skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that of the endless studies and pieces of data, 90% indicate masks do nothing. All pre-covid mask studies concluded they do nothing...there was even a paper about why people in Japan wore masks despite them doing nothing. The two most robust studies (Bangladesh and Denmark) concluded masks do nothing. COVID rates in nearby mask vs non-mask places (endless sources of this) show masks do nothing. The few things suggesting masks work are usually the product of data mining, aren't statistically significant, or have other fatal flaws such as not being able to distinguish between causation/correlation or behavioral factors. The CDC's own study was comically flawed, cut off before COVID spikes last November...it doesn't even qualify as amateur hour.

The idea that masks work is just wishful thinking from people who are anxiety-ridden. They're placebos, amulets. If people want to wear them, fine, but the notion that there's enough evidence to justify universal mask mandates is truly one of the sorriest aspects of COVID because it's so symbolic of how we've done away with reason and scientific process completely.
Sincerely, as a C/C++ programmer, if I have to start a new project and you propose to link a Java library, it'd give me the creeps. Let's say I agree: does my project now requires to install a Java VM together with my project? Which Java VM? I still don't understand the difference between OpenJDK and the "other one"... JDK? JRE? I only installed it once many years ago because Eclipse CDT required it and I might have wrote "sudo update-java-alternatives --set /path/to/java/version" one too many times (AOSP development).

OK. I'll make an installer to install Java with my project. But the customer has another older version, or a competitor version, or ..... I don't care anymore.

Do I have to build this library? What paraphernalia do I have to install and learn to automatize, build and test a complex Java library? Do I have to maintain a JNI interface too?

Where is the JCA/JSSE source code? (I can't find it for real) And who maintains it? Oracle? What if Oracle one day pulls the plug or comes after me with one of their famous legal moves just because?

These are my concerns. You might try to convince me, but I already learnt about C/C++ libraries, DLL hell, etc, and have all my fixes in place.

> Bugs happen

They will still happen. Put your heart at peace.
Alternatively, could use an IntersectionObserver to stop and start it.
> It reminds me a lot of aesthetic in the game Cruelty Squad

Would love to work for a company with full Cruelty Squad world branding, but I guess Consumer Softproducts isn't hiring.
What the hell are you doing with your Windows profiles. I've admin'd many Windows machines and have a Windows install AND a VM windows install and have literally never had a problem with windows profile. Have you at least attempted to debug the issue, or can you point to a issue report you have filed?

This is someone who uses linux for 99.99% of all computing things, so its not like I'm a Windows shill
True, but I also look at JC's work on Terminator 2. If anyone has experience with directing films about a post-apocalypse filled with unfathomably advanced tech which has it out for contemporary humans, it's him.

I also don't know if Villaneuve can handle the Sea of Corruption. So even if he's good with later parts, he fumbles the intro.

Maybe go the Harry Potter route.
Win11 is a wreck just because they effectively made it non-installable on 5 out of 6 PCs.

Prime majority of users don't upgrade BIOS, or don't even know what it is.

11 will be a short lived release just because of that, and them not only needing to backpedal, but to entice users into biting into a new bait, as all what is actually good in Win11 been kind of mentally displaced by the fiasco.

A supposedly sucks less Win11.1 will not do it to attract more users. A completely new release is coming.
There are hunting rifles, and there are sport rifles.

>They are optimized to deliver a large number effective rounds down range, from a variety of positions at a variety of distances.

This is precisely where a blanket term like “assault rifle” becomes pretty impossible to specifically define, and consequently regulate.

>large number effective rounds down range

Based on this comment, you’re referring caliber? And capacity? And perhaps action? So what about a semi-auto 5.56 with a pencil barrel and a 5 round magazine? Still an “assault weapon?”

>from a variety of positions at a variety of distances

How would you interpret this into characteristics of a rifle? Does this mean it has to have a folding bipod? It has to be under a certain weight? *Any* rifle can be more or less effective at a variety of ranges. The cartridge and shooter have more influence over that criteria than the rifle.

>It's the shape, flexibility and effectiveness of the platform

This is feels territory. Because none of these are concrete characteristics inherit to this claim. Define “effective”, or define “ineffective”. Tell me how the “shape” would designate or exclude one specific rifle over another…
Oy vey. You're objectively incorrect. It's definitely a Microsoft issue. They use the old OS upgrade procedure to do quarterly updates now which means if it finds a Users directory it will rename it to Users.old and make a new one. However if it does two upgrades in a row in the background without telling you the old Users.old will be deleted from your disk.

