skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe the latter, certainly not the former. Otherwise that's like saying nuclear power is free once we've built the reactor. There are no magical 3d printers which will make an mRNA style treatment on demand and if there ever was the price tag would have more zeros than the average house

What do you mean? I'm not sure I'm totally following your analogy.

mRNA has a relatively simple manufacturing process that is quick compared to other vaccine techniques which should make it cheaper to produce.

> the expedite and simple nature of the production process is expected to lower production and operational costs when compared with the cell-based manufacturing of other biologicals such as proteins, antibodies, plasmid DNA and virus-like particles

Here's a good paper on it: https://www.jmest.org/wp-content/uploads/JMESTN42352119.pdf
Vision-based AI drones outfly world-class human pilots
I ordered my Thinkpad X1 Carbon with a matte display, and Linux pre-installed.
Budibase is perfect for this use case. It is open source and super simple to build an app with. It's used at Apple, Google, Space X and other incredible orgs (power of open source)

Budibase.com
One thing to remember is that the reason why these doses aren't going to countries that want them is that Bill "Open Source is Communism" Gates said so. Remember when Biden wanted to suspend COVID vaccine patents? Yeah, that got the entire rogues gallery of copyright and patent maximalists to circle the wagons and kill anything even remotely related to poorer countries being able to print their own mRNA.

The current situation we have now is what they wanted: rich countries buying up dose after dose long after they are needed while poor countries have to beg and plead for nearly-expired scraps. The end result of this is that vaccine immunity has a shelf-life because the virus has plenty of unexposed individuals to mutate in. No, this wasn't planned, but it is an example of how excessive focus on protecting "intellectual property" generates worse public outcomes.
They are children. By definition, they lack self-awareness, self-control and the ability to perceive risk and danger.

Talking is good but not enough at all.
>current vaccine effectiveness against infection< Is always the lowest percentage,

followed by effectiveness against hospitalisation mid-percentage,

followed by effectiveness against death the highest percentage.
EDLIN in MS-DOS was very similar to ed.

(Here's a short third-party manual that someone wrote. http://www.sqrt-pi.org/boots/Done-That/Edlin-manual/p11.html )
> You are trying so hard to be cynical about capitalism and America here

No, I'm really not. These are my actual opinions.

> Yes, exactly. You can use your mind to decide if you want the product. That's the opposite of mindless.

So who's trying overly hard to support their POV now ? ;-)

> I bought a synthesizer recently

For sure there's consumer benefit to the "everything is returnable" norm, especially in cases like this where it's hard to know if something matches your needs without actually trying it. No doubt it also sometimes works the other way and folk are encouraged to buy stuff they don't need, then never end up returning it so just waste their money.

Of course retail is a generally a win-win, but that doesn't mean the retailer doesn't have their own best interests at heart. They use the "everything is returnable" policy because at end of the day it generates them more profit. They wouldn't be extending you this "try before you buy" benefit if it was actually costing them more than not doing so (unless competitive pressure forced them to).

I understand that "mindless consumption" is not how most people would be happy to describe their shopping behavior, nor is it a good description of everyone, but nonetheless it's hard to come up with a more broadly accurate and concise description of why stores do this to increase sales. Even in your synth case (where try-before-you-buy is plenty justifiable) it essentially fits ... you made the purchase because the store removed any worries you had about whether it was the right decision or not.
Since people hate PE funds so much (after all, they are usually led by billionaires), why is there so much despair over one PE fund selling another PE fund a lump of garbage? I'd think many people would celebrate.
The current vaccine effectiveness against infection for either Moderna's, BioNTech/Pfizers, or AstroZeneca's against BA.4/BA.5 is 0-30%.
Have you tried budibase
> Any digital store or forum requires you to have an account.

The problem isn’t that one needs an account.

> The question is, will a Meta account be different than an FB account?

This is a marketing rebrand of Facebook accounts. In the short term, Meta will position it as a separate identity system. In the long term, each person will have one Meta account for all Meta services.

> No one wants to play video games with their real name and address.

Meta may allow this, but in every case Meta will know who’s behind each Meta identity.
Not entirely the case, BA2.4 and .5 are exhibiting immune escape. And wait till you hear about BA2.75 that’s going to be a wild ride
Fair question and I had too when I didn't have my own. The best way I can explain is - Think how stupid and emotionally strong is the average adult, now scale by a factor of what you think a person who has a fraction of experience and emotional strength.

