skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccinations are not always effective, nor are they permanent. They are a statistical firebreak against an epidemic. Think of vaccinations like transistors. They are modelled as 1 (vaccinated, won't get sick) or 0 (unvaccinated), but that's not the reality. The reality is very few people have an immunity level of 1.0 (won't get sick) on that scale even after vaccination, and some of those who do seem completely immune are that way because their immune system is particularly good at making a particular disease asymptomatic, not (necessarily) because they were vaccinated.

You can still get infected even if you were vaccinated recently. Many vaccinations lose effectiveness after a decade or two at most. Most adults (who are less affluent/wealthy or who don't travel) don't get re-vaccinated for most things because they're at lower risk. The highest risk is in places like preschool, daycare, grade school and college with lots of people in close proximity, and some poor hygiene mixed in.

And hospitals and doctors offices.

Anti-vaxx parents put everyone else at disproportional risk, because children are a prime infection distribution hub for all kinds of contagious diseases.
Ooh, I love the smell of lavender, but I've only had it in desert foods, which didn't work for me (lavender and lemon cake really rubbed me the wrong way.) I've never even thought of lavender in more savory food.
> "it’s highly problematic to introduce negative inertial masses because this means the vacuum becomes unstable. If you do this, you can produce particle pairs from a net energy of zero in infinitely large amounts. This fits badly with our observations."

Basically, if you mess the the equation, you have to be very sure you aren't simulating something silly. Which is easy to do, unfortunately I've done it often.

I still need to read the original paper in detail to confirm, but if the post is correct, the N-body simulation might have some issues.
Well, talk about unintended consequences. I wonder if Amazon will be willing to back out of $$$ worth of branding value there (Here's a hint: probably not) but they could fairly easily with little ground lost by simply renaming them all "echo". It's already part of the brand, and not likely to clash with common usage much.
Maybe it depends on other things besides WSL. I wonder if your system is mis-configured or has a weird combination of hardware.

For example I use WSL and it doesn't run like ass. All I did was disable the Windows Firewall and HD monitoring tools. Everything else is stock Windows 10 Pro (stable channel).

Here's some numbers.

NOTE: All of this is running in WSL, and to make matters "worse", it also includes running these things through Docker for Windows with WSL configured to communicate with Docker for Windows.

- A large Rails app (15k+ lines, 50+ gems, etc.) takes less than 100ms to pick up a code change with a Docker volume. I can see code changes before I'm able to even move my eyes to a browser to reload the page. It's awesome.

- Flask, Phoenix and Node apps also pick up code changes nearly instantly and the overall development experience is awesome. This is all through Docker as well.

- 100kb+ of SCSS running through a bunch of Webpack loaders compiles in less than 3 seconds in "watch" mode, without any type of caching. Slower than native Linux? Yes, probably, but it's not slow enough where it's an issue. There's a lot of low hanging fruit to optimize too. I didn't even try to make it faster because it doesn't have a negative effect on my daily development.

Long story short, combine WSL with a good terminal and Docker, and you have yourself a great development box. This is with ~$700 worth of computer parts on a 5 year old workstation, with an early generation SSD and I don't even keep my source code on the SSD (it's volume mounted into Docker with a spinning disk 1TB drive).
Considering the US is, you know, the US and a majority white country, it's not weird at all.

Indians and chinese make up something like 5% of the US population so for them to take up 90% of a select group can really only be caused by favoritism. Unless you want to open up the can of worms that certain races are just so far genetically superior in terms of intelligence that they are 20x more represented

Do you think it's normal for tech companies located in India and China to have parts of their company that are 90% white?
3 Infocom games for the Commodore 128 fixed
I'm glad you called out regulatory capture. The cynic in me wonders if Microsoft is so far behind in some AI aspects like this that they're taking this approach to slow down Amazon's and Google's forays into selling this tech to businesses and government.
ha! you’ll love windows 10 let me tell you...
> All I did was press Commit which apparently decided to stage and commit everything under the root folder

If you don't have anything staged and hit Commit, it will show a prompt asking if you want to commit everything that's been changed. It sounds like you hit 'yes' on this prompt by mistake.
> odd to me to see her saying that the new theory is disqualified for not being as simple

No. Her main argument is, the way I read her article, is:

"Farnes in his paper instead wants negative gravitational masses to mutually repel each other. But general relativity won’t let you do this. "

The way I understand it, the author of the paper fails to be compatible with the theory that was confirmed time and again during the last 100 years. She just avoided to formulate that so bluntly.
Ask HN: How do you overcome the fear of being friendly at work?
I never cared much about being a very popular person, neither in college nor in high school. That didn't stop me from having different groups of friends that I would usually hang out with. In college that time got more and more rare, as coordination is balls-hard to do among different majors and increased chance of clashing schedules. But I still had a small group that I'd sometimes meet once a month or so.

