skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A first-order SIR model with unmodeled pre-existing immunity will be accurate initially, but get gradually more wrong with time. For a simplified, non-representative example with fake numbers, let's say half the population already had perfect sterilizing (they don't get sick, and the virus doesn't replicate at all so they can't spread it to anyone else) immunity. Then an apparent R0 of 2.5 would imply an actual R0 of 5. But R0 = 2.5 would imply you need 1 - 1/2.5 = 60% of the population infected for herd immunity, while in that hypothetical case you'd need only 30% infected (so the 50% initially immune plus that 30% make 1 - 1/5 = 80%).

The above still assumes a well-mixed population, but with heterogeneous susceptibility (using the terminology from [1]). There's also heterogeneous connectivity (i.e., the fact that some people have more social contacts than others), which further reduces the herd immunity threshold.

To be clear, the above is a fake example. We know that almost no one has perfect pre-existing sterilizing immunity to the novel coronavirus, because we've seen highly-connected populations (homeless shelters, slums, boats, etc.) where almost everyone tested positive. But that doesn't mean everyone is equally susceptible! Immunity is a continuum, not a binary thing, and the 20-50%[2] of people with reactive T cells very likely get less sick given the same initial viral dose (or, stated in the other direction, would need a greater viral dose to get equally sick). They also might spread the virus less, though that's more speculative.

Finally, I'll note that the herd immunity threshold is the point where R becomes < 1, and the number of people currently infected starts to shrink instead of growing. People still get infected on the downslope, so the fraction of people infected can overshoot higher (and potentially much higher, especially if no precautions are taken to slow the spread).

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160762v...

2. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/scie...
We are self-hosted, I'd _hate_ to think of the costs of hosting this service through AWS or similar who charges for ingress / egress.

We have 5gbps of bandwidth and 12TB of storage that I've dedicated to the service (costing me ~£30/mo, so a fairly trivial sum).

I'm hoping that if we ever exceed 12TB / 5gbps, others will similarly host their own versions of the application. I've heard of half a dozen people already who have just decided to host their own.
Indeed, I know some hacks were being held back until end-of-life. For example the author of SoundHax (one of the most important tools in 3DS hacking) said he was holding something off: https://twitter.com/nedwilliamson/status/874594459744423936

However this all assumes that updates will stop, and I'm not so sure that Nintendo would even announce such a thing.
Yeah, faced something similar few years ago. Since then, switched to command line:

whois felons.io
Wanted to leap in here to mention tailings from minings projects. The gold that goes into a circuitboard comes from a mine which likely has a tailiings facility and associated dam, which is essentially an open pit filled with water into which tailings are dumped.

They're incredibly toxic materials. We had an engineer go out to the field and take a sample of some tailings, and after 6 months of being left in a lab, the materials had eaten through the stainless steel tube containing the sample.

It's not just power generation that has a negative externality in the form of waste. ALL resource extraction has associated waste.
As a Nevadan who is semi-involved in local politics, I can also tell you that Yucca is so contentious and such a career killer for politicians that I have no doubt that any Nevada state or local agencies would be under tremendous pressure to find any and all reasons to make Yucca an unacceptable place to store the used material.
Nintendo has a long history of taking hardware risks that are targeted at actually making interesting new types of gameplay possible.

The richness of games available would not be possible if Nintendo was not in the picture as a hardware manufacturer and had to target all their games at MS/Sony hardware.

Sony & MS have almost never tried any novel hardware and been able to tie it to unique gameplay that was actually successful. They've only tried to copy Nintendo's ideas, mostly failed, and then cancelled the hardware. See Kinect, Playstation Move controllers for PS3, etc.. it was all just copying the Wii.

A lot of the games on DS and 3DS would never have seen the light of day with their unique gameplay elements without Nintendo doing the experimental hardware required.
Would love to see a meta-analysis of all the analyzers targeting the same languages.
It's absolutely amazing how some people can find new ways to blame Google for something they had nothing to do with. Just Incredible. Additionally, if it had not been for the money given to Mozilla by Google the development of Firefox would have severely been in decline and possibly abandoned.

>And this is why we all should have shouted louder when Google set this precedent five years ago.

Do you also shout loud when Microsoft set a precedent for shutting down products and services? Of course you don't. You just confine your rage to Google. Let's have a look at all of the products and services Microsoft has cancelled:

https://pastebin.com/PMQwd8Q0

Let that sink in next time you do a drive by on a Google related topic and post one of those lame "I wonder when it will be cancelled" worthless posts.
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Is it agency or in-house the method you desire? We’ll look into how they compare and differentiate from each other, so you can make a much smoother decision.
How would you achieve that?
It's not broken, you're just doing something horribly forbidden and bannable and LinkedIn would love to make automating your browser a felony.

