skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is he saying the current vaccines are not efficient?

I still don't get what makes covid different from the flu. Yes, covid is a little bit more deadly, but other than, why don't we just accept it as part of our lives like we did with the flu?
It's gonna happen this decade, I'm sure of it. Covid has completely screwed our hyperefficient society to the point where I think no human institutions can stem the massive tidal wave that is coming. I'd guess that the financial system, the higher education system, and the political system will all come undone during this period - there aren't many good bets, but I think being good with computers is reasonably safe, as computers are so efficient and eco-friendly that I am almost certain that they will be the centerpiece of whatever new system emerges.
Ameca: New Humanoid Robot from Engineered Arts
Why do we limit ourselves to right angle boxes? Why don't we have "GUI blobs" floating around our screens? Hipsters would be thrilled.
I don't think you're operating in good faith, but since you asked, other people might find this useful. You'll also note that none of the links I am providing here are from Vinay Prasad, since you are convinced he is some kind of astroturfing organization...

There have been exactly two RCTs for masks and Covid during the pandemic, neither of which has shown a large effect [1][2]. The DANMASK study showed no significant PPE effect, and the Bangladesh RCT showed a total effect size of around 0.09% (or a difference of 20 infections on base of thousands). Prior to the pandemic, RCTs for masks and respiratory disease showed weak effects, at best. Cochrane did a review of the literature [3], and found:

> Seven studies took place in the community, and two studies in healthcare workers. Compared with wearing no [surgical] mask, wearing a [surgical] mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness (9 studies; 3507 people); and probably makes no difference in how many people have flu confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 3005 people).

> We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses.

There have been many uncontrolled studies published. These are useless. Uncontrolled studies are not science (the Missouri study discussed in the OP is not a controlled study, btw).

There have been many laboratory studies published. These are suggestive, but just like a lab study for a drug, not meaningful in the real world without real-world evidence.

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817

[2] https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...

[3] https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-s...
I'd certainly call JP dense- it's got more than twice the population density of Houston, and it's slightly more dense than LA.
A "book" is a container for "text" - a support that can be made metaphorically akin to light (beech) bark (the "book") as a container for some weaving of expression of ideas (the "text"), is such.

The container could be whatever. If there exists a text, there probably exists a book (the content, in fact, is not «floating around»). If that is magnetic tape, so be it. And if that is an abstraction for a physical container - a file, i.e. a labelled pointer to an array of data -, again, so be it.

The file is the book; its physicality - irrelevant and interchangeable, but given - could be the magnetic tape, cards etc. that host it.
you're right, and I'm still struggling with how to do this syntactically in a way that makes sense.
Vaccine-As-A-Service, every 5-6 months a booster shot.
I mostly agree with you but there are certain useful functions. It’s an optional service the state provides to many many* people with negligible transaction fee, as with, for example, maintaining the roads, air traffic control, or food safety. Those things help you even if you never leave your home or never fly.

First it’s a default mechanism for saying things like “if I get hurt this person can come see me in / ask questions about me in the hospital”. Also “we have joint economic activity so friction should be removed”.

Second, kids can’t necessarily articulate for themselves so it’s a default way of saying “here’s a couple of people who are helping me and others can be disregarded by default”

And it acts as a dash pot for both entering into and especially leaving these set of default rights and obligations.

* Marriage should be universally available. I’ve never liked saying that I “supported gay marriage” — the correct phrase is that “I want us to stop discriminating against people in the case of marriage”
Its mobile browser is fantastic. Much better than Firefox, Opera, or Chrome, IMHO.
functionally untrue in most business settings

Most business settings have some absolutely critical custom software written in Winforms or something that can't be ported, plus an entire machine of IT personnel and software tools that would be just as costly to convert.
> a ton of unnecessary cognitive load

I'm curious - what features does Vivaldi have that add cognitive load to users not using them?
I'd love to hear what people have to say about the vector instructions. I've always found that SIMD on x86was quite clunky and I heard risc-v vectors are very different from that. Is that true?
I've been reading about the philosophy of Law, and how other cultures deal with legal codes. One of the most intriguing takeaways was critically examining our own system and just how verbose it is. American (and just about all Western Legal Codes) are extremely detailed and contain tons of clauses that are explicitly enumerated.

Whereas an older society might have a law as simple as "Do not break into other people's houses", we will have dozens of codes defining what constitutes breaking and entering, determining what kind of property was being broken into, the scale of theft, whether or not there was intent, and more. And, there are sentencing differences depending on what kind of tools the burglar was carrying, if at all. To me, now that I've seen how other cultures handle law, this is complexity overkill.

