skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how a mutation, no matter what, being more infectious is good news. The fact it (and Delta for that matter) was allowed to mutate in the first place is already pretty telling that the approach used to stem the tide was not effective.
6 cases can be the difference between an R value > 1 or < 1, resulting in positive or negative growth. Remember geometric growth is in play.
Is anyone outside China or Taiwan or international affairs circles even aware of Taiwan's officially desired name?
You are correct, of course. And if the parent I replied to was simply being inquisitive, I apologize for my tone. But in the current climate, it's hard for me to read it that way without it being specifically pointed out.
> Are you making six figures every day?

> No, not every day.
That wasn't my argument at all, actually:

> I don't believe all attempts to defend oneself are wrong, nor do I believe that it's inherently wrong to use 'unbalanced' force in the context of self-defence (ie: just because someone is unarmed does not mean that you should never use deadly force against them).

Your other points are all good and interesting - one in particular caught my eye:

> If they’d pinned him down, they might have shot him

That's true, but they might not have. You can't just go around shooting people because you're afraid that their friend might come and shoot you.
That's not a good replacement for actual trademark protections though. They reserved 100k TLDs in a pool of unlimited TLDs and there's no solution to stopping 2nd level domains from infringing.

For example, what happens if the owner of the HNS TLD `techsupport` decides to sell subdomains and sells `microsoft.techsupport`? That's an amazing phishing domain if HNS is part of a mainstream resolver somewhere. How about `stripe.payments` or `disney.movies` or `google.search`?

What do those reserved domains do for me if I'm not in the Alexa top 100k?
I call it “fellow kids writing“. It feels really patronizing when used in a serious context.

On the opposite, I started using Discord recently and they manage their funny tone very well, but it is used consistently through the application. And it stays informative.
This is nonsense.

Vaccination stopped smallpox and polio. Failure at Zero Covid is the result of poor, anti-realistic policies and attitudes - like yours, for example.

It's not because it's impossible, either economically or scientifically.
I'm not sure it's trying to solve a specific problem. It's basically the web plus cryptocurrency and related technology which you can use to make a variety of stuff for better or worse. IPFS is cool in principle - being able to store stuff indefinitely on the web without needing ongoing payments to some hoster.
I was hoping they would test chip bags, because it was a plot device in the most recent Terminator movie.

After searching, I found that Kaspersky has a blog post on the topic:
https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/terminator-dark-fate-chips/18...

It surprised me that chip bags were more effective in their test than cookie tins, but only when they double-bagged it
Facebook retreats from crypto ad ban
Humorously, using tools built into Windows 10 and 11 now, you can open a PowerShell window, type winget install Google.Chrome, and never open Edge once if you don't want to.
> Is that (creds) considered safe/secure these days?

No, definitely not. It's just super convenient and happens all the time at every organization.

The most recent Twitter breach involved a credential shared in a Slack channel. Security teams have a hard time monitoring Slack and the default settings are pretty bad (infinite session length, infinite message retention).
I don't see how this is something to be applauded. The company is successfully worming it's way into common vernacular. Meta, Apple, Block, etc. Pretty soon you won't be able to speak a sentence without invoking 6 different brands' free advertising.
I think if readers compare our arguments they will be able to come to their own conclusions. I feel I have sufficiently made my case and don't believe I can offer you anything that would change your mind.
It's gonna increase as these streaming services continue popping up for every single network and forcing you to pay ridiculous rates to see everything you want. I'm now back paying exactly what I did for cable/dish back in the day.
I would note that GPS is much more fragile than WiFi/Bluetooth/GSM. The GPS signals are already incredibly weak at the receiver.
We already have effective drug treatments. How much more effective do you want?

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/about-the-gui...

And remember that while the vaccines don't reliably prevent infection, they're pretty good at preventing severe symptoms.
Is this a jab at a particular political group? It sounds really deep
Every windows since 7 has been a train wreck by my standards. The amount of times I've had a system update just clear my windows profile is objectively abysmal and yet every HN thread someone will go and defend them.

No one cares about HDR. How about some decent data retention?

I get better frame rates in Linux running wine than I do in windows 10 since the 2020 updates.
Yeah, but only if it's milder than Delta, of course. This was my initial hope: if the virus mutates so quickly, it could mutate itself out of existence after a while by becoming very contagious but as strong as a common cold.

Of course, once this happens, people will forget it ever happened and ignore the next warning signals.
> It was something between a riot and a protest.