It becomes scarier once you factor in that kids' learning is not linear, and a 12-13 old kid is simultaneously dealing with hormonal changes as well and you have a situation that most parents can barely deal with!
Yes, get out as soon as you can( with a new gig in hand). Its not worth it.
It's extremely slow to load, even before the spinner starts. This should really be a static site.
They can still do it to non-Europeans
Have you considered why this is?
Was that really the intention? Pretty sure they intended for something better and just settled on this because it was the only feather left in the cap.
I'll take this one. The vast majority of COVID risk is stratified in the very elderly and/or those with diseases of modernity / metabolic syndrome type conditions. Both of those categories (age & diseases of modernity) are much more present in wealthy, fat first-world countries than they are 2nd and 3rd world countries. Thus the utility of reducing COVID mortality is much, much lower in those less "advanced" countries.

I'd also add that even if the absolute death weren't lower in the 3rd world, the relative death would. Being able to be freaked out about an average of .3% chance of dying of COVID if infected is a luxury that those countries struggling with malaria, rampant malnutrition, and insufficient non-COVID vaccination don't really have.
Risk of death due to covid is heavily weighted by age.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
Sad part I remember back in the beginning of the pandemic people mentioning this: we needed intranasal vaccines to properly stomp transmission. Feels like the initial success of Pfizer and Moderna stopped this development
You're correct that if you buy the most popular board for it (LilyGO T-Beam) from the source, you need to do some light soldering to get the screen on, and need to figure out a case on your own. That said, there's now an ecosystem of people on Etsy and other places who'll sell you a pre-soldered board in a nice printed case, e.g. everything under https://www.etsy.com/shop/QuantumShadow3D. Maybe worth considering if you just want to kick the tires without literally getting your hands dirty.
If you're coding in Java, is it really not worth a few hundred dollars to be incredibly more productive in a tool design for Java instead of a fancy text editor? IntelliJ IDEA is incredibly powerful, and it's worth learning things like its more complex automated refactorings, postfix completion, live templates, etc.
Did Paul ask them to handover the money too?

There is such a thing as using our brains and then living with the consequences of our decisions.
True, it is harder when you need to maximize resource utilization. The k8s scheduler did want we requested, but seastar and memory allocation in Redpanda show us (OOM) that POD sandbox has some overhead.
There is no bug... yet. Unless you modify the default argument.

Sometimes I just want to monkeypatch the list to be immutable in my app.
That sounds likely, but if it's true and accurate, who cares whether it's also a cheap attempt to rally the troops?
>fatality rate has always been orders of magnitude lower than in eur / us

Is that because of superior health care and strong leadership, like in North Korea?
But that "better than Smalltalk" would not be Squeak, so I still present the system to people as "Squeak Smalltalk".

While the goal of Pharo is to encourage research even while breaking compatibility (possibly making it not Smalltalk at some point in the future), Squeak is way more conservative. The various SqueakFest events that happened were actually mostly about EToys used by children and teachers and at least some in the Squeak community have keeping that running a priority.

Personally I do use Squeak to research future languages as Alan intended, and it is also a great tool for that.
To be honest at this stage vaccination policies have become little more than a bureaucratic process and a mean to enforce compliance for the sake of compliance. Forcing people to get vaccinated irrespective of whether they were infected or not, or whether the virus circulates or not, or whether they are in a demographics with near zero risk from the virus. It ceases to be a medical consideration. So the fact that we are many variants away from the original vaccine is lost on the political science graduates running the show.
Quoting myself,

due to context switches and parametric entanglement
I've ran across this before, but haven't figured out if a GPU is required to use it. That would be a deal-breaker for any consumer facing web app right?
Why not? Why does your presence imply your responsibility? In the given trolly problem, we can infer how events would unfold in your absence. Why does your presence imply they should unfold any differently? Shouldn't responsibility be voluntarily accepted, rather than imposed by default?

How can you impose a duty to fight evil when "evil" itself has no workable concrete definition?
By way of analogy: They took a precocious, promising young child and assimilated her into the Borg.
You can also wait until September and then renew for 3 years to keep the current pricing through 2025. By then, inflation will have caught up and it'll be just as cheap in 2022 Dollars.
I am not bullish on dirt backed holdings these days. While it is easy to fall into a FOMO mindset in a manipulated market.. eventually the gamblers left at the table always lose. Annual sales are down 43%, record prices pumped another 5%, but inflation is up 7.5% and growing. i.e. you may yet end up one of the lucky ones if you time things right. ;-)
Not quite - cruising, at least AIUI, is more about being seen and seeing people. more of a performance than just letting yourself get lost in the world.
Hungary is just building one right now.
> instead of wood and drywall

Wood doesn't get any weaker with age. Assuming no water damage, 200 year old timber houses are just as durable now as when they were built. In fact 200 year old timber houses in America are more durable than anything you can build now because the quality of wood 200 years ago, even 100 years ago, is better than what you can get now, and the quality of wood 100 years ago in America is better than anything Europe has had for multiple hundreds of years!

Also drywall is a nice material for many reasons. Need a new wall? One day of work. Want to remove a wall? If there isn't a support beam, not an issue. American houses can be reconfigured as the needs of family and society change. My 1950s house has had walls removed and added throughout its life and owners, which is why it has an up to date flow despite what was a very constricted original floor plan.

