skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key findings:

-In every city included in the study, companies with no return to office vaccination policy had higher employee absences and higher health costs compared with businesses that implemented any vaccination policy.

-Businesses that required employees to be fully vaccinated before they returned to the office experienced no staff illnesses, missed workdays or increased expenses related to COVID-19.

-Businesses of 1,000 employees without an employee vaccination policy are likely to have an estimated 392 missed days of work over the upcoming fall and may spend $798,000 on COVID-19 health costs, on average.

-Businesses can prevent nearly 200 missed workdays in the fall from employee absences and save around $326,000 by strongly encouraging employees to get vaccinated before returning to the workplace.

-Businesses that strongly encouraged vaccination before entering the workplace can reduce workplace absences due to illness and lower COVID-19 health costs by 59%, compared with having no vaccination policy.

-Businesses in cities with lower vaccination rates in working adults, such as Charlotte, NC would most benefit from a vaccination policy, preventing nearly 610 missed days in the fall and saving approximately $1.2M in COVID-19-related health costs.

-Businesses located in cities with higher levels of vaccination coverage in working adults, like Hartford, CT, could also realize savings from a vaccination policy of about $324,000 in COVID-19 related health costs and prevent up to 210 missed days over the fall.
I assume they meant throwing an exception like divisions by zero usually do, i.e. a hardware trap.

I always thought that overflows should be checked in hardware, I suppose it's not a stretch to extend that to truncation. It's controversial though, and obviously mostly a thought experiment anyway unless we manage to convince some CPU manufacturer to extend their ISA that way.

MIPS does have (optional) trapping overflow on signed add/sub overflow, so at least there's a small precedent for it.
The stimulus ran out long ago. This growth 8sborganic due to increased productivity and increasing growth and dominate of large tach and retail firms that emerged stronger than ever from the pandemic. The stock market is a forward indicator. If the economy were propped up by stimulus and stimulus is finite, then the market would not have risen so much.
India is a democracy on paper. But the abject poverty, corruption, and utterly abusive behaviour towards certain groups (called casts, much like in the middle ages) point towards a semi dictatorship through and through.
> a lot of powerful people in the church simply considered the heliocentric model better science and a settled matter, and used their political power to silence opponents

It's good to remember that human nature hasn't changed and the same thing is almost certainly happening today too.
Starship (which will get its bread and butter from Starlink) actually WOULD enable much cheaper space telescopes, cheaper repairs and maintain by astronauts. Starlink satellites themselves are very inexpensive and show there’s no fundamental reason why space hardware MUST be extremely expensive compared to ground hardware.

Space telescopes could actually be cheaper than ground telescopes if SpaceX succeeds in reducing cost of human spaceflight to their goals. Space telescopes don’t need massive structures to keep the mirror from deforming under gravity, they don’t need advanced adaptive optics to adjust for seeing, they can point almost anywhere in the sky and can observe objects day and night without weather or seasonal concerns.
From an infrastructure standpoint the difference between fiber and everything else is that fiber is permanent.

That is, if you run fiber optic along the power lines that will be good to support crazy high-speeds for the next 50+ years -- with relatively small investments in the future to improve the transceivers at the ends.

If you build fixed wireless the one thing that's certain is that the hardware will be obsolete in 5-10 years and have to be "ripped and replaced".
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> Maglev trains can start and stop much, much faster than regular trains

Ah, wasn't aware of that. Thank you.
That's roughly the speed of a Soyuz landing, which has been described as a "low speed car crash".

Retrorockets fire immediately prior to impact to cushion the blow, but it's still a hard jolt.
> ...“bugs found in requirements are 100x cheaper than bugs found in implementations.” ... There’s one tiny problem with the IBM Systems Sciences Institute study: it doesn’t exist

It's funny to think how much of an effect this chart had on software engineering as a whole. I remember learning it at university and until today I thought it had some basis in science.
When can you see satellites in the Earth shadow with visible light?
I think the laughter is mostly just fun. I don't think anyone laughing believes K8s would have auto prevented the issue.

In fact there is probably a growing problem that the ways this could have been solved in Kubernetes is slowly approaching the number of ways that it could have been solved on good ol' baremetal/ec2's. Kubernetes != non-bespoke system.

