skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Last I heard, the current vaccines do not prevent infection nor do they prevent shedding the virus and exposing others.

No.

What you heard is that they couldn't tell yet whether or not they would prevent infection, because they did not have the data to answer that question.

How I understood it is that (until recently) there was no proof that the vaccines prevent infection, because the tests done so far weren't designed to check this, therefore they weren't sure they would; but considering experience with previous vaccines and medical expertise, they were pretty sure that there would probably be at least a decrease in spreading if only because you wouldn't be coughing around; and most likely a significant decrease.

Recent data shows that vaccines will in fact decrease infection considerably.

I don't understand how this misinformation is so commonly accepted as fact. It seems that everyone who hears this can't wait to spread it as a means to look smart and better informed than other people, because it's like a "hot take".

It's important that this misinformation gets rooted out as soon as possible because it's a common argument that people use to justify not taking a vaccine - e.g. "I won't take the vaccine because I'm young and I can take the disease, and it won't stop me infecting other people anyway". Spreading this misinformation is therefore quite literally dangerous and causing damage and costing lives, and like I mentioned even pro-vaccine people like to take it as fact and spread it around. It seems like a very viral fake fact.
There is a language spec and CUE itself is a reference implementation. You can embed CUE into Go as well as anything WASM. Checkout the integrations sections of the docs.

I don't think there is a plan to separate lang / runtime in the reference implementation. There will be cleanup and better isolation within the codebase.

On the flipside, there are plans to explore how imperative code can be embedded into CUE.
The key is water management, that's why large mono-cultures are so bad, they're deserts without all the artificially added water and fertilizers. When you have a diversified environment, permacultures, you keep all the material for life

I know you'll think yes but how do I feed 7 billions people with small permacultures, I think we can, because for the same area a permaculture is really more productive, we'd need more people working in agriculture, and I think that's fine too, in this crisis context, people should consider job changes

Btw as a French man, I'm so disappointed by how agriculture is shaped in our country https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_en_France#Producti... I'd love to see many more orchards, bigger productions of figs, persimmons, clementines, peaches, tomatoes, etc.. Fruits are so marvellous for our organism. What destroyed our agriculture landscape is Marshall plan and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
I don't think it's higher up than many other "types" it's just a broader group, like ebony, compared to all the searches that would mostly result in (or believed to result in) white women. Blondes, redheads, brunettes, cowgirls, cheerleaders, etc. all defaults to mostly white women in the results. Besides you are searching a site that is almost a SoMe version of PornHub.
"Rates of respiratory disease (P<0.001), diabetes (P<0.001), and cardiovascular disease (P<0.001) were also significantly raised in patients with covid-19, with 770 (95% confidence interval 758 to 783), 127 (122 to 132), and 126 (121 to 131) diagnoses per 1000 person years, respectively."

I could imagine COVID being causally implicated in respiratory disease or cardiovascular disease, but diabetes? That sounds to me like the control group wasn't representative.
Pretty much, yes! Obviously the speed of light and orbital motion/distances make things tricky but not impossible.

I think I’m also saying that since time passes at different rates in different gravity scenarios, a single external reference may be the best way to coordinate time… even outside of our solar system.
citation for the two kitten experiment:

Held, R., & Hein, A. (1963). Movement-produced stimulation in the development of visually guided behavior. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56(5), 872–876. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040546
Thanks for taking the time to respond! I wasn't sure you'd see it since I got to this thread late. Glad to be engaged in a respectful discussion on a contentious topic that is dear to me.

>This is broadly the issue when citing individual, personal experience as evidence: it is most often collected by those with an existing bias to the results

Yes, I agree here. Maybe I bungled it, but I was not attempting to prove God exists through this one person's experience. Just examining it as an example of a repeatable experiment.

>reproducible in a devout atheist
I would disagree here. A devout atheist presumably has a very strong bias against finding out God exists or interpreting an experience as something supernatural. So maybe "reproducible in a [dispassionate, neutral party]"?

>To this end, we have to design our experiments knowing that our brains will see causality where there may be none, and mis-remember data according to both our hopes and our doubts.