NB: This is mildly in jest, but also not really.
Only a windows version, meh.
But old Firefox extension model (when an extension could patch any part of browser's code) did not guarantee that the extension would stay compatible forever. It was more quick and dirty hack rather than a proper standartised extension model.
Standing water can do extra damage in a cold snap. And at a time few would want to go outside and fix it. It’s one of the problems, for instance, with shallow roofs. Snow on the shingles melts, forms a dam, the water gets under the shingles. If it doesn’t get into the roof at this point, then night comes and it refreezes, slowly destroying the envelope until it does.
The Pirates came 3rd in Czechia with 14% of the vote last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_elect...
Maybe because a semicolon is valid in URLs. Although the top answer on stack overflow also says: "However, if you're plucking them from relatively unstructured prose, it's probably safe to assume a semicolon at the end of a URL is meant as sentence punctuation."

Because you can never know how a given website will handle the input, I always leave a space after URL and before punctuation in a text box, like so: http://example.com ;
The first sentence of the article begins "Twenty years ago", and yet the article itself is undated.

This appears to be entirely normal for scientific papers.

Can anyone tell me how this foolishness came to be considered acceptable among scientists, and why it persists?
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Except that the game doesn't use three spatial dimensions.
I don't think the 2DS defeats the purpose of the device. The 3D aspect was by design only used in optional ways by nearly all developers and the 2DS as a great, cheaper, lighter alternative to the original. If anything it makes the handheld more focused and useful by stripping away something that was never really effective to begin with.
> the levelized cost of energy[1] for renewables like solar and wind power is substantially cheaper than nuclear power nowadays.

The reason for this is that they're backstopped by fossil fuels. You install solar, it generates power when the sun shines and you burn coal or natural gas when it's cloudy or nighttime. The energy they produce is thereby cheaper, but can only satisfy so much of the total demand before requiring energy storage, which dramatically increases the cost. Satisfying the remaining demand with nuclear is better than satisfying it with fossil fuels.
You've been vigorously defending your position all over this thread without relying on specific scientific evidence. Can you provide further reading to convince us that the mantra "a calorie is a calorie" is useful to guide the modification of diet for weight loss and health?

For what it's worth, here are two peer-reviewed articles that contradict that idea. The thermodynamic truism that "a calorie is a calorie" is true because it's a tautology, but misses the point almost entirely.

EDIT: "a calorie is a calorie" is about as useful and relevant as saying "the key is to earn more than you spend" in the context of trying to save money, or raise yourself out of poverty. Technically absolutely true, but woefully unhelpful.

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1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639963/

"Diets high in protein and/or low in carbohydrate produced an ≈2.5-kg greater weight loss after 12 wk of treatment. Neither macronutrient-specific differences in the availability of dietary energy nor changes in energy expenditure could explain these differences in weight loss."

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2. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/79/5/899S/4690223

"Over a million calories are consumed a year yet weight changes to only a small extent; there must be mechanisms that balance energy intake and expenditure. As obesity reflects only a small malfunctioning of these mechanisms, there is a need to understand the control of energy balance and how to prevent the regaining of weight after it has been lost. By itself, decreasing calorie intake will have a limited short-term influence."
I feel like this discussion is slipping out from under me, as I thought we agreed that the counter itself is a contrived example to illustrate synchronization mechanisms. But your recent response seems predicated on the fact the problem you're solving is just incrementing a counter.

I looked at it as just some work that needs to be done. But in the general case, not all work can be reduced to a single, or even a few atomic instructions. And sometimes your synchronization is needed not because you have work to do, but because you are waiting for another thread to complete their work so you can proceed. In those cases, you sometimes need system calls and/or condition variables to correctly synchronize with another thread. And when you find yourself in such a situation, sched_yield() is an anti-pattern.

And your footnote confuses me: I am not proposing using nanosleep() and sched_yield(). I am proposing it instead of. What I linked to in my parent comment explains, basically, that sched_yield() does not mean what you think it means, so don't use it.
Any law will, at some point at least, become to vague. On the other hand, I too have the perception that bills are often carelessly written and too vague[0], but I think your understanding of jurisprudence or what a judge's job should be is not realistic. The system is not meant to be mechanical.

I think that for meaningful discussion to be possible, you would have to provide a much more specific, concrete example; but that of course runs the risk of being beyond the understanding of us non-lawyers.