Now all it would take them is a second to check the sizes of both and not remove the one with actual data but ya know that would be a actual useful feature.

And before you complain about to me about my "setup"... The scenario I described above is entirely common in IT departments the world over.

Now please stop blaming victims and start blaming the people that have the power to change things.
That, and most of the rest of the parent comment, made me believe the post was a joke.
Funny you mention Cassandra. That was another piece of hell-on-Earth for one of my teams to manage, even with a few seasoned SREs and database engineers. It is beautiful while it's working, it's hell to properly setup, configure and get it stable enough after ironing the quirks and gotchas.
Vaccinations has to a degree the same issue as masks. The question isn't if they work, but rather how effective they are in different contexts. It seems we are now at three vaccinations for just 2021, and multiple different mutations of the virus. I hope strongly this third dose will be it and this latest mutation will be the final one, however listening to researchers that discuss the subject makes me less hopeful.

The exit criteria is that the general population get enough protection that covid outcomes behave similar to other seasonal flu viruses. The hope is that this will be achieved through a combination of vaccinations and time, but we won't know until the data is in. What is known in many countries is that transmission of covid by vaccinated people has surpassed greatly those of unvaccinated (by simple quantity of people who are vaccinated), which is why masks in high risk areas is still recommended for tipple vaccinated people. I would recommend a mask in NYC subway to combat Covid regardless of how much vaccine you have taken.
Using Firefox:

"This browser is not compatible, most of the features will not work."

it's... CSS...
There are many Israeli organizations operating in the U.S. that flat-out state "we are propaganda, please spread us" and they aren't tagged as anything (and never will be):

https://twitter.com/Hasbarafellows

https://twitter.com/CAMERAonCampus
Pretty sure they would have played ball with a Romney administration, or even a Cruz administration. The national security state is bipartisan, but it is by definition establishment.
I'm not an expert on Faraday cages, would the effects stack if you wrapped your phone in aluminum foil, then put it in a cookie tin?
The army should have been treating all of the people involved as potential terrorist. Which by any definition they clearly are. Using violence(destroying property, attacking others) for political goals. Just shoot anyone who resist and ship rest to Guantanamo or some other such location.
EPICGG: “Sorry, No Pudge”
That's apocryphal. For instance it didn't happen around here. Sure some folks over-reacted in some places. But in the interest of not spreading more indignation and outrage, it's pointless to go on about that.
Ah. That is interesting. The reason for the deletion of the draft is supposedly inactivity. I can't see the contents of the page before deletion, so I can't comment on how complete the draft was, but it's definitely a page that should exist.
It has been released. The 20.11 release contains both a nix_2_3 and a nix_2_4 package. I'm fairly certain the only reason 20.11 defaults to 2.3 is because the development of 2.4 focused a lot on flakes despite the fact that there are still an 'experimental' feature (experimental like Gmail was a beta for 7+ years). If you aren't using Nix already there is no reason you can't just start using 2.4 with flakes enabled.
I live in NYC and can't imagine not wearing a mask in the subway ever again... it smells rank enough to begin with.
AdeptID Raises $3.5M to Address Labor Gab with AI
Don't forget that the vaccine also lower the risk of severe form of Covid.
I mean, if you put all the text from a book into a txt file, how is it not an ebook? Does being an "ebook" come from being a digital representation of a book, or is it a reserved title for something in a specific file format created for the purpose such as .epub or .mobi? As far as I know ebook just means electronic book, and a txt file can check both those boxes if it has the right content.
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> prepare good documentation

It is difficult enough to overcome the curse of knowledge when writing documentation that a better path is to open up a pair-programming setup and co-write your documentation with an intern or new-joiner.
Technically that's a flaw of Windows 10, maybe they fixed it in 11 :)
If masks were effective against a virus just show proof. It should be super easy to do. But they won't because They can't. Because if you have two braincells to click together it doesn't make sense. It makes sense to Reduce transmission, but there's No proof that happens, and if there were we'd all know by now. So if you're sneezing or coughing, dont leave the house, you should stay home and our government would support that if they cared, but you have to go to work with a mask, even if you're not sick, it's retarded and just makes people more conformist or picks out the non conformists. If you like other countries that have no choice but to do stupid things like everyone else (ahem, Japan) well you can't move there permanently because they're super super racist, but nobody cares, but go live there for a bit, it sucks, it's extremely conformist and lacks all freedom of individuality, that's why GI's almost always come back after a few years. Think for yourself, question authority.
Vaccination reduces positive PCR test results in the weeks after the jab. It is not for sure that it reduces community transmission.

