jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Their control group was people that had influenza and other respiratory conditions in the same timeframe. The hazard ratios for COVID survivors (over influenza or others) were in the 1-2% range. Meh.
What needs to happen is making mask wearing mandatory for anyone in the public.

If both parties have a mask, even just made at home from a piece of cloth or even a scarf, the risk of one party infecting the other goes way down, even without sophisticated respirators being used.
Start by downloading Ubuntu and using it everyday. It's actually super easy to use, IMO easier than Windows or macOS. Then download the language of your choice and start using. When you build something, at some point you'll have to compile and package it, or start a webserver and deploy it, etc..., all good learning experiences. But just using Linux everyday is a good start (and don't go for one of the hardcore distros, use Ubuntu or Fedora).
> They are very independent and mobile. Considering that Japan never took active quarantine .

And that makes the situation better, especially if you compare to country like Italy where a huge majority of kids still live with their parents and grand parents, potentially can infecting them.

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/6413.jpeg

If social distance and mask works in public space, it does not at home.
Not at all. Good sanitation is going to prevent mainly oral-fecal spread of disease, but H1N1 (Swine flu is the most recent H1N1 pandemic) is droplet/airborne spread. Hand washing and physical distancing are key here.

If you're asking about hand washing practices in that era and if that would have prevented the spread, absolutely. Hand washing attenuated SARS spread during the 2002 epidemic by roughly ~50% [1]. I am not an expert in history so I cannot speak to hand hygeine practices during that era. What current research is suggesting is that H1N1 spread was exacerbated by a lack of knowledge to the public [2]. Time and time again public health is predicated on the right knowledge given as quickly as possible; this is the most important key to almost every single disease spread[3].

1)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323085/

2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Spread

3) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1006/bulm.2002.0317
I, with a friend of mine, worked on creating a static website - https://learn-from-home.herokuapp.com/ to learn from home during the lockdown. It has a list of many of the free resources available right now.
While going through the comments, I was inspired/amazed by https://grocy.info/ and I'm thinking of building something similar. It is really helpful.
Does it matter what kind of meditation?
In my software or electronics I've designed, a lot of work has gone into making design temper proof, reverse engineering proof. So it's needlessly complex. Specially where we need to protect IP, for example using client and server side software when all the work can be done on client side because you fear your competitor will steal your secret sauce by reverse engineering your binary. I wonder how many such anti tamper efforts is used in these medical machine.
wyclif, You are right. (embarrassed about it)
Technology that can be used for defense is progressing rapidly. The US military already uses unmanned flying sniper planes and Google already has surveillance helicopter robots. I expect that it won't be too much longer before it will be affordable to use robots and other high tech to defend a floating city against pirates and other enemies with conventional weapons.

North Korea has shown that the easiest way to defend against invasion by the US is to have a number of nukes. This seems to be Iran's strategy too. Until they have nukes, they are vulnerable. After they have nukes, they are much less likely to be attacked themselves.

If North Korea, Pakistan, and (soon) Iran have managed to get nukes, I don't see why small groups of rich, smart, western businessmen won't be able to.

A floating settlement armed with robotic drones and nuclear missiles would be pretty secure I think.
I'm pretty sure most companies have information they'd rather wasn't public. Most people do too. I don't see why governments would be any different.

There's a careful balance between transparency and secrecy.
I'm sorry if you can't access the site, it's getting slammed right now. I'm getting more memory soon, if you can't access it today you should check it out tomorrow.

The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-w7UXCAUJE
More subtlety would have helped.
RedHat does wonderful things for linux and open source, what Oracle is doing to RHEL is like bullying.

Who'd want to work for such a company? Seriously.

I don't care if Oracle's so called distro does any damage to RedHat or not, it's the fact that Oracle is pulling dirty moves like this; that's what makes me perceive the company as evil.
I have the feeling that these things we never can pin down the cause for - like schizophrenia, MS, and psoriasis - I don't think they are caused by any one thing. Perhaps we have been fooled by the almost one-to-one mapping of reason-to-illness that we have seen so far. Schizophrenia, MS, and also psoriasis, are complex systems that manifest from accumlated weaknesses in incredibly complex systems.
Except Chrome uses WebKit, not KHTML.
I don't know much about Kerouac, but from reading his biography I don't get the impression that Nash was brilliant because of his illness. He was brilliant in spite of his illness, or more accurately I think he was brilliant before his illness really started hitting him and he was never really the same again afterwards.

Schizophrenia has destroyed a lot of promising young minds, and I'm not convinced that it has created any.
Be honest. Brutally so. Nothing will get better if you're not, and unless you're politicing to increase the greater good for your customer and your workspace, honesty is the path of greatest good.
>except that in the Mac you can option-click, which is even >more complicated than a right click. There is always a way >to make features obscure, if you want to.

