skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less than 2 percent of Japan’s population is vaccinated.

Uh oh. Major international event, in a big city, with 2% vaccinated, not good.

We now have a idea of how many people have to be vaccinated to wipe out the disease. Israel is 81% vaccinated and near zero deaths, and around 0.8 new cases per 100K people per day. The UK is at 66% with at least one dose, around 30% with two doses, and holding steady around 3 new cases per 100K people per day. The US is at 30% with two doses, around 47% with one dose, and about 15 new cases per 100K people per day.

So it looks like reduction at the US rate, containment at the UK rate, and elimination at the Israel rate.
Well, historically it's been the rich and landed though that's not a part I'd advocate for keeping.

I actually think a lot of the problems with total direct democracy come not purely from hot tempered reactions of the majority (though that certainly is a problem at times), but from the mere fact that a lot of governing decisions need to get made by someone who really studies the details of a problem closely and makes an informed decision.

Let's say as a society we're making a complicated financial decision (like, is it in our long-term financial interest to build a bridge linking Point A and Point B). That's a very complex decision, where it's extremely hard to pin down with specifics both the costs and the eventual benefits of the bridge.

So, as a society we put together a group that studies the issue in depth and puts together a 100-page report that's the distillation of their research. It nails down the costs and the benefits in about as concise a form as it can be, while still capturing the full complexity of the project.

Now here's the question: what's the process for deciding how to build the bridge? Do we:

- ask everyone in society to read and digest the 100 page report, make their own informed decision, and then vote on the outcome?

- Or do we as ask everyone to select the person they trust to read and digest the report, make an informed decision that would align with their interests, and then we vote for the person we want to make the decision?

I think there's some benefits to each approach that aren't captured by the other. In the former approach there's a lot of redundant work that we're asking from every member of society. It's much easier on each member of the democracy to make an informed decision about selecting a single person to make a decision on their behalf than it is to make an informed decision on the project directly.

Multiply this across every decision at the city, county, state, and federal government and suddenly the decision burden on the individual becomes a really good argument on its own for representative democracy!
On top of this, pick a technology you already know, and start building.

Write about what you're building.

As an example, here's a thread of what I'm currently working on:

https://twitter.com/RozenMD/status/1364881512500404224?s=20
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This might be paternalistic, but the Japanese public is pretty much against holding the Olympic Games this year. I felt that pretty well from anecdotal evidence, but public opinion polls seem to back this trend. Taking this poll[1] for instance, 39.7% were in favor of calling off the games and 25.7% were in favor of postponing them to 2022 or later. Only 28.9% were in favor of hosting the games as planned in 2021.

[1] https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2021041600807&g=pol
Exciting? If anything this is depressing. How people throw around the word "conspiracy" in an attempt to sound smart and disregard(or even dissuade to consider) the most plausible explanation.

Bias? Whistleblower of a mafia goes missing and your first thought is that he commited suicide? Please, you lack intellectual honesty.
This probably isn't possible as the folding of PrP is not encoded in the mRNA of PRNP. The fold of PrP is a post-translational phenomenon, much like its glycosylation. This is true for many mammalian proteins, especially cell-surface proteins.
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This is why reddit's /r/watchpeopledie ban was such a loss. I didn't go to the subreddit often, but when I did, it was an intense reality check at how good I and others have it, and how much of the world still needs help. Also helped me to really appreciate OSHA at my workplace...
My Googler friend already found remote jobs as he started looking a few months ago to go remote (moved from LA to Florida), and he says that he will probably move anyways as the other offers are great.
Meanwhile it sounds like the Runic folks have also lost the taste for Diablo games. They made Hob, which looks cool but the basic story arc is not compatible with multiplayer (also PC only).

They let some other studio make Torchlight III.
I don't consider it bad practice to insert parentheses, especially with exponentiation because many people are less familiar with its precedence rules.
Well, it's also survivor bias. Melanoma rates are very high in Australia, which has lots of pasty people of European extraction toiling under some of the most brutal UV indexes on the planet.
You can't trust anyone whose words have political impacts.

Not sure why so many people assume good will and make up convoluted reasons for decisions that go against the best wishes of the public. Politicians constantly lie in plain sight. You can't know what sick agendas there are behind the scenes.

Experts are threatened and nudged all the time. Remember when they were saying that medical face masks won't be effective against a coronavirus? There is no way they believed that.
> I consider it an important milestone.

