skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my country, we had 6 weeks between the doses. The main reason was shortage of vaccines, of course; nowadays the 6-week interval has been abolished and you can actually get the second dose earlier if you will, b/c "peak jab" is over and further interest wanes.

I am one of the "six week vaccinees", which sits just in the middle of the two sets studied in this paper. I wonder what the results for 6 week delay are.

Accidentally, Delta does not seem to be a problem yet in my country. IDK if it is luck, an early phase of a future wave or an effect of Pfizer doses being given 6 weeks apart, but our current Covid numbers are much more moderate than expected.
StackOverflow has had ads for as long as I can remember. The job ad on the sidebar you're describing has been there since at least 2018.
This is easy to say if one is living in the country with all the vaccine supply. Canada bought more doses per capita than any other country, yet US prohibitions on vaccine export meant Canada could not get enough supply in the first few months of the vaccine rollout. A calculated risk was taken to give first doses while waiting for supply to come online, which did eventually happen.

This was not some random experiment on the population. While the gold standard of a phase three trial was not available to support the longer interval, there was plenty of data about the performance of prior vaccines, and interim data about immunogenicity with a longer interval for the COVID-19 vaccines.
Not disagreeing, but part of the underlying reality is that companies are not financially responsible for the externalities they contribute to (such as climate change) or post-consumer costs such as disposal. The result is that the "true" cost of the product to society is not reflected in the consumer-facing price.

I think regulation should be a last resort, but in this case, some kind of taxation or regulation is necessary, because there is absolutely no incentive to be good stewards of the Earth within our current version of capitalism.
I think the point is partially imprecise (the Arctic is actually particularly sensitive to spills, in addition to its sensitivity to climate change) as well as just kind of highlighting the irony/hypocrisy of the situation. “Well sweet, the Arctic is gonna be ravaged by climate change, but I suppose that makes it easier to extract oil and gas and accelerate that climate change! Woot for us!”
Moderns homes have drastically increased heating efficiency.

A huge step forward in energy savings.
The apps run two different models, and mobile phones are plenty powerful now to run some pretty complicated algorithms, so the offline accuracy of Merlin is pretty good.

BirdNET and Merlin Sound ID are such different use cases (real-time classification of a rolling window of audio vs classification of a user selection) that we don't have any comparison metrics between the two, and they are really geared for different purposes (BirdNET’s goals align more with research in bioacoustics, while Merlin’s goals align more with outreach and education.)

source: Merlin dev
Startup for me is a euphemism for a business that has yet to make a sustainable profit (and perhaps never will.)
What can I read to understand how dealing with climate change won't be uncomfortably expensive?
Did you mean "Climate change will not be addressed by..."?
> Someone has to produce oil and gas. It might as well be...

Drill baby drill
Gamble is the wrong word for this. It was a calculated risk as is everything in a pandemic or other evolving threat to public health.
Florida to me will always be the place that people’s grandparents go when they get too old to deal with NYC winters. I realize that’s foolish but there it is.

If I was going to be a tax exile I’d be more inclined to look at parts of NH within the metro area of Boston and Texas (especially Austin). Maybe Nashville.
Most people avoid accidents, so anecdotes are likely to skew toward "no effect". But the incidence of recklessness is still higher in young people, hence in countries where a lot of young people drive, there will be a bump in the DUI accident numbers for young people.

My argument is that unless young people have experience with both, it's unlikely that there won't be an initial increase in DUI accidents until they get that experience.
I'm sorry but you misunderstanding what op said and sending a completely unrelated study plus an anecdote of a user doesn't convince me at all.
I still think that something else was unethical: not running challenge tests.

There were enough volunteers for them.
Curious as to why you chose Discord? I’ve been invited to various product-focused Discord groups over the years and strongly disliked the experience. Way too much time sorting through channels just to follow along. I love Discord for gaming chat, but it is not ideally suited foe this use case…
Some implementations have O(n) access in the worst case.

Often people are interested in something like the 99.9999%ile case. And, of course, you can design hash tables with better worst case behaviour.

It's almost trivial to get a hash table with O(log n) worst case access: when you have a collision, just resolve it with a tree instead of a linked list.

