skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article states that Israel is still seeing 90%+ protection against hospitalizations and death for those who are vaccinated, while the Delta variant spreads there.

Vaccination has been the answer all along. You may still get symptomatic COVID but the likelihood of it putting you in the hospital, or worse, is greatly diminished.

The biggest issues in developed countries who have been able to vaccinate everyone willing to get vaccinated are:

1) People choosing not to get vaccinated
2) Children, who either can't get vaccinated, or parents are unsure if it's a good idea

#1 seems simple -- lockdown post-vaccine was pretty much a non-starter most places and there isn't much evidence with this Delta variant that this was a wrong decision. Those at-risk who can't get vaccinated need to isolate. Those who can get vaccinated and choose not to are accepting the risk. With the vaccine still protecting at 90%+, I don't even see the anti-vax folks causing much external effect outside of their population.

#2 is trickier. Vaccinating children feels much riskier to me and I've not decided if my own kids should get the shots or not. Given that COVID has shown to be minimally impactful for children compared to adults as well as compared to other viruses children commonly get, it seems mostly unnecessary. However, if Delta proves to be more dangerous for kids, those who feel vaccines are fine for adults but are doubtful for kids, will really need to rethink things.
Proactive health is the best way to combat all of the issues that are currently afflicting the "sick" care health model. What Hone is doing with their platform will dramatically, and fundamentally, alter the healthcare industry for the better.
I joined Instagram well before Facebook bought it. It has been a downward slide ever since. Slow, but downward none-the-less. I had a Facebook account early on, but as the filtering advanced, my feed turned to shit, so I closed the account completely. It wasn't enjoyable at all any more. I fear Instagram is headed in that same direction.
This is crap advice. Way to piss off your clients.
Wow Sam! Congrats on the incredible transformation. Just took a look at their site - very interesting and something I will look into myself.
Did you take the C&O to the GAP?

If so, very nice work doing that in 3 days! The climb at the start of the GAP is quite a workout
> Not really, just biological reality. People can't actually change their sex (only their gender expression), so 'male lesbian' is a statement of self-contradiction.

This is where you are mistaken. You can change your sex with a sex reassignment surgery. While gender is identity based, sex is defined via the phenotypes (physical characteristics). If you make the alterations necessary to match the physical characteristics of a certain sex, you become that sex for all intents and purposes.

You may have different chromosomes than what is standard for that sex but by no means does that mean you aren't that sex. There are plenty of women who are born female, grow up female, present female, and identify as female who find out down the line that they have a Y chromosome. The same goes the other way with men who discover they have 2 X chromosomes.

I mean hell while not the exact same circumstance, something like 1 in 2500 males are discovered to have a karyotype of 47,XXY with the actual predicted prevalence (due to low rates of identification) being closer to 1 in 1000 or 1 in 500. The previously mentioned circumstances are of course less common than this (closer to 1 in 20000 or 1 in 80000) but in the context of the global population that is still a significant number.

My point being that sex is a lot fuzzier than most people realise and the only viable way of defining it is via phenotypes, which can of course be changed with medications and surgery. Defining by karyotype causes the entire definition system to break down because while chromosomes are of course important in determining your sex, they ultimately don't define it and there are so many other biological factors that play into you ending up whatever sex you are. And this isn't a "feel good" inclusive answer, this is just the scientific/medical reality because karyotypic/genetic sex just isn't a useful definition compared to phentotypic/physical sex.

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TLDR: It's not biological reality. Biological reality is that your sex is defined by your physical characteristics and while your chromosomes play a part in deciding which characteristics you develop, they don't provide a clean or consistent determination. If you sufficiently adapt your physical characteristics, for all intents and purposes both medically and otherwise, you are the sex your characteristics match.
Non-nerds just rarely know about it (I see no reason to avoid using it otherwise). I've advised a non-tech gurl to use Typora instead of Word for her study notes and she's been using it ever since very happily. Sadly you can't even download Typora without the browser warning that's weird ("unusual for people to download") and you probably shouldn't. I use and recommend Typora (of all the other Markdown-aware editors) because besides having all the handy features it also is visually beautiful - this is a good inspiration and concentration buff.
Not to sound cynical, but after seeing the enthusiasm about soccer and this reaching the front page...

Is there an argument in favor of Sports? It seems like a waste of resources.

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. And economic benefits could be traded to other entertainment or research.
How so? The local streaming services from German TV channels work just as well without needing so much RAM for just the interface.
According to a few news sources, those in their twenties can now get vaccinated in Catalonia, Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Baleares/Navarra, and Madrid.

I don't know how accurate that is. It may depend on where/how you book the vaccine. I'm in my 40s and live in Madrid, and only got my first dose last week in the local health center rather than a large vaccine hub, because it hasn't been very well advertised. I assumed I still wasn't eligible.

