skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Caught COVID twice before the vaccines were available.

minor detail - vaccine does little-to-nothing to decrease the transmission of COVID-19. The vaccine manufacturers details will confirm this, if you read carefully.

edit a comment snippet below is clear and well-worded so I will repeat here -- agree : The "decrease of transmission" is really only talking about "If I'm in a room with a COVID positive person, will I get sick?" and nothing about population level "decrease of spread" because there are less contagious days per person per infection.

yes
I have heard too many horror stories about Ceph (and OpenStack) to be confident about that. I certainly don't think I can truly beat S3 on cost or performance at the terabyte scale for household data - and while larger scale would give on-prem savings there are also higher expectations (in terms of availability and performance) of a multi-perabyte storage array.
It’s not supposed to be cute, but actually a useful historical fact. To be well clothed in any moment in human history would take the currency equivalent of roughly an ounce of gold. Since gold has been actual currency many times throughout human history (and is again in Russia as of a few weeks ago) it’s more useful than, for example, pricing in bagels.

Also note that while the value of the dollar in real terms can vary minute to minute and swing percentage points day-to-day and many percentage points year to year, retail pricing will take time to catch up due to the length of the supply chain and the cost of repricing. Retail pricing is “sticky”.

Keep in mind that over the last 100 years the US dollar has lost ~95% of its real value. It will most certainly do so again, and my opinion is that it won’t take nearly as long the next time around.
Yeah I don’t recall any problems in WSL but like I said it’s been years.
Oil (WTI) is up only ~10% since the war started
> One thing we need to step away from is this framing that there are "sides" to be on.

Two sides/devil's advocate is the basis of philosophy, thought, learning, etc. To claim otherwise is to demand blind obedience to authority.

> As an example, are there two sides to the flat earth debate? If you say yes, then you're admitting that people who think the earth is flat have an equal standing with someone who knows that the earth is round.

Nobody is saying they are on equal footing. They have a right to their opinions. But the facts are what matters.

800 years ago, you'd be demanding everyone believe the earth is the center of the universe and that anyone who says otherwise is a heretic. You'd be saying we shouldn't legitimize indefensible things like heliocentrism. In my opinion, the side that is trying to stifle debate/opinions/etc is the wrong side. If someone says they are a flat earther, just show them a video of the earth.

Do you realize that just a few decades ago, the idea of vaccination was viewed as indefensible and anti-science? Much of the scientific community viewed vaccine advocates as charlatans. After all, you'd have to be a lunatic to infect yourself with disease right? Almost everything you hold dear and absolutely true today were once "indefensible things". Including almost everything medical and scientific.

Instead of trying to stifle debate, just bring facts with you and you'll be fine. Nothing is gained by zealotry.
Why don't you address any counterfactuals that don't fit your theory?
> It’s a free country if people don’t want to be vaxxed they can take their chances...

Can you name a single person in America who has been held down against their will and administered a vaccine? Can you name multiple, coordinated instances of this happening? Can you point to a lawsuit?

If not, you should stop repeating this.

> In all honesty your attitude creates a lot of the problems you describe.

I used to think that too but ultimately what you have is a group that cannot be reasoned with ala flat-earth proponents and no amount of information, debate, or reason would change their mind because the point isn't to understand, it's to create a lifestyle and culture. It's like a religion. The only thing that's left to be important here is to combat disinformation by bad actors and prevent further corrosion of civilization.
Oh, I remember that word now: "pseudoscience"; it used to be regurgitated everytime someone stepped into a pool of reality-altering facts. They never manage to pin down the 'pseudo' or the 'science', or contribute (like old-school hippies) anything to the collective.
It started in 2011 and probably won't end until we become a fission-powered civilization.
What is Everything?
I mean sure but you have an account with Let's Encrypt too which can be arbitrarily banned. LE has even less accountability.
The fake artists problem on streaming platforms
> I don't think there's a strong argument in favor of the usefulness of Covid.

