skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand how many assumptions are baked into the current conclusions that vaccines and masks are effective. This relies on accurate reporting of vaccination status and accurate reporting of breakthrough cases. Meanwhile in the real world covid is spreading unabated, record case counts, regardless of vaccination rate or mask compliance.

Clearly something isn't adding up. Meanwhile the rosy estimates of safety and effectiveness have been repeatedly and consistently walked back. I think it's time to recognize that our institutions have had their analyses and recommendations tainted by strong and pervasive political and social biases, from the laypeople who have no incentive to report breakthrough cases, all the way up through the chain past academics and policymakers who have their careers riding on the validity of 2 years of covid research and policy that cannot be contradicted without trashing credibility. That's not to mention the career and social stigma associated with speaking out or publishing negatively against the vaccines.

It doesn't help that dozens of hours of testimony on behalf of researches and clinicians before congresspeople is simply being ignored[0]. Add media to the rabidly biased groups and you're getting closer to reconciling what is being published and communicated about the vaccines and virus with what is happening in the real world.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jMONZMuS2U&t=1s
You wouldn't need a federal-issued ID. You can use the state id which you also use to identify yourself for everything else. National ID "requirement" is a fake obstacle. Identification verification is already a requirement as well - you must give your name and attest that you are who you say you are. Lying about it is a crime. An ID would not add an additional requirement, it would just enable better enforcement.

Besides, with "Real ID" state ID's meet federal verification standards now as well.
How would you otherwise know that xoom.com is really PayPal?

I believe it is PayPal because DigiCert say it is (with EV). That is much better than no validation - which is the default.

Domains are not identities. They are a reference to an organization. PayPal owns more than 100 domains. Not only did DigiCert validate the organisation through various procedures (e-mail, paystub, id), but the validation is also asserted through a X500 name, which is cryptographically signed in the X509 certificate. So there is no way for others to spoof the identity.

Attackers can easily copy the HTML/CSS/JS the website to look and feel exactly like PayPal. Then they can go to Lets Encrypt and get a certificate, which offers no assertion on their identity, other than "Attackers own the domain paypal.xom.com" (a domain they purchased to spoof PayPal).

In that case, the EV certificate is the _only_ way you can check if it is really PayPal.
I don't know anything about anti-trust law and I don't like the idea of a company with that much power but what would be the basis of a regulatory action here?

Google will tell you that there is no monopoly. Anyone can install firefox (with efficient ad-blockers) and use duckduckgo.

Does anti-trust law goes beyond just breaking monopolies? We just saw the EU regulator get rebuffed in a case involving intel strong-arming OEM so they don't use their competitor's chip. Seems like a straightforward case, and yet...
> Not to mention all of the vaccine injuries that do exist but are rarely reported on.

Source?
I went in expecting the typical half-baked web3 sucks arguments popular in HN. But this is actually good, nuanced stuff.

You are 100% right. We need more of these specific critiques on web3 projects to separate the clowns from the scammers from the legit actors.
I also think these are overall the best wireless headphones on the market. Not just in Bluetooth connectivity.
The court's decision in case someone wants to read it: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
The repo's LICENSE is the MIT license. If you read it you would have no idea the project is going to steal 30% of your ad revenue.
I did once.

Then I noticed a suspicious rise of articles in my top 120 (my arbitrary limit) that were “uniquely targeted to me”.

That bothered me. I felt gamed.

Now HN is throwaway central. I'm not disrespectful, but this has affected how much of myself I put into my participation. Make me think even for a second that I'm responding to a bot, balrog will appear!

This continues to this day, and worse is that some comments are clearly bot-generated detritus. I've seen a lengthy, almost persuasive comments that are clearly GPT-3 boilerplate crap, so now I'm forced to ask the question: Is the person behind the comment to which I'm responding even a person? Yeah, HN kinda' feels like it's AI doped with juicy articles suspiciously trailored oft much these days.

I do know, however, how difficult this is to police. It's like playing wackamole. I dealt with this with malware and phishing and it was non-stop wackamole!
Police around the US are in a similar boat with low morale and resignations. This is how civilization could end: abuse and neglect of essential services, people divided and acting like idiot children, ignoring self-preservation, ready to fight each other over rumors and conspiracy theories, and corrupt and under-communicative political system and leadership.

That's problems of communication (Vaccines: You can get pretty sick but you won't die.) and abusing EMS (fear of being sued hypochondria and not triaging calls enough), not the vaccine.

The vaxx card should've contained anti-forging properties like holograms or security threads, and been maintained electronically at issuance with a QR code for verification purposes. The card itself shouldn't be proof.
Totally agree. But are they really DELIVERING a final product with keyboard, main board and display for $15? THAT is the real question.
The G-quadruplex is not a molecule, it is a specific assembly of either molecules or structures within a single molecule

Something you need to understand for these long chain molecules is that they can fold in, around, and on themselves being held together by numerous weak molecular interactions. Proteins and DNA/RNA behave this way

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-quadruplex
Leading cause of death in the US, 2015-2020: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234 (see table a few paragraphs down)

Heart disease, unintentional injuries, Alzheimer disease, and diabetes all jumped more than the expected trend.

