skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still love to share the UK report about the Delta variant from mid of June.

Bottom-line: If you’re 2x vaccinated, hospitalization is highly unlikely for Alpha and Delta variants.

See this report, page 44 bottom:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Just a couple of thoughts on this.

- trying to break knee by kicking where it breaks.

Oblique kicks are allowed in MMA.

- attacking your throat and trying to cause injury there,

90's UFC had no rule about this. Currently, while no direct strikes allowed you can trachea crush if you want to force a submission (ezekiel).
Anecdotally, my experience is that the main reason is distrust of authority. It's usually warranted distrust too. Authorities aren't trustworthy.

To answer your question:

(1) Most vaccines don't have 10+ year trials. A year is not even the fastest; the flu on 1957-1958 has a vaccine developed in 4 months.

(2) Most medical trials are slower since everything is done sequentially, since there is no rush. You can do an animal trial, a first-in-man, a small group, then a medium group, and so on. It's a better way to go.

(3) This vaccine has had over 3 billion doses administered. It's far better studied and validated at this point than the vast, vast majority of medical trials.

If you believe "the risk of the vaccine greatly outweighs the risk of getting the virus," can you provide any back-of-the-envelope numbers to back up that statement? From my perspective, the virus already killed half a million Americans, and likely brain-damaged millions. We have enough data on the vaccine to know it doesn't do that.
I use a chrome plugin[1] to ensure that I always stay on old.reddit.com, even if I'm logged out.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
Apple’s Weather app refuses to show the nicest temperature
An MIT open source project I created is Video Hub App which is "like YouTube for videos on your computer"

Maybe interesting to some of you: https://videohubapp.com/en/

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
> His partner left him for another man and he was diagnosed with a serious medical issue.

Both of those events are very common – especially medical issues. Once you're getting old, developing a "serious medical issue" is more common than not! Any plan which assumes that you'll neither break up with your partner nor develop medical issues for the rest of your life is a plan destined to fail.
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We used to have the sum total of human knowledge, or at least a good facsimile of it. Unfortunately, with the Internet as we know it transformed into a handful of walled gardens, finding detailed knowledge is increasingly difficult.

Wikipedia is excellent, as usual. But it is an encyclopaedia, not a definitive source of original knowledge, and it remains the case that I can browse my modest (physical) bookshelves and find a book on, say, Russian modern history that will give me far more in-depth information in the first ten pages than I can find online. Same applies for almost any genre, except perhaps fiction. Seven Years In Tibet taught me more about Tibetan geography and culture than any amount of Googling could do.

The idea of an infinite knowledge bank is appealing and I think the Internet could have made it - imagine a suite of applications that complement Wikipedia - but commercialism has ruined the utopia, as it is designed to do.
A thing the FIRE community misses:

The felt sense of Agency is VERY different between a) still making some income, feeling like your hand is still somewhat on the wheel and b) sitting in the back seat, with nothing to do but continually recalculating if / how long your nest egg will last (this quickly turns pathological)

I believe the slow build up of stress in B) is unmitigable (probably goes against our species’ DNA). Doubly so if you’ve attached lots of self-worth to making B) happen.

And if the author reads this comment: you need to get over yourself if you want to become a ‘writer’, I don’t know if there is an equivalent term for aspiring writers, but you are firmly in the equivalent “wantreprenuer” category. Be bold, fail, then learn, then fail some more. Don’t surround yourself with other wantreprenuers and blame them. Suck it up buttercup.
It is ultimately his perspective but I agree, he was one layer of abstraction away from calling her a "normie". She had goals and ambitions he didn't share; that doesn't mean she "doesn't get it", it means they're different people.
They show them under the repository names, and you can search by typing topic:name, but I wouldn't say it's great.
I recently came across a US Government funded study [1] that used anecdata of 12 people–just 12 tired souls!– to put forth a seal on the claim that e-ink screens are better for the human eyes than emissive type of displays.

Edit: Reality however: the opposite is true. Only in some scenarios (like reading under open sun) does one type of screen outdo the other. In most usual cases, that is indoor reading, the emissive display is better for the eyes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929099/
At some point AI will be introduced everywhere, so this should not a surprise.
I created a bare-bones Firefox extension that does this but for copied text. It just appends the website URL and title to the end of the copied selection and uses Alt+Shift+C to trigger the extension.

I like saving stuff as plain text, and when stumbling upon an old quote or code snippet that I've saved it increases the chance that there is some context as to where it came from.

Here's a link to the addon, maybe someone here finds it useful.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-with-con...
No, it will not override the CSS (not sure what you mean by "accessibility enabled" exactly).

> even with the focus outline disabled on other sites, I am able to navigate with the keyboard to text input fields

Correct, but for a user with vision problems, the focus outline lets them see what has focus. CSS doesn't stop them from inputting values.