There is definitely a strong argument in favour of not shutting down an economy because of it.
Yeah wine doesnt work with USB. It's crazy you need iTunes (which is being discontinued) to copy music to a device you have access to and can connect to your computer. It's the only hold up I currently have to getting an iPhone. I have a lot of music that just isn't sold or available on any streaming platform that I'd like to copy over but I dont have a windows or mac available. I do have several linux machines available though. I bought a 13 Pro but had to return it. So bummed because Im over Google/Android.
> ... and yet it's still the ONLY cross-messenger system, not everybody uses group chats, and not everybody cares about status updates or whatever.

There is Matrix. The issue is that people don't know what actions are E2EE and what is not.

> That's not what it's for, and email is not "real time communication". I have an archive of email going back 30 years. Forward secrecy is not always a win.

It was listed under the "encrypted messaging" section.

> That's an awfully strong statement to make without a threat model...

It's not, its that browsers have evolved to the point where a lot of those extensions are unessary and actually are counter to privacy, modifying your fingerprint to be unique.

> ... but you list "social networks", which are intrinsically "not private" in their very purpose, just like video sharing...

As it happens we're removing those sections for this very reason https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussio...
Grew up on this stuff. Still fondly remember the warez bots in channels that would forward emails with archives attached for pirated software, often in 1.44MiB increments since it had to fit on floppy disks.

It was a gateway for many of us into other distribution mediums for pirated software. I was part of that scene for years helping with various tasks as a teenager.
Real Estate?
I was in a similar situation in the mid 90's when I was 13 and wanted to get online but wasn't allowed to. I ended up finding a loophole in where if I launch the Prodigy installer from the CD, it would dial up to the Internet to get a local list of servers. I found that I could minimize the full screen installer and could use Internet for about 10 minutes before it kicked me off. I could only do this when my parents were not around and I had to constantly run a long telephone cable to their room and unplug their phone as that was the nearest jack. That worked for good while. :)
Zapier is vulnerable to disruption both ends of the dev/integration chain (code/no-code), and they have been for some time. Their primary edge (IMHO) is a huge ecosystem of integrations unmatched by their competition. I don't see that edge persisting. It won't be long before OpenAI-esque UI's can generate no/low code integrations and as you'll see below there is plenty of conventional competition.

They've had adequate funds and time to implement bulk actions, interface improvements and ecosystem enhancements that would benefit users, but not much has emerged. I use Zapier and some of the providers below as alternatives:

Integromat

Pipedream

Mulesoft

Jitterbit

Built.io

Workato

JBoss

Celigo

Parabola.io

Integrate.io

IFTT

CloudHQ

MixMax

Regardless, as a private company they're really only beholden to their owners, and they generate enough revenue (and presumably NET profit) that one could imagine ownership perhaps confusing focus for what might (or might not) actually be arrogance.
I wonder about the "worth paying" thing. As an example, I worked at a FAANG company for about 10 years and every project I worked on flopped, was cancelled, or wound up being a net cost. In some sense, the real dollars and cents sense, I wasn't worth anything and yet was paid quite a lot.

My impression is that the FAANG companies have a relatively small part of the company that makes them insane amounts of money (e.g. search ads) and then the rest of the company is just soaking up a lot of that money. In this model of the universe FAANG companies are just over paying software developers and the other companies out there without their own infinite money machine shouldn't actually be learning the lesson that they need to pay their developers more because maybe, as a business priority, they shouldn't be.
When someone get's a nose job, do they also get brain damage as a side effect?
The only reason the charitable foundation is able to exist at all is industrial interest, though? That seems fair.
Cool! Let's port it to C and make it really fast!
“Consider this example: Person A, displaying some humility, says : "You might be right, there is a chance politician X is in the wrong". Person A assumes this is interpreted by Person B as: "There is uncertainty about politician X being in the wrong" Person B actually interprets this as: "Person A has admitted, without any doubt, to politician X being completely in the wrong"”

Reminds me of a discussion with a neighbor. I was talking about things I didn’t like Obama or Biden had done. His response was “see? Should have voted for Trump”. He didn’t understand at all when I told him that Trump is even more wrong in my opinion. People are trained to totally agree or disagree with one side.
> I think COVID showed how ineffective the federal government is in the face of a crisis.

