skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's for hospital workers wearing them 18 hours a day in highly contaminated environments. I am exposed to other people for an hour a day with social distancing, tops. The N95 is much more protective than a cloth mask and it is entirely for self protection, the last thing in the world I want to do is make a "statement" in the places i go. However the intolerance for my silent practice is fairly frequent.
The game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
> Most pragmatic people recognize that you need to weigh deaths against economic health and other considerations and strike a balance.

I'll believe this when you offer up yourself and your own family members as a sacrifice to the economy.
Vaccines didn't prevent the spread of smallpox either, until they finally did.

We're not smallpoxing Covid out of existence without a much better vaccine.
Game wardens have shockingly broad authority. It goes back to the English common law. You don’t actually own land you just hold it fee simple and the Crown, or the State in America, actually has the right to all game. They can even enter your house without a warrant to, for example, check freezers. And if they find anything you’d have best tagged it properly.

However all the game wardens I know aren’t looking to just randomly harass people. There is usually a good reason when they go after someone, like shooting from a motor vehicle on the road.
Create a safe supply of prescribed drugs for drug users, build housing and increase the minimum income assistance so that people that cannot work aren't living a miserable and traumatic life and are able to focus on ending drug addictions and improving their life situation.

No one is putting any thought into the root causes of why petty theft is occurring. When you're addicted to drugs you need to use every day which costs money. You need even more money if you find yourself in debt, say to someone who gave you some drugs when you couldn't pay. No surprise that someone that needs a few bucks badly might rifle through a globe box for something to sell or steal from a store.

Creating a safe supply of prescribed drugs breaks up the entire cycle. No dealers to get indebted to, and accordingly no one to have to steal for. With affordable housing and supports, the driving reasons to commit survival petty thefts disappear. Sure there will probably be some people that continue to steal for extra cash, but at this point you've shrunk the problem down which gives police more of an ability to deal with the real trouble makers, the people that aren't stealing merely to survive.

It's wild that people are pointing the lack of prosecutions of theft under $1000 as the problem. Throwing the book at people committing these trivial thefts is the most costly and least effective approach. I suppose jailing people for petty theft makes the problem "disappear" but only until that person is released. Who wants to pay the enormous expense to lock up everyone? Not me.
WIV was studying bat-vaccine viruses: release the vaccine in a population and let infection do the rest.

Wuhan variant, shows a mortality of around 10% (all the miners died, and healthy doctor, who was silenced then martyred, also died).

Branch after Wuhan quarantines in Italy was mixed S and L variant. Mortality of around 1% after settling. Xi-Omicron variant now seems around 0.1%.

Would a country with a more advanced biodefense release such a counter virus if it had the option? Perhaps if the damage to the economy and international relations became too grave.

Then again, Spanish Flu also lasted 3 years and ended with an endemic virus. Maybe we just waited for nature to engineer this, while trying to speed up opening up for the economy, having young people vaccinate to protect the rich and elderly, and a few years worth of mRNA data volunteered/mandated by the public.
This is one of those examples that actually allows me, as a white male living a life of privilege, to come remotely close to understanding the trivialising power of a 'label'.

I'm an atheist, but my atheism is my own.

And, in that, I realise that the number of degrees of freedom of an atheist are only slightly greater than those of a devout religious type, in that there are almost infinite things that "label" doesn't define, whilst a very limited number of things (1 for an atheist, a few more for a religious person) that a label does define.

You are an atheist. You are a catholic. You are a woman. You are Japanese. Few words, but even less meaning.

I just (re)watched the space snake episode of Rick and Morty last night:

“Imagine being a racist snake. Hey, other snake, I hate you because you’re the wrong colour snake!”
What happens when people start generally moving away from crypto towards less risky assets as they age? This hasn’t started yet but it will
Being an atheist is not automatically tied to reason and rationality.
Your "state of the art" Go code is not really a good example of how that functionality would be written.

If you want to check for a specific error condition, then just define a value for that error and use `errors.Is` to check for it. This works as you'd expect with wrapping: https://go.dev/play/p/rJIlKKSYn9Q

> With the current go error handling, you need to add the informations yourself in the string, not as a real data structure.

This is completely false! If you want to provide a structured error, then you just need to define a type for it. In your example, a Go programmer might use errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) and errors.As if they wanted to retrieve the specific file path that does not exist in a strongly-typed way, something like https://go.dev/play/p/hdHPLAVbQuW.

> Delegating error handling to a try/catch block with a typed data structure allows the caller to care for certain type of errors and delegate the others to its own caller. With the current error type in Go, what would you do? parse the error message?

Certainly not! I think there is a misconception that "an error is a string" -- in Go, an error is actually any type that satisfies the error interface, i.e. has an `Error() string` method. It can be any type at all, and have as many other methods as you like in order to provide the functionality you need.