I just wonder if this is an excuse people use for never trying it out at the individual level. A person can say in their heads or out loud "God, are you there?" and observe the results. Of course, there's the question of how long one needs to go through with this. But scientists are often patient and willing to go to great lengths to prove something[1][2]. I don't blame anyone who is not willing to go through with the effort in something they see as pointless as long as they don't take the failure of one or two attempts as proof that God does not exist. E.g., Higgs et al. in a parallel universe quitting before decades passing and before having a multi-billion dollar machine doesn't prove that the Higgs boson doesn't exist.

Maybe my experiment as stated isn't it, but I think there can be a convincing and repeatable experiment along those lines. Millions of people have repeated it and experienced something convincing (to them) (I'm not trying to use "Millions of people" as proof that all of us are right or anything. Just that it can be/has been repeated). But, for sure, it is unknown whether the millions of people and I interpreted the outcome according to their hopes. I think that's why it's worth it for every individual to try for themselves.

>his experiment just shows that he can have a strong emotional reaction to a text he reads late at night while praying that he has some reaction to the text he's reading.

It is true that even very real spiritual experiences can be explained in other ways. So, you're right, the experience still has to be accepted by the observer as from God. Because I believe in an omniscient God who knows you personally, I think you'll experience exactly what you need to experience exactly when you need to experience it. I won't claim it will be irrefutable proof, but maybe it'll be enough to make you want to keep digging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory
This is a synopsis of the book described here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3184-breaking-things-at-wor... Breaking Things at Work. The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job, by Gavin Mueller

The basic gist is that software is eating people's jobs, and everything has to be an /app/ these days or it's not credible.
I am not good at arithmetic, but I have a doctorate.

For arithmetic, there is calculator or your smartphone.

Arithmetic does not equals to reading.

There is an alternative to arithmetic, it's number sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sense

We should teach kids how to think mathematically and they can learn arithmetic later down the road if they really wants.

Dr Keith Devlin had a great op-ed on this.
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Microsoft's real Java knock offs:

Visual J++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B

Visual J# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J_Sharp
I wonder if there are intermediary steps to getting to better at causality in ML. Causality is an abstraction of a whole set of a lot of different levels of problems.

In terms of concrete problems earlier than causality. E.g. toddlers I think get object permanence before causality, and I think ML might struggle with that too.

Edit: then the next interesting thing after permanence is maybe obj path prediction, then you have an interesting basis for some level of causality inference because you have a prediction and some set of conditions that might disrupt the prediction.
It would be nice if this helped research in to chronic fatigue conditions.
> I imagine you needed to create a entire persona with linkedin presence and all to get the junior hired for remote work.

Or you simply don't have any online presence whatsoever. At least not one that shows the real life you.
Has anyone contacted him and made him an offer on that box of Microsoft Coffee? He was right, it would be worth a lot now!
Maybe if you enabled "show nsfw content" in your settings. Screenshot for search results of "asian": https://i.redd.it/9jbms02e3mn61.png
If you want to clone a git repo from your laptop onto your cellphone (or vice versa), or test your CSS for iPhone 6 compatibility while you're actively editing it on your laptop, it's probably a lot less clunky to run a web server locally.
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>> So you paid approx $5* per content page for one of the most boring readings in your entire life, just for the lulz?

> I paid approximately five U. S. dollars per content page for one of the most boring readings in my entire life, just for the lulz.

> Recall that I did not claim to have made a reasonable financial decision. I did not, in fact, make a reasonable (or even defensible) financial decision. This is my way of coping with buyer's regret.

Hahahaha this was my favorite part.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/comments/mikuj1/i_bought_is...

edit:

> From what I can tell, they were written with Microsoft Word going by the line breaking and the use of Cambria as font. I don't think I could call it aesthetically pleasing without being insincere, however. Too much is wrong in terms of what I consider to be good typography (which mostly aligns with Butterick's Practical Typography).

