skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was not testing against the South African and Japan/Brazil variants that are much more likely to escape vaccination antibodies. This UK variant is mostly problematic against the unvaccinated.

In the lab the South Africa and Japan/Brazil variants have severe reduction in neutralizing antibodies which is very concerning for vaccine escape. That being said, we don’t have a great way to test for T cell and other immunity which also plays a role. Getting the vaccine decreases severity of illness regardless of the variant.

The answer is get any vaccine as soon as possible. Then get the booster too when it’s available.
It's going to be interesting when these people figure out GPT-3 exists. The days of the take-home essay as a useful grading tool are definitely numbered, at least in non-science disciplines.
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> $69 to register your bits. This stopped me flat.

I've briefly looked into a NFT markets and the cost was a few 10s of cents. Where were you looking?
Let's say we could replicate the painting stroke by stroke. Let's say we also use the same painter. Still, it doesn't matter. A copy is a copy. It's not the same as the first and initial incarnation of that artifact, physical or digital.
How to grow as a senior engineer or why I got a new job
I think a good rule of thumb is to never prematurely apply DRY in source code BUT always try to aim for it when it comes to data and configuration unless there's a special need.
> ..with lockdowns in effect enough to keep hospitalization rates below capacity.

Lockdowns likely wouldn't affect IFR. It's a measure of fatality, not of infection rate, unless you think lifting the lockdown would cause a dramatic shift in infections to more vulnerable populations.
Right, even if you come up with a clean, secure way to publish attestations onto a blockchain, you've got a problem when they are transferred to an invalid or inaccessible destination.

That a title can be contested is actually a feature of the existing system, not simply a problem.
Early on, like in March of last year when Italy hit their double digit death rate, CFR was very meaningful. It's only when the breakdown was so bad that they couldn't meaningfully trace anymore that CFR stopped mattering.
"This could mean working on particular projects within the organization which like external visibility (e.g. Android) rather than projects which don't (e.g. AdWords plumbing -- presumably Google will pay you a lot of money to do that, but consider it compensation for not being able to talk about it)"

Perhaps counterintuitively, as far as I know, people who work on Ads internals aren't paid any more than people who work in more visible/desirable parts of the business.
Between "rich" and "poor" there's an ever-shrinking, but still a quite large layer of middle-class kids, who cannot afford private schools, tutors and summer camps abroad, but still manage to somehow get educated.
One thing I absolutely love in the Autocad version we got teached back in school was the way the selection rectangle worked.

Drawing the selection rectangle from left to right selects all lines fully covered by the rectangle.

Drawing the selecton rectangle from right to left selects all lines partially or fully covered by the rectangle.

(Either this, or the other way round.)

Does FreeCAD or any other free CAD solution support this? I can't do without this. Which one of the free CAD solutions out there imitate Autocad 2005 the closest?
Thanks, that's excellent!
This is a nice release, but the title is a bit misleading as the released sizes (1.3B and 2.7B parameters) do not yet compare to the size of GPT-3 (175B), but rather GPT-2 (1.5B) instead (although future releases may have significantly more!).

Edit: title improved, thank you!
To go with that, The Ghost Not is maybe easier to grasp

https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r2/index.ht...
The IFR they're quoting is the death rate per infection.

It's not infections/population.
Faculty get jobs at universities to research, not to teach. The less time spent on teaching the better.
Another way to look at it is - you can work on those SQL queries and deep technical problems, but you can't stop short at checking in the code and not telling anyone, or only mentioning it to your colleagues for engineering cred. Show people the performance impact, how much better the user experience is now. Especially those who are likely to trumpet it to the rest of the company (managers, sales people, marketing people, executives).

I used to be an engineer and now I'm a product manager (since 1 year ago). It's so funny being on the otherside and seeing how engineers claim "well not everything is demo-able, it's hard to quantify customer value" and in reality, I'd say 80% of the stuff they work on could be explained in a way that still has a visible outcome to me and to customers. But they want to write user stories like "As a developer, I want to refactor the controller manager to use new rust traits from the bind system blah blee bloo". But then during demo time, they show that actually now, a new feature that wasn't working before now works.

Guys. Lead with what you are going to actually change in the product that you can show me, not the technical change you are making. I know it's hard to get out of the details/weeds - but if you can uplevel a bit to what is going to be different when I'm done with this - sell that!
Well yes. But anyone can make a reproduction of a Warhol print. But there is a chain of custody that adds value.