In the US, the CDC stopped publishing the data one would need to get answers on this in May. For some reason.
LMAO, you're not foiling anything. They've moved to gait analysis years ago... which you probably can't fake.
Indeed, the book scanning project at Google at one point involved removing the spine of a book with a bandsaw, then scanning the loose pages.

For fun, they collected the sawed-off spines and glued them to boards fashioned to look like bookcases. The office looked like a library, but there were no books on the "shelves," only spines.
Lol who searches for bing info on Google? Seriously?
I've been in places like that, it's like you build a brand new front-end but in the background you know - or experience - that within five years it'll be replaced with something new and shiny.

I came into the one company replacing a Flash application. We used BackboneJS first, then realized Angular was a better fit for larger applications, then a few years later when the whole company was basically using Angular, some guy came in from Google and Decided that they should be using Polymer instead. Once they nearly had everything ready for Polymer 2, Polymer 3 and lit-element came out which, of course, was completely different.

I mean we spent time there fixing a performance issue because unlike real UI frameworks, Polymer had no real concept of routing; in effect it worked like tabbed web interfaces, leaving things open but hidden as the user navigates away.

It was a multi-million embarrassment. I spent 2.5 years there in total in the Backbone and Angular project, and they decided fuck you, we'll do it different because we have a new UI style now so obviously every application has to be rebuilt from scratch.
I think a possible solution is to at least list The Private Bay just as a site but not the content within its site. So if you want to search something within The Private Bay, PB can do it within their own site.
The 160 character limit is an ancient relic of 2008 (unlike Chrome)
To me, your point on the desktop allowing better supervision is crucial. My son became obsessed with gaming to where he’d refuse to eat or do schoolwork. I’m not saying your son will react similarly, but I suggest you will want to correct that tendency if it appears.
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The increased vigilantism is directly related to the media demonizing the police and misrepresenting facts. If the police are demonized and told to stand down by mayors during times of riots then someone will fill that vacuum. If you don't want vigilantism then you need police and politicians to do their jobs.

In my opinion, this and many other issues in the past few years are due, almost exclusively, to reporters viewing themselves as activists instead of reporters of fact. This specific case has too many examples of this to be coincidence, from the way the Jacob Blake story was reported initially( failing to report on the knife), to the intentional misrepresentation of the facts in the Rittenhouse case.
How do you derive "black and white" thinking from my post? I'd argue that you and the poster I replied to are the ones thinking that way, not me. I'm not an anti-vaxxer by any means. I believe that any high-risk individuals should get vaccinated, along with anyone else who feels the need. I've always felt the exact same way about flu shots, which as far as I know were never really politicized.
Your place is in a mass grave cuckdown faggot.
I want auto updates for security patches, please.
you: "Twitter is a tool of the US national security state",
me: "stops reading"

you will not educate anyone or create a healthy discussion with anyone if you start your argumentation with sentences like this, which are without a doubt false affirmations, which is sad because your post might be full of good arguments that I would agree with if I would have read it all... the irony about this is that the article is about fighting misinformation and you try comment on that topic by doing exactly that, posting misleading and factually inaccurate information
Run two upgrades in a row..see how it goes for you. I ran insider edition for years and that's a pretty common scenario when doing updates. And that's not even the legit bugs that have occured as well.
No, but it was licensed Motif (the widget set that CDE used). GeoWorks was excellent at what we would call "themes". The released versions allowed the user to choose widgets that either looked like early Microsoft Windows or Motif. And there were screenshots of unreleased builds that allowed Macintosh and NextStep theming as well, but these weren't shipped (probably over fears of their legality).
Launch HN: Stipop (YC S21) – Improving user engagement with stickers
Hi HN,

I'm Tony, and together with my friend Daniel, we created Stipop (https://developers.stipop.io). We help app developers add stickers on chat, comment section, profiles, and live streams by providing an easy-to-install SDK with 150K+ stickers and a fully customizable UI.

Stickers are the big, animated emojis you can send in chat.
This may sound silly and of course, it is, but a lot of people love them. They are sent 17x more than GIFs on Facebook Messenger—that's almost 400M times a day! Users, especially Gen Z and Millennials, love sending stickers to express themselves better and stay more connected online.

But the thing is, having stickers in your app can cost up to a million dollars because you’ll need a good 4~5 engineers to build the infrastructure, UI, search engine and have a content team to sign contracts with hundreds of sticker artists, send payouts and make regular updates every month. We wanted to solve this problem.

We used to operate our own sticker app for iMessage. That's when we first gathered all the artists and knowledge about the stickers. Now, after 4 years, we have 5,000 artists from 35 countries. We hit 200k users before we pivoted to B2B. Back then, we attended TC Disrupt, and many startups came to us asking if they could use our stickers. So we came back, released API, and got our first customers.

