skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liked it too! I recommend An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield if you haven't read it already.
Will probably work on manifest v3 chrome then too
In no way is the NYT any longer able to be called centrist from a UK outlook, that's long in the past, it shares a space with the Guardian now and seems happy to be doing so.
Thanks for the list!
#3 was a big thing for me.

As for #4, I have a place where I charge my phone out of sight. I normally have mobile data turned off, so I can switch off internet access by disabling WiFi without having to worry that I can't be contacted in case of a real emergency. This perhaps works better because I also implemented #3.
Last time I checked, invaccinated patients were vastly over repredented in hospitalization and ICU occupation. No indication, but hard facts.

If vaccines prevent serious cases and hospitalization for a large percentage of people, and they do, we would be all good if vaccination rates reach sufficient levels. Until they do, the very limited ICU capacity will be taken up overpropertionally unvaccinated. And we will continue to have problems.
Not the op, Wt and asio are two known ones.

If you are into MS or AWS ecosystem there are also SDKs available for their clouds.
Did those users actually report different issues altogether from the original ones, or did they just report more of the same kinds of issues?
I’m really confused that no one being hospitalized is “just a silver lining”.
Just look at new cases and deaths in South Africa and compare to the previous waves. Seems pretty convincing to me.
If anything they got the logic completely wrong. You are more likely to become a voracious reader if you have a propensity for critical thinking and curiosity.
The solution is decentralization: https://joinpeertube.org.
Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
The article the article linked said Nice https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/ccpa-scam-2021-12/
The data in question is anonymised patient data. I believe this is not available publicly, only statistics.

Apparently this person is a retired NHS manager of some sort, probably got the data via an old colleague. If the data were public this argument could be definitively proved or disproved, but until then we need the pinch of salt that I noted in my comment.
The overwhelming sentiment from the opinions on this thread is that the author is wrong. Is that a sell signal?
No, false negatives: you're tested as negative but you, in fact, have the virus. This is common for rapid antigen tests, and especially so if self administered.

False positives are not tipically a problem for this kind of tests. It's like the pregnancy test: if you see the stripe, you're very, very likely pregnant. If you don't see it, you can't rule it out with the same certainty.
If we're being charitable, the end goal of vaccine passes is to "nudge" people into getting the vaccine.
Of course vaccines are about harm reduction. How can that be "not true" in any frame? What is even the logical alternative? Are we trying to reduce the infection count because smaller numbers are aesthetically more pleasing?

I'm not sidestepping the issue. There is no difficult ethical dilemma here, and nothing changed with the new variant.

If there was a mistake regarding the vaccines, it was to discuss vaccination as optional opposed to the clear ethical obligation that it is. Just like no one is entitled to store unstable explosives in candlelight in a shed next to their neighbour's house.
Put your phone with airpods or something similar (I don't own any keys) and it instantly scratches.

It's not awful - but scratches are there.
Just make /analyze part of the compiler options and some of those issues will be visible.
Nbc is not a scientific outlet...
We shouldn’t be celebrating people getting sick, we shouldn’t be obsessed about it and put our lives on hold for it either.
The Health Minister reported that South Africa saw 1.7% hospitalisation in the second week of the omicron wave vs. 19% hospitalisation in the same week of the delta wave [1]. Hoping the trend towards milder disease continues to pan out.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/s-africa-...
Delta and Omicron changed things a bit, didn't they?

As you argueing against vacvine mandates, lock downs, vaccine passports and geberal restrictions, what would be your counter proposal? No restrictions and let the Pandemic run its natural course? We all sae how that would look like in Italy, Spain, Brazil, New York...
Fax is probably way harder to eavesdrop or copy.

Email is likely backed up for years...
I'm in the same boat as you. I'm also just a dabbler in programming but I was able to make a Chrome extension from zero. It custom filters/highlights html list rows that match provided text. I didn't publish it to the store because it lacks polish - I add/remove strings directly on a JS file and it relays on Jquery (probably could be more optimized) - but for my needs it works like a charm.

A good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Z_nKRgDyU
Based on what evidence you making that statement. For myself living in Sweden I can say that almost everyone does a self test when they have even the slightest of symptoms. Also I would argue of all places in the world, Scandinavia is probably the place where one would find the lowest propability of lying about a test.
But will it blend? That is the question.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCnFP0IU4gpnmcLnVzDLUtfw
What's a sufficient level then? It was once 70%, then 80, then 90. Now we have places pushing 95 and that's still not enough? Perhaps we should be paying a bit closer attention to what the vaccines aren't doing.
> the overall vaccine outcome is not one that solves the problem in any meaningful way.

