skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Which means you're an active lurker there and saw his name often?

I guess what you're trying to ask me is "How do you know that?"?

But rather than trusting any more of my claims, I suggest that you simply visit Reddit and look: You will see exactly the same unusual user name; with the same interests as here in various diverse topics; and the same writing style

Really, I think the initial question about the OP's behavior on Reddit was intrusive and probably out of line in HN etiquette, and the OP could ignore it

But I commented because the OP did engage with that question, and lied. And also because you then replied to OP in good faith, not realizing that you were wasting your time by trying to help someone who is obviously being disingenuous
>This will only be solved or contained once we vax the developing world, so that we curb and slow down the emergence of variants.

Cases have been surging for at least a month in 70-95% vaccinated countries. It is absolutely clear at this point that these vaccines will not eradicate covid. This madness over vaccines needs to end.

The 1918 flu pandemic ended without a vaccine. Covid will pass as well. In many parts of the US life is effectively back to normal - and if ICUs are still out of capacity after two years of this pandemic then clearly there's a different, more readily solvable problem. Covid is not going anywhere but the hysteria is not justified - people are dramatically overestimating the risks.
And then they modified their official death count from 6 figures to low 4
It appears the original article is dismissing the very idea of public education by using a set of cherry-picked opinions and quotes that seem to indicate the intent of public education is to turn us all into a bunch of human robots, subservient to the will of our corporate masters.
Does anyone on this chat feel that way about themselves? I certainly don't.
And having watched my sons go through the system, I can say that they went into it as children, and will come out as responsible men. They accumulated ways of thinking that are systematic and complex, such as arithmetic, algebra, research, logical reasoned arguments, programming, and similar. This entire time they've been absorbing TikTok, yes, but also 1000x of excellent YouTube videos on history, science, and many other subjects.
So what is the point of this article? Have we all had our creativity beaten out of us? Would we have been otherwise more successful? Perhaps the cultural revolutions in the 60s were aspects of the public education system breaking away from Mann's original intent.
Your points seem like massive strawmen to me:

> This says nothing about Vitamin D as a cure once you got infected.

I mean, yeah. There is literally nothing in the study, or literally any of the research I've read, that says anything about vitamin D being a benefit after you get infected, so I'm not sure why one would appear to think that's implied. It's like saying "Hey, this study isn't as strong as you think, because this study says nothing about vitamin D increasing your IQ."

The "correlation is not causation!!" bromide, while useful to understand in context, is overused, often given with examples that are more likely to be outlandish, with no backing evidence, than with a more straightforward explanation. As others have commented, there is evidence that vitamin D itself has a protective effect.
How to create your first NFT – illustrated with shitty stock photos
Hey,

We export standard HTML/CSS files (or JS / JSX for Material-UI libraries).

You can publish them via Netlify (as mentioned above) or any other hosting for static pages. You can check examples of exported sources here: https://shuffle.dev/static/files/example.zip (the link is also available in our editor when exporting a project)
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Someone heard they were going to make pussy
> IMO its important not to simplify the situation and say if group A just did this than everything would be okay.

Well said. And at this point we should pray this doesn't turn into a Marek's disease replica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease#Prevention
I didn't mean they were chronological in their release. I meant that they are being pitched for the same use-cases. And overlapping use cases. For example, take the NixOS snapshot functionality vs the Darch + basically any distro snapshot functionality. One reinvents the OS unnecessarily to accomplish the same thing. Same for the rest of NixOS functionality... Like a configuration management project that didn't set constraints.
he is more then right: it has been for sure at least 2 years of very visible "signs".
I mean, yes he sort of was.

You know Peterson is a licensed clinical psychologist right? It’s literally his job to give mental health advice for money.

Or are you just against mental health workers getting paid?
Why not DC(instead of AC) for in house wiring?
> I'm hoping that I won't get any bad colds this winter by doing this.

Unfortunately, I was still getting colds regularly while my blood levels were around 100ng/mL.

This is the type of magical Vitamin D thinking I was talking about: Fixing a vitamin D deficiency is a positive improvement, but it's not a miracle vitamin.
I had my 'turkey' in October, but will still answer.

Local retailers were profiteering hard on Turkey, so I got a large chicken for like 1/3 of the price per pound.

And no, not dry.

It is common though because most people aren't roasting turkeys that often, are afraid of poisoning their guests so they err on the side of caution. Also some people are just bad cooks but people are nice on Thanksgiving and will never actually tell them.
If anyone else removes the extension like I just did:

1. The extension provides the ability to map certain sites to certain containers (more: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers#w_what-you-c... #5). If you use this feature, as far as I can tell, you need the extension.

