skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hone your own advice and be precise in your claims.

I was. The claims I made are backed by strong randomized controlled trials.

> There is good evidence that two doses of the vaccine were protective for at least three months, against the variants dominating 2021.

And also good RCT based evidence that a third dose (or perhaps just a more recent dose) provides robust protection against delta and omicron variants. The precise level of protection is different because the variants are all a little different, but the conclusion of "boosters provide robust immunity against variants" is strongly supported.

So yes, there is good evidence that boosters provide protection. There is not good evidence that ivermectin does anything.

> It's 2022, there is a new escape variant about and we endorsed teenagers to get a booster shot to "protect" themselves from this new variant - based on what evidence exactly?

To be clear, there are two reasons you run studies

1. To validate effectiveness

2. To validate safety

There's not really a reason to believe that the boosters will be less effective in teens. In fact, there's strong reason to believe that they'll be just as effective as in everyone else. You really don't need a study for this.

What you might need a study for is validating safety, which is why we break out pregnant people, teens, young kids, and adults. Those groups can have different safety impacts (kids and teens weigh less, so doses might need to be smaller to be safe!).

Except that we already know that the exact substance we're sticking in teens is safe in teens, because its half of the exact same thing as in the initial doses. So if your concern is safety, its fine, and if your concern is efficacy, well we have strong RCT evidence of efficacy. We also generally speaking know that ivermectin is safe. But, we have no evidence to its efficacy.

So I apply precisely the same standard.
You don't see the cooperation and coordination in the video you just linked?
All these theories assume that life emerged on Earth, from scratch. But what if it didn't? What if it got here in a meteorite for example and then started evolving because of a favorable environment? Some bacteria are capable of surviving extreme conditions, so that's a possibility. And, there were cases when meteorites contained some of molecules (I don't remember which exact ones) that are basic building blocks of life as we know it.
and hasn't it been discovered by now? my understanding of all the studies I see is that they confirm and reconfirm the importance of vit d. I have a coworker whose doctor prescribes vit d shots every winter because he's so deficient. The big question is why preventative care such as this is not emphasized as much by the powers that be as therapeutics.
I maintain Faktory, a complex background job system written in Go. I keep the dependencies to a minimum and use `upx` to compress the built binary...

...for a grand total binary size of 5 MB.

So many modern systems are huge because of the complex dependency tree they pull in. My entire binary likely fits within the L3 cache of the CPU you are using.
Everything has a cost. The cost of the cloud is that you’re out of control, the cloud provider owns your stuff, and a single vulnerability can make half the Earth get pwned. Whoops.

EDIT: I do use cloud services for some stuff. My point isn’t being anti-cloud, just that nothing is perfect.
Wow thank you for this! Ive never heard of this. The early days were truly crazy.
> Stop ignoring standards.

That ship sailed when they froze that standard in time circa around 2008.

People will always choose convenience over correctness. Fighting against that is fighting against human nature and it's a battle lost before it's begun.
And a good reason to stay out.
Yes, I would not have described it as such otherwise. I’d love to have a silly little electric paramotor, because then I’d have a paramotor.

I prefer a silly little electric paramotor over a big honking gas-powered paramotor, because I know what I’m willing to maintain. My question was solely about flight time, but reading it without the thread context does make me look like a jerk.

No harm, no foul.
I wouldn’t be surprised if many animals are smarter on average than humans are on average. I think that the only thing we really have on all other animals we know about is a developed system of writing.
They have two versions!

Molly, like Signal, uses Google’s proprietary code to support some features.

Molly-FOSS is the community effort to make it 100% free and open-source.
> The whole thing about the wildfires last year being set by left-wing activists was a truly insane statement

Right or wrong, it was most definitely NOT insane: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/california-wildfires-g...
You can add stuff like that, and it’s definitely a legitimate and reasonable approach, but the popup is not functionally necessary, and done fancily even properly stands a fair chance of being just a distraction. If the popup were the only interface then yes, it would be important to optimise accessibility on it, but as it stands I think also it’s a perfectly reasonable option to make the popup entirely inaccessible by keyboard or accessibility tool, and just work with the text box. (This would be paired with things like having Up/Down work to increase/decrease the year/month/date where the cursor is, rather than Up/Down/Left/Right navigating around the calendar table.)

I’d be interested to see what a regular user of accessibility stuff would find of this stuff. I think both approaches are perfectly reasonable, with the don’t-expose-the-popup-at-all side possibly even preferable for some.
There's seals, which they seem to kill for a combination of sport and to give the young orcas practice killing.

It's pretty hard to watch orcas use their tail to playfully bat dying seals 50' up in the air and not think they're doing it for fun. Even if there's a learning component to the purpose.
When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town [video]
If 51% of miners could change anything everyone would be spinning up Alpine Virtual Machines with minuscule hash power. You fundamentally misunderstand how blockchain works.

