skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here, we studied the effects of the disease in the brain using multimodal data from 782 participants from the UK Biobank COVID-19 re-imaging study, with 394 participants having tested positive for SARSCoV-2 infection between their two scans.

782 participants, 394 of which had positive tests for COVID-19, a further 15 of the 394 were hospitalized due to their symptoms.

The interpretation could be:

- lung symptoms are not correlated with brain changes

- mild infections not requiring hospitalization showed similar pathology to severe infections

> What are the quantitative findings of "loss of grey matter"?

Page 18 shows the measurements.

> What mechanism/s are suspected that might be specific to COVID19?

Page 3.

> one hypothesis is that an entry point of the virus to the central nervous system might be achieved by crossing the neural–mucosal interface in the olfactory mucosa, and progress from there onto the olfactory bulb in the brain [Meinhardt J, Radke J, Dittmayer C, et al. Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19. Nat Neurosci 2021; 24(2): 168-75.]
Current (long tenured, moderately senior) AWS engineer here. I've been at the company long enough it's pretty clear that I'm a "good culture fit", so take what I'm saying with that in mind.

While I absolutely believe that there are pockets of the company that work this way, more because of sheer scale than anything systemic, I have sat in the annual ratings meeting for engineers enough times, in enough organizations within the company, that I am pretty confident that this experience isn't universal.

It sucks that this author had this experience, and I wish they had said which team that was, so that I could use what social cachet I have to steer people clear of it from inside. Nobody should have that experience.
I can see how that might prove difficult for a non-native speaker. Here's a version written in less fancy English.

During COVID times, scientists have become political. Many scientific arguments were not written about in the American media, because journalists assumed that the truth was the opposite of whatever Donald Trump was saying. Tech firms mostly did the same thing. This means discussion of conspiracy theories and real scientific debates have both been suppressed, and now take place "underground" i.e. in non-mainstream forums.
Aren't those goals in tension? Isn't that a big part of the problem?
I've used that approach for both front-end and back-end development as well and it works quite nicely. Its really useful to have something where you don't need to worry about any sort of design/what/how to build and can just focus on the actual language.
My 2009 Land Rover, which I upgraded recently to a 2020 Land Rover, didn't even have airbags. 12 years is a very very long time in safety tech. I would not be happy driving around a vehicle that's over ten years old these days.
I’m just saying - where does it stop? Would Sony or MS need to allow other app stores if they made a hardware profit of $1? $100? $600[0]?

0: Tony Chen suggests that their anti piracy measures only need to account for attacks that would be cheaper than purchasing 10 games https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo
Call me stupid for waiting to get vaccinated... But I'm not stupid enough to base that decision on a Twitter thread.

The problem I have is that inclusive discussion is being suppressed, and I can't make a decision based on clearly biased information. ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY
Because of factors we often don't consider (such as this), I have a hard time believing ICE cars will be less than 50% of the US market (edit: including used cars) in the next 20 years.
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Of course they do. They regularly sign anti-cheat programs which are rootkits, so it’s not even an uncommon occurrance. Being a rootkit is insufficient to flag a program as malicious.
Because these people are exceedingly rare. I get 5 hours of sleep a night because I have some pretty bad lifestyle choices. The few weeks where I have a normal sleep schedule I am absolutely a different person.

I mean I can function on 5-hours, I'm able to hold a job and live a life; but my well being could be so much better if I got a normal nights sleep everyday.
If you're trying to illegal embezzle or evade taxes I think this is just one more thing to add to the list, wouldn't be a big problem.
Rainer Joswig also has great answers on Stack Overflow.
Yes, the California DMV is a shit hole because republicans want to keep black people down. Makes total sense.
Cars now last longer than their useful life. Especially for those who don't drive 20k miles/year.

My 2013 car has 35,000 miles on it. Beautiful car (Hyundai Genesis sedan). 8 airbags.

But it lacks a rear-view camera and doesn't have the modern stuff like collision avoidance that pretty much comes standard nowadays.
I would try to avoid the flu more if I had an idea of how much brain damage it could cause. I understand the comparison to the flu is a touchy subject, but the question can still be asked from a standpoint of curiosity. Is this disease showing completely new symptoms for a viral infection, or have we been over analyzing any little details that are not so uncommon? Does it matter? I certainly would like to know the answer.
> You don’t want a tiny piece of mRNA but you want the whole organism reproducing in your body?

