skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty interesting seeing a complete about-face from the corporate media after beating the fear drum incessantly for the past two years. They've enthusiastically supported every lockdown, every school closure, and every mask mandate. They vilified people for wanting to do totally normal human things, like going to parties, seeing family members over the holidays, eating at restaurants, or going to work. Why the sudden change in perspective?
I was not trying to be mean or negative. I am aware that HN is not the place for such things. My question and comment was sincere, normally around now when the bullies pound my comment to the bottom of the thread I would rethink it but not this time.
My only two thoughts on this:

Think of the consequences of finding slam-dunk evidence that a government was aware of, led to, and covered up the creation of a world-impacting virus. Either intentionally, or unintentionally.

Think of the consequences of suggesting so without slam-dunk data.

I figure that's the calculus that went through leaders minds. I just didn't like it when early on, people suggested reasonable if improbable (given the lack of high quality data) hypotheses, and major journals published opinions/letters saying "if you think this, you are a conspiracy theorist". talk about framing a debate!
seriously, 2 years in with 90%+ of the population vaccinated and mandatory masks and Omicron spreads like wildfire in the UK and you are claiming a) the vaccines stop the spread or b) that masks work. are you ignoring reality or somehow going to blame the <10% who are probably also working from home...
There are more benefits to lowering sugar than weight loss. Diabetes and its related issues for example.

When one drops sugar consumption, it’s generally not replaced by fat. That’s not how obesity usually works.
One might argue that one of the problem with C is lack of good resources teaching that theoretical knowledge. For example, the Rust book has a great section teaching the difference between the stack and the heap. Most C resources I have tried to learn from in the past have just assumed that I would learn that sort of thing by osmosis.
Probably worthwhile to link this as well -- Intel just demoed 224G SerDes on one of their FPGA platforms

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/progra...
> This kind of article is basically saying "I have reset my expectations so that I accept a higher risk of death so I can go to the movies".

Correct. This is a rational stance, even if you disagree.

Over the decades, I've observed that US society starts to break down when there is a danger of an unknown origin or bounds. People become irrational and panic, resulting in all sorts of defensive behavior in the face of uncertainty (some of these rituals are helpful, some not). This is true at both the macro and micro level; eg fear of getting sued, fear of computers, fear of selling collectibles.

US society has an expectation of informed consent. Crossing the street has inherent dangers. Juggling chainsaws has inherent dangers. Skydiving has inherent dangers. If US society has been largely convinced that there is codified information that both sets relative-risk and laws regarding liability exist, activities are considered "normal life" with whatever inherent dangers are "known".

I would call this known state, a narrative, but it's more like the meta-narrative across all areas. There are constant changes to these qualities, over time and space, so this affects it; eg It used to be illegal for a vehicle to turn right on red in some areas of the US, without prohibitive signage. Is that still true? The meta-narrative says that laws between states are kooky and you might want to look it up. Spoiler: it's legal in all 50 states since 1980ish. edit: not in NYC, among other cities as tootie has pointed out.

For now the meta-narrative around COVID has stabilized to: We know it's a virus. We know it's communicable by air. We know the risk groups (or can look it up). We know the defensive protocols. et al.

> Personally I think the Omicron wave is still extremely serious and we need to wait a few more months.

This doesn't require a retooling of society, reaffirmation of doubting the science, or theorizing about potential worst case scenarios. A large portion of the US public is done with the handwringing and fearmongering. You can wait as long as you want. It won't change anything about the world you adopt as the new normal. Life is more dangerous than it was a few years decade ago because there's a new vector. There is no end, much like if you get cancer or lose a limb. Life is just harder now, for everyone for the foreseeable future.
Governments do not have an inherent right to privacy.
There has been a study! It didn't cover beards longer than 10 mm, however. Short answer: not as good as an N95 without a beard, but better than cloth.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006963/
> but it cannot create new styles

Sure it can, but then it's not considered anime anymore. I think this sentiment is confusing genre with training set constraints. A new model is not required for some artist to do something different from anime or even an anime artist to do something different. Humans can self-adjust all with approximately the same base model (whatever that is).
I wear FFP2 (n95 equiv I believe) but since I haven’t removed my beard since the start of the pandemic I can’t get a decent fit. So I guess it might protect others from catching my sneezes but I have no illusions that it will do much to protect me.

