skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not unnatural at all, or at least it's not any more unnatural than someone getting to keep a portion of your labor's profit just because they put the most money down when they started the company.

A workers co-op, for instance, splits all the profits between all the employees in an arrangement that is basically "we collectively produced profit X we all get an equal share of that profit."

While "unnatural" is the wrong word, imo, I think it's fair to say that it's "unfamiliar" to most folks and "uncommon" out in the world.
It is a single investment that is government-subsidized with loan-interest subsidies, that you can live in, that also people tend to have great emotional attachment to an unhealthy extent.

Home loans at least in the United States taken out at usually 5x leverage which would never fly for index funds but is ok for some reason for buying a home, even though you could become unable to pay the mortgage in which case the bank has to spend money foreclosing and selling it.
Electricity is a universal form of energy that can be generated in any number of different ways. It can be efficiently and safely transported with existing infrastructure. Electric motors at the point of application are more than 95 percent efficient.

The only real problem with electricity is storage. We have the capability but it is not as weight efficient or cost effective as we would like for transport use.

Virtually everything about hydrogen production, transport and usage is problematic. This is rooted in the fact that hydrogen molecules are extremely small, higly reactive and explosively flammable. Hydrogen reacts with carbon metals making them brittle. The most practical way to utilize hydrogen is to generate electricity from it. Doing this efficiently requires exotic and expensive catalysts which are easily contaminated and consumed by the reactive fuel cell process.

The overall process of hydrogen production, transport and usage is less than 40 percent efficient. The same process with electricity is more than 80 percent efficient.

Volkswagen; along with other auto manufacturers, spent years studying this issue and came to the nearly universal conclusion that, "In the case of the passenger car, everything speaks in favour of the battery and practically nothing speaks in favour of hydrogen."
Charitable foundations are designed to make money in perpetuity, otherwise their mission is not possible to accomplish. In the US they have to donate 5% of net assets a year and that is practically their only requirement, based on the idea that a diversified portfolio in the broad market increases in value slightly more than 5%. That is not a strong argument to bolster your skepticism.

If your idea is based on the existence of psychopathic financiers controlling organizations that every country on the planet is part of, and every vaccine production as well in those countries which use completely different technology, then you have left no oxygen in your mind for disproving anything. You've now exempted China from any scrutiny, in exchange for psychopathic financiers that would have much difficulty in collaborating with the party and maintaining status with them. You've replaced that with an insidious plot that makes zero sense and at the best requires opportunists to simply seize onto the reality. But that makes zero sense because the mRNA vaccines were sequenced within a week of getting samples in January 2020 because the technology is simply impressive and is the lifetime work of the Hungarian researcher. Ah, so many problems with this idea.
> Maybe the coal-rollers are freaking out...

Is diesel impacted as badly as gasoline out there? I've seen plenty about gas shortages, less about diesel shortages. In general, trucks tend to have far larger tanks than cars, so can ride through various disruptions a bit better if you're careful.

> and looking into buying a Prius.

Going from one liquid-fuel-only vehicle to another, even if it's more efficient, doesn't really seem to solve the problem of "liquid fuels are unavailable at the moment."

If you want robustness against stuff like this, go with a PHEV of some sort - Chevy Volt, RAV 4, Prius Prime, etc. You can do most of your regularly driving on battery, while still having the easy long distance range of a gas engine.

If liquid fuel is in short supply, don't do any long trips - just run on battery. On the other hand, if electricity is in short supply, most PHEVs make really good generators for at least limited loads. You typically can't find an inverter that runs off the high voltage pack, but most are good for 1500W or so on the 12V system. They'll just run the gas engine as needed to charge the high voltage battery, and run the DC-DC converter to support the 12V rail. It ends up being quite a bit more efficient than an open frame generator or inverter generator for light loads, though you're limited in what you can run. Storing 10 gallons of gas for a PHEV gets you quite a bit of electricity out of one, and it's no additional maintenance, because you're already maintaining the car. They're good options for uncertain times.

Infrastructure security has been, and probably always will be, a joke. Except it's not funny.
My use of the word “so” there occurred naturally and I deliberately left it there. However, it’s a different sense of the word “so”: it’s concretely meaning therefore, rather than just being a meaningless filler.
I opted out by making the site unusable.

For the past three-four years I've had a topcolor of #222222, the same color as the vote count text.

So I've had to click the "threads" link blindly, as the link text is nigh impossible to read now.

