skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wearing mask is pretty basic so no discussion, but mask type is a bit controversial topic in Japan.

At the beginning of pandemic, gov sends cloth mask all house. I think this was good try at the time, but finally the mask isn't used well because non-woven mask become available soon. Now gov still has huge cloth mask stocks.

After that, some research suggests that nonwoven mask is the best for protect, cloth mask isn't the best, urethane mask is relatively bad. But because the gov sends and still has cloth mask, gov don't want to say avoid using other than nonwoven masks.

Anyway over 80% (I assume) of people wear non woven mask so totally fine.
The United States is consistently in the top decile of least corrupt countries globally. Don't really care for your second to last sentence either, let's tone that kind of rhetoric down. (The author of the Twitter thread should absolutely sue- he'll probably get a pro bono attorney from a libertarian or good government nonprofit after his thread gets attention)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
I'd figure they include both PTSD sufferers and power-trippers...but at this point most are just following the latest social trends. HOWEVER - that's a rabbit hole which there is no upside to going down.

There are plenty of applicants to law schools - just ask 'em on the application, and don't accept the ones who claim they're sensitive. Same way that claiming to be a paraplegic should disqualify wanna-be lifeguards, claiming fear of heights should keep you out of flying lessons, etc.
Because it was quickly thrown together in an experimential/evolving language, in a design by committee way, by a very non-diverse group.

And it's getting much better at ergonomics/UX/DX (go is also getting much better), but it's very similar to OpenStack. (Python 2, resource hog, impossibly fragile, basic setup works, but uselessly incomplete without certain critical 3rd party components - eg. without Ceph and ovs it was just too big of a mess, similarly the CNI stuff and the LoadBalancers for k8s are the important missing batteries.)

That said both microk8s (snap packaged by Canonical) and kind (kubernetes in docker) are turnkey solutions. k3s is more of a vanguard :)

.. also, it can be (is already) packaged into a simple RPM/DEB easily, like the GitLab Omnibus.
You come up with a plan to identify the problem, you find a way to tutor them, etc.

There are many ways to help those who want to be helped. If they don't want to be helped.. well that's not a new problem.
> I think Rust has the best WASM tooling, and the 2020’s may end up being the WASM/Rust decade.

Still pales in comparison to .NET
> Then surely you should be able to demonstrate your point with some analogy other than "a smuggling tunnel."

I don't feel I need to. I think it's pretty apt.

> ...broadening the discussion to include whether legality should apply at all...

I didn't do that, you did. I maintain legality is society's decision to make, and that infrastructure should serve society's goals. Infrastructure that makes it dead easy to undermine societies goals is not something I want to encourage.

> Even if that infrastructure primarily serves (or was created to serve, you choose) the purpose of smuggling, for example, asylum seekers?

This is why I suggested it was a tortured reading.

Again, it only really matters what it's actually used for. Asylum seekers need not be smuggled through tunnels because it is lawful to apply for asylum at a port of entry. You show up and ask for it.
Show HN: Nectr–trying to kill the résumé over here
Hi HN, I'm Matthew from Nectr (https://nectr.network). Nectr is a service that lets IT professionals easily create a free, sharable profile that accurately captures your skills, experience and availability. With this functionality "in the can", we're in midst of extending our service to let you create a genuine, uncontrived network of colleagues that you've actually worked with and who can accurately confirm your skills and experience. These confirmations will form the edges in our graph that comprise your first degree network.

As a long time freelancer, I started working on Nectr to fill a requirement that I've long had: ditching my Word-formatted résumé for good—and automatically answering the oft-asked question: "Are you available?". Existing options (LinkedIn, StackOverflow, JSON resume, etc.) just don't fit the bill.

How is Nectr different than the alternatives?

- Your profile (example here: https://nectr.pub/12507/matthew.mcneely) is completely open—the viewer does not need to have an account on Nectr. You can also append .json to the end of your profile URL to get a machine-friendly version. The ability to maintain your profile will always be free.

- Your skills and platform knowledge are bound to entries in our knowledge graph of IT skills and platforms. This has (obvious?) advantages over the simple keyword tags used in most other services.

- Our concept of availability is extremely granular. For instance, you can set an availability for a certain rate, or engagement type or zip code. In other words, we know that availability isn't binary. Further, we know that people can have multiple availabilities. For example, you might be willing to work on freelance crypto projects up to 10 hours a week after hours, but also might be open to a full time job close to your home.