Milestone in what?
The shutdown note reads like they got bored, but money certainly might have been an issue.
Serious question: what's the link between melanoma and diet?
From 6 months back (v2.0): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921790 (262 comments)
Definitely makes sense and sounds like a super healthy response to depression to realize that something should change if you're very depressed. Might not be easy of course. I think psilocybin isn't snake oil because I don't think anyone is promising it as a cure, taking some might break you out of your normal mental state enough to make you realize all sorts of things, including that you might have to change a whole bunch to get better. Not a cure, just something that make you recognize the problem or at least the existence of some problem.
> Why should an entire city, even an entire country, bear the cost for just a few?

Are you imaging some form of refund on the billions in infrastructure spending? Japan has nothing to gain by canceling and freeing the athletes and IOC from their responsibilities. Why shouldn't Japan get their own private Olympics? They paid for it.
What's the difference between this and pypy?
I'll bite. Why not ditch the "% test coverage" metric then, since as you just elaborated, it's not a good metric.

I would prefer my language wasn't designed around corporate bureaucracy personally.
There is a matter of attitude and a matter of reality. Deluding yourself into feeling connected into meaningless work that will benefit no one but a few is just that, delusion.

Besides, worker alienation and alienation in general is way more than just taking satisfaction in doing things well, it's actually feeling connected to what you are doing and it's purpose, and feeling connected to the social relationships that enable your life instead of seeing them as impersonal exchanges of commodity on the market.
Hadn't heard of SuperMemo / spaced learning before and has been awesome reading about it tonight, especially relating to personal note-taking. That said, one thing about QCVC I'm not wild about (so far) is the amount of meta content / sales pitching it leads with. Like, I get it, you wanna convince people of the value of this approach, but I'd prefer a version that just did the thing (teach the basics of QC) instead of spending so much time talking about teaching you the thing. Its like if I was reading a textbook and it spent half of the time talking about why I should do / engage with the exercises... ideally the method / process should be self-justifying and not need to make a case for itself. I get that QCVC was geared towards proving the concept, so I guess just hoping if this starts getting used by other authors, they implement just the process rather than spend an inordinate amount of time talking about it.
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Ionized gas escapes from the exhaust plume and causes interference in general... the actual aerodynamics are... complicated!
As other replies have mentioned, you need to set the width and height attributes on the img element. I believe that now works for responsive images in recent versions of popular browsers.

It used to not work for responsive images. We had to do tricks like pseudo elements with padding set to a percent value: https://css-tricks.com/preventing-content-reflow-from-lazy-l...
The new hypergolic fuel everybody is actively working on switching to is not (especially) toxic or corrosive. And has better specific impulse. Existing Dragons might never be switched over, because flight-qualifying a crewed vehicle over again is expensive. If they build any new Dragons, it would not be surprising if they still use the old fuel. But anything in design today will use the new fuel, because it's enough better.
There are (at least) five major active volcanoes in Washington. You are forgetting Glacier Peak, an active volcano that is as close to Seattle as Rainier, but not as visible due to its lower elevation.
Indeed. It is incredibly telling when people attempt to equilibrate "I'm anxious because I'm not sure if I'll be promoted to senior dev this quarter" to "I'm anxious because I cannot feed my family". As someone who has come from the latter circumstances to the former (through a lot of luck and sweat), I can tell you that having the same roof over my head for long periods of time and not having to carefully budget every time I go grocery shopping is far more beneficial than most people would realize.
I had similar issues with Hotmail more than five years ago , albeit none right now. I happened to set the default language/Locale to Simplified Chinese for once, and changed it back to English shortly afterwards. Somehow Hotmail insisted on showing everything in Chinese, its email interface, service agreement etc. So I had to go to the settings and changed it every now and then. Anyway I slowly drifted to using Linux desktop full time on my machine, and the issue disappeared magically.
> So this is not really going to be much of barrier to deplatform Trump again. Assuming he will be running for office again.

The millisecond that he officially announces that he will be running again, GoDaddy will strip the domain, AWS will terminate his account and the banks will find and block any accounts used to fund his campaign.

At that point, they will appreciate using free software, cryptocurrencies, decentralised finance (DeFi) and self-hosting your own services.
Nintendo's brand is incompatible with an unmoderated marketplace of user created content. And it doesn't get any harder to automatically moderate games: what if a hate message is only visible when the game is in a certain state?
In comparison, text, images, and sound are trivial to moderate.

Note that the various app stores partially manage this problem by putting a comparatively huge barrier to entry to publishing (it takes days to release an app and it's tied to a credit card).
Naturalistic fallacy.

Plenty of things appeared in humans for no positive reason. Its not like smallpox was valuable it some point.

Its possible that depression has some positive function, but its just as possible it does not.
This may be your experience, however I have extreme doubt that these are anything but learned behaviors. There is nothing intrinsically masculine or feminine about sticks, dump trucks, strollers, or dolls. They are just objects, and for the majority of human existence the latter three didn't even exist in their current form.

