skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the author's logic, public transportation also enables binge drinking. I think they just dont like driving drunk rich people as their source of income so they wrote a diary entry about it.
Technically you can drink enough at a bar to require hailing a ride-share, once in a while, without qualifying for "binge drinking" or it affecting your health too much.

After all, one or two glasses of beer can push you over the limit. I'm not sure what the limit is in the US. Here in Germany at least the "prudent" limit can easily be reached with one glass.
This is a primary point on why I groan that Discord is so popular.

The hyperaggressive codecs and bandwidth-saving behaviors make the experience absolutely miserable.
While development of a new vaccine-delivery platform is exciting, I think it's important to take this announcement into perspective.

The main problem with producing vaccines is not principally the delivery platform, but the difficulty in generating a sensitive, specific, and effective immune response to your target bug. This problem has plagued immunology for decades (and is a bit of a black art), and sadly may not be solved simply by using mRNA.

Nevertheless, promising news. Presumably this is funded at least in part by the significant profits Modena has generated from the COVID vaccine.
You missed the hint about the domestic violence?
The most effective presentation style I have ever seen used literally hundreds (if not thousands) of slides, but in a way I had never encountered before. I’ve heard it described as the Lawrence Lessig presentation style, but my introduction to it was a presentation about “Identity 2.0” by Dick Hardt, and his is still the best I’ve seen. It absolutely blew me away, both as a presentation style and a mechanism for conveying information/message (ideally they’re the same thing, but I have sat through some presentations that are entertaining but devoid of content).

Dick Hardt’s presentation is at https://youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E&t=6s - the content has aged a little (though less than I expected before I just rewatched it) but if you’ve never seen it, I encourage you to watch it; it’s not that long, it will feel even shorter than it is because it’s so engaging, and it certainly illustrated to me how important communication skills are and improved my own presentation style.
A perfectly valid opinion to have. You are perfectly fine to not use modern medicine or science. Not that I personally agree. There is a quote in German saying "Jeder hat das Recht dumm zu sein." (Everybody has the right to be an idiot). Not that I would call you so - because why should I, not knowing if there are medical reasons that prohibit you from using vaccines.

But as said: Everybody is free to decide to drink alcohol, shoot drugs (even if possession may be a problem), smoke, do bungee jumping, drive a motorbike without protection and what not in terms of dangerous activities. No problem at all - as a free society we need to an do accept that these behaviors lie within the free will and control of others.

The same with (most) vaccines. In some cases it makes sense for a society to decide that the greater evil is to let a virus run free in society and order everybody to vaccinate. In some cases a society might (rightfully imho) decide that enforcing a specific vaccination enables more freedom overall for the majority.

And that - as a democratic process - is also perfectly fine.

So society needs to accept the freedom of individuals not to use modern medicine/science/vaccines up to a point as these individuals need to accept when this point is reached. that is what makes a free and democratic society possible. Both sides have are responsible to ensure the most freedom for all parts of society.

If either side overshoots/goes into extreme you get either a dictatorial(-ish) system or an anarchical one.
In monkeys, there wasn't much of a benefit of an omicron specific booster vs an original Wuhan strain booster. The main thing was just getting a third dose which generates the mature antibodies that are apparently similar enough between current variants.
I think it even "just works" when you create the directories manually, add the profile to it and then start Thunderbird.
Why not set up your own Stripe?
This will end like it started: with politics.

At some point all involved parties will find a new equilibrium they are OK with.
Opinion of russians in the street count very little. Opinion of russians in the army probably more I believe.
But our opinion does count a little too. I would like if more westerners would show support for negotiations (esp. regarding NATO) instead of endless war.
Wouldn't stealing that card get you flogging or something like it? Who would steal in these conditions...
The percentage of people that will do anything to their car that will negatively impact the emissions is so small that it's not even worth worrying about. The vast majority of people take their vehicle to an oil change chain so they can have the drain plug hole on their pan stripped out instead of just taking 30 minutes to do it themselves. I really don't think you need to worry about them pulling off emissions controls while they dyno tune their Camry.

"Fetishisation" is a word that is inching closer to being an instant giveaway for a ham-fisted or outright stupid take. Your average person driving a car in the US isn't "fetishizing" anything. They live in a big-ass country where a lot of things they care about are far away. Having a car allows them to get to their job, see their family, and so on. It's not some insidious plot to keep you from walking around your city.
Some web application firewalls have better telemetry, monitoring, notification, etc. than the services behind them, especially for unsophisticated attacks. Also, any attacker filtered is one less connection wasting resources on the hosts running your actual services, leaving more CPU and memory to handle legitimate requests on application servers.

