skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always important. People are learning a bit more about intensive care and the poor outcomes for people in ITUs. They're learning a bit more about respiratory illness and the impact it can have even if you don't die. They're also learning that flu isn't a trivial illness for quite a few people.

(EDIT: I didn't downvote you, and I don't think an honest question deserves downvotes.)
I'd love a more comprehensive discussion about the flu shot, because I've only used anecdotal evidence, and I suspect a lot of other people do the same. The first two years I got the flu shot from my employer at the time was 2007-2008, and I got a violent flu both years. Didn't get one after that for years, until last Feb, when I felt like I was going to die. Eventually went to urgent care, where I got fluids and sheepishly acknowledged to the nurse that I skipped my flu shot. She kinda shrugged it off and said, "Eh, it's about 50/50 whether it will work anyway."
That was the worst part. I would have that bombshell as the lede. And then delete it if possible.
I have usually skipped the flu shot for entirely selfish reasons -- that it's a hassle going to get it, needles are scary, and if I got the flu it's never that big of a deal. And I rationalized it to myself under the pretense that the shot sometimes doesn't work, etc.

I'll be more vigilant in getting it in the future.
>But how how influential was it?

Raku (formerly known as "Perl 6"), PHP, Ruby and PowerShell were directly influenced by Perl.
The flu shot doesn't protect you from all / any flu.

Without some serious testing you're not likely to know what you got.

But even if we assume you did catch the flu, there have been long term effects that show that regular flu shots over a few years lessens the severity, occurrences of serious problems with the flu. So the benefits seem to go beyond a given vaccine.

With flu vaccines there seems to be both a specific benefit, but also more general benefit longer term.
by doing this, do you suggest also tying your dependencies versions to those packages with the distro version you're running?
Is anyone talking about bailouts without equity? I thought that was implied, since it's how they handled the automaker bailout 12 years ago.

But regardless I don't see the efficacy of bailouts for most companies. Besides a few critical businesses like the airlines and Boeing, the money would do very little to help the workers who have been laid off or furloughed. The government needs to pick up that tab directly, or else the cash isn't going to be used for it.
No, because that suggestion is a strawman and doesn't contribute to the discussion.
Like most other for-profit enterprises, there is little incentive to maintain capacity greater than what is needed needed to handle the "average" demand. So when something exceptional happens, of course the capacity is inadequate.

You can also (likely successfully) argue that this will also happen in a government run healthcare system, but the situation has certainly not been improved by capitalism as implemented in the US.
So during JFK times the candidates would shape their campaign around the voter's beliefs. These days they shape the voters beliefs around themselves. Reality is more dystopian than fiction.
More like two months ago.
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Oh! I didn't expect this to show up here! Happy to answer questions, if folks have any.

While this is on frontpage, I'd like to ask: if anyone has experience with machine proofs, I'd appreciate your help in completing a formal proof of Elle's correctness. I've been teaching myself Isabelle/HOL in an attempt to formalize the proof sketch, and I have encoded most of the formalism and properties I care about, but actually proving lemmata has been... frustrating. Like, I burned hours one one lemma because it hinged on showing \forall x :: Nat, x \in N.

https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle/tree/master/proof

If you'd like to work on this, my email is aphyr@jepsen.io!
Cepheid has started shipping tests that produce results in under 45 minutes.
https://www.labpulse.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=mic&pag=dis&...
I believe it was Elon Musk that said the future is essentially the sum of human wills.
Looking back at ALGOL-68, it looks like comparatively small language compared to many of our current languages, e.g. Java, C++ and Python. I loved the definition of it, but never got to use it.
If you're worried about the environment you can just add a carbon recapture tax to gas.

Banning travel between large areas is ridiculous and wouldn't happen. Especially when a policy of quarantine during outbreaks would be equally effective with a vastly smaller cost.
We hear stories about production ramps for personal protective equipment, for healthcare providers and regular citizens. But what are the actual projections for the need-curve vs. the availability-curve of those commodities in various places?
Alpine Linux is by far my favorite distro and I wish it had more support. Not only is musl nice, but it lacks a huge amount of obsolete cruft and the package manager is nice and simple and not over-engineered. It also lacks systemd.

