skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> , so there's no need to draw conclusions from a single anecdote

In the meantime we are still waiting for the raw data to be made public about Pfizer's vaccine trials. Strange that we can inject billions on people on Earth yet nobody apart from a selected few were allowed to see that.
Ah, I missed that, and now I can no longer edit the title.
>I want my device to be as protected as the contents of my brain

No offense but that's not really relevant to the question at hand. The article debates whether the American tech sector is conducive to American national security, not whether your phone is sufficiently libertarian.

the points raised are perfectly valid. The tech sector is out of alignment with law enforcement, out of alignment with the American military sector, potentially more in alignment with foreign governments, and social media companies may be destabilizing society at a cultural level.

So in short the American tech sector is a competing power center that sidelines the interests of the state and the nation. Funnily enough China which is mentioned multiple times ,despite popular perception in the US, actually does have the same problem. Which is why they did exactly what the article demanded, which is pursue anti-trust measures and bring the hammer down on big tech.
That’s basically how I feel. Suicide is not the ideal outcome for anyone, but nobody can stop somebody from doing it. They already have the option for it, because it’s their “God-given” right to take their own life. So the government does not need to give them this option. And it cannot prohibit it. Assuming the government wants to “do something” about it, that leaves them with two possible policies: facilitate it or mitigate it.

In my opinion, mitigating it is the clearly correct choice, because facilitating it would lead to suicides of people who would counterfactually eventually regret it. Whereas mitigating it would at least lead to “false positives” that are failures to prevent someone from suicide, rather than failures to save someone from it.
> So much damage has been done to public trust

Anti-vaxxers aren't new. What we have here is an unhealthy mix of exceptionalism, anti-intellectualism and contrarianism. There is a psychological comfort in believing you' can see through the [Big Lie/Conspiracy].

Prior to Covid it was autism and vaccine. When was the last time you heard about that? Before Covid. Why? Because we've moved on to another vaccine to be skeptical about. The same thing will happen again.

It goes on well before autism too. Polio and smallpox vaccines had their own oppoosition but now we somehow remember those as the "safe" vacines rather than the baselessly "unsafe" mRNA vaccines.

As far as undermining public trust goes, this isn't new either. It has been the platform of the Republican Party for since at least the Reagan era to completely undermine public institutions through chronic underfunding and then use that "failure" as a justification for further funding cuts.

The sad reality is that America in particular has a problem with self-identifying free-thinkers who are the most easily manipulated of all except it's not by the government: it's by church leaders, politicians, grifters (eg Andrew Wakefield in the autism vaccine era, Bob Malone in the Covid era) and self-declared "leaders" because so many lack the capability or interest for critical thinking and simply want to be told what they feel is right.

Look no furhter than your own comment here: no one said the vaccine means you won't get Covid but that's a commonly pushed straw man argument. You'd know that if you remotely looked into it but I very much suspect you don't care. You've decided that's "reality" so that's that.
The CDC literally rewrote the definition of "vaccine" on their website to fit the new reality.[1]

Sorry, the trust is long gone and never coming back.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/emails-confirm-why-cdc-ch...
> cost under $20

Per-dose cost is meaningless. Now do “multi billion dollar government paid for contracts”.
It was very refreshing to find the rain in the very first paragraph
The parent is not “spreading more disinformation”, as I see it. The comment just gives the opinion that the public is less than optimistic about vaccines after a challenging and rapidly changing public health campaign. I can tell you as a primary care doctor in a highly blue area of the country, I pretty much agree with the assessment—we are seeing very little interest these days, as much as we are trying to offer.
VERS report should be treated as anecdotal, not as data.
What are those attitudes and behaviors, exactly?
Wish they had studies on Colorado's site that went into detail how this medically effects people and the environment.

There are already issues with high levels of PFAs, why add more?
How many people, in what square metreage, over how many hours, does it take you to go from ambient levels to 800?

