skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "won't stop infection" or "stop the pandemic" - 1st this is not black and white

Seriously. Mitigating the damage from failure to contain and eradicate the virus when we had the chance (in the precious few early weeks where lockdowns had that potential, but guess what, the same people f'd that up) involves filter after filter after filter. Each filter reduces spread and severity by some amount. Masks reduce (but don't eliminate) transmission. Vaccines reduce (but don't eliminate) infections. Vaccines reduce the length of infection, reducing transmission. Lockdowns and social distancing reduce the spread. On and on. Every single measure is applying a filter that might only be 90% successful. That is no way a logical argument for no filter at all.

These people really don't understand how bad this pandemic would be if we had no mitigation measures at all. The entire hospital system would collapse and millions (more--probably tens of millions) would die. Yet that's what they constantly argue for. Yet forcing people to get a needle in their arm is "draconian".
For Backend/java focues I recommend:

- Baeldung
- Dzone
There was no logic.

A public library is even worse for that purpose, because of security cameras and witnesses.
Memory bandwidth is still 76 GB/s. One reason I’m moving science workloads to M1 is for the cache line size and memory bandwidth, which bump by factor 2-3x the speed.
Next stop for Fuschia?
It should be noted that this is a redesign of the old docs site that recently went live.
Yes Tailwind uses classes. But I think the parent might have meant that Tailwind is not semantic.
> However, in the future I would pick a different visualization I think

I think the box plots were a good choice here. I quickly understood what I was looking at, which is a high compliment for any visualization. When it's done right it seems easy and obvious.

But the y-axis really needs to start at 0. It's the only way the reader will perceive the correct relative difference between the various measurements.

As an extreme example, if I have measurements [A: 100, B: 101, C: 105], and then scale the axes to "fit around" the data (maybe from 100 to 106 on thy y axis), it will seem like C is 5x larger than B. In reality, it's only 1.05x larger.

Leave the whitespace at the bottom of the graph if the relative size of the measurements matters (it usually does).
My point is, what does it serve to build tanks? If the goal is to protect "our nation", then we are serving the abstractions.

If you take a "command economy" and tell it to feed the people of the world, restore natural areas, shelter people... Then the abstractions serves real things.
Net Neutrality Freakouts in 2018 Turned Out to Be Absolutely Nothing
Hell, mine even reimbursed traveling to another country before they were available to the general public in my own country.
Zero-downtime service restarts have been a thing for a very long time. It is a different story for operating systems.
How is putting a crash-developed mRNA vaccine that synthesizes custom-designed antigens into your body, in order to help the greater good, not hacker spirit?
you don't need display

rack servers etc
I am glad, that finally, a healthy dose of skepticism are applied to Apple. Finally. Even on site like Macrumors.com.
It's important to keep in mind that black people have very many reasons to distrust government.
“Who wouldn't want to dedicate their body and soul to a silicon valley corporation?”

A lot of people here do that but at least they make good money doing it. Gig workers don’t get the money.
China is hurting themselves financially just fine (see Evergrande). If anything, the US and other economies are trying to mitigate their damage (no longer invest in bad actor companies and hopefully lock down tether). These other countries arent perfect but China is actively gaming the system to get a better position. I dont blame China, we all are of course, but I dont favor them either.
Ah, I understand now. That's a fair point! I agree that the excellent Go tooling is one of its strengths.
At the risk of adding to his number 12... this is capitalism.
I've only ever done it in person and I can't imagine it would work particularly well remotely. Maybe you could attempt to recreate the experience in VR but I don't think we have anywhere near the technology level to accurately recreate 7 people physically in the same space as each other constantly moving around, having side conversations and whiteboarding things
The last one is the best.
Based on who San Franciscans has been electing, it seems too many live in world of progressive delusion far removed from reality. Reality got too real, now elected officials react. If only the citizens of SF could bring themselves to support and elect politicians who would’ve nipped this tragedy, years in the making, in the bud. Breed talks about the need to change course now — SF needed to change course long ago.
> Note that public health system is for free.

In my country (also EU) the public health system is most definitely not "free". It is paid for by a universal tax called (insidiously and inaccurately) "health insurance".

> There's lately though talk about unvaccinated COVID patients bearing the cost nonetheless.

Calls for true insurance (individualized, based on actual health and habits) are completely infeasible for political reasons.

What I can see happening is the existing mandatory health tax PLUS extra payments for non-grata groups. Some constitutional changes may be needed, but since all the right people would profit (extra $$$), that's just a technical detail in this day and age.
Err... because paying it off monthly doesn't make it any cheaper. And it still ends up being a sizeable chunk of your total purchasing power.
In fact, in my state all students, international or not, are required tot take a bunch of different vaccines before they are allowed to attend classes.

