skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah its true they only look above the curve, the excess deaths this year is probably closer to +15% based on that time series (eyeballing the first few months and being conservative). In any case this argument seems to be that because Sweden had a larger share of vulnerable population in the run up to the outbreak, you can't count those deaths as COVID deaths, which I don't agree with. It just means they had a more vulnerable population (dry tinder so to speak) and was possibly disproportionally impacted by COVID as a result. Obviously some % would have died even without COVID, possibly above the historical average but we have no way of knowing that and I've personally decided on excess deaths as the best though imperfect metric to measure COVID's impact. It is possible in 3 years we look back 4 years and find no excess deaths over that time period, which means basically COVID's major impact was shortening the lifespans of our oldest cohort of citizens, which is undeniably tragic but perhaps we acknowledge some things we did to stop that from happening were overkill.

In any case the only reason I posted in the first place was OP had an intentionally misleading bar chart. Arguably +20% was also misleading (since it wasn't excess deaths in 2020, just excess deaths post outbreak) but you can look at the time series here (and posted above) and look for yourself. My personal belief is Sweden saw larger deaths than Denmark/Norway in part due to their COVID policies, but they did not experience the complete disaster many predicted in March. Whether the trade off was worth it will be debated by public policy experts for years, and ultimately no one will agree.
The key projection in this article that affected me the most was: “The crisis is unwinding a vast social and industrial overhaul that took place during half a century of air-travel proliferation. In years to come, overseas business trips and holidays will likely mean more airport stopovers, longer journey times, and perhaps an additional mode of transport.” and according to this author, It might take a good four or five years for connectivity to return to the same level we saw at the end of 2019. Just when we were starting to feel good about a tightly connected world, making globetrotting a breeze - this seems like a severe and painful regression
Oh man, it's in the thousands every time I apply. I used to keep a spreadsheet of it, but that just got depressing. Job searches are quite painful.

(Note that I'm in biotech and real engineering, not SW)
Title is completely misleading.

The problem has nothing to do with an iPhone. It has 100% to do with bad parenting.

The author even acknowledges this, but I guess blaming the iPhone gets more clicks than "Poor parenting harms child".
Is the job market so tough/picky in US (I assume it's US by default since we're on HN) or is it because the IT companies don't hire people without CS degree? I get 2-3 interview invites every day on my LikedIn account just for listed keywords (nothing special, really, generic devops stuff). And the account is explicitly marked as "not looking for a job". I leave in Eastern Europe with a lot of huge outsource outlets though, maybe that drives the demand up.
Overpaid or not (I tend to agree that they are overpaid), if a significant portion of their compensation is stock grants, then that portion of their compensation is directly tied to the value of the company.
Many of the suggestions I'm seeing are the polar opposite of how this thread started.

When you're remote you miss a lot of context. Overcommunicating in writing helps address that. Eliminating information or not expecting people to fully read and engage with what they read is going in the wrong direction of the fundamental problem.
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I've always thought that too, people like to point out some adversary has a state of the art anti-ship missile. Let's say a US carrier is sunk, then what? It's as if that would be the end of the ordeal and there would be no response.
As a different idea, federal loans like this means that universities have no risk in taking on more students and, if anything, incentivies higher tuition and more students. I personally think the univeristy should take on more risk if they have students on federal loans.

Something like they get a structured payment to get a student, and the only way to get the full payment is the financial success of said student?
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I am not a new graduate. I am 41, learned to code when I was 37. I still am in a junior position though, but not first job in tech, nor young.
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It is an interesting question of why people join the various federal law enforcement agencies. Is the DEA, ATF, or others a "B" team compared to the FBI?
I think most "Programming 101" classes _have_ ditched C. I haven't heard of any current intro classes being taught in C.
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Could you please type the word for forget in Roman? I can't read Arabic but am intrigued.
This comes down to a philosophical question: what would be the ideal way to give access to opportunities? Should only smart and hard working people people get them? Both of those things are in large part determined by genes. If you take this to the extreme we could give every child a gene and IQ test and determine based on that if they should live in a slum or in luxury.

I don’t think that there is a good answer.
I think they should be allowed to do it. If we let them get away with it because the alternatives are worse then that's our own fault.

Hard to fault a business for realizing that they have a stupid amount of leverage because people have made themselves dependent on you and charging more.
Thanks for PI-HOLE suggestion, pity its not available for FreeBSD, but still nice project.
> tens of billions of dollars building out their respective ecosystem presents a tremendous opportunity to developers

That's... one way to look at it.

