skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Climate and environmental concern were dismissed and attacked for decades.

Part of the reason is that the "green" movement has a long history of promoting de-industrialization and generally opposing human flourishing, using "nature" as a type of proxy for this anti-human, anti-development sentiment. Some examples:

* rigid opposition to nuclear power, which continues until the present. We could have moved completely off fossil fuels for electricity production if it were not for the green movement.

* the "environmental" regulations pushed through by the green movement were written with the aim of making development more expensive, resulting in the high price of housing as developers are sued into oblivion in disputations over environmental impact reports.

* the green movement is responsible for our disastrous forest management practices, resulting in thousands of deaths and massive ecological destruction by making it prohibitively expensive to harvest timber from federal lands. See, e.g. https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article25495772...

* prominent leaders in the green movement have gone on record wishing for mass culling of humanity in order to "save the planet". The most notorious example would be Prince Phillip, fantasizing that he would be reincarnated as a virus to wipe out millions of people in order to help the environment. See, e.g. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/308...

* Absurd crusades such as trying to ban plastic straws, plastic grocery bags, or promoting wasteful recycling programs that are not backed by any rational basis and cause more harm than good.

* Opposition to modern agricultural practices such as use of fertilizer, GMO crops, etc, that allow billions of people to eat in the name of a kind of unscientific primitive romanticism.

* The methods of various "pro environment" groups involving tactics such as domestic terrorism (including murder) to blocking highways as privileged activists lie down in public spaces and sob to "save the planet" turn off a lot of people and cause them to discount what environmentalists have to say.

> Sure, extreme claims will hurt credibility when they don’t pan out.

This has already happened. There really doesn't seem to be much in the way of quality control when it comes to wild claims being made, which leads people to discount all the claims.
And Italian electric hobs are made with one of the four heating elements much smaller to match the size of the Moka pot.
Wow ouch. Didn’t realise the exec were taking so much pay. Really disappointing.

Someone help me out.. where can we find the constitution for the Mozilla foundation?

Who makes up the voting membership who could act on this sort of stuff at a governance level?
There's a general tendency for viruses to become less deadly when they become easier to spread. But that's just a general tendency and we'll have to wait and see if it's true in this case because from time to time it's not.

It does have a large number of mutations. There is a theory being bounced around that the rapid decline in cases in Japan might be due to the virus there having mutated itself out of the ability to copy itself correctly so what is still spreading is falling apart. We can hope for something similar with this variant but it's just that, hope, for now.
whoever wrote this is exceptionally confused
Depends if he got the certificate through bribing or not
> expensive wrist baubles that exist solely for the purpose of extracting money from rich people to salve their ego?

Why not just say you are an inverse snob?
> The petit bourgeoisie were a tiny minority of the population.

And remain so, yes.

> Most people were peasants.

No, most people were working class. And remain so.

> Is that what you’d prefer society to be like?

No, that's what capitalism is like. Redefining the upper income class as “middle class” is an effort to preserve capitalism by dividing the working class against itself, which I oppose because I’d prefer society not be like that.
> Conclusions: In conclusion, low serum 25 (OH) Vitamin-D level was significantly associated with a higher risk of COVID-19 infection. The limited currently available data suggest that sufficient Vitamin D level in serum is associated with a significantly decreased risk of COVID-19 infection.

This is not as strong a conclusion as it first sounds, for two reasons.

1. This says nothing about Vitamin D as a cure once you got infected. It might work, or it might not, but this study simply does not address the question at all.

2. Correlation (in this case the word used was "association") does not mean causation. A simple example would be something like this: people deficient in Vitamin D are more likely to spend a lot of times indoors, where the transmission of the virus via aerosols is higher. People who spend a lot of time outdoors will get both more Vitamin D and less exposure to the virus. So, if you supplement with Vitamin D but you spend a lot of time indoors, you might, or you might not get higher protection, but this study does not say it.
Basically after populations are treated for parasites (in 3rd world countries) the rate of autoimmune diseases goes up. It's thought that since the immune system has nothing to do, it starts attacking itself which makes sense from an evolutionary stand point.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618732/
> Belgium's first case of new COVID variant is a young, unvaccinated woman who returned from Egypt on Nov. 11 and developed symptoms 11 days later - RTBF

How is Belgium/Europe letting unvaccinated people in? I had to be double vaxxed and negative RT PCR within 6 hours of travel to go to Canada or back to India. Being double vaxxed is an entry requirement for almost all the countries right now.
New Covid variant found in South Africa, prompting new travel bans
You're talking systems, I asked about philosophy.

It's easy to agree that the Prussian state educational philosophy was focused on building good citizens for a nation state embroiled in near continuous war, or threatened by hovering on the horizon storm clouds of the next war.