It probably lacks a lot of the "enterprise" cruft in CentOS/RHEL or Debian, but that's a good thing for everyone else.
It's part of 'flattening the curve'. In 60 days your overall burn can be lower due to other factors, so you can add the payments back in.
Agreed, but it could easily generate an unusual number of "not a fever" readings, which would make it look as if there were a smaller than normal number of people getting sick with the flu. Or, maybe it doesn't do that. I don't see how you can say for certain which way it would shift, but I find it implausible that it would stay the same.
Acknowledging the article lists popular VPNs with 0 trackers, as well.
I called it garbage, but really neither of us know.
I just wanted to see if you have thought through the implications of what you advocated.
I've never had a problem with C++ on musl/Alpine. ZeroTier ports fine to that target. In fact we use Alpine/musl images to build static binaries for ancient Linux distributions that lack new enough distro-native compilers.
The difference is the rate of those aren't doubling every three days.
I think that depends. If laid off means you get a nice severance package so the company can remove some liabilities, then that may be a nice way to leave. You would need a transparent management org to take that risk. Otherwise I agree with gjvc that leaving on your own terms gives you more control.
Oh, yeah before. Though, I think it should also show that screen if a user hasn't used the app for a while.
A tangent if I may...

I freaking hate twitter 'essays' like this. What is it, 30+ tweets in a row? This is such a horrible way to communicate. 240 characters at a time is is not a good way to write, let alone to try to read. I guess it makes me angry I am expected to follow a long, disjointed, meandering stream of thought all the way to the end. Tiny chunk... by tiny chunk.. by chunk.. chunk.. chunk. It just feels bad.

I think I know why people do this, usually people with large followings, and they want to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. But if you have this much to say... please can we agree to just write a blog post and post the link on twitter? Then we can go read a long article in a comfortable manner, without all the other distractions of twitter, chunks spinning off a new threads of comments along the way. Meanwhile, you still get to put it in from of all your followers :)
That's probably a little more easily solved. When things get ugly enough, humans have a tendency to skip all the polite rituals and start using mass graves.
Even if you are on the fence I hope you're taking measures now and having older relatives isolate. If you're not, a couple of weeks from now you will look back and regret being on the fence. Look after yourself.
In general I think actual textbooks or course materials (the OP mentioned MIT Open Courseware, which I think is a good set of course materials--full disclosure: I'm an MIT alum) are better for learning physics, or any scientific field, than pop science books, however high quality.

That said, if you are going to read pop science books, I don't think Michio Kaku is a good choice. He is much too prone to treat way-out speculations as though they were established physics.
I'm pretty sure those millennials aren't making $35 an hour
I doubt such sentiment is considered uncivil or rare.

Everyone seems to agree that America has deep problems, but the nation is divided - and not just along party lines - about what those problems and solutions are.

It's the useless complaining, labeling, and content-free comments that are uncivil.
Some anecdotes of covid19 infection talk about people being in severe pain. What's the relationship between that symptom and final disease outcome?
Remember the US is short on tests, so I would assume a greater than 20% hospitalization rate because only the most severe cases are being reported.
I'd be grateful for guidance eg a link to a writeup of recommended hardware and config for a reasonably technical audience, eg "Given a Verizon FIOS G1100, put it in bridge mode and connect hw that supports software X"...
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Isn’t all of The Onion and what Colbert used to be about? In fact, isn’t that all satire — bitingly critical mockery?
We have lots of actual scientific evidence on this.

The flu shot can't give you the flu. (The nasal spray can! Your doc will recommend against it if you're in certain categories, like being immune suppressed.)

The efficacy varies from year to year, because they have to make an educated guess at which strains will be most prominent each year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates...

50/50 is fine, for the same reason even imperfect handwashing and social distancing are better than nothing.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even languages may die."
The browser isn't for "regular" websites, it's for all websites.

And believe it or not, there are crazy JavaScript bugs that are OS-dependent.

I remember when I was writing a library around the audio API, and the ways it behaved on Chrome were different across Macs, Windows and Android. Detecting the OS with the user-agent string was literally the only way to build code that would work.

Now I've never personally come across that for the CPU architecture, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there were behavioral differences between 32-bit and 64-bit processors somewhere that affects some JavaScript function or HTML5 call somewhere.
We're saying the same thing. No need to be pedantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights
It's questionable (although certainly possible) whether ColdFusion's custom tags inspired custom tags in other languages. There were a lot of other elements in the air at the time, such as server side include syntax, that made the idea of incorporating programming logic into markup a logic next step. And then from there it isn't too far to get to custom tags, of course, it's hard to retrospectively estimate the amount of brain effort to leap between concepts, so maybe my assessment is way off, but this is where finding direct documentary links between how technology developed can be helpful.
Want to buy gold coins or bars? Good luck finding any
confirmed with friend who works there in middle mgmt...
Is there any data on how many people died which had no pre-existing medical conditions?
I don't take indies into consideration on my remark, consoles and mobile OS is where the money is, and none of those languages have a place there currently, with exception of Swift on iOS.
Avoid bankruptcy with the requisite layoff of employees, and / or remain open to rehire employees when people are allowed to work again.
Well in the hypernetworked hive mind that is society these days, American News Media plays the role of brain cancer.