Now with Stipop, any app developer can install stickers in just a single day. Stipop SDK has a pre-built UI, so you don't have to design anything by yourself. It also comes with two layouts: a sticker search engine to search for stickers with keywords and a library mode where users can browse and download stickers.

We found that stickers apply to many different app types too. For example, Fingo Africa (YC S21) is a neobank. They are adding stickers to their money-sending feature, so their users can soon send stickers to say thank you instead of just transferring money or send a relevant sticker like pizza to split bills after eating a pizza together. TripTime used stickers for user profile images. We are also on Microsoft Teams to help users search for stickers to send in chats, Blabla live-streaming chat, and soon to be on Canva to provide stickers for image editing and designs.

Our sticker end-users show a stable 40% 8-week retention and helped apps increase user engagement by up to 17%.

We provide the service for free and plan to turn freemium next year. We monetize by creating custom stickers for brands like Coca-Cola.

Please let me know if you have any questions, feedback, or ideas. Your thoughts would greatly help us improve the product!

You can also take a look at our demo video here: https://link.stipop.io/3Epl9LI. Thank you!
i just don't see the point, from a consumer perspective, in all the major players fighting over who's version of Chromium is the most preferred. I get why the company's care - i just don't get why anyone else does.

Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way.
Tornado cash doesn't launder your crypto. Just breaks the link between the heist and your new crypto address. If you steal billions, you still have the problem of justifying them.
> People familiar with internal happenings in the company, which is set to go public in the near future at a $6.9 billion valuation, told TechCrunch that a few factors drove the decision behind the staff reductions.

> For one, the mortgage market is expected to contract pretty significantly after 18 months of rapid expansion driven by historically lower interest rates. ...

Given the tumble that long term interest rates have taken, with no letup in sight, this seems like an odd statement.

What the company is really saying is that it expects the mortgage market to contract, despite falling interest rates and at least no increase in mortgage rates.

Now that's interesting. Especially in light of Zillow's abrupt exit from the home flipping business.

Of course this interpretation may be too charitable, as the company appears to have some irregularities:

> New public filings, interviews with high-ranking company officials, and internal documents reviewed by The Daily Beast reveal that the executive, Elana Knoller, was given stock options potentially worth tens of millions of dollars. Unlike normal employee packages, it vested immediately. It isn’t clear how much the board knew in advance.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bettercom-ceo-vishal-garg-thre...
100%. To be honest, I'd rather they also tagged NPR and the BBC as state-affiliated media. They're more more independent than VOA or RFA, but they still know what side their bread is buttered on.
> The best available data from randomized controlled trials shows a minimal effect.

Be careful what you are arguing that these trials show: whether masks, when worn properly, work, or whether mask mandates work.

Because a randomized study that shows that mask mandates work, which has been shown (the best example I am aware of is the study from India), would necessarily mean that properly worn masks would need to be much more effective than the effect size from a mask mandate study, because of course tons of people under a mask mandate still don't wear masks, or wear them as chin warmers, or never wash them, etc.

So I'm always curious that when a mask mandate study shows minimal, but significant, effectiveness, that the response isn't "See, masks work, even when a ton of people still don't wear them or wear them haphazardly" as opposed to "masks hardly work".
Every time I try to use a “it’s the opposite of what you think” mental shorthand, I get used to the wrong-seeming (but correct) way it is, and then I start mentally flipping it back to the actually incorrect version.
I took your few seconds, and still have 0 frecks to give.

I would be way more concerned about lost time that somebody took from me trying to make it important.
> The lengths highway patrol go to enforce speed limits manually is insane to me.

Enforcing speed limits is not among the things that I think police try at all to do. I rarely see anyone pulled over while driving, and of those, I reason, not all are for speeding; meanwhile cars fly by me constantly at 20 or more beyond the posted limit. I live in Pennsylvania and drive through the Commonwealth and near by states with some regularity.

Although I do think more should be done to both enforce speed limits and make posted speed limits more sensible/natural.
I mean, there has to be a literal _wealth_ of data on mask efficiency by now, considering the _wildly_ different mask mandates between countries? If they are effective it should be somehow visible in transmission rates or whatever after and before masks became mandated.

Sweden where I live has never had any kind of wide mask mandate in public. There has been rules for public transport where I live, and in the office where I work but we worked at home so. Also recommendations for wearing a mask in shops if you are unable to keep a 2m distance. But I have never seen a majority of people anywhere here wear masks.