skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could reduce the IFR worldwide with a coordinated effort to test vitamin D levels, give supplements to those who need them, and administer a bolus to those in the early stage of the disease. While it's not a cure or substitute for other pandemic control measures, multiple peer-reviewed studies have now shown that vitamin D can significantly reduce risk. This is a cheap and effective intervention that could be applied almost everywhere. The WHO should be making that happen.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
it's an a57 on the x1 (an architecture from 2012, but a big core), so this coral mini's a35 (new but quite small) very significantly below.

the attraction of coral is supposed to be the inference engine. 4 TOps/s at 2 watts is... impressive. Jetson takes 10 or 15 watts & tops out a little under 0.5 TOp/s. those are much more flexible gpu cores but that's 60x efficiency gain & centered around a chip that is much easier to integrate into consumer products.
>new startup where I'm not any happier

The post reads like you left for one reason (fear if complacency) but your unhappiness is rooted in something completely different (financials).

Both may still be wrong way to get happy, but it’s hard to expect a job to provide that if you aren’t consistent about what you should be shooting to improve
It’s not so clear. Tourists are free people, and it might make sense to count them if we are trying to allocate resources to serve all free people (which tourists are).

If you don’t count tourists, why would you count migrants who are supposedly going back to their home country? Maybe tourists who are here for 6 months would be analogous.
I think mission statements ought to go away entirely, anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/jobs/23mgmt.html
Switch jobs every 6 months to 2 years, and some people will label you a job hopper. Last more than that, and some people will think you are too comfortable for your own good.

I think you are better off accepting you can't make everyone happy and that, no matter what you do, someone won't like you for some random reason. Just trust your gut as long as you are making a decent living.
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Once you are able to differentiate between a job, a career and a vocation you are set for life. You will either agree with the article or laugh your head of depending on the stage you think you are in.

That article does resonate with me to a certain extent since I am one of those persons who has stayed too long , but if you love what you are going, have found your calling and are growing professionally and financially I guess its not a bad thing. But yes, please do evaluate your contribution and once in a while jump out of your comfort zone.
that this article is just about staying competitive.

Moral of my story (and this article), is stay competitive, you don’t have to crush it, but don’t lean back too far either.

There are a large number of people, including smart and successful and accomplished people, who work to live, not live to work.

For the people who live to work (myself included), it's a good reminder to stay competitive and avoid complacency. But you have to understand yourself and what you're looking for. And that's what I think the real moral of the story is: understand what you want, what makes you happy, and what gives you meaning and purpose. Then make sure you're working towards that. Too many people forget to do the first thing and skip straight to the second because they inherit the answer from their environment without questioning it.

For lots of people the answer to that question is not career related.
1) long covid is still being studied, obviously, but there are many cases of it - https://bgr.com/2020/08/21/coronavirus-symptoms-long-covid-s...

It’s a disease that attacks your organs, there’s going to be damage.
The sails are 260 feet tall, they say they measured the winds at that height on previous crossings, maybe the winds up there give them some advantage, maybe a more direct route? Just guessing.

Another thought is they can use the engine and the sails at the same time, possibly avoid long tacks but still getting fuel savings. I used to have a small sailboat with an inboard electric motor. You can do neat things with both available, the electric motor needs no warmup or startup and I could add a little push here or there if needed, or use both together.
I've never encountered this.
GIMP used to have something similar, where the input boxes also contain two sliders: sliding on the top half would change the value around its current point, allowing for fine tuning, while clicking on the bottom half would set it immediately to that absolute value, so click in the middle = set it to 50% of the max. [1] has screenshots if I'm not making sense.

It was a bit confusing and seems to be gone, they now use ctrl/shift modifiers instead of separating the area, which is arguably less awkward but also way less discoverable.

[1]: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-tip-Gimp-2-10-18-brush-too...
Please don't do this.

Editing your comment to no longer acknowledge that it is just a summary of your blog post or that the blog post was written by you does not help.
Yes. Again, counting citizens does not also preclude counting free persons. We already gather data on peoples race and religion, proving that we can gather more data than just headcount, and citizenship information has already been gathered between 1950 and 2000.
Bunker fuel should be taxed at at rate that makes its use prohibitive.
Depends on the social security network, doesn't it?
120k at Apple? I know you say remote - are you US based?
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American, and agree.