Randomly infecting cells to over broadcast, attack each other, focus on noise, unfocus signal etc etc.

Basic prediction about them, whether on the left or right or podcasting from a garage is that they don't contribute to good outcomes and the bad outcomes are not their fault.

Then one year down the road they hand each other Pulitzers for "unravelling" what actually happened.
> Who removes functionality that the kernel provides because in his opinion the kernel's design is wrong?

The functionality is still available via pthread sched functions as specified by POSIX, so I'd argue that functionality was not removed, just moved:

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=1e21e78bf7a5

IMHO this makes sense for a libc that explicitly emphasizes POSIX-correctness. POSIX defines these functions, and it is against the spec to have process scheduling functions work as thread scheduling functions (which are a separate set of functions in POSIX).

edit: Just realized that this might prevent changing scheduling parameters of another process by PID, though.
Having been to WebSummit and Dreamforce (2014, admittedly, but I doubt it’s changed that much), I’d have to disagree. Dreamforce is huge and likely too big to be useful, but at least it’s a conference that pretends to have technical content and not a multi-level marketing scam like WebSummit and it’s “thought leaders” is.
“If you need to be right before you move, you never win. Perfect is the enemy of what is right when it comes to emergency management. Speed trumps perfection.” - WHO Executive Director Dr. Michael Ryan

https://twitter.com/JIMrichards1010/status/12391407105589698...
Yes. His point is that game theory and economic principles favour the leaner, therefore every company moves to max. efficiency with JIT supply chains and max leverage.

The only way around this is regulation if we want to be able to withstand crises _without_ bailouts.

That's currently not the situation, which is why bailouts happen.
And this is totally fine! CoCs are there for the end-of-the-line decisions where the "being reasonable" options have been exhausted. They are also useful sometimes for setting the tone for meetings / events.

The various uses and normal behaviour are not mutually exclusive!
Really neat!

Not sure why people care what it's written in. I'm pretty sure people wouldn't complain if this was a blog post written in english rather than a program written in C and python2.
What a shame. I do like the interface quite a bit beyond the themes.
I don't know how financialization fits with respect to trick down economics. Particularly consumer financialization. They both seem to accelerate winner-takes-all processes.

I just (re)learned, via Against The Rules podcast, that repealing prohibitions against usury debt was an important deflection point. Here's an apparently good writeup about South Dakota, Citibank, and credit cards:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/more/r...

https://atrpodcast.com
Since we are speaking anecdotally, I have had the flu shot every single year since 1994, which was the last time I got influenza. I have three kids and all of them get the shot every year too. They have never had influenza either. It works.
Kill Covid: 20 second hand wash sensor (no soldering needed)
My experience is roughly the same, unfortunately.

Personally I don't understand why there are so few search libraries/systems to choose from, given that "search" is one of the fundamental pillars of CS.
It's weird, it's almost like this is following the exponential growth that literally everyone said it would.
It was easy to see the future: you just look up on the wiki the evolution of numbers of confirmed cases in the EU countries.
AFAIK, the flu vaccine doesn't prevent against all strains, because the virus mutates so rapidly year by year. They prepare it every year based on the worst/most common strains that were seen in opposite hemisphere's flu season. It does help limit the spread though, and is still really important to get.
As it's been explained to me, you don't get the flu from the flu shot, but the vaccine forces a reaction from your immune system to prepare it to fight the real thing. The way your body reacts can make you feel sick, but you're not actually sick. And the way you feel is much more mild than what the real thing would do to you.
> Any third party will behave this way. This is the behavior of businesses that need to increase their effectiveness.

It's really not the "third parties" to blame here for the most part. You can make a viable business from selling a VPN service in exchange for money with a contractual requirement that you be respecting privacy in particular ways, so that you can actually get in trouble for not doing it.

But when Shady VPN Corp. starts offering the "same" service for "free" under a different contract because they're logging everything and selling your data, and then all the customers go over there because who doesn't like a free lunch, whose fault is that really?
In early public reporting on covid19 in the U.S., when the patient died it was common to hear that he/she had "underlying health issues".

Why be so vague? It seems like more detail would help people identify their personal risk level.

(Edited for tone.)
This is why constant time functions are used in cryptographic implementations, even over the network.