- If you hate our UI (hey, we get it), we'll soon open up our GraphQL API so you can maintain your profile programmatically.

We're currently in preview release (aka unfunded!), so we're limiting the number of accounts while we work out the kinks. If you're an IT professional and this sounds like something you'd be down for, you can sign up here: https://nectr.network
This is amazing work. But what’s the motivation? I understand in 90s Linux was a niche and we had to write our own drivers. But today Linux runs on 2B devices - shouldn’t hw vendors to write their own drivers today? Why try to even support open source for non-co-operative hw companies - just stick with “good” hw companies?
If it was just reaction to the spike protein then why is myocarditis more likely on the second vaccination?

I think it is therefore more likely that adaptive immune system is involved because it has ability to remember.

Now is it possible that spike protein itself or lipid shell is causing this based on incidence rate differences between 3 vaccines?

Hard to say.

The amount of spike protein produced is in correlation with amount of mRNA entering cells. The amount of mRNA entering cells is 3x higher with Moderna vaccine than with Pfizer vaccine and it appears that it is similar on both shots (first and second). But the amount of mRNA (converted from adenovirus DNA) entering cells with the second AZ shot is probably lower than on the first shot because there is also some immunity against the adenovirus and the dose size is the same.

This is in correlation with the amount of antibodies produced by these vaccines.

This is the not contradicting with the observation so far.

But it could be also lipid cell that has been found to cause inflammation. Considering the high amount of antibodies generated on the second vaccination, it is plausible that the lipid shells are not attacked by the immune system directly. But it might be possible that the cells are attacked after lipid shells have merged with their membranes.

There are few ways to find how what is most likely happening.

First is to hope that protein based vaccine from Novavax will be used by meaningful amount to detect proper incidence rates. When it is spike protein itself then we should see also high incidence rate on second vaccination.

The second option is to analyze mixed vaccinations where first vaccination was done with adenovirus vaccine and the second one with mRNA vaccine. It is not perfect setup but it might provide some additional information.

Third option is to use a mouse model similar to one in previous study where mouse were intravenously injected with mRNA vaccines. Repeat the study with mRNA vaccine, placebo (saline solution), dummy lipid shells and protein vaccines (might be necessary to do the study without and with the adjuvant).
This list measures how corrupt people think their own governments are, which is not necessarily the same thing as a measure of actual corruption.
Retro Studios seeking developer for Metroid Prime 4
Thank you for posting this, @triska!
As cool as this is, I'm very curious where the data is from, and am suspicious about the validity of this map. The Pacific Northwest, where I am at, has a lot of variability in sunshine in a fairly small geographical area, so the big block of samey-colors for Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana doesn't seem quite right.

Compare this against the Direct Normal Irradiation map from Solargis[1] for example. DNI is approximately what most people would think of as "clear day sunshine". There's a lot more variability in most regions compared to this map, and the color bands tend to follow geographical features a bit better.

[1] https://solargis.com/maps-and-gis-data/download/world
Chile citizens: Support constitutional proposals for digital rights and freedoms
The remedy are 10 years of austerity measures and free market reforms in order to start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

This is also known as a political suicide.
> Apple controls the platform they’re running on in every case. They actually don’t have a meaningful choice in that area.

Except they do. They can choose to use Android like many non-teens do.

Where all of those apps except for one is available.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Fauci made his political name pushing for a public policy response to AIDS that looks extremely similar to what he's rolled out against covid.

Yet it's been decried ever since as a mistake being based on fear rather than science, pushing stigma on segments of population in the name of compliance, and being so "overly cautious" that the damages (medical and social) far outweighed the benefits, even with its limited implementation.

Why does that sound so familiar?
Clothes made by a French fashion house don't cost a lot because they're labor-intensive to make: they're labor-intensive to make because that costs a lot.
The dollar is the world reserve currency. The extra printed money is diluted over an economy more than four times as large.

France (now the EU) does the same thing by forcing its ex-colonies to use the convertible franc. France’s inflation gets exported to Africa
Of course they don't. They look at citizens as a barrier between where they are now, and their desire to live like the feudal lords of old, except with modern conveniences.
>China will overtake the US economy in the next 5 years.

Not with their current demographic trends.
I may be misinterpreting the story, but did Gates basically sabotage the computer (temporarily) of a trade show attendee?
It's not corruption when you call it lobbying
It seems that everyone forgets that approximately 100% of Apple's manufacturing is in China.

