skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not evidence that holidays do not lead to increased transmission.

It is evidence that other things can also lead to increased transmission.

If my hypothesis were "ONLY holidays can lead to increase transmission", then that evidence would falsify it.

But my hypothesis is that "holidays can lead to increased transmission", so that evidence doesn't falsify it.
The numbers from Israel seem to show the 60+ age group that has been vaccinated with two doses is seeing a sharp drop in hospital admissions compared to the under 60 group that is still mostly unvaccinated. This should rule out the herd immunity and seasonality arguments.

https://i.imgur.com/Tu3ckZN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1eP5sbi.jpg
I'm not sure how much stock I would put into this type of claim in an opinion article, but anecdotally, I've been tracking the daily new cases and percent positive in my area very closely for a while.

Especially in the last couple of weeks the percent positive & new cases has fallen dramatically. Seemingly for no good reason. In my state, we are now consistently seeing percent positive less than 10%. After the holidays, especially Christmas, it spiked up to 25% or more. This makes me wonder if we are in fact nearing some sort of turning point as the number of folks who have contracted it must be pretty high, and people are getting vaccinated.

Are others seeing this same trend in their area?
This is more a function of Ruby than of tree-sitter. The tree-sitter grammars for other languages are hopefully less inscrutable. For Ruby, we basically just ported whitequark's parser [1] over to tree-sitter's grammar DSL and scanner API.

[1] https://github.com/whitequark/parser
... and healthcare, which has been rising 13%-15% every year
> They dont really seem too, though. Theres a lot of examples of rich people building towns even in these comments. Is there any evidence tech moguls do it any more frequently?

The OP didn't really establish it (e.g. take an inventory of all Americans building utopian cities, and see if tech moguls are over-represented), but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. The combination of experience with disruptive innovation, engineer's syndrome, and power would seem like a recipe for these kinds of cities, though a less productive one than near-absolute power over some polity.

Also, a lot of the towns mentioned in the comments pre-date tech moguls.
Both of those things still exist lol
> what's the type signature of `print()` then?

Dynamic typing doesn't rule out polymorphism.

void print(PyObject objects...)

where `PyObject` is a base type.
And N'to, Worakls, Danger, Justice, French79, Kavinsky, Jean-Michel Jarre, Air, Birdy Nam Nam, Gesaffelstein, Perturbator, SebastiAn, ... French electro is doing well.
The US and UK have a long history of funding terrorists in hopes of regime change too. We spent years treating ISIS and their supporters like they were the victims in Syria...
At the moment DeFi loans are fully collateralized, with the loan to value ratio affecting the interest rate you pay. If your collateral drops in value you have to recollateralize the loan, or are liquidated.
This reads to me like one of those 90's articles over-simplifying and underestimating the internet. Not that what you're saying is completely wrong, and trust me I'm not saying TikTok == the Internet, but the belittling tone is off-putting.
If not inheritance how do you feel about parents spending on their kids (and grand kids and great grand kids and nieces and uncles ...) directly? Not being sarcastic. No money, No problems applies to me so I myself am trying to find where Id fall if I ever came to this kind of wealth!
I never understand this sentiment. I get that "we" is "the human species" but in practice it just means "some people." A magnetic pole reversal would be nobody's fault, but knowing that some humans survived off-planet wouldn't make me feel better about it.
I wonder how much the "experience of having done the first few hours work" is necessary to continue working on a task, vs how quickly a "fresh copy" of myself could ramp up on work that other copies had already done. Of course that'll vary depending on the task. But I'm often reminded of this amazing post by (world famous mathematician) Terence Tao, about what a "solution to a major problem" tends to look like:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/be-sceptical-of...

> 14. Eventually, one possesses an array of methods that can give partial results on X, each of having their strengths and weaknesses. Considerable intuition is gained as to the circumstances in which a given method is likely to yield something non-trivial or not.

> 22. The endgame: method Z is rapidly developed and extended, using the full power of all the intuition, experience, and past results, to fully settle K, then C, and then at last X.

The emphasis on "intuition gained" seems to describe a lot of learning, both in school and in new research.

Also a very relevant SSC short story: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Ever heard of red lining?
Do you know if they list the price of storing/accessing 1 GB on Filecoin compared to say AWS?

It's obvious that people who own Bitcoin would want to use the system in order to show usefulness, demand, however I'm wondering if there's any use of people who aren't financially incentivized (like early adopters who have the most to gain).
This was an incredibly engaging video. I’ve said this before but if we are indeed at the bottom of the sigmoid curve, than the Star Trek holodeck seems more and more plausible [1]. Not the materialization part - that I’m aware of. But a machine that can generate a realistic story, improvise, dream up characters, and render them on the fly.

What seemed implausible in the 90s was the amount of 3D modeling that would be required. But now you can imagine a GAN that can generate 3D character animations from thin air, like StyleGAN does currently for faces. And another neural net that generates the narrative, and so on.

