skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CDC has always “lied” in that it always gave advice no reasonable person would follow. That’s because that’s not their job - their job is to give you the risks without counting benefits or reasonableness.

For instance, absolutely nobody follows the CDC’s cooking recommendations and they say women should never drink alcohol because they might be unknowingly pregnant.

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1414390050008276994
Or that they shipped and tested this page prior to the release of iOS 16 as that’s when the UX of the iOS date picker changed to this abomination
This person is smart. Please listen to them.

I did not listen to them, with the caveat that this anecdote is from 8 years ago, but it would have helped me if I had the capacity to accept their insights at the time.

In the United States (and other countries, but is it every country?) we can freely go into a supply store and purchase electrical components with no licensing or any other approvals. Simply go in, get what you think you need, and leave.

So when we were wrapping up the installation of our new kitchen some decade ago, I had recently completed a college Physics course, which I believe I had about a C- average in, and was very confident that I knew enough to wire the electrical connection on our steel range vent, with steel fume collection hood.

A year in, the little light bulbs that illuminate the range beneath had burned out from extreme heat. The metal base was still in the socket, but the glass was gone. "No problem, I'll turn the power off at the circuit and use a potato cut in half as a handle to force the base out".

Of course, a combination of shared neutral wiring, and my own errors, including that ground and neutral were 'the same' and I had tied the neutral into the hood, left me blown across the kitchen when I finally used the oven door handle with my other hand for leverage.

The headache lasted about a week. My chest felt like a couch full of old pennies. The first thing I remember was my wife sobbing, and the second thing I remember was that I am dumb and lucky. The third thing I remember was guilt for making my wife cry, and that's the one that finally registered within me that I should not be touching wires.

10 years later, I touch wires. I'm still not certified to do it, but there haven't been any more accidents. I will do only what I can convince myself I fully understand. Operations performed here are either very simple, or outsourced to professionals.

Hire an electrician.
If you go to the extent of including inflation, you should also account for the fact that your income will also likely increase - with raises accounting for inflation and career progression - making the price of a tool that can provide so much value even more negligible.
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Further down thread, we acknowledge that certain doctors were dosing people with medicine and lying to them about it.

>As early as November 2020, Dr. Robert Karas, the jail’s doctor, told inmates who had contracted COVID that he was giving them a cocktail of vitamins, antibiotics, and steroids when in fact he was administering dangerously high doses of the dewormer.

>“At no point were Plaintiffs informed that the medications they were consuming included Ivermectin,” the lawsuit says. “Further, Plaintiffs were not informed of the side effects of the drug administered to them or that any results would be used for research purposes.”

>As a result, these men experienced diarrhea, bloody stools, stomach cramps, and vision problems, the lawsuit says, all of which suggest ivermectin poisoning.

Since this was in the middle of a public heath crisis, that behavior is acceptable and the doctor in question should not have lost his license, right?
The CDC may not have said those words, but the surgeon general absolutely did. There was plenty of conflicting messaging around the effectiveness of cloth masks as well.
If you can find a tree with programmable RGP pixels, all you need is to remove their controller and wire it to an espixelstick. Then flash it with WLED.

https://forkineye.com/espixelstick-v3/

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED
Objects in space in adjacent orbits around aren't floating in space, they are falling on Earth at a great speed. If you apply an impulse in the way as shown in the movie, you'll expand or shrink the orbit excentricity and you will likely start moving up or down rapidly relative to your target, instead of closing in. This way to get to your target you'll need to burn an insane amount of fuel and do orbit corrections every second. The right way is to make one impulse to change your orbit in such a way that your new orbit will intersect the orbit of your target (and that you both will be there at the same time), and the direction of such impulse might be far from obvious. More likely one impulse will result in a very long transit orbit, so a better course would be two or more orbital corrections.
That might’ve worked if she had a worm infection. People who take ivermectin to treat worm infections have better health outcomes for covid, the cause being that worms are bad for you.
I reboot my Win10 machine when there's a power outage long enough to run the UPS down. So probably about once a year.

I haven't had the experience you're describing since everything moved over to NT. I.e., Win95/98 did that for me, NT4, Win2000, XP, etc have never exhibited that behaviour for me.

I think this take, as a generalization, is a couple decades out of date.
Totally agree. Although wherever I go, I map "jk" to <ESC> since I find that so much easier to enter Normal Mode.
why are the states against it?
One thing you forgot to mention. The guy who said those horrible things about drowning Ukrainian children was suspended from RT because of the huge backlash within Russia. That kind of speech is not acceptable to Russian people. Simply isn't mainstream.
no, I mean other doctors that prescribe a safe drug.

