skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you appreciate the economics of vaccination or the time it will take to get through the population on current rates. A 4C storage vaccine can be deployed in drugstores, carparks, by clinicians with normal training. The -60C vaccine demands ridiculously low wastage rates and a 30min hold time in case of anaphylaxis which is running anywhere up to 5x normal expected rates because of PEG.

There is an increasing likelihood several vaccines will be used by every country, almost continuously for the next decade.
One meta-theory I had is that the caffeine has been determined to help with headaches only because studies done on it are for people who are ill and need pain management, and ill people tend to change their coffee habits.

When I'm healthy and working, I regularly drink about three espresso shots a day. If I'm sick, that plummets to zero while I'm lying in bed and feeling miserable. Invariably, I'll get a killer headache, which the paracetamol alone doesn't fix. I know this, and either I just ignore the headache or make myself some instant coffee at home.

But a badly run scientific study would not control for this quantifiable effect: Sick people get headaches, and dosing them with caffeine reduces the headaches! Ergo... caffeine reduces headaches.

However, I very much doubt that caffeine has a headache reducing effect in sick people that aren't also having caffeine withdrawal.

Imagine a world where most office workers would regularly partake in, say, Opiates to "take the edge off" their stressful jobs. In that world, researchers would confidently conclude the OTC pain relief medication should include Naloxone!

This isn't even that outlandish a scenario. There are countries where people living at high altitude habitually chew Coca leaves to counteract altitude sickness. Should OTC pain killers in those countries include Propranolol? Is it right to force tourists wanting ordinary Paracetamol to also take drugs for acute Cocaine withdrawal just because most locals feel better if they get it?

It's absurd to mix drugs like this, if you think about it a little...
SN4 might be a better parallel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIh4aLX3cZQ
> The lack of background music and pace is really interesting to me. Compared to a typical "how it's made" video [1] (which I feel has a similar level of detail), this video feels significantly more digestible. Those moments of silence feel totally alien and out of place in today's style, but I think contributes positively to my ability to understand and process the information.

I think that's because the older movie is an actual educational movie, while the video you linked is really pseudo-educational entertainment. An educational video has the goal of leaving the viewer with actual understanding of something, while the pseudo-educational video only cares to vaguely tickle the viewer's curiosity, and is fine to leave them nearly as ignorant as when they started. While the two movies may have a "similar level of detail," the educational video focuses on fully explaining a specific problem and solution, while the pseudo-educational video only vaguely skims through the high-level steps of some manufacturing process and barely even explains what the product is for.

http://www.engineerguy.com/ makes educational videos similar to this 1937 movie on a lot of similar topics.
Wrecked a beautiful state
Kind of a fun bit of trivia I picked up working at a geoscience company: Those brackish wells can be very rich in lithium, especially in South Texas.
Both work for employers that depend on ad sales in order to survive.
I think RTS can evolve, but I don't think you can compete with SC2 in the style where it excels, after more than a decade of balance patches. You can make games with a different focus though.

SC2 is a short (~10-20 minutes) 1 on 1 APMs contest. (APM=actions per minutes). APMs are more than fast clicking. No pro player managed to do everything they know they should do. It is about prioritization. Even I, a modest gold-league player can watch pro replays and go "oh, they should have moved the drones there, they could have saved these 3 marines". Knowing your skills there, execute well, recover from errors, exploit your enemies' mistakes, cause them.

This is the kind of game SC2 is, and it is perfect in that regard. It fits a niche perfectly, has the good amount of complexity.

RTS can be about other things than APMs, but also, I believe they can be about something else than being an eSport. It is not necessary to be an eSport to be a good game.
I worked at Mozilla for a long time. I gained a reputation of a reliable and knowledgeable contributor. I built the culture of deep work but only within my team. Different managers built different cultures.

As a hiring manager I only want one person who is brazen enough to lead: any more will lead to conflict and any less will lead to chaos.
What if I could fly?
Due to very thick atmosphere, giant airships should be doable on Venus. You'd get atmospheric radiation shielding, same pressure as on Earth (although obviously unbreathable air), ample sunlight and plenty of materials (=carbon and oxygen) in the form of Venusian atmospheric gasses.

Although hydrogen would be hard to come by, the atmospheric concentration is very low. That said, I doubt there's that much hydrogen on Mercury either.

So who knows, maybe Venus is a better place for a human base than Mercury?
A MacOS App is just what you need to run the app on MacOS. A Docker Image is essentially a mini operating system in a can. Most Docker images contain shells, the entire Python install, an init sequence... piles and piles of redundant stuff.

If you are running a Docker image on MacOS or Windows, you first have to start docker which is itself a Linux Virtual machine.