I'd like to reiterate that I think the value in a Warhol print is also stupid. It's less stupid than NFTs but the point I'm trying to make (apparently unsuccesfully) is that these differences are matters of degree rather than type.

We humans have a multitude of ways to invent value that is built on sand.
I think the idea of "rich kids can go to private schools" is not actually the what is the largest driver inequality of outcomes for children. Roughly 10% of K12 pupils attend private school in the US. I was unable to find anything that pointed towards a definitive increase in private school enrollment; though that doesn't mean that it isn't there.

Sure, the "rich" families can afford private school tuition; but even just well-off families are better able to handle the at home school situation. They are more likely to have flexible schedules or work from home arrangements that allow them to properly supervise their children's learning - which I hypothesize that this better being able to supervise remote learning, is a much bigger driver of divergent outcomes than the fairly small number of private school pupils.
I never considered that, but I can totally see major discounts in pre-HD era equipment. Has there not been a lot of gains (like going from 420P to 4k) in the audio-side of things in that past 10 or 20 years? If not, can I use that same reasoning and buy some top shelf old speakers? I've always wanted to do it but I didn't want to be ripped off.
The fact that AMD had the best-performing CPU by a 2x factor for the past 4 years probably plays a role too.
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It's still at the very unintuitive stage. I've done loads of CAD in loads of different programs and still struggled to figure it out.

If you want to do simple CAD e.g. for 3D printing and you must use FOSS then I would recommend SolveSpace instead. It has some awkward flaws (most notably there's no bevel/chamfer feature) but aside from that it is much much better and easier to use than FreeCAD.

If you don't want to punish yourself by using FOSS then I would either way use Fusion360 and put up with their recently gimping of the free version, or simply pirate Solidworks. It's still by far the easiest CAD software to use, though the latest versions are getting kind of bloated.

FOSS CAD is not in a good shape yet.

Off topic, but until recently I would have said the same for EDA. Kicad may be powerful but it was also apparently designed by a UX sadist. Even if you are really familiar with other EDA tools it still makes approximately zero sense and has loads of weird "features" (like if you drag a component in the schematic it doesn't bring it's wires with it!) Eagle and gEDA are even worse.

Fortunately there's at least one decent FOSS EDA program now: Horizon EDA. There's also LibrePCB which I haven't tried, but Horizon is good and pretty easy to use (it has a rather confusing and over-complicated component/gate system but you can mostly ignore that).
You just reminded me that I've also got a Core 2 Duo Mac running, as well. That thing can run games better than my Mac that came out a decade later. Might have something to do with the enormous caches on the Core 2 series versus later Intel Core releases.

I also agree with your reasoning. These computers have been serving their purposes for a while, and I see no reason to take the time to replace them.
Anybody else find it strange that having students out of school for another few months for their teachers to be vaccinated is being painted as the most important thing in the world when they've already been out of school for a year?

It's fine to mourn the damage that's been done from kids being locked up for a year. To act like the marginal damage from adding a few more months to that year is murder, that's political. To act like the risk to teachers and the families they care for is obviously less important without doing the math is just hatred for working people.

edit: how about this - you're allowed to send your kids back to school if you're willing to stand in a room filled with 30 different people from 30 different households for 8 hours a day, unvaccinated.
But if the vaccines don't prevent infection, you won't achieve herd immunity until 70% have been infected one way or another.
Can't china dump solar panel on its own market so miners run off grid and clean ?
I know otherwise healthy people in their 40s who died from it, leaving behind children without a mother or father. Can you imagine being one of those kids? If so then you can imagine why it would be the latter.
I always notice that a cold sore will try to flare up during weeks of stressful work.
You would be mistaken then. Government interventions like lockdowns and school closings were a very good response.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabd9338
I once bought a small E-Paper display [1] for a Raspi, and was very disappointed with the refresh rate, it was useless.

I wanted to use it to display room temperature and electrical information like home power consumption, solar panel power generation and stuff like that, and expected a refresh rate of around 1 update per second.

Having it blink and do stuff for around 7 seconds just to redraw the next frame made me send it back and replace it with a small LCD touchscreen [2].

[1] Waveshare 1.54 Inch E-Paper Raw Display Panel(B) V2,200x200 Resolution,3.3v [ https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B074P32F9B ]

[2] ELEGOO Display 3.5" Zoll TFT LCD Touch Screen Monitor 480x320 für Raspberry Pi mit Allen Daten und Touch Pen (SPI Schnittstelle) [ https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01JRUH0CY ]

Edit:

Look at all that needs to happen just to update the minute counter as well as the temperature and humidity. It certainly is faster than the colored display I bought, but still, do you really want such a flashing display? https://youtu.be/v9sNzmtMSXo?t=164
actually under hyper-v windows is a vm aswell, it's just not visible. it's the reason why the hyper-v hypervisor platform was needed.
> and the closer to the original the more value they have.

