skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lockdowns in Europe worked. Full stop. Case rates dropped dramatically.

Some of those countries are "not sitting pretty right now" because they ended their lockdowns.

The answer is not "lockdowns don't really do any good." The answer is "don't prematurely end your lockdowns." Now that can be burdensome. You can do a middle ground (limited re-opening). That works too, but you have to be very careful and keep a close eye on case numbers and shut down totally as soon as cases ramp up. California tried to do that in the latest surge, but was a little late in implementing the newly stringent measures and even further So. Cal. "resisted" the newly stringent measures and are now suffering mightily.
Hopefully they would be well-informed enough to wait on the trial results. Remember AstraZenica?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/astrazenecas-best-co...
I think some sort of hybrid balloon/drone could be more suited for certain tasks. Still, the demonstration shows that we could have a fleet of whatever navigate a forest.
> 90% of the value of a 4 year degree (at this point) is the credential.

Why do you say that, and how do you measure value?

I have quite a few lifelong friends from undergrad, people I wouldn't have met or bonded with if I'd done school online. And it's not necessary to know people to get great jobs, but I feel like it helps; 4 of the 6 jobs I've had came about through my undergrad network. One of them, as a founder, was partially funded by a prof. I met as an undergrad. My undergrad department helped my education and career in various ways including giving me a scholarship and RA and TA work, and publishing articles about me after graduating.

I am not an average case, partly because I went to graduate school, but for me it's safe to say the value of the credential part of my undergrad degree is somewhere near zero. Definitely not zero, but I've never needed the credential for anything but passing the checklist of requirements for my first job. The value I got from my time spent in the 4 year degree is almost entirely from the relationships I formed.
I agree with all the above, except:

> If you're good at all of the above you'll never run out of companies that want to hire you.

If you're good at all the above, you'll be hit with whiteboard monkeydance and the interviewer will walk away convinced you don't know how to write an if statement.
The Danger of Knowing Yourself
> Requiring a computer science degree to apply for a programming job has always been bizarre to me and this blog post is a great example of why.

What folks don't realize is that it's a signal to noise ratio issue [0]. It's not perfect but saves a lot of time down the line.

> "The bulk of the effort was memorizing things that I normally would have Googled."

That's missing the point. A lot of Engineering is being able to spot patterns and know enough about a subject to be able to research it properly and efficiently.

"is this a state machine", "can I represent this as a tree", "is this a regular language or do I need a more sophisticated parser".

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
Based on your description I want it even more now.

I did get a Deus Ex vibe from this game from the first moment I heard about it. I've been desperate to get back into gaming, and was looking forward to an Xbox to play 4 games, this being one of them.

Hopefully by April (when I expect to be able to buy a new Xbox Series X), the patches will have made the game playable.
>it's more like a new Deus Ex game

Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. I was expecting a cyberpunk New Vegas, but it seems more like a cyberpunk Fallout 4.
The description of programming is kind really depends on what you are doing:

are you building things that all sorts of different systems need to integrate with that you don't necessarily know what the technical specifications of these systems are = unkind

are you designing a database schema and writing queries against it = kind

are you doing frontend development (or something similar where fast paced change means new technology, new best practices etc. all the time) = unkind

are you doing text processing analysis of structured data following well understood schemas = kind

I mean really, they gave two examples of sports one which was kind one unkind - but for programming it is just kind?
1. I guess for smaller batches it is easier to develop the mRNA. Otherwise, we would have monoclonal antibodies and not a vaccine(the vaccine has other benefits, it trains the T-cells and the B cells remain dormant even after no abtibodies are detected in the blood).

2. The imune system knows all your protein already, t cells are evolved in the thymus gland, if they attack anything "self", they get destriyed.
Also interesting is George Orwell's critique of Tolstoy's critique! https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf
Features like these make me wonder what the goal and direction of Matrix really is. I can see how this is a nifty demo of how the Matrix protocol can support many use cases, but the base use case (open communications) isn't nearly complete yet.

Element is the only application supporting all Matrix features, but it's look and feel are off, it's speed leave things to be desired and I'm still getting issues with fetching the right keys for a chatroom on some of my devices. The file picker on mobile is wonky, some very basic features (like adding a caption to an image you're sending) just don't work. I'm definitely not convincing anyone to consider this over the existing, isolated, closed-source messaging applications out there.

Then there's the fact that there's very little chat clients that support most of the protocol, especially with encryption. To combat this, you can run pantalaimon if you can ever get it to work (its dependency on things like dbus makes it very hard to run well on a VM or in a container) to add encryption to more well-integrated chat clients like Fractal.

I love the premise and the idea behind Matrix, but I do fear that the focus on expanding and experimenting will eventually prevent it from reaching the critical mass necessary to ever be used outside of the enthusiast circle. All the (optional?) additions to the protocol also make me fear that Matrix will end up dead like XMPP, with different features implemented across different applications all in a way that things just don't work well together.

