skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>a graph that shows it actually was a dramatic plunge in deaths correlated with the vaccination.

Please share the link to the page and section heading under which this graph is present.

Also this page seem to be updated https://austingwalters.com/covid19-vaccine-risks/ with the information about observation of increase in R00-R99 deaths for current time.

>but does not seem likely to withstand rigorous analysis.

But where is this rigorous analysis?
Got a used leap years ago. The fabric gets dirty and I can't seem to find a way to clean it that doesn't leave a moisture ring where I apply cleaner or even just water. It now looks like I've had several accidents in my chair just from cleaning attempts.

Any solutions?
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>"impecunious"

is one of the *rarest* words I've ever seen in print, and I just want to digress to say I find this remarkable. In HN's comment history, it's only been used 13 times (i++). And half those appearances (including this comment) are meta. Four of them discussed the dictionary meaning, since pg had used it once in a 1998 essay and they too [0] thought this remarkable. Two more mocked the word's appearence in a 2016 Livejournal post about socioeconomics.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=impecunious&type=comment&dateR...

It's not obscure in every cultural sphere -- for example the NY Times has used it a fair number of times. Google's NGrams data suggest its popularity peaked in the 1880's.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=impecunious&ye...

[0] 'chops' in 2012: "In 1998, I had made an effort to do the whole "once a day, learn a random new word from the dictionary". I did that for exactly one day. The one word I learned was "impecunious." Up until now, I've never, ever, seen or heard that word used."

"So in 1998, independent, near simultaneous events (Viaweb being acquired, and me learning a single word) were set in motion that would culminate 14 years later in me reading for the first time an actual legitimate use of that word, resulting in a very self-satisfied grin. Consider my day made."

"It means "poor" btw."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3462071

And here I am in 2021 -- appending to this generational thread, linked not by [reply] buttons but esoteric search engine queries, for the next HN'er to discover in the distant future. This is HN's 14th occurrence of "impecunious". I am signing out.
-40° Celsius is actually equal to -40° Fahrenheit, it's the temperature at which the two meet. 0° Fahrenheit is about -18° Celsius, did you perhaps multiply 0 by 5/9 then subtract 32 instead of the other way around?
Well, if your life is extended, it'll definitely happen within your lifetime ;)
It can also be that it fails not due to absolute excessive temperature value, but rather after some heating-cooling cycles.

Hot summer is like 3-4 months over there, so about 100 very-hot-cold cycles per year.

Let’s see if it withstands that.
Svelte does something similar with its `$: x = ...` syntax. I wonder if it was inspired.
I interpreted the quoted line as a supporting argument for the lack of "care" rational philosophers allegedly have for disabled people. As in, the people speaking made these casual assertions (do not take the disabled person) and this was, according to the article "the least controversial part of your talk". In my comment above I made mention that not only that rational philosophy is capable, at least in passing, of addressing her concern without much thought given to the problem (when posed correctly, and not politically).

This is hubris-cum-excellence on her part. I believe my point still stands. While she lambasts the field of rational philosophy she fails to defend her own assertions while throwing accusations at everything. This is why I called it a tirade. It's very unbecoming of a scholar (a point I made at the end of my post) and I was not surprised in the slightest after browsing her scholarly material.
If anyone's interested in a first hand account of this type of thing there's good webcomic: https://elan.school/

I haven't checked in a bit but I think he's still releasing new chapters.
This page seem to be updated https://austingwalters.com/covid19-vaccine-risks/ with the information about observation of increase in R00-R99 deaths for current time. But the article does not appear to believe that it changes their reading of the data.
Eric Normand has a great podcast episode where he talks through the paper, summarizing and commenting on it in a way that targets a more general audience.

https://lispcast.com/can-programming-be-liberated-from-the-v...
Do they really care if any one of those servers loses its data though? At that scale, you need higher level redundancy so it makes sense to prioritize filesystems for other features than how well they actually retain your data.

For example, detecting corruption would be more important than never having any, so that you can get IO errors and immediately kill the server before it serves bad data.
The funny thing here is that I went with zfs lately because it saved me money. As a poor student trying to maximise gb/$, raid6/lk was the move balance point between capacity and redundancy.
I wonder who I can "thank" for the Red Delicious?
Amazing work.

From an internet stranger that's been around others who have been down a similar path. I acknowledge how hard that must be and continues to be.

Keep up the good fight.
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Windows (and I deal with a SaaS at MSFT). I am a FreeBSD committer and help maintain FreeBSD's GNOME packages and (very recently) the graphics drivers.

The reason why Windows is full of UI inconsistencies is (largely) because of one thing: backwards compatibility.

While backwards compatibility has it's perks, it also means having lots of old code in Windows that can't be touched very easily without breaking compatibility, And that means many old UI elements may stay, that's a side effect.

