skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In our first interview, the Professor speculated that the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) could be as low as 0.1% and that over 50% of people would shortly be revealed to have already had the virus once antibody testing became widespread.

> We now know that the IFR for countries like the UK and Sweden is between 0.5% and 0.9% and that antibody testing has persistently revealed disappointingly small prevalence. Even now, after tens of millions of people have had Covid in the UK and a further 32 million have been vaccinated, antibodies are only estimated to be present in 55% of people.

Everyone is operating with only partial information in a live situation like this, and has to make guesses, predictions, and decisions based on the data they have AND how much they trust that science and its correctness, however well intentioned it might be. Those that had poor outcomes will be judged to have done too little and those with good outcomes will be judged to have gone too far, when the reality is that few will have acted truly unreasonably as they try to balance health, economy, social concerns, etc.

With respect to IFR, there has been a lot of variation over time and between locations. However the most recent meta study suggests a global IFR of 0.15% (compared to seasonal flu IFR of 0.1%): https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-study-puts-covid-infec...
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I don't know what "meme stonking" means, can you please direct me a bit as I don't get anything meaningful from Google?
> In short, the Trump rules served as open-ended authorization for the United States to kill virtually anyone it designates as a terrorist threat, anywhere in the world, without reference to the laws prohibiting extrajudicial killing under human rights law. The Trump rules may seem more extreme but in core ways they merely continue an unlawful U.S. extrajudicial killing program that is now a cornerstone of the “forever wars” that President Biden has pledged to end.
I suspect the true total cost was a fair bit higher due to a hosting arrangement. I'd imagine Tumblr remained on Yahoo bare metal servers for quite some time after the sale. If so, Automattic would have had to pay a significant monthly fee for this, given Tumblr's large infrastructure footprint.

That arrangement would have been quite appealing for Verizon, since by this time there was likely a surplus of aging bare metal servers in Yahoo's datacenters, and these would otherwise be difficult for Verizon to monetize.

disclosure: worked for Tumblr but left long before this sale and not directly familiar with any of the specifics of the deal
Yep, such costs such as the freedom to choose not to live in some utopian urban beehive. Find a better solution.
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Hello,

Would you consider Senior developers coming from similar languages, or is C++ necessary?
We remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video
That article (and a couple of articles/blogs it references) tries to coherently explain why TV changed like it did during that period. The better explanation is probably that network programming--probably even more so than other aspects of culture--was very much a fashion business. It may also reflect the personal preferences of a handful of network execs. Furthermore, the 70s were definitely not a back to the city period so its hard to use that as an explanation.
>> Fixation on IQ and wealth can be like the Cyrenians who wasted their wealth teaching their war horses to dance, then getting defeated when the enemy played flutes in battle, causing their horses to dance.

Source for the story, please?
Take a quick trip the Costco website and you'll see they use the same recommendation tactics. Looking at a bag of Peet's brand coffee, I see Kirkland Signature brand coffee sitting in the "Similar Product". Just saying...
So you want to draw a line
I'm so glad to have been around long enough that SQL is now being seen as exotic again
>A couple bad reviews, etc. and your business is kicked off with little explanation

There's got to be a dark underbelly to Amazon going on at the same time. My wife is bored enough that she's taken up a fight with Amazon over some bluetooth earbuds she returned. The earbuds themselves just simply didn't work; they'd do things they're not supposed to and not things they are supposed to so she posted a review saying such.

The seller started contacting my wife trying to bribe her to change her review to 5 stars. My wife updated the review as such saying the seller is trying to coerce her to change her review but she won't budge.

Amazon has now removed my wife's review saying she's "harassing" the seller despite having emails to prove the seller is the one who won't stop contacting her even though she's explicitly requested such. So my wife is battling Amazon asking them to re-instate the review or give her a real reason why it was removed.

It really is to the point where I won't buy from Amazon anymore unless I have no other choice. I don't trust a single thing about their review system. I don't trust a lot of products being unopened/untampered.
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We use smartphones as sensors to measure vehicles, bikes, and pedestrians across North America.
We are not in 70's anymore. I would strongly recommend foreigners planning to buy a house in Spain not to take this for granted and to consult the current law first in https://www.boe.es.

You "can build in the middle of a dry riverbed" (if nobody is watching) is not the same as "you will be allowed to repair" when your house will be flooded six years later. (And it will happen, because this place was called 'las ramblas' for something).

The real state promoter wants your money, not your friendship, so using the services of a professional consultant can save you a lot of future headaches.
> And from that you conclude that all channels must be equal? That's a logical fallacy. There are trusted channels like the debian repos. Or maybe cargo, pypi, etc. And then there is this abomination.

