skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the people telling us to wear them don't even bother themselves! [...]

"Politicians aren't perfect, thus masks don't work"

> The official advice did a 180 swivel around March 2020 from 'masks don't work' to 'wear the mask or else'

The original panicked advice was that masks weren't needed for the general public, because they needed to be saved for health professionals.

When community spread is low and masks are rare, which group of people do you want wearing masks, the doctors and nurses who are ~100% likely to interact with the sick, or the general public who are ~1% likely to interact with the sick?

Note that that calculus changes when either masks become more plentiful or the disease spreads more commonly in the community. Which is exactly what happened.

> The masks are there purely to terrify and dehumanise people

> Nothing to see here though of course. All completely above board. I'm obviously a mad conspiracy theorist for noticing these types of discrepancies. Trust the science comrade!

Yeah, you're making insane inferences when much better inferences are available, and setting yourself up as a victim. That's about the usual for conspiracy theory nutters.
Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
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It’s broken on Dark Mode. Needs an extra bit of CSS to determine whether it’s in dark mode or not.

The top example is just a GIF, so that's whatever - but the bottom example, which is actual text using this CSS trick, flickers white in a way that unfortunately ruins the illusion of the experience with a black background.

The code needs to use CSS's 'prefers-color-scheme' to differ between background colours for the effect.

This could also be used, for that matter; to auto-invert the 'text' colour. :)
It just means Microsoft trusts this technology.
The top comment uses Japan as the example. They do wear masks forever. So maybe the top comment shouldn't used Japan as the example.
What does "us election fraud" shows, any web-sites that are not in line with "the correct" narrative? For me google shows one side, yandex both of them.

Now, "голосование на пеньках" (voting on stomps) is a mockery of Putin's constitution referendum by opposition. When searching this phrase in Google the front page is again Putin controlled media: tass, rbc, kommersant, rg.

Yandex apart from the aforementioned web-sites has US State Department / Soros funded meduza and svoboda.org, liberal (in American sense) tjournal, Deutsche Welle.

It seems Yandex gives preference to the most relevant sites when Google decides what's good ("credible") for you.

[1]: https://yandex.ru/search/?text=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%8...
Gait recognition doesn't care about masks. I don't know how far the technology got, but as a human I find recognising humans by their gait trivial enough.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.
This is why I think it is important to self host things and I applaud Ubiquiti for allowing UNMS/UISP to be self hosted for free. As far as I understand it our UNMS was never at risk from this problem.
It's already being heavily used to censor citizen groups that expose white supremacist terror organizations. Just as expected.
That is why they have a few standard sizes.
I would agree that Rittenhouse would be justified to believe that, yes.

Although I would say that the way Huber hit Rittenhouse with the skateboard doesn't really seem as though it's intended to kill or seriously injure, it seems more like he's using it to try to push the assault rifle away from him.

We'll never know, unfortunately.
You've hit the nail on the head. Americans will do anything to save $1, and this is the future we deserve.
I've wanted to ban cars for that reason for years, I know it isn't realistic, but I still want to. I favor more drivers training. I favor limiting the drivers ability to adjust the radio. I favor more/better transit. If self driving cars ever become real I'll favor them (right now they have enough limits as to not count).
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I think the point you and the sibling comment makes are good ones: health authorities, at least in the US, have never been clear on the exit criteria for ending interventions, and the goal posts have continually been moved. Remember when "flatten the curve" was the original goal early in the pandemic? That almost seems like a quaint notion now.

But that said, with an endemic disease I think the idea behind flatten the curve is the only one that makes sense - that is, masks should only be required if health care facilities are at risk of being overloaded. I'm fully vaccinated, so the only time I'll wear a mask are if transmission rates in my area are currently high (or if I'm entering a place that has a specific mask mandate - I don't enjoy wearing a mask but I also don't think it's a very big deal so I don't understand why so many choose it as their hill to die on).
> We live in a time when large companies will divest themselves of profitable but not growing businesses because it gets in the way of the core mission, which for large public companies is only one thing. Growth.

If you have good product-market fit, then “shrinking” is growth. By “shrinking” I mean automating more, becoming more efficient, streamlining. Pay off excess staff in shares and free them up (and yourself) to work on something else.
Every casual twitter user jokes about it, so the "they dont know about it" is a claim that would require a lot of evidence - they've taken action against the "elon musk" twitter bots, but the same scam is effected constantly.

After years of incompetence you can start to assume incompetence.
Why would a phone pouch/box build up great charge? You don't ground your home because of charge buildup either - grounding is there to decrease the chance a thunderbolt will run through precious things, like house walls, people, electric wiring etc.
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It seems weird to claim that your friend must have been fooled by government bots. Maybe he just was influenced by the huge anti-CCP demonstrations in HK.