> what if the function is defined in a dependency you have no control over?

There's nothing stopping you from writing `throw new Exception(String.format("file not found: %s", filename))` in languages with exceptions either. In both cases, it would be recognized as poor API design.

Regarding stack traces, Go makes a strong distinction between errors (generally a deviation from the happy path) and panics (a true programming error, e.g. nil pointer dereference, where the program must exit). Errors do not provide stack traces since there is no need for them in a flow control context, panics do provide stack traces for useful debugging information.
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
-Mark Twain
> The two do (religion and rationality) are not mutually exclusive concepts.

Only if the religion is unfalsifiable. If it can be proven false then it's irrational to believe in it. If it can be proven true there is no need for faith.
Poop Map of San Francisco

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...
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Fair enough, I think I basically agree.
Not an expect in this subject matter and not even an anti-vaxxer but do wonder: If I were the COVID organism, its beneficial for me not to be lethal to the host I infect. Initially I would but other mutations and time I'd learn not be. My host is useless to me if I kill it.

The point: perhaps we're hyper focused on "COVID is out to kill us senseless"
Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/books/review/john-mcwhort...

At least Christianity has a track record you can judge, for better or worse, and some notion of redemption.
Thanks for the rec, don't know too much about them, something to look into
> But there is nothing natural about it

The natural pressures are the law of supply and demand. If the bank creates too much money relative to the collateral, it risks a run on the bank. Too little, and the bank goes out of business because it isn't making money.

> Is having no rules free market?

Yes (other than you cannot force people to do business with you nor can you defraud them).

> The amount of money in the system would stay fixed, right?

Nope. You don't actually loan out the coins. You loan out a receipt for the coins. As long as people don't redeem the receipts, you can loan out a multiple of the coins in the vault. This is called "fractional reserve banking". After a while, instead of trading coins, people trade the receipts. The receipts evolved into bank notes.

It's a fascinating history.

> So then the only 'natural' money supply is your ability to mine gold?

Lots of commodities would work. People in colonial America used tobacco leaves. Today people "mine" bitcoins.
Yes, but the discussion here is how that could be done with Xorg, not Wayland. My point is that the tech is there and at least Qt already has code for it, but it just needs all the relevant projects to work together. Or more accurately, someone to make all the necessary patches for all the affected projects and have these patches be accepted :-P.

I don't plan on getting one since i find even 1440p/27" too much for my taste (i only got it because it was the only high refresh rate monitor with a flat VA panel i could find available when i decided to get a new monitor) but if i ever have to get a hidpi monitor (e.g. someone finally released an OLED monitor but does the annoying thing and only makes it available in a single configuration that happens to be 4K because bigger numbers are better, all other concerns be damned), i'll try to go through everything to get it working on my PC (assuming noone else does it before).
Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?
95% of the value we get from Alexa is automatic turning on/off of lights and simple functions like cooking timers.

We've had Amazon Alexa for five years, since the gen 1 device, and now find it to be an increasing invasion to the sanctity of the home.

We find it particularly annoying that nowadays, when you ask Alexa to do something, several times per week it will suggest some annoying upsell crap you don't care about. It used to suggest things once per quarter tops, that was fine.

HN, what private alternatives to Alexa may exist?

For example, does anyone make a system that's relatively polished and operates entirely in the home, with no audio sent to the cloud? I'd be happy to run a hub/box for the system.
I would rather not reboot and run windows as a captive OS. Would you call using the Win11 android emulator gaming on Windows?
Team develops the world&#39;s first optical oscilloscope
Roe v Wade is a fascinating study in the evolution of US political discourse. Aside from the religious angle, the courts decision was driven by republican appointed judges who thought the government should stay out of peoples choices on this. How things change.
For what it’s worth, most of Christianity would not consider many Seventh Day Adventist beliefs to be pretty mainstream.
Hypothetically it’s all cash based. It’s the tragedy of the commons. What is rational in isolation is not overall like pollution.
I have a front row seat to the horrible torturous deaths that await us all. It is far worse than anything I can do. It makes me happy. I know it awaits the people who have screwed me hundreds of times over. They're not going to cure cancer. They're not going to reverse aging. They're not going to unify the laws of physics. No one knows anything. We had a front row seat to that with covid. They put on a lab coat and you find out they're the same leg humping drug snorting pervert just like any other corrupt political boss. You would know global warming is real when all the humanitarian business leaders and dedicated public servants run far away and hide. Their one way out is to do themselves in. Go ahead. Show the world what a coward you are, what a liar you are, what a hypocrite you are.

