skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a very appropriate response to a hagiographic description of a man who was directly responsible for the death and suffering of innocents. That’s not “whataboutism”.

Whataboutism would be if the commenter were to point out that eg. Bill Gates is also really pro-healthcare and used his capitalist-derived billions to improve the lives of countless millions more people than the aforementioned homophobic communist tyrant.
There are basically 4 effectiveness numbers, based on whether you measure:

* positive PCR tests

* showing symptoms

* hospitalization

* death

I share kube-system's frustration with the media glossing over those details quite often.

Here in Germany, there were numbers thrown around such as the mRNA vaccines being 90%+ effective, and the AstraZeneca being only in 60ies or 70ies (which was likely based on PCR tests). Which made many Germans hesitant to get that vaccine.

Turns out, AstraZeneca prevents hospitalization at a roughly 90% effectiveness rate (recent numbers from England, don#t have link ready right now), which sound much better than 65% number.
> shareholders captured what previously funded pensions

Hmm, but passive retiree investors, on whose behalf all those institutions like Blackrock are ultimately investing, have probably contributed enormously to a rise in asset values. Shareholders gain a lot from people dumbly saving in investment vehicles, whether pensions or 401ks.
Couldn't read. Author is too obsessed with going to war with China. Neocon trash.
How fast does this feel compared to VS Code?

I went into the whole onivim -> revery -> reason rabbit hole and the native code compilation is compelling, but Flutter does the same thing and is pretty slow.
Everyone thinks the problem is caused by the people they disagree with. After dealing with literally hundreds of thousands of HN comments I can tell you that experience has taught me entirely otherwise.

This goes along with the view that the forum would be a peaceful and productive place if only those people (the ones I disagree with) were moderated and banned, and therefore it is the moderators' fault when flamewars happen on HN. Much as I'm deeply interested in improving as a moderator, I don't think this view is realistic. In fact the solution is in the opposite direction: less blaming of the others, more effort to see one's own contributions more clearly. Needless to say this applies irrespective of political or ideological or geographical identification.

(And yes, I need to do more of this too - for example it's clear that I could have handled this particular case much better. I was hasty and (ironically?) a little inflamed myself, not because of anything to do with Cuba or vaccines but because I didn't want to spend a second afternoon in a row dealing with a really nasty political flamewar. As a result I created a meta version of the same thing. Such lessons are expensive, which is fortunate.)

p.s. I see that your replies are getting rate-limited. That doesn't seem fair, so I'll turn that off for now. In return I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from this sort of destructive comment in the future: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848534. That's why we rate limit accounts. Actually you've done so much of that that we could easily have banned you and a rate limit was a mild response; but I don't want to throttle anyone from responding to me in a discussion about moderation.
Funny, because our expensive store did that, but the dollar store may not have the upfront capital for it.
Agree. 401ks were never intended to be a complete retirement plan or pension replacement, and are frankly untested at the scale that they are now being used for. It's a little scary that a tiny carveout of the larger IRS code for pensions was turned into the defacto retirement plan for Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)#History
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Cubans are paid in peso. And what they get paid is enough to provide for what they want. Granted what they want is limited by the limited choice of consumer goods. On the other hand consumerism is worse
it seems to be open source there's a link in the page to the project's GitHub page.

https://github.com/onivim/oni2
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You did not post proof. The numbers directly contradict your statement. More emigration happened from Western countries than Arab countries. No amount of goal post moving will change that your original statement is factually incorrect.
Looked them up. How is it that they aren’t getting prosecuted _right now_?
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> Do you think I am missing out on anything by not taking Harvard?

Sure. Conversely, if you'd gone to Harvard, you would have missed out on all that Stanford has to offer. Sometimes you get multiple options and have to turn down all but one of them.

It sounds like these are your parents' friends or something -- do you care that much what they think?

Stanford is an absolutely fantastic university. You made a great choice (I would have said the same about any of the universities you mentioned). Try not to second guess yourself, which is easier said than done. Congratulations and good luck.
> Also, there is VIM mode for VS Code, I guess.

I feel like this is something said by people who are more invested in VS Code than vim. The main vim plugin for VS Code is straight trash.* It's slow, buggy, and unintuitive; while lacking the extensibility that vim has. At least IDEAVim, which has the same limitations of being built in another IDE, replicates enough of the common plugins to be pleasant.

