skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If (and that is a big if) using opponents results pleasing pairings only with some specially crafted wonky RYB colorspace then to me that is more just an indication that using opponents is not a robust way of picking pleasant pairings.

I am also very dubious about the claim of the color pairings being more or less "culturally relevant".
If they invest the 50M, and keep the team lean, it can be long-term sustainable.
Except at a restaurant, the unmasked time is closer to 95%-99%, depending on how long it takes to get a table, and then how long you're there.

My wife an I recently went out for breakfast. There was no wait for a table, so the masked time was basically less than a minute, but let's call it a full minute. Then, we were there for about 40 minutes unmasked.

That's a 97.5% time unmasked, talking or eating. You cannot possibly convince me that the 1 minute I had my mask on made ANY difference.

That said, the alternative to the "mask until you're seated" policy was never going to be "no masks", it would end up being "no indoor dining".
Thank you for your reply on all points.

On the matter of testing browser exploits etc. it seems to me there's no decent comprehensive list of exploitable browser functions that's easily comprehensible to normal users as well as being easily accessible.

I reckon that a link on your homepage to a well organized table etc. that lists browser function names, their description or explanation thereof together with their various exploits (description, modus operandi, notes, links to more info etc.) in an easily readable format would be very worthwhile as would also draw users to your site for that reason alone. When there, they'd also find the browser tests.

(There's any amount of stuff on the web about browsers, exploits etc. but I've not seen one that's comprehensive in that it brings all three aspects into one place.)

About Tor, I would certainly agreed with you. Bootstrapping with fallback security makes sense. If there's any argument then make it optional at the click of a button, etc. In a way, your test results have acted as a review and I reckon that's a good thing.

Frankly, I'm horribly disenchanted with most browsers and we need a site that reviews most of them in an objective and comprehensive way. Perhaps in the future you might consider doing this by reviewing browsers in the light of your tests.
This is one of those studies where you have to dig a bit deeper than what's shown on the surface. Consider:

• The only <18's they can track is those who get tested

• You're more likely to get tested if in the hospital or showing severe symptoms

• <18's rarely have serious symptoms unless they have comorbidities (e.g. obesity)

• Therefore, most <18's with COVID that they can track were already unhealthy prior to the disease and already more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes or another chronic health condition.

That study doesn't show Covid increases risk of diabetes, it shows that children hospitalized with Covid are more likely to develop diabetes. Two very different things.

Edit: Fixed formatting and spelling from posting on mobile
My kid's in day care. He's gotten a dozen diseases since starting. For all we know one was covid. With all this prevention none of these other diseases were stopped so why would anyone think covid could be stopped? It clearly can't.
It is worth noting that this is not an impossible problem. I'm not a js expert, and it seems that js loves imports, but Nix solves exactly this problem on Linux. You have, for each end binary, a set of dependencies. If they are exactly the same, they can be shared among programs, otherwise you would have different versions of the dependency, all the way down, per program.

It can be bloaty, and you have to manually look at and test packages if you want to get everyone on the same set of dependencies, but you end up with reproducible environments.
Perhaps top 1% contextually would be a better upper bound, though the exact number is an issue of economic statistics and not really the point I'm making. More so that a Marxian view of choices is often a very parsimonious way to understand the world, not to say it's the only way.
The vaccines don't prevent people from getting covid, so why accumulate risks?

In any case, common sense says the natural coronavirus would be handled by your body in predictable ways versus the new mRNA engineered substance. Are you telling me since you got the vaccines, you actually think you're going to avoid getting COVID? If this is not what you think, then what the hell are you talking about?
I think a lot of the answer is that hash functions last a while. SHA1 lasted about 30 years, and SHA2 seems like it will last at least as long. furthermore, even if SHA2 becomes broken, it's hard to imagine needing to move to more than 32 bytes.
Sure, to the technical definition of assets, but the point is that by definition fractional reserve banks don’t have the money on hand to pay out if all of their customers decided to withdraw at once.
There are levels of not knowing how to program that go beyond FizzBuzz. But sure, many programming jobs don't require them.
just a clarification I think you are confused between RL and robotics. RL algorithm could be used anywhere either in ads, nlp, computer vision etc.
I can't imagine that anybody here is taking it seriously.

