skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have any studies been completed yet on immune system efficiency/suppression after covid restrictions (masks, hand sanitizer etc) ?

In Australia we were very lucky with the COVID situation. And purely annecdotal, but I know many people who haven't been sick at all during the pandemic. But as we approach winter here and perhaps no longer hand sanitize appropriately, many of these people are becoming "the most unwell [they] have been in years".
N95/FFP2 seem to be very effective.

I wish the media and government would have spent more time in educating people in things like how N95 masks work and that it isn't like a coffee filter. Even thought the pores are larger than a virus the masks are statically charged causes smaller things to get trapped. Many people don't know this but probably had an interaction with static electricity sometime in school and would understand it if someone explained it. Instead people get put in a bucket and no dialog is possible.

Education is key to understanding. You can't reach everyone most.
I also do this. I put a trackpad on the left, so I can let my right arm rest. Every few days I switch which hand is the trackpad hand. Track pads are easy to use left handed especially since programming is mostly scrolling and a few rare taps.
As a counterpoint, a reminder of how poorly Autopilot functions even in calm urban environments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs
What are they to do, exactly?

Optimization is a very 'generic' process and application programmers want optimization. The only sensible thing to do is to assume UB cannot occur and optimize accordingly.

What else is there?

I can already predict that whatever you suggest will very shortly end up in Halting Problem territory or will mean: No optimization. There are a lot of UBs that (if defined) would require run-time checking to define. That wouldn't inhibit optimization per se, but it would ultimately mean slower execution.
Whole study is flawed. This is theoretical math philosophy, not a study. A viral particle has never been isolated outside its host, therefore these authors have no idea of the viral concentration in an airborne particle and are just making stuff up.
Utilitarianism Is Complex Because Morality Is Complex and a Moral Theory (Cont)
Fun fact, you can put bone conducting headphones on your mouth and hear through your teeth :)
It's actually a great place to perform some types of mitigations (I'm not sure if these are done by this specific product though). Here's an example:

A ransomware attack will rewrite large sections of the drive. Initial phases aren't distinguishable from things like updates but as it progresses the intent becomes more clear. An SSD can leave a ring buffer of old blocks around and transparently revert back if an attack is discovered.

You could also do this as part of the filesystem, but the SSD already has to perform wear levelling and so is quite adept at transparently remapping blocks. It also has the benefit of hardware acceleration in the controller. It's not necessarily a bad place to implement the recovery.
Here’s a nice interactive graphic showing how masks block particles:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-...
GPS navigation is 90s tech, though. I had garmin barking turns at me in the early 2000s same as siri today. In fact usually better reception than my cell phone if it was a clear day, since cell coverage is still terrible where you really need need it out in the boonies where gas stations are miles and miles apart.
They put it that way on purpose, it's coded language, full of dog whistles. They don't say the quiet part out loud.
SimpleVisor – Intel VT-x hypervisor in 500 lines of C code
That makes sense now. It's sort of like an app bringing along its own SELinux policy. My ideal would be a formal specification that dictates to the system what it should allow the program to do, and also how other parts of the system should interact with the program. "I only want to be able to open a file, and the system/other programs should only send me file data from local disks." (I expect Android sort of does this?) It would also be handy to have 'taint mode' at the system level.
> a daemon in Symbian that would query the cell id and open up a socket server to give it to the J2ME app

Why not just make the entire app native in Symbian if you require it anyway? Or did the Symbian SDK suck even more than I remember?
Can you sell me on Fastmail?

I don’t particularly like nor dislike Gmail.

It’s a given that Google is abusing me and my data even though I’m a paying customer, but I find the integrared approach to GSuite insanely convenient and that’s possibly the main reason keeping me locked in.

What in Fastmail could persuade me to move out?
Yes, the parent poster understood that, and was asking about the males specifically because they are relatively rare.
Many primates don't do that. Many humans haven't done that. Stop shilling for the patriarchy.
But you are urban. You are near a major city, and adjacent another small one like you said. Urban versus rural is not a measure of closeness to nature, it's a measure of closeness to other humans.
Why would you spend so much time writing so much about people who you admitted to knowing nothing about? Go visit rural America. Talk to people. Getting upvotes on Hacker News for presumptuous rants is no way to actually learn what’s happening.
> this is really just telling you what the ceiling is

That's a useful piece of info to know when performance tuning a real world app with auth / data / etc.
mind you the soviet tried something like this in the early 1980's. Using computers and mathematical models to see where changes where required in the command economy.

This did not work, obviously.
No. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tp0zB904Mc
This isn't a study; it is a mathematical model [1].

