skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for hard data, there was some, but it was more of a logic based risk assessment. I deduced, for me, that the best bet was to avoid the disease as much as possible, and not risk a novel medicine for something that was low risk anyways.

Risk of me having major complications from Covid: Very, very low. Less than a hundredth of a percent, IIRC.

Rate of drugs recalled by FDA: Shockingly high.

Rate of fraud and abuse by large pharmaceutical companies: Also very high.

Effectiveness of the vaccine: I have an admittedly non-expert level understanding of statistics, but I did not agree with the efficacy analysis from the initial trials. I assume some modeling was applied, but I found that to be rather opaque. IIRC again - it was about 5k ea of active/placebo, and on the order magnitude of about 100 cases for placebo and 50 for active treatment.
In Finland you can claim money if the train is late 25% with 60 minutes and 50% at 2 hours... Also taxis are done sometimes, but people really need to know their rights and demand it.
Long story short, these algorithms aren't recovering information that was lost. They reconstruct the images by guessing what should've been there. So, you're not violating any information theoretic concept.

But this means the guesses can be incorrect, although the likelihood of that happening can be greatly reduced with good training data.
devops will eat me alive for this, but my 2c is if it's critical infra, and if it's working, don't touch it. Sure write a new one in parallel, but don't change or upgrade it.
Show HN: Permify, Plug-&-Play Authorization API for Flexible Access Control
Hey Everyone,

It's Firat from Permify. We have been building things for quite a while with my co-founders. We have failed a couple of times as well. Building so many products, we realized we had problem with a repetitive and overlooked part of product development.

-Authorizations & Access Control-

It's been a problem to manage roles, permissions, and access control for our apps. Whether it's for subscription tiers, or complex role management.

There are 4 main reasons we frustrated;

1. Overwhelming to build complex & flexible access control.

2. User needs changes quickly.

3. Building access control is repetitive most of the time.

4. Maintenance is important, and usually overlooked.

While working on full time with client projects, features and daily work. It was almost impossible to focus on access control. Also there are dozens of great solutions for Authentication, but not much for Authorizations. So, That's why we built Permify, it's an plug-&-play authorizations API, that makes your apps flexible with future-proof access control. Whether it's for custom roles, permissions, or subscription tier management.

With Permify you can;

- Built Authorizations & Access Control in minutes.

- Create customer roles in seconds.

- We have hosted UI where you can give your users an admin panel for custom roles.

- Gate UI layers & Different Components on your apps for different subscription tiers.

You can try Permify for free without a credit card, and we have a free tier as well :)

I always love HN, yeah I had times when people were rude etc. But usually I found people willing give their best opinions and help me. So feel free to reach me out at firat@permify.co if you need higher plan, I can offer up to 6 months free trial for higher tiers. (Thanks to our AWS credits)

Here's the link:

https://permify.co
I constantly had failed floppies.

I started using them as a kid, but probably after the world had moved on (I liked to tinker, and usually free computers were old computers)

Part of me wonders if the quality was "A shaped", where early disks were experimental, then reliable but expensive disks became common, then cheap but maybe not as reliable disks became even more common
I don't really buy the home row argument very much. I get why if you can touch type, that this is important to some extent, but mostly I think that when you start having to find and click on icons, or navigate menus, there's an interrupt in your cognitive flow.

Watching the graphic and motion graphics designers at work, they're dominant hand rarely leaves their mouse, while the other hand hammers at shortcut keys to switch tools. They don't care about the home row, just using the fewest actions to complete a task.

When I'm using a piece software maybe a few times a month, I'm grateful for icons and menus to help me remember how to do anything. When I use a piece of software on a daily basis, then I learn the shortcuts until it's muscle memory, an keep my hand away from the mouse as much as possible.
The point of Idiocracy is a finger directed at everyone.

Friends and colleagues who had children were sometimes offended (I think that really put a lot of people off), but the movie implicates us all as idiots drawn to spectacle. There's a marvelous scene in which Frito, Not Sure, and Rita peer around a corner as police surround Frito's car. The police open fire on the vehicle and as the fusillade intensifies, Frito is increasingly enthralled and delighted by the destruction until the car explodes under rocket fire and Frito exclaims in joy. And then the realization of what happened sets in, and as a viewer I became aware of how I was sucked into that bizarre scene. The joke was on me ;-)
They updated it after observing the usage of the word. That is how dictionaries work, because they are descriptive and not prescriptive.

