skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, absolutely. There are major farms operating on a completely different scale for mass staple crops, and bless them because it's an efficient backbone to a lot of our core foods. But I don't think the continued existence of small farms is that obscure either is it? This is now 3 year old (2017) data [0], and the last few years have been hard. But it's not that out of date yet nor did it shift that much from 2012 [1], the overwhelming majority of the few million farms in America are small family owned operations with <$100k annual income. Average size just 450 or so acres and even that is skewed up by the few percent of enormous farms.

I guess I'm just kind of fascinated the first few comments on something like this would be about it being "hobbyist". Anything that could lower operating costs and externalities for small farms also deserves a bit more positive attention.

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0: https://www.usfarmdata.com/percentage-of-small-medium-and-la...

1: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2016/Small...
I've been curious if the spikes we've seen since October is the flu season giving people with cold symptoms which get them out of the house to be tested and it caught many more asymptomatic people than usual.

While the vast majority of asymptomatic just stayed out of the system during the spring and summer.

Also, slightly off topic, but the recent spike in Turkey shows how mind-blowingly fast it can shutdown your country, they went from obscurity to 4th place in daily counts after US, India, and Brazil within a month, despite much lower population levels:

https://i.imgur.com/busPOrn.png

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
You made my day, thanks for that! /andrew
I'll take it, but still mostly isolate for a while. My infant son is likely to get a vaccine a year later in the best scenario, and I'm not about to expose him to this thing if at all possible.
I suggest that Western culture's understanding of risk is immature. Is it the case that driving at the speed limit is safe and driving 5% faster is dangerous? Of course not. Driving at any speed carries risk; driving faster, on a given road, in given conditions, is usually more dangerous; and society needs to decide the degree of risk it will accept. (This applies especially in cases such as driving, where the benefit of speeding accrues to the driver, but much of the risk is imposed on others without their consent.)

A better approach to the safety of the vaccine is to ask whether it's safer to take it or to abstain, and who bears the risk in each case. I accept that the numbers won't be the same for everyone: they depend on age, sex, gregariousness, medical condition, culture, job, and perhaps (I don't know) ethnicity. However, people I know who've had Covid-19 say it's brutal: even if it doesn't kill you, it can give you a really rough time. I know of four friends of friends who've died of it, including one in his twenties. And let's not forget long Covid, which can strike at any age. Set against that the clinical trials that the vaccine has undergone, with trials halted if even one person became seriously ill. Finally, there seems to be at least a reasonable possibility that being vaccinated will reduce a person's ability to infect others.

All in all, any of the leading vaccines available in the West look like a better bet, for me and the people around me, than just crossing my fingers and hoping.

Should I take it now or wait? There seems little doubt that vaccines will be refined over the coming years. A vaccine taken in 2023 will probably be safer, and certainly better understood, than one taken in 2021. But someone who waits two years has endured two extra years' risk of suffering, spreading and possibly dying from Covid. You would have to think that vaccines are much more dangerous than I do for that to be a reasonable trade-off.
> I would invest in SpaceX in a heartbeat if I could.

It's easy to say when you're coming after they've built it.
Yes, emphasis is sometimes not clear, so just highlighting that you yourself are unlikely to die as you highlighted, but the increased likelihood of passing the disease on to those who can't take the vaccine is of greater emphasis
No, you are accepting the possibility that you may get COVID and die and that you may be spreading it to other people who may contract it.

Most people in this thread seems to be forgetting that second part.
I was watching point break last week, and temporarily felt bad that bank robberies can't really happen anymore. If for no other reason, because they make a good story line.
> parking at the Omaha Hilton is $15 per night.

In Seattle (last city I stayed at a Hilton) it's $45 after tax. It's entirely possible that not many people making $900 per week go to Seattle, and when they do I bet they don't stay at the Hilton.

Agreed though, it's hard to price in the potentially massive hassle of a bad Airbnb. I think most people treat the probability as zero until it happens to them personally.
I'm not aware of any localities or nations that are just dumping the vaccines off at a pharmacy and letting people do what they want. Everywhere has a roll-out plan, with healthcare workers and high-risk individuals prioritized over the totally healthy mid-20's athlete. So (b) in your list isn't really a concern. If you have access to it, you should get it.
The thing with ROS is… it's pretty good at what it sets out to do. It's a common framework that everything in the robotics universe can speak to, has some amazing tooling, and handles many tedious things that robotics experts shouldn't have to care about. It does broadly achieve this.

But from my perspective as a generalist software engineer who isn't a low-level robotics expert – as an ecosystem, it seems to have adopted every bad practice available and invented some more of its own. My experience working with it has been an exercise in trying to isolate it as much as possible so that the blast radius can be restricted. Many of the architectural design decisions are frankly baffling, although I appreciate that this is in part down to age, legacy, and the open nature of the platform.