I've always said, the federal government is only good at killing people (referring to the military)...I'm starting to think it applies to a lot more than that.
I am a retired psychotherapist

There is no research that says medication works for ADHD. medication is developed for big Pharma not the individual. The medication is awful. I have seen the disasterous and debilitating effects on children. Who, in my opinion do not need a tranquiliser at 10 years old. They need better parenting.

In the early 1990's ADHD was quite rare. Amazingly as soon as one child was diagnsed with ADHD suddenly there was an increase in Parents taking their children to the GP for diagnosis. It seems that the diagnosis was spread by parents standing outside the school gates with nothing better to do.

Children are inherently naughty, messy. dishevelled, argumentative, and generally annying but this does not mean they need a medicated cosh to keep then under parental control.

The symptoms of ADHD are experienced by 100% of the human population.

Go to a local therapeutic service and get some therapy to address each and every symptom that you suffer with. There are loads of therapeutic services that provide counselling and psychotherapy and costs are set on a sliding scale depending on your income. usually beteen £5-00 - £25.00 so is affordable even for someone on Universal credit.

Contact your local mental health team or your GP and ask for counselling ans psychotherpay services in the area.

look after yourself. You are wonderful exactly as you are.
> starting point to see what exists for your own research, the bigger issue is that it claims to be curated when it's more like a wiki.

Problem is they also serve to repeat bad/out of date practices.

I always feel people who put together these lists are in a competition to list as many products and cover as many areas as possible, without evaluation.
What is the target use-case of pion? Until AV1 support is added to libwebrtc, how can this be used that wouldn't be better served by using RTP directly?
A postmortem study probably doesn't tell us much about those who regained their sense of smell back.
In full production deployment, sure, but in full production deployment everything is "enshrouded by support tooling" - or had better be, if you want to be able to recognize and respond to incidents in a timely fashion. But if that's not a requirement, there are easier options - my Kubernetes home lab, for example, I set up in about 20 minutes with k3s [1], and it's been ticking happily along for over a year at this point with zero administrative burden. Granted, it'll be a PITA if that ever breaks, but it's a lab and I don't have to care more about downtime than I want to; at worst I'll tear it down, follow my notes from last time to stand it up again, and reapply my manifests out of source control.

Meanwhile, as a developer, I find that k8s does simplify a great deal with regard to deploying services and managing them once deployed - this, in turn, makes life easier for our infra folks, who no longer have to spend so much time splitting focus to provide direct dev support for deployment issues. Which is after all one of the reasons to run Kubernetes at all! It's built to simplify things, but not to simplify everything; there is a deal of irreducible complexity involved in the domain k8s addresses, and because it is indeed irreducible, that complexity can at best be managed and abstracted, not removed. That's what k8s intends to do, and in my experience it does that quite well - not without tradeoffs, true enough, but when in our line of work is that ever not the case?

[1] I mention this in particular because I used to take a view much like you do here, until an HN commenter pointed out in response to my own such fussing that it didn't have to be as complicated as I had understood it to be, and recommended trying k3s in that wise. It's been a year and I no longer remember who that was, but they were absolutely correct regardless!
Almost a Third of World's Top VPNs Are Owned by Chinese Firm
Flutterwave: The African Unicorn Built on Quicksand
What debate is being stifled? It's settled science. This is equivalent to going back and claiming that the earth is the center of the universe and then being upset when presented facts to the contrary.

