skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you consider yourself to be a good person?

Do you think your a good person? I literally cannot empathize with someone who believes they should not get a vaccine because of freedom issues and thinks they are a good person. I do not submit to your position that I need to defend my way of life. I, and many other americans, are done with acting like the sane option in life needs to be defended against an insane group.

And yes, I understand how both sides think this way about each other. This is probably why we are going towards violence/revolution because thats the normal course of action whenever 2 groups in a country can no longer find a common ground. I am still not willing to cede the idea that your point of view is the standard and mine needs to be defended

> Do you believe in a liberal, civil society?

Do you believe in a liberal, civil society where people are allowed to fire rounds in the air or near your head because it didn't immediately directly kill you? Is it ok for you to take some action that is spreading a disease that's in the top 3 causes of death in our society because you don't feel like it?

>I wonder because I see a lot of people who do, but then say things like this, and I wonder how they justify it internally.

I justify it because the current path you and your ilk is suggesting leads us to a complete breakdown of society and economic regression. Your side is incapable of operating in a system where your actions can generate negative externalities that can break down society, and unfortunately reality is a system where that is true.

>The idea that power itself is the final justification for any action, is anathema to any sort of concept of liberty. It carries the stink of tyranny and oppression - those that believe it are in some dark and disturbing company.

Power isn't the justification. Power is your problem to deal with because we have no sympathy for your side when you are advocating what sounds like social suicide.

If you want a tl;dr, the vaccinated group is warming up to the idea that the unvaccinated group is no longer part of the same society. This is a line in the sand and where you stand is the group you are part of. The "othering" you mentioned in other comments is the act of people implicitly realizing that this reordering of tribes is occuring
Beware confirmation bias…
More to the point, it has much less monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
Cloth is pretty useless... here's a neck gaiter compared to a surgical mask:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40gAXGOlEmI

Also tested my kids minion pillow case which beat the gaiter :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_WryN-Y40
Ask HN: What's the Best Way for a Layperson to Be Informed about Covid-19?
Hi,

I'm personally very unsophisticated as concerns biology, I have what amounts to undergraduate-requirement bio (and my own career to focus on): so I don't aspire to be an expert or even to be equipped to give advice to others.

Nonetheless I, like most others, have to make day-to-day decisions about a great many things regarding COVID-19: do I have my Moderna boosted, when should I wear a mask, is travel a good idea, is dining out a good idea this month? I would like to do so in as scientific and apolitical a way as is possible for a non-expert.

It seems like such a polarizing topic that I'm personally having trouble sifting the signal out of the noise about it, and I doubt that I'm alone.

Is there a resource or set of resources available to the layperson willing to read a lot for becoming at least somewhat conversant in the key science, developments, legitimate controversies, spurious controversies, and generally the lay of the land that is balanced, apolitical, globally-minded, and actionable?

Thanks in advance!

P.S. I hope I don't start a flamewar by asking. I'm looking for how to hear even-handed, civil debate that doesn't involve a flamewar and my Google-fu is inadequate to find it.
Sounds like you want non-factual answers.
It is popularly believed that cars take you closer to your destination, but in fact, car usage correlates with being far from your destination, and people who live close to all their desired destinations may not own a car at all!
I haven't seen them... second one looks legit to me.
Ever been to NYC?
Why does this company have AI in their name if they are just selling access to regular old humans?
You are sensitive to the monoamine oxidase inhibitors in coffee. I assume you don’t get the same effects if you consume only pure caffeine?
Yikes, I've never seen a HN thread with active censorship.. [name redacted]. Pretty wild thread.
Sounds like a PG quote....
> I'd compare wine snobbery to the coffee snobbery that is about beans that have to be eaten by a cat and pooped out to be "good".

That is a profoundly unfair comparison, but ok.
No I'm talking about the fact that the only "evidence" is that they share a name. Every other detail doesn't match up, someone did the heavy lifting here:
https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-se...

The point is there's been no strong evidence, so it's a huge leap to then decide this is a solid basis for "Aaron Swartz was killed because Ghislaine Maxwell was tight with the Reddit staff and he got wind of her child trafficking".
Oh ha this is a good idea
It means that our ancestors happened to survive by eating meat, among other things, and produced us. Nothing more.
The Ergex Regular Expression Engine
While looking similar, they are something different, not versioned in the same way (alongside) as content, or editing a commit message.
I believe GP post still holds up since it was regarding companionship and human emotions. It said nothing of pig intelligence.
Qualitative analysis on rhetorical appeals and tactics about vaccines
thanks for the laugh, seriously XD
Yes, it took us a long time to get it right... manufacturing is hard but that's why we have an earloop guarantee. Write support@armbrust.com and they will refund you or get you a new order.
I was in fact thinking it was less than 60% from power plants, especially considering that France has nuclear weapons. Regarding the 30 year half life time. That's somewhat misleading because while it might be true different waste products are often mixed with each other so one has to plan for the longest lifetime parts.

