skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with no mandate, masks alongside other factors, helped reduce COVID infection rates and mortality in Japan [1]. Meanwhile, this article is grasping for a mechanism of toxicity when no epidemiological evidence of toxicity exists, and masks are used occupationally by millions of workers daily.

There is evidence from a dedicated infectious disease hospital that elastomeric masks prevent transmission of illness:

—In a dedicated TB hospital, they have used elastomeric half-face respirators with N95 filter cartridges since 1995. The filters only need to be changed once per year.

—Before implementing these filters, they only used surgical masks that resulted in up to 50% of their staff becoming TST positive and 1-2% with TB disease.

—Since they started using the half-face respirators, they have not had a single TST conversion.

With a plausible mechanism (filtration), no evidence of harm, and some evidence of benefit with certain forms of masking, maybe what is really needed is a risk:benefit calculation. An essentially no-risk intervention plausibly reduces infection risk and all of a sudden the bar of evidence to practice basic hygiene ratchets up to randomized phase 3 studies. Meanwhile, the same people will cite this preclinical, speculative, provocation of a paper and say masking is murder.

Maybe there is something deeper behind this? People don’t like government mandates and don’t want to be told what to do in general. Individualism in contrast with the collectivist self-perception that is more pervasive in Japan may be a more important factor than evidence here. This observation will anger people because they want to believe their decisions are based on evidence, when they are really driven by psychology.

[1] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/982234

[2] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25275/reusable-ela... (pages 106 to 107)
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God forbid, synthetic material from a synthetic and organic materials supply store. Would you feel better if they sourced some synthetic material from 'synthetic bulk shapes unlimited inc'?

But seriously, yes they probably went a bit "just get it done" to shim and strap down that component.

That does not take away from them also doing some crazy engineering on major components that will surely improve the lifetime ownership also.
Did the last 5x times we did something help?

How many "save the kids" bills have we passed that haven't worked?

Repeal those and let's talk.
Yes because pulling over on a multi lane highway in the rain when you have poor visibility and then trying to merge into traffic is much safer.

Besides, what if you are on the road with no shoulders.
Anyone with two brain cells could tell you touchscreens suck in cars. They physically demand visually attention to do anything.
I said majority, not average, although what I really meant was anyone who is not a professional driver. But seems like you’re making a stronger argument for my point than I am for putting FSD Beta on the road to replace that 5-10% of bad drivers even sooner.
>If NATO wasn't as expansive, Russia probably wouldn't have invaded.

Probably?! Probably...??

I don't think even the average propaganda punch drunk Igor on the street believes this tired old excuse for the invasion of Ukraine any more.

>Ask the average Joe if they want WWIII, because imperialist powers can't keep their hands in their pockets.

Actually, we should turn that around and ask the average Russian on the street, since it's their country being imperialist, and their mobics dying in a foreign land. Ask them why they voted for it.
I cram everything that has an RSS feed into https://kindle4rss.com/ where I can read the feeds daily as an ebook on my kindle (including HN Best). WhatsApp / Telegram cover my "real-time" needs. Most important for me is to have digital wellbeing limits configured for social media.

Recently stumbled upon https://github.com/piqoni/matcha which is a Go RSS reader with a GPT-3 option for summarizing certain RSS feeds.
'Tony Stark invented and put together all his inventions therefore Elon is a failure and a fraud going by Marvel standards' should be the title...meh.

There is a saying about the difference between a wise and a smart man. Something to the effect the smart man works for the wise man. Elon is both to varying degrees with varying degrees of success but mostly success.
Perhaps I’m not used to reading US opinion pieces, masquerading as articles?
I have this exact problem! About a year ago I built https://fetcher.page which fetches updates for me every 10 minutes or so, filters the ones I've already seen, and then notifies me of new updates.

It's not perfect, but at least I thought reopen 5 websites like 50 times a day.

I rebranded it as a social listening platform a couple months ago, but one can still use it for its initial purpose. Let me know if you find this useful, can grant free access.
Are you asking me a question about this 'joke comic'?

I haven't heard of it, so you'll have to explain.
How Long Should You Keep Backups?
When will the Taxpayers have to bail the sports bettors out?
And not like you'd have to come in via the street like the poors. You'll have a helipad at the top, because what kind of billionaire would you be otherwise, coming in via street level? The other billionaires would sneer!
Care to share the script code?
Nice! I need to set something up like this.
> 1 -> .1 2 -> .01 3 -> .001 4 -> .0001 5 -> .00001 6 -> .000001 . -> .0∞1

That would only count the rationals which you can definitely count off a carefully arranged matrix of rationals. But reals = rationals and irrationals and the irrationals are uncountable.
If you watched Moonfall, you learned that our own moon is actually an alien spaceship, and that only socially-maladjusted people can fix it.
I adapted the very old FM/AM, cassette, and external CD changer in my very old Range Rover to have Bluetooth because it doesn't have an aux input and my phone doesn't have a headphone jack anyway, and I want to listen to music or audiobooks off it when I'm driving.

I looked into reversing the protocol between the CD jukebox and the stereo, and using an Arduino to inject the appropriate commands - maybe even get the "next" and "back" track buttons working too - but in the end I just fitted a cheapy bare-PCB bluetooth deelie into the cassette deck and wiring it to permanently think it has a tape in.

It works pretty well, and it looks pretty standard. My phone sticks to the flat 1990s dashboard (remember when cars didn't have to have swoopy curves everywhere?) with a couple of bits of double-sided sticky Velcro, and plugs into a USB-C socket fitted where the lighter socket used to be.

Good old farm truck technology.
I've got them (well my brother stole them) sold along with the rerelease so 6 discs total.

Digitally remastered but otherwise the cinema release
No reason that would be the case - this already very well proven technology internationally, just much less common in the US.
Too many.

From the top of my head: HN, Twitter, imgur, LI, WhatsApp.

All via web, no apps, no notfications.

I tried blocking most of the sites via /etc/hosts but what is a sudo password against my FOMO...
Spare a thought for those of us who grew up on the Dicsworld(mud)
https://dwwiki.mooo.com/wiki/Currency
I have 4 main sites in Livemarks on my browser:

- BBC News

- Ars Tech

- HN

- (local newspaper for my area)

I don't really checkin - more just click on the dropdown to see if there is anything interesting randomly throughout the day.

My wife looks at a lot of news sites, so I figure she will fill me in on anything else - I have breaking news alerts on for BBC on my phone, but I've found recently it's more just standard news than "breaking"

The only notifications I have on for my phone are BBC breaking news and whatsapp. (And Teams during work hours). Everything else can wait until I want to look.
Interestingly, mixed over/underground tunnel systems like the London Underground effectively pumps heat back underground (the trains heat up from both the sun and braking etc., and radiate that heat into the tunnels) to the point where the clay surrounding the London Underground tunnels is many degrees hotter now than when the London Underground opened. Cities with underground systems might effectively have a lot of excess heat available to pump out. There's some feasbility study being done on reusing waste heat from ventilation, but I don't know if there's been any work done on to what extent the London Underground heating of the ground in the city centre does to the efficiency of ground source heat pumps.
I think the early generation of internet kids had trouble with this and other things like the permanence of Facebook, etc. Today, my kid and her friends are highly sensitive to "creepers," who might be lurking and their tactics. They are well aware of the pitfalls of posting on social media and all that. It seems society has adapted.
I wonder if it took so long because of how difficult pluralising-after-the-fact is [1]. For example, I imagine all client apps keep a list of contacts and a one-to-one public key for each contact (rather than one-to-many).

[1]: https://www.swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization
someone else posted it in this thread check it out https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/259/257/342...
Yeah but that's the lazy solution that's not really all that useful. I mean it's definitely useful to not keep falling towards the planet core, but for other less mundane uses.
You could read this as "you can't say anything bad about the industrial complex because you participate in it", though I think that is pretty obviously bad faith.
A more charitable interpretation I would take is "whatever misgivings you have about large scale industrial practices, it's important to remember that they also massively benefit society and are in some cases necessary." Pointing out the flaws is great, villanizing is counterproductive.
Agree that bad drivers kill people constantly, but I’d argue this isn’t the end of the story.

As a cyclist, I’ve had plenty of close calls with bad drivers. I’ve also witnessed insane behavior by cyclists that obviously led to the subsequent vehicular entanglement [0].

On balance, cars cause more issues for bikes than the other way around. But a subgroup of cyclists are not innocent here, and plenty are directly at fault for their own injuries or for forcing cars into dangerous situations.

All of this to say: this isn’t a bikes vs. cars problem, it’s a city planning and transportation infrastructure problem.

- [0] Like the cyclist that turned the wrong way around a traffic circle to go the wrong way down a one way street and was surprised to land on the hood of my car as I made my way the correct way (and only legal route) around the circle. I was equally surprised because the center of the circle was filled with tall plants. If he’d been going faster, things could have been much worse for him. It would have counted as a vehicular accident but the cops and insurance folks were 100% in agreement that the cyclist did the dumb thing here. The point of this anecdote: if that cyclist died, it’d be “another cyclist killed by a car”, but that’s hardly the whole story. Encounters with cars have a high risk of being fatal. That does not mean that drivers are always the issue.
I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like:

Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss)

Journals: professional journals in my field

Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, weather blogs, etc. (all have RSS feeds)

Industry: industry news from various podcasts, institutional blogs, regulator blogs, other subreddits reddits

Global news: RSS feeds from my local big city newspaper

Software news: Cloudflare status reports, release note blogs from my favorite softwares

Work: rss feeds from github on some work repos.

Then I come to HN and Twitter directly as well... (shame)

[1] https://www.freshrss.org/
Why yes, I do participate in society. Curious!
Free Pascal had support for generics since 2006, predating even Delphi's. While that isn't as long as Wirth's Pascal, it still is almost two decades old which i wouldn't call that recent.
>The semantic space that "lager" covers in German is around storage/collection

It's wider than that and covers also the sleeping place of people and animals. Lager is related to lair in English.
If, a big if, you don't need version control, rsync will do. It can handle any imaginable amount of data and it can work over ssh or for local file syncing. It is much, much faster than other solutions too.

It is my main tool to manage things that aren't code, and I give myself the ability to go back to older files or undelete things in a KISS manner by having multiple rsync destinations that are used in rotation.
They compete on price, just not as much as before
The 7900xtx is much better deal at 1000$ than 1200$ for the 4080, yet and isnt pushing prices as low as they used to.

The difference is AMD actually discounts old GPUs and CPUs, a 6950XT can be found for around 500$ or less.
I have a theory (after having searched for The Diamond Age) that certain very popular books are ironically not going to be close to similar books because they appear on so many varied reading lists.

There's probably a graph theory phenomena that describes what I'm thinking.
The entire song was (as I recall) poking fun at people who talked like that, and all of the lyrics in the song came were overheard by some working class patrons and their observations watching MTV.
The whole reporting rate thing is mostly irrelevant IMO. It's the relative rate of property crime vs violent crime that matters. Violent crime is not generally directed at a broad of a cross section of the population like property crime is. Violent crime is dominated by people settling disputes that can't be settled in court. To your average techie who'd never think about rounding up a couple buddies and home invading the dude that sold them cut drugs SF's relatively high property crime rate makes it "feel rough" even if the violent crime rate isn't that remarkable.
If HN's your problem, check out the noprocrast feature in your profile to force yourself to take a break.
If I understand you correctly you are saying their unique geopolitical position has an effective on incentives to make semiconductors. That’s really interesting and once I think about it explicitly it makes sense. Excellent point!
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If you know ahead of time how to do it. If you are in a new car, discovering which of 12 different switches, knobs, and dials adjusts the wiper speed is somewhat baffling. I always spend 5 minutes in a new rental car trying to memorize how to do this, but if it's been a couple days since I rented the car and I'm trying to do it for the first time, it is not something that I try to attempt to adjust while still on the road.
I've built a once a day news digest to try and eliminate some of the doom scrolling and non-stop attention seeking.

Other than that HN, Reddit, and recently Artifact. Though Artifact's algorithm encourages doom scrolling.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
Which reminds me of https://fivebooks.com/, where people from a particular field are asked their top five book recommendations for a given theme. The interview format is great, and I've picked up a few recommended books along the way.
Intels Fab 24 in Ireland does 14nm at least. But yea, Europe really missed the boat hard on chip manufacturing even though they have ASML sitting in the Netherlands. Actually they already were in the game with several fabs. And then there was ARM. Feels like they not just missed the boat but mismanaged and then sold it for scraps while they could have had a realistic shot of being at the top of the game. Sigh.
> I would agree that blockchain is un-necessary.

Blockchain is an easier buzzword to convey than 'Distributed ledger'. Distributed ledgers long predate BTC, but it is one of the things that make a 'blockchain', a 'blockchain'.

They don't require a system with it's own set of tokenomics, decentralization, Proof of work... it will be a centralized distributed ledger for managment and visibility of the network; i.g. a blockchain.

the 'blockchain'
If you have brown skin, you're an economic migrant.

If you have pink skin, you're an ex-pat.
No, but you might find something on YouTube.
No milk & cookies?

Oreos or Famous Amos dunked in a glass of milk

Maybe a hold over from my youth but that is my guilty pleasure
Real, canonical, link: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
The headline is probably wrong. Most likely, Deimos is a well-known moon, only second to Luna. Maybe tied with Phobos.
Would you also agree to this ban, if it was to expose a group of homosexual men having consensual sex, assuming it was illegal?
For personal stuff, just Discord (one server with my hometown friends, another with friends from another city) and email (which in turn contains the latest stuff from various RSS feeds/podcasts via rss2email)."