It should also include the average amount of tourists (steady state) so that the presence of more people in an area get sufficient resources (to serve citizens and non-citizens alike).
She definitely drinks it in the Russian translations I have read....
But the value of "staying competitive" is to better earn money and status. It's less greedy than maximizing money/status, but it's on the same line of pursuit.

The parent's point is that there are more aspects in life than work that you can improve on (eating healthier would be one of them). And as long as your work can sustain your life, you are free to choose to work on something else.

Of course, you can choose to focus even more on working, too, if you please.
> The move may disappoint campaigners who called for ministers to go further and ban the use of hands-free functions while driving.

That may have prevented mobiles from being used as sat navs.

Road safety is important, but care must be taken no to go over the top.
If mission is what is a primary driver, you don’t have to work for a for-profit company. There are many opportunities in government, NGOs, not-for-profits etc.
Ahh. I remember. I always get fascinated first, but when I see 2 3 4 + * meaning (2+3)*4 my eyes glaze over.
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Wasn't there a thread recently about Glassdoor hiding negative reviews if companies pay up for advertising.
> Can we challenge the assumption we need as many cars delivered in the future as we do now?

Personal transportation is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. We should leverage technology to ensure that the cars that people need become ever more clean,
environmentally sustainable, and affordable.
In the future daily low-cost high-resolution images of the country could give a real-time accurate headcount.

Is that being discussed? Would be a good way to get away from the 10 year lag data and have real time information to make policy choices.
You can. Especially from those already paying up for medium and don’t have the paywall. That’s the audience you use medium to reach.

A good part of the potential audience does read the article and does not hate medium. Otherwise, their business would have crashed and burned long ago. This is market validation.

This is the blind spot people are talking about. That’s why market validation with minimal effort pays off so much. Stop just assuming, start testing your assumptions.
Oh, there were market pressures, of a sort. The top writers and poets doing the translation were doing that because they were unable to get their own work published, due to not being considered ideologically aligned enough with the government. And they needed to live somehow, and avoid being jailed for not having a job.
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I hear this a lot and each time it just reminds me of "Ow you didn't invite to the party? Thats ok I didn't want to go anyway :("
> birds are smarter than you think until you spend time observing them

People, too.
Agreed! It seems like there's a lot of power in having "one to beat". As in, let's get some model up before we worry about one that needs daily updates.
riffing off the 60's light show, sorry. The Lucy in the Sky part of Yellow Submarine is no longer up on Youtube, and I was too lazy to search out the old analogue days.

You wouldn't believe the frame rates they had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3ezT1cvAM&t=30
Cool, but in my opinion, not nearly as impressive as they're making it out to be. It uses eye tracking to give a single person a unique 3d point of view. That's nice for 1 person (and it's quite old tech).

Looking Glass is far more impressive and revolutionary in this area[0], as it's not limited by a single person's view.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pZlI2WM_Q
If I may offer advice - the math is against you, a $150k home loan over 30 years (+tax, insurance) is usually well over $300k at the end of the road. If you can (a) ensure your loan has a "all extra payments to principal, not interest" loan and (b) overpay every single month as much as you can, even shaving 10 years off that time frame will net you a lot back in your pocket to invest and make money on it. Even an extra $100/mo if that's all you can manage - pay down that principal as fast as you can to reduce the interest owed on that principal.
That would be a fun experiment! Not even on racial bias, but heck, self identification or as you said, attractiveness. I wonder if you could hide away their voice too. Voices definitely are attractive or not to many peoples' ears.
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The NIH did not run this study. The submitted link is just the article (from the Nature Community journal) being hosted by the NIH's library.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/intro/
Ubuntu has done both good and bad for the linux name
This is why my Beagleboard is gathering dust. The proprietary GPU drivers only worked with particular kernels that were usually out of date. Steer clear of PowerVR would be my advice.
I'm not demonizing lockdowns. They have a use, for sure, and they save lives. I just mean, they have their own downsides too, and we should use new data to evaluate how we implement them.

