skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to the article, in the only large randomized studies that have been performed, masking showed little, if any benefit.

From the first one [1] they linked:

> odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23] … Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection. …

Sounds like the issue is lack of statistical power. We basically can't conclude much at all from that study, but taken "at face value", that was an ~18% reduction in transmission. Presumably this would compound if done for longer or among more people due to exponential spread.

Compound an 18% reduction for three generations (about ~15 days) of viral spread and that's about a 45% reduction in case load. Of course it's more complicated than that because a faster-spreading virus will also reach saturation of the susceptible population more quickly, but it does mean lowering peak hospital load, as well as lowering R_0 which means the point of saturation is smaller, etc.

From the second one [2] they linked:

> Proper mask-wearing increased from 13.3% in the control group to 42.3% in the intervention arm (adjusted percentage point difference = 0.29 [0.26, 0.31]). The intervention reduced symptomatic seroprevalence (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) = 0.91 [0.82, 1.00])

So that's a 9% reduction (again, with a wide confidence interval), as a result of increasing mask usage by only 29 percentage points. So if the signal's real, then presumably increasing mask usage further, say up to 85%, would add a very meaningful further reduction.

Again, we can assume that would compound if done for longer or among a larger population.

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Furthermore, there have been plenty of lab experiments on masks which show them to be effective at filtering water droplet-bound Covid particles. And Covid is not the first virus we've ever encountered. In the absence of lots of data specific to Covid, we can apply background scientific knowledge about the effectiveness of masks in slowing the spread of respiratory disease.

There are also costs to wearing masks, as well as to mask mandates, which I'm not taking into account in this post. But I wouldn't characterize the evidence as you have.

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[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-6817

[2] https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-...
Maybe at a particular temperature is a better yardstick, summer and not summer are not the same everywhere.
The situation is complicated. Some EU member states are pro-nuclear, and some are anti-nuclear. In each state, the predominant popular sentiment may not actually match the current government's policy, but it usually does.

France is the most significant player in the pro-nuclear bloc, operating a huge number of nuclear power plants and exporting its technology. France is joined by less populous countries in the eastern half of the EU that operate nuclear power plants to great benefit (Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Finland), supplying large proportions of their states' electricity needs [1] from a small number of facilities, and makes them less reliant on import of natural gas from Russia. And, it's joined by bigger countries in the eastern half that want to diversify their generation mix away from coal and not towards Russian-sourced natural gas (Romania, Poland).

Opposing nuclear power is Austria, who is a fierce opponent of nuclear power on principle, but has generous hydro capacity to not have to worry about it, and also operates the biggest natural gas interconnection point in the eastern EU [2]. Austria is joined by Luxembourg: anti-nuclear sentiment is very high, it has one the lowest share of renewables in Europe, and probably imports [3] most of its electricity from the coal plants outside Cologne in Germany. They're joined by Germany, where the anti-nuclear Greens party are in the governing coalition, anti-nuclear sentiment is high, plentiful coal exists, natural gas is imported from Russia, Norway, and the Netherlands, and wind and solar have been rising rapidly. They convinced wind-dominated Denmark to support them, along with Portugal, which gets most of its energy from Algerian or Nigerian natural gas, but has significant hydro and wind generation as well.

The common link between anti-nuclear countries is that they're well ahead on wind and/or hydro vs. your typical pro-nuclear country, and they have fewer geopolitical concerns about natural gas imports to tide them over until alternative generation replaces most gas. The common link between pro-nuclear countries is that they like the benefits nuclear brings to them, and some of them want more of that.

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...
[2] https://www.gasconnect.at/en/network-information/at-a-glance...
[3] https://www.klyme.online/post/where-does-luxembourg-s-electr...
It’s only increasing due to immigration, if I’m reading this correctly.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
Is there an open source web testing tool which also integrates a dashboard, keeps track of test runs, creates reports, something that I can just install on a vm and run to test a web app?
>There's no "bicycle" of jetpacks, you've got three axis of movement and certain death in every direction but up, it's just not a tool that belongs in the every-man's garage.

There is a perfectly good flying vehicle that can be flown by an ordinary person with a reasonable amount of training; it's called a powered paraglider. However, it has the disadvantage that it is very large, and if the weather is not favorable, you can't fly.

The analogy with a car would be "road sometimes spontaneously turns into scree", and it would be very hard to design a car that can cope with that.
Rails is... ;) (7.0 was released last month)
Rocket deployed parachute. Kinda like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...

Speeds up deploy time by making the deploy happen, instead of waiting for gravity/airflow to deploy it.
The logistics and political aspects of long-distance, cross-border transport of that kind of material probably remove that option from the table.
> If the platform is open to anyone in the world, it's going to end up as the #1 host of terrorist-sympathetic media in the world.

