skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because young and healthy only lowers the probability of dying and not the probability of long term effects.

Young and healthy lowers the probability not just of dying, but also of a severe course of the disease. Long-term COVID symptoms largely correlate with how severe the course of the disease was. This is something that tends to be emphasized by the actual research, but left out of mass-media reporting, perhaps for the sake of sensationalism.
I was responding to "credentials don't mean much" with my experience. People with what some might assume is a relevant credential don't seem to be that suitable.

E: Another point - I know people who do more complicated things when programming, the thing is, they are also able to do simple things. I'd be really uncomfortable about hiring someone to do something complicated if they couldn't do something simple.
Is there a good data set on energy requirements for transmission versus compression/decompression of data? Is it really that much in favor of compressed data?
This seems to indicate that some careers require a college degree without actually requiring the knowledge dispensed at the university.

If a job really required university knowledge you would be fired pretty quickly if you didn’t do the assignments but because people keep investing money in paying ghost writers it would indicate that it’s paying off.

I personally see this on CodeMentor: “I don’t care how it works, I don’t need to understand it, I just need it done in the next 60 minutes”.
I suspect a non student control group would show similar cratering.
I can go to a library to use a computer, does that mean owning a laptop is meaningless? This seems like a very silly comparison.
I worked at a place that had a top secret "spam team" shrouded in secrecy. Secret meetings, separate code repo, iirc even a dedicated meeting room, etc. The official reason was that they didn't want their spam detection algorithms to be leaked. Coincidentally there was a lot of outside speculation about whether being in the free vs. paying tier of customer would affect this spam detection.

One can only wonder!
The NIST post quantum competition is for a replacement to diffie Hellman key agreement only. TLS doesn’t need signatures for that.
It's amazing that:

A) All utilities were functional during the move

B) The building was open to business during the move

C) It was initially moved by hand (before the rotation part)

D) It was completed in 1 month

Simply hurts my brain to think that it is possible to move buildings around, in 1930 no less.
Only if you come down equally hard on paid academics for being so incredibly lazy that they encourage cheating. Yes students should resist that temptation but man alive what the academics are doing to put that temptation in their way is completely unconscionable.

An academic with a cheating problem in their course has a problem they need to solve it they are knowingly screwing the honest. From a position of power.
> what do you actually do with that obscene wealth? [0] You can only consume so much luxury, and sitting on dollars results in tax liability and/or gradual depreciation.

I'm not so sure. Owning $10-$50M homes in major world cities, flying in a private jet, summer homes, winter homes, no car cheaper than $200k, no car older then 5 years, private school for your kids, private tutors, etc. adds up fast. Not to mention the effort that goes into make sure you never have to fly business class again.

The obscenely wealthy seem to either be content (Buffet), focused on charity (Gates), or all over the place (Musk). Anything less than $100M is less interesting thank you'd think.
There's a trick to it:

Whenever an author says "No doubt" or similar, there are doubts the author can't answer. It's a rhetorical sleight-of-hand, something to get you looking over here while the hole in their logic slips quietly past over there. Do it deftly enough and you can get people to swallow camels in your article, even if they'd strain at gnats in an article written without such devices.
It’s art
Disclaimer: I am not a parent.

Recalling back to my student days, I and my friends would be ecstatic about not going to school for whatever reason. Granted, the most extended no-school period would be the 3 months of summer break. I don't recall any kid ever actually wanting to go to school.

Maybe I'm thinking of this all wrong, but I feel it kind of hard to believe kids aren't liking not having to go to school.

Did school suddenly turn into a utopia of fun and excitement since the decade+ I was last in a classroom?

What I can believe though, is that some kids might be having a hard time not meeting and playing with their friends. But only a small handful of parents seem to be forbidding their kids from doing so anyways, so this still doesn't compute for me.
I would much rather own this (now famous) NFT that John Cleese sold, than anything from Luis Vuiton.
Working from home has been such an improvement:

Better food at home.

Less stress due to the lack of commute.

More time for the family.

Time for exercise.

Time to take my son by bike to the kindergarden.

More flexibility in general.
From my American perspective I think the reason nobody talks about it in West Germany is because honest talk about German history has been ruthlessly suppressed by nearly all the institutions of the German state, including the state media. This is not healthy, people should be exposed to the best of all different perspectives.
Your way of thinking is very common, not wrong, but terrible, why?

The world's total energy and CO2 output is simply the addition of each human footprint, all industries, transports are more or less directly related to the human end-consumer. So if everyone decide like you that their own behavior is insignificant, which is true, nothing is changing, and as you know the current trend on environment is not sustainable. I don't use a car, I don't use air-conditioning, I find natural methods and alternatives for most things, and product to reduce my footprint, and I hope everyone at some point will do that, because it'd change everything if everyone cut by a half their footprint, it's like twice less humans.

