skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've mentioned it in a comment in the previous thread but it's not completely unexpected and with no causal link. Adenovirus induced blood coagulation problems are known:

Adenovirus-induced thrombocytopenia: the role of von Willebrand factor and P-selectin in mediating accelerated platelet clearance

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712...

You can see the number of reported cases across Europe in the EUDRA Vigilance database (if you manage to get through the Oracle BI interface and if it doesn't error out)

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-devel...

I don't understand why AstraZeneca doesn't just say: yeah blood clots are a risk, incidence 1/100,000 and everyone can move on. Why does everything needs to be so politicized with this vaccine.
In the US it's much higher. Many users provide practically no revenue to FB (presumably FB wants the growth for the future).

https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/facebook-made-almost-2...
How does Youtube Premium handle this?
Justice League’s Snyder cut review: No longer Whedonesque–and all the better
> To clarify my question, can Rust read files and split their strings without checking UTF8 correctness? That could speedup the algorithm.

That's what every single Rust program in this benchmark does, except for the simple variant.
I've paid for cellphone apps where the only benefit is to make them ad-free. I wonder if the problem is one of the sheer magnitude of revenue, to wit: Maybe they can capture $10/user/year on subscription fees, but the sky's the limit on how much they can get in $/user/year from advertisers.
> You care if people die on your lawn.

I don't know how you know that. Given the significant time and effort required to become a doctor, isn't it at least as likely that they are motivated about people not dying on any lawn?
British supermarkets should hang their heads in shame about palm oil and refuse to stock food that uses it. They're complicit whether they realise it or not.

Even so called 'ethical palm oil' just means that those that want it, and can't get it from an 'ethical supplier' because Western companies consume the supply, get it from "illegal" suppliers.
> Difficult to call, but I hope it's all being investigated thoroughly.

Important point! I start to get anxiety that there might be some Chernobyl level incompetence building up in our bureaucratic countries.
I feel like we are getting to levels of a huge quantities of regulations, where then to unblock the process, relevant regulations are relaxed to be able to move forward, leaving us with a lot of regulations that make us feel safe, while the elephant in the room is building up through other valves.
I fell like the 737 max thing also more or less fits this framework.
So for the future: Let them incentives be aligned and them regulations work in the right direction!
>rich people can afford to study for months for free. Poor people can't.

No offense but I laugh at this thought. Because most people don't realize what they are actually capable of-- they'd rather make excuses.

Excuses are easier to make than to sit down, intensely study, and build projects, in a public library, while living in a tent.

And, I think a lot of people in the "special snowflake" mentality are afraid to recognize that a lot of poor people choose to be poor-- and even glorify it: much like the "gloating over/glorifying victimhood" movement.

As someone who has spent almost a year living in a tent while studying technology, I beg to differ.

I studied for free for several months, a few times, while living in a tent & in a cabin without running water/electricity. It simply requires a strategy to find: internet access, free food, low cost showers, relatively safe tent space near a town/city, etc.

About 8 years ago I stopped working in entry level Marketing ($14/hr) to live in a tent (so as not to have to pay rent) and learn web design. It helped my get my first jobs.

It's a long story-- after a few months, went back to work in digital marketing. Later, lived in a tent again to study web app dev. After dropping out of grad school (lived off loans while living in shack without water & electricity), lived in relative's living room in SF Bay area for 1-2 months while applying to jobs, and landed first programming job.

There's nothing wrong with living in a tent, on a couch, etc-- whether rich or poor.

Living poor didn't stop me-- the willpower to put in the work to actively learn (actively i.e. keeping journals of notes & building projects) is more important than having a place to live.

Anyone can live in a tent and eat food from a food bank for a few months, and shower at a community center, while learning. (Assuming they don't have kids to take care of. If they have kids before getting their career skills together, well... that's just poor planning)

Strategies involved: Motivational thinking. Motivational music. Cultivating positive thought processes. A strong belief in the economics data (bureau of labor statistics). And a strong belief that studying web dev will result in a job, assuming a person is organized, studies, and creates a relevant portfolio with projects.

__________

Note: I have relatives who are currently quite poor, and have been as long as I've known them.

Their problem as I see it?

They refer to themselves as "Poor people" instead of "People who refuse to apply to jobs" or "People who refuse to research economically relevant skills and then build said skills in an organized manner".

The reality is that being poor or not poor IS in their control. And they choose to be poor. Why? Because they choose not to do the alternative: work towards a strategy resulting in not being poor.

I've counseled a cousin who is about my age. He prefers to wake up in the evening, smoke cannabis, stay up all night, and occasionally work manual labor jobs during the day. At age 30-ish. Yet is intelligent. Just chooses to prioritize instant gratification.
Especially since it's unclear.