If the inmates had too much, they had too much. And experimenting or giving a treatment without proper disclosure is wrong and the doctor should lose their license for that - if nothing else. But thanks for bringing that example because it shows the evil of experimenting on people without full disclosure.

Now if you want to talk about the incidence of heart-attacks and myocarditis after vaccines and the experiments that were run on the public without proper notification of their risks, we'd have an interesting discussion. As the twitter files show, any such discussion was suppressed because "the vaccines are safe" and anyone that say otherwise is "promoting misinformation".
I've been happily running Guix as my primary system for at least a year now. I've had near zero issues with basic daily use (guix pull, guix install xxx, guix package -u, etc.) I'm extremely happy to simply install and uninstall software.

For me, the "free software absolutism" is a primary selling point. I don't use Nix because of that.

I've had mixed interactions with the Guix community from welcoming and helpful to arrogant and extremely rude. However, it's a community which is growing and was small for a long time. I see the lack of compassion as problems with individuals rather than the community. Leadership has changed and new organization is taking form. There has been tremendous growth the past year.

The documentation is hit or miss. Either it's great and you find your answer immediately or you find yourself in the weeds, digging through source code, guessing at what something means or guessing if something is Guix or Guile (and good luck with the Guile docs).
Thanks! As soon as I find the time I will use it in my useless project, https://caolendario.pt, a pun on the Portuguese word cão (dog) + calendário (calendar).

Photos are taken from https://dog.ceo/dog-api/, a similar project.
Chip Inventories Swell as Consumers Buy Fewer Gadgets
There are many muslim people who live in places where that is true
Can you please provide a source for those numbers? Because at first glance they seem pretty fantastical.
S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index
curl|bash does't have an obvious UNinstall mechanism. You can pip3 uninstall, apt-get remove, but what do you do for curl? It could give a shit all over your system, /usr, /etc and you wouldn't know what to delete.
Yep, agreed with all of this which is why I think when it became the case that the general population wearing masks would not have negative impacts on supply for medical workers, it made sense to default to “wear masks.” When the gen pop wearing masks would have a negative impact on supply, it seems defensible at least to advocate against the population buying masks.

Note that what confuses people here is not that the consensus on whether masks work or not changed, but that it didn’t change. “We don’t know if masks work, don’t get them” turned to “we don’t know if masks work, start wearing them.”

I agree it would’ve helped the credibility issue a lot if they were more open about the supply calculus behind the scenes, but I’m personally pretty confident this would’ve yielded worse outcomes. No chance that the population wouldn’t have scrambled for masks and therefore no chance that the people who did actually in reality need them most would’ve gotten them.

Of course there’s a lot, a lot of room for criticism of the mask/PPE shortage existing at all, but obviously the solution to that looks different than the solution to “CDC said masks don’t work.”
> Can you elaborate on what you mean by date ordering?

day/month/year

month/day/year

year/month/day

year/day/month

The order of the numbers an be problematic. For example, 01/01/01 could be 1 Jan 2001, Jan 1 2001, 01 1 jan, or 01 jan 1.

Would rather not do the april fools example. Or the pi day example.
Only half-way realistic solution is to always provide false data about yourself unless there's a particular reason why they need your real address (such as delivering something). I guess that also requires reducing the amount of different sites you order from, or even preferentially turn to brick and mortar. If a site requires a CC for payment, you might get away with a false address if they don't verify it against the card. Otherwise you're going to have to avoid sites that don't allow you to use PayPal or more anonymous forms of payment.
It’s interesting that Sam’s answer to the question is something basically every mainstream economist agrees with[0].

(Which to be fair does fit some definitions of “few people”)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solow%E2%80%93Swan_model
> ...we're seeing the latest mutation of the puritans taking over. It doesn't seem that way, because this iteration of the puritans have co-opted the language of the libertines, but if these university administrators were transported back in time, they'd be enforcing Prohibition laws with equal zeal. Transported further back in time, they'd be organizing the expulsion of Catholics, Quakers and other "heretical" religious sects...

This rings true to me, and I find it very insightful. Thank you for writing it.
To the degree it's news, it's not "good" news, but further research is needed to see just how "bad" it is.

The concern here is if the worse-case scenario turns out to be true: that the mRNA-based vaccines, and especially the boosters, end up training the immune system to tolerate the infection rather than clear it. That would mean a significant fraction of the population are at risk of outcomes ranging from persistent COVID to death, and becoming breeding grounds for more variants in the process.

Hopefully further research rules out that scenario.
I believe in California they are required to detect bicycles.

