skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They specifically said so in their statement: "We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic." [0]

They just won't touch their golden goose.

And remember, they're not just not removing Rogan's misinformation, they're producing and promoting it.

[0]: https://deadline.com/2022/01/neil-young-leaving-spotify-joe-...
Saying the effects of masking on younger age groups and with cloth masks in this study were statistically insignificant is also a misrepresentation of what the study found. The actual paper itself can be downloaded here:

https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-...

From the paper:

We found clear evidence that surgical masks are effective in reducing symptomatic seropreva-
lence of SARS-CoV-2. While cloth masks clearly reduce symptoms, we find less clear evidence of
their impact on symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, with the statistical significance depending
on whether we impute missing values for non-consenting adults. The number of cloth mask vil-
lages (100) was half that for surgical masks (200), meaning that our results tend to be less precise.

They're talking about the analysis of the sub-group that consented to blood tests for Covid antibodies through the trial, and the fact that a smaller group of people (which could also be a confounding factor) consented to these, but that if they assume the non-consenting participants had similar rates of infection as the consenting group (instead of throwing them out), that the advantage becomes more pronounced even for cloth masks.

Furthermore, they said that even without that consideration, the cloth masks still reduced symptoms of Covid, which is still a great win for masks, as it seems they reduce the viral load received by an individual enough to reduce the severity of their infection. So saying the overall advantage of masks was statistically insignificant isn't really true.

What the trial really found was indeed that masks seem to work, and surgical masks work better than cloth masks. This aligns with what many other studies have found as well. However, even though that's probably a valid inference to draw from the data collected in the trial, it's not really what the trial was designed to find, which was more specifically that if you actively distribute masks to people and encourage them to be worn, then more people will indeed wear them, and this in turn seems to have a positive effect on reducing both the transmission and severity of Covid.
Pretty much a non-starter. If you're selling a desktop app and your competitor is a browser-based SaaS you will lose every time. It's one of the rare things both end-users and IT will agree on.
_thats_ your takeaway? that if the damn government stopped bothering to try to oversee outcomes in an area with extreme information asymmetry, a desire to get treated regardless of the cost, a bunch of agents between the doctor and the patient taking their cut, and a massive problem with cost control....everything would just be fine and we'd have plenty of doctors.
Like everything else, it's an opportunity cost. Personally, I think LC is a great return on time invested. It takes far less time and money than say, any of the traditional gatekeepers, even for example a CS degree, or even perhaps a good data structures and algorithms class that is semester long.
Does anyone know how it compares to NightwatchJs?

Br
Minix was so good that Intel lifted the codebase (within the terms of the FOSS license, not telling the author) for their management backdoo- uhh engine.
“I Am Satoshi”
Even contemporary linen clothes last way longer than a random pair of jeans.

It's not that onesided, good linen trousers are usually somewhat more free-fitting, and usually don't chafe as much as typical jeans models. But still.

Also superior water vapor exchange is superior.
Why is that surprising? Firefox doesn't have a narrative that's compelling for the typical user and I'm not sure it's ever had one that was really viable. 'Not-google' really isn't good enough for the average user, and no amount of 'we care about your privacy' is going to convince the common user that Mozilla _does_, in fact, care about their privacy.

The reality is that most typical users care about their privacy a lot less than we might expect or want. That's probably not a great sign for society in general, but I think it's the truth.
Ah, I see it now. Usually when I do replace/substitution it's in a larger project so it's not a feature I typically use on the site. Most of my Regex101 use is just figuring out why a regex I wrote isn't executing like I expected.
The HTML and JSON standards don't get close to this by themselves.

I don't think iframes really do it either, but even if they do nobody uses them that way and a replacement seems okay. It's not really a "competing standard" if nobody wanted to use it.
The real difference is the mindshare.

joelonsoftware has bajillion readers, but he is much better known for founding stackoverflow.

When SO endorses something, it will got a lot of mindshare, and becomes something that developers feel connected to.

And with enough mindshare, the same project that would have been dead in the water becomes a given.
I mean, they tried everything, except the measures that actually work, i.e., reducing public spending, raising interest, stop printing money for a few years.

Every country that did that got inflation under control, the problem is Argentina doesn't want to spend less, so they print like there is no tomorrow.
> Are there full body airbags? Could that even work?

Let me know if you find out. I have got to get one :-)
The internet lead to a surge of online scams, lasting to this very day. The problem isn't the medium/platform, but the idiots falling for them.

I simply can not have any sympathy for idiots so greedy they fall for the "I'll double your cryptos" scam. None.

