skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, what you're saying is untrue. The overwhelming evidence shows that children spread COVID less than adults do.

My favorite is this: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2006100?articleTo...

The study isolated SARS-CoV-2 samples from every positive case, sequenced genome of virus, and tracked the mutation patterns. So, that will avoid a lot of the errors that improper qPCR usage can result in.

First things first, age and viral susceptibility:

> Of the 564 children under the age of 10 years in the targeted testing group, 38 (6.7%) tested positive, in contrast to positive test result in 1183 of 8635 persons who were 10 years of age or older (13.7%). In analyses involving participants up to 20 years of age, we observed a gradual increase with older age in the percentage who tested positive (Fig. S5).

That's more about who got it, but there's some discussion of transmission here where the senior author talks about it: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/hunting-down-covi...

> Children under 10 are less likely to get infected than adults and if they get infected, they are less likely to get seriously ill. What is interesting is that even if children do get infected, they are less likely to transmit the disease to others than adults. We have not found a single instance of a child infecting parents.

> There is an amazing diversity in the way in which we react to the virus.

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(I recognize I only presented one study here - there's only so much time in the day :P - but the other high-quality studies I've seen confirm this. Mechanistically it makes sense if you look at the enormous T-cell cross-reactivity in those age groups. And BTW, data on school closures for Influenza (which children seem to transmit much more readily) showed that school closures were ineffective anyway because they would just spread it more outside of school)
For the split views, there is Krusader which I have found a little more stable than Dolphin of late.
The last annoys me at times. I'm used to years of clicking and dragging to copy, and holding down shift to move instead. All DEs and even Windows behave this way, I think they should bring it back at least as an option.
In this day and age it's not that weird. GitHub's own staff are spawning CI jobs just to add a label to a each new issue https://github.blog/2021-04-28-use-github-actions-manage-doc...
I'm not sure you appreciate the volume of utterly incompetent interviewers and processes now out there. I have 20 years of experience, a sizable catalog of open source work available for browsing, and yet even at this level I'm subjected to the nonsense that is leetcode.

Another beef - I have yet to see an exercise which is remotely relevant to the work being done. Shuffling arrays, regurgitating interview preparation exercises, mutating objects, all-out silly exercises like "convert this number to a roman numeral" don't measure a candidate.

So where do you set the bar? This goes being annoying - leetcode exercises are pure laziness and a red flag of an inept hiring process for all but the least experienced candidates. The job market solved this problem eons ago - references, references, references. If you have none and you have no portfolio on which to measure your ability, you fall below the bar and sure, then I'll concede that some measure of basic ability is necessary. No one asks for, calls, or contacts references anymore (we do). Want to know if someone is capable? Talk to the people they've been working with. Scrutinize references for obvious softballs. If you actually care about the person you want to work with, and think you want to work with someone you respect, put a modicum of effort in.

We've shifted to using tiered collaborative "projects" that we book an hour to two hours to work through with a candidate. We give them the ability to review what we'll be working on together, in detail, before the call so that they can prepare. It's also _not_ about finishing, there is no finish line, it's about collaboration, and we tell the candidates that. We've had many candidates state this was being their ability, and see themselves out. Thats FAR more respectful of a candidate than leetcode for someone who's spent 10 years delivering microservices for a profitable business. It's also far more representative of the work they'll be asked to do:

- Being given a description of work

- Pairing or collaborating

- Stating what they do and do not know

- Researching a thing

I'd hire someone that failed an array shuffling algo bullshit leetcode challnge, but worked very well with a small group for an hour, and was able to deliver good answers and make progress on a task.

> Hackerrank, even though it annoys you, is an ENORMOUS leveling of the playing field, giving opportunities to people who didn't have the money or connections or whatever to make it into a top CS program.

I hope I've made it clear that this has nothing to do with leveling the playing field, and nothing to do with getting into CS programs. I mentioned prior that I have 20 years of experience professionally, no degree, and the last 4 people I've recommended for hire had only one prior position, were bootcamp grads (one self-taught), and are excelling in every area. They're wonderful, motivated people. What Hackerrank DOES do is shift the burden of actually caring about the people you're speaking to. If volume is an issue, the process is BROKEN.
According to the SAR people I follow on twitter, What3Words is worse in every way than simple Lat/Long.
It does. You can think of a ban as an infinite tax.
I think lamb is also one that is particularly hard to substitute, IMO.