Emm, I think you missed his point. This is EXACTLY why the single button mouse forced software developers to make it work with a single click --because it made the "right click" equivalent more difficult for the user.
this is the secret to dethroning apple.especially if devs can have an open app store with less stringent rules
There are plenty, for example...

Commercial: OpenOffice.org and StarOffice (Sun/Oracle), Kingsoft Office, SoftMaker Office
Plus FOSS/Freeware ones like: LibreOffice, KOffice, Siag Office,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite
"It's strange being someone who strives to be self reliant, studies and analyzes to make ethics from scratch, constantly examines and re-examines everything... I think there exists less people like this than I originally thought. No, less than that. Okay, divide that number by 10 again."

Most people may not read Emerson, Fromm, Aquinas, Stace, Russel etc but they sure do learn from life experiences on ethics, think about the implications of things and act on those things. Many, many people strive to be self reliant, as well. Once a group like HN starts saying, "God, if only other people were as smart as us", we're reaching a danger zone where we should always take a very close look before self adulating.
Well the fact that Apple doesn't want to support MST on macOS doesn't help either. Funny enough, installing Windows on the same Mac makes MST work just fine.
> A slower spreading virus would produce more mutations over time

Mutation is not primarily a function of time but of infections. So mutation is higher when there are more hosts. Letting the virus infect people leads to more mutations.

Now we're probably not talking about the same thing when we say mutations. I mean the sum-total of mutations. You mean successful mutations. But here comes the connection: The virus is more likely to evolve into infecting vaccinated people when it is more widespread. Because there are more mutations and consequently more chances for one of them to evade the immune response of vaccinated people.
I largely agree with you but I don't want to see misinformation spread even when it supports my view.

The signal server source code is open source now in theory, you are just not permitted to run your own server and have it join the Signal network. We have to take their word for it that they are running the code they publish.
No ethernet or appletalk or serial? First transfer might still need all that machinery, but after that, a lot less work.
That's not possible in the iOS version. Tapping on + pops up a request to grant Contacts access.
This could be a great moment for the Dems to twist the knife in trumps gut after the inauguration and pardon these morons. They should be punished for what they did, but this is ripe for an olive branch narrative
> Trump IS an authoritian

Yes you are absolutely right! Trump bombed innocent kids in Syria after receiving the "Nobel Peace Prize". Trump dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Trump launched multiple Wars, invaded foreign countries and destroyed millions of lives and livelihood. Isn't it? Trump did all of the things an Authoritarian would do. Hang him for his crimes!

> - if today isn’t proof of that to you then I don’t know what to say to you.

I hope you got your "proof".
You certainly did not have to live with those around you before the internet, and were sometimes very much encouraged not to.

It isn't like the LGBTQ+ community was treated well. It was perfectly acceptable to not hire a queer school teacher, nor was it such a bad thing for students to shun a queer classmate. Or you could look at marriage between "races" and the slurs you got from them. A core teaching of a number of churches is to surround yourself with other believers instead of the non-believer next door. And certainly make sure you fit into your gender roles.

Best not to have communist or socialist leanings in the 50's, nor be asian in the US in the 40's. In so many places, it was outright dangerous to have dark skin.

Sometimes you would just accept those around you because that was all you had access to, which is true... so long as they weren't in the wrong group lest you be treated like the minority.

Social media amplifies some bubbles, but it also breaks a few and some things are more difficult to ignore.
> Twitter generates so much negativity, so much strife between people who constantly yell at each other over nothing that socially it is the most toxic place on the internet.

Beef. It's what's for twitter.
Sure, but conversion to travel time is trivial given a signal velocity of c. Or just assume a 'natural' system of units where c=1 :p
People's personality's certainly are malleable, but the MBTI does not purport to measure personality. It (attempts to) measure personality type. i.e. the underlying baseline from which your personality starts. At no point does it claim that people's personalities don't change. Of course they do.

Perhaps you are assuming that people are "tabula rasa" - blank slates - from which their personalities develop. The MBTI is a criticism of this: it asserts that there is variance in the nature component of people's personalities. That two people exposed to exactly the same environmental stimuli from birth will not react to it the same way.

IMO this is fairly obviously true if you think about it (even if you don't think the MBTI accurately describes the differences.)
In Berlin your rent will most surely be less than mortgage payment unless you take a very very long mortgage (like 50 years). Plus you need a down payment.

The reason it makes sense for landlords is that they have nothing else to do with the money if interest rate is zero or close to it - the alternative is slowly losing it (or higher risk stuff like stocks).

So they slowly build equity while not profiting every month, counting on prices continuing to rise for their long-term profit and if they run several properties you can get economies of scale going for managing them.
Wouldn't this also work with a large enough MicroSD?
Are they not operated for joyflights where you live?
Not yet. I'm working on a couple designs that I'll 3D print for a couple of my own projects.

