skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So they still don't know if masks work?

It took decades to get medical doctors to start washing their hands [1]. It took decades to get people to use seat belts in cars [2]. It took decades to accept that tobacco smoking causes lung cancer [3].

Masks work [4], but it will take decades before this is accepted through the chain of command in the medical profession, and not only by front line science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Conflict_with...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#History

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco#Hist...

[4] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-are-a-prove...
"Self-hosted on Cloudflare" feels like an oxymoron. I know it's common for people to consider hosting on VPS and the like to be self-hosting, but attached to proprietary services seems to be a step further, I think something being portable between providers has to be a minimum for the term.

I like the idea of having web content you can put up with minimal configuration and cost but we have to draw a line for that definition somewhere.
Dioxus is HTML native so it speaks in native HTML elements to solve the flutter problem.

It’s written in Rust so it doesn’t need a JS engine which gives it this huge portability. Your intuition on the outputs is correct. For the web, you get a folder of HTML, CSS, and the tiniest amount of bootstrapping JavaScript. For most other platforms you get a small binary that is self contained.
> removing shit from our asses.

Get a bidet, and buy a newspaper (no need to read it; it's already covered in shit).
Sounds like VSCode is working great for you, no reason to change. Especially as, if you ever decide you want to use modal editing, there's a VSCode plugin for that.

But, since you mention it, there are a few things that appeal about vim. For me, personally, I am quite often working on remote systems from the command line. Being able to "vi filename" and make some changes and get back to the command line is important and VSCode doesn't seem to work for that. I know it has remote editing, but navigating over there from Code isn't worth it when I can just "vi filename".

A significant part of the appeal is the modal editing, which as I mention above is available in Code.
I see it all the time, Qt, MFC, VCL, FireMonkey, all the way back to Mac OS AppToolbox, PowerPlant, CSet++, OWL.

And then there is COM, and with WinRT it is even better as it uses .NET CLS types for the metadata.
I'd flip that around and say that it is critical that we ensure Twitter is not the #1 place to exchange and debate ideas.

There should not be a single, privately owned town square. There should be thousands of town squares where people can go and engage. Some should be public and some should be private. Placing all our free speech eggs in the Twitter basket will not end up well.
You host it on your own Cloudflare account.
Main reason I will download and examine instead of blindly run is that often the install script will fail to work as advertised or it will mess up my desired file system conventions. In both cases I'll need to check and perhaps modify the script so it must be bodily downloaded prior to executing. While looking for these problems I also check for obvious malicious instructions.
Some relatively simple things I've repaired around our apartment. Not all of these people would replace, but they might call a professional when it's quicker and cheaper to DIY:

* Top-loading washing machine. If it spins really loudly, or stops spinning, pop off the front panel and check the belt. Ours had just slipped off. Just make sure you get it really tight when reattaching--I had to redo it a couple times until it stayed on. As a bonus, I found a bunch of clothes that had fallen inside, including my wife's favorite skirt :-)

* iPhone battery replacement. Just bought the iFixit toolkit and followed their guide, it was pretty simple. Extended the life of my 6s+ another year (so far).

* Clothes repairs are pretty simple. I've patched some pretty big holes in jeans with new fabric which is a bit more involved, but things like sewing buttons back on or patching small holes is really simple, just look up mending stitches online. If you don't have the right color of thread, you can use hidden stitches, or go for a kintsugi approach and make the mending visible which can be pretty stylish.

* Stove burner covers -- these literally pop out and are (usually) dishwasher safe.

* Dishwasher cleaning -- this isn't hard, but can be pretty gross if it hasn't been done in awhile. Look up a youtube video, take all the parts out and thoroughly scrub everywhere you can, then run a cycle with a couple dishwasher cleaning tabs. Night and day cleaning difference for old dishwashers.
It unfortunately doesn't expose the serial ports externally, but it is possible to use an emulated serial mouse. It'd definitely be nice if someone would add in code to give access to the serial ports.
I suggest learning how WinUI works.
They also only loaded BASIC instantly. Want to load from tape or floppy and you’re back to waiting. Same thing if you run your BASIC program. Instant on in that case was restricted to the ROM BASIC and cartridges.
From my perspective when I had to turn ML models from a "real scientist" to something I could use in production, emacs-ipython-notebooks[1] was immensely helpful for me, since it allowed to connect to the jupyter server and edit and copy things from emacs to other code places as if I'm looking at an org mode file.

I see the appeal of Jupyter notebooks for someone testing out things or experimenting, but it's a bit like a brain dump that isn't that trivial to navigate around when a second or third person is involved.