Why put all of this work into running a daemon 24/7 on your phone that will end up sucking battery to run an app with bad usability in peer to peer mode? What's the end goal? I just want to rid myself of Whatsapp and Telegram, is that even a valid use case for the Matrix system anymore? Should I start looking in other directions?
I’m about 30 hours into the Xbox One X release and it’s a tough love.

The game is unbelievably awesome when it works.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work/play well.

I have crashes every 30-45min. Glitches are so commonplace it’s clearly beta quality at best.

I’ve gotten to the point where I know to have the best chance to actually play a mission I need to get to the right location (use waypoints since driving crashes the game), find the NPC for the mission, open dialogue and start a mission, ensure the mission has started (usually when the monologue starts from the NPC), close the game, reopen the game, and start playing the mission. After a mission, expect a crash.

It got old really fast having the game crash during a mission and being forced to play the same mission over and over even if it did help me find better loot.
Gradle with kotlin script is elegant and order of magnitude more powerful than npm & ci
Do you think people could perceive having "false" inflammation? I'm thinking that if during the double blind trial they told those not getting the real dose that they should expect inflammation that many of them would believe they're having some form of inflammation.
Help needed with WASM port of Stockfish 12 chess engine
IMF proposes using browsing history to determine credit score
thanks - you've just sorted my Christmas project for me. I've tried to wrap my head around CSS layout several times. On each occasion, I've come away with a perplexed sense of "but.... surely it shouldn't be as hard as this?". Layout is about the relationship among elements. CSS - as far as I could see - is based on styling elements within containers. There's little or no ability to express peer-to-peer relationships directly.

First example on every-layout and already I have a fresh perspective. For example, under stack [0]:

"margin is really a property of the relationship between two proximate elements. "

and then a solution for styling the relationship directly.

[0]: https://every-layout.dev/layouts/stack/
Here's the Mozilla post: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/12/18/kazakhstan-roo...
> which may involve introducing immortalized (i.e. cancerous) cells

Which one? I don't remember any vaccine that injects immortalized cells.
This looks cool! It'd be great to see a demo video or some more screenshots explaining how it works and especially what the output formats are (web, exportable html, pdf infographic?)
Not just hard, impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light#Theorie...
I think this is going to be the take that ends up in the, "truths that people don't want to accept" bin, because it means quality isn't the end-all that gamers want it to be.

If the choices are a) Delay again and risk losing the company or b) release a buggy game and use the revenue to repair the damage done to the company's reputation, I think the right move is b.
Or we would have mounted a testing and tracing program, and not gotten into a situation where we need people to stay home for 2-3 years.
You're being completely tone deaf to the point that its frustrating to believe that people like you exist.
I agree with you, he mainly dropped from the race because it was no longer an effective avenue to advance his ideas.

I do have to contest the first part of your statement - it's wishful thinking to see him having won this race. You're correct that he enjoys a broad base of bipartisan support, but the combination of turning on Trump, leaving the Republican party, and having a well-recognized opponent imperiled his chances in that district. He would have had to snag approximately 25% of the Democratic vote and 45% of the Republican vote to achieve that feat.
The landing page provides very little information to be honest. I found the examples in the blog writings to be more informative and illustrate the workflow better: https://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing

I also wonder to what extent this could offer more things than things like Tableau. The looks are different I agree, but the general functionalities seem very similar.
The problem is that if you don't make employees pay to exercise, then whatever options you give them become taxable compensation. As an employee, I'd rather not pay taxes on shares of a company that I can't sell anytime soon.
Interesting, what are some of the best features/designs from those systems that you find lacking in github/gitlab?
I run into issues like this running the app on my mobile.
Debian updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal
I don't think mRNA spreads from cell to cell, the mRNA enters a limited number of cells and those cells start producing certain proteins the mRNA tells them to.
Also, can you feed live data for a constantly-updating presentation, or is it more intended for more static data that highlights a particular trend that might not be otherwise obvious?
Congrats on the degree! I took almost exactly the same path as you, and I also finished my WGU degree in 3 months.

I got my BS to meet the admission requirements for GATech's OMSCS program, which I'm doing now. Do you plan to go for a masters next?
US constitution is 100% explicit, it's forbidden 100% forbidden.

Conformance to this is completely dependent on nothing more than judges' ability to read. If they read the US constitution, it says:

> "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Cause not probable — Check

Not supported by Oath — Check

No specific description — Check
99.99% Uptime for Azure Active Directory
Because they have no incentive to do otherwise. If Google could tune its PageRank algo to favor sites that load the fastest they could convince website operators to do lot of what AMP does heavyhandedly. Perhaps it could be the death of 20,000 JS loads every page
It's well known that respiratory diseases cause permanent damage. We see it with flu and we see it with covid-19. "Damage" covers a huge range though.