My school days are now past me, over 10 years ago. I'm now a professional software engineer that goes to work all day, go home and play video games or surf the internet at night, still manages to wake up on time.

When I go to work I mean it- I have almost no interest in getting to know people outside of work. I talk to them of course, that's part of the job to work as a team. But I'm not interested in their hobbies or making small talk. If it's not work related I don't want to know about it, and I take breaks by just distracting myself on the phone. I'm usually known as a serious person at work... well good I guess, right, because that's why it's called work and not play? Well, not really as we shall see.

I think the lack of interest in idle chat has worked against me in the long run. A small but insidious habit where you refuse to make new friends after graduation. Last time I was laid off, it hit me hard.

My social skills are now so bad that I have no idea how to interview anymore, no guidance except for one mock interview at Triplebyte and another with a person I met in a local Slack group.

I know the world isn't consciously out to get me, but holy cow it sure feels that way sometimes if you don't have a network to lean on. So how do I overcome that fear of being friendly at work? I feel distraught with my career.

And the reason my career isn't going in the direction I want it to is that I am not a good enough speaker, and because I haven't built up a good network.
Can you extrapolate? I live in a rural area and heavily depend on personal transport - there are no buses, no trains, etc. I have a lease on an ICE car to the tune of about $30k - and I am genuinely wondering how smart that is, and whether I should offload it while it is still valuable (it's a niche vehicle which is holding value, in some cases going up) and get around in a cheap Toyota until an EV is realistic for my scenario.

What I want to understand is, how does the price of gas play out with EVs - in ten years time, is gas literally going to be unaffordable for most people? Will gas stations start drying up?
On your point about using loopholes to deny service. I'm writing this under a more anonymous account too because apparently what I'm about to say is a radical idea and people don't usually get it.

I was charged for a crime once! I spent a month in jail! Me! I did. Yeah. They never managed to directly accuse me of anything and in the end I took a plea bargain to get out of jail (they had already locked me in jail for a month for literally nothing, I would put nothing past them). The most valuable lesson I learned from this is that we are all already guilty of something according to the way the law is written. They only call that in when they need to get you. But be under no delusions that you are not already got. Constitutional justice is pure fantasy in the United States.

If "the bad guys" write rules that make everyone already guilty I have to wonder at what point "the good guys" become guilty themselves. I'm saying the "it's not my responsibility" excuse doesn't cut it anymore.
I mean, we still call it Occam's razor, but I don't think that it's really even the same principle by this point, it just shares the same name. In science today, we don't really care about the number of entities. We don't reject the idea that the stars are suns like our own just because that would imply that the number of atoms in the universe is drastically larger than the number of atoms in the solar system. Instead of hypotheses with the least number of entities, we favour hypotheses with the smallest Kolmogorov complexity. [1] As a slogan for the modern version, I like the phrasing by John Von-Neumann: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep...
Exactly why you should be looking at the companies building EV infrastructure, not the EV's. Chargepoint doesn't care if it's a Chevy, Hyundai, Kia, Jaguar, or Nissan stopping at its stations, it'll fill them up.

Well, maybe not Nissan... the Leaf is still the main chademo holdout in the US.
My guess is that the platform creators tend to put a lot of money into look and feel for their native components. This is hard to match for a small open source project (or anyone, really).

It sounds like you have an unspoken assumption that only the web has that degree of flexibility. That's false, however.

The web platform gets around this by being flexible enough for the application creator to create a polished look and feel themselves, and ubiquitous enough for many designers and developers to know how to use it. That's also part of what makes it so resource intensive.

Smalltalk was flexible enough for anyone to create such a look and feel. Everything above the border of the VM itself was in the class library and was modifiable in Smalltalk, and most everything was in the class library. However, as a member of that community I can attest that many felt the need of this, but no one wanted to do it. Everyone who needed that level of polish was on a professional project and couldn't afford to devote that many resources to it, and everyone else was fine with the "developer" level UI.

The Web after the "Web 2.0" period grew both a developer and user culture emphasizing good looking interfaces with great UX. This was also increased by the aesthetics of smartphones and tablets after the appearance of the iPhone. The tools on the web are a bit less flexible than what was available to many earlier environments. However, there were more people with more motivation to make things look good.