Are you asking me or telling me? As the rest of your message assumed that I already answered the question.

As to my answer: No.
It's a 14% decrease in purchasing power... is that normal?
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Chrome was an excellent browser when it launched... It might not be able to compete with such a wide gap against all the Chromium based clones out there now, but it was rightfully an amazing experience. Initially its only competition felt like Firefox
>When Costco sells a product they’ve already bought it (a retailer)

In practice that's not the case at all. Many if not most retailers require suppliers to buy back unsold inventory
I used to work at Aol, and it doesn’t surprise me that some significant number of people still use dial up. Not because they’re “trapped” but because that’s the only choice in some parts of the country. According to Pew, 3% of us are on dialup & more than twice that use no ISP (maybe that 7% just uses their mobile access?).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/21/3-of-americ...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americ...

… I’m not sure, but it seems plausible that if 3% had to use dialup 100% of those are on Aol (who else offers dialup?). So there’s probably a lot of money to be milked from that cash cow; along with their other ad & publishing businesses.
Most U.S. companies will require proof of Covid vaccination from employees
Franky the new icons are just not too good either. It's possible to have monochrome icons that are memorable and easily recognized—but GIMP's icons aren't that.
Also a central part of the story in Monica Hughes' Isis Trilogy.
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Back in the real world the best code is code that ships.

Occasionally I find myself doing something stupid ( if you use Unity and try to do advance distance calculation in Update your going to have a bad time ) , but usually I never have to optimize. Modern computers might as well be magic
I'm surprised it's a question, to be honest. My favorite Youtube series include:

* funny Mario Maker levels

* pop history comedy videos

* teardowns of random historical firearms

* cooking from reconstructed historical recipes

So it's hard for me to look at this and see homogenization.
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> I worked at Yahoo! when this was going on

As did I

> I'm amazed share holders didn't sure Jerry Yang and the board for avoiding the sale.

There was a lawsuit: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/yahoo-settles-lawsuits...

> Yahoo had very little of technological value and was actively trying to destroy its own search business amongst other properties at the time.

I'm not sure what you are referring to there. There was a lot of investment going on in search at the time. Certainly, critics (including me) felt it was maybe not the right investment, but "actively trying to destroy its own search business" doesn't ring true.

> They really were in a prime position and bungled it extremely badly, I think they had maybe 20% of the search market at the time.

20% market share was unfortunately, a very weak position that was deteriorating pretty rapidly. The network effect ensured that the search business would continue to reward the dominant player dramatically more so than the smaller players, even if the smaller players had a technically superior product, which was what Bartz was getting at.

"She made it very clear the equation for success was money spent === great search engine results, ignoring how Google came into being in the first place."

That's not ignoring how Google came into being, and the "money spent === great search engine results" isn't exactly what she said either. There's a reality that the business had evolved (not accidentally) to the point where barriers to entry were increasingly higher and more costly and the rewards disproportionately went to the dominant players. It is typical Harvard Business School stuff, because it's not at all an unusual circumstance in business.

> It still feels like a wasted opportunity to me, it seems so weak to just throw your hands up in the air and say it’s too hard to make your extremely successful search engine better.

If you'll recall, they made the engine better; it didn't matter. Less than a quarter of the market would switch to another engine even if you gave them absolutely the worst results, and smaller differences in search quality impacted the behaviour of less than 10% of the market. Hell, there was still a ton of traffic going to Alta Vista despite that engine no longer being different from Yahoo's. Meanwhile the advertisers hugely favoured larger market share, and the consequently more efficient market yielded huge marginal rewards in terms of quality and profit. The search engine battle had largely already been lost by then; it was largely lost several years prior (arguably as far back as Google's AOL deal). The opportunity wasn't "wasted": they'd thrown pretty much everything at it, and come up short.

To this day, Google still has a dominant market share, despite a plethora of would be competitors. Sure, there is a possibility for a market disruption to change the game, but in a decade and a half, that has yet to emerge, so if you'd bet on game changing disruption in 2008 (and many investors did), from an investor's perspective, you'd have lost that bet.
I'm using very underpowered laptop (Dell 3410) and web is extremely fast for me. There's some serious problem in your OS or your network if websites take minutes to load. Dreadful gmail or youtube loads in 1-2 seconds for me and then works instantly. Simpler websites like HN loads in a fraction of second.
Barack Obama discussed this culture quite a bit in his first book, Dreams from my Father. He went to Africa as a young man for the first time, and it provides quite an interesting look at what modern Kenyan life was like at the time.
I don't really get what the point of this lib is, and the tagline "with less ends" is really confusing -- doesn't make sense but perhaps I'm missing what an "end" is. The lib adds so much unnecessary indirection for literally no real benefit. Keeping code well-organized is part of being a good code author.

