skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Looking at the somewhere like the UK for what would happen, there were very measurable deaths in the <34 group that would occur if a country that did crisis management as (relatively) effectively Denmark opened without vaccination

Your source doesn't show a <34 age group, nor does it differentiate sex. Women have a significantly lower risk than men.

I have looked at data from Germany, which shows 59 deaths of females under 40 since the start of the pandemic:

https://www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/166/Page%20Data/Germany/Germ...

This translates to a roughly one in 350,000 chance of death from COVID over more than a year, for females in that age group.

There have been nine deaths linked to the vaccination:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/astrazeneca-vaccine-faces-fresh...

I do not have data on the amount of AZ doses administered to that cohort, but according to this source the total amount is below 3 million:

https://apnews.com/article/germany-cities-suspend-astrazenec...

That translates into a roughly one in 330,000 chance of death from the vaccine, for ages 60 and under.

It is of course difficult to estimate the future risk of COVID infection, but it's not obvious that it outweighs the risk of the vaccine for that particular cohort.

> So the 2 deaths would have to be averaged over additional years of lock down without an exit plan.

This is a false dichotomy. Not everybody needs to be vaccinated to dramatically reduce the risk of COVID infection. In particular, it would be unethical to vaccinate those for which the individual risk of vaccination outweighs the risk of infection.

> Sure, there is no reason not to prioritize mRNA for younger women if it is available, but these botched announcements will kill tens of thousands of young women world wide even if the production is never reduced and the delays in countries like South Africa are short lived.

This is speculation that isn't supported by data.

> I am deeply saddened by the behavior of the US and EU in this regard, it really amounts to a simultaneous false virtue signaling and through snubbing all but the best options, push other nations that don't have priority access to mRNA to now make deadly decisions for some kind of honor that doesn't even make sense.

This sounds rather arrogant and short-sighted. It's likely that at the current rate, deaths among young women attributed to vaccinations would overtake deaths from the illness itself, which would completely destroy trust in the regulatory bodies, causing irreparable damage to all future vaccination campaigns.
What are some examples that don't favour entrenched interests (Rogers / Bell / Telus ) looking to legislate away competition, or subsidise politically approved "artists" while making it harder for us to access content we actually want to see?
Pfizer Confirms High Efficacy: Updated Topline Analysis
Mark/recall helps a lot.
and they're a pita for business users -- they have to deal with either reimbursing or at least tagging 12x the charges on their personal or business card.
> Profit and risk must be in balance.

Risk is one factor, but not the only one. The main factor in low-risk investment returns is time preference. In essence: People are willing to pay rent (interest) in exchange for access to money now rather than later. Those with savings can earn a profit by renting out their accumulated savings even in a risk-free scenario where return of principle is 100% guaranteed.
When I think of sustainable farming I envision the explosion of production coming out of the Amish community in south eastern Ohio (the area I know) right now. Long green houses (high tunnels) bursting with crops, solar panels everywhere, and markets and stores established nearby to make and sell value added goods from that food and to sell it fresh. These people are literally getting rich and they barely use any fossil fuels and they are merely a blip on the food radar.
Getting coordinates from towers doesn't work the way most people think it does.

First, there are still many many areas in the US where your phone will only be able to get a reliable signal to one tower, and those areas also happen to correlate well with areas that people like to go for outdoor recreation.

Second, you have to have somebody involved that knows the right specific questions to ask, and you have to have a representative at the phone company that's not a fleshy automaton. Search and rescue efforts tend to be coordinated by local law enforcement (usually sheriffs or park services), and training varies a lot. So, for practical purposes, this information is often not available.

Third, the information you get back requires some interpretation. It's not like the phone company sends back a map with a nice circle on it; you get some values back from one or more radios at one or more locations (possibly with or without orientations for the radios, and possibly that information is current and reliable or not). Then you have to plot those values, and then you have to take into account fun little quirks of physics, like the part where canyons of some kinds of rock can bounce a signal really well and cause somebody to be closer to the tower than the data would suggest. Other formations act like big reflectors.

Zero of the searches that I have been on have included helpful information from cell towers.
The key is: who is allowed to see the segment ID?

In Apple's world, Apple owns the supply side ad surfaces, Apple maintains the segmentation and mapping, and Apple mediates the demand side.

What does an advertiser see? Pretty much nothing.
You might want to look up the Younger Dryas
I have no idea how people program effectively without types.

`x = call_some_function()`

What can I do with x now? Does it have methods? Which ones? Is it sometimes null? Sometimes a list?

