skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations Aakash and Manan on your launch! Talk about addressing an actual, physical pain point. Best of luck unstuffing the nation. A few questions: 1) How many months treatment time is necessary to see recognizable results? 2) How soon after starting Wyndly treatment can users stop using antihistamines such as anti-histamine pills and inhalers? 3) Generally how long must treatment be maintained before it can be stopped, and how long will the results last? A European poster in this thread mentioned his dust mite allergy requires 3 years of drops before they can be stopped for 3 years, after which the treatment must be repeated.
I like it and its very fast.

Good luck with scaling and automatic testing tho.
You’re assuming that agents of the government are expected to follow their own laws. Those laws are for you and me, not our beknighted public servants.
I too would like to hear more about the clients. Also would be really interested to know how you viewed the level of difficultly you were dealing with when people were paying $200 out of their own pocket - did you view it as "tough stuff" ?
You use cases to determine if you need to react to stop spread since you get results faster. You use hospitalization to determine the time-lagged efficacy of your interventions since it is more precise. What is more useful depends on what you are trying to get out of it. In this particular case, we are discussing the efficacy of vaccination and how that might influence restriction lifting, so you want to err on the side of caution and accuracy and use hospitalization.
DanBC seems to have posted the study itself:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phe-monitoring-of...

cases:mortality would be a weebit less influenced by placebo and it would be hard to reach numbers like 80%..

IMO, there's no way a significant number of discussions between doctor and patient are not going to reach different conclusions about whether to go to check in to a hospital or wait a few more days based on a significant fact like a jab 3 weeks ago.

So I'd have to say this is cherry picking..
So they charge $1/min the customer but only pay out $0.75. That's pretty steep a commission. The usual rate for similar services is around 20% (or between 10-20%).
nvUltra is still in beta. nvALT still works (Big Sur too) but hasn't been actively maintained.

I've been experimenting with FSnotes[0] lately and find it be be the closest an app has come to the simplicity of nvALT

[0]: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes
You might consider mentioning encoding_rs in the repo description if that's your recommendation.
I wanted to thank the folks here for pointing out a few issues that we (the authors of the books) hadn't noticed, particular around the meaning of "A Systems Approach". Our definition of the Systems Approach is now on https://www.systemsapproach.org/ -

The "Systems Approach" refers to the field of design and implementation of computer systems. The term is used commonly by computer science researchers and practitioners who study the issues that arise when building complex computing systems such as operating systems, networks, distributed applications, etc. The key to the systems approach is a "big picture" view – you need to look at how the components of a system interact with each other to achieve an overall result, rather than simply optimizing each component. In the networking context, that often means going beyond the traditional layered view to see how an issue is best tackled in a way that might touch several layers. The Systems Approach has a strong focus on real-world implementation, with the Internet being the obvious example of a widely-deployed, complex networking system.
Possibly, the parent commenter is looking for per-bullet links? (I'd want that as well.)
Certainty without humans or other spacefaring life all other species on Earth will go extinct.

Does that really matter in the grand scheme of things or is it just ego?

edit: To take it further, without some super-intelligent / supernatural beings it seems likely all structure in the universe will eventually disappear due to a heat death or a big crunch. Does even that matter?

My take is that we are just too young to have any idea what really matters in the grand scheme so the best approach is just try to survive.
Overall it is a good project, but they don't treat their 'stable' release channel the way it deserves. Instead, upon each major upgrade they show that "this list of add-ons [here goes pretty huge list] is not compatible and will be disabled", although those apps most of the time are 100% compatible.
There's definitely a trend of his at this point to cut forward to take a blurry look at future consequences of past decisions, but with a payoff that is basically opening the door on the real interesting possibilities, yet stops right at the threshold. Fun if you like musing about possibilities, but a bit frustrating if you're expecting a full arc from cause to conclusion.
This is unfortunately a disproven theory.

The evidence to the contrary came in the form of power-meter data from pro cyclists. It shows that professional cyclists instead use their power only in the down stroke of the peddle and have a far less “even” power through the cycle. Their technique is much more similar to a piston engine than a rotary.
cite yourself. california was not in field hospital territory, ever. there was a ship that was docked here to take excess patients and it took 77 total patients and the left. and considering half of the hospitals capacity were closed, they could have easily used that space.
Actually right now Flutter Desktop support is officially in "Alpha" not beta, so sure its immature compared to Electrons ecosystem foro example. But on the other hand, is far more mature than day Jetbrains Compmose Dekstop effort.

But I have no idea what you mean by "prehistoric support" ? Was that a typo?
> You can't compare plain SHA256 with PBKDF2.

