skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis of the article is that even though studies show masks work studies in schools had obvious flaws and are measuring multiple confounding factors ergo masks might not work so we have no justification for mask mandates. This is materially different from knowing they don't work.

I cannot countenance the idea that keeping most of your spit with you rather than floating around the room doesn't reduce spread of a respiratory virus. At best I would suggest instead that schools ought to have had a mandate to use and reuse sterilized n95 masks instead of a loosely fitting cloth mask oft worn with the nose exposed.
Meh. OMB also mandated moving to IPv6 more than a decade ago: https://www.cio.gov/assets/resources/internet-protocol-versi...

Nobody cares. It just gets postponed forever.
Huh? None of my downloads have DRM. Why would I ever buy music with DRM?
I have always wanted Kindle to support a lot more features than what it does today. Digital books could be a lot more than what they are today. Want to embed a python REPL in a python book for users to test things right in the book, from a common source? Want to embed function graphs in a Math book from a common source? How about a theorem prover right there in the book? How about a Wolfram engine embedded in there to solve arbitrary calculus problems? How about a section in another book - license it from the other publisher and embed it into your book? Embedding a video, a web page, a 3D visualization engine, etc should all be possible in a digital book.

Looks like this maybe able to achieve all of this. Just need to get Amazon Kindle team on board with this.
Seems easier to just do incremental snapshots unless you're on bare metal. Many hypervisors support them and they're built into EC2/EBS

If you want to limit data, you can create additional drives and mount them at the appropriate location (or change your application config to save to the auxiliary drives)
Particulate pollution is killing older Americans, even at legal levels
Or, to take it a step further (and in a slightly different perspective):

Does Safari suck because it's not supporting actual standards, or does Chrome suck because it's trying to make sure that the web only works on Chrome, like Microsoft did with IE 20+ years ago?
Also spreading it to their teachers, who are usually adults and who usually don't want to get deadly diseases and may not be willing to work without some precautions going towards their safety.
I mean it is possible somewhere in the rounding error or the rounding error of the effect contraceptives had there is climate change and covid effect. Massaging that out of the data will will be tricky to say the least, but given enough grant money I am sure people will rise to the occasion.
> Right, but instead of defining what can be called avocado oil, they could just require a list of ingredients

FDA labeling requirements already do that.
who are the groups of people actively turning off JS?
Writing an open source GPU driver without the hardware
I have been running a Gematria website in Hebrew called https://gimatria.co.il - reaching just a bit more that $500 USD per month from Google Ads.
Are you looking for a job where you can work with web components and build PWAs? :)
That's like the Flyboard, another water-jet system.[1] That's the world champion flying.

The Flyboard people now have the Flyboard Air.[2] This is a real flying hoverboard, powered by what is believed to be a group of model aircraft jet engines. It's not easy to fly. They require 50-100 hours in the water-powered version before attempting the jet-powered version.

It's very cool, but it's for people who find skateboarding stunts too easy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhUSu8v2N4

[2] https://atlanticflyboard.com/flyboard-air
> Crime is the norm, not the exception, starting with the government and trickling down to the people.

I agree with the starting with the government but I am lost when you blame the people (except for obvious crimes): literally there is not law in Argentina, tax evasion is not a crime because it is impossible to have a business without evading taxes (a friend told me) because the system is a trap where everyone could be attacked by the force of law based on ambiguous arguments.

And in Argentina is easy to bribe judges and move the "law" to the direction you want, more if you are powerful.
I think standards of identity (or other FDA action that isn't necessarily a standard of identity) for things like single-ingredient products like these oils is probably not really problematic... straightforward concrete rules about the point you can no longer call the product "avocado oil" because it's so much something else are to me a perfectly reasonable exercise of the government's power. To some degree this kind of thing is at least theoretically covered by existing general provisions, but enforcement is likely to be laxer than necessary where the "line" is fuzzy and there's a likelihood of litigation over it.

This is especially true for cooking oil, a major part of the differentiation between types and grades of oil is down to health benefits the consumer can't really detect on their own. Having solid rules that allow simple comparisons of the labeling that actually provide useful workable information is just providing the necessary framework for consumers to make informed choices.

This is different from, say, being able to tell whether or not you like your frozen cherry pie in the absence of the puzzlingly unique and specific frozen cherry pie food standard. We definitely have a variety of legacy standards that aren't productive.
To me it's surprising and unsettling to see how small the market share of Firefox has become.
Your post seems to imply logical decisions can be made if people were better informed. Boy, I sure wish that were true. Society seems to have moved well past logic and reason for pretty much any topic. The FUD around nuclear power was one of the first social issue that has sound scientific data that was totally ignored because of the fearmongering.
If we could prove the universe was a simulation, we might be able to find mistakes (or limitations or design choices) of the simulation that enabled, for example, faster than light travel, or sending information back into the past.

