skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe the people affected would have got the same autoimmune reaction from both vaccination and infection.

Hard to tell directly, as it also has to do with how the virus spreads during an infection in a given person. But it is certainly a good area of research.
>Have you ever tried it?

Yes.

>It literally does nothing. It is placebo at best.

Says who? Not science.

Significant benefit of aspirin over placebo was shown for aspirin 600/650 mg, 1000 mg and 1200 mg, with numbers-needed-to-treat for at least 50% pain relief of 4.4 (4.0-4.9), 4.0 (3.2-5.4) and 2.4 (1.9-3.2) respectively. (...) Reviewer's conclusions: Aspirin is an effective analgesic for acute pain of moderate to severe intensity with a clear dose-response. Drowsiness and gastric irritation were seen as significant adverse effects even though the studies were single-dose. The pain relief achieved with aspirin was very similar milligram for milligram to that seen with paracetamol.

Other study:

Results: The results of the dental pain study for aspirin and acetaminophen with codeine suggest statistically significant efficacy for all measures compared with placebo at all time points. Aspirin provided statistically significant efficacy compared with acetaminophen with codeine for SPID(0-4) (P = 0.028). In the tension-type headache study, aspirin and acetaminophen with codeine provided statistically significant efficacy compared with placebo for SPID(0-4) and SPID(0-6) (P < 0.001) and for total pain relief (P < 0.001). (...) Conclusions: These 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies demonstrate that treatment with aspirin (1000 mg) provides statistically significant analgesic efficacy compared with placebo use and comparable efficacy with acetaminophen (300 mg) with codeine (30 mg) therapy after impacted third molar extraction and in tension- type headache.

And so on. There are lots of studies for its use as a painkiller.

And the above don't even touch arthritis and pain from inflammation, where it excels...
Depends on where you are and how connected you are. In my locality (Bangalore) a bunch of people who tested positive got admitted to hospitals on 'precaution' even though they were all mild and advised to isolate at home.
Does Libtorrent have anything todo with Rainberry fka. Bittorrent Inc.? They seem to be the ones working on the protocol nowadays.
> As far as I’m aware, research shows that a two-dose vaccination rate provides disappointing reductions in transmissiveness - but far, far better than nothing.

The paper you quote shows two-dose vaccination (or previous infection) increasing the secondary attack rate from 29% (unvaccinated) to 32%, i.e. worse than nothing. Only a booster reduces it back to 25%.

My guess is that the increase is not due to direct biochemical effects of vaccination/prior infection, but due to people assuming that they're protected and taking fewer precautions. Demographic differences might also play a role.
There are various notices with different rules, and it's somewhat dumbing it down to refer to a singular "DMCA notice", which generally here is used to refer to a copyright takedown request but has never actually really mean that.
I mourn the loss of my W541 every day. Survived a series of absurdly intense physical traumas that would have obliterated a lesser machine, until she was unjustly stolen from me by the corrupt federales of Quintana Roo. But that's another story.
If you follow the links through to the original paper --

https://gabryant.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/site...

-- you'll see that a variety of felines (including domestic cats) are among the species listed as having play vocalizations.
> You might even lose if the other lawyer's able to find any loopholes in your contract.

Your experience seems very grim. I've been in freelancing for decades and never had such a situation. Even non-paying customers were rare to me, and I only once had to actually sue. You will still loose some money sometimes, mostly due to your own bad estimates and client's bad inputs, but that's a fact one needs to plan ahead when running their own business. Sometimes you'll screw over the client as well - a well paid gig will come over that you don't want to miss and client's project will be put on the back burner. Not nice, but hat's also the part of running a business, knowing your priorities and cutting where needed.

But all in all, I don't think freelancing is in any way significantly different, nor harder than running an agency (or any business) - only that you have to accept that you need to play more than one roles until you can afford to hire people for that. Having 5 to 9 job is easier, but also has its many downsides, so I wouldn't dismiss freelancing without even trying it for a while. If nothing else it's a great way to learn both about technical and financial stuff, because it constantly forces you to figure out how to do and solve new problems, no 2 projects are exactly the same, unlike working in a companies where people spend entire careers maintaining the same piece of in-house code.
BitTorrent v2 has been officially supported in PicoTorrent since the same date as the featured blog post from libtorrent :)
I have never eaten peanut butter in my life. I swear to God.
Why wouldn't they? Groups more important than worldodometer pledged to China shenanigans. I would do exactly the same: publish the official data and let the user deduce that it's total bullshit. That damages the China image ever more. The past year we were on the brink of buying some lab equipment from a chinese seller, but the numbers were so suspiciously good and their guarantees so thin (in case of underperforming) that we end up buying from a local seller at twice the price.

They lie by default and it damages in the long run.
How is the situation with Java?
> Edit: Anyone wanna do me the courtesy of explaining why I'm so wrong?

just a guess, but it might be because of...