We don't seem to be comfortable with "common sense" laws because they are considered too vague. But the alternative is a really dense legal code you have to be professionally trained to understand, and one that is so complicated that offenders can avoid prosecution based on dozens of technicalities.
Is the ROI on that worth it? Again, I think we're looking at $200k in construction costs for $2,500/month in rental income. Also, one other thing I forgot is that this construction will probably increase your property taxes, further pushing out a positive ROI.
> I don't believe the broader financial system ever tried out making transactions impossible to reverse. They might not have ever had the power to do it.

I mean, cash transactions are irreversible right? Unless you mean that there was always a government willing to force a reversal, in which case crypto (and all technical solutions) isn't all that different. It's just another day in the never-ending arms race between the regulator and the regulatee.
> People often say Odysee is a good alternative but it was acquired by Google so it has the same issue as Youtube.

IIRC, Odysee is a somewhat curated interface to some kind of blockchain that can't be censored. So I'm guessing that even if a video is taken down from it, it may still actually be accessible at the lower layer.

IMHO, some kind of active moderation is absolutely required for video/images, given the very real possibility for immoral and illegal content that I absolutely do not want to stumble upon. So Odysee strikes me as about the most permissive tradeoff that can be tolerated.
> I pushed a quick fix to the issue by freezing the data being sent to the client, thereby halting the rapid growth in data consumption.

What do you mean by "freezing the data"?

Regarding the excessive download problem, my first instinct is to periodically (for example, every hour) compute summary statistics for the bar chart and store that in Firebase. This, of course, would require an additional script/service to perform these periodic jobs.

I'm not sure if that's what you ended up doing and I'm curious what your solution is.
I too have this dream. Unfortunately the behavior here in mass transit is much different than what I experienced in Asia. This turns many people off to using it IMO.
Bleh. I knew that. Google did say 30 minutes when I looked. (I've never actually taken transit to JP.)

Of course, the reason that Arlington doesn't have better transit links is that they didn't want it when the Red line was extended to Alewife. JP is certainly less suburban than Arlington but it also doesn't (to me) really feel like it's in "the city."
Why is that supposed to be an antivaxer argument? It doesn’t mean an effective vaccine eliminates variant formation.
An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety
To anyone who isn't aware what is CDK and why use it, my reasons are:

1. It's the actual "code" part of infrastructure as code. For "developers who also like ops" this is a great way to let anyone who can write code (CDK supports most major languages) contribute to a project's infra pretty much the same way as you would use the AWS SDK for the backend services themselves.

2. Let's face it, terraform is so popular because CloudFormation missed the mark, it is too verbose and fine grained, no sensible defaults, pretty much the assembly language of our days. CDK fixes that by adding high level constructs, e.g. in one line of CDK, e.g. new ec2.Vpc(this, "MyVPC") you create a VPC with sane defaults (it will pick the right CIDR arrangement, multi-AZ, both private and public subnets etc). You can override everything but you get the sensible defaults. What I also love about it is how it abstracts IAM permissions and make it easy to be least privilege, by just writing dynamoTable.grantRead(lambdaFunction) CDK creates the right execution role and policy for you.

3. It has 1:1 support also with plain old CFN too, (other than the high level constructs), so still writing things with type safety, autocompletion is more fun to me than writing the same thing in JSON / YAML.

4. It generates plain old (and mostly readable) CloudFormation templates.

5. There is experimental support for "CDK for Terraform", so if you don't really want CloudFormation behind the scenes, but love being able to just import a ts file with a high level construct you made, or have a for loop or if statement in your infra-as-code, you are not limited to CloudFormation

YMMV and I know CDK is too little too late, but for teams that have no DevOps engineers and want to create infra as code using the same language as the rest of the code, (and write unit tests on your infra-as-code, how about that!) then CDK is an amazing solution IMHO (disclaimer - I used to work at AWS and perhaps I'm a bit biased, but I chose CDK for my startup as well, and it allowed our engineers to contribute to infra as code pretty fast as they are already familiar with TypeScript, and the fact that CDK has a very strong type guards, makes it so that it's harder to get it wrong on compile time... )
"That's more like markets and prices than it is appealing to a centralized hierarchy."

My thought process is more like a well regulated market than it is a king of the world. A market requires consensus. With your point about Shanghai, the consensus here is that nuclear war will ensure mutual destruction.

