skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree that math seems to work. I also agree that it is safe to assume that the COVID vaccine is somewhat unique in that it is being administered to women of childbearing age more than almost all other vaccines, which typically get administered to children.

So for a more like-to-like comparison, let’s look at flu vaccine numbers, which gets administered to about 40% of American adults every year (including women of childbearing age). That would mean over the 20 years before 2021, about 250 million flu shots were administered to women of childbearing age, which is at least 5x more than the ~50 million doses of COVID vaccines given to women of child bearing age (my upper estimate based on your quoted vaccination rate for women of childbearing age times 6 months times 2 doses). However, anywhere between 40%-48% of spontaneous abortions over the last 20 years (depending on your exact query) are from this year. Which to me implies that the COVID vaccines are many times more harmful for reproduction than the flu vaccines, and the harm multiplier only gets bigger considering that there are other vaccines that women of childbearing might get that aren’t just the flu vaccine that I’m not counting.

In any case, there is
clearly some debate to be had here, that probably neither of us are really qualified to have. However it is worrying to me that attention doesn’t really get drawn to this and we don’t have many real experts weighing in on what this data means.
We haven't seen much difference in practice between frequent aborts and frequent timeouts. Both are better than deadlocks.

I meant transactions issued from a server ("cloud") client to the database, as opposed to a mobile client.
The Herman Miller Aeron has been so solidly "the recommended" chair for so long at this point it's meme worthy.
Though the article mentions that USB also still works. Complete non-story, except they are offering a great upgrade promo.
Going to sleep and waking up?
mmm yeah thats a good point, I was considering downsizing during the pandemic because I wasn’t using some rooms and am nomadic and hanging out at cafes and coworking spaces

but now that I’m back I can see how having the dedicated office is a luxury
A problem with privileging "good" is that it is socially constructed, and social constructions of good can sometimes reveal themselves rather painfully to be fads of the time which ironically are anything but good, such as Lysenkoism [1].

On the contrary, real insights tend to stand the test of time, which is why Nietzsche continues to remain relevant and timeless. Lysenkoism, not so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Yes, that is definitely one of the gaps I had, thank you (also the other replies to my comment -- upvoted all of you). I'm generally on a Mac (which runs docker in a linux VM -- the reason why is much clearer now) and so my exposure to linux is mostly in the context of ssh-ing into a server. I think the fact that OS X is linux-like without actually being a linux distro also subtly led me astray, as I've been thinking of different distros in the same way I think of OS X as different from Windows, and not really thinking about the "userland" vs "kernel" distinction.
This is pseudoscience and should be flagged.
AI algorithms are split into training and inference.

Training is the process of generating the parameters for the neural network, it usually takes significant resources to train and is a very hard process.

Inference is the process of using a pre-trained neural network to perform predictions.

Tesla's car have hardware to perform inference. From working on the field for several years, I do believe that they have hardware capable of performing inference (driving a car).

However, the hardware that trains the neural network is comprised of hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands of GPUs, that hardware lives in Tesla's data centers (or some other cloud provider).

The really hard part of this project is on training, not inference. So while there is some risk that the car (inference) hardware might require an upgrade, this seems very unlikely to me.
just as an aside for I2C devices, if you know the address, then there is often not many choices on what it can be.

https://i2cdevices.org/addresses
http://www.coris.org.uk/jdc/Notes/i2c-devices.html
Serious question, how do your coworkers perceive their own Jobs, do they share your perspective?
It was actually bundled with the god-awful iTunes installer back then, so I am sure quite a few people had it installed unknowningly.
It seems impractical for employers to pay for an addition to your house if you don’t have a room (let alone moving you to an entirely new building if you don’t own).
Any chance you could link your portable desk? I've been contemplating getting one so my work at home could be a bit nicer (move to different parts of the home, in particular, the loft gets very hot during the summer) without having to actually set up a proper desk, or sit with a computer in my lap (I need two, both laptops, so that's not actually an option presently).
Actually that's average number of DAILY deaths from the past 7 days, not the number of deaths in the past 7 days. As a lot of people take the weekends off, reporting of new cases and deaths decreases sharply on weekends and increases on Mondays, but in reality people are not dying at a lower rate on weekends. That's why the stats are averaged over 7 days.