Focus styles are essential and should not be removed as a best practice (in general, this is a very small site).
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> quality of discourse has fallen straight into the toilet.

...?

Reddit's always been a place for memes. It's never been HN.

On the other hand, there are plenty of subreddits where quality of discourse is amazing. It's really up to you, so I don't know what you're complaining about.

> carefully crafted doomscrolling

That's an awfully perjorative way to say infinite scroll. But again, the quality is there in subreddits if you want it. Your choice. I think it's great they're able to cater to different types of users looking for different things.
Swift is such a nice language to work with, and SwiftUI puts to shame everything both Windows/Android has to offer, it's not even close.. minus xcode of course...
Basically about how Apple hides the number 69 in some versions of its weather app.
It certainly feels like hangover from the Trump times, and yes, it's insanely political and quite hysterical.

Now, people overcompensate, if there is any questioning or hesitancy to take the vaccine, ask questions about origins etc you might be a...Trump guy, or a nut and so you need to be told by the Non-Trump guys what' up, by being downed.

It's Kind of like Post-Trum-Stress-Disorder, PTSD. It's really quite fascinating.
Ask HN: Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK)
I realized I've had a long fascination with analog synthesizers going back to the first one I saw in 1977. The band teacher had one in his office.

And I was tempted toward random knob twisting today when I saw yet another 'analog' synthesizer runnable in the browser.

But I'd really like to have some basic idea of how to put together rudimentary sounds with intent.

I was wondering about book like objects that explain the basics. Maybe a good used book to pick up. Thanks.
My comment was about all solder joints, not just the headers.
Using the more specific scopes, it looks like REST is only gaining in popularity.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-13%202...
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Even though I think you might have a point, I don't like to see the Twitter-like tone on HN...
The vaccines do reduce the chances of transmission quite significantly, so it makes sense to get vaccinated if your goal is to protect others. It doesn't need to be 100 percent sterilizing to be helpful in this regard.
The thing to do is use rust to build something much better than audacity that is owned by a not for profit foundation like Ghost.
> there will always be a lot of doom and gloomers predicting massive inflation

Clearly if all the actually essential things like education, housing and healthcare are manifestly unaffordable - it's not a matter of prediction - it's already here.

Conveniently these things are generally left out of the CPI that people use to claim whether inflation is happening.
Remarkable creativity. As a kid, I found Wertham’s book in a used bookstore. A plate in the book showed a grizzly baseball game. The catcher used a dismembered, decapitated torso as a chest protector.
Here's the thing to consider though: The vaccine codes only for the spike proteins of the virus. You can look up the RNA strands within the vaccines and their translation to protein, it's a relatively short segment of RNA. RNA has a very short lifetime itself.

If you do get exposed to Covid, your cells will be exposed to those very same spike proteins and more. Thus the vaccine should theoretically be much safer than being exposed to Covid itself.
I don't think the Amish are particularly rich or childless?
Slightly off-topic, but can we just talk about the fact that reading this article required me to load JavaScript from FIVE different sources? The user experience of me scrolling down some formatted text with an image on the top could have been replicated in HTML and CSS easily. And even if it simply HAD to have been done in JS, why so many sources? I don't know who intercom.io or webflow.com are, but I doubt your article needs them to load. And if it does, you need to stop refusing to load pages before you're done plopping slow animations and subtle trackers on me.
That's what cycling really is. I love riding, that's my only main of transport, and I don't see the point of races with so much assistance (technology, teammates, food, material, ..), and also the environmental aspect (consider all the vehicles, helicopters all the logistic, material for competitors, staff, organizers, spectators, ..).

Let's come back to the real essence of bicycling, it's practical, useful in all senses, healthy (endurance, good for joints, heart, lungs, everything), federating, help train to surpass yourself. We should stop consuming entertainment, but do it in our day to day life, as part of our lifestyle (I mean not take your SUV to go to gym), let's get rid of all those useless technologies, watches, GPS etc, it's not useful, listen to your body and feelings
> 32. A quick way of getting rid of an opponent's assertion, or throwing suspicion on it, is by putting it into some odious category.

I'm surprised such a popular tactic is so low down the list.
Another study finds out that 83% of population are old ladies with a cat that happily respond to surveys by post.
Seems like Muse could handle it better but has Audacity kept up? I used it at first but moved on to Reaper quite some time ago.
Reading and commenting, apparently.
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I'm going to cut them some slack since December 2020 feels both 2 weeks and 4 years ago.
> my phone doesn't have a QR reader.

It is possible it does. The default photo app on Android is a QR code reader, at least on Google Pixel phones.

