skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Workers are also a pretty big beneficiary

FANNGS, by definition, are 1% of the Fortune 500. In term of headcount, it's even lower. They should not even be part of this argument. You can't base taxation policies around the personal experience of hyper-specialized, in-demand trained professionals.

Fortune 500 no1: Walmart. no2? Amazon.

Are you arguing that those kinds of companies have a upward pressure on salaries? Because at least in the case of Walmart and Amazon (excluding AWS), it's proven that it doesn't. And in terms of workforce, the low-pay employees that those companies hire overwhelm "well-paid" engineers from FAANGS a 1000-1. And that's not even accouting for all "red badge" contractors not lucky enough to get a cosy position at those FAANGS, who don't appear in the company's salary statistics, and are not in such a good financial situation themselves.
Eh, hotels have "resort fees" now. Same scam.
1. People on western diets. This isn't some hidden mystery.. it's in plain view. Plenty of studies done, or just ask _any_ doctor that sees patients, or any of your friends/family who have tried diets. Or search pubmed for diet adherence.

2. Because their base metabolic rate reduces over time to match their new reduced caloric intake.
Microsoft = MS

IBM = Big Blue

Ycombinator = YC

Toshiba = Toshi

off the top of my head ;)

Not sure about Twilio, but upon first scan with my old eyes I wanted to read it as 'twillow'
Napoleon was generally thought of as the first time were violent casualties exceeded non-violent ones. At least until his march to Russia.

In the US the Civil War in the 1860s was when violent casualties tended to exceed medical ones. Even then, disease was a big deal, even up to WW2 where malaria was a huge problem in the Pacific Theater.
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First: I don't think there's much data to make an argument here, but I think we can agree that house parties alone don't create as much social contact as house parties AND restaurants, salons, gyms, nonessential retailers, hotels, etc.

Second: If your goal is to demonstrate that lockdowns aren't appreciably better than social distancing, Sweden is a great example of why you're wrong.

"As time has gone on the numbers don’t seem to have borne out this strategy, as Sweden is seeing more deaths from the virus than it might have otherwise."[1]

"The death rate in Sweden has now risen significantly higher than many other countries in Europe, reaching more than 22 per 100,000 people, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, controlled for population. By contrast, Denmark has recorded just over seven deaths per 100,000 people, and both Norway and Finland less than four."[2]

Sweden is, in fact, an example where relying on social distancing and masks rather than lockdowns has resulted in more than three times the number of deaths per-capita that were experienced by countries with similar demographics.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/05/23/swedens-...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/europe/sweden-coronavirus-loc...
This is hilarious, and I’m sure will be as popular as paying extra taxes on your return when your state asks to donate because your heart feels it.

I’m surprised airbnb is still around. Hotels have been as expensive or cheaper the past 3 years of booking. Why would anyone pay the same to have to deal with rando stranger creeps at odd hours for check-in is beyond me. Knowing there’s a front desk 24/7 is piece of mind.
Can't connect to Element after logging in. Even old Riot.im stopped working properly. A pretty bumpy switch I suppose.
No optimisations here: Slack is using VIRT: 24.868g, RSS: 1.919g, SHR: 526924

Next highest single process is Firefox with 1G RSS and 5G Virt. I have 113 tabs open at the moment, although there's about 4G of RSS in "Web Content" processes which are firefox related.
A developer in low-cost Houston, Texas still makes double or triple of what a developer in Paris, France makes.
Okay... and you also expect the car manufacturer to replace the car your wife crashed?

When you buy shiny sleek phone with edge-to-edge screen you should understand this is not a phone to be dropped or sat on. It is not possible to fit so much screen, electronics and battery into such sleek enclosure and make it drop resistant. If you need drop resistant phone, there are phones that advertise the feature (see: https://www.techradar.com/best/best-rugged-smartphones)

In other words, dropping an iPhone is not an intended use of the phone.
NSO... Why am I not surprised??
40% of vaccine recipients experienced fever after administration. I'm not sure people would rush to take the vaccine with those odds, if only a few months of immunity is conveyed. There's a psychological element to this beyond whatever the science shows.
It sort of is. And isn't. It's a helluva mess we've got ourselves into.

Ireland has built its modern economy on being attractive to multinationals. And it's worked. 10 MNCs alone pay 40% of all tax revenue in the country. They've brought jobs and wealth to a country that was previously big in dairy & emigration.

For the generation above me, the career path was study, leave, earn your money elsewhere - and perhaps come home one day to start a family. Perhaps. For the generation below me, they can go straight from Uni to FAANG (maybe FAAMG? I think msft are bigger than netflix in Dublin), startups, or elsewhere in the booming tech & pharma sectors.

Pandering to MNCs was a good strategy. It paid off. But it's not sustainable - no-one actually wants to win a race to the bottom.