With some more fancy math, you can also get O(1) amortized worst case behaviour with arbitrarily high probability that doesn't depend on your input data.
I've never heard of CGNAT before this thread but add that to ISPs downgrading upload speeds, and refusal to allocate residential v6 space... Our whole industry is out to kill technical independence.
One scenario for Scandinavia is that the Gulf stream collapses eventually and we get substantially colder climate.
yes. the paper is really just sampling the OCR software's underlying distributions, combined with perl's acceptance of a wide range of things that look like line noise.
There will be more on this in Brian Keatings (he's a cosmologist) podcast this Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3tBDJk6rgc
I read this as Google admitting they failed as an efficient search engine. They have to explain people why their results are good because the results themselves don't convey that anymore. It's over, Google is now useless. For the life of me, I just can't find anything on Google anymore without adding explicitly "reddit", "stackoverflow" or "github" in my query. I've abandoned the idea to find new user blogs using Google, it's over. It's all click farms and paywalls. And I don't care that their results match what I searched for, these results are useless if the spams are not filtered out.
> a strong history of not prioritizing security or even considering it to be a legitimate goal

?

Did you mean the Windows kernel?

Linux has had incredible focus on security. SELinux being a prime example.
The wait period in British Columbia is about 7 weeks, and our #2 dose numbers look just as good as #1 (80% first dose, and 58% second dose, still averaging 60k doses a day)
PayPal IPO’d and was acquired by eBay in 2002. Presumably Musk had hundreds of millions by 2004.
Admitting the uncertainty is my point. Instead they change the messaging week by week and act like this latest messaging is certain.
A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years
I call BS on the whole premise.

While gas and oil might be on the way out replaced by newables, they wont be anywhere near enough capacity to build, carry, install, and serve while maintaining the same levels (of even half-reduced levels) energy consumption for decades.

That is, oil and gas can't just be stopped using overnight, and we switch over to renewables and electric energy and so on. It can't even be stopped in 1 or 2 decades, it will take much more. Even going with nuclear, it would take decades to get new factories up and running starting from today, and then there's all the other needs for oil...

One example: one billion+ of gas-powered cars wont magically dissapear overnight (nor it's globally a case of replacing them with electric cars in 5-10 years, the way some western consumer is used to buy "the new model"). And that's just a very small example of such needs (add public, state, industrial, and other uses).

So if Norway didn't invest in oil and gas, others definitely would need to, to feel a huge gap.
That's a really good take on what the author was going for, I appreciate the take! I still disagree that it starting out as a filesystem or database has anything to do with why it's so crap 30 years later but it gets to the crux of the topic much quicker.

With how tightly the APIs for accessing the registry are coupled with the model and encodings of the registry, particularly the driver APIs for it, I don't think it would have been so easy to just swap out the back end without breaking something though (which Windows avoids like the plague) but maybe doable by someone more optimistic than me :). The real "rewrite" was the push for Universal Windows apps using the .NET platform which stores everything for the app in XML files and shadow directories instead of the registry. Of course that didn't take over quite like they hoped so they ended up back with using the registry they were trying to leave 10 years later.
Yes, definitely. You would just have to define all those variables and operators. You could very probably even make it evaluate to the right URL in the end.
No. It is ethical to do that which maximizes life-saving outcomes. Saying that something is an "untested medical intervention" lacks the nuance of saying that some interventions are completely unknown, while others have fairly predictable and understandable effects.

The effects of a single dose were reasonably well understood as well as the impacts on transmission. Reducing transmission is a potentially more relevant goal than individual health outcomes in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah, this is a big problem I have with a lot of left wing climate criticism: they blame capitalism for climate change as if nationalizing the industry would make any difference. If anything, having the companies be privately owned puts extra barriers between the companies and the regulators, reducing (in theory, at least) the odds of regulatory capture.

(Which isn’t to say the right wing kind of ignoring or blatantly lying about climate change is better…)
Spot on. Production cuts would actually lead to more countries with unscrupulous leaders ramping up their own production.

We need to focus on consumption. I.e. moving to other sources.
Because he wants to removed unwanted software from his machine, not disable it. It's not dissimilar to being unable to remove bundled software on android.
Having a poor data security reputation?

It didn't effect Experian.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/another-data-leak...

It didn't effect Yahoo.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/might-mother-password-le...

It didn't effect Sony.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/sony-hack

It didn't effect AT&T.

https://www.wired.com/2011/09/911-surveillance/
The next big research question: Will it be feasible to have humans in the loop for military operations or will all the killing and destruction need to be 100% controlled by algorithms?
How would you cope with food prices rising 10x in cost ? And the famines ? And the breakdown of law and order accompanied with the failure of most industry and the military. ? Please propose a solution along with your oil-ban utopia.
flush out is what you to birds in a bush, flesh out is what you do to the skeleton of an idea, and fletch out isn't a thing.
A metaverse is just the republic of facebook. Its really uncomforting for such an entity devoid of humanistic incentives(and rather a asocial ceo with a fiducial obligation to his share holders) will be able to create a plane of virtual reality that much of the world will have no better option but to leverage. Its one thing to provide advertising subsidized internet. But a metaverse Is where our future children will be spending alot of their time, and if not our children, our childrens friends.
I've given away things i cherished to a family member. Be it a scooter, or a couch. The new owners just didn't have the same respect for the items and they deteriotated rather quickly.