[0] Somebody on HN opined that this is because most politicians are lawyers, and they have an interest in preserving/increasing job opportunities for lawyers, or something like that. I wish I could find the comment.
Liquid N2 is common in industry. There are national and local companies with branches scattered all over the US that can supply liquid N2 to anyone equipped to handle it. Since doctors use N2 (to freeze warts) they know how to deliver medial grade N2 (if there is such a thing). Those suppliers will work with their normal customers to ensure medical use gets what they need (if arranged in advance they can produce less in exchange for a vaccine for their employees which ultimately means better profits)

That is N2 isn't a supply problem. However there are other logistical problems. Most industry uses of N2 are in very large quantities and so the ability to fill a millions of vial sized containers of N2 might not exist even though more than enough N2 exists.
And so if Microsoft. https://pastebin.com/PMQwd8Q0
I worked on a large Rails monolith a few years back with a similarly-sized team and we took the "components+engines" approach too.... and it was a bit of a nightmare, honestly. It sort of felt like the worst of both worlds, relative to monoliths or microservices.

I strongly suspect, but cannot prove, that we would have been better off simply transitioning to "macroservices" -- breaking the monolith up into several (as opposed to dozens) of reasonably sized pieces.

• We were encouraged to componitize everything. When I left, we were up to a few dozen components, and the number was climbing rapidly. I'm not sure if the approach itself was the problem, or if the flux during the transition period was the real pain point.

• We had no real enforcement of interfaces between components. It was so easy to break things in other peoples' components.

• Theoretically that breakage would be caught by tests. But to catch that breakage, you needed to run the complete test suite (30-60 minutes) rather than simply testing your own component

• Essentially, it felt like we were suffering all the disadvantages of microservices, with the exception of coordinating deployments; from a devops perspective it was still just a single monolithic deployment

• We still had many of the problems associated with monoliths, such as slow deployments, long test suite times, and extremely high per-instance RAM usage

• Various small tooling and debugging issues related to using Rails but going too far "off the Rails"

I'm looking forward to digging into the linked article and learning how Shopify solved those issues. They seem to have quite a bit of engineering firepower at their disposal. Our management did not allow us to dedicate a lot of resources to internal engineering concerns like this.

(We essentially had one guy figuring it all out himself, and due to internal politics he was forbidden from considering a microservices or "macro services / multiple monoliths" approach. He was talented and did the best he could, considering)
Curious how you think it's possible for FB to prevent the spread of disinformation? Everyone likes to pretend like Facebook has the ability to just stop disinformation, when in reality, even defining "disinformation" is basically impossible. Sure, you can bring up examples of blatant lies, but most of the effective disinformation is a lot more subtle and depends on what side of the issues you are on.
We should indeed. I unfortunately don't know enough at Facebook well enough to have those conversations in person often, so internet will have to suffice.

It's unfortunately very much in the interest of Facebook's leadership team to discourage it, however, as a clock in clock out, see and hear no evil labor culture is good for the leaders' personal wealth, so ethics be damned, number go up.
Rural people love their subsidies. We should encourage people to live in denser areas, not all cities, but towns. How many rural people do you think are involve in food production? It's only around 10%.
Privateer Elon Musk launches budget rocket, Falcon-1, from Omelek Island (2007)
It is a bit strange to critique "ideologies" while advocating for a fad diet, no?
yes, as a resident, i can't tell you how frustrated i am with the inanity of it all. so much talk and bluster, so much performance, so much (lower- and middle-class) socioeconomic damage, yet so little effectiveness.
Appreciate it! I can personally state for the record we don't do what is alleged. I also seriously doubt GoDaddy does it.
I'm tempted to say "so what?"

Here's a specific example. In a previous job I had to work with Tensorflow models of various vintages that depended on different versions of CUDA.

Conda (out of the box) did nothing to help with that problem. I think an early version of Conda might have installed one early version of CUDA, but the elephant in the room as that I would need to install as many versions of CUDA as necessary.

NVIDIA uses a lot of intimidation to fool people as to the nature of the drivers. Specifically, CUDA/CuDNN and such don't depend on kernel drivers or Windows installers, but just require that some huge directories full of userspace libraries be on your path. Thus you can have CUDA version A linked into one conda environment, and CUDA version B linked into another conda environment and it all worked.

That is, it worked when I made my own conda packages (conda wasn't allowed to distribute such package by NVIDIA) and it was astonishingly slow because conda stores packages in BZIP2 files that take forever to unpack and because conda wastes more time with it's symlink machine.

In the end it was possible to solve the problem w/ conda but if I hadn't been distracted by conda I probably would have solved it just as quickly by unpacking the userspace drivers once and just setting the path appropriately.
It's not about logs, it's about defense layers.
Constructive criticism: Trying to read the code examples on a phone in portrait mode is hard because the marketing phrases at the top sometimes cause the text to jump up or down a line.
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Where there is forest there is rain. Where there is rain there are clouds. Where there are clouds there is less sun. Any large scale Oil replacing energy production with solar will be more efficient in places where there is no forest or crop production. Hence the threat for the forest due to solar is not that high. Also where human settle there is no forest afterwards but there are roofs, where they can put PV on. By the way there is a dicusion to make that mandatory.
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Permits are often time-consuming to get and can be expensive. If you go shopping on price, you will likely find contractors who believe the best thing they can do for you is to avoid the time and expense. After all "I'm going to build it to code anyway."

