skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Vaccines became broadly available in relatively wealthy countries in 2021 wherein the only reasonable position would have been that vaccination of all groups would decrease net mortality even among those unlikely to die and reduce damage to people's bodies that we were already seeing even with mild infections of otherwise healthy people.

It's not necessarily a reasonable position when the clinical trials themselves showed an unusually large rate of adverse events in vacinees vs the placebos: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X2.... The bad logic is the logic that it's okay to assess the efficiency of a novel therapeutic by the protection it provides against infection rather than by it's overall effect on excess mortality, as such an approach is going to miss any safety signals.
As compare to? The US? WHO? Everyone has an agenda.
Is it wrong to think of marketing akin to parasites that affect behaviour? Often they say "sex sells", isn't that something that often uses images that humans are pre-programmed to desire alongside the product that marketing want to shift. I don't think this is a new concept, but perhaps I've just had an epiphany.
In many European countries parking is paid with a mobile app these days. Very few use parking meters.
Headline slightly misleading. It will be interpreted as "vaccine too dangerous for under 50".

Here Denmark will keep vaccinating young relatives of people at risk. Which may make sense, or not. Who knows ? Even all doctors are not 100% confident about anything anymore.

At least it goes slighly against the narrative of "everyone's government is deep in the pocket of big pharma", and more into the narrative of "everyone is trying whatever"
The merge won’t affect gas fees, which makes Eth unsuitable for small purchases when the network is busy. Apparently Eth will do other work in future to fix that though.
This exactly.

In fact, this is an article in of itself. With most jobs, employers are heavily incentivized to not make them incredibly enjoyable.

Everyone complains about their employers. Especially in technology.

However, tons of businesses emphatically do not have an incentive to create happy, enjoyable workplaces for their employees.
The first problem that cryptocurrency solves is, how can to securely make transactions without giving away our secrets such as critical account numbers. It accomplishes this using cryptographic signatures.

Other systems that do not use cryptography and instead often rely on trust in exchanging critical secrets, such as how the banking system generally works, are outdated.
Not to mention the importance of stupendipity – the lucky discoveries you make thanks to your woeful ignorance of common knowledge in the field, or just sheer bone-headedness.
> who said that the service was somewhat better and more reliable than his current satellite connection, but also that it wasn't necessarily good enough

A beta product isn't perfect, more news at 11.

SpaceX has extensively worked with astronomers, including having a working group that meets weekly, presenting at conferences, doing multiple iterations of design changes and so on.
What best in class means is that it solves large numbers of problems, like dependency hell, or opt-in library features, that no other system of its style solves (including Odin). The problem that it doesn't solve, i.e. scalable perfect caching, is also a problem that Odin doesn't solve, and no other system solves except Bazel, but you would not call Bazel the best because it has many developer-experience and learning-curve related downsides in addition to being out-of-ecosystem. For repos big enough where build times are a serious problem, you want to trade out a better system for Bazel, because what you lose in DX you gain eightfold in performance, a tradeoff that is only good if performance is significantly negatively impacting DX.

So, to recap, Odin is incapable of solving a problem many people have due to an aspect of its design that everyone knows you shouldn't do, but Odin doesn't bother with what everyone knows you should do. The thought process in Odinspace is that it is Old and Odin is New, and therefore while nobody has bothered checking what sort of problem this system solves, it can't be important because it's Old.

You praise it for not blindly accepting what other languages do, but what it instead does is blindly reject what other languages do. Blindness is the problem, not acceptance.
PoW incentivizes renewable energy development for useless mining, but not for anything more than that I guess. At least the renewables can now be used to power other more necessary demands, if the owners don’t move on to mine other coins that are compatible with their rigs.
Stablecoins are mostly what people use for payments. ETH is what's staked on the beacon chain.
Sure, that's why we had crappy GPU before crypto currencies.

Gamers had to put off buying new GPU because they were misused for POW. Ask them about the "incentivized GPU production".
Maybe you were thinking of "Flash Of Genius" about intermittent windshield wipers?
> PoW incentivizes renewable energy development.

PoW incentivizes energy development. And then proceeds to use it all up on PoW. It's a paperclip optimizer, except the fitness function is how much power it can waste.

> It used to also incentivize GPU production

And then proceeds to use it all up on PoW. It's a paperclip optimizer, except the fitness function is how much e-waste it can produce.

It's for these reasons I'm not super convinced in the proof-of-storage type proposals. All it'd do is change what was being wasted. proof-of-stake seems to be the one proposal that avoids ridiculous amounts of waste. The only downside of course being that it essentially hard-codes the "1% of people make 99% of the money" principle.
There could still be vaccines that have the potential to be much more effective, like this one that's soon to enter Phase 1 human trial: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/sars-coronavirus-variant-...