I can take your figures and calculate the same for my conditions by rejiggering the input assumptions instead of buying a monitor.
> The urgency that prevailed in 2020 has evaporated.

I know parents of young children who are extremely disappointed that it took less than a year to trial and approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for adults, and then a full year and a half to trial and approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5.
Expected errors that need to pass through a lambda - unchecked exceptions.

Our good friend UncheckedIOException.
>in practice it's easy to just stick to tokio. It's 8x more popular than the second contender, and there aren't any important libraries that don't work with tokio.

For now.

Python2.7 used to be 8x more popular than python3.
We are forced to in Australia. I was barred from taking exams this semester since I didn’t have the vaccine. Others lose their jobs. There is no freedom of choice there. It’s a gun wrapped in a blanket.
> even though all their FDA filings and research are mostly public)

Can you point me again to Pfizer's public data about the mRNA trials? Because I'm pretty sure it was never shared.
You would think they would know better after seeing the ultimate fate of Jack Ma.
When I go to Facebook in a browser, it shows 4 messages, but “view as desktop”
Since when does Facebook lie about notifications in order to encourage a behavior of downloading messenger, if people don't know about their mobile browser's "view as desktop", allegedly? I mean, it is a NEW notification indicator after all, not about a message I got a week ago and read then (that wouldn't actually notify me of anything, so the lie would be about it being a notification at all).
The answer is augmented reality, although I’m not sure what the question is.

So many times I have found signage in terminals confusing, frustrating given they must cost $$. Arrows on signs can be really confusing (up right arrow means foreword right or up the escalator to the right?). Sometimes they are just missing (which way is gate A60), or outdated (terminals are permanently changing).
It is a interesting idea (there are some good things in there) but I think there are some problems with it:

- It uses Unicode.

- It seems to be rather complicated, more than it should be.

- I think that it would be better that comments should not be considered to be a part of the structure.

- I think that astronomical year numbering might be better since then there will be zero.

- I am not sure about the media encoding

(However, I also dislike XML and JSON, too (they also have the flaw of using Unicode, and other problems too; this Concise Encoding fixes some of them, and adds problems of its own). I had some ideas of my own designs too though. I think that the PostScript object format is not too bad, although it also has problems (e.g. the binary format cannot use numbers longer than 32-bits, the binary format does not have dictionaries (except as a non-standard extension which is deprecated anyways), etc).)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are far smaller than what happened to Vietnam.

I live not far from there. Seen the range of the damage first hand. The extent of the damage in SE asia is far larger and people are still de-mining the area.

And civilian deaths were colossal in Vietnam. Rapes and massacres (that includes by Americans, yes) certainly weren’t just directed at combatants. Just because American deaths were low doesn’t mean the US didn’t go all out on obliterating the country unlike anything they’ve done before.

Btw, the fire bombings in Japan were far more disastrous than the nuclear weapons. I suggest you Google them. The nuclear weapons were more of a major spectacle. Vietnams bombings exceed even the Japanese fire bombings, both of which destroyed their entire countries. The napalm and agent orange attacks most certainly weren’t fine tuned either and had massive effects on Vietnamese civilians—lasting even to today. Burning and poisoning the earth will do that.
$20 times a billion people times multiple doses is a lot of money.

And I think it's more than a billion people...
You literally ignored all of the parent’s points about wildly changing promises and narratives and inconsistencies to make this for into your story about this just being about an “ unhealthy mix of exceptionalism, anti-intellectualism and contrarianism”.
The Return of the Bison: Europe’s Largest Wild Animal
Do you have any counter evidence? SWAT isn't gonna roll because someone slit their wrists or chugged aspirin.

