jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Example from Berlin:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2764486/temp/berlin_park...
Small... compared to what. Did you see those pictures? Also not cold, friction causes electrostatic discharges that ignite the gas.
What do you suggest then ? We claim that every opinion is equally worthy and just stop trying to understand the social world ?
I was wrong - there is no EEA 4. It's up to the local utilities to determine how to shed load; I suspect many office parks are already without power (but at 4 AM they're also probably not using much power).
We literally have Moderna for the same kind of vaccine. Pfizer partnered with BioNTech because they'd had ongoing partnership. Pfizer's manufacturing and clinical test are the reasons why the trial was approved and millions of people got vaccinated in 2020.

> clearly the part which can be replaced by anyone else

Not clearly. Looks at trouble with AstraZeneca's trial and manufacturing issues.

This is really a worthless pissing contest but got brought up in every Pfizer/BioNTech thread.
You should check out Nano - it’s one of the few cryptocurrency systems that works for this.

Instant payment, scales well, doesn’t use a standard block system (uses a block lattice instead), doesn’t rely on mining so is extremely green.
> Beats being alone at home.

That's because they live alone at home, probably because they moved recently / immigrated / forced to live in bad cities. Post-pandemic, they will be able to move to a place where they are not alone. I think they'll take that option rather than alone at home/only social in the office.
I don't think it is charitable. The EU had to juggle 27 individual countries, one central certification and Brexit. They had to avoid a situation in which rich countries, e.g. Germany, outbids poorer countries, e.g. Hungary or Greee. They managed to do that. They over purchased, they split orders betwen suppliers thus further minimizing the risk.

And they did all that using normal certification. They even pointed out, quite clearly, that the actual managemen of vaccination campaigns, the vaccine ordering and the national distribution is up to the member states.

The last part shows very different results, e.g. in germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is far ahead in per capita vaccines. Bavaria for example is behind them. All we won with focusing on the supply of vaccines so far in a shutdown of Pfizer's pant in Belgium to produce more doses, which are not needed, at a later point of time. And a nasty contract dipute with AZ after the media and, at least IMHO, politians singled out AZ as a scape goat.
I'd like to add a couple of points:

1. It's not that hard for the general population to wear an FFP2 mask properly. I'm reasonably sure that this also applies to N95 masks.
If you'll read the instructions that come with e.g. Dräger or Moldex masks, you'll see that the fitting procedure doesn't include anything as complicated as smell tests, but instructs the wearer to do a rather obvious leak test instead.

Dräger is now selling FFP2 masks directly to end customers: https://ffpshop.de/de/ffp-maske/draeger-x-plore-1720-ffp2-ma.... Check out the instructions, it's nothing fancy.

2. There are studies that indicate that surgical masks reduce risk even at population level. I've referenced them in a previous comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25479729.

The conclusion of was "Any type of general mask use is likely to decrease viral exposure and infection risk on a population level, in spite of imperfect fit and imperfect adherence, personal respirators providing most protection. Masks worn by patients may not offer as great a degree of protection against aerosol transmission."

Finally, I'd like to address the RCT you've linked to from Denmark which I found interesting, but not particularly consequential. For me the biggest concerns are that:

* many things were self-reported.

* previous studies have found massive differences in wearer protection for surgical masks. Did they get a crap batch from China? It's not clear to me how they used masks. I can't reconcile 1.7 masks per weekday with the idea that such a mask should not be worn for more than a couple of hours or until it gets wet and the typical shift duration of 8h.

* didn't look at disease severity (or maybe I missed it?)

* didn't (couldn't) look at source control. For an individual it's important that they don't get sick (FFP2 preferred), for a government it's important that not too many people get sick (anything preferred, as long as it reduces transmission, even if it makes the wearer sick).
Stop using someone else's services for your expression. Just imagine you are in Walmart or a Target or your local grocery store. You don't have a right to be there or to engage in any speech or really anything else if the manager wants you removed from private property. If you want to nationalize Twitter and Facebook be my guest but until then the owners of said private property can continue to kick people off of it. I still have yet to see one case where a person's right to free speech were somehow infringed upon.
Seems like Wednesday was a very important day in plain old American History, so...

I just can't understand this site, I really can't. Our legislative branch was attacked at the direction of our executive branch on Wednesday. But what people are really upset about is the president's ability to tweet?

I mean... I get that it would be nice to have platforms that were politically neutral. But if that's not working out? Meh. There are plenty of places where conservatives can scream on the internet (including right here! I await my downvotes with resignation). You Just Can't Align Yourself With a Coup. Is that so terribly hard?
Does presidential power come from social media?

Presidents should not use social media, in my view. They have too much power and too much reach.