Talking about reprocessing (recycling is a complete misnomer), did you know that reprocessing greatley increases the amount (volume) of nuclear waste? And that it is not really economical, unless you want to make nuclear weapons.
Looks cool too!
> "the death count is exaggerated

By a factor of ten?!?
Reluctance in gaining even a basic level of mastery in language skills goes to show you don't respect / value other people's time. You want your readers to put in the extra effort required to make sense out of your half-baked messages.

Asking people to use coherent English on an English language forum is a reasonable expectation. I wasn't making a value judgement on the thread OP. I hope this is clear (this is why reading comprehension is important too).
This has very little to do with extraction and everything to do with temperature and time (pyrolysis) and the subsequent formation of various monoamine oxidase enzyme inhibiting heterocyclic aromatic amines from protein amino acids.
this probably explains why in these results, most adult masks have a pass rating, but most kid masks have a fail rating
Just realized you dont see the full data set unless you are on desktop...
Net lender doesn’t matter if there is no cap on the upside. The person you are replying to has it right.
If Davis had made it legal to do any of the things you suggest, they would not be in the position where it's legal to build skyscrapers now.
Show HN: Ruby CLI Port of Wordle
You suggest someone can't "understand", "reduce", or "invalidate" another's morals, but these quotes below from you contradict that.

> ... I really think we need to revise ...

> ... I'm not saying we need to be vegans ...

> ... improving how we talk think and act about ...
24 is not a multiple of 30.

>and looks "better" due to 24fps being the frame rate of movies

I think this is just Stockholm syndrome from people used to bad frame rates. If the content was originally in 60fps don't butcher it by converting it to 24fps.
A Zach-like with music synthesis as the core mechanic. I still think it's a good idea, but I don't really know how to write fun games (I think you have to write one or two to get enough experience) and I do know how to write 2D renderers, and increasingly feel able to claim I know how to program GPUs as well. I think it was Ivan Sutherland who said a good plan for research is to do something you think is easy and other people think is hard.
> I'm not sure it's acceptance as opposed to resignation (I know, potato potato).

I definitely see it as being used to excuse bad behavior, which is a step up from resignation IMO

> "People will follow incentives" might as well be a law of physics, and not accepting it is like not accepting the inverse-square law for gravitation.

This seems to deny any moral agency to "people". If someone were to offer $100 million to whomever kills the CEO of Lufthansa, anyone taking them up on that offer would be morally culpable. Hopefully we don't just resign ourselves to say "yeah, I'd have killed the CEO too, people follow incentives"
While I agree this isn't technically "censorship" from one perspective, I do think it's important to consider this: by forcibly omitting search terms against your wishes, it is actively and deliberately preventing you from searching from what you wanted to search for. This is both frustrating for the user, and has a detrimental effect upon the quality of the search results.
The Queen of Trees doco is great, I wrote about and linked to it recently here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792509

Scott Noble makes truly excellent and important political documentaries, all linked to free from his site https://metanoia-films.org/

Satyamev Jayate is an amazing documentary/talk show series with Indian star Aamir Khan, each episode looking at an important and troubling social issue. Almost every episode is now available with english subtitles on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=satyamev+jayate...

John Berger's Ways of Seeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utEoRdSL1jo

Sapolsky's Biology of Human Behavior course. 11+ million views! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...
The legal profession tends to take a more permissive stance when determining the limits of what's "reasonable", as can be seen from how the phrase "moron in a hurry" has become a term of art.
So the slot reservations are maintained by proof of work?
Sorry this is off topic but your name makes your comment make so much sense.
The author is severely confused. What he's calling logs are actually debug traces. You don't want to use events for those.

> eases the transition to internationalized log messages

You don't internationalize debug traces any more than you internationalize your function names or programming language words. You barely even fix spelling mistakes in trace messages. Often, you build software without them at all: "compile them out".

One excellent reason not to use events for trace messages is that you may sometimes want every last trace message leading up to a crash to be recorded, which won't happen if they go through an event system where they sit in a queue which is no longer being serviced since everything died.

Oh, and your shiny event system could have issues, debugging which could benefit from trace messages.
For me, yak shaving is when the prerequisites to doing the thing I want means I have to do things I hate, like resolving inconsistent circular library package dependencies for things I don't even want on my system based on code that's been erased from the internet !-(
> I think professor Bhattacharya is aware of the numbers.

Professor Bhattacharya is apparently one of the main instigators of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration .

So I think he is fudging the numbers.
I bet that the trauma was even stronger in the USSR, which lost unfathomable numbers, and that maybe that generational trauma -- even moreso than communism -- resulted in the hawkish, militaristic, paranoid, confrontational, guns-before-butter standoff across the iron curtain throughout the cold war and which I think even lingers today.
And yet, both kinds of privacy depend on the same freedom-of-technology. If you give up your privacy-of-commerce based on fears of 'money laundering', your privacy-for-speech is probably already dead.
VS Code has come a long way and Is overtaking JetBrains by innovation speed it seems, largely thanks to its rich plugin ecosystem. However, I think it is not quite there yet, largely due to bugs which need to be ironed out.

My observations from daily driving VS Code insiders for half a year:

- stuff breaks and will not work for multiple weeks. this is especially frustrating if you use setups which are considered “exotic” by the devs (like having IPv6 disabled). But that is Insiders for you.

- Remote dev support is a lit better than JetBrains (also it is not in the free editions of JetBrains)

- UI customizability is miles ahead in JetBrains. Just an example: there has been a Ticket open in VS Code to enable moving the outline view to the right side of the UI for years and they say it is not possible because that would need some large refactor.

- JB Debugger is more convenient and easier to use

- Tests and TDD work better out of the box in JB. No finicky manual switching between test output and Debut Console needed like in VS Code.

- VS Code language servers seem to be quicker in building index. I had Pycharm
Stuck in a seemingly infinite Index Rebuild multiple times.

- setting up languages and projects in Vs Code can be exhausting and seemingly impossible sometimes (Monorepo…)

- finally: refactor methods are wayyyy ahead in JetBrains products. Since VS Code depends on open source implementations by plug-in maintainers/language servers for these, they tend to vary a lot from language to language.

I could go on and on. But my general feeling is that VS Code is more flexible and has more features at the cost of a worse UX, largely due to its open source nature. JetBrains has a way better UX and is more solid (hello enterprises!) and will eventually catch up to some of the more Revolutionary new VS Code features, but it has a lot slower update cycle.

If you want to get work done and your use case fits into a JB product, use it. If you want one application that can do everything under the sun, get VS Code.
The question is not one of trust or lack thereof towards a machine, but towards whoever is responsible for the software running on it (that includes the websites loaded by the browser).

The more one knows about the software, the better one can judge what software can be entrusted with what information.
Oh that looks fascinating, thanks. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499004/
Which may be true, but I'm still suspicious. An update FTA:

> However, many of the users we’ve heard from, and tested ourselves, do not have any such content filtering enabled. We’ve followed up with T-Mobile for additional clarification, but have not yet heard back.
The building he wants to build in UCSB already exists in Michigan and it has the highest ratings of any student dorm there. "In fact the building has a rating of 8.8 out of 10 on veryapt.com. Reviewers praise the building's amenities, including study rooms and a fitness center."

My quality of life at college improved a lot when I switched from having a roommate to getting a single room.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residences-mi...
So who has access, if at all ? If nobody has access, how is deployment done or setup ? Can you imagine the "deployer" person ... learning or being replaced by a developer ?

This is an organisational weakness not to have figured out a way to make the people responsible for production, also responsible for reproduction and bug fixing.

I've seen companies with a full team of developers who never add new features but only reproduce and fix the errors of the other feature teams, companies with read-only access to obfuscated informations good enough to reproduce without any client reference, companies who localize enough people in each jurisdiction the production is regulated in rather than have everyone out and unable to reach it.

It's an organisational problem, fix it instead of saying it's impossible to be creative with it. And if my experience if anything to go by, regulators and auditors are either misunderstood in wayyy too conservative ways or are themselves misunderstanding in conservative ways their own rules: there always are ways to explain that it's more risky not to maintain production rather than let if rot slowly because "I can't ssh to the box".

While it's always easier to be conservative with vague rules, it's also always possible to be clear faced with absurdity and it's rare people embrace the absurdity: usually they tell you: "I'll lose my job if I don't follow the rule X put in place 20 years ago" and not "I want the production to be offline the entire day during heavy traffic because I think clients prefer when they can't use our software". So, easy: "20 years ago, X. made a mistake - let's show him", and the answer from X is almost always "Why the fuck are you even asking me, ofc exceptions are possible, fix now we do the process after". And "doing the process" is often to can the old rule, or make it change so much it loses all fear factor and start being actually useful.

Give up and rot, give feedback and soar :)
EU to block $2bn Korean shipbuilding merger between Daewoo and Hyundai
Why does intelligence get to be the barometer for this? To me, pigs are essentially big rodents that also happen to be quite delicious. When I eat pork I don’t care how the pig’s intellectual potential will never be realized. I get a side of eggs and go on with my day.
The web itself is deteriorating.