It's still hard to find both the IO Board and CM4 in stock though :(
Counter:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export
When did DNS stop being a system for identifying servers, and start being a system for owning words?
Feeling well and bad are not opposites on one scale, but rather different brain-function.

Bad feelings are often actually anxiety or fear, which lead to a broadening of attention: perceiving many different things, but none of them clearly. Exactly what is needed to get away from a situation. This is where the creativity might come from.

Please note that this broadening of attention doesn't mean you can think clear, which is the problem with depression: having thousands of dysfunctional thoughts rotating, without being able to focus on one of them properly. (until the brain just shuts down with exhaustion).

Feeling well, on the other hand, often incorporates feeling in-the-zone, being focussed on something, without seeing all the parts around it.
This looks pretty cool.

Would love to see a toy example of a double-SHA256 engine. Would be kind of cool if people could build their own Bitcoin mining ASIC, crowd fund it, and give everyone access to cheap Bitcoin mining ASICs.
Obviously the delays were intentional to accomplish something no other development studio ever has or ever will again.
or use http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/
Yes, you want coarsely crushed ('sharp') sand, not sand that has better decorative qualities.
Of course we are in a bubble, it's impossible to agree with the fact that Uber is truly valued at 41 billion and Google only at ~364 billion. It's hard to swallow that Uber is roughly 10% of Google in value.... That goes for all these companies many who still are not really profitable.

Of course SamA is going to say we are not in a bubble, when his company's only goal is to take 1 penny and turn it into 4 pennies based on valuation and further outside investment and growth.

The tech bubble will burst, but likely will not hurt society at large, but it will likely dent the VC ecosystem.
Recall that the W15 batch was also much larger than previous batches with billion dollar valuations.
Right. And no one expects these buildings to last even 20 years. They are optimal for the skills of the workers available as well as short term costs, but that's it.
The US government is elected by its citizens, although the US President is elected via a labyrinthine political process. I haven't seen any reform to the legal system in the past decade. So even if the problem is seen, there does not seem to be any attempt to elect politicians that will do something about the problem.
"Doesn't give access by default" is very different from "cannot be made to work".

I'd assume the complaint is about the latter, which is a issue. I can't imagine anyone complaining about the first.
Seems reminiscent of the work of Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, sympathetically reviewed here (http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2014/repetition-defines-music/) — I believe her work has been on HN before, but a quick search does not turn it up.
Whenever there are politicans robbing those who they claim to serve, Goldmans are there advising anc charging huge fees.

Whether it is this, Greece debt, 1MDB in Malaysia. Goldmans have no regard for their own reputation so we should assume anytime Goldman are advisors that the deal is a massive ripoff for which people should be going to jail. Goldmans may not have always been this way but they sure are now! They're a leading indicator of gross corruption.
Would you share what neck exercises worked for you?
Another good example of repetition that gets pleasantly hypnotic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFunvF0mDw
I love sodium vapor lights. I find it to be a very pleasing monochromatic glow that makes me excited be walking around town after dark. I think I especially came to be aware of them as in college my campus had them, and it made for some fantastic night photography around the school.

My dream would be to have some type of consumer version of them, I would love to put them in my exterior lights, but that doesn't really seem to be a thing....
I've been using Wayland full-time (via Sway) since Sway went 1.0. It's been a pretty straightforward experience. The transition took some elbow grease at first (things like getting redshift working, as the author notes), but the last time I fucked around with my graphical config was months ago. I use a display manager, so the "crashes lead to an exposed terminal" thing doesn't matter so much (I've had a total of two crashes, once when I was putsing with XWayland, video games and multi-head -- and the other when building a since-abandoned alternative to kanshi).

There are some quirks I need to spend a little more time investigating whether they're caused by Sway/Wayland or just my configuration: drag-and-dropping between windows seems to be busted, and right-click context menus that overflow their host window's boundaries aren't clickable outside those boundaries. But I mainly use the keyboard/terminal/TUIs, so I don't frequently drag and drop, and it's easy enough to right click somewhere else when the second issue occurs.

Other than that, for how I use a computer, it's been smooth sailing. I wouldn't say we're Wayland yet for general usage either, but for the group of users who are into tiling window managers, we're maybe Wayland enough for now.
best tool for the job is off topic on Stack Overflow.

They did open Software Recommendations Stack Exchange.