Also dry wall is easy to fix and paint.

Water is an issue, yes. That part sucks.

Finally, in regards to natural disasters, wood construction can withstand earthquakes far better than stone construction!
so you think they are confident enough to link somebodies randomly created alias, let's say "InteretDude420" to a real name? What if opened a VR Arcade and owned 100 Oculus Quests and made 100 separate accounts?
Anybody not boggled over the idea of their program burning 21 MW for as long as it runs either can never be impressed with anything, or has no head for numbers. Computation demanding power that could hurl a fully loaded jumbo jet into the sky is not something most of us will ever code.
Snow melts based on surface area, roughly - so an igloo will take about as long to melt as a similarly large pile of snow - and those can last quite awhile after the sun warms up.

Warm rain is what kills snow.
I can't help but ask where you're from when that's your initial reaction? My initial reaction was what city isn't safe for taking a walk?
Children are not little adults. You cannot place the same expectations on them as you would an adult. Education or not. I've personally witnessed my kids doing things they knew they shouldn't and were specifically warned against, yet were surprised when the outcome matched what they were told would happen. In this case it was someone offering free stuff via steam and my son's account was stolen.
Fukushima is a good case study. Everybody freaked out about it, but if you actually look at the data objectively, I can't see how it's anything other than a resounding success for nuclear.

In a once-in-a-generation worst-case scenario (an earthquake beyond the safety parameters to which the plant was designed), you have something on the order of a hundred deaths caused by the reactor leak (this estimate attempting to include lifetime deaths from cancer and so on). Compare this to the death toll of the disaster itself -- something like ten thousand people died from the tsunami. And the conclusion we draw is that nuclear is unsafe? Certainly, the damage and disruption caused by the exclusion zone were substantial. But you'll notice that despite the tsunami, people want to move right back into the tsunami zone even though they know there is a once-in-a-generation risk of a 10k death disaster.
Contrasting that tsunami risk with nuclear, "this is worse than climate change and we need to turn off existing reactors" is the opposite conclusion than we should have come to. The correct conclusion IMO is "even extremely rare disasters now result in relatively small damage and death toll". In other words, Fukushima should update you towards thinking that modern nuclear is quite safe, not away from that.

One PR problem that nuclear has is that we have extremely sensitive detectors for radiation, so it was possible to detect an increase in radiation in Pacific fish following the Fukushima disaster. The lay public doesn't understand that this is increase was something like one banana's worth of radiation per fish, completely harmless. We simply have extremely sensitive detectors, and most people aren't able to understand the concept of orders of magnitude that small.

While I definitely don't advocate for dumping nuclear waste in the ocean as a general approach, it's worth noting that deep underwater is not the worst place for a small amount of nuclear waste to end up. There is a lot of water in which to dissolve the radioactive particles, and so it's unlikely to actually cause harm. For example the one-off plan to discharge Fukushima cleanup waste water in the ocean was controversial but probably makes sense.
Horrible is the wrong word. It's like meeting someone and they stink.

In my experience the people who consistently fail to draw these lines also tend to end up being some sort of toxic to you and or your friend group and or your company.

Invite a friend who stinks because they don't shower? You're going to lose friends over it who don't want to be around it. Invite a friend who publicly displays porn? Same deal.
Is there any KEPs?
Thanks!

My dance card is a bit full, now, but this is the kind of stuff that makes my heart warm. I've been messing with hardware forever (my current project is all software).

Is that the main guy behind Meshtastic? I'd probably just get a couple of the prebuilt radios, but not until it was time for me to start working on the project.
What was the concern about typing too fast? That the mom couldn’t monitor what they’re typing because they were submitting before she could finish reading?
That looks pretty cool, I'll have to check it out :)
> Recently we started calling anyone proposing higher taxes a socialist, which indicates total illiteracy, as it has no bearing on centrally planned economy

This too is ironically it's own redefinition because originally (and still to many socialists today) socialism means workers' ownership of the means of the production, which undemocratic centrally planning states never were and never could be.
Check out Imba [https://imba.io/] It makes really simple to do what you're asking for.
Since I still login to Facebook at least once a month to see what my family is doing, I see no reason for me to switch.

If I was starting with a new device with no prior purchases of entertainment content, then I would create an Oculus account.

For me, Oculus is the one really great thing about Meta/Facebook. It is my favorite toy.
The title for https://squeak.org/ is "Squeak/Smalltalk"
Ask HN: Should we call it 'aesthetics' instead of 'technical debt'?
There's a couple reasons I don't feel the term 'technical debt' is very good:

- There's an implication that it should be 0, but anyone who's ever worked on a large enough project will tell you that any large project will have some technical debt. When you get down to practical implementation there's always tradeoffs that have no single clear answer

- There's this dissonance where the things that are called 'technical debt' are potentially serious enough to cause problems, but not serious enough for anyone to actually prioritize dealing with them.