The best way of fighting scams is intelligent, critically thinking people. If this wasn't so deliberately undesired by politics, the world as a whole would be a better place.
> PHP but this time in JavaScript

a sizeable improvement maybe, also does using the same language on both side a pro or a con ? real question
Lots of job postings I have seen online look like challenges to say as little as possible with as many words as possible about the actual job.
I kinda feel like you could stand out quite a bit just by clearly explaining in your job posting what the job actually entails.
The period - 1080 seconds - is interesting by itself. If I were an alien and wanted to broadcast some important number, an ultra stable magnetar would be my top choice.
No. You’re putting a bunch of words in my mouth.
Hypothetically:

I don’t care to burn calories on being an “activist.” I just want to visit the sites I visit and get on with my life.

Sell me on Firefox.
> going to need a citation on that one

> It brings a site to it's gnees and barfs out twenty requests to Facebook every time someone touches something

Does not compute
How does a cryptocurrency prevent a president from stealing money from the population? Public records of all currency transactions?
A new BIND stable branch is available: 9.18.0
Mostly because it is the only way to still be relevant, and as the charts prove it is not doing a great job at it. Typing this from FF by the way.
> In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions, sometimes in the absence of rigorous science supporting them. That was understandable at the time.

The fact that they were enacted with such zeal in the absence of rigorous science is why some/many people don't want them removed now. What was instituted without science cannot be removed by science.

If anything, the same emotional manipulation must be used. They used to say "we have to lock up if only to save one life". Now it should be "we need to go back to normal if only to save one child from killing himself from isolation".
Part of the problem is that there is an assumption that the stock market = the economy. It doesn't and as far as I can tell hasn't for a very long time. The stock market = the financial industry. For most people, the economy has nothing to do with trading virtual chunks of businesses with virtual money and has more to do with things like housing, gas prices, how easy it is to find a job. How well that job pays. How affordable their standard of living is.

The economy is crap and has been since at least the start of covid and probably much longer. And all the while the stock market numbers have gone up and up. Just like the last recession when we found out that investment banks lived in lala land. We will again.

I'm not exactly sure what you are supposed to do to fix all of this long term. I'm not really qualified to say. But basing policy around getting wall street back in sync with the real world seems like a good start.
Thank you but no. The announcement of Gsuite free offering ending has finally pushed me over the edge. Six months ago I started playing with Nextcloud and when this Gsuite news broke, I finally migrated all emails, contacts, calendars, files... for the whole family and moved everyone to Nextcloud. On some phones I even removed the Google account completely. I use the Simple apps and DAVx, plus Fdroid for other apps. No more free data siphoning so easily to G. I hope more people do this and I wish them luck in their de-googling.
The sites in Switzerland that are under consideration for the same thing: https://s.geo.admin.ch/7caba0d5c9
I'm a on Mac, but it's interesting that you have the same issue on an entirely different system. Clearly we haven't figured out how to reliably have audio devices popping in and out of existence, all while playing music.
With so much negative press around crypto the industry should consider rebranding. Give it a new catchy name, like web3 or something like that.
I was thinking that eventually they could design some kind of powered attachment between the arm pods and the backpack. It would accentuate your desired movement while relieving stress. Maybe they could control it with a Neuralink implant so that there won't be accidental movements due to buffeting. Then if you had that you could build an AI to make it mostly user-error-proof.

To be clear, this is all pie in the sky nonsense, but it's fun to think about. It would still be terribly impractical, but maybe it could be made reliable enough that using it over land would not be immediately fatal to most ordinary people who would want to try it.
I would say going further back in time, for example, MSFT during the early 2000s, the interviews were far worse, it was "fermi" types of questions (e.g, https://www.innovativeteachingideas.com/blog/an-excellent-co...)

Often the same thing in for example, typical wall street firms before 2008.
Safari sucks because it's only available on macOS.

It's really annoying when doing web development, especially as that's actually the browser that has the most chance to act different from the others.
Neil Young fans: what's Spotify?

Spotify users: who's Neil Young?
Inflation stabilized very briefly, but the situation was unsustainable and it quickly resumed. I was pretty young at the time, but I remember that many people went for weeks/months without getting paid. Some government positions fared better than others, but overall the economy struggled.

Then the war kicked off in 1991 and everything fell apart.
Society is a scam
Somebody made the front page here a few days ago because they were locked out of Google with no recourse from precisely that kind of check.
At the volumes and surface area we’re talking about, is it any more than a blip? Say one rocket explodes. What’s the worst result of that fallout? Is it worse than peeling a banana or flying in a jumbo jet?
World's brightest x-rays reveal Covid-19’s damage to the body
Also, last time I estimated Bequerels (aka decays) in the ocean already, compared to what extremely dilute waste would add, well as I recall it was "a drop in the ocean."