Is it not more advantageous to collect the metadata regarding disagreeable content and shadowban it to decrease engagement?

How would citizenship be established to the platform? Would it not allow pseudonymous content? Do parents get to control the platform use of minor children?
If it couldn't it's a terribly run company. Bus factor can strike at any time.
Apart from anything else, the minimum viable car was pretty much as safe as modern cars (probably actually harder to kill yourself in the original car with its 10mph top speed), and just as intuitive to operate safely. The safety advances came later to deal mostly with problems which arose later (speed and other cars and boredom from long distance low effort driving)
Furthermore if you want the sensation of a jet pack, there’s the jet lev, which seems much safer. The article mentions that this should only be flown over water on a tether, so what’s the benefit over a jetlev?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s00SwPZ_1D0
U.S. economy grew by 5.7 percent last year, fastest pace since 1984
> nuclear as way too expensive compared to the alternatives

Yet German electricity is two times more expensive than France's one. One is nuclear the other is """green"""

And the worst part is that it doesn't work: their last two nuclear reactors (max output 4GW) often produce more than their entire sun+wind system (max output 122GW) so they end up buying electricity from nuclear powered countries and gas from Russia

https://mobile.twitter.com/fmbreon/status/148058947971495936...
That is amazing. Straight out of an episode of Top Lista Nadrealista.
> Over the course of history, abandonment of once-important areas has been pretty common. I see no reason to believe it cannot happen to a nuclear plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Of course, that wasn't waste.
> UTF-8 is well-designed that way in that there's never ambiguity about whether you're looking at the beginning byte of a code point.

To expand, if the most-significant-bit is a 0, it's an ASCII codepoint. If the top two are '10', it's a continuation byte, and if they're '11', it's the start of a multibyte codepoint (the other most-significant-bits specify how long it is to facilitate easy codepoint counting).

So a naive codepoint reversal algorithm would start at the end, and move backwards until it sees either an ASCII codepoint or the start of a multibyte one. Upon reaching it, copy those 1-4 bytes to the start of a new buffer. Continue until you reach the start.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Encoding
You qualified "string" with "ASCII", and also tacitly admitted you still need more information than the octets themselves--the length.

Of course, various programming languages have primitives and concepts which they may label "string". But you still need to specify that context, drawing in the additional specification those languages provide. Plus, traditionally and in practice, such concepts often serve the function of importing or exporting unstructured data. So even in the context of a specific programming language, the label "string" is often used to elide details necessary to understanding the content and semantics of some particular chunk of data.
> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
So, #3
He didn't. GitHub didn't verify the author here, and they store forks of the same repo together, so you can sorta spoof whose repo a given commit hash is under.
just in case anyone wanted to read the previous comments
I'm pretty sure this is dripping sarcasm, but the scary thing is some people seem to actually believe this stuff.
Reminds me of an image that renders differently on Macs (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/this-image-...), I bet it'd make for a fun conversation that could make the participants question their sanity. :-)
> -- start off with theory like turing machines, first order predicate logic and work your way up

Or start off with the lambda calculus-based alternative to Turing machines, as in seen in SICP.
The thing I don't get about the non-religious arguments is that we already have a national ID, it's just a patchwork system of unreliable, not-particularly-secure forms of identification that are a pain in the ass for a regular citizen to have to deal with. And the REAL ID stuff essentially makes state IDs conform to a national ID specification anyway.

And regardless, if you do want a national US ID, you just get a passport, and it'll be accepted as a form of ID everywhere a state-issued driver's license or state ID is accepted. Of course, in this case it's technically voluntary, and many Americans don't travel internationally and don't bother to get a passport.
How come? If I'm a proponent of cause A, and I participate in a group with a member who is anti-A, it's actually against my fundamental beliefs to be associated with that person. In this case, I can propose a solution to this: either I go, or he goes. I benefit from either result, since my beliefs in A are more important to me than the group (even if the group is still a very important part of my life).
The casks aren't metal on the outside, they're a specialized concrete. These casks have been dropped from building, exploded, struck by speeding trains, and burned at incredibly high temp all without losing integrity. Even still, uranium and similar waste products aren't water soluble and being more dense than any surrounding material so they would sink through the sediment and become locked in place. Here's a really old survey on the topic[1]. Here's another study [2]. Basically most of the waste would be short-lived beta and gamma emitters that are no longer dangerous after a few years. The longer lived alpha emitters aren't dangerous because alpha particles are easily stopped. You can safely hold a small amount of uranium in you hand.

With respect to ocean life, there is also very little life in these trenches, and what life there is doesn't mix with food chains at higher levels. All of the food comes from biological material sinking, and nothing really goes the other direction.

