skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it possibly affect health insurance costs in the future, too? Let's say that it turns out that COVID-19 carries a risk of long term lung damage. In the future a health insurer might start asking applicants if they have ever received a positive test result.

Therefore (for those in countries where this kind of thing is a problem) there is a substantial financial risk to consider too - not just the immediate financial consequences of a possible but relatively short quarantine period.
>In many states, the vast majority of school funding comes from property taxes. So schools in wealthy neighborhoods are better funded than schools in poor neighborhoods, and this guarantees homes in wealthy school districts maintain their value since everyone wants their kids in those schools.

In the US, school funding is (on average) progressive because federal and state funding more than offsets any local inequalities. See https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2017/06/22/no-us-school-f...
Mildly to somewhat uncomfortable yes. Depending on the style of test, the 15 second one is obviously less fun. But it is in no way painful. I firmly believe people simply don't want to get tested for whatever selfish reason or they are wildly exaggerating the test.
I wrote a typed visitor pattern for validating and rewriting objects with an audit log, it became necessary for an integration where an error response would need to return a modified input if the original could not be processed but he modified one could be resubmitted successfully.
I'm very nervous about the safety of any vaccine based on a complete spike protein

S1 Receptor Binding Domain (RBD),
What make one more worrying than the other? I have not the expertise to make such inferences
Yes, they are, and for me they are distinctly more difficult to type than parens.
Iranian authorities updated account of UIA 752 shoot down
Technically, Fib(n) at unbounded sizes is at least linear to compute. This is because the output of Fib(n) has O(n) bits in it. So even if the computation is free, it's still O(n) just to print the result.

That's not the type of thing I would ever expect a candidate to know in an interview, just something fun I've run across.
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This won't be a very popular response, but: generally the answer to this has been to question the framing of authoritarianism. Marx spoke of a society in which labour is no longer alienated, but "man's prime want". His assumption (true or false) was that people wouldn't be need to be pressured to work. His claim was that in capitalism, itself an authoritarian system descended from previous class systems, authority lurks behind free rights and duties, in which he commented that under capitalism the worker must be free - free to sell his labour, and free from the means of production.

In summary, to anti-capitalists the question is not only how to have an economy without authoritarianism, but also how to rework the very concept of labour, how it is thought of, practised, etc.

What is it about labour in class societies, they ask, which means that it can only be seen as something which needs to be compelled, either by holding the means of survival (a wage) over the worker's head, or by placing them in a state-industry job for labour tokens? Both the capitalist and 'socialist' solutions are authoritarian. Why?

Unfortunately a lot of the popular discourse around Marx's actual works has been obscured or discounted. Yet it is impossible to validate the USSR, Cuba, China, etc. as 'Marxist' or not without knowing what he wrote himself. It's just as rare to find a leftist who's read Marx as it is to find a right-libertarian who's read Marx.
That video does not “sum up the American view on masks”. It might at most sum up one American view among many.

Where I live (which is part of the US), I’d say 100% of people wear masks inside of businesses (other than dodgy corner stores selling illegal cigarettes), and about 90% on the street.
How does one mark a post as [DUPE]?
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23844267
The strangest Google search result I have ever seen
Search for "swiftui combine image download" limited to the past 24 hrs. There are thousands of entries, most on websites not devoted to programming, and all forward to hard coded IP addresses. Many have .it and .pl (but also others) domains. The search snippet appears to be useful information but clicking on the link forwards to the IP addresses. I have no clue what's going on. This seems like a weird hack, or Google is having some strange issue.
Thanks. I'm gonna recheck Kafka then.
Almost every safety regulation does this; few are effective immediately. Manufacturing plants need retooled, workforces need retrained, new equipment needs to be acquired and implemented, compliance measure must be implemented, etc.

>Except that it's already been decided the towers will be removed, which is counter to your example.

Grandfather clauses are implementation grace periods that are equal to the expected lifetime of the device. This is not counter to the example -- this is an example that sometimes these grace periods are very generous even for things we are very sure are unsafe.
Perhaps lowering taxes is the answer. Why pay sky-high French taxes when you could pay lower taxes in Ireland?
Body of tech entrepreneur, 33, is found decapitated in his Manhattan apartment
A placebo is not necessary in this phase (phase 0). The most important thing is that the vaccine is safe and that there is a dose dependent relationship.
The placebo will only be necessary in later trial stages. Now it's mostly to assess safety and efficacy through immunological parameters.

