skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There would have been so much less confusion if they were consistent with their communication from the start, and did a phased rollout of the booster just like they did with the original vaccine.

Biden called for a booster dose for everyone in September. The CDC and the FDA didn't agree.
I'm not convince we did beat it.

For decades people would ask, "why is there no vaccine for the cold or flu like smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox?" and the answer was that they were fast evolving corona viruses and you cannot vaccinate for those.

Then suddenly we have one this time. But it's efficacy drops - according to Pfizer's own trial - to ~47% after six months. And people "double vaxxed and boosted" still get it. And still die from it.

So...we still don't have vaccines for those it seems to me. It doesn't matter how many people call them that, they don't provide immunity like vaccines do.

Big pharma did get super rich off of them. And you can't sue them if they kill your spouse. So there's that at least I guess.
It depends entirely on where you live.

In the United States, the answer is a very clear "No" almost everywhere - those plug in inverters aren't permitted under NEC. Power companies generally require you to have interconnect agreements for any amount of self generation that could interact with the grid (off grid system, have at it, it touches the house wiring, you need to talk to them).

The problem with plugging that sort of thing into a random outlet is that now you've violated the assumptions on the circuit protection. If you have a string of outlets, protected at 20A at the panel, then nothing plugged into any one outlet can pull more than 20A sustained (or the breaker will pop), and the wiring will never see more than 20A sustained.

If you plug in another source at the far end of that circuit, outlets in the middle and branches off the main wiring run could be seeing 30A without popping a breaker - and that's a fire hazard. A 20A outlet won't pass 30A forever, and wiring rated for 20A can overheat at 30A sustained.

In some other countries, you can install some amount of solar and backfeed it like that, but I'm not familiar with those regulations, not living there.
I balk at any mention of crypto as a rule (since the landscape is so saturated with hucksters) but I have to assume it is to provide a functionality similar to WhatsApp Pay, Venmo and whatever WeChat has.

Those in app type payments are a huge part of message app usage in some parts of the world where I am sure Signal would like to increase uptake.
As a former XMPP fan, I think XMPP is extremely interesting in light of Moxie's recent web3 post [1], and most specifically the part:

> A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform. After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted; meanwhile WhatsApp went from unencrypted to full e2ee in a year.

You could replace email with XMPP in that sentence. (In fact, I'd bet Moxie was specifically thinking of XMPP when he wrote that.)

I remember when Google introduced voice/video, and provided a library (libjingle) to help other clients add the feature. It never really got picked up. Perhaps it was the state of the driver ecosystem at the time that made it hard for clients to reliably support such streams (PulseAudio was still new at the time, and GStreamer wasn't as mature), that was in excess of what open-source maintainers could provide.

Google eventually decided (reasonably, in retrospect and IMHO) it was easier to turn its chat into its own platform than try and drag a protocol with it. They were certainly dealing with problems that no-one else did. For example, they were very late to enable federation, much to the annoyance of the community, because Google had to deal with spam at a scale no-one else did, and wanted to make sure they had the protocols to deal with that, which no-one else in the community wanted to deal with.

(Of course after that I cannot give Google any credit for their chat client merry-go-round, and they've burned any goodwill I had for them on that front! [2] )

Perhaps we'll reach a point where the feature-set for a chat client will settle, and once again a federated protocol can emerge. I no longer believe XMPP is it.

[1] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

Edit: that said, I think XMPP had a lot of great ideas, and I'm glad it still pops up now and again.
It's society's job to protect children, not the other way around.

Closing schools while opening bars is huge failure of leadership.
Check out raindrop.io, it features search throughout your bookmarks (even pdf contents are indexed)

https://help.raindrop.io/using-search/
I think you should be interested, because whether you like it or not the politics and actions of these organisations effect everyone globally

That's why we should all care
But you spread the virus, so it's not just about your own personal experience.
Thank you. A lot to ponder.

Im actually a PM with analytics experience so thought that DE would be an easier path in than backend SWE...
The hostname of most (all?) TLS connections is sent plaintext at the start of a new connection. This is called SNI (Server Name Indication).

That provides some (or a lot) of value I am guessing.
Absolutely. And the good journos do have a bone to pick with the media, but a lot are hacks and don't see it or just use it to advance their own goals.
Even HN has censored/flagged some papers, forestalling review and discussion. Time will tell if this was justified.
There ought to be a 'law' (like Godwin's) that shuts down any debate about pronunciation if it devolves into mentioning the GIF file format.
I've occasionally wondered why Python isn't the default scripting language on *nix by now. It's almost always installed by default, is more capable than bash, is dynamic/interpreted, has a repl, and seemingly everything else you would want in a Bash replacement. Is it just Bash's momentum, or something else that keeps bash hanging around?
I'm one of those people who stopped taking 5-6 Espressos a day (an average amount for a Portuguese person, given that we imported Cimbalino machines from Italy a few decades ago and just couldn't kick the habit nationally).