[1] https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/31404684750.pdf
[2] https://www.swr.de/-/id=13132940/property=download/nid=23345...
Just block the AWS ASN on CF, it's nor worth fighting.
It surprises me that some people are talking about this as if Neil Young really thought he would win this fight. He’s been in the business for a while. I highly doubt he’d be naive enough to think Spotify would capitulate.

I guess he could have simply said he was removing his music because he disagreed with Spotify’s business practices, but this way, Spotify owns the action of removing his music from their service. NY didn’t walk out, Spotify chose Rogan over him.
You are missing the point. The point is one group is forced to accommodate for problems caused by another group. The problem is the forcing.

No one should be forced to wear burkas nor to not wear them. But the status quo there is that they are forced to wear them. Yes I agree with you forcing women to not wear burkas is equally as bad as forcing them to not wear them.

I’m arguing that we should let each woman individually decide for herself their preferred body image (within the confines of equal laws applied to all genders). They can show their boobs, cover, them, cover their faces, shoe their armpit hair… whatever they want.
Neither; this is some random text in a fork's branch, not the main repo, that Github allows to show up as part of the main repo somehow. Terrible UX from Github's side that leads to people thinking this is part of the main repo. (So it's not 3rd because they didn't "change the author" on master, it's just not on master).
My wife made my mask out of an old tee shirt using a pattern she gleaned from the internet. I’m sure that it works. But I can still smell the guy next to me at Wal Mart.
His claim is still wrong. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/im-a-healthy-young-person-...
I think it shows they do have a spine and won't comply with wokeism.
For anyone who is confused by the lack of context: the poster is showing us an issue with the GitHub UI which was circulated on Twitter today.

This issue makes it look like a commit in a fork is actually on the upstream repository - and you can also make a commit with any email address you like, for instance with Torvald's.
> a bad reimplementation of one framework or another

But worse, as far as I've ever been able to tell. I haven't done enough web front-end development to really have a strong opinion on front-end frameworks, but I have done a non-trivial amount of it. I did work with Javascript back when it was new and then followed the jQuery "revolution". While I observed that jQuery actually did eliminate a fair amount of code, I also observed that is also eliminated all of the troubleshooting techniques I'd worked out for Javascript development. I couldn't place breakpoints in firebug any more because all events were being handled by one massive "event handler" (and then re-dispatched to jQuery's own custom reimplementation of the event handler infrastructure that the browser already had built into it). I found Angular to be effectively the same. By then it was worse because Chrome's debugging tools were top notch for "vanilla" Javascript development - much better then firebug had ever dreamed of being, but mostly useless in Angular unless you were lucky enough that a problem included a stack trace into some code that you wrote. I've never used React, but skimming through the high-level docs, it looks like it's more of the "let's write a web browser in Javascript and run it in a browser but with inferior tooling". This remix thing looks like "let's rewrite React in React but with even more inferior tooling" (but I could be wrong, haven't actually given it a chance).
Spotify literally gives artists money to stream their music. Some people will definitely perceive this as an overt endorsement of whatever viewpoints and values might be expressed in that rather broad variety of music; other might not.
The real Satoshi could only dream of doing the kind of work that Linus has done. Perhaps not even that.
Some of the examples they found seem to not even have any avocado oil. Is there a reason trial attorneys aren't jumping at the chance for a class action suit for this?
Not really. They pay him a lot of money and want a return on investment. It's a great podcast with a lot of interesting guests. I see nothing wrong with Spotify advertising for it.
> According to the article, in the only large randomized studies that have been performed, masking showed little, if any benefit.

I have this open in another tab. It links to three studies that show masks in school do work:

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/mask-requirem...

> most studies, including WHO, show that lockdowns were counter productive, and could result in increased transmission.

Do you have a source for this?
<this is a repost, but I like to spread the good word when the opportunity avails itself>

I think one reason why most people have a hard time reading regex is because they don't use any indentation or linebreaks.
Honestly, if a buddy came to you and asked you to help him debug a javascript method and all 15 statements were on the same line, would you offer to help him, or tell him to fix his shit first so you can read it?
What if it was all on one line and his variable names were all "v1", "v2", etc. Would you help him then? fuck no. And yet, this is standard operating procedure with regex, except you don't even get "v1", "v2" because nothing is labeled at all. v1/v2/... would be an improvement!

This is how most people write a simple date regex:

\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/(\d{4}|\d{2})

And mind you, this is a very simple scenario. Here is how you would write it if you treated it like actual code:

(?<month>\d{1,2})

/

(?<day>\d{1,2})

/

(?<year>\d{4}|\d{2})

First off, you can know what my intent is when I'm capturing each group. Maybe this code gets used by a european where the month and day switch places. They can figure out how to fix it in like two seconds. Secondly, the forward slashes are not lost in a sea of characters anymore because we use whitespace like a civilized developer, not a regex savage.

