skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as many of us are concerned, fetuses do not have human status, so the argument is absolutely irrelevant for most as a comparison.
transpiled, boring
That could be a fun visual feature, to watch as paths and roads appear procedurally based on the layout of the town, but I don't think it's particular realistic, and might miss out on some strategic richness. Designing road networks is actually a complex and nuanced thing in and of itself, and it's certainly not as simple as "pave over the paths that people walk on the most." I think I would prefer road design to be a crucial part of the strategy in designing an efficient town.
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books (2018)
Agreed. The thing that irritates me so much in all these studies is how they conflate correlation and causation. Studies to truly isolate just one ingredient would be both time and cost prohibitive. We are better served by just eating as varied and unprocessed a diet as possible.
Interesting concept! A few reflexions :

- How do you ensure that you have approval from the debris 'owner' before de-orbiting it? Or could I use your service to target competition satellites? (or is it part of the business model?)

- What is the minimal size of a debris? It is my understanding that small debris such as screw can do lot of damage in space (as everything is moving fast), but not sure if it will be easy to catch a 1 inch debris with a robot arm.

- I really like the idea of raising the orbit of an old but functioning satellite, as this could expend their service life. However not sure if this will still have value once cost of access to space decrease?
That

(some date + 1 month) + 1 month ≠ some date + 2 months

has always been true for floating numbers.
This is exactly why you never trust
fast matrix multiplications---they rely on cancelations
of the form (a + b) - b = a + (b - b) = a.

I would argue that 1 month
is just having too few significant digits.
You can even implement it as
returning 30 with probability 60% and
returning 31 with probability 40%.
Then on average you would have

1 year ≈ sum([1 month] * 12)
> Most experts recommend avoiding processed foods as much as possible and sticking with a Mediterranean-like diet because it makes intuitive sense. It is not too restrictive. It is heavy in fruits and vegetables. It has the right kinds of fats and some grains. It includes fish and generally lean proteins.

But that’s the point of the article, who’s to say what the right kind of fats are? Or if grains should be part of your diet, etc?
The issue is that if you try to squeeze a relational model into object oriented model you won't get an efficient solution.

Solutions like django might be good when you're starting the project or it is something very simple, otherwise you'll have to fight with it to get something done more efficiently.

My point is that using plain SQL (I personally prefer asyncpg as it provides interface matching postgresql) is actually also easy. Especially if you have IDE that supports it.

I also realized that with this approach I rarely need to even transform the data in any way. Usually whatever I want to do I can get in a single SQL statement (even for things that have some hierarchy, thanks to aggregation functionality). So in the end the function just gets data and displays it.
As I clearly mentioned, this vaccine is not FDA approved. We have no idea of the long term effects. I find it fairly reasonable to not want to be a test subject.
Industrial anything production is bad for the thing.
> As for the vaccine being more or less dangerous than the virus, I think for any population over 40 or in poor health, the trade off is clearly in favour of the vaccine. But if you are 20 and in good health, I am not sure it is that obvious.

The risks of complications from the virus are many orders of magnitude higher than risks of complications from the vaccine, even for people in their 20s.
Not if they are 20 or already had covid.
That SSD has 0 redundancy so you're trading the purpose of the NAS by going for speed. If that's what you want, then you're wasting time looking at NAS equipment anyways.

So what's your point?
We could honestly probably save billions in healthcare costs if we mandated a yearly physical and cancer screening. It would lift our economy catching these costly diseases and health issues while they are still easily and cheaply treatable.
People need to stop trying to get promoted then.

I'm very happy building simple and easy to maintain systems without flashy features. I couldn't care less about a promotion.
Yup, this is only really practical for a rack you manage yourself. The colocation provider is going to charge you like $5 per network connection.
Not sure whether you're looking at the same stats, but Asian countries/cities seem to have the best scores...
I highly recommend reading this article. I don't think I agree with the presripted remedies at the end, but as for the rest of it: it very much has our number.
Also annoying, most stock trackers in brokerages and elsewhere really don’t track dividend payments as performance either.
The NSA Cryptological Museum at Ft. Meade in Maryland has a functioning Enigma machine (the Army version, I think) on display. It actually saw battle during WWII. As part of the display, they do acknowledge the efforts of the Polish codebreakers in their efforts in understanding how it worked and how to decrypt messages. Fascinating bit of history!
What's the "pie"? FB makes money off their data. Apple seems to be providing me the service I paid for.

If they made it optional, a large percentage of apps would force you to use Google/FB to login. That's not acceptable to me.

One of the major reasons I give Apple money is to because they can stand up against the privacy invading FB/Google and I, as an individual, cannot. So they are very much doing what I want in this instance.
Infra-as-Code is cloud lock-in
As the author states, he is not working alone as the following shows:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=impa...