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Please don't use HN for nationalistic battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We've already had to ask you this several times, and you've continued to do it quite badly, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595653 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273660 (Nov 2021)

Continuing like that will get you banned here. I don't want to ban you, so please don't continue like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It does operate without those systems just fine. But even if we include those exchanges, how much energy do they spend, and how many people work in that sphere? I don't know the number, but there are not more than a hundred big crypto exchanges. And they don't have hundreds of people working inside them. That is incomparable to the traditional finance system.
Agreed on the masks in bars/restaurants just being theater, but the alternative was never going to be masks not being required, it would be that indoor dining wouldn't be permitted.
I can't imagine what kind of leverage they think they have. is any provider going to just drop iPhone support from their network?
If you also dislike this: https://jurta.org/en/prog/noblink
I think I have a pretty good idea of exactly which sub-sector of Tech right now is most likely to be a bubble…
I find it funny how deeply sexist the representation of findings like this are. Essentially the finding is that men, according to their study, are hugely discriminated against. This lack of meritocracy is not considered or portrayed as bad, but rather described as a great step forward for women.

One sees similar portrayals of e.g. the gender education gap, which massively favours girls, as a triumph, rather than a problem. Sometimes the massively higher rate of male homelessness is even made out to be about how our statistics must be biased against registering women who are slumming it by e.g. couch surfing... There seems a massive bias in the social sciences against men.
ugh. Look. No-resale within a year is not that difficult to notice and enforce. You can look at DMV records. It is easy to correlate with who bought the truck. If you've ever sold a used vehicle, you know there is all kinds of scamming going on with what people want you to write as the sale price (what they pay taxes on) vs. what it actually sells for. How in the world would you discover what someone actually paid in a private sale transaction? Sue and do discovery after? That is incredibly expensive.
Speed limits make little sense to me... I think it should be referred to as a speed target; to imply that it is meant as both a minimum and a maximum. The real dangers are speed deltas in my opinion. Someone travelling below the speed limit can create just as many problems as someone going over the limit.

I agree that we should look more closely at what these speed targets should be, but I'm not a fan of catering to the lowest common denominator exposed through testing...

I feel like licensing and general requirements for operating a vehicle are too lax. For example, I put snow tires on every year, but I don't know anyone else who does. Should the speed target be based off of my braking distance or theirs? So many vehicles in the US are less than fit for the road (as are many drivers).

Now if they actually started pulling people over for using their phones... That would help a lot and not require much thought to enforce.
Exactly. Coffee is fine in moderation, 1 maybe 2 cups a day. Most people who talk about quitting are drinking 3-6 cups.
Per the cdc [1], the US has 250 deaths from covid ages 0-4 and an additional 573 ages 5-18.

Compare [2] to an estimated 216 deaths ages 0-4 and an additional 156 ages 5-17 from the flu in 2018-2019.

Those aren't perfectly comparable -- we took serious additional measures against covid that we don't take against the flu. On the other hand, how much actual masking of the 4 and under set is going on in preschool or kindergarten?

[1] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
You and me both. Also my father and grandfather.
However, my wife has terrible headaches around 3pm if no caffeine has been ingested. So I suspect something different in our genetic makeup.

I do find that later in the evening if I'm started to feel tired coffee makes it a little easier to shrug off the sensation. Otherwise it doesn't have a grand effect. I tend to drink it because I like the ritual (and I'm already brewing for my wife).
We know about "soft lockdowns" too (in fact, it's now just standard practice around here). It's why our kids get less age-appropriate care - for example, they can't mix with the groups who share the same sleeping pattern as they do, and are forced to stick to whatever their "bubble" is doing. To me, this is incredibly developmentally inappropriate.
These are all the same questions you'd have to answer if you'd built the marketplace yourself, except the answers are even harder, and there's nobody there to care when you solve them.

And if you're on ethereum, you probably can use a 'different' coin easily, because it'll be wrapped or more likely implemented as a token, and you didn't have to do anything to get the benefit of that aspect of the ethereum ecosystem.

Correcting/fixing wrong transactions is a fun one, but it's not impossible depending on how you set up your smart contract.
then why are all ICU at 100% capacity right now ?
> A lot of us will take more than a 20% pay cut in return for that day.

Can't agree with you on this one, losing that money would meaningfully limit what I could do with my new-found free time. While I totally agree that a 4-day week would make a lot of folks respond to a recruiter's email, I think the vast majority would balk at the pay cut.
I completely agree with you, with the qualifier that the article is very much part of the problem. These sort of issues always start small and then the media picks them up and splashes them on the front page purely as outrage bait.

I have absolutely no reason to care about this issue. I'll bet 99% of the people reading the article have absolutely no reason to care. I don't care if I see Latin(o|a|x) on a form, if I was creating a form and someone asked me to include Latinx I'd say 'sure, why not'. This is an artificial culture war created by a click happy media.
Part of this is in the way you present - do you have a business structure, do you use all the right terminology and language? I personally say I am a small business and rely on the funds coming in, and cannot afford to loan money to a large business then get into a position where a large amount of money is outstanding. The payment terms are part of my negotiation before I sign the contract, and go on the contract. This includes politely informing that I stop work if the owed balance gets to the size I specify, typically two weeks fulltime.