In a typed language I can just look up the type definition, and just as importantly, my IDE will know what I can do as well.
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Bypassing World of Warcraft's Read-Only Code Protection (Crc32)
In a number of cases in the past, Apple has financially backed suppliers to increase manufacturing capacity for some product line Apple was interested in, because Apple wanted millions of that part, at tight tolerances, and the company could only produce perhaps hundreds of thousands. In exchange for paying for the buildout, they get a permanent Friends and Family discount on that manufacturing line. Lately it seems they've opted instead to pay for preferential scheduling on the backlog.
Agent Smith is wrong. Every organism does this — that's how life works. Population crashes are common among many species, rabbits to rats. Trees produce a million seeds. Grasses expand into areas that juuuust barely support them. The "natural equilibrium" is not at all steady.

And let's remember that Agent Smith is itself attempting to take over the world.
I stayed in Tenderloin and was shocked when walking back to hotel people having sex on the footpath in front of their tent, while a few tents down someone shooting up. Then what looked like a 14 year old (at most) prostitute soliciting at the corner.

I’ve spent a lot of time on the depths of the Philippines, and never saw anything that bad... and that was during a single stroll to the hotel!
My understanding is that he _did_ communicate to his friend that he was lost and his battery was dying https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382381870134951938/phot....
This is great advice. I would add: don't wait for them to coach you, tell them what your strengths are and how you've had trouble finding a job at big tech companies. Let them know you're open to smaller and lesser known tech companies and that you want to be coached to help you with the interviews. Because you're striking out at the interview stage and you know you can perform better.

EDIT: based on the first reply I got I want to revise this slightly. Don't go into too much detail about who rejected you or how many times. In fact keep the details short but make it clear you think interviewing is a weakness they should coach you with
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Of all of the "things just went wrong" sounds, the one that gets me is the After Effects error sheep sound. Mainly because I'm usually in an edit session, and the sound tends to be turned up when this happens.

https://youtu.be/Z-rvcp68mbM?t=13
Actually I just realized that from lock screen of my phone, tapping on emergency also shows "What's my location".

Besides GPS, it sadly also needs/uses internet connection and then shows street address.

Oh and last time our car died in some small town with unpronounceable German name - once I called insurance (with roadside assistance module), operator sent me SMS, shortened URL opened up web browser and page asked for permission to get GPS access, and 10 seconds later she had exact Lat/Long on her screen.
Imagine you need to change the type that's passed to a function. You attempt to update all places, but you miss a path that's in an edge case.

Static typing would have caught that for you. By waiting until runtime, you've now just potentially shipped a regression.

As a code base gets large, it's just not possible/practical to run all possible ways the code you're editing can be reached. Unless you happen to be lucky enough to have 100% unit test coverage, which very few people do, and running that test suite is somehow quick enough to be a practical alternative to static typing.
Are you retarded? That tweet was made on 12/22 at 6:30PM which is basically the same as 12/23 the date the article claims Pelosi switched her vote.

Here is more reference for her "no" position prior to that date https://www.google.com/search?q=stimulus+pelosi+reject&safe=...
It exists on iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208076

Though honestly not the most obvious or accessible thing. Most people would probably just call the emergency number directly instead of using the convoluted button combination.

"You can also add emergency contacts. After an emergency call has ended, your iPhone will alert your emergency contacts with a text message, unless you choose to cancel this option. Your iPhone sends them your current location, and, for a period of time after you enter SOS mode, it sends updates to your emergency contacts when your location changes."
If you have no industry experience you will be very unlikely to get a job above entry level.
For doing "duck-typing" formally, you need Interfaces or Protocols, rather than checking from a shortlist of allowed types.

Here's a blog post [1] from this discussion on Django 3.2 [2] 10 days ago.

[1] https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2021/03/interfaces-and-proto...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26710013
> Xbox Series X - 16 GB

> This last one also surprises me, was expecting at least 32GB

Well the GPU is comparable to 8GB models, so I can see why 16GB would work fine. You don't need that much space for game state.

Though looking into the Series X more, they sure set up the ram weirdly. There are 4 1GB memory chips and 6 2GB chips. This gives it 10GB of very fast memory, and 6GB of somewhat fast memory. The operating system reserves 2.5GB of the somewhat fast memory, and games get 13.5GB

The 'natural' setup would be 20GB, and they didn't even go that high, so they must be plenty confident that 32GB is well beyond what they need.
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"The city itself should build as many cheap rental apartments as possible"

Government should never be in charge of what the market can do.
So I actually went back to it after Oblivion, and found it really engaging. Though it was on PC. Part of these recommendations assume PC, but some are true regardless -

First, mod it. It looks old; make it prettier. The walking doesn't feel as bad when the scenery is nicer.