I'm not sure biting the hand that feeds us is the best step to make right now though. We need to diversify first. We need to encourage home-grown talent. We need to wean the MNCs off their tax strategies slow enough that we don't startle them, etc.

Like it or not we are currently intertwined. That needs to be solved first - otherwise we just turn the tap off and return to the 80s.

(Yes I'm biased: I work for an MNC that probably wouldn't be here without this strategy. Without this strategy, I wouldn't be living here.)
Just to clarify, I was never a developer of Passbolt. I think they based their repository off of CakePHP (which I do maintain) and inherited all the commit history that way.
Technology to stop plastic before it reaches the ocean
My whole life growing up I was taught about how repressive the socially integrated model was, where everybody knows everybody, and how we should celebrate that the modern world has left it behind.

As time goes by, I'm starting to realize that while it can be very repressive for people who don't fit in, in trying to discard that model outright we've lost something incredibly important.
There is no easy solution to the problem, so no one should pretend there is. Yes, if I program in Go, I have to type square brackets [] from time to time for slices. But for me it is more painful, so I strongly prefer the generics notation with parens ().

It may be, that in the end the parens are the solution to use, but at least it should be considered in the discusion, that they are not very easy to use for a lot of non-English layouts. Just assuming anyone in the world would use an English layout, is quite offensive in my eyes.
27€/ton yesterday: https://www.eex.com/en/market-data/environmental-markets/auc...
Vs targeting receptors?
Always interesting to see science fiction become fact. I believe I first saw Babylon 5 take on this idea (from my POV; I'm sure it's not new).
Technically git is free and you can self host. The issue is that the power of money cannot be ignored. Github has become the defacto centralized OSS ecosystem because it is free and can afford to be free due to the money they have.

I would argue that we should encourage more platforms (paid) that can host git and not just depend on github or gitlab. But those 2 are successful because they were some of the early ones and then got a lot of money/funding. There may be other alternatives but no one wants to put their code with a small risky company that may not exist tomorrow. IF we can solve that problem, I think we will be ok.
This is particularly worrisome because it highlights an entirely new scope to the challenges associated with journalism. Having a deep fake create tons of normal content to then use specific pieces to target a person/agenda will be extremely difficult to deter.
As if those two things are mutually exclusive.

Just like the healthcare debate, what if I told you that you can have both a private system and a public system?
The danger of inequality is not something new, and the problem isn't that someone is super-rich, the problem is that median purchasing power is going down, because economic growth is not going into the hands of the lower and middle class, and this is causing demand to fall in the market, leading to an inevitable economic downturn. The dangers of this were discovered a century ago during the Great Depression, and are well understood and not really considered controversial anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
The Java framework Flow at first I thought was off putting because it uses AspectJ to modify the bytecode but after having used it it's kind of elegant.

I like how it re-runs through your decider each time with the state information filling up Promises as it goes.

Helps make.sure your decider is written in a deterministic fashion to the workflow events.
Thanks! I would love to see a similar chart of competing vaccines.

So the side effects are huge relative to standard vaccines but rationally, if it works everybody should still take it. This will need to be enforced by politicians as I doubt people would have the maturity to take it voluntarily. It's the kind of wicked problem where we want that everybody take it except ourselves
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>(Basically, in Haskell or Scheme your recursion will be compiled into the same machine language sequence of straight-line code plus conditional jump as the iterative loop.)

This is not true. The recursive code will not compile with zero overhead even in haskell or lisp.

fib :: int -> int
fib 0 = 1
fib 1 = 1
fib n = fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2)

The code above will add layers to the call stack and has a speed complexity of O(N) and memory complexity of O(N).

To optimize in Haskell you need to deliberately restructure your code.

fib :: int -> int
fib n = let _fib 0 a b = a
_fib 1 a b = b
_fib n a b = fib (n - 1) b (a + b)
in _fib n 0 1

The above code will have O(N) speed complexity and constant memory in Haskell. In order for Haskell or any language with tail recursion optimization to work the recursive call must take up the entire return expression. In short the coder must deliberately make optimizations and write recursion in a way similar to the original iterative syntax in order for such tricks to work.
Then by looking at the PFD
Unfortunately there have been many, many deaths and also populations left disfigured and disabled from reckless medical experimentation. That is why there are such strict rules now.
Why not take in African American students and thus improve their economic/social standing?
The CARES act was 2,000 times larger.
Universities need foreign students to pay full price.
Total LOL, The amount of screaming, spitting and close contact at these riots -- they've all should of been infected and marked as covid patients already. No one is transmitting anything other than their stupidity.

