skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've made a terribly flawed assumption which drives that 90% number. VE is modeled using a beta binomial model with a fixed prior of an infection rate of 1.5% per year. Obviously this number is going to vary a lot depending on the sample. [1]

By putting a fixed point vs the appropriate wide ranging distribution as the prior, the model scores the results far higher than otherwise.

This is a non-result and it was wildly inappropriate to publish this as proof of any finding.

[1] https://pfe-pfizercom-d8-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-11/C4591... Page 15
> English longbowman wasn't the usual 'peasant' stereotype, given that they were generally landowners

Can you elaborate. I thought serfdom was still around in 1415 in England.
A Distant Mirror covered some peasant/commoner attempts at rebellion and they seemed to lead to same disastrous results, mostly because of a lack of discipline.

Here's a bit about the Battle of Roosebeke:

>As French lances pierced and axes hacked at the solid mass of bodies, many of whom lacked helmet or cuirass, the dead piled up in heaps. French foot soldiers, penetrating between the men-at-arms, finished off the fallen with their knives, “with no more mercy than if they had been dogs.” Under the attack of the Bourbon-Coucy wing, the Flemish rear turned and fled, throwing away their weapons as they ran. Philip van Artevelde, fighting in the front ranks, tried to rally them, but from his position could exercise no effective command. He lacked the assurance of the Black Prince at Poitiers to retain control from a hilltop above the battle. Borne backward by the mass as the rout spread, he was trampled and killed under the feet of his own forces, as was his banner-bearer, a woman named Big Margot.
Consciousness is fundamental, not emergent.
Both scenarios I was referring to are on GCP, but one is on k8s (GKE) and one uses ordinary GCP VMs. In both cases we're using the multi-reader mounting feature of GCP persistent disks, all that changes is how that's specified.

Outside GCP, we do have an on-premise product that can deploy on any k8s cluster. In that case, the default is for the customer to provide an NFS mount for the data in question. We use the same k8s ReadOnlyMany access type for that.
I got a Chromebook for a relative to replace their anemic Windows netbook and it was a large improvement day to day, requiring less support. I use Windows personally, but I have no idea how the low technical knowledge parts of society have managed to survive.
Also, a certain amount of subcutaneous fat is a survival trait when people are regularly trying to perforate you.
Some people are slower runners, that doesn't mean we should slow down everyone else on a ball field.
Systems on a chip seems wrong, since there’s more than one chip. I’d probably say systems on chips or just SoCs.
I'm still surprised no one has retried the Yik Yak strategy (anon, local, snapchat-esque points). I remember how popular it was on uni campuses in my country.
They better be ready for the telcos and cable companies to come in and start litigating for years about "unfair competition"
I have no idea what this means, but it sure sounds like a legitimate concern. Can anyone who actually understands this confirm?
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Wait they are killing Pythonista and Scriptable? ;-(
we should just make them illegal
Is there not an in-between? I used to be very good at maths, but a year out of practice and I might struggle at some topics. I still retain the intuitive understanding and that grants me a rapid path back to being able to solve problems.
social constraints are only as strong as the amount of people who treat them as constraints. culture is recursively developed.
I like to think of mutation as a performance optimisation. Correctness first, then optimisation.

Unless performance is a problem, don't ever mutate state.
...but also without harmful impact.
I acknowledge that that's a limitation of ifconfig today. My point was that we should have just modified ifconfig instead of completely replacing it with an incompatible new tool.
(preface: I rarely use twitter)

I guess it's because:

1. It's super simple to set up, and the short length forces you to be direct.

2. It's incredibly easy for sharing - so there's potential for things to go viral, fast. Good for customers, bad for companies. Hashtags are quite powerful, as anyone can use them - so if someone decides to block you or whatever, you can still reach through hashtags.

Likewise, I guess a lot of big companies are actively monitoring twitter for things related to them. Pretty easy to automate.
You just repeated yourself. So I ask again why when you claim that this is something you think is bad. By conception, you want something that is not what you claim to desire. It is engineered and the opposite of natural by design.
Army wants smaller brigades, stronger divisions and lots of robots
Well, there's a wide variety of "American" style.

First two main distinctions: NY/NJ style, which is generally the traditional American pizza. 1" crust, a little crispy, thin body, sauce, lots of cheese. This has a few variations though, most notable "thin crust", which is often cracker-thin and very firm & crispy, the body much thinner too.

The other main variety is Chicago deep-dish pizza, which is very thick, anywhere from 1-3 inches deep in my experience.

Both of these in their pure forms are difficult to find outside of their regions. But the NY/NJ style is popping up in places around the country. North Carolina Charlotte area for example, as transplants from the North-East find their way to other parts of the country.