Market is a fine fit for every healthcare need that doesn't start with a trip to the ER which is the overwhelming majority of healthcare dispensed in the US.

... one of the reasons most visits in the us is the er is precisely because preventative care is so expensive/hard-to-get in the u.s and people put off visiting the doctor regularly since its so expensive... the market isn't very amenable to these extra costs in the short run, whereas a state-run system might not have the same short-term cost concerns and encourage/subsidize regular visitation/preventative-care...
From certain countries you cannot move out as a tax resident to become a "no country resident". For example if you are a Romanian citizen living in Romania and you move abroad, you cannot remove your Romanian tax residency unless you prove you are a tax resident in another country for at least 6 months. As a slave you can change your master, but you cannot get free.
> I had a colleague that pronounced RTS as "ritz". What I find interesting with "ritz" is why the "i". Why not "rats" or "ruts" or "rets" or "rots".

This has an explanation! If a short vowel is inserted as a transition between two consonants, there is a strong tendency for the inserted sound to be a more ‘neutral’ vowel, such as the schwa /ə/. But in many English dialects, there has been a merger [0] between the schwa /ə/ and the short ‘i’ sound /ɪ/ — the two sounds are no longer distinguishable by native speakers of those dialects. Thus, what might be pronounced as [ɹəts] sounds very much like ‘ritz’, and ‘GLSL’ becomes [ɡləzl̩], sounding like ‘Glisle’.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Englis...
You can remove pay walls by either disabling JavaScript, or visiting arhive.ph and copy/pasting the URL. Here's the result for this article - https://archive.ph/fOncb
Reading through the wikipedia page for Chia

> The Chia Network was founded in 2017 by American computer programmer Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent protocol.[4] In China stockpiling ahead of the May 2021 launch led to shortages and an increase in the price of hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD).[5] Shortages were also reported in Vietnam.[6] Phison, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company, estimated that SSD prices will rise by 10% in 2021 as a result of Chia.[7] Hard drive manufacturer Seagate said in May 2021 that the company was experiencing strong orders and that staff were working to "adjust to market demand".[6] In May 2021 Gene Hoffman, the president of Chia Network, admitted that "we’ve kind of destroyed the short-term supply chain" for hard disks.[8] Concerns have also been raised about the mining process also potentially being harmful to drives' lifetime.[9]

Thankfully the coin seems to have collapsed completely since May 2021 (https://www.coinbase.com/price/chia-network)

But you can see why people are skeptical
I appreciate you sharing this article here, it's very helpful!
See "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson (his latest novel) for a close variation on this scenario.
I have acids and bases, collectively as cleaners, as well as reactive metal (aluminum foil), and pressure vessels (soda bottles) in my home.
To beat procrastination, avoid deadlines–unless they’re short
Yes, that's how I thought it worked in most languages (that have structs, and allow C-interop). You leave it open for the compiler to do anything/nothing unless you do e.g. repr(C) (In rust) or [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)] or similar (C#).

I wouldn't want this to be explicit in the spec but nor would I manage without having the back door. In languages that don't have "structs" at all, it's obviously not as necessary because you'll be forced to jump through hoops anyway (JNI, for example).
And it asks if you need a nap
I need a nap.
Okay, I'm well-rested now.

But there is no option for "I did and I'm still tired" :/
Simula One (Linux VR PC) Pricing and Kickstarter Goal
Pidgin is not listed as supporting OMEMO [0] and is not recommended for newcomers on joinjabber.org [1]. There may be reasons you want to use Pidgin and i don't want to block you: also pidgin is not exactly abandoned so there's hope it will continue to improve.

When a web browser fails to display a certain page, would you recommend the site operator to block it? Maybe we could allowlist specific clients and send a warning message to others just in case they're not aware they're using something niche.

[0] https://omemo.top/

[1] https://joinjabber.org/
“Vector search” is more commonly used, so you might’ve heard it called that. In case not: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/what-is-similarity-search/
> Which doesn't really fit the view that less government involvement results in a more efficient system

The government may not pay for the actual service but there is huge government involvement and mountains of regulations to climb.
> depends on what country you live in. Not everyone lives in the USA

As anti-DRM circumvention laws are a requirement of membership of the WTO, there are very few functioning countries that do not have them. The US law is not exceptional, nor even particularly stringent in this area.
same here in Czechia, pretty much all refurb Thinkpad are from companies, my current T520 is from Singapore of all places, if you choose A grade is basically brand new condition just without brand new smell, they should use some spray :-)

my next laptop will be again refurb Thinkpad, for wife I would choose something like X240 A grade 8GB RAM, that cost like 250EUR
With smaller chains that have much smaller amounts of total mining power its feasible for people to just jump in and run a 51% attack. So even in that sense they're not necessarily immutable.
The nice thing about the EcoTanks is that they come with a LOT of ink. My printer came with enough ink that if I was using it in a fine art print shop, it would have paid for itself 100x over.

