skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
N=1 in this study. No mention of race, vitamin D levels or BMI, all of which are very useful data to have in the context of Covid-19.

All viral respiratory infections have the potential to have some side effects to varying degrees but I can't help but feel that this letter will be used to support the concept of "long covid" on an unsuspecting public.

Yes, covid is terrible but it's a different strain of a coronavirus (of which 20% of common colds are too), it's not something mystical. There's a strong chance we have substantial cross immunity to it though T-Cells defence. The literature is saying that if you're under 48 the flu has a higher mortality rate. We've mostly passed through the gompertz curve of the virus mortality as described by initial research by Hope Simpson regarding the seasonality of influenza viruses.

We can't base national health policy on individual health outcomes.
Covid has been turned into a religion completely lacking any scientific rigour and I feel this paper will be used as a tool to add to the fear.
Sure, but I think it’s just as plausible that right now is simply a very anxiety inducing time for a lot of people.
Programming is a funny mix of deep pessimism and irrational optimism. After coding for a long time, you see two themes continuously and they train your behavior:

1. All kinds of things that you never considered go wrong all the time. This trains you to consider what could possibly go wrong in the long term deeper and ever deeper. I find this carries over into non-coding activities.

2. You are continuously faced with problems that seem completely unsolvable. And, you keep solving them day in and day out for decades. This trains you to be (perhaps rationally) optimistic about what can be done. Because every problem starts out devoid of clues and devoid of clear ways to get clues. No idea what's happening or even where to look. But, it always turns out to be something! It's never evil magic. You might be left with the mystery of "How did this ever work?" But, you solved it. You committed the 3-line patch that took 3 days to write. And, you'll move on to the next unsolvable problem right after lunch.
Yes. Droves of workers who got laid off and graduates who can't find a job. It's impossible to remain in the tech hubs without a job given how incredibly expensive the rent is. The average HN commenters at a comfortable FANG really don't grasp how bad the situation is for the rest of the people.
Does anyone else feel like releasing this report prior this close to the elections is a miscalculation on the part of Democrats?

Like it or not, these tech companies hold a lot of influence via lobbyists as well as their platforms themselves. I’m not saying they will actively try to get a candidate elected who is more friendly to their agendas. However, I don’t see them going out of their way to prevent others from doing it knowing what the future holds should there be an administration change.

I’d also be surprised if moderate voters actually give a crap about anti-trust issues, at least not enough to sway their vote one way or the other. If anything, it could have the opposite effect of turning off voters that see this as government overreach, since many moderates are fiscally conservative.

This post is out of curiosity and to hear the thoughts of others, so hopefully it isn’t taken the wrong way.
If thats the way to fix problems (I'm not convinced necessarily) thats fine. It's just not simple.
Why? Blizzard seems to have taken a game that many people grew up with and made it easier for casual players (some of those same people who grew up with it who now have jobs/kids/fuller life) to still be involved. I find it great that I can just click a button to find a raid group for the few hours I have a night to play. I can still experience the end game content without the time consuming grind to get the right gear and people to do it. Even if I still want to do that, I can with the heroic/mythic difficulties. Convenience has made the game way more accessible to way more people.
For years I couldn't recognize when I was starting to get frustrated and kept pushing until it was too much to bear.

What I've found works better for me is identifying when things are barely starting to get ugly and calm myself. I tell myself that this suffering is temporary and remind myself I've been able to solve pretty much any problem I've faced.
what location and what company (if you can share?) Most ranges I've seen around this parts are 80-120k and upwards of 140-150 for senior talent.
> There's only the niggling problem that the law probably doesn't provide a provable cause of action supporting said breaking up.

Well, I think we should change our anti-trust law to deal with platforms. I think it is pretty confident of you to say that a priori there is no legal reason you could break up these companies.

The top comment when I commented was this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24698720. You're right that the tenor of the top comments now has already shifted.
What do two developers who are DINK need 6 bedrooms for? Genuinely curious.
I agree with your conclusion.

However I think it’s a very serious fallacy to split surveillance into a ‘useful’ component and ‘side-effects’.

They aren’t side-effects. They are the effects.

Reduced crime may be a consequence of a surveillance society.

In such a society you may discover that discussing crime statistics in a negative light would reflect badly on the party bosses and must be done with caution.
> The domesticated quail raised for food feels safer when they are in a confined space.

So, give them a false sense of security? ;)
In my experience, there’s even something of an inverse correlation between vehicle ownership and wealth. If you’re able to own a reliable vehicle, you tend to only own one. If you’re limited to buy-here-pay-here lots and such, families tend to have three or four in various states of repair.
Not a doctor, but the treatment for "adverse effects resembling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" that was successful (N=1?) is surprising to me:

> Manual treatment was provided to aid central lymphatic drainage, improve mechanics and reduce the inflammation of the spine and reduce the allostatic load by improving the sympathetic tone.