ROS2 definitely feels like it rounds off some of the sharper edges and I'm very happy to see this project push forward in some useful areas!
For questions you don’t know you have. I read the iperf man page earlier for laughs, discovered the -B option which I’d forgotten existed.
> on principle.

What principle?
Those are certainly arguments you can make.

But you have to acknowledge that there are huge incentives for the drug manufacturers to have a successful test and a healthy scepticism until they have been truly independently verified isn't unwarranted.

Also a pure, as tested, vaccine doesn't magically appear for your inoculation, there is manufacturing, and delivery, and other potential contamination points along the way. It means what goes into your system isn't necessarily what has shown to be safe; not a huge risk, but a risk nonetheless.

It would have made me feel better if you had started out your reply by saying.. "yes there are risks to this vaccine, but..". That way I would know we're working from the same starting point and I could trust that your views are calm and considered, and that you accept the reality that there is indeed risk to taking a foreign substance into your bloodstream.

Many of us know people who have had Covid, and it wasn't a very big deal. Even fat old Donald Trump shrugged it off in a few days; granted he had the best medical care possible. That's not to diminish the loss of loved ones that have surely been taken by Covid. But it can make one question the statistical importance of Covid in the larger scheme of things.

Again, i'm not really arguing with your points, just that they need to be presented with honesty, we shouldn't put a religious halo around vaccines; we should be clear about the risks too.
Happy mapbox customer here, but unfortunately I expect some of the longshot feature requests may never see the light of day now that outside development contributions are going to go to zero.

Is there any OSS or economical (Non-ESRI; non-Google) commercial solution for WebGL maps and vector base layer that supports non-mercator projections without hacks? (Arbitrary projections, not just distorting mercator onto a spehere)
Get wired headphones, attach a $10 bluetooth to wired adapter, bundle up the wires onto the head strap.

It's in some ways lesser than AirPods Max, but it's hundreds of dollars cheaper, you can choose the ear shape and quality that you want, and it lasts forever.
Um, you do know that alcohol is something that pregnant women should avoid?

Will you quit drinking alcohol?
(reads news)

"The F.D.A. accelerates its timeline to authorize the Pfizer vaccine to Friday evening after a threat from Trump's chief of staff: The White House told the F.D.A chief he should start working on his next job if he didn't get the vaccine authorization done Friday, an official said." -- NYTimes

... I think I will select, "I WILL WAIT"
Using Rust types to guarantee domain invariants
How many of the yes voters took the seasonal flu shot? Genuinely asking
> YEt, I am not aware of anyone leaving a red state to live under the woke shackles.

University graduates and skilled workers?
> It's "fuck you, I don't trust you to work in my best interests".

While I'm not sure that the rest isn't edgy satire, I definitely agree with this. This vaccine in particular has become a political talking point and moral soapbox.
I'm just recalling from the Sorensen's LFTR's videos here, but I had the impression it was the exact opposite in terms of weapon-grade nuclear material.
I do wonder if this is having some impact. The rate of hospitalizations are rising pretty fast along with the positive case rate in my state, though. The percentage of positive tests has climbed quite a bit as well.
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If the debt forgiveness event is scheduled well in advance (and I believe that's how these things worked) why do interest rates need to change drastically? Lenders would just need to be sure that loans are structured so that they are repaid before the jubilee.

I would think the bigger effect would be to dissuade lenders from lending more than the borrowers could repay before the debt forgiveness date. Also certain things that are inflated due to finance (like housing, cars, college) might see an adjustment to more affordable prices, or maybe some things would cycle, going up when people could borrow, and going down as the debt forgiveness event approached.

It's an interesting idea, to think about the pros and cons.
That sounds awful from a noise perspective. I live across the street from a shopping center, and they tend to do all of their cleaning late at night, to avoid disturbing customers. No care at all for the sleep of neighbors when running leaf blowers at 11 PM.
I own both the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro and the Bose QC35 II. The active noise cancelling Bose headphones are vastly better on a plane trip. The HD 280 Pros are just not very good at reducing ambient noise.
I should have been more clear; I was mainly disagreeing with your first sentence. The rest mostly makes sense to me. Ad-hoc analysis was only one example, you could easily replace it with working on a prototype, where part of your goal is to find mistakes by making them, as that is often the most efficient way to discover what the problems with your design are.
I’m curious to hear the Apple headphones. There aren’t many studio quality headphones with ANC because studio headphones are usually open back, and it makes little sense to put ANC in open back headphones. I reserve judgement but don’t think the Apple headphones will compete with headphones used for mixing and mastering.