But now clicking that threads link is truly hard, so I don't do it often, which also breaks the engagement/addiction cycle, so I see no point in filing a bug report. Comment and move on. It's nice.
American consumers have been taught the incorrect cost-plus concept of price formation under which significant increases are tantamount to the imaginary crime of "price gouging."
I have a hard time buying into the over population argument, especially in the west. Most western nations have declining populations and although consumption is much higher there is still such a need for continued population growth in western nations that immigration is used to ensure there are enough younger workers to support the wealthier aging populations.

Now you want to talk conspiracies to conceal or coverup how the virus came to be, I'm all for that but I don't think billionaires want to kill off all their neighbors just so they can have the earth all to themselves. They enjoy the power and control over people and policy too much for that.
His son is a musician. I saw him live many years ago when he was touring to support his third LP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McMurtry
You can do a tiered system. First 10 something gallons is 'rationed' price with it getting slightly more expensive as you want more. Allows you to get more if you really need it, but also ensures that most can get at least some. Albeit it is a lot more complicated to rollout.
"We ignored the public statements the company was making because they didn't send it to us directly" is a pretty bad look.

Saying they didn't respond would be fine for almost any other topic, but it's bad reporting for this one.
How the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Works
Scientist seem to be a lot more worried about B.1.351 than B.1.617. Of course newspapers will always hype up the latest thing that was discovered.
> ...Red Storm Rising is a rather solid work of fiction about a similar event.

Indeed it is! I believe some of the scenes in there were the result of table top war games played out, then written up.

Tom Clancy's writings are both really good, and lately really disturbing. I just finished Rainbow Six, and similarities to 2020 abound.
It it a Biontech vaccine. Pfizer is only the manufacturer. After all, you also do not call the MacBook a Foxconn Laptop.
It doesn't have to be a reliable indication to be an unsurprising correlation.
You're nitpicking the details of what the created value was. The absolute best candidates I talk to almost always detail the value that they created. These people also negotiate better salaries for themselves.

99% of everyone just lists their responsibilities on their resumes and it makes them almost useless.

The difference is that of that 1% of people, I will interview 100% of them. From the general pool of 99% I am looking for mistakes in your resume to not talk to you.
Yeah I loved Amazon but have moved away from them for everything but things that have really low risk like Kindle, video games, or toilet paper.

I used to still use Amazon for research and reviews but now reviews are useless.

Now my biggest reason to visit Amazon is for price comparison and price history via camelcamcelcamel extension.
> Books are physical objects at the end of the day

Disagree with this. There has been a very short period in human history (roughly from the invention of the printing press till the rise of ebooks/audiobooks) where books were primarily physical objects. Stories were told and preserved orally for thousands of years, and who knows where the future of the medium is.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
My comments typically get 2-3 upvotes, with the occasional 7 and very rare 15 or 23. About 60% stay at 1 vote.
Oracle dude:

"Ha-ha-sa! These are interesting theories. But you have no proof!"
Humanity's most distant space probe captures a strange sound
FAANG companies also underpay their workers. It can simultaneously be the case that they pay their workers best in class wages AND those wages are less than the workers deserve. Apple has immense cash reserves built from the labor of their employees. That is essentially the difference between what value those employees generated for Apple and what they were paid. More of it should go out to the employees, and we should push to make the wages of workers at any company be higher percentage of the value they generate for that company.
This is your purely subjective opinion.

I've worked with both profesionally, and my also purely subjective opinion is that while Ruby is better than Python, Rails is thousands of miles ahead of Django.

On the Ruby side, the standard library is a lot more consistent, the language itself is more powerful, the tooling is better (bundler + gems + rake vs pip..oh, wait its poetry.. or was it pipenv), puma is objetively better than uWSGI (no releases in years) and gunicorn (can't serve static files! wtf!).

Rails provides an opinionated and clear way to do frontend too (better templates, stimulus, hotwire, etc) and a way to do websockets, an official one. Translations in rails are a lot better too, based on keys instead of on 80's gettext funkyness. Routing is a lot easier too, just map urls to controllers... in django do you do function views? or class based views? now that's a mess. The "asyncification" going on in django is CRAZY, the complexity they're adding is React level insane.

Also, ruby didn't break the ecosystem and f*d half the community like python did from 2->3 (that's when I gave up on it) and nor is doing it with all the async madness in python splitting again the ecosystem on things that support it vs things that don't.

The only thing I miss from django is the migrations system, which I think are better than in rails, and maybe django-rest-framework.

