skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems Sweden's Covid 100 strategy is working. One thing has been clear from the start, the pandemic is only over once almost everyone has been exposed to the Virus. That still holds true today with Vaccine durability falling 6% every 8 weeks according to one recent study.

Natural immunity is still the gold standard. It's really really going to destroy some people's faith to be told that getting vaccinated isn't enough.

If you want to protect your neighbors and family, only vaccination AND exposure can do that.
Another might be that existing VPN solutions will gut the bottom of their stack and use WireGuard for that, thereby reducing complexity and increasing performance.
$50-100 is way overestimated. You can grow tomatoes in inexpensive pots. Seedlings are inexpensive.

Maybe $15 total, plus water, time, and patience. The latter two of those can be expensive, but difficult to quantify.
> Instead of parroting what you read on social media, how about doing a bit of critical thinking on this

Totally unnecessary. That gratuitous dig doesn't advance your argument at all.

> What about all the resources going into video games, sports, movies, music, amusements parks, television, weapons systems, desserts, travel and vacations, etc?

That doesn't seem like it's u/paxys issue to address. The person they responded to made a _very_ strong claim: "The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket".

It seems entirely consistent with both the original argument and the reply that humans could have two very important jobs to address (climate change, and becoming multi-planetary) and still have resources to dedicate to all those other things you describe.

> Do you make the same tired comments when those industries are brought up?

I would make a similar argument that u/paxys made if the amusement park industry claimed that building amusement parks was the single most important job that humanity had. Similarly, for sports, video games movies, or most other industries. Claiming the mantle of "the most important job humanity has" is a very big claim.

> And that's not even getting into the fact that multiple things can be done by humanity at once.

u/paxys didn't say that we could only address one thing at a time. They were disagreeing with the claim that becoming multiplanetary is the single most important job humanity has. Disagreeing with which singular job we have is the "most important" one makes absolutely no claim as to how we should be dividing our time.

Ultimately, I actually agree with the original poster that becoming multiplanetary and multistellar is an important feat we should be aggressively perusing. But I also think surviving any extinction-event filters that may come along the way is equally important.
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Watch 'Mars Industrialization Roadmap' by Casey Handmer. That is exactly what he is addressing. He literally mentions the 'I, Pencil'. And btw a million people is the goal, not 1000.

See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11hYo9UTSRM

And the corresponding book:

How To Industrialize Mars: A Strategy For Self-Sufficiency: How To Settle A Lethal Vacuum In 400 Easy Steps

Part of the whole project of Mars is making this very thing possible in the first place. It requires rethinking a lot of how we do things.
Perhaps it’s 2-use?
I know this probably won't make much sense, but as much as I want to do this, I don't really know how.
This comment helpfully explains many of the reasons Rich had for choosing immutable, persistent, generic data structures as the core information model in clojure (instead of concrete objects / classes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28041219

Not wanting to misquote the above / Rich himself I would TLDR it to:

- flexibility of data manipulation

- resilience in the face of a changing outside world

- ease of handling partial data or a changing subset of data as it flows through your program

Please note that no one (I hope) is saying that the above things are impossible or even necessarily difficult with static typing / OOP. However myself and other clojurists at least find the tradeoff of dynamic typing + generic maps in clojure to be a net positive especially when doing information heavy programming (e.g. most business applications)
In terms of its origins, and the core algorithms, I agree neural networks have many decades on them.

However until the hardware and software support for mainstream massively parallel execution became available it was a niche tool.

So the level of adoption, experimentation, deployment and research resources available are multiple orders of magnitude greater than 20 or 30 years ago.

As a practitioner (for my entire career) the field still operates as a new field, with enormous areas for new experimentation and interesting new creative advances happening quickly.

So we are still at the beginning.
I see that happening too, but tbh, I see it happening even without evidence. Its almost like some weird form of "thinking for yourself", but taken to the point of rejecting any evidence that doesn't match the preconceived notion. There doesn't even need to be evidence on the other side.
Sorry but... nicest way I can imagine to put this is that you're generalizing something that might be more of a local phenomenon.
> eradication for the UK looks very close to impossible given the near-total-abandonment of public health measures recently.

I don't support the recent abandonment of restrictions, but could that policy, followed up by stricter restrictions in a few months time actually be helpful for eradication? Eradication is likely a hopeless prospect in the UK anyway, because there is no political will for closing the borders. But it's interesting to conjecture.
Continuing with your thoughts, is it reasonable to assume that the selective pressure the vaccinated are placing on COVID variants are a good thing?

I have no clue. I hope it works out well.
haha... that would be wild. I bet it would look more like a middle school kids game, with two groups of each team chasing the two different balls.
Since there are animal reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2, the virus will always be endemic regardless of what we do. That's not defeatism, just scientific reality.
That all sounds great, but you’d better be sure about the “causes of criminal behavior.” Not everyone agrees on that, and as such, you might be unpleasantly surprised at what ultimately gets “attacked.”
defensive football is beatiful no doubt. but there's certain coaches like Diego simone, who take it to the extreme and end up implementing terrorist football. end of day, I would rather watch a defensive team, with creative flair upfront. not the current state of football with endless passes while trying to retain possession.
Let me address your criticism from Scala's point of view

> they are very blunt

I'm more blunt than the complier usually. I really want 'clever' programs to be rejected. In rare situations when I'm sure I know something the complier doesn't, there are escape hatches like type casting or @ignoreVariace annotation.