> ... and the patient followed a self-massage routine to aid lymph drainage along with gentle exercises to improve thoracic spinal mobility.
MySQL has come a long long way indeed but not enough to make me turn away from Postgres.
I see heavy security with zero recourse by anyone to break it and anonymity is the top single problem with the Internet, not the lack of it.

We should all have to log on with our identification through a blanket "know your customer" law like they do to combat money laundering in banks, and our country of origin at least should be displayed. Other than that... You want encryption? Fine, but if your id links you to 4chan offshoots planning domestic terror attacks i should be able to report your address to the authorities and there should be social repercussions for bad behavior. And I need to know if you're Russian or from the US and that you're human before I engage in US politics with you.

Music got worse since Napster, Sean Parker was the guy who got Zuckerberg funded, Google is evil, and John Perry Barlow is dead.

Wake up.
For me, this is the attitude that there is always something wrong with the code, there are always errors, and it's a question of whether I've found enough errors so the program is sufficiently reliable.

But, I don't think this is the main skill in programming. Good programming is the iterative application of concision and honesty, tempered by the ability to interrupt overfocus so as to find the right balance between perfection and getting something done.
Why Hasn't Tesla Entered the Indian Market Yet?
Recently, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Tesla is coming to India next year.

But what is taking Tesla so long to enter India?

Here is a video by a friend of mine who tries to answer this very question.

Would love to know, what you guys think?
Why does a childless couple need six bedrooms? They must have a lot of guests coming to Minneapolis.
> I'm not aware of any theory which has convincingly been able to show that animals are not worthy of moral consideration (but all humans are)

To argue against eating animals, you need a moral theory which shows that animals are worthy of moral consideration.

There is none, that I'm aware of. Not in a strictly rational sense. Utilitarianism does not bridge the "is-ought gap," for instance.

(I actually think the "is-ought gap" is an imperfect way to look at it, but that's a simplified way for me to try to explain my objection to these kinds of theories, which may be understandable to people who have at least taken Philosophy 101).

Personally, I'm quite convinced that it's impossible to create a rationally justified moral theory that grants rights to animals.
New Password Protections (and More) in Chrome
Link to Digital Ocean's blog post announcing and describing this:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-a...
So if I understand correctly, DigitalOcean just built an inferior version of caprover? (for which a digital ocean one-click droplet exists BTW)

Caprover is essentially a really nice GUI for docker swarm, Let's encrypt and nginx.

https://caprover.com/
So if Apple pre-buys digital apps, and resells them with some markup and maybe a rebranding, then its ok?

I would expect this sort of just-in-time prebuy to have no noticeable effect on the market. They would just be predicting whats about to become popular, and buy copies of it, days, hours, minutes before it gets popular. Could they just have one in stock at a time, and constantly buy another as their stock runs out?
to each their own I suppose
I mean to say that offices are wonderful things when done right, but cities are broken.

A lot of great startups start out in garages, but frankly most of us can't afford a garage, and some even sleep in less space than that. If we could afford homes that have garages, that would likely beat working in some big city skyscraper.
That is a good point and I am working remotely in my current job until next year at least. I think my time and effort is best put into trying to get a job in the tech stack I know at the moment rather than trying to switch.
> How would you use type annotations to show that `square` accepts a matrix (as well as an int, float, rational number etc.)?

Semi-seriously: by specifying the input type is a Monoid.
I didn't see those stats until I had completed a full page (then it shows for the previous page).
Versus the highly spiritual experience of living in the pod, eating the bugs, paying the $4,500 every month to the landlord of the one bedroom, answering e-mails at 11:24 pm to be able to pay for it etc.
An interview with Russian internet entrepreneur Pavel Vrublevsky
I read that. It's full of the usual anti-Tesla cherrypicking, sarcastic one-liners, fumbling for clickbait headlines that zombie gawker Jalopnik has to use every day to eke out any engagement possible.

The comments section is full of astroturfers that also post on a half-dozen other sites with the exact same anti-Tesla comments.

There is a lot of exciting technology in Tesla, a sea change in the very industry jalopnik purported covers, obviously a lot of debate and nuance in self-driving. Jalopnik doesn't bother with any of that.

If I worked for Tesla I would have stopped replying 5 years ago to Jalopnik.

Elon Musk isn't Jesus, he isn't a saint, but you'd think he had perpetrated genocide reading Jalopnik and its commenters.
You are right that a lot of the symptoms can be attributed to other health issues around lockdown. I will say though, that I personally experienced a long period of weird fatigue just prior to lockdown. I’d had weird not quite flu symptoms that didn’t quite fit the covid symptom list at the time. But due to timing of dinner with someone who later tested positive for covid, I have reason to think I may have actually had covid.