It's also worth noting that onivim is not VS Code repackaged. It is not an electron app, and it doesn't appear to use the monaco editor. They have apparently taken great design inspiration from VS Code, which I think is a fairly diffident decision.

Overall, I'm looking at neovim nightly and not knowing why onivim is a thing. I can understand the appeal of a GUI vim, but implementing a vim backend is a monumental task if you intend to be compatible with existing vim plugins (and you should). Nvim 0.5 has native lua, and now freed from vimscript the quality of plugins is improving continuously. I just can't see a way for a 'third vim' - if you don't start with vimscript you won't be compatible, but if you do you're already outdated.

* There are a few attempts to splice VS Code and neovim, all of these are awful.
They are great if you stay away from certain things like batteries, which are usually drained or near dead.
> Pensions represent more than their economic value. They carry a powerful moral recognition: workers deserve financial stability and the freedom it brings throughout their lives. Municipal and state employees contribute to their pensions with every paycheck, and employer contributions supplement their savings.

I don’t know how it came to be that politicians could promise impossible things to public employees in exchange for power, and when it turned out to indeed be impossible, somehow the taxpayer foots the bill.

I’m under no obligation to carry forward an unsustainable promise. It should have never been promised in the first place. The taxpayer, who gets NONE of this, is not the one who should pay the bill.
Unfortunately, our generation of nineties, and later will have to work until our deathbed.

That's the brutal truth.
> "Following the transition from defence engagement activity to operational activity, it is highly likely that RFN (Russian navy) and VKS (Russian air force) interactions will become more frequent and assertive," one presentation warned.

Things I would leak if I wanted more budget.
If the UK makes it hard to trade bitcoin, you can also guess that the value of bitcoin denominated in GBP will go down dramatically. You probably don't want to be holding tether in that case.
It does seem to imply that. If the statements are simply factually true, what makes them ideological? Is it merely typing the words socialist and communist?
> I still don't quite understand how that was meant to improve performance over a lossy link.

It does!

First, consider the case that HTTP pipelining addresses: lots of small independent requests. By packing multiple requests into the same connection, you can avoid handshakes, TCP slow start, etc. Perhaps more importantly, if your connection has more bytes in it and therefore more packets to ACK, then you can actually trigger TCP's detection of packet loss via duplicate acknowledgments, as opposed to waiting for retransmission timeouts.

Further, browsers typically limit the number of parallel requests, so you potentially have another source of HOL blocking if you've exhausted your connection pool (as happens much more quickly without pipelining).

That said, pipelining is also subject to HOL blocking: let's say that the first external resource to be requested is some huge JS file (not all that uncommon if you're putting <script> tags in your <head>). That needs to finish loading before we can fetch resources that are actually needed for layout, e.g. inline images.

H2 provides a handful of innovations here: one, it allows for prioritization of resources (so you can say that the JS file isn't as important); two, multiplexing allows multiple underlying responses to progress even if that prioritization isn't explicitly in place.

Yes, it still runs into problems with lossy links (as that's a problem with TCP + traditional loss-based CC algs like New Reno / CUBIC). But it's also better than the status quo either with HTTP/1.1 + connection pooling or with pipelining. And it has the noted advantage over QUIC in that it looks the same as H1 to ISPs.
> a recipe is a seed idea for a creative process, not a fixed set of steps that you have to follow exactly or ruin the magic.

No! It is not a creative[0] process! I am attempting to make food, to eat, not a bloody painting, and pretentions of artistry are, as ryandrake just said, infuriating[1].

0: I assume you mean "involving creativity", not "that has the effect of creating something", since the latter applies equally well to, for example, working in a assembly line.

Edit: 1: case in point, apparently.
> I’m so tired of hearing about the “middle class”

Well then don't read articles about middle class concerns like retirement, in middle class publications like the New York Review of Books.
No, it is actually using the real vim in the background. So while you might not be able to use all vim plugins/scripts, it should give you a much more complete vim experience. See also https://github.com/onivim/libvim
I also think that the DNS analogy is wrong because all callers are hash-based. The only solution I see is to go through the list of all callers and manually update selected ones.

If I understand Unison right, the names are used only on the developer's layer(to write code), but when you save code, it's all hash-based.