Another way is that they'd be spending even more if there were more healthy competition in the alternative app store market.

Amazon is incentived to run an Android app store now, in the same way Microsoft was incentivized to maintain an ARM build of Windows: it's not a corporate priority, because it doesn't make business sense for it to be until the playing field changes.
Regulators and authorities really like locked down devices. Not the FTC, but everyone else (FCC, NSA, SEC, FBI). It’s not going to change, unfortunately.

Practically speaking, the only big thing a web app can’t do on an iPhone that most app writers would like to do is notifications. Most other locked down things like call recording aren’t available to App Store approved apps either (and APIs are being removed from Android)
- 15k with an MSc in Data Science after 10 years of professional experience. Key aspects that made this useful for me: I commited to it 100% and went for a 4 gpa as that was the only way to take it seriously, I could do it because of my personal situation and tine availability. I learned A LOT, among other things that I am not that stupid as I thought while taking CS, it was just a matter of interest to me. This gave me my currennt job with a significant turn to my career.

- Spending 2k with a work station
and changing my environment from expensive Macbooks to an expensive workstation and cheap laptops as a front end
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I see, so it was the last sentence, not the fact that he pointed out that the number changed. Thanks for the explanation! Still, I believe that he was constructive just as you.
Buy a hub. Instead of 3 USB, I'd like USB 3. :D
This is a prime example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Curious how is CPU architecture abstracted away more macOS than any other OS?
Ha, interesting that our lists are almost entirely disjoint — guess that just speaks to how diverse the landscape is for SaaS tooling!
Yea, everyone move to this central platform. That way we can complain later when things are too centralized.
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When you tell management "we need to automate this process that won't happen for 5 years", you're not going to get approval.

When you tell management "we need to automate this process that will happen every month", you will get approval.

It's not about the effort to automate the process, it's the opportunity cost of investing that effort.
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> This vaccine is not preventing getting infected, just reduces getting.the disease significantly. I'm more optimistic about Moderna, as this vaccine doesn't prevent me from infecting my parents.

What does that mean? Don't both vaccines work exactly the same? Both are mRNA vaccines.
I gave some examples of things that come to mind to me, some of them cost very little. I am sure that the big impact does not come just from actions like the ones I mentioned but from small changes that accumulate.

One thing is for real, every one of us could be doing more. It is not enough to just delegate this problem to someone else, politician or otherwise.

I know that it is very hard to change habits, more so when you are not seeing the outcome. But in the end it is just about doing what you believe is fixing the problem, not delegating.

Somehow I see a finger pointed at me, telling me to do more. The finger should be pointed at each and one of us, telling us to do more, and vote better.
This will happen but people will should not be surprised that we all get paid Topeka KS salaries not San Francisco CA salaries.

The long term strategy of location pay differentials may seem like punishing people for leaving SF, but it's the opposite.

I've been paid 80% of SF rate to live in the middle of nowhere and anyone else who has done this will realize it's an amazing deal. When a 3000 sq ft house costs considerably less than your 1 bedroom apartment, you realize that your cost of living didn't just drop by more than 20%, but that standard of living went way up.

The long-term play from tech companies suddenly going remote is that in 1 year or so, once a sizable portion of the workforce has relocated, the "salary reduction" to move out, will become a "salary enhancement" to live in SF. Then the conversation will be "Look Matt, it really doesn't make sense to pay you a premium just because you want to work SF. If you want to stay that's fine, but we'll be downgrading your pay to meet company standards."
If I am reading Moderna's protocol right, it does evaluate sterilizing immunity. You are right Pfizer's protocol doesn't collect data to evaluate it.

https://www.modernatx.com/sites/default/files/mRNA-1273-P301...
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> I expected little, and I was still underwhelmed. Oh well, such is life.

Well, your comment about it is really nice, it made me smile, especially this last sentence (I find it... poetic!) and at least this thing produced a little connection between me and you.

You never know :)
Why not hire even cheaper, outside of America?
The demographic bomb of a huge mass of people entering high-cost-healthcare old age and not being supported by enough young people being born (aka the entitlements pyramid scheme) seems to be exacerbated by the elderly potential grandparents not offering their services to make raising of grandchildren easier, especially in modern two-income cultures.

While obvious I was not around for previous generations of childrearing and can't comment as to whether the 1950s nuclear family represented a fundamental drop in childrearing support/labor by grandparents and extended family, being a recent parent and being around other recent parents, it does seem like grandparents and extended family aren't as helpful as it "feels" like they should.

