skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> In any highly vaccinated area COVID-19 cases are sharply rising.

> You are spreading health misinformation. Please stop it.

Chile sees Covid surge despite vaccination success https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56731801

World's Most Vaccinated Nation Is Spooked by Covid Spike https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/business/economy/covid-se...

Vermont sees the biggest surge in COVID cases despite having the country's highest vaccination rate https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/vermont-covid-cases-vaccinati...

Iceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-covid-su...

99.7% of Waterford adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40704104.html

Waterford Now Has Highest Incidence of Covid in Ireland https://waterford-news.ie/2021/10/11/waterford-now-has-highe...

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

76% of September Covid-19 deaths are vax breakthroughs https://vermontdailychronicle.com/2021/09/30/76-of-september...

Covid cases hit records in South Korea and Singapore despite widespread vaccinations. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/covid-cases-hit-rec...

Virus surge hits New England despite high vaccination rates https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pande...

Most vaccinated place on Earth told to cancel holiday plans amid 'exponential' rise in Covid cases https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/most-vaccin...

Portugal returns to COVID restrictions despite high jab rate https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-he...

COVID Cases Are Surging in the Five Most Vaccinated States https://www.newsweek.com/covid-cases-are-surging-five-most-v...

Coronavirus outbreak sidelines ship whose crew is fully immunized, Navy says https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/12/24/...

Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid-19 despite strict measures https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-all-news/199687/belgia...
About 0. It’s climbing a hill and has just enough energy to get to the top. A small burn then will be all it takes to put it in an orbit around L2.
A dip, but nothing like the 1910’s. I’ve heard a rediction of up to two years. Covid mostly killed older people, while WW1 for obvious reasons mostly killed young people, therefore having a greater effect on life expectancy.
> Black on green IIRC

Yep, inherited from iChat way back in the Jagwire days: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/revie...
iMessage didn't break the SMS monopoly alone; I'd argue that WhatsApp played a more important role.

WhatsApp launched in Jan 2009, almost 2 years before iMessage launched in Oct 2011. Instead of being locked to one smartphone ecosystem, WhatsApp supported all platforms, including Android and feature phones (and the iPhone). This facilitated its worldwide adoption, in countries where feature phones were more common at the time (or still are). From some rough research/estimates, WhatsApp's adoption is probably roughly 2-3x that of iMessage on a monthly-active-user basis. (This is based on an estimate that roughly 1 billion people have iPhones; and that most but probably not all of them use iMessage.) In March of 2020, WhatsApp had over 2 billion MAU.

iMessage may have broken the monopoly in the USA (where WhatsApp usage is less popular), but WhatsApp arguably played the more important role in most other countries.

I won't dispute that the iPhone may have broken the "telcos install crapware" standard though. (Even today, from what I understand, telcos can install and update software on the phone, or some part of its hardware, but I believe it's limited to the telecommunication software/hardware, not apps on the phone OS.)
Frequency Shifts Do Not Imply Quantum Entanglement
I think if the covid vaccines managed to have a MMR level (90%+) preventive effect against symptomatic infection rather than 20% (I can’t find where I read that stat, it might be wrong, but I don’t think by much) against symptomatic infection, you would find less skepticism in the existing covid vaccines.

At this stage, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted, I absolutely expect to be exposed to and symptomatic from Omicron in the next 45 days.
One past thread:

Prof. Dr. Style: Top Web Design Styles of 1993 (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440935 - Nov 2018 (4 comments)
The only place I see people talking about web3 is HN and a few random sparsely commented articles on /.

No one I work with has any plans to learn about it or use it.

It's the exact opposite of how web 2.0 was.
Nix eh? https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-quick-install

curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Unlike guix nix does not even have a way to verify package signatures because "it would hurt the workflow of these using the github webui to push stuff to nixpkgs"
Sorry for meta, but in my 30+ years in tech I haven't seen a technology that would spark so much discussion around whether it can be useful or not. People invest in interesting stuff, others build and roll those things out. The public finds it useful or not, that's how the world has been working for centuries.

I think at this point we are more in the psychological realm than technological one. This is a big sunk-cost-fallacy vs. sunk-cost-fallacy-recognition debate and it's getting very, very irritating already. Kudos to Moxie for giving probably the most clear technical explanation of what's going on behind the web3 marketing fluff, but the rest is getting very annoying.

Sorry, I had to let this out.
>This is literally the ONLY reason?

