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Lookups in excel are fine, at least now we have XLOOKUP but there's something depressing about an excel model which contains multiple massive grids of lookups. I find such things are much easier in a real join, where you can get your data into long format then write a single line of code to manipulate meaningful named columns.
The Delta variant is a humanitarian crisis in less vaccinated India and a moderate public health concern in countries with higher rates of vaccination.
I am sorry but to me the wording of your comment seems way too political and biased-sounding for hacker news.
Do it. Even if you can only publish parts of them...

a) you could write-up just the parts that aren't (borderline) illegal
b) I think you'd be surprised at what people find useful and interesting
c) maybe you could apply a little bit of (a) to this one but even if you have to not publish about this, you'll still have something from (a) and (b)
> while presenting the appearance of being passionate about what you do during work

Why would anyone want this? It's fake. Let's try to keep the IT world free of as much BS as we can please. Don't follow this nonsense trends.
I've read enough of buggy behaviors on MacOS that I'm not sure I'd buy a Mac today. Wasn't their new filesystem a giant mess? Even the shiny new M1 had SSD wear problems in the beginning, hmm, great QA, guys!
I love it, I'm using neovim though.
Supporting tons of slightly different configurations is an impediment to efficient operations though. There’s some logic to doing things that way.
It's so hot in Dubai that the government is artificially creating rainstorms
Can confirm this is 100% true. They are super smart and super destructive.
>You simply can’t have this with socketed RAM.

[Citation needed], there is no real electrical engineering reason why you couldn't.
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Can you give the roughest of indications for European orders (UK for me, if it's going to be that granular)? I've been signed up to the mailing list to be notified since first post here, really looking forward to it; I've been tempted to use Canadian pre-order via a favour ever since that opened up, but should I just be patient, will it be 'soon'?

Do you anticipate that (if this goes as well as I hope and assume it will/is) a v2 model would have an upgrade path from 'v1' (as it were, that for pre-order/sale now) - i.e. buy new case, new motherboard (or whatever) and it's effectively the same as if you bought the new one? Or have you accepted/do you think that not all parts can be fully modular and independently saleable?
Really loved the Mars trilogy when I was a teenager. The clunky character development and invented politics haven't aged super well, but the stories are still interesting. I also enjoyed The Memory of Whiteness and The Years of Rice and Salt.

More recently I tried reading Aurora (2015), but the book is a downer and a slog. Not recommended. Didn't finish it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)
> If you do not have the relevant tooling you can still read the canonical formatting.

Which is often unnecessarily difficult for whatever reason, hence my initial comment. Given that tabs already exist there's literally no reason not to use them other than to intentionally spite any future readers who don't agree with your preference for indentation width.

> that exactly what tab proponents expect

Because that capability is built into even the most primitive of text editors since forever. Per-language formatting, on the other hand, is most certainly not.
I think their approach is mirroring the one from the start of the pandemic. They intend let the corona run through the population, but hope that population being vaccinated will reduce the damage. And when most people will get infected with the corona at least once they'll have even better reduction of transmission even when compared to perfect vaccination rates.
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Yeah, I’m really curious where they go from here because it seems like the lesson is that modularity has a major performance penalty.
> No clinically severe COVID-19 (1) was observed, and no patient was hospitalized.

> All had Pfizer vaccine.

Why don’t they lead with that as it is the expected result.
I had an iMac G4 in 2004 and I have a MacBook pro M1 in 2021. I used only PCs running Ubuntu, ArchLinux, and Windows between. When I got the M1, it felt like home. Not much did change over 17 years.

If you think about windows only, between windows XP and a recent windows 10, it's very different and much better. It's possible to use the computer while an application is using all available resources now. You also have descent composting with GPU accelerated 3D effects and good windows management. Good touch screen support too. Also much better security, and a great Linux integration with WSL.

I actually prefer a lot of things in Windows than Mac today. I think Mac OS is a bit behind windows on some features I use, like touchscreen support or the Linux integration. But the good hardware makes it worth it since the M1.
No, it's nothing electrical. It's all mechanical. It's the surface which is slightly striped or bubbly or whatever and when sliding the hand or finger lightly over it, it generates a vibrating feeling. It might be less now after some months of use. Maybe the small cracks are filled with finger fat or something :).

The sharp edges are still there though.
This is obviously technically true but so far every case I’ve ever heard about involved a dispute that began on the Internet.
> but I'm surprised you describe SOB as a slight inconvenience

Ever been to a high altitude city? I was short of breath for my first week in Mexico City, and my lungs hurt after exercise. It’s very disconcerting, but also just a slight inconvenience.
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Using the OUP definition via Google, "having fallen from favour or a position of power or honour; discredited."

