skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The science around covid has been fluid this entire time. We aren't even sure if these vaccines will work against other covid variants in the future.

Science _is_ fluid by its very nature because it's a process, not an outcome.

But processes can be well-executed or not. Scientists, with all their human and institutional flaws, are still just so, so much more qualified than the lay public to make informed opinions that it's not even funny.

It's the same as with doctors: a medical second opinions is obtained from another doctor, not by yourself, because ultimately expert opinions may be challenged by others who have at least a similar amount of training and expertise.

Lay opinions have gigantic, brutal knowledge gaps. The gaps are so huge as to make lay opinions essentially useless.

I have spent an hour a day, every day, since the beginning of the pandemic, reading up on the scientific literature of COVID. I am overeducated geek with a computer science degree. Do you know how many reasonable assertions I can make about the pandemic? About as much as validating that the calculations behind the p-values of studies are correct, and nothing more. I can, at most, summarize and explain the high-level reasoning behind most epidemiologists' and governments's decisions, with the pros and cons that they themselves have suggested.

We are talking about over 600 hours of research as an educated layman and still no novel conclusions. To think that people who have spent at most a fraction of that time, with no university-level knowledge of statistics or basics of germ theory, can make reasonable assumptions, has no relation to reality.
I want to do the same, but I don't have the math knowledge. I have the programming knowledge though. Do you want to collaborate? Feel free to send a DM if you do.
As much as the US is going down the toilet with these commies both Canada and Australia are draconian as shit right now with their covid "response".
lol I don’t think your comment deserved to be killed, you’re right. Paper cups are just as un-usable without the plastic coating. Still the pollution is a high cost for the convenience of coffee to go. Maybe the best solution is to make sure everyone to have time to make coffee at home instead of going to a drive through Starbucks (drive through takes same amount of time really)

…Or be less addicted to sugar and caffeine.
We need to stop trying to recycle things, and start burning them for energy.

It's simply better for the environment.

It suffers from not "looking" green, which matters far more to people than actually being green.
> It's about powerful people trying to deny themselves truth/reality to maintain their illusory identity

Like Assange fighting to not stand trial?
I would be interested to know what the technical hold-ups were. Bad training data? Insufficient/noisy sensors? Insufficient battery life? Or, was it all just bad management, with a lack of vision and leadership?
It’s not a small stretch to imagine expanding it to all grocery stores. Then if you want to eat you have no choice but to get it. What about denying healthcare for unvaccinated? Another easy step.
exactly, but this audience knows anything can be trivially transpiled to any turing-complete language regardless of the "difficulty" of the language once basic operators are established.

the entire sadistic point of the esoteric exercise is to dwell in the agony of unaccomplishment, not roll it up using a toolchain.
Red colored glasses see what they want, invert the colors and it's the same of course.
This is one that I think you missed that I have heard a lot:

4. You view this as the state being paternalistic to protect the unvaccinated when, in fact, if in August of 2021 you have not yet been vaccinated, you are almost certainly making a personal risk management decision and, as such, should be prepared for the consequences to not only yourself, but others like you (unvaccinated).

This view also seems to be predicated on the idea that the vaccinated are largely unaffected by the spread amongst the unvaccinated. To what degree this is true, I don't know. It's hard to keep up with the evolving data and narratives.
> 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

Why are you ok with using this argument for covid, but not smoking / obesity / football / etc.? The principle is sound, but the selective application is not.
The Springer site just hangs when I click on the download link…
> the idea that government shouldn't do anything. That's not an option when there's a disease ripping though society

Yes it is an option, always. Government always has the option to do nothing and leave people to their own decisions. There is no objective truth that this should ever have been any kind of government issue at all.

If you use an emergency to justify expanding government power, what you get is a perpetual emergency.
Julia code is (or can be) quite readable. But I think there are better examples. This package is not poorly written, but it has a lot of nested control flow (probably unnecessary).
Have been using Vimium for ages. I generally don't use mouse/trackpad at all while programming. I have got used to it so much, that even when i use tools like Postman, first thing i do is search up hotkeys so it blends in with my mousless workstyle.
>status quo is already change and loss of expertise and teams and products continue along fine.

Change in a way where past experience still translates to value. And yes, with enough money and brute force you can overcome the loss of tribal knowledge, but that's the whole point of this conversation; it's an expensive thing that's often not worth it and definitely not something easily dismissed.
This somehow reminds me of what happened on Freenode a few weeks ago. They started to ban everybody who posed any amount of threat to the platform (real or illusory) which ended up killing the platform.
> If you suffer from high blood pressure

People who already have a disease that requires salt regulation doesn't prove any causative role.
All those systems have hours, even days of cumulative downtime per year. Planned and unplanned. The sky does not fall. When you are "three nines" - the other 0.1% is the downtime you're tolerating.