Having kids at home who go to schools where neither teachers nor students have worn masks since the start of the pandemic also makes the idea of wearing a mask to the grocery store once a week feel pretty useless anyway.
Sure but that doesn't include shutting down Telegram. It is easy enough to infiltrate those groups and keep them under surveillance. You can do very basic police work to counter act them.
When more Parallelism does not equal more Performance
> A good stdlib ensures decent performance, stability and overall code quality to your project.

How then? I can give counter examples of the opposite easily:

An extensive stdlib ensures decent performance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31548680/why-is-python-3...

An extensive stdlib ensures stability: i'm not even sure how, with good version pinning it should always work, regardless of the it being std lib or otherwise.

An extensive stdlib ensures overall code quality to your project. This one I agree most with, but because the std lib sets the idiomatic writing style of the project. I'm not how important the size of the std is for this to work.
I really like Jeremy Kun's writing: https://jeremykun.com/ and recommend his book, A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics: https://pimbook.org/.

So far I've only read the first few chapters of the book, and the exercises often feel too difficult to me. But I think he does a great job of easing into mathematical notation, pausing to reflect on what a seasoned mathematician might be thinking when they come across that notation. He also makes a lot of analogies to programming, and has example programs that are easy to follow. It's helpful to have that angle to understand things from.
I find a model of kn95s that fits well with a minimum of fuss. I’m often surprised by smells in a room when I take it off. In comparison, a hospital supplied n95 my wife had was terrible to get to fit for my face. If you try one and it’s difficult to get to fit, try a different model. They’re not all the same.
My concern is that people opting out of this protocol won't actually be opting out of the sensing technology. Any attacker trying to sense keystrokes using RF waves already can do that and won't be hindered by some opt out program nor be considered whether or not wifi 7 sensing is allowed to be part of new routers.
I actually get a significant amount of "hiring" inquiries for my developer talents via my friends group and various dev groups I'm on in Facebook.

LinkedIn is just one place .. it's a good place, but certainly not the only one.

Responding to HN Who's Hiring or posting on HN's Who Wants To Get Hired is a good source, too.

Finally, AngelList is a noteworthy lead source for me as well.
What is the expected efficiency of this?
Could you provide a source that childcare costs that much, even in a major city? How is it calculated? If that number were true, vast swaths of people could not afford to have children.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

> Our review of the literature offers evidence in favor of widespread mask use as source control to reduce community transmission: Nonmedical masks use materials that obstruct particles of the necessary size; people are most infectious in the initial period postinfection, where it is common to have few or no symptoms (45, 46, 141); nonmedical masks have been effective in reducing transmission of respiratory viruses; and places and time periods where mask usage is required or widespread have shown substantially lower community transmission.

Are mask mandates partly about governments wanting to show that they are doing something? Certainly. Are non-N95 masks ineffective? The evidence says they have benefit.
I would like to see an experiment where modules, their properties, and their dependencies are written down in a separate file.

For example, it would tell module main depends on ui, utils and json, ui on graphics (a third party library) utils on encrypt and IO (which are part of the standard library of the language), json on Streams (another part of the standard library).

It also could say graphics doesn’t use reflection, json is thread-safe and O(input size), utils is pure, encrypt is constant-time, and main isn’t restricted in any way.

The compiler would have to enforce both the dependencies (main couldn’t directly call functions in IO, for example) and the properties (if json uses shared state, it somehow must be properly protected with locks/atomics) (this may, in cases, be a research project. Some properties might be better served with a different or more limited language (that’s what dtrace does for its language, to guarantee it won’t loop forever)

That file would serve as documentation. Tools would exist to render it to svg; users would expect their IDE to do that, maybe even in editable form.

Advantage of separating that from the source files would be that it is harder to accidentally change that information. Spotting them in reviews would be trivial, history could be tracked, etc.

Maybe, the compiler could error when compiling a module where the documentation doesn’t say it’s thread-safe, but it still is, but I can see problems with that, too, where implementers don’t want to commit to something, but still do it. Maybe, we need 3-valued properties: “is thread safe”, ”is not thread-safe”, and “doesn’t want to commit to thread-safety”

Advantage of the compiler enforcing the properties is that they would remain true.

Yes, you can bolt a lot of that on top of about any existing language, but the language needs a culture of doing that. I think golang has shown that the design of a language can influence its culture.