A simple TV broadcast should be good enough.
I will never understand why small amount of tech companies should decide who goes into public who not.
There was effectively no Senate trial, because Republicans refused to call witnesses. It was a sham. If Trump was innocent, they would have been happy to call witnesses, but they exercised raw power to make it go away. To me, that constitutes “undermining our democratic institutions”.
> Imagine a hypothetical scenario where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something under penalty of deplatforming.

The threat would be a criminal offense.
It's illegal to delete the official public record. That's why he stuck to his personal account.
What's the difference between banning Parler and 8chan? Would Apple allow 8Chan app?
> “People are entitled to other people’s labor” is ideology as well.

You make a powerful critique of capital income and inheritance law.

> So you’re suggesting we deprive people of their income because of your ideology?

You're the one advocating we systematically deprive people of income. I'm the one advocating everybody receive an income.

> Negative, ownership creates property law.

Libertarian ideology has broken your brain. Property law is a government program - it requires enforcement to exist, aka the law.

> So how do you justify assigning ownership to certain people?

The principles of egalitarianism.
Thanks for responding in kind. As someone frequently faced with tough trade-off decisions, I tend to try to take a utilitarian view (or simple pros vs cons) of the issues at hand. It feels very natural to me to try to compare the value of each of the choices before me (for decisions that matter), in order to maximize the efficacy of my time/money. So I find the disagreeing on using a utilitarian approach here interesting.

I may be reading into this wrong, so do pushback if I'm off here, but I'm picking up the sense that you feel that whatever value BLM provides to society cannot (and perhaps should not?) be measured/quantified? Since BLM is targeting nebulous goals ('systemic racism') that vary from person-to-person, then any attempts to compare the efficacy of its efforts to other initiatives should be duly questioned?

I accept that some things are hard to quantify. But I'm not sure I fully comprehend why we shouldn't _try_, if that's a held view (if it's not, ignore this sentence).

I also think Scott deserves some grace here. That paragraph in question wasn't meant to be the sole point of his post. It was merely an anecdote to suggest that it's important to think about the impact/efficacy of your actions if you're trying to improve the world. Not all actions have equal impacts. A point I very much agree with.
They are both messenger RNA vaccines, so it's more like comparing two types of apples. But thank you for your sarcastic response, very helpful.
Same, then I looked at the date it was posted and was even more confused
> [..] mainstream press still needs powerful people—quite literally, in the case of the Post, as it’s owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, who is no fonder of difficult stories about his companies than any other billionaire.

There's your first problem. MSM got into bed with the people they are supposed to report on. In the recent case of the GME stocks story, the MSM literally reported fake news about WallStreetBets (WSB) pushing silver. This story didn't come from Reddit, it can only have come from sources close to the hedge funds, and then it was uncritically pushed out across the board.

The MSM often work closely with political parties, specifically the Democrat party. The recent Time article on the so called 'shadow campaign' was written by the author (Molly Ball) of Pelosi's 2020 biography. That job was not just given to anybody, she was heavily vetted. These people all run in the same circles. How on earth could you ever trust Molly to report unbiased on Trump or the Republican party? How could ever trust her to report critically on Nancy Pelosi or the Democrat party? She's not going to bite the hand that feeds her.

> When Elon Musk can say whatever he wants to forty million Twitter followers at any time with no filter, it is little surprise that he does not feel compelled to listen to unpleasant questions from some reporter who wants to know why he busts unions and wildly accuses people of pedophilia.

They do realize that journalism still happened before Twitter? It just actually required hard work, instead of spending time on Twitter all day watching hash tags. It was called 'investigative journalism'. There is absolutely nothing stopping them from doing this again.

I also suggest that every other company shutdown their social media accounts immediately. You cannot make a political statement without alienating some of your customers, no matter what the subject. Most high-profile interactions will likely be very negative. Few people logging into Twitter to say "thank you, it worked exactly as it should, for the n'th time in a row". There was a time when customer service was dealt with privately, rather than having all of your mistakes aired publicly. Currently, the only way possible to get issues resolved regarding Youtube for example is to publicly shame them on Twitter - _this_ is the system they have actively encouraged.

> Donald Trump, unfortunately, looms large in this. His imperviousness to the usual blows from the press was evident five years ago.

The damage to your publications were done long ago, you just only realized it then. You can't convince Republicans that Trump is bad, if no Republicans consume your media. They have switched to alternatives and you need to figure out why.
Actually Gates still ran the shop in 2005.
The problem with HDMI is the patent encumbrance. DisplayPort would be a better target for "libre" applications. It looks like you may even need to be actively licensing HDMI to buy a displayport to hdmi bridge as well.
Underappreciated? The founding fathers have been rubbed continuously in every American's face for the last 200 years. Few people under-appreciate them. Every media property, every news article, every public figure continues to worship them as Gods. The status quo position is that the Constitution and the Founders were basically right about the important stuff, and that overall they were very cool guys (even if some of them had the minor flaw of owning slaves). At least this is the narrative that was driven into me throughout all of my education. It seems to be a common viewpoint for both liberals and conservatives.