There has been relatively little innovation in headphones (and speakers) the last decade or so aside from DSP correction. The last really innovative (from an audio engineering point of view) headphone in my book is the HEDDphone with Air Motion Transfer drivers previously unseen outside some exotic speakers. But it’s $2000, weighs 700g and requires an amp to drive it.

I look forward to hearing the Apple headphones but am sceptical you can get as much of a boost with “computational audio” as you can with computational photography, compared to “dumb” headphones with similar drivers and tuning.

I think the spatial audio stuff is interesting and possibly better than previous attempts on headphones. I think well off people will buy these headphones for the convenience factor (works and sounds marginally better than the next best competitor), and Apple will probably release a less expensive version down the line.
No. The vaccine is a concentrated flood of the proteins that are necessary for the immune system to target the virus.

There are vaccines that cause better immune response than the disease it protects against.
The most precise map of the Milky Way galaxy’s stars ever made
Oh I remember this from back when I was in highschool, nice to see it again :)
Building out the grid will help out a lot. Put those solar panels in Portugal and Spain and the difference between winter and summer is much less. I ran some numbers recently for Portugal's grid and was surprised to find out that with the current seasonality of solar, wind and hydro we have on the grid, we could scale up solar and wind to have 100% renewables with very little overcapacity and we could keep going and produce twice our current needs while exporting about the same amount of energy every month of the year. Solar and wind's seasonality match up quite well and hydro gives great flexibility.
>and sometimes internet connection is non-existent.

Starlink might offer a bit of disruption there, particularly once its approved for mobile usage. They might ultimately have an opportunity to offer plans/terminals specifically for situations like this too, dedicated application devices that need small amounts of bandwidth in isolated areas.
No, it's still stupid that you have to use a different cable.

I have a C cable on my desk, the charger is hidden under it, I don't want to replace the cable ever. This one cable can charge my phone, laptop, power bank, earbuds, gaming headset, Nintendo Switch, heck, it powers my soldering iron – of course I don't ever want to buy anything with a different port!
let me tell you what those people need - it's the clock work orange therapy with a Bill Burr twist. there you have your treatment ...
Just ship every aspect of your business from CA, NY, WA to TX. Zero income taxes to the state plus the city (Austin) will even give you millions of dollars in the form of tax breaks assuming you have an "in" with the city council.

Plus you consider where the world is going in terms of reversing global warming (ie, not very well), LA, SF, NYC will be under water due to the rise in sea level. Planning long term stays in these low lying areas is simply not smart, unless you don't plan to stay in business past 2050.
It looks like the "is life" was added by mistake. If you remove it it reads much better. Also, "death" at the end looks out of place, is this his signature? It could also mean "life is death".
That's interesting. I wonder if that makes people with ADHD ineligible for the draft? I wouldn't be mad about that. I'm also kind of curious about their reasoning. Is it fear that they won't be able to keep a steady supply of medication all the time (i.e. delivering Adderal to the front lines might not be easy), and that people with ADHD become a liability without it? Amphetamines seemed fairly successful for the Nazis during the invasion of France, although the rate that they gave them out at ended in massive addiction. The optics on doing something similar to Nazis is pretty bad, though.
That’s been the law forever; most people fail to file those taxes.
To guarantee no one reads it?
I'd recommend this talk to start: https://www.ted.com/talks/eva_galperin_what_you_need_to_know...
I am not a tax attorney obviously, but the information I've been given (by many sources) is that this year I'll pay taxes for the state in which my employer resides, not where I've been living. I think the decider is "state in which you work", which is what I meant by "local office" (i.e. I'm still considered to "work" in NY).
Then you should be aware that the federal government is merely distributing the vaccines to the states, who will determine rollouts and eligibility. Seems like you're pretty eager to find an excuse to bash the federal government, which I'd normally be all for - but in this case it's a moot point.
As far as I know the number is way lower than the immunization of the Vaccines and the false positive rate of the tests.
This approach appears to work well for E. coli and other organisms with streamlined genomes and large population sizes. One of the challenges with studying gene expression in humans is that it is quite noisy with regard to identifiable function (i.e., contribution to reproduction, however indirectly).

Biologists tend to treat gene expression as functional. In E. coli, this is much more likely to be true than for humans. First, E. coli is a single-cell organism so there is not conflict in differential regulation across cell types. Second, E. coli has a large population relative to its information content, which allows natural selection to operate more efficiently.

mRNA transcription (i.e., gene expression) by itself is relatively inexpensive, so natural selection only weakly optimizes expression in multicellular organisms with small populations. Protein production is much more expensive and is under stronger selection.
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They were also working on SARS and MERS vaccines prior to this so they had a really good head start that they should target the spike protein.
Down votes cause of whole set of reactions. Many of which prompt further inquiry and research. Humans have a wide range of reactions to things. An analysis that lumps them into a narrow set of reactions is useless.
Good points, all of them.

