skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because it's made in such a way that it can collect all data from self-reporting as well.

Obviously, I know that, which is why I am asking the question.

>It's meant to be a tool find signals in the noise,

How does it make sense to mix signal and noise together, and then trying to separate them on the other end? To me it it appears that it gives an opportunity to reject all the signal as noise. We can see that happening already, where news article that report on data showing up in VAERS calling it as unreliable because it is self reported.

Also, I asked specifically about not strictly mandating reporting of all AEFI events, you seemed to have ignored that important part of the question. So basically instead of allowing any one to do the reporting, allow only the
healthcare provider who administrated the vaccine to do it.

Also, some studies have estimated that only 1% of events are reported. So one can only speculate the actual numbers?

Why throwaway such an important body of data? Does not make any sense at all.

>That doesn't mean other things can't be or aren't being reported.

Basically the document makes a distinction between legally reportable and merely encouraged. I am not sure why that distinction is there in first place, but the concern is that covid vaccines, even though under EUA, fall under the latter and not in the former.

>What part of that link says that? Hard to tell.

Sorry, here.

>OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022.

>Why? What sort of risk do you think it might be? What sort of power do you think the WHO has to suppress effective treatments in countries around the world?

Basically since W.H.O is considered an authority, if a local authority takes a measure that contradict W.H.O, and later it turn out to be sub-optimal, then the local body will find it hard to justify in front of the people, and any political opposition. It is a risk most local authorities will not take, as I see it.
Passing out and sleep are VERY different things.
and beam: beam.apache.org
This article really resonated with me. I’ve been a lifelong “Skinnyfat” guy too and struggled with gaining strength and muscle and had health serious health issues along with it. Long story short TRT not only allowed me to finally get a six pack at 60, it likely saved my life!
why do we want to stop Google being a news aggregator?
But "rest" is also an unrelated English word, is that taken into account somehow?
> How do you teach someone to look at the problems first and then pick the tools?

By understanding what the person cares about. Everyone knows "pick the right tool for the problem". Not everyone uses such a simple calculus because life isn't that simple. People have their own agendas, backgrounds, experiences, career growth desires, personal lives, etc., that are all part of their personal objective function. If you want to convince someone that your tools are better, show that your tools have a higher payoff for their personal objective function. This is way more than a mere product question. In a team setting it's even harder, because you have to balance it across multiple people simultaneously.
The article itself leads with the conventional media thinking about Delta, but to me it almost feels like it's a hook to lure in both those who follow or doubt the conventional thinking in order to lead them to develop a better understanding of the actual risks.
I very much agree with you about the transmissibility. It's probably not much more transmissible but still enough to out-compete other variants, but there's a lot of other factors that greatly amplify the effective transmission rate. It's interesting the correlation between where the new variants spread and what type of vaccines were deployed there. Immunity against certain variants from past infection and vaccination is going to put pressure on variants to develop in a certain way. We'll probably soon see variants that are more transmissible against the Pfizer vaccine.
Like most of the psychoactive substances - a nice thing if you use it wisely (simply saying rarely and in sane doses). But heavy over-using (which, sadly, is nothing rare) can really make you regret you ever discovered it though (nothing serious will probably happen but you will feel really bad once you develop serious tolerance and try to quit).

Given it hardly does any serious harm hard to undo and doesn't seem too popular (I seriously doubt it will ever reach anything comparable to e.g. marijuana, let alone alcohol or tobacco in popularity) I stand against scheduling it.
And not like it should matter but I live in NY where we saw one of the worst spikes of death, am fully vaccinated, had a relative die of COVID, and know others that have. I also posted this early on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406702 So it isn't like I am nonchalant about the virus. It is just that there is a balance.
> This is wildly inaccurate to the point that I would consider asking for this list to be taken down.

It's the Daily Mail - wild inaccuracy goes without saying.
I agree with you, but I think part of the reason people have the reaction they do is that they start with the headline, which teases people into thinking this is something that is actually semi-viable, and then when they go in to read the article they find it is basically an art project, so there is this dissonance between expectations and reality.

I almost feel like we need a "Show HN an Art Project:"-like headline prefix.
> I get people sending me things that I might like as a screenshot. Great, nice jacket, if only I could click that "buy" button.

I've noticed this as well. I wonder if this is a desire path indicating the need for a universal "share" button on mobile? Or maybe it's a consequence of people becoming used to sharing real-life experiences by taking and sending a picture?
I feel you. I don't know if it is the pandemic or I've just reached mid-life-crisis age, but I'm so ready to not be working that I'm considering just quitting right now and killing myself when the money eventually runs out.
I read an explanation in another context, that sounded plausible: Mostly people with symptoms get tested, and the vaccines are quite good at preventing symptomatic illness. Thus the share of infected individuals not caught by tests is larger in the vaccinated population, which makes mortality among the vaccinated look worse than it is.

source https://www.ijpr.org/health-and-medicine/2021-05-13/no-the-d...
Interesting.

