skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In itself your statement is accurate: we did not have data that is impossible to have.

In broader context the implication is not correct. We had experts consider long and hard what to do in the case of an influenza pandemic and the consensus for decades had been to disrupt society as little as possible.

This is the WHOs evaluation of NPIs in 2019 (PDF Warning):
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789...

It says Contact tracing, Quarantine of exposed individuals, Entry and exit screening and Border closures are "Not recommended in any circumstances".

The experts thought about and decided it was not worth it.
It's returning mostly old posts, and only searches by title.
I would if there were any decent options that weren't Macs, honestly, and if there was a standardized platform such as the PC.

The success of x86 wasn't only due to software, but also thanks to the standardization of hardware and firmware. You can release a single image and boot it on every PC-compatible computer, because stuff like the BIOS, PCI, VGA, ... are all standard. A bare x86 CPU is of little use without all the thingamajigs that make a PC a PC.

Viceversa, on ARM outside the few boards or computers with an UEFI it's a far west of options, configurations, and so on. ARM PCs will never succeed outside of Apple closed garden until they get as convenient to install and upgrade as their x86_64 counterparts are.
The control logic on those is flawed which makes them incapable of distinguishing between the lawn and the laundry.
Goes without saying, but "Don't google your symptoms." has been an unwritten law of the Internet since Google first became the dominant search engine. WebMD and its knockoffs have been hot garbage for quite some time now.
I tend to skip sites that don't work in Firefox + Ublock Origin.

Unless someone pays me to open them (read: I need them to do work), then I do keep an instance of Chrome around. But only if there is no other choice.
No but that's a really interesting idea. I'll have to think about how we could implement that. Thanks!
I love that Mullvad is doing these public-facing experiments.
I think what they mean is, even at the time, people were tracking excess deaths above expected based on historical info (e.g. deaths might be higher in the winter so an increase or drop might be seasonal) and trying to decide how much of that excess was covid vs lockdown. The car-crash would be in the expected average deaths which had already been subtracted.
Why do scientific studies have such poor user experience?

Partly because they're written to pass peer review, not to inform practitioners or the public.

I want to know one main thing before I read your study - Why should I believe your study? That is: what is the sample size, did you pre-register methods, who funded the study, what type of study is it, etc.

Studies are written for paper publications, but that hasn't been the main distribution method for years.
Funny, the gutteral emotional reactions seem much stronger from people defending their totally not parasocial streamer relationship!

It's so hard respecting people that still fall for Joe's obvious shtick at this point. A child just asking "why?" over and over would be as interesting, and would likely come without the platforming of altright folks and semi constant COVID misinformation.

Edit: honestly why did I even post in this thread. I guess I should've skimmed other posters comments before writing some of my replies. Yikes.
It's a language design feature that makes some sorts of networking code much easier to write. Why wouldn't that be relevant?
I am not an expert on the topic but red language achieves that with a 1MB self contained compiler, so I guess with some additional bloat should be possible (and a lot of work)
Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
> public health officials have a duty of care to the most vulnerable in society.

This seems to imply they only need to protect the most vulnerable. You wouldn't sacrifice strong for weak, that is not duty of care.
> Do you retain standard qwerty staggered layout muscle memory?

Yes, though I use a laptop's keyboard from time to time, which will help.

I use row-stagger QWERTY, and use Dvorak on small, weird keyboards like this.

I think learning a second layout on the same keyboard would be confusing (row-staggered or otherwise).
This is actually a thing in real racing, the fastest times through complex curves look slow.
> I cannot imagine living in a population density of of 742 people per mi² (287 per Km²).

That's a significantly lower than here in Belgium (376/km², and 490/km² here in Flanders).

I'm not sure which country you live in, but although I would absolutely move back home (at about 100/km²) if I could, it's not the urban hell you seem to imagine.
There's a phenomenon in winter here where under the right conditions the early frost in the morning in the fall will be thawed over the buried water lines, which are 7-9ft deep. (Running water of course) I've seen it, but haven't figured how it's done.
I'll look out for the message!
Id assume that the 7700X is basically the 1:1 successor for the 5800X and the reserved the 7800X name for the X3D equipped version that presumably comes later.
They might release a 7700 without the X.
Of note, the 'more death early and less death later' resulted in significantly more death overall. It wasn't a wash.
FWIW, that isn't the "atlassian method" for dotfiles. People have been doing bare repos for a while.

Also, pretty sure they even say at the start of the post they got the original alias from a HN commenter.
You still owe the money back at that point; it converts into a debt, that can be further converted into a lien on your assets. (Also, I think you missed the part where this story is about fiat money, not crypto.)