Your "we" in the second example is the majority of network users - any network where that isn't true is not decentralized.

You do not know what you are talking about. The fact that grifters often don't know what they are talking about and use that to whip up positive spin on blockchain tech does not give you any good excuse to do the opposite - you are both morons.
Except that all main clouds are s3-compatible already
> But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear.

This seems like literal survivorship bias.

In the the US, covid kills about 2% of those who get it, so the natural immunity numbers are boosted by the fact that people with weak immune systems have been removed from the pool.

Honestly though, isn't this by design? Isn't the whole point of vaccines to invoke a weaker immune response that does not endanger the receiver?
Agree.

Wolves use a highly coordinated attack, where lead dogs harry the prey and are replaced as they tire.

Also, you need more than a simple strategy to take down an animal that can hurt you by kicking you with sharp hooves, poking you with antlers, or calling on 300 of it's close friends to trample you and your little pack to death.
Ask HN: Has anyone read Software Design for Flexibility?
Has anyone read it? If so what did you think?
Your problem there is Ubuntu/Debian.

A bash script that runs as /bin/sh might not run as /bin/bash, until you set POSIXLY_CORRECT.

Easiest solution there is to move it to a better shell, usually a Korn variant.
> Pick the right tool for the job.

This is such a tired expression. It basically means nothing in the industry, and exactly because of comments like yours.

Exactly who are you to say what my infrastructure desires are? Software is personal and people ignore this completely.
Wow, this is really awesome. Thanks for the resource! Stuff like this is why I love HN.
Hmmm. Can see on both my iPhone 7 in both Safari and Firefox, and my Ulefone Power Amor 13 in Edge abs Firefox.
Looks like it’s on Discovery+ now.
No, but you can discount the technology based on it’s historical records compared to it’s promises. Web 1.0 promised to be a good system of exchanging documents which could refer to each other. It delivered that pretty nicely and later improved on it.

Bitcoin promised to be a decentralized alternative to fiat currency and failed when it couldn’t scale to be even a tiny fraction of the global transaction. When people tried to improve on the original proposal they also failed at the very same thing while inventing new problems in the mean time. As of yet the only realized potentials of the technology are scams (which were never promised—at least to my knowledge).

Compared to Web 1.0 I think it is pretty safe for you to discount the technology based on a history of scams and failure to realize promised potentials.
Fair point, made me think for a second. Sadly these locked down devices which infringe on our property rights have even started changing language =( when it comes to software.
> it must be some kind of weakness within the system

You can assume there are many such weaknesses. Nothing is perfectly secure. Nuclear weapons plans are stolen, RSA's crypto keys were stolen ... your phone isn't protected on that level. Security is about raising the cost for an attacker beyond the value to that attacker: if you have data perceived to be worth $1M, make it cost $10M to steal it.

But the cost to the defender is relatively high. There is no way your phone, whatever you use, is perfectly secure; there is no way every app on your phone is perfectly secure; the cost would be astromical to the vendors. There are endless possible holes.

The question is, what is the perceived value of the contents of your phone? Are you the Secretary of Defense or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company? An international terrorist? If they really want you, they've got you (unless you pay for some serious personnel). They could just replace your phone with an identical one containing a little extra hardware, for example.

But your phone almost certainly isn't perceived to have that level of value.
This is just a bad setup.

Ship logs others places, clicking in the GUI outside of testing things out is a mistake, use Terraform or CDK or Cloudformation.

I've managed very large fleets of servers and its dead simple if you have a good setup.
This is true only if you presume social engineering is impossible.
Homeserver refers to matrix, and they're still wrong. If rooms and conversations are E2EE, they're E2EE.

Edit: grandparent comment can't seem to keep Matrix vs Signal straight.
> copying texts on any sort of scale without anything like a printing press was hard, specialized work

Not disputing that it was an expensive luxury thing, but let's not take it to the extreme that the ancients were helpless in that regard. Clearly they were able to preserve a number of titles throughout centuries, there were many books commonly read and cited. (Until they disappeared toward the late first millennium.)

If some piece was really core and central to them, they generally managed not to lose it, just because of the need (again, not some abstract desire for preservation). If they stopped, it means that either they collectively lost interest in some swaths of intellectual activity, or lacked the means because of an economic and civilizational slump. In fact both those factors were likely at play here. The transition from scrolls to codices, that you are probably alluding to, was a force multiplier for this process.
Here is a different model that we have been working on:

https://www.betabytes.io/blog/introducing-the-metaverse

Connecting existing worlds that people already choose to participate in.
Yes. That's what I mean to address (apparently imperfectly) with the sentence beginning, "But so what? Clearly it is meant to say much more than geography ...".
I don't often find people able to articulate their views on the suicide topic, and also aren't comfortable talking about it.