The old EM ones will detect my bicycle just fine as long as I stop directly over the seam in the pavement. The newer ones are optical
If the material is compatible, a bath in ammonia gas will degrade the burnt on grease so that it just wipes off. For when the dishwasher doesn't cut it.

(so like put the item in a bag or container with a small amount of ammonia and let it sit overnight)
is picocms still a static site? cms like drupal,wordpress can control content access with password,which is where cms stands out.
Hi. That's pretty cool. I haven't tested but I can imagine the main concern will be exposing the content of an internal company meeting to third parties like this bot.
Are these websites big, or small local things?
How do you find out the number of a particular phone?
No such thing as “is reasoning”, only “does reasoning”. Are you an unreasoning being if you make a math mistake?

You can see it “does” reasoning if you say “think step by step” after a question. It can attend over its steps then.
I stand behind this message 1000%.
* cough * Doesn't * cough * solve * cough * anything * cough *
Now remove the silly "m" and use generic system vi!
but it was a "noble lie" for the interest of the public. I think those are allowed.
A Personal File Share CLI
Not telepathy: you wouldn't even know how to define it. "Sub"-vocal communication over radio is totally feasible, though.
The amount of people management and organizational change needed to do data warehousing in an organization is amazing. Good luck when you get to the point where time is better spent on process change.
I don't see hlw this makes any difference vs a single device.

If I only have a single device set up, and I lose that device, I still have to go to all the configured sites, only now without my auth app.

What prompted me to figure out how to clone the setup was when my phone screen broke while away from home, and 2fa enabled on both google and Ting.

I couldn't even just buy a new phone because how could I migrate the number? Luckily I never had to find out if Ting has an answer for that, since I was able to get the screen replaced without wiping the phone.

I wasn't really screwed because I did have recovery codes for Ting in keepass, and had access to that. And that would have allowed me to move my number to a new phone, where I could once again receive sms to recover everything else. But I did not have recovery codes for anything else, because I just didn't fully understand the process when I first set them up, so for a few other things, I was maybe almost screwed if I couldn't regain access to that one special golden device.

So, no more one special golden device.
This is great, the radar on Apple’s weather app now looks and works like far sky’s!
Our maybe an internal page was accidentally externally accessible, someone internal visited it in Chrome, and the URL got added to the list of things to scrape.
It wasn’t me! Also noticed they are out of stock.
Bering Land Bridge formed surprisingly late during last Ice Age
get very cold and take a hot shower, that's real discomfort :)
Yep, already mentioned that USSG said that. Note that he never comes up in these discussions as someone who lied though. No one I know seemed to even note what he said. Everyone seems (correctly) more fixated on CDC/NIH which were dominating the public messaging.
I like all the blue checks running little micro cults of personality who want exposure but can't say anything even mildly controversial lest they harm the brand. "Hard work works", stunning and brave my guy.

Here's mine: We don't really have men's and women's spaces, sports and etc. We have a restroom for everyone and one specifically for women and girls, because women and girls are more vulnerable in general and need our protection.
YouTube was about to be sued into oblivion and even if they weren’t, they were hemorrhaging money with no revenue stream in sight
Are you basing this on actual experience or just your belief?
That's true. At my last job the meetings basically served as a way for the manager to broadcast stuff that could've just been sent out in an email and then collect updates on what everyone has been working on which also could be done with email. There was almost no back-and-forth to it at all, yet the damn thing took 2 hours per week. A huge waste of time!
In 38 years on this planet, my hot water has never gone out for a few days. Not going to prepare for something that A. Is unlikely to happen and B. Can be worked around by washing my armpits or showering somewhere else.
From resource forks to quarantine, ResEdit to Gatekeeper
> just outright telling people "hey, we don't have enough, please give it to most vulnerable people first" would be better approach

I admire your optimism but people (en masse) don't work like that.
I take the different approach. I use vim binding in all my editors and IDEs. Most of them have vim plugins. Jupyter also has a vim mode.
Of course we can blame them for not trying. Why spend the money? Because it's the right thing to do for humanity. But hey Google is not a charity, what matter is stock growth, therefore we're excused of throwing ethics and empathy out of the window as long as in the end shareholders have the comfortable monopoly which allows their investments to generate more wealth with minimum effort.
I measure my weight throughout the day to see how what I do activity wise and eating wise results in changes. Weight after eating is just one indicator.
I think everyone here would love to learn more. And I don't mean "make your data a queriable database". I mean just write a couple of SQL queries the result of which illustrate your claim, and share it here on HN.
kj for me,thats all i need on servers
This is really cool. I tried looking up my blog and a bunch of the top matches seemed interesting so I subscribed to them :)

Maybe if I'm looking for even more I could put my feeds in and get more content.
Why serve APIs using parquet collections as a data source, as compared to a standard RDBMS? What are the pro's and con's?
As someone who was vaccinated three times, obeyed quarantine and had a kid during the pandemic— I don’t think that stat is having the effect you intended.