It is now clear societies cannot really afford full, long-term, unconditional lockdowns. We have to pick and choose what we do, stratifying by age/health conditions seems a good way about it to me.
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I hate the use of SBC for Single Board Computer. First, the acronym is already in wide use for Session Border Controllers. Second, most PCs are single board computers (just a motherboard), so the name is meaningless.
There is actually some standards here at least. 01/02/03 has one order, 01-02-03 another. The character between tells you how to read them. Not that most people know how though...
They are analog signals right, rather than digital signatures. I think the author has conflated GPS receivers with smartphones that use them.
Eh, sometimes the signatures fail to validate because mail clients do non-substantive modifications (spacing, etc.). We went through that before, too. You're right that one should always validate it themselves and I should've said that I don't think many journalists know how to work it, because honestly, I haven't seen anyone but Wikileaks actually do that validation, ever.

> With all respect: you clearly seem inclined to believe this nonsense about the emails with only the barest of evidence.

I haven't said anything about the email content, though. I investigated a photo of Hunter sleeping with a meth pipe using hackerfactor.com's tools to look for manipulation and did not find any. That doesn't mean they're real, but it gives them some level of credence, given that there are old reports about his rental car substantiated by police reports.

You're right that it doesn't validate the email content. I plan to withhold judgement until we have more data, but it looks like they do have some files of his.

It doesn't help that the last time we went through this sort of thing, there were spurious claims of manipulated documents which were actively disproved and some of the denials I've read parse very narrowly, which isn't right.
Oh yes. I'm going through exactly that with Jira right now. Not that I'm at all a fan of the thing, but when you look at what's there, you get at least a sense of how Atlassian thought it should be used.

Enter some individuals who think that they know better and have determination to force that Jira-shaped peg through their round hole, even if they have to use a jackhammer to do so. The result is the worst possible outcome, and every user gets to pay each day for it. m(
> We all have seen the images of hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, not having enough breathers, etc. For some reason this doesn't happen with the typical annual influenza

Are you sure about that? it's probably not the same extent as what has happened with covid-19, but some hospitals do get overwhelmed during flu season.

A quick google search pre-2019 returns a lot of results, for instance:

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
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As a DBA at a company supporting call center operations and finance I get paged out because database replication is down to our west coast datacenter and a bunch of our branches cannot connect to systems.

Get on the phone with the carrier, and the engineer says “oh”, and transfers me. Turns out we didn’t pay our telco bills.

Made sure my paycheck cleared and gtf out. Which turned out to be an overreaction that cost me some $, but I ended up at a better gig.
I am 20 and my experience slightly mirrors yours -- it was all about wanting to do something, so I went to learn it. However, I got into the internet much, much earlier than my peers. I was regularly on the internet when I was 7-8 (2007-2008), so I did see some of the old internet. My first time on the internet was when I was 6, but I didn't really use it much at that time and I am not sure if I understood anything about it at that time.

My passion for computer hardware (and to a lesser extent software) comes purely from my childhood, I'd say. It had a great effect, and actually led me to many paths I wouldn't have taken otherwise. Also, I gained non-tech skills as well, like my handling of the English language, for instance.

I can't answer your question, since I have had quite a different experience, but the reason my acquaintances are picking up tech skills is because it's the future and it's where the money is, or because their parents told them to. This is really unfortunate because they don't actually bother picking up any tech skills at all unless they absolutely need it (which is very rare in 2020 due to how everything is so convenient / available). However, I am from a poor country, so I am not the best person to answer this.

Personally, I prefer the old internet. Not only due to what I mentioned, but also because the current internet is just full of messed up things like the current state of social media (really, HN is the only one I tolerate) and how rooted it has become, or how people in general became more afraid of expressing themselves on the internet, and so much more.
1. Wanting to remove the fence is a statement of "this fence does more harm than good" and if you say "there never was any reason for this fence to be built" it's very strong evidence that you did not spend sufficient time investigating the fence's benefits. Chesterton doesn't care about the protecting the fence, he cares that the person who wants to remove the fence thinks it through all the way first.

2. It's not hard to come up with reasons for slavery and racism to exist; that's all you need to do to satisfy Chesterton. I'll even go a step further and say that for societal issues if you don't have at least a basic understanding of the forces that caused them to exist (and cause them to continue to exist), then you will probably fail to change them anyways.

3. Fences take time to build. It's very rare that you get eccentric people putting fences up randomly (rare enough that discovering that to be the cause of a fence should be pretty easy because it would be so notable!)

