skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BMJ's article has a patently wrong headline and is clearly crafted to cast doubt on the efficacy and safety of the Pfizer vaccine where no such doubt exists. The Lead Stories article is gaudy and equally clickbaity, but they get the facts right.

It looks like this has been a trend with the BMJ, now that Peter Doshi has managed to become an associate editor. Just because the journal is historically important doesn't mean it should be looked at with an uncritical eye. Spreading misinformation, especially from a pulpit of legitimacy, needs to be challenged.

I'm sympathetic to arguments that FB has too much power in these things, but in this instance they got it right. The BMJ editorial staff need to be shamed into getting these cranks out of their midst.
What are some of these political changes?
I'm fighting it right now myself. Have my initial vaccines and got my booster about a month and a half ago. First two days were terrible, but now it just feels like a cold. What I can't handle is the brain fog. I've been awake enough to do some last minute code reviews for people before we start the Christmas shutdown and they have taken me double/triple the amount of time they usually take me. Answers to questions don't come as fast, etc. I really hope the fog clears up soon, it's pretty demoralizing for me right now.
False equivalence.

> its employees often communicated about securities business matters on their personal devices, using text messages, WhatsApp, and personal email accounts. None of these records were preserved by the firm as required by the federal securities laws. JPMS further admitted that these failures were firm-wide and that practices were not hidden within the firm. Indeed, supervisors, including managing directors and other senior supervisors – the very people responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with JPMS’s policies and procedures – used their personal devices to communicate about the firm’s securities business.
Welcome to the enterprise! :-)
Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
Initial launch is easy, but try to update from one release to another. You will have to, when the security releases will be out.

Solving issues like why it doesn't connect to it's own redis instance anymore, when only its own script touch the config. Not very funny times.
Very cool and cute. The tiny screen actually looks great.
Ha, I didn't know that. Thanks. Learned something new today.
How are they a threat to society?

The threat to society is the scummy speculator hotel owners^W^W "landlords" who have units sitting empty and unattended for months (or years in the case of many places around here) in an attempt to drive up or sustain artificially high rent...
I didn't know the thumb cluster lifted upwards. Just tried it on mine, wow is that uncomfortable.
A dude swiping some snacks from Target I can understand, but people that break into private residences are definitely a threat to society. It is easy for that to escalate into a violent encounter and it makes people feel legitimately unsafe living in the city.
Did you actually read the article I linked? Property crime has increased dramatically under Boudin in SF. Here you go(murders also increased as well but not as dramatically):

2018 - 10,058 property crimes

2019 - 9,404 property crimes

Boudin Elected

2020 - 13,632 property crimes 44% increase

2021 - 6,180 property crimes (half year of stats only)

Boudin has initiated a catch and release for non-felony crimes which means the police arrest someone for breaking into a apartment and they are on the streets the next day due to no cash bail. Charging rates are extremely low(from 2018-2019) as the previous SF DA George Gascon initiated the same policies as Boudin and went to LA as DA and he(gascon) is also being recalled.
Am a contractor and have to use their VPN. It has provision for "end point scanning" on logon but they don't use it, yet.

Recently they provided a Macbook pro, in which I installed Little Snitch and taped the camera, so I don't worry any more.
What's the difference between Prophecy and the multitude of other ETL tools out there, like StreamSets, Talend, Ab Initio, and plenty more?
Immutability is the least of DeFi's problems. A DeFi "loan" requires that the borrower must put up an amount equal to the sum of all future installments... which means for a borrower to be able to borrow funds they need to already have the funds they're borrowing (plus interest).
and also China invaded Vietnam after the US did. Everyone is a piece of shit.
As the BMJ article points out, Cochrane has had the same problem, and it's not like these are the only two cases. There have been huge numbers of statements by high profile experts and professors being labelled as fake news by journalism interns at "fact checkers". You may not be aware of them but this is a very frequent problem.
Russia issues list of demands it says must be met to lower tensions in Europe
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We're trying for something different here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596102.
Because, cynicism (and specific elected officials) aside, the government has a vested interest in people viewing it as a country of laws rather than a country of whatever you get off with is fair game.
It has the potential to be. Of course they aren’t going to torture individuals, but they could easily amplify large scale suffering stochastically.
> It's easy to scapegoat "the media" as an entity, but insofar as it exists, the media and what it publishes is downstream of what individuals in society want to see and hear.

This seems very naive. Media companies are not working for the public, which pays pennies to the dollar compared to advertising. Not to mention, everyone in power knows how much the public is influenced by media, and takes care to cultivate their relationship with media through all means possible - donations, access journalism (you publish something bad about me? See if anyone in your whole paper gets one more "leak" from us), friendships with the editors and managers and so on.