When the destruction starts, it stops being a protest, and there is no between.
My understanding is that you could draw a legal distinction under current law with those words, but only if this part falls under the word moderation not the word editorializing:

> that editorializing something such as [...] removing content or context

I suppose it would be permissible to draw a line where you could delete all or none of a users content, but not some, since that does sound content neutral. I don't believe anyone has drawn such a line though in law (and it would be quite the strange line to draw).
> Google is a private company can do what they want

Not when they are a monopoly.
> But the virus is endemic and vaccines will not stop it from being caught by everybody at some point.

Plenty of people live their whole lives without catching smallpox or polio. We have/can develop effective vaccines for COVID. Why should it be different?
I bet that many people would not notice that they are actually using Edge.
I noticed that for very specific things like this, it doesn't always work. However, if you had several functions which needed slight variations of the same thing, then writing the first one manually would allow it to automatically guess the rest of them.
Indeed, when it comes to state censorship and propaganda enablement, Twitter have clearly chosen sides. Providing they say as much and don't try to pretend they occupy any moral high ground, and this is widely known, fair enough.
> The vaccine which doesn't prevent infection or transmission

It reduces the chances of transmission and reduces the effects of the virus when someone is infected. I have no idea why “it doesn’t stop all infections!” is presented as such a gotcha when that’s the way vaccines have always worked. Breakthrough cases always happen. That doesn’t mean they’re not worth having.

> My natural antibodies are doing just fine, thank you

On what basis? You said the vaccines are “seemingly” losing efficacy weekly. How do you know the same isn’t the case for natural antibodies?
> but they have as much or more than many

That's not how epidemiology or even science works. There are so many variables at play that a response in one region might not make sense in another region, and the same goes for the virus's behavior.
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I think it probably makes sense that the languages it's easiest to write code in would dominate in an ecosystem where incentives are encouraging software to eat the world.

The asbestos comparison is pretty apt. Possibly also apt would be steel plants. Yes, steel manufacture is extremely hard on the local environment. Doesn't matter. The world's in the middle of an industrial revolution, and we need steel now. Now now now. We don't have time to wait for the technology to catch up with environmentally-minimized-impact manufacturing. Just condemn a couple cities to twilight noon-times and get on with it.

I don't know if things could have been a lot better and we could be having this conversation on a decentralized network of anonymous machines like we are now. We had to conscript a lot of developers to get here, and make very complex software run on a lot of low-power devices. Erlang, as an example of an alternative, wasn't even open-source unil 1998. LISP machines paused for sixty seconds to do a GC cycle in an era contemporary with machines running executables written in C just... Not requiring that.

Given the factors involved (private ownership of language resources, complex runtime putting minimum requirements on hardware, etc.), C and C++ might be the only two paths of least resistance for a critical era of the software industry.
I've lately started seeing claims on some of the forums that embrace things like vaccines contain 5G mind control chips claiming that lead effectively blocks government mind control and that is the real reason lead paint was banned, and that it is not actually harmful.
I agree, and rely very heavily on LibGen.

That said, Project Gutenberg and Michael Hart's vision and effort are iconic and really cannot be overstated. LibGen and its ilk owe a huge debt to his work.
Where there is no law against killing people, people are free to do that.

And when people who want to kill people and have been free to kill people get told they are no longer allowed to, they have also been unhappy about it.
On the other hand, that depends on ICUs being able to manage capacity. As the infection rate goes up, the death rate can go up as less of those improved treatments are available. Also, as infection rate goes up, you get side-effect problems where non-urgent but necessary treatments (like cancer surgeries) are deferred.
Not hoarding, it's called saving. And people would still spend money because everyone has their own time preference and we're all going to die someday anyways.

On the positive side, economy with a large number of savers would be less vulnerable to crisis. Governments won't be afraid to let zombie-companies die, because they know that people are not going to starve when this happens.
It is possible to avoid lockdown by not imposing lockdowns. It is that simple.

It is not the vaccine passports that stopped lockdown - in fact, there is no evidence they had any effect on transmission.
I'm fascinated by APL but man is it hard to get used to. I keep waiting for someone to build something like APL but sufficiently modernized as to actually be useful to me :)
We can't stop it dead, but we can dramatically reduce the number of critical illnesses and deaths, and have done so in many countries. I'm a Brit and our lockdown and vaccination policy has been extremely effective. We've largely lived normal lives since the summer, with low case rates and very low mortality thanks to strong vaccine uptake and popular support for protective measures. If we need to lock down again, we will because we have experienced the benefits that this strategy has produced. I'm having my booster shot on Saturday.

I fully expect to contract the virus at some point, and that's fine. I'm well protected by vaccination and the rate of propagation in the country is moderate enough that the hospitals aren't being overwhelmed by huge surges in infections and deaths any more.