2021 numbers I don't think will be finalized for another month or so.
I still don't understand what the game plan is for laser-induced fusion. How do you collect the energy? By contrast: I have a vague idea of how one might do it for magnetic confinement, and I even remember one magnetically confined system where there was direct electrical potential generated and extracted from the system.
> a11n

I'm not sure what this means, assuming weird auto-correct from authoritarian?

> An a11n regime needs the buy-in of private leadership because...

Only if that leadership is necessary to seize or hold power.

An authoritarian regime in the US would not need buy-in from major tech companies.
There is a raspberry pi kit to do just that (keyboard + screen + computer all in one).

The only other option is a ZXSpectrum Next (Kickstarter that is having trouble with supply chain right now for the latest batch). It's freaking awesome though. You can directly download new spectrum games from the internet or just use the SD card. Someone wrote a new assembly language book. There is a BBS app...so many cool things going on. The commander x-16 will also be cool if it ever comes out.
Not going to lie, I was hoping for one.

But pleasantly surprised and happier that it's something interesting!
I'm currently at WRUR. It is not the same as it was in the 90s but we're still here. If you have any cool stories I'd love to hear them. They are a little more strict these days.
Fishing cats fish: describing a felid’s strategy to hunt aquatic prey
What is the recent trend of website users not using the actual names of the websites they use?

>the orange site
>the bird site

Are these pet names? Is this passive aggressive contempt? Or is this an inside joke that I don’t get?
Germany considers ban on Telegram due to fears over conspiracy theorists
mc32's comment was informational and worth reading and the reference to the cultural revolution was IMHO very relevant because the guy lactually ived through it when he might very well not have. It comes across as a statement of fact to me, not at all a generic ideological tangent.

The cultural revolution is a mystery to me just as much as anything else on HN, perhaps more so because it was about people, which are more complex and interesting than tech. The link to the article was useful.
from his twitter it sounds like he sent email+patch but presumably it got bounced as he can't find it in their archives - https://twitter.com/ryiron/status/1486207465918468097
That's a great video. Her videos often offer a really refreshing sceptical balance to the dominant overly optimistic and downright incorrect pop-sci stuff out there.
The rumor was that WSL1 was the leftover codebase from Astoria, not that Astoria existed.
I’ve been using a client based tool (Moneydance) for 10+ years and some banks did support special accounts that had read only access to ofx APIs. It was kind of nice as I didn’t have to worry about my passwords as much.

It’s gotten worse over the years as banks have stopped support for open APIs. I guess because of plaid-type integrators that make custom interfaces. I’ll likely quit my bank (usaa) as they got rid of any api access unless you go through third parties.

I’m not willing to give my account credentials to a third party like plaid where the downside is draining most of my liquid assets and investments.
> They could change "the" into "a" in different places.

Bad bad bad bad, again bad idea. That changes the structure and the meaning of the content. A single word replacement can change the context of the entire sentence which can change the content of the entire paper. Changing it can create unintended effects which can make Elsevier to thrash their reputation and universities will move on to different scientific/academic journals site.

If Elsevier tries this method with peer-reviewed papers, then it have to go through the reviews again to ensure that the original and the revision have the equivalent expression which is difficult to do. Authors chose those words and structure to convey their expression in those papers. They chose it for a reason and Elsevier is not going to risk their reputation to change the authors papers without affecting the content of the paper.
I mean it is a global pandemic with millions of dead and new variants that may pose new challenges. Caution? What a surprising concept!
Thanks Chris!

Agreed–data processing on the user's device can certainly be abused in some cases, but when it's used right you can build some pretty amazing experiences with modern web APIs.

Closely following the development of WebGPU as well–I think that's going to enable a whole new class of web apps with serious graphics and compute power.
The IMF tends to be the cheapest source of credit for nations that end up needing to borrow with the concessional interest rate being zero. Accusing the IMF of usury is nonsensical.
A standard mp3 runs about 1MB per minute. You should really only have to buffer a couple seconds if you're streaming. If you try to keep a 4 second buffer your going to be somewhere between 40 and 70kb (this thing also has an SD card so you could keep a much shorter buffer if it was local.)

It really doesn't take much else, you'd need a tcp stack where most of the memory usage is buffers. Maybe 15-30 kb, and you'd need to load some player into mem as well.

There are tiny embedded devices all over that have music running on them. I've seen lightbulbs and light switches that can stream music.