Society bends over backwards to accomodate ever-increasing levels of obese people. The majority of baseline hospital "stress" is due to morbidities caused by, and strongly associated with, obesity.

Why are we shunning the unvaccinated, a rapidly decreasing proportion of the population, but promote plus-size models, build ever-larger movie theater seating, and denigrate "fat shaming" in response to a problem that 1. exists largely as the baseline hospital "stressor", and 2. increases among the population monotonically?
IIRC the average male farts 20 times a day. If he installed a voluntary workplace "collector", he would improve the office environment considerably (as well as improving climate change) and harvest methane for free.

For that special motorcyclist: how about a direct butt plug-in? A former co-worker especially fond of flatulent foods could likely get 10 km from a bean burrito.
Cancels my 5% raise, doh!
If you want to be able to read a language you must be familiar with the script that it is written with. Some languages do not even have a notion of letters. In Japanese a basic notion is the Kanji (and there are really many of them). There is no way to pronounce an individual Kanji because its interpretation depends on the Kanji around it.

In the end, this really depends on what you call "Learning languages", learning to speak and understand others might be far easier that learning to read and write that language.
Reddit search is useless.

And let's not even start on their inline video player. It frustrates me that they look to shut down and stop bots and services like this, because their video play is such complete crap.
Well, I'm impressed by the demo. That's fancy and works.
But if all you're interested in is the slope and the second derivative (which seems to be the case here), why not just graph the slope? With a cumulative graph, reading the slope is hard and reading the second derivative is even more difficult.

The only reason I can see to use a cumulative graph is if the total is actually what's interesting (for example, total covid vaccinations in arms over time). The total seems largely irrelevant in a discussion of hype cycles.
Well, if the browsers can just deny those requests, then they can just drop the information entirely. (And they are dropping them from the UA.)

From the two non-harmful pieces, one is of interest of all sites, and the other one has the implementation broken on Chrome, so sites will have to use an alternative mechanism anyway. If there's any value on the idea, Google can propose them with a set of information that brings value, instead of just fingerprinting people.
Scythe [video]
@dang, this thread is filled with new users astroturfing.
If you're serious: lower sleep quality, physically damaging in the long run. I never had a good night of sleep after consuming alcohol, even as little as a 0.5L beer is enough to disturb my ability to sleep.
I would think the most common failure point of FIRE would be the financial independence part.
I disagree.

I work in IT support and get tickets sent to me. I review the ticket when it's sent to me as soon as I see it to determine if I need to make myself available straight away or not. If I don't and it's for something minor, I often leave it open for some time, because these tickets already have estimated dates on them and I still get back to the client within that time, however in doing so at least 50% of these tickets resolve themselves or the client forgot they even logged one in the first place.

If it was more urgent than it seemed at first, the cilent will chase up and then I will get back to them straight away.

You say my time is not more valuable than there's, but my time at the role is purely on helping others, so responding to someone straight away or not has nothing to do with me deciding if my time is more valuable than there's, it's me deciding which client deserves my attention the most at this moment.

There is no 'my' time when I working in a support job because all my time is already on helping others.
At least respond a "No" or "I'll look into it tomorrow / next week", basic courtesy and respect.
And it's not like we've been passive about car accidents either. Billions have been spent worldwide on car equipment (seat belts, air bags, crush zones, …), road safety campaigns, traffic signs and road junctions. And it came with strict laws enforcement: there are thousands of people in jail right now for road-related felonies and crimes.

Why should we do nothing about Covid given that so much was done in car accidents?
Oh Lord, who thought that name was good
Let me speak to the second criticism (I'm not sure I fully understand the first one). The quote in context from the paper is:

"there is no significant difference between B.1.1.7 and non-B.1.1.7 viruses in total infectiousness predicted by our model"

But "predicted by our model" is doing considerable work here, as the model doesn't take into account potential differences in what happens after someone is exposed to the virus, only what's measured in the study (viral shedding dynamics). So I think the critique of Prof Balloux is worth heeding: it would be a leap to conclude that alpha is definitely not more "infectious" than ancestral type when you take into account the broader meaning of "infectious." Even so, to my mind that places even more burden on demonstrating a biological mechanism.