You could equally say that the detection of black holes, or the Higgs boson, have "no bearing on [your] everyday life and world", and you might be right, but that's no reason to be dismissive of people's pursuit of knowledge about the fundamental nature of the universe.

Also, if it turned out we were in a simulation, that would almost by definition mean that our universe was intelligently designed (even if the design were merely a one-for-one replica of a non-designed universe). I think that such a scenario is unnerving to many people because it would introduce the possibility that the designer(s) might be able to express agency in the universe, and towards humans individually, in a way that the cold unfeeling laws of physics do not.
This resolves the psychological inertia component of inflation. Its not a solution on its own. It also requires political compromise, reduction of govt expenditure and ,at the very minimum, curtailing expansion of the monetary base.
I honestly hate censorship in all of it's forms. If we start censoring Joe Rogan, how long will it take for them to go after Star Talk and other science podcasts. Joe Rogan introduced me to the Wim Hof method which is a lot of fun even though I don't believe half the supposed benefits. Sure, he's platforming fascists and assholes. But he also platforms people like Andrew Yang.

We aren't children in elementary school. I like being able to hear something and make a decision about what is garbage and what is not. So do a lot of other people. I don't want people to tell me what is "Safe" for me to listen to. Just like I don't want someone to tell me what is safe to read. I want to read Maus. I want to listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sometimes I want to listen to Joe Rogan and his guests. I want to listen to the people who shit all over Joe Rogan and his guests.

The shame isn't that Joe Rogan exists. The shame is an abiding ignorance that makes Joe Rogan a household name.
>> Why would I want to build blocks with the Block Protocol?

>> Blocks built with the Block Protocol can easily pass data between applications because the data within each block is structured.

Yeah, what you said. What's their problem? What better world do they imagine? What's the approach taken on their solution? Very poorly explained.

EDIT: Joel's article is much, much, much more convincing.
The 1990s had the "Digerati" (term coined in '92).
Personally my hesitancy in embracing Solid is the complexity. What I really want is essentially an HTTP filesystem API for my programs. Like a modern WebDAV to replace Google Drive. All the linked data stuff might be useful down the road but I currently don't need it.
I dig the idea of a "layer" that just makes stuff easier to find without having to invest hours of work into a souped up Notion setup or something. Excited to see where this goes.
Regardless of how it started a bunch of actual racists took it and ran with it. Now actual racists use that symbol unironically. The KKK was started by a group of hoaxers and pranksters to troll people but I don't think anyone would argue the modern KKK is just a bunch of trolls screwing around and messing with people.
"over-dependence on JavaScript are hindering our sites’ performance"

Hmmm...going to need a citation on that one. The most severe energy and performance hog I have seen are the tracking "pixels." I loath that shit. It brings a site to it's gnees and barfs out twenty requests to Facebook every time someone touches something. These tracking services and cookies are the worst abomination literally ruining the web.
that's true for all products these days, including apples
Where are people dying because they cannot get access to healthcare?
For the past 1.5 years I've been working on apps for the agriculture industry, mostly in Australia.

This means 2G, slow 3G or satellite using customers are extremely common. No G too, if they're using your product out in the field. I myself lived 30 minutes drive from a mobile connection in 2021. A sheep literally ate my internet by chewing through the cable from the satellite to the house.

So those users definitely exist in my demographic. And very much in the demographic of my clients, as potential customers.

Still, it seems to be a hard sell to make things work with crap connections or offline. First off, frontend devs resist because you're taking away their favourite toys. (Very rational from their perspective - their next gig is probably in banking or retail or somewhere else with ubiquitous fast internet). Second off, those allocating budgets are very hesitant to spend money on any software dev out of the mainstream. From their perspective software is risky enough given its expense, let alone doing something that might require specialists. (This may be more of an Australian thing, they're not risk takers like Americans).

So yes, you're very right on a technical level. I'm with you, and would love to talk to others who see this. On a more practical level - it's hard to make the stars align, even if it will land you customers.
No, he stated he wants another individual removed from that service and then tried to force his authoritarian attitude by giving an ultimatum. You're negating a pretty important part here bud.

Full Definition of authoritarian

1 : of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority

Certainly seems to meet the definition to me. Are you sure you know what it means?
Humans aren't robots. There's nothing primitive or optional about the need for physical social interaction. The people who disagree with you aren't wrong, they simply have different subjective priorities and values.
How do I really feel about it? That it’s insufferable. I already wrote that. We are moving toward a society where pursuit of revenue no longer has off hours. That’s horrific and dystopian. I don’t consider this position contrarian nor neckbeard nor particularly weird.