None of them defend against everything, and there is an important nugget in your post: “defense in depth.” You should also filter requests that make it through the WAF. But, getting rid of even 90% of bogus requests before they hit your app servers seems worthwhile.
Originally, the plan was to vaccinate in order to obtain herd immunity and wipe out COVID.
Once your api query parameters reach a certain level of complexity, like such nested lookups, one should just consider giving direct proxied read access to the DB for clients that need it. Why reinvent your own query language. I Don’t know enough about graphql to compare it. Databases have access controls also.
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Global warming is one thing. Supporting war criminals like Vladimir Putin or Mohammed Bin Salman is another. I don't want to subsidise them.

So the rare times I drive, I mostly use an electric. The even rarer times I drive a diesel car, I use HVO100 [0]. That is by choice. I consciously try to limit my fossil fuel consumption with the goal of reducing war subsidies and global warming. So what if that makes me a naive idiot.

And yes, I hope for more people to share those goals, eventually translating them into my government's energy policies.

But but but... am I a gas guzzler party pooper? Not at all! Museum workshops work wonderfully well for steam trains, historical agricultural tools and industrial archeology. They could work very well for this kind of historical vehicle propulsion too!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrotreated_vegetable_oil
What you are all witnessing is that the proverbial bus hit. (Was there a proverb about busses?)

This is just a drill. Only a drill. Use your backups.
C'mon, you can't just throw out a number like that and not provide an exhaustive list of all 15 targeted diseases!

The article (and its linked source) mentions Chikungunya, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Dengue, Ebola, Malaria, Marburg, Lassa fever, MERS, and COVID-19. Reading through the articles in depth also reveals mentions of Nipah, HIV, and Tuberculosis. That's 12. So what are the other 3?
Wait, what? Really? What a daft insurance. So you're limited to 100km/h even on an unlimited stretch of the autobahn, with people going a lot faster around you? Or even somewhere like Poland where the limit is 140km/h and driving 40km/h slower than everyone else is an actual hazard?
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Cluster Munitions Documented by Ukrainian Civilians
Very nice! USB HID support would be rad.
No, cells infected with full virus rna produce complete copies of the virus (I'm sure there are mistakes) but they are assembled before they break out of the cells. The covid vaccine exclusively induces production of spike protein, which is thought to be the protein that binds to cell surfaces and allows cell entry. Presumably cells which produce the protein and cells to which the proteins attach are attacked by the recipient's immune system.

The human body is in delicate balance and there's a lot that can go wrong. Medical science unironically has only come so far - we just recently discovered the glymphatic system, and that's orders of magnitude in larger, in scale and energies, than cellular level chemical dynamics. Within and without our cells is a soup of thousands of subtlety interacting compounds which is poorly understood.
Do we have a biological sense of logic?
> that vaccinated/boosted people can and will get sick or even spread disease to others
Are you under the impression this isn't what they've been telling people?
It's more that sars-cov-2 is just a nasty virus with exceptionally good skills at evading the immune system, not that mRNA vaccine tech doesn't work after a few months. From what I understand covid-19 can suppress the immune system response and replicate before your body can really detect or react to it. It's only if you have a recent supply of covid-19 spike protein antibodies floating around your blood, like if you were recently vaccinated/boosted, that your immune system can get a faster alarm and head start at clearing a real infection.

So really any vaccine mRNA or not that's targeting the spike protein is going to see similar waning efficacy against infection. We see this with the Johnson and Johnson and Astrazenica shots which don't use mRNA tech for example.
Solana is pretty solid, eventually they will take off
> Spotify adopted an economic model marginally different from piracy but with the veneer of a legitimate economic transaction, the pretense of some kind of proper accounting.

How does your critique of Spotify not apply to Apple? They lack a free/ads tier, and claim to pay a bit more to artists. Does this fundamentally change the fact that they’re still /streaming/?
The CosmoAmautas project for equitable scientific education in Peru
I'm not particularly old and I can remember a time when we called cabs to get home after a night out. Sure, it was less convenient then Uber is, but it wasn't drastically so.
I always prefer singular just because it's easier to spell if you know the type.

It's stupid to have /geese return a Goose.

If the APIs were in Esperanto it would be different.
With only 10 of those tanks and some of them experimental variants, even including those aren't going to make a lot of difference.

Russia mostly sold their "high tech" equipment for much needed money.
The decorum in London and Tokyo dictates you don't talk to your cabbie and they don't talk to you. The drivers of the black cabs in London will not make small talk as a rule. It helps them focus on doing their job, and it prevents you from boring them with the 50th tall tale of the day. It certainly rubs the general American sentiment the wrong way but it has it's perks. In the case of this article the passengers would know they're expected to shut up until they return home, pay, and get out of the cab.

