skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is the tip of the iceberg.

The new discoveries are because people are finally looking for them, using ground-penetrating radar. They've examined only a dozen or so of the 100+ residential schools. The others are nearly certain to have unmarked graves as well.
>> It can be used for font/vector rendering...

I'd like to see a simple unencumbered SDF font file format become widespread.
I thought it was a very well put together article that summed up a lot of everything - especially if you were on the fence about getting jabbed. As a vaccinated person - exactly as he said, you probably don't need to worry:

"If you’re vaccinated, you’re mostly safe, especially with mRNA vaccines. Keep your guard up for now, avoid events that might become super-spreaders, but you don’t need to worry much more than that."

But maybe this is a good summary to send to those who aren't in your position yet?
If you're using a computer of some kind to type this message on a message board, surely you recognize that you too are to blame.
I've a feeling at the end of the day the only solution will be to scale up the number of medical facilities/personnel/equipment so we can cope with changing and mutating virus. With sufficient care, access to oxygen etc, we may still be able to handle the onslaught of new variants. Vaccines, while very important, will not be a magic bullet unless we can get them to enough people fast enough. This still remains a problem.
Listen man, dudes on the internet are tapped in. They get this stuff. Those stuffed suits in washington, with their economics degrees and tight working relationships with the mega-corps influencing pricing, they don't know squat. Everyone knows the only person who understands economics is the person talking at you about how they're the only one who knows economics. /s

It's higher than the feds expected, lower than the doom-prophets predicted, and still within the range that most people familiar with the Modern Money Theory would consider fine for the long term need to start taxing more heavily.
I am fairly competitive by nature, but I my work competitiveness is me against my best possible and our company against our competitors. When I do well, I expect to be paid well for it. I don’t care what you pay someone else (so long as you’re convinced the company is getting an overlay on that deal), but I care a lot of what you pay me.

What you pay me changes my family experience, so I care deeply about it. What you pay someone else doesn’t, so I don’t care about the latter.
> As someone who lives in New York and has been vaccinated for months, should I worry about this? It seems like the answer to that question is no, I shouldn't.

The unfettered spread of variants in unvaccinated populations risks the rise of one that can evade your vaccine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6527/329). In areas where a variant is spreading rapidly, it might not be a bad idea to voluntarily mask in indoor crowds.
I am so sorry to hear that.

I wish that when companies such as this do go out of business that they should transition the licensing model to perpetual.

It is gracious to keep running the licesnse server ut once it ends that is it.

If the company is not going to lose any money because of it, which they will not since they are out fo the busness entirely, let the users have a chance to keep using it.

(without support, without bugfixes, without upgrades to new platforms)

Presumably this could lead to people sharing licensing detals and non paying customers may over time start using it, that should be an acceptable risk, given that there is no monetary gain nor loss.

It would be awesome to have access to a rich library of dead software that people could use for free.
I'm reminded of a scene in The Wire. The protagonists have collected intelligence, and want to continue collecting more to be able to permanently destabilize a criminal organization. A career-minded officer instead decides to use this intelligence for a bust with no long-term benefit, but it does produce a very photogenic collection of seized weapons and drugs for him to stand behind while the journalists take pictures.
No question, trains in other countries are on another level.
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If Google wanted to quit that market, then Godspeed. It would be a tremendous opportunity for someone new to step in (no, I'm, not looking at you Bing).

But alas, I'll bet good money that recalcitrant France is still a market too juicy for Google to abandon.
If you’re vaccinated, you’re mostly safe, especially with mRNA vaccines. Keep your guard up for now, avoid events that might become super-spreaders, but you don’t need to worry much more than that.

If you’re not vaccinated though, this is a much more dangerous time than March 2020. The transmission rate is higher than it used to be, and if you catch Delta, you’re much more likely to die—or get Long COVID. You should be extra careful, only hang out with other vaccinated people, and avoid dangerous events.

You pretty much have it right. As a vaccinated person you probably don't have to take any different actions. You aren't the only person and for unvaxxed people this article might be what they needed to read or what their loved ones needed to read to try to convince them to get vaccinated.
Just because a caller earns less than you means nothing. If they’re a junior clerk and they can’t enter a million dollar invoice without your help, well their time might well be more valuable than yours.
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”Now, with Delta, it looks like the figures are 64%, 93% and 93% according to Israel, and 79% for symptomatic infection and 96% hospitalization according to the UK.”

I doubt these will turn out to be correct numbers. Looking at recent week’s data in Israel possibly paints another picture (keep in mind while parsing the numbers that there are plentiful many more vaccinated in the population than not in the age groups that gets hospitalized): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1kiOrQxOtBg0__IoL...

