skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It’s quite an unfair criticism, and it keeps being applied retroactively to thinks like masking, lockdowns, etc. It’s like people expect a government to have completely knowledge from day 1 of a new virus and all of its mutations across all of time.

Throw in politicization of it, tons of non-mutual “facts” going around, a heap of anecdotes, and you’ve got a communications nightmare.
> Health insurance is not pro. At a big four I am paying ~$50/month for great health insurance,

Most employers aren't passing through the whole premium. With my current company, we're covering 85% of the premium for our employees, so they see some token amount out of their paychecks, but the actual premium is a lot bigger than $50/month.

It's hard to beat HC insurance from a big employer. When you have to buy your own, it can work out as you usually can get a higher hourly rate than an employee by 25-30%. You also avoid double deductibles when your employer changes the plan changes mid-year. You also avoid COBRA if you quit or are fired.
I grew up in a house where coffee wasn't allowed, so I've actually never had it before. I have avoided nearly all caffeine my whole life out of habit (one of those cases where a rule you grow up with sticks with you even if the original justification for it didn't).

Drinking a Coke is enough to make me bounce off the walls. I've often wondered what would happen to me if I tried coffee or an energy drink, but based on how strong the effects of sugar and small caffeine doses are on me, I'm far too scared to experiment. I do think coffee smells amazing, though--walking into a Starbucks is always delightful, even if I only ever buy hot chocolate there.
There's always tribler

https://github.com/Tribler/tribler
This is also not true. Their uncapped MFN note assumes the terms of the lowest-capped safe (or other investment) after their investment. So if founder accepts $3.75m capped safe soon after YC’s investment, then later raises an equity round at $10m valuation, YC gets 10% more, not 3.75% more at that time. There may be dilution from the equity round but that’s a different matter.
Employers love employer-based healthcare because it gives them insane amounts of control over their employees’ livelihoods. And as a result, wage competition is far less influential.

The fear of losing healthcare coverage a severe fear that people in other countries don’t have to worry about.
> It is highly unlikely that the duplicate portions of the file will have an offset that's a multiple of 2^16 which would be required for chunks to have matching hashes.

That's exactly what chunking based on a rolling hash solves. You set the average size of chunks and the content controls the exact boundaries.
The number of write cycles DRAM can endure is essentially infinite, so saying endurance is hundreds to thousands of times that of NAND Flash is meaningless.
The english Wikipedia seems to have the article of the B52-crash in Thule here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
When you're incentivized to manipulate the news, assuming you have the ability, you manipulate the news.

https://imgur.com/a/femHTeb

Edit: https://www.bitchute.com/video/sixF3E328RBF/
The vast majority of Python code that I have had to interact with professionally seems to ignore the fact that PEP even exists.
From the link:

The BBC's Trusted News Initiative is a partnership that includes organisations such as Facebook, Twitter, Reuters and The Washington Post. It is the only forum in the world of its kind designed to take on disinformation in real time. Now we and our partners are going to share what we’ve all learned about how to tackle disinformation, and you are invited.
I don't really consider myself an expert, honestly. Part of my frustration with the bent of this kind of conversation is how hard it makes it to really suss out answers to these kinds of questions honestly.

That said, I live in an area where most home heating is done by natural gas delivered to homes and installed a heat pump last year. I had a lot of trouble finding an hvac company that would do it because it's still quite uncommon where I live, and even they had a lot of misinformation about it. I had a lot of reasons for doing this both related and unrelated to climate change:

- The heat dome demonstrated that our house, which is relatively new and built to modern standards so is designed to soak up heat like a sponge, could not be comfortable without AC in a summer like that, of which I expect many more in the future.

- If I was getting an AC anyways, there's literally no reason not to have a heat pump and use it for heating in the milder months and reduce my direct use of gas to only when it's absolutely necessary (ie. the last few weeks where we've had a shockingly long cold snap).

- And if I was going to run AC I should absolutely have solar as well so I'm not using grid energy to power it (where I live grid energy is very much dominated by coal and natural gas, though coal is thankfully reducing quickly).

- Even though the energy mix is mostly GHG-emitting where I live, down to some specific temperature (probably around -10 to -15C with the expensive heat pump I got), a heat pump simply uses far less electric energy than an equivalent amount of gas burned in the house. It's quite a big difference. It doesn't look like it because electricity is priced much higher per kWh-equivalent than gas.

But I think there's a lot of more complicated things people 'should' do as well? Since my house is new, the trees on the lot are quite small so provide very little shade in summer. Hopefully this improves as they grow, and maybe we'll plant some more. We're also probably going to install awnings on the windows that are more or less positioned to block direct sunlight in the summer and let it through in the winter. Generally finding ways to passively heat and cool your house is the best thing you can possibly do and even though I'm doing the above as part of electrifying, I plan to do a lot more of the other sorts of things as well.
Götz Bachmann’s Ethnographic Research on Dynamicland
A lot of media outfits feign neutrality. Maybe most.