It is positively horrifying that some people set out on a hobby to fulfill others, and also that we’re establishing that as financially rewarding. Sailing, in particular, is about returning to the sea and charting your own path. There’s varying levels of mysticism to that in peoples’ relationships with it, but most entry-level zealots, even, would cock their head at the notion of spending your time sailing caring what other people think about it. What is the point of a hobby in the end? If you want a business, call it a business. A satellite dish for YouTube posting means your sailing is a business. And that’s fine. Just say that.

I also considered your entire litigation on the precision of the person’s language before even creating this account. It’s telling that your substantive rebuttal is lawyering the language, not addressing the point. I considered your “couple things” before you said them and disregarded them. You’re arguing that 10% charity in comprehension dispenses 100% of the point. Unsuccessfully.
Why does anyone NEED Figma?
In the USA, the major telcos are shutting off their 2G and 3G towers, this year -- after which if you are not reachable with LTE or 5G, you will simply have no service.
> Does Safari suck because it's not supporting actual standards, or does Chrome suck because it's trying to make sure that the web only works on Chrome

This is a weird argument when Firefox supports many of the standards that Safari doesn't, as well.
You walk by others while you are not at your table. What do you want to do? Hold your breath? Not to mention bathrooms and so forth. Presumably the tables are well spaced etc...
This is a fair criticism of the public spec in its current form and we’re working on documentation to help folks deal with this.

We actively want to talk approaches through with more interested parties, and welcome contributions to the spec and docs.

Sidebar — for our part at HASH - we’re optimistic about the role WebAssembly might play, having used it extensively in building the wider ecosystem of simulation tooling.
I'm sorry this happened to you, but for anyone reading, pointing out mistakes like this incurs political-social capital even in the most rational and tech heavy workplaces.
Your post reminds me of a joke punchline which was something along the lines of "an engineer doesn't actually have to remember very much, they only need to know how to efficiently find the information when required"

It's true for people working in technology due to the rapid pace of progress. As soon as we learn something it's out of date!
It's less about mandating a specific platform or network and more about reducing the ability to profiteer off of political speech.
The idea that we have to solve the problem for 100,000 years has always seemed crazy to me. If we can store it for 100 years, we can be fairly confident that technology will have advanced to the point where then dealing with it for the remaining 99,900 years will be relatively trivial. If not, we hold on for 200 more years. 1700->2000 was quite a leap, and if 2000->2300 isn't enough that we can handle some nuclear waste by then, we've got bigger problems.

We're merely hedging against the risk of catastrophic societal collapse causing us to lose track of the waste and lose our understanding of radiation. But this is the only area where we seem to give a hoot about the far future, which truly makes me think it's just a rationalization of "I don't like nuclear power", not a serious concern.
Also
Family traveling (ex heli pilot): https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingZatara
New channel, videos are a bit raw, but some interesting vids (around Australia)- https://www.youtube.com/c/SVSunrise/
Currently in NZ I think - https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresofanoldSeadog/

also recommend, Gone with the Wynns, love their videos.
Unfortunately the comment asking for clarification has been flagged into oblivion, so I'll repeat my clarifying comment here:

I definitely did not intend to say that Naomi Wu is like a flasher, and I appreciate your implicit request for clarification.

I meant that I frequently hear both men and women criticize specifically women for nudity, especially when the critics are from the US, and I very rarely hear them criticizing men for nudity. When men do get criticized for nudity, it's usually in a circumstance where the nudity is being interpreted as a threat, such as a flasher, which is a very different situation than posting a video of laser-cutting a dressmaker's dummy.
White House Preparing EO for Crypto Regulation
Let's hope the rocket does not blow up on launch, though.
Totally locking down a computer to just a pre-approved set of software is a huge step towards securing it from the kind of attackers most individuals, companies, and governments are concerned with. Sacrificing "software freedom" for that kind of security is a trade off that the vast majority of users will be willing to make - and I think the free software community will need to come to terms with that fact at some point and figure out what they want to do about it.
If you can get the govt to drop FIPS or wireguard to change to ...different crypto, wireguard would take off like hotcakes.

I'd be flogging tailscale so hard!

Stupid policies.
I have always wondered why there isn't more hacking on the browser side of the web. Why don't we see attempts to replace javascript with python or lua or something diifferent? Why not replace http or html?

I guess what I'm asking is, what could the web be if we take a step back and re-evaluate javascript at all instead of just the frameworks that rely on JS?
Could you describe the potential solution in a bit more detail? Is it similar to the "posting to different websites" or a completely different tool? Like, what is the most difficult tech challenge of building this? (could even be a proper UI, just to understand the problem space)
Proving actual damages. Unless the law stipulates punitive damages, it’s too hard to prove how you were “damaged” by it not being avocado oil and the dollar amount. This is why many lawsuits aren’t filed even when companies have harmed people.
Inflation as a way of life is living with a mercurial definition of a measuring stick for the promise of economic stability provided by someone else.