I open the photo app and then point it at the QR code. After a moment or two text appears which allows me to open the QR code link.

I only realized this in the last month or two...
> CIA staffers actively blocked the FBI from being informed about the activities of future 9/11 hijacker

That's not how it works.
In practice Fizz will cover barely more than Bas-Saint-Laurent but it's still going to be 25$/2GB.
Having been through an FDA process in a prior startup (although far from central at it; my role was at the outskirts), I can say the FDA is not ridiculously over-conservative. We did human pilots in another country, which was less bureaucratic. The processes there were both faster and more conservative in terms of safety. Doctors would look over our data and protocols and make reasonable decisions.

The FDA process took a long time, but wasn't all that effective at guaranteeing safety either. There was a ton of process.

I think you're attributing far too much rationality to an administrative government process.
Nicely twisted, but the implication was not about the US prison system.

This does not look at all like the work of pick-and-place machines. No solder paste was used, much less flow soldering. This is all done by hand, by incompetent workers.

That implies Xinjiang.
Sync and backup are different things. Dropbox is the best at sync but would get very costly for large backups. Backblaze is the best for disaster recovery backup.
they would if they could get a 20% raise without much fuss.

was reading a reddit post on an airline host who was 'on the road' to 6 figure income - just needed to stay with the same airline for another 5-6 years. "If you switch to another airline, you'll start at the bottom again". It's so strange to think that goes on, but apparently it does. Apparently pilots, to some degree as well. Even if you had 15 years of flawless piloting for airline X, moving to airline Y, you'd start off near the bottom again. What other professions are like this?
In what way is he not a specialist evaluating the customer experience?

If Jeff Bezos were testing a new Amazon product, would he not be a specialist evaluating the customer experience?
We have already realized that it is unprofitable to go to war.

What would happen if the USA and PRC China got into a hot war over the ROC Taiwan? That would destroy the economy. Much easier to just insult one another and play games with currency manipulation and tariffs.

Capitalism and the global markets interconnectedness will save us from going to war.
Are you saying you undertook a ride like that without using chamois cream from the get-go? Dang, man.

Not for nothing, but the amount of riding you did there isn't CRAZY high for a serious cyclist. Often, fit or biomechanical issues don't show up until longer efforts. If you're still into riding, I'd look into a professional fit.
I last looked into this a couple of years ago, so this might be slightly out of date.

I think most popular options for high-volume self-hosted distributed stream processing solutions are still Spark, Flink, and Kafka Streams.

Kafka streams is simpler, as it is basically just a framework on top of Kafka itself, so if you already use Kafka for streaming data and don't have complex needs, it might be a good option.

Spark and Flink are similar. Both support both batch processing (on top of Hadoop, for example) and stream processing. Spark has better tooling, but Flink has more sophisticated support for streaming window functions. Spark also uses "micro-batches" instead of being truly real-time, so there will be a bit more latency when doing streaming with Spark, if that matters.

--

Another interesting project is Beam, which provides a unified way of writing jobs that can then be run on different engines that support it (both Flink and Spark do, as well as Dataflow on Google).

Apache hosts a lot of projects in this category. Most (like Storm) I would probably not pick up for a greenfield project today. Also, these things come with some significant operational overhead, so make sure you really need them. Stream processing at scale is hard. The compelling use case for these things is when you need to do window aggregations on a lot of streaming data and get results in real-time.
> That doesn't mean we need to stop humans from exploring the solar system until everyone, everywhere is covered.

Sending billionaires into space so they can film Tik-Toks from an in-orbit Tesla roadster and get mining rights to all the precious metals in the solar system while patenting and monopolizing critical space travel tech doesn't advance humanity at all, it sets us back. Government investment in and exploration of space pushes us forward, as do massive taxes on billionaires and redistributing their wealth to the general populace and public works projects.

It's astounding to me that there is any non-billionaire alive that doesn't realize this.
Hangouts at least lets you set a status message and to mute notifications. I'm not sure if it has an actual away or vacation mode, though.
What's up with Latvia and Bahrain, why is their data usage so high comparatively?
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Had a lot trouble running solace on vm and docker, spend a lot time try to find root cause memory leak (happen every few months)

I still don't get why they use VPN terms for event broker
Discussion of that post from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543527
I'm on a CAD65 plan with Fido that includes 10GB so that's CAD6.5/GB if you ignore everything else that comes with the plan. That would be closer to what other countries are paying. Where does the discrepancy come from though?

