skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to momentous public policy decisions, such as closing down much of the economy, or shutting schools, it is important to use the right metric. Counting deaths often works. If deaths are evenly spread across age and health, so that some young children as losing parents, while others are losing grand-parents, a plain count of deaths tells most of the dreadful story.

But with COVID deaths are concentrated among the frail elderly. Young children are losing grand-parents, but not the ones that take them to the swing park. It is the frail old ones, or even the great-grandparents. Rather than using a plain count of deaths, we should be looking at Quality Adjusted Life Years lost.

There is perhaps a factor of ten at issue here, between a pandemic like the flu that followed the Great War and which killed healthy young people, and our own pandemic. When a healthy young person dies from a cytokine storm perhaps 50 QALYs are lost. When a frail old person dies at 80 instead of 85, perhaps 5 QALYs are lost, or fewer.

The article goes with a plain count of deaths. But the article is accusing John Ioannidis of "minimize the dangers of the coronavirus". If the article were accusing Ioannidis of exaggerating the dangers of the corona virus it would hardly matter that the authors own crude approximation over-stated the danger. We would reason transitively. The author over-states the danger, the author says that Ioannidis puts the danger higher than the author does; as readers, we are persuaded that Ioannidis puts the danger higher than he should.

But the logic here is the wrong way round. The author is taking a crude, approximate approach, that over-states the danger of the coronavirus by perhaps a factor of ten. Of course he will accuse others of minimizing the dangers. And as readers, we are disappointed that sciencebasedmedicine.org is so careless with the quantitative aspects of mortality.
The vaccine was developed by BioNTech. Its name is Comirnaty. It's not the "Pfizer vaccine".
Undetected Coronavirus Variant Was in at Least 15 Countries Before Its Discovery
GetBlock Nodes Provider Shows Their Records for March '21
Assuming this is neither sarcasm nor GPT3, WTF does it even mean?
Off topic, but the manner in which you and GP resolved your disagreement (with respect, active "listening", and acknowledgment of counterpoints) represents some of the very best of HN. It was a pleasure to see; thank you both.
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> But I can't understand how transformations other than rotation on the vertical axis can be performed.

Roll is visible in the game clip. I think it's not a true roll but just each column of pixels raised up or down so that the horizon is tilted appropriately. Given the fast movement and the nature of the scene, the user doesn't notice that vertical features in the scene are not rotated. It's neat.
Not in any particular order (choose what fits your team): Kotlin or Java and a lighter framework (e.g. Javalin is to Spring as Sinatra is to Rails, with JDBI), a newer big framework (e.g. Micronaut, maybe Play, others), Phoenix/Elixir, Rails/Ruby+Sorbet, Go with libraries.

Edit: I just did a google search for "Java Framework" and get a lot of useless top-N lists with old content retitled "in 2020" with hits like: Hibernate (not a framework), JSF (JavaServer Faces), GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Struts (The Later Version), DropWizard (seems to have stagnated and docs are all over the place. JDBI was extracted and has a life of its own).
I’m really interested in fig. I develop lots of bash scripts and I would love to see how new scripts can also from fig autocompletion.
What's the best way to run java apps in a container nowadays?

The official openjdk images are based on "oracle Linux" and that doesn't sound right :) is there good small and well supported java image based on a popular distribution?
Yeah that's kinda my point. Boilerplate isn't necessarily "complex" in that way. If you can ignore it that's great.

I'm not sure you can with shell scripting because of all the global system state.
Oh, definitely. I don't dispute the need for the adjustments that the authors were applying. It's just that...after a certain amount of "adjustment", what good is your prediction, anyway? Correcting the seroprevalence by a few percent is one thing. "Correcting" it by over 200% is quite another.

Basically, folks are going back to this paper (or more realistically: not reading it at all, and simply parroting headlines), ignoring the intense massaging of the data, and claiming that reality disagrees with the predictions from the paper, therefore reality must be wrong.
> They're all fiat money.

This has no bearing on the (societal) value of bitcoin. The dollar is also fiat money and everyone loves it.
Ok, I’ll play along. Which projects are those?
My newer car has features to help offset this, including brake assist or whatever fancy name they call the feature. Remove foot from brake pedal, engine starts. The key is that it stays in neutral and the brakes remain applied until you hit the gas. You just have to get in the habit of removing your foot from the brake that split second earlier so the engine is running and ready when you want it.
Why wouldn’t it be likely?