Only if you think that "people not dying" isn't meaningful, anyway.
Keep in mind it's not a binary choice. You can exchange anywhere between 0 % and 100 % of your savings for some other asset class, like stocks. An extreme position in either direction is probably a mistake, but what about 20 %? 30 %?

The idea is not to get rich quick, nor is it to avoid any risk (because both are statistically impossible.)

The idea is to limit how much a crash of any type hurts, by having some savings also in other types of assets.

So for example, if your savings are $100 and you buy stocks for $30 of that, and the stock market crashes so you're down to $10 in stocks, now you only have $80 in savings. But you can use your cash savings to bootstrap your stock position back to 30 % again. If the market recovers, you get an outsize benefit from that.

(Similarly, if there should be some sort of dollar crash, you can probably use your stock market savings to bootstrap your dollar position again, putting you in a good position for recovery.)
Why blame the greedy managers and owners at the top your overpriced pizza when you can blame the guy with a mortgage who did as he was told?

Besides they're as likely to tell the developers to code it up so they could do this in theory and then turn it on themselves.
Actually right now your average joe is calling an incoming crash. Not a single article out there is bullish.
The point they make is more than valid.

I don't like the attitude calling them craptops. A Gigabyte of memory and 10 Mbit/sec are enough to meet 99.9% of the user needs for Web browsing. If sites were implemented in a resource-aware manner of course.

Instead of looking down at craptops I would look down at people introducing 4K and using many Gigabytes of memory for personal computing. Even worse making masses use it. It's irresponsible greed and short-sighted capitalism that ruins the planet.
I certainly hope you did not take a comment on the internet as an official medical diagnosis.
> Rust is a systems programming language. It offers precise control over data layout and runtime behavior of the code, granting you maximal performance and flexibility.

I'm nitpicking, but it's due to considering the difference important for some unsuspecting programmers: having control over data layout and runtime behaviour doesn't grant you maximal performance. It grants you capability for achieving minimal overhead, which is connected to, but a different thing from performance.
Chinese E-Commerce Giant Ali Baba Goes Metaverse
I'm appalled by Biden's careless statement. But I can't find the Fauci quote in that article (likely hampered by pop-ups). I do agree that authorities have been pretty reckless in their promises.
Thanks for the link. That's an interesting material even though i disagree with some of the principles laid in the study. It takes for granted that electricity usage will continue to rise and that's a good thing. Personally i would argue electricity as a layer of abstraction is really good at hiding pollution, but is not energy-efficient for many tasks.

It also assumes that we keep a giant interconnected grid (with huge losses) and that we need to centralize production just like we do with fuel/nuclear plants. That's what the "artificialisation des sols" line is about, and does not account for the possibility to produce energy more locally if we consume less of it.

For example, what's more ecological:

- a solar farm produced from high-waste silicon wafers that take many Watt-hours to build, deeply anchored in tons of concrete, running electricity for kilometers until it reaches an electric stove that itself comprises complex/polluting materials?

- or a simple gaz stove made of simple metal, running gaz recycled from your cooking waters by bacteria (yes that's a thing) or from methanization of your local compost?

Even these two scenarios i'm laying don't cut it if we want to investigate actual degrowth: what's the environmental cost that everybody has their own kitchen (stove/fridge/pans) and cooks for themselves? There's economies of scale to be made by reinstating communal kitchens.

Even their scenario advocating for "sobriety" is very naive. It's focused on personal actions (or lack thereof), when the biggest energy/resources waste we have as a society is due to big business not individual actions. For example, they mention "digital sobriety" for users, when we tech people know the biggest resources used are because of surveillance/tracking companies (Google/Amazon/CloudFlare..) keeping huge datacenters filled with data that does not provide any value to the users: what does it matter if you trash 100KB of emails every day from your Gmail if Google keeps 500KB of data points about you in that timeframe (numbers from the top of my hat)?

All in all, there's a lot to account for, and this RTE study unsurprisingly only accounts for what's related to their profiting of the situation. In such a biased setup, not surprising that green alternatives doesn't seem economically viable. I haven't finished reading the study, but if it claims nuclear is cheaper, that warrants serious proof: all studies so far point to the opposite as true.
RADV actually started as a student project IIRC; Valve got involved later, mostly with adding the ACO compiler as an alternative to using LLVM.
I would test whether a longer sub window actually helps before worrying too much about this. I doubt it matters in practice. Whether it's how people experience music or not is rather immaterial.
NZ has 95% rate and just got first omicron cases few days in strict quarantine. Will see how it will go.
you can be injured for real and still be a hypochondriac. They can absolutely be true at the same time.

You can get the feeling someone is probably likely to be a hypochondriac by the way people speak about their problems. I hope you have realized that by now throughout your lifetime.
Either the author really believes this, and so should load up on puts and shorts, or they are just blowing smoke.