As I said: “I would like to see an experiment”. I’m not sure I would really be happy with the results though. What if there’s that one function that logically belongs in encrypt, but can’t be made constant time? Do you really want to create a sister module for that one function?
yes they do get compromised, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use it. It also doesn't mean that's all you should use. If all of society used 2fa, we'd be much better, which is all OP was saying. Also, 1/10 can still be the biggest factor. but this is getting pedantic
I used to teach college calculus, and can confirm: if you're not comfortable with algebra, you're going to have a bad time of it.
Ah I see that makes sense. Somehow I didn't see that in the thread. So this person just wants to move away from phone number based messaging entirely.

I will say SMS Is still useful when you don't have an internet connection.

TBH I feel like most people are moving away from SMS already. I suppose google could just go the route of Apple and bake in google messaging or something into the OS.
Yeah this is true, but to my knowledge that’s never been done since 1.0 with an entire module, just certain functions (could be wrong, but I have never seen it).

Keeping deprecated functions around still requires some maintenance burden, because you can’t break them just because they’re deprecated. That maintenance burden might become pretty extreme if we’re talking about something as complicated as an HTTP server module, as some folks are asking for in this thread.

I also personally don’t want to see the standard library littered with failed and deprecated experiments. In addition to the maintenance burden, it adds confusion when you’re learning the language or trying to discover how to do something.
Water vapor is a lot smaller than viral particles and is likely to pass through even a N95 mask, which is good, as you'd drown pretty quickly if it didn't.

I wouldn't read too much into fogging.

(That said, I do wish there were better options for people with giant noses like mine.)
That would be a fact only after you did it, and it's a fact only to those who witness it.

It could never be a fact to you, because if you're dead, you'll be quite incapable of knowing it to be fact, and if you survive, it will be wrong.

The person with whom you're debating appears to have a philosophical understanding (likely logical positivist or early Wittgensteinian) of the term "fact" rather than the common dictionary definition.

The dictionary definition isn't necessarily wrong, but it's a different language-game (i.e. different context).

The consensus on the definition of the term is irrelevant to the subject of this thread. There is no way to form of a body or committee dedicated to the identification and preservation of what is fact and fiction because the facts, the things that are the case are based on our perception of them, and we can be wrong.

People make mistakes, and can persuade others to agree with their mistaken interpretation, or people can be persuaded to deliberately falsify their interpretation of data in exchange for something they want.

What is fact and fiction is ultimately impossible for any group of people to be responsible for without bias -- people have their personal beliefs, their own agendas, they can be bribed, lobbied, persuaded, agitated...

The wise among us do not trust newspapers or media outlets, and even treat scientific discovery with academic scepticism until the math checks out. Fortunately in the sciences, we can check the work of others by making predictions and testing them, as well as checking the math.

Take a news article and filter out everything that would be considered weak or bad science. You will be left with a statement of something that happened, perhaps a picture or video of the thing happening, or in many cases you may even be left with an entirely blank page.

There has always been fake news, as long as within the news there has been the expression of opinion. People aren't motivated by a pursuit of the truth, they're motivated by earning money and notoriety (and thence more money). Motivated by ego. This is what people are instructed to do from childhood.

As long as our primary currency isn't truth, you cannot trust anything but what you can prove for yourself. And even in that world where truth is what we all aspire to find, you still can't trust anything blindly -- because people can still make mistakes.

Nothing is fact to you unless you can prove it based on something else you accept as a certainty, and nothing is a fact to people other than you unless you can prove it based on something they accept as a certainty.
> It seems like many of the variables are given names that are not descriptive at all to make it a bit more difficult to read.

The code is just minimized for prod..

The article as written makes it sound like the developer(s) intentionally wrote their code cryptically, whereas minimization for deployment is fairly standard practice
Show HN: EventCatalog – open-source tool to document event architectures
Not if they are unaware of how things might be elsewhere. If they have only ever worked at Google out of college they could have no idea that things suck.
I've read this post probably 20 times in the last day or so (honestly) - and I'm still trying to puzzle through what the possible negative elements are.

I think the idea is that the VC is coming in at $20M valuation, but the angels are coming in at $12M valuation, and you want the angels money (for their connections/assistance) - but only want, say, $150K of their money at $12M valuation. But, if you accept their money at $12M, then you also have to accept YC @ $375K as well - which leads to greater dilution than you want.

You would prefer to take:

VC: $20M Valuation - $3M Invested
Angel: $12M Valuation - $150K Invested

Did I get that correct?
I’ve never really understood why people are confused by the eating thing. The point is obviously harm reduction, not harm elimination. If you’re going to eat out, it’s obviously better to not get exposed to every single person you walked by when you’re not doing an activity that’s impossible with a mask on. This has always been extremely obvious to me, and a natural consequence of trying to keep restaurants open and case loads down.