Having got agreement at the executive level, it often gets tried on anyway, but the very first day it's late I start letting people know, and consuming their time, and reiterating reasons why its setup to pay. I follow the chain of people to get actual contact to the accounts paying person and build a personal relationship with them, as an individual they have a commitment to paying rather than just another bill on the stack. An individual who will ring them for a person plea, plus consume their time, if they don't pay as agreed.

This reminds them it's an issue and that my work continuing relies on them paying, as they agreed. I do this politely, but clearly, and conscientiously. I find this significantly increases my chances of getting paid properly.

The critical time for this is when the first, and perhaps second bills are paid. Once they are trained that yours is a bill to to pay without games, it tends to become smooth sailing.

Also, in the case where it is delayed - stop working. This is critical. If you work when they are not paying as agreed you're undermining your main leverage and will possibly have big problems.

Be polite, always, yet clear and firm about the agreements made, and be ready to walk away and find new work if necessary. Usually late payments will be resolved in days to a week and if it's taking longer then put your effort to finding new work.
How to see the ones that failed?
Older Honda and Acura models hit by Y2K22 bug that resets clocks 20 years
Do you really need 40 kg of potassium nitrate for your hobbyist fireworks though? That amount can blow up a house.

Also if you absolutely can't live without the immature thrill of mixing explosives with your bare hands, at least don't do it in a residential neighborhood.
Good timing. My wife is going to get a cellular data plan for her new iPad this week.

Now I know to cross T-Mobile off the list.
There is usually a decent difference in support volume between a customer weekday and a customer weekend. I would like to understand how they are thinking about this. It's especially perplexing since their site has no support info that I could find, so maybe they take the Google approach of not providing support.
It took me 20 tries to set up a Google Home Mini, after Sonos' lawsuit
Uh, please clarify? :)

I do believe it is the default. Hard to know what's default when you've been carrying over your .emacs for two decades.

Every single fresh install on random throwaway installs I've done has defaulted to a single non-blinking block cursor though.
> Meanwhile down here in the US I was charged $150 after going to an urgent care clinic for strep throat.

To be honest, I don't think it is unreasonable to pay $150 for a nurse's/doctor's time to examine you. I've gone to urgent care and the ER a few times, and they're always filled with people who are there for non-issues. If it was totally free, you'd have them filled with people with things that should really just be handled by a regular doctor's appointment.

Hell, my local hospital had to make a public statement for people to stop going to the ER just to get COVID tests.
How to Choose a Web Browser
Stressed by the numerous asymptomatic hypochondriacs you mean? [1]

I have no idea what these asymptomatic folks are wasting hospital resources for

[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-covid-cases-t...
If you wanted to effectively reduce spread and mutations you'd have to vaccinate every mouse, dog, and white-tailed deer - Omicron is so infectious that there is no mitigation only applied to humans that could be effective.

The point of the remaining ones is to not send people to hospital and spread it out some until we get antivirals.
You could say our ISPs are free to make deals with whomever wrt bandwidth.

Is free, unlimited HD Netflix steaming worth more than private relay? I’m guessing most people would say yes.

I’d consider switching. Oddly enough though I was able to turn on private relay on T-Mobile USA.
> Their semen-like flower scent filled the air in the spring,

They're all over GA Tech campus. We always compared the smell to cement though. :D
Exactly - or you might try emailing someone else, and get some other strangely worded auto-response.
Some big security hole is introduced in one of thousands of dependencies, npm gets the insecure version on next npm install while Go is stuck in the tested secure version. How difficult is that to see? I'm not the one to believe in conspiracy theories but this is just nuts.
We aren't talking about FizzBuzz here; but rather the fashionable practice of subject people to 4-6 hours of grilling on "medium-to-hard" problems that you absolutely cannot fail, or even be slightly halting in your delivery on. And which can only be effectively prepared for by investing substantial amounts of time on by-the-book cramming.

On top of the fact that these problems are often poorly selected, poorly communicated, conducted under completely unrealistic time pressure, often as pile-ons (with 3-4 strangers as if just to add pressure and distraction), and (these days) over video conferencing (so you have to stare in the camera and pretend to make eye contact with people while supposedly thinking about your problem, on top of shitty acoustics), etc, etc.

It's just fucking ridiculous.
Although it's a different area of law, product-defect liability attaches to all actors in the "stream of commerce" stretching end-to-end from the manufacturer to the retailer.
> There are risks from the vaccines, even if they are rare

Is pretty semantically different from

> There are literally only downside risks from taking the shot.