While desktop Linux/BSD isn't exactly well known for it's UIs, I found GNOME 3/40 to be more consistent UI-wise than Windows 10, being a user of GNOME 3 on FreeBSD at home (which I am typing this comment from), and helping port GNOME 40, while (unsurprisingly) using Windows 10 at $DAYJOB.

But then GNOME, KDE, Apple, et al. is more willing to break things than Windows is. They aren't as bound to legacy compatibility, so old UI elements can be shed easily.
How many men (yes mostly men) were a part of this and yet all those personal stories lost
Why has there been such a push to nerf UIs? Is it just trying to ape mobile? Mobile UIs are more basic because the screen is so damn small and the use case is more casual.
Speaking from experience in this same industry, this is the wrong way to look at it. They significant amount of engineering goes in to designing the ground systems such that it can tolerate all different types of environments. Currently with Starlink you are only seeing probably less than 5% of the environments that it would be rolled out in.

This is mainly due to how they are targeting RDOF areas to appease the government from winning all that money. Heat is one thing, but freezing temperatures are also very difficult to deal with. A deicer is common on high-end antennas to melt ice off in subzero temperatures.

I would be surprised if SpaceX changes the design at this point. To manufacture it antennas in the quantities that they need, they would have had to order a lot of the parts 6 to 9 months ahead of time in large quantities, especially given that they lose money on the terminal cost currently.
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For 15+ years, all I needed was a working computer (loaded with a compiler, a code editor, debugger, SVN/git), a notebook + mechanical pencil, and my trusted Sailor fountain pen!
So both reduce salaries and not pay premium office rates. Win win!
Novo Nordisk's recently approved Wegovy works pretty well for your latter use case, and they're undergoing clinical trials for oral medication (it's currently administered via IV).

iirc, the side effect profile was pretty mild nausea, so definitely a viable option if you're in the market for FDA approved weight loss/control drugs
> Looks like they are only looking for the old school external CCTV cameras. If they looked for more modern cameras like Ring and friends I bet the result would change quite a bit. Not sure how easy that is to spot with street view though.

Yes, that's what the researchers wanted to do: use google maps/visible cameras and make and estimate of how much of (visible obviously) cctv cameras they can spot using their algorithms.

Of course the real number of -hidden and undetectable from G. street view- cctv cameras is much higher
Tiktok is definitely a social network. For example you can send videos to your “friends” only and it will show up first when they open the app.

But, I get what you mean. Tiktok isn’t focused on friends, it feels more like a content stream similar to YouTube.
This is a problem when Arizona was above 100 degrees for 144 days out of the year last year.
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That is not pretty close at all. You don't get ambient temperatures anywhere near 140F.
Seems like there used to more open criticism and suggested improvements of Microsoft Windows on the internet/web. When the company bought out Mark Russinovich that quelled some of it. There was also a website called annoyances.org. Anyone know why it disappeared. This is the last record of it I could find in the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121222074911/http://www.annoya...
> I think the word you're looking for is "cyberspace".

That's the one, thanks

> These are not places. These are media.

I think that's just different ways to view things. I see HN as a place, and I go to it like I would go to the local pub or something. I see the discord server than I share with my friend as the same thing, a place. On the other hand, if I'm talking to someone on the phone, there's no "space". I think a good way to put it would be that if there's still something while no one is actively using it, I see it as a space.

A mail conversation would be more like a trail of letters, so not a place. I don't really know why, that's just how I see things. For a book, sometimes picking up a book (often with fiction) feels like going back to a certain place.

> to say any of these or the internet constitutes a place of equal primacy as the real world is just silly

I don't really understand why. There are lots of places in the world that are less important than HN. Of course you can go to the forest and touch a tree, but that doesn't make this tree more important than HN just because you can physically touch it.
Genuinely hope companies like Morgan and Goldman feel the pain of talented employee walkouts.

It's a free market baby!
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Was sent to a self proclaimed tough love camp. It was neither tough nor loving.
It's a choice that people make to _not_ exercise and eat healthy.
Its pretty clear it was purely for aesthetics and wow factor.

Its a solution to a non-existent problem - you can see the instrument cluster through the gap between the hub and upper rim of the wheel and tilt adjustment caters for different height people.
That's highly dependent on the type of development work. I'm a kernel developer and I need regular access to privileged components of the system for a wide variety of reasons. It could be argued that all standard *nix/windows/mac systems need a better security model to better isolate specific tasks, but for much of what I need to do (e.g., create, modify file systems/boot loaders/kernels, ptrace processes, etc...), if I'm allowed to do it at all, I can get anywhere else anyway, so I may as well just have full admin and save everyone some headaches.