I don't see how I'm the problem. Here's an idea. How about you leave the USA alone and not start aggressive wars of territorial expansion? How about you don't double cross us and ambush us after we built everything for you and ended your runaway wars where you horribly murder each other. How about you stop coming to my country and stealing everything and burning everything and addicting everyone to drugs and do something else alongside the undisputed victors of two world wars and the only people to walk on the moon besides flushing them down your third world toilet.

I want it to happen. I want California to drown. I want New York City to drown. I want Brazil to drown. I want Mexico and Arabia to fry. I really want them gone. Asia, India, Arabia, Russia, Africa, they're poor like the Rolling Stones are poor. They're poor like Motley Crew OD'ing in a ditch on the side of the road are poor. Die.

One disadvantage would be the mountainous regions. Oh boy. Are those shitting haji bastards going to get it, and get it bad when the flood ends. Two words. Kinetic bombardment. They will wish they were dead.
Write up a policy in advance, display it for public scrutiny "if and when a new variant is discovered, exhibiting x/y/z characteristics, when it presents itself in a manner similar to mannerisms a or b or c based on the variety of possible circumstances such as time of year, infection rates etc etc etc, we shall adopt the following corresponding measures <insert measures> (etc etc etc), reevaluating and adjusting our policy as prescribed as the data inevitably becomes clearer."

I missed out some stuff but i think you get the picture. This way, everyone is onboard, no one gets the feeling that politicians are making this stuff up as they go along and consistency is acheived. But crucially, policy won't get decided by people panicking and rushing around afraid they'll lose their job if they don't look like they are doing anything.
Sorry, it has nothing to do with etymology. It is a remote and obscure use case which may or may not be offensive to some group or other.

I do not care. I'm here to read about some tech company changing their revenue model, and what tech people has to say about it. If I cared about endless discussions and virtual virtue hoarding about race, gender and politics, I'd be browsing the dark side of twitter, not the front page of HN.

I'm so tired of langauge being turned into a minefield, and every conversation ending up being about race, gender, religion, politics and whatnot. I'm a technical person, I care about technical stuff, and I use langauge to communicate technical ideas, not ideological ones.
Should Tesla Open Up Their Control Code to Public Audit?
While I love the trailblazing Tesla has done for EVs and smart cars, it's moments like these that make me cringe.

Obviously, we don't know right now if the driver was at fault or not - but I'm a capable coder and have some exposure to control theory as well as microcontrollers - and would be more than happy to audit Tesla's firmware.

Even more, I think there's a case to be made here for formal verification and high assurance languages such as SPARK.

It would be nice if you could pass the Tesla codebase to a formal solver and ask the solver "prove that pressing the brake never accelerates", and then have the resulting code and proof be made public.
Seriously. They promised us a superintelligence but all we got was a Mormon.
Does it have data on the country in which I live, or just Germany?

But that's besides the point.

The issue is 'Communications'.

How many times has Dr. Fauci gone on TV and talked about all the people have died from vaccines? How often has even even communicated that it's lethal?

How many vignettes has CNN done on the 'terrible tragedy bestowed on the family when their child died of a vaccine?'

Zero.

Because that's a 'Truth' that the public 'Cannot Handle'.

If we focused any amount on the people dying from vaccines, even though it's rare and rationally it would not change policy ... the anti-vaxx movement would have a field day with it and it would cause harm.

Now, they're not lying, but their definitely not going to present us with all the ugly details. They're going to present us with some basic facts, and their recommended policy. If you really want to find the info on the number of dead from vaccines, you can dig, and maybe come up with something.

In a Public Emergency, this issue is even more acute.

Obviously it's a challenge and you need incredible integrity in the system, otherwise, data gets manipulated for naked political reasons (i.e. elections, not health outcome) and we pay the price in lives, which by the way I think has happened to some extent in the US.

'Data' and 'Communications' are separate things.
It sounds like you don't know the first thing about epidemiology modelling : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6962332/
If that's how you see "god" then the only thing we differ on, as such, is the meaning of the label 'religious'. For me, religious means following a specific set of beliefs, behaviours, and traditions - which is somewhat incompatible with the idea of seeking truth inasmuch that some newfound truths may be incompatible with said beliefs, behaviours, and traditions.

According my mental dictionary, religion and rationality are mutually exclusive when the religious doctrine is proven irrational.
you don't deploy it, you go to openai.com and use their API.
You might want to investigate the economic collapses caused by government run monetary systems. Like the Weimar Republic you mentioned - that collapse led to Nazism. Not a ringing endorsement for central banking, amirite?

BTW, are you enjoying the 9% haircut we all got in the last year courtesy of central banking?
But we don't "have" trees. Owning a tree is dependent on a highly abstract concept of ownership, enforced by an organized state that monopolizes the use of force.