There are some scattered final assembly here and there, like screwing together the Mac Pro in Texas, and I think the iPhone production in India is non-trivial, but for all intents and purposes the vast, vast majority of Apple's production happens in China, performed by Chinese nationals, who are themselves subject to Chinese law, in facilities wholly inside of Chinese jurisdiction.

It doesn't matter much if Apple sells a single unit in China, from a "kowtowing to the Chinese government" perspective: China controls Apple fully as without China's consent and permission, Apple cannot produce anything for sale in significant quantity.
Just curious: which specific wasm VM implementation are they using?
> We can talk about the utility of a tool and decide whether it should exist or not, or we can just let people use the tools that work for them and not use them if they don't work for us. I'd prefer the latter. If it sucks so bad then people won't use it.

Disagree. You should do whatever you want so long as it doesn't negatively impact society more broadly. As I demonstrated in the Albanian example there is a real chance that allowing people to do as they please can lead to a complete implosion of the economy - and even war. Everything we do as a group is about balancing individual freedoms against their impacts on others. This is the "your right to swing your arms around wildly ends where my face begins" argument.

> You can design a currency using the tools used to make bitcoin and have any sort of economic philosophy as your guide. It isn't limited to Austrian economics. You can have a linear, predictable supply increase, a finite supply, a logarithmic debasement rate (percentage of supply increase rate), a complex algorithm to determine it, a democratic process, or even just some guy calling the shots if you want. It's a general purpose tool.

None of that is useful without the ability to step in and actively manage it during situations that weren't baked into the original design. Think the DAO.

> I'm aware of the huge flaw in the "market cap" metric and it's relative uselessness.

The argument I was responding to initially was your assertion that "surely there's something there because the number is so up! Check out that market cap!"

> If reversible transactions are a value add, people will use currencies with that option, and where it's not, people won't.

They do, everyone uses dollars.

> But I do think you can make good money with the technology.

I disagree fundamentally because it cannot handle edge cases and the edge cases are the only thing that really matters in the end.
You're going to have a hard time convincing any logical person that boobs are not sexual.

That's like thinking that gold is not prized.
OK, here's another source for a different instance of Covid misinformation that comes out of Rogan's own mouth: https://futurism.com/neoscope/joe-rogan-destroyed-guest

You can see him using motivated reasoning to defend the talking point he was trying to advance -- a talking point that itself has an obvious agenda behind it.
I can't see the legal teem being too concerned about litigation:

https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Accordingly, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstances will we be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the Facebook Products, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Facebook Products will not exceed the greater of USD 100 or the amount you have paid us in the past twelve months.
Not permanent, but a record that could be shown as the computation was performed, and until the slate itself was erased. Obviously, where a permanent record is desired, permenent media would be used.

My point was that there were cheap alternatives to parchment and paper for quick work.
They should hire attendants who can distinguish between grown men and toddlers
I think he just wanted to trigger an easter egg.
No, he was expecting the behavior of an Easter egg, which had been removed in a debug sweep because it could collide with typical usage of a command in BASIC. So, his command should've done a neat trick, and it didn't, and he was furious.
Even if you fix all the other problems with flying cars, you're not gonna fix the noise issue. They are simply too loud to use in populated areas.
Yep, in Albanian: Rrobe, means "Cloth". Same origin. It means that 'rober' came from the meaning of 'cloth taker'.
Ask HN: Share your experience of pay raise
I'm quite new to software engineering career and very bad at negotiating salary/pay raise. There is an annual pay raise and I don't know which amount is good or bad.

Of course, it depends on my skill and value but there seem to be a huge gap between my actual skill and what my company thinks of my skill level. I have to sign the papers today and frankly need your help.
By and large, HW vendors are writing hacked-together, barely-functional drivers that only work on a heavily patched "downstream" fork of a single version of the kernel code. This is for proper support that can actually be merged in the mainline kernel and maintained for the foreseeable future.
There are several options you could explore. My personal favorites are:

- RAD Studio[0] (which includes the possibility to use C++ with C++Builder or Object Pascal with Delphi, a language by the venerable Anders Hejslberg, creator of C# .NET). Dev-C++ comes as part of this[1]. The executables can be made portable entirely, not needing to distribute these with any DLL or whatsoever.

- Sciter[2], which is not an IDE, but a multiplatform GUI Framework. You can use HTML, CSS and JS to create the UI, and then back-end with any language you like (C++, C#, Python, among others).

- Lazarus IDE[3], which is highly recommended as the free alternative to Delphi, but Delphi indeed has a Community version and I just use that because I'm used to.