Power outages of a few minutes to a few hours are utterly normal. Power outages up to a few days due to summer heat and winter storms are part of the rhythm of life, depending on where you live. Facilities that really care about power continuity have batteries and generators (although these aren't perfect either, we once lost a datacenter to a transfer switch maintenance).

Broadband is notoriously flaky, to the point that cable technicians' vague arrival windows are a meme. Serious businesses get several independent connections. Even consumers can now fall back to tethering their phones.

Credit card authorization gets skipped during downtime. Actual payment settlement occurs in nightly batches, which humans have many hours to shepherd and patch. FedWire keeps banker's hours. Stock markets suspend trading when necessary.

Stopping the line is a normal part of the lifecycle of a manufacturing process: when something goes wrong, when there's going to be an upgrade, even for regular scheduled maintenance.

Most internet services have some downtime.
> You want to be an investment banker? There is no path but to have gone to an Ivy League school

This is mostly, but not completely true. There are other paths. I was recruited by a large bank to come interview for an IB position from a recruiter that specifically looks for talent outside of the Ivy's. What made me stand out from my peers was the fact that I served 7 years in a Special Operations military unit, had a perfect GPA, and multiple high recognition internships all while a dual major.

I turned down the offer as I had friends that went that route and either burned out or simply hated their jobs and I didn't want that, but the point is that there are other paths into IB then going to an Ivy.
If you're adding 1 month, you're working on the month's location, e.g. 2021 - (02) - 28.

When you increment the month, the result would be 2021-03-28.

The only time you'd modify the day, is if the day became invalid due to an overflow, during that increment. If, when, you overflow the days you'd set the value of days to the maximum in that month.

If I tell someone, I'll get to that in a month, they expect by this day in the next month, the next calendar page, not 30/31 days.
Here is my take: anyone who wants the vaccine can get it. If there are adults who can't, perhaps we need a law to grant paid time off for anyone who doesn't have it, specifically to allow them time to get the vaccine. There doesn't seem to be evidence that children are at a high risk of health issues due to the virus.

So in America after 8 months, most people who want the vaccine have it. Those who have it are incredibly safe, though not completely.

My question is this: when do we admit that in the US, we can go back to normal? At this point, i do see it like the flu or any other moderate respiratory illness. There is a risk, and we mitigated it.

If someone wants to wear a mask, okay. If a business or hospital wants to mandate masks, fine. But at this point, the unvaccinated in this country have chosen to ride without a helmet. So long as the health system doesn't collapse, that is on them, as it has always been.
> Pretty dismal discussion in here at the time of writing. Largely complaints about tyranny.

Because it's highly tyrannical? Odd how cavalier you are about this.

Nevermind that you have a right to privacy when it comes to health matters, this also forces you to carry "ID" pretty much everywhere.

Also, all tyrannies a born to "protect you".

> Makes me sad that we can't have a calm discussion about the merits of the policy.

I don't think that's what you are interested in. You wouldn't have started off your comment that way if you did.
Are any other viruses known to affect cognitive function so substantially? Are they all just ones we're vaccinated against generally anyway?
This is real.

There has been a total invasion of commies to HN over the past decade. I don't know if it's the schools to blame or what but something has definitely flipped.

Hackers, as a demographic used to be hard-core libertarian (not necessarily a party member).
UCLA.
Tiller user here. It’s a brilliant product. They have many different templates that allow you to manage money at the level of detail you want. I tried a ton of different apps and none of them were flexible enough.

My only complaint is that their Google Sheets sidebar UI can be abysmally slow at times, and you have to open it and hit “sync” to load transactions from your financial institutions.
We do that all the time. Everybody thinks the site and the mods are biased against their team. It's a natural reflex, but a cognitive bias and quite inaccurate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
>But in my opinion the best solution is to have people bring their own cups and just reuse them, and unfortunately only a small percent of people do that.

You could also just make your own coffee at home and cut out the entire environmental impact of doing business with a wasteful company at all. But this doesn't solve the problem of "I'm somewhere with no coffee, and I want coffee" which Starbucks does. Focusing on making their cups sustainable is probably a much better solution than expecting people to lug around coffee mugs all day.
In Washington, DC, it is illegal to operate a phone. But if you walk three or four blocks downtown looking at the passing cars, you are pretty sure to see more than once person driving and holding a phone.
It would be great if this website answered the question “what is a healthy diet”, instead of trying everywhere to get me to watch some of its hundreds of videos.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1998/cpsc-nike-announce-recall-...
Why do you want to pay less taxes?
I agree, minimally. I don't want either of those being under the sole discretion of business people. Nobody really does except business people. Overly strict zoning laws probably need to be eliminated or more carefully and frequently thought about at the city level, in part because cities let developers do whatever the hell they want on the outskirts, and prevents new dev on the inner bits entirely
True. I assumed it was a simple adaptor for TB3 to 40Gbps Ethernet or atleast QSFP+ Since TB also advertises 40 Gbps, but looks like expensive niche. At $1500, you might as well spend time to figure out how to get Linux to work better with Thunderbolt card.