4. Because of all of the above, I'm going to say that it's not really the difference between a conservative and a liberal, but it is part of the reason why younger people tend to be more liberal and older people tend to be more conservative. Understanding the lesson of unintended consequences puts pressure on the "conservative" side of the scale, and it can be an excuse for conservatism. However, Chesterton's fence is an important engineering principle that should be taken into account when making policy regardless of your political leanings.
you can still play the original Starcraft for free on BattleNet. If that’s still going I don’t see why Starcraft 2 should be of any concern in the foreseeable future.
It does. This is part of what I mean: if say 70% of the country can go about its business as normal, this frees a lot of resources for the state to help the remaining 30%. Stable-ish economies can foot the bill for this as well.

Simply caching away the unfit is not what I meant.
(1) So can the flu but we move along hunkey dorie.
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> Is this worth it?

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But if you keep replacing links of the supply chain with green alternatives, then it must eventually reach a point where you come out ahead. Eventually the energy for building ships will come from renewable sources.

Trying to tackle everything at once on the other hand may lead to paralysis.
What's interesting about this is that the tech has been proven dating back all the way to 2007 [1] and also re-implemented by enthusiasts many times over the years with better eye tracking via CV. What Sony has done here is refine it and package it in a way that's nice for end users.

Personally, I'd like to see this implemented more cheaply in larger displays to act as virtual windows for indoor environments, like [2] from 2010, but with 3D video/rendering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

[2] https://hackaday.com/2010/04/16/virtual-windows-that-track-a...
I didn't see the connection between the article and fascism. Maybe if mental health was a priority then individuals wouldn't be as susceptible to fascism or other control systems that prey on peoples' vulnerabilities and insecurities.
Given how much the issue of free speech comes up here on HN -- especially regarding Twitter, Facebook, and politics -- I think this is a really important article for people to read.

It's long, but is extremely nuanced and shows that the issue is far more complex than just "the solution to offensive speech is more speech".

One key takeaway is in the middle:

> [Free speech is] a fundamentally optimistic vision: Good ideas win. The better argument will prove persuasive. There’s a countertradition, however. It’s alert to the ways in which demagogic leaders or movements can use propaganda, an older term that can be synonymous with disinformation. A crude authoritarian censors free speech. A clever one invokes it to play a trick, twisting facts to turn a mob on a subordinated group and, in the end, silence as well as endanger its members. Looking back at the rise of fascism and the Holocaust in her 1951 book “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt focused on the use of propaganda to “make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism.”

> In other words, good ideas do not necessarily triumph in the marketplace of ideas. “Free speech threatens democracy as much as it also provides for its flourishing,” the philosopher Jason Stanley and the linguist David Beaver argue in their forthcoming book, “The Politics of Language.”

But most of all the article shows that the history of free speech in the US is not simple at all -- and that our current view of it is very different from the period of 1949-1987 when broadcasters were subject to the "fairness doctrine", which I think most people today aren't even aware of.
Getting rid of 4% of the total human CO2 emissions is huge. On top of that pollutants like fine particles.
Switching to mostly-sail powered shipping reduces all emissions of a ships engine by 90% in one big step, the remaining 10% are even easier to clean up, as scale matters.
At one point my .plan file was "To conquer the world with and Apple II and 300 bps modem." So yes, I'm sure.

Some more details, for those who are interested:

My personal site and a friend's poetry site were created on an Apple IIe. I don't recall how the site was transferred to the server, but I definitely had the capability of doing so directly via modem and a dial-up shell account.

The family cookbook was created in HyperCard on a Macintosh SE, and later an SE/30. Some additional code was added to generate HTML files, which were then uploaded to the server via FTP.

The academic sites were created using an HTML pre-processor, possibly on an iMac G3 running NetBSD (though I did have several vintage Macs running NetBSD at the time).

I made some interesting choices back then, including using a Mac IIci to access the Internet via a cable modem. But the choices were either spend my money on an interesting hobby or spend it save up for a boring new computer. Clearly, I choose the former and eventually ended up with the latter.
Simple Flutter app architecture: the Provider way
I been programming Java for around 10 years. I tried multiple times to switch to C++. But tooling is turn off. May be I am spoiled by Java.

What I want is easy build and dependency management system like maven.

I wish few professional C++ dev unite and build an open source tool like maven (assuming it will not take lot of time) which allow me to:

1. Create a project from skeleton project
2. compile
3. test
4. build/run
5. Key=value=version type system to download and auto build dependency.

That's it. :)

I tried building myself, but I think it is too much for a beginner project. I named the project 'goat'.