For some reason it's incredibly controversial to even imply that the iPhone is just a better product. You will rile up fanboys who are quick to let you know about reparability, battery life, screen resolution and RAM. If more teens are buying iPhones, it's not because it's better, it's because they are being bullied into it.
Dogpile was at least memorable. I had to remind myself how to spell Cuil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

Edit: also, dogpile is somehow still around.... which is worth something I suppose.
U.S. to Spend $10B to Boost Small Businesses
I've met Sagan (he came by our dorm for conversation and dinner with the students). He was a great man. He was wonderful to talk to. He has made great contributions to science. He deserves all the credit and accolades you mentioned.

But I doubt he ever set foot in a machine shop. Making things is an entirely different skill.
Yes, but at the time I already had an existing domain with a web server I could use. You are correct that I could have setup a separate site for hidusi[.]com and then point the domain directly at my web server's IP, but since I already had a domain/web server configured, it was much easier just to swap the domain in the document.
The dude standing by the bank with a shotgun isn't going to accompany you even to your AirBnB, much less until you leave the country. He needs to be there to keep people from robbing the bank, but it's not his problem if someone follows you home from the bank and robs you there.

There may be other reasons. Here in Argentina 21 years ago the government confiscated all dollar-denominated bank deposits and replaced them 1-to-1 with pesos, which you weren't allowed to withdraw more than a few at a time, so you had to watch helplessly as your money lost 75% of its value overnight. If I had to guess which South American countries something like that would happen in next, I'd pick Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina again, in that order. But that's not because I have deep knowledge of Paraguayan politics, so I could be wrong.
I just think this is incredibly cool. Is there public source code to this?
I'm glad to see this post, as it says exactly what I thought when I read the referenced sections in Moxie's post. I know I live in a particular echo chamber but owning two ISPs has meant a sizeable proportion of my Dunbar's Number are those who gladly host their own servers, run their own infrastructures, and decline the ongoing consolidation of the Internet. We generally consider being part of The Internet for example to mean being part of the DFZ (Default Free Zone), and anything less is to be a consumer. I know we are the extreme minority of users, but it's users like us who keep the world connected and accessible. Without people running their own ASNs, hosting their own infrastructures, etc, we would all be reliant on a small (relatively) number of huge scale businesses. And these users permit disruptive Internet infrastructure businesses to exist.

Take for example the rural WISPs in the US or South and Eastern Europe who provide coverage for huge quantities of users in otherwise unserved locations. Or the organisations running Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Hosters like OVH, Hetzner, even Digital Ocean. Broadcasters like BBC and Netflix. Fibre providers like B4RN and even new ISP models like Starlink.

If people didn't want to run their own infrastructure the underpinnings of the Internet would become stagnant and opaque owned by a small quantity of hyper scale businesses. This isn't the Internet promise that I grew up through.
I didn't check for sources again earlier, but this NASA article [1] explains it.

Yea shadow was the wrong word and doesn't actually apply because of the relative size of the sun and earth. However the L2 point is by definition in a straight line Sun -> Earth -> L2, so if the sun would be a single point light source that would block the sun and place the JWST in the permanent shadow thrown by the earth. The point is actually that the sunscreen is always facing earth and sun at the same time to block/reflect a maximum of heat.

[1] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
Except it will because no one wants an exact copy, because if you do it at the same time that’s twice the rework, and if you do it later, you’re building something you know is obsolete. No one can resist throwing in some upgrades.
> UX is entirely dependent on the client.

Not entirely. Some features cannot be implemented without help from the protocol, like this extension to fetch history: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory
Can we try it anywhere?
A friend of mine who is actively involved in refugee issues posted this [1] on his FB profile.
In the last month, more than 60 people have drowned in the Aegean Sea. Most of them during Christmas. The last week of December was tragic [2].

My social circle regularly posts about such issues.

It turns out this makes Facebook think that we're interested in yachting.

Being a data professional myself it makes me frustrated to see such false positives and I'm surprised this special case hasn't been flagged somehow.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/633257566/posts/10159522380347567

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/25/16-migrants-dead-i...
> what prevents us from seeing back any further?

The other comment mentioning darkness is wrong.

