skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you learned about that, you did not read the entire paragraph: being captured was traditionally considered a dishonor (for the past 500 years, at least), it is a huge failure for a soldier (or samurai). Ritual suicide is the solution to that dishonor.

There are degrees of failure, some is considered to be beyond fixing.
This perspective always bothers me. It's the same with the recent Don't Look Up. The people who will watch and and understand it aren't the people who actually need to get the message. They're both bland movies that present a point of view they know their viewers will agree with. They then get praised--undeservingly, in my opinion--for presenting a "bold" perspective.
I had a rash cover half my body that started at the vaccination site. My GP, who is the head of internal medicine at a famous hospital, call me directly during the holidays as it's not that common apparently.
A barebones PDF reader implementation would/could not render that 'layer' anyway, so I can't imagine you'd actually lose such a case. (As distinct from not having the will/funds to fight it long enough...)
It's amazing seeing so many people have such strong opinions on this. Worse still, people make blanket statements or seem to just want to trot out their on conclusions.

Why?

Can't we all just take a breath?

Reddit abortion debates are higher quality than this. Come on.
I use 1Password. It meets all your criteria and, IMHO, has by far the best UI in both web and app interfaces. $35.88/year
I myself support treating climate change as a serious threat. I think you (actually_a_dog) would agree. I also think the person you responded to (austincheney) would agree, because that's what they wrote. I think what you read as denial in this response was in reality a practical theory about why humanity is struggling to rally around and solve a problem that is so clearly important. This person strikes me as an ally to our cause (yours and mine), one that is thinking out loud about the psychology of those in our society who choose to downgrade the priority of addressing climate change. Analyzing and understanding the psychology of an opponent is not the same as agreeing with it. It is a necessary prerequisite to convincing your opponent of the truth. It is a winning strategy.

IMHO, the study you link to supports the assertion that climate change is a hard problem for humanity to solve, one prone to confusing collections of people trying to solve world problems. Consider this bit.

"Many factors due to human activity are considered as possible responsible of the observed changes: among these water and air contamination (mostly greenhouse effect) and deforestation are the mostly cited. While the extent of human contribution to the greenhouse effect and temperature changes is still a matter of discussion, the deforestation is an undeniable fact."

If one were to post your link with that quote extracted, they'd no doubt get a lot of hate on HN. The idea that the above is "still a matter of discussion" would not be universally appreciated as the cautious words of a scientist. To some, it would read like a rebuttal of "the debate is over" and would fetch rage-filled reactions (as well as some thoughtful answers; this is still HN after all).

And what am I to conclude from this study? What did you conclude?

One possible conclusion is that we should focus all of our energy on stopping deforestation. Should we? Or should we split our resources between stopping deforestation and ceasing the use of fossil fuels? Since we have limited time and resources, how should we split? 80/20% in favor of deforestation? Should we leave any time and money to other world problems like pandemics? Poverty? How much? People are bad enough making these kinds of decisions with their own money, let alone the wealth of nations. To recognize this challenge is wise.

Let's all rally behind the idea that "concerns of environment destruction and climate devastation" are "critically important" (the words of austincheney). And let's do so with our eyes open to the complexities we will face along the way. If nuance continues to ignite emotions and cause us to talk past one another, I predict societal collapse at 99.9% likely.
> they had been indoctrinated by propaganda that indicated horrific treatment by Allied POW personnel.

Sources? I have never heard of that yet.
When reality differs by locales, at least one "local reality" won't match the API.
The time frame for a booster is based on the longevity of its protection.

The flu shot (and many others) are required for some professions. Protection for the vulnerable they interact with.

Opinion: if you don’t want to protect the vulnerable in society, you should refrain from participating in it.
Posting like this is a bannable offense on HN. You can't attack another user like this, no matter how strongly you disagree with them. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739415 for a longer explanation.
Why not the free version?
Tens of citizens' personal information may have been exposed.
IMHO the underlying problem is value based pricing. Roughly that means you take how much money your software generates for your clients and try to capture as much of that as you can. That leads to huge incentive for companies to not depend on commercial software since as soon as that happens the vendor will take them to pound town in contract negotiations.

That fear makes it nearly impossible for something like Log4J to charge anything. Even if it's a penny per year per server you don't want to build on it because they can come back next year and make it $10 a year. And what are you going to do about it?