"it's pretty clear that on a long enough timeline, the regulation fails to punish the bad actors and actually restricts the good actors from fixing problems independently. "

Large cities have existed throughout history under all sorts of governance and regulations and they continue to thrive. The downfall of a city is more correlated with economic perils than lawlessness. Even with all the crime and homelessness in San Francisco, I'm willing to bet anyone that for 2021, San Francisco will have one of the highest GDPs per capita in the world. Urban centers will continue to require consensus through governance to be productive.
I feel your pain. Two workarounds when Google gets it wrong are to put the term in quotation marks, or to enable Verbatim mode in the toolbelt. (I know various people have come up with ways to add "Google Verbatim" as a search engine option in their browser, or use a browser extension to make Verbatim enabled by default.)

Disclaimer: I work on Google search.
One should be able to still look at what South & East Asian states have done, I don't think Vietnam or South Korea have this problem of highly politicized scientific community. Don't know if they have confirmed animal reservoir though.
I haven't personally worked in one of the big contract places but have close friends who did. I think your impression of these places as being simply "phone repair places" may not match reality, to be quite honest.
> window snapping is nice

A long time ago, I helped the development of some useful compiz plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9bcrJ3TjY .

I abandoned the development when compiz was rewritten in c++, but the next step we planned was to add the choice of some fixed window layouts. Seems very close to what window snapping turned out.
Ask HN: Open-Source alternative to Zoom – Teams – Google meet and so on
Please help me find some viable alternatives. Thanks.
Light bounces too. As you said, it’s the same thing.
I used momentum for a while. Not that flexible though. Maybe worth a look.
I seem to recall one of the original arguments for the “artificial origin” hypothesis last year was that the virus was too different from other known viruses and therefore it was implausible that it had developed naturally.

But if we see here an apparently-sudden jump to a significantly different variant, does that make it less surprising that the original strain was novel?
Built-In Role Based Access Control Now Available in Warrant
Yes, but that is also a cultural artifact. German, for instance, still contains vestiges of the little endian spoken order, even though their adopted writing system is left-to-right and their adopted written numbering system big endian.
Governments have a long track record of things that make me distrust them. Commenters on HN rarely get to 7K points by spouting nonsense, especially in only 4 years time. I'll err on the side of rare occurrences, before ignoring historical facts.
It's peculiar when a single person writes what they call a "standard": standard is something accepted and agreed to by multiple parties.

Writing a specification for previously only-defined-in-Emacs-code Org formatting is definitely commendable, and hopefully results in more standardisation of org-like apps.
There is some overlap. There's the "Zbkb" (horrible name, I know) extension which contains a subset of instructions from the larger bitmanip extensions which are very useful for cryptography.

The more general bitmanip extensions contain other things useful for e.g. address arithmetic. These are somewhat orthogonal to scalar crypto.
1. you could make sure you read articles like this on a platform that sensibly allows effective ad blocking like ublock origin.

2. the fact that you consider this a long article says a lot more about you than the article or the author. I read the whole thing (with ublock origin active) and I did not notice much if anything that I would consider "noise" in the context.
I honestly believe that if you remove social media from the equation, there is zero doubt that modern life makes you happier. There are so many awesome things you can do nowadays with modern tech, you have practically unlimited entertainment. But now you also have on-demand comparison, and as they say, comparison is the thief of joy. The sooner society realizes that social media is the REAL thing that is making people unhappy, the better.
Yes, I saw that in a sibling post but unfortunately streaming platforms don’t support Linux. For the explicit reason to keep control of such things.
One thing I don't see being talked about is how virulent (rapid onset of severe illness) omicron is. The rate of spread isn't the only element. The viruses that are the common cold spread wildly but don't cause major issues for most people.

Why don't we talk about this more?
Here's a local article with some photos: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/how-the-fbi-discove...
As some one originally from Birmingham I found the accents in peaky blinders oddly relaxing.

Though I could see full "yam yam" being hard - that's the rural dialect from the black country.
> Am I the only one

Nope. Pretty much anytime you ask yourself this question the answer is always no whatever the context. You are reacting to a single anecdote. People like lots of different things.
> which might have an animal reservoir

cats, minks, deer, in addition to the usual ones like bats.
Malware bypassing air-gaps and how to defend networks
I got Comcast internet in September, the 200MBPS plan for 50$ per month and for the first 2 months speed tests averaged 150MBPs down and 6MBPS up... For the first 2 months, then speed degraded to 50MBPs down and 3MBPS up... somehow, and isn't going back up. Criminals.

The main reason why I didn't have much choice was that Verizon was out of stock on routers and I needed a connection immediately. Verizon was more expensive anyway, and their plans were tied to specific hardware, which would make it difficult/more costly to upgrade easily later on.