And I'd argue this isn't only true for kernel development. In some cases, sure, but certainly not enough to make such a blanket statement.
Institutionalizing someone without even telling them will completely sever any trust. Who thought this would be a good idea?
Why are you showing links to heaters? You ask if other manufacturers have this problem, then you provide links to the exact opposite problem which is freezing temperatures. The answer to your original question is no, other manufacturers do not shut down anywhere near this temperature.
a lot of things can feel like the future when you don’t have to support them through their lifetime.
"Smart" has come to mean something sinister
Does it matter that a manager doesn't speak English well if he wins? Isn't that really what he was hired for?
I need an app that can tell me when my cat has had enough pettings to alert me before he flips over and latches on to my arm and kicks layers of my skin off.

That app would make a FORTUNE!
With native encryption and ZFSBoot menu? Because that's where I want to get to.

I still haven't played around with Nix, but I know I should.
Your insurance company also likely requires the test to cover the surgery.
Yep, can confirm: when Jensen Huang presented new RTX 30xx series, he literally pulled 3090 from the oven.

https://youtu.be/q8ow_M5Hl2Q
It's a flaw because they are required to provide service in areas that hit these temperatures with certain SLAs. I say required because they want a government contract promising that they can do it.
It's bound to fail when you just take any kids and throw them all into an environment like this. And I doubt the kidnapping approach is ever a good idea unless there are mental health professionals involved at every step.

But I think some kids really do need to get away and change environments and do some things on their own at an earlier age. Maybe a small town kid really needs a year in the city, or vice versa.

Maybe there could be more programs to facilitate that without it looking so much like a punishment.
People certainly get worked up about how Elon companies don't fit the traditional mold. But I think there are some good reasons why that is. Mostly this comes down to the "we'll just fix it later" mentality, but without an actual process for fixing real user devices when the "engineering tradeoffs" inevitably produce a broken experience long before an item of that quality should fail.

the second issue is that the severity of failure is not always taken into account. In your example of the Prius radio, there are several important differences IMO. The radio of a prius has much more limited scope than that of a tesla. It is a pain if it breaks, but you can replace it with something aftermarket and everything will be fine. While it is still possible to drive the car with a non-functioning touch screen, a lot more features will be missing, including climate control and the reversing camera. Additionally these units consistently failed early and Tesla initially didn't fix them under warranty.

A similar issue (failure of the display due to worn out eMMC after 5-6y) triggered a recall after pressure from the NHTSA.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262072/tesla-display-fai...
No. I said this earlier, but they won a rural auction from the FCC where they were given 900 million dollars for Starlink, which includes providing coverage in areas well above 100 degrees f on a regular basis. They are required to provide this. If they hadn't won the auction, they can do whatever they want. The auction had service level agreements that could not be met with this limitation. It's a fundamental flaw that has to be fixed.
There’s an excellent episode of the trueanon podcast about this: https://pca.st/episode/3a6af373-ded0-4a0f-b9ad-c4c0bec3e2ec

One of the hosts actually got sent to one.
Wasn't that the point of those thermostats in the first place? To help utilities manage demand? I'd have thought they'd get a lot more than just "a sweepstakes entry" for installing a utility controlled theromstat though.

Also, is 78°F really that hot? I live in Canada, but summers can get really hot. Yet I don't even turn on AC below 80° though maybe humidity is way higher there.

Otherwise nothing seems particularly unreasonable here: a utility used a tool (designed to let it better manage peak demand) to do exactly that while only raising the temperatures pretty mildly. I wouldn't personally opt in into a remote controlled thermostat but if I willingly installed it or bought a house that already had it, I wouldn't be surprised when it does exactly what it is supposed to do
It took a quarter of a century from inception to commercialization for mainstream audiences to have to access to the Internet (at least in the United States). Until then it was used by the very same groups of free speechers you take issue with: the cypherpunks, Usenet groupees, technically-inclined social pariahs, waggish college students, anarchists, etc. In short, the contrarians. Of course there is adverse selection if one is looking for remnants of an Internet before or some several years after Eternal September. Mainstream usage does not imply that something is free from scoundrels. The only change is in the kind of scoundrels preferred. Social media (i.e Facebook et al), on both the corporate and consumer sides, is a testament to that.

And I certainly think it's worth discussing what constitues a scoundrel. After all Scott Alexander himself has infamously been regarded as one by mainstream institutions like the New York Times. For him to be quoted as an expert on the subject is painfully ironic.
Realistically you have to start with something like this before doing a huge 30 year study (with potentially the wrong dose).
The kind of parent who thinks TV is a cheap babysitter.
Sounds like the kind of thing that sounds like it would "help" on the surface but maybe create more suffering down the line.. do you think there were any benefits to your life for having gone or was it a purely negative experience?
I think you're over-estimating how much Hackaday is worth. Maker Media went defunct in the last two years, and Hackaday hasn't capitalized on that audience, at all. I believe the viewership has even gone down over that time. Thanks to the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of new and exciting projects, and Hackaday hasn't capitalized on that at all. Add into that hackster.io coming up in the last few years (as well as others), and there are so many lost opportunities that have passed by Hackaday.

