skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm less than a decade older than you (younger than 35!) and was intentionally exposed to chickenpox as a child at the advice of my pediatrician in the Seattle area. And I've had shingles in my 20s as well, so I'm certainly pro-vaccine.

There may have been a vaccine 35 years ago (I'll take your word for it), but it was not the standard of care even ~25 years ago.

(And to be clear, I'm not advocating for exposing people to COVID, at all. You asked a very broad question upthread with an easy counter-example — chickenpox — and I provided the counterexample.)
Being in the middle of an acquisition is a form of limbo. Nobody wants to start anything new, partly because of management uncertainty and partly because it could change the valuation. It consumes all the time of top management, and nobody is minding the store. So you don't want to spend too many months stuck in that state.

(I know a company that's in that position right now, and there's no visible planning for 2021.)
I've read through the transcript of a court case in Australia where the defendant lost 50k for some really borderline comments. Specifically, a vet was "grumpy", and charged 3x markup for some medication, which apparently was true but hand waved away in the hearing with the excuse around delivery and overheads.

https://fclawyers.com.au/checking-facts-before-you-write-rev...
Cannot recommend it enough. Cross platform, Running it since 7 years, never had a problem. Managing about 250GB in different folders in different configurations.
> I'm kinda amused, I don't think you know what the word hack means when referring to a person.

A person pushing a point of view even when you know it's intellectually dishonest. Much like a political hack working a campaign.
> “prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization”

If this is their policy, they're going to have to get rid of a very large number of reaction gifs. The first instance of any particular one might be able to make a fair use argument, but every reuse is straight up copyright violation, which is very specifically use without authorization.

Additionally, I wonder if security researchers are going to be able to tweet about the vulnerabilities they discover. Most software has EULAs that specifically exclude reverse engineering. For example, Apple's iOS 12 EULA says:

>You may not, and you agree not to or enable others to, copy (except as expressly permitted by this License), decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, decrypt, modify, or create derivative works of the iOS Software or any services provided by the iOS Software or any part thereof (except as and only to the extent any foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law or by licensing terms governing use of open-source components that may be included with the iOS Software).
Wear a mask and stay 6 feet away.
> in Itanium's case at least partially because it was hard to write compilers good enough to exploit its VLIW design

This is half true. The other half is that OOO execution does all the pipelining a "good enough" compiler would do, except that dynamically at runtime, benefiting from just in time profiling information. Way back in the day OOO was considered too expensive, nowadays everybody uses it.
I agree with your diagnosis, but perhaps not your treatment plan. You seem to think that making the social networks’ business model illegal would not be a violation of free speech, but that the social networks limiting distribution of misinformation would be a violation of free speech. Am I interpreting you correctly?
A few years later (1995 or 96 ?) I build my first ethernet network at home using 10base2 with a TV coaxial cable. Works enough well to play DooM with my brother.
> PowerQuery is already widely distributed and available to anyone with Excel installed

Looks like you need to install it separately as a module, it's not included with base Excel. So every user needs to download it, and have admin rights to install it. That makes it a non-starter in many of the corporate use-cases.
there's no visible planning for 2021

I have this impression as well, detaching a bit and looking at 'everything' (or as much as my perch will allow).

To say it's frustrating would be an understatement; I considered applying to a role and effectively taking a demotion and being an IC again. Which, if it says anything--is something my last two predecessors did as well.

Otherwise you've hit every nail on the head and quite well summed up my feeling of 'limbo'.
the name has leaked. It's Craig Shapiro from Collaborative Fund and Craig has replied on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/cshapiro/status/1317212694529802242
The laser lab in my university had a big warning sign on the wall that said "Warning: Do not look into laser with remaining eye"
Does the liquid keep moving eternally even if you aren't interacting with it? Where does that energy come from to keep parts of it rotating like that?
Why is the capitalization different (wrong) here than on the source?
IMO 2020:

> The global sulphur limit (outside SECA’s [SOx Emission Control Areas]) dropped from an allowed 3.5% sulphur in marine fuels to 0.5%.