Slowing down and limiting the impact of the virus doesn't stop it, correct, but it does massively reduce the damage it causes. That is very much worth doing, as the experience here in the UK clearly shows.
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I am from NZ and find myself doing this. The difference is whether something is estimated or measured. If it’s a rough estimate, and the value doesn’t matter at all, I use inches. So “six inches” is more of a way of describing “about this much”. It’s deliberately imprecise.
Some services expect to find swap enabled but normally don't use it (like mysql around 2010), so I wouldn't worry about the 95 MB.

But you can take a look at the smem command:

smem -s swap -r

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-which-process-is-using-s...
is this the author of this annoying thing that appears in search results but doesn't allow you to see pictures without login so you have to close it with redundant movement of the mouse and then watch carefully to avoid opening it again?
Sapper
I've heard good things about "Copy Hackers": https://copyhackers.com
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for years now my "personal home page" has been a TiddlyWiki[0] collection of notes and bookmarks. Simple, lightweight and very useful.

0: https://tiddlywiki.com/
100 years of whatever this will be
You're being intentionally obtuse. Google is a search engine product and a company. Microsoft is just a company. It stands to reason more people would search for the former.
Wtf is your goal with this comment?
It seems to me that it’s become a culture war topic because people are advocating for something stronger than that. I also plan to wear a mask on public transit for the long term (I kinda wanted to before), but I don’t want to have to wear a mask grocery shopping, or do the thing where you wear it for five seconds while walking from a restaurant door to your table.
Also, 20-30 Db of attenuation for light is already quite a lot. Whilst for a radio signal it is still very conceivable that 30Db of attenuation still allows for a signal to be received.

Our eyes simply aren't very sensitive instruments. And the visible part of the spectrum is uncharacteristically full of 'noise', so it makes some sense that our eyes don't need to detect any signals that are too far below the noise-floor.

That makes me wonder. How much 'darker' is any given bit of radio spectrum as compared to the visual spectrum earth at night.
It seems clicking "not interested" has no effect on YouTubes recommendations for me. I will see videos I clicked not into on on a week or two again.
For what its worth, most online sites will not accept gift visa/mastercard cards any more. It would be nice if there was a site that listed all the sites that do still accept them.
> This is the key point that betrays your statement

Why do these conversations always devolve into people trying to make “gotcha” points?

I was pointing out reasons why wearing a mask could be sensible. Those reasons aren’t necessarily anything to do with COVID. But there’s now such a cultural issue around it that the reasons won’t even matter. You’re a “masker” or an “anti-masker”.
As an American, the EU seems like it's rife with bullshit laws that protect the gentry and aristocracy.
I use https://hackertab.dev
That is not necessary because I'm forced to wear a mask. If we are forced to wear masks, it's because masks work. Right?

On the other hand, I fell ill for an entire day after taking the second dose, and I refuse to go through that again.
"requiring a newer PC" is a bit of an understatement - Windows 11 is the first version that will actively refuse to run unless the hardware meets its "compatibility" requirements, and from what I heard, it's quite picky...
Believing there's an option to do nothing until more data is available is a luxurious fallacy.

By then it's too late. Obviously.

That's the problem with exponential growth. Not much seems to happen until suddenly it all happens at once, and the only chance to prevent that was a few weeks ago.
Sounds like the old metacrawler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler

The problem is that the indexes (google, bing, yandex) won't let you freely aggregate them anymore. DDG is a client of Microsoft just like startpage is a client of google.
I mean they were already thoroughly whipped and fined, forced to add a browser choice window, then made to pay a fine again after this browser choice window 'accidentally' didn't work anymore. Time for another fine? I mean I have no clue where that money ends up at, I like to think it goes into IT subsidies, but still.
Certainly better than Juniper SRXs and Cisco Firepowers, however if you have a lot of mangle rules you'll run into issues. Had a large amounts of drops and even more reorders with just 600M going through a 1036 with c.200 mangle rules.

Haven't run into any issues with Fortigates, yet. Time will tell.

Thats for Firewall/nat/router style devices, for wireless we've got a large number of unify flying saucers. I've use mikrotik wireless in the past, but it's not on the same level at all.
You are wrong.

> It is commonly depicted as a catapult with a bowl, bucket, or sling at the end of its throwing arm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onager_(weapon)
You clearly then do not suffer from poor eye-sight that requires you to where a mechanical device on your face (i.e glasses) to correct for this

How every abelist of you.

My experience with masks, and glasses is very poor, specifically the more common cloth masks that go over the ears. Something like a Gaiter mask is slightly better but many say these are less effective
Grandma-compatible secure IM.