I think it'll be interesting to follow further vaccine development in that sense.

Also, I don't know why you say researchers no longer believes that vaccines missed the mark. Yes they didn't prevent reinfection of future variants, and that I think everyone was hoping they would and no longer believes that, but just recently this study was published: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... showing an estimate of 14 to 20 million lives saved by the vaccines just during the first year of vaccination. And while 80% of that is from direct protection, 20% is from indirect protection such as:

> reducing the levels of burden placed on health-care systems, reducing the number of days that health-care capacity would have been exceeded and therefore contributing to an overall lower fatality rate from infection

That said the study highlights the same conclusion as yours, people at greater risk should be prioritized since direct protection is much more effective, and also low income countries that are not able to get or pay for vaccines are disproportionately affected, it would make sense to send vaccines that are going to young healthy low risk individuals in high income countries to these lower income places.
It’s 12 year old tech that gets propped up as innovative every 2 months. I can understand his sentiment.
I never considered myself a vaccine skeptic prior to this.

While serving in the military got loaded up with all number of vaccines. If you serve, with an area of operations including Africa, you will get lots of shorts..

But now, I seriously do not trust the public health authorities.

I would prefer not to have to read 500 medical studies like I have done with covid with pros and cons on everything, and return to a pre-pandemic position of trust in public health authorities. But I think I cannot because they have proven themselves to be corrupt, politicized arbiters with an angle.

This is really a crummy situation.
Places with issues at that level aren't really where much mining is happening.
Image content influences men's semen quality [2005]
The 79$ one I see has over 300$ in shipping, which is a standard scam on eBay.
US soldiers training against drone swarm
exactly! hence why I think this must be the most harrowing software upgrade of all time.
UCSF professor Vinay Prasad making the case against the new boosters (and claiming that those responsible for these recommendations ‘exhibit a pattern of gross incompetence’):

https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q
All masks that keep some of your spit in your mouth decreases viral transmission where the chance of transmission is linearly related to the number of potentially infectious particles in the environments
The EPRs are all going just great

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_powe...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Pl...
You need your vaccination papers if you’re getting your green card as well, although I agree that it should probably be a visa requirement if we wanted to be serious about it
Here is a good video that basically explains everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

This is not a very good explanation, but basically, you can have a "currency" using just asymmetric key cryptography: users simply sign "transactions". The problem is that you need a central authority to confirm the order of transactions, otherwise the recipient of a "transaction" will not know if the funds associated with that transaction have already been spent to someone else ("double spending"). You can solve this using hashcash to make the transaction order hard to reverse- creating a "proof-of-work" by doing something that is easy to verify but hard to determine (like reversing a hash function). Another method is "proof-of-stake" wherein transaction order is not signed by a central authority but instead general users that are guided by some internal incentive structure.

Cryptocurrency is often expensive to run or use because a cryptocurrency transaction has to be synchronized across the entire network of that cryptocurrency, and there are incentive structures like fees to prevent people from spamming the network.

There is also tech like zero-knowlege-proofs, multisig, etc. that can do interesting stuff. But this is the basic concept.
This is about Denmark and this is the reasoning they use. It is to lessen symptoms and hence it isn't given to people who have a very low risk of getting very sick by these symptoms. You are agreeing with the source but it doesn't read as if you read it.
You’re in the wrong forum buddy. Pink colored antivax pages may be found in Facebook.
Perhaps it's due to my ignorance in the field or perhaps it's because the field is pretty young: I would like to read something from the Linus Torvalds/Brian Kernighan/Richard Stevens of the crypto world.
It sounds always like a grandeur delusion doesn’t it?
Try to imagine you are building a new banking system, and you want it to be secure.

How would you

A) allow for secure payments without giving away something like a bank account # or debit card number

and

B) ensure that, even if those payments were secure, there was no other cheating, such as people at a bank just deciding to initiate an account with one million?

Generally speaking the way to handle those requirements is by employing cryptographic signatures and public blockchain(s), and the result is usually referred to as a cryptocurrency.
So is CISC becoming great again. Should Apple feel threatened?
> Edgington, who began his career researching climate science before eventually landing in crypto, understood where his daughter was coming from. “Rightly or wrongly, she'd absorbed a very toxic environmental narrative,” he said. “I mean, it's kind of hard to defend ‘stickers for grownups’ that emit, by some estimates, a megaton of [carbon dioxide] a week.”
Or televisions and mobile phones and networks with their nearly constantly on transmitters...
Have you ever tried writing about this topic? It’s surprisingly hard to keep intentionality out if you’re trying to give meaningful explanations.
Guess you can update this part now!