All knowledge of these objects, what they're used for, and who uses them were learned from societal influences. A kid doesn't have to care about social norms to tell that most people they see playing with sticks or driving dump trucks are men, and most people they see pushing strollers and playing with dolls are women. It's like that from out in the park to within picture books.
I'm not so sure. Getting to Mars and back is relatively easy delta V-wise relative to even a transfer orbit to the sun.

Not sure if gravity assists could make up the difference or not.
Maturing and learning of the dangers around us. We can't wait for natural selection to teach us, it's good to have a rough idea of how non-telegraphed and rapid emergency situations are.
Sunk cost.
Also the problem with clustered indexes in a GUID field are that the GUIDs are random, so when a new record is inserted, a significant portion of the data on disk has to be moved to insert the records into the middle of the table.
Intracranial inoculation of infected tissue is the old-school way to assay for prion activity. Sometimes it takes a few years to get an answer though, especially in cross-species assays [0].

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5338-3_...
I'm familiar with that trick. This is the CSS solution I was referring to above. I still consider this quite 'hacky', and non-intuitive.
Recently, I had a mole on the top of my foot about an inch or two from my toes that grew from a normal size small dot to bigger than a pencil eraser in the span of two months. I went to the doctor, not suspecting any cancer, but because it was ANNOYINGLY itchy and started to grow a red ring around it. For context, I'm a nerdy software engineer who RARELY ventures outside of an air conditioned room, obviously no tanning or anything like that.

When I got there, the doctor, who was a local UCSF-trained expert, suddenly looked very stressed out and started taking pictures of it. He kept insisting I get tested for deadly skin cancer (remember, melanoma is AGGRESSIVE) in a very roundabout way, but would not give any probabilities or anything like that. The more I asked questions, the less information he would give about what was going on, other than that I should get a biopsy RIGHT NOW in his office (he even told his other patients to wait a while).

He numbed my foot with a shot, and then took the dermatology equivalent of an ice cream scooper and dug out a sizable chunk of my flesh. I was told I had to wait for two weeks for the results -- the most agonizingly stressful two weeks of my life -- hearing the news was less stressful. "We'll call you if there's any problems, if you don't get a phone call, nothing is wrong. See you at your next appointment!"

The results were a rare "spitz nevus" precancerous mole that looks exactly like melanoma but is completely benign. I had won the lottery. The doctor took even more pictures the next time.

So, to answer the article's question, no we are NOT screening too much for skin cancer; otherwise, I would have known to be in the doctor's office a LOT sooner. And I am a shut-in who does not sun bathe or even go outside for more than 30 minutes at a time on the occasional weekend...
Yes. Nesting <ol> elements alone does not yield the kind of results I'm after.
I dont think moving from php to node.js is really doing different things. More like rearranging the deck chairs.

That's not to say i want to do the same thing forever. I want to do different things. Superficial trends dont count.
This sounds like the same arguments as whether mammograms should start at 40 or 50 years old. Apparently a lot of the cancers they catch during screenings at 40 would go away on their own, so now they only recommend mammograms before 50 if cancer runs in your family, to avoid unnecessary biopsies and other surgeries.
Anyone remember rotten.com? It was a treasure trove for morbid curiosity. You can probably still visit some of the pages on the wayback machine if you're curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com
> I hear that a lot. Why keep playing? Why play the meta? The onetricks seem to do well no matter what the meta is.

To compete at anything means making the decisions that put a contestant in the best position to win. A "meta" is the most optimal team composition for a given map. To play off meta is uncompetitive.

> Then a few don't, and the meta changes.

This is not how metas change.
In the next 10 years there will be, and 10 year time frames are short when it comes to LDP's planning. The tourism boom from 2014 to 2020 was an LDP plan. The Olympics were supposed to be just middle step in expanding that tourism. COVID is but a blip on the roadmap, hence all the subsidies meant to keep the hotels alive.

Don't get me wrong, my post isn't a love letter to the LDP. But you do need to keep the Japan context in mind: the LDP have been in power for over 60 years. The METI, who drive economic polocy, have been a continuous singular bureaucracy since before WW1. Setting long term development goals and continuing in those plans come hell or high water is the one thing Japan does really well. Just look at the Fuel Cell investments.
Thank you for recommending Adalberto's! It was a bit of a drive but indeed, it is the closest I’ve found!
Those are the worst. They have a mild case and there basically is no convincing them otherwise, unless someone close to them has a different experience.
So they didn't realise Mr Zhu was Asian until now? This is some real Scooby-Doo shit.
UK sends two navy ship to Jersey after France threatens blockade
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021032...
This is a huge milestone for the Starship team and SpaceX, so massive congratulations.