In the very early universe, it was extremely bright and hot. It was only after 100,000 years or so the universe cooled down enough to become transparent.
> it clearly describes systemd

It really doesn’t.
Thank you. The articles about this problem constantly neglect those ambiguities of the problem. I'm not arguing that people are good with probabilites (many are not), I'm arguing that the Monthy Hall problem has been overstated as a problem about understanding probabilities when in reality it's more a "understanding/articulating the premise correctly"-problem. Which is why I'm of the opinion that article writers should leave Monthy Hall alone in the future and write about different things. Or maybe someone should make a case study where the participants have to play a Monty Hall game and afterwards answer in a questionnaire why they chose whatever they did. Which would probably depend A LOT on how well the experiment would've been explained at the start, but you could test if the participants understood it in the questionnaire. That way you could finally have a more sophisticated answer about whether this problem has any merit regarding behavioral biases.
It was only supported in mac OS Yosemite (2014) and removed in Sierra (2016).
Ok, we've updated the title from "Canon sells toner cartridges that register as counterfeit".
The current data from the UK shows a mortality of 0.15% for Omicron. However the data is from daily mail so take it with huge pinch of salt. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10372285/Covid-19-U...
> I’m not sure it’s going to happen with renewables because of the large land use requirements.

I want you to compare the cost of PV equipment per acre of land vs. the cost of an acre of land.

If PV is ever globally limited because of land cost, it will already have driven all other energy sources to extinction.
You could say the same thing about a Mercedes. Doesn't seem to matter.
You can buy scuffed up Jordans for next to nothing too but kids will laugh at you for wearing them. Same if some teen sees you whip out an iPhone 3. Might as well have an Android at that point.

Why do you think Apple being out new devices that are 99% identical so regularly and yet people still fawn over them? It's a new chance to show off your disposable wealth to other people who filled the hole where their personality should be with a wallet.
That's an abstraction. In reality, what we call "L2" is an orbit around the L2 point. No shortage of room.
Children can be raised as people who serve a purpose, not as a burden to serve. And just like adults, children thrive knowing they are wanted, and their actions make a difference. Children can have real chores as early as 3 or 4 years old, and by 18 can be expected to have developed the character and know how to be completely on their own.

That’s not to say they wouldn’t continue to benefit, for the rest of their lives, from a nurturing, supportive, diverse community. But they can be a completely productive member of that community.
I wasn't a teen that long ago and I don't remember anything like this. in fact, I remember quite the opposite: kids who brought nice things into school were made fun of for it. having your parents buy you a brand new car was the worst, but excessively nice phone, laptop, shoes were also bad. there were only two exceptions. if you had a job after school and bought the thing yourself, that was very cool. high-end sports equipment was also acceptable, but only if you were really good at that sport.
> and a few hundred to thousand long term deaths.

The official UN long term number is 53.

For everyone prognosticating future deaths, in reality, the cancer rate in the area went down substantially.

You will never find a sourced, measured third digit.
I'd love to see AI driven robot discovering optimal swordfighting "AI zero" style.
Top 10% of what? I was technically in the top 10% of my high school class, GPA wise. I also got a national merit scholarship, and had learned computer programming.

I would simply not have had the self discipline or motivation to learn everything on my own, no matter how good the learning materials were. Oddly enough, even through college, there were subjects that I easily taught myself, such as electronics and programming, others that I needed to learn in a classroom, such as math and physics.

I would have had no parental supervision at home -- both of my parents worked.

The kids who succeed will succeed. That's not to say that everybody succeeds in school either.
New York State Flu Tracker (https://nyshc.health.ny.gov/web/nyapd/new-york-state-flu-tra...):

5075 new cases this week (2227 in New York City).
Here is a clue:

https://mobile.twitter.com/android/status/147987545766744883...
(This comment was posted in response to https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1479837936430596097, so that's the picture)
Blockchains actually are decentralized.

Exchanges are centralized but even then there's dozens to choose from.

Plenty of people exchange crypto for goods and services directly without converting to fiat.

It's almost like this argument is talking past itself and ignoring the reality on the ground.
I think the Linux desktop (at least when running under an xserver) does have an obscure keyboard-mouse function, see e.g. here [1].

This seems to be enabled by default when running the german-centric 'neo' keyboard layout ('setxkbmap de neo'), see here [2]. It is usable on the desktop that I'm typing this from (Devuan GNU/Linux with xfce4 desktop), tested it this moment (no numeric keypad on my keyboard, but with the neo layout Mod4 + right hand keys can be substituted for the numeric keypad)

[1] https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_use_the_numeric_keyboard_keys...