Most economists consider negative inflation a catastrophe, because of a "deflation spiral" -- prices go down, vendors and manufactures make less money, lay people off, they have less money to spend, so prices go down, etc.

(All other things being equal, of course, which they never really are.)

Most, but slightly fewer, consider low (0-2%) inflation to be sub-optimal, but not catastrophic. A little inflation nudges people to buy stuff (including investments) rather than stuffing their money in a mattress, which it slows the economy down.

About 2% is considered optimal. There are those who would like it lower.

Above 2% is considered a problem, and getting into catastrophic range somewhere on the order of 4-5%, depending on a whole lotta factors.

That's conventional wisdom among economists, but definitely not "I'm surprised you don't know that much" territory. Especially without that crucial distinction between negative and low inflation. 1% inflation simply is not a catastrophe.
Might as well remove the ability to type full URLs, because our user research indicates that most users use a search engine.
Stripe now most valuable US startup
This number is highly dependent on the case numbers of a country, so I wouldn't be too sure about it.

My very rough calculation: There are ~ 200,000 vaccines administered daily in Germany, of which maybe 50% are AstraZeneca, so lets say we are delaying 100,000 vaccines / day - corresponding to 0.1% of the population vaccinated with Astra-Zeneca per day. Currently there are ~ 200 daily COVID-19 deaths in Germany, so in proportion one would expect ~ 0.2 additional deaths per day (~2 per week) due to the delay.

Assuming people prioritised to get AstraZeneca are 10x as likely to die from COVID than the general population, this still leaves us with 20 deaths / week due to the delay.

The big question is now how many people will die because they are infected by someone who could have gotten vaccinated sooner, but with a R of ~1, and less than 20 weeks until the whole population is vaccined, I doubt this will give two more orders of magnitude.
Since you can't read your own link:

>The second exception is for organizations with fewer than 250 employees. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not totally exempt from the GDPR, but the regulation does free them from record-keeping obligations in most cases (see Article 30.5).
> The other example is actually our CEO – I think that there is a certain caricature required for public appearances & earnings calls, but he sometimes seems to speak genuinely at company all-hands meetings

Dear Engineer. If you're not pattern matching him, he's pattern matching you.
Link is dead for me.
I thought that methylprednisolone was now preferred over dexamethasone for COVID-19 treatment.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/medical-evidence/methylpredn...
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Blood clots have a known set of causes and risk factors. If the people getting these clots aren’t people who normally would get clots , it’s cause for concern. The overall rate doesn’t matter much
Thats pretty standard in contract law in general. Ex: you cannot sign yourself into slavery, since slavery is illegal. Cant agree to work under min wage, etc
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464538
I'd be happy to be shown that I'm wrong.
It might be a noticeable delay if you require quick response by the program, but won't have a significant impact on the total run time of the program.
I do The NY Times crossword every day. As stated it’s very much not a coincidence. The puzzles tend to be timely. They also tend to build on each other so doing them regularly make the weekend puzzles more doable too.

Note for anyone not familiar The NY Times crosswords build in difficulty through the week. Saturday is actually the most technically challenging. Sunday’s is the biggest. Thursday’s usually have some sort of trick you need to figure out like a rebus square (takes multiple letters in a single square) or answers that wrap around.
Indeed, they had a bit of a hiatus but the service was brought back.
The AZ vaccine is also the only not-for-profit vaccine.
> We don't not live in a 0 risk existence.

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In C# one can have a decent documentation just based on a few attributes so you don't even have to write that much to have that schema available to your clients.
I feel it too, the optimism has hit an organizational wall. I remember being worried about AOL’s take over of the internet and relieved when AOL went belly-up. I have the same worry about FANG and keep my fingers crossed that decentralization will replace them and they will go bankrupt from over-leveraging.

Employee ownership in companies has to get better. Direction has become so opaque, hidden, and now quite frankly tasteless and borderline tacky.
Minio and other S3-compatibles make moving off of AWS that much simpler, though obviously it might be difficult if you're using Amazon-only S3 features extensively.
If you are willing to pay for something that is free, it generally means you have more disposable income. It's not that you become more valuable, it's that the remaining cohort becomes less valuable.

Few people making $30,000 a year are going to pay to disable ads. many people making $200,000 or more are going to consider it.
PR is surprisingly accessible, even to a small company
I live in Oregon which is the same latitude as much of Europe. In the height of summer, days are 16 hours long which leaves a near perfect 8 hours of dark for sleep. It's just a tiny bit south of London and Berlin. About even with Paris, and further north than Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Greece.

It's mostly not about the middle of summer. We have fabulous long summer evenings. It's the interim months like right now, where I most miss having that extra time in the evening. I want long evenings every day possible.
That's the "don't listen to real people. Imagine people instead" defense.