Idk why everyone thinks it takes 500mb to play an MP3. Maybe because the vast majority of compute power these days seems to go to all the shit the app puls in to sell ads and native programs are all just electron apps but it really doesn't have to be like that for most functions of a computer.
Encouraging natural immunity is asking for hospitals to get filled up by people giving themselves covid on purpose. This affects non covid patients too.

I suspect that's why the media doesn't do it.
Amazon Abandons Employee ‘Influencer’ Scheme After It Backfires
Did spam filtering on Gmail get worse for everyone?
In the past few weeks I am getting few SPAM emails into my GMAIL inbox daily.

Is it only me, or spam filtering got worse for everyone?
I recently upgraded from an iPhone XR and a lot of frustrating software problems just went away. Nothing to do with AirPods in my case, but it made me realize the effect of having an older phone with less processing power and less developer attention paid to it. I wonder if your AirPods problems might have to do with having older devices connecting — ie. the other side of the Bluetooth connection.
>divest Instagram and WhatsApp and stop buying competitors

I actually thought that was the point of antitrust action. The thing that FB monopolizes is the social graph, in any incarnation. (It is a remarkable innovation, to realize that this is a defensible moat; I personally would not have guessed that. But yes, it's a politically meaningful position and so will inevitably be either attacked or (worse) coopted by government)
This doesn't address the rather hysterical slippery slope argument that was being espoused. That's the one that I've never has a sane answer to - anything the government might want to do in the future with a vaccine passport, they can already do now with the plethora of unique identifying information they have on you.
From your own link: "At the appellate level, the U.S. government dropped the claim of tying given that—as laid out in Section 1 of the Sherman Act—it would have had to prove that more harm than good resulted from the instance of tying carried out by Microsoft.".
Good. Google's interests more closely align with my own than page authors. I'm glad to have Google as an agent working for me to make more useful page titles.
I know WSL, but I was still confused.
Maybe I'm just tired.
> It will take a while of it getting progressively worse before an apathetic consumer class will finally be exploited enough to start demanding proper rules around all of this.

We'll see about that, I guess. Revolutions in the past were successful because you couldn't control people so strongly and you needed the to work to be able to tax them.

With our new surveillance tech and automation I am afraid this has changed for the worse
>Obesity is a complicated disease that manifests through a variety of biological, behavioral, and environmental factors.

Obesity is not a disease. It is a condition defined as a Body Mass Index (BMI) of >30[0].

Yes, there are a variety of factors that contribute to a BMI >30, but like "tobacco use disorder," it's emphatically not a disease. Some obesity may be related to actual diseases, but obesity in itself isn't a disease.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/defining.html
Said the guy or gal typing on a keyboard and reading the response on a display. Solved problem?
PureNix: Transpile PureScript Code to Nix
Tobacco kills 8 million of its users, annually. Why is their presence in ICU beds not a topic of concern?
It’s pretty good. Can you see if most of your users are from YouTube search or Google search? You may be indexing really well and if so, then the video content might be hitting the mark foe those searches
I also a dislike the continued appearance of link bait science articles sites. You all know the ones I'm talking about, where every article about quantum physics starts with a description of quantum mechanics 101 (nay, 001).
I feel like this is ninja-level advice. Thank you.
There is no indication that anyone was charged to use the software- it was the software that charged them
Pretty much constantly [edit: for those who take the time to implement], a common approach is called anycast.

You essentially announce your address at two (or more) geographically distinct places, and BGP routing 'magic' can get you to the closest (or sometimes only responsive) one
OH Thank You. Now I feel much better. Still dislike the name but my brain is much easier on me knowing there is a valid reason behind it.
A poor title reduces the quality of the resource, though. I think it’s reasonable that there is some penalty imposed for poor titles, and that could include clickbait. If the result is the best one for the search, sure, surface it. But if it’s not clear, though, “clickbait title” is a signal that the result is not the best.

I do agree it’s not really Google’s place to be rewriting titles, though. That feels very suspect.
This typically applies to surgical masks as well. The reason is that the fibers of the mask have an electrostatic charge. This charge helps the mask filter particles much better, but the charge will wane over time.
Jeez I don’t know - SQL is the eternal language and people are always trying to replace it or come up with alternatives so they don’t have to learn it, but those efforts have always turned into their own obscure learning domains with the exact same problems people complained about in the first place (I have to learn this obscure syntax to get and shape data). Just learn SQL fundamentals and move forward.
> FB case in US seems a bit stupid as what exactly do they have a monopoly on

We got popular interest in antitrust. Unfortunately, that's drawn Spitzer types in both the U.S. and EU. Khan and Vestager have a penchant for bringing inchoate cases with headline potential. (The "FTC’s inability to offer [a federal court] any indication of the metric(s) or method(s) it used to calculate Facebook’s market share" being Exhibit A for their breathtaking incompetence [1].)