Currency flight from China is a serious problem, and the CCP has instituted controls to make sure money doesn’t leave the country (except for some permitted amount)

I don’t think it’s unlikely that BTC gets cracked down on by the CCP if they notice that a large volume of citizens are using it to skirt capital controls.
You want to be able to put some of your money in a less-liquid form, hoping to earn some return? Have I got good news for you about the past thousand years or so.
Thanks for adding the salary range.

> Salary $110-200k based on experience (not negotiation)

What does “experience” encompass?

For example most of the companies dismiss my seven years of open-source contributions (it's — at best — a nice bonus). They don't care about anything that isn't what they call “industry experience”.
I didn't know the term "chiff," but looking up videos of the sound, it's very similar to an effect I accidentally created in a recent digital synthesis project by using a low sample rate for the envelope (2kHz). I think the stair-stepped shape of the attack created some inharmonics in the audio.

Is chiff the result of inharmonics created by brief turbulence in the airflow?
Why isn't this feature behind a permission flag already?

Matter of fact, why aren't a lot more abilities behind permissions?
> In my experience the primary goal for most crypto holders is to be a part of a new elite.

This part doesn’t sound very different from investing in startups, where everyone is hoping to get in really early on the next unicorn. Seems to me the main difference is that this kind of “investment” is generally only available to people who are already “elite” in some sense (i.e. sufficiently wealthy and/or connected).
My thought is at the minimum you should be able to say "X RPG, any edition" and "X RPG, these editions only" - my thought is a lot of people would play AD&D 3rd and 5th editions but not 4th, or at least they say that online :)

Relatedly you can have campaign settings as well, AD&D certainly has several but the official/custom split potentially applies to any game with its own setting. Could just be handled by tags though.
The popular thing to do in intellectual circles is to blame America for all of the world's problems, so it's no surprise to me that we're getting the blame for this one as well.
This is the nuance I was calling for.

Yes, there are different definitions on both sides of the straight. And while the independence side has gained strength in recent years, the official stance has been that China and Taiwan are a part of one country, however defined, and, to my knowledge, no official government act of the ROC has been promulgated to the contrary.

As I stated in my original reply, independence isn’t a cut and dry issue. To assert that these claims are “dusty” historical claims in light of what you’ve written here is disingenuous.

Edit: I should add that there is only one government in Taiwan, the ROC. The stances of the individual political parties cannot be taken as synonymous with the stance of the ROC itself. To do so would be as ludicrous to say that there’s no right to an abortion in the United States, because 1 of the two major political parties opposes it. The most that can be said is that both abortion in the US and independence in Taiwan are controversial and delicate political issues within each respective jurisdiction.
I wrote the following in response to the "imaginary gardens with real frogs in them" trope we were forced to learn in high school:

A poem is a thought that tried
In vain, just once, before it died
To reach the page's
Right hand side

I'm note quite that cynical about poetry any more, but those words still remain an accurate reflection of my feelings at the time.
Probably the people that bought the previous Android iteration of this, the FxTec Pro 1 from 2019.
If you're eligible now, it will probably cost you 2-3 weeks at most to choose the one you want (it only cost me a day to pick pfizer though). It will likely be a long time before you're able to get a different shot, so picking one that has more evidence for covering mutations, lasting longer, and being more effective in real world scenarios may well be the rational choice.
I couldn't find anything by site, but TSMC reported these stats in their 2019 Annual Report as a whole out of 51k employees: 5k managers, 24k professionals, 4k assistants and 17k technicians.

They reported highest level of education for their workforce of: 4.5% PHD, 44.9% Masters, 25.5% Bachelors.
Layer in the fact that it's not even a real lock down, so it will have minimal impact on the number of new cases.

If they need to lock us down (and in the process hurt business) fine, but actually lock us down. These half measures hurt people, businesses, and on top of it don't really do much to help the hardest hit cities.
A friend-of-a-friend supposedly bought a bunch of cheap Android phones and ran apps that pay you to watch ads. IIRC it was only worth a couple hundred bucks a month.
This is same thing that happened with CDC and "masks aren't needed". A white lie with good intent but nevertheless just false info.

I'm sure if we polled all the bio-phd's with option between the vaccines, they will all choose mRNA based ones because they have higher protection %'s, and significantly lower side effect risks.