When you have a large number of people in Zone 2 and nobody in Zone 1, this is a very good sign that effort is being fairly distributed. And if you look at the activity for the last year:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=comm...

it is extremely active with 98% days active. And if I had to guess, I would say there are at least 5-7 people working on this full time based on the following:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=cont...

Full Disclosure: I'm the creator of the tool with the insights above.
This has not been my experience -- I use both thunderbolt 3 and Mellanox ConnectX-3 40gbps cards, and have been looking for an excuse to add a Mini M1 to the homelab.

The cables and cards for PC Thunderbolt retrofit are far (like 3-5X!) more expensive than the MLNX cards and optical cables.

$0.02 :)
The Netherlands has seen willingness to vaccinate rise from around 60% at the start of the crisis to 87% right now, and part of this success is attributed to the fact that the government always made it clear that vaccination was not going to be mandatory, and testing would be an alternative.
This is taking it a step further though. Now you're talking about static typing in the client, the server and the database.

I agree that this is a different scenario. If you're able to have the client control the input to ensure only the correct types are passed in there may be some additional value there to keep things more sane.

However, how much of the data that you're dealing with in the client on the server and in the database are you really working with in the server itself? 1% of the variables? 2%?

Generally any heavy work will be handled in either the database itself or a background job just to reduce wait time for the client.

And if that's the case, you're spending the time defining types for the client, server and database, keeping them in sync, having to change them in each place and creating this exercise for the other 98-99% of variables passed in and out of your server just to gain the static benefit for the 1-2% where you're actually working with it in the server on the web request.

It's significantly more work with questionable benefits IMO.
"significant demand", "sold out", etc.

Considering this is microsoft and theverge, this "news" story is just paid PR/ad like so much of these type of stories are.
Sure, other kids are a risk, as they always are. Everything is a risk evaluation, even with a vaccine mandate if the restaurant has two kids at every table with little space between them then it might not be a good idea to go in. Doesn't invalidate the fact that it would be better if all the adults are vaccinated.
Wow; this is a really good article. I love how the author (I think rightfully) highlights that people use their jobs as an excuse for staving off goals they've created.
IIRC in the 80s, the Dutch Nutrition board said max 1 egg a week. They just discovered Cholesterol or something.
Aren't we kind of agreeing, given your last two sentences?
The problem is that humans are incredibly complex and diverse, react to stuff in wildly different ways, and you cannot A/B test on the same individual, as you cannot reseg it to the same starting state, you cannot run two experiments on them, and you cannot get two completely matching people.
Where does the requirement for the individual to change their behavior to reduce the risk of misfortune for the collective stop?

I demand other people to stop driving because increases my chance of being hit as a pedestrian.

I demand that other people stop having sex because it increases the spread of HIV which increases my risk with every new sexual partner.

I demand that others be allowed to be held down by police and have a blood test forcefully performed on them, for DWIs, because it will reduce my risk of being in an accident with a drunk driver.

Merely existing and interacting with the world increases the risk of accidents to others so I demand everyone cease to exist!
SAML Is Insecure by Design
> > the compiler verifies that either the user input string value will get turned into a `valid email` value at runtime or the user is asked to try again.

> No, the compiler cannot verify user input, because the compiler isn't running when the user is inputting data.

I'm not following why you thought I meant that. It's like you're arguing it's impossible to make any compile-time guarantees because you don't know what exact literal inputs your program will be dealing with at runtime when the field of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification exists. E.g. at compile time you can prove a sorting function gives the correct output for all possible inputs without having to run the code - you don't know in advance what the input is going to be (which is normal when coding), but you still know the output will be correct with respect to the function specification.
> Lunagender, also called monagender, monegender, or selenogender (all of which mean in some way "moon gender"), is a fluid gender identity that changes on a consistent, orderly cycle, reminding one of a lunar cycle.

Not nonsense eh?
This is misguided. Let's say this campaign succeeds. Maybe 10% of the cups will be recycled, leaving still a ton of waste. It would be much more effective to campaign against single-use cups. I grew up in a time in which you had to bring an empty bottle glass bottle to a shop, and they would take it and give you a full one, which you'd bring back empty next time. If you didn't have one, you'd leave a deposit (effectively buying your first bottle). There is nothing wrong with that system.

You forgot to bring your cup to Starbucks? Fine, buy one. Don't want to keep it? Bring it back when you're done and they credit you the deposit.
How is this any different than requiring people to wear shoes in specific locations? Some people prefer not to wear shoes, but for the legal liability and the risk of injury many locations require shoes. Don't go to those places if you feel strongly about not getting the vaccine or wearing shoes
I've been on both sides, heavy testing and little to no testing. IMHO it really depends on the system use case.

Tests have advantages, but they also hinder your agility by increasing the costs of the initial version and of making major changes.