It's not about flexibility and technical superiority. It's about numbers and motivation.
I'll take the over for all of those dates.
This is a fallacy. Most car failures are not the engine. Evs still have brakes, suspension, electronics, steering, and all manner of plastic bits to wear out and fail. I would like to see any independent assessment showing evs have any better maint cost after the 7year honeymoon period all cars have with minimal repairs..
Just out of curiosity, I realize you aren't a fan but was there anything which made you aversed to it?
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Email: hello@wyatt.engineer

Hello, hope your day is going well so far!

My name is Wyatt, I'm a full-stack developer with the front-end being my stronger side.

For a sample of the work I do, I developed an application which allows people to easily create their own chatbot for the Google Home or other platforms. It has a Go backend and a Vue frontend, using Redis and Postgres, deployed with Docker and Kubernetes. See the links below for more details on that. There are several things I would do differently today if it were to be done over again, but it was an amazing learning experience and if nothing else serves as a good indicator of the breadth of my work.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Please feel free to reach out for any questions.

* https://github.com/talkative-ai

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPSc5dPEyY
Hi Peter, I recently received an RFE on my O1. They need to see if i judged any event. Although i am an advisor on other startup boards and have been an organizer at social meetups in my industry, what else can I be showing that will add my case.. Also if we are in Tech start founder, what can be an alternative to showing publications. We have press coverage, articles, clients signed testimonials etc. What else do you suggest?

Appreciate your advice here!
We're lucky enough to have friends that pretty much have a similar parenting style, so it's not an issue, but yes, some kids that come to our house are "bored" because we don't have a screen or video games or any of that. They (the other kids) don't know how to be a kid anymore (in terms of playing outside, playing board games, etc.), which stresses them out. It's quite sad actually.

And yes, they get plenty of downtime. We don't force any activity on them or force them to be "productive". Anything really that they do is more productive than playing a video game - even sitting in the backyard staring at the sky.
> You need to bring something special: capital or knowledge/skills.

Unfortunately that is not really true. But it’s certainly a good idea!
Carbon emissions will reach 37B tonnes in 2018, a record high
At home, the cable company is just as bad (or the same as) the mobile operator. Neither of these scenarios do you want to trust your ISP, or add to their profile of you.

At work though, probable the opposite.
I would imagine that compiling Firefox is just as difficult.
Young child affected by leuchemia can't go to school nowadays in Italy, because they risk being infected by anti-vaxxers'child and risk their life
Many people are familiar with the media vocabulary of audio production and cinema/video editing. Just the word "after" is enough clarification.
Animal welfare standards are all it would take.
Well, yeah. I'm just saying we should keep doing it.

People whine about high fructose corn syrup, but it's not like it's a plot or something; people really like sweet things, and HFCS is a really efficient way to produce sweet stuff. If you restricted the sale of sweet stuff to help combat obesity, it might have an impact on the corn market, but corn would still be an amazing, important, huge part of out food supply.

On the other hand, consider grain-fed chickens. Factory farmed chicken is fantastic from an environmental and a dietary standpoint, it is extremely space efficient; even when the land used to grow the grains is considered, it is still competitive with plant sources of protein, and it's a lean, versatile meat. It's even a major source of organic fertilizer.

Meanwhile, it's pretty bad from an animal welfare perspective, and it is just awful from a labor standpoint. Meat processing at scale is one of the greatest cesspools of human misery in the US, and has been for over a century. A huge number of people make a pittance of a wage doing unpleasant, dangerous, body-breaking work, and it is a big consumer of illegal immigration as a source of cheap, exploitable labor.

Fixing meat processing, through technology, regulation or labor organization, would be HUGE.
Yes, but in large part, those changes were quite obscure, in comparison to things like how to define classes.
But how much of our meat is raised on pasture versus in meat factories?
I love PyTorch, but my experience with jits embedded in Python (eg. Numba) has been everything but simple, nevermind trivial. I'll really have to try it to believe it.
"The law should specify that consumers consent to the use of facial recognition services when they enter premises [...] In effect, this approach will mean that people will have the opportunity to vote with their feet"

What this really will mean that in effect, facial recognition will be widespread, legitimized, and unavoidable unless you want to live like a hermit, just like CCTV today. The only way this could potentially be avoided is targeted protests at the first stores adopting it.

The post does have some laudable positions and arguments against government surveillance using facial recognition, but I'm not sure how useful this is if private actors build even more powerful databases and offer them for sale to the highest bidder.
Actually, participation often ruins the hobby. If your dad is better then you at a game/sports its loosing its value to differentiate you from your siblings.
You mean, "and most existing car companies get bought out by the now-larger new companies", no?

Very much no.

There is nothing unique that the existing companies own that up and coming companies desire. It is very much the opposite. It is easier to invent new stuff than it is to winnow out the hidden assumptions in what exists already.