Combine that with the massive generational war underway in America between college debt, healthcare costs, home ownership costs, and vastly reduced job market, it really does seem like we need fundamental policy to encourage having kids, starting with child care. Immigration can't serve all of the generational pyramid scheme.

A "retired people child care corps" would be a nice thing to try. Mental and physical activity is key to health in retirement, and childcare is an excellent healthy disruption to retirement. They especially could help out with unscheduled childcare needs.
Thank you John.

My favorite Ramanujan’s formula: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ = −1/12
Not sure which one is safer but I have read in many places that using NXDOMAIN is a lot faster then 127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0 because with NXDOMAIN you get 'fail' instantly while with 127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0 you need to wait for connection timeout.

Thanks for the link, will look into it.
That's a 16 point win for Trump. The polls were predicting an 8 point win e.g. 54/46
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I looked it up and saw it was read by Michael Kramer. It's worth it do just hear his voice.
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If it were hosted on a M1 Mini, it would be much faster :)
Safari picture-in-picture is better integrated with macOS: it can be used with multiple virtual desktops, it can be pushed to the side, it both snaps to predefined positions and it can be moved wherever. Firefox is stuck to one virtual display, unfortunately. Or has this changed?
The gap that separates us is too wide. The only thing I can suggest is this, please watch Adam Curtis's documentary 'Hypernormalisation':

https://vimeo.com/191817381/comments

(Watch at your own risk, be aware it is a BBC propaganda piece.)
I'd argue that the value of the company often doesn't reflect whether they're doing a good job. Which is why you often find CEOs taking short-termist approach which buoys the value of the company in the short term and completely destroys it in the long term.
There are sales every now and then which get you pay less for whatever period you continue being subscribed. I pay 20 dollars a month since 2 years without any “student discount” shenanigans
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Needs a price drop of a hundred quid or so.

Performance is pretty good, raytracing not good at all, and no extra features like DLSS and RTX voice etc.

Edit: A friend of mine who streams informs me that AMD's encoder/s are apparently still pretty bad
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As a parallel reply noted, the goal isn’t to host a payload on GitHub or a pastebin.

The issue is “how do I tell my bootstrapper where to get a payload from in an inconspicuous way”. To solve that, you find a benign site with existing business purpose (like GitHub or a wiki or a pastebin), and you insert your desired IP address. So maybe you add it as new file in a repo under your cool new fake GitHub account, and the file just says “1.2.3.4”. Now you can tell your bootstrapper to make an HTTPS request for that file, which looks boring to any introspection because outbound requests to GitHub are normal, and to use the resulting IP to request the payload.

Your compromised payload host gets shut down? Spin up a new one, and update the file on GitHub with the new IP.
Moderna's trial protocol collects data to evaluate asymptomatic infections. Pfizer's trial protocol does not.
Most ads are £350-500 per day. VB.NET (if there are any jobs) won't be more than £350. However I am basing this on the contract market before COVID.
If anyone is curious what a megabyte of core would look like, see page 732 of "Engineering and Operations in The Bell System", second edition. It has a drawing showing memory cards from their electronic switching systems from 1965 through 1984. Here's a photo of that page [1].

In 1965 they introduced ferrite sheets, and a 1.18 MB memory card was 104 feet long.

1971 brought ferrite cores, and that same storage fit on a card under 9 feet long.

https://imgur.com/gallery/z8nJo3T
Not really true, as many people support murder by the state in retaliation for heinous crimes including other murders. Two wrongs do not inherently make a right, and our belief that murder is bad is very much a holdover from our religious roots.
You can already use a USB hub/dock?
I was able to perform a minor tweak to the installer to make RTX voice install with my GTX 1080, so I'm a bit iffy on calling it a real "feature" of Nvidia's cards when they're clearly artificially restricting it in significant ways.
offshoring has been happening for a long time. Why would this be an issue now all of a sudden?
I'm aware that these changes were made.

I'm challenging the idea that these things reduce voter integrity.

You seem to think it's obvious and axiomatic that these processes meaningfully improve voter integrity. Do you have evidence that they make things more secure? Or could it be they are security theater?
They have different targets. Moderna stops you from getting infected, BioNTech vaccine stops you from getting sick. mRNA is the delivery technology.
It does not.