I doubt they're willing to bet the money.
I am not sure what kind of security advisory would be helpful here? It's software you run locally, not something on a public server. How would anyone exploit this unless you are in a habit of running untrusted software on your local machine? And in the latter case, this vulnerability is probably the last of your worries.
I puzzled over this for a minute as well. Maybe the GP is referring to the user who uploaded the video.
On the last point, have there been any developments in early treatment protocols in Germany?
On mobile, it looks readable but you are spot on about it looking more like an art project than a developer oriented website. Also the text is often unreadable due to contrast issues of gradient color in front of pictures.
What I don't get is how come almost 2 years into this pandemic and yet it seems that the data collection pipelines are still very localized at best.

It's been a few weeks and more than 100k cases of the new variant - How come we "still need more data" to have a high probability model of it's behavior?
I'm not a lawyer, and i've both sent and received email like that over the years, none of which ever produced a legal action. That's standard procedure for private data requests.
N is low; average age under 40; and probably fairly fit and healthy relative to wider population (it was a workplace party). Also, this was in Oslo, so potentially not tremendously ethnically diverse either. Seeing low hospitalisation in a setting like this might be expected whatever the covid variant - I think it's somewhat dangerous to try and learn about Omicron severity from a study like this.
No idea what a sufficient level is, Delta, Omicron and all that considered. Also, I am not into pandemic modelling. Since I don't necessarily care where the level right now is, peiple can always look up the latest papers and studies in that topic.
What config did you end up setting with, if you happen to have the info easily to hand? I might be able to speed up SSHing to some of the slower hardware I have here.

Also, I'm very curious what SoC this was.
> The post author frequently compares flow variables (eg earnings, GDP) to stock variables (eg market cap). That’s not necessarily terrible, but the ratio is always sensitive to interest rates (because the stock variable discounts future values of the flow variable, and when rates are low the discounting has less of an effect).

This was an incredibly clear way to put it. I can't believe I haven't thought of it that way before! Thanks.
Yes, or send a fake mouse move. It does this already when running on Windows or OSX; there's an open issue for adding the Linux host support: https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch/issues/27

I reckon it's probably 25 or 30 lines or Rust if you make it use the uinput crate to create a fake input device and send a mouse-move event that way.
For another example of this, just look at what happens if you dare to state biological facts such as "humans only have two sexes" or "sex is not a spectrum" or "humans cannot change their sex" to someone on the illiberal left.

As an old school leftist whose appreciation of the world is based in material reality, this burgeoning attitude of denying how things actually are is quite concerning.
Apparently Steam used to have a policy of shutting down the accounts of people who did too many chargebacks, locking them out of whatever else they'd bought before. [0] I'm not sure whether they still do, although their refund policy has changed since [0]. I'm also unsure if it's even legal to do this, especially in countries with consumer protection laws.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14545053
What a sufficient level is also depends on the goal: Eradicting Covid would require higher rates then just turning into a less serious endemic virus. Personally I think eradication is impossible by now.
Are you arguing that any IDE must contain JRE?
The Fed started printing fiat money in 1914. This results in inflation. However, gold does not inflate, and the fiat money was, by law, exchangeable for gold at a fixed rate.

By 1929, people finally realized that they could double their money by cashing in their dollars for gold. Hence the runs on the banks, which only stopped when FDR repudiated the gold backing.
Fully agree, and that is what irks me with plenty of WebAssembly related content, overselling sandbox model, lack of retrospective on history of computing, and very few content on how penttesting actually goes around diffusing sandboxes.

So we get all these startups hyped into how WebAssembly is the silver bullet that will solve all security problems, which is kind of true until one reads all footnotes that come along with the contract.
Thanks! Well every one of my colleagues use laptops - but I think that detail should not matter for the content of the blog.
OSR2 ran pretty nice on 486 DX2 with 16MB of RAM
Maybe the problem is the need to have feedback at the stand up. This assumes writing code is linear and is something that can be routinely managed through a stand up.
100% would be ideal. It seems to impossible to achieve herd immunity against COVID (whether by vaccination or by immunity due to infection), so everyone will get it eventually. The more are vaccinated, the lower the load on the healthcare system will be.
The confidence people express in their predictions has an inverse correlation with their willingness to bet on those predictions.
While this may be true, one's ultimate responsibility is for oneself. Other people should be vaccinated, too, that is their responsibility. There's only so much that people who are being responsible and following the science can do.

Also, while this Omicron is so new, I think anyone who is vaccinated should still wear a mask when around great numbers of other people, and other people should also wear their masks.