> Here, we develop a quantitative model of airborne virus exposure that can explain these contrasting results and provide a basis for quantifying the efficacy of face masks. We show that mask efficacy strongly depends on airborne virus abundance. Based on direct measurements of SARS-CoV-2 in air samples and population-level infection probabilities, we find that the virus abundance in most environments is sufficiently low for masks to be effective in reducing airborne transmission.

Meanwhile, they ignore the dozens of studies showing masks are ineffective, or even counterproductive:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395560/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32590322/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15340662/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26579222/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31159777/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779801/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/ann...

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25776/rapid-expert-consultation-...

https://www.nap.edu/read/25776/chapter/1#6

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599448/

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y
Quoting https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core:
> We're limited by the browser's ability to make network requests, so connecting to processes like MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc. are not currently possible
It's not just an anecdote, it's measurable on a global scale [0]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3
My personal favorite is Nextflow (http://nextflow.io/). Quick to start up a one-off script in, and it's ready to run in production without too much tweaking.

Edit: I especially appreciate the wide range of supported systems for both dependency management (running the gamut from GNU modules or conda to docker/singularity containers) and execution environments (local, SLURM, SGE, AWS, Azure, etc.)
I don't actually have that much overlap with my friends in the first place.

We just have a select few common interests and enjoy each other's company.

I have a different circle of friends for most interests, there's not even any overlap between the ones I online game with or dirtbike with. Hell there's not even overlap between the dirtbike friends and street riding friends. I have interests that aren't shared with any of them.

Buying a house in the city is just adding another interest to the pile of interests that only apply randomly to a small fraction of my friends.
Some results (on the text layout):

Widening my window reveals the hidden text. If I continue widening it, the .mainContentColumn will grow wider and the text within will reflow appropriately. But the .mainContentColumn will never shrink below 1349 pixels wide, and if the window is narrower than that, the text will still lay out in the wider space, which hides some of the text.

The "Shukriya" image is 1349 pixels [1] wide, which is probably setting the minimum width of the .mainContentColumn.

You have `width: 100vw` set on the .mainContentColumn, but I'm guessing the width of the picture is interfering with that. If I set `width: 100vw` on .text, text layout improves (though clipping is still present). If I set `width: 90vw`, text layout flows appropriately within the new narrower and entirely-visible box.

However, giving this different width to the .text paragraphs means that the tweet embeds and titles are no longer centered relative to the text (they're centered relative to the .mainContentColumn, but the text is narrower than that and left-justified).

[1] Some type of scaling appears to be going on; if I screenshot my browser, clipping the image, the screenshot is over 2000 pixels wide.
I think you should contact the press. Maybe The Guardian? You seem like the kind of person that could help bring light and counterweight to this
The two of you are not disagreeing except insofar as you're both using the word "guaranteed" to mean completely different things. _kst_, you're using it to mean "the programmer can rely on it". msbarnett, you're using it to mean "the compiler can rely on it".
If I find a game I enjoy, I will usually give them 5-10 and play until it gets ridiculous. I don’t want to play a game for a month, check up on it every day, etc.
There were votes, two more counties will hold a vote at a later date.

https://results.oregonvotes.gov/SearchResults.aspx?ID=139

https://results.oregonvotes.gov/SearchResults.aspx?ID=124

https://results.oregonvotes.gov/SearchResults.aspx?ID=141

https://results.oregonvotes.gov/SearchResults.aspx?ID=248

https://results.oregonvotes.gov/SearchResults.aspx?ID=242
The net result of your argument is the language has no semantics. I write and test with -O0 and show that f(k)=m. Then I run with -O3 and f(k)=random. Am I required to be an expert on C Standard and compiler development in order to know that, with no warning, my code has always been wrong? What about if f(k)=m under Gcc 10, but now under Gcc 10.1 that whole section of code is skipped? What you are asking programmers to do is to both master the fine points of UB (which is impractical) and look into the future to see what changes may be invisibly committed to the compiler code.
This reminds me off that story on hackernews about getting that laptop in the datacenter, because they couldn't figure out why it was slower on the server.
Reagan is not 'the right'. He's a member of the Republican party who served 50 years ago. And again, universal health care only saves money if you start with the basis that the government will force private companies to take on customers that can't pay for service, something that is very much not a right wing ideology.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea or a good idea, I'm just saying there is no basis for universal healthcare that doesn't start with 'we need to help people'. Same with social security. Same with many other left wing policies. A lot of the problems around market inefficiency in healthcare are perfectly solvable without helping the poor.
Informatics Algorithms
My biggest worry with this would be the low level of off target edits and the number of recombination events that yielded an unwelcome product. Looks like those were very low, but with an N of 4, hard to know long term. The reason being that when you screw around with DNA you can get cancer. This has been an issue in a variety of cases with gene therapy, though is clearly getting much better. This is really cool though, exciting times!
The base layer of bitcoin is more of a settlement layer; Lightning Network and other layer 2 features allow for super fast and super cheap bitcoin payments.

http://lightning.network

Instant Payments. Lightning-fast blockchain payments
without worrying about block confirmation times. Security
is enforced by blockchain smart-contracts without creating
a on-blockchain transaction for individual payments.
Payment speed measured in milliseconds to seconds.