Second, either consider a travel mod, OR start focusing on what fast travel the game presents you. There are boats and stilt striders, and then the mages guild can teleport you between different mages guilds. The Intervention spells take you back to the nearest Tribunal temple/Imperial cult shrine.

Taken together, this means a spell gets you 'out' of whatever wilderness bit you're in, to a civilized place, and then you have methods (albeit ones you have to learn) to travel between civilized places. Once I learned these well enough, it was actually pretty easy to get around. Not Oblivion/Skyrim level easy, with fast travel, but not painfully so, and having to actually walk through the wilderness each time, following roads, etc, meant I felt a greater feeling of exploration than I did in those other games.

But, if that feels too daunting, no shame in modding it.
Afaik there is an option to break messages into multiple parts but it's not enabled by default because it breaks sending code samples
Wait until you discover Ambrose Bierce
Many companies large enough to have HR and/or legal departments have rules specifically against providing feedback to candidates on why they were rejected.
And yet here I am, on one of the most "anti-design" sites I know (which even has a "noprocrast" feature), frantically pressing F5 every other minute looking for articles like this. Sigh.
Note that Pangaea had already started breaking apart a hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived right at the end of era of non-avian dinosaurs. Indeed T. Rex is much closer to our time than Pangaea was to T. Rex's time!

They lived in what is now Western North America, but was then an island continent called Laramidia [1] so yes, they were geographically quite limited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramidia
Python is like a 40 year case study of how not to build a programming language.
They’ll find ways around these like mailing each other material.

I honestly always see these overreaches as those in power want to stay ahead of money making news/tips they can take advantage of for their portfolios. Or even better, know what their enemies are talking about in regards to them. Even if it’s voters who don’t like them.
When is it going to be financially practical for recycling centers to start removing and categorizing used chips and reselling them?
It's notable that the controller and memory card slot are on the same bus-- in fact, the system isn't talking to the memory card directly! It has to send requests and data through the controller, back to the system, and then to the card port.

This is because the original specification would have had a memory card slot in the controller but it was too expensive. They also had considered using floppies for storage, but they were too unreliable (and my experiences with 1.44MB 3.5s definitely agrees that consumer-grade cheap disks sucked hard)
For anyone else who is interested in reliving the nostalgia of Morrowind, but is turned off by how outdated it feels now, I highly recommend Morroblivion.

https://morroblivion.com/
Describing it as debt makes it sound like people tallied it, which I believe they didn’t for a long time. It gets the facts right but uses a very modern way to frame it. I think it’s more accurate to look at it as reciprocal altruism. I do you favors, you do OP favors, OP does me favors and we do so so long as it feels like nobody is mooching.

It’s the difference between 1) going out to a bar with friends and remembering “Alice has bought the group X rounds, Bob has bought Y rounds, and I’ve bought Z, meaning it’s Bob’s turn to buy a round because he is in beer debt” and 2) “Alice and Bob and I generally buy each other rounds and it all feels roughly balanced so I’ll buy this round.” Tracked and tallied debt came much later as I understand it.
It's a gray market. Sometimes, I mean sometimes, these chips are real and they usually come from a "leak" in the supply chain - unauthorized resales by small vendors, or "unwanted" surplus from a previous order or production run. Usually they exist only in small quantities and are stored and handled in unknown conditions, it's not something you want to use in production. But it explains why the AliExpress vendors always have some components when major distributors are out of stock (e.g. You can do it too - just order all the remaining stock of a rare chip from Digikey and put them on eBay...)

For example, I heard that a common practice in Shenzhen is selling reels of genuine components, but the "lot number" (serial number) on the labels are removed, so the manufacturers cannot trace these unauthorized resales back to the source. Another example, in a personal hobby project I needed to use a specialized controller that is not available on the public market, but a AliExpress vendor has them, it's likely surplus from somewhere.

> I can see those chips available in their thousands on aliexpress and similar sites for 10x the price

The quantity is not always real, sometimes they just put a random number here. And even when it's accurate, the sales occur via various online and offline channels simultaneously.

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Disclaimer: It's extremely risky to order components from an unknown source, I do not endorse doing it. And my hypothesis on their origins is my speculation, so take a grain of salt.
MtGox was reputable enough by Bitcoin standards although it certainly wasn't legal in the US.
No

> The bridge itself is not going to drop into the open-source Matrix code any time soon. Hodgson explained: "This is an entirely new bridge that we've built as Element exclusively for Element Matrix Services, which is the SaaS hosting platform we provide in order to keep the lights on for Matrix development and for Element in general.

