skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is the root cause of the majority of urban/suburban California's issues.

Texas won't become California, even if 100% of CA's population moves there, because they don't have the same pants on head dumb proposition system.
We know about as much about “long covid” as we do about the long term effects of the vaccines. So surely if you’re going to make that argument it should apply both ways?
Alternative view point sites aren’t really possible.

Advertisers are attacked relentlessly if they advertise on non-liberal media.
Been at ad-tech companies and seen this happen in person.

Even 20 years ago this was common pattern for talk radio.
Do you really think taxes == communism? Communism is a currency-less state.
Disney Is the Best Thing to Happen to Star Wars Since the Empire Strikes Back
Seems like a discoverability issue.
If California can claim the work was done in or for California. They’ll tax it. If you work remote from Texas but hr says your desk is in California. You owe California taxes.
Sounds like one not from a community.
We've been going through this decision making process, as well. All of your points are good, there was just one I wanted to follow up on.

>I think that's a better use of my money than taking care of one human being.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Your child(ren) (and their child(ren) and their's, etc.) also have the potential to earn and donate money to effective causes. Those donations might end up greater than the ones you can accomplish in your own lifetime.

Of course, "net good to current and future humanity" is only one part of the equation.
If an accidental nuclear explosion had killed 50,000 people in April and the resulting fallout was continuing to kill > 1,000 people/day, I'm not sure you'd be calling media coverage "fear porn". Though I don't know, maybe you would, and we simply disagree on the tone of coverage.
Thank you for the support Jelliclesfarm! It was great coming out and look forward to following up!
This argument, while technically true, is relatively dismissive of all that we have learned about the virus.

Of primary importance, COVID-19 appears to be easily and completely cleared by the human immune system and does not appear to become latent by settling in immune privileged areas or by integrating itself into the human genome or body in any other way (like Epstein-Barr, Herpesvirus, HIV, etc.)

Outside of the mainstream media and in the medical research literature COVID-19 has been thought to be easily "curable" since early on in the pandemic. In my opinion there appeared to be more uncertainty around the FDA and the rapid development timelines than there ever was around whether or not an effective and complete treatment could be developed.

A severe infection or cytokine storm may obviously cause lasting damage. I do not mean to suggest that everyone will be off the hook in the future!
He tweeted out "uh oh" today at the news, so it might live on.
That's a good point. The flu numbers tended to be higher, or at least they used to be, so if it is indeed 1 in 5 Americans (and similarly higher in other countries) and a high crossover between the two demographic groups, than it still could account for a partial increase at a minimum. There will of course be more than one contributing factor here.

But as I mentioned in another comment my pharmacist said she has barely sold any cough/cold syrup at all this year when by this time of the year they'd be flying off the shelves. The lockdown may have helped stopped common cold / flu spread as well. So my proposition may be insignificant.
Depends where you go, it's not like there are no other tech companies in Austin for example.
I had a Quadra 840av at the time. I'm pretty sure I overclocked it to 50Mhz at some point. It was a great machine! I started my image and video processing career on it. I never did figure out how to program the DSP in it, but really wanted to at the time. It's amazing how far computers have come in the interim, but I'm not surprised to hear that you can get a decent experience out of one of the machines from that era.
Vaccines are far from untested.
70% risk of sterility, but it's only some unnamed "former Pfizer employee"?

Bullshit.
From what I hear, Austin traffic is worse than the Bay Area.
Can anyone from Austin confirm?
> AI is going to dramatically alter this competitive landscape and John Deere’s DRM is not going to to stop it.

I would love this state, but getting there is not simple. DRM is just one facet of it: companies selling machinery have worked on hardware for decades, making their systems physically robust and able to take lots of abuse. This raises the barrier to entry a lot. My 2c.
Note that there are differing professional opinions on this. The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine recommends no special exclusion of pregnant women from vaccine trials or vaccine campaigns: [1] [2]

“Despite the categorization of pregnancy as a high-risk condition for severe COVID-19, hospitalization, and mortality, pregnancy remains an exclusion for participation in vaccine trials. The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) and other leading organizations, including the National Academy of Medicine, have consistently advocated for the inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in vaccination trials, particularly when the following criteria are met: (1) pregnancy poses increased susceptibility to or severity of a disease; (2) the best approach to protect the infant is through passive placental antibody transfer, which provides the most efficient and direct protection to the newborn before an infant can be vaccinated, and (3) there is an active outbreak.”