I don't think the "adult babies" phrase adds much to the conversation, btw.
Actually there's a simple reason. If I have to wear a mask and social distance, I see no value in a vaccine. The point behind the "political" position isn't that masking is bad, the main position is that a mandate requiring it is bad. In a country where "My body, my choice" this is clearly a contradiction.
Ask HN: What are some indie growth blogs you follow?
I’m looking for authentic blogs by individuals on growing and scaling products.

Most of the blogs I’ve come across are from companies. I’m looking for experiences shared by individuals as I feel they are more genuine.
I feel it definitely saves time, if you can write a decent comment code, and the function name is descriptive, that's all you need. The functions write themselves. It's better if you follow the single-responsibility principle or at least don't have too many side effects in your methods.

Often times the comment isn't even needed and just a method name is enough to get it churning out the right code.. I might change a variable name, and some minor stuff but I don't have to search for little things I normally forget ...like framework sugar syntax I've used before but can't remember off my mind but when I see it, I know oh yeah that looks right...
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>we don't live in a black and white world

you say that and then I see this:

>Should Google de-list Pirate Bay? In my opinion no.

Looks like pretty black in white about Pirate Bay here.

Also doesn't look like you are too much against censorship. You do not even discuss whether it should be or not. I sense it is pretty white there for you too.

It reminds me how russia controlled media spread idea that not everything is black and white but when they decided to attack Ukraine using military and took Crimea and parts of other two regions with force it suddenly became black and white for the moment of attack and then again coming back to 'oh it's not black and white we didn't took anything'

I personally love how "everything is not black and white" concept is used to justify censorship and promote everything that serves totalitarian dreams.
Hey, dragon, thanks so much for your thoughtful replies. This thread turned into a bonanza of revelations into the future of graphics apis. And I have to concur, cpus are getting so inexpensive and powerful, proprietary renderers (designed to run on farms as well) simply target vector extensions for parallelism.

Regarding learning GPU Architectures and Programming, usually in the Graphics Gems books there is an introductory section devoted to compute. But you are on own regarding streaming, tracing, tuning, multi gpu. All still very much dark arts ;)
Total replacement of the concept "book". Fits into your pocket and so on.

10 Megabytes was the maximum disk at the time of 1992 costing 1000 gringo dolares. With careful zipping it was hundreds of books.
Which one am I missing? House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and former President Trump have also encouraged vaccination.

https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/house-minority-leader-k...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/trump-americans-cov...
The far left is using “assault rifle” as a scare tactic to get their foot in the door. They absolutely want to ban all guns from civilian hands. That's why I push back. I would be what most people call a liberal (socially and economically), but I also support the Second Amendment, so I know why the NRA pushes back on this non-legal definition. Plain old pistols, rifles, and shotguns kill FAR more people in a given year than assault rifles, so why isn't there push back on those? Because the anti-gun left wants a precedent to take guns and “assault rifle” demonization is one prong of that attack. So I will continue to "muddy" the waters. I guarantee you I have as much experience with guns as you as I have been around them and used them and studied them since I was a youth, so I guess there's that appeal to authority as well much like your own.
They removed them for being fake accounts, not because of what they said. They outline their principles here: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/informati....

I don't say there's no possibility of this work being biased towards the US or the West. But you have to prove it, not just assume it.
> in the long run that won't save anyone

> eventually

I don't know exactly about the US but in NL that is precisely the sticking point. It doesn't matter that everyone will get it, it matters when everybody gets it because we don't have the ICU capacity to treat everyone at the same time (+ regular ICU patients and overhead for scheduled surgeries)
> Your OCaml function example looks like feature I call conditional parameters in KatLang (inspired from Erlang).

It does! Elixir (coming from Erlang) and Haskell have the same thing, both through pattern matching of a function to different definitions. OCaml (and most other languages using pattern matching) pattern match inside a single definition.

> In mathematics exists many different concepts which are called perfect. For example, perfect numbers.

I personally only know about perfect numbers. I'm not sure if it's a great name for them, or if it's just a "fun" name like sexy prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_prime that doesn't mean much.

For your example about the identity function, I think it's great, but I'm personally more in favour of positional lambdas like &1 in Elixir.

> The question is: can you remove one more symbol without changing the meaning of the expression? If no, then, the identity function definition 'x' is symbols perfect according to my definition.