Need to recheck this sometime.
My crowning glory for the interview-stupids was relatively early in my career going in for a PHP interview, which was the language I was by far the most familiar with at the time and had written many thousands of lines in, and not being able to come up with the "->" syntax for method invocation & property access when I was up at the whiteboard. I used a dot-style instead, and realized only after I left that I'd totally fucked it up (writing some OO code on the whiteboard was just about the first thing they asked me to do, and the interview was really short after that...) I'm pretty sure I also mis-named some built in functions. I'm bad at retaining language-specific details and have since started reviewing a relevant language syntax minutes before an interview, which won't stick by the next day but usually does for a couple hours so I don't do anything too embarrassing. Not being able to put together two non-syntax-erroring lines in a language I wrote a few hundred useful lines of the day before, without a reference, is otherwise the norm for me. This has mattered zero times—except in interviews.
Is Safari on MacOS and Safari on iOS the same? I'm confused when it says things like Safari is the new web baseline, but I'm not sure which version it means. I would think Safari on iOS would be more important than Safari on desktop. Everyone that has an iOS device is using Safari (whether directly or under the hood), while I'm not sure I've ever met anyone that uses Safari on desktop (other than to download a different browser).
Why haven't states setup Covid only treatment centers to relieve the pressure on hospitals? Sure there are only so many nurses and doctors but reducing regulation on who could work in these centers would fix that.
A legitimate use of crypto "currencies" is defense against hyperinflation. Ask anyone in Venezuela.
Whilst similar, you need to take into account that there is a diversity in argentine economic activity that never existed in venezuela. If there is some redeeming quality that can be gleaned from argentine history is that it rebounds rather quickly.
Everyone scammed is an idiot until I'm scammed. There are many ways you can undo traditional scam transactions. Even Western Union can be undone. Cryptocurrencies have no such means except for forking which is not going to happen for small amounts.
IT will gladly put those native applications available via Citrix/RDP, no biggie.
I've seen intelligent people, who are experts in their domain, fall from grace through age or illness.

Once critical thinkers, now vulnerable and gullible.

I wouldn't be so harsh.
The Man in the Eyeball Mask (2022)
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> The facility is incredibly safe.

That's such a ridiculous claim.

One hundred thousand years, mate.

Absolutely ridiculous!
Looks like it's spoofed? Freaked me out either way https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1486816785018101768/ph...
Have you ever done much optimization or worked on solvers? DP tends to come up often in that type of work.
It started to lose me because Lyft wasn't a YC company: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/
As people age they tend to become more susceptible to con artists. Society should protect our elders not leave them vulnerable.

Victim blaming is a bad idea.

Regulators exist for a reason.
It happened multiple times. It is not a lie, no matter how much the US state department tries to double down on the amnesia.

>The former idea about “closer to the Soviet borders” is written down not in treaties but in multiple memoranda of conversation between the Soviets and the highest-level Western interlocutors (Genscher, Kohl, Baker, Gates, Bush, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Major, Woerner, and others) offering assurances throughout 1990 and into 1991 about protecting Soviet security interests and including the USSR in new European security structures. The two issues were related but not the same. Subsequent analysis sometimes conflated the two and argued that the discussion did not involve all of Europe. The documents published below show clearly that it did.

https://mltoday.com/new-document-us-promised-not-to-expand-n...

Russia has publicly expressed regret that it did not get the wording in a treaty though it holds to the idea that assurances made outside of a legal framework are not worthless, whereas to an American legalistic mind it appears, they are.

Probably it would have made no difference anyway. There's no independent court of international law to adjudicate. Treaties and memoranda arent all that different in the end.

It could be partly cultural. I've noticed when dealing with Americans the idea that you cant expect people to keep their word if it's not explicitly written into a contract is quite common. It's also idiosyncratically American - I havent noticed this word-is-worthless/contracts-sacrosanct "if we take you for a ride it's your fault" attitude elsewhere.
> And it is unclear what is the long-term impact on kids development.

Keep in mind that it's also pretty unclear the long term effects of contracting COVID (even with no symptoms) in the first place. What about getting COVID twice? Three times? Four times? I'd rather do what I can to ensure my kids don't get it at all, are vaccinated, social distance, etc. Hopefully we'll get to a place where vaccinations / natural immunity reduce cases to a point where masks no longer make sense, but until then...
> Gosh, it's like vaccines work and that's the way out of this.

You know, I see snarky little comments like this becoming more and more common on this site, and I'd just like to point out that they are not helpful in any way. Who is it directed towards? Do you think you are convincing anyone, or encouraging a productive discussion? I'd be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of people on this website are vaccinated. I know I am.