The best thing I've heard though is that there is a large subset of suicides that are spur of the moment decisions. And so an option like a suicide prevention hotline is to serve as a distraction and circuit breaker to get the afflicted human onto something else. That also means there is no use case where you call the hotline on someone's behalf.
This is similar to an idea we have been playing with:

https://www.betabytes.io/blog/introducing-the-metaverse

For instance, here is a video of a shared canvas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVzxgjJNdA
It's working sporadically for me. I'm getting pages that take forever to load and then when they do, are missing the stylesheets.
Thoughts on “Post Liberalism”
I read those snippets and thought the same thing. This guy thinks he is god. 1000x engineer.
that doesn't mean it is invalid either.
We have been working on a different model, where we connect worlds people already participate in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVzxgjJNdA

More here:

https://www.betabytes.io/blog/introducing-the-metaverse
"Blow"

Not everything good for companies is good.

Sure would be nice to see other framing on this.
By that logic, anything with downside risk is not morally clean. If you buy anything with the plan, secondary or not, to sell it later for some profit of some kind, you're taking from a sucker. Housing, the used car market, commodities, the stock market, everything is a greater fool scam.

But when you look at these things from the individual perspective, we all take a risk when buying things. The people that don't assess their risk when they buy lose, the ones that do don't lose.
That is a big one, is it not? Do we call humans "wolves on two feet"?

Communication and cooperation are things orcas exhibit over and over. Also, wolves, as far as I know, are purely instinctual and do not communicate or pass down learned knowledge. Orcas do. There are several documented instances of one or a few individuals in an orca pod discovering some novel way to eat something or discovering a new animal altogether to eat that is then taught within the pod.

There's one specific hunting technique for mammal hunting orcas that has been observed that showcases this. When hunting mammals, who have excellent hearing and are intelligent themselves, orcas can sometimes reach a point where it's not working. So, the pod of orcas will resume chatting (vocalizing) and start to leave the area while they choose a single orca to stay silently behind. Once the other orcas leave, the mammals (usually seals) relax, giving the silent orca hiding a chance to capture. Once capture, the other orcas return to share the meal. Wolves don't do anything like that.
>studies about <X controlled substance> now has potential therapeutic uses followed by a plethora of comments about how it's really fine, you just needed a trip sitter.

Oh and don't forget all the comments either entirely misunderstanding or mischaracterizing the study along with a bunch of anecdotes and suggestions that have nothing to do with the subject at hand
If only service-discovery features are used from the entire SDK, then the real story here is that Go's DCE passes aren't strong enough - or the SDK is coupled in a way that makes DCE not work (overuse of reflection?).
What do you mean? Didn’t they just simulate the full activity of a cell on a molecular level?
If you make money, it means you were right
> Optimize for finishing work before starting new work

Part of this is, as a developer, I really want to be able to have a few days of relatively relaxed work at the end of a project. Maybe just check some logs, make sure things are running okay, pay off some technical debt, talk with coworkers about work or not work. This almost never seems to happen, while delivering one thing the team frantically looks to the next. People need periods of work and rest.
I think it says more about you that you see something sexualised in those covers.
Book Review: “Sadly, Porn” by the Last Psychiatrist
How can you be so confident in this opinion?
It's a technical hack to solve an organisation problem though. The correct solution is a standard format for fat binaries that's supported everywhere.
Yep. I haven't seen a technical writer position since the early 2000's, at an enterprise SaaS company (we called them "ASPs" back then.)
I think the poster was referring to the protocol instead of the instance.
It's not anything close to what's been observed in orcas.
Good work. I already use the Revoldiv extension and it is by far the fastest way I found to transcribe my videos. I am very interested to see how the filler word detection and editing works. As someone who edits several videos a week, spending 4-5 hours to edit an hour-long video has been extremely taxing for me. I would love something that can auto detect and remove, kind of like descript but they cap you at just 3 hours for the free version. I am wondering why videos longer than an hour are not guaranteed on Revoldiv?
Is there a reason why you can’t offer that? Do you have plans to allow longer video/audio transcription and editing in the future?
Most people don't have 'FBI files' or they are essentially trivial stuff. A bunch of mine was immigration stuff.
I started scrum mastering a team in November and the team suffers from too many things at the same time for sure. I have to take a more proactive planning role and I could definitely try out that on call stream idea.

I am naturally a quite chaotic person, I have trouble helping other people create order when I'm already having trouble keeping an eye on all the streams that exist in the team. Any tips would be appreciated.