Edit: I just checked and it's actually 15GB but that's a "temporary" add-on apparently.
I get that people think this, but it's really not true. With a good saddle that fits you on a bike that ALSO fits you, and good quality biking shorts (or a good quality bib), perineum pain doesn't really enter into it.
The article ststes that there were 2M Covid deaths in India. Stats I saw yesterday said 400k. By comparison, the USA had 600k
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Your criticism of the sample size is unfounded. You absolutely can have meaningful results with only 258 people provided you have good sampling. If you want to criticize their sampling, then by all means do it, but that's not what you've done here.
Who said my parents wont die of pollution related illness? I have no idea what air quality their city has, probably second world quality.
> I used to think it was a way to put the human body through emotions that we don't get through living in a civilization. But I'm not exactly sure that's true.

I dunno. Riding my bike 100 miles, during which it hit 107°, made me think "Today is the day I am going to die of heatstroke." That's not a thought I have during regular, civilized life.
If a fire has burnt out, it can’t deliver any warmth anywhere, not just at some things.

Similarly, for me, the term “burnt out” means not only that you can’t accomplish anything useful at work, but also “take that home”, and stay feeling powerless there. If you feel tired at work, but the first day of a holiday feel full of energy again, I wouldn’t call that burnout.

Wikipedia doesn’t seem to fully agree, though. It redirects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout, and quotes The Who as “Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” (https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...)
In the context of your comment it is implied that you believe the "study" in question does have a representative subset.

while you may not intend that, most people reading your comment would believe you think the study is fine
Hey, don't move the goalposts. I'm not arguing about their trustworthiness, I'm pointing out that your propaganda is stale.
Once upon a time, neat/surprising/weird/amazing sites were part of the currency of the internet. "Check out this link" was a welcome message. Sites full of links to neat stuff were really popular. You tried to fill your chat app with friends who consistently linked you to neat stuff.

Now, no more. "Check out this link" is not an enticing offer, it's assigning homework. I don't know if it's because neat stuff is no longer rare and we've collectively had our fill, or because everything got so co-opted and corrupted that we go in to every new site with one wary eye watching for the dark patterns. But one way or the other, people don't share links. They share memes instead, which ask far less of us, and are much harder to monetize.
> "After all, all current dinosaurs have feathers"

that's selection bias. only the avian 'dinosaurs' survived, but calling them dinosaurs would be like calling humans rodents. It's not like birds existed back then.

There seems to be a rush to try and put feathers on everything. We are finding some amazing specimens that are giving us amazing detail, such as the ankylosaur found in Canada. Yup, covered in scales and hard armor.

Now we got this T-rex crazed idea to put feathers all over them. It sort of reminds me of the 1990s who tried to put t-rex as scavengers / non predators because of 1 solitary data point. the data strongly suggests they were scaled (we found skin impressions of t-rex, they had scales). So now they are trying to say 'oh well maybe they had feathers elsewhere, or were covered in feathers when young'. sheesh.

> "Unfortunately, unlike bones, feathers do not fossilize really well"

if a leaf can be fossilized, I imagine so can a feather.
> do you have the risk-tolerance like this guy to say "fuck it, it will all work out,"

He posted a follow-up blog post years later. Sadly, it didn't work out for him. He had to return to work.

I agree with your general sentiment: Some of these extreme early retirement stories are really pushing the limits reasonable amounts of money to retire with. I don't think it's reasonable for people in their 30s or even 20s to look at their finances and assume their spending will stay constant for the next 6 decades of their lives.
You are just asserting things that sound good on Twitter. Please try to have a more constructive dialog on HN.
What it tells me is that there are two really important and serious things you need to consciously commit to in order to be compatible with this lifestyle. 1. Set aside that urge to keep up with the Joneses, and 2. Stop deriving life meaning from employment. These habits can be deeply ingrained in someone's personality, like an addiction in remission, and may rear their heads even if you agree to deliberately try to fight it. I don't think this is genetic. It comes from a lifetime of social conditioning, from watching your parents and friends do it. I'd actually like to read more about the strategies people have successfully used to deprogram themselves and help their loved ones also move past these things, helping them make the jump to FIRE (or regular-retirement).
I did a sabbatical in 2014 and I had plenty of stuff to do.

So much, in fact, that I couldn't imagine going back to work ever again.

I couldn't imagine living polyamorous with more than two partners when working 40h a week. Let alone having some hobbies on the side...
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I'm not knocking FIRE. I like the idea of it and especially the author's comment about a lot people just following what people around them are doing instead of living life by their own standards.

The downsides I thought of were the inherit randomness of life (catastrophic incidents, children, relationships, health). I'm fairly certain the people working at my company past potential retirement are due to them having family and wanting the insurance perks and hedge for any potential uncertainties children and older age can throw at you.

I really liked that the author elaborated on the relationship dynamic, because I think that's something that could be a common issue in FIRE relationships with a middle-class or higher partner. What if they still want to work or do more? Can your lifestyle accomodate that?
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indeed looks a lot better than pure dockerfile