My friend started college in his late 30s and didn't have access to his childhood immunizations since it was so long ago. He had to get a blood test showing immunity before he could attend class.
Sorry to break it to you, interfaces are OOP and trace back to Objective-C and Common Lisp Object System protocols or BETA patterns.
It’s hard to know if an environment is hostile to you or not if there are no examples of safety. For example I would hesitate to join a magic the gathering group if I didn’t first check that they’re friendly to newbies. Especially because I know magic the gathering can vary in experience and that a group that isn’t friendly is not an outlier. If I think about it this way I can understand why a woman might not want to join a company with no other women engineers; how is she supposed to know she’ll be treated with respect, and won’t be pushed to something like management or product, if there are no examples to go off of? It likely worsens broadly if a woman knows exactly 0 women who are engineers as she grows up and considers a career for herself. She might not know any engineering is a viable path.
You call it "hacks and abuses", but it's actually extensibility. Which Wayland kind of lacks (you need support for all of this in the compositor, rather than 3rd party processes being able to provide it).

> Do you honestly believe that wayland developers should reimplement all software that has leveraged and abused the X11 system?

Most definitely not, but what they should do is just to _allow_ the continued existence of all the software which has leveraged X11 in their garden, if the garden is to have any kind of success. And not as 2nd grade citizens.
Lights are such a minor power draw these days they’re almost a rounding error.

An electric car driven 30 miles per day is going to use 3000-9000 Wh, a 10 W LED left on overnight is going to use ~120 Wh.
You're welcome! I'm glad you find it useful.
If the computer is locked, typing commands will not do nothing. If computer is unlocked a person could do it manually without USB by just sending them over internet or storage device of choice, no fancy keyboard+mass storage device required.
> However, the major issue for me is the database of "forbidden" neural hashes which you are not permitted to have on your phone. Who controls what goes into that database? Right now, it's only CSAM and Apple have said they pinky-swear that if they're told to add other things they will refuse.

The problem with this is that we already know "National Security Letters with Gag Orders" exist, and we know that the US government, at least, doesn't mind using those.

"You will do this thing and you will tell nobody that you've done this thing."

The Lavabit rabbit hole is a case study here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...
> science-based and not up for discussion

You realize this is a contradiction, right?
The quality of the reasoning in these above opinions is a useful example of not believing in the standard of logic, consistency, or truth - technically nihilism of the most banal kind. A choice on the condition of consequences is not free or a choice. This deflection of responsibility by the company providing the "choice" is pure gaslighting, and the sadistic glee with which people repeat these slogans should be indicative of who you are dealing with.

It's very close to what is called Hobson's Choice (take it or leave it, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hobson's%20choice..., but it's really closer to Harvey's (Weinstein's) Bargain, where you are free to join him or not and if you don't, the part goes to someone else. It's not quite a quid-pro-quo, as the threat is to take something from you that you already have.

Companies appear free to offer Hobson's Choice, except they haven't been up until now, and the pandemic narrative has provided air cover for a political purity purge. Anyone who is sceptical of the internal passport system the vax is being used to implement probably isn't a culture fit at a platform company anyway, and they should talk to an employment lawyer about their options for getting a settlement for constructive dismissal.

Otherwise, you can't argue with a nihilist position, as it uses discourse to filter people through a lens of alignment to power and narrative, and has no interest in reconciling to truth.
> these are largely the group that have started voting "Conservative" since 2016 because Facebook and feelings equals facts etc

My understanding is that the lowest vaccine uptake is in BAME communities who, I don't think, are largely Tory voters.
You can extend this analysis further. The reason that audiophiles listen to music is for enjoyment. Thus, if they get enjoyment from paying $gazillions for a cable, then it is money well spent.
AMD Short Interest Rises to 71M Shares, CEO Sells Close to $36M of Stock
well, the free world is not that free ;)

doesn't sound like capitalism anymore

when they selectively ban powerful competition
> The agents arresting him did in such a way that they prevented him from touching his laptop (by creating a diversion), because they were feared that such a protection might exist.

But that's literally the scenario this physical-separation killswitch was designed for.

He wouldn't have had to touch his laptop to trigger this. Quite the opposite.
See if you can find a mirror of Yahoo from 1996.
There is NO reason to take the substantial risks that go along with the vaccine if you already have the superior multifaceted natural immunity produced by having already been infected. Even if I hadn't already had Covid, I would not take the additional risks of the vaccine, since they are considerably more likely to result in serious damage or death than simply having the virus. Unless you have serious and significant comorbidities, you are NOT likely to be killed or even significantly injured, by the virus itself.