For other devices in the network that do not impose Thunderbolt though, Melanox 40G NICs are surprisingly cheap.
Tell that to the people who were injured by Nike. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1998/cpsc-nike-announce-recall-...
Frostpunk kinda does this - you build roads later on but in the beginning people leave deep tracks in the snow as they go out to collect supplies. It looks really cool. The whole game has an awesome aesthetic.
The non profit university researchers do just as bad, the whole field is one where good research is very very rare.

To be a little fair, we don't really understand much about nutrition or have easy ways to do high quality studies. A "gold standard" study is just the best of a bad lot. It's the rarest of humans that can say, "I spent 3 years of my life doing a study and didn't find anything significant".
Or you could...require neither at this point in time.

If you're worried about covid then get the vaccination. For people who want to take a risk, let them do it.

I have the vaccine so why do I care if Im around people that have covid? We believe in science right?
For one thing those are policies that were carefully developed over decades not in a few weeks in the middle of a mass panic.

Also those policies usually have religious and medical exemptions.
Out of curiosity, what issues did you run into with NFS on macOS? I'm looking into building a NAS for a network of macOS, Linux, and BSD machines and figured NFS would be my first choice.
> For instance lots of people already had covid (particularly in NYC)

According to NYC.gov[1], there have been about 980k cases of COVID in a city with a population of over 8 million. About 12% of the population has had COVID.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-totals.pag...
I'm curious, what did you expect from the title?
As a fellow Moonlander user, I'd love to see a write-up of what you did.
A fetus is by definition a human. In fact it is the third stage of human development. This is why people argue against personhood. The claim is you can be a human fetus but not have personhood yet.
Does the API even work anymore? I'm getting prompted to login to Google when trying something like
"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/28065009"
Under no circumstances you should get Crusader Kings 3. If you value your time at all that is.
This doesn't say anything about how such storage would be accessed by the mac and some other clients at the same time. It literally just runs iperf over tb. As a matter of architecture it leaves the question of whether it would be preferable to directly attach the storage to the Mac and export it to the rest of the network from there.
"If everyone is vaccinated and the virus is passing freely, the CDC couldn't care less because very few people would be going to the hospital."

The CDC does worry about infections due to the risk of escaped mutants.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-covid-19-only-a...
My specific proposal is about giving you the option to buy a cup if you want it, and not if you don't. Everybody wins!
Why not call date.plus date.after?
That we know of, just as we "Knew" these vaccines would effectively prevent transmissions and wouldn't have side effects.
I’m really curious, since the way you want to remove the debris is by making it burn during atmospheric re-entry, won’t this pollute the atmosphere? I can imagine it’s impact would be very small, but I’m curious if there is any info or study on that.
LPs make most of the money from VC funds. So who are they?
One (artificial) example is the second one that does a join on a csv file hosted one place and a json file hosted somewhere else. Essentially, a lot of data exploration comes down to “fetch data from these locations, transform the structure in various ways, and maybe run some sql on the result.” KSON is basically a declarative way to do that. Another in the long line of code-> data transformations.
Gold has been valuable for about as long as recorded history. It has more evidence of value and a longer history of that evidence than probably any other asset in existence.

Since you're just tasking me with asking a bunch of easily google-able questions, I'm not sure what the point you're trying to make is. Are you just being contrarian, or is there a different asset that you think is a better durable store of value, or do you disagree with the concept of durable value?

Feels like you have a dogmatic repulsion to gold, and I don't understand why.
Have we seen a vaccinated person conceive and have a healthy birth?

I’m not at all saying that’s a risk but just that it’s an example of something we haven’t had time to test.
What’s bad about a vaccine passport? Do you think unvaccinated people should be allowed to travel internationally? Isn’t that really dangerous?
> In this post I discuss how you can upgrade a NAS Server by adding Thunderbolt 3 for lightning fast connectivity at 20 or 40Gbps.

This is an interesting angle of attack, though I'll note that 10Gbps Ethernet was added as an option on the M1 Mac Minis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
Ya know, technically,...

"Nutrition research tends to be unreliable because nearly all of it is based on observational studies, which are imprecise, have no controls, and don’t follow an experimental method."

You could say the same things about astronomy.
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Ohhh man/woman.