Saying a transaction is without force or fraud is only begging the question. If it is legal, and someone thinks it is illegitimate, then it logically involves both fraud and force from their perspective. It was fraud to write the rules down, and it is force to use guns to make people comply.

It's too easy to defend "free markets" while ignoring that the usual description is circular.
Every time someone adds a new package to npm, they should be forced to write it out by hand like this.
> I'm fairly certain that not all marriages are based on fear of the potential pain of open relationships

I don't think that's what the parent comment was saying. I read it as "being too open-minded can backfire on you, and here's an example of how," and not as "people only get married because they're afraid of open relationships," which is how I read your sentence.

On the other hand, you assert that you "got deep into it because [you] value the depth that comes from that one forever-friendship that is intimate on a level that can't be experience[d] with the guys from the bar."

But can't you have that relationship _without_ marriage?

And so in that case, why marriage at all?

And the obvious answer to that is that now we're back to OP's example of the unspoken plan to get married to bind the other more tightly to you, with the side effect (or perhaps main effect) of making separation painful and difficult, thereby increasing the chances of both of you staying in that forever-relationship.

In other words, you don't _need_ to get married to have an intense forever-relationship with someone, but if you want safety and security and the knowledge that they won't (can't?) leave you, then you get married for all the reasons in OP's blog post.
Can't speak for GP, but generally I believe there is a not insignificant chance that the treatment I'm being provided by the doctor is ineffective or even counterproductive. I'll still generally follow the doctor's advice at least after doing a brief literature search to confirm that the doctor's advice is aligned with contemporary best practices.

Part of science is acknowledging epistemic uncertainty yet still acting on imperfect information.
> we have an issue.

No, we don’t.
> Taking that argument seriously it means that "the sustainable carrying capacity" is way below what we had in 300 BCE.

No it doesn't, because I'm not saying there's one carrying capacity that's somehow inherent to earth.

Of course it's related to technology and lifestyles and our environmental impact. What made you think I was trying to say otherwise?

Clearly if we got all our energy from burning wood and food from hunting and gathering, we couldn't even support 1% of our population without massive unsustainable habitat destruction. And yes in the past there have been many unsustainable societies that we might like to have changed but that's done now we are dealing with what's in front of us.

And with our current environmental impact, the current population is not sustainable. Maybe technology and societies will change enough in future that it could sustainably support today's levels of population, but that's irrelevant. That doesn't help the 53% of grassland birds in North America being wiped out in the past 50 years.
Two tools:

One, commoditize your complements. The complement of satellites is rockets, make rockets cheaper and you simplify the process of getting to space.

Second, build towards economies of scale. A one-off is going to be ludicrously expensive, even the Apollo program saved money by reusing technology from military missiles. SpaceX has built more than a hundred rockets and launched more than a thousand satellites. Asteroid barons launching megatons to orbit would certainly make launching a 6.5 ton payload a non-issue. The complexity in the smartphone in my pocket boggles the imagination, I bought it for $200 but if it was a one off you'd have to be Bruce Wayne to afford it.
This is the part I find scary. Credentialism has given rise to a new clerisy. This is especially evident in fields where “there’s no there there” like social studies.
Validating JSON Input in Rust Web Services
> Think about the statement "We believe in science in this house". What does that even really mean?

I think for most people it means that they believe the process of using science to discover how the world works is better than the other alternatives offered by religion, philosophy, conspiracy theories, etc. They don’t usually think it’s infallible, just better than the alternatives.
I don't insist that you believe anything, I just tried to pick an example that you might already believe in, and draw analogies to belief in spirits so you can better understand the more nuanced view of spirit that is actually what a religion such as Christianity talks about https://biblehub.com/nlt/ephesians/6.htm.

I think that we live in a time where our understanding of what a spirit is, is very different to what religions traditionally believed. We only think of some kind of ghostly person which might be in some kind of other dimension which science has yet to discover. But I think that the way we think of Patriarchy is actually much closer to the way that a spirit was thought of in the past. It's not exactly the same, and it lacks some aspects, but it is a much better starting point for a secular person to understand what a spirit is, rather than childhood memories of caspar the friendly ghost.
I know a couple that met on LinkedIn. That contains most of the information you'd actually care about (vs. "I like pizza"). But crucially, she approached him.
You can blacklist it using the uBlacklist extension. It's currently on the front page.
Is there a list of famous extensions that would stop working or suffer from Manifest v3?

Currently we see they will be broken:

- Tampermonkey / Greasemonkey / Violentmonkey & other scripting extensions

- NoScript

- Anything that [1]:

- Interact with DOM

- Access clipboard

- Communicate using WebRTC/WebSocket/Native Messaging

And they will suffer:

- uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger & other Ad-Block extensions

Let alone much more rewrites in exchange for probably-barely-usable extensions.

[1]. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72