I feel like you can get a good portion of the texture of beef with some good seitan, for instance. Otherwise, most of them are only really approximate substitutes, in the sense that they substitute what you would use meat for in the meal, not that they substitute directly for a given meat.
Good point! Vegan cheeses are so much better now than they used to be, there's never been a better time to have a casein allergy :D

Honestly if it weren't for all the amazing fake meats, milks, and cheeses, I would find it a lot harder to be a vegan. As it is though, it's a piece of (vegan) cake :)
I mean power and price are a factor, but I haven't seen a hot-swap drive 1U system that that's not big and noisy. I guess part of the problem is that my rack is right next to my desk (noise) and can only support 24" of depth (I'm real drunk and somehow forgot deeper 1U hot-swap servers exist).
This is brilliant, but maybe I missed it: what happens when yaya's run out of thermal paper? It feels like the Achilles' heel of this design. Perhaps, a blinking LED for out of paper situation? Can yaya change the roll herself? I'm concerned about it because I loved this project in all aspects, I want it to be perfect.
I also got it one but it's just something I use to run a container to manage my nextcloud and other stuff...
Thanks for the detailed reply, that makes a lot of sense!
I'm certainly not trying to present medical information on here, and no one should change behaviors based upon what I said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/08/do-you...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
This was my favorite feature of Windows phone. I thought it was innovative and was the first thing I thought about when I saw this article. On windows phone a person was a person. When you clicked on them you got information from every service tied to them. It was pretty cool.
Check out tekton CI (https://tekton.dev/), it's a Kubernetes operator to run a CI pipeline that's defined as commands running inside any container. Use any language, any commands, etc--as long as you can get a container image, you're good to go. There's a growing set of community created and curated actions to do common things too: https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog

Yeah you need a k8s cluster, but even a simple kind dev cluster that you spin up in 30 seconds with one command on your laptop will work.

I like it a lot because it enforces very little structure on you and doesn't reinvent everything. Stuff like storage (either ephermeral or existing volumes), secrets, configuration, etc. are already modeled and supported by Kubernetes and tekton can use all of that natively. And since it's all k8s native stuff you have all of the power of k8s, like its entire API for manipulating and managing execution, exposing services, etc. There is very little cognitive overhead or new things to learn once you know k8s.

If you're really averse to k8s though, check out drone. It has a local execution mode that is similar and just runs whatever pipeline commands you want in docker containers. https://github.com/drone/drone Batect is another even more minimal tool that's effectively just a docker-based workflow system: https://github.com/batect/batect
> Doesn't it ring alarm bells

It should but it is likely that the alarm will not be raised enough. We are ALL taught from grade 1 to "prepare for college, so it can turn us into adults" as a life philosophy.

It probably does not help that every single one of our teachers was forced through that system in order to be granted the "privilege" of teaching us.
You’ll get through the hazing at a few companies.

Some companies only hire people from specific colleges.
No where did I say doctors don't make mistakes.

Everywhere did I say that you are much more likely to make mistakes than your doctors.
Yes, absolutely. It absolutely hammered home for me the extreme value potential of even (seemingly) small logistical changes.

It reminds me of a quote about warfare: "Amateurs talk about strategy and tactics. Professionals talk about logistics"
In Houston, we call that a Tuesday
I'm sorry I communicated poorly. I know what you meant. What I meant is that I think maybe you could rekindle the old joy you felt but not feel the emotional loss when booting it up since its a whole new game :)
Perhaps because GNOME is under the Red Hat umbrella, so perhaps other believe it will always have a large amount of resources available to it.
> people losing their jobs, and probably healthcare, indefinitely

Indefinitely? Damn
Chill your hyperbolic outrage. We should be able to talk about sensitive topics like job loss intelligently and in context to the realities of building a startup. Working at a startup is inherently risky and the people who take on the risk are adults. They don't need you to defend them as if they're children
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Exactly. Some people need a structured environment to get that kind of work done at a decent pace. It also helps to have feedback from a teacher, just like a personal trainer helps you with form.
I think if we're going that way, it would be nice to have a single library that can generate configurations for multiple CI systems (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc)
That's really cool. I didn't know they had this, maybe they have a 2 dimensional version as well.
> Because they're alternatives to each other. You don't need both.

Sure we do.

Our education system sucks (as proof by my friends who were unable to grasp this basic arithmetic). AND we have a Gig vs Employee issue that also needs to be clarified through the law.

Lets fix both. I don't see any problem working towards the problem you suggested, nor the problem I suggested. I'm sure our failure in education is also causing issues in other aspects of our society unrelated to this particular issue.
Humans suffer from similar things. But I don't think that's a reasonable excuse for us to kill each other.
for electronic music FL studio and ableton are the big ones, IMO. I loved reason back in the day but their lackluster approach to VSTs and audio clips eventually pushed me to Ableton. They've since made improvements to both, but the damage is done.

FL studio also has solid mac support now, thankfully.
I think the critique is for the corporate need to propagandize every act such that it paints all decisions, and by extension the leadership, in the best way possible. It's revolting anti-truth.