Now go outside and start pointing firearms at people or taking hostages and you will probably be getting some SWAT attention.
Comcast charges me if I use more than 1TB/mo, so higher bandwidth just means I’m more likely to go over.
this person is such a loser even if he makes a lot of money. someone should get him some help . sad to see someone self-destruct like this
I see it as they can't control technology and academia without stifling it in the process
Ask HN: Does HN do anything to prevent AI-grade bots?
Hi, since conversation between human users at HN is what makes the platform attractive at it is, I am wondering what HN is doing, or is going to do, when more sophisticated bots could land to parrot certain narratives or influence the conversation on important topics. Is there any way to detect such behavior?
Guns kill people. Knives kill people. Hammers kill.. a surprising number of people.
Article body: “No. The article that goes with this headline cannot be answered in the negative without forming a dilemma.”
How do I check if my identity is being used on Upwork? Can I see the names of people there without being registered?
As an American with very little appetite for catching Covid, I'll be first in line for a universal covid vaccine.
Not at all. Just one example, flu vaccines have never been 100% effective in preventing disease - more like 40-60%. And flu patients who did receive the vaccine have better outcomes.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....
As I mentioned in another comment, the President of the United States literally said that if you take the vaccine, you won't get Covid, verbatim.

To your broader point - I think skepticism about the efficacy of the Covid vaccine is a very different (and rapidly evolving) thing than traditional anti-vaxx rhetoric.

If you don't think public trust has declined - why did fewer than 50% of people who got 2 doses go on to get a booster? What changed for them?
That was 2021, nowadays no one here gives a crap whether you're vaxed or boosted or even wearing a mask or not.
With inflation 100 dollars will become very reasonable soon enough.
Purely money making, business oriented, billionaire oligarch-run,100% opaque big tech deciding day to day proceedings is a serious concern. On the other hand snooping by governments is an issue but it is an elected body and replacble should they go wrong. Either way privacy is screwed for users.
Indoor plants do practically nothing.

The most effective is cross ventilation. I no longer live in places without cross ventilation, it's too hard to air out quickly unless the windows are huge.

It's also good to have windows facing the direction of typical wind direction in whatever geography you're living in.
You can calibrate the Aranet4 at any time by putting it outside, and it will set that as 420ppm. Obviously the ambient CO2 levels are raising slightly each year, so this is not entirely perfect.

We have tried a number of different CO2 sensors over the years (mainly from Ali Express), and recently purchased 2 Aranet4’s. We were pleasantly surprised that they report identical readings in the same location.
I came here expecting an article about Fenway Park.
This is not a free speech issue, the government isn't involved.

Why would companies want to pay people to publicly trash them online?
I did mean Layer 7. I've been calling it Layer 8 for a long time now, lmao. Not sure how that got mixed up and made permanent.
He's a musician giving us a tour of the song, which I enjoyed. He does explain why at 4:54.

Maybe drop your "fascination" with rejecting him and just listen you'd find it a simple enthusiast tour/lightweight music class, and appreciate it as nothing more.
That is true of the green wall as well.

And in the US plenty of projects (from interstate highway to James Webb telescope) pass through more than three administrations.
Clearly coerced. What is that choice?
They were different tools and could not be used to replace each others.
*it probably costs a ton more to install

It does (Tesla), but might still make sense if you need to replace your old roof.
I would consider an air over pro but screen size is too small for me. I dislike the thickness on the new macbook pros
Still configurable in Apache :)
As was known before Americans took them: 90 - 180 days useful efficacy tops. That’s why the first vax card already had a half dozen lines to record doses.
Type checking is a part of semantic analysis, which the author explicitly says isn’t present.

Even so, the language it is compiling has only one type, so it isn’t possible for a program to have type errors.