The fatigue was really stange, like pushing my kids on the swing made me pause for strength. And chasing my kids for more than a few steps made me wheeze and gasp for breath.

The fatigue lasted at least a month. And was definitely different than the effects of anxiety that happened later. Especially since exercise tends to be invigorating for me in the face of anxiety.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t also lockdown related health problems conflating the issue, but I have personal reasons to think long covid is a thing, especially when looking at all the system the virus seems to ravage.
Not working at a tech company, but I live in the Des Moines area. I bet most people don't realize Des Moines is a finance and insurance hub, with Wells Fargo as the largest employer, Principal Financial headquartered here, and numerous other insurance companies.

The cost of living is quite low, and it's routinely ranked very highly on the "good places to live" lists that pop up periodically.
I'm confused as to why the US government would break up large tech now. Surely tech has reached the status of being a national interest, especially in relation to information and communication? What stops foreign firms from buying out large swaths of American tech after it has been broken up? TikTok shows how far foreign tech can penetrate the US market, and how nervous that makes the government.

I feel that the only reason the current Trump administration would want to break up tech giants, is so the remnants can be auctioned to the highest bidder. Maybe they are feeling emboldened by this TikTok/Oracle deal, as botched as it is.
Trade out jetskis for snowmobiles my friend
The problem comes when that plant is non-native and not in that region. Why is it growing so well? Is it because it's unavailable to the insects and micro-organisms in that region, and thus not contributing to the natural environment any better than lawn?

A platform for sharing anecdotes is still providing anecdotes. What we need is research.
"Just use k8s" isn't a solution as k8s is a complex beast.
I agree vehemently with your call to go work on this stuff.

What I don’t understand is why you seem to be suggesting that as an alternative to opposing legislation which would prohibit such work.
I guess that’s one benefit of the US’s terrible health system? There isn’t a single “system” so even if one doctor diagnoses you with something, a different doctor in a different office won’t have any idea about it unless you volunteer the information.
Y'know - a bit of a brain fart on my part, because I forgot we were discussing the midwest in particular and not low cost of living in general.

This was an offer in North Carolina for a testing role, but I'd rather not share the company without asking her.
Surprisingly the pandemic has had very little impact on IT dev jobs here in the Midwest.
We do plan to let you set min and max bounds for autoscaling once it is implemented.

This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about, but for money rather than computing resources or bandwidth. I'd like a feature that where the requirement is effectively "Fall back to a serving sorry-I'm-poor.html instead of the app if the total monthly bill has exceeded $xxx". For a side project I'm more interested in not paying an unexpected bill than getting traffic.
Breaking companies at a moment in history at which most of the worlds largest player are tightly coupled with their respective goverments agenda? It seems to me that someone here is still convinced that US can play by "free market" rules. Wrong. It could do it when it was effectively the only player in the world. I do not believe that innovation and flexibility can overcome sheer power in a world when everything can be freely emulated or bought out. Don't get me wrong - I would laugh to tears if Google would be broken up. Still I would wonder what will take this space.
Who said they needed 6 bedrooms?
There are tons of articles written on the benefits and evils caused by these companies. To claim that they have no drawbacks because they have been a net benefit overall is preposterous. Tobacco may be a net detriment, but they do provide jobs, and profits of course, everyone loves profits and stocks going up!

You 'll notice from the comments here that views on big tech have changed a lot and they are no longer placed in a pedestal as they used to be. Some commenters seem surprised by this, probably because they live in the SV bubble.
they each had home offices and they were "centrally" located for family gatherings. mostly they just wanted the location.
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They could have also sunk all of the equity into index funds, and done the digital nomad thing [1], using investment income to boost quality of life.

I believe the point is, don't waste income on servicing housing debt unnecessarily (efficient use of capital). If jet skis and McMansions are your thing, cool. If you'd rather party it up in Medellín, Columbia while living off of dividends, also cool.

[1] https://nomadlist.com/cost-of-living/in/
Hi! ShuttleOps allows you to create workflows for deploying to Kubernetes without writing YAML manifest files. In that way you could consider it a visual/gui for the terraform kubernetes provider, sure!
Thanks for this comparison.

I'm not sure how common symptomatic mono is, but I suspect it (along with some things like maybe pneumonia and bronchitis?) is a good reference point.

How was your bout with mono? I recall having tonsils so swollen I was afraid I'd have to go to the hospital for a few days, and then being perpetually exhausted for ~6-8 weeks.
I have heard of space becoming timelike, but have never heard of time becoming spacelike in a black hole. Do you have more information on that?
It's really nice and reactive. What stack did u use ? In particular for the hotkeys ?
Practical wireheading does not look achievable anytime near: https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_righ...

