skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody can 100% stay home. The more every does though the better the less than 100% works. When someone getting their prescriptions refills gets it they are just as sick as someone who goes to a bar and gets it. The only difference is someone who goes to a bar is out a lot more and so has a higher chance of getting it.
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Ability to recombine is not unique to the flu. SARS-CoV-2 is suspected to have been formed through a recombination event in vivo. [1] Mutation rates can also be manipulated through selective pressure e.g. vaccine-based herd immunity. For example, a vaccine-resistant polio virus has recently emerged. [2]

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/27/eabb9153
[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141104111408.h...
Oh well let's not benefit from others brains knowledge, experience and computing power, let's instead think in isolation and cultivate our blind spot bias
Fair critique.
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So basically Modafinil. Do you take that every day, or sporadically?
Hy,

Unfortunately the site is unavailable:

https://postgresql.conf/

I never wrote it's a brainless goto conf generator.

>max_connections is a parameter that may cause outages or very bad performance if not properly configured.

That's why you can define the "Number of Connections"
Why is that interesting? It reflects number if users, not breeder security?
The controversy is that this is an artificial phenomenon brought upon by Apple's blatant disregard of inalienable digital rights by refusing to allow a user to do as they please with their mobile personal computing platform.

There should be no leverage, and the fact that Netflix uses this privilege without taking a stand for others left behind is also controversial.
>> Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down?

If this a a concern, then at least use GPLv3 and not BSD or MIT.
> This is wrong. If someone works a day job, they won't have time to work on their OS projects.

As everybody knows, every OSS maintainer doesn't have a day job.

> Corporation should pay contribution to the OS projects they use to make billions/year.

Impossible to accomplish, because "OS project" is not a legal entity to whom one could pay.

> We should have license that requires only high income companies to pay for usage.

We have such licenses, but they don't have anything to do with Free Software or Open Source Software. Such licenses are called "commerical licenses".
I second that. The ammount of microcontrollers, arduino/RPI boards, gsm modules, 400 Mhz radio transcievers and such would most likely "make me available" for "interviews".

Just a few years back when moved to a diff city for the job we had a visit to check if "we're ok" because our electricity bill was way above the average for the area. The silver lining: My wife was ok with me upgrading everything in the rack with new, low(er) power equipment.
You can always reference "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming, which again is anecdotal and not the study.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Sounds neat, but to me at least, this isn't really the key problem with the web in 2020s.

So OK, various organisations could _opt in_ to be respectful to data, at a cost (to them) of additional complexity of using this thing (technical, dealing with 3rd party data instead of owning it, etc.), not to mention licensing costs to TBL.

This does not at all stop FAANGs from monopolising the web. So what that NHS stores the data on a Solid server if I can only access it through a Google-owned HTTP protocol? Or next thing you know, Facebook only works if you voluntarily sign all your data off to them (which in essence it does now)? So what I can store my e-mails there if e-mail dies in favour of some closed-source Slack-esque invention, that definitely has E2E encryption?

The real issue is that internet is a common utility like railways, water mains or EM spectrum, and yet it can be monopolised by the megacorps with impunity. That some small town can put up its own water well and have a local waterworks - that's nice, but it doesn't really help the 95% of the country held in the grips of a monopoly owning wells, pipes, water storage and customer data.
I'm gonna need actual examples.

There is nothing on my Mac that prevents me from downloading and running absolutely anything I want, or from writing my own software and running it.

By default, there are security guardrails in place that you have to turn off (one click!), but I 100% support measures like this. It means it's harder for nontechnical people get duped into running nefarious code, but creates no meaningful roadblock to people like HN readers who quite reasonably want to do whatever the hell they like with their computers.
My point was the validation and peer-review. There are many possible confounding factors, including isolation and mask use.

Also I might have misread the protocol, since I'm no medical scientist, but wasn't the efficacy of the vaccine measured only in a 1 month timespan? Are we even sure the effects are long lasting?

I just don't want to get the hopes too high too soon. The crash after a positivity high can be quite bad. Reuters is even live streaming Wall Street because of this announcement!
It is nicely done, they've proved it by the time they turned the integral into the second Elliptic Integral, but using PyEphem to simulate it numerically is great.

My gut feel from a lifetime of futzing around with rectifiers, A.C. current and the effects of cross terms like the one in

sqrt(1+αx+βx^2)

where the linear term is driven by the sunward distance to the other planet but the quadratic term is driven directly by the motion of the other planet perpendicular to the sun.