> the problem of how to express your invariants within the type system

The decision of where to stop to encode invariants using the type system totally depends on a programmer. Experience matters here.

> Our program can't "pass through" this data from one end to an other

It's a valid point, but can be addressed by passing data as tuple (parsedData, originalData).

> What if there's a new Tag added? What if the Category tag adds a new field?

If it doesn't require changes in your code, you've modelled your domain wrong - tags should be just a Map[String, String]. If it does, you have to refactor+redeploy anyway.

> What about something like updating all updatable fields of an object

I'm not sure what exactly you meant here, but if you want to transform object in a boilerplate-free way, macroses are the answer. There is even a library for this exact purpose: https://scalalandio.github.io/chimney/! C# and Java have to resort to reflection, unfortunately.
> show me the breakdown of vaccine rates by different groups

Well, here's the first google result of such a search: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...

> in my state

Who cares about "your state" which is clearly just anecdata? This is a national trend where Republicans shun mask mandates and vaccines. That article above provides more links for the vaccine related claims

> when you say complete disregard for the virus/vaccine, show me some facts that back it up

How's this for size - Florida (you know, a famously Republican state with a Republican governor) is threatening to withhold EDUCATION FUNDING from school districts that have mask mandates: https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/07/30/des...

I could go on, but you are being very emotionally charged and disregarding a lot of very obvious rhetoric to try and make a blatantly false point.
Didn't Florida just set an all-time 1 day record for new case counts last week? These numbers might shift significantly in the next month or two.
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> You can't build a spaceship if you don't learn to get along with others.

We literally built rockets and started spacial exploration out of a pissing contest. It has been clearly on mankind history that we don't need to cooperate as a unified peaceful race to advance technological progress.
The very fact that Republicans continue to deny the existence and threat from anthropocentric climate change leads to simple understandings of what Dems actually want to do.

The Democratic party has a wide range of opinions on how to deal with climate change, but I'd suggest people look at the Party Platform from 2020 to see how it wants to address it.

It includes some bold stuff in terms of changing the US economy towards being zero emissions, but with goals set five, ten or fifteen years from 2020. That's hardly setting the cost at infinity.

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/202...
Leap seconds correct for the difference between the time as measured by atomic clocks and the time determined by solar observations.

Turns out the rotation speed of Earth varies. Things like tides, earthquakes, and climate change can affect it. There is no formula for that, the only thing you can do is measure and issue a leap second when required.
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> Space is clearly a mild curiosity to you at most.

I think it's extremely unhelpful to tell people what their interests are, or what they believe. How much could you possibly know about this person's interests from that one post?
But you just touched on the reason programmers don't like Lisp: they prefer a language that has a lot of little bits of available functionality that they can mix and match, without having to do any real programming. Programming, as we knew it, is a dead art, modern developers only want to reuse some library that was created by someone else. Languages like Python and Java are bad to program, but ideal for this kind of lego-based development.
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Everyone here discuss a new online newspaper. It would be refreshing to get intelligent content for free and not hidden between an amrmada of paywalls but would not be not enough.

At this point, to protect democracy and its values, full fledged state sponsored reverse troll farms are what we desperatly need.

A lot of the engagement is simply led by fake accounts piloted by humans and thus realistic enough to break the organic engagement detection model.

Creating positive content is not enough to win this war. Only using the same dirty tactics as the autocrats will allow democracy to survive.
Why are you posting on HN then? Get out there and save the planet.
Also not the principal purpose of the iPhone.
Overwatch briefly had a system like this, where you could mark players in your matches positively or negatively, so they'd be more or less likely to show up in your future matches. They had to remove it after a top level player could no longer find fair matches. He was waiting 10-20 minutes before getting matched with much lower skilled players. He was by all accounts a pleasant person, but he was so good at the game that many people would mark him negatively simply so they would never have to play against him.
Vaccine pass: Business that takes documentation to generate DCC?
I have a friend that is vaccinated from $COUNTRY. Is there a business or service I can pay to take the documentation from this individual and get them into the DCC database, so that they can have a QR code and enter Europe?

Obviously I am looking for a legal way to enter Europe. I am a european citizen, and I have been scouring the rules - and the only sure thing is a vaccine pass. However, information on the DCC is ... very little to be honest. I have a vaccine pass for myself, but I am not going to travel. I got one after I got the second shot.
Actually, the headline could be more technically correct written as "sentenced by algorithm executing on backdoored remotely controlled computer", as that is the case today.

Enjoy your dystopia of greed, fraud, and injustice.
If you had said LPs instead, I still wouldn't have known what you meant.
There are over 15,000 Dollar Tree stores in the US that operate on the "$1 for each item" model.
Except that law enforcement is explicitly immune from having to pay damages to property in the course of their duty.

