skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are either paucisymptomatic (you have mild symptoms - maybe too mild to notice)

Or you notice them but because they also match symptoms of colds and allergies, and you’ve been getting them on and off for months, you assume they aren’t COVID.

I don’t think there has been an interval longer than a week since February during which I didn’t have at least a couple symptoms that could have been COVID.

I’ve not had the taste/smell loss, and all my contact with other people has been masked and brief, and I’m in an area where spread has been low, so I’ve probably not had it, but I wish we had widespread cheap testing so I could know.
I agree on the long term Investment. The main reason to buy and hold stocks over the long-term is that long-term investments almost always outperform the market when investors try and time their investments. Emotional trading tends to hamper investor returns. Over most 20-year time periods, the S&P 500 has posted positive returns for investors.
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The officer in the video comes in with gun drawn, and points the gun upwards as he approaches the stairs.

The "point a gun at a child" part comes in that her children where upstairs, but if the cops are looking out for hidden gunmen, why would they belief what she says.
> In reality, you'd more likely have an endpoint like `/videos/user/12` or `/users/12/videos`

Sure and then you do the same with images and friends. And all of those have tags. Friends are also users so they also have videos and images... which have tags. Friends can also have friends of course... it can even be circular!

I wanted to keep my example simple, but here you go...

> Hmm, so I think you're saying that there would still be separate queries, but you're "batching" them, such that client sends multiple queries simultaneously to the backend

Sorry, I used the same term for two different things. Nothing happens in parallel. Frontend sends one request (not one query...) to the backend which contains two graphql queries (one of them a nested query). It is all one http request and one response. No batching here, you can send this request using curl or postman.

HTTP/2 does not help here, because the second query is dependent on the first one (hence a subquery). Because you need to know the video ids first. Sometimes HTTP/2 helps, but not in this case.

> I'm not entirely sure if you're kidding, but I assure you I didn't edit my post.

Not kidding at all - maybe I mixed it up?
I think your priors on "optical illusions" are unreasonably low. I too once saw a seemingly inertia-less gleaming silvery orb streaking across the clear blue sky. If it had flown away just a moment sooner, I might never have realized that it was in fact a fluffy seed pod, some 15 yards away.
You took this opportunity to anonymously say something to state almost nothing useful. Care to expand?
its really not that simple, it turned out that the stats we were working from were wrong (well done china...) but also ventilators are not great for covid patients. Its much better to slap them with oxygen.
There also was a free audiobook version of this article on The Daily recently, that I enjoyed hearing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/podcasts/the-daily/tree-c...
Do those countries have similar levels of gun crime against cops?
Maybe it was to make up for being sent to Coventry.
The /electric/ guitar might be the quintessential American instrument but I think South America would like a word if you think the acoustic guitar is quintessentially American outside of the American zeitgeist.
Indenting is absolutely, positively not a problem at all in Lisp.
If you prefer video, this Ted Talk from Suzanne Simard does a good job of summarizing her team’s discoveries about how trees communicate.

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_e...
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Citizens also don't routinely own firearms in the UK, so the two are related.
I get the worries about the anticompetitive nature of regulation. (Goes back to George Stigler:"regulation is purchased by the industry".) I'd like to see more evidence that small businesses need targeted advertising to survive.

Also, I'm not sure that the opposition between "small businesses" and "giants" works. The giants are mostly platforms for the small businesses to work off. Amazon is a marketplace too. There's no bright line between "integrated giant" and "platform for micro-businesses".
> I don’t think there has been an interval longer than a week since February during which I didn’t have at least a couple symptoms that could have been COVID.

It's remarkable the number of people anecdotally reporting similar symptoms - often out of character for otherwise robustly healthy individuals. I'm guessing some sort of psychosomatic response to the year's stresses.
isn't this where most of the fatalities are happening? isnt the handling of elderly covid patients the reason a lot of people are unhappy with Cuomo and others because they turned retirement homes into morgues?
you need something to run the containers anyway, and with all the management overhead docker and other systems adds, one can just cut the chase and let an orchestrator do it
[citation needed]

Do you work in a hospital? do you know any ICU people? I think you are confusing palliative care with ICU

American overtreatment is busting out MRIs for a standard sprain, routine CAT scans, dishing out opiates for anything more than 2weeks
I don't think it's a need to have an opinion. They're trying to spin it as a firing so they can claim Gebru is an oppressed black woman who's a victim of racism. If she resigned then that narrative falls flat.
I was specifically responding to the idea that because guns are banned in the Europe that criminals don't have them. I know that isn't true. It is ridiculous to think so.