The test isnt whether they have a page on their website it's how they report on stories that could damage their bottom line (or, in Al jazeeras case, tolerate a saudi imposed blockade).
Yes! Thank you! I was wondering what's so impossible about this and I think that's what I was missing -- yes, if you go with the assumption that the back side is a plane, then it's not possible, but that was never my initial assumption. I interpreted it as like a ... 3D trapezoid (?), with a rear support for D and fourth point on its base (though maybe that has its own issue).

This is IMHO very different from usual "impossible figure" drawings where there is no interpretation that makes it work.
I put myself firmly in the camp of “vaxxed, boosted, and done”, and I’d say that’s the attitude of more people than we all might think.

I think you have the theoretical game plan right, but I’d say that #3 is no longer within the realm of possibility in the US. There’s just no public support for it amongst anyone but the tiny percentage of the most cautious among us.

On #2, I’d even say that yes, masks still make sense in crowded indoor non-optional settings - meaning places we all have to go like public transit, grocery stores, and hospitals. But I’m already past the point of ever wearing a mask outdoors, and I’d also argue that it shouldn’t be a requirement for vaccinated individuals in optional spaces like gyms, bars, restaurants.
Why wouldn't a private system suffer from the same price pressures?
Next topic please.
I don't get it. It takes 10 minutes to get a booster. It's such a non-event.
We were able to find a few cyclists who misbehaved so we are going to justify killing them with 1 ton metal machines because we feel threatened by them?
Do you think that kind of vigil is sustainable? Surely there will be some ebb and flow there, and that's what concerns me: what if it flows too far into one extreme or the other and some new, unforeseen scourge worse than what we have today shows itself.
>For us, this change means a tremendous simplification in terms of maintenance and development. We used to build Firefox ourselves using Ubuntu’s packaging (which is set to be discontinued as Ubuntu is moving towards snap). We now package the Mozilla version of Firefox instead.

If they felt like it was a choice between using a Canonical Snap or going with Mozilla's packaged Firefox, I suppose I'd have made the same choice too.
Senior offers from Facebook in Seattle are nearing $500k/y total comp.
Perhaps the real distinguishing factor of Matrix isn't its technology, but its governance. Instead of an extensible, plugin-based approach like XMPP, Matrix has just a single "official" spec that can only be extended by amending the spec itself. IIRC this was one of the motivations behind Matrix's inception.

As to whether one approach is better than the other is left as an exercise to the reader :) But having each approach belong to separate projects allows them to carry on as they see fit, and means they don't have to participate in a zero-sum game.
@torstenvl:

> What level of state-sponsored violence is justifiable to further reduce that risk?

@oauea:

> What violence?

torstenvl was specifically referring to state vaccine "mandates". Any state mandate must be enforced through violence or it has no effect.

Lest you believe that state mandates do not require violence, consider what happens if people refuse the vaccine. You can order them to get daily tests, but what if they refuse that? Eventually physical force (violence) will be required.
You can't reasonably maintain social-distance at the hospital. Pretty much by definition, you're in contact with several nurses and doctors per day, plus orderlies and various other staff. And that's the baseline. Add guests, other patients, and over-crowding (in some locations).
Also he didn't mention an auto disconnect if the power goes out, and as I understand it this is required in most places. You could be responsible for killing someone with out it.

The power is out and the lines are being worked on.
The line is supposed to be dead.
Your solar system is making power and sends it out of the house, back on the grid.
>Make more of stuff instead of forcing people to outbid each other for artificially constrained supply and the extra income becomes extra income instead of the baseline you need in order to stand still.

While I agree with the gist of your comment, the reality is that humans create artificial scarcity regardless of actually supply in many scenarios. The want to compete is deeply ingrained in the mating process, and it inevitably manifests as participants of society outbidding each other for something.
The Venture Capital Math Problem (2009)
One of the best investments I've ever made was a good espresso machine and grinder (Rancilio Silvia and Rocky for those who know something). Espresso coffee tastes so much better than drip (I really hate French press so that's not even a comparison).

I find espresso also much more agreeable. While I feel jittery after several cups of drip I find I would need to drink a lot more (unrealistic amounts) espresso coffee for the same effect. It also helps that its not a type of coffee where one has a big pot of it sitting around and one can get constant refills.