Docker is a great dev tool, but if you don't need it, it's a ton of bloat.
The sad part is that CA remains a one party state and this will just get swept under the rug. The power is too unchecked.
I hadn't come across it before, will check it out, even though it's not open source
Lecarre's works give a better portrayal of British Intelligence than James Bond.
When you run a large cohort experiment, i would imagine you balance the age profile to population after you do things. If you can get 1000 students in one day but spend three weeks hunting over 60s willing to be injected.. do you refuse to test 1000 students? No. You'd do something akin to Monte-Carlo random sampling into the age bins to get a distribution of experiments to match your needs. Maybe by the time they learned they had a fuckup on their hands, they'd only tested with the bodies available?
Hi forty, this mitigation is for the install time vulnerability. To answer your question, at install time: no, at runtime: yes, but not always. For instance, if it's a frontend package it will run in a browser. Therefore, it can't create the symlink.
Exactly.
"BREAKING—95%—new data from Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine shows 95% efficacy & is “100% effective” in preventing severe
Hospital illness, says AZ CEO. That’s on par w/ Moderna & Pfizer. No official data yet, but UK said to likely approve in days." https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1343047055078551554?s=...
This is somewhat addressed when talking about not just “what major” but “from where”. Also the article isn’t advocating you necessarily pick major based on ROI, it’s suggesting you factor that in when a) getting a loan and b) projecting your future income.

I think the best critique of the article’s thesis somebody else mentioned which is just because one studies sociology doesn’t mean they can’t later go on to be a dentist.

As well as the “this is a lot to ask of a 17yo” :)
We have a long and rich history of people who have no idea about radiation finding something radioactive, taking it home, and showing everyone.

I can only imagine that some device that stays hot without any fuel would be of great interest to people who are habitually cold.
Google has never felt more ripe for disruption. Their main product is utter trash and the DOJ is actively seeking to decouple their moat.

If you use Google search, you're admitting that you want ads. Google rearranges the results to prefer AMP and other ad infested properties before relevant results.

The internal Google culture is fucked. They launch random things and close them, all to feed their chaotic promo cycle. It leads to distrust and anger amongst users. I'm still furious about Google Play Music going away. YouTube music recently put this [1] in my indie music playlist.

Their current CEO reminds me of Ballmer. They need to bring in a Nadella to save things and make Google cool again. Also, when's the last time we heard from Page, Brin, or Schmidt? I thought they cared more.

FWIW, I've started using Bing and I've been quite happy with it.

> After 20 years of advancements in web technology we are an inch from making it useful only for ad companies and consumer driven behaviour. Is usenet valuable alternative for filtering out tons of crap pushed by ad empires ?

Google is responsible for the web atrophying. Once Google and Facebook have been chastised by the DOJ, we might see a return to form for the web. If not, maybe we should start building more distributed / p2p content distribution. How difficult would it be to design semantic markup for blogs and comments, and start "torrenting" news articles in a web of trust? Signal to noise ratio would skyrocket. This sort of design keeps the marketers out completely.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxp8qPEwSXM (decidedly not indie or alt rock music)
I've tried thinking hard on the second video. I guess most confusion comes from as it doesn't explain why traction situation (where wheel speeds up relatively) is different than the actual turn (where wheel slows down relatively). Here, as speeding up wheel gear can not spin the worm gear, power is captured "back" to the other wheel through the outer locking cage. However, first comment at youtube and an another article (https://www.kmpdrivetrain.com/differentials/torsen-vs-plated...) states that it wouldn't work with 0 traction and can get only the amount of slipping traction torque to the other wheel.
It's like this for fighting games, as well. I've played both genres, but it's also the same deal for any mode that's inherently competitive, such as league play in the older shooters like Quake, CounterStrike, Team Fortress Classic & 2. Everyone says that they're "bad" but a few say they're "good", either through sheer practice and results or hubris.

You're right that there's a lot about it that isn't fun. One's ability to enjoy fighting games and RTS games begins and ends with understanding a multitude of different mechanics and having the physical execution to make one's plans a reality. People who play those genres have to practice daily to derive some decent enjoyment from the games in them, almost as if it's a second job (maybe even a third depending on what you do for a living, i.e. the software developers of HN still have to carve out time to keep up with tech advances).

It's worth it in the end in my opinion because of the people one meets in these communities. They're usually very dedicated, most like to see more people be able to compete and are really helpful, and will participate in group events in real life (tournaments for both fighting and RTS games, locals for fighting games).
Helicopter landing has since then happened even on the summit of Mount Everest.
I share a lot with how you view the world, but could probably stand to learn a lot from you as well. I'm in my mid 30s, software developer, and generally open to spirituality but not in the conventional, western, judeo-christian sense.

One of my foundations of belief is that life is entirely about probabilities and chance. It's a sort of guiding force that I follow. I view everything similarly to how you do, in that we cannot possibly know for sure it's outcome. By extension, we cannot possibly know what the right choice is for us. Sometimes, you have to close your eyes and roll the dice.