FOSS removes that threat but it also makes the path of least resistance to not pay anything. The ideal solution is something like "You have to pay a little bit but it's guaranteed that it will never be more than a little bit". But I don't see how to do something like that.
It might be cheaper to make the POW fuzzy and cross verified by the POW of other Senders instead of verified by the recipient.
Tesla to Recall 475,000 cars in the US
There’s no substitute for physics. A bigger lens in front of a bigger sensor, made to at least the same tolerances as a smartphone camera, is going to provide much better information as the base for a digital photo. So there will always be a role for bigger, dedicated systems when quality is paramount. Just like most professional movies are still shot on dedicated cameras with cine lenses.

Some of what you might call computational techniques are already available for DSLR/mirrorless cameras. You just apply them in a post processing step on a computer, some time after the initial capture.

Others are being built into some cameras. For example some mirrorless cameras can use their image-stabilization motors to shift the sensor during capture; the shifted images are then combined in-body to produce an image with more pixels than the raw photosites on the sensor.
Why would a vaccine only be useful if it stops the spread? It's a medical treatment like any other, and we universally recognize the importance of medical treatments that reduce severe illnesses to manageable levels even when they are not themselves cures.

(And moreover, this has been true for all vaccines ever made: no vaccine guarantees 100% protection from its illness, but nearly all significantly reduce the severity of breakthrough cases.)

Edit: to emphasize: there are other ways to prevent severe illness from COVID, like monoclonal antibodies (at least, the ones that still work against Omicron). But none of them counter what you've posited (making pharma companies money), and none have as mature, reliable, and freely available of a supply as do vaccines.
Okay, but why demand boosters from those younger than 40?? Considering new myocarditis studies and how low the risk is for someone already vaccinated and how negligible it is with Omicron (even for non-vaccinated)? This blind boosterization is only demonstrating how the governments are still shitless scared of their medical system collapses with vulnerable groups, so that they want to boost anyone in sight, just to be on a safer side.
So 3MB of personal information? That's well under 1 byte per citizen how bad can it be?

/s
4K textures are bitmaps aren’t they?
> there are countless stories of “I have a 35 yold friend with no pre-existing conditions who’s fighting for their lives”

You can't say this about rare serious COVID cases but also point out that the plural of anecdote is not data when other people say similar things about rare serious vaccine side effects.
No they're not.

> with the goal of showing that regardless of interpretation there is no reasonable conclusion other than the advocate's

For that part of the definition to apply, there must be some particular conclusion that the advocate supports. It's multiple arguments for a single conclusion, whereas what I was observing is multiple separate conclusions. That's pure contrarianism, neither skepticism nor argument in the alternative.
There are three costs basically:

- storage, which is pretty darn cheap, easy to predict, easy to budget for, etc..

- retrieval for FOIA, which is easily quantified in workhours and sometimes deferred via fees.

- liability, which is very hard to quantify, considering you never know what skeleton a nosy citizen would be able to uncover.

The latter is mainly the reason public records disappear.

I'm glad most parts of the US are still in the 'let's take this to court' territory. We should be very afraid if we go into the 'an unfortunate accident destroyed all the records' area of dealing with this stuff.
I think it's mostly that by the time the system is ready to play the chime, it takes less than two seconds to do whatever is left before transferring control to iBoot2, and of course you can't leave audio playing as you call a new piece of code... so even if the playback happens in the background, it would still have to wait for it to finish.
Cool! Those things are indestructible. Very nice hardware.
In other words, it is like every other factory in India. Why should anyone expect anything different?
Yeah, but ultimately the vast majority of people are attracted to "sex at birth" and there's not much convincing you can do.
Illogical attempts at preventing the spread of an airborne virus. Eroding faith in institutions, etc.
Not true, there are lots of sources of information that gives the entire picture: it is a tradition from the ages of samurai.
For some reason I thought that you don't have to add a possessive "s" after 28 (in the same way you wouldn't after Emacs'). As I only use metric units, I would have never seen the "28 feet" thing. Thanks!
Posting like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29352983 is a bannable offense on HN. You can't attack another user like this, no matter how strongly you disagree with them. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739415 for a longer explanation.
You say this while games like FTL exist :)
The north of Sweden is exactly where most of the big wind turbine parks will be. You have plenty of open space and limited NIMBY. NIMBY is also the reason why you were under the impression that most turbines are going to end up in the south of Sweden, it leads to disproportional attention in the media.
No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn over $75 fee (2010)
Slight aside...today I received a pdf that was 90 degrees from being correct on screen in Adobe reader, and I clicked on the 'rotate' button to find that Adobe has made this a subscription feature!
> Or, possibly, Hacker News doesn't represent hacker culture, but finance-adjacent right-wing techbro culture, which knows perfectly well which side of the copyright issue its bread is buttered on.

Spot on. I like HN for certain topics, but it’s by no means representative of the Hacker culture. Even the name seems like duplicitous marketing at best.