Kids were relatively resilient from the virus.

Now addressing the logic in your response, are you suggesting we should have similar school shutdown measures for the flu every year? For a similar three year period influenza will kill 400-600 kids.
May be they have Gmail open on a tab for 6h a day? I don't know that I would say that's "being on Gmail". Google can send them notifications, but they're not generating useful data during all that time.
Thanks for the input! That's a good point you've made. Maybe I can just ignore the series until we have some indication that it'll actually be finished.
I'm glad I ended up going with a paid e-mail service. They have to keep improving and maintaining quality of service because if they don't, customers will simply go elsewhere. And I know they won't suddenly disappear as long as they have a solid number of users. If they gathered and sold info, people would immediately leave them as well.

All of those make their interests and mine line up, so I don't need to have faith in them to entrust them with my email.

As a sidenote:

Reminds me of the situation with UberEats and DoorDash, though they're not free services.

People like these services. In terms of raw users, they're enormous. DoorDash has something like 25 million users.

But they're absolutely burning money. An average of $250 million a year for DoorDash, and sometimes as high as $400 million.

But investors keep dumping money into it, because clearly there is enormous demand. And if there's demand, there must be some way to make it profitable.

But none of them have noticed that the unit economics don't work. No customer is willing to pay the true price of the food, the delivery and even very minimal overhead. If they charged enough to break even, the demand would completely fall out.
Actually, it is incorrect on that level also. Religious faith is only one form of faith, there are many others.
> Their claims about privacy and encryption are mostly false

First time I've heard this, can you expand on it?
I have tried magic a number of times with the same task: given a set of constraints on distance, price and a few other factors, find all the properties in an area that match. I have never once gotten a result that looked like it was curated by a human. I would get data back that was obviously erroneous, like a house priced for a dollar, or multiple rows with different data for the same property. In each case I was given a refund but maybe once a year or so I find myself trying them out again, only to be disappointed.
I have this West Elm brand credenza in my office, with walnut veneer. Damned thing took 9 months to get delivered, but that's a covid logistics issue, not a company issue. I think.

So it shows up, and it's quite handsome - but then this random thing intersects the corner, was it a vacuum cleaner? A box? And now there's a blemish, and it no longer feels 'new', it feels like cheap veneered furniture I got as a hand-me-down. I was incensed with myself for causing the blemish so early in my ownership of this overpriced thing.

My wife heard me grumbling, and she came to see what the fuss was. A moment later she re-appeared in my office with a single walnut from our pantry. And then a moment after that, I couldn't find the blemish on my credenza, for the walnut had completely rubbed into it and covered it!
I say go to all large scale peer reviewed research prior to 2020. You’re taking some story from someone who writes for a college publication, not a peer reviewed source. There are researchers from Stanford who said exactly what I did above.

Trillions of dollars were pumped into propaganda and research in 2020. It takes years to go through, receive grants, construct experiments, get approvals, analyze and validate. We are only now starting to see initial results for new masking studies. They still need to be replicated, etc.

Here’s an example of a large scale study from 2015 where cloth masks increase risk of illness (over nothing):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903751/

Here’s a 2021 study showing masks aren’t really good as well (a randomized control trial) https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

My general point isn’t the specifics, it’s that the jury is out.
> > "The SEC sued, alleging securities fraud. If the SEC had used this as a pretext to remove Musk from power entirely, they might well have succeeded outright, and could at least have launched a major legal battle that would have dragged Tesla down for years. If this had happened in a conservative country like Germany or France, where regulators are hostile to economic disruption, such an attack would have been very likely."

Couterpoint: Only in America the disruptor entrepreneur can cashin and enjoy a life full of luxury before they even deliver 1% of the disruption they promised.

From the perspective of regulators allowing some frauds in order not to miss out on disruption can be seen as a valid strategy, but if you allow fraud and all you get in return is the promise of future disruption then not so much.

Same with SPACs and VCs in general, these people are hype machines with their PR, and they do so in order to sell into bigger fools so they never have to face the music for not delivering on their promises.
This is a very cute way of getting people's emails. Link to a link to a 'register for free access'. Kind of where I stopped (w/o registering) but clever ... and also last time I do that.
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