[1] https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook
>Were all those devs picking Ruby instead of Java in 2010 ruining their careers? I doubt it. Were the devs picking Java instead of Ruby for their startups? Very possibly, many of them.

but is working for yc startups some good thing? like desired?
So let’s say I use your service, then what? Do I hypothetically take the results to my doctor and will they prescribe drugs based on the recommendation?

This is semi relevant to me, I do have high blood pressure at 49 that’s well control with what amounts to a standard diuretic (Hydrochlorothiazide).
Toilet paper doesn't work. It just moves the shit around. Wash your sphincter with water.
Have a look at Julia. Julia is fast, and in addition its differential equations lib is possibly the best in the world.
Nice. I admittedly move to Linux when I upgrade these old macs.

A friend once got an old PowerPC iMac off eBay, and it perfectly ran Ubuntu 12.04 IIRC.

He set it up as a remote testbed for PPC benchmarking, since the Mars rovers use the same generation of PPC processors.
Quite a few? Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, etc. etc.
> They made it clear after the fact that this was done because there wasn't an adequate supply of masks for 330M people, and they needed to secure a supply for first responders.

I hear this a lot. Do you have a citation?

My impression is that nobody knew what was going on, underprepared officials jumped the gun with premature statements, and after the fact some people tried to rationalize the incompetence.
It appears someone else ran into this and worked around it by adding routes to the gateway device to route to the new destination on behalf of the client. [1][2] Not sure if that would work in your setup.

[1] - https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/push-static-route-to-android...

[2] - https://dhcp-users.isc.narkive.com/Z6gxzMDm/static-routes-op...
Well, they also use Windows themselves for as long as Windows has existed. That is saying something.
Yes and the same people (ie feds) would do it and other worse things they’ve done overseas to American citizens, always worth remembering. These people aren’t your friends, and they certainly don’t have your best interest in mind.
We’ll implement what it takes to hit the majority of CSS we run into. The Rust ecosystem has some great packages for CSS and layout (we and Bevy comaintain Taffy) so at a certain point it’ll be filling in the blanks.

Being browser compliant would be great, but just being 70% of the way there would be cool too.
All but Iran, and possibly some parts of Saudi Arabia?
The thought process was that had FTX share owners done their due diligence over the how many series of funding rounds FTX had, it would not have become that sort of behemoth, issues would have been caught immediately, and well, the little guy wouldn't have suffered the consequences.

The little guy should also have done their due diligence with crypto though, and diversified their portfolios in terms of brokers. If you "play" with money, you should be prepared to lose it all.
Inplace operators?
And on Windows, COM and WinRT, although they are language agnostic.
I sincerely appreciate the personal input. I'm mostly recovered from 2021, and I don't intend to do anything dramatic if I do decide to go partly off-grid. Purely from logistics alone, I'd need to transition to a remote-only job and get money saved, but I've also placed the requirement of finishing my monstrous writing project before starting it.

As far as I can tell from the meandering I've done, good people and more power are a toxic combination. Either the power gets to their head and they stop being good anymore, bad people with less moral failsafes will take over that power, or good people have to sacrifice power to the Great Unknown just to continue surviving. And, eventually, the children of good people aren't automatically good by osmosis, and they're the ones who inherit the throne.

It may be a fantasy wrought by the ending of Robinson Crusoe (which bugged me that he didn't make a sequel), or an over-application of how I found untold freedom when I was a truck driver. Mostly, it's an experiment to see if we can do it, and how far we can go, and I'll keep the apartment manager of the nearest big city on file just in case.
Correct, they were telling people not to buy masks due to a shortage which is a different claim from “masks don’t work.”

Could it possibly be the case that these statements are all true?:

1) We don’t know if masks donned by untrained people in normal public settings impacts transmission

2) We do know that masks donned by medical professionals in a medical context impacts transmission

3) We know there are not enough masks available for both the general population and medical professionals

And if those three statements are all true, couldn’t it make sense to arrive at the position: the public should not get masks until medical professionals are equipped with what they need?
No offense but it’s lazy to just give partisan generic talking points and tell people to “go Google”.

I think the conservative positions that are specific to trans and gender issues seem to center around children. At least from the conversations I have had with conservative friends on the topic that has been the concern they have. If that is not the case, provide something to prove me wrong. You do your argument a disservice if you cannot provide depth beyond generics.
1) Bit spammy, innit?

2) Weird idea about what an ETL pipeline is all about: The end product here, that they "load" by saving to a file, is more something you'd get out of a data warehouse that you've ETL-d all your data into.

3) ETL is mainly ELT nowadays anyway; even though the latter acronym may have become popular only from the mid- to late 2010s onwards, that's what we did from at least the early to mid-00s. (Only we usually still called it "ETL".)
Possibly. But either stockpile or product them locally so production can be ramped up for local populous in the time of a pandemic. And make sending masks overseas illegal.