It also refutes a major claim in TFA and calls into question the methodology used to support that claim: "In China, they estimated the viral load of Delta to be 1,000 times higher than that of the original variant." But when you look at viral load specifically, as is done in the Ke et al paper, you find no difference at all. A few things could be going wrong here, but my money would be on some problem in how that 1000 factor was "estimated."
The MuPad CAS that was used by this software has since been bought by Mathworks and integrated into the symbolic functionality of Matlab.
Definitely depends on industry. I've just got a 30%+ raise moving from a lead role in a massive company to a non-senior role in a startup (UK).
Do any of those have a CAS which is as powerful and easy to use as Scientific Notebook/Workplace?
I recognize that the Delta variant is serious topic for much of the world, but as a vaccinated person in the US it feels more like media hysteria than anything else.

As the article states, for vaccinated people, the risk is low and the Delta variant is likely of little concern, especially when cases are as low as they've been since the start of the pandemic here in the US. However, it seems that the media is pushing the Delta variant as a narrative to help get people vaccinated but it's all falling on deaf ears of those who are specifically choosing not to get vaccinated. The stronger media coverage winds up making those who are vaccinated overly concerned about it, when they as protected as they will be from the variant.

For the unvaccinated countries and people, the Delta variant is definitely something to be concerned about. What we should be doing is trying to get vaccines rolled out to as many countries and people as possible, as that's our best tool for getting things under control.
>except that placement in magnet schools and similar programs has been proven to have nothing to do with student intelligence or ability

This claim sounds dubious to me. There absolutely must be examples of this, but it's a stretch to turn it into a generalization for all magnet schools. It may be the case for a "No. 1" school such as TJ, but as someone who attended two magnet schools, the process has always been unsurprisingly fair.
It works because soldiers are exhausted by default, the problem isn't physical for them, it's mostly mental.

If you take the average non exercising overweight westerner who sleep too much, eat too much and spend 75% of his day either sitting or lying down and watch netflix before going to bed there is no magic bullet to fall asleep fast.

Exercise, eat properly, skip screens at night and have a solid sleep schedule, these are all you need, the rest will fall in place by itself. You don't get to optimise the last 0.1% of the process if the first 99.9% are trash
We'll see how much longer the API lasts. reddit knows that if they kill that, they may trigger a digg-style user migration. It's also why they keep the "old" version of the site around.
Except that, theoretically, “communism” is different from “socialism”, and, indeed, in a communist society one could choose not to do anything “useful” (since no one has to work for a living).
Can fines given in a country be deducted from profit in an other country?
And then he had problems with the sandals (blisters), so he cut half the straps off and continued on his way.
On the "import from LaTeX" Joris van der Hoeven advanced the argument that the impossibility of writing a general import file from LaTeX allows LaTeX to maintain its status as the main document preparation system for scientific articles.
In fact, if you could import arbitrary LaTeX, an user of a different system could collaborate with LaTeX users (probably a form of "conservative conversion" would be necessary for back and forth translation between document formats).
Electrical fires, mold, etc etc there is enough things can be dangerous and harmful in an apartment.
Show HN: Generating musical synthesizer patches using machine learning
Maybe comic books didn't lead to delinquency but they sure led to something far worse. A non-stop stream of terrible Marvel movies and TV shows that seem to be mandatory viewing for everyone if you wanna be able to have a conversation with people nowadays
Bulgaria still holds the record of seized crypto, at 200K BTC which is at about 6.5 Billion $ ATM.

AFAIK, when the police comes to you the computer people come alongside with the guys with the guns and immediately start messing with your equipment before packing them for evidence.

How would they take your coins? If it's on an Exchange they will simply tell the exchange to hand over the dirty money. If the exchange is out of their jurisdiction, it can be harder but the cyber crime tends to be international in nature so they will probably activate some cooperation agreement and compel the exchange to hand over. If the exchange is extralegal, their best bet would be to compel you to hand it over.

The first thing the computer people do would be to take a look at the running devices and extract as much information is possible. They will take alive snapshot and manually look around your folders and browser history for points of interest. Since the raid is most likely to be as a result of an investigation they would likely have an idea what to look for. If they know that you run your business with BTC they would be looking for wallets and Exchange login info.

Once the accessible data is collected and disk images are taken and you are in custody they will start pushing you to give them access to the stuff that is locked down. Because you were investigated before the raid, they will have an estimate of your possessions and will know what to press for. If they nail you for some criminal activity, your best bet could be to cooperate and hand over your crypto if you don't want to be in prison for longer.
Disappointing, did not see the extremely easy and quite efficient method of calculating e through continued fractions.