You have a right to an opinion. I have a right to dismiss that opinion off-hand like I would dismiss someone saying the earth is flat. Would you host a debate with someone at a university about whether or not the earth is flat? If I went to a Python conference and have a lecture on how strings in Python work which were completely contrary to how the language operates would you suggest that this is a matter of two sides, or that it's the basis of philosophy and learning? I don't think so.
Sorry if I’m using the wrong vernacular.

The reason why market prices look so high is because it’s priced in US dollars, and US dollars aren’t worth what they used to be.

The reason why markets go up when the Fed seems completely unconcerned or helpless to stop the worst inflation in decades, is because people are betting that this trend will continue.

If you re-price the market in another unit of measure, like “ounces of gold”, you will get an entirely different picture.
Or just take-a-picture-of-a-picture. It's possible to do such things much more convincingly than when Trump tweeted out that classified satellite pic in 2019 with a flash visible in the middle of it.
The difference between a systems engineer and a software engineer is that to a systems engineer a half functioning 5MB docker image is okay but to a software engineer a fully functional 5GB Node image is fine.
TBH, I'm pretty surprised that core inflation seems to have not grown as much as expected. That's actually very good news, given that core inflation is lifted by fuel prices (since increased fuel prices influence prices across the economy).

This... seems like a good news story?

Obviously the Russian invasion of Ukraine has royally messed up fuel and food prices, but that's a specific shock that's independent of larger macroeconomic issues.
Redbean is just 155Kb without the need for alpine or any other dependency. You just copy the Redbean binary and your static assets, no complicated build steps and hundred MB download necessary. Check it out: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/redbean-docker
The article states:

> In the region of *olfactory bulb and olfactory tract*, COVID-19 infection was associated with axon pathology and microvasculopathy, particularly in patients with smell alterations; the olfactory pathology did not result from direct viral injury and may be associated with local inflammation.

That is not the same as "nerves and blood vessels in their nose".

For those curious here's an image of where the olfactory bulb is [0]. It's pretty clear that any "layman" would define this as "in the brain". I don't think this is alarmist, rather that you are misunderstanding where the region effected is.

0. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Head_Olf...
Russia in 1939 under Stalin is not the same as 2022 under Putin. The big decision make is mobilisation. Finland had a population of 3.5 million compared to 40+ million in Ukraine. They won't be able to fight without at least partial mobilisation as seen by the types of troops they send (RosGvardia and OMON are police force not military).
I did some cropping of the LOLA dataset to a .raw that Unity3D could understand as terrain input: https://github.com/amb/SplitTIFF ... a couple of years ago

Happy to hear any better alternatives for the task.
If people wanted to vote to keep peace and a stable economy, they probably wouldn't have voted for Biden.

Supposedly a majority voted for this and are now complaining about what they voted for. Maybe they didn't vote for this and voter fraud really did happen...
But why would you prefer Docker like this over, for example, running thttpd directly? Saves you a lot of Ram an indirection?
Man, those gifs were the best.

I feel like I went on a similar journey to you. I wouldn't be where I am today without that beginning.
EDA companies, like Cadence and Synopis are consistently unsexy with their tech choices. It's mostly desktop software in C++ or Java.
I'm going to put my tin hat on here but if covid-19 was leaked from a Chinese lab due to error or whatever, the reason they're having such strict lockdown measures like in Shanghai make much more sense when you see papers being released regarding damage to the brain than if it was a regular virus leading to a flu - especially in highly vaccinated population centres. Assuming a lab leak they may well be aware of these effects already from previous research and therefore enforce zero-covid to avoid it because it's riskier than we currently understand.

This stems from my thoughts that it is fairly likely to be from a lab and that the lockdown measures of physically padlocking buildings to the point vaccinated people are starving in Shanghai for weeks is just incredibly OTT for what the risks are viewed as in the West.

And I take the tin hat off :)
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The Incoherence of Gender Ideology (2021)
There's a book by Resmaa Menakem that includes something like this. He wrote My Grandmother's Hands & Rock the Boat. Acronym SNAPS: stop; notice; accept; process (?); shake-it-off (and keep going).