> (Also, including phrases like "are you stupid" in comments just makes you look foolish)

Making statements like "In Europe the risk of having someone greet you with an assault rifle is non-existent, because people just can't buy them." is stupid. Where I live (in the midlands outside of the cities) it is non-existant. In London or Manchester it is probably much higher.

Also there is no such thing as an "assault rifle". I not even into firearms and I know the term is bullshit.
This is exactly the case.

I've got enough potential liability piled up there that I think some of these stories will only come out once I'm good and dead. Not just legal liability -- although I did sign an NDA/non-disparage -- bringing up dirt from past businesses is like mudwrestling with a pig: everyone ends up looking dirty.

In this case, I'm glad to say I acted with complete integrity at every point, but knowing the parties involved, we'd end up in a cesspool of rumors and falsehoods, and no one would come out looking clean.

Live. Learn. Move onto the next business. Give advice in generics. Some people will believe you, and others won't.
Yes, they’d panic without training and practice. Because people panic, get frantic, or otherwise become emotional to the point of misunderstanding. Calm communication in serious, dangerous, or emergency situations is learned.
If that happens, then the phone becomes viable. Until that date, it's just an expensive toy to tinker with.
Does anyone know a PC gaming website that regularly reviews anti-cheat software? I know review websites get free sample copies and stuff from game publishers... are there any review websites which serve gamers first??
There's a tendency to highlight risks and sideeffects of this vaccine that is without any basis.

It's reasonable to ask what the risks are, but unspecific ramblings about risks aren't helpful and it's unreasonable to highlight very hypothetical risks compared to the very real risks of getting Covid-19.

Right now the risk issue seems pretty clearcut: There were no serious sideeffects in the trials. What gave me additional confidence is hearing in an interview with Paul Offit (one of the world's leading vaccine expers) that almost all serious vaccine sideeffects that appeared in the past with other vaccines would appear relatively quickly (within weeks). Thus if there would be common sideeffects we would know by now.

Thus we can with reasonable confidence say that if there are any serious sideeffects from the promising Covid-19 vaccines then in all likelyhood they will be rare. It seems almost impossible that the vaccines pose a greater risk than the risk of not using them.
Doubt Pfizer has much spare stock just sitting around at this point, and also I’m guessing you’d need an import license for it. But I’d imagine once there’s plenty to go around you’ll absolutely start to see private offerings.
Wouldn’t you say your post is “bitter criticism” of Apple/the AppStore? If so, then welcome to learning the definition of vitriol! If not, then other help than I can provide is needed.
Somewhat similar project I've got on my todo list; my grandpa had an old C64 setup in his cellar, so when going through his stuff recently, I picked up the setup (minus datasette reader, which was defective according to the smoke marks).

So now I'm looking into plugging the MPS-802 into my Linux server and have it print healthcheck or other error messages from the MPS onto endless paper. There seem to be some Arduino-related project to talk on the C64 Bus (it's not a too terribly complicated bus) and my only worry is that the ink catridge has dried up (though it seems to be carbon, so wouldn't even be a worry, but refilling is).
Different tissues are protected by different types of antibodies. A vaccine injected subcutaneously will mostly induce an IgG response, a type of antibody present in blood and extracellular fluid. This could still possibly allow a virus to infect mucous membranes, which rely on a different type of antibody, sIgA[0], to protect them. If this is the case, you could be protected from having a serious systemic infection, but could still suffer a mild upper respiratory infection, and be infectious until the immune system mounted defense in the mucous membranes.

Some flu vaccines come in the form of a nasal spray, which does induce an IgA response. I don't know why COVID vaccines are administered parenterally instead, I'm sure there are good technical reasons. Given the virus's possible neurological involvement, maybe it's a bad idea to deposit it so close to the olfactory bulb.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_A#Secretory_IgA
Oh I totally understand you

That being said it seems the most specific symptom is loss of smell/taste so unless you have that it's probably something else (disclaimer: not a doctor and this is not medical advice)
Google promises “spectacular” city GPS improvement with 3D building data
This is getting downvotes, but it is at least somewhat correct.

> it protects you from the effects of Covid-19, the disease, caused by your body's reaction to the virus.

There isn't really evidence either way for this. To quote Nature[1]:

"Tests on more than 43,000 people have shown that the Pfizer vaccine is 95% effective at preventing disease"

> vaccination doesn't mean you cannot get the virus and spread it around.