Maybe "minimal" would be a better name then? Or "shortest"? Many people could argue on what makes the perfect lambda, but it's hard to argue that yours isn't the most minimal or shortest.
Best data story? They are sorely lacking a strong distributed database offering. Athena is slow and hard to optimize, and redshift does not hyperscale - that's why everyone switched to snowflake. These are the fundamentals of a data function at any company. GCP has bigquery, such itself serves enough use that companies could consider leaving AWS.
Yes, it should not be the first option. But, under certain circumstances it can be very helpful. For example, if you have to support multiple toolchains and multiple architectures. Using inline assembly can let you consolidate many assembly files into 1 C file.
Not at all! I did say: "If you're on cloud, at least you have the flexibility to..."
ChatOps would be one way.
Better performance. Faraday cages can act as reradiators at frequencies dependent on cage geometry.
That isn't quite right. Even with same infection rates travel bans limit the ability of virus mutations to escape.

However for a travel ban to work it needs to be applied strongly and for a long time. If you wait until a new variant is found worth watching closely it is too late as it is already across the ban and will spread on both sides.

The US needs a travel ban that covers cities (MSA?) to really be good. I have no idea how you would pull that off. (both constitutionally and logistically seem impossible)
Does the right-angle corner trick still work if the container surfaces are made of mirrors?
There’s a world of difference between ASN.1 validation and validation of cryptographic primitives. The serialization/deserialization routines for cryptographic data formats or protocols are where you typically get problems. Things like AES and ECDSA itself, less so, especially when you’re talking about the code in BoringSSL. Maybe some more obscure algorithms but I imagine BoringSSL has already stripped them and ring would be unlikely to copy those.

Why? Cryptographic primitives don’t really have a lot of complexity. It a bytes in/bytes out system with little chance for overflows. The bigger issues are things like side channel leaks or incorrect implementations. The former is where validation helps and the latter is validated by round-tripping with one half using a known-working reference implementation. Additionally, the failure mode is typically safe - if you encrypt incorrectly then no one else can read your data (typically). If you decrypt incorrectly, then decryption will just fail. Ciphers that could encrypt in an unsafe way (ie implementation “encrypts” but the encryption can be broken/key recovered) typically implies the cipher design itself is bad and I don’t think such ciphers are around these days. Now of course something like AES-GCM can still be misused by reusing the nonce but that’s nothing to do with the cipher code itself. You can convince yourself by looking for CVEs of cryptographic libraries and where they live. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but cipher and digest implementations from BoringSSL seem like a much less likely place for vulnerabilities to exist (and thus the security/performance tradeoff probably tilts in a different direction unless you can write code that’s both safer while maintaining competitive performance).
It only lets you use fixed multiples for this reason (0.1, 1, 10, etc.). You can reasonably narrow it down as the amounts get higher, though.
My ancestors were subsistence farmers somewhere in eastern Europe. I don't know anything about them beyond that.

Having great great great grandpa Vlad's skull in some rich man's private collection isn't quite as cool as being able to say you're descended from some skull that's in some fancy university museum but it's a step in that direction. In both cases I'd know a lot more about my ancestors than I do now.
>Many protesters have being using Twitter to spread information about rallies and to share news.

2008-09 feels like a different world - the term "fake news" took too much time to become mainstream
You're proving my point. The sources you linked are the eff, a techie's personal blog, arstechnica, and forbes. With the exception of forbes they're all tech niches.

Now look at mainstream media. CNN alone has 230K results for google privacy [0]. How many results for microsoft privacy? 16k [1]

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acnn.com%20google%20pr...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acnn.com+microsoft+pri...
There is probably no nsenter equivalent for "kubectl exec thepod -- /bin/sh" if you can't ssh into the node.
Japan doesn't, and hasn't, had an indefinite mask mandate, like SF has had.

If wearing "forever" means individuals wear masks when they're feeling ill, or when they're in a place with current high transmission of respiratory illness, then I'm all for wearing masks "forever".
> parameters appear in the method body anyway

Captured variables too appear in the method body. How do I tell those apart?
He literally did report it, though. He walked straight down the street to the police and told them he'd just shot people.
Ask HN: What is the Django equivalent of the JavaScript frameworks?
Django is a rigorously led project with a good level of batteries included, clean code, clear release cycles and depracation policies and a BSD license.

Which JS frontend project is governed with similar values/goals and plays nicely with django to form a backend and frontend a-team?
Related:

> Dr ANGELIQUE COETZEE, the doctor who alerted the world to the Omicron Covid variant, says we are over-reacting to the threat

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10256373/Dr-ANGEL...
The text was sufficient to prompt me to watch the video, which I wouldn't otherwise have done.
Maybe it's a generation gap, but I've seen this in other places. I got a text message from my student loan servicer - It "needs 2know if U wish 2stay in Autopay". I thought it was spam, but it's real. Do Gen Zers really think this is okay, or am I getting too old
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The obvious answer why Twitter hasn’t banned bots is to help keep their DAU metrics up
the problem with DuckduckGo and Qwant (i don't know about Brave's search) is they're all so heavily reliant on Bing results, and they're not really new engines but privacy respecting engines hitting the Bing API and then supplementing with "answers" from other sources like weather services, wolfram alpha, etc..