Still, Unison got my attention.
I have never encountered the need for this and I honestly doubt you have either. Systemd fails mysteriously far less often than poorly written init files I have seen and it is honestly not that hard to debug almost every failure I've ever encountered. And I have worked on some very large scale systems with systemd. A systemd file I helped write has run many millions of times over without issue. I honestly find this comment impossible to believe
OP said he was in a town
If you put a whole cow into a meat grinder, the resulting paste contains every single micro and macro nutrient required by the human body, in their most bioavailable forms, many of which are completely absent in vegetarian and vegan diets.

For millions of years, humans ate ruminant animals who’s herds they followed around, and almost nothing else.

People who eat nothing but ruminant meat and organs become slim even in advanced age, ripped without going to the gym, regain hair, lose their psoriasis, feel mentally sharper, and see their autoimmune problems go away. And couples who do it get pregnant immediately after failing for years. It’s all documented on meatrx success stories section.

Two doctors have now ate nothing but meat, animal fat and organs for two years and posted their test results. CAC scores of zero despite high LDL. Their hearts are in perfect health.

I’m not breaking guidelines so don’t flag me.
The must-read book The Dorito Effect covered this years ago. De-nutrification of food has been decades in the making.
A bag thats value getting heavier every year while the bank balance is losing value every year. Are not fiat holders the true bag holders? When you accept that everything is relative value, the dollar is not absolute (far from it!), holding fiat for long times seems foolish.
Obviously I don’t mean you don’t exist any more, but the surveys show enough converted that your views on pythons future are no longer relevant in the bigger picture.
No, likely out of diffidence onivim has a very similar design to VSC. It doesn't appear to share any code with VS Code though.
You can start by practicing selling ideas in your current employer or situation or non-profit.

My observation is Sales success is about understanding someone’s needs, more than pushing a product. As such, listening is much more important than speaking.
> The recipes call for caramelization

They don't, though. The actual description of the target state in most of them is (often light) browning, not “caramelization”.
I fully agree about static types, I just want to mention that TypeScript works well with Node, and can be quite nice.
The bigger problem is sovereignty. Ships get detained sometimes when they're en route, or when they're stopped at Port.

The mobile security force isn't going to be authorized to start a war
For this to work, you also have to have to be able to offer something to them of similar value.
As much as I admire Mr Kamp's work, I think this is nonsense. Just because something looks familiar doesn't really mean it is the same. There are good reasons to pick syntax that is familiar. Novelty comes at a cost.

And I also think he is wrong if he thinks languages will be improved by making them harder to type and read.

I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to understand code written by someone in China. All the comments in that project are Chinese - which I don't understand. Now imagine using symbol names in Chinese. Or Hangul. Or Russian. Or in Baybayin script. Or Sanskrit.
You two are saying the same thing. If they won't sell due to an uncompetitively high price, then they'll have overstock. Then they'll be "forced to" sell lower.
I'd love to see this in c, for scheme/racket.
Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash
I came here to share an anecdote and never have I felt so unwelcome.
What is psychological safety? I don't think I have ever worked at a place that had that.
It looks like that design has diverged significantly from the Sandia one, probably because they couldn't manage the tolerances the Sandia design needs. Given that it's a first attempt to bring the concept to market, and that it appears to be significantly compromised, I don't think "it doesn't work" is a fair characterization of the actual Sandia design.

It might well be completely impractical for the commercial CPU cooler market, but it also might be the case that a bit more R&D and tooling up could get us a really effective new cooler design. Improvements could include [perceived] noise reduction as well as better efficacy.
This demand is significantly lower for rotating mast. On fixed mast we need shrouds to compensate side force. We also need deep massive fin to compensate overturning moment.

Look at Maltese Falcon rotating mast. They don't have any shrouds, although they are carbon fiber made.
https://towerdirect.net/product/used-120ft-sabre-self-suppor...
A good article I read on a similar angle:

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrie...
I was wondering why there was a black United States flag in the background in the Tour de France. But, it is actually the flag of Brittany from a region in France. What looks like starts are actually representations of ermines, and there are only 11 of them.
"I hear you" doesn't mean "I agree with the maximalist interpretation of what you say". It means "we have common ground, and I'm willing to give something".

The problem with your logical inference is that you're applying binary logic and human interactions are profoundly non-binary.
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Mid-time kiwifarms poster here. AMA I guess? Not sure what happened here.

Related thread: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.430...
The problem with pensions is that nobody wants to actually pay for them. It’s a great concept, but nearly impossible to keep financially solvent without growth of the payor base.