... but there's still plenty of room for money-making racket unless you get one with a user-emptyable waste ink tank. (end of advice)

My ET-14000 apparently has 11 ink-absorbent pads in the base which are fed ink used when cleaning the jets. The printer kept track of how much ink was pumped away and then refused to do anything until it was emptied. I found the service manual and to reach the pads I would have had to disassemble the entire printer, including all sorts of tape and instructions as to how many Newtons tight each screw should be. Oh, and if I got Epson to do it, that wouldn't be done under warranty because I had used all sorts of non-Epson inks. Day-glo and invisible UV ink is cool!

Anyways, I got a 'printer potty' which is an external waste ink tank, and a fairly reasonable product: of course I could have made my own, but they had done all my homework for me (including telling me which way the ink flows, which is not obvious, and would have been very messy if I'd done it backwards).

Then here comes the racket: To reset the waste ink counter, which can only be done by special Epson software, I can instead pay €10 per reset per serial number to some clever Ukrainians who have reverse-engineered all that Epson software.

Fortunately I was able to pirate the Epson software and do it myself, but ... sheesh!

The fun part is I'm going to filter all of my waste ink back into the black tanks and then watercolor over wet prints, expecting some neat results there.
> go get installation aren't guaranteed to work. We recommend using binary installation.

The page goes on to list several difficulties with go get of the sort that suggest fundamental design flaws. Anyone have experience with this?
I have gotten so many covid tests in the past two years. Some of them are drive thru only but most don't care either way. In DTLA proper the testing centers are mostly for pedestrians.
> the threshold will be so low

To take one "small" example, 7 billion male[0] chicks a year are put into a "macerator", aka "chick grinding machine". 7 billion. I don't think it takes a very "low threshold" to find this barbaric, just look at it and think about it. If that's not "barbaric" (whatever that means exactly), I'm not sure what would be.

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

> So in the end it is not so obvious to me that we will see eating animals as babaric

Many people already do, and have for many years.

[0] "the males of egg-laying chickens are killed as soon as possible after hatching and sexing to reduce financial losses incurred by the breeder."
I’ve had it to, after I was vaccinated. The thing is, you don’t know ahead of time how it will affect you. There are lots of examples of 30 something, fit, athletic even, people with no preexisting conditions, getting very sick and hospitalized, dying, or ending up with long COVID.

Beyond that, many people who are sick with it won’t quarantine themselves for 10 days or wear masks and end up infecting others —- assuming they even know they’re infected.

So this attitude of “well it was no big deal for me” does nothing to attenuate the risk downwards for others.

There’s a hell of a lot of selfishness going on by people who just don’t want to be inconvenienced by behavioral changes to protect others.
If you’re suggesting the current identifier is already latinised, it’s not, it’s translated.
This is an unpopular opinion, and should be wielded very carefully, but I think something often lost in these conversations is that the existence of a human behavior in an animal is not sufficient evidence that it's backed by the full weight of the human-like mental states. It may well be, but additional evidence must be presented.

As humans, we're strongly prone to anthropomorphize–I'm capable of ascribing human feelings even to inanimate objects–and so are prone to doing the above without rigor.

An extreme example: if you drop acid into the water in which a paramecium lives, it will fire up its cilia and frantically try to retreat. It's a single cell, there is no suffering or mental states, but it sure looks like it.

An ant could have a sad looking death, but it surely cannot reach the depths of human sorrow, and the related suffering, that a similar event could elicit. It can't mourn the time it won't spend with its children, or the ways its life could have gone.

I'm not proposing that everything between us and the paramecium cannot suffer, but that arguments in these areas must go beyond X has behavior Y, so X must have full mental state associated with Y.
But how is that not "expected"? Feels like the argument that "communism is good, it just wasn't implemented well anywhere so far". Well, sorry, but by this point I chose to believe that a full state-run system is vulnerable to under-funding in the long term.
> Toilet paper over or under

This problem has its own website and wikipedia entry :)

http://toiletpaperorientation.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_roll_holder#Orientation
I use this combination all the time with no issue
For the people wondering what is that comment doing here: in Polish it means "what a mess".
Of course you can identify clients (although they could lie, it's just a user-agent string). You can even have nice graphs on some servers about it: https://stats.jabberfr.org/d/000000002/jabberfr?orgId=1&refr...
this question will appear insulting but do you think there is a cultural reason why there is so much scamming in India or by Indians? I've read many hackernews posts on Indian swe candidate lying on the take home test or CV. 100% of the phone scammers I encountered here in Australia have a South Asian accent.