And why would one go to a restaurant or other kinds of unmasked events, anyways, while this new variant of covid is so unknown? I wouldn't go to the Sturgis motorcycle event, vaccinated or not, booster shot or not, asymptomatic or symptomatic, masked or not masked.

A lot of it has nothing to do with being vaccinated or not, but having common sense or not. It is not common sense to go to places where there can be a lot of people and hang out there.
I am very optimistic about Omicron, but I think we need a better categorization for non-hospitalized cases. My wife had COVID-19 in April 2020 and although she was not hospitalized, she stayed in bed for two weeks and had problems with her lungs for four more months. I really hope these cases are rare for Omicron, but I just want to point out that not being hospitalized is not necessarily the same as a mild cold and more data would be helpful.
Everyone wants to talk about history as if it's a good indicator of the future: but every moment in history happens only once.

If you expect to make the same returns in 2 years that a past stock market investor would get in 20, you probably should expect to survive as many market crashes as he did, just on a shorter time frame. There is no free lunch, you pay for high returns with high volatility.
I have a membership on the Science [1]. I read the Science once a week. The Science contains difficult articles, which are often worth reading as they are explaining something new without making any compromises or trying to simplify the results. Besides HN and Science that I try all other news. I think you're better off without news. [2]

[1] - https://www.science.org/

[2] - https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf
Video decode acceleration is very nice for battery life and freeing up the CPU for that LLVM build you're running in the background, but it's absolutely not a requirement, it's nowhere near as important as GPU rendering. Heck, a lot of hardware doesn't have VP9 support and people watch VP9 YouTube on it.
But people are still dying. It's not that the vaccines haven't prevented death, it's that we seem to be past the peak of what they can solve and yet keep putting all our eggs in that basket. Recent to Omicron, there were more cases and hospitalisations than the same time last year when vaccination was low and Delta was the main variant still.

The message is constantly that it's the unvaccinated causing it, but why is that so when they form such a small proportion of the population, there's been plenty of prior exposure and seasonality seems to show a greater effect than the vaccines? Not to mention the risk to under 40's has been extremely low throughout. How do the unvaccinated keep 'filling up' hospitals if vaccines reduce spread and there's 80-90%+ double-dose coverage?
I'm so glad to read this comment. I think one way to learn great software design is read through the Apple APIs. Obviously not all of them are perfect, but even when that is the case it's always interesting to ask yourself why.
If you pick any language which is non-esoteric today (C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Java), you should do fine for the next 20 years.

If you want to make a bet on a language which isn’t supper big yet, but might be in the future, than Rust is definitely the way to go. It’s already big enough that it’s clear that it isn’t going away, but it is still growing pretty fast. It might or might not end up as big as C++.
tldr; it's okay to teach Fischer despite his being a rank eugenist.

It's like Seinfeld said regarding Cosby, you can separate the art from
the artist (sadly, Seinfeld backpedalled after Colbert countered
pandering to his woke audience).
Ah, I didn't realized you were talking from Kolmogorov POV. I don't think exposing the censorship explicitly would be good for his career. Better to explain it to colleagues privately.

In oppressive regime everything is a tradeoff between morality and convenience, and you need to pick your battles.
I made a David Brill horse during first lockdown. Took me a couple of hours and had always wanted to give it a go. Here is an example[1] online. It's made from an equilateral triangle.

[1] https://origamicaravan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brill_hor...
Not too late for politicians to be seen doing something. Just remember, in times of crisis, they did something, and they did it in public!
Ok, let's assume people were reasonable and liquidated their portfolios after November 1929. Now they have cash, great. I may be wrong but didn't the value of the dollar also crash?

It seems the safest option was to cash out and buy gold or land.
You didn’t listen to me fully. Let me repeat myself.

Freedom of Information law provides for the publication of statistical information. It provides for the publication of patient-anonymised data.

A&E waiting times are periodically published, but anybody living anywhere can request other information held by a public body.

There is zero need for the public body to be anonymous.
I do not mean to be critical, but when you take some view points together that converge on a specific crash with actual factual fundamentals of how it will happen and why it really does not matter that any of that group only predicted it once.

Your conflating it with one data point, as those differing viewpoints that predicted 2008 is in a group is than one data point as they all covered a different mechanism of a set of systems as it was not just one system that crashed but several.

We have the same problem in medicine, ritalin is based on one system solution of ADHD...however if you foloow a multiple system approach you can take Phenyanalinine and Darek chocolate, L-glutamine, etc and actually have a better solution of managing adhd without having to do drug holidays.

Crashes are convergence of several data points of crashes in multiple systems that converge together to produce abig crash.

Is the Log4j vun one tiny crash of one system or a crash of several?
You have this nice simulator that he actually contributed to that shows this connection between meshes and folded origami! https://origamisimulator.org