Many people do in fact use the term anti-vaxx(er) to refer to people who are against vaccines and also against regulations around them.
The really sad part is the script was originally written before the pandemic and wasn't at all meant to be about the current crisis, but about climate change. Then the pandemic happened and the director was surprised at how the script didn't go far enough and had to make it, "20% crazier."
I keep using my laptop’s built-in webcam even though I know better
NetSurf runs on basically everything, including Linux, RISC OS, KolibriOS (fits on a floppy!), and Windows.
Reminds me of the Holocene Calendar, which argues for setting the year 0 ten thousand years earlier to include all of major human history. So instead of writing 02022 AD it would become 12022 HE, for Human Era. It would mean to update these date libraries fast though...

An episode of kurzgesagt about this topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs
Could it be you wrote about this some weeks ago?

It seems Sweden didn't really copy Dutch planning. We do have some furniture boulevards on the edge of cities, also other bigger stores, like hardware stores and IKEA. But supermarkets are in the neighbourhoods where people live. And regular shops are in the city centers, clothing, electronics, warehouses, eye glasses, etc. Combined with bars, lunchrooms and restaurants and also historic buildings, inner centers are great to spend an afternoon or evening with good company.
When I read this, I think of one of my fav poems by Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse. It begins like.. ‘they fuck you up, your mum and dad’… except it’s not mum and dad anymore but the entire ‘village’ that is raising you.
The answers you are looking for have been posted a million other times in response to a million other questions by millions of other people. To claim that silence on your particular question means there are no answers or that you are correct is disingenuous.

We know this, so we downvote.
So I guess their official stance is that god will save you from COVID if you're worth saving?
Can you provide some? I have previously only heard "santa".
Let me take a couple of specific examples. Upon being told that an asteroid large enough to destroy human civilization was on course to hit the earth in 6 months, the President decided that it would make strategic sense to delay announcing or acting on the threat until after the midterms - a month or so later. This was conspicuous for the fact no reason was given, which had to be the case as it makes no sense.

Collective threats of this kind have historically created a rally-around-the-flag effect the helps incumbents. Even a venal politician would not assist in the imminent destruction of the planet from which they themselves could not escape. Obviously information of that magnitude of importance would leak, as it did in the film. Meaning its only effect would be to crater the President's support when it became clear they hid the truth. Even an amaetuer political observer would understand all this, let alone a Whitehouse team that won a Presidential election.

Or how about the manner in which the astronomers announced their discovery? They went to the NYT, who inexplicably decided that they would forego running the biggest story in human history. Instead, they helped arrange for the astronomers to announce their discovery in a 2-minute segment on an infotainment news show. Neither the NYT, nor the astronomers, nor anyone would think that was a good idea. It would never, ever happen. During the interview, one of the astronomers got upset because the talk show hosts were nonchalant about the news of the possible end of civilization (!?). Returning to the NYT offices, they're told that the journalists were able to confirm their findings with well-respected third party scientists, but that because one of the astronomers got upset in air, they weren't going to run the story - again, easily the biggest story in human history, which anyone could appreciate at such.

The upshot of this never-ending string of implausible plot points is that the film ends up obfuscating how real politics works. It dumbs politics down and makes it trivial to make an easy joke, making it part of the problem that it ostensibly satirises.
I think one thing that really got to me is that the post is by the VP of Engineering, which for some reason gave me an expectation of a detailed explanation of the problem, only to find none

The post sounds like it was actually written by either legal or marketing instead
Told my gf to try it. Said she doesn't really like it. "It's just another tetris game". And then she proceeded to play it for the next 4 hours. Multiplayer is truly brutal. Very hard to play.
It looks identical to my Firefox except the + is on the other side. The icons are the same. (I have a userChrome.css that removes all the dumbass padding newer releases of Firefox added.)
I thought that said "28 foot context menu" and I was like, yeah, that sounds like Emacs.
This is exactly the problem. You have simply decided science isn't needed because "we don't have time". Covid is not nearly as risky as the government and media has tried to convince everyone it is. The vast vast vast majority of people are at essentially 0 risk to covid.

Eroding the foundations of democracy and modern thought in the repeated failed attempts to prevent the spread of covid is extremely stupid. I really wonder if people like you are even aware of how miserably every single policy aimed at slowing the spread of covid has failed.

1) lockdown to prevent the spread - did nothing, covid spread rapidly the moment the lockdowns ended, and we did nothing to prepare for it during the time of the lockdowns. We didn't build hospitals, we didn't train nurses, we simply wasted money.

2) Masks Mandates - A minor slow of the spread at the cost of erosion of freedoms, you don't have to be an anti masker to realize this, and the production of huge amounts of waste.

3) More Lockdowns - Same thing as first time.

4) Vaccines - We were promised this was the end, but thanks to people who think like you we pushed the idea that we don't need long term studies we can simply trust big pharma to tell the truth.