So, there you go... your subjective opinion vs mine, everyone has one.
But the article doesn’t conflate the web and the Internet. The DNS root servers are necessary for the operation of all the Internet, just like the article says. Not just for the Web.
We're past that now. It's known as Pfizer in the official language of too many cities and countries.
Keep dotfiles in sync across multiple machines
i don’t think this one incident is going to fix everything, but i do think that a clear cut security incident affecting major infrastructure for millions will get at least a little political attention

we don’t seem likely to get much done by security people making warnings, failure is the best teacher and i think the right people will learn at least a little here
No, not really, and without actual root cause analysis it's impossible to "be alarmed" about such a thing in any informed sense of the phrase. For instance, "incremental compilation" is obviously not the only prerequisite for this bug to manifest, otherwise it probably would have been found already since it's so widely used. So it is quite necessary for multiple flaws to compound until they manifest in some particular way like this; would you also say "rain is caused solely by clouds and nothing else"?

Without any actual analysis of why this bug occurred under what particular circumstances, how it was introduced, and what failures lead to it (which is not something most programmers are good at, in my experience), you're just psyching yourself out.
I suspect Matlab will have a long tail in engineering education, for a number of reasons: 1) It's effectively free for educational use thanks to generous site licenses. 2) A lot of curricula have been developed around it. 3) Indisputably, it works.

But outside of academia, let's face it, the most widespread "engineering IDE" is Excel. Relatively few engineers continue to use math and equations after they graduate. A lot of their calculations can be done in Excel, or within their CAD software. The biggest threat to Matlab is the automation of engineering calculations.

As a result, it's more mixed, with the people who are actually doing quantitative work coming from a variety of fields including math and physics, but also from areas that have no prior loyalty to Matlab such as biology and statistics.

For instance in my department, any deeply quantitative work is done by a very small handful of "math people" who may or may not have "engineer" job titles, but whose degrees are in math or the physical sciences.
> WTF? Why? You have a free, safe, live-saving vaccine being offered to you! Why would you not take it??

People have real distrust of the system that produced the vaccine and even distrust of the media that purports this disease is so deadly.

I know from your perspective scepticism is hard to understand, but it's not that God tells me science is fake or anything so outlandish. I genuinely don't trust the corporations and government selling me the story of the disease and now the vaccine, and it should be allowed that people question these institutions.
Thanks! Lyn Alden's a great source of information -- I'm familiar with her work.

That said, I don't see how any of what you've said points to a problem in my theory -- the power of labor vs capital has been heavily tilted in the favor of capital for a long time now, unions got essentially systematically busted a while ago. I assumed that would be obvious as context.

I assume that you're not suggesting the lower classes are immune to the coming variant of inflation?
> while it’s technically the same protein

Not technically, it’s actually the same protein/polypeptide sequence in both cases, 100% identical, including the proline mutations that stabilize the prefusion conformation. You can check that easily by translating and aligning in silico both coding RNA sequences.

> the way it was optimized differs (not by much but it’s different)

I’m assuming that you’re referring to the codon optimization step that the RNA sequences underwent. While both coding sequences were optimized differently, this has no effect on the final protein product.
Postmortem: we've discovered omissions in our processes that we've fixed now, and we promise much better service to our future victims.
Fraud has risk.
Everyone owes it to themselves to understand directly how their contributions create value for their comapny. It will help you enormously in compensation negotiations.

If you aren't creating value for the business, you're on an eventual path to downsizing and should look for another job.
It's not quite no downside. It may be inconvenient (especially if you live in a country where you can't necessarily get time off work to seek medical treatment) and you're quite likely to have a sore arm. Some people experience fever, headaches, or other annoying symptoms for a day or even longer. I had a powerful craving for a kebab, at like 0400 when all the kebab shops are closed, maybe a coincidence, but maybe not. If you told me I can get a free Coke, but I have to take an hour off work and then my arm will be sore for two days, I think I'll pass on your "free" Coke.

Now, of course the excellent chance of becoming immune to a respiratory infection that's killing loads of people is a much better offer than a Coke. So I agree people should take up this offer, get yourself vaccinated - but we shouldn't claim "literally no downside".
The best people in any field are the ones that passed the harshest filter, and pole vaulting from music to programming is about as demanding as it gets.
> ClickHouse indexes are what they call "data skipping indexes".