In the full calculation x is going to swing from (say) -0.5 to 0.5 and higher order terms are to matter, but the sunward motion will cancel when you integrate over the orbit, leaving the excess distance from the perpendicular motion to be the important thing.
I am sufficiently confused. How does not using pesticides restore minerals?

I don't doubt that soil erosion is a real thing, thats why famrers use cover crops and tilling, but where does said nutrients come from??
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Stalin loved statistics because he could make arguments like that and not seem like one of the most evil men to ever have lived.
Yes. Typically these types of GPU based fluid solvers use texture maps to store velocity and pressure information. (See NVIDIA’s GPU Gems paper on fluids.)

Most GPUs support 3D texture maps, and changing something like this to support 3D should be fairly trivial. From what I remember, the calculations for each dimension are identical.
I'm from South Africa and have never heard of it. But if anything I think it's a great idea to make more efficient use of school funding, physical resources etc.
> these unsolicited mail in ballots and the extended deadlines which we've never had before in this country.

Many states added new procedures like these to this election, but I don't believe any state added procedures that weren't already used in one or more other states.
You honestly think "It's OK, you only stand a one-in-a-thousand chance of dying" is a good way to calm people?
Why is there so much surprise around Trump's approach to losing the US Election
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Creating multiple accounts per person is itself a bannable offense.
Maybe an odd suggestion, but: get a physical, blue-collar job. Work in a restaurant kitchen, on a fishing boat, as a logger, etc. If you don't want to go that far, work on a similar project at home: build a house, grow a garden, learn to weld, and so on.

The physicality of such jobs will make you appreciate and regain a sense of "real" work using your body, without all the information economy knowledge work stuff crammed in. People aren't just heads with bodies attached. Recommended books along this line of thought:

- Shop Class as Soulcraft

- Anything by Kerouac (he worked various odd jobs)

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>I've even become convinced (based on someone digging out enough references) that the term ipen source was being used before OSI

Basically at the same time. Christine Peterson seems to have coined it in 1998, the same year the OSI was founded. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...

As far as I'm concerned, people can use whatever license they want. I just think it's borderline deceptive to claim something is an open source license even if it clearly doesn't meet the OSI (or FSF) definition.
I believe there was one where GOP poll watchers were barred from entry - because there were already GOP poll watchers in the room and the room was at capacity.
I think they're likely referring to ghosts.
"Apple is moving to services" is hardly a ground-breaking take. The problem for Apple isn't that their device sales are down, it's that their pivot to services based revenue is not going well.

Apple have taken their absolute dominance in selling music and moved to middle of the pack in music streaming squeezed between Spotify and Youtube.

They're late to TV streaming and somehow, despite being incredibly closely linked to Disney have failed to tie up a deal.

Apple's Siri is distinctly second tier, losing them both for Apple Music, but also potential shopping via smart assistant.

iCloud comes across as Apple nickle and dime-ing their customers, insisting you need to back up your phone but providing laughable amounts of storage for free - and then becoming nagware.

Then you have Apple One - Apple's bundle. Which offers a whole selection truly terrible deals. Did you know you can pay $15 per month for enough iCloud storage to still not be able to back up your iPhone. For $20 a month your whole family can share less storage space than each of you probably needs individually. Double that price with practically no other benefits just to be able to actually use iCloud for a macbook. What do you think when you think Apple? iPads, iPhones, Macbooks. So obviously, their headline bundle includes literally none of those products even as an option. Oh and AppleCare - the only thing people actually do subscribe to... not included either.

Not forgetting the handful of absolutely forgetable bundled products, Apple Arcade, Apple News+ and Apple Fitness+ (which doesn't exist). Filling your bundle full of rubbish that no one uses isn't a good strategic move. If you had a bundle of 20 things it would be fine, but a bundle of 6 things, 2 of which should be bundled with hardware, 2 of which are mediocre, is just not compelling.

Finally you've got the Appstore. Apple is getting absolutely hammered on their 30% fee. At this point it looks almost certain that they'll either change their fee structure or face regulatory action.

So yes, fine, we can talk about Apple's move from products to services. But if we're going to do that we need to do it in the context of "Apple is failing to move from products to services". There is no clear path for Apple on the services side. If Apple is a services company why isn't FaceTime adding $100Bn of market cap to Apple's value as a competitor to Zoom?
>and does close to absolutely nothing to benefit society

About half of society would say the same about taxes.

And therein lies the problem. There's a bunch of fundamental disagreements we need to work through.
How does this compare to the chinese vaccine?