This might be true:

"But none has demonstrated that it prevents infection altogether, or reduces the spread of the virus in a population. This leaves open the chance that those who are vaccinated could remain susceptible to asymptomatic infection — and could transmit that infection to others who remain vulnerable. “In the worst-case scenario, you have people walking around feeling fine, but shedding virus everywhere"

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03441-8
> - Database transactions ensure that when you ask the database to modify X, it either happens in its entirety or it doesn't. It's not meant to prevent concurrent edits, it's meant to keep the data in the database consistent.

It keeps the database consistent. But fundamentally that's only worth something if you can use it to make things consistent for the user.

> - CRDT's allow user A and B to edit object X concurrently, because it's mathematically proven that two instances of the CRDT can be merged later without conflict.

Right. But the way that works in practice is that your datastore needs to store both user A's edit and user B's edit and then handle that convergence, and if you use a datastore that's actually designed for distributed use like Riak or Cassandra then it will give you the tools for doing that. An RDBMS simply can't do that because it's built around maintaining the illusion that there's a single version of each row (even when it's actually using MVCC behind the scenes). Yes, you can build your own CRDTs "in userspace" but you have to do things like use two tables to represent a 2P-set (two columns would be bad enough, but no, SQL databases don't have collection column types so you really do have to create two extra tables for each set property you have), at which point the database won't be giving you any help.

> Add a column "version" to your table and when the user submits a change, include this version number in the change request. Then upon database UPDATE, check if the version in the DB still matches expectations. If it doesn't you reject the UPDATE and you can report back to the user what happened. You could easily apply this logic using triggers which will ensure that no matter the source of the UPDATE statements, it will be a certainty older versions can't overwrite newer versions.

That's hacky and manual - you're effectively duplicating something that the database itself is doing at a lower-level, so you could do it much more efficiently with a datastore that would just expose that to you. And it still doesn't really give the behaviour you want - you don't want to refuse to store the incompatible change, you want to save both versions and somehow merge them in the future (possibly by asking the user to do so); an approach that destroys data by default is not ideal.

Yes, databases are Turing-complete and you can build whatever you want in them, but if you don't go with the grain of what the tools and built-in features expect then you're giving up all the advantages of using that kind of database in the first place. You're better off picking a datastore that has first-class support for being used in the kind of way you want to use it.
Or one can use a service that does the orchestration in a certain way so that one does not have to care about it, as long as one can live with the constraints of the service. E.g. AWS Fargate or GC Run.
kids these days get mad if their fps drops below 100!
>Considering what a rough time the US (and Russia) has had in Afghanistan, I suspect they'd still be fairly effective.

That was the whole plan in WW2, take the army back to the mountains leave the city's and flatland to the enemy, then start Guerilla warfare and protect the big Mountain Fortresses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Redoubt_(Switzerland)
What you are describing is in my optinion the exact problem happening with almost all microservices. Building an aggregator microservice to join together two services is another microservice in a complex microservice landscape...

People on hn seem to hate monoliths, but a monolith with just a few services outsourced to microservices is much easier to handle. No more joining microservice, no more race conditions when trying to do transactional processing over some microservices and all the problems of microservices.
My philosophy exactly. The phrase wrestling with a pig in the muck comes to mind....
You seem to imply you have knowledge that may be useful and opposite of the mainstreamed narrative but refuse to disclose anything tangible/useful even with the cover of anonymity. Care to expand?
Blockchains coordinate Humans into larger Organisms
Back in 1982 or so, when I was 15 or 16, my school was throwing out an ASR33, so I appropriated it. I had a Jupiter Ace microcomputer, whose claim to fame was that it was programmed in Forth rather than Basic. Great little machine, commercial flop, so there was very little software and no hardware add-ons available. I decided to use mine to build a micromouse for a school project; a friend and I designed a parallel I/O board using TTL logic and veroboard to control the robot. Parallel port worked well, the robot sort of worked - had to build everything from scratch in the school metalwork shop.

And then the teletype turned up, and I really wanted to use it as a printer. I remembering scouring the town libraries trying to find anything that explained this mystery RS232 protocol. I also had the usual teenager problem of lots of time and no money. In the end, I implemented RS232 using a 24V smoothed power supply scavenged from a scrapped ATM to give +/- 12V, a couple of power transistors desoldered from some other scrap board to switch the 12V rails, and bit-banged the protocol in Forth using one pin of the home-brew parallel port. Took a lot of trial and error to get the timing right, as I didn't have any test gear. Worked great in the end - as far as I know, I had the only Jupiter Ace with a printer, and it cost me precisely nothing. Happy days. The skills learned back then figuring things out for myself have served me well over the years in research.
it is subjective but nobody is happy with a first person 3d game at 15fps
But other people who use radios, like the Army, don't speak in that drawl but also don't panic on the radio, and were doing it well before.
You only have one planet, it's a little difficult to split it in two.