That’s still an index though isn’t it? Might work slightly differently, but the purpose is still the same.
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Covid-19 Vaccine
This is a reminder that a lot of this comes down to the whims of whoever is staffed at HR. I’ve often read contradictory advice about resumes in articles written by people in charge of hiring. It’s not a big surprise, a lot of these views are arbitrary (though they will insist otherwise!)
The migrant, and refuge 'crises' are the consequence of U.S. imperialism the world over. What are people supposed to do when their country is being destroyed by an invading army with superior forces? There's nothing left for the average person in these countries. Fighting results in death, or do you want to become Cuba?
I meant for clearnet sites. There is essentially no benefit for an onion site to use https. Maybe if you want an extra layer of security potentially using different ciphers than the rest of the tor network. I suppose EV certs to prevent fake sites, although i think its debatable how well that works and its inherently not practical in many usecases.
I posit that the average user doesn't want to put the time into reading plain text to find out if the email is worth their attention, images and colours are easier and quicker to process. A lot of information can be communicated quickly with some photos and a nicely formatted graphically rich message, probably with a large link button that takes the user to a relevant web page for further engagement.

This is not an endorsement of the practice, just an observation.
I found electrical engineers to be similar.

Computer science degree holders were mostly lacking ability in my experience.

But I wouldn't count anyone out by their degree.
I can't answer to the specific source you saw but you are most likely misinterpreting the concepts at play.

When you see articles about antibody evading or antibody escape the research is not dealing in absolutes. It's perfectly possible for there be some antibody escape but the overall immune response is perfectly adequate to quickly deal with an infection.

With the variants of concern so far we've seen a similar pattern, sometimes there can be a reduction in efficacy of the vaccines (remember all efficacy endpoints are measured against preventing symptomatic disease), but at the same time they mostly provide a very high protection against severe disease and hospitalization.

So the two headlines are both perfectly correct, the current variants of concern have the ability to demonstrate antibody escape at a slightly higher rate than the original variant, but the current vaccines still protect people against sever disease.
When I implemented unit support into my engine I used the units cmdline tool. Was by far the best and easiest to use. https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/html_node/Command-...
I thought this was related to Mongo Atlas from the title.
Elon also said that the vehicle didn’t even purchase full self driving capabilities.
There was a WHO press-conference about a preprint, and more information is coming this week.

That is the totality of information.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/10/coronavirus...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.04.442663v1

I don't have access to the FT article as it is paywalled, but some less meaningful sources have summarized it and use the "modest evading" phrase.

As I don't care for the conversation as I lost all energy going over this stuff last year when the same thing happened, a preprint is not peer reviewed and is necessary to become peer reviewed. Hundreds of thousands of people will die before that happens. Make your own decisions.
Yes, indeed, this technique was frequently used in ancient programs.

For example, many decades ago I have disassembled many Microsoft programs, like the MS-DOS Basic interpreter or Fortran compiler.

In all those Microsoft programs, there were many loops where the jump at the end of the loop jumped in the middle of the initial instruction. Thus the first execution of the loop executed different instructions than the next executions, which was used, e.g., for the loop initialization.

There were also many if-then-else structures where one of the branches ended with a jump towards the middle of some instruction, so that depending on which was the value of the condition different instructions were executed.

The instructions whose middle position was the target of a jump were usually instructions with immediate operands, so that when executed from the beginning the immediate value was treated as data, while when reached through a jump in the middle of the instruction, the immediate data was treated as an instruction opcode.
So are mRNA vaccines are more effective than conventional (i.e. dead virus) vaccines and natural immunity because they target a smaller set of proteins, effectively telling the immune system exactly which protein to produce antibodies for?
The consequence needs to be liability and the penalty insurance coverage. Nothing like an insurance company tripling your rates after a bad audit to motivate executives. Threat of jail invites regulatory capture and obfuscations to evade prosecutors (who are most often defeated by making crimes as convoluted as possible so they don’t think they can convince a jury)
Not as much as you'd think. Most of them had a specialty in computer music which leans heavily on building your own tools/instruments.

But I agree with you.
so arguably, in this case the machine learning algorithm was possibly right, and the human was wrong. on the face of it, not using machine learning here would not have changed the outcome.

what i am wondering is though if this can't be used to everyones benefit.

apart from neding a human to verify a decision, how about, if the human and machine learning decision disagree, then the consumer gets the right to appeal for a second human review?
Did anyone else just buy one?
How I made 10 line Ruby script to get my first jab done
> This is rather a math-specific operation

Math is a kind of a core use case for, really, almost any programming language, and is central to much of what computers are used for (as is hinted at in their name.)

Though dealing with this aspect of units is less “math-specific” than central to the relation between math and real-world meaning, which is arguably even more important than abstract math in computing applications.
Right. I'm sure we all know amazing engineers with horrible English language skills. Not all of us speak English as our first language.
Switching between F and C should be difficult. This is something you set once and pretty much never change. If it’s easily changed, it’s easily changed by accident.

If I’m ever cooking a recipe that is written in imperial units, I will convert them all to metric prior to starting. (This includes turning nearly all measures into grams—including and especially cups and spoons.)