skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit, I spent hours trying to get an appointment for a booster, just like I spent hours last spring trying to find a vaccination appointment (which was 90 minutes away). And I lost a day to the 2nd shot, and another day to the booster, as both wiped me out for 24 hours.

You might have a point if I could have walked in to any pharmacy, knowing that I could get a walk-in vaccination. But that hasn't been the case in Redmond, WA. So while you say "non-event", I say "what a pain in the ass (and arm) that was".
According to panama papers, professional money launderers mostly use normal bank accounts and offshores just fine.
Perhaps we should incentivize recruitment of, and reduce restrictions for, medical professionals. Things like residency availability, overhead from various requirements and restrictions, and a ton of upfront investment followed up with long hours and potentially decades to pay of debt.

Something has to be done around capacity issues, or we'll be in the same situation indefinitely. Or even worse when the next pandemic hits.

Probably not realistic, but I would love to see more personal involvement in care. One level could be prevention, and not just the vaccine. Lose weight, exercise, eat right. It's hard to change people though.

Another is care after the fact. Short staffed? Give me a procedure card and let me do the less skilled stuff. Most of nursing is really basic and many things are handled by machines (when's the last time a nurse took your BP with a manual sphig?). Maybe that's beyond many people's abilities, but there are some who are used to wearing respirators, practicing aseptic techniques, and following procedures. The artificial constraints of regulation and law prohibit it. So I guess that's another way society might be making the choice to sacrifice people.
Acing the System Design Interview
true, it does not seem deno is addressing the 'biggest' weakness in node.js though, I'm a bit disappointed.
Am I the only one who just... writes good code? I look back on code from when I was a junior and sure, it's bad. But code from 4 years ago? It's still perfectly fine. I don't believe that it's normal for long-time seniors to think their code from only a year ago is consistently bad, yet there are a lot of comments in here to that effect.
Maybe "eigenvectors" is a bad example, because it's a pretty foundational linear algebra concept.

But there is a threshold where it stops being a test of foundational knowledge and starts being a test of arbitrary trivia, and favors who has the most free time to study and memorize said trivia.
To be fair Delta is a very different beast from Omikron.

The virus is mutating so the government strategy has to adapt too. Elimination was an option for a while.
The sole reason vegetable eaters find eating vegetables justifiable is they attribute no moral value to the lives of non-animal life forms.
"Just two weeks to flatten the curve!"
> - What level of state-sponsored violence is justifiable to further reduce that risk?

This is the line I'm responding to.

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You know damn well that libertarians do this bullshit when playing with "use of force" language in these discussion.

A fine is "government use of force" to a libertarian. I'd rather not get stuck in the weeds over such details. But you're trying to pin me from the other side, and I don't appreciate it.
Because everybody uses AC instead of painting their roofs white and maybe installung some rooftop solar before throwing AC at the problem.
Show HN: A decision tree to solve any Wordle
You've got your anecdotes, and I've got mine. My 3 young kids all caught omicron last week. Each were lethargic for a day, had a minor sore throat, and were back to normal in a day or two. The flu last month was way scarier with high fevers.

There's a lot of reason to be optimistic about omicron.
More about language, apparently, not all languages have that "ideas within ideas within ideas" property you were talking about. The Pirahã language of an indigenous people in Brazil is the counter example. This New Yorker article talks about it and the fascinating effects it had on the field of linguistics. Before its discovery most linguists, Led by Chomsky, believed having recursion in our grammars set humans apart from all other animals. Pirahã showed this might not be the case.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interprete...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language
I'm not familiar with Private Relay's details, but based on the available public information: every connection is initiated through a proxy server controlled by Apple, so all Verizon (probably) has to do is detect that initiation pattern and/or figure out which IPs/subdomains are specifically responsible.

Apple can probably improve the situation by making Private Relay more like a VPN (instead of a fancy web proxy + DNS masker), including reusing the same IPs and domains that iCloud traffic is already going through.

Edit: Apple's docs show two well-known subdomains for Private Relay[1]. Blocking both of those is probably what Verizon's doing.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for...
I tend to keep way too many tabs open in my browsers, some of which I never, ever go back and read. Once in a while I dump these evergreen tabs into bookmarks.google.com (yeah, I know), which is just enough to satisfy my inner hoarder that I haven't completely lost whatever was so special about that tab.

