skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to a moral one, I’m invoking a mathematical and practical argument, in that you earn credits by contributing to social security and your payments are scaled by those credits.
I use thrift store speakers for my home theater. The speakers were $20, the stereo to drive it $20 from the thrift store, the bluray player for $40 from the thrift store, the screen was $50 for the canvas from Amazon, another $50 for the lumber to make a frame. The only pricey thing was $300 for a projector from Amazon. A few more bucks for a ceiling bracket & cables. Lately I've been seeing projectors at the pawn shop for pretty cheap.

I'm very happy with it. It's HD, and 102 inches.
If you read between the lines the study makes quite a few points consistent with my argument:

> Primary schools may be generally less affected than secondary schools (20, 25–28), perhaps partly because children under the age of 12 are less susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 (29).

The study also goes on to state, in a profound bit of self-awareness:

> Our approach cannot distinguish direct effects on transmission in schools and universities from indirect effects, such as the general population behaving more cautiously after school closures signaled the gravity of the pandemic. Additionally, because school and university closures were implemented on the same day or in close succession in most of the countries we studied, our approach cannot distinguish their individual effects

And:

> (iii) Our results cannot be used without qualification to predict the effect of lifting NPIs. For example, closing schools and universities in conjunction seems to have greatly reduced transmission, but this does not mean that reopening them will necessarily cause infections to soar.

Like stated above, this doesn't prove or disprove a negative. If someone comes out with a direct, causative relationship between re-opening schools and increased infections, and that is reproducible, sure, make policy decisions based on that information. But otherwise, if we are blindly making decisions that can affect the health and development of children, we better have data to back up those decisions.
Exactly! And by 2019 Teslas will
be driving themselves from LA to NY with no driver intervention.
We sometimes call his "the HN kiss of death", and we do this a lot to smaller visibility websites that never anticipate a few hundred/thousand hits within a couple of hours.

I usually go through the comments, then drop these URIs on my calendar and check them a couple of days later. By then the discussions have matured and the site is up and running (perhaps even the posts have been correct/enhanced with the HN comments).
It probably is funny, although it is still infuriating as fuck to read people claiming that there is no need to invest in public transportation because self driving cars are right around the corner.
When you consider that a lot of Tesla drivers are also

a) Elon Musk fanatics

b) shareholders trying to save face on behalf of the company

their reaction makes perfect sense.
And ostriches don't really stick their heads in the sand, and lemmings don't really jump off trees. Do we both get a medal?
thanks, I never used this before. Do I have to add a credit card? How much will it cost to run this?
Well, the OP isn't using such a thing. A quick lookup says it's hosted at internet-webhosting.com which appears to be a Malaysian web hosting outfit that sells the usual shared/vps/dedi hosting along with "wordpress hosting" which looks a lot like cPanel + Litespeed. Ho Hum.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201026180211/https://mybyways.... shows that it's built using Grav, which is fine I guess. I don't know how well that holds up to high traffic, but if he's not using any specific caching then I think just about anything could fall over in the face of the HN hug of death. And until one has been HN'd (or slashdotted) then they really don't think about such things most of the time. I know I didn't. Then, my WP site got slashdotted. It stayed online with some quick work, but that was almost a decade ago. I suspect that the OP is doing a similar scramble now.
> Nobody cares how much you saved in time because it doesn’t get reported anywhere. It shows up on no important metrics. Sales going up by $100K is sexy. Admins handling an extra ticket per day because the interface is quicker isn’t.

I don’t get that. Solving an extra ticket per day should somehow correlate with either revenue increase(indirect) or cost saving(direct), right?
I went through this recently and wanted something great sounding but small, ended up with the Vanatoo T0. Great speakers but you pay for it ($500 CAD).
China Regularly Abuses NYU Students
Please don't start another podcast. Or if you absolutely must, please provide a text version of the content.

Podcasts aren't searchable, they aren't skimmable and their content isn't indexed in search engines. Text is.
The denominator for that calculation was not “all COVID infections”.
Yeah. Adding on to this, I don't claim to deeply understand SF city politics, but from what I can see all the partisan Democratic elected officials like Mayor London Breed have been pretty forceful in condemning the school board and union for not opening schools and focusing on things like renaming them. Breed has been advocating pretty heavily for school reopening for months, at least since September, and speaks and supports parents protesting for school reopening. City Hall recently sued the school district and it seems like they are pulling out all the stops, such as trying to bring the governor into this.

It actually seems to be the entirely nonpartisan elected officials at the school board and the teacher's union who are pushing back. A lot of the school board is former teachers (that's most of the people who run anyway), which means there's not a ton of representation for parent's interests there.