Having done a lot of work on two houses now, I don't shop on price, and my contractor always gets permits and does inspections.
A problem inherent in renewables is they depend on climate. Doesn't make for reliable or predictable power output. Climatic conditions could suddenly change and wipe out part of your energy capacity. Happened in my country and we ended up with expensive, rationed power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Brazil#T...

It's useful to have an alternative that allows burning fuel in order to generate energy, just in case renewables fail. Nuclear energy is the best in this category.
> You'd have to remove groups, pages, public profiles, and sharing

Or they could just not show posts to groups you're not in and from pages and public profiles you don't follow! Allowing something to interject into your newsfeed should be opt-in, but right now it isn't even opt-out, except for not logging on at all. It would also be cool if there were a way to opt-out from seeing shared posts selectively for people on your friends list, e.g. I want to see things that Overly Political Relative posts themselves, but not things that they share from other places.

That being said, I deactivated my Facebook account a couple years ago, so I'm no longer a user whose opinion they should theoretically care about anymore.
Thanks. I went through all of the learn.adacore.com stuff, but it was like 18 months ago.
I think the key difference here is that there is no network in between components in a componentized monolith, each component runs the entire “monorepo”
Same here. Been on Namecheap for as long as I can remember with quite a few domains.
I was never diagnosed, but I was a very slow reader in first grade and my daughter was exactly the same. The problem is that we read 3 words at a time when most people only read 1 word at a time. It takes longer to get good at but once you do you are a faster reader.
> I’m sure they could develop a classifier that would catch most (~90%) of political content, and make it opt-in - if people want to see it they can, but it could be hidden by default. This would be my preferred approach, so that I can use it for connecting with people but avoid listening to everyone’s political outrage.

Eh, I don't really like that idea. For one, it only really addresses the problem of being exposed to content you find unenjoyable.

Honestly, sometimes I do wonder if consumer-level broadcast technology is the psychic equivalent of doing something like letting everyone fly planes without any training. It might be better to adopt communication technologies with a little more friction.
What the heck does this even mean. This flavor of complaint would make more sense if you were criticizing Mozilla having too many services.
LinkedIn's sales pitch is basically a connected professional network of people that interact with each other, topics. and companies a lot.

Their second strong point is the fact that they have valuable data hidden in their social graph.

Automating a browser to unfollow companies basically undermines both of their valuable assets, so they are not interested in making this process seamless.

Good thing they are hit with lawsuits that make it a precedent to allow them to be scraped.
> It's trivial to replace the stack usage with a data structure.

Interesting. Do you have any examples of that, reading the article actually had me thinking how that would be achieved.
Social issues are definetly not, every single country in Europe would cringe on Californian liberals and think they were high on something. Don't agree with that what so all.
Budget constraints were why not, I suspect. It sounds like the house value never exceeded $150K, so adding at least $10K to excavate, membrane, and refill/recover probably exceeded available cash-in-hand.

What's more, removing tons of fill dirt above a finished space is likely to be a delicate enterprise without over-stressing or penetrating the concrete domes which were already weakened due to cracking and past patching.
Things I wish I knew at the beginning, after 11 years of coding
I honestly don't understand this either...

Youtube knows exactly which videos I've watched and which I haven't.

Why does it think it's a good idea to ever recommend videos that I've already watched?
Usually if someone is using your property for crime, you have an obligation to stop it.

Don't know if it applies in this particular case though. Clearly the government didn't think so.
That's good advice. If you want a domain, spend the $15 and get it. I can personally guarantee Hover doesn't do anything with domain search data (I'm the PM so I would know :P). GoDaddy likely doesn't either and it was probably a coincidence that it was registered around the same time.
Maybe this will strenghten Open Source Software
Feeling somewhat validated in my choice to upgrade to a discounted phone from 2019 rather than spring for a newer phone with 5G support. I just had a feeling 5G was going to be something I would certainly eventually want to have, but wouldn't make a huge practical difference in the short-term (the next couple of years).
You overestimate people.
> the 300M € von der Leyen supposedly embazzled look pathetic to the budgets these companies dump on consultants each year

Are you saying that Blue Chip to Mid Cap Stock Index companies regularly spend > 1B on consulting?
Snowflake employees who didnt plan stock options left lots of money on the table
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