Then there's the various pizza chains: Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa Johns... most of their pizzas most closely resemble the NY/NJ, but that's putting it loosely. They're sort of like a McDonald's Big Mac compared to a steak house burger, except at least for me, I sometimes just want the Big Mac, but I'd never choose the chain pizza when the alternative is available.

Let me be clear though: some people are purists to one type or another and consider other varieties, or chain pizzas, to be blasphemy. But if you put aside ideological considerations, almost all pizza is fundamentally good. You can find bad pizza, but it's harder than finding good pizza. (Let the downvotes roll in from Chicago/NY purists :D )
> what would stop someone from simply compiling a suite of shell tools to WASM, then distributing a "terminal" as a PWA

Absolutely nothing. Web apps are the solution to Apple's equivocation regarding scripting and programming environments.
That's not correct. It's not protected by the Constitution, it is protected by the laws passed. The only way it could be "protected by the constitution" would be a judge saying "this falls under section xyz of the constitution. so shall it be". That would obviously probably be overturned in short order but it's really the only way.
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The need to add cleanup code is a change to the interface. If you don't change the interface, you've left yourself open to bugs around accidentally using an instance after it's been cleaned.

If you really want to keep the same interface, add a layer of abstraction. The current interface becomes a wrapper around the underlying context manager.
The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
>They're OK with needing approval or getting a warrant to read your email just as long as it's some 3rd party granting access so you won't know.

Of course nobody will ever examine the warrants or the approval process to ensure that "lawful access" is only granted when even the minimal evidentiary standards they require are met. And if they do someday examine those warrants, and find out that they are riddled with falsehoods and inaccuracies that resulted in unlawful spying, it will all be swept under the rug and nobody responsible will be held to legal account - as we have seen in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824510255/justice-department-...
The Battle of the Golden Spurs would be a better example, with several French nobles (such as the Marshal of France and the Constable of France!) ultimately losing their lives to pikemen. All the more surprising because this was pretty much the first battle in Medieval history where the side with the most knights lost (quite badly).

Admittedly, the Flemish side wasn't exactly peasantry but largely townspeople in guilds, although in terms of the classic three-tier model (nobility, clergy, peasantry), they would have fallen into the last class.
It makes one wonder how the modern equals would do?

Yes, we have street fights / protests between "soldiers" and pedestrians. Each equipped with their standard tools - lopsided as they may be. The question becomes more of a matter of context for a modern battle.

What is a modern knight and what is a modern peasant in 2020 and also, what locale?

(We could also use a booklist for this discussion - I keep bringing back scenes from Pillars of the Earth)
As others have noted, this is one of the areas Go really shines at (and I am not a Go fan). The lack of language features really forces most code into a limited form of TOOWTDI and because it has pretty opinionated choices about loops, conditionals, errors etc... you really don't see much Go code that makes you scratch your head.
The point is in a lot of cases where you think you need synchronization you really don't.
Lol. I am immune because of my immune system. Just like almost everybody...
> I take the view that paying my taxes buys a civilization to live in, and that this is a very good deal.

That is a fair way to look at it, but I'm sure you agree that salesmen of all kinds love when people have that view, since it's easy to get them to wildly overpay for a product.
'Scooby-Doo' co-creator, Ken Spears, dead at 82
Most Indian food is not vegan. We use a lot of dairy products in our cooking. The vegetarian stuff is still awesome though.
Wouldn't a more apt comparison be someone armed with a 9mm pistol trying to take on a trained soldier with advanced anti-ballstic armor and plating, and an accurate rifle?
Can you provide peer reviewed sources for your claims? I'm interested, if so.

> Lockdowns in particular are not clearly effective.

> Traditional epidemiology says quarantine is not useful for fast spreading contagions.

> Honing of models of spread shows coronavirus is not capable of exponential growth as initially feared.
Opened the link in Firefox and got a message "...use chrome". I find that not only unacceptable, but also bad practice.
They feel like bags of sand.
"Unfairness" has to be put in context. How many people benefit by working for the cable company? How many people would benefit by universal access to fiber/internet? I think we all know the answer there.
> I do not do anywhere close to my best work with someone staring at my every move.

And some people thrive with others around.

Eventually you'll find an excuse for why anything is unfair..."too much pressure!" "not enough time!"

And we wonder why, by and large, college degrees become more worthless, and academic vigor sinks like a stone.

Maybe we should just accept that college should be hard, that tests should be challenging, and instead, remove the extra requirement for college for most people. Because if we just make it a joke it's pointless anyway.
> The free range had a bit more fat - is that good or bad?

It’s a controlled study isolating the effect of letting the chickens run around. Lower fat ceteris paribus and higher fatty acid is generally considered good, and no, I’m not going to link to every paper that makes that point.

If you let diet vary then yes, you get more pronounced results [2].