Do you see the step you've just taken?

It's no longer about authenticity, it's about proximity to authenticity. Would a reproduction from the original negative by someone other than Ansel Adams be more valuable than a different type of reproduction? If so, why?
The Moist von Lipwig trilogy is fantastic. Have you seen the TV movie?
When push comes to shove, children can't vote, but 70-80 year old geezers can. And many politicians are in their age bracket too. Forcing kids to give up a year of their childhood just to (in the best case, assuming school closures are effective) provide old people with a month or so extra average lifespan is unjust and incredibly cruel.
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3195957/us-law-allows-...

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-11-26.pdf#page56

https://reclaimthenet.org/silicon-valley-hib-visas-instituti...
This is what happens when you institutionalise children
As someone who has interviewed hundreds of entry-level developers, the range of skills/talent/ability is enormous.

I expect you would have a hard time getting top students to join your union.

(On the other hand, I don't care at all about side projects or seeing code on GitHub. I want to see how you solve a realistic problem that I have seen dozens of other people take a crack at for comparison.)
I love this. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Do you handle formation in low-tax jurisdictions as well? (Wyoming, Nevada)
It’s bizarre to me that so many people seem to equate not having to wear a mask as the ultimate return to normal.

Mask wearing is probably the least invasive, least inconveniencing thing that we have been asked to do throughout this pandemic, yet half the population acts as if it is the equivalent to being handcuffed to a steel post in their basement.

If health officials said “after being vaccinated, do whatever you want, please just wear a mask for the next year and wash your hands while we monitor efficacy”, that would be a success story with respect to returning to normal, to me at least.
half a country still supports Trump, conservatives voices are aggressively silenced.

Donations can keep it afloat until the next Trump term.
There is one planned to be built in US https://www.anandtech.com/show/15803/tsmc-build-5nm-fab-in-a...

Also GloFo has fabs "in the west" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries#Fabrication_fa...
I have a 3D printer (Prusa) on my dining room table, just to the left of my laptop with extra monitor. I run Arch on the lappy.

I'm a PHB! When I'm not doing PHB things, I indulge my guilty pleasures.

OpenSCAD is pretty much tamed by me now. I'm not an expert by any means but I can design and print a mount for my Doorbird to toe it in towards the ringer. I use FreeCAD with my browser open to look up what to do. It is rather good and keeps on improving. I'm aware of Blender but it scares me. LibreCAD is available. I use SweetHome3D for home/office related stuff.

We have a decent pool of open source tools for CAD. FreeCAD is extremely capable already and keeps on getting better. I used to run it on Gentoo a few years back and simply getting it to compile was a pain. It is rapidly improving but do make sure you keep incremental backups for important work.

Have a look at this lot for some idea of what is on offer: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorials Those are quite old and there is a lot more on offer.
That's neat. I found a tune that works for me within seconds.

How do I share it?
I've always found the statement "how bad the US public education system is" and ones like it to be far too simplistic. It's a country of 350 million people, with perhaps the most staggering differences in educational outcomes of any developed nation on Earth.

Where I grew up in New England and in many of the surrounding areas, public education was incredibly well funded, teachers were paid very, very well relative to cost of living (75k+ USD) and supplies were never lacking. Spectacular outcomes for most students provided a stable home environment (92% of students going on to college).

The US public educational system isn't bad, it isn't good, it's nonexistant. It's a conglomeration of dozens of educational systems receiving some amount of money from the Federal government but more or less operating on their own. Given that, what we should be asking is what are we failing to provide our students outside of classrooms.
"give money"

This isn't what happens.

SV worked fine before there was money there, they'll work fine after. No VC is going to stop throwing money with conditions at people in the Valley, because they're not stupid, and they know how to make more. They're just going to tell other people to leave.
Exactly.

And with respect to the counting, it seems like the Belgian numbers more of less match the reported excess deaths in 2020 within 10% [1].

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v...
Still not getting my vaccine shots. So great they are, my government is sabotaging my safety by continueing to deny me access.
75% of Intel's production in US based, no?
How does this change with TSMC opening a fab in arizona? (And Samsung in Austin)
Fortunately EU is finally putting money on the table :

"EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25602950
Way to miss the point. You’ve incorrectly assumed that you can work close to home or at home for similar compensation per hour (even including commute as a complete loss).