But you can. It’s literally just N times the hash. Typically the number of iterations is chosen to be somewhat slow on the server that derives it. But a specially designed rig can execute this with extreme parallelism and speed.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's “Conscious Capitalism”
Wouldn't genetic diversity eventually occur naturally? Especially if you can source the clone dna from > 1 source.

I personally don't know fwiw.
> I'm as much opposed to adding more incidental complexity to the frontend as the next guy, but GraphQL has objective purpose and makes a lot of things much simpler

By moving all that complexity to the backend. It's not luddism to call this out.

> Learning new things and doing things better than they were done a year before is an essential part of being a professional software engineer

Yeah, no. It's not "better than they were done a year ago". It's just dumping all the complexity in somebody else's lap, reimplements a bunch of things from scratch, poorly, and calls it progress.
Smalltalk is dynamically typed, but I wouldn't call it loosely typed. It's closer to Ruby's "duck typing". I was thinking more of Javascript and PHP. Weak and loose.
I agree with your criticisms of Australia. And I have some more. I found it extremely enlightening moving to the Bay Area for a couple years then moving back to Aus. When I moved home I saw my home country in a new light. Australia feels insular, small minded and chronically unambitious.

And that anxiety you mentioned that’s strangely ever present in the US disappeared when I came home. I was on a bus and had the revelation that nobody was going to try to talk to me. It was bliss.

The lockdowns we had in Melbourne to keep covid down were utterly harrowing and I think a lot of us are still processing that experience. We gave up some freedoms temporarily to save lives. It was a temporary sacrifice of personal freedoms, because not making that sacrifice would have been worse. Letting covid out would have risked the lives of my parents, and I would have risked long covid - and who knows how many complications down the road. And it’s proof we as a nation can take collective action when we need to. I worry that the US might not have been able to do what we did to contain the virus, even if the fatality rate was 20x higher than it is. And that’s a tragedy from the country that invented the internet and landed people on the moon.
> It does. But it also means that the problem exists.

The exact same problem exists on the client side with REST. I get what you're saying, but it's a lot easier to fix N+1 issues at the GraphQL resolver level, because once you've fixed it, you don't have to touch it again. With REST, you end up either creating ad hoc endpoints or changes to solve each individual problem in isolation, or you end up building a lot more flexibility into your REST API to solve it in a general way, in which case you've badly reinvented GraphQL without benefiting from the existing ecosystem.
How do you propose for an inmate to contact his representation?
Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
As I said, manual review. As in, make the system easy to audit or get crushed by mounting costs. The idea is to apply pressure back on the prisons to get this right in the first place. If they can't demonstrate correctness to the courts (reviewed by the defense) then the sentence is dropped.
> Do not try and compare an animal to a historically tragic event to justify word policing. Your use of tragedies to justify your woke word policing is quite frankly disgusting.

deanCommie was trying to get you to see that SLAVERY was also a historically tragic event that people are reminded of when they see terminology like master/slave.

> Chaos monkey sounds completely fine and I can't see how any sane non-racist person would associate that with a black person.

They weren't trying to say that. This whole discussion is master/slave. This is precisely the point - chaos monkey is a fine neutral term that describes what is needed without any negative connotations. "Concentration camp guard" isn't.

Primary/replica is a fine neutral term. "Master/slave" aren't.

Honestly, your outrage about the comparison to concentration camps exactly proves the point that language matters regardless of intent.
One step above throwing away half the resumes to avoid unlucky people.
Absolutely. Appreciate the advice Nate!
Most people who can afford good lawyers never spend a day in custody.
Increasing efficiency is a huge aspect of every other field in computing with companies literally spend 10’s of billions of dollars increasing efficiency of software and hardware every year.

It’s directly offensive to many people in the field that an inefficient first implementation is maintained because people’s investments in hardware are considered more valuable than anything else. Not latency, not transactions per second, not environmental costs, just maximize the value of their hardware investments.

Completely understandable, yet still horrific.
A second for this, and also one heckuvan engaging read if you like pure 'show, don't tell'. With a bit of software intuition, you'll probably pick up on the majority of what's going on, at least in the first book.

The second book runs truly wild - I have to give it a second reading sometime, because it really starts blurring some interesting lines.
Yeah, we all get to hear that same immensely ignorant line from every antivaxxer ever but I have yet to hear about that vaccine that has killed

Since when has suggesting caution implied being an "anti-vaxxer"? These are the kind of labels being bandied about that makes people wary of the whole affair.

As for hospitals being overrun, it is mostly down bad environments in old peoples homes and the hospitals themselves. The homes and the government had about a year to reorganize practices in homes and hospitals to reduce the rate of infection and nothing was done about this.

Vaccines are not a substitute for healthy living environments.