Remember this: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta..., here they "Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis"

This is simply a lie. There vaccine literally never was 90% effective in the real world, and currently their vaccine actually has negative efficacy in preventing omnicron.

5) Vaccine Mandates - Look around you. They did absolutely nothing.
6) Booster Mandates - ... if you still believe this can work there is nothing that can be said.
The crux of the situation was that RMS started GNU because he realized that not having access to the printer's source code put whoever had access to it in a position of power over his use of the printer and the implications that has when extended to other aspects where software is concerned and will be concerned with as computer use increases.

This was not mentioned at all in the blog post.
Then how do we have the examples?
In Europe notifying of leaks is mandatory. And when police is doing it it tends to leak, so better do it themselves too.
Anecdata for the evils of government or the utopia of libertarianism?
Masks inhibit the most fundamental communication API we have. Faces. Our occipital lobes and the vision system is trained to identify faces for a number of things from gauging emotions to assessing symmetry for mating. It is so deeply ingrained in us. It makes me think that cutting off half of the face is going to lead to developmental issues in people, I am not qualified to predict. Not directly relevant but there was a cool neurology experiment where they flipped faces upside down and people couldn't even recognize President Obama [1].

I also understand that Masks prevent people spitting large droplets. But no one seems to be raising concerns that we've starved kids from one of the most evolutionarily significant aspects of humans - facial communication. Would be great if academics/scientists who are far greater qualified in this matter try to understand what impact masks will have on kids - something tells me they are going to face opposition.

[1] I learned about this experiment from the Introduction to Human Brain course at MIT. I watched the entire thing a couple of years ago, it was truly eye opening and I believe the professor had an AMA on HN at time. Check it out: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-1...
And? Thats >10 weeks of protection at no monetary cost to you.

Its not some different product, its the same vaccine.
Most of these jobs you consider outsourced slavery pay better than anything local. If you were getting paid 25% more than any other job back home you would consider it good pay.
> prone to media decay

Not in my experience. I have floppies 40 years old that haven't lost a byte.
Uber - https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/
Sure.

* https://quran.com/102/8 (the worldly pleasures include: health, wealth, free time, food and drink, safety, housing, etc.)

* https://quran.com/90/8-18

* https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:407
One of the potential negative externalities is overwhelming hospitals, pushing out others in need of help.
Because it's a garbage preprint of a paper written by unqualified anti-vaxxer weirdos. But it suits the "experts must be wrong" HN trope, so it's being posted all over this thread.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dumpster-diving-in-vaers-do...
Writing the parent comment gave me, if nothing else, an excuse to publicly document that exchange. I was, and still am, in awe of his ability to think on his feet and come up with such a wholly appropriate response.
IIRC buses in London do that when they are overfilled.

The worst is tho running and rushing and then finally making it into train car that turns out to be going completely wrong direction.
USB sticks are better in every respect.
The exchanges I've dealt with do not allow credit cards. I usually end up doing ACH transfers.
With a sql injection, you have to willfully provide an input with the hope that it results in injection

my understanding is that the reporter looked at the source that was being sent as intended -- no manipulation of input by the client
Because as I said, there are other treatments that are effective at treating covid. We can simply use those instead without need for mandates.
> scientific consensus

We should be very careful with scientific consensus of a social science. Maybe we should say if you lead a horse to water, it doesn't drink, and you need that horse to work on the farm to grow food to feed your family, you are going to have a very bad time instead of what teachers told me time and time again, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." What type of person gives up on a horse that doesn't drink instead of figuring out what is wrong with the horse or understanding animal behavior to train the horse to drink and pull plows and stuff?
VC funded and controlled "hackers".
How do you know there’s a breach without seeing it?
There's a difference between making federal minimum wage and the indentured servitude these workers find themselves in. McDonalds workers are free to go home at the end of their shift and eat whatever they want. These workers sleep 8 to a room with no temperature control, no privacy, shared bathrooms and rations that we literally would not feed to prisoners.

We aren't talking about 100 or 200 people. We are talking about 1 million as of 2011. Foxconn's solution to suicide jumpers was.. netting. There's shitty working conditions and then there's.. this.

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/
Yep. The puppy analogy falls apart when you've given the same puppy to 10,000 people. All of them could pay the vet bill separately, but we instinctively recoil from that as being horribly inefficient (and personally inconvenient) when it's possible for just the one puppy-giver to pay it.
As the Wikipedia page states, it was struck down by the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in 2002.
> In any case, I don't see any trend where a general-purpose programming language will include DB SQL as 1st-class. Even the recent languages like Rust and Zig don't have basic SQLite3 db persistence as convenient built-in syntax. If anyone proposed to add such db syntax, they would most likely reject it.