We had a SWAT team destroy a fence with an armored vehicle during a standoff and they were just like, "not my problem."

Apparently they don't want to have to make decisions based on cost.
A horrible take on how much value is there in taking over people's OKCupid account?

If there's literally no value in taking it over, then why password protect it in the first place?

I have an online photo album and while I could password protect it and share the password with people that I want to share it with, there's very little value (perhaps there's some small social engineering value) in protecting it. If there's no value in exposing it, why bother password protecting it?
Yes and no. GPS has 10 bits for the week number (so 1024 weeks)

This code is using the number of leap seconds that have happened to sanity group of 1024 weeks we are in. The assumption is that by December of 2022, we would have another leap second, so if we had fewer than 19 total leap seconds, then something has gone wrong. However due to incorrect arithmetic, this sanity check is looking at October 2021.

Further comments point out that the sanity check need not be in production code at all, but should be moved to test code.
This breaks down when you consider that they are smashing Alibaba. Alibaba, like Amazon, is more about logistics than tech.

It's hard to argue that shlepping stuff around efficiently isn't "economic health".

As much as I hate Amazon and WalMart for being predatory, I applaud their logistics advances.
There's absolutely a difference. Going to Costco is a monumental hassle compared to Dollar General. They have few locations so for most people it's a farther drive. There's a line of cars snaking around the place waiting to buy gas. The parking lot is huge and I have to walk through it. Once inside, I have to pass the giant-screen TVs and half a warehouse of rarely-purchased items before I get to the food. All the food is in huge units. Often the lines at checkout are extremely long, and then there's another line to have my receipt checked before I get out. Then I have to load the stuff into my car - they don't bag it. Oh - and I paid a membership fee to experience all this!

Dollar General has many multiples more locations, and I can park right in front of the door. I'm in Costco every week and it's fine but yes, that walking time combined with everything else is definitely a factor.
> HN was quoting official sources

Careful, now. HN is not an entity worth talking about. Stories are submitted by individuals and comments are made by individuals. We vehemently disagree with eachother on all sorts of crap. Please don't expect consistency, accountability from the readers of HN as a whole, because you'll never find it.
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No chance, AIPAC, BICOM and various lobby groups ensure politicians are in the pockets of the Israel lobby. This isn't to say other countries don't have corrupt lobbying practices. But the unilateral multibillion dollar IDF funding raies questions.
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Why do people use gpsd instead of just reading $GPGLL or $GPRMC from /dev/ttyACM0 or /dev/ttyUSB0 or whatever, which always seemed far more reliable to me?
Musk always gets unreasonable angry if he feels something slows him down.

They have really not been slowed down that much FAA.

So everybody should just chill out.

Btw, for people interest, this interview with Ken Davidian FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation is interesting:

https://www.interplanetary.org.uk/podcast/episode/90af4411/2...
Intels Clear Linux does this IIRC. Wins most comparisons on Phoronix. Works on AMD CPUs too.

(edit) Even though i'm a sucker for efficiency/performance, i prefer Tumbleweed myself. Since i like KDE, whose integration is as good as it gets on SUSE but left a lot to be desired on Clear which ships with GNOME by default. Both are rolling releases. SUSE has automatic btrfs snapshots on updates for easy rollback. But Clear has the performance edge.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu-2...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=cascade-...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=icelake-...

Oh nice this one shows Tumbleweed is not far behind:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-epyc...
Habitable planets with the exact chemistry to support your species without expensive or slow terraforming.
Basically, its just antitrust which for a decade or two has not really been enforced in the US, which in turn might be a reason for many of the ills we see in economy and society today.
>What do you mean by "kernel with no stable APIs"? Linux developers, as a policy, don't break user space.

Sure, Linux tries hard for stable user<>kernel interface.

Within the kernel, however, there's no such thing and it's an utter mess.

>having a monolithic kernel doesn't prevent

Even within monolithic kernels, and even after restricting to unix-like, there's those that are better structured internally (such as openbsd or dragonfly), and then there's Linux, which is an unworkable mess.
The current vaccines will not prevent kids from spreading the virus to their grandparents.
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"...
Your score is 81.1, higher than 67.85% of the people who have completed this task...

The average score is 78, and most people score between 74 and 82.

The lowest score was 24 and the highest was 96 in our published sample. Although the score theoretically ranges from 0 to 200, scores above 100 are extremely unlikely on first attempts. The highest total score we have seen is 107. See how other people are performing on Twitter.

..."

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Second attempt was 70 something,

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Third attempt was:

"..
Your score is 84.13, higher than 82.07% of the people who have completed this task ..."

It looks like I cannot break 85.

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Regarding pick your own orchards, I don't know where you are but here in central MA most of the pick you own business is from tourists. Us locals just buy apples already picked at the farm store for less money. The farmers make the tourists buy the empty bags, not the apples, so they've already paid before they even pick a single apple. Neither taste nor looks really have anything to do with it. It's more about which farm puts on the best 'show'. Some of the farms are also very nasty about eating apples while out picking and will kick the tourists out if they catch them.
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