> Over 170 countries have signed on to the changes, including the United States [https://www.imo.org/en/About/Membership/Pages/MemberStates.a...]
What we sign up for is the burden and responsibility to educate ourselves and thoroughly, skeptically vet information ourselves. Interestingly, we have this burden anyway regardless, and censoring information only increases that burden and makes it more difficult to verify information.
Tonal here is very different. The tone in Chinese is a completely different word. Multiple words have the same tone and thus pronunciation with different meaning (and character). Tone usage on one word would not change the interpretation.

There are cases where this is kind of like English, in the case of buy/sell 买/卖, but still quite different
the end game of alt.pave.the.earth is nigh!
I'm not sure about the other EU countries, but in France at least, the law actually requires a dealership (and any other seller) to sell a vehicle/product/service to any private customer. You either sell your product to anyone or you don't sell it at all, except in rare cases where the law specifically prohibits it e.g. alcohol to minors or, like in the case above, where the customer acts in bad faith.
>Like the allegations of Russian collusion?

Well no, I was think of Nazism, the Armenian genocide, the genocide in Myanmar (often attributed to Facebook), the treatment of Uyghurs in China, etc.

>>widespread disbelief in the legitimacy of modern science and medicine

>Like Kamala Harris saying not to take a vaccine if Trump recommends it?

Oh.. I see, you're making this a partisan thing, just taking jabs at the Democrats.

Sorry, I was hoping to have a serious conversation, moving on now.
Mill promoted free speech realistically as better than the alternative, is how I'd put it. Here's where he made his case; it's not too long to read: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
In order to determine impartiality you have to use your brain to think through what the themes of every article coming from the paper are. An impartial source of news will be critical of both sides, a biased source of news is only critical of one.

Bias doesn't necessarily make the news wrong but it does mean the news is framed in a way to benefit one particular group or another.
Why on earth did you spend 3 MONTHS configuring webpack? Could you not have forked an existing project that achieved similar to what you needed?

Same with authentication to be honest ...

I would be curious to know more about what was required of your webpack configuration that justifies this timeframe.
The flu also affects older people more. If you compare flu IFR to COVID by the same age group, covid is more dangerous across all age groups.

(I did the math myself using CDC estimates for both the flu and covid and assuming a 50% asymptomatic rate for the flu.)
This was presented at a TED talk 10 years ago (2010)

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_z...

What's different now?
No. Not even a little. You cannot highlight your baseless premise and make it more true.

Free speech means and has always meant "to say whatever you want and for whatever reason."
This is what happens when your data structures declare year zero like pol pot. Unfortunately if we wanted to be scientific we'd probably need something like 3000 bit timestamps to do planck time until heat death of the universe. XFS could have lasted the better part of the stelliferous era if they had chosen struct timespec, but even that has the problematic nanosecond granularity limitation. It's not the stone age and seconds have a very clear definition these days in terms of the number of hyperfine transitions of caesium, so I would have hoped new data structures would at least choose that.
This is what I heard several seasoned C++ veterans claim and so far I didn't have a reason to doubt them.

As already stated, I'm not a fan, but apparently a lot of people out there manage just fine with C++ and claim that it's actually easy and possible to attain complete control.

I'd imagine that could be somewhat true if you invest decades in that language.
> Until time has passed, we won't know, but at this point neither northern Italy nor any other region that had early waves of Covid-19 have reported any such problem in even 1% of cases

Did they actually do any monitoring and reporting? There is aplenty of people around with long Covid, I know personally one guy, who was actually diagnosed with myocarditis he never had before.