You are claiming that "fallen from a position of power" is the only valid meaning but "fallen from a position of favour" or "discredited" are also valid for Priti Patel.

See also, e.g., Collins, Cambridge

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/disgrac...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/disgrace...

Perfect example from the second link: "Many thought the disgraced president needed to resign."

[edit: added pertinent example]
> The lowdown: you can copy and paste just about any website directly into your JavaScript code without modification and it won't break anything.

The following doesn't seem to be valid though. :( Am I missing something?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/label

let a = 1;
Information is power. Sharing critical information with a hostile nation can be incredibly dangerous and can lead to many people being killed. Labeling that as "just giving a talk" is misleading. Any government on earth will arrest people that share critical information with a hostile nation. If doing so makes a government totalitarian then every government on earth is totalitarian, which simply means the totalitarian label is meaningless.
Much faster conversion to savanahs, which resulted in not being able to adapt fast enough; no evolutionary pressures to evolve to be that tall; evolutionary pressures exists/ed but there were stronger pressures to not evolve to be tall, and similar reasons are what come to my mind.
I'd rather everyone was taught Excel than a very minor set of people learn spreadsheets by themselves. Barely anyone uses spreadsheets in UK it seems
Very interesting article. The writing style of author Laura Peters stands out to me, it is informative, filled with many short background explanations suited for laymen, to the point, factual, entertaining.

The possible leap in responsiveness cannot be overstated, such displays will probably solve latency issues plaguing alternative display technologies for good.

I cannot wait to have 1000+ Hz ultra responsive screens in any imaginable format.
The author of the email probably technically “could” buy a Mac but why would he do that? The negative press would have been detrimental to Microsoft. The same is true today. Imagine the headlines that would get re-tweeted - “Microsoft head of platforms uses a Mac at home”
> In real world tasks (web browsing, opening an IDE)

My real-world task is not opening an IDE, it’s using that IDE. Modern C++ compilers are using all available CPU cores just fine.

> It only loses to AMD in multi threaded benchmarks

These are the only workloads I care about. Not just compilation, many other things as well.

You only need single-threaded performance for 2 things, for the stuff that’s inherently serial like gzip, or to run programs made more than 5-10 years ago.

I don’t normally play games on a laptop, but even videogames use multiple cores for decades now, since the Xbox 360 / PS3 generation.
Science says evolution occurs from random mutations. Because they're random, there's no guarantee that every place with tops of trees evolve animals with long necks to eat them, just as flipping a coin no matter how many times gives no guarantee it ever comes out heads.
Agreed, although this particular type of bin also gets called a "Wheelie Bin" (or perhaps "Wheely Bin"? not sure how to spell it actually..) a lot, at least in South Australia.
Paragraphs would help me work through your questions.

Firstly, the claims aren't extraordinary. There is a long history of vaccines being suspended for being more dangerous than is worth it, for example here's a CNN archival story about that:

https://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/30/swine.flu.1976/ind...

"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The man who led the response to the 1976 swine flu outbreak is defending the vaccination campaign that led to more deaths than the disease, but says he's sorry for the people killed or sickened ... the program was suspended after at least 25 people died from vaccine reactions"

In 2010 there was another Swine Flu scare but not much was learned: Pandemrix was authorized and sold in Europe but turned out to occasionally create narcolepsy in teenagers. Although rare, swine flu was sufficiently mild that this was much worse for the affected people than actually getting the disease would have been. There was a coverup and the true nature of what happened only came out 5 years later thanks to lawsuits.

So there's nothing odd about the idea that a vaccine may yield more injuries or deaths than it can save. It's happened before.

Now, I've already cited the evidence you require: the data from national vaccine reporting systems. That's the graph at the top of the page I linked. You appear to have simply ignored the graph and then gone off on some other link to a paper you found there, which isn't what I was referring to, and at any rate seems to actually support my point. Multiply the Y axis of the graph by 0.85 if you want - the numbers are still radically higher than the normal expected rate of vaccine side effects. Or don't. But actual government data cannot be handwaved away with an argument of the form, "some random paper looking at the data has some limitations that it openly admits to" because I wasn't basing my point on that paper to begin with.
Not obvious from the landing page, but you can look at the page 999 to refresh the list.
> it's the same in german.

reminds me of msdn, where I always search in english through some search engine, then get the german version presented with a SMALL button to turn it to english.
> those miners are strong healthy men

I think mining is exceptionally poor for your health, esp re respiratory disease, lack of vitamin D, and also usually highly correlated with near poverty (and the health issues that’s associated with)
I’ve had a couple of interviews where I was asked to either whiteboard FizzBuzz, or answer 00s era Google brain teasers. From a big company that would be a swift exit from the interview process for me, but in both cases it happened to me I was interviewing as the first engineer at startups - I did the tasks, and then had a conversation about how if I were hired I’d remove them from the interview process.