Rather than injecting yourself with mRNA which will create long-term antibodies in your organism which will be reactivated any time something like COVID19 appears again in the nature, it's probably safer to rely on COVID19 treatments are are short lived (as in, metabolized) and reduce the viral load swiftly.
There are some statistics by model year in this article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2018/05/11/newer-c...
It's so funny to see work conversations framed around time rather than something tangible, measurable.

A cabinetmaker who spends fifty fewer days per year building cabinets isn't more productive (and maybe not even happier). Fifty days spent not building cabinets could mean he produces 6 fewer cabinets per year. Imagine the absurdity of a salary man advising a cabinetmaker to work one day less per week, "You'll make more cabinets!".

And this is why the types of jobs that are the subject of these conversations are those that provide abstract, non-measurable, questionable value:

>Buffer, a company that makes social-media management tools...

The company that manufactured your shirt understands real value, real output, real productivity. That's why their workers are at it 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week (as unhappy as they may be, but cheap labor is cheap, what can you do).
Social ladder climbing for rich kids?
Buy groceries and bring them home one pack at a time?

If it can self recharge It would probably make some sense for patrolling property and report suspicious movement. To do that however it should be 100% trustworthy, that is, no mysterious Internet connections to phone home, no closed phone apps, etc. and the user should be able to integrate it with any video surveillance system in place, program it extensively from the paths to follow to associating sensors signals to events, alerts etc. That way it could also become useable aside the fact that it is indeed an engineering marvel.

Another possible use is helping blind people to walk around, however to do that it should become good at leading by finding the right path, not just following an human.
Sometimes I like to think about how historians will talk about us in the distant future where artificial meat production is the norm. I think it is quite likely that the big story about us will be our treatment of other conscious animals rather than the culture war issues dominating people's minds now.
Usually, post-scarcity as an element deals with matter replicators/molecular assemblers that can build anything out of raw materials.

See Diamond Age, Accelerando, etc.
There is a tool, Toolbox, for changing linux environments that could be helpful to test that.

https://github.com/containers/toolbox
New cars also come with their own set of problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462263
If they do another remake of The Prisoner, this would be a great place to film it.
Not OP, but ABS wasn't mandatory in the US until 1999, about 20 years after the first S class shipped with them.
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That "CYA" response really doesn't feel like "us" to me, at least not the AWS side. I can't speak to the experiences on the store side, nor on the devices side. Over in AWS, we practice the "blameless postmortem" model you'll read about from time to time, and it is very rare to see any professional or personal consequences beyond some light joking come about from "breaking prod"

To that point, I know personally the engineers who triggered several of the AWS outages you will have read about in the news over the last decade and more. Some of them are still with us, some have been promoted since then.
Most Tamagotchis and Furbys had a short lifespan.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8axx/the-tamagotchi-cemete...

The likelihood is that industrialization will turn these toys into things that have short lifespans and are commonly replaced with new models, like phones. Children also have notoriously short attention spans. I think biological pets are more for the sanity of the parents than the children.
Why do you think they don't have more data on these events?
this seems like yet another excuse for X as a service just to induce even more demand from subscription based services. there's nothing wrong with merely accepting autos as a giant depreciating asset that does exactly as you need and once you have finished financing the vehicle you can amortize its cost by double the years of the median financing term.
Yep I found this annoying too since I remembered reading it 3 days ago, causing me to double check if I was accidentally reading the same comment thread again.

Whilst trying to be charitable to the poster (I guess there's no harm in pushing their side project) I would caution that carbon copying comments like this (to articles posted deliberately for the purpose of doing so) could come off as a bit insulting to the HN readership.

On the other hand, perhaps they're onto something since these articles keep rising up to the front page!
Just the occasional mech bill after some parts replacement.
I think it's important to approach this topic with some nuance. There is a wide variety of intelligence in the animal kingdom - ranging from primates down to bivalves, which lack a distinct "brain" at all. In terms of intelligence, a lobster is closer to some insects, which we seem to have no problem killing en-masse with chemical agents if they enter our home or threaten our crops. I'm not sure it's totally knowable whether lobsters have the capacity to suffer, but moral consistency on this issue would require sacrifices far above just "not eating meat".
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The sequence of events began in 2017 - the idea we would all be talking about UFOs again at some point was evident to anyone paying attention then.
> steer people clear of it from inside

What's really needed here is a way to maintain super-scale in a way that is, shall we say, "eventually morally consistent". Applying selection theory, if you create a pocket of badness wrapped in a function that reliably extracts all the good out of it... well all you'll be left with is a local maximum of even more suffering. Yeow.