I agree, though, that the Founders did create something remarkable: a genocidal empire that draped itself in ideals of equality and righteousness when it was largely built by slaves and exploited workers; professed to love diversity and Christian morals as it genocided untold numbers of Native Americans; styled itself as a defender against European imperialism in the Western Hemisphere while it built its own empire and repeatedly intervened militarily in Latin American countries; claimed to be in favor of free markets while using its military and police forces to suppress workers/foreign governments to favor American corporate interests; and so on. It really is a remarkable project.

Let's be honest. The Founders were wealthy landowners that wanted to create a political system that favored themselves, while deposing the British powers that were a rung above them.
it's not good to cherry-pick paragraphs from the whole artile.

> But as the Brookhaven team accrued 10 times more data, their measurement of the muon’s g-factor stayed the same while the error bars around the measurement shrank. The discrepancy with theory grew back to three sigma by the time of the experiment’s final report in 2006.
> and easy to read

Very arguable. I'll take "wonky XML" over JS function calls any day for readability, and apparently most people would too given that they write JSX rather than use `React.createElement` and that all major frontend view libs (angular, react, vue, svelte, mithril...) offer XML-like templating and people overwhelmingly use it.
> but most breeds I know of live 5-8 years.

Yeah up to 12 was meant to communicate a rough upper bound, not typical lifespans. Same for the 4 years or regular egg production figure, upper bound. The important part is that hen lifespans are significantly longer than their egg laying years, and all commercial and many individual farmers don't want to spend money on a hen that doesn't lay eggs.

> I'm not sure what you want to do about roosters.

Well, we could not breed them in the first place, since we know they'll need to be immediately killed.
There's a bigger problem at play here I think, and it's a variant of the CSI Effect.

It appears large swaths of people are getting knowledge of the sciences from popular entertainment. Of course they do impossible things all the time in fiction, but too many people seemingly can't distinguish the impossible things from the possible, so we end up with jurors that think "DNA" is the answer to every crime scene question, and people thinking "nanotech" can recreate magic.

I'm not sure how to fix this. The long term effects of devaluing knowledge scares me, though.
But grad students are often sent to work in the basement, and yet they need to have the most ideas!
My good old friend, the Nextcloud scan utility :) I lost count of the number of times I ran that and the trashbin cleanup. These are both problems I never ever want to have to deal with.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Cases going down after a lockdown (which happens when cases go up) doesn't imply the lockdown actually caused the cases to go back down. It's a classic mistake in medicine - "patient got better after treatment, therefore the treatment is effective" and the reason we have double blind trials.
I would love to use supermemo, but I am not willing to switch my OS to windows to do it.
Younger programmers aren't taking up the language because most schools don't teach it and companies aren't interested in training people. Most of the postings want experienced people like senior devs, whether it's for COBOL or some other language.

I took COBOL in school and enjoyed it. The JCL is the harder part. I thought about doing COBOL as a career, but there weren't any entry level positions.
I think you might find this seminal paper interesting and relevant: https://amturing.acm.org/p558-lamport.pdf

From the abstract:

> The concept of one event happening before another in a distributed system is examined, and is shown to define a partial ordering of the events. A distributed algorithm is given for synchronizing a system of logical clocks which can be used to totally order the events. The use of the total ordering is illustrated with a method for solving synchronization problems. The algorithm is then specializedfor synchronizing physical clocks, and a bound is derived on how far out of synchrony the clocks can become.
I am no where near your level, or that of a pro racer, however I have spent a lot of time on tracks in various cars (Audi S4, BMW M3, BMW M6, etc..) and held a race license for motorcycles for a while.

However, when using the pretty amazing racing sim setup at Turner Motorsports (NH based BMW shop who runs some successful race cars) I couldn't make it a single lap without spinning out. There's a lack of physical feedback that kept me from feeling the approaching edge of traction or the frame balance shifting, etc...

One my friends who would always beat me in any racing games, has backed into his own mailbox at least 3 times.

So... :)
It is really hard to think ahead with a toddler, when are their feet going to grow, when do their shoes become too small. Are we going up one or two sizes?

Anyways, Target and Walmart still being open is a life saver for everything that isn’t food.
The most common AFAIK would be when using iterators. An iterator borrows (or mutably borrows, or takes ownership of, depending on how it's called; iter() vs iter_mut() vs into_iter()) the original collection, so the original collection can't be modified while being iterated. This means no "ConcurrentModificationException" or similar (or worse, silent corruption) can happen.
Some things that might provide the kids some distractions...