Good chat.

Thank you for the conversation.
Oracle to move headquarters from Bay Area to Texas
> Banning inheritance makes corporations even more powerful

Corporations are legal fictions through which their owners operated. If ownership of corporations can’t be inherited, it doesn’t make “corporations” more powerful, it just distributes power over corporations (presuming that the absence of inheritance means that assets escheat to the State, and that the State itself is fundamentally democratic.)
0.5-1.0% chance to die from COVID-19 assumes an even distribution across all people infected. Which just isn't true, it very much depends on your current state of health.

And again, my main point is that we should be honest about the risks and not pretend they're zero.
Most people have missed the most obvious head-cannon in that Jurassic Park scene - when Nedry is talking on the 'video phone' to his guy he's really just watching a quicktime movie .... you can see the horizontal scroll bar running as it's being played.

Of course at the time almost no one had really seen video on a personal computer so to the vast bulk of the movie going audience it was just futuristic.

Also in order to film that scene the video card had to be slowed down to 24 frames/sec and synced to the camera, looked great on film but was probably headache inducing to the people present
I'm very sorry to have offended you.
I've never really found Glassdoor to be accurate at all. The numbers are so off base and I find it a bit upsetting that sometimes Glassdoor data gets shown in the Google widget thing when I search up salaries at companies I want to apply to because of how wrong it is. I've noticed unscrupulous recruiters use that as a way to try to price people down.
Beak Masks During the Black Death
Works great! If you're on Ubuntu/Debian/etc, you'll need to apt install libsdl1.2-dev and libsdl-net1.2-dev. I thought something was wrong when the build took less than 2 seconds, but it turns out computers have gotten faster in the last 25 years.
I'm going to wait until the first batch goes through then I'll decide whether I want it. I'm hesitant a bit about this vaccine because it was developed so rapidly, they didn't do the usual testing period and the FDA allowed for a fast-track process. I'd rather have waiting until they tested it thoroughly with multiple trials, instead of just one.
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If you tuned a semi engine for peak power the way automotive engines are they wouldn't last 400k either.

You can get automotive engines with similar power to weight or power to displacement numbers as semi truck engines. They're just normal automotive engines sold for industrial use.
Hi,

Your post is insightful, but it could really do without the inflammatory death-wishing in 2a.
Wait, you would literally rather die than get the injection?

Color me skeptical.
Absolutely. I also know nobody IRL who has had it (at least, nobody who has tested positive and admitted to it).

That said, I know a few people online who have had it, one of whom has died - but I guess that’s the cross-community nature of things.
This is news to me. Could you provide some reading material on this topic?
> What about just limiting inheritance to, say, 500k per child?

What about just charging income tax on inheritance (but allowing deferral of tax recognition of windfall income over a period of, say, up to 10 years from the date of receipt.)
A croned node script that parses the AWS RSS status page every 10min and alerts with some sounds + notifications (zenity).
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you get a 100% credit against income taxes, only that you get a 100% credit. (The comment to which I replied seemed to think that GP's point - that sales tax can be deducted from income for income tax purposes - was equivalent to a credit for input VAT, which it's not.)
> ”then people who are super social (or stupid + spreading the plague)”

Many such people will have antibodies already. As do I. I’ll get the vaccine if it becomes a requirement to travel or whatever, but I see no need for it in the short term if you’re low risk and already had Covid.
Lead crime hypothesis probably explains some of it [1]

We do have far more mass shootings though :(

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems [pdf]
DDG is fine for many types of queries. It also doesn't have many of (what I consider) the drawbacks of google's search: hostile ad positioning, AMP, autoscraped meta crap. Pretending you can't compare them is ridiculous.
That's really awesome.
I'm seeing very different experiences even within my own community. I have family in the same town who don't know anyone that has died from COVID, or even had a serious case, while I personally know multiple people who have died from COVID complications. To say this difference shapes our perspectives is an understatement.
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It could be argued that understanding the commonality of certain aspects of Option, Result, and Future results in a simpler model rather than a more complicated one.

Don't you find it intriguing and interesting that these seemingly different types have these commonalities?
I was under the impression that this is common knowledge. Most pregnant women I've known did, indeed, forego alcohol during their pregnancy.
You can't gerrymander the senate though, and the 2020 election was 53-44.
Interesting- the options in HN polls are listed in random order. You can tell by refreshing the page.