Hard to update? Good tests!
Well understood problem sphere and product? Good tests!
High cost of failure? Good tests!
MVP with no actual current users? No TDD.
Exploring the product space and update cost is low? No TDD.
I'm pretty tired of all this. If folks want don't want to get the vaccine, under the argument of personal responsibility, let them do what they want. However, if they willingly or negligently transmit covid, they should be civilly and maybe criminally liable. If they end up needing medical care, make them pay for it out of their pocket. Make them financially responsible for their decisions.
I think the issue with salt and eggs is that we talk of humans in the aggregate.

For eggs, there is some small percentage of the population that passes the cholesterol into actual high levels of serum LDL.

For salt, there is some small percentage of the population that reacts to high sodium levels with hypertension.

And these subsets of population studies skew the results to a degree that adversely affects the conclusions for the median case.

For most of us, dumping salt onto a plate filled with eggs is not only fine, but healthy.

Medicine deals in aggregates, averages, and statistical variation, which is to some degree useful. But it does precisely nothing to offer testing to tell you if you are in a reactive or nonreactive group to stimulus X, which would be extremely useful.

We do this with allergies - stick 50 different allergens on a grid pattern into your back to determine your precise reactivity. But with nutrition? Haha, go screw yourself, all humans are the same, eat your 14 servings of grains, regard bacon and eggs as poison, and we'll medicate you for your resultant metabolic syndrome.
> This wouldn't be the first time we'd talked to Jobs. Three months earlier, on August 4, Steve had invited Ed, me, and Ajit Gill, our financial manager, to his mansion in Woodside, Calif. Steve, who had just been ousted from Apple, proposed that he buy us from Lucasfilm and run us as his next company. We said no, that we wanted to run the company ourselves, but we would accept his money in the form of a venture investment. And he agreed.

That wasn't the first time they'd talked to Jobs either:

> It's probably worth mentioning how Steve Jobs was introduced to (what became) Pixar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687900

> https://engineering.stanford.edu/profile/alvy-ray-smith-ms-1...

>> One of my champions at Xerox PARC was Alan Kay. So I knew Alan Kay, who was by this time a fellow at Apple. And Steve Jobs had expressed some interest in computer graphics, so Alan Kay said let me introduce you to the guys who do it best. So Alan Kay brought Steve up to spend an afternoon with us at Lucasfilm. That’s when we first got to know each other. I had actually had one earlier conversation with Steve at some design conference on the Stanford campus one summer, but that was just a first meeting sort of thing. The first serious meeting with business possibilities was that one at Lucasfilm with Alan Kay.

>> Shortly after that, Steve and Apple broke up. And meanwhile, Lucasfilm was trying to sell us. Steve ended up buying us from Lucasfilm for $5 million.

> So not only was Jobs alerted to Pixar by an existing contact, in buying it he was to a large extent reusing the business model that had already worked with the Macintosh: take PARC goodies and commercialise them, hiring some of the PARC guys themselves.

As a side note, that Stanford link sadly no longer works any more:

> Page Not Found

> Oops! We can't find that page!

> We have a new site and things have moved around a bit. Here are some good places to start.

Oopsie doopsie! They seem to have moved the Alvy Ray Smith interview into oblivion, because search doesn't seem to find it. It doesn't seem to be archived on the Wayback Machine or archive.is or replicated anywhere else on the internet. For all I know my HN comment is the last record of the quoted text anywhere. STANFORD ENGINEERING did this.
"What scant media coverage the REC has received has almost universally focused on the idiosyncrasies of bad handwriting. The thousands of letters addressed to SANTA, NORTH POLE sent each year by grade-schoolers still honing their penmanship is a recurring motif. One keyer reminisced about envelopes decorated with hand-drawn pin-ups, barbed wire, and skulls that inmates at a local prison used to send, and which he would occasionally receive for keying in the 1990s.

But according to several keyers I spoke with, the lion’s share of the five million items that pass through the REC each day are not handwritten addresses. Contemporary machine-readers, it turns out, can read handwriting with relative ease, leaving keyers to trudge through a bottomless pile of machine-printed detritus, much of it cheaply printed junk mail slung by mass marketeers."
I am in cohort #1. I don't want to continue to increase the chances of breakthrough mutations and I do not want others to do so.

I do not want a substantial number of people getting sick and having to use collective resources to heal them at the expense of others because of a collectively bad choice. I do not want to substitute, work overtime, or have reduced productivity due to this.

While vaccinated people are fairly safe, even with us all being vaccinated we are adding to the background risk of hospitalization the equivalent of several hard flu seasons. I've had a really bad flu where I felt I was dying, twice in my life. I do not look forward to having my body bearing that brunt every couple of years for the rest of my life.
I just think that's wrong. Private insurers pools are still less expensive, even if the employer was not going to pay some percentage of your premium. If you look at the plans that most large employers have (Microsoft, Amazon etc) their total premium cost is still far less. I understand what you're saying, it's just not correct for the vast majority of large company workers.