>3. PoS (Ethereum, soon™)
Show HN: Jenkins-fire-CLI A Jenkins command line tool built with Python-fire
Jenkins community has provided the offical jenkins-cli.jar but it is not very intuitive to use. So I just create a tiny wrapper for it to make it less noisy by dowlonading the jar packages and injecting user credential automatically. Thanks to the google fire library creating a command line tools nowadays is incredibly simple.
I'm not sure how much of H&M clothes are really collected after use, but at least they have invested in a company that works on recycling fibers from clothes. They own over 10% of it. Probably some of what they collect goes to this Renewcell company for recycling.

https://www.renewcell.com/en/
Parent did not say they believe they are immune.
> Signal, whole disk encryption, the password to a user's iphone backup -- these are _all_ more beneficial to criminals than to the layperson.

That's an extraordinary claim. Do you have any data or arguments to back that up? Millions (billions?) of people use those technologies every day for non-criminal purposes. Are there really more criminals out there using them for nefarious purposes?
Ask HN: Where do all Clojure devs work?
And how do they earn that much?
I'm looking at the results here

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-top-paying-technologies

and see that clojure is the top paying tech with almost double the pay from java.

But when looking for clojure job ads I see very few posts (at least in Europe) and TBH most of them don't seem the high-pay shops kind.

Also weird that the top five is dominated by functional languages which again seem to be a small minority in job ads.

Some possible explanations:

1. these roles are within FAANGs (and they're not advertised as such but under more generic postings)

2. these roles are mostly independent consultants (and consequently these numbers are not too relevant if you are in a payroll)

3. because these roles are few and far between they compete for a small pool of applicants thus raising the wages (although the number of applicants don't exactly show a lack of candidates)

4. A lot of these are simply outliers in the sense that the data have not been normalized (i.e. 2 people that do clojure indeed earn that much but the whole sample is 10000 people).

How do you interpret these numbers? Do they agree with your experience?
Nothing else was as profitable (and ETH profitability had already dropped), and depending on your costs switching won't be worth it for many. Even for those who is the other mineable currencies are much smaller and will likely be oversaturated with just a fraction of the hashpower which was going into ETH.
Along similar lines:

If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
I’ll piggyback on this to show something I made: autosummarized HN. https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/

I originally intended to run it for a month only, but when OpenAI slashed prices at the beginning of September, I figured another month won’t hurt.
fr gen-Z HN would be bussin no cap on god
There are a plethora of transfer systems in the banking world that do the same, assuming you are talking about ACH info. Venmo, Cashapp, Paypal et al.

You could argue the intermediary knows the info, but most crypto buyers also use an intermediary.
Umm can’t I do the same via paypal, without giving away my password? What feature does cryptography give me here?
> and they are still in character?

They go to conventions and interact with fans in public, and I haven't seen anyone mention it having gone poorly. I see this more as a consequence of "mid-level fame" on Youtube. You might be likely to draw a rather fanatic following while being much more accessible to them than other celebrities. I take it more as preemptive means of avoiding this issue.
I'm sure they've found and fixed issues. are you sure they've found and fixed all the issues? if I were a hacker, and I found a juicy bug in PoS, I'd sit on it until merge. either make money by shorting ETH and then wreaking havoc, or sell it to someone else so I don't get my hands dirty.
I recognize that sweet distinctive scent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM
Is a card like this useful to run Stable Diffusion, etc?
What's Substack? Is that new Medium?
Nikon snaps back at RED's Lawsuit
Nikon snaps back at lawsuit, suggests RED's compressed Raw patents aren’t entirely valid

Follow-up on lawsuit by RED. Here's from 2022-05-26:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532285
> I still cannot find any legitimate use cases for blockchain

Blockchains solve the double-spend problem. Allows for scarcity in the digital realm. Ethereum is a platform for decentralized finance, anyone can borderlessly lend and borrow in seconds. Endless possibilities.
There’s plenty of evidence for a strong correlation between some opinions and mortality rates. There are probably in the region of 135,000 or more dead Americans who would probably be alive today if they’d not been persuaded to hold a particular opinion.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.10.22270823v...
Well, they can only move the price by whatever percentage they hold in ETH. I would assume, maybe naively but not unreasonably, that a holder with no plans to sell would see staking as a mostly risk free way of generating return. So I'd assume that these big guys would be putting most, if not all, of their capital into staking. Therefore I wouldn't expect their ability to move the market to be significantly higher than total staked ETH as a percentage of total supply.

Again, naively, people panic and a smaller but substantial move could cascade, but a news article could do that as well. Stakers don't have a monopoly on the ability to cause a stampede.