Not to mention, you're making an assumption that the media has a responsibility of extracting the maximum possible engagement, which is definitely not a given. Even if Rachel Maddow or Tucker Carlson get the maximum possible engagement, that doesn't make it ethical to put such partisan and deceptive voices front and center. This is essentially a way of manipulating emotion, just like advertising, it's not a democratic style of "listening to your consumer".

Finally, there is a difference between the style that media chooses to employ, which the public has some influence on; and the content they actually publish, which is much more controlled by management and special interests groups. Just look at stories that don't get published - for example, when Ruth Badger Ginsburg was interviewed, she noted that she didn't agree with athletes kneeling; but, the interviewers decided that this will hurt her image among the left, so they just cut out this part of her interview.
Still to early. People said the same about IoT, VR, BLE, and 5G. Most of it was marketing buzz.

Don’t forget that web3 involves NFTs. And you can buy an NFT from yourself to make it appear it’s valuable even though it’s not. Wash sale rules along with plenty of others don’t apply to NFTs, yet.
What a strange parallel to draw when it comes to the actions of the current Democrats and Republicans in our House and Senate along with the current presidency and adminstration.
You’re getting downvoted but it’s true. After the dot bomb there were the influx of ‘creative’ hipsters with an art degree their parents bought them gentrifying neighborhoods. Then they got priced out by techies.

SF is an attractive place so it attracts people, the vulnerable communities with less resources get pressure.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596102.

p.s. Not defending fact-checkers, just trying to defend HN against tedious deterioration.
Thank you, that's really nice to hear!
It appears that the source of the confusion is the lack of articles. The 'true' headline is "revealed flaws in A Pfizer vaccine trial", the misleading interpretation is "revealed flaws in THE Pfizer vaccine trial". Lead Stories emphasizes the significance of the other trials, The BMJ emphasizes the significance of the findings, and neither is really lying.

Where Lead Stories goes overboard is in the way they present their title. It would be far more appropriate to title the story like this:

>Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Revealed Flaws In Only One Of Many Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

In fact the use of the plural "Trials" in the fact-check title from Lead Stories is a malapropism, since the BMJ article clearly focuses on a single trial. The BMJ article also does not use the word "disqualifying" at all, nor does it supply such an implication.

The problem is not with fact-checking or even with attaching a fact-check to this particular story; the problem is that the content of the fact-check is structured like clickbait, with a classic motte-and-bailey title.
I worked for a year at a startup that had space in FIU's (Florida International University) startup accelerator program -- unshockingly called "StartupFIU".

When I moved down here, I was surprised. FIU is a massive and very nice school; University of Miami is also nice.

I had never even heard of FIU before I worked on campus there.

They're no Ivy League but I would say they're better than a lot of other schools.
Hi! Thanks for your feedback. I had not come across this, but it looks quite similar :) (at least conceptually). I don't have a video, but there is a short gif in the repository. I am planning to make a video at some point though!
> The SEC is also wrong to say: "Indeed, supervisors, including managing directors and other senior supervisors – the very people responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with JPMS’s policies and procedures "!! No, EVEYONE is responsible,

And you were born knowing this, or did someone have to model the proper behavior for you first?
> private residences

Huh? You mean empty hotel rooms? Did you read the comment?

> It is easy for that to escalate into a violent encounter

[citation needed]

> and it makes people feel legitimately unsafe living in the city.

So did desegregation.
This thread is inundated with people who did not read any of these articles and are going off the title alone.
You're not wrong, but anything up to DIN P-4 is a couple of evenings of work to defeat with an automated computer vision algorithm. Ask me how I know. Most consumer grade shredders on the market are DIN P-2 and DIN P-5 is where it starts to get really tricky but is still possible to work with.

And I have found that most corporate security, especially in the biometric arena, is sub-par, usually because of the human component doing the enrolling. I am not saying it isn't workable, but that there is a vast landscape between people's perceived utility/functionality of the security and the actual security envelope it provides. Fortunately for me, security is very difficult to get right.
> I will say that as an outsider, the Bay and San Francisco often seem to get conflated when people discuss them. I've heard plenty about the issues the city of SF is facing right now, but my sense is that many parts of the Bay are still thriving - just prohibitively expensive for most. Is that true? Or is the lived experience in other parts of the Bay also getting worse?

That's very, very true, and also one of my pet peeves as an insider.