Now at various points I’ve wondered why restaurants were open, but that’s a different discussion.
Racket (https://racket-lang.org) has quite a lot of mathematics support (rationals as ratios, imaginary numbers, exponentiation, implicit integer->float coercion), and comes with a dedicated IDE, although it's a lisp, and I don't know if you'd like that (I certainly do).
You misunderstand me. I'm talking about right now. In the beginning the plan was to squash case counts and since border crossing was limited heavily it was feasible. Ever since vaccine uptake reached high levels the case counts were not indicative of societal danger due to vaccines decreasing the amount of people ending up there per case.

The raw number of hospitalised is still high though due to the 10x increase in daily cases due to the new variant (delta was already doing a good job) and health centres and hospitals are filled to the brim with people who are feeling unwell enough that they use health care resources.
I tried it on Amazon and it works, but only for their in-house productions. Anything outside of that, you'll get 720p because it can't verify the HDMI chain or something.
>>Western world wide open for study and manipulation

I have long since held the opinion that blogs and online publishing would yield an avenue for foreign influence and cognitive attacks on our way of life.

For what it is worth, I do believe that the government and our intelligence agencies are fundamentally good and are staffed by mostly non-partisan, non-extremist patriots who I have tremendous respect for. We are, presently, a government for the people by the people and of the people.

I do, however, fear that our intelligence agencies and politicians exist with a high degree of arrogance derived from a faith in the superiority of our messaging. I share their faith that our way of life and methods of dealing with each other is superior to that of communist or authoritarian societies, but I do not share their same level of arrogance.

I am more inclined to think that the internet should be modified so as to ensure that the emergent dialogue, the emergent narrative of history and events, is one that came about naturally from our citizens speaking with one another.

For starters, comment sections should be siloed or firewalled nationally. Media entities of significance that wish to portray themselves as reputable news media should be required to have a registration with the government. Their comment sections should be limited to an anonymized walled-garden of citizens of our country only.

Removing foreign influence operatives from the comment sections of CNN, WashingtonPost, and Fox News would do a lot to heal the national divide and quell the brewing extremism.

I would go much further than that and would do tons of experiments if I was in charge of a department handling such a push at the government level. I think all of these troll attacks on our republic fall under the umbrella term "cognitive attacks" and I think it is time we make an effort to apply network security concepts to our national, internal dialogue.
The research in question happened in 2016 and was called “W1V1”.

Regarding the 2016 work:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

> Since bat viruses like WIV1 haven’t been confirmed to cause disease in human beings, her biosafety committee recommended BSL-2 for engineering them and testing them and BSL-3 for any animal experiments.

> In response to questions about the decision to do the research in BSL-2 conditions, Peter Daszak forwarded a statement from EcoHealth Alliance stating that the organization “must follow the local laws of the countries in which we work” and that the NIH had determined the research was “not gain-of-function.”

> The genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 does not resemble that of any virus the WIV was known to be culturing in its lab, such as WIV1, and Baric says he still believes a natural spillover is the most likely cause.

This theory is more than a few steps away from being a smoking gun.
Thank you, this was the response I was looking for!

> Our intent was direct political action through entrepreneurship.

Again, I didn't mean to question your intent – as I said my impression of your company so far has been a very good one! :)

> We have 762 servers spread across 38 countries. Less than 10% of our servers are located in Sweden [0].

My apologies, it's been a few years since I last looked at your server locations (so I didn't remember) and I was probably getting the wrong impression from the fact that your post is only mentioning server locations in Sweden.

> Right now there is no Swedish law that can compel Mullvad to start logging [1].

But at the same time all cross-border traffic in and out of Sweden (so for anyone using Mullvad outside Sweden: virtually all traffic) is being monitored and (probably) logged, isn't it?
Haha I love that people forget how google/bing are out there scraping everything and anyone who scrapes anything for any other reason is a "bad guy".

You can get around some web scraping blockers by just setting your user agent as Googlebot too which I find funny...
Most spread, including omicron, is small (unmasked) friends-and-family gatherings. NY did contact tracing to find that. Those are extended, in-door gatherings without masks and with close proximity.

I don't think omicron's spread says /anything/ about the efficacy of masks.
The dividers are pretty silly if the virus is as airborne as is now believed.