Too many people were buying up shops of marks and sending them back to China. That hurts us even more.
>in Czechia, you can download any content legally - as long as you don't share it, it's fine.

Very similar law in Poland: you can legally pirate music, books, comics, movies, images for yours own (including your family and closest friends) use.

What's interesting, there is an exception for software and video games - those are always illegal.
Oh, my holiday altercation with Kitchenaid brand stand mixers.

We have a Kitchenaid mixer. It came with aluminum whisks and dough hooks, which don't dishwash. So I splurged on a 150 dollar set of stainless steel upgrades. They arrived, and I test fit them - they attached! And being the wise, old, fool that I am, I discarded the original attachments in a ceremony over jack daniels laced eggnog.

So then, Christmas Eve, we go to attach them and whip up a bunch of dough to make puff pastry, which is how one might make a raspberry turnover. Alas, the little attachments are barely too small to reach the bowl! And so everything is asunder, a bowl of un-kneaded dough.

Fortunately we live in a country that really rewards consumerism, and so 75 minutes later on Christmas Eve itself, I was back from the store with a replacement Kitchenaid, the 'Artisan' series, which I wisely spent a brief moment verifying would double my sunk-cost fallacy in 150 dollar attachments.

I hop into the shower, and my wife starts kneading the 6 cups of dough. Our ceiling fan wafts air in from the kitchen, which generally ends a shower prematurely for wont of sprinting to confectionary delights. This time, I spelled a burning motor. A moment later, my hands were feeling the motor casing for heat: blistering hot! Of course, being an infrastructure engineer for the public cloud, I instantly knew that this was 'bad' and turned the device off quickly.

"Ahah!" I declared victory with a sardonic undertone, "This mixer voids the warranty for more than two cups of flour, with the speed above 'low', for any dough kneading!"

Well, we ended up going back to the Kitchenaid professional. It's got a speed control issue and needs a new controller board. The gearbox often breaks little gear bits off and also requires repair on these. And many of the newer models have a plastic cases that warps under extreme heat - some describe this as a safety design feature to protect the metal gears, and others say its a cheaper component and unintentional downgrade. Either way, the parts are user accessible and replaceable. People who rely on these devices will apparently keep extra parts in anticipation of their failure, to carry on with minimal downtime.

And yes, there is another box of 150 dollar attachments somewhere in the mail, to replace the aluminum ones I brazenly tossed into the recycling bin. And yes, I lost the packaging for the ones too-small. So my friend gets a set for his artisan I confirmed he randomly owns sheepishly, and I get the original functionality back; I end up with exactly what I had, plus also a lesson hard-earned, for the low cost of 300 dollars. There is no age limit on feeling dumb :D Happy Holidays
I think this could be avoided by using this syntax instead:

bash < <(curl -fsSL example.com/foo.sh)
I am not persuaded that there is any hierarchy of importance here, let alone that there is a preferred one. Any wrong date is the wrong date.
At least where I am (Canada) hospitals all buy through a couple of “buying groups”, so it’s not a bad way to get rid of lots of stock quickly.

N95s are used in many industries, and it’s a liquid market. Not hard to call up a big industrial distributor and say “hey, we have these masks that expire in 1yr, want to have a sale?”
> it is definitely a centerpiece of google's business.

THE centerpiece. The average Google user spends ~5min a day on search, and ~6 hours a day on Gmail.
> we still do not really know whether masks at a population level tend to reduce transmission

We don't know this about condoms, either.

https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/2/100
Transferable ownership is a very old idea, I don't see why it shouldn't apply to data.

What if that personal data is an autobiography that I have released under CC0? If the law says I still own it, can ask for it to be deleted, etc, then CC0 or any other creative commons license means nothing.

What we actually need is laws preventing people from getting arrested or losing access to housing, credit, or insurance based on warrantless data collection, rather than making the collection effectively impossible.

I don't want a world without CCTV cameras, where cell carriers don't know our last position if we get murdered, and where journlists can't report on things in public or look through a data breach.
That comparison makes no sense. Using a hammer for screws doesn't work at all.
Where you went wrong is getting it backwards. The vaccines are orders of magnitude less likely to cause cardiac problems than the virus itself, for fairly obvious medical reasons.

And that cardiac events in both cases are a minor part of the greater effects and dangers of catching the disease.

So it's about not focusing on the wrong things
Correct, we don’t know if masks work … in the same sense that we “don’t know” if parachutes work[1]. That is, we don’t (and can’t) do the level of randomized controlled trials that would precisely mimic real-world application.