Most of the problems that people are associating with the Bay Area - the rampant crime, poop on the streets, poor schools, dysfunctional politics, performative wokeness - are specifically San Francisco problems (and to a slightly lesser degree, Oakland and downtown San Jose). In my neighborhood, there are yard signs out saying "We [heart] our police", right alongside BLM signs and rainbow flags. There is no poop on the streets, not even dog poop (there are occasional broken bottles, but they're as likely to be Snapple as beer). The two times I've had to call them (for identity theft and a medical emergency), they were there within an hour and 3 minutes, respectively, and they were courteous and professional. I feel safe walking my kid back from preschool.

Mid-peninsula, Redwood City, Mountain View, most of Sunnyvale, Fremont, North San Jose, Berkeley/El Cerrito, are all on the upswing. Housing prices are unfortunately all going up to match, but that's because people want to live there.

I've heard that the center of gravity of Silicon Valley shifts every 5-10 years or so, each time a new tech wave happens. It was SF in the 2010s (mobile & sharing economy), Palo Alto & Mountain View in the 00s (Web 2.0 & social networking), SF in the late 90s (dot-com boom), Mountain View in the early 90s (SGI & Netscape), Cupertino in the late 80s (Apple, Seagate, and Borland), Scotts Valley in the early 80s (Borland), spread over the peninsula in the 70s (Oracle in Redwood Shores, Intel in Santa Clara), and Sunnyvale in the 1960s (Lockheed Martin, Hendy Ironworks). It's likely we're seeing another turn now, and my bets for a new center of gravity would be Redwood City (crypto, drones) or Foster City / Redwood Shores (biotech).
Found the article, it's from 2018 about garbage collection in NYC: https://www.propublica.org/article/trashed-inside-the-deadly...
Turkey Halts All Stock Trading as Currency Disintegrates, Central Bank Powerless
So they can just steal until they get caught, make a bazillion bucks, and get off scot-free if they write their own code after getting caught?
"Evacuate Taiwan..", are you nuts?
Even if the media adopted a "just the facts" approach, there's still the question of which facts. Most misleading news stories aren't outright lies, but a careful selection of truths and ommissions that creates a narrative the journalist (and their reader) finds desirable. I don't think it's possible to overcome that and still create a product most people will watch or read: I strongly doubt the average reader will wade through "collections of consensus" in place of partial news stories. People read the New York Times or the Daily Mail because they like them, not because they lack an alternative that tells them the real truth.

Another problem, one tech people tend to ignore, is that journalism is as much about values as facts. And so long as we disagree on values, collections of consensus will quickly turn into competing consensuses, each motivated by values that aren't recognized by the others, which is exactly what we have now.
- environmentally unfriendly
- price is falling (or inversely more expensive)
- hundreds of competitors

Insert: coal

Takes time for the status quo to adopt and learn.

That being said I don’t think that it’s going to be a bear market for btc, I don’t foresee BTC being big in 10 years, but 10 years is far from now…
trio has a similar utility I believe
> Enterprise software companies also generally provide long-term support and backward compatibility

Honest question for anyone familiar with enterprise SAAS contracts: does the same apply?

I mean sure, I have seem MS/Oracle provide crazy-long support for some of their software offerings, but if MS decided one day to pivot away from Teams, is there any clauses in the 365 contracts that prevent them from just shutting down the servers?
In this case I assume the BMJ article was peer reviewed, so it was already fact-checked by knowledgeable individuals. BMJ is a reputable journal that can be relied to fact-check their articles. The fact that it was labeled a newsblog means that the fact-checkers really had no domain knowledge about the facts they were supposed to check.
I get the feeling you are getting your information from highly political sources rather than getting out from behind the screen and talking to real live people.

Where I live, there is no vaccine mandate for hospital staff due to staffing concerns. Talking with actual local physicians, nurses and doctors are quitting in droves after seeing a huge amount of preventable death in the past few months, by patients who deny the reality of the disease they have, and whos families harass hospital staff about treatments that don't work (hcq/ivermectin/whatever the latest magic pill is now).

I actually am against vaccine mandates and don't think anyone who doesn't want the vaccine should be forced to take it. That said, if you don't take it, I don't want you in the hospital if you end up getting covid. Take hcq/ivermectin/whatever joe rogan is saying now rather than occupy a hospital bed, don't clog up the hospital due to your mistake.
There were like 10k articles written about how FB is spreading COVID misinformation and causing people to not get vaccinated. You can't have both of these, which is the greater evil?
I just bought two and use one on top of my laptop. Or perfect but it works out alright.
I've been advocating for this for a long long time. Just NAT to IPv6 or IPv4 and go about your business.
VSCode's support of TypeScript is a boon even if you're writing vanilla JS, because it will pick up types defined by your libraries in use and now you can very quickly/easily get to the interface information without having to dig into source.
The Solar-Powered Aptera Aims to See the Light of Day
As a transplant from Boston to California, every instance of “Miami” could be replaced with “California” in your comment and I’d be fine with it.
Chiming in real quick to say: NICE! I really like how the home page gets right to the point of what it is and shows you a code sample, not a bunch of loosey-goosey executive-targeted buzzword copy written by an English major without a clue of what they're talking about or some GPT-generated garbage. It's fantastic that you guys get to the point of WHAT THE DAMN THING IS - and that makes me want to use it in the next project where this might be a good fit.