Some of the companies that are part of existing supply chains may successfully make the transition. A tire is a tire no matter what the engine looks like. But there is no reason for someone who is beating Ford in the market to want to pay Ford what Ford imagines its existing investments in obsolete technology are worth.
By March in 18th century New Hampshire, the pickings were getting pretty lean. You might be able to go down into the cellar and get a soft apple or a potato out of a barrel, and you would have wheat, oats, and barley. Maybe there was still some kale under the snow in the garden. Beyond that, you killed a chicken or went out to hunt some game. So when the raspberries came into season, it was indeed a treat.
It's funny, sometimes we think our kids have TOO much freedom. They are in a montessori school, so right off the bat they have much more freedom than most kids in a standard school in terms of what they learn and choices throughout the school day. Then at home they are free to explore and take part in anything that interests them. We don't limit the activities because of money - they are in soccer, theater, gymnastics, hocky, rock climbing, painting, and more. When they're not glued to a screen - they have so much free time.
I know a guy who lives in a town 70 miles away from the city where all the large stores are. And 110 miles from the nearest major city with an airport.

There is one gas station in his town, the gas is way overpriced so everyone fills up during their weekly shopping trip and then drives back home. That puts a constraint on them. It's 70 miles home. Then a week later another 70 miles to get to the cheap gas station in the city. So 140 miles out of 300-350 on a tank of gas. Thus the local gas station is sort of immaterial to them since they don't use it if they can help it.

I asked him if he could deal with an electric car with 150 miles of range and he said, oh god yes. He knows that he's spending $300/month just to drive to go shopping. And with an electric he can start his shopping trip with a full charge. Come back and plug the car in and have full range again the next day.
There is always room for improvement, but there are clear paths to improving grain production
and reducing the environmental that are not particularly revolutionary and are actively being developed and implemented. We don't need a Next Big Idea for grain production, there's like 20 Next Little Ideas already in the pipeline.
It is good, but that's relative. A million years is so recent in geological history. It's like a quarter of 1% of the story.
But you mentioned simplifying `Maybe (Maybe a)` to `Maybe a`, which your `collect` doesn't do (at least not directly).

(Also, shouldn't `Either[Bool, a]` (which I don't know how to make sense of) be `Either Bool a`? Even with this signature, I'm not sure what the implementation would be, and Hoogle doesn't turn up any obviously correct results ( https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=collect https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=Maybe+%28Maybe+a%29+-... ), but that's probably my fault.)
It's not an "argument." The first sentence you quote is a statement of the fact. The theory containing dark matter and dark energy is the simplest that we have and to appreciate/understand that statement you would have to be able to actually write the formulas for different approaches and compare.

The author of the article actually did that: she provably wrote many, many papers filled with formulas attempting different approaches: it's her profession, she does that for living, and her statements represent something that she really knows.

Other (pseudo)arguments of yours are also the consequence of the lack of understanding of the basics of the topic which you attempt to comment.
Good? I can turn off DNT of that is a problem for me.
That's a pretty overconfident estimate. There's no way there will be fleets of electric self-driving cars at 2022, it will be at least 2030 or later.
Let's try to break this problem down to first principles:

- Humans need food to live because it provides energy and nutrients.

- From a fundamental standpoint of physics and available materials, nutrients are relatively easy to get; as far as I know, most vitamins and minerals are pretty cheap to either come by naturally or manufacture, and you don't need that much of any of them to keep a person healthy, so let's assume food energy is the real limiting factor here.

- The energy in most food comes from photosynthesis (either directly, in the case of eating plants, or indirectly, in the case of feeding plants to animals for growing meat).

- Photosynthesis is an extremely inefficient way to turn solar radiation into chemical energy. Only about 3 to 6 percent of incoming solar energy is used by plants to create biomass, and not all of that biomass necessarily equates to calories we can digest and absorb.

So, while this isn't a particularly appetizing future to imagine living in, I don't know of any fundamental reason why artificially producing edible calories via solar electricity and chemical processes couldn't vastly exceed the efficiency of natural-grown food. It might be tricky getting to the point where fake food like this is healthy and tastes good...but if it saves the world from starving and stops civilization from collapsing then hey, it's not a bad fallback plan.

Besides being a big jump in efficiency, this type of tech could also enable the use of non-arable land for food production, since presumably you could set up the necessary manufacturing facilities anywhere you want.
> contrast to the USA, Australia etc, where no-one can tell you are not a citizen by simply looking at you.

Yes America, Australia, the UK, etc are all running a great experiment to see if multiculturalism can work.

The rest of the world might follow if multiculturalism ever ends up working.
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