It allows people to justify whatever they want without any confirmation or feedback on reality. They can always imagine some future user that permits them to ignore every single existing one.

It's a closed loop justification to do whatever they want without listening to anyone while pretending they're making it better for everyone.
Signal now accepts cryptocurrency donations
Maybe, but I got the sense from the article that what NVIDIA has patented are the semantics of the API itself (i.e. the types of messages sent between the CPU and GPU.) A polyfill for the API might still be infringing, given that it would need to expose the same datatypes on the CPU side.

And even if it wasn’t, the path-shader semantics are so different from those of regular 2D UI frameworks, that a 2D UI framework implemented to use path-shading, that falls back to using the polyfill, might be much worse performing than one implemented using regular CPU-side 2D plotting. It would very likely also suffer from issues like flicker, judder, etc, which are much worse/more noticable than just “increased CPU usage”.
> prevent HashDoS attacks[1] at the expense of slower hashing. I actually don't know whether Go's hashmap does the same.

From looking at the code[1], it seems like it does. From[2] it looks like it is only for platforms that have AES.

1. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/7bfe32f39c59056c49f5776b10...

2. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9365
Removing options is just silly. Not having the budget to support it is one thing but removing choice because you think you know better leaves you susceptible to becoming the next Ubuntu/Snap debacle.
Anecdotal. Back in the day, I worked for a large distribution company where the CEO, CCO, CFO, and COO came from IT. When you looked through the code you could still see their commits. They had a unique perspective because they had in their minds giant maps of how everything connected behind scenes. Purchasing, orders, payments, receivables, inventory, etc. For example. The people in purchasing only knew how purchasing worked but they didn't understand how the system connected with finance or operations. But the C* executives knew, and understood what was possible and what difficult. They were very effective. It was a pleasure working with them. To this day I think it was a great model.
Get an electric car. Even a plug-in hybrid is good enough to cover your commute. There are a bunch of used Volts and Bolts out there that are quite affordable, and even entry-level new Teslas are no more expensive than the average new vehicle.

I sympathize with you because the environmentally minded are telling you to do the impossible and claiming that electric cars are a cop out or whatever. They aren't. It's actually easy.
Touch UIs.

The computing market is ordered like this, from top dog to underdog:

Smartphones -> laptops -> tables -> desktops

Smartphones tend to have their own UI and desktops are slowly but surely dying off except for gaming and certain categories of tech professionals (some developers, some graphics artists, etc.).

So that leaves the middle: laptops and tables. Which are slowly converging towards each other. Already in Windows-land many laptops are becoming 2-in-1s, both laptops and tables, so the screen is a touch screen. Tablets are moving the other way, adding keyboard accessories and multitasking features. So laptops are getting touch-friendly UIs and tablets are getting some keyboard-friendly features.

It's a slow slog which will probably continue for decades, but pure desktops will be squeezed to less than 5% of marketshare at some point.
Elon Musk has officially been made the ‘Technoking of Tesla’
I'm not sure if that bit is sucking up to the CEO or damning him with faint praise.
There's a few things that might be happening.

Germany has high rates of vaccine hesitancy. One way to tackle that is to be extra cautious. So, as soon as there's information about problems the vaccination programme is halted, an investigation is carried out, accurate and clear information is then presented showing rates of harm in unvaccinated and vaccinated people, and the programme is restarted.
Thats why everyone should be free to chose to get vaccinated. It is not fair to transfer the disease risk from old/risk groups to (longterm) side-effect risks for young/healthy people
The goal of an ad is mostly to make potential buyers aware of a specific product/brand. Hence, showing ads to potential buyers is most effective, even if many/most will not become actual buyers (like you, apparently). The conversion rate among the potential buyers (who can afford to pay for an ad-free service) is still much higher than among users who agree to see the ad (by not paying for an ad-free service), but cannot afford to buy the product.
With "low CPI" the government doesn't have to update government workers' salaries to compensate for real inflation.

In the US, 1/6 of the workforce is paid directly by the government, which indirectly generate something in the range of 30-50% of all economic activity in the country.

Hence why it's in the best interest of the government to state there's "low inflation": it doesn't have to spend too much with its payroll, while it can "profit" more from the money it prints.
Remote Work Revolution Gives Rise to a New “Untethered Class”
Is it designers’ or is it the designers’ manager?

Designers know who pay them and can try and shape a conversation but ultimately they have to do something the paying client wants.
Cannabis compound inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication in human lung cells
It seems you have to subscribe to access Hulu.
I have noticed this trend across many different applications/toolkits. In Linux land, GTK is an especially bad offender.