I did that for around 20 years (with occasional breaks), then progressively petered out to 2-3 cups a day and, last year, I finally removed the last Espresso (the breakfast one) from my diet.

I switched to one cup of black tea in the morning (I'm partial to Earl Grey) and one or two mugs of barley 'coffee' a day (in Winter time, typically zero in Summer) and lots of water. I will occasionally have non-black tea during the Winter time as well - mostly mint and ginger.

Now drinking a can of diet Coke (which I typically do in two doses, whenever I feel like I'm struggling through the day) gives me a good enough buzz, and I _know_ coffee will work if I need to stay up late (which I usually don't anymore).

But, in general, ditching coffee improved my well-being a _lot_. I sleep better, I don't have (the same kind of) headaches, and I don't push myself beyond what my body can take and spend 2-3 days recovering from a particularly intense day.

I do miss the flavor and enjoy a hot beverage (hence the barley), but I don't miss the stress it induced, or the crutch it was.
According to [1] Mr Malone said "mRNA vaccine technology I created" which is not true as far as I can find tell. He did work on mRNA technology decades ago but didn't invent mRNA vaccines. He also states that "The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children's cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins.". What does that even mean, a "viral gene"? Toxic spike proteins? Sounds like fear mongering to me given how it's worded.

Furthermore he states that "These proteins *often* cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs, including -Their brain and nervous system -Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots -Their reproductive system, and -This vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system" There is absolutely no data supporting any of this as far as I can find.

Should we trust this person?

[1] https://globalcovidsummit.org/news/live-stream-event-physici...
funny enough, you just described paper money.

a) they have a serial number making each unique
b) they are purposefully designed to make it easy to identify forgeries
I’m under 30, healthy, and have no kids.

I got both doses of Pfizer as soon as I could last year. But until a more severe (than Omicron) variant arrives, I’m not planning to get a booster.

That calculus may be different for others and I totally understand. In fact, I encouraged my parents and grandparents to get the booster as soon as they could.
Sinatra is small (the main part is about 2k lines). That's the main upside and/or downside depending on your philosophy. As someone who likes to know what goes on, I love Sinatra, but Sinatra does force you to pull in other code as needed yourself - you don't get handheld the way you do with Rails.

If you need the kitchen-sink you might as well use Rails. But often you might need only a tiny fraction, and Sinatra is small enough to read. If you need a "halfway house" between Sinatra and Rails, Padrino layers nicely on top of Sinatra and you can pick and choose which parts of Padrino you want to use.

My preferred stack is Sinatra + Sequel as the ORM, but if I need something "quick and dirty" I might throw Padrino on top as it's lightweight and unopinionated enough it doesn't get in my face the way Rails does.

The caveat is that if your team is used to Rails chances are they'll hate you if you make them use Sinatra and they don't share a dislike for big frameworks.
On my system the rails are screwed into the risers. I'd expect the roof to blow off of the house before the panels come loose.
Caffeine is in so many things. Even more interesting is that it's a stimulant that is unique. Every other stimulant is controlled if not illegal. Amphetamines or cocaine for example. The problem is that it has a long history and government would not be successful in controlling it. Even though they clearly would if they could.

How many corporations literally provide coffee to their workers. Even to the point of paying you to drink it on a break? This drug is clearly beneficial to these corps. The increase in focus and productivity is obvious. This boost to cognitive function is what created the age of enlightenment.
Respectfully, Dr. Malone's entire platform is contrarianism. He is opportunistically acting on his own behalf in my belief.

Recently, he published an article highlighting a noted increase in insurance claims (death and disability) in Indiana. He then intentionally implied a link and placed blame on the vaccine.

However, he took no care whatsoever to do any thoughtful analysis of the data before presenting the conclusions he did. He did not even attempt to perform a comparative analysis between Indiana and other states based on vaccination rates. This is low-hanging-fruit simplicity that could have either disproven his claim or supported it - if he cared to. He did not.

This is not the type of information I expect to see come from someone supposedly claiming to be on the right side of science here.

And yet it remains heavily influential, reaching millions of people via Twitter, Joe Rogan, and other mediums, reducing critical analysis to trivial opinion masking as expertise.
> I’m prepared to treat this like I’ve treated the flu: by basically not worrying about it and living my life normally.

I wish I could feel this way! I actually have little to fear from the initial covid infection and, if covid were 'just like' the flu, I would go back to my old patterns.

Unfortunately, I know people in higher-risk categories (my parents included) for whom a covid infection would be significantly worse than the flu (though likely not fatal) and the research on 'long covid' is both developing and scary[1]. We aren't sure about the risk factors yet, which means it's hard to estimate how careful to be[2].