For reference, there are about 15k homicides per year in the US, or about 41 per day, which is about 13% of the 316 daily COVID death rate reported by the CDC (and on the front page of the NYTimes site).
The magic part comes from the user agreement. Users have given up their rights to host. , and in a lot of courts I think that is an automatic dismissal.
The Cost of a Prison Phone Call
> Catplosions

Sounds like the answer is more taverns.
I have a crappy $80 ikea office chair. It’s served me well for years and is light years ahead of random dining room chairs - if people are using those for extended periods of time I’m not surprised they’re getting injured - I’ve been there and it’s why I got a half decent chair.
Sleeping and reading?
Some background:

https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/03/31/disarray-at-the-doj...
I really hope they're not taking advantage of big names + engineered complexity + financial naïveté to gouge their customers on price. There's a long history of seriously predatory practices in this space and the cost of VCs' capital is very high. (Jay-Z and Will Smith might be investing as a lifestyle/vanity project and willing to accept lower returns, but Sequoia isn't.)
I think I remember encountering that project. It got built out a bit more by the time I started full-time in 2012. I could be misremembering the specifics, but I think the most recent country from which a device checked-in was used to decided the data cap, because unlimited 3g cost dramatically less when the devices weren't roaming.
Here are my shower thoughts on this subject - since I have been bombarded with emails at all times, and been guilty of now having to address them.

In my dream setup, there are 2 kinds of emails, and the onus is set by the sender of the email.

1) The priority email - in which the sender expects a single person receiver to act on specific aspects, as soon as the receiver is able to.

The receiver gets the email asap, and because he receives less emails, he can address it. Like a hot potato, if there is more info he needs, he can pass it around the same way.

Everyone else is on cc or bcc - and these folks get it delivered to them as #2 below.

This email has only 1 person in the 'To' field, and if there are many, then the system makes it so that everyone in the 'To' field get the email as #2 below.

2) The FYI email - this email is sent by the sender, but is kept in a safe place till the receiver pulls for it.

The sender is made aware that the receiver has pulled for it or not, and if the sender is not satisfied with the speed of response, this email can be upgraded into #1.

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I think this does not change too much of the systems, just small tweaks to workflow, and is something that can be achieved if the team puts their mind to it.
I've shot RAW for years, know the technical side of it inside and out, and it's objectively better...but: I got a great deal on a slightly older P&S camera I wanted to use (compact, good lens), although it only shoots jpg. I thought I would hate it but to my surprise I have wound up loving it. It looks all smeary when you zoom in, but has this really nice painterly look. And knowing that I can't rescue it in post and what I see in the EVF/screen is more or less what I am going to get, good or bad, has made photography weirdly exciting again. Of course this is also a function of the sensor and the various other parts of the camera's system, but not just jpg. But I find myself taking better photos because I have to make and commit to aesthetic decisions instead of treating every photo as just the starting point of an image manipulation project.
Yup; Ubiquitous SSD drives and (relatively) cheap RAM also help.

Would I suggest most of my family shoot RAW - heck no; I don't want that headache :). But if you're a enthusiast, student, or professional; if you want to learn and eek out the best photos, go RAW. Capture all data you can. Afford yourself the most opportunities today, tomorrow and down the road. You don't want to take that one perfect casual shot of bride's smile or that brilliant sunset or that amazing moment with your kids, only to find out you were under exposed or your white balance was wonky and you blew your highlights or lost your shadows and everybody is a purple dinosaur.
They defer to the scientific consensus of people who specialize in understanding how PLANET ORBITS work.

Consensus brought us an earth centric solar system and low fat heart healthy grains with an obesity epidemic and rampant heart disease.
Anyone complaining about the pain doesn't know how to work in bed. lie face down and prop your chest up with a pillow. you can work for hours that way. When that gets tiring, roll over, and brace yourself against the backboard or wall with the same pillow to support your lumbar. repeat for zero back stress computer programming.
Sure. But what would be your position, if, as a neutral carrier and a profit making business, FB sets up a system of taking money & promoting content (whatever the content) ?

Would you be ok with FB promoting glorification of white supremacy? Because, as a neutral carrier, it is not supposed to look at the content.

Would you support it promoting a content piece that is a fluff of falsehoods resting on a thin layer or truth (They are making all the frogs gay !) ?

FB could always argue that it is not responsible for content on its servers and can always argue that the counter point is also allowed.