I think the trick is to not make it free. Maybe sell it, well below market price but just enough to where they'll care.

Easy come easy go.
Yes, exactly that. After a few beers everyone's gangsta and feel like they are going to beat the Fast & Furious franchise on the road home. Even drunk driving takes experience, and young people don't have it, no matter what they start with (driving or drinking).
Another popular thing people like to do is map something like <k-j> or <j-j> to Escape. This can be easily done in your vimrc.

While the <Alt-[a-z]> mapping is great and enabled by default, it does have the side effect of logging an extra key press based on the [a-z].
My use of "underpowered" wasn't meant to convey that being underpowered is something negative. Even with a disadvantage with hardware power, you can still achieve state-of-the-art-or-better gameplay despite (or perhaps because of) such limitations.
I'm sorry but frankly no.
You are so demonstrably incorrect on this assertion.

There are many areas where RT report really well and have been rewarded. I however wouldn't ever trust them as a reputable source of the status of the Russian vaccination program or Russian voting.

Frankly this is common sense, read the foreign reporting on any issue in a country to balance what is correct and what is being magnipulated regardless of who is reporting on it. This is how grown ups are supposed to use the Internet rather than falling into a bubble of trusting 3or4 sites as gospel.

The same way I would be weary of the BBC reporting on any topic remotely close to the political arena in the uk at the time.

The beeb are getting demonstrably concerningly biased their manipulation or changes to page ranking within their site. They regularly do publish quoting lancet pages without directly linking to them, the story then falls out of the ranking within 24hr and the external index engines struggle to find the static published content they still have. It's they're it's "just gone". This is not a result of reasonable reporting or sensible journalism.
When the article is mistitled for clicks this is even worse.

I'm being nice to aunty beeb here. I want it to exist. But pretending it's currently an infallable entity and is unbiased is an insult to its heritage.
> Filling at a lower rate definitively lowers those expectations

Not filling at all should too though.
No, it's the new Hanseatic League (and was part of the old).
I’ll share what to me was one of the most impressive aspects of Weinberg’s work. I’ve seen him described as a battle tank — not the fastest to get moving, but basically unstoppable once he does.

As I was digging into the literature during my research, I noticed an interesting pattern to his work over the decades. There would erupt a “hot” area in applying quantum field theory, and have lots of back and forth and papers making claims, correcting each other, and being corrected. And then a few months/years later would come a Weinberg paper, handling the matter so systematically & thoroughly that there likely won’t be any more low-hanging fruit in the area!

The whole thing was really impressive given that he worked largely by himself (most of his papers are single-author), and had among the highest average citation count I’ve seen for a theoretical physicist. There is a reason his quantum field theory textbook series is highly respected — he wrought the field piece by piece with his own hands.

Finally, he was an extremely articulate writer, and I have a huge soft spot for his “Dreams of a final theory” — especially his comments on the relationship between theory & experiment, and the scientific method more generally. I really wish more people read that and got influenced by its depth and nuance.
I joined in 2014 as L4 (I think), and I remember having some googleyness interviews even back then.

But I could be remembering wrong.
Those terms describe weather phenomena, not causes of those phenomena.

The terms are used by folks like NOAA, not just news trying to get ad eyeballs, so I think the accusation of "boogeyman terms" seems unfounded. They have no reason to mint scary terms.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/heat-dome.html
It’s not like they just spend $1,000 all of a sudden. Poor families plan for that expense and spend the money: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/magazine/asian-test-prep-...

> This summer, Wang and his two younger brothers shared a room with one bunk bed, taking turns sleeping on the floor’s bamboo mat. His parents were in the other bedroom, with his sister and youngest brother. If test-prep classes were ever a financial burden for them, they never showed it, brushing off Wang’s questions, he says, telling him: “You’re just a little kid. Calm down, and leave the finances to us.”
Scale in distribution, especially marketing / brand / name recognition
That's not what I see in that plot. I see a distribution shift, with zero linkage between before and after cases that would suggest "Half had more gray matter"

Figure 2 is the one you want https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachme...

Which does show effect increasing with severity of the case. I've seen plots like that before in similar articles.

See also table 2.
When did misinformation start becoming a problem on social media?