Nevertheless, it is clear that vaccination helps and is important, but I have doubts about 90+% protection from hospitalization.
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Assuming this is actually a genuine question:

Here are the per country ratios of different VOC/VOI: https://covariants.org/per-country

It took a while until it became dominant in India, and then a similar pattern repeats in each new country.
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au0QJYISe4c

c isn't defined as the speed of light - light travels at c, but so does everything else, when you factor in movement through time.
This would be a real useful repository for someone trying to create a phishing website.
I've never managed to see how causality is a problem for FTL travel

If we perceived the world through sonar then causality would be violated by anything supersonic. If you were shot then you'd feel the bullet first and then "see" it moving back into the gun.

AFAICS if information can travel at >c, then physical objects traveling at >c doesn't violate causality
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You're welcome:) The drawback is that goverment takes around 65% tax cut (income tax + employment tax) on any incomes of emplyement above 6000USD a month.

The only way to get rich in Sweden is through capital gains. There taxes as still very low :)
Help get the rest of the world vaccinated, too.
No, it is the amount seized times the spot price of Bitcoin. It's the approximate fiat amount they would fetch if they were auctioned off today.
What major countries? I live in Spain and in most regions people under 30 still can't get vaccinated.
Netflix is regularly slow or laggy with its ui even on perfectly normal hardware so you kind of failed with your task.
It feels like half of the time, you can't read the article because of a paywall. Usually somewhere down the comments someone will have posted a way around the wall, which helps.

I share the view of others here, the article is just a seed crystal for discussion. Sometimes the most valuable comments are found in the misunderstanding and tangents that arise.
I hope you realize that high yields are the problem, not the solution.
We're doing the same. Actively moving away from Kafka, which was only ever used as a message queue anyway, to an actual message queue. We might move back at some point in the future to rebuild an actual event-driven processing model. But for now, it's not worth the additional complexity for the scale and systems we actually have.
I was trying to stay within the non-electric aspect of this. Solar isn’t exactly something you can make yourself. Methane however is vaguely doable given a bit of effort and skilling up.

Edit: when I write "make" I don't mean "install".
It's all over, and was all over the news early 2021 already. Not sure what you are talking about

(Or which kind of media you consume to come to that conclusion)
Swift’s concept of structured mutations only applies to value types, not to reference types like classes and actors.

i feel like this would be even more usefull for classes.... it would great if classes could be read-only by default and you had to specify clearly what operations was able to mutate it... but perhaps that would make working with classes more cumbersome...
Ask HN: Why don't personal chatting apps have a disable option?
I have used many apps (telegram, whatsapp, hangouts) and have found that none of them provide any disabling feature, where one can disable the app for a certain time period to avoid any distractions and even addictions. Ideally, anyone contacting that person during this period should be notified that the user has disabled chatting temporarily.

This is a very useful feature from the point of view of the users, yet it is not commonly available. Why do you think it is so? Are there any apps that have such a feature?
I think the richer countries helping pay to vaccinate the world is a good and smart thing to do.
The downside of seniority based pay is that people who show little to no motivation can end up the highest paid on a team if they simply avoid getting in trouble for 20 years.

I know someone who quit a job at Boeing years ago in part because he was at the bottom of the pay ladder doing tons of work while the highest paid non-manager in his department didn't do anything except keep the printers stocked with paper.

Throwing incentives on competitive people can be toxic, but the opposite problem is that when high performers don't get rewarded the organization will rot.
Doesn't seem like that's a good idea, since the supply of vaccines is not infinite.
The main thing Kafka is great at is scaling out via partitions with it's natural stickyness, while maintaining excellent ordering guarantees. This means it's really easy to create a load of reliable in-memory processing where each thread processes a single partition of data.

When scaling out on a standard message queue you generally have greedy consumers which means you can't assume stickyness, or have to create your own partitioning structures. It makes it great for realtime apps...

If there were cheaper alternatives I think people would use them but it does definitely have powerful benefits.
Suspension failure (especially at highway speeds) is far more dangerous than a bit of a coolant leak. It's probably more likely too [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/Beastlyorion/status/1288242333864079360
I didn't have any trouble with getting them to enable production mode SES for my personal email domains. The only thing I can think of that might have helped me (besides making it clear I wasn't using this for marketing emails) was that my AWS account had been open and in good standing for quite a while before enabling SES.
Can someone ELI5? What is this about and why is it a big deal?
Thank God people are finally starting to stop listening to them mainstream media in the US.

The panic is absolutely ridiculous. The numbers of infected are tiny. The numbers of hospitalized among infected are less than 2%.