What we really should be doing, though is not arguing about gene-modifying "vaccines", but rather working to promote proven-effective therapies (mostly zinc plus zinc ionophores like HCQ, IVM, Quercetin, and Fluvoxamine, in concert with steroids, and in severe cases, oxygen. Note that these drugs are NOT effective alone! (The studies claiming they are ineffective have tested them in isolation.)
you could have a look at dblab[1] which (afaik, I've not yet tried using them) has some support for streaming in from a primary source and applying sanitisation functions/transforms

The main value is the use of ZFS snapshots to give you almost-instant (2-3s for a 20G DB on my dev laptop) writeable clone of an import, which you can test your migrations etc against, and then just revert or destroy, which has been extremely helpful for me.

Happy user, no relationship, etc.

[1] https://postgres.ai/products/how-it-works
I'm still tapping "later" on WhatsApp's ToS changes. I wonder how much longer I can get away with it.
The zero value of a sum type can be the zero value of the first (or chosen) constituent. In this case, it could be Result<0>.
Well,

I think journalism is getting worse as the years go by. Like everybody else I noticed the title and clicked on it a few days ago. Reading the paper revealed that the team was simply interpreting/speculating what the math was showing about some hypothetical energy density structures.

Of course the sensationalized title propagated all over the net ignoring the facts.
Censorship is the last refuge of the despot. If history taught us nothing else, any person opposed to free speech is opposed to freedom and dissent. Twitter targets dissenters for the "Regime" as Orwell described it. That's literal fascism. Private business carrying out government's wishes. Digital Hitler is very popular.
I laughed out loud (and was pleasantly surprised) when I found out how much you understated your expertise. I have only read a small bit of your dissertation, but so far it is informative and interesting.
Well I have never witnessed a mythical naked shopping mall, just some outdoor parks and gardens out away from most other people where only the clued-in would go. It is not ok to go out naked in public!
I think the general perception is that women often get turned off not by the work, but by the male-dominated environments. This can be due to subtle issues and sometimes due to non-subtle issues. You want to go out of your way to make it a friendly environment in those cases. Basically, do you want women to have the same shitty experience when they were breaking through various male-dominated fields in the past (e.g. medicine, law, business, etc) or do you want to be a welcoming host? It seems like as a profession we're still in the shitty part of the spectrum based on the horror stories I hear from my female friends in tech.
Google is overstepping their bounds the same way Nasim Aghdam overstepped bounds of complaining about Google
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> A 5900HX is available on laptops that start at $2500, unlike the $4000 that a macbook pro would run you.

Confused. The MacBook Pro is also available from $2500.
Seeing better mobile support is fantastic.
> I don't understand this weird fetishism with getting X demographic into software/tech.

Perspective is valuable, and like it or not various demographics have inherently different perspectives due to a variety of factors. We need conscious effort to include more demographics because our industry is dominated by a very small number of them and therefore its culture is heavily biased towards them.
Affinity Designer is running perfectly under Isolated Windows VM.

Share more details about how you set that up please? Good graphics software, or the relative lack of it, is one of the few things still holding us back from shifting several daily use machines to Linux. Affinity would be OK for that but the only reports we found suggested it wasn't happy running virtually and performance was poor.
> You need something not for when your laptop is removed from you, but when you are removed from your laptop.

Yeah, this wouldn't have saved the admin of Alphabay, a now defunct darknet market. The FBI staged a car crash outside his house so when he'd come out to see what was going on they could arrest him and likely get to his laptop while it was unlocked. Then again, he really shouldn't have left his computer unlocked.
For transmissible diseases that's an excellent call.
I mean, that's all well and good, but assuming that your pilots will correctly diagnose and correct a failure of a new system that may or may not have similar symptoms to existing emergencies is still a really poor practice. If MCAS had been designed to command a continuous forward pitch moment until the AOA excursion had resolved, it would have very accurately resembled a pitch trim runaway following an AOA probe failure. As it was, it clearly didn't have a strong enough resemblance.

Safely operating a poorly designed aircraft can be done, but it starts with explaining the deficiency in exhaustive detail in a bold typeface in a prominent place in the operating manual, with clear warnings to avoid certain flight regions, and a well-documented emergency procedure. For example:

MCAS FAILURE:
If you experience repeated momentary uncommanded nose-down pitch excursions.
1. Conduct RUNAWAY PITCH TRIM procedure.
2. Do not reset pitch trim circuit .