But you can use a Prussian system to deliver results according to American ideals - the Prussian system doesn't necessitate Prussian ideals.

It's like how you can do Kanban, without building cars in a very homogeneous society.
Some of my own personal observations:

- a turkey is a HUGE bird

- people only cook turkey once a year

- most guidelines for cooking turkey overcook the turkey

- most people are terrified of undercooking poultry

Trying something once a year isn't usually great for learning. It's a long feedback cycle and cooking for a special occasion disincentivises risk taking/experimentation. Same goes for risk of inflicting food poisoning for a large group. Cooking something so large is sufficiently different from roasting a chicken (for example) that people lack confidence/get it wrong.

This leads to the quaint cultural tradition of millions of people overcooking their turkey on thanksgiving in the US and on Christmas in the UK.

That said I always thought the US generally ate turkey more so their turkey game was better.

Fwiw my turkey has never been dry but I come from a family of cooks.
The turkey was as good as turkey gets. I disassemble the bird into back plus quarters, then lay them all flat on a half-sheet. Pull the skin off, season the bird, then lay the skin back on and salt it. High temperature to start, then back off; keep a thermometer probe in the thickest part of the breast.
Can I say both your comment and the parents are cathardic to me. I just dont see the appeal of social media anymore. Living through transition from people being in the moment to now everyone documenting everything so they can brag about it online is odd to me. Early on it was a great tool to reconnect people. When it started becoming integrated into daily life things got messy.

People can now advertise themselves, and present a highly constrcted image of how they want to be seen. The lack of authenticity apparently not problematic, or is a blind spot as they complain about the fakeness in social media on the same platform.

It's the race to the bottom for your attention. Low quality references and expressions, a recursive meme. A new slang for thoughts that have no depth.

Perhaps I just never understood it, and I am the weirdo. Thats what people tell me.

The silver lining, maybe this social platform, HN, has made me feel like Im not the only one. Perhaps thats what this whole thing is about.
Why wouldn't Gates and Fauci promote supplementation given all their other interest in this space? Seems obvious to anyone that spent time reading and looking for ways to mitigate this in early 2020 that vitamin D would likely help.
Also shows that when the USA prevented people in nursing homes from even going outside (to get sun exposure) it was the worse thing they could have done. So the "lockdown" had direct impact on increasing likelihood of nursing home deaths.
FWIW if you feel like you're about to drop dead you probably should be worried about already having a comorbidity that will be dangerous if you get Covid. The latter is way more likely than randomly dropping dead.

I'm young, fit and had a heart attack during exercise this year. No real known reason other than the acute problem at the time. I later got vaccinated and then had Covid with no problems.
> The UN is not and never was a world police with the power to stop injustice or war.

That pretty much was the original design of the UN, a league of democracies.

I encourage you to dig into history a bit, and find the name of the country which almost forcefully dragged USSR into the UN project, among protest of entire Western Bloc.

It was a very conscious sabotage.
Living in Germany I have to say that no one predicted anything remotely correct regarding Corona. It is mostly anxiety and panic driven and short sighted and working against people not with the people.

Corona brings live and death questions to the doors of normal people and also plays havoc with our political parties. It is embarrasing to observe to watch them for the most part. Seems for some of them the first problem they really have to work on instead of only talking about it.
All the brining advice is good, but in my opinion there's an even easier way to avoid dry turkey- spatchcocking. Get some good poultry shears and remove the spine of the bird, then press down on the sternum and splay the bird out. Everything gets more evenly exposed to heat, it takes way less time to cook, I've never made a bird (turkey or chicken) this way that wasn't delicious. Most frozen turkeys are already thoroughly brined so imo (and the opinions of many recipe writers) it's not strictly necessary.
in EU when they check your certificate, if they do it correctly, it IS checked against a database that has your name and date of vaccination. So the schemes to get a certificate include an IRL doctor doing the paperwork and submitting it to the database, and probably discarding your vaccine.
In fact, people get this "service" by corrupting their family doctors with no need for darkweb.
Great explanation and recipe for spatchcock turkey.

Simple and fast.

https://www.seriouseats.com/butterfiled-roast-turkey-with-gr...
Because everyone in the West (including Britain and even the USSR) copied the Prussian model of education ?
Yes of course, that's their decision.

What I'm talking about that you can't expect the same contributors to a critical part of infrastructure as to a, well, more or less useless terminal emulator.

You can't do the 45327th copy of something (yes, yes, I get it, it's in Rust) and behave like your project is the Linux kernel or the Rust compiler.
I realise that you are trying to present this as 'balanced' 'two sided' debate, but I really hate this sort of apologist approach. You create a false dichotomy between a star trek prime directive no contact world and then say in a net sense it was of benefit. Using the likes of Singapore or South Korea as a counter example is also typical.