Scalability. Capable of millions to billions of
transactions per second across the network. Capacity blows
away legacy payment rails by many orders of magnitude.
Attaching payment per action/click is now possible without
custodians.

Low Cost. By transacting and settling off-blockchain, the
Lightning Network allows for exceptionally low fees, which
allows for emerging use cases such as instant
micropayments.
Deregulate the Market for Land
Your forgot the protein, which is shrimp, and the cilantro garnish. Serve with a side of fries.

Dessert is jell-o with a crushed cookie and granola topping.
> has to date funded almost 600 startups from a range of industries including cryptocurrency, ....

Why is government funding cryptocurrencies? Given the the whole idea of cryptocurrecies is lack of human supervision, including government one, I don't think they should be giving them any money.
Yeah, many cities do it, Berkeley just happens to be one I know of because I manage a property there.

The biggest risk is legal -- if you cash two of three checks for example, have you accepted partial rent? Can you evict for non-payment or did you just accept payment? Will the two people who paid fight the eviction? Can you evict just one tenant?

So many thorny issues you just don't want to deal with. So much simpler to say, "give me one check, it's either on time or not".
I want two network cards that have trillions of entangled quantum states between them so I can network to anywhere.

Sadly that is not how quantum entanglement works.
I think I know the guy. He could hold a lot of tapeworms.
What if they are the majority?
From my experience:
1) Keep your chin up, and do not blame yourself. Depression is due to some kind of ill-defined toxic effect in your environment. It's not due to bad ideas you have, nor past negative experiences.
2) Eschew all medication. The doctors do not sufficiently understand depression and their medicines can be destructive.
3) Put work into your spiritual life. Do loving things, for this is the work of Love who will repay you with Happiness.
For these ones:
https://www.amazon.com/ThorFire-Rechargeable-Collapsible-Fla...

I can crank for a few seconds and it will last a few minutes. They become gradually dim after that, and I never measured how long it took for them to go completely dark.
I’m not sure there was any popular doubt over the efficacy of N95 masks. The problem was rather getting one - marketplaces like Amazon restricted access to masks if you weren’t affiliated with a hospital. So you were left with sketchy deals and weird vendor sites.

I suspect Amazon killed quite a few people over the last year by restricting access - supply scaled pretty quickly.
Lets change the order of things then.

1. Take a picture of the tree

2. Create NFT of the picture of the tree.

3. Use the NFT of the picture of the tree to certify the CO2 offset.

4. Burn down the tree.

--------

Is it more obvious with this ordering? The NFT proves nothing. It doesn't matter when you burn (or otherwise damage) the tree. You have an NFT stating a carbon offset that is completely fake.

I'm just making fun of the idea that NFTs prove... anything useful... in these circumstances. Its the same thing as people who want to use blockchain to certify supply chains or whatever. The "Blockchain technology" doesn't do anything aside from provide marketing points.
> Who gets to decide what an "American *" is?

Their intended audience.

Keep in mind, this is written to appeal to someone who is already likely to agree that Oregon is handling these topics poorly.
I honestly don't know, can you tell me? One thing to consider is that Biden has been very public about transitioning US government fleets to all electric (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/biden-plans-to-replace-gover...), so even if other brands are currently used, it doesn't matter, because they don't sell an electric pickup.
Thanks!

> I always disable C-states deeper than C1E

AWS doesn't let you mess with c-states for instances smaller than a c5.9xlarge[1]. I did actually test it out on a 9xlarge just for kicks, but it didn't make a difference. Once this test starts, all CPUs are 99+% Busy for the duration of the test. I think it would factor in more if there were lots of CPUs, and some were idle during the test.

> Try receive flow steering for a possible boost

I think the stuff I do in the "perfect locality" section[2] (particularly SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF) achieves what receive flow steering would be trying to do, but more efficiently.

> Would also be interesting to discuss the impacts of turning off the xmit queue discipline

Yea, noqueue would definitely be a no-go on a constrained network, but when running the (t)wrk benchmark in the cluster placement group I didn't see any evidence of packet drops or retransmits. Drop only happened with the iperf test.

1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/processo...