There's nothing wrong with repeating yourself and there's nothing wrong with writing explicit code.
Yes, and Rust has more direct lineage to OCaml than Scala (initial version was written in OCaml, and the language had a more ML-ish syntax early on).
I don't have any insight into that. Would bet the world never sees it again though
> Do you find you're still friends with a lot of people you worked with at your previous positions?

I'm still friends with the previous coworkers that I formed the strongest friendships with.

Just like pretty much every social situation, not every relationship can be a strong one. There will be a lot of weak ones that fall away when circumstances change (e.g. leaving school, moving to a new town, getting a new hobby and having less interest in old ones, etc). However, those weak ties can still be valuable and enjoyable during their lifetimes.
The grounds for probihiting electricity usage on Shabbat have gone through something of a metamorphosis, as rabbinic scholarship on the nature of electricity has expanded and the mechanisms used by electrical devices have evolved.

Given my digital-oriented profession and lifestyle, if it were not for the fact that all electronic devices are forbidden, I would find myself drifting back to work-related tasks ("oh, let's just see if this gets it to compile") to the point of losing Shabbat entirely. The blanket ban has saved my Shabbat and is part of the day's special distinctiveness.
I think it's pretty clear that the average person isn't actually aware of how invasive the data collection is, and their OS provider putting safeguards on the most common devices (phones) is a good thing imo.

If you want a general purpose computer, buy one. An iPhone isn't for that.
There are a few of those extensions around. This is a popular one https://projectnaptha.com/ It is kinda like magic if you ask me.
true, as I remember from last year's crises, there is only one wood mill in the world that does a very specific kind of pulp used by 3M to make those notorious masks. I wouldn't nationalize that.
You're right that the protocol is nothing fancy, and that's what makes the 'plumbing' the most important factor. Twitter could be implemented as a pub/sub message queue. That's cool, but nobody would use it if there weren't a nice client and a controlled network to use it on.
Oh, certainly if YHOO or MSFT had retained the Alibaba stake it would have been worth it.

It looks like YHOO shares never went back above $45B, though: https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-market-cap-over-time-2...
If it's under the Oath umbrella, it was included in the sale.
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> We just drank the cool aid and clicked "install".

That's misrepresenting the search market's reality though. For most people, they never clicked install.
You have the wrong mental model. Amazon isn’t Costco. Amazon is a shopping mall that has access to its tenants’ sales information and also owns an anchor store in the same mall.

Costco can determine that Best Brand shoes sell in its stores and decide to source shoes themselves and stop carrying Best Brand.

Amazon can determine that the Footlocker in their mall is making a killing selling Best Brand shoes and either sell Best Brand shoes in their anchor store or source their own shoes, all at a price that Footlocker can’t match. They can also advertise those shoes throughout their mall and change the layout so customers have to walk past their cheaper shoes to get to the Footlocker.
It's a good thing that Google don't give preferential treatment to their own products.

It's a bad thing that Google's own analytics product isn't good enough to still get 4x100 in Google's own perf tool. It means that people will give up and accept lower scores because it's "impossible" to be perfect. That harms everyone who uses the web.
I much prefer writing actual functions in a real programming language to the verbose non-reusable non-composable relic that is SQL syntax.

Give me a better query language and I will gladly drop Pandas and Data.Table.
Can you give some examples of the types of analytics you're trying to perform?
As sibling comments are pointing out - the jobs are not for life anymore (and the tenure is getting shorter).

But there are 3 other aspects, specific to your location/economic system, which do not apply (and mostly never applied) in the US/West:

- people did not move around the country for jobs like they do in the US

- salaries in Eastern Europe/USSR were public and the same for the same position/responsibility.

- bosses' salaries were perhaps 30% higher (certainly not 300+% higher, so everyone was in the same socio-economic class, facilitating camaraderie
Getting rid of Tumblr and HuffPo probably
Tabbed browsing and incognito mode were incredibly innovative.

edit - Looks like Firefox introduced both. But Chrome was incredible in comparison at the time. I recall thinking Firefox was no longer worth it. I made the move back to Firefox a few years ago.
if the Bork were hooked together via FB the would all be arguing with each other and not present much of a threat.