Not much is known about the humans immunological response to covid or this vaccine. Derek Lowe is rightly pointing out that it's way too early to say if this is even effective against COVID. The safety and dose-dependency is just the first step in the process.
If enough people take the vaccine with that expected length of protection, it would certainly tamp down the spread at minimum. So it might still 'work' by collective standards.
No. You do not pass e.g. ability to read via genetic code. So you do not pass knowledge about the contraception (or lack of it) either.
Oh that was Hugo Fiennes' company! He wrote the definitive BBS software for Acorns, then designed the Empeg Linux MP3 player for cars (in like 99), and the iPhone 1 hardware.

applause
Is it any wonder? This same experiment is being run every day at hospitals and clinics across the country. Face masks diminish the risk dramatically.
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Apple is the company name. The product names (ios, mac os, ipad ...) are all unique enough.
In some places though (see: algorithmic views of the primary content e.e. facebook or twitter, youtube recs), the recommendations can't be disabled.

You cannot avoid the machine entirely, and all it might take is showing a thumbnail or a preview of something to you.

This sort of thing has led me to getting off those services.
Most people sneeze out of their noses.
This NY Times overview of various candidate vaccines is interesting:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker
> Huge swathes of people are desperate, angry, and depressed, I think because there is no opportunity for them.

As a slight digression, mental health is particularly dire because culturally we have not learned how to advance it yet. Mental health is not given the same reverence as physical health.

It's common sense more or less that you need to drink water, eat healthy food, get good sleep, get exercise. Some people don't do it, but it's well known that you should.

What do you do for mental health? Take some time off occasionally? There is simply not an equivalent body of knowledge as what is needed for physical healthiness.

If the industrial revolution made food abundant and jobs sedentary such that obesity is a problem, the information revolution made similar problems for mental health- but we don't spread awareness because being depressed or anxious isn't as visible as being obese.
Two things surprising to me: the SAM system was relocated and not recalibrated. Those running the system couldn't communicate with their command center and fired without approval.
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Using AirBnB sometimes doesn't automatically make you a NIMBY, IMO. If an ordinary family of four stays in a secluded single family home for a weekend, that's not really the incarnation of AirBnB that many people have a problem with. It's the modern flophouse in the middle of a regular neighborhood that is really driving problems.
I'm guessing they have target specificity concerns. I'm no spike protein expert, but the concern would be that spike-targeting ligands can bind to other off-target sites, leading to unexpected and unwanted side effects.

What they think these side effects might be, I have no idea.
- Retention. If this person spent hours on leetcode, they’ll be less likely to leave the job knowing the effort it takes to get through the gate
> There is no direct link between Bezos net worth and allocation of resources to laborers, and attempts to paint that picture are misguided.

If they raised wages of factory workers, profits go down, stock goes down, Bezos net worth go down. no?
Algorithms are all about eliminating waste effort. Not using programs invented by others to manipulate data structures. Those just happen to be solutions to some problem patterns.

A person good at algorithms is some one who can make things happen with least effort possible. Not some one who can invert trees, even more so when there is not need to invert a tree.

You can see how good some one is at algorithm stuff to see how much drudgery exists in the way they do work themselves.
Exactly this. While the underlying theory is excellent on many of these theoretical algorithms, they typically don't perform as expected when taking into account the infinite complexities of the real-world.

But being able to understand the core value of the algorithm enables you to adapt or modify slightly in order to get it to work as needed in the real world.

In general just knowing that there are specialized algorithms for certain classes of problems is 80% of the expertise you gain over years of experience. Knowing that things like Bloom filters exist when you hit a problem that could be solved by this class of algorithm gets you much further than expertly memorizing any specific implementation of the algorithm. There are a variety of them depending on the actual use case you are looking to solve for.
1. Yes

2. Some company will succeed at L5 FSD, eventually. Just because it can be done does not mean that Tesla will do it. Tesla has been selling Vaporware for a decade, and they are investing a lot of resources in trying to get FSD to work with the hardware they sold customers 5 years ago to save face, while right now we don't know, and many do not believe, that such hardware suffices. Companies that have not tied themselves to such promises are much more flexible from a technology point-of-view to make quicker progress.

For all we know, next year somebody could ship a smaller, better, and cheaper lidar systems, that might give every manufacturer willing to use them a huge advantage over Tesla. Tesla would be in a very tight spot to incorporate such technology into their existing customer base.

I don't think we will see L5 in the next 10-20 years and a lot of things can happen in such a time-frame technology wise.
More related content here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23842179
There are lots of thing you can, but you should not.
I wouldn't even call Discord/Slack/WhatsApp discrete categories of software anyway. They're all way more similar than they are different. So another entrant in the field doesn't need to be a X competitor vs a Y competitor; it can just be another messaging app that has a blend of functionalities available in other messaging apps.
Technically speaking, as I cannot delete my comments after a given amount of time, HN isn't GDPR compliant anyways.
Apple Notes for long-running projects or anything I want to come back to and expand upon in the future. Since I expect to read these notes more than write them, I optimize for searchability and access.