1) Nintendo Switch with Yoshi's Crafted World (easiest game for kids), buy an extra controller because I think it only comes with 1... earliest age for this would be about 3, 3.5, and would need some in-game assistance from their older sibling (which the game provides mechanisms for)

2) iPads with games, including coloring games ... even a 2 year old can enjoy iPad games

3) Netflix cartoons

4) Amazon Prime cartoons

5) Kinetic sand (https://www.amazon.com/Only-Kinetic-Sand-Folding-2lbs/dp/B01... plus an extra http://amazon.com/Kinetic-Sand-Pounds-Beach-Packaging/dp/B01..., possibly doubling both for 2 kids)

6) MegaBlocks (https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Bloks-80-Piece-Building-Classic/...) I would buy 2x per kid to ensure they have plenty to build with

7) small dry erase boards and colored dry erase markers

8) YouTube Premium (remove the ads so they don't interrupt their cartoons)... for example, they might like Blippi https://www.youtube.com/user/BlippiVideos

I'm not saying little kids should play video games all the time, but it does give them something entertaining to focus their attention on.
Contracting the muscles doesn't cause the heat. It's used to stoke the fire. But once it's going it keeps going without muscular contraction.
Here's a video about the orange balls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dieCVYpc158&feature=youtu.be
Others too. But why you would assume that?

The guy said he will be coming back with more, and the most delay between updates was like 8-9 months -- something that happens all the time for commercial projects where you might or might not see an update in 1 or even 2 years.

In the last 2 months, he has been publishing an update dev release every 1 week or so.
Had a similar realization when I caught up with my old boss at a big aerospace/engineering conglomerate. I looked it up and it had an $11 billion market cap. He (being in a smaller town) hadn't heard of Uber, which has ~$16 billion market cap.
I must just be an outlier on this, but I hate the idea of only getting interview questions that pigeonhole me into some narrow role, because it suggests that the job will be similarly pigeonholed, which I think is awful. I much prefer lines of questioning that attempt to suss out how well I can participate on a team, learn and adapt, and think creatively, because they suggest that they hope for me to be doing those things a lot, which is great.
The original post was, "If God exists, I doubt he cares if we believe in him or not. I like to believe he would not be that insecure."

My response was addressing the part about insecurity. You are objecting to the original poster's thought experiment -- "If God exists" -- which I was allowing for the sake of argument.

So you are objecting to my continuation: Is this what you are intending to do?
You could replace spacex with whatsapp in that paragraph and it would still be true- more so even- the barrier to change with messaging apps is almost zero however everyone knows rockets are hard and no one expects a failure on the pad to destroy what is looking like a good launch track record.

If whatsapp start charging or introduce ads I can't see why people would stick around, considering the Huge number of whatsapp users who also have viber/snapchat/basis sms also installed
Buying guitar amplifiers is hard. Because, anything that sounds different from what you currently use day-in and day-out initially sounds very cool. Then spend a week with it, and you gradually start hearing into it stuff you dislike. Finally, you hate it all together. :)

This is part of the reason for the conservatism. The problem is avoided when people stick to circuit topologies and components from 1940-1960. (Plus extra gain stages for metal: that's what "modern" means).
Then do you agree that only the single most important unanswered question should be visible at any given time?
"When a Kid loves space and rockets, when he spends countless time reading science-fiction books, it's because to him it's fun, fascinating and exciting, not because it's supposed to feed starving children. I doubt an adult rocket scientist or engineer is fundamentally different. Deep down he just doesn't give a crap about starving children in Africa."

I appreciate your focus on measurable behaviors. But make no mistake, there are lots of people involved in space science because they want to improve people's lives.

There are unique opportunities to measure climate change from space, for instance, and significant numbers of people in this area have literally devoted their professional careers to finding out what's going on with climate change. They will tell you that straight out, and their decisions in other areas of their life mirror that outlook, so you can tell it's not lip service.

The people who study planetary atmospheres can be motivated by similar considerations (hello, runaway greenhouse effect), also terrestrial weather (hurricane intensification, tornado genesis, etc.), space weather (solar flares, etc.), ecological forecasting, etc. Some folks are drawn to these areas because they matter in an obvious way.

You are correct that some space scientists/engineers are motivated by pure curiosity, tenacity, novelty, etc. -- inward-looking things. But by no means all, and in some disciplines, it tilts rather the other way.
Sorry for the nitpick but the f in the typeface they chose is unfortunately distracting for normal text.
It's less than a mile from my house! 8)
No, I got it from the evidence an unarmed woman was shot and killed while the faces at the door where the "shooting" by the "armed rioters" allegedly took place were unharmed. Where did you get the idea that I believe the election was stolen? From the comment where I said "Now if we get to day three of this crap with no signs of it letting up, the National Guard unable to control the situation, and Trump actively supporting them, definitely throw him out."?