skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are talking about developments with regular scientific processes attached. So studies from phase 1 to phase 4.

Line we did with Sars-CoV-2 but probably not with as many resources to be able to do these in quite such rapid succession. And like with any former, non mRNA vaccine (and any other drug as well) these studies will be used to determine whether or not to go into the next phase.

Modern medicine has some of the most secure practices, processes and methods to determine whether or not a treatment/vaccine can be securely administered.

Surely in the end (especially in most non pandemic cases) we have the individual decision to use a treatment/vaccine or take the risk of being infected /using another treatment.

And as said - this is OK. As long as the reasons for not using an intervention are based on facts and not on lies and myths. Or on an irrational fear of 'big pharma'.

I can understand fear. I needed to actually read the studies regarding the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines myself. I needed to compare them to studies for other vaccines. I needed to understand the science first to counter my fear of 'wow that is quite fast - I am not sure this is secure'.

But using my brain I was able to evaluate the risks associated with the vaccine and the risks associated with contracting Covid. And from there it was a nobrainer to get vaccinated and boostered.

I would do the same for the respective risk profiles for other vaccines/infections.
I'm currently using Octotree[1]. It has more features than this proposed GitHub implementation. Namely, files have icons, count of added/removed lines is displayed inline, comments are displayed inline (super easy to jump from comment to comment), etc. For now I'll keep using Octotree but I'm curious of the direction this implementation will take.

[1] https://www.octotree.io/
This is problematic, because someone poor then can't drive at all, and someone rich just pays a bit more, to ride his private jet.

It's easy to say "just buy electric"... but that's 40k+ eur right now, and if you live in an apartment building, you have nowehere to charge it, unless you wait at a public charging station for hours every few days.

We have A LOT of people warning against climate change, eg obama:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-record/climate

But we also have obama buying waterfront property, which will supposedly be underwater soon.

https://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-buy-home-on-marthas-v...

Same for the terminator:

https://www.schwarzeneggerclimateinitiative.com/about

But drives a monstrosity of an SUV:

https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/21/arnold-schwarzenegger-car-acc...

So yes... raise the taxes, the poor won't be able to drive at all, their houses will be cold all winter, and massive polluters will still pollute.
I used to pay for Netflix and still torrent its content due to the low quality of video, sometimes mysterious network problems (only with Netflix), sometimes not being able to watch a movie without dubbing (???). Generally, no matter how much magic there is on Netflix's backend that I read about, the frontend seems to be a pile of goo.

But over the years, movies kept disappearing from Netflix and at this point anything I may want to watch is typically not available on Netflix, so I cancelled my subscription. I'm probably going to switch to Amazon Prime, since it appears to have the best offer in terms of content.
No, think about Star Wars. Luke doesn't believe in the Force, doesn't believe Obi Wan is anything but a crazy old man. He has to come to his realization himself and then find the Force in himself. He isn't gifted with it. That truly is a big difference between the classic hero's journey and the newer 2010s films where people just have a magic power.

And people are sort of sick of it. It's why Watchmen or Guardians of the Galaxy stand out against so many boring superhero movies. Because a hero needs to be unwilling, unable, and unbelieving... and possibly not even a very good candidate for heroism. Hollywood shortened the journey with the classic stupid "karate montage to music" thing in the 80s. But now it's just like, oh jeez wow I have a superpower! Cool! So ultimately, who cares? Who can relate to that?

Look at Greek mythology. No one could understand why Zeus got all pissed off, but he was Zeus. He was kind of inscrutable. Man related to demigods who carried our emotions and message as envoys. Or, take Star Trek. Spock is half-human. He serves as a bridge between the alien logic and the emotional, rational part of our nature. We know we should eventually evolve to be like Vulcans, but we value our dirty humanity. So Spock, by occasionally regressing to his human side, is our proof that our humanity itself has value.

There's no humanity in a superhero who's just born with superpowers. That's Zeus. A great hero is like Spock, or Luke Skywalker, someone fighting their inner nature. Otherwise all conflicts are just eye candy, external, and ultimately CGI bullshit.
I assume you never visited YT?
Windows 98 predated both of these, i.e.

> to adding intrusive ads to the main system menu / search around the time Windows 8 was released

...active desktop's channels[0] were basically ads in your desktop

> GNOME’s example of powering “native” interfaces with JavaScript

...HTML Applications, ActiveScripting (with the JScript backend) and an embeddable MSHTML/IE engine enabled both JavaScript and "web views" in applications (in Visual Basic 4 or later all you had to do was to use the web control to get instant HTML rendering capabilities).