In my opinion, that line is the equivalent of saying "gosh, maybe black people should just stop committing crimes if they don't want to go to jail" or "gosh, maybe gay people should just stop having unprotected sex if they don't want HIV."

I am begging you, and everyone else, PLEASE, if you want to make a point, please do it in a respectful way that doesn't assume anyone who disagrees is stupid. If you need to be snarky, go do it on the-site-that-must-not-be-named.
Who's going to teach them? Parents aren't going to have time or will miss critical areas. Teachers won't want to do it. If teachers do attempt it, it would likely be weeks or months of education down the drain since they'll be constantly taking breaks to correct students one by one.
The pieces where there already, just good enough product with good enough connectivity was missing. In the end iPhone is nothing more than refined PDA...
If you experience a great deal of anxiety or feel like you are being strangled while wearing a mask you are either wearing it wrong or have a medical issue this isn't how most people experience wearing a mask.

This is what I wear. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/511sZBCeHES._AC_.jpg I have bad asthma. My lungs are basically shit. I can't jog a 1/4 mile without having breathing problems. I have no problems wearing this mask save for doing sustained physical activity.
When I fixed many similar selenium/webdriver tests the root cause was always the same:
You grab reference to an element and for example wait it to become enabled or some text to appear.
But your ui framework actually replaces the element in the dom while doing its thing and your reference to stale element will never change.
Fix is to loop searching the element with selector and check if the element fills the conditions. If not, retry from search again.
We had nice helpers for those and had very stable selenium tests.
The movement of R isn't especially notable. There are so many large changes between the lists that I would chalk it up to a small sample size or other poor methodology/incomparable data.
And iOS also. At least on macOS I can use any other browser. On iOS I can only use Safari (either directly or under the hood).
I've taught this course a long time ago. Envied the students for all the fun they had implementing the homeworks. Highly recommended for anybody interested in computer systems.
> If it turns out to be hard to catch, the penalty should take into account the likelihood of getting caught, such that the expected reward from cheating is still negative.

That already puts a red flag. How do parties prove/disprove vacancy?

Far better to
discourage (not forbid, mind you) multi-ownership in the first place.

> If you're out of the country for an entire year and you want to keep your house empty during an housing crisis, you seem like exactly the kind of person this tax should be levied on. Either rent your home to someone else for the year, or pay the penalty for contributing to the housing crisis.

As long as it’s a penalty and not a forced eviction. If I’m taking a one-year sabbatical and then coming back it’s a bit much.

There’s a perverse set of incentives for a city/town to try and mark someone as “not residing”, which makes me
question this vacancy approach even further.

It’s just ripe for abuse.
http://microformats.org/
They may not, I was just saying we don't know what developments will be made in the future.
"why haven't we seen massive campaigns to expand that capacity?"

Maybe we should, but we are talking about an astounding cost, with ongoing upkeep, for once-every-hundred-year events. And that's just for new facilities - we already have nursing shortages.

Instead, we (and just about every other country) have used mitigation efforts to reduce the transmission rate when hospital capacity is threatened. It's a lot cheaper and can be done quickly, unlike building new ICU capacity and training new doctors and nurses (many of whom would be out of the job once the pandemic is over).
>It's why even modern flight is centered around the idea of stacking multiple 2d environments (via elevation / flight levels) and then just ignoring that 3rd dimension for the most part.

Generally you want to fly at a constant altitude because climbing and descending require energy transfers. Humans have little trouble coping with the concept of 3-dimensional flight, indicated by the enduring popularity of combat flight simulators, but aircraft that aren't built for combat physically struggle (and even in those that are, such flight demands careful energy management).
In Argentina, tax evasion is a way of living, everyone there, young or old, rich or poor, looks for a way to avoid taxes, since taxes coupled with inflation make life very expensive, no matter your income ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

The best way to live in Argentina is to be a ghost. No bank accounts, nothing declared, everything you own should be on someone else's name, earning usd in a foreign account and you should live on cash (converting usd to pesos as needed).
I think you’re completely wrong about progress. We can travel in less than 24 hours to pretty much anywhere on the planet. We can put telescopes in space. We can speak to each other even when we’re in different cities. None of this would be possible if no-one worked.

Either we all go back to being hunter gatherers, or we exploit the poor to do our fair share of the work that needs to be done for us to live the lifestyles we want to lead. You don’t want to work? Fine. But then you are not entitled to other people’s work product either.

No computer, no electricity, no plants you don’t grow yourself, no meat you haven’t personally slaughtered.

Don’t get me wrong, I still think we could be doing better. But the problem starts with consumerism and same-day shipping and buy-now, pay-later, and LaCroix, not with work.

If we could reduce consumerism, we could for sure reduce our working hours significantly.