Blindboy on his podcast talks about this as well. His mental-health specific episodes are particularly valuable, covering Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and ways to outgrow anxiety, among other topics.

A counselor advised something like the steps you wrote when I struggling with processing work emails: break the task into smaller and smaller steps until you can do one step, then check in with what the body is feeling and opt to either continue or stop and take a long, slow breath (ideally 5-6 seconds in and 5-6 seconds out, per Breath by James Nestor) or several or whatever helps, then keep going.
> What's your take on Briar?

Briar is audited was audited https://briarproject.org/news/2017-beta-released-security-au...

It's a decent piece of software.
No this is typescript. They meant what they said. ;)
I was working out of a studio apartment until this year and I honestly didn't feel like my WFH set up took up any real extra space:

In the beginning I would use the breakfast bar and just put the laptop up after work. Later on I bought an Ikea arm chair and an end table that just stayed in a corner I didn't use. This is all in addition to the partitioned off area for my side projects that had it's own desk and chair.
It's easy to run into this situation if you regularly have two windows side-by-side, and switch back-and-forth between them so that the focus could be in either window at any given moment. If you only have windows maximized (as I suspect GP does) it's not something you'll ever run into.
https://chrisbergeron.com

Technology Blog, projects I build, random miscellany.

It's a static site generated by hexo.
It still is; [1] is listed as a source in the FAQ.

[1] I typed <spider web emoji><ring emoji> but HN ate it. Apparently the name of this webring is unspeakable here.
Aggregating individual opinion (sometimes) has a washing-out effect on bias, which makes it valuable as a tool to push towards objectivity. [0]

This is why I much prefer to follow guidance from institutions over individuals. There's also a "stewardship" in institutions that seems effective in countering other forms of bias (but not all).

Of course there's a whole lot of bias left over that doesn't make this a fire-and-forget strategy, but comparatively it seems closer to objectivity than to just trust one's eyes alone, which has effectively zero systemic corrections for bias.

[0] - You may know about this already, but I think of it like crowds singing, and if you'll afford me a bit of metaphorical license, here's a better explanation of how that works than what I could write: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/382429/in-concer...
Edit: Read counter-arguments in comments to this below.

And shadowstats.com puts it to 17.15%:

March 2022 CPI-U annual inflation hit a 40-plus year high of 8.54% [up from 7.87% in February], the steepest inflation pace since December 1981; March 2022 ShadowStats “Corrected” Alternate CPI estimate hit 17.15%, up from 16.05% in February], the steepest inflation rate since June 1947 (in 75 years).
It may have even caused more inflation as 20% on treasuries adds lots of interest income to the economy on the demand side.
When it became mainstream and old. Popularity and age kills all things cool.
People with hyperthymesia don‘t forget and don‘t necessarily seem to have any other potentially disabling neuroatypicality like autism.

Having it is a premium feature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
Who says they'll need to raise rates to 20% to stop inflation?

I think everyone agrees they can't raise rates to 20% without causing catastrophic side effects.

I think everyone also agrees they don't need to raise rates that high.
I have weekend-inducing headaches pretty reliably (they are preventable/treatable with ibuprofen thankfully) to the point I sometimes take a lower dose of ibuprofen on Friday night to try to ward them off.

Anyone know the mechanism? I think I've isolated away caffeine dosage changes, sleep schedule changes...

It's almost like the work schedule and "it's go time" wards off / triggers some survivalist "don't get a headache now or you die".

I also notice I don't get headaches when I have common colds, when the additional sinus stress would theoretically cause more. My headaches seem to be related to the sinuses, although they have aspects of tension (jaw stiffness and base of skull) as well as vomiting and sensory sensistivity that is kinda migraine-ish, but not.

I also have seen, back when I sometimes did ironman triathlons, that headaches reduced when I got into really good shape, probably around half-ironman shape.