Interestingly I don't get withdrawal symptoms (I often don't drink coffee when travelling as I rather not drink coffee than drink bad coffee). So I might not be too strongly affected by caffeine.
It's not a new phenomena [1]. I do not think "hospitals are incapable of keeping people safe from Covid" is the best expression. I think "encountering any humans bears increased risk in Covid times", regardless if those humans work in a hospital (although, arguably lower risk) versus a shoe store.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414085/
I think that there can be a significant difference between every batch of coffee.
Both the origin and conditions of the specific land where coffee grows matters in my opinion. People often imagine this as a factor that only changes flavor.
I suspect the soil and the ecosystem (e.g. nearby plants, rivers) can trigger such negative effects even for an individual who's not sensitive to caffeine and consuming in moderation.
and like you always mean to someday migrate everything to https://pinboard.in/ or https://historio.us/ but the task has become so daunting?
I'm not sure who you are referring to, but I posted this and I created my account April 9, 2019.
I am suggesting something that (1) lasts from late pregnancy through to the child's 18th birthday and (2) is payed directly by the government, not by an employer who expects you to return.
> the fact that healthcare is already a consumer product in the US

I would strongly disagree with this. Healthcare in the US is currently a cartel system, not a consumer product/market system. If healthcare were a consumer product then:

1. It wouldn't be tied to or dependent on my employment.
2. Prices for medical treatment wouldn't be hidden/obfuscated by medical providers.
3. Insurance providers wouldn't be restricted by arbitrary/geographical boundaries.

I think the debate over weather healthcare is a human right is an interesting one, and I personally haven't come to any conclusion on that yet.

If you think healthcare is a basic human right then a single-payer system is probably the most reasonable solution, although I don't think single payer isn't without it's share of problems.

If you think healthcare is not a basic human right then I think a real free-market solution is the most reasonable solution, again I don't think this is without problems either.

I don't believe there is a "perfect" solution. But I think either a true free-market system, or a single-payer system would both undoubtedly be 100x better than the current system in the US. I would be in favor of moving to either of these solutions as my political stance isn't D or R but "lets make improvements" regardless if those improvements are seen as left or right.
As an example, IC5 engineers (~5+ years of experience) can realistically earn $350-450k USD per year at Meta these days.

Disclaimer: I work at Meta
This is one of the anti-union talking points from documents produced by IRI (the firm Google has hired to fight unionization efforts) in a previous union-busting effort.

> “Talk about any bad experience you or others you know may have had with unions,” the document instructs managers. “Also talk about the union’s past. Tell employees about documented history of Mafia influence and corruption of unions. Tell employees examples where union leaders have embezzled money from their members’ pension and health insurance funds. Tell them about situations where unions have made promises and have not delivered.”

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2007/03/14/hospital-document-...
Everyone has their own love/hate relationship with caffeine. To each their own.
LCH [1] is quite similar [2] to HSLuv and already shipped as a CSS color function in Safari (and soon in Chromium).

[1] https://lea.verou.me/2020/04/lch-colors-in-css-what-why-and-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425916 similar thread from 3 years ago
Thank you! That's what I had in my in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29879788
I don't object to policy changes in light of new data, but do object to policy made based on preliminary data, knowing full well that we don't understand everything yet, and then changing every few months or even more often, and just shouting "SCIENCE!" if anyone questions any of it.
The system was originally from the Ariane 4, but the failure itself occurred on the Ariane 5's maiden flight [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88
This is great. YC used to value companies below-market at $1.8M, and now it's effectively valuing them fairly at $5M+. I now feel good about recommending YC to founders.

The argument that YC deserved to take 7% for $125k because it improved a company's prospects more than 7% stopped making sense when the ecosystem became increasingly full of helpful angels willing to pay $500k-1M for that same 7%.
This is the absolute least charitable interpretation of what I am saying.
On the Art of Discourse
NHS was a great initiative and idea!! I'm not advocating against public healthcare, at all. I'm saying is that it's not surprising it became underfunded - there needs to be constant effort to prevent (or compensate) that tendency, because it _is_ the natural tendency of such systems.
Ahh. it begins.

- US midterm is coming up in november.

- One of Biden's major election point was combating Covid and curbing infections.

- This has largely been a catastrophic failure. More Americans have died from Covid under Biden than under Trump (not that it matters)

So, the left media will now begin a year long campaign down playing domestic covid severity, and make sure that Covid will NOT be a major talking point for the 2022 elections.

Edit: republican will 100% pull a "i-told-you-so" move in their campaign trails. I'm Canadian and our government (even conservative learning province/state government) is still using the partial lockdown as a mean to curb infection, it's very very obviously NOT working.

What will be really interesting is just how the medical community is so detached from the political community. I understand you shouldn't bring politics into science, but you also can't blind yourself and optimize for only one metric.. everything is a trade-off.
Australia is forcibly imprisoning people in quarantine facilities.
Even balancing the grid is pretty simple from a technical perspective. You just watch the grid frequency, if it falls then add more power in (or disconnect load), if it rises add less power in (or connect more loads).