Why didn't anyone get sick? Cause it's not real or as serious as the media is making it as*. How is that there is all these protestors and not a single one of them ended up in the damn hospital from attracting Covid? It's total bullshit
In the United States teachers school supplies, equipment for band, gear for sports and other items that contribute directly to the quality of a students education and experience are funded by bake sales, booster clubs and other sources of funding that was not at all accounted for in the article you linked or argument you make. At some schools these programs bring in six figure $ from kids reselling boutique cupcakes their mom bought, probably taking a $2 loss on each. Other schools can barely manage to raise $200 at a bake sale.
Christmas comes early for you this year. :D

See https://github.com/svetlyak40wt/python-cl-conditions
What would knowing for sure change for you? As you correctly noted, antibody levels seem to decline fairly quickly, so it's not like you can rely on immunity. It's true that there's a long and growing list of complications associated with C19, but I don't know of a single one where the diagnostic or therapeutic options change in any way based on whether you had C19 or not. In theory, if we actually had a thorough understanding of the mechanisms (and probabilities) of various complications after C19 it would affect the process of diagnosing them, but we're a very long way from that.
I'm just now understanding that moving away from the name Riot was to distance it from recent US riots in mental space.
"go generate" is an half assed macro feature that shouldn't even part of any modern language. Even C has better macro... And it has absolutely nothing to do with genericity, your argument is a fallacy.

If Go really wanted to be open, then Go designers should just have created a virtual machine and let everybody code their own language on top.

Go right now is just basically C with garbage collection. Only C developers love that, and Go designers are well aware that it is an hindrace to adoption in enterprise. The pressure to change seldom comes from the community at large, but Google itself and big corps using Go.
"A Boeing news release published Monday boasted that engineers would be able to adapt from older F-15 jets to the new F-15EX in a matter of days."

This sounds familiar...
Or maybe a more succinct way of putting it. You can sample random numbers from any distribution. There's nothing special about the uniform distribution except that it's one that people want most of the time.
I've been using temporal.io, which afaik is developed by some of the people who built SWF (and Cadence at Uber), and I think it's great. I'll probably use it for a ton of stuff in the future.
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Great comment... (I say this sarcastically).

It's like wearing seatbelts. Would you have survived your last drive without seatbelts? You probably would've, there were probably no extreme manouvers/accidents that could've hurt you. For I don't know what high-90's percentage of passenger miles driven this day, the seatbelts didn't protect them any extra.

But for the rest of those passenger miles, the ones that did end up in a bad wreck, the seatbelt was probably the difference between life and death. If the wreck was bad enough, some people would still die even with seatbelts on.

The difference between mask and no mask is probably none for a high percentage of wearers (they wore them but they never ran into anyone infected/they didn't get a high enough dose), but if no one wore them, well, statistically there will be more sickness and death.

It's strange how everyone has their own theory about the virus and level of risk comfort. Some think a particle of virus is deadly, others think you need to have a huge viral dose from an infected person to get sick. And whatever you think, you can probably cite an evidence online to back up your conclusion. I'm more of the latter, so I feel secure to be outdoors, but don't make me spend time in a stuffy bar with others in close proximity.
It’s obviously behind schedule, but that doesn’t make it vaporware. Tesla is still actively developing fsd and continues to release useful features.

Would you rather they stopped hyping the feature altogether? The income from selling fsd helps fund development.
Your blog post can be short
Slack and Discord are respectively references to the Church of the Subgenius and Discordianism. Obviously Riot/Matrix should have gone with something Flying Spaghetti Monster-related, maybe even working in how word "matrix" refers to the connection to a womb.
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There is The Autoimmune Protocol diet (AIP), a stricter version of Paleo, and there is keto diet. They both seem to help with autoimmune deceases and inflammations.

Did anyone try them, and can share their experience? Do they both have comparable effects in a long term?
There's an ongoing discussion happening around this at https://collective.energy/topic/91/rock-weathering-for-remov...

If you're into promoting discourse on climate solutions, come join us!
That is not correct;

I believe the "god-like dynasty founder" you're referring to is Shennong, the mythical 2nd emperor of Chine who is said to have invented tea, medicine and government[0]. If so, there is (obviously) no historical evidence of his existence.

On the other hand, the history of tea is well understood. Tea originated in Yunnan province and was used by the local minority groups along the Lancang river (the headwaters of the Mekong) as a masicient, chewed like coca leaf in the Andes and Holly in North America, for its stimulating properties. Before the Tang Dynasty, tea was a medicinal herb, part of the broader group of herbs used as a medicine by the wondering mendicants of Southern China, who spread its use throughout the southern provenances.

Tea became a regional drink pre-Tang, but didn't begin to spread throughout China until the introduction of Buddhism and its adoption into the Buddhist practice as part of the Chinese temperance movement (used in place of alcohol).

Most of the myths around tea originated with Lu Yu[1] a real historical figure who wrote "Cha Jing" or Tea Bible during the Tang - working outside the widely accepted historical texts, he attributed any nebulous mention of medicinal herb (then called "Tu" in classical Chinese) to the tea plant and built up a corpus of mythologies and stories around the new plant (as a type of promotion), including the addition of tea to the older existing myth of Shennong.