2. https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-...
Launching Routergram to stay in touch with your Telegram community
Agility Robotics' Cassie Is Now Astonishingly Good at Stairs
Huh, TIL. I had assumed the thickness of the iron would have lead to better heating, but it looks like both aluminum and steel heat much more evenly.

I still argue that the care regimen is overblown, you can scrub with soap and a sponge and as long as you're not just grinding at the surface it will be fine. You can soak it, it's fine. We treat our cast iron like any other pan and it's really not a big deal - we just add appropriate oil if we took off too much of the bonded oil the last time we cooked.
This is really program dependent. The NSF actually publishes statistics on all kinds of aspects of degree programs. Life Sciences (which doesn't have the reputation as a super speedy science program) has a median time in PhD program of around 5.5 years. Obviously the distribution is going to be skewed, but some fields have had a push towards really reducing the time to graduation.

I'm all for doing serious introspection before (and during!) a PhD, but the comment is way too short to set off many alarm bells for me.

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21308/data-tables#group7
Michigan and Ohio once went to war over Toledo.
Banning plastic straws, asserting that men should compete against women in sports if they identify as women, and eliminating SAT scores doesn't seem like a science-driven approach, but more of a faith-based science-denialism.
That's incomplete, it turns out; apparently it's a weirdly capitalized form of "gamer" with sarcastic/disrespectful intent towards the referenced group.
Thanks, and to the GP for posting it! It's my site.

I try and pay some attention to Reddit for new things, but it's more difficult to keep up with keyboards only available for a short time / no longer available.
Not a hardware thing but I bought the witness, the game, and I have been using it as a kind of safe place.
I live in a predominantly right-leaning area and know a lot of people who are against universal healthcare. I've talked with a lot of them about it, and every single person would be in favor of it if there was a magical guarantee the money would actually be spent properly and not corruptly misallocated. But the track record is so poor, and there is such little transparency, that they have no trust whatsoever. I can hardly fault them. And the left's argument of "give us more money, we promise to get it right this time" is hardly compelling. Obviously, accusing people on the right of being ok with others dying in the street doesn't help matters.
> In practice, people is small towns and rural counties are extremely self-sufficient.

The narrative that rural counties are extremely self-sufficient is utter-nonsense, cult-like thinking. They don't have the population, tax-base, or non-individualistic thinking to do anything at all. They're dead in the water without outside funding, which comes from the state/county where people actually live/work.
Your response is disgustingly incorrect. President Obama's election as the first black president certainly included significant racial elements. When comparing it to Clinton vs Dole in 1996, Clinton lost the white vote 42% to 44% (1). Obama lost the white vote 43% to 55% (2). Both Clinton and Obama won by 8% differences.

Yes, not voting for the black candidate over the white candidate doesn't make you racist. But to ignore race altogether as a factor is just as ignorant and even more damaging. The 2008 president election was one of the most racially divisive elections in US history (3).

(1) https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1996

(2) https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2008

(3) http://www.columbia.edu/~tko2103/GVF20110722.pdf
Thanks - as a non-American living there, this is pretty helpful to further my understanding.

I wonder whether there's any actual examples of the values being brought back from a point where they have disappeared.
> I'm from a lower class background; I learned from early on to adapt my language to that of the upper/upper-middle class

I have a similar background, but I can't say I adapt my language to that of upper classes. My accent and skin color pretty much gives away my background when I utter my first word, and unfortunately, just like having a southern US accent, people are subconsciously biased to thinking I'm probably not too smart. I love using "ten-dollar words"[1] - not that I shoe-horn them in, but they are the ones that usually pop into my head first and I can't be bothered to water them down. Additionally, I figure, "dumb" accent + "smart" words cancel each other out - more or less - which puts me on equal footing with my "normal" sounding colleagues. It's easier to change/adapt my vocabulary than it is to change my accent.

I love language, I do a lot of reading, and it's a delight when you find the right word that precisely expresses what you're thinking. Reading a lot expands your vocabulary and improves your adeptness at deploying it. When done in moderation, using puns and subtle literary references is fun (even when no one picks up on it) - as long as it doesn't detract from the actual message I'm communicating.

1. I do not mean speaking like the Architect from The Matrix here. The other week, I was called out by a monolingual collegue for using "nomenclature" rather than "naming convention" or "naming system" - which feel kludgey to me. Also, when I do make the effort to use shorter words after thinking of a long one first, that adds brief pauses to my speech, which gives the appearance of an ineffective communicator.
Alice can sell her house for 200k and have 100k to pay for rent and live off.
> Slack seems superfluous now that MS Teams is consuming everything before it.

MS Teams suck so bad from a developer perspecrive compared to slack it's never going to be a proper alternative. I'm not dissing, this is just my experience using both
It’ll be fun to watch them police this