I am from a developing country myself and do understand that this kind of thing happens when a big part of a country is low on the Maslow's hierarchy, but India seems to get it worse somehow?
Ted Kaczynski got caught by preferring to speak the correct way rather than the common way. So you may have a point. In the original Latin alphabet there wasn't even a G letter either. That's why for example CAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR was spelled without a G. If I remember correctly, the G had been invented by his time, but he preferred the traditionalist spelling for his first name, since strictly speaking archaic latin would probably spell his last name Kaesar, but K had fallen out of fashion at that time.
>> The really important part about this is that the Australian government promised him and arranged for him to come to Australia then went back on their word

Are you sure about that narrative?

And when you state “Australian government” are you referring to the federal government? State government (Victoria), border force? Department of immigration? Tennis Australia?

Likewise, you’re very welcome to come to my house for dinner next week. But if you print off this comment and present it to immigration...
My circa 2011 x220 thinkpad is the greatest most indestructible machine ever. It survived 10000kms of travelling on airplanes, the Indonesian jungles, underground gold mines and to this day runs like a champ.

Sure a couple keys are missing, a few superficial cracks but I will never be able to throw this guy away. So man memories
My thoughts on this: This assumes there's no pressure on the demand side. If fewer people have access to the coins, demand could go down faster than supply goes down.

Additionally most people who use it don't actually know how BC works. They read BC banned and assume that's the entire architecture, not just mining, and don't want to be stuck with an illegal asset. Alternatively they see the mining bans as a first step toward making the crypto completely illegal, making them want to dump them.
How much does it reduce transmission? Do you have links or know the studies to look for? (It's difficult for me to wade through everything out there and know what the "good" studies and data are)
Unfortunately that is called "hypervigilance" and is one of the central features of PTSD.
I love the idea of a whole population having this shared experience, whatever the reason might be. There’s an unwritten sense of community there.

Similarly, growing up in the 80s in India, there was basically one channel and a similar shared sense of community. Everyone remembers certain ads, certain shows, theme songs, certain hosts. Everyone’s Sunday morning routine was watching certain shows.

Maybe it’s mostly nostalgia but there is that sense of shared experience that we lack now.

I’ve read the same from Zeynep Tufekci about a belly dance performance that used to happen every Xmas in Turkey.
Deno’s import system is near at first until you are repeating yourself everywhere, so you do what they suggest and make a file of import URLs and now you have your own package.json format.
I get the impression that most of the "investors" are somewhat smart gamblers with excess money. Bitcoin is hyped everywhere, from DailyWire to the online chess influencers.

It seems that we are in the stage where your taxi driver tells you to buy.
This is pretty easily solved.

"Hey XYZ, it was such a pleasure speaking with you today. I'm going to shoot ya an email in a bit just to follow-up with everything we discussed. Have a great day!"

Or - if that scares you still - just shoot them an email anyway to follow-up and recap without preluding. It gives them the opportunity to change/add/whatever in-text, and they can't say you said something differently because you can point to the email and say - no, we said this (And you didn't correct me).
> Where do you et these lockfiles files from?

At dev time, you generate a lock file of the hashes of your dependencies. You commit this file to your code repository.

When getting dependencies, the hash of the downloaded dependency is compared to the one in the lockfile.
Your first 30 Days as a Developer
> I don't get to choose my insurance, the government has ensured that instead my company does for me.

how did that happen?
Unfortunately, it's still not a great comparison. Countries with lockdowns had less deaths from things like other illnesses, traffic accidents, et cetera.
This is a scandal and Europol legitimacy is questionable as it is. The situation is even worse than in the US because the US has some checks and balances, even if those fail due to a lack of public interest.

Europol is just the enforcer of the commission without there being any reliable tool to keep overreaches in check. Even this watchdog cannot work independently.

> The confrontation pits the EU data protection watchdog against a powerful security agency being primed to become the centre of machine learning and AI in policing.

Come on Guardian, you don't really believe this yourself, do you?

I don't see the EU succeeding in the long term. I have the urge to leave if I hadn't responsibilities here, carefully weighting that other venues aren't perfect either. But it is an old, restrictive and fearful construct that will behave predictably, but not in a desirable way.
Oh i was not aware you're working on proper authorization/delegation for XMPP. That's really cool! Can't wait to see your blogpost on this topic on HN front page :)
From what I can surmise, local government has a "zero case" mandate from Beijing where they're supposed to do anything possible to prevent COVID cases, and out of fear of the retribution from the party or the desire to be seen favorably, they find a way to report zero cases.
Consider the possibility that your experiences aren't universal.

I cited specific examples of people having trouble getting tested without a car.
VAERS is garbage in, garbage out. There is no curation since it is self reported, you may as well mine Reddit comments or Twitter to get the same data.
We are on Hackernews.
> I believe you should be guarded from any surprise patches

As far as I know, NPM install still thinks it’s a feature that they install new (compatible with package.json, but not with lockfile) versions.
WOW! Thanks. Will try that.