I don't think the voters should ever be blamed for "shooting themselves in the foot" and suffering regardless of who they elect, but in this case it makes even less sense. And I certainly can't take any joy from this situation that is hurting so many. I feel the same way about failures from officials impacting people with different politics than me.
These are new grads who have spent 16 years at school. They have no baseline for what a healthy work environment looks like.

Turning in your first notice is a lot harder especially at an elite institution like GS.
I've got some Mellanox cards for about 20-30 USD each, some direct attach cable can be had for a few dollars as well. Later I picked up some cheap optical gear from FS[1] for when I moved my NAS into another room. About $20 for the transceivers and fiber cable was not expensive either.

Regular 1GbE is sooo low now.

Not got the switch yet, just running point to point. Using a different IP range so I'm sure I'm hitting that 10G goodness.

[1]: https://www.fs.com
I use SolidWorks on a dedicated workstation.

FreeCAD is far from it in terms of number of geometric tools, and especially 3D path stroking.

Freeform surfaces are a great pain in any CAD, but FreeCAD barely does even basics.

To catch up to SolidWorks, FreeCAD needs like tenfold increase in effort for the geometry kernel.
The data from Israel is pretty good: https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination-israel-impact
And the even more selfish evolutionary reason: viruses mutate. If we spread it a ton while it's still "safe" for someone young, we're risking major mutations. It's like playing Russian roulette with 8+ billion bullets x probably millions/billions of viruses per person.

We just need one strain to go to something like 5% mortality + mortality across all age groups for this pandemic to become a civilization ending event. Maybe not ending, but "setting back by 20-40-60 years" event.
No physical item can be copied exactly with the same arrangement of atoms. There will always be an original.

Digital items have no original. The bytes are constantly copied, even in the creation itself. And every viewing creates another copy. And these copies have perfect fidelity. That's the difference.
My hearing is somewhat damaged from years of driving with the windows down. I can't hear any difference, so why bother paying for it.
Zach has a PhD in Biophysics and is a professor in Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Depends on how far you want to assume nefariousness/conspiracy on the part of "TPTB" or the government.

Could just be that it was to help swing a election, or allowed them to paint certain parties as "anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists". Maybe it's to cover-up nighttime movements by a secretive alien invasion force. Maybe they just love what it's doing to the stock market. Perhaps it's a bold move by online retailers to kill off small businesses or just brick and mortar ones. Maybe they're desensitizing us for something bigger. Maybe they're just incompetent AF and following along with what the media makes them think is what the people want. Maybe it's all ad-click and media-consumption driven as one of the other posters put it.

My personal take is that they have no clue, and most of those in power are just doing things that have been done before and doing them only in ways that have been done previously.
Large fractions of people sick with SARS 1 in 2003 are still dealing with it.
YouTube just isn’t working for me anymore [video]
Curious to see what parameter size of gpt3 this will end up being equivalent to. Obviously we won't know until they evaluate their models.
I'm just going to say that to someone who has never experienced such a thing, it is still quite incredible. SV bubble is too real.

Like I get many here were expecting fully self-driving cars by 2020, but even what have right now is kinda mind-boggling.
What I like from higher end equipment is volume controls that don't have scratchy spots.
It's only a scam if you don't enjoy it.
That scene gave me chills while watching it, and chills just now while re-watching it.

So good.
It's very strange these days to see headlines about a self-driving setback and be happy about it. I always wanted it as a kid but ever since someone pointed out to me that self-driving cars is the end of personal car ownership I hope it never gets here. Why would a company sell me a car when it can use that same car to generate ten times the income as an autonomous taxi?
Thank you. This makes it so much easier to understand more about the US public school system and how it is sometimes portrayed as piss poor (season four of The Wire pops to mind).

Is this something that is being discussed on a wider policy level? I believe it's a universally agreed upon fact that the quality of primary education is the single most important factor in helping people escape poverty. This should work equally well in rural Nigeria, suburban Oslo and West Baltimore.
I don’t know which 2019 you were in...
Can we please stop calling SolarWinds hack "the most sophisticated and protracted intrusion attacks of the decade" already? It was nothing more than blunt negligence.
...but I enjoy enjoying not having Twitter.
You forgot the ones who get their direct electricity feed to get pure sine wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJy6VJvSCk
It often doesn't really work that way though, especially if you contrast suburban and urban school systems. It's not at all uncommon for urban systems with poor educational outcomes on average to outspend on a per-student basis middle-class suburbs. So it's not as simple as throwing money at the problem.
I interpreted it as aspiring to a trillion paramters but I'm not sure.
Buy a pair of cheap studio monitors, and look for good reviews. I use a pair of Presonus Eris 3.5's and they work great for less than $100.
That might happen, but when you think about conspiracies, always think who would be against them.

Ok, they make money from selling masks. But do you really think no shareholders in hotel chains, airlines, airports, etc. are trying to push back against that?