My comment on CI is half-serious, but I still avoid to put many OS/enviroment targets (for example just Linux/nodejs-14 is enough) and just running in on the main git branch
Any APIs hosted by major cloud providers are LaaS, if you think about it.
COVID does worse in warmer climates; it would be useful to see data adjusted for factors such as ventilation, climate, baseline prevalence, viral variants, etc.

No one AFAIK has attempted to do any of this work. All I've seen are unsubstantiated claims for each side's agenda.

We need to know what hard conditions guarantee an R0 small enough to prevent disease transmission in schools.

There has been zero leadership here.
You might like cake. Given the choice, you might like to eat cake every day. Maybe it would even take place of breakfast. But what happens if you're only allowed to eat cake?
No.

Excel is a local optimum - a hill
on the way up the mountain.

Yes, scratch and excel are good solutions for the issue of "it takes years to become software literate and I have six week evening classes to fit it in, what shall i teach"

but that's the answer to the wrong question.
It's also worth pointing out that at sample sizes like that (2), you don't have a sample. You have an anomaly at best.
Never forget that a company is a group of individuals. All it takes is for one of them some time in the infinite future to decide they own the IP you developed during the time you were employed at the company. Making sure that no one can easily make this claim is sort of basic hygiene at this point. Do this by making sure you have a copy of the employment contract, and that it either doesn’t have any crazy IP ownership clauses, or that you have explicit exceptions to said crazy ownership clauses.
Owning an NFT is not the same as owning copyright. It's just owning the right to transfer the NFT.

There can be as many NFTs for the same thing as the (edit: anyone) artist feels like producing.

[1] https://nitter.eu/joshmillard/status/1370088760663179266

[2] https://blog.erratasec.com/2021/03/deconstructing-that-69mil...
I thought about this, but technically that is still the code changing, it just happens to be in your dependencies rather than your codebase. The only reason you really have to change dependency versions is security fixes, and they should be infrequent enough that you could do manual testing. So I don't think it's a compelling reason to write unit tests, although it is certainly an added value.
Tell that to Italy. Their death rate was in the double digits when hospital capacity was overrun.
Elon Musk can make another 100 billions by claiming a chunk of Mars territory and selling NFTs backed by 1 acre lots of Mars land. The NFTs will be real so long as Elon gets the US gov to recognize his landlord rights on Mars, at least near the location of his first rocket landing. The thing is, he can start selling NFTs right now, as his promise alone is this valuable.
"It's NFTs all the way down."
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Hahahahaha
I remember when I thought that’s how the world worked.
I don't recall anybody soliciting the public opinion on action. We didn't vote, we were told. And regardless of partisan approach, I think we'd be in much the same boat. We have no control.
Treason
For anyone interested in this era, I can recommend the four-part series hosted by Radio War Nerd: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/war-nerd-radio-subscriber....

The podcast in general is quite interesting, even if you're not as left-leaning as the hosts are. But this series in particular was fun to listen to.
The lost national taxes in the US are effectively irrelevant for his point though. The despair in the Bay Area has nothing to do with federal funds. More importantly, federal funds haven’t been dictated by federal revenue in decades. In the US the federal government just accumulates debt whenever it wants at historically low interest.
On average, I've found Snaps to be better sandboxed. But there are plenty of things to dislike about Snap e.g. not respecting XDG base directory spec, persistent daemon running as root, requiring sudo, unable to control when it decides to autoupdate, coarse grain "connection" system ...and more. A lot of obvious design mistakes that don't get fixed for one reason or another.
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Have to wonder if your kid would be happier to spend more time with you, instead of you being away all the time, working extra hours to pay for the private school. Perhaps you could have organized free/cheap social events, instead of paying for them in the form of a private school.
I never understood the need for a switch, but one way to do it in python that is not mentioned in the article is to put different functions as the values of your dict. Then do my_dict[my_var]()
An RNA­-Based Theory of Natural Universal Computation
A day off and a year off aren't really comparable, though.

They're also still largely in school, just remotely. My middle school aged children have Zoom calls, remote band/orchestra lessons, classwork, etc. on their remote days - it's not the same as a snowday.
NFTs have already started mocking themselves, almost as soon as any money has been spent on it (for example banksy's "I can't belive you morons actually buy this shit: https://opensea.io/assets/0xdfef5ac9745d24db881fef3937eab1d2... selling for $350k). This is just another high-profile example (though I think it's a slightly pointier critique at NFTs).
So your best evidence of this phenomenon is an uncontrolled survey of people who knew they had covid, asking them if they feel bad? And the most commonly reported symptom is hypertension, at 13%?

I’ll let the researchers do
the talking here:

”Study limitations include small sample size, single study location, and potential bias from self-reported symptoms, the researchers acknowledged.”