I'm a security person. I often work with my customers' central IT. I'm not going to have an opinion or judge you, but consider:

You're giving people nightmares. I've seen it go very wrong (front-page news wrong). And then the threads commenting on "how incompetent can they be, blabla". I've worked with the people stressed, sad and disappointed that they got pwned because of shadow IT. It's a ticking time bomb.

The cloud wont save you from shadow IT's insecurities. In two years, when you switch to another SAAS provider, or the domain changes, and the enterprise app is left in your azure subscription, and the baddies notice... Then you'll call me or someone like me, and I can earn my paycheck :)
What about the immunocompromised? Those who can’t have the vaccine. To say nothing of breakthrough infections and the fact that the mutation rate is tied to the number of infections, and therefore a vaccinated person’s immunity could indeed be impacted by large contingents of unvaccinated persons being infected. And how about the financial cost of COVID? Perhaps we should make it so that if one gets severe COVID and has no proof of vaccination, all coverage of medical costs by insurance are voided. You can’t make a reasonable argument that society should be on the hook for paying for your life saving medical treatment when you intentionally deny free, effective preventative measures.
Date arithmetic seem to be a complicated matter.

Around 2.5 years ago I sent the following feedback to the Wolfram|Alpha Feedback Team, never heard back from them.

Message: When I compute
"2019-01-31 to 2016-04-04" I get "2 years 9 months 26 days"
and when I compute the reversed input
"2016-04-04 to 2019-01-31" I get "2 years 9 months 27 days"

But when I compute
"2019-01-31 to 2015-10-21" I get "3 years 3 months 10 days"
and when I compute the reversed input
"2015-10-21 to 2019-01-31" I get "3 years 3 months 10 days"

Shouldn't the very first one ( "2019-01-31 to 2016-04-04" ) also return "2 years 9 months 27 days"?
Yeah but in the USA the recycling infrastructure is very different from state to state, so implementing something on a national level is not a viable solution.
Coffeeshops (Costa and Starbucks) in the UK offers a 25p discount if you bring your own cup.

Just be aware that there are some strange terms and conditions: Costa requires you to have a lid, or else they can refuse to use it, the rule seems bizarre since they will happily fill your coffee in a lidless ceramic mug, but if you bring a lidless metal thermo mug like mine it is a no-go: https://www.snowpeak.com/collections/mugs/products/ti-double...
The usual argument for mandatory vaccination is for the protection of others rather than the protection of oneself, so the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing death in children should not matter.
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Sex is observed, not assigned, this is true even in the case of intersex individuals. The modern construct of gender is largely a function of environmental and media exposure. Unlike sex, no falsifiable tests exist for it. Don't confuse the two.
> in the name of "security"

It's in the name of not spreading a deadly virus, not security with scare quotes.
What's the harm in letting unvaccinated people spread covid amongst themselves? Vaccinated people aren't at risk. Unvaccinated people know the risks and they've had plenty of time to be vaccinated.

It's not illegal to decide to do $XYZ_DANGEROUS_ACTIVITY, why should it be illegal to be exposed to covid?

The only concern in theory is that a vaccine-immune covid variant could develop amongst unvaccinated populations. Is there any evidence for that though?

EDIT: see responses below, there is some good info, thanks folks.
> Requiring people to consume a medical product just to live their normal lives is morally wrong.

> So your hang up is the FDA giving full approval?

Perhaps they will but could you save the strawman arguments for then as well.
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In New York, the trick for teachers is to start out in the city and accumulate years. Then the boss move is to get into a high-property tax area in Long Island and teach there. After a decade or so, you make serious money out in those high property tax (way better school districts) suburbs. That’s sort of like their FAANG path. Everyone’s got a game they need to play.

https://libn.com/2012/06/13/long-island-teachers-highest-pai...

The game changer for teachers is that you really can’t beat their vacation time and pension package, there’s no ageism, and there is no shortage of work. You are good until you retire. There’s no teacher trying to retire at 40 from burnout.

From the above link:

The average elementary school teacher in Nassau and Suffolk counties earned $90,560

90k to teach 5th graders, think about that for a second.
I assume you are for mandatory vaccine of every communicable disease right? Every person should be required to have ebola, flu and every other vaccine before they go to a bar. If you do not support this then you believe in letting viruses circulate in the bars.
That's cases. There was hardly any testing during the first wave, which hit NY particularly. The numbers are likely significantly higher.
Unfortunately, even flying business won't spare us from the "no tread on me" man-child espousing on his manifesto on security theatre in the airport security line. I'm happy to pay extra for an environment without that sort of exhausting neck beard bullshit polluting the ambiance. Avoiding exactly that crowd is why I TSA PreCheck and pay for lounge access.
Not necessarily! Some users have been creating forwarders in their primary email provider into Paced Email. See this article on the subject with respect to Gmail: https://www.paced.email/articles/how-to-auto-forward-specifi...