This isn't to say cabbies never talk to customers (emergencies, change of plans), but the expectation that you should ask every service professional you encounter about how their day is going and what are their hobbies and what's their favorite color isn't a universal value. Some people like the author actually find it a little irritating!
Don't see any problem with that, if true or not. This a pretty amazing project with huge potential.
Actually originally the plan was to hope for 50% efficacy, even knowing that coronavirus immunity may wane after several months as is the case with seasonal coronaviruses
I have surveyed it, and it’s still idiotic. It’s no different than horoscopes or numerology, both of which have immense depth from “experts”. It doesn’t change the fact that not of it is grounded in any kind of scientific discovery or logic.

> And some would argue that there are fairly objective ways to define "power"

Funny how elusive these “objective ways” are when it comes to actually defining them.

Even if there were an objective way to define that power, it still doesn’t change how dumb and divisive the whole approach is of making asymmetric the criteria for being “racist”. It has enabled blatantly bigoted behavior by tons of people against downtrodden “majorities” and has done more to divide society than the segregation in the 60s.

> it's widespread in academia.

This is very damming to sociology and to associate it with “academia” is a disservice to people who practice the objective discovery of science.
Not automated, that I know of.

However, you could replicate the functionality/outputs (for a given location) by using open source GIS software, any available free geospatial data, and basic long-established GIS techniques: the DEM, the cross section, and the viewshed.
My guess is that it is a result of russophobia. Kind of Newton's third law of motion, but for opinions.
You appear to be referring to a database cursor.

It is quite simple to implement pagination in the application layer using a unique record identifier (primary key or ULID or ...) as an anchor for the navigation. From that unique ID, we can then fetch the previous `n` or the next `n` records, depending on the direction of the navigation.

This way, the server remains stateless, since the anchor (possibly sent as an encoded / obfuscated token, which can include some other parameters such as page size) is supplied by the client with each pagination request.

Unless I am missing something in your argument.
Original press release from Moderna: https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moder...
The targeted diseases are: Chikungunya virus, COVID-19, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Dengue, Ebola virus disease, HIV, Malaria, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever, Severe fever with Thrombocytopenia syndrome, Tuberculosis, Zika
This seems more like a window into problem drinking than any influence on it.
That's the wrong comparison though, you would need to compare a wild type booster vs an omicron specific booster.
"... in 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated the annual electricity bill for federal government datacenters and servers was $450 million, and the Dept of Energy said each facility can use 100 to 200 times as much energy as a commercial building. Despite all that energy and monetary expenditure, two years later the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found that government server utilization rates were as low as five percent..."

"Data Center Optimization: Agencies Continue to Report Mixed Progress Against OMB's Targets"

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-105118

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-105118.pdf
>They don't inform their viewers, they weaponize them.

Just the same as Fox, just the same as OAN, just the same as RT, just the same as MSNBC, just the same as ...
Pagination is harder than it seems to get right.

I think pagination is only predictable under these conditions:

1) The offset used for the next fetch must be based on a pointer to a unique key. We can't rely on the number of rows previously seen.

With this rule, deletes which occur to rows in previous pages will not cause unpredictable contractions.

2) The paged result set must be sorted based on a monotonically increasing field, like created_at, plus enough other fields to create a unique key. You could lean on the PK for this, i.e.: ORDER BY (created_at, id) ASC.

With this rule, new inserts which occur during page enumeration will only affect unseen pages (and we'll see them eventually)

The API call looks roughly like this:

/orders/?region=US&offset=(2022-03-12T07:05:58Z&ord_1234)&limit=100

The DB query looks roughly like this:

SELECT *
FROM orders
WHERE (created_at, id) > (:offset_created_at, :offset_id)
OR (
:offset_created_at IS NULL
AND :offset_id IS NULL
)
ORDER BY (created_at, id) ASC
LIMIT :page_size

EDIT: formatting
I feel your experience is the stream end game:

Imagine you get two choices. One great quality and mundane to poor programs. The other is super compelling, but of dubious to low quality.

Which do you use?

Given a limit on stream throughput, choice will push quality aside every time.
Yes, 2000's my mistake. A relative of mine did this in 2000's and before. It was quite invasive, requiring information about the number of types of rooms in households and plenty of other information people were not comfortable giving.
"Less convenient"? How about "doesn't show up"? Or "busy signal all night"?
The UI got me too. I'm still dumbfounded at how amazing this really is.
I am totally ready to read rational discussions that in no way is colored by hatered of either side or belonging to a particular religion or political beliefs or consperacy theories you have read about either side. I am also totally expecting everyone here on HN to be expert historians and masters of international relations.
from my experience this is quite normal in Taiwan and Singapore too.
I saw few leave their iPhone or Laptop on the food court table.
Speed in a crash isn't a particularly big problem. The dangerous bit is how quickly you decelerate. Going from 100kmh to 0 over a few hundred meters and a few seconds by bouncing around the road and the barriers won't be much fun but you'll walk away. Going from 100kmh to 0 by driving in to something stationary will kill you pretty much instantly unless your car's safety tech saves you by giving you a cushion of air to decelerate in to.