If you're into apple ecosystem, nothing beats Apple Notes - seamless access right from the spotlight search, you can paste images or files right into notes (surprisingly few apps have that feature - it's a must for me), to-do lists that just work, cloud-sync, so on. And it all comes built-in, for free. I've tried all major alternatives and I always come back.

Paper notebook for daily plans and short-term notes. I don't expect to refer back to those notes in the distant future, so I choose to optimize for writing experience, and nothing I've tried beats paper.

A personal blog for anything worth sharing. In my case it's a bunch of markdown files in a static site generator.
> What role is the F-15EX supposed to cover

The corporate welfare role
Made me think what else besides masks.. e.g. does operating hairdryers affect virus survival on suspended airborne particles? Or the chemicals they use? (Hair spray etc..) I want to believe that masks are that effective.
Augmenting AI image recognition with partial evidence
There's an argument to be made that since Apple is a US company, ultimately their revenue should be taxed in the US.

And ultimately that is what happened: the money Apple made outside the US was eventually taxed when they repatriated it into the US.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-pay-38-billion-in-repa...
> You'd be better off dismantling your whole war machine instead, and reinvesting it in the humans inside your country, rather than focusing on killing people outside of it.

Sure, except:

> We're drawing down troops from Germany, SK, Japan, etc.

"You isolationists! You're abandoning NATO! Trump is a Russian Asset!"

> We recently bombed this bad terrorist guy who was mutilating children

"You murderers! How dare you violate another country's sovereignty. You're the reason the world sucks!"

It's so exhausting.
Mostly fair points, but figured I'd clarify a bit.

"You've got a property sitting empty for most of the year, driving up property values, so you can have a jolly holiday."

My grandmother (the homeowner) lives there more than 6 months each year. She spends the rest of her time in a retirement community.

It's a town with <500 people that swells 10x during summer months, there is very low demand besides vacation homes due to lack of nearby schools, healthcare, etc.

We have two maintenance people and one cleaner from the local community that we partner with; it is extremely common to have these "old school" side gigs up there as it is such a vacation-driven community.
Algorithms and Data Structures don't measure either of those things. General IQ is not measured by very specific technical problems. Nor is learning something specific an indication of "grit".

It's a proxy for interviewers to jerk their ego.
Because they don’t think things through (morons) or don’t care (evil). Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It covers this pretty well: https://youtu.be/icmRCixQrx8
Yup.

Social groups imposing conformity is normal.

Weaponizing conformity is normal.

Spanish Inquisition, Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, etc.

The only novelty this iteration is formerly in-group cohorts are now getting their turn at the woodshed.

Coincidently occurring during demographic shift, whites on track to becoming a minority, so is adjacent to the white resentment nonsense.

(Buy me a beer and I'll tell you what I really think.)
On the linked Twitter thread from the article there is a link to the AE chart

https://twitter.com/RNAiAnalyst/status/1283149377427701761/p...
Seems over-complicated, e.g. I probably wouldn't go for recursion for Fibbonacci, so I'd miss your expectations completely. Why not just ask a direct question on things that you're looking for? If you care about recursion, ask them to implement simple recursive tree walker or something. Equally linked lists are something that in modern languages almost no one will have to manage by hand. If you care about understanding the concept of pointers/refs, why just not asking directly about that.
I agree, I have the option of 1000/1000 for £50/month or 150/150 for £25/month. Both unlimited. Despite pushing the connection very hard I ended up downgrading to 150. It's hard to get more than 200mbit on WiFi consistently, and unless you download onto an SSD with ethernet, downloads are constrained by hard drive speeds (especially over USB).
> All of those can be handled without unwinding the stack to the point where the code for handling them was defined.

Nitpick: the only thing that cannot be handled by winding the stack is when you run out of stack to wind.

But, luckily, if your program overflows the stack, you usually have bigger issues to deal with and/or you usually have all the stack information you need to diagnose the problem.
For Fibonacci, recursion is not the best or most efficient way to approach the problem, but I like using it as a recursion problem (artificially constrain the candidate to using recursion) because Fibonacci is so simple that you get to spend most of your time talking about recursion itself rather than talking about Fibonacci as a problem.