> We haven't in fact seen anything that suggests a widespread problem in people who recover from covid-19, and given past results with SARS, MERS,

Actually lots and lots SARS survivors did develop long-term problems. Besides, experiments on animals show, both SARS-1 and MERS caused very severe Antigen-dependent enhancement, which made the attempt to produce a vaccine futile. Not many viruses are capable of doing this, mostly flavivuruses and betacoronaviruses.
I didn't say Ioannidis denied germ theory. What I implied was that he seems to put findings based on germ theory in the same category as the often/generally false/debatable findings of experimental psychology. Then he publishes findings based on completely selective uses of data, apparently with the attitude "nothing is true, I'll take the truth I like".
Doesn't sound so bad. The consequences for past government secrets have been pretty dire. Some really atrocious stuff happens when no one's looking, Abu Ghraib for example. Observation is an important part of keeping the government in line. One of the reasons the recent whale jail incident went over so smoothly was because multiple individuals connected to the global media were on-site observing the situation and reporting to the whole of Russia as well as the international community. Had those observers been absent, the behavior of the national administration as well as the local government in Primorsky would have been different.

Broadcast through PEG access channels such as C-SPAN lowers barriers to observation.
Only if the specification is concise enough to fit in/on the object. If you're 3d printing a sphere or another shape that can easily be parameterized, great; if you're 3d printing a model of a brain I expect you'll have a hard time.
An echo chamber is not a conspiracy. It's just an echo chamber.
If you're a developer, a database is just a database.

If you're a corporate DBA, they are each worlds apart.

MySQL is a perfect match for most SaaS applications that deal with compliance. Postgres is simply not.

The main issues with managing Postgres today are grant inheritance, and also the lack of COPY FROM/TO grants. I shouldn't have to update grants for non-admin or readonly users after adding new objects, and there needs to be the equivalent of MySQL's FILE grant for Postgres' COPY FROM/TO.

OTOH, it is easy to reason about MySQL grants, and almost pain-free to update them in production.

If anybody can send me a link on how to make Postgres work in a corporate and/or compliance environment, let me know.

Source: DBA.
Pretty cool.

However, why is it working on my iPhone 7 but not my iPad Pro 10.5?
Nice idea. Will add it to the bottom of the page :)
Is your argument that bad ideas don't exist, or that it's impossible to judge the merit of an idea?
It represents how many percent of the season is over. But apparently that is not clear enough. Any idea how I could design that better?
The sender of this email seems to be upset because they let the receiver of this email walk all over them for so long. Publicly releasing this email makes both sides seem so unprofessional. The real lesson here is that this CEO’s lack of healthy boundaries prevented them from saying no—over and over again—to making obviously bad choices. I feel for this person’s employees.
> Why do you think modern CPUs still expose mostly C-abstract-machine-like interface

I don’t think that, because they don’t. Your premise is hogwash.

Modern RISC derived CPUs for the most part expose a load store architecture driven by historical evolution of that micro arch style and if they are SMP a memory model that only recently has C and C++ adapted to with standards. Intels ISA most assuredly was not influenced by C. SIMD isn’t reminiscent of anything standard C either.

Also you might want to look into VLIW and the history of Itanium for an answer to your other question.
> planck time

We can't even get close to a planck time tick so that's not really necessary
>>> ... the productivity of classical music performance has not increased

Maybe it has, or maybe wages are not the same, or it's not really the same product. I'm a jazz musician, and my gig pay has stayed steady at about $100/night for 40 years, though my skill has improved. A lot of people who would have been classical musicians during the classical period are now working as church musicians for peanuts, or playing for free. Musicians playing in front of crowds of thousands didn't exist during the classical period -- the instruments weren't loud enough yet. And "classical" music has gotten harder to play.

The article mentions teachers. My teacher taught me BASIC. Today's teacher teaches Python, which is considerably more productive and valuable. College is increasingly being taught by adjuncts.