You should just try booking a vaccine, worst that can happen is the system won't let you.
>> You'd probably offload PWM onto the in-chip PWM peripheral, rather than doing it in software.

Of course. In power we need specific features in the PWM peripheral. In particular complementary pairs with programmable dead tine. It is also customary to have an interrupt every cycle to do measurement and control. Control output is the new duty cycle for the next period - we typically compute a new duty cycle every period. Weather this chip can handle that type of thing is what I was after in my original question. It seems like the answer is no.
I agree. To restate or extend: Communication by Scientists in the popular media is challenging. For example, scientists always qualify conclusions, they are trained to avoid using "all", "always", "never", or using concepts like "theory" with mean different thing to scientists vs public--All of which is leveraged by those not in the art to imply "weak" or "uncertain" concepts or conclusions.
Glad hormone optimization is getting the recognition it deserves, it's really a life changer!
Some counterpoint. A lot of the assertions, particularly the fact that delta is dramatically more transmissible than ancestral type, are reported as fact in the mainstream, but the evidence for this particular claim is thin. It certainly is true that delta is outcompeting the other strains. But inferring higher transmissibility from observational or ecological studies is not really sound. Most of the increases can be explained by human behavior - a third to a half of Americans are not fully vaccinated, and people are going out, not wearing masks, etc. Determining higher transmissibility in the virological sense is a difficult experiment and I don't think is really being done.

This is discussed in some detail in TWiV[777], a discussion with Ron Fouchier. If you use influenza as a model, the picture looks completely different - new strains are coming up all the time and outcompeting the older ones, but that's just because people have developed immunity to the older ones (antigenic drifts). The new ones are not fundamentally different or more transmissible. For people who don't want to listen to the whole thing, the main point is also made in a NYT opinion piece[2].

Pueyo claims that alpha is 60% more transmissible than ancestral type, but again the evidence doesn't strongly support this. Indeed, a preprint just came out[3] in which alpha looks pretty much identical to ancestral type when it comes to viral loads and clearance.

I've really enjoyed and appreciated Pueyo's writings. In particular, I think "The Hammer and the Dance" was groundbreaking and we could still learn the lessons from it. But I think this one is a miss: it could present real insight, but instead mostly propagates conventional thinking.

There's a really interesting science communication aspect to delta: it's basically a proxy for the (very true) statement, "the virus is still dangerous." In fact, one prominent evolutionary biologist accused the NYT op-ed of verging on "delta denialism". Accurately communicating reality in a way that is useful to people is fantastically hard, and we just don't have an ecosystem for it. I think this is the reason I've become addicted to TWiV and other similar highbrow sources - I hate being fed partial information and feel compelled to learn more.

[777]: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-777/

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/opinion/covid-vaccine-var...

[3]: https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14149092626571141...
> If Reddit forces this, I assume browser extensions are the next step that they can’t mitigate. If the browser needs to play it, it can be ripped.

I assume from a legal point of view that is a-ok. They can't do anything about it therefore they can't be expected to do anything about it.
I feel terrible when I come across great products while they shutdown.. why I didn't know it?
Are you aware of any results for the J&J shot? That's the one I got but it always seems to be left out.
I was reading a number of linked articles in IEEE Spectrum, especially the ones talking about the uses of Quantum Dots in display technologies, and there was one titled something along the lines of "I used the iPhone 12 and it made me sick".

The author talks about her experience with the new iPhone and how she eventually figured out that it was caused by PWM, and what might be done to mitigate the problem.
It absolutely sticks. Moderators work for free, so you get what you pay for. The automod feature on r/web_design for instance blocks any post that has "Wordpress" in it. The reason given is that WP theme providers spam the subreddit. But it also kills legitimate discussion of Wordpress.

The mods don't care. Their convenience comes first.
Hmm @dang this doesn't seem controversial, or shouldn't be. We should be curious about the details of a dangerous strain of a virus, and learn more about it. I'm not sure if this deserves to be "[flagged]" but perhaps I'm missing the bigger picture.
For once almost all commenters so far are thinking the same thing I am. Yet another stream processor from Apache. Might as well create the acronym now. YASP.
Kind of rude. But I have no problems with Netflix on my Smart TV, PS4 and a low-end Android phone
But your N is bounded from above to 4, so pretty much anything using these functions won't be unbounded in time just because of use of these functions. If you're suggesting that using nth or elt on a list of arbitrary length is a bad idea, then yes, it is, but I certainly wasn't suggesting that.
It's trained with a mixture of publicly available datasets of faces. The final model is several gigabyes in size, so it's fairly large. Actually that's one of the reasons we've made this tool - to test our infrastructure with larger generative models.