Most countries don't have the luxury of giving their citizens the choice, so they resort to making up a lie to calm people from "bank run" on mRNA vaccines.

https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/mh7wtw/astrazeneca...

"It was mentioned by Emer Cooke during the press conference.

"For the AZ vaccine based on spontaneous reporting in the EEA it's 4.8 cases per million, for the Biontech vaccine, based on the same criteria it was 0.2 cases per million and for the Moderna vaccine, based on the same criteria, 0 cases per million"

So ~25 fold compared to the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. 0.2 cases per million is in line with the expected number of cases in the general population. The Moderna vaccine probably hasn't been used enough in the EEA for such rare events to occur.

It's also worth keeping in mind that these numbers are based on older data. It is based on 62 reported cases (of which 44 are in the EEA). Germany alone has reported 31 cases and they aren't all included here. So expect these numbers for the AZ vaccine to go up a bit when they announce their updated recommendations at the plenary meeting next week."
I you look at Israels numbers, it seems like the vaccination herd immunity is slow but powerful. They're at early 2020 numbers now.
World Backup Day: very useful tool
What do you mean by "JVM-aligned" and how is Kotlin more JVM-aligned than Scala? Speaking as someone who uses Scala on a daily basis and never touched Kotlin.
Instead of anti vax activists they should call them hucksters or fatalists or something more realistic like fools
My take on it is basically nobody knows what it is about. Like you said, even people with deep understandings of the technology probably aren't capable of fully understanding its implications, anyone that tries to tell you definitively is speculating. It is like "satoshi" made a sandbox and everyone else has been spending the past decade either trying to figure it out, or dismissing it as a scam.

It's a gold rush in the wild west, it starts off very inefficient, actual scams abound and crazy speculation is everywhere, like a gold rush at the end of the day there is probably something with value under all the craziness, that is what happens when things are new and people don't understand it, they are the ones that are establishing the parameters of its function, what it can and cant do. It seems like all mainstream blockchain related discussion is basically people circle jerking about how it is 100000% a scam or how it is the new paradigm with no space in between, which is pretty disappointing.
THIS IS absolutely AMAZING. Made my entire week. Thank you!
I'd love to hear how this analysis does not apply to your situation.
I don't think governments are going to just sit and watch as they lose control of their currency. Governments need to have the ability to provide a stimulus package if necessary. If something blocks them from doing it, they will just ban it.
Spammers sometimes (often enough to bother) are trying to fool spam filters by adding invisible or hard to see text copied from ham messages (e. g. it allows to bypass Bayes). To counter this spamfilters are trying detect and penalize invisible text in HTML emails e. g.
<span style="font-size: 0px;">....</span>, display:none, text with the same color as background, e. t. c.

Running something like headless browser (Chrome) to parse HTML emails would require too much resources so spam filters use either simple ad-hock HTML parsers or just regexps. If you use complex HTML markup, e. g. lots of nested div/span tags, different CSS styles on different levels and global <style> block on top of all, they can be confused and will detect invisible text in a message where all text is visible (when CSS/HTML is rendered in Google Chrome; who knows how it would look in different mail clients).

If you use clean and simple HTML, there will be no leftovers like <span style="font-size: 0px;"> and you will not confuse spam filters.
You and the Facebook Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango
Ironically I don't consider myself all that knowledgable at this kind of stuff for the most part - this just happens to be a very particular thing I went deep down the rabbit hole on in a passion project where I was trying to find out how to solve this exact "how should layouts render on different displays" problem. Turns out the web browser's approach to the problem is very elegant even if the specifications have a lot of complexity and warts from organic growth so I spent a lot of time looking at the specs to make sure I understood how I wanted to do my own thing.

In short do fun things you just want to understand and you too can sound much smarter than you are when a certain topic comes up :).
How the tech giants are both cooperating and competing
Ironically, the cryptocurrency world as a whole is constantly increasing the supply of cryptocurrency and crypto assets. The ultimate supply of Bitcoin and other coins might be fixed, but we’re seeing new cryptocurrencies rolled out all the time. The number of altcoins on the market is staggering and it has never been easier for someone to arbitrarily create their own coin.

It’s not uncommon for popular cryptocurrencies to fork, doubling their supply overnight in absolute terms. One usually prevails, but several popular forks continue to chug along.

Now we’ve even moved on to minting arbitrary NFT tokens of things to continue increasing the supply of crypto assets.