Vulnerable populations are already infected or they've been vaccinated. At this point, practically everyone is immunized naturally or through vaccines. Treatment of the infected has improved too.

IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON.

THE DELTA VARIANT IS BULLSHIT FEAR MONGERING IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO VACCINES
Feels incredibly strange that anyone can publicly view all these office layouts, down to very specific room/corridor/stair layouts, occupancy status, of random private office and university buildings...
> From too much freedom I presume? Or what did you mean exactly?

From things like what Audacity did: adding spyware or other bloat that serves the company rather than the user.

Also from being taken advantage of, as right to repair has shown. If we have right to repair, it's harder for companies to engage in monopolistic practices. Open source does the same thing for software.

> Why would that lead to less open source since companies keeping their software secret, closed source and copyright protected was exactly what lead to open source in the first place?

Because right now, if a company uses open source code in their code, then they will sometimes contribute back to the original software. Without copyright, they won't because their change might reveal something about their file format or something like that.

It's because of copyright that companies have played somewhat nice when using FOSS. Without it, there is no incentive to.
If it's intentionally designed to break away to protect something else they would/should have the ability to replace it instead of wanting 16k to replace the whole battery. If they did design it to break away AND don't make it reasonably replaceable it starts to look positively sinister....
Is seems kind of logical in hindsight: the first mutation of the predecessor bat/pangolin/whatever virus genome to cross over to humans is an MVP full of "compatibility bugs" that barely achieves R0>1. A few billion dicerolls later many of those "compatibility bugs" have found fixes.

Remember the hand washing phase of the pandemic? Aerosol transmission was basically ruled out because it was assumed that spread would have been much faster if it happened by aerosol. Turns out like it was aerosol all the time, just slowed down massively by all those "compatibility bugs" that are now slowly ironed out. Fortunately, our immune systems adapt as well (both individually and industrially, by ramping up mRNA capabilities and production)
I’ve worked on building these systems for our company. I don’t think they’re perfect by any means, but once you have more than about 20 people their presence is better than their absence, especially at the first three levels in the hierarchy (where there is broad commonality in contributions and expectations at the first two levels, with individual variation of course).

When people (often terrible leaders) try to distill the framework into a checklist of activities, things tend to go quite badly.
Luckily we don't have to vaccinate infinite people.
I think this is great advice.

My perspective on code reviews derives from the fact that really, a pull request/changelist is a conversation of complete ownership of code by the author to joint ownership by author and team/organization.

If you're any developer, junior or otherwise, participating in a code review simply means helping that ownership conversion happen however it needs to, whether that means finding and fixing mistakes in the code itself, bringing your own understanding of the code up to speed, or helping to clarify and unify the strategies and logic represented in the code with what will work for the team, which includes you.
I will say that on the vaccine front the data provided by Israel seems to be the worst results of the bunch, and while we can't completely rule out their results there is a good chance it's an underestimate of efficacy. Here are some efficacy estimates against Delta from other sources:

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1414254993536786433

Highlights are (symtoms/hospitilization):

- Phizer: 79-88%/96%

- Moderna (one dose, not much data): 72%/96%

- Astra: 60-67%/92%
I agree with your points but want to add that higher wages don't lead to high inflation directly. Higher spending does. If you have high wages and high savings it wouldn't lead to inflation in the same way that high wages and high spending would.
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I've been a SWE, SWE manager, TL at FAANGs for a number of years (>13). I've been in the industry for > 20 years. I've run the gamut on work from compilers to mobile to ML to signal processing to embedded RTOS development.

I'm looking to move to a lower stress lifestyle, ideally remote part-time Golang work. I am happy to consider other roles, but want a smart team looking to offload some crunchy work. I work fine independently and remotely.
Yup. Try https://fsbolero.io/ . Follows the Elm Architecture.
Unless you click on a Reddit link while inside of old.reddit.com; it will then take you to that page, but show you the default 'modern' theme. Same content, just 10x slower.
The Guard is a piece of fine art. That couldn't be more appropriate.

Just as a caution to others, maybe don't play that with the volume up loud in the office. The context is critical, and there are a few loud... remarks.
Why would anyone ever compare an exponentially spreading infectious disease with car accidents? They aren't even in the same realm of concern for public health.
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If you are vaccinated, you're helping. But is there anyone out there that is not you?
My question is why don't we have treatment? Yes we know vaccines are good as preventative but we also know that vaccines are vulnerable to mutations and waning efficacy over time. It's also somewhat burdensome to need to vaccinate all people all the time. Where is the research into effective treatments and why do we seem to prefer mass vaccination over acute treatments for the sick. Is it just much more difficult to formulate effective treatments or is the influence of capitalism pushing toward the solution that has the most customers and is the most profitable?
It does if you have "agreed" to a EULA that forbids reverse engineering. I don't know if you know this, but there are already EULA's that can reverse engineering.
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I've been able to book a time for vaccination for weeks now but the first free time wasn't until the end of July.