Doctors and nurses. A century ago they mostly poisoned people. Today, my primary care clinic has a "doctor" who oversees multiple nurse-practitioners and nurses, and who I see only once a year.
Because although they may be treating merchants as crap, as a customer/buyer they've got my back, so I always favor a seller offering Paypal to the other who doesn't.
None. That's the sad reality of journalism in America.
> We don't test for who has flu.

What? Of course we do. Influenza rapid tests are among the most common diagnostics during flu season. Epidemiologists rely on these tests as well as serological surveillance to derive IFR estimates for the various flu bugs, just as they do for covid.

But it doesn't matter. Your assertion was that flu and covid IFR's are "apples to oranges" because we're taking measures to reduce covid infections. This is nonsense on the simplest logical level. Reducing the infection rate doesn't reduce the danger to the individuals who do get infected, as long as the standard of care remains stable.
There are others under development like Pandunia[0] or Globasa[1].

[0] https://pandunia.info/engli/index.html

[1] https://www.globasa.net/
The problem is Lenovo machines look and feel like PCs, and that's not a complement. I got the XPS specifically for the trackpad, its the only one around that I know of that handles any way remotely like a MacBook's.
ClassicPress – A Fork of WordPress 4.9
In season in the EU (as of why the flag)

I aggregated all data of different countries and cross-referenced it as I think a in-europe transport is still fine :)
The swipe from bottom gesture meant the least annoying iPhone X / 11 cases had the bottom mostly cut out, e.g. the Apple silicon case. Another reason for not covering the edges.
It's a little hypocritical that you've chosen the phrase "period, full stop", and go on to criticize arrogance. Regardless, The non-existence/unknowability of literal, absolute, objective truth isn't useful. When people say "facts/truth", they not only do not mean that - they, by definition, can not mean that. When people say "facts/truth", they mean it in the context of the tools society has. If we can point something out as "true" or "false" and back it up with anything approaching holistic and objective evidence, then it is fair to attempt to do so. The trap of cherry picking to construct one's own truth will always lurk, but it's ridiculous to simply not engage with the concept of lying because of it.
I'm confused. How was it repurposed? He changed the firmware, but unless I misunderstand, the purpose remained the same: power measurement.
html+css+latex(math)+some library for grahps(d3)
Dead at 31 after her chemo was 'paused' due to Covid Regulations
More or less disgusting than coughing and sneezing all over everyone around you?
You’re a bit off in characterizing the 90’s assault on free speech as something only the right did. Tipper Gore had quite the problem with Prince...
One thing that occurred to me while I listening to this article last night: I would not mind laws which restrict obvious and provable lies, in circumstances where the individual knew they were lying. You would need to adopt an extremely high standard for prosecution, similar to libel—no suing someone for being wrong, or having a strange belief, or saying something that's misleading but has a shred of truth.

But, I don't think it's good for society that I can create a fake website purporting to be a way to vote online, and send it to members of an opposing political party to suppress their vote. If I know that I'm lying, there should be laws against that.

If we don't do anything, our problems are going to get so much worse as deep fakes improve and doctored footage becomes indistinguishable from reality.
> It doesn't help that a lot of Netflix productions have 20 episodes or so, of which only about 3 are really good.

Yeah this was really obvious to me in some of their Marvel stuff. Overall enjoyable enough, but only if I binged it while doing something else. Pacing and a lot of dead air time was otherwise a huge problem.
>> Why do you think modern CPUs still expose mostly C-abstract-machine-like interface instead of their actual out-of-order, pipelined, heterogeneous-memory-hierarch-ied internal workings?

Because exposing that would be a huge burden on the compiler writers. Intel tried to move in that direction with Itanium. It's bad enough with every new CPU having a few new instructions and different times, the compiler guys would revolt if they had to care how many virtual registers existed and all the other stuff down there.

But why C? If you want languages to interface with each other it always comes down C as a lowest common denominator. It's even hard to call C++ libraries from a lot of things. Until a new standard down at that level comes into widespread use hardware will be designed to run C code efficiently.
"So I'm afraid that I am going to have to break up with you". Really seized the upper hand there, Costanza.

https://hyp.is/9rn9dhDOEeum9XvjucTYqw/news.ycombinator.com/i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=887bIe0hXyc

> Hope you have a good night.