With "active desktop" you could even use an HTML or web page as your background, e.g. back then i had a hacker-ish background with scrolling assembly code at the side (the scrolling was done via javascript) ala Terminator - though i disabled it after some days since it was using pretty much all of my CPU :-P

[0] https://i.imgur.com/9AqdbdM.gif

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
> I think you could trace the decline in meaningful storytelling to a political posture in China that is deeply at odds with anything that smacks of peasant uprisings, or power to the people

The first disney mulan is a story about a girl who overcame discrimination and gender roles to come into a position of great honour to the state.

Propping up the state is basically the opposite of a peasent uprising.
Same here. And there are companies I could probably at least get 50 to 80 percent more. With less secure job, with more cut throat management, with toxic culture and the need to work for clients in military or clients like Nestlé and the likes.

So there goes some of the the reasons I am not working there.
If you want left leaning US-critical TV-style news, Democracy Now, Means TV and Novara Media are what come to mind.

Unfortunately theres not much high production value stuff. I gave up on TV news and just use an RSS reader now.
Sunlight is healthy in moderation. Binge suntanning until your skin is blistered and peeling, you become incoherent, belligerent, or unable to tell someone how to get you home is another story.
Another enormous gripe I have with modern movies, other than the (lack of) interesting moral lessons from OP, is the sound design. Loud explosions and music, with quiet, mumbled lines[1]. I'm forced to watch every movie with subtitles on, or to miss a good chunk of the dialogue.

And I'd go beyond that, and blame the mumbled lines for our lack of interesting quotes. It's a lot harder to have unexpected turns of phrase, speech patterns, or novel vocabulary choices when the audience is struggling to understand even the most basic, predictable sentences.

[1] https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-ha...

Edit: for people mentioning audio mixing and stereo, that's only part of the problem. Even with my (admittedly cheap) 5.1 setup, I sometimes miss most of the dialogue in some scenes. I think the change from theatrical to more realistic enunciation is also to blame.
In one of Sir John Franklin’s books about mapping parts of Canada he describes shooting a man because the chap has gone mad (if I remember well).
Would you be more open if I told you that Bernie Sanders believes the same thing I said: https://youtu.be/o8BJ4FajZzg

There's a reason you only hear from him in the media when the party is trying to get people who could vote for someone else to be kept in the party.
Thank you, that's very encouraging.
I think the 1970s and '80s in the UK were the heyday for this sort of thing. Typically you'd have a couple of pints at lunch time - a lot of offices had bars (rather like coworking spaces today..) and often just stay in the pub. The drinking culture had got larger because of the growth of the middle class - more people moving into office jobs.

By the time I entered the workforce in 1999, this sort of thing was on the wane, although it varied enormously by industry and company. I think the change happened because of the increasing computerisation of jobs (where you could do more damage with the tap of a finger), in addition to women joining the workforce in more senior positions. And probably longer commutes, tougher drink-driving laws, and more formalised HR policies.

A small part of me is nostalgic for it, but it was obviously ridiculously unhealthy. That said, a lot of work was actually done in the pub, and it's possible that people found solutions with their social guard down that they wouldn't have found whilst in the office.
Is that even allowed by Apple to collect subscriptions outside of the App Store? There have been many battles about it and Fortnite or some paid email services are at odds with Apple.

Regarding a cross-platform launch, I think launching at the same time considerable increases odds of reaching a critical mass of people joining the hype generated by a launch. In my experience users rarely come back to a place when app was released to a platform they don't have - disappointment factor plays a role - unless they really need it.
This isn't the cold war in the Soviet era. Russia stalled 30 years, while US went *14.

They are similar to Italy now and think they still matter, while it's only the nukes that give them some relevancy on the global stage.
Full disclosure - I have a long-term (sub $10K) holding of Moderna shares.

The best explanation I've heard for it; is that given by Stephane Bancel (Moderna's CEO) to the (excellent) Bio Eats World podcast in the episode "The Machine That Made the Vaccine" (https://bio-eats-world.simplecast.com/episodes/moderna-covid...)

His explanation goes something like this [0] ...

1) If developers have target protein(s) they know they need to get the body's cells to synthesise to fight disease. Then the key advantage of mRNA technology is that it makes activating this a _turnkey_ operation.

2) With Covid-19, humanity got lucky, the target protein(s) were identified very early in the pandemic, and they have remained useful [1].

These, combined, allowed them to construct a viable vaccine quickly (days) before they had any physical access to the virus. [3]

These new announcements are for diseases where targets are similarly well-identified (and promising from a therapeutic pov). I think the potential for this technology to improve the human condition is, to put it mildly, incredible.

[0] I'm an SW engineer, and it's been over a year since I listened to the podcast, so apologies to anyone if I mangle this.