Last I read on the mechanics of all of this, the emission rate, burn rate, fee burn and staking requirement were designed in such a way as to keep a certain amount of total ether staked. I don't recall what that percentage was, I think around 10% and it's not exact, this is game theoretical after all and incentives are what drives this so it will fluctuate a bit.

There are problems with not having an ongoing cost to validation, and not having assets external to the system at risk, a big one is the so called "nothing at stake" problem which ethereum claims to have solved (and have a compelling case as to why if you read about it) but I don't believe this problem you speak of is one of them. I am somewhat concerned that these metrics to maintain a certain percentage at stake will not shake out the way they planned and have to be adjusted with a hard fork, this happens in ethereum all the time with incentive structures.
There is a good course by Tim Roughgarden: Foundations of Blockchains (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJGPI0fuFA&list=PLEGCF-WLh2...)
I never use stable coins for payment, and I don't know anybody who does despite being in crypto since btc was at $8. I do pay stuff in BTc and get paid in BTC once in a while and see people in my bubble do the same. We use stable coins to limit taxe exposure, mainly.

It's true eth has never been a mean of exchange for any of us and more a platform for smart contract (my friends at kryll.io use it for that).
Yes, that's been done, even mentioned on HN. Google is your friend.
Worse: a lottery for the rich. Validators are required to stake at least 32 ETH (~$52k USD) to participate.
I suppose it should say "no longer offering free vaccinations".
Does this make ETH useful in the real world or is it still a tehcno-ponzi scheme?
Honestly I don't think we should be taking political advice from the country that brought us two world wars in the Nazi party and Adolf hitler. What "works" over there may not apply anywhere else, to put it mildly...

I mean you're going to ban the Republican party for questioning the integrity of elections? I mean who looks like the guilty one here and who's trying to cover up their dirty laundry like it's the media discuss about politics in the United States it's just going to f*** nuts. And it's been like that since like 2016 it's f*** crazy I don't know how anyone can expect to think clearly about anything politically in such a contested and you know emotional media climate. And maybe that's the point everyone's just supposed to get distracted by the spectacle of it constantly in a state of triggerness and they're not actually supposed to think clearly... It's fucking sad man.

I mean it always just revolves around the same ideological points right? and nobody gets anywhere. This stupid polarity between left and right or whatever it's like a distraction it's like "let's focus on who's now saying the people on the other side are the worst possible thing ever and let's focus on that and let's convince myself it's really important to join that party or to you know join the defense of them" while all of the probably actually substantial stuff outside of like two parties trading insults with each other and dragging all their supporters in to feel something about those insults, like all those substantial issues outside of that crap... I mean who's focusing on them.

That's where the mind of the people should be directed if you want them to be sort of effective participants in a democracy right?

It's so sad like I mean there's this thing about abusive relationships right where the abusive partner in relationship will constantly try to keep the other party in a triggered state to press their buttons because that gives that abuser control over the other person. What if that's what the media is doing to the American population? you know it's like I just think it's so f*** sad to see this abusive relationship between the media and the people. it's a f*** nightmare and in that situation where the people can't think clearly the politicians inevitably end up with too much power.
Ben Edgingtons notes are good, its a work in progress but the anotated spec section i found interesting : https://eth2book.info/altair/

other than that https://ethereum-magicians.org/ and github.
My Alexa cannot even find the right episode of paw patrol no matter how hard I try to say episode 84...

Also I've never seen a stakeholder being able to expressing clearly what they want. To get a somewhat usefully specification it's an uphill battle. Programming is almost trivial after that
The business records a high number of sales (or high value sales) and hence dirty money can be used as clean incoming money.

The high staff numbers indicate either a) staff can accumulate and no-one is really bothered because the normal economics don't apply, or b) more staff implies a bigger business (to anyone looking at the books), which means more money can be laundered without raising suspicion. Efficiency just depends on how much cash you can imply this coffee shop makes, so more staff is a good thing.
Even a 5-6 month old must feel pretty unloved. Just put yourself in their position: can't walk, can't talk, can't get out of bed, feels tired, feels all alone, cries for help and comfort but is ultimately ignored.

That's the most worst message you can send out to a person of any age.

I often hear people say: but they learn, they manipulate you as if a baby’s personality was naturally hostile and their main reason in life was betraying their parents. :)
IO bound doesn't neccessarily mean waiting for GBs to transfer from the disk. It can mean reading meeelions of tiny files and seeking back and forth randomly. Doesn't matter if the files are in the cache or not. When someone says IO bound, it often means CPU bound but in the kernel or in some low level code.

Most apps and games could open instantly, unless you are doing something like heavy map generation or hitting the network. But it would require structuring the app specifically for it and there is often no incentive to do so.
How does this differ from Moose?