Hopefully this combination of sustained popular interest and transatlantic executive incompetence spurs legislatures into redrawing 20th century antitrust rules.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224...
Lessons Learned from Reading 200 Biographies on Founders -David Senra Interview
Both these statements are true:

-- There are ("too"?) many Markdown editors

-- This is exactly what we need.

I like composing drafts in Markdown but I have to export them (to PDF to view and mark up in Remarkable, to Word to share with some people and so) quite often, and going into pandoc and remembering the commands adds extra layers.

This is a huge contribution.

p.s. because this is Hacker News, I hope some smart person is going to point out an even more efficient way to switch contexts. I am here for it if it doesn't involve trying to learn emacs for the 87th time.
Cobalt: A must-have element for life and livelihood
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I do think that the way politics interacts with communities has changed over time, though I think that has been driven by how the US and Europe (where most community members live) political climates have changed?

> The loud politics minorities are so numerous now that they can easily sway the attention of even niche communities.

I kinda know what you mean, but my memory of the 90s / early 2000s is that loud political minorities were everywhere and commonly created a lot of drama in communities. It was just rare-er for...the moderators to step in? Often because they were the loud political minority who had opinions that people felt were divisive.
Adding a small adapter to where you carry your wired headphones fixes the problem of the current reality where many devices do not have audio jacks. My assertion is to provide a practical solution to the current state of affairs, instead of claiming that the present is better than the past state of affairs (where there were ubiquitous audio jacks) due to audio adapters.

Due to forces beyond the individual's control, it's highly unlikely that audio jacks will once more become ubiquitous, so the second-best outcome is for wired headphone users to start carrying an adapter.
I think we're saying the same thing: vaccines protect you from getting covid, but you should get a booster and even then you obviously can't expect 100% protection. (Just the one booster is fine.)
Adding dramatic flair is a timeless hobby. Like most things, it gets shorter with time.

It's basically:

That den of capitalist hubris, the Mart of Wally

For a new era.
I really like the quality responses. That's the goldmine here.

Also, it does kind of feel like we are one of the b**** detectors at the forefront of the b****.
And the full court ruling (previous link is the press release): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Were you charged to download or use it?
You are protecting not only yourself, but others as well.

Example:
Culture difference (individualistic vs collectivist).
In Japan, masks are used even for common flus, as they are seen as a polite gesture toward others
>>disputing every virus control measure proposed, despite the glaring evidence that they worked

Not only did the measures not work, they were doomed to fail from the start and could not have possibly worked.

You've provided little more than your own disagreement, but no supporting arguments as to why.

Political leaders and authorities knew this, but acted in the ways that they did for their own reasons. My position here puts me at odds with political partisans, but not scientists.
Because the point of something like this would be to be completely self contained. A shell in your pocket.
Microsoft rebuilt the YouTube app following Google’s own guidelines and it was still blocked. At least that’s my recollection.
I see zero difference. There is an explicit mention that bad things will happen if you subvert the license system.
A license is $20, OP is just too lazy to read the terms of code he blindly incorporates.

Op called 2% stealing, 30% is for basically triggering the anti cheat. OP should have paid paid the license and read the rules.
They did not "iterate," SpaceX, from the start, had a very senior engineering team which they got on a wave of layoffs in aerospace undustry, and NASA basically doing their V1 work.
For q1, nothing: shipping would be more than that.
There is still the metadata the operating system stores with the file, even when the file is 1:1 identical. When you use Apple AirDrop to send a file to a friend the OS remembers who sent the file to your friend. Now if the police ever looks at your friend‘s computer they can see who this file came from. Or your friend saves it onto a usb formatted with an Apple File System the metadata is still preserved.
I'm looking forward to the GPT3 generated titles using a prompt that involves something along the lines of "Given this excerpt of the HN discussion: .... This is the most amusing title: ..."
No doubt building is always harder than it looks and it looks like JPM tried to build with Finn and stopped awhile back. GS seems to also have Marcus which is still going at least?

I wouldn't count JPM out though. I'd imagine they have been bulking up on cash by taking on debt for future acquisitions while interest rates were/have been low. They know this game well.

Now that interest rates are starting normalize - they can now go pick the best of the best them - be it HOOD, SOFI, etc. at more reasonable valuations (or at least 50%+ of their 2021 peaks).

Does HOOD at $50B make more sense or maybe just wait until it hits $8B. Plus the DAUs are more stabilized now that the hype has died down. And you get Dodd Frank compliant/audited accounting data instead of VC style EBITDA/DAU only data?

In addition they can pick based on who's app is actually the most sticky/metrics and get to see all the apps internal metrics while doing "due diligence for a potential aquisition".
2 things come to mind:
1. These target the large majority of people with no will or interest in researching/picking/managing their own ETF investments.
2. Robo advisers re-balance your ETF portfolio (in much the way an individual ETF would).