Nets within nets within nets.

Edit:
1: Actually, I’m reminded of something my college computer graphics professor used to say: good SciFi doesn’t have to seem possible — it just has to seem plausible. By that measure — Star Trek was good sciFi IMO — it would be more correct to say that it didn’t seem possible, or even probable, but it probably did seem plausible.
You would probably like "Age of Em".
With prison incentives being what they are, it’s hard not to think that it’s beneficial for the profession to hold on to inmates longer.
OP, you’ll be interested in my proposal from a couple years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745267
This is textbook ad hominem, and I think is against HN guidelines.
Yes but that won't stop you from drawing/rationalizing _any_ conclusions from a set of facts. Not all of them will be right and fewer even will make any sense.

Which is indeed your prerogative until you mess with the laws of physics and start believing that because you move your arms very quickly you can fly, and that will stop you from falling off of a cliff.

There is a five-whys strategy to go to some bottom of an issue but even this strategy will fail you when you cherry-pick the answers to your convenience.
> Radio (1895)

> VisiCalc (Excel predecessor, 1979)

> Facebook (2004)

This is an... interesting version of technological innovation history.
The real estate situation in SF is a huge cause of homelessness. The Pharma industry is a huge driver of drug addiction. Those are both things that aren't necessarily within the purview of the city government (the real estate one is, I guess), but they're situations that could be ameliorated with government action.
Edit: I'm an idiot who was trying to do too many things at once and misread. Removing my incorrect commentary on 95% CI numbers. I'll leave the excerpt from the study since that's useful info.

>Findings: The first dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine was associated with a vaccine effect of 85% (95% confidence interval [CI] 76 to 91) for COVID-19 related hospitalisation at 28-34 days post-vaccination. Vaccine effect at the same time interval for the ChAdOx1 vaccine was 94% (95% CI 73 to 99). Results of combined vaccine effect for prevention of COVID-19 related hospitalisation were comparable when restricting the analysis to those aged ≥80 years (81%; 95% CI 65 to 90 at 28-34 days post-vaccination).`

[0] https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/scotland_firstvaccine...
[[ is a Bash feature. The command for install uses POSIX sh. Maybe that's the problem. I use Debian and Bash. Thanks for the reply.
We Sequenced the Oldest Ever DNA from Million-Year-Old Mammoths
Yes it's obvious, but it doesn't prevent OP from liking go more than c#/java.

Furthermore, its very likely that the languages people 'cherry pick' are actually languages they use everyday. So they just compare 'new everyday language' to 'previous everyday languages', and just tell you whether they're happier or not when they write code. The point is not really about the language theoretical properties and merits, but how people experience the language in real life.
If the list is public, we can at least do the math independently to hold corrections departments accountable (filing suit to release eligible inmates when corrections won’t voluntarily release because of “software enhancements waiting to be built”).
Not Bill gates, if he stops to pick-up money he loses money.
Seconding Bobiverse! Really fun set of books!
Which is (in my opinion) "innovation". An innovation not everyone agreed with.

Instead of sampling from the 70s, they used artists that created music during the 70s.
IIRC most people had cells by 1999, just not smartphones. One used their phone to call people. Certainly that was the case by 2003 but I think that was also true of 1999.
We are also using this to power a lot of the program analysis features on github.com. We use it to generate the symbol list for Code Navigation, as an example, and are starting to look at extracting more semantic information about some languages using tree-sitter parse trees as intermediaries.
This is silly. Your own link, above, has wind generation deaths for both golden and the vastly more common bald eagles as a small portion of the 500/yr figure that also includes more common causes such as automobile strikes. You're not really worried about this fanciful issue.

You would have more fun if you trolled using one of your established HN accounts instead of a greenbean.
It's important to remember that the positivity rate is a measure of how much testing you're doing, not a measure of how much virus is around. Unless you're reading articles about the politics of rapid tests or the like, you should mostly just ignore the pos rate, it doesn't tell you anything useful otherwise.
A couple of points:

* DC's Metro connection to Dulles isn't complete yet. It's slated for Fall 2021 (pushed back due to COVID).

* BWI is accessible via light rail from Baltimore, but not DC. (The WAS metropolitan airport code does include BWI.)
See a Billion-Year Dance of Earth's Tectonic Plates in 40 Seconds
I can't help finding this a bit ironic, given that the B777 is an amazingly safe airplane with only 8 hull losses out of over 1600 built (so less than 0.5%), and one of those hull losses was because an Asiana crew "landed" a fully functional 777 on a beautiful sunny day short of SFO RW 28 L [1].