I like the fact, however, that there do at least exist standard primitives in Kubernetes that could approach horizontal scaling (if that was the issue as is insinuated by the aforementioned laughing) since the best thing Kubernetes does for me is helping me keep my cloud vendor (aws,gcp,azure,etc) knowledge shallow for typical web hosting solutions.
I'm a lifelong resident, but I can't say I share your optimism. the per capita murder rate is still well above the worst years in the 90s, with 2019 setting an all time high. the population is still falling, rapidly in poorer neighborhoods but offset somewhat by growth in the wealthier ones. our current mayor has not been convicted of any crimes committed while in office (a low bar in other cities), but otherwise does not seem far from the standard fare. at least one key employer (t rowe) is hedging its bet with new offices outside the city limits. what exactly are you seeing improve? I guess it's a great time to sell property in the white L or be employed by the johns hopkins medical system, but other than that, I'm not seeing it.
By constraining all your communications to a game of interstellar rock paper scissors?
>If you are a Firefox user, you don’t have to do anything to benefit from this security advancement.

The epitome of corporate speak: "we're taking away a feature of this software. You're welcome."

I expect that kind of talk from Google; hearing it from Mozilla makes me a little sad.
Syrians were under 30% of the migrants arriving in Europe from 2015-2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis#Causes...

> The left (such as this can be described as a homogenous bloc!) was not in favour of the collapse of Syria, although they generally were against just repeating the mistakes of Iraq there. Without the attack on Iraq the collapse of Syria might not have happened, after all - it released a huge amount of arms stockpiles into the region which were taken up by ISIS.

Obama authorized the CIA in 2013 to supply the Syrian rebels with money, weapons, and training [0]. A lot of those weapons ended up falling into the hands of extremist groups like AQ and ISIL, either by "vetted" militia groups getting absorbed into larger ones or weapons getting resold on the black market. That may not have ignited the conflict, but it certainly prolonged it and contributed to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
It will take you 18 months to get kubectl access on just the staging environment though, and then another 6 to track down only 90% of the obscure people and processes that generate and mutate the manifests before deploying. Finally you'll realize that the whole time it was one guy in a corner cubicle in a remote office typing custom magic commands acting as the sole link between the engineering org and the cluster.

K8s is just another giant footgun. Good and bad orgs will still be good or bad, with or without it, but it definitely amplifies the bad.
Alas, the world may never see yeshi.va and di.va, to name a couple.
Some extra insight here: https://twitter.com/funcOfJoe/status/1121963970661715968
Starlink has virtually no impact on naked eye observation of the sky with sunshades.
Profit to fund orbital technologies?
> Iirc, by far the greatest %-age net worth growth in 2020 was among the bottom 50%: greater than the growth in the top 10% or top 1%.

That’s not true at all. By far most gains were captured by the wealthy:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/how-much-wealth-top-1percent...
> Also a very small percentage of these are actually fighting in infantry risking their lives.

The idea that risk of life in the military is exclusive to the infantry (or even “combat arms” more generally) is...pretty ludicrous.

And the military is systematically and manipulatively marketed to young people at least as much as online sex work is.
Came here to say something similar. When I was about 20 some close friends of mine started practicing (and eventually ordained) with the American Theravadin monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu, which got my meditation practice started. Unfortunately I made the mistake of doing a lot of sitting and not a lot of learning of the Buddha's teachings at that time, other than reading some Pali translations and listening to Thanissaro Bhikkhu's dharma talks here and there. It got to the place where I didn't have the proper view to make sense of things that were happening and it felt like sitting was making life harder, so I gave up daily practice.

About 10 years later I encountered the Diamond and Heart sutras from the Mahayana traditions and things made a whole lot more sense. It allowed me to get back to daily practice, which I'm very thankful for. It's not a teaching emphasized in the Theravada traditions that many of these American "mindfulness" movements draw from - although it's there - but the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā) I found to be transformative for my practice. When the author writes things like "...elements of my sense of self became separated in a way that impaired my ability to function", it makes me think he'd benefit from learning the teachings on emptiness and the doctrine of the two truths.

This is all to say that I find it pretty irresponsible and potentially dangerous to have people with very little understanding of the Buddha's teachings get thrown into 10-day silent meditation retreats where you're sitting for 10 hours per day as often seems to happen. Or to divorce the practice of meditation from the teachings as is common in lots of modern western "mindfulness" spaces. Many traditions teach these things slowly, over the course of months and years, while moving you along as your understanding deepens for a reason.

I'd recommend taking your practice slowly, preferably with a skilled Buddhist monk to guide you. Read the sutras. Find a tradition that resonates with you personally. Know that there are risks involved and often times the practice will be difficult and confusing. It's not a magic pill to make you a better worker under capitalism.
All zazen enables you to do is observe yourself and your reality very closely; this includes the good and the bad. Seeing under the veil of the stories we spin for ourselves to function can be extremely freeing but at the same time also very difficult to cope with.

I can’t make a call either way in the authors mental state, but clearly there was stuff going on unrelated to meditation which he clearly needs some help dealing with.
This game was given to me by a friend and I love playing it but I can't justify the amount they want for these expansions. The expansions are more than half the price of the base game and add less than what some free mods do. I guess they're priced at what the market will pay.