I'd say that meditation is the best version of wireheading currently known to humanity. I admit that due to obvious problems with measuring happiness, this hypothesis is hard to test.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8150-Birchfield-Dr-Indian...
>Most of the deals Facebook did to buy WhatsApp, Instagram and others where approved by the US government. But if those approvals can be reversed, why bother requiring them to begin with?

Most of those deals had pre-conditions and promises by Facebook. Facebook has ignored most of the obligations with basically a "what are you going to do about it" attitude.

For instance:

>The FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a letter to the two companies on Thursday, said WhatsApp must adhere to its current privacy practices after the merger, including a promise not to use WhatsApp users’ personal data for targeted ads.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-whatsapp/faceboo...

So they directly ignore that requirement and try to claim "well it's in the T&C!" which they KNOW users don't read. And even if they did, end-users accepting a T&C doesn't give you some magical power to ignore a government mandate.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/25/whatsapp-to-share-user-dat...
> at the moment I don’t know of any examples of physical stores having this problem even across a single capitalist nation.

Retailers bully wholesalers and manufacturers all the time when they represent a significant amount of total sales.

You always hear stories of "this was great until the bean counters told us we needed to shave 25c off the production costs and that killed its longevity." What you don't hear is that the bean counters were told by the sales managers that the retailer wouldn't list the product at $X because they didn't think their customers would pay more than $Y, and $Y would make the project unprofitable. And the retailer does 50% of our sales in the US, so we can't tell them to screw off!

One solution to all these problems is to enshrine direct-to-consumer sales in law, for digital and physical goods.
And weather where you can enjoy the outdoors more than 3 months a year.
Given that you're involved in a discussion regarding Facebook's connections to the Rohingya genocide elsewhere in this thread, it's hard not to conclude that your demand for sources connecting Facebook to politically-motivated violence is disingenuous.

It's a matter of opinion whether Facebook is responsible in any way for that genocide, but it's a matter of record that Facebook did very little to prevent its platform from being used to organize it.

As for 'sources' for the outcome I expect from any anti-trust enforcement, it's really not appropriate to demand an a cited essay/publishable work reviewing the past fifty years of antitrust law and practice combined with a detailed analysis of the GOP platform and the established views of Trump's USSC justices. That kind of analysis takes a lot of time and isn't usually done for free.
"There are obviously still people arranging test-drive promotions for YouTubers but their role isn’t in a traditional public relations capacity. "

That's absolutely traditional PR for an automaker. "Arranging test-drive promotions" means deciding who is eligible for test drives, viewing what is published on YouTube, and deciding if the person will be eligible next time. Even if no words are spoken/written to the YouTubers beyond logistics for the test drive, it is effectively PR.

It's telling they are keeping the most lucrative PR, video product promotion. It sounds like they mainly don't like dealing with the business press. But their investor relations department is going to end up picking up at least some that burden (even if just in the form of ignoring questions). Tesla still has to disclose quarterly earnings figures and its executives will still conduct calls around those earnings releases. They may only allow questions from financial analysts but any member of the public can listen in.
So, mysql is preserving backwards compatibility? Good. A flag to break this backwards compatibility and offer a larger range is probably warranted, but until that's implemented this behavior is fine.

"I think this is stupid" is a really poor reason to break backwards compatibility, despite how many other software projects use this reasoning.

But of course, MySQL bad, PostgreSQL good.
> I'm not denying the plausibility that it was simply a mistake with a highly contagious virus being studied in their Wuhan lab

There are two labs in Wuhan. The institute of virology, and the wuhan CDC. The institute of virology is 12 km from where the virus started spreading. The CDC lab -which does not study viruses- was the one at the center of the spread.

The amount of bullshit associated with the origins of the virus is embarrassing. It would be one thing if it was planted propaganda- there are obvious lies and embellishments, but the sheer number of mistranslations, misunderstandings, and hilariously implausible theories taken as fact is insane. Potholer54 did a rather methodical takedown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-r0capbzk
I believe it is fair to break up these companies. However, how do we expect them to compete internationally against state sponsored monopolies such as those coming from China a decade from now?
This is a good summary
Minneapolis would have significantly different opportunities, experiences, and communities than Boston. I’m not sure I’d declare one over the other. In this example having the opportunity to spend a lot of time on or by the lake would be highly desirable, not directly consumerist, and more available in Minneapolis than Boston.
The scale of the problem - at least in some states - makes eradication impossible. Feral hogs have a gestation period of only 115 days and reach sexual maturity in just 6 months. Texas has 4 million feral pigs. They need to kill 75 percent a year just to keep the population stabile. Texas already has 24/7, 365 open hunting (with dogs, traps, helicopters, etc) and it is not adequate.
"Take him to Detroit"!!