The other 7 hull losses were

* a BA flight landing short of LHR due to iced up fuel [2],

* Emirates crash landing in Dubai due to a botched go-around [3], and

* two Malaysian Airlines flights that had nothing to do with the aircraft (the probable pilot suicide/mass murder of MH370, and MH17 shot down over the Crimean), and

* three aircraft burning out on the ground (EgyptAir, Singaporean Air, Ethiopian).

Amazingly, there were only 3 fatalities with the Asiana crash (two not wearing seatbelts, one run over by fire truck), 1 with the Emirates crash (firefighter, not passenger), and 0 with the BA accident.

Only the BA flight really revealed a problem with the aircraft which appears to have been fixed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Flight_521
Next steps: incrementally resolve symbols and type-check?
> The vaccine could have been rolled out to the most vulnerable groups much sooner than it was. If you vaccinate only those groups (and the vaccine works), you prevent the vast majority deaths.

Challenge trial don't include the vulnerable groups, so how would you know if a vaccine works for them without doing the normal non-challenge trials?

Vulnerable groups are also usually much more affected by side effects. A vaccine that has no serious side effects in the small, young, healthy people that challenge trials are done on might have severe side effects in vulnerable groups.
> To me, it seems inefficient for every parent to sort their own childcare when you could centralise it into an institution dedicated to children?

Great! In America, some schools do provide these sorts of programs, called "after-care" for people who cannot take charge of their children after school time. They are typically not handled by teachers, and you have to pay extra for them. There are solutions like kibbutz, which other countries have implemented, that would be a good fit as well.

In practice, I have observed that enough parents do seem to be able to handle their childcare (where I live) that it's not a free program that's paid for by society through increased taxes. But that's a possible option as well.
It is not mostly just homogenous as previously described. It is a hefty mix of cells and extra cellular material, or are you going to argue that hair is made of cells too and that distinguishing between alive and dead cells is splitting hairs?

The fact that you even acknowledge it is splitting hairs indicates that you are aware that your analogy is flawed as you can't really think of the body as just cells and that is in direct contrast to systems we discuss in which everything, not mostly, are a certain way. Your body is not mostly cells in the strictest of senses. It is lot of non living material that is a mix or organically made structures as well as various gases, liquids and solids.
Canada closed some of the internal borders between its provinces; something that has never happened before. Some road blocks, some of its based simply on the honour system. Here in Ontario, I cannot legally visit anywhere east of Quebec right now without quarantining on arrival for 2 weeks. And some remote communities are literally barricaded from entry.
Isn't that the point of Op-Ed sections, at the end of the day? It's always been a way for newspapers to host what's effectively a glorified collection of Medium posts. Even the New York Times' Opinion page is consistently partisan.
That’s great, and no one is telling Catholics they can’t suffer if they want to.

The problem is Catholics are telling others to suffer. Ironically, in the US, it’s under the banner of the “small government” and “freedom” party.
Worth a try! I've also thought of adding, "There are three questions in this email, can you find them all?" but that seems a bit snarky.
yes ... prior to the early 2000s there use to be a thing called a pay phone.. in the 90s as teen you surely didnt have your own cellphone. You had a beeper possibly or after 18 to 20 you or your friends.. definitely someone had a beeper that you use to beep someone to give them a call. If you were out and about you drove to the nearest pay phone (.25 per call).
Except the people in the system have immunity.

Even laws like kidnapping have a motive portion, and basically an incompetent cop or other official can do what they and just claim they sucked at their job so the motive portion can't be met.
C'mon, that's Big Government. We all know that's the least efficient form of production possible.

/s
Cryptocurrencies can take the role of a settlement network between the money dealers. This allows money dealers who either don't fully trust each other, or simply need to settle debt internationally because the transaction flow is asymmetric, to make these transactions.

It also allows for a new kind of system where the money dealers act as access points to the network, and customers trust their local money dealer, but you don't need trust connections between the money dealers: If I want to send money to you from my remote village to yours, I ask you which money dealer you trust, go to my trusted money dealer, give him cash, and tell him that it is to go to your trusted money dealer.

The two money dealers don't have to trust each other for the transaction to work, and the transactions are much harder to disrupt than classic banking transactions.
> - Is the long term alternatives to PoW actually viable, given the huge power consumption of cryptocurrency currently?

PoS and derived schemes like DPoS have been sound on paper. Their drawbacks have largely been accepted by the community as a good tradeoff for most usage models. However, it can take years of "production" usage to get a good feeling about the long term macro economics, so I wouldn't expect a straight answer to this. The good news is that there will be plenty of big tier networks like ETH2 and EOS experimenting with different variants.
I don’t imagine the plan could be constructed without a lot of lookups to internal information (cardinality, which data table it’s stored in, etc).

Makes me wonder what such a plan could look like and if it even could be constructed on the client side without the necessary reflection, or if it’d be too complex for a non-simple query.
Learning about (Ithkuil)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil], a constructed language that incorporates a few of the ideas in the article along with many others has changed the way I see language and the effect it can have on thought.