Covid is hurting a ton of businesses. A lot of powerful people are behind those businesses that feel that pain.
I disagree, but this is a common objection which is worth addressing. Specifically I disagree that NFTs are grounded in that particular conceptual framework.

NFTs aren't attempting to be bearer instruments which convey ownership of some physical good, or even of a piece of intellectual property. Those require a corresponding Ricardian contract. This remains a good idea, but, to put it mildly, there are unsolved problems associated with it.

A NFT is just a baseball card, what you're proposing is more like a baseball player packaging up 10% of his lifetime earnings into 5000 instruments and selling those.

Baseball cards have provenance, scarcity, and IP protection of their appearance: that is, they're demonstrably produced by a company with a right to do it, there are only so many in existence, and it's illegal to make identical copies of the baseball card.

NFTs have two of these properties and an adequate substitute for the third. They're signed, giving provenance, and scarce, due to blockchain-verified artificial scarcity. It's not illegal to make copies of the referenced digital artifact, because what fun would that be? No one could load the image or whatever in a browser.

Nor is copyright currently assigned. I don't believe it's conventional to purchase copyright for an artwork along with the artwork itself, but I could be wrong about that, and it doesn't matter: this would be a cool thing to add to some NFTs, but we can just agree that it isn't a part of the package right now and move on.

But it is impossible to make an actual copy of the NFT itself, even with the private key used to sign the original. That makes IP protection an inferior good: it's fraud to make a forgery of a rare baseball card, but it's quite profitable fraud if one happens to get away with it.

Disclosure: I own no NFTs in the usual sense of the term, and don't intend to.
> "i think this is why search results are cluttered with a proliferation of largely useless "awesome X" GitHub repositories, repetitive bad Medium articles on basic ML topics, and so on."

This is such a sad way to view blogging and Github contributions...

There's nothing wrong with people writing bad articles. In fact everyone writes badly to begin with.

The same goes for Github contributions, everyone starts off with demo repos and broken projects.

The beauty of the internet is that it is infinite and you can build up your skills in blogging and coding over time.

It's the job of search engines to reveal quality results, not for people to only contribute quality results...
Thanks! I've been able to find it on a few platforms so far, but I'm distributing via anchor.fm

https://anchor.fm/ship-it

I'll have to find a way to differentiate my ship-it from others for people searching.

I'll probably have to rename it, but in the short term I'm going to let it ride.

Better to focus on quality interviews for now. (I think)

Edit: I just looked over the emails that anchor sent me and some of them say it could take as much as a week for the first listing to appear.

It's probably not showing up because it was like 1am last night when I finally hit the publish button on a non-test episode for the first time.

I'll keep an eye on this though. Thanks.

It's the exact type of hiccup that had me not wanting to self-promote before I had 10 episodes online.
> Well yes. But anyone can make a reproduction of a Warhol print

The point is that an NFT only shows a chain of custody for the NFT. It does not imply anything about the originality of the Warhol.
TSMC's second largest customer _was_ Huawei. The US sanctions led to TSMC no longer selling to Huawaei.
>They also have a high impedance, so low powered amps do fine.

Did you mean that they have a low impedance?
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The saying comes from a slide by Noam Shazeer (see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgGyWS40g-g&ab_channel=Tenso...). It just means the current goal should be to have models with 1 trillion parameters.
How do you even know the actual impact you had on revenue/profits? Engineering is often many layers removed from customer interactions, sales and accounting. Some companies have complex and opaque revenue channels. Frankly I take any claims of direct revenue/profit growth/generation with a grain of salt. Typically at best, you're wildly guessing, at worst, you're outright lying.
> That doesn't seem very start up-ish.

The "innovation" in the medical start-up space would be "indemnification".

Take a startup that has real results and fund them through FDA approval and backstop them when they get sued because the device isn't 100% (no device ever is).

I had a long talk at CES about 5 years ago with a doctor who created an asthma monitoring device for his daughter that would notify him and the school nurse when his daughter had an attack. I guarantee that device worked pretty damn well due to self-interest.

He couldn't get anybody to touch it. Everybody knew that you were going to get sued the moment some child died and a message didn't get delivered. Nobody would indemnify him even if he somehow managed to get through full FDA approval.

Want innovation in bio? Backstop the little people who have real devices and real results rather than funding well-connected, turtleneck-clad marketing charlatans.
brilliant tongue in cheek.
For complete herd immunity we'd need something like 100% that about 80% percent take, which is hard. So, our current goal is to get rid of the bad effects of Covid by limiting spread and limiting severe symptoms.

> But i still do not know what is the definition of "effective vaccine".

I'm not aware of a rigorous definition, but effective vaccine is something that helps us significantly to accomplish the goal. All the vaccines provide very good (90%+) protection from severe symptoms and it seems to be good even with the current variants. The protection is not as good against any kind of infection, but it is still very significant (like at least 66% even with some variants).