Using the description 'aesthetics' makes more sense to me

- I think it's inherent that aesthetics has a subjective element and that there's no way to drive it down to 0 or 100 or whatever.

- I think it helps with prioritization by setting the right context. "Removing technical debt" doesn't sound like a particularly productive activity, but "improving aesthetics," while clearly not as high priority as, say, "improving functionality," at least carries the connotation that something will get improved as a result of the work, even if it's something not totally tangible.

What are HN's thoughts? Are there other words besides aesthetics or technical debt we could/should be using?
The abstraction is duplicati. It's trivial to change the back-end so I'm not sure I'd be too concerned about vendor-lock.

If you want a generic remote zfs fs it's going to cost $$$. I have that but it's not offsite.
There are two ways to teach a kid to not run into the street - you can yell at them every time they do or you can explain why streets are dangerous.

This applies to most things.
> I heard that the flu vaccine is also around 30% effective.

The flu vaccine is so ineffective that if we actually applied evidence-based medicine standards to it / actually looked at a real cost:benefit analysis, we would never be pushing the flu vaccine.

https://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-prevent-influ...

> Injected influenza vaccines probably have a small protective effect against influenza and ILI (moderate-certainty evidence), as 71 people would need to be vaccinated to avoid one influenza case, and 29 would need to be vaccinated to avoid one case of ILI. Vaccination may have little or no appreciable effect on hospitalisations (low-certainty evidence) or number of working days lost.

So: a miniscule reduction in actual flu cases (granted, a slightly-better-but-still-weak reduction in general ILI), with no appreciable difference on hospitalizations or working days lost, meaning that the economic benefit of giving the flu vaccine is basically zero.

It's pretty great that the first world (at least America) has been so heavily socialized to accept the flu vaccine as effective and necessary, because it makes arguing for the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine much easier, since the bar is so incredibly low.
I built a keyboard PCB and wrote firmware for it in Rust
Yeah, also for PDP-8s and PDP-11s, which were very popular at the time.

TECO-like editors are interesting to use:

Unlike line editors (like ex/ed/edlin, etc.), the edit position can be anywhere, not just at line boundaries. But there is no screen, so you really need a good imagination to keep track of this..

Also, they can edit files larger than can fit in the edit buffer, but not in the way this works on modern editors, where the editor manages everything. Instead, the editor makes one pass through the large file, copying it from input to output. You get to make changes along the way, in the part of it that fits in the edit buffer.

TECO has a page concept to help with this: you break your large file into pages separated with form feeds, and there are commands to retrieve the next page from the input file and write the old page to the output file. But I've seen TECO clones without the page concept on early micros.

Vestiges of this page concept remain in emacs to this day..
There's nothing quite as infuriating when people scream about NIMBY being a deal breaker for nuclear, then peddle damming up entire valleys where people actually live right now to use as pumped hydro storage. It's like they can't even hear themselves speak.

And as you point out, most recent battery advances seem to be on par with graphene in that they promise everything yet can't seem to leave the lab, much less be manufactured anywhere close to the scales required.

Out of all the renewables I suppose wave power is the most prospective right now. It's consistent, runs 24/7, and could be placed at most shore locations. Probably not quite enough output to make a dent though.
> All the now >50 year old reactors should have been replaced with newer versions at some point.

Seems like an issue with how humans think in general. "It's not an issue now, so why worry about it?"

These sorts of creeping disasters never seem to be addressed by any society in a timely fashion.
The firmware has a 'default' channel where the psk is well-known: https://meshtastic.org/docs/settings/channel

> Selecting a default or any of the simple values from the following table will use publicly known encryption keys. They're shipped with Meshtastic source code and thus, anyone can listen to messages encrypted by them. They're great for testing and public channels.

In $west_coast_city I've gotten a fair amount of random pings on default settings.

Other projects (using other base technologies) like https://www.arednmesh.org/ are more focused on joining an already-existing network than making your own.
They broke the emerging VR software ecosystem into the open side which many companies supported and a Facebook only proprietary one they asserted ownership and control of. Before Facebook bought Oculus there was cooperation and native software interoptibility between Vive and Rift.

Then they stopped supporting desktop head mounted displays for the most part and switched to building face mounted VR computers that happened to have an initially janky, and always higher latency, passthrough mode to support acting as a display for a real computer.
Roblox is extremely predatory outside of child grooming scenarios as well due to the fact that every game includes dark patterns in order to get them to spend money in order to progress because they won't get moderated. I imagine it would cause addictive behaviour.
The goal is not to end organized crime for all eternity. It's to arrest as many criminals as they can today.

Tomorrow they'll think of a carrier pigeon spy.