Personally I'd say its a lot worse.
The problem with Robinson helicopters specifically (older R-22 & R-44 more than most) is their very low mass rotor system, which results in very low inertia.
The time you have to recover is significantly shorter than other high inertia systems on other helicopters.

Their very low cost makes them pretty common for schools and instruction in general, but the low inertia (and resultant fatalities early in its operation) was significant enough that the FAA requires a Robinson specific endorsement.
Teachers are the "50+ population" in schools, right?

I never know what to make of posts like this. It seems almost insulting to have to explicitly point out that masks are about reducing transmission, and that transmission could occur between students (not 50+) and teachers (many 50+).

Right?

So your conclusion should be that the Bangladesh study is quite relevant to schools, yet you seem to be suggesting the opposite?

Though I knew about it, I don't think I really appreciated how people could cherry-pick information to fit their preconceived ideas until covid.
This describe much of the western world at this snapshot in time, if to differing degrees.

In Canada for example, it seems many people are treating real estate like the lady in the story treats cans of tuna: buy as much as you can afford. And, our government seems similarly disinterested in the problem.

It's very tempting to conclude that this is all by design (this sentiment is picking up a lot of steam in Canada, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is partially true), but I think what's more realistic is that this is simply emergence in action: a system such as the one we live in (Earth, humanity, etc) combined with particular forms of governance (representative democracy) eventually produces the phenomenon we are now seeing more or less globally: concentration of wealth and power, at a constantly increasing rate.

I think it's possible for leadership to change this, but I do not personally believe that representative democracy is necessarily capable of discovering such a leader and allowing them to advance through the ranks. Perhaps in anomalous situations someone could slip through, but my intuition is that anyone with righteous populist goals (maximizing well being for all people) would make it through the many sophisticated filters that exist, one of the main ones being the media.
> You can't, politically speaking (and maybe legally too), cut the retirements

Funny enough, that's what the current government did.
They removed a law from the previous government which ensured that pensioners would be paid inflation + x% so that their real income won't decrease, and now the government decides on a whim what the pension raise would be (the pensions have been increased by very little very sparsely), effectively cutting retirements, as inflation eats through them.

They can't cut subsidies because most of their voters are poor, and if they touch that, shit hits the fan, whereas they don't give a shit about old people, since they lose them money and don't vote for them.

I'm so happy to have moved to the us and have a 401k and ira accounts the government can't touch.
That doesn't account for private stations or congested areas where the service is technically 4G or WiFi, but you get 2G speeds.
> Go to your local hospital and ask them how they'd like it if their case load went up by 2x due to a lack of "halfway measures."

I love this argument.

"Just imagine how much worse things could have been! The observed outcome is better than a worst case scenario I made up!"

"Just imagine if I didn't wear my lucky socks to the game. We would have lost even worse!"

The data does not bear out your position. Places with less / no mandates did not have measurably worse outcomes.
Lol, if you think "Masks have gigantic effort/inconvenience and mental health costs", your life must be a continuous living hellscape.
And you can't bought more than 200 USD per month at the official rate, so the need to bought the USD through an exchange or in a "cueva".
"Bogus cryptocurrency investments"

What's the purpose of starting the article with so much redundancy?
Anonymous founder of 9 figure DeFi project connected to 9 figure Quadriga Scam
If something like that is good enough to fulfill the requirements, that would be good.

Some services already thinks like that, like I think discord.
The Ogden Museum, it is better known as.
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If you have the institutional buy-in to handle auth being done at the proxy level, that gets you away from having to implement SSO per service. I agree that doing this well isn't trivial, but in the long term there's a reasonably compelling argument that it makes life easier for both developers and ops.
fairplay, I just dunno how it gets resubmitted over when the orig post is right there with upvotes
Hiding malware in Docker Desktop's virtual machine
https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/news/idaho-activates-cris... - comes to mind. Here where I live in Oregon, during the Delta surge, people were waiting on "elective" surgeries for things like cancer treatment, and the hospital system was pretty clear that some ended up dying because the hospital was overloaded.
It appears when you get the first alert - click to silence it, and choose "indefinitely." That option only appears for Family devices.
unsurprisingly jekyll remains the most performant option for frontend JS in 2022
This reminds me of the "fake money" story NPR did a while back about why the Brazilian currency is called the "real" (pronounced "reh-al" but literally "the real").

It's a fascinating story on how to approach inflation using a combination of classical and behavioral economics

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...