It's already in use around the world[1], but I haven't heard of how many people gain immunity thanks to it in percentage, nor if that one also requires multiple jabs.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/3/uae-pm-and-dubai-ru...
>We'll be seeing the first EUA's by December, and shots in the arm before the end of the year

What makes you say that? That's quite fast, no?
I remember being told socialism doesnt work because of tragedy of the commons
So Trump was right (again), after all!
thank god Biden was elected, otherwise this news would have been thrown in the trash.
No remote at all?
The problem isn't with TBL but the team of engineers and their leadership implementing the system and that they're doing this within government.

I don't think there's been a successful large scale IT project in the NHS/Government in the last 20 years. The intertia to success will be people and existing legacy system. This is a challenging integration project, so I'm not holding my breath tbh.
This comment is why HN still matters.
What they mean is that instead of injecting viral proteins or deactivated virus (as in a flu vaccine), they are injecting mRNA which causes your own cells to make a section of viral protein, which then triggers a strong immune response. This COVID vaccine will be the first major mRNA vaccine.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2770485
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>> because I'm pretty sure we already have something on order of 80+% protection without a vaccine

I think the way these studies are set up already accounts for that. In these trials they don't vaccinate just one group and then check how many people still got sick ('only 10% got sick so it 90% effective'), but instead they split the participants into a 'vaccinated' group and a 'placebo' group (double blind), then wait until X people in the total of all participants get sick, then compare how many of them got the vaccin and how many got the placebo. Since the total group is large, this should average out pretty much all variability in susceptibility to infection (assuming the participants are selected to include a wide range of attributes, of course).

I don't know how the maths work exactly but I think the 90% claim here means that if you take the vaccine you are 90% less likely to get sick from covid compared to someone else with comparable attributes.
Also, the CO2 scrubber in the car is automatically turned off for low status individuals. (Non-plus-persons live in a perpetural brain fog due to elevated CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Hence non-plus-persons are by default declared legally insane and are automatically removed from voting rosters.)
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My point was that the mechanism by which the data is stored doesn't seem to matter to the NHS's use cases.

The example mentions humans entering things like that a person talking about music, not automated gathering. Besides how creepy it would be if first responders randomly worked your personal data into conversations, if you really wanted to do that integrations with existing music platforms would take a moderately skilled team a few weeks to achieve what Solid promises at some point in the far future, if everyone adopts it.
It depends on the virus and the vaccine. We'll have to wait for further data on this vaccine candidate.

The Salk polio vaccine does not prevent infection in the digestive tract, so you can still spread the virus, but it does prevent the virus from spreading beyond the digestive tract and causing paralysis. You could imagine something similar happening with a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: that it would block infection in the lower respiratory tract but not the upper respiratory tract, allowing you to spread it by coughing and sneezing while never getting severe respiratory issues.
I’m a fellow musician and also obsessed with the idea of how music and specifically, deliberate practice, play into programming.

It’s a super power. I’ve also noticed musicians are usually terrific coders.

A big part of being a great musician is years of learning HOW to practice. Glad to see others interested in the space.
Why is it evil for a large company making a large profit to exploit your free work, but not a small company making a small profit? They're both benefitting from work you're doing without paying you. Personally I don't see an qualitative difference, just one of degree.

Like I said, go ahead and offer free commercial licenses to small companies, who in your estimation are 99% of developers.
I get a lot of value out of eg the Linux kernel. But I never contributed any value back to that project.

What makes me a better person than Apple etc?
The accuse-other-people-of-denialism playbook:

1. Tell people there is a problem with 'doubting the science' and say 'the science is settled,' as if any skepticism of established or not-so-established science is unacceptable.

2. Use shame words like 'denialist' and 'conspiracy theory' to gaslight anyone who questions the common narrative.

3. Assume a single solution is the best way forward based on scientific studies of the problem.
I think he has a dozen books which are all pretty similar and all saying how productive he is for writing so much.
Science has nothing to do with politics.

Also, cherry picking one statement, from literally hundreds of false ones, does not make any one right.

It just shows that if you throw a lot of stuff, something will eventually stick.
you literally can't possibly know that. nobody does
As someone who has also been diagnosed with ADHD, I'm near useless without Adderall.
Adorable. I hope all command-line tools will add support for emitting well-structured data as JSON soon.
And from North Korea as well
I don't think gp is against the feature. They're saying

dog 209.216.230.240

should directly perform a PTR lookup instead of requiring something like

dog -x 209.216.230.240

Here's how host works when you give it an IP address as opposed to a domain name:

$ host 209.216.230.240
240.230.216.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer news.ycombinator.com.
$ host news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.com has address 209.216.230.240
> First, creating value on top of the platform is not the same of extracting value from it.