At least it's not Arial?
Yes, selling massive databases about other people is what their business is.
Yes. It contributes to RSI. It's best to use thumbs for frequently used key modifiers.
Why would you put videos in the background?? I don't want to use my mobile data to load them.
Detect it early enough and we could just paint it, apparently just a significant change in albedo will change the orbit over time.
> So the fact, not assumption, is 6/6 poor people of color are being targeted.

If this is how the demography played out when just filtering by economic criteria, so be it. I have no issue with something disproportionately affecting populations. I do, however, have an issue with using race as a criteria for almost any decision.

> But color-blind policies still yield such inequities. Case in point, affluent SF and Marin county residents flocking to vaccination pop-ups in poor neighborhoods where there are no eligibility screens.

I didn't say to not use eligibility screens, I said to not use race as criteria. If you use economic criteria, people from Marin aren't going to be eligible.

> I don’t think any idealistic approach will ever be politically or logistically successful.

You think economic eligibility is idealistic? Also, you think racial eligibility is not?

> So if you are the mayor, are you saying no to free money for your constituents?

If the government is involved in any capacity, yes, I think that's reasonable. I think the government should be forbidden from using race as a criteria in any of its decision making. If it's purely private philanthropy, I obviously think they should be able to do what they want, but I still object to it for all of the reasons I've outlined.
The homepage has quite a few bugs which makes reading on mobile hard. I assume it’s breaking point related for some blocks. I’m on latest iPhone Pro Max with Chrome. Will check it out in desktop later :)
For your website, it seems the files aren’t being encoded right because Firefox on iOS is rendering them as something else. I’m getting mojibake with apostrophes and the like:

> ### setup_socket: thereâ€™s little interesting to say here thatâ€™s not
### in, say, Beejâ€™s Socket Guide.
I read it as the director is the fun one. He didn't specify about the manager, but it speaks well of the director that the manager couldn't get him fired, assuming the director had some sway over HR.
And attackers going after banking apps to perform credential stuffing attacks is one of the largest attack types currently.
Had to help out with some python the other day. About 15 years since I used python.
A couple of hours to figure out how to get it running locally.
Then I fixed the various issues. Mostly horrible performance problems.

All told half a day of effort.

Felt amazing being able to be productive so quickly on ancient abandoned code.
The badly written algorithm was just obvious in its wrongness.
We know Satya Nadella has a Hacker News team to speak positively about Micro$oft and defend it here. The real Conspiracy question is if they've been 'activated' to help cover up this story by trying to claim it itself is a hoax.
Sure, but just like people's measures tend toward a distribution, an "on average" bias is still going to be distributed. Trying to throw statistics at it is still going to lead to off the rack style sizing, and NOT individually tailored clothes.
I couldn't agree more. I was actually referencing a Tolstoy tract:

http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/whatthenmustwedo.pdf
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I'm a solo dev focusing on webapps (python/nodejs/go). In the past, I've been deploying for production on Linux VMs (Hetzner) or AWS Elastic Beanstalk for small to medium audiences.

For an upcoming project, I'm looking for a hosting solution that would ideally tick the following boxes

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- Docker containers, maybe multi container apps

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I've been looking into Digital Ocean's app platform and render.com mainly, but of course the omnipresent AWS is also on the list.

What are you using to deploy (small/medium) webapps in 2021 as a solo dev?
At what point does attraction cross the line and become fetishization?
I devised a study that found you're not a denier if you disagree with science. It's official! (This is my proof ad absurdum of why this is problematic)
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Most people don't understand Bitcoin, and they get their references from the gold rush.

Here the situation is different: in the gold rush gold circulation went up, and gold was devalued, so mining that was even worse business than mining Bitcoin.

The problem with Coinbase is the Coinbase vs Coinbase Pro distinction and the huge margins for the Coinbase product that I expect to go down when people realize it.
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Well, there a is a theory that dinosaurs evolved into a transwarp capable species, now residing over in the delta quadrant...

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Voth
darkhttpd supports HEAD too!
The COVID response showed that governments (not all) can take drastic action when needed, both to limit the spread of the decease as well as to protect the economy. If they treated the climate emergency as the crisis it is, they would have acted as forcibly, or even stronger, to reduce green house gas emissions. They are not even close.

