized bureaucratic mess that followed.
Interestingly Chrome Mobile has issues with it while Firefox mobile does not.
> "immunisation with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine reduced the chance of onward virus transmission by 40–60%" [1]

so why are there still soaring case rates in the countries with the most vaccines? I'll trust my lying eyes, thank you.

it's honestly insulting that you can post some pissant "study" like this and expect to be taken seriously when anyone can just look at the case rates and vax rates by country and see that it's obviously wrong.
Can I play this for free?
You don't need to level the colos, you just need someone to make a typo in a router config that gets deployed live so the whole colo is unreachable. How many times have we seen an AWS/CloudFlare/otherLargeProvider have this happen to them?
I don't think the parent said that it's interpreted, only that it sits on a translation layer which is true.
Qobuz is another service I've found useful, it has a lot of the more big name artists/recordings that might not be on bandcamp and you can download non-drm flac from it as well. The big downside is a lot of the downloads cost more than ripping an equivalent CD yourself, I can't figure out why that is but it's not always true so you just have to do an extra search first if you want to make sure they aren't ripping you off. But yes, bandcamp is also great, it's my preferred vendor when they have what I want.
https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1574642/lg-zx-88-inch-zwart.... - thats quite the discount
What does processed even mean lol, all food we eat is extremely human modified, all that matters is whether it's healthy or not and I don't think that the meat alternatives are any worse than meat
What concerning is that some of the articles tell about many reinfections. Natural immunity is said to be stronger as the immune system is trained on the whole virus, not just the spike protein. So guess what.
EU is in discussions right now to expire COVID passes unless you have had recent vaccines i.e. booster shots. Which means any security mechanism that is defeated will just be fixed every 9 months.

Seems like a lot of hassle for a vaccine that is safe and will save your life.
In India the concept is literally called "positive discrimination".
Take your pick: Needs to be certified FIPS-140-<n>? Or backwards comparability with really old infrastructure that no one really understands? Or it was just conveniently at the top of the list of ciphers to pick?
I use VHDL, not used Python. My understanding is that Python will be many times slower than VHDL, so verification tests that take the best part of a week would then take several weeks with Python. And being dynamically typed is fine if you are running a script that returns quickly, but what about it borking even hours into a simulation, when you can catch most dynamic type errors with stronger typed languages at compile time. Python doesn't look like a compelling replacement for VHDL, unless my understanding is off.
> It's unjust to discriminate against a young graduate today, and have them pay the price for bygone injustice.

That implies the price will ever be paid (and perish the thought that you get a discount if your ancestors fought or died for the Union during the Civil War, or were on the "right side of history" in any other conflict).

When those who think remotely like you are driven out of the halls of economic and political power*, do you think they will look at the state of things and say: "You know what, we've achieved enough diversity. It's time to stop discriminating against whites"?

*Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...
I think most people who are smart enough to fake the certificate are smart enough to get vaccinated.

What do you win by using a fake certificate vs. getting protected by the vaccine?
It’s so great that HN seems uniformly against racism affecting white men.

But I guess I missed all the posts decrying discrimination when it was affecting women and POC?
Of course for-profit companies try to extract as much money as possible from their customers, that’s the reason they exist.

The issue is that once again Microsoft is abusing their monopoly power on the home PC market to make decisions that otherwise would be ignored. No one would download and install Edge and be force-fed ads for money lenders, except that Microsoft installs it by default and aggressively pushes windows users into it with frequent prompts and bogus security warnings.

It’s the bundling and abuse of their market power that is the issue, not their profit motive. In a well-regulated economy they would get fined and forced to change how they operate.
The alternative return addresses were declared in the function prototype as parameters having the type label.

Then you just passed them during function call, e.g. "handle = open_file(input_file_name, open_flags, FailedToOpenInputFile);"

The error handlers at the end of the body of the invoking function were just labelled appropriately.

Writing a label like FailedToOpenInputFile: before an error handler is certainly much simpler and more obvious than strange workarounds for exception identification, like inventing a dedicated data type for each possible error, as in C++.
The QR-code based solutions, using elliptic curve asymmetric cryptography, aren't breakable by anyone at present (maybe someone has some monster quantum computer and they could, but they wouldn't be making fake vaccination certificates). The private keys could be stolen or misused of course, but there are very well proven solutions to that given how much of the industry relies upon asymmetric encryption and signing.

Originally the certificates were simple "yeah, they are vaccinated" PDFs that people would alter, which was a pretty low bar.

In discussions like this I think we really need to frame this in the proper context. We're talking about a certificate saying that you did something that you could do for free, which has significant personal benefits, and even greater social benefits, and that a large majority of the public is entirely behind. Making a fake vaccination certificate is like making a fake Grade school graduation certificate -- if someone is at that point in their life, something has gone seriously wrong.

The demand for certificates was just trying to entice the small percentage of holdouts, and of those surely there will be some who will go to great lengths, including committing pretty significant crimes, to avoid it. That pathology can't be fixed easily.
>That there will be variants and mutations that will out pace (so to speak) the protection a given jab is engineered to offer?

Flu vaccines are also updated on a yearly basis to reflect the strains currently in circultion, so why would the covid vaccines not do the same?

This sounds like an anti-viral subscription service. :)
Almost no young people die of Covid.
I was going to say... I've never even heard of Axie.
This is an impressive seal, but not really such an outlier compared to the prior finds. Here's the wikipedia page [1] on Minoan seals.

And here's a blogpost [2] about Minoan seals from 2015, before this particular seal was found. It gives some details about the technology used to create them, in particular, yes, those guys had lenses and lathes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_seals

[2] http://antiquatedantiquarian.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-minoan...
Evolution takes tens of thousands of tries, not years.

Sometimes far fewer tries than that, of course, but viruses certainly get a lot of iterations in any given population in any given month.
> The recent epidemic and how the vaccines were distributed have shown that the wealthy countries generally don't care about the rest of the world.

Yeah, apart of saving countless human lives in all countries spending tons of their money and talent to bring us in a time record with the only real solution to this global emergency with a, not one vaccine, a handful of vaccines that in fact work... what they did to help the humanity in this emergency? uh?

Everything?