[1] For some diseases, this is apparently not the case, e.g. AIDS

[3] Of course it then needed the same standard, thorough acceptance process, albeit accelerated by running parts in parallel, before being released to the general public.
The aesthetics is an important factor. I'd pay far more for something like Pockit than for a bunch of components hanging off a Pi with no coherent design.
It's true it's not new. But when AI is mainly responsible for rewriting old scripts over and over, every 10 years, and telling children they're new movies, it may be missing out on the human elements that made those stories good the first time.
Consistent prices?
Some strategic ones at least appear to have ben effective: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II

Not do much for area bombing (cf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_Wor...).

In both case we are talking of multiple years of bombing.
For the stuff I work on I prefer the big diffs to be hidden. It's nearly always yarn.lock and I have no desire to see that monstrosity in all its glory.
I value other personality traits and people scoring differently on the big five. Especially agreeableness. I experienced them providing a better and more long term productive team setup.

So I pass on candidates that (on average and I might miss out on great people once in a while) tend to value short term personal gains.

In the end it is a question of how (better in which direction) one tries to influence the environment one is in.

And I decided to take an approach geared towards longevity and sustainability of the team environment.
This has been a standard trope for well over a century. It's not really about "being shown the way" because heroes still have to do some active hero-ing to get to the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

Movies and fiction are about moral lessons packaged into fantasies and escapism. If movies were relentlessly realistic no one would go to see them, because there would be nothing to see.

Even "gritty realism" isn't realistic. It's usually just the same trope populated with shady underworld characters and a flawed or outcast anti-hero instead of inspirational mentors.
As impressive as that laptop was, it was released in the 90s and whereas the version of TP we are discussing was the 80s.
Of course it does. But usually there is no interaction because most people do not interact.

Usually as a student I did raise my hand and asked questions and was the only one or sometimes we were two or three at most in a class of 40 people. Then in a class of 100, or 200 in the University.

Most people sit still, passive. They do not interact. Those people are better served with a video they can play at 2x and rewind multiple times, do automatic speech recognition,use with anki, archive and search.

In fact the best way to learn is a one on one interaction, that would be too expensive to have. I was getting it because most people did not use their share.
I'm assuming this is aimed at people who use vim only when they are ssh'd into a server, because it's a standard default.

I personally use NeoVim, and also (when I'm doing more than a tiny change) use my local NeoVim setup to edit the remote file via scp/ssh.

It's nice both to a) feel totally at home when editing random files with vi or vim on some random box, b) have all the comforts of home when editing a remote file.

(Neo)Vim is more than just an editor, it's more like a UI paradigm and a modular toolkit like a shell. Which is why some people use vim integration with VSCode or their browser so if you're not comfortable with it, I'd suggest running through the vimtutor and giving it a go within your editor of choice (most of them, even online JS ones and browser tools have it as an option), you may grow to appreciate it.
Half of the things that you listed also require engagement outside of working hours (playing music, cooking, physics). It all boils down to how satisfied you are with your competence. You can always work for companies that work with well-established stacks, don't change things every month, and your codebase is stable. You won't have to play catching up.

The side-effect of that is, you "only" have whatever stack they're using as your marketable skillset.
When it comes to pure mathematics, Terrance Tao seems to be von Neumann's equivalent.

As far as others are concerned, they're probably members of the Prometheus Society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Society
u r a genius, u should share this with Oregon State University Permaculture department & say Russell sent u.
We have that mechanism: carbon sequestration. It's what taxes on gasoline should be directly funding.
I've used both Problem Details and JSONAPI errors[0] which are basically the same idea (and I've used them plenty outside of JSONAPI-proper APIs). In both cases if you have a decent error-handling middleware there should be not much difference than outputting any other kind of errors.

One thing to keep in mind re. "maybe-json-maybe-plaintext-maybe-empty" responses is that the more complex your errors, the more likely the error handling encounters an error. If you're trying to send back some JSON or XML but it fails it's usually better to at least shove out a line of plain text and hope it reaches a human than to mask the real error with a second fallback in the "right format" but with unhelpful fixed content.

[0] https://jsonapi.org/format/#error-objects
I means it’s the government who gets paid the medallion fee. So is the government “rent seeking”?
> Even karate kid which shown some training, shown imaginary low effort low time investment training.

The point of his training is that the moves have completely become muscle memory/second nature. I have no clue how long that would take, but it would be significantly more than "low time investment".

Note also that (1) he claimed to have had karate training before; (2) after hebuilds up the needed muscle memory, training continues to teach him when to use what muscle memory.
ZigBee is good, but can grt annoying when you have a lot of them, and you have to think about how to make the mesh resilient (my house is a nightmare for signal propagation...). It takes frustratingly long for all of mine to switch off. A Lightwave bridge would be a way to solve that without relays, though. They provide what you need to turn the lights on and off, and you could use Pockit for larger control panels.
Seeing modern tech {e,in}volution, all on big of IT interests and almost zero for users and other not-so-big companies interests... I disagree.