The model is learning the features that make a convincing face, and generating a synthetic face from those (controlled by the segment map), similar to Nvidia's GauGAN.
this stuff will seriously change you life for the better. it can't hurt to see if low testosterone is causing issues in your life and, if it is, you'll be happy you found out.
Nobody signed a waiver to drive next to Joe Blow hauling a mattress in his 82 VW Golf, yet he can do it every day. I don't see how FSD is any different than driving a car with aftermarket modifications. It's not like any of that stuff has to go through NHTSA certification to be road legal.
I have to agree, it's heavy as website, way more than any other streaming service I've used. There are visible lags and freezes between episodes. On all of my devices. Personally I never thought this to be one of their strengths
It's also just a tiny subset of LaTeX commands and not real LaTeX. I use the bm package to make things bold and I can't use that in Word. It doesn't support \begin{} and \end{} for any environment so for stuff like matrices you need to use special Word syntax \matrix{}.
I have no idea what you're saying lol
I'm about to pick Kubernetes even though a different solution would theoretically be a much better fit for my needs. This is entirely because some other tools I'm looking at play nicely with Kubernetes out of the box. If I picked something else, I'd end up writing my own glue code.

I wonder if something similar is happening with Kafka?
Why did this get flagged? This is an important article that probably will change an unvaccinated individuals mind.
My kids bank account just got taxed 5.4%. My pay went down 5.4%.

Maybe it's not quite exactly like that, but I genuinely feel bad for anyone with USD.
Physics isn’t immune to latching onto an idea dogmatically. From what I understand, string theory relies on elements which are impossible to verify experimentally.
Gold is and historically has been one of the best stores of value.
The scale is all wrong. A type 1 civilisation is, rougly, civilisation that covered earth with solar panels.

This drive needs a planet's mass in the form of pure energy, that's a totally different league. Also you dint have a planet to live on after that.

This is a major stretch for even a type 2
AKA Resume-driven development, the enemy of all engineering efforts and reason
It took me 18 months to receive a camera for an embedded device I'm building. I had ordered multiple last January and just wrote off one that never arrived. That one finally arrived about a week ago - I was shocked and delighted.
pretty much no one who studies this sort of stuff agrees with you, just so you know.
I hear you and it's now inevitable that the news cycle will move beyond Delta soon as other variants take over from it. It's also inevitable that future dominant variants are going to be more resistant to the current vaccines as they evolve inside of vaccinated populations. That said, I think the article conveyed a lot of subtle but important points that some people miss in all the noise. One is that vaccination is increasingly important for protecting yourself regardless of the evolving situation and how many people around you do or don't get vaccinated. The other is that vaccines are unlikely to ever stop the spread of the virus but that's not a bad thing since we will be increasingly able to prevent deaths.
I was quite suspicious of it when it was first announced, but an open source RE tool is probably the stupidest place to put a backdoor. Author considerations aside, it’s a great tool, and does pretty well with decompiling.
Approximating the Gaussian
Medical facilities already take up a considerable fraction of total productivity. Vaccine production on the other hand is a tiny footnote in the grand scheme of things.

Vaccine output could be increased tenfold or more for less effort then it would take to increase medical facilities by only a few percentage points. It's a comparison like getting a second TV for seeing more frames per second vs trying to do the same by commissioning more oil paintings (from a really bad painter)
truly inspirational! Who knew testosterone had such profound effects. Super cool and much needed service.
> Here's the thing: On one hand you have companies trying to minimize taxes any (legal) way they can, and on the other you have countries saying "Here you can (legally) minimize your taxes!".

Problem is at least with the Ireland case was that there were backroom deals that no one else could be aware of when taxes should be applied equally to everyone. In fact that last part is kinda required by various trade agreements which is the reason most European countries could get so pissed of at Ireland, not the low taxes, but the secrecy in how it applied tax laws to specific heavyweights.

Ireland: Nothing wrong here, the plans where publicly available in a disused lavatory labeled beware of the leopard. Everyone with a direct line to our finance minister could have asked and we would have told them how to apply. Totally nothing illegal going on here.
Apollo is attractive, but being closed source and giving all permissions to a social media account makes me a little nervous. It seems relatively time-tested, but even if the developer is benevolent it increases attack surface area.
I got vaccinated with J&J and I should then freak out? I've been frantically searching for a source to definitely tell me if it makes sense to get a shot of mRNA based vaccine too to no avail.
Sports are a business and fall under entertainment anyway in my opinion. Owners make a lot of money and you won't see them footing the bill for new stadiums/fields generally too. Thats all tax-payer funded in the US. Internationally I'm not sure but I doubt they are footing the bill 100%.
Storage for Practice Coding Problems
Stores code for practice problems. Written in C, currently a work in progress.
As long as you didn't buy a car...