2. You'll need to enable these about:config flags to get the container options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29347284#29348057. Also, removing the extension and then enabling those flags still reset my container settings to the defaults.

I use the site-to-container mappings, so I reinstalled the extension.
Of course it would have been great for people who are already dealing with malaria and HIV to inject with a vaccine put together in a factory somewhere in Kinshasa where the measuring instruments for quantities are just two : left and right eyeball.
As shameless a money-grab as mandatory COVID travel testing that lines the pockets of privately owned companies with MP connections.
My current project is maintenance for a large system built of shared procedures.

In principle this feels like a reasonable strategy but chances are your stored procedures do not enjoy the same creature comforts as your "real" software. In my case they've got commented out code blocks, procedures with names ending V3.bak.tmpMar14.old, randomly different styles and formats from one to the next, and inconsistent naming (AllGroups allGroups or ag?). All of which would be quickly and easily prevented or retrospectively corrected in say C# or Java but there's no easy way to do it with the archaic T/SQL setup here.
“Don’t even try to flirt with girls” is an interesting tip for a C programming guide, but I don’t have enough experience with the language to know if it’s wrong. Disclaimer: Happily married java.* programmer.
Dr. John Campbell has been talking about vitamin D effectiveness against Covid-19 for months now on his channel[1].

I find it frustrating that I get more thorough and well presented information from third party youtubers than from my government officials.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching
I eat turkey as semi-regular meal.

- Buy parts, just the dark meat.

- Sous vide - salt, pepper, garlic, thyme, rosemary, 155C for 24hr. (breast would be 145 for fewer hours)

- Make a roux, add bag juices and a bit of acid (dijon and sherry vinegar) -> gravy (1:1 butter:flour, 1:10 roux : bag juices)

- Broil the thighs on high -> crispy on the outside, perfectly cooked on the inside.

You can leave the last step for another day and put the bag (sans juices) straight in the fridge. Then perfect turkey becomes an easy weeknight meal.
Yes! The half-life of Vitamin D in the body is very long. Toxicity can build over many months of supplementation, which is why it's important to get a blood test after around 6 months of starting supplementation.
Maybe they got some green tax credits
This is part of what i think is a problem with rust. Where all of these important features are left to volunteers in the community to come up with. A lot contributors seem to be unprofessional or hobbyist/amateurs. Like some of these issues in the pr really aren't "perfectionism". Then this guy trying to make projects look bad seems childish because he isn't that great at programming. Maintaining a open source project and being good at coding aren't really overlapping skills. Two years to merge something seems like a failure on both parts. The maintainers should have said something in the begging and set some expectations too.
Online abuse surged during the pandemic
>worthwhile to upload something like a master's thesis

That'd be great. Seems dumb to let talented, hard-working student papers moulder on some basement shelf. (Or do they file 13 'em?) I've run across several onlined, very readable and informative masters' works over the years. Tend to be less hidebound about fresh theories/tooling as well.
A little personal itch to scratch. I wanted to know what was the predictive power of hacker news job postings. If Only for career decisions and maybe market trends !
They author wrote in another article that more than 25K people have died from the vaccine. We're not going back and forth about the merits of christianity and satanism and purity. We're having a fight about is the earth flat. And if you want to advocate for the flat earth position please go right ahead. But flat earth position has zero merit. The author lacks credibility.
Deep frying turkey in peanut oil is underrated.
Massive difference between 4 billion and 1 billion. We are already at 4 billion now. Also, some countries are hitting 90%.

If a large portion of the population is vaxxed, it stops spreading as much even among the unvaxxed, which reduces opportunity to mutate.

Deer don't have the same selective pressure as we do.
Yes. If I roast a chicken in my kettle barbeque, I always joint it into four - first into front-back halves, then separate each half in the natural middle of each.

The kettle has briquettes on two sides and the bird sits on a frame between them, with something underneath to catch the juices. Because the heat is indirectly from the sides, there aren't hot spots as such.

This is fire-and-forget cooking: once the coals are hot and the chicken is positioned, I can put the lid on and leave it alone for two hours, when it will be ready. If you're looking, it's not cooking.
Yes I realize this... People are using different words often when trying to accomplish the same thing and thus confusing themselves. For example, how many people are using configuration management like chef inside of Docker images? Too many, clearly! How much developer time is being burnt unnecessarily with NixOS? I just don't see what would count as engineering evidence that NixOS is simplifying complexity instead of hiding it.
No. I would argue that less taxation would be needed if anti competition and regulatory structures were better enforced and supported.
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NFTs: Their Potential for Writers and Publishers
If your education omitted it, learn economics, particularly of the labor market. So much of the world will make so much more sense. I wish I had done it before going to college -- it's insane so many kids commit to a career path before understanding the implications.
Good for you, here is some candy?
Good SaaS products are like UNIX tools
> It's the increased frequency of these players dropping dead.