This is certainly not a rebuttal to the fact that there have been hundreds of millions of infections globally, yet the cumulative evidence for “long covid” continues to be a vague constellation of self-reported, mostly mild symptoms in a tiny fraction of people.

If even .1% of 100M infections had severe, long-lasting damage, it wouldn’t be a debate. There would be hundreds of thousands of people to point to.
> In bash everything is very simple and clear.

doubt
All but three districts were open in September and those were open for children for in person learning a month later: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/os-prem-ne-op...
No one will discuss? I got a rambling story from a history professor about how he used to write papers for beer money. He claimed he stopped when one of his clients was caught.

The unfortunate lesson I got from university is that they were very aware of cheating, but not all that enthused about penalizing people for it. 11 people in one of my freshmen classes got copying an assignment to keep a journal over the semester. In theory, they should have failed the class or been expelled, but the professor didn't want such a high rate of her class failing and just gave them a zero for the one assignment.
> I'm fine with stupid and pointless things as long as your stupid and pointless things don't wreck the environment.

I hang up decorative lights around Christmas time. Is that not okay with you, or do you not find it pointless?
Two new deaths reported after vaccination (link not confirmed)
This kind of thing isn't rare

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
> You can plant a tree but You can't plant a forest.

Of course you can plant a forest. But there's no need to. If each one of us plant 1 tree per month, we would be planting thousands of forests as a result of our team effort.

We need an international Tree Planting Day. And we need to celebrate the fuck out of it.
The doubters are correct most of the time. That’s what makes VC lucrative.
I think this is silly. Sure, including the chargers was a "sneaky" way to basically raise the price, but they were fairly transparent with consumers what they were getting.
FTA:

> The police, for example, are barred from conducting an investigation and collecting evidence if GAVI were to be implicated in a criminal investigation.

Is tha true ? 'cos if it is then it's a lot more screwed than I thought and conspirationists will jump on it :-/
> COVID does worse in warmer climates

Is that really substantiated or has it just been theorized? California and Texas have been doing poorly compared to Florida so heat itself doesn’t seem to be the differing factor if it is a factor at all.
How about photographs? Even back in the days of silver chemistry printing, it was fairly straightforward for an artist like Ansel Adams to go into the darkroom and print up more copies of his pieces. Most famous photographers, in fact, hire assistants who do the actual duplication to their formula, and then they sign, date and number the prints. Today, when even fine art photographers print their results via inkjet, it’s incredibly easy to reproduce as many copies as you want.

For modern graphic arts, the value has always come from being part of a serialized limited edition.
A parable about startups and tech stacks
Long johns for Prada as Milan fashion week goes online
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At a time when the relevance of high fashion is being questioned, Prada’s menswear show in Milan addressed the criticism with an unusually practical item of clothing: a pair of long johns."
No surprise. I see obese people everywhere
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There can be as many NFTs for the same thing as anyone feels like producing. We could all mint a different Mona Lisa NFT.
California COVID death rate: 0.146%

Florida COVID death rate: 0.155%

These numbers are statistically tied.

Yet, FL's economy is open, kids are in school, Disney World entertaining tourists.

CA's business are closed & kids are depressed and falling behind.

(Bad) leadership matters.
I think the majority of the value in art nfts will be derived from being part of the provenance, or being part of the history of the beginning of 'owning' digital art, much like owning a famous painting. By extension it could be applied to digital culture, for example the tiktok guy riding his skateboard is selling that meme as an nft. So if collectors are good (and lucky), they are basically able to buy their way into a niche of history by being associated with works that represent periods of cultural significance.

Sure that may seem stupid to most people, but most people don't even get why regular art is significant or can be very expensive. Personally I would attribute it to my lack of understanding rather than dismiss it outright.
“That virus strain will not be as transmissible or virulent as what we are dealing with now, because it has had to make those costly "decisions".”

I’m not convinced you can absolutely guarantee these changes will make the virus less dangerous, we could be unlucky and it could become worse.
It’s there somewhere. You can “drop to dos” again - but I guess what you mean is Windows has its own kernel and doesn’t rely on DOS for anything beyond booting.

Fun thing I discovered once is that after you shut down, the screen that says “it’s now safe to turn off your computer” actually hosts a hidden dos prompt and you can start windows again by typing “win”
I suppose I’ll have to be the asshole here and just say it.

It’s because you’re too poor to afford YouTube Premium.
There is not enough housing. The solution to rising prices isn't giving people more money to further bid up the price, but to increase the supply of housing which would lower (or at the very least, slow the growth of) housing prices.
Are there any downsides to removing the potential for students to compensate poor test and quiz scores with strong homework and take-home work?