At least for this part of the interview, I'm not worried about your problem solving skills I'm worried about your programming fundamentals. We'll test problem solving in a different session.
The whistle blower awards are great but aren't always sufficient. How much would he have gotten for this? Enough to have his life turned upside down and moved to a different country? The awards also need to come with witness protection and other help. The bigger the fraud, the larger lengths people will go to fight it. Most people just want to get through the day and do their own thing. We need to over-incentivize and over-protect them to get more people coming forward. In the end, it is also way cheaper than the police/military complex we try to use to solve it now.
And at the same time we have populist leaders of more and more countries flat out calling climate change a hoax. This is a dangerous combination. At the point where the general public finally accepts that imminent change is required to avoid disaster it may already be too late for that change to have enough impact.
i mean... it's at least a bit surprising. the programming course at my uni (java) got to generics within the first year... i'm sure the hiring requirements at google are a bit higher than that?
I’d argue they’ve been here for a while and we just called it “cinema”. Remember all the superimposed historical scenes from Forrest Gump?

The technology got easier, everyone became a publisher, and now we have a more prickly name for it.
This is likely a product of Project Athena. Intel is spending a lot of money codeveloping flagship laptops with OEMs. That, of course, comes with CPU exclusivity.
If someone makes less money working than they do on unemployment, the problem isn't that the unemployment payment is too generous, it's that their wages are too low.
Thank you for the explanation. I cannot count how many times I have wished for something similar in python.
android allows is but its hidden away behind a setting and discouraged. in practice it is almost the same system, very few people have a big enough product that they can make money sideloading it. fortnite may be the only example
Interesting video, thanks for sharing. Just curious if you have one with tests or benchmarks for the completed build and/or temps at high loads? Would be cool to see :)
Wow, really? 20000 EUR per square meter, for small apartment in Munich? That's... more than I expected.
Let's face it, most notes are actually ephemeral. For me these go on paper or in a random Sublime text window which I never save to disk.

Everything else goes into Notion.
Ask HN: Heroku status green but 10x increase in routing errors since July 13
Since July 13th at around 1am UTC, about 1% of our traffic does not arrive at the server and returns HTTP code 0.

We see no increase in errors in the server logs. We only see the errors in our client side Sentry logging.

Is anyone else seeing this? Does anyone have ideas?
Economic growth and technical innovation go hand in hand. As the economy grows the pie gets bigger, as long as everyones absolute amount grows thats good - most people thing that some are shrinking which is not the case. Right now, some peoples are growing at faster rate.
To be fair an excessive amount of power given to the elderly in the Spartan legal system also contributed to their slow decline in power as those who benefited from the status quo continuously stifled any attempts at adaptation or reform.

Only a tiny minority of elders have any wisdom worth purveying in my experience. Most are as mediocre at 70 as they were at 25, and can't tell you anything except how to be as mediocre as they are. An even larger fraction actually are obsolete and haven't kept up to date with the latest cultural changes or technology.

I'll take advice from the 70+ year old who's still working and staying abreast of their field/maintaining good relationships with friends and family, or the 70+ year old who did something great once upon a time (and I'll limit the advice I take to said great thing and related subjects). The retiree who worked a mid-level factory job, begrudgingly learned how to check their email and largely lives alone/with their spouse in a rancher with Christian TV playing 24/7 who rants about whatever Sean Hannity said (a direct description of some of my relatives) probably less juice in the squeeze there from a wisdom perspective.
Frankly I don't buy that.

There has actually been something like this during the swine flu pandemic. There was a vaccine that is believed to have caused some cases of narcolepsy. This was a real, bad sideeffect with a vaccine that was rushed to market.

Surprisingly this isn't a big talking point in antivaccine circles. Yeah you'll hear about it sometimes, but compare it to the number of times you hear "somethingsomething MMR aluminium autism" which is all debunked bullshit - you'll hear that far more often.

What I want to say is: Antivaccine people largely don't care about real issues with vaccines. They're happy with their pseudoscientific nonsense, that's good enough for them to reject every vaccine ever made.
I wouldn't use "discord" as synonym for "argument" more like "disagreement" ie. the argumentation phase is over.
The usefulness of studies like this is they can be used to "update your priors" so to speak. Personally, I am slightly more confident in the efficacy of masks than I was before.
You might be interested in knowing that there are some nondeterministic computations that cannot be performed by a Turing Machine.

For a simple example, see the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566
Part of the pushback with this is that one of the faces of the program is the President’s daughter. Something rubs people the wrong way to have a person, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and was gifted a government role, telling the unemployed what their problems are and what they need to be doing to support themselves.

Something about it comes across as totally oblivious to the real issues faced by everyday Americans and is bound to be received poorly.
Nope. The parent commenter came to some interesting conclusions, but I've never worked on passbolt. From what I remember passbolt based their repository on CakePHP (of which I'm a maintainer) and inherited all the git history from that project. There are no connections between passbolt and sentry though.
How many miles driven (which is a probably more correct measure of exposure) are represented in the two cases?