If you want to keep things simple with regular expressions:

* Be liberal with what your pattern matches and use a normal programming language for your complicated conditional logic to filter out crap you don't want

* Don't be afraid to break up the search with multiple regular expressions

* Ignore pattern whitespace and use it to visually break up your pattern. Nobody would agree to debug javascript that has been minimized, yet people do this all the time with regex

* For the love of all that is holy, USE NAMED GROUPS. It is a fantastic way to document your intent.
To be fair, the previous names were also jokes like Gobble Gobble / Trick of Treat etc, so i wouldn't assume its something to be taken seriously!

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/0280e3c58f92b2fe0e8f...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/8ced7ca3570333998ad2...
> And Omicron has made it so the risk profile is effectively the same as when this pandemic started; you will get it, you will be contagious for a time, and you will infect others.

Total nonsense. Anyone's chance of dying is massively diminished with the vaccine.
For-profit ventures aren't allowed to deny service based on immutable characteristics in any country with these anti-discrimination laws, except for very narrow exceptions. This is doubly so for a service that provides networking opportunities to find contacts for businesses and jobs.
> that was roughly 'we love to agonize over these trolley problems, but the answer is always to hit the brakes.' I'd add 'and avoid these sketchy situations in the first place.'

If you show description, most of the scenarios involve a catastrophic brake failure.
Or worse, oil "recycled" from the gutter.
More Than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
It works better if you imagine Tony Curtis in a toga.
other NAMEs, form the git log

NAME = Trick or Treat
NAME = Opossums on Parade
NAME = Frozen Wasteland
NAME = Valentine's Day Edition
NAME = Kleptomaniac Octopus
NAME = Nesting Opossum
NAME = Bobtail Squid
NAME = Golden Lions
NAME = Shy Crocodile
NAME = "People's Front"
NAME = Merciless Moray
NAME = Fearless Coyote
NAME = Anniversary Edition
NAME = Roaring Lionus
NAME = Psychotic Stoned Sheep
NAME = Charred Weasel
NAME = Blurry Fish Butt
NAME = Hurr durr I'ma sheep
NAME = Diseased Newt
NAME = Shuffling Zombie Juror
NAME = One Giant Leap for Frogkind
NAME = Suicidal Squirrel
NAME = Linux for Workgroups
NAME = Unicycling Gorilla
NAME = Terrified Chipmunk
NAME = Saber-toothed Squirrel
NAME = "Divemaster Edition"
NAME = Wet Seal
NAME = Sneaky Weasel
NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs
NAME = Sheep on Meth
NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
NAME = Vindictive Armadillo
NAME = Temporary Tasmanian Devil
NAME = Erotic Pickled Herring
NAME = Killer Bat of Doom
NAME = Rotary Wombat
NAME = Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
NAME = Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!
NAME = Pink Farting Weasel
NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!
NAME = Jeff Thinks I Should Change This, But To What?
NAME = Nocturnal Monster Puppy
NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster
NAME=Avast! A bilge rat!
NAME=Crazed Snow-Weasel
NAME=Lordi Rules
NAME=Sliding Snow Leopard
NAME=Affluent Albatross
NAME=Woozy Numbat
Actually, it's more likely that it's:

2b) Someone is using GitHub trickery to display a commit in another repo as belonging to that repo (see other comments), without actually compromising any accounts.

4) Linus decided on a funny name for the release.
I have pounds of honey from my parents hives that isn’t crystallized even after sitting in my cold basement when it’s sub zero out.
This makes sense to me: the biggest issue with Nuclear is cost, not safety.
I used to use KN95 mask for sanding projects but they never worked because only after a short period I almost always ended up with a gap that allowed a lot of sanding dust (which I assume is a large particle than a virus) in causing me to have headaches all day. So I don't have a whole lot of faith that KN95s are much better (at least over long term wear).
Conventional metal detectors use electromagnets and don't emit any ionizing radiation. Backscatter scanners used in airport security screening do emit ionizing radiation but a very small amount.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-airport-security-s...
> Or he might have miscalculated his clout.

I doubt it. Spotify wasn't going to cave; we all know that. There are many influential artists whose work is/was not on Spotify for whatever reason.

The goal was to draw attention to the subject, and that was a success.
DeepMind: The Podcast - A breakthrough unfolds
Session-lived Application Backends
Anyone tried BotCity?

https://botcity.dev
Not magneto, but m-disk makes a blu ray that lasts 1k years supposedly. Some people don't trust it though.
Like what? Having a nice watch? Some Nike shoes?
Yes, corruption in Uruguay is way lower and the country is more stable. But also it's a very small country, so not many opportunities around for most people.