Ultimately we will all, individually, need to make decisions about when things seem 'safe enough.' I don't begrudge people making their own decisions, as long as they behave in a way that allows me to continue to make my own decisions.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/16/1064594...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57833394
How about riding a motorcycle? It's not addictive or difficult to avoid. All you have to do is... not do it. So do motorcycle riders share similar responsibility because they're choosing to do something that also puts them at significantly higher risk of ending up in the hospital?

I'm also in favor of vaccination btw, but against the shaming.
What would help me at my job is just having the benefits/money to feel appreciative of the job. Instead I feel exploited. The easiest way is 4-10s. Working 8-6 daily and having a 3 day workweek would make me so much happier with my life. I would LOVE to have 3 days with my family, and would likely never leave the job.
I cannot see any possible motivation for a dealer to add no-resale provisions to their agreements with ordinary customers.

If these vehicles are in high demand, to prevent scalping? The length of the restriction ("no resale for one year") seems aligned with that goal.
The MFN applies to other SAFEs too. YC will get the "best" price during the priced conversion. If you took other money at a lower SAFE, that would peg the "best" price in the conversion -- and thus, that's what YC's $375k would get.
i'm glad to hear it was helpful to you! what kind of project did you make?
> I know someone who almost quit a great job because they were mad about a vaccine mandate from their employer.

That situation is impossible to assess without knowing the job description. I would also be hesitant to work at a place if the employer demands vaccinations because they are refusing remote work even when the job description does not require it. We have a pandemic and employers need to minimize unnecessary risks like open floor plans and crowded meetings rooms for employees that doesn't need physical proximity in order to do their job. On the other hand if the job description is being in a hospital or elder care facility, it would be irresponsible to let nonvaccinated employees treat clients. Everything between is a sliding scale that in a pandemic should lean towards safe rather than unsafe.
Solar Power and Battery Storage Will Be the Real Test for Tesla
> There are places like New York that have 95% over 18

Per your link, not NYCity, and not NYState. Maybe some regions of NY have that number?

Also, people under 18 exist. Vaccinating adults-only is never going to create herd immunity.
Yeah to be absolutely clear: I believe there is value here only in the sense that there is value at the top of any Ponzi scheme (value for early investors) or at best - a lottery or volatile instrument (value only for lucky investors). And this is the reason I think that it will happen in some spaces such as gaming.

I don’t think it’s something that has or adds any value from a technical viewpoint. At least not to the point where it would warrant investment or overhead from blockchain tech. It’s hardly worth even $1 “securing” my ownership of a hat on a public ledger unless the chance of it becoming more expensive through artificial scarcity is counted as “value”.
The airport is more risky than the airplane. In an airplane you are sat next to a fixed number of people and you have top down insertion of clean air, exactly like in an operating theatre.

Meanwhile in the airport you are in a large building with many other people, you might come into contact with 100s of new people from a wide variety of places.
Everyone seems convinced Californian's are all suffering from blackouts all the time. I'm in Sac area, and I've only experienced one in the last three years, and it was just a few hours.
The CDC study does have methodological problems, but there's also been prior research that suggests similar effects (in more severely ill patients), as well as observing destruction of insulin-creating pancreas cells by COVID19. Here's a meta-analysis of 8 studies on the topic, with similar conclusions, done across China, Italy, and the U.S.:

https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.142...
> When you're incentivized to manipulate the news, assuming you have the ability, you manipulate the news.

Nope, sorry. However, if you take that as an axiom it does free you to believe a lot of nutty self-affirming things without a shred of actual evidence.

> https://imgur.com/a/femHTeb

What does this have to do with anything? That you'd even quote that screenshot like it means something indicates a significant lack of understanding of many things, including basic chronology: that tweet from "Reuters Fact Check" is from 1/7/2022, Jim Smith stepped down as Reuters CEO nearly two years prior.

> Edit: https://www.bitchute.com/video/sixF3E328RBF/

So? Pfizer buys ads, big whup. Your implication is (probably) Pfizer is dictating content or the sponsored shows making stuff up or hiding things to make their sponsor happy, but you've done nothing to actually show that, and there are good reasons to believe it's not true.
To say Bradfords "create no mess" is about as true as "clean coal"! They create an enormous mess when they inevitably grow big and brittle and start dropping half of the tree on your lawn/house.
Yeah its good advice. All Architectures are build like this. Inkrementally.
> Most meters are non-directional,

Really? Can you provide a link?

I imagine quite a lot of installations are still using old fashioned rotating disk meters. These are quite definitely bidirectional unless fitted with a ratchet that prevents them running backwards.