I think you should rethink, "if this is heartbreaking for anyone who loves Hackaday". You don't love hackaday. You _loved_ hackaday. It was cool for a decade or so but the entire model of media of curated, edited content is obsolete and has been since the days of Digg, and especially now with other aggregators like reddit and HN.

If it dies, it dies. Don't make it a zombie.
Mail is one of the easier things to backup IMO. It's just a directory if you use Maildir. Just tar it up with other important stuff on your filesystem you probably also want to save. No need for fancy "streaming SQLite replication."
The dream of the WWW is fading. Welcome to the new consumer network of siloed phone apps stewarded by Apple and Google. For a moment there was hope with PWAs but Apple snuffed that one out.
Happened to me
You are absolutely correct. It's the only way to make them take a long hard look at themselves.
I was reading about Nietzsche's "will to power" concept yesterday and found there an interesting take on why people love art:

> This cosmic Will manifests or expresses itself through each individual in the form of the sexual drive and the “will to life” that can be seen throughout nature. It is the source of much misery since it is essentially insatiable. The best thing one can do to reduce one’s suffering is to find ways to calm it. This is one of the functions of art.
I'm not convinced.
> “They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”

This is silly. 78 degrees is not that bad and it’s literally what the Department of Energy recommends setting your thermostat to in the summer.
“ Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
I see nothing objectionable (at least by kovarex) there; perhaps you should link to the supposedly-ass-bearing comment rather than (or in addition to) the general thread?
Deep reinforcement learning will transform manufacturing as we know it
That's not what this was. Before her spat with the French Open, she did quite a few attention-seeking interviews on her own including interviews with her musician boyfriend in her home.

This wasn't her having a health issue. This was her being obstinate and deciding that she was a bigger star than the tour and the tournament. She wanted to ignore her on-duty responsibilities and do her own thing.

People who do their own thing need to find their own jobs. She had "talks" with Wimbledon, and they were quick to shoot her down. So maybe she can bully some minor tournaments, but the majors? They'll laugh her out of the stadium, and her endorsements will follow.
Nah,I don't do any of that shit but if I felt it was guaranteed I do as you do.
Are your digital cants to the omnissiah iso-9001 compliant too?
Preemptive thermal shutdown at this temp doesn't mean the units aren't designed to handle much higher. It means at this stage in the beta program they aren't ready to push the envelope with customer deployed hardware.

I always back off from the maximum limits for the gear I design then after years in the field and proven reliability you can remotely update it and push things a bit. And that's in production. This is beta
Ransomware is why all my important data is backed up to dumb media--optical disks.
I was in the same place 6 or 7 years ago. Due to indecision, I ended up using btrfs, zfs, and mdadm (technically, Synology hybrid raid) on various devices. They all work, more or less.

Looking back, the lessons that come to mind are:

- Always have 2 backups (not counting the primary copy), at least 1 "cold" (inaccessible without human intervention) and at least 1 offsite. Backup frequently and retain old backups. With backups, bad decisions are reversible.

- With btrfs or zfs, using a collection of 2-disk mirrors was useful because it provided flexibility (to expand the array, just add another pair of disks) and seemed to have better performance than a single disk. Try to pair disks from different manufacturing batches though. I saw two disks from the same batch and _used in the same mirror_ fail in the same month, which was disconcerting.

- The only data corruption I had to deal with was from RAM that started off good and went bad after a couple years.

- Standardizing on btrfs or zfs from the beginning would have allowed backup by sending snapshots, which would have been a lot easier than cobbling together a solution using rsync.

- Scrub on a regular schedule. Set up monitoring software to notify you of the outcome of each scrub and of any SMART errors.
The TL;DR is that, IIUC, RAID depends on disks being 100% perfect with exactly zero read errors, ever, until they go *clonk* and die all at once.

Today's many-TB hard drives use mind-boggling engineering to shrink data fluctuations down almost to the size of individual atoms (not quite there yet, but making progress (!)), while higher I/O speeds push the onboard processors' ECC mechanisms almost beyond breaking point.

This basically means that the likelihood of HDDs returning uncaught bit errors has gone from a maybe-once-in-a-lifetime event (with very large magnetic flux sizes on disk in the 80s) to something that individual power users using disks with great-looking SMART output should generally expect to see every few months or years+.

My rule of thumb is that any storage device over maybe 250GB-500GB in size needs to be redundant. If you can shove that much data into one place, the odds that something significant will be hiding somewhere in that data easily go beyond 100% once you go past that size range, IMO.