If you look past singular cryptocurrencies, the entire cryptosphere has become a money printer.
First, you need to know that (at least in SI) "m" is for "mili" - a thousandth part of something, and "M" is for "mega", which means "a million units".
So, 100m is 0.1 headlines.
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Fairly obvious passing off and/or typosquatting IMHO. I dislike FB and all its works, but I'd say that you are in the wrong here unless you can make a really good case that you have a legit reason to use exactly this form of name.
Not only this, I've seen engineers with 1 yoe way stronger and more mature than engineers with 4+ yoe (that just slacked off somewhere).
I switched to a new company during the pandemic. I must admit that I haven't made any new friends at my new company - nobody that'd I'd "have a beer with"! Luckily I've had my wife to keep me company. I might feel differently if I spent
the last year alone. I've heard of some people moving to a new city by themselves and starting a new job!

I still prefer working from home. I think after the pandemic I'll try to get more involved in the community around the place I live - going to the local gym, other festivities for example - and meet people who live around me. At my old office, the people I worked with tended to be sprawled all over the big city I live in (30+ minutes of driving away!) which put a damper on socializing. That could be a nice shift: instead of making "friends" at work that you never see outside of work, people use the hour+ that used to be commuting to socialize in their neighborhood.
Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail
The DevOps trends and tools putting a renewed focus on maintenance and care
Same here. It runs on a potato and is a prime example of gameplay over eye candy for me.

It's pretty cool that some of the community for this game ended up on the dev team for Factorio, another graphically lacking but deeply wonderful game.
I disagree. Many bootcamps overpromise/underdeliver. Some are fantastic:

I went to Turing a few years ago. With the benefit of hindsight, I'm happy to claim that a Turing grad will be able to be competitive with most CS grads in a a junior position. In a lot of ways they will be more prepared.

I also disagree that you can get the same education on your own. Good bootcamps have an incredibly short feedback loop, and there are actual professionals in the loop. You simply won't get daily feedback about best practices, code reviews, git training, etc. from an experienced professional if all you do is watch youtube and read books.
Unless you withdraw from society, it will unfortunately remain an issue
The phone had a lot of complaints about getting hot while in use. The camera was also quite poor, which in 2015 was a dealbreaker.

I did run into someone using it though, and when I asked him how he liked it, he said it was great. The keyboard was more important to him than anything else.
Glad you like Huginn (which alerted me about this comment, obviously).
Let's stipulate that Larry Wall is a religious fanatic (though I think that's only true if you use the word "fanatic" in a highly nonstandard way). So what? What actual impact has that had on the design of Perl? What features of Perl's design are worse as a result of Larry Wall's religious beliefs or practices? I don't see any sign that any are.

(You mention exactly one thing about Perl's design, namely the "bless" keyword. That's a bit quirky, but it's not a terrible name for what it does and nothing obviously better occurs to me.)

> Going on a missionary expedition [...] sounds to me more like [...] than a sound motivation for programming language design.

In what way were Larry Wall's missionary ambitions a "motivation for programming language design" at all? I don't see any sign that they were.

(I do remember, from many years ago, something in Perl's licence or readme file along the lines of "I make Perl because I think it pleases the Author of my story. If you have a problem with that, your notion of Authorship needs some revision :-)", but I think that means not "I wrote Perl to help me convert the heathen" but "Everything I do is for the greater glory of God". So far as I can see, that doesn't imply any particular language-design choices.)

[EDITED to add: I looked it up. The above doesn't misquote too badly, but one place where it diverges from the original is that he actually wrote "nice things like this", not "Perl" specifically. I think this makes it even clearer that the Perl language design as such is not what LW is saying was religiously motivated. You can find the actual text at https://github.com/Perl/perl5 if you care.]

I listened to as much as I could bear to of that language design conversation. (The audio is incredibly bad for almost all of it, unfortunately.) I didn't notice Larry Wall's contributions being notably less insightful, more dogmatic, more ignorant, or whatever it is you're gesturing towards. The one example you give is that Larry Wall doesn't like IDEs and James Gosling does, which doesn't seem like good evidence of anything.

So, please, if you're going to make this sort of claim, make it explicit enough to engage with properly. What about Perl is the way it is becaues of Larry's "religious fanaticism"?

(As it happens I'm an atheist and don't like Perl very much. There's plenty I dislike a lot about both Christianity and Perl. It's the alleged connection you're trying to draw between them that I don't see at all.)