No need to decentralise storage, decentralised production is very unlikely to ever be enough that distribution lines and unable to transport the power out. Additionally medium->low voltage substations are located near customers, which means the land is expensive. So putting in batteries with a material amount of storage is also expensive, assuming there’s even enough space.
Congratulations, @ezekg and keep it going! I recently went 1 year without it (though technically I did have chocolate a few times: https://encapsulate.me/writing/2021.html) and will continue off it.

A few things I found helpful in my transition off it:
- Panax Ginseng tea
- Macca root
- Regular weight lifting exercises
- Regular good night of sleep

Thanks for sharing!
> What would be nice is if they contemplated and acknowledged that the recommendations would be changing.

But they do. E.g. go through https://web.archive.org/web/20210715000000*/https://www.cdc...., it's always wrapped in "We are monitoring the situation. High-risk populations first. Recommendations will be adjusted as needed." disclaimers. But we have a strong tendency to only remember the short head-line version, even if we looked at the full statement at the time. And if you go by headlines or equivalent short news, it's likely you haven't seen the disclaimer, but good luck getting the details into headlines. It's a pattern that repeats over and over in discussions of this.
What's the * ?
> Similarly, now that vaccination is widely available for at-risk groups...

It was widely available a year ago. The most at risk groups were the first and most comprehensively vaccinated. What gives? If the conditions for re-opening were met a year ago why were we wearing masks outdoors and whatnot this whole time? Comments like these seem like little more than mental gymnastics to justify having held an opinion that didn't age well w.r.t. the various degrees of covid measures we've endured.

Edit: Fine then, call it 6mo. Regardless, I'd be very interested to see someone provide in a "better than just saving face" quality defense of why businesses have been at reduced capacity, government services have been limited in their accessibility, etc, etc. beyond the point at which the vulnerable were vaccinated and why we're continuing to have this debate. I know information was less great then but we have it now. How do people oppose re-opening wholesale-ish. I foresee nursing homes keeping some precautions but the DMV, using covid as an excuse for why I can't register a car at a certain service location, being masked at outdoor venues, come on.
> My project will still get 1.0.2, so it will still have the security hole.

Right. To mitigate that you would regularly run `npm audit` or even just `npm upgrade` – and test afterwards of course.

I'm not completely sold, but I do think it's a very interesting idea.

> Can I ask for a warning if I'm getting two different versions linked into the same binary?

Yes. That was the lint I linked in my last post. Alternatively, you can run `cargo tree --duplicates`.

> "I really, really don't think think you should be using 1.0 any more"

That's called "yanking". Personally I think it has limited usefulness, but it exists.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-yank.html

> And what happens if both versions get pulled in, but the package in question uses an external data file whose format changed between 1.0 and 1.1?

If it uses something like `include!`, both copies will be compiled in (and maybe optimized later by the linker). If it's truly "external" like hosted on some website outside the package manager, then it just means the author broke their package. Maybe I misunderstood your question.

> one of my dependencies constructs a foo using X 1.0, is that value of a different type than a foo constructed by X 1.1?

I believe they are always different types. Cargo encourages but doesn't enforce semver, so anything can change between versions, including private fields or enum variants behind non_exhaustive, etc. So they're treated as different and you need to convert between them. Although this might only be true for major versions; I don't know off the top of my head.

To work around it you can convert the types at crate boundaries, or the package author can use the so-called "semver trick" [1]

[1]: https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick
Bacteria biochemistry controlled with insoluble material
> The big question right now is if we should push button#3 [lockdowns].

I think a more salient question is if we can push button #3. Nobody wants more lockdowns. The vaccinated are tired of the unvaccinated fucking everything up for us, and the unvaccinated have never been open to the idea.

This is another thing pointed out by the article: there just isn't the will to do it, even if it was necessary.

This isn't being made as a medical decision, it's being made as a political decision.
My favorite part is where the referenced document doesn't say that. It literally shows that a third shot of Pfizer-Biontech is still 90+% effective against the Delta variant after 10+ weeks. And close to 50% against Omicron after 10+ weeks. The only significance of 10 weeks is that was where their data ended, because boosters haven't been generally available that long.
Different people have different reactions to Covid. That's true of both unvaccinated and vaccinated. But the data has been pretty clear that vaccinated has resulted in a lot less hospitalizations and death for those that take it.

I'm glad you made it through okay, but statistically your risk was higher by being unvaccinated when you caught it.

Also if I was short of breath, a heart rate above 120 randomly, and had a fever of 102 (at the same tmie) during this pandemic, as an overweight asthmatic myself, I wouldn't have risked staying home and would have headed straight to the emergency room. Especially if I checked my Oximeter and it was in the lower 90s.
Sure. Just implement that retrospectively for OLE 2.0.