“In general, SMFM strongly recommends that pregnant women have access to COVID-19 vaccines in all phases of future vaccine campaigns, and that she and her healthcare professional engage in shared decision-making regarding her receipt of the vaccine. Counseling should balance available data on vaccine safety, risks to pregnant women from SARS-CoV-2 infection, and a woman’s individual risk for infection and severe disease. As data emerge, counseling will likely shift, as some vaccines may be more suitable for pregnant women. mRNA vaccines, which are likely to be the first vaccines available, do not contain a live virus but rather induce humoral and cellular immune response through the use of viral mRNA. Healthcare professionals should also counsel their patients that the theoretical risk of fetal harm from mRNA vaccines is very low.”

[1]: https://www.smfm.org/covidclinical

[2]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.smfm.org/media/2591/SMFM_Vaccin...
AstraZeneca Will make trials combining its vaccine with Russia Sputnik V
$0 to plug in a cord is hard to beat
These slim volumes are a joy to read precisely for the reasons given in the article: minimal textual flourish, old-fashioned translations, green and red colors, etc. as well their enormous breadth. I still remember the joy when my wife gifted me Procopius's On Buildings (https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL343/1940/volume.xml many years ago (and the guilty delight in reading his Anecdota later on: talk about an un-bowdlerized translation!). When you hold one, you feel you are a classicist, a feeling that cannot be easily described.

The only bad thing about the Loeb volumes are their price, they are generally $25-$30, which is steep for such small books. If I had a ton of money I would commission similar volumes subsidized to $10 max. For the starving student currently the only alternative is the Web, e.g. Textkit (https://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=70...) and Perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe...)
this is exactly it. based on my demographic, i'm going to be one of the last in line.

I'm not going to be trying to jump ahead in that line because i'm not an asshole and i know other people need it more than I do. but also I'm a little bit of an asshole, so i'm kind of reassured to know that hundreds of millions of people will have gotten it before me, and if there are any issues there will have been plenty of time to sort them out.
You still didn't get it. It's only a fundamental right in our system for citizens. There is no right for non-citizens. Nor have you provided any logic for why it makes sense to allow non-citizen voting.

It's not a regressive policy. That would mean we go back to the method of only land owners voting or excluding classes of minorities. This is simply validating that citizens meet the minimum requirements to be good citizens, something we already do for immigrants. This also does not discriminate against any class of people - the requirements would be the same for all and are easily achievable. This would actual make the granting of citizenship more equitable by making the process the same for everyone instead of the current process that differentiates between those born here and those not.

I'm also still waiting for your answers to my previous two questions.
Land Value Tax for the states, Value Added Tax for the feds.
>It isn't the most impressive of plagues.

It really is though. If it were more deadly like Ebola, people would be taking it far more seriously and it would burn itself out quicker. If it were less deadly, akin to the flu, we wouldn't have too many deaths regardless. It seems to sit right in the sweet spot of just deadly enough to cause mass casualties while being benign enough that a large portion of people don't take it seriously, and thus contribute to it's uncontrollable spread. This will easily end up killing more Americans than the 1918 flu by the end of next year.
I agree. Unfortunately, the typical undergraduate experience in biology involves a lot of rote memorization and cookbook experiments, not actual discovery. Probably filters out some people who would actually make good scientists.
This content actually does really well on whatsapp, signal and telegram.
I'd love for it to speed up and return to a sense of normality. I'm sure we can all agree it's been a terrible year.
UK grocery store Co-op covertly installed facial recognition tracking in stores
> Not saying I disagree about confirmation bias at play - especially given that TFA states at the beginning that they received a pair for review purposes

You will find it quite difficult to locate any instances of John Gruber saying anything negative about Apple on Daring Fireball.

He's basically like an unofficial arm of Apple PR, and he seems to know that his access is likely dependent upon his continued service in furtherance of Apple's marketing agenda.
User facing monitoring is a huge help here. I removed an application that hijacked the lock screen of a phone with Android 4 on it (Android only had the requirement that applications don't hijack the lock screen from the App Store for Android 5 and up IIRC). This was because of the simple monitoring that was built into Android through developer options which was simple to activate.

Far more could be done with more sophisticated user controlled monitoring tools, which could say monitor the network traffic, application accesses to any information on the device etc. No reason it cannot be done, and they may be there already.

Also device does not need to have their applications mandatorily locked to an App Store to get the benefits. Optional use of the 'official' app store is fine too, which is what isn't there on iOS. You can choose to just get your applications through the 'official' app store. Someone else not getting their applications through the 'official' app store does not magically put those applications on your device, and thus does not decrease the security you may get from the app store for you.
I’m entertained that the euphemism “arranging deck chairs on the Titanic” is not actually useless, in this context.
Please do if possible! It's slightly irritating needing to do the hacky workaround to get my expired license code to work when I want to re-play EV Nova and fart around as an OP Vellos or Polaris haha.
It'll be interesting to see if Larry Ellison formally changes residency as well.
> To say this difference shapes our perspectives is an understatement.