I'll just stick with Mods. Mods provide as much or even more immersive experience and they're free. It's quite clear the mods are a labor of love by their creators and they have passion for it instead of cranking a money mill. Donate to the mod creators!
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I had a feeling there'd be a hat for this and I was correct: https://geekworm.com/products/for-raspberry-pi-4-x873-v1-2-m...

There you go, now you too can use a Pi :)
> It's a Western problem

It's more accurately a common law problem. European states with Napoleonic law appear to avoid the cost spiral.

> You can probably draw a line between cities and not hit many things

The empty parts are away from cities. The California and Capitol corridors are (a) prime rail routes and (b) almost contiguous megalopolises.
Not quite. I'm not giving an opinion. I'm stating an observation (that the debate I've seen has been mostly about questioning the existence of this mega-wealthy class rather than about how they should use the money they have).

Based on that observation, I then proceeded to say that the question is based on false premises and as such is not a good question as it can only have a meaningless answer.

Another commenter mentioned the debate they've seen is more inline with what's in the question, and that's a fair observation. If that's the case and my observation is biased in the wrong way, then the question is ok.
I was in the same boat till recently. For me, it was Hacker News that felt like this infinite firehose. I felt anxiety if I did not read HN some day—like information was slipping away from me forever.

This is what I did:

- Rely more on my Twitter timeline. I follow <200 people and have my timeline show tweets in chronological order and I am able to "catch-up" once every day. I only check it in the morning.

- Subscribe to some link-aggregator newsletters, like hackernewsletter, that sends a weekly digest of interesting links every Friday.

- But most importantly, just come to terms with information overload that we all are living through right now and it's ok if you miss out sometimes. If it was important, you will come across it later. :)
This is incorrect. What you've described is classical correlation, not quantum correlation.
-Wconversion will do it.
Personally I think there's a difference when the thing is completely new like when the space race first launched and now when it's decades on and we have continuously occupied the ISS for just over two decades. I might take one of these suborbital hops for fun but mostly because I have doubts it'll be reasonable to do a full orbit in my lifetime.

These are both neat but the billionaire pissing contest nature of it really cheapens it. Blue Origin originally rushed out and crowed about 'beating' SpaceX in (I think) launch and land reusability and now Branson rushing out to beat Bezos to barely cross into space. I'd honestly thought the whole Virgin Galactic thing had been quietly canned years ago because nothing was happening till there was this little race.
> I think it probably depends on which restaurant you work at and on your skill set and ability to thrive in that fast paced environment.

Equally true of software development, systems/network administration, etc. It can totally suck, or it can be a source of joy, growth, and profit, all depending on where you're workin' and who for. Some of the best jobs I've had in both industries have been almost like "gettin' paid to play" because the whole crew was doin' stuff they already enjoyed doin' and doin' it for a boss that knew how to motivate in positive ways and how to join in and be part of the fun of it all. That plus a paycheck and benefits? Why would anyone ever want to go back to a shit job after knowing good jobs exist out there.
> It's rather frustrating in practice.

All explicit conversions, more so fallible, are "frustrating in practice" especially when coming from a language without those foibles.

But given the semantics of usize/isize, it is perfectly reasonable, nay, a good thing, that they're considered neither widenings nor narrowings of other numeric types.
Why do you think it was ever a bad idea? From the Airbnb wikipedia page, it seems apparent that, right from the beginning, the plan was to tap into the market of people who liked the idea of playing a professional Host but did not have the capital or desire to run a full fledged hotel/BnB; some of the margin gained by these lower costs of operating could be passed on to guests, thereby attracting them to the service.

However, HOWEVER, there are/were some gigantic risks Airbnb was taking, I will agree with you on that -- the risk of people staying at random strangers' houses and the wide spectrum of horrifying experiences that can lead to. There's an excellent Bloomberg article that does a deep dive into Airbnb's somewhat-shady "Trust and Safety team"[1][2].

The point I'm trying to make is that although the idea came with certain inherent risks, skillful execution can mitigate those risks significantly. Similar risks were also attached to Uber's idea of random strangers offering rides to people, and those risks were somewhat mitigated as well.

[1] archive.md link: https://archive.md/nyBFY

[2] original article link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-15/airbnb-sp...
Bezos mentioned there's a pocket of air that forms a cushion underneath just before it hits, slowing it to 1 mph at impact. The older woman said she didn't even feel it.
I can't find the exact timestamp but at the beginning of this podcast[0] Jason Calacanis talks about his experience joining Musk backstage at SNL, as well as how that Asperger's joke came to be. If I recall correctly, I think its confirmed, or at least strongly implied, Musk does have Asperger's

EDIT: they start talking about it at the 7:00 mark

[0] https://youtu.be/GE0iWGNXKXw?t=420
Not sure a tiny island that’s 6-7’ above sea level is such a genius investment these days.
I think you're playing a bit of a semantics game here. Obviously media, NGOs and academia can be detrimental to democracy. So can elections or the judiciary too (e.g. Hitler's rise to chancellor of Germany was legal and Democratic).