We're also about 7.75% ahead of the US when it comes to the percentage of the total population who has gotten their first dose, with the trend still being upwards. So I'd say that the problem isn't really willingness.
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It's a bit more complicated. In France vaccination has only been open to everyone one month ago, (and those people − including me − only had one dose so far) and in the UK the waiting time between the first and second dose is roughly twice higher than in most countries, which means there's still a significant fraction of the population that just can't get fully vaccinated yet (my brother must wait another month before getting his second shot).
There is sort of a 2-faced nature here. Scienitsts themselves should be maintaining intense skepticism over even the most fundamental beleifs of their field. Here is the "science as a process" that is constantly changing.

However, science also plays a role in public life, where it might make a lot more sense to appeal to the authority and the track record of science. Here is the "science as a set of truths".

Separating the two is difficult though. Some scientists will inevitably become dogmatic about theories in their own field, whereas some in the public will take advantage of internal scientific debates to cast doubt on the whole thing.
You need to actually believe that the rubber duck is going to bestow its wisdom upon you for it to work.

I usually write a detailed question to a colleague whom I believe to be more knowledgeable than me. The trick is, I never send it unless I'm really stuck despite my research.

When I do send it, though, the question is good and usual suspects are ruled out.
These new variants were to be expected as the vaccines seem to be accelerating these mutations.

My understanding is that the COVID vaccines train the body to recognize the outer protein layer of the virus. In consequence when that changes (because of mutations and natural selection) the body becomes less effective at recognizing the virus.

Geert Vanden Bossche[1] has been warning about this for months now. He says it's possible at some point a new variant will come out that makes current vaccines completely ineffective.

[1] https://twitter.com/GVDBossche
> but then @dang informed me that improvements to human behavior in the future are impossible because people will continue to behave the way they do indefinitely, regardless of rules.

This is surely an argument for dropping the whole guidelines then?

Anyway I agree that attribution error should be unacceptable, the real issue is that it's very hard to point out when someone is making this particular mistake vs. other kinds of mistakes.
Taking a screenshot on your phone is far easier than finding where Share is in your current browser. Sharing is a mess.
> We have a requirement of 25 messages per hour, with 10KB per message, you think you can build the ingestion pipeline using Kafka and MongoDB on a 10 node M5d.24xlarge cluster?

Sure, if you have the budget to run it, can do! Feel free to reach out, email in the profile ;)
I would say data oriented vs service oriented.
But basically, the question comes down to where the DAO is.
And what contracts are exposed

Sounds to me like important questions, as a data engineer.
Yes, the standard solution to this is to use the curl if the scalar valued noise field. This gives you a vector field which is perpendicular to the gradient and i divergence free.
Judges do or defense attorneys do?
You are confusing health "insurance" (which is not insurance as such) versus things like life insurance and property insurance. The US health economy is flawed in many ways that have been discussed endlessly.

On the other hand, more usual insurances are actuarial and work on the basis that an insurer shares the risk across the people/property that is insured and charges appropriately.

Most insurance of that nature make their profits from investing the income, relying on their actuaries to calculate the expected losses due to claims.
Yes, and it is nice that they are doing it. But they are limited by their manpower and financials. And they are not agressive enough imho, e.g. by avoiding litigation and extending courtesies like voluntary GPL2 extensions after termination for offenders. They should engage more in shock and awe. Compliance departments all over the industry should fear them, not laugh about them.
As always, there's a good group of folks on reddit.com/r/sml and StackOverflow is surprisingly active as well (maybe due to the number of students still using Standard ML). There may be some good IRC channels but I'm not as familiar with them.

For a recap of the current state of Standard ML (also surprisingly active), here's a roundup from last year: https://notes.eatonphil.com/standard-ml-in-2020.html.
Interesting point, I am making a reddit clone in China. My MVP would like the very first verion of Reddit: only link sharing, no self-post or comment.

Fundamentally Reddit is not a link aggregator but a content aggregator. Link is one way to reach those contents. It is simple and scalable. But content consumers would always prefer first party content, ceteris paribus. One link away is one MORE step away. Faster solution always wins.
Pretty much every Reddit video is an .m4v or .mp4 file that can be downloaded directly from the browser. Open the link in a browser window, then right click and choose 'Save video as'.

Works on mobile as well.