- Visual Studio[4], If you want to go "traditional" you can use Visual Studio, the official suite from Microsoft for such a purpose. Please keep in mind that you'll require a framework installed on the other end (on your customer's PC) if you want these executables to run, most Windows installations do come with it, but some older ones don't. This is not a requirement with RAD Studio/C++Builder/Delphi which is why I naturally lean towards them.

--

[0]: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio

[1]: https://www.embarcadero.com/free-tools/dev-cpp

[2]: https://sciter.com/

[3]: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[4]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
I mean, you are not wrong about big picture, though you are missing very small, but important detail, that they migrated there, because they were not communists and they are still not communists.
> I don't think Steve Jobs would let a 'Your battery is under 10%', 'interruptive' notification stay this long on a phone.

Why not ? He was happy with the giant, interruptive volume overlay for all those years.
Even improper usage of N95s give much more protection than a surgical with a mask brace.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/10/commenta...
Wizard and Prophet
I knew about AWS Backup but I previously never saw an option to enable it for S3. It looks like it is in limited (1TB) preview in the Oregon region, and doesn't support backing up buckets encrypted with client-provided keys.

That said, AWS Backup is the answer to ransomware woes and it can't GA soon enough (3P solutions like Rubrik, Druva notwithstanding)

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/s3-ba...
Ask HN: E2E Encrypted Messaging App that doesn't reveal phone number?
WhatsApp, and even Signal, reveal your phone number when you contact someone. Telegram doesn't but then again, its security is debatable.

Do you know how one can send encrypted messages w/o revealing one's phone number?

I know one approach is to use disposable SMS numbers, but I'm looking for other methods.
Bill Gates was trying to show off an Easter Egg (hidden silly feature) that he himself had planted in DOS. Unbeknownst to him, it had been removed. Instead of printing "MICROSOFT" 10 times, it hung the machine.
Oh, that sort of thing would be a tape-NAS sort of appliance and costs big $$$$.

I know IBM talked about it before. I think here's their PDF of some university that did this: https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/b076c94c/files/uploaded/...

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The distributed data-thing is pretty common in the supercomputer world. I know that the nodes on the "Summit" supercomputer each have a local SSD for caching, and a centralized hard-drive array for longer-term storage. I'm pretty sure the software just manually copies the data around as necessary (that is: any software written for the supercomputer can copy data from the central storage into a local SSD).

Supercomputers can have that kind of simplicity, because you buy 3000+ nodes with the same specs. So you know all nodes will have that 1.6TB SSD available. No matter which node your software ends up running on, the SSD location is set and obvious. It doesn't matter how the data is archived: you read it in and wait (it could be tape, hard drives, or any other mechanism)
However the set of attackers who can get any advantage from the laptop sat on a conference table, much less your desk at home or in the office building, is both different and much less scary than the arbitrary crooks phishing people from the far side of the Internet.
I didn't quite get why RL was used instead of just collecting same data from labelers and either prompt-tuning, p-tuning or fine-tuning on that.
Sort of, but on accident. He expected the command he entered to trigger the Easter egg and print Microsoft 10 times, but on the PET, they had removed the Easter egg.
Yeah. It was eradicated by a vaccine that actually granted immunity.
That's what you want to believe.
A corrected history of mRNA vaccines
I didn't have that problem. Do you have a Twitter account? Twitter sometimes nags anonymous users to log in.

Here's an unrolled version of the thread on threadreader:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1486834885964832770.html
Once you're talking about interactive information displays in cars that can be accessed while the vehicle is in motion, traffic and highway safety regulations start cropping up. When you ask "Why is this legal," try rephrasing it to, "Why is it legal for companies to make it so difficult to play Doom on my BMW's touch screen," and you will probably arrive at the answer.
Oh my Goodness…You have exposed me. Yes, I am secretly a conservative whose master plan for conservative domination involves voting for zero republicans for the last 4 decades, contributing financially and physically to liberal causes, supporting liberal politicians, railing against intolerant religious bigots for decades, supporting gay marriage and rights years and years before the Democratic Party did, and my public stance against the death penalty while being secretly glad with every criminal that the state executes.

Damn…40 years of undercover work wasted.
Diocletian's price control decrees were for this reason and many others widely hated, widely ignored and widely worthless at stemming rampant inflation. (just as draconian price controls today suffer a similar fate in countries where leaders try to stem the consequences of their own economic mismanagement with arbitrary rules of fluid prices.)