Nevertheless, we’re capable of appropriate risk based inference. We can verify that masks slow down the spread of airborne particles and we know SARS-type viruses spread that way. Combined with the low cost of mask wearing and the huge impacts of a pandemic, a good risk analysis weighs heavily in favor of using them.

Even accepting the over-skeptical view you’ve given, official statements were still overconfident. Fauci was saying in February 2020 that “there’s no reason for anyone to be wearing a mask”, which you can’t justify by these claims of ignorance. “A small chance of slowing a SARS-type virus” is a great reason to wear a mask!

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/14/a-failure-but-not-of-p...
Sometimes the item is thrown away before it breaks. I was handed a 24 inch smart tv and told “nothing wrong with it, still works”. I dont think it is worth fixing everything that breaks, but maybe 30% of broken items by my estimate are easily repaired.
The question wasn't whether the CDC was "always right", the question was whether - given that Twitter already actively moderated content for other reasons - Twitter executives thought that the CDC had better arguments and evidence that certain statements were false and harmful than the people making them, and that "public health" was at least as good a reason for blocking/labelling tweets as those other reasons. (Most of the better criticisms of Twitter policy focuses on the complete lack of authority of most of the algorithms and individuals actually implementing the moderation to judge whether certain claims were new evidence or nonsense). It's not like there was ever any shortage of criticism of the CDC as an organization on Twitter.

My school didn't teach me to treat statements from practitioners of evidence-based medicine and vendors of colloidal silver as equally likely to be true or that people should pick recommendations based on which got the most social media upvotes either
I remember the time when we would pay for software and expected quality in return. Nowadays it's either free (sponsored by ads and or surveillance) or bundled with hardware to be abandoned when the manufacturer wants money again.
We might see the limits of Moore's Law in the coming decades.

I hope that will translate in hardware standardization and stability, as this is probably the best thing that could happen to software engineering.
Cleverness and sneakiness of this technique makes people laser-focus just the Hollywood-worthy hack, and forget the larger picture that it's about trusting the host not to pwn you. If you trust the host won't screw you, it doesn't matter how many style points they could have scored on something they won't do. If you don't trust the host, don't use it, because reviewing 10 lines of bash won't save you.

• The sneakiness of this can be defeated with `tee` (or a variety of other ways like modified bash or a VM).

• dpkg runs arbitrary package scripts as root, so you still put trust in whoever signed the package.

• When you use `curl|sh` to install binary blob built from millions lines of code, it has countless other opportunities to include exploits with plausible deniability. If the host is hacked, they can put the payload in the binary, knowing you'll review the bash script like a hawk, and then YOLO the rest.

• Targeted attacks can can use your IP too.

• Your distro's overworked unpaid maintainer LGTMs packages with a glance, and won't review millions lines of code for backdoors.

• There is a huge gap between what people imagine they could have theoretically done properly to keep things secure and gather evidence of any potential wrongdoing, and what they actually do.
You use Julia and let loop fusion handle it. You get 1 allocation if you want to store the result in a new array, or zero allocations if you already have the array allocated.

https://julialang.org/blog/2017/01/moredots/
This is what they ended up doing.

However, they also mention that many of their users are on iPads. On iPad there is no numeric only keyboard so it's not the best experience. Not terrible, but it's annoying that iPhone has a numeric keyboard but on iPad it's just a full keyboard, even when you request numeric only. We ran into this same issue and ended up just creating our own keyboard to make input simpler.
The federal government would absolutely be okay with a federal ID. They even offer a few already. It is the states who are against mandating one.
Less JS then I guess? More static pages?

Save the planet with uBlock ome ad at a time. (I am not sarcastic here BTW).
“Many people’s direct experience”

Those same “many people” are often quoted, often alluded to, and often used to ignore quantifiable facts.

Your direct experience does not negate my direct experience, and I’ve never experienced an otherwise healthy adult entering the hospital because of a bad case of the flu and dying. I cannot say the same for COVID.

While I agree that COVID may have been overblown in some respects, it was also politicized and in doing so a lot of FUD was spread. Which led to many people rejecting a vaccine that would have reduced the impact to not only themselves but the rest of the population around them.
> Ask yourself, who told you Russia has invaded Ukraine?

Rapidly changing events aren’t a great example.

> Given it's synthetic, there may not be a specific location the information came from.

For bits of sufficiently commonly known information, sure. But if GPT quotes an exact or close enough snippet to something somebody written, and/or part of the topic has been mostly covered in depth by one or two authors, they can be attributed. (Not very unlike a human mind would do it.) I can’t see how attribution is that red line beyond which lies something unattainable by LLM.

> What they'd end up having to do is the very human act of "googling" for sources that agree with what they already believe. Which is not the same.

Not sure I got this part in the context…
Here [1] is a related discussion with some more suggestions.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34137643