How much of how we construct ideas is constrained by historical accident? This is the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis and a well known question. But Ithkuil makes me wonder, what thought is possible if we build a language with expressiveness that goes beyond anything we have naturally?
It's partially there since Java 14: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/language/pattern-m...
How to Use Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Parametric Classification Methods
Last time I checked, Australia is a continent with 26 million people, mostly urban, and strong travel ties throughout the world. Taiwan isn’t big but they’d be at the top of the list of countries you’d expect to get hit by an outbreak in China given travel patterns.

Nobody is saying masks are 100% effective but the scientific consensus has been clear since last spring that they sharply reduce transmission rates. Epidemics are all about cutting those rates, and a minor inconvenience is about as cheap as you can buy a reduction. Certainly better than getting advice from someone who’s going to claim South Korea is a sparsely-populated island to avoid having to admit credulously repeating untrustworthy sources.
I didn't mean the tree-sitter grammar was not understandable - it's very understandable - I just can't work out how to managed to find such a concise way to express grammars. Even compared to Whitequark it's 1/3 the size. What's the unique thing you do that makes it so concise?

It also seems somehow to be completely declarative? How have you managed to transform Ruby parsing to be context-free? For example where's the set of what's currently a local variable so you can distinguish from method calls?
Same, I think you have to be really mature and self-aware as an artist to know when it's the right time to quit.
Something I'd really like to try, should the right product ever come along, is going smartwatch-only. No smartphone.

Most of the things that I really need a phone for, I should be able to do from a watch. Making calls and listening to music shouldn't be a problem, and voice dictation is sufficient for short messages. Anything longer and more in-depth can and should wait until I'm at a computer.
More of the the US bomber crew/SAC footgage can be seen here in this SAC promo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcREJyRmZGg

and here in this PBS documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPEBROvR9w
It's hard to prove a negative, for sure. I just don't really see the data that shows the holidays had much effect. There was already a hard bend upwards well before the holidays started. It's certainly possible that the holidays made it worse and the peak ended higher than it needed to, but they certainly didn't create the winter spike.
I like having the option to select fields as an optimization, but the main reason i dont like graphql is because it forces me to select fields from the beginning. Most of the time I dont know what the fields are until i look at the data in context. In general, I dont like anything that forces me to rely on documentation.
> Sandstorm is basically abandoned

This is untrue. Sandstorm gets monthly releases, and new features tend to show up every couple months or so. Several major improvements to the platform are in the works at the moment. It's definitely true we could use more help, but it's still probably the most secure way to self-host cloud services for personal use.

> Cloudron is not even open source

True, though it's probably the best "successful" approach right now, in that the Cloudron devs have a functional business that allows them to very actively support the platform. (Sandstorm failed here, so as a Sandstorm contributor, I can't really knock their approach.)

> Bitnami and Yunohost are also major options.

Yunohost has zero isolation between applications, a single compromised app can hose your entire server. I would bear that in mind when recommending it widely.

Bitnami is going to leave you mostly on your own to decide how you're going to host it's app packages. I'm not sure it's directly comparable, it's more like a Docker Hub than a managed self-hosting platform.
To be fair, even if you register for the opposing party, helping to choose the opponent is still useful. I've considered such plays before.
It was Dark Souls 2 but yeah, it was kinda hilarious, since it was basically the first time we ever heard directly from him or got an "official" selfie in almost a decade of him making music, and it was just to say "I'm not sure if I will have many new tunes for a while because I need to play that game a lot", even though he already had the reputation of not putting anything out for long stretches of time. It was so bizarre.
Unsuck It (2010)
Sounds like the QA wasn’t very good from the beginning considering the number of actual bugs reported.
Use TypeScript in 2021?
This poses an interesting question to me: Daft Punk is a kind of meta-band, in that it’s members are not necessarily real people. For a more clear example, we can take The Gorillaz, a band made up of cartoon characters.

So what does it mean for such a meta-band to “break up” when they only existed during concerts and on records. Does that mean the people behind it won’t make more music? I sure hope not!
Are there any plans to support modifying the grammar on the fly or without recompiling?
David Brin explores a meatspace version of this in his novel Kiln People. Golems for fun and profit.
Even though he's just advertising a newsletter. He's right. Make friends in real life, meet partners via your social life. Don't waste time hopping on Facebook to envy people you don't even know.

A big part of my maturing was to stop comparing myself. Everyone starts at a different place, and everyone is at a different place. Someone who say dealt with homelessness as a teenager can be happy to rent half a room at 22. he or she doesn't have to compare themselves to a Facebook new grad with a 200k TC offer.
Funny thing, I was listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack as I was scanning HN headlines and saw this headline.
Tour break? I don't think he's ever played live. Maybe anonymously. Kode9 sometimes plays his new songs but that's it.