I'm deeply interested in the random nature of the world / life. When you stop to think about it so much of our existence is truly random in nature right down to our conception. It boggles the mind to think how little control we had over even our own existence.

As for identity I'm also a free will skeptic as you put it.

Anyways, just thought I'd let you know that people like you are out there. I also find it a bummer that we're a huge minority, but such is life I suppose.
Covid: 501.V2 Variant
In my parents' generation, there was a lot of pressure to have children before 30. There was a widespread belief that giving birth after 30 risked the health of the mother and the child. As medicine advanced and neonatal care greatly improved, that deadline was pushed back and women started to seriously entertain the idea of careers before having children.

There are other cultural and societal factors at play, but the greater longevity and better medical care have opened up the time period for the expectations that previous generations had for their 20s.
Heh, you don't have to wait a few years. Just open the box and find a awkard UI, terrible Menu interface, and generally poor experience. Try any new TV, then try a new Roku. I find the roku experience much better, and it's got clients for anything you can name. I use Netflix, Amazon prime, and youtube mostly, but there's 100s of others. Roku seems pretty good with keeping their devices up to date software wise for many years. It's also way cheaper to upgrade a roku than replacing a TV.
If you haven’t launched a rocket in the base version, then I strongly recommend no mods, while avoiding any videos or premade blueprints.

Then go watch videos and do it again, but much faster.

Then if you’re still playing, you obviously have time to kill so go play Industrial Revolution 2, space exploration, and bobs mods on their own for a whole new experience.
Oxford and AZ Covid-19 vaccine expected to win approval this week: 95% efficacy
If I choose to label them "incorrect" for their usage of "factoid", by your own argument I'm absolutely right.
Hey its a place full of creating and sharing there products with each other and that’s where you can even connect with like minded individuals
Also, they have a concurrent version called "Sliced Scroll" which lets you do multi-threaded fetch in N streams, each with their own cursor.
When you got your JSON data in nested form, with arrays. How do you flatten it, for storage in the database?

Do you create sub tables to handle the arrays?
Like in many accounting controversies, the fundamental problem here is how to account for future expectations. If you’re owed a big sum of money but you know for sure payment is coming soon, your accounting statements should show you as much wealthier than the actual money you have on hand, because receiving a payment you already knew you’d get shouldn’t change how you measure your financial status. The commission says that’s all that’s happening here and the “missing” money will come in over the next year, while Stebbins says they have no reason to expect this and aren’t actually keeping track.
Yeah - search_after is the stateless version
Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
If the purpose of life is the journey to get there, not the destination, how could anyone younger than you have figured it out? Life is the one thing where people will never catch up and pass you.
Sins of a Solar Empire had an interesting mechanic: You could generate trade within the area you controlled, and little non-controllable trade ships would fly around randomly within the area you were generating trade. If the enemy destroyed these trade ships they would get a small amount of resources and your trade income would drop an equal amount. It simulated logistics, because an enemy army sitting in the middle of your territory disrupted a lot, but didn't add complexity to the game.
Lego History
Indeed. While the damage & health numbers are the same between games, the improved “MicroAI” of the units makes them much more efficient.

Doubling the health of all units, would make the game more interesting.
Not contradicting, just adding that GCP (Datastore) has had cursors for at least 8 years. When I came across that using App Engine many years ago I really liked the cursor thing, and it stuck with me. I found it a little funny this article sounded a bit like "Here's this new thing"
The Saturn V didn't come back with people did it? Just a small capsule splashing in the ocean
"Is there any structure that would make this possible?"

Lots of hard work and consensus.

Have fun with that.

Apple can scratch all the itches - even the boring ones - because they are paying the bills.

Open Source's achilles heal. Less than 1% do 99% of the work and if they don't....
In my mind having some diversification in vaccines is a good thing. I understand we never used a mRNA vaccine on humans at scale before, so it is still somewhat experimental. It may work great but we can’t completely exclude an unexpected side effect in the long term.

Also a few weeks shouldn’t change anything. We are talking about a 6-12 months vaccination campaign.

I suspect the 80% number you mention is to eradicate the virus. I think at this stage it is a bit unrealistic. Between poorer countries that will not be able to vaccinate everyone and animals which can carry this disease, I would imagine the virus is here to stay. I think the primary objective is for it to cease to be a major public health issue. That it keeps contaminating people at low intensity in the background shouldn’t be a major concern.
Weird, in my experience a vegetable based diet is way cheaper than one which involves meat...
Can't be emulated efficiently, or at all? Has it been tested or is it based on this comment from Intel?