Bookmarked in Raindrop for future reference. Next time I need to encrypt data in an app, I'll see if this is a good fit. Thanks for sharing!
See also Dr. Seuss' seminal "The Sneetches".
And don't forget to read the comment you're replying to!
When I first clicked it, I was greeted with this: https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png#youtubedown

Edit: I can confirm that this jwz's script works. Very handy for me. Thanks again!
It really stands for Excel Taking Longtime
Yep, love my Moonlander - it has really helped with my wrist issues. The only trouble I have is when I have to switch to a standard keyboard (e.g., on a laptop).
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. I'm not defending what you're criticizing—I'm saying that on HN, criticism needs to be more substantive than this.
I'm not sure about that, I don't use Rust but I don't see how it could be relevant because its real time, what you want is to dump things and analyze later, if you have to stay in front of the console to see what's happening it's not very useful.
Is it currently possible to dump the trace and analyze it later with that console? ( like Go or Java does with JFR ).

The idea is great it's the way to consume the information that I think misses the point.
> I can't tell how much of it is random people projecting their cynicism onto the business world, or if it's people who have been part of bribery/kickback schemes themselves trying to normalize the behavior online.

I think most people don't understand the difference between an agreed to agency fee/reseller margin deal, a direct incentive program, and someone just taking money, on the side. Direct Incentives (also call spiffs) are where a supplier pays a bonus directly to the person who sold the deal. These are always agreed to between the companies and reported. Without permission of the employer, they could be very illegal or a major violation of your employment contract.
They don't have to approve anything on Mac. You can install stuff without using the app store

Edit: oh wait sorry I see they have published it on the app store. Cool
They have to do this by las. Part is to “run the tapes” is there is a customer disagreement, and part is records keeping for compliance purposes. (Anti-Money Laundering, making sure transactions have economic substance, etc) In the aftershock of 2008 it came to light that much of the illegal behavior happened when people switched to personal devices.
BMJ sounds like people who've never actually been on Facebook.

They complain of nonsensical title:

>"Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials"

The title is nonsensical because that's the nonsensical claim the fact-checkers are debunking! That's the title the BMJ article (or its screencap) is being shared with.

BMJ's article is being used as "proof" that vaccines are a hoax. That's why there's a hoax alert.

BMJ's article is "misleading info" in the context of how it's shared on Facebook, where the fact checkers are working.

I mean, there are a lot of thing that Facebook does wrong, but this is not one of them. Good job, Mark.
The problem is that there are two interpretations of "fact-checking is bad" which are not mutually exclusive:

(1) "Fact-checking" is a term used by people who are not interested in facts, but just want to control a narrative.

(2) Convincing the public that "fact-checking" is always done in bad faith is in the interest of people who do not want to actually be fact-checked, but rather want to control a narrative.

Well, that's one problem. The other problem is that (2) has the potential to be far more pernicious: it dismisses the possibility of material difference between real fact checks and propaganda disguised as such. "Fact checkers may have their own agendas" can be true without leading us to "therefore no facts should be checked." If we choose the latter, then we have largely given up on the possibility of facts at all, and we are, not to put too fine a point on it, well and truly fucked.

In the case of this BMJ article, it looks like there are reasonable questions as to whether the authors truly make a case that supports their conclusions. There's a comment from PaulDavisthe1st somewhere around here that links to both the actual article and the fact check, and it at least seems a bit more complicated than "THE BMJ IS BEING SUPPRESSED BY THE ELITES WHO DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH, MAN," which is a distinct vibe I get from the comments.
> I wouldn't turn down a job solely based upon their reliance on a tool like Zulip, but it would definitely be a factor in my decision.

I feel the same way about slack, so it's funny that we have different experiences. Granted I don't use Macs, so I can't have had a bad experience with the Zulip mac client.
Tanenbaum was in fact right. Monolithic kernel design has caused no end of problems, which is why modern OS's (including Linux!) are moving a lot into userspace. See Windows moving font parsing out of the kernel, macOS DriverKit, Linux uio, etc.
Wow that's twisted