I have this fantasy about a browser history on steroids that remembers not just the URLs, but the contents of everything I've ever visited. Not necessarily 100% retention of images and layouts, but at least searchable text. There are so many times when I'm simply unable to convince Google to find a page I read a few years ago. I've probably even bookmarked a project or two along those lines.
As a five-year user of Signal, thanks for making Signal such a fantastic messenger, Moxie.
Crystal is also my go-to for writing a quick script to do something.
I know everyone is tired of this shit but I just want to remind everyone of one thing:

This is the FIRST time humanity has come together and actually come up with a way to beat a virus WHILE a global pandemic is still ongoing. At no other time in history have we even had the option of a solid way to protect ourselves like we do now. I think instead of focusing on how awful the past few years have been this is an important thing to remember - it is truly a turning point in human history and I think we are going to look back at the centuries beforehand and appreciate how far we have come.
Nuclear costs more than solar I'm afraid. Should have been building it 20 years ago.

The time and money it takes to get a new nuclear plant up is meaningless now, just put down solar and wind
Apparently the exemption expires this September [1].

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/163001/congress-let-ivy-leag...
The challenge is the lack of data on long-term effects of COVID. Preliminary studies have linked it to cognitive declines [1], diabetes [2], and chronic fatigue [3]. And while death from COVID in a preschooler is about a 1-in-100,000 occurrence, long COVID and other chronic outcomes seem to be much more common. I've heard figures of about 5% or 1 in 20.

Few parents would willingly sign their preschooler (or themselves) up for intellectual disabilities, type-1 diabetes, or chronic fatigue syndrome.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7102e2.htm

[3] https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/01/08/lo...
I can't imagine they intend to sell Signal but then when I say "they" it's always been a stand in for Marlinspike. We can only hope he's correct in terms of the team he's built continuing the mission that had formerly been guided by his judgment.
> It's an exchange everyone makes every single day in order for society to function.

Not at this rate though. In my country covid deaths are easily 20x that of traffic fatalities and the latter is seen as a serious social issue.

Also my friends in the medical profession are simply tired of doing 300h months.
I really hope this doesn't catch on, but I am concerned that settings has a message for this instead of it just mysteriously being not working. Makes me wonder if there is an official way carriers can block this?

I know at home since I have pihole setup I got an alert that private relay can't work on my home network.
Makes sense, but even then, not much. An unbridled pursuit of profit would mean quite a few business owners would be having their competitors killed and forcing people to work at gunpoint, with no repercussions.
>> I tried reading their source code, also of atom, brackets, light table etc.
Honestly I don't understand anything. I am not able to make sense of the data flow and the architecture.

Even so, this is exactly the right thing to do, except probably you are studying editors that are too big for your purposes - find something smaller in scope.

You won't understand without significant effort - you need to put in the work.

So, here's what I suggest:

1: keep examining the source code of various editors - however, focus on trying to find small editors that are very focused in what they do. Also look for old editors for operating systems like DOS - they might be smaller in scope and therefore easier to understand. Also look at editors in other languages, such as Pascal.

2: The essence of learning is to implement - so start writing the smallest editor you can.

3: continue searching for and reading any sort of written documentation/blog posts/articles as you are doing.

Eventually the light will switch on.
This sounds like a wonderful idea. Drop the vaccine mandates, and drop the mandates to treat the unvaccinated. If people don't want treatments that work, they should be free to explore the full space of treatments that don't.

If you have ethical qualms about this, I'd like to point out that ethics go both ways. It's unconscionable to take a hospital bed away from someone who needs it, because you refuse to take your medicine, with predictable consequences.
> The democratic party has hung their hat on how bad covid is and how important it is to get vaccinated and to state at this point, NVM lets just get back to normal would be a loss of face.

It actually still is important and advisable to keep your coronavirus vaccinations up to date. There's a reason why Israel marches ahead and begins to distribute the fourth shot in a year to the most vulnerable groups, and likely access will be expanded similarly like it was for the first three shots.

FWIW, it should become a normality that people visit their general practitioner once a year, get their general fitness and blood checkup done and their missing/expired vaccinations refreshed. Our societies may very well benefit from eliminating millions of workdays lost every year to the ordinary flu [1].

[1]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1225629/umfra...
Have been drinking it for 25 years. Had a few months without here and there. It's not much different unless your usage has been excessive, which clearly was the case here.

Different people have different metabolism of caffeine and different reactions. It's very well documented. I'm one of those who have it easier to nap after strong coffee than before it. But I do love my espresso.

If you are looking for a reason to start a new better life with some different drug read about caffeine influence on adenosine. For some people coffee can influence their sleep pretty bad and that's no good.

Moderate amounts of coffee correlate positively with better health.