The simple truth is the next time a new virus emerges it will be back to the same lockdown because vaccines where used as a substitute for hygienic behaviour. It is the same mindset that results in farm animals being raised in crowded environments in the belief that antibiotics can be used to treat them, and the same mindset is being applied to human beings.
I disagree, "everyone" isn't too much of a hyperbole. The system is gamed and most of the "essential workers" aren't essential in the sense their work could be done fully remote. I work for a large corporation and we were all deemed essential workers. The employees shifts in office are rotated so that it's not a full capacity at any given time. I know a handful of other corporations doing the same thing.

Outside of big corporate tech, I also know a bunch of people working 100% remote but already got vaccinated because they are an employee of pharmaceutical/medical company and qualify as health care workers.

We can be pedantic on how a 1C essential worker isn't everyone but it is a huge percentage. Maybe my sample of people I know in the Bay Area is too small but at least half of my friends can classify as 1C.

Edit: I found some slides from the CDC which totals the 1C estimate as 129M people. So my small local observation isn't that far off from what the CDC expects.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
Thanks for pointing this out, it is an issue we need to fix. It's because we produce so many formats (including print) that it's hard to get this exactly right, but I believe we can find a better compromise.
I don’t want to block explicit songs - if I want to listen to Eminem or something I don’t want a radio edit of Stan. I just don’t want it popping up in the middle of an easy listening playlist on a Sunday afternoon.
Norway to Decriminalize Personal Drug Use in ‘Historic’ Shift
Brains still operate as brains after severe trauma. They just don't necessarily operate well as humans in a society. Though I guess you could say making a brain destroy itself (suicide) is "crashing it" too
An ancient Greek approach to risk and the lessons it can offer the modern world
I'm also a reasonably well-off New Yorker, and I made the switch.

My apartment does not rely on electricity for heating; it's steam-based. Were it electricity-based, I won't switch.

But in the summer the price of electricity is like 50% of what plain Con Edison used to offer, and it's the time when power consumption peaks because of the running of air conditioning all day.

The reported generation mix is low-carbon, about half of it comes from nuclear plants, some from hydro and solar, about 1/3 from gas-fired stations, apparently zero from coal-firing stations.

So, for me it's a win-win so far.
Clip ins (“Clipless”) aren’t any more efficient than flats, but will allow a little more power in a sprint.

Clipping in is mostly a cargo-cult among non-pro riders
New activity: let's go get watched by birds.
> Sure, only if you completely disregard the massive costs to these mitigations.

As far as monetary costs go this is really easy to do if you just force businesses to close and send them on their way with a pittance. Is there anything you can’t afford, as long as someone else is picking up the tab?
Dealing with Steam is even more of a pain than dealing with Wine.
Not really, he's just saying that if you don't reward working on open source, eventually people will stop building stuff that's open source.

The most generous individuals are usually taken advantage of by the greedy, so it's funny how you're accusing the generous party in this situation of greed...
Love it! One of my favorite is Chris Read - he did some extended mixes for Whosampled, mixing the subject album and its originals into one stream. Wonderful explorative experience.

https://www.mixcloud.com/whosampled/jay-z-the-samples-mixed-...
Also rewrites, especially just to change platform are often a very bad idea. But if you are writing a new app or radically reworking an existing app, using Flutter instead of Electron today would have some merit.
Only in a bunch sprint.

Otherwise there is no benefit and a lot of downsides in terms of how likely you are to get injured by poor cleat placement or saddle position.
> Unpopulated by humans you mean.

Sure. This was in response to this: Every square meter of Earth is part of some ecosystem that is under stress due to human activity.

> If you place tens of millions of solar panels in a region you will destroy the ecosystem of that region, and yes, deserts are ecosystems too.

This is untrue. This solar farm will take up 120 sq km (out of the 10,000 sq km cattle property), and is unlikely to cause any environmental issues from the panels themselves, since they'll just shade some areas of sand.
Under MMT, you can inflate away other debts (mortages, student debts, etc.) To do so, it separates taxes from spending. It does away with borrowing to simply create money out of thin air, and return any money collected the same way. Any difference between spending and taxation increases the money supply, causing inflation.

That lets you tune the inflation rate more directly than the Fed's rather distant lever arm. The Fed has been trying to increase inflation, but doing so mostly by pumping it into the financial sector, in the hopes it would trickle down. It hasn't. So all of the inflation is confined to the financial sector, in the form of the stock market (and a few other investments, these days including crypto).

Under MMT you could give the same cash directly to people as stimulus checks or UBI, and know that it will go around at least once or twice before ending up in the financials. Then you can control inflation with taxation, removing as much money as you need to, and simply burning it.