Unfortunately that would have required new training.
> So, there's some number < 27.8% of the US

In Wyoming, < 50% of people 18-65yo are vaxxed. (citation: your link). In Massachusetts? Its > 80%. I just picked two states at either end, you see similar pattern for other states. The highly politicized nature of the vaccine also means that some people that should get the vaccine, and normally would, are holding out. This is disservice to everyone. I have extended family members where people have died because an immune-compromised person didnt get the vax because their care-taker was too focused on the politics to help them get it, only to later bring covid into the household.

The issue is not 27% of the US, its 50% of that state. Some localities are more at risk, or at a lower herd immunity potential.

> Only a small percentage of cases require hospitalization. Are we at an extreme risk of hospital overload now?

Yes. [1].

> current vaccine still provides protection against them

still provides protection against them, but less protection.

> So what are we really gaining by forcing more people to get vaccinated?

1. Less hosts for virus, so less room to mutate, or slower mutations.
2. Less hospital beds used by covid patients. See earlier point.
3. Less people sick, and less death. 27% of america is millions of people.

> with the vaccine, if you get it, it's not really all that serious.

We don't know the long-term side affects of the virus if you get it while vaccinated. We know that a statistically significant cohort of un-vaxxed people get "long covid" where they have long-term side affects. We don't have data on breakthroughs yet getting long covid.

> increasing division and creating further animosity

Most people who mandate masks and vaccines are trying to save lives, however misguided or unnecessary you and others think the chosen implementation of that goal is. I've seen (here in HN) people say that getting covid is "basicallly optional" and therefore if hospitals are at capacity we should just turn away covid patients because its their own fault. I think the division and animosity is borne by those that don't seem to care about others very much, tbh, and therefore maybe health policy isn't "divisiveness" as much as a disregard for other's lives.

I appreciate the numbers-game aspect of saying the risk of death is down to x% of 27% of america, (and shrinking). Its the right approach to proving that the costs are being amortized across less lives saved, because one day (today, tomorrow, whatever) we do have to say that we've saved all the lives we can bear and we have to move on. I don't have a target number, and neither do politicians - maybe the CDC or others should state an actual goal to use to base policy decisions off of.

That said, based on the {unknown long covid risk, hospitals still being at capacity, mutation risk, regionalized risk} i personally still support covid policies to continue to be in affect, despite the (truly minor) inconvenience. I don't really care about the animosity of people who think we should let our fellow neighbors die in the street.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/9443799...
I don't think that's an exception, as government funding and capitalist market are more-or-less mutually exclusive, even in capitalist countries. Nobody in a state government makes more than the governor, nobody in the federal government makes more than the President, etc. And for social work specifically, "real evaluation of skill" is going to raise more than a few eyebrows.
I'm trying to think of examples, for instance is this a main theme in any Eastern religions? Islam?

I guess you could kinda say that about the conquest of the Holy land in the Old Testament, but I think that's a specific case not a general principle of taking from others by divine right. What examples were you thinking of?
npm is just another layer on top of git. go uses git directly. how is that any worse?
This seems really interesting from a technical point of view. However, they seem to be assuming that developers will place a very high value on low input lag. This seems especially doubtful in the context of a collaborative editing tool, where network delays are likely to dwarf any input lag deriving from the event handling and rendering architecture of the editor.

This leaves me wondering what the key advantage of this product will be over VSCode Live Share.
I'd venture to say ease of use. I mean AT&T had everyone's emails but still Facebook makes it much easier to infer and understand and expand surveillance. Getting targeted information might be doable in hardware, but mass surveillance might be much easier if implemented a little higher up, by a dedicated dev team which issues bug fixes and feature extensions, which can turn over a request by you in a fraction of the time and whos capabilities are far more mutable. Hardware is more capable but it's a lot more work
#99: Everyone is replaceable, even you.
Green hydrogen can be cheap if electricity is cheap. With the falling prices of renewables, that is quite likely to happen soon.

But green hydrogen is only useful if electricity is cheap but batteries are expensive. The original article indicates why batteries aren't expensive and are likely to get dramatically cheaper over the next decade. That's why hydrogen is likely to stay irrelevant except for niche use cases.
Hey, don't be so pessimistic. We'll probably have another serialization protocol by then.
Well, someone did:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/18/apples-csam-detection-reverse...
I think it's based on the assumption that if all cultural factors were removed, an equal number of men and women would be in software engineering. And so, by modus tollens, the current gender ratio of the industry is a damning indicator of how much cultural bias still needs to be fought against.

Personally I think that's a flawed assumption. While there are certainly cultural biases at play still, there are also aggregate differences between the genders that most likely means the "natural" gender ratio will still be skewed towards men.

This is unfortunately a taboo topic to make note of, and is absolutely not up for discussion in most workplaces (see the Damore scandal), and so the fetishism you note persists.
A few weeks ago I was forced to accept or I couldn't keep using the app at all.