As an example, the topic of immigration will bring out the nastiest takes and opinions (and straight up racism).
> .. I’ll totally begin bolstering anti-establishment sentiment if they are the only ones willing to disagree.

What does this mean? It’s not enough to be against vaccine mandates?
Isn't "the media and government have been intentionally exaggerating the danger of COVID, and most of the mitigation strategies being mandated shouldn't be" the conclusion?
Hi, former Florida-man here. Is this accounting for the considerably larger portion of old people in FL vs NY? 42.1% vs 45.6% 45+, 15.4% vs 19.3% 65+ for NY and FL respectively.

Sources:

http://edr.state.fl.us/content/population-demographics/data/...
https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2016/t...

Methodology: Took the Florida 2010 and estimated 2020 numbers and averaged them together to get a "2015" estimate, then compared it to the 2016 NY data.
OpenSea is not products. Buyers think they will earn money from it and are prepared to put their HODL coin in it to earn more. It's one big piramid scheme.

Rarible is similar. It's not comparable to e-commerce. NFT's in it's current state is literally the perfect product for HOLD'ers if you think about it.

As said before, this all happened in the past. Woocommerce, Steam, Amazon, Stripe, ... All added it and removed it. Only square kept it.

The current hype is just the same that started with failing business trying to jump in it ( eg. Kodak and KodakCoin). Visa and others do want to protect themselves. But even Stripe currently started again a team for crypto with 5 person while they anandoned it in the past. Nothing says it will be important, it's a matter of "what if", just like in 2017.

Either way, this topic is about lowering transaction fees.

Changing to crypto would lose a lot of business. As such, the "patent answer" here is not doable for a business.

What's so hard to understand? You're not going to switch a business to a payment option that only represents 2% of possible transactions.

There's currently a lot of FUD. But it's all going away when BTC drops again.

It only took a pandemic previous time to reverse Bitcoin from a multi-year decline.
Obviously a lot of directions to take this, but how is climate different from say the ozone hole story? To me it bears the same hallmarks. We don't fully understand the atmosphere, should we have left the problem alone? Who are we to say what the right size the hole should be. To top it off a lot of people seem to be afraid of it and claim it will mean the end of most life on earth. I'm curious how either you frame it as a different thing. Is it that we do understand ozone dynamics, or that people weren't afraid of it, or something else?
It's easy to apologize profusely for something that is well within expectations.

On the other end of that spectrum, I can also empathize a bit with an increasingly unhelpful crew of a 30 hour late train. Yeah, you don't have to be rude about it, but at some point, there's simply a decreasing amount of help that can be given.
Sure, the data isn't perfect, but data rarely is. You're also assuming that, because the data isn't perfect, that the effect measured would go away with better data. I actually think the opposite would happen. There is a correlation between the severity of self-reported sickness and cognitive decline. Those who ended up in a hospital show the most severe signs of cognitive decline. If they were actually in a hospital, they likely know for sure whether or not they were positive, compared to those who recovered at home and only suspected they had covid. There have also been visible changes to the brain when looking at MRIs before / after a person has covid.
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/603/
I found a reference about literacy in Massachusetts [0] and literacy for all states [1], but nothing suggesting literacy rates are worse than over 200 years ago. I would presume literacy rates for over 200 years ago would be worse due to lack of public education, gender inequality, and jobs/trades not requiring reading and writing skills.

I am suspicious of the literacy rates in [0] and [1]. It seems that someone who immigrates from a foreign country would be considered illiterate if they did not speak English, but had high proficiency in reading and writing in their native language. Not knowing one specific language is very different from being generally uneducated.

[0] https://mblc.state.ma.us/programs-and-support/adult-literacy...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy...
We should send a dupe filter update using a time machine.
I thought NetSurf was just for BeOS or something. Is it usable?
Hey, it's you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Sinistra
There is some controversy regarding that paper: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/peer-review-of-a-vaers-dump...
Technically, many of them are named after famous scientists, so the possibility is certainly there. Who knows what people will think of our Lord Kelvin 10,000 years later. Maybe eventually we will have to change those names, too, if they become dirty, rightfully or not.
It is based on QT which requires modern C++ compiler, which means that it will be very hard to port.
https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/top-news/202112300835R...

The Reuters link that this Fidelity post is based on: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
They aren't actually. The comparison isn't apt because we aren't debating the differences or merits of reading on a screen versus reading on paper. That's a false dilemma. There are a multitude of ways to waste time at a computer and the posts you are responding to provided a few of examples of them, including watching videos on YouTube and surfing Reddit.