I somehow doubt your sincerity. Go fuck yourself.

Sincerely, from me to you.
Here in New Zealand where very few people died of COVID, overall mortality dropped significantly during lockdown. This seems to have mostly been due to a lack of traffic deaths, air pollution improvements, as well as a massive reduction in non-COVID respiratory illnesses. This article actually posits a reduced number of complications from elective surgeries as a factor in the reduced death rate: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/pubhealthexpert/2020/07/10/weekly-...:

For example, around 40% of Wellington ICU patients are typically from elective procedures and around 10% of all Wellington ICU patients die.
Are you advocating for that alternative syntax for "not equals to", or did you have some other point?
> We can't even get close to a planck time

IIRC, Windows can't get a higher resolution than time % 10ms, should we not allow getting the time at millisecond resolution? Just because it's not necessary, doesn't mean it isn't useful. In this case, I can't really see it being useful either... would love to hear a non-niche use-case for it.
This totally misses the point of timeboxing.

Timeboxing is an alternative method to goal-setting. The classic case is diets: instead of saying "I will lose 10kg in a month", timeboxing says "I will eat healthier and take some exercise every day for 2 weeks and see what happens". The difference is to do something different for a set period of time, and then see what the result was, rather than set a goal and a deadline.

For those of us immersed in Lean Startup thinking, where goal-setting doesn't really work any more as a motivation method (who cares if I fail in my goal, that I set myself 2 weeks ago, the important thing is what have I learned in that failure?). Time-boxing is a great alternative because it doesn't judge, it all about learning what happens if we change behaviour.

Timeboxing as setting goals and "exclusion zones" misses the point of it. If you say that you're going to "timebox" writing those two missing features today, but don't manage to complete them, then what happens? Do you extend to tomorrow? Then you're not really timeboxing, you're just saying "I'm not answering any calls until I've finished these features". Which is a totally different thing.

Properly timeboxing this would be "I'm going to spend today working on those features". I don't make any commitment to finish them. I don't know if I can finish them in a day. There's no judgement if I don't - I successfully spent a day working on them, and that was the requirement. After that one day I will know more and may be able to make a judgement or commitment about completion. Or not. I'll know after I spent the day working on them, not before.
In the big picture perhaps, but I tend to think about the raw economic and having-a-say-in-the-world status of an individual. In that sense, it's statistically better to be at the center and the mainstream. You can luck and hack your way into something from the periphery but it's harder. The wider benefits of cross-pollination is another discussion.
Sounds like what thefunded.com used to be
Speaking of Pakistan, a friend who is a pediatrician there said that childhood vaccinations have declined by 50% since the start of the pandemic, possibly because parents are too scared to go to a medical facility to have it done out of concern of being infected by covid19. The secondary impacts from the pandemic and our response are going to start becoming more apparent.
Very illuminating, thanks! I've also heard you can get slightly more lateral grip in a turn by rapidly moving the steering wheel back and forth - for the same reason as the throttle stamping and brake stamping.
Adding my own in here, 668 lines: https://github.com/mihaifm/smolpress

Static generator + CMS (extremely lightweight), management interface and markdown editing.
Bruce Momjian wrote a few blogs about code quality.. the phrase “brutal replacement of old code” comes to mind
I don’t agree with your perspective about relevance. Details are an important part of journalism. You might not find some detail salient along some particular line of argument, but I still want to know.
The SCrypt Language Reference
For me HN isn't a Tesla echo chamber. I very rarely read about Tesla stuff here.

I follow r/RealTesla because I want to follow the company's progress. There's a much higher signal/noise ratio there than in the official subreddit, at least so far.

(I also follow r/spacex - pretty high SNR too.)