> "We are taking the position that people who are rich enough to buy into Team's ecosystem and throw lots of money to Microsoft might as well throw a little bit of money to Element to keep funding Matrix development."
I have heard that the creeks in the central valley used to run most/all of the year because the water table was practically at the surface. This also allowed for the healthy salmon runs we used to have. Now all the creeks are dry by early/mid summer.
I just opened the compass app on my iPhone and I don't see any coordinates there. I'm on 13.7; maybe this is a recent change to the app?
> I can see those chips available in their thousands on aliexpress and similar sites for 10x the price. I also read on forums that Chinese entrepreneurs buy all the chips and stockpile them. Is this some new kind of war?

No, this is just good old-fashioned capitalism.
lol I ordered a 5900x on launch day and it only arrived in late January...
There needs to be a nice link to a nice document explaining how to run a client/server and how to add bridges to it. I tried before and it seemed like WIP.
You don’t like the comment because the comment is an uncomfortable truth (likely) is possible they weren’t but you know it is likely and the part of you that does not like to stereotype people is reacting
> I'm sure it happens in the worst areas

I think the fact that those areas exist comes as a shock to Australians, who are used to gun control and probably never heard let alone seen a single gun in their lifetime
He didn’t know he was lost at the time.

It’s a good reason to have find my iPhone or similar location sharing tools running.
Are you one of those TV-head robots?
I believe you are a fundamentally honest person who is trying to mimick the things grifters brag about doing and jump ahead of the line. I know this path because I tried it years ago. And most likely, it won't work - you don't have it in you to go that way.

But neither can you be a washed up 20-something begging for pity. You are probably a bit too competent and proud for that.

What you should do instead is be a "forever student". Now you are never there to snag the gig or steal the credit. You are there to study an "x". The x can be broad and impressive or narrow and miniscule. Jobs, businesses, investments, products, are all vehicles for pursuing this study. You will signal this at all times, and develop contacts and portfolio work pertinent to this study. Earnest emails asking "what should I do to go further with this" - questions that are of interest to the figure you are asking as well as yourself - are often golden tickets. Choose anything to start, and see where it pulls you. When you are in the vicinity of a good conversation and money is flowing around it, the money often ends up in your hands.

However, you also have to work on yourself enough to be a great student. That means valuing your body, household, social conduct and other things, and to see "access to resources" in a broader sense than salary. Taking a shit job or sacrificing some living conditions can be the right move if it buys you time, but if it makes your health deteriorate it might be the wrong move too. People get a lot of comfort out of doing the simple stuff well, and you have decades to get the big picture things right. It's OK to be unambitious.

Do some self-talk, journal a bit, exercise, eat well. Aim to get the concerns "out of you" so that you can act in the world with focus and purpose.
(This looks like a throwaway comment but as a Canadian, this is the correct reaction)
Military is definitely an overlooked option. If sign up for an intel or cyber job, you'll probably have a 9-5 job after boot camp, get trainining, certifications, tuition assistance to finish a degree, veterans preference on jobs once you get out, and probably a security clearance. Even as a Marine it wasn't bad; the non-intel Marines used to joke that we were civilians in uniform. It can also help iron out some personality issues unless you have a big problem with authority. The military definitely isn't a bunch of mindless robots like you see on TV and movies.
The Devil's Dictionary[0] has long been one of my favourites—did he write anything else as good?

[0] e.g. "OCCIDENT: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient."

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm
I've thought about it. Community College, Deep Springs etc. I think autodidacticism is a better way to learn vs academic path. Though I didn't want to finish high school but I did.. So, it might be just one of those things that I'll have to suck up and just do. I disliked that I would have to take 2 years of core curriculum stuff before even being allowed to take major related courses. I had to reach out to instructors of courses that sounded interesting to get approved to take them. After I started to take the courses I didn't really like them. I got good grades on my papers etc.
Have you been looking for security based roles and pen testing type roles? It sounds like you enjoy that type of work moreso than you'd enjoy a typical software dev job where you're building web forms or APIs that return JSON etc. I would also second the suggestion that you speak to recruiting agencies but even through agencies first look for jobs in security that could take advantage of your natural curiosity in that area. You sound naturally in love with technology but not necessarily a builder. And that may not be a bad thing if you can just find the right opportunity. Also maybe reach out to Hacker News user tptacek [1]?

And if you do use agencies ask for advice/coaching through interviews from day 0.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
Reminds me of Aza Raskin, who eventually regretted developing "infinite scrolling". https://twitter.com/aza/status/1296238279969316864
FIRE folk (and every retiree) are going to get killed by inflation over the next ~5 years. The thing about retirement is that you're on a fixed income, and if you're doing it right you move capital from risk assets like stocks into more deterministic investments like bonds as you get close to needing them. The value of bonds and cash is about to get crushed; it's very hard to plan how much you need to live on when living costs may go up 5-10x or more in the next 5 years.
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