How would you suggest we run randomised experiments on the climate (or the macro-economy)?
Opened the link thinking the article was about how to move on from a company that's probably going to shut soon. Learned something nonetheless.
I believe this was the case at the start, I'm not sure if this is the case now however. Deaths have only recently arrived at where they were at the first peak in the US, my impression was this was because it was a less vulnerable population being infected.
Remembering the remarkable Walter E. Williams
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/370/6520/1022.ful...

'Public needs to prep for vaccine side effects, “Take Tylenol and suck it up,” says one researcher. Fever, aches show vaccine works'.
I’m sure the infectious disease specialists know what they are doing.
Yes, american gun culture has little to do with the background of the case: the alleged hacking, the perceived need for a raid etc. We can debate those points, but let's suppose for the sake of argument the cops had no idea if they dealing with a harmless journalist or with Ross Ulbricht, hacker and online drug lord that orders murders.

However, the way the raid has been implemented on the ground is a direct effect of American gun culture, it should have been obvious from the rest of the comment this is what I mean to say, this is the root cause I referred to.

Cops do not create that gun culture, cops do not buy millions of firearms and place them in the hands of civilians, they react to this situation and try to stay alive, as would you, as would anybody in their position.
Yes and that includes everything starring the late Sean Connery, such as Dr. No and Goldfinger, through to Pierce Brosnan's brief Bond revival with titles like Goldeneye.
balancing YAGNI against pain hint yourself into a corner is a real fun challenge.
I've also learnt that they threw a lot of (expired?) ammunition into the lakes...

And that 2 weapons bunkers have exploded, 1 annihilating a village. Well, half of it exploded, and the other half is a ticking time bomb: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/mitholz--life-in-the-shadow-of-...
> To strive for a world without the generation or capture of data is to fight against the very nature of technology.

How is "the very nature of technology" to tell every site on the planet my GPU?
QuantumScape Releases Data on Breakthrough Solid State Li-Ion Battery
This is an amazing read, highly recommend it if you are scrolling past
Octopus with transparent head caught by blackwater photographer
Sweden did sort of a lockdown excluding schools up to pupils age 16.
haha! Unless you’re their lawyer, accountant, investor or spouse then you’re public. And there’s a difference between what is the truth and what you tell the world in hospitality, and you _literally_ do it every business day.

COVID is the situation and restaurants are among the industries hit the hardest by airborne disease spread indoors. Sheesh. Maybe I'm reading too much into a flip cursing comment suggesting there's _a person_, or _agency_ who deserves blame. I think it's more likely doubt and anxiety underlying that comment. Anxiety about _our own_ uncertain future, and grief in dealing with loss. And for that you have my sympathies. We are all touched by this disease.
> Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it?

No, it makes sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it to people who are most at risk of dying from it. Thus anyone in and around aged care.
> Homeless people aren't being treated differently for "not thinking the correct thoughts", or "not being morally aligned".

Homeless people who hear voices or are delusional are treated differently precisely because they are not thinking the correct thoughts.

Homeless people who indulge in self-mediation with alcohol or other drugs are treated differently precisely because those behaviours are not considered morally aligned.

> They are treated differently from ordinary people, but if any ordinary person did the same they would be treated that way too.

Plenty of people with homes are addicts. Plenty of people with homes suffer from depression or other conditions. I don't read a lot about how they should be rounded up by the authorities and reformed or institutionalized.

> Being treated differently based on behaviour is not necessarily wrong.

In the 1930s Soviet Union under Josef Stalin, political opposition was considered a mental illness just like schizophrenia and hysteria. You were considered crazy of you did not support the regime. Thousands of these crazies were rounded up, often in the middle of the night, and institutionalized in an attempt to cure them. The fresh air and honest labour of camps in Siberia were considered just the thing to help.

Sure, it's not necessarily wrong to treat someone differently based on behaviour. We consider it reasonable to isolate an individual who demonstrably poses a danger to others. The line is poorly drawn when it comes to differentiating between danger and inconvenience. Is seeing someone in a park smelling like urine and talking to someone you can't see enough of a threat to be isolated and force-fed mind-altering drugs? Does making unproven accusations demonstrate enough possibility of danger that we should "lock her up"?

Where does the line get drawn, and who has the privilege of drawing it?