In June estimates were that 1 in 5 people who needed intensive care for covid were left with permanent damage.

> People infected with the coronavirus may be left with permanent lung damage. Doctors are reporting growing numbers of people who still have breathlessness and coughing months after falling ill with covid-19, and whose chest scans show evidence of irreversible lung scarring.

> The numbers of people affected aren’t yet known, but estimates are as high as one in five of those who needed intensive care treatment for covid-19. Permanent damage is sometimes seen after other kinds of chest infections that can cause similar lung inflammation to the coronavirus, such as flu and pneumonia.

> In a study in Italy, which was one of the first European countries to be hit by the coronavirus, doctors are scanning the lungs of people three months after they fell ill. Although the full results aren’t yet in, Paolo Spagnolo at the University Hospital of Padua estimates that 15 to 20 per cent of those treated in intensive care at his hospital for covid-19 have scarring. “We have to be prepared in the future to manage these patients.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247086-the-coronavirus...
Less "tampered with" (because they can be trivially blocked or corrupted) and more "uninspected."
That tittle would attract less eyeballs.

The author sure didn't take any shortcuts to graduate.
> That's a bit like saying "This person won the lottery, so therefore..."

Caveat: I love Jetbrains, and am a happy subscriber.

However, as the parent commenter says, it's important to realise that Jetbrains has been lucky as well. Java dev tools suffered from poor performance and poor UX for the longest time.

Eclipse, despite its early promise (SWT and native widgets) has much 'rougher' UX compared to IDEA. But I remain surprised how much better even simply typing feels on IDEA, and how good the refactoring tools are. (The latest Eclipse has improved a lot in the refactoring dept, though.)

Java's combination of openness and poor dev tools definitely helped Jetbrains a lot and gave them a cachet in the marketplace that helped them as they expanded into other languages. That said, I've also used their Microsoft VS addins and those were very good too, but they likely would have made much less money if they were a Microsoft-only shop.
Why/when use datagrip instead of just the database view from intellij idea?
What I was trying to say is that ad blocking cannot really be a lot better than Safari? You would have to block on the network level and not the content level.
> You can get fast web pages without sacrificing everything else.

The thing is, no one was stopping the websites from having fast pages before, but they were just not doing it. Google kind of forced them to be fast (again, it's the end result that I'm talking about, not the ways to reach there).
Point 2 makes me think of the (reasonably) realistic expectations that game makers have with regard to the prospective release of next gen consoles. Guessing when the next gen consoles will be launched and creating a game time line around that feels intriguing in itself.
> It will get even bigger. "Defund the police" will turn police into for-profit self-funded organization

I don't read that to mean that there will be no police and just private security companies. I read it to suggest there will still be police, protected by the same laws, able to abuse things in the same way, except they will rely entirely on their own funding via shit like Civil Asset Forfeiture
> Going back to games;.... That might be a model for new typed of education going forward.

I think this is how 42 school works. I've known a couple people who started the program there but none who completed it. However 42 is afaik not accredited and WGU(where the OP attended) is. 42 probably lands more in the coding bootcamp end of education the spectrum.
Prions can happen multiple ways. In familial (i.e. hereditary) CJD, a mutation in the PRNP gene (DNA) creates an abnormal misfolded protein, i.e. prion. In sporadic CJD, it's basically bad luck that the protein gets folded wrong. In acquired CJD, exposure to brain tissue with the prion protein causes it. Once there's a prion, it causes more of the protein to misfold, creating more prions and causing the disease.
If you work on game engines, trading is a fantastic transition since you'll already have high performance C++ experience.
Excellent report. Finally someone who is willing to talk about this issue without giving in to the pressure from the AANP to brush patient lives under the rug.
Toxic Fumes Are Filling Up the Cabins of Many Commercial Jets
Remembering LOOM 1990 point-and-click with PC Games Nostalgia
I've found xstate invaluable for multi-step flows on the front end.

Redux and similar libraries are a bit hard to read when making these because representing sequential distinct states is implicit. I.e., have an enum for the "page" and some reducer cases to update the page.