Closed answers get deleted in some regular interval. If they for some weird reason aren't, you could consider flagging them, there is always a response to that.
Please don't do this here. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12566677 and marked it off-topic.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994432 and marked it off-topic.
What about a syntax-aware search? If this were as responsive as grep, wouldn't that be better? I think so. I use one in Smalltalk all the time.
Even the status page is intermittently down ("too many requests on the app backlog"), poor Heroku.
Morocco's emigration to Europe and foreign companies establishing there might be two factors to take in consideration.
It's also very clear that Apple sees the iPad Pro—not the Mac—as their vision for locked-down general purpose computing. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see a notebook iPad with a fixed keyboard, or a desktop iPad in the shape of a small iMac. These seem unlikely and perhaps absurd... but not nearly as absurd as locking down the platform Apple expects developers to use.
Well, it was effortlessly within his power to squash the anti-mask nonsense, instead he defended it for political reasons and I don't think any other president of any party would have done that.
Or at least buy phones where at least some support is promised.
Wonderful, thanks! And I see you're also a McGill grad. Even better!
Plus…keep calm and carry on. The British are going to be slow to adopt net neutrality because they may as well just let the market sort it out until the market f*s up too badly, then they'll look at it.
The problem I have with sites like this (and any restaurant review site in general), is that they always include national chains in the reviews/recommendations.

Really, do you need to read a review of the McDonalds on Main St. vs the McDonalds on Park Ave., before deciding what you are going to eat at dinner? Why not just group all McDonald into one place.

Not to mention that, due to limited palates, funds, or whatever, places like Olive Garden, Chili's et.al. always end up in the top ten places to eat. Over 5-star restaurants, or even genuinely better local restaurants in the same category/price range (in my city at least).

/rant
If Buffett hadn't injected that money into GS, it might have failed. That's the only reason why he could get such good terms (preferred shares with a 10% dividend, iirc).

If GS had failed, the taxpayer would probably have had to spend a lot more money on it.
I'm with PG: The distinction between an artist and a hacker is thin to the point of nonexistence.

Don't be fooled by the fact that, say, emacs isn't pretty to look at: Even emacs is a work of art. It isn't just a utilitarian tool for typing stuff, it certainly wasn't designed just to make money, and it is opinionated software that makes a statement, at every level from the implementation language to the architecture to the workflow to the license.

A lot of hacking is performance art. Think: _why the lucky stiff. Think: Zed Shaw.
I'm sort of annoyed this doesn't actually exist. I need an incubator in Orlando, FL. Anyone?
Ward Cunningham: 'The word "Agile" has worked hard for ten years. I forgive it for being tired.'

http://twitter.com/#!/WardCunningham/status/27668990943
What I don't understand is why they didn't break-up any banks that were "too big to fail" into pieces that were small enough to fail. Instead they did the exact opposite, arranging shotgun marriages for failing institutions so they are now part of a bank that is too big to fail.

The Justice dept. has very successfully broken apart companies in the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Breakup

No government ownership is involved; one day you own 1 share of AT&T and the next day you own 1 share of the new AT&T and 1 share of each of the new baby bells.

I would argue the AT&T break-up allowed the first internet boom to happen. Can you imagine how hard it would have been to get a T1 provisioned if there had been no competition AND AT&T was offering a service just like what you were trying to start
My kids aren't quite old enough, but I recently enjoyed the following stories:

"Haaarg, world!" (writing a vampire-themed number-guessing game with a six-year-old): http://davidbau.com/archives/2005/07/29/haaarg_world.html

Madlibs with a 13-Year-Old: https://nedbatchelder.com/text/madlibs.html
I wasn't able to find any Machine learning related roles in the Careers site. Since you're using RL/ML, are there any open positions for these?
> where fuel is cheap like the middle east airlines.

They're also in a strategically good location for connecting Europe to Australia and North America to Africa and India.
3 minute walk to ferry pier
5 minute ferry ride across Sydney harbour to circular quay
6 minute walk to office
Excellent 4g so able to hold video conference all the way
That was my favourite commute.
Yup. Beautiful, well thought out, but no value. The opposite of a HN comment. Here the comments are sloppily written out, but they have a lot of insight. Whereas on places like DEV it feels like a lot of the writing are marketing pieces, made to position the writer as an expert.
I wonder how the enslaved population gets counted for calculating income equality.

If you’re legally someone else’s property, isn’t your economic inequality to that person immeasurably high? Not a number?
Funny, ZIO was also on the front page today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26101463
Awkward. Somehow I feel you would have been happily piling on with the harassment given the chance.
Sorry but your understanding of what LinkedIn is for is kinda limited.

If your big problem is you are applying for jobs and you think your appearance has something to do with your outcomes, you can easily just not have a photo there.

But there's a huge element of LI that depends on photos. For example - I get an invitation to connect. I don't recognize the name but I recognize the face - it's the woman I gave my business card to because she was in my industry.

Or - I am interested in to talk to someone who works at Bank of America (or whatever) because I am interested in what it's like to work there. Oh, I see my contact John Smith works there. Who's John Smith, again? Oh yeah I remember the face - it's that nice guy who sat next to my team 3 jobs ago - let me ping him. The