Instant answers (IA) caused a shift in the way contents are written. Content optimized for IA tend to be repetitive and shallow. Viewing content written for IA is a frustrating experience and these tend to dominant the result page now.
in 10+ years of targeted advertising, i still have yet to see a single ad for something that is actually relevant to what i want to buy.
i'm actually baffled that these companies that have my entire purchasing history and metadata still cannot do a better job at making me spend money than absolute randos on the internet.
It’s not just a random personal repo on GitHub. It has a long documentation published on NPM describing the intention of the module. It is advertised as being something it now clearly and deliberately is not.

Some would even call it a genuine fraud. Doesn’t matter if you paid for it or not, there are plenty of free services in meatspace that can be compared. Free quote of bathroom renovation - plumber changes all your locks when you look away while doing the inspection.

Now should consumers be more careful about situations like this, yes. Can this guy expect to claim any rights after a move like this, no.
Yes, you can probably be in and out same day or maybe the next day.
I never said it was quick or easy. It just makes more intuitive sense in how it works. Rails has a lot of "invisible" that is stored in libraries which obscrues how it works.
So, after all, it's just an implementation detail with its own set of challenges.
As long as we have a gathering of bookmark-nerds here, is there a good solution for progress-tracking bookmarks? I'd love to be able to bookmark a web site one time and that bookmark update every time I open a new page on that site. For example, if I was reading a blog or a webcomic from beginning to end, being able to resume progress at any point in the future with only a single bookmark would be great and would keep me from having so many tabs open.
In the US the standards for adults are the same as kids... in China they just came out with a new standard but for reasons I wont go into we don't cover it (very China specific).

That said, I have also noticed this... if a manufacturer in China makes a great adult masks, their kids mask is likely to fail standards for filtration AND be harder to breath.

Having made both adult and kids masks I can tell you that there is way less of a demand for kids masks and because of that less attention gets paid to them on the manufacturing floor. Theory: People are just lazy and make worse masks for the kids I think because kids are not paying attention.

Furthermore, kids don't care that it passes standards, they care if there's a dinosaur on the mask or not. Even my own kids tell me my kids masks are boring! So manufacturers put their time on making it fun and not on protection.

We test both kids and adults to the same standards, use the same fabric, etc. Boring but effective :)
> So, what did I do? I switched from Logic to Reaper for my live mixing. Reaper is very cheap ($65, and you can just use it for free if you want), extremely streamlined (it weighs about 35 MB to Logic’s many GB), and has worked perfectly for me. I haven’t had one bad moment with it. It’s what they’d call robust. I’d recommend it for this purpose to anyone.

Guess who created Reaper? Justin Frankel. Guess what else he created? Winamp. Software like this is missing in today's era. Just this one piece of software is the counter arguments to the gazillion gbs of electron apps making the rounds today.

I wish we could go back to efficiency and small sized apps with big ambitions.
Where is this happening? We've had no problem using xfinity mobile, which is a verizon MVNO, in the Bay Area.
It is not either or. It is also because hospital staff is burned out.
> why Twitter can and should throw out the 1st Amendmen

A user posting a tweet isn’t the beginning and end of the first amendment.

Twitter has its own first amendment editorial rights.

Editorial decisions are a part of the first amendment too.
Yes, New York is expensive because it doesn't build enough housing. Per capita, New York builds less new housing than California (1.8 permits per 1000 residents vs. 2.7 permits), and that's saying something, because California does not build a lot of housing. New construction in NYC is opposed by residents who are opposed to the Manhattanization of Manhattan. Michael Bloomberg significantly downzoned the city while he was in office.

Tokyo is even bigger than New York, and you can rent a one bedroom in the heart of downtown for $1,000 a month, because they actually build a lot of new housing there.

"New York City issued fewer housing unit permits on a per capita basis than nearly every other large city, including not only fast-growing Seattle and Austin, but also cities that face similar constraints to development. New York issued permits for 40 percent fewer units per capita than San Francisco, half as many as Boston, and nearly two-thirds less than Washington, D.C. New York also lags on other metrics like the net change in the number of housing units."

https://cbcny.org/research/strategies-boost-housing-producti...
I recall a couple of years ago this guy was accused of experimenting with 'bomb making materials' in his apartment. Does anyone know what happened with that?
I'm not going to get vaccinated, and it is out of pride and the principle of it. I'm fortunate that I probably won't lose my job and if I did I would be fine financially. And I am in the age and health range where the absolute benefit of getting vaccinated is vanishingly small. So I don't pretend I'm some martyr or sacrificing for my principles. But it is my own small personal protest.

I have many reasons. Unrepentant corrupt, incompetent, and lying governments and pharmaceutical corporations are among them. But the biggest ones are my anger for coercion and threats of financial ruin people have suffered; the collectivization of health and personal responsibility; and finally I just don't like the way I'm spoken to about it and so I take great pleasure in the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the ruling class enraged by the commoners who refuse to bow down and submit to them.