Take a look here at life expectancy and when exactly it started to rise above 40.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AFR/africa/life-expect...

Take a look at the correlation between post colonialism and death from violence, in one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

This isn't a case of 'what have the Romans ever done for us', and few will accept that it's not oppression in a net sense.
How can one model (or simulate) what one do not fully understood?

Remember that simulation of covid from UK with all the pomp and bravado? Not even close to reality.

By the way, all simulations have the same relationship to reality as cartoons. This is just philosophy 101.
The prestige of buying a piece of Microsoft office clip art and dropping it on the floor of a mens room in the basement of a museum.
No definition of the Y Combinator ;-)
Given that a lot of the COVID morbidity and mortality is the cytokine storm rather than the infection itself, I wouldn't consider it a priori clear that Vitamin D helps, is neutral, or harms patients who get COVID.

The result isn't sufficient to answer the question. It establishes, generally, that Vitamin D deficient people are more likely to get COVID. It is not able to establish whether these suffer a common cause which affects both Vitamin D levels and COVID (even simple geography or SES would matter -- poor people are more likely to be vitamin deficient, and also more likely to work and live in a manner that exposes them to COVID). The included studies in the meta-analysis seem inconsistent about whether they attempt to adjust (in a "selection on observables" sense) for confounders, but only a few even mention confounders. For that reason I am not sure the use of the causal language "impact of... on" in the title is justified.

I would consider this a lead that is worth investigating, but haven't really adjusted my very diffuse priors on the basis of this MA.
I’ve seen comments like the gp’s often enough that it strikes me as a form of gatekeeping.

MY problems are so special that my use of Kafka was perfect, but YOURS are trivial and you shouldn’t even consider Kafka.
Now you’re just speculating. The difference between association and causation has been already mentioned in this thread.
Hey, I read in an article that I found on Hacker News that "a small number of reposts is ok." They recommended trying with a different title and waiting 1-3 days between reposts.

What I can recommend you personally is.. don't use "click bait" title. My first submission had this kind of title (even if mathematically it has been correct).
Did you read my reply at all? Mann visited Prussia. Apparently he was an expert on Prussian education (No citations given, but let's take it said).

Does that imply Prussian education systems? Or Prussian education values?

Because, as I literally quoted the author saying, Mann isn't on record saying "Let's control the people, mwahahaha, wait, don't quote me on that", the author is heavily inferring it with no evidence.
EU Green Pass system includes all EU countries and some non-eu countries listed here and Argentina is not in the list at the moment: https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...

I believe, countries that want their certificate be accepted by EU need to macth the EU requirements and formats.

For example, Turkey is in the list and the Turkish vaccine certificate system will generate a QR code upon your request that is valid in the EU.
Reminder that Vitamin D is a substance that can be toxic if taken in large doses.
It states that she returns to Belgium. Implying that it is a resident from Belgium I guess?
Sean Parent has a good talk about no loops in C++. His primary argument is that typically a loop is an algorithm you’re applying (map, filter, reduce…) and the raw loop masks the algorithm.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qH6sSOr-yk8
Berlin's a weird city, to be fair. It has vast amounts of green space (like, right in the middle of the city is a disused airfield bigger than Monaco), and practically every street is tree-lined. It's about the only city on earth with urban goshawks, wild boars roam the suburbs (and steal naked sunbathers' laptops), and now the raccoons are moving in...
Getting more sun and/or taking vitamin D supplements (in moderation) seem like low risk things to try given the potential benefit.
“an independent jurisdiction”

Independent of what?
Why not, if she is a citizen or permanent resident?
Maybe they did. But if they did, did they copy the Prussian value of education as a form of social control?

Citations needed.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34684596/

Conclusions: The datasets provide strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than just a side effect of the infection. Despite ongoing vaccinations, we recommend raising serum 25(OH)D levels to above 50 ng/mL to prevent or mitigate new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.
> Vitamin D is great for the immune system.

> Always good to do the research ofc. But I'm not exactly surprised.

How can you say whether it’s good or not without doing the research in the first place?
Given the low level of vaccination in the region, I have to wonder if the mutations are in response to something else in the environment rather than the virus working around vaccination induced immunity. That area has extraordinarily high rates of HIV. Is it possible that the virus has mutated to be better able to infect those with HIV too? I'm not a virologist either so the HIV question might be naïve but looking for differences in that environment compared to other parts of the world seems worthwhile.
Maybe I'm cynical but isn't this more or less an attempt to outlaw stupidity? Setting aside a determined and targeted hacking attempt this law is really going after people who aren't particularly adept at technology, plug in something new out of the box, and never change the default passwords because it's providing what they wanted: working wifi, home automation, etc. If these devices were built more securely I'm sure there would be a non-trivial people who would complain about them being too complicated to use.
There have been a couple of underhanded solidity contests (smart contracts on ETH), inspired by this.

https://underhanded.soliditylang.org/

Nice to people constantly putting the code examples to good use in real projects.
> and arguably sci-hub

Inarguably, not arguably. In my mind there is a clear separation between pre and post sci-hub. The stark increase in experienced friction when accessing scientific knowledge since sci-hub's pausing has highlighted its profound value.