These are called timing attacks and they're less common now because professional cryptographers know how to deal with it. But this is very much a perfect example of it.
I always thought that was a major miscalculation by the Ada project. All they thought about was defense contractors and their approach of relying on commercial implementions (priced for those contractors) made it unused in academic environments.
Yeah, it was very readable. It implemented the SOAR processor, Smalltalk On A RISC, which is credited by the Berkeley crowd as the RISC-III.

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-287...

However, I don't think SPARC would be saddled with tagged integers were it not for SOAR.
Its about 40% effective. Probably helped you not get the flu twice. So worth it?
I think Freakonomics did a fantastic piece on the flu shot and the low vaccination rate. This answers a lot of the questions being tossed around in this thread:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-doesnt-everyone-get-the...
The real question is why/when restructuring through bankruptcy became seen as something society should avoid rather then embrace?

There is a huge argument to be said for the government acting like an buyer of last resort for critical assets/activities belonging to organization under bankruptcy, rather then acting as an lender of last resort for companies trying to stay out of bankruptcy court.

Lets keep in mind that bankruptcy under almost all western legal systems allow for the continuation of viable economic activity and resale of valuable assets, i.e. in a lot of cases most salaried employees keeps their jobs even after the parent company goes bankrupt.

From an market theory and moral perspective we need an functional system of restructuring through bankruptcy for any free market based system to starve off the (according to Marx inevitable) decline back towards aristocratic mercantilism.
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More like shortly after 9/11. Or after the 1918 flu. Or...
That's an interesting question. I was going to guess CLU, but I was very wrong: there are native VAX and SPARC implementations, a Portable CLU implementation, and even a CLU-to-C compiler. Impressive for a language I hadn't heard of before today!

http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/CLU.html
That's the '???' part of it, I would assume.
I’m definitely getting all the doors in our office re-fitted with low touch handles and anti microbial surfaces. Everyone should be investing in some low tech stuff to reduce disease transmission. It’s not hard.
The US Administration is now closely associated with the dominionist movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology
How many small business owners are doing stock buybacks?
It depends somewhat on when you tried to learn prototypes in JS. The time before Firefox implementation detail `__proto__` leaked into general web platform usage had some rough spots, as the big obvious example to mind. It still took almost too long after that before `Object.getPrototypeOf()` and `Object.setPrototypeOf()` were standardized. Admittedly "the prototype of this instance" shouldn't always be accessed and/or manipulated directly in "proper" prototype-oriented code, but there are a lot of practical cases that show up where it ends up being useful.
Adding more functions to a router doesn't make it a non-router. But if it's doing NAT and not routing, then it's a different distinction. But yep it depends on the configuration.
People are probably referring to the immune response. The flu shot does trigger an immune response and other side effects, so having a fever, muscle aches, etc. is not made up. I too have a far more severe reaction every time I get a flu shot than I've ever had from actual flu.
Not really. Just NYC. Cuomo and Deblasio are assholes, didn't do enough when they had the chance. Heck, Deblasio had a Chinese parade a month ago. When EVERY state, including California, has it under control except NY, you gotta wonder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/pompeo-christ...

> Studies show that white evangelicals are much more likely than other Americans to believe that Israel fulfills a biblical prophecy. Known as Christian Zionists, they believe God promised the land to the Jews, and that the gathering of Jews in Israel is foretold in the prophecy of the rapture — the ascent of Christians into the kingdom of God.

The Rapture, as interpreted by American evangelicals, includes a whole lot of death in an apocalyptic end to Earth.
Can/do supervisors poll for this situation? Seems like that should be possible.
> Got my flu shot last year, still ended up with severe flu in February. The flu shot is not completely effective.

My understanding is that the 'flu shot' changes every year, in anticipation of the strains predicted to be the most prevalent that year.

In other words, flu shot producers say "we think flu strains A, B, and C will spread this year" and strains B, C, and D may be what actually spread.

It's still worth getting because even if you catch strain D, your immune system still easily defeated B and C when exposed and you didn't even notice.
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Interesting thought. My understanding is rather that the converse is true: we're headed for a world where both flu and SARS-CoV-2 are endemic.
You need something else than the Netflix App or Edge.

Other apps/browsers are limited to 720P and don't use hardware-level Content Decryption Modules
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Delete your Kubernetes clusters automatically
Optimising the size and performance of std:borrow:Cow in Rust
>Hopefully they get there or this is going to be really bad.

The right thing for governments to do is to help mitigate the damage they've caused by ordering massive shutdowns. They can't do one without the other otherwise, indeed, it will be really bad.
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