We should be expecting to experience this as members of a large, functionally diverse population (and within HN, a technically literate sub group) in a civilization that is blindly groping its way towards post-scarcity but the future is still Gibsonian unevenly distributed. In a less-powerful civilization, this would have been a much more disruptive pandemic. Many people are still navigating with sentience ("monkey brains") that are conditioned to expect physical calamity before taking significant action, instead of navigating with intelligence which takes abundantly more energy to engage.

This is a real-time, mass experiment in operating trust and science at scale.

See Peter Watts' Blindsight for more on this sentience/intelligence divide [1].

[1] https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm#Notes
How long ago did you try DDG? Years ago I had a similar experience to you, and switched back, but now DDG is much better for me, and I only try !g < 5% of the time, often with no luck there either.
There’s been far too much ‘noble lying’ going on during the pandemic for me to have trust in any of these institutions anymore. Aside from the fact that I’d be skeptical of any drug that was rushed to market (especially if it was the first of its type to ever be brought to market), I simply don’t trust anybody involved to be honest about its safety. Even the reporting on how the roll out is going is highly questionable. All reports of potential side effects are disclaimed with weasely statements “no evidence it’s linked to the vaccine”.

If I were in an at risk group I might have a different perspective, but as it stands I’m happy to wait and see how it goes. If I end up never having to take it, even better.
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> and one of them went to someone with self-admittedly "very mild symptoms,"

In fairness, the monoclonal antibodies have been shown to be ineffective when given by the point symptoms are severe. To save any lives, you'll need to give them to people with mild to moderate symptoms but significant risk factors.

e.g. "...Casirivimab and imdevimab are not authorized for patients who are hospitalized due to COVID-19 or require oxygen therapy due to COVID-19. A benefit of casirivimab and imdevimab treatment has not been shown in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19. Monoclonal antibodies, such as casirivimab and imdevimab, may be associated with worse clinical outcomes when administered to hospitalized patients with COVID-19 requiring high flow oxygen or mechanical ventilation...." https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...

Of course, this really sucks, because there's nowhere near enough to give to everyone who's high risk and has early COVID, while there might eventually be enough to give to people with severe COVID.
It’s just an e-reader, and they’re asking for signups. Judging by the images and information on the page, I’d say there’s a good chance the product doesn’t exist and they’re trying to measure interest.

No pricing is available, and it doesn’t seem to do anything you can’t already do with a Kobo (and probably others, but that’s the one I’m familiar with).
In either case, your answer is NO to the poll.
Sorry to break it to you https://twitter.com/wstrzelecki/status/1336754768002347010?s...
calculate pull request latency (i.e. how much time user need after fork to submit a PR) - https://tinyurl.com/github-popular-repo-pr-latency
That definitely would account for a big percentage of the near 4x jump. But there have been plenty of articles of Turkey's hospitals getting absolutely rammed and doctors saying it was nothing like it was in the old 'bad days' in April but far worse.
I find it funny that you mention beyerdynamic. Isn’t that brand like the apple of audiophile/studio headphones?
For most of the year this was true for me.

but the last month, I am hearing of more and more getting infected. It's getting worse, anecdotally.
I guess I’m not articulating myself well, because I’m basically agreeing with you.
Maybe they all watch CSI, Dateline, etc. and know how to avoid detection better.
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I am a daily emacs user for about 2 years. I am surprised to see eshell is the most popular shell package. It always seemed like an underdog. Maybe I'll try it out. Happy to see Ivy come on top too, I should give it another shot.

I want to see which vimlike packages are most popular. I use a modal editing plugin called Boon which is very simple and effective.

I've been following tree-sitter for about a year. ubolonton has recently shipped some great docs for emacs-tree-sitter. I am expecting some innovation to happen in the next year. Paredit for typescript, code transformation commands. We live in exciting times!
Pretty dogwhistle-y content on HN.
Another way of looking at is is that, assuming past infections are a representative sample of the population (and they may not be) then about another 1,000,000 would die to get us to herd immunity.
It's easy to forget about the drought when the pandemic is raging and half of the states are trying to get the Civil War started again, but for a Californian the drought should be the main thing on their minds. Large municipal water systems are likely to be fine, at least next year, but just due to the nature of stochastic processes we can expect at least a few small municipal water districts to go dry, and some irrigation districts are probably not going to get any water deliveries at all.
Python's descriptor protocol is very elegant. Given:

class C:
def __init__(self):
self.a = 1
def b(self):
print(f'b({self})')
@property
def c(self):
print(f'c({self})')
o = C()

The descriptor protocol is a generic way to enable `o.a` to access an attribute of `o`, `o.b` to access an attribute of `C` and bind `self` to `o`, and `o.c` to access an attribute of `C`, bind `self` to `o`, and call it.