The point of the insurance step is, effectively, “doubling your money”, so that you can give half of it back, and not be in debt.
I would be curious to know why no one has ever tried to put large solar power plants in the Sahara desert. Covering large parts of uninhabited land with photovoltaic arrays and transporting the electricity to Europe via power lines and submarine cables seems to me easier than launch massive solar arrays into space and beam down the power. I know that many countries in that area are politically unstable, but I guess it is possible to find at least one of them whose government is able to guarantee the security of the power plants upon payment of royalties.
> There were operating systems which took the approach XPCOM has to extensibility, they're not doing so great

The Emacs OS is still doing well! :)

> "Mozilla did kill XPCOM" isn't a deviation from their stated intent.

The issue is that their stated intent changed over time, and their communication about their precise intentions was often pretty poor.

It didn't help that the Webextension transition came on the heels of the e10s transition (5 firefox versions separated deprecating non-e10s add-ons and disabling e10s add-ons), but with relatively little warning, which meant that:

1. Many people implicitly believed that once they adapted their addons for e10s, they'd be safe.

2. Many people put in a huge amount of work to adapt for e10s and then had to redo a large part of it to convert their add-on into a webextension.

3. Some people put in a huge amount of work to adapt for e10s and found out that their work was pointless because their add-ons couldn't be converted into webextensions.

From a technical point of view, much of Firefox's XPCOM/internals were actually sufficiently stable post-webextension (57) that old e10s extensions could have continued to work with little changes. (e.g. VimFx continued to work with minimal changes for ~30 Firefox versions, on Nightly, with very slight hacking. AFAICT it still continues to work, with slight changes, but now with major hacking to get it to actually install.)
This is very interesting. However, our lifestyle is not very linear, meaning that we can have some period more stressful than over. In this context, how do you deal with confounding variables ?
For example, if my inflammation levels decrease in the next few weeks, it might be because I took some ginger everyday but it might also be because I had a less work and therefore more sleep.
Also it influenced Objective-C[0] - it's mostly C with message passing added to it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
I don't know why, but the last info I got there was "Telegram surpassed 500 (https://t.me/durov/147) million active users. " from more than a year ago, and a few login codes
Tragedy of the Commons. We all could use easily accessible, accurate and unbiased medical information, but most people can't or won't pay a website to procure and publish such content, especially when they don't really know if they can trust the site! It's rather circular.

If only there were some association of all people, some kind of organization that included all members of the public, which could collect a nominal fee for common goods and services and then provide them freely after the fact. Some sort of union that governs what goods and services are provided...
Scrolling doesn’t work on mobile if you are using mobile view with content blocking on.
Depends how you tie it to a real person, if the real person has to give up something to sell an identity, make the cost of selling it high.

Problem is also how do you tell the downvotes because their new post is bad from the downvotes because you're in a gang that's attacking someone. Your downvotes have to be scaled with your own reputation, as do your upvotes. And downvotes found to be part of a conspiracy have to be cancelled and affect the conspirator's reputation
I remember Joe podcasting back when there were like 3 podcasts available. He came out shortly after the iphone, the first platform he was available on was probably iTunes. He's been doing it a long time where many have failed.
Writing made me a better programmer
What does uBlock do that 1Blocker can’t if you enable the web extension?
This article reads like a LinkedIn post.

Which isn’t a good thing.

Because it uses that style.

Of writing that you always see.

Is it a modern day haiku evolution?

We will never know.
> Rather like ISP's today aren't responsible for the web pages they deliver - the HTTPS encryption means they couldn't scan or block them even if they wanted to.

ISP's can be required to in fact not deliver certain webpages, usually for copyright reasons. If Telegram redesigns its system like you suggested the courts may just shift to:

Do not broadcast, transmit or make available the channel with the ID XYZ. The channel might not be deleted of course, but if it's no longer accessible that would be essentially the same.
The ECC that is standard with consumer DDR5 is purely on-die, protecting the data at rest but not providing any ECC for the memory bus. It's transparent to the host system. As a result, the CPU and other components do not even have the option of participating in that ECC. It's not a substitute for and does not preclude the use of module-level ECC as in previous generations.

On-die ECC also isn't new with DDR5; it's been used for years on at least some LPDDR4 and LPDDR4x memories (eg. https://www.micron.com/about/blog/2017/february/the-advantag...) and even longer for special-purpose DRAM parts.
> I've talked to a number of real engineers within Google. The folks building the browser have no desire to kill adblocking

Have you also consulted the actual decision-makers at the world's largest advertising corporation who sign those real engineers' paychecks?
What a horrifying comment. You can't seriously believe that we should start censoring speech just because some random podcast guest might have stated some medical misinformation. Do you really want the government deciding whom is allowed to speak? Pretty soon they'll decide to censor someone you agree with, for your own good of course. Don't be naive.
REPL Driven Minecraft
Although cool, this is something with a limited lifespan -- Wikipedia actually plans to break the ability to do this by masking IPs even for anonymous users. See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancem...
Let's be fair to Safari devs, you should probably search for all statuses and not just the bugs and feature requests that are still open:

https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&b...
There are tradeoffs there. Bigger caches mean larger areas, which means longer wires and more complicated clocking. The M1 tops out a little over 3 GHz, vs. 5 GHz for Intel chips and almost 6 for these new Zen 4 parts.[1] Apple then bets that they can make it up with wider execution units, which seems to have worked out for them (it also explains why boring/unoptimized scalar logic in amateur tests aren't meeting the numbers seen from benchmarks and HPC tests).