Just like in C++ one never need to check if a reference is null—it simply can’t be expressed in the language, thus preventing any errors of that kind, a single type prevents all kinds of type errors. One might argue that this is the most powerful way to do type checking. It simply isn’t possible to have an error.
What about the CDC saying that "vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick"?

https://youtu.be/uKf8dVxOy0s
What if a debt rebellion was also happening in the US, but few of us knew it was happening?
https://debtcollective.org/
https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/creditocracy/
All the new mortgages in China have floating interest rates.
Jesus yall are something else
instead of a changelog, would be neat to ship a 'spec' file that says what features the codebase provides, as well as detailed semantics

plus maybe a 'fixes' list (because a spec file doesn't need to say 'what used to not work')

then compute diffs of these using git history to produce a changelog
What kind of precondition and what kind of example do you have for the typing? My primary precondition is null checks, which is unavoidable
In fact, if it has the ability Water Absorb, it heals 1⁄4 of its maximum HP when hit by a Water-type attack.
It's not fair to equate skepticism of the covid vaccine to being anti vax.
I can see the appeal of this argument, but my default moral stance is usually non-intervention, so it’s hard for me to grapple with the stochastic downstream effects of state sanctioned suicide.

That said, I also believe the government should provision every citizen with a personal firearm on their 18th birthday, so I guess you could say I do support government facilitated suicide.
never envisioned or authorized by the US Constitution

Oh FFS. It's not religion, that's why it includes an amendment process. Constitutional fetishists are as bad as Marxists, having some good long-lasting principles is not the same as being right about everything and isn't a good excuse to overlook centuries' worth of additional insights because they don't fit neatly into the original codebase.
Ah, nah it can't happen to them, Ma was different!
So here's what the pandemic should've made patently clear: people weigh up human lives against inconveniencce all the time. What is wearing a mask? it's an inconvenience. It clearly reduces transmission rates and would thus save lives but many don't want to be inconvenienced.

Even taking the vaccine is merely on the level of inconvenience. After billions of dollars, the scaremongering horror stories about "side effects" and "long term effects" have of course never eventuated.

Road deaths? We choose the convenience of driving (sometimes at unsafe high speeds, sometimes drunk) over the deaths that result.

Even guns. The very idea that someone with mental health issues shouldn't be able to just go and buy a semi-automatic assault rifle is an inconvenience deemed too onerous.

Gambling? For a small segment of the population gambling addiction is really devastating. Yet we're OK with casinos.

Same for alcoholism.

But 3,000 Americans die in a terrorist attack and we collectively absolutely lose our mind, launching two wars, directly and indirectly killing hundreds of thousands and spending trillions of dollars in the process.

3,000 people is about the peak of how many were dying to Covid every day during the height of the pandemic.

Think about that.
Very few people get the Flu vaccine every year.

People are lazy.
Ditto. I’ve had both boosters I’m eligible for. I’ve avoided catching this damn virus until now and I have no intention of doing so. Vaccines are a modern miracle and people scoff at them. It’s shameful.
How is it not fair? It's the same logic.
> No, if someone has lost their motivation to live, that is the fault of the community around them

Speaking as someone who lives with a gibbering terror of death; we all die. Blanket statements that a motivation to live is essential is an attitude that endorses profound suffering.

It is an inescapable reality that at some point in their lives people need to give up their desire to live if they want peace and happiness. The debate is only about negotiating where that line gets drawn, and it is not set in stone that the answer is how old someone is.
I first heard this story from sources that were not so friendly to China, so I didn't put a lot of credence into the sources, but now its coming from bloomberg.

I hope the people ultimately get the houses they paid for. What a terrible thing it would be to put 20-40% down for a home and to never have it delivered. I would assume there is going to be some sort of bailout?
Tokio 1 is the only async runtime used in production at scale, there's very little reason to use anything else. So you can seek out libraries that use tokio 1 and ignore anything else.
Both Facebook and Instagram have been doing fake notifications for a couple years; for me the end effect is to ignore all red icons or notifications, period. I'm sure someone thought it was a great engagement pattern, but it is also a major trust killer.
Oh, of course I didn't mean to imply that that was all you were teaching! I was just thinking that maybe a compiler that did something a little more impressive (for the effort required to understand it) might arouse more interest and provoke less No-True-Scotsman criticism. Though, honestly, stupid criticism is the vast majority of what HN is capable of, and you shouldn't take the uninformed criticism of HN commenters too seriously.