What if corporations, with their infinite marketing budgets start using FB to start promoting that climate change is actually good for the world?
I mean... didn't it? One of the things Snowden revealed was an international conspiracy called Five Eyes, where intelligence agencies across the Anglosphere coordinate to covertly guide world events in their preferred direction, leaning on each other to handle things such as domestic espionage which would be illegal in their home countries. I'm not sure we can mark this as a loss for the conspiracy theorists, even if they were wrong to think the Trilateral Commission was involved.
This is sound advice, our ophthalmologist said the same: glucose level can change the thickness of your cornea (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17964654/), and that can even improve your vision. A sudden change in vision, for the worse or better, merits checking your glucose level.
Just as a foreign newspaper can be the best way to find out the actually important things going on in your country/culture, maybe a foreign algorithm (or rather algorithm-moderation complex - I suspect facebook recommendations have a lot more manual tuning than anyone would admit) will be better at recommending in a neutral way. (TikTok of course has blatant biases on particular issues - but they're issues that are less relevant to most westerners than the things which Facebook/YouTube recommendation is biased about).
Ah, reminds me of that date-time issues between RFC and ISO standards.
A lot of people recommend the Aeron, but I am not a fan of the plastic hoop, as I sometimes pull a leg up underneath me.

I have a Lifeform with a custom seat made with a cut out for the perineum and coccyx to make sure all my weight sits on my glutes and thighs and keeps pressure off the spine. It's insanely adjustable, has a amazing lumbar support, and is very comfortable to sit in for long periods of time.

https://lifeformchairs.com/ultimate-2390-ergonomic-office-ch...
Trucking you can still kill people. You know who I'd like to hear about? The company making self-loading and unloading shipping containers. Now that, I bet, is an achievable goal.
What's surprising to me is Dwarf Fortress author uses Visual Studio Community, rather than the paid version of that IDE:

> "In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."

Surely there has been years where his revenue has exceeded $1 million.
The internet will tell you that eating at a Michelin star restaurant is a waste of money because you could just go to McDonald's. Personally, I think both have their place.
In which case employers should just increase wages to take into account how much is saved on office space. Then workers might be able to afford larger houses or apartments.
Not quite - it's their Zoom equivalent. It's only used for video and voice calls. Amazon uses Slack for messaging.
Surprisingly, "gaming" chairs might be the best, most cost effective option. Ars Technica[1] reviewed a couple gaming chairs from the home office viewpoint.

I bought a toned-down style version of the Secretlab Titan chair pretty early in the pandemic and it is way better than my Aeron at work. And the Aeron is way better than any other normal office chair.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/gaming-chair-shootou...
I always thought the ads ("special offers") were incredibly unobtrusive. I even proactively chose to work on that team after having owned a kindle because I thought it was such a good example of ads done well. The ads suck on the kindle fire devices, but what else is the screen going to be doing when the device is off?
Do you have an iPhone at hand to confirm? Because I'm quite sure that just the power button for a second or two is enough. At least it was with iPhone SE (original) back in spring 2020 (I'm nowadays on Android).
I think as a starting point it's best to assume the special forces approach and work your way down to the grunt approach as necessary.

This is entirely based on my personal dislike for being micro-managed.
Divisions within a group are always more interesting to members than outsiders.
The three "S"es. Sleep, sex, sickness.
Ask HN: Good JavaScript library for smooth numeric interpolation?
For games and stuff. Only need basic features like Lerp, Bezier curves, etc ideally with some pre-defined curves similar to CSS's ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out, etc.

Seems like this should be a widely-used thing but I had trouble finding it on search
Disagree with the host that the net effect of 10x increase on productivity on climate change would be a wash. If production capacity increases that much faster than social consciousness and direction of capital, the result will be catastrophic for climate change. Boosting productivity should be explicitly done in tandem with using that increase in a way that's beneficial to humanity and not just profitable.
Sounds like JIRA?
Maybe this is because a lot of tech workers are living in cities? Where space is expensive? There's no reason to live in a city if you work remote.
> Starting by not using a dynamically typed language, IMHO

This is written in TypeScript.

As with most everything the problems with why it hasn't been done are unrelated to someone not selecting the "right" language to do it in.

> Actually, that's also an interesting question: surely the IRS doesn't rely on an army of people with calculators and pencils to verify said returns, so I wonder if a well placed FOIA request would cough up their COBOL source code they use?

As mentioned is has to do with lobbying from the major tax companies. The "Free File" program was created out of an agreement the IRS wouldn't create such software usable by folks if the tax companies offered their existing software to most that needed it. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
Novels Published in 1821
> but at the end of the day aren't there hundreds of other designers who would take this client?

There is no client, this was a preemptive action by a web designer who doesn't yet offer the type of service at issue against the State on the basis that the State might punish them for not providing service for same sex wedding sites if they offered wedding sites in the future.
Working from home for a few years I have a Steelcase Leap v2, standing desk I use about 20-30% of the time, and a crappy office chair I use when I'm just sitting down for a few minutes (one 'problem' with a lot of high quality office chairs is that they tend to be designed in a way that promotes continued sitting).
> For example, early versions of Youtube were nothing more than a Python application

I heard about it, but I'm wondering, is that how Python got popular at Google and then become mainstream?
> Those sound as decent and understandable reasons — except perhaps the #1. I'd avoid going into language comparison contests here — but it's hard to refute that Python is among the few must know languages for DevOps folks and the like.