Anyway - that is all to say: the history of tea is also the story of the spread of Chan Buddhism and its (inconsistent) anti-alcohol temperance moment from a niche herb in Southern China to one of the largest agricultural commodities today.

I'd recommend "Tea In China: A Religous And Cultural History by James A. Benn"[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shennong

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Yu

[2] https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/tea-in-china-a-religious-an...
Human challenge studies need to be seriously lined up right now as a part of phase III work. (Human challenge studies mean giving people the full vaccine dose, checking for antibodies, then giving a dose of the actual disease).

The consensus seems to be "they are not ethical", which is an extreme, beaucratic, twisted set of ethics.

Small challenge studies of 100 people, who have a low risk profile, who volunteer to help their friends, family, and humanity will give us a lot of confidence to move forward.

The fatality rate of a soldier volunteering in the US for world war Ii was about 2%. For young healthy volunteers, we are talking something like 2 orders of magnitude less risk, for more clear marginal benefit than being one extra soldier in a war.

I feel that this isn't being lined up is negligent insanity.

(If you want to volunteer without any commitment https://1daysooner.org/ - no affiliation although I volunteered).
> not a single one of them ended up in the damn hospital from attracting Covid

You got hard data to prove this claim? No? Then don't make the fucking claim and jump to the "great" conclusion that "It's not real!"
Although not a direct answer to 'when would you not wear a mask anymore' there are objective criteria guiding some of the decision making around phased re-openings (of which some phase would be "no more masks").

Example Criteria: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/~/media/de...

Example Dashboard: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/key-indica...
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When go gets generics a lot more businesses and developers will start using it.
This is the main reason I never want kids. I'm just not sure I'll ever be secure enough while young enough to really care for them. Student loans being the main killer; if I could get rid of them and buy a house, things might be different.

But, more than that, I'm also not sure if I'll ever be secure enough to make sure they're secure in the future that seems inevitably coming, with regards to global warming, etc. I just feel it isn't responsible currently.
There are a few possibilities in my mind.

* T Cell mediated inflammatory cascade (Cytokine storm) caused by off-target cross-reactivity with IL-11: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7092895/

* Autoimmune responses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809466/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246018/

* Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of viral entry: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018502/
It's like in any competitive exam where there are too many candidates and not enough positions. If you ever look at the type of math and science problems on Chinese university exams they are not necessarily advance in terms of the topic but they are extremely tricky. A electromagnetism question testing your knowledge of Gauss' law usually in a regular setting would use a charged sphere or some other object with geometric symmetry you can take advantage of. I have seen one question where it involved Gauss' law around the corner of a pipe (the elbow part).

It's just an exercise to see "how badly does this guy want it? how much did you cram?" Like hazing.

As an anecdotal story, I once interviewed at a well known HFT in Manhattan, after jumping through the phone screen and timed coding interview (involving four questions), you were invited on site. The first thing you do on-site (10 am in the morning) is take a 2 hour multiple choice exam consisting of 100 questions and get this - it was literally on scantron card, so they can score it right away (exactly how I used to multiple choice exams in high school).

If they didn't like your score, you were sent packing right away, otherwise the real interviews would begin with actual people throughout the afternoon. Allegedly, the way you knew this was, if you they asked you what you wanted to lunch, that meant you passed and could go to the one-on-one interviews.

I didn't get the job in the end, but I did get a ham sandwich and soda out of the deal.
I was trying to address the point of the parent comment, that using common words is detrimental to searchability. I think that is true, but as shown by the examples I gave, it is not catastrophic and can be worked around.

Processing: https://processing.org/
I think I understand your point. And I disagree.

> I’m saying that services that are like GitHub are ubiquitous because they save time

Popular services are ubiquitous for many reasons, some of them based on actual value, some of them based on perceived value, and others based on things orthogonal to day-to-day value like organisational inertia, aspects of network effects, etc. They may save time for you. Others may have chosen the service for different reasons: either wise or ill-advised.

> easily 5hrs a week

Subjective. But also, more importantly, subject to error based on your metrics. How have you quantified time saved by Github?

> creating them anew would cost more than those services do if you buy them as a user (gitlab enterprise or github “pro”)

This is, I think, where you're missing my point. Of course creating them anew would cost more than those services do. That's not the question being asked here though. What's being discussed is whether using Github will save you time over not-using Github.

Not using Github does not necessarily mean maintaining an equivalent service itself, because that presupposes that the features provided by Github save you time as is. The only reason you would host an equivalent service yourself is if they definitely do, which isn't a certainty.
> is there a word for a computer generated person?

Maybe "infomorph"?
Would you also like a kindness card property owner?