> give us data or stop making baseless claims

This is a forum. Not your personal research service. These materials are a simple search away and you are refuting with zero evidence.

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1475-2891-9-10
The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet
Nutrition in childhood, especially early childhood, is extremely critical to development. The average person historically was remarkably short, generally because of childhood malnourishment. Simply being properly nourished in childhood would have led to a huge height and weight advantage (also probably considerable advantages in brain development). Even into the 18th century the average height of an officer in the British military was about 8in more than that of the enlisted men.

On top of that a knight would have eaten a lot more fat, meat, and vegetables than a peasant, who would have lived almost entirely on bread. This wouldn’t have left the peasant totally protein-starved because it was bread made from whole grains, but a knight would have been getting much better returns on their exercise throughout life due to their more varied diet.
How so? Nowadays humans have more access to food than ever before.

Instead of taking a multivitamin you can just eat food. Food has vitamins and minerals.
My favorite part about the Hussites was that they used war wagons with cannon mounted on them, which is basically mobile artillery.
I lost both of my grandparents in the last few years, and I just truly loathe condolences. I know the intent is good, and I certainly don't hold them against anyone, but someone (especially someone I don't know well) telling me they're sorry for my loss is just meaningless and unhelpful. Close friends calling/texting/helping out with things is a very different story, but the idea that I have to be subjected to these brief, awkward conversations about how it's sad that someone I love has died (believe me I know already) just feels worse than useless. If you knew my grandpa well and you're sorry he died, go give some money to the causes he was passionate about instead of reminding me of my grief.
The more I hear about this feudalism thing the less I like it.
The only "bad" burger to the op is the traditional definition that includes meat. Burger as a concept of two-breads, some toppings, and a patty (arguibly a melt?) is fine.
I’ve been studying pg’s Bel: http://paulgraham.com/bel.html

It has a delightful idea: to ensure the current thread isn’t preempted, set a global “lock” variable to true.

The scheduler checks “lock”. If it’s true, the current thread is added to the front of the threads list. Otherwise it’s added to the back.

Then the scheduler runs the first thread in the threads list.

So by setting “lock” to true, you are essentially instructing the scheduler never to switch threads.
It doesn't make any sense because we don't know the what, how or the why of it yet.

Consciousness makes as much sense as a solar eclipse made to the primitive man who had no conception of the solar system. A program on your computer wouldn't make much sense unless you understood the inner workings - processes, kernel, ABI, CPU, etc.

Maybe one day we will find out as we learn more about the brain. Until then we just have to live with this magical mystery. The real question is how we deal with the ethical issues. We could learn a lot more about the brain if we could "break it", test it, experiment with it, etc. But obviously we can't do that with the human brain. Maybe start with simpler animal brains and then work our way up?

If we could triangulate the parts of the brain where consciousness resides, then perhaps we can disable that portion and create brains to experiment on? But then again, if we disable the part of the brain responsible for consciousness, how can we study consciousness?
I’m not sure why this is on the front page. It’s a short blog post about struggles with a TV remote, and then an image of an MSPaint remote which LITERALLY has hieroglyphics on it

I guess I should make a comment about UX design though. In the past year I watched a really informative video where design and usability expert Dan Formosa reviews the usability of various kitchen gadgets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w08XDXjJhsQ). The part of his review process which I found enlightening was that he had this thing called the “Left-hand oil test,” where he lubed up his non-dominant hand and attempted to use the appliance he was reviewing to emulate a person with a disability.

In terms of software and UX, I think the best analogue for this sort of test is to attempt to use your app while you’re stoned out of your mind. If you can’t figure out how to do things in this condition, then your app is likely introducing cognitive overhead which can be reduced.

It really is too bad that too often “design roles” are given to people who fit a certain stereotype or mainly have the ability to make things prettier looking. I firmly believe true UX design requires a holistic approach which at the very least requires you to be able to code demos of the behavior you want from applications.
Like many CA laws I don’t see how this is practical. Unless there is some reference to market ranges or something might as well say range starts at minimum and up to whatever made up budgeted amount, depending on experience.
The Python Graphql library Graphene-Django includes built-in support for dataloaders, and you can just tell it how to load a list of objects, given their id's (by default, use the foreign key id as the primary key). Works beautifully.
My point was that your simplifications were not correct. Also synchronization is going to happen at some point or there wouldn't be any problems to talk about. Synchronization is what it all comes down to.
Steve Jobs and other Silicon Valley luminaries used to literally "walk around the block" near their house with a guest and hold walking meetings. I think the San Jose Mercury News had an article on that.

I discovered that habit independently after moving to SV, since the weather is almost always good enough for a walk.