[2] https://www.neo-layout.org/Benutzerhandbuch/Tastaturmaus/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29854460, which (although it was posted later, sorry) is currently high on the front page.
I understand this issue with cellular end-points. I saw a comment on one of the two previous posts here, where a user complained it was impossible to obtain static IP allocations for setting up their own "servers". I found this odd, since in my own history this has never been a problem for a nominal fee, even when I had a 9600Baud modem connecting my network with PPP. I am now wondering, if perhaps I've misinterpreted the concern, that people would like to be able to serve content from their smart phones with fixed IPv4 addressing? What is the actual use case for this?
See also "Your Life in Weeks":

* https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html

* https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
I for one believe that the revenue multiple is too awful to even mention by itself. what about the profit margins growth market cap Etc?
As a teen in high school: People don't use iMessages, or for that matter SMS. We use Discord, Instagram DMs, etc. for communication. I don't know any of my friends' phone numbers and have never cared to ask, because we use Discord voice channels instead.

This article seems to be of the "kids these days" type, and is, in my experience, highly reflective of the millenial generation, who are by and large not teens anymore.
Are you suggesting web3 is not technology?
RE>> "I understand the reasons for not putting a camera on or near the JWST"

What are the reasons? I'm sorry ~ I'm ignorant on the topic, but I'd love to learn more. Why/what are the reasons?
That's what you've got from a very clear technical description, in a very detailed history and breakdown?
In case you missed the discussion on Moxie’s comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208
So build a copy out of the spares! If they're there, they're already paid for.
I should've put YMMV: general trends don't predict specific examples reliably. Of course over-flexing is often seen as being a tryhard, but owning an iPhone isn't that.
> Sysadmin skills are so easy these days they’re forcing developers to do it as an additional part of their responsibilities.

Nah most devops is IaC and sysops with very little if any dev. As some one that edits yaml files all day, I will die on the yaml is not "dev work" hill.
First owners though tend to hold for 2-3 years as part of a PCP/PCH
U.S. Is Open as Canada Shuts Down. The Difference? Their Health Care Systems
> How can I get value out of 4chan?

Leave. Seriously. Don't visit if you can help it. There are other, better places to go now. I only visit because I'm semi-involuntarily hooked.

If you instead mean to ask "It's hard for me to imagine anything positive coming out of 4chan. How did you get value out of that site?":

I prefer to remain anonymous and won't describe my hobbies in detail, but among other things I was pointed to new (to me) bands, books and study resources, sometimes quite obscure. The 'what I read, what I expected, what I got' memes persuaded me to read literature that I ignored when it was suggested elsewhere. I learned a lot about computers on /g/, a lot about cars on /o/, etc. Iirc, those communities were developed earlier than their reddit counterparts. There may have been other car forums, but they weren't as funny. Additionally, the site was always hateful, but much less so than it is now.

I suppose also that it helped with my lonliness. For many years I found 4chan, at it's best, to be a much more sincere place than other more moderated communities. Elsewhere, someone might get banned for a clear and honest opinion on my post if it is unkind. On 4chan, someone might insist that I kill myself.

So if I made a post on 4chan and the worst I got was 'you're stupid', or even positivity, I knew it was genuine because that person had the other options available. Elsewhere, I was not so sure.
Somehow all of these articles choose to ignore what is for me the most critical point of web3: The fact that interacting with the blockchain costs real money.

If HN was a web3 app, then posting a comment would cost you money. I can't find anywhere how web3-enthusiasts justify this or what are the potential improvements around this.

EDIT: After some small research it looks like this is an Ethereum thing and that other platforms differ sligthly. But still seems to be a considerable drawback compared to the current web.
This is a pretty innovative idea, and would add good value to the second and third round owners of vehicles.

I wonder if it would ease depreciation too, making vehicles bought on PCP more affordable, and therefore shifting the bias of sales more towards new. That would help achieve the target if getting ICE car volumes down.
Perhaps I’m naive but these don’t necessarily dictate the fall of the liberal order.
> to be able to detect the difference between "this expression is a function" and "this expression is the result of the computation of a function"

If function (or method) arguments don't require parenthesis, referring to (rather than calling) a function/method usually requires quite distinct syntax, so it's quite easy to it apart from a call.

It may not be familiar to people coming from languages where no-parens refers to the function and parens call it, but being clear and distinct and being intuitive to people indoctrinated in contrary syntax are not the same thing.

E.g., in ruby (which has methods but not functions in the strict sense) I can call a method with:

thing.square # or thing.square()

Or access the corresponding method object with:

thing.method :square # or, thing.method(:square)

Either of the former options are distinct from both of the latter.
The related article/thread from yesterday:

My First Impressions of Web3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208 - Jan 2022 (1049 comments)
Tell all of that to your Mum when all she wants to do is buy an NFT...

You are not 99% of people, these are skills that seem trivial to you, everyone has different skills, very very far from everyone has sysadmin skills.