Defined contribution plans cannot be fudged with accounting rules or unsustainable growth rates. By definition the money is paid as its accrued.

If people want a defined benefit plan then the market should provide one they can purchase outside of their job. It’s not rocket science to do the math involved for growth vs payout vs life expectancy. The problem is that the math doesn’t add up so nobody would buy it.
You have to go very far back in time to consider them natives but I never said they weren't.
My comment had no need to drill down into the various factors involved in the process, so it was no more "missing" than any other of them; the point was clearly to counter the idea it's not an actual talent or skill; you would have picked that up if you'd "listened" :).
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652298
Nobody said anything about vegans, come on
Prepend https://archive.is/ to the URL.
> The problem with pensions is that nobody wants to actually pay for them. It’s a great concept, but nearly impossible to keep financially solvent without growth of the payor base.

You mean companies don’t want to pay for them, and instead offer pathetic 401k matching as a compromise. That is the key point: the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution was done to shift profits away from workers. Very similar to college costs going up when public funding for education institutions decreased.

https://crr.bc.edu/working-papers/the-outlook-for-pension-co...

> This paper addresses the relationship between defined benefit pension plans and corporate profits and examines the outlook for defined benefit plans in the wake of the bear market. Due to a soaring stock market during the extended bull market of 1982-2000, together with federal regulations and legislation that shifted funding requirements forward, pension contributions virtually disappeared as a corporate expense for much of the previous two decades.

> Our analysis suggests that in the absence of the stock market boom and the regulatory and legislative changes that reduced funding, the average firm’s contribution to its pension plan would have been 50 percent higher during the 1982-2001 period – 9.9 percent of payroll instead of 6.6 percent of payroll. The downturn in contributions had a significant impact on corporate profits. Lower pension contributions, all else equal, will produce a dollar-for-dollar increase in before-tax profits. Our analysis implies that corporate profits were roughly 5 percent higher than they would have been otherwise. Higher profits produce a feedback effect as they lead to further capital gains and further reductions in contributions.

Excessively generous pensions or those assuming unrealistic market returns are a different issue. Pensions can be sustainable when properly implemented and governed.

High level, the past strip mined the future, and the bill is coming due.
If bitcoin is primarily mined with hydroelectric power in china… isn’t that increasing the demand for power? wouldn’t that energy end up used or sold elsewhere if not consumed by bitcoin?
this makes sense to me too.

it's easier to sell whatever you're trying to sell if it's of high quality
Without commenting on the veracity of your claims (which I don't really believe, and because they aren't sourced, it would require a ton of effort), your writing style is very compelling.
It's more than just that. You can see weird price changes like this because of the limits of substitution.

Imagine you've got a project to build a bookcase. You're using cheaper normal plywood for hidden structural parts and nicer but more expensive red plywood for the stuff people will see. You price the whole thing out.

Then the price of wood skyrockets. To keep the price of the whole project under control, you start cutting costs. You use more of the cheaper plywood for the whole project and decide to skimp on the red oak.

Scale that across many projects and you get a paradoxical result where the cheapest goods in a category go up in price while the better goods don't, because people are subbing out the "cheap" stuff for the good stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
Was J&J the most effective vaccine after 1 dose? Sure they don't have much competition if you only compare against 'approved' schedules, but mRNA vaccines seem better after 1 dose than J&J is. But yeah, there's just not a lot of trial data out there for 1dose mRNA or Oxford vaccine since they're (officially) pretty quick to get you to 2 doses.

Emergent BioSolutions was contamination between the J&J side of production with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine side of production...
The overruns bankrupted the French prime contractor, so there's that. I suspected they underbid the job, never suspecting the Finnish regulatory authorities would as strict as they are.
The reality is they don’t need to. Pegged tokens are the ultimate way to fractional reserve. See tether. Plenty of binance pegged tokens to handle any loss. Best thing is when binance has to buy themselves whole, they just just burn the tokens on their chain. Genius. Not your keys, not your coins.

Also that t+2 thing is just allowing shenanigans. When Rh forces the industry into instant settlement next year (hope!!) we will see who is truly been playing funny money. Looking at you citadel.
Definitely going to need to source some of those claims.
The paper shows that it is essentially impossible for an adult male to get the recommended DI of magnesium (420 mg/day) by eating vegetables alone. As far as I can see, the paper does not resolve whether that target is too high, or whether it can be reached by eating meat or taking supplements.