Also watch for slight dehydration and if you like it white - the fact that many people have at least a tiny lactose intolerance. In Italy almost nobody drinks coffee with milk after noon.

And really, statistically, it's one of the easiest popular drugs to quit. Maybe a few headaches here and there and you're done. It's mostly about the ritual and lifestyle.
I feel this is the exact blind spot that technical projects such as GNU tried to avoid, by putting human rights before the actual code and documentation, and telling you every time about it.
> None of my source code files are even 1 megabyte let alone 100 megabytes

Source code, sure. Log files and other kinds of text can routinely can be quite large. Also, within the context of source code, colorization and other useful features can be far less expensive if you only have to reapply them to limited section of the current file.
First off, I need to point out that you are committing the logical fallacy of selective rigor. An increase in neutralizing antibodies is not the same as a clinical trial proving efficacy, but I'm pretty sure that increases in neutralizing antibodies STRONGLY correlate with vaccine efficacy, across different diseases. So you've already called out your own bias.

So, here is a pre-print that does show real-world effectiveness (as opposed to efficacy). https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.15.21266341v... And of course I know that you will apply your selective rigor by pointing out that it is a pre-print. But less-biased people will realize that science can only work so quickly.
Sure:

https://archive.org/details/torrent_metadata_archive_sample

I'll start uploading monthly archives.
I just hope that moxie's replacement is someone with as strong a reputation for fighting for the principles at stake and the ability to defend them. How many people could have written the Cellebrite blog post? Probably not many. The hidden pressures on Signal staff must be enormous, as likely the the world's single most valuable surveillance target.
You keep on using the top of the estimate as if it was the only estimate. They said 1%-4%. I agree that is high, but I also don't think the real rate is 0.2% either as that requires the total COVID death number to be inflated. I don't think there is evidence for that. I think the real rate is probably somewhere in the in the 0.4%-0.8% range. That means the 1%-4% estimate is pretty close at the low end. And if we are going to err on one side or the other, the side that makes people more cautious during a global pandemic rather than less cautious is probably the way to go.
OK, so now people are framed as fighting against history. What does that change?

Everything is just as controversial and the issues are the same.

Jacobson v. Massachusetts said the solution to compulsory vaccination is democratically repealing policy and law. This is exactly what these people want and are fighting for
> The virus is still very dangerous to the unvaccinated

Do we know this about omicron? How dangerous is "very dangerous"? As it is with pre-omicron, CFR for COVID-19 was, pessimistically, 0.5-1%, less if you're not in an at-risk group. AFAICT we have no reliable numbers on "long covid".

For the record, I am not anti-vaxx, I am vaccinated, I'm just anti-using-science-as-an-ideology.
I'm also curious. For the last several years some kind of enterovirus has been paralyzing hundreds of children in the US. Articles get written once in awhile, but no one ever talks about it. Yet COVID shuts down schools.
> Third, a large portion of the population is in denial about their own levels of risk. If there was a 1% chance of dying every time you drove a car, or even a 1% chance of dying every time you got into a car accident, there would be panic in the streets, no pun intended. But a lot of people round a 1% chance of dying from COVID down to zero.

I don't think you and I differ much in our broad conclusions on covid, but I don't think it makes sense to compare "chance of dying every time you drove a car" with "chance of dying if you catch covid"--basically this is a type error, you're comparing apples and oranges. The proper comparison operand for "every time you drove a car" would be "every time you interact with one or more people in person". Of course, you don't have a 1% chance of dying by covid every time you interact with one or more people in person because each interaction has a relatively low chance of contagion. Moreover, if there's a 1% chance that the average person would die from covid, that doesn't imply that a healthy person (i.e., no co-morbidities) has a 1% chance of dying from covid, so it's perfectly possible that the cohort who are risking covid exposure also have a lower risk of dying from covid than the average person (of course, I'm just responding to your framing of self-preservation--there's a good moral argument that healthy people should also be concerned about their contribution to spreading the virus irrespective of their own risk).
> Unvaccinated people have a much higher rate of severe illness that requires hospitalization. Filling up hospitals unnecessarily kills people, and delays preventative care.

Not if they already had covid or are young and healthly. I would agree with your statement with the qualifier "unvaccinated people that are over 60 or have comorbidity".
That competition is at least partly responsible for the zoning laws. The standard real estate advice is to buy the cheapest house in the most expensive neighborhood you can afford, so that your kids can be surrounded by kids of parents of better means and resources, thereby strengthening their network.
I was using power to mean electricity, not compute power. Thanks for noticing that ambiguity.