The differences for FAANG incomes make this simpler for you to understand. At Google you can clear $500k/year pretty easily (this was common L5 TC when I left) spending about 6 hours in the office. Let’s assume you spend 2 hours each way and it additionally costs $25/hour in driving.

235 working days in 2020 (assuming you do 0 WFH days and take all PTO).

2354$25=$23,500 in cost
($500k-23,500)/235=$2027 per 10 hours of work (6 in office, 4 commuting).

You work from home for 6 hours a day for a non-FAANG and clear... maybe $150k?

$150k/235=$638 per 6 hours of work.

Commuter hourly after commute dilution: $202
At home hourly: $106

If you’re rich enough to get a house for a big family close to your office, good for you. That shit just doesn’t apply for people that make these trade-offs.

> They steal time from our lives, with our children and families and friends - the only non-renewable asset we have.

Truly spoken with the privilege of being rich enough with a non-commuting job to not have money struggles. Everyone I know putting up with these commutes has to give up a huge chunk of income that will make finances a burden or abandon their community for a worse quality of life near the job.
My teacher said that without doing the homework or exams, if you got a 5 on the AP test then you could get an A, a 4 got you a B and a 3 or less got you a C. Homework and exams allowed you to get a + and could possibly push you from a B to an A even if you got a 4.
We can, TSMC opening a fab in arizona and Samsung opening a fab in Austin.
West was or even is sleeping on Asia

Ask average IT person about big IT companies and nobody says anything about Asia, which is scary as fuck.
I don't think this is entirely true. Getting in the habit of writing, even if a lot of it is things other people have said better, means that when you do have something novel to say you will be much more practiced.

My experience is that when people try to only write the good posts they don't end up publishing things, but if they write hundreds of posts dozens will be good.
I don't think I've ever seen an HN thread with so many anecdotes, assumptions and off-the-cuff theories and so little data or useful links.
OpenRA is an absolutely amazing open source effort. After COVID made some of my regular meetups with friends difficult, we started playing OpenRA on a regular basis. The retro gaming feel, rock-solid playing experience, a vibrant online community with excellent, commented screen-casts on youtube (looking at you, FiveAces) make this all a very pleasant experience, run entirely by volunteers. Thank you!
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Wearing a mask is a lot more convenient than foam rubber padding.
The big, open question is why Florida and California have seen such similar case rates despite radically different approaches.
Rough transcript:

The question we asked ourselves was, are companies with big H.R. departments full of happier people, are they more productive? Well, the answer is usually no.
You know job adverts always saying we're looking for creative people. You can take responsibility who's got passion for customers and all that stuff. And yet when people start working for a company, the first thing the company does is drown them in processes and bureaucracy.
Now, actually, if you're going to go around recruiting smart people who are talented and motivated and really want to make a difference for customers, the most important thing a company can do is free them up to deliver that stuff that, you know, is magic about humans. If you spend all of your time at work, whenever there's something difficult handing onto another function rather than learning to do it yourself, it's less fulfilling for you. But it's also means the company getting less out of you. You know, how can a company learn how to find better ways of dealing with things if it takes all of the intelligence of its people and diverts them from from those big problems?
Summary: There are copper spears from 8500 ago, way before the Copper Age. Copper ore was easy to access but was too pure to make durable weapons. Stone weapons were just as effective and durable as the pure copper.
> All viruses either die out or become endemic.

Well... sure, the million dollar question is though how many die before that happens in the case of Sars2 isn't it? Can't really run a school without teachers or a factory without workers. What's your take away from this obvious fact?

> ...and none of the new mutations have significantly changed anything about the virus no matter what the media says...

That is a bold opinion. I guess the media pretty much does say nothing, but rather conveys scientific results? Several [0, 1, 2] scientific publications and studies done suggest something very different. There also seems to be a NY variant which seems to be markedly less affected by vaccines. [3] Quote Dr. Fauci: "Work done by David Ho has shown that we have to really keep an eye on that for its ability to evade both monoclonal antibody and, to a certain extent, the vaccine-induced antibodies. So it’s something we take very, very seriously."

It sure seems like we're on a good track to pushing COVID towards one of the two outcomes, but to me it seems that the path to reaching said outcomes is not yet as trivial and safe as you make it sound.

[0]: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2021/b117-variant-li...

[1]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/03/03/scie...

[2]: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n597

[3]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...