The public debt doesn't matter. Inflation gradually eats away at private debt -- assuming it's distributed properly, which it may not be.

It's flexible and elegant. Whether it actually works is less clear, but its roots are a lot like conventional economic theory. In theory, theory and practice are the same...
Worakls is phenomenal.
In the past I’ve copied playlists, but the UI on the iPhone doesn’t seem to make it obvious. Search favours playlists over albums too.

It means I have to use my decision making part of my brain, which is not what I want to do when listening to music, and as that’s the part of my brain which will decide to cancel, it’s not something Spotify want me to do either.
Ok the way I do it with Angular and Vue clients (and Go servers) is:

GET /api/vn/singular_name/ = list all

GET /api/vn/singular_name/?field=value = list all filter by query, if it gets more complex base64 encode the query and decode on server

GET /api/vn/singular_name/:id = get by id

POST /api/vn/singular_name/ = create

PUT /api/vn/singular_name/:id = replace

PATCH /api/vn/singular_name/:id = atomic update

DELETE /api/vn/singular_name/:id = duh

If models are related they receive a related_model_id field.
This works even for "many to many".

In the case of Vue there's this excellent library called vuex-orm, which handles normalization of incoming data and ways to define relationships or all kinds and also queries with or without related models.
It's so good that I'm abandoning Angular because it doesn't have something so sophisticated, despite it having the better component system and structure all together. Not having to subscribe and unsubscribe to data streams and deal with this torture instrument rxjs is a bonus.
Because of vuex-orm I'm more productive than I've ever been with Angular.

This is sufficient and there is no need for GraphQL.

Real time updates are simple.
Whenever something like INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE happens an event is sent to a notification library which sends those updates out via websocket, a client version of this handles updates of the cache (or if you like vuex state, previously ngrx-data cache).
The notification library also handles scoped status updates.
Imagine a multi-community site. You're currently in community A and don't care about what happens in community B, the client tells the server "I'm in A" the server notifies the client only about the latest happenings in scope community A. Once you navigate to community B you do a fetch from the server to get the latest version of the truth. But while you're there you're also telling the server "I'm in B, send me real time updates about B".

I'm not a fan of Redis. I like MongoDB and having a single database system for everything. Since I'm not into game development that's good enough.
Postgres is nice for querying, I like SQL more than Mongo's way to query but when developing running migrations, database updates, it's a PITA, especially in Go which seems to lack tooling for this and the driver and "o"rm landscape is also a bit barren.
It requires quite a lot of memory since it’s a massive rails app.
Dell ships linux machines
Your faith in the moderators, and your willingness to swallow what's wagged in your face, is greater than mine.
There is a large body of existing literature linking pesticide application to decreased biodiversity. I’m not saying this speculation about thiamine is unfounded, but if there’s good supporting data for it, it’s likely to be an additive rather than alternative factor contributing to the loss of biodiversity.
And I'm sure they're frothing at the thought of all the content they can copy-paste into their show.
So we’ve got years of bubble left
It's definitely the worst-of-both-worlds. You can't go to restaurants, so unemployemnt is sky high. But you can go to a house party with almost zero risk of consequences.
All the "long covid" stuff is essentially fear mongering. There's no science behind it.

The implication is that everyone should be terrified, stay home as much as possible, and wear masks as long as there's any chance of catching covid. Even after being vaccinated.

Sure, people flout the restrictions, and they are met with social disapproval for doing so.

The worst thing is the hugely negative psychological effect this is all having on children. It shouldn't be taken lightly.
"Esoteric software used for mathematical models of physiology" brought back a strong memory of the xpp software we had to use as undergrads. Apparently it was the best tool available for graphing bifurcations in nonlinear systems... but damn that was some old software.

Writing long descriptions in comments works if you're the only one editing the code, or you supervise all contributions... in a fast-changing industrial codebase, those things go out of date very quickly, so comments are used more sparsely. I document the usage of any classes or functions that my package exports, and I'll write little inline comments explaining lines of code whose purpose or effect is not obvious. Mostly I just try to organize things sensibly and choose descriptive names for variables and functions.
Not only that, but from a biologist's perspective: where are you going to put it? The main reason animals become endangered is habitat destruction. There's no place now to put a viable population of the species. You can't introduce them to a new environment easier, as Australians will be happy to tell you if you ask them about rabbits.
Justice live is a blast, they album really lives with their lighting and the way they are mixing.
The farewell video is a clip from a prior work of theirs circa 2006, so I'm not sure how much can be translated from the clip to the real world circumstances behind the breakup. Of course, their selection of this clip to make the announcement in lieu of anything else could be construed as some sort of statement. Part of me wants to know everything, part of me prefers the mystery.