Please explain. Especially what you mean by extracting value.
On generalization problems of ML models in real-world applications
Most people (as in statistical majority, not HN readers) don't read anything about issues and just vote with their emotions or who they like or for whatever party they identify with.

In the US, guns and abortion are the common "issues" the politicians use to divide even though those are things that are likely to not change on a federal level.

A better way to govern ourselves is to have term limits across the board - legislature (Senate and House) and judiciary (federal judges and Supreme Court). That would be a check/balance against people becoming too powerful.
But it's so hard for anyone who's read Gilbert Strang's books to refrain from superlatives when describing them!
I think my "theory" is false for other reasons, but that they advertise where allowed doesn't contradict any of the theory. They just haven't successfully colluded to get the prisoner's dilemma solved by the local government in those regions and so all still have to defect.
Xcodeghost alone infected hundreds of millions of people (including all Wechat users). Let's add up your examples.

The first one infected a few thousand. The second one spread on Chinese phones, not Google or Amazon phones. The third infected about 120k users. The fourth infected 1 million users. The fifth infected 10 million users.

So the Apple App Store infected at least an order of magnitude more users despite having an order of magnitude fewer users total. Why at least? Apple does not allow third party security apps on its devices, so there are likely to be way more infections that we just haven't heard of.
Organic farming involves more crops that die from pests. I presume those crops/dead pests decompose and replenish the soil with more nutrients for the next season.
Counterpoint, intensive farming

companies, with full ownership of the land, are ruining the topsoil of their land because the cost of farming sustainably is greater than the cost of acquiring new land
Despite our relentless effort to make our webpages and apps heavier and bulkier and slower for no reason, people are not buying new phones? I m at a loss here what else can we do. Perhaps install cryptominers
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Cal Newport addresses the tension between deep work and collaborative work in this blog post (https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2014/10/15/how-to-win-a-nobe...) and on some recent episodes of his podcast (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3B...).

The TL;DR is, Bell Labs was designed to balance casual, collaborative conversations with solo deep work.

1. Instead of having a computer science building, a physics building, etc, they put every discipline in the same building. They had shared areas for eating & discussing which pushed people to run into each other, and have highly cross-domain conversations.

2. Inside the building, the offices were a hub and spoke model. Individual researchers had quiet individual offices for deep thinking they could retreat to AFTER they've bumped into someone at lunch from a different field.

In most open offices today, we've forgotten about the deep work spaces and ONLY kept the collaboration spaces.
> I want a license that prevents unpaid use by any entity that has any stakeholder worth more than a billion USD.

What's that supposed to mean? Surely the value of e.g. Linux to its stakeholders surpasses 1B.
What bigger problem exactly are you referring to?

Systemic problems with various police institutions like poor training, overly powerful public unions, and minimal oversight have nothing to do with gang violence.
Yes. The platform takes away power. Plus they take 30% of your profits.

WHY do developers find this acceptable?

Supporting these practices will only make things worse ...
One thing I've discovered is that I can't sit in front of the computer and write code all day. Actually scheduling time for meetings and talking with people seems like a distraction but realistically I can only code up to 4 hours a day anyway so no point avoiding users/teammates/bosses thinking you'd be more productive coding.
This thread has so much misinformation that it's painful to read. I'd advise anyone offering advice to read "Starting Strength" (Mark Rippetoe), and if you are >40 (or >30 but in very bad physical shape), "The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40". That second book is actually a good read even if you are not over 40, because a) you will be, b) it contains excellent information on our physiology and biochemistry and a great rationale for doing strength training rather than just cardio.

Don't base your decisions on what has been written in this thread. Most information here is anecdotal, garbage, or both.
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I didn't mean it as abuse. It seriously is hard for me to imagine someone not understanding why people like status symbols unless they're autistic.
A permissible MIT license might even be the best way to exploit this.

Assuming there are network effects for being the 'official' place to contribute to your project, than you can start with an MIT license, and once it gets popular, you take it private with slightly ever less permissible licenses.

(GPL wouldn't make this so easy.)
I was the one who submitted this to HN.

It is an ad in that I linked to the marketing site. It’s not an ad in that I have no association with the company, and I just thought HN would find it interesting.
Perhaps a better way to say this: we need to implement a national contact tracing program immediately so that when the transmission rate declines to manageable levels it is operational.
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