Marketing and propaganda are among the most disgusting inventions of human-kind.
And no fish nurseries in deep waters mean not mesopelagic fish. We could distroy it in a week, and the negative consequences over the human famine would be basically permanent. It just does not worth it.
> Seems like the simplest answer is just "actions that have reduced the spread of one disease have also reduced the spread of another, that's historically less widespread already."

This is not the simplest answer, and the evidence that the measures have really slowed spread is extremely low except in places like New Zealand and Australia which are small islands in Oceania.

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> A bias towards testing for Covid wouldn't explain fewer cases of the flu unless those cases of the flu were coming back as Covid falsely instead of so further diagnosis was stopped.

Exactly this. I'm partial to the viral interference hypothesis, but what you don't seem to realize is that if you get infected for SARS-CoV-2 and recover in 7-14 days, you will still test PCR+ for months after. This goes into the widespread mistuning of the cycle threshold. Case in point: They tested George Floyd's corpse for COVID-19 and he was PCR+, despite having recovered from COVID-19 a couple months before. The test hit on the remnant viral debris from his long-gone infection.
Correct, there's a really big difference between the "lockdown" in most of the US and for example Melbourne.
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I doubt he's up 24/7, but it's one guy:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
The stamp act was a tax, not a restriction, right? Britain was attempting to recoup losses from the French-Indian War if I'm not mistaken. And the colonists had no say in it and then realized that even after lobbying for years to remove it (hell, the U.S. sent Benjamin Franklin, the best statesman in history and even he couldn't get them to budge), that they would always be subservient to the Crown. The tea imports was just salt on the wound.
No wonder we all have to take the vaccine, drug companies aren't selling any tamiflu or nyquil! You'd think the vaccine is free but the government pays for it. No one mentions the cost. Hmmm.....
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There's been a fair bit written about how Walmart leveraged incredible logistics to achieve its retail dominance, not unlike Amazon doing the same in the online world. I've also come across interesting work on how Dell helped change consumer computing with Just in Time supply chains.
You know I like how it's a fast paced learning track that's better than 4 year degrees - no argument on that if.

But this Austin Allred guy is one sketchy motherfucker.

And seeing PG not reacting about the shitty reviews LambdaSchool is getting is the most hypocrytic thing I've seen at all.

Aged like fucking milk.
Right.

I was also a bit harsh; you can at least do `julia -e 'using Pluto' -e 'Pluto.run()'`.
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Without getting a job in Rust (due to lack of experience) what is the best way to get experience with it?
> You are removing roughly 10% of the population in the U.S., or 2% worldwide.

These numbers seem way too low if you're talking about the prevalence of people that have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.
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is named after inventor of the radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi?wprov=sfla1
The problem with this logic is the presumption that wearing masks was a widespread phenomenon. As someone who traveled a lot this year I can assure you that there a many states and areas that mostly ignored the lockdowns happening in the city areas.

For these places, we would expect the flu to continue on as normal. Instead it’s disappeared.

How strange.
The last 80 years of growth in those cities has been strictly seaparated residential zones actively designed to discourage foot traffic. Twisty confusing roads with one entrance to a neighborhood, and no sidewalks. Unless the growth includes tearing out old houses how can it fix those problems?
In this case "M" is a Roman numeral meaning 1000. So "MM"is one thousand thousands, or one million.
I would eat cheese if I wasn't lactose intolerant! These vegan cheeses aren't perfect but they work well enough for some things!
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Depends a little on how puritanical you are - Trader Joe's makes a decent 'Mozarella Style' shredded cheese that's mostly almonds, but has casein from real cheese (to make it melt) and some flavor from parmesan. 40g of protein in a bag, not terrible, but not vegan, just less-dairy.
Well, damn, that is absolutely what I'm looking for. I just never happened to be able to find that in my (literally) _days_ of searching.

Thank you for linking that.
If you truly believe that the measure of amazing programmer is churning out bullshit exercises on a timed call, I can only state that I'm thankful we don't work together. It's incredibly audacious gate-keeping and I'd dare say, discriminatory. It ignores disabilities, social adjustment conditions, etc that wouldn't impact daily work.

I know too many incredible engineers that don't think in the way that those timed exercises require, and these folks are wildly talented and wildly successful.
Where do you get your metal resources from? Unicorn farts?
The implication being bootcamp grads can't into software engineering?
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> There’s nothing silly about a novel virus having greater abilities to overcome barriers when compared to other pathogens that humans have had years decades and centuries to develop defenses again.

This isn't really quite accurate though. Before SARS-CoV-2 ever emerged, our immune systems already had defenses against it. This is because of the already-extant circulating hCoVs.