I also had an order in for T-Mobile's home internet at $50 per month where speed tests averaged 50MBPs down and 3MBPS up...

I personally believe that all services are seeking advantage with any customer plan, so my solution is to keep both services and just switch to with network that is more reliable and as an end result be able to have Internet that is less dependent on a single point of failure with my Verizon phone as a potential back-up hotspot.

Plain and simple, it's fleecing and theft that Government has permitted over a long span of time that will not change. All of the plans and terms of service are changed at the will of service providers. They learned their tactics from mobsters and drug dealers... Thoroughly convinced that possibly some decedents of crime organizations run a lot of these companies to be honest.

May your costs be low and your speed high my friends... Ay... :/
So two questions for the groupmind here.

1) I asked this previously but is it really that difficult to take a screenshot on Windows?

"Vivaldi’s built-in Capture tool lets you capture either a Full Page screenshot, or a Selection of the screen that you define. It can be accessed in a number of ways through the Vivaldi UI to give you flexibility in how you implement the tool."

2) The fully loaded version of the browser comes with a mail client, calendar and contacts. Didn't Netscape Navigator already show us that this confluence of features was a disaster for a browser?
I once tried to acquire a RS PR100 like the one used in the test here. Turns out they cost more than a fancy car!
What is "very large"? What fraction of legacy bankers regard all of those as desirable progress? That's a pretty silly ad-hominem.
> everyone wants distributed systems that require everyone else to agree (global consensus)

Not really, Secure Scuttlebutt is highly subjective and has been in use for a while. ( https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ )

Some spinoffs adopt that explicit subjectivity of each user.
PWM Flickering would be one reason? On M1 Air there is pwm flickering which makes impossible to work with it ... thanks Apple. [0]

I would connect external monitor but it has flickering issues with them too. Thanks Apple again. [1]

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-Ranking-Notebooks-Smartpho...

[1] https://piunikaweb.com/2021/01/08/apple-investigating-mac-mi...
It is hard to find any industry where skilled consultants are willing to trash talk their repeat customers.
I'm on the Monterey tab design, and it's hit and miss. First time using it I was wondering what the fuss was about wrt knowing which was the active tab, it seemed fairly clear to me. However, I've since seen states where the active tab is lighter than the others (it is right now) and other times where the active tab is darker than the others (definitely happens in a private window) - the lack of consistency is the biggest problem with it. Also, it's _really_ hard to tell if you're in a private window on the latest Safari.
Direct links to some of the latest specs:

- Scalar crypto: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-crypto/releases

- Vectors: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/releases

- Bitmanip: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip/releases
> But in reality pricing is also dictated by: location, style, build quality, schools, and a hundred other factors.

All of those factors though are considered with respect to supply. If there are 11 homes and 10 buyers, then by necessity the prices for those homes must come down despite how good those homes are.

> This can make housing more dense and it can gradually lead to more units on the market. Potentially you could eventually reach competition dynamics that depress pricing.

You vastly overestimate the number of units that would need to be built to depress prices. Prices are set on the margin and a relatively small increase in supply (say 20% over 20 years which is quite feasible) can have a huge influence.

Going from 10 buyers chasing 9 homes to 10 buyers chasing 11 homes changes the dynamics an incredible amount.
Germany’s chancellor-to-be Olaf Scholz ‘backs mandatory Covid jabs’
Do these California laws (or other laws in CA) address restrictive covenants that would prohibit duplexes in a neighborhood regardless of city zoning?

You often hear about how Houston, for example, "doesn't have zoning", but a huge fraction of new housing in Texas (Houston and elsewhere) is in planned neighborhoods covered by restrictive covenants that prohibit all sorts of things. In those neighborhoods, it's unlikely that anyone would be able to tear down a single family house and build a duplex on the lot. (Or even paint the existing house a different color without approval of the HOA board.)
You're often going to have to cite specific movies, specific directors when talking about this. With Nolan, it's easy because he's acknowledged this stuff and it's well known. Same with Tom Hardy. But start mentioning other directors, actors and films with specific complaints about how the vocal mix was handled, and I imagine you'll be persona non grata for vocal mixing fairly soon.
The dockerfiles are technically specified by OCI but the Moby project has a lot of sway in that committee. The Dockerfile spec has a number of deficiencies in it that aren't being addressed. Until recently, Docker was the only fully supported, ubiquitous way to build container images from a Dockerfile. The file even being called a "Dockerfile" is, in my opinion, annoying too.

Podman of course allows `Containerfile` but meh. I just don't like the tight coupling of the Dockerfile spec and the Moby project, since I don't like the Moby (Docker) project for the reasons listed above.