> If you have covid and take the vaccine, will the covid go away?

No, you have to take the vaccine before Covid. Usually it takes some time before the vaccine is efficient. Like you have to patch your server before it becomes part of a botnet.

> Are you still contagious after having the vaccine

You may be, but with significantly lower probability.

> can you still get the covid but without the bad effects?

This seems likely outcome of being vaccinated - your body will somehow already know what to do and will with the virus faster.

> What kind of immunity is given by the vaccine and how long does it last?

We'll see how long it lasts. It does not seem to be diminishing, so it should be at least a year or so. From the experience from other vaccines, it will probably last longer, but there is the risk of new strains that evade it.
This[1] fascinating page was posted about a year ago[2]:

[1] https://ciechanow.ski/gears/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310813
Who ever said 2 weeks?

They serve the exact same role they did at the start. If we'd open stadiums now the exact same thing will happen, that happened 1 year ago.

Lockdowns will continue until we either reach herd immunity naturally or through vaccines or we have a treatment/mitigation for the disease.
Whales can communicate with dolphins as well as other caetacians of various species. Can you communicate with chimpanzees or apes? It is quite possible that, via communication, whale culture actually is millions of years older than ours...kept alive by communicating with species as they evolve.
This is the kind of inefficiency that startups can use to get ahead of established competitors. So don't be sad, this is just a reminder to be an entrepreneur.
Very likely it's a custom order panel. I would very like to see a teardown.

The whites are still quite bad I can see already, it has no special high whiteness polariser.
Assuming your chance of getting COVID is "100", two weeks after vaccination your chance of getting it will have dropped to "3" and your chance of dying from it will be "0". Changes to your ability to have a symptomless infection and transmit it to others aren't entirely clear yet, but seem to tend towards the "3" as well.

This is for the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer & Moderna). The others are potentially slightly less effective in preventing infection, but seem to be just about as good in preventing serious courses and death.
The included autopilot seems good enough for this usecase, many report it makes long drives less tiring.

Level 2 FSD honestly seems worse from a human UX standpoint that it seems like an anti feature to me. I'm a fan of tesla and I've come around on autopilot being a nice feature but I think this FSD focus is silly and overhyped at least in regards to providing any value to customers anytime soon.
This maybe just an observation that life isn't fair. Some jobs both pay more, are more enjoyable, and look better on your resume. Some people are attractive and successful. It is definitely worth keeping this in mind when considering your career, a difficult job doesn't automatically accrue karma faster than an easy job.
If you have "rage-quit" FreeCAD in the past, like I have, here are few tips to make it more palatable:

Install PieMenu addon

Install Glass addon

Enable TreeView

Make icons larger so it's easier to tell what function they are for.
Revenue increase; unlikely. Cost savings? Yes. But does it?

Managers want big teams. It makes them look good. Having 15 direct reports looks better than having 10. That means the manager needs his people to be efficient enough to look good on paper, but inefficient enough that he gets to hire more people. Having a bigger budget and higher headcount makes him look good.
They do, but people complaining about this tend to convenient focus on the powerful people making money because of lockdowns while absolutely ignoring the powerful people <<losing>> money because of them.
Or, you know, they could just think it's cool.
Do we have any educated guesses on why we see a difference between the J&J shot and the AZ one? Is it just luck of the draw regarding different adenovirus vectors, or something deeper?
These days I think the best route for high quality computer speakers are powered near field studio monitors. for example you can get a pair of JBL 305 powered monitors for $200 and they will blow the pants off “audiophile” computer speakers 4x the price.

Just need to sort out finding a sound card with trs outs (bonus is you get a physical volume knob and xlr mic inputs as well), another $50-100 or so.
Show HN: adequate – an adequate UI library with minimal size
Ask HN: How/When to Delegate?
Hi HN,

I've been running a SaaS (niceboard.co) for (almost) the last year and have been doing everything (coding, design, support) myself until now.

I feel like I've reached the point (decent revenue + need for features) where I could really use some development help but until now have always worked on projects/businesses myself and have yet to learn to delegate work and manage others vs doing it all.

Any tips on how/when to properly delegate and how to successfully transition from the executioner side to the leadership side?

Any insight is appreciated! Thanks.
Yep. When I was growing up I lived across the street from a superfund site in San Jose. And there's still an active superfund site in the middle of Palo Alto.
From first look, they use colour ones.
Hey! Yes we do! Wyoming is actually one of our most popular states :) We can handle LLC formation in any US State!
This is tax payer money that people had to forcibly part with to use to fund private businesses that will not share their profits with those people. Is that correct?
Why people cannot directly buy shares in European semiconductor companies and then profit like other shareholders do, but it has to go through bureaucratic channels (and bureaucrats also take their cut for facilitating this bureaucracy)?