Which I think was the poster’s point about right wing talking points coming from a brand new account
True libertarian utopia.

If you haven't read this, it's super funny [1].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
Give credit where credit is due. I haven't owned an Apple device since my trusty IIgs and am not a fan of Disneyland computing in general, but I may seriously ponder buying a Mac mini simply to gain access to their popular VPN that will be impractical for websites to block or CAPTCHA-hell.
He didn't say that everyone works the same 4 days.
You're the only one that has used the word "evil" here.
Yes, plain hot water. I challenge you to try it for a week seriously. You will be surprised, I was.
Not a glowing endorsement by someone in the field https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2330107179?book_show_a...
My friend, you need to entertain the possibility that pharma companies would do be bad things - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical...
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that not getting covid is better than not getting the vaccine for children.

There are studies coming out showing heart inflammation in younger people caused by the vaccines.

We should weigh up all the info to make a properly informed decision. Trials are there for a reason after all.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0
I have to imagine my premium for my family plus HSA funding, plus deductible would be cheaper if it was taxed by the government.
Consider adding (affiliate) links to ones that did well, ordered by availability or price.

Why Amazon doesn’t do this is beyond me.
Normally a vaccine trial lasts for 5+ years, and many vaccines do not survive the trial due to adverse effects.

You can not know longer-term effects before the 5 year trial has concluded, so approving after a short trial and then inevitably mandating is one of the most reckless large-scale experiments ever done.
It sounds to me like you don't believe in morality in general at all. Assuming I'm wrong - what is morality to you?
I have no inside information on this but I think it may have had more to do with concerns about whether they wanted to be encouraging every YC company to take Yuri Milner's money. See e.g.:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-faceboo...

Also the total funds at the time was ~$150K, aka roughly what YC was doing before this announcement: https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer...

(I believe the history is that at the time, YC didn't have the free cash flow themselves to invest in every YC startup).
I think the "bad" yak shaving is one where you never get any task done.
If you actually create TeK, and metafont and so forth, then that isn't the "bad" sort.

Whether it actually qualifies as Yak Shaving is an expedition I will not go on, but I think you have to go back to the original source (the xkcd comic), and then interpret the "point" of it and so forth. That might be a worthy detour, and you can tell us at the end if it counts as a yak shave.
The mRNA Covid vaccines do not alter your DNA. Conspiracy theorist nonsense and lies don't belong in this forum.
I'm not obese, I lift weights, I'm under 50 and I get lots of vitamin D? You know, common sense and that which correlates with the data of covid risk. If you are unhealthy or fat I can see hoping the vaccine will save you from your lifestyle choices. If not, then what are you afraid of?

The vaccines will not prevent you from getting covid. So what's with all the convoluted thinking where you pretend you won't get it?

The risks of death from covid are a rounding error if you're young and healthy. People mistakenly act as if this disease is affecting everyone in severe ways equally. It is drastically skewed to older and unhealthy.

You have no idea what the long term effects of the vaccine are stop pretending like you do, it's ridiculous.
Anyone have a scatter plot of resistance vs filter efficiency? Watching each review would take forever. I want to explore the results visually.
This was the medical community's censuses at the time. Turns out now we know that this hinged on a few misunderstandings and generalizations, and have turned that corner. But at the time it was the best information we had:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
I'd say you're already at one: Hacker News.

Otherwise, IRC chatrooms maybe?
When someone shares their feelings it doesn't mean they want you to feel like they do.

The original comment was expressing frustration with a situation that feels like everyone's moving on without them. As a person in the same situation I didn't get the sense it was trying to scare me at all, and find myself similarly frustrated.
It doesn't take a Ph. D in virology to know that 100% isn't it either, now that omicron is in the picture.

So I'm not sure what the intended end game of the people trying to limit the spread is. "Flatten the peak so hospitals are less likely to be overwhelmed" may or may not be realistic, but at least it's a coherent goal. "Keep vaccinating and closing things until COVID goes to zero on its own" just seems like denying the reality that COVID is endemic at this point, so any non-acute mitigation measures we want to take now had better be mitigation measures we're willing to keep taking forever.

To a certain extent, I blame the use of the term "reaching herd immunity" instead of "reaching an endemic state" for giving people unrealistic expectations.
I mean, my stance on seatbelts is never going to change even if car accidents never stop happening. I have no idea how I'll feel about masks and everything else in 3 years, but for the moment it's not crazy to say "I think we should keep taking precautions as long as the problem still exists".
Thank you! This was a very enlightening comment, which adds a lot more context to this news story.
Archaea strike me as the kind of thing we'd find on Mars. I didn't realize it until doing some searching, but some archaea are methanogenic (they generate methane), which has been detected on Mars.