There no real alternative to the big players. It's google or bing, basically.
Those fields people choose to join, they made the decision to accept that requirement. Plus as others have said in the grand scheme it's not the most effective Solution. Remote work, contactless services and other similar initiatives would yield a higher success and would reduce other things like crime and environmental impacts, why not pursue that or a contactless society instead if the goal is to prevent transmission
> it's only applicable when the people in the picture can be reasonably identified.

I think the law needs to be updated, since face recognition software is now available.
So I have to think up a dismissive one-liner? Nope, thanks
I think recent versions of Ruby include a optional JIT compiler. Did you try it?
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You’re wrong. Every crypto company I’ve worked with has spent significant amounts on security consultants, audits, test nets, and bug bounties.
In the 1970s they had helicopter shuttles from some tall rooftops in NYC (e.g. World Trade Center) to the JFK airport. I think it was killed by unreliable service, a poor safety record, and high costs.

BLADE runs a helicopter shuttle today but I don’t think they land on skyscrapers.
All due respect but this comment demonstrates a naive understanding of COVID and mask mandates. It's possible this comment is just trolling as it's the only comment your account has made but I'll attempt to address the issues with it regardless.

First, calculating a theoretical number of deaths through end result statistics does not result in a number that can be used to support a logical argument. When approximating deaths for something like COVID, the things that matter are:

1. The fatality rate of COVID, assuming the hospital you're treated at has sufficient means to treat you.

2. The fatality rate of COVID, assuming the hospital you're treated at does NOT have sufficient means to treat you.

3. The contagiousness/ability of the virus and likelihood that you'll spread the virus to someone else once you've contracted it (R naught). Basically, think of this as the number of people you'll infect if you get the virus.

4. The number of people in a population who can be infected by an individual at any specific time (effective reproduction number)

You can't just take a slice of time and say "6" people will die, and remove mask mandates, as COVID spreads through exponential growth. The benefits of wearing a mask compound, just like not wearing mask compounds in a worse way. Think of it this way. If the R naught of a virus is above 1, (say 1.1) then the virus will continue to spread. If it continues to infect more and more people, unchecked, it will eventually infect almost everyone. If it infects everyone, with a fatality rate of 1.6% in Missouri, it will kill thousands, not 6.

The ways available to us to stop COVID are to attack all facets mentioned above. I won't go into all of them, as mask mandates solely aim to curb 3. The goal of mask mandates is to make it so if you have the virus, you infect less than 1 person, so that the virus stops spreading.[1] But the benefits affect all the above, such as, if the virus continues to spread (R naught above 1), then eventually we run out of hospital capacity. If we run out of hospital capacity, the death rate skyrockets, as many preventable deaths are no longer preventable. So, mask mandates now also potentially benefit healthcare capacity (flatten the curve, remember?).

So, to specifically isolate the issue with your argument, the number of cases per 100k with and without masks doesn't matter if the virus is still spreading. If it's still spreading, it will still infect everyone eventually, and take its 1.6% of the population at the end of the day. Mask mandates are one component (on top of vaccines, social distancing, hygiene, etc) to lowering the R naught below 1.

So, is it reasonable, to impose a mandate such as this that negatively alters people daily life to this extent, in order to prevent tens of thousands of deaths in the all-state from dying?

The answer is yes.

[0] Good introduction to R naught and R_e https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751056/
[1] Thorough review of mask wearing statistics and benefits https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/4/e2014564118.full.pdf
[2] A better introduction to modeling COVID 19 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1132-9
> former President Trump have also encouraged vaccination

Yes, Trump is the one.

If you're counting Trump, you're reading "you're probably not gonna talk about being pro-vaccination too much" very differently than I intended. Trump similarily gave the occasional half-hearted "you should wear a mask" statement, but pretending he's a masking advocate would be silly.

His latest half-hearted attempt at promoting vaccination resulted in booing from the crowd, and he hasn't really touched that live wire since. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-booed-al...
> Masks may "work" to a limited extent to reduce the risk of transmission in any single interaction, but in the long run that won't save anyone.

Could you elaborate on the statement at the end - "but in the long run that won't save anyone.". Anyone, as in nobody? How come?