What poor old BottomFeeder missed was that with a good object library / framework, you can get so close that it almost doesn't matter. I tried to convince him to even try Delphi, with its marvellous TDataSet descendants in the VCL... But AFAIK he never even downloaded the free version I pointed him to, whatever it may have been called back then.
So the breach referenced was a breach by the researchers, not a malicious third party (that we know of)? I would have called it exposure or a vulnerability since breach has a specific meaning that I am not sure this fits. Maybe I am being pedantic.
Attraction, beyond physical looks (which is easily manipulated with makeup) is much more complicated than what’s between your legs.
Actually there’s a UK report saying that protection against symptomatic disease wanes significantly after only 10 weeks: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Effectiveness against severe disease is unknown.

And there’s also https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v... claiming that for males younger than 40, risk of myocarditis from the vaccine and disease is similar.

Under these circumstances, mandating boosters for students is not justified.
One case among published CDC numbers. You should know better.
A long time ago now, the word "hacker" was captured by regular programmers screwing around who wanted to sound cool. I doubt anyone is confused about which definition HN is concerned with.
I'm not sure if I would call profiting off of an intangible invention or creation "rent". Is profiting by selling other property rent? Such as your labor? Or your used car?

It's a lot easier to steal your music or your blueprints than it is to steal physical property, but that doesn't change the fact that it's all still property, at least in my mind. And society seems to work best when theft is at a minimum.
It was the case with Bitcoin until the last couple of years.
> we might not be far from an ML model that can essentially produce endless amounts of illegal content

Like this [0] one?

And give me enough money, I can get you one that's a lot better. But I don't want to work for a porn company because of not the perceived immorality of porn, but for the horrible things that come with Porn. And I am well past my teenage years to do this with my own time and money.

[0]: https://thisvaginadoesnotexist.com/about.html
With reviewers, I now first look at the style of shots they take. For example, with Jared Polin, I trust his opinion on sports / action photography, but not landscape, street, or architectural photography. Or for portraits, my go-to is Pye Jirsa.

About Ken Rockwell, I've heard him described as a "black and white photographer shooting in color" - he likes contrast & texture, and generally shoots stuff that would look better in b&w.
It is unclear to me if this means that ISPs cannot retain data, or a revocation of the law requiring ISPs to retain data.
I'm saying that things aren't simple. If you're not aware of cases where telling the truth is worse than telling a lie then I'd tell you that you're lying to yourself.
True. In Rust those are regular slices, and in C# and Java all collections are owned by the runtime anyway. Something which several languages do lack, though, is a view of a contiguous subsequence, in the manner of an std::span; it would be nice to see those in more places.

I've also taken a look at Golang's slices, which have rather confusing ownership semantics. One can take a subslice of a slice, and its elements will track those of the original, but appending to that subslice will copy the values into an entirely new array. In fact, appending to the original slice past its capacity causes a reallocation, which can invalidate any preexisting subslices. This also occurs with C++ vectors and spans, if I am not mistaken. This is an area where I think Rust's borrow checker really shines; it prevents you from resizing a vector if there are any active slices, encouraging you to instead store a pair of indices or some other self-contained representation.
> Best estimates of IFR for SARS-CoV2 by age indicate a risk of approximately 0.004% for those under age 34

Yet broken down more narrowly, the same paper suggests 0.01% for 25 year olds, which would seem to still strongly support vaccinations for university students.

As I've noted elsewhere, the comparison is, of course, more complicated: policymakers should also consider the effect of vaccinations on community spread, since other age strata are substantially more vulnerable, as well as the non-mortality cost of infection (as economists like to frame it, in QALYs, or in terms of lost working days).

But even excluding all of that, your implication that vaccination makes one less safe is just not born out by the data you linked to.

As an aside, and to your parent comment: I do think it makes a lot more sense for these booster vaccines to be distributed to people in countries who have not had access to the initial vaccination. But, taken out of context, your comments seem to suggest that vaccination is a net negative to the health of young adults, which is not at all supported by the data shown.
I use the bullet journal technique (1), I keep it simple and don’t go in for all the decoration that you see online. I also don’t do any fancy life tracking; it’s for recording tasks, making notes for meetings and notes around any work ongoing. I sometimes stick in examples of anything creative that I’ve done that I might want to reference at some point. Glued into the front cover is a picture of my dog.

I use a leuchtturm1917 A5, dotted paper. (2) Paper quality can vary, if you use a proper pen you’ll want to go for the thicker paper. You can get better journals on Amazon (cheaper and more pages), but I am lazy and can’t be bothered to number the pages myself. I also attach two pen loops, for a pen and a mechanical pencil.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_journal
2. https://www.leuchtturm1917.co.uk/edition-120g.html