I don't want my private conversations leaking some time in the future and I trust Signal way more than I trust Whatsapp in this regard.
McConnell is set to retire at the end of his current term.
And bug re-use is now 50% faster! Just kidding… mostly.
It's a bit counter-intuitive that it is precisely in the presence of people who don't wear a mask that YOU should be wearing one.

Our intuitive understanding, inclination is "do as others do". "Oh, nobody's wearing a mask, must mean there is no virus around here". No. Not. If people are not wearing masks it is more likely that there's a lot of virus going on.

People who don't wear a mask in your presence are likely to be careless about protecting them against the virus in other ways, and therefore are more likely to have it already.
Imagine writing this asm-implementation to the 22 y/o google recruiter and fail the interview. :D
Hi Marcel,

Do you have a Dribble account that I can review by any chance?

Thank you.
Where did they imply it was different?
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Obviously they work. Washing your hands works. Not having face to face contact with other humans works. The issue I think most people have is whether the data supports various health mandates and whether in the long run they'll actually have any impact.

Even if the data is supports the claim that masks reduce spread, the data is less clear on if it's an effective means to combat a pandemic. Specifically, will masks limit the total number COVID cases given enough time, or just slow the time it takes for everyone in the population to be infected? An argument could be made that slowing spread gives time for vaccines and antivirals to be developed, in turn limiting cases and deaths, but this argument would then also depend on data and safety in regards to current / future vaccines and antivirals.

> The people who DON'T want to wear them and who wish to make it a political act will dredge up all sorts of B.S studies

I do get your annoyance here. I know a couple of people who don't just disagree with the concept of mask mandates, but also seem to be basing their opinion on some of the "B.S studies" you're referring to. I don't think this is the majority though. Most people just don't like being told what to do, especially when the benefits of mask mandates is probably quite negligible given they don't offer full protection, won't stop the pandemic, and the fact a lot (the majority?) of people will wear masks simply because they're recommended.

I guess I sort of see it as similar to drinking alcohol or eating doughnuts. The data is pretty clear these things are bad and causing people to die in huge numbers, but the bar at which the government should step in and say you must or can't do something should probably be quite high. And in the case of mask mandates their effectiveness depends massively on the mask itself and how the wearer is wearing and using it. I've been at the store and had people cough right next to me in thin fabric masks while mandates were in place. I'm not even sure an effective mask mandate is possible, they certainly haven't given me much more comfort. Were I more concerned about COVID I'd personally be avoiding social contact as much as possible regardless of mask mandates.

So yeah, masks work. People should wear them. I usually wear one in public. But the risk of COVID and their effectiveness doesn't justify mandating them imo.
I wonder how many people don't use DDG (like me) because of the stupid (in my opinion) name. It's so impossible to remember and pronounce.

Whatever cool/hilarious/human reason they have for it (I don't care), I wish they also added another alias that is easy to remember and type.
The Shapiro guide is fantastic. Thank you so much.
Not commenting on the nature of your comment but just wanted to point out that the author of that article was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration that attempted to convince the Trump administration that "herd immunity" was the best solution in dealing with COVID-19 because the people that signed it were losing money.
You don't need anything fancy. Start with any sample "New Tab" extension for chrome and firefox found on github, strip it back to being basically blank then add whatever you want. Enjoy! I really like my custom new tab extension and have tinkered with it for years

Since I don't have mine in a public repo, a cursory search shows a good example here. The manifest.json bit here is the only thing needed iirc.

https://github.com/kaissaroj/chrome-newtab/blob/master/manif...
Microsoft has had a good few years of building up their reputation after their self inflicted blemishes from the IE integration fiasco as well as their EEE mode of operation.

Now they are throwing away their good will with smarmy tactics --why? for some short term gains?

They were passing Google reputation-wise, of late, but these moves undercut their work of the last few years.

It seems they see Google, FB, even Apple, etc., eating this cake (using market to undercut competition) and can't stand the temptation. I can only hope the DOJ will find some will to take on tech and do something about their behavior, but I am not holding my breath.

If only companies would have principles they could stand on and we could count on.
Covid is spreading at a similar rate today in most countries as it did when it first struck and there was no vaccine at all.

Look at the trends in Italy, UK, US, for example.

I agree the vaccine helps, but there is no clear impact on reducing spread if you look at infection data in aggregate.

We've gone from 0% vaccinated, to 60-70% with no discernable dip in infection counts.
How many extra days of life do you get from taking statins?
> for making sure I started my carrer by not being the smartest guy in the room

That's indeed invaluable. That should be the first advice to anyone starting out: if you find yourself being the smartest in a room, go find a new room. Right now.
He copied and pasted that comment from the problem.
https://www.netvibes.com/ maybe?
Maybe on Google's regular search, but I've gotten good results from them when using Google's image