Desktops tend to have high-precision pointing devices. It is wasteful of space to make big, touch-friendly buttons. Many web apps and GTK programs that follow this trend are barely usable on my laptop (1366x768 display).

A good UI toolkit should support adjusting the size of the UI elements according to what platform is being used. In an ideal world, I could just set some kind of scale factor and have all my applications respect it. Then the people with touchscreens can be happy, as can the people with mice.

I guess from the perspective of commercial software, it's cheaper to write one UI and have it cater to the lowest-common-denominator. What I don't understand is why these design trends have become popular in the open source space.
Fauci is a fucking piece of shit fascist. He needs to nine-ironed in the head.
Enabling E2E encryption in Telegram limits you to only the device that the chat was created in. WhatsApp and Signal allow you to use their desktop apps (not the best app but that isn't the point). This allows me to use a full sized keyboard when I have the need.
Which one? https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/transfer.sh says it's up and fine for me.
If you're curling don't include the last character that the URL has in response. That's effectively a carriage return/end of data
> My guess is that having a standardized rapid decision making framework is valuable compared to the frantic scramble that might take place otherwise.

Having been in the military and received specific training on tactical decision making, I can say that this is a pretty good take on why OODA is taught.

When you're in any situation where you need to maintain positive control on the outcome, the biggest problem you can run into is when the situation changes in an unexpected way (insert classic Napoleon paraphrase "Plans are the first casualties in contact with the enemy"). The reason why the OODA loop is specifically used, rather than other permutations of the same idea, is that it's very efficient. For the classic HN crowd, a good analogy or application of OODA would be a PID loop, or any other event-driven feedback system.

Observe: has the situation changed? If not, continue with the current plan, else orient.

Orient: how can we change to match the situation, given who we are and what we're doing? If there are no positive changes to make, keep observing, else make a decision.

Decide: can we make a decision based on our new orientation? If not, return to observe, else act.

Act: perform the decision, then return to observing, paying special attention to the outcome of the actions.

Using this loop properly, at each stage you're still ready to go back to observing, and less likely to get mired in back and forth decision making without a solid reassessment.

This thought pattern is especially helpful in small team leaders, as they often have the flexibility and direct observational abilities to make full use of the information at hand. It tends not to work as well for single individuals and large organizations (in my experience), for individuals because of the incomplete information, and for organizations because of the signal delays in information and enactment.
It depends what quality of software and product you want to build. For an MVP, I think outsourcing is fine.

For growing a company and product, you want to make sure you are hiring the right team not only to build a killer product but also a team that will build maintainable software.
The estimate is based on Rec Room’s metric of unique Quest user downloads, and as such is likely very accurate. Based on their data, the absolute floor of Quest units sold is well over 1M.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ShawnRecRoom/status/1357839404459...
I like this essay! I'll pull an arrow from my moderately large experience bag and note that the attempt to categorize people at work or elsewhere goes back a long time, at least pre-Machiavelli.

To my mind, the good thing about these categorizations is that there are so many of them, and when they're helpful, they are really helpful. Like when you can say: well they're an ENFJ, but an Enneagram 6 and high D, high I, and also they are resistant to follow-through, you've got lots of information, (useful or not is a second q)

I personally liked the "conduit" thoughts, I have worked with people like that many times, and mostly they REALLY annoy me. I tend to spend my energy teasing out micro-clues about what they really think, but I think you probably hit the nail on the head - the best way to engage is to use them to get a read on the lay of the land without expending the direct effort, and then if you can hold your nose and build up their rep in your org, you could use them to tell everyone else what's up.

As you go up in management ranks, it can actually be extraordinarily difficult to get real information about your organization, so they can be valuable there as well.

Anyway, great thoughts!
I used to point this out to a founder of a former company. He'd reject out ideas and suggestions, then make jokes like "there's a reason engineers aren't CEOs!" I had to remind him of all the successful companies run by engineers.

The best tech startups I've worked for had technical CEOs or co-founders with engineering backgrounds ("best" meaning good to work for and most successful.) Worst were guys who thought they were going to somehow be the next Bill Gates just because he didn't graduate college, either.
In natural language processing and Hacker News in particular, it's often incorrect that a submission with mostly positive comments imply an article is valuable, and conversely a submission with mostly negative comments imply an article is not valuable.

That rationale just leads to even more groupthink than usual for an online community.
> I wish there was an option to make it more compact than the "compact" layout.

You can make the url bar smaller by setting the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in your about:config to a value between 0 and 1. This can also be done by adding the following line to your user.js:

user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx", 0.8);
https://patriots.win/p/12hkvmnScu/fauci-more-pandemics-in-th... Now this fucking piece of shit asshole says "more pandemics in the future because of climate change"

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY YOU COMMIE FUCK!