Of course, designing and maintaining such social structures seems close to P=NP in complexity...
Our technical staff is probably closer to 100k than it is to 20k. It was 20k when I started over 10 years ago.
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Rear view camera are pretty easy to install with any new CarPlay/Android Auto compatible head unit.
Among new cars? What advantage would ICE cars have in 20 years?
I work at a company that hires developers out of Amazon. We joke about having to deprogram them, but it's not really a joke. They bring a lot of emotional issues and toxic workplace habits with them. Don't get me wrong, the Amazon engineers are fantastic, but there is clearly something unhealthy going on at Amazon.
Yes! Certainly no shortage of cheap electric cars and scooters now in China.
My mom's 2006 Honda Fit has less than 34,000 miles on it. Every time I visit home & use it, it feels like a time capsule. Basically the only safety features are the seatbelts & airbags.
That’s a bit like hitting the slots to support your family. Not only do you have slim chances to find anything that pays out a worthwhile sum, even if you do find such a bug they might come back with a “sorry, already reported”. If they get back to you, that is.

It’s not something to rely on at all.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5
"I heard the earth was flat only a few months ago too—it does not make either claim any more likely to be true."

It is not about the validity, it is that you can not even evaluate that which you have not heard.

The level of censorship varies greatly by media and platform.
do you mean the side airbags from the diagonal posts because this seems flagrantly illegal if it was the bags on the wheel/glove box
Maybe it's time to build the American Software Engineer Association, buy a nice building next to Capitol Hill and lobby Congress and state legislatures to mandate licensure. That would secure a walled garden for the profession and ensure leverage for the foreseeable future.
At the Fortran Wiki http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Articles there are links to benchmarks comparing Fortran to Julia and other languages.

Looking at
https://github.com/arturofburgos/Assessment-of-Programming-L...
https://www.matecdev.com/posts/numpy-julia-fortran.html
https://github.com/zyth0s/bench_density_gradient_wfn
https://github.com/PIK-ICoNe/NetworkDynamicsBenchmarks

people do find Julia to be faster than Python/Numpy, but it is not uniformly faster than Fortran. And Julia's start-up time should not be ignored. Quoting the last link, "In fact the whole Fortran benchmark (300 integrations) finishes roughly in the time it takes to startup a Julia session and import all required libraries (Julia 1.5.1)."
Looking at the scatter plot [1] from their most statistically significant finding (parahippocampal gray matter change), the effect size is tiny, and the variance is large. Nearly half the case participants had more gray matter after getting covid.

[1] https://i.ibb.co/5YcxJHH/EDB20654-900-A-427-C-8063-B5-FA667-...
That’s pretty shocking. What country? My 1995 Mustang had airbags and ABS.
> In the mean while, the likes of China and India are by far the biggest culprits while Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing.

India!?

India emits less than half the CO2 that the US does, and almost an order of magnitude less per capita.

China is twice the total as the US but about half per capita.

Africa was way lower than the US both in total and per capita.

And yes, per capita is the correct comparison, because the atmosphere does not care about arbitrary political boundaries.

Let C be the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions per year that the world as a whole can produce to keep the climate within acceptable parameters.

We do not have a one world government, so staying under C requires a per country approach, probably some sort of quota system. The question then is how to determine each country's share of C.

One approach is simply allocate each country C/N where N is the number of countries. This approach fails because if country X splits up into multiple separate countries, with no change in any greenhouse gas related activities of anyone who was in X, the quota for every other country goes down. In fact, the new countries that were formerly part of X might all actually be able to shift toward more greenhouse gas production.

Example. Let us say C = 10000, N = 200. Then each country has a quote of 50. The US finds it hard to limit itself to 50, having say 5 states that each on their own produce 30. Solution: turn each US state into a separate country, tied together in an EU like web of treaties so that life doesn't actually change much for the people living in those new 50 countries. Now N = 249, quota drops to 40.16 per country, and now those 5 countries that were once problematical at 30 each have quotes of 40.16 and are OK. The American Union as a whole would have a quote of 2008, and many of the new countries could now actually switch to heavier use of fossil fuels.

It goes the other way too. If Russia for example was able to reform the Soviet Union and get back all its former components, everyone other country would see their quota go up around 7%.