This was also fun to watch. Fun in part because while SpaceX had it on "tape delay" the enthusiast channels were showing it live. It will be fun to have them do it without the low cloud cover but I'm guessing that without the disassembly at the end they may have some on-board recordings that are recoverable.

To whomever does telemetry for these things, the frequency bands you are using are blocked by clouds. It makes it hard to keep a live signal. Ask the FCC for a temporary operating permit for 900Mhz or so. You will be much happier with the results.

I was paying close attention to the area of 'heat shield' tiles. That is the next really big hurdle. If you recall getting the grid fins on F9 to survive re-entry was a big challenge. Getting tiles that don't break because the various expansion coefficients don't match is a big challenge as well. That is critical to having enough fuel left over to stop when you get back down inside the gravity well.

It is easy to forget the scale of this thing without visual cues but its like flying skyscrapers around. They are very big. And the booster will be larger still.

Also super curious how the lunar lander version will work. That is awfully high up there, could be a long ladder down to the surface. That, and given its mass, means that when it lands on the moon the dust it kicks up will hit escape velocity[1] which will be interesting.

All in all though, so much progress in space after so much non-progress. Quite the thrill!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12312
I lead/oversee a team of 7 that was built across 10 time zones, starting in 2017. The team got to its current size about 6 months before the pandemic hit. Three of us are fully remote, and there are two sub-teams of two in one city, separated by about 40 miles. We've got biz dev, ops, and software development (NLP and image analysis). We definitely dial people in if we need them, and there's a daily stand-up.

So, we were built around a hybrid-ish sort of model from the beginning. I'm honestly not sure how the team would do if we were all together. I know we wouldn't have the same team, that's for sure. A couple of the folks couldn't have taken the jobs if a move had been required.

I oversee work by a number of other teams, they are all working at the international level, and none of them are fully localized. If anything, the one thing I think may change with the pandemic is that people will develop less localization, and travel to visit teammates will become a thing. If I recall, Slack does this: they have everyone meet up once or twice a year. We did that at the beginning and it was super helpful.
> If only jokes were made the genocide wouldn't have happened

Well no shit. But it did happen, and there's plenty of proof that 'jokes' contributed to the culture that made genocide possible

> A joke about "niggaz in da hood" by a white person is very inappropriate and insensitive, but it's not the same as some joke where the punchline is that "niggaz too lazy to work" or whatnot

You really don't think that the first desensitizes some to the point that they think the 2nd is acceptable?? This is what the pyramid is about.

> This is essentially the same argument as {comics,music,TV,films,games} causes {Satanism,murder,drug use,what-have-you}.

No it's not.
Or, more likely, it's simply a result of the brain not being perfectly "designed".
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Housing, Health Care and Education as profit seeking enterprises seem to expand to the point where they confiscate all the wealth of the average person. So we work in order to feed those enterprises. That kind of "inflation" is driven by the necessity of the product.

There's also another kind of inflation which comes from the 1% having too much wealth and the shift in the Gini coefficient. That makes all the things that wealthy people buy much more expensive and leads to asset bubbles. So Housing (again) along with stocks, bonds (driving the evaporation of risk premiums), the whole financial sector and art and baseball cards.
I assume you're talking about staying a little late during an emergency, balanced out by leaving a little early when nothing important is going on. SpaceX is talking about 80 hours a week baseline. I understand your platitudes about not being a clock watcher, but if you go to work for spacex expecting to merely not watch the clock, you will find yourself unpleasantly surprised. If we're talking about the average hiring manager, the average hiring manager could not handle SpaceX hours.
> The question was what are the efficiencies per transaction.

Yes and the calculations are all completely invalid. Not sure what you are missing.

You need a whole infrastructure to power a transaction. That means an asset with value, a secure way to broadcast it, for other people to see it, etc. Running the infrastructure and securing it is absurdly expensive for the traditional system; they are even employing perhaps millions of people to run the worldwide network. The human cost is extreme but you are limiting the discussion to energy expended. Unless you consider all this how can you put the energy usage of BTC in context? This is especially true since a system like BTC, the energy used is not even proportional to the number of transactions that are processed. Extrapolations don't even consider that the mining reward is motivating miners but it will disappear completely in future - i.e. the energy is being used to build a system and distribute assets that can exist for endless years. All the logic is a joke

It's like saying it's cheaper to solve an equation by hand than to build software that can do it automatically. But doing it by hand requires human intervention, while that one-time cost of building the software can automate the work, be adapted for myriad usecases and run for the next 1000 years

The consequences of expending the energy to create and distribute this 'unit of account' is profound and incalculable, even if one wants to argue that a decentralised financial system with mass surveillance like BTC will have a negative impact on society
Elevators definitely need progress bars.