I remember having some terrible graduate instructors at the University of Oregon who clearly had 0 desire to teach and routinely expressed frustration when first year students could not keep up with their doctorate level notation and language styles. Most students passed by a hair thanks to homework and quizzes, mixed with study groups and studying topics which weren't covered properly in the class. Had it not been for a heavy weight on HW (about ~35% IIRC) most of the class would have failed. And cynically that homework weight must've been intentional - they knew there was a problem with their course instruction and they covered up presumably high fail rates by bumping HW grading...

The problem with evaluating large groups of people is that many will fall through the cracks, not due to malice but because there is no one-size-fits all solution. Yeah you can improve cheating metrics but how many non-cheaters, good qualified students who put in the work, were also negatively affected by your grading rubric? 0? 1? 100? 1000? Unknown?

And as a corollary this bleeds right into tech recruiting where scores of qualified candidates are put through a song and dance routine which arbitrarily and sometimes biasely culls for no valid reason other then being a day that ends in y.
The main character in the film Grease 2 (released in 1982) was paid by his fellow students to write their essays. I remember because he inspired me to set up a similar business in the 90s.
Projects are great. But the best ones are time-consuming because, as you suggest, you can often iterate one more time. This is especially true if the problem space is at least somewhat unconstrained even if the result isn't. I probably got more out of project-oriented courses undergrad/masters (and my Masters thesis) but it doesn't scale to the whole curriculum.
At this point we have enough data. The CDC gives an approximate IFR of 0.7% in the US. That would translate to low 7 digits. Also, it's very heavily weighted to the 70+ population.

Strictly speaking from a kid's perspective, it would mostly be the experience of losing a grandparent early. It would be sad (as death almost always is) but probably not life-changing.
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In the old days we called that "multiparadigm" and said it was a good thing.
Update: two new deaths following vaccination, with a similar clinical picture, were just reported, they are now investigating if the vaccine is the likely cause

Source (Norwegian): https://legemiddelverket.no/nyheter/legemiddelverket-har-mot...
I agree. But my point is that this is only a matter of degree more stupid than the concept of limited edition prints. Or $10000 cigars you can't smoke. Or a hotel room that costs similar amounts per night. The list goes on.
As a point of confusion, what is the obsession with planting trees? With little human intervention, outside of climate change, the earth is experiencing mass afforestation. There's been something like a 20% increase in plant matter in the past 50 years, an area double the size of the continental united states, due to warmer, wetter climate and a longer growing season. Is it the forest fires that have people concerned? That's largely due to this explosive growth and poor forest management. It's been a few years since I looked at the numbers but if I remember correctly, creating a 10-100x increase in wood product consumption (different wood products sequester different amounts of carbon) while preventing all forest fires globally would offset all human carbon emissions.
A software BOM will not address these issues.

Stopping the delusion that any one nation can come out ahead in this game by hoarding vulnerabilities, and working towards establishing and enforcing strict rules of cyber warfare are the first step.
> required the students to pass individually each of the homework, quiz, and exams, separately, to pass the course

How was the final grade determined? min(HW, Quiz, exams)?
And the patient will die if their wifi goes down because it's a piece of crap that listens on a websocket for a stream of commands to inflate or deflate.
> any traditional layer 4, layer 7, or 'next-generation' firewall appliances to get that result.

Cloudflare’s product is just a web application firewall as a service. It’s not magic. The major difference between Cloudflare and a pizza box WAF is the global distributed nature to absorb ddos in the same product. The things it does to the packets are the same though.
They can guarantee part of a limited edition, if the contract is written such that only x tokens can be issued. If a future contract issues more copies, then that release will be less valuable by nature of it being later/less exclusive, even though it’s the same physical file.
Technically, it's based around the fact the virus spreads slower in summer (warm, humid) than winter (cold, dry). Though I suppose California and Texas are more (warm, dry) so maybe the union factor is dry. Or something else like population density or time spent indoors.
Also how much of this metric is from the school closure vs the rest of society dealing with covid?
Sort of but not really. Grill charcoal is made at a lower temperature, preserving more volatiles, and then an accelerant is often added (basically lighter fluid) to help it ignite and burn. It's similar at a glance but the differences are important.
Colleges are simply doing something called collecting money so there's no incentive to fix this problem.

And it is a problem, because it means the output of colleges is increasingly just noise.

It will become even more of a problem in the future, because you can't run a civilisation packed full of 'qualified' people who can't do shit.

Except cheat.
It's not strange at all. It's completely expected that nothing is real until enough liberal news outlets put it in a headline, preferably a polemic one.

By the way, dan, I'm aware that I'm shadowbanned. It does have side-effects.
Your analogy is flawed. The laptop has utility in terms of access and convenience.
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we have had nazi forums for decades, hows this gonna change the way in which nazis want to orgqnize