I only got a smart meter a couple of years ago here in Norway and we are way ahead of most countries.
Guessing based entirely on symptoms, onset time across the household, and community prevalence.
Thank you for the clarity here.. I thought there was more to the story than this article made it seem.
This is why I got the vaccine. I'm personally not afraid of COVID.
But the healthcare system shutting down to the point where we have patients dying in the hallways? That scares me.

Too many kids who want to become lawyers or software developers instead of doctors and nurses.
With an ageing population that's not good.
> Because accuracy isn't the goal. Proponents of "Latinx" aren't speaking to us or for us. They're speaking through us—to each other. Its use is purely about signaling—not to Latin people, but to other signalers. And beneath the signal, there is hardly anything of substance at all.

This is a bit like (non-native) people stating their location in their Twitter bio as "Salish lands" or "Ohlone lands" in place of Seattle or San Francisco. And yes, I think this extends to cishet people using putting gender pronouns in their name field on Zoom, etc.
HN has a lot of people on both sides of this issue. You may be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias: we're all much more likely to notice the posts we dislike, and to weight them more heavily. This leads to the sense that the community is lined up against you, but it's an artifact of perception: people with the opposite perception share exactly the same feeling, but they imagine the community being lined up in just the opposite way.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Yes, there is 'diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune
great use of LSP
There are risks from the vaccines, even if they are rare. Why expose yourself if you're protected already?

Myocarditis being the main one:

- Postmarketing data demonstrate increased risks of myocarditis and
pericarditis, particularly within 7 days following the second dose. [1]

- The
true incidence of myopericarditis is markedly higher than the incidence reported to US advisory
committees. (preprint) [2]

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/151707/download

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268209v...
Of course it's falsifiable: pick a bunch of topics that negatively affect them (stories about them, their key advertisers, etc.) and diff it against a source that has no interest.

If there is no difference they're neutral. If they downplay or ignore - not so neutral.

>What makes a news outfit "neutral" is their adherence to journalistic standards of neutrality, which include both a firewall against executive interests and an editing process designed to temper the biases of individual journalists.

Which involves more than just talking about neutrality. It involves executives being willing to pay the price when that neutrality would violate their interests - financial or otherwise.
Which looks to be between 0.025%-0.4% putting these two sites together, depending on the state:

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm
I recently created a daily "random 5 bookmarks" email using GitHub actions and Pinboard's API. I love it; it's a serendipitous reminder of things I once thought were interesting, and now I bookmark things with abandon just so they may show up again. I rarely use bookmarks to find something again because search is still low-friction, but that assumes I know what I'm looking for.
Do you mean by eliminating poverty, or by giving free education for all?

Because I'd be happy with both.
No there isn't. The software is provided as is, without warranty, express or implied. This is critical to understand.
No it isn’t man. In what world it commonly known?
I had no idea that these were the plant responsible for so-called "Jizz Blossoms". There was always one week in the Fall where you'd smell 'em walking to class...
This is almost certainly the main driver.
>The phrase is actually “The plural of anecdote is not evidence”.

I always thought the phrase was "The plural of anecdote is not data" but it looks like that is a misquote:

Nelson W. Polsby PS, Vol. 17, No. 4. (Autumn, 1984), pp. 778-781. Pg. 779: Raymond Wolfinger’s brilliant aphorism “the plural of anecdote is data” never inspired a better or more skilled researcher.

I e-mailed Wolfinger last year and got the following response from him:

“I said ‘The plural of anecdote is data’ some time in the 1969-70 academic year while teaching a graduate seminar at Stanford. The occasion was a student’s dismissal of a simple factual statement–by another student or me–as a mere anecdote. The quotation was my rejoinder. Since then I have missed few opportunities to quote myself. The only appearance in print that I can remember is Nelson Polsby’s accurate quotation and attribution in an article in PS: Political Science and Politics in 1993; I believe it was in the first issue of the year.”
Question: is that GGPO library useful for FPS games?
I am curious if those (especially posting here aligning with this position) would change their minds if a more deadly variant were to arise, if the vaccines available evolved to better match the strains by probability, or otherwise.
But if they don't care, why does it matter what they feel?
I've been using Emacs since 1996. One of the many reasons I like it is the default non-blinking full block cursor. It brings a certain calmness to the editing process. No stress or distraction. It feels so clean.

It's interesting how very subtle design decisions like these matter so much.
> Yes, granted, Apple could always extract (and to some extent probably is) your history directly via OS hooks, but the "Private" relay gives them a completely opaque off-device way to centrally track what everyone is visiting

Err, no it doesn't - that's the whole point of the way it's engineered. All Apple sees is your IP address with none of the request details, and your IP is obscured before being sent to the second relay (Cloudflare, fastly, etc) , who only see the request detail with no origin/requestor information.

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...