"Emulation is not a new technology, and Transmeta was notably the last company to claim to have produced a compatible x86 processor using emulation (“code morphing”) techniques. Intel enforced patents relating to SIMD instruction set enhancements against Transmeta’s x86 implementation even though it used emulation"
Nice blast from the past! I remember this one. I believe the founder tried to create a follow-up called Pixelotto. By the time it was released, the novelty of the Million Dollar Homepage may have run its course.
There's a pretty good 4-season tv show about that concept called Being Erica. It mostly aired in Canada.
Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Pompeii
My understanding is that they did test a subset of participants, but that the 62% figure doesn't figure in the asymptomatic cases. They've made it very confusing though, much like how they've explained the half-full dose results.
Is the last sentence in your comment about developer experience, functionality, performance/scalability or something else?
As a European I ask myself why there’s no proportional voting system at all in the US. The states should be independent enough to introduce one for themselves, and there are also referendums.
With a positive feedback loop, trying to determine which thing came first is a waste of everyone’s time.
> one where I have the natural talents or extra drive or whatever that is needed to grab that brass ring.

It's interested that you didn't explicitly list "luck". I get that it's considered distasteful, but it's the reality of the world we live in - much of one's success comes down to dumb luck.

That said... I feel the same way as you do. For some reason I have always wanted more than I seem able to achieve. I strive, and I strive, but because of this or that short coming, or chance, I don't seem to reach the "brass ring".

I'm trying these days to just find peace and happiness with my life. I haven't jumped off the treadmill entirely, I've just turned down the speed. If I start a company and make millions some day, great. If I don't... if I end up a career man my whole life, but live comfortably with my wife... well, that's great too. I'm going to let go of the rudder a little bit and let the boat sail itself for a while.
Domestic Violence Database
Also handy from a PR perspective. Although meaningless.
A sideways answer is that practicing/studying X and then doing X will improve the efficiency of doing X. However, practicing/studying Y and then doing X can result in novel ways of doing X that could be leaps and bounds better, or even lead to doing Z which is a breakthrough.

It’s the efficiency vs serendipity discussion.
Yeah, when I was younger I remember feeling like I kept abandoning all my ideas. Years pass, and you realize that the ideas are still there, and it's more like you're rotating between them. Which is kind of a nice way to be. Work on one for a while, set it down, go to the next one, etc.
> You can't really reproduce that with any popular desktop operating system.

If you’re running Docker, you’re running Linux, and you can use the same kernel features as Docker to sandbox applications yourself. This way, you only incur the overhead of a separate network namespace and filesystem if you actually need it. Services can be sandboxed with a few lines of configuration in a drop-in unit, and applications can be run with a shell script that calls `systemd-run`, just like the `docker run` shell scripts suggested in the article.
Honestly, the “leave California for Texas!!” comments have started to become obnoxious in their repetition. And I say that as someone who moved from California to another state very recently.
Like what? The main purpose of jQuery was to have a unified API for dealing with the issue of every browser having their own quirky implementation of the web standard. All of those are gone today and we now have a pretty much standardized Javascript that you can write once and run in any browser.
The Revelation of My Tech Transition Journey
How many G’s will passenger experience when the ship transitions from the belly flop to the suicide burn?

That looks like an awful lot of G’s that this maneuver is pulling there.
Bing has undoubtedly the best image search. I don't think Google will be able to be cool again. This concept of coolness was fake from the get go. I keep hearing about the decentralisation of internet, but so far nothing is happening on a big scale to give an alternative.
There were a lot of copycats as well.
CS50 is on edx so you can actually submit assignments for grading and such. Definitely the place to go and definitely recommended; it's a fantastic introduction to CS and programming.

https://teachyourselfcs.com/ is also a good resource.
I don't doubt that. And I definitely think farming can do much better in many ways, and that improvements in agritech can make a huge impact for humans and Earth's ecosystem.

I still feel that using the land like this, even when it destroys natural habitats (which is very undesirable), and farming animals for food, is still a much better use of land and animals, than the "let's hunt a natural population from 7 tribes down to 4 tribes for our trinkets, aha!"

Elephants are intelligent and social and I guess I feel sadder about them being slaughtered like this, than about fish dying as a result of an oil spill, tho that's still pretty sad for me.

If we were farming elephants for meat, or even tusks, and we went about it in the most humane way possible, along with supporting and not interfering with their natural populations as much as possible, I still might think that's wrong, but I wouldn't feel nearly so sad about it.

I just think these elephants had real lives, nothing to do with these humans, and we slaughtered them for stupid trinkets. What gives us the right? To me, it's an example of the kind of gratuitous cruelty humans are expert at. I don't just feel sad for the elephants, I feel sad for us.
or users can use a magnifying glass, if they own one

it is not true that all browsers can zoom in. there are some cases, e.g. mobile platform with stock browser, where CSS dictates no zoom and the browser honours this and therefore cannot zoom

that might be due to browser implementation but ultimately CSS dictates it

I have no interest in mobile Safari but its non-vector based zoom sounds useless, and desktop zooming is unreliable