If those activities are the same to you as reading a book could outline the reasons why?
Because he never got paid for his work?

What you are saying is that all of the benefit goes to the publishing company, not the public. Not really.

The reality of normal people is that a big part of the reason they work is in order to provide for the people they love. This is why copyright exists in the first place—to protect the motivation to produce creative work, knowing that the benefit won’t be stolen from you. Knowing that if you die, the benefit to your children is immediately forfeit actually reduces the willingness for people who aren’t misanthropes to take on that risk.
The writing was on the wall as soon as governments started normalizing vaccination passports. Governments and businesses can now take that same mentality forward for whatever type of shot they want. Meanwhile they continue to antagonize those who choose not to take these shots, employing the classic citizen vs citizen tactic from the playbook.
And in this case, it's a sub contractor of Foxconn that's responsible for accomodation and that's behind the horribly substandard food.
I get that C tries to be incredibly barebones, but operations on strings are so common that it's crazy how bad the string handling in C is. It seems like it was designed under the assumption that all of your strings are stored in fixed-size buffers.

I might not pick D as a beginner language simply because it unfortunately isn't very popular, but I certainly wouldn't pick C as a beginner language.
You can bind C-S-c and C-S-v and other keystrokes, to get similar to what you get in a terminal.
Random question for the HN crowd. Does anyone think that at this point HN is in desperate need of some categorization/filtering capability on the front page (please let me know if it exists, here or in an HN mirror site and I'm missing it)?

I'm soooo sick of these Covid threads. They basically never lead anywhere in the comments, it's the same shit over and over, folks presenting their take as unassailable fact. I'm not saying this article is deserving of being flagged, but over the past two years I greatly wish I at least had the capability to just look at "tech articles" vs. everything else.

Also, I get it, it's easy to say "just don't look", I'm just asking if anyone else things an easy way to filter out some threads like this would be useful. This sentiment is basically a follow-on to a submission I posted recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532676 , where the best consensus seemed to be that it's really not possible to have insightful, thoughtful debate on these sensitive topics, or at least it's the case that the HN threads really aren't that much higher quality on these topics than on other sites, and that's not true for lots of other categories of topics.
And society has an equal right to quarantine people who could spread a deadly, infectious disease to protect the vulnerable.

As George Washington himself did.

Whose rights are greater?
It's often better for provenance to keep the parameters in git with the code. Doing something like you want requires changing the code to query, adds a runtime dependency, and generally adds complications. Think about a flip side, in code reviews and easily seeing what parameters are changing with this deployment.

You might look at a couchbase or couchdb based solution. They have versioning and rudimentary UIs. You might also look into CUE(lang) as a better format.

Any solution will depend on how your code is organized in repositories. Maybe you have some system that collects all the parameters and presents them only for informational purposes, rather than having prod query a dynamic database for configuration.

Thinking about it, Kubernetes offers most of your desired solution...
Apple is making money hand over fist, and they've got nearly $200B cash on hand. They aren't directly responsible for the working conditions, but they set the terms of the contract. They could pay more, and demand humane treatment and living wages in their contract. With that warchest, they could afford their own manufacturing facilities -- Foxxcon vs Petragon is a false dichotomy. But they don't. This is their responsibility, but they prefer to keep it at arms-length and pretend that they don't know what conditions will result from paying a certain price per unit.
Retrospective: My Goals for 2021
That detente's boundaries may be somewhat vague and impossible to guarantee, but you can broad-brush paint yourself into a safer box with these four principles:

- Don't make humiliating changes to their content

- Don't mess with their userbase

- Don't leave undocumented backdoors

- Don't damage production

If you do your best to comply with those principles, then you can make a strong argument to a judge/jury that your behavior was without malice, which will notably improve your chances of survival if someone decides the usual detente isn't palatable.
I pay for premium even though I don't really use any of their premium features (and could easily host my own) because I like the Bitwarden product and want them to continue as a company (without having to sell out to someone like LogMeIn...)
What doesn't make a lot of sense is comparing vaccines that have been around for ages (tetanus, flu) to ones that were developed like yesterday (COVID, malaria).

I have the COVID vaccine but that doesn't mean I am not concerned about potential long-term effects that we know nothing about. That, and the possibility of original antigenic sin [0] permanently screwing over our ability to mount an effective immune response to novel strains.

What justification is there for pushing a non-sterilizing vaccine, that doesn't prevent spread, on non-vulnerable populations?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
There's plenty of science on vaccines

Look at how many vaccines active service members are required to have for example
fat shaming?
Is that really the sole rationale? What about polio vaccination? I believe that vaccine is mandated in schools to protect children, not to keep healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed.