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Just a note: the article focuses on the ladies, but men should absolutely get it as well because it cuts risk for other types of cancers. I was looking for a better link, however this is the only one I found (I had an older one saved, however I can't find it):

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/health/hpv-men-vaccine-cancer...


yes! Apparently the rate of penile and throat cancer occurs at only half the rate in men as it does as cervical cancer in women, but the harm caused by the male versions of the cancer are worse, so in actual fact it may overall cause more harm in the male population.

My bet is that it has to do with the mechanics of receptive vaginal and oral sex, the penis just reaches deeper and causes more lesions. Compared to insertive vaginal sex and oral vaginal performance, those lesions would be less frequent and on more distal parts of the body.

If the rate is 50%, I'd also expect MSM to be overrepresented there, which would make the difference of risk between heterosexual sex even more imbalanced.


I will do so when my doctor advises me to, not before.

For some reason not really talked about in mainstream medicine for straight men. It makes no sense. Very safe vaccine and you're eligible into your 40's to get it. Everyone sexually active probably has some strains but not all.

the reason is no one realized hpv was connected to much more than cervical cancer until fairly recently.

I think we will eventually discover that almost all cancers are caused by viruses, and future healthcare will be all about how to stop the spread of viruses where vaccines don't work well.

Yeah, not everyone.

HPV spreads even when condoms are used - any skin to skin contact can spread it. So yeah, not everyone, but it’s exceptionally prevalent. Luckily most strains are relatively harmless.

It is exceptionally prevalent, but that's not the same as everyone who is sexually active has it. There are plenty of people who do not put themselves at risk prior to getting married and are then faithful to their spouses.

I despise that line of thinking. It completely ignores incidents of things like date rape. Jane Pristine gets assaulted by her high school boyfriend but doesn’t tell anyone because that’s how it commonly plays out. Joe Angel marries Jane and gets the HPV she got from her ex. Jane dies of cervical cancer. Joe, the widower, marries Jill Virginal and she gets HPV from him.

Not one of them did anything wrong, but all got it. Yes, not everyone who’s sexually active has HPV, but even people abiding by what I assume are the Biblical principles we’re discussing here (because abstinence is nearly only a religious thing and we’re talking about it on a heavily American website) can be affected, even without disobeying the laws they try to follow.


Some strain survive on toilet seats or in sauna/hammams.

this is a reminder to do a refresher on STDs, the situation for heterosexual men who dont do anal is overpowered. scare campaigns from the early 2000s and 90s arent that full of a story

the things you can get are either

A) benign when caught early. Test 3 weeks after every partner. Take a medication for a week if positive, your next test will be negative

B) can be vaccinated against in advance

or C) condoms don't prevent at all to begin with

D) new HIV infections is faaaar more rare to a hetero man, compared to women and people doing anal. And Prep/Pep has essentially solved that too.

the landscape is different for people being receptacles and their risk profile just has to be different.

devs left this unpatched

I can understand why districts wouldn't want teenagers to know it this way. That has nothing to do with you.


I was denied the vaccine by my healthcare provider as a man in my mid-20s. Their reasoning being that I was likely already exposed.

It may have been true, but would still have liked to get the vaccine since it covers many multiple strains.


IIUC they've been slowly expanding availability over the years. Someone who was denied in their 20s might be able to get it now in their 30s.

This was the case a decade ago but now the US recommendation is that all children, boys and girls, get the vaccine.

I'm pretty sure I heard your groan from all the way over here in Nashville. ;)

GitHub == git, which is free. You can clone the repo and push it to wherever. No comment on the rest. I am just pointing out that using GitHub for source code doesn't mean mean that code can't be easily forked or used elsewhere. I suspect GitHub is for convenience since the majority of folks using git use it.

The git part of github is a very small part of it, they are using Github issues etc which are not exportable/cross-platform.

So yes, you can git clone the repo and get the HTML, but if you want all the other stuff (the "github based workflows") then you have to use github.


> but if you want all the other stuff (the "github based workflows") then you have to use github.

Except what would you want it for? The issues and wikis and "github based workflows" are for people working on a thing, not for people using that thing or depending on it.


People that write standards and work on committees that write standards are working on a thing.

SMPTE have chosen github because it has the other stuff to allow them to manage the committee work, handle the issues raised in committees, drafts, tagging different versions, dealing with the committee processes etc.

They could have chosen something like JIRA, so at least we've avoided that.

That's what they said in the post about it being open.

They've moved the internal email mailing lists and other workflow to github as well as using git for the version control of the source.


Right. But people that write standards and work on committees that write standards are going to use whatever it is that the coordinating org wants, or whatever they can agree on, and they by definition will have access to it. For everyone else, none of that is of any relevance (at least beyond the ability to listen in on the process as it happens).

That's fine. The second I stopped caring, which is the day I stopped working for a living, I stopped worrying about what Google thinks. I don't use Google for email or search. (my email addresses are with proton, iCloud, and Hey, and my search is DDG) I'm not a big video person so I never use Youtube, the few times I need to use an office product I will either use OnlyOffice, or the Apple stuff. My Phone is an iPhone (with the stuff mentioned above) My browser is Firefox with uBlock Origin, and I almost never have problems with this setup.

The "problem" is that people are looking for problems. This "problem" isn't specific to Bluesky, ATProto, or anything else. Look at any organization: profit, non-profit, group of volunteers, etc. and you'll always find someone that folks have a problem with.

I'm not an investor and have no conflict of interest with Bluesky beyond being one of the earliest of users. I also understand the protocol, the company, the website within my own limitations.

The site (and app) works just fine. Folks are really focused on finding problems rather than coming up with bigger and better solutions.

Note: the majority of folks don't want an ad-hoc p2p solution like lemmy or mastodon. they want their content in one place, and they want to be able to hold that entity accountable. Because of this, p2p social networking will never take off. I've seen more drama surrounding both Lemmy and Mastodon than I have ever seen with twitter, reddit, facebook, etc. combined.

That's my 2 cents. Also, apparently my spouse feels the same way. So do my friends.


Not really, Qwen 27b offloads to a decent gaming GPU (RTX 4090 in my case) without needing tons of RAM.

can you give more info? llama.cpp vs vllm? config? i wanna try specifically this model

llama.cpp to get 115 tok/s on RTX 4090 with Qwen3.6-27B. For example in Windows the latest CUDA variant llama-b9678-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64.zip and Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL MTP gguf:

llama-server.exe --host 0.0.0.0 --alias "Qwen3.6-27B-MTP" -m "F:\Qwen3.6-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL-MTP.gguf" -c 75000 -ngl 99 --metrics --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0.00 --top-k 20 --presence-penalty 0.0 --no-mmap -t 16 --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 3 --reasoning on -fa on --parallel 1 -lv 4

Note that this does not use kv cache quants as in my case quants offload to CPU and tanks performance. Also keep in mind this almost maxes VRAM usage so any additional browsers or other programs that use VRAM should be closed. For chat go to http://localhost:8080/ and minimize the window to maximize perf as the web page UI draw itself consumes a lot of GPU perf via constant context switching.

Can try bigger than -c 75000 until perf gets lower than 100 tok/s - that means something is off as windows starts paging out memory or other issues. -c 50000 seems sweetspot if running browsers and stuff that consume 2GB VRAM. If wanting more than -c 140000 then likely need to use a bit smaller model quant.

CPU usage should be near zero, maybe 1 core load. If you see 8+ core load then settings are off and something is offloaded to CPU (for example kv cache). GPU load should be about 100%, meaning it utilizes work optimally in this case.

-t 16 can be omitted or set to the amount of physical cores, not important in this dense model that is 100% in GPU.

Can be pushed to 125 tok/s with that model if using --spec-draft-n-max 4 but VRAM usage also increases, so context needs to be smaller.

If speed is not important and want max context length then remove the draft-mtp parameters and also might need to use k and v quants like --cache-type-v q8_0, leave k f16 if possible to keep quality.


Honestly, anyone using Github as a basis for hiring to begin with is approaching hiring with flawed thinking. Github isn't the only source for git, and git isn't the only standard for version control. Further, Github has been pushing companies AWAY from the platform thanks to high costs and other nonsense. I've seen more than one company either run a local git server or something like a local git lab instance. Using github as a metric just ensures that you eliminate anyone not using github. That includes many amazing open source devs, for example.


Except companies aren't looking for the smartest programmer, they looking for a cog to fit into a spot in the machine. In that sense, evaluation someone on how well they do on the de-facto standard platform makes sense, unfortunately.


Tell that to the folks on the front lines, along with folks on both sides, military or not, who have had to deal with it.

Russia would never nuke Ukraine to begin with. They know that by doing so, most of the world would unite against them, and many, including Putin, would be on the chopping block.


Russian self-image is protector of the family of Slavic people and nations. Resorting openly to destruction of a Slavic people would be an incoherent tactic.

That self-perception lowered the gate for interference in Ukrainian affairs in the first place, but also set a ceiling on escalation.


> Russia would never nuke Ukraine to begin with

Mostly because that's useless. Ukrainian weapon production and economy is located in Europe. Ukraine is basicaly western PMC now.

If nuclear war starts, nukes would be falling on European cities and facilities, not Ukrainian.


Everyone keeps forgetting about the French independent at sea nuclear deterrent.

I wonder when Poland will decide it's time for them to have The Bomb?


> Russia would never nuke Ukraine to begin with.

Russia is not fighting Ukraine, it is fighting NATO in Ukraine. And, IIANM, it has the capability of hitting non-Ukranie NATO targets in various places around the world - with cruise missiles and such. The assumption that "oh, Russia will never do this" is actually quite reckless and dangerous; and I don't just mean dangerous to whoever would get attacked, but dangerous for people all over the world, as we may find ourselves in a nuclear exchange with multiple blasts in multiple locations with radioactive matter spread far and wide.

Regarding the drones - definitely agree with you that drones have completely reshaped the experience on the front lines of this war. I understand that in a recent exercise with NATO forces, a Ukranian unit of drone operators essentially "took out" a couple of battalions:

https://www.krone.at/4046529


> Russia is not fighting Ukraine, it is fighting NATO in Ukraine.

If that is the case they are doing a poor job at doing so, without even fighting the full might of NATO.


however, nato is fighting the full might of china, russia, iran, and north korea. the whole set. and china is fighting for both ukraine and russia at the same time. why arent you worried about nato randomly attacling china so china stops supplying russia with drone materials? or north korea so they stop providing shells and soldiers?

russia isnt going to attack nato because it knows it isnt currently fighting nato, and bringing nato into the war will be worse for russia than keeping nato as an arms supplier only.


Such nonsense. The EU may be supplying Ukraine with some munitions etc, but if NATO was actively involved, the war would have been over in a year; either conventionally or via nuclear weapons.


> most of the world would unite against them

Seriously doubt any country on Earth is going to attack Russia and risk global thermonuclear annihilation over anything other than a direct attack on their own lands.


I think if Russia drops a nuke on Ukraine then even China will desert them.

India for sure will stop trading with Russia, lest it be seen to condone such insanity (India has a nuclear armed rival next door-India will not want Pakistan get any ideas).

I think this is the only reason Russia did not nuke Ukraine.


Well, yes. Stop trading with them? I can believe that.

I don't believe for a second that even a single country will openly declare war on Russia over it or attempt to nuke Russia in return.


" many, including Putin, would be on the chopping block."

I think that's the above comment's point. Attack moscow -> existential threat -> they're already on the chopping block -> nukes.


oh no...not again...;)


There are detectors for VMs, and modifications to allow VMs to evade those detectors. It's an arms race.

Example: There is (was? I don't actively follow the community) a patch set for a particular piece of VM software that made it undetectable to anti-cheat in games.

While I don't use said software (I have a casual interest in it only...would be nice to get more games working on Linux), I have to disclose that I'm against anti-cheat mechanisms. I'm a software engineer, and I've worked on a few smaller games, and know the overall structure of bigger ones, and I don't think I've ever seen a game use good practices in multiplayer. Instead, they usually rely on client side code and lean on anti-cheat software to stop cheaters.


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