I wish people would stop bringing up the Pareto principle. "Some things are consistently bigger than other things." Can we talk about why things are bigger than other things instead of saying it's because of some law of nature?
Then why can’t I run whatever I want on my phone? The logic here makes zero sense. A computer is a computer whether it fits in your pocket or sits on a desk.
Is this an attempt to goad people into making further disparaging blanket-statements about another segment of people? The web could use less of that, in my opinion.
Why be afraid of fraud on blockchain? In the case of DeFi the contracts are technically readable (though EVM is not a good platform for readability; if you can't name projects which have fixed this you don't have the right to make fun of "its early"), and those that cannot read contracts for whatever reason are fully aware of the risk they take - when more versed people agree in unison there are no inbuilt scams the laymen can remove their risk.

The same applies to blockchain in general. If a new layer-1 is released you audit the code, the token supply, distribution - if its not put out clearly to you its suspicious, otherwise you go through the same process. Those who can read first hand what the risks are can get in early, those who cannot wait. Its not rocket science.

If you cared so much about fraud victims, you would drill into new, atomic contracts and protocols, but instead you take the lazy, spiteful approach of calling the whole space a fraud and expect people to believe you because you work with computers. Can you fix my printer while you rationalize your position?
Well my dev laptop could run 1000x more traffic than what I need on my servers.

But of course I am running build tools and bunch of other dev tools locally that are not even installed on our servers.
Programming Jobs for Losers
The Stasi was, especially in the end, exponentional invasive. Meaning they approached allmost anyone in any slightly important position and put pressure on them, to work with them to report on their collegues. (In the end, there were 90 000 of them, with a population of only 16 million).

"you help us (and socialism) and we help your career - or you decline and good luck with your career, or
the carrer of your partner. Your children ..."

The results were mainly those worthless reports.
But if you were on the hook once - they could pressure you into more, if they really were interested in your peers and not just routine surveillance of everyone.

But could you live with knowing you send one to prison for telling a bad joke about the government?

So many still declined, to work with them and suffered the consequences.

In either case, the massive surveillance was well known, it was assumed that everything you say loudly - got recorded.

Deep chilling effect.
I'm about an hour in now, the video doesn't actually present a compelling case so far as to the validity of it's premise. I'm entering NFT land in the video and they appear to be overall right about the NFT market, not right about a lot of the technical details but right about the market being an empty hole, but up until this point it's all been hand wavy self supporting nothingness. And even though I agree with their premise on NFTs, I have yet to see an explanation of the premise on them.

All in all it seems the guy is preaching to the choir and grinning along with head nodders and not actually educating anyone on anything.

Edit: finally finished the video, the guy did a pretty good job criticizing the current state of affairs, the relative uselessness of organization on blockchains, NFTs in particular, web3 and the tokenization of the universe, but I think he's wrong about the utility of cryptocurrency as currency, and the potential to tokenize real world assets that are already bought and sold, for record keeping purposes.
We do something very similar to what's laid out here. One note on the On-Call stream though. We've found that On-Call can become a catch-all, and force engineers to work in domains they have no familiarity with. It hasn't worked very well for us.
You don't know... who to trust
Devs dont want to know. In the spirit of "DevOps" we needed to give Devs full admin access to Production servers. I have seen Staff Engineers do the most mind boggling things on these servers that cause issues.
I think they do typically consume the tongue of baby grey whales. I cant find an easy reference for the sport aspect, but many animals kill for entertainment/practice.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Melnikov-2/pub...
> the homeserver has (!) plaintext access to all traffic on it,

Matrix homeservers have plaintext access to whatever is plaintext, though most matrix homeserver software doesn't include built-in functionality for admins to do that sort of thing; it would involve digging through the database(s). DMs are opportunistic e2ee and rooms can be plaintext or E2EE.

> besides all the delicious metadata the spooks love and that (e.g.) Signal hands over to them with effusive eagerness,

Signal is not Matrix...and Signal does not have any metadata except account creation and last-seen timestamps. Maybe the fact that you can't keep the two communications networks straight is a good sign you're not qualified to be critiquing them.

> The Matrix protocol is extremely complex and getting more complex with great speed as they try to get to feature parity with Facebook and Twitter, making it hard to believe one will ever be able to trust it, E2EE or no.

That's not how that works.

Your comment is...seriously uninformed.
Here, Chalmers is flirting with the simulation hypothesis. I have not yet read his new book, but an article in the NY Times indicates that there he goes deeper into the issue, where he says that he estimates a 25% likelihood that we are in a simulation.

I wonder how he squares that with his enthusiasm for zombie arguments, which purport to show that no mere simulation of a conscious human would have all that is necessary for it to be conscious itself?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/opinion/virtual-reality-s...