To fix this you have to abandon the idea of the quota being equal per country. The quota needs to be per person. Then all that changes when you redraw your maps and the US becomes the American Union or the Soviet Union reforms is who is in charge of enforcing the quota on a given group of people--the amount of emissions allowed by that given group does not change.
Some people have a weird tendency to talk up how little they sleep like it's some point of valor.

Some people can do 6 hours a sleep a night for a long time and be fine but I don't think there's much support for maintaining health on 5 or fewer for long periods of time.

Sleep is important and people need to find ways to get what they need. Even people with infants need outside support so they can get what they need. It's not something to be embarrassed about.

Companies should be very cognizant of the types of constraints they may be putting on a work-life balance. Those that don't obviously treat employees as inherently disposable.
There’s a lot of African countries where that isn’t the case. I recently did some work for a mobile based game targeting a number of African countries and we had to support WAP and SMS.

India is another country where poorer regions wouldn’t have good cell coverage with most people without phones (let alone smart phones).

If you live in a region that can have luxuries like a gardener, then you’re likely already more affluent than those who this project is targeting.
If you presume there are aliens in the galaxy it seems logical to assume we would find a deployed system to cut off risks (external to them) of galaxy-wide destruction or invasion.
Also, if the films could be so simply explained away (like IR of airplanes from far away) this would’ve been put down way earlier at multiple levels of the Navy, probably starting from the pilots themselves since they would see these things multiple times every day.
Mick West also has an incentive to come up with explanations to debunk these films since that’s his job, even if they’re low quality explanations since he has to… whereas it’s far more taboo and reputation-risking in the Navy for the pilots to come out and say what they saw.
I’m not sure which child to respond to, so responding here.

I’m pretty well aligned with this and I’m not sure why it’s getting the downvotes.

COVID has never been communicated to me as something serious for my age group. Maybe I’m misinformed, but I’ve never feared getting COVID. I was _terrified_ of needing hospital care _during a hockey stick_.

COVID was communicated to me as a hospital killer. I was terrified I’d have a bad time and not get the care I needed or, worse, steal care from someone else in a zero-sum game. And it wasn’t just COVID during that window. If we “hockey sticked” and exceeded hospital capacity, any care I needed (heart problems, broken bones, different virus, etc.) would all be wrapped up in the same zero-sum game.

I quarantined for months, then socially distanced, and now I’m pretty much back to life as normal. What changed for me: my perceived risk of my local hospitals getting knocked over by COVID is now close to zero. In my eyes we’ve weathered the storm.

Am I missing something?
What the entire recruiting industry (this isn't unique to recruiting industry) fails to understand is, if the process isn't time optimal and fair, then engineers will eventually learn the nuances of the industry and build something more automated, time optimal, and fair. If you've been an engineer for more than a few years and have been paying attention, you probably already know this.
If they were to recommend a drug based without a scientific trial, they risk losing the trust of the world

But that's already happened with vaccines. A bit late to worry about that now.
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All the scenarios in my mind are bad. Either (1) we have actual aliens, which in bad inasmuch it is freaking crazy and novel; (2) the government is incompetent in identifying the physical effects manifesting in the sensors and is okay in exposing their incompetence; (3) a non-US nation-state has superior technology, which suggests a potential bad future geopolitical outcome; or (4) the government is running a psych-op on its people and deliberately pushing misleading information for some purpose, such as to subtly signal to other nation-states that they have advanced technology.
Electronic Stability Control is what was mandated in the US a decade ago.
>Melinda is very christian and refused for years to fund contraception or abortions.

Melinda Gates has called expanding access to contraception the cause of her life and has funded it to the tune of more than $1 billion.

https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/06/health/melinda-gates-contrace...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/health/melinda-gates-birt...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/opinion-m...
I think the main issue with this argument isn't really whether it's a post scarcity civilization or not, but the implying that any alien civilization, especially an advanced one, would also develop into an almost exclusively capitalistic society like us. It's going way too much into anthropomorphizing territory.
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Sounds like a great use case for https://www.benthos.dev/
It’s case sensitive, try again?
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To answer basically all of your questions: you glossed over charities using the money fraudulently or irresponsibility (e.g. hiring their friends for no good philanthropic reason) by simply claiming they have to fill out reports. Filling out a report is not a sufficient check on power. If you don’t like that answer, then I hope you treat all endeavors with the same disregard for the possibility of human corruption and indecency.
A draft of the standard that is as far as I know pretty much complete can be found online on the AES website: https://www.aes.org/standards/comments/drafts/aes67-r-171107...