Of course the compilers you teach later on with variables, conditionals, loops, multiple types, pointers, etc., are more capable and thus more impressive. But presumably they also require even more effort to understand than the "tiny" compiler you're presenting in this gist.

I hope you find many things you enjoy in the links! Even if they aren't directly useful as pedagogical examples, they do demonstrate, for example, that a plain recursive-descent parser is already "two-pass" enough to handle assignment to variables, contra the statement in your gist, "In a more complex language (e.g., adding support for assignment to variables), we would need an additional front-end pass after the parser." Indeed, StoneKnifeForth is a single-pass compiler in less code than your tiny compiler that supports not only assignment to variables, but also arrays, I/O, conditionals, loops, defining and calling subroutines with arguments, pointers, ELF output, and i386 machine code generation with peephole optimization. And it's not because it's written in a more powerful language than OCaml; it's written in the profoundly substandard dialect of Forth that it implements, which lacks Forth's compile-time metaprogramming facilities and in which only one character is significant in identifiers.

I was wondering if maybe my memory of StoneKnifeForth was wrong and it wasn't actually 132 lines of code, because that sure sounds like a lot of functionality in 132 lines of code. It turns out it's 117 lines of code, not 132. (The build process builds a version with comments stripped out, called trimmed.tbf1, and verifies that it compiles identically, to find this out.)

So maybe you can learn some things from them that will enable you to write better compilers!
I'm honestly surprised Apple has not yet released an official USB-C to MagSafe adapter yet.
And as this is the first time any politician has engaged in hyperbole, or been made incorrect by changing information, the American public was rightfully shocked.
I've been using the uHoo air monitor for the last few months. I have one in the bedroom, living room, and office. It monitors many air factors, but CO2 was my primary focus.

My original goal was to have a fresh air intake activate automatically at certain concentration levels, if the outside ambient temperature/humidity were appropriate.

However, living in a hot humid place, the data I got made that solution seem futile. Ventilation for CO2 alone takes so much air that it becomes basically a full reset on dehumidifying and conditioning.

However, this failure lead me to the fortuitous discovery that by adding 36 hydroponic heads of lettuce, I am now going beyond outside CO2 levels, dipping down to 390-400 and only reaching ~700 overnight when it's the worst.
Not mutually exclusive. These are reports of adverse side effects. Data can be reported by individuals.
I really wish them well. Dr Nakamura Tetsu worked for 30 years in Afghanistan and was able to make huge changes there, so I know it is possible.

https://chadkohalyk.com/2021/03/24/nakamura-tetsu/

The one thing my pessimist outlook (and something that might be reflected in other takes here on HN) is that Nakamura was adamant about focusing on local needs. He gave short shrift to global programs and NGOs. What made him different, and what I think made him successful, was that he _listened_ to the people.
"Vaccine skeptic" is just the more indirect way of saying "anti-vaxxer". There's no practical difference.
Well the polio vaccine left people blind iirc. Unfortunately the anti-vax group isnt completely crazy this time. If you haven't seen or heard of adverse reactions click your heels and go kiss your mother: you're one of the lucky ones.
I had to get the vac for int travel and to this day, 6 months later, I still have not recovered my strength. I had covid before that and since then, the first time I barely noticed it, this time it was like a very mild version of what happened with the vaccine. If I could go back I would go nowhere near it. Despite the arrogance most medical professionals display, it seems medicine(atleast this sphere) is the furthest away from true honest science out of all the disciplines.
How do you light the stuff? I toured a coal mine once, and brought some home, and even with a blowtorch I could not get it to ignite - it just popped little pieces off with some sparks.

It was very hard and black and shiny.
I've not been able to find medical evidence that the vaccine has any benefits at all for under 5s.

It's been theorised to reduce severe illness and death (and it's very plausible it might!) but afaict that's never actually been measured.