Work is mostly the same except we use Slack instead of Discord. My work inbox is mostly useless with the number of internal lists I'm on, but I make an effort to scan that for stuff that I might actually need to read or respond to. Then I respond to any red pips in Slack -- I'm in enough channels and threads that I just have to leave most channels "white" most of the time, and the "Unreads" and the "Threads" views are mostly useless.
Also discussed a tiny bit yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712326
> we clearly have better answers to questions of race

Do we? It seems like racial tensions are higher than they've been during my lifetime because there's a grievance culture explicitly focused on race instead of treating people as individuals based on their merits. By the standards of today, MLK's request to treat people based not on the color of their skin but the content of their character is rejected as racist.
There's a DVD "limited edition" of the trilogy that is 2 discs each, and the "extras" disc has either the original or laserdisc edit. This is good. The downside is that the black levels and audio are obviously dated/untouched. There's just no market for "remastering" without the content changes.
Much cheaper to sign up for an API key then use it with MacGPT or some other client. Fraction of a cent per question.
You can put duct tape over your federally mandated backup camera display if you really believe they're so distracting that they cause you to run over more people in reverse.

But maybe you should just stay off the road instead, so you have less blood on your own hands.
I am not sure whether it is about the EU per se. It seems to trace more to the nowadays highly toxic questions of free speech and alleged censorship. Although much of values and rights are shared across all Western countries, the freedom of expression has always diverged between the US and the rest. Of course, they have a right to point out that this freedom is (slightly) restricted in most European countries. Personally, I've never quite understood the obsession of many Americans on this particular right, given that there are so many other important rights and liberties in the Constitution.

EDIT: While someone with a background in comparative legal analysis would be needed for a verification, I could also posit a hypothesis that both the EU's Charter and the national constitutions of most European countries grant more rights than the Constitution. That said, more is not always better from a constitutional law perspective, as the reform proposals in Chile clearly have showed.
The problem is that before long, the edited version becomes the only available version.

And once we start with these edits, say for blatant racism, do we also have to appease groups who are deeply offended by sexism/misogyny, profanity, blasphemy, nudity, drugs, gambling, alcohol, meat-eating, fossil fuels, and probably more?

Better off to leave the work intact, and when necessary just add a content warning up front, to remind people that a creative work was the product of a specific time period and in no way an endorsement of language/behavior that is seen as completely unacceptable today.
> RAM is so big these days that most databases can fit into it and be blazingly fast.

... Compared to L3 cache? Isn't that still at least 10 times faster?

That probably only matters in high performance projects though.

> the correct way to structure IF statements (Common case first etc)

But muh early returns on error D:
I wonder why the author couldn't have used Fußgänger with enough English context to explain the word, feels like the kind of thing I'd appreciate were I an expat reading the English language paper- "The Fußgänger commuting on foot, to work or shop or visit friends" something like that.
>A black Cleopatra is “rewriting history” in the same way an English speaking Cleopatra is.

So you'd be fine with Rami Malek playing Mansa Musa in a documentary or the next black panther?
Yeah, because it was before smartphones (phones having "normal" internet access, full featured browsers and all other things being done on top of that). A lot of effort was spent on things like Broadcast and Multicast Service (BCMCS), etc back then.
No. You fundamentally misunderstand qualified immunity. What you have repeated here, I assume unwittingly, is a dishonest description put forward by activists.

Qualified immunity is the principle that a public official acting in good faith cannot be held personally liable for an action that is later determined to violate the Constitution. No reasonable person, other than a nihilist, could possibly disagree with qualified immunity. (For those who insist on viewing everything through a political lens, qualified immunity was first articulated wrt police officers by the extremely progressive Warren Court in an 8-1 decision, the same court that gave us Miranda and struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving.)

What many people do reasonably disagree with is the shift in Harlow so that the official is presumed to be acting in good faith, and the person whose rights were violated has the burden of proving otherwise (by showing clearly applicable precedent).

A reasonable person can, and many reasonable people do, oppose Harlow and think it should be overturned. But it is not possible to oppose qualified immunity without also opposing functioning democracy.
I guess I'm missing the joke... what's hilarious about pedophilia?
I think it's similar thing with hands, we immediately see the problem with the hands because we know how they work and recognise when the generated hands wouldn't work.

This expands to all kind of machinery actually. The moment you start reasoning about the output it falls apart. I only assume at some point there would be another AI model which is trained on how things work and will guide the current AI stuff.

Like the way ControlNet guides StableDiffusion to produce output the way the user desires.
It's really quite simple. You have wells that suck up water from the ground when you need it. In many instances you can simply let water flow back down those walls into the ground.
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Everything you wrote is wrong.

"Offending" someone is meaningless. Anyone can claim they were offended by anything, but that doesn't automatically make the thing illegal or injurious.

Insults != defamation