Or had to hire new employees.
Ask HN: Anybody Else Leaving Bitbucket?
Downtime the past several months has been atrocious, usually several times per week that critical functionality is down.
The key insight of Dijkstra is that we should use a kind of substitution calculus to derive programs from invariants.

From Dijkstra's time we've seen partial adoptions and spinoffs from these insights. Using lambda calculus and static types gets you program behavior that looks a lot like refinement calculus and invariants (since types label domains that are equivalent to predicate sets, and lambda calculus computation is the substitution model).

For that reason I would say that the spiritual successor's to Dijsktra are in the functional programming community, particularly Haskell and Scala: Erik Meijer, Richard Bird, Martin Sapolsky, etc.

Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science curriculum is also fairly integrated across the board to use this style of programming and mathematics.
Nice to see someone addressing the stigma against testosterone
There's at least three sci-fi universes I know of that used ubiquitous nanoscale wormholes to speed up their processors.
Walking around with the sum total of human knowledge. That featured heavily in a lot of episodes where the ship carried around a library of everything and and could communicate back to the network on Earth for everything squared. Often problems were solved by database search algorithm.

And the VR Holodeck is spot on actually. I was having moments where I was questioning how much better the experience really would be with a matter-energy converter. It already works pretty well using stupid human perceptual tricks.
One of the best things about ESP32 is that the ARduino layer is just a compatibility layer. I ported Zork to FreeRTOS and booted it natively as a FreeRTOS app on the ESP32, that was massively educational.

AFAICT basically nobody is using python to program these things, just C.
Building my own breakout board is crazy. But my friend did build an Arduino from scratch on a breadboard from AVR, etc. Don't see the point- that's all work that doesn't bring me closer to driving my 3D printer.
What does ‘rubber hose’ mean here?
I used Scientific Word to write my dissertation and my first academic papers. It was a great piece of software in the late 1990s, at least relative to the alternatives, which were writing .tex files yourself or typing in a word processor. I have a coauthor that still uses SW.

I can't say this is surprising. I moved to LyX long ago, and then after markdown became popular I ditched LyX and went with that. There are lots of strong alternatives today. There probably aren't many people willing to pay for something they can get for free, that they already have, or that doesn't provide features for collaboration.
that assumes peoples incomes are increasing
IMHO, if you need stream processing, start with Apache Flink. It not only offers a much easier to user API compare to Storm and Heron, but also has a superior execution model for time-based, exactly-once, stateful stream processing.
I have read two long articles by him, each around 1 hour read. So I have a good sense of what his writing is about.
You forgot gearpump

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/gearpump.html
let me know when German TV serves over 200 million people on as many devices as Netflix
Taming the Moose: Picking the best way to subclass Perl methods
I think it gets that tag after some threshold of flags and then has to be revived.

>controversial

I would say there is some contention going on in this thread.
I would envision two chambers A and B connected by two vents X and Y,
like Maxwell's demon but with two vents instead of one and both vents
permanently open. Whereas X is an ordinary vent, Y has the property
that any particle passing from A to B through it reaches B shortly
before it leaves A. Any particle passing from B to A through Y
disappears for a short time before reappearing in A. It seems to me
that this setup would induce a current of air blowing from A to B
through Y and from B to A through X, but I'm only an amateur and could
be full of hot air myself.
If you’re trading then TSLA is far more natural.
This is my problem when being on the other end of "do nothing". We subcontracted our it support, this means no one in our company has direct access to systems supported by contractors. And then you need some trivial information and have to wait or ask multiple time. Compated to past when you had tools and access to get that information yourself.
> Doing nothing is akin to saying my time is more valuable than yours…

And what if it actually is?

Technical people, in particular, are often working on improving system throughput over the long term. It can take a lot of discipline for an organization to stay focused on these goals, and unfortunately it can mean short term pain for individuals.

The other extreme is a staff that is very, very busy and yet can’t keep up with even routine upgrades and maintenance.

(This is the classic “urgent versus important” problem.)
How AI Protects My Garden from Rabbits
The argument is probably that people enjoy it, does everything have to be in the name of result maximization?
From the HN guidelines

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> In Comments

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

We are in an active period of economic and societal uncertainty. Hence the original post gratifies my intellectual curiosity and my comment expresses my curiosity about how to navigate the situation. If you want to be pedantic, I'm curious about how to hack this intellectually curious time to protect or grow my wealth. I appreciate your concern, but I'm not going to take some stranger's advice and follow it to a T. I'm curious to see what people's thoughts on the matter are and use that to adjust my own research.