- [taken from the GitHub thread]

I understand where the poster is coming from but I think it’s hard to overstate the reach and compatibility needs of the AWS CLI. Also, of course, times change and Python man be supplanted by another scripting language.

Anyway, I think the AWS team is making the right call though I am a big package manager fan.
Why do people hate email so much? (Because they haven't mastered it yet, Grasshopper, but anyway...) The thing is, it's communication. Are we shocked that a big chunk of our work burden is the burden of communication?

"He spent 1/3 of his time at work answering emails!" Outrageous!

vs.

"He spent 1/3 of his time at work communicating with the other workers." Yeah sounds about right, if not a little low.

The other thing nagging at me is that this feels like Cal Newport woke up one day, got annoyed at his inbox and wrote a whole book about it. I'm all for re-thinking and re-designing, but I'm becoming increasingly skeptical of people who hate email or whatever, and want to re-make the world in that image. It's like the people who get all pissy when it's raining out. Tony Soprano would say, ay it's fuckin' raining, but whaddyagonnadoo.

Interruptions, yes, those are harmful. But that's why there's email. I guarantee an email is easier to delay than someone calling, instant-messaging or physically approaching you. It's got "mail" right there in the name; far as I'm concerned that means you have free license to delay for a day or multiple days, just like the postal service. Check it once or twice a day, during times when you're not trying to concentrate, and then close out of it. Anything useful, copy it to where it belongs (task list, calendar, etc.). If it needs action at some point, mark it "Pending." After that, archive that shit and forget it. If you get too much, tell people to stop sending it. Or just take so long replying that they stop. I dunno.
Steelcase makes some excellent, but expensive chairs.
We (as in human race), metaphorically could be - right now - in the middle of a city like NY, looking for someone sending signals with smoke, and being surrounded by multiple modern communication systems, everywhere around us.

Maybe we have always been surrounded by aliens communications and we didn't notice it, like what happened with electricity, it was all around humanity, all the time humans existed, and it was discovery just recently.
The Aeron is comfortable, but the way it reclines feels improper to me. I think their Mirra chair, with it's adjustable arm rests, gets reclining right. I like both because the mesh bottom is soft enough for my tailbone, which gets sore easily due to having broken it a long time ago. The missing feature both these Herman Miller chairs desperately need is a headrest. A 3rd-party one exists for the Aeron, but not for the Mirra.

If you want something like an Aeron, then ask your friend with a Costco membership to get you a $120 Metrex IV Mesh chair by Bayside Furnishings. It's 90% as good and it doesn't have the insane recline that the Aeron does. Only downside is, Herman Miller uses much sturdier plastic for their chairs, but that's more suited to shared office spaces with employees who don't take care of their chairs anyway.
This guy works.
It is the winning move in the long or even medium term, for the same reasons as not paying Dane-geld. Once you start censoring politically unacceptable content there will be no end of demands for you to censor more and more.
Looks like ships will go to ammonia because they can retrofit existing Rankine-cycle engines.

First major non-fossil-driven producer of ammonia is under construction in Norway. Another 300 that size will be enough for current world market, but ships will need another 300.
Have you tried it? I've been using it for weeks and I'm consistently impressed by its suggestions. It's definitely not a stunt.
One of the problems that cities like San Francisco and Berkeley have in the Bay Area is a surplus of unmonitored, poorly policed public spaces where vagrants can loiter and make mischief. Woodsy, shady hillside paths might sound romantic in the abstract, but are hazards and petty crime magnets in reality. I don't know anyone who would want one next to their property.
I got a Steelcase Gesture since it was expensed and I love it. If I had to pay, I'd have gone with the Leap. Great chairs
In reality, the beer might have killed the dogs, since the hops in the beer is toxic to dogs.
Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads
Piano bench and good posture
I think Tony would say "whatever happened to Gary Cooper"
> Not one of the 1359 previously infected subjects who remained unvaccinated had a SARS-CoV-2 infection over the duration of the study. In a Cox proportional hazards regression model, after adjusting for the phase of the epidemic, vaccination was associated with a significantly lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among those not previously infected (HR 0.031, 95% CI 0.015 to 0.061) but not among those previously infected (HR 0.313, 95% CI 0 to Infinity).

> Conclusions Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before.
If I never hear the term "virtue signaling" again it will be too soon. Adds about as much to the conversation as calling someone a sissy (or other ruder names I'm sure you can think of) for caring about something and the intent is hardly any different.