Do any other dynamic languages use a similar protocol for attribute access?

Ruby, for example, doesn't need to - it can use a simpler approach because `o.x` never refers to an attribute of `o`.

JavaScript's solution is less elegant - the way it sets the value of `this` is infamous, and AFAIK properties are treated as a special case rather than built on top of a generic protocol.
What about CDN to reduce latency and load time?
I voted "yes," but in practical terms, "yes" and "I will wait" are one and the same thing.
Interesting! Do you know of any workplaces using Discord?
Polymorphism in Rust: Enums vs. Traits
Texas Democrat calls Texas Republicans supporting the election lawsuit traitors
> Alternative view point sites aren’t really possible.

They're certainly possible for alternatives to, say, reddit. These sites already exist. Are you referring to the high costs of serving video?
But Bay Area has all of that and more? You just gotta pay for it with a higher COL.
The example also misses out on the fact that the individual producers (coconut picker, paint maker, etc.) will need to pay self employment tax. That is an extra amount they pay when working for themselves as independent contracts but if they are hired by the cousin's business, that business pays half of the social security and medicare taxes.

For easy numbers, in the independent contractor model, each person pay $0.30 in payroll taxes (before income tax) while in the employee model, the employee only pays $0.15 and the business pays the other $0.15. If gross pay is $1 in both cases, the employee makes more. Because of this, real employers are going to pay salaries of less than $1 to account for overhead like payroll taxes, office space and the risk of providing a steady paycheck vs. paying per production.

I understand the author is simplifying things to make an argument for VAT but there are lots of variables in both scenarios including payroll tax and the option for retailers to purchase goods without paying sales tax to wholesalers.
> "Having antibodies does not guarantee immunity."

Sure, but it seems to have worked so far. And if having natural antibodies doesn't give long-term immunity, then will vaccine-induced antibodies? We don't know.

> "How long IgM and IgG antibodies remain detectable following infection is not known."

Having detectable antibodies is not the same thing as immunity.
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>Additionally they promoted themselves as an open forum in the beginning.

Was this before or after Google? Because Google's interest in the platform is definitely maximizing revenue and competing with first party streaming services.
Ask HN: How do you mentor developers?
Without being a manager, if you want to stay on the same team and share work while coaching people, how can you:

a) Prevent mediocrity from being "too nice" (e.g. allowing classic things like treating every problem as web/CRUD, too many layers of DALs or object hierarchies or using nested set tree traversal instead of materialized path when it's called for)

b) Get people to focus on the consequences of their design decisions when they affect the users/product, even if the implementation required to handle them might not be available with existing/obvious tools, or as my CEO said today "slow is smooth and smooth is fast", so get people to take it slow in the right way

c) Encourage critical thinking and asking questions over copy/pasting stack overflow or top google results, learning about evolution and historical rationale of a design/problem

d) Without offending anyone

I'm working on how to communicate without being condescending or dismissive and finding it hard. When I was in management positions in the past I could just make these decisions and people would be fine with it because I would take final responsibility, but since deciding to go deeper into IC territory, I find myself needing to persuade less experienced colleagues more often. I like teaching but don't want to be paternalistic, and sometimes I just want people to learn fast and use the guard rails provided, or spend the time to climb a difficult learning curve.

How do you do it?
Unfortunately you'll end up stuck in there with mostly anti-vaxxers
Much longer than most assume. The virus has a pretty high r0 when restrictions are lifted.
It's actually just an advisory committee and the FDA can act on the advice however they like.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
Using masks and doing social distance I'm much less sick this year.
You are using an argument for not wanting to publish to more than one store, to defend a position of not wanting there to be more than one store.

Simply because you don't want to use it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. If you don't want to publish anywhere except Play, don't.
Alan Kay: How Immense Challenges Have Been Dealt with in the Past [pdf]
HN really needs an AMA on this so people stop repeating these false claims
You seldomly see the ideals of people who believe in freedom of speech but stated so clearly. A world were corporations control all the information people consume but people can "go outside and yell" in frustration. This is the kind of freedom we must bring to Iran.
Then you should contact the medical board or whatever the German equivalent is and tell them about this "reputable" doctor. They'd at least lose their license, and for good reason.
It's not clear what you are quoting, but there are vaccines besides the russian one. For example there is also the Chinese CoronaVac.

I think there are completely reasonable reasons for people to consider these vaccines as well. Some have larger phase III trials, and some are tested in different demographics. for example, Arabs might be more comfortable with trials that were run with predominantly arab participants.
How about that google is a monopoly on search and ad tech.
Arrow Anti Pattern
I still prefer nuclear.
The same societies that manufacture and test vaccines are those that stand to benefit from successful vaccines...