But still far less likely to happen than you having a comorbidity for Covid.
The worst is that Ethiopians have (still) their ethnicity written on their ID: which is a TOTALLY madness! exactly like it was in Rwanda and Burundi

There was a WB or FMI financed project to replace IDs (so to remove ethic group), but it stopped for many reasons (I know some, but not sure about it).
You're identifying the right threat with Covid but you're misrepresenting the role of vitamin D: it is exactly through cytokine regulation that increased Vitamin D concentration is beneficial.

See for example this study, from 2014: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25331710/

In conclusion, severe vitamin D deficiency is associated with elevated inflammatory cytokine concentrations in diabetic patients
> That github link refers to a better write-up https://sansec.io/research/cronrat (which the bleepingcomputer article rehashes, because hey, this is 2021 and ad views is the goal...).

I looked through that one also, no mention about how the bash script is executed.
I am not a power engineer. Just a curious walker by wondering about this.

As far as I can see, we have a lot of renewable energy generators (solar panels), energy storage (battery power banks), simple household electronics (lights, TV, computers etc) already prefer DC and seem to be containing converters that work hard to convert AC to DC. I get that AC is beneficial for power transmission, but why not use DC at the consumption side?

As in if all my devices were DC, I could put a bunch of solar panels and hook them up to a battery bank and supply the power needs of the house from the battery right? (without needing to convert to AC)
The point is that it isn't a high bar.
Let's see how we do on the next pandemic if we screw the IP out of all of the producers who stepped up to produce a vaccine.

If the scenario is that they'd still have their mRNA IP if they had decided not to make a vaccine, that is not the incentive structure we want to setup.

It's also not where the constraint lies.
So far the variant is very rare (unless there are newer numbers than I found yesterday). There’s a lag of months, I think, between these numbers and where it becomes a phenomenon you’re likely to interact with at the local store.

Further, the world should be reacting to Covid at the global level. So far it’s like we’re not even addressing the beast on the turf it’s attacking us. And the price to do so, say 70 billion USD at a cost of 10$/dose (which it probably isn’t), is nothing compared to the reacting we’re seeing here today and will continue to see.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been speaking about Vitamin D in interviews since the start of the pandemic and he talks about taking Vitamin D supplements himself:

> "If you're deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements," he said. "The other vitamin that people take is vitamin C because it's a good antioxidant, so if people want to take a gram or so of vitamin C, that would be fine."

Source: https://www.insider.com/fauci-takes-recommends-vitamin-d-and...

I don't understand why people assume Dr. Fauci is against Vitamin D. He's taking the most well-informed and realistic stance given the evidence, which is that mild Vitamin D supplementation to avoid deficiency can help, but it's nowhere near a solution or cure for COVID-19.
I have the utmost respect for Chris.

One thing I've learned from working with him a little bit was that there's a huge importance to both the medium and the timing of the message. Balancing even just IRC and GitHub PR comments is a tough game to play, but it must be played if you want to be successful. Treating PRs like IRC will get you in trouble, while reading IRC like a PR might leave you in the dust. Knowing when to move an argument from IRC to a longer form like a PR or Issue is a critical skill (one I never was very good at).

Chris and team, if you happen to read this. Thanks again for all that you do.
> The "correlation is not causation!!" bromide, while useful to understand in context, is overused, often given with examples that are more likely to be outlandish

I beg to differ. In fact way too many times people fall afoul of the ecological fallacy and it takes a bloody long time to be noticed.
you don't?
It’s pretty easy to see how they can plan for a replacement like this. If they have cutting edge money is no object prototype hardware, it’s easy to see how they can extrapolate long timelines like 10 years. They steered through the iPhone replacement of the iPod remember. It’s pretty easy to imagine they are internally planning one or more potential future replacement devices that might in turn supplant the iPhone.
OK, lets say they think the earth is flat. That invalidates everything else they say? Are you certain all of your positions so correct that you can hold yourself to the same standard? I aint.
>Fixing a vitamin D deficiency is a positive improvement

Apparently, quite a lot of people are vitamin D deficient. As a computer nerd, I'm pretty sure I was.
Ackchyually*
Look up bob and Brad YouTube videos.
They are physical therapists that teach you how to stretch.