But it's not about "cache" per se, it's a different design. You need to do a lot more than just increase cache area to duplicate Apple's design choices.

[1] A big part of that is, of course, the architecture's genesis as a phone processor. Everyone loves to talk about how efficient the M1/2 are, but the truth is the CPU is a comparatively small part of the energy budget on devices with 5-10W displays. If you were designing a priori for a laptop, you wouldn't necessarily be as power-constrained in your design as the M chips.
Software isn't the only field where practitioners get promoted to management, but it is one of the fields where technically incompetent managers and executives will kill a company with unsound decisions.
I know AMD had a lot of trouble with the interposer after Zen2 or so, due to being stuck on the same socket. Keeping compatibility became more and more expensive. Though Zen 1 was a much different product than the later generations (no I/O die) so maybe that was an unusually bad situation.
Doctors generally use a service like UpToDate, which I understand is pretty good.

Issues with providing the same quality of service to consumers include:

* Doctors are willing to pay a lot (ex: UpToDate is ~$500/y) and you might not be able to keep such high fees for doctors if you also offered a great consumer-focused option.

* Consumers have a wide range of experience levels, where it's going to be hard to make a page that satisfies both people who know very little and have minimal medical background and others who are looking seriously into their condition.

* Liability is very different when you're writing directly for consumers.
That's a nice page, and I'll definitely bookmark that one. But I don't see most of the public using something like that over WebMD.

WebMD is complete trash (I even block it in my Kagi search preferences), but it succeeds over sites like the NHS one because of blog SEO. WebMD is really a glorified blog with posts about every condition you might get paranoid over. I don't know how precisely they achieve this, but they're doing something right in an SEO sense if The Google continues to put them near the top of results after all these years.

Meanwhile, there are also sites like Merck Manuals, which is both a terrific resource and privately run, but I don't recall ever seeing it coming up for a search query like "what is that bump on the side of my neck."

https://www.merckmanuals.com/

The resources are out there. Whether The Google thinks the average person should read them is a different story. I don't believe The Google is going to ever filter out WebMD, so there must be a middle ground where sites like the ones you and I mentioned find a way to make themselves more WebMD-like without sacrificing their more academically-minded content they already have.
> What is it about tinkerers being put into these positions as a natural progression?

I don't know enough to say whether this is a common pattern or not, but if it is, it could perhaps be that tinkerers tend to gather a vast breadth of knowledge that can be very useful when making strategic decisions. They reach the point where they know enough to understand what questions to ask on many topics, even if they are an expert in only a few (or none) of them.
It also tells you everything you need to know about who holds political power in the US.
The absolutely devastating economic and social effects were known, the possible effects of the disease both short and long-term were unknown. So we decided to go for the known devastating effects in case the disease was also devastating? That makes zero sense. And there were alternatives proposed to lockdowns like the Great Barrington Declaration that were not simply not considered, but were actively suppressed and smeared by government officials and their media lackeys.

“This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists . . . seems to be getting a lot of attention – and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises, is it underway?”

-NIH director Francis Collins in an email to Anthony Fauci about the Great Barrington Declaration
Why does wage inequality matter? Inequality isn't strongly driven by wages, but is by capital income.

Personally, the way I see it, the more money goes to wages, the better, and if that's because some guy is earning millions a year, I still think it's good.

Income from people starting new companies, that's fine too. What's bad is rent extraction, ossification, monopolies and private institutions that have power over people.
> Joe Rogan as recently as last week said the vaccine is mostly safe

- "How Joe Rogan Became a Cheerleader for Ivermectin" [1]

- "Fact-Checking Joe Rogan’s Interview With Robert Malone That Caused an Uproar" [2]

- "What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem" [3]

> But his main disagreement is pretending that it’s okay that biological males vs biological females is fair.

Sports isn't fair, period. It's why there's no "under 6 foot" NBA league. It's only with trans people that people suddenly (pretend to) care.