Speeding isn't dangerous. Stopping is.
Yes, it says "On Monday, the CDC released a study finding mRNA vaccines __90% effective at preventing infection__."

I remember last year when this news hit, that bit about 90% effective *against infection* was amplified and played nonstop for the public. The message was clearly get vaccinated and you will not get sick.

It was not until July and the CDC MMWR report on the Providence, Rhode Island, bear week festivities that lead to unexpected breakthrough infections that the CDC admitted the vaccines were not 90% effective against infection anymore. Unfortunately this updated message has never been clearly told to the public, at least not as clearly or loudly as the original 90% protection against infection message.
> The NYT is a good source of information, but it depends if it's 'straight news or opinion'.

Is this that same newspaper that was one of the primary cheerleaders for the US invasion of Iraq?
I mean, most of the cloud is theater that your managers want to see. Setting up queues, distributed storage (s3 compatible), etc is incredibly easy these days. There’s very little reason for using the cloud, unless you really need the elasticity and I can only imagine a very few verticals that actually need it. Everyone else just “thinks” they need it, the reality is there elasticity requirements are on the order of 5%-10% of a baseline, which they’d save far more with bare metal all the way.

Don’t get me wrong, serverless is pretty amazing until you get to a certain scale. The cloud really has that going for it.
Has the T-14 actually been mass produced?
There's a similar thing in Germany with the Landrover Defender: Apparently there are plans of bringing it back, in collaboration between Landrover and Fendt, a company that produces and markets land machines. In order to get the Defender to comply with environmental standards, it will have to be classed as a land machine and therefore won't be allowed to go faster than 40 kph [1]. -- This is not even just a lonely wacko importer, but this is about marketing a mass-produced vehicle.

[1] https://explorer-magazin.com/fahrzeuge/landrover-kooperation...
Agree with you on Boyle and Bagel being good and Jikh being bad.
Strongly disagree with you on Meet Kevin. He's on my bad list. Just my opinion.
Given how hard it is to find out what kind of research happened in Wuhan, despite it was possible to inspect it for as long as needed, I find it hard to believe that one can that quickly and single handedly (esp in the current context) be certain that some biological weapons were actually developed in that lab.

I've also witnessed a lot of biased "journalism" in India to push that unreasonable narrative.

That's more likely propaganda doubled as a humorous reminder of the WMD in 2003, in my opinion.
I forgot my laptop backpack on the benches in Shibuya station on a drunk Friday night. The station staff retrieved and kept it for me. I thought it was a goner and I was few months old to Japan then.

The honesty system works on mutual trust
Of which you - contrary to the other commenter in the thread - failed to provide sources of.

You cherry pick one example and talk about there being many, many more. Yet it is the other side shows sources that you with few words "argue" are not valid - also without providing arguments, sources, anything.

You are not discussing in good faith.
I have, and I found QtQuick and QML to be a better experience for reactive UI programming.
What makes you believe Russia will not end up losing?
Reading this makes me feel like a take all the magic GraphQL does for granted
The macbook pro M1 is actually cheaper, at $1999, the precision 5500 is $2300
TL;DR the link is about Ukrainians vs. Poles, not about Jews and/or Holocaust

Ukrainians and Poles were enthusiastically massacring each other for hundreds of years for various reasons (Catholics vs. Orthodox, serfs vs. land owners, nationalists vs. nationalists and so on). This part of history is accepted by both sides. It's true, that collateral damage included Jews sometimes. Some Eastern European Jewish historians describe it as "always choosing the wrong side". Jews were targeted for managing estates of Polish nobility, participation in establishment of Communist rule in Ukraine in 1920s, participation in establishment of Soviet rule in 1939-1941 in Western Ukraine. But they were never targeted for being Jews.
How is it same? I thought traditional vaccines are about injecting the diluted viral load to trigger immune response whereas mRNA vaccine is about injecting rna fragment that hijack your body cell to make the foreign protein to trigger immune response.
Isn't the whole mechanism different?
Meta employees say goodbye to perks like on-site laundry
I agree. I remember the following saying:

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."

I don't know if it is 100% true, but I am certain most people would turn into vegetarian. As time has passed due to ruthless industries, I think we should replace vegetarianism with veganism.
The article I posted has a quote and video of the director of the CDC explicitly saying in March of last year that vaccinated people "do not carry the virus" and were 90% protected __against infection__.

That's a direct quote from the head of the CDC, it does not get more official or more of a primary source than that IMHO.
yep, turned from a good news source, to a 'tv version of a tabloid'

Sad to watch. MSNBC is similar (trying to copy Fox's model, of being highly partisan and very exaggerating everything)
If FF didn't do that, it would still be a security nightmare. XULs are available in some FF forks, which are security nightmares.