What I would offer is it has 6 back bogo pins that speak I2C, so someone who wants to build it in can.
When I was purchasing a car this helped a lot too! Salesmen are much more experienced than me since they negotiate every day, but even accounting for that it is easy to see what they are doing with other customers and easy to see through the attempts they make on myself. The most common one of course is the "time limited" deal... As if I just happened to show up on the only day there is a sale...
Were auto workers considered skilled laborers? The value of a software engineer is that there is a skill there that takes significant time and effort to learn before you can be useful. Not sure if there is an equivalence there.
Probably just getting the HN hug 'o death - just not loading for me atm.
You can make transactions through the web browser. So that isn't technically true.
>that portion of their compensation is directly tied to the value of the company.

One small nuance: it can be disproportionately tied to the short term value of the company. One of the moral hazards of this compensation scheme is that it may incentivize an executive to make decisions that inflate the value of the company short term while also de-valuing it long term (when they are no longer part of the company -- presumably after they've extracted that value).
I'm not sure I agree with the price, but I agree with the sentiment.

Nvidia spent their years refining their drivers and building out a legitimately useful platform of tools that utilize their GPUs. At times AMDs base functionality in their drivers can be buggy and unreliable. Even if they can compute similarly AMD has so much ecosystem ground to try and make up.
Improv lessons. Seriously. Being confident speaking in front of others and the life lessons it provides ("yes, and") are absolutely indispensable. It brought me out of my shell and advanced me in my career significantly, all while having fun and making friends.
“The reason we moderate like this is not because of morality or taste ”
I'm curious, is there any information on the confidence interval for this 95% number?

Intuitively, I would expect the confidence to be pretty low - after all, if tomorrow 2 more people in the vaccine group happen to get sick, the relative risk reduction will go from 20x to 15x.

Is there anything wrong with this reasoning?
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As someone who graduated from college in 2008 let me tell you that 30% sounded basically like highway robbery to me and soured me on Apple for a lot of years. I refused to buy anything Apple related because I viewed (and still do) that 30% as abusive.

Maybe folks in industry saw it differently but I definitely beg to differ.
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He does heavy Black Friday discounts if anyone is considering buying them. Maybe wait a couple of weeks.
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I don't really trust any kind of data coming from companies (or government for that matter). I will wait few years and see for myself if there are no side effects.

I am surprised so many people are suddenly in full "believe the science" mode, especially when big pharma companies weren't exactly the most ethical players on the market in the past.
Your negotiation power becomes even more important when everything is public, because then it gets harder for people to cheat you.
That's a bit like saying addictive drugs themselves aren't a problem.

Technology is designed to trick humans into engaging with it. They use us for profit.

It's asymmetric warfare. One or two parents, with jobs and responsibilities, against kids with peer pressure and billion dollar industries hawking them on, claws in their back and brain.
This could be implemented at the site level (unfortunately with bloated frameworks, few care). One possible implementation could have the browser measure how long it takes to load assets and switch to requesting lightweight ones if loading takes too long.

Oftentimes, the real killer is not so much bandwidth but latency. If a page requires many requests to complete sequentially (ie. because one asset needs to be loaded in order to know how to request the next one), that all adds up real quick and produces a poor user experience.
Flutter does seem super cool. I agree with you too about it being easier to focus on mobile first.

The problem is the ecosystem is small. If your use case doesn't fit their widgets, you have to do a lot of workaround stuff.

Although this app stands out as a success in my mind: https://fluffychat.im/en/
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In a (still very hypothetical) world where some group/class of employees are overwhelmingly remote/distributed, it's reasonable to assume that salaries tend to equalize at least within the US. That's a lot of hypotheticals, of course. However, if it were to become the case, why would I have any reason to pay you a premium to live in Manhattan or SF any more than I would pay you a premium to live in Aspen.

ADDED: Salary is pretty sticky in a downward direction. However, over time, one can imagine levels equalizing as things like RSUs/bonuses become more similar across locations.
The reason why paperweights exist was because, prior to air conditioning, offices were built to have a constant flow of air through them to cool down workers.
This phenomenon is called “apohanam” in Sanskrit and is considered to be a blessing, because, as another commentator pointed out, remembering everything is an extreme burden, especially if you accept “past lives”.
So for people who don't care about raytracing and want to play in 1440p, the 6800XT seems a good choice, my only concern is driver stability / crashes, AMD is not good at that?
The app seems like it could evolve into a personal CRM, which is obviously a seemingly promising idea. Really not a fan of the look though (Fisher Price UI design trend).
its a procedure with a painful recovery?
Ah they are anabaptist. Thought that 'about us' sounded somewhat fringe. They hold some pretty extreme views on which relationships are okay/allowed, and how those relationships can be lived (no divorce or remarriage, only hetero, etc.).

They are the last people anyone should listen to on the subject of modern relationships and families life.