> And to correct you further, the 90s were the period where gay rights went mainstream

- "ABC shelves Ellen" (1998) [4]

- "Why Laura Dern Didn't Work For A Year, Despite Jurassic Park's Success" [5]

- "How ‘homophobia’ denied Sharon Bottoms custody of her son in the 1990s" [6]

Examples here are legion. Homophobia permeated popular culture (eg TV and box office movies). There was progress made, sure, but homophobia was so normalized at the time. I have to wonder if you lived through this era (as I did) or just read about it.

I mean, homophobia was still weaponized into the 2000s. Many credit Karl Rove with weaponizing state ballot measures on gay marriage to win the 2004 presidential election [7].

> Dawson’s Creek

technically the coming out storyline was 1999-2000 I believe and was controversial. Roseanne [8] is probably a better example. Picket Fences ended up censoring a kiss scene in 1993 [9] and caused quite a lot of controversy at the time.

[1]: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/joe-ro...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/arts/music/fact-check-joe...

[3]: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074442185/joe-rogan-doctor-c...

[4]: https://money.cnn.com/1998/04/24/bizbuzz/ellen/

[5]: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2485962/why-laura-dern-didn...

[6]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-homophobia-denied-shar...

[7]: https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=230634&page=1

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Ask,_Don%27t_Tell_(Ros...

[9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%26_Spice_(Picket_Fences...
Can't all that be done without eBPF in a normal userspace program?
VPNs were never a technology to secure your data from everyone. If you want to change your apparent location, bypass LAN restrictions, or hide what you're specifically looking at from your LAN admin, those are all perfectly adequate use cases for a VPN.

If you're doing any sort of activism, well, Darwinism applies here very well.
Wanted to check - are you referring to the testing? If so, you are right! We actually recommend testing every 1-2 months to likely provide adequate time for change to your levels. Each person’s needs and time to impact will vary, so you can adjust this frequency up or down, depending on what works best for you.
Useful service, and tried adding two tests, but decided to not order when I saw:

Recurring subtotal
$268.00 every 12 months

Do not know if it is useful enough to renew, and I as a customer do not like services that presumptively charge me on and on and moves the onus to the customer to get out of the charging cycle.

Thanks, useful service, but not for me.
Confused. Is it accurate that you are logging self-reported data daily, but only running diagnostic tests few times a year at roughly $100 a test depending on how many tests the end user commits to upfront? If so, with that combination of data, how is there any hope of meaningful analysis based individual specific observations?
I like how they are actually asking users, and not only "privacy-advocats" (who obviously push for option 3) or similar vocal subgroups.

Currently the poll stands at:

* OPTION 1: 40%

* OPTION 2: 21%

* OPTION 3: 35%

* (no opinion): 4%

with 1.3 million votes so far.

I like the outcome (personally, I don't think the "store nothing" approach of OPTION 3 is really necessary), although the 21% that push for even less privacy are a bit concerning
Congratulations on your launch! I apologize in advance for my ignorant questions, but here they go.

How can we be certain that inflammation is causing problems rather than just being an indicator that something is wrong? As in, if we start directly lowering inflammation with some drug or whatever, how do we know that it's helping rather than just masking the problem? So if someone is obese and inactive, but they start eating ginger to reduce their inflammation markers, would that improve quality of life?

I guess the best example(as someone that is completely ignorant on the topic) I can come up with is heart rate and exercise. We know that an elevated heart rate when exercising is good and provides benefits. But increasing the heart rate with caffeine does not provide the same benefits.

Coming from software where I can use a debugger to examine "exactly" what is going on in a program and an ex hardware engineer where we had simulators/models that were "pretty accurate", medicine/healthcare looks insane. We cannot model the human body accurately nor can we observe in great detail the processes that go on. I'm pretty amazed medicine is as good as it is with those limitations.
China’s policy never worked well and the various levels of mimicry of that policy across the world was responsible for the vast majority of the avoidable pandemic damage. Their lying about the obvious human to human transmission and repression of doctors speaking out is what prevented early containment, and their draconian lockdowns were both horribly repressive and ineffective. They made a big show to compensate for their early failures, and the world took the word of a police state trying to pretend they could prevent the spread of a highly contagious aerosolized coronavirus after it was well out of control and all over a major city with an airport.

The continued credulity of the west despite all of the lying China has done is astoundingly stupid. Anyone with an ounce of understanding of the culture and the government, particularly Xi’s government, was laughing at the Chinese figures and demanding on the ground access early on to determine what was actually happening.

Many academics wanting to follow the data don’t understand that. And so we copied a fake solution because of fake data and threw out decades of pandemic response research and planning to pretend we could contain something that was obviously out of control and clearly on the path to being endemic after March 2020.
Lovely - I guess the US is moving towards the idea that we _want_ the government telling us what we should and shouldn't see instead of creating and/or using tools like block lists to remove what we don't want to see.