There's also libgen, the closest thing to a bastion of all written human knowledge.

It'd be fun to read a short story about an AI trained on libgen data that makes significant contributions to fusion, longevity and cancer but whose creators are ineligible for any prizes and are jailed for life for multiple counts of copyright violation.
I do know what I'm talking about - and we can conclude on the basis of your statements on renewable energy production that you either don't know what your talking about (willfully ignorant) or that you're attempting to willfully sabotage the conversation.
In China "buy one, get one free" usually means if you buy a dress you get a belt to go with it free, or something like that.

In Europe, and I'm sure the US the items must be the same or of equivalent value. Also I believe the “full price” before discount must have been the offered price for a certain number of days in the recent past, but I can’t remember the details.
This is not measuring what the author thinks it's measuring in Chrome. The benchmark iterates through 100,000 sequential IDs, and does so 105 times.

For getElementById:

This is a map lookup every time.

For querySelector:

Chrome caches the parsed selector, but the benchmark doesn't use the same ID twice in any run, so the cache is not effective within a given run. Chrome also has a 256 query limit (per document) on the cache [1] which means that even though the benchmark runs 105 times, each time the browser is parsing 100,000 selectors since the cache would have the last 256 but it always starts at 0. querySelector does have a fast path [2] that calls getElementById which the benchmark hits, but the parsing cost is dominating.

So the benchmark is really measuring selector parsing vs a map lookup. Firefox might have a separate fast path for ID looking selectors that skips the real css parser. It might also have a larger cache.

Chrome's cache should probably be bigger than 256 for modern web apps , but even so that wouldn't help a benchmark that's parsing 100k selectors repeatedly since it doesn't make sense to have a cache that size just for micro benchmarks and real apps don't use 100k unique queries.

[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

[2] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
Citizens are typically admitted regardless. In Canada you will be admitted if unvaccinated, you’ll just need to quarantine.
I have read and learned a lot of things throughout my stay here in HN. I am hoping to learn more things in the future. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
You had me until 450F. Is this a humblebrag that you’re great at timing the precise moment to rip the turkey out of the oven? Because that’s easily 100F over what I’d consider sane for somebody to cook a whole bird, given that you’re aiming for interior temps under 200F.
You do know the reasoning behind the Least Privilege Principle, don't you?

It's not that developers are untrustworthy, it's that software have vulnerabilities, and they get exploited.
Here you go: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
Did you miss 2020? here comes the sequel!
Quoting still seems to work? As I remember + was always for emphasis/importance and quoting was for verbatim, but maybe I remember wrong.

I get highlights for Robert here: https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+downey

No highlights for Robert here: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bob%22+downey

Otherwise the found pages are similar here, but that's maybe because the search is very specific.
B.1.1.529's page on covariants.org: https://covariants.org/variants/21K

Thread by website dev: https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1464223178776059919
Have you looked into their profit margins? Do you still claim they are 90%+?
My Personal methods ranks

#1 -- Deep Fry. Absolute best turkey ever. Very Dangerous but danger imparts flavor ;)

#2 -- Spatchcock -- Creates a good golden bird, in 1/2 the time.

New Method saw a couple of years ago but is pretty effective

#3 -- Debone -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peeRWHI7FpY
Contemporary Art Without the Fluff
That definitely sounds like a total pain. I presume it's resolvable if you can get vaccinated where you are now and make sure with a doctor you've had a suitable delay between the shots (as with booster shots).
From FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

>Are reposts ok?

>If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

>Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
This is a good summary. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463956686075580421
Or Shauns.

(Oh holy fucking mother of Baa[l], only now it struck me that the name of the animatronic series by the Wallace-and-Gromit guys is of course a play on Shorn the sheep!)
I've only read some of Bly's poetry, as well as his famous essay "A Wrong Turning in American Poetry". The latter is an amazing critique of 20th century American poetry as a whole. It identifies a certain branching off, starting with T.S. Elliot and his contemporaries, in the general consensus of what poems should do and what makes a poem good. If you ever felt like you can't get into the poems of celebrated poets like Ezra Pound, William Carlos WIlliams and others, this essay may help you understand why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrong_Turning_in_American_Po...