Sometime between 2008 and now, I just can't put my finger on when.
I had no idea passport control would be offline in this day and age. TIL. Thanks!
> A recent study conducted by researchers at London University College concluded that globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80% of current coal reserves should remain unused from 2010 to 2050 in order to meet the target of 2 °C. Specifically, the study concluded, all oil and gas reserves north of the Arctic Circle should remain in the ground to halt dangerous climate change.

> It is therefore of huge concern that the Norwegian Ministrer of Petroleum and Energy, Tord Lien from the Progressive Party (FrP), is set to announce the opening of the 23rd licensing round for exploration in 57 new drilling locations in the Arctic, further north than ever.

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From your link
You should be encrypting any PII
Isn’t the whole idea of practicing for a test that is supposed to measure aptitude wrong? If not it seems like the test is only really measuring the degree to which a student has practiced for it. Is that desirable?
Why the BBC can't show full live coverage of the Tokyo Olympics
You're describing something else.

In my interviews you can use the internet. I don't stare, I'm mostly taking notes and answering questions, either listening to the candidate explain things or explaining things. No decisions have been made. I describe a problem, we solve it together. Just like we might on the job.
See https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
When pasting from Word, the contentEditable will gladly accept any formatting that came with the paste (e.g whatever strongs, bolds, italics, links, headings, tables, what-not you may have in your clipboard), and so the sanitize-html NPM library essentially strips out the elements I do not want for UX consistency. Since I'm building this contentEditable just for a singular paragraph as part of a larger block-based editor, I only want it to contain what a regular paragraph would (e.g bold, italic, link), but nothing else.

So, all-in-all, the clipboard contains still everything, the sanitize-html library would strip things from it that you wouldn't want, so that you're left with only the formatting you do want. As for images, since I'm stripping them out as well, there will not be any images. By default I'm not sure if they end up as base-64 (I'm leaning to believe that rather they would get local URL's like file://...).
Wait, what about this:

"A common challenge in studies of COVID-19 is that differences between people who have vs. have not been ill could relate to premorbid differences. To address this issue, a linear model was trained on the broader independent GBIT dataset (N = 269,264) to predict general cognitive performance based on age (to the third order), sex, handedness, ethnicity, first language, country of residence, occupational status and earnings. "
This is what bothers me about Norway. They have become rich by harvesting abundant natural resources, and now spend that money to try and stop other countries from exploiting their own. It seems hypocritical to me, especially because they present it as being altruistic when they shame poor countries for trying to provide for their people.
The First Three Minutes is one of my favorite books. I keep go back to it.
Each of those steps had more nuance being communicated than the half-sentence you summarize it with, often with intense public debate and different judgment calls from different health authorities. (AZ and if/how to use it is probably the biggest example, vaccination for children is another (at least here in DE that's a massive thing)) None of these things were "this is the absolute truth forever".
1. Take classes regarding subjects that are difficult to learn on your own and mentoring is useful. Certain subjects like Math take a lot of discipline to learn so school structure helps make it happen.

2. Think of school as a way to exchange time for money. Going to school for 4 years will likely land you a job that would have taken 10 years of job experience without the education.

3. Treat it like a job. Get up - do the work. Try and keep enough free time to let you decompress and enjoy your school experience. Most students don't succeed simply because they cannot manage their time.

4. Don't think of school as preparing you for a job. You are building a toolbox. What you build with it is up to you.

5. Get it done. As you get older you will never again have the amount of time to focus simply on yourself and learning new things.
Norway is absolutely shifting away from fossil fuels themselves for domestic use.

They're the world leader in electric cars, for example.

The thrust of the article is that somehow they should change worldwide oil production (which they have little control over) rather than domestic oil use (which they are working on with relative success).

Simply put, the writer is either completely mad or a cynical shill of some sort.
Based on Debian's popcon numbers (https://popcon.debian.org/), Rust has support for 99.99% of users. The reality is that if you're using architectures at that level of reality, no one actually supports your architecture, so you're reliant on locally patching software and hoping things work.

(Note that MIPS is a Tier 2 support for Rust, which is a commitment to keep it building but does not obligate running tests for every checkin).
,,It’s unlikely these projects will attract any venture capital money or support a SPAC''

They already do actually. Space industry investments are booming. The author should check his facts.
What makes you think that a sub-25% reduction in oil production would raise food prices by 10x?
Per capita is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If one cared about actual pollution contribution they'd write in Russia or the United States.
The real issue is the marketing of "oil and gas are evil". No they are not...they are essential. At the same time, the marketing of "renewable energy is good" continues, yet overtly hides and masks the ugly, toxic side of it.
Our democratic Governments are ultimately held accountable by voters and not their fiduciary obligation to maximize profit for shareholders. There is a more humanist element to governments.