Plus walking alone after finishing a feature lets your subconscious queue up the next priority.
"If you want to train a longbowman, start with his grandfather."
Being a longbowman took extensive training and practice.
Major iOS developers have already opted out of Apple Silicon Macs
They have enterprise oculus accounts that you should look into
> longbowmen shooting from a distance and protected by both terrain and a line of sharpened stakes

Ugh, camping snipers.
Seems more than a coincidence to me that a peace deal was signed so quickly after Azerbaijan downed a Russian helicopter that was not even near the disputed area.
but if somebody else if equivalent skill could save the client money by using faker, then they will get all the business and out-compete you!
Peasants by and large ate pretty poorly, and their diet consisted mostly of bread. They also had an unfortunate tendency to under-nourish children during lean times, because the adults still needed to be well fed so that they could farm. This is the reason why the average height of a European man has increased more than 6 inches since the Middle Ages.
I don't follow. A 269-269 split, given how the states have broken, is staggeringly unlikely. Multiple states would have to be flipped, and since US elections are so distributed, it's unlikely for SCOTUS to find in such a way as to change the results of more than one of these states, if any.

And even if the election somehow ended up in the 12th Amendment case of the House deciding: the House is trending Democrat control.
Maybe Kotlin will change this, given time.
> Burgers aren't a huge deal in Asia, for example.

Asia is a big place, but for example in China pretty much everything has a small amount of pork as a minor ingredient/seasoning; "vegan" dishes are the pitiable food of the poor; and the word for household is literally a roof with a pig underneath it
Even in the contest between man and steer, the outcome is not certain.
You should check out the Surface Studio!
Not going to argue math, but that final statement is a poor way to frame understanding/learning. You can understand something well enough to solve it from memory a few times when in close proximity to the time you learnt it. On the other hand you can understand something well enough to know how to check the references and solve it for the rest of your life.

That is it is better to understand how to solve problems with references than without. You'll forget most you know but once recorded you can't forget. Then you just need to know it exists so you can find it.
I looked a bit further, and they shared data on their vaccine already in August, but there are gaps:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/sinopharm-shares-phase...

"unlike other COVID-19 vaccine trials, the study lacked a comparison arm featuring serum samples from patients previously infected with the coronavirus, complicating the task of interpreting whether the response is likely to confer immunity."

It seems that a vaccine needing a 2nd booster jab is also something that is quite common.

Anyhow, good news all around... The more viable vaccines we have, the more likely that the pandemic will be controlled sooner.
Project Zorgo is the good guys
For those interested in medieval military, Invicta, the excellent history Youtube channel, has a recent documentary "How to Raise a Medieval Army":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cm-rsDfjw
Knights were mounted. Oftentimes on a mount that itself was armored.

The armored vehicle analogy is apt.
I don't get it. What set of numbers is being used to plot this distribution?
That's black and white argument. Products change markets over time, not instantly. There does not have to be a singular event.

"Voting with your wallet" entirely ignores what actual voting is. Whatever the original reason no longer applies, now the devices are an expectation for livelihood, safety, and overall communication. It becomes a public problem.

Having two choices is not choice. Google deserves the same regulation apple does. Real choice would be dozens of competitive and entirely independent choices. The nature of markets of scale prevent this from happening.
16 maybe? 15 doesn't seem to make sense as log 2^53 = 15.95
It's ExitStack.enter_context(), not enter().

https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib...
I guess then the point becomes - in the age of computers, what's the value in memorising the quadratic formula without understanding where it comes from?

It's much more important to know that there is a quadratic formula, or more fundamentally that every quadratic equation has 0-2 roots (exactly 2 if dealing with complex numbers) and what the different cases loom like (does the parabola touch or intersect the x-axis?). It's typically more important to be able to solve a quadratic equation through guessing, factoring or completing the square. Because these things teach you something about how mathematics works, regurgitating some formula serves no purpose, you can just ask Wolfram|Alpha instead. And even if you can't complete the square etc., I'd much rather people understood the conceptual side of it instead of remembering formulas.
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Yet your example is not one of them - with accounts, the sequence of states must converge on a consistent history as they recede into the past.

Eventual consistency comes with it own set of counter-intuitives, and is a multiplier of possible states a system could be in. it is generally not a complication we would choose, but something we must cope with to do things that would otherwise not be feasible.
Here it says 23.8%: https://1040abroad.com/faq/renouncing-u-s-citizenship/

I could swear it was 40%, but I'm too lazy to look it up more. Suffice it to say Uncle Sam gets his pound of flesh and more.
It's a decent model but many roads lead to Rome. The smoothest path to wealth is probably a professional career* partnered with a modest lifestyle and heavy savings.

* Really any career, it just needs to involve doing something people want and ideally rewards continuous improvement.
> you can google cashew mozzarella.

I'm sure I can, but the GGP's recipe sounded particularly good! Ok thanks.
I don't really know either honestly. I'm just telling you what he was referring to.