With xstate, the order of things is often visually apparent. Not only are distinct states bread-and-butter for statecharts, the machine definition in the code visually jumps out at the reader and screams "these are my states, and here's how to move between them!"
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWiWELM9ArjAJvAsSiyZ5jSfjZERir3nGmbySV...
Cool video, thanks. Funny enough, Wikipedia doesn't mention ABF at all in their article on the company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajinomoto
Sort of. Even the Pi is not entirely open-source. The Broadcom SOC relies on some closed-source binaries.
This game seems like the perfect candidate to buy late. Just wait a few months, maybe a year, it will probably be discounted at some point and it will include tens or hundreds of patches by then.
Much of the danger of vaccine development is the possibility of activating antibody response to an off-target cell that expresses the same feature the vaccine is expressing. You can't really find those reliably without human trials.
You can't buy your way out of relationship problems unless you count hiring a divorce lawyer.
Researchers Discover Two Fungi That Gets Flies High While Eating Them Alive
Ryan Kaji, 9, earns $29.5m as this year's highest-paid YouTuber
Coincidences aren't connections. If you have N numerical facts, then there are N²−N pairs of facts (consider the 90 pairs that can be made from 10 facts). By pure chance alone, _some_ of those pairs are going to seem interesting to humans. Some of those pairs are related by cause and effect, but the majority are just happenstance.
This is false. How could the common person have possibly had the capital to start their own business without external funding prior to the 20th century? No, they all had to rely on bank loans, which were arbitrary and capricious, as well as required collateral that made it a very risky proposition to start a company. Venture Capital by comparison is a miracle of the modern world, allowing you to start businesses risk-free.
If it doesn't work you can try try replacing .se with .st or .do
It's certainly part of the culture but when you make 6-figures a month as a bootstrapped founder, those arrogant a-holes quickly quiet themselves. Most of the fellow bootstrapped founders I've met are pretty decent people and there are a lot of them. I found the old money east coast elite to be much more annoying and far less interesting.
Oops, I almost forgot... The one viz component I'm using is the excellent WordCloud2 library by Timothy Guan-tin Chien...

https://timdream.org/portfolio/wordcloud/
> Why have them at all?

The lifepath system was a key feature in the TTRPG, obvious handled a lot differently in the TTRPG than video game where they have merged the Roles with the Lifepath.

I think people are disappointed as they were expecting DA:O levels of paths but got 15-20 mins and a few chat options (that don't add up to anything).
The internet is still monetized by ads. I mean the whole technology behind advertising has gotten staggeringly complex and advanced compared to 1999 but its still just ad spending.
What do you mean by "really?" HQ is and always was in Prague, that's it. https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/#headquarters-int...
Wow, how about finding something you enjoy / a team you enjoy working with and doing that instead? I mean 40 years is a long time, and what do you do then after? Nothing? Or browse HN all day? Or do a job that you enjoy?
Directed energy is about the only thing that's going to scale as a tactical countermeasure. Pulsed laser/EMF in the joules per shot range would seemingly work with most smaller vehicles.
I have been asking the very same questions, especially the (2).

So far, nobody has been able to provide a satisfying answer.
Apple is not known to do things first, but do things better than the competitive in some way.
One of my quarantine projects was to read more great literature. I'd always joked that I'd be happy being in jail as long as I could read all the books I've ever wanted to read. Figured this was a good chance to put my money where my mouth is. Haven't gotten to Anna Karenina yet but did finish the Brothers Karamazov, The Winter of Our Discontent, Moby Dick, Lolita, East of Eden, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Breakfast of Champions and The Idiot.
An easy guide to testing React hooks
How's GATech's OMSCS? I'm thinking about applying.
Unfortunately we've had a very bad experience with our credit card lately (Capital One).

Last year for Christmas my wife bought me MotoGP tickets for us to enjoy in Austin during the spring of '20. The race got cancelled due to COVID and they refused to give us a refund. Eventually we asked for a charge back and the credit card refused saying the "organizer claims they settled it". Indeed, by promising us future tickets that are worthless to us (VR46 is retiring, we have kids and need to organize, etc). This was in the summer.

MotoGP just refunded us the tickets, a year after we purchased them. My wife probably spend over ten hours on the phone total and countless scanning documents, etc for the credit card.
Forests are "managed" plenty and dying at a massive rate. Local rednecks use the uniform and new equipment to track nature loving stoners. Wild mega-fauna who are true citizens of this place are the target of weaponized tech and have been for millenia, resulting in their massive over hunting to extinction. The narrative of "keeping hikers safe" and "clearing the roads" takes into account none of this, and aids some of it -- wilderness road building.

Sorry, not sorry
Now that is an HN comment.
It's a huge problem and without a doubt legally ambiguous. Originalist interpretation is not a great legal framework, but it's fairly apparent some current policy is not congruent with the intention behind some of the amendments. I have no clue or power to change any of it, but it's still worth pointing out.
The Database plugin from IntelliJ and Datagrip is essentially the same. My guess is people like to have separate tools based on their purpose and Datagrip serves that need.
A little bit of portable media storage history
I know this is probably a stupid question, but would a text message be considered classical in terms of communication?
I got muscle aches, fatigue, and headaches, but my arm never felt more than a little hot. I still have no idea which branch I'm in.