There are no technical or economical hurdles that stops us from strongly mitigate the climate change. It is pure politics. And it make me so angry.
> long long -- 40 bits

Isn't this in direct contradiction to what the article says?

> long long: At least 64 bits, and at least as wide as long.
> "...give governors a 51% veto power."

the senate was the selected compromise in this regard. give each state 2 senators that collectively have the power to represent state interests with majority vote, while being less prone to the corruption of single individuals (governors).
I think its more about how a company defines itself. I could totally see Musk encouraging an employee to troll the NYT or some other outlet on April 1st.
When I lived in Japan 25 years ago, two major events happened: the Hanshin earthquake and the Sarin gas attacks. It was an interesting time to learn Japanese by reading the newspapers. I had real, fully contextual practice learning words like kidnapping.

But I was still oblivious to what that gas attack meant, and what terrorism would mean to people in a few years after 9/11.

After the gas attacks happened, the other exchange students that all lived in the new foreigners dormitory (deep in the mountains outside of Kanazawa) planned a party. We put up flyers with a bear dancing with Asahara Shokou, the blind prophet of the cult. He was the Japanese equivalent of Osama bin Laden. The caption read "ore mo ikitai kedo naa!" ("Damn, I wish I could go too!") We thought it was really funny, since he had been arrested by that point.

The school administrators dragged us in, saying that "black humor, well..." We immediately took down all the flyers.

Sounds like the Microsoft PR people had the same reaction.
>It's not though.

It is though.

Wikipedia:

"Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of racism that is embedded as normal practice within society or an organization. It can lead to such issues as discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education, among other issues."

The Oakland municipal government (organization) is discriminating by race for benefits that will impact housing, access to healthier food, etc.

It is 100% by definition institutional racism.
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ISO 8601 is nice

From ISO 8601 Third edition 2004-12-01

---8<----

The following are examples of complete representations of date and time of day representations:

Basic format:

YYYYMMDDThhmmss
YYYYMMDDThhmmssZ
YYYYMMDDThhmmss±hhmm
YYYYMMDDThhmmss±hh

Example:

19850412T101530
19850412T101530Z
19850412T101530+0400
19850412T101530+04

Extended format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh

Example: 1985-04-12T10:15:30

1985-04-12T10:15:30Z
1985-04-12T10:15:30+04:00
1985-04-12T10:15:30+04

---8<----

4.5.3 Complete representations (recurring time intervals)

When the application identifies the need for a complete representation of a recurring time interval, it shall use an expression in accordance with 4.5.2, combining any complete time interval representation as defined in 4.4.4 with the number of recurrences.

Basic format:

Rn/YYYYMMDDThhmmss/YYYYMMDDThhmmss
Rn/PnnYnnMnnDTnnHnnMnnS
Rn/YYYYMMDDThhmmss/PnnYnnMnnDTnnHnnMnnS
RnPnnYnnMnnDTnnHnnMnnS/YYYYMMDDThhmmss

Example:

R12/19850412T232050/19850625T103000
R12/P2Y10M15DT10H30M20S
R12/19850412T232050/P1Y2M15DT12H30M0S
R12/P1Y2M15DT12H30M0S/19850412T232050

Extended format:

Rn/YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss/YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
Rn/YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss/PnYnMnDTnHnMnS
Rn/PnnYnnMnnDTnnHnnMnnS/YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

Example:

R12/l985-04-12T23:20:50/1985-06-25T10:30:00
R12/1985-04-12T23:20:50/P1Y2M15DT12H30M0S
R12/P1Y2M15DT12H30M0S/1985-04-12T23:20:50
This is pure nonsense. Look at any portrayal of large operations (satirical or biographical) in recorded history. The leadership of GM, Ford, IBM, the military, and any huge organization have always been portrayed as humorless.
They might have gotten fired in 96 too. They certainly seemed afraid of that based on things in the story not to mention waiting 25 years to tell it.
I figure in another 10 years or so, COBOL could be funding a large part of my retirement..

Just need another y2k :-) Maybe 2038...