When one calls these institutions Democratic it's because they do represent opposition and thus a control mechanism. This does not mean that they're infallible or act for the good of society by definition but if they do not exist the government operates - de facto - in a completely uncontrolled framework. Unsurprisingly this is why many governments do try to dismantle these institutions in the first place.

>[..] but that Hungary and other countries are the subject of foreign imperialist ideological bullying is not an open question as far as I am concerned.

I agree that this is worthy of a discussion however I don't think this is the topic in question at all.
I read this 3 times and still can't parse what you're trying to say.
I would prefer not to see that happen, I'm fine with as and the safer options as they are currently. It would be a big job to update all the code in the wild when you want to move to the newer edition.
I think your analogy works for both many worlds and Copenhagen. You can view each universe in your analogy as states in the wave function. The two interpretations diverge only when the "observation" occurs. In the Copanhagen interpretation the other universe disappears. In the many worlds interpretation they both remain.
> it was not doing homology modelling as it is generally understood, but ab initio protein structure prediction.

Maybe according to the current definition of the term, which has drifted over the years. Homology modeling and "ab initio" structure prediction have been drifting toward each other for a long time. These days, the categories are separated by (an essentially arbitrary) sequence identity threshold. If you have a protein sequence with high homology to some other protein with a structure, then you're homology modeling. If you have no matches at all, you're doing "ab initio". In the middle, you have a gray area where you can mix the approaches and call it whatever you like.

This is not a pedantic point. If your method requires homology -- however distant and fragmented -- in order to work, then you're always limited to the knowledge in the database. Maybe we've sampled enough of protein space to get the major folds, but certainly, the databases don't have enough information to get the small details right.

I have never been a huge believer in the idea that we can go directly from protein sequence to protein structure simply using a mathematical model of physics, but that is the original meaning of "ab initio structure prediction", and if you could do it, it would be far more valuable than alphafold. At risk of making a trivially nerd-snipable metaphor, it's kind of like the difference between google translate and a theoretical model of human intelligence that understands concepts and can generate language. The latter is obviously immensely more capable than the former.
They mentioned on the stream the capsule has cushions that deploy at around 6ft. I couldn't see them on the video feed but they might be underneath the capsule.
Why does the compiler not warn if you use a 64 bit unsigned integer when a 32 bit signed integer is required?
>>And having elected Trump, what did they get aside from triggering the libs?

Just top of my head:

Well, there is an argument to be made from purely economical perspective, avg. earner did see some improvement. Regardless of whether you think tax cuts were a good idea, Trump tax cuts did have intended effects ( even though they also added to an ever increasing deficit ).

He did pull out of JCPOA, which some of his electorate actually wanted for various reasons.

I maintain that listening is important. I would argue that understanding is more than important. You want an absolution and an easy answer of 'they are just assholes so I can be an asshole back', but it is not that easy. The people you dismiss have rationale for what they do. And now that you know this, you have no excuse but to act on that knowledge. Or, at least, use it to your advantage.
And it's not even just some rednecks in the boonies in the US either. My dad's house in Maine is just 10 minutes from a fairly sizable city (by Maine standards). He can get maybe 1Mbps down and the houses further down the road can't get wired Internet at all. Cell phone reception is also almost non-existent.
The two things that have scared me away from k8s:

1) Churn + upgrade horror stories,

2) Apparent heavy reliance on 3rd party projects to use it well and sanely which can (in my experience, in other ecosystems) seriously hamper one's ability to resist the constant-upgrade train to mitigate problem #1.

Basically, I'm afraid it's the Nodejs (or React Native—folks who've been there will know what I mean) of cluster management, not the... I dunno, Debian, reliable and slowly changing and sits-there-and-does-its-job. Does it seem that way to you and is just so good it's worth it anyway, or am I misunderstanding the situation?
That isn’t strictly true. There are changes to the design of the instrument that the makers could’ve incorporated that would be better at dealing with the effects of satellite trails which has been a thing since Sputnik. They chose not to implement that capability, even though satellite constellations and proposed mega constellations have been a thing since well before Vera Rubin was designed.
Thanks for the wishes. That's really cool that you were able to do that!
> unbiased pool of experts

Sounds like an oxymoron these days.
"Providing anonymous crypto-asset wallets will also be prohibited, just as anonymous bank accounts are already banned under EU anti-money laundering rules.", which most definitely sounds like private wallets with be prohibited by law at some point.