Your total private insurer cost is all of the US, which includes many small businesses which are on inferior plans. But for an swe, your total premium cost is far less (regardless of how much your employer chips in) due to the fact that your private insurer pool is filled with relatively wealthy, educated workers. Private mom/pop pool != private Microsoft/Amazon pool.

What you're saying is just...wrong...for most talented eng workers.
Space Elevators: How a sci-fi dream could be built today
Offa’s Dyke: Britain’s unmarked ‘no-man’s land’ (2020)
For the developers, there is a really nice go library with these formulae https://github.com/alpeb/go-finance

A guide is here: https://blog.aawadia.dev/2020/12/01/finance-concepts-go-fina...
VAERS is basically a self-reporting facility for any adverse condition that occurred vaguely in the vicinity of being vaccinated, and its quality should be assessed as such.

In other words, VAERS data should be treated as at most a "this may be worth looking into," and certainly nowhere near a level of "this is a definitive proof something goes wrong." Especially in a time when tens of millions of people are getting vaccinated with the same vaccine at the same time, you're going to get lots of reports of people falling ill with something just by sheer coincidence.
Bing powers other search engines like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yahoo!. But I’m sure that even cumulatively the numbers are still small.
Same could be said about Elon Musk but he might become first trillionere. Sometimes you have to try bold stuff. I'm rooting for them.
Well then, by that logic, we can never let up on this. You never know what's going to happen in two weeks!
The paper straws are horrible, borderline unusable.
Caesar III was one of my favorite games, but Aoe2 and Civ II ( both came out around the same time IIRC ) are the best strategy games of all time imo, followed closely by Civ 5 ( but I have no time for games anymore haha )
>there is a difference in vaccination rates between different racial groups

Considering that people of color have been the targets of medical experimentation under the guise of public health by both our government and the same drug makers peddling the vaccines (usually in other countries), this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
You should check out 'tax farming'. There's probably a wikipedia page for the 20,000 ft view.
Show HN: Octane – usage billing as a service – bill like your Twilio
The article is about naming the method. The fact that dates are messy means a clean API is difficult/impossible.

I think plus() is a name that is good enough. I can't think of a better name that will help the user understand what will happen in the 2/28 + 1 month case. That's asking too much of a method name. That's what docs are for.
> the most fearful 5% of people can force it upon their children and stop holding the rest of the world hostage

To be clear, as a parent, it's not because I'm fearful, it's because a positive COVID test from any child in my kid's school means that it shuts down for two weeks, completely messing up our lives, jobs etc. I'm not going to defend that policy for a second as I don't think it's a good idea either, but it's what we're dealing with day in, day out. We're not hysterical fearmongers.
The difference is that this is a test before actual mission, similarly why there's plan to go to the Moon before going to Mars.

People there are not paying for the attraction and they are also aware with associated risks.
Having tried out a bunch of different things without clear reward, it feels more like programming languages is 90% hype / fashion.
MRNA vaccines are not new, but the efficacy is. There are drugs on the market right now with much less r&d behind them. The main problem with the covid vaccines are political machinations.
If you're on linux, consider trying a tiling wm like i3 [0] or sway (wayland) [1]. New windows automatically place themselves in a nice place and don't overlap. It's extremely (if not entirely) keyboard driven and pretty configurable.

[0]: https://i3wm.org/

[1]: https://swaywm.org/
1-1 in the sense that there's 1 company and me. Not 1 company and all of the employees, that somehow have to agree, or accept what previous employees decided or whatever. On my end of the contract, I want only me.

> To pick up the OP original question, why do you have an issue for with your employment being a 1 to many, but not the dealings after a car accident?

I didn't give my opinion on my preferences on car accidents, of which I've had a few so you're just assuming I don't have a problem with that either. I don't see what car accidents have to do with employment contracts, and the parents point was about insurance and it was a terrible parallel. People are free to chose whichever insurance company they want and do not have to negotiate terms based on what others want, I can call them up and ask for a discount or shop around until I get one, regardless of what other customers pay, the same way I can negotiate my salary when there's no unions around.
Do unborn children occasionally pop out of women's bodies, enter other people's bodies, and reproduce uncontrollably to a point where they stop those other people from breathing?

If so, we can apply the same logic to coronavirus and pregnancy. If not, you're just drawing a false parallel.
The first paragraph is how I feel. I'm vaccinated, but fat luck asking to see the card. I almost laughed when it was suggested to me at the vaccination site, by the administrating nurse, that I should get it laminated and put it on a lanyard.
There is also this

"Other nutrition research critics, such as John Ioannidis of Stanford University"

There is a good appeal to authority for you.
2008 was probably the pinnacle of web development. Everything else coming after that was a continuous line of decisions sacrificing usability and user friendliness for developer convenience.