Learn to stretch out various body parts and make it a habit.
Welcome to FOSS, where we don’t just merge every single shitty feature by sheer enterprise-momentum. The fact that someone put in the effort, or spent man-hours, or “absolutely needs it ASAP”, does not outweigh the goals of the maintainers.

This is the reason why FOSS survives the test of time so well. At least quite a bit longer than enterprise software, which commonly has to be rewritten next year.
Nespresso is debatably an actual espresso maker
My biggest regret about college is not studying abroad for a semester (if you can afford it). What an amazing experience. Since then I’ve done some vagabonding abroad but that’s a much tougher sell to most people.
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To banned account AlgorithmicTime:

I'm proposing you read the article I linked to, and notice that the actual link and title of the article itself literally has the word "dissuasion" in it.

>In his book La paix nucléaire (1975), French Navy Admiral Marc de Joybert explained deterrence:

>Sir, I have no quarrel with you, but I warn you in advance and with all possible clarity that if you invade me, I shall answer at the only credible level for my scale, which is the nuclear level. Whatever your defenses, you shan't prevent at least some of my missiles from reaching your home and causing the devastation that you are familiar with. So, renounce your endeavour and let us remain good friends.

To dtx1:

See Popehat's Law of Goats.
# observed infections = # of infections * probability of testing * probability of authority trustworthiness. Alas, in the developing world test penetration is low and authorities are not particularly trustworthy.
Unfortunately for them, good UNIX tools are nothing like SaaS products.
I never said that colonialism was a net benefit. I said that developed countries have been a net benefit for underdeveloped countries. That's an important difference, and it's a claim that my thought experiment supports.

On South Korea; it was valid to bring that up, not only because it shows the positive benefits that the developed world brings to underdeveloped countries, but because it's the counterexample that exposes the incorrectness of the claim that the underdeveloped world is intentionally oppressed in order to maintain our way of living. We in the rich world have benefited from South Korea's, and China's, rise. They make us richer, as we them. This is basic comparative advantage. It's absurd to think that we benefit from Africa's poverty. To put it bluntly, Africa of all places is where we obtain the least benefit. We make more money from Europe and Asia. If they could raise up to $15,000 GDP/annum, we in the rich world would be more rich as a result.

They could maybe argue that underdeveloped countries have been oppressed intentionally for the benefit of the military industrial complex, but that's very distinct to arguing that that happened in order to maintain our lifestyle. As it stands, their statement is factually incorrect, and South Korea shows why.

I believe the truth of that statement may have been different 100-200 years ago, where colonialism was done to pillage resources. No longer so in the modern globalized world.
The positive test has to be made in Germany and in most counties of Germany you need a doctor that confirms by signature that you went into quarantine, also in Germany.
In the US staircases and mosquitoes are about equally deadly, with around 1500 deaths per year.

However most of the malaria deaths occur in people returning from countries where the toll is much higher.
As a fellow computer nerd, I bought into the same narratives. That's how I ended up approaching Vitamin D toxicity as I mentioned above.

That's my point: The narratives around Vitamin D are getting greatly exaggerated. Mild supplementation is usually fine, but this idea that we're all deficient and we all need to be taking huge doses is getting out of control on social media.
Yep. Second this. I also stopped contributing to rust-nix for the same reason. CI took forever. They wanted changelogs for everything but as soon as another PR was merged it would result in a merge conflict. Whenever I need a libc function not available in rust-nix I just add the abstraction to the project itself - this way I also don't have to care about someone else breaking my code by changing types.
The way I understand the CONSPIRACY THEORY:

As the mind forms it can be trained to generically look at what is provided and attempt to combine those parts into desired configurations. You end up with nodes sorted into a tree like structure where options are a first class citizen. What is commonly called the prusian system of education is more focused on hammering in lists of items. You end up with a smooth brain that operates in predefined steps. In this model the student is accused of lack of focus when they consider alternative options or if a new bit of information triggers seemingly unrelated thought. The chains of instructions are eventually tied into closed inescapable loops. If you later in life suggest to them that alternative approaches are possible they get furious as if you've cast doubt on their very essence which in a way you did.

The story goes that the main selling point of the system was that it produces soldiers that can march to their inevitable death while carefully preserving formation.
> biggest piece of worrying evidence is that it's growing as a proportion of cases in south africa at such an intensely fast rate that it's outcompeting the delta variant as though it isn't even there, which means it's far more transmissible than any other variant.

OTOH - cases in SA were very low, so we would see this sort of growth of a variant very quickly just due to founder effects without anything nefarious going on.

Delta arrived when the background number of cases was much higher so it took longer to become a high proportion of cases.