Actual tech came from the big lab era starting from Xerox PARC, since them no real evolution was made, just improvements and new way to make people bound instead of being empowered by IT, IMVHO that's means just a thing: private-company made IT evolution is harmful for the society and then must be erased so badly that no one in the future will even think for an instance to try re-proposing it.

The solution IMO does not goes much through conferences but through universities that must be publicly founded, and ONLY founded by the public no to research "for business" but "for society", not to form "workers of the future" but "citizens of the future", doing so left a healthy business world and a healthy society.
> Industry is the main consumer of academic CS research, and 84% percent of CS professors receive at least some industry funding.

What's the percentage in other fields? I suspect chemical engineering is driven by the oil industry, pharmacy by drug companies. I imagine aerospace is heavily driven by very few companies.

Of course you could go get a liberal arts degree and be free from the tendrils of Big Dictionary but I think if we limit ourselves to STEM this is likely the standard. Is there an alternative? Or is my hypothesis wrong here?
I've often thought that the look of 1950s films (and of other decades, I guess) was the result of a reinforcing positive feedback loop between film (and TV) and society.

If this is the case, what enables us to break out of the loop?

PS I really like The Drinker.
>> Propping up the state is basically the opposite of a peasent uprising.

True, and fair. I didn't mean to cast Disney as some kind of revolutionary force for anti-authoritarianism at any point in its history. But the Joan of Arc myth means different things to different people, and it's inherently dangerous to the status quo even if it's used for the glory of the state. Such a legend could not be told now in China, because there's too much room for subversion in the individual's self-empowerment.
Voice needs no physical mode-switching. Ask and receive regardless of whether you've got your hands full doing something else, or looking at something else, or don't have your phone super-glued to your person.

There's also no tangential distraction when looking up information. If I'm going to travel I can ask for the forecast (daily or weekly) at places along the way without getting bogged down with unrelated web browsing or advertising.
This is not what the article is about.
Depends on the user agent. Maybe they appear as Chrome.
Indeed. Between the end of autumn and middle of spring, my life basically shut down and I became borderline depressed for that period every year, until the sun started showing up and you no longer only had 4-5 hours of sunlight per day anymore.

And when I moved to a place with more even seasons (and more sunlight overall), I no longer experience this seasonal depression, so yeah, I'd definitely put "good weather" close to the top on the list on how to improve my life, and subsequently, it's a strong indicator on where I can live in the world.
Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers
No wonder everything gets slower and slower every year. These people are shameless.
Jeez, I feel old.
And at what point does this foreign influence they purchase fit in to that plan? There were people who appeared to literally be claiming that Russians controlled the US presidency just a few years ago. The only change, I suppose, is when this bullshit "Russian influence" was at its peak the world was more peaceful.

& that is a bit of a non-sequiter, but a major world power invades a minor one once every decade or so. Nobody got this worked up about it for decades. It certainly isn't worth risking nukes flying.
Is hybrid work the worst of both worlds?
It's a commonly known limitation of all Dengue vaccines. You can look it up in Wikipedia. This is also why there are no dengue vaccines widely used today.
You don't understand the problem. If you have 4% tax and it takes 10 steps to manufacture the product, you will be paying 48% effective tax. If it takes 2 steps, you are paying 8% effective tax. That's why VAT is a thing, and one of the numerous reasons why a flat tax on everything is a bad idea.
Inflation and supply chain snags are shrinking your products
printf() is likewise just a function. If we're not calling out std::format("{}{}",oops); as nonsense then we'd have no right to complain about printf("%s%d",oops) either. I say it is nonsense because it isn't sense.
This reminds me of this Feynman quote: “The philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
i have no idea why we include these in code reviews tbh
Not convinced on the specifics ("Dutch speed limit"), but reduced or no cover for the Nürburgring is very much a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürburgring#Nordschleife_publi...
Azure DevOps is a very solid product in general. That said, the whole work items UI is terrible and inferior to the GitHub issue’s system. Too complex.
Tidbyt hardware display device: a review
Thanks, that clarifies his actual contribution.
FWIW: I can't remember the last time I paid cash for a bus or a taxi. You don't need enough verbal control to give your address: I've taken taxis and have had language communication issues: I just show them the address on a piece of paper.

I only need to be sober enough to walk a short way (Bus) or go up some stairs (Taxi). [most of the ride sharing is illegal here, as they are basically alternative taxis - though they still exist. The taxi service isn't all that expensive, though, and easy to get]
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