S =[2,1,2]
T =0

for P in range(200):
S += [1,1,(4 + 2*P)]

for x in range(len(S)-1):
T = 1 / (T + S[-(x+1)])

print(S[0] + T) # value of e
>> Resume-driven development
Lol . Love it. I shall be using it from now on in similar context.
The persistence of a screenshot (or any image) depends entirely on the hosting platform, though. How many image hosts have gone down over the years, leaving niche forums with broken image links in the middle of otherwise very useful posts?

Is there any guarantee that even reddit will keep around image posts uploaded to its own servers, forever?
Or better yet, fix the economy so that the average worker gets paid enough that they can actually save wealth and exercise some economic power. Then people could take as much leave as they themselves would like, rather than needing to fit into the mold of what corporate policies allow.
> lower sleep quality, physically damaging in the long run

Well, 50 years of alcohol doesn't seem to have caused any problems for me.

> I never had a good night of sleep after consuming alcohol, even as little as a 0.5L beer is enough to disturb my ability to sleep.

Not so for me. Not everyone is the same.
It's just rubber hose with extra steps!
Today is the launch day for the product pumped in the article - Twitter is full of the same type of spam as these comments.
Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
Framing it like this is unproductive IMO. There's merit to picking technologies that help you and your teammates grow as engineers. You can take it too far...we should accept that it's a messy process to find the balance that lets us be productive now while helping us be more productive in the future.

As an engineering leader sometimes that even means knowing that people are making the wrong decision, and letting them do it anyway, and then helping them learn from it.
Canada’s Mobile Data Prices vs. the World in One Chart
> Does this mean that the vaccine decreases your chance of contracting the virus

Yes.

> but increases your chance of dying if you do contract it?

No, I think not. Scroll down to table 3, page 14.

No one under 60 who was vaccinated and fell ill died. No one under 60 who was vaccinated was even hospitalized.

But even in the most at risk group, age 75+, vaccinations reduced mortality by a factor of 10.

I think it's safe to claim that "breakthrough infections are rare, the vaccine still provides a level of protection if one occurs, but when breakthroughs occur the elderly are at the most risk of death"
Isn’t systematic sleep deprivation part of military training too? Or is that just used in training for some branches? If so, I imagine that would be a big driver in rebuilding sleep habits from the ground up. If I’m not mistaken, sleep restriction is a big part of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. People force themselves to only be in bed for say six hours a night, so if they don’t sleep in that window, they are so tired the next night that they are more likely to fall asleep quickly.
Looks like a rudimentary mountain with grass under it.
Inflation is usually accompanied by increased interest rates.
the logo is amazing
used car and truck prices leaped 10.5%, accounting for more than one-third of all the price index’s gains

I read just this morning[1] that used car prices are trending down. The leading indicator there is wholesale dealer auctions, and the the average price dropped 10% in June. So I think this aspect of inflation is starting to get itself under control.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1014697915/inflation-is-still...
Well, if I may, there is something that doesn't sound (to me) "rational".

I have seen quite a few of these cases where a larger company buys the old one (essentially to get a list of their current customers) and then terminates the product replacing it with some crappy new stuff that usually completely fails to work, but in this case the soon-to-retire programmer at least gets some (little) money (and knowledge is lost forever).

But if the one man company is going to shut down because the programmer is going to retire, the acquisition cost for a young, willing programmer is 0.

This hypothetical young programmer could - I believe - invest some time to understand not so much the actual codebase, but rather the workflow of the program and re-write it along that same workflow in a new language/platform/whatever.

I am pretty sure that those niche users would be ready to pay a fair amount of money to have something modern/updated that actually works and works like the old one.

What I have seen often is that the new program, for no real reason, has been written by someone that most probably is much more brilliant at programming but that knows nothing about how the program is actually used, has no idea about how to deal with some "edge" cases (that already surely happened in the tens of years of life of the old software), etc., in some ways it is like all the experience accumulated over the years is suddenly lost and the new program repeats the same (or worse) mistakes/issues that already happened (and that were already solved).

Maybe the problem is that there is not an easy way to tell to the world "I am going to retire, any taker?"
I do know that, strange as it might seem.
I think the greatest damage was done in the state of mind of regular workers. Nobody wants to work for cash that depreciates that fast. While passive asset holders are seeing gains exceeding normal wages for no work at all.

Watching bankers and policymakers ignore this, everybody is gambling to try to get into the unproductive game of sitting and waiting central banks to inflate their asset prices and retire as early as possible.

Inevitably, you end up with no workforce and learned helplessness, waiting for the government to step in and guarantee jobs/UBI in exchange for everything else you got.
if you destroy the support systems that all organic life depends on, then you aren't serving the customers all that well...