This is why something like 80% of blood samples taken before SARS-CoV-2 emerged showed T-cell cross-reactivity. From the perspective of our immune system, it was never a "novel" virus. It was novel to scientists and politicians but not to the human immune system.
Does it compare to:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecond...
Unfortunately, this has never been true to my knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
If they're good they also have a pipeline to a job for you.
The one thing i find absent from most of these conversations is the perspective of the workforce in question. Probably because neither side locked in this debate actually care what they think.
i wonder how to define "deserved"...maybe 50/50 split between employees and shareholders?
Well shit. Too late to fix it now.
Python has a decent command line argument parser in its standard library, and there are several even-better options in the 3rd party library ecosystem, e.g. https://pypi.org/project/click/.
"Germany’s domestic intelligence service said on Wednesday that it would surveil members of the increasingly aggressive coronavirus denier movement because they posed a risk of undermining the state.

... Over the past year, demonstrators have attacked police officers, defied civil authorities and in one widely publicized episode scaled the steps of Parliament.

...

In announcing the decision to keep tabs on conspiracy theorists, intelligence officials noted the movement’s close ties to extremists like the Reichsbürger, a network of groups that refuse to accept the legitimacy of the modern German state.

Many coronavirus deniers say they also believe in QAnon conspiracy theories, and protesters are frequently seen holding signs with anti-Semitic tropes."
Due to T-Cell immunity, a max of 20% of the population was ever going to catch the CV19 version of the flu anyway. Its obvious at this point the reaction was extremely disproportional to the risk.
And there are thousands of unimplemented patents changes mean nothing if not mass adopted and XRP is not moving money (or wastage) as much as BTC to matter in the discussion
I did some experiments with bevy.
NanaGram founder here. (I use F5bot to get alerts of mentions.)

Saw Yayagram the other day and love it! My grandma was a telephone operator for decades and would have been over-the-moon using Yayagram. This is a truly underserved space. The elderly lead increasingly isolated lives and products that increase social connections improve quality of life and make people smile!

Thanks for the NanaGram shout-out. I'm grateful for your gratefulness and to be able to work on NanaGram. Happy to answer any question anyone has.
It isn't as though 4 year degrees teach purely useful information. If you stripped my computer engineering degree to courses that I use for software engineering, it would fit in two semesters. If you tossed out all the non interview required theory, it could fit in one.
You're asking me whether I think two big-name vegans who make movies and give
TED talks about veganism are pretend-vegans? For pushing pretend-animal
products? Yes! Yes they are! It's like asking me if the Pope is a
pretend-Christian for pushing pretend-faith and pretend-salvation if you just do what he says. Sure he is!

You want to be like saint in the world and reduce harm? Then don't go baptising
nut mush as "cheese" so you can enjoy what you have sworn off and are
pontificating against, like the apocryphal stories of Catholic monks baptising
their meat "fish" so they could eat it on Wednesday. Stop advertising meat and
dairy with your actions, contrary to your words. Stick to your principles and
then come to preach to me about mine.
>I don’t know if I’d go that far with the set in stone nature.

It's a stone that will only be moved by future technology. Perhaps a mastery of biology/neurology or more. Until then, it is essentially unchangeable.
Unless Nano has changed a lot in the last 10 years, there's just no comparing it with Vim when it comes to productivity. Vim would blow it out of the water 10 times over in just about every use case I can think of, except initial learning curve. For that reason, I agree with Fedora's decision to make Nano the default editor.
How is the presence of vegan cheese forced veganism ? Let us incorporate the true environmental cost of animal products into the price at the supermarket and have them compete fairly.
As someone who has drank 3,000+ different commercial beers, and has brewed a few hundred gallons of homebrew (alcoholic) beer, I'd highly recommend giving athletic brewing companies non-alcoholic beers a shot.

This beer is better than the median alcoholic coffee porter. https://athleticbrewing.com/products/first-ride-coffee-porte...

Their IPAs aren't as good as say, Founder's All Day IPA, but they aren't substantially worse, and they have 1/10th the alcohol.

If you want to drink something for 100 calories, these compare favorably in taste to just about everything, IMO.
Reaper is hands down the best DAW out there. Better than Cubase, FL Studio, etc. It is way, way more stable, way cheaper, and much better with support.
> I've had a hard time getting the 99th percentile latency below 5usec.

Can we take a moment to appreciate how mind-blowing astonishing a 99th percentile latency in the us range is given a general-purpose, multi-user OS with support for virtual memory is?
The problem with this is that corps basically have full knowledge of the market, what they can afford, how much they can pay overall, but employees know none of that. That's were the minimum wage comes in to provide a floor. I know that in your scenario that UBI covers that, but if UBI is equivalent to 40hrs of $15 an hour a LOT of people aren't going to do anything other than play vidya games all day as the rest of us support their addiction.
You could learn to be a developer/QA/OPs in 6 months on the job. I don't know enough about data science to make that call.