As for your comment about core usage in games, I'm still surprised how few cores it takes, even for modern games. Not my knowledge area at all, so all of that part of gaming and computing architecture is a bit opaque to me.
I would absolutely love to get one of these, and I respect the focus on PPD over everything. I've always wanted to replace my laptop screen with a VR headset for programming while traveling.

Shame about that price though. Now I do understand why it's that high; small company, super high res panels, and linux support. But it's just way above what I can afford. I mean, it's more than a new 16 inch Macbook Pro.

I wish there was a lower tier version without the built in PC or cameras. I just want a "head mounted display" with the same panels, and with near flawless linux support, that I will drive with my laptop.
What exactly do you mean by "% of positive covid tests that are vaxed"?

In the US, with the delta wave, case-rate-per-100k-people very much showed that the vaccinated were less likely to catch Covid. For instance: "From December 20, 2021 to December 26, 2021, unvaccinated people were 3.9 times more likely to get COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people." (with a chart showing the trend similarly for months). https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#postvax-status

I expect the omicron wave to be less dramatically tilted, but that there will still be some difference.
Well, the vaccine rollout was planned under Trump and execution was in full force when Biden took office (1 million jabs a day).

Biden didn't really do much after he took office, other than annoy people with inconsistent communication, federal over-reach and always singling "the others" as the root of all evil - which made them more reluctant to anything he proposed.

Trump had to scale out testing, respirators, PPE, the vaccines etc. 2020 looked much more busy than 2021, and then we got Omicron and we're completely unprepared.

I am vaxxed and boosted, but I don't want to be forced to get a shot every 6 months.
Certainly there is value in having an antagonistic press, but the “gotcha” here is a lie.

Throughout the pandemic numbers have reported how many people where hospitalized with Covid. Because that is the important number to be concerned about, since this is the number that is pressuring the hospital system. This articles is Henrik Qi’s personal “gotcha” saying “haha, I told you so, actually only 3/4 of those hospitalizations are because of covid!!” And then trying to paint a picture of the media collectively having failed the readers for not “discovering” this earlier.

Now this is a lie for two reasons, it implies incorrectly that there was previously a statement that 100% the people in the hospital with covid where there solely because of covid, which was never the case. And secondly it is a lie because the hints that covid is actually 27% less severe is an implicit accusation that someone who has covid and heart failure and is admitted does not stress the system exactly as much as someone admitted only because they have covid.

The punkis wasn’t lied to by the government. The media didn’t fail the people. What actually happened was that the most important number was reported accurately and now Henrik Q finally got another number that he thinks is more important. Why does he think that one is more important? Because he doesn’t care about the healthcare system failing, what he cares about is only his personal risk of ending up hospitalized if he gets covid. And that’s fine, it’s not illegal to be selfish, but it’s not a failing of the government for not focusing on metrics you personally align with your own hypothesis.

It was quite clearly communicated and makes perfect sense that during covid we where looking at number of hospitalizations with covid compared to the capacity to support hospitalizations with covid, and lockdowns and other actions where planned based on ensuring those didn’t collide.

If the hospital system had broken down, it would have helped no one that Henrik could jog along and go “Well actually 27% of the people that can’t get treatment for covid or other illnesses only need that because of the other illness not because of covid”

Anyways I appreciate your perspective but I’ll stand by my viewpoint. The truth contained in this reporting is incidental to their agenda, it’s not the focus of it at all.
In hindsight, you should set up an RSS feed with updates :)
Study finds, surprisingly, that women are favored for jobs in STEM (2015)
wonder what Moxie will get up to next, given his web3 skepticism and the state of the tech industry today.
"220,000 deaths.

If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this: Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States." Joe Biden

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1319446692236791814

And his predecessor did not have the vaccines available to combat deaths. So they are in a tough spot to be sure. The only thing they can do now is to downplay and reframe:

"The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75% percent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities, so really these are people who were unwell to begin with." CDC Director Rochelle Walensky

https://youtu.be/BhOoWGXRGb0?t=165

They are also finally trying untangle deaths "with Covid" and "from Covid": https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1480207649807507458
US recommends everyone get a flu vaccine and we usually only hit about 50%.
We are constantly bombarded with a same advice. "Document your code," but the fact is that most documentation is out of date almost as soon as it's created and no one wants to update it. It's just easier to read the code. Also, programmers get paid for code not documentation so there's little incentive to document.

Yes, everyone should document their code but no one wants to and it's almost useless in no time.

I don't know the fix.
The free donut test.
If they are eligible for vaccination and choose to refuse it, that's one thing. But there are people who cannot be vaccinated, and I still worry about how my actions might affect them.