In both cases I got the job, then stuck around for 5+ years, so I’m going to say it worked out ;)
Yes, it seems to me increased efficiency would best be spent on fallowing the fields to allow the soil to regenerate.
How can you be sure of the absence of long term negative consequences?
I'm not sure how one can read that other than a credible threat.

And I'm pretty sure there is a group of MuseGroup fans/trolls that are going around downvoting content negative about MuseGroup.
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“Attack rate” is “testing positive”

None of the vaccines were to prevent that

I don’t understand how this messaging was lost
Would it be racist to point out that the US has more gun violence than most other countries?
I believe what's being described is on the fly (ie uncommited) reformatting to suit individual reading preferences. Additional enforced autoformatting at the time of commit ensures that all version controlled code always conforms to the chosen style. Thus there are never any reformat commits unless the chosen style is modified.
Yeah, but then since the good fellow humans are too lazy to properly lock the bins, the raven gangs manage to open them anyway.

Also it doesn't help that in most cities you have to hunt down to a garbage bin close to bus stops, which is then stuffed with all kinds of possible garbage anyway.
A chocolate tablet typically stores 4000kJ of energy. Yes that's 15 hand grenades, what are we waiting for: ban chocolate tablets now!

And don't get me started on flour, not only it stores a ton of energy (50 grenades per kg) but it's also highly explosive! [1]

[1]: (only with the right air to flour ratio of course, but accident happen every once in a while: https://www.grupa-wolff.com/a-tragic-flour-explosion/)
For more by Tim Harford checkout the "More or Less" podcast
"explaining the numbers and statistics in the news and in life."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads
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Yeah, China doesn't engage in organ harvesting, just non-consensual organ arbitrage.
The MicroK8s team is actively working on a "strict" snap https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/issues/2053. There you will get all the isolation benefits and security enhancements. https://snapcraft.io/docs/snap-confinement
In 2019 our own President went there to discuss peace. Dennis Rodman and many other Americans have visited NK at various times. I don't think it's moral to arrest someone for speaking about publicly available information. There's nothing Virgil could have told them that they couldn't find on GitHub or YouTube. And yes, Kim's lackeys definitely have access to the internet.

Sanctions seem to work for nothing. NK got nukes anyways. The middle east is still a mess. Iran is still a problem 50 years later. Cuba still a mess. China is arguably our biggest threat but no sanctions there. Russia has diversified itself away from the Petrodollar as much as possible for these reasons. This US Dollar empire is on its last legs. The US isn't 25% of global GDP anymore. None of this is sustainable.

At any rate, I'm sure Kim's hackers are incapable of learning cryptocurrency from any one of thousands of online resources. Crisis averted. Lock him up.
Regarding the cost. I still think it's a good option to use a cloud storage service or similar. But I just tried to say that it's way better to select something like pCloud's forever option, one time cost upfront, instead of paying every month or year for 50 years or more. After about 3.5 years, it's "free" storage after that.
I switched from Windows to Mac and am now very happily running Fedora. Fedora is really nice out of the box, once you get used to the Gnome desktop way of doing things. Now, when I have to use a Windows or OSX machine, I generally find the experience to be subpar. I’d never have expected that.

Also, Steam + gaming works surprisingly well.

I guess what I’m saying is: give it a shot!
Needs to have a really serious branding first.

Like Yolodyne Cybernetrix
> that is the definition of selfish

You're assuming you possess godlike knowledge, when actually we can't be sure what actions will lead to beneficial or harmful results. Are you selfish for refusing to undergo castration? What if I'm really sure it would benefit society? This is one of the many reasons we consider people sovereign over their own bodies.

> I could understand if there was a significant risk of negative consequences to the individual but there aren't.

We don't know if that's true, but we're not off to a good start considering the current number of harm/death reports in VAERS.
My Intel i9 gaming laptop is pretty good to keep food warm or dry my hair.
Yes, as I wrote somewhere below, LPDDR4 signal is actually more robust than DDR4 signal, and LPDDR4 controllers have more features to fix degraded signals.

DDR5 has more roots in the LPDDR4 than in the regular DDR4.
I think what one needs to realize here is in what circumstances zip was born.

It was ultimately a private person who founded a small company who wrote a tool for DOS and distributed it as shareware. There were other tools like it (ARJ and LHA were other popular ones). PKZIP disappeared, but its format ZIP became the de-facto standard and survived decades later, which was likely the result of some random circumstances.

So it shouldn't be surprising that the format isn't necessary ideal looking decades back.

(One could add that ZIP encryption is a big mess. The original ZIP encryption is insecure, there are two incompatible less insecure modes that still are vulnerable to malleability attacks and there's no way to have any modern form of encryption with an AEAD in ZIP.)
This simple dilemma comes up again and again: the people who made this can a) use Excel, warts and all, b) contract out for a proper system, and wait at least a year. Who am I kidding... a decade.

There is simply no point complaining about Excel unless you have a viable alternative, and that alternative is not coming from traditional IT depts.
It's not rated for children because they appear to be immune to COVID and thus basically no safety results can possibly make the risk/reward tradeoff make sense in that age group.

"one would have to determine the percentage of viable virus particles. Hard to tell whether that's even feasible at scale ... It's not too bad though. At worst this causes a higher than expected false-positive rate."

I'm not sure you're aware of the scale of the problem. There have been studies that correlated PCR test results with ability to do viral culturing and concluded about 60% of all positive test results did not imply infectiousness. For example, this one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8166461/
This is the real information apocalypse. Machines cloning knowledge ad infinitum with increasing amounts of real content drowning in an endless ocean of... ads; Economic propaganda.

Until content itself is cryptographically signed, there's no verifying where it come from or how true it is, if it ever were.
Yes! I posted it for this, it’s nice to understand how a new (quite) technology is going to mass production.
> selfish unvaccinated individuals

"selfish" implies you think there is some benefit to those individuals in declining it. What do you think that is?
Or you could perhaps discuss your concerns with the candidate... They may have a good reason for applying to this specific job.
I'm sorry, but what? Their comment to me reads like an objective statement of facts. They don't lean one way or another, or even say if they agrees with it or not. You can't even do that on HN?
> Van Jones will likely quit his job as a CNN commentator.

Sounds like a win then.
Couldn't the same be said of Saturn's rings? Why have they been around for so long then?
There's a difference between "people at Microsoft Research giving a public presentation on a mac" and "one of the top 10 people at Microsoft runs around with a mac".

But yes, it is a bit of a different time as well, but I think Allchin the person is a pretty important part of the statement.
Google knows already which link you click and can estimate how long you visit a website when you click another link or do a new search.
I find it curious that the rate of reinfection from that study coincides exactly with the false positive rate of the test
> written in python that used Excel behind the scenes

That's from my worst nightmares :(
Yeah, I know what UB is, and that's why I'm saying that this is not UB. Have you even read what I wrote?
Both k3s and MicroK8s support single node and multi node setups. Now, there's an open debate whether running K8s locally is the right approach for container development. Kelsey Hightower and James Strachan actually shared opposite opinions on this in a recent industry report published by Canonical. https://juju.is/cloud-native-kubernetes-usage-report-2021#ku...

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As interest rates are low atm (or even negative) it might not be an issue but why wouldn't employees take out the maximum loan every month (as they are not paying for the loans) and put that money in a bank account. Is this a risk you have considered and does the employer pay more if employees are doing that?
The approach Qualcomm has taken in their flagship ARM processors is probably correct for laptops as well as phones.

There are four low-power single thread cores. They do grunt work at high efficiency but low capability.

There are three medium-power single thread cores. They suck up more electricity when in use but can get tasks that the user cares about accomplished, and sleep all the time that the phone is not running the UI.

Then there is one high-power single thread core, which is just a turbo-speed variant of the medium cores. That's the one that wakes up for user interaction.

Of course, if you can scale power-consumption and computing together, you would just make an 8-core high-power chip and sleep and throttle on demand -- or, in-between, Apple's M1, which has four low and four high cores.
The MRNA vaccine was developed fast, it's the testing that took a long time. There should be sampling and a new variant of the vaccine created fast to prevent this variant of the virus from spreading.
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A tenth of what they claim would be Nobel prizing winning.

But it has ties to Western Universities, it's not straight out fiction. [1]

Not that it matters, but nutrients are claimed to be the same

And it in theory works with many plants, think flowers, drugs, wood.

Even their claim deeper roots would help with carbon sequestration.

What would it do to a Sequoia?

[1] https://news.uchicago.edu/story/rna-breakthrough-crops-grow-...
native_samples You've been misinformed. We have pre launch studies with 40k+ participants showing no meaningful risk. And post launch when there were exceedingly rare ("This adverse event is rare, occurring at a rate of about 7 per 1 million vaccinated women between 18 and 49 years old. For women 50 years and older and men of all ages, this adverse event is even more rare.") and not unexpected clotting issues vaccine administration was paused so the issue could be analyzed more thoroughly and quantified specifying to defeat